#NASCAR – Menard shines with Brickyard win
In a season of improbable first-time winners in NASCAR’s biggest races, Paul Menard stretched his fuel mileage and held off charging Jeff Gordon to win Sunday’s Brickyard 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
#World Superbikes – Checa adds Silverstone double
After Carlos Checa took his ninth win of the season and win number 300 for Ducati in the World Superboike Championship in the first race of the Silverstone round, the Spaniard went on to win race two as well, significantly extending his lead in the points table over Max Biaggi.
#WTCC – Engstler breaks Chevy’s winning spree
Franz Engstler won his first WTCC race on race two of his home event at Oschersleben, making himself a belated present for his 50th birthday (last Monday) and also obtaining the first victory for the BMW 1.6-litre turbo engine. At the end of an exciting race, Engstler crossed the line ahead of race one winner Alain Menu and Gabriele Tarquini, a podium full of experience that had the better of the young exuberance of Norbert Michelisz who threw a probable victory to the winds by spinning from the lead.
#GT – Team WRT bags 2h Spa win
The Belgian Team WRT sensationally won on its first outing at the great home race, the legendary 24 hours race of Spa-Francorchamps with drivers Matthias Ekström / Greg Franchi / Timo Scheider from the Need for Speed Team Schuberth’s Dirk Werner / Edward Sandström / Claudia Hürtgen and Kenneth Heyer / Thomas Jäger / Stéphane Lemeret on third for Black Falcon Racing.
#F1 – Button wins frantic Hungarian Grand Prix
A too risky recovery from a spin cost Lewis Hamilton an almost certain win at the Hungarian Grand Prix today as the stewards handed the 2008 champion a drive-through-penalty. McLaren team-mate Jenson Button benefitted from the mishap to take the win in his 200th Grand Prix with Sebadtian Vettel and Fernando Alonso joining the 2009 champion on the podium at the Hungaroring. Hamilton finished fourth from Mark Webber and Nico Rosberg.
#WRC – Loeb takes second Rally Finland win
After their first exploit in 2008, Sébastien Loeb, Daniel Elena and Citroën have won Rally Finland for the second time, beating local ace Jari-Matti Latvala who had managed to get past Sébastien Ogier fpr P2 in the final stages.
Sébastien Loeb has increased his lead in the Drivers’ World Championship to 27 points. With its two DS3 WRCs on the podium, the Citroën Total World Rally Team has consolidated its first place in the Manufacturers’ World Championship.
#F1 – Vettel beats Hamilton for pole
Only six days after winning the German Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton seemed on the way to pole position with a fastest lap time of 1:19.978 in qualifying at the Hungaroring. But reigning champion Sebastian Vettel snatched pole position away from the Brit in the final seconds of the session by a couple of hundreds of a second..
Hamilton therefore will line up alongside Sebastian Vettel on the front row for Sunday’s race. Jenson Button and Felipe Massa will share the second row while Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber slipped down to row three ahead of Nico Rosberg and Adrian Sutil.
Remembering Roger Williamson
29/7/1973, Roger Williamson dies.
Backed by wealthy entrepreneur Tom Wheatcroft, Williamson came into Formula 1 through winning the British F3 title in 1972 and a successful start to the 1973 season in F2, winning the Monza Lottery race. His debut in a works March 731 in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone was cut short due to a pile-up in the first lap. He was tragically killed in the following race, the Dutch GP at Zandvoort, trapped in his upside-down car on fire. The scene of David Purley desperately trying to save his friend from the blaze is one of the most disturbing sights I’ve ever seen.
Born: 2nd of February 1948, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, UK;
Died: 29th of July 1973, Zandvoort Circuit, Netherlands.
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Lewis, Casey, Will, Romain, Luca, Carl, Scott, Memo, Lucas, Klaus and all the great racers
What an exciting race weekend! Of course everyone has seen the magnificent three way battle for the win at the German Formula 1 Grand Prix. Right there at the Nürburgring GP2 and GP3 drivers also gave their best, fighting for points under mostly difficult climatic conditions.
No such problems for Casey Stoner, who beat pole-sitter Jorge Lorenzo to win the MotoGP US Grand Prix at Laguna Seca, nor for Will Power to beat the opposition in Edmonton’s City Center Airport Circuit, both events happening under bright sunny skies. Even Brands Hatch, where GT, F2 and F3 drivers were battling for points, had similarly great racing and better weather to offer than the Eifel region. Same for NASCAR, ALMS and Grand-Am, offering entertaining motor sport, too.
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#MotoGP – Stoner beats Lorenzo in the USA
With a daring pass on pole-sitter Jorge Lorenzo Repsol Honda rider Casey Stoner took the win in the US Grand Prix at Laguna Seca circuit with Dani Pedrosa in third from Ben Spies, Andrea Dovizioso, Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden.
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#IndyCar – Power bounces back with Edmonton win
Will Power bounced back from a horrible Sunday in Toronto to win this Sunday’s next Canadian round of the IZOD IndyCar Series at the Edmonton Airport circuit, beating his team-mate Helio Castroneves to the flag and completing an almost perfect Sunday for Australian sportamen after Cadel Evans won the Tour de France. Pole-sitter Taku Sato became the victim of a misjudged attack by Ryan Hunter-Reay, dropping the Japanese driver a lap behind. Dario Franchitti preserved his title defence options finishing third and with Ryan Briscoe having to reliquish P4 for a splah & dash, Tony Kanaan finished fourth from Justin Wilson and Sébastien Bourdais.
