WSR SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS 2014

SCRIPT 26 MIN In English

PART 1

00’00’’ Opening titles – Do not talk

00’22 Summary In this World Series by Magazine, you will know all about the track with Red Bull Driver Jean-Eric Vergne. morethe only lady among the boys in 3.5: BeitskeVisser

00’32’’ …Thenlet’s find out more about the young Flying Dutch: Nick De Vries

00’40’’ … We will meet the the only lady FR 3.5: BeitskeVisser

00’48’’ … and you will get the highlights of an amazing racing week-end.

00’57’’ Postcard Just a few days after Monaco, the FR3.5 boys and the rest of the field are heading to Belgium for the 3rd WSR weekend of the 2014 season. They are all exited to race on the most beautiful racetrack of the calendar.

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01’17’’Jingle Spa: Technical Facts Spa Francorchamps (with JE Vergne)

Voice Over: The Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps motor-racing circuit is the venue of the Belgian Grand Prix, the Spa 24 Hours, and the World Series by Renault…The famous F1 track Spa Francorchamps - A circuit steeped in history - with it's world famous fast corners and challenging climbs - it's 7km of pure adrenalin and a firm favorite with the drivers…

01’45‘’ Intro: “Hi everybody. Here we are in Spa-Francorchamps. We have this beautiful sun and we gonna have a very good weekend here!”

01’52” VOICE OVER Coming from Monaco and before heading to Montréal, the Red Bull driver makes a stop in Belgium to enjoy a friendly weekend in the WSR paddock with friends and fans.

02’06’’ Interview Jean-Eric Vergne (FR–Infiniti Driver) IN ENGLISH “I’m really happy to come back. You know, I’ve been in the World Series Renault’s family for five years before going to Formula One and it’s very nice to come back to see great races. On top of this, we will have a beautiful weekend in Spa-Francorchamps with the sun which is pretty good to have here. ”

02’28” “The season so far is pretty good. I think i had a lot of bad luck but beside the bad luck, we’ve shown some really strong performances and, you know, we are really looking for the rest of the season. We have new updates coming on the car. The car is performing well and everybody is showing in the team that we are going to score some good points in a near future. So it’s all positive.”

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02’56’’ VOICE OVER Let’s talk about the track...

03’05’’ Interview Jean-Eric Vergne (FR–Infiniti Red Bull Racing Driver) IN ENGLISH “La Source, first corner. It’s a basic hairpin. Pretty tight, going down, we need an exit as clean as possible because we have a very long straight line going to “Eau Rouge” which is flat out in Formula One. You need to come with the maximum speed as possible, as you got the hill you lose a little bit of performance. And then, you have a very long straight line coming a little bit up hill. It is where you need the maximum of performance. This exit of La Source is extremely important. Then we have a corner in Formula One which is not really a corner: Blanchimont! It is pretty easy for us. It’s flat out. It becomes a real challenge in the wet. I think it’s the best place to drive a Formula One Car. It’s really amazing. I love it.”

04’01’’ VOICE OVER Let’s take the action on the most exciting track of the world!

04’22’’ Jingle FR 1.6 : the Sundahl

04’27’’ Voice Over: The 1.6 North European Championship is in the WSR program this weekend in Spa. Let’s have a look closer to this category full of young talents. This is Sundhall team from Sweden.

04’42’’ ITV Par Sundahl – Team Manager In English “We are only a family team. I am the father, the team manager. We have here the Grand Father, Grand Mother, step-father. My uncle who drove a lot of races in the past? We are a complete family team to do this serie”

04’58’’ Voice Over: 7 races are on the FR 1.6 NEC calendar with Zolder, Zandvoort, Assen, Nurburgring and Spa. 22 drivers were in Spa. For some of them, it is the first opportunity to drive a single seatter car on a F1 track

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05’05’’ ITV Lukas Sundahl – #100 Sundahl Racing In English “I choose this category because it is an easy car. I think it is a good step to get into the single seater. It is very nice to drive and not so hard to get used to set up the car, the wings, it is not too hard. You just come with your helmet and your racing suite then you drive. Here you have to do everything. Working with the car at home, the settings. Yes, everything, it is fun”

05’34’’ ITV Par Sundahl – Team Manager In English “This is a perfect class to come in after karting because it is a very good car and you can, as we do, work with the car yourself, to have a family team so the costs are not too high. For the drivers, they can drive a lot for a low cost and learn to drive and then take the step up in the Renault series.

