World Series by Renault - Round 1 - Barcelona - Page 5

Martin Haven · 21 Apr 2009, 21:51 (Ref:2446608)

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Originally Posted by gomick

Awesome weekend for Marcos Martinez - never heard of him

Yes, looking forward to the live coverage of the Monaco race

Monaco not live, sadly... it'll be on at 2130BST on Sunday evening...

wannab-aracer · 21 Apr 2009, 21:58 (Ref:2446613)

Compared to the previous years coverage, that will surfice !

runshaw · 22 Apr 2009, 13:17 (Ref:2446994)

Why is there a picture of Brendon Hartley on the podium with Pentus and van der Drift?

META4 · 22 Apr 2009, 15:50 (Ref:2447094)

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Originally Posted by runshaw

Why is there a picture of Brendon Hartley on the podium with Pentus and van der Drift?

Podium for the rookies i guess

F3 Rocks · 22 Apr 2009, 19:55 (Ref:2447274)

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Originally Posted by runshaw

Why is there a picture of Brendon Hartley on the podium with Pentus and van der Drift?

Pentus won the Rookie cup, the leading rookie at half way through the season gets to drive the Renault F1 demo car

F3 Rocks · 22 Apr 2009, 20:07 (Ref:2447292)

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Originally Posted by WSR Fan

Blimey, this thread has been busy this weekend!

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to see any of the TV coverage this weekend, but I have been swatting up on all the race reports on the 'net.

First of all, it wasn't exactly the best start for the two title favourites - Pic and Molina. Molina was on the wrong end of a team mistake and never really recovered from it whilst Pic made a silly error before the sprint race had even started, which could prove crucial at the end of the season. Although I expected Martinez to be up near the front, I didn't expect him to come away with two wins, but he and Pons Racing did a brilliant job all weekend, especially after his mechanical problems on Friday.

I was very impressed with the performances of both Van Der Drift and Turvey this weekend, as well as Zaugg who took two decent points positions despite only being confirmed at Interwetten on the Thursday before the meeting.

Pictures from the weekend have just appeared on Renault-Sport.com and I have to say there are some quite striking liveries this year. The black and yellow of Interwetten.com is probably my favourite closely followed by the two Carlin colours.

I'm suprised you never mentioned Sten Pentus, who beat Van der Drift by the way, who scored a Podium on only his second WSBR race in those treacherous conditions and his team Mofazfortec for their excellent pit work..................... Pentus, second, rookie???????????? not worth a mention??????

Pentus aside I do agree Van de Drift does look good, more podiums to come from that young man

jondownunder · 22 Apr 2009, 23:53 (Ref:2447427)

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Originally Posted by WSR Fan

... I have to say there are some quite striking liveries this year. The black and yellow of Interwetten.com is probably my favourite closely followed by the two Carlin colours.

I have to agree, I think the Racing Steps Foundation colours of Turvey's car look particularly great on the WSR Dallara.

**chunterer** · 23 Apr 2009, 08:34 (Ref:2447623)

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Originally Posted by jondownunder

I have to agree, I think the Racing Steps Foundation colours of Turvey's car look particularly great on the WSR Dallara.

It is very striking! The livery reminds me a lot of the BMW livery from about 10-15 years ago. Did a 3000 team run something similar for a while too, Rafanelli or some outfit?

ivanalesi · 23 Apr 2009, 15:03 (Ref:2447887)

Arrows/Footwork's livery from '94 looked a bit like Turvey's.

OJB · 23 Apr 2009, 15:35 (Ref:2447911)

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Originally Posted by ivanalesi

Arrows/Footwork's livery from '94 looked a bit like Turvey's.

It does, doesn't it! Been trying to put my finger on it...

Liking Interwetten's livery too - very Super Nova-esque.

WSR Fan · 23 Apr 2009, 18:09 (Ref:2448042)

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Originally Posted by F3 Rocks

I'm suprised you never mentioned Sten Pentus, who beat Van der Drift by the way, who scored a Podium on only his second WSBR race in those treacherous conditions and his team Mofazfortec for their excellent pit work..................... Pentus, second, rookie???????????? not worth a mention??????

Pentus aside I do agree Van de Drift does look good, more podiums to come from that young man

True, he did do extremely well when other more experienced racers fell by the wayside so yes definitely worth a mention.

I think Mihai Marinescu should get a quick mention too. He was making the big step up from Formula Renault/Formula BMW and he'd had very little pre-season testing (just 44 laps) but I think he acquitted himself quite well. He had a DNF in the first race, but in the wet second race he finished 13th, gaining 9 spots from his grid position. He also matched his much more experienced team-mate Adrian Zaugg in Qualifying.

AFAIK, he was only confirmed for the first round, but I'd like to see him continue with Interwetten. IMO he has more potential than the likes of Leo, Nebylitskiy, Leal etc.

jondownunder · 24 Apr 2009, 16:47 (Ref:2448729)

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Originally Posted by chunterer

It is very striking! The livery reminds me a lot of the BMW livery from about 10-15 years ago. Did a 3000 team run something similar for a while too, Rafanelli or some outfit?

I think you mean ORECA when they ran the BMW junior drivers Alex Muller and Dominik Schwager in '98.

http://www.alex-mueller.net/2001/early06.html
http://www.alex-mueller.net/2001/early08.html

The Footwork livery definitely comes to mind for me too.

WSR Fan · 24 Apr 2009, 19:43 (Ref:2448824)

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Originally Posted by WSR Fan

AFAIK, he was only confirmed for the first round, but I'd like to see him continue with Interwetten. IMO he has more potential than the likes of Leo, Nebylitskiy, Leal etc.

No sooner than I say that, they go and replace him!

Tobias Hegewald will replace Mihai Marinescu at Interwetten.com for the Spa-Francorchamps round next weekend. Presumably this is so Hegewald can get some experience of the track ahead of the Formula 2 round there in June.

OJB · 24 Apr 2009, 19:53 (Ref:2448828)

Shame... He seemed to have quite a bit of advertising on his car too, although I notice he has been testing the Formula Master car this week as well, so maybe he was just racing the Interwetten car for some experience too (although IFM don't go to Circuit de Catalunya...)

ivanalesi · 25 Apr 2009, 10:03 (Ref:2449112)

His main backers were Petrom and I heard some Romanian oil company has slashed 5000 jobs recently so...

OJB · 25 Apr 2009, 10:43 (Ref:2449137)

True... Then again look at RBS' record losses and they are still sponsoring the Williams F1 team!

Martin Haven · 25 Apr 2009, 10:54 (Ref:2449142)

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Originally Posted by OJB

True... Then again look at RBS' record losses and they are still sponsoring the Williams F1 team!

There may be a degree of not wanting to lose face by a sudden withdrawl... there may also be penalties in the contract, whereby the team gets the money, even if the sponsor decides to remove its logos...

Plus, for any bank - especially at the moment - pulling out of a major global deal would send the sort of signals that they really don't want echoing around the stock markets of the world...

mobile phone companies, oil companies etc function on the product's appeal... banks function on trust and reputation... public (and stock market) perception is everything!

ivanalesi · 25 Apr 2009, 17:30 (Ref:2449376)

Well, actually I haven't spotted the change since last year. Just opened his site - beu.ro and he hasn't been running with their sponsorship last season in F.BMW, but still with the same colours as in F.Renault. Sorry for the confusion

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