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Frank Bird (racing Driver)
Frank "Frankie" Bird Jr. (born 20 August 1999) is a British racing driver. He is part of the Mercedes-AMG driver lineup, having been introduced to the programme as a junior driver in 2024. Career After starting out his career in 2015 racing in the Ginetta Junior Championship, Bird switched to single-seaters, competing in British F4 and the Formula Renault Eurocup without much success. He raced in the Eurocup until 2019 before moving into GT3 competition, having previously competed in several GT4 races and taken a Renault Clio Cup class win at the 2018 Dubai 24 Hour. In 2020, Bird entered the Silver Cup class of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup with Team Parker Racing as part of Bentley's academy programme. The following year, Bird moved to the GTWC Sprint Cup, finishing second in class after taking two Silver Cup wins alongside Ryuichiro Tomita. Bird then entered the ADAC GT Masters in 2022 with Team Landgraf, though he would end up 21st in the overall standin ...
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Nassington
'Nassington'' is a village and civil parish in North Northamptonshire, England. The village is on the River Nene and the border with Cambridgeshire, around west of Peterborough. At the 2021 census, the population of the parish was 867, an increase from 827 at the 2021 Census, and 670 at the 2001 census. The village's name means 'Promontory place farm/settlement'. The village has existed since at least Anglo-Saxon times, for an Anglo-Saxon hall was taken over by the Viking king, Cnut the Great, as one of his royal halls. Cnut is known to have visited after 1017, with his court including Aethelric the bishop of Dorchester on Thames. In 1107 Henry I gave the hall and land to the Bishop of Lincoln, Robert Bloet, to endow a prebend. The village and manor were featured in episode 117, ''King Cnut's Manor'' of ''Time Team ''Time Team'' is a British television programme that originally aired on Channel 4, Channel 4 from 16 January 1994 to 7 September 2 ...
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Team Parker Racing
Team Parker Racing is a motorsport team based in Leicestershire, in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1997 it has previously competed in Formula Vauxhall Junior, British Formula 3, GT World Challenge Europe, and, more recently, in the British Touring Car Championship, where it is a race-winner, alongside long-term relationships with the Porsche Carrera Cup GB and Caterham. For 2021 the team will race in the British GT Championship, Porsche Supercup, Porsche Carrera Cup GB The Porsche Carrera Cup Great Britain is a multi-event One-Design, one-make Motorsport, motor racing series that takes place in the United Kingdom for the Porsche 911 GT3. Being the fastest and most successful single marque GT championship in t ..., Porsche Sprint Challenge GB, and select Caterham events. The team partnered with Racing Pride in 2019 to support greater inclusivity across the British motorsport industry for LGBT+ fans, employees and drivers References External links Team Parker Racing Offi ...
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2018 Formula Renault Eurocup
The 2018 Formula Renault Eurocup is a multi-event motor racing championship for open wheel, formula racing cars held across Europe. The championship features drivers competing in 2 litre Formula Renault single seat race cars that conform to the technical regulations for the championship. The 2018 season is the 28th Formula Renault Eurocup season organized by the Renault Sport and the third season as the main category of the World Series by Renault. The series will visit ten circuits around the Europe, including Monaco. Teams and drivers In 2018 the series was scheduled to feature the same nine teams as in previous year. But Mark Burdett Motorsport wasn't able to appear on the grid. Driver changes * French F4 Championship champion Arthur Rougier and SMP F4 Championship driver Vladimiros Tziortzis joined Fortec Motorsports. BRDC British Formula 3 Championship driver Jordan Cane was expected to make his Eurocup debut with Fortec but later he aborted this plan. While Raúl Gu ...
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2017 Formula Renault Northern European Cup
The 2017 Formula Renault Northern European Cup is the twelfth Formula Renault Northern European Cup season, an open-wheel motor racing series for emerging young racing drivers based in Europe. Drivers and teams * For the Spa event, some drivers used different numbers in line with Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 regulations; each driver's Spa race number is displayed in tooltips. Calendar The provisional calendar for the 2017 season was announced on 2 December 2016. On 28 December 2016 was confirmed that Circuit Paul Ricard will host the seventh venue for the season. A revision of the calendar reduced the number of rounds to five and amended the clashes between the series and the Eurocup series. At Spa NEC drivers joined Eurocup drivers on the grid, but the Eurocup drivers were ineligible to score points, and despite that on track races 1 & 3 were won by Sacha Fenestraz and race 2 by Gabriel Aubry they didn't receive NEC trophies. Championship standings ;Points system Points we ...
