In the round-up: Esteban Ocon says Renault are encouraged by how easily they were able to unlock the performance of their car at the Nurburgring.
What they say
Renault were quickly up to speed despite limited practice running at the Nurburgring, said Ocon:
It’s quite good that we’ve shown that we can perform without much knowledge on the track and with a very limited amount of running. Obviously it’s the same for everybody but it’s been good to be able perform like that with only two sets of tyres between quali and to have the car that felt like that in qualifying with so little amount of time to change the set-up or to just make the car a little bit better like we would like. The car was performing very well on the high-downforce package.
It’s definitely giving us great confidence because we’ve been struggling in Barcelona and Budapest on those high downforce settings.
Quotes: Dieter Rencken
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Links
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Sir Jackie Stewart says Sebastian Vettel should retire at end of 2020 (Nine)
"I think he should retire. I think Vettel went slightly off the boil, I don't think the real Vettel has been there for the last 18 months."
Bathurst 12 Hour to return in 2022 (Bathurst 12 Hours)
"Following confirmation that the NSW Government will host the 2021 season opening round of the Repco Supercars Championship, Supercars can confirm the 2021 Bathurst 12 Hour event will not go ahead in 2021 due to international travel restrictions caused by Covid-19."
NASCAR reinstates Kyle Larson, clearing him to return to racing effective January 1st 2021 (NASCAR)
"NASCAR officials reinstated Kyle Larson on Monday, more than six months after his suspension for his use of a racial slur during an iRacing event."
A career saving debut and a crushing title-decider: the moments that made Luca Ghiotto (F2)
"The final race of 2015 in Abu Dhabi when I was fighting with Esteban Ocon for the GP3 title. That was by far the best season that I have had in my career so far. I really think that if I had won the championship in that weekend, which was possible, then my career would have been a bit different."
Calling very wealthy F1 fans – 1958 Vanwall F1 recreations up for grabs at £2 million (source)
"Now, 62 years on from that first title, Vanwall is back and building Cars UK of its F1 car, each costing as near as makes no difference £2 million, with just five up for grabs and one being kept for Vanwall’s historic racing."
F1 Track Guide: Portimao First Laps (Mercedes via YouTube)
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