World’s Fastest Gamer winners James Baldwin and last week’s The Race All-Star Esports Battle winner van Buren lead another batch of talented online Esports racers taking on regular on-track racing rivals. After finishing runner-up in British Formula Ford in 2009, Newgarden had his fingers burnt in the inaugural GP3 series in 2010 when average results and a lack of funding left his F1 dream in tatters. F1’s commercial supremo had been instrumental in moving the 1991 and 1995 Indycar champions (Michael Andretti and Jacques Villeneuve) across the pond during the mid-1990’s. Once he retired from racing he moved into the commentary booth as a pundit, losing none of his famed outspokenness. https://t.co/4ZOgVw8xzm Today is Canadian racer Paul Tracy's 49th birthday. Bernie Ecclestone organised the Paul Tracy/Benetton test because Indycar racing was growing in popularity at the time and becoming a serious rival for F1. Formula 1 news and stories. This will be an excellent book.”, Simon Morley, Benetton’s Refueller in 1994. Team Lotus their flirt with Honda in the 60’s, Funny Stories from an F1 Mechanic Paul West. His junior racing career yielded just one win, but when he arrived in GP2 he flourished and was crowned both GP2 and GP2 Asia champion. Last weekend the ninth edition of the Historic Grand Prix at Zandvoort was held. #MondayMotivation “Simulators are extremely important because technically, they are so close to driving the real thing,” said Fittipaldi. Only weeks earlier, Benetton had been found with apparently redundant and concealed launch control, hence questions over its legality. Though McRae called it PR chat, you canât help but wonder how a switch to F1 would have played out. There was certainly talk, and there were definitely some chances. As a member of the Red Bull junior programme, Portugalâs da Costa should, by rights, have slotted into the mix to partner Jean-Eric Vergne at Toro Rosso in 2014. Texas-born Ryan Hunter-Reay, pictured below, is 37 today. Known today as the most effervescent of racing pundits, if you could imagine taking that enthusiasm and manifesting it behind the wheel, thatâs how he drove: Valsecchi was a joy to behold. This along with all the other arguments are analysed extensively within the book however, what is not commonly appreciated is four other drivers stepped inside the B194 that year. Your email address will not be published. In 2006, Juan Pablo Montoya left the team to race in NASCAR and Paffett believed the seat was his, but McLaren went instead for Pedro de la Rosa who had deputised for Montoya at the '05 Bahrain Grand Prix. Alternatively you can keep up to date with this and future books by the author, as well as upcoming 1994 F1 blogs by signing up here. One of an old-school guard, he rocked up to Formula 3000 in the late '90s and left an immediate impression on anyone who had the pleasure of meeting him and watching him race. Other confirmed drivers include F1, IndyCar, NASCAR and IMSA race winner Juan Pablo Montoya; F1 race winner Herbert; Le Mans winner David Brabham; multiple Le Mans class winner and IMSA champion Jan Magnussen; IndyCar champion Paul Tracy (pictured below); Indy 500 winners and series champions Gil de Ferran and Tony Kanaan; IndyCar race winners Bryan Herta, Adrian Fernandez and Oriol Servia plus ex-F1, IndyCar and sportscar ace Max Papis. During the winter of 1993/1994 F1 was subjected to infighting, politicking and accusations that cheating was rife within the sport, Paul Tracy ’s Benetton Test, September 1994. Meanwhile, Paul Newman and Carl Haas offered an Indycar ride that paid $1.5 million – when Penske had been paying me $100,000. Two days after the 1994 Portuguese GP, the circuit hosted a major F1 testing session involving most of the teams. Worth noting Verstappen qualified 10th for that race whilst JJ Lehto (who’d stood in for the suspended Schumacher) qualified 14th. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Felix Rosenqvist was the highest-finishing professional driver in last Saturday’s event, finishing fifth behind a top four of full-time virtual racing gamers. Worth noting Verstappen qualified 10th for that race whilst JJ Lehto (who’d stood in for the suspended Schumacher) qualified 14th. Both the Legends Trophy and the All-Star Battle will be streamed live on The Race’s YouTube channel. Also in the field: David Brabham and Jan Magnussen. His dream crushed, he hung up his helmet in 2016. In fact, he was only 0.7s off of the pole time for that race which had been set by Ferrari's Gerhard Berger.
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