Olly and his three Spirit of Daytona
Racing team mates, Antonio Garcia, Richard Westbrook and Jan Magnussen, today completed a very successful three - day test session at Daytona International Speedway.
The duo finished behind their Corvette
Racing team mates, Jan Magnussen and Antonio Garcia, and the result ensured their continued lead in the points» standings.
After heading two of the three practice sessions leading into today's 15 - minute window during which the grid was set for tomorrow's six - hour race, Olly watched from the edge of his seat as his Corvette
Racing team mate Tommy Milner secured a front row grid spot in a nail - biting session.
Olly yesterday obliterated the previous qualifying lap record at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, formerly known as Mosport, but was edged out of pole position for the GT grid by his Corvette
Racing team mate Jan Magnussen.
Oliver Gavin's third place finish at today's Orion Energy 245 at Road America not only gave he and his Corvette
Racing team mate Tommy Milner their third podium from the six races of the 2013 ALMS season to date, but it also rewarded them with enough points to regain the lead of the GT Drivers» points classification.
GM factory driver Olly Gavin of Northamptonshire, England and his Banner
Racing team mate Gunther Schaldach of Colorado, took a second consecutive podium finish in the # 07 The Cool TV Camaro GT.R at Virginia International Raceway yesterday, solidifying second place in the GT points standings for the Grand - Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
Not exact matches
Mark Schwarzer battled and lost in the
race to play regular football with the Blues previously, but feels no shame in hailing his former
team -
mate as the best in the country.
In only his third F1
race for Mercedes, Bottas got the better of his
team -
mate Lewis Hamilton in qualifying for the Bahrain Grand Prix.
They are out of the South
race as two of the best
teams in the League are their division -
mates —
Team Lalez and
Team Zimmerman.
As well as surely cementing his place in the France side Giroud is now right in the
race for the Golden Boot, with only his
team mate Antoine Griezmann ahead on four goals so far.
For the first for Danny Welbeck, Elneny could be seen watching with great intent as his
team -
mate raced onto his perfectly - weighted through - ball before finishing with aplomb and netting that crucial away goal.
Miles failed to qualify for the next
race in Spain and the following round at Monaco — a
race which
team mate Jochen Rindt won.
Nelson Piquet Jr started the
race on pole and lead early on, but lost the lead to Same Bird when Bird's
team mate, triple World Touring Car champion and former USF1 (remember them?)
JJ Lehto was supposed to be his
team mate, but a neck injury in pre-season testing caused him to miss the first two
races so Jos Verstappen subbed for him.
Ok, there might be some truth in that, but Irvine did alright in replicating some of Schumacher's achievements, such as winning
races as a result of
team orders and being
team mates with Johnny Herbert.
Schumacher had lead pretty much the entire
race, and on the last lap he slowed to allow his
team mate to catch up for a formation finish.
Basically, don't overtake your
team -
mate, because we are giving out
team orders and not allowing you to
race.
He'd qualified behind his
team mate, was behind him in the
race, came into the pits by mistake and retired with a gearbox problem — but was still voted driver of the day.
From exciting on - track battles, to
team -
mate collisions, the odd dull
race and retirement announcements.
A year after the
race it was revealed that Alonso's
team mate Nelson Piquet Jr had deliberately crashed to cause a safety car, allowing Fernando to take an unexpected victory.
All three drivers mentioned above ended up not finishing the
race - Leclerc later clashed with his
team -
mate and spun, Marciello was out on lap one and Boschung kept going a bit longer.
You run in the day, then in the night, then you've got the parade downtown with the fans, the meetings with the engineers, how the
race will be divided up with your
team mates, how to hand over the car to them without losing any time, and vice versa.»
Max Verstappen will be hoping for better fortunes at the Hungary test, after clashing with his
team -
mate in Sunday's
race.
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Team mate Mauricio Gugelmin fared slightly better, even scoring a podium in the opening
race, but for Capelli the season was a disaster.
