ISSUE 3 | 2018 FORMULA 3 GRAND PRIX

FORMULA 3 – FIA F3 – FIA F3 WORLD CUP Top 5 after Round 30 FIA FORMULA 3 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP Zhou continued to hold the POS DRIVER TEAM PTS lead to take his second 1 PREMA 365 PREMA Theodore Racing driver Mick victory of the season. 2 Daniel Ticktum Motopark 308 Schumacher won the FIA Formula 3 European Shvartzman finished 3 Robert Shvartzman PREMA Theodore Racing 294 Championship, taking the title with a race to second ahead of a hard- 4 Jüri Vips Motopark 284 5 PREMA Theodore Racing 260 spare at series’ season finale at Hockenheim. charging Vips who took the final podium position. Palou was fourth and Ticktum fifth, ahead of “Of course, I am really happy with my title win,” PREMA Theodore Racing’s , third at Macao last year. With his Schumacher said. “I can hardly describe what second-place finish, Shvartzman wrapped up the rookie title. a beautiful feeling it is to be doing something that you love really well. However, I also have a FIA FORMULA 3 Pole-sitter Vips took the lead at the start of Race 2, but immediately found EUROPEAN CHAMPION great team around me that is giving me the best MICK SCHUMACHER himself under pressure from Schumacher. Following a period, conditions, enabling me to concentrate on what Vips took the lead at the restart, with Schumacher again piling on the is important. I reckon that that is one of the keys to success. Moreover, we pressure. However, Vips stayed in front to win ahead of Schumacher and never gave up this season and have always tried to improve further. We Aron. Further down the field Ticktum, who had started from 15th on the grid, never stopped working on ourselves.” made his way to seventh, but it was not enough to keep his title hopes alive.

Schumacher, who made his Macao debut last year, returns to the Guia Pole-sitter Shvartzman celebrated a dominant victory in the final race Circuit this year as one of the favourites to take the same Formula 3 Macau of the season, finishing more than 10 seconds ahead of new champion Grand Prix win that his father took in 1990. Motopark’s Ticktum also Schumacher. Third on the podium was Palou, with Ticktum’s fourth-place returns as he vies to be the fourth driver to earn a double Macao F3 victory finish securing the Briton the runner-up spot in the championship. after , and António Félix da Costa. JAPANESE FORMULA 3 CHAMPIONSHIP

Kuo Team TOM’S driver dominated the Japanese Formula 3 Championship, winning the final two races of the season at Fuji. Tsuboi, who returns to Macao this year, won 17 races this season. Tsuboi’s team mate , 12 at Macao last year, was second in the drivers classification, ahead of of ThreeBond Racing. Fourth in the championship standings was Toda Racing’s , while B-Max Racing Team driver Yu Kanamaru was fifth overall. Third in the championship standings is PREMA Theodore Racing driver Robert Shvartzman, the winner of the rookie title. Shvartzman makes his Macao debut in November as do Motopark’s Jüri Vips and Shvartzman’s team mate Marcus Armstrong, who were fourth and fifth in the championship standings, respectively.

DAN TICKTUM At the final triple-header in Hockenheim, PREMA Theodore Racing’s , eighth at Macao last year, was on pole position for the opening race. The Chinese driver took the lead at the start. Contact between Schumacher and Armstrong sent SHO TSUBOI both drivers into the pits for repairs, but while Armstrong was later forced Tsuboi once again demonstrated his command of the championship in to retire, Schumacher began making his way through the field to finish 12th. the final two races of the season. Starting from pole position, Tsuboi took the chequered flag of the opening race by more than 24 seconds ahead of SCHUMACHER AT THE SEASON FINALE AT HOCKENHEIM Sakaguchi and Shunsuke Kohno of RS Fine.

In the final race of the season, JAPANESE FORMULA 3 Tsuboi was again on pole, CHAMPIONSHIP although he qualified just a tenth Top 5 after Round 19 of a second faster than his team POS DRIVER TEAM PTS mate Miyata. This time the race 1 Sho Tsuboi Kuo Team TOM’S 214 was a closer affair, with Tsuboi 2 Ritomo Miyata Kuo Team TOM’S 117 winning by nearly a four-second 3 Ukyo Sasahara ThreeBond Racing 65 margin ahead of Sasahara 4 Sena Sakaguchi Toda Racing 52 and Miyata. 5 Yu Kanamaru B-Max Racing Team 40 MACAU GRAND PRIX BULLETIN ISSUE 3 | 2018 1 MACAU GT CUP – FIA GT WORLD CUP DTM

Four-time Macau GT Cup winner Edoardo Mortara, who returns to the to defend his FIA GT World Cup title in November, finished sixth in this year’s DTM Championship. Other DTM drivers who will race at Macao in November include and .

