29 July 2018 Archives

90 green laps in Mid-Ohio

Sunday July 29th, 2018Wednesday August 1st, 2018 Jens Jensen

Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio was run on the classic racetrack between Columbus and Cleveland. There were also five well-known names on the first five grids, where Alexander Rossi had taken his second Pole Position in his Verizon IndyCar series carreer. Will power started second, ahead of Ryan Hunter-Reay, Josef Newgarden, and Robert Wickens. Max Chilton surprisingly drove sixth best time. He was, however, lucky in the qualifying when James Hinchcliffe hit a tire barrier shortly before the session ended. Which meant established drivers such as Scott Dixon couldn’t set…

Challenging Hungarian heat

Sunday July 29th, 2018Wednesday August 1st, 2018 Jens Jensen

With four races in five weeks, the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup finished off an intense first half of the season at the Hungaroring near Budapest in Hungary. The race weekend was incredibly hot for all the drivers, where the PMSC cars were lucky only to drive in the dry, whereas some of the other classes had to deal with some heavy showers. The race was done under brilliant sunshine, but it meant that the drivers had to nurse their tires through all 14 laps. Porsche Junior kører Thomas Preining had…