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Post by Panda on May 29, 2009 11:38:57 GMT 1
The absurdly-named Jolyon Palmer is the son of Jonathan Palmer, former F1 driver and commentator and now boss of the F2 series.
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Post by Paul on May 29, 2009 13:05:49 GMT 1
Soucek fastest in F2 practice this morning
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Post by paulgilb on May 29, 2009 22:49:30 GMT 1
Grid for tomorrow's Valencia race:
1 Wickens 2 Hegewald 3 Soucek 4 Iaconelli 5 Aleshin 6 Jousse 7 Piscopo 8 Pavlovic 9 Vasiliauskas 10 Surtees 11 Eng 12 Bortolotti 13 Palmer 14 Gachnang 15 Hohenthal 16 Brundle 17 Clarke 18 de Marco 19 Sanchez 20 Ebrahim 21 Karjalainen 22 Hoing 23 Gladdis 24 Gandolfi 25 Moore
Pole time was 1:27.775. Top 15 were all within 1 second of pole. Slowest time was 1:31.661, qualification time was 1:33.919 (107% of pole).
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Post by -Big Dan- on May 29, 2009 22:51:00 GMT 1
DTM has also become property of Setanta.
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Post by Paul on May 29, 2009 22:55:39 GMT 1
DTM has also become property of Setanta. It won't be when Setanta go bust sooner or later Good job from Wickens in qualifying. And Hegewald too - he came from nowhere to go well here!! No points for pole is there?
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Post by paulgilb on May 30, 2009 17:33:09 GMT 1
Result of 1st Valencia race:
1 Wickens 2 Iaconelli 3 Vasiliauskas 4 Aleshin 5 Jousse 6 Bortolotti 7 Surtees 8 Brundle 9 de Marco 10 Hohenthal 11 Gachnang 12 Eng 13 Clarke 14 Sanchez 15 Ebrahim 16 Moore 17 Karjalainen 18 Hoing 19 Gladdis 20 Gandolfi 21 Palmer
DNF: Soucek, Hegewald, Pavlovic, Piscopo
Grid for Race 2:
1 Wickens 2 Soucek 3 Bortolotti 4 de Marco 5 Eng 6 Aleshin 7 Iaconelli 8 Vasiliauskas 9 Jousse 10 Surtees 11 Piscopo 12 Hegewald 13 Hohenthal 14 Gachnang 15 Sanchez 16 Gladdis 17 Brundle 18 Clarke 19 Karjalainen 20 Ebrahim 21 Moore 22 Hoing 23 Palmer 24 Gandolfi DNQ Pavlovic
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Post by Panda on May 30, 2009 21:06:24 GMT 1
Ominous start for Wickens...
There doesn't seem to be much between the rest. Gachnang's quicker than I thought she would be.
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Post by Paul on May 30, 2009 21:17:36 GMT 1
Ominous start for Wickens... There doesn't seem to be much between the rest. Gachnang's quicker than I thought she would be. I'm not sure that Wickens will walk this championship at all. Soucek took the fight to him all weekend and there's plenty of good drivers, and some with not much experience (e.g. Bortolotti) that will get better as the season goes on. It has to be said that the first race was rather dull actually. But they are nice cars and they can follow very closely behind another car without losing much performance, so there should be plenty of overtaking on circuits where you can overtake
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Post by Paddy on May 30, 2009 21:29:26 GMT 1
Velencia if it is the new "street circuit" that they raced on has no passing potential at all.
Give them some proper tracks and they should overtake nicely.
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Post by Paul on May 30, 2009 22:33:32 GMT 1
Velencia if it is the new "street circuit" that they raced on has no passing potential at all. Give them some proper tracks and they should overtake nicely. It's the Ricardo Tormo circuit, which has one vaguely potential overtaking opportunity (turn 2) and that's it Paddy, we've had this debate on the Valencia Street circuit before - I think it's unfair to judge it on one dull F1 race, but it certainly has more passing potential. In fact the majority of the circuits they are racing on this year in F2 aren't fantastic for overtaking - Imola, Catalunya, Brands, Oschersleben
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Post by Paddy on May 30, 2009 22:38:31 GMT 1
Euh, no wonder I'd taken no notice of F2 then.
Brands GP or Indy? Also owned by the owner of this series!
Imola they have changed, Catalunya has 1 big chance, is Oschersleben; eurospeedway in Germany?
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Post by Panda on May 30, 2009 23:21:18 GMT 1
is Oschersleben; eurospeedway in Germany? No, that's Lausitz.
