MACAU GRAND PRIX BULLETIN ISSUE 2 | 2018 1 ISSUE 2 | 2018 JAPANESE FORMULA 3 CHAMPIONSHIP SHO TSUBOI HAS WON 11 RACES THIS SEASON (PHOTO/JAPAN F3 ASSOCIATION) FORMULA 3 MACAU GRAND PRIX – FIA F3 WORLD CUP Kuo Team TOM’S driver Sho Tsuboi continues to dominate this year’s Japanese Formula 3 Championship. Tsuboi has won eleven races thus far – including the last two races at Okayama – Tsuboi now has a 59-point lead over Miyata. Third in the standings with five races remaining of the season is Toda Racing’s Sena Sakaguchi, while his team mate Toshiki Oyu is fourth. At the latest round at Okayama, Tsuboi qualified on pole for both Rounds 13 and 14. In Round 13, Tsuboi took the chequered flag by more than 5 seconds over Yu Kanamaru and, following a tense battle for third, Yuki Nemoto joined the Kuo Team TOM’S drivers on the podium. Round 14 saw Tsuboi repeat his success with Ukyo Sasahara finishing runner-up, although this time the gap was less than a second. Third on the podium was Ritomo Miyata Tsuboi picked up a third victory at Okayama and further strengthened overall title bid. FIA FORMULA 3 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP Mick Schumacher of Prema Theodore Racing team leads the FIA Formula 3 European Championship after the penultimate round in Red Bull Ring, Austria. Winner of last year’s Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix – FIA F3 World Cup Dan Ticktum lies second overall. In Austria, Schumacher beat Robert Shvartzman and won the weekend’s opening race. The German led the race, while Alex Palou put Shvartzman under pressure. Shvartzman held firm and finished second, Palou took the last podium place. Mick Schumacher scored his second win of the weekend in Race 2, moving up to the top in the points standings.Marcus Armstrong and Shvartzman finished second and third. Shvartzman scored his first win of the season in the final race of the weekend ahead of hard- charging Schumacher, who finished second. South African Jonathan Aberdien of Motopark finished third while Ticktum was fourth. Next up for the FIA F3 European Championship is the season finale at Hockenheim. REIGNING MACAO CHAMPION DAN TICKTUM MICK SCHUMACHER LEADS THE FIA FORMULA 3 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP FIA FORMULA 3 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP Top 5 after Round 27 POS DRIVER TEAM PTS 1 Mick Schumacher Prema Theodore Racing 329 2 Daniel Ticktum Motopark 280 3 Marcus Armstrong Prema Theodore Racing 260 4 Jüri Vips Motopark 242 5 Robert Shvartzman Prema Theodore Racing 241 JAPANESE FORMULA 3 CHAMPIONSHIP Top 5 after Round 14 POS DRIVER TEAM PTS 1 Sho Tsuboi Kuo Team TOM’S 145 2 Ritomo Miyata Kuo Team TOM’S 86 3 Sena Sakaguchi Toda Racing 39 4 Ukyo Sasahara ThreeBond Racing 36 5 Yu Kanamaru B-MAX Racing Team 30
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MACAU GRAND PRIX BULLETIN ISSUE 2 | 2018 1
ISSUE 2 | 2018
JAPANESE FORMULA 3 CHAMPIONSHIP
SHO TSUBOI HAS WON 11 RACES THIS SEASON (PHOTO/JAPAN F3 ASSOCIATION)
FORMULA 3 MACAU GRAND PRIX – FIA F3 WORLD CUP
Kuo Team TOM’S driver Sho Tsuboi continues to dominate this year’s Japanese Formula 3 Championship. Tsuboi has won eleven races thus far – including the last two races at Okayama –Tsuboi now has a 59-point lead over Miyata.
Third in the standings with five races remaining of the season is Toda Racing’s Sena Sakaguchi, while his team mate Toshiki Oyu is fourth.
At the latest round at Okayama, Tsuboi qualified on pole for both Rounds 13 and 14. In Round 13, Tsuboi took the chequered flag by more than 5 seconds over Yu Kanamaru and, following a tense battle for third, Yuki Nemoto joined the Kuo Team TOM’S drivers on the podium.
Round 14 saw Tsuboi repeat his success with Ukyo Sasahara finishing runner-up, although this time the gap was less than a second. Third on the podium was Ritomo Miyata
Tsuboi picked up a third victory at Okayama and further strengthened overall title bid.
