#NASCAR – Junior’s heartbreak, Harvick’s win
Dale Earnhardt Jr. was within a half-mile of breaking a 104-race drought when his gas tank ran dry on the final lap of a green-white-checkered-flag finish in Sunday night’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway. KevinHarvick powered past Earnhardt off Turn 4 and took the checkered flag for his Sprint Cup Series-leading third victory of the season and his first points victory at the 1.5-mile track. David Ragan ran second followed by Joey Logano, Kurt Busch and AJ Allmendinger. Earnhardt coasted across the finish line in seventh place behind Marcos Ambrose in sixth.
#Indy 500 – Wheldon wins dramatic 100th Indy 500
In a downright thriller over fuel conservation Belgian Bertrand Baguette lead the race till three laps from the flag and was forced to stop. When Dario Franchitti had to slow down to spare fuel it was the big opportunity for rookie J.R. Hildebrand to take the win -. but the Indy Lights champion crashed in the very last turn, handing the win to Briton Dan Wheldon.
#WRC – Loeb takes 6th win in Rally Argentina
Sebastien Loeb bounced back from a one-minute penalty handed out on day one for an early check-in to win Rally Argentina for a sixth time, scoring his 65th WRC triumph and extending his title lead over Mikko Hirvonen, who finished second with Ogier a despondent third after havingd rolled his Citroen on stage 17, losing the use of his power steering in the process.
#F1 – Vettel wins tumultuous Monaco Grand Prix
Sebastian Vettel has won the Monaco Grand Prix after a wild 6-lap-dash to the chequered flag, following a red flag interruption of the race on the 72th lap after an accident that involved Jaime Alguersuari and Vitaly Petrov. The Russian driver had to be extracted from his car by the medical staff hence the race being stopped. There’s no word on the condition of the Renault driver for the moment.
#GP2 – Valsecchi and Pic share wins
Davide Valsecchi took the most momentous victory of his career with a crushing display in Saturday’s feature race in Monaco, capturing Team AirAsia’s first race win ahead of Alvaro Parente and Luca Filippi. On Sunday’s sprint race it was Charles Pic who dominated his rivals from pole position , leading from lights to flag in a display of cunning and speed to lead home Josef Kral and Romain Grosjean.
Vettel takes first ever Monaco pole position
Sebastian Vettel took pole position with the fastest ever qualifying lap in Monaco at 1:13.566 for tomorrow’s Monaco Grand Prix ahead of Jenson Button, Mark Webber, Fernando Alonso, Michael Schumacher, Felipe Massa, Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and Pastor Maldonado.
Sergio Perez suffered a massive accident, crashing sideways into the harbour chicane retaining wall. He was taken to the Hopital Princesse Grace and is said to be alert, complaining about headaches and pain in his legs as well as right arm.
Have you seen P1Mag’s issue no. 17
Who would have thought that? After last issue ended up with a series of major cock-ups that left me rather embarrassed, Mario (our editor-in-chief) asked me back to have another go in producing a further issue, now with his immediate assistance.
It still is an awful lot of work and a major challenge, but working on the production of yet another issue of P1Mag helped me to understand were I messed up last time. Especially why all the captions disappeared when we published issue no. 16…
So I have every reason to be thankful for this opportunity. Even if for P1Mag’s readership it meant another issue with a delay, I will probably be able to assist Mario far better on the production side in the future to take a bit of the weight he’s been carrying all by himself off his shoulders.
And what a busy weekend it was with Sebastian Vettel showing another superb performance, Alex Tagliani being a very popular pole-setter at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the upcoming Indy 500 and plenty of race winners over the weekend celebrating their successes.
We have the whole story for you in this issue and we hope you will enjoy the read as much as I did compiling it all for you.
Enjoy the read.
