F1Weekly Podcast # 1043
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Our man Nasir Hameed was on the ground in Monte Carlo for the 14th Grand Prix de Monaco Historique pressing the flesh with Jacky Ickx, Wayne Taylor, Keith Sutton and, many more. Motorsports Mondial brings you a tour of the Oreca racing facilities at Paul Ricard including this week’s interview Oreca Racing business manager Patrick Bernard.
About Oreca
Competition has been at the heart of ORECA since its inception. Hugues de Chaunac’s passion for sporting challenges has consistently compelled the company to push its limits and take on challenges on all possible playing fields, with one singular goal: to win. Winning is what drives the men and women at ORECA to give their all.
From touring cars to GT, from single-seaters to prototypes, from circuit to rally-raid, ORECA has cultivated multidisciplinary experience through development team expertise at the highest level of excellence.
To develop all the core competencies of a team (development on the track, set-up, racing strategy, team operation, etc.), the ORECA Team is a major player in competition itself and on behalf of constructors with whom it serves as a global partner in their official programs.
On the cusp of half a century of involvement in motorsports, ORECA enhances its know-how daily through new projects and new collaborations. ORECA enjoys tremendous business momentum combined with a long-term presence in the motorsports industry.
Nasir at the 14th Grand Prix de Monaco Historique
I got to see Machismo up close and personal. Talking to Zach Brown. And as soon as he started to leave the team area. You can imagine the flock of people. With selfie sticks.Posters.And I have to say, he obliged almost everybody. But really, there was no chance to.Do an interview or a 5 minute chat for F1Weekly.
The last race of this wonderful weekend, and of a long Sunday, was the G-Series, a vibrant tribute to Ayrton Senna in the presence of several members of his family (Bianca, Paola and Bruno who gave the cups and awards on the podium). And as luck would have it, a driver born in 1984, Briton Stuart Hall, won the race. In 1984, the year the Brazilian star began to rise in the F1 sky, during a memorable race in the Principality of Monaco that was interrupted by a deluge of rain. Forty years later, the sun was out and 39-year-old Stuart Hall let no one stop him from winning for the second time on Sunday.
It was also his 5th win in a Monaco Grand Prix (Historique), following an inaugural success in 2016 and two more in 2022. On paper, he is now on a par with his glorious elder Graham Hill, a five-time F1 winner in the Principality in the last century. “I have to thank the stewards, because they did a fantastic job throughout the weekend”, emphasised the hero of the day, who has also made his mark in endurance racing, in the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and at Le Mans 24 Hours (4th in 2007). A very fine winner, in a March 821 which had never won at Monaco… until this Sunday. Thanks to the talent of its driver, it beat two Lotuses, those of Marco Werner and Michael Lyons, and three Tyrrells. Two reference brands and benchmarks in the long history of F1.