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Post by paulgilb on Apr 22, 2012 22:35:09 GMT 1
Driver standings:
1 Davide Valsecchi 70 2 Luiz Razia 57 3 Esteban Gutierrez 45 4 James Calado 39 5 Max Chilton 35 6 Felipe Nasr 22 7 Fabio Leimer 22 8 Giedo van der Garde 12 9 Stefano Coletti 10 10 Tom Dillmann 8 11 Fabio Onidi 4 12 Rio Haryanto 4 13 Jolyon Palmer 2 14 Nathanael Berthon 1 15 Simon Trummer 1 16 Fabrizio Crestani 1 17 Brendon Hartley 1 18 Josef Kral 0 19 Stephane Richelmi 0 20 Dani Clos 0 21 Julian Leal 0 22 Marcus Ericsson 0 23 Ricardo Teixeira 0 24 Nigel Melker 0 25 Rodolfo Gonzalez 0 26 Jon Lancaster 0 27 Giancarlo Serenelli 0 28 Johnny Cecotto Jr 0
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Post by paulgilb on Apr 22, 2012 22:36:34 GMT 1
Team standings:
1 DAMS 92 2 Lotus GP 84 3 Arden International 58 4 Marussia Carlin GP2 Team 39 5 Racing Engineering 23 6 Scuderia Coloni 14 7 Caterham Racing 12 8 Rapax 8 9 iSport International 2 10 Ocean Racing Technology 1 11 Venezuela GP Lazarus 1 12 Barwa Addax Team 0 13 Trident Racing 0
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Post by Paul on Apr 22, 2012 22:41:11 GMT 1
Superb sprint race this morning. I've always liked Valsecchi and I'm glad he's doing very well. DAMS continue to have this knack of keeping the tyres alive at the end of races, hence Nasr's rise from last to 6th place. He was very unfairly penalised for an incident with Cecotto in race 1 which knocked him out of the race. See below (Nasr in the yellow car, Cecotto in the white and blue car)
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Post by Paddy on Apr 22, 2012 22:44:34 GMT 1
Nasr in todays race stalled before the grid why he was in pit lane. what was the penalty he was given after cecotto took him out yesterday? I in york have sky so actually able to watch these races, if a gp2 race is boring then you know the track is bad! thats how good the racing is.
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Post by Paul on Apr 22, 2012 23:34:31 GMT 1
5 place grid penalty which meant he started at the back. But as you say, that was before he stalled.
I rate Nasr very highly though; he did a superb job in British F3 last year and has acquitted himself v well making the huge jump up to GP2
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Post by Paddy on Apr 22, 2012 23:41:30 GMT 1
I didn't realise he'd skipped out GP3.
Razia is one to watch. But I am still a Colardo fan ever since he was in the BTCC support series!
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Post by Paul on Apr 23, 2012 7:04:44 GMT 1
I struggle to get excited about Razia; he's spent years in GP2 being very disappointing and is only coming good now.
Calado is good especially coming through the field and overtaking. But I'm not sure he has that extra edge to win championships. He reminds me of Oliver Turvey in that respect. I hope Racing Steps Foundation don't drop Calado as they did after Turvey's first year of GP2
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Post by Paddy on Apr 23, 2012 11:51:26 GMT 1
Think he may have matured this season and is worth watching out for. (Razia)
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Post by Paul on Apr 23, 2012 20:56:17 GMT 1
He may have, but if you were an F1 team boss who would you want? A young quick rookie making an instant impression like Nasr or Calado, or a driver who has been around for 4 years and hadn't really achieved much previously?
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Post by Paddy on Apr 24, 2012 0:14:19 GMT 1
He could follow in the footsteps of Pantino and de la rosa and karti!
