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2024 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series
The 2024 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series was the sixteenth Racecar Euro Series season, and the twelfth under the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series branding. The season is scheduled to start on 13 April with the Valencia NASCAR Fest at Circuit Ricardo Tormo and will end on 13 October with the EuroNASCAR Finals at Circuit Zolder. Gianmarco Ercoli and Paul Jouffreau are the reigning champions in EuroNASCAR PRO and EuroNASCAR 2 respectively, although Jouffreau will not defend his title after he announced a full-time move to EuroNASCAR PRO. RDV Competition is the reigning Team's champion. Teams and drivers EuroNASCAR PRO EuroNASCAR 2 EuroNASCAR Club Challenge Confirmed changes Drivers * On 30 October 2023, it was announced that reigning EuroNASCAR 2 champion Paul Jouffreau will be stepping up to the EuroNASCAR PRO division for the full season in 2024. Jouffreau competed part-time in EuroNASCAR PRO in 2023, winning two races and finishing ninth in the standings. * On 2 December 2023, Domini ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Circuit Ricardo Tormo
Circuit Ricardo Tormo, also known as ''Circuit de Valencia'' and officially named ''Circuit de la Comunitat Valenciana Ricardo Tormo'', is a motorsport race track located in Cheste (Valencian Community, Spain) and built in 1999. The track is named after Spanish, two-time world champion Grand Prix motorcycle racer Ricardo Tormo (1952–1998), who died in 1998 of leukemia. It has a capacity of 165,000 and a main straight of . The track hosts the MotoGP Valencian Community Grand Prix. Also, the FIA GT Championship had a race there in 2000 and 2004, the World Touring Car Championship from 2005 to 2012, the European Le Mans Series in 2007, and the DTM from 2010 to 2012. It has also been Formula E's pre-season test venue since the 2017–18 season, having moved from Donington Park, with the circuit also considered a replacement venue for the 2019–20 season because of the COVID-19 crisis cancelling numerous rounds. It was also the GP3 Series (now FIA Formula 3 Championship) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PK Carsport
Pekaracing NV, competing as PK Carsport, is a racing team that currently competes in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series as well as the Belcar Trophy in conjunction with Russell Racing. The team has previously competed in other series such as the FIA GT Championship. History PK Carsport has a long history in Belgian autosport. In 1968 PEKA Racing was founded by racing driver Paul Kumpen. Besides racing Kumpen was an entrepreneur and partial owner of Ridley Bikes. The team initially started in rallycross. In 1989, 1990 and 1991 Kumpen participated in the Dutch and Belgian rounds of the FIA European Rallycross Championship. Racing at the Duivelsbergcircuit, Glossocircuit and Mandescircuit and the Dutch Eurocircuit. He scored his best result in 1990 at the Eurocircuit finishing in ninth place in Division 2. After rallycross the team entered the Formula Opel Euroseries with Jean-François Hemroulle and Oscar Middeldorp in 1992. In 1994 and 1995 the team with Middeldorp switched to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2019 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series
The 2019 NASCAR Whelen Euro Series is the eleventh Racecar Euro Series season, and the seventh under the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series branding. Alon Day and Ulysse Delsaux entered the season as the defending champion in the Elite 1 and Elite 2 category respectively, however Delsaux will not defend his title as he will move up to Elite 1 for the 2019 season. In the Elite 1 class, Loris Hezemans wins his first Elite 1 title, winning the championship by 49 points over PK Carsport driver Stienes Longin. In the Elite 2 class, despite not starting every race of the season, Lasse Sørensen won the title after he scored 7 race wins and finishing in the podium in all but one of his 11 starts. Sørensen and Giorgio Maggi arrived to the final race of the season at Circuit Zolder with only one point separating them in the championship, and Sørensen would finish ahead of Maggi in the race to win the title by 9 points. Hendriks Motorsport, represented by the No. 50 team of Hezemans and Mag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zolder
