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Wehrlein starts Diriyah E-Prix with double win and lead

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German Porsche driver Pascal Wehrlein wraps up his participation in the Diriyah E-Prix in Saudi Arabia, positioning himself as the new leader of the Formula E World Championship with double wins in the weekend’s two races. was given.

In a race where Friday’s first two places were repeated at Diriyah, the German again outpaced his British rival Jake Dennis, this time with an inch of 252. street circuit.

Rene Rast passed Jaguar’s Sam Bird in the closing stages of the race to take the rookie NEOM McLaren to the podium for the first time in third place.

British rookie Jake Hughes, who had previously claimed his first pole position for McLaren, was only in his third race with last year’s title-winning team under Mercedes ownership, but was late in the race. After running out of power, he finished in 5th place.

“Our race pace is unbelievable. We had the perfect strategy today,” said the driver, who started fifth on the grid and became the fifth Formula E driver to win both races in a single week. Wehrlein, who was named of the race, said. Former Formula 1 his driver finished second to Dennis at the opening round of the World Cup in Mexico City. Extra points for fastest lap and Sam Bird.

Wehrlein is now third on 68 points, Dennis on 62 and Envision Racing’s Sébastien Buemi on 31 points.

The fourth round of the championship will be held in Hyderabad (India) on February 11th.

Source: Mundo Deportivo

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Charles Leclerc’s inability to curb frustration

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Radio tends to be of little use to young Monegasque Charles Leclerc when he’s full of adrenaline during the race. He betrays his lack of reflexes for reading race. And the latest example was experienced at this weekend’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix when he got angry at his engineers racing over the radio. Losing position with Hamilton during the safety car.

The race engineers are looking for ‘old school’ blasts like Kimi Räikkönen with Simon Rennie and Peter Bonington’s endless endurance known as ‘Bono’ with Lewis Hamilton. I don’t remember Since arriving at the Scuderia in 2019, it has been Xavi Marcos who guides Charles Leclerc, and he has to put up with Leclerc’s nervousness.


It is true that the introduction of the safety car at Jeddah did not benefit Ferrari’s interests at all when Lance Stroll’s brake failure on lap 18 forced Race Direction to react. Both Sainz and Leclerc were able to do it “for free” and move on, with the two Mercedes of Russell and Hamilton among other things, before the incident benefiting the interests of the returning Verstappen. I stopped by to exchange. to Ferrari.

It was at this time that communication between Marcos and Leclerc took place, which did not do them much favor: ‘Try pushing from line 1 of the safety car for Hamilton, he just entered the pits. ‘It was too late,’ said the Spanish engineer, as the Mercedes driver had already exited the pits ahead of Leclerc. He had an angry reaction: “Xavi, you have to tell me that first!”

“Understood,” answered Marcos’s reconciler, and “Yes, understood, but…” answered Charles Leclerc.

The Monacan then turned himself in, showing he hadn’t read the race: “I thought we were in no man’s land. We were fighting Hamilton and it was too late to speed up delta time,” he said. has declared.

Source: Mundo Deportivo

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Fernando Alonso: “I can win the race but I need Red Bull’s help”

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Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso believes he will have a chance to win a stage this season, but it takes some luck.

“We’re going to need Red Bull’s help, but winning the race is real, they can’t finish all stages with a double.” They may have problems with the pit stop one day, and the transmission the next. Maybe at some stage Red Bull’s problems can help us win, you just have to take your chance.

“And so, of course, they’re ahead of everybody and almost out of reach for competitors,” Alonso said.

Alonso has finished on the podium twice this season thanks to Aston Martin’s unexpected progress.

Source: Sport UA

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Fabio Quartararo: ‘Going into the weekend with confidence’

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Fabio Quartararo The 2021 MotoGP World Champion (Yamaha YZR M1) has revealed that he will face the opening weekend of the 2023 season, the Portuguese Grand Prix. With confidence”.

The 2023 season is finally starting, I’m looking forward to it After a positive result at the Portimao test two weeks ago, I am confident going into this weekend,” said a Yamaha press release.

“We have an idea of ​​what we want to work on for Friday’s session in preparation for the first sprint race on Saturday, but it’s been a long time since the last Grand Prix and I’m sure the fans won’t be able to do that.” Wait for me to get back into action,” emphasized the French Yamaha rider.

Italian teammate Franco Morbidelli said: “Over the long winter break, Yamaha provided a lot of things for us to test. We collected all the data we could and after last week’s official test at Portimao, the data has been analyzed and the team is ready. ”

The atmosphere in the team is always good, but now it’s even more exciting. We’re starting a new season, so it means everything is possible with a clean slate, so we’re going to do our best,” Morbidelli said.

Source: Mundo Deportivo

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