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Post by Paddy on Mar 20, 2013 0:36:25 GMT 1
Since I am about the only person here who follows one let alone both, I shall keep those who enjoy motor sport updated.
The Aussie V8's have had a total redesign, they are much safer and many key components changed or altered meaning the past 20 years of R+D has gone down the drain. 2 new manufactures have taken to the series, Holden still have the most cars in the field with their main contender the Fords with a much smaller contingency. Mercedes with their AMG63 and Nissan (Altima) have entered the series with 3 and 4 cars respectively. The first round was the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide. The old Vodafone team turned Red Bull Racing Australia team of Whincup and Lowndes showed the normal quick pace. Whincup is last year's champion.
Race 1 was won by Lowndes by the largest lead at Adelaide since the first race in 1999, but controversially the young kiwi Van Gisbergen took pole after having left the series at the end of last season saying he had had enough only to return causing a storm within the core Holden and Ford supporters. Race 2 was won by Shane Van Gisbergen.
V8's have a support series to the F1 in Australia, having a non-championship 4 race event at Melbourne. Race winners:
1: Young Kiwi, known for multiple rolling at the Bathurst 1000 in 2011; Fabian Coulthard 2: Coulthard 3: Coulthard 4: 19 year old Scott McLaughlin
Coulthard won the Grand Prix overall. Coulthard (and team mate Bright who had a good weekend too) dedicated the weekend and the victory to an old team mate Jason Richards who passed away recently to cancer. A fitting tribute within a series which is a large family to each other.
The next round is in Tasmania, the Tasmania 360 held on the 5-7 April. A short and fast circuit.
BTCC starts at Brands Hatch on Easter Sunday, coverage is available on ITV4. A competitive series with a rumoured full grid of 32 cars, with a very large variety in cars.
I will update after the BTCC finishes on 31st March.
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Post by paulgilb on Mar 21, 2013 23:51:03 GMT 1
Is it OK if I use this thread for other non-F1 motorsport i.e. GP2, GP3, Formula Renault 3.5?
GP2 starts this weekend, where it will be supporting the following F1 events:
Malaysia Spain Bahrain Monaco Britain Germany Hungary Belgium Italy Singapore Abu Dhabi
Teams and drivers:
DAMS (FRA) 1 Marcus Ericsson (SWE) 2 Stéphane Richelmi (MON) ART Grand Prix (FRA) (known as Lotus for the last couple of years) 3 James Calado (GBR) 4 Daniel Abt (GER) Arden International (GBR)
5 Johnny Cecotto Jr (VEN) 6 Mitch Evans (NZL)
Racing Engineering (ESP)
7 Julian Leal (COL) 8 Fabio Leimer (SUI)
Carlin (GBR)
9 Felipe Nasr (FRA) 10 Jolyon Palmer (GBR)
Russian Time (RUS) (replacing iSport International)
11 Sam Bird (GBR) 12 Tom Dillmann (FRA)
Caterham Racing (MAL)
14 Sergio Canamasas (ESP) 15 Ma Qinghua (CHN)
Barwa Addax Team (ESP)
16 Jake Rosenzweig (USA) 17 Rio Haryanto (IDN)
Rapax (ITA)
18 Stefano Coletti (MON) 19 Simon Trummer (SUI)
Trident Racing (ITA)
20 Nathanael Berthon (FRA) 21 Kevin Ceccon (ITA)
Hilmer Motorsport (GER) (replacing Ocean Racing Technology)
22 Conor Daly (USA) 23 Pal Varhaug (NOR)
Venezuela GP Lazarus (ITA)
24 René Binder (AUT) 25 Kevin Giovesi (ITA)
MP Motorsport (NED) (replacing Scuderia Coloni)
26 Adrian Quaife-Hobbs (GBR) 27 Daniel de Jong (NED)
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Post by Panda on Mar 22, 2013 16:41:25 GMT 1
The Indycar Series starts this weekend with Ryan Hunter-Reay defending the title he won last year.
