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The day was overcast and air and track temperatures were lower than yesterday at 18° and 26° respectively. The start of the race was delayed by approximately fifteen minutes due to barrier repairs that were required following an earlier incident in the Porsche race that also left oil at Massenet which had been heavily covered with cement dust. Tyre strategy was important and some cars were starting on the Pirelli Supersoft compound, others on the soft, both Racing Engineering cars were f
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24.05.2013
The day was overcast and air and track temperatures were lower than yesterday at 18° and 26° respectively. The start of the race was delayed by approximately fifteen minutes due to barrier repairs that were required following an earlier incident in th
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23.05.2013
Round 4 of the 2013 GP2 Series sees the teams and drivers assemble at that most glamorous of racing circuits, Monaco. Following on from the last round of the Series at Barcelona where luck was not on the side of Racing Engineering both Fabio Leimer an
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22.04.2013
Once again the weather at the Sakhir circuit was very hot for the 23 lap Feature Race with an air temperature of 30° and a track temperature of 42° and all the drivers were starting on the harder Pirelli compound. Following yesterday’s race win Fabio
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19.04.2013
Following on from their success at Sepang for the opening round of the 2013 GP2 Series where Fabio Leimer won the Feature race and Julián Leal finished 5th in his first race for Racing Engineering team, the Spanish team and its drivers now head to Bahrain for the second 2013 race weekend. Both Fabio and Julián showed in Malaysia that they are amongst the fastest
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25.03.2013
There was a threat of rain as the cars lined up on the grid for today’s 22 lap Sprint Race and as the lights went off both Julián Leal and Fabio Leimer made good starts from 4th and 8th respectively. Julián was up to second as the cars entered
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23.03.2013
In a determined and skilful drive Fabio Leimer took the win in today’s Feature Race at Sepang and to make the day even better Julián Leal finished 5th in his first race for the Spanish team.It was very hot once
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24.11.2012
Foggy conditions greeted the GP2 teams for the Thursday morning session and poor visibility saw the red flag delaying proceedings for 10 minutes. Many teams waited for the sun to appear and clear the remaining fog before they took to the track.
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23.09.2012
It was overcast for today’s 24 lap Sprint Race at the Marina Bay street circuit in Singapore with a track temperature of 36° and 66% humidity.Fabio Leimer made a great start from 6th on the grid as the lights went off to move up to 4th at
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22.07.2012
...and Racing Engineering in today’s Hockenheim Sprint Race.The weather had improved greatly and the 27 lap Sprint Race was held under sunny skies with a track temperature of 25°. As the lights went off Fabio Leimer made
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21.07.2012
...in the Hockenheim Feature race.Although Fabio Leimer and Nathanaël Berthon had qualified 3rd and 16th respectively, penalties applied to the two Lotus GP drivers meant that they would start 2nd and 15th. Rain before the race
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20.07.2012
The 30 minute morning free practice session was held under grey skies and a track temperature of 25°.
With the possibility of more of the rain that had affected the earlier F1 practice all of the teams opted to go out as quickly as possible to get some dr
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20.07.2012
Germany’s Hockenheim circuit is the venue this weekend for round eight of the 2012 GP2 Series. The revised 4.574km Hockenheimring, designed by Hermann Tilke in 2001, no longer has the fast sweeping straights running through the forests. I
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21.06.2012
Round 6 of the 2012 GP2 Series takes place this weekend at Valencia and in what seems such a short space of time the season reaches its halfway point. This year the GP2 Series has already proved to be very competitive, the ten races held s
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23.05.2012
Round 5 of the 2012 GP2 Series sees the teams and drivers assemble at that most glamorous of racing circuits, Monaco. Following on from the last round of the Series at Barcelona where Fab
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13.05.2012
Nathanaël Berthon drove the perfect race today in the Barcelona Sprint Race, starting from 4th on the grid he battled hard throughout the race to finish 2nd and take his first podium place in GP2.Weather conditions were different t
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11.05.2012
In an excellent qualifying session for tomorrow’s Feature Race at Barcelona Fabio Leimer qualified second fastest and Nathanaël Berthon tenth for Racing Engineering.The 30 minute morning practice session took place in warm, sunn
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18.04.2012
This weekend sees the second round of the 2012 GP2 Series take place at the 5.412 km Sakhir International Circuit, Bahrain as part of the F1 Grand Prix event. The circuit is a mixture of slow and medium speed corners with several fast straights so chassis set-up will be important to set fast laps and win the race.T
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22.03.2012
This weekend sees the GP2 teams assemble in Malaysia at the Sepang International Circuit for Round 1 of the 12 round 2012 GP2 Series.The Sepang circuit is located close to Kuala Lumpur, Ma
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19.03.2012
Nathanaël Berthon, who participated in the GP2 Asia Series with Racing Engineering in 2011 is about to start his first full season in the GP2 Series with the Spanish team.Following on from the two recent GP2 pre-season testing sessions at Jerez and Barcelona, where the young Frenchman showed that he has the pace to be competitive from the start, Nathanaël
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27.02.2012
The GP2 teams will be travelling to Spain’s Jerez circuit for three days of testing starting on the 28th February.The 4.428 Km Jerez circuit is located in the South of Spain near the city of Jerez de la Frontera and its tight, twisty natu
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11.02.2012
Racing Engineering are delighted to announce Fabio Leimer as their driver for the 2012 GP2 Series. After very positive post-season test days in Jerez and Barcelona, which saw Fabio s
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09.11.2011
Spain’s Racing Engineering is looking forward to getting back to racing action at the 2011 GP2 Finale to be held on the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi as part of the F1 race weekend.As is normal for GP2 Series racing there will be two races
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18.05.2011
Following on from the opening round of the 2011 GP2 Series held two weeks ago at the Istanbul Park circuit in Turkey the GP2 teams now move to Barcelona in Spain for round two.Although the results achieved by the Racing Engineering team and its two drivers, Germany’s Christian Vietoris and Spain’s Dani Clos, were not as good as had been ho
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05.04.2011
With just a month to the start of the 2011 GP2 Series Christian Vietoris talks about his off-season preparation and his expectations for this, his second season in GP2 with Racing Engineering.
