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Motorsports Mondial - March 21, 2010

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f1weekly @ 8:23 am

Peugeot take an easy 1-2 victory at the Sebring 12 hours.

Pos  Cl   Drivers                        Car                     Time/Gap
 1.  P1   Gene/Wurz/Davidson             Peugeot            12h00m54.362s
 2.  P1   Lamy/Bourdais/Minassian        Peugeot                + 13.817s
 3.  P1   Mucke/Primat/Fernandez         Lola-Aston Martin       + 3 laps
 4.  P2   Pickett/Graf/Maassen           Porsche                + 14 laps
 5.  P2   Brabham/Pagenaud/Franchitti    HPD                    + 18 laps
 6.  GT2  Melo/Bruni/Kaffer              Ferrari                + 36 laps
 7.  GT2  Auberlen/Milner/Werner         BMW                    + 37 laps
 8.  GT2  Muller/Hand/Priaulx            BMW                    + 37 laps
 9.  GT2  Bergmeister/Long/Lieb          Porsche                + 38 laps
10.  PC   Tucker/Bouchut/Wilkins         ORECA                  + 40 laps
11.  GT2  Law/Neiman/Lietz               Porsche                + 42 laps
12.  P1   Drayson/Cocker/Pirro           Lola                   + 43 laps
13.  GT2  Brown/Cosmo/Barbosa            Ferrari                + 44 laps
14.  GT2  Krohn/Jonsson/van de Poele     Ferrari                + 46 laps
15.  GT2  Magnussen/O'Connell/Garcia     Corvette               + 47 laps
16.  GT2  Beretta/Gavin/Collard          Corvette               + 47 laps
17.  PC   Zugel/Jeannette/Julian         ORECA                  + 56 laps
18.  GTC  Gonzalez/Leitzinger/Keen       Porsche                + 59 laps
19.  GTC  Sweedler/Kapudija/Lueders      Porsche                + 62 laps
20.  GTC  Gonzalez/Diaz/Kelly            Porsche                + 63 laps
21.  P2   Dyson/Smith/Meyrick            Lola-Mazda             + 64 laps
22.  GTC  Rodriguez/Bieker/Friedman      Porsche                + 65 laps
23.  GT2  Robertson/Robertson/Murry      Doran Ford             + 67 laps
24.  GTC  Lewis/Vento/Aschenbach         Porsche                + 68 laps
25.  GTC  Richard/Ende/Lally             Porsche                + 85 laps
26.  PC   Wallace/Sutherland/Hildebrand  ORECA                  + 86 laps
27.  GTC  Curtis/Sofronas/Pilgrim        Porsche                + 87 laps
28.  GT2  Sharp/van Overbeek/Farnbacher  Ferrari                + 96 laps
29.  GT2  Sellers/Henzler/Pilet          Porsche               + 112 laps
30.  PC   Feinberg/Marcelli/Weickardt    ORECA                 + 133 laps
31.  PC   Pagerey/Wong/Ducote            ORECA                 + 135 laps
32.  PC   Tucker/Hunter-Reay/Gue         ORECA                 + 143 laps
33.  GT2  Gentilozzi/Goossens/Dalziel    Jaguar                + 356 laps
34.  P1   Willman/Burgess/Ehret          Lola                  + 367 laps

F1weekly podcast # 414 - March 19, 2010

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f1weekly @ 6:40 am

Daniel Morad

Rock Solid Racer

Daniel Morad is a talented young racing driver from Toronto. He was born on April 24, 1990. After a successful karting career, he won the Formula BMW US Championship in 2007, and was placed fourth in the Formula BMW world finals in Valencia.

He has also raced in Formula Atlantic and A1GP competition.

Podcast 414 features an exclusive conversation with this talented driver.


Testing the GP3 car at Circuit Paul Ricard earlier this month

Morad will soon announce his racing plans for the 2010 season. Meantime, we invite you to visit his website www.danielmorad.com for more information on his career.

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Motorsport Mondial - March 17, 2010

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f1weekly @ 5:45 pm

Turning a new leaf

London Rowing Club meets Monte-Carlo harbour

Colin Chapman of Team Lotus turned a new leaf in the commercial side of Grand Prix motor racing when he brought tobacco sponsorship to the sport in 1968.

His great friend and Champion Jim Clark would give the British Racing Green Lotus their final victory on New Year’s Day in South Africa to start the 1968 Formula 1 season. Tragically, it would turn out to be his final win also. Three months later he was killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheimring in Germany.

Imperial Tobacco provided Chapman’s team a breath of fresh air and much finance by slapping their Gold Leaf-brand logo on the 49.

Graham Hill, ex marine engineer and member of London Rowing Club, gave a much needed boost to team’s morale by winning the second race of the season, the Spanish Grand Prix at the new Jarama circuit near Madrid.

Round three was in the streets on Monte-Carlo, and Hill scored his fourth Monaco Grand Prix victory, fifth and final would follow the next season. This was the first race in which two Gold Leaf sponsored cars were entered. Hill’s teammate was Jackie Oliver, his first appearance in a Formula 1 machinery would end in a crash on the opening lap. Oliver was later involved in Shadow and Arrows F1 operations.

The 1968 Monaco Grand Prix is also remembered for the thundering sound of Matra V12, which made its first appearance in the back of Jean-Pierre Beltoise’s blue Matra Sport entry. Four years later the ex-motorcycle champion would score his first and only victory in Principality’s precipitation.

The illustration is provided by our friend north of the border in Nova Scotia, Paul Chenard. To see more of his quality work please visit www.automobiliart.com and www.automobiliart.blogspot.com


– Nasir Hameed

Racing regards from California

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