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2016 Eurocup Formula Renault 2
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Renault Sport
Renault Sport () or Renaultsport, was a motorsport, performance and special vehicles division for Renault-badged cars and later a sub-badge of Renault cars managed by Automobiles Alpine, Alpine. The first Renault Sport was officially established as a company in 1976 as a merger between the Alpine and Gordini competition departments. It was made a division and reorganised in 2002 and 2016. In December 2021, all Renault Sport operations were merged into an Alpine-led business unit. The Renault Sport car range under Alpine was completely phased out by the end of 2023. History Renault Sport was created at the end of 1976, when Renault closed down the Alpine (automobile), Alpine competition department (at that time, its main motorsport division), located at Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, Dieppe, and moved all the racing activities to the Gordini factory at Viry-Châtillon, just outside Paris. The Dieppe-based Alpine department specialised in the construction of race car chassis while the ...
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Fortec Motorsports
Fortec Motorsport Ltd. is a motor-racing team that races in the GB3 Championship, GB4 Championship, and F4 British Championship. The team was bought in 1995 by current owner Richard Dutton. Past drivers for the team include Juan Pablo Montoya, Gianmaria Bruni, Danny Watts, Jamie Green, James Rossiter, Mike Conway, Fabio Carbone and Heikki Kovalainen. History The company was formed in Newark-on-Trent in 1989 by Peter Ablewhite, of Long Bennington, and mechanical engineer Peter Maxted of Brant Broughton. It moved to part of a 50-acre site at Gonerby Moor in 1995, nearby to the NAAFI distribution centre.''Grantham Journal'' Thursday 4 April 1996, page 3 The company left Grantham in 1999. Fortec has enjoyed great success since its inception. In 2002 Danny Watts won the British Formula Renault Championship for the team, with team-mate Jamie Green following close behind in second. In the same year, Fabio Carbone won the prestigious Marlboro Masters Formula Three race, held at Za ...
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Mercedes-AMG GT
The Mercedes-AMG GT is a series of 2-door sports cars produced by German automobile manufacturer Mercedes-AMG. The car was introduced on 9 September 2014 and was officially unveiled to the public in October 2014 at the Paris Motor Show. While not directly replacing the SLS AMG (competing in a different segment), it is the second sports car developed entirely in-house by Mercedes-AMG. The Mercedes-AMG GT went on sale in two variants (GT and GT S) in March 2015, while a GT3 racing variant of the car was introduced in 2015. A high performance variant called the GT R was introduced in 2016. A GT4 racing variant, targeted at semi-professional drivers and based on the GT R variant, was introduced in 2017. In 2021, a new variant called the AMG GT Black Series was released. All variants are assembled at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Sindelfingen, Germany. The first-generation AMG GT in October 2021. That same month, Mercedes-Benz announced the new Mercedes-AMG R232 SL-Cla ...
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2023 24 Hours Of Nürburgring
__FORCETOC__ The 2023 Nürburgring 24 Hours (officially known as ADAC TotalEnergies 24h Race at the Nürburgring Nordschleife for sponsorship reasons) was the 51st running of the Nürburgring 24 Hours, which took place over 20–21 May 2023. The Frikadelli Racing Team won overall with a Ferrari 296 GT3, the first win for an Italian car and the first non-German marque to win the race since Chrysler in 2002. This was the last race with TotalEnergies as the title sponsor, with Ravenol replacing the former in the 2024 season. Entry list Qualifying Top Qualifying / Starting Group 1 Starting Group 2 Starting Group 3 Race Result * Entries in bold are class winners. * Drivers in ''italics'' were entered in cars that completed the race, however did not complete the required 15 laps to be classified as a finisher. * The minimum number of laps for classification at the finish (50 per cent of the overall race winner's distance) was 81 laps. Notes References Ext ...
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Paul Bird Motorsport
Paul Bird Motorsport are a British motorcycle road racing, car racing and rallying organisation. From 2024, following owner Paul Bird's death in 2023, the motorcycle road racing operation was renamed Paul Bird Racing with Glenn Irwin as sole rider in British Superbike class. Paul Bird had competed as a rally driver and a solo-rider in motocross. His son Frank is a car racer. Motorcycle racing The team competes in the British Superbike Championship, using Ducati machinery from 2016, based on the 1199 Panigale R,VisionTrack Ducati Launched In London
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Jordan Love (racing Driver)
Jordan Love (born 27 April 1999) is a racing driver from Australia. He currently competes in a variety of Group GT3 championships for Mercedes-AMG Mercedes-AMG GmbH, commonly known as AMG (Aufrecht, Melcher, Großaspach), is the high-performance subsidiary of Mercedes-Benz, Mercedes-Benz AG. AMG independently hires engineers and contracts with manufacturers to customize Mercedes-Benz AMG v .... Results Career summary *Season in progress. † As he was a guest driver, Love was ineligible to score points. Complete Australian Formula 4 Championship results ( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Complete ADAC Formula 4 Championship results ( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Complete Formula 4 South East Asia Championship results ( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap) Complete Bathurst 12 Hour results Porsche Supercup ...
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