Remembering Eddie Johnson
30/06/1974, Edward Johnson dies.
Eddie Johnson was a regular in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series and made F1 stats by finishing 6th in the final Formula 1 World Championship counting Indy 500 and thus scoring one World Championship point. He died in a plane crash near Cleveland, Ohio.
Born: 10th of February 1919 in Richmond, USA.
Nasceu: 30th of June 1974 in Cleveland, USA, aged 55.
A race weekend that had it all !
A race weekend that had it all: Winning streaks being continued, winless droughts coming to an end, first time winners, dominant vitories and exciting last lap dramas. A bit of everything you could say.
But as with ORECA’s win at the 12 hours of Sebring early this year I was particularly delighted to see a true racer and his dedicated team win a big one against the mighty competition of works teams. Olaf Manthey is perhaps not internationally known at the same level with Hugues de Chaunac. But as a touring car driver in the eighties he was as seriously quick and successful, as his cars are nowadays at every round of the Nürburgring’s endurance races.
Manthey Racing took the Nürburgring 24 hours race by storm last weekend and has now won this classic endurance race in Germany`s Eifel region for the fifth time, again beating the official Porsche and BMW works teams – including the hidden ones from Audi – fair and square. The team’s perhaps greatest international success was winning the GT class in the 1999 Le Mans 24 hours race. And it perhaps was – in a way – more glamorous to run a DTM team in 2002. But all of this is secondary to Olaf Manthey.
The man is in fact in love with the wild and rugged Nordschleife. Taming the grand lady and winning the 24h Nürburgring race is his biggest ambition. And on a sunny Sunday afternoon he hugged his champagne drenched drivers Marc Lieb, Lucas Luhr, Romain Dumas and Timo Bernhard, thinking to himself with a broad grin: “Mission accomplished – once again“. Congratulations for that, Olaf!
This time we got more than a hundred pages of motor sport coverage from around the globe for you in issue no. 22. Enjoy the read!
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Sincere apologies!
If you were surprised about the absence of any news from us over the – very busy – race weekend, let me just reveal this much: It was the début weekend (or should I say ‘first test’) of a remote posting system to make it quicker and easier to post race results and comments. And it all went… well, really wrong. None of it ever appeared on the blog. Or Facebook. Or Twitter. Quite disappointing indeed. Well, back to the drawing board, as the’d say in the good old days…
Of course issue no. 22 will recap all the action in detail. The latest edition will be out on Tuesday.
Thanks for your comprehension.
Remembering Dick Seaman
25/06/1939, John Richard Beattie Seaman dies.
Dick Seaman was an allround sportsman from a wealthy British family who was fit in skiing, shooting, flying and, of course car racing. Driving a supercharged MG K3 Magnette for American millionaire Whitney Straight’s new racing team, he won his first race at the 1934 Prix de Berne, a a preliminary race to the Swiss Grand Prix at the Bremgarten forest circuit. Seeing his team-mate Hugh Hamilton crash the team’s Maserati 8CM into a tree and being killed during the main race didn’t put him off. When his father, William Seaman-Beattie, died from a sudden heart failure, Dick set up his own team and won the 1935 Prix de Berne with an ERA, beating the marque’s works driver Raymond Mays.
Have you seen issue no. 21?
As we’re about to reach mid-season, in of the championships clear favorites have emerged. While it seems pretty clear a Chevrolet will become the next Touring Car World Champion, Rob Huff might have the advantage and Alain Menu is strong, but defending champion Yvan Muller is also on a roll now. The question remains though: Is there anyone out there who can beat the Chevy armada altogether?
In World Rallying it is similar with Citroen going strong again, it remainsss to be seen though, whether experience will prevail over youth in the „Séb vs Séb“ infight. Even closer things are in IndyCar racing as Milwaukee winner Dario Franchitti and Will Power share the points lead in the series.
While all of this seems less important with sometimes more than half of the season still to go, Robert Wickens had set his sight in finishing the Word Series’ Nürburgring race weekend as points leader as traditionally the half term points leader gets a test session in the current Renault F1 car. And the Canadian reached his goal, soon he’s going to have his first taste of Formula One before resuming the hunt for the title.
We got another 97 pages of motor sport coverage from around the globe for you in issue no. 21. Enjoy the read!
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#IndyCar – Franchitti wins Monster Mile
Dario Franchitti inherited the race lead on Lap 200 of 225 when Helio Castroneves had to change the left-rear tire and went on to clinch victory in the Milwaukee 225 at the Milwaukee Mile. Franchitti tied Will Power for the IZOD IndyCar Series championship lead and also tied Rick Mears (7 USAC, 22 CART wins) for ninth on the all-time victory list with 29. It was Franchitti’s 100th top-five finish of his Indy car career.
Weekend Summary, Part 2
Here’s part two of today’s summary of racing action from around the World.
World Series FR 3.5 – Carlin’s Robert Wickens handled difficult conditions at the Nürburgring perfectly to notch his second race victory of the season from pole position on slick tyres and on a damp track in race one. Kevin Korjus then recorded his third victory in race two from all the way back in 13th, while Wickens extended his championship lead.
