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The last round of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Iberica season was decisive for the AM class. Positions were open and we fought until the end. We’re proud of Jorge Ramirez third place on the championship on his first competition challenge.

There were a few chances of fighting for the sub championship, dependending on the oponents results and Jorge’s performance on the last two races of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Iberica. Unfortunatly there were some mechanical issues that romeved us of the battle. Anyway it was again a thrilling weekend full of action and at the end we got our goal: third at the AM class on Jorge’s first championship and the first one also for the new PSCI.

During the free practice sessions we saw that Jorge had good rythm and knowing that he reserves his best for the races we began thinking on our real possibilities of being fighting for the AM championship. During the qualifying sessions his rivals were faster and Jorge lost some positions, but it was in part because of the other teams tyres strategies. Analyzing Jorge’s data we saw that he had good race rythm and we were calm before sunday’s races.

Sunday was the RACE DAY with the two last races of the championship. Race 1 started well but we saw Jorge didn’t find rythm to climb positions and he was 4th of the AM class, what for the championship points was really a third position, since another Spanish driver, Pablo Silvero, was’n listed for the championsip and he was just participating for this race. But on the last laps Jorge told his Track Engineer that there was something broken on the gearbox and he lost the fifth gear on the last lap, fighting like the warrior he is to defend his race position. After that hard effort he ended on P7 overall and P4 of the AM class.

Drama came on Race 2 when just at the first lap Jorge had to retire due to his gearbox problems. There wasn’t enough time to fix the issue between the two races and he jumped into the second race hoping that he could end it, but there was no fith gear and the fourth started to fail and the race ended with the car in the box. Not the finish we were thinking on but this is racing and there’s always drama.

Despite these problems a championship is an amount of races where each point counts, and thanks to the team’s work during the season and specially thanks to Jorge’s progression he got his reward by finishing 3rd on the AM Championship, which is a triumph for the team and the driver. This gives us confidence for our next races and challenges and we’re looking forward for the nex track action. When? We’ll see, but for sure we’ll be fighting again next year on the second season of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Iberica.

These were the weekend’s results:

Being the last chronicle of the championship, we’d like to thank all the team, including our driver Chris Hillaby, who couldn’t finish the season but has given us many great moments, including some victories. We’re proud of the team that we have.

It’s been an amazing journey, but everything comes to an end. This weekend we celebrate a wonderful participation at the first season of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Iberica, and we’ll fight for the podium on the last races at Valencia.

The Circuit Ricardo Tormo at Valencia will host the last two races of the PSCI season, this will be the last time to see our driver Jorge Ramírez fighting for the AM top 3. After wat we’ve seen during the previous races we can’t wait for what is coming this weekend, sorrounded by the spanish fans and with real options to get the AM subchampionship.

After last two podiums at Jerez, our spanish driver Jorge Ramírez #88 comes to Valencia with jsut 16 points less than the leader Ricardo Cost and just 8 under the second classified José Barros. This means that our chances to get at least the second place at the championship are real, and it will be a tough battle for the last points. But knowing our driver and how he fights every turn, we know he wants to fight for his first AM win, so lot of drama waits this weekend.

As we have done during the previous 4 rounds, we’ll update all the news through our Instagram stories and at the end of the weekend we’ll post the crhronicle of the two races and again there will be a new highlights video on our YouTube channel, so don’t stop following our progress during the weekend.

Here you have the schedule for the weekend. As always stay tuned for our updates, don’t forget to follow us on our social media: Twitter, Instagram and Youtube. We’ll upload contents during the weekend and we hope to celebrate with you all our triumphs.

As all the rounds in Spain, we’ll be under the Racing Weekend format, which means plenty o action on different competitions and Live streaming content on the Racing Weekend channel on Spanish or directly at the PSCI channel on Portuguese. So you have enough tools to follow our progress. Stay tuned and enjoy the action.

The Porsche 991.2 of the spanish driver Jorge Ramírez has become a real menace for the AM drivers. The white/orange car caught the attention at the two races thanks to a strong performance.

What a thrilling weekend we had at the 5th round of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Iberica. Being at the podium has become the normality for our driver Jorge Ramírez, and this time he was fighting for the 1st AM position and the top 5 overall. He’s no doubt improved since the first races at Portimao and now his goals are changing.

