Sette Camara secures Dragon Formula E seat for a third season

In summary: Sergio Sette Camara is the first new addition to Penske’s own Formula E team Dragon for 2022

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Sette Camara seals Formula E stay

Dragon-Penske has found its first driver for the 2021-22 Formula E season, just two weeks before pre-season testing starts in Valencia, by extending his relationship with Sergio Sette Camara.

The 23-year-old was signed as a substitute driver for the six-race season finale in Berlin in 2020 and then stayed for the entire 2020/21 season. He achieved his best results in the second race of the season in Diriyah, where he finished second and fourth.

There was only one more score left, an eighth place in London, and he finished 22nd overall.

“I’m very happy and proud to be able to continue with Dragon / Penske into season eight,” said Sette Camara. “Formula E is one of the most competitive championships in the world and I will do my best in every single race to get the results the team deserves. I am determined to come back strong. “

Sette Camara previously held Formula 1 roles at McLaren and Red Bull, took pole in Super Formula and won three Formula 2 races.

BMW’s Yelloly test for Aston Martin in F1

Yelloly was testing for the team when it was called Racing PointThe Aston Martin F1 team has announced that its simulator driver Nick Yelloly will be behind the wheel of the AMR21 for the post-season testing in Abu Dhabi.

In addition to the Pirelli tire test 2022, there is an exclusive running day for Formula 1 rookies, and Yelloly’s job in the Aston Martin car is to check the calibration with the simulator in certain areas, since the car itself is no longer developed.

It will be his third test run for the Silverstone-based team that raced in Barcelona in 2015 when the team was known as Force India, and then at the same track in 2019 when it went under the name Racing Point.

Yelloly, a winner in GP3 and Formula Renault 3.5 during his formula racing car career, clinched pole in the terrifying 24-hour sports car race at the Nürburgring this year and won it as a works BMW driver in 2020.

F1 steward uses Ricciardo’s kart for the indigenous team

Racing Together, a project to increase the number of indigenous Australian teenagers participating in motorsport that has caught the attention of Lewis Hamilton, has announced that it will create an all-female karting team in 2022.

The racing team will work with Patrizicorse, one of Australia’s largest karting distributors, and will have a cast of four with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds. There will be a 10-lap program in Queensland for the selected drivers and they will all compete in 4SS-class Ricciardo karts.

Formula 1 racing stewards Garry Connelly and Monique Connelly are behind the project, and their first map-maker will be 15-year-old Karlai Warner.

No ‘new DAS’ on Mercedes

Mercedes rejected theories about its steering wheel reports elsewhere that Mercedes was using a DAS-like system in their car in Interlagos were firmly rejected by a team spokesman, who pointed out that the steering system has been homologated since the start of the season, and cannot be changed only works rotating. Mercedes used DAS last season to adjust the toe angle of the front wheels by sliding the steering column back and forth until the system was banned at the end of the year.

Formula E markets a Drive to Survive rival

Drive to Survive, the Netflix series that documents the Formula 1 paddock drama from season to season, could have a rival next week as Formula E launches its own 15-episode series after last season.

From next Monday (November 22nd), Formula E: Unplugged will be available on the series’ Facebook and YouTube accounts.

It has already been teased that episodes of Sam Bird’s Jaguar debut in Saudi Arabia, Mercedes’ victory in Valencia with Nyck de Vries during Saturday’s comedic race in which several drivers were disqualified for energy misuse, were devoted to Techeetah’s failed title defense and the championship showdown in Berlin.

Notes on the test entry list for switching to the formula regional grid

The Formula Regional European Championship, one step below Formula 3 on the F1 ladder, will hold a private post-season test in Barcelona this week.

One name stands out among the 12 teams that were preselected for the next season. The F3 champion Trident replaces the old Formula Renault Eurocup leader JD Motorsport, but there are 13 names on the starting list in Barcelona.

DR Formula drives two cars instead of three, and the French team CAP Racing will effectively fill the vacant garage space. Former Formula 1 racing driver Charles Pic owns the teams and has ambitions to include them in FREC, which, despite the preselection made by the series organizer for 2022, has not been ruled out.

Three former F1 driver sons will be present. Sebastian Montoya, son of F1 and IndyCar race winner Juan Pablo, will test for Prema, while Rubens Barrichello’s son Eduardo will drive for MP Motorsport and Riccardo Patre’s son Lorenzo will test for Monolite Racing.

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