Schedule: March 24 - St. Petersburg (street) April 7 - Barber Motorsports Park (road) April 21 - Long Beach (street) May 5 - Sao Paulo (street) May 26 - Indianpolis 500 (oval) June 1&2 - Detroit (street) (two races) June 8 - Fort Worth (oval) June 15 - Milwaukee (oval) June 23 - Iowa (oval) July 7 - Pocono (oval) July 13&14 - Toronto (street) (two races) August 4 - Mid-Ohio (road) August 25 - Sonoma (road) September 1 - Baltimore (street) October 5&6 - Houston (street) (two races) October 19 - Fontana (oval)
There is also talk of a race in Italy sometime in September.
Driver list: AJ Allmendinger (USA) (Penske) Marco Andretti (USA) (Andretti) Ana Beatriz (Brazil) (Dale Coyne) Sebastien Bourdais (France) (Dragon) Ed Carpenter (USA) (Ed Carpenter) Helio Castroneves (Brazil) (Penske) Mike Conway (GB) (Rahal Letterman Lanigan) Simona de Silvestro (Switzerland) (KV) Scott Dixon (New Zealand) (Chip Ganassi) Dario Franchitti (GB) (Chip Ganassi) JR Hildebrand (USA) (Panther) James Hinchcliffe (Canada) (Andretti) Ryan Hunter-Reay (USA) (Andretti) James Jakes (GB) (Rahal Letterman Lanigan) Tony Kanaan (Brazil) (KV) Charlie Kimball (USA) (Chip Ganassi) Josef Newgarden (USA) (Sarah Fisher Hartman) Simon Pagenaud (France) (Schmidt Hamilton HP) Will Power (Australia) (Penske) Graham Rahal (USA) (Rahal Letterman Lanigan) Sebastian Saavedra (Colombia) (Dragon) Takuma Sato (Japan) (AJ Foyt) Oriol Servia (Spain) (Panther) Alex Tagliani (Canada) (Barracuda) Tristan Vautier (France) (Schmidt Peterson) EJ Viso (Venezuela) (Andretti) Justin Wilson (GB) (Dale Coyne)
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Post by Panda on Mar 22, 2013 16:44:13 GMT 1
Carlin (GBR) 9 Felipe Nasr (FRA) 10 Jolyon Palmer (ESP) When did Jolyon Palmer become Spanish?
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Post by Paddy on Mar 22, 2013 17:57:22 GMT 1
Scott Dixon with Chip Ganassi has to be favourite this year!
Just seen some GP2 quali action, Bird was pushed off the track by Cecotto. Cecotto has been demoted to last on the grid but he should have got a 3 race ban.
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Post by Paul on Mar 22, 2013 19:54:39 GMT 1
This was the incident. Disgraceful driving. Agree with you Paddy; at least a race ban would have been the right call.
But then again, Venezeulan drivers to tend to get away with murder on track these days
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Post by paulgilb on Mar 22, 2013 23:38:16 GMT 1
Carlin (GBR) 9 Felipe Nasr (FRA) 10 Jolyon Palmer (ESP) When did Jolyon Palmer become Spanish? No idea, but he has his British citizenship back now. Grid for Malaysia: 1 Coletti 2 Calado 3 Nasr 4 Leimer 5 Evans 6 Haryanto 7 Binder 8 Bird (3-place penalty for blocking Cecotto) 9 Trummer 10 Dillmann 11 Leal 12 Canamasas 13 Ericsson 14 Quaife-Hobbs 15 Richelmi 16 Daly 17 Berthon 18 Ceccon 19 Ma 20 De Jong 21 Abt 22 Palmer 23 Rosenzweig 24 Varhaug 25 Giovesi 26 Cecotto (sent to back of grid for pushing Bird off the track in retaliation) Top 3 were separated by 0.008s.
