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F4| Isac Blomqvist fin...

Amaury Cordeel had to start 3rd, Isac Blomqvist 4th and Laszlo Toth 11th after they had done the second qualifying in the morning.

Not a great first few laps for the drivers. Amaury Cordeel dropped back to 5th position, Isac Blomqvist to 7th and Laszlo Toth to 12th. Jesse Salmenautio on 4th position still had to do his drive through penalty, because of a jump start what will result in an easy position gain for all drivers. Michael Belov went into the pit with 5 min to go. Amaury Cordeel moved up to the 3rd position because of this, and Isac Blomqvist went up to 5th.

Isac Blomqvist finished 3rd in the SMP Formula 4 NEZ Championship!

P3 Amaury Cordeel
P5 Isac Blomqvist
P11 Laszlo Toth

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FR2.0| Christian Lundg...

Qualifying two started this morning with Group B. Logan Sargeant was the fastest in this group with a 1:42.094. Lundgaard, Peroni and Schothorst are in group A. To take pole position they have to beat this time, and one of them have to be the quickest in their group. Unfortunately, it wasn’t Christian Lundgaard again like in the first qualifying. He was 5th fastest overall this time. Freek got a two-place grid penalty, because of the incident in race one yesterday.

P5 Christian Lundgaard
P15 Alex Peroni
P19 Freek Schothorst

Race 2
The start of Christian Lundgaard was good he moved up one place while Alex Peroni and Freek Schothorst stayed at the same place. Christian overtook Fewtrell for 3rd with 24 minutes still to go. Fewtrell didn’t defend much, because he knew that he had to finish in the top 10 to win the championship. The only way that Christian could win the championship was by winning the race and Fewtrell had to drop back to P10.

Freek Schothorst managed to move up one place to P18. In the meanwhile Christian closed the gap to Martins for the 2nd place with 15 min to go, but overtaking isn’t easy here at circuit Catalunya. Eventually with 5 min to go Christian managed to pass Victor Martins for the 2nd place. He was still 3.7 sec behind Sargeant the leader of the race, but the remaining race time was too short to close the gap.

Christian Lundgaard is now Formula Renault Vice Champion and Rookie Champion of 2018.

P2 Christian Lundgaard
P14 Alex Peroni
P18 Freek Schothorst

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20 years MP Motorsport

This book tells the story of 20 years of MP Motorsport, Holland’s most renowned motor racing team – how it started as a modest Formula Ford team and went through many highs and lows to reach GP2. Experience all their adventures through the eyes of the best photographers and the memories of team members, drivers and others linked to the team.

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“This corner I l...

Each driver has their favourite corner. A corner that feels so well when you take it. A turn that nobody can do better than you do.

We asked our GP3 and Formula 2 drivers what their favourite corner is and what their most unfavourite corners is.

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Medical Practice ̵...

Spending time with the engineer speaking about the upcoming weekend, track walk, drivers briefing and more for the drivers today. Not only we had to prepare but the medical team as well. Racing is still dangerous, so we need them.

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FR2.0 – Barcelona

Barcelona, 19-21 October 2018: Final round of Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya. Christian Lundgaard #31 MP Motorsport. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

BARCELONA (ESP) OKT 19-21 2018 – Final round of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya. MP Motorsport. Action. © 2018 Diederik van der Laan / Dutch Photo Agency

BARCELONA (ESP) OKT 19-21 2018 – Final round of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya. Alex Peroni #32 MP Motorsport. Action. © 2018 Diederik van der Laan / Dutch Photo Agency

Barcelona, 19-21 October 2018: Final round of Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya. Alex Peroni #32 MP Motorsport. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

Barcelona, 19-21 October 2018: Final round of Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya. MP Motorsport team. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

Barcelona, 19-21 October 2018: Final round of Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya. Freek Schothorst #33 MP Motorsport. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

BARCELONA (ESP) OKT 19-21 2018 – Final round of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya. Freek Schothorst #33 MP Motorsport. Action. © 2018 Diederik van der Laan / Dutch Photo Agency

BARCELONA (ESP) OKT 19-21 2018 – Final round of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at Circuit de Barcelona Catalunya. Christian Lundgaard #31 MP Motorsport. Action. © 2018 Diederik van der Laan / Dutch Photo Agency

BARCELONA (ESP) OKT 19-21 2018 – Final round of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at Circuit de Start of Race1. © 2018 Diederik van der Laan / Dutch Photo Agency

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NEZ F4 – Assen

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F4| 3 podiums in two r...

The last NEZ Formula 4 championship weekend of this season started this weekend in Assen. Isac Blomqvist had to start the race from the 3rd position while Amaury Cordeel started from the 6th place and Laszlo Toth from the 12th place.

