2 April 2019 Archives

G-Drive Racing ready with 2019 ELMS plans

Tuesday April 2nd, 2019 Jens Jensen

G-Drive Racing has revealed their plans for the 2019 European Le Mans Series season. The majority was already announced, with Roman Rusinov as the central piece in the Russian sponsored team. He is once again joined by Jean-Eric Vergne – at least for most of the season. They have found Job van Uitert, who won the LMP3 Championship in ELMS 2018 with RLR MSport. He is the Silver ranked driver this year, and is clearly somebody worth keeping an eye on, with the speed that he showed last year. It…

Race Report – VR Motorsport’s Praga Wins Season Opener

Tuesday April 2nd, 2019 Steve Tarrant

Tim Gray, driving the stunning VR Motorsport Praga R1T, took a convincing win in the opening round of the Championship, striding away from the field at the start, then responding to a late-race challenge. The Praga had signalled notice of intent on the early-morning Free Practice session, but in Qualifying had to give best to the new Lamborghini Huracan of car owner John Seale and pro-driver Marcus Clutton, just half a second separating the two front-row starters, which the modest Clutton put down to luck as much as anything; “I…