Day: July 15, 2018

One hell of a finale

Jens Jensen

The final race of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship 2017/18 season was run at the harbour area of Brooklyn in New York, giving the drivers an extra challenge in the qualifying. It had been raining Sunday morning, and the track was slowly drying, so it got faster and faster for each qualifying segment. That was of course a handicap for the first group of drivers on the track, who were all significantly slower than the rest of the drivers. But Sebastien Buemi was the fastest driver for the second…

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Troubles in Toronto

Jens Jensen

The Verizon IndyCar Series had their annual visit to Canada, when the 12th round was run on the streets of Toronto at the so-called Honda Indy Toronto event. Josef Newgarden had grabbed Pole Position ahead of the current leader of the series, Scott Dixon. Simon Pagenaud was starting third ahead of Will Power, Alexander Rossi and Ryan Hunter-Reay. Local heroes James Hinchcliffe and Robert Wickens were starting P9 and P10 respectively, while Zachary Claman de Melo started from the very last spot in 23rd. Conor Daly returned to the series,…

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Excitement until the very final meter in New York

Jens Jensen

There was excitement until the very final meter in New York, where the penultimate round of this seasons ABB FIA Formula E Championship race was run on the streets. It was already clear prior to the weekend that Jean-Eric Vergne had the best chances of winning the Championship, since he had a 23 points lead over Sam Bird in second. The Qualifying was appearing to go the way of Techeetah with Vergne grabbing Pole Position ahead of Andre Lotterer. The happiness didn’t last long though, since both cars were disqualified…

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Crazy strategy paid off

Jens Jensen

The second DTM race of the weekend at Zandvoort in the Netherlands was a hot and sunny one, where the drivers needed a lot to drink both before and during the race. Mercedes driver Gary Paffett had taken Pole Position just like yesterday, while Philipp Eng at BMW had grabbed P2 ahead of Audi driver Rene Rast. Pascal Wehrlein and Paul di Resta got two more Mercedes cars into Top 5, before Mike Rockenfeller got his Audi ahead of the two BMW cars piloted by Bruno Spengler and Augusto Farfus.…

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