Race one
A difficult first two laps for Isac Blomqvist he dropped back to the 6th position while Amaury Cordeel moved up to the 5th position because of that. Laszlo Toth fell back to the 14th position.

Cordeel moved up to the 4th position in lap 4, but the gap to 3rd place was 4,1 sec. Isac Blomqvist moved up to 5th position the lap after that.

Amaury Cordeel moved up to 3rd place after Konsta Lappalainen dropped back in the field after a technical problem. Isac Blomqvist profited from this as well and took over the 4th position. Laszlo Toth kept his 14th position.

Ivan Berets got a technical problem as well and he got overtaken by Amaury Cordeel for the 2nd place and Isac Blomqvist for the 3rd place because of that. Laszlo Toth moved up 2 spots and took over P12.

P2 Amaury Cordeel
P3 Isac Blomqvist
P12 Laszlo Toth

Race two
The one starting from 4th is Isac Blomqvist, 5th Amaury Cordeel and 12th for Laszlo Toth. Race two started 18:05 and Amaury Cordeel had the best start of all. He moved up from 5th to the 2nd position during the first lap, and Laszlo Toth moved up from 12th to 10th position. The opposite happened to Isac Blomqvist he had to stop his race in turn 10.

Laszlo Toth lost one position during lap 6. Amaury Cordeel was still 2nd with 1.8 sec behind the leader. In the second last lap, Cordeel managed to set the fastest race lap and closed the gap by 1 sec to the leader, but Michael Belov got a technical problem what resulted in an overtake by Cordeel for the lead in the last lap.

P1 Amaury Cordeel
P11 Laszlo Toth
DNF Isac Blomqvist

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Christian Lundgaard wi...

The last race of the Formula Renault Eurocup season is this weekend in Barcelona. Christian Lundgaard should be still able to win the championship. There is still hope, but it will be tough!

The first qualifying started 9:00 this morning on a wet track. All our drivers were in group A, and so the first group to start the qualifying. Christian Lundgaard was the fastest after the first push lap while Alex Peroni took the 4th position and Freek Schothorst was 11th at that moment. After 15 minutes it was Christian Lundgaard that kept his leading position in his group with a 1:55.288. He was 0,6 sec faster than Max Fewtrell on the 2nd position. Alex Peroni took over the 6th position in his group and Freek Schorst the 12th position. Group B wasn’t able to beat the time of Christian Lundgaard, so he got pole position for race 1.

Qualifying one
P1 Christian Lundgaard
P11 Alex Peroni
P23 Freek Schothorst

All three drivers had a good start. Christian Lundgaard kept the lead, Alex Peroni took over p8, and Freek Schothorst moved to 18th but eventually, he got involved in an incident, and his race was unfortunately over. The safety car went out during the second lap and went in with 16 min to go.

The restart was good enough for Christian to keep the lead. Alex Peroni had to give up one place back to Yifei during the 2nd lap after the restart and dropped back to P9. It was Christian Lundgaard that crossed the finish line first with a 3,9 sec lead at the end.

P1 Christian Lundgaard
P9 Alex Peroni
DNF Freek Schothorst

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Formula 2 rim – Ralph Boschung

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Pitstop practice!

The Formula 2 team have to practice their pitstops.
You can win a lot of time by doing a good pitstop, and that can make the difference.

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Christian Lundgaard an...

A little interview with Christian Lundgaard and his engineer Diederik kinds about his unexpected news that he will join the GP3 race at Le Castellet. Christian is a Junior Renault driver that won last year two Formula 4 championships with MP Motorsport, and he is currently at the second position in the Eurocup Formula Renault Championship.

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FR2.0 – Nurburgring

Nurburg, 14-16 September 2018: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and NEC round at Nurburgring. Christian Lundgaard #31 MP Motorsport. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

Nurburg, 14-16 September 2018: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and NEC round at Nurburgring. MP Motorsport team. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

NURBURG (GER) Ser 14-16 2018 – Formule Renault 2.0 Eurocup and NEC round at the Nurburgring. Christian Lundgaard #31 MP Motorsport. Action. © 2018 Diederik van der Laan / Dutch Photo Agency

Nurburg, 14-16 September 2018: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and NEC round at Nurburgring. Alex Peroni #32 MP Motorsport. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

Nurburg, 14-16 September 2018: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and NEC round at Nurburgring. Freek Schothorst #33 MP Motorsport. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

Nurburg, 14-16 September 2018: Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup and NEC round at Nurburgring and Freek Schothorst #33 MP Motorsport. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

NURBURG (GER) Ser 14-16 2018 – Formule Renault 2.0 Eurocup and NEC round at the Nurburgring. Alex Peroni #32 MP Motorsport. Action. © 2018 Diederik van der Laan / Dutch Photo Agency

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Formula Renault 2.0 &#...

