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MotoGP’s new 850cc era will kick off with a special launch event at Rio de Janeiro on 21 February 2027.
As reported by Autosport last month, the entire MotoGP grid will travel to Brazil at the start of next year to mark the launch of the new season.
The main event will take place at Botafogo Beach, with the famous Sugarloaf Mountain serving as the backdrop.
The launch will precede ...Keep reading
- Formula One - Producer - Biggin Hill
Formula One has an opening for a Producer within the Content Production team.
You will be leading the planning, creation and development of Formula 1’s digital video content across both short-form and long-form formats and overseeing content through post-production from brief through to final delivery.
Candidates will have at least five years’ ...Keep reading
Defending champion Matt Armstrong claimed all three Caterham Seven Championship UK victories at Knockhill, on the category’s latest appearance on the British Touring Car support bill, but it was far from plain sailing.
The Team Parker racer started a dry opener from pole position alongside Harry Senior, with points leader Taylor O’Flanagan nearly half a second behind in third. Armstrong and ...Keep reading
MotoGP has not ruled out moving the Qatar Grand Prix to another country amid the uncertainty caused by the war in the Middle East, and could potentially follow the same strategy Formula 1 has taken by hosting its Bahrain race in Malaysia.
The conflict that erupted several months ago in the Persian Gulf between the United States, Israel and Iran has had a direct impact on this year's sporting ...Keep reading
Formula E’s Gen3 Evo era is set for an epic conclusion in London this weekend, with the fight for the 2025/26 title going down to the wire.
As many as nine drivers remain in mathematical contention heading to the ExCel double-header, the most since the chaotic 2020/21 season when 18 drivers went into the final races in Berlin with a chance of becoming champion.
Prior to last month’s ...Keep reading
At the end of a day of thrilling competition, Wallace Menzies left Shelsley Walsh as the new outright hill record holder at the famous Worcestershire venue.
Rounds 21 and 22 of the British Hillclimb Championship formed the second visit of the year to the famous 1000-yard dash up the side of the Teme Valley and in warm sunshine in front of a big crowd it was a day of outstanding ...Keep reading
While Aston Martin introduced its first major upgrade package for the AMR26 in Hungary, Honda will bring its first update of the 2026 Formula 1 season to Zandvoort.
With Adrian Newey’s first upgrade package of the year, the deficit on the chassis side has been reduced considerably. Aston Martin is still a long way from where it wants to be, but figures from Paceteq show that its deficit in ...Keep reading
Sixty years after Neil Corner’s victory in the Griffiths Formula race that spawned the Historic Sports Car Club at Castle Combe on 14 May 1966, the ex-works/Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D-type graced Saturday’s Griffith Haig Trophy race at the anniversary celebration. Owned by Christian Albrecht, XKD504 led initially, before team-mate Gary Pearson howled past to win in a similar car.
Kyle Tilley ...Keep reading
Cadillac Formula 1 team principal Graeme Lowdon has given an update on the outfit’s current infrastructure, which is still being developed.
F1’s newest squad operates from several locations, mainly its Silverstone hub, while it makes the most of General Motors facilities in North Carolina and Michigan, and uses Toyota’s wind tunnel in Cologne.
Cadillac has been building a new F1 ...Keep reading
There was a distinct Jaguar theme to the Classic Sports Car Club’s Oulton Park meeting last weekend as the inaugural Cheshire Cats event was held. Alongside a host of Jags racing, there were also some very special cars taking part in a demonstration.
Star Car: Jaguar XJR-9
There was a thoroughly impressive collection of vehicles on display, but the one that created the most excitement was ...Keep reading
The main stakeholders in MotoGP are studying the introduction of a football-style transfer window for when teams are allowed to sign riders, Autosport understands.
A meeting of the recently-created IRTA Management Council was held at the Silverstone paddock on Friday morning. The body brings together representatives of the MotoGP teams’ association, IRTA, and the teams themselves, and on ...Keep reading
This weekend, IndyCar is visiting Canada's Ontario province for the inaugural race at Markham, where the Toronto-based event has been moved.
This will be our opportunity to speak to David Malukas, who, albeit still winless in IndyCar, truly burst onto the scene this season.
Racing alongside Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin at Penske, the 24-year-old from Chicago has displayed impressive ...Keep reading
Rally Scotland will deliver fast gravel stages and prove to be quite the challenge for World Rally Championship crews in 2027, according to Elfyn Evans.
The World Rally Championship points leader was among a group of drivers that took part in the British Rally Championship’s Grampian Forest Rally held in Aberdeenshire, last weekend, which also acted as the FIA’s Rally Scotland candidate ...Keep reading
It may only be early August but already some of the club racing seasons are drawing to an end and Mini Challenge Clubsport champion Oli Willmott concluded his campaign in style with a dominant winning treble at Donington Park last weekend.
The Mini Cooper S pilot led home Adrian Linggi in race one, with James Dudley a distant third. But Linggi cooked his engine and retired from the sequel ...Keep reading
Having started the 2026 season on the back foot, McLaren is showing signs of what made this iteration of the storied team so successful in the first place over the past two years.
True to its successful strike rate with in-season upgrades in 2024 and 2025, McLaren's latest upgrade package in Hungary, featuring a revised floor and the latest iteration of its front wing, was another significant ...Keep reading
Tom Chilton made no mistake from his gift of reversed-grid pole position by dominating the final race of the British Touring Car Championship round at Knockhill.
Chilton was always the favourite, bearing in mind his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback was one of just seven of the 23 cars able to use soft-compound Goodyear tyres in this race – and the next-highest starter doing the same ...Keep reading
It may seem odd that two riders who qualified on the front row dropped places at the start with stuck ride-height devices, when MotoGP explicitly banned holeshot devices for that very phase of the race.
Polesitter Jorge Martin had already appeared set to lose the lead to eventual race winner Raul Fernandez when he ran deep into Turn 1. Ai Ogura, also on an Aprilia, suffered a similar problem ...Keep reading
Ash Sutton took a hefty stride towards a record-breaking fifth British Touring Car Championship title with victory in race two at Knockhill.
With the morning rain blown away on the Scottish air, and the track merely damp off-line, Sutton and his Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford Focus Titanium were the clear favourites for victory.
That’s because Adam Morgan, Dan Rowbottom and Gordon Shedden ...Keep reading
Raul Fernandez annihilated the competition at the British Grand Prix to claim his first victory of the 2026 MotoGP season, leading another podium lockout for Aprilia.
Having crashed out of Saturday’s sprint, the Trackhouse rider redeemed himself in the main race, grabbing the lead at the start and leading every lap in what was arguably the most convincing performance of his MotoGP ...Keep reading
Adam Morgan led home Dan Rowbottom for an emotional Plato Racing 1-2 in the first British Touring Car Championship race of the day at a soggy Knockhill.
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As qualifying race winner, Morgan started his Mercedes A35 Saloon from pole position, with Rowbottom third on the grid behind the ...Keep reading
Nirei Fukuzumi scored his second win of the Super Formula season amid a strange turn of events involving the safety car that left Igor Fraga furious at losing out on victory.
Rookie Racing driver Fukuzumi and Ayumu Iwasa were the two biggest beneficiaries of the safety car being called at the end of lap 27 of the 51-lap contest, owing to Sena Sakaguchi and Roman Stanek both hitting trouble at ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez says he had no explanation as to why he suffered such a severe tyre drop in the British Grand Prix sprint after slumping to ninth at the finish. mean, I'm disappointed
The factory Ducati rider was immediately on the move when the race began, passing the Aprilia of Marco Bezzecchi for fourth by the end of the first lap.
But his day began to unravel on lap 5 of 10, when ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin converted pole position into a commanding victory in the British Grand Prix sprint to extend his lead at the top of the MotoGP standings.
The Spaniard nailed the start and then led every lap of the half-distance race at Silverstone, only facing a brief threat from Trackhouse’s Ai Ogura during the middle stages before pulling comfortably clear in the final laps.
With Marco ...Keep reading
Adam Morgan led all the way from pole to claim victory in the British Touring Car Championship qualifying race at Knockhill.
This was the new-for-2026 Plato Racing squad’s second taste of glory with its Mercedes A35 saloons following Dan Rowbottom’s win in the half-points Saturday race at the Donington Park opener.
Morgan topped his qualifying group and his time was only just good ...Keep reading
MotoGP points leader Jorge Martin beat Raul Fernandez by 0.021s in a last-lap effort to claim pole position for the British Grand Prix.
Trackhouse rider Fernandez appeared to have done enough to top qualifying for the first time in his MotoGP career, having lowered Marco Bezzecchi’s circuit record at Silverstone on his final run.
But factory Aprilia rider Martin had little more left in the ...Keep reading
Power Maxed Racing claimed a 1-2-4 in British Touring Car Championship free practice at Knockhill on the first anniversary of its miracle return from a disastrous fire.
The Midlands squad’s Vauxhall Astras were among the casualties of the blaze, which destroyed its premises 12 months ago.
But the team arrived phoenix-like at Knockhill with loaned and hastily prepared Cupra Leons, with ...Keep reading
Marco Bezzecchi made a brilliant comeback from a collarbone fracture to lead a 1-2-4-5 finish for Aprilia in practice for the MotoGP British Grand Prix.
Having been unsure about his fitness level following a crash at last month’s German Grand Prix and a patchy run of form prior to that, Bezzecchi smashed the circuit record at Silverstone by almost a second on Friday.
Trackhouse’s Ai ...Keep reading
When the 2026 Formula 1 rules were introduced, the FIA frequently spoke about the so-called "nimble car concept".
The machinery was supposed to become smaller and lighter, although it has to be said that the changes are still relatively marginal. The wheelbase is 20cm shorter this year, while the new cars are also 10cm narrower.
The minimum weight has been set at 768kg, a reduction of 32kg ...Keep reading
KTM will be able to open the sealed engines of its RC16 bikes the week before the Aragon GP, after receiving approval from the rest of the manufacturers in MotoGP.
As Autosport revealed in mid-July, KTM formally requested the remaining manufacturers, through the MSMA and IRTA, for permission to open the sealed engines of its four MotoGP bikes to replace a part that is causing the RC16 to ...Keep reading
The second half of the 2026 World Endurance Championship promises an intense fight, with four rounds scheduled in the span of just over two months.
The calendar had to be reshuffled twice in the wake of the Iran war, and the impact of the changes is multifold. The gap left by the cancelled Qatar round has been filled by a first-ever WEC visit to Barcelona, while Monza replaces Bahrain as the ...Keep reading
Juan Manuel Fangio – 38y, 10m, 27d
1950 Monaco GP
The first-ever grand chelem – leading the whole race from pole position and setting the fastest lap on your way to victory – occurred in just the second race of the Formula 1 world championship.
Future five-time title winner Juan Manuel Fangio was fastest by 2.6s in qualifying. The 38-year-old Argentine made it past Tabac corner ...Keep reading
Autosport: Let’s talk about your current role at Williams. Can you explain what impact you have on the car?
Victor Martins: “I can have an impact on the car, but is it direct? Not necessarily, I’d say, because there are many people in the team, many departments, many things to improve, to analyse – so ‘direct’, I’d say no.
“However, taking part in development, yes – be it ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez says he is under no extra pressure despite re-emerging as a genuine MotoGP title contender this year, insisting that winning another championship would not change his life.
After battling with severe physical limitations in the early part of the 2026 season and missing two races due to surgery, Marquez has mounted an impressive comeback on the factory Ducati, winning three of ...Keep reading
Marco Bezzecchi has admitted that he is not fully fit as he prepares for a potential MotoGP comeback at the British Grand Prix, conceding his chances of a strong result at Silverstone.
The factory Aprilia rider broke his collarbone during the opening lap of the Sachsenring sprint, forcing him out of the remainder of the German Grand Prix weekend in July.
During the summer break, he ...Keep reading
Thierry Neuville believes last weekend’s Rally Finland was “too fast” following an unusual number of high-profile crashes at the fast gravel World Rally Championship event.
Finland is renowned for its ultra fast gravel stages, with this year’s event the second fastest in WRC history clocking an average speed of 128.2km/h – falling just shy of the record set last year.
Neuville had ...Keep reading
MotoGP has announced a new two-year contract with Silverstone, ensuring the British Grand Prix will remain on the calendar until at least 2028.
The news was made official on the eve of this year’s United Kingdom round of MotoGP, which marks the start of the second half of the 2026 season.
Although MotoGP hasn’t been able to replicate the same success that Formula 1 has enjoyed at ...Keep reading
While Formula 1 insists - based on its own Formula 1 Fan Voice programme - that fans are enjoying the racing, drivers have been far more critical of the 2026 regulations so far.
One of the biggest talking points emerged at Spa-Francorchamps, where Oscar Piastri highlighted the issue of drivers being surprised by their own power units.
During qualifying, the Australian lost significant time ...Keep reading
Toto Wolff revealed that Mercedes is set to bring more upgrades in the second half of the 2026 Formula 1 season - but is "closely monitoring" when to introduce them.
The start of this new regulation cycle has gone as expected with the development race largely dictating the ever-changing pecking order as teams gain more understanding of the ruleset.
It saw Mercedes win the opening six grands ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera says he is open minded about his return to competitive motorsport next year as the two-time world rally champion plans to discuss his next steps with Toyota.
Rovanpera has received the green light to resume his motorsport career after recovering from a health issue that forced the Finn to abandon plans to make the leap from rallying to circuit racing in Super Formula this ...Keep reading
Red Bull Racing - Travel Coordinator - Milton Keynes, UK
Red Bull Racing is looking for a Travel Coordinator to join its Marketing Team Travel Operations Team.
You will be managing international travel, accommodation, visas and passport administration for Marketing personnel within a four-person team.
Successful candidates will have previous experience in a Travel Coordinator, Travel ...Keep reading
There wasn’t much national motorsport in the UK last weekend, but even so there are four drivers moving up inside the top 10 of the Autosport National Rankings.
Junior Saloons ace Ollie Smith is the highest-placed of them. The Citroen Saxo-based series in which he competes was in action at Brands Hatch on the support card of the Touring Car Rewind extravaganza.
Of the three races, Smith ...Keep reading
Heading into Formula 1's major technical overhaul, expectations at Aston Martin were high. With a state-of-the-art factory in Silverstone, legendary designer Adrian Newey and a works partnership with Honda, all the ingredients for success appeared to be in place.
That may still prove to be the case in the longer term, but the start of the new era has proved far more challenging than ...Keep reading
Trackhouse has announced that it has renewed its contract with Raul Fernandez for the 2027 and 2028 MotoGP seasons.
After a tug-of-war that lasted almost half a year, the two parties reached an agreement for the next two seasons.
In fact, it was precisely the length of the contract that stalled the negotiations for months, as Fernandez had always asked for a two-season deal, while the team ...Keep reading
The motor industry can seem daunting on the surface; dozens of car brands competing for buyers, with hundreds of models available across every segment. From household names like Toyota and Ford to luxury marques like Ferrari, Lamborghini, and Rolls-Royce, the sheer number of choices can be overwhelming.
But behind those familiar badges is a much smaller group of massive companies shaping the ...Keep reading
Maverick Vinales will sit out this weekend’s British Grand Prix due to injury, with Tech3 drafting in KTM’s MotoGP test rider Pol Espargaro as his replacement.
Following Autosport’s report that Vinales could be sidelined for the rest of the year, KTM has confirmed that the Spaniard will not be in action at Silverstone, as he continues his recovery from the shoulder injury he sustained at ...Keep reading
Theo Pourchaire will make his return to full-time single-seater racing after signing with Opel for the 2026/27 Formula E campaign - which will debut the Gen4 car.
The 22-year-old has contested various championships since winning the 2023 Formula 2 title, starting six IndyCar races in 2024 - the same season in which he entered a Super Formula race.
Neither were full-time campaigns, though ...Keep reading
Formula E has brought forward the 2027 Monaco E-Prix by two weeks to eliminate a clash with the World Endurance Championship.
The two races on the famous streets of Monte Carlo will now take place on 1 and 2 May 2027, a week before the scheduled double-header in Berlin.
When the full 2026/27 Formula E calendar was released in June, Monaco was slated to host the 10th and 11th round of the ...Keep reading
A decision regarding the future of the World Rally Championship’s season finale in Saudi Arabia will be taken by mid-September, according to the FIA, which is closely monitoring events in the Middle East.
The WRC is scheduled to host its season finale in Saudi Arabia on 11-14 November, but it is among an array of motorsport events in the Middle East that are facing uncertainty amid the ...Keep reading
McLaren will race its version of the so-called 'Macarena' rear-wing concept – but not until an unspecified point in the future, according to team principal Andrea Stella.
It's understood that the reason for not rushing to race the new rear wing is not linked to Red Bull's well-documented issues with its similar design. Instead, McLaren is being cautiously pragmatic, since the rotating rear ...Keep reading
It's common to see fans credit a manufacturer's progress - or struggles - to the quality of its riders. Some are considered exceptional development riders, while others are accused of leading engineers in the wrong direction. But how much influence does a MotoGP rider actually have over the technical evolution of a bike?
Joan Mir has experienced both ends of the spectrum, winning the 2020 world ...Keep reading
Deagen Fairclough kicked off the second half of the GB3 Championship season in style with two poles and a double victory, as Hitech GP took a clean sweep at Silverstone last weekend.
A tough start to his campaign had left Fairclough a lowly 10th in the standings heading into the latest round, but he turned around his fortunes with his most convincing GB3 performance to date.
He made a good ...Keep reading
Sebastien Ogier plans to contest the four remaining World Rally Championship rounds in search of a record 10th world title, beginning with Rally Paraguay later this month.
The news comes just days after the reigning world champion was involved in a high-speed crash from the lead at Rally Finland. Ogier and stand-in co-driver Julien Ingrassia exited the car unaided but were transported to ...Keep reading
Since its launch in 2012, the World Endurance Championship has visited a wide variety of tracks around the world, racing across Europe, Asia and the Americas. Some events like Spa have become permanent fixtures on the calendar, while others disappeared quickly without leaving a mark.
At its peak, the WEC hosted as many as 10 rounds in a season before shrinking to just six during the COVID-19 ...Keep reading
Touring Car Rewind: South brought an array of retro tin-top machinery to Brands Hatch last weekend. Amid the nostalgia, 2013 British Touring Car champion Andrew Jordan in a Super Touring BMW and Ford Capri-mounted current BTCC star Charles Rainford were among those to catch the eye.
Star Car: BMW 318i E36
Few Super Touring cars were as successful – or numerous – in period as BMW’s ...Keep reading
Drivers are excited for the future of the World Rally Championship following what the FIA has labelled the “biggest deal in history” for rallying.
After months of discussions, French automotive company Cosmobilis and private credit investor Park Square Capital have officially acquired WRC Promoter GmbH to take over the commercial rights of the WRC and the European Rally Championship in an ...Keep reading
With the first Formula 1 season under the new technical regulations approaching its halfway point, the summer break provides a good opportunity to take stock. The 2026 rules, with their much greater emphasis on electric power, have sparked considerable debate both in and outside the paddock.
F1 insists that fan ratings – for example in its own Formula 1 Fan Voice programme – have been ...Keep reading
Sami Pajari says winning Rally Finland is “a massive thing”, claiming that a home victory and a World Rally Championship title are equally important to Finnish drivers.
After claiming his first WRC win two weeks ago in Estonia, the Toyota driver beat team-mate Oliver Solberg to victory by 26.7s in what proved to be a drama-filled fast gravel rally.
Pajari became the 14th Finn to win the ...Keep reading
MotoGP world champion Fabio Quartararo has been taken to hospital following a big accident during the first official practice session at this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix.
The Yamaha rider went down after just 10 minutes as the front of the bike got away from the Frenchman heading into the fast left-right sequence at Turn 4 in Mugello.
Quartararo's left shoulder hit the ground hard before ...Keep reading
Brad Pitt may play a Formula 1 driver in his upcoming summer blockbuster, but he’s never gotten behind the wheel of a real F1 car – until now.
McLaren held a private test at the Circuit of the Americas earlier this week, allowing the A-lister to take one of its previous cars for a drive, the team confirmed to Autosport.
The reigning constructors’ champions hinted at the test on social ...Keep reading
Red Bull’s decision to appeal the result of the Canadian Grand Prix drew widespread criticism, with Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff branding it “petty” and “embarrassing".
The ensuing delay in confirming the race result drew negative reactions from both fans and the media alike.
It took more than five and a half hours for George Russell’s victory to be officially confirmed by ...Keep reading
Sportscar correspondent Gary Watkins speaks at length to Autosport Editor-in-Chief Kevin Turner about the 1983 Formula 1 campaign - his favourite season in history.
It was a new era for the championship, as ‘ground-effect’ floors were banned leading to an intense battle between turbo-charged engines and the naturally-aspirated Cosworth V8s.
The 1983 season also featured a battle between ...Keep reading
Phil Hanson calls it “the best mistake I ever made”.
He’s talking about the decision to begin his car racing career in the world of endurance rather than stepping onto the single-seater ladder. Nine years later he’s celebrating an overall Le Mans 24 Hours victory at the wheel of a Ferrari. He’s about right when he calls it “a crazy story”.
Crazy because Hanson was a race ...Keep reading
Richard Lietz driving a GT Porsche in the Le Mans 24 Hours has become a real fixture of the race over the past two decades but, prior to picking up a second LMGT3 class win in succession last weekend, the Austrian had feared his racing days were over ahead of the 2024 campaign.
With the introduction of the new LMGT3 class in the World Endurance Championship, Lietz felt there could be a changing ...Keep reading
The hot topic at Mugello for this weekend's Italian Grand Prix is brakes. With Francesco Bagnaia's much-publicised change in brake disc specification on Sunday in Aragon, there has been plenty of discussion about the improvement in feeling that comes with selecting a larger disc size.
However, increasing the diameter of a rider's brake discs isn't a silver bullet that unlocks performance, and ...Keep reading
Work is ongoing around the clock as organisers of Madrid's 2026 Spanish Grand Prix are bullish on their chances of getting Formula 1's latest venue ready in time - despite the face of local resistance.
Just over a month ago, construction began on the Madring circuit. The track is set to make its F1 debut next September, using a hybrid of existing streets and a purpose-built road course section ...Keep reading
Sometimes, Formula 1 needs a hint of acidity to cut through some of its more cloying elements; a little lemon sorbet, perhaps, or a raspberry coulis.
The addition of Cadillac to the grid in 2026 has partially offered that, although recent weeks have felt like one of the troughs in the waves of information from the team. We know it'll be running Ferrari powertrains until its own project is fully ...Keep reading
Rules can be as clear as you like, but the interpretation and enforcement of them will always introduce an element of subjectivity.
That’s why the quality of officiating in Formula 1 regularly returns to the top of the agenda, rightly or – more often than not – wrongly.
Some commentators have connected Derek Warwick’s suspension from his stewarding role ahead of the Canadian Grand ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia has labelled the Italian Grand Prix weekend as make or break for his MotoGP campaign in 2025.
The two-time MotoGP world champion outlined that if he doesn't have the pace around the Mugello circuit this weekend, then he and Ducati clearly have a deeper issue than he and the team thought.
Aragon looked very bleak for Bagnaia all weekend with only a late increase in brake ...Keep reading
The factory KTM MotoGP riders are quietly optimistic ahead of the Italian Grand Prix following their productive test day at Aragon.
Pedro Acosta discussed the hope in the KTM camp after Aragon while outlining the aspirations for the upcoming weekend.
"Aragon was the first GP of the season where we were quite strong," said Acosta. "OK, we weren't able to fight for the podium, but we were able ...Keep reading
Formula 1’s governing body, the FIA, has axed another senior figure as part of a management shake-up.
Sara Mariani, who was the organisation’s Sustainability, Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) director for the past 18 months, will now leave her position.
The BBC reported that Mariani wrote in a note in her out-of-office email, saying: "It is, sadly, time to say goodbye. I loved the ride, I ...Keep reading
Nolan Siegel’s extraordinary radio rant during the Gateway race at the World Wide Technology Raceway last Sunday was nothing short of spectacular.
If you missed it: on lap 83, Penske's Scott McLaughlin took the inside line into Turn 2 in an attempt to pass Siegel, only for the Arrow McLaren driver to defend by blocking the move. Moving in reaction to an overtaking attempt by blocking is not ...Keep reading
Chief Editor Kevin Turner is joined by British GT correspondent Ed Hardy and Group National Editor Stephen Lickorish to look at the key themes from the campaign so far, including how 2 Seas has usurped Barwell as the top squad in GT3.
GT4 is also examined with the dominant position of the Optimum crew of Jack Brown and Marc Warren discussed, while there's an analysis of how the calendar switch ...Keep reading
Ai Ogura has been cleared to race in the Italian Grand Prix following medical checks at the Mugello track.
The Japanese rider missed both the Aragon and British Grand Prix after fracturing his right tibia during a crash in the first practice session at Silverstone.
Ogura had surgery on his leg following the incident, and reports that his recovery has gone smoothly.
The Trackhouse ...Keep reading
Two more BMW 120 Coupe Cup victories have propelled Matthew Highcock up to third in the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings.
Highcock's Snetterton success means he is the highest-placed improver in the table this week, after jumping 16 places up the leaderboard. He sits at the head of a gaggle of eight drivers that now have seven wins to their name - but all of these racers ...Keep reading
Williams Formula 1 team principal James Vowles has signed a new long-term deal with the squad.
Vowles joined Williams in 2023 from Mercedes, where he held the role of motorsport strategy director, and had initially spoken about the daunting task he faced in turning the team around. The 45-year-old famously commented that much of the team’s car build was still run off an Excel ...Keep reading
With Toprak Razgatlioglu joining Pramac Yamaha team for 2026, Jack Miller is weighing up his future options in case he has to make way for the Turkish rider in MotoGP.
The 30-year-old Australian is relatively upbeat about the situation but wants to stay in MotoGP rather than move over to the Superbike World Championship.
Last week Razgatlioglu was announced as joining the Pramac Yamaha ...Keep reading
Highly rated reigning Fiesta Junior champion Finn Leslie is to make his British Touring Car Championship debut at Oulton Park this weekend.
The 17-year-old Yorkshire college student is to replace Ronan Pearson in the Speedworks Motorsport-run Toyota Gazoo Racing UK line-up due to what the team described as ‘unexpected commercial challenges’.
Pearson had high hopes heading into 2025 after ...Keep reading
Veteran team boss, engineer and driver Ed Abbott is preparing for the challenge of tackling this year’s Roger Albert Clark Rally in an unusual choice of car: a Jaguar XJS.
Abbott fielded the unlikely 5.3-litre V12-engined Jaguar on three smaller forest rallies in 2024 and successfully finished all of them as he learned about keeping the XJS on gravel forest roads and out of the ditches. He ...Keep reading
Williams faced a tough Formula 1 grand prix in Canada, with Alex Albon retiring due to engine issues and Carlos Sainz making it home with just a single point to add to the team’s tally – which may prove to be a missed opportunity at the end of a so-far-impressive 2025 season.
Williams’s weekend in Montreal started strong, with both Sainz and Albon bothering the top of the running in ...Keep reading
Yamaha has announced the signing of Andrea Dovizioso as a MotoGP test rider as well as a rider performance advisor until 2027 ahead of the Italian Grand Prix.
The former factory Ducati rider makes an official return after retiring from the MotoGP grid in 2022. Dovizioso had been testing for Yamaha ad hoc, having joined the manufacturer at the Sepang shakedown test during pre-season preparations ...Keep reading
In theory, this year's Formula 1 silly season should be a relatively quiet one. At the end of this campaign, only Mercedes and Racing Bulls have their drivers’ contracts expiring. And, as always, the second Red Bull and Alpine seats remain question marks – in the short term as far as Franco Colapinto is concerned.
All other driver contracts extend beyond this year. Ferrari’s duo is locked ...Keep reading
Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur confirmed his squad is bringing an upgrade package over the coming races, but felt there is much more performance in cleaner race weekends, starting with getting on top of Pirelli's tyres.
After Charles Leclerc's first 2025 podium in Spain, the Canadian Grand Prix weekend was another sobering one for Ferrari which started going wrong with the Monegasque's FP1 ...Keep reading
Finally... it’s F1 movie launch season. But is the film, dubbed by one critic “Barbie for men” any good? Our correspondents were given a preview showing in Montreal and give their verdict. We hear from the producer Jerry Bruckheimer and one of the stars Kerry Condon.
Plus we examine the fallout from the Canadian Grand Prix - for the second consecutive race we saw a collision in the ...Keep reading
- Motorsport Network - Chief Financial Officer/Chief Operating Officer - New York
Motorsport Network has a vacancy for a Chief Finance Officer/Chief Operating Officer, based at their New York City office.
Aspects of this role include owning all financial planning and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, unit economics, and scenario planning and managing day-to-day business operations ...Keep reading
Isack Hadjar says "everything was wrong" in Formula 1's Canadian Grand Prix as Racing Bulls' midfield campaign hit a temporary snag.
Hadjar and team-mate Liam Lawson had collected 20 points over the recent European triple-header, but while their pace initially looked promising neither driver was able to make the tyres work.
Starting from 12th after a three-place grid penalty for impeding ...Keep reading
At the front of the field, it was the #83 AF Corse team of Robert Kubica, Phil Hanson and Ye Yifei that took outright victory in the fourth-closest finish in the history of the rac, holding off what was a near-perfect race from the #6 Porsche team of Kevin Estre, Laurens Vanthoor and Matt Campbell.
There's also an explanation as to why the Ferrari #50 of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas ...Keep reading
When Luca de Meo became Renault’s CEO in the summer of 2020, the group had just posted a €7.3billion loss and was on the verge of collapse as the world economy shuddered to a halt during the COVID-19 pandemic. On his way to turning that around to a €4.26billion operating profit in the last set of annual results, de Meo set in motion what he called a ‘Renaulution’, introducing exciting ...Keep reading
Phil Hanson, Le Mans winner.
That statement was true before last weekend of course. The 25-year-old from Berkshire had already stood on the top step of the podium at the Circuit de la Sarthe, facing empty grandstands after conquering the LMP2 category in a 2020 edition held without fans. But it has held a different meaning since last Sunday, when Hanson added his name to the pantheon of British ...Keep reading
The last time I interviewed Robert Kubica, on 31 January 2011, everything was different. It was the day before the first test of the new Renault R31 at Valencia and Kubica talked about his hopes that the team could build on a promising, but winless, 2010 campaign and finally give him the chance to emerge as the title contender he undoubtedly had the ability to be.
Six days later, Kubica ...Keep reading
Peugeot has admitted for the first time that building an all-new car is one of the options for its ongoing World Endurance Championship programme.
Olivier Jansonnie, Peugeot Sport’s technical director, has revealed that replacing the current 9X8 2024 Le Mans Hypercar will be the only way forward if there are no changes to the system of Balance of Performance for the blue riband Le Mans 24 ...Keep reading
McLaren's Oscar Piastri says the team ran out of laps to make its tyre wear advantage pay off in Montreal's Canadian Grand Prix, as Formula 1 team boss Andrea Stella explains why it struggled for performance compared to its usual title-winning form.
The reigning world champions didn't enjoy their usual advantage in Canada, having struggled for grip from Friday practice. The team rallied to be ...Keep reading
Toyota Gazoo Racing technical director David Floury has blasted the FIA’s Balance of Performance – without naming it – for the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Ferrari dominated the French classic, while the Japanese constructor faltered in fifth and 15th, suffering from a lack of competitiveness compared to the AF Corse-run machines – and others.
“Clearly, we haven’t reached our goal. The goal ...Keep reading
"They are faster, so I’m not even thinking about that," said Max Verstappen during the Canadian Grand Prix media day when asked whether victory was on the cards.
By "they," the reigning Formula 1 world champion was referring to McLaren as, like many, the Dutchman was predicting another win from the papaya-coloured team and thought he would be left scrapping for the final podium place against ...Keep reading
Forget everything you’ve seen on social media, or what you’ve read about the new Formula 1 movie - you should absolutely go and see it. If not only to form your own opinions on F1 and see the latest attempt to bring the series into Hollywood.
The championship's owners are desperate to crack the US audience and capitalise on the post Drive to Survive lull, so taking it to the big screen – ...Keep reading
As someone who has watched Formula 1 since I was young, I went into a screening of F1: The Movie being told time and again that the film was not for me.
It has been made, at great expense, to showcase the championship to a potential new audience, specifically in the United States, with the hope of bringing in a swathe of fans in much the same way the Netflix phenomenon Drive to Survive has done ...Keep reading
Can I get your five-word movie review?
Ben Hunt: Good for non-F1 fans.
Mark Mann-Bryans: Not good for anyone watching.
What were your thoughts on the racing scenes?
BH: A lot has been made of the technology. The director used similar techniques to what they used in Top Gun, but they’ve gone even further with this. We've heard about camera mounting points and techniques that could ...Keep reading
Frederic Vasseur has said Ferrari must take inspiration from Mercedes and step up its race weekend execution to compete for Formula 1 wins.
A quick look at the results shows Ferrari was a distant fourth-quickest team in Canada, with Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton in no man's land as they respectively finished fifth and sixth.
But the real story of the Scuderia's weekend was one of ...Keep reading
Ferrari has expressed its surprise with the disqualification of its #50 499P Hypercar from fourth position in the 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours.
A press release from the Scuderia on Tuesday put into perspective the arguments of the stewards, who argued that not only was the car not compliant with technical regulations but it was unsafe – due to the rear wing lacking four bolts – and had a potential ...Keep reading
Formula 1 has announced it has signed a new contract with the promoters of its Canadian Grand Prix, keeping the Montreal race on the calendar until 2035.
The Circuit Gilles Villeneuve event's previous contract ran until 2031, but following discussions that deal has now been extended by another six years. The renewal also includes an extension to Bell Media’s media rights deal.
“As ...Keep reading
Sebastien Bourdais says Cadillac still needs to improve after its factory cars started the 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours from first and second but dropped out of the podium positions.
The #12 and #38 Jota entries lacked pace in the early stages of the contest, getting overtaken by the #5 Porsche in the very first minute of racing and plummeting out of the top 10 by the end of the third hour.
They ...Keep reading
Thailand has moved another step closer to bringing a Formula 1 grand prix to the streets of Bangkok after its cabinet approved a bid during a meeting on Tuesday.
The plan would see F1 welcome Thailand onto its calendar from 2028 on an initial five-year contract, with $1.2billion now agreed to be set aside for the bid.
The news was announced during a press conference in which tourism minister ...Keep reading
Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff has slammed Red Bull for protesting against George Russell's Canadian Grand Prix victory, calling the move "embarrassing".
Russell took his and Mercedes' first grand prix victory of 2025, defeating Red Bull's Max Verstappen in Montreal in a race that ended behind the safety car due to Lando Norris' crash.
But after the race Red Bull launched a two-pronged ...Keep reading
Robert Kubica claiming his maiden Le Mans 24 Hours victory proved popular amongst the Formula 1 paddock, with various members paying tribute to him on Sunday.
Kubica, who had three separate stints in F1, won the classic French enduro over the weekend whilst sharing the #83 Ferrari Hypercar with Phil Hanson and Yifei Ye.
It is the highlight in a career of ‘what ifs’ for Kubica, who was ...Keep reading
The #50 Ferrari 499P has been disqualified from the 2025 Le Mans 24 Hours after failing post-race scrutineering.
Driven by Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen, the car had finished fourth overall, just 29.666s behind the race-winning satellite Ferrari and 1.179s away from the podium, but was found to have breached rear wing technical regulations in two ways.
Firstly, the rear ...Keep reading
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has cautioned that his squad isn't getting ahead of itself despite taking a comfortable win in Formula 1's Canadian Grand Prix on a hot track surface.
In the hands of Russell the Mercedes W16 looked like a contender for victory in Montreal from the first lap of practice, and the Briton duly defeated Red Bull's Max Verstappen to pole with what he described as one of ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc is adamant that himself and his Ferrari Formula 1 team do not need to “prove anybody wrong” after criticism from Italian media ahead of last weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix.
Leading outlets in Italy suggested Frederic Vasseur’s position as Ferrari boss was under threat after a disappointing start to F1 2025, as Ferrari's only win has come in the Shanghai sprint.
The ...Keep reading
Pirelli has lined up its first MotoGP test ahead of taking on the tyre supplier role from 2027, with it set to trial its new compounds in Misano in September.
The revision of the MotoGP technical regulations for 2027 includes the switch from Michelin tyres to new compounds provided by Italian company Pirelli, which has already been working for several years with the Moto2 and Moto3 classes, in ...Keep reading
Ferrari made it three out of three at the Le Mans 24 Hours since its comeback to the top of the sportscar tree. Yet its victory in the World Endurance Championship blue riband event this time around was quite different from those that preceded it. For a start, the honours went to the yellow Ferrari, the so-called customer car run like the factory cars by AF Corse. But more to the point Ferrari was ...Keep reading
Since its creation in 2014, DS Automobiles has embraced the motto of “spirit of avant-garde,” using motorsport as a true innovation laboratory to benefit its production vehicles.
Considered a technological accelerator, motorsport offers an extreme environment to test and refine, in real-world conditions, materials, components, and processes that will ultimately equip - albeit in a modified ...Keep reading
The closing stages of the Canadian Grand Prix delivered many talking points, as the top five were closely bunched together and Lando Norris hit his team-mate Oscar Piastri. But the drama didn’t end yet after the chequered flag, thanks to a protest lodged by Red Bull.
The timing was reminiscent of the situation a few weeks ago in Miami: Christian Horner’s media session was delayed multiple ...Keep reading
Pre-weekend TCR UK championship leader Adam Shepherd won all three races on the road at Croft, but was disqualified from race two for avoidable contact.
Shepherd’s Cupra Leon VZ, debuted at Silverstone last time out, led Callum Newsham’s Hyundai from the start of race one. Steve Laidlaw’s Cupra vacated third on the second lap with a wild spin at the Jim Clark Esses, before making contact ...Keep reading
Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff has said McLaren must “establish the rules” after its drivers collided during the Canadian Grand Prix on Sunday.
Lando Norris was hunting down his McLaren team-mate and title rival Oscar Piastri in Montreal and attempted to overtake in a closing gap.
It resulted in Norris tagging the rear of Piastri before hitting the pitwall and immediately retiring ...Keep reading
Kyle Kirkwood survived multiple incidents to take his maiden win on an oval in IndyCar at Gateway, seeing off Pato O’Ward in a tense finish.
The Andretti Global driver took over the lead with an undercut on the final set of pitstops and kept O'Ward at bay to claim his third win of the season at World Wide Technology Raceway.
The result was Kirkwood’s fifth-career win, but was his first ...Keep reading
Christian Horner has revealed that Red Bull asked the Canadian Grand Prix race director to be on the lookout for any “gamesmanship” from Formula 1 rivals towards Max Verstappen.
The reigning, four-time world champion is just one penalty point away from a race ban following his crash into George Russell at the Spanish Grand Prix and the pair were once again at odds during Sunday’s contest ...Keep reading
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Ducati’s competitors
Ducati has opted against installing the majority of its winter updates
Photo by: Gold and Goose / Motorsport Images
The news about Ducati abandoning its 2025 engine in favour of its proven 2024 unit must have come as music to the ears of its rivals. In fact, Ducati is also set to adopt the same chassis as last year, while there is a “real ...Keep reading
Pole position, victory, and fastest lap: Max Guenther delivered a stunning grand slam for DS Penske in the first race of the Jeddah E-Prix.
For the first time, Formula E took to the Jeddah Formula 1 circuit, set along the shores of the Red Sea. "First times" seem to be a good omen for DS Penske, whose last victory dated back to February 11, 2023, in Hyderabad (India), on an unknown and ...Keep reading
Every year, Formula 1's teams have to make the decision when to end focus on the current season and pour all of its engineering resources into designing the next car. It's an important thing to time correctly, and F1 is littered with examples of teams who either kept developing too late and started the next year badly, or diverted course too early and sacrificed success in the immediate term for ...Keep reading
Hyundai’s Adrien Fourmaux has explained a bizarre “messy" startline issue that has severely dented his Rally Sweden victory hopes after starting stage 11 without his helmet properly fastened.
Fourmaux had been in the thick of an intense five-way fight for victory, having started the day in fourth, 7.9s adrift of leader Toyota’s Elfyn Evans.
Hyundai’s new signing, who finished third ...Keep reading
Reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martin is set to return to action in the Thailand Grand Prix after missing almost all of pre-season testing, Motorsport.com understands.
This Saturday marks one week since Aprilia’s new star rider was discharged by doctors following surgery on the right hand he broke at the start of the Sepang test.
Over the past week, the Spaniard has been resting at home ...Keep reading
Jeddah E-Prix winner Maximilian Guenther believes the new Pit Boost concept was “a great addition to the championship” after its inaugural use in a Formula E race, while other drivers remained wary of its implementation.
The technology – whereby drivers were required to make a mandatory pitstop to receive a 10% battery recharge – was used for the first time during Friday’s 31-lap race ...Keep reading
It's customary to make the usual predictions ahead of a brand new Formula 1 season: who's going to win the title, which team is going to be the constructors' champion, yada and indeed, yada. In recent years, even a crystal ball from Temu would likely lead any clairvoyants on a budget to predict Max Verstappen would win the title, so there's not been much fun to be had in that area.
The 2025 ...Keep reading
It was a moment that caused jaws to drop aplenty in the 2024 Formula 1 season: Williams team boss James Vowles revealing he’d discovered his then still-fairly-new squad was using a single, gigantic, Microsoft Excel spreadsheet to itemise its entire car build package.
The list ran to multiple thousands of cell entries – an approximate figure of 20,000 was at one stage mentioned – on a ...Keep reading
This is, it seems, a Marcus Rashford moment. The most celebrated home-grown member of the most historic of teams finds himself out of the squad. From one pinnacle of UK sport, it’s the same in another.
And, as with Rashford, Colin Turkington’s departure from West Surrey Racing and the British Touring Car Championship is strongly linked to money – or lack of it. In one case, it was down ...Keep reading
The four-time British Touring Car Championship champion Colin Turkington will be absent from the 2025 grid due to the current commercial climate.
The 42-year-old Northern Irishman has been a mainstay of the West Surrey Racing BMW squad for the past eight seasons, and 17 of his 20 BTCC campaigns dating back to 2002 have been with machinery run by the Sunbury team.
Turkington, as befits a ...Keep reading
Thankfully, the mooted Valentines' Day special livery that enrobed the Williams FW47 was none too garish, once the car was revealed during its Silverstone shakedown on Friday. The dark blue screenfade effect was actually quite cool, almost like a gateway into a badly damaged '90s CRT screen - with the lingering screen burn of a time when Williams was at the zenith of Formula 1. It has no secrets ...Keep reading
If you had told any Formula 1 fan at the start of 2024 that by the end of the season Alpine would have a double podium and finish sixth in the constructors’ championship, you would probably have been met by some very confused looks.
But from the Brazilian Grand Prix, things started to look up for the Enstone team, after a chaotic rain-filled race saw Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly finish ...Keep reading
Ferrari has strived to improve the reliability of its 499P World Endurance Championship contender after non-finishes blighted its 2024 Hypercar campaign.
Although its #50 entry finished runner-up in the standings, the other two Ferraris were eighth and ninth with a combined three DNFs across the eight-round season.
So during the Italian marque’s 2025 launch in Fiorano this week, Ferrari ...Keep reading
Both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri gave a confident impression as they presented the 2025 McLaren Formula 1 car to the world on Thursday at a wet Silverstone.
Norris is adamant he has learned a huge amount from his first title battle, admittedly a long shot, last year and going up against now four-time world champion Max Verstappen wheel-to-wheel, having stewed over a number of confrontations ...Keep reading
Three men have been convicted of trying to blackmail Michael Schumacher’s family for millions of pounds.
A German court has jailed one individual for three years after he threatened to upload 900 photos, 600 videos, plus medical reports of the seven-time Formula 1 world champion to the dark web unless Schumacher’s family paid a ransom of €15million.
A second man has been charged with ...Keep reading
MotoGP held five days of testing in Malaysia and Thailand in February, giving all five manufacturers a chance to hone their new bikes before the start of the season later this month.
The winter turned out to be a lesson in humility for Ducati, which is set to begin the season in practically the same way as it ended last year: mostly likely winning and with a bike that is nearly ...Keep reading
Reigning British Touring Car Independents champion Aron Taylor-Smith has lined himself up a Toyota Gazoo Racing UK seat for 2025.
The 35-year-old Dubliner, a four-time race winner in the championship, will campaign a Speedworks Motorsport-run Corolla GR Sport after two seasons with the under-threat Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall squad.
Taylor-Smith is the second driver named for the four-strong ...Keep reading
Lando Norris has said starting a new Formula 1 campaign on equal footing with Red Bull's world champion Max Verstappen will change how aggressively he can race the Dutchman.
Norris mounted an unlikely title bid last year after McLaren started the season significantly worse than Red Bull, but a comprehensive Miami upgrade turned around the papaya squad's fortunes and transformed the MCL38 into ...Keep reading
A new weekly Autosport National newsletter and podcast is being launched to provide a dedicated spotlight on the diverse range of motorsport held in the UK.
The new offerings are designed to underline Autosport's continued commitment to club motorsport and will sit alongside an increased amount of online coverage and a specific section within the monthly print magazine focused on national ...Keep reading
It was a rare thing these days. A team hosting an in-person car launch, rather than pressing ‘send' on an email containing some made-up quotes from its drivers and rendered images of its F1 car.
It was even rarer that it was the reigning world champion squad that would be first to throw the covers off its new challenger for the season ahead.
Usually such honour is taken by one of the teams ...Keep reading
Ahead of his second Formula 1 season with McLaren last year, Oscar Piastri could feel an awkward “weaknesses” he wanted to address. Now, as his team launches its 2025 challenger, he’s crystal clear he has what it takes to become world champion.
After all, the 2024 campaign that ended with McLaren as constructors’ champion was just Piastri’s sophomore year.
And it started with ...Keep reading
Former Formula 1 team owner Eddie Jordan has acquired a rugby team with links to his native Ireland, heading a consortium to buy it out of administration.
Sunbury-based London Irish had just achieved its highest Premiership Rugby finishing position in 14 years - fifth - when it collapsed with £30m debts in 2023.
Founded in 1898 by Irish expats living in London, the club’s amateur ...Keep reading
Formula 1’s 2025 launch season kicked off in cryptic fashion with the constructors’ championship winners, no less.
McLaren opened the yearly cloak-and-dagger proceedings with a quintet of images of its MCL39 from a distance while undergoing its Silverstone shakedown, dressed in a papaya and black dazzle camo livery that makes its defining details significantly difficult to ...Keep reading
The teenage son of 13-time Formula 1 race winner David Coulthard will make his car racing debut in GB4 this year with Douglas Motorsport.
Dayton Coulthard, 16, first began karting in 2019 and has contested several different categories, including winning the WM plate at Whilton Mill last year.
He has already begun testing the new-for-2025 GB4 car (which is based upon the previous GB3 ...Keep reading
A one-time British Touring Car Championship pole sitting Mazda Xedos 6 will make its first UK racing appearance for more than 30 years at Brands Hatch this summer.
The ex-Patrick Watts car from 1993 is among several machines being shipped from New Zealand for the third edition of Super Touring Power on 28-29 June.
Affectionately known as ‘Rhubarb and Custard’ for its livery, the Roger ...Keep reading
The future of the reigning British Touring Car Championship Independents’ title holder Power Maxed Racing has been jeopardised by the withdrawal of its main backer.
Pendragon Management Services, whose CarStore and Evans Halshaw divisions featured as title sponsor of the Midlands squad’s Vauxhall Astras in 2022-23 and 2024 respectively, has ended its agreement three years into a five-year ...Keep reading
McLaren has revealed its MCL39 Formula 1 car at a Silverstone season launch event – becoming the first team to show off a 2025 design, albeit with temporary restrictions on its livery.
As all 10 teams are committed to only fully revealing their 2025 liveries at the F1 75 Live event at London’s O2 arena on Tuesday, McLaren can at this stage only show off the MCL39 in a distinctive one-off ...Keep reading
Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez set the fastest time on the final day of pre-season testing at Buriram, leading another 1-2 finish for Ducati.
Having already established himself as the pacesetter on Wednesday, Marquez found another three tenths overnight to lower the benchmark to 1m28.855s on the factory Ducati.
This put him just one-and-a-half tenths down on the outright lap record at ...Keep reading
Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi has revealed that all six of its MotoGP bikes will be equipped with last year’s engine.
The decision, taken over the last 15 days, has led to a considerable change of plans and a deviation from the roadmap Ducati laid out over the winter.
Both Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia pointed out the difficulties they faced with the full GP25, particularly ...Keep reading
Eni has made a return to Formula 1 and is back on board at Enstone after signing a strategic partnership deal with both Alpine and Renault.
The energy tech company was last in F1 with Benetton in 2000 but will now work with Alpine as the team’s official energy and fuel partner.
The agreement will also see Eni and Alpine collaborate on “assessing and analysing innovations in fuel ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton turns 40 tomorrow and as he celebrates another lap around the sun, his thoughts will undoubtedly drift towards the upcoming Formula 1 season.
As Autosport revealed, his first run in a Ferrari is imminent, as the team looks to utilise its TPC [Testing of Previous Car] allocation of 1000km around its Fiorano test track later this month.
There are, of course, those who will say ...Keep reading
Aston Martin has wasted little time in announcing its first partnership deal of 2025 as online forex broker Pepperstone joins for the upcoming Formula 1 season.
Having confirmed a swathe of new deals towards the end of last year, including the likes of PUMA, Glenfiddich and Xerox, Aston has revealed Pepperstone as its global forex and trading partner as part of a multi-year ...Keep reading
Six Formula 1 world champions, nine drivers’ titles between them, racing their respective Williams cars over 15 laps of Silverstone alongside their modern-day equivalent – Michelob ULTRA’s ‘Lap of Legends’ truly broke new ground when released in May.
Logan Sargeant, at the time driving for Williams alongside Alex Albon, took to the track to compete against AI versions of Nigel ...Keep reading
Yuki Tsunoda remains onboard at Racing Bulls for a fifth season in 2025 after being overlooked for Red Bull promotion, with the less experienced Liam Lawson instead being backed by Red Bull management to take up the difficult second seat alongside Max Verstappen.
Ever since he was originally announced for 2025, at the Canadian Grand Prix weekend, the 24-year-old has been adamant he is ready for ...Keep reading
Yazeed Al-Rajhi and Nasser Al-Attiyah have been handed penalties by the FIA for exceeding permitted speed limits after finishing first and second in stage two of the Dakar Rally.
Speed limits are dictated during non-timed liaison running, and stage winner Al-Rajhi was given a two-minute penalty for breaching the limit. The Toyota privateer keeps his victory but drops further behind overall ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz Sr has conceded his chances of winning the Dakar Rally for a second year in a row and fifth time overall are "gone" after a disastrous Stage 2.
The Spaniard endured a number of issues during the challenging 48-hour chrono stage, rolling his Ford Raptor on the first day of the test.
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DakarDakar 2025, Stage 2: Al-Rajhi wins 48h test, Lategan takes lead and ...Keep reading
Formula 1 has announced TAG Heuer as the first individual partner as part of its 10-year deal with LVMH.
Replacing Rolex, TAG Heuer becomes the championship's official timekeeper and branding will be used globally after LVMH struck a decade-long agreement to bring a number of its luxury brands to F1.
The partnership continues a long legacy for TAG Heuer in Formula 1, having first appeared as ...Keep reading
Yazeed Al-Rajhi came out on top in the 48-hour chrono stage at the Dakar Rally as Henk Lategan took the overall lead.
Toyota privateer Al-Rajhi finished with a time of 10h32m54s, 4m29s up on Dacia's Nasser Al-Attiyah after the duo pulled clear on the first day of the mammoth stage.
Factory Toyota driver Lategan took over from Seth Quintero at the top of the overall rankings after finishing ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton is set to make his Ferrari on-track debut in just two weeks’ time, as the Scuderia adjusts to the new, more restrictive FIA regulations surrounding private testing with older machinery, Autosport understands.
Up to last season, there was no limit on how much running was allowed with two- to four-year-old cars, but the rules were tweaked for 2025 after Max Verstappen tested Red ...Keep reading
Ford insists Carlos Sainz Sr still has all to play for in the 2025 Dakar Rally despite losing heaps of time in a crash during the 48-hour chrono stage on Sunday.
Having just crossed the seventh checkpoint at the 325km mark, Sainz’s Ford Raptor flipped over and landed on its roof over sand, leaving him stranded in the Saudi desert.
His team-mate Mitch Guthrie Jr arrived on the scene soon ...Keep reading
Team principal Mike Krack has conceded Aston Martin must be self-critical in its analysis as to why it has failed to sufficiently improve its Formula 1 machinery two seasons in a row.
The Silverstone-based outfit began the 2023 campaign in flying form, as Fernando Alonso established himself as Max Verstappen's nearest challenger early on, while Lance Stroll impressed when still recovering from ...Keep reading
Toyota privateer Yazeed Al-Rajhi moved into the lead of the Dakar Rally after the first half of the 48-hour chrono stage on Sunday, with Dacia’s Nasser Al-Attiyah in hot pursuit in second.
Following a successful debut in 2024, ASO implemented the new marathon stage format again this time, with competitors facing an arduous 947km test over Sunday and Monday with limited external ...Keep reading
All 11 MotoGP teams will reveal their 2025 bikes and liveries in January and February ahead of the opening round of the season in Buriram, Thailand on 2 March.
With pre-season testing scheduled in Malaysia and Thailand, and South-East Asia seen as an important market for manufacturers, most teams have chosen this part of the world to unveil their new contenders for 2025.
However, some teams ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz Sr’s Ford rolled over in the first part of the Dakar Rally’s 48-hour stage on Sunday, leaving him stranded in the desert.
The four-time Dakar winner had started the second test of 2025 in eighth place but things went south for him just after midday in Bisha, Saudi Arabia.
According to information received by Autosport, the Spaniard was navigating a sandy area at the exit of ...Keep reading
Alpine's decision to take Mercedes' Formula 1 gearbox for 2026 will give it "headroom" to develop elsewhere for the next series of regulations before building its own in 2027.
Despite protestations from the personnel at the Renault Group's Viry-Chatillon powertrain headquarters, the decision was made to shutter the French manufacturer's 2026 engine project and assume a customer deal with ...Keep reading
When Dave Brodie succumbed to his long battle with aggressive blood cancer shortly before Christmas at the age of 81, British motor racing lost one its great characters.
Generally known as ‘the Brode’ or simply ‘Brode’, David started racing with his road car – a humble Austin A30 – in 1963, winning his first race, a five-lap handicap on Silverstone’s Club Circuit. A couple of ...Keep reading
Mercedes trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin believes the team's fluctuating form over the 2024 Formula 1 season was a result of it being pegged back in development in trying to recover from a tough start.
The Brackley-based squad opted for an entirely new approach with its W15 concept, opting for a more conventional sidepod solution and pushrod-activated rear suspension ...Keep reading
Aston Martin made one of the biggest signings of the 2024 Formula 1 season by landing fabled designer Adrian Newey – but he will not start his role as managing technical partner until March, with plenty suggesting his impact on the team will not be truly felt until the regulation changes of 2026.
However, for managing director Jefferson Slack, there is no reason why Aston Martin should ...Keep reading
Nasser Al-Attiyah believes the Dakar Rally must change its format after finding Saturday’s opening stage “boring” due to the need of prioritising strategy over results.
The 2025 edition began with a tough and “pure” 431km test around Bisha in Saudi Arabia, but several drivers elected to compromise their result to secure a better starting position for the 48-hour marathon stage that ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz Sr admitted that he struggled to understand Saturday’s opening stage of the Dakar Rally, saying it was “very difficult to guess” and more akin to the event’s original roots.
Leading Ford’s attack in the 431km test around Bisha in Saudi Arabia, reigning champion Sainz suffered an early setback when he lost time with a puncture on his new Raptor T1+.
The matters were ...Keep reading
Toyota driver Seth Quintero has been promoted to first place in Saturday’s opening stage of the Dakar Rally after he stopped to help a stranded Laia Sanz.
Quintero was originally classified as runner-up in the 413km test in Bisha, 50s down on provisional winner Guerlain Chicherit of X-raid Mini, after a late shuffle in positions at the front of the order.
But, a few hours after the entire ...Keep reading
Guerlain Chicherit took a surprise victory for X-raid Mini in the opening stage of the 2025 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia after a long battle with Toyota rivals.
Frenchman Chicherit was quick from the get-go in Saturday’s 499km test around Bisha, establishing an early advantage of over a minute in his Mini JCW Rally 3.0i.
Chicherit was chased hard by a slew of drivers from Toyota’s factory ...Keep reading
In 2024, Jorge Martin became the first rider in the MotoGP era to win the title with a satellite team, beating the same-spec factory Ducati of Francesco Bagnaia.
It was a feat not seen in the premier class since Valentino Rossi won the 500cc title with the Honda Europe-managed Nastro Azzurro team in 2001 and Eddie Lawson claimed top honours in 1989 on a Honda entered by the private Rothmans ...Keep reading
Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has claimed the appearance of flexi-wings and the FIA's decision not to take a more hardline approach towards them played a crucial factor in 2024's Formula 1 constructors' championship.
The Scuderia was one of two teams, along with Red Bull, who sought clarification from F1's governing body over the apparent use of flexing front wings by McLaren and ...Keep reading
The GTP paddock will look rather different when the IMSA SportsCar Championship reconvenes for its season-opening Daytona 24 Hours later this month.
Felipe Nasr will have a new team-mate to defend his title, after Penske Porsche Motorsport parted company with Dane Cameron. Nick Tandy shuffles into the #7 roster to become Nasr’s third co-driver in as many seasons, while Matt Campbell returns ...Keep reading
McLaren Racing has confirmed sole ownership of the Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team, which went into effect on 31 December 2024.
The full acquisition by McLaren Racing comes after the final phase of its buyout from Ric Peterson and Sam Schmidt, who founded the squad in 2001.
The team originally ran under the Schmidt-Peterson Motorsports banner, but then changed to Arrow McLaren SP in 2020 as ...Keep reading
The Defender brand has announced plans to enter the Dakar Rally in 2026 as part of a three-year programme.
Land Rover will field two examples of the popular Defender in all rounds of the World-Rally Raid Championship next year, with an additional third vehicle added to its line-up for Dakar.
Defender will compete in the Stock category that is reserved for production cars, although the ...Keep reading
Seventy crews will tackle the 2025 World Rally Championship season opener in Monte Carlo following the release of the event’s entry list.
Monte Carlo will kick off the expanded 14-round WRC season from 23-26 January with 10 entries representing the top Rally1 class for the asphalt curtain raiser.
The entry list is headed by new world champion Thierry Neuville, who will pilot one of three ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton has outlined the new year as one of "embracing new opportunities" as he begins life as a Ferrari Formula 1 driver.
The Briton ended his 12-year association with Mercedes - and a career-long affiliation with the German brand, which had been McLaren's engine supplier during his junior career and entry to the highest echelon of single-seater racing - to join the Scuderia for the ...Keep reading
On the face of it, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff giving an interview to Auto Motor und Sport carefully downplaying expectations surrounding rookie driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli seems like a typical piece of off-season ‘noise’. Very little of it would provoke angry debate in the sanctified halls of the Oxford Union.
“If you expect him [Antonelli] to be on pole position in Melbourne ...Keep reading
Red Bull has said it is ahead of its initial schedule with the building of its new Formula 1 wind tunnel.
Red Bull currently uses an outdated wind tunnel compared to its main rivals, with its facilities near Bedford being over 70 years old.
The wind tunnel has been labelled "a Cold War relic" by team boss Christian Horner.
While the team has been continually improving the tunnel in order ...Keep reading
Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia believes his performance in MotoGP last year was on level with Marc Marquez’s championship-winning 2019 campaign, if sprints are excluded from the equation.
Bagnaia impressed with his blistering pace on the factory Ducati in 2024, winning 11 out of 20 grands prix and scoring five more podiums in the other nine events.
But a string of crashes and misfortune - ...Keep reading
World Endurance Championship class race winners Sean Gelael and Darren Leung are moving from BMW to McLaren for a second LMGT3 campaign together in 2025.
The winners of the Imola WEC round last April aboard a WRT BMW M4 GT3 shared with Augusto Farfus, will race a McLaren 720S GT3 Evo for United Autosports in the coming season.
Gelael and Leung will respectively be the silver and ...Keep reading
Factory Toyota driver Henk Lategan beat Ford rival Mattias Ekstrom to take victory in Prologue at the start of the 2025 Dakar Rally.
The 47th edition of the world's biggest cross-country rally kicked off with a short 29km special in Bisha in the south west region of Saudi Arabia, with a total of 64 cars lining up in the Ultimate category.
While all eyes were on Ford and Dacia as they made ...Keep reading
Sebastien Loeb says he is 'not obsessed' with winning the Dakar Rally after coming close to clinching the top prize on several occasions.
One of the greatest rally drivers of all time with nine titles in the World Rally Championship, Loeb has found it hard to emulate the same success in the cross-country format.
The Frenchman has finished runner-up in the Dakar on three occasions and set a ...Keep reading
Alex Albon has warned Williams not to “be relaxed” for the 2025 Formula 1 season, despite not having to repeat painful 2024 efforts to improve critical car design and build processes.
Williams started the 2024 campaign with its car significantly overweight – to the extent it estimated it was losing up to 0.45 seconds a lap until it could replace parts with lighter components during its ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz Sr believes that “tactics will be more important than ever” in this year’s running of the Dakar Rally.
After claiming his fourth victory in the iconic rally raid last year with Audi, the Spaniard has switched allegiances to Ford this term as the marque enters its new Raptor developed in collaboration with M-Sport.
This year's event held in the Saudi Arabian dunes begins ...Keep reading
As preparation for the Monte Carlo Rally goes, heading for the Middle East to contest a 24-hour race is on the unconventional side.
But the news announced shortly before Christmas that Kalle Rovanpera will make his endurance racing debut in next week's Dubai 24 Hours only underlines that he is indeed feeling "recharged" ahead of his full-time WRC return this year, following a partial campaign ...Keep reading
Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack has expressed his gratitude towards his drivers after they mostly refrained from hitting out at their car’s lack of performance in the media.
2024 was a noticeably poorer season for the Silverstone-based squad after a 2023 campaign when Fernando Alonso was a regular podium contender.
Aston Martin’s best result last year was Alonso’s fifth-place ...Keep reading
MotoGP imposes a winter break during the off-season, the rules for which are properly defined so riders can get some rest and the development of bikes can be restricted.
How long does the winter break last?
Article 1.15.1.1 of the MotoGP regulations, which covers testing and training, specifies the rule that applies to full-time riders. "Riders under contract or teams under contract" for the ...Keep reading
Oscar Piastri believes he has all the tools he needs to compete for the Formula 1 world championship but has conceded he now must “deploy them all the time”.
Australian Piastri earned his first grand prix victories as part of the McLaren effort that saw the team clinch a first constructors’ championship since 1998.
But the former F2 and F3 champion finished the year 82 points ...Keep reading
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has conceded the squad's previous dominance under Formula 1's ground-effect regulatory era masked "a lot of the issues" with its cars.
The Milton Keynes-based outfit failed to hold onto its constructors' championship from 2023 as McLaren and Ferrari surpassed its points total across the season - the former triumphing after a showdown in Abu Dhabi's ...Keep reading
Ford, together with its long-time World Rally Championship partner M-Sport, has designed the new Raptor T1+ to take on the Dakar Rally.
With a star-studded line-up including past winners Carlos Sainz Sr and Nani Roma, former Audi star Mattias Ekstrom and promising youngster Mitch Guthrie Jr, the American manufacturer is already seen as a favourite for the 47th edition of the world’s toughest ...Keep reading
Pol Espargaro was surprised to see how Marc Marquez was able to tame an increasingly difficult Honda MotoGP bike during their time as team-mates in 2021-22.
Having played a major role in building KTM’s MotoGP operation from scratch, Espargaro got the opportunity to race for the factory HRC team in 2021 alongside six-time champion Marquez.
At that time, Marquez was still not fully fit after ...Keep reading
George Russell believes his “natural driving style has worked well” with the current generation of Formula 1 cars and is another reason behind his excellent qualifying record in 2024.