06’06’’ Jingle Highlights Formula Renault 3.5 Series Race 1

06’11’’ Race Start From his fourth pole position of the season, Carlos SAINZ JUNIOR #1 (ESP – Dams) makes a brilliant start and dive in “La Source” hairpin with the lead. #7 (FR – ARDEN MOTORSPORT) from the first line follows in P2.

06’31’’ At Les Combes Corner, #22 (ESP – ) clips the car of Richie STANAWAY #16 (NZL – Lotus). Bot cars spin. Sergey SIROTKIN #3 (RUS – FortecMotorsports ) touched the rear wheel of STANAWAY and flies in the air as ZoelAMBERG #20 (SUI – AVF) crashes in MERHI. The Safety Car is deployed.

06’45’’ Re-start.SAINZ is pushing hard to pull away.

06’54’’ NormanNATO #2 (FRA – DAMS) overtakes PietroFANTIN #5 (BRA – ) for P4 at “Eau Rouge”.

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07’00’’ Soon after FANTIN crashes with MeindertVAN BUUREN #26 (ESP – Pons Racing).

07’10’’ SAINZ is just flying as GASLY is controlling MatiasLAINE (FIN – Strakka Racing) for P2.

07’13’’ AJazeman JAAFAR #17 (MAS – ISR) overtakes NATO for P4.

07’28’’ BeitskeVISSER #19 (NED – AVF) overtakesRoman MAVLANOV #21 (RUS – Zeta Corse) for a Rookie’s podium.

07’42’’ Second posion for GASLY.LAINE is third and JAAFAR fourth.

07’48’’ Second at the championship, OliverROWLAND#4 (GBR – Fortec ) retired.

07’55’’ JAAFAR #17overtakes LAINEfor P3 in the last lap.

08’03’’ Carlos SAINZ Junior signs his third victory of the season after six races. Impressive.

08’11’’ Team celebration

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08’19’’ ITW Winner Carlos SAINZ Junior #1 (ESP - Dams) In English “It was a brilliant win. To win in Spa feels great. I mean, it is one of the best feelings to win on this mythic track. The race was not easy because the start was aborted nearly twice and I had also a safety Car, and it’s not easy to keep the lead here. So I was happy to keep the lead after those two controversial part of the race and I did not expected to have this space at all. The pace was brilliant and to be honesty I did not expected it.”

08’48’’ Podium celebration

SAINZ Winner and strong championship leader. GASLY Second JAAFARthird

09’01’’ GFX Race 1 Result

09’10’’Action clip 3.5 : do not talk

09’29’’ Jingle

09’33’’End of PART 1

PART 2

00’00’’ Jingle Highlights Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Race 1

00’05’’ Race start Championship leader Nyckde Vries #19 (NED – Koiranen GP) scored his second Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 pole of the season at Spa on Saturday morning. The Dutchman shares the front row with Kevin Jorg#15 (CHE – ). Lining up right behind them will be Dennis Olsen #22 (NOR - PremaPowerteam) and Callan O’Keeffe #6 (RSA - ART Junior Team). Great start (at the endurance starting line). All OK throught Eau Rouge. It won’t be the case at Les Combes…

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00’25’’ Dennis Olsen #22 (NOR - PremaPowerteam) and Kevin JÖRG #15 (CHE – Josef Kaufmann Racing) overtake De Vries now 3rd. Behind, StijnSchothorst #11 (NED – ) is out of the race after a contact in the pack.