BUDAPEST (HUN) AUG 31 – SEP 2 2017 – Round seven of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at the Hungaroring. Alex Peroni #32 MP Motorsport. Action. © 2018 Diederik van der Laan / Dutch Photo Agency

BUDAPEST (HUN), AUG 31 – SEP 1-2 2018: Round 7 of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at the Hungaroring. Alex Peroni #32, MP Motorsport. Action. © 2018 Klaas Norg / Dutch Photo Agency.

BUDAPEST (HUN), AUG 31 – SEP 1-2 2018: Round 7 of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at the Hungaroring. Start photo race 2. Action. © 2018 Klaas Norg / Dutch Photo Agency.

BUDAPEST (HUN), AUG 31 – SEP 1-2 2018: Round 7 of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at the Hungaroring. Freek Schothorst #33, MP Motorsport. Action. © 2018 Klaas Norg / Dutch Photo Agency.

BUDAPEST (HUN), AUG 31 – SEP 1-2 2018: Round 7 of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at the Hungaroring. Christian Lundgaard #31, MP Motorsport. Action. © 2018 Klaas Norg / Dutch Photo Agency.

BUDAPEST (HUN) AUG 31 – SEP 2 2017 – Round seven of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at the Hungaroring.MP Motorsport. Action. © 2018 Diederik van der Laan / Dutch Photo Agency

BUDAPEST (HUN) AUG 31 – SEP 2 2017 – Round seven of the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup at the Hungaroring. Freek Schothorst #33 MP Motorsport. Action. © 2018 Diederik van der Laan / Dutch Photo Agency

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Formula 2 Rim – Sergio Sette Camara

An unusable rim from the car of Sergio Sette Camara. Sergio drove for us in 2017, and he won two sprint races (Spa and Monza) during the season. On the rim, you can find the number 14 that was his car number during this season. Sergio finished 12th in the 2017 Formula 2 championship.

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F2| 8th for Dorian Boc...

A very good first lap for Niko Kari he moved up from p17 to the 11th place. The opposite happend with Boccolacci he dropped back from p13 to 16th place. Niko lost two places with 16 laps to go, but he was still in the DRS zone with the possibility to gain those positions back.

Ten laps to go and it started to rain! The pitstop crew began to prepare themselves for a possible tyre change. Everybody was driving on slicks, and the rain kept falling down. Unfortunately for Niko, he lost the control of his car under the wet conditions in turn 10 and crashed into the wall.
Dorian came into the pitlane not much later to change his tyres to rain tyres with seven laps to go.

Eventually, Dorian managed to gain some more positions in the last few laps and brought his car back home with an 8th position.

P8 Dorian Boccolacci
DNF Niko Kari

30 September 2018

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GP3| Race 2 – Po...

It was 10:08 Sunday morning when race 2 started and it started well for Verschoor he overtook the 4th position right after the start. Devlin kept his 17th position after his start.

Verschoor moved up to 3rd position with 12 laps to go while his teammate DeFrancesco took over the 14th position.

Devlin DeFrancesco moved up to P13 in the second last lap. Verschoor kept it 3rd position the whole race and could keep Nikita Mazepin just outside his DRS zone. An excellent result for Verschoor with a GP3 podium in his pocket.

P3 Richard Verschoor
P12 Devlin DeFrancesco

30 September 2018

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The build-up of the ne...

A little video that we didn’t show you until now! At the beginning of this year, we had to build up the new Formula 2 car. But it worked a bit different than usual because everything was kind of new for the mechanics and engineers.

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Questions and Answers ...

A few weeks ago you were able to send questions to our Formula Renault drivers, and you were able to win a rear wing endplate.
We made the questions and answers during the Monaco GP weekend, and the drivers Christian Lundgaard, Alex Peroni and Max Defourny were able to sign the rear wing endplate that you could win.

Not all the questions were included in the video!
Here are some that were left out:

Max Defourny: Have you ever felt that you were faster than the car you were driving?

* It was a bit of an unclear question, but we all thought that it was all about experiencing the sensation that the car feels slow. So when you are used to a fast car, and you step back in a slow car than yes, it feels like you are faster than the car you are driving.

Alex Peroni: How do you prepare mentally for a race weekend and is there any difference after a crash or do you simply forget about it?

*Preparing start early in the week with my engineer and you start to study onboard and some simulator work, but not really “mental” stuff.
And you have to analyse a crash to see if you can learn anything from it, but if not then forget it and move forward.