Russell ended the previous campaign with a 24-6 qualifying split against his now former Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton and also finished one place above the seven-time world champion in the drivers’ ...Keep reading
MotoGP has unveiled an all-new logo that is at the centre of its brand refresh for 2025 and beyond.The famous chequered flag logo that was first introduced in 2002 and tweaked further in 2007 has been dropped in favour of a more minimalist design by series promoter Dorna.Revealed at the National Art Museum of Catalonia in Barcelona following Sunday afternoon’s title decider, where Jorge Martin ...Keep reading
After Alex Criville (1999), Jorge Lorenzo (2010, 2012 and 2015), Marc Marquez (2013, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019) and Joan Mir (2020), Jorge Martin is only the fifth rider from Spain to win a premier class title.In addition, his success this year marked the first for a rider with a satellite team since Valentino Rossi won the last 500cc title in 2001 with the Nastro Azzurro Honda team.Having ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia says he was aware it was going to be a tough task to win the 2024 MotoGP title after he crashed out of the sprint race for the Malaysian Grand Prix.Factory Ducati rider Bagnaia was running second behind Pramac rival Jorge Martin in the short-distance race at Sepang when he dumped his GP24 at the tricky uphill Turn 9, giving away important points during a crucial stage of the ...Keep reading
Newly-crowned MotoGP champion Jorge Martin says he “couldn’t ride” and was crying under his helmet during the final laps of the Barcelona Grand Prix.Pramac rider Martin claimed his first MotoGP title with a safe third-place finish in the final round of the season, beating race winner and factory Ducati rival Francesco Bagnaia to the crown by 10 points.Read Also:
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Pramac rider Jorge Martin clinched his maiden MotoGP title with a safe third-place finish in the Barcelona Grand Prix, while Francesco Bagnaia had to concede defeat despite scoring an 11th win of 2024.Martin arrived at Sunday's finale in Spain with a 19-point lead in the championship over factory Ducati rival Bagnaia and only needed to finish inside the top nine to lift the trophy.Although Bagnaia ...Keep reading
BMW driver Dries Vanthoor has questioned the severity of the five-second penalty given to eventual FIA GT World Cup winner Maro Engel after the pair collided in Macau.Vanthoor had already slipped to third behind Antonio Fuoco's Ferrari in the early stages of the race and was attempting to keep Engel's Mercedes at bay when the latter clipped the BMW M4 through the Solitude Esses.The Belgian was ...Keep reading
Alonso continued his winning run in Moto3, while the Moto2 season ended with Canet taking victory in a tense finaleThe day’s action kicked off with an 18-lap Moto3 race, where David Alonso capped off his title-winning campaign with a record-extending 14th victory.The CFMoto Aspar rider made a brilliant start from pole position to lead into Turn 1, but struggled to pull out a gap in the opening ...Keep reading
Macau Grand Prix winner Ugo Ugochukwu says he was "definitely not expecting" to dominate the event by leading every lap of both the qualifying race and the main contest.The McLaren junior topped a chaotic qualifying session by just 0.014 seconds over Red Bull Junior Oliver Goethe and proceeded to maintain his advantage for the rest of the weekend.But, having endured a tricky maiden campaign in the ...Keep reading
While he fights for the Formula 2 crown, Isack Hadjar is keeping a watchful eye on developments as Red Bull evaluates its Formula 1 driver line-ups.Officially, Sergio Perez was confirmed alongside Max Verstappen at the Milton Keynes-based squad, while Yuki Tsunoda was announced as staying at RB and Liam Lawson is widely expected to be given a seat as he has been impressing lately as Daniel ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia needs more than a victory to come away from the Barcelona Grand Prix as a three-time MotoGP champion. Only some misfortune on Jorge Martin’s part could swing the title battle in his favour in the final round of the season.The factory Ducati rider rode admirably on Saturday to clinch victory in the sprint and slash Martin’s advantage from 24 points to 19, while establishing ...Keep reading
Ducati team boss Davide Tardozzi joked that someone would have to shoot Pramac rider Jorge Martin for him to finish lower than fourth in Sunday’s MotoGP finale in Barcelona.Martin is on the verge of winning the 2024 MotoGP title in his final race appearance on a Ducati, despite factory rider Francesco Bagnaia comprehensively outperforming him in Saturday's sprint to take a dominant victory.With ...Keep reading
McLaren junior Ugo Ugochukwu has won the Macau Grand Prix after a race that featured a red flag and five safety car periods.Ugochukwu led every lap and managed every restart of the chaotic contest perfectly to mirror his success in Saturday's qualifying race.The Formula Regional World Cup race began behind the safety car as the Guia circuit still featured some damp patches after heavy rain earlier ...Keep reading
Antonio Fuoco has hit out at a "dirty move" from Raffaele Marciello that cost the Italian a chance of taking Ferrari's first FIA GT World Cup win in Macau.Fuoco had shown impressive pace amid the tricky wet conditions of the Guia circuit's streets, passing Dries Vanthoor for second with a move at R Bend a couple of laps after the race began in earnest, having started behind the safety car.He was ...Keep reading
New Supercars champion Will Brown scored an almost unbelievable win in the 24th and final race of the championship on the streets of Adelaide.Brown mounted a brilliant recovery after dropping to last place after his Triple Eight Chevrolet was turned around by his former team-mate Brodie Kostecki at Turn 7 early in the race. As Brown recovered, his team-mate Broc Feeney and Walkinshaw Andretti ...Keep reading
Maro Engel has won a dramatic FIA GT World Cup race as he defied a five-second penalty for causing a collision to top a remarkable wet contest around the Macau Guia circuit.The first five laps were run behind the safety car amid torrential rain earlier in the morning but the race exploded into life when it finally went green.BMW's Raffaele Marciello was aiming to score a third consecutive win in ...Keep reading
Rising MotoGP star Pedro Acosta believes Marc Marquez tried to overtake him “like no one was there” after his early exit from Saturday’s Barcelona Grand Prix sprint race.Acosta made a quick launch from sixth on the grid to jump to fourth place at the start, behind the Ducati GP24s of Enea Bastianini, Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin.But heading into the tight right-hander of Turn 3, Acosta ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia believes he can tell MotoGP title rival Jorge Martin has been “nervous” in the final round, but insisted it is normal for a rider on the cusp of winning the title.While factory Ducati rider Bagnaia has shown impressive pace so far in Barcelona to take pole position in qualifying and victory in the sprint race, Martin has been a step behind.The Pramac rider could qualify only ...Keep reading
Ahead of grand prix qualifying at every Formula 1 race, the mechanics across the grid must complete a task they just cannot get wrong.This is to strip two cars down after each FP3 session or sprint race and build them back up again, while incorporating the final set-up adjustments and repairs required by their drivers and engineers.On a typical non-sprint weekend, the whole process must be ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin has conceded he “understands” why Enea Bastianini made a last-lap pass on him in the Barcelona Grand Prix sprint, despite the implications of the move on his MotoGP title chances.Having rapidly closed in on him in the final stages of the 12-lap half-distance race at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Bastianini sent his factory Ducati up the inside of Martin into Turn 5 to snatch ...Keep reading
Macau’s Guia circuit has a reputation for being brutally unforgiving. With drivers negotiating the streets at high speeds and millimetres from the walls, it is inevitable that some accidents will happen. But that does not excuse the 12 red-flag periods that occurred during qualifying for this year’s Macau Grand Prix.Yes, there are some mitigating factors that explain the volume of incidents ...Keep reading
Pramac rider Jorge Martin goes into the Barcelona Grand Prix with a reduced - but still substantial - 19-point lead over factory Ducati rival Francesco Bagnaia.What was a 24-point lead was trimmed down to just 19 by Bagnaia following his impressive performance in the sprint race on Saturday, in which he converted pole position into a seventh half-distance race victory of 2024.The Italian was aided ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia scored victory over Enea Bastianini and title rival Jorge Martin in the Barcelona Grand Prix sprint to take the championship to the final MotoGP race of 2024 on Sunday.Factory Ducati rider Bagnaia recovered from a relatively poor getaway to score a convincing victory in Saturday’s half-distance race and take five points off Martin, who lost second place to Bastianini on the ...Keep reading
Leading Macau Grand Prix contenders have backed the decision to finish the Formula Regional World Cup qualifying race behind the safety car amid heavy rain on part of the circuit.The 10-lap contest had been red-flagged when the rain arrived and several drivers skated off at Lisboa, the stoppage allowing teams to fit wet weather tyres.While much of the 3.8-mile Guia track appeared bone dry at this ...Keep reading
Factory Ducati MotoGP rider Francesco Bagnaia claimed a crucial pole position for the Barcelona Grand Prix, while championship leader Jorge Martin could only qualify fourth.Bagnaia set a time of 1m38.641s on his final flying lap around the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Q2, which was enough to beat track specialist Aleix Espargaro by 0.055s.Italian Bagnaia had led the way from the very ...Keep reading
Argentina has taken its first tentative steps towards a return of its Formula 1 grand prix in Buenos Aires but will have several hurdles to overcome to get there.Argentina's former vice president Daniel Scioli, who currently serves as the country's tourism minister, led a delegation that also included the Argentinian automobile federation president Cesar Carman as they held exploratory talks with ...Keep reading
The Tech3 team has been assured that KTM’s flagship MotoGP programme will remain ‘untouched’ despite the company facing a major financial crisis.Earlier this week, Pierer Mobility Group revealed it is in discussions with both owner Pierer Bajaj AJ and existing creditors to secure bridge financing in the “three-digit million range”.The company’s sales had dropped by 27% in the first ...Keep reading
McLaren junior Ugo Ugochukwu topped an anti-climactic Macau Grand Prix qualifying race that finished behind the safety car amid heavy rain.Polesitter Ugochukwu initially faced a threat from fellow front-row starter Oliver Goethe but was able to keep the Red Bull Junior at bay.The race was then neutralised for the first time after just the second corner - which followed 12 red flags across the two ...Keep reading
Broc Feeney won the Saturday race at Albert Park but second place was enough for his Triple Eight Chevrolet team-mate Will Brown to secure the 2024 Supercars championship with a race to spare.Feeney started the race from third on the grid, and watched as the Tickford Racing Ford Mustangs of Tom Randle and Cam Waters led away from the front row of the grid.Feeney followed his now-common race ...Keep reading
Raffaele Marciello has continued his remarkable record in Macau by triumphing in the FIA GT World Cup qualification race, leading all of the contest bar one corner.Marciello has won both races at the last two editions of this event with Mercedes and again triumphed from pole upon his first outing around the Guia circuit for BMW.However, it was not straightforward at the start as his MCG-run BMW M4 ...Keep reading
FIA F3 race winner Dino Beganovic has described the 12 red flags during the two Macau Grand Prix qualifying sessions as "embarrassing", having been caught up in one of the many clashes.The Ferrari Driver Academy member was at the top of the timesheets when he encountered the stranded car of Rintaro Sato, who had crashed at Moorish.He was unable to avoid the TGM machine, which had already been ...Keep reading
Red Bull Junior Oliver Goethe admits he "got away with" accidentally setting his fire extinguisher off when battling for Macau Grand Prix pole.While it was a chaotic qualifying session for all the Formula Regional World Cup drivers on Friday, when seven red flags followed five stoppages the previous day, it was even more eventful for Goethe.He accidentally set off his extinguisher during the third ...Keep reading
MotoGP will reveal its new corporate identity after its traditional end-of-the-season gala in Barcelona on Sunday, with Game of Thrones star Emilia Clarke hosting the presentation.MotoGP is set to enter a new era in 2025, with Liberty Media set to complete the purchase of a majority stake in Dorna by the end of the year.But that's not the only thing that is changing about MotoGP, with the ...Keep reading
Honda could pull off a major surprise in this weekend's Barcelona Grand Prix and end a nightmare 2024 season on a high, based on the pace shown by Johann Zarco on Friday.The LCR rider dragged his Honda RC213V to a strong fourth place in second practice at Barcelona, less than three-tenths behind the factory Ducati of two-time champion Francesco Bagnaia.A slipstream from a number of faster bikes in ...Keep reading
On the latest episode of the Autosport Podcast, Kevin Turner is joined by Marcus Simmons and Stephen Lickorish to review the British Touring Car Championship's support series action in 2024.Read Also:
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Francesco Bagnaia has revealed he got “scared” when Maverick Vinales approached him at high speed at the end of the opening MotoGP practice in Barcelona, causing him to lose control and crash.Factory Ducati rider Bagnaia was circulating at leisurely speed following an aborted practice start at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya when Vinales overtook him around the outside at the end of the ...Keep reading
Fans who were unable to purchase tickets for Formula 1's livery launch event at London's O2 Arena next year have been urged not to buy from resale websites.F1's 75th anniversary season will begin in unfamiliar surroundings as all 10 teams launch their 2025 liveries alongside one another on 18 February.The event will bring together all 20 drivers and their team principals, giving fans a first look ...Keep reading
The 2024 MotoGP riders’ title will be decided this weekend as Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia will battle for championship glory at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.Pramac Ducați rider Martin leads his factory Ducati rival Bagnaia by 24 points meaning the Spaniard looks set to claim his maiden crown and stop the Italian’s run of two, straight titles.But this weekend’s season finale was not ...Keep reading
The World Rally Championship has announced that it will drop hybrid units from Rally1 cars in 2025.As reported by Autosport earlier, the 130kW plug-in hybrid system that was first introduced in 2022 along with the current-generation Rally1 cars has been axed due to rising costs.The decision was ratified by the FIA World Motor Sport Council on Friday following an e-vote and will result in Rally1 ...Keep reading
Williams has announced that Carlos Sainz has received Ferrari’s permission to appear in Formula 1’s season-concluding Abu Dhabi tyre test to get an early sample of his new team’s car.Sainz will join Williams alongside Alex Albon in 2025, with his current deal to race for Ferrari expiring at the end of the year and his seat being taken by current Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton.Both Sainz and ...Keep reading
Factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia set the pace in second practice at MotoGP’s Barcelona Grand Prix, as championship leader Jorge Martin ended up fifth.A late flying lap from Bagnaia on the GP24 propelled the two-time champion to the top of the order with a 1m38.918s, just under a tenth quicker than VR46 rival Marco Bezzecchi.Bezzecchi had led the majority of the session on last year’s ...Keep reading
Corvette Racing partner squad Pratt Miller Motorsports will add a prototype programme to its IMSA SportsCar Championship roster next season by fielding an LMP2 entry alongside its GTD Pro effort.Pietro Fittipaldi has switched from the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing IndyCar programme to lead its driver line-up in an ORECA-Gibson 07. He will be joined by Irishman James Roe, who is set to dovetail a ...Keep reading
Three-time IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou feels his CV is incomplete without a victory in the Indianapolis 500.The Spaniard won his second consecutive IndyCar title in 2024, becoming the first driver to defend their crown since fellow Chip Ganassi Racing driver Dario Franchitti in 2011.Now Palou, who won his maiden title in 2021 before losing out to Will Power in 2022, is anxious to cement his ...Keep reading
Ask Jan Lammers to name his favourite racing car, and he doesn’t plump for any of the Formula 1 machines he raced or tested - and the latter category includes the world championship-winning Lotus 79.Nor does he go for the Toyota TS010 3.5-litre Group C contender he describes as the “fastest thing I ever drove”. Top of the list for the 1988 Le Mans 24 Hours winner is the BMW M1 Procar in ...Keep reading
Macau Grand Prix drivers were summoned to an extra briefing after McLaren junior Ugo Ugochukwu topped two qualifying sessions that featured a combined total of 12 red-flag periods.The first 40-minute segment was held on Thursday in the wet and that had five stoppages as the Formula Regional World Cup drivers battled tricky conditions.Friday morning practice was also wet meaning the second ...Keep reading
Damon Hill has announced his exit from the Sky Sports Formula 1 presenting roster ahead of the 2024 season-ending triple-header.The 1996 Formula 1 world champion had been a permanent fixture on the Sky Sports team since the broadcaster gained the rights to F1 from the BBC ahead of the 2012 season.Writing on social media, the 64-year-old said: “It's been a fantastic 13 years with Sky Sports F1 ...Keep reading
LCR Honda rider Takaaki Nakagami led the way in the first MotoGP practice for the Barcelona Grand Prix after completing a late run on fresh tyres.Fitting a new soft compound on the front of his Honda RC213V, Nakagami posted a time of 1m40.510s with just two minutes left to start his final weekend in MotoGP at the top of the leaderboard.The Japanese rider had suffered an early crash at Turn 2, but ...Keep reading
New-for-2025 Sauber Formula 1 driver Gabriel Bortoleto has revealed he has "always admired" Max Verstappen and his driving style, placing the Dutchman alongside Ayrton Senna as his inspiration in racing.Bortoleto, who leads the F2 championship heading into the final two rounds of the season, was announced last week as Sauber's second new recruit alongside Nico Hulkenberg in the team's final ...Keep reading
An adjustment to Appendix K of the FIA’s International Sporting Code does not, on the face of it, sound like much to get excited about. But for fans of historic racing, the decision announced following last month’s World Motor Sport Council meeting to issue Historic Technical Passports (HTPs) to machinery built between 1991 and 2000 from next year could have major ramifications.“It would be ...Keep reading
Few sporting events come close to matching the excitement of qualifying for the Monaco Grand Prix.It is the ultimate test of a Formula 1 driver; navigating the twisty streets of Monte Carlo, particularly in these current oversized cars, knowing the slightest brush with the barrier is likely to end in disaster.However, Saturday afternoon is where the fun usually stops, as Sundays are a dull ...Keep reading
Will Brown has taken provisional pole position for Saturday's opening race of the Adelaide 500 in a dramatic qualifying session interrupted by a red-flag after three crashes at the exit of Turn 8.What was planned to be a short 15-minute stanza to determine grid positions 11-24 for Saturday's race was stopped after five minutes when David Reynolds, and his Team18 Chevrolet could not avoid the ...Keep reading
Croatia will return to the World Rally Championship calendar in 2026 after securing a new multi-year agreement. The asphalt event made its WRC debut in 2021, quickly becoming a regular hosting four editions of the event, before losing its place on the 2025 calendar.The WRC Promoter was in discussions to renew its agreement, with a three-year deal on the table beginning from 2025, but organisers ...Keep reading
Tech3 GasGas rider Pedro Acosta conceded that he gave away potential victories in his rookie MotoGP campaign by "f***ing up everything".Although Acosta lived up to the hype upon his graduation to the premier class this year, his season on the KTM RC16 has also been plagued by a series of mistakes and crashes from leading positions.Most notably, the Spanish rider qualified on pole for the Japanese ...Keep reading
Red Bull was concerned about being portrayed as the "villain" in the new Formula 1 film, co-producer Jerry Bruckheimer has revealed.The upcoming F1 movie has seen heavy involvement from the real-world paddock, with filming continuing to take place on grand prix weekends, including at the recent Mexico City Grand Prix where star Brad Pitt was pictured waving to fans.The cars used for the fictional ...Keep reading
Factory Ducati MotoGP rider Francesco Bagnaia believes he has done a “better job” than Pramac’s Jorge Martin in terms of pure results this season but would be “happy” if his rival is crowned champion.Bagnaia is on the verge of losing his riders' crown to Martin in this weekend’s final showdown at Barcelona, having dropped 24 points behind in the standings.Although the Italian has shown ...Keep reading
Outgoing president Greg Maffei confirmed Liberty Media filed with the European Commission on Thursday morning to gain regulatory approval for the takeover of MotoGP.With Formula 1 already in its portfolio, Liberty earlier this year set about a purchase of MotoGP and it was confirmed last week that the deal could be completed by the end of the year.Liberty announced in August that it was selling a ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez believes it would be impossible for him to replicate the success he enjoyed during his peak years at Honda when he joins the factory Ducati team in MotoGP next season.For the first time since 2019, Marquez will be racing what is expected to be the best bike on the MotoGP grid, as he teams up with two-time champion Francesco Bagnaia at Ducati in 2025.The Desmosedici has been in a class ...Keep reading
Aston Martin's Formula 1 team has announced a new partnership with Xerox meaning the office technology leader will become a global partner of the outfit.The deal, which begins next season, will see Xerox assist Aston Martin on and off track with its digital technology solutions across a number of areas, including ‘managed print services, augmented reality and marketing insights'.It means that ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing IndyCar drivers past and present will bolster the line-up of Meyer Shank Racing's Acura GTP crew for the Daytona 24 Hours and subsequent IMSA SportsCar Championship enduros.Reigning IndyCar champion Alex Palou and his Ganassi team-mate Scott Dixon will contest the five races that comprise the Michelin Endurance Cup with MSR, while MSR IndyCar racer Felix Rosenqvist will be a ...Keep reading
Jenson Button will remain with the British Jota squad in the World Endurance Championship on its graduation to the factory ranks with Cadillac next season.The 2009 Formula 1 world champion will move over with Jota from Porsche to Cadillac to drive one of two V-Series LMDhs to be fielded by the team in the Hypercar class.A second full season in the WEC for 44-year-old Button was confirmed on ...Keep reading
Penske Entertainment has announced the purchase of the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach — acquired from longtime owner Gerald R. Forsythe. The historic Grand Prix of Long Beach, the longest-running street race based in Southern California, now joins the likes of the IndyCar Series, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Detroit Grand Prix as part of the portfolio of brands under Penske ...Keep reading
MotoGP tyre supplier Michelin had just seven days to manufacture and dispatch the tyres required for this weekend’s new season finale in Barcelona.The challenges arising from changing the venue for the title decider have been enormous for all parties involved. One of the key players who had to act quickly after the Valencia GP was cancelled was Michelin.The executives of MotoGP promoter Dorna ...Keep reading
This week we are doing something a little different. We explore how F1 teams make key decisions on areas like driver recruitment, development and race strategy and compare it with how things are done at a top Premier League football club. F1 is a sport built around technology, whereas in football the smartest teams have begun only in the last decade to use it for recruitment, strategy, in-game ...Keep reading
The Monaco Grand Prix’s position on the Formula 1 calendar remains intact, bar a minor date tweak, as a new deal has been signed to run until 2031.But given the iconic race’s place in F1 has come under question in recent years, is this the right move for the series? Our writers give their input.There’s enough room in the calendar for one weekend where the thrill isn’t the race – but it ...Keep reading
Ferrari has admitted it was late to the party in exploiting the benefits of Formula 1’s flexi wing tricks because it was convinced the FIA would clamp down on the practice.F1 teams have found that exploiting aero elasticity on front wings with the current generation of cars can be a powerful tool in getting rid of an inherent trait for low-speed understeer and high-speed oversteer that the ...Keep reading
Raffaele Marciello’s victory in the 2023 FIA GT World Cup was his final act as a Mercedes driver before joining BMW. The only two-time winner of the single-driver GT3 event since it gained FIA status in 2015 will return this weekend for his maiden Macau appearance aboard an M4 and is among a star-studded 23-car entry list comprising eight regulars from the World Endurance Championship’s ...Keep reading
As Franco Colapinto has impressed the Formula 1 paddock at Williams as a mid-season replacement for Logan Sargeant, there has been plenty of calls to keep him on the grid for 2025.But with no room at the Grove-based squad, as Carlos Sainz comes in alongside Alex Albon, the team has been aiming to help the Argentine find a spot elsewhere.Over recent weeks speculation linking him to Red Bull has ...Keep reading
One of the crown jewels of F1's calendar, Monaco's contract was up for renewal after the 2025 edition.There had been doubts about Monaco's long-term future of the race given its notorious struggles to provide an entertaining race on the narrows streets of the principality, but F1 and Monaco have now struck a deal that will see the race remain on the calendar for six more years.Monaco will change ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez is set to ride Ducati’s current-spec GP24 as well as a GP25 prototype in next week’s Barcelona MotoGP test, according to the marque’s test rider Michele Pirro.Marquez will get his first opportunity to work with the factory Ducati team in the official pre-season test on 19 November, having signed a two-year deal to partner Francesco Bagnaia at the squad back in June.Typically ...Keep reading
There are a surprising number of similarities between Freddie Slater and Alex Dunne, who will be Theodore Prema Racing team-mates for this weekend’s Macau Grand Prix and are among two of the drivers to watch out for.Both have enjoyed dominant campaigns on British shores in the past; Slater rewrote the Ginetta Junior record books last season, while Dunne achieved what was then unprecedented ...Keep reading
Mercedes is set to use the final Formula 1 races of the season to gain further understanding of its weaknesses, having accepted it will finish fourth in the constructors' standings.The Silver Arrows displayed a turn in fortunes mid-season and after a winless 2023 picked up three race victories during the summer. George Russell capitalised on contact between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris to win ...Keep reading
Sacha Fenestraz is poised for a return to Super Formula in 2025 with Toyota’s flagship TOM’S team, Autosport understands.The Franco-Argentinian driver is set to replace Ukyo Sasahara in the #37 TOM’S car as part of a wider deal with Toyota that would also see him race in SUPER GT next season.Fenestraz admitted when speaking to Autosport in the wake of the news that Nissan would be replacing ...Keep reading
James Courtney led David Reynolds in the opening practice session of this weekend's Supercars Championship finale on the streets of Adelaide.In the Team18 Chevrolet Camaro, Reynolds topped the times early in the session with a 1m19.8388s before Courtney pipped him by 0.155s to take Friday honours in his Blanchard Racing Ford Mustang.“The car was really good straight out of the gate,” he said ...Keep reading
The FIA's Formula 1 Commission has approved the introduction of driver cooling kits for the 2025 season, to be used in extreme heat conditions.Driver cooling has become a topic since the 2023 Qatar Grand Prix, with several drivers suffering from symptoms of heat exhaustion after the chequered flag.As first reported by Autosport in July, the FIA and all F1 teams initiated research to improve the ...Keep reading
Been there, done that. Ray Mallock had won the Formula Atlantic championship in Britain in 1979 when the category was reintroduced to the country after a two-year hiatus. He’d then competed in the Aurora British Formula 1 Championship in 1980 at the wheel of Surtees – before a huge shunt at Thruxton caused by a car failure – and Wolf machinery. But for 1981, there was good reason to return ...Keep reading
Greg Maffei’s impending departure from Liberty Media will undoubtedly once again bring forth rumours of Formula 1 being up for sale, regardless of the stance taken by the current owners.The president and CEO of Liberty, Maffei played a leading role in the F1 takeover in 2017 and has more recently driven the purchase of MotoGP from Dorna, a deal expected to be completed in the coming weeks.His ...Keep reading
On this week's episode, a large amount of news to dissect, such as the departure of the FIA's F1 Race Director Niels Wittich, and whether his questionable management of the Brazilian Grand Prix may have led to his reported firing.There's also the recent shock statement from the Grand Prix Drivers Association released on Instagram in response to recent decisions made by both Race Control such as ...Keep reading
The Williams Formula 1 team has welcomed a new partner in the shape of Zoox, an autonomous ride-hailing company.The deal, which will see the Zoox logo carried on the cars of Alex Albon and Franco Colapinto during F1 races in the United States, will come into effect at the Las Vegas Grand Prix next week.It also marks the first time an F1 outfit has paired with an autonomous vehicle company. Zoox ...Keep reading
If Max Verstappen hits the jackpot and retains his Formula 1 world title in Las Vegas next week, the series could be in for the most memorable championship celebration in its long and storied history.The Las Vegas Strip Circuit hosted its first grand prix last year and was a roaring success both financially and from a sporting perspective, with Verstappen claiming victory after a thrilling race ...Keep reading
Formula 1 owner Liberty Media has announced its president and CEO Greg Maffei will leave his role by the end of 2024.Maffei, who joined the American investment firm in 2005 and became its CEO in February 2006, will depart from Liberty Media after opting not to renew his expiring contract.He will be replaced on an interim basis by Liberty Media’s chairman John Malone, and according to the company ...Keep reading
There is unlikely to be a trilogy of Formula 1 sprint races in the United States in the near future as Las Vegas organisers have distanced themselves from introducing the format.Two of the six sprint races of the 2024 F1 season have taken place in America, with reigning champion Max Verstappen winning in both Miami and Austin to help build a lead at the top of the drivers’ standings.F1 returned ...Keep reading
The sudden departure of Formula 1's race director Niels Wittich has caught the entire paddock by surprise and is leaving the beleaguered governing body with more questions than answers, some more uncomfortable that others.Was Wittich pushed or did he jump?The FIA announced on Tuesday that Wittich was "stepping down" after less than three seasons as F1's race director, two of which were by himself ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez has revealed he was questioning if his “time was over” in MotoGP towards the end of his stint at Honda as he grappled with injuries and an uncompetitive bike.After winning six premier class titles during his first seven seasons in the premier class with Honda, Marquez was forced to accept a new reality when an arm injury sustained in the 2020 Jerez race altered his ...Keep reading
Without fail, every driver and every team in any motorsport category you could care to mention will tell you every year that consistency is their number one target. Yes, there will also be the usual spiel about title aspirations, but all know that bagging points at every round is crucial to having any hope of challenging for that top spot.It is, however, beyond rare for a driver to take it to the ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin will have a chance to clinch the 2024 MotoGP title in the Barcelona Grand Prix sprint race on Saturday. The Pramac rider needs to outscore factory Ducati rival Francesco Bagnaia by just two points in the half-distance event to be crowned champion and avenge for his defeat in 2023.A total of 37 points are available in this weekend’s season finale, the venue for which has been moved ...Keep reading
There are few more unsettling feelings for a driver than arriving at a corner and being unable to trust that the brakes will slow them down. A long pedal that means apexes cannot be attacked with appropriate vigour carries a clear lap time penalty, and over a stint such inconsistency can make all the difference between victory and mid-pack anonymity.“Front-wheel-drive performance is all about ...Keep reading
BMW may slash its motorsport budget in 2025, with paddock sources suggesting that it could reduce factory support from three cars to just two in the DTM.These rumours follow BMW announcing a 84% drop in profit in the third quarter of 2024, driven primarily by a decline in sales in China and an expensive vehicle recall programme.BMW Motorrad, its two-wheel division, has already admitted that it ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton’s first Formula 1 appearance for Ferrari looks set to be in its 2022 car at the start of next year, with an appearance in the post-season Abu Dhabi test now ruled out.The seven-time champion is joining the Maranello squad for 2025, as he made a decision at the start of this year to leave Mercedes after what will have been 12 seasons with the German manufacturer.There had been some ...Keep reading
Toyota will go into the 2025 World Endurance Championship with an unchanged driver line-up.The Japanese car maker’s #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar will be driven by Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Nyck de Vries for a second consecutive season, while in the #8, Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa stay together for a fourth season.Kobayashi, who also acts as team principal ...Keep reading
To the big teams go the spoils… or something like that. Close and competitive racing has been a common theme in the IndyCar Series, but the end-of-year results always seem to favour the usual suspects. Chip Ganassi Racing wrapped up its seventh title over the last 12 years in North America’s premier open-wheel championship, with Team Penske having captured it the other five times over that ...Keep reading
Barely a month goes by without a senior departure from the FIA it seems, but the latest exit raises some serious concerns. Niels Wittich leaving immediately as F1 race director follows a worrying trend at motorsport’s governing body and one wonders what is causing it.Wittich had held the position since 2022, when he replaced Michael Masi following the Australian’s controversial handling of ...Keep reading
When Aleix Espargaro steps off his Aprilia RS-GP for the final time at this weekend’s Barcelona Grand Prix finale, he will be able to look back at a long and ultimately successful MotoGP career that few - including the man himself - are likely to have predicted unfolding the way it did.In fact, celebrating his career path in grand prix racing as one no rider has traversed before him and probably ...Keep reading
Back in 2019, Formula 1 bosses held a season-opening event in Australia to kick off the new campaign. All the drivers attended the show that was held on a big stage in Melbourne’s Federation Square, which incidentally was free, and it was a standout success.For whatever reason, it was never repeated - presumably due to the lack of fans at the opening races in Bahrain and Saudi making it much of ...Keep reading
Formula 1’s 75th anniversary season will begin in unprecedented and unfamiliar surroundings as all 10 teams launch their 2025 liveries alongside one another at London’s O2 Arena on 18 February.The event will bring together all 20 drivers and their team principals, giving fans a first look at how the F1 grid will appear for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on 16 March.While some 2025 ...Keep reading
The FIA has announced Formula 1 race director Niels Wittich has left his role with immediate effect.On Tuesday the FIA said in a statement that the German had left his position ahead of the Las Vegas Grand Prix to "pursue new opportunities".“The FIA can confirm that Niels Wittich has stepped down from his position as F1 Race Director to pursue new opportunities," the statement said."Niels has ...Keep reading
The Aston Martin Formula 1 team has announced Dan Fallows has stepped down with immediate effect from his role as technical director of the Silverstone squad.Fallows joined Aston Martin in April 2022, taking up the job of technical director after a long stint with Red Bull, where he rose through the ranks to become Chief Engineer – Aerodynamics.Under his watch Aston Martin enjoyed a brief growth ...Keep reading
If Jorge Martin is crowned the 2024 MotoGP champion in this weekend’s Barcelona Grand Prix finale, he will become the first rider to win a premier class title with a satellite team since Valentino Rossi 23 years ago.Having led the championship for almost the entire season, the Pramac rider holds a substantial 24-point lead with 37 left available meaning he looks set to finally claim a maiden ...Keep reading
The Alpine Formula 1 team has officially confirmed it will switch to Mercedes power units from the 2026 season onwards.Alpine's parent company Renault formally decided at the end of September to go through with plans to abandon its works engine programme in France's Viry-Chatillon, which had been working on developing brand-new power units for 2026's regulations overhaul.It was widely understood ...Keep reading
A detailed investigation by FIA staff who visited Red Bull's Milton Keynes factory has concluded that the squad did not use its controversial front bib adjuster in an illegal manner, Autosport can reveal.Red Bull had found itself at the centre of intrigue in recent weeks over a tool it had tucked away in its car to raise and lower its tea tray.Rival teams were concerned that the adjuster could ...Keep reading
I joined Neil Brown Engineering in 1989 when electronics came into motor racing and engine management systems became increasingly popular. My brother-in-law already worked here and I’d been helping him out a little bit as a newly qualified electronics engineer, so Neil offered me a job. I said, ‘I’ll do it for a few years to see a bit of the world.’ That was 35 years ago!We have a core of ...Keep reading
Joey Logano has called criticism of his run to a third NASCAR Cup championship as "bull****" after defeating Penske Ford team-mate Ryan Blaney in last weekend's Phoenix title decider.Logano's average finish in 2024 was 17.1, surpassing the previous record as the worst ever for a Cup champion set by Blaney last year with an average finish of 14.1.The champion in 2018 and 2022, Logano faced ...Keep reading
Former MotoGP star Casey Stoner believes Ducati will play a major role in determining the outcome of Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez's rivalry next year.Marquez, the most successful rider on the current MotoGP grid, will join two-time champion Bagnaia at Ducati's factory squad after Sunday's Barcelona season finale, creating an all-star line-up.There are concerns about the impact Marquez's ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc believes the progress Ferrari has made on its tyre management this year might actually hinder the team's chances at Formula 1's Las Vegas Grand Prix.After a 2023 campaign in which Ferrari struggled with tyre wear and overheating, the cold conditions at Las Vegas actually turned its rapid tyre warm-up into a strength, with Leclerc and Carlos Sainz locking out the front row.While ...Keep reading
He faced stiff competition from his more experienced rivals throughout, but Louis Sharp sealed the 2024 GB3 Championship in convincing style with more poles, victories and laps led than anybody else. Remaining with Rodin Motorsport for his graduation from a title-winning British Formula 4 campaign, Sharp made the perfect start by winning from pole in the Oulton Park season-opener to gain an early ...Keep reading
Mohammed Ben Sulayem found himself the subject of a damning letter from the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association last week at a crucial time as he is rapidly approaching another election year.During his tenure as FIA president, Ben Sulayem has trodden the political minefield while wearing magnetic boots.From his preposterous attention to banning jewellery and insisting upon fireproof pants to his ...Keep reading
Both Aston Martin and Red Bull have access to good wind tunnels and have produced – certainly in Red Bull’s case – some exceptional machinery over the past couple of years. Choosing to throw millions at a new wind tunnel, since a new facility doesn’t guarantee performance, is something of a calculated risk. If an old tunnel is good enough, it can be retrofitted with new machinery to bring ...Keep reading
HRC rider Luca Marini feels Ducati is “destroying the championship” with its current dominance - but Honda has the potential to be second-best to it in MotoGP.In 2024 Ducati has been victorious in all but one Sunday race, while Honda’s downward trend has continued as it struggled to even break inside the top 10 with the troublesome RC213V.There has been some progress in recent months on the ...Keep reading
Formula 1 has announced a multi-year partnership with Nestle, with its KitKat brand named “the Official Chocolate Bar” of the championship.The new deal will mean KitKat branding will be present at F1 races in the form of trackside advertising, with an F1 press release announcing the deal also claiming fans “can look forward to consumer activations, promotional prizes and immersive fan zones ...Keep reading
Ferrari will be hoping its fans will be entertained by a new collaboration with Paramount Pictures ahead of the release of Gladiator II.A sequel to the 2000 smash hit starring Russell Crowe, Gladiator II is due for release this Friday (15 November) and the film is set to temporarily swap the Amphitheatre of Rome for the Las Vegas Strip.Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz will attend ...Keep reading
In his lengthy motorsport career which has spanned “so many eras”, Trevor Foster has filled almost every conceivable role in racing organisations. Working his way through the ranks from a humble mechanic to becoming a race engineer, he has taken the plunge of running his own single-seater outfit, been a team manager, managing director of a plucky sportscar underdog responsible for ...Keep reading
Haas team boss Ayao Komatsu revealed he "never expected" Alpine to secure its double podium in Brazil that vaulted it to sixth in the Formula 1 constructors' standings - but he pointed to the positive performance displayed by future driver Esteban Ocon.Alpine has struggled all year following a poor opening to the season with no points until round six in Miami, yet transformed its campaign with a ...Keep reading
TGM Grand Prix is in danger of dropping off the Super Formula grid as it struggles to find drivers with the requisite financial backing.Team owner Kazuhiro Ikeda conceded during last weekend’s Suzuka finale that the Servus Japan-run outfit’s future in Japan’s top single-seaters hangs in the balance, amid an apparent lack of interest among international drivers bringing budgets.With Juju Noda ...Keep reading
Hyundai’s revised 2025 World Rally Championship car will feature “some reasonable change” as the testing phase of upgrades continued last weekend.The Korean manufacturer had planned to homologate a practically all-new version of its i20 N Rally1 for next year before plans were abandoned amid uncertainty over the 2025 regulations.Following the FIA's U-turn on 2025 technical regulations after ...Keep reading
Joey Logano held off a late charge from Team Penske team-mate Ryan Blaney to win a dramatic season finale at Phoenix and become a three-time NASCAR Cup champion.Reigning champion Blaney found himself 2.3 seconds down on Logano entering the closing stages having battled past Hendrick Motorsports' Kyle Larson and William Byron but despite slashing the deficit, he never got close enough as Logano ...Keep reading
Ferrari boss Fred Vasseur thinks that Formula 1’s aerodynamic testing restrictions could be a “game changer” next year if teams deliberately write off the season to gain an advantage for 2026.F1 is approaching its next rules era in two years' time, when revamped turbo hybrid engines with increased battery power will be matched with all-new aerodynamic regulations.The wholesale change coming ...Keep reading
KTM has set its sights on signing David Alonso to its MotoGP programme in the future, having been impressed by his record-breaking sophomore campaign in Moto3 this year.The Austrian marque’s motorsport boss Pit Beirer is keen to keep hold of a rider as talented as Alonso, who has already clinched the lightweight class title with a record 13 wins from 19 races.Although the 18-year-old is a ...Keep reading
The Abu Dhabi Autonomous Racing League (A2RL) took another important step towards launching its second season with a pair of demonstration runs at Suzuka during this weekend’s final round of the season at Super Formula.As the home of the championship from which the A2RL’s base car, the Dallara SF23, is drawn, it was fitting for the fledgling championship to pay a visit to Suzuka as it builds ...Keep reading
Audi is on the verge of selling a shareholding in its Formula 1 Sauber team to Qatar – with an announcement potentially coming ahead of the Qatar Grand Prix.Despite repeated denials, the first speculation about a potential deal was revealed by veteran F1 journalist Joe Saward, while Autosport sources have suggested, however, that the deal could go through as early as next week. There is also ...Keep reading
Formula E testing took place last week against all the odds and despite huge uncertainty in the days leading up to the event after a last-minute venue change.Jaguar’s Mitch Evans set the pace across four days of running, posting a 1m27.461s during the final session on Friday morning around the Jarama Circuit in Spain.But no less than five other teams and drivers finished fastest in the other ...Keep reading
Bobby Allison, 1983 Cup Series champion, three-time Daytona 500 winner and 2011 NASCAR Hall of Famer, has died aged 86, his family has announced.The patriarch of the iconic Alabama Gang, Allison's career spanned over 25 years and included 85 Cup wins. He actually earned his 85th win just a few weeks ago when NASCAR finally ended a 53-year controversy and awarded a win that was rightfully ...Keep reading
The Brazilian GP’s sometimes near-aquaplaning conditions were a huge challenge for all Formula 1 drivers, but even more so for the most inexperienced ones on the grid.Among those with fewer than 10 grand prix starts, only Liam Lawson had previous experience in wet racing conditions – from his very first outing at the 2023 Dutch Grand Prix, which had been a struggle for him.Qualifying had ...Keep reading
Sho Tsuboi wrapped up the Super Formula title with second place in Sunday’s final race of the season at Suzuka, as Kakunoshin Ota completed a dominant double victory.After finishing second in Saturday’s opener and picking up another bonus point in qualifying on Sunday morning, TOM’S driver Tsuboi went into the final race needing only a single point to put the championship out of reach of his ...Keep reading
Toto Wolff has revealed he did not try to persuade Lewis Hamilton to remain at Mercedes instead of switching to Ferrari and says he was concerned about the F1 driver’s “shelf life”.At the start of the year, Hamilton told Wolff he wanted to cut short his contract with Mercedes in order to join the Scuderia for 2025.The news ripped through F1 while Wolff has claimed that he had suspicions that ...Keep reading
In the first of a new mini-series reviewing the best of the National Racing series this year, Kevin Turner sits down with Marcus Simmons and ITV commentator David Addison to review the best of the 2024 British Touring Car Championship.On it, the trio discusses the thrilling deciding weekend at Brands Hatch that led to Jake Hill winning his first Championship, as well as the current state of play ...Keep reading
Richard Verschoor will replace Dennis Hauger at MP Motorsport for the final two rounds of the F2 season.The Dutchman will remain with the team in the championship next year as well, despite having several options outside the category, including in IndyCar and Japanese Super Formula. Verschoor has endured a difficult season devoid of luck with Trident, being disqualified twice this season due to ...Keep reading
Double world champion Casey Stoner says he is surprised that Ducati has allowed its riders to race freely this year, but warned that the Italian manufacturer doesn’t want to lose the revered number one plate in MotoGP.Jorge Martin is primed to win the 2024 MotoGP title on a Pramac-entered satellite Ducati, having established a substantial 24-point lead over factory rider Francesco Bagnaia with ...Keep reading
Twelve months ago, Aston Martin left the Brazilian Grand Prix with a podium finish that pointed to the outfit finally having some answers about its car as it headed into the winter.Fast-forward to now and things could not be more different, as the squad left Interlagos scratching its head over problems in the wet race and still short of a solution for its drop of form this year.Perhaps most ...Keep reading
Sho Tsuboi took a step closer to the Super Formula title in Saturday’s opening round of the final weekend at Suzuka with a second-place finish behind a dominant Kakunoshin Ota.From pole position, Dandelion Racing driver Ota was never headed over the course of the 31-lap race interrupted by two safety car periods, beating Tsuboi by 4.5 seconds in a final three-lap showdown following the final ...Keep reading
Franco Colapinto's strong arrival in Formula 1 has created a small earthquake that threatens to shake up the 2025 grid amid rumours linking him to Red Bull's teams.The 21-year-old has impressed since replacing Logan Sargeant at Williams, having scored points in two of his six outings with the Grove-based team.Although Colapinto doesn't have a full-time seat for 2025, Williams boss James Vowles ...Keep reading
It was only a few years ago that some of Formula 1’s brightest minds were predicting a future where wind tunnels were no longer needed. Think of the wasted expense powering a giant fan in a massive, empty room filled with nothing but a 60% scale model of a car, and all the time spent poring through the data readouts.It seemed that technological progress was reaching a cross-over point, one where ...Keep reading
F1 Academy points leader Abbi Pulling finished fastest in the all-female Formula E test at the Jarama Circuit on Friday.The all-electric championship held a test exclusively for female drivers with all 11 Formula E teams required to field at least one driver, as 18 in total sampled the new Gen3 Evo machines.Nissan driver Pulling, who can clinch the F1 Academy title at the next round in Qatar which ...Keep reading
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has opened up on details surrounding Lewis Hamilton's shock move to Ferrari – and how he got an early tip-off from Carlos Sainz Sr.Hamilton told Wolff during a visit to his house at the end of January that he would be activating an exit clause in his Mercedes contract and joining Ferrari for the 2025 season.But while Hamilton's announcement was the first official ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin feels he and Pramac have been fighting “against the world” in MotoGP this year, with his rival Francesco Bagnaia racing for a factory Ducati team that is “built to win”.Martin is on the verge of winning the MotoGP world title having carved out a 24-point lead with just 37 on offer in next week’s Barcelona season finale.Read Also:
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Fail to prepare, prepare to fail. Max Verstappen has won eight Formula 1 grand prix so far in 2024 and each of those victories came after eight billion simulations were run by Red Bull to best predict scenarios ahead of time.Utilising the partnership with its title sponsor, Red Bull works with Oracle Cloud technology to crunch the numbers to help with strategy, tyre choices and pitstop calls - ...Keep reading
In a Formula 1 season dominated by technical intrigue between the top squads, attention was grabbed at the Brazilian Grand Prix by suspicions over a potential trick involving the internal water cooling of tyres.The speculation follows hot on the heels of wild rumours we have seen throughout 2024 of asymmetric braking systems, flexi front wings, McLaren’s ‘mini-DRS’ and Red Bull’s front bib ...Keep reading
After he crosses the finish line in Barcelona at the final round of the 2024 MotoGP season on 17 November, Takaaki Nakagami will start a new chapter in his life as a Honda test rider.It's a role that will take him back to his home country of Japan, a seismic shift for him after spending the best part of 10 years living in Europe.Out of those 10, seven were spent racing in MotoGP with the LCR Honda ...Keep reading
Jaguar’s Mitch Evans finished the final day of pre-season testing at Jarama quickest ahead of Kiro’s Dan Ticktum and reigning Formula E champion Pascal Wehrlein.Evans topped the final session on Friday morning with a 1m27.461s, the fastest lap recorded by the all-electric championship over the last three days of testing, which left him 0.141s clear of Ticktum.The result was the first time this ...Keep reading
Johnny Herbert has explained the decision-making behind Max Verstappen's controversial penalty for swearing. Verstappen has been issued with a community service order by F1's governing body for swearing in a live televised press conference. It comes after an Autosport exclusive interview with the FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem in which he urged drivers to curb their foul language.In the ...Keep reading
The rights owner to Formula 1’s Singapore Grand Prix has been charged in connection with a major corruption case surrounding the country's former transport minister.S. Iswaran was jailed for a year on Thursday after being found guilty of receiving gifts while in office.The owner of the rights to the race in Singapore’s Marina Bay, Ong Beng Seng, has now been charged having been accused of ...Keep reading
The DTM announced its full 2025 calendar earlier this week, but curiously both Vila Real and the Salzburgring were absent from the eight-round schedule.Portuguese street circuit Vila Real, best known for hosting World Touring Car Cup races, had signed a deal with DTM’s previous owner ITR for 2023, but the change of promoter meant it never got to make its series debut.Vila Real had since entered ...Keep reading
Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko says the Austrian brand will mainly look at its junior drivers for the future, rather than established Formula 1 stars.Red Bull is searching for the best driver to partner Max Verstappen in the future, due to incumbent Sergio Perez – who is under contract for next year – having struggled to match his team-mate.Perez has scored only 41 points in the latest 12 ...Keep reading
Martins Sesks says he has “zero idea” where his future lies in the World Rally Championship after impressing in three Rally1 outings this year.The 2023 European Rally Championship runner-up has outlined his rising star status following a trio of head-turning appearances in rallying’s top tier thanks to a programme with M-Sport-Ford, partially funded by the WRC Promoter.Sesks’ reputation as ...Keep reading
The odds entering the 2024 IndyCar season were never favourable for Alex Palou. For starters, the attrition of what is arguably the most competitive racing category in the world meant no driver had won the championship twice in succession in over a decade.If that weren’t enough, six of the final eight rounds all took place on ovals – a track discipline that had yet to yield a trip to Victory ...Keep reading
MotoGP championship leader Jorge Martin says he will need to make an extra step forward to challenge for Japanese Grand Prix honours on Sunday.Despite posting the third-fastest time in second practice and thus comfortably making it into the Q2 battle for pole position, Martin said he wasn’t feeling happy aboard his Pramac Ducati during the first day’s running.“I’m one of the fastest for ...Keep reading
Franco Colapinto's confident performances haven't just surprised the Formula 1 paddock, but the Williams rookie has also awakened a nation's yearning for its next sporting hero.Few countries are as sporting crazed as Argentina. Just remember the scenes in the capital Buenos Aires after its national icon Lionel Messi finally captained the country to winning the football World Cup, with an estimated ...Keep reading
KTM's Brad Binder says he plans to “take full advantage” of what he considers to be a potent motorcycle at the MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix.The South African was fastest in second practice, the only full dry session on Friday at Motegi, a circuit where the Austrian manufacturer has shown form in the past. Binder finished the 2022 Japanese GP in second place and backed that up with a second in ...Keep reading
The Jordan-Ford EJ13 has a credible case to be one of the worst Formula 1 cars ever to win a Grand Prix. It would be a colossal understatement to suggest that is shock victory courtesy of Giancarlo Fisichella at the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix came against the run of play during a season in which it proved slower than all bar Minardi by a metric of supertimes.Taking the chaotic, prematurely ...Keep reading
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says the time is right to stop “flirting” with Max Verstappen now that his squad’s Formula 1 driver line-up is sorted.In the wake of Lewis Hamilton announcing his departure from Mercedes at the end of this season, Wolff held numerous discussions with the Verstappen camp earlier this year about a potential switch.Wolff was hoping that the early season turmoil within ...Keep reading
Brad Binder was fastest for KTM Factory Racing in second practice for the Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi today, while Ducati-mounted title rivals Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia also booked their spots in Saturday’s Qualifying 2.With Pedro Acosta (Tech 3 KTM) fourth-fastest in the dry second session, there was some indication that Ducati will not have it all its own way this weekend. The KTMs ...Keep reading
During the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, the Schonberghof Hotel is an unapproachable destination. Located just a few minutes walk from the paddock entrance of the Spielberg circuit, it is obviously reserved for Formula 1's leading figures. The scenery changes completely when there are no races on the circuit, for example on a Tuesday last April. Spring arrives very slowly in these parts, the ...Keep reading
Aprilia MotoGP technical director Romano Albesiano is set to switch to Japanese rival Honda from the start of the 2025 season, while former KTM technical director Fabiano Sterlacchini will take his place at Noale immediately after the final race of 2024.Both moves were announced just as the MotoGP bikes were heading onto the circuit for Free Practice 2 at the Japanese Grand Prix today.The ...Keep reading
Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Nicolas Lapierre will take a new management role at Alpine’s World Endurance Championship team following his retirement from racing.Having announced his decision to hang up his helmet earlier this week, Lapierre will move into a newly-created role of sporting director at the Alpine Endurance Team to assist team principal Philippe Sinault.Although his new job will ...Keep reading
Reigning MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati Team) led current points leader Jorge Martin (Pramac Racing) on the timesheets following a rain-hit Free Practice 1 for this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi.Another two Ducatis rounded out the top four in a session in which running was limited by two showers that caused the riders to spend long periods sitting in their garages. They were ...Keep reading
Supercars has revealed an expanded 13-round championship for 2025.Several calendar changes for the Australian touring car series have been announced, with a round at Queensland Raceway joining the schedule for the first time in five years, along with a new street race in Perth which will replace the Wanneroo Raceway event.The series will start on 21-23 February under the lights at Sydney ...Keep reading
“The France family and NASCAR are monopolistic bullies. And bullies will continue to impose their will to hurt others until their targets stand up and refuse to be victims. That moment has arrived.”That punchy language appears in the 24th paragraph of this antitrust lawsuit that has — for the moment — completely overshadowed the 2024 playoffs. It was filed in the U.S. District Court for ...Keep reading
In the second episode in a four-part series, Dre Harrison introduces another interview from Super Touring Power 2, the event that celebrated what many fans consider to be the golden era of touring car racing.Kevin Turner sits down with two legends of the British Touring Car Championship; 1993 runner-up Steve Soper, and two-time series champion John Cleland.In the episode, the former rivals open up ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin says working on his mental strength is aiding his MotoGP world title fight after suffering “a nightmare” during last year’s world championship tussle over the flyaway rounds.The Pramac Ducati rider’s MotoGP standings lead may have been trimmed by three points to 21 points over the Indonesian Grand Prix weekend by Francesco Bagnaia, but Martin felt his victory in the main race ...Keep reading
Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu says convincing Nico Hulkenberg to buy into a different approach to winter testing is behind their much-improved results in the 2024 Formula 1 season.The American squad, which came last in 2023, is currently engaged in a close fight with RB for sixth place in the constructors’ championship, as three points separate them with the final six races of the campaign ...Keep reading
- Caterham Cars - Motorsport Championship Assistant - DartfordJoin Caterham Cars as a Motorsport Championship Assistant.In this entry-level role you will be assisting the Championship Coordinator with the organisation, administration, project management and delivery of every aspect of Caterham racing in conjunction with the organising club (BARC). On the ground at events it will be assisting ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez has conceded that his 2024 MotoGP title hopes are all but gone with five rounds to go.The Gresini Racing Ducati rider recently began a late-season charge with grand prix wins in Aragon and San Marino, but an engine failure in Indonesia last Sunday has left him trailing series leader Jorge Martin by 78 points.A maximum of 185 points are still available this season, leaving the ...Keep reading
Sami Pajari remains part of Toyota's discussions regarding its 2025 World Rally Championship driver plans after the Finn impressed management at Rally Chile.Pajari was handed a surprise second career Rally1 outing with the Japanese brand at last weekend's gravel round in South America in place of regular driver Takamoto Katsuta, who will rejoin the team at this month's Central European ...Keep reading
Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko is worried that McLaren’s Formula 1 advantage has turned into “a whole new world” lately, with reigning world champion Max Verstappen equally astonished.Lando Norris was unrivalled in the recent Singapore Grand Prix, outqualifying Verstappen by two tenths for pole position before winning the race with a 21-second margin on the three-time champion – the gap ...Keep reading
Maverick Viñales claims his confidence is as strong as ever heading into this weekend’s MotoGP Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi.That’s partly because of a mild uptick in recent form, but mainly because the Spaniard doesn’t believe Aprilia’s difficulties are anything to do with its riders.Having dominated the Grand Prix of the Americas in April, the European season has proven unexpectedly ...Keep reading
With an approximate population of just over a quarter of a million people and its remote Caribbean location, it’s not surprising that Barbados is hardly well-known for its motorsport heritage. But Zane Maloney’s exploits have begun to change that.The young Barbadian cut his teeth at the family-owned Bushy Park Circuit and the island’s primary facility for racing. And in two months time ...Keep reading
The FIA has lost two of its senior figures, with its director of communications Luke Skipper and secretary general of mobility Jacob Bangsgaard resigning.Both are said to have left the organisation to pursue other interests, but their departures come at a time when FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s style of leadership has again been in the spotlight.Ben Sulayem triggered controversy ahead of ...Keep reading
Formula Ford star Jason Smyth is now just one victory away from the summit of the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings after another two wins last weekend.Smyth rounded off the Northern Irish season with more success as his two wins at Kirkistown included triumphing in the Martin Donnelly Trophy contest, having impressively defied the constant threats of last year's winner David ...Keep reading
The historic Sandown Park motor racing track in Australia has been saved for the immediate future after being given a reprieve from the developers.The track, which for more than 60 years has hosted motor racing and horse racing in the same Melbourne suburban location, has had its medium-term future assured after a change in the make-up of the Melbourne Racing board on Thursday.John Kanga was voted ...Keep reading
Pedro Acosta has hailed the "special character" of Aki Ajo as the pair will rejoin forces at the factory KTM MotoGP squad from next season.With Acosta stepping up from Tech3 to the factory KTM squad next year, he will be reunited with former team boss Ajo, who will step away from the head of his own Ajo Motorsport Moto2/3 team to helm KTM's efforts in the premier class.Ajo comes on board in place ...Keep reading
A luxury conglomerate boasting world renowned names, sought after brands and a global appeal announced a landmark partnership on Wednesday evening – as they agreed a deal with LVMH.Formula 1 has once again become the height of luxury; a company, a sport and a brand that is soaring amid levels of popularity that has sponsors queuing up to get on board and pay millions of dollars a year for the ...Keep reading
Honda has transferred its technical director Ken Kawauchi to its test team in MotoGP, Autosport can reveal.Kawauchi joined the Japanese marque’s racing division at the start of the 2023 season from Suzuki, after its MotoGP project ceased a few months earlier.Despite the high expectations that followed Suzuki's success in winning the riders’ world championship title in 2020 with Joan Mir, the ...Keep reading
McLaren’s incredible 1974 season, in which it won both the F1 title and Indianapolis 500, takes centre stage in this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (3 October).Winning the F1 world championship and the Indy 500 are two of the biggest achievements in motorsport and only a handful of teams and drivers have managed both. Just two constructors have taken those successes at the top of the ...Keep reading
Aston Martin team boss Mike Krack says his Formula 1 squad cannot just sit back and wait for Adrian Newey to arrive before thinking it can make big progress.The Silverstone-based squad has pulled off a massive coup in securing Newey’s services in the wake of his departure from the championship-winning Red Bull squad.But, due to the terms of his Red Bull contract, he cannot start work for Aston ...Keep reading
KTM MotoGP rider Jack Miller says he is sad that he won’t be around to work with incoming KTM Factory Racing team manager Aki Ajo in 2025.It was confirmed on Monday that Ajo will step away from running his own Ajo Motorsport KTM team in Moto2/3 and replace incumbent Francesco Guidotti in the Austrian manufacturer’s works MotoGP squad next year.But Miller won’t benefit from the Finn’s ...Keep reading
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem claims that he has not been treated fairly by the British media during his tenure.Ben Sulayem's comments regarding the media in the UK comes in the wake of Adrian Newey's appearance on the High Performance podcast, in which he talked about his reasons for leaving Red Bull to join Aston Martin.The designer remarked that both Max Verstappen and ex-Red Bull driver ...Keep reading
Formula 1's plans to host a rookie sprint race at December's Abu Dhabi's post-season test have been abandoned due to logistical reasons, with the idea set to be revisited in the future.The concept to hold a 10-car sprint event on the Tuesday after the season-closing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix looked set for approval, with all major stakeholders in favour of the idea to give rookies more relevant mileage ...Keep reading
Williams Academy driver Jamie Chadwick has maintained that progression to IndyCar is a “realistic possibility” after completing her maiden test with the Andretti Global team.Registering 87 laps in foggy conditions, Chadwick – who finished seventh in the Indy NXT standings this year – was positive of her overall first impression of the machinery, but conceded to finding the experience more ...Keep reading
Formula 1 and LVMH have inked a 10-year deal that will see the luxury conglomerate become a global partner for the series.The deal will involve several of LVMH's high-profile brands, including Louis Vuitton, Moet Hennessy and TAG Heuer, from the 2025 season onwards, and is said to include limited editions of its products, hospitality options and activations.Moet Hennessy was one of the sponsors of ...Keep reading
23XI Racing and Front Motorsports have filed a joint lawsuit against NASCAR accusing the governing body of "anti-competitive and monopolistic control of the sport".Both teams have refused to sign NASCAR's new charter agreement, having stated issues with it, and released a joint statement on the launch of its antitrust case, following months of back-and-forth between the teams and NASCAR ...Keep reading
Four-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Nicolas Lapierre has retired from the cockpit with immediate effect to concentrate on running his Cool Racing team.The announcement from the Frenchman, 40, on Wednesday means that last month’s Fuji round of the World Endurance Championship, in which he finished third with Alpine, was his final race. “It is time for me to hang up my helmet and end this ...Keep reading
Rodin Motorsport’s Louis Sharp clinched the 2024 GB3 Championship in last weekend’s deciding race at Brands Hatch. The British-born New Zealander, who is one of four finalists for this year’s Silverstone Autosport BRDC Young Driver Award, followed in the footsteps of Luke Browning by winning both the British Formula 4 and GB3 titles, but he is the first driver to achieve the feat ...Keep reading
In a month's time, MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi will take another step in his glittering motorsports career when he gets his first run in BMW's LMDh prototype in the World Endurance Championship rookie test in Bahrain.It seems inconceivable that the seven-time MotoGP world champion, who has since tried his hand at rallying and currently competes in the World Endurance Championship, is eligible ...Keep reading
The doubts generated by Alex Rins’ performances since his return from a badly broken leg at this year's Mugello round contrast the confidence placed in him by Yamaha; which signed the Spaniard while out injured and has redoubled its bet by renewing him until 2026 despite still being troubled by injuries.If we start with the premise that no MotoGP team wants to complicate life on purpose ...Keep reading
With the post-Covid bounce over, and household budgets ever tighter, Formula 1 race promoters know that sellouts are not guaranteed if they do not go the extra mile.This is why F1 weekend music concerts and added family entertainment have become an essential element in attracting the big crowds these days to what have become, in effect, motor racing festivals.But there is one element that is just ...Keep reading
Renault has finally confirmed that it will stop its F1 engine operation with the change coming into effect for the 2026 season and beyond.This comes after months of speculation surrounding the future of the French engine manufacturer, which currently supplies the Renault-owned Alpine F1 Team. The employees of Renault’s factory in Viry-Chatillon, which is on the outskirts of Paris, were not ...Keep reading
Fernando Alonso is much more likely to return to the Dakar Rally than the Indy 500 in the future, but insisted his "only priority" is to grab a third Formula 1 world championship with Aston Martin.Alonso signed a new contract earlier this year that keeps him at Aston Martin's F1 team until at least the 2026 season, including an ambassadorial deal that is set to keep him tied to the manufacturer ...Keep reading
Silverstone will host a round of the European Le Mans Series next season as international endurance racing makes a return to the United Kingdom after an absence of six years. The Silverstone 4 Hours on 14 September will be the penultimate round of the series for LMP2, LMP3 and LMGT3 machinery run by Le Mans 24 organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest.It will be the first time the ELMS has ...Keep reading
Alpine Formula 1 team principal Oliver Oakes has admitted that he is having to learn to be patient when it comes to making the changes he wants at the squad.Having stepped up after the summer break to run the Enstone operation as it tries to plot its way back to the front of the grid, Oakes has quickly come to understand that success is not going to come overnight.For however much he learned as he ...Keep reading
The DTM has revealed an unchanged calendar for 2025, the third season to be held under the aegis of the ADAC.All eight circuits that are a part of the 2024 schedule have been retained, while the order of races will also remain the same.That means six of the eight rounds in 2025 will take place in the DTM’s homeland in Germany, while the Netherlands and Austria will host one event each.Despite ...Keep reading
Ex-Formula 1 driver and four-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Jan Magnussen will return to Formula Ford 1600 in the Walter Hayes Trophy at Silverstone next month. The 1992 Formula Ford Festival winner, father of Haas F1 driver Kevin, will take part in the Silverstone extravaganza on 2-3 November at the wheel of a Van Diemen RF78 run by Mike Gardner’s GT Race & Trailers operation. Like the ...Keep reading
Formula 1 teams readily know that if they are not bringing constant upgrades to their cars then that is a surefire way to drift down the order.But one of the quirks of the 2024 season is that McLaren's march to the front of the grid, and emergence of the MCL38 as arguably F1's quickest car over recent months, has come from it taking a bit of a different approach compared to its competitors.While ...Keep reading
Formula E organisers have officially confirmed that an all-female pre-season test will take place next month ahead of the 2024/25 season.Pre-season testing for the all-electric championship will get underway at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Valencia between 4-7 November for all 11 teams and 22 full-time registered drivers, which will be the only official running before the season begins in Sao ...Keep reading
Red Bull and Hard Rock have announced a three-year extension to their partnership agreement that will see the two brands working closer than ever before.Hard Rock, which boasts more than 250 Hard Rock Cafes across the globe, has also moved into the hotel and business sectors in recent years and the deal with Red Bull - as well as a presence at both the Miami and Las Vegas Grands Prix – has also ...Keep reading
Renault's plan to scrap its Formula 1 engine department has been met with distain by some of the workforce at the Viry-Chatillon factory located just outside of Paris.The CSE, Social and Economic Committee of the Alpine engine subsidiary, had campaigned hard in an attempt to persuade Renault CEO Luca de Meo not to throw in the towel.However, their attempts ultimately failed and Alpine looks set to ...Keep reading
Before delving into how F1 has benefited from artificial intelligence, it is worth understanding just how the AI industry is interacting with the sport – and why.Alexandre Bonnet, the Lead ML Solutions Engineer for Encord told Autosport that the scope of what F1 offers as a platform for AI and machine learning is appealing to those who want to be involved.“The reason F1 is so attractive is ...Keep reading
Seven-time MotoGP world champion Valentino Rossi could quit the World Endurance Championship to focus on the GT World Challenge Europe as he looks to downscale his racing in 2025.The BMW factory driver has explained to Autosport that he is planning to cut back on the number of races he contests from this year’s 16 events primarily for family reasons, which include the imminent birth of his ...Keep reading
Aston Martin thinks it would be “foolish” not to investigate if McLaren’s alternative approach to upgrades has been a key factor in its Formula 1 success.McLaren has bucked the trend of its rivals this season in terms of how it has structured its car development programme.Rather than seeking performance gains through multiple major car upgrades, it has instead stuck with a floor design that ...Keep reading
Ugo Ugochukwu has become Prema's first signing for the 2025 Formula 3 season.The American 17-year-old is the third driver announced for the first season with new Dallara-built cars, joining returning competitors Charlie Wurz and Mari Boya, who will race for Trident and Campos respectively.Prema is likely to field an all-new line-up given the strong campaigns of Gabriele Mini, Arvid Lindblad and ...Keep reading
Pedro Acosta's world championship career has been meteoric. He made his debut in Moto3 in 2021 and won the title at his first attempt. Graduation to Moto2 followed in 2022 and, although he needed one season to get the hang of the category, he dominated in his second attempt in 2023. Seven wins and 14 podiums out of a possible 20 underlined his growing status as a prodigal talent.In 2024, with just ...Keep reading
Following the announcement by Renault that it is ending its Formula 1 engine operations before the new rules era in 2026, the decision will have a huge impact on both its team and the wider grid.What does it mean for Alpine, F1 and the series overall? Our writers offer their views.Team Enstone can focus all efforts on being winners again – Ben HuntFinally, after what seems like an eternity ...Keep reading
Mattias Ekstrom will join Ford’s factory programme in the Dakar Rally in 2025 after ending a 23-year stint with Audi.The Swede will contest next year’s Dakar in a works-entered Ford Raptor T1+, teaming up with Nani Roma, Mitch Guthrie Jr and fellow ex-Audi driver Carlos Sainz Sr in a four-strong line-up.This would be Ekstrom's fifth straight appearance in the world’s most prestigious ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia produced a solid recovery in the Indonesian Grand Prix to keep the pressure on MotoGP world title rival Jorge Martin, despite having no answer to the Spaniard’s dominance.The two-time defending champion whittled Martin’s erstwhile 24 point advantage down to 21 points after consolidating his win in Saturday’s sprint race with a run to third in the full-length encounter.After ...Keep reading
BMW driver Dries Vanthoor believes the German manufacturer needs to upgrade its LMDh car in order to be a consistent frontrunner in the World Endurance Championship in 2025.The BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh has achieved limited success since it made its debut in the IMSA SportsCar Championship in 2023, while an expansion to the Hypercar class of the WEC this year has also been only modestly fruitful.BMW ...Keep reading
Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko wanted Daniel Ricciardo out of the RB seat after the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix, Christian Horner has revealed.Ricciardo’s F1 career appears to be over after RB chiefs decided to replace him with Liam Lawson for the remainder of this campaign.It brings to an end a hugely successful career for the Australian, who won eight races for the Red Bull and ...Keep reading
Ott Tanak says Thierry Neuville is “not safe yet” after taking a nibble out of his Hyundai team-mate's World Rally Championship lead at Rally Chile.The 2019 world champion outscored Neuville by five points last weekend to reduce the deficit in the title race to 29 points. A maximum of 60 points can be scored in the two remaining rounds of the season in Central Europe and Japan. In what proved ...Keep reading
The decision of several key figures at Red Bull Racing to leave the Formula 1 team is exactly what Jos Verstappen feared at the beginning of the year, he has told Autosport.In March during the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend, the father of three-time world champion Max Verstappen claimed that “the team is in danger of being torn apart”, so long as Christian Horner continued to act as team principal ...Keep reading
It was Francesco Bagnaia who’d be the one to rather succinctly sum up the general mood towards the 2024 MotoGP world championship title race as he settled in for his media session on Saturday afternoon. “This season it is looking like a championship of mistakes!”It’s a comment that was delivered jokingly, yet at the same time articulated exactly what many were thinking after Jorge Martin ...Keep reading
The World Rallycross Championship will commence its 2025 season with an inaugural ice race in Canada at the Trois-Rivieres circuit, subject to World Motor Sport Council approval.RX events typically take place on mixed surface tracks, consisting of gravel and dirt sections.The ice event is provisionally scheduled to take place on 24-25 January and marks the championship's first visit to Canada ...Keep reading
For the European Formula 1 races, the FIA motorhome sits next to the one which belongs to Formula One Management. To look at from the outside, they are identical but for the colour scheme. Inside however, there is one important difference.The office belonging to FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is rumoured to be bigger than that of his opposite number next door F1's CEO Stefano Domenicali. It ...Keep reading
Renault will pull the plug on its Formula 1 engine operations ahead of the new rules era in 2026.Following months of speculation about the future of the French manufacturer, with Alpine having long been in talks with Mercedes for a customer power unit deal, the fate of its operations was finally announced on Monday.In a statement it was revealed that the company’s F1 engine factory at ...Keep reading
The reigning British GT3 champions Rob and Ricky Collard are unlikely to defend their crown together in 2025 due to the cost of racing. On Sunday the Barwell Motorsport drivers clinched the title at the Brands Hatch season finale, finishing five points ahead of championship runners-up Sandy Mitchell and Alex Martin in the sister Lamborghini Huracan. But the emotions were very bittersweet because ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton has been praised by a leading mental health charity for speaking openly about battling depression.The seven-time Formula 1 world champion opened up on his mental health struggles in an interview with the Sunday Times Style magazine, revealing he was bullied as a child.Hamilton, 39, said he started meditating during the coronavirus pandemic as he would “struggle to initially calm ...Keep reading
Amid last week's outpouring of love for Daniel Ricciardo as his Formula 1 exit became official, there was also unease from some about how his final weekend played out.While Ricciardo was given that fastest lap opportunity as a farewell gift, received a guard of honour on his return to the RB motorhome post-race, and the great and the good said their goodbyes on Sunday night, there were plenty of ...Keep reading
Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko believes people should take Max Verstappen's threats to walk away from Formula 1 seriously in the wake of his swearing row with the FIA.Over the Singapore weekend, Verstappen was handed a community service punishment by the FIA over using the F-word in an official FIA press conference while describing his Red Bull car behaviour.The punishment followed a new push from ...Keep reading
Esapekka Lappi says he isn’t afraid by his uncertain World Rally Championship future as Hyundai continues to evaluate its driver options for its third car next year.The two-time WRC rally winner confirmed that his future is yet to be determined with last weekend’s Rally Chile set to be his final event of the year with the Korean marque.Last season, Lappi contested a full-time season with ...Keep reading
Pedro Acosta believes he is “getting closer and closer” to a first win in MotoGP after pressurising winner Jorge Martin during the Indonesian Grand Prix.The Spanish rookie produced arguably the most convincing performance of his short MotoGP career so far, as he muscled his way up to second place during the early stages before closing the gap to race leader Martin.While his bid for victory ran ...Keep reading
Audi squad Abt Sportline has called on the DTM to ensure “equality of opportunity” in next month’s Hockenheim finale after feeling it was let down by BoP at the Red Bull Ring.Abt endured one of its toughest weekends of 2024 in Austria, with its pair of Audi R8 LMS GT3s struggling for speed in both qualifying and race trim. The outfit’s lead contender Kelvin van der Linde went from leading ...Keep reading
KTM has announced that Aki Ajo will take up the role of team manager at its factory squad from next season.The Finn will step away from his current position as head of his own Ajo Motorsport Moto2/3 team in favour of helming KTM’s efforts in the premier class.Ajo comes on board in place of current KTM Factory Racing team boss Francesco Guidotti, who was this weekend confirmed as leaving the team ...Keep reading
Ross Chastain may have missed out on the NASCAR Cup playoffs, but earned some consolation with his first victory of the 2024 season at Kansas by holding off William Byron.The Trackhouse Chevrolet driver's fifth victory of his Cup career, all with the #1 on his door, makes him the most successful Cup driver in the number's history. In ending a dry spell dating back to the final race of last ...Keep reading
Oliver Oakes believes Alpine has more performance to show at the end of the current Formula 1 season having been "out of sync" with its rivals on development.The French manufacturer has struggled for form in 2024, enduring a wretched opening to the campaign as several senior design staff departed.Although fortunes have improved since then, with Oakes becoming team principal during the summer to ...Keep reading
Yohan Rossel has been officially declared the winner of WRC2 at Rally Chile after stewards rejected a protest from Oliver Solberg.WRC2 title contender Solberg lodged a protest asking the stewards to re-evaluate a notional time awarded to Rossel that helped the Citroen driver to victory on Sunday. Rossel vaulted from third to WRC2 class lead when stewards deemed Solberg had hindered the Frenchman ...Keep reading
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem says it's "impossible" for the federation to get the credit that he thinks it deserves for making improvements in the way global motorsport is run.Since Ben Sulayem became president of the FIA in December 2021, the federation has introduced a remote operations centre to assist race control at the track and launched a programme to train and mentor stewards and ...Keep reading