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Post by paulgilb on Mar 23, 2013 23:51:28 GMT 1
Feature race result (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering 57m49.385s 2. James Calado ART + 2.045s 3. Stefano Coletti Rapax + 11.271s 4. Felipe Nasr Carlin + 12.810s 5. Julian Leal Racing Engineering + 28.837s 6. Jolyon Palmer Carlin + 34.209s 7. Sam Bird Russian Time + 41.183s + fastest lap 8. Stephane Richelmi DAMS + 58.941s 9. Simon Trummer Rapax + 1m02.853s 10. Mitch Evans Arden + 1m16.730s 11. Rene Binder Lazarus + 1m16.137s 12. Johnny Cecotto Arden + 1m18.357s 13. Conor Daly Hilmer + 1m20.096s 14. Tom Dillmann Russian Time + 1m21.812s 15. Paul Varhaug Hilmer + 1m23.754s 16. Kevin Giovesi Lazarus + 1m35.775s 17. Kevin Ceccon Trident + 1m37.928s 18. Jake Rosenzweig Addax + 1m53.252s 19. Sergio Canamasas Caterham + 2m00.257s 20. Rio Haryanto Addax + 1 lap 21. Ma Qing Hua Caterham + 1 lap
Retirements:
Driver Team Laps Nathanael Berthon Trident 19 Daniel Abt ART 9 Daniel De Jong MP Motorsport 3 Adrian Quaife-Hobbs MP Motorsport 3 Marcus Ericsson DAMS 0
Quaife-Hobbs earned a 5-place grid drop for the sprint race for the collision with his team-mate
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Post by Paddy on Mar 23, 2013 23:57:46 GMT 1
Good start for Calado. My tip for champion and a rookie in F1 next season.
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Post by Paul on Mar 24, 2013 15:53:45 GMT 1
Bit of a rookie mistake from Calado this morning, getting on the grass and crashing into Leal. 10 place penalty for Bahrain.
Coletti managed to keep his tyres alive this morning to win from Nasr.
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Post by paulgilb on Mar 24, 2013 23:05:14 GMT 1
Full result (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Stefano Coletti Rapax 40m49.455s + fastest lap 2. Felipe Nasr Carlin + 0.832s 3. Mitch Evans Arden + 8.358s 4. Stephane Richelmi DAMS + 11.935s 5. Johnny Cecotto Jr Arden + 15.834s 6. Simon Trummer Rapax + 17.032s 7. Conor Daly Hilmer + 17.479s 8. Rene Binder Lazarus + 23.726s 9. Jolyon Palmer Carlin + 24.326s 10. Kevin Giovesi Lazarus + 29.020s 11. Tom Dillmann Russian Time + 30.522s 12. Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering + 30.802s 13. Marcus Ericsson DAMS + 31.342s 14. Daniel de Jong MP + 32.391s 15. Sergio Canamasas Caterham + 35.336s 16. Daniel Abt ART + 36.339s 17. Adrian Quaife-Hobbs MP + 37.033s 18. Rio Haryanto Addax + 43.468s 19. Pal Varhaug Hilmer + 46.092s 20. Jake Rosenzweig Addax + 51.244s 21. Nathanael Berthon Trident + 53.777s 22. Kevin Ceccon Trident + 1 lap
Retirements:
Sam Bird Russian Time 0 laps Julian Leal Racing Engineering 0 laps James Calado ART 0 laps (+10 place drop for Bahrain for causing collision) Ma Qing Hua Caterham DNS
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Post by paulgilb on Mar 25, 2013 23:49:25 GMT 1
Driver Standings:
1 Coletti 36 2 Leimer 25 3 Nasr 24 4 Calado 18 5 Richelmi 12 6 Evans 11 7 Leal 10 8 Palmer 8 9 Bird 8 10 Cecotto 6 11 Trummer 6 12 Daly 2 13 Binder 1 14 Giovesi 0 15 Dillmann 0 16 Ericsson 0 17 de Jong 0 18 Varhaug 0 19 Canamasas 0 20 Abt 0 21 Ceccon 0 22 Quaife-Hobbs 0 23 Rosenzweig 0 24 Haryanto 0 25 Berthon 0 26 Ma 0
Team Standings:
1 Rapax 42 2 Racing Engineering 35 3 Carlin 32 4 ART Grand Prix 18 5 Arden International 17 6 DAMS 12 7 Russian Time 8 8 Hilmer Motorsport 2 9 Venezuela GP Lazarus 1 10 MP Motorsport 0 11 Caterham Racing 0 12 Trident Racing 0 13 Barwa Addax Team 0
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Post by Panda on Mar 26, 2013 1:33:08 GMT 1
James Hinchcliffe took his first Indycar victory in St. Petersburg, ahead of Helio Castroneves and Marco Andretti. Ryan Hunter-Reay and Dario Franchitti both failed to finish. Simona de Silvestro was 6th, having qualified 3rd.
