Wec Championship

6 Hours of Mexico

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Here we go, waiting for the start of the 6 Hours of Mexico, the new entry on FIA WEC champioship. We started the weekend with the free pactice, everything was pretty good for the #71, we were trying few things and the car seems to be good on this track. Unfortunately we didn’t have a…

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The comeback of #71

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Very “comeback weekend” in Germany for the #71. Since friday during the free practice the car was going perfectly, just few mistakes on the qualifying session took Sam and me in the last position, but we did great overtaking until the 2nd position. I’m very happy about my stint, I was pretty fast overtaking the…

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It’s not where you start, but where you finish.

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Racing is a complicated sport at times. We brought a top car to the track here in Germany and were running times that had us near the fastest qualifying times. The set-up was perfect for the wet conditions at the beginning of qualifying but towards the end, conditions changed and left us with little time…

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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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6 Hours of Bahrain: #71 dramas

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The entire weekend was full of dramas for the Anglo-Italian duo, Davide’s best time (1.58.020) was not enough to catch up the title. The race of  Davide Rigon and James Calado, was affected by bad luck. Calado started fast from the 7th position on the grid and the #71 gained the podium positions. The third…

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