The Ferrari 156/85 was, unsurprisingly, the car Ferrari used in 1985 and Johansson's
team -
mate Michele Alboreto came close to winning the championship with it, before five consecutive car failures in the last five
races scuppered his chances.
He took pole in Brazil and South Africa, but finished neither
race whilst
team mate René Arnoux won both.
Only unlike Senna and Schumacher he didn't do it in a selfish attempt to win a championship, oh no - he did it so that 1) the
team wouldn't fire him at the end of the year and 2) the ensuing safety car would put
team mate Fernando Alonso on the perfect strategy, allowing him to win the
race.
To stay in title contention Albon basically had to win the
race and hope his title rival and
team -
mate Charles Leclerc finished back in the pack — and that's exactly what was happening until Jack Aitken (yep, the guy with WTF1 stickers on his car!)
It was an amazing performance and Schumacher had nothing but praise for his former
team -
mate after the
race.
«I am sure you wanted to hear my voice before the start of the
race» was Fernando Alonso's opening line to his former
team -
mate
As Jenson Button drove to the end of the pitlane to start what's set to be his final F1
race, he got a nice and unexpected message from his former
team -
mate Fernando Alonso.
This caused the
race to finish behind the safety car, Button winning from
team -
mate Barrichello with Trulli in third.
One of the last people you'd expect to get praise from is your
team mate, but it turns out that Vettel is supportive of Kimi and reckons that he's been driving well, and deserved better results from the first four
races of the year.
Well, Alonso's
team -
mate Vandoorne tried to capitalise on the story by joking about missing the Hungarian GP to
race at the 24 Hours of Spa.
Both of them took podiums during the season - Ralf was third in the third
race of the year in Argentina (though only after punting his
team mate out) whilst Fisichella took podiums in Montreal and at Spa.
So can the squad of fit Arsenal players keep us in the
race until their
team mates finally return from injury?
Now he makes the step up to IndyCar with Dale Coyne
Racing in 2017 alongside ex-F1 racer Sebastien Bourdais, a good
team -
mate for him to learn from.
Prost went into the penultimate
race ahead on points and when Senna made to overtake his
team mate Prost, well off the normal
racing line, tangled with his
team mate.
Sergio Perez finished P7 in his home
race with
team -
mate Esteban Ocon two places above.
Speaking in today's FIA press conference ahead of his home
race this weekend Perez said he didn't believe his supporters will give his
team mate any trouble.
By the final
race Massa was out of the hunt for the championship and surrendered the lead of his home
race to Raikkonen so his
team mate could be champion.
Added to that his ballsy
racing against
team -
mate Sergio Perez caught the eye of pundits who feel that the Mercedes protégé could be a star of the future along with Red Bull's Verstappen.
Daniel Ricciardo, who had been promoted from Toro Rosso as his new
team mate and won three
races, remained and was joined by another of the
team's graduates, Daniil Kvyat.
There was further drama afterwards as
race winner and former single - seater racer Esteban Guerrieri was slammed by his
team boss for not letting his championship - challenging
team mate past earlier in the
race.
With eight
races to go he is fifth in the championship, 41 points behind
team mate and championship leader Romain Grosjean.
She will not be joined by her
team -
mate Jodie Williams, who ran 22.99 for eighth in her
race.
His blistering run of form has seen him streak ahead in the
race to be the Premier League's top scorer for 2013/14, and he's recently shown a more selfless side to his abilities, switching around at the front with Raheem Sterling and Daniel Sturridge in order to create chances for his
team mates.
With 20 points separating Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton and 15 between the Brit and his Mercedes
team -
mate, Formula 1's title
race has just become a three - driver tussle.
Williams Felipe Massa / Di Resta 11 — Lance Stroll 3
Race: Stroll Given Lance Stroll's starting position of 18th, to bring the car home and avoid heavy impact with the barriers in the first wet Singapore GP was pretty good in itself, but to come 8th in front of your vastly more experienced
team -
mate is a result verging on the Baku.