FIA FORMULA 3 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP
Mick Schumacher of Prema Theodore Racing team leads the FIA Formula 3 European Championship after the penultimate round in
Red Bull Ring, Austria. Winner of last year’s Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix – FIA F3 World Cup Dan Ticktum lies second overall.
In Austria, Schumacher beat Robert Shvartzman and won the weekend’s opening race. The German led the race, while Alex Palou put Shvartzman under pressure. Shvartzman held firm and finished second, Palou took the last podium place.
Mick Schumacher scored his second win of the weekend in Race 2, moving up to the top in the points standings.Marcus Armstrong and Shvartzman finished second and third.
Shvartzman scored his first win of the season in the final race of the weekend ahead of hard-charging Schumacher, who finished second. South African Jonathan Aberdien of Motopark finished third while Ticktum was fourth.
Next up for the FIA F3 European Championship is the season finale at Hockenheim.
REIGNING MACAO CHAMPION DAN TICKTUMMICK SCHUMACHER LEADS THE FIA FORMULA 3 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP
FIA FORMULA 3 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP Top 5 after Round 27
POS DRIVER TEAM PTS
1 Mick Schumacher Prema Theodore Racing 329
2 Daniel Ticktum Motopark 280
3 Marcus Armstrong Prema Theodore Racing 260
4 Jüri Vips Motopark 242
5 Robert Shvartzman Prema Theodore Racing 241
JAPANESE FORMULA 3 CHAMPIONSHIP Top 5 after Round 14
POS DRIVER TEAM PTS
1 Sho Tsuboi Kuo Team TOM’S 145
2 Ritomo Miyata Kuo Team TOM’S 86
3 Sena Sakaguchi Toda Racing 39
4 Ukyo Sasahara ThreeBond Racing 36
5 Yu Kanamaru B-MAX Racing Team 30
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ULSTER GRAND PRIX
MACAU MOTORCYCLE GRAND PRIX – 52ND EDITIONPeter Hickman was named Man of the Meeting at the Ulster Grand Prix for the second consecutive year after a performance which saw him win both the Supersport and the Superbike race, and take second in the Superstock race.
In the Superstock race it was Dean Harrison, seventh at Macao last year, who clinched victory by just two-tenths of a second from Hickman. Long-time Macao competitor Conor Cummins, fifth at Macao last year, was third. Lee Johnston, eighth in last year’s Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix, finished fifth. Harrison also set a new Superstock lap record on his way to victory.
In the Supersport race, Johnston was second behind Hickman, with Cummins taking the final podium spot. Adam McLean finished fourth, while Michael Sweeney, who has raced four times at Macao, was fifth. Johnston was again runner-up to Hickman in the Superbike race, while Brian McCormack, who last raced at Macao in 2016, was fifth.
Earlier in the week, Manx rider Cummins took his first Ulster Grand Prix victory since 2009, winning the Supersport race. In that opening Supersport race, Cummins was joined on the podium by McLean and Harrison, while Hickman finished fifth.
ISLE OF MAN CLASSIC TTJohn McGuinness, long-time Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix rider and winner in 2001, made an impressive comeback from injury when he returned to racing at the Classic TT on the Isle of Man by winning the Senior Classic TT. McGuinness, who had not raced since the North West 200 in 2017, said after his win: “I never ever thought I’d be able to pull back in to this winner’s enclosure here, but I’ve worked really hard and it feels very special. The Paton was great – it never missed a beat. I so, so enjoyed that. It’s an amazing feeling and we had no problems from the drop of the flag, but it was hard work. It takes it out of you after all the barbecues and pies.”
McGuinness won the Senior Classic TT ahead of Jamie Cowards, with Lee Johnston third.
Johnston won a thrilling Lightweight Classic TT ahead of McLean and Ian Lougher. Dean Harrison was fourth.
The Superbike Classic TT was won by Harrison ahead of familiar Macao faces Horst Saiger and Conor Cummins. Harrison finished more than a minute ahead of Saiger and led all four laps to earn his fourth Classic TT victory.
BRITISH SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIPPeter Hickman is currently sixth in the British Superbike Championship after 16 races, the most recent at Cadwell Park. In the first race, Hickman crossed the line 7th on his Smiths Racing BMW, while the two-time Macao winner finished just shy of the podium in 4th in Sunday’s second race. Four rounds remain in the championship, beginning with a triple-header at Silverstone from September 7-9.
Leon Haslam, son of six-time Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix winner in the 1980’s Ron ‘Rocket’ Haslam, leads the championship.
