Steiner annoyed by lack of apology from race director

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Steiner irritated by lack of apology from race director

Haas group principal Guenther Steiner is irritated he didn’t obtain an apology over a misunderstanding which led to a stewards’ determination going towards his group finally yr’s United States Grand Prix.

A penalty given to Fernando Alonso following a evaluation instigated by Haas was overturned when Alpine identified Steiner’s group had submitted their attraction after the 30-minute deadline had handed. The stewards got here down on Alpine’s aspect and restored Alonso to the factors on the expense of Haas driver Kevin Magnussen.

The stewards famous Haas had mistakenly been advised by an official in race management – which Steiner later said was the race director, Niels Wittich – they’d one hour to submit their paperwork. “When the race director says you will have an hour you’re taking his phrase for it,” said Steiner in his forthcoming book.

“What actually annoys me is that once we had a gathering about it the race director denied saying what we thought he’d mentioned and wouldn’t even apologise. And he’s the race director, for fok’s sake! If he’d mentioned, ‘okay guys, look, I’m afraid I foked up’, we’d have been okay about it.”

Bedrin the shock pacesetter in F3 testing

The FIA Components 3 championship began its second in-season take a look at at Imola on Tuesday, and Nikita Bedrin was the shock pacesetter in each classes.

The Jenzer Motorsport driver is at present twenty third within the standings with a greatest end of fifteenth, having stepped up from Components Regional Center East the place he gained two races firstly of this yr.

Bedrin topped the morning session at Imola by simply 0.024 seconds over Prema’s Mercedes junior Paul Aron, with Hitech GP’s Alpine junior Gabriele Mini an additional 0.048s behind. Lower than a second lined the highest 18 drivers, and MP Motorsport’s Jonny Edgar was ninth quickest regardless of crashing.

His group mate Franco Colapinto was quickest for a lot of the afternoon session. Trident’s factors chief Gabriel Bortoleto stopped with a technical drawback however then returned to trace and went quickest. A crimson flag interval attributable to his group mate Leonardo Fornaroli crashing left little time late on to set flying laps, however Bedrin maximised his alternative to go quicker than Bortoleto by 0.322s.

Pulling leads F1 Academy take a look at

Preparations proceed for the primary season of F1 Academy, a Components 4 sequence that has been created by Components 1 completely for feminine drivers.

After their first pre-season take a look at at Barcelona earlier this month, the 15-car subject was again on observe at Paul Ricard on Tuesday. Each are tracks the sequence will race at later this yr.

Alpine junior Abbi Pulling – driving for Rodin Carlin – set the quickest lap of the day, and topped two of the 4 classes. A parallel F4 take a look at additionally came about that was being run by France’s well-known Winfield Racing College.

New Eurocup-3 sequence makes observe debut

Eurocup-3, the brand new continental sequence based mostly round modified Components Regional chassis, made its observe debut yesterday at Valencia’s everlasting race observe.

All 5 of the groups signed as much as the sequence had been in motion, with 13 automobiles on observe as testing started. MP’s Sebastian Ogaard topped the morning session by 0.152s over Campos Racing’s Esteban Masson, who led the best way within the afternoon by 0.501s over Palou Motorsport’s Javier Sagrera. Each driver set their greatest lap within the second session.

The take a look at additionally marked the observe debut for Palou Motorsport, a group that has been launched by 2021 IndyCar champion Alex Palou. They ran two automobiles at Valencia, though are but to announce any drivers for Eurocup-3’s inaugural season.

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F3 racer Nazim Azman switches to Porsche Carrera Cup Asia (Peak Performance Management)

‘Nazim Azman will tackle a brand new motorsport problem this season, after inking a deal to contest the 2023 Porsche Carrera Cup Asia sequence.

The 21-year-old Malaysian might be making his first severe foray into GT racing, having targeted totally on single-seaters up to now in his profession, reaching the heights of the FIA F3 Championship in 2022 and proving to be a racewinner in each British and Euroformula.’

Juan Manuel Fangio’s 1939 Chevrolet Turismo Carretera steering wheel (Silodrome)

‘That is the steering wheel out of a 1939 Chevrolet Turismo Carretera coupe, nevertheless it wasn’t simply any outdated Chevy, this automotive personally belonged to Juan Manuel Fangio who’s arguably the only best racing driver who ever lived.’

Religion of Sports acquires Manish Pandey’s Jiva Maya, producer of ‘Lucky!’ (Variety)

‘Faith of Sports activities, the Emmy Award-winning sports activities media firm based by director and producer Gotham Chopra, American soccer legend and Corridor of Famer Michael Strahan, and seven-time Tremendous Bowl champion Tom Brady, has acquired Jiva Maya, a U.Ok.-based manufacturing firm shaped in 2020 by author and director Manish Pandey who labored on Senna, Grand Prix Driver and Fortunate!. The mixed firm plans to considerably broaden its work in world soccer, cricket, and motorsport, particularly F1.’

MB Partners welcomes Tatiana Calderón to its elite driver stable (MB Partners)

‘Hailing from Colombia, Tatiana Calderón has competed on the high stage of motorsport; having efficiently contested in IndyCar, Tremendous Components, FIA Components 2 and the FIA World Endurance Championship. Tatiana is about for the 2023 European Le Mans Sequence the place she has joined Spanish-based Staff Virage in LMP2.’

Abbi Pulling: Will F1’s first female racer for 50 years be from Lincolnshire? (The Times – subscription required)

‘Alpine Academy driver is aware of she is going to want luck, cash and alternatives to succeed in the highest however there is no such thing as a mistaking the 20-year-old’s ambition.’

Barry Hearn wants protesters who disrupt sporting events to face jail time (The Guardian)

“Organisers acknowledge the likelihood that different teams, reminiscent of Simply Cease Oil, should still attempt to cease the race, given they’ve beforehand tried to tie themselves to goalposts throughout Premier League matches, and invaded the observe in the course of the Components One British Grand Prix at Silverstone final yr.”

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