Archive for September, 2007
A1GP Zandvoort feature: Jarvis wins for Britain
Oliver Jarvis was every bit as impressive in the feature race as Adrian Zaugg was in the sprint.
He moved ahead of early leader Zaugg at the first round of pit stops and was untouchable after then
But while the race at the front was settled early there were plenty of battles for the rest of the [...]
Timo Glock wins GP2 title
BMW test driver Timo Glock boosted his chances of getting an F1 drive next year by sealing the GP2 title in the final round at Valencia today.
Glock, who drove four F1 races for Jordan in 2004, has been linked with a race seat at Toyota replacing Ralf Schumacher.
He beat Lucas di Grassi to the title [...]
A1GP Zandvoort sprint: Zaugg repeats ‘06 win
Adrian Zaugg repeated his victory in last year’s Zandvoort sprint race in this year’s season opener with a dominant win for the South Africa team.
Zaugg risked a collision with Mexico’s Salvador Duran at the rolling start – the pair touching and Duran coming perilously close to the pit wall.
But Zaugg kept the lead ahead of [...]
GP2 Valencia Sprint: Glock wins race and title
Timo Glock has won the 2007 GP2 championship after cruising to his fifth win of the year in the final race of the year at Valencia.
The German was never headed as Brazilian title rival Lucas di Grassi struggled to make progress through the field.
Glock, test driver for the BMW F1 team who made four starts [...]
F3 Euro Nogaro 2: Buemi hangs on to win
The championship contenders took a win apiece at Nogaro as Sebastien Buemi took a narrow win ahead of a host of pursuing ASM rivals.
Buemi benefitted from second-placed Franck Mailleux stalling at the start to leap from sixth to second on lap one.
Edoardo Mortara took the lead but lost it when he was called in to [...]
F3 Euro Nogaro 1: Grosjean wins as ASM dominate
Romain Grosjean cruised to a straightforward win at Nogaro with his ASM team mates in tow.
Kamui Kobayashi followed him – a little too closely at times – to take second, while Nico Hulkenberg completed an ASM podium with third.
Sebastien Buemi took fourth at the start and remained their till the end of a race that [...]
Embarrassment for Red Bull as drivers collide (updated)
Mark Webber angrily criticised Sebastian Vettel after the collision between the Red Bull stable mates under safety car conditions in the Japanese Grand Prix.
Webber was running third when Vettel ran into the back of him on lap 46, putting both out.
Vettel later apologised but a furious Webber called him a “kid with no experience”. The [...]
Ferrari hopes in tatters after tyre blunder
Ferrari harpooned their own drivers’ championship hopes with a major mistake at the start of today’s Japanese Grand Prix.
Following an instruction to all teams from the race stewards that they must start the race on full wet weather tyres, both the Ferraris began the race on intermediate rubber.
But even without the stewards’ order, surely full [...]
Championship standings after the Japanese GP (updated)
Lewis Hamilton can win the drivers’ championship at Shanghai next weekend after taking a 12-point lead in the Japanese Grand Prix.
But Felipe Massa’s title hopes are over as he fell over 20 points behind in Fuji.
Here are the championship results in full.
Japanese GP 2007 review: Mighty Hamilton takes crucial win (updated)
Atrocious conditions a the Fuji Speedway and a collision with Robert Kubica failed to put Lewis Hamilton off his stride.
The rookie put in a performance worthy of a ten-year veteran, triumphing in pouring rain in Japan to score a magnificent – and vital – victory.
A crash ended Fernando Alonso’s race and dropped him 12 points [...]
