This site is not officially affiliated with, associated with, or endorsed by Autosport or the publisher. Guest Series: 24 Hours Nurburgring. Despite backlash from some of the teams after announcing the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship Prologue will be mandatory, Gerard Neveu is confident this is a necessary step in preparing for the series' first winter season.
Yamamoto Holds Off Fenestraz To Win In Rain Delay
Three-time series champion Yamamoto followed up his pole position in the morning's qualifying session with a lights-to-flag victory in wet conditions, his first in the series in two years. Chilton found himself leading with some clever strategy work around the cautions, but couldn't hold on and came home fourth after leading the most laps; but still an impressive return given he had earlier been a lap down. Takuma Sato won the 2017 Indianapolis 500 after several of the Honda-powered runners, including his team mate Fernando Alonso, dropped out with engine problems. The car is owned by Dillon's grandfather Richard Childress, who retired the number initially following Earnhardt's death in the 2001 Daytona 500, but returned it the car for his own grandson. Just like Calderon, Kamui Kobayashi - also racing in WEC - and French driver Sacha Fenestraz finally had the chance to return to Super Formula at the 4. Races 3-4: Spa-Francorchamps. "He actually went from left to right, and he misjudged the gap, which is when we touched, and he was on the OTS [overtake system]. Yamamoto holds off fenestraz to win in rain delay. Orudzhev beat Fittipaldi to turn one in race two but the Lotus driver muscled back ahead at turn three to reclaim his lead.
Yamamoto Holds Off Fenestraz To Win In Rainbow
It felt like, 'this is how things should be when you win'. But disaster stuck as they had to stop for a system reset, dropping them to third position. This also caused repercussions in race two as he was unable to join the grid in time – he should have started fourth – and was instead forced to start from the pit lane, where he was unable to make much progress and finished without points once more. Next weekend's racing. "As it rained right before the start, I don't think any team had a perfect wet set-up and nobody in particular had an advantage, so I felt it would all come down to the driver's efforts, " said Yamamoto. Former Williams driver Kazuki Nakajima took victory from pole position in dominant fashion after beiung fortunate to pit during a safety car period. On the face of it, the Nurburgring 24 Hour race was a relatively straightforward affair: the 29 Audi Sport Team Land car led the majority of the race and won by a clear 30-second margin. Weekend Racing Wrap: IndyCar title-decider, Super GT Sugo and more. The massive 30-car field had to be trimmed to 28 in order to fit on the Monaco grid. NFL NBA Megan Anderson Atlanta Hawks Los Angeles Lakers Boston Celtics Arsenal F. Yamamoto holds off fenestraz to win in rain shower. C. Philadelphia 76ers Premier League UFC.
Yamamoto Holds Off Fenestraz To Win In Rain Shower
We managed to finish the race in 12th, three positions higher than we had started, but looking back over the whole day it left us with issues in both the dry and the wet that needed resolving so we had a meeting on the Saturday evening to discuss how we could improve for Sunday's Round 8. SUPER GT Series Subaru, with the "Subaru BRZ GT300" race car, will compete in the GT300 class of the SUPER GT Series again this year. He resisted Ishiura to win by less than half a second. Video not available yet. With the race on Saturday afternoon being the same day as Round 7's qualifying, it made it very tough because due to rain the conditions were totally different. Lotterer was third and of Rosenqvist, Kamui Kobayashi and Yamashita. Calderon therefore climbed back in the ThreeBond Drago Corse Dallara SF-19 Honda on a familiar track, as the Colombian made her debut in the series last year at Motegi. Sebastian Vettel won the Monaco Grand Prix after a strategic 'overcut' helped him to pass Kimi Raikkonen in the pits. Weekend Racing Wrap: IndyCar Iowa, Super Formula Fuji and more. World Series Formula V8 3. Super Formula: Sacha Fenestraz looks back on huge Fuji crash. "I am very happy to finally be able to race in Japan again. " NASCAR Cup race 13: Dover. "We started with rain tyres, like everyone else, and after the stop, at turn one I lost the rear of the car a bit, I tried to correct but suddenly the car accelerated, I hit the wall and the car continued to accelerate. " The pair of them were among eight drivers who had stayed out when a number of cars – included the strongest race runners to that point – pitted for the final time with 32 laps to run.
Yamamoto Holds Off Fenestraz To Win In Rain In Phoenix
"Now we have to change the engine overnight". In qualifying the shock was that the GT3/SP9 runners were all beaten by the Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus SPX class car which took pole position with an excellent lap. Ameya Vaidyanathan took his first win in the championship in race one after overtaking polesitter Harrison Scott for the lead early on. Ryan Dingle, Engineer No. Almost six months after her latest appearance in Super Formula, Tatiana Calderon managed to return to Japan for the sixth round at Motegi, but was met with a difficult race weekend hampered by a throttle issue that took her out of the race. Autobacs Racing Team Aguri driver Sean Walkinshaw wrapped-up an outstanding first season in the prestigious Super GT Championship with his third GT300 podium on Sunday, 12th November, after racing to an excellent second place finish at Motegi in Japan. Difficult Super Formula return for Tatiana Calderon in troubled round 6 at Motegi. Nissan has its sights set on reclaiming the Super GT GT500 crown when the 2018 championship kicks off this weekend at Okayama in Japan. 750 seconds placing the No. Calderon, who is also combining a racing program in World Endurance Championship with Richard Mille Racing and has entered her second 24 Hours of Le Mans this year, could only travel back to the land of the rising sun in October - almost six months after her last appearance in Super Formula - for the sixth and penultimate round of the season at Twin Ring Motegi.
Roy Nissany led the procession in race one while Pietro Fittipaldi moved up to second after pole sitter Egor Orudzhev retired. Pfaff Motorsports, Park Place Motorsports, NGT Motorsport and Black Swan Racing completed over 424 laps of testing at Daytona International Speedway in the new Porsche 911 GT3 R. Nick Tandy, Patrick Pilet, Frédéric Makowiecki, Earl Bamber, and Mathieu Jaminet rack up 2, 120 kilometres of testing in the Porsche 911 RSR at Daytona International Speedway. Last year's winner Artem Markelov came second ahead of Honda junior Nobuharu Matsushita. Yamamoto holds off fenestraz to win in rainbow. When the delayed 29 Audi with Kelvin van der Linde suffered more issues with a loose fuel filler cap, the team quickly removed the new slicks they had fitted and opted for wets. Teaming-up once again with vastly experienced racer Shinichi Takagi, after an outstanding debut … Continue reading. "Unfortunately we could only complete one lap in qualifying, so we will have to start from the back.