Entries from August 2009

August 25, 2009

Next Up: Petit Le Mans

Franck’s official site has updated with thoughts on the race at Sonoma, and confirms what we all thought – a disappointing race but FKM still showed well.
We would have loved seeing Franck repeating his last year’s success in Long Beach as he scored a strong second place for his first Champcar race. That was finally [...]

August 24, 2009

Franck Retires From Sonoma

Boo.
I can honestly say that I stayed up to watch the race, and then went to bed once Franck had to retire from the race. How disappointing.
FKM had been involved in an incident on the very first lap, when the cars in front tangled together leaving little space for those behind to squeeze through unscathed. [...]

August 23, 2009

Franck to Race Any Minute Now

Hello!
I know I have been quite since Franck’s race seat was announced, and I should have been following his performance in testing as well as in qualifying yesterday. Apparently rookie’s get a bit of extra time on track which is a really good thing to see.
I saw some of qualifying yesterday, although I never really [...]

August 11, 2009

An AGR Confirmed Drive

There has been some speculation recently that Franck would be signed up by AGR to race for them in a forthcoming IRL event, and now it has been confirmed.
FKM will take to the wheel of the No. 25 on the 22-23rd of August, in his IRL debut. He says:
“I am certainly looking forward to my [...]