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Post by paulgilb on Apr 27, 2012 23:11:12 GMT 1
Result of GP2 Bahrain (weekend 2) feature race (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Davide Valsecchi DAMS 57m35.088s + fastest lap 2. Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering + 7.711s 3. Giedo van der Garde Caterham + 14.824s + pole 4. Luiz Razia Arden + 24.142s 5. Max Chilton Carlin + 24.705s 6. Rio Haryanto Carlin + 40.965s 7. Marcus Ericsson iSport + 50.645s 8. Tom Dillmann Rapax + 52.522s 9. Johnny Cecotto Addax + 55.578s 10. Esteban Gutierrez Lotus + 56.211s 11. Felipe Nasr DAMS + 45.772s + penalty 12. Nathanael Berthon Racing Engineering + 1m06.906s 13. Brendon Hartley Ocean + 1m07.254s 14. Simon Trummer Arden + 1m15.486s 15. Julian Leal Trident + 1m16.363s 16. James Calado Lotus + 1m20.506s 17. Stephane Richelmi Trident + 1m21.441s 18. Rodolfo Gonzalez Caterham + 1m09.206s + penalty 19. Nigel Melker Ocean + 1m29.955s 20. Fabio Onidi Coloni + 1m47.146s 21. Stefano Coletti Coloni + 1 lap 22. Giancarlo Serenelli Lazarus + 1 lap 23. Ricardo Teixeira Rapax + 1 lap
Retirements:
Jolyon Palmer iSport 30 laps Fabrizio Crestani Lazarus 24 laps Dani Clos Addax 8 laps
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Post by paulgilb on Apr 28, 2012 22:38:52 GMT 1
Result of Bahrain (weekend 2) sprint race (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Tom Dillmann Rapax 41m16.276s 2. Luiz Razia Arden + 0.198s + fastest lap 3. Davide Valsecchi DAMS + 3.958s 4. Esteban Gutierrez Lotus + 16.488s 5. Felipe Nasr DAMS + 18.602s 6. Rio Haryanto Carlin + 20.425s 7. Marcus Ericsson iSport + 26.294s 8. Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering + 29.605s 9. Fabio Onidi Coloni + 33.490s 10. Nathanael Berthon Racing Engineering + 34.078s 11. Nigel Melker Ocean + 43.463s 12. James Calado Lotus + 44.371s 13. Max Chilton Carlin + 46.743s 14. Julian Leal Trident + 47.439s 15. Rodolfo Gonzalez Caterham + 54.991s 16. Brendon Hartley Ocean + 59.764s 17. Stephane Richelmi Trident + 1m00.655s 18. Stefano Coletti Coloni + 1m02.090s 19. Giedo van der Garde Caterham + 1m02.632s 20. Ricardo Teixeira Rapax + 1m07.468s 21. Giancarlo Serenelli Lazarus + 1m08.293s 22. Jolyon Palmer iSport + 1m18.688s 23. Fabrizio Crestani Lazarus + 1m26.049s
Retirements:
Simon Trummer Arden 21 laps Dani Clos Addax 19 laps Johnny Cecotto Addax 0 laps
Driver standings:
1 Davide Valsecchi 107 2 Luiz Razia 83 3 Esteban Gutierrez 54 4 Max Chilton 45 5 Fabio Leimer 41 6 James Calado 39 7 Giedo van der Garde 31 8 Felipe Nasr 28 9 Tom Dillmann 27 10 Rio Haryanto 16 11 Stefano Coletti 10 12 Marcus Ericsson 8 13 Fabio Onidi 4 14 Jolyon Palmer 2 15 Johnny Cecotto Jr 2 16 Nathanael Berthon 1 17 Simon Trummer 1 18 Brendon Hartley 1 19 Fabrizio Crestani 1 20 Josef Kral 0 21 Nigel Melker 0 22 Stephane Richelmi 0 23 Dani Clos 0 24 Julian Leal 0 25 Ricardo Teixeira 0 26 Rodolfo Gonzalez 0 27 Jon Lancaster 0 28 Giancarlo Serenelli 0
Team standings:
1 DAMS 135 2 Lotus GP 93 3 Arden International 84 4 Marussia Carlin GP2 Team 61 5 Racing Engineering 42 6 Caterham Racing 31 7 Rapax 27 8 Scuderia Coloni 14 9 iSport International 10 10 Barwa Addax Team 2 11 Ocean Racing Technology 1 12 Venezuela GP Lazarus 1 13 Trident Racing 0
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Post by paulgilb on May 10, 2012 22:58:56 GMT 1
For GP2 this weekend, Brazil's Victor Guerin replaces Brendon Hartley at Ocean Racing Technology, and Josef Kral returns to Barwa Addax in place of Dani Clos.
