Day: March 23, 2019

ROWE Racing beats Manthey for the first VLN 2019 race victory in the last lap

Stefan Schneider

VLN Race #1 of 2019 is in the books. And ROWE Racing has won the first race of the season with a strong finish by John Edwards in the ROWE BMW M6 GT3 #99, who managed in the very last lap to take the lead back from Patrick Pilet in the Manthey Porsche GT3 R #912. The day started with the so typical Eifel weather – in surrounding areas and even at parts of the track like Brünnchen, there was some glance of early morning sun – but the higher…

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Chaotic Formula E race in China

Jens Jensen

The 6th round of ABB FIA Formula E Championship 2018/19 was run in the Chinese city of Sanya, and that gave another twist in the championship. Oliver Rowland from the Nissan eDAMS team had secured Pole Position, ahead of the defending Champion Jean-Eric Vergne in DS Techeetah, Antonio Felix da Costa in BMW i Andretti Motorsport, while Daniel Abt in Audi Sport Abt Schaeffler started the race from P4. Alexander Sims in BMW i Andretti Motorsport wasn’t able to participate in the super pole, even though he were amongst the…

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Fourth winner in four weekends

Jens Jensen

Jaguar I-PACE eTROPHY continued to surprise, when the season’s fourth round was run in Sanya, China. Caca Bueno had taken Pole Position for second race in a row, with Simon Evans in P2, while championship leader Bryan Sellers qualified third. It was worse for the first contender, and Seller’s teammate, Katherine Legge, who would only start from eighth position. Guest driver David Cheng started on the last row, but he was also given a Drive-Through penalty for blocking Bandar Alesayi in the qualifying. The weather was the opposite of the…

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