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Markelov has no racing plans for 2021 as yet, talks 2020 F2 troubles
Artem Markelov doesn’t have any racing plans for 2021 season for now, as he talks about the 2020 F2 troubles with HWA Racelab. Markelov is unsure if he will race full-time in 2021 after two troubled years in 2019 and 2020 in two different championships. Having switched from F2 to Super Formula in 2019 with…
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Markelov in Super Formula line-up as Toyota also reveal Super GT drivers
Artem Markelov has found a seat with Toyota in their shuffled Super Formula line-up for 2019 season as they also reveal the drivers for the Super GT campaign. Having raced for years in the European scene, Markelov will move to Super Formula in 2019 with Toyota’s Team LeMans alongside Kazuya Oshima as the Russian gets…
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F2: George Russell crowned Champion with a win in Abu Dhabi
ART GP’s George Russell is the new FIA Formula 2 Champion after winning an action-filled feature race in Abu Dhabi. After two years of Prema domination, ART GP regains the glory of past times. The teams championship, however, goes to Carlin Racing in their first season in the category. Russian Time’s Artem Markelov and Campos…
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Renault completes two-day 2019 Pirelli tyre test at Suzuka
Following the Japanese Grand Prix, Renault and Pirelli stayed back at Suzuka for more of the 2019 Formula 1 tyre testing. The last test took place at France’s Paul Ricard circuit with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc & Sebastian Vettel and Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas on duty, testing the dry weather Pirelli tyres for the 2019 F1 season.…
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Renault gives Markelov debut FP1 chance in Russian GP
The FIA Formula 2 Championship driver Artem Markelov will make his Formula 1 weekend debut in his home grand prix in Russia. The test and development driver will get his maiden FP1 chance with Renault in the Russian GP at Sochi replacing Carlos Sainz in the RS18. This will be the Russian’s second time in…
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Renault gives Markelov maiden F1 test in Hungaroring
Renault has announced its line-up for next week’s Hungaroring Formula 1 in-season test with its development driver Artem Markelov getting his first F1 chance. Markelov joined the Renault academy as one of its junior drivers at the start of the 2018 F1 season as he competes for Russian Time in the FIA Formula 2 Championship.…
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Markelov and Fuoco reign in Monaco
Feature race The start of the race meant an early retirement for Ghiotto, who was pushed against the wall by Fuoco. The Italian driver would get a drive through penalty for this incident. Ferrucci stalled his car and lost a lot of time trying to get his engine restarted. After the Safety Car caused by…
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Lando Norris dominates feature race at Bahrain
Lando Norris has been amazing. His rival son this F2 could only see him at the preparations on the grid, during the podium and on the press conference. He has been such dominant, despite and advice from his engine, he could beat all the drivers of the feeder series. His strategy has been simple but…
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Aitken and Markelov become Renault’s new reserve drivers
Renault Sport F1 has announced ist two new reserve drivers for the 2018. After Robert Kubica and Sergey Sirotkin left the team to join Williams, the role of third driver on the French team was a vacant that has now been filled by young drivers Jack Aitken and Artem Markelov. Aitken, with two years of experience in the Renault Sport academy, goes…
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Artem Markelov completes Russian Time drivers lineup for 2018
If yesterday it was knew that Russian Time, the team who won the championship last season of Formula 2, announced Tadasuke Makino as one of their drivers, we also noticed who will be Makino’s teammate and it will be one of the russian time drivers. It will be, efectively, Artem Markelov. The 23 years old…
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Artem Markelov storms to pole
Artem Markelov (RUSSIAN TIME) storms to pole position at the Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi. The Russian is followed by Nyck de Vries (Racing Engineering) and Antonio Fuoco (PREMA Racing) completes the top 3. Artem Markelov flies to his 1st ever pole position, with an impressive run. The Russian was on top straight from the start…
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Preview round 12 – Yas Marina Circuit
For the 7th time in the series history the season will come to an end at the Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi. Though previously being GP2, it will be the first time as the, rebranded, FIA Formula 2 Championship. It’s the season finale of the 2017 FIA Formula 2 championship, but not all battles have…
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Markelov wins race 2 in Jerez
Artem Markelov has taken win in the second race in Jerez in a race in which tyre degradation has been a key fact again. Latifi has finished second with Rowland third. The race suffered a 15-minute delay due to trouble on the Safety Car. When it started, Alex Palou kept his first place. Behind him,…
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Preview round 10 – Circuito de Jerez
It’s a beautiful day at the Circuito de Jerez and we are ready for the 10th round of the 2017 FIA Formula 2 championship, here’s a preview of round 10: After a little stroll in the paddock, pitlane and around the track, I finally find myself a nice spot in the media center. First thing…
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Markelov and Russian Time set the pace
The Russian set the fastest time of the first free practice session at Monza. The session started as a few drops of rain fell on track but not enough to properly wet it. However, many drivers struggled with tyres temperature before the sun came out. Artem Markelov (Russian Time) set the fastest time of the session…
