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King, Eriksson/Aron named for Berlin Formula E weekend
Jordan King to replace Nyck de Vries for Berlin Formula E weekend, while Joel Eriksson/Paul Aron will race for Envision. Mahindra Racing – With de Vries unavailable to participate in the double-header around Tempelhof Airport due to a pre-existing commitment to race in the WEC on the same weekend, the team will utilise the services…
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New Mayor decides to drop Rio F1 project; as King joins Mahindra in FE
New Rio de Janeiro Mayor has decided to cancel the proposed F1 track and grand prix, as Jordan King joins Mahindra in Formula E. After last year’s controversy and ongoing protest from environment-protecting activists, new Rio de Janeiro Mayor, Eduardo Paes, has decided to cancel the proposed race track on the Army ground and thereby…
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Raghunathan back on F2 grid at Silverstone after one-event suspension
Mahaveer Raghunathan returns to FIA Formula 2 (F2) Championship fold with MP Motorsport at Silverstone, this weekend. Raghunathan has served his one-event suspension at Red Bull Ring from the FIA after accumulating 12 penalty points on his superlicense at the Paul Ricard event for a triple Virtual Safety Car (VSC) infringement. He was replaced by…
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Red Bull junior O’Ward to make F2 debut for MP Motorsport at Spielberg
Red Bull junior Patricio O’Ward will make his FIA Formula 2 (F2) Championship debut this weekend at Red Bull Ring circuit for MP Motorsport. O’Ward signed on as a Red Bull junior before his Indy500 outing in IndyCar with Carlin Racing, but his schedule doesn’t give him a full season assault in the series. The…
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Markelov to replace King at MP Motorsport for Monaco F2 weekend
Artem Markelov will make one-off return to FIA Formula 2 (F2) Championship with MP Motorsport for the Monaco weekend. Markelov will replace King, who will be racing in the Indy500 for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda, which falls at the same weekend at the Monaco F2 race. The Russian will join Mahaveer Raghunathan for a one-off…
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King returns to F2 with MP Motorsport for 2019 alongside Raghunathan
MP Motorsport announced its 2019 FIA Formula 2 (F2) Championship line-up with Jordan King returning to European scene along with Mahaveer Raghunathan. Both King and Raghunathan tested with MP Motorsport in the F2 pre-season tests with the intention to compete for the Dutch outfit in 2019. The team has since announced the duo for the…
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King joins IndyCar as a part-time ECR driver
British driver Jordan King has announced that his career will take a new path as he will do the 2018 Verizon IndyCar Series season with Ed Carpenter Racing. The former Formula 2 driver will be sitting at the nº. 20 car on road and street courses, taking the place Spencer Pigot had last year, after…
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Jordan King disqualified from Baku Race 2
Following sunday’s FIA F2 Sprint Race at Baku City Circuit it was found that Jordan King’s car had failed to comply with the minimum tyre pressure: all four tyres of his MP Motorsport car were below the minimum pressure required by Pirelli. As a consequence, the Briton was disqualified from today’s race results. This promotes…
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De Vries leads dramatic Baku FP
Nyck De Vries set the fastest time in free-practice of FIA F2 in Baku ahead of Jordan King and Luca Ghiotto in action-packed session. Only one driver change is to be taken in consideration : Sergey Sirotkin replaces Alexander Albon in ART GP after the Thai hurt himself at training. A few minutes in, Nyck De…
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Jordan King joins MP Motorsport
The British driver, Jordan King, joins the dutch team MP Motorsport to dispute his third season in GP2 Series. After two successful years in F3 and one title in British F3 in 2013, Jordan King joined GP2 in 2015 with Racing Engineering by the time he became part of Manor Marussia in F1 as development…
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Latifi fastest overall during three days test
Nicholas Latifi concluded his GP2 season on top at Yas Marina Circuit: the Canadian driver from DAMS set the fastest overall laptime over the past three days of post-season testing with a 1:49.929. Johnny Cecotto (Rapax) and Jordan King (MP Motorsport) completed the top three. The final day of post-season testing opened in slightly cooler…
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Seven GP2 drivers penalised at Spa
Following the sprint race of the GP2 Series at Spa-Francorchamps, seven drivers were found guilty of using their DRS on the first lap, and therefore received a ten second penalty added to their race time. The penalised drives are : Sergey Sirotkin, Jordan King, Arthur Pic, Daniël De Jong, Nabil Jeffri and Jimmy Eriksson. King…
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Gasly ensures championship lead by winning in Spa
Pierre Gasly is now leader in points in GP2 Championship after winning feature race while Sergey Sirotkin, former leader, was P9. Jordan King and Alex Lynn accompany the Frenchman to Spa-Francorchamps podium. Yesterday Prema Powerteam set best times in qualifying and so both started from first row of the grid. It had to be a good day…
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Sirotkin takes first win of the season
Thanks to a great start and a great pace, Sergey Sirotkin took his first win of the season during the sprint race at Budapest, he finished ahead of Jordan King and Norman Nato. Jordan King started on pole ahead of his teammate Norman Nato and Nobuharu Matsushita. Marvin Kirchhöfer could not get away from his…
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King wins on home soil
Jordan King wins a race disturbed by late rain at Silverstone ahead of Luca Ghiotto and Oliver Rowland. Jordan King started from reverse pole ahead of Norman Nato and Nobuharu Matsushita. Matsuhita started well, taking P2 from Nato while Pierre Gasly lost four places in the first lap. On the second lap, Sergey Sirotkin spun…
