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How Marcos Siebert resurrected his racing career

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2016 Italian F4 Champion Marcos Siebert was left on the sidelines for two years after a promising career in single-seaters. Entering the world of endurance racing in 2022, Siebert's new venture proved to be successful since returning to racing full-time in 2023. The Mar del Plata-born driver began his career in Argentina, starting in karts before advancing to Formula Metropolitan on a part-time basis. He later moved to Europe in 2013 to further his career. After a year in Formula Renault 2.0 with Jenzer that didn't yield success, Siebert took a year out of motorsport. Returning to single-seaters in 2015, the Argentinean reunited with the Swiss team to take on the Italian F4 Championship. Following a slow start to the season, Siebert scored his first podium at Imola, before taking his maiden win of the season in the next round at Mugello. Despite an inconsistent final three rounds of the season, Siebert took his second win of the season in the finale at Misano.  Finishing fifth ...

GT Open: Lukas Dunner's roller-coaster return to racing

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Lukas Dunner, in his first full season of racing in three years, returned to Motopark after last competing with them in 2020 .  The Austrian scored two podiums and finished ninth in the standings after finishing no lower than fifth in the final three rounds. Dunner competed in single-seaters from 2017 to 2020, during which he took third and runners up spots in Euroformula Open in 2019 and 2020 respectively. Dunner scored four wins in his final year of single-seaters | Credit: Euroformula Open Championship In parallel to his 2020 Euroformula Open campaign, Dunner competed in F3 with MP Motorsport. He finished 27th in the standings, scoring a best result of 12th in the Hungarian sprint, where he avoided chaos at the start to climb eight positions by the end of the race. Following his exit from single-seater competition, Dunner competed "for fun" in the Mitropa Rally Cup, which he won. However, it wouldn't be until late 2023 when the Vienna-born driver would return to circui...