{"id":3518,"date":"2015-05-17T17:58:35","date_gmt":"2015-05-17T15:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2015-05-17T17:58:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T15:58:35","slug":"felix-rosenqvist-salvages-points-on-trying-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/felix-rosenqvist-salvages-points-on-trying-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Rosenqvist salvages points on trying weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Felix38\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Felix Rosenqvist\u2019s hopes of defending his 2014 Grand Prix de Pau victory were transformed into a case of damage limitation as the FIA Formula 3 European Championship set camp in southern France for the 74th running of the prestigious street race this weekend.<\/p>\n

Rosenqvist was held back heavily by traffic in both of Friday\u2019s two qualifying sessions, leaving the Swede down in 14th, 9th and 11th places respectively on the grid for the three races \u2013 and bringing his previously unbroken streak of 2015 pole positions to an end.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, what happened in qualifying effectively ruined any chance of fighting for the podium this weekend, but that\u2019s street racing sometimes,\u201d says Felix Rosenqvist<\/strong>. \u201cI normally don\u2019t believe in good or bad luck, but this weekend I think it\u2019s very close at hand. I encountered traffic on basically all of my flying laps, in both sessions; it was quite incredible, really. I tried everything to find some clear space. We weren\u2019t the fastest out there this weekend, but the pace was certainly there for a lot more.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

With overtaking being notoriously difficult around the narrow street circuit, Rosenqvist was left with the task of trying to salvage as many potentially crucial championship points as possible in the three races. A bold, 220 km\/h move around the outside of Thailand\u2019s Alexander Albon yielded fifth place in Race 2, followed up by sixth in Sunday\u2019s Race 3. In total, Rosenqvist bagged 18 points across the weekend, and also set the second-fastest lap of Saturday\u2019s Race 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were obviously expecting a lot more going into this weekend, but given how things evolved, I think we managed to limit the damage fairly well,\u201d Rosenqvist concludes<\/strong>. \u201cI did lose some ground in the championship, but there are still 24 races to go this season and we will fight back.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

The next round of the FIA Formula 3 European Championship takes place at the ultra-fast circuit of Monza (Italy) on May 29-31. Felix Rosenqvist retains third place in the overall standings, where he is now 54 points behind leader Antonio Giovinazzi (who won Sunday\u2019s Pau finale).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Felix Rosenqvist\u2019s hopes of defending his 2014 Grand Prix de Pau victory were transformed into a case of damage limitation as the FIA Formula 3 European Championship set camp in southern France for the 74th running of the prestigious street race this weekend. Rosenqvist was held back heavily by traffic in both of Friday\u2019s two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3516,"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":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news3","category-press-releases","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\/3518","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=3518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3519,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3518\/revisions\/3519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}