{"id":5205,"date":"2017-08-20T15:15:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T13:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/?p=5205"},"modified":"2017-08-20T15:16:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T13:16:02","slug":"felix-rosenqvist-seals-second-consecutive-super-formula-podium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/felix-rosenqvist-seals-second-consecutive-super-formula-podium\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Rosenqvist seals second consecutive Super Formula podium"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Felix Rosenqvist scored\u00a0his second successive podium in Japan’s Super Formula series on Sunday, hauling himself up to third in the\u00a0overall\u00a0championship standings.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Having claimed a breakthrough second place at the previous round at Fuji back in early July,\u00a0Rosenqvist remained on frontrunning form as the field descended on Twin Ring Motegi this weekend, powering to third in Sunday’s race.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s great to be on the podium again, and I think this backs up the view we’ve had recently that we’re definitely heading in the right direction,\u201d says Felix Rosenqvist<\/strong>. \u201cBig thanks to all the guys at Team LeMans for all the hard work they’ve put in since the start of the season – this is great reward for everyone.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Underlining\u00a0Rosenqvist’s positive Super Formula\u00a0trend, Motegi saw the Swede produce\u00a0his best qualifying effort of the season so far when he made it through to the decisive Q3 segment in a delayed session to take sixth on the grid.<\/p>\n

Round four of the campaign also\u00a0featured an added strategic element, with\u00a0tyre supplier Yokohama bringing both\u00a0soft and medium compound\u00a0rubber to further spice up the action. With drivers required to use one set of each in the 52-lap race, Rosenqvist opted to start on the mediums, the field split roughly 50\/50 in strategic choice.<\/p>\n

The opening stint initially saw Rosenqvist struggle with oversteering, and he later ran into further trouble when he rejoined in heavy traffic following his\u00a0mandatory pit stop.<\/p>\n

He eventually managed to pick off his slower\u00a0rivals and snatch third,\u00a0before setting\u00a0about chasing down second-placed Kamui Kobayashi. Rosenqvist managed to reel in the ex-F1 star, but was ultimately unable to overtake and finished 0.9 seconds behind the Japanese in a race won by reigning GP2 champion Pierre Gasly (FRA).<\/p>\n

The outcome sees Rosenqvist advance from fifth to third in the Super Formula standings, where he now sits just nine points adrift of leader Hiroaki Ishiura (who finished fourth this weekend). Rosenqvist remains the highest-placed\u00a0rookie.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a good race in the end, but it wasn’t perfect and I did lose a lot of time in traffic after my pit stop,\u201d\u00a0Rosenqvist comments<\/strong>. \u201cI think that’s where we probably lost the chance to challenge for the win today, coupled with the first stint where I had a lot of oversteer. I also locked up massively coming out of the pits and flat-spotted a tyre – I could hardly see anything towards the end because of the vibrations!<\/em><\/p>\n

“To be on the podium on a day like this, when there were\u00a0actually quite a number of difficulties, is really promising. It means we’re now at very high level and that we don’t need that perfect weekend to be up there. We’ll still need it to win, which is the ultimate target, but we’re definitely making significant progress.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next Super Formula round takes place at Autopolis on September 9-10.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

RESULTS<\/strong> <\/strong>(top five)<\/p>\n

Super Formula | Rd. 4<\/strong>
\nMotegi<\/em><\/p>\n

1: Pierre Gasly (FRA), 52 laps
\n2: Kamui Kobayashi (JPN), +18.583s
\n3: Felix Rosenqvist (SWE), +19.507s<\/strong>
\n4: Hiroaki Ishiura (JPN), +20.195s
\n5: Nick Cassidy (NZL), +26.089s<\/p>\n

View complete results<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

CHAMPIONSHIP STANDINGS <\/strong>(top five)<\/p>\n

Super Formula<\/strong>
\nAfter 4\/7 rounds<\/p>\n

1: Hiroaki Ishiura (JPN), 25.5 p.
\n2: Andr\u00e9 Lotterer (GER), 20 p.
\n3: Felix Rosenqvist (SWE), 16.5 p.<\/strong>
\n4: Pierre Gasly (FRA), 15 p.
\n5: Yuhi Sekiguchi (JPN), 15 p.<\/p>\n

View complete standings<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Felix Rosenqvist scored\u00a0his second successive podium in Japan’s Super Formula series on Sunday, hauling himself up to third in the\u00a0overall\u00a0championship standings. Having claimed a breakthrough second place at the previous round at Fuji back in early July,\u00a0Rosenqvist remained on frontrunning form as the field descended on Twin Ring Motegi this weekend, powering to third in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5203,"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-5205","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\/5205","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=5205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5207,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5205\/revisions\/5207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}