Day: February 3, 2018

Drama in Chile

Jens Jensen

Round 4 of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship was run in Santiago, Chile. Already prior to the Saturday Qualifying, Lucas Di Grassi and the rest of the Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler team knew that it would be a difficult weekend. Due to a faulty inverter on the car, the team had to exchange it, which gave them a 10 grid penalty. He actually did the third fastest lap in the Qualifying, but was demoted to start the race as 13th. Mitch Evens made a driving error on his Qualifying…

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Exciting qualifying at Sepang

Jens Jensen

Qualifying for the fourth and final round of the Asian Le Mans Series 2017/18 was run on the Sepang track in Malaysia today. The session was run in 32 degrees and light cloud cover, so the drivers was probably happy only to be in the car for 15 minutes today. The first 15 minutes was for the LMp2 and LMP3 cars. The first car on the track was Jackie Chan DC Racing X JOTA #7 with local hero Jazeman Jaafar behind the wheel. He wasn’t the only driver with local…

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Asian Le Mans Series ready with their 2018/19 calendar

Jens Jensen

The Asian Le Mans Series has just released their 2018/19 calendar. The announcement was made during the 2017/18 final race weekend, and ACO, who is behind the Asian LMS, has released the four dates, that they are going to race on this upcoming winter. The start of the season will be moved back one month compared to 2017, so they will be well clear of the European Le Mans Series. That will hopefully give the European teams the opportunity to go to Asian, and race through the winter. The ELMS…

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