Wait, what ? Did this just happened ? Feeling really honoured to be followed by this legend. Thank you very much Mario Andretti . #MsportXtra #F1 #Motorsport

#F1 #OnThisDay , April 17th 2016, a strong race by Nico Rosberg as he won the #ChineseGP for Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team . Sebastian Vettel was 2nd for Scuderia Ferrari while Daniil Kvyat took 3rd for Oracle Red Bull Racing . formula1.com/en/latest/vide… #MsportXtra UnracedF1 - Passion for historical F1🏁

#F1 #OnThisDay , April 17th 2011, Lewis Hamilton won the #ChineseGP for McLaren with Sebastian Vettel 2nd for Oracle Red Bull Racing but it was Mark Webber who impressed the most by taking 3rd after having started from 18th on the grid. overtakefans.com/f1-race-archiv… #MsportXtra UnracedF1 - Passion for historical F1🏁

#F1 #OnThisDay , April 17th 1994, total domination by Michael Schumacher during the #PacificGP in Aida, Japan. The German won ahead of Gerhard Berger with a 1:15.300s gap while Rubens Barrichello was 3rd, already 1 lap down. youtube.com/watch?v=J4lRDk… #MsportXtra UnracedF1 - Passion for historical F1🏁 Heinz Harald Frentzen

#F1 Thanks for all the great feedback on my daily #OnThisDay posts. Huge thanks to Heinz Harald Frentzen for his additional info to a number of those posts. Follow #MsportXtra © for these kinds of posts but also for much more motorsport news, views and always a little 'extra'. #MsportXtra

#ChineseGP :

- Circuit changes
- DRS zones, stewards names
- Drivers opine on bitumen used + challenge (views of NOR, LEC, VER, ALO, HUL, ZHU, OCO, PIA, SAI, RIC)
- Wearable trophy revealed which will light up (photos):

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Jake Dennis feels Formula E needs to have a couple of Peloton-style races, as it makes the series different to other forms of motorsport.

Read what the Reigning Champion had to say at formulaezone.com/?p=522

#FormulaE #MisanoEPrix #MSportXtra

#IndyCar to debut updated aeroscreen version 2.0 in Long Beach - video included: formularapida.net/en/indycar-to-… #MsportXtra ©

#F1 How on earth is this even a question ?? #MsportXtra

Yuki Tsunoda expands on challenges that non-European or non-British drivers face coming through.

He also notes the starting age of Japanese drivers, as Pierre Gasly gives his views:

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#F1 #OnThisDay , April 18th 1971, Jackie Stewart took his Tyrrell to victory at the #SpanishGP . He stayed ahead of Jacky Ickx in the Scuderia Ferrari and Chris Amon in the Matra. youtube.com/watch?v=fgBtF2… #MsportXtra UnracedF1 - Passion for historical F1🏁

Da Costa has been disqualified from the race. Oliver Rowland becomes our new race winner.

#DaCosta #FormulaE #MisanoEPrix #MSPortXtra

#F1 This #ChineseGP weekend is a sprintweekend with a new format where there is a qually session for each race. But if you bin the car during the sprint, the team has about 3 hours to rebuild the car to qually for the Sunday race. Bin it on Saturday probably ruins your Sunday.

Maverick Vinales breaks lap record to #AmericasGP pole from Pedro Acosta and Marc Marquez.

There were multiple falls for Martin, with crashes also for Espargaro, Quartararo and Binder:

formularapida.net/en/motogp-vina… #MotoGP | #MsportXtra ©

Dani Pedrosa handed wildcard outing in #SpanishGP , while Pol Espargaro will ride in #ItalianGP for KTM: formularapida.net/en/pedrosa-esp… #MotoGP | #MsportXtra ©

Kelvin van der Linde roped in by Abt Motorsport to replace Nico Mueller for #BerlinEPrix weekend: formularapida.net/en/van-der-lin… #FormulaE #WEC | #MsportXtra ©

Williams announces licenscing partnership with co-founded Jenson Button's Coachbuilt Whiskey - details.

There will be limited edition bottles available under reflecting Williams' heritage:

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Pascal Wehrlein feels the peloton style of racing causes 'too much chaos' and makes the teams' work before the event 'irrelevant'

Read what the championship leader had to say at formulaezone.com/2024/04/14/pel…

#FormulaE #MisanoEPrix #MSportXtra

The memorial to the legend Joey Dunlop, who was killed in a crash at the Pirita-Kose-Kloostrimetsa Circuit in Estonia. An inspiration to many for his work to help others as well as his motorbike racing.

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