The Checkered Flag

Jean-Eric Vergne completes Spa-Francorchamps clean sweep

James Broomhead — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:22:00 +0000

Jean-Eric Vergne completed a clean sweep in the British Formula Three Championship weekend at Spa-Francochamps with a win in the 40-minute race. The win brought the Frenchman’s tally of wins to nine – exactly half the races contested so far this season. The points also...

Nick Tandy heads all-Brit Porsche Supercup front row

James Broomhead — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 19:42:34 +0000

Nicolas Tandy will lead an all-British front row at the green flag for the Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup race at the Hungaroring, the championship challenger scoring his second pole position of the season in the eighth round of the championship. “At the head of the...

Force India expect tough Hungarian GP

David Bean — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:53:25 +0000

It was another disappointing qualifying session for Force India today in Hungary as they again failed to get either car into the pole position shoot-out. However, the result was better than the disastrous showing in Hockenheim last week: Adrian Sutil was only two tenths off...

Williams pleased with first two sessions at Hungaroring

David Bean — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:48:45 +0000

Williams finished Friday in Hungary eighth and twelfth fastest as they tested completed the aero testing thwarted by rain last in weekend in Hockenheim, and concentrated on preparing for the event here in Budapest. Nico Hulkenberg was faster than Rubens Barrichello as the team compared...

Lotus disappointed to be out-qualified by Glock in Hungary

David Bean — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:40:27 +0000

Lotus Racing claimed P20 and P21 on the Hungarian Grand Prix grid today with Jarno Trulli out-qualifying teammate Heikki Kovalainen. The team, however, were disappointed with the fact that both drivers will start behind the Virgin Racing driver Timo Glock. Heikki Kovalainen missed some crucial...

Toro Rosso pair reach limit of their cars in qualifying

David Bean — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:30:49 +0000

Toro Rosso got both drivers over the hurdle of Q1 in qualifying today as Sebastien Buemi claimed fifteenth spot on the Hungarian Grand Prix grid ahead of teammate Jaime Alguersuari, who will start tomorrow’s race from seventeenth. “I would say the car worked well and...

Ravenous Vettel feasts on pole position in Hungary

David Bean — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 15:10:59 +0000

Sebastian Vettel took pole position for the Hungarian Grand Prix in a qualifying session completely dominated by his Red Bull team. During qualifying it looked as though Mark Webber would push his Red Bull teammate to pole position but Vettel topped the timesheets by eight...

Racing Bull: Lamborghini join GT1 winners club at Spa

James Broomhead — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 14:56:17 +0000

Lamborghini joined the list of winners in the FIA GT1 World Championship as the brand took the lead late in the Championship Race at Spa-Francorchamps. However, it was a race the Murcielago 670 R-SVs of Reiter Engineering and Munnich Motorsport should have dominated. From the...

Stephane Ratel talks GT1 races, brands and GT2 revamp

James Broomhead — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 11:13:25 +0000

Stephane Ratel outlined the targets for growth ahead of 2011, aiming to bring the SRO organised FIA GT1 World Championship to new countries with new brands represented on the grid. The major news from the announcement, made at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, was that Ratel and...

Double win for Vergne on F3′s Spa-Francorchamps Friday

James Broomhead — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:16:44 +0000

Jean-Eric Vergne took victory in both of the Fridays races as the British Formula Three Championship visited Spa-Francorchamps. The Frenchman, who lead the title battle to Belguim started the first race from pole, but immediately faced strong opposition the run down to La Source after...