Weekend Summary, Part 1
A first summary of some of this Weekend’s racing action around the world.
WTCC – Rob Huff overtook team-mate and pole sitter Yvan Muller for the lead right at the start of race one at Brno, the leading duo increasing their margin with Alain Menu completing a Chevrolet 1-2-3. Despite starting from eighth on the reverse grid, Yvan Muller put in a strong performance to recover positions, ousting a determined Tom Coronel from the lead and claiming another victory for Chevrolet, while Alain Menu, Rob Huff and Michel Nykjaer completed top 5.
Remembering Count “Raph”
16/06/1994, Count George Raphaël Béthenod de Montbressieux dies.
“Raph”, as he was nicknamed, was the son of a wealthy silk-maker of the Lyon region and an Argentine mother. He soon turned out to be an excellent and captivating driver racing Alfa Romeos, a Maserati and then Talbot and Delahaye sports cars. In 1937he suffered a bad crash during the 24 Hours of Le Mans, remaining paralyzed in the legs for six months. After a brief stint at American Midget racing in California, where he won an indoor race in a Los Angeles stadium in 1946, he came back to European after WW2 and won Grand Prix de Nantes at the wheel of an old Ecurie Naphtra Course Maserati.
Another bad crash with his newly acquired Talbot-Lago 26C in 1948 at the Albi circuit left him with a fractured skull, suffering for a long time from amnesia. In 1949 he raced occasionally a Delahaye and a Gordini. He sold his repaired Talbot in Brazil during his last South American racing trip early in 1950 and quit. Plagued by financial problems, he became the chauffeur to his lifelong friend, the famous French actor and “chansonnier” Maurice Chevalier. After the latter’s death, he worked for an agency renting high-class cars on the French Riviera, and retired in 1984. George Raphaël Béthenod de Montbressieux died in old age almost completely forgotten.
Born: 8th of February 1910 in Buenos Aires, Argentina;
Died: 16th of June 1994 in Neuilly-sur-Marne, France, aged 84.
Canadian GP, Le Mans, Silverstone, Misano, Pocono, Zolder…
The two events that overshadowed all the other motor sport activities last weekend where a rain stricken Canadian Formula One Grand Prix that ran surprisingly smoothly despite all the dramas involved. Thanks to good co-operation between drivers, their crews and race control all the right decisions were taken under extreme circumstances to assure a safe running of the event.
Not the same can be said of the 79th edition of the Le Mans 24 hours race. Two very brutal accidents highlighted what always has been a problem at this classic long distance race, but is no longer acceptable in modern days. In a time when long distance races are fought like sprint races, there’s no room for such huge discrepancies on the same piece of tarmac. Or do you see F3 teams join the F1 grid to run in their own class in a Grand Prix?
We got another 91 pages of motor sport coverage from around the globe for you in issue no. 20. Enjoy the read!
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Remembering Giulio Cabianca
15/6/1961, Giulio Cabianca dies.
A successful sports car driver in Italy, Cabianca got noticed by Enzo Ferrari when he won the 1958 Formula 2 Naples GP and then, making his Formula 1 debut in Jo Bonnier’s Maserati 250F, was running 5th at the Italian GP before retiring. He got signed as Ferrari works-driver in sports car racing, but had to look after himself as far as F1 was concerned. He borrowed Ottorino Volonterio’s Maserati 250Fs for the 1959 Italian GP and the following year raced a Scuderia Castellotti Cooper-Ferrari to 4th place in the same event. It was with the same car he then suffered a fatal accident in 1961 at Modena circuit. The car left the track due to a stuck throttle, went through the entrance gate and collided with a passing taxi, killing Cabianca, the cab driver and both passengers.
Born: 19th of February 1923 in Verona, Italy;
Died: 15th of June 1961 in Modena, Italy, aged 38.
#F1 – Button’s masterpiece
Jenson Button wins a dramatic Canadian Grand Prix disrupted by heavy rain and several incidents after reeling in a hard charging Sebastian Vettel in the final lap of a race limited on run time length. Mark Webber completed the podium, passing a strong Michael Schumacher for third in the closing stages and depriving the veteran of his first podium finish since his comeback last year.
Full report in P1Mag’s issue no. 20
Sunday Summary
The #2 (LM P1) Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R18 TDI driven by Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoit Treluyer fought its way to a magnificent win of the 79′th runing of the legendary 24 Hours of Le Mans 2011. Olivier Lombard, Karim Ojjeh, Thomas Kimber-Smith took an emphatic victory in LMP2 for the #41 Greaves Motorsport Zytek-Nissan, which finished with a lead of more than seven laps. Antonio Garcia, Olivier Beretta und Tommy Milner took the #73 Corvette to the GTE Pro class win, while the #50 Larbre Competition Corvette of Patrick Bornhauser, Julien Canal and Gabriele Gardel took victory in the GTE Am class.
Stoner, Bradl and many winners more
Yet another busy race weekend with good motor sport action entertaining fans all around the World with great, dominant performances, especial by MotoGP ace Casey Stoner and young German hotshot Stefan Bradl, taking his third Moto2 win of the season and therefore extending his World Championship lead. One to watch, I suggest.