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#F1 – Hamilton wins German Grand Prix
Lewis Hamilton dominated the German Grand Prix on a cold Sunday at the Nürburgring from lights to flag despite strong race long opposition from Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso, the Spaniard slipping past the pole-sitter to snatch P2, leaving Webber in third. Local hero Sebastian Vettel only made it past Felipe Massa on a final pit stop into P4. Adrian Sutil showed a phantastic race to beat both Mercedes GP drivers Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher with a 2 stop strategy.
#GP2 – Grosjean extends lead with win
Romain Grosjean improved on the podium finish in yesterday’s feature race with a thrilling battle for victory in changing weather conditions in Sunday’s sprint race at the Nürburgring, keeping calm and taking advantage of other people’s misfortunes to win from Jules Bianchi and Saturday’s race winner Luca Filippi.
Remembering Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow
24t/07/1972, Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow dies.
The son of Danish nobleman Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow and American heiress Barbara Hutton and grandson to Frank Winfield Woolworth, founder of the Woolworth store chain, Lance Reventlow wasn’t short of cash at all. After a stint Europe, renting a factory Cooper Formula 2 to participate in various races in Britain, he became inspired to build his own machine, the Scarab sportscar. In the late 1950s Reventlow Automobile Inc embarked an ambitious, but poorly timed front-engined Formula 1 project. Rear-engined cars revolutionized F1 racing at the time and the Scarab was out-dated from the outset, failing to qualify. For the 1960 British GP Reventlow rented a factory Cooper and made a further attempt with the Scarab in early 1961. After a crash destroyed the Scarab, Reventlow lost interest. Being a step-son of Cary Grant, it wasnät surprising to see him dating a variety of actresses in the years that followed. He was killed in an airplane crash in the Rocky Mountains in 1972.
Born: 24th of February 1936 in London, UK;
Died: 24th of July 1972 in the Rocky Mountains, USA, aged 36.
#F1 – Webber on pole for German Grand Prix
On a rather cold Saturday Mark Webber took pole position for tommorow’s German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring setting the best lap time in Q3 in 1:30.079 minute. Lewis Hamilton beat local hero Sebastian Vettel for P2 and will line -up alongside the 2009 winner on first row. Fernando Alonso, Felipe Massa, Jenson Button, Adrian Sutil, Vitaly Petrov, Nico Rosberg, Michael Schumacher completed the top ten.
Dani’s comeback to the top and 632 passes
One can’t help admiring Dani Pedrosa for his grim determination to win, whenever there’s a chance to. Having just come back from a colarbone surgery – after having suffered a further injury at the end of last season – the diminuitive Spaniard came out on top of a hard fought battle for the MotoGP race win in Sunday’s German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring.
Talking about close racing and overtaking. Would you believe in Formula One there have already been a whopping 632 overtaking maneuvres this season? Amazing, how a new kind of tires and tricks like DRS have enhanced the action on track. More on that in an opening story, plus, of course, all of the motor sport action from all around the world.
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Remembering Tom Pryce
18th of July – Tom Pryce scores a magnificent pole position for the 1975 Britsh Gtrand Prix by lapping Silverstone quickest. It was the 3rd and final pole position scored by a Shadow driver in the team’s history.
#NASCAR – A Newman & Stewart 1-2
Ryan Newman and Tony Stewart started 1-2 into the New Hampshire Motor Speedway Sprint Cup race, and after a wild jumble of divergent strategies in the 19th round of the season, that’s the way they finished the race, separated on the finish line by just .773 seconds. It was Newman’s first victory of the year, his third at the 1.058-mile track and the 15th of his career. Denny Hamlin came home third, followed by Joey Logano and Jimmie Johnson. Kasey Kahne, Bobby Labonte, Martin Truex Jr., Marcos Ambrose and Kurt Busch completed the top 10.
#WTCC – Muller beats Huff at Donington – twice
Yvan Muller and Rob Huff finished 1-2 twice in the WTCC’S British round in two exciting races at Donington circuit with plenty of drama throughout the field. Alain Menu actually completed a Chevrolet 1-2-3 in race one, while Independent BMW driver Franz Engstler completed the podium in race 2 and, of couse, took the honours among the privateers.
#Superleague Formula – Vervisch bags big cheque
Frederic Vervisch (team Luxembourg) has won Superleague Formula’s weekend-closing Superfinal at Zolder, triumphing in a thrilling encounter and netting himself a cool €100,000 in the process. The first race of the day had been won by Craig Dolby (Team England) thanks to a lightning-fast pitstop and his own relentless pace, while John Martin (Team Australia) scored a dominant victory in the second race, leading to the Superfinal, which Vervisch took despite a late shower making his taking more difficult than he’d wish for.
#GT1 – Krumm/Luhr totally dominate in France
Michael Krumm and Lucas Luhr scored their third win of the year at Le Castellet’s Paul Ricard Circuit with an as dominant win as the NIssan drivers and their JR Motorsport Team had previously shown in the Qualifying Race. The Aston Martin teams of Darren Turner/Stefan Mücke and Tomas Enge/Alex Müller completed the podium.
#MotoGP – Pedrosa beats Lorenzo/Stoner in Germany
Dani Pedrosa takes a sensational win at the German Grand Prix, celebrating his first win after his colarbone operation. After a race long battle reigning World Champion Jorge Lorenzo beat Casey Stoner for P2 in the final corner. Andrea Dovizioso finsiehd fourth ahead of of Ben Spies and Marco Simoncelli. Álvaro Bautista, Nicky Hayden and Valentino Rossi fought for P7 till the finish line.
#Moto2 – Marquez spoils Bradl’s party
Marc Marquez beats championship leader and local hero Stefan Bradl for the race win at the German Grand Prix with Alex de Angelis finishing third ahead of the hard battling Swiss duo Randy Krumenacher and Tom Lüthi.
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