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Post by Paddy on Mar 31, 2013 12:52:07 GMT 1
Jason Plato won race one at brands Hatch BTCC today. Last corner saw some action as Jordan punted Plato off into the gravel before they returned to the track and finished as were.
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Post by Paddy on Mar 31, 2013 14:56:46 GMT 1
Plato wins race two. Jordan second again. Some more crashes . Chris Evens is picking the reverse grid. Plato starts 7th in race 3.
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Post by paulgilb on Apr 4, 2013 22:44:00 GMT 1
This weekend sees the start of the Formula Renault 3.5 Series season (which has been considered by many to have a higher quality field than GP2/GP3 in recent years). The drivers/teams are as follows:
Tech 1 Racing (FRA) 1. Mikhail Aleshin (RUS) 2. Nigel Melker (NED)
Arden Caterham Motorsport 3. Antonio Felix da Costa (POR) 4. Pietro Fantin (BRA)
Fortec Motorsports 5. Stoffel Vandoorne (BEL) 6. Oliver Webb (GBR)
ISR (CZE) 7. Sergey Sirotkin (RUS) 8. Christopher Zanella (SUI)
Lotus (CZE) 9. Marco Sorensen (DEN) 10. Marlon Stockinger (PHI)
Carlin Motorsport (GBR) 11. Carlos Huertas (COL) 12. Jazeman Jaafar (MAL)
SMP Racing by Comtec (GBR) 15. Daniil Move (RUS) 16. Lucas Foresti (BRA)
International Draco Multiracing (POR) 17. Andre Negrao (BRA) 18. Nico Muller (SUI)
DAMS (FRA) 19. Norman Nato (FRA) 20. Kevin Magnussen (DEN)
P1 Motorsport (GBR) 21. Will Stevens (GBR) 22. Matias Laine (FIN)
Zeta Corse (ITA) 23. Mihai Marinescu (ROM) 24. Emmanual Piget (FRA)
Pons Racing (ESP) 25. Zoel Amberg (SUI) 26. Nikolay Martsenko (RUS)
AV Formula (ESP) 27. Arthur Pic (FRA) 28. Yann Cunha (BRA)
Calendar:
6/7 April Monza 27/28 April Aragon 26 May Monaco 1/2 June Spa 22/23 June Moscow 20/21 July Red Bull Ring 14/15 September Hungaroring 28/29 September Paul Ricard 19/20 October Barcelona
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Post by paulgilb on Apr 6, 2013 18:30:41 GMT 1
Monza Race 1 result (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Stoffel Vandoorne Fortec 46m48.474s 2. Kevin Magnussen DAMS + 7.053s 3. Christopher Zanella ISR + 8.596s 4. Oliver Webb Fortec + 8.991s 5. Nigel Melker Tech 1 + 16.461s 6. Arthur Pic AV Formula + 17.087s 7. Jazeman Jaafar Carlin + 17.838s 8. Mihai Marinescu Zeta Corse + 18.474s 9. Matias Laine P1 + 19.932s 10. Norman Nato DAMS + 25.456s 11. Andre Negrao Draco + 29.408s 12. Zoel Amberg Pons + 38.137s 13. Nico Muller Draco + 38.144s 14. Marlon Stockinger Lotus + 38.988s 15. Mikhail Aleshin Tech 1 + 45.247s 16. Carlos Huertas Carlin + 45.650s 17. Emmanuel Piget Zeta Corse + 49.859s 18. Will Stevens P1 + 56.310s 19. Marco Sorensen Lotus + 1 lap
Retirements: Driver Team Laps Pietro Fantin Arden Caterham 23 A.F.da Costa Arden Caterham 13 N.Martsenko Pons 6 Lucas Foresti Comtec 1 Sergey Sirotkin ISR 1 Yann Cunha AV Formula 0 Daniil Move Comtec 0
Vandoorne managed to win despite a massively flat-spotted tyre.
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Post by Paul on Apr 6, 2013 23:34:45 GMT 1
The FR 3.5 field doesn't quite have the same depth as last year. I'd say the quality of the field is about equal to GP2, if anything GP2 might have an edge this year.