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04.04.2011
....and forward to the 2011 GP2 season. Alfonso, GP2 Asia brought a bit of everything for Racing Engineering. How would you review the championship?We worke
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16.02.2011
The next two races in this year’s Asian GP2 Championship will take place this Friday and Saturday at the Sakhir International Circuit in Bahrain, and Spain’s Racing Engineering team are looking forward to the challenge of racing once again in this very competitive series.Last week saw the opening two races in the 2011 Championship were a series of misfortunes, outs
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12.02.2011
Following yesterday’s troubled race both Racing Engineering drivers found themselves starting from the back of the field with Nathanaël Berthon in 19th spot on the grid and Dani Clos in 24th. Dani Clos found himself in trouble as he lined up on the grid for the formation lap when, as had happened yesterday, he stalled which meant that he would have
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11.02.2011
26 cars lined up on the grid ready for the start of today’s race at Yas Marina with Racing Engineering’s two drivers lining up fourth, with Dani Clos and tenth, with Nathanaël Berthon. As the red lights went off and the cars began to race the car of Dani Clos had stalled on the grid, at first it looked as if the other cars had managed to
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10.02.2011
The first round of the 2011 GP2 Asia Series gets underway on Thursday at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi where the first race weekend will take place on the 4.73 kms layout. Following on from four days of intense testing at the track Spain’s Racing Engineering team are confident of getting off to a flying start in what looks likely to be a very compe
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08.02.2011
Racing Engineering completes four days of successful testing at Yas MarinaAll the teams competing in the 2011 GP2 Asia Series arrived at Abu Dhabi for four days of intensive testing with the
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27.01.2011
Racing Engineering are pleased to confirm that their drivers for the 2011 GP2 Series will continue to be the very strong pairing of Spaniard Dani Clos and the German Christian Vietoris whilst for the upcoming GP2 Asia Series Dani Clos will be partnered by promising Frenchman Nathanaël Berthon.Dani Clos is starting his third season with the Spanish Racing Engineering team and, f
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29.11.2010
The four days of testing at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi are over and with it the 2010 GP2 season. It was the last time the Dallara GP2/08, the car Racing Engineering’s Giorgio Pantano won the championship title with, was officially used in GP2. Back in Spain, Racing Engine
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26.11.2010
After the first two days of testing, Racing Engineering will resume the action in Abu Dhabi this weekend, with the last two days of testing of 2010 taking place this Saturday and Sunday. The evaluation of young hopefuls continues, this time with Roberto Merhi and Brendon Hartley behind the wheel of the Spanish team’s Dallara GP2 car on day 1. On Sunday, the 28th of November, it will be Al
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25.11.2010
Rodolfo Gonzalez, Andrea Caldarelli and James Jakes were the three drivers Racing Engineering put at test during the first two days of winter testing at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi. Rodolfo Gonzalez, who competed in the 2010 GP2 Series, quickly adapted to the Racing Engineering car and finished the test day in an excellent 4th position. Andrea Caldarelli, the young Italian w
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23.11.2010
Racing Engineering will be present with both its cars at the first two of the final four test days before the end of the 2010 GP2 Series season. The impressive Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi, where 2010 the season finale was held just a week ago, is where new drivers behind the steering wheel of the Racing Engineering GP2 cars will put their skills to a test. During these firs
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13.11.2010
Saturday’s feature race finally brought the rewards of the hard work by the entire racing Engineering crew. Dani Clos had a great race at the Yas Marina circuit in Abu Dhabi, increasing his chances to finish the championship in third overall. After yesterday’s penalty, which meant the Spaniard dropped from second to eleventh on the grid, Dani took courage and had a race on the attac
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12.11.2010
Dani Clos, Jules Bianchi, Pastor Maldonado, Sam Bird, Jerome d'Ambrosio and Giedo van der Garde were handed 10 place grid penalties for Saturday’s feature race at the Abu Dhabi Yas Marina circuit for having “exited the pitlane against red light”. The incident happened once the session was over and all six drivers were decided to have failed to stop at the pitlane exit.
