The Formula 4 South East Asia 2017-18 Championship -fueled by Petron - supported the Asian Le Mans ‘12 Hours of Buriram’ event with a 100,000-strong grandstand on Thailand’s Children’s day.
Séb started from pole position and immediately carved out a lead over Sam Bird and Felix Rosenqvist. By lap 5 he had a one second cushion and could sustain repeated attacks from the duo behind. A full course yellow on lap 18 gave opportunity for a relatively calm car swap, which Séb used to his advantage.
Despite it wasn’t a brilliant result at the end, a ninth place in A6-Am class as a result of several punctures and a collision at night when one his teammates crashed into a backmarker, Tutumlu put in brilliant stints fighting with GT3 factory drivers. Isaac Tutumlu couldn’t step onto the podium at the 24H of Dubai.
While other series wait until later in the year to get things cranking, the 2018 Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA Super Tour got going Saturday with the first of two Sebring Int'l Raceway races this weekend.
In round three of the Formula E electric racing series in Marrakesh (Morocco), following a strong beginning, Team Audi Sport ABT Schaeffler only went home with a single point.
In an exciting round of the ABB FIA Formula E Championship series, Nelson Piquet Jr. secured fourth position for Panasonic Jaguar Racing in his third appearance for the British team at the Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan. Starting the Marrakesh E-Prix with Nelson in seventh and team-mate Mitch Evans in ninth position, both drivers … Continue reading → ...
Tom Blomqvist (GBR) picked up his first points in the FIA Formula E Championship on his debut race in Morocco. The Brit finished in eighth place at the Marrakesh E-Prix. However, his MS&AD Andretti team-mate António Félix da Costa (POR) had a difficult day. After an accident in qualifying, he delivered a strong catch-up performance … Continue reading → ...
The Black Falcon Mercedes-AMG GT3 (#2, Abdulaziz Al Faisal / Hubert Haupt / Yelmer Buurman / Gabriele Piana) has won the 2018 Hankook 24H DUBAI, the 13th running of the annual event that, at one point, had looked likely to be won by the sister #3 entry. Abdulaziz Al Faisal drove the #2 Mercedes-AMG across … Continue reading → ...
The final day at the Buriram United International Circuit saw the Formula 4 South East Asia contingent - fuelled by Petron - compete for victory in their third event. The thousands strong crowd finally arrived for Children’s Day just in time to catch the last two races where Kuala Lumpur-native Nazim Azman clinched the race victory.
Jubilation at the beginning of the year: Team Phoenix Racing with Audi Sport customer racing celebrated the first 24-hour victory of the new Audi R8 LMS in the GT4 class. The career of Audi Sport customer racing’s most recent new product began with an endurance test par excellence. The GT4 version of the Audi R8 … Continue reading → ...
Safelite AutoGlass has joined Kyle Busch Motorsports to serve as the primary sponsor of driver Noah Gragson in all 23 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series events this season.
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British racing driver Sean Walkinshaw will return to the high-profile Super GT Championship for a second season this year after today, Friday, 12th January, confirming he will remain with top entrant Autobacs Racing Team Aguri for a major title push in GT300. Teaming-up once again with vastly experienced racer Shinichi Takagi, after an outstanding debut … Continue reading → ...
The Formula 4 South East Asia Championship - fuelled by Petron - kicked off in a storm of action with the first four races of the weekend here at the Buriram United International Circuit.
Under a blue sky, in bright sunshine and with the highest temperatures of the week in Dubai, the 13th running of the Hankook 24H DUBAI got underway at Dubai Autodrome. A total of 89 cars took the start for the marathon race twice around the clock at the 5.390 kilometres long circuit. The first four … Continue reading → ...