Balance: points for Buemi, retirement for Müller
THAT'S RACING Two Swiss drivers attracted particular attention this weekend: Léna Bühler in the F1 Academy and Jean-Luc D'Auria in the Italian GT Championship.
Sébastien Buemi scored his seventh points of the season in eighth place at the ninth round of the 2023 Formula E World Championship in Monte Carlo. The Vaudois has yet to score a major coup since joining the Envision Racing team. With regular top-10 results, Buemi is nevertheless in a solid eighth intermediate position with four events (seven races) remaining.
Nico Müller would also have scored points in Monaco had a competitor not flipped him over two laps before the end and damaged his front wing. Müller's retirement meant that the third Swiss, Edoardo Mortara, inherited 11th place.
Nico Müller: "That's all very annoying For us, starting from position 17, two points would have felt like a win."
Léna Bühler in good shape
Léna Bühler had a top weekend in the F1 Academy. At the second race weekend in Valencia, the ART driver impressed in the Ladies Championship with positions 3, 2 and 4. In the second race, she was only 0.7 seconds behind the winner. In the overall standings, Bühler is in 5th place, led by Spain's Marta Garcia.
Tina Hausmann with rollover
Only Jean-Luc D'Auria's joy was probably even greater this weekend. In Misano, the former motocross driver secured his first GT3 victory in the Italian GT Championship alongside South African Stuart White. D'Auria finished the first race at Misano in sixth place - directly behind Axel Gnos. In the overall standings, D'Auria is in second place - behind Kimi Antonelli.
In the Italian Formula 4 season opener at the same venue, Ethan Ischer finished 17th, 13th and 17th. A week ago, the driver from Vaud won both races for the ACCR championship in Budapest - one of them ahead of Michael Sauter. Zurich's Tina Hausmann was lucky on her F4 debut. After a rollover, Hausmann had to watch races 2 and 3 as a spectator.
Daniel Allemann in 2nd place
There was also a second place for Daniel Allemann in the 24h Series at the Spa-Francorchamps 12-hour race. The same placing was achieved by Jasmin Preisig in Wolf Power Racing's Audi RS3 in the TCR.
Source: Auto Sport Switzerland
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