Max Defourny: Do you think the Halo was a good idea?

* I rather don’t have it, because it changes the whole concept of formula cars, but it is part of the “evolution”, and we have to deal with it.

Christian Lundgaard: Do you have a dance move to impress women?

* No, I don’t dance! 🙂

Alex Peroni: After a crash are there any procedures you have to follow?

* If it was a hard crash injured or not then you have to do a medical check, and the things they check are really basic things. After contact with any car, you usually have to go to the stewards and the one that caused the problem normally gets a penalty.

Thank you for watching and see you next time!

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GP3 – Italian GP

Monza (ITA), AUG 30 – SEP 2 2018 – Italian Grand Prix at Monza Circuit. Richard Verschoor #22 MP Motorsport. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

Monza (ITA), AUG 30 – SEP 2 2018 – Italian Grand Prix at Monza Circuit. Devlin Defrancesco #23 MP Motorsport. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

Monza (ITA), AUG 30 – SEP 2 2018 – Italian Grand Prix at Monza Circuit. Niko Kari #24 MP Motorsport. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

Monza (ITA), AUG 30 – SEP 2 2018 – Italian Grand Prix at Monza Circuit. Start of race 2: Pedro Piquet #05 Trident. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

Monza (ITA), AUG 30 – SEP 2 2018 – Italian Grand Prix at Monza Circuit. MP Motorsport team. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

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Fomula 2 – Itali...

Monza (ITA) AUG 31-SEP 02 – Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Dorian Boccolacci #09 MP Motorsport. © 2018 Diederik van der Laan / Dutch Photo Agency

Monza (ITA), AUG 30 – SEP 2 2018 – Italian Grand Prix at Monza Circuit. Dorian Boccolacci #09 MP Motorsport. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

Monza (ITA), AUG 30 – SEP 2 2018 – Italian Grand Prix at Monza Circuit. Ralph Boschung #10 MP Motorsport. © 2018 Sebastiaan Rozendaal / Dutch Photo Agency

Monza (ITA) AUG 31-SEP 02 – Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Ralph Boschung #10 MP Motorsport. © 2018 Diederik van der Laan / Dutch Photo Agency

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F2 race one result ...

A good start for Kari and Boccolacci. Kari went to 14th position, and Boccolacci followed him on 15th. They both moved up another place after the second lap.

Kari seems to enjoy it. He took over the 10th place while Dorian followed him on the 11th position with still 21 laps to go. The driver on the super-soft tyres struggled big time, but the pit lane wasn’t open yet to do pit stops.

Niko kept improving his lap times lap after lap. He overtook Aitken for the third position, but ten cars out of the 17 still driving did their pitstop already.

With 11 laps to go Kari’s times started to drop a lot. It seemed to look like that he asked too much of his tyres during the first half of the race. Niko went into the pitlane to change his tyres after Boccolacci did his pitstop. Niko got a little touch from Aitken’s car while he was driving to the end of the pitlane when Aitken had an unsafe release. Niko had to come in after he felt something strange and had to stop his race.

The VSC went on in the 2nd last lap with Dorian on the 13th position, but there was no time left to make any difference in the last lap, so Dorian crossed the finish line 13th as well.

P13 Dorian Boccolacci
DNF Niko Kari

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GP3 Race one results &...

A tough start for Verschoor. He lost many places at the start but managed to gain it back during the first two corners. In the end, he only lost one place (8th position). Devlin lost as well one place, but he got it back the lap after.

Verschoor moved already up a position during the second lap not only that he got the fastest race lap as well. He was 7th at that moment.

Devlin DeFrancesco moved up to P15 after he overtook Gabriel Aubry. In the meanwhile Verschoor was flying he moved up to 5th position and passed 2 cars in one lap, but he moved to the 4th position not many laps later after he overtook Jake Hudges from the outside in turn one.

The race eventually finished with a strong result for Richard Verschoor. Devlin DeFrancesco had to do it with the 17th position in the end.

Result
P4 Richard Verschoor
P17 Devlin DeFrancesco

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The Monaco vlog –...

We competed with the Formula 2 and Formula Renault team at Monaco Formula 1 event this year (2018). Monaco is as always a special race circuit/street circuit, and Daniel de Jong will show you around. He will show you the Formula 2, and Formula Renault speeds through each corner, and Roberto Merhi was talking about his secrets?? Find it out in this video.

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You can win a part fro...

Hi All,

We have a Eurocup Formula Renault and Formula 2 race at Monaco on 26/27th May. I am going to do a Questions and Answer with Alex Peroni, Max Defourny and Christian Lundgaard and at the same time, you can win this signed rear wing from last weeks crash at Monza.

Give it a try!

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