00’37’’ Battle or 12th place at La Source between Antoine Hubert #1 (FRA – )and #17 (NZL –Koiranen)

00’47’’ A few laps later, Dennis Korneev #46 (RUS – JD Motorsport) is pushed and stop at La Source. The car is in a dangerous position. The Race director decides to release the safety car.

01’00’’ At the restart,Dennis Olsen#22 leads the race ahead of DeVries #19and Bonifacio #20

01’11’’ Dennis Olsen #22maintains a strong pace. He is just a few tenths ahead of pole man and championship leader Nick De Vries #19.

01’18’’ Battle for 7th place between Jorg #15 and Panis #4 (son of Olivier Panis, Former F1 driver and Monaco GP winner).

01’27’’ After 17 laps, Dennis Olsenwins the first race of the weekend in FR2.0 ahead of Nick De Vries #19. Bruno Bonifacio #20 is 3rd overall.Albon #23 is 4th andAmweg #5 is 5th overall.

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01’50’ ITW Winner Dennis Olsen#22 In English “Nick is a really good driver so it was difficult to keep him behind. The pace was good and the car was fantastic the whole race. The car was easy to drive so it was a perfect race for me”

02’02’’Podium Celebration with: Dennis OLSEN Nick de VRIES Bruno BONIFACIO

02’12’’ GFX Race 1

02’23’’ Clip - do not talk

02’54’’ Jingle Feature : The FlyingDeutch - .

02’58” VOICE OVER Karting prodigy, Nyck de Vries switched to single-seater when he was seventeen only. After two seasons of stiff learning curve, he is now ready to play the leading role.

03’14” ITW Nyck de Vries (Koiranen GP) In English We had a difficult start of season last year. Luckily we managed to get things right for the second half of the season. We mainly focused continuing that success into this season. So far we had succeeded quite well. I think we could have done a little bit better without some small mistakes, but we are there...”

03’36” VOICE OVER This season, the nineteen years old Dutch benefits from the experience he has built with the team Koiranen GP.

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03’48” ITW AfaHeikkinen (Team Manager Koiranen GP) In English “We started working with him last year and then of course we spent the full season, and we understand each other much better after the one season. It’s developing very well. I think he is very confident and we are very happy with him.”

04’00” VOICE OVER Getting confidence, it was all about that the for the double karting world champion...

04’08” ITW Nyck de Vries (Koiranen GP) In English ”Being confident in the car and feeling like one with the car. I mean, obviously, you cannot forget that in karting you start with five, six years old and you spend so many years before you actually start to compete at an international level! In cars, they expecting you jumping from karting and immediately be at the level you finished karting. So, I think it just takes time.”

04’36” VOICE OVER Since 2010, the rising star belongs to the McLaren Driver Program and spends time in the famous F1 team based in Woking.

04’42” ITW Nyck de Vries (Koiranen GP) In English “Once a month I go to McLaren to see my trainer. He completely looks after my training program and schedule, and then I’m seeing Doctor Aki Hintsa in Geneva to make sure I’m mentally in a right state.”

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04’58” VOICE OVER Once again, the benefits are there and can be estimated on track.

05’05” ITW Jan Suma (Team Manager Koiranen GP) In English ”It’s nice to see impact on his driving, how he is acting on track. Also how he is taking, maybe, some mistakes and how he is handling that. So, yes, very happy with the development.”

05’18” VOICE OVER The target of Nyck this season is clear: winning all he can…

05’24” ITW Nyck de Vries (Koiranen GP) In English “I think it’s quite clear that the Eurocup 2.0 is the main championship, but also the ALPS is important as well. I would say, the Eurocup is a bit more important for us.”

05’36” VOICE OVER For Nyck de Vries the racing line is now wide open in front of him and the future looks definitively bright.

