More than 20 pages of F1 coverage !
We report at length from the Australian Grand Prix, including the V8 Supercars’ Albert Park 400 in Melbourne. We cover the GT1 World Championship season opener in Abu Dhabi plus the latest round for the World Superbikes and World Rally Championship. In US racing we bring you reports and news from the IndyCar and Indy Lights season opener in St. Petersburg plus the weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup and NASCAR Nationwide Series in Fontana, plus Mazda Star and USF2000 rounds.
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Harvick wins at home
Kevin Harvick, who grew up in Bakersfield—about 150 miles from Auto Club Speedway—needed a last-lap pass of Jimmie Johnson to win for the first time at the 2-mile track, in his 18th attempt. Harvick won Sunday’s Auto Club 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, powering his No. 29 Chevrolet to the outside of Johnson’s No. 48 Chevy through Turns 3 and 4 and beating Johnson to the finish line by .144 seconds.
Franchitti wins season opener in St. Pete
Dario Franchitti made a strong start in his bid for a third consecutive IndyCar Series championship by running away from pole-sitter Will Power and the remnants of the 24-car field to win for the first time at St. Petersburg. He collected two bonus points to the 50 for the victory by leading the most laps (94).
Checa extends lead with win
Carlos Checa controlled race two of the European Superbike Grand Prix in Donington Park from the early laps and won by 3.397 seconds from race one victor Marco Melandri. Leon Camier took the final podium position, Leon Haslam went fourth for the second time today, despite running off track at one point. Joan Lascorz was a great fifth on the new ZX-10R machine.
Checa now leads Melandri in the overall standings, 91
Ogier finally comes good
Sébastien Ogier headed team-mate Sébastien Loeb into the final stage of the Rally Portugal to seal his first victory of the 2011 World Rally Championship season at the finish in Faro, and giving the Citroen team’s first one-two finish of the year. Behind the Citroen DS3 WRC works cars the Ford works drivers Jari-Matti Latvala finished third 3 minutes and 22 seconds adrift from the winner and beating team-mate Mikko Hirvonen for the final podium position.
Full report on the Rally Portugal in P1Mag’s issue no. 9.
Melandri take first World Superbike win
Marco Melandri took his first win in the World Superbike Championship at an almost freezing Donington Park Circuit, overtaking race leader Jakub Smrz with two laps to go. Equally Carlos Checa took P3 from Leon Haslam in the final laps to clinch the final podium position and to preserve his lead in the points standings
A walk in the park for Vettel
Sebastian Vettel has won without much drama the Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park in Melbourne. Behind Lewis Hamilton it was Vitaly Petrov who showed a splendid performance to beat Fernando Alonso for P3, becoming the first Russian driver in history to clim onto a podium of a World Championship round.
Hexis AMR win season opener
After Maxime Martin and Fred Makowiecky had won the Qualifying Race earlier on with Marc VDS Ford GT, it was Clivio Piccione and Stef Dusseldorp who scored a maiden victory in the Championship Race at Yas Marina after the Hexis AMR team produced a lightening pitstop that leapfrogged the nr3 Aston Martin DB9 from 5th into the lead.
Vettel takes first 2011 pole
In a dramatic qualifying session in Melbourne’s Albert Park Sebastian Vettel took the first pole position of the 2001 Formula One World Championship season ahead of Lewis Hamilton, Mark Webber and Jenson Button. Fernando Alonso qualified in fifth ahead of, Vitaly Petrov and Nico Rosberg. Felipe Massa, Kamui Kobayashi and Sébastien Buemi completed the top 10,
Button leads day one in Australia
Mark Webber was on top in Friday’s opening practice round at Albert Park with a lap time of 1:26:831, beating reigning World Champion Vettel’s best lap of 1:27:158 in the final minutes of the session. Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) and Rubens Barrichello (Williams) completed the top five.
In the second practice it was Jenson Button posting the best lap time of the day in 1:25.854, 132/1000 ahead of Lewis Hamilton (both McLaren) with Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber this time completing the top five.
Issue no. 8 out now !
So finally the 2011 season is properly under way with plenty of racing action from around the globe.
P1Mag’s issue no.8 brings motorbike racing from Qatar, touring car raacing from Brazil and Australia as well as NASCAR from the US.
We also report on the Sebring 12 hours race and how Hugue de Chaunacs team beat the big money works teams. Plus we tell the story how Romain Grosjean became the first champion of the 2011 season.
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Gastone Brilli Peri is born
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24/03/1893, Gastone Brilli Peri was born in Montevarchi, Florence (Italy)
Gastone Brilli Peri won the 1925 Italian Grand Prix and the 1929 Tripoli Grand Prix. a year later he was killed in practice at the site of his last great triumph in Tripoli .
Born: 24/3/1893 (Montevarchi, Florence)
Died: 22/3/1930 (Tripoli)
Remembering Peter Revson
22/03/1974, Peter Revson dies.
