Day: February 17, 2019

GRX Taneco enters up to three cars in 2019

Jens Jensen

The GRX Taneco team will enter three cars in the FIA World Rallycross Championship 2019 – at least at selected rounds. The Finnish team will run updated Hyundai i20 Supercars, which they made their debut with in 2018. Niclas Grönholm and Timer Timerzyanov will once again be the full season drivers for the team, while Reinis Nitiss will become the test and reserve driver for the team, but will have a few race starts too. Niclas Grönholm, son of team boss and double WRC Champion Marcus Grönholm, will enter his…

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O’Ward without seat ahead of season opener

Jens Jensen

Patricio O’Ward is left with no seat ahead of the NTT IndyCar Series 2019. The Mexican was announced as Harding-Steinbrenner Racing driver in the fall of 2018, where he and Colton Herta should be teammates, in a two-car team. Last year’s Indy Lights Champion got his debut at the season finale at Sonoma Raceway, and did very well in both qualifying and the race. So it’s super tough for him, that the collaboration with the team has come to an early end. It’s been clear during the last few days,…

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ADAC GT Masters announcements catch-up

Jens Jensen

The ADAC GT Masters teams are slowly but surely starting to announce their programmes for the 2019 season. We already knew back in December, that KÜS Team75 Bernhard would be back, and earlier we have had Audi confirm a lot of cars. HCB-Rutronik Racing will enter two Audi R8 LMS cars, where one of them will be piloted by Carrie Schreiner and Dennis Marschall. Schreiner has raced ADAC Formula 4 in the past, but went on to compete in things like Lamborghini Super Trofeo. She already started to work with…

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Well-known faces in front in Mexico

Jens Jensen

The season’s fourth round of ABB FIA Formula E Championship was run in Mexico City, on the shorter version of the Formula 1 track. Top three drivers in the qualifying all had experience in Formula 1, with Pascal Wehrlein on Pole Position ahead of Lucas Di Grassi and Felipe Massa. Oliver Rowland, Antonio Felix da Costa and Sebastien Buemi were the last drivers also in the Super Pole. Championship leader Sam Bird had a terrible qualifying, where he didn’t set any time at all due to technical problem with the…

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