Lando Norris retained his FIA Formula 2 Championship lead when the McLaren Test & Reserve driver recorded two third placings in Barcelona this weekend (12-13 May). The 18-year-old will start the next race at Monte Carlo later this month with a 13-points lead advantage after six of this season’s 24 races. The recently re-surfaced 2.9-mile Circuit de Barcelona in Catalunya features a mix of high and low-speed corners, is physically demanding for the driver and mechanically hard on the car. Fifth fastest in a wind-gust affected FP1 (1m29.991s) on Friday morning, Lando was disappointed with himself to post only the eighth fastest time in qualifying later that afternoon (1:28.923).

A few days after his first outing in a Formula 1 car, Sacha Fenestraz will kick off his 2018 season at the Pau Grand Prix (11-13 May). The young 18-year-old driver is setting himself another challenge with the backing of the Renault Sport Academy and – a first – the support of the FFSA Equipe de France by tackling the FIA Formula 3 European Championship with the Carlin team.

Lando Norris will start the European segment of this year’s FIA Formula 2 Championship in Spain next month at the head of the standings after an incident-packed Feature Race in which the British teenager impressively battled back to sixth place following a pit-lane start before recording a fighting fifth in today’s Sprint Race on his Baku début in Azerbaijan this weekend (28-29 Apr).

Rapidly making his mark as one of the most promising young GT drivers, James Pull took to the track for the opening round of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe series this weekend. With the taste of success still fresh from his debut in the Middle East, James and new teammate Kelvin Snoeks enjoyed a duo of podium celebrations in Monza.

Lando in search of further podium success on Baku début

Croatian driver Martin Kodric vowed to remain positive after engine trouble cut his Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup opening round short this weekend (20-22 April).

Croatian driver Martin Kodric got his season off to a brilliant start with a podium on the Blancpain GT Series Asia opener at Sepang this weekend (13-15 April).

Britain’s rising star Lando Norris leads the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship by nine-points after the first two races of the season staged at the Bahrain International Circuit in Sakhir last weekend (7-8 Apr). The 18-year-old McLaren Test & Reserve driver – the youngest driver in the 20-car field – scored a dominant, unchallenged victory in the Feature race yesterday – starting from pole-position and setting the fastest lap in the one-hour 31-lap race. In today’s 23-lap Sprint race, Norris recorded fourth place after starting eighth on the “reverse” grid. Saturday’s dominant victory kept Lando’s incredible record of winning from “pole” position in the BRDC F3, Formula Renault, Euro F3 and now F2 categories at the first race of these respective championship opening weekends.

McLaren F1’s test & reserve driver makes huge impression on sportscar community Britain’s Lando Norris would consider another endurance sportscar outing after making a big impression on his Rolex 24 At Daytona début this weekend (27-28 Jan) – but not at the expense of fulfilling his goal of reaching Formula One. McLaren F1’s 18-year-old official test and reserve driver along with former double F1 World Champion and McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso plus Phil Hanson finished an unrepresentative 13th in class in the gruelling twice-around-the clock marathon – having led at times and consistently been inside the top-five overall.

Sacha Fenestraz, winner of the Formula Renault Eurocup title in 2017, will move up another step in his career as he tackles the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in 2018. The Franco-Argentinean who is backed by the Renault Sport Academy because of his title will continue his association with Carlin, the team for which he raced in the Macao Grand Prix.