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Post by Paul on May 30, 2009 23:30:05 GMT 1
Euh, no wonder I'd taken no notice of F2 then. Brands GP or Indy? Also owned by the owner of this series! Imola they have changed, Catalunya has 1 big chance, is Oschersleben; eurospeedway in Germany? It's Brands GP And they actually haven't changed the layout of Imola that much. I think they have reprofiled the final chicane slightly but there won't be any overtaking there.
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Post by Paul on May 31, 2009 19:24:54 GMT 1
2nd F2 race was a bit more exciting today, but still the circuit prevented any real action.
A few things I'm confused about though - I thought there was supposed to be a pitstop in race 2?
Also Martin "pinch of salt" Havern from Eurosport was saying that because they don't change tyres as F2 is about the driver not the pit crew, they can't change to wet tyres if they need to, meaning that wet races are red flagged. This cannot be correct - surely part of F2 is preparing them for wet weather driving too?
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Post by Paddy on May 31, 2009 19:40:00 GMT 1
You'd hope so.
Anyway to more bump and barging racing, BTCC, Turkington got 2 victories and Thompson got the third race victory at Oulton Park today. Oulton Park medium circuit. The one with Island chicane.
Collard drove in race 3 from 20th on grid to 4th at finish line challenging for 3rd, only 15 laps long and Oulton park is not an easy place to overtake.
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Post by paulgilb on May 31, 2009 23:09:03 GMT 1
Rather confusing result of the 2nd Valencia race:
1 Wickens (completed either 14 or 17 laps, depending on which part of the official F2 site you believe, compared with 23 laps in race 1, which is supposedly meant to be the same length as race 2) 2 Bortolotti 3 Eng 4 Soucek 5 de Marco 6 Aleshin 7 Piscopo 8 Iaconelli 9 Hegewald 10 Jousse 11 Sanchez 12 Surtees 13 Hohenthal 14 Moore 15 Karjalainen 16 Ebrahim 17 Pavlovic (impressive given that he supposedly failed to qualify) 18 Gladdis 19 Clarke 20 Vasiliauskas 21 Hoing 22 Gandolfi 23 Brundle (+1 lap)
DNF: Palmer, Gachnang
Standings:
1 Robert Wickens 20 2 Mirko Bortolotti 11 3 Carlos Iaconelli 9 4 Mikhail Aleshin 8 5 Philipp Eng 6 6 Kazimieras Vasiliauskas 6 7 Andy Soucek 5 8 Nicola de Marco 4 9 Julien Jousse 4 10 Henry Surtees 2 11 Edoardo Piscopo 2 12 Alex Brundle 1 13 Tobias Hegewald 0 14 Sebastian Hohenthal 0 15 German Sanchez 0 16 Natacha Gachnang 0 17 Jack Clarke 0 18 Jason Moore 0 19 Armaan Ebrahim 0 20 Henri Karjalainen 0 21 Milos Pavlovic 0 22 Tom Gladdis 0 23 Jens Hoing 0 24 Pietro Gandolfi 0 25 Jolyon Palmer 0
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Post by Panda on May 31, 2009 23:57:08 GMT 1
17 Pavlovic (impressive given that he supposedly failed to qualify) Maybe he raced on foot...
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Post by Panda on Jun 1, 2009 0:06:45 GMT 1
Result from Round 5 of the Indycar Series at the Milwaukee Mile:
1. Scott Dixon 2. Ryan Briscoe 3. Dario Franchitti 4. Graham Rahal 5. Danica Patrick 6. Raphael Matos 7. Marco Andretti 8. Hideki Mutoh 9. Mario Moraes 10. Dan Wheldon 11. Helio Castroneves 12. Ryan Hunter-Reay 13. Tomas Scheckter 14. Robert Doornbos 15. Justin Wilson 16. Ed Carpenter 17. Paul Tracy ret EJ Viso ret Tony Kanaan ret Mike Conway dns Stanton Barrett
Points standings after Round 5 of 17: 1. Dixon 161 2. Briscoe 157 3. Franchitti 157 4. Patrick 139 5. Castroneves 136 6. Wheldon 126 7. Kanaan 122 8. Rahal 114 9. Andretti 109 10. Hunter-Reay 102 11. Will Power 99 12. Mutoh 95 13. Wilson 92 14. Matos 88 15. Doornbos 85 16. Carpenter 84 17. Moraes 75 18. Vitor Meira 62 19. Viso 61 20. Conway 60
Round 6 is a night race at Texas Motor Speedway next Saturday.
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Post by paulgilb on Jun 2, 2009 22:28:49 GMT 1
Regarding the pitstop situation in F2:
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Post by Panda on Jun 2, 2009 23:04:02 GMT 1
So in other words, he's just making the rules up as he goes along... Nice job, "Doctor".
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