#P1Mag – Night and day racing action all covered in issue no. 35
So then, Sebastian Vettel once again showed an impeccable race from pole position, held the fastest race lap till the final laps and won yet again in dominating manner, stopping only one point short of becoming Formula One’s youngest ever double World Champion in Singapore – or rather two weeks later in Japan.
The night time spectacle in Singapore aside, there were winners and new crowned championships scattered all over the planet. As usual we did our best, collecting and editing all this information for you. And as real racers we care about all of them. As long as the PR side of the series is of any help that is. So don’t be surprised to learn, who the new 2011 F1 Sidecar champions are, or about the young man who over the weekend became the British Formula Ford champion, for instance.
This time around we got nearly 100 pages of coverage from all around the globe and service pages waiting for you in P1Mag’s latest edition, including World Superbike Championship, Le Mans Series, NASCAR, Superstars Series, STCC, 24h Barcelona, British and German GTs, British Superbikes and Sidecars, rallying, junior Formulae, you name it. It happened, we got it. And hey, it’s still FOR FREE!
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#NASCAR – Stewart takes Chase leal with win no. 2
In a dramatic reversal of fortune, Tony Stewart won the second Chase for the Sprint Cup race, the Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, when Clint Bowyer ran out of fuel with fewer than three laps to go. With his second straight victory, his second of the season and the 41st of his career, Stewart took the lead in the series standings heading to next Sunday’s race at Dover. Stewart leads Kevin Harvick by seven points. Harvick finished 12th.
#LMS – Pescarolo drivers win 6h Estoril and title
The Pescarolo Team came out on top of the Estoril 6 Hours race with drivers Emmanuel Collard, Christophe Tinseau and Julien Jousse taking the title by winning the final Le Mans Series race of the season from the Rebellion Lola B10/60 Coupé-Toyota of Jean Christophe Boullion and Andrea Belicchi, Rebellion Racing taking the LMP1 teams’ championship.
#World #Superbikes – Checa almost there
Jonathan Rea won his second race of the year from Noriyuki Haga at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari and was only hindered by mechanical troubles to repeat the success in the second race. Carlos Checa took a third place and the race win in the second dramatic race of the Imola weekend with Haga adding the points for another P2 to his tally. But Checa was unable to clinch the championship outright as his only remaining rival Marco Melandri finished eighth and then sixth and has – despite very remotely – still a mathematical chance to turn his 97-points deficit around in the final two rounds.
#F1 – The World Championship is Vettel’s to lose
Sebastian Vettel wins the Singapore Grand Prix from lights to flag with another dominant performance. Finishing in P2 and P3 respectively, Jenson Button and Mark Webber post-poned the championship decision. Fernando Alonso finished from Lewis Hamilton, who came back from way outside the top 10 after a clash with Felipe Massa. Paul di Resta, Nico Rosberg and Adrian Sutil completed the top 10.
The full report can be found in P1Mag’s issue no. 35.
Jean Alesi to race in 2012 Indy 500
During a press conference today at the Marina Bay circuit prior to the Singapore Grand Prix Jean Alesi confirmed that he will enter the 2012 Indianapolis 500 with Lotus. The choice is obvious as the Frenchman has already an “ambassador” role within Group Lotus. The 47-year-old former Grand Prix driver will be backed by Group Lotus.
#F1 – Vettel sets pole for title decider
Sebastian Vettel has taken pole position for tomorrow’s Singapore Grand Prix with a best lap time of 1:44.381 in the final qualifying session at Marina Bay circuit. Alongside Red Bull Racing team-mate Mark Webber will start from the front row, Mclaren team-mates Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton will share second row, Ferrari drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa third row.
#P1Mag – Boy, have we got a truck load of champions for you…
Plenty of champions have been crowned last weekend, for example Will Power won – as in 2010 – the Mario Andretti Road Trophy for the top points producer on the 10 road/street courses and has turned things around for the IndyCar title race, too.
Chris Dyson and Guy Smith won the LMP1 drivers’ title in the American Le Mans Series, Dirk Müller and Joey Hand secured the equivalent for the GT class. Dyson Racing and BMW Team RLL each clinched the team championships respectively. And while we are at the events at the Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca: Young Frenchman Tristan Vautier won the title in the final round of the Star Mazda Championship.