Antonio Felix da Costa really ought to dominate this year. He was exceptional at the end of last year and single-handedly turned around the fortunes of Arden Caterham who were new to 3.5 last year. Other likely contenders include Magnussen (son of Jan, 2nd year in FR 3.5), Sorensen (very strong last year but had terrible luck, losing 2 wins on the last lap), Vandoorne (reigning Eurocup 2.0 champion, effectively the feeder series to FR 3.5. Frijns won the same championship in 2011 before taking the 3.5 title last year. Vandoorne is a McLaren young driver, like Magnussen) and Aleshin (2010 champion, beating Daniel Ricciardo).
What the results of the race don't really tell you is that there was carnage at the start, and Martsenko, who's not that great, managed to slot into 2nd behind Vandoorne. He held up the field to give Vandoorne a 10s lead. Felix da Costa eventually got back up 2nd and took chunks out of Vandoorne before retiring with a puncture.
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Post by paulgilb on Apr 7, 2013 23:43:58 GMT 1
Race 2 result (thanks to http://www.autosport.com): Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Antonio Felix da Costa Arden Caterham 46m24.405s 2. Kevin Magnussen DAMS + 2.767s 3. Stoffel Vandoorne Fortec + 5.922s 4. Arthur Pic AV Formula + 11.600s 5. Nico Muller Draco + 16.805s 6. Norman Nato DAMS + 28.467s 7. Pietro Fantin Arden Caterham + 29.106s 8. Christopher Zanella ISR + 37.524s 9. Oliver Webb Fortec + 41.314s 10. Mihai Marinescu Zeta Corse + 51.737s 11. Nigel Melker Tech 1 + 52.018s 12. Marlon Stockinger Lotus + 52.250s 13. Andre Negrao Draco + 52.921s 14. Mikhail Aleshin Tech 1 + 1m01.439s 15. Yann Cunha AV Formula + 1m06.629s 16. Carlos Huertas Carlin + 1m09.426s 17. Emmanuel Piget Zeta Corse + 1m11.811s 18. Marco Sorensen Lotus + 1 lap 19. Sergey Sirotkin ISR + 3 laps 20. Zoel Amberg Pons + 3 laps Retirements: Daniil Move Comtec 23 laps Will Stevens P1 17 laps Nikolay Martsenko Pons 17 laps Jazeman Jaafar Carlin 6 laps Lucas Foresti Comtec 0 laps Matias Laine P1 0 laps Driver Standings: 1 Stoffel Vandoorne 40 2 Kevin Magnussen 36 3 Antonio Felix da Costa 25 4 Arthur Pic 20 5 Christopher Zanella 19 6 Oliver Webb 14 7 Nigel Melker 10 8 Nico Muller 10 9 Norman Nato 9 10 Pietro Fantin 6 11 Jazeman Jaafar 6 12 Mihai Marinescu 5 13 Matias Laine 2 14 Andre Negrao 0 15 Marlon Stockinger 0 16 Zoel Amberg 0 17 Mikhail Aleshin 0 18 Yann Cunha 0 19 Carlos Huertas 0 20 Emmanuel Piget 0 21 Marco Sorensen 0 22 Will Stevens 0 23 Sergey Sirotkin 0 - Daniil Move 0 - Lucas Foresti 0 - Nikolay Martsenko 0
Team Standings: 1 Fortec Motorsports 54 2 DAMS 45 3 Arden Caterham Motorsport 31 4 AV Formula 20 5 ISR 19 6 Tech 1 Racing 10 7 International Draco Multiracing 10 8 Carlin Motorsport 6 9 Zeta Corse 5 10 P1 Motorsport 2 11 Lotus 0 12 Pons Racing 0 - SMP Racing by Comtec 0
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Post by paulgilb on Apr 18, 2013 18:26:16 GMT 1
Couple of driver changes for GP2 in Bahrain this weekend:
Alexander Rossi replaces Ma Qing Hua at Caterham Racing (whilst this does free up Ma to take part in F1 practice, Caterham are using Heikki Kovalainen instead). Robin Frijns replaces Conor Daly at Hilmer Motorsport.
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