Photo: bestofrallylive Monte Carlo Rally, SS7, Lamastre-Gilhoc-Alboussiere Sebastien Loeb has extended his lead of Rallye Monte-Carlo after winning Thursday’s third stage, which was held in increasingly mild ambient temperatures following overnight frost. The eight-time world champion’s advantage out front now stands at 1m23.2s heading to the midday service halt in Valence. “The tyre choice was […]
Photo: HRTF1 Ermestel, new official supplier to HRT F1 Team Ermestel, a Spanish company specialized in datacenter infrastructure transformation based on technologies such as Virtualization and Cloud Computing, has reached an agreement with HRT Formula 1 Team by which it will become an IT Official Supplier to the team for the next three years. The […]
Photo: LAT WILLIAMS F1 CONFIRMS BRUNO SENNA FOR 2012 Williams F1 today confirmed that Bruno Senna will contest the 2012 FIA Formula One World Championship for the Williams F1 Team. The appointment finalises the team’s line up for this year following confirmation in December that Pastor Maldonado will enter his second season in Formula One […]
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 […]