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May 11th, 2013
Fernando Alonso is the overwhelming favourite to win the Spanish Grand Prix, according to players of the Castrol EDGE Grand Prix predictor. The Chinese Grand Prix winner is fourth in the standings following his early retirement in Malaysia and DRS issues last time out in Bahrain.
May 3rd, 2013
Kimi Raikkonen says he and Lotus are under pressure to bring a swift halt to Sebastian Vettel’s strong start to the season if they are to have a serious chance of winning the championship. Although Vettel is only ten points clear at the head of the drivers’ standings, Raikkonen thinks that he cannot afford to let his Red Bull rival extend his advantage any more. Reflecting on his own good opening spell to the season, Raikkonen said: “For sure it’s an okay start and we’re in a better position that this time last year, but there’s a long season ahead and it’s too early to say if we can fight for the championships right to the end.
April 25th, 2013
Conor Daly will return to the GP3 series this year after extending his partnership with the ART Grand Prix team. The American competed with the French squad during the 2012 season, finishing in sixth position in the standings. Daly raced with the Hilmer team in the GP2 season opener at Sepang, but was replaced by Formula Renault 3.5 champion Robin Frijns for the second round in Bahrain
April 25th, 2013
Denny Hamlin will not return to action at least until the Talladega NASCAR Sprint Cup race after confirming he will miss this weekend’s event at Richmond. Hamlin has been out of action since March with an L1 compression fracture to his back, an injury he sustained in his crash with Joey Logano at Fontana. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver was expected to be out for at least six weeks, though he had hoped to be back sooner
April 23rd, 2013
Mads Ostberg is adamant Sebastien Ogier is not unbeatable despite his current domination of the 2013 World Rally Championship. Part-time competitor Sebastien Loeb is the only man who has beaten Volkswagen star Ogier so far this season.
April 9th, 2013
Skoda has edged closer to committing to a fully-fledged European Rally Championship title bid by entering Jan Kopecky to take on Robert Kubica in the Azores Rally. Kopecky leads the ERC standings after winning two of the three rallies held so far, but Skoda has held back from launching a full programme in the revitalised series, only confirming its plans on a round-by-round basis.
March 21st, 2013
Will Power does not expect his quest for a maiden IndyCar championship to be any easier in 2013 as the teams prepare for the opening round at St Petersburg this weekend Power lost last year’s title to Andretti’s Ryan Hunter-Reay after crashing in the final round at Fontana, leaving him to finish runner-up in the standings for the third year in a row. IndyCar 2013 season guide The Australian topped all four sessions in last week’s open test at Barber , and while he said that his pace was encouraging, he is aware of the threat presented by his rivals
March 21st, 2013
Paul di Resta is confident that Force India can challenge for fifth in the constructors’ championship after a strong start to the season. Adrian Sutil and di Resta finished seventh and eight respectively in Melbourne and the Scot suspects that the pattern will be the same at Sepang. That points haul means that the Silverstone-based team, which finished seventh in the standings last year, holds fifth in the current table
March 4th, 2013
Formula Renault 3.5 race winner Sam Bird will return to the category for this week’s pre-season test at Paul Ricard as a benchmark driver for ISR. The Mercedes Formula 1 test driver was a championship contender for the Czech squad last year, eventually finishing third in the standings behind Robin Frijns and Jules Bianchi. ISR has so far only signed Sergey Sirotkin for 2013, and it has recruited Bird to help with its pre-season preparations in France
March 3rd, 2013
IndyCar’s James Hinchcliffe believes he is capable of winning a race with Andretti Autosport in 2013. Entering his second year with the Andretti outfit, Hinchcliffe said he is “itching to get 2013 started” after slipping down the standings late last year
February 28th, 2013
Paul di Resta has welcomed the return of Adrian Sutil to the Force India Formula 1 squad this season. Force India confirmed on Thursday that Sutil had beaten Jules Bianchi to its vacant seat. Di Resta previously partnered the German at the squad in 2011.
February 11th, 2013
Nico Muller will stay with Draco Racing for a second season in Formula Renault 3.5. The Swiss driver, a race winner in GP3 in 2010-2011, stepped up to the Renault category with Draco last year, taking ninth in the standings in a year plagued by reliability problems.
February 7th, 2013
IndyCar has announced the teams that will receive Leaders Circle contracts in 2013, with all 22 of the expected full-time entries having been granted the minimum $1 million subsidy. The 19 confirmed returning entries that finished within the top 22 places in the 2012 standings have all been awarded contracts, while the series opted to fill the remaining three available contracts based on the remaining order of the standings. This means Sarah Fisher Hartman, HVM and Dragon Racing are also included
January 31st, 2013
New Schmidt Peterson Motorsport signing Tristan Vautier says that he is not putting himself under any pressure as he prepares for his first season in IndyCar. The Frenchman was promoted to drive SPM’s newly-added second car after winning the Indy Lights title with Schmidt last year, and set the second fastest time when he tested the team’s IndyCar at Sebring in December. But despite his early promise, he insists that he is not thinking about results yet
January 27th, 2013
Patric Niederhauser will stay with Jenzer for the 2013 GP3 campaign. The 21-year-old joined the squad last year as reigning Formula Abarth champion. He took his maiden win in race two in Valencia , and triumphed again in the Hockenheim opener, eventually taking seventh in the standings
January 16th, 2013
Tiago Monteiro’s Ocean Racing Technology team has dropped out of GP2 due to financial problems and will be replaced by new German outfit Hilmer Motorsport. Ocean had already announced it would leave GP3 at the end of last year , and has now closed its GP2 team as well. “We are sad to announce that our team was forced to stop its activity in GP2 and GP3 due to financial difficulties caused by the lack of payment from our partners Parkalgar and the Portuguese Government,” said a statement from Monteiro and partner Jose Guedes.
December 29th, 2012
Romain Grosjean sees no reason why his Lotus team cannot enjoy a much stronger season next year after a promising showing during 2012. Lotus managed to raise its game this year in comparison with 2011, when it scored 73 points on its way to a distant fifth place in the standings. In 2012, however, the team managed 303 points, including one victory and 10 podium finishes
December 18th, 2012
Rio Haryanto will join Addax for the 2013 GP2 Series season. The 19-year-old Indonesian drove for Carlin in his rookie campaign this year. Pole position in the wet at Spa was his highlight
December 17th, 2012
Mark Gillan, one of the architects of Williams’s 2012 revival, has left the team. Gillan had joined Williams during its troubled 2011 Formula 1 campaign and was appointed as its chief operations engineer during its technical reshuffle. The team confirmed to AUTOSPORT that Gillan had vacated his role to “spend more time with his family”
December 13th, 2012
Alex Tagliani believes his Bryan Herta Autosport team were ‘cheated’ by having to start the 2012 IndyCar season with Lotus engines. Lotus joined Honda and Chevrolet as the series’ engine supply was opened up this year to encourage manufacturer competition again.