Alexander Rossi News
| Saturday, October 08, 2011 8:25AM |
American driver Alexander Rossi brought home 12 valuable championship points with his 4th place finish from the opening race of World Series by Renault - FR 3.5 at the Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain today, elevating him to third place in the Drivers’ Championship.
In the morning track conditions were a little tricky as an incident early into the qualifying session had left oil on the tarmac. In an intensely close fought battle between the top three contenders, and with less than 0.7 seconds spanning their times, Alexander qualified in P3 on a new set of tyres with a time of 1:33.048 to sit on the second row of the grid for the afternoon’s race.
Rossi made a good start to the race, defending during the battle into...
| Wednesday, October 05, 2011 9:43AM |
For the season finale of the 2011 World Series by Renault season, American driver Alexander Rossi heads to the spectacular city of Barcelona in southern Spain this week. He sits in fourth place in the Formula Renault 3.5 Championship with 138 points, while his Fortec Motorsports team are in second position in the Teams competition with 185 points.
Following a faultless win by Alexander at Paul Ricard last month, and despite the team losing its appeal against both Fortec drivers exclusion from race two at Silverstone where Alexander finished in second place, he remains in a strong position to contend a top three finish in this years Formula Renault 3.5 title fight.
The final race weekend of the year will be held at the crowd pleasing...
| Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:58AM |
Hingham, UK - 27th September 2011- Team Lotus has today confirmed that Alexander Rossi, lead driver in the AirAsia Team Lotus Driver Development Programme and one of the standout race-winning performers in the 2011 World Series by Renault, will be taking part in the upcoming GP2 tests in Jerez and Barcelona with the Formula One team’s GP2 counterparts Caterham Team AirAsia. The team will be confirming the other drivers for the two tests shortly.
Alexander is a key driver in the Anglo/Malaysian’s squad’s roster of future talent and recently spent the Singaporean Grand Prix embedded with the team to further his experience of motorsport’s highest level of performance. Today’s announcement that Team Lotus is...
| Sunday, September 18, 2011 6:07PM |
Fortec Motorsports FR 3.5 driver, Alexander Rossi stormed to victory after a dominating performance in race two at Paul Ricard, Le Castellet, France for round eight of the World Series by Renault FR3.5 championship this afternoon.
Following a ‘tricky’ and wet qualifying session this morning where Alexander found it difficult to extract the best out of the car in qualifying, he still managed to set a lap time that put him on the front row of the race grid in P2.
Alexander made a great start to race two this afternoon, worrying the back of pole sitter Vergne, while closing the door and holding off HRT Formula 1 driver, Daniel Ricciardo. On lap 4 and with only a 0.4 second gap between them, Carlin’s Vergne chose to...
| Saturday, September 17, 2011 6:47AM |
On the penultimate weekend of the 2011 World Series by Renault season, American driver Alexander Rossi fought to keep his car hampered by debris and rapidly degrading tyres on track for the whole of race one at the Paul Ricard High Tech Test Track (HTTT) in the south of France today.
World Series by Renault is visiting the Paul Ricard HTTT in the spectacular setting of the Plateau du Castellet for the very first time this weekend and following an encouraging pre-season test with his new team and series at the track, Alexander was keen to get back to the racing action following two faultless drives at the Silverstone round last month.
In the morning Alexander was straight on to the pace and set an early P1 in first Qualifying. In a...
| Wednesday, September 07, 2011 11:22AM |
Hi all,
I just finished touring the Renault F1 factory with a group of fellow WSR drivers and during our time there, we worked on some media training and fitness, which was good fun. It’s always a pleasure to be able to spend time with and work with the drivers outside of the race environment as you get to know each of them on a personal level and well, we definitely had some good laughs. Jean-Eric Vergne and I had a sauna competition, which then led into discovering new, but fairly less practical uses for croquet bats and balls. While this was all good fun, it was also fantastic to be able to witness a factory of that caliber working flat out in preparation of the final run in the F1 season.
Now, at the last update, the...
| Tuesday, September 06, 2011 11:16AM |
London, England 6 September 2011- Team Rossi Motorsports is proud to confirm further support for American driver Alexander Rossi by Tony Fernandes, Group CEO of AirAsia and his low-cost airline. Alexander is currently the senior driver for the AirAsia Team Lotus Driver Development Programme and AirAsia is now also supporting Alexander’s aspirations of reaching Formula 1 through his participation in World Series by Renault: Formula Renault 3.5 Championship, racing for UK based Fortec Motorsports Ltd.
Earlier this year, Alexander formed a long term relationship with Team Lotus in his pursuit to reach Formula 1. Since he entered the Team Lotus Driver Development Program, both Team Lotus and Alexander have built a strong relationship...
| Sunday, August 21, 2011 8:37PM |
RESULT PENDING PROTEST BY FORTEC MOTORSPORTS FOR EXCLUSION OF BOTH DRIVERS ON 'TECHNICAL INFRINGEMENT'
Formula Renault Series 3.5 leading rookie Alexander Rossi achieved his sixth podium finish of the season today when he brought his Fortec Motorsports car home in second position in race two at Silverstone, UK.
After Alexander’s third place podium finish in race one yesterday, he had high hopes for another strong qualifying this morning. Rossi struggled, however, with the team’s set up for the session and was disappointed to set a 1:45.983 to sit on the third row of the grid in P6 for race two.
In warm and dry conditions this afternoon, Rossi held position during the opening laps of the race and had already achieved...
| Saturday, August 20, 2011 6:23AM |
American driver Alexander Rossi brought home 15 valuable championship points with his 3rd place finish from the opening race of World Series by Renault at Silverstone circuit, UK today.
In the glorious morning sunshine Rossi was straight on the pace and set a time that shot him to P2 on to the time sheets immediately as qualifying commenced. In an intensely close fought battle for pole position with Robert Wickens, Rossi’s No: 7 Fortec Motorsports car was handling well, but even faultless laps set by Alexander could not help him to improve on his time of 1:45.410. He ended qualifying in P2 to start the afternoon’s race alongside the Carlin driver on the front row of the grid.
For race one the wind brought dark clouds and...
| Monday, August 15, 2011 8:02PM |
American racing driver Alexander Rossi heads to the newly re-developed Silverstone circuit in the UK this week ready to close in on the 2011 World Series by Renault Championship title.
The Fortec Motorsports driver is determined to qualify at the sharp end of the pack and score points once again as the series enters its final stages. With three rounds and six races remaining of the 2011 season, Alexander has everything to play for as he currently sits in fourth place in the Championship on 101 points, with his Fortec team in second place in the Constructors’ Championship.
Host to some of the world's most prestigious sporting events, Silverstone circuit is considered by many drivers to be quick and challenging. With five track...
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