We came to Jerez convinced of our good level seen at the previous races, and now being at the podium was the new goal for our driver Jorge Ramírez, who on an interview for the Spanish Federation said that at the begining of the championship his target was to be competitive, but no hopes of being at the podium. However he got the Porsche’s driving skills sooner as expected and began climbing to the podium since the second race at Motorland.

The weekend started with some mechanical issues and we couldn’t make times at the first free practice session. After some hard work by our team mechanics the problems were fixed and Jorge could test the car at the second free practice, showing a good performance at the spanish track. Then at the first Qualifying he had to do his best despite the lack of testing at the track and he did a great stint taking P8 overall and P3 of the AMs. He was then ready for the first race.

Race 1 started with 1 position gained by Jorge and the rest of the race he had to manage his P2 mantaining Fernandes #80 at distance behind enough to drive with no risks. That was a great race for the driver and he ended P2, taking one more trophy for his gallery.

Sunday morning was the Qualifying 2, and the RGB driver started on the top with a good first lap. At the end he finished P9 overall and P3 on the AM class, but he was by that time thinking on a big fihgt for the last race, and so he did. Thanks to a great start the Spanish driver was able to climb to the first position of his class and he had a beautiful fight with Jose Barros during some thrilling turns, until the Portuguese driver overtaked Jorge and escaped. Finally Jorge Ramírez was P2 again, but we’re now convinced that he will be soon fighting for the victory.

This has been no doubt a great weekend for the team, managing the mechanical problems and taking our driver twice to the podium. GOOD JOB MEN

The summer is over and you know what it means: back to school, BACK ON TRACK

This weekend our team moves to Jerez for the 5th and penultimate round of the season. Car and driver are ready for another amazing racing weekend on the Porsche Sprint Challenge Iberica.

Almost 2 months have past since our last trip to Estoril, where we went with Jorge Ramírez as our unique driver. If you missed those Portuguese races you can read our chronicle or visit our Youtube Channel to remember how it went for us before this next round in Spain.

Again Jorge Ramírez with his white-black-orange car will be our unique driver, and he’s 4th on the AM class with 128 points. Although it’s complicated to catch the top leader Ricardo Costa, who owns 168 points, Jorge is just 4 points under the second classified, Ian Barrett, and that means that all the options are open and there will be drama and action at Jerez.

It seemed that we`d have come back to Spain empty-handed, but all the team’s efforts were rewarded ath the limit when the final classification of Race 2 gave us the third place on AM class. We continue on the top.

The Circuito de Estoril received us for the 4th round of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Iberica. The last two races before summer holidays. It was the second and last event at Portugal before next two rounds on Spain and we went there with just one car, Jorge Ramirez’s Porsche #88. The Spanish driver was as never before an outsider.

Sorrounded by only Portuguese drivers, crews and public, the unique Spanish driver came to Estoril with no knowledge of the circuit. Jorge is a classic driver who improves on the track and learns its corners lap by lap. As he confesed to us, he’s not a “one lap driver”, he likes to be on the action and climb positions on races, and that’s something we can just verify after following him on this championship, his first one official challenge and where he has been fighting for the podium in all the races, despite all kind of incidences.

This time the sessions were divided on two Race Days with Free Practice, Qualifying and Race each day. Saturday was first contact with the track and when he got used to it Jorge began enjoying this famous portuguese circuit. P7 was his AM position for each chrono session, moving between P16 and P12 on overall positions. By those sessions we could have imagined it was hard to be on the top, but not for our outsider who loves race action.

On RACE 1 he started with rythm but an early spinning around caused by yet cold tryres made him lose positions and his race strategy suddenly changed: fight for positions risking track limits. Not bad after all: he got a P4 on the AM class and P11 overall. He lost the podium but he knew he got the pace to get it.

RACE 2 was not bad but there came the mechanical problems. In the middle of a beautiful fight for P1 on the AM class Jorge noticed some gear box damage that made him lost speed. He could continue but lost the chances for the AM victory. At the end of the race he was P7 overall and P4 on his class, but after some race reviews by Race Direction the AM driver Leandro Martins was disqualified by technical infringements. That moved Jorge Ramírez #88 to P6 overall and P3 on the AM class, which means a Podium for our driver! We congratulate Jorge for his efforts and for his fight. He never gives up on track and this is his reward. Finally the outsider got the podium.

