{"id":3030,"date":"2014-11-13T06:36:53","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/?p=3030"},"modified":"2014-11-13T07:23:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T06:23:26","slug":"felix-gets-2014-macau-gp-off-to-solid-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/felix-gets-2014-macau-gp-off-to-solid-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix gets 2014 Macau GP off to solid start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-3025\" alt=\"FP\" src=\"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/FP-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/FP-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/FP-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/FP.jpg 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Felix got the 2014 Macau Formula 3 Grand Prix off to a solid start as he stayed out of trouble on his way to the sixth fastest time in Thursday\u2019s opening free practice session.<\/p>\n<p>Running was delayed by almost one hour\u00a0as repair work was carried out to a damaged barrier at Police, inflicted in a massive shunt in\u00a0one of the preceding support classes.<\/p>\n<p>Once the F3\u00a0cars\u00a0ventured out on track, however,\u00a0the field\u00a0wasted no\u00a0time in\u00a0racking up valuable\u00a0laps around the Guia street circuit, with Felix\u00a0completing an early installation lap\u00a0before getting\u00a0down to some serious running over the remainder of the session.<\/p>\n<p>Uncharacteristically\u00a0at the tight confines of the ultra-demanding track, opening practice was struck by just one single red flag stoppage, after Mitsunori Takaboshi crashed his B-Max Racing\u00a0machine\u00a0at Moorish Hill. Reigning\u00a0FIA F3 European Championship title winner Esteban Ocon, one of the first men to reach the scene of Takaboshi&#8217;s accident,\u00a0then clattered the back of the Japanese driver&#8217;s car\u00a0and\u00a0brought his session to a premature end with broken suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Felix&#8217;s M\u00fccke Motorsport team-mate Lucas Auer topped the times in front of Carlin duo Antonio Giovinazzi and Tom Blomqvist, with Will Buller fourth for Signature and Jordan King &#8211; another Carlin entry &#8211; fifth. Felix wound up 0.6s adrift of Auer, in sixth place.<\/p>\n<p>Next\u00a0up today is the first of the weekend&#8217;s two qualifying sessions. The exact start\u00a0time currently\u00a0remains unknown, however,\u00a0due to continued red flag interruptions.<\/p>\n<p>[yes_list]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.884212968277979.1073741860.205041946195088&amp;type=1\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Gallery: the latest pictures from Macau<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/yes_list]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>FELIX:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A solid, OK start to this weekend. The first few sessions in Macau are all about\u00a0finding the right rhythm, and I felt comfortable pretty much\u00a0out of the pitlane. Apart from one moment at Lisboa &#8211; when I had to go down the escape road &#8211;\u00a0it was a decent and trouble-free session, and\u00a0we seem to be on the\u00a0pace. I was\u00a0on a much quicker lap towards the end, but\u00a0had to back off due to yellow flags, so\u00a0we appear to have a good baseline set-up. I&#8217;m looking forward to the first qualifying session later today.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>RESULTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Results-FP1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3034\" alt=\"Results-FP1\" src=\"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Results-FP1.jpg\" width=\"800\" height=\"539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Results-FP1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Results-FP1-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix got the 2014 Macau Formula 3 Grand Prix off to a solid start as he stayed out of trouble on his way to the sixth fastest time in Thursday\u2019s opening free practice session. Running was delayed by almost one hour\u00a0as repair work was carried out to a damaged barrier at Police, inflicted in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news3","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3033,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions\/3033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}