Toyota World Rally Championship boss Jari-Matti Latvala says it’s a “big relief” for his team to be back in the manufacturers’ title fight after dominating Rally Chile.Latvala had all but written off the team’s title hopes after a diicult Acropolis Rally Greece earlier this month left Toyota facing a 35-point deficit with three rounds of the season remaining.However, Toyota issued the ...Keep reading
Toyota’s Kalle Rovanpera survived challenging foggy conditions to record a fourth win from a partial World Rally Championship campaign at Rally Chile.Reigning world champion duo Rovanpera and co-driver Jonne Halttunen tamed 16 tricky stages, some of which were affected by treacherous thick fog and slippery conditions, to beat Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans by 23.4s. Hyundai’s Ott Tanak completed ...Keep reading
Rodin Motorsport driver Louis Sharp clinched the 2024 GB3 Championship in the final race of the season at Brands Hatch.Needing to finish 11th or higher in the deciding reversed-grid contest to guarantee himself the crown, the British-born New Zealander did what was needed by coming home one place behind his chief rival John Bennett in 10th.The 17-year-old, who is one of the four finalists for this ...Keep reading
Jos Verstappen has slammed the “ridiculous” mandated community service that Max Verstappen received in Singapore for swearing during an official FIA press conference.Red Bull's world championship leader Max Verstappen was punished for using the word “f***ed” during the Thursday press conference before the Singapore Grand Prix when describing his car at the previous round in Baku.“I ...Keep reading
Barwell Motorsport pairing Rob and Ricky Collard have clinched the 2024 British GT title despite only finishing sixth at the two-hour Brands Hatch season finale.The Lamborghini Huracan drivers finished behind two non-points scoring cars though - including race winners Alex Buncombe and Joshua Caygill (RJN McLaren) - meaning they took points for fourth.This left them five points ahead of ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera increased his Rally Chile lead over Toyota World Rally Championship team-mate Elfyn Evans after emerging from treacherous fog that severely reduced visibility.The reigning world champion extended his margin to 20.3s over Evans with two stages of the final gravel rally of the season remaining.Hyundai’s Ott Tanak held third [+40.1s] ahead of championship leader Thierry Neuville ...Keep reading
Three-time DTM champion Rene Rast held off Porsche rival Thomas Preining to claim victory in the second race at the Red Bull Ring, as Mirko Bortolotti extended his championship lead.Boosted by an overnight Balance of Performance change, factory BMW driver Rast qualified third on the grid in Austria and moved up to second by the end of the opening stint.A combination of a rapid pitstop from the ...Keep reading
MotoGP points leader Jorge Martin admits he is relieved to have put the “ghosts” of his Mandalika mistakes to rest after completing a lights-to-flag victory in the Indonesian Grand Prix.The Pramac Ducati rider came into Sunday’s full-length encounter feeling the pressure after failing to score in Saturday’s sprint race. Martin finished down in tenth after a fall from the lead on lap one ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez admitted to some ‘sadness’ at seeing his slender 2024 MotoGP title hopes go up in smoke after engine failure forced him to retire from the Indonesian Grand Prix.After scything his way from 12th on the grid to finish third in Saturday’s sprint race, Marquez was in the mix for a similar result on Sunday too until his year-old Gresini Ducati cried enough on lap 12 of 27 while ...Keep reading
Alpine says it is doing all it can to retain Mick Schumacher as a part of its Hypercar line-up in the World Endurance Championship next year.Schumacher joined Alpine at the start of its new LMDh programme this year to race the #36 Alpine A424 LMDh alongside Nicolas Lapierre and Matthieu Vaxiviere in the WEC, having spent the 2023 season on the sidelines after being ousted by Haas in Formula 1.But ...Keep reading
KTM Factory Racing team manager Francesco Guidotti will leave both his role and the team at the conclusion of the 2024 MotoGP season, it has been announced.The Italian joined the KTM from Pramac Ducati at the start of the 2022 MotoGP campaign, but as was widely predicted will leave his position after completing just three of the four seasons he was originally contracted for.Though KTM declined to ...Keep reading
Elfyn Evans has explained how he paid the price for an unfortunate “double whammy” of events that resulted in losing the Rally Chile lead to Toyota team-mate Kalle Rovanpera.Evans had enjoyed one of the strongest Saturday mornings of the season, winning two of the three stages to open up an 11.3s lead over reigning world champion Rovanpera.But the Welshman, searching for a his first win in a ...Keep reading
Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur has revealed the small upgrade for the car at the upcoming Formula 1 United States Grand Prix will be the Scuderia's last of the season.The Maranello-based outfit remains in contention for the constructors' championship despite the focus placed on the battle between Red Bull and McLaren - the gap standing at 75 points between the Woking team and Ferrari with ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin restored his advantage at the head of the 2024 MotoGP world championship standings with a dominant lights-to-flag victory in the Indonesian Grand Prix at the Mandalika Circuit.The Pramac Ducati rider was the class of the field from start-to-finish as he put the frustrations of Saturday’s sprint race crash - and his competition - firmly behind him to secure his first Sunday success ...Keep reading
Aron Canet took a dominant second Moto2 victory of 2024 in the Indonesian Grand Prix, while a ninth win of the Moto3 season moved David Alonso to within striking distance of the title at the Mandalika Circuit.After being out-sprinted in the dash for the line a week ago in Misano, Canet ensured there would be no repeat around the Lombok venue as he romped clear of the chasing pack from pole to reel ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera moved ahead of Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans to lead Rally Chile as thick fog turned the fight for the World Rally Championship victory on its head.The reigning world champion started Saturday in third but emerged through treacherous weather and incredibly poor visibility to head overnight leader Evans by 15.1 seconds heading into Sunday’s final four stages.Rovanpera took the ...Keep reading
Sebastian Ogier believes his bid for a record equalling ninth World Rally Championship title is over after retiring from Rally Chile.The Toyota driver headed into the final gravel round of the season 38 points adrift of championship leader, Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville, having emerged as a serious title contender after winning Rally Finland in August.Ogier’s three wins and three second-place ...Keep reading
Williams sporting director Sven Smeets has hinted funding had not been solely behind Zak O’Sullivan’s ART departure in Formula 2, after he was replaced by fellow Williams junior Luke Browning.O’Sullivan announced following the Monza event that he would not be completing his rookie campaign, citing funding issues as the reason to be stepping away.Replacing him at ART was Browning, who ...Keep reading
Elfyn Evans claimed two of the three Saturday morning stages to extend his Rally Chile lead as reigning world champion Kalle Rovanpera emerged as his nearest rival.Evans, who was handed a three-second overnight lead following a change to his notional stage one time, completed a trio of abrasive gravel stages with a 11.3s margin over Toyota team-mate Rovanpera.Hyundai’s Ott Tanak slipped from ...Keep reading
Ever since Lewis Hamilton announced his shock switch to Ferrari for next year at the start of the current Formula 1 season, conspiracy has swirled over his treatment at Mercedes.What the partnership has achieved together can only spoken of in the same manner as Michael Schumacher's stint with the Scuderia at the start of the century, yet there have been signs of disharmony across the current ...Keep reading
Earlier this month marked 10 years since the first Formula E race was held in Beijing, and since then there has been no shortage of drivers with varying abilities who have tried their hand in the all-electric championship.This includes a Formula 1 world champion, Le Mans 24 Hours race winners and Indy 500 victors, but not all made the grade and even fewer have made it to the very pinnacle of the ...Keep reading
Sebastien Ogier’s World Rally Championship title hopes have suffered a blow after retiring from Rally Chile on stage eight.The eight-time world champion hit a rock with the front-right wheel of his GR Yaris, 400 metres from the finish of stage eight (Lota, 25.6km).Ogier hit the rock on the entry to a slow left-hander but the impact seemingly broke something on his Yaris, which then slowly ...Keep reading
Factory Lamborghini driver Mirko Bortolotti moved back into the lead of the DTM standings with his first victory of the 2024 season at the Red Bull Ring.Starting fourth in his SSR Performance-entered Lamborghini Huracan GT3, Bortolotti showed rapid pace on a damp but drying track to move into the lead as early as lap eight.Mercedes rival Maro Engel put up a late fight after the entire field had ...Keep reading
Fabio Quartararo has bemoaned the limitations of his Yamaha MotoGP package for contributing to his clash with Franco Morbidelli that denied him a points-paying result in the Indonesian sprint race.The Frenchman had been eyeing a fifth consecutive top-10 finish after consolidating his eye-catching Friday practice pace by securing a spot on the second row in qualifying with sixth place on the ...Keep reading
Toyota’s Elfyn Evans has held onto the Rally Chile lead after stewards rejected a protest from the Hyundai World Rally Championship team against the reallocation of a notional stage time.Hyundai’s Ott Tanak ended Friday’s six stages with a 0.4-second margin over Evans before stewards received a request to review the notional time issued to Evans following the cancellation of stage one.Only ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez says he doesn’t expect to be in victory contention for Sunday’s full-length Indonesian Grand Prix despite his run to the top three from 12th in MotoGP's sprint race.The Gresini Ducati rider’s third-placed finish behind Francesco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini in Saturday’s shorter encounter was the positive end to a day that started terribly when Marquez failed to set a time in ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia has joked that the 2024 MotoGP title battle has become a “championship of mistakes” after he profited from rival Jorge Martin's error to win the Indonesian sprint race.The defending double champion had a strong start from fourth on the grid before Martin’s low-side ahead at Turn 16 on the opening lap invited Bagnaia into a lead he’d maintain to the chequered flag.A fifth ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin says he will look closely at the circumstances of his opening-lap crash in the Indonesian Grand Prix sprint race, which his MotoGP points lead being slashed.The Spaniard came into Saturday afternoon’s shorter encounter as the clear rider to beat in the wake of a dominant showing during qualifying that earned him pole position by more than half-a-second.However, despite converting ...Keep reading
Ott Tanak admitted he was surprised to be fighting for the Rally Chile victory having initially written off his chances after Friday’s first stage.The Hyundai driver delivered an impressive drive from second on the road to lead Toyota's Elfyn Evans by 0.4 seconds at the end of Friday's six stages.Tanak will, however, head into Saturday’s stages trailing Evans by three seconds after officials ...Keep reading
Liam Lawson will race in the US Grand Prix next month after replacing Daniel Ricciardo at Red Bull's sister Formula 1 team RB.It won't be the first time the Kiwi competes in F1 but, on this occasion, it's not just as a stand-in, and his arrival is seen as a test for Red Bull to find out if it has the right man for the future.So is Lawson the driver Red Bull currently needs? Our writers ...Keep reading
Abt Sportsline will conclude a two decade-long relationship with Audi to partner with Lamborghini from the 2025 DTM season.Having already joined forces with the Italian manufacturer for the Nurburgring 24 Hours last year, Abt will extend that partnership to field two examples of the Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 in the DTM next tear as part of a long-term contract.The deal will see Abt join ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin doubled down on his status as hot favourite for Indonesian Grand Prix victory by blowing his rivals away en route to a sixth pole position of the MotoGP season at Mandalika.The Pramac Ducati rider was in a class of his own after turning in a stunning lap record-breaking benchmark of 1m 29.088s.Earning him a huge half-second margin over his nearest rival, his performance was made all ...Keep reading
Elfyn Evans has been handed the Rally Chile lead after World Rally Championship officials issued an adjustment to the notional stage one time awarded to the Toyota driver.Evans had ended Friday’s six stages trailing Hyundai’s Ott Tanak by 0.4s but a change in the notional time awarded to the Welshman for the interrupted opening stage has put Evans into a three second lead.Only Thierry ...Keep reading
Ott Tanak held off World Rally Championship title rival Elfyn Evans to claim a slender 0.4s Rally Chile lead on the opening day of the final gravel round of the season.Tanak was never totally comfortable with his Hyundai i20 N through the day’s six slippery gravel stages but consistent pace helped the Estonian snatch the lead away from Evans.Evans issued a fightback on the final stage of the ...Keep reading
Michael Andretti is taking a step back from ownership role of Andretti Global, but will remain a key part of the organisation as an ambassador and advisor.Group 1001 CEO Dan Towriss will take control of the business Andretti co-founded in 2002 as part of a major leadership change, following initial reports on the overhaul, with Andretti Global later providing a statement to confirm the updates to ...Keep reading
Sebastien Ogier has explained the reason for his short replies in Rally Chile stage-end interviews stating, “we have been told by the top of the FIA to shut our mouths”.The eight-time world rally champion’s reaction follows being handed a €30,000 suspended fine from the FIA for comments he directed at officials at the end of the opening stage at Acropolis Rally Greece earlier this month.As ...Keep reading
When Formula E launched a decade ago the aim was to be at the forefront of sustainability.Already operating at Net Zero, further innovations continue to drive the sport forward, with Shell and Mahindra Racing working together on a project that allows the team to reuse the E-Fluid used to lubricate the gearbox.Shell’s E-Fluid, designed specifically for Mahindra Racing’s GEN 3 powertrain, can be ...Keep reading
Elfyn Evans snatched the Rally Chile lead from Toyota World Rally Championship team-mate Sebastien Ogier after the Frenchman was forced to change a wheel on stage three.Evans delivered strong pace throughout the morning’s gravel stages to head to midday service with a 2.2s lead over Toyota team-mate and reigning world champion Kalle Rovanpera.Toyota protege Sami Pajari climbed to third [+6.6s} ...Keep reading
In the first of a four-part series, Dre Harrison introduces the best of Super Touring Power 2, an event where Autosport had the privilege of conducting a range of interviews with some of the greatest drivers of the Super Touring era.In Episode 1, Marcus Simmons sits down with 1998 and 2000 British Touring Car Championship runner-up Anthony Reid, current joint BTCC points leader Jake Hill, and 1999 ...Keep reading
Fabio Quartararo has credited the “good steps” made by Yamaha in recent weeks for securing another direct passage through to Q2 for the MotoGP Indonesian Grand Prix.The Frenchman enjoyed a confidence-boosting run to the sixth fastest time in Friday’s second practice session at Mandalika, Quartararo emerging as the highest-placed non-Ducati rider en route to an assured spot in Saturday ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia confessed he felt pressure in the closing stages of second practice for MotoGP's Indonesian Grand Prix after leaving it until the final minutes to book his Q2 place.Appearing to be on the back foot for much of the day, the defending double champion languished outside the top 10 in both practice sessions for much of Friday as he struggled with set-up and tyre issues.Admitting to ...Keep reading
A United States judge has dismissed the trademark infringement case made by Haas Automation against its former Formula 1 team principal Guenther Steiner.In May, the Haas F1 team's parent company Haas Automation sued Steiner for alleged trademark infringements in his “Surviving to Drive” autobiography, claiming that Steiner used Haas branding and trademarks in his book without permission or ...Keep reading
Christian Horner thinks Red Bull's poor Italian Grand Prix weekend may have been the low point that helped turn its 2024 season around.Red Bull's performance dip hit a new low in Monza where the RB20 was the fourth-fastest car, with Max Verstappen calling his car a "monster" as he became ever more pessimistic about his chances of holding off McLaren's Lando Norris in the championship.But the Italy ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin has committed to Ducati’s latest aerodynamic package after MotoGP title rival Francesco Bagnaia opted against it, following the opening day at the Indonesian Grand Prix.With six rounds of the season remaining, Pramac Ducati rider Martin arrives for the first of five flyaway events in Indonesia armed with a 24-point buffer over defending champion Bagnaia.During a season in which the ...Keep reading
Red Bull's Helmut Marko says the team is interested in retaining Daniel Ricciardo in some role following his Formula 1 exit.On Thursday Ricciardo was officially replaced at Red Bull's satellite RB team by reserve driver Liam Lawson.Lawson will partner Yuki Tsunoda from October's Austin round onwards as Red Bull weighs up its options for its long-term driver line-up at the main team.It will likely ...Keep reading
British GT has always been a series for the ‘gentleman driver’ – the non-professional competitor in a driver line-up who often funds the race seat. While their professional counterparts are all usually separated by no more than a few tenths, the quality of the amateur can vary significantly, so they make all the difference.It was evident in 2022 when Ian Loggie undertook more track time than ...Keep reading
Aki Ajo has emerged as the lead candidate to become KTM boss for the 2025 MotoGP season, while development rider Dani Pedrosa is also set to play a part in the manufacturer’s management reshuffle.With Francesco Guidotti’s exit from the Austrian team at the end of the season having been all-but confirmed ahead of this weekend’s Indonesian Grand Prix, paddock rumours in Mandalika have gone on ...Keep reading
M-Sport is treating Martins Sesks’ Rally Chile outing as an “extended audition” of sorts as the Ford team continues to assess the young driver’s skills for the future.Rising star Sesks and co-driver Renars Francis have earned a third outing in Ford Puma Rally1 this year following impressive displays to finish fifth and seventh respectively in Poland and Latvia rounds earlier this year.The ...Keep reading
Daniel Ricciardo setting the fastest lap in the Singapore GP reopened the debate about the rule that awards one extra point to the driver who sets it.The Australian's late switch to soft tyres allowed him to steal the fastest lap from dominant race winner Lando Norris, who was set to get the bonus point before the final lap. The move reignited the controversy about a rule that could prove vital ...Keep reading
Enea Bastianini picked up from where he left off in Misano less than a week ago as he topped the timesheets in Mandalika during Friday Practice for the Indonesian Grand Prix courtesy of a scintillating new lap record with just under ten minutes of the session remaining.With the Italian heading up a Ducati 1-2-3-4-5, though the Italian manufacturer would dominate FP2 by successfully annexing seven ...Keep reading
In a 30-year career spanning Europe, Japan and Australia it takes James Courtney an impressively short amount of time to nominate Garth Tander as his favourite team-mate.When Courtney and Dick Johnson Racing were fighting for the 2010 V8 Supercars title, behind the scenes it was anything but smooth sailing. Team owners Dick Johnson and Charlie Schwerkolt were at loggerheads and before the ...Keep reading
The Red Bull and RB Formula 1 teams' decision to drop Daniel Ricciardo mid-season had nothing to do with him performing so badly that an immediate change was needed.RB team boss Laurent Mekies made it crystal clear last weekend that, if the Australian had the car underneath him he needed, like in the Miami sprint this year, his pure speed was still there to make the most of it.Instead, the ...Keep reading
Franco Morbidelli opened up top as the 2024 Indonesian Grand Prix kicked off with MotoGP Free Practice 1, the Italian comfortably heading off Maverick Vinales and Jorge Martin at the Mandalika Street Circuit.In a season that has seen Morbidelli trail in the shadow of championship leading team-mate Martin, the Pramac Ducati rider was nonetheless the standard for much of a dusty first practice ...Keep reading
Ott Tänak says it’s “really difficult to know how to act” in interviews following the FIA’s sanctions for comments made by World Rally Championship rival Sebastian Ogier and Formula 1’s Max Verstappen.The Hyundai driver has raised concerns after the FIA handed Ogier a €30,000 suspended fine for comments the Toyota driver directed at officials regarding hanging dust at the end of the ...Keep reading
Formula 1 said goodbye to Daniel Ricciardo at last weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, as it became increasingly clear that the RB driver was set to be replaced by Liam Lawson.That news was officially confirmed on 26 September, meaning Lawson will partner Yuki Tsunoda for the final six rounds of the 2024 season, leaving the future of the eight-time grand prix winner unclear.There are just two spots ...Keep reading
"Hi Liam, welcome to Formula 1. Oh, by the way, you've got a 10-place grid penalty for the sprint race due to an unscheduled engine swap."It perhaps is not the way that Liam Lawson had envisaged ahead of his long-awaited full-time debut with RB, but the New Zealander is likely to be not too bothered about the grid drop.The penalty will come at the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas - ...Keep reading
Helmut Marko believes Daniel Ricciardo lost his "killer instinct" in the years away from Red Bull as he explained the Australian's RB exit.On Thursday, it was confirmed Ricciardo has been replaced at Red Bull's RB team for the remainder of 2024 by reserve driver Liam Lawson, with the New Zealander joining Yuki Tsunoda from Austin's US Grand Prix onwards.Read Also:
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The RB Formula 1 team has officially confirmed Liam Lawson will replace Daniel Ricciardo for the remainder of the 2024 season.Lawson will step into the car at next month's United States Grand Prix and complete the remaining six grands prix alongside Yuki Tsunoda.Earlier on Thursday Red Bull and its sister team paid tribute to Ricciardo's 14-year F1 career on their social media accounts, before the ...Keep reading
Red Bull has finally confirmed the exit from Formula 1 of Daniel Ricciardo.While it has been widely accepted that Ricciardo competed in his final race for RB in Singapore last weekend, there had been no formal announcement from the squad or parent Red Bull operation about the situation.But on Thursday afternoon, Red Bull’s social media channels paid tribute to Ricciardo’s contribution over the ...Keep reading
The battle to top the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings has got even closer after Piers Grange has now matched leader Stewart Black's tally of 15 wins.Grange's latest success came in the Pre-'66 Touring Car category at Thruxton in his Ford Mustang. He did also top his class in the Blue Oval Saloon Series in his more frequently raced Escort but there were not the required number ...Keep reading
Ferrari feels it has got on top of its 2024 Formula 1 car bouncing issues, which senior performance engineer Jock Clear believes is simply part of the challenges presented by the current ground-effect regulations.A floor upgrade for the Spanish Grand Prix promised to build on the performance offered by the previous iteration introduced at May's Imola round, but instead triggered bouncing in the ...Keep reading
The FIA is confident it is not too late to attract new manufacturers to the World Rally Championship in 2027 amid plans to announce new technical regulations in December.The world motorsport governing body has been working for more than 18 months to devise the future direction of the Rally1 and Rally2 WRC classes in a bid to safeguard the involvement of current marques and attract new brands to ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez wants to assess his potential with Ducati at the Indonesian Grand Prix at the Mandalika Street Circuit which has blotted the six-time MotoGP world champion's otherwise stellar record having failed to ever finish a race at the track.The Spaniard is a past winner at 16 of the 19 venues that form the 2024 MotoGP calendar, but while he has stood on the podium at two of the remaining three ...Keep reading
Enea Bastianini says he isn’t ruling out a late run at the 2024 MotoGP riders’ title after keeping himself on the cusp of the championship fight with his victory in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.The Italian collected his seventh full-length MotoGP victory on the series’ second visit to Misano, Bastianini prevailing in a much-debated final lap fracas with Jorge Martin to claim a maiden ...Keep reading
Dorna Sports’ Carlos Ezpeleta insists there is every intention to return to India in the near future despite its omission from the 2025 MotoGP calendar.The commercial rights’ holders formally revealed a record 22-round schedule for next season ahead of this weekend’s Indonesian Grand Prix, with highlights including a return to Brno, an all-new event in Hungary and a fresh opening round host ...Keep reading
- McLaren Racing - Engineering Intern - WokingMcLaren Racing has the opportunity for an Engineering Intern to join them for 13 months in summer 2025.The placement will take place in one of four areas which would be; Aerodynamics (including CFD), Design (including Mechanical, Composite, Structural Design), Performance (including Vehicle Dynamics, Simulation and Car, Driver and Competitor ...Keep reading
Pramac rider Jorge Martin has insisted he doesn't agree with the MotoGP stewards' decision not to punish Ducati's Enea Bastianini for his controversial race-winning move at Misano.With light contact made at Turn 4 on the last lap, both riders ran wide, while Bastianini continued to take his second win of the season. Though an upset Martin cried foul in the immediate aftermath of the race ...Keep reading
When Alessandro Pier Guidi one day hangs up his helmet, he may well look back on the 2024 season with his head in his hands. The factory Ferrari ace was comfortably leading the WEC Spa 6 Hours in May when Earl Bamber’s crash triggered a red flag that turned the race on its head and sparked a lengthy appeal process only recently resolved. The eventual third place in the 499P Le Mans Hypercar was ...Keep reading
For the second weekend in a row, one of the more interesting technical nuances from the Singapore Grand Prix revolved around McLaren and its rear wing choice.But rather than this being a controversial talking point like in Baku, as attention was grabbed by its ‘mini-DRS’, instead the fascinating element to last week was about it bucking the trend with its downforce levels.While the rest of the ...Keep reading
Audi has announced that it has parted ways with two-time DTM champion Mattias Ekstrom to bring an end to a 23-year partnership.A special farewell for Ekstrom was organised by Audi at its factory in Ingolstadt on 26 September, which was attended by Audi Sport chief Rolf Michl and several other employees.The event brought the curtain down to Ekstrom’s lengthy stint at the German manufacturer ...Keep reading
Jota is not expected to take part in the World Endurance Championship’s post-season test in Bahrain as it switches focus to its factory programme with Cadillac.Team principal Dieter Gass revealed that Jota is “not very likely” to participate in the official one-day test at the Bahrain International Circuit on 3 November, which follows the final round of the season in the Gulf nation.This ...Keep reading
The 2025 MotoGP calendar has been formally announced boasting a record 22 rounds, a brand-new event in Hungary and a move to Thailand for the opening round of the season.Following a steady flow of itemised announcements - including the postponement of India’s return to the programme for 2026 - ahead of this weekend’s Indonesian Grand Prix, the full schedule has now been confirmed.Despite ...Keep reading
Lando Norris' successful start from pole at the Singapore Grand Prix appears to have dispelled his first-lap curse, although McLaren boss Andrea Stella says there was no clear issue after analysis.Norris lost the lead from pole position at the Spanish, Hungarian, and Dutch grands prix, preceded by his first corner off during the China sprint race. And, although he kept the lead into the first ...Keep reading
Lando Norris’s supremacy at the Singapore Grand Prix and the 2024 Formula 1 title fight get top billing in this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (26 September).It was hard to decide on the angle for this week’s cover. On the one hand, Norris put in one of the most dominant non-Red Bull performances we’ve seen for a long time in Singapore. But, on the other, Max Verstappen (with a ...Keep reading
The four finalists who will contest the 2024 Silverstone Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award have been selected.Formula 3 race winner Arvid Lindblad, recently crowned British F4 champion Deagen Fairclough, GB3 points lead Louis Sharp and Italian F4 dominator Freddie Slater will battle it out for prizes that include a test in Aston Martin F1 machinery and £200,000. Only Lindblad has been ...Keep reading
Ed Carpenter Racing has confirmed its 2025 IndyCar Series line-up with Alexander Rossi partnering Christian Rasmussen, with both drivers signing multi-year deals.Rossi joins after spending the past two seasons with Arrow McLaren and will pilot the team’s No. 20 Chevrolet-powered entry.Fresh off a rookie campaign that featured one top-10 result despite only running 14 of 17 races, Rasmussen ...Keep reading
Joan Mir feels Honda’s double points finish in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix was “real” and representative of where it should be in MotoGP at the moment.Despite tangling with Trackhouse’s Raul Fernandez on the opening lap and dropping to last place, Mir was able to mount an impressive fightback to take 11th at the chequered flag and equal Honda’s best result of 2024.The Spaniard’s run ...Keep reading
Sergio Perez doubled his praise of rookie driver Franco Colapinto and reckoned the young Argentine "didn't put a foot wrong" in his defence at the Singapore Grand Prix.Colapinto once again impressed in Singapore with a brave move into Turn 1, which ensured he got up to ninth place on the opening lap. He then held his own in defence against Perez, which stifled the Mexican driver's progress in ...Keep reading
MotoGP has postponed the return of the Indian Grand Prix on the calendar until 2026 due to what it has described as ‘operational circumstances’.As revealed by Autosport on Tuesday, MotoGP will not visit India next year, with the race at the Buddh International Circuit now moved to ‘reserve event’ status for 2025.It is understood that the local authorities have failed to find the financial ...Keep reading
The 2024 F1 season has seen the calendar become more regionalised, as part of an attempt from the championship to increase its sustainability.It has resulted in the Qatar and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix being placed in a back-to-back, while the Japanese GP was moved from its usual Autumn slot to April. This grouped the Suzuka event with China, however, it did leave an open slot after the Singapore GP ...Keep reading
Hungary’s Balaton Park will host both World Superbikes and MotoGP over a one-month period next year, marking the country’s return to top-tier motorcycle racing for the first time in over three decades.Balaton Park Circuit is a 2.5-mile circuit in western Hungary owned by one-time F1 practice session starter Chanoch Nissany. Far from being a repurposed airfield as so many other tracks start ...Keep reading
Ducati general manager Gigi Dall’Igna admits that the Italian manufacturer will be “weaker overall” in MotoGP next year following the loss of Pramac and a number of riders and engineers and to rival teams.Ducati has been the dominant force in MotoGP over the last few years and wrapped up the 2024 manufacturers’ crown at last weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Misano.However, its ...Keep reading
As a triple world champion Verstappen is used to being the focal point of attention on a grand prix weekend, but in Singapore the Red Bull driver caught the spotlights for the wrong reasons, caught up in a controversy with the FIA over swearing in the Thursday press conference.The saga started with an interview of FIA president Mohamed Ben Sulayem with Autosport in which he had urged the F1 to go ...Keep reading
Toyota is refusing to give up the World Rally Championship fight in Chile this weekend despite previously admitting that its title hopes are “pretty much gone”.The Japanese manufacturer has won the previous three WRC constructors’ and drivers’ titles but its hopes of retaining the crowns have come under serious threat from Hyundai.Despite Toyota winning six of the 10 rounds this season - ...Keep reading
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has asked for a "civilised" approach to the current controversy over swearing, in the wake of the FIA punishing Max Verstappen for use of a swear word.In Singapore's Thursday press conference, Verstappen was reflecting on the previous race in Azerbaijan had described his car as "f***ed" - to which the FIA took a dim view and handed him the equivalent of community ...Keep reading
Formula 2 race winner Zane Maloney will make his Formula E debut later this year having joined the Abt Formula E team ahead of the upcoming 2024/25 season.The 20-year-old’s maiden race outing in the all-electric championship will come in the Sao Paulo E-Prix on 7 December, before which he will commence pre-season testing in Valencia on 4-7 November.Maloney, who also became a Sauber Formula 1 ...Keep reading
Three-time IndyCar champion Alex Palou will make a return to GT3 racing when he joins works Mercedes outfit Lone Star Racing for the Indianapolis 8 Hour race next month.The Spaniard will join factory drivers Fabian Schiller and Luca Stolz for the Intercontinental GT Challenge finale on 3-5 October, marking his first GT3 outing since 2019.That year, Palou contested seven of the eight Super GT ...Keep reading
Thierry Neuville is now the firm favourite to clinch the 2024 WRC title after winning the previous round in Greece which extended his lead at the top. The Hyundai driver, who is chasing a maiden crown, holds a 34-point advantage with 90 left available after going to Greece leading Sebastien Ogier by 27 points. But the eight-time world champion suffered a puncture in the final stage which caused ...Keep reading
McLaren has admitted that it faces a dilemma over whether to introduce floor upgrades to its dominant MCL38 Formula 1 car.The Woking-based team was in a class of its own at the Singapore Grand Prix, with Lando Norris running unchallenged to take victory over Max Verstappen.McLaren’s form, which has helped it lead the constructors’ championship, comes off the back of it being cautious with its ...Keep reading
It was a grey Sunday 32 years ago when Mark Skaife and Jim Richards stood on the top step of the podium. It was an emotional moment; not only had the Bathurst 1000 been cut short by a torrential storm, the drivers had learned only hours earlier that Denny Hulme, who was racing a BMW in the event, had died of a heart attack while at the wheel.Richards and Skaife had piloted Nissan's Skyline GT-R to ...Keep reading
The number of teams Chevrolet is powering for the 2025 IndyCar season has the manufacturer feeling “maxed out”, but it believes supplying series newcomer Prema “will add to the mix”.The General Motors brand secured its third consecutive manufacturers championship in a 2024 season that also featured another Indianapolis 500 victory courtesy of Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden, and is ...Keep reading
Toto Wolff has conceded Mercedes "read the race wrong" with Lewis Hamilton's strategy at the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix.Hamilton pulled out a stellar effort to turn his qualifying fortunes around and take third on the grid at the Marina Bay Circuit, lining up behind championship protagonists Lando Norris and Max Verstappen.But when the tyre blankets were removed ahead of the race start ...Keep reading
Fernando Alonso believes Ferrari should have won the Singapore Grand Prix having finished just behind Carlos Sainz.The Aston Martin driver picked up four points for eighth at the Marina Bay Circuit having undercut Haas' Nico Hulkenberg at the pitstop window, who Alonso was in a train with as well as Charles Leclerc - who would eventually finish fifth.Having picked up his fourth top-10 in five ...Keep reading
There was a time in the mid-1970s when Rupert Keegan, who has died aged 69 after a long battle against cancer, was hailed as the next James Hunt. The similarities were obvious: they both started out with a habit of crashing Formula Ford cars, then rose rapidly through the single-seater ranks to Formula 1 and enjoyed the playboy lifestyle. Sponsorship from gentleman’s magazine Penthouse and Durex ...Keep reading
The McLaren Formula 1 team has announced it has signed Red Bull's chief strategist Will Courtenay as its new sporting director.Having initially joined the team as a systems engineer in 2003 under its Jaguar guise before moving to a strategy role once the team became Red Bull in 2005, he rose to become the world champions' head of race strategy for the past 14 years. But Courtenay will join title ...Keep reading
The World Rally Championship is confident Paraguay will offer the series a "unique new story" next year following last weekend's successful test event.Paraguay is set to make its WRC debut next year as the gravel rally joins an expanded 14-round 2025 calendar after signing a multi-year agreement.Last weekend, WRC event director Simon Larkin, alongside representatives from Toyota, M-Sport-Ford, the ...Keep reading
No one can dispute Stefan Pierer's long-standing business acumen. In addition to holding the position of CEO at KTM, he also sits on the boards of several billion-dollar companies.At the same time, it is clear that business projections are not so easily replicated in an ecosystem like MotoGP. The Austrian company is already running late, according to the timeline set by its most senior executive ...Keep reading
The DTM will not use the gravel strip Formula 1 experimented with at the final two corners of the Red Bull Ring this year to fix the circuit’s long-running track limits problem.Ever since the Spielberg venue became a mainstay of the motorsport calendar again after being refurbished by energy drinks giant Red Bull, there have been constant complaints about drivers running off the circuit and ...Keep reading
Aston Martin managing director, commercial and marketing, Jefferson Slack has laid down the gauntlet with a direct target to be fighting for Formula 1 world championship honours by 2027.Having been on the grid in various guises since 1991 when racing as Jordan, the Silverstone-based team has transformed since a consortium led by Lawrence Stroll acquired it in 2018 and evolved into Aston Martin ...Keep reading
India's chances of returning to the MotoGP calendar in 2025 are fading, Autosport has learned, ahead of the official unveiling of next year's calendar.The race at the Buddh circuit, just outside Delhi, made its debut in the championship in 2023 but did not take place this season despite appearing in the original schedule.In a rather bizarre announcement, both Dorna, the world championship's ...Keep reading
Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has conceded his team doesn't have the outright speed to challenge McLaren for this years' constructors' championship, but hopes it will still be in the mix through consistency.While McLaren has been the form team in F1, taking over from Red Bull, Ferrari's resurgence in recent races has allowed it to remain in outside contention for the world championship.With six ...Keep reading
Michelin says it couldn't find any problem with Francesco Bagnaia's rear tyre in its initial analysis following the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.Factory Ducati MotoGP rider Bagnaia suffered an inexplicable drop in pace after losing second place to team-mate Enea Bastianini on lap five of 27 at Misano, a problem that also threatened his place on the podium as Gresini's Marc Marquez closed in.But even ...Keep reading
The Italian Grand Prix is never short of emotion or drama and 2024's version certainly didn't disappoint! After McLaren locked out the front row in qualifying, it was the surprise of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc running a one-stop strategy that earned him his second win of the season, and home glory for the Tifosi.Jake Boxall-Legge and Filip Cleeren join Bryn Lucas in the first of two Podcasts ...Keep reading
The junior ranks are full of race-winning talent with egos boosted by a lifetime of victories in karting and entry-level single-seater categories. By the time drivers reach Formula 3, the wheat begins to be separated from the chaff, with only 30 spaces available each year to continue the climb to the tantalisingly close prospect of an F1 drive.Comparing CVs and looking purely at achievements prior ...Keep reading
Formula E is set to race on a shortened version of Saudi Arabia's Jeddah Corniche Circuit during the 2024-25 season, the same venue which has been used for Formula 1 races.The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Sport has given its approval for the venue to be used by the all-electric championship, which has previously raced at a street circuit in Diriyah since 2019.The double-header is set to take place on ...Keep reading
The push to prevent teams in the World Endurance Championship’s Hypercar class running two-driver line-ups from next season appears to have failed.A proposal to that effect put forward by the WRT BMW squad has not met with favour from the other participants and is likely to be abandoned.The calls were led by WRT boss Vincent Vosse in reaction to Cadillac’s decision to run only two drivers in ...Keep reading
Adrian Newey’s move to the Aston Martin Formula 1 team looks set to be announced in the build-up to next week’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix.Following months of speculation about the future of the legendary F1 designer, who announced earlier this year that he would be leaving Red Bull, final confirmation of his plans is likely to come before the next race.While Newey was initially linked most ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen’s concession that Red Bull has turned its dominant Formula 1 car into a “monster” shows how extreme the squad feels its problems are.A lacklustre performance at the Italian Grand Prix, as Verstappen found himself powerless to finish any higher than sixth, has left it in no doubt that both the constructors’ and drivers’ championships are under threat.The main issue with its ...Keep reading
World champions Sebastien Ogier and Kalle Rovanpera will feature for Toyota to help the Japanese marque’s World Rally Championship title bid at Rally Chile.Toyota will therefore field four GR Yaris Rally1 cars for the final gravel round of the season held in the South American nation from 26-29 September.Ogier and Rovanpera have both been contesting partial campaigns this season although it ...Keep reading
Kevin Magnussen can be forgiven for feeling aggrieved by the manner in which he received a one-race ban at the Italian Grand Prix, following his minor incident with Pierre Gasly at the Variante della Roggia.In attempting to put a move on Gasly at the Turn 4-5 chicane, the Dane locked up and made wheel-to-wheel contact with the Alpine; Gasly took to the run-off to evade heavier contact in the fight ...Keep reading
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc produced a stunning 33-lap run of lap time consistency to win Formula 1’s 2024 Italian Grand Prix, which has evoked memories of other such famous moments from motorsport history. In the 2022 Mexican GP, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen managed 38 straight laps in the same lap time bracket (1m38s), while the 1983 Le Mans 24 Hours ended with Porsche 956 cars remarkably ...Keep reading
The FIA has released a statement declaring that all 2024 Formula 1 front wings are currently legal and have shown to be compliant with the governing body's tests.Following the Italian Grand Prix, it became apparent that Ferrari and Red Bull wanted greater investigations into the legality of the McLaren and Mercedes front wings. This came after onboard footage showed a greater degree of motion ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin has a terrible nickname. ‘The Martinator’ won’t trouble MotoGP iconography but fittingly describes a steely inevitability to the Pramac rider’s competitiveness and ability to set the bar of speed, regularity (and even style) in Grands Prix.The 2018 Moto3 world champion has been working to this point since he emerged as a central title player in the premier class last season ...Keep reading
Leonardo Fornaroli has been announced by Invicta as one of its Formula 2 drivers for 2025 following his Formula 3 title success at Monza.The 19-year-old became the first Italian to win the F3 championship in its current guise on Sunday, pipping compatriot Gabriele Mini with a final corner pass for third on Christian Mansell.Having taken the flag in second, Mini was subsequently disqualified for ...Keep reading
Mercedes’ George Russell has revealed how his Italian Grand Prix nearly ended in tears after almost being sent airborne by Red Bull's Sergio Perez.Having taken an early pitstop to replace his damaged front wing following an incident at the start of the Monza Formula 1 race, Russell was charging through the field after rejoining in 12th after his second stop, making easy work of the midfield ...Keep reading
Ferrari and Red Bull want clarification from the FIA about how far flexi-wings can be exploited in F1, amid fresh intrigue over the designs of McLaren and Mercedes.Flexi-wings have become a talking point this season, as teams have found making use of this area key to overcoming some of the intrinsic balance problems that dog the current generation of ground-effect cars.In response to growing ...Keep reading
Ferrari believes Charles Leclerc being undercut by Lando Norris boosted his chances to take a momentous home win for the team at the Italian Grand Prix.Following an on-the-edge lap one pass by team-mate Oscar Piastri, polesitter Norris lost enough momentum to cede second place to Leclerc, who then split the McLarens during the opening stint.On lap 15 Norris was the first of the frontrunners to ...Keep reading
The FIA International Court of Appeal will rule on the appeal made by the factory Ferrari AF Corse team after it unsuccessfully challenged the decision of the race stewards to restart the Spa 6 Hours on 11 May beyond the scheduled finish time of the race and therefore the provisional results of the third round of the 2024 WEC.The protest was rejected by the stewards, but Ferrari’s factory ...Keep reading
When Scott Dixon took the green flag in the first race of the doubleheader weekend at The Milwaukee Mile, it marked his 400th start. When he took the checkered flag for the second act on Sunday, he surged to a runners-up finish and with it, captured the 142nd podium of his career to set the all-time record on a list that includes the likes of legends A.J. Foyt and Mario Andretti.Dixon’s ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen and the two Mercedes drivers were involved in separate collisions as Formula 1’s 2024 Italian Grand Prix commenced, which explained the Red Bull driver’s call for a Lewis Hamilton penalty.Verstappen had started seventh and behind the Mercedes pair on Sunday, with George Russell in the lead W15 actually lining up third and in a position to race the early leading McLarens and ...Keep reading
The drivers of the winning Ferrari in Sunday’s Austin World Endurance Championship round described the victory as a redemption for their near-miss at the Le Mans 24 Hours. Robert Kubica and Robert Shwartzman, who shared the winning AF Corse-run Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar with Yifei Ye, both used the word in reference to the first victory for the Italian car outside of the French ...Keep reading
Gabriel Bortoleto stunned the Formula 2 paddock in Sunday's feature race at Monza by becoming the first driver to win from last on the grid.After spinning into the gravel during qualifying on Friday and causing the red flags to fly, the Brazilian was relegated to the 22nd and final starting position for both races across the weekend.In the sprint outing, he recovered to finish eighth in a dead ...Keep reading
The Temple of Speed has just concluded its latest sermon, a cautionary tale of not hedging one's bets and expecting to control a race that sat on a strategic knife-edge. It all came to pass at this year's edition of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza - Formula 1's 74th visit to the circuit north-west of Milan.A McLaren 1-2 on the grid rather set expectations that the race would be a breeze for the ...Keep reading
Oscar Piastri has hit out at Lance Stroll after losing time behind the backmarker Aston Martin in Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix.Piastri was chasing Charles Leclerc’s leading Ferrari after making a second pitstop while the Monegasque was attempting to eke out tyre life on a one-stop strategy.After losing some two seconds when attacking and overtaking Carlos Sainz, Piastri still had an ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez's Grand Prix victory at Aragon on Sunday was much more than the end of a three-year drought for the Spaniard. He has kept a much lower profile than usual since he arrived at the Gresini team, while sending out very strong messages below the radar.Winning again 1043 days since his last success is already a feat for someone who nine months ago made the riskiest gamble of his career ...Keep reading
While McLaren is odds-on favourite to claim the constructors' title, its unwillingness to shift its weight towards Lando Norris may well cost him the drivers' title against Max Verstappen. Has McLaren left it too late or can Norris still win it? Our F1 writers have their say.Jonathan Noble - Sacrificing Norris' chances on the altar of fairness may lead to regretTo twist a famous phrase, the best ...Keep reading
World Rally Championship legend Sebastien Ogier has expressed a desire to make his first race start in the DTM since a guest outing in 2018.Ogier revealed his intention to take part in the German-based GT3 championship after attending last month’s fifth round of the season at the Nurburgring.“One day I will definitely be part of this show, because it's always fun,” said the Frenchman ...Keep reading
A solid race and no surprise winners at Darlington was all Chris Buescher ensure his place in the 2024 NASCAR Cup playoffs, but fate - and Chase Briscoe - had other ideas.The RFK Racing Ford driver entered the regular season finale with a 21-point buffer over Bubba Wallace, holding the 16th and final spot in the playoffs. That was trimmed during the race as 23XI Toyota driver Wallace scored 11 ...Keep reading
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff believes McLaren needs to decide if it will throw its full backing behind Lando Norris in his fight for the title.Norris qualified on pole for Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix but was overtaken in turn four on the opening lap by team-mate Oscar Piastri as Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc ultimately went on to take an emotional victory in front of the tifosi.With reigning ...Keep reading
Thierry Neuville is edging closer towards his maiden WRC crown as finishing second at last month’s Rally Finland extended his advantage at the top.The Hyundai driver arrived in Scandinavia with just an eight-point advantage over team-mate Ott Tanak, but a stage three crash has left the 2019 world champion 31 points behind Neuville.Sebastien Ogier is now the Belgian’s closest challenger, as the ...Keep reading
Elfyn Evans believes Rali Ceredigion has the potential to grow into a future World Rally Championship event following its debut on the European Rally Championship last weekend.The Welsh asphalt event welcomed top-level international rallying back to Great Britain for the first time since the 2019 Wales Rally GB - the last time the World Rally Championship visited the UK.Factory Toyota WRC driver ...Keep reading
Will Power gained ground on championship leader Alex Palou in IndyCar’s return to The Milwaukee Mile, but was left ruing his mistakes that left points on the table.The 43-year-old Australian came into the doubleheader trailing the Palou by 54 points and dropped that gap significantly after a runner-up finish in race one. Then, when trouble struck the No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda during the ...Keep reading
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says his drivers are trapped in a “vicious circle” with the balance problems of their RB20 Formula 1 car.World championship leader Max Verstappen fears that he is now going to lose this year’s title as a result of Red Bull’s difficulties with its 2024 F1 challenger.After finishing a lowly sixth in the Italian GP, Verstappen said that development ...Keep reading
Ferrari has confirmed Italian banking firm UniCredit as a partner from the 2025 Formula 1 season onwards.Just days after it was announced Santander and Ferrari would end their three-year association when their current agreement expires at the end of the year, it was announced UniCredit will then be on board.“Ferrari announces that, effective January 1, 2025, UniCredit S.p.A. will partner with ...Keep reading
Chase Briscoe held off Kyle Busch to win the Southern 500 at Darlington, locking himself into the playoffs in a dramatic showdown on Sunday night.The race was decided by a series of cautions that caused utter chaos, with strategies in tatter. But when the dust settled, it was the No. 14 Stewart-Haas Racing Ford Mustang that emerged victorious.Earlier this year, it was announced that Stewart-Haas ...Keep reading
McLaren has offered the firmest hint yet that it is now ready to throw its full support behind Lando Norris’s Formula 1 title bid, despite having been reluctant to introduce team orders so far.Amid a growing reality that championship rivals Red Bull and Max Verstappen are on the back foot, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella feels that the moment has come for his team to ensure opportunities to ...Keep reading
In a thrilling finish to Sunday’s Lone Star Le Mans six-hour race on the Circuit of The Americas, the customer AF Corse-run 499P driven by Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye, and Robert Shwartzman took the win in Austin, Texas after a battle with Toyota. All mere hours after Charles Leclerc’s Italian Grand Prix victory at Monza earlier in the day.Shwartzman inherited the lead from the #7 Toyota GR010 ...Keep reading
Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin stormed to his third victory of the season in a wild second race of the double-header IndyCar weekend at Milwaukee. After starting second, the 31-year-old New Zealander was thrust into the lead after an early crash for polesitting team-mate Josef Newgarden.McLaughlin remained a contender throughout the 250-lap contest, which featured an intense and late ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia has lashed out at Alex Marquez for their collision in the Aragon Grand Prix, claiming the Gresini MotoGP rider "didn't stop accelerating until he threw me off".Marc Marquez's victory dominated the headlines in Spain on Sunday, but the fallout between his younger brother Alex and Bagnaia was also a major talking point after the race.Alex Marquez collided with the factory Ducati ...Keep reading
Lando Norris feels his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri "got way too close for comfort" on his lap-one pass at Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix.Norris started from pole ahead of Piastri but, while defending his lead into the first chicane, the Briton's compromised exit out of the corner left him vulnerable to Piastri on the run towards the second chicane.The Australian made an audacious move around ...Keep reading
McLaren wants to review Oscar Piastri’s first-lap pass on Lando Norris in Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix before deciding if it complied with its ‘Papaya Rules’ code of conduct.While Norris made a great getaway from pole position, his race turned at the second chicane when Piastri made an aggressive move around the outside – costing his team-mate momentum, which Ferrari's Charles Leclerc ...Keep reading
Pierre Gasly called upon the Italian Grand Prix stewards to reverse Kevin Magnussen's one-race Formula 1 ban after their incident led to the Dane reaching the maximum penalty points on his superlicence.The two made a small degree of contact after going into the Variante della Roggia side by side, which led to neither driver making the corner. Magnussen later passed Gasly on his run to ninth at the ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen warned "both championships are not realistic" after Red Bull turned its once-dominant Formula 1 car "into a monster".Verstappen struggled to qualify higher than seventh on Saturday and failed to make much progress on Sunday, moving up just one position to finish ahead of Mercedes man George Russell in sixth.The Dutchman's margin to victory was especially damning, conceding almost 38 ...Keep reading
Oscar Piastri has conceded missing out on victory at Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix "hurts a lot" after Ferrari's cunning strategic gamble led Charles Leclerc to the top.The McLaren driver squeezed past team-mate Lando Norris at turn four on the opening lap and set about building a lead to seal his second win in F1.Having established an advantage in the middle stint of the 53-lap event, Piastri ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez declared his first thoughts were to those who helped him through his darkest days when he considered quitting MotoGP after scoring a sensational victory in Aragon.Gresini Ducati rider Marquez, who also won Saturday's sprint race from pole, celebrated his first Grand Prix win since Misano in 2021, over 1,000 days ago, by pulling a strongman pose as he took the chequered flag. It was ...Keep reading
Kevin Magnussen is set for a Formula 1 ban after reaching 12 penalty points on his superlicence following his Italian Grand Prix clash with Pierre Gasly.The Dane was hit with a 10-second penalty for contact with Gasly at the Variante della Roggia chicane, as the stewards had deemed him wholly to blame for the incident.Read Also:
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Charles Leclerc delighted Ferrari's home crowd in a strategic triumph to beat Oscar Piastri to victory at the Italian Grand Prix, after hanging onto the tyres in a one-stop strategy.Leclerc managed to hold on from a rapidly closing Piastri, who had much fresher tyres thanks to a two-stop strategy, and crossed the line with a 2.664-second lead - the crowd becoming more audibly ecstatic in the ...Keep reading
Hayden Paddon scored a dominant first European Rally Championship victory of the season as Rali Ceredigion hosted the first major international rally in Great Britain since 2019.The 2016 WRC Rally Argentina winner was never headed across Rali Ceredigion’s 14 intense Welsh asphalt stages, as he and co-driver John Kennard took their Hyundai i20 N Rally2 to victory by 1m47.3s.Paddon took the win ...Keep reading
Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez put in a dominant performance to win the Aragon Grand Prix on Sunday, ending a 1043-day victory drought.The Gresini Ducati rider led from start to finish once more, having already taken pole position and won the sprint at Motorland Aragon in one of the most one-sided performances seen from any rider during 2024.The Catalan was unchallenged in his flight to a ...Keep reading
Jose Antonio Rueda benefited from a shrewd hard rear-tyre choice to take the Moto3 victory by almost two seconds at Aragon.The MotorLand surface was soaked by overnight storms but the summer temperatures in the day helped dry the track in time for racing to begin.Championship leader and polesitter David Alonso had built up a two-second lead by the third lap but then had to slow to preserve his ...Keep reading
Fernando Alonso says Aston Martin is lacking pure performance which tyre savviness cannot make up for at Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix.Aston had its poorest qualifying result since the Austrian Grand Prix at Monza, with Alonso failing to reach Q3 in 11th place while Lance Stroll was out in Q1 in 17th position.As a consequence, Aston will struggle to maintain its points-scoring streak after four ...Keep reading
Trident driver Leonardo Fornaroli admitted to feeling “destroyed” after clinching the Formula 3 title in dramatic fashion at the final corner of a rollercoaster season finale at Monza.Having started from pole position while holding a five-point lead over rival Gabriele Mini (Prema), the cards had been dealt in Fornaroli’s favour. But a chaotic race required a last lap pass for third on ART's ...Keep reading
Audi’s Formula 1 chief operating and chief technical officer Mattia Binotto admits that the current Sauber squad’s performances are something it “cannot accept”.While German manufacturer Audi has been working on building the foundations it needs for its official arrival as a works team in 2026, it has not gone amiss that the results of the Sauber team it is taking over are far from ...Keep reading
Cadillac driver Alex Lynn believes that the US marque has its best chance of the season of making it onto the World Endurance Championship podium at Austin this weekend.The Briton expressed confidence that the Caddy V-Series.R LMDh run by Chip Ganassi Racing he shares with Earl Bamber can post its most competitive showing this year after qualifying third behind two Ferrari 499P Le Mans ...Keep reading
McLaren thinks it has understood why Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri made poor getaways in Zandvoort and is hopeful it has addressed the underlying causes for the Italian Grand Prix.Starting from first and third on the Dutch Grand Prix grid respectively, Norris and Piastri both made equally sluggish starts that saw each lose a position.Norris eventually had the grip and top speed advantage to ...Keep reading
McLaren junior Gabriel Bortoleto went from last to first to clinch the second F2 victory of his rookie campaign and heap pressure on points leader Isack Hadjar, who failed to score across the Monza weekend.Having ended his qualifying session in the gravel, Bortoleto (Invicta) lined up at the back of the grid for both races but, after finishing in a dead heat for eighth on Saturday, he completed an ...Keep reading
Santander and Ferrari will conclude their sponsorship agreement at the end of 2024 as the reported $60million a year deal comes to an end.A three-year contract was agreed in 2021, renewing a partnership that had initially run from 2010 to 2017.As well as running its logo on the Ferrari F1 cars, caps and race suits, Santander was also on board the team’s 499P Le Mans Hypercars that have captured ...Keep reading
Red Bull remains baffled by the balance problems that left it struggling in qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix but one thing it knows it got wrong was wing levels.While the rear wing concept that it has used at Monza looks intriguing – with its wavy top flap quite extreme – it is not actually the kind of bespoke concept needed for Monza’s demands.Perhaps nothing proves that more than the ...Keep reading
Alpine appears unlikely to introduce the engine upgrade to overcome the problem that resulted in the early retirement of both its cars at the Le Mans 24 Hours this season.The French manufacturer revealed at the Interlagos round of the World Endurance Championship in July that a valve issue put its two A424 LMDhs out at Le Mans in June before the six-hour mark. Now, it has stated that the new ...Keep reading
Leonardo Fornaroli clinched championship glory with a stunning last-lap dive on ART’s Christian Mansell at the Parabolica as Sami Meguetounif took victory in F3's Italian feature race.Fornaroli, who finished the race second, becomes the first driver to take the F3 crown without winning a single race, finishing second twice - including in the season-ending outing - and third five times.With ...Keep reading
Arrow McLaren’s Pato O'Ward won the opening race of IndyCar's double-header weekend at The Milwaukee Mile, beating Team Penske’s title challenger Will Power.After starting sixth, 25-year-old O'Ward surged forward and controlled the race for 133 of 250 laps in the first IndyCar race staged at the track since 2015.“We had a really tough weekend last weekend at Portland, and this is a great ...Keep reading
Antonio Giovinazzi claimed Ferrari’s second World Endurance Championship pole position of the season ahead of Sunday’s Austin round. The Italian topped the times in the Hyperpole session for the fastest 10 cars in first qualifying by nearly three tenths of a second in the best of the Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercars.Giovinazzi flew around the 3.43-mile Circuit of The Americas in a 1m50.390s on ...Keep reading
Team Penske drivers Scott McLaughlin and Josef Newgarden took a pole and second each in qualifying for the IndyCar double-header weekend at Milwaukee.The format saw each driver receive two single-car laps, with the first setting their position for the opening race on Saturday night and the second determining their spot for Sunday’s event - the qualification order the reverse of the championship ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia has provided a cryptic response to questions on his struggles in the sprint for MotoGP's Aragon Grand Prix.The reigning world champion finished in ninth place - his worst sprint finish of the year - after struggling for grip throughout.Bagnaia dropped from third to sixth after a poor start on the dirty side of the track, where he suffered from wheelspin - one of a number of ...Keep reading
Red Bull's Max Verstappen says he has never experienced the dramatic balance swing he suffered in Monza qualifying that saw him go significantly slower in Q3.Verstappen could only manage seventh in qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix, nearly seven-tenths behind McLaren's polesitter Lando Norris, as wild car balance swings made the three-time champion four-tenths slower than he was in Q2 despite ...Keep reading
Eight-time world champion Marc Marquez claimed a first MotoGP sprint win at the Aragon Grand Prix on Saturday he insisted that his MotorLand feat is not quite the dawn of a second ‘Marquez era’.First in every session and with complete control from the first corner until the last of a hot 11-lap sprint at the MotorLand circuit as a prelude to round 12 of 20 in 2024 on Sunday, Marquez finally ...Keep reading
Cadillac topped the timesheets in final practice for this weekend’s World Endurance Championship event at Austin.Alex Lynn set a best time of 1m51.571s in the sole Ganassi-entered Cadillac V-Series.R to put the American marque at the front, with Ferrari and Toyota finishing close behind in second and third respectively.It didn’t take long for lap times to tumble in the hour-long session at the ...Keep reading
Lando Norris says McLaren can now go 20km/h faster down Monza’s straights compared to its 2023 Formula 1 car after topping Italian Grand Prix qualifying.Norris claimed his fifth career F1 pole at Monza, with team-mate Oscar Piastri second ahead of Mercedes’ George Russell, the Ferrari pair and Lewis Hamilton.Max Verstappen was the lead Red Bull driver in seventh – his lowest qualifying at ...Keep reading
Norris scored back-to-back F1 pole positions for the first time in his career at Monza, continuing his recent strong form in winning the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort.The Briton headed team-mate Oscar Piastri, who believes it is still too early to help Norris's bid to beat Max Verstappen to the drivers' championship, as McLaren locked out the front row.An improvement in McLaren's aerodynamic ...Keep reading
George Russell was pleased to qualify third for the Italian Grand Prix given his lack of track time over the weekend, in the wake of new Mercedes recruit Andrea Kimi Antonelli's FP1 shunt at Parabolica.The Briton gave up his seat for Antonelli, as per Formula 1's rookie driver FP1 rules, and the Italian rookie impressed across his lap and a half before bringing his session to an abrupt end with a ...Keep reading
Mercedes Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton says he is "absolutely furious" with himself for wasting a shot at pole during qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix.The Monza Q3 shootout was one of F1's closest qualifying sessions this season, with McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari all vying for pole while Red Bull failed to qualify higher than the fourth row.McLaren's Lando Norris ultimately backed up his ...Keep reading
Christian Horner says Red Bull "simply doesn't understand" why it qualified so poorly at the Italian Grand Prix, admitting "something clearly isn't working" on its Formula 1 cars.Verstappen and Perez had looked competitive and on the pace of fellow frontrunners McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari until Saturday afternoon's final qualifying round, in which its three rival teams diced for pole while the ...Keep reading
After every F1 qualifying session, Autosport publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don't alter the statistics.When a driver can't put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.Read Also:
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Lando Norris led a McLaren 1-2 in qualifying for Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix, with points leader Max Verstappen qualifying down in seventh.George Russell took third for practice pacesetter Mercedes, while Oscar Piastri and Verstappen are set to see the stewards post-qualifying due to an incident in Q1 where the McLaren was released into the Red Bull’s path in the pits and Verstappen had to ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez won his first MotoGP race in 1,042 days - and took his first ever victory in a sprint race - with a comfortable display in the Aragon GP.The 31-year-old Catalan, who has topped every single session at the MotorLand Circuit so far, converted from pole position and controlled the 11-lap race from the opening corners on his year-old Gresini Ducati.It was the former Honda rider's first ...Keep reading
Ferrari junior Oliver Bearman drove a controlled race in the Formula 2 Monza sprint to record his second victory of the year.Having started from eighth, this following a five place grid penalty for causing a collision with Pepe Marti last time out at Spa Francorchamps, Prema driver Bearman swiftly climbed the order.He went wheel-to-wheel with ART driver Victor Martins, then clinched the lead when ...Keep reading
McLaren continues to pile the pressure on its Formula 1 rivals, as it unleashed another clutch of upgrades at the Italian Grand Prix.While some of these changes are track-specific for the high-speed characteristics at Monza, others point to longer-term efforts aimed at eking out ever more performance from the MCL38.The most obvious changes for Monza always revolve around a reduction in drag, with ...Keep reading
Former Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg believes that Andrea Kimi Antonelli has the talent to star in Formula 1, but noted his preparation in his 2024 Formula 2 season "is anything but ideal".Antonelli was announced on Saturday as a Mercedes driver for 2025 to partner George Russell at the team, a day after his brief showing in FP1 for the team - where he crashed at Parabolica after overdoing it on ...Keep reading
F3 has raced with the Dallara F3 2019 since its formation in that year, bringing together GP3 and the Formula 3 European Championship.With racing that continues to enthrall with plenty of overtaking, it was somewhat peculiar that a large focus of the press release was on improving the raceability of the machinery.But this has been an area of study across the F1 pyramid, with the top-tier getting ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton headlined the final free practice session of Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix weekend, 0.093 seconds clear of Mercedes team-mate George Russell.In a closely contested session, in which the top six were all within a quarter of a second, the two Mercedes cars displaced Charles Leclerc from the leaderboard's zenith in their final fresh soft-tyre runs in preparation for qualifying.In the ...Keep reading
Andrea Kimi Antonelli has beaten Jack Doohan in taking race car #12 next season after both set their sights on the same digit.Under Formula 1's current sporting regulations, drivers have to choose a permanent number that they keep for their entire F1 career.Numbers only become available if a driver's F1 career is deemed to have ended after two full seasons out of grand prix racing.The number 12 ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez extended his dominance at MotorLand Aragon by taking his second MotoGP pole position of the season on the Ducati GP23.The 31-year-old has headed all four sessions so far in the Aragon Grand Prix and is now favourite for the sprint as well as the 12th race of the season on Sunday. Thunderstorms in the region created wet and damp sessions for all classes on Saturday morning, but as the ...Keep reading
Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff says he decided Andrea Kimi Antonelli would be Lewis Hamilton's successor "five minutes after" he learned of the Briton's Ferrari move.On Saturday, Mercedes finally announced that 18-year-old Antonelli will be promoted to a race seat next year alongside George Russell as Hamilton's replacement.The announcement brings a close to months of speculation over ...Keep reading
The FIA Formula 3 Championship has lifted the covers of its all-new 2025 car in a special launch ceremony at Monza.The Dallara-built car will debut next year and is confirmed to run for the next three seasons, replacing the outgoing F3 2019 model.Visually, it has similarities to the current F1 and F2 models, with curved front and rear endplates.Although F3 has not been lacking for overtaking, the ...Keep reading
Oscar Piastri says it is too early for him to consider playing a support role to help Lando Norris’ Formula 1 world title bid.Off the back of an upswing in form for McLaren, Norris has an outside chance of snatching the championship from the grasp of current leader Max Verstappen.But, with him still 70 points adrift of his Red Bull rival in the drivers’ standings, it is clear that he needs all ...Keep reading
Mercedes is working to address a severe seat heat issue at Formula 1's Italian Grand Prix after its race drivers complained about the problem in the FP2 session it led.The German manufacturer has dominated the early storylines from Monza with Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s crash and announcement of his 2025 race seat promotion, but it was also affected by overheating seats on Friday.Mercedes has been ...Keep reading
Tim Tramnitz became the 12th different F3 race winner this season, breaking his duck in the Monza sprint race, while the championship fight remains wide open heading into tomorrow's finale.In the penultimate outing of the season, the MP Motorsport driver was a picture of composure, taking a lights-to-flag victory in a race that saw no changes for the lead, despite the extreme effect of the ...Keep reading
Williams Formula 1 team boss James Vowles has apologised to Mick Schumacher for remarks he made about him not being “special”.In the wake of Williams electing to take rookie Franco Colapinto rather than the more experienced Schumacher as replacement for Logan Sargeant, Vowles spoke to media on Friday at Monza to explain the reasons behind the call.And in remarks that gained a lot of traction ...Keep reading
Finally, it’s out: Andrea Kimi Antonelli will race for Mercedes as Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton’s replacement in the 2025 Formula 1 season.In signing with the Silver Arrows squad, Antonelli breaks a long tradition, which stretches back 70 years to 1954 and the season Karl Kling made his world championship F1 debut for Mercedes alongside the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio and co.Their career ...Keep reading
Mercedes has finally confirmed that Andrea Kimi Antonelli will be Lewis Hamilton’s replacement in Formula 1 next year.The young Italian had been widely tipped for the seat alongside George Russell for several months, despite the German manufacturer’s flirting with Max Verstappen.And while Antonelli has faced perhaps more struggles in Formula 2 this season than anticipated, Mercedes is clear ...Keep reading
Ferrari returned to the top of the World Endurance Championship timesheets for the first time since the Le Mans 24 Hours in second free practice for this weekend’s Austin round. The two factory Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercars, which could only finish fifth and sixth last time out in the WEC at Interlagos, ended up 1-2 in the times in the 90-minute Friday evening session. Antonio Giovinazzi’s ...Keep reading
A late charge from Matt Campbell propelled Porsche to the top of the timesheets in opening free practice for Sunday’s Austin round of the World Endurance Championship. The Australian found almost exactly a second aboard the #5 Penske-run factory Porsche 963 LMDh as the chequered flag was being unfurled at the end of the 90-minute session on Friday afternoon. Campbell posted a 1m53.574s to go ...Keep reading
The 2024 Italian Grand Prix is baking – 3°C hotter (at 34°C ambient) than in the 2023 Monza race so far, with a near 10°C accompanying rise on track temperatures. This may well combine with the major track surface change here to significantly alter race strategy.Again this term, four Formula 1 teams seem to be in the hunt – based on what we’ve seen so far in Monza practice. Their ...Keep reading
Will Power has conceded he will likely need help from his Team Penske team-mates in order to overcome the points deficit to IndyCar Series leader Alex Palou and take a third title.With three rounds to go, the 43-year-old trails Palou by 54 points. If the Chip Ganassi racer adds even one point to that total at the end of the Milwaukee double-header weekend, he will become the first back-to-back ...Keep reading
Toyota is aiming for damage limitation in this weekend’s Austin round of the World Endurance Championship as it aims to keep its title chances alive.The Japanese manufacturer doesn’t expect a repeat of its victory last time out in the WEC at Interlagos in July and is bracing itself for a “challenging weekend” on the Circuit of The Americas, according to Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe technical ...Keep reading
Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff says Williams' James Vowles "could have done without" his blunt evaluation of Mick Schumacher.Mercedes reserve Schumacher was in the frame to replace ousted Logan Sargeant from this weekend's Italian Grand Prix onwards, as was Red Bull reserve Liam Lawson.With Red Bull wanting to be able to recall Lawson should it require his services on short notice ...Keep reading
Isotta Fraschini has pulled out of the World Endurance Championship with immediate effect, leaving a depleted Hypercar class for this month’s Austin round.Disagreement with the Duqueine team, which had been responsible for running a single Tipo 6-Competizione, is understood to be the key reason behind the Italian marque's sudden decision to withdraw from the remainder of the eight-round ...Keep reading
There is a common phrase that perception is reality, and right now the reality is the IndyCar Series has a perception problem. While last Saturday’s round in St. Louis featured incredible racing for the majority of the contest, it was quickly marred with multiple controversial decisions from race control.When Josef Newgarden led the field to the green flag with nine laps to go on the oval, it ...Keep reading
Andrea Kimi Antonelli is set to be handed his first FP1 outing with Mercedes at the Italian Grand Prix as preparations for his potential promotion to its Formula 1 line-up from 2025 intensify.The Italian, who turns 18 on Sunday, is strongly tipped to be named as replacement for Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes from 2025, and has conducted a series of private tests in W13 and W14 F1 cars ...Keep reading
Joseph Loake claimed his Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year prize on Wednesday, completing 25 timed laps as he got behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car for the first time.The 19-year-old, who currently competes in Formula 3 for Rodin, was announced as the AMABA winner at the Autosport Awards in December last year, also received £200,000, full British Racing Drivers' Club ...Keep reading
KTM test rider Pol Espargaro believes Ducati will slowly lose its stranglehold on MotoGP from next year, as the changes it has made to its MotoGP programme start to bite.Espargaro, who contested last week’s Austrian Grand Prix as a wildcard entrant, reckons that Ducati will immediately feel the loss of Jorge Martin, Enea Bastianini and the Pramac team in 2025.The Spaniard witnessed the Borgo ...Keep reading
Newly crowned Mini Challenge champion Dan Zelos will make his British Touring Car Championship debut at Donington Park this weekend, replacing Ronan Pearson at Excelr8 Motorsport.Zelos wrapped up a third Mini title last time out at Knockhill after a second dominant season on the bounce with all of his Mini crowns having come with the Excelr8 squad, as well as being the team's BTCC reserve driver ...Keep reading
MotoGP stars Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin say they won’t let the 2024 championship battle come in the way of their harmonious relationship.Locked in a tense fight for the riders’ title since the beginning of the season, Bagnaia and Martin are separated by just five points at the top of the standings following the factory Ducati’s rider double win in the Austrian Grand Prix last ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes race engineer Peter Bonnington has been promoted to head of race engineering and will stay with the Formula 1 team in 2025.Bonnington will dovetail his new role with his existing race engineering duties for Hamilton until the end of the season.A Mercedes spokesperson has confirmed the 49-year-old will stay with the team in 2025 as Hamilton departs to Ferrari, becoming the ...Keep reading
Anyone getting a sense of deja vu? Does the governing body launching a consultation on clumsy proposals without a proper explanation of the reasoning behind them sound familiar?But, no, I’m not talking about the controversial changes to track-limits rules launched at the start of last year. Instead, I’m referring to the suggested alterations to the regulations surrounding race series.These ...Keep reading
MotoGP has announced that Thailand will take over Qatar’s spot as the opening round of the 2025 season on 2 March.Usually scheduled at the latter end of the campaign in October along with the bulk of flyaway races in Asia and Oceania, Buriram has now been granted a new date at the start of March.Qatar has been the traditional venue for the season-opening race for the most of the last two ...Keep reading
When the Toro Rosso team renamed itself to AlphaTauri, it pledged to become a "sister team" to Formula 1's championship-winning Red Bull team - and this path has progressed with its RB rebrand.RB has always used transferrable components developed by the lead Red Bull team, but took on the rear suspension package part-way through 2023 in an effort to transform a dismal start to the season. This ...Keep reading
Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache has conceded that the team may have hit the ceiling with the development of its F1 car, though suggested the overall limit of the regulations has not been reached.The Milton Keynes-based outfit has established itself as the benchmark in the latest technical era, with Max Verstappen winning almost three-quarters of the races in that time.But rivals McLaren ...Keep reading
Maverick Vinales believes improving the braking performance will be “key” in catapulting Aprilia near the front of the MotoGP grid.Americas GP winner Vinales made that comment after the start/stop nature of the Red Bull Ring exposed a major weakness of the RS-GP, with both him and team-mate Aleix Espargaro struggling to slow down the bike as effectively as their rivals.The Spaniard explained ...Keep reading
Formula 1's shutdown is over, with teams heading to Zandvoort for the first of 2024's 10 remaining rounds. As F1 wakes up from its summertime siesta, here is a refresher of some key storylines you may have missed, and some lingering questions seeking an answer in the Dutch dunes and beyond.Red Bull is backing Perez; will it be a costly mistake?Shortly after the Belgian Grand Prix Red Bull decided ...Keep reading
Speculation in Formula 1 got intense during the summer break in the wake of a change the FIA made to the technical regulations outlawing asymmetrical braking systems.Off the back of the most recent FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting that ratified a host of revised and future rules, an added clause regarding braking systems set tongues wagging.The changed Article 11.1.2 of F1's Technical ...Keep reading
One of the British Touring Car Championship’s best-known driver-engineer double acts might not have happened if it hadn’t been for a seemingly random Facebook friend request.“I got one from Shaun Hollamby,” recounts Craig Porley, the brains behind Jake Hill’s BTCC title-contending form with West Surrey Racing. “I didn’t know him really, but the rumours were, ‘hmm, they’re going ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia is on a roll in the 2024 MotoGP season. Despite making some mistakes in the sprint races this year, the two-time champion has been a class apart on Sundays, where most of the points are awarded.His victory in Sunday's Austrian Grand Prix was his seventh of 2024, putting him well clear of title rival Jorge Martin's tally of two from the opening 11 rounds. It also means the Italian ...Keep reading
McLaren is set to "cash in" on its Formula 1 aerodynamic testing over the first part of the season, after bringing relatively few upgrades in the opening 14 races.The aerodynamic testing regulations (ATR) in contemporary F1 restricts how much wind tunnel time and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) resources can be used, with each team receiving limits. These are allocated depending on their ...Keep reading
Tyler Reddick hung on to take victory at Michigan International Speedway after a late-race incident set up a sprint to the finish.It was Reddick's second win of the 2024 NASCAR Cup season having won at Talladega, using a push from fellow Toyota driver Ty Gibbs to snatch the lead away from William Byron.Reddick was cruising to victory a few laps before an incident for Martin Truex Jr. turned the ...Keep reading
Williams head of vehicle performance Dave Robson believes upgrades to the team's 2024 Formula 1 car can provide a baseline for next year's machinery.The Grove-based outfit has struggled to continue the strong form of last season after entering the current campaign with an overweight car as focus instead turned to upgrading its infrastructure during the winter.While upgrades will be added to the ...Keep reading
Fabio Quartararo feels things are getting “worse and worse” for Yamaha despite its best efforts to dig itself out of its current slump in MotoGP.The 2021 champion struggled to 18th in Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix, finishing almost 44 seconds behind race winner Francesco Bagnaia on the factory Ducati. His final position was compromised by a long lap penalty, though he was already running ...Keep reading
Three-time DTM champion Rene Rast has blamed Mercedes rival Maro Engel for the clash that decided Sunday’s DTM race at the Nurburgring.Schubert BMW driver Rast was trying to take the lead after exiting the pits on lap 18 when he came to blows with the Winward Mercedes of Engel into Turn 1.The TV images showed the 37-year-old missing the apex as Engel tried to go around the outside of him into ...Keep reading