PETER HICKMAN
HICKMAN CELEBRATING HIS SUPERSPORT VICTORY
MCGUINNESS DURING HIS SENIOR CLASSIC TT WIN
JOHN MCGUINNESS
THE SUPERBIKE CLASSIC TT PODIUM FEATURED LONG-TIME MACAO COMPETITORS DEAN HARRISON, HORST SAIGER AND CONNOR CUMMINS
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SUZUKA 10 HOURS
MACAU GT CUP – FIA GT WORLD CUPMaro Engel, Raffaele Marciello and Tristan Vautier in a Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM Racing won the inaugural Suzuka 10 Hours. Engel was third in last year’s Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup, in which Marciello also competed.
There were several familiar Macao faces at Suzuka, including 2016 Macau GT Cup champion Laurens Vanthoor who crossed the line in 11th place with teammates Kévin Estre (2nd in the GT Cup in 2016) in Craft Bamboo Racing Porsche 911 GT3Rs.
DTMJoel Eriksson, who competed in last year’s Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix, took his maiden DTM victory in the second night race at Misano, Italy. The Swedish BMW driver is contesting his first season of DTM and won Round 14 ahead of four-time Macao winner Edoardo Mortara in a Mercedes-AMG, and 2015 Macau GT Cup podium finisher René Rast.
Earlier that weekend Mortara had finished third in the opening race behind Paul Di Resta and Robin Frijns, runner-up to Mortara in last year’s FIA GT World Cup.
Mortara currently sits third in the championship standings, 48 points behind title chase leader Di Resta and 39 points behind Gary Paffett in second. Other Macao alumni competing in DTM this season include Marco Wittmann and Lucas Auer, fourth and fifth respectively in the championship.
FIA FORMULA E CHAMPIONSHIP
Jean-Eric Vergne (seventh in the 2010 F3 Macau Grand Prix) won the 2017-2018 FIA Formula E Championship. The top 13 finishing drivers have all competed at Macao, while five are former F3 Macau GP winners including 2005 winner Lucas di Grassi, Formula E Championship runner-up to Vergne.
The other former Guia Circuit winners are double F3 Macau GP winners Felix Rosenqvist, Mortara and António Félix da Costa, and 2013 victor Alex Lynn. Two former Macau GT Cup winners were also amongst the Formula E line-up: four-time race winner Mortara and Maro Engel, who has won twice. Engel and Mortara finished 12th and 13th respectively in the Formula E Championship.
MARO ENGEL PICTURED HERE DURING LAST YEAR’S MACAU GT CUP
FORMER MACAO COMPETITOR JOEL ERIKSSON TOOK
HIS MAIDEN DTM RACE
FELIX ROSENQVIST, WHO MADE HIS GT CUP DEBUT LAST YEAR, FINISHED 6TH
IN THIS YEAR’S FIA FORMULA E CHAMPIONSHIP
ABOVE: MORTARA: LAST YEAR’S GT CUP WINNER EDOARDO MORTARA IS CURRENTLY THIRD IN THE DTM CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS; BELOW: DTM
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MACAU GUIA RACEWTCR – FIA WORLD TOURING CAR CUP PRESENTED BY OSCARO
Following its summer break, the WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup presented by OSCARO is preparing for its final four race weekends of the season.Triple headers in Ningbo and Wuhan in China, and then at Suzuka in Japan, will take place before the series’ season finale as the Macau Guia Race at the Suncity Group 65th Macau Grand Prix.
After 18 races of six rounds, Italian Gabriele Tarquini of BRC Racing Team leads the championship by just two points over Frenchman
Yvan Muller of MRacing – YMR. Although Tarquini has yet to win on the Guia Circuit, he was crowned 2009 FIA World Touring Car Champion in Macao. However, Muller, having raced at Macao for many years, is a familiar face and won twice on the Guia Circuit in 2012 and 2013.
With Tarquini and Muller in a tight contest for the top spot, BRC Racing Team’s Norbert Michelisz lies third in the championship standings. Fourth overall is Yann Ehrlacher of ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport, the nephew of Yvan and the son of Cathy Muller who raced in the Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix. Rounding out the top five is Jean-Karl Vernay of Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Team, second in the 2009 Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix.
During the three races in Slovakia in July, fans had the opportunity to witness a title fight that will only intensify as the season goes down to the wire. In the opening race of the triple-header weekend, Spain’s Pepe Oriola of Campos Racing celebrated his first factory in the new series, finishing ahead of Vernay and Tarquini.