Peter Lingenfelter
Deputy Editor P1Mag
Download P1Mag issue no. 17 by clicking HERE
Remembering Ellie Bayol
25/5/1995, Ellie Marcel Bayol dies
Ellie Bayol was a front-runner in Formula 2 races as well as hill climbs around France in the early 1950s and qualified for the 1953 French GP at Reims that year, but did not finish. He also took part in the Italian GP that year and in 1954 he joined the Gordini factory team with Jean Behra and finished 5th in the first race in Argentina. After finishing 4th at Pau he edged out of the team. He returned the following year but suffered a string of mechanical failures. In 1956 he raced a few times but then left single-seater racing for good.
Born: 28th of February 1914 in Marseille, France;
Died: 25th of May 1995 in La Ciotat, France, aged 81.
Vettel scores win number 4
Sebastian Vettel took his fourth victory of the season in the Spanish Grand Prix despite massive pressure from Lewis Hamilton in the final laps. With just a three-stop strategy (instead of four stops) Jenson Button beat polesitter Mark Webber for the final podium position. Some time race leader Fernando Alonso finished fifth one lap down.
Remembering Sergio Mantovani
22/5/1929, Sergio Mantovani is born in Cusano Milanino, Italy.
A hobby driver with considerable talent and a smooth driving style, Mantovani entered Grand Prix racing in 1954 with a semi-works Maserati 250F and scored 5th places in both the German GP and the Swiss GP. His career ended prematurely at only 25 years of age after crashing a spare factory car heavily while testing for the non-Championship Turin GP suffering the amputation of a leg as a consequence. He remained involved in motor racing as a member of the sporting commission of the Automobile Club of Italy.
Born: 22th of May 1929 in Cusano Milanino, Italy.
Died: 23rd of February 2001 in Milan, Italy, aged 71.
#NASCAR – Kenseth wins at Dover on tire poker
A two-tire call late in Sunday’s FedEx 400 at Dover International Speedway was decisive for Matt Kenseth to secure his second NASCAR Sprint Cup victory of the season and the 20th of his career, dispatching Mark Martin, who had stayed out on old tires, Marcos Ambrose, Kyle Busch and Brian Vickers.
#British F3 – Magnussen scores Snetterton double
The Fortec Motorsport trio of Lucas Foresti, Harry Tincknell and Will Buller dominated the Sunday morning race of the Cooper Tires British Formula 3 Snetterton weekend, while Kevin Magnussen, who had claimed his maiden British F3 win on Saturday, followed that up with a carbon-copy victory this afternoon on the new Norfolk circuit.
Full report in P1Mag’s issue no. 16 on Tuesday.
#British GT3 – Maiden win for United Autosports
United Autosports secured its maiden victory in the Avon Tyres British GT Championship following a dramatic two-hour race on the new Snetterton 300 circuit -and despite two pit lane penalties – with the #23 Audi R8 LMS driven by Mike Guasch and Matt Bell. The Ferrari drivers Jim and Glynn Geddie (CRS Racing) and Hector Lester/Allan Simonsen (Rosso Verde) completed thre podium.
#Formula Renault 3.5 – Korjus and Ricciardo win, Vergne leads
Kevin Korjus showed great maturity for his 18 years to go on to pick up his already second win, while Jean-Eric Vergne made a heroic charge to get back up to P2 in race 1, after starting 11th on the grid, and crossing the finish line first in race 2. But a penalty promoted Daniel Ricciardo (pictured above) to his first win of the season ahead of Alexander Rossi and Vergne.
#WTCC – Huff makes it a 1-2 at Monza
Rob Huff manages to score a second WTCC win on race Sunday at Monza, yet again beating Chevrolet team-mate and reigning World Champion Yvan Muller to the finish line. Kristian Poulsen this time beats Tiago Monteiro for the final podium position.
