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Deletraz ends F2 test on top; McLaren financing; Mercedes’ ‘Accelerate 25’
Louis Deletraz ended Bahrain F2 test on top on final day as McLaren eyes more re-financing, while Mercedes F1 announces Accelerate 25. F2: The final day of F2 testing had MP Motorsport’s Louis Deletraz (1m41.827s) top the standings beating Day 1 and Day 2 pace-setter Carlin’s Jehan Daruvala (1m42.005s) at Bahrain International Circuit, as Hitech…
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Russell dominates to win F1 Monaco Virtual GP amid chaos
The F1 Virtual Grand Prix (Virtual GP) was back for the Monaco round held at Monte Carlo with George Russell winning for the second time. The Virtual GP returned for the sixth time for the Monaco round, which was held at the Monte Carlo circuit on the F1 2019 game. There were some changes in…
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Video: Leclerc wins F1-centric charity series, over $70,000 raised
The six F1 drivers returned with the final round of the Race for the World ESports charity event with Stoffel Vandoorne and Charles Leclerc winning the races. There was a slight change in the line-up for the final round of the Race for the World Esports charity event led by six F1 drivers like Williams’…
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Video: Leclerc and Albon share wins in Round 2 of F1-centric charity
The six F1 drivers returned with Round 2 of the Race for the World ESports charity event with Charles Leclerc and Alexander Albon winning. There was a slight change in the line-up for Round 2 of the Race for the World Esports charity event led by six F1 drivers like Williams’ Nicholas Latifi & George…
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F1 drivers join in to raise money in support of WHO for COVID-19
Host of F1 drivers and juniors along with few others have come together to raise money to support the World Health Organisation in the fight against COVID-19. Selected F1 drivers made an announced on Friday evening about the #RACEFORTHEWORLD initiative, where they are to race against each other to raise money to support WHO in…
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Deletraz Lockdown Q&A: F1 role/drive, F2/Le Mans goal, future & more
Haas F1 test and reserve driver Louis Deletraz speaks about his expanded role along with F2 and Le Mans goal plus future in an exclusive interview. With lockdown in place, FormulaRapida.net is trying to bring as many fresh content and for that reason we here have an exclusive chat with Haas F1 test and reserve…
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Fittipaldi and Deletraz to continue as Haas F1 team’s test/reserve drivers
Pietro Fittipaldi and Louis Deletraz will continue in their role as the official test and reserve drivers of the Haas F1 Team for the 2020 season. The announcement was due to be made during the course of the Australian GP but for various reasons it couldn’t be made. And so Haas has now announced that…
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Gelael pulls out of Silverstone F2 weekend citing ‘personal reasons’
Prema’s Sean Gelael has pulled out of the Silverstone FIA Formula 2 (F2) Championship citing ‘personal reasons’. In an extreme turn of events, Indonesian driver Gelael has decided to not compete in this weekend’s F2 races at Silverstone after an announcement from Prema, which cited personal reasons as the reason for pulling out. In his…
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Haas signs F2 racer Louis Deletraz in F1 simulator role
Haas F1 Team has signed FIA Formula 2 Championship racer Louis Deletraz in a simulator role for the 2019 season. Haas had signed Pietro Fittipaldi last year as its F1 tester with the Brazilian getting multiple track outings in 2019 along with his simulator role back in the factory. To strengthen its capacity for better…
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Barcelona F2 2019 Test: De Vries continues on top one week later
ART Grand Prix’s Nyck de Vries was quickest on Day 1 of second FIA Formula 2 (F2) Championship pre-season test in Barcelona. Dutch driver Nyck de Vries continues his dominance in the F2 pre-season test with the ART GP driver quickest all day at Barcelona-Catalunya track, following on from Jerez where he was the fastest…
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Deletraz switches to Carlin for third full F2 season in 2019
Louis Deletraz has moved to Carlin for the 2019 FIA Formula 2 Championship, it has been announced. Deletraz has moved from Charouz Racing System to Carlin to start his third full season in F2 joining Noburharu Matsushita in the team. The Swiss racer thereby returns to the British outfit with whom he started the GP2…
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Ferrucci set for Haas F1 exit after IndyCar deal for 2019
Santino Ferrucci is more or less out of the Haas F1 Team role following his IndyCar deal with Dale Coyne Racing as per Guenther Steiner. Haas signed Pietro Fittipaldi in a reserve role for the 2019 F1 season where the Brazilian will not only get to drive the new car in selected tests but also…
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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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Haas hands Deletraz maiden F1 run in Abu Dhabi Pirelli test
Haas F1 Team will field FIA Formula 2 Championship driver Louis Deletraz in the two-day post-2018 season Pirelli tyre test at Yas Marina Circuit. Haas has announced the signing of F2 racer Deletraz – son of former grand prix driver Jean-Denis – for the two-day Pirelli tyre test at Yas Marina Circuit which will see…
