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| Monday, May 13, 2013 9:49AM |
Monday, May 13, 2013, Circuit de Catalunya , Barcelona, Spain
GP2 Feature Race
Sat 11th May 2013
Car #15 Alexander Rossi – P6
Race length: 37 laps
Circuit Length: 4.655 km
Total Distance – Race 1: 172.109 km
Tyre use: Start: P Zero Yellow Pit Stop: P Zero Orange hard
A disappointing Friday qualifying left Alexander P17 for Saturdays GP2 Feature Race in Barcelona last weekend. Maximizing tyres and finding that key balance is very important in GP2 and after a difficult qualifying session Caterham Racing worked hard to find that sweet spot leading into the Round 3 races.
Alexander had a stunning opening lap, moving from seventeenth to eleventh and then pitted early for the hard tyre on lap six which...
| Sunday, May 12, 2013 8:21AM |
Circuit de Catalunya - GP2 Sprint Race
Sun 12th May 2013
Car #15 Alexander Rossi – P6: 4 points
Race length: 26 laps
Circuit Length: 4.655 km
Tyres used: P Zero Orange hard
Weather: dry
Alexander Rossi had high hopes for the race starting from the clean side of the grid in third position.
Sergio Canamasas was one of the stars of the race. He made one of the best starts in GP2 history, moving from twenty third to twelfth on the opening lap and then improved further to eleventh place by the end of lap two. He settled into the race and having conserved his tyres early on he pushed with nine laps to go, picking off a car each lap and joining the battle for fifth place. However, his luck ran out on the final lap and...
| Saturday, May 11, 2013 8:14AM |
Circuit de Catalunya - GP2 Feature Race
Sat 11th May 2013
Car #15 Alexander Rossi – P6
Race length: 37 laps
Circuit Length: 4.655 km
Total Distance – Race 1: 172.109 km
Tyre use: Start: P Zero Yellow Pit stop: P Zero Orange hard
A disappointing Friday qualifying left both Caterham Racing drivers with a lot of hard work to do in today’s GP2 feature race.
Alexander had a stunning opening lap, moving from seventeenth to eleventh and then pitted early for the hard tyre on lap six which allowed him to gain an advantage over the cars around him. He then drove faultlessly, bringing the car home in an impressive seventh place which gives him the added bonus of starting the Sunday sprint race on the front row...
| Saturday, April 20, 2013 5:52PM |
Bahrain International Circuit - GP2 Feature Race
20th April 2013
Car #14 Sergio Canamasas – P20
Car #15 Alexander Rossi – P3
Race length: 32 laps
Sakhir Circuit Length: 5.412 km
Total Distance – Race 1: 172.938 km
Tyre use: Start: P Zero Yellow Pit stop: P Zero Orange hard
Weather: Air temp 34˚C / track temp 40˚C
Alexander Rossi made an impressive start to his GP2 campaign with Caterham Racing, finishing the Bahrain GP2 feature race in third position, scoring 15 points and taking seventh in the Drivers’ Championship.
Sergio Canamasas had a more challenging afternoon. Having been disqualified from qualifying on Friday he started the race from the back of the grid but he dug deep...
| Friday, April 19, 2013 12:49PM |
Bahrain International Circuit 19/04/13
Practice – 12.00 – 12.30
Car #15 – Alexander Rossi – P4 - 1:42.636
Qualifying: 16.00 – 16.30
Car # 14 - Sergio Canamasas – P16 - 1.41.229 (demoted to p26 following stewards’ decision)
Car #15 – Alexander Rossi – P7 - 1.40.756
Following a successful morning practice session Alexander Rossi repeated his performance in qualifying and was running P3 on his first set of tyres. His second tyre run was more difficult as the entire field hit the track and although the pace was there he was forced to overtake during his push laps, ending the session P7.
For his first time at the Bahrain Circuit Sergio performed well as he put his simulator...
| Wednesday, April 17, 2013 1:47AM |
Leafield Technical Centre, UK – 16th April 2013
Caterham F1 Team Reserve Driver Alexander Rossi will make his 2013 GP2 debut with Caterham Racing in Bahrain after moving into the team as part of the driver line-up restructure by Caterham F1 Team. Ma Qing Hua, who recently made history by becoming the first ever Chinese driver to take part in an F1 race weekend on home soil, stands down from the GP2 team and his revised plans will be announced in due course.
Alexander returns to the team he raced with at Abu Dhabi in 2011 and most recently topped the GP2 time sheets for in Barcelona during 2012 post-season testing. He will be looking to challenge the front-runners from his first outing in Bahrain and the team is excited about...
| Wednesday, April 10, 2013 4:27AM |
Shanghai, China - April 11, 2013 - Team Rossi Motorsports, LLC, the managing company for Caterham F1 Team, Reserve Driver, Alexander Rossi are proud to announce the extension of their partnership with Alaska Coffee Roasting through 2013. The California based firm that looks after the American (21) is focused on corporate commercial alignments that make sense for both Alexander Rossi and Caterham F1 team.
Founded in 1994, the Fairbanks, Alaska based boutique coffee company is known for its quality and craft of some of the finest coffee in the world. Alaska Coffee Roasting has been a partner of Rossi since the end of 2007 and will continue with current arrangement through 2013. Since their partnership began, Alaska Coffee have enjoyed and...
| Saturday, December 29, 2012 1:09AM |
2012 was a year of inspiration.
There are many reasons for thanks and gratitude for American (21), Alexander Rossi, Caterham F1 Team Test Driver. His role with Caterham F1 Team expanded to a multi-year agreement, along with his debut in an F1 Friday practice session at the Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona. This was the first outing on track in an F1 race weekend by an American since 2007. Alexander’s increased duties at Caterham in 2012 were timely, aligned with the return of the wildly successful United States Grand Prix, Austin, Texas and the resurgence of F1 in North America after a five year absence.
“I’m very humbled for the opportunities that have been afforded to me and the many people that believe in my...
| Sunday, October 21, 2012 7:42PM |
Alexander Rossi rounded off his season in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series with an incredible fight back on Sunday to finish fifth after starting 21st at the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain with the Arden Caterham team. He also set the fastest lap of the race in both of the weekend’s races.
Both Friday practice sessions were fragmented affairs as drivers found themselves subject to numerous red flag periods. In free practice one Alexander ran as high as seventh, and ended the session P11 after completing 14 laps. In the second session, Alexander ran 25 laps, finishing fourth fastest, less than three tenths off the pace of session leader Kevin Magnussen.
Alexander was strong in Saturday qualifying, sitting second at the halfway...
| Sunday, September 16, 2012 11:07AM |
September 16, 2012 – Budapest, Hungary – Arden Caterham FR 3.5 driver, Alexander Rossi was denied the deserving results for World Series by Renault Round 7, after qualifying luck kept him starting each race from the top two rows. Like Silverstone for Round 6, the Banbury, England based team showed their pace was equal to more established FR 3.5 teams, competing at the sharp end in all sessions over the weekend.
Alexander Rossi was on pace in Friday practice, ending the day 5th quickest overall. Hungaroging is a relatively short circuit with lots of medium and high speed corners IS notorious for difficult qualifying with respect to potential traffic, making it very challenging for a driver to consistently complete a lap...
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