17 August 2018 Archives

Second free practice without drama

Friday August 17th, 2018Saturday August 18th, 2018 Jens Jensen

The drama had been turned quite a few notches down, when the second free practice for the FIA World Endurance Championship was run at Silverstone today. Toyota Gazoo Racing #7 was once again fastest ahead of their teammates in #8, while SMP Racing #17 was third fastest. Rebellion Racing #3 did the fourth fastest lap of all. #17 did however have a few gearbox issues, but after checking it, the team found a sensor to be faulty rather than some of the more mechanical stuff. There were two LMP1 cars…

Loads of laps in FP2

Friday August 17th, 2018Sunday August 19th, 2018 Jens Jensen

The European Le Mans Series teams managed to do a lot of laps in the second free practice session at Silverstone today. G-Drive Racing #26 was once again the fastest in LMP2 ahead of DragonSpeed #21. Those two were joined in the top 3 by Cetilar Villorba Corsa #47, where Felipe Nasr did a super lap, finishing the highest placed Dallara chassis, right in front of SMP Racing #35. In LMP3 we had 360 Racing #6 as the fastest car ahead of United Autosports #2 and AT Racing #9. Mikkel…

Preliminary FIA WEC calendar released

Friday August 17th, 2018Friday September 21st, 2018 Jens Jensen

The preliminary FIA World Endurance Championship 2019/20 calendar has been announced today. Its a calendar with a lot of usual things, but with some new twists and turns too. The season starts at Silverstone on the first weekend of September, before the teams will sea fright all their equipment to Asia, where Fuji in Japan, Shanghai in China and the Sakhir track in Bahrain will be visited. That all happens in the fall/winter 2019 before the equipment will be shipped to Brazil, with Sao Paulo being run in February, before…

ELMS at Silverstone with new appearances

Friday August 17th, 2018Sunday March 15th, 2020 Jens Jensen

There were new colours and new faces on the track, when the European Le Mans Series had their FP1 at Silverstone ahead of their race tomorrow. Team Virage #34 is a new team in LMP3, with a Ligier JS P3 car. The team is running under Polish licence with Swede Henning Enqvist, British Jacob Rattenbury and Brit Jean-Marc Littman. The team finished in the second half of the field in FP1, but were two seconds faster than the slowest car. High Class Racing #49 with Dennis Andersen and Anders Fjordbach…

Troublesome FP1 for FIA WEC

Friday August 17th, 2018 Jens Jensen

It was a troublesome FP1 session for the FIA World Endurance Championship at Silverstone. The 90 minutes of free practice had not one but two red flags due to troubles on the circuit. The first red flag was caused by Rebellion Racing #1 with Bruno Senna behind the wheel. The Brazilian crashed at the ultra fast Copse corner, and hit the tire barrier hard. That destroyed the R13 so much, that the mechanics will have plenty of hours of repair work ahead of them. The time will tell if they…