The memories of Brad Binder taking a shock home win for KTM at the Red Bull Ring in 2021 are still fresh in the minds of MotoGP fans. It’s not often you see a rider nursing slick tyres in a flag-to-flag race with rain lashing down and still coming away with victory.The 2019 edition of the Spielberg was equally a classic thanks to an exhilarating duel between Marc Marquez and Andrea Dovizioso ...Keep reading
Fifteen-time MotoGP race winner Andrea Dovizioso will ride the Yamaha M1 in this week's private test at Misano, replacing the injured Cal Crutchlow.Dovizioso, absent from the limelight since retiring from racing at the end of 2022, will help Yamaha develop its beleaguered MotoGP bike in a two-day test at the Italian circuit on Tuesday and Wednesday.Dovizioso will replace Yamaha's designated test ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc says it's "always good news" teaming up with a driver of Lewis Hamilton's calibre, as will be the case at Ferrari from the 2025 Formula 1 season.Ferrari signed Hamilton before the 2024 campaign even started, with team principal Frederic Vasseur making the most of an exit clause in the long-time Mercedes driver's contract to entice him to Maranello.Hamilton will replace Carlos Sainz ...Keep reading
Pedro Acosta felt like he was leaving KTM’s home MotoGP round at Spielberg with “pain in his chest” after unexpected problems left him trundling down in 13th place.Although the RC16’s form has been on a decline for some time, there was a glimmer of hope that the bike would go around well at the Red Bull Ring due to its strong track record.However, after failing to break into Q2, Tech3 ...Keep reading
Mercedes always had faith that its W15 Formula 1 car would be quick, and was actually surprised it could not deliver on its potential earlier in the campaign. The German manufacturer went into F1’s summer break with a tally of three wins from the last four races, with George Russell having triumphed in the Austrian Grand Prix, and Lewis Hamilton adding victories in Great Britain and ...Keep reading
Will Power was left angry after crashing out of Saturday night’s IndyCar Series race at Gateway following a controversial restart by Team Penske team-mate Josef Newgarden.After leading a race-high 117 of 260 laps, Power lined up fourth behind leader Newgarden, fellow team-mate and polesitter Scott McLaughlin and Andretti Global’s Colton Herta with nine laps to go.As the field rolled through ...Keep reading
Pramac’s Jorge Martin does not believe Francesco Bagnaia is faster than him despite the latter dominating MotoGP’s Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday.Polesitter Martin lost the lead of the Spielberg race to Bagnaia on lap 2 of 28 and could only keep up with him in the first half of the race, before the Spanish rider’s front tyre began to show serious signs of wear.It allowed the factory Ducati ...Keep reading
Gresini MotoGP rider Marc Marquez has explained why he was unsuccessful in engaging the ride-height device at the start of the Austrian Grand Prix.The six-time MotoGP world champion was very slow to pull away from third on the grid in Sunday’s race at Spielberg, causing him to get immediately swallowed up by a number of riders on the dash to the opening corner.To make matters worse, he was hit ...Keep reading
David Malukas was left emotional after late contact with Will Power led to crashing out of Saturday night’s IndyCar Series round at Gateway.After starting second in the #66 Meyer Shank Racing Honda, Malukas showed tremendous pace throughout the night as one of the only contenders that was able to keep up with Team Penske.The 22-year-old Chicago native found the lead just three laps into the ...Keep reading
Sheldon van der Linde claimed a shock victory in the second one-hour race at the Nurburgring for his first win of the 2024 DTM season.The 2022 series champion started ninth but a great start put him battling at the front before winning by 3.2s with Maro Engel, as Marco Wittmann completed the podium in dry conditions.Polesitter Engel led Ricardo Feller into a congested Turn 1, where Sheldon van der ...Keep reading
Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia outduelled MotoGP title rival Jorge Martin to take a convincing victory in the Austrian Grand Prix and retake the top spot in the championship standing.Bagnaia again made the best start from the front row of the grid but couldn’t pass polesitter Martin, who did just enough to hold the lead into the opening right-hander and the tricky Turn 2 chicane.However, with the ...Keep reading
Nico Hulkenberg believes receiving a call from Audi CEO Gernot Doellner when making the switch from Haas to Sauber for next season "shows respect" and underlines the German manufacturer's commitment to its Formula 1 project.Audi will take over the Hinwil-based outfit when joining the grid in 2026, with Hulkenberg recruited as the first confirmed driver for the team earlier this season as its ...Keep reading
The day’s action started with a 20-lap Moto3 race, where David Alonso scored his seventh win of the season to extend his lead in the championship standings.Alonso’s victory chances were aided by early drama for title rival and polesitter Ivan Ortola, who was forced to peel into the pits due to technical drama just seconds after taking his spot on the grid.However, it wasn’t all clean sailing ...Keep reading
RB rolled back on its Barcelona floor after identifying it as the main reason its Spanish Grand Prix upgrades missed the mark, according to technical director Jody Egginton.A series of updates aimed at raising the level of the VCARB 01 to consolidate sixth in the constructors' championship ended up hurting the balance of RB's 2024 car, leading to a frustrating Barcelona weekend.Egginton detailed ...Keep reading
MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi has weighed in on the title battle between his protege Francesco Bagnaia and Pramac rival Jorge Martin in 2024.With no clashing commitments to his GT racing programme with BMW, seven-time champion Rossi is attending this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix at Spielberg and has already spent a considerable amount of time trackside in his role as the owner of the VR46 ...Keep reading
Josef Newgarden recovered from a spin to take victory in a chaotic IndyCar Series race on Saturday night at the 1.25-mile St Louis oval.The Team Penske’s race narrowly avoided disaster on lap 196 when he was pressing team-mate Scott McLaughlin for the lead and he spun at Turn 2 but avoided any lasting damage and was able to rejoin in fourth place.As Newgarden cycled back to the front, the action ...Keep reading
Cam Waters consolidated on a solid Saturday to win the 18th and final Sprint race of the 2024 Supercars season at Symmons Plains on Sunday.The Tickford Ford Mustang driver started second on the grid and took advantage of an error by team-mate Thomas Randle on the opening lap when Randle, who earlier in the day became the ninth polesitter of the 2024 season, made a small mistake at Turn 4 and ...Keep reading
Bubba Wallace believes NASCAR's chaotic finish at Richmond last weekend is "the system's fault" for incentivising winning at all costs. In the championship format of old, the storyline from Richmond would have been very different. We would have spent this week talking about how Austin Dillon has struggled through a very difficult season, but he was able to find one bright spot with a surprisingly ...Keep reading
Austin Dillon says he has no regrets over his actions following a controversial finish at last weekend's NASCAR meeting at Richmond.NASCAR announced that Dillon's Richmond win stands, but his automatic playoff berth has been revoked for taking out both Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin on his way to victory.While on air with NBC Sports during a rain delay at Michigan International Speedway this ...Keep reading
McLaughlin currently sits sixth in the title race at 83 points behind Palou (411-328). It is a remarkable comeback after he sat 29th in the championship standings after two rounds following Team Penske’s push-to-pass scandal.The penalty negated his podium finish in the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, but the New Zealander has since gone on to claim two wins, five podiums and seven ...Keep reading
Jamie Chadwick could very well be Britain’s best hope of having a full-time presence on the IndyCar Series grid in 2025.Consider the fates of Callum Ilott, Jack Harvey, Katherine Legge, Toby Sowery and Tom Blomqvist, all of whom have raced in the series this season but are either uncertain to be competing there next year or definitely won’t be on the 2025 grid. Over the past decade, the torch ...Keep reading
Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia thinks the long lap penalty his MotoGP title rival Jorge Martin received for going off track and cutting a chicane in the Austrian Grand Prix sprint was ‘not necessary’.Bagnaia and Martin were engaged in a tough duel on the second lap at Spielberg when the Pramac rider couldn’t stop his bike in time and had to go straight at the Turn 2 chicane, where an escape ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez has admitted he gave away an “easy podium” by being “too optimistic” and crashing out of the MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix sprint race.Gresini rider Marquez was running second behind race leader Francesco Bagnaia on lap 10 of 14 when he tucked the front heading into the uphill Turn 3, barely hanging on to his Ducati as he hit the deck.Although the six-time champion was able to ...Keep reading
Pramac rider Jorge Martin has called for a rethink of MotoGP’s long lap rule after being hit with a penalty for cutting the chicane in the Austrian Grand Prix sprint.Polesitter Martin was leading the half-distance race at Spielberg on Saturday when he overshot the tricky Turn 2 and had to take to the escape road, before rejoining the track in second position behind the factory Ducati of ...Keep reading
Williams anticipates that its addition of Carlos Sainz for 2025 will increase the difficulty of making decisions on the pitwall next season with two cars in close proximity, according to head of vehicle performance Dave Robson.Across the past few seasons, Williams has effectively had one car - George Russell, then Alex Albon - leading the line, while the second car has traditionally been lower ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia put himself level with Jorge Martin in the MotoGP points standings with victory in the sprint race for the Austrian Grand Prix, while a crash cost Marc Marquez a likely podium finish.The two title protagonists appeared set for an epic duel in Saturday’s half-distance race at Spielberg, but a penalty for cutting the chicane at Turn 2 left Martin out of the picture and allowed ...Keep reading
Kelvin van der Linde claimed the DTM championship lead after dominating the opening one-hour race at the Nurburgring from pole.The Abt Audi driver never lost position to win by 15.2s ahead of Mirko Bortolotti with Maro Engel completing the podium.It means Van der Linde leads Bortolotti by one point in the championship ahead of the weekend’s second race on Sunday.The race started with two laps ...Keep reading
Lamborghini has unveiled the new super sportscar on which its next-generation GT3 racer will be based.The Lamborghini Temerario, launched on Friday in Monterey California, is the replacement in the Italian manufacturer’s range for the Huracan road and race cars.Racing versions will supersede the Huracan GT3 EVO2 in 2026 and the one-make Super Trofeo EVO2 car the year after.They will be developed ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin obliterated the Spielberg lap record to take pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix, beating pre-qualifying favourite Francesco Bagnaia.Nursing a cut on his left thumb after a bizarre mishap in the shower on Saturday night, championship leader Martin pulled off a stunning 1m27.748s effort in the 15-minute pole shootout to deny the top spot to last year’s double Red Bull Ring ...Keep reading
Valtteri Bottas is relaxed about his Formula 1 future. With not knowing yet if he will remain on the grid for 2025, and seeing seats at rival teams dry up, Bottas could be forgiven for feeling anxious. But as he points out when we chat at the British Grand Prix, "this isn't his first rodeo".The Finnish driver, who will turn 35 at the end of this month, currently sits at the bottom of the drivers' ...Keep reading
The New Zealander rocketed to the top spot with a two-lap average of 179.972 mph around the 1.25-mile oval based just outside of St. Louis, Missouri. The pole marks his fourth of the season and ninth of his career. “I'm so stoked. We rolled out of the truck, the DEX Imaging Chevrolet has been great," said McLauhglin."I’m really proud of (it), we had a procedure and went through it and then ...Keep reading
Nick Percat has taken the win in the 17th race of the Supercars season at a chilly Symmons Plains Raceway.Good driving and strong strategy put Percat at the top in cold and windy conditions in the first Supercars round in late-winter in Tasmania.He had settled into third place in the early laps in his Matt Stone Racing Chevrolet Camaro, but stayed out a lap later than his main opposition and a ...Keep reading
Juri Vips says the decision to make his first IndyCar Series start of the 2024 season at Portland next weekend came down to pitlane space.The 24-year-old Estonian was announced earlier this month that he would drive Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s #75 Honda as part of a fourth entry at Portland.Although this outing will be only his third career start in IndyCar, it does come at a familiar place ...Keep reading
Pedro Acosta has denied that his high-speed shunt in first practice for the Austrian Grand Prix was due to damage to his KTM, explaining that an unusually cold tyre was the real cause.Acosta lost control of his bike going into the Turn 4 right-hander in the final stages of the session at Spielberg, crashing for the second time in a span of 10 minutes.His GasGas-branded RC16 smashed the barriers ...Keep reading
Gresini’s Marc Marquez says he is no longer two or three steps behind MotoGP title contenders Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin after displaying strong pace in Friday practice for the Austrian GP.On the short 10-corner Spielberg circuit, Marquez posted a time of 1m28.858s on his Ducati GP23 bike in second practice to finish fourth-fastest, trailing pacesetter Bagnaia by just 0.350s.More ...Keep reading
In a series born via the exploits of bootleggers and outlaws, NASCAR's history is unsurprisingly steeped in decades of contact and drivers pushing the limits of what may be deemed acceptable. There's almost an expectation to see occasional bump and runs, or a driver full-throttle against the wall to escape playoff elimination. But bumpin' or rubbin' or wreckin' is not always racing, and NASCAR ...Keep reading
Reigning MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia topped second practice for the Austrian Grand Prix with a new lap record, leading Pramac duo Franco Morbidelli and Jorge Martin.It took just five minutes for Bagnaia to beat the fastest lap from first practice, the factory Ducati rider clocking a time of 1m29.637s to take the top spot.His championship rival Martin and Gresini’s Marc Marquez also enjoyed ...Keep reading
McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has claimed all departments of its Formula 1 team are "world championship material" after years of investment.Brown took the helm at the Woking-based outfit during a time of financial instability last decade and, despite further hardships which included rumours of a takeover by Audi, the American's commercial nous has seen McLaren become one of the most heavily-backed ...Keep reading
Frederic Vasseur has changed the culture at Ferrari for the better since taking over as its Formula 1 team principal, according to Charles Leclerc.Vasseur took the reins of the Scuderia in January 2023 and implemented his trademark no-bullshit approach, after years of Ferrari being criticised not just for lacking performance but also for repeating errors and not always maximising its results under ...Keep reading
Patrick Watts is surely one of the finest British Touring Car drivers not to score an outright race win. The multiple single-make champion came close with Peugeot during the competitive Super Touring era but the cards (and machinery) never fell his way.It’s perhaps not surprising, then, that it’s a class dominator that Watts picks as the favourite car from his career. It’s a car that he ...Keep reading
Formula 1 is an expensive, exclusive and - to the likes of Andretti, at least for the time being - elusive club.You think F1 teams, you think money - and why wouldn’t you? Global recognition, blue-chip sponsors, luxury brands and home to the fastest drivers on the planet... it must all add up.But do all of those assets equate to cold, hard cash?The Dallas Cowboys have just become the first team ...Keep reading
VR46 has recruited Pramac rider Franco Morbidelli to partner Fabio di Giannantonio in MotoGP next year.As has been widely expected, VR46 and Morbidelli have agreed to a one-year deal that will see the 2020 title runner-up race for the team owned by his mentor and MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi.The 29-year-old will continue with the GP24 bike that he currently rides at Pramac, with only his future ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin led a 1-2 for Pramac in the opening practice for the MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix after a late red flag caused by Pedro Acosta's crash.Having suffered a relatively low-speed fall at the chicane just minutes before, Tech3 rider Acosta suffered another incident in the closing stages of the session, losing control of his GasGas-branded KTM at high-speed on the run down to Turn 4.Although ...Keep reading
F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali revealed the championship is in talks with Rwanda over plans to host a grand prix in the East African country.Domenicali told Autosport that Rwanda is “serious” about the project, especially as F1 does not currently hold a round in Africa despite grands prix in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.But a visit to the continent is now a key target as F1 aims to ...Keep reading
The commercial rights holder of the World Rally Championship is investigating a potential sale of the business, according to a media report.WRC Promoter GmbH acquired the commercial rights to the World Rally Championship in 2013. Previously, the promotion was handled by North One Sports, but the 10-year (in force since 2010) contract with the FIA was cancelled before the 2012 season when North One ...Keep reading
With 110 career starts across 10 different teams, Conor Daly has built a reputation as a part-time IndyCar Series specialist.That label isn’t by choice, as the desire to drive full-time remains, yet the opportunities just have a habit of ending up that way. Since making his series debut in the 2013 Indianapolis 500, he has only contested five full-time seasons, including two in 2020 and 2021 ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia feels it’s strange that Ducati’s new GP24 has pulled so much clear of last year’s GP23 in recent MotoGP races despite not receiving any upgrades.The GP24 runners monopolised the podium spots in three of the last four rounds, aided by Enea Bastianini finding his mojo again on the second of the factory Ducatis.This has seemingly left Gresini and VR46 riders at a disadvantage ...Keep reading
Yuki Tsunoda remains in consideration for a Red Bull Formula 1 team promotion if he consistently delivers, according to RB CEO Peter Bayer.In June RB announced Tsunoda would remain at the team for 2025 and in recent weeks he’s been overlooked for a Red Bull spot with Sergio Perez’s place under threat as he underperformed.Read Also:
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Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro says it’s "not fair" that Jack Miller and Franco Morbidelli will remain on next year’s MotoGP grid despite their current form, when teams could hire young riders in their place.Espargaro, a veteran of 243 starts, believes MotoGP teams should be giving opportunities to those coming through the ranks instead of signing underperforming riders in the premier class.His ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen has now started 199 world championship grands prix – the same number as Alain Prost – won three Formula 1 titles and taken 61 victories. He’s third on the wins list and seems well on his way to a fourth world crown, so where does he sit in the pantheon of all-time greats?Verstappen’s victory strike rate is currently 31%, behind just Juan Manuel Fangio, Alberto Ascari and Jim ...Keep reading
Honda has introduced a new engine configuration for this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, but its MotoGP riders have warned that it won’t bring an immediate step in performance.The Japanese manufacturer has been hard at work to dig itself out of its lowest-ever phase in MotoGP, with a number of updates planned in the coming races in Europe.The first significant upgrade is a new engine ...Keep reading
Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales says a disastrous run for him and team-mate Aleix Espargaro in MotoGP’s British Grand Prix “woke up people” at the Italian marque.The Silverstone weekend highlighted Aprilia’s struggles in race trim as Vinales dropped from eighth to 13th at the finish with heavy tyre degradation and Espargaro likewise slumped to sixth behind a quintet of Ducatis after starting ...Keep reading
The battle to top the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings has further intensified as Stuart Bliss, Jack Parker and Benn Simms have joined a growing cluster on 10 wins.Scottish Legends star Stewart Black continues to lead the way on 13 victories so far this year, but now the rest of the top 12 are all within three wins of his tally after a busy weekend of club motorsport.Bliss is ...Keep reading
Oscar Piastri revealed he suffered a broken rib following the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in July. The Australian took to social media to share an X-ray image of the injury and joked the “rib’s enjoying the break”.Piastri’s post showed that he was treated for the break the day after the British GP, meaning he took his maiden win two weeks later in Hungary with the injury. He also ...Keep reading
Fabio Quartararo believes it would be better for Yamaha to sign two experienced riders for its Pramac satellite team next year as the marque “doesn’t have time” to turn around its fortunes in MotoGP.Quartararo’s comments mark a stark change in his approach after he had publicly backed Moto2 frontrunner Tony Arbolino last month for the second seat at Pramac.The 2021 champion was also in ...Keep reading
Esteban Ocon hopes the FIA maintains a tight leash on the 2026 Formula 1 aerodynamic regulations to ensure more teams can enter the picture for victories.The 2026 rules will herald the introduction of active aerodynamics on the front and rear wings, along with a shallower floor to limit the effectiveness of the Venturi tunnels. The cars will also be narrower and shorter in an effort to improve ...Keep reading
Of the 107 Minis that raced at the Mini Festival at Brands Hatch earlier this month, there was one in particular that stood out from the crowd and really inspired. Unlike the variety of ‘saloon’ versions, Nick Paddy’s Mini Van was something completely different.It was making its race debut at the event and looked resplendent in its ‘tweed grey’ colour scheme. It had turned heads even ...Keep reading
Trackhouse has signed Japanese youngster Ai Ogura to partner Raul Fernandez at its MotoGP team next year.As revealed by Autosport, Ogura will step up to MotoGP in 2025 as part of a two-year deal and replace Trackhouse incumbent Miguel Oliveira.The 23-year-old is currently second in the Moto2 standings this year, 22 points behind overall leader and team-mate Sergio Garcia, with 10 of the 20 rounds ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton’s big Ferrari challenge and more British Touring Car drama lead this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (15 August).When Charles Leclerc won May’s Monaco Grand Prix, taking Ferrari’s second Formula 1 victory of the season and moving the Italian team 156 points clear of Mercedes, Hamilton’s 2025 decision looked pretty good. But in the six races since, the Briton’s ...Keep reading
Kurt Busch was arrested for speeding and drink driving on Monday night in North Carolina.The 2004 NASCAR Cup Series champion was initially pulled over for speeding, having been reportedly travelling at 63mph in a 45mph zone on Monday night.Busch was later arrested and charged with drink driving, careless driving, and reckless driving by the Iredell County Sheriff's Office.Busch's blood-alcohol ...Keep reading
The Swift Sport Challenge has been launched by the 750 Motor Club for next season as the latest entry-level series with initiatives set to help keep costs down.The new category will use Suzuki Swift Sport Mk1 models from 2006-2011, featuring a 1.6-litre engine, with two cars set to race this weekend at Silverstone in the Hot Hatch Championship in the hands of brothers Ryan and Scott Parkin.The ...Keep reading
Mercedes says it still needs time to fully get on top of the tyre temperature issues that are influencing its performance in Formula 1.The German manufacturer has noted a trend this year where its W15 car shines in cooler conditions but, if temperatures go up, it struggles more compared to the opposition.The team suspects that this is a consequence of the car putting more heat into its rear tyres ...Keep reading
NASCAR has announced that Austin Dillon's controversial Richmond win stands, but his automatic playoff berth has been revoked for taking out both Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin on his way to victory.Logano passed Dillon for the lead to start the two-lap overtime and looked like he would hang on for the win when Dillon drove deep into Turn 3 on the final lap and knocked Logano into the outside ...Keep reading
Alpine is planning a “quite big” upgrade, which will form the basis of its 2025 car, for the final stages of the Formula 1 season.The French manufacturer has had a challenging 2024 season, with its A524 challenger starting the year in Bahrain as the slowest on the grid. Since then the team has undergone major infrastructure changes, which has included the departure of technical director Matt ...Keep reading
Imagine for a minute that motor racing could be added, retrospectively, to the 2024 Olympic Games. Each country would be able to send four drivers to compete across a range of disciplines. With this in mind, I am giving readers the chance to be a selector; who would you choose for Team GB?But before you nominate Lewis Hamilton, Lando Norris and George Russell as three-quarters of the next British ...Keep reading
Juncos Hollinger Racing has confirmed Conor Daly will contest the remaining five rounds of the 2024 season in the IndyCar Series.A veteran of 110 career IndyCar starts, Daly will drive the team's No. 78 Chevrolet-powered entry that was recently occupied by Agustin Canapino.The team and Canapino mutually parted ways a week ago after a string of five consecutive finishes of 18th or worse – with ...Keep reading
Two-time World Endurance Championship title winner Ben Keating will make a return to the series for his home race in Austin next month.Keating will join up with the Proton Competition Ford squad in LMGT3 at the Circuit of the Americas on 1 September for his first appearance in a regular WEC race since leaving the series in the wake of winning his second GTE Am title last year.The 52-year-old ...Keep reading
One statistic that is often representative when analysing a rider’s MotoGP campaign is the number of crashes they suffered during the given season. Too many crashes usually indicate that something is not quite right, although there are some cases where even higher-placed riders in the standings end up in the gravel too often.Gresini’s Marc Marquez may have got his smile back after switching ...Keep reading
Daniel Ricciardo reckons his RB Formula 1 team-mate Yuki Tsunoda has the ability to succeed in Formula 1, and believes the Japanese driver simply needs to prove he can execute when winning opportunities come his way.Tsunoda has proven himself as RB's de facto team leader over 2024, his fourth season in F1, but has been overlooked by Red Bull's management as it considered Liam Lawson and Daniel ...Keep reading
Former KTM technical director Fabiano Sterlacchini is in negotiations with Honda to join its MotoGP ranks, Autosport understands.Sterlacchini spent 17 years at Ducati, rising to the role of MotoGP technical director before signing with KTM in June 2021 to lead its engineering department.In July the Austrian brand announced it had been unable to reach an agreement to renew Sterlacchini’s contract ...Keep reading
1.FIA - Karting Development Coordinator - GenevaThe FIA is recruiting a Karting Development Coordinator to join the Mass Participation Disciplines and Activities Division.This role is a key player in boosting global participation in karting and involves the ongoing creation and implementation of cost-effective grassroots karting initiatives and supporting FIA member clubs and ASNs.You will have a ...Keep reading
Under-fire NASCAR Cup race winner Austin Dillon insists that his spotter’s “wreck him” call before he collided with Denny Hamlin at Richmond on Sunday night “didn’t change” what then happened.Dillon qualified for the playoffs with his victory but is awaiting NASCAR’s penalty report from the weekend to see if it chooses to penalise him for wrecking both Hamlin and Joey Logano at the ...Keep reading
The bespoke Chevron B1417 designed for the new TOCA Junior category that will support the British Touring Car Championship from 2025 has been unveiled at a launch.Over 100 guests - including representatives from a wide range of BTCC, sportscar and successful junior racing squads - attended the launch that marked the iconic Chevron name's return to motorsport.The Bolton manufacturer produced a ...Keep reading
A new World Rally Championship docuseries will launch later this month offering fans a rare behind-the-scenes look at M-Sport-Ford’s 2024 campaign.The series titled More than Machine produced in partnership with team sponsor SafetyCulture by Superlative Films is a six-part documentary that follows the daily lives of M-Sport’s drivers Adrien Fourmaux and Gregoire Munster, engineers ...Keep reading
The Mercedes Formula 1 team thinks that Lewis Hamilton has benefited more than team-mate George Russell from the gains made with the W15. The German manufacturer had a tough start to the season, with its 2024 F1 challenger proving to be inconsistent and having a narrow performance window. However, as the squad has unlocked the secrets of its potential, the car has moved towards the front of the ...Keep reading
AJ Foyt Racing has revealed the surprise signing of David Malukas to a multi-year deal beginning with the 2025 IndyCar Series season.Malukas, who doesn’t turn 23 years old until next month, will “drive one of” the team’s Chevrolet-powered entries, with no confirmation of the number or his team-mate.“I am extremely excited to have the opportunity to join AJ Foyt Racing,” Malukas said ...Keep reading
Kevin Magnussen has insisted he has no regrets over his "wild" and "exciting" return to Formula 1 as he nears the end of his time with Haas.The Dane was dropped by the team at the end of the 2020 season and made the switch to sportscar racing with Chip Ganassi, only for fate to give him an F1 reprieve.With the Russian invasion of Ukraine spelling the end for Nikita Mazepin at Haas, then-team ...Keep reading
Nico Muller has joined the Andretti Global Formula E team for the upcoming 2024/25 campaign, replacing the outgoing Norman Nato and becomes a factory Porsche driver in the process.The Swiss driver was formally confirmed at the American squad on Tuesday after weeks of speculation linking him to the team having announced prior to the London season finale in July that he would be leaving Abt.Muller ...Keep reading
Pedro Acosta may be a rookie in MotoGP with experience of less than a dozen race weekends, but he is already showing maturity far beyond his age.The Tech3 GasGas rider has been hailed as the next big star ever since he stepped up to Moto3 in 2021, but he is now beginning to show another trait that could go a long way in making him one of the most successful riders in the series’ history.While ...Keep reading
McLaren has been the form team since a major car upgrade in May brought Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri their first race victories. But despite several chances to add to that tally over the summer, decisions on strategy have cost them. At Silverstone, for example, the wrong call on when to pit and a poor tyre choice for the last stint cost Norris the win and favoured Mercedes’ Lewis ...Keep reading
Ducati has revealed that it will continue to bring updates to last year’s GP23 MotoGP bike until the end of the season.General manager Gigi Dall’Igna has confirmed that the GP23 has already made a step forward in the last 12 months and will continue to see more improvements as the year progresses.Both Gresini and VR46 teams compete with the old version of the Desmosedici in 2024, with only the ...Keep reading
Alex Albon is adamant Williams is making progress - even if it might seem the team is going backwards.An overweight car at the start of the season culminated in a slump in form that has seen it fall towards the back of the grid, an eventuality that came after team principal James Vowles oversaw an immediate uptick in results when he took over some 19 months ago.But Albon says you cannot read too ...Keep reading
Porsche’s aspirations to return to Formula 1 are now “a closed chapter”, the marque’s motorsport boss Thomas Laudenbach has revealed.Laudenbach’s assertion that Porsche has no plans for a comeback more than 30 years on from its last engagement as an engine supplier with Footwork in 1991 represent the marque’s first comments about an F1 entry since the full unveiling of the 2026 ...Keep reading
Hamlin believes that if NASCAR stripped Austin Dillon of his win in Sunday’s Cup race at Richmond, all other drivers in the garage would agree that it was “warranted”.Dillon wrecked Joey Logano and Hamlin in the final two turns to claim victory and a place in NASCAR’s end-of-season playoffs in Sunday night’s dramatic race.Hamlin spoke for over an hour on the subject on his Actions ...Keep reading
Formula 1's modern era is littered with examples of front-running teams paying a big price for sticking with two equal drivers.As recently as 2007, when McLaren fielded then-reigning world champion Fernando Alonso and rookie Lewis Hamilton, infighting saw both drivers miss out on the title by a single point as Kimi Raikkonen snatched the crown with Ferrari.Other notorious rivalries such as ...Keep reading
Anyone who loves NASCAR knows the quote: “He didn't slam you, he didn't bump you, he didn't nudge you... he rubbed you. And rubbin', son, is racin'”Actor Robert Duvall uttered those immortal words, playing the fictional crew chief Harry Hogge (who we all know was the real-life Harry Hyde), in the NASCAR movie Days of Thunder. And maybe it was just coincidence that film’s other star, Tom ...Keep reading
Austin Dillon lost the lead to Joey Logano on the restart to overtime but as the two raced into Turn 3 on the final lap, the former drove hard into the corner and into the back of Logano, sending him into the wall.Moments later, Dillon defended his lead by pitching Denny Hamlin into the wall.The caution was displayed for the wreck and Dillon crossed the finish line first. NASCAR officials did not ...Keep reading
Denny Hamlin crossed the line in fifth, but was scored second due to the timing of the caution. Conversely, Austin Dillon entered Richmond 32nd in the regular season points, but Sunday's victory has vaulted him into the playoffs and ensured that he will not end the year any lower than 16th.Clearly frustrated, Hamlin lamented the quality of the officiating in the series, saying: "We're never ever ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc believes Ferrari has made genuine progress with updates to its 2024 Formula 1 car, although the side-effect of bouncing has severely masked the improvements to the SF-24.When Ferrari introduced a new floor to the Spanish Grand Prix, the change in aerodynamic properties of the floor appeared to exacerbate an already-present level of bouncing in the car. This has been at its worst ...Keep reading
Dani Sordo will contest another World Rally Championship event this year after confirmation Hyundai has selected the veteran to pilot its third entry at next month’s Acropolis Rally Greece.Sordo’s immediate WRC future had been unknown, with the Spaniard revealing earlier this season that he had only two outings planned with the Korean marque.Those two appearances in Portugal in May and ...Keep reading
Ducati general manager Gigi Dall’Igna says he is willing to accept the criticism aimed at the Italian marque for hiring six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez in 2025.The decision to sign former Honda star Marquez to partner protege Francesco Bagnaia next year has always been ‘divisive’ in the words of Dall’Igna, but the topic was reignited again this month when Enea Bastianini romped to ...Keep reading
Joey Logano passed Austin Dillon for the lead to start the two-lap overtime and looked like he would hang on for the win when Dillon drove deep into Turn 3 on the final lap and knocked Logano into the outside wall.Moments later, Denny Hamlin came up on the inside of Dillon to challenge for the lead and got turned himself as Dillon claimed the win – his first in nearly two years.Logano vented his ...Keep reading
Esteban Ocon has lamented the lack of communication at the Alpine Formula 1 team and says he will do his utmost "to not miss any single detail" at Haas.The Frenchman has spent the last four and a half seasons with the Enstone-based outfit, whose performance over that period of time stagnated then deteriorated. The team went from fourth in the 2022 constructors' championship to its current eighth ...Keep reading
The Salzburgring is being considered as a hot candidate to make a comeback on the DTM calendar as early as 2025.The chief of the Austrian venue believes all the “homework” has been done and the circuit is ready to welcome the DTM for the first time since its only previous appearance in 1987.Read Also:
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Toyota has confirmed that Sebastien Ogier will be part of its World Rally Championship line-up for next month’s Acropolis Rally Greece.The eight-time world champion had been tipped to start the rough gravel rally from 5-8 September to assist Toyota’s push to retain its WRC constructors’ title.Toyota has now announced its line-up for the event, fielding three GR Yaris Rally1s, with part-time ...Keep reading
Austin Dillon took out two rivals in the sprint to the finish for a controversial victory and a NASCAR Cup playoffs spot at Richmond Raceway.Entering the final 30 laps Dillon worked his way around Denny Hamlin for the lead and appeared headed to victory when a crash involving Ricky Stenhouse Jr and Ryan Preece entering Turn 1 caused a caution and sent the race into a two-lap overtime.All of the ...Keep reading
Red Bull put an end to weeks of speculation by backing Sergio Perez after the Belgian Grand Prix, confirming Max Verstappen's struggling team-mate will remain in his seat after the summer break.Perez has been struggling to perform in the RB20 since May, and while Verstappen has been able to limit the damage ever since rival teams caught up with Red Bull, Perez has been costing the Milton ...Keep reading
Rob Huff soaked up the pressure from Tom Ingram to win the final race of the British Touring Car Championship round at Knockhill.While former World Touring Car champion Huff notched up the second victory of his BTCC comeback season, Ingram’s second place was sufficient to edge him back into a narrow championship lead after losing it earlier in the day to Jake Hill.Huff’s Speedworks ...Keep reading
Following its first Hollywood tie-up with the blockbuster Twisters, Red Bull's sister team RB hopes to go much further to mix sport and entertainment, with the lofty goal of democratising access to the series.Its name change from AlphaTauri to RB, Racing Bulls or VCARB was not without controversy, with its new moniker confusingly similar to the main team despite the aspirations to carve out its ...Keep reading
Jake Hill continued a great day at Knockhill for BMW in the British Touring Car Championship with victory in the second race of the event.Hill, who has now taken the championship lead from Tom Ingram, was one of only two drivers in the top 10 allowed to start this race on the soft Goodyear tyre, and used it to good effect to pass the sister West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport of Colin ...Keep reading
Colin Turkington cruised to victory in the first British Touring Car Championship race of the day at Knockhill in a dominant performance.While the four-time champion and his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport took the chequered flag by over eight seconds, the championship fight hotted up once more thanks to a rare non-finish for series leader Tom Ingram.Poleman Turkington and the rest of the ...Keep reading
Aprilia CEO Massimo Rivola admits the manufacturer is “doing something wrong” in MotoGP after watching it slip away from Ducati in the pecking order in recent races.Aprilia has gone from regularly challenging MotoGP’s dominant marque to being only an occasional top-five scorer in a span of just four months, with last weekend’s British Grand Prix perfectly capturing its remarkable downfall ...Keep reading
Ayao Komatsu says Haas is currently enacting a recruitment drive “never seen before” in its Formula 1 history, after convincing owner Gene Haas and his key lieutenant to make fresh investment.Komatsu was appointed team principal of the American squad at the start of 2024, after Gene Haas opted to axe former team boss Guenther Steiner in a surprising move.This was after Haas had finished last ...Keep reading
Colin Turkington claimed his second successive British Touring Car Championship qualifying pole position for the seventh round of the series at Knockhill.The four-time champion faced a stern challenge from an unlikely opponent in the form of Aron Taylor-Smith, but the Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra pilot could not quite dislodge the West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport from the top of the ...Keep reading
What would constitute the perfect IndyCar Series calendar? In the middle of the three-week Olympics break, it feels as good a time as any to think about it.What we’ve already got is a great base to work from: IndyCar’s fine blend of ovals, natural terrain road courses and street tracks makes it stand out as the ultimate test for open-wheel racers in cars capable of over 800 horsepower.The good ...Keep reading
Pierre Gasly says he understands and supports Alpine's decision to completely revamp its F1 car concept this year despite a disappointing campaign so far.Before undergoing a major technical reshuffle in recent months, Alpine chose not to develop the main ideas of the A523 any further in an attempt to open up a new avenue offering greater scope for development with this year's A524.Fourth in the ...Keep reading
Dan Rowbottom continued his recent strong form by topping free practice for the British Touring Car Championship’s visit to Knockhill. The Midlander emerged quickest in both sessions at the wheel of his Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford Focus ST and eventually headed four-time champion team-mate Ash Sutton by 0.063 seconds. The Scottish hillside circuit seems exempt from the recent balmy UK ...Keep reading
Fans and journalists love to assess drivers, discover who is starring, who is underperforming and how team-mates with the same machinery compare. With Formula 1 in its summer break, now seems like a good time to look at the crop of 2024.There are, of course, plenty of ways to compare drivers, but one of the key ones is raw speed. Without it, no driver will be successful, and qualifying is, in ...Keep reading
MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi has lashed out at Ducati for signing Marc Marquez to its factory MotoGP team in 2025, saying the consequences of the decision are immense.The seven-time premier class champion believes Ducati should have given an opportunity to a rider from its existing pool of talent to partner Francesco Bagnaia next season instead of going after Gresini rider Marquez.The Italian ...Keep reading
Alongside David Coulthard's demo runs, the Ferrari 310B turned out to be one of the main attractions at The Racing Day in Assen. It is the Formula 1 car in which Michael Schumacher won the 1997 Monaco Grand Prix .Nowadays, the car is owned by 80-year-old Erich Zech. The German was already in Assen last year, but back then the car was not ready for action. Earlier this month, the 310B could ...Keep reading
Daniel Suarez has signed a contract extension to stay at the Trackhouse Racing Team next year in the NASCAR Cup Series.It will be his fifth consecutive season with the organisation, which originally formed in 2021 with Suarez as its sole driver.His best season came in 2022, earning his first career Cup win at Sonoma and ending the year 10th in the championship standings."Trackhouse is home to me ...Keep reading
In just under a month, things have changed significantly on the MotoGP rider market. Sergio Garcia has gone from being the object of desire of Pramac or Trackhouse, the Spanish rider's agents asked not to do anything without letting them know first, to digesting the prospect that he will have to continue in Moto2 next season regardless of whether he is crowned champion.The 21-year-old's trajectory ...Keep reading
The F1 summer break is underway, and fans will be anticipating the return of an action-filled 2024 season. The first 14 races have seen seven different race winners, with both drivers from Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren claiming wins alongside Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.When is the next Formula 1 race?The next F1 race is the Dutch Grand Prix at the Circuit Zandvoort. The race is the 15th of the ...Keep reading
If Alex Palou is going to successfully defend his IndyCar Series championship, he will need to overcome the gauntlet of four oval races over the final five rounds.While none of the 27-year-old Spaniard’s 11 career wins have come on ovals, he has built up a strong run of form on them.Over the last 17 oval races dating back to the 2021 season, the Chip Ganassi Racing driver has amassed seven ...Keep reading
Fabio Di Giannantonio has agreed a contract directly with Ducati to race for the VR46 team in MotoGP next year.As revealed by Autosport last month, Di Giannantonio has signed a two-year deal that will see him continue at Valentino Rossi’s MotoGP squad until the end of the current regulations in 2026.He will be one of the only three riders on the 2025 grid to compete with the factory-spec GP25 on ...Keep reading
Former Formula 1 driver and 2021 Formula E champion Nyck de Vries will compete in two rounds of this year’s Super Formula season with Team Impul.De Vries will make his debut in the Japanese single-seater series at Motegi on 23-25 August, before contesting the Fuji double-header on 11-13 October.He will vacate the cockpit of the #19 SF23 entered by Impul for the season finale at Suzuka on 8-10 ...Keep reading
If the 2024 season has taught F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali one key lesson, it is that it is impossible to predict how things are going to turn out.While many were talking back in March of Max Verstappen potentially winning all the races this year after his dominant start in Bahrain, it did not turn out that way at all.In fact, with seven different winners from the first half of the season, something ...Keep reading
Tim Cindric has explained how the technical alliance between A.J. Foyt Racing and Team Penske has proven beneficial for both organisations this season.Foyt’s team has enjoyed a resurgence with Santino Ferrucci scoring seven top-10s and sitting 10th in the championship standings after 12 races, with Penske-affiliated James Schnabel on the timing stand as his race engineer.There has also been a ...Keep reading
Pierre Gasly says he is ready to be a natural leader at Alpine's Formula 1 team after a smooth integration at Enstone against a rocky backdrop.Having joined Alpine in 2023, Gasly's arrival coincided with the major upheaval within the Enstone-based squad, with senior personnel changes that continued this year.Flavio Briatore returned as an advisor to Renault CEO Luca de Meo, bringing in Hitech ...Keep reading
Whether officially announced or not, virtually all the spots on the 2025 MotoGP grid have been finalised. Only one free slot is truly up for grabs at Pramac, where Miguel Oliveira is all-but certain to join from Trackhouse, as Yamaha regains its longed-for satellite squad.The Japanese company until not so many years ago dominated the premier class with champions such as Valentino Rossi (2004 ...Keep reading
Jota will take over Cadillac’s expanded factory campaign in the World Endurance Championship next season.The British squad will field a pair of Cadillac V-Series.R LMDhs in the Hypercar class in 2025 when new rules demand that manufacturer teams run two cars.It takes over the factory programme from Chip Ganassi Racing, which has entered a single car in the full series since 2023.The V-Series.Rs ...Keep reading
Maverick Vinales says Aprilia’s situation in MotoGP is getting “worse and worse” with every round after a disastrous showing in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.Struggling with heavy degradation on his RS-GP's medium tyres, Americas GP winner Vinales slid from eighth on the grid to a measly 13th place, his worst result of the 2024 season.His team-mate Aleix Espargaro dropped from pole ...Keep reading
Just a few weeks ago Daniel Ricciardo's Formula 1 career looked dead in the water. Then he re-emerged as a contender to replace Sergio Perez mid-season at Red Bull, the reason he was brought back into the fold in the first place.F1 can be a funny old business, and a veteran Ricciardo has seen most sides of it.“It is a funny business,” he grins in agreement as Autosport catches up with him in ...Keep reading
For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, Super GT is venturing beyond Japanese shores next year. The championship’s first-ever night race at Sepang in Malaysia, which should have taken place in 2020 only to be scuppered by the onset of the global health crisis, was part of the series’ 2025 calendar released at the start of this month.You’ll struggle to find anyone in the Super GT ...Keep reading
Yamaha is holding dialogue with Tech3 outcast Augusto Fernandez to add him to an expanded MotoGP test team in 2025, Motosport.com / Autosport can reveal.The Japanese marque has been speeding up the development of its MotoGP bike in order to bridge the gap to its European rivals and especially Ducati, which is increasingly pulling away from the rest of the competitors.First, it recruited a whole ...Keep reading
Sami Pajari is a potential driver option for Toyota in the World Rally Championship next year following an impressive Rally1 debut in Finland, according to team principal Jari-Matti Latvala.Toyota handed WRC2 title contenders Pajari and co-driver Enni Malkonen an opportunity to showcase their potential piloting a fifth GR Yaris Rally1 car in last weekend’s Rally Finland.The duo turned heads by ...Keep reading
On the Tuesday before Silverstone's British Grand Prix at Silverstone, a handful of media are welcomed into the Jochen Rindt building. It is the location on the Red Bull Campus in Milton Keynes where Red Bull Powertrains and Ford are working away with hundreds of employees on Red Bull's own engine project for 2026.That year, both the engine and chassis regulations will undergo a major overhaul in ...Keep reading
Every driver has built up a supply of tools and tricks in their respective arsenal, but Romain Grosjean has one that is subtly unique.The 38-year-old Swiss-born Frenchman has utilised the button on the steering wheel that provides him a drink – even when one isn’t applicable in the car – as part of a data point for areas to address during debriefs.Team members of Juncos Hollinger Racing ...Keep reading
Zak Brown believes the Arrow McLaren IndyCar Series team can mirror his Formula 1 outfit’s uptick in fortunes as it follows the “same concept”.McLaren has won two Formula 1 grands prix in 2024 and has closed the gap on series dominators Red Bull in the constructors’ championship in recent weeks.In IndyCar, Arrow McLaren’s lead driver Pato O’Ward has also scored two victories, and ...Keep reading
Road America IMSA SportsCar Championship winner Matthieu Jaminet admits he feared a last-lap crash with Porsche colleague Felipe Nasr in the frantic finale to Sunday’s race.Jaminet crossed the finish line just 0.39s clear of Nasr in the sister Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 in the 2h40m race at the fabled four-mile Elkhart Lake track, having juggled fuel saving with risky overtaking moves through ...Keep reading
The Porsche Carrera Cup GB can be a pretty daunting place for a fledgling team. It’s a championship renowned for being decided by fine margins, with its single-make nature ensuring that anyone caught underperforming is quickly found out.The presence of established star squads such as Team Parker Racing (a stalwart of the series for over 20 years), JTR and Century Motorsport – all of which are ...Keep reading
Who doesn't like a bit of nostalgia when it comes to motorsport? Be it a driver or rider from the past, or indeed a special livery that has a fondness in our hearts from a bygone era.MotoGP's 75th celebration embraced the celebration of the past with each team picking a one-off livery to commentate the landmark.Working with Dorna, each team started on its designs in April to feature a stunning ...Keep reading
World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville sees Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier as his main title rival despite the latter yet to officially commit to the remaining rounds.The WRC title race has different complexion after a Rally Finland Neuville described as a “roller coaster of emotions” that has left the Belgian with a 27-point lead in the standings.That lead is now over eight-time world ...Keep reading
Daniel Ricciardo has conceded RB still has to work on finding a solution to its Formula 1 car's weaknesses despite adding upgrades at the Belgian Grand Prix weekend.The Australian has rediscovered his form in recent outings, picking up three points finishes in the last six races after initially struggling to match team-mate Yuki Tsunoda.His struggles early in the season led to suggestions that ...Keep reading
Sunday's British Grand Prix gave Ducati plenty of reasons to rejoice as Enea Bastianini led an incredible 1-2-3-4-5 result for the Italian manufacturer. All its eight bikes finished inside the top 10 for only the second time in history, with the highest-non-Desmosedici rider ending up almost 10 seconds off the pace.But while there was a mood of celebration inside the Ducati camp, its bosses would ...Keep reading
Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack says there is “huge pressure” inside the squad to revive its Formula 1 results but claims owner Lawrence Stroll understands this will take time.This year, the team could not repeat its 2022-2023 off-season gains, where it rose from finishing seventh in the 2022 constructors’ championship to scoring six podiums in the first eight races, along with a ...Keep reading
Williams is planning a three-pronged upgrade to help get its 2024 Formula 1 season back on track, but has otherwise started focusing on 2025.The Grove-based team has taken a step backwards in 2024 after trying to design a car that is more competitive on various different circuits, compared to 2023's one-trick pony that excelled on low-downforce tracks.But while the 2023 car allowed Alex Albon to ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez has explained why he didn’t hunt down MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia for the final spot on the British Grand Prix podium, saying his crash in the sprint was still weighing on him.Gresini rider Marquez was running in fourth place in the final five laps of the Silverstone MotoGP race, with Ducati rival Bagnaia the only hurdle between him and a fifth rostrum of the season.While the ...Keep reading
Red Bull Formula 1 technical director Pierre Wache says the team's RB20 "didn’t deliver what we expected" in every area.Red Bull won all but one race in 2023, and rather than rest on its laurels the Milton Keynes-based squad made significant changes for this year's RB20 to ensure it would remain out front in F1.While it started the season on the front foot with three 1-2 victories over the first ...Keep reading
Porsche’s Mathieu Jaminet and Nick Tandy won Sunday’s IMSA SportsCar Championship round at Road America, to claim their second victory of the season despite a penalty.Jaminet/Tandy beat championship-leading Penske team-mates Dane Cameron/Felipe Nasr and Acura’s Filipe Albuquerque/Ricky Taylor following a strategic battle in an incident-packed 2h40m race around the four-mile track that’s ...Keep reading
Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro believes Ducati is able to make a “big difference” with its race and tyre management on Sundays after watching it lockout the top-five places in the British Grand Prix.Espargaro had put in a stunning record-breaking lap in qualifying to take pole position for the Silverstone MotoGP sprint and grand prix, but he soon found out he had no chance of contending with the ...Keep reading
Elfyn Evans admitted it is “looking difficult” to claim a maiden World Rally Championship title after leaving Rally Finland without scoring any points.The Toyota driver has dropped to fourth in the standings, 36 points adrift of championship leader Thierry Neuville after crashing out on the penultimate stage.Evans was firmly in the victory hunt after trailing then leader and team-mate Kalle ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia says he risked suffering a crash if he had tried to stay in touch with MotoGP title rival Jorge Martin during their battle for the lead of the British Grand Prix.Winner of the previous four rounds, Bagnaia couldn’t put up a fight to the victorious Enea Bastianini or runner-up Pramac's Martin, finishing more than six seconds off the lead in third at Silverstone on Sunday.It ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera says losing a likely maiden World Rally Championship victory on home soil on the penultimate stage is “quite an unreal feeling” after a near perfect Rally Finland.The two-time world champion was on course to become the first Finn to win the event since 2015, having won 11 stages that helped the Toyota driver into 45.8s lead over team-mate Sebastien Ogier heading into stage ...Keep reading
When Ducati announced that it was signing Marc Marquez for 2025 it was a tantalising prospect that piqued the interest of motorsport fans across the world.Who wouldn't get on board the hype-train of seeing one of the greatest ever MotoGP riders joining the iconic team to win a seventh premier class world title?It would be one of the great sporting comebacks, given Marquez's injuries, his battles ...Keep reading
Sebastien Ogier doesn’t yet have the “feeling” to challenge for a ninth World Rally Championship title, while again taking aim at the points system that he feels is devaluing the title race.The eight-time world champion, competing in part-time season, has emerged as Thierry Neuville’s nearest rival in the championship after taking victory at Rally Finland after long-time leader and ...Keep reading
Jake Dixon became the first British rider to win on home soil since 2015 after beating Aron Canet in a straight duel in the Moto2 race at Silverstone.Fantic Racing’s Canet had been leading the race since he passed polesitter Ai Ogura at Stowe on the opening lap, with Dixon biding his time in second after demoting Ogura at Brooklands on lap 2.The two riders were in a class apart from the rest of ...Keep reading
Since Formula 1's inaugural race at Silverstone in 1950, just 776 drivers can lay claim to being an F1 grand prix driver.With so few positions on the grid, competition is fierce so having the right person to get you that drive - and creating the right environment for you to flourish - is key.The majority of today's F1 drivers have a management team behind them, performing various roles to ensure ...Keep reading
Enea Bastianini claimed only his second MotoGP victory as a factory Ducati rider in the British Grand Prix, as Jorge Martin finished second to snatch the points lead away from Francesco Bagnaia.Bastianini, who had already shown glimpses of his rapid pace by winning Saturday’s sprint, took advantage of a mistake for Martin with just two laps to score his fifth career win in MotoGP and mark ...Keep reading
Sebastien Ogier claimed his third World Rally Championship victory of the season after long-time Rally Finland leader Kalle Rovanpera rolled out, denying him a home win in a brutal rally.Eight-time world champion Ogier and co-driver Vincent Landais produced a strong drive throughout a demanding Rally Finland affected by changeable weather to seal a 61st career win by 40.1s from championship leader ...Keep reading
The British Grand Prix at Silverstone will move to a late May calendar slot in the 2025 MotoGP schedule.Announced at this year’s British GP, the 2025 event will take place on 23-25 May at Silverstone as the latest part of a “new-look” race calendar for MotoGP.The British GP has been held in early August since 2022, having previously taken a late August slot at Silverstone since 2013, with ...Keep reading
MotoGP stars Aleix Espargaro and Marc Marquez have criticised riders slowing down in qualifying to position themselves behind faster bikes, saying it could lead to “dangerous” situations.The debate over towing in MotoGP was reignited on Saturday at Silverstone as a number of riders ran in a group on their second runs in order to gain an aerodynamic advantage on the circuit’s three long ...Keep reading
Rally Finland leader Kalle Rovanpera and Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans have crashed out of the World Rally Championship event on the penultimate stage.World champion Rovanpera appeared to be on course to claim his first WRC win on home soil having taken a 45.8s lead into stage 19 [Sahloinen-Moksi, 14.27km].However, the Finn clipped a rock on the inside of left-hand corner which sent his GR Yaris ...Keep reading
Haas team principal Ayao Komatsu has insisted his pre-season prediction that the team would be at the bottom of Formula 1's pecking order was not a deflection, and that any suggestion it could be better would have been "stupid or arrogant".Komatsu took the helm at the American-owned outfit following the shock departure of Guenther Steiner, who had been team principal since Haas joined the F1 grid ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera further extended his Rally Finland lead on Sunday morning as the Finn bids to claim a first World Rally Championship victory on home soil.The reigning world champion increased his advantage to 45.8s by winning the pair of morning stages over eight-time world champion and fellow part-time Toyota driver Sebastien Ogier.Rovanpera’s pace thrusted him to the top of the Super Sunday ...Keep reading
Acura’s Filipe Albuquerque took pole position for this weekend’s IMSA SportsCar Championship round at Road America.Albuquerque beat his team-mate Jordan Taylor and Cadillac Racing’s Renger van der Zande in the 15-minute GTP qualifying session ahead of Sunday’s 2h40m race around the four-mile track that’s the self-proclaimed ‘America’s National Park of Speed’ and features a 47-car ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera says posting a fast time on the World Rally Championship’s famous Ouninpohja stage to mirror his father Harri Rovanpera was the motivation behind his stunning effort.The two-time world champion dominated Saturday at Rally Finland, winning five of the day’s six stages to open up a 44.2s lead over Toyota team-mate Sebastien Ogier with four Sunday stages remaining.Rovanpera’s ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia believes the extra grip offered by Michelin’s new rear tyre is contributing to MotoGP riders crashing more often than usual in 2024.Championship leader Bagnaia suffered another crash out of a leading position in Saturday’s sprint for the British Grand Prix, losing the front of his factory Ducati going into Turn 4 (The Loop) while running fourth on lap five.It brought an early ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez says he had no “warning” before he crashed out of MotoGP's British Grand Prix sprint at Silverstone with a little more than a lap to go.The Gresini rider was running in fourth place in the final stages of Saturday’s half-distance race, having recovered from a difficult qualifying that had left him seventh on the grid.But on the penultimate tour, the Spaniard slightly wide ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera has opened up a commanding lead after dominating Saturday’s Rally Finland stages to close in on a maiden World Rally Championship victory on home soil.Toyota’s two-time world champion delivered a stunning drive in changeable conditions to win five of the day’s six stages, including two victorious passes of the returning Ouninpohja test.The performance increased his overnight ...Keep reading
Enea Bastianini won MotoGP's British Grand Prix sprint for the factory Ducati team, but a crash for his team-mate Francesco Bagnaia allowed Jorge Martin to close in the title race.Bastianini passed long-time leader Martin on lap seven of 10, claiming a first victory of any kind in MotoGP since Malaysia 2023, while Aleix Espargaro recovered from a slow start to complete the podium for Aprilia.At ...Keep reading
Red Bull will promote from within its Formula 1 team to replace departing sporting director Jonathan Wheatley.Wheatley will leave Red Bull at the end of the current campaign after an 18-year stint at the F1 world champions. The 57-year-old will become the Audi F1 team principal in a switch after overhauling its own management structure.The German car giant has taken over Swiss-based Sauber with ...Keep reading
Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia has hit out at other MotoGP riders for deliberately slowing down in British GP qualifying in order to get a tow from him, describing the situation as “ridiculous”.Bagnaia was followed by Gresini’s Marc Marquez on their first runs in Saturday’s pole-deciding session at Silverstone, with the added aerodynamic benefit allowing the Spaniard to take a provisional ...Keep reading
Toyota could consider team orders to help Elfyn Evans’ World Rally Championship bid in Rally Finland after the title contender suffered an “unusual” mechanical issue, according to Jari-Matti Latvala.Evans was firmly in the fight for victory, sitting in second behind team-mate Kalle Rovanpera, when the Welshman’s GR Yaris suffered a driveshaft failure on Stage 12 [Paijala, 20.19km].The ...Keep reading
Aleix Espargaro claimed pole position for Aprilia in the British Grand Prix, beating the factory Ducati MotoGP bikes of Francesco Bagnaia and Enea Bastianini.Espargaro delivered an impressive effort of 1m57.309s in the dying minutes of qualifying, taking advantage of late troubles for Bagnaia and Bastianini to put himself in prime position to repeat his grand prix victory from 2023.Jorge Martin ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera extended his Rally Finland lead after dominating Saturday morning’s stages, while World Rally Championship title contender Elfyn Evans witnessed his victory bid evaporate.Two-time world rally champion Rovanpera completed a clean sweep of the loop including the return of the famous Ouninpohja test to open up 21.9s lead.His fellow Toyota part-time driver Sebastien Ogier holds ...Keep reading
You've heard the phrase mentioned in Formula 1, but what is the "summer shutdown" and what actually does it mean? The relentless nature of Formula 1, especially in this record-breaking season with 24 races running from February to December, means that this year's summer shutdown will be a welcome one for drivers and their respective teams. It is an important break that is written into the 2024 ...Keep reading
The six-hour Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie race will go ahead as planned after a serious explosion in the paddock on Friday.Autosport's German language sister site Motorsport-Total.com understands that 22 people were injured by the explosion of a compressed air cylinder during the final stages of the pre-event tests, which were halted immediately.The compressed air cylinder was being filled when ...Keep reading
The State Government and the City of Sao Paulo have taken the first steps toward potentially hosting a NASCAR Cup Series race in Brazil.On Thursday, Governor of Sao Paulo state Tarcisio de Freitas and Mayor of the city of Sao Paulo Ricardo Nunes attended a meeting with Tom Dannemiller, who serves as NASCAR's representative in Brazil.Secretaries from both sides (municipality and state) were ...Keep reading
Yamaha's Alex Rins has been ruled out of the rest of the British Grand Prix weekend after suffering a crash late in second practice on Friday.Having already missed last month’s German Grand Prix following an accident in the Assen race, Rins was only just getting back on the bike at Silverstone when he ended up in the gravel at Turn 6 with just minutes to go in the hour-long afternoon session.The ...Keep reading
Rising World Rally Championship star Sami Pajari says scoring a first stage win on his top-flight debut at Rally Finland has surpassed his expectations for this weekend.Toyota has handed the WRC2 title contender an opportunity to showcase his skills by piloting a fifth GR Yaris at the team’s home event.Pajari’s rally hopes suffered a dent in Friday’s opening stage [Laukaa] when he suffered a ...Keep reading
The six-time MotoGP champion appeared to be off-colour at Silverstone on Friday, suffering a late crash in the morning session and then having to get a tow from Pramac’s Jorge Martin in order to secure a direct passage into the second part of qualifying.While Ducati looked rapid at the 5.9km venue, with even VR46's Fabio di Giannantonio and Marco Bezzecchi finishing sixth and ninth on last ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera tamed challenging wet conditions to lead a Toyota 1-2-3 at Rally Finland as the Finn made a strong start to his bid for a maiden World Rally Championship home win.The reigning world champion, running a part-time programme, head title contender and team-mate Elfyn Evans by 8.0s after 10 stages.Eight-time world champion Sebastien Ogier was third [+8.6s] as championship leader Thierry ...Keep reading
Pramac rider Jorge Martin is running a new part that is standard across all other Ducati MotoGP bikes with the hope that it will allow him to cut down on crashes in the second part of the season.Martin revealed that he had been racing with a slightly different component on his Desmosedici compared to other Ducati riders over the last few years, which makes the front end more vulnerable during ...Keep reading
There have been several close finishes in Formula 1 history involving two cars racing, or as was the case for Ferrari at the 2002 US Grand Prix, putting on a display of 'racing' towards the line. The margin of victory for Rubens Barrichello that day, on a botched attempt at creating a dead heat, was just 0.011s in favour of the Brazilian over team-mate Michael Schumacher.But occasions when the ...Keep reading
Pramac MotoGP rider Jorge Martin edged out Aleix Espargaro in second practice for the British Grand Prix amid a close battle between Ducati and Aprilia for the top spot.Ducati had an early scare at the start of one-hour session, with both Enea Bastianini and Marco Bezzecchi having to pull up at the edge the track with smoke coming out of their respective bikes.It didn’t take long for the duo to ...Keep reading
The WRC title battle is incredibly tight as a disappointing Rally Latvia for championship leader Thierry Neuville has left him just eight points ahead of Hyundai team-mate Ott Tanak. Neuville finishing eighth means he is now without a podium in three, scoring just 35 points during that run, compared to 58 for Tanak after a win in Sardinia and third last time out. The 2019 world champion is ...Keep reading
It was an intense Belgian Grand Prix, a strategic race at its core that had the surprise of George Russell perfecting a one-stop strategy to leap to the front of the queue and hold off Lewis Hamilton and Oscar Piastri in a dramatic finish......Or so we thought. After a couple of checks with the FIA scrutineering department, Russell was disqualified from the race with a car that was underweight by ...Keep reading
Norris should follow Piastri's example and be easier on himself - Jake Boxall-LeggeAcross the most recent eight rounds of this year's championship, Oscar Piastri has added 126 points to his name, while Norris trails slightly having accrued 116. You can argue the toss over who deserved the Hungary win; Piastri's opening stints were stronger, but Lando Norris made the decision difficult in his final ...Keep reading
Williams has revealed it first approached Carlos Sainz about an F1 drive in Abu Dhabi last year, before anyone knew Lewis Hamilton would replace him.Following months of intrigue about Sainz's future, it was announced on Monday that he had agreed a deal that will commit him to Williams for at least the next two years.It came after the Spaniard had courted offers from Sauber/Audi and Alpine, while ...Keep reading
McLaren boss Zak Brown believes that the team’s reputation for getting embroiled in driver turmoil and contractual sagas is “unfair” and blames recent events on Alex Palou’s shocking 2023 U-turn.In August last year, Palou decided not to honour the contract he’d signed with Arrow McLaren for the 2024 season, opting instead to remain with Chip Ganassi Racing.This was somewhat ironic as his ...Keep reading
After weeks of speculation, and every indication that Red Bull had lost patience with Sergio Perez, its decision to stick with him after Formula 1's summer break surprised many.After all, it was only a couple of weeks ago that Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said that Perez's run of non-scoring form was 'unsustainable' for its constructors' championship hopes.Then last weekend, just as ...Keep reading
Former Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer has revealed he is involved in a project with American investors to evaluate entering an 11th team in Formula 1.Szafnauer has been out of a full-time role in F1 since he was dropped by the Alpine squad at last year’s Belgian Grand Prix.But, having had huge experience in F1 through his involvement with the BAR, Honda, Force India and finally Alpine ...Keep reading
Otmar Szafnauer is a very experienced F1 team principal having worked with Force India, Racing Point, Aston Martin and Alpine, with strong track record of getting bang for buck. He was fired by Alpine year ago, over a disagreement with Alpine management on what was the right pathway to success.This week we take the audience into the heart of an F1 team and look at how crucial decisions get made ...Keep reading
Since last season, the MotoGP Safety Commission has been using software developed by the University of Padua specifically for the championship to study and improve the run-off areas of its circuits.If there is one place in the world where motion and its effects dominate, it is Padua. Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei, two of the most important figures of the Renaissance, passed through the ...Keep reading
Daniel Ricciardo will remain at RB after Formula 1’s summer break, Autosport has learned, with Red Bull electing against any driver changes for now.As part of its mid-season review of the make-up of the Red Bull and RB teams, senior figures – including team principal Christian Horner and motorsport advisor Helmut Marko – met at its Milton Keynes factory on Monday.Read ...Keep reading
George Russell was denied his third Formula 1 victory by an underweight car that resulted in his post-race disqualification from the 2024 Belgian Grand Prix.The Mercedes driver became the sixth driver in F1 history to lose a race win through disqualification. He had claimed a sensational victory on the road from sixth on the grid at Spa-Francorchamps by opting for a risky one-stop strategy, while ...Keep reading
The Abt Formula E team has confirmed that Lucas di Grassi will stay with the squad for next season when it will use the Lola/Yamaha powertrain for the first time.Di Grassi’s career in the all-electric championship has been synonymous with Abt having raced for the German brand over a seven-year period which included winning the 2016/17 drivers’ title.The Brazilian rejoined Abt at the start of ...Keep reading
Rally di Roma Capitale has its sights set on joining the World Rally Championship in the future with organisers “working hard” to elevate the event to rallying’s top-flight.The Italian asphalt rally, that begins in the nation’s capital city Rome, has been steadily growing in stature having earned a place on the European Rally Championship calendar in 2017.Last weekend the rally, based ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz has ended speculation over his Formula 1 future by signing for Williams, with the deal announced on the first day of the summer break.The three-time F1 race winner has agreed to a multi-year deal to join the Grove-based squad from next year which will take him into the new rules era that starts in 2026.Read Also:
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Sergio Perez will remain Max Verstappen's Red Bull Formula 1 team-mate after the summer break, Autosport understands.The Mexican's Red Bull future was one of the topics discussed on Monday in a meeting of the team's management, including team principal Christian Horner and advisor Helmut Marko.But while there has been no official outcome of its team meeting, Autosport understands Perez has ...Keep reading
It's happened: the cork has finally fired out of the bottle. And unexpectedly so, as it turns out; just as everyone had averted its gaze from the glass receptacle's neck, the stopper broke free of its moorings and landed straight into the lap of James Vowles. Carlos Sainz has signed at Williams for 2025 and beyond, ending a seemingly inexhaustible saga of rumour, innuendo, and cyclical links and ...Keep reading
Over 200 different drivers have taken podium finishes since the beginning of the F1 championship in 1950. Although many will be hoping to take the race win, a podium place can still be important for both the drivers’ and constructors’ championships. F1 drivers with the most podiums1. Lewis Hamilton - 201 podiumsFirst podium: 2007 Australian GP (3rd) Last podium: 2024 Belgian GP (1st) Total ...Keep reading
In the immediate aftermath of the Belgian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton questioned why he wasn't afforded the same one-stop strategy that helped team-mate George Russell win the race.It wasn't just Hamilton's side of the Mercedes garage that was caught out by the one-stopper suddenly being on the table. Of the top 10 finishers, only Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso followed suit.The Spa-Francorchamps ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz will race for Williams in Formula 1 next year in what the team has described as a deal that goes into the championship’s new rules era in 2026.After learning he would leave his current Ferrari team at the start of this year with Lewis Hamilton being signed to race for the Scuderia alongside Charles Leclerc, Sainz has deliberated over his next move.Williams had thought its chance of ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon says that IndyCar’s season-concluding events, that now include three short oval tracks, will make the title race “definitely interesting”.Dixon is chasing a seventh title this season – which would tie AJ Foyt’s all-time record – and is 53 points behind team-mate Alex Palou. Team Penske’s Will Power is second, 49 in arrears of Palou.Power would’ve ...Keep reading
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella believes Oscar Piastri's mistake at the final pitstop of the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix proved "costly" in his pursuit of victory.The Australian was seeking a second consecutive F1 win after his maiden triumph in Hungary, on pace with the leaders throughout the 44-lap event at Spa-Francorchamps.But making his final stop, Piastri overshot his pitbox and the ...Keep reading
Leaving Formula 1’s 2024 Belgian Grand Prix, Mercedes was dealing with the joy of what turned out to be a win after all for long-time race leader Lewis Hamilton, but the hurt (and embarrassment) of losing George Russell’s on-the-road triumph after his one-stop gamble had seemingly paid off.The main theory as to why Russell’s W15 ended up underweight is included in our regular post-race run ...Keep reading
While George Russell's underweight car handed victory in the Belgian Grand Prix to Lewis Hamilton, it should take nothing away from the brilliance of his strategy and driving.Russell's bold call along with his pitwall in opting for an unlikely one-stop opened the door for what had looked like what was going to be a run to fifth place turning into a victory on the road.It was also a win that served ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez says he is moving to the factory Ducati team in 2025 to learn from two-time MotoGP champion Francesco Bagnaia, who he believes is the “reference” in the Italian marque’s line-up.Marquez will move up to the factory Ducati team in 2025 in place of Enea Bastianini as part of a two-year contract with Borgo Panigale.This will put him directly against Bagnaia, who has just taken over ...Keep reading
Stoffel Vandoorne and Jake Hughes will race for the Maserati MSG Formula E team for the 2024/25 season, the Italian outfit has confirmed.Maserati MSG announced last Friday that it would be splitting with this year’s partnership of Maximilian Guenther and Jehan Daruvala, with Vandoorne’s departure also confirmed from DS Penske on the same day.The 2021/22 Formula E champion will remain within ...Keep reading
After another hot and cold weekend at Spa's Belgian Grand Prix, a decision on Sergio Perez's Red Bull fate is imminent.Perez's future hangs the balance after an appalling run of performances and results alongside team-mate Max Verstappen over the past three months, which has seen Red Bull come under serious threat in the constructors' championship – the gap with McLaren is down to 42 ...Keep reading
The body language of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell as they climbed up the steps at the back of their engineering trucks after second F1 practice in Belgium said everything.Heads looking down and shoulders drooped, as they spiralled their way up, it was clear that this had been a bad day for Mercedes.Having arrived in Belgium with a hint of confidence that Spa-Francorchamps’ track ...Keep reading
Sami Pajari says finishing Rally Finland is his main objective rather than lighting up the timing screens in his “moment of truth” top-flight World Rally Championship debut.Toyota has handed highly-rated WRC2 title contenders Pajari and co-driver Enni Malkonen a graduation to Rally1 machinery for their home event on fast gravel in Finland this weekend.Pajari has long been touted as a future ...Keep reading
Ducati has entered into negotiations with current KTM MotoGP rider Jack Miller to replace Alvaro Bautista in the World Superbike Championship next year.Bautistia’s future in WSBK came under threat at the previous round in Most, where another hat-trick of victories for BMW’s Toprak Razgatlioglu further dented any hopes of adding a third straight title to his tally.Not only has Bautista been ...Keep reading
George Russell’s disqualification for his Mercedes being underweight caught his team by surprise after Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix.Indeed, with no obvious smoking gun, such as a missing car part, it had no immediate answer as to how it had ended up in the situation it did.Some factors that may stand out as immediate considerations – such as Russell having burned more fuel because the ...Keep reading
Mercedes’ 1-2 result in Formula 1's Belgian Grand Prix initially closed the gap on its rivals in the constructors' championship, before George Russell was stripped of his win.Even with team-mate Lewis Hamilton inheriting the win, Mercedes remains in fourth place in the teams' standings heading into the summer break.As F1 enters its mid-season summer break, Max Verstappen extended his drivers’ ...Keep reading
Toto Wolff says Mercedes has "no excuse" and "clearly made a mistake" that lost George Russell his Belgian GP victory in a technical rules breach.Russell has been stripped of the victory he took ahead of long-time race leader and his Mercedes team-mate, Lewis Hamilton, after Russell's W15 was found to be 1.5kg underweight in post-race checks.After the race, questions were posed over whether the ...Keep reading
George Russell has lost his surprise 2024 Belgian Grand Prix victory due to a strict rule on Formula 1 car weight when it has been drained of fuel.Russell’s stunning one-stop strategy kept him ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton late in the race at Spa, after the second Mercedes had dominated proceedings until the closing stages.It all ended with Russell securing a third F1 career GP win, but one ...Keep reading
George Russell has been disqualified from the Belgian Grand Prix after his Mercedes Formula 1 car was below the 798kg minimum weight, handing Lewis Hamilton victory.Russell's car was found to be at the minimum 798kg weight limit when the FIA initially weighed the Briton's car and, after draining 2.8 litres from the fuel tank in order to take his one-litre fuel sample for scrutineering, it was ...Keep reading
Tom Chilton made full use of reversed-grid pole position to lead all the way for victory in the final British Touring Car Championship race of the day at Croft.While Chilton made hay in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback, he did appear to be under threat for a long period of the race from the trio behind.Dan Cammish had worked his Alliance Racing Ford Focus ST into second place on lap ...Keep reading
Red Bull's motorsport advisor Helmut Marko has blasted Sergio Perez after he "completely collapsed" in the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix.Red Bull is set for talks on Monday to assess its driver line-up for 2025, with Perez under threat of losing his seat with the world champions.The 34-year-old has been in wretched form and went from second on the grid at Spa-Francorchamps to finish eighth. He was ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen insists he and Red Bull could have been Formula 1 2024 Belgian Grand Prix victory contenders had he started from higher up the grid at Spa.Verstappen topped qualifying for the fourth year in a row in Belgium, but for the third successive race at the venue he had to drop down the grid as a result of penalties for changing car parts beyond those allowed in the rules – in 2024 for ...Keep reading
Belgian Grand Prix winner George Russell faces disqualification as his Mercedes Formula 1 car was found to be underweight after having its fuel drained in post-race checks.The Briton clinched a third F1 victory after switching strategies to a one-stopper, and held off a rapidly-chasing Lewis Hamilton for the lead until the end.However, post-race checks by the FIA have shown that the car still had ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc feels Ferrari cannot be satisfied with his best result since his 2024 Monaco win, as his fourth in Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix came adrift of the race-winning Mercedes cars.Ferrari started the season as Red Bull’s closest challenger but has since slipped behind McLaren and Mercedes after its Barcelona upgrades backfired.The Italian team had worked hard to improve its ...Keep reading
Lando Norris is targeting a 2024 Formula 1 summer break “reset” after “stupid" early errors prevented him from finishing higher than sixth in the Belgian Grand Prix.The McLaren driver had started fourth and was expected to challenge for victory in the race eventually won by Mercedes’ George Russell in a 1-2 for the Silver Arrows team.Norris, however, lost three places on the opening lap as ...Keep reading
Lower-than-expected tyre degradation and a no-lose strategy scenario triggered the Mercedes call to commit George Russell to his winning one-stop in Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix.The Mercedes driver had been stuck in the pack in the early stages of the race, as the frontrunners circulated together in DRS trains.But as his opposition covered each other from undercuts and he was shuffled to the ...Keep reading
Josh Cook took victory in the second race of the British Touring Car Championship round at Croft after a stunning pass on the sister Toyota of Rob Huff.Huff, the World Touring Car champion in 2012, and stablemate Cook started their Speedworks Motorsport-run Corolla GR Sports from seventh and eighth on the grid – the highest-placed cars on the soft Goodyear tyres, with the top six all forced to ...Keep reading
Russell, who pulled off a majestic one-stop strategy to his rivals’ two-stoppers, beat team-mate Lewis Hamilton and McLaren’s Oscar Piastri.2024 F1 Belgian Grand Prix results
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George Russell beat Lewis Hamilton in Formula 1’s 2024 Belgian Grand Prix that the second Mercedes had dominated, as Russell’s surprise one-stop strategy paid off, with Oscar Piastri third for McLaren.In a race made engaging from start to finish thanks to varying tyre strategy efforts, Max Verstappen recovered to fifth after his engine change grid penalty.In doing so he held off distant title ...Keep reading
