Day: May 12, 2019

World RX tried Eau Rouge

Jens Jensen

FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy visited a whole new track for the third round of the 2019 season. The Belgian Spa Francorchamps circuit had built a new Rallycross track, that the drivers would christen this weekend. There was a little change in the driver line-up. Niclas Grönholm couldn’t drive for GRX Taneco team due to laparoscopy. Joni Wiman would take his place. Mattias Ekström was back to the Rallycross world for a weekend as guest driver. The two qualifying rounds on Saturday were run on a wet…

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Monza delivers again

Jens Jensen

4 Hours European Le Mans Series race at Monza was just as dramatic and turbulent as the series often are. With 41 starting cars, incidents and problems were guaranteed. Cool Racing #37 with Alexander Coigny, Antonin Borga and Nicolas Lapierre had taken taken Pole Position, ahead of G-Drive Racing #26 and IDEC Sport #28. M.Racing #19 with Lucas Legeret and Laurent Millara had the LMP3 Pole, in front of Nielsen Racing #7 and Oregon Team #10. In fact, it was Norma 1-5 before United Autosports #2 which was the best…

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PMSC 2019 started in Barcelona

Jens Jensen

The Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup 2019 season got off to a start at Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona. Julien Andlauer had grabbed his first Pole Position in PMSC ahead of a new name, Ayhancan Güven. Güven is the defending Porsche Carrera Cup Benelux Champion. The double defending PMSC Championship Michael Ammermüller started third, while Tio Ellinas started P4. Mikkel Overgaard Pedersen had secured fifth starting position, right ahead of one of his worst enemies from 2018, Jaap van Lagen. Güven pushed really hard towards Turn 1, and tried to outbrake…

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Roussel also sidelined

Jens Jensen

After Mark Patterson was judged out of this weekend’s race at Monza, and actually the 24 Hours of Le Mans too, another injury has been added to a European Le Mans Series team. Frenchman Leo Roussel has a crash in the second free practice, on his 5th lap in the Inter Europol Competition #34 LMP2 car. Something went wrong during the braking for Parabolica, so the car went straight on a high speed, hit the barrier and apparently went on top of the barrier. Roussel was able to leave the…

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Luzich Racing outshone the other GT3 teams

Jens Jensen

Luzich Racing with Mikkel Mac and Fabien Lavergne have got to quite a good start in the Michelin Le Mans Cup 2019. The team had Pole Position in Paul Ricard, and led most of the race, until a penalty for crossing the red light at the Pit Lane Exit sent them back to P3. This time out in Monza, they only missed Pole Position by 0,003 of a second to Kessel Racing Ferrari #8, which was going to be their main opponent in the race too. The race started out…

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Even more hindrances for Eurointernational

Jens Jensen

Eurointernational is perhaps the most unlucky team on the whole of the European Le Mans Series grid. They have run into circumstances beyond their control for the second weekend in a row. We have already explained the issues in France, and the team has actually not yet got the cars released from France. So the team found two other cars prior to this weekend for the ELMS and Michelin Le Mans Cup. The car at Paul Ricard was Ligier JS P3 with chassis plate 001 – i.e. the very first…

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