#GT1 – Piccini/Hohenadel win at Sachsenring
Andrea Piccini and Christian Hohenadel took their first win of the season Hexis Aston Martin No.4 to victory in the GT1 Championship Race at Sachsenring ahead of the No.37 All-Inkl Munnich Motorsport Lamborghini of Dominik Schwager and Nicky Pastorelli while third was the Young Driver Aston Martin No.8 of Stefan Mücke and Darren Turner. Qualoifying race winner and pole-sitter, the No.41 Marc VDS Ford GT of Fred Makowiecki and Maxime Martin, retired after just nine laps with a puncture and bodywork damage.
#MotoGP – Stoner wins French GP
Casey Stoner wins the French Grand Prix at Circuit Bugatti in Le Mans from Andrea Dovizioso, Valentino Rossi, Jorge Lorenzo and Marco Simoncelli, woh after clashing with Dani Pedrosa had to observe a drive-through-penalty.
Full race report in P1Mag’s issue no. 16
#F3 – Stanaway and Bachler
After Richie Stanaway’s dominant performance in the German ATS Formula 3 Cup’s Sachsenring race one, the Van-Amersfoort driver scoring his fourth win in five race, it was time for Austrian Klaus Bachler to clinch his first win in the category in race two. Stanaway maintains his championship lead though.
#WTCC – Huff wins race one
In hard fought battle between the three Chevrolet works-drivers Rob Huff took the win at Monza ahead of Yvan Muller, after the reigning World Champion spun out his team-mate Alain Menu in the final lap. Tiago Monteiro inherited P3 after outbraking Norbert Michelisz in the Parabolica.
#Moto 2 – Marquez grabs maiden win
In his 50th Grand Prix start, Marc Márquez (Team CatalunyaCaixa Repsol) celebrated his first victory in the Moto2 category in his rookie season at the Monster Energy Grand Prix de France. The Spaniard grabbed victory after a fierce battle throughout the race from sixth on the grid. Yuki Takahashi (Gresini Racing) held off Stefan Bradl (Viessmann Kiefer Racing) for second place after a titanic tussle on the final lap.
#GT Masters – Abt and Phoenix enter winner’s list
With wins by Luca Ludwig/Christopher Mies (Abt Audi) in race one and Andreas Simonsen/Christopher Haase in race two at the Sachsenring the German GT3 series ADAC GT Masters features four different winning teams in the 2011 season with BMW Alpina, Reiter Lamborghini and both Audi teams sharing the wins so far.
#Porsche Cups – P1Mag bins coverage
P1Mag-eZINE will no longer offer coverage on the Porsche Supercup, Porsche Carrera Cup or Porsche GT3 one-make series in its weekly German and English language publication with immediate effect. The decision is in line with P1Mag’s mission to promote professional motor sport free of political influence by car manufacturers.
Have you seen P1Mag’s issue no. 15?
Another very busy Weekend with exciting motor racing taking place all around the World, including the World Championship rounds of Formula One, GT1, WRC and Superbikes as well as plenty of other international racing series taking place. It’s always a challenge to compile all that as quickly and in the most attractive way for our readers.
That, of course, requires everyone involved on the delivery side of things to do their job properly, too. That includes providing the basics on time, respond in an adequate time frame when issues arise and, that’s what press officers and PR people are actually hired for by their employees, solve any unexpected problems that might arise during a busy race weekend.
Again we have been deleayed – or completely let down – by the one or the other series organizer. The consequence is that we will have to rethink our commitment, whether it is feasible to endure he troubles we face to bring certain categories to you, the reader and consumer. We’ll keep you posted.
As for now, as the reason for a slightly delayed issue no.15 is roughly explained, I hope you will enjoy the read of an otherwise colourful and informative new issue of P1Mag. You can download issue no. 15 for FREE by clicking HERE.
#GT1 – One Nissan down, other Nissan wins
The JRM Nissans would have repeated their performance from the qualifying race, if the gearbox in the 22 car wouldn’t have overheated, forcing Westwood/Dumbreck to retire. This handed the win to Lucas Luhr/Michael Krumm in the 23 Nissan GT-R from the no. 8 Aston Martin and the Sumo Power Nissan of Brabham/Campbell-Walter.
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