Ferrari marked 70 years since its maiden victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans by sealing a hard-fought victory in the GTE-Pro class on Sunday with its AF Corse squad.
James Calado has called on the AF Corse Ferrari team to remain realistic about its targets for the remainder of the season despite scoring a surprise victory in Sunday’s FIA World Endurance Championship round at Silverstone in the GTE-Pro class.
Jolyon Palmer topped the timesheets for Carlin in Friday morning practice at Monza for the ninth round of the 2013 GP2 Series and the final weekend of the championship in Europe.
Stefano Coletti won himself a piece of history in the Saturday sprint race, after becoming the first native winner of a Monaco GP weekend event in over 80 years.
Russian Time scored its maiden win in the GP2 Series as Sam Bird took the lead early in the sprint race and then held off Felipe Nasr to the line by inches.
Fabio Leimer proved unstoppable in qualifying, repeating his dominating practice form to once again go faster by a second as he claimed the feature pole.
Wet track conditions first thing gave teams the chance to test their rain and intermediate tyres, but did nothing for the times on the third day at Jerez.
Davide Valsecchi clinched the 2012 GP2 Series championship over Luiz Razia, while Max Chilton won the Saturday feature race in Singapore ahead of Esteban Guti?rrez.
Max Chilton followed through on his first GP2 Series pole position to successfully convert it into his maiden victory, despite intense late pressure from Davide Valsecchi.
Arden's Luiz Razia looked to have lost touch with the pack of five leaders in the Sunday sprint race, but then surged to the front in a thrilling finish to an eventful Valencia sprint race.
Lotus GP's Esteban Guti?rrez was back on the top step of the podium for the first time in a year, after a succession of safety cars denied his team mate James Calado victory.
Fabio Leimer continued to set the pace in the GP2 testing session at Jerez with the fastest overall time of the two days, but Lotus ART's Jules Bianchi came top in the afternoon session.
Just two weeks after the end of the 2011 GP2 Series, the teams are already gearing up to more on-track activity as they prepare to head to Jerez for two days of testing.