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F1weekly podcast # 445 - July 29, 2010

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F1weekly podcast number 445

Le Grand Prix de Monaco will stay on the calendar.

Giancarlo Minardi thinks the Scuderia was right.

Motorsports Mondial with Nasir Hameed and…

Interview with Formula BMW driver Michael Lewis.

Michael Lewis began his racing career in 1/4 Midgets at the Pomona, California, oval track in 2003 at the age of 13. He then moved to karting in 2005, racing primarily in local California and western regional events. In 2006, Michael started his European karting experience racing for CRG in the Rotax Junior Series. In 2007 and 2008, he continued his European karting career with Dino Chiesa’s Chiesa Corse kart team with emphasis in Italian Masters and WSK events running in the KF-2 class.

In 2009, Michael made the step up to racing cars with his commitment to the 2009 Formula BMW Americas series, driving for Antonio Ferrari’s Eurointernational team, earning the Rookie Championship. In 2010 he is staying with Eurointernational, but driving in the Formula BMW Europe series as the Americas series has been disbanded.

Michael attends California State University, Fullerton, where he is majoring in business.

 

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F1weekly podcast # 443 - July 21, 2010

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F1weekly podcast number 443

Renault watching Romain Grosjean return to GP2 this weekend.

Motorsports Mondial with the Duke of Dijon and…

Bridgestone bringing Canadian spice to Germany.

Oh Canada interview special! Nasir speaks with GP3  Status GP team principal Teddy Yip and his drivers Daniel Morad and Robert Wickens.

Status GP was formed in 2005 to run the A1 Team Ireland franchise in the new A1 Grand Prix series. The team’s shareholders are former Jordan Grand Prix Head of Marketing Mark Gallagher, former Formula One driver Dave Kennedy, John Hynes, and Teddy Yip, Jr., whose father Teddy Yip owned the Theodore Racing Formula One team. They also ran the A1 Team Canada operation in 2007–08 and also assisted A1 Team Netherlands in 2008–09, the season in which Team Ireland won the championship title.

In 2010, Status Grand Prix competeS in the new GP3 Series, with Gary Anderson leading the technical side of the team.

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F1weekly podcast #442 - July 15, 2010

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F1weekly podcast number 442

Mark Webber has moved on from Red Bull wing row.

Renault to introduce F-duct at Spa Francorchamps.

Motorsports Mondial With Nasir Hameed and…

This weeks interview with Adrian Zaugg.

After winning the Bridgestone Cup in Karting, he impressed on a Formula BMW Scholarship Course, he was signed by Austrian energy drink company Red Bull in 2004, for their Red Bull Junior Team programme. For 2005, he moved up to Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0, winning one race. He continued briefly in the Eurocup for 2006, before moving up to the World Series by Renault, for Carlin Motorsport. In six races, he achieved one pole position.

For the 2006-07 season, he also made his A1 Grand Prix debut for Team South Africa at Zandvoort, the 2006-07 A1 Grand Prix of Nations, Netherlands. He qualified on pole position in his very first qualifying session, and went on to win the Sprint race, though he crashed out on the first lap of the Feature race.

His impressive outings in A1GP led to him being signed up to drive for Arden International for the 2007 GP2 Series, where he would achieve only four point-scoring finishes, on his way to eighteenth in the championship. Zaugg returned to the World Series by Renault for the 2009 season, as he secured a late drive with the Interwetten.com team. However, he parted company with the team after the Le Mans round, due to a lack of funds. Despite this, he finished fourteenth in the championship.

Zaugg returned to the wheel of a GP2-specification car, when he contested the third round of the 2009–10 GP2 Asia Series in Bahrain, replacing Dani Clos.

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F1weekly podcast # 440 - July 8, 2010

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Podcast number 440

Motorsports Mondial with Nasir Hameed includes special interview…

Long time F1weekly listener Burak Sardag.

Robert Kubica signs on with Renault F1 through 2012

“It was a straightforward decision for me to continue with a team where I feel at home, What’s important for me is to be in the right atmosphere, with a good group of people, where everybody is pulling in the same direction. This is what we have tried to build from the beginning of my time with Renault.

I think we have already achieved a lot together, and I believe that with plenty of effort, time and the right approach, we can move even further forward. That is certainly our target, so we will keep working hard and pushing on every front, not just for the rest of this season but also for next year when there are more big rule changes on the way. I am really looking forward to the challenge.

Some important motorsport history in this week

July 6 1907
First race held on the Brooklands circuit in England.

July 7 1957
Juan Manuel Fangio, driving a Maserati 250F, wins the French Grand Prix at Rouen. A road circuit near Paris famous for the Noveau Monde corner.

July 8 1962
Porsche wins their first F1 race with Dan Gurney in the French GP, also at Rouen.

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F1weekly podcast # 439 - July 3, 2010

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F1weekly podcast number 439.

Motorsports Mondial special edition, an interview…

Nasir speaks with GP2 winner Marcus Ericsson.

Marcus Ericsson wins GP2 in Valencia

Sweden’s Marcus Ericsson won his first GP2 race round the streets of Valencia today where the series is a support race for the European F1 Grand Prix. The 19-year-old, who is in his first year in the ultra competitive series and driving for Super Nova Racing, snatched the lead at the start from second on the grid and controlled the race all the way to the flag.

“It is a fantastic performance from the Super Nova team and everyone involved and I am super happy,” he said after the race and added: “Up to now we have not been lucky for several reasons and I hope this is the turning point for our season. To be honest, going into this weekend I didn’t believe this would see us turn around. We had luck in the race yesterday and the boys did a fantastic job in the pit stop which helped me gain positions. It was the perfect race. Then today from second on the grid I knew I had to take the lead at the start and was confident and focused on that.”

There was also a long safety car period during the race as Marcus explains: “Unfortunately there was a big crash involving my team-mate, Josef (Kral). My thoughts are with him and I hope he is okay, which is the most important thing. We were behind the safety car for a long time and it was difficult to know how much grip we would have once we re-started racing. I made a small mistake at the re-start, but managed to hold onto the lead but had Giedo (van de Garde) right up behind me. I told myself to focus and not worry about what was happening behind. I did that and had no problem and won. This is just what we all needed.”

In the first GP2 race of the weekend on Saturday Marcus had a race long battle with Charles Pic and Michael Herck, finished seventh and assured himself of a coveted front row start today. The race was run in the hot conditions on the 5.440 kilometre track on the streets of the Spanish City around the harbour area.

From: www.marcusericssonracing.com

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