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Welcome to Monday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up.
Comment of the day
The Caption Competition returned last weekend and @RBAlonso produced the best suggestion from an excellent selection:
Is Miami cancelled too?
@RBAlonso
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to 130r and Sushant008!
On this day in motorsport
- Born on this day in 2000: Yuki Tsunoda
- 40 years ago today Alain Prost won the Monaco Grand Prix while Patrick Tambay was fortunate to escape injury in a dramatic roll at Mirabeau. Elio de Angelis started his final F1 race, retiring after 31 laps with engine trouble on his Brabham-BMW
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McLaren’s Brown says boosting US viewing figures is key (Reuters)
”We’ve got three fantastic grands prix and while I think we could definitely support four and five, that would come at the cost of other markets that I think we need to get into,’ said the American. ‘So I’m happy where we are, because I do think there’s some other growth areas in South Africa, Korea, things of that nature.”
Siegel steps in as Hauger’s race engineer for remainder of IndyCar season (Racer)
‘Dennis Hauger has a new race engineer in Ben Siegel, who will look after the rookie for the rest of the season at Dale Coyne Racing.’
McLaren Racing adds world champion Laurens Vanthoor to hypercar team (McLaren)
‘McLaren Racing has announced that the 2024 FIA Hypercar World Endurance drivers’ champion Laurens Vanthoor will join the McLaren Hypercar Team for its return to top tier sports car racing.’
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