Several Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix and Macau GT Cup alumni competed in this year’s DTM, including René Rast, who was second overall in the drivers classification and , sixth in last year’s Macau GT Cup, was fourth overall. 2011 Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix winner also competed in DTM, as did former Macao F3 competitors Joel Eriksson, and .

ADDERLY FONG IN THE BLANCPAIN GT SERIES ASIA

race was two-time Macau GT Cup podium finisher Alexandre Imperatori and co-driver Yuke Taniguchi in a GT-R NISMO GT3. Imperatori will race one of three Nissan GTRs at Macao this year. GruppeM Racing Team’s , who returns to Macao in November, and Alexander Mattschull were 14th in the 31-lap race.

In the final race of the season, Fong and Kim finished just outside of the top five in sixth place, while Imperatori and Taniguchi were 11th.

FOUR-TIME MACAU GT CUP CHAMPION EDOARDO MORTARA RACING IN THIS PETIT LE MANS YEAR’S DTM CHAMPIONSHIP , the 2007 Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix winner, finished BLANCPAIN GT SERIES second in Petit Le Mans at along with co-drivers and , the 2005 F3 Macao winner who competed in Raffaele Marciello, who competes with Mercedes-AMG Team GruppeM last year’s Macau GT Cup. Jarvis returns to the Guia Circuit for the first Racing at this year’s Macau GT Cup, was crowned the Blancpain GT Series time since his Formula 3 victory and will race a Nissan GTR in this year’s champion at last month’s season finale at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. Macau GT Cup. , who makes his Macau GT Cup debut next month, was fifth overall in the championship. The race was won by , who competed in last year’s Macau GT Cup, and co-drivers Jordan Taylor and Ryan Hunter-Reay. Other Macao alumni competing in the race included , , and , fifth in last year’s FIA GT World Cup.

RAFFAELE MARCIELLO AT LAST YEAR’S MACAU GRAND PRIX

BLANCPAIN GT SERIES ASIA 2007 F3 MACAU WINNER OLIVER JARVIS RETURNS TO THE GUIA CIRCUIT IN NOVEMBER Several Macau GT Cup regulars competed in this year’s Blancpain GT Series Asia, including Raffaele Marciello who finished seventh overall following the championship’s double-header season finale in Ningbo, China. Two-time Le Mans winner , who claimed victory in the Carrera Cup Asia support race during the 60th Macau Grand Prix, finished In the first of two races at Ningbo, , who will race in this year’s fifth with on his debut at this month’s Bathurst 1000. Macau GT Cup, was fourth with co-driver Andrew Kim. Ninth in the first Bamber, who was fourth in the 2016 Macau GT Cup, and van Gisbergen, opening was Darryl O’Young, winner of the first-ever Macau GT Cup in who previously won the Enduro Cup in 2016 with 2004 Formula 3 Macau 2008, with co-driver Aidan Read. Securing a top-10 finish in the opening Grand Prix winner Alexandre Prémat, third in this year’s Bathurst 1000. MACAU GRAND PRIX BULLETIN ISSUE 3 | 2018 2 MACAU MOTORCYCLE GRAND PRIX – 52ND EDITION

DUKE ROAD RACE RANKINGS BRITISH SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP

The Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix will once again count as the season finished fifth in the British Superbike Championship finale for the Duke Road Race Rankings. This year’s 26-round competition, following the season finale at . In the opening race, which acknowledges performance across a season of international road Hickman finished fifth in the opening race and finished ninth in the final races, got underway in April. Last month’s races at Frohburg, Germany, race of the season. served as the penultimate round ahead of next month’s Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix. In the National Superstock 1000 Championship, Michael Rutter was 13th overall, after securing a third-place podium finish in the final race of Derek McGee leads the standings with a narrow lead over Dean Harrison, the season. seventh at Macao last year. Two-time Macao winner and a favourite for this year’s race, Peter Hickman, is seventh overall in the standings, while Davey Todd, who makes his Macao debut in 2018 is ninth. Rounding out the top 10 is Lee Johnston, whose best Macao finish was fifth in 2014. Conor Cummins, second at Macao in 2009, is in 11th position, while Derek Sheils, who makes his third consecutive Guia Circuit appearance this year, is two places behind in 13th.