Ahead of the second race on Saturday, Zengő Motorsport’s Norbert Nagy landed his first series pole position for the reverse-grid Race 2. But in the race itself it was Tarquini who secured a fourth victory thus far this season, claiming the series points lead.
The third and final race of the weekend was won by Michelisz as he got away cleanly at the start and pulled away with Aurélien Comte of DG Sport Competition, with a dramatic battle for the
final podium position behind them. At the end of the 13-lap race, it was Frédéric Vervisch of Audi Sport Team Comtoyou who took the final podium position.
WTCR – FIA WORLD TOURING CAR CUP PRESENTED BY OSCARO Top 10 after Round 18
POS DRIVER TEAM PTS
1 Gabriele Tarquini BRC Racing Team 202
2 Yvan Muller MRacing – YMR 199
3 Norbert Michelisz BRC Racing Team 176
4 Yann Ehrlacher ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport
171
5 Jean-Karl Vernay Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Team 166
THE WTCR – FIA WORLD TOURING CAR CUP RACING AT SLOVAKIA RING
GABRIELE TARQUINI
NORBERT MICHELISZ
YVAN MULLER
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SUNCITY GROUP 65TH MACAU GRAND PRIX PRVISIONAL PROGRAMME 15-18 / 11 / 2018
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15 NOVEMBER Thursday6:00 Circuit Closed6:30 7:00 Circuit Inspection7:30 8:30 Suncity Group Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix
– 52nd Edition – Free Practice 9:05 9:35 Suncity Group Macau Guia Race – FIA WTCR
– Free Practice 19:55 10:35 Suncity Group Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix
– FIA F3 World Cup – Free Practice 110:50 11:20 Suncity Group Greater Bay Area Lotus Cup
– Free Practice 11:35 12:05 FOOD4U Macau Touring Car Cup – Free Practice12:25 12:55 SJM Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup – Free Practice 113:30 14:00 Suncity Group Macau Guia Race – FIA WTCR
– Free Practice 214:20 15:00 Suncity Group Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix
– FIA F3 World Cup – Qualifying 116:00 16:45 Suncity Group Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix
– 52nd Edition – Qualifying18:00 ** Circuit Opened
16 NOVEMBER Friday6:00 Circuit Closed6:30 7:00 Circuit Inspection7:30 8:15 Suncity Group Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix – 52nd Edition
– Qualifying8:50 9:30 Suncity Group Macau Guia Race – FIA WTCR – Qualifying9:50 10:20 Suncity Group Greater Bay Area Lotus Cup – Qualifying
10:40 11:10 FOOD4U Macau Touring Car Cup – Qualifying11:30 12:10 Suncity Group Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix
– FIA F3 World Cup – Free Practice 212:30 13:00 SJM Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup – Free Practice 213:35 14:50 Suncity Group Macau Guia Race – FIA WTCR – Q1, Q2, Q315:10 15:50 Suncity Group Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix
– FIA F3 World Cup – Qualifying 216:10 16:40 SJM Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup – Qualifying 18:30 ** Circuit Opened
17 NOVEMBER Saturday6:00 Circuit Closed6:30 7:00 Circuit Inspection7:10 7:50 Safety, Rescue and Extrication Cars – Testing laps8:00 8:40 Special Event9:00 10:00 Suncity Group Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix
– FIA F3 World Cup – Qualification Race – 10 laps10:25 11:25 FOOD4U Macau Touring Car Cup – 12 laps 11:50 12:10 Suncity Group Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix
– 52nd Edition – Warm Up13:05 14:05 SJM Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup
– FIA WTCR Race 1 – 8 laps15:55 16:55 Suncity Group Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix
– 52nd Edition – 12 laps18:00 ** Circuit Opened
18 NOVEMBER Sunday6:00 Circuit Closed6:30 7:00 Circuit Inspection7:10 7:50 Safety, Rescue and Extrication Cars – Testing laps8:20 9:10 Suncity Group Macau Guia Race
– FIA WTCR Race 2 – 8 laps9:35 10:35 Suncity Group Greater Bay Area Lotus Cup – 12 laps
11:00 12:00 Suncity Group Macau Guia Race – FIA WTCR Race 3 – 11 laps
12:25 13:40 SJM Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup – 18 laps14:00 14:35 Special Event15:10 15:20 Lion Dance15:30 16:30 Suncity Group Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix
– FIA F3 World Cup – 15 laps18:00 ** Circuit Opened