The Circuit Zolder, also known as Circuit Terlamen, is an undulating motorsport race track in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. History Built in 1963, Zolder hosted the Formula One Belgian Grand Prix on 10 separate occasions in the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the 1980 Belgian motorcycle Grand Prix. F1 moved to Zolder in 1973 and with the exception of a race at Nivelles-Baulers in 1974, Zolder was the location of the Belgian Grand Prix until 1982. That year, Canadian driver Gilles Villeneuve was killed during qualifying at the 1982 Belgian Grand Prix. Villeneuve's Ferrari 126C2 collided at speed with the March 821 of Jochen Mass. The Ferrari was torn up in the accident and when rolling, Villeneuve was thrown from the car. After Villeneuve's death, the Belgian Grand Prix was held at Spa-Francorchamps in 1983, before returning to Zolder one final time in 1984. Fittingly, Ferrari driver Michele Alboreto won the race carrying Villeneuve's #27 on his car. Since , the Belgian Grand Prix h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legends Car Racing
Legends car racing is a style of auto racing designed primarily to promote exciting racing and to keep costs down. The race car bodyshells are 5/8-scale replicas of American automobiles from the 1930s and 1940s, powered by Yamaha XJ1250, FJ1200 (both air-cooled) or, starting in 2018, FZ09 (water-cooled) engines. The worldwide sanctioning body for legends car racing is INEX. Legends cars are a "spec" series, meaning all cars are mechanically identical, with the exception of three styles of car (standard coupe, '34 coupe, and sedan) available with 10 types of body styles. New cars are currently offered with seven body styles, however many used cars exist with the "older" styles. History In 1992, Charlotte Motor Speedway officials noticed a need for lower cost racing cars with little maintenance time and cost. They found such a car existed, in the guise of the motorcycle-engined dwarf car, a 5/8-scale, steel-bodied and fenderless 1935 Ford coupé, which was being manufactured by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alberto Naska
Alberto Fontana (born 14 June 1990 in Turin) known professionally as Alberto Naska is an Italian racing driver, YouTuber and Internet personality that currently competes in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, driving the No. 54 Chevrolet Camaro for CAAL Racing in the EuroNASCAR 2 championship. He is also competing in EuroLegend Cup with car number 54, together with Heroes Valley team and in Mitjet Italian Series with team GRT Motorsport, sharing his car with Ian Rocca. He also raced as wild card in the Campionato Italiano Gran Turismo at Autodromo Nazionale Monza. Racing career Alberto Naska debuted in 2006 as a virtual racer and won a championship in 2007 year. As a reward he received the possibility of driving a Formula Renault, Formula Renault 2000 Lite on track. In 2012 Naska took part at the Swiss racing reality show ''Make it Your Race'', organized by Abarth and won the Abarth Benelux Trophy in 2013. In 2018 Alberto Naska began his amateur motorcycle racing career in the Trof ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jayski's Silly Season Site
Jayski's Silly Season Site is a web site focusing primarily on NASCAR news and rumors. The website was founded by Jay "Jayski" Adamczyk in 1996 after he had difficulty finding news regarding the Melling Racing team, and subsequently worked to get all NASCAR news grouped together on the site. The site was purchased from Adamczyk by ESPN in 2007; after ESPN shut the site down in January 2019, Adamczyk reacquired the rights to Jayski-related properties in April 2019 and rolled out a limited version of the new website with a full launch occurring on May 13, 2019. Website The name for Jayski's Silly Season Site is a reference to the midpoint of the NASCAR season when rumors within the sport most often circulate. The main feature of the site is a "News and Rumors" page for the major three NASCAR series. The sites also hosts pictures of the paint schemes used by teams throughout that year, television schedules and tributes to deceased drivers. The site also lists series statistics and e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gil Linster
Gil Linster (born November 3, 1993) is a Luxembourgish professional stock car racing driver who competes full-time in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series driving the No. 50 Toyota Camry for Hendriks Motorsport, and part-time in the ARCA Menards Series driving the No. 68 Ford Motor Company, Ford for Kimmel Racing. Racing career In 2017, Linster ran full-time in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series Elite 2, driving the No. 44 Chevrolet for CAAL Racing, where he finished ninth in the standings with a best finish of fourth at the season ending race at Circuit Zolder. He returned with the team the following year, where he finished fifth in the standings with a best finish of fifth at Tours Speedway. After not competing in the series for the next two years, Linster returned to the series in 2021, driving the No. 77 Chevrolet for DF1 Racing at Autodrom Most, Automotodrom Grobnik, and Zolder, where he earned a best finish of fifth at the second Most race. In 2022, Linster ran the full Elite 2 schedu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sebastiaan Bleekemolen
Sebastiaan Bleekemolen (born 9 August 1978 in Haarlem) is a Dutch racing driver that currently competes in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series, driving for the family-owned Team Bleekemolen in the No. 69 Ford Mustang in the Elite 1 class. His brother Jeroen and father Michael are also racing drivers. His father is a former Formula One driver, who has competed with RAM and ATS. Sebastiaan won the Benelux and Dutch Formula Ford 1800 championships in 1996, but decided early in his career formula racing was not his thing and already started driving sports cars and touring cars from 1997. Since 2002 he has been very successful in sports car racing and touring car racing. He became the Dutch Renault Clio Cup champion three times, winning the championship in 2002, 2004 and 2011. He won the Dutch Winter Endurance championship in 2003-04 and in 2009-10. Since 2010 he participated in the American Le Mans Series. He has always driven a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup in the GTC class, but with three di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CAAL Racing
CAAL Racing is an Italian racing team based in Todi, Province of Perugia that currently competes in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series. The team has won the Elite 1 championship twice in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series as well as winning the team championship five times in the defunct Superstars Series. The team currently fields the No. 54 Chevrolet Camaro for Gianmarco Ercoli and Luli del Castello, the No. 56 Chevrolet Camaro for Nicolò Rocca and Gil Linster, and the No. 88 Chevrolet Camaro for Max Lanza and Alberto "Naska" Fontana. History Superstars Series CAAL Racing has been active in the Superstars Series since its inaugural season in 2004. The team fielded Francesco Ascani in a BMW M5 E39. The Italian driver won races at Varano and Monza. Ascani won the inaugural season of the start up series beating the only other full time driver, Mauro Simoncini, by 14 points. The following season the team, as well as the series, expanded. Ascani was retained by the team and two part-tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Instagram
Instagram is a photo and video sharing social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with preapproved followers. Users can browse other users' content by tag and location, view trending content, like photos, and follow other users to add their content to a personal feed. Instagram was originally distinguished by allowing content to be framed only in a square (1:1) aspect ratio of 640 pixels to match the display width of the iPhone at the time. In 2015, this restriction was eased with an increase to 1080 pixels. It also added messaging features, the ability to include multiple images or videos in a single post, and a Stories feature—similar to its main competitor Snapchat—which allowed users to post their content to a sequential feed, with each post accessible to others for 24 hours. As of Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ryan Vargas
Ryan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Ryan (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) *Ryan (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Places Australia * Division of Ryan, an electoral district in the Australian House of Representatives, in Queensland *Ryan, New South Wales *Ryan, Queensland, a suburb of the City of Mount Isa United States *Ryan, California *Ryan, former name of Lila C, California *Ryan, Iowa * Ryan, Minnesota *Ryan, Illinois *Ryan, Oklahoma *Ryan, Washington *Ryan, West Virginia *Ryan Park, Wyoming *Ryan Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Film, radio, television and web * ''Ryan'' (film), an animated documentary * ''Ryan'' (TV series), 1970s Australian TV series *''Von Ryan's Express'', a 1965 World War II adventure film Other uses *Ryan M-1, an airplane *Ryan Aeronautical Company (Claude Ryan) *Ryanair (Tony Ryan) *Ryan Field (other) *Ryan International Airlines (Ron Ryan) *Ryan In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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