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28-year-old Belenzada – who has already appeared twice for the team in the Super GT Series – joins following a 12-month period in which he was unaffiliated to any teams. Previously, he was a long-serving member of European team Serbian Hell Drivers.
De Jong – who will turn 20-years-old in January – recently parted company with My3id Gaming following a fruitful two-year spell with the team. His arrival at spdoRacing sees the former CoRe Racing member become the first person to appear for the sim's three most decorated teams, both in terms of race victories and podium finishes.
The two signings take the size of spdoRacing's roster to 21 members.
The twenty-year-old recently played a major role in the team's GT2 victory at MoE's prestigious 24 hour event. Not only was the former E-team driver quick and extremely consistent during the race, but also his quick reaction to Adam Wisniewski's hardware-related disconnection from the server limited damage to the team's result and ultimately enabled them to take victory.
Trollé will add further depth to spdo's endurance line-up whilst also providing experienced backup to the team's management - the French driver has a wealth of experience in both running competitions and in managing a team.
With three rounds to go in the current MoE season, Trollé will be looking to take his new team to their first ever championship title in Live for Speed's most competitive endurance league. His first race as a member of spdoRacing is likely to be the 6 hours of South City.
The 22-year-old Tallinn resident, a long term former member of Estonian Endurance Racers, is the third Estonian driver - after Egon Liibeon and Reno Kööts - to join spdoRacing within the last 12 months. His recruitment takes the size of the team's roster to 21 drivers.
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Estonian teenager Reno Kööts has rejoined spdoRacing, little more than a year after choosing to leave the team.
Kööts, 15-years-old, recently appeared for the team in the Masters of Endurance series, driving over four hours non-stop in the challenging GT0 class and ultimately setting the fastest lap of the race.
Josh Di Fabio said: "I'm pleased to get another driver on board, particularly with the increasing struggle to fill two cars in MoE.
"Reno is a very quick driver. People will question his loyalty, and perhaps rightly so, but he's convinced me over the last couple of months that he deserves another chance with us."
The Alonso/Vettel start incident was identical to the start of the Hockenheim race by the way. I think that Schumi's penalty at Hungary largely owed to the fact that he forced Barrichello across the pit exit at high speed.
Looking at that Alonso moved a lot later than I thought. I can't tell for certain from that angle but it looked like he probably had some overlap after all. If that's the case then I think it's quite marginal. I still don't think it's quite as bad as the Schumacher/Barrichello incident mostly because Vettel yielded before it got dangerous and as such we don't really know how far Alonso would have gone.
Vettel didn't have any overlap at all when Alonso started to move across the track. There was nothing dangerous whatsoever in what Alonso did. If Vettel had decided to try and pass when the gap was too small then that would have been dangerous. But he didn't, because that would have been stupid. He also didn't even mention that he thought Alonso's move was dangerous afaik.
I think Alonso immediately moved to defend his position at the start and Vettel was at no point beside him. Schumacher waited until Barrichello decided to go inside him and then squeezed him towards the wall - continuing to do so when the cars were beside one another. Still, I didn't think that the incident in Hungary was a clear-cut penalty by any stretch. Rubens could have backed off if it was so dangerous but he didn't. Still, the incidents were different for the reasons I already outlined.
So what exactly is the issue? The outcome was in Vettel's hands and it would have been reckless for him to move into a gap that was disappearing all the time. Alonso started moving over very early - long before Vettel was beside him.