A BRILLIANT FINISH DOWN IN MONTEREY. There are times to spectate and there are times to roll up one’s sleeves and participate. At the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion this year, both options brought abundant joy, as more than 550 authentic and historic race cars from nearly every decade of motorsports history popped their clutches and […]
SPENGLER MAKES HIS MARK IN TITLE BATTLE WITH NÜRBURGRING VICTORY Nürburg. Bruno Spengler is turning the battle for the 2012 DTM title into a thrilling affair. With a dominant lights-to-flag victory from Audi driver Edoardo Mortara, the Canadian BMW driver crowned a perfect weekend at the Nürburgring. The winner scored the maximum number of 25 […]
COBRAS TAKE IT TO THE LIMIT Today was the day everyone was waiting for, or at least the 30 or so thousand people flocking to the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion were waiting for it: the chance to see 45 competition Shelby Cobras charging around California’s famously challenging 2.238-mile road course known as Mazda […]
GERMAN ROOKIE PASCAL WEHRLEIN CLAIMS MAIDEN FORMULA 3 WIN… The 15th Formula 3 Euro Series season round ended with the maiden season victory of a rookie driver: Pascal Wehrlein (Mücke Motorsport) won from William Buller (Carlin) and Jazeman Jaafar (Carlin). At the 3.629 kilometres long Nürburgring sprint circuit, the 17-year old German benefited from a […]
Sims score maiden Nissan victory in Formula 3 Euro Series Briton Alexander Sims (Threebond with T-Sport) wrote history at the 3.629 kilometres long Nürburgring sprint circuit: he claimed the maiden victory for a Nissan-powered car in the Formula 3 Euro Series. Raffaele Marciello (Prema Powerteam) and Felix Rosenqvist (Mücke Motorsport) crossed the finish line in […]
POLE FOR SPENGLER, SETBACK FOR PAFFETT… Nürburg. For BMW and Bruno Spengler, the start of the second half of the season couldn’t have been better. In qualifying for the sixth DTM season round, the Canadian showed himself in an excellent shape at the Nürburgring and claimed pole position for Sunday’s race. Third-placed in the drivers’ […]