#NASCAR – Tony Stewart wins first Chase race
Tony Stewart won Monday’s rain-delayed Geico 400 at Chicagoland Speedway .941 seconds ahead of hard-charging Kevin Harvick to win his first race of the season and the 40th of his career.
#NASCAR – The day after
Same as last week, Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race had to be postponed due to bad weather. The GEICO 400 at Chicagoland Speedway, the opening race for the 2011 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, will take place later today, proceedings for the race to commence at 11.00 AM on the track located at Joliet, Illinois. Time enough left for the 2011 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup contenders Kyle Busch, Kevin Harvick, Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, Carl Edwards, Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Brad Keselowski, and Denny Hamlin pose for a group photo on stage.
#World Series – Vergne closes in on Wickens
Jean-Eric Vergne capitalizes on a dreadful weekend World Series by Renault points leader Robert Wickens to shorten the gap to the Canadian in the championship table to two points after taking a win and a third place – behind Alexander Rossi and HRT Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo – at the Le Castellet round.
#IndyCar – Dixon wins, Power takes the lead
Scott Dixon won the final Motegi IndyCar race ahead of Will Power, who took the championship lead by 13 points after title defending champion Dario Franchitti caused a collision with Power’s Team Penske team-mate Ryan Briscoe and finished in ninth.
Congrats RLL, congrats Dirk Müller and Joey Hand
Team Rahal-Letterman-Lanigan has secured the American Le Mans Series’ team championship in the GT class and drivers Dirk Müller and Joey Hand likewise took the GT title in the 6 hours race of Laguna Seca. We could have brought this post far earlier. But we were waiting for BMW or the series organizer to deliver an adequate picture to go with the news. Far from impressed neither have managed to do that… even 12 hours after the chequers…!
#MotoGP – Stoner domination continues
With another dominant performance at Motorland Aragón, MotoGP Points leader Casey Stoner further increases the gap to his pursueres in the championship table with year another win. Team-mate Dani Pedrosa finished in second, the fight for P3 featured an interesting battle between early Jorge Lorenzo, Marco Simoncelli race leader Ben Spies, with the World Champion clinching the final podium position. The Ducati works-team suffered its most disappointing result of the season with Nick Hayden in eighth and Valentino Rossi, having had to start from the pitlane after the engine of his Ducati had to be swapped for a new one, had to fight to finish n P10.
#Moto2 – Marquez wins and closes in on Bradl
Marc Marquez won his home race at the Spanish Motorland Aragón circuit to close the gap to German title rival Stefan Bradl, who fell back to P8 in the final laps after his rear tire began to slip within the wheel. Andrea Iannone finished second from Simone Corsi, Alex De Angelis and Aleix Espargaró.
#P1Mag – better late than lousy
To make a long story short: Here's the current issue of P1Mag. And yes, Later than usual. But I'm not complaining. After all we have been delivering the proof this mag can be published week after week – and in two languages – on a budget, traditional publishing companies wouldn't be able to even run their postal matters on. And trying the impossible has brought us all this way to where we are. So why not try one or the other challenge to spice up things. Oh well, so we got a delay. Still the content – once again – differentiates P1Mag from traditional publications. Try us. This time we got nearly 100 pages of motor sport coverage from all around the globe waiting for you in P1Mag's latest edition, including the Italian Formula One Grand Prix, GP2 and GP3 Series, Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, GT1 World Championship, WRC, NASCAR, Japanese SuperGTs, IRC, PWRC, F3, TC2000, British Superbikes, you name it. It happened, we got it. And hey, it's still FOR FREE! You can download P1Mag issue no. 33 AS ALWAYS FREE OF CHARGE by clicking HERE Enjoy the read.
#Sorry – Splitting in two halves didn’t work…
There were times when Frankfurt’s international motor show IAA opened up their gates on a Saturday and the media had two days prior to the official opening day for the public to do the job of co-ordinating interviews to be made and launches of new cars to be attended. Nowadays things happen on Tuesday and Wednesday, exactly those days in the week when the production of P1Mag is usually concluded.
#ILMC – Peugeot beats Audi – again
Third win of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup season for Team Peugeot with Sébastien Bourdais and Simon Pagenaud taking the win in the 6 hours of Silverstone from the leading Audi of Timo Bernhard and Marcel Fassler and the Oak Racing Pescarolo-Judd of Jacques Nicolet, Alexandre Premat and Olivier Pla.