Colin Turkington cruised to his 70th career British Touring Car Championship race victory with a dominant lights-to-flag drive at Croft.The four-time champion started his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport from pole position, and got a good launch.Tom Ingram quickly got past front-row starter Dan Cammish on the opening lap and looked to be a threat to Turkington over the first few miles.But ...Keep reading
Williams is increasingly hopeful it can convince Carlos Sainz to commit his Formula 1 future to the team, ahead of next week's self-imposed deadline to sort out its 2025 line-up.The Grove-based outfit has made no secret of the fact that it wants Sainz to join its squad as future team-mate to Alexander Albon.However, Sainz is weighing up several options for next year, including the Sauber/Audi team ...Keep reading
Mercedes suffers from an inherent weakness at Spa and a reversion to its previous-specification floor was not behind the team's solid Belgian Grand Prix qualifying result, according to George Russell.Both Mercedes drivers appeared downbeat after Friday practice, having struggled with the W15 around the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, which preceded a decision to revert to its old floor after trialling ...Keep reading
A partial resurfacing of the Formula 1 circuit at Spa-Francorchamps has triggered headaches for drivers and teams in working out how best to attack the Belgian Grand Prix.Work was completed last month on resurfacing 3.5km of the Spa circuit, which is around half its length, in three areas.These were from Blanchimont to Eau Rouge, from the start of the Kemmel straight to Bruxelles and from the ...Keep reading
Red Bull junior Isack Hadjar extended his Formula 2 championship lead with a dominant performance in the feature race at Spa Francorchamps.After engaging in a thrilling battle with primary title rival Paul Aron (Hitech) in the early stages, Campos driver Hadjar recovered from a slow stop to press home his advantage after the pit stops.But as Aron’s challenge faded, the Frenchman was forced to ...Keep reading
McLaren's Andrea Stella believes Max Verstappen is still the favourite to take a fourth consecutive Belgian Grand Prix win, despite an engine penalty relegating him to an 11th starting position.Verstappen came into the weekend with a 10-place grid penalty for taking his fifth Honda combustion engine of the season.It is the third Spa race in a row Red Bull has opted to take an engine penalty ...Keep reading
The right decision from the Formula 1 team pitwall but executed in the wrong way.That is perhaps the most popular perception of McLaren’s team orders controversy from the Hungarian Grand Prix.While the strategic motivations to protect both Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris from other cars were clear when you dug into the data, equally there was a sense that the scenario that played out was one that ...Keep reading
Callum Voisin took his maiden Formula 3 victory in a Belgian feature race that was severely disrupted by three safety car periods.The GB3 champion had secured his first podium last time out at Silverstone, when he'd crossed the line first in the feature race before a five-second penalty demoted him to third.Voisin showed it was no flash in the pan by qualifying his Rodin Motorsport machine on ...Keep reading
Red Bull will discuss Sergio Perez’s Formula 1 future in a meeting on Monday – immediately after Formula 1’s 2024 Belgian Grand Prix – according to its motorsport advisor Helmut Marko.The world champion squad is considering dropping the driver it re-signed to a fresh contract at the start of the summer, but who has scored just 21 points to team-mate Max Verstappen’s 129 and three wins ...Keep reading
Williams junior driver Zak O’Sullivan took his second win of the Formula 2 season in treacherous conditions as the race was red-flagged, having previously been postponed earlier in the day.The Spa F2 sprint race had been due to start at 1:15pm BST on Saturday but was postponed due to heavy rain.The race was eventually started at 5:30pm BST, after F1 Belgian GP qualifying, with O’Sullivan on ...Keep reading
Sauber’s Zhou Guanyu has been penalised for impeding Max Verstappen during Q1 for Formula 1’s 2024 Belgian Grand Prix, in an incident that enraged the Red Bull driver.As the final third of qualifying's first knockout session commenced, Verstappen was coming through Blanchimont on a flying lap when he came across Zhou going slowly on the racing line.Verstappen backed off for a moment, then ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc will start from pole position for the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix. Here's how and when you can watch the race.The Ferrari driver inherited pole for a second consecutive year at Spa-Francorchamps, as Max Verstappen topped qualifying but, with his 10-place grid penalty for an engine change, it drops him down to 11th.Leclerc will be joined on the front row by Sergio Perez, who ...Keep reading
Sergio Perez reckoned his third place in Belgian Grand Prix qualifying showed "it's not like I've forgotten how to drive", as he moves up to the front row for Sunday's race.The Mexican looked set to inherit pole position from the penalty-encumbered Max Verstappen when the grid order was set for the grand prix, but was pipped at the post by Charles Leclerc as the Ferrari driver improved up to ...Keep reading
McLaren says it was willing the "pay the price" in a wet qualifying session by banking on a set-up optimised for a dry race.Off the back of its 1-2 result in Hungary, McLaren looked strong again in dry Friday practice at Spa-Francorchamps, but in a wet qualifying session on intermediate tyres Norris and Piastri struggled with their MCL38.As Norris and Piastri settled for fifth and sixth in Q3 ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton reckons a front-row start would have been on the cards for Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix if he had not been on a tyre offset against his rivals.The Briton knew that the wet weather that impacted qualifying offered him and his Mercedes team a better chance of getting nearer the front, with the W15 not appearing well suited to the Spa-Francorchamps circuit in Friday's dry ...Keep reading
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen reckons he needs “a bit of luck” to challenge McLaren for 2024 Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix victory, despite the orange cars starting down in fourth and fifth.For the third year in a row, Verstappen topped GP qualifying at Spa, but will drop down the grid again due to a penalty – this time, as in 2022, for an engine change.This means Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc ...Keep reading
Colin Turkington came good at the right moment to claim pole position for the British Touring Car Championship round at Croft.After a disastrous previous event at Oulton Park, the Northern Irish four-time champion arrived at the North Yorkshire venue down in sixth in the points, but as a result of this was allowed 11 seconds per lap of hybrid use on his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M ...Keep reading
After every F1 qualifying session, Autosport publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don't alter the statistics.When a driver can't put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.Read Also:
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Max Verstappen set the fastest time in qualifying for Formula 1's Belgian Grand Prix, but will start 11th due to a grid penalty that elevates Charles Leclerc to pole position.Ferrari’s Leclerc will be joined on the front row by Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, while Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes set the third fastest time in the decisive Q3 segment as McLaren proved disappointing in the final part of ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen topped qualifying for Formula 1’s 2024 Belgian Grand Prix, where Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc made a surprise late leap to second and deny Sergio Perez the pole inherited around Verstappen’s grid drop.In a wet session where the drivers used the intermediate tyres throughout, the teams were split on how they approached Q3, with Verstappen and the Ferrari drivers stopping to switch ...Keep reading
Ferrari has ruled out an expansion of its 499P Le Mans Hypercar programme into the IMSA SportsCar Championship for next year.The Italian manufacturer has outlined a plan for 2025 that does not involve the North American series for which the 499P is eligible in the GTP class and instead calls for a continued focus on the World Endurance Championship, again with a three-car assault in ...Keep reading
The F2 sprint race at the Belgian Grand Prix has been postponed due to extreme levels of rainfall at Spa Francorchamps.As was the case for the F3 sprint race at Silverstone which was also postponed due to rain, there is a chance that the 18 laps could be run following Formula 1 qualifying, should conditions allow.For the partially reversed grid race, ART driver Zak O’Sullivan had been set to ...Keep reading
Josh Cook topped free practice as the British Touring Car Championship resumed at Croft following its five-week summer break.The red-headed West Countryman appeared to reap the dividend of mid-season development work carried out by the Speedworks Motorsport squad on his LKQ Toyota Corolla GR Sport, although was realistic that free practice is one thing, qualifying and racing quite another.Cook ...Keep reading
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen topped a rain-hit FP3 session at Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix, where Lance Stroll crashed and the officials suspended running due to the deluge.Oscar Piastri and Alpine’s Pierre Gasly slotted into second and third ahead of Lando Norris in the second McLaren before the first disruption occurred with Stroll’s accident, with minimal action taking place ...Keep reading
Mercedes has abandoned its new floor for the remainder of Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix weekend following doubts over its performance during Friday practice.The Brackley-based squad had a disappointing opening day of running at Spa-Francorchamps with both George Russell and Lewis Hamilton not feeling totally comfortable with how their W15 felt as they ended the day more than one second adrift ...Keep reading
The major changes Alpine is going through off track have been mirrored with some extensive revisions on it, as some big updates appeared on its Formula 1 car in Belgium.The new development package starts with the front wing, as the designers have rebalanced the flap profiles to improve the range that the team has at its disposal for the lower downforce venues.This obviously needs to be matched at ...Keep reading
A variable forecast over the remainder of the Belgian Grand Prix weekend, with rain expected for qualifying ahead of a dry race, will cause Formula 1 teams a set-up dilemma.In dry conditions, the Spa-Francorchamps circuit requires an aerodynamic set-up that prioritises efficiency. Downforce is an important factor as drivers need to carry speed through the variety of medium-to-high speed corners ...Keep reading
Dino Beganovic took his second Formula 3 victory of the season in the Belgian sprint race to boost his faint title hopes.Starting from pole in drying conditions, the Swede lost the lead to Prema team-mate and championship leader Gabriele Mini at the start but took advantage of a wobble from the Italian at Raidillon following a safety car restart to force his way back past into Les Combes.While ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen and race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase have cleared the air over their Hungarian Grand Prix radio exchange, following talks with Red Bull Formula 1 boss Christian Horner in Belgium.The reigning world champion's behaviour over the course of last weekend's race at the Hungaroring came under the spotlight after increasingly aggressive radio messages to the pit wall.As Verstappen grew ...Keep reading
The decision by Gene Haas to retain one of his NASCAR Cup charters and field a single-car team in 2025 came with two big question marks – only one of which has been answered.The most immediate question – who would drive for the team – was cleared up last weekend at Indianapolis Motor Speedway when current Stewart-Haas Racing Xfinity Series driver Cole Custer was named driver of the No. 41 ...Keep reading
There is one lasting image I have of Alpine's departing team principal, Bruno Famin, that sums up his short tenure with the struggling Formula 1 team. It came, of all places, at Montreal-Trudeau International Airport in the hours after the Canadian Grand Prix where Alpine finished in ninth and tenth place.As he shuffled through the terminal wearing full-team kit, he looked a stooped figure and ...Keep reading
Zak Brown says McLaren will hold discussions over the summer as to whether it will make Lando Norris’ shot at the F1 drivers' championship title a priority.It comes after McLaren ordered Norris to swap places with his team-mate in the Hungarian Grand Prix - much to Norris' frustration - after he undercut Piastri in the final round of pit stops. Piastri's victory, and Norris's second place ...Keep reading
The last Friday practice sessions prior to Formula 1's summer break came to a close with Max Verstappen headlining FP1 at the Belgian Grand Prix, before Lando Norris slotted in the fastest time of FP2.Verstappen is guaranteed qualify without a chance of starting on pole thanks to a 10-place engine penalty for taking new power unit components for the Spa-Francorchamps weekend - as he has done in ...Keep reading
Preparations are well underway for Audi to make its Formula 1 debut in 2026, which will mark a new era for the world championship as the regulations are being overhauled.The 2026 F1 season will have smaller and lighter cars with active aerodynamics. Electrical power will contribute half of the total power output in the redesigned power units that will run on 100 percent sustainable fuels.It will ...Keep reading
Mercedes thinks its “pretty bad day” of practice at Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix was the result of losing 0.9 seconds on the straights against McLaren.Neither George Russell nor Lewis Hamilton made much of an impression on the opening day of running at Spa-Francorchamps, as McLaren ended FP2 1-2 on the timesheets.Having run with too little wing in the morning and consequently struggling in ...Keep reading
The British driver led a McLaren 1-2 in second practice at Spa-Francorchamps, just days after being the second part of a McLaren 1-2 at the Hungarian GP following team order controversy.Max Verstappen, who was quickest in opening practice by over half a second, took third place in FP2 just 0.002s slower than Oscar Piastri in second.The Red Bull driver heads into qualifying in the knowledge that he ...Keep reading
Despite no official confirmation about the end of Renault’s engine efforts in Formula 1, it has been clear for several weeks where things are heading.Talks taking place behind the scenes with rival manufacturers about potential customer deals, and a preliminary agreement with Mercedes believed to now be in place, told their own story about Alpine F1's shift from a manufacturer to customer team ...Keep reading
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri gave McLaren a 1-2 in FP2 for Formula 1’s 2024 Belgian Grand Prix ahead of Max Verstappen, while in the other Red Bull Sergio Perez was again massively adrift.The result provided a significant twist in the weekend’s early narrative after Verstappen had crushed the field in FP1, while the pressure on Perez increased given his gap to his team-mate with Red Bull set ...Keep reading
Mattia Binotto's sole leadership of Audi's Formula 1 effort should "change the speed" of its Sauber takeover, says team representative Alessandro Alunni Bravi.Earlier this week, Audi announced team CEO Andrea Seidl and chairman Oliver Hoffmann had left the team, with former Ferrari F1 chief Binotto joining on 1 August to replace both.Audi announced its F1 entry two years ago, but despite ...Keep reading
IMSA SportsCar GTD Pro championship leader AO Racing has recruited Julien Andlauer for the next round at Road America, after the shock departure of Seb Priaulx on Wednesday.AO had already revealed that its green T-Rex-liveried 911 GT3 – nicknamed ‘Rexy’ – is being replaced for the next two races by its pink sister, called ‘Roxy’.Team principal Gunnar Jeannette said this was because ...Keep reading
Porsche has finally abandoned plans to introduce a revised engine for its 963 LMDh World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship contender.The update, which was centred on a switch to a 90 degree crankshaft from a 180 degree or flat-plane crank, is now “dead”, according to Urs Kuratle, project boss on the 963 at Porsche Motorsport.“We are not doing the crankshaft; it is not ...Keep reading
Bruno Famin has announced that he will stand down as Alpine Formula 1 team principal at the end of August, with Hitech F2 and F3 boss Oliver Oakes expected as his replacement.Famin was originally hired by Alpine to oversee its engine division in early 2022 before he stepped up to become its motorsport vice president in mid-2023 and then its interim team principal when former squad boss Otmar ...Keep reading
Several Formula 1 teams have new front and rear wing specifications at their disposal this weekend, as they look for ways to overcome the challenges posed by the Spa-Francorchamps circuit.The changes are aimed at depowering the wings, compared to those used elsewhere, in a bid to help reduce downforce and drag – which are useful for the first and third sectors around the track.However, teams ...Keep reading
Yuki Tsunoda doesn't know what else he should have done to claim a Red Bull seat as the team's summer decision looms over its driver line-ups.Following a string of disappointing performances and results, Red Bull is considering whether or not to replace Sergio Perez as Max Verstappen's team-mate at its main team, with its other drivers Daniel Ricciardo, Tsunoda and Liam Lawson all staking a claim ...Keep reading
The 2002 season was significant in Christian Horner’s rise to becoming Formula 1’s longest-serving team principal with Red Bull. That year, his Arden team rose to prominence in Formula 3000, then the premier F1 support series, with a driver line-up that proved an excellent match and delivered his previously winless squad five on-the-road victories from 12 rounds.The ultra-experienced Tomas ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen dominated FP1 at Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix, finishing ahead of McLaren’s Oscar Piastri and well clear of his Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez.On what is a high-pressure weekend for Perez given Red Bull’s intention to assess his position going forward towards 2025 over the summer break, he ended up nearly a full second down on Verstappen.Elsewhere, Alex Albon showed ...Keep reading
Moto2 championship contender Ai Ogura is closing on a move to join Trackhouse Racing in MotoGP next year, Autosport can reveal.Although a deal is yet to be finalised, it is understood that Ogura has reached an agreement to race a satellite Aprilia RS-GP for Trackhouse, where he will partner incumbent Raul Fernandez, who recently inked a new two-year contract until 2026.The Japanese rider’s ...Keep reading
Attending an F1 race weekend has become a must in recent years amid the championship’s popularity boom - and the Dutch GP is no different.The 2024 Dutch GP is set to take place on the 23-25 August, where fans will no doubt be treated to a uniquely vibrant atmosphere which will leave them wanting to return.This is of course helped by the brilliant racing which usually takes place, as 2023 saw a ...Keep reading
The low-drag-specific upgrades brought to the 2024 Belgian Grand Prix have been revealed, with both McLaren and Mercedes bringing new beam wings alongside their circuit-specific front and rear wings.Both UK-based teams are continuing upon their quest to close in on Red Bull in the championship standings, and have thus attempted to scale up their performance around the high-speed Spa-Francorchamps ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton wants to speak with FIA officials after Formula 1’s Hungarian Grand Prix stewards declared he "could have done more to avoid" the Budapest crash with Max Verstappen.The stewards for last weekend’s event in Budapest deemed the late-race incident between the pair to be worthy of no further action after Verstappen was launched skywards and lost a place to Ferrari’s Charles ...Keep reading
Dan Cammish has joined team-mate Ash Sutton in committing his immediate future to the Alliance Racing British Touring Car Championship squad by signing a fresh multi-year deal.Four-time champion Sutton signed an agreement through to the end of 2026 with the NAPA-backed team on the eve of this year's BTCC campaign beginning and Cammish has now got a similar deal.He first joined Alliance - formerly ...Keep reading
Yuki Tsunoda will start the Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix from the rear of the field after RB chose to give him an all-new engine for this weekend’s race at Spa.Autosport understands that Tsunoda – who was on the limit of his allocation allowed in the rules for all engine parts except exhausts – has been given the fresh Honda power unit as part of the common practice of taking penalties at ...Keep reading
DS Penske has confirmed that Stoffel Vandoorne will leave the Formula E team after two seasons together, the Belgian driver having been linked with a move to Maserati MSG.Vandoorne joined DS Penske ahead of the 2022/23 season as reigning champion, having claimed his sole title the previous campaign with Mercedes.The 32-year-old joined the all-electric championship as far back as 2018 with HWA ...Keep reading
Lando Norris sees no reason for McLaren to make him the team’s number one driver so it can boost his chances of beating Max Verstappen to the Formula 1 drivers’ championship.The Briton is currently second in the standings, 76 points behind his Red Bull rival, with McLaren widely considered to have the most consistently fast car in F1 right now.But the team orders controversy from the Hungarian ...Keep reading
Toyota has unveiled special liveries that will adorn entries for Kalle Rovanpera and Sebastien Ogier for next week’s World Rally Championship round in Finland.The Japanese brand will field an expanded five-car Rally1 line-up at the team’s home event with both part-time drivers Rovanpera and Ogier competing alongside full-time drivers Elfyn Evans and Takamoto Katsuta, while rising star Sami ...Keep reading
Valtteri Bottas reckons Mattia Binotto becoming Sauber boss will “reset” talks over the team’s remaining 2025 Formula 1 seat, but it’s also set to impact driver market discussions for others.One of Binotto’s first tasks when he starts at Sauber – reporting directly to the Audi board ahead of the marque rebranding the long-time customer F1 entrant – on 1 August will be to decide who ...Keep reading
The first images of new flexi-wing checks that are being conducted by the FIA have appeared ahead of Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix.As exclusively revealed by Autosport, the FIA has begun an analysis process to help it better understand the dynamics at play with how teams are flexing their front wings.From this weekend’s event at Spa-Francorchamps, the FIA has requested that selected teams fit ...Keep reading
When the late tin-top specialist Richard Lloyd was racing Volkswagen’s new hot hatch in the British Touring Car Championship in the late 1970s, the German manufacturer used to place adverts in Autosport proclaiming: ‘If you want to succeed in motor racing, take up Golf’.But in the case of 2024 BTCC Jack Sears Trophy leader Mikey Doble, it’s a case of giving golf up. The Surrey up-and-comer ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen is defiant and will not tone down how he speaks to his Red Bull team following his aggressive radio rants during the Hungarian Grand Prix.Verstappen engaged in a frank discussion with his race engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, and at one point said: "No mate, don't give me that bulls now. You guys gave me this f strategy, okay? I'm trying to rescue what's left. F sake".His ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton has suggested Max Verstappen should change his behaviour after ranting at his own Red Bull team during the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix.Verstappen, who finished fifth in Hungary following a clash with Hamilton, repeatedly lashed out towards his race engineer, Gianpiero Lambiase, with aggressive radio messages during the race.The reigning world champion appears to have grown ...Keep reading
Richie Stanaway and Grove Racing will go their separate ways at the end of the 2024 Supercars season.The team confirmed on Friday afternoon that the New Zealander, who joined the Ford Mustang team at the start of this year after a four-season absence from a full-time Supercars seat, will depart at the end of the season.“Grove Racing can confirm that Richie Stanaway’s contract will not be ...Keep reading
Joan Mir will stay with Honda’s factory team until the end of the 2026 MotoGP season after signing a new two-year deal, HRC has announced.Despite two miserable seasons on the RC213V that prompted Mir to consider an early retirement, the Spaniard has been clear for some time that he would like to extend his tenure with Honda.Last month, Autosport revealed that Mir and Honda have verbally agreed ...Keep reading
Alpine is poised for a further shake-up of its Formula 1 operation, with Hitech F2 and F3 boss Oliver Oakes expected to become its new team principal.With the French manufacturer squad undergoing huge change amid a push by new F1 advisor Flavio Briatore, it appears that no stone is being left unturned in its bid to get back to the front.And just a few days after it was revealed that a deal to ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen says he will continue to take part in sim races on grand prix weekends after laughing away suggestions that his hobby somehow affected his Formula 1 performances.Verstappen finished fifth in Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix, in which the Dutchman appeared to be particularly irritable and frustrated with his strategy, and his Red Bull survived a collision with Mercedes' Lewis ...Keep reading
Oscar Piastri is adamant he fully deserved his maiden Formula 1 victory and has rejected suggestions it was handed to him on a plate by his McLaren team-mate Lando Norris.The Australian had been leading for much of last weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix before Norris was shaken out in front after the final pitstop, with McLaren then ordering the Brit to allow Piastri to pass into the lead.A ...Keep reading
The team order facing Lando Norris regarding his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri and potential victory in the Hungarian GP is one every ultra-competitive Formula 1 driver would dread, but they are not always heeded.Famously, back in the 2013 Malaysian Grand Prix, Sebastian Vettel defied a Red Bull team order in attacking Mark Webber – now Piastri's manager – when the pair had initially been ...Keep reading
Lando Norris has admitted he is not “too proud” of how his antics in the Hungarian Grand Prix overshadowed team-mate Oscar Piastri’s maiden Formula 1 win.The Briton felt that his decision to delay in following through on a team order to let Piastri through to take the lead, having been moved to the front through a strategic call around pitstop timings, had needlessly stirred up drama.While ...Keep reading
Leading rally drivers could compete at this year’s FIA Motorsport Games thanks to a new All-Stars category.Rallying is already part of the Olympics-style motorsport event, with Rally2 (for four-wheel-drive machinery), Rally4 (2WD) and Historic (1970-81) elements. Those three categories will be expanded – each split into mixed-surface, gravel and asphalt contests – while Rally All-Stars will ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz says his former Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto taking charge of Audi's Formula 1 programme doesn't influence his future team choice.The Spaniard is known to have had an offer from Audi on the table for several months as it prepares its 2026 works entry following its takeover of Sauber.Sainz has been keen to keep his options open though, also entertaining a bid from Williams and an ...Keep reading
McLaren chief executive Zak Brown has suggested that the IndyCar Series should strive for more quality in its racing product instead of being enamoured with the quantity.There have been several races over the past couple of seasons that have struggled to live up to expectations, namely with poor moves leading to numerous cautions and hindering the event.It’s no secret that IndyCar has pushed ...Keep reading
Hyundai is yet to commit to the 2026 World Rally Championship, but team principal Cyril Abiteboul says rallying is the “manufacturer’s roots” and he is not “over with rally”.The long-term future of the South Korean marque in the WRC is unclear with the brand understood to be gearing up to join the World Endurance Championship with a Hypercar programme in the near future.Hyundai is one of ...Keep reading
Under pressure Logan Sargeant has hit back at comments from former Sauber and Caterham driver Marcus Ericsson, who claimed that he no longer speaks to his Williams boss James Vowles.Sergeant is becoming noticeably more agitated as he faces uncertainty about his future in F1.The growing speculation has spread to the US where Ericsson, who is now racing in IndyCar, says the American is struggling ...Keep reading
Alex Albon thinks Formula 1 champions Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton were as aggressive as each other in their Hungarian Grand Prix crash.The Williams driver had the perfect view of the incident that took place at Turn 1 on lap 63 of last weekend’s race at the Hungaroring.The long-time rivals had both swooped past the Thai driver to lap him on the run down the start-finish straight, as they ...Keep reading
Nico Hulkenberg is in "a bit of a shock" after Audi's decision to oust Andreas Seidl from its Formula 1 entry project and replace him with ex-Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto.Audi's decision to axe former Porsche LMP1 and McLaren F1 squad chief Seidl, as well as former Sauber board chairman Oliver Hoffmann, sent a shockwave through F1 ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix this weekend on the eve of the ...Keep reading
Mercedes will get another chance to run the rule over Andrea Kimi Antonelli by handing the 17-year-old a test in the team's 2022 car following the Formula 1 Belgian GP.Mercedes is weighing up whether the Italian F2 driver is a suitable replacement for Lewis Hamilton, who is joining Ferrari next season.The Brackley-based team is short of options after turning its back on Carlos Sainz and not ...Keep reading
Red Bull faces a riskier outcome regarding Max Verstappen’s expected grid penalty for exceeding his 2024 Formula 1 engine allocation at this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix, compared to similar situations in 2022 and 2023.While Red Bull has not yet confirmed if Verstappen is indeed set to take another ICE at the upcoming race at Spa – and is unlikely to do so before this is required by the ...Keep reading
The Escort Mk2 pilot twice topped his Modified Fords class at Snetterton - where there were only just enough starters for the wins to count - to take his tally for the year so far to 12 and enable him to leapfrog Dan Brown and Mckenzie Douglass to move into second on the leaderboard.Brown was also in action at the weekend but, unusually, was not triumphant in the Racing Hondas category during its ...Keep reading
Oscar Piastri’s first victory in an exciting Hungarian Grand Prix and Max Verstappen’s latest clash make the cover of this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (25 July).Another great race and another new GP victor. The 2024 Formula 1 season is certainly turning out to be more interesting than anyone expected. We haven’t had this number of different winners since that remarkable 2012 ...Keep reading
The maiden runs for the Aston Martin Valkyrie Le Mans Hypercar have been billed as a “great foundation” for the test programme leading into its competition debut next season.Adam Carter, Aston’s head of endurance motorsport, made the claim after the Valkyrie AMR-LMH undertook its first two days of circuit testing at Silverstone and then Donington Park last week as the British manufacturer ...Keep reading
Esteban Ocon will race for Haas on a multi-year deal starting in the 2025 Formula 1 season, the American team announced on Thursday.Ocon, the soon-to-be former Alpine driver and winner of the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, will partner Ferrari Academy driver and regular Haas rookie practice driver Oliver Bearman in an all-new line-up that replaces the Sauber-bound Nico Hulkenberg and the exiting Kevin ...Keep reading
In any walk of life, unwelcome reputations are tricky to shift. In Formula 1, they can be especially brutal. Look at Romain Grosjean being branded a "first-lap nutcase" by Mark Webber at the Japanese Grand Prix in 2012 after they made contact.Grosjean's former team-mate at Lotus Pastor Maldonado was dubbed "Crashdonaldo" for his habit of crashing. During his 96 grands prix, there were 29 ...Keep reading
Three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo believes KTM’s young gun Pedro Acosta shares some qualities with motorcycle racing legends Casey Stoner, Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez.Since making his debut at the start of 2024 with the Tech3-run GasGas team, Acosta has lived up to the hype surrounding him with a series of impressive performances on the RC16.Podiums in Austin and Portimao easily ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc thinks this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix could be the race where Ferrari's bouncing issues are the "most visible" as it readies the latest batch of fixes.Ferrari's Barcelona upgrade package came with a new floor that induced bouncing in high-speed corners, an issue which contributed to it drifting away from Red Bull, McLaren and Mercedes on higher speed circuits.The Scuderia ...Keep reading
Scott Dixon once again proved why he remains the master of IndyCar Series strategy by charging from 15th on the grid to the podium at Toronto.The 44-year-old Chip Ganassi Racing ace bounced back from a poor qualifying performance, for which he shouldered the blame, by passing 12 cars en route to third place.Dixon was already up to sixth after overcutting several rivals in the first round of ...Keep reading
The 2024 F1 season is hotting up, with seven different winners in the first 13 races of the year and four in the last four races. Max Verstappen currently leads the championship with 265 points, ahead of Lando Norris in second with 189 points.Over half of the grid’s contracts are set to expire at the end of the year and it looks likely that the summer break will be packed full of negotiations ...Keep reading
Recent Arrow McLaren IndyCar signing for 2025, Christian Lundgaard, says he has “zero interest” in getting an opportunity with the team’s Formula 1 squad.In tandem with his European open-wheel career, Lundgaard signed to the Renault Sport Academy in 2017 and tested its F1 car at the Hungaroring and Jerez.He later drove a 2018-spec F1 car at Silverstone and Bahrain and was promoted to ...Keep reading
Alpine is the latest Formula 1 team to land a movie deal as it promotes the release of Hollywood film Deadpool & Wolverine with a one-off livery for this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix.Alpine's A524 cars will race in a red, black and yellow livery showcasing main characters Deadpool and Wolverine for the Marvel movie which is set for a global release over the Belgian Grand Prix weekend.The team's ...Keep reading
Red Bull is set to revert the RB20 to its more standard engine cover specification for the Belgian Grand Prix, but not because its latest upgrade disappointed in Hungary.The Milton Keynes-based team fast tracked a major revision to the sidepods and engine cover last weekend, ditching its characteristic Mercedes-style gulleys.The new direction was about maximising downforce because, although it is ...Keep reading
Global payment card provider Mastercard has returned to Formula 1 sponsorship by inking a deal with McLaren.Mastercard had been known to be exploring an F1 return for some time, and has ultimately decided to join McLaren and become a "major sponsor" of the papaya squad in what has been described as a "multi-year" deal.Mastercard branding will appear on the McLaren team's cars and equipment later ...Keep reading
IndyCar Series leader Alex Palou's bid to become a three-time champion was furthered on Sunday when he finished fourth in Toronto, despite starting on the ninth row of the grid.The Chip Ganassi Racing driver, who entered the race with a 35-point lead over Team Penske’s Will Power, left Canada with an increased margin of 49 points over the Australian.Power damaged his own title hopes by crashing ...Keep reading
Ferrari Formula 1 team principal Fred Vasseur says the squad will announce a revamped technical organisation after the summer break, but insists technical director Enrico Cardile leaving for Aston Martin is "not a drama".After weeks of speculation, it was announced earlier this month that Cardile, who was responsible for Ferrari's F1 chassis programme, would leave the Scuderia to join Aston Martin ...Keep reading
Dani Pedrosa feels Marc Marquez 'crushed everything' in order to join Ducati's factory MotoGP team in 2025, but is nonetheless impressed by how he transformed his fortunes in 12 months.The 31-time grand prix winner has weighed in on how Marquez successfully orchestrated a rider market shuffle to grab the coveted seat at Ducati alongside Francesco Bagnaia for 2025.It was Marquez’s reluctance to ...Keep reading
“I really wanted him to be a good footballer, but it didn’t work out. There was absolutely no expectations whatsoever from my behalf, for him to ever become a professional driver. I’m very proud obviously, he’s surpassed my expectations many years ago and still going strong.”The words are those of Gwyndaf Evans, who speaks with a beaming smile as he recounts how his son Elfyn has ...Keep reading
After the idea of a Formula 1 wildcard system was floated by teams and series bosses, it is a prospect that has sparked debate.From providing rookies with a golden chance to impress, to adding an extra competition dimension to F1, the pitch was put forward for evaluation at an F1 Commission meeting in London earlier this week.Here, our writers give their take on the idea and what could happen.A ...Keep reading
Freddie Spencer will conclude his term as the chairman of MotoGP’s stewards panel at the end of the year, with Simon Crafar taking over from 2025.Two-time 500cc world champion Spencer has been the chief MotoGP steward since that role was created in 2019, having been nominated for the position by MotoGP’s teams’ association, IRTA.But on Wednesday afternoon, it was announced Spencer will step ...Keep reading
Toyota is planning to race its proposed hydrogen combustion Hypercar class contender alongside its existing GR010 HYBRID in the 2028 World Endurance Championship.The Japanese manufacturer will take advantage of the move announced in June that gives a two-year extension to the current breed of Le Mans Hypercars and LMDhs while phasing in a prototype built to the delayed hydrogen rules now set for a ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen is set for a 10-place grid penalty at this weekend's Belgian Grand Prix for exceeding his engine allowance, Autosport has learned.Verstappen had been on the cusp of a grid penalty for a while after losing a power unit in practice for June's Canadian Grand Prix.That meant Red Bull had to introduce the Dutchman's fourth Honda power unit in Spain, the maximum number allowed per year ...Keep reading
M-Sport will investigate further opportunities to field Martins Sesks in the World Rally Championship following stunning displays in Poland and Latvia.Sesks made his Rally1 debut with the Ford team as part of a two-round agreement facilitated by the WRC Promoter and partners of last year’s European Rally Championship runner-up.The Latvian made an immediate impact finishing fifth on his debut in ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton is dismissive of FIA's plan to test a simplified air conditioning system in Formula 1 car cockpits to aid drivers in extreme heat, as he feels training alone should suffice.Autosport exclusively revealed over the Hungarian Grand Prix how the governing body is set to trial the device it has developed in response to drivers suffering last season’s Qatar race held in sweltering ...Keep reading
There are few finer places to celebrate motorsport history than at Shelsley Walsh, and this year’s Classic Nostalgia did it in style as the Worcestershire hillclimb venue heads towards its 120th anniversary.Classic Nostalgia is the big event of the season at the famous hill and, alongside a paddock full of pre-1975 competition cars, a raft of celebrations and demonstrations added to a real sense ...Keep reading
- Aston Martin F1 Team - Graduate Aerodynamicist - SilverstoneThe Aston Martin F1 Team has the opportunity for a Graduate Aerodynamicist.The responsibility of this role is to help improve the aerodynamic performance of the teams current and future race cars. One aspect of this is analysing and understanding the results of wind tunnel and computational fluid dynamics tests.You will have an ...Keep reading
The idea of a wildcard system being introduced to Formula 1 to offer race opportunities for rookie drivers was put up for discussion by teams and series bosses this week.Autosport has learned that one of the items put forward for evaluation at a meeting of the F1 Commission in London on Tuesday was whether a wildcard scheme had merit to be introduced.The impetus for it was believed to revolve ...Keep reading
McLaren has been pretty clear all season that there is a process to go through in learning to win again in Formula 1.It is a new world fighting at the front, and it often puts you in situations where mistakes are exposed, or things can get uncomfortable when tough decisions have to be made.There is a process to go through to become the best, as McLaren CEO Zak Brown readily admits.“I always tell ...Keep reading
Mercedes has said the final call on junior driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli getting the nod for promotion to its Formula 1 team next year is about more than Formula 2 results.Antonelli has thrust himself back into the spotlight after his first victories in F1's feeder series, taking a maiden triumph in the rain-affected Silverstone sprint event before claiming a first feature race win in Hungary last ...Keep reading
Formula 1's points system will remain unchanged in 2025 after all F1 teams unanimously voted against it during Tuesday's FIA F1 Commission meeting.In April several midfield teams started a push to re-visit the series' long-standing points system handing out points to top 10 finishers.At the start of the 2024 season, the grid was clearly split between a top five and bottom five, meaning that the ...Keep reading
Prema has made significant progress since it announced plans in April to enter IndyCar next season with two Chevrolet-powered cars on a full-time basis prepared from a new Indiana headquarters.Team principal Rene Rosin revealed to Autosport that the Italian-based juggernaut of Europe’s junior formulas is preparing a 100,000 square feet base in Fishers, Indiana, roughly 20 miles away from ...Keep reading
A drama-laden Hungarian Grand Prix that resulted in a first Formula 1 victory for Oscar Piastri is discussed on the latest episode of the Autosport Podcast.Piastri dominated the early stages of the race after getting the jump on McLaren team-mate Lando Norris off the line, but found himself trailing into the closing stages when the papaya team allowed Norris to make his second pitstop before the ...Keep reading
Almost two years on from Audi’s official announcement of its Formula 1 entry, the smiles of that day are a long and distant memory.Its team, still racing under the Sauber banner, is currently sitting last in the constructors’ championship without a single point to its name so far this season.In fact, it has not finished in the top ten since the 2023 Qatar Grand Prix and there seems little hope ...Keep reading
Trackhouse Racing has signed a new deal with Raul Fernandez that will keep the Spaniard at the Aprilia satellite squad until the end of the 2026 MotoGP season.Fernandez has been retained by Trackhouse following a series of impressive performances on last year’s Aprilia RS-GP, including front-row starts in Barcelona and Sachsenring and four top-10 finishes in the opening nine rounds.In fact ...Keep reading
KTM has identified what could be the key reason behind Jack Miller’s disastrous run of results in the 2024 MotoGP season.The Austrian manufacturer believes vibration issues, arising both from the new Michelin compounds and the latest-spec RC16, could explain why Miller only managed to break inside the top 10 once before the summer break.While KTM stablemates Brad Binder and Pedro Acosta bagged ...Keep reading
A maiden Formula E title after eight years and the first world championship success for Jaguar since 1991, when it achieved victory in the sportscar world, should have been the headlines from last weekend’s London E-Prix season finale.Instead, the Big Cat ended the season with its tail somewhat between its legs having thrown away the chance of the drivers’ championship, with both Nick Cassidy ...Keep reading
Audi has appointed former Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto to head up its Formula 1 project as part of a major management shake-up.In a statement issued on Tuesday, Audi announced that Binotto would be joining the team as its chief operating and chief technical officer from 1 August to head up efforts ahead of its 2026 debut.His arrival comes with Sauber CEO Andreas Seidl and Oliver Hoffmann ...Keep reading
Renault has launched an evaluation study to decide on the future focus for its Viry-Chatillon engine facility, amid a growing likelihood that it will end its Formula 1 power unit project.Autosport has learned that Renault’s senior management earlier today informed staff at both the French factory and Enstone, the base for the Alpine F1 team, about the ideas being discussed.Although no final ...Keep reading
The FIA has created a new entry-level touring car category that will see touring car racing and rallying converge.The new TC Lite class, which will include two sub-classes, TCL4 and TCL5, will share existing Rally4 and Rally5 technical regulations and will form the base of the FIA’s touring car pyramid under TCR.As a result, through minimal modifications Rally4 and Rally5 cars will be able to ...Keep reading
There were perhaps only two words mentioned more than 'Martins' and 'Sesks' when the World Rally Championship visited Latvia last weekend, and those were 'road position'.Championship leader Thierry Neuville reignited a debate surrounding how the WRC determines the road order for rallies. The very nature of rallying means that someone is always going to be disadvantaged by road position.For gravel ...Keep reading
It feels like yesterday when McLaren and Alpine were battling for the signature of a highly-rated 21-year-old F2 champion in the summer of 2022.Just two years and 35 grand prix starts later, Oscar Piastri is F1's latest GP winner. After crossing the line first in last year's Qatar sprint, he led team-mate Lando Norris home in Hungary for the first McLaren 1-2 since the 2021 Italian Grand Prix.In ...Keep reading
Fabio Quartararo has insisted Marc Marquez is the best rider in MotoGP history over childhood hero Valentino Rossi.Quartararo made his premier class debut in 2019 and was fortunate enough to share the track with seven-time champion Rossi during the twilight years of the Italian’s career. In fact, the Frenchman won his maiden title in 2021 after being promoted to the factory Yamaha team in place ...Keep reading
When I left Formula 1 in 2019, I still had plenty of interest in doing more things. It felt like the right time so together with Nilay Shah, professor of engineering at Imperial College, we converted Zero into a real idea that has grown into a thriving company of 53 employees so far.Although I’m happy to see racing series increasingly adopting sustainable fuels, I truly believe we’re ...Keep reading
The Japanese city of Osaka has formed a new motorsport promotion council to boost its bid to get a future Formula 1 race hosting slot.Back in January, Osaka officials made it public that the city intends to attract F1 as part of a wider attempt to change its economic outlook and become an international tourism location.Osaka has now created the 'Osaka Convention & Tourism Bureau', with nine ...Keep reading
Sergio Perez may have got himself back in Formula 1's points in Hungary, but his Red Bull bosses are clear they still want to see more from him.The Mexican produced what team principal Christian Horner reckoned was his strongest race since the Chinese Grand Prix in April as he came home seventh having started down in 16th.But while his race pace was strong, Horner is well aware that Hungary marked ...Keep reading
The Alpine Formula 1 team is closing in on a deal with Mercedes for a technical partnership that will include engine, gearbox and suspension – and could even start in 2025.The French manufacturer has been weighing up abandoning its own Renault works engine, with senior management questioning the costs versus benefits of continuing to invest hundreds of millions in its own power unit.Doubts about ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera kicked off the World Rally Championship’s first visit to Latvia in style by claiming an early lead after winning Thursday night’s super special stage with a blistering time.The reigning world champion, who started his rally career in the Baltic nation, mastered a challenging 11.13km two-lap run through an asphalt and gravel test utilising the Biķernieki circuit in Riga that ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton says Ralf Schumacher's revelation that he is in a same-sex relationship is a "positive message" for Formula 1, but feels more has to be done to promote inclusivity.Six-time F1 race-winner Schumacher made the announcement on social media this week, posting an image of himself and his business manager, Étienne, with the words: "The most beautiful thing in life is when you have the ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen believes the success rate of Red Bull's biggest upgrade package yet in Hungary will be crucial in determining its fortunes for the remainder of the 2024 Formula 1 season.Red Bull's RB20 started the season as the quickest car in the field, but in recent months McLaren and Mercedes have closed the gap, with their relative performance shifting from weekend to weekend.Although both ...Keep reading
Selected Formula 1 teams will have to fit new video cameras for practice at the Belgian Grand Prix as part of an FIA investigation into flexi wings tricks, Autosport can reveal.The increasing use by teams of flexible front wing designs to better balance their cars has come under the spotlight over recent weeks, with some squads questioning how far rivals are pushing it.Up until now, the FIA had ...Keep reading
For two months, Stewart Black, Dan Brown and Piers Grange have been the names heading the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings, but now a new driver is in contention.Ginetta GT Championship racer Mckenzie Douglass has entered a rich vein of form and has shot up from outside of the top 50 just a few weeks ago to third now, just three wins shy of current leader Black.Douglass topped ...Keep reading
The Formula E 2023/24 season comes to a close this weekend with the London E-Prix double-header at the ExCeL Arena as all three titles remain still up for grabs.Just 33 points separate Jaguar and Porsche in the teams' title race, while the latter holds a 19-point margin over its British rival in the new-for-2024 manufacturers' battle.But the main focus will be on the drivers’ title, with seven ...Keep reading
Unlike in 2020, Kevin Magnussen knows he will be departing the Haas Formula 1 team with half a season remaining – this boosts both his chances of remaining in grand prix racing or shifting his pursuits elsewhere.For the second time in his career, Magnussen has been dropped by Haas, which sensationally brought him back to F1 in 2022 when he had been “on a beach in Miami five days prior to the ...Keep reading
Pierre Gasly says that Alpine has "three good options" to sign as his Formula 1 team-mate for 2025, as the team looks for a replacement for the out-going Esteban Ocon.It is understood that Alpine is one of many teams to make an offer to Carlos Sainz, who remains a free agent for next year as his Ferrari deal ends, but Sainz is believed to have come back in the frame at Red Bull and Mercedes as ...Keep reading
The British company's success in single-seater racing was translated dramatically into Indycar, as Michael Andretti won the manufacturer's first race at Surfers Paradise, sending shockwaves through the motorsport landscape.The result not only broke the previous duopoly enjoyed by Lola and Penske - the latter subsequently becoming a Reynard customer - but also established Chip Ganassi Racing as a ...Keep reading
Esteban Ocon and his family receiving his 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix-winning Alpine Formula 1 car completes a remarkable element of his career story, with their collective sacrifices to fund his early efforts part of the Frenchman’s “emotional” response.Ahead of this weekend’s race in Budapest, Ocon took delivery of the A521 Alpine car with which he triumphed here three years ago – in an ...Keep reading
The World Rally Championship’s inaugural visit to Latvia is poised to be the most challenging of the season to date for points leader Thierry Neuville.The Hyundai driver heads to Latvia’s high-speed gravel stages with a 15-point lead over Toyota’s Elfyn Evans, but believes he’ll have a battle on his hands to maintain his advantage due to several factors.The Baltic nation’s 20 stages are ...Keep reading
Yuki Tsunoda says it would be "weird" for Red Bull to pick reserve driver Liam Lawson ahead of him in case it moves to replace Sergio Perez.Despite having recently signed a two-year contract extension at Red Bull, Perez is under renewed pressure to step up his game after dramatically underperforming alongside Max Verstappen over the past two months.It is understood Red Bull could trigger various ...Keep reading
Sebastien Ogier has no concerns over his fitness ahead of a return to World Rally Championship competition this weekend after a recce crash ruled him out of Poland.The eight-time world champion has made a full recovery from whiplash-related injuries to his neck following a head-on collision with another vehicle while preparing for Rally Poland last month.The part-time Toyota driver, who has taken ...Keep reading
McLaren has found itself at the centre of technical intrigue ahead of Formula 1's Hungarian Grand Prix over a trick some think could have helped improve its tyre temperature management.As first revealed by German publication Auto Motor Und Sport, the design of McLaren's brake drums recently grabbed the attention of main rival Red Bull, which is understood to have lodged some questions with the FIA ...Keep reading
Marco Bezzecchi’s slump in 2024 has been extremely frustrating to watch when you consider both his speed and talent. Heading into the summer break, the Italian sits a distant 12th in the championship on 53 points, with just a single podium finish at Jerez to his name.At the same point of the championship last year, Bezzecchi had accumulated 167 points with victories in Argentina and France - ...Keep reading
From being out of Formula 1 at the end of 2019 to being one of the first names on the shortlist for Audi's impending works entry, Nico Hulkenberg has enjoyed a late career turnaround after many had already written the German off.Hulkenberg had become F1's modern journeyman, driving for the likes of Williams, Force India, Sauber and Renault, without being able to back up his shock Williams pole at ...Keep reading
Nico Muller will split with Peugeot at the end of the 2024 World Endurance Championship, the French manufacturer announced on Thursday.Muller has been racing for Peugeot in the Hypercar class ever since his early exit from Audi at the conclusion of the 2022 DTM season, which followed the German car maker’s decision to call off its under-development LMDh programme.Following his departure from ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen's complete annihilation of the rest of the field last season had many journalists inside the paddock fearing the worst for 2024. The concern had also stretched up to Formula 1's owners Liberty Media and despite the public support for the Dutchman and Red Bull's success, it was also concerned by the dominance and its impact.TV numbers were dropping and F1 had noticeably been bumped ...Keep reading
The World Rally Championship will conduct a “real world” test of a new live data system in Latvia this weekend that is part of plans to improve its broadcast coverage next year.Dubbed the ‘Command Centre’, the concept is a part of the WRC Promoter’s plan to improve the championship’s ability to communicate unfolding stories during events to fans.The promoter has been working with teams ...Keep reading
Kevin Magnussen will leave the Haas Formula 1 team at the end of the 2024 season, the American squad announced on Thursday.Magnussen holds the record for most F1 races started for Haas – 135, out of a career total of 175 which included time racing for McLaren and Renault.The Dane is currently in his second stint racing for Haas, having initially been let go after the 2020 season before being ...Keep reading
Aston Martin’s current Formula 1 struggles and Adrian Newey’s new RB17 hypercar make the cover of this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (18 July).In the early months of last season, Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin provided the sliver of hope amid Red Bull domination. Alonso’s five podiums in the first six grands prix suggested it could be the team in green that was most likely to give ...Keep reading
Sergio Perez's stint at Red Bull, according to popular belief, hinges upon his performances in the next two races on the Formula 1 calendar: the Hungarian and Belgian grands prix.If Perez performs, quelling his dismal run of 15 points from the past six races, he saves Red Bull's management a considerable headache. This is the team's preferred option, as it gives the Mexican driver a positive ...Keep reading
Ferrari is bringing a modified version of its latest car floor to Formula 1’s Hungarian Grand Prix in a bid to get rid of the high-speed bouncing problems that have hurt it at recent races.The Italian outfit has endured a troubled time since an upgraded floor arrived at the Spanish GP as part of a major update package.While the new design delivered the downforce gains anticipated by the factory ...Keep reading
The most recent round of the 2024 WRC season was once again won by a part-time driver, as the reigning double world champion Kalle Rovanpera claimed victory at Rally Poland following a last-minute call-up to stand in for the injured Sebastien Ogier.That means the Toyota driver and his team-mate Ogier, who is also contesting part-time in 2024, have won four of the last five rounds leaving a very ...Keep reading
You wouldn’t bet against Alex Palou sealing a hat-trick of IndyCar Series championships in September, but Saturday’s first race at Iowa’s double-header gave a ray of hope to his rivals – especially that day’s race winner, Scott McLaughlin.Remember that McLaughlin was last in points after Long Beach, where he suffered a gearbox failure. That compounded his disqualification from third ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion had to wait 945 days from his previous win at the 2021 Saudi Arabian GP to stand at the top of the podium once again. Mercedes has struggled since the 2022 regulation changes but has just enjoyed back-to-back wins, with George Russell triumphing at the Austrian GP the week before.Formula 1 drivers with the most wins at a single track
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As Formula 1's hectic silly season nears its conclusion, Haas' Kevin Magnussen and Sauber's Zhou Guanyu appear the most likely to miss out on a seat when the music stops.Like Sauber team-mate Valtteri Bottas, Zhou is waiting for Carlos Sainz to announce his next move, but he can't turn to the kind of race-winning pedigree and experience that could land his veteran team-mate a seat at Williams or ...Keep reading
RB had looked to be on a lonely road to sixth in the 2024 Formula 1 constructors' championship, but its midfield rivals have improved as its own fortunes declined with a Barcelona upgrade package.There are now just four points between RB and Haas in the standings, while the American team's grasp on seventh had been challenged only a few races ago through Alpine's brief resurgence after a tough ...Keep reading
Dale Coyne Racing has announced that Toby Sowery will return for this weekend’s IndyCar Series round on the streets of Toronto, along with next month’s race at Portland International Raceway.The former McLaren Autosport BRDC Award finalist made his IndyCar debut just two weeks ago at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, impressing with an effort in which he made the most on-track passes (10) to charge ...Keep reading
Quibbles over Balance of Performance and accusations of sandbagging have been a near-constant feature of GT racing in recent times. Openly discussing the BoP isn’t permitted under the World Endurance Championship’s sporting regulations, but that’s not the only reason for grumbles being notably reduced this year as LMGT3 replaced GTE Am.MagCanica is the FIA’s current supplier of torque ...Keep reading
Proton Competition is eyeing an expansion of its World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship assaults with the Porsche 963 LMDh as the German manufacturer makes more customer cars available.Christian Ried, boss of the German team currently fielding one 963 in each series, has revealed that he is working on plans to increase its presence in the respective Hypercar and GTP classes ...Keep reading
KTM’s early season run of three consecutive podium finishes now seems like a distant memory. To think that Brad Binder was able to finish just 1.239s behind race winner Francesco Bagnaia (Ducati) in Qatar just four months ago is almost hard to believe, considering where KTM is in the pecking order at present.Take last fortnight’s German GP for comparison. The top RC16 of GasGas rider Pedro ...Keep reading
McLaren CEO Zak Brown doesn't believe Red Bull has been too affected by the behind-the-scenes turmoil at its Formula 1 team yet, but thinks the squad might be impacted longer-term.Red Bull has been embroiled in a power struggle ever since the passing of long-time owner Dietrich Mateschitz in 2022.There has been a deepening rift between team boss Christian Horner, who enjoys the backing of the Thai ...Keep reading
- Williams Racing - Social Media Manager - GroveWilliams Racing is recruiting a Social Media Manager.In this role you will be planning, creating and publishing content across all the team’s social media channels in line with its overarching social media strategy and producing weekly reports and analysis working closely with the data and insights team.The right candidate will have proven ...Keep reading
One-time Supercars champion James Courtney has announced that next year will be his swansong as a full-time driver in the tin-top series.He has been a fixture in the category for the past 14 years, winning the title in 2010, but Courtney, 44, told the Australian news service 9 Gold Coast News that he would step away from racing after the 2025 campaign to focus on his next career in real ...Keep reading
Red Bull may be embracing a “no risk, no fun” approach for its new Formula 1 engine, but it admits the project with Ford is one that cannot fail.The Milton Keynes-based team is investing hundreds of millions of pounds in developing a power unit for the 2026 regulations, having formed a technical alliance with Ford.While it knows it faces a huge challenge in taking on the might of other ...Keep reading
For many, undergoing open-heart surgery would usually spell an end to any extreme activities like tearing through a Finnish forest or navigating through a twisty Japanese mountain road in a rally car. Not for Heikki Kovalainen.The Formula 1 race winner and childhood rally fan has overcome the “biggest challenge of his life” to recover from a potentially life-altering surgery to return to the ...Keep reading
The Aston Martin Valkyrie Le Mans Hypercar that will compete for outright honours in the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championship next year has undertaken its first test.A shakedown by the Valkyrie AMR-LMH was undertaken earlier this month without bodywork ahead of the start of proper testing in the next few weeks in its definitive form.The run was described as a “systems ...Keep reading
The GB3 championship lead changed hands again at Zandvoort last weekend, Tymek Kucharczyk moving back to the top as the fight intensified in mixed conditions on the Dutch coast.JHR Developments’ John Bennett improved his own aspirations by taking a double pole in a wet qualifying session and converted the first of those into race-one victory, despite tricky conditions as rain fell early on but ...Keep reading
Adrian Newey is helping Red Bull with Formula 1 race strategy decisions on the weekends where he attends, with his upcoming exit looming, having unveiled his RB17 hypercar.Newey has visited the Miami, Monaco and Silverstone races since his decision to leave Red Bull was announced at the beginning of May.He will depart Red Bull in March 2025, with his final project for the team being finishing and ...Keep reading
Sting Ray Robb is already preparing for this weekend’s IndyCar Series round on the Streets of Toronto just 48 hours after his massive airborne crash in the second leg of the double-header at Iowa Speedway.Coming out of Turn 2 on the final lap, the 22-year-old Idaho native clipped the left-rear of Alexander Rossi’s fuel-starved No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet.The contact sent Robb’s No. 41 AJ ...Keep reading
Carpenter vented frustrations after being collected in a last-lap crash that also saw AJ Foyt Racing’s Sting Ray Robb get airborne in the second leg of the double-header round at Iowa Speedway last Sunday, an incident that came after he had also been the victim of a late clash in the first leg.A combination of factors, headlined by the recent repaving of the corners on the 0.894-mile oval, led ...Keep reading
Michael Andretti has been on a mission to get his eponymous team on the Formula 1 grid since before the FIA opened the tender process for new entries in February 2023.Despite being the only application accepted by the governing body, Formula One Management ultimately rejected the outfit after a commercial agreement could not be reached with F1’s owners, Liberty Media. The door was, however, left ...Keep reading
Former Haas title sponsor Uralkali claims that the team has failed to pay a refund it is owed, plus delivery of a Formula 1 car, relating to its cancelled deal.Last month, a Swiss arbitration court ruled in a dispute between the American-owned F1 team and its former Russian sponsor over the end of their relationship following the invasion of Ukraine in March 2022.With Haas having terminated ...Keep reading
Rodin Motorsport driver Callum Voisin has faced a struggle to translate last year's championship-winning GB3 form into results in his rookie Formula 3 season. But the 18-year-old is not the only driver graduating from the series formerly known as British Formula 3 who has found it tough to make an instant impression when arriving on the Formula 1 support series ladder.Kaylen Fredrick scored just ...Keep reading
Toyota has been hit with a suspended €10,000 fine for comments made by race director Rob Leupen on the World Endurance Championship's Balance of Performance, in contravention of series regulations.The fine, equivalent to £8,400, is the first time that a penalty has been applied for a breach of a rule that has been in place since the beginning of last season.It was invoked by the stewards of the ...Keep reading
Dale Coyne Racing has announced that Hunter McElrea will become its latest IndyCar Series debutant at this weekend’s round on the Toronto street circuit.The 24-year-old American-born New Zealander will step into the team’s #18 Honda entry after completing his first-ever laps in an IndyCar last week during a one-day test at Mid-Ohio.He becomes the fifth driver to make an IndyCar bow this ...Keep reading
British Touring Car Championship organiser TOCA is targeting two new teams for the 2025 season, but is capping its grid at a maximum of 24 cars. The series has dropped from 27 cars last year to an average of 20 this term. While TOCA chief Alan Gow was always adamant that he wanted numbers to drop from the BTCC’s recent spike in the low thirties, he wants new blood in for 2025. Gow has ...Keep reading
Ferrari has expressed “frustration and a sense of helplessness” at its inability to challenge for a podium in Sunday’s Interlagos round of the World Endurance Championship.The statement was made by Ferrari head of sportscar racing Antonello Coletta after the Italian manufacturer’s pair of 499P Le Mans Hypercars finished only fifth and sixth in the Sao Paolo 6 Hours.He claimed that it was ...Keep reading
While McLaren may have been left ruing opportunities it has had to deliver more Formula 1 wins recently, it equally is not blind to how far it has come.From having started F1's current ground effect era on the backfoot, and even struggling at the start of last year, its march to the front of the field to emerge as Red Bull's most consistent challenger has been impressive.Multiple factors have been ...Keep reading
Kyle Kirkwood has taken back his criticism of fellow IndyCar racers Alexander Rossi and Sting Ray Robb after their dramatic collision in Iowa led to his own separate wreck.When Rossi’s Arrow McLaren entry ran out of fuel exiting Turn 2 on the final lap of the race, Robb attempted make a pass on Rossi's inside, but the AJ Foyt Racing driver misjudged the closing speed.His right-front wheel ...Keep reading
The Haas team has extended its Formula 1 technical partnership with Ferrari through to the end of the 2028 season, with talks about potential opportunities to work with Toyota ongoing.The American-owned outfit has enjoyed a long relationship with Ferrari, having taken engines, gearboxes, and customer car parts, as well as having use of its Maranello wind tunnel and simulator facilities since it ...Keep reading
Scott McLaughlin says he is finally able “to call myself an IndyCar driver now” after winning his first oval race at Iowa, but believes he's “nowhere near a complete driver”.The 31-year-old New Zealander scored his second win of the season by leading 164 laps on Saturday night, then added followed up on Sunday with a third-place finish from pole.The Team Penske driver's run of four podiums ...Keep reading
LCR rider Johann Zarco hopes Yamaha’s expansion to four bikes in MotoGP next year will provide an extra incentive for Honda to close the gap to the front.The French rider believes the decision of his former team Pramac to become a satellite squad for Yamaha from 2025 will benefit both Japanese manufacturers, as they seek to level the field with their European counterparts.Both Yamaha and Honda ...Keep reading
Even for someone who has experienced 381 starts in Formula 1, it is interesting how the nerves can still get to you. Christian Horner has been at all of Red Bull's races and overseen its 120 victories and 277 podiums. But until just under a week ago, he had never sampled one of the cars that had powered his drivers to victory.So when the opportunity came up to drive Sebastian Vettel's RB8 at ...Keep reading
With the new regulatory framework that came into force following a unanimous vote by all MotoGP manufacturers, Yamaha and Honda were placed in the D class. This allows them, among other things, to ride with their regular rider line-up as many times as they want and to make engine modifications - something that is not allowed to the rest.But a simple glance at the championship standings might make ...Keep reading
Ford wants to keep the “opportunity to compete as a manufacturer” in the World Rally Championship in the future but has highlighted a need for an open set of 2027 regulations.The American automotive brand is one of the WRC’s most successful manufacturers scoring 94 rally wins, a stat only surpassed by Citroen in the championship’s history.Ford is one of three car makers currently ...Keep reading
After its excellent, albeit surprising, start to the 2023 Formula 1 season, Aston Martin was unable to preserve that momentum through the rest of the year and into 2024.Where Fernando Alonso scored 149 points in the opening 12 races of 2023, the veteran Spaniard has managed just 45 in the same number of races this term, without a podium finish among them.Explaining Aston Martin's apparent downturn ...Keep reading
Three-time MotoGP race winner Cal Crutchlow will not take part in the British GP next month due to continued issues with his hand, Yamaha said on Monday.The Briton, who retired from full-time racing at the end of 2020, was set to compete in the Silverstone race as one of his three wildcard entries planned for the year.The Yamaha test rider had been expected to compete in the Italian Grand Prix at ...Keep reading
IndyCar points leader Alex Palou says Iowa's single-groove races were “the most boring thing I've ever done” after he limited damage to his advantage following his retirement from Saturday’s event.The Chip Ganassi Racing driver hit out after finishing second in Sunday’s second element of a double-header weekend at the 7/8-mile oval, which had its corners repaved since last year’s ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton was pretty open about the emotional importance of his British Grand Prix triumph after 945 days without a Formula 1 victory.While the ghosts of Abu Dhabi 2021 may never truly be banished, at least the fear of never winning again following all the controversy of that evening has been laid to rest.But there is also a statistical significance to what Mercedes did at the British Grand ...Keep reading
MotoGP's planned debut at the Sokol International Circuit has become something of a soap opera. At this point, it is quite understandable that most of the paddock's members doubt that the Kazakhstan race will ever take place.The 'show' has offered several chapters. Dorna, the rights holder for the event, first introduced Kazakhstan on the 2023 calendar. Under the slogan "New circuit, new ...Keep reading
From heading into the current Formula 1 campaign braced to be at the back of the grid, Haas has far exceeded expectations.With back-to-back sixth placed finishes for Nico Hulkenberg having thrust it towards the front of the midfield battle and it now locked in a tight fight with RB for sixth in the constructors' championship, the German driver himself labelled it a “hell of a comeback.”But ...Keep reading
Audi has secured a technical partnership with oil and energy giant BP for its upcoming Formula 1 project, which will supply the 100% sustainable fuel set out in the 2026 regulations.The petrochemicals giant will also supply its range of lubricants and greases to the team through its Castrol brand, and has secured marketing space for BP, Castrol, and its Aral brand which operates in Germany.BP has ...Keep reading
The Kazakhstan Grand Prix will be replaced on the 2024 MotoGP calendar by a second round at Misano, it was announced on Monday.The news means it is the third time the Kazakhstan race has been postponed since it was originally included on the calendar.First scheduled to make its debut in 2023, the Sokol event was postponed until July this year because the circuit was not ready in time.But flooding ...Keep reading
Reigning World Endurance Championship title winners Brendon Hartley, Sebastien Buemi and Ryo Hirakawa have all but conceded the crown despite winning Sunday’s Interlagos round.Hartley believes that even after taking maximum race points in the Sao Paulo 6 Hours and moving from eighth to fifth place in the championship, the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID will be playing what he called a “supporting ...Keep reading
A flurry of late race cautions helped Ryan Blaney remove any doubt about his fuel and earn his second NASCAR Cup win of the 2024 season at Pocono on Sunday.Blaney was among a group of drivers to pit before the break between Stages 2 and 3, which left him close on fuel when he made his final stop under caution - brought out when Todd Gilliland appeared to blow a brake rotor and hit the wall in Turn ...Keep reading
If there is one element that characterises Formula 1's current era, it may well be the unpredictable form curves that fluctuate more than they did before 2022.We have seen teams make giant performances leaps over the past few winters and throughout seasons, including McLaren, RB and Aston Martin.But on the flipside, some teams have also been knocked back by upgrades that didn't deliver or induced ...Keep reading
Toyota dominated at Interlagos on the way to a second World Endurance Championship victory of the season on Sunday.The Japanese manufacturer’s #8 GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar shared by Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa and Sebastien Buemi took the victory laurels in the Sao Paolo 6 Hours by a clear margin ahead of the two Penske-run factory Porsche 963 LMDhs.Buemi crossed the line 1m08s ahead of ...Keep reading
Sting Ray Robb has been airlifted to hospital but is ‘awake, alert and in good spirits’ after being involved in a four-car crash at the end of IndyCar’s Iowa double-header.The Idaho native closed quickly on the Arrow McLaren machine of Alexander Rossi, who was sputtering and ran out of fuel exiting Turn 2.Robb attempted to make a pass on the inside of Rossi but caught the right-front into ...Keep reading
Will Power produced a masterful drive to capture victory in the second race of IndyCar’s double-header at Iowa Speedway.After starting 22nd in the #12 Team Penske entry, Power vaulted up the field with an overcut pit strategy and then grabbed the lead before ultimately besting Alex Palou by 0.2590 seconds on the 0.894-mile oval.It was the second win of the season for Power, but his first-ever ...Keep reading
Tom Dillmann and Nick Boulle won the LMP2-led round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, as Corvette scored a 1-2 in GTD.The Inter Europol by PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports ORECA of Dillmann/Boulle beat the similar cars of Gar Robinson/Felipe Fraga and Steven Thomas/Scott Huffaker in Sunday’s 2h40m race, which featured a 34-car entry.The premier class GTP hybrids took ...Keep reading
Two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Romain Dumas took Ford’s all-electric SuperVan to victory in a truncated Goodwood Festival of Speed Shootout.Dumas lit up Goodwood’s famous 1.16-mile hillclimb course to post a 43.987s effort behind the wheel of the Ford SuperVan 4.2, which can generate 1400 horsepower from its four electric motors.The time managed to eclipse former Formula 1 driver Scott ...Keep reading
Conor Daly is poised to replace Jack Harvey for the second element of the IndyCar Series double-header at Iowa Speedway, after being denied on Saturday night.Team owner Dale Coyne confirmed to Autosport following qualifying that Daly would drive the #18 Honda entry in place of Harvey, who has been battling through significant neck pain since last weekend’s race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car ...Keep reading
Mercedes is enacting a plan to manage the media frenzy surrounding its Formula 1 junior Andrea Kimi Antonelli, which will advance whether or not he's promoted from F2 for 2025.Antonelli’s career has famously progressed at considerable pace, while the 17-year-old Italian’s close relationship with Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff after joining the manufacturer’s junior scheme in 2019 has long ...Keep reading
Alpine is confident it can overcome the engine problem that resulted in the early end to its Le Mans 24 Hours assault in Sunday’s Interlagos World Endurance Championship round. The French manufacturer has revealed that its two A424 LMDhs went out of Le Mans last month inside the first six hours as a result of a valve issue, a problem which Alpine and its Signatech factory team were aware going ...Keep reading
Valentino Rossi’s VR46 squad “doesn’t agree” with Ducati’s decision to cut down the supply of factory MotoGP bikes to just three next season.Team boss Alessio ‘Uccio’ Salucci has expressed his disappointment over Ducati only providing the outfit with a single example of the GP25 in 2025, when Pramac has enjoyed two of the latest-spec bikes in the last two seasons.VR46 had originally ...Keep reading
Just one month after Sergio Perez secured a two-year contract extension with Red Bull, his Formula 1 future seems to be unravelling.Performance clauses are putting Perez at risk of losing his seat in a near future, as the grid becomes more and more competitive.The Mexican has scored just 11 points in the four grands prix since his new deal was announced – fewer than Haas's Nico Hulkenberg or ...Keep reading
Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin won a chaotic opening race of IndyCar’s double-header at Iowa Speedway on Saturday night.The New Zealander started second and took advantage of a rapid pitstop to jump into the lead and hold the field at bay to win by 0.4814s over Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward at the 0.894-mile oval.It is the fifth win of McLaughlin’s career, second of the season and ...Keep reading
Colton Herta and Scott McLaughlin snatched poles for the IndyCar Series double-header at Iowa Speedway, after a bizarre qualifying session that was impacted by hybrid issues on its oval debut.The format for the double-headers saw each driver receive two single-car laps, with the first setting their position for the opening race on Saturday night and the second determining their spot for Sunday’s ...Keep reading
PJ Hyett took pole position for the IMSA SportsCar Championship at the LMP2-led round at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.Hyett’s AO Racing ORECA beat the similar cars of Daniel Goldburg (United Autosports) and Gar Robinson (Riley) in qualifying for Sunday’s race, which features a 34-car entry.The premier class GTP hybrids have taken a break from the fearsome 2.459-mile, 10-turn road course near ...Keep reading
Toyota claimed its first pole position of the 2024 World Endurance Championship campaign as it blocked out the front row for Sunday’s Sao Paulo 6 Hours.Kamui Kobayashi took the top spot in the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID in the 10-minute Hyperpole session for the fastest 10 cars in opening qualifying.The Japanese driver’s 1m23.140s around the Interlagos circuit gave him a a margin of just over one ...Keep reading
Scott Dixon says the hybrid issue that caused his Chip Ganassi Racing car's Honda engine to shut down at Mid-Ohio last weekend “could have happened to a lot of cars”.Dixon’s hopes of a seventh IndyCar Series title took a massive hit when he was classified last on the hybrid's long-awaited debut. Primed to roll off 13th on the grid and targeting a record-extending seventh win at Mid-Ohio ...Keep reading
Ducati says its decision to sign Marc Marquez for its factory MotoGP team in 2025 has garnered a “divisive” response in Italy.The marque has admitted that it has received a bit of criticism for choosing six-time champion Marquez over Jorge Martin as Francesco Bagania’s team-mate for next season.Ducati had initially zeroed in on last year’s runner-up Martin to replace Enea Bastianini as ...Keep reading
Jota's Callum Ilott headed a tight final practice session for the World Endurance Championship's Interlagos round with the top three split by less than a tenth.Ilott headed a Porsche 963 LMDh clean sweep of the top three, his customer Jota car beating the two factory Porsche Penske Motorsport entries with a benchmark effort of 1m24.297s set shortly before the track was declared wet.Conditions ...Keep reading
Oliver Bearman says his Ferrari cameo at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was a "major contributor" to his 2025 Formula 1 seat at Haas, amid his tough Formula 2 season.Bearman was announced last week as one of the American squad's race drivers for the upcoming F1 campaign, when he will make his full-time debut in the championship.The announcement had been in the pipeline for a while, and seemingly ...Keep reading
Ferrari’s victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours was one of the factors behind the early introduction of the first evo joker upgrade of its 499P for Interlagos this weekend.The Italian manufacturer explained that it brought the revision focussed on rear brake cooling of its Le Mans Hypercar to the Brazilian round of the World Endurance Championship in order to prepare for the latter rounds of the ...Keep reading
Ford says it wants to “own” the world of rallying as it adds a factory programme in the Dakar Rally in 2025.The American marque already has a strong presence in off-road competition thanks to a semi-factory team in the World Rally Championship and official entries in Baja 1000 and Finke Desert Race in Australia, but is now expanding to cross-country rallying in association with M-Sport.It ...Keep reading
McLaren CEO Zak Brown says McLaren is "prepared to go toe-to-toe" with Red Bull as it mounts a Formula 1 title challenge, but pledges the team won't be "nasty" about it.Following a string of car upgrades McLaren has closed the performance gap to Red Bull in recent weeks, having been the highest-scoring team over the past six races.McLaren's surge to the front has raised simmering tensions between ...Keep reading
Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin led the only practice session of the weekend for IndyCar’s double-header at Iowa Speedway.The New Zealander threw down a monster lap of 185.891 mph around the 0.894-mile oval, which featured newly-repaved bottom lanes in all four corners.Reigning and two-time series champion Alex Palou ended up putting his No. 10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda second overall, just ...Keep reading
The two Toyotas led the way in second free practice for Sunday’s Interlagos World Endurance Championship round as the top four cars were separated by five-hundredths of a second.Sebastien Buemi sealed the top spot with a 1m26.727s aboard the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar early in the extended session on Friday afternoon. Kamui Kobayashi then vaulted the sister #7 entry up from seventh ...Keep reading
This weekend’s Goodwood Festival of Speed will have a unique crossing of worlds as Juncos Hollinger Racing co-owner Brad Hollinger is sporting an IndyCar presence in West Sussex while also featuring two legendary Williams cars from Formula 1.A former shareholder and board member at Williams, Hollinger is now in his third full year as a team owner alongside Ricardo Juncos in North America’s ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton’s run without a race win came to an end at Silverstone in July after waiting 945 days since his last at the Saudi Arabian GP in 2021. The Brit took his final home grand prix for Mercedes after announcing earlier in the year that he would join Ferrari for the 2025 season.The emotional win was his 104th Formula 1 victory, breaking a number of records with the win, including the most ...Keep reading
Peugeot has switched from focusing on the development of its updated 9X8 2024 Le Mans Hypercar fully to improving performance after its reliable run at the Le Mans 24 Hours.Olivier Jansonnie, technical director of the Peugeot Sport organisation that develops and runs the 9X8s, revealed that he is expecting an upturn in the performance of a car that failed to make it into the top 10 at ...Keep reading
At the launch of its all-electric concept car, NASCAR was at pains to state that it likely wouldn’t ever be its Cup Series platform or race in the Daytona 500. So why build it then?For a series that prides itself in being faithful to its roots, and being the oldest of schools when it comes to racing, the multi-billion dollar sanctioning body has been flexing its muscles recently when it comes to ...Keep reading
Peugeot set the quickest time in the opening practice for the World Endurance Championship at Sao Paulo after a red flag brought an early halt to proceedings.The 90-minute session was red-flagged at exactly the halfway point when Arnold Robin heavily crashed his #78 ASK Lexus RC F GT3 at Turn 4 on a damp but drying track. Although bronze-rated Robin was reported to be OK and taken to medical ...Keep reading
Tickets for the 2025 British Grand Prix on 6 July are expected to go on sale in a few months following the sell-out 2024 race. Sunday’s grand prix sold out over the weekend after struggling to sell tickets on the run-up to the event.Silverstone’s managing director Stuart Pringle cited Red Bull’s dominance as a reason for poor ticket sales, however, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton warned that ...Keep reading
Aleix Espargaro feels his ‘job at Aprilia is done’ and he now wants to help Honda return to winning ways in MotoGP in his role as a test rider.Espargaro has been a key pillar of Aprilia’s MotoGP programme since 2017 and widely hailed for transforming the RS-GP from a perennial backmarker to a multiple race-winning bike.But instead of continuing his relationship with the Noale-based marque ...Keep reading
RB looked set to be the best of the rest in Formula 1's 2024 midfield, even overtaking Aston Martin as the fifth-fastest team. But in recent races the Anglo-Italian squad has struggled to sustain that trajectory, with its wide-ranging Barcelona upgrades sending it up the wrong path.From grabbing solid points in Monaco and Canada, RB was nowhere in Spain as both Yuki Tsunoda and Daniel Ricciardo ...Keep reading
