Day: August 6, 2017

The first teams for Asian Le Mans Series are ready

Jens Jensen

The first teams for Asian Le Mans Series are ready to go for the upcoming season. The defending LMP2 Champions, Algarve Pro Racing was quick to enter the 2017/18 season, where they will enter with a Ligier JSP217-Gibson. Dutch driver Ate de Jong will be joined by Korean Tack Sung Kim in the Portuguese team. ARC Bratislava will be a new team in the LMP2 category, after finishing second in the Asian LMS LMP3 Championsip during the 2016/17 season. The team has already had their first LMP2 race, when they…

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Thankfully undramatic ending to Nürburgring

Jens Jensen

After two red flags in the first two ADAC Formula 4 races this weekend, it was thankfully an undramatic finish to the weekend. Marcus Armstrong started the race from Pole Position ahead of Julian Hanses and Enzo Fittipaldi, while Dane Frederik Vesti started fourth. The starting grid for Race 3 was set by the finishing positions in Race 1, where top-10 was reversed, while P11 and backwards would keep their positions. That meant Juri Vips in P6 had a great advantage over his closest rival, Felipe Drugovich, who would only…

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Debut victory at Nürburgring

Jens Jensen

Philipp Eng had taken Pole Position for BMW Team Schnitzer #42 with an impressive gap of 0,112 of a second to Kelvin van der Linde in Aust Motorsport Audi #3, Christopher Haase in Montaplast by Land Motorsport Audi #2, Patric Niederhauser in Aust Motorsport Audi #4 and Markus Winkelhock in BWT Mücke Motorsport Audi #24. As you probably have guessed by now, there was plenty of speed in the Audis in the Qualifying session, but the difference that decided the starting grid was marginal, with 22 cars within one second!…

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Brazilian victory in Germany

Jens Jensen

Felipe Drugovich started Race 2 in ADAC Formula 4 from Pole Position, ahead of yesterday’s winner Lirim Zendeli and yesterday’s big surprise, Andreas Estner. The start ran quite smoothly and Drugovich quickly got a big gap to Lirim Zendeli and the Championship leader Juri Vips, who had overtaken Andreas Estner for third. After the roll yesterday, we didn’t have Nicklas Nielsen on the track today. The car was too damaged for the team to be able to repair for today’s races. That effectively sent him out of the battle for…

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