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Another phenomenal win for Leclerc
Charles Leclerc dominated Race 1 of the FIA F2 Championship at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit. Artem Markelov and Oliver Rowland battled for the podium until the last corner. Latifi, who was meant to start on P2, was unable to take part in the race. Leclerc kept first place at the start, but he wasn’t free of…
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Formula 2 Summer Break report
Formula 1 might be in their mid-season summer break, but Formula 2 is only 4 weekends away from knowing who will be crowned, the first, FIA Formula 2 champion. After 7 rounds already decided, let’s have a look at how this season has been going so far. As most of you know we started the…
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Seventh pole of Leclerc in Hungary
Charles Leclerc has once again dominated the FIA ??Formula 2 classification, taking the seventh consecutive pole in Hungary this year. Oliver Rowland and Artem Markelov completed the Top 3. Life doesn’t change at FIA Formula 2. This season’s dominant driver Charles Leclerc has again taken a new pole at the Hungaroring circuit, where he has…
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Maiden win in category for Nicholas Latifi
Nicholas Latifi took his maiden win in GP2/F2 at Silverstone ahead of both Russian Time of Luca Ghiotto and Artem Markelov. Nicholas Latifi (DAMS) started from pole position ahead of Jordan King (MP Motorsport) and Luca Ghiotto (Russian Time). Good start for Ghiotto who took 2nd place and excellent start for Rowland who gained 4…
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Markelov claims lights to flag victory
Artem Markelov scored his second win of the season at the Red Bull Ring ahead of Alexander Albon and Oliver Rowland. Artem Markelov (Russian Time) started from reverse grid pole ahead of Ralph Boschung (Campso) and Nobuharu Matushita (ART GP). At the start, Boschung was slowing down on the grid and was hit by Raffaele…
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Rowland flies to Monaco feature win
Oliver Rowland has overturned his traditional poor luck at the Circuit de Monaco to record an emphatic victory in this afternoon’s FIA Formula 2 Feature Race, flying around the fabled streets of the Principality to grab the top step of the podium ahead of Artem Markelov and Nobuharu Matsushita. The Briton, who after the race…
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Superb unexpected win for Markelov in Bahrain
Artem Markelov got a wonderful win at the Bahrain International Circuit after starting P7 and saving his tyres for an excellent last stint. Norman Nato and Charles Leclerc completed the podium. Nato and Markelov had a great start and went up to 2nd and 3rd behind Leclerc after the first lap, while De Vries lost…
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Rowland starts the season on top of free practice
After testing here a few weeks ago, the teams and drivers were back in Bahrain for the opening round of the recently renamed F2 Championship. Rowland’s been fastest ahead of Markelov and Leclerc. Rowland set the early pace with a slight advantage over Markelov, less than a tenth of a second. Leclerc and Fuoco were…
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FIA F2 : The last stage before F1
The GP2 Series championship, rebranded as the FIA Formula 2 championship, starts this week-end in Bahrain. It is time to state the different challenges of this season. Since 2012 and Romain Grosjean, no GP2 Series champion has managed to go straight away to F1 despite the untold promise made by the creation of GP2…
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Latifi claims day two honours in Bahrain
Nicholas Latifi has topped day two by setting the pace in this morning’s test session at the Bahrain International Circuit, stopping the clock at 1:40.541 in the second half of the session to top the timesheets ahead of RUSSIAN TIME teammates Luca Ghiotto and Artem Markelov, while the afternoon was given over to race simulations,…
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Albon tops second morning test in Barcelona
Thai driver steps up to top spot. Alexander Albon has claimed the honours in this morning’s FIA Formula 2 Championship test session in Barcelona, grabbing the top spot in the closing hour of the session with a lap time of 1:28.225 to squeeze out Johnny Cecotto (by 0.025s) and Artem Markelov (by 0.175s) in the…
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Ghiotto joins Markelov in Russian Time
RUSSIAN TIME heads into the 13th GP2 season with a new line-up comprising 22-year-old Russian Artem Markelov and Italian 21-year-old Luca Ghiotto. Markelov and Ghiotto were both top 10 championship finishers in the 2016 series, with Artem winning the Monaco feature race and finishing on the podium in the season finale at Yas Marina. Luca,…
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Marciello tops Day 1 session at Abu Dhabi
Raffaele Marciello set the best laptime in today’s post-season test session at the Yas Marina Circuit. The Italian lapped the track in a 1:49.937 at the wheel of a Trident car during the afternoon session ahead of Nobuharu Matsushita (ART Grand Prix) and Oliver Rowland (DAMS). The first day of post-season testing opened in hot…
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Gasly wins and takes championship momentum
Pierre Gasly takes the win in Abu Dhabi ahead of Nobuharu Matsushita and Artem Markelov. Giovinazzi ending fifth, the Frenchman takes a twelve-points championship lead. Pierre Gasly started from pole position ahead of Sergey Sirotkin and Artem Markelov. Antonio Giovinazzi started in sixth. Gasly and Giovinazzi started with the softer tyre. Gasly took a…
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Gasly above everyone in qualifying
Abu Dhabi- Pierre Gasly set a stellar lap in qualifying session in Abu Dhabi and gets to 5 points to Giovinazzi in the championship. Sergey Sirtokin and Artem Markelov complete the top 3. All the drivers went out as soon as the lights were out except for Pierre Gasly. Alex Lynn was the first to…