Paraguay’s inclusion on the 2025 World Rally Championship calendar is likely to bolster the Rally1 field following an explosion of local interest in the category.The WRC will head to the South American nation for the first-time next year as part of multi-year agreement announced last month.Paraguay is set to complete the championship’s long-held ambition to host two rounds in the region, with ...Keep reading
The 2024 Dutch GP is set to take place on the 23-25 August, where the crowd will no doubt provide a loud and vibrant atmosphere once again. It may be even louder this year because of how competitive the leading battle is, where there have been six different winners in the opening 12 grands prix of 2024. So it may not be a foregone conclusion that home crowd favourite Max Verstappen will claim ...Keep reading
Fernando Alonso believes a double-points finish was a step "back to normality" for Aston Martin after a difficult run of results in Formula 1.The British squad had scored points in each of the first six rounds of the championship but a comprehensive upgrade introduced for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix had made the AMR24 more difficult to drive.As a result, Aston Martin only managed to score in two ...Keep reading
When Alex Tagliani made his debut in the CART Indycar series in 2000 at the Player’s-backed Forsythe Racing team, it began a three-year partnership with fellow French-Canadian Patrick Carpentier.Results during that period were a mixed bag and Toyota Atlantic graduate Tagliani was frequently left to lament misfortune that meant his abundant pace didn’t translate into an overdue maiden win until ...Keep reading
Ford has taken the covers off the Raptor T1+ contender ahead of its debut at the Dakar Rally in January 2025.The American manufacturer showcased the vehicle to the public for the first time at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Friday, as it gears up for a factory programme in the World Rally-Raid Championship next year together with M-Sport.Ford has also revealed that the Raptor T1+ will weigh a ...Keep reading
Moto2 frontrunner Fermin Aldeguer is still waiting for Ducati to decide the team with which he will make his step up to MotoGP in 2025.Aldeguer had been expected to join Pramac after he signed a MotoGP contract directly with Ducati at the start of his third season in Moto2.But Pramac’s decision to break a long association with Ducati and join the Yamaha fold next year has complicated matters for ...Keep reading
Toyota driver Mike Conway has conceded that there are “still a few unknowns” ahead of his return to the cockpit at this weekend’s Interlagos World Endurance Championship round.The Briton stressed that only after his first laps in opening free practice on Friday morning ahead of the Sao Paolo 6 Hours will he have the final validation of his fitness as he recovers from the injuries that ruled ...Keep reading
Adrian Newey and Red Bull have unveiled the RB17 hypercar that the famed Formula 1 designer has been producing with the team’s Advanced Technologies division.Revealed in a display at the 2024 Goodwood Festival of Speed, the RB17 has changed significantly since the project was first announced publicly in June 2022.The main change concerns the engine, which is now a 4.5-litre V10 instead of an ...Keep reading
The Sauber Formula 1 team has hired a senior figure from Mercedes to bolster its management team ahead of Audi's official takeover.Sauber has poached Stefan Strahnz from Mercedes for the newly created position of programme director, which will see him report directly to team CEO Andreas Seidl.Strahnz, who left his role at Mercedes at the end of June, will join the Swiss-based team on 1 October ...Keep reading
Sebastien Ogier will make a return to the World Rally Championship in Latvia after being declared fit to compete following a reconnaissance crash that ruled him out of Poland.The eight-time world champion and co-driver Vincent Landais escaped serious injury after being involved in road traffic accident while preparing pacenotes ahead of Rally Poland last month.Ogier spent a night in hospital ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen has called for Red Bull to continue pushing through car upgrades as Formula 1's sliding scale aerodynamic testing regulations begin to unfold.The Milton Keynes-based outfit has been the dominant force in F1 since the dawn of the ground effect era in 2022, with Verstappen and Red Bull taking both drivers' and constructors' titles so far.But it has been the sheer number of victories ...Keep reading
Brad Hollinger is among the few that have seen the world of Formula 1 and the IndyCar Series from an ownership perspective.In 2014, the Pennsylvania native dove into the pinnacle of motorsport and became the second-largest shareholder and a board member at Williams. He spent six years with the team before selling off his 15% share and then in 2021 invested in a vision presented by Ricardo Juncos ...Keep reading
Andretti Global COO Rob Edwards believes the team's British Indy NXT driver Louis Foster is "100% deserving" of a call-up to IndyCar next season.He also believes Jamie Chadwick could make the step up, though suggested a mirroring of Foster's decision to add another year of NXT experience could prove worthwhile for her career.Foster leads the race for the title by 41 points over Jacob Able having ...Keep reading
Paris is set to host the 30th edition of the modern Olympics, with the French capital staging the event from 26 July-11 August 2024.This will see athletes from across the globe compete for glory in 329 events across 32 different sports, with the United States of America arriving as the defending champions having topped the medal table at the Tokyo games in 2021.Some of those sports include ...Keep reading
Logan Sargeant has insisted he will "fight to the end" as speculation over his Formula 1 seat with Williams persists.The American driver has failed to cement his place at the Grove-based outfit, with an incident-packed rookie season overshadowing his infrequent showings of raw pace.His current campaign has been far from eye-catching, with a best finish of 14th before last weekend's British Grand ...Keep reading
Through the 1920s, Basil Davenport terrorised bigger and more expensive cars in his GN Spider special and, 100 years later, current owner Jim Edwards is continuing that tradition. Having accepted the challenge of rebuilding Spider’s Frazer Nash V-twin engine for previous owner David Leigh, Edwards was the obvious candidate to take over Spider when Leigh decided to sell it around four years ...Keep reading
Maverick Vinales has conceded he can’t “comprehend” how Aprilia goes from running at the front in Friday practice to being 10 seconds off the pace over the course of a MotoGP race weekend.Since Vinales’s emphatic victory in the Americas Grand Prix in April, Aprilia is yet to add another podium finish to its tally and is fighting to remain second in the manufacturers' standings with KTM.In ...Keep reading
- Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber - Senior Race Strategist - HinwilThe position of Senior Race Strategist with Stake F1 Team Kick Sauber is part of the Audi F1 Project in Hinwil, Switzerland.In this role you will be the main race strategist whilst rotating between trackside and the operations room and will include live decision making, including box calls and live qualifying timing.Candidates will have ...Keep reading
Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has insisted the squad's resurgent form in the last two Formula 1 races will not influence its decision-making process when choosing Lewis Hamilton's replacement.The Brackley-based outfit had experienced a continuation of its struggles from the past two years at the start of the season, finding itself off the pace compared to Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari.But a ...Keep reading
M-Sport is hopeful the strong debut of the non-hybrid version of its Ford Puma World Rally Championship car will help stimulate its Rally1 car sales.The Ford squad took advantage of a new FIA regulation introduced this year that allows teams to enter non-hybrid powered Rally1 cars in WRC events, by fielding rising star Martins Sesks in Poland earlier this month.Without hybrid power, the car ...Keep reading
Hundreds of thousands on site, millions watching at home and more tuning in from around the globe. Of the 4000 motorsport events that take place in the UK every year, there can be no denying that the British Grand Prix is the one that gets the most attention. Especially when the previously all-conquering Red Bull is under threat. And governing body Motorsport UK is keen to capitalise on all that ...Keep reading
Stewart Black has moved back to the top of the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings table thanks to a triple victory at Knockhill.Black has been swapping the leading spot with Honda Civic racer Dan Brown for much of the season, and once again the six-race format of the Scottish Legends championship for each race weekend has helped him out.Even so, it’s a fiercely competitive ...Keep reading
Formula 1 has announced the six grand prix weekends that will feature sprint events in 2025, with Spa-Francorchamps reinstated as Austria drops off for the first time since 2021.Five of the events on the sprint calendar remain the same from 2024's schedule; China and Miami will continue to host Saturday races, as will Austin, Brazil, and Qatar.Belgium had previously held a sprint race in 2023 ...Keep reading
Masters Historic Racing will introduce a new series next year for the spectacular Group C prototypes of the 1980s.The new Masters Le Mans 80+ category has been developed by Masters boss Frederic Fatien, who took over at the end of last year and had previously told Autosport about his desire to assess potential additions to the historic racing organiser’s portfolio.The first of these will be ...Keep reading
When Red Bull rolled out its RB20 for pre-season testing in Bahrain, there were ominous signs of a 2023 dominance repeat.Fast forward four months and the competitive picture has changed completely. Mercedes finally managed to make its ground-effect car sing with a spate of upgrades and McLaren has continued its impressive development trajectory.Problems with its latest upgrade package have seen ...Keep reading
"If anyone thinks that a factory is going to allow a satellite team rider to win the world championship, they don't have a clue where they are," a former rider and current team manager of a MotoGP told this writer on the condition of anonymity.And that was before Jorge Martin found out that Ducati had picked Marc Marquez over him for the second factory seat for 2025, prompting him to switch to ...Keep reading
They often say reality trumps fiction and any sports fan can certainly attest to that, whether it's Tiger Woods overcoming injury and personal turmoil to win his fifth Masters, Liverpool turning around a 3-0 half deficit to AC Milan to win the 2005 Champions League final, or the New England Patriots overturning a 25-point deficit to the Atlanta Falcons in the final quarter of the 2017 Super ...Keep reading
One of the highlights of the annual motorsport calendar is upon us, as the great and good of Formula 1, sportscar racing, rallying and more descends on West Sussex for a four-day celebration of the cars and stars that make racing special.As ever, the Goodwood Festival of Speed will be a spectacle not to be missed. Here's what to look out for at this year's event.1. Horseless to hybrid; pioneers to ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton’s sensation victory in an exciting British Grand Prix steals the limelight in this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (11 July).What a brilliant British Grand Prix that was. Three teams were in contention last weekend, four drivers led the race – including the trio of home heroes – and Hamilton ended his drought with an incredible ninth Silverstone Formula 1 success.The ...Keep reading
After a disappointing start to its 2024 season, Alpine has continued to evolve its engineering structure after installing David Sanchez as executive technical director earlier this year.Sanchez, who had only left McLaren three months after starting at the British squad in January, had been picked up by Alpine to lead a new three-pronged technical structure set out by team principal Bruno ...Keep reading
Rowe Racing's appeal against the result of the Nurburgring 24 Hour race has failed, ensuring Scherer Sport Phx drivers Christopher Mies, Dennis Marschall, Frank Stippler and Ricardo Feller remain victorious.Following a race that was ended prematurely by fog that had caused the race to be stopped for 14 hours overnight before a final attempt at restarting proved abortive, the Audi crew was cleared ...Keep reading
Noah Gragson has become the third current Stewart-Haas Racing driver in the NASCAR Cup Series to land a new home for the 2025 season.Front Row Motorsports – which previously had announced it would add a third team next year – announced on Wednesday that it had signed Gragson to a multi-year deal to drive for one of its teams beginning next season.The 25-year-old will become team-mates with ...Keep reading
Ferrari has revealed its first performance updates for its 499P Le Mans Hypercar ahead of this weekend's Interlagos round of the World Endurance Championship.The Scuderia has embarked on a redesign of the brake cooling ducts, aimed at improving cooling efficiency, and made some minor aerodynamic modifications as part of the first package of upgrades since the car made its debut last ...Keep reading
Hailie Deegan is probably more important to NASCAR racing than it realises. Since Danica Patrick retired from competition, Deegan has emerged as the most likely successor to her standing as the leading lady of stock car competition in America. But this week Deegan’s hype train hit the buffers, as at the age of 24, her Xfinity Series team pulled her from its No. 15 Ford Mustang and left her at a ...Keep reading
McLaren continued to pile the pressure on Red Bull at Formula 1’s British Grand Prix as it arrived with a new lower downforce rear wing assembly to boost the MCL38’s top speed.The team also had three different beam wing specifications on hand, as it looked to find the right balance between downforce and drag reduction for the circuit and the conditions.The new rear wing continues to leverage ...Keep reading
Seven-time MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi explained that the German GT3 enduro on the Nordschleife “is in the plan” and was up there with the Le Mans 24 Hours on his bucket list when he switched full-time to car racing in 2022 on his retirement from two wheels.Rossi ticked the Le Mans box this year as part of his full-season campaign in the World Endurance Championship with the WRT BMW LMGT3 ...Keep reading
The United Kingdom’s summer festivities did not end with last weekend’s British Grand Prix, as the Goodwood Festival of Speed is up next.Festival of Speed, which takes place on the Goodwood Estate in West Sussex, will be live this weekend to provide a jam-packed schedule with many famous cars and legendary drivers tackling the 1.16-mile hillclimb. Reigning Formula 1 world champions Red Bull ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez has set out a goal of finishing inside the top three in the MotoGP standings this year, as he admits keeping factory Ducati rider Enea Bastianini behind “won’t be easy”.Gresini rider Marquez has been a part of MotoGP’s 'big three' group this year alongside reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia and Pramac ace Jorge Martin, with the trio locking out the podium at Le Mans and ...Keep reading
The World Rally Championship is doing “everything” to keep its current manufacturers and create a series that can attract at least one new marque in 2027, according to the championship’s promoter.Rallying’s top-flight has long been striving to broaden its manufacturer base having operated with three brands namely Toyota, Hyundai and Ford [via M-Sport] represented in the top class since ...Keep reading
Daniel Ricciardo says RB faces a critical moment that could dictate how the rest of its season pans out amid doubts about its recent Formula 1 upgrade.The Faenza-based squad introduced a major update at the Spanish Grand Prix that it hoped would push it clear of its midfield rivals.However, the changes – which included a new floor, rear wing and bodywork – left the team struggling for pace and ...Keep reading
Toby Sowery is eager to secure more opportunities in IndyCar after tying the season-best result for Dale Coyne Racing in what he called “the perfect debut” at Mid-Ohio last weekend. Despite not having tested IndyCar’s hybrid unit, which was making its belated mid-season debut, Sowery impressed in advancing from 24th on the grid to match the 13th place finish achieved by Jack Harvey at ...Keep reading
The Super Touring era is regarded as one of the great periods in touring car history. The MSVR Super Touring Power event at Brands Hatch has recently brought the category back to the forefront, so now seems a good time to pick out the finest machines.For this list we have looked at the cars from the two-litre tin-top category that ostensibly ran from 1991 until 2001. We’ve taken into account ...Keep reading
Formula E's London E-Prix season finale will be shown on free-to-air TV in the United Kingdom later this month having only previously been available on TNT Sports this year.TV channel Quest will show both races from London's ExCeL next weekend via Freeview (channel 12), Freesat (167), Virgin (137) and Sky (144) from 4:45pm on 17-18 July.It will mark the first time this season that the all-electric ...Keep reading
McLaren CEO Zak Brown believes McLaren has been offered an "opening window" to fight Red Bull for the Formula 1 constructors' title by Sergio Perez's ongoing struggles.The Woking-based outfit has continued its resurgence from last term in the first half of this season, joining Red Bull at the top of the pecking order with Lando Norris in particular consistently pressurising Max Verstappen for race ...Keep reading
The story of Formula 1’s development war in 2024 has been very much about whether car updates fall into the ‘upgrade’ or ‘downgrade’ category.For some teams, like McLaren, Mercedes and Haas, each new iteration appears to be delivering the steps hoped to help push them forward.For others – like Aston Martin, RB and Ferrari – new parts have led to some unintended consequences and left ...Keep reading
Dale Coyne Racing has announced that Katherine Legge will contest this weekend’s double-header round for the IndyCar Series at Iowa Speedway.The Briton will reassume the DCR’s co-partnered Rick Ware Racing’s #51 Honda-powered entry that she previously drove to a 29th-place finish in the Indianapolis 500 in May, having also tested with the team in the recent IndyCar test at this weekend's ...Keep reading
It had been a long time coming, but after 945 days, Lewis Hamilton returned to winning ways with a thrilling victory at Silverstone and his record-breaking ninth British Grand Prix victory.Jake Boxall-Legge and Haydn Cobb join Bryn Lucas to analyse just how Mercedes triumphed in changeable conditions for their second consecutive victory. Together they break down the differences between Mercedes ...Keep reading
Nico Hulkenberg thinks Haas is now fighting with Aston Martin and RB to be the fifth-fastest team in Formula 1 after what he calls a “hell of a comeback”.An upgrade package introduced at last weekend’s British Grand Prix helped deliver an impressive step forward in pace for the American-owned squad, with Hulkenberg finishing sixth for the second consecutive weekend.While Haas remains seventh ...Keep reading
KTM protege Pedro Acosta has given himself a 4.5 grade out of 10 after the opening half of his rookie MotoGP season.Tech3 GasGas rider Acosta made a storming debut in MotoGP at the start of the year, as he outperformed all his KTM compatriots and finished on the podium in only his second grand prix at Portimao. Another trip to the rostrum at Austin only cemented the belief that he is a ...Keep reading
The long wait for the new era of the IndyCar series came to an end last weekend with the race debut of its hybrid engine at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, the midway point of the 17-race 2024 season.A collaborative effort between IndyCar, Chevrolet and Honda paired the 2.2-litre, twin-turbocharged V6 internal combustion engine – a stalwart in the series since 2012 – with an electrical ...Keep reading
Hamilton claimed an emotional victory at last weekend's British Grand Prix as it ended 945 days without a win in Formula 1.It was the 104th victory of his career, with Hamilton's 103rd win coming 56 grands prix before at the 2021 Saudi Arabian GP - making it the ninth-biggest gap between victories in F1 history.So the seven-time world champion shed tears at the chequered flag, after also claiming ...Keep reading
Robert Kubica says he misses rallying but would only consider a return to the discipline in the future for “fun” rather than competition.The one-time Formula 1 race winner and now AF Corse Ferrari Hypercar driver in the World Endurance Championship continues to follow the World Rally Championship closely, having competed in the series from 2013-16.Kubica long admired rallying before he rose to ...Keep reading
McLaren would be just a handful of points behind Red Bull in an epic 2024 Formula 1 title battle, had it avoided errors and converted lost victory chances from the campaign’s first half.Last weekend’s British Grand Prix marked the 12th of 24 races in the current season, with Max Verstappen and Red Bull leading both the championships they’ve won for the last two years, or three in the ...Keep reading
Arvid Lindblad unexpectedly joined the Formula 3 championship hunt with a surprise pair of wins at the British Grand Prix weekend, taking his tally to four so far in 2024, more than any other driver.“It’s pretty amazing,” says Prema driver Lindblad. “But I’m just focused on taking it race by race and doing the best I can. We did a good job this weekend so I’m super-happy about the ...Keep reading
Aston Martin has announced that Ferrari's former chassis technical director Enrico Cardile will join it next year as its F1 chief technical officer.Just 24 hours after Ferrari finally confirmed that Cardile was leaving, with it reported over the British Grand Prix that Aston Martin had secured his services, the timing of his move and his new role has now been revealed.Cardile now looks set to ...Keep reading
Sergio Perez is under more pressure than ever to bounce back from a disastrous run of races if he wants to retain his Red Bull Formula 1 seat.With team boss Christian Horner saying it is "unsustainable" for the Mexican to continue to perform as he is right now, our writers look at the possible candidates to replace him should he lose his drive.It's time to promote TsunodaThe F1 world tends to ...Keep reading
Pramac rider Franco Morbidelli showed glimpses of his former self as he battled team-mate Jorge Martin and reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia for a podium in last weekend’s German GP.While his strategy to play aggressive early on ultimately and dropped him to fifth at the finish, there were only positives to take for a rider who is rebuilding his career after going from fighting for the ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton’s victory in Formula 1’s British Grand Prix proved that Mercedes finally appears to be properly back in the game.For where George Russell’s triumph in Austria owed much to the race leaders crashing out, Hamilton’s Silverstone win was one based on pure pace – where it could be argued the W15 was the fastest car.Mercedes has made great progress this year and has unlocked ...Keep reading
Scott Dixon’s race was over before it even began at Mid-Ohio when his #9 Chip Ganassi-run Honda suffered a hybrid failure on the formation lap.Primed to roll off 13th on the grid and targeting a record-extending seventh win at Mid-Ohio, disaster struck the 43-year-old New Zealander when he stopped at Turn 5.Unable to move, Dixon’s car was pushed behind the wall and he was left in a fit of ...Keep reading
Andretti Global team-mates Colton Herta and Marcus Ericsson found themselves flip-flopping fourth place between them in IndyCar's race at Mid-Ohio as their tyre strategies split in the closing stages.Herta started fourth ahead of Ericsson, who lost fifth place to a lunging Scott McLaughlin (Team Penske) at the first corner, the Kiwi then also trying his luck to pass Herta on the outside of Turn 5 ...Keep reading
Gresini MotoGP rider Alex Marquez says he would trade all his previous 42 grand prix podiums for the one he achieved in last weekend’s German Grand Prix with elder brother Marc.Alex and Marc Marquez shared a podium in MotoGP for the first time in Sunday’s race at the Sachsenring after finishing third and second respectively behind race winner Francesco Bagnaia (factory Ducati team).It was a ...Keep reading
Despite some growing pains, the race debut of IndyCar's new electrical hybrid system at Mid-Ohio left IndyCar president Jay Frye applauding the end result.Part of a collaborative effort between Chevrolet and Honda, the addition of a low voltage (48V) Motor Generator Unit (MGU) and an up-to-320 kilojoules-per-lap supercapacitor Energy Storage System (ESS) to the existing 2.2-litre ...Keep reading
"The in-flight meal is terrible and the baggage allowance is extremely tight", came the tongue-in-cheek request to see if I could get on board with the Red Arrows as part of their legendary opening sequence to the British Grand Prix.The Royal Air Force's acrobatic display team is the best in the business, with their trademark Diamond Nine shape and whose close combination of manoeuvres and ...Keep reading
The change of government in the UK three days before Formula 1’s 2024 British Grand Prix meant a hasty plan had to be put into action regarding the Silverstone podium.As is protocol for the British GP, a representative from the UK government – usually a secretary of state – is invited to present the winners’ trophy.In the previous three years since the COVID-19 pandemic so disrupted the ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz says Ferrari has lost "two or three months" of Formula 1 car development after reverting to its Imola specification for the British Grand Prix.Ferrari's previous upgrades in Barcelona, which included a revamped floor, exacerbated the SF-24's bouncing issues through high-speed corners as Sainz and Charles Leclerc struggled for performance and comfort in Spain and Austria.That led to ...Keep reading
Factory Aston Martin driver Nicki Thiim completed a ‘20-year-old dream’ after joining his father and 1986 champion Kuurt in the list of DTM race winners at the Norisring on Sunday.Driving a Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo 2 for SSR Performance, polesitter Thiim survived a late safety car appearance to clinch his maiden race victory in the DTM on his 12th attempt.The Danish driver was visibly ...Keep reading
McLaren boss Andrea Stella says the team will not allow annoyance at its repeated victory near-misses to “build and destroy” its emergence as a force in Formula 1.The Woking-based team was left ruing another win that slipped through its fingers at the British Grand Prix as a series of strategy mistakes opened the door for Mercedes to triumph with Lewis Hamilton.A reluctance to double-stack ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia’s victory at the Sachsenring on Sunday elevated him to top of the standings by 10 points over Pramac Ducati rival Jorge Martin, who had things under control until his surprise crash on the penultimate lap.Marc Marquez couldn’t add another win to his Sachsenring tally, but was delighted with second place after a horrible weekend - especially after brother and Gresini ...Keep reading
Ferrari has confirmed the departure of its Formula 1 chassis technical director Enrico Cardile, who is set to join the Aston Martin team.As Autosport exclusively revealed back in May, Cardile had long been targeted by Aston Martin as part of the Silverstone squad’s efforts to push up the F1 grid.The Italian has a good reputation for the role he has played in developing Ferrari’s recent ...Keep reading
Internal combustion-engined cars delivered a double victory over the incumbent electric machinery on their return to the World Rallycross Championship in Sweden last weekend, courtesy of six-time champion Johan Kristoffersson.On the first outing for what is being billed as the ‘Battle of Technologies’, local hero Kristoffersson struck the first blow for the sustainably fuelled ICE-powered cars ...Keep reading
Ferrari has been given back the engine power it lost ahead of its Le Mans 24 Hours victory for the Interlagos World Endurance Championship round this weekend.The Italian manufacturer’s 499P was hit with a 1.7% reduction in maximum power above 250km/h (155mph) under the new power gain element of the Hypercar class Balance of Performance introduced for last month’s Le Mans WEC round.In the BoP ...Keep reading
The fluctuating speed of Formula 1’s top three teams in the British Grand Prix left many scratching their heads to work out how it was Lewis Hamilton who triumphed for Mercedes.After a season that had Red Bull dominant at the start before McLaren emerged more recently with what many believe was now F1’s faster car, Mercedes’ turn to shine at Silverstone was a bit of a surprise.But more ...Keep reading
The "classic British summer" jibes aside, the British Grand Prix weekend faced an atypical barrage of cold and inclement weather - it felt more like a February's half-hearted release of the winter's last remnants, rather than a sun-baked July. Although unwelcome for the fans who had failed to pack a coat, the inconsistent lashings of rain throughout the weekend at least soaked the Silverstone ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia believes the German Grand Prix would have gone down the wire had Jorge Martin not crashed on the penultimate lap and handed him an easy MotoGP win.Pramac rider Martin was circulating comfortably in the front as the Sachsenring race neared its conclusion, having started from pole position and retaken the lead from title rival Bagnaia on lap 7 of 30.But the Italian appeared to have ...Keep reading
Mercedes will continue to roll out incremental upgrades in Budapest and Spa after the development of its 2024 Formula 1 car led to a win on merit at the British Grand Prix.Lewis Hamilton took an emotionally charged ninth home win at Silverstone following a two-and-a-half-year wait for his 104th grand prix victory, holding off Red Bull's Max Verstappen in a mixed-weather thriller.It is Mercedes's ...Keep reading
Red Bull thinks it is “unsustainable” if Sergio Perez continues performing as he is, with the Mexican now at risk of a performance-related clause getting activated in his Formula 1 contract.Perez has been under pressure over recent weeks to lift his game and deliver more for Red Bull, with the Milton Keynes-based team facing an ever-stronger threat from rivals.With McLaren and Mercedes making ...Keep reading
Alex Bowman snapped an 80-race winless streak to win the NASCAR Cup Series race on the streets of Chicago, which was cut short by darkness for the second consecutive season.With a nearly two-hour rain delay in the second stage, NASCAR had set 8:20 p.m. local time hard end to Sunday’s originally scheduled 75-lap race.After surviving contact with Bubba Wallace's 23XI Toyota in wet conditions ...Keep reading
The tears were as unexpected as the victory. Unprecedented, they had come from somewhere deep inside. A mixture of joy and relief - in a way they seemed cathartic.An outpouring of emotion into his crash helmet that had been bottled up since he had been denied of a record eighth world title in such controversial circumstances at the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.The moving sight and sound of Lewis ...Keep reading
Pato O’Ward delivered a massive exhale after beating Alex Palou by 0.4993s in a thrilling IndyCar Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course on Sunday.The 25-year-old Mexican caught Palou and then propelled by after the pole-sitter’s costly hesitation on his final pit stop on lap 55 of 80.Although O’Ward came under attack from Palou in the closing stages, he held on to score claim the sixth ...Keep reading
Alex Palou faltered on his final pitstop at Mid-Ohio’s IndyCar Series race on Sunday, which proved to be the difference between winning and finishing runner-up.The opening half of the race had the look of a typical Palou beatdown: start on pole, lead the majority of laps and throttle the field with a sizable victory.But this one ended up differently for the 27-year-old Spaniard, who led a ...Keep reading
Lando Norris was left deflated by two strategy calls at the British Grand Prix, admitting frustration that he and the McLaren Formula 1 team had "thrown away" another potential win.Although Norris lost position to Max Verstappen on the opening lap of the grand prix, the McLaren driver began to grow into the race and, as the conditions worsened, had a surplus of pace versus the leading duo of Lewis ...Keep reading
MotoGP star Marc Marquez felt like he “won” the German Grand Prix after charging from 13th on the grid to finish second behind future team-mate Francesco Bagnaia.Marquez has repeatedly been labelled the ‘King of Sachsenring’ thanks to his unbeaten streak at the German venue between 2011-21 in MotoGP and its junior classes, but the Spaniard’s hopes of adding a 12th victory to his tally ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton admitted to "days where I didn't feel like I was good enough" amid his Formula 1 win drought, which ended in thrilling fashion at the British Grand Prix.In a dry-wet-dry Silverstone race as summer showers continued to affect the grand prix weekend, Hamilton made the most of Mercedes taking the whip hand in strategic calls, as McLaren failed to react to the end of the rain swiftly ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen thought he would “finish fifth [or] sixth” in Formula 1’s 2024 British Grand Prix given Red Bull’s early pace deficit to Mercedes and McLaren before he recovered to second.The Red Bull driver was passed by both McLaren cars in the dry early stages of the wet weather thriller at Silverstone on Sunday, so ran fifth having initially moved up from fourth to third behind early ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton clinched his ninth British Grand Prix victory in a thrilling Silverstone race, prevailing in wet conditions to beat Formula 1 championship leader Max Verstappen to victory.Hamilton pounced on Mercedes' initiative to switch to slicks after a period of rain across the middle phase of the race, which carted him above long-time leader Lando Norris as McLaren was slower to respond to the ...Keep reading
Hamilton beat Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and McLaren’s Lando Norris after a thrilling rain-impacted race, his ninth victory in his home grand prix.2024 F1 British Grand Prix results
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Jorge Martin says he has no explanation for his exit from the MotoGP German Grand Prix, after crashing out from a front-running position for a third time in the 2024 season.Pramac rider Martin was on his way to claiming a third Sunday win of the year at the Sachsenring on Sunday, but tucked the front-end of his Ducati at Turn 1 at the start of the penultimate tour and ended up in the gravel.The ...Keep reading
Nicki Thiim became the first son of a former DTM winner to also claim a series victory as he took an emotional triumph in Sunday’s clash at the Norisring.The son of 1986 champion Kurt Thiim converted pole position in his SSR Performance Lamborghini to record a second landmark victory in seven days, having prevailed in the Spa 24 Hours last weekend.As was the case on Saturday, the first part of ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia moved to the top of the MotoGP standings with victory in the German Grand Prix after title rival Jorge Martin crashed out while holding a comfortable lead.Martin had looked set to take top honours at the Sachsenring from pole position after repassing Bagnaia early on in the race, but an error with just two laps to the finish handed the top spot and the championship lead to ...Keep reading
The FIA has admitted that Max Verstappen should have been given a black and a white warning flag for moving under braking in Formula 1’s Austrian Grand Prix.In the wake of a collision that the Dutchman had with Lando Norris late in last weekend’s race, McLaren believed that the incident could have been avoided if the FIA had issued a warning against Verstappen for his actions earlier onSeveral ...Keep reading
David Alonso scored yet another victory in Moto3, while Fermin Aldeguer took the spoils in Moto2 on the support bill for the MotoGP German Grand Prix.A 23-lap Moto3 grand prix opened up Sunday’s race programme at the Sachsenring, as David Alonso claimed his sixth win of the year to pull away further from the competition in the championship standings.Intact GP’s Collin Veijer led the field at ...Keep reading
Isack Hadjar took advantage of a disastrous Silverstone Formula 2 feature race for Paul Aron to establish himself as the new championship leader with his third victory of the season.Starting from pole, the Campos driver was forced to work for the win after dropping behind Victor Martins (ART) and Oliver Bearman (Prema) in the opening stages.Recovering the lead with a bold move on Martins at Abbey ...Keep reading
A defiant Sergio Perez says he will turn his Formula 1 season around after suffering another blow in British Grand Prix qualifying.In the opening stages of a wet qualifying session, Perez slipped off the road at Copse and got stuck in the gravel trap, ending the session in 19th.It's the latest blow for Perez amid a downturn in form that has seen the Mexican score just 15 points since Imola ...Keep reading
Red Bull junior Arvid Lindblad moved up to second in the Formula 3 standings with his fourth win of the season at Silverstone in a thrilling feature race.In mixed conditions that swung between favouring wet and dry-shod runners almost by the lap, the Prema driver reaped the rewards of persevering with slicks he'd fitted at the end of the formation lap.After disposing of the drivers who had opted ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera overcame a jump start penalty to claim a maiden circuit race win in only his fourth start in the Porsche Carrera Cup Benelux series at Imola.The two-time world rally champion, contesting a partial campaign in the one-make Porsche series, completed an impressive lights-to-flag victory from pole, but was made to work hard for his first circuit race win.The factory Toyota World Rally ...Keep reading
A couple of weeks ago, Formula 1’s driver market had been expected to quickly fall into place once the first domino of Carlos Sainz’s choice for 2025 became clear.As F1 left the Monaco Grand Prix, the options for the Spaniard had appeared to pretty much distil down to a straight choice between Williams and Sauber/Audi.With the golden seats at Red Bull and Mercedes looking gone, as Sergio Perez ...Keep reading
Fabio Di Giannantonio will continue to race for VR46 until the 2026 MotoGP season after agreeing a deal with Ducati, Autosport has learned.As per the agreement, Di Giannantonio has been guaranteed the full-factory spec GP25 from Ducati in 2025, having had to be content with year-old machinery during his first three years in MotoGP.The Italian had a two-year offer from Yamaha to race for Pramac ...Keep reading
George Russell's delight at taking pole position at Silverstone was palpable. It was, of course, entirely understandable. Pole at his home race was obviously one to celebrate but it also comes as he is finally showing his full potential.Forced to cut his teeth in Formula 1 while fighting at the back for Williams, his promotion to Mercedes came at the worst possible time.The Mercedes production ...Keep reading
Grove Racing Ford driver Matt Payne used a three-stop strategy to take his second career Supercars win and his first of the 2024 season at Townsville.The 21-year-old was the first of the drivers to make a pitstop, committing him to a three-stop strategy, and hit the front with 22 of the 88 laps remaining to win by 6.06s.“We've had a tough couple of rounds lately and I knew we had a good race car ...Keep reading
Ferrari duo Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz had their Formula 1 cars dialled back to their Imola-spec parts as the Italian squad hoped to find an answer to its recent performance problems.The team had introduced two larger-scale upgrade packages this season: one at Imola, and the other at Barcelona, as it sought to maintain a regular cadence of adding performance to the car. The Imola upgrades ...Keep reading
Alex Palou’s adaptability to IndyCar’s hybrid era was on display Saturday at Mid-Ohio after leading all three rounds of knockout qualifying and claiming pole by 0.0024s over Arrow McLaren's Pato O’Ward.The 13-turn, 2.258-mile natural terrain road course has been this weekend’s playground for Palou, who earned his second consecutive pole and third over the last six races this ...Keep reading
The comeback is in full swing for David Malukas after putting together a remarkable showing in knockout qualifying that ended with him starting third for Sunday’s IndyCar Series race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.It was only the second qualifying outing of the year for the 22-year-old after an off-season wrist injury led to surgery and led to the termination of his Arrow McLaren contract before ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou pipped Arrow McLaren rival Pato O’Ward to pole for the first race of IndyCar's hybrid era at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.The reigning series champion pounded the freshly repaved 2.258-mile road course in 1m05.3511s to edge out O'Ward by 0.0024s.“It was huge,” Palou said. “I knew we had a really fast car.“We knew we were racing with a disadvantage to ...Keep reading
Andrea Kimi Antonelli’s victory in the Formula 2 sprint race at the British Grand Prix not only broke his duck in the championship to ease the pressure on his shoulders, but for the first time it also thrust him into the media spotlight - something the 17-year-old has so far been protected from.He performed well as he faced open questions without the filter of his PR team by his side, but this ...Keep reading
Arvid Lindblad topped the Formula 3 podium in the Silverstone sprint race, becoming the first British driver to win on home soil since George Russell in 2017.The Prema driver had started second and was rewarded for his early aggression on polesitter Noel Leon (Van Amersfoort Racing), who also dropped behind Matias Zagazeta in the opening exchanges.The race had been delayed by near nine hours due ...Keep reading
The Mercedes driver led an all-British top three in qualifying, beating team-mate Lewis Hamilton and McLaren’s Lando Norris to pole at Silverstone.F1 world championship leader Max Verstappen was adrift of the pole fight and took fourth place. The Dutchman carried floor damage on his Red Bull after skating over the gravel trap at Copse in Q1, with the team unable to produce a complete repair ...Keep reading
The IndyCar Series’ electrical hybrid system makes its debut at Mid-Ohio this weekend, but series president Jay Frye insists it won’t go down a full EV route in years to come.The new hybrid, which has been developed jointly by IndyCar’s engine suppliers Chevrolet and Honda, produces 60bhp at present – with scope for increasing its output in the future.As NASCAR unveiled an all-electric ...Keep reading
Lando Norris feels he "didn't deliver" in challenging for pole at Formula 1's British Grand Prix, where George Russell and Lewis Hamilton knocked him off the front row.Norris, who over the last two weekends has topped F1 qualifying in Spain and was second twice against the clock in Austria, had set the pace in Q2 at Silverstone.The McLaren racer then surged ahead of team-mate Oscar Piastri and the ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen was told the floor damage caused by his run across the Copse gravel trap in Q1 for Formula 1’s British Grand Prix robbed him of 100 downforce points.Amid the threat of a rain shower in the opening segment of qualifying, Verstappen had been pushing hard on slicks when he hit a damp patch at Copse – pitching him off the circuit and through the gravel.Although he was able to keep ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez labelled the German Grand Prix weekend as "the worst of the year" so far, as crashes and mechanical troubles limited him to sixth in the Sachsenring MotoGP sprint.The Gresini rider has a record eight wins at the track in MotoGP, but he wasn't a factor in Saturday's half-distance race after qualifying on the fifth row in 13th.The Spaniard's troubles began in practice on Friday with two ...Keep reading
George Russell feared he was set for an early Formula 1 qualifying elimination before securing pole for the British Grand Prix, and felt his car came alive in Q3.Both Mercedes drivers had brief flirtations with the elimination zone across the opening phases of qualifying at Silverstone, but managed to haul themselves into the final shootout for pole.Russell said that this was where the performance ...Keep reading
NASCAR has formally unveiled its electric prototype at its Chicago street race event, but don’t expect to see it in any national series anytime soon – or perhaps ever.The ABB NASCAR EV Prototype has been so named in deference to NASCAR's new partnership with Formula E's title partner ABB, the first official partner of its “NASCAR Impact” initiative, and is illustrative of the sanctioning ...Keep reading
Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward led the second IndyCar practice session of the weekend at Mid-Ohio.The 25-year-old Mexican managed to log 23 laps, with a best of 1m05.9862s, to lead Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Graham Rahal by 0.0577s in the session, with Colton Herta rebounding from an early shunt and put his #Andretti Global Honda in third - 0.1777s behind O’Ward.David Malukas, making ...Keep reading
After every F1 qualifying session, Autosport publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don't alter the statistics.When a driver can't put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.Red Bull
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George Russell led an all-Mercedes front row for the British Grand Prix as he beat Formula 1 team-mate Lewis Hamilton to pole by 0.171 seconds.A thrilling fight for pole eventually boiled down to a duel between the two Mercedes drivers. Neither Hamilton nor Russell had improved on their first sectors, but started to turn up the dial as their laps progressed.Hamilton logged a 1m25.990s to lay down ...Keep reading
Andrea Kimi Antonelli admits to feeling the pressure since being tipped as the driver to replace Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes before his breakthrough maiden Formula 2 win in the Silverstone sprint race.After winning the Formula Regional European title, the 17-year-old skipped Formula 3 in favour of competing in the more senior category, but the spotlight grew infinitely when Hamilton ...Keep reading
Russell will start ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton and McLaren’s Lando Norris after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.British Grand Prix grid: Russell on pole from Hamilton
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Prema driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli was in a class of one as he registered his first Formula 2 win from pole in the soaking wet sprint race at Silverstone.On a wet weekend at Silverstone, the rain returned just in time for the start which saw race control opt for a rolling start controlled by polesitter Antonelli.An early scrap involving Austrian sprint race winner Oliver Bearman, Invicta’s ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin came out on top in a three-way battle with Miguel Oliveira and Francesco Bagnaia to win the German Grand Prix sprint and extend his lead in the MotoGP standings.After a tight early fight between the trio that saw all three briefly lead, Martin was able to assert his pace and win by 0.676s from Oliveira, with Bagnaia completing the podium spots.At the start of the race, Martin got away ...Keep reading
Rene Rast came out on top of a mixed-weather first DTM race at the Norisring, calling the conditions exactly right to win in his Schubert Motorsport BMW M4 GT3.The start was cleaner and tidier than some seen during the course of the Norisring’s long DTM history. Behind poleman Jack Aitken (Emil Frey Racing Ferrari), Rast’s team-mate Sheldon van der Linde slotted dutifully into second with ...Keep reading
Liam Lawson is set to test Red Bull’s current Formula 1 car at Silverstone next week, Autosport has learned, as the rumour-mill intensifies over Sergio Perez’s future at the team.Perez is under pressure to lift his game off the back of a disappointing run of form that has left his team bosses frustrated.The Mexican has not finished on a non-sprint podium since the Chinese Grand Prix, and has ...Keep reading
George Russell claimed the fastest time in a wet FP3 session at the British Grand Prix, pipping Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 0.035 seconds.Despite a red flag and the effect of continued precipitation throughout the session, a steady level of improvement continued beyond the half-hour mark, allowing Russell to grab the fastest time - still over 10 seconds down on Friday's dry ...Keep reading
World Rally Championship title contender Ott Tanak and co-driver Martin Jarveoja have escaped unharmed from a high-speed crash at Rally Estonia.The pair were driving a WRC-specification Hyundai i20 Rally1 car in the national class of the event, which this weekend is hosting the fourth round of the European Rally Championship. The rally offered a chance for Tanak and Jarveoja to log some extra ...Keep reading
The FIA has told Formula 1 drivers that there will be no immediate change to the application of track limits penalties, despite the storm over Lando Norris’s sanction in Austria.Norris was handed a five-second penalty for running wide during his battle with Max Verstappen at the Red Bull Ring last weekend, after locking up a wheel.The sanction caused some unease among his peers, who felt that it ...Keep reading
Toto Wolff says the Mercedes Formula 1 team "likes the thought" of supplying customer engines to Alpine in 2026 instead of Honda-bound Aston Martin.Alpine is considering abandoning its own Renault F1 power unit programme for the 2026 regulations and switch to becoming a customer team, with Mercedes thought to be the most likely source of engines for the Enstone-based squad.With current Mercedes ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin claimed pole position for MotoGP’s German Grand Prix ahead of Trackhouse Aprilia duo Miguel Oliveira and Raul Fernandez, as Marc Marquez qualified 13th after being knocked out in Q1.Pramac Ducati rider Martin broke the circuit lap record with a 1m19.423s on his first run around the Sachsenring, which would remain unbeaten as a number of yellow flags prevented rivals from improving ...Keep reading
Heavy rain and standing water have resulted in the postponement of the Formula 3 sprint race at Silverstone.The perils of the conditions became clear when Gabriele Mini dropped his Prema into the gravel at Stowe while simply travelling from the support pits to the Formula 1 pitlane.He was followed through the gravel by two of the Rodin cars.The race was initially scheduled to start at 9:20am BST ...Keep reading
Cameron Waters returned to form in emphatic style by taking the win in Race 13 of the Supercars campaign in Townsville.Starting from pole, the Tickford Mustang driver was unable to shake Chaz Mostert in the opening third of the race before Walkinshaw Andretti United triggered an undercut when bringing in its driver on lap 24. Although Waters returned to the track still in the lead, Mostert made ...Keep reading
Aston Martin may now be clear favourite to secure Adrian Newey’s services, but his Formula 1 future will not become clear until September because of an arrangement with Red Bull.Newey has been pondering his next steps in F1 after deciding that it was time to move on from his role as chief technical officer at Red Bull. He will continue working for the Milton Keynes-based operation until March ...Keep reading
Haas has been one of the surprises of the Formula 1 midfield this year as its VF-24 has proved to be a regular points scorer – defying the team’s pre-season pessimism.But perhaps more encouraging than the step the team has made in producing a car that does not suffer excessively from tyre degradation, is the fact that its upgrades seem to be working.Having had trouble in the past with new ...Keep reading
F1 and Apple have tied up a deal with Warner Bros. Pictures to distribute the film worldwide next summer with a teaser published on Sunday 7 July.Filming resumed at Silverstone after Hollywood's SAG-AFTRA strikes last year, with the camera crews following actors Brad Pitt and Damson Idris, who drive for a fictional team called APXGP.It is being directed by Top Gun Maverick director Joseph Kosinski ...Keep reading
The reigning and two-time IndyCar Series champion Alex Palou led the first practice session of the hybrid era as rain impacted Friday’s running at Mid-Ohio.Chip Ganassi Racing’s Palou produced a best lap 1m07.0650s around the resurfaced circuit in a rain-impacted opening session, edging Alexander Rossi by 0.4443s in the #7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet.Marcus Armstrong was third at 0.4792s off the ...Keep reading
The opening day of track action at Formula 1’s 2024 British Grand Prix ended with a clean sweep of Friday practice sessions for McLaren, with Red Bull not troubling the top times.Well, Sergio Perez was third fastest in FP2 to put the world champion squad second overall behind McLaren in that session, but his illustrious team-mate, Max Verstappen, was down in an unusual spot in seventh. Just like ...Keep reading
The British Grand Prix is under way in the conclusion to the European triple-header. This year three British drivers will be hoping to take the win on their home soil at the iconic Silverstone Circuit. The contingent will be joined by a fourth driver in 2025, with Haas announcing the signing of Oliver Bearman ahead of the grand prix weekend. Silverstone is the home of the British Grand Prix and ...Keep reading
Count Rinus VeeKay among the shortlist of talented drivers in the IndyCar Series without definite plans for 2025.The 23-year-old Dutchman is in the final year of his contract with Ed Carpenter Racing (ECR), the team he has called home since jumping into North America’s premier open-wheel championship in 2020.The early part of their relationship together appeared to show promise, with VeeKay ...Keep reading
The British GP has become synonymous with its now permanent home of Silverstone circuit, which is widely regarded as one of the best tracks in the world.Silverstone, which lies in Northamptonshire, also hosted F1’s inaugural race in 1950 but it has not been the venue for every British GP since.In fact, it’s only been the permanent host since 1987 as the British GP alternated its venue ...Keep reading
Joan Mir branded Friday at the 2024 MotoGP German Grand Prix as the “most difficult day all year” in terms of bike performance on the Honda.The 2020 world champion brought his season tally of crashes up to 10 in second practice at the Sachsenring on Friday afternoon, with his frustration at the bike visible as he shook his fists in anger at the stricken RC213V in the Turn 1 gravel.A decade ...Keep reading
MotoGP’s second practice at the 2024 German Grand Prix proved to be something of a crash-fest as 10 riders suffered tumbles through the gravel.VR46 Ducati rider Marco Bezzecchi brought out the first display of yellow flags at the fast Turn 11 right-hander four minutes into the hour-long second practice session.Three minutes later, Marc Marquez came off his Gresini Ducati at the same place when ...Keep reading
Formula 1 should seek to “fix” clear flaws with the racing rules that emerged from the Austrian Grand Prix, reckons McLaren boss Andrea Stella.He thinks such action is essential if F1 is to deliver a good spectacle on track rather than the kind of controversies that famously marred the 2021 title battle between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton.Stella saw his driver Lando Norris eliminated ...Keep reading
Joey Logano stretched his fuel strategy over a NASCAR Cup Series record of five overtimes to win at Nashville and clinch a playoffs place.Logano inherited the lead after the third overtime when Denny Hamlin and Martin Truex Jr were both forced to pit for fuel. He appeared to be in position to claim the win in the fourth overtime, but a caution came out just before Logano took the white ...Keep reading
Alex Marquez will remain with Gresini Racing until the end of the 2026 MotoGP season after inking a fresh two-year deal.As revealed by Autosport last week, the younger Marquez will see out the current MotoGP rules era with the satellite Ducati squad after a successful adaptation to the Desmosedici following his previous struggles on the Honda RC213V.The identity of his team-mate remains unclear ...Keep reading
Lando Norris says he will "lose respect" for Max Verstappen if the Dutchman maintains he did nothing wrong in their controversial clash in Formula 1's Austrian Grand Prix.After a knife-edge battle for several laps, Norris and Verstappen finally came to blows on lap 64 of the Red Bull Ring race, with the pair trading glancing blows in Turn 3 that led to punctures for both.Verstappen pitted and ...Keep reading
The Porsche driver decisively took the lead of the race at the start of lap 21 following a brief safety car to retrieve debris and managed his remaining energy over the remaining six laps.Da Costa had to withstand late pressure from Robin Frijns, who had battled back into second place after re-passing Mitch Evans on the penultimate lap at the Portland International Raceway.Evans completed the ...Keep reading
Jean-Eric Vergne claimed his third pole position of the season and a new outright Formula E record ahead of the Portland E-Prix, beating Antonio Felix da Costa by just 0.025s.The DS Penske driver produced a 1m08.779s having been just fractionally faster in the first and third sectors at the Portland International Raceway and with it his 17th Formula E pole which is a new record.Vergne advanced to ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera says it will take time to realise the enormity of his latest World Rally Championship victory in Poland as a last-minute replacement with limited preparation.Toyota’s reigning world champion was drafted in to replace Sebastien Ogier for the gravel rally after the eight-time world champion escaped serious injury in a road traffic crash while preparing pacenotes for the ...Keep reading
Red Bull's failure to warn Max Verstappen that Lando Norris faced a track limits investigation might have avoided their late 2024 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix crash, reckons Helmut Marko.Verstappen and Norris collided in the closing stages of Sunday's race at the Red Bull Ring, after the McLaren driver had gone off the track three times and earned a track limits black-white-warning flag, before ...Keep reading
Austrian Grand Prix winner George Russell reckoned he "almost crashed" when Mercedes boss Toto Wolff told him he could win over his team radio, en route to securing his second Formula 1 victory.Russell capitalised on the raging lead battle between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris, which boiled over with seven laps remaining in dramatic fashion as the two made contact at Turn 3, handing punctures to ...Keep reading
McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andrea Stella believes Max Verstappen’s collision with Lando Norris in the Austrian Grand Prix was a result of his 2021 clashes with Lewis Hamilton not being properly punished.Verstappen and Norris crashed late in the race at the Red Bull Ring when the former moved across the latter at the track’s tight, sharply-uphill Turn 3 right-hander, after Norris had sent ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez was only 0.01 bar outside of MotoGP’s minimum tyre pressure rule for one lap of the Dutch Grand Prix and feels contact with Enea Bastianini was to blame.The Gresini Ducati rider finished fourth in Sunday’s 26-lap grand prix at Assen, but was later demoted to 10th after being hit with a post-race time penalty of 16 seconds for breaching MotoGP’s minimum front tyre pressure ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen denies he was “aggressive” towards Lando Norris in their 2024 Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix crash and that he was moving under braking throughout their battle.The pair collided as the final laps of the main event at the Red Bull Ring kicked off, with Verstappen penalised for moving across on Norris’s outside line attack at the track’s tight, sharply-uphill Turn 3 ...Keep reading
Aston Martin stole a dramatic last-gasp victory at the Spa 24 Hours to claim a first win at the Belgian enduro since 1948.The Comtoyou Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3 shared by Nicki Thiim, Marco Sorensen and Mattia Drudi jumped into the lead of a race affected by heavy and prolonged rain and 17 safety cars with less than 50 minutes left on the clock.They moved to the front of the field in the GT ...Keep reading
Lando Norris has called Max Verstappen's driving in Formula 1's 2024 Austrian Grand Prix "reckless" and "desperate" after the collision between the pair cost them both a victory shot.Norris and Verstappen made contact as the final stages of the race at the Red Bull Ring kicked off, after long-time leader Verstappen had lost almost all of his previous advantage in a slow pitstop.After Norris had ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez has been hit with a penalty for a tyre pressure rule infraction in the MotoGP Dutch Grand Prix, dropping him to 10th.Under the current rules, riders must race for 30% of a sprint and 60% of a grand prix within the minimum tyre pressures – which for the front is 1.8 bar (26.1psi).Marquez fell foul of this limit in Sunday’s Assen race and has been hit with an 18-second time penalty ...Keep reading
Russell was joined on the podium by McLaren’s Oscar Piastri and Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz.Verstappen’s first issue was a near-miss with Norris as he exited his pitbox in the first cycle of stops, but stewards decided it wasn’t worthy of a penalty.A slow second stop for Verstappen put Norris right on his tail with 15 laps to go.Norris lunged ahead at Turn 3 on lap 59, but had to give the ...Keep reading
MotoGP standings leader Jorge Martin feels his Dutch Grand Prix grid penalty had no impact on his ability to fight for victory, noting he had ‘no chance to be first’.The Pramac Ducati rider struggled for feeling on his GP24 in Friday practice and admitted then that he was surprised he was even inside the top 10.Martin was able to challenge for pole, but couldn’t outpace Bagnaia, and could do ...Keep reading
George Russell won Formula 1’s 2024 Austrian Grand Prix that was transformed dramatically when long-time leader Max Verstappen collided with long-time pursuer Lando Norris.The Red Bull and McLaren pair made contact at the Red Bull Ring’s tight, uphill Turn 3 with seven laps of the 71-lap contest, Norris having dramatically cut into Verstappen’s lead after the Dutchman had suffered a long ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera sealed one of the finest victories of his World Rally Championship career at Rally Poland after overcoming limited preparation as a last-minute stand-in for Toyota team-mate Sebastien Ogier.Rovanpera and co-driver Jonne Halttunen won eight of the 19 gravel stages on the way to completing a remarkable victory by 28.3s from Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans and Scott Martin.M-Sport’s ...Keep reading
World champion Francesco Bagnaia swept to his second win of the 2024 MotoGP Dutch Grand Prix after dominating Sunday’s main race ahead of Jorge Martin.Having eased to victory in the sprint on Saturday, Bagnaia stormed to a third-successive Dutch GP win on Sunday on his factory Ducati having controlled the race from the off.Starting from pole, Bagnaia grabbed the holeshot off the line and was ...Keep reading
Formula 1 drivers have come out in favour of the FIA's track limits experiment at the Austrian Grand Prix.At Turn 9 and 10, which was the site of over 1200 track limits offences last year, the FIA and the Red Bull Ring have installed narrower kerbs bordered by strips of gravel, which slow down drivers before they cross the white line.The new solution wasn't perfect, and Oscar Piastri's deleted lap ...Keep reading
A thrilling 20-lap Moto3 grand prix opened up Sunday’s race programme at the TT Circuit Assen, with Ivan Ortola denying home hero Collin Veijer at the final chicane.The first six corners of the race were led by poleman Angel Piqueras (Leopard Honda), before Ortola sent his MT Helmets – MSI KTM up the inside at Turn 7.Ortola the led for the next 10 laps before Veijer (Intact GP Husqvarna) ...Keep reading
Oscar Piastri’s spectacular post-Austrian Grand Prix qualifying rant has put the focus back on Formula 1’s track limit problem at the Red Bull Ring.This reached a farcical point in 2023, when the FIA was unable to police about 1,200 potential track limits abuses during the main race, before the governing body and the track embarked on a major effort to fix the issue for 2024.New, small gravel ...Keep reading
Formula 3 champion Gabriel Bortoleto opened his Formula 2 win account with a dominant drive in the Austrian feature race, as Franco Colapinto emerged in second on the alternate strategy.Invicta driver Bortoleto had started from the third-place grid slot, but quickly established himself in the lead and secured himself the victory following his pitstop with a pass on Campos rival Pepe Marti, who ...Keep reading
Mitch Evans has called the five-second time penalty which he was handed after a collision in the opening Portland Formula E race and that ultimately denied him victory “a disgrace”.The Jaguar driver finished first on the road in Saturday’s 27-lap contest at the Portland International Raceway, but was demoted to eighth in the final classification after being handed the penalty during the ...Keep reading
World rally champion Kalle Rovanpera extended his Rally Poland lead on Sunday morning, while drama for Hyundai’s Andreas Mikkelsen shook up the leaderboard.The last-minute replacement for injured Toyota team-mate Sebastien Ogier, Rovanpera opened up a comfortable 18.1s lead after Mikkelsen lost almost a minute when he knocked a tyre off the rim in stage 16.This promoted Toyota's Elfyn Evans to ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz’s Formula 1 options for 2025 could be narrowing, with teams that have been holding on for him to make a call on his future now assessing other routes.The Spaniard has been weighing up for weeks clear offers he has from both the Sauber/Audi team and Williams for next season.But as the Ferrari driver appeared to be on the verge of making a final decision around the time of the Spanish ...Keep reading
The MotoGP Kazakhstan Grand Prix will not take place and a second round will be held in Qatar instead, Autosport understands.The race at the Sokol circuit has been in doubt from the moment it entered the calendar.Initially, the event was due to debut last year, but its cancellation was announced not long into the season as work on the facility, just outside the town of Almati, was not on ...Keep reading
World Rally Championship points leader Thierry Neuville believes it was a mistake for Hyundai to retire Ott Tanak’s car after stage 12 at Rally Poland.Hyundai elected to withdraw Tanak’s i20 N after Saturday morning’s loop to prepare his challenge for the 12 points on offer on Super Sunday.The decision came with the Estonian already out of the fight for victory and Saturday points after an ...Keep reading
Luke Browning converted pole position into his second Formula 3 win of the season to reclaim the points lead with a controlled drive in the Austrian feature race.The Williams Academy driver, racing for Hitech, kept clear of the touring car-style battles raging behind him to win by 1.6s from Prema's Gabriele Mini.Having made a solid start, Browning pulled clear of the field while third-placed ...Keep reading
The first of the two races in Portland (USA) saw DS Automobiles record its 51st podium thanks to Jean-Eric Vergne's third-place finish with Stoffel Vandoorne also scoring points in ninth.On the permanent Portland circuit, the first free practice sessions took place late Friday afternoon with the track relatively dirty, despite having been partially used by dragsters a few days earlier.After 30 ...Keep reading
Aleix Espargaro will sit out Sunday’s Dutch Grand Prix following a high-speed crash on the final lap of the sprint race, his Aprilia MotoGP team has announced.Espargaro’s participation in the Assen contest had been in doubt since he fell off his bike at Turn 15 and had to be taken to the hospital for check-ups.The Spaniard’s condition for the race was initially expected to be evaluated in ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera surpassed Toyota’s expectations by delivering a world rally champion’s performance to lead Rally Poland onto the final day, despite limited preparation as a last-minute substitute for Sebastien Ogier.Rovanpera, who has scaled back his World Rally Championship programme to a part-time schedule in 2024, was servicing his jet ski on Tuesday when he received the call to stand in ...Keep reading
Those hoping that Max Verstappen's challengers would use the three-hour tinkering time between the Austria sprint race and grand prix qualifying to close the gap might feel, to put it lightly, a little downbeat.A frisson of excitement permeated the Red Bull Ring on Saturday as the field was compressed within 0.798 seconds after Q1, intimating that the battle for pole might be a closely run affair ...Keep reading
Nick Cassidy claims he “was one lap away from winning the championship this weekend” after spinning out from the lead in the Portland E-Prix on the penultimate lap.The Jaguar driver entered the American double-header at the Portland International Raceway 25 points ahead of nearest challenger Pascal Wehrlein with only four races remaining this season.Having started 10th for Saturday’s opening ...Keep reading
A Nick Cassidy error and time penalty for Mitch Evans meant Jaguar threw away victory in the Portland E-Prix, allowing Antonio Felix da Costa to take back-to-back Formula E wins.Championship leader Cassidy was on course to take his third win of the season and with it, put one hand on the title at the Portland International Raceway.But on the penultimate lap and in the lead, the Kiwi ran wide ...Keep reading
RB Formula 1 driver Yuki Tsunoda has been handed a 40,000 euro fine for using offensive remarks during Austrian Grand Prix qualifying.Towards the end of Q1 at the Red Bull Ring Tsunoda was overtaken in the pitlane by Sauber's Zhou Guanyu, and responded by saying “these guys are f***ing retarded” over his team radio.The remarks were brought to the attention of the FIA's race stewards, who have ...Keep reading
McLaren’s protest against Oscar Piastri’s Formula 1 penalty for an alleged track limits infringement during Austrian Grand Prix qualifying has been rejected by the FIA stewards because it was inadmissible.The Woking-based team had lodged a formal complaint against the results of qualifying because it was unhappy that Piastri had been penalised and lost his third place on the grid.Having ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen has escaped punishment for driving unnecessarily slowly ahead of his final lap in 2024 Austrian Grand Prix Formula 1 qualifying.The Red Bull driver took a commanding pole position at his team’s home track on Saturday afternoon but was swiftly placed under investigation for going so slowly out of the pitlane ahead of his final flying lap his engine began to stutter.This fell under ...Keep reading
Mitch Evans claimed his second Formula E pole of the season for the Portland E-Prix, as title protagonists Nick Cassidy and Pascal Wehrlein both failed to make the duels.Jaguar driver Evans posted a 1m08.820s which left him 0.196s clear of Andretti’s Norman Nato, having been fastest in the final two sectors.It means Evans has also closed to within 32 points of team-mate and championship leader ...Keep reading
McLaren has protested the result of qualifying for Formula 1’s Austrian Grand Prix after feeling that Oscar Piastri’s track limits penalty could not be proved beyond reasonable doubt.Piastri lost his third place on the grid for Sunday’s race after the FIA deemed that he had breached track limits at Turn 6 on the final run in Q3.But after the Australian questioned whether or not he had run ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera produced a stunning drive in challenging circumstances to lead Rally Poland heading into the final day of the seventh round of the World Rally Championship.The last-minute replacement for Toyota team-mate Sebastien Ogier, who suffered a pre-event reconnaissance crash, won six of the day’s seven stages to open up a 9.4s lead over Hyundai's Andreas Mikkelsen.Rovanpera started ...Keep reading
RB Formula 1 driver Yuki Tsunoda is being investigated over team radio comments he made in 2024 Austrian Grand Prix qualifying, which appeared to include an ableist slur.At the end of Q1 in Austria on Saturday Tsunoda appeared to say over his team radio, “these guys are f***ing retarded” after being overtaken in the pitlane by Zhou Guanyu, as Tsunoda queued in the fast lane and the Sauber ...Keep reading
The Red Bull driver has enjoyed a perfect race weekend so far by topping practice, taking the sprint race pole, winning the sprint race and then securing the grand prix pole in Austria.The reigning world champion once again saw off McLaren’s Lando Norris for pole on Saturday afternoon, grabbing top spot by an impressive 0.404s, while Oscar Piastri lost his best lap time and dropped from third to ...Keep reading
MotoGP championship leader Jorge Martin has been hit with a three-place grid penalty for the 2024 Dutch Grand Prix after impeding Raul Fernandez in qualifying.Pramac Ducati rider Martin qualified second on the grid at Assen and stayed there in Saturday’s 13-lap sprint, losing out to title rival Francesco Bagnaia.A number of riders tripped over each other and aborted laps during qualifying, as ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen's advantage in Austrian Grand Prix qualifying was a "reality check for everyone", admitted McLaren's Oscar Piastri.After what looked like a finely poised weekend between Verstappen and the two McLarens, coming off the back of a competitive run of races where both cars looked fairly equal, Verstappen ran out a convincing pole winner at the Red Bull Ring by putting four tenths on ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz thinks Ferrari’s recent challenges in Formula 1 could be a consequence of its latest upgrade package triggering problems in high-speed corners.The Maranello-based outfit has endured two difficult weekends on the trot, where it has found itself behind Red Bull, McLaren and Mercedes.And although the Spaniard managed to secure fourth on the grid for the Austrian Grand Prix, he knows ...Keep reading
McLaren’s Oscar Piastri has slammed his track limits penalty in Austrian Grand Prix qualifying as “embarrassing” for Formula 1.Piastri set the third quickest time in qualifying for Sunday’s main race at the Red Bull Ring with his final lap in Q3, but lost it for running fractionally too wide at Turn 6.That dropped him to seventh in the final order, behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, who ...Keep reading
Antonio Felix da Costa topped the second Formula E practice session ahead of the Portland E-Prix double-header this weekend, which was disrupted by a red flag after Sacha Fenestraz crashed.Da Costa posted a 1m08.787s that left him quickest, with the Porsche driver entering the American event having won two races from the last three, although the German manufacturer’s appeal into his Misano ...Keep reading
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen dominated qualifying for Formula 1’s 2024 Austrian Grand Prix – finishing 0.4s clear of McLaren driver Lando Norris with George Russell third for Mercedes.But the Red Bull driver faces a post-qualifying investigation for possibly driving too slowly through the pitlane exit at the Red Bull Ring ahead of his final Q3 effort.After being put under much pressure from ...Keep reading
Verstappen will start ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris and Mercedes’ George Russell after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.Austrian Grand Prix grid: Verstappen on pole from Norris
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Marc Marquez says he is “upset” with himself after crashing out of the MotoGP Dutch Grand Prix sprint race as the kind of incident “you need to avoid”.The Gresini Ducati rider started from seventh in Saturday’s 13-lap Assen sprint after crashing out late on in qualifying, but was running fifth after the first few corners.On the second lap, however, Marquez touched the inside kerb at Turn ...Keep reading
MotoGP world champion Francesco Bagnaia dominated the Dutch Grand Prix sprint to narrow Jorge Martin’s points lead in the standings, as Marc Marquez crashed out.Having topped both practice sessions on a Friday for the first time in his MotoGP career and taken pole with a lap record, Bagnaia led from start to finish in the 13-lap Assen sprint.The factory Ducati rider seized the holeshot off the ...Keep reading
Grasser Racing's #163 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 will start the race from pole position after factory driver Franck Perera topped the final qualifying session on Saturday.Spa 24 Hours entry list:
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Oliver Bearman scored his first Formula 2 victory since last year's Monza feature in the Red Bull Ring sprint race, the Prema driver convincingly leading all 28 laps.Having pulled clear of DRS range in the early stages, Ferrari junior Bearman successfully managed the gap at the front to win by 1.7s even as Pepe Marti (Campos) edged back within range in the closing stages.The Briton took advantage ...Keep reading
Martins Sesks’ top-flight World Rally Championship debut at Rally Poland is “one of the strongest in a while” according to M-Sport team principal Richard Millener.Last year’s European Rally Championship runner-up has stepped up to rallying’s top Rally1 class with M-Sport as part of two-round deal, supported by the WRC, that also includes his home WRC round in Latvia next month.Sesks ...Keep reading
Caio Collet believes making his Formula E debut at such short notice will be “a hard task” as he replaces Oliver Rowland at Nissan for the Portland E-Prix.The Brazilian has been drafted in to replace Rowland this weekend after the two-time Formula E race winner was declared ill ahead of the American event.Autosport has learned that Rowland was suffering with dizziness and nauseousness as early ...Keep reading
Elfyn Evans has led a call for action to be taken to address the spectator safety issues that have forced World Rally Championship organisers to cancel two Rally Poland stages.Spectators standing in dangerous places to watch the cars pass through the stages forced officials to act on safety grounds to abandon stage three and stage seven. Stage six was also briefly red-flagged due to spectator ...Keep reading
When the chequered flag waved as Alex Palou took victory in last Sunday’s race at Laguna Seca, it also signalled an end of an era in the IndyCar Series as part of an unprecedented mid-season powerplant change.The Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) is evolving as IndyCar pairs the current 2.2-litre twin-turbo V6 engine, a pillar for the series since 2012, with hybrid technology beginning at the ...Keep reading
Driver of the Day is a fan-voted feature which can add an exciting element to an F1 race. Although there is no prize - other than bragging rights - it can still be a great achievement for a driver to claim at the end of the race. The award was first introduced in 2016 at the opening race of the season - the Australian Grand Prix - with the award being handed to Romain Grosjean at Haas. The ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen grabbed sprint race pole position at the Red Bull Ring by beating Lando Norris by 0.093s in sprint qualifying.Charles Leclerc was held up by an anti-stall issue with his Ferrari which denied him the chance to set his sole lap time in the final segment of qualifying, which means he’ll start the sprint race in 10th.Red Bull’s Sergio Perez and Alpine duo Esteban Ocon and Pierre ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin admits he finds it “strange” to talk to Ducati’s MotoGP chief Gigi Dall’Igna after being passed over for a factory promotion for the 2025 season.The Spaniard was initially chosen to partner Francesco Bagnaia at the works Ducati squad on the back of his stunning form with Pramac, before Marc Marquez’s refusal to join Pramac forced the Borgo Panigale marque to make a U-turn on ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton labelled his showing in sprint qualifying for Formula 1’s Austrian Grand Prix as “pretty disastrous” as he admitted he didn’t deliver a single good lap.Mercedes had high hopes of a good showing in the shoot-out for grid positions for Saturday’s sprint race, with the car having shown some promising pace early on.But a scrappy session for Hamilton, who touched the gravel ...Keep reading
Hyundai’s Andreas Mikkelsen leads an interrupted Rally Poland after World Rally Championship organisers were forced to cancel two Friday stages due to spectator controlling issues.Mikkelsen won two of the three morning stages to open up a 7.4s lead before briefly losing the advantage to Toyota’s reigning world champion Kalle Rovanpera. After recording his first stage wins since 2019, Mikkelsen ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen's bizarre Formula 1 Austrian Grand Prix practice session stoppage was caused by him hitting kerbs hard and disabling an oil pressure sensor, according to Helmut Marko.Verstappen caused this weekend's sole one-hour practice action to be halted for nearly five minutes mid-way through when he pulled over on the pit straight lacking drive aboard his RB20.This then rolled back down the ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez says he ‘doesn’t feel guilty’ about Pramac leaving Ducati for Yamaha for the 2025 MotoGP season because he feels “I didn’t do anything”.On Friday afternoon at the Dutch Grand Prix, Pramac confirmed Autosport’s earlier reports that it would be ditching Ducati for Yamaha from 2025.The move comes in the wake of Ducati’s decision to promote Marc Marquez to the factory team ...Keep reading
Nissan Formula E driver Oliver Rowland will miss this weekend's Portland E-Prix double-header due to an illness.The announcement came on Friday morning in America ahead of track running, with the Briton's spot set to be taken by Nissan's reserve and simulator driver Caio Collet.A statement from Nissan said: "Oliver Rowland will not compete in this weekend's Portland E-Prix double-header due to ...Keep reading
Yamaha debuted a new MotoGP engine on Friday at the Dutch Grand Prix, but Fabio Quartararo doesn’t believe it is helping much at the flowing Assen track.The Japanese marque has utilised its concession benefits to develop and test the new engine with its race riders prior to this weekend’s Dutch GP.Yamaha’s initial 2024 engine delivered more power as requested from its riders, but robbed the ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc's failure to set a lap time in Formula 1's Austrian Grand Prix sprint SQ3 was caused by an anti-stall problem aboard his Ferrari cutting its engine.Leclerc pulled out of the queue for sprint qualifying's top 10 runners as they massed at the end of the pitlane with the clocking ticking down at the Red Bull Ring, where Max Verstappen went on to claim the top spot on the grid for the ...Keep reading
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen took pole position for Saturday’s Formula 1 sprint at the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix in the Red Bull Ring. Verstappen will start ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri after the qualifying session, which is split into three quickfire segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.These sessions set the grid for ...Keep reading
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen beat McLaren pair Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri to top sprint race qualifying at Formula 1’s 2024 Austrian Grand Prix.After the SQ3 drivers had waited for almost all the final qualifying segment to pass by before heading out on new soft tyres, the Mercedes pairs led the pack out of the pits.Lewis Hamilton posted a 1m05.270s before he was immediately beaten by his ...Keep reading
Red Bull Formula 1 boss Christian Horner has accused Toto Wolff's futile pursuit of Max Verstappen as a "distraction tactic" to cover up Mercedes' on-track problems.Horner's comments came after world champion Verstappen said that he would remain with Red Bull next season.Verstappen has been an optimistic target for Wolff as a replacement for Ferrari-bound Hamilton.Horner made a further dig at ...Keep reading
Pramac has announced that it will part ways with Ducati at the end of the current MotoGP season to become a satellite Yamaha team in 2025.As revealed by Autosport on Thursday, the Italian outfit will bring the curtain down to a relationship that began almost two decades ago in 2005 to ink a new multi-year deal with Yamaha.Pramac has appeared stronger than ever this year with two factory-spec ...Keep reading
The hour-long qualifying group-deciding session proved to be a tense affair, with just 0.673 seconds covering the top 10.Bagnaia set the pace with a 1m31.340s, posted with just over 10 minutes to go, and proved strong enough for the world champion to box early at the end of the session.Aprilia’s Vinales challenged him for top spot at the end but came up just 0.065s short as team-mate Aleix ...Keep reading
Red Bull and its RB sister Formula 1 team are set for a "quiet discussion" during the summer break as they decide between retaining Daniel Ricciardo or promoting Liam Lawson.With more and more drivers signed up for 2025 and beyond, and RB confirming in Canada that Yuki Tsunoda will stay on for a fifth season, attention has now shifted towards the identity of his team-mate.Incumbent Ricciardo was ...Keep reading
Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Christian Horner has denied meddling in a planned demo run for Jos Verstappen that has triggered the latest flashpoint between the pair.Verstappen Sr. caused a stir on Friday when he accused Horner of moving to block his planned involvement in the annual Legends Parade at the Austrian Grand Prix.The Dutchman had been set to join fellow ex-F1 drivers like Gerhard ...Keep reading
Simply known as “Mr Hollywood” during his World Rally Championship pomp, Petter Solberg has always been a showman powered by an abundance of energy and a drive to achieve - whatever the challenge. These attributes, in addition to his skill behind the wheel, combined to help the Norwegian win the ultimate prize in rallying, the WRC title, in 2003 and secure back-to-back world rallycross titles ...Keep reading
Formula E may have taken a short break in its calendar, but the last few weeks have nevertheless been very busy for the Franco-American DS Penske team.First, there was the return from Shanghai and the debriefing sessions, to analyse the performances recorded and ensure their sustainability. Then, the team moved on to the Gen 3 EVO tests on the Mallorca circuit (Spain), to prepare for next ...Keep reading
The extension of the lifespan of the GTP category in the IMSA SportsCar Championship could pave the way for new manufacturers to join, series boss John Doonan believes. Doonan reiterated IMSA’s position that there is interest from major car makers to join the top class of the series in the wake of the announcement ahead of this month’s Le Mans 24 Hours that the LMDh and Le Mans Hypercar ...Keep reading
Ott Tanak says it was impossible to avoid a collision with a deer that put him out of the World Rally Championship’s Rally Poland, revealing he had only 0.26s to react.The Hyundai driver was forced to retire from Friday’s gravel stages when a deer jumped out into the road on stage two [Stanczyki, 29.40km] which left the Estonian with an unavoidable accident.Following the impact Tanak ...Keep reading
- Pirelli Motorsport - Motorsport Graduate Engineer - DidcotPirelli Motorsport has an opportunity for a Motorsport Graduate Engineer which will involve working both in Didcot and at race events in the UK and abroad.You will be involved in most aspects of tyre engineering, providing professional trackside support service with respect to a variety of motorsport events.One aspect of this role will ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen says his Red Bull Formula 1 team shouldn't accept the new reality of rival squads closing up as "normal".Red Bull enjoyed two dominant seasons under the current regulations cycle, but while starting on the front foot again with its RB20 it has now seen McLaren close the gap, with Mercedes and Ferrari competitive as well on circuits that suit their cars.Red Bull's chief engineer Paul ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen topped practice for Formula 1’s 2024 Austrian Grand Prix after causing mid-session red flag, as Mercedes and McLaren showed pace and Ferrari only joined the lead fray late on.In a busy opening third of the sole practice session at the Red Bull weekend within the sprint format, Verstappen established the first-place benchmark at 1m07m961s, before George Russell and Lewis Hamilton ...Keep reading