MICHAEL RUTTER GOES FOR A NINTH MACAO WIN THIS YEAR

FIM WORLD ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP

The WEPOL Racing team of Danny Webb, Sheridan Morais and Matthieu Lagrive finished third in the opening race of the 2018-2019 FIM Endurance (EWC) season at the 82nd Bol d’Or. The 24 hour race at PETER HICKMAN AT MACAO LAST YEAR Circuit Paul Ricard was the first race in the championship.

INTERNATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

Danny Webb, 10th at Macao last year, won the International Road Racing Championship (IRRC), clinching the title in the penultimate round at Hořce in the Czech Republic. Webb dominated the season, taking maximum points in every round, including the season finale at Frohburg. The six- round season also incorporated races in Finland and Belgium. Webb will race at Macao for the third time in his career as part of the PuraGlobe Syntainics Racing Oil by Penz13 team.

Long-time Macao competitor Didier Grams, who returns for the ninth time this year, was second in the championship, while Marek Červený was fourth overall.

At the final round at Frohburg, several Macao riders scored strong results. Webb took the chequered flag by 8.5 seconds from Derek Sheils, with Macao newcomer Davey Todd rounding out the podium. All three drivers will race together on the same team this month. Grams was fourth in the race, finishing ahead of Červený DANNY WEBB WAS 10TH AT MACAO LAST YEAR MACAU GRAND PRIX BULLETIN ISSUE 3 | 2018 3 MACAU GUIA RACE WTCR – FIA

THE FIA WTCR JAPAN ROUND WAS HELD AT SUZUKA (IMAGE: FIA WTCR)

he WTCR – FIA World Touring Car Cup is set for its triple-header road winner Kevin Ceccon was penalised five seconds for not having all season finale as the Macau Guia Race at the Suncity Group 65th four wheels of his Team Mulsanne Alfa Romeo Giulietta TCR within his T Macau Grand Prix. starting box. BRC Racing Team’s arrives in Macao at the top of the Saturday’s Race 1 winner pushed as hard as he could once notice of the inaugural season championship standings, leading MRacing – YMR’s Race 3 penalty had been served. Although Aurélien Comte moved ahead of by 39 points him in the final order, Ceccon held on for the last podium spot, with Mehdi after 27 races. Seven Bennani and Aurélien Panis completing the top five for Sébastien Loeb drivers are in contention Racing and Comtoyou Racing respectively. for the series’ first-ever championship title, setting Rob Huff finished sixth in the second SLR Golf GTI TCR but the stage for a truly thrilling the Briton heads to Macao a two-time WTCR winner after landing the top Macao showdown. spot in Race 2 in Japan. A rapid start and a controlled approach Third on the leaderboard, under race-long pressure from 14 points behind Muller, is Oriola were key to his success the Frenchman’s team mate ahead of Macao, where he GABRIELE TARQUINI TOPS THE FIA WTCR Thed Björk of Sweden, ahead will be gunning for a record- CHAMPIONSHIP LEADERBOARD HEADING TO of popular Spaniard Pepe extending win number 10. MACAO (IMAGE: FIA WTCR) Oriola of . Oriola, meanwhile, had started Jean-Karl Vernay of Sport Leopard Lukoil Team, Esteban Guerrieri the reverse-grid race on pole of ALL-INKL.COM Münnich and BRC Racing Team’s Norbert and, although he missed out Michelisz, Guia Race winner in 2010, are all also in contention to lift the on a second win of 2018, he NINE-TIME GUIA RACE WINNER ROB HUFF IS A FAN FAVOURITE WHEREVER HE GOES crown in Macao. remains in the title race. (IMAGE: FIA WTCR)

The stage was set for the Macao championship-decider in Suzuka last Other notable performances in Suzuka came from Esteban Guerrieri, who month, where Tarquini inherited first place in Race 3 after on-the- took his ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Civic Type R TCR to fourth in Race 1 ahead of Bennani and Jean-Karl Vernay. Michelisz returned to the podium with third in Race 2, the Hungarian finishing one place ahead of Panis.

