2011 Macau Grand Prix – Qualifying Race Results

58th Macau Grand Prix, Macau, China, November 17th/20th 2011 © Lynne Waite and Stella-Maria Thomas Qualification Race Results: 1st – No. 1, Marco Wittmann, GER, Signature, Dallara, Volkswagen, 10 laps 2nd – No. 7, Felipe Nasr, BRA, Carlin, Dallara, Volkswagen, gap 0.867 3rd – No. 11, Roberto Merhi, ESP, Prema Powerteam, Dallara, Mercedes, gap 3.483…

2011 Macau Grand Prix – Qualifying Race Report

© Lynne Waite and Stella-Maria Thomas The qualification race for tomorrow’s 58th Macau Grand Prix went the way of pole man Marco Wittmann (Signature), despite the best efforts of a number of other drivers, most especially Felipe Nasr (Carlin), the Brazilian having led for around a nanosecond before the German came back at him and…

2011 Macau Grand Prix – Qualifying Race Grid

58th Macau Grand Prix, Macau, China, November 17th/20th 2011 © Lynne Waite and Stella-Maria Thomas   After all the penalties have been applied, here’s what the grid for the qualification race now looks like, Roberto Merhi (Prema Powerteam) has been penalised 7 grid places for causing a collision with Felix Rosenqvist (Mücke Motorsport), while Rosenqvist…

2011 Macau Grand Prix – Second Qualifying Report

58th Macau Grand Prix – FIA Formula 3 Intercontinental Cup, Macau, China, November 17th/20th 2011 © Lynne Waite and Stella-Maria Thomas Weather: Hot, extremely humid. Qualifying Session 2 Report: This afternoon’s second and final qualifying session saw a battle between Marco Wittmann and Roberto Merhi, the pair battling it out now the weather had improved…

Travel 2011 – Macau, Day 6

Friday 18th November Again the day was mostly taken up with the motor racing, which won’t of course come as the slightest surprise to anyone who knows me. This time we were out at Sao Francisco at the”green house”2, a house that was bought by the government to stop development there. In its time it’s…

2011 Macau Grand Prix – First Qualifying Report

58th Macau Grand Prix – FIA Formula 3 Intercontinental Cup, Macau, China, November 17th/20th 2011 © Lynne Waite and Stella-Maria Thomas Weather: Very wet, warm. Qualifying Report: For the 58th running of the Macau Grand Prix the weather that seems to be following Kevin Magnussen (Carlin) around showed up at Macau and a sodden session…

Travel 2011 – Macau, Day 5

Thursday 17th November Thursday wasn’t too early a start for anybody – unless theoretically the 45th Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix was any concern of yours. I say theoretically because it was very quickly obvious that whatever practice and qualifying sessions were going to happen, the bikes would not be among them. The sheer amount of…

Travel 2011 – Macau, Day 4

Wednesday 16th November Wednesday we didn’t intend achieving much though we did have to go and collect the long lens from the locker in the press centre (my fault for leaving it there and not thinking that I would need it on Thursday morning and wouldn’t necessarily want to go all the way to the…

Travel 2011 – Macau, Day 3

Tuesday November 15th Another good night’s sleep and I was starting to feel altogether more human – amazing! Who knew the best way to avoid jetlag was to stay awake for 37 hours straight then switch to local time immediately on arrival?! Anyway we opted for a trip over to Coloane this time, just to…

Travel 2011 – Macau, Day 2

Monday November 14th Monday morning wasn’t anywhere near as painful as it could have been for some odd reason and when the alarm went off at 9 am we both got up cheerfully enough and wandered down to breakfast. The IFT breakfast’s are not the biggest spread you’ll ever find but – and this is…