Bradley Downton, Author at RaceFans

The opening round of the super fast Japanese Super Formula series was won by a driver who raced in F1 last year. Catch up on that plus IndyCar, touring cars and more.

It was a bumper weekend for motorsport fans, with racing taking place almost anywhere you looked.

Sebastian Vettel scored the biggest win in Driver of the Weekend since Nico Hulkenberg in the 2013 Korean Grand Prix.

Formula E had its sixth different winner in as many races over the weekend, while the British Touring Car Championship began at Brands Hatch.

In this week’s racing wrap Penske are the team to beat as the new IndyCar season begins, an ex-F1 driver steps down to Indy Lights and a new championship supports the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Felipe Nasr shrugged off the ‘pay driver’ label with a fine fifth place on his debut in Australia – and won the F1 Fanatic Driver of the Weekend poll.

Just 15 started the first race of the F1 season in Australia but almost three times as many started yesterday’s NASCAR race at Fontana.

Eight different drivers won F1 Fanatic’s Driver of the Weekend polls during the 2014 season, but world champion Lewis Hamilton came out on top.

Despite having won five races and led the championship for most of the year Brazil was the first time Nico Rosberg was voted Driver of the Weekend in 2014.

After winning his fifth consecutive race Lewis Hamilton was voted Driver of the Weekend for the fourth grand prix in a row.

Lewis Hamilton won the Driver of the Weekend poll for the third time in a row, but once again he took little more than a third of the vote.

Lewis Hamilton was voted Driver of the Weekend for the Singapore Grand Prix ahead of Jean-Eric Vergne on a day when few performances really stood out.

The Italian Grand Prix saw Lewis Hamilton take his first pole position since Spain and his first victory since Britain – and he duly won the Driver of the Weekend poll for the third time.

Daniel Ricciardo earned his second Driver of the Weekend win after claiming an unlikely victory in the Belgian Grand Prix.

Fernando Alonso won Driver of the Weekend for the second time this year after an impressive drive to second place in the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Valtteri Bottas became the first driver to win Driver of the Weekend for three races in a row after his second place in Germany.

Valtteri Bottas has won the Driver of the Weekend vote for the second race in a row after his storming drive to second place in the British Grand Prix.

Valtteri Bottas has been voted as the Driver of the Weekend for the Austrian Grand Prix following his first ever front row start and podium finish.

When Mercedes faltered in Canada it was Daniel Ricciardo who took advantage to claim his first ever grand prix victory – and he was duly voted Driver of the Weekend.

Jules Bianchi won the Monaco Grand Prix Driver of the Weekend poll after scoring Marussia’s first ever points.

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