Archive for September, 2008
Posted in September 28th, 2008
Felipe Massa took pole at the new Singapore street circuit yesterday ahead of championship rival Lewis Hamilton. Kimi Raikkonen qualified third, ahead of Robert Kubica and Heikki Kovalainen.
Nick Heidfeld, who qualified sixth, was given a three-place grid penalty for impeding Rubens Barrichello - while Barrichello was fined €10,000 for later not using the deceleration zone […]
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Posted in September 23rd, 2008
Not wanting to go into the McLaren appeal hearing in Paris too much but this little nugget in the Times caught my eye:
McLaren had submitted papers in advance of the hearing making clear they were going to rely on the Liuzzi-Sutil case at the Japanese GP last year as a precedent. In this case the […]
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Posted in September 21st, 2008
Manor Motorsport’s Kazuya Oshima took his maiden F3 Euroseries win at Barcelona today, ahead of Mücke Motorsport’s Christian Vietoris and ART’s Jules Bianchi.
Oshima started the race from pole position and was able to avoid the first lap chaos that claimed many of the front runners, including championship rivals Nico Hülkenberg and Edoardo Mortara, but the […]
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Posted in September 20th, 2008
It was another good day in Barcelona for Nico Hülkenberg today as he came another 10 points closer to taking the 2008 F3 Euroseries championship with victory in the first race of the weekend. The ART driver finished ahead of Manor Motorsport’s Sam Bird and Mücke Motorsport’s Christian Vietoris but, crucially, championship rival Edoardo Mortara […]
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Posted in September 19th, 2008
Nico Hülkenberg took another step closer to taking the 2008 F3 Euroseries title today by claiming pole position at Barcelona ahead of SG Formula’s Yann Clairay and ART teammate Jules Bianchi. Clairay’s teammate Richard Philippe was fourth fastest, ahead of Mücke Motorsport’s Christian Vietoris.
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Posted in September 19th, 2008
Mika Mäki set the pace in free practice for this weekend’s F3 Euroseries race meeting in Barcelona, ahead of championship leader Nico Hülkenberg and teammate Jules Bianchi. British F3 driver Brendon Hartley is a Euroseries guest driver this weekend, racing for Carlin.
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Posted in September 14th, 2008
Davide Valsecchi won today’s GP2 sprint race at Monza, ahead of Roldan Rodriguez, Romain Grosjean and Pastor Maldonado. Lucas di Grassi was an early pace setter but was handed a drive-through penalty for causing an avoidable accident with Mike Conway and Bruno Senna and as a result Senna retained second place in the 2008 championship […]
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Posted in September 13th, 2008
Lucas di Grassi won today’s GP2 feature race at Monza ahead of Pastor Maldonado and Sebastian Buemi, on the day that Giorgio Pantano took the 2008 GP2 championship despite losing a likely race victory after receiving a drive-thru penalty for crossing the white line while leaving the pits.
The race started under the safety car due […]
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Posted in September 13th, 2008
Sebastian Vettel took his first pole position - and the first for Toro Rosso - at Monza today, ahead of McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen and RBR’s Mark Webber.
The qualifying session was hit by heavy rain and a number of front-runners suffered as a result with championship rivals Felipe Massa, Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton starting sixth, […]
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Posted in September 13th, 2008
Giorgio Pantano took the GP2 pole position at Monza yesterday - and moved another two points closer to the 2008 title. Lucas di Grassi starts from second on the grid, while Pantano’s championship rival Bruno Senna starts twelfth.
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Giorgio Pantano
Racing Engineering
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Lucas di Grassi
Campos
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Sebastian Buemi
Arden
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Luca Filippi
Arden
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Vitaly Petrov
Campos
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Pastor Maldonado
Piquet Sports
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Andi Zuber […]
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