2013 FIA Formula 3 European Championship Round 7 – Grid

2013 FIA Formula 3 European Championship Round 7, Hockenheim, Germany, May 3rd/5th 2013 © Lynne Waite and Stella-Maria Thomas  Race 1 Grid (Fastest Qualifying Laps of Qualifying Session 1 after penalties): 1st – No. 1, Raffaele Marciello, ITA, Prema Powerteam, Dallara F312, Mercedes, 1:33.623 2nd – No. 2, Alex Lynn, GBR, Prema Powerteam, Dallara F312,…

2013 FIA Formula 3 European C­hampionship Round 7 – Qualifying Times

2013 FIA Formula 3 European C­hampionship Round 7, Hockenheim, Germany, May 3rd/5th 2013 © Lynne Waite and Stella-Maria Thomas Race 1 Grid (Fastest Qualifying Laps of Qualifying Session 1): 1st – No. 1, Raffaele Marciello, ITA, Prema Powerteam, Dallara F312, Mercedes, 1:33.623 2nd – No. 2, Alex Lynn, GBR, Prema Powerteam, Dallara F312, Mercedes, 1:33.745…

2013 FIA F3 European Championship Rounds 7 & 8 – Qualifying Report

2013 FIA F3 European Championship Rounds 7 & 8, Hockenheim, Germany, May 3rd/5th 2013 © Lynne Waite and Stella-Maria Thomas Weather: Cool, dry. Qualifying Report – Rounds 7 & 8 (Races 1 & 2): The qualifying sessions for the latest rounds of the FIA European Championship qualifying sessions were run late on Friday afternoon at…

Travel 2011 – Nurburg, Adenau, Jezus-Eik, Germany, Belgium

Thursday, 30th June/Monday, 4th July 2011 – Nurburg, Adenau, Jezus-Eik, Germany, Belgium It occurred to me that I never did finish talking about Monza, and it’s too far away now. So instead I’ll go into detail about the last two trips, knowing that we have another two over the next three weeks. We started July…

Travel 2009 – Zeltingen-Rachtig, Traben-Trarbach, Bernkastel-Kues, Erden, Wehlen, Urzig, Jezus-Eik, Days 5 and 6

Monday, 8th/Tuesday, 9th June 2009 – Zeltingen-Rachtig, Traben-Trarbach, Bernkastel-Kues, Erden, Wehlen, Urzig, Jezus-Eik, Days 5 and 6 Monday dawned sunny and fine, so we had a late, leisurely and extremely good breakfast. The hotel specialises in organic produce from the immediate area as much as possible and also various smoked and home-cured meats and fish….

Travel 2009 – Hockenheim, Zeltingen-Rachtig, Days 3 and 4

Saturday, 6th/Sunday, 7th June 2009 – Hockenheim, Zeltingen-Rachtig, Days 3 and 4 Saturday was a busyish day, with qualifying and one race, though it could have been worse. The weather wasn’t too good, but again that was pretty immaterial really. It had been an odd sort of race, with quite a few unexpected incidents, including…

Travel 2009 – Hockenheim, Days 1 and 2

Thursday, 4th/Friday, 5th June 2009 – Hockenheim, Days 1 and 2 It’s been a long time since we last did a road trip of any great note, probably because flights are so much cheaper these days than when we first started travelling to races in Europe quite so frequently back in 1989. Some of these…

Travel 2008 – Dresden, Berlin, Day 4

Monday, 8th December 2008 – Dresden, Berlin, Day 4 Monday was a day when we didn’t have a great deal planned apart from getting to Berlin for our flight back. As that wasn’t until much later in the day, there was no great rush, although Steffy had requested lunch in Berlin, presumably just in case…

Travel 2008 – Dresden, Day 3

Sunday, 7th December 2008 – Dresden, Day 3 Sunday dawned reasonably bright and sunny while we ate breakfast: It was just as impressive as the day before: By the time we’d worked our way through that lot, the weather had turned and it was hideously soggy, with the rain coming down almost horizontally. It also didn’t…

Travel 2008 – Dresden, Day 2

Saturday, 6th December 2008 – Dresden, Day 2 After a good night’s sleep under a wonderfully soft goosedown duvet, we met for breakfast in the restaurant Maurice (now the Moritz). Breakfast just served to reinforce the point that this was a wonderful hotel, with all sorts of extras from Nurnberger Rostbratwurstchen with mustard to a…