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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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Maini quickest on day two of testing
Arjun Maini is the quickest man on day two of post-season testing at the Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi. The Indian took the lead in the evening session, less than a tenth ahead of Louis Deletraz and Alexander Albon. The morning session saw Louis Deletraz top the timesheet yet again, he clocked in a 1:49.134…
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Deletraz leads the way on day 1
Louis Deletraz is the quickest man of the first day of the FIA F2 post-season testing at the Yas Marina Circuit, Abu Dhabi. He is followed by Alexander Albon and Norman Nato for the 3 quickest times of the day. The morning session saw glorious sun over the track, with pretty hot track conditions. While…
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Matsushita on pole, Leclerc seventh
Nobuharu Matsushita has mastered a difficult qualifying session to take pole at Monza. The first reference was set by Nobuharu Matsushita (ART GP), the only one in 1’30’’ in his first flyer. He led from Charles Leclerc (Prema) and Jordan King (MP Motorsport). The Japanese driver kept the lead after the first stint, leading from Nyck de Vries (Racing Engineering) and Louis Delétraz (Rapax). Once the…
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Drivers change in Racing Engineering and Rapax
Three drivers changes are to note before the week-end at Spa-Francorchamps. Some arrangements between Racing Engineering and Rapax are being revealed ahead of the week-end in Belgium. Nyck De Vries will end the season with Racing Engineering and Louis Delétraz with Rapax. The Dutchman commented: “We have been in touch since 2015 and it is…
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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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Delétraz completes Racing Engineering’s 2017 driver line-up
Racing Engineering are pleased to announce that Louis Delétraz will be driving alongside Gustav Malja for the 2017 GP2 Series, the 19-year-old Swiss will driving for the Spanish team for his first full season in GP2. Louis started racing karts in his native Switzerland in 2008 before switching to single-seaters four years later when he…
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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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Delétraz joins Carlin for GP2 Series finale
Carlin is pleased to welcome Louis Delétraz to the team for the final race of the 2016 GP2 Series at Abu Dhabi. Delétraz has been competing in the Formula V8 3.5 Series for the season and came away from the final round of the year in Barcelona impressively as Vice Champion after a strong rookie…
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Dillmann wins race and Formula V8 3.5 championship
Tom Dillmann on his best drive of the year, has taken the victory in today’s final Formula V8 3.5 race at Barcelona. That means that the Frenchman –who started 7th, is the new champion. Delétraz who started on pole position, lost the championship after finish 4th. After morning qualifying with title contender Louis Delétraz (Fortec…
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Delétraz on pole, gets closer to the title
Louis Delétraz has taken a big advantage for today’s Formula V8 3.5 final race at Barcelona. The Swiss driver will start from pole position, while his championship rival Tom Dillmann will start from seventh. Isaakyan and Aitken completed the top3. Like yesterday qualifying, today’s qualifying was declared under wet track after night rain. Anyway during…
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FV8: Delétraz or Dillmann?
The first season of Formula V8 3.5 arrives to the final race, the championship decider at Barcelona. Only two drivers can win the title, Louis Delétraz or Tom Dillmann. The Formula V8 3.5 survived will after his first season without Renault. The Jaime Alguersuari series had to leave the “World Series by Renault” project, and…
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Orudzhev wins again & helps Arden to win Team’s title
Egor Orudzhev taken his fifth win of the season at Barcelona for Formula V8 3.5 season finale. The Russian driver beat title contender, Louis Deletraz and Tom Dillmann who completes the podium. Despite rain expectations, the race was on dry conditions. At the start the drivers had to do an extra formation lap because of…
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Nissany leads Barcelona collective test
Roy Nissany set the pace in the practice session at Barcelona. Israeli driver was 3 tenths quicker than Tom Dillmann, who was the fastest this morning. Championship leader was third. CIRCUIT DE CATALUNYA-BARCELONA | The season finale of Formula V8 3.5 is already this week at Barcelona. Seven drivers will fight for the title but…
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Egor Orudzhev seals fourth 2016 win
Egor Orudzhev (Arden Motorsport) cruised to his fourth win of the 2016 Formula V8 3.5 season by prevailing in race 2 at Jerez in the penultimate round of the series in front of 36500 spectators. The Russian took the lead at the start passing Louis Delétraz (Fortec Motorsports). Delétraz started from the pole and ended…
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Deletraz on pole, Dillmann at the back
Louis Deletraz claimed the second pole position of the week-end at Jerez ahead of Jack Aitken and Matevos Isaakyan when Tom Dillmann could not do better than P13. As soon as the green flag came out, everyone headed out on track. Tom Dillmann, as usual, found himself under investigation for track limits as soon as…