A Stat Preview of the F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix or Imola Grand Prix by our special contributor Laura Leslie:

“Team Brackley is the only current team to score a podium at Imola in three separate guises of itself - Tyrrell (Alboreto in 1984), BAR (Button in 2004) and Mercedes (Hamilton and Bottas in 2020)”

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On this day two years ago the 2019 Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix took place, the race was won by Lewis Hamilton in his Mercedes. It marked Hamilton's 75th F1 win of his career!

Another Milestone of that race was Pierre Gasly's first Fastest Lap of a Grand Prix, he drove back then for Red Bull/Honda.

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Martin Truex Jr. won the 72nd Annual Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500, his 29th victory in 558 Cup Series races. This is his second victory and fifth top-10 finish in 2021 and it's his third victory and 14th top-10 finish in 32 races at Martinsville Speedway.

• Chase Elliott (second) posted his seventh top-10 finish in 13 races at Martinsville Speedway. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2021.
• Denny Hamlin (third) posted his 22nd top-10 finish in 32 races at Martinsville Speedway.
• Anthony Alfredo (26th) was the highest finishing rookie.

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Josh Berry has won his first NASCAR Xfinity race of his career at Martinsville Speedway, he took the chequered flag of the Cook Out 250 after he had started from 29th position. The race had started on friday but was later halted because of bad weather conditions, the 2nd part of the race took place on sunday afternoon.

Berry is a 30 year old from Hendersonville, Tennessee and drives for JR Motorsports in a Chevrolet Camaro!

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On This Day 28 years ago, the famous Formula 1 European Grand Prix took place at Donington Park, UK!

The race is remembered for Ayrton Senna's display of skills driving a Formula 1 car in difficult rainy conditions when he lapped almost all the field.

Some stats of race

• Margin of victory: 1'23.199s
• On the winner's lap: 2
• Leaders: 2 (Ayrton Senna 71 laps, Alain Prost 5 laps)
• Race distance covered: 1173 laps (61.7%), 4719 km
• Total distance covered: 3862 laps, 15537 km
• Top speed: 288.73 km/h (Prost)
• Pit stops: 64
• Overtakes: 30

Alain Prost (Williams-Renault) started from pole position, while Senna (McLaren-Ford) had only qualified 4th.

Story of the opening laps:

"At the green light, Prost and Hill accelerated away cleanly and forged into Redgate in commanding style, Senna's challenge momentarily blunted as Schumacher edged him up the kerb on the left, opening a gap through which Wendlinger was only too pleased to insert his Sauber to take a fleeting third place. But Ayrton's blue touch paper was well and truly alight and what followed was the most sensational opening lap in recent F1 history.

Momentarily wrong-footed by the Benetton, Senna dodged round the back of Schumacher to take fourth place as the two cars accelerated out of Redgate. He sliced past Wendlinger on the outside of the Craner Curves and forced his way round an admittedly obliging Hill as they climbed towards McLeans. Through Coppice, down the return straight and through the chicane onto the new loop, Senna was now gobbling up Prost's advantage and, as they braked for the Melbourne Hairpin, he slithered past on the inside to take the lead.

By the time he scrambled through the tight left-hander out onto the startline straight and slammed across the timing line he was 0.6 second ahead of his arch-rival, with Hill hanging on gamely in third. Remarkably, fourth place was now in the custody of Rubens Barrichello's Jordan, the 20-year-old Brazilian having capitalised on the misfortunes of others to head Alesi's Ferrari, Schumacher, Berger, Herbert and Patrese."

YouTube F1 Short Report

Source: AutoCourse

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Jean-Erc Vergne (DS Techeetah) won the first ePrix of the weekend on saturday in Rome! This was Vergne's 10th win in Formula E!

• During the race, the lead changed 5 times! Besides Vergne other race leaders were Stoffel Vandoorne, Nyck de Vries, Oliver Rowland and Lucas di Grassi!
• The margin of victory at the line was 0.461s but this was under caution because in the final laps Stoffel Vandoorne crashed out while avoiding a retiring Lucas di Grassi.
• 10 wins for Vergne who will be 31 years young in 15 days, brings him in on equal terms for total wins with Lucas di Grassi and Sam Bird. Only Vergne and di Grassi have won the Formula E championship before but Bird leads the championship after 3 rounds.
• With Vergne scoring a 24th podium in Formula he's 3rd in the all-time list of podium finishers, Lucas di Grassi is 1st (32) and Sébastien Buemi is 3rd (29 podiums).