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King dominates rainy Race 2 at the Red Bull Ring
Jordan King dominated a difficult race with a wet track. Rowland finished 2nd and Lynn completed the podium after starting on 11th. The race started after the Safety Car due to the big amount of water on track. The SC left after 4 laps and Marciello quickly started gaining positions, climbing up to 4th behind…
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Giovinazzi and Prema in the lead
Antonio Giovinazzi had been the fastest in the first practice session of GP2 at Red Bull Ring ahead of his Prema teammate Pierre Gasly. Jordan King was third in a session interrupted by a red flag. Alex Lynn was the first front-runner to set a flying lap. Arthur Pic was the first driver to go…
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Sirotkin on pole with a stellar lap
Sergey Sirotkin, thanks to a stellar lap, caught pole position for the first race of the week-end tomorrow in Monaco. He will start ahead of local man Norman Nato and his Racing Engineering Teammate Jordan King. Qualifying session is split is two groups. The first one to go is for the drivers with odds numbers:…
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Lynn dominates the second round in Barcelona
Victory for Alex Lynn in the second race of the weekend at the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit ahead of Pierre Gasly and Jordan King. Marciello kept first place at the start, while Lynn went up to 2nd in a good battle with King which lasted for a few corners. Lynn had a great pace which allowed him…
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Jordan King ends on top on Day 2
It has been a fruitful day for Briton Jordan King who set the best laptime in a 1:24.449 in the morning session – one tenth quicker than rookie Antonio Giovinazzi and Nobuharu Matsushita. In the afternoon, Rapax Gustav Malja was quickest. Cold temperatures and sunny conditions graced the paddock this morning on day 2…
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Norman Nato tops day 1 session at Jerez
Racing Engineering man leads the way in second pre-season test The GP2 Series field is back on track this week for the second 2016 pre-season test session at Circuito de Jerez, Spain. The paddock was greeted by blue skies but cold temperatures. When the pitlane turned green, it was Alex Lynn who fed onto the…
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Pierre Gasly quickest on second day
Pierre Gasly quickest on second day in Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona, follow by Sergey Sirotkin and Jordan King Cold temperatures and sunny conditions graced the paddock this morning on Day 2 of pre-season testing at Circuit de Catalunya. When the pitlane turned green, Pierre Gasly and Status Grand Prix’s Meindert van Buuren were the first to…
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King to continue with Racing Engineering
Racing Engineering are pleased to announce that the British driver Jordan King will be staying with the Spanish team for the 2016 GP2 season. Just 21 years old Jordan has already shown considerable talent in the junior formulae and following a very impressive debut season in the 2015 GP2 Series championship he will be a…
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Rossi on his maiden win this season at Spa
After four podiums in his back this season, the current runner-up of the series, Alexander Rossi has taken the victory for first time this season, and the first win of the season for Racing Engineering who completes a one-two with Jordan King on second. Evans complete the podium after overtake Vandoorne who finishes 4th at…
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Racing Engineering starts on front
The British driver, Jordan King has been the fastest of the GP2 Series free practice session in the Sakhir International Circuit (Bahrain). King led along with Alexander Rossi and Alex Lynn. The first official session of the 11th GP2 Series season had started with Alexander Rossi at front of the time sheets, before his teammate,…
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Manor young driver Jordan King the fastest in Sakhir
The second GP2 Series pre-season test session opened today at Bahrain International Circuit on a dusty track and in hot temperatures. This week, the teams and drivers will be busy preparing for the 2015 season which sees the introduction of the DRS. Pirelli have selected the Hard and Soft compounds for the three days. The…
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Merhi to race for Marussia in Australian season-opener
Roberto Merhi will make his F1 race debut this weekend in Australia after being confirmed as Marussia’s second driver for the ‘opening rounds’ of the 2015 season. Merhi has previous experience in Formula One racing, having driven for Caterham in three FP1 sessions during the 2014 season. Still only 23-years-old, he has enjoyed success in…
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Jordan King joins Racing Engineering
Racing Engineering have announced that the British driver Jordan King will be joining them for the 2015 GP2 season. Just 20 years old Jordan has already shown considerable talent in junior formula and he is looking forward to the challenge of racing with the Spanish team in GP2, the major feeder series for Formula 1.…
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2014 European F3 Analysis
FORMULARAPIDA.NET brings you this time an analysis of a category of which next year one of his drivers will compete in Formula 1, it is the FIA European Formula 3, written by ARNAU VIÑALS. Young drivers, lot of talent and a lot of races, this is the Formula 3. Ocon, unstoppable Although he was…
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Gasly quickest again on final post season testing day
The final day of post-season testing saw once again a few changes in the field starting with Kimiya Sato joining RT RUSSIAN TIME for the day whilst Emil Bernstorff moved to Carlin. Raffaele Marciello re-joined Racing Engineering alongside Mitch Evans. 2014 GP3 Series Champion Alex Lynn tested with ART Grand Prix. After two days spent…