05’45’’Jingle Highlights Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 Race 2

05’50’’ Race start 3rd pole this season for NyckDe Vries #19 (NED – Koiranen GP). Aurélien Panis#4 (FRA – ART Junior Team) is 2ndon the grid ahead of Dennis Olsen#22 (NOR - PremaPowerteam). Bruno Bonifacio#20 (BRA – PremaPowerTeam is 4th.Great start (at the endurance starting line) for De Vries #19 who keeps the lead ahead of Panis#4, Olsen#22 is 3rd just ahead of Bonifacio #20.

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06’13’’ In les Combes, De Vries #19 leads in front of Bonifacio #20now 2nd, Panis #4 is pushed from the back and span. The French will be able to rejoin the race but far from the leading positions. Olsen #22 is 3rd behind the Brazilian driver

06’20’’ In the 3rd lap, Bonifacio #20overtakes De Vries #19 in the Kemel straight. Olsen #22tries on De Vries #19 but the Dutch, inside, is on the right lane and remains P2.

06’35’’ Behind the leadig pack, Callan O’Keeffe #6 is 4th.

06’41’’ Lap 7, Oslen #22is quicker than De Vries #19 in the Kemel straight. He tries to overtake but De Vries changes his line, close the door. Olsen #22has 2 wheels on the grass. At the corner of Les Combes, Olsen #22 is on the inside and passes De Vries #19. The winner of the first race is now 2nd behindBonifacio #20

06’54’’ NowCallan O’Keeffe #6 is on De Vries#19. Again, De Vries#19 is fighting for his position. He remains 3rd.

07’14’’ At the end of the race, Olsen #22 is just behindBonifacio #20. The leading drivers are in a second. Bonifacio #20 keeps Olsen #22 behind until the checkered flag and wins the 2nd race of the weekend.De Vries#19is 3rd.

07’37’’ GFX Race 1

07’48’’ Olsen congratulates Bonifacio

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07’56’ ITW Winner Bruno Bonifacio #20 In English “This is a very special track for me. It is my favourite track and racing here is always fantastic. It has been a great season so far, perfect weekend I can say…almost perfect weekend. 4 races, 4 podiums and first victory in Eurocup.

08’11’’Podium Celebration with:

Bruno BONIFACIO Dennis OLSEN Nick de VRIES

08’23’’ GFX Drivers Championship Classification

08’33’’ Action clip – Do not talk

08’53’’ Jingle

08’57’’End of PART 2

PART 3

00’00’’ Jingle Feature FR 3.5: Beitske Visser, the lady among the boys

00’05‘’ Voice Over: In Spa, for the 4th meeting of the WSR season, we meet a very special lady…

00’15’’ ITW BeitskeVisser#19 (NED – AVF) In ENGLISH “I am Beitske Visser, I am 19 years old and I am driving for AVF Formula

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00’20‘’ Voice Over: She is the only girl competing in the Formula Renault 3.5 series this year After 2 years in the Formel ADAC, the young Deutsch driver is one of the Rookie of the paddock.

00’34’’ ITW BeitskeVisser#19 (NED – AVF) In ENGLISH “My father used to race in Touring cars and when I was 5 years old, he has got me a Go-Kart and from then on I started racing and I liked a lot so I kept on going. I have always been used to be one of the only girl. In this high level, there is almost n o one but I am quite used to it so for me it is OK”

00’59‘’ Voice Over: Beitske is now leaving in Barcelona to be closer to the team. On each WSR weekends, she can count on her family. Her young sister, dad and mum who follow her on each race.

01’04’’ ITW JantinaVisser – mother of Beitske In ENGLISH “The 3.5 are going very fast. There is some danger, I know but there are a lot of danger in this world. Also to go to school by bike is also dangerous. I am used to it”

01’18’’ Voice Over: Beitske wears both colours for her gloves and her shoes. A bit the same as Alex Wurz…

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01’26’’ ITW BeitskeVisser#19 (NED – AVF) In ENGLISH “I have always used red and blue shoes and gloves and I think it just brings me luck. I already started doing it in karting. I don’t exactly remember why I didit but since then I have always been doing it”.

