Day: April 28, 2018

Hard penalty for Lotterer after Paris

Jens Jensen

Andre Lotterer has received a hard penalty following today’s ABB FIA Formula E Championship race in Paris. The 36 year-old German was involved in several battles throughout the day, but it was just the one that he got penalized for. A few corners before the finishing line, the Techeetah driver ran out of power. The Formula E car are constructed in such way that they don’t just power down, but goes into an emergency programme, where they can’t drive very fast. That gives the driver a chance to get the…

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French party in Paris

Jens Jensen

It turned out to be a big French party, when Round 8 of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship was run on the streets in Paris. Jean-Eric Vergne was leading the Championship prior to this round, and with him taking Pole Position, he extended the lead even more to Sam Bird, who would start the race from P2. Andre Lotterer had almost just as much speed as his teammate Vergne, and drove the other Techeetah into third, ahead of Maro Engel and Antonio Felix da Costa. Mitch Evans had to…

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Czech mix of brands at the top

Jens Jensen

The third round of the ADAC GT Masters was run at the Czech race track Most, not far from the German/Czech border. Jeffrey Schmidt had qualified the pink BWT Mücke Motorsport Audi R8 LMS GT3 #26 on Pole Position, ahead of Marvin Kirchhöfer in the Callaway Competition Corvette C7 GT3 #1, and Christopher Zöchling in the MRS GT-Racing BMW M6 GT3 #14. In fourth place we had Markus Pommer in the MANN-FILTER Team HTP Motorsport Mercedes AMG GT3 #47. These four cars were less than 0,1 of a second from…

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Another Dane at Le Mans

Jens Jensen

We’ve long known that there will be at least five Danes to start at the year’s 24-hour race at Le Mans, and now it’s confirmed that another Dane is coming. It’s, however, not for the 24-hour race itself, but in the support race Road to Le Mans, that runs their first race Thursday afternoon, while the second race will be run Saturday morning before the big race. It will be 22 year-old Christian Stubbe Olsen, who will be driving for Ecurie Ecosse/Nielsen team in car number 76. He’ll share the…

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MJP Racing Team Austria returns

Jens Jensen

MJP Racing Team Austria will return to the  FIA World Rallycross Championship during three events this year. The Austrian team has participated for three full seasons in the World RX, but chose to cut down on their programme for the 2018 season. But now three selected events has been announced. The team has signed with Andrew Jordan and Toomas Heikkinen, who will drive the two Ford Fiesta LionRX3 cars during the World RX rounds at Silverstone in England, Loheac in France, and Estering in Germany. Andrew Jordan had participated in…

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