This weekend saw Sean Doyle return to the wheel of the Murphy Prototypes LMP2 car at the world famous Spa Francorchamps circuit in Belgium. This was Doyle’s second time at the 7km circuit, and his first drive in the the Oreca 03 Nissan powered LMP2 car since the European Le Mans Series round at Spa last September. Having travelled from their Dublin
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Sean Doyle and Murphy Prototypes are part of an exciting 22-car entry which has so far been received for the pilot race in the new Masters Endurance Legends Series at Spa-Francorchamps on September 15-17. The series, overseen by Europe’s Masters Historic Racing, will blast into life at Spa this season before a full season hits the tracks in 2018. The
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It is such an amazing experience to take part in the worlds biggest GT race! The result wasn’t what we had in mind, but we gave it everything and we were looking good to challenge for a podium place. The weekends action started early on Tuesday when I arrived at the circuit to meet the renowned Belgium team, WRT. From
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Motorsport Ireland Young Driver of The Year Cian Carey joins an international field this weekend with a one-off appearance in the Formula Summer race as part of the Spa Summer Classic at the famous Belgian circuit. Cian’s CDR team takes a quartet of drivers to join a grid comprising Austrian F3 Championship, Italian and a handful of the UK’s F3
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Irish GT star Matt Griffin heads to Spa Francorchamps in Belgium this weekend after being involved in an exciting and incident packed Blancpain Endurance Series race at the Nurburgring last Sunday. After setting the 7th fastest lap overall (P2 in class) in qualifying out of 54 cars the Ferrari driver was feeling confident for a good result on the famous
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How have Ferrari and Vettel become Formula 1’s most unlikely underdogs? 900 not out. (From @ScuderiaFerrari) This weekend the summer break ends and Spa-Francorchamps awaits. It marks Ferrari’s 900th GP and Sebastian Vettel’s 150th. The former has 16 Constructor titles & 15 Driver titles, making it the most successful team in the sports history. With 6 straight Constructor titles between
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Last week, Hockenheim boss Georg Seiler said the circuit would not be hosting this season’s German Grand Prix due to the short turnaround to sell tickets. Hockenheim hadn’t been scheduled to host the race this year, in keeping with the alternating arrangement it had with Nürburgring. A change of ownership at the latter seems to have undone that and now,
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