Photo: LAT Q&A WITH BRUNO SENNA Q: Now you’ve been confirmed as a Williams driver, what are your thoughts heading into 2012? BS: I’m really happy to be a part of a team with such a fantastic heritage. I am very proud that Williams has chosen me to race in what will be an important […]
Photo: B.Bakalian Dacia Lodgy Glace’s first one-two finish It was a weekend of ups and downs for Team Dacia at Lans-en-Vercors. After a troubled Friday, however, the Dacia Lodgy Glace runners went on to dominate Race 2, with Evens Stievenart claiming his first win of the year. Alain Prost made sure of Dacia’s first one-two […]
FREDERIC LE FLOCH / DPPI Dakar Rally Victories, Lima While the last special was won by Norway’s Pâl Anders Ullevâlseter (motorcycles) and Robby Gordon (cars), France’s Cyril Despres and Stéphane Peterhansel took their fourth and tenth Dakars respectively, all categories included. The champions were applauded on the podium on Lima’s Plaza de Armas by a […]
Maindru /ASO Dakar Rally, Pisco Hélder Rodrigues may have taken his first stage victory in the 2012 Dakar, but Cyril Despres was the real winner of the 13th special. Despres took advantage of Marc Coma’s gearbox problems, with the Catalan leading the field and under pressure, to claw back 12’38”. Just 24 hours away from […]
FREDERIC LE FLOCH / DPPI Dakar rally, San Juan Despres, already a winner in San Juan on the Dakar’s last visit in 2010, won again today, taking advantage of a major navigational error by Coma to take the lead in the general standings. Nani Roma won his 15th stage on the Dakar and his 3rd […]
Off season is a good time to go thru this edition again. Here are some interesting moments that I would like to share with the F1 Weekly familia. The Fifties: The Autopsort magazine is started by Gregor Grand in 1950, and I have been loving and reading this magazine, and the British racing green Motorsport […]