McLaren is one of the few teams to bring upgrades to Formula 1's Austrian Grand Prix, after revealing a new front wing and suspension fairings.The primary function of these modifications revolves around McLaren looking to improve what it considers to be an imbalance in the performance of its MCL38 in both low and high-speed corners.Speaking about the aim of the improvements, team boss Andrea ...Keep reading
Hyundai’s Andreas Mikkelsen heads into Friday afternoon with the Rally Poland lead from Martins Sesks, who stunned on his World Rally Championship Rally1 debut.Mikkelsen impressed throughout the morning to win two of the three stages to leap into a 7.4s lead from Sesks, driving a non-hybrid powered Ford Puma Rally1 car.Elfyn Evans limited the damage of starting high in the road order to lead ...Keep reading
Estonian Paul Aron has been an unexpected sensation in his rookie Formula 2 season. Although no longer affiliated with the Mercedes junior scheme, having stepped away from the programme following his F2 debut in the 2023 Abu Dhabi finale, the Formula 3 graduate enters the Austrian weekend which marks the midpoint of the campaign at the head of the standings.The Hitech driver has achieved that feat ...Keep reading
Reigning MotoGP world champion Francesco Bagnaia topped the opening practice for the 2024 Dutch Grand Prix, after Fabio Di Giannantonio had his session-topping lap cancelled.After a three-week break forced by the postponement of the Kazakhstan GP to September, MotoGP returned to action on Friday morning at the iconic TT Assen venue.Following weeks of rider market shocks, Di Giannantonio looked ...Keep reading
Pierre Gasly could easily have been forgiven for thinking that Alpine is not the best place to make him a winner again in Formula 1.After starting the campaign at the back of the grid, seeing key staff leave and there being talk of a potential end-of-works team status down the road, it has been a far from ideal season.But after agreeing on a contract extension ahead of the Austrian GP that commits ...Keep reading
Perhaps it should come as little surprise that Benoit Treluyer should name the Audi R18 e-tron Quattro as his favourite car, given he won the Le Mans 24 Hours twice in cars bearing that name.But his pick from what might best be described as a family of LMP1 cars, with each year’s variant bearing differences to varied degrees of significance, is the 2015 iteration he raced to victory in ...Keep reading
It was a one-word answer that subsequently killed off any lingering doubt - if there was any - about where he would be driving next season.It took many attempts to extrapolate the answer but we got there in the end.Max Verstappen says he is staying put at Red Bull for next season.In doing so, he diffused the potential powder keg at Red Bull ahead of their home race at the Austrian Grand Prix ...Keep reading
Tanak had been tipped among the favourites to win on Poland’s high-speed gravel roads, but his victory hopes came to a sudden halt on stage two [Stanczyki, 29.40km].The Hyundai driver had started Friday with a one-second lead over team-mate Thierry Neuville after winning Thursday night’s super special. However, Tanak was forced to pull off the road 18.3km into the test with damage to the ...Keep reading
RB is set to start the Austrian Grand Prix weekend with its Formula 1 cars running in split specifications to understand why its Spain upgrade package failed to deliver.The Italian squad sought to consolidate its sixth position in the constructors' championship and close the gap to Aston Martin in the points with its wide-ranging updates.The team added revised sidepods and a new engine cover to ...Keep reading
Reports by Autosport saying Joan Mir is set to stay with Honda in MotoGP for two more years came as some surprise given the misery of the past two seasons.To say the last three years for Mir have been brutal would be something of an understatement.The 2020 world champion was nearing renewing with Suzuki, with whom he won the title, early in 2022 when the Japanese brand made its shock decision to ...Keep reading
Audi has offered a first proper update of the progress it is making with its new Formula 1 engine, saying it is already covering race distances in dyno tests.The German manufacturer is gearing up for a works entry in 2026 when it will officially replace the Sauber team on the grid.And while it has kept relatively low-key so far in revealing how far advanced work was at its Neuburg headquarters, on ...Keep reading
There was a moment at Laguna on Sunday that undoubtedly followed IndyCar race control’s protocol, but it left many questioning why that is so in the first place.With 21 laps to go, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Christian Lundgaard was attacking Marcus Armstrong, who’d just exited the pits and was on cold tyres.The Dane lunged to the inside of Armstrong going into Turn 5, which led to ...Keep reading
Hyundai’s Ott Tanak moved into an early lead at Rally Poland after edging his team-mate and World Rally Championship points leader Thierry Neuville on Thursday night’s opening stage.Poland’s return to the WRC for the first time since 2017 began with a run through the side-by-side Mikolajki Arena spectator stage in front of a packed crowd.Tanak faced M-Sport’s Adrien Fourmaux in his ...Keep reading
When it comes to streaks in motorsport, M-Sport’s run of scoring manufacturer points in 300 consecutive World Rally Championship rounds, spanning 22 years, is difficult to beat.It’s a feat that is unlikely to be surpassed and which is being celebrated by the Ford squad at Rally Poland this weekend after achieving the milestone in Sardinia earlier this month.To put this achievement into ...Keep reading
Reigning double MotoGP world champion Francesco Bagnaia believes Marc Marquez “is smart and he'll understand” how to maintain Ducati’s success in 2025.Following the Italian Grand Prix, Ducati announced it has signed Marquez to a two-year contract to join its factory team from 2025 alongside Bagnaia.Marquez’s refusal to take a factory bike at Pramac next year scared Ducati management into a ...Keep reading
Lando Norris admits he was too critical of his Spanish Grand Prix start as he tries to find ways to beat Max Verstappen in Formula 1.Norris pipped runaway championship leader Verstappen to Barcelona pole by a mere 0.020 seconds, showcasing the tight battle the two teams are in now.But the McLaren driver didn't enjoy his lead for very long, being unable to keep Verstappen at bay off the line, and ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton thinks he and Mercedes have finally “cracked something” with his Formula 1 qualifying struggles, off the back of an encouraging step at the Spanish Grand Prix.The seven-time champion has been chasing answers for much of the year about why, despite often being quick in practice, the pace of the Mercedes has fallen away relative to the others in qualifying as his W15 proves ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez has spoken about signing with the factory Ducati MotoGP team for 2025 for the first time publicly ahead of the Dutch Grand Prix.Following the Italian GP three weeks ago, Ducati announced that it had signed the eight-time world champion to its factory team for 2025 – going against its original decision to promote Jorge Martin from Pramac.OPINION: Why letting Marquez walk away ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin says Ducati has assured him that he will get its full support in the 2024 MotoGP title fight despite his impending split from the Italian manufacturer.Pramac rider Martin will leave the Ducati fold after four seasons to join Aprilia on a multi-year deal in 2025, having lost out in the race to secure a works seat at the Borgo Panigale marque to six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez.The ...Keep reading
Honda Racing Corporation USA has confirmed that former series champions Meyer Shank Racing will return to its Acura program for the 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship.It comes a year after the team lost its deal to run a factory-supported Acura ARX-06 when it was discovered that it had manipulated tire data during the 2023 Daytona 24 Hours – a race that it won. Later that season, it also triumphed ...Keep reading
Hyundai can salvage a “fraction” of its plans for its cancelled 2025 World Rally Championship car but is not yet in a position to commit to a long-term WRC future.The South Korean marque’s future in the championship was uncertain when the FIA announced a proposal in February that included plans to make changes to the Rally1 and Rally2 technical rules for next year.The proposal was strongly ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz reckons talks with other teams over his future have taught him how "tough" Formula 1's landscape can be, and to trust 'very few' people in the paddock.Although Sainz stated at the Barcelona round that he hoped to have a resolution on his F1 future 'very soon', he noted that a triple-header was not the time to exercise clarity of thought about his movements for 2025.He says that in ...Keep reading
Williams has announced it has signed a swathe of senior Formula 1 technical staff from rival teams, plus ex-Alpine technical director Matt Harman.The five top hires are included in a group of 26 new engineers Williams has signed in a major recruitment spree the team has recently enacted, with a particular focus on bolstering its aerodynamics and design offices.The new staff will report to ...Keep reading
Extreme H has officially launched the hydrogen-powered car that forms the backbone of the new series, which will feature a 10-round calendar in its inaugural season next year.Championship organisers took the covers of its Pioneer 25 hydrogen-powered off-road spec car aboard the series’ St. Helena vessel at London’s Tower Bridge on Thursday afternoon. Extreme H is set to become the first ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen has insisted he will race for Red Bull in Formula 1 2025 in an exchange with reporters over his vague answers on committing to the team in Austria.The development follows the shock possibility that emerged at the Jeddah round that Verstappen could leave the Red Bull team where he has won his three world titles, taken 61 grand prix victories and has a contract to race until the end ...Keep reading
McLaren is using a rented motorhome for Formula 1's Austrian Grand Prix as work continues on a deep clean of its fire-damaged Team Hub.A suspected electrical problem between floors of its regular motorhome in Barcelona on Saturday morning triggered a fire that had to be attended to by emergency crews.Although everyone was safely evacuated from the motorhome without injury as the fire was put out ...Keep reading
With Pierre Gasly securing a new Formula 1 deal with Alpine, there's one fewer remaining seat to fill in the puzzle which is the 2025 grid.It's no secret that the team has made a late push to lure Carlos Sainz, but the Spaniard has several offers that mean the French squad may have to look elsewhere.So who are the best options? Our writers have their say.Filip Cleeren: Sainz the obvious option if ...Keep reading
It's the Super Touring Power 2 event this weekend at Brands Hatch, celebrating the famous golden era of the British Touring Car Championship. With that in mind, we decided to share a throwback interview from the 2023 event, with our own Tom Howard and Marcus Simmons sitting down with two legends of the sport - Andy Rouse, four-time series Champion with 60 wins to his name, and his former teammate ...Keep reading
Jack Miller has revealed KTM told him ‘don’t talk to anybody’ in MotoGP ‘because we want to keep you in the family’ before being informed he would not be staying.The 29-year-old’s future with KTM has hung in the balance for much of the 2024 season, with it widely expected that Pedro Acosta would be taking his place at the factory team in 2025 before the move was officially announced at ...Keep reading
Daniel Ricciardo believes his results in the 2024’s pre-summer break races are key to his RB Formula 1 stint continuing, as interest in Red Bull’s intentions in promoting Liam Lawson intensifies.This week, comments made by Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko have heaped pressure on Ricciardo, who had been expected to be a candidate to replace Sergio Perez alongside Max Verstappen for 2025 ...Keep reading
Grange remains in third place despite achieving two victories last weekend, but has now joined Brown and Stewart Black on taking 10 wins so far this year.The Ford Escort Mk2 pilot took two class successes in Modified Fords at Donington Park, but the fact these were not outright victories means he stays in third.The chasing pack have also closed the gap with Short and Lulham up to fourth and fifth ...Keep reading
Gresini Racing, who has a 2025 contract with Ducati to remain one of their satellite teams, has reached an agreement with Alex Marquez to extend their partnership next season.Marquez joined Gresini in 2023 from Honda, with whom he made his premier class debut in 2020.After a first year with the factory team, due to the premature retirement of Jorge Lorenzo, the 2019 Moto2 champion was transferred ...Keep reading
Pramac will leave Ducati for the 2025 MotoGP season and become a Yamaha satellite team, with Autosport understanding an official announcement is expected this weekend.The team will end an association of almost two decades with Ducati as a satellite team to embrace the offer presented by Yamaha, a possibility that had been cooking very seriously for months.Autosport was able to confirm that the ...Keep reading
A new kerb and gravel trap solution introduced at the Red Bull Ring could become the blueprint to banish track-limits problems everywhere in Formula 1.As F1 teams got a first glimpse of the solution that has been incorporated at several corners of the Austrian Grand Prix venue on Thursday, F1 race director Niels Wittich has suggested the series has finally found a "perfect set-up".With the Red ...Keep reading
Aston Martin has announced that Lance Stroll will race on with the team “for 2025 and beyond” in what is being billed as a contract extension for the Canadian driver whose father owns the team.Stroll has raced at Aston since 2019 after his father Lawrence’s consortium purchased the assets of what was the then the Force India squad the previous year.He has completed 112 races so far for the ...Keep reading
Now things are getting interesting. Yes, Max Verstappen won again last weekend, but McLaren’s pace at a circuit many expected to be prime Red Bull territory suggests we have some fine Formula 1 battles to come in 2024.Lando Norris’s early fight with Verstappen in Spain – hard but just about fair – also suggests he’s ready to consistently challenge the Dutchman. A championship contest ...Keep reading
Pierre Gasly has signed a contract extension to remain with the Alpine Formula 1 team on a multi-year basis.The Frenchman's signing for another season ensures that Alpine retains continuity into 2025, as it announced previously that it was parting ways with Esteban Ocon at the end of the current season.Gasly is currently in his second season with the French squad, and finished 11th in the drivers' ...Keep reading
The lead of the GB3 Championship was passed around between three drivers during the course of the series’ first venture to the Hungaroring as the season reached its halfway mark.As has been the case so often on GB3’s international trips over the past two years, Hitech looked to hold the upper hand, and it was Chinese driver Gerrard Xie who set the pace by landing two pole positions in ...Keep reading
When it comes to Formula 1 car upgrades, it is always more exciting when there is a new wing, or sidepod concept, to get your teeth stuck into.But, with Red Bull, in particular, getting close to the development ceiling of what is possible with the RB20, it is having to look at much finer details in its quest to find gains.And a close look at where it has been playing around with things so far this ...Keep reading
Editor Stuart Codling is joined by columnist Mark Gallagher and Autosport's Grand Prix Editor Alex Kalinauckas to discuss the dramatic return of former Benetton and Renault team principal Briatore, announced on the eve of the Spanish Grand Prix, to the Enstone team as an advisor to Renault CEO Luca de Meo.At a time when Alpine is seeking to rebound from its current technical shortcomings, and the ...Keep reading
The Spa 24 Hours celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2024, with a whopping 67 cars set to tackle the world-famous event renowned as one of the toughest in motorsport.BMW squad Rowe Racing arrive as the defending event winners, after its M4 GT3 of Philipp Eng, Marco Wittmann and Nick Yelloly claimed victory by 11.1 seconds in 2023 ahead of the ASP team's Mercedes-AMG GT3.Rowe also took victory in ...Keep reading
In January 2024, the Trackhouse Racing NASCAR Cup Series team co-owned by former racer Justin Marks and Cuban-American rap star Pitbull signed Connor Zilisch to a multi-year development deal. Marks is quite the visionary among the NASCAR team owners, making his race team operate as an effective marketing tool that allows him to do things differently – like bringing Shane van Gisbergen across ...Keep reading
Toprak Razgatlioglu’s manager Kenan Sofuoglu says “there are teams that want” the Turkish rider in MotoGP next year, despite holding a BMW World Superbike deal to the end of 2025.The 2025 MotoGP rider market has kicked into life in recent weeks, following Ducati’s bombshell announcement that it would be bringing Marc Marquez into its factory team.That begun a chain reaction of moves ...Keep reading
While Lando Norris’s hopes of victory in Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix were effectively derailed by his start, there was equally a phase late on that proved just as critical.With the McLaren driver having earned himself a tyre offset against Max Verstappen, the advantage of fresher rubber in the final stint offered him a chance to overhaul the Red Bull for the lead.Norris duly put on a charge ...Keep reading
Kalle Rovanpera expects to face a “big challenge” to prepare for Rally Poland after receiving a last-minute call up to replace Sebastien Ogier while he was repairing his jet ski.Toyota has drafted in Rovanpera and co-driver Jonne Halttunen to pilot the team’s third GR Yaris in Poland, which returns to the World Rally Championship calendar for the first time since 2017 this week, after Ogier ...Keep reading
Dale Coyne Racing has announced that former BRDC British Formula 3 star Toby Sowery will make his IndyCar debut at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course next month.The 28-year-old Briton will drive the Honda-powered #51 entry for DCR, which is also partnered with Rick Ware Racing.Sowery, who received his first taste of IndyCar machinery in a test with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing last year at Sebring ...Keep reading
Gentleman driver Ben Keating says he is not interested in racing an LMDh car again after being left “scared” by his first experience at the Daytona 24 Hours this year.Keating joined JDC-Miller in the flagship GTP class for the opening round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship, piloting a customer Porsche 963 LMDh alongside Richard Westbrook, Phil Hanson and Tijmen van der Helm to sixth ...Keep reading
Ferrari Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz expects his team to be more competitive in Austria after seeing a key car weakness punished in Spain.Sainz and team-mate Charles Leclerc qualified on the third row in Barcelona, behind both Mercedes cars and front-row duo Lando Norris (McLaren) and Max Verstappen (Red Bull).Its race pace wasn't too different, with both drivers unable to get ahead of the ...Keep reading
Thierry Neuville is hopeful contract renewal talks can begin soon once Hyundai’s plan to utilise its development jokers for its World Rally Championship car is confirmed.The WRC points leader is in the final year of his current contract with the South Korean marque, 11 years since he joined the Alzenau operation.Neuville has previously stated a desire to continue competing in WRC’s top tier ...Keep reading
RB CEO Peter Bayer says his Formula 1 team has evidence its Barcelona upgrades are working, but may be "fooling" it regarding the sweet spot of its car set-up.RB brought a raft of upgrades to the VCARB01 at last weekend Spanish Grand Prix, including an updated floor, a new rear wing and a re-designed engine cover.However Yuki Tsunoda and Daniel Ricciardo failed to make it through to Q1 ...Keep reading
Sebastien Ogier has been released from hospital having escaped serious injury after being involved in a road traffic accident that put him out of this weekend’s World Rally Championship event.Eight-time world champion Ogier and co-driver Vincent Landais were driving a GR Yaris reconnaissance car that collided with another vehicle on Tuesday morning.The driver and passenger of the other car ...Keep reading
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff says he will take “as long as possible” before committing to who will replace Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton at the Formula 1 team next year.The German manufacturer is pondering whether to promote its protege Andrea Kimi Antonelli alongside George Russell, or continue its quest of luring triple world champion Max Verstappen, who is contracted to Red Bull until ...Keep reading
Five months ago it looked like the safest seat in Red Bull's Formula 1 stable. An eight-time race winner parked at RB, while offering its A-team an insurance policy.After all, Daniel Ricciardo was a known quantity to Red Bull and in fact was listed by team principal Christian Horner as his favourite driver in the squad's history.Horner was instrumental in bringing him in out of the cold midway ...Keep reading
First thing's first: Lando Norris is a fantastic Formula 1 driver and one who I have been privileged to watch develop during his racing career.He's incredibly down to earth. Funny, engaging, he has cultivated a fanbase that is refreshingly non-toxic on social media, which in the modern world is an achievement in itself.But there has always been an element to his personality which has often been ...Keep reading
As much as the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya is a popular test venue with a challenging layout drivers enjoy, its ageing facilities and historically poor accessibility have long been a thorn in the side of both people working in the F1 paddock and the fans who pay for the privilege to attend.The circuit was built in 1991 as part of Barcelona's bid for the 1992 Olympic Games, which completely ...Keep reading
Last weekend’s Super Formula round at Sugo was the first in almost 50 years to feature no international representation. All 20 drivers who lined up on the grid, plus Naoki Yamamoto who couldn't take the start due to a warm-up crash, were of Japanese nationality.Super Formula/Formula Nippon and its precursors All-Japan Formula 3000 and All-Japan Formula Two went through a number of troughs and ...Keep reading
Northamptonshire Police have found no criminal offences over an anonymous email accusing the Mercedes Formula 1 team of dangerous sabotage of Lewis Hamilton's car.Earlier this month, an anonymous email accused Mercedes and especially team principal Toto Wolff of "systematic sabotaging" of Hamilton's car, strategy and mental health.The email was sent to the same list of F1 and media representatives ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen is bracing himself for potentially bad news, with Honda increasingly likely to confirm he has lost one of his Formula 1 power units.An early demise of the nearly new engine that was removed from his car in Canada, and is currently being inspected at Honda's headquarters at Sakura in Japan, would open the door for Verstappen to need to soon add an extra power unit to his pool.And ...Keep reading
Aprilia CEO Massimo Rivola says the Italian marque has leaned on what Marco Bezzecchi did in MotoGP prior to 2024 as to what he can be capable of in 2025.On Monday, following initial Autosport reports last week, Aprilia announced that it had signed Valentino Rossi protege Bezzecchi to its factory team for 2025 to join Jorge Martin.Aprilia has made no secrets of its desire to hire an Italian rider ...Keep reading
Eight time world rally champion Sebastien Ogier and co driver Vincent Landais are undergoing medical checks following a crash on reconnaissance for this week’s World Rally Championship round in Poland.Details of the accident and the condition of the factory Toyota drivers are unclear.Toyota posted a short statement on social media following the incident.“Seb and Vincent have been involved in a ...Keep reading
Reigning Formula 1 champion Max Verstappen will make his Goodwood Festival of Speed debut next month as part of a major Red Bull presence at the event.Verstappen is due to drive the RB16B, in which he claimed the first of his F1 titles in 2021, up the famous hill at Goodwood on the Sunday of the 11-14 July event - and this car is one of seven Red Bull F1 models scheduled to be in action.This will ...Keep reading
Ferrari fast-tracked a new upgrade for the Spanish Grand Prix in a bid to keep pace with the clear steps that its Formula 1 rivals have made in recent weeks.Although it endured a disappointing time at Barcelona, the message coming out of the Maranello squad was that this wasn't due to the new parts not working, but rather being held back by its historical high-speed bouncing issues.These proved ...Keep reading
Home Formula 1 heroes Carlos Sainz and Fernando Alonso sparked an intriguing debate at Barcelona last weekend – around the context of Red Bull’s shock near-defeat to McLaren, does the venue still provide the ultimate test of car performance?Thanks to its old position as regular pre-season test venue, its place on the calendar consistently for the last 33 years and regular hosting of non-F1 ...Keep reading
The Sauber Formula 1 team is looking to find reserve driver Theo Pourchaire a new home in IndyCar after being dropped by Arrow McLaren.Last week it was announced Arrow McLaren had signed a multi-year deal with Nolan Siegel to run its #6 Chevrolet from last weekend's Laguna Seca round onwards.The news came only weeks after McLaren had confirmed 20-year-old Formula 2 champion Pourchaire would remain ...Keep reading
Aprilia says adapting to an all-new MotoGP rider line-up remains the only “question mark” for the marque as it prepares to welcome Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi from Ducati in 2025.Aprilia’s MotoGP programme is set for a major reshuffle next year, with the two riders who have played a major role in transforming the RS-GP into a race-winning bike leaving for pastures new.Aleix Espargaro ...Keep reading
RB's Daniel Ricciardo says there is no need to revert the team's upgrades just yet as it investigates a "really strange" drop in performance at the Spanish Grand Prix.RB brought an elaborate upgrade package to Barcelona, which included a new rear wing, updated sidepods and engine covers and a re-profiled floor.The team hoped those updates would keep its VCARB01 at the forefront of F1's tight ...Keep reading
Lando Norris may have been kicking himself for losing out in Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix, but the team reckons there was nothing more he could have done.Norris was left frustrated with himself that, despite securing pole position and having what appeared to be the fastest car at Barcelona, he was beaten to the chequered flag by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.The Briton felt that with a better ...Keep reading
George Russell says he was inspired by Fernando Alonso's rocket start in 2011 to grab the Spanish Grand Prix lead.Russell started fourth on the dirty side of the grid, alongside Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton and behind front-row duo Lando Norris and Max Verstappen.And when polesitter Norris immediately focused on intercepting Verstappen, who had a better getaway and dipped onto the grass to ...Keep reading
Juan Manuel Correa secured an emotional return to the Formula 2 podium on Sunday, 24 hours after losing a top-three result through a post-race penalty and five years to the day since his last official appearance in the top three.That occasion had come in the F2 sprint race during the 2019 French Grand Prix weekend, a race that saw Anthoine Hubert send the crowds into raptures as he scored his ...Keep reading
Only tepid expectations preceded this year’s edition of the Spanish Grand Prix. Most expected the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya's painful adherence to conventional track design to suit the Red Bulls perfectly, given the team had laboured with literal and metaphorical bumps in the road.Although the predictions were largely right as Max Verstappen chalked up another win to add to his impressive ...Keep reading
Romain Dumas took his fifth outright victory in the famous Pikes Peak hillclimb aboard Ford's F-150 Lightning SuperTruck electric demonstrator, despite briefly coming to a halt and having to restart.Dumas explained that the glitch, which required him to perform a power cycle, had never happened previously in the prototype's two-year development and is estimated to have cost around 26s. But the ...Keep reading
Aprilia has signed VR46 rider Marco Bezzecchi on a multi-year contract to partner Jorge Martin at its factory MotoGP team from 2025.As reported by Motorsport.com/Autosport, Bezzecchi will move to the Noale-based marque after three seasons with Ducati’s satellite VR46 squad, a stint that has so far yielded three grand prix victories and a best finish of third in the standings in 2023. The deal ...Keep reading
Mick Schumacher will test an Alpine Formula 1 car next week as the team continues to consider its options for its 2025 driver line-up.The French squad is currently evaluating drivers for next year after announcing earlier this month that it would part company with Esteban Ocon at the end of the current season, while team-mate Pierre Gasly's contract also expires after 2024.Autosport revealed ...Keep reading
Mercedes says its deficit to Red Bull and McLaren in Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix does not show the true picture of its potentialLewis Hamilton delivered his first non-sprint podium of the season in Spain, as he finished third behind Max Verstappen and Lando Norris.But while the top duo were separated by just 2.2 seconds at the end, Hamilton ended up a further 15 seconds back – suggesting ...Keep reading
Rising World Rally Championship star Sami Pajari will now make his Rally1 debut in Finland instead of Latvia following a change to Toyota’s driver line-up.Toyota announced last month that Pajari and co-driver Enni Malkonen will step up from driving a Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 car in WRC2 to pilot a fourth GR Yaris Rally1 at the gravel rally that will make its WRC debut from 18-21 July.However, the ...Keep reading
Bell, who won Saturday’s Xfinity Series race, got a big jump on the field on an overtime restart and cruised to a 1.104-second win over a surprising Chase Briscoe.The final 77 laps of the race were run on wet weather tyres – the longest stint since NASCAR implemented their use on some oval tracks.Bell moved into the lead for the final time on lap 242 and held on to the top spot through five ...Keep reading
Alpine has made a late bid to try to secure Carlos Sainz’s services for next year as it pushes to move up the Formula 1 grid, Autosport can reveal.Just as it appeared that Sainz had been left with a straight choice between Williams and Sauber/Audi in terms of securing a seat for next year, sources have revealed that serious talks have now ramped up with Alpine.It has even been suggested that an ...Keep reading
NASCAR waited out a delay of over two hours in the final stage on Sunday and mandated teams ran the final 77 competitive laps on wet weather tyres.Twice under caution, teams were allowed to fit new sets of wets with non-competitive pit stops, but organisers never felt the track dried enough to allow teams to return to slick tyres.Although Christopher Bell led the final 64 laps of the 305 journey ...Keep reading
Super Formula drivers have hit out at the decision to run last weekend’s Sugo race amid constant rain and poor visibility, with several labelling the situation “dangerous”.The terrible conditions on Sunday led to the third round of the season being started behind the safety car, and two attempts to get the race up and running resulted in crashes for Kazuya Oshima and Sena Sakaguchi, both at ...Keep reading
McLaren now has the best package in Formula 1 and is not suffering fluctuations that even Red Bull is enduring, reckons Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz. While Lando Norris was beaten to victory in the Spanish Grand Prix, the pace he was able to show as he closed in on winner Max Verstappen highlighted the progress his team has made. And for Sainz, the fact that McLaren’s MCL38 does not appear to have ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou fended off Colton Herta on a late restart to claim victory in Sunday’s Grand Prix of Monterey at Laguna Seca.The Spaniard, who started on pole, successfully defended the top spot after a restart with four laps to go, winning by 1.978s on the 2.238-mile, 11-turn road course over Herta’s No. 26 Andretti Global Honda.It is the second win of the season for Palou ...Keep reading
Porsche’s Dane Cameron and Felipe Nasr won a topsy-turvy, rain-disrupted sixth round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship, The Six Hours of The Glen.Their Porsche beat the Cadillac of Renger van der Zande and Sebastien Bourdais by 0.7s after a series of rain showers and storms flipped the race order several times in a sometimes bizarre event.Pole winner Louis Deletraz’s #40 Wayne Taylor Racing ...Keep reading
F1 travelled to Spain for Round 10 of the 2024 World Championship, and it was a race in Barcelona that told a strangely familar tale.Max Verstappen took the lead and early control of the race but had to hold on by just two seconds at the finish line as Lando Norris’s McLaren chased down the Red Bull at the end of the race, but just came up short.Jake Boxall-Legge and Filip Cleeren join Bryn ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes' "peaky" 2024 Formula 1 car is running at its "maximum" performance level without more upgrades and only responds to one set-up.Hamilton finished third in Sunday's 2024 Spanish Grand Prix – 17.8s behind winner Max Verstappen's Red Bull and Lando Norris following closely for McLaren and with the polesitter feeling he should have been victorious.The result is ...Keep reading
Jake Hill took a last-gasp victory in the final race of the Oulton Park British Touring Car Championship round to move into the series lead.Hill had chiselled his way through the reversed-grid order until he found himself on the rear bumper of the Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra of polesitter Mikey Doble, and finally pulled off an audacious manoeuvre with half a lap remaining.From fourth on the ...Keep reading
Fernando Alonso has given a frank assessment of his Aston Martin team's performance in the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix, and has called on the team to talk less and deliver more.Alonso finished a disappointing 12th in his home race after only qualifying in 11th and pulled no punches in his post-race verdict saying the team "did not deserve to score any point".It comes after a poor run for the ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen says his Spanish GP victory was made by his first-lap move down the inside of polesitter Lando Norris, and swift clearance of leader George Russell.Verstappen threaded his Red Bull down the inside of Norris into Turn 1 after briefly losing momentum through having a wheel on the grass on the run to the first corner.Although the Dutchman wrested position from Norris, it ultimately ...Keep reading
Lando Norris has revealed his frustration at losing ground to Max Verstappen in the race for the Formula 1 drivers' title after failing to convert pole into victory at the Spanish Grand Prix.The Briton also claimed that McLaren was "the quickest car" on track at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya having tracked Red Bull's Verstappen to a gap of 2.2 seconds by the end of the 66-lap race.Norris had ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc accused Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz of wanting to do "something spectacular" for his Formula 1 career as the two came to blows at the Spanish Grand Prix.Sainz had a run on Leclerc at the end of the second lap and put a move on him into Turn 1 around the outside, as Leclerc sat at the inside kerb at the opening right hander.Leclerc's front wing clipped Sainz's rear right wheel ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen stayed clear of a late-race charge from Lando Norris to clinch victory at the Spanish Grand Prix, having got ahead of the polesitter into the first corner.Verstappen held the inside line for the opening corner to take position from Norris, although George Russell snatched the lead from both, but the Red Bull driver easily cleared the Mercedes on the third lap with DRS as Russell ...Keep reading
Josh Cook and the Speedworks Toyota squad’s tyre gamble paid off with a crushing victory in the second British Touring Car Championship race at Oulton Park.Cook started his Corolla GR Sport from eighth on the grid on the soft Goodyear rubber after getting his mandatory use of the hard compound out of the way in race one.Aron Taylor-Smith was one place ahead of Cook on the grid, his Power Maxed ...Keep reading
Verstappen beat McLaren’s Lando Norris and the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton in the 56-lap race.George Russell (Mercedes) led for a couple of laps at the start after a brave move around the outside of Verstappen and Norris, who ran wheel-to-wheel from the start on the long run to Turn 1.But Verstappen passed Russell to take the lead as soon as DRS became available, as Norris opted to run long on ...Keep reading
Tom Ingram beat Ash Sutton to victory in the first race of the British Touring Car Championship round at Oulton Park.But the result looks in doubt following two second-lap incidents that will most likely be looked into by the officials.Ingram got a decent getaway from pole position in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback, but front-row partner Ash Sutton’s Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen has urged his Red Bull Formula 1 team to bring more performance to its car after being beaten to pole for the Spanish Grand Prix by McLaren's Lando Norris.Verstappen and Red Bull headed to Barcelona as the pre-event favourites, but the Dutchman was pipped at the end by Norris, who snatched pole away by 0.020s.While Red Bull had been expected to restore its advantage after a bumpier ...Keep reading
McLaren is hoping its Team Hub - their hospitality building in the paddock - can be salvaged and repaired in time before the summer break after a fire broke out at the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix.The blaze is believed to have started between the two floors in the team’s semi-permanent building, which made it difficult to identify the source of the fire.Staff and marshals attempted to put it out ...Keep reading
Lando Norris's pole position for Formula 1's Spanish Grand Prix, on a weekend when Red Bull had been expected to dominate, has triggered renewed hope of a super-close season.With the aerodynamic demands of the Barcelona circuit appearing to be the perfect stomping ground for the Red Bull RB20 to stamp its authority on the rest of the field once again, that Max Verstappen did not take pole has ...Keep reading
Jack Crawford became the 10th different winner of the Formula 2 season after executing an undercut strategy on championship leader Paul Aron in the Spanish feature race.Crawford proved his pace across the weekend to take his first win of the season from Franco Colapinto and Juan Manuel Correa, with the latter making the alternate strategy work to claim a first podium since making his F2 return ...Keep reading
Alex Albon will start from the pitlane for Formula 1's Spanish Grand Prix after taking a new battery and control electronics outside of his allocation for the 2024 season.The Williams driver qualified 19th on the grid in a difficult session for the Grove squad, in which it locked out the back row as Logan Sargeant logged the slowest time in qualifying.Albon has since been equipped with a new ...Keep reading
Potential pre-race showers, a powerful undercut and a soft tyre that is fast but fragile have opened the door for some strategy intrigue in Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix.Rather than the high degradation circuit pushing teams and drivers to go conservative with a boring one-stopper, what is unfolding at Barcelona could trigger plenty of action – and even some aggressive three-stoppers.That is ...Keep reading
The Swiss arbitration court mediating the dispute between the Haas Formula 1 team and Uralkali over the former's decision to end their sponsorship agreement following Russia's 2022 Ukraine invasion has issued a ruling.The two sides had been in dispute since March 2022, when it was announced Nikita Mazepin had been let go from the team where he had raced for the previous season and to which his ...Keep reading
Arvid Lindblad became the first repeat winner in Formula 3 this season, registering a comfortable victory by four seconds from Christian Mansell as the current era of F3 clocked up a century of races.Following on from his victory in the season-opening Bahrain sprint race, Lindblad was composed at the front in Spain as he moved to fourth in the standings, just 13 points off new leader Leonardo ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes’ W15 2024 Formula 1 car has an inherent weakness on tyre performance that is only exposed when pushing at the limit in qualifying.Hamilton qualified third on the grid for Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix at Barcelona – his best result of the 2024 season so far.The seven-time world champion had previously got no higher than seventh in non-sprint qualifying this term ...Keep reading
Tomoki Nojiri was declared the winner of a shortened Sugo Super Formula race that featured just two laps of green-flag running in treacherous conditions.The start of the race was delayed following a crash in warm-up for Naoki Yamamoto at the final corner, with the Nakajima Racing driver falling foul of the standing water that had built up as a result of persistent rain since the start of the ...Keep reading
David Malukas believes the IndyCar round at Laguna Seca this weekend will be "about survival" as he makes his return to the series after a lengthy lay-off due to injury.The Meyer Shank Racing driver qualified 12th for his first race this season, having been left on the sidelines due to an off-season wrist injury which led to surgery and also the termination of his Arrow McLaren contract.Driving ...Keep reading
George Russell says his Mercedes Formula 1 team is "the most confident we have been" in three years over its recent on-track performance.Russell and team-mate Lewis Hamilton locked out the second row in Spain, two weeks after Russell clinched his second career pole and the squad's first podium of the season in Canada.Hamilton qualified three tenths behind polesitter Lando Norris and world champion ...Keep reading
The 2025 World Rally Championship calendar is edging closer to completion following the news Paraguay is set to make its debut next season.The WRC has been eyeing a 14-round schedule for 2025 that provides a more global calendar than it has been able to contest in recent seasons following the Covid-19 pandemic.Two events in the South America region had been targeted as key goal for 2025, which has ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou stormed to pole after a dramatic qualifying session for the IndyCar Series at Laguna Seca.The Spaniard delivered a 1m07.1465s flying lap to earn the top spot for Sunday’s race on the 2.238-mile, 11-turn natural terrain road course. It is the fifth pole of Palou’s career.Andretti Global’s Kyle Kirkwood took second by 0.0739s, with Meyer Shank Racing’s ...Keep reading
Andretti Global’s Colton Herta led the way in a second practice session for the IndyCar Series that was blighted by three red flags on Saturday morning at Laguna Seca.A two-time former winner, Herta took the top spot with a stout flying lap of 1m08.230s around the 2.238-mile, 11-turn natural terrain road course, having also placed second in the Friday evening’s opening practice.“It feels ...Keep reading
One of the IMSA SportsCar Championship’s most successful partnerships of recent times, Pipo Derani and Action Express Racing, will part ways at the end of the season.Derani, who won the 2021 and ’23 top-class IMSA titles with AXR’s Cadillac team, announced on Saturday that this will be his last campaign with a team that he joined in 2019.As well as his two titles with the team – one in the ...Keep reading
Lando Norris stood there looking up at McLaren's iconic motorhome as smoke billowed out of the back of it and an acrid smell filled the air.He was dressed in a white t-shirt and black trousers and just his socks - in the haste to evacuate the building, he'd left his shoes and possessions in his drivers' room on the bottom floor of the building.Just minutes before, he'd been chilling in his private ...Keep reading
Juan Manuel Correa (DAMS) has been stripped of his first F2 podium result since his involvement in the horrific 2019 crash at Spa Francorchamps after the stewards handed out a string of post-race time penalties for track limits offences.Drivers were sanctioned with five seconds added to their race time running off the track on four occasions, with a further five seconds being added for a fifth ...Keep reading
Lando Norris reckons eight drivers have the potential to win Formula 1's 2024 Spanish Grand Prix, after a close qualifying fight where he pipped Red Bull's Max Verstappen to pole.McLaren driver Norris took his second F1 career pole with a 1m11.383s at the end of Q3 at Barcelona, which put him 0.020s clear of Verstappen.Lewis Hamilton finished 0.318s back for Mercedes, with the rest of the top six ...Keep reading
George Russell has explained his frustration over team-mate Lewis Hamilton's outlap in Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix qualifying, explaining both Mercedes drivers were angling for the same slipstream.On the first of two runs in the final Q3 shoot-out, Russell was behind Hamilton on their preparation laps as they were kept abreast of Alpine driver Esteban Ocon closing in on his flyer.Russell was ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz thinks bouncing in the high-speed corners is what has derailed Ferrari’s prospects at Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix.The Spaniard and team-mate Charles Leclerc had hoped to be in the fight for pole position at Barcelona but ended up on the third row as McLaren’s Lando Norris beat Max Verstappen to the top spot, with both Mercedes right behind them.While Ferrari had hoped a major ...Keep reading
Lucky? A little bit. That Charles Leclerc and Lance Stroll walked away from FP3 at Barcelona without receiving anything more than a reprimand for what can be charitably described as 'avoidable contact' left something of a sour taste in the mouth.The end of the final practice session at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya was suffused by something of an ill-tempered air, as a series of drivers ...Keep reading
Tom Ingram beat Ash Sutton to pole position for the first race of the British Touring Car Championship round at Oulton Park.The 2022 title winner and the four-time reigning champion defied the restrictions placed upon them by the hybrid-reduction regulations on a circuit where they were expected to have a greater effect than most others.Ingram, third in the championship and allowed just five ...Keep reading
Daniel Ricciardo has insisted RB's Spanish Grand Prix performance with an upgraded car was "encouraging" despite both drivers missing out on Q2.The Faenza-based outfit had been on the up in recent races and added a number of updates, including a new floor, to the car at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.But having struggled for pace through practice, both Ricciardo and team-mate Yuki Tsunoda ...Keep reading
Lando Norris put in a last gasp effort to take pole position from Max Verstappen by 0.020s, with third to fifth – Lewis Hamilton, George Russell and Charles Leclerc – covered by only 0.030s.Oscar Piastri had looked like he was in with a chance of joining his McLaren team-mate Norris at the front but an error on his final lap saw him bail into the pits as he will start in ninth.Carlos Sainz ...Keep reading
Lando Norris snatched pole position from championship leader Max Verstappen late on in Spanish Grand Prix qualifying, finding just 0.02s on his final flying lap to secure his second F1 pole.Verstappen looked set for his eighth pole of 2024 after setting a 1m11.673s on his first tour to make a statement and subsequently upped the ante with a 1m11.403s on his last effort thanks to a tow from ...Keep reading
Norris will start ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.Spanish Grand Prix grid: Norris on pole from VerstappenWhat happened in Spanish Grand Prix Q1?Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc set the early pace at ...Keep reading
Norris will start ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.Spanish Grand Prix grid: Norris on pole from VerstappenWhat happened in Spanish Grand Prix Q1?Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc set the early pace at ...Keep reading
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and Aston Martin driver Lance Stroll have received a reprimand for making contact with other cars during Formula 1's Spanish Grand Prix third free practice.Towards the end of Saturday's FP3 session, Leclerc was impeded by Lando Norris through Turn 5, which provoked an angry response from the Monegasque.He pulled up alongside the McLaren and swerved into him, his left-rear ...Keep reading
Victor Martins put on a masterclass to get his F2 campaign back on track with victory in the Spanish Sprint race.The ART driver had struggled across the opening rounds of the new season but showed his full ability as he converted a second-place starting position into the lead by Turn 1 and never looked back.Martins would lead home Ritomo Miyata, though the Rodin driver was demoted to eighth after ...Keep reading
Dan Rowbottom snatched the fastest time away from Tom Ingram as the British Touring Car Championship prepared for battle for its latest round at Oulton Park.The Midlander was on form in both sessions, whisking his NAPA Racing-liveried Alliance Ford Focus ST to second fastest time in FP1, and then edging out Ingram by 0.110 seconds with five minutes remaining in the lunchtime session.It appears to ...Keep reading
Sauber has refuted that its current lack of performance is related to its new owner Audi focusing most of its efforts on Formula 1's 2026 regulations.The team is the only one yet to score points after nine races, being hamstrung by pitstop and other reliability issues at the start of the year and, just when it started getting its pitstops under control, the Swiss squad has now fallen back in the ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton, Lance Stroll, Charles Leclerc and Lando Norris are all under investigation by Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix stewards following two bizarre separate collisions in final practice.With the last running before qualifying critical for drivers to nail their set-up and tyre preparation ahead of the battle for grid positions, drivers were eager for clear runs.But there were two separate ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz closed out Formula 1 free practice at the Spanish Grand Prix with the best time in FP3, ahead of Lando Norris by 0.03o seconds.Sainz managed to beat Norris' soft-tyre benchmark in the final flurry of qualifying simulations, doing what the Mercedes duo and Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc could not.A slow start to the session ensured that Lewis Hamilton had the circuit to himself in ...Keep reading
McLaren’s Formula 1 motorhome at the Spanish Grand Prix had to be evacuated on Saturday morning as emergency services were called following a suspected fire above the kitchen.Ahead of the final free practice session for this weekend’s race in Barcelona, a host of safety personnel rushed through the paddock to help attend to a fire that had broken out in the area at the rear of what is known as ...Keep reading
Mari Boya topped the F3 podium for the first time, securing only his second career top-three finish in a relatively straightforward affair for the Campos driver after early contact between Santiago Ramos and Sami Meguetounif cleared the path for the Spaniard.Alex Dunne (MP Motorsport) and Oliver Goethe (Campos) joined him in the top three, although the former’s position remains provisional as he ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen’s rivals are adamant Formula 1 is set for a Canada-style multi-team battle at the 2024 Spanish Grand Prix, but a key set-up change is set to boost the Red Bull driver.FP2 at Barcelona ended with the top three drivers – Lewis Hamilton from Mercedes, Ferrari driver and home hero Carlos Sainz, and McLaren’s Lando Norris – separated by just 0.055s.Verstappen, meanwhile, finished ...Keep reading
Red Bull has been at pains to play down the extent of modifications made to its Formula 1 car for the Spanish Grand Prix aimed at improving cooling.Indeed, after the first day of running at Barcelona on Friday, world champion Max Verstappen said that the various tweaks were almost irrelevant in the grand scheme of things.“I mean, they were very tiny,” he explained. “It's nothing, nothing too ...Keep reading
The FIA sees no need to intervene in Formula 1's latest flexi-wing intrigue, Autosport has learned, despite teams openly admitting they need to push the boundaries to be competitive.A recent shift of front wing design direction from Mercedes - which has seen its front wing adopt a greater degree of flexibility to help deliver balance gains - has re-opened the debate about what teams can and ...Keep reading
Juri Vips has provided an update regarding an opportunity to return to the grid of the IndyCar Series in a fourth entry for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL).The Estonian contested two races at the end of 2023 in RLL’s #30 Honda, which began the year with Jack Harvey before Conor Daly made a one-off outing at Gateway.Vips qualified and finished 18th on his debut outing at Portland ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen’s build up to the Spanish Grand Prix involved a detour this week as he conducted a private test in a 2022 Formula 1 car at Imola.After completing some promotional work in France on Tuesday, he travelled south that evening to Imola for some running on Wednesday in an RB18, before jetting across to Barcelona for Thursday’s media day.While teams regularly host 2022 car tests, these ...Keep reading
Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin paced an opening practice for the Grand Prix of Monterey at Laguna Seca in a Friday afternoon session that featured two red flags for the IndyCar Series.The New Zealander wasn’t involved near the top of the leaderboard until near the end of the session when he fired off a lap of 1m07.6325s around the 2.238-mile, 11-turn natural terrain road course.Andretti ...Keep reading
Williams junior Franco Colapinto revealed that he veered off track on Barcelona's pit straight in Formula 2 qualifying in his frustration at missing pole position by just 0.006s.Such were the fine margins in what was comfortably the closest session so far in 2024, the first season with a new car that replaced the previous generation machine used since 2018, that the MP Motorsport driver was even ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes topped the times as practice at Formula 1’s 2024 Spanish Grand Prix got under way, while Red Bull and Max Verstappen appeared to be struggling.But, digging beyond the headline times in FP2 reveals that Verstappen and co are far from panicking – with a major set-up change coming for his RB20 on Saturday that will bring both one-lap and long-run gains.At the same ...Keep reading
The official FIA documents detailing the Formula 1 upgrades for the Spanish Grand Prix raised intrigue on Friday when Mercedes was shown to have brought no changes to its car.With the next European phase of the season kicking off as part of a critical run of five races in six weeks, Mercedes had been expected to be on the front foot for Barcelona in terms of changes.Indeed, Mercedes team principal ...Keep reading
Hamilton was the fastest driver on what was a relatively straightforward Friday, with the only interruption coming when red flags were shown to allow marshals to recover some debris in FP1.Lando Norris had edged the opening session and ended the day third, just 0.055s back from Hamilton’s 1m13.264s effort – the pair split by Carlos Sainz.Pierre Gasly was fourth for Alpine with team-mate ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton posted the fastest time in FP2 ahead of Formula 1's Spanish Grand Prix as the Mercedes driver beat Carlos Sainz by a scant 0.022 seconds.The seven-time F1 champion vaulted to the top of the order amid the mid-session soft tyre running to displace home favourite Sainz, who had kicked off the running on the C3 tyres - the softest compound for this weekend.George Russell had led the ...Keep reading
Alpine Formula 1 team boss Bruno Famin says he "doesn't really mind about the past" after the team announced the controversial Flavio Briatore as its executive advisor.On Friday morning Alpine confirmed the news that Briatore had been brought in by Renault group CEO Luca de Meo as an executive advisor.While the news of Briatore being handed an advisory role had been circulating for the past weeks ...Keep reading
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has revealed that the police are involved in investigating the source of an anonymous email accusing the team of trying to deliberately sabotage Lewis Hamilton’s car.An anonymous email, sent to the same list of F1 and media representatives who were forwarded alleged WhatsApp messages involving Christian Horner earlier this year, said Mercedes was playing a dangerous ...Keep reading
One wonders what is going on in the offices of the Renault Group in Boulogne-Billancourt on the outskirts of Paris for it to make such a decision about its Formula 1 operation.Just how bad has it got that Renault finds itself in this position to reappoint a disgraced former team boss - one that plunged the famous French brand into its darkest moments in motorsport.And he is not returning in some ...Keep reading
BMW driver Dries Vanthoor believes AF Corse Ferrari rival Robert Kubica deliberately pushed him off the track while trying to lap him during the night at last weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours.Vanthoor has expressed his disappointment at what he believes was a lack of respect from the one-time Formula 1 race winner after he was sent to the medical centre for check-ups due to the sizeable impact from ...Keep reading
Current VR46 Ducati rider Marco Bezzecchi is finalising a move to the factory Aprilia MotoGP for the upcoming MotoGP season, Autosport understands.This move comes a year after three-time MotoGP grand prix winner Bezzecchi elected against a factory-spec Ducati at Pramac for 2024 to remain with his VR46 set-up on a year-old Desmosedici.Autosport understands that the deal that will take the Italian ...Keep reading
As F1 heads to its busiest stretch yet, with five races in six weeks until the summer break, more dominos are expected to fall in the 2025 driver market.Don't expect any sudden moves at Mercedes, as the team has time on its side. It has been clear for a while now that youngster Andrea Kimi Antonelli will be in the car if nothing unexpected happens.But as long as there is a sliver of hope of ...Keep reading
Lando Norris drew first blood in Formula 1's Spanish Grand Prix weekend, taking the fastest lap in FP1 over championship leader Max Verstappen.The Briton slotted in ahead of Verstappen prior to a red flag in the second half of the opening practice session at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, and longer runs ensured the Miami winner stayed on top of the order.George Russell had set the first ...Keep reading
Martins Sesks is all set to make his top-flight World Rally Championship debut now the covers have come off the non-hybrid powered Ford Puma Rally1 car he will pilot.The Latvian driver, who finished runner-up in the 2023 European Rally Championship, will make his Rally1 debut on Poland’s gravel roads in next week's seventh round of the WRC.The event is part of a two-round deal that includes ...Keep reading
Red Bull has revealed the details of its Spanish Grand Prix upgrade package aimed at maximising aerodynamic efficiency of its RB20 for warmer Formula 1 races.With the team facing an increased challenge from its rivals ahead of the next European phase of the season, it has introduced a raft of tweaks aimed at optimising its package.The focus of the revisions is on ensuring that the cooling ...Keep reading
Aston Martin has been honest that upgrades it has brought to its Formula 1 car this year have made it more "difficult" to drive.Having delivered a host of developments to try to lift it closer to the front of the field, Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll have found that the AMR24 is a more troublesome beast to extract speed from on the limit.And, at a time when the F1 field is closing up in ...Keep reading
Two-time Formula 1 champion and double Indianapolis 500 winner Emerson Fittipaldi was no stranger to racing against the very best during a motorsport career spanning more than three decades.This included competing in the same team as Jochen Rindt and Denny Hulme, as well as Indy 500 winners Rick Mears and Danny Sullivan. But the Brazilian picks ‘SuperSwede’ Ronnie Peterson as his favourite ...Keep reading
The FIA’s superlicence rules alteration to allow certain worthy 17-year-olds to enter Formula 1 is unrelated to Mercedes junior Andrea Kimi Antonelli and may actually benefit Red Bull, Autosport understands.Earlier this month, the governing body updated Appendix L of its International Sporting Code with a clause that states special dispensation to obtain a superlicence may be granted to certain ...Keep reading
Ferrari has managed to get its latest Formula 1 upgrades ready for the Spanish Grand Prix as it bids to bounce back from its Canada struggles. Even before the team’s changes are formally confirmed in the FIA submission document ahead of opening free practice, the modifications to its sidepods, 'Cobra' winglets alongside the cockpit and rear wing have stood out in visual terms. The push comes ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen says he doesn't believe Red Bull will regain its early 2024 Formula 1 dominance at the Spanish Grand Prix, despite encountering a strong circuit for its car.F1 returns to a more traditional run of European circuits, beginning with a triple-header featuring Barcelona, the Red Bull Ring and Silverstone.It is considered to be a more favourable stretch of layouts for Red Bull's RB20 ...Keep reading
Alpine has announced the return of former Renault Formula 1 team boss Flavio Briatore in an advisory role, 14 years after he was dismissed for his part in “Crashgate.”Following weeks of speculation that Alpine was sounding out Briatore about a role in the squad as it evaluates its F1 future, the French manufacturer confirmed on Friday morning that the Italian had taken on a formal position.A ...Keep reading
In a shocking twist, the end of Stewart-Haas Racing is not the end of Gene Haas' tenure as a team owner in the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity Series.Last month, Gene Haas and Tony Stewart released a joint statement announcing plans to dissolve Stewart-Haas Racing at the conclusion of the 2024 season.READ MORE: The unexpected rise and fall of SHRLaunched in 2009, the organisation won the Cup Series title ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton has asked his Formula 1 fans not to spread "negativity" following a recent debate about possible favouritism towards his team-mate George Russell.With Hamilton leaving for Ferrari at the end of 2024, his results compared to Russell have come under added scrutiny, particularly in the context of the younger Briton currently possessing a 9-2 qualifying head-to-head record.Russell leads ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton says that Silverstone needs to ensure its Formula 1 ticket pricing strategy does not get out of hand, citing rising living costs as British Grand Prix prices rise.The Silverstone race is yet to sell out its full capacity ahead of July's event, having achieved a total attendance of 480,000 last year across the grand prix weekend.Although the circuit's managing company puts this down ...Keep reading
Aston Martin can offer Adrian Newey the benefits of being part of a “young” and “exciting” project, reckons Lance Stroll.The Silverstone-based team has ramped up its efforts to lure the star designer on board once his current contract with Red Bull ends in the first quarter of next year.While a number of teams are in the hunt to try to secure Newey’s services, it has emerged that Aston ...Keep reading
Sponsored by Former airfieldEveryone knows Silverstone is a former airfield – but did you know it was home to the legendary Wellington bomber? The site opened in 1943 during WWII with five large hangars, three intersecting runways and perimeter track. It was a training base for the No 17 Operational Training Unit but when that shut in 1947, it was then converted into a racetrack by the RAC ...Keep reading
Lando Norris says McLaren has learned it needs to “provoke” itself more if it is to avoid the small mistakes that have cost it victories in recent Formula 1 races.The Briton is coming off the back of an especially frustrating Canadian Grand Prix where two decisions around pitstops – one under safety car conditions and one not – meant a shot at victory slipped through its grasp.But McLaren ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz does not wish to "wait any longer" to decide which Formula 1 team he will race with in 2025, and hopes to have his future secured in the coming weeks.The Spaniard has long been considering his options as he prepares to leave Ferrari at the end of the season, and it is expected that his choice has narrowed down between Williams and Sauber for next year, the latter of which will become ...Keep reading
Pierre Gasly trusts Alpine will "consider all options" as it weighs up ditching its engine programme for customer engines for 2026.Motorsport.com/Autosport recently learned that Alpine is considering abandoning its works F1 power unit programme in France and doing a deal for a customer engine instead, amid questions over the state of its new-for-2026 hybrid units.Alpine's Renault engines are known ...Keep reading
Marc Marquez says “it’s difficult to have a long career” in MotoGP now because the competitive level in the series now is such that maintaining it is harder than before.Prior to last month’s Catalan Grand Prix, Aleix Espargaro announced that he would be retiring from MotoGP at the end of the 2024 season.It will bring to an end a grand prix career that began in the 125cc class in 2004, with ...Keep reading
2024 marked the second year of the merged Le Mans Hypercar and LMDh regulations into the WEC's Hypercar category, ruled by a Balance of Performance, but LMDh cars are yet to grab their first win at the Le Mans 24 Hours after an extremely competitive race this year.Together with veteran Richard Westbrook, Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn had achieved a third-place finish in their Cadillac V-Series.R in ...Keep reading
Zhou Guanyu will revert to using the Formula 1 chassis he used until 2024’s Imola round, after his Sauber squad concluded a problem with his newer one was contributing to his recent struggles.Zhou’s recent form since his Imola chassis change has included a Monaco practice shunt and two crashes last time out at Montreal, which cost him considerable practice running ahead of a race where he ...Keep reading
The new FG series has showcased the first pictures of its all-electric, dual-powered race car ahead of its inaugural season in 2025.Christened the FG-Twin, it was designed by Daniel Simon, who has worked on several Hollywood blockbusters including Tron Legacy, Oblivion and Top Gun Maverick, along with series founders Dilbagh Gill and Nick Heidfeld.The FG-Twin carries a futuristic look that sets it ...Keep reading
When Lewis Hamilton spoke to the media following his fourth place in Montreal, he was unequivocal about the performance.Having missed out on the final spot on the podium to his Mercedes team-mate, George Russell, Hamilton delivered his damning assessment of the weekend.“Over the weekend, it was a really poor performance from myself”, he said before adding, it was “just one of the worst races ...Keep reading
Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur says hero to zero moments like his team experienced at the Canadian Grand Prix are the new norm in a super-tight Formula 1.Just a fortnight on from Charles Leclerc’s triumph in Monaco that had thrust Ferrari into championship contention, the Maranello squad came crashing down to earth in Montreal after a lacklustre qualifying and then a double retirement.While ...Keep reading
An LMGT3 class podium on the new Mustang GT3's Le Mans 24 Hours bow was an "equivalent" achievement to the Ford GT's debut win in 2016, its car builder says. The boss of Ford's technical partner Multimatic that developed and built the cars, Larry Holt, made the comments after its Proton Competition-run machines finished third and fourth at the culmination of the World Endurance Championship ...Keep reading
"I think multiple triple-headers are not sustainable," said former Racing Point team boss Otmar Szafnauer in September 2020."I don't think it's a good idea," said former Haas team principal Guenther Steiner around the same time. And in 2021, McLaren's former team boss Andreas Seidl - now Sauber CEO - added his voice to the concerns about triple headers saying: "[An] important topic is also the ...Keep reading
- McLaren Racing - 60 Scholars 2024 - WokingMcLaren Racing are opening the opportunity for 60 Scholars for a second year.The programme aims to encourage and support the next generation of female leaders in STEM and is designed to fast-track your career whether that’s in software, technology, engineering, data or other STEM related careers.This will take place between July and August 2024 for ...Keep reading
Since taking on his new role almost one year ago, Formula E CEO Jeff Dodds has been vocal on several topics as he looks to guide the all-electric championship to bigger and better things.The latest noise has centred around the 2024-25 Formula E calendar that was released earlier this month, having been approved by the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council and which features a scheduled 17 races across ...Keep reading
Dan Brown has returned to the top of the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings after adding another victory to his tally last weekend.Brown has continually oscillated between the top few spots on the leaderboard ever since Autosport began producing its winners' tables last month.But, after taking a 10th triumph of the year, in the Racing Hondas category at Brands Hatch, he has now ...Keep reading
Formula 1 looks set to host the official pre-season test in Bahrain again next year, despite it not holding the first race of the campaign.With Sakhir's event having been the season-opener since 2021, F1 has recently shifted its first pre-season test to take place at the venue in the days before rather than running at its previous favourite destination Barcelona.Bahrain was preferred because it ...Keep reading
Ferrari is eyeing a performance upgrade of its Le Mans 24 Hours-winning 499P that could come on stream before the end of this year’s World Endurance Championship. Ferdinando Cannizzo, technical director of Ferrari’s sportscar operations, stated before and after it retained its Le Mans crown last weekend that the Italian manufacturer is looking to exploit the evo joker rules that govern car ...Keep reading
Ferrari is facing an increasingly tough fight to secure Adrian Newey’s services after it emerged Aston Martin hosted the Formula 1 design legend for a secret factory visit.Aston Martin has long been known to have been interested in Newey’s services, with Autosport revealing back in March that its owner Lawrence Stroll had made a personal offer to him.Now, as Newey weighs up what he plans to do ...Keep reading
Ferrari’s dramatic victory against Toyota and Porsche at the Le Mans 24 Hours takes the limelight in this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (20 June).The 92nd running of the Le Mans 24 Hours had four manufacturers in contention, changeable conditions that threw the advantage from one team to another, and a result that was in doubt until the very end. And that’s before we mention the LMP2 ...Keep reading
Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly said it ‘didn’t feel right’ to attend the Le Mans 24 Hours in casual clothing as he revealed his ambition to compete in the sportscar epic.Gasly and Alpine F1 team-mate Esteban Ocon were in attendance at last week’s 92nd running of the French endurance classic, where the Renault-owned squad made its Hypercar return with the new A424 LMDh prototype.Frenchman ...Keep reading
The 2024 Formula 1 season has become or three or even four-horse race in recent races, but Red Bull is keen to re-assert its dominance on circuits that suit its car much better.McLaren and Ferrari had both been closing the gap to Red Bull since their respective upgrades in Miami and Imola. And in Canada, Mercedes joined the fray to make it a four-way battle as it hit a sweet spot with its own ...Keep reading
The 2024 F1 season is well underway, and fans will soon get to experience running their own Formula 1 team. The latest game in the F1 Manager franchise has been announced and will allow fans to become the next Toto Wolff, Christian Horner or Fred Vasseur as they take on the responsibility for their own team. Formula 1 and Frontier Developments have revealed the release date for F1 Manager 2024 ...Keep reading
Tony Kanaan says Theo Pourchaire "didn't do anything wrong" to warrant being dropped from Arrow McLaren's IndyCar roster for the remainder of 2024 after it moved to sign Nolan Siegel.Pourchaire was revealed one month ago as the primary driver for the team's #6 entry for rest of the season (with the exception of the Indianapolis 500) after impressing as a substitute for the injured David ...Keep reading
Ricky Taylor believes Acura remains in the IMSA SportsCar Championship title hunt after he and team-mate Filipe Albuquerque ended their win drought last time out on the streets of Detroit.Taylor and Albuquerque’s Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura ARX-06 has risen to sixth in points, 239 off the leading Porsche of Dane Cameron and Felipe Nasr – which has been top of the pile since winning ...Keep reading
Apple has announced a release date for the delayed Formula 1 film, as production continues at the 2024 races. Filming has been taking place at Silverstone in June, following delays caused by the Hollywood actors’ strike last year.Production crews were present at several F1 races last season, most notably the British Grand Prix, where the cast were seen alongside the drivers for the national ...Keep reading
After a nearly two-month break, F1 Academy is back with its third round in Barcelona. The all-female single-seater series last took to the track at the Miami International Autodrome for the Miami Grand Prix, with both races won by Abbi Pulling. The British driver, who most recently became the first woman to win a British F4 race, has claimed three out of the four F1 Academy races so far this ...Keep reading
KTM MotoGP rider Jack Miller says the spate of in-season calendar changes that have plagued the series in recent years is “getting old”.The 2024 championship was meant to consist of 21 grands prix, but already before the campaign had started there were changes.Argentina, set for round three, was cancelled due to a lack of funding under the new government, before extreme flooding forced the ...Keep reading
Sponsored by Lewis Hamilton even credited the fans for helping him fend off Lando Norris for second place last year, saying: "I didn't do it, the crowd did it. We've got the greatest crowd here. I felt the energy, I felt the support…"The former airfield venue, situated in the heart of the classic British countryside, is one of F1’s most historic circuits. It was the host venue for the ...Keep reading
Once an anomaly during the pandemic, triple-headers have now become a standard fixture of the Formula 1 calendar. The first of three runs with three consecutive race weekends starts at this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona, followed by an overland trip to Austria and then on to Silverstone.Towards the end of the year there is a triple-header including Austin, Mexico and Brazil ahead of ...Keep reading
Throughout the build-up to the Le Mans 24 Hours there was discussion about whether a Pro-Am LMP2 entry could win the class outright - and AF Corse nearly managed just that.The Pro-Am crews must feature a bronze-graded amateur driver, while the regular LMP2 entries only need to run a silver alongside two golds or a gold and a platinum.The #83 AF Corse ORECA of Ben Barnicoat, Nico Varrone and ...Keep reading
McLaren’s ambitions to repeat its 1995 Le Mans 24 Hours victory remain on track and have been given a boost by the extension of the current prototype regulations until 2029.Zak Brown, boss of McLaren Racing, has stated that an entry into either the Hypercar or GTP classes of the respective World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championships is “more when than if”.He explained ...Keep reading
Pierre Gasly is bracing himself for a tough run in the upcoming Formula 1 races, with his Alpine A524 set not to receive any upgrades "in the near future".The start of the 2024 F1 season has been much more difficult than the Anglo-French squad had anticipated, as it has reached Q3 only once – with Pierre Gasly classified tenth in Monaco – and has scored just five points.PLUS: The worrying ...Keep reading
One-time British Touring Car champion Tom Ingram has said that he is keen to contest the World Rallycross Championship’s planned Coventry round in 2025.Although 2022 BTCC title winner Ingram is a native of the Buckinghamshire town of High Wycombe, he moved to the Midlands city a few years ago because of its convenient location close to many of the UK’s circuits – but little did he imagine ...Keep reading
When Jamie Chadwick continues her sophomore Indy NXT campaign this weekend at Laguna Seca she will enter the paddock for the first time in her Stateside career as a proven race winner. Victory at Road America, converting pole position, made her the first female winner in IndyCar's support series formerly known as Indy Lights since fellow Briton Pippa Mann at Kentucky in 2010. Never before had a ...Keep reading
After recent record-breaking years with sell-outs and bumper attendances, British Grand Prix promoters are facing a last-minute push to find buyers for the final Formula 1 tickets.But while there is no alarm that some seats may remain empty next month – and estimates of a weekend crowd of 465,000-470,000 are still something other venues would be jealous of – it marks an interesting reflection ...Keep reading
Aston Martin Formula 1 reserve Felipe Drugovich hopes his Le Mans 24 Hours debut will “open some doors”, as he debates remaining in sportscar racing or returning to single-seaters.Drugovich made his first appearance in the French endurance classic last weekend as he joined Action Express Racing at the wheel of a factory Cadillac V-Series.R in the Hypercar class.Together with IMSA SportsCar ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz continues to keep his cards close to his chest when it comes to making a call about where he will drive in the 2025 Formula 1 season after his Ferrari exit.The Spaniard's shortlist appears to have been reduced to two teams: Williams or Audi, which will join F1 in 2026 while it continues to run under its Sauber guise next year.But which team should Sainz pick? Our writers give their ...Keep reading
Arrow McLaren has announced the signing of Nolan Siegel to a multi-year deal, which will begin with this weekend’s IndyCar Series round at Laguna Seca.Siegel is fresh off taking the LMP2 class victory in the 24 Hours of Le Mans with United Autosports, the team part-owned by McLaren CEO Zak Brown.The American will take over the #6 car from reigning Formula 2 champion Théo Pourchaire, who was ...Keep reading
The last time the IndyCar Series was at Laguna Seca, David Malukas was being announced as the final signing to complete the 2024 driver roster for Arrow McLaren. That was 8 September.Fast forward 283 days, and Malukas will make his first start of the season at the historic 2.238-mile natural terrain road course behind the wheel of Meyer Shank Racing’s Honda-powered entry alongside team-mate ...Keep reading
Alex Albon says he would be happy to see his Williams Formula 1 team sacrifice 2025 to be in the best possible position for the 2026 rules reset.Albon recently extended his contract with Williams for at least two more years, tying him to the outfit into the new regulations for 2026, an outline of which was recently unveiled.The extension was a huge coup for Williams team boss James Vowles, who ...Keep reading
The good thing about social media is that it gives a voice to many who have gone previously unheard; the bad thing about social media is that it gives a voice to many who have gone unheard for good reason…Following one of many collisions at the shambles known as IndyCar’s recent Detroit Grand Prix, Arrow McLaren’s Theo Pourchaire revealed that he’d received online abuse, including death ...Keep reading
Tech3 KTM team boss Herve Poncharal says fielding Maverick Vinales and Enea Bastianini will see him have “two number ones” for the 2025 MotoGP season.As first reported by Autosport, last week KTM announced it had signed Bastianini from Ducati and Vinales from Aprilia to join the Tech3 satellite squad next year.This comes as Bastianini will be replaced by Marc Marquez at the factory Ducati team ...Keep reading
Jack Hawksworth says he is keen to return to return to the Le Mans 24 Hours in future, having impressed on his debut in a last-minute super-sub appearance for Lexus.After being called up by the ASP team when regular driver Jose Maria Lopez returned to Toyota's Hypercar line-up to replace the injured Mike Conway, the 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship GTD Pro title-winner finished tenth in the LMGT3 ...Keep reading
Aston Martin team boss Mike Krack says overdelivering in the 2023 Formula 1 season means it is now battling inflated expectations.Aston Martin is currently lagging behind 2024's four top teams and has slipped back to battle the improving RB outfit in recent races, with the team's standout driver Yuki Tsunoda frequently finishing ahead of Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll.Aston has come under fire ...Keep reading
World Rally Championship star Sebastien Ogier has ruled out taking part in the Dakar Rally in the future, saying he has “never been really attracted” by the prospect of competing in the cross-country event.Ogier stepped down from WRC as a full-timer at the end of the 2021 season but continues to compete in a number of rallies every year, driving the additional fourth car entered by Toyota.The ...Keep reading
The possibility of Alpine shifting its approach and becoming a customer team in 2026 opens up some interesting dynamics surrounding Formula 1's engine supply rules.Any move to shut down Renault's F1 engine project would require Alpine to secure a supply from elsewhere – which is not the work of the moment with teams already quite locked down with their plans.But, as part of the regulatory ...Keep reading
Joan Mir will continue to ride for the factory Honda team until the end of the 2026 season after agreeing a contract renewal with the Japanese marque, Autosport has learned.The development also means that the 2017 Moto3 and 2020 MotoGP champion will remain in the premier class for another two years, taking his career tally to eight seasons.The Spaniard made his debut with Suzuki in 2019 and won ...Keep reading
Formula 1 is coming to London with its touring exhibition set to launch in the capital of the United Kingdom on 23 August, 2024.Opening at the ExCel London, the exhibition is touted to be “bigger and better than ever before”, with a number of additional attractions to the regular features that have toured Spain, Austria and Canada.These added elements centre around the British Grand Prix and ...Keep reading
Ferrari believes it is back in the hunt for the 2024 World Endurance Championship after claiming its first win of the season at the Le Mans 24 Hours.Ferrari had clinched just a single podium in the lead-up to last weekend’s fourth round of the season, with Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen having finished third at Spa in the #50 499P.This had left the #50 crew a distant fifth in ...Keep reading
McLaren has faith that the low-speed gains it has unlocked with recent upgrades do not mean that its MCL38 will be worse off at fast tracks like Barcelona.The Woking-based squad’s recent cars have typically excelled in high-speed corners, but there has been a shift in the characteristics of its 2024 challenger off the back of upgrades that arrived at Miami.It found that, while performance was ...Keep reading
Apple’s Formula 1 film has been given a release date of 25 June 2025, as the production continues shooting footage at 2024 F1 events following delays caused by last year’s Hollywood actors’ strike.The film, which remains untitled and is being directed by Joseph Kosinski following the success of 'Top Gun: Maverick' and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, had been slated for release in June next ...Keep reading
Last week, the FIA announced the first draft of its new regulations, set to debut at the start of the 2026 season.There are some big changes on the horizon, including smaller and nimbler cars, a reduction in the minimum weight limit as well as multiple modes for the front and rear wings to adjust downforce.There’ll be more reliance on the battery for power deployment and MOM – a manual ...Keep reading
"Unorthodox" strategic calls made by the Manthey EMA Porsche team proved crucial in setting up its Le Mans 24 Hours LMGT3 class victory, driver Yasser Shahin has explained.The Australian's win in the double points round of the World Endurance Championship, together with team-mates Richard Lietz and Morris Schuring, puts his #91 Porsche 911 GT3 R into the joint lead of the pro-am category that ...Keep reading
Raul Fernandez has ruled out the prospect of returning to Moto2 in 2025 should he find himself without a MotoGP ride next year.The 2021 Moto2 runner-up has failed to deliver on the promise of his days in grand prix motorcycle racing’s feeder categories since stepping up to MotoGP in 2022.Scoring just one top-five in his first two seasons in the premier class, Fernandez has enjoyed a boost in ...Keep reading
On 28 May, co-owners Gene Haas and Tony Stewart issued a joint statement announcing the closure of SHR at the conclusion of the 2024 NASCAR season. That involves four full-time Cup Series teams and a pair of full-time Xfinity teams - although the latter outfits are expected to continue in a different form in 2025.Part of this statement said: “The commitment needed to extract maximum performance ...Keep reading
Autosport understands that Alpine is considering abandoning its works Renault engine in Formula 1 from 2026 and has opened talks with rival manufacturers about the possibility of securing a customer deal instead.As part of an evaluation of its F1 project prompted by a difficult start to the current campaign, it has emerged that senior Renault and Alpine management have left no stone unturned in ...Keep reading
Jos Verstappen has been by his son's side for the duration of his racing career and is the key protagonist behind Max Verstappen's success. Almost ever-present.Yet he has been conspicuous by his absence at the majority of the Formula 1 races this season. The reason for which is understandably obvious.His outburst towards Red Bull boss Christian Horner in Bahrain this year was incredibly personal ...Keep reading
Valtteri Bottas says he is "confident" he will find a seat for the 2025 Formula 1 season, with a decision expected in the coming weeks.The 2025 driver market is now largely dictated by Ferrari exile Carlos Sainz, who has to make a decision between accepting a long-standing offer from Sauber, which will become Audi in 2026, or joining Williams instead.With Sainz the most high-profile free agent ...Keep reading
Peugeot endured a torrid outing in front of its home crowd at the 92nd running of the French endurance classic, as it failed to break inside the top 10 in an expanded 23-car Hypercar grid.Stoffel Vandoorne, Paul di Resta and Loic Duval finished 11th in the best of the two 9X8s, two laps down on the winning Ferrari, with the sister car crewed by Nico Muller, Mikkel Jensen and Jean-Eric Vergne ...Keep reading
It is a popular myth that racing drivers are all mega-rich and enjoy the sort of lifestyle that us mere mortals can scarcely dream of. While there are those that revolve in these circles, there is a large number who, while far from living on the breadline, very much spend their career with very little job security and are forced to battle for every penny they can muster.This is especially true for ...Keep reading
Mercedes started the season with a W15 that proved a tricky beast for both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell.With the team having no immediate answer about how best to get its car to perform in both high and low-speed corners, much of the early season effort was in getting to the bottom of the issues at stake.But as it finally unlocked what it needed to do, its factory was moved on to a war ...Keep reading
