Month: July 2012

At 10.35am this morning the GP2 drivers have started from the grid of the Hungaroring circuit in Budapest for the second race of the weekend. A race not easy for Stéphane Richelmi, in 9th row for the final position of race 1, who is initially stuck out of the brawl and he has lost some positions. Without the mandatory pit stop and in a circuit not suitable for overtaking, for the driver of the Trident team has been hard to find the gaps among the cars ahead to to recover in the ranking and therefore he has made a race of concentration and constancy, cutting the finish line in 21th position. A few weeks of stop and Richelmi will be...

The Moscow Raceway was officially inaugurated today with the two collective test sessions of the World Series by Renault. Each turn lasted 90 minutes, instead of the usual 75, just to make easier for drivers to find the best set-up of cars. The two Draco drivers have been confirmed at the top with good times and they were always among the first in the ranking and they ended the morning session, respectively, in 3rd place Nico Muller and in 6th place Andre Negrao. In the afternoon, some technical problems of the circuit have disturbed the test of the teams, who were without electricity in the pits, because the accidental cutting of wires by a truck, and practically without internet connection....