Archive for May, 2008

GP2: Giorgio Pantano wins Istanbul feature

Giorgio Pantano took his sixth career win in GP2 with an emphatic victory from pole position in the feature race at Istanbul.
He made a perfect start and was never troubled by Romain Grosjean, who spent the race keeping Andreas Zuber at arm’s length.
Even a late safety car period failed to shake Pantano’s iron grip on [...]

A1GP: Pictures from Brands Hatch

See below for some of my pictures from the Brands Hatch A1 Grand Prix weekend.

BTCC: Darren Turner gives Seat another diesel win

Seat made it two wins at Donington as Darren Turner headed home Tom Onslow-Cole and Jason Plato. But Fabrizio Giovanardi was running in the top three before an uncharacteristic msitae that almost dopped himself and team mate Onsloe-Cole out of the race.
Giovanardi braked too late for the chicane at the end of the lap and [...]

BTCC: Giovanardi masters tricky conditions for stylish win

Jason Plato won the first BTCC race of today at Donington Park but the second race of the day was an absolute corker.
Rain had begun to fall as the cars assembled on the grid and the original start was aborted as Andrew Jordan stalled his Honda Civic.
Once the race finally got started Gordon Shedden took [...]

A1GP: Narain Karthikeyan denies Robbie Kerr in final race

Narain Karthikeyan gave India their second A1 Grand Prix victory, holding off Robbie Kerr to win the feature race at Brands Hatch.
Kerr took the lead after the first pit stop by staying out a lap longer than Karthikeyan. The first stint had been interrupted by a massive crash triggered when Adam Khan (Pakistan) carelessly moved [...]

A1GP: Switzerland are third series champions

Tom Dillmann, Marcel Fässler, Rahel Frey, Natacha Gachnang and Alexandre Imperatori all drove for Switzerland at one time or another in the 2007-08 championship. But it was Neel Jani who did the racing and won them the championship.
Jani drove a canny campaign, regularly in the top ten, indeed only failing to get there in the [...]

A1GP: Kerr wins the race, Jani wins the title

Robbie Kerr converted pole position to victory in the Brands Hatch sprint race - meanwhile the Swiss team were celebrating a fourth place for Neel Jani that gave him the points he needed to win the third A1 Grand Prix World Cup of Nations.
Kerr got to the first corner first and managed the race from [...]

A1GP: On the grid at Brands Hatch

Just arrived at Brands Hatch in time for the A1 Grand Prix season finale. Switzerland’s Neel Jani has got the title all-but won and as he’s starting third on the grid with New Zealand rival Jonny Reid tenth, his chances look very good indeed.
Robbie Kerr has kept the home crowd happy with pole position (see [...]

Video: Romain Grosjean and Kamui Kobayashi tangle in GP2

Here is a video of the moment Romain Grosjean squandered his lead in last week’s GP2 race.

The ART driver ran wide under a safety car period and was later judged to have broken the rules in defending his position illegally from Kamui Kobyashi.
You can read more about the Grosjean-Kobayashi incident at F1Fanatic and read my [...]

Citroen to race C5 in the unmistakeably German DTM?

The German Touring Car Championship (DTM) has been crying out for another manufacturer entrant ever since Opel withdrew at the end of 2005 and took all their cars with them.
Now Audi and Mercedes might finally have a rival - and a non-German one at that. Citroen Sport team boss Olivier Quesnel has threatened to take [...]

Close
E-mail It