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More NEWS from the Grand Prix F1 and Formula BMW in Singapore, Results from Round 13
Marina Bay,
Singapore – Doru Sechelariu (15/Meritus) completed a
perfect weekend on the Marina Bay street circuit as
the young Romanian won Round 13. He added a
second trophy to his collection after taking victory
in Round 12 yesterday, winning both races from start
to flag.
Ross Jamison (18/HKG/Meritus) finished second, while
Gabby Chaves (15/COL/Atlantic Racing Team) rebounded
from a disappointing Round 12 with a third-place
finish in Round 13.
Round 13
Results.
Sechelariu
caps perfect weekend with second win.
Marina Bay, Singapore – Doru
Sechelariu (15/Meritus) completed a perfect weekend
on the Marina Bay street circuit as the young
Romanian won Round 13. He added a second trophy to
his collection after taking victory in Round 12
yesterday, winning both races from start to flag.
Ross Jamison (18/HKG/Meritus) finished second, while
Gabby Chaves (15/COL/Atlantic Racing Team) rebounded
from a disappointing Round 12 with a third-place
finish in Round 13.
Rookie Dominic Ang (18/MAS/Team Holzer PFX) had his
best finish of the season in fifth, while Marlon
Stöckinger (17/PHI/Eurasia Motorsport) was the top
Formula BMW Junior, finishing in seventh.
As a guest driver, Sechelariu is not eligible to
score points and therefore Jamison took the full 20
points plus an addition one for pole, extending his
lead in the drivers’ championship to 56 points. Sean
McDonagh (19/USA/Team E-Rain) finished the race in
sixth position, and remains second in the drivers’
classification. Jamison now requires eight points to
clinch this year’s Driver Classification.
In the Rookie Cup, Simon Moss (17/RSA/Mahara) leads
Chris Wootton (19/AUS/Meritus) by 12 points after 13
of the 16 round 2008 season.
Guest driver Ollie Millroy (18/GBR/Motaworld) started
third on the grid, but fell away early and Chaves,
who qualified fifth, moved up to third. Wootton hit
the curb and spun and, like Millroy, was out of the
race in the first lap. Once again, the Safety Car was
brought out.
At the re-start on Lap 3, Sechelariu got away well
and Jamison was unable to find a way past. However,
Sechelariu, Jamison and Chaves would remain in their
positions for the remainder of the race.
“It’s very important to take the experience from here
for next year’s championship in Europe,” said
Sechelariu, who intends to compete in another season
Formula BMW Europe. “I really did not expect my
weekend to be like this, so I’m very happy.”
Chaves, on the podium for the second time this
season, was thrilled with his finish.
“Round 12 wasn’t so good, but I left it in the past
and looked forward to today,” Chaves said. “It’s a
wonderful opportunity to race here and not many kids
my age and not that many people in general get to do
this.”
Stöckinger, who started ninth, was able to move up
two places, a particularly special feat as the
Swiss-Filipino driver continued to battle a bout of
food poisoning. To him, even just racing was an
achievement.
“I was tired from the get-go, but towards the end it
was hard to even hold the steering wheel and I was
just happy to finish and really pleased to be in
seventh,” said Stöckinger, who had to be rehydrated
yesterday at the hotel.
Ang, who started tenth, impressively worked his way
up on the grid and after colliding with teammate
Melvin Moh (20/MAS/Team Holzer PFX) in Round 12, the
fifth-place finish in Round 13 was a redemption of
sorts.
“It’s better,” Ang said. “The incident in Round 12
should not have happened and today, we were a bit
more careful and we knew not to take anyone out. It’s
definitely better today and the result sort of makes
up for yesterday’s race.”
McDonagh, as a series’ driver, said that after his
disappointing weekend, the championship was possible,
but he was also looking to maintain second-place in
the series.
“I tried to get as close as I could to Ross, but
today wasn’t the day, it wasn’t all there,” said
McDonagh, who was still feeling some of the physical
effects of having hit the wall during Saturday’s
Round 12.
The weekend was a memorable one, with the first cars
ever to take to the Marina Bay circuit those of
Formula BMW Pacific. As the Lion City embraced its
first experience of international motorsport, the
series was at the forefront of the new face of motor
racing.
The drivers and teams were unanimous in their praise
of both the circuit and the event organisation.
Formula BMW Pacific moves to Shanghai in October
where the series is a support event to the FIA
Formula One World Championship for the third time
this season. There the field will include the series
newcomers, and Sechelariu is already looking forward
to driving in China for the first time. “I will be in
Shanghai for sure,” Sechelariu said.
*Scholarship driver
•Rookie Cup
#Non-Series Registered
Pole Position: Doru SECHELARIU/Meritus
Fastest Lap: Doru SECHELARIU/Meritus
Championship Points Tables after Round 13.
Drivers
1.Ross Jamison (HKG/Meritus) 192 points; 2. Sean
McDonagh (KOR/Team E-Rain) 136 points; 3. Ryuichi
Nara (JPN/Team E-Rain) 95 points; 4.Simon Moss
(RSA/Mahara) 92 points; 5. Melvin Moh (MAS/Team
Holzer PFX) 86 points; 6. Gabriel Chaves
(COL/Atlantic Racing Team) 85 points; 7. Chris
Wootton (AUS/Meritus) 80 points; 8. Marlon Stöckinger
(PHI/Eurasia Motorsport) 67 points; 9. Imran Shaharom
(MAS/Team Holzer PFX) 54 points; 10. Aditya Patel
(IND/Eurasia Motorsport) 50 points; 11. Dominic Ang
(MAS/Team Holzer PFX) 48 points; 12. Arvin Roslan
(MAS/Meritus) 40 points; 13. Tasmin Pepper
(RSA/Meritus) 22 points; 14. Huzair Harun Rasip
(MAS/Mahara) 7 points; 15. Omer Younas (PAK/Team
E-Rain) 1 point.
Rookie Cup
1.Moss; 2. Wootton; 3. Stöckinger; 4. Patel; 5.Ang;
6.Roslan; 7. Younas.
Teams
1.Meritus, 331 points; 2. Team E-Rain, 225 points; 3.
Team Holzer PFX, 187 points; 4. Eurasia Motorsport,
117 points; 5. Mahara, 97 points; 6. Atlantic Racing
Team, 85 points
Statistics:
Winners 2008: Jamison (4); Moss (2); Nara (2);
McDonagh (2); Moh (1); Sechelariu (2)
Pole Positions: Moss (2); McDonagh (6); Nara (1); Moh
(1); Jamison (1); Sechelariu (2)
Podiums: Jamison (10); Moss (4); Patel (1); McDonagh
(6); Moh (4); Chaves (2); Nara (3); Manzur (1);
Stöckinger (1); Wootton (4); Sechelariu (2); Millroy
(1)
Rookie Cup Winners: Moss (5); Stöckinger (3); Roslan
(1); Wootton (3); Ang (1)
Background:
Formula BMW is the world’s leading
entry-level series in formula racing. In 2008 the
three Formula BMW series – Formula BMW
Europe, Formula BMW Pacific and Formula BMW Americas
– will be held in the key motor sport markets of
Europe, pan-Asia and North and South America. The end
of the year will see the Formula BMW World Final
staged for the fourth time, this time at Mexico
City’s “Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez” from the 5th to
the 7th December. The winner will be granted the
opportunity of a test drive with the BMW Sauber F1
Team.
Formula BMW will be held on the undercard of Formula
One on 12 occasions. The series gives young racing
talents the chance to enter professional motor sport
in a safe racing car – the Formula BMW FB02.
The FB02 has been in use since season 2002. It is
powered by a 140 hp BMW engine that takes it to a top
speed of up to 230 km/h. It ranks among the safest
vehicles in its category and exceeds the FIA safety
regulations that govern this class of car.
Innovations such as the FORS (Formula Rescue Seat)
were developed by BMW Motorsport specifically for
Formula BMW. Following Formula One, Formula BMW was
the first single-seater series outside the US in
which the HANS system was made mandatory.
Formula BMW drivers have the opportunity to take part
in an Education and Coaching Programme that runs
parallel with the racing season. The programme
includes driver coaching at the races by professional
race drivers, attending a Formula One test, fitness
courses, tuition in driving technique and strategy,
as well as seminars on sponsoring and sport
management.
Among the 20 team drivers in this season’s Formula
One, there are now four Formula BMW graduates: Nico
Rosberg, Adrian Sutil, Sebastian Vettel and Timo
Glock. The test and reserve drivers add three more to
the tally, namely Christian Klien, Sebastien Buemi
and Nicolas Hülkenberg.
In the words of BMW Motorsport Director Mario
Theissen: “With our worldwide Formula BMW concept, we
offer drivers and teams a platform which, in this
format, is unprecedented in a junior series and which
allows them to benefit from our Formula One
involvement. Through Formula BMW the drivers are
equipped with the tools they need to assert
themselves successfully in the world of professional
motor racing.”
Note to editors:
Information and copyright free Formula BMW images for
press purposes will be available at the BMW
Motorsport Press Club at www.press.bmw-motorsport.com
(no registration is required).
Singapore F1 Grand Prix Night Race plus...“You’re the first driver I’ve ever met,” squealed Venezuelan beauty Dayana Mendoza, a guest of race organisers Singapore GP, as lucky Marlon Stockinger walked up to her..
Late News: Just
arrived from the Grand Prix F1
Night Race in Singapore...
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TV interview with Marlon in Singapore @
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Singapore F1 Night Race
Beauty and the
racing beast
By Shamir Osman, TODAY
| Posted: 26 September 2008 1251 hrs
SINGAPORE: Beautiful women and fast cars go hand in
hand. It’s a fact.
We’re not talking about just McLaren-Mercedes driver
Lewis Hamilton and his popstar squeeze, Pussycat
Dolls lead singer Nicole Scherzinger.
All you have to do is check out the Lamborghinis
leaving Zouk on a Friday evening.
And if you’re still not convinced, you should have
been there on Thursday night at the Marina Mandarin
Hotel when the reigning Miss Universe met
a race car driver for the first time.
“You’re the first driver I’ve ever met,” squealed
Venezuelan beauty Dayana Mendoza, a guest of race
organisers Singapore GP, as lucky Marlon Stockinger
walked up to her...photos and more on Marlon @
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/entertainment/view/378523/1/.html
Extrication exercice with FIA stewards in
Singapore-5
Extrication exercice with FIA stewards in
Singapore-2
Extrication exercice with FIA stewards in
Singapore-2
Formula BMW at the Singapore F1 Grand
Prix
Wow...Marlon's Travel Log continous..."After the visit to the F1 test in Spain my Dad, Chris and I travelled by car to Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. Spa is the World's most exciting race track.
"After the visit to the F1 test in Spain my Dad, Chris and I travelled by car to Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium. Spa is the World's most exciting race track. Every racer loves it and it is a privilege to be able to drive there. I am not absolutely sure, but I might be the first Filipino race driver ever to race on this famous European track!
Wow, this is the best roller coaster I've been on...
for more on ”Marlon’s latest
Photos”click the image.
It is a great 'nature
track' located in the middle of a big forest with
trees all around. These have been safely removed from
the corners of the track in recent history and run
offs were constructed. In former times the track was
quite dangerous. It goes up and down with altitude
differences of more than 600 meters! When you come up
the famous 'Eau Rouge' curve, you shoot up into the
sky and soon after go steeply downhill and turn into
an extremely fast left hander. When you see these
curves during F1 races on TV you don't realize how
steep it actually is! You experience constantly
negative and lateral G-Forces that push you into the
seat and to the sides of the cockpit.
With Chris Wassermann and Italian mechanic Maurizio
in Spa,
for more on ”Marlon’s latest
Photos”click the image.
I did quite well during
the two half-day tests I was allowed to do and placed
constantly in the top five or ten. Not bad since the
best drivers are supposed to be in the BMW Europe
series. So I think I will be able to do well during
my guest races in summer, even so I was not allowed
to do more testing because the testing for guest
drivers in another BMW series is very limited."
Marlon
More BMW NEWS from Marlon, "After my visit to the BMW F1 factory in Switzerland...plus cool images from Spain including Robert Kubica...
http://www.marlonstockinger.com/page2/page1.html
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"After my visit to the BMW F1 factory in Switzerland, all of us flew down to Barcelona in sunny Spain to observe one full F1 test day. We were issued head phones, so we could listen in to the team radio and follow the conversation between Robert Kubica and his race engineer during testing.
At the Circuit de Catalunya... click on the images
and go direct to Marlon’s latest Photos on this
Blog
It's actually ten of us
from around the world who were chosen as BMW
Juniors and we got to know each other a
little better during the day. In the evening Simon,
Mike - a family friend of his - my dad and me went to
a fantastic Spanish restaurant in town where also
Nelson Piquet Jr. was having dinner.
The day was actually pretty relaxed. We had lunch in
the F1 team's tent and were interviewed together with
Robert Kubica at the end of the day.
Robert Kubica in the pit garage...click on the images
and go direct to Marlon’s latest Photos on this
Blog.
My dad and I flew then
back to Zurich from where we were planning to go to
Spa, the famous race circuit in Belgium, where I was
going to test for my guest race there in
September..."
Marlon