WTCR – FIA WORLD TOURING CAR CUP STANDINGS Top 10 after Round 27 POS NO. NAME NAT. TEAM MARQUE PTS. 1 30 Gabriele TARQUINI ITA BRC Racing Team HYUNDAI 291 2 48 Yvan MULLER FRA MRacing – YMR HYUNDAI 252 3 11 Thed BJÖRK SWE MRacing – YMR HYUNDAI 238 4 74 Pepe ORIOLA ESP Campos Racing CUPRA 227 5 69 Jean-Karl VERNAY FRA Audi Sport Leopard Lukoil Team AUDI 216 6 86 Esteban GUERRIERI ARG ALL-INKL.COM Münnich Motorsport HONDA 213 7 5 HUN BRC Racing Team HYUNDAI 212 TWO-TIME GUIA CIRCUIT WINNER YVAN MULLER’S MRACING-YMR TEAM 8 22 Frédéric VERVISCH BEL Audi Sport Team Comtoyou AUDI 203 YVAN MULLER (IMAGE: FIA WTCR) MATE THED BJÖRK, THIRD IN THE 9 12 Rob HUFF GBR Sébastien Loeb Racing VOLKSWAGEN 197 CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS (IMAGE: FIA WTCR) 10 7 Aurélien COMTE FRA DG Sport Competition 191

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15 NOVEMBER Thursday 17 NOVEMBER Saturday 6:00 Circuit Closed 6:00 Circuit Closed 6:30 7:00 Circuit Inspection 6:30 7:00 Circuit Inspection 7:30 8:30 Suncity Group Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix 7:10 7:50 Safety, Rescue and Extrication Cars – Testing laps – 52nd Edition – Free Practice 8:00 8:40 Special Event 9:05 9:35 Suncity Group Macau Guia Race – FIA WTCR 9:00 10:00 Suncity Group Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix – Free Practice 1 – FIA F3 World Cup – Qualification Race – 10 laps 9:55 10:35 Suncity Group Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix 10:25 11:25 FOOD4U Macau Touring Car Cup – 12 laps – FIA F3 World Cup – Free Practice 1 11:50 12:10 Suncity Group Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix 10:50 11:20 Suncity Group Greater Bay Area Lotus Cup – 52nd Edition – Warm Up – Free Practice 13:05 14:05 SJM Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup 11:35 12:05 FOOD4U Macau Touring Car Cup – Free Practice – Qualification Race – 12 laps 12:25 12:55 SJM Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup – Free Practice 1 14:25 15:15 Suncity Group Macau Guia Race 13:30 14:00 Suncity Group Macau Guia Race – FIA WTCR – FIA WTCR Race 1 – 8 laps – Free Practice 2 15:55 16:55 Suncity Group Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix 14:20 15:00 Suncity Group Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix – 52nd Edition – 12 laps – FIA F3 World Cup – Qualifying 1 18:00 ** Circuit Opened 16:00 16:45 Suncity Group Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix – 52nd Edition – Qualifying 18:00 ** Circuit Opened 18 NOVEMBER Sunday 6:00 Circuit Closed 6:30 7:00 Circuit Inspection 16 NOVEMBER Friday 7:10 7:50 Safety, Rescue and Extrication Cars – Testing laps 6:00 Circuit Closed 8:20 9:10 Suncity Group Macau Guia Race 6:30 7:00 Circuit Inspection – FIA WTCR Race 2 – 8 laps 7:30 8:15 Suncity Group Macau Motorcycle Grand Prix – 52nd Edition 9:35 10:35 Suncity Group Greater Bay Area Lotus Cup – 12 laps – Qualifying 11:00 12:00 Suncity Group Macau Guia Race 8:50 9:30 Suncity Group Macau Guia Race – FIA WTCR – Qualifying – FIA WTCR Race 3 – 11 laps 9:50 10:20 Suncity Group Greater Bay Area Lotus Cup – Qualifying 12:25 13:40 SJM Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup – 18 laps 10:40 11:10 FOOD4U Macau Touring Car Cup – Qualifying 14:00 14:35 Special Event 11:30 12:10 Suncity Group Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix 15:10 15:20 Lion Dance – FIA F3 World Cup – Free Practice 2 15:30 16:30 Suncity Group Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix 12:30 13:00 SJM Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup – Free Practice 2 – FIA F3 World Cup – 15 laps 13:35 14:50 Suncity Group Macau Guia Race – FIA WTCR – Q1, Q2, Q3 18:00 ** Circuit Opened 15:10 15:50 Suncity Group Formula 3 Macau Grand Prix – FIA F3 World Cup – Qualifying 2 16:10 16:40 SJM Macau GT Cup – FIA GT World Cup – Qualifying * Organizer reserves the right to re-schedule the programme without prior notice. 18:30 ** Circuit Opened ** If the circuit opens before the programmed time, it will be announced. JOIN US! GROUP 65TH MACAU GRAND PRIX 15-18 / 11 / 2018

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