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Le Mans 24 Hours – Qualifying day

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Qualifying day here @LeMans24Hours! We have not so many chances to do our best timing, we started with Sam yesterday and he did a good job getting the P2. After that all our competitors were pushing on track getting better positions. So we tried to wait thursday night to improve our best lap, but unluckely…

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Second Victory for the #71

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This is it, second victory for the #71, incredible! Sam started the race, unfortunately going through the LMP2 cars and getting the P2 behind the #51, anyway always very fast during the entire race. Our car was great, a perfect race thanks to all the team AF Corse, any problem even choosing the tires. Unluckily…

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Did it again, a new Pole Position!

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We did it again, a new unexpected Pole Position, considering we were working thinking of tomorrow and the #51 and the Aston Martin were pretty fast on the fast lap. So, we are very happy to got this big result, after a long night working on the car until midnight. I have to say thank…

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First race, First place!

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Fantastic weekend at the 6 Hours of Silverstone, we got our first victory in the first place of the Fia Wec Championship. A fantastic victory together with Sam Bird and AF Corse team in the Ferrari 488 GTE, first victory ever for this car. We did good since the start, my first stint was perfect…

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Pole Position @ Silverstone!

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Got the pole in the first qualifying of the Championship, this is great! During the free practice was snowing and nobody was on track. At the start of the qualifying the rain finally stopped but it was super cold and the track was like a pool. We got on track pretty fast to not loose…

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FIA WEC Prologue

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I had a pretty intense test session here at Paul Richard. Everything was perfect, even if we know all the competitors are careful to stay in the shadow in this occasion, before the big start at Silverstone. Anyway I had the chance to try our 488, which is important for the Championship. I have pretty good…

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A tough one..

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The Sebring race was a tough one.. where anything that could happen did! Briefly suspended for strong rains as well as for dengerous lightning. There was a great deal of water on the track at times: with extreme water on the track it wasn’t easy to drive, however, we were very fast in the wet..…

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Qualifying day at Sebring

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Got the P8. The qualifying day was pretty good, we worked a lot on race set-up. Here in Sebring is very hot, 30/35°c in the morning, that is positive for our soft tires which are going pretty well when the track is warm. I didn’t drive a lot during this qualifying day, we had too…

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Testing weekend at Sebring for the 12 Hours

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Pretty good test here in Sebring for me. Tony and me were working together on our 488 to get a good balcance between the car and the track. We are very happy about our choices, we are at the end of this test convinced  about  our set-up. During the race will be much warm than…

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Daytona 24 hours: A tough race!

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It was a very tough race, until 7:00 am we were there in the first positions, I was going up to P3 and P2 at some point. We had some damage since Beretta’s crashed with the Corvette which it gave us a drive-through penalty. A Ford had a contact with Fisichella so we lost time…

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