Within the round-up: John Wickham, the proprietor of the Spirit crew that raced in F1 within the mid-Eighties and later director of the Arrows crew, has died aged 73 after an extended sickness
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Spirit F1 crew proprietor John Wickham dies aged 73
John Wickham, the proprietor of the Spirit crew that raced in F1 within the mid-eighties, has died aged 73 after an extended sickness.
Spirit joined the grid for the 1983 season with Honda B7LE engines – on the time the Japanese producer’s first F1 engines since they left the game within the late-sixties. The crew began a complete of 26 grands prix between 1983 and 1985 – fielding drivers comparable to Stefan Johansson – however didn’t rating any factors.
Wickham later acted as director of the Arrows crew within the early Nineteen Nineties and was then answerable for the Bentley Le Mans programme which took victory within the illustrious 24 hour race in 2003. Wickham was additionally head of operations for the A1GP sequence, which ran from 2005 to 2009.
Digital Le Mans 24 Hours quickly halted by “safety breach”
The Digital Le Mans 24 Hours simracing occasion was suspended for over an hour as a consequence of a “safety breach”, race organisers confirmed.
The race had simply reached the six hour mark when the race was crimson flagged as a consequence of server issues for a second time. After a delay of over an hour, race organisers launched an announcement confirming that “the 2 servers which have been used for the 24 Hours of Le Mans Digital have had a suspected safety breach.”
After addressing the safety points, the race restarted with 16h30m of race time remaining. After seven hours of racing, the #20 Porsche Coanda crew led the race by lower than a second from the 2 Group Redline vehicles, with the #1 automotive of System 1 world champion Max Verstappen in second place.
Mercedes’ Antonelli leads FRMEC after opening spherical
Mercedes junior driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli holds the championship lead within the System Regional Center Jap Championship after the opening three-race spherical in Dubai regardless of not claiming a race win.
Antonelli sits on 38 factors after a fourth, a sixth and a second-place end within the first three races. Nikhail Bohra gained the second race with Mari Boya profitable the third and last race of the weekend.
The subsequent spherical will happen in Kuwait with three races over Friday twenty seventh and Saturday twenty eighth of January.
Purple Bull junior Lindblad wins first automotive race, Ugochukwu leads UAE F4
It was day for F1 junior drivers within the second day of racing on the UAE F4 championship on the Dubai Autodrome with Purple Bull junior Arvid Lindblad taking his first win in vehicles throughout race three.
The previous WSK Euro Sequence karting champion gained from pole place in a race run principally beneath Security Automobile – his first ever win in single-seaters. McLaren junior driver Ugo Ugochukwu gained race two to leap into the early lead within the championship, 21 factors forward of Lindblad.
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