The Brazilian overtakes Vesti at the start and is great in protecting first position to the end Igor Fraga (DR Formula by RP Motorsport) wins race 3 at Red Bull Ring with a great start and an even better capacity to keep back Prema Powerteam couple, Frederik Vesti and Enzo Fittipaldi. After the start overtakes between Fraga and Vesti, with the first managing to finally keep the lead. Vesti will try all race to attack…
New faces in both series, with new drivers arriving until the very last event. Brazilian Josè Muggiati (Cram Motorsport) and the Guatemalan Ian Rodriguez (DRZ Benelli) will make their debut in the Italian F4 Championship powered by Abarth; while Nico Kari (KIC Motorsport) and Andreas Estner (Van Amersfoort Racing) embark on their first appearance in the Formula Regional European Championship certified by FIA. An exciting weekend will see the exhibition of the vintage Formula 1 and Formula 2 cars, driven on a lap of honour by Roberto Farneti, owner and former Scuderia Everest driver, and the former…
With just seven races remaining until he departs Formula 1, two-time world champion Fernando Alonso would like to make it to the chequered flag on at least a few of those outings. The McLaren driver failed to last the distance in the most recent two Grand Prix races since the summer shutdown, retiring at both Spa and Monza. He also had premature exits in Monaco and Canada earlier in the season, and suffered late-race technical…
Jacques Villeneuve pulled no punches when it came to giving his two cents on Esteban Ocon’s ill-advised move on race leader Max Verstappen in Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix The Force India driver attempted to un-lap himself on lap 44 by outrunning Verstappen into Turn 1 only for the pair to clash in the Senna ‘S’, the contact spinning both cars around and the Red Bull driver losing the lead of the race. Ocon was subsequently…
Sebastian Vettel qualified outside of the top-three for the Mexican Grand Prix but the Ferrari driver is counting on reliability and his team’s strategy to keep himself in the mix for a race win. Vettel will line up P4 on Sunday’s grid after concluding his Saturday afternoon session jus 0.211s from surprise poleman Daniel Ricciardo. The German reckons he put in a reasonably good effort in Q3, although he believed it wasn’t a perfect lap.…
Following Alexander Albon’s successful recruitment by Toro Rosso for 2019, the Nissan e.dams team has signed young Brit Oliver Rowland for its 2018/19 Formula E campaign. Click Here: Maori All Blacks Store Rowland – a former Renault and Williams development driver who competed in a round of the all-electric series in Uruguay in 2015 with Mahindra – will partner Sebastien Buemi at Nissan e.dams. “The Formula E championship features some of the best drivers in…
It hasn’t been a productive period lately for Fernando Alonso with the McLaren driver failing to see the checkered flag in the last two races. As the curtain slowly closes on the Spaniard’s time in F1, he aspires to fight a good couple of battles in the final installments, starting with the penultimate round of the world championship which takes place on the outskirts of Sao Paulo this week. “I’m excited to return to Interlagos…
The FIA has taken note of several drivers’ complaints regarding the visibility of the startline gantry in Melbourne for those located towards the rear of the grid, with a solution expected to be implemented in Bahrain. Williams’ Robert Kubica said he had been sized by a moment of panic as he took up his position at the rear of last Sunday’s grid, the Pole’s visibility of the start lights being partially obstructed by the rear…
New Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc took over from veteran Sebastian Vettel at the wheel of the SF90 on the second day of official F1 pre-season testing, but that didn’t mean there was any change at the top of the timesheets. The 21-year-old headed the standings for most of Tuesday morning, ending up with a best lap of 1:18.247s on the medium C3 compound after 73 laps at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The time put him…
Renault’s engine department at Viry-Châtillon will soon inaugurate a new test bench that will allow for a better reliability validation of its power units in the future. After investing heavily to increase the size and resources of its chassis design and production facility in Enstone, Renault will also extend the capacity of its Viry factory by adding a 3,889 square foot building adjacent to its main facility that will house its engine assembly department. However,…