#F1 – Vettel’s walk in the parc
Sebastian Vettel wins the Italian Grand Prix at the Parco di Monza in dominant fashion from Jenson Button, With Fernando Alonso there was at least one Ferrari driver to cheer on the podium for the hordes of Tifosi, the Spaniard holding off Lewis Hamilton till the last corner. Michael Schumacher, a long time third, completed the top 5.
#GT1 – Young Driver Aston Martin score double 1-2 in Beijing
The Young Driver Aston Martin team completed a stunning double in a dramatic ninth round of the championship in Beijing. The combination of Darren Turner and Stefan Mucke in the Nr8 car took the chequered flag in the Championship Race to record their first victory of the 2011 season. The result crowned a perfect two days for the German squad after Tomas Enge and Alex Muller in the Nr7 car had taken the honours in the Qualifying Race earlier in the day.
#WRC – Hirvonen back in contention after Rally Australia win
Mikko Hirvonen, co-driven by fellow Finn Jarmo Lehtinen, has narrowed Sebastien Loeb’s lead in the World Rally Championship to 15 points after winning Rally Australia for a third time, ending Citroen’s run of success. Jari-Matti Latvala made it a one-two for Ford, Petter Solberg third in his privateer Citroen DS3 WRC.
Remembering Ronnie Peterson
11/9/1978, Bengt Ronnie Peterson dies.
A truly great champion is defined by his talent, his discipline and his judgment on making the right career moves when necessary. All Ronnie Peterson had was his uncontested talent behind the wheel, a master of opposite lock and dare devil driving antics. He graduated to Formula 1 in 1970 with the fledgling March team and in his second season finished runner-up to Jackie Stewart in the World Championship without winning a race. It was only in 1973, after switching to Colin Chapman’s Team Lotus that he scored his first win at the French GP and another three would follow that year. But Lotus was on decline and Ronnie returned to March, winning the 1976 Italian GP at Monza. An unsuccessful year with Tyrrell’s P34 six-wheeler followed, before going back to Lotus in 1978. Ronnie won two GPs that year, but had to play the number two role for a season and was looking forward to be free to race in equal terms in 1979. Tragically he died of injuries sustained in a accident at the start of that year’s Italian GP and became posthumous the runner-up to champion and team-mate Mario Andretti.
Born: 14th of February 1944 in Örebro, Sweden.
Died 11th of September 1978 in Milan, Italy, aged 34.
F1 – Vettels stuns with Monza pole
Sebastian Vettel was fastest in Qualifying today in Monza, setting a surprising 25th career pole position for tommorow’s Italian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton was second fastest from Jenson Button, Fernando Alonso, Mark Webber, Felipe Massa, Vitaly Petrov, Nico Rosberg, Michael Schumacher and Bruno Senna.
#P1Mag – Over a 120 pages motor sport action for you – AND for FREE
This issue is out slightly later than our usual late Tuesday deadline, due to the postponement of NASCAR’s Sprint Cup to Tuesday. But what a race weekend it was: Jorge Lorenzo kept the MotoGP World Championship open with a dominant win in Misano. Chevrolet and Ray Mallock took the WTCC manufacturer’s and team’s Word Championship titles with three rounds to go in Valencia, while Yvan Muller stripped team-mate Rob Huff of his points lead in the driver’s standings.
Trans-Am title holder Tony Ave successfully defended his 2010 crown and Bob Stretch clinched the TA2 title. And flying Finn Petri Suvanto sealed the USF2000 title in the streets of Baltimore. Across the Atlantic ocean Felipe Nasr secured the British Formula 3 Championship and Richie Stanaway accomplished the first of two tasks, securing the rookies’ title in the German ATF F3 Cup.
Will Power’s second win within two weekends, emerging on top of a highly eventful inaugural race in the streets of Baltimore narrowed Dario Franchitti’s standings advantage to a mere five points.
This time around we got over 120 pages of coverage from all around the globe waiting for you in P1Mag’s latest edition, including Worls Superbike Championship, GT1 World Championship , ALMS, NASCAR, BTCC, British and German GTs, Procar, junior Formulae, touring cars, you name it. It happened, we got it. And hey, it’s still FOR FREE!
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