This is a great result not just for the driver, but for the whole team. They have worked hard this weekend and this trophy is also for the mechanics and engineers who take care of the driver and bring him to the checkered flag.

Here you have the final results of the weekend. We’ll be back racing soon, this time on our country, for the 5th round of the championship at Jerez on 22nd September. Stay tuned.

We’re leaving home for the Round 4 of the PSCI, and we’ll have just one man on track.

This time we face the fourth round of the season just with one car and driver: Jorge Ramírez will be our unique driver. Chris Hillaby won’t participate in this and we’ll miss him. He’ll be back but in the meantime we have the car #88 ready for a single fight. Now we race at Portugal, Estoril waits us for the next challenge..

We have reached the mid season. Now we go back to Portugal after the first round in Portimao. This time a well known circuit: Estoril. Now we are used to be the unique spanish team of the championship, and it will be tough to be sorrounded by the portuguese fans. Chris Hillaby won’t be at Estoril and just that puts more pressure to our spanish driver Jorge Ramírez. But after analyzing his progress in this championship we’re sure that Jorge will be at a great level and we don’t doubt about his strong performance.

For this second half of the championship the driver born in Madrid comes as second of the AM drivers, with 93 points, far from the leader Ricardo Costa who scores132 pts. We are so proud of our driver, how he’s adapted to the car and the level of the races and this is his reward. We’d like him to be again at the podium and why not, it would be fantastic to see him on the top representing our country.

Our team celebrates this weekend our early changes: we have just started at our new building, a headquarter at Tres Cantos, European City of Sport 2023, at the north of Madrid. There we’re developing a new building prepared for the team activities on an excellent enviroment.

Now we’re proud of represent this beautiful and welcoming city and we’ll bring its crest in our car to recognise its charming reception given to our team.

Despite the hot temperatures at Navarra our team did again a great job at Navarra and our drivers are getting day by day more consistent.

It was a hot weekend at the Circuit of Navarra during the third round of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Iberica. Temperatures on the midday reached 32º but the track was over the 61º. In that hell we saw fantastic performances by our dirvers and just some issues move us away from the podium on the AM Class.

Both drivers Chris Hillaby on the #81 GD car and Jorge Ramírez on the #88 AM car passed the practice sessions on the same overall positions, trying to dominate the complicate turns of the spanish circuit, were it was too easy to superate the track limits or go straight on one of those close turns. Action was under coverage of the Racing Weekend, the spanish racing format promoted by the Spanish Federation to attract the public to the circuits.

Our English man Chris Hillaby came to Navarra as leader of his championship’s class GD (Gentleman Driver) with 88 points, 6 over his next opponent Frank Barrett. During the practice and Qualifying sessions he was moving between P9 and P10 overall and P1-P2 on his class (GD: Gentleman Driver). For the second race he was penalized and had to start on the last position of the grid. Anyway he did an amazing performance, specially on the second race of sunday, when we reached the highest temperatures and it was difficult to climb from the last position. But the british driver was concentrated and he got the triumph by finishing P7 overall and P1 on the GD class on both races. An amazing weekend for our driver.

Jorge Ramírez, our Spanish man and unique spanish driver of the championship was third at he points before Navarra, 15 points under the AM leader Ian Barrett. He came motivated afer being at the podium on the last two races and confirming that he has a good level to fight with the AM dirvers. On the practices sessions and the first Qualy he got the same P7 overall and P3 on the AMs. Unfortunatly despite his nice driving he got some issues that stopped him to be again at the podium: on race 1 he lost a wheel on the first lap and was retired and Race 2 was an incredible spectacle by our driver: Just at the beginning he was hit on the back and that made him spin around. After that incident, which had no further consequences, he went like hell recovering positions and risking track limits penalties that finally were applied and he lost any chance to fight for the podium, but he was fighting until the end on what was his best performance, finishing P4 on a second race that could have been his first P1.

Once again we’re proud of the entire team: Mechanics, Engineers and our Drivers. All of them were on fire and our team continues forward on this championship waving the spanish flag. This were the final results:

STAY TUNED, we’ll upload a highlighst video on our Yotube Channel on the following days

We return this week on track at the third round of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Iberica at Navarra, with our drivers confident after their last performances

This week the championship continues on spanish territory, and that should be an extra motivation for our team and drivers, being the unique spanish team on the entry list. Once again we’ll be under the Racing Weekend structure, which is the perfect way to attract the public to the cricuit, offering a good combination of races.

