10 Things You Might Have Missed From Last Weekend's Motorsport Action
In another busy and exciting weekend of motorsport - which included F1’s return to Austria, GP2, GP3, 24 Hours of Nurburgring and Nascar - here are 10 things you might have missed:
A reporter accidentally called Nico Rosberg ‘Lewis’ during an interview at the Red Bull Ring. It didn’t go down too well…
2. Super slow-mo
During last weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton’s brakes caught fire during his pit stop. This slow-motion GIF shows it off brilliantly.
3. Mercedes domination on Red Bull’s home turf
It's a starry, starry night ;-) "@RachelBrookesTV: Cheeky... #austriangp #bullring pic.twitter.com/FEbgQ7Wuw3"
— MERCEDES AMG F1 (@MercedesAMGF1) June 22, 2014In the middle of the Red Bull Ring circuit sits a large Red Bull sculpture, which someone added a Mercedes logo to after the Brackley-based F1 team dominated the Austrian Grand Prix.
4. GP2 makes Austria debut
F1 feeder series GP2 made its debut at the Red Bull Ring, with Felipe Nasr dominating the feature race to lead from lights to flag. He took the win from Stoffel Vandoorne and Raffaele Marciello.
Sunday morning’s sprint race was a dramatic one, with Johnny Cecotto holding off Stefano Coletti by just 0.7 seconds to finish first. Marciello impressed to take his second consecutive third place finish, after a poor start to the year. Pole-sitter Alexander Rossi slipped to fifth behind Mitch Evans.
5. GP3 returns in 2014
After a short break, the GP3 series returned to the track and took to the Red Bull Ring for the first time. Alex Lynn – who is a member of Red Bull’s Junior Team – led home a Carlin one-two finish in race one with Emil Bernstorff in second and Jimmy Eriksson finishing third.
Bernstorff took the race two victory on Sunday morning from Eriksson and Richie Stanaway. He moved to the front early on after contact between Luis Sa Silva and Mattheo Tuscher caused chaos behind - the latter was squeezed onto the grass, hit the back of the car in front and was pitched briefly into the air. Lynn suffered a puncture on lap one and dropped to the back.
6. Edwards triumphs at Sonoma
Carl Edwards secured his first career Nascar road course win after taking the chequered flag at the Sonoma Raceway in first place on Sunday. The Roush Fenway Racing driver took the lead on lap 86 and kept it for the rest of the race, finishing just ahead of Jeff Gordon and Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Citroen dominated the two World Touring Car Championship races at the iconic Spa-Francorchamps circuit. The first was won by Yvan Muller, who finished ahead of his team-mates Sebastien Loeb and José María López. The latter triumphed in race two after climbing through the field, with Muller second and Tom Coronel third.
8. Phoenix Racing wins 24 Hours of Nurburgring
The Phoenix Racing outfit of Christopher Haase, Christian Mamerow, René Rast and Markus Winkelhock won the 24 Hours of Nurburgring – the 42nd running of the event – in their Audi R8 LMS Ultra. They set a new record for the most number of laps completed (159) and finished three minutes ahead of the Black Falcon Team Reissdorf Alkoholfrei.
It wasn’t all easy for Phoenix Racing, though, with Marc Basseng in the No. 3 Audi R8 crashing out heavily in the early stages.
Matt Kenseth hit the wall hard during Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350 race at the Sonoma Raceway, following contact with Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Formula Drift was back in action on the weekend, this time at the Wall Speedway in New Jersey for the fourth round of the year. Fredric Aasbo took his first ever Pro Championship win with Chris Forsberg finishing second once again. Aurimas Bakchis completed the podium.
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