Author: Andy Darley
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GP2: Sweet revenge for victorious Conway
Mike Conway, gifted pole position in GP2’s second Monaco race after being unceremoniously dumped out of the first one, took advantage with a dominant drive to victory.
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F1: Massa earns surprise Monaco pole
The rain held off from Monaco for qualifying and Ferrari made the most of the respite to fill the front row, with Felipe Massa taking an unexpected pole despite his well-known dislike of the Monte Carlo circuit.
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GP2: Senna triumphs as Conway is robbed
Mike Conway was robbed of a podium finish by a piece of last-lap idiocy in a GP2 feature race that saw the name Senna once again on the top step of a Monaco podium.
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Could Sunday see two British winners?
The two biggest open-wheel motor races in the world – and they’re on the same day. But how likely is it that Union Flags will be flying over the top steps of the podiums at Monaco and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway come Sunday?
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IRL: Starting line-up for Indy500 finalised
A last-gasp crash by Pacific Coast’s Mario Dominguez saved the blushes of Marty Roth as the final qualifiers for the 92nd Indy500 were confirmed on bump day. Dominguez, the last driver to make a qualifying attempt, was running fast enough to bump Roth from the 33rd and final qualifying place when he crashed entering the…
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F1: Hamilton to shine in Monaco – literally
It’s usually Red Bull Racing that takes the prize for most outrageously impractical commercial tie-in during the Monaco Grand Prix – but this year McLaren will outshine them, literally, thanks to Lewis Hamilton’s and Heikki Kovalainen’s diamond-studded helmets.
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IRL: Manning, Wilson and Lloyd all qualify for Indy500
The pressure is off the British entrants for the Indy500 – at least for a day or two – as all have now successfully qualified for the race.
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IRL: Wilson works on race set-up
The rain stayed away from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for long enough yesterday to finally let the drivers get back in their cars and put in a few laps on the track.
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F1: Massa magic conjures victory in Turkey
Lewis Hamilton tried a sneaky three-stop strategy, Kimi Raikkonen fuelled up and ran a long first stint, but neither of them could find an answer to Felipe Massa who won the Turkish Grand Prix by the simple tactic of driving very fast from the front.
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F1: Turkish GP in six words
The perfect antidote to processional racing – today the lead swapped hands and raw speed was traded against strategy for a gripping race at the Istanbul circuit. You’d venture out to put the kettle on at your peril – but at least no drivers were felled by hitting stray dogs, as happened to Bruno Senna…