If you are new or you just missed the action of the last rounds we suggest you to visit our Youtube Channel, where you’ll find our videos dedicated to Portimao and a special extended one of Motorland, second round and the first one in Spain, where our drivers showed a great performance and they got trophies on both races. You can also take a look to our Instagram’s Highlights Stories, where we have a good compilation of our best moments on the circuit.

Our English man Chris Hillaby comes to Navarra as leader of his championship’s class GD (Gentleman Driver) with 88 points, 6 over his next opponent Frank Barrett. J.
Jorge Ramírez, our Spanish mand and unique spanish driver of the championship is getting higher and he’s third at he points, 15 points under the AM leader Ian Barrett.

We hope that being again at home and sorrounded by as much public as in Motorland will help theteam to do a good performance and we’ll do our best to take some more trophies.
Here you have the weekend schedule:

Races 1 and 2 will be live stream on Racing Weekend’s Youtube Channel (Spanish) and also on the official PSCI Youtube Channel (Portughese)

STAY TUNED, don’t miss our updates

Last weekend we completed Round 2 of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Iberica up into the podium on both races. As the unique spanish team we wanted to make a good performance, and thanks to our fantastic team full of professionals we came home with 4 trophies

Our drivers did an amazing job during each session, improving their stints and discussing with their engineers about their track performances. There’s a lot of work behind what we see on track: hours and hours working on the cars and the data analysis. The results come when all the team work on the same direction and we’re very proud of this team and this weekend at Motorland.

The PSCI has visited our country for the first time on this second round of the championship. We felt some strange on our own home being the unique spanish team of this competition, but we were focused on what we came for: improve our performance and be at the podium. And that’s what we did.

Both drivers Jorge Ramírez and Chris Hillaby were motivated for improve their own performances and from the beginning there was a continuous conversation between them and their mechanics and engineers, analyzing the data, adjusting the set-up and testing on the free sessions to find the best performance at the qualifying.

Track limits were there menacing Jorge’s best laps, and he got a black flag on the second qualifying of the weekend after previous announcements on the Chronolife from the race direction. But despite those problems and some off tracks also by Chris Hillaby, both drivers showed an increasing perfomance during the weekend, arriving to the last race on sunday entrusted on their possibilities. These were their results for each session:

After this hard work weekend and reviewing the races we can just repeat how proud we are of our team: Mechanics, Engineers, Data Analysts and of course our drivers. Amazing job, looking forward to the next one.

STAY TUNED, soon we’ll upload a video of this Motorland weekend Highlights. Don’t miss it.

As always we’ll update all our news on our social media so just follow our profiles on Twitter and Instagram.

The wait is over and we’re back on track for the second round of the Porsche Sprint Challenge Iberica which takes place in Motorland within the Racing Weekend format.

Maybe you’d like to review some details of the first round of the PSCI in Portimao. If you go to our Instagram profile you’ll find our PORTIMAO section with the main images of our performance or you can visit our Youtube channel to view our video dedicated to the first two races of the championship.

Now we’ll race in Spain for the round 2 at the Motorland circuit in Aragón, where we hope to have the advantage of racing at home as the only one Spanish team of this competition. The races will take place within the Racing Weekend, a Spanish racing format promoted by the RFEdA (Spanish Autosport Federation) which tries to bring together different autosport disciplines such as F4 or Spanish Endurance Championship. Besides the races the people who will visit the circuit will find other activities dedicated to the public.

Our team comes for this racing event motivated after what we saw on the first weekend at Portimao, and now we’re at a track that our drivers know better. During the whole weekend you can follow our progress at the Live Timing, and take a look to the Racing Weekend YT channel because they’ll probably will stream some races including the PSCI. We’ll update the info at our social media so stay tuned to our TW and IG

As you know them well, these are our drivers:

The cars are ready for racing, take a look at our schedule:

As always we’ll update all our news on our social media so just follow our profiles on Twitter and Instagram.

For this race we’ll also have Live Streaming, we’ll comunicate the access across our social media.

STAY TUNED

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