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25.07.2010
Racing Engineering had an action-packed race at the Hockenheim today where Dani Clos, who started from fifth on the grid, was running in fourth place for most of the race. The young Spaniard crossed the finish line in sixth position securing one more point for the drivers’ championship. Christian Vietoris, who started from the last row of the grid after yesterday’s early retirement,
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24.07.2010
Spanish team Racing Engineering has had a day full of mixed emotions with the difficult conditions at the mythical Hockenheimring today. With free practice being held on a drying track, both Racing Engineering drivers showed their skills setting the fastest and third fastest time of the session. Just when qualifying was to start, heavy rains set in and turned the session into a lott
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21.07.2010
With Silverstone being the latest venue for the 2010 GP2 Series and everyone heading towards the Hockenheimring in Germany, this season's halfway mark has been passed. Spanish team Racing Engineering is currently fourth in the teams’ standings and Spaniard Dani Clos second in the drivers’ championship. We are looking at the first half of the season and talk about the exp
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11.07.2010
Racing Engineering had another strong day at Silverstone, where the fifth sprint race of the season took place this morning.
Dani Clos scored yet another podium, the second of the weekend, by finishing third. After a magnificent start and a race always on the attack,
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09.07.2010
Racing Engineering’s Dani Clos is heading to Silverstone, where the fifth round of the 2010 GP2 Series is taking place this weekend, being second in the championship standings. However, the young Spaniard is not looking back at the great results he achieved so far this season. He regards each new race weekend to come as a new challenge on his task list, where things start from zero after
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27.06.2010
Racing Engineering had a difficult day at the Valencia Street Circuit today, where despite all the efforts made by the whole team, no points were scored. Dani Clos, who started in fourth position, finished in seventh place, whilst Christian Vietoris had to retire after colliding during the first lap of the race. Sunday’s sprint race at the Valencia Street Circuit started with
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26.06.2010
Racing Engineering’s Dani Clos, starting from 11th position on the grid, had a great recovery in an action-packed race at the Valencia Street Circuit today. Quick overtaking maneuvers during the opening laps, a very fast pit stop and intelligent driving were the ingredients necessary for the Spaniard to finish the race in 5th position. Team mate Christian Vietoris was having a good race,
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26.06.2010
Racing Engineering had an eventful day in Valencia today. Christian Vietoris, who never raced at the Valencia Street Circuit before, finished today’s qualifying session in eighth place after battling traffic all session long, whilst Dani Clos, who was unable to run in the morning practice session because of an electrical problem, was eleventh fastest. Both Racing Engineering drivers are t
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31.05.2010
Racing Engineering achieved the team’s first win of the season in today’s sprint race at Istanbul Park. Dani Clos climbed onto the top spot of the podium for the first time in GP2. The Spanish driver, who started from pole, had a trouble free race to achi
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29.05.2010
Racing Engineering had a challenging feature race at Istanbul Park today, where high temperatures made tyre management the crucial point. Dani Clos, who started seventh on the grid, suffered from excessive tyre wear and struggled to eighth position, whilst Christian Vietoris, starting from eleventh position, finished seventh and scored his first points of the 2010 GP2 Series. The Racing Enginee
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28.05.2010
Racing Engineering had an intense day at Istanbul Park, where Dani Clos qualified in seventh position on the grid for tomorrow’s feature race, after encountering traffic and yellow flags during his best runs, whilst rookie Christian Vietoris qualified in eleventh position after suffering from engine problems during both Friday sessions.Hot and humid conditions welcomed the GP2
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15.05.2010
Racing Engineering had no luck in today’s sprint race in Monaco. Christian Vietoris was unable to start the race due to a problem with his engine, whilst Dani Clos, who finished on the podium yesterday, had to retire after an accident.Cloudy but dry weather conditions welcomed the GP2 field today for the sprint race which, due to the unusual Monaco timetable, took place in the
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15.05.2010
Racing Engineering’s Spanish driver Dani Clos finished third today in the feature race in Monaco, round 2 of the 2010 GP2 season. German driver Christian Vietoris, who startes from eighth position on the grid, managed to finish 14th, after a difficult race in which he had to start from the pit lane.Cool temperatures and a cloudy sky with a timid sunshine welcomed the GP2 drive
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