{"id":79051,"date":"2021-06-01T06:23:09","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T06:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=79051"},"modified":"2021-06-01T17:00:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T17:00:55","slug":"technical-glitch-plays-spoilsport-for-akhil-rabindra-at-circuit-paul-ricard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=79051","title":{"rendered":"Technical glitch plays spoilsport for Akhil Rabindra at Circuit Paul Ricard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akhil Rabindra\u2019s second-round performance at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/akhil-rabindra-hopes-for-a-podium-finish-at-the-familiar-circuit-paul-ricard-this-weekend\/\">European GT4 Championship 2021<\/a> was marred by technical glitches at the Circuit Paul Ricard. The 24-year-old Bengaluru born driver who also is the only Indian at the European GT4 Championships this season finished at P16 in the silver category.<\/p>\n<p>Akhil driving an Aston Martin Vantage GT4 for the AGS Events Racing team took to the driver&#8217;s seat in Race 2 after he and his teammate Hugo Conde had to retire after 16 laps in Race 1 due to engine issues. Akhil is also the only Asian to have made it to the coveted Aston Martin Racing drivers academy in 2021, a feat that he has achieved for the third straight year in a row.<\/p>\n<p>Akhil &amp; Hugo earlier had to retire due to a faulty engine in Race 1 after having qualified at P14 in the qualifying race. Race 1 saw them completing 16-laps in 38:29.167 minutes. Post this Akhil took the steering in Race 2 scripting an impressive run to finish P15 in the Silver category. Akhil completed Race 2 in 1:01:40.275 minutes on Sunday evening (30th May 2021) at Circuit Paul Ricard to finish at an overall 29th place from a grid of 41 cars.<\/p>\n<p>Rabindra commented, <em>\u201cThere&#8217;re plenty of opportunities for us to improve and we\u2019ll be working on it. I, personally, have grasped a lot and can&#8217;t wait to work on my shortcomings to better my performances for the upcoming races now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The European GT4 Series now moves to Circuit Zandvoort, Netherlands for Round 3 of the Championship from June 18 \u2013 20, 2021. The race can be watched LIVE on the YouTube Page of the European GT4 Series.<strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\/technical-glitch-plays-spoilsport-for-akhil-rabindra-at-circuit-paul-ricard\/\">Technical glitch plays spoilsport for Akhil Rabindra at Circuit Paul Ricard<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesportsnews.in\">The Sports News<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Akhil Rabindra\u2019s second-round performance at the European GT4 Championship 2021 was marred by technical glitches at the Circuit Paul Ricard.<br \/>\nThe post Technical glitch plays spoilsport for Akhil Rabindra at Circuit Paul Ricard appeared first on The Sports News.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79052,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79051\/revisions\/79052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}