Well, yes, there was a bit of clumsy maneuvers in BTCC’s Oulton Park round and at Silverstone in the races for the European GT3 Championship with people – even team-mates – taking each other out. But nothing comes close to what NASCAR team-owner Richard Childress did, let alone Stefan Mücke’s retaliation in the middle of the GT1 Championship Race at Silverstone. I you haven’t seen it, we got it covered in our reports.
We got another 91 pages of motor sport coverage from around the globe for you in issue no. 19. Enjoy the read!
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#NASCAR – Keselowski clinches second career Cup win at Kansas’ fuel thriller
Stretching his fuel mileage to the maximum, Brad Keselowski coasted across the finish line to win Sunday’s STP 400 at Kansas Speedway, winning his first Sprint Cup race of the season and the second of his career and preventing runner-up Dale Earnhardt Jr. from ending a winless drought that reached 106 races. Denny Hamlin, who like Earnhardt was conserving fuel, came home third, followed by Jeff Gordon and series points leader Carl Edwards.
#BTCC – Shedden, Plato and Jackson share wins
Gordon Shedden won a manic first BTCC race at Oulton Park that was decided by tyre choice on a damp but drying track. In race two he then crashed out with Honda Racing team-mate Matt Neal in the very last corner, handing the win to Jason Plato has won race two at Oulton after Matt Neal and Gordon Shedden crashed out together. Finally Mat Jackson (pictured above) was the winner of the third and final BTCC race at Oulton from the reversed grid pole, promoting the Vauxhall driver to second in points behind Matt Neal.
#StockCar – Burti wins Brazilian Cup round
With a perfect start former Formula 1 driver Luciano Burti (Boettger Peugeot) powered past pole-sitter Allam Khodair (Vogel Chevrolet) to a undisputed start-finish-victory at the Campo Grande round for the Brazilian StockCar V8 Cup. Marcos Gomes (Full Time Sports Peugeot) completed the podium finsihing third ahead of points leader Thiago Camilo (RCM Motorsport Chevrolet).
#Superleague Formula – Dolby wins Super Final
After Yelmer Buurman scored a home win in a race one thriller and Duncan Tappy bounced back to take an incredible race 2 win, it was Craig Dolby (pictured above) who ended the opening round of the 2011 Superleague Formula Nations Cup season in style with a cheque for €100,000 after scoring victory in the weekend-ending Super Final at Assen for Team England.
#GT1 – Luhr/Krumm Win Tourist Trophy Thriller
In a close and exciting finale JRM-Nissan duo Lucas Luhr/Michael Krumm defended their lead against Qualifying Race winners Tomas Enge/Alex Müller in the Aston Martin to take the Tourist Trophy win at Silverstone with the Corvette drivers Mike Hezemans and Andreas Zuber completing the podium as they did on Saturday.
#Grand-Am – Angelelli/Taylor double up
Ricky Taylor and Max Angelelli got their second GRAND-AM Rolex Series victory in a six-day span on Saturday, winning the Sahlen’s Six Hours of the Glen, at Watkins Glen International.
#MotoGP – Stoner beats Yamaha Factory bikes
Repsol Honda rider Casey Stone beat the Yamaha Factory Team riders Jorge Lorenzo and Ben Spies in dominant fashion at the Gran Premi de Catalunya held today near Barcelona. Andread Dovizioso, Valentino Rossi, Marco Simoncelli, Cal Crutchlow, Nicky Hayden, Alex Capirossi and Karel Abraham completed the top six.
#WTCC – Menu and Muller share wins in Budapest
After Alain Menu won the first of two races at the Hungaroring near Budapest today, with local hero Norbert Michelisz and Javier Villa completing the podium, it was finally Yvan Muller who scored his first win of the season in a tumultuous race 2 with Rob Huff and Gabriele Tarquini completing the second podium.
#Moto2 – Bradl extends lead with Catalunya win
Stefan Bradl took a dominant win at the Circuit de Catalunya, his third of the season, ahead of Spanish riders Marc Marquez and Aleix Espargaró. Simone Corsi finished fourth well ahead of group of fiercly fighting bikers, lead by Randy Krummenacher and Alex de Angelis.
Remembering Umberto Maglioli
5/6/1928, Umberto Maglioli is born in Bioglio, Italy;
An accomplished and versatile sports car racer and endurance race specialist, Magioli only raced occasionally in Formula 1 as a reserve driver for Maserati, Ferrari and Porsche. In the 1954 Italian Grand Prix he shared a Ferrari with Froilan Gonzalez finishing 3rd and in the 1955 Argentine GP, this time sharing with Giuseppe Farina and Maurice Trintignant, he repeated what would be the result of his career again with the Scuderia Ferrari. Being a member of the Porsche works-team in sports car racing, he got a last chance in 1956 to participate in a World Championship round as the Germans entered him one of their 1.5 liter F1 cars at the 1956 German GP. After retiring from the sport he ran a business in Lugano making luxury watches. Umberto Maglioli died after a long illness.
Born: 5th of June 1928 in Bioglio, Italy;
Died: 6th of February 1999 in Monza, Italy, aged 70.
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