Day: April 4, 2018

My First Grand Prix

Jim Casey

In the spring of 1977, I was living in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, and was only following Formula One through my subscription to Road and Track. One of my neighbors had formerly been an engineer at Ford, and suggested the possibility of driving to Los Angeles for the Long Beach Grand Prix. I had friends living in Los Angeles, was able to get time off both my jobs, so I said yes. We left Steamboat on a Tuesday morning, and drove through some spectacular scenery in Western Colorado and Utah, including…

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Sebring 2019 changes

Jens Jensen

When the joint IMSA and FIA World Endurance Championship race will be run at Sebring in March 2019, there will some changes to the initial announced plans. The 12 hours of Sebring in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship will continue to be run on the Saturday, like we know from the past. When the FIA WEC race was announced back in September 2017, the news was that it would start two hours after the conclusion of the IMSA race, with 12 hours of FIA WEC to be run. That was…

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Massive ELMS entry at Paul Ricard

Jens Jensen

There will be a fight for every centimetre of the asphalt, when the first round of the European Le Mans Series will be run at Paul Ricard in 10 days’ time. 45 cars are present on the 5.791 kilometres circuit located in the south of France, which is four more entries than the full season entry. The number of participants are actually so large that there aren’t enough garages at the track, so some of the teams will have to share the same space. There are only 34 garages, so…

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Brundle new CEFC TRSM Racing driver

Jens Jensen

Alex Brundle will finally have the chance to participate in the most prestigious sportscar category of them all, LMP1. The 27 year-old Englishman has signed with the CEFC TRSM Racing, formerly known as Manor. The team has participated in the FIA World Endurance Championship for the last two years in the LMP2 category, but moves up into LMP1 with the brand new Ginetta G60-LT-P1 Mecachrome. The will enter two cars, and Brundle will run in the #6 together with Oliver Rowland, with the third driver yet to be announced. Alex…

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