1’39’’ Voice Over: Beitske is the only female driver to compete in this high level in FR 3.5 Not an easy task for a few reasons…

01’44’’ ITW Adrian Valles Team Owner In ENGLISH “This series which is the previous before F1, the car has a lot of downforce. It is really fast, especially physically because you have to be very strong. It was one of her main problem at the beginning with this car but now I am very surprised with her because every day she is committed. She lives now next to the team in Barcelona, she is training everyday, morning, afternoon…she is progressing so much”.

02’14’’ ITW BeitskeVisser#19 (NED – AVF) In ENGLISH “A FR 3.5 car is for sure harder because the corners are much faster and physically, it is very hard. All the drivers here are good drivers and they have a lot of experience and also physically the car is very hard so it is very though to be in the front. I have always said that I want to reach Formula 1. It is a goal I am aiming for I will do everything for it”.

02’38’’ Clip – Do not talk

02’47” Jingle Highlights Formula Renault 3.5 Series Race 2

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02’52’’ Race Start From his fifth pole position of the season, Carlos SAINZ JUNIOR #1 (ESP – Dams) manages to control OliverROWLAND#4 (GBR – Fortec Motorsports) underbreaking at the hairpin. #11 (GBR – Strakka Racing) is P3 while MatiasLAINE #12 (FIN – Strakka Racing) takes a great start from the fourth line to jump P4.

03’12’’ At the Combes Corner, Pietro FANTIN #5 (BRA – DRACO RACING) loses his car and crashes in the tyres wall.

03’21’’ Beginning of lap two, Richie STANAWAY#16 (NZL – Lotus) overtakes LAINEat the hairpin for P4.

03’26’’ SAINZ tries hard to pull away but ROWLAND keeps the gap under the second. STEWENS who runs P3 is the first from the leading group to pit for the mandatory stop.

03’34’’ Bad weekend for Sergey SIROTKIN #3 (RUS – Fortec Motorsports) who retired on the track.

03’36’’ Pierre Gasly#7 (FRA , ARDEN MOTORSPORT), Norman Nato#21 (FRA – Dams)and Roman MAVLANOV (RUS – Zeta Corse) fight hard in the midfield.

03’46’’ Small gap still betweenSAINZ #1 and ROWLAND #4 who pit at the same lap.

03’55’’ SAINZ #1 enjoys a clear pit-stop

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04’08’’ ROWLAND #4 loses time and leaves the pitlane.

04’11’’ ROWLAND #4 comes back P3 on track behind STEVENS #11

04’18’’ It’s all over for #6 (ITA - DRACO RACING)

04’20’’ STANAWAY #16 pits at end of lap 12 and comes back in front of ROWLAND for P3. Unfortunately, the pit-stop is done too late and he got 20’’ penalty.

04’36’’ SAINZ is just flying 10’’ in front of STEVENS and ROWLAND.

04’48’’ Carlos SAINZ Junior signs his fourth victory (first double win of the season) and pull away at the championship.

04’51’’ GFX Race 2 Result

05’01’’ Team celebration with Carlos Sainz and Dams.

05’08’’ ITW Winner Carlos SAINZ Junior #1 (ESP - Dams) In English “Obviously we had much more opposition than yesterday. Especially in the first stint of the race, was very quick behind us. He picked up a lot of pace compare to us. It’s a strong weekend regarding the championship for sure. The best news of the weekend is to be a bit more ahead in the championship now.”

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05’30’’ Driver Championship Classification

05’39’’ Podium celebration

SAINZ Winner and strong championship leader. STEWENS second signs his best result of the season. ROWLAND save the podium

05’55’’ Great success again in Spa this weekend with 68.000 people attending the event. Plenty of actions on and off the track for the Belgium fans.

06’17’’ Jingle Coming Next: See you in Raceway, 28-29 of June, for the next WSR weekend.

06’32’’ Closing Credits

06’53’’ End of PART 3

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