Quote of the Week

UPDATE An update from Marcus on his exact quote: "The truth is that we both were going side by side through Corkscrew and both were racing aggressively for the position which unfortunately cost

Marcus Niemela

her the race and also bent my car. I made it clear in both, on the podium and in the press conference, that it was not my fault nor hers. Naturally I apologized that it might have cost her championship and said that I didn't want to be involved in the championship fight in this way." Marcus Niemela

10/11/09 "I do not know where she is now, but if I was her, I would be up here smacking me upside the head for what I did" Markus Niemela at the Atlantic Series podium interview, after he totally screwed up on lap 1 and took out then point leader Simona De Silvestro in the Corkscrew, as she never saw him coming. Of course the championship for her was gone then.