Stoffel Vandoorne (Mercedes) will start for the 3rd time from pole position in Formula E.

In the Super Pole session for the 1st Rome ePrix of the weekend he was 0.167s faster than André Lotterer (Porsche).

Vandoorne previous race starts from pole positions have ended in a win (Berlin 2020) and a DNF (Hong Kong 2019).

Yesterday's evening NASCAR Xfinity race, the Cook Out 250 was halted after stage 1 due to bad weather conditions.

The race is planned to continue on sunday 12pm ET.

Two active drivers have won at Imola:

1)Lewis Hamilton (2020) with Mercedes

2)Fernando Alonso (2005) with Renault.

FACT: Yuki Tsunoda (Alpha Tauri) was just 4 years old when Alonso won.

[By special contributor Laura Leslie]

On This Day in 1995, 26 years ago the Formula One Argentine Grand Prix took place.

The race was held on the Buenos Aires Circuit and was won by Damon Hill in his Williams-Renault! This was Damon Hill's 10th career win in F1!

For Mika Häkkinen (McLaren-Mercedes) this was his 50th Grand Prix start but it ended superfast as he was involved in a collision right after the start with 3 other drivers.

David Coulthard (Williams-Renault) started the race from pole position; this was Coulthard's first pole in his career and also his first front row start. Coulthard's race wasn't such a big highlight of his career as on lap 16 he had to retire the Williams FW17 with electrical issues. On the other hand his pole for the Williams team meant the had no started 75 times from pole position in F1.

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Joey Logano will start from pole position for this weekend's NASCAR Cup Race at Martinsville!

Logano is second in the championship after winnings last race at Bristol.

The race is fully named as the "Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500" and will start this saturday april 10th at 7.30pm, you can follow up all results HERE

On This Day in 2007 Lewis Hamilton managed to set for the first time a fastest lap of a Grand Prix!

Op april 8, the 2007 Malaysian Grand Prix took place at the Sepang Circuit, the race was won by Fernando Alonso (McLaren-Mercedes) but it was teammate Lewis Hamilton that snatched fastest lap of the race on lap 22!

Felipe Massa (Ferrari) started from pole position but finished the race in P5.

Despite the racing season is in it's 3rd gear this weekend, it will be a little less busier then last one or certainly the next weekend!

On the agenda we've got a double header in Rome (Italy) with two Formula E races, the Rome ePrix that are round 3 & 4 of the 2020/2021 season! The Formula E series is the only World Championship that will be in action over the weekend of 10-11 april.

On the other side of the ocean the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity series will race at the Martinsville Speedway (USA)!

And finally in Japan at the Okayama circuit the first round of the 2021 Super GT series will take place.

You can follow up all info, results and stats on our results pages HERE

The 1985 Brazilian Grand Prix was held on this day 36 years ago it was the first round of the 1985 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season!

• Margin of victory: 3.259s
• On the winner's lap: 2
• Leaders: 3 (Prost-44 laps, Rosberg-9, Alboreto-8)
• Race distance covered: 1052 laps (69.0%), 5293 km
• Top speed: 227.915 km/h (Rosberg)
• Overtakes: 61

Did you know?

1)That René Arnoux who finished 4th for Ferrari was sacked after the race, the reason behind the sacking was never revealed. Stefan Johansson who finished 7th in the Grand Prix replaced Arnoux at the Scuderia for the rest of the year.

2)This race was also Nigel Mansell's first race of 7 seasons with the Williams team.

Next weekend the 2021 Formula 1 and MotoGP season will get underway but in recent weeks a championship that has been buzzing with news of makes to come back or entering the championship in the top clas is the World Endurance Championship. But before all that in two weeks time the 2021 WEC season will get underway that kicks of a new era for the endurance series 

1    4 April 2021    8 Hours of Portimao    Algarve International Circuit        
2    1 May 2021    Total 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps    Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps        
3    18 July 2021    6 Hours of Monza    Autodromo Nazionale Monza        
4    22 August 2021    24 Hours of Le Mans    Le Mans        
5    26 September 2021    6 Hours of Fuji    Fuji Speedway        
6    20 November 2021    6 Hours of Bahrain    Bahrain International Circuit