This weekend also sees the start of GP3 for 2012, with the following line-up:
Lotus GP (FRA) 1 Daniel Abt (GER) 2 Conor Daly (USA) 3 Aaro Vainio (FIN) MW Arden (AUS) 4 Mitch Evans (NZL) 5 David Fumanelli (ITA) 6 Matias Laine (FIN) Marussia Manor Racing (GBR) 7 Dmitry Suranovich (RUS) 8 Fabiano Machado (BRA) 9 Tio Ellinas (CYP) Status Grand Prix (IRE) 14 Marlon Stockinger (PHI) 15 Kotaro Sakurai (JAP) 16 Alice Powell (GBR) Ocean Racing Technology (POR) (replacing Tech 1 Racing) 17 Kevin Ceccon (ITA) 18 Carmen Jorda (ESP) 19 Robert Cregan (IRE) Jenzer Motorsport (SUI) 20 Robert Visoiu (ROM) 21 Patric Niederhauser (SUI) 22 Jakub Klasterka (CZE) Trident Racing (ITA) (replacing Addax Team) 23 Vicky Piria (ITA) 24 Antonio Spavone (ITA) (no third driver seems to be listed) Carlin (GBR) 26 Alex Brundle (GBR) 27 Antonio Felix da Costa (POR) 28 William Buller (GBR) ATECH CRS Grand Prix (GBR) 29 Tamas Pal Kiss (HUN) 30 John Wartique (BEL) 31 Ethan Ringel (USA) RSC Mucke Motorsport appear to have disappeared.
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Post by Paul on May 11, 2012 8:42:09 GMT 1
Mucke have pulled out of the series. Unlike Tech 1 and Addax, another team didn't replace. There is no longer a requirement that GP3 teams have to run 3 cars, hence why Trident are only running two drivers.
It's sad that the GP3 field is significantly worse in terms of talent compared to last year. All of Lotus and Carlin's drivers should be strong, as should Evans and Ceccon.
Although to be fair, only the World Series by Renault package has managed to maintain full grids this year. The Formula Renault 3.5 series which started last weekend has a much stronger lineup than even the GP2 series.
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Post by paulgilb on May 11, 2012 17:39:08 GMT 1
Grid for GP2 feature race (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):
Pos Driver Team Time Gap 1. James Calado Lotus 1m30.655s 2. Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering 1m30.865s + 0.210s 3. Stephane Richelmi Trident 1m30.902s + 0.247s 4. Max Chilton Carlin 1m30.962s + 0.307s 5. Giedo van der Garde Caterham 1m31.006s + 0.351s 6. Fabio Onidi Coloni 1m31.167s + 0.512s 7. Davide Valsecchi DAMS 1m31.212s + 0.557s 8. Stefano Coletti Coloni 1m31.212s + 0.557s 9. Jolyon Palmer iSport 1m31.269s + 0.614s 10. Nathanael Berthon Racing Engineering 1m31.308s + 0.653s 11. Esteban Gutierrez Lotus 1m31.320s + 0.665s 12. Nigel Melker Ocean 1m31.332s + 0.677s 13. Luiz Razia Arden 1m31.377s + 0.722s 14. Marcus Ericsson iSport 1m31.391s + 0.736s 15. Johnny Cecotto Addax 1m31.565s + 0.910s 16. Josef Kral Addax 1m31.599s + 0.944s 17. Fabrizio Crestani Lazarus 1m31.677s + 1.022s 18. Tom Dillmann Rapax 1m31.682s + 1.027s 19. Simon Trummer Arden 1m31.939s + 1.284s 20. Rodolfo Gonzalez Caterham 1m31.966s + 1.311s 21. Victor Guerin Ocean 1m32.270s + 1.615s 22. Felipe Nasr DAMS 1m32.325s + 1.670s 23. Julian Leal Trident 1m32.691s + 2.036s 24. Rio Haryanto Carlin 1m33.010s + 2.355s 25. Ricardo Teixeira Rapax 1m33.083s + 2.428s 26. Giancarlo Serenelli Lazarus 1m33.329s + 2.674s
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Post by paulgilb on May 12, 2012 23:57:28 GMT 1
GP2 feature race result (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Giedo van der Garde Caterham 1h00m22.966s 2. James Calado Lotus + 0.878s 3. Stefano Coletti Coloni + 3.811s 4. Davide Valsecchi DAMS + 11.859s 5. Nathanael Berthon Racing Engineering + 15.795s 6. Fabio Onidi Coloni + 19.379s 7. Max Chilton Carlin + 19.768s 8. Luiz Razia Arden + 20.072s 9. Jolyon Palmer iSport + 27.624s 10. Esteban Gutierrez Lotus + 36.653s + fastest lap 11. Felipe Nasr DAMS + 45.264s 12. Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering + 46.534s 13. Marcus Ericsson iSport + 47.087s 14. Nigel Melker Ocean + 47.356s 15. Rodolfo Gonzalez Caterham + 53.555s 16. Rio Haryanto Carlin + 1m00.879s 17. Fabrizio Crestani Lazarus + 1m06.737s 18. Johnny Cecotto Addax + 1m11.199s 19. Victor Guerin Ocean + 1m11.397s 20. Josef Kral Addax + 1m14.871s 21. Stephane Richelmi Trident + 1m15.821s 22. Tom Dillmann Rapax + 1m20.031s 23. Simon Trummer Arden + 1m20.382s 24. Julian Leal Trident + 1m28.989s 25. Giancarlo Serenelli Lazarus + 1 lap
Retirements:
Ricardo Teixeira Rapax 8 laps
GP3 feature race result (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Mitch Evans MW Arden 28m38.738s 2. Marlon Stockinger Status + 2.609s 3. Aaro Vainio Lotus + 4.594s 4. Patric Niederhauser Jenzer + 5.071s + fastest lap 5. Matias Laine MW Arden + 6.284s 6. Conor Daly Lotus + 6.941s 7. Tio Ellinas Manor + 7.419s 8. Robert Visoiu Jenzer + 10.102s 9. David Fumanelli MW Arden + 11.046s 10. Alex Brundle Carlin + 11.291s 11. Dmitry Suranovich Manor + 15.105s 12. Tamas Pal Kiss Atech CRS + 15.752s 13. Daniel Abt Lotus + 16.231s 14. Antonio Felix da Costa Carlin + 16.577s + pole 15. Robert Cregan Ocean + 17.132s 16. Fabiano Machado Manor + 17.775s 17. Antonio Spavone Trident + 18.284s 18. Kotaro Sakurai Status + 19.087s 19. Jakub Klasterka Jenzer + 19.626s 20. Carmen Jorda Ocean + 22.224s 21. John Wartique Atech CRS + 23.070s 22. Vicky Piria Trident + 32.897s 23. William Buller Carlin + 46.346s
Retirements:
Kevin Ceccon Ocean 7 laps Ethan Ringel Atech CRS 0 laps Alice Powell Status 0 laps
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Post by paulgilb on May 13, 2012 22:31:55 GMT 1
GP2 sprint race result (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Luiz Razia Arden 40m08.411s + fastest lap 2. Nathanael Berthon Racing Engineering + 5.256s 3. Davide Valsecchi DAMS + 5.897s 4. James Calado Lotus + 6.575s 5. Max Chilton Carlin + 13.117s 6. Giedo van der Garde Caterham + 14.362s 7. Esteban Gutierrez Lotus + 14.874s 8. Stefano Coletti Coloni + 19.223s 9. Felipe Nasr DAMS + 19.703s 10. Fabrizio Crestani Lazarus + 21.570s 11. Fabio Leimer Racing Engineering + 22.852s 12. Tom Dillmann Rapax + 23.312s 13. Johnny Cecotto Addax + 30.155s 14. Rodolfo Gonzalez Caterham + 30.601s 15. Rio Haryanto Carlin + 31.281s 16. Josef Kral Addax + 31.834s 17. Julian Leal Trident + 32.817s 18. Fabio Onidi Coloni + 34.371s 19. Stephane Richelmi Trident + 34.818s 20. Simon Trummer Arden + 35.426s 21. Victor Guerin Ocean + 38.977s 22. Marcus Ericsson iSport + 39.878s 23. Ricardo Teixeira Rapax + 41.979s 24. Nigel Melker Ocean + 48.441s
Retirements:
Giancarlo Serenelli Lazarus 3 laps Jolyon Palmer iSport 0 laps
Driver Standings:
1 Davide Valsecchi 129 2 Luiz Razia 104 3 James Calado 69 4 Giedo van der Garde 60 5 Esteban Gutierrez 59 6 Max Chilton 57 7 Fabio Leimer 41 8 Felipe Nasr 28 9 Tom Dillmann 27 10 Stefano Coletti 26 11 Nathanael Berthon 23 12 Rio Haryanto 16 13 Fabio Onidi 12 14 Marcus Ericsson 8 15 Jolyon Palmer 4 16 Johnny Cecotto Jr 2 17 Simon Trummer 1 18 Fabrizio Crestani 1 19 Brendon Hartley 1 20 Josef Kral 0 21 Nigel Melker 0 22 Stephane Richelmi 0 23 Dani Clos 0 24 Julian Leal 0 25 Ricardo Teixeira 0 26 Rodolfo Gonzalez 0 27 Jon Lancaster 0 28 Giancarlo Serenelli 0 29 Victor Guerin 0
Team Standings:
1 DAMS 157 2 Lotus GP 128 3 Arden International 105 4 Marussia Carlin GP2 Team 73 5 Racing Engineering 64 6 Caterham Racing 60 7 Scuderia Coloni 38 8 Rapax 27 9 iSport International 12 10 Barwa Addax Team 2 11 Venezuela GP Lazarus 1 12 Ocean Racing Technology 1 13 Trident Racing 0
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Post by paulgilb on May 13, 2012 22:33:16 GMT 1
GP3 sprint race result (thanks to http://www.autosport.com):
Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Conor Daly Lotus 27m21.043s 2. Robert Visoiu Jenzer + 3.265s 3. Matias Laine MW Arden + 4.168s 4. Aaro Vainio Lotus + 4.877s 5. Patric Niederhauser Jenzer + 5.669s 6. Antonio Felix da Costa Carlin + 8.688s 7. Daniel Abt Lotus + 9.341s 8. Alex Brundle Carlin + 9.833s 9. William Buller Carlin + 12.090s 10. Kevin Ceccon Ocean + 12.401s + fastest lap 11. Alice Powell Status + 13.664s 12. Kotaro Sakurai Status + 16.703s 13. John Wartique Atech CRS + 21.703s 14. Jakub Klasterka Jenzer + 25.550s 15. Tio Ellinas Manor + 28.133s 16. Vicky Piria Trident + 31.239s 17. David Fumanelli MW Arden + 31.608s 18. Ethan Ringel Atech CRS + 37.862s 19. Marlon Stockinger Status + 38.449s 20. Mitch Evans MW Arden + 51.421s 21. Carmen Jorda Ocean + 1m16.560s
Retirements:
Fabiano Machado Manor 12 laps Robert Cregan Ocean 0 laps Tamas Pal Kiss Atech CRS 0 laps Antonio Spavone Trident 0 laps Dmitry Suranovich Manor 0 laps
Driver Standings:
1 Mitch Evans (NZL) 25 2 Conor Daly (USA) 23 3 Aaro Vainio (FIN) 23 4 Matias Laine (FIN) 20 5 Patric Niederhauser (SUI) 20 6 Marlon Stockinger (PHI) 18 7 Robert Visoiu (ROM) 16 8 Antonio Felix da Costa (POR) 6 9 Tio Ellinas (CYP) 6 10 Daniel Abt (GER) 4 11 Alex Brundle (GBR) 2 12 David Fumanelli (ITA) 2 13 Kevin Ceccon (ITA) 2 14 William Buller (GBR) 0 15 Alice Powell (GBR) 0 16 Dmitry Suranovich (RUS) 0 17 Kotaro Sakurai (JAP) 0 18 Tamas Pal Kiss (HUN) 0 19 John Wartique (BEL) 0 20 Jakub Klasterka (CZE) 0 21 Robert Cregan (IRE) 0 22 Vicky Piria (ITA) 0 23 Fabiano Machado (BRA) 0 24 Antonio Spavone (ITA) 0 25 Ethan Ringel (USA) 0 26 Carmen Jorda (ESP) 0
Team Standings:
1 Lotus GP 50 2 MW Arden 47 3 Jenzer Motorsport 36 4 Status Grand Prix 18 5 Carlin 8 6 Marussia Manor Racing 6 7 Ocean Racing Technology 2 8 ATECH CRS GP 0 9 Trident Racing 0
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Post by Panda on May 23, 2012 19:00:03 GMT 1
Grid for the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday: 1. Ryan Briscoe (Australia) 2. James Hinchcliffe (Canada) 3. Ryan Hunter-Reay (US) 4. Marco Andretti (US) 5. Will Power (Australia) 6. Helio Castroneves (Brazil) 7. Josef Newgarden (US) 8. Tony Kanaan (Brazil) 9. EJ Viso (Venezuela) 10. Rubens Barrichello (Brazil) 11. Alex Tagliani (Canada) 12. Graham Rahal (US) 13. Ana Beatriz (Brazil) 14. Charlie Kimball (US) 15. Scott Dixon (New Zealand) 16. Dario Franchitti (GB) 17. James Jakes (GB) 18. JR Hildebrand (US) 19. Takuma Sato (Japan) 20. Townsend Bell (US) 21. Justin Wilson (GB) 22. Michel Jourdain (Mexico) 23. Simon Pagenaud (France) 24. Sebastian Saavedra (Colombia) 25. Sebastien Bourdais (France) 26. Wade Cunningham (New Zealand) 27. Oriol Servia (Spain) 28. Ed Carpenter (US) 29. Mike Conway (GB) 30. Katherine Legge (GB) 31. Bryan Clauson (US) 32. Simona de Silvestro (Switzerland) 33. Jean Alesi (France) Alesi seems to have benefitted from a lack of entries this year. I don't think anyone else tried to qualify apart from the 33 in the race. Alesi's 4-lap average speed was 4mph slower than de Silvestro's and 7mph slower than Legge's. To put that into context, Legge was only 5mph slower than Ryan Briscoe. Briscoe took pole by 2/1000s of a second, the closest margin in Indy 500 history and even more remarkable when you consider the timed qualifying distance is 10 miles.
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Post by Paul on May 23, 2012 19:23:28 GMT 1
Rubens did very well for someone who has never raced on ovals before.
Great weekend of motorsport in prospect - Indy 500 and the F1 Monaco GP with GP2, GP3 and Formula Renault 3.5 supporting. It will be very interesting to see whether GP2 or FR 3.5 will be quicker around Monaco.
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