Peter Jeffrey Revson and his younger brother Doug grew up surrounded by money, as their father had been a co-owner in the Revlon cosmetics company and had sold off his shares in 1958. Peter showed up in Europe in 1963 to take part in Formula Junior races and by the end of the year had had his first taste of F1 in the Gold Cup at Oulton Park. He founded Revson Racing, run by Reg Parnell, and entered a Lotus-BRM in 11 events in 1964, including six World Championship races. Lacking impressive results he turned his main attention the CanAm series for the next five years. Although his university buddy Timmy Mayer was killed in a round of the 1964 Tasman series and Doug also lost his life in an F3 race in Denmark in 1967, Peter’s passion for racing remained unchanged and he continued to pursue his ambitions. In 1969 he finished 5th at the Indy 500 and won an IndyCar race at Indianapolis Raceway Park in a Brabham-Repco. He then had a comeback in F1 with the Yardley McLaren team in 1972 and had his finest moments in winning the British and Canadian Grands Prix the following year. He switched to the Shadow F1 team in 1974 but was killed during testing sessions at Kyalami circuit in the week prior to the South African Grand Prix. His Shadow suffered a front suspension failure and the car slid off the track and underneath the guard rails killing Peter Revson instantly.
Born: 27th of February 1939 in New York, USA
Died: 22nd of March 1974 at Kyalami circuit, South Africa, aged 35.
Weekend sweep for Kyle Busch
Kyle Busch held off polesitter Carl Edwards and defending race winner Jimmie Johnson to win his fifth straight race in NASCAR’s top three national series at the Bristol Motor Speedway, scoring his 20th in the Sprint Cup Series, his first of the season and his second straight at Thunder Valley. Busch capped his second straight weekend sweep at Bristol, having won Saturday’s Nationwide Series event (pictured above).
Stoner wins on debut for Honda
Casey Stoner wins the MotoGP season opening Grand Prix of Qatar at the Losail International Circuit ahead of World Champion Jorge Lorenzo and Repsol Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa. Andrea Dovizioso, Marco Simoncelli and Ben Spies complete the top6, Valentino Rossi finishes in seventh on his first GP for Ducati.
Menu completes perfect Weekend for Chevy
Alain Menu gave Chevrolet their second victory of the day at the WTCC season opener in Curitiba, Brazil. But it was not an easy one as the Swiss racer had to fight until the last metre with Tom Coronel’s BMW. After taking the lead from the Dutchman on the tenth lap, for the remaining four Menu had to resist Coronel’s attacks and eventually beat him by inches on the finish line. Yvan Muller completed the podium after an unexpectedly tough fight with his team-mate Rob Huff that culminated in a contact on lap 10.
Stefan Bradl wins Moto2 Grand Prix
Stefan Bradl wins the season opening round of the Moto2 World Championship with a dominant start-to-finish lead. Second at the Grand Prix of Qatar was Andrea Iannone ahead of Tom Lüthi, Alex de Angelis and Yuki Takahashi.
Chevy triple in Curitiba
Chevrolet claimed a dominant 1-2-3 finish in the opening race of the season. Rob Huff, Yvan Muller and Carlos Bueno finished the way they had started: first, second and third, leaving the rest of the field to fight for the fourth position. The three podium finishers were able to create a gap in the first half of the race, while Tom Coronel, Kristian Poulsen, Alain Menu and Gabriele Tarquini were having a thrilling fight.
Terol wins season opener
Nico Terol scored a clear start-to-finish win in the 125 class at the Grand Prix of Qatar from Sandro Cortese, Sergio Gadea, Efren Vazquez and Jonas Folger.
Grosjean is first champion of the year
Romain Grosjean sealed the 2010/2011 GP2 Asia title with a race win in the feature race and a fourth place in the sprint race at the series’ final Weekend in Imola after a troubled season. Dani Clos won the GP2 Asia finale at Imola on Sunday after polesitter Fairuz Fauzy made a complete botch of his start.
Peugeot wins Sebring 12 Hours race – again
Team ORECA Matmut’s Peugeot 908 driven by Lapierre/Duval/Panis has won the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring ahead of Highcroft Racing’s HPD ARX-01e with Brabham/Franchitti/Pagenaud at the wheel. The pole-winning No. 8 Peugeot 908 from Peugeot Sport, driven by Montagny/Sarrazin/Lamy, took third.
The Lola Honda of Tucker/Hunter-Reay/Diaz took the class win in LM P2, in the GT class Rahal-Lettermann-Lanigan scored a 1-2 with Priaulx/Mueller/Hand crossing the line first ahead of the BMW M3 GT2 sister car of Farfus/Auberlen/(Werner.
Remembering Theo Fitzau
18/3/1982, Theo Fitzau dies
Theo Fitzau was born and grew up in East-Germany and became an entrepreneur in the German Democratic Republic. He raced for the official Veritas team in the domestic scene, including the new for 1951 Formula 2 championship. Once he got the permission to travel to the west to race with an AFM-BMW F2 in the 1953 German GP at the Nürburgring, the only time he appears in F1 stats, he gave up his life in the east to deflect to West-Germany.
Born: 10th of February 1923 in Köthen, German Democratic Republic.
Died: 18th of March 1982 in Gross Gerau, Federal Republic of Germany, aged 59.
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As a further proof of the flexibility of e-Papers, we bring all the testing reports from Formula One, MotoGP, Le Mans Series and British Formula 3. As there was very little racing going on last weekend, we decided to postpone the release of issue no. 7 and add the latest reports from the Official IndyCar Series Open Test and the final tests in Sebring prior to the 12 Hours race plus the Formula 3 Euro Series test days in Valencia. There’s NO other weekly magazine that can offer you this. For FREE download CLICK HERE. Enjoy the read.
Issue no. 7 delayed
Hi everyone,
as we want to bring you the latests news, including reports on IndyCar and ALMS testing at Barber Motorsport Park and Sebring International Raceway, we’ll have to wait for these two practices to finish off in North America to close issue no.7. We’d like to thank you for your comprehension, we’ll keep you posted as soon as issue no. 7 is out.
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