Six hours and 35 minutes into the World Endurance Championship's most prestigious race, the #83 Ferrari 499P driven by Kubica swerved into Vanthoor's #15 BMW M Hybrid V8 as they lapped the #92 Manthey Pure Rxcing GT3 entry on the approach to Mulsanne corner, which sent the Belgian driver into the wall and caused the BMW's retirement from the race.The #83 Ferrari was given a 30-second stop-and-go ...Keep reading
Gasly and Ocon both scored points in Montreal amid some unease over a late position swap.But the fact that both drivers ended up in the top 10 was already a positive result for Alpine after a disappointing qualifying result for Ocon.Ocon went out in the first stage of qualifying in 18th, missing the cut to Q2 by a tenth and a half compared to Alpine team-mate Pierre Gasly.As well as dealing with ...Keep reading
The Japanese manufacturer’s two driver crews pointed to multiple incidents and issues as the reason they failed to reverse last year’s defeat to Ferrari in the French enduro.Jose Maria Lopez, who crossed the line in the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar he shared with Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries 14s behind the winning Ferrari, explained that two punctures and two engine issues ...Keep reading
Sunday night’s race was the first for the Cup series at the track, which had hosted Xfinity, Truck, ARCA and IndyCar rounds previously.In a race where teams were wary of tyre wear – and several paid the price by hitting the wall – Blaney and his #12 Penske Ford team mastered the strategy.On the final caution of the race, Blaney was first out of the pits having taken two new right-side tyres ...Keep reading
Porsche was deemed as the favourite to take victory in the 92nd edition of the French endurance classic, having won two out of three World Endurance Championship rounds in 2024, the #6 factory Porsche squad in Qatar and the #12 Jota Porsche effort at Spa, and also looked rapid in testing and qualifying at La Sarthe.Toyota’s technical director David Floury was even quoted as saying that Porsche ...Keep reading
Ferrari’s sportscar racing boss Antonello Coletta made the comment after the factory #50 Ferrari 499P of Nicklas Nielsen, Antonio Fuoco and Miguel Molina won the 92nd running of the French endurance classic, a race in which a number of manufacturers enjoyed stints at the front and nine cars finished on the lead lap.Key figures within the Italian marque had downplayed its prospects ahead of the ...Keep reading
Although it was down in 17th position three hours into the World Endurance Championship's most famous race after qualifying second at the hands of Alex Lynn, the #2 V-Series.R achieved a solid race thereafter.Despite very unstable weather conditions, there was little trouble to report for the blue Chip Ganassi-run car besides a nose change in the night.It thus rose to the lead, which it occupied ...Keep reading
The United Autosports driver added a second LMP2 triumph at Le Mans, having previously been victorious in 2017, in the ORECA-Gibson 07 he shared with race rookies, IndyCar driver Nolan Siegel and IMSA SportsCar Championship competitor Bijoy Garg.Their #22 machine was one of six main LMP2 crews that was in contention during the contest, which featured treacherous conditions for much of the 24 ...Keep reading
Nickas Nielsen, Antonio Fuoco and Miguel Molina took the chequered flag in the #50 Ferrari 499P with a 14s margin over the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID of Nyck de Vries, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez, as the #51 Ferrari of Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi rounded out the podium.There was drama in the penultimate hour as the right-side door of the #50 Ferrari began ...Keep reading
The German failed to progress from Q1, qualifying only 19th in what was a far departure from his previous efforts this season.A bold gamble on full wet tyres saw both Hulkenberg and team-mate Kevin Magnussen scythe through the field and into the top 10 in the opening eight laps of Sunday's race, though both drivers ultimately fell back through the field as conditions improved.With both Ferrari ...Keep reading
This three-hour period began under the safety car following the earlier crash of the #27 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 in the prestigious World Endurance Championship round, with two Hypercars being hit by problems despite the reduced speed.First, Nico Muller went off at Indianapolis at the wheel of the #93 Peugeot, seemingly disturbed by a wobble for the car ahead. It was running in 15th place.Later ...Keep reading
The Classic Sports Car Club Mick Hill Trophy races at Silverstone earlier this month turned the clocks back 50 years to the birth of Britain’s Super Saloon movement he and Tony Hazlewood masterminded in 1974. Hill and Hazlewood loved brawny American V8 engines, and became fan favourites for wrestling mighty cars built around them in their spare time.Both learned the hard way, saddling ...Keep reading
As part of an effort to make F1 cars smaller and lighter, Pirelli agreed to reduce the front tyre width by 25mm and the rear tyre width by 30mm. The tyres themselves will also become smaller in diameter, going from the current 720mm diameter to 705-710mm, although F1 will still be using 18-inch wheels.Despite the reduced tyre sizes the FIA is not projecting Pirelli's new tyres to be significantly ...Keep reading
The factory #6 Porsche Penske 963 of Laurens Vanthoor was circulating a few seconds clear of the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID driven by Ryo Hirakawa after 18 hours of racing at Le Mans, with marshals still replacing the barriers at Indianapolis under the caution period.Heart of Racing driver Daniel Mancinelli was being lapped by the #51 Ferrari LMH car when the Italian lost control of the #27 Aston ...Keep reading
The Triple Eight duo led from the start, Feeney from pole position and Brown for third on the grid, the pair split by a fired-up Brodie Kostecki.Points leader Brown shadowed his younger team-mate in the opening half of the 48-lap journey, but Feeney’s three-lap-earlier pitstop allowed him to stretch a nearly 3s lead. Brown chipped away at the gap in the final 20 laps, but at the flag Feeney was ...Keep reading
As the race entered its second half, incessant rainfall meant that the race director kept the safety car out for an extended period.The #2 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series.R – which was third at the halfway point – took a nose change that meant IndyCar champion Alex Palou tumbled back to ninth.Besides that, there were barely any major changes in race order across the three hours since the ...Keep reading
After all the rain and safety car drama of the previous couple of hours, the track dried out completely as it ticked past 1am local time on Sunday morning.All eyes were initially on Antonio Fuoco (#50 Ferrari) and Earl Bamber (#2 Cadillac) swapping fourth place in a pulsating battle in the very small hours, exchanging the position on multiple occasions before the Italian made it stick.At the ...Keep reading
After nine hours of frantic action, Toyota’s Ryo Hirakawa led in its #8 car after erstwhile leader Kubica was given a 30s stop/go penalty for causing a huge crash on the Mulsanne Straight.Hour seven began with a brief but hard rain shower as darkness fell, with Kubica’s #83 AF Corse Ferrari leading the #5 factory Porsche by over 45s. Kubica pitted for wets, as the factory Ferraris stayed out ...Keep reading
AF Corse driver Robert Kubica was trying to put a lap on Dries Vanthoor in the seventh hour of the race when he side-swiped the BMW at the end of the Mulsanne straight, sending the car head-on into the barriers.The contact with the armco sent Vanthoor spinning to the other side of the track, where he came to a rest with severe damage to the front of the car.The #15 BMW retired immediately on the ...Keep reading
The #83 AF Corse Ferrari continues to hold the net lead in the hands of Yifei Ye after the opening six hours of the race as rain hit the Circuit de la Sarthe, with Frederic Makowiecki grabbing second late on in the #5 Porsche.Robert Shwartzman was able to pull out a lead of over 40 seconds in the satellite Ferrari following an impressive triple stint, with Ye carrying on the good work of his ...Keep reading
The World Endurance Championship race has been shaped by a sudden shower at 5:38pm, before which the Nicklas Nielsen's #50 Ferrari led Laurens Vanthoor's #6 Porsche, Antonio Giovinazzi's #51 Ferrari and Sebastien Buemi's #8 Toyota.The Italian and the Swiss had previously overtaken Sebastien Bourdais' Cadillac, respectively round the outside at Mulsanne and on the Mulsanne straight.Although the ...Keep reading
Nielsen was running fractionally ahead of the #6 Porsche of Laurens Vanthoor after one hour of racing, but must serve a 10-second penalty at his next pitstop for an unsafe release.The three Ferrari LMH cars made blistering starts as the 92nd running of Le Mans 24 Hours got away at 4pm local time, with Nicklas in the #50 car jumping from fourth to slot into second.Nielsen then got a great run on ...Keep reading
As it ran late with the production of its 2024 launch car, Williams started the season with a chassis that was significantly overweight.And while Williams had already taken 14kg out of the car over the off-season, its 2024 FW46 was still four-five tenths per lap slower than it should have been. A revised floor and other parts took some weight out on Albon's side of the garage from Imola ...Keep reading
The Porsche Penske factory team barely got one 963 into Hyperpole with an initial eighth time in the first qualifying session for Estre, before the #7 Toyota lost its laps due to causing a red flag, promoting Jota's #12 Porsche into the top eight.Driving the #6 car, Estre went on to snatch pole position for the legendary World Endurance Championship race with a last-gasp Hyperpole effort which was ...Keep reading
As most teams elected to give drivers pitstop practice in live conditions, only 12 of the 23 Hypercar entries set a time during the short 15-minute session that precedes the World Endurance Championship’s blue riband event, with Kubica heading a Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar 1-2 in his customer #83 AF Corse example.His 3m29.260s lap time proved 0.409s quicker than Antonio Giovinazzi, the ...Keep reading
Aitken is taking part in the World Endurance Championship classic for the third time, having contested it with the LMP2 Algarve Pro Racing squad in 2022 before joining the Action Express Racing (rebranded Whelen Engineering Racing at Le Mans) Cadillac squad in IMSA.He was at the wheel for the race start at Circuit de la Sarthe last year. However, he was caught out by the damp track at the Daytona ...Keep reading
The FIA released details of the new regulations set for two seasons ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix, with cars set to become marginally shorter and narrower compared to the current crop of machinery.A 30kg drop in weight is set to come with that in a welcome relief for drivers, who have campaigned for lighter cars in recent years.But with teams already struggling to meet the minimum values and ...Keep reading
From second on the grid Feeney (Triple Eight Chevrolet Camaro) had to follow polesitter James Golding (PremiAir Racing Chevrolet) for the opening three laps before finding a gap at Turn 6, and building a lead of up to three seconds.As the opposition pitted, Feeney waited until mid-race to make his mandatory stop, emerging with a lead of 1.62s. By the end of 48 laps his winning margin was ...Keep reading
The #12 Jota entry was put through its paces on the Le Mans-Arnage Airport adjacent to the track on Friday evening by Callum Ilott, who crashed the car in second free practice for the centrepiece World Endurance Championship round on Wednesday night.It followed a record-breaking build of a 963 by the British Jota squad: team principal Sam Hignett revealed that it normally takes three weeks to ...Keep reading
Truex , 43, has mulled retirement from NASCAR up the last several years which has resulted in him signing a one-year renewal with Joe Gibbs Racing and putting off a decision each year as long as possible.On Friday at Iowa Speedway, Truex made his decision official – he will step away from JGR’s #19 Toyota team at the end of the year regardless of how his season plays out.“I guess the news ...Keep reading
The Le Mans 24 Hours entry list has been announced and features a number of former F1 drivers, with 18 of the 186 drivers having previously competed in a Formula 1 grand prix.F1 drivers competing in the 2024 Le Mans 24 HoursJenson Button - Hypercar
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The world’s most prestigious endurance race is back as this weekend drivers will tackle Circuit de la Sarthe for the Le Mans 24 Hours.Ferrari are the defending champions having won the race’s centenary edition in 2023, which was its first overall victory at Le Mans since 1965. But the Italian manufacturer has bigger competition this year as the Hypercar class, introduced in 2021, now ...Keep reading
The #6 Porsche will line up on pole position after Kevin Estre topped Thursday's Hyperpole session, with the #3 Cadillac that was qualified by Sebastien Bourdais completing the front row.Alex Lynn had actually set a quicker time than Bourdais in the 30-minute pole shootout, but the #2 Caddy has a five-place grid penalty carried forward from the Spa round of WEC, where team-mate Earl Bamber was ...Keep reading
Tsunoda was labelled a fast but slightly inconsistent hothead upon his F1 arrival in 2021 at the tender age of 20, going viral because of his expletive-laden radio messages.But with it being easier to calm a fast driver down than it is to make a consistently average driver faster, both the team and Tsunoda's Honda backers kept supporting him as he matured into a tidy, well-rounded racer. Aboard an ...Keep reading
Crawford was one of the standout performers across the first two weekends of the season with a trio of top-five finishes, including a second place in the first sprint race in Sakhir.But since then, a series of issues in qualifying have seen the DAMS driver drop to 11th in the standings, having scored on just two further occasions across six outings.“I hate to use this excuse, but we’ve been ...Keep reading
There is no new driver at the top of the leaderboard this week for the first time since Autosport last month began producing winners' tables for the 2024 season.While Scottish Legends champion Stewart Black remains in first place on 10 wins, Simms is now up to fourth, gaining six positions thanks to his sixth and seventh triumphs of the year - resisting a strong threat from Callum Grant in both ...Keep reading
Thursday's decisive qualifying session, gathering the top eight cars from each category, was interrupted with just under eight minutes remaining on the clock, due to Dries Vanthoor crashing out at the wheel of the #15 BMW M Hybrid V8 at Indianapolis corner.At that time, Sebastien Bourdais had provisionally set the fastest time with the #3 Cadillac V-Series.R, a 3m24.816s. During the red flag ...Keep reading
The FIA has updated Appendix L of its International Sporting Code to add a clause that states that, although the minimum age for the superlicence required to drive in F1 is 18 years old, special dispensation may be granted to certain drivers to receive one at 17. This has also affected the requirements for a free practice-only superlicence, which follows the same wording and means that Antonelli ...Keep reading
The timeframe of the rules, which make up the respective Hypercar and GTP classes in the two series, has been extended for reasons of stability, according to both the WEC and IMSA.Richard Mille, president of the FIA Endurance Commission, told Autosport: “Stability is very important. It is the reason why we have all these manufacturers in Hypercar, that and the reasonable costs involved. “We ...Keep reading
Ocon and Alpine announced prior to the Canadian Grand Prix that they would part ways at the end of 2024, in the wake of his first-lap clash with team-mate Pierre Gasly at Monaco.Although Ocon and Gasly have a well-publicised fractious relationship, the two vowed to work together for the good of the team when partnered together at the start of 2023.However, they have both contributed to various ...Keep reading
The three-time Formula 1 world champion has voiced his desire to contest the prestigious endurance race on a number of occasions in the past and has taken part in the virtual version as part of the Team Redline line-up.But ahead of this year's race at the Circuit de la Sarthe, Verstappen has pointed to approaches from teams looking to recruit him for a tilt at a future victory."Of course, you get ...Keep reading
Plans for the regulation change, exclusively revealed by Autosport in March, were confirmed by WEC organisers the Automobile Club de l’Ouest and the FIA at the former’s traditional Friday press conference ahead of this weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours round of the WEC.The chairman of the FIA's Endurance Commission Richard Mille said: "It makes sense for a world championship. Each manufacturer ...Keep reading
The Le Mans 24 Hours is scheduled for 14-15 June, with the pre-event Test Day on the preceding Sunday. It means the race will clash with the F1 Canadian GP and IndyCar's St Louis round at Gateway.It is the first time F1 and Le Mans have clashed since 2016.Meanwhile Imola has renewed what was originally a one-year deal covering 2024 to retain the Italian round of the series for a further four ...Keep reading
Dubbed the ‘Command Centre’, the concept is a part of the WRC Promoter’s plan to improve the championship’s ability to communicate unfolding stories during events to fans.The promoter has been working with teams and manufacturers to extract more data out of the cars and increase live interaction between the crews and their teams through Formula 1-style team radio.Live team radio is ...Keep reading
There were times during the 1960s and 1970s when Formula 1 cars weren’t always the fastest cars in the world around a road course. Big-banger sportscars sometimes grabbed that accolade and few provided bigger bangs than the machines of the Canadian-American Challenge Cup.Can-Am’s no-holds-barred heyday ran from 1966 to 1974, and Jackie Oliver was the era’s final champion. Driving the Tony ...Keep reading
MotoGP had originally been due to go to Kazakhstan for the first time in 2023, as the series looks to expand its presence further in Asia.However, delays in the track being ready meant the Kazakhstan round had to be cancelled for 2023 and rescheduled to 2024.Dorna Sports had pencilled in the first Kazakhstan GP for the weekend of 14-16 June 2024.But major flooding in the region earlier this year ...Keep reading
Newgarden was leading a Team Penske 1-2-3 ahead of team-mates Scott McLaughlin and Will Power in the build-up to the last pit stop.As the laps trickled down, Newgarden also began catching back marker Nolan Siegel, who was called to drive the #78 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet while regular Agustin Canapino took a leave of absence following a controversial last week. Stuck in a compromising ...Keep reading
The WRC has been working towards Tuesday's World Motor Sport Council meeting, where several questions are expected to be answered.At the top of the agenda are the technical regulations for next year and 2026 which has sparked plenty of heated debate since the FIA unveiled its proposals for the future of the WRC in February.It is widely anticipated that the current Rally1 regulations will remain in ...Keep reading
But the weather plays another key role in the contest and can often be the difference between success and failure, as the 2008 edition proved.Peugeot was leading the race until rain fell in the second half of the race allowing Audi, which was quicker in the wet, to overtake. But Peugeot was quicker again when conditions dried, until rain returned with two hours to go causing the French ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer delivered its most competitive weekend of the year in Montreal last weekend as George Russell took pole position and came home third.But the result was probably not as good as the team could have hoped for, with the pace of its W15 having been super strong at various points of the weekend.A new front wing that Mercedes introduced to help complement a recent upgrade appears ...Keep reading
Having given up a position late on to team-mate Pierre Gasly to allow him to try to overtake Daniel Ricciardo ahead, Ocon felt massively let down when the pledge to swap positions back if it failed did not happen.As a consequence, Ocon was livid and lambasted his team's decision in the media pen straight after the chequered flag."No, it is unexplainable, that one,” he said."I've always respected ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen and Red Bull got back to winning ways where much of the action came down to the impact of Montreal’s track layout and weather.But problems with the circuit’s infrastructure amid a record crowd arose around the positives.PLUS: Canadian Grand Prix Driver Ratings 2024There were few of these in any case for Sergio Perez, who’s poor form in the other RB20 continued even with his ...Keep reading
The Scuderia was tipped as the favourite to win by several of its rivals going into the Montreal weekend but in low-grip conditions, both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz failed to advance to the top-10 shootout in qualifying.From there, a wet-to-dry race still provided both drivers plenty of opportunities to move up, but that didn't happen either.Leclerc suffered a crippling engine issue from lap ...Keep reading
Joining Bryn Lucas on the Autosport Podcast is Jake Boxall-Legge from the track, and US Editor Charles Bradley as the trio discuss Max’s calm and measured brilliance, but also ponder whether a gamble from McLaren’s Lando Norris running one extra lap on a drying track with an intermediate tyre may have cost them a shot at the victory.There’s also a discussion on the recent strugglers in the ...Keep reading
F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali apologised to team bosses following a number of issues during the race weekend.Complaints were raised after a breakdown in communication between the circuit and police saw team members and guests stranded for hours when the entrance to the track was closed on Friday and Saturday.The circuit is located on the man-made Notre Dame Island that was constructed in the Saint ...Keep reading
The Italian marque has made a massive jump with its already dominant Desmosedici in 2024, with Bagnaia and Pramac’s Jorge Martin winning six of the first seven grands prix between them on the new GP24.Although the GP23 remains a competitive bike to race on, with Gresini’s Marc Marquez finishing half a second behind race winner Bagnaia in both Barcelona and Le Mans, last weekend’s Italian GP ...Keep reading
A race win is something all Formula 1 drivers dream of achieving throughout their career, although for many it is not something they are able to claim.With a record-breaking 24 race season, there are more opportunities than ever for drivers to claim their first victory. On the flip side there’s plenty of chance to continue to rack up career points, without taking the top prize.Lando Norris has ...Keep reading
David Floury, Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe technical director, claimed that the performance of the three-car Porsche Penske Motorsport squad over the six hours of running ahead of the double-points round of the World Endurance Championship means that they would have underperformed if they don't win.“I think it’s clear: I would think if Porsche doesn’t win they have done a pretty bad job,” he ...Keep reading
The Hinwil-based outfit has added a number of high-profile hirings over the past 18 months as it gears up to become the Audi works team in 2026, including the additions of former McLaren duo Andreas Seidl as CEO and James Key as technical director.After a difficult start to the new F1 season, Sauber has bolstered its thinktank with the arrival of Sordo in a role that will see the Italian answer ...Keep reading
The McLaren driver found himself locked in a fight for the final podium spot with Mercedes duo George Russell and Lewis Hamilton in the Montreal race but could not hold them back in the end as he came home fifth.He reckoned that his hopes of a top three spot evaporated in the closing stages, when Russell and Hamilton clearly showed they aggressively wanted to move forward and passed him.Asked how ...Keep reading
Many of the planned race strategies went awry with seven cautions in the first 41 laps and that prompted Larson’s crew chief Cliff Daniels to run him as long as possible in the final stage before making his last pitstop.Once Larson finally stopped, he cycled into eighth but with much fresher tyres he sliced through the field to take the lead with eight laps to go.Martin Truex Jr was the first ...Keep reading
While McLaren had lost the lead to Verstappen at the first safety car stop for Logan Sargeant’s stranded Williams, Horner does not think that was the key moment that opened the door for his team’s victory.Instead, he suggests that the “crucial” decision came later in the race when drivers started moving across to the slicks and Norris elected to run longer than everyone else.With the ...Keep reading
On the cooldown lap after the finish a significant number of spectators made it onto the course before all cars had made it back to parc ferme.Autosport understands that, as it's not the first time a similar incident has happened at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, the FIA decided to firm up its response by formally summoning the Canadian promoters, the Octane Racing Group, over the recurring ...Keep reading
After hitting a wet patch of road with his right-hand side slick tyres, Perez clattered into the Turn 6 barriers on Lap 53 of a wet-to-dry race on Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.Perez severely damaged his Red Bull's rear wing by rear-ending the outside wall, but was asked by the team to bring his car back to the pits. As he limped back slowly to the pitlane for more than half a lap, Perez ...Keep reading
The Spaniard spent much of the grand prix struggling with pace and could not crack the top 10, and his chances were further dented when he made contact with Alex Albon at Turn 6 after spinning to put the Williams driver out.Sainz felt that he had to "take risks" to make progress in the slick-tyre phase of the race, which he felt was likely responsible for his Turn 6 strife, as he felt the ...Keep reading
Shortly after the Montreal race, the stewards summoned the Octane Racing Group, which organises the event, noting in their statement that there had been a "spectator track invasion prior to the conclusion of the 2024 Canadian Grand Prix".The issue concerns spectators being released prematurely onto the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve on the cooldown lap - after the chequered flag had been waved but ...Keep reading
The Briton overtook both Max Verstappen and polesitter George Russell to take the lead of the race, and started to put over two seconds a lap on the pair in a bid to build up his lead.His progress was nipped in the bud when the first of two safety cars emerged when Logan Sargeant hit the wall on the exit of Turn 5, where it appeared that he had missed the pit entry before the safety car was ...Keep reading
A two-time IndyCar Series champion, Power was running third ahead of the final pitstop, but used the overcut to jump his team-mates to cycle to the lead and score a 3.2609s victory at the 4.014-mile, 14-turn natural terrain road course.It was the 42nd win of Power’s career, moving him into a tie for fourth all-time with Michael Andretti. It also marked the first win for Power since Detroit in ...Keep reading
By virtue of Max Verstappen’s hard-fought Montreal F1 victory and the retirements of both Ferrari drivers, Red Bull more than doubled its constructors’ championship lead over the Scuderia to 49 points.But this was not helped by Perez, who had failed to escape Q1 on Saturday and then struggled to make progress in the grand prix before crashing and retiring on lap 51 of 70, leaving his points ...Keep reading
The Mercedes driver finished fourth in Montreal having lost out on the final podium position to team-mate and polesitter George Russell, who scythed down the inside at the final chicane in the closing stages.Hamilton had started seventh on the grid after struggling to carry his from from practice to qualifying and found himself bottled up behind Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso for much of the first ...Keep reading
Verstappen beat McLaren’s Lando Norris and George Russell of Mercedes in an action-packed race held in mixed weather conditions.2024 F1 Canadian Grand Prix results
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The Red Bull driver retained position over polesitter George Russell during their pitstops for intermediate tyres, conducted during a safety car produced by Logan Sargeant, and then-leader Norris was compelled to stop a lap later having passed the pit entry when the safety car was called."Yeah, it was a pretty crazy race and we had to be on top of our calls," Verstappen said. "We remained calm ...Keep reading
The Andretti Global driver was forced to fend off multiple restarts, including one brought on by a red flag, over the over the 20-lap race to claim the maiden win in IndyCar’s feeder category.She took the win by 0.8203s over team-mate Louis Foster and is the third female to win in Indy NXT, following Ana Beatriz in 2008 at Nashville and 2009 at Iowa, as well as Pippa Mann in 2010 at Kentucky ...Keep reading
Sutton had to battle from an early fifth place but picked off his rivals in his Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford Focus ST on the way to his 40th career BTCC victory.Adam Morgan started on pole alongside Colin Turkington in an all-West Surrey Racing BMW front row but Josh Cook, from third on the grid, pulled off a great manoeuvre on Turkington into the Complex to put his Speedworks Motorsport Toyota ...Keep reading
Kevin Estre led the way in the #6 Porsche 963 LMDh with a 3m26.907s set in the second of the two three-hour session on Sunday to head the times by just over two-tenths from Felipe Nasr in the sister #4 Porsche Penske Motorsport entry. The Brazilian improved the #4’s best lap by Nick Tandy, already good enough for second, to 3m27.142s late in the faster afternoon session in which the top eight ...Keep reading
Bottas and Zhou both endured a disappointing qualifying session on Saturday in Montreal.Bottas qualified 17th after narrowly missing the cut to Q2, while his Chinese team-mate was further behind in 20th following a lack of running in FP1 and contact with the wall in FP3, which put him on the back foot for qualifying.Because both cars are already far behind on the grid for what is expected to be a ...Keep reading
The Schubert BMW driver started 14th, but a masterful pitstop strategy enabled him to take the lead and win the second race of DTM’s Zandvoort weekend.Mirko Bortolotti and Kelvin van der Linde joined him on the podium with the latter extending his championship lead.As the lights went out for the sixth round of the campaign, pole winner Maximilian Paul led into Turn 1 but failed to fend off ...Keep reading
On a weekend when the FIA’s plans for the rules revolution coming in 2026 have been put under the spotlight because of concerns about car performance, Norris has said there could be another consequence too.He fears that there is a huge likelihood of the rule change blowing apart the grid and moving it away from the super close competition that witnessed the top seven drivers in qualifying for ...Keep reading
The 2022 champion, who had lost out on victory in the opener when he was slow away from the start in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback, was on the move from the opening lap.Reigning champion and pre-race 2024 points leader Ash Sutton had made a strong getaway from third on the grid to get up alongside the sister Alliance Racing-run NAPA Racing Ford Focus ST of front-row starter Dan ...Keep reading
North America’s premier open-wheel championship made a much-anticipated return to the 4.014-mile, 14-turn natural terrain road course in 2016, following a nine-year hiatus."We're thrilled to continue our partnership with IndyCar," said Mike Kertscher, President and General Manager of Road America."This collaboration not only ignites the fervour of our passionate racing fans but also plays a ...Keep reading
The 25-year-old Chip Ganassi Racing rookie scored the first pole position of his IndyCar career after twice narrowly escaping through the knockout phases to make the Fast Six shootout.Starting in soaking wet conditions, it was only in the Fast Six when a dry line developed, with drivers braving slick tyres - Lundqvist pushing himself to the top of the leaderboard with a 1m45.1519s moments ...Keep reading
Verstappen suffered an issue with a brand-new hybrid component of his Red Bull - Honda which left him sidelined through most of Friday's second free practice.The additional MGU-K element added to Verstappen's pool of components might come back to haunt him later in the 2024 season in the form of grid penalties if he exceeds the allowed allocation.Verstappen qualified beyond his own expectations in ...Keep reading
The Spaniard is currently weighing up opportunities he has from Williams and Sauber/Audi next year, with both squads clear that he is their number one target for a 2025 contract.While the Sauber offer has been there for a while, Williams has been pushing hard in recent weeks to convince Sainz it can deliver him a good enough package.Sainz is well aware of how determined team boss Vowles is to get ...Keep reading
The reigning two-time WRC champion is dovetailing a partial rally campaign with a four-round stint in the one-make Porsche series this year, with this weekend’s visit to the Dutch Grand Prix venue marking the start of his circuit racing career.The factory Toyota WRC driver finished fourth and fifth from a field of 23 cars, driving a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car prepared by Red Ant Racing.Rovanpera ...Keep reading
And it is going to take a lot more than a fifth place in qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix – and a curt response to the 1997 world champion – to secure it.Unsurprisingly, Villeneuve's takedown ahead of qualifying for the Canadian GP has attracted plenty of attention.Signed by Sky Sports F1 for this weekend, presumably largely for his forthright opinions, it is difficult to disagree with ...Keep reading
Kamui Kobayashi topped the times in the first of the two three-hour sessions of the Le Mans Test Day on Sunday with a 3m28.467s lap aboard the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar.That gave him a margin of more than seven tenths over Porsche driver Kevin Estre, who ended up on a 3m29.205s aboard the #6 963 LMDh fielded by the factory Porsche Penske Motorsport team.BMW took third sport with the ...Keep reading
Hill launched his Laser Tools-liveried West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport to the front of the pack from third on the grid while poleman Tom Ingram got swallowed up.The diminutive Kentishman had established a comfortable advantage by the end of the opening lap, but found that hard work ruined by an arguably unnecessary safety car to retrieve a tyre stack that had been biffed into the track at the ...Keep reading
Coming into the 2024 event, Dunlop stood on the edge of greatness after notching up his 25th TT victory last year.One more would see him match his late uncle Joey Dunlop. And he did just that in the first race of the week, going on to become the all-time number-one winner at the TT with 29 victories.Dunlop did this in a fragmented week of racing as poor weather caused a major headache for the ...Keep reading
Following a number of trying race weekends where Aston Martin appeared to have slipped to sixth in the pecking order, the Silverstone-based team bounced back with a stronger qualifying performance in Montreal.Alonso qualified sixth just 0.228s shy of Mercedes' polesitter George Russell, who beat Red Bull's Max Verstappen in a dead heat in a scintillating Q3 shootout.The tiny gap between Russell ...Keep reading
Key outlines for the 2026 F1 rules were released to the media on Thursday, although it became apparent that multiple F1 teams were concerned about certain aspects of the draft regulations – particularly those governing the application of active aero.It was initially unclear whether the X-mode activation, where the car's front and rear wings enter a lower-drag state in defined straights, would be ...Keep reading
Qualifying in Montreal produced a historic moment when Russell and Verstappen set exactly the same time in Q3, a 1m12.000s, that left them tied but gave pole to the Mercedes driver.What happens when two F1 drivers set the same lap time in qualifying?The fourth paragraph of article 39.4 of the FIA F1 Sporting Regulations states: “If two or more drivers set identical times during Q1, Q2 or Q3 or ...Keep reading
Villeneuve, the 1997 F1 world champion, caused a stir in Montreal when he told Sky that he did not know why Ricciardo, an eight-time grand prix winner, was still around the sport.He said: "Why is he still in F1? We're hearing the same thing for the last five years. We have to 'make the car better for him, poor him.' No. You're in F1. If you can't cut it, go home."But Ricciardo delivered the ...Keep reading
Hamilton had looked well on top of things in final practice in Montreal, as he ended Saturday morning’s session nearly fourth-tenths clear of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Russell.And it was that pace advantage that prompted Russell to dig a bit deeper into what Hamilton was doing.Having gone through his data to better understand things, he claimed what he learned helped him secure the top ...Keep reading
Leclerc won the Monaco GP two weeks ago and his Ferrari team arrived in Canada as favourites for victory in Montreal given the nature of the circuit, which favours the characteristics of its car.But both Leclerc and team-mate Carlos Sainz were eliminated in Q2 at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, with the Monegasque finishing 11th, one place ahead of the Spaniard.Leclerc admitted Ferrari was "nowhere" ...Keep reading
The recently re-signed Perez, whose new two-year deal with Red Bull was announced on Tuesday, followed up his exit in the opening stage of qualifying two weeks ago in Monaco with a similar vein of misfortune at Montreal.He qualified only 16th in Canada, having been dumped into the drop zone by Alex Albon.This mirrors a similar run of form last season, when Perez's Saturday performances began to ...Keep reading
Russell set a best time of a 1m12.000s on his first run of the session and, although he couldn't improve with his second run, the Mercedes driver secured his second career pole position.
Max Verstappen set an identical laptime to the Briton but, by virtue of setting the effort after Russell was forced to settle for second on the grid, with Lando Norris third for McLaren.
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The Swede extracted a flying lap of 1m45.1519s in the final seconds of qualifying to climb to the top of the leaderboard at the 4.014-mile, 14-turn natural terrain road course in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin.Andretti Global’s Colton Herta, last year’s pole-sitter at Road America, ended up second at 0.1394s behind.Marcus Armstrong made it two Chip Ganassi Racing drivers in the top three, putting ...Keep reading
After every F1 qualifying session, Motorsport.com publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don't alter the statistics.When a driver can't put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.Red Bull
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Russell will start ahead of Verstappen, despite the dead heat, and McLaren’s Lando Norris after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.Canadian Grand Prix grid: Russell on pole from Verstappen
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The Briton set his best lap of Q3 in the opening runs, posting a 1m12.000s to lay down a benchmark for the final runs at the end of the session. He was joined in the top two by Lewis Hamilton after those opening laps, but fresh tyres at the end of the session looked set to change the dynamic.Verstappen used them to set a rapid opening sector, but could not hit the heights of Russell's second ...Keep reading
With Sergio Perez signing a new deal at Red Bull alongside Max Verstappen, Tsunoda saw his slim chances of being promoted to the main team vanish, and the Japanese driver was widely expected to remain at RB instead.The Anglo-Italian outfit has now confirmed it has taken up the option to keep the long-time Red Bull junior and Honda protege at the squad for the 2025 season, which will be his fifth ...Keep reading
Todd took his maiden TT win earlier this week when he beat Hickman to victory in the only Superstock race of the 2024 event aboard his TAS Racing BMW.FHO Racing BMW rider Hickman and the reigning Senior TT champion led the opening lap and was on lap record pace on the second tour when he crashed out unhurt at Ginger Hall.This released Todd, who was running second, into a commanding lead after ...Keep reading
The weekend's first wholly dry session produced a clamour to log mileage on the medium tyre, where Sergio Perez and Pierre Gasly logged the first benchmarks before an unwelcome hiatus in the running emerged.Zhou Guanyu produced the second red flag of the weekend with a spin at Turn 2, losing the rear on the exit of the first corner to tuck his Sauber into the grass backwards.On the restart, Max ...Keep reading
The California native carefully navigated the tricky conditions to nail a flying lap of 2m07.3027s around the 4.014-mile, 14-turn road course.“It got pretty sketchy,” said Herta. “I think we kind of learned what we wanted to learn.”The gap between Herta and the rest of the field was significant as he held a 1.9470s advantage over Team Penske’s Will Power, who finished up second in the ...Keep reading
In the wake of the FIA issuing its outline plans for the 2026 rules revamp earlier this week, a number of teams have expressed fears about numerous aspects of what is on the table.Some of the worries surround the performance of the cars and their lack of downforce, with early simulation running suggesting they could be slower than F2 cars in the corners.As McLaren team principal Andrea Stella said ...Keep reading
A significant increase in ambient and track temperatures plus changes in wind direction played havoc with the teams’ calculations and Ingram, in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback, mastered the curveballs the best.Despite being allowed just five seconds of hybrid usage per lap due to his equal-third position in the championship, 2022 title winner Ingram sailed through his opening ...Keep reading
The most successful rider ever in TT history opened up Saturday’s delayed race day with a 28th victory and third of the week in the second Supersport contest of the event.Favourite to do the double in the Supertwin class in 2024, Dunlop controlled the shortened two-lap battle from the off to claim a fourth win of the week and his 29th overall.With just the Senior TT remaining on Saturday, Dunlop ...Keep reading
The decision to recall Lopez to the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar for the double-points World Endurance Championship round on 15/16 June was “a very simple one”, according to Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe director Rob Leupen. He explained that it was a straightforward move to bring the Argentinian back after Mike Conway broke two ribs and his collarbone in a cycling accident on ...Keep reading
Mercedes introduced a revised front suspension wishbone to link up with the new front wing it ran in Monaco, which featured a more conventional upper element design compared to its detached, short-chord top plane it began the season with.Wet weather had affected both sessions and limited the amount that Mercedes could learn from the enhancements in tandem, but it nonetheless has assisted with ...Keep reading
The former Formula 1 driver remained in control throughout for a dominant victory from pole in his Emil Frey Ferrari to add to his win at the Oschersleben season opener.Three-time DTM champion Rene Rast finished second for his first podium of the season, as Arjun Maini completed the top three ahead of Sunday’s race.As the lights went out for the fifth round of the campaign, Aitken pulled away ...Keep reading
Dunlop opened up TT 2024 with victory in the opening Supersport race of the event to draw level with his late uncle Joey at the top of the all-time winners' list after securing his 26th triumph on the Isle of Man.He went one better in the first Supertwin contest earlier in the week to become a 27-time TT winner and came into Saturday's delayed Supersport 2 race as favourite.Shortened to two laps ...Keep reading
The diminutive Kentishman was quick out of the blocks in the early-morning FP1 session to whisk his West Surrey Racing-run Laser Tools BMW 330e M Sport around the Hampshire speedbowl with a lap that for a long time stood half a second clear of the opposition.After a late red flag, 2022 champion Tom Ingram got down to business, rasping his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback to a time that ...Keep reading
Friday's first practice session effectively only lasted 39 minutes as track workers needed to drain the circuit of standing water following an intense hailstorm.After some intermediate tyre running a dry line formed just in time for a late batch of soft tyre laps, while FP2 started on slicks on a damp surface before conditions worsened again.With the weather forecast predicting more mixed ...Keep reading
The Dutchman was forced out of FP2 in Montreal after an issue with the energy recovery system on his Red Bull car early in the session.Although the lack of running was not ideal when there was only limited opportunity for clear laps thanks to the weather, Verstappen said that chasing answers for what happened – and especially what the potential consequences could be – was his biggest ...Keep reading
- McLaren Racing - Exercise Rehab Instructor - WokingMcLaren Racing is recruiting an Exercise Rehab Instructor.The role includes providing an exercise rehabilitation service to individuals returning from injury or illness and designing and leading group-based exercise therapy sessions to restore optimal function of individuals with injuries.Candidates must have professional membership of the ...Keep reading
With much of Tuesday, Wednesday and all of Friday lost to bad weather, organisers had been forced to alter Saturday’s Senior TT finale day timetable.While originally only the six-lap Senior TT was meant to take place, three races are now due to take place owing to this week’s weather disruption.Initially, action was due to get under way at 10:30am with a two-lap Supersport race, followed by a ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer has been struggling with a car that does not perform consistently well across both high- and low-speed corners.The team has found that if it improves its speed in one type of turn, then the other suffers. So, for example, a good set-up to eradicate low-speed understeer would result in the car enduring oversteer in the fast stuff.Key to getting on top of this problem is ...Keep reading
Heavy rainfall punctuated Friday's Formula 1 free practice sessions at the Canadian Grand Prix, yielding a little over half an hour of dry running across the day.Severe thunderstorm warnings accompanied the weather forecasts in Montreal and, although predicted high winds did not whip up a frenzy around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, a deluge of marble-sized hail interrupted the Friday pitlane ...Keep reading
"Max Verstappen won the 2026 Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix after using his +0.5 MJs on his final lap and deploying his MOM [manual override mode]."Is this the frightful prospect that F1 fans could be faced with, judging by the proposed regulations for 2026?The release, which FIA Single Seater Technical Director Nikolas Tombazis called a "moderate revolution", seems as confusing as the oxymoron he ...Keep reading
On a mixed opening day in Montreal, rain showers hit both practice sessions to produce a shaken-up order, with Aston Martin's Alonso taking the top spot in FP2 ahead of Mercedes driver George Russell.Lance Stroll completed an encouraging day for Aston Martin in third, with Monaco GP winner Charles Leclerc taking fourth for Ferrari.But it was a difficult day for Red Bull and Max Verstappen, who ...Keep reading
The early part of this week saw the true fallout of the Detroit IndyCar incident involving Pourchaire and Canapino, with the former alleging that he had received death threats from fans of his Argentinian rival.Both Arrow McLaren and Juncos Hollinger Racing acted quickly to condemn the threats and other online abuse, but it was only a few hours later that Canapino began ‘liking’ posts from ...Keep reading
The Aston Martin driver spent the majority of the session atop the order with only token interruptions from other drivers, as he found increasing grip despite a light sprinkling of early rain.In the wake of the hailstorm and downpour that affected FP1, and expected further precipitation predicted by the weather radars, the majority sought to gather soft-tyre running in early on in the session. A ...Keep reading
Palou, a two-time and defending race winner at the 4.014-mile, 14-turn natural terrain road course, registered a time of 1m43.1709s on a set of softer alternate tyres to take the top spot.“Great start so far,” said Palou, the reigning IndyCar champion. “Doesn't mean anything, but it just means that the car is really good, easy to drive and it's great to be back here.“Proper track for ...Keep reading
With the FIA having announced this week its outline plans for the 2026 regulations, as well as images of what the next-generation challengers could look like, teams have expressed some concern about the details of what is being worked on.Motorsport.com revealed earlier that team bosses are set to meet at the Canadian Grand Prix on Saturday to discuss the progress of the rules and address worries ...Keep reading
Canapino was at the centre of controversy this week, with his statement on social media rejecting claims that his supporters had threatened rivals.Arrow McLaren’s Theo Pourchaire drew the ire of Canapino's fans after colliding with him in last weekend’s Detroit Grand Prix. Pourchaire then flagged the abuse he’d received on his social media channels, which led to more online hate being thrown ...Keep reading
Red Bull has lost two of the last three F1 races, and Max Verstappen's triumph at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix only came after he was able to hold off a late-race charge by Lando Norris, who finished right behind him.While the focus of Red Bull's difficulties has revolved around the troubles the RB20 has with kerb-riding, Mercedes technical director James Allison thinks that the situation could ...Keep reading
Mercedes W15 detail
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Mercedes has made changes to the position of the track rod and lower front suspension arm, as it looks to better utilise the revised airflow characteristics of the front wing that was introduced in Monaco.
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Just a day after the FIA published concept images and outline plans about the car revolution that is coming from 2026, worries about some of the ideas being implemented have emerged.With an online meeting of the FIA’s Technical Advisory Committee having exposed some of the issues at stake on Thursday, sources have revealed that team bosses have asked for the topic of 2026 to be central to a ...Keep reading
The first bout of on-track action for the Montreal event was disrupted by a hailstorm hitting the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve an hour before FP1.The rain abated before the start of the session at 13:30 local time, but the pitlane remained closed while track workers attempted to clear off standing water, preventing any running in the early stages.With 39 minutes left on the clock, the pitlane finally ...Keep reading
From a career spanning four decades, including Le Mans 24 Hours success with Peugeot in 2009 and two stints in Formula 1, David Brabham says that it’s from his time racing alongside Jan Magnussen that he has the fondest memories.While Brabham was racing in F1 for Simtek during 1994, Magnussen was dominating British Formula 3, taking 14 wins from 18 starts. After his own spell in F1 with McLaren ...Keep reading
The Briton, who triumphed at the French enduro in 2021, broke his ribs and collarbone in an incident on Thursday and will be unable to take up his place in the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar.Conway, 40, will be replaced in the line-up for Le Mans on 15/16 June alongside Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries by Jose Maria Lopez.Lopez returns to the line-up in the #7 car after being dropped at ...Keep reading
The Dutchman is coming off the back of a challenging few races where rivals McLaren and Ferrari beat him to victories in Miami and Monaco because of difficulties his RB20 has faced over kerbs and on bumpy circuits.The situation appears to be caused by Red Bull having left itself with too little mechanical freedom to adjust its ride settings without compromising performance because of its ...Keep reading
Malukas has been declared fit to return to the cockpit after surgical repairs were required on his left wrist, which was injured in a pre-season mountain bike accident in February that thwarted the 22-year-old's dream deal with Arrow McLaren for 2024.The injury led to him missing the start of the season, and Arrow McLaren subsequently called upon Callum Ilott and Theo Pourchaire to race in his ...Keep reading
Whatever happens for the rest of the week, Michael Dunlop will leave the Isle of Man as the most successful rider ever at the TT after beating his late uncle Joey’s record of 26 victories.As of Friday 7 June, prior to racing getting under way, Dunlop sits on 27 wins after scoring victories in the first Supersport and first Supertwin contests. There is a chance he could end the week on 30.He’s ...Keep reading
On Thursday the FIA presented an outline of the all-new 2026 F1 cars with a bigger emphasis on electric energy and much lower drag and downforce levels.The more slippery cars are projected to be slower through the corners, but faster on the straights than the current machinery, which Russell believes comes with safety implications."The cars are going to take a quite a big turn in terms of how they ...Keep reading
In its inaugural season, two races will be held at a pair of Portugal and Spain’s finest venues; the Autodromo Internacional do Algarve and Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. With the race set to six hours and a careful eligibility criteria focused on the fastest cars in premiere-level GT championships, the races will be the ideal platform for experienced squadrons competing at the highest levels ...Keep reading
Thompson, who has faced a financial struggle for much of his career, starred on his debut in a rear-wheel-drive BTCC car last time out at Snetterton, when he joined BMW team West Surrey Racing under the Zeus Cloud Racing banner.But now the Sunbury squad has been forced to bench the Essex racer ‘due to financial complexities outside of WSR’s and Bobby Thompson’s control’.Thompson won the ...Keep reading
After a hugely successful 2024 season, the Winter Series calendar will once again feature the very best FIA-graded international racing circuits in Portugal and Spain.Estoril will kick-off the calendar once more in 2025, from the 16-19 of January. Three series will kick-off at the famed former Grand Prix venue; the GT Winter Series, GT4 Winter Series and Prototype Winter Series.A week later, from ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen’s sim racing exploits once again hit the headlines last month, when the Dutchman combined winning the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix with achieving virtual Nurburgring 24 Hours glory over the same – very hectic – weekend.Another driver who was part of the sim success for his Team Redline squad was Chris Lulham. The 21-year-old Briton has seen first-hand how much effort the ...Keep reading
While F1 trophies must stick to some rules - for example, showing the F1 logo, official name of the competition and finishing position, as well as stipulations regarding height and weight - there’s a lot of freedom offered to the designers.This has led to some unique designs in recent years; however, those rules haven’t always applied - meaning that in the past some grands prix have gotten ...Keep reading
Talk of better management of dirty air, of limiting designers’ ability to generate outwash, and prioritising closer racing is the intention, but there is still a lot of time for teams to unpick the good intentions before the cars hit the track for the first time.The renders provided by the FIA are understood to be a few generations behind where the governing body is in terms of the final draft ...Keep reading
The brutal realism of not having a drive in 2025 is beginning to sink in, with Andrea Kimi Antonelli and Oliver Bearman both poised to make the step up from Formula 2.Triggered by Lewis Hamilton’s switch to Ferrari and Lando Norris’ new long-term deal with McLaren both happening at the turn of the year, the driver market for 2025 is quickly falling into place.As it stands, Carlos Sainz, Pierre ...Keep reading
The reigning series champion enjoyed a successful event at Knockhill last weekend, where he won four of the six Legends races as both the clockwise and anti-clockwise layouts of the Scottish circuit were used.Those triumphs take his 2024 tally to 10 victories and move him one clear of Dan Brown, who in turn knocked Piers Grange - now down to third - off first place last week. Black's success ...Keep reading
The Spaniard is weighing up offers he has from Sauber/Audi and Williams for next season, with the door now officially closed on a move to Red Bull, and understood to be shut at Mercedes too.Wild speculation in the Spanish media on Thursday suggested that Sainz had made his decision and that a contract had been signed.But speaking ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix, Sainz said that was far from ...Keep reading
This year’s event has been heavily disrupted by wet weather, with numerous races having to be cancelled and rescheduled for other days.No racing took place on Tuesday as rain disruption forced the Superstock and Supertwin races to be postponed.Only the Supertwin race ran on Wednesday as rain later in the day forced the Superstock contest to be pushed back to Thursday.Thursday’s schedule was ...Keep reading
On Thursday the FIA formally presented an outline of the all-new regulations for 2026 which are built around power units with a much bigger emphasis on electric energy.In order to maintain F1-level speeds, a lot of attention has gone into changing the chassis to compensate for the disadvantages of the complex engine formula, including the addition of active aerodynamics and smaller, slightly ...Keep reading
The Frenchman is leaving Alpine at the end of this year after he and the team announced this week that their futures were better set apart.That decision came shortly after a controversial collision with Gasly on the opening lap of the Monte Carlo race, which left his team boss Bruno Famin warning that there would be consequences.Intrigue about what action the team has taken, with their split for ...Keep reading
On Tuesday, Red Bull announced it had re-signed Sergio Perez on a two-year deal to remain alongside Max Verstappen until the end of the 2026 season.Red Bull's decision to stick with Perez is setting further pieces in motion on the driver market, with Ferrari's departing Carlos Sainz now facing a choice between Williams and Audi.OPINION: The dangers of Red Bull re-signing PerezBut it also affects ...Keep reading
Cummins had raced Padgetts Hondas for the past eight years and enjoyed multiple podium success with the veteran outfit.But coming into 2024 it looked almost certain that he would not return to the team, before ultimately penning a deal.Cummins’ practice week proved to be frustrating as he battled numerous issues with his Honda.He retired from both the opening Supersport and Superbike races of TT ...Keep reading
The Dane crashed out of the Monaco Grand Prix on the opening lap after he and Perez collided on the run up the hill after Ste. Devote.Magnussen had tried to drag alongside his competitor but ran out of room as the pair clashed wheels – pitching them both into the barriers and out on the spot. Nico Hulkenberg also got caught up in the melee.Having spent time since Monaco watching replays of the ...Keep reading
Rallying, circuit racing, drifting and starring in a hip-hop video are all activities in Kalle Rovanpera’s 2024 ‘gap year’ calendar. It’s fair to say life is pretty good at the moment for the reigning two-time World Rally champion, who has rewritten the record books.The common denominator that links all of these pursuits together, even his brief dalliance into the world of Finnish hip-hop ...Keep reading
Organisers have had to battle the elements on numerous occasions this week, with Tuesday’s Supertwin and Superstock races postponed to Wednesday due to poor conditions.Only the Supertwin race ended up running on Wednesday because of rain, forcing the Superstock race to be pushed back to Thursday alongside the second Supersport and Sidecar contests ousted from their Wednesday slots in the ...Keep reading
If you qualify poorly in Monaco, you will finish in a lowly position unless there is some kind of safety car or weather-related chaos. This is the generally accepted way of things around the streets of the Principality.But, while Williams junior driver Zak O’Sullivan was the beneficiary of a virtual safety car intervention on his unlikely journey from 15th on the grid to the top step of the ...Keep reading
The decision comes in the wake of Arrow McLaren’s rookie Pourchaire being the subject of online abuse after colliding with Juncos Hollinger Racing’s Agustin Canapino in Turn 3 of lap 60 of last weekend’s Detroit Grand Prix.It was the third such incident over the past 14 months as Callum Ilott, Canapino’s team-mate last year at JHR, drew the ire of Canapino’s Argentine fans after the two ...Keep reading
The second Sidecar race of the week was meant to run on Tuesday, but unsuitable conditions forced it to be rescheduled to Thursday.The first race away on the bill on Thursday morning, a crash for the newcomer outfit of Todd Ellis and Emmanuelle Clement at the Waterworks section on the opening lap which brought a red flag.Both competitors were OK but their outfit wasn’t able to be retrieved in ...Keep reading
He claimed victory in Saturday’s two races, the first one in particularly dominant style, and then kept his nose clean in a chaotic finale on Sunday. He rose from 12th on the partially reversed grid to fourth and, with pre-race points leader Louis Sharp among those in strife, took the championship initiative as a result.Kucharczyk claimed his third pole position of the year with a ...Keep reading
Formula 1 has had its fair share of scare stories about the new 2026 car rules. From concerns about 'Frankenstein' machines, to drivers needing to change down gears on the straights, and then alarm at some simulator tests where cars were spinning out on the straights, it has not been smooth sailing to get where we are today.But with the new rules now having been announced – although there will ...Keep reading
As part of the rules overhaul for the next generation of grand prix cars, the FIA has been working on all-new active aerodynamics that feature moveable front and rear wings.The moveable rear wing will have three elements, while the front wing will have two active flaps. The two wings will work in conjunction to ensure the cars are well balanced whichever mode they are in.F1 has settled on a plan ...Keep reading
Ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix, the FIA outlined the key details of the 'nimble' car concept that will arrive alongside the new power units and mandatory use of fully sustainable fuel.Featuring active aero, the new cars will be 30kg lighter than current F1 machinery and will be both shorter and narrower.The wheelbase is being reduced from 3600mm to 3400mm, with the width of the cars dropping ...Keep reading
TAS Racing BMW rider Todd scored just his second and third career TT podiums earlier this week in the Supersport and Superbike races.Feature: The real-world application of the new Isle of Man TT gameA champion at Superstock level in the British championship, Todd was expected to be a strong contender for victory in the delayed first race for the class at TT 2024 – though he would have to ...Keep reading
Tech3 rookie Pedro Acosta described the situation as a “soap opera”. Autosport’s revelation on Monday 3 June that Ducati had made a U-turn on its decision to promote Jorge Martin to its factory team in favour of Marc Marquez wasn’t followed by an Eastenders-style cliffhanger outro.But it was the bombshell the 2025 MotoGP rider market was waiting for, the fallout of which being fast-moving ...Keep reading
The Enstone-based squad has endured a challenging start to the 2024 season, with its A524 F1 car starting the season at the back of the grid and has scored just two points so far.Its struggles have prompted speculation that parent company Renault could look to offload it.One potential buyer could be the Andretti organisation, which has been advised by the FIA to purchase a team to secure a spot on ...Keep reading
Stroll has long been a divisive figure in F1, with some of the criticisms directed towards him of his own making and some inherited.The son of billionaire Lawrence Stroll, who backed him with the best possible equipment to an F1 promotion in 2018, Stroll was always going to have public perception going against him.And with seats in F1 so hotly-contested and many promising drivers missing out ...Keep reading
On Wednesday, it was announced that six-time MotoGP champion Marquez will step up from Gresini to join the official Ducati squad next year, partnering Francesco Bagnaia in an all-star line-up.It was the culmination of a series of events that took place over the last seven days, which completely changed the trajectory of his career and that of current points leader Jorge Martin.Initially, Ducati ...Keep reading
We’ve just had the Monaco Grand Prix and Indianapolis 500, which can mean only one thing. It’s time for the third of motorsport’s Big Three events: Le Mans.We’ve got our traditional free 52-page guide this week, covering all the contenders, with Porsche, Ferrari and Toyota the current favourites.Porsche now has a much better understanding of its 963 than it did 12 months ago and has ...Keep reading
After the challenges of Miami, Imola and Monaco where the clear weakness of the RB20 in dealing with bumps and kerbs were made evident, it is little wonder that the world champion has spent time in Red Bull's simulator since the last race trying to work through things ahead of what could be another tough outing.The key to a quick lap around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is to smash it across the ...Keep reading
On Wednesday 5 June, Ducati officially announced it had signed eight-time world champion Marquez to a two-year factory deal – confirming Autosport reports earlier in the week.It came as Marquez forced Ducati management into a U-turn on its decision to promote Jorge Martin to the factory squad, after the former said no to the prospect of racing for Pramac with a works bike.FEATURE: The immediate ...Keep reading
Pajari and co-driver Enni Malkonen will step up from driving Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 car in WRC2 to pilot a fourth GR Yaris Rally1 at the gravel rally that will make its WRC debut from 18-21 July.The news comes just days after the pair claimed their second career WRC2 win after finishing sixth overall at last weekend’s round in Sardinia.Pajari has emerged as one of the WRC’s bright young ...Keep reading
Organisers had already been forced to activate their road closure contingency for this Thursday due to Tuesday’s racing being cancelled because of poor weather.Further rain threats on Thursday led to the schedule being revamped to bring the racing forward, with the second Sidecar contest of the week getting away at 10:30am BST.However, following an incident for newcomer outfit Todd Ellis and ...Keep reading
Sponsored by The MoneyGram Silverstone Dream Weekend competition not only gives one fan and their guest the chance to visit the legendary Paddock Club at Silverstone, it also includes a factory tour at the MoneyGram Haas F1 Team base in nearby Banbury the day after the race.Watching an F1 car on track at Silverstone is undeniably special with MoneyGram Haas F1 Team driver Nico Hulkenberg once ...Keep reading
Last year's VF-23 was somewhat peculiar; although it showed great pace in qualifying in Nico Hulkenberg's control, tyre management issues plagued it in the races. The drivers stated that, to make it to the end on conventional strategies, they had to stop racing the cars around Haas and effectively pin their hopes on the whims of fortune.This year's car is a different prospect. The team's test ...Keep reading
The news earlier this week that the iconic British brand would commit to Gen4 was something expected by many.Lola only announced in March that it would be returning to motorsport for the first in more than a decade as a powertrain supplier in the all-electric championship, beginning with the 2024-25 campaign.While that initial commitment was only for the next two years across the Gen3 Evo ...Keep reading
The world’s most prestigious endurance race is back, as drivers will tackle 24 hours of Circuit de la Sarthe for the next round of the WEC campaign.Ferrari arrives as the defending winner having claimed its first Le Mans victory since 1964 at the centenary edition of the race, which later won the 2023 Autosport Moment of the Year Award.So, will the Italian manufacturer repeat that success in ...Keep reading
Ireland tabled a bid to secure a three-year contract to host the WRC from next year before it was halted in April after failing to obtain the required government funding.The WRC Promoter had approved plans to bring the championship back to the island nation for the first time since 2009, if the required funding was secured. Motorsport Ireland had asked for €15 million from the Irish government ...Keep reading
For years McLaren has been struggling with grip in long, low-speed corners – coupled with a lack of aerodynamic efficiency, which dented its top speeds.Its much-heralded upgrades in 2023 in Austria and Singapore added plenty of performance through high-speed sections, making it arguably the second-best car on the grid on select circuits such as Qatar.But even throughout this year, its ...Keep reading
Wednesday’s schedule has already been impacted by poor weather, after Tuesday’s original timetable featuring the first Supertwin race and the first Superstock contest had to be postponed.The opening Supertwin race got away as scheduled at 11:45 BST and was won by Michael Dunlop, who has now become most successful rider in TT history.The second race of the day was due to be the postponed ...Keep reading
Since 2000, road racing legend Joey Dunlop stood as the most successful rider at the TT with 26 wins that only went matched last Saturday when his nephew Michael scored his 26th success in the opening Supersport race.The Dunlop dynasty is road racing’s most enduring, with Michael Dunlop’s latest success poignant with Joey having died in 2000 in a race, and father Robert Dunlop losing his ...Keep reading
In just four days, Marc Marquez has brought Ducati to its knees, irritated reigning double world champion Francesco Bagnaia and surely his mentor Valentino Rossi, and redoubled his chances of winning this title to justify his choice ahead of Jorge Martín.As much as there were people within the paddock who felt that the Spaniard had lost influence as a result of the ordeal he went through over the ...Keep reading
The 35-year-old matched the all-time record of 26 previously held by his late uncle Joey Dunlop since 2000 last Saturday in the opening Supersport race of TT 2024.Dunlop was denied the chance to better that in last Sunday’s Superbike TT when a visor issue knocked him out of a commanding lead, but he came into Wednesday’s rescheduled Supertwin contest as the favourite.Leading on corrected time ...Keep reading
The decision to run him in Montreal is interesting because it comes just days after the French manufacturer confirmed the departure of Ocon at the end of this season.Ocon collided with team-mate Pierre Gasly on the opening lap of the Monaco Grand Prix, much to the annoyance of Alpine team principal Bruno Famin. In the wake of the Monte Carlo clash, although it was not the sole factor in the ...Keep reading
The two-time world champion is expanding his motorsport horizons this year following a decision to conduct a part-time WRC campaign with Toyota.Rovanpera announced plans in February to contest four of the six Carrera Cup Benelux rounds with the first outing arriving at Zandvoort – the home of the Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix.The 23-year-old will drive a 911 GT3 Cup car prepared by Red Ant Racing ...Keep reading
Devising and implementing the perfect race strategy is a real ‘team effort’ in Formula 1. However, every team has a couple of people who are particularly tasked with determining the right plan of attack.Red Bull Racing has three: Head of race strategy Will Courtenay, principal strategy engineer Hannah Schmitz and senior strategy engineer Stephen Knowles.Courtenay, who, as his job title points ...Keep reading
Former Formula 2 driver Ghiotto made his IndyCar debut with the team earlier this season at Barber Motorsports Park, finishing 21st, before finishing 25th in his final outing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course in May.The Italian will return to the #51 car for this weekend's race at Road America, as well as the following race at Laguna Seca later in the month.“I’m very happy to be ...Keep reading
Toto Wolff's post-race analysis is all beginning to sound rather too familiar.After each race weekend, there is a pattern, a moment of reflection followed by disappointment edged with some frustration, as the latest set of upgrades had failed to close the gap to Red Bull, Ferrari and even its engine customers, McLaren.While all three of those teams have won in the last three races, Mercedes is ...Keep reading
On Monday, Autosport broke the news that Ducati had made a U-turn on its decision to promote championship leader Jorge Martin from Pramac to its factory squad.The way was paved for Marquez to go to the factory Ducati team when Aprilia announced it had signed a multi-year deal with Martin.With Marquez stating at the Italian Grand Prix that racing on a factory bike at Pramac was "not an option" for ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion, for the first time in his MotoGP career, is not racing within a factory team after electing to quit Honda to join the Gresini squad on a year-old Ducati.While once a move that would have seen him slide down the order, the current competitive nature of MotoGP means you can fight for the championship even racing on a year-old bike.Marquez has already scored more points ...Keep reading
According to a representative with Borg-Warner who was close to the situation, Jones passed away peacefully of natural causes in the presence of family members at Torrance Memorial Medical Center in Torrence, California.He was the oldest living winner of the Indianapolis 500, having achieved the ultimate success in the 1963 edition of the famed race.Jones was born on 12 August 1933, in Texarkana ...Keep reading
Tuesday was meant to see the running of the first Superstock and Supertwin races of the 2024 TT.But a lengthy delay forced the Superstock contest to be indefinitely postponed while the Supertwin contest was pushed back from 2pm BST to 7:40pm.However, it was eventually cancelled after a solo warm-up lap on Tuesday evening revealed the course was still too damp in place for racing to be held ...Keep reading
The Tuesday 4 June schedule at the 2024 TT was meant to see the opening Superstock and Supertwin races run.But rain forced a heavy revision of the timetable, with the Superstock race being scrubbed and the Supertwin contest pushed back from 2pm to 7:40pm.While the weather improved over the course of the day and the one-lap solo warm-up session was able to run, competitors advised the Clerk of the ...Keep reading
Hickman – who is now a 14-time TT winner after claiming Sunday’s Superbike race – has been a factor in the Supersport battle at the Isle of Man since 2017 on his Trooper Triumph.Taking one win and eight podiums in the class in that time, that run was broken in last Saturday’s 2024 TT Supersport opener when he struggled to ninth, finishing just over a minute and 15s from winner Michael ...Keep reading
Somehow, the news that Red Bull has re-signed Sergio Perez for another two seasons, taking his tenure at the team to six years, is not a surprise. But perhaps it should be, given the Mexican’s performances alongside Max Verstappen.A case could be made for it being the wrong move for Red Bull and, indeed, Formula 1, so let’s make it.Any neutral fan wants the top seats to be taken by the best ...Keep reading
Perez's latest contract extension will see him carry on as Max Verstappen's team-mate for six consecutive seasons, into F1's new regulations cycle.The 34-year-old Mexican started off the 2024 season well alongside Verstappen, taking three runner-up spots over the first four grands prix that helped him gain momentum to salvage his seat for 2025.A recent dip in form appeared to cast some doubts over ...Keep reading
Tanak defeated eight-time world champion Ogier by 0.2s after a puncture in the final stage cost the Frenchman a likely win. The winning margin equalled the closest-ever finish in WRC history set in 2011, when Ogier beat his now Toyota boss Jari-Matti Latvala at Rally Jordan.Hyundai’s Dani Sordo completed the podium in what might be his final 191st and final WRC start, while team-mate and points ...Keep reading
Larson attempted to become the fifth driver to attempt to run NASCAR's longest race and IndyCar's blue ribband event on the same day, but bad weather – first in Indianapolis and then in Charlotte – meant Larson failed to get into his Hendrick Motorsport Chevrolet in the 600 after completing the Indy 500.After what he described as a “diligent process,” NASCAR’s senior vice president of ...Keep reading
Dissatisfied with the lack of progress, and at odds over the resources needed to move up the order, owner Gene Haas decided not to renew long standing team boss Guenther Steiner's contract last winter.After finishing 10th with a car that fundamentally didn't work over race distances, Haas instead turned to the team's senior engineer Komatsu for a more engineering led approach, which had turned out ...Keep reading
Just seven days on from IndyCar’s fastest and most prestigious race at the Indianapolis 500, the paddock journeyed just under 300 miles northeast to its shortest and bumpiest street track on the schedule.The 1.645-mile Detroit track – using some sections that Formula 1 graced between 1982 and '88 – boasts only five more corners than Indy’s fabled oval, and with an average pole speed some ...Keep reading
Reflecting on how F1's new American owner had transformed grand prix racing since it took ownership in 2017, its president Greg Maffei claims that some of its advances were helped by there being low-hanging fruit from day one.In particular, Maffei says that Ecclestone's deliberate attitude of not being interested in social media, as the former supremo felt it would devalue the live television ...Keep reading
The Frenchman's five-year stay at the Enstone outfit has yielded a race victory and two further podium finishes, achievements that will ensure that he is coveted by a handful of teams with seats available for next season.Speaking at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, before his impending Alpine departure was announced, Ocon stated that "the important thing is to be secure as early as possible," as he ...Keep reading
The Formula 2 champion's McLaren entry made contact with JHR driver Augustin Canapino at the Turn 3 hairpin following a restart, one of several incidents triggered by drivers struggling to bring their tyres up to temperature in a race blighted by caution periods, that also featured a rain shower.Both drivers continued to the finish, with rookie Pourchaire placing tenth on his return to the series ...Keep reading
Ahead of last week's Italian Grand Prix, it looked as if championship leader Martin was set to get the nod for the factory Ducati team.Then it all unravelled as Ducati's hopes of placing Marquez on a factory bike at Pramac faded when the eight-time world champion said the team was "not an option".Ducati faced a crossroads and the possibility of having to lose Marquez or Martin to a rival factory ...Keep reading
The 23-year-old New Zealander was in the mix late for a possible win, despite starting 19th and being stuck in a multi-car incident triggered by Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Christian Lundgaard at the Turn 3 hairpin shortly after half-distance.The incident prompted his fourth and last pit stop on lap 56, which put him on the same strategy as team-mate Scott Dixon, but both needed to save ...Keep reading
On 30 May, ahead of the Italian Grand Prix, it looked certain that the eventuality everyone was anticipating for 2025 was coming to pass.Gazzetta dello Sport reported that championship leader Martin would be promoted to the factory Ducati team and the Italian marque was now waiting to get Marc Marquez’s answer on whether he would race for Pramac on a factory GP25.When Marquez faced the media and ...Keep reading
Autosport broke the news on Monday that Ducati had made a U-turn on its decision to promote championship leader Jorge Martin from Pramac to its factory squad.With Marquez stating at the Italian Grand Prix that racing on a factory bike at Pramac was “not an option” for him, Ducati’s plans to keep both riders were scuppered.The form Marquez has shown on the 2023-spec Ducati at Gresini already ...Keep reading
The Ulsterman made history in Saturday’s opening race day of the 2024 event when he won the first Supersport race of the event, which meant he equalled the all-time record of 26 victories held by his late uncle Joey Dunlop since 2000.It’s been almost a quarter of a century since Joey Dunlop was killed at a road race in Estonia just weeks after his 26th and final TT win, but the legend has ...Keep reading
The announcement that Ocon will be out of his seat comes a week after the Frenchman caused a collision with his team-mate Pierre Gasly during the first lap of the Monaco Grand Prix. Alpine’s team principal Bruno Famin warned “there would be consequences”, with many expecting the team to have a driver line-up change for the Canadian Grand Prix It is understood that the decision to part ways ...Keep reading
The revised Peugeot 9X8 2024 Le Mans Hypercar introduced at the Imola WEC round in April has received an 18kg weight break down to 1047kg while retaining the maximum power of 508kW (681bhp) at which it raced last time out at Spa in May. It follows two races at which the heavily reworked LMH, which now runs a conventional rear wing, failed to match the performance of the previous iteration of the ...Keep reading
The 41-year-old capped his 191st WRC start by coming through to finish third behind Hyundai team-mate Ott Tanak and Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier - the top two were separated by just by 0.2s.Sardinia was Sordo’s second start of the season driving Hyundai’s third i20 N following an outing in Portugal where he finished fifth. These two rallies are all that has been confirmed for the Spaniard, who ...Keep reading
Scherer Sport PHX's Audi took a provisional victory on Sunday when attempts to restart the race, which was halted by fog on Saturday evening and paused for 14 hours, proved abortive. To the huge frustration of the 240,000 spectators, drivers and teams, following five laps behind the safety car to determine whether the race could be restarted, race director Walter Hornung made the call to end the ...Keep reading
The iconic British brand announced in March that it would return to motorsport for the first time in more than a decade as a powertrain supplier in the all-electric championship, starting with the 2024-25 season.At the time, Lola Cars only confirmed its participation in Formula E until the end of the Gen3 Evo era in 2025-26, but announced on Wednesday it would extend its involvement for a further ...Keep reading
Between the Barcelona and Mugello races, Ducati informed Jorge Martin that he was the chosen one to be Francesco Bagnaia's team-mate in 2025 in the official Ducati team.On the eve of the Italian Grand Prix, a senior factory executive welcomed the rider and they shook hands, thanking the championship leader for his patience and perseverance over the last few years to get here.At Borgo Panigale they ...Keep reading
Hamilton suggested after the Miami Grand Prix last month that he had never known F1 tyres to have as “minuscule” an operating window as they do right now.“Honestly, it's probably the most frustrating thing,” said the seven-time world champion. “You look back in the day when you had a much bigger working window to work with.“Then you can just optimise the balance and then just have ...Keep reading
When one of the eight cautions of the day flew on lap 53, Dixon’s Chip Ganassi Racing Honda was called in to make his final pitstop three laps later.The gamble to stop so early – with 44 laps remaining – was a calculated one, as cautions were the theme of the race on the demanding 1.645-mile, nine-turn temporary street circuit.Of the 47 total laps run under caution, 14 of those happened ...Keep reading
The news comes in the wake of the controversy over Ocon’s collision with team-mate Pierre Gasly at the Monaco Grand Prix that left team management upset.Although it is understood that the decision is not based entirely on what happened at Monaco, the recent events did play a part in the decision that it would be best for them not to continue into 2025.Speaking about the decision, Ocon said ...Keep reading
In recent weeks, Ducati developed an ideal scenario for the next two years in MotoGP. In the eyes of its executives, this would play well with eight-time world champion Marc Marquez and current standings leader Jorge Martin, whose renewals became a priority once Francesco Bagnaia was secured in March.The idea was to promote Martin to the factory team, as Bagnaia's team-mate, and place Marquez at ...Keep reading
Quartararo has intermittently suffered from arm pump throughout his premier class career, with the Frenchman famously plummeting from first to 13th in the 2021 Spanish Grand Prix.Yamaha has made a number of changes on its M1 challenger over the past 12 months and, while Quartararo has repeatedly hailed the Japanese marque for bringing new developments, he feels one unintended consequence of the ...Keep reading
The bumpiness of the Monte Carlo circuit exposed some of Red Bull's key weaknesses - as did the kerb-riding ability of this year's RB20 chassis - as Verstappen qualified and finished in sixth, while Sergio Perez was knocked out of Q1 prior to his first-lap crash with Kevin Magnussen.This led to suggestions that Red Bull might also suffer with those characteristics around the Montreal circuit ...Keep reading
Blaney, the reigning Cup champion, looked primed to pick up his first win of the 2024 season after surviving a wild duel with the Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of Christopher Bell.Cindric had cut Blaney’s lead to under two seconds with three of 240 laps remaining when Blaney’s car suddenly fell off the pace.Cindric inherited the lead and held off Denny Hamlin (JGR) by 3.844 seconds to pick up his ...Keep reading
The six-time IndyCar champion started fifth, pushed through the murky pitstop cycles and fended off late challenges while saving fuel to claim victory by 0.8567s – the 58th win of his IndyCar career.“At about lap 50, I said, ‘I think we can make it on no more stops from this point if we do one now,’” Dixon said. “We didn't go that risky, but the team called it perfectly. We were on the ...Keep reading
Bastianini put in an impressive performance in front of his home crowd at Mugello on Sunday, making two key overtakes in a race that featured little action, to complete a 1-2 result for Ducati.The 26-year-old first cleared the Gresini bike of Marc Marquez with two laps to go going into Scarperia, before catching championship leader Jorge Martin by a surprise with an impressive pass into the final ...Keep reading
The FHO Racing rider came into the opening Superbike race of the week as one of the favourites for the victory, having been on the podium in the class every year since 2019.While making a strong start on his BMW M1000RR, Hickman was out of the podium places and over 30 seconds down on race leader Michael Dunlop at the end of lap four of six when he came in for his final pitstop.But a helmet issue ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion appeared on course to score 61st WRC win having started the final stage with a 6.2s lead, but a puncture three kilometres from the finish handed the victory to Hyundai’s Ott Tanak by the equal-smallest margin in WRC history.Ogier felt there was nothing he could have done differently given the extreme gravel conditions in the 7.10km Sassari test.“That is motorsport ...Keep reading
Having cleared the factory Ducati of Enea Bastianini on lap 18 of 23 after hounding him for much of the race, Marquez was chasing after Pramac’s Jorge Martin for second as the Mugello race neared its conclusion.But with two laps to the finish, Bastianini was able to retