August 11, 2010 - 10:14 am
From the Renault F1 Team official website (www.renaultf1.com) “So RF1PP, are you free during the second week of August?” That was the question that faced me several months back. Of course, I was always going to be free, what with F1 shutting down for the summer break and no races until the end of the month. Then came the second part of the question: “Would I fancy joining the Renault F1 development drivers on their training camp in the south of France?” As you can imagine, I didn’t take much persuading. In fact, I jumped at the chance. And that’s exactly more …
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August 1, 2010 - 12:42 pm
This weekend, DAMS raced in the seventh round of the 2010 GP2 Series, part of the F1 Hungarian Grand Prix meeting on the Hungaroring circuit near Budapest with its usual drivers, Jérôme d’Ambrosio and Ho-Pin Tung.
After a promising fee practice session, the two drivers did not manage to make the most of qualifying as they finished in twelfth (D’Ambrosio) and sixteenth places (Tung).
The biggest scare of the weekend came just after the start of the first race when Ho-Pin collided with Jules Bianchi’s car, which had spun. The Chinese complained of abdominal pains, and was helicoptered more …
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Jérôme d’Ambrosio finished today’s race 1 in 6th position after a very strong race. Meanwhile, Pastor Maldonado has triumphed in a dramatic GP2 Series feature race at the Hungaroring to take his fifth feature race victory in succession, extending his record.
Maldonado crossed the line 5.8s clear of Racing Engineering rookie Christian Vietoris, but a lot of the hard work was done for him at the start when both of the front-row qualifiers failed to get away from the grid
iSport’s Davide Valsecchi was the first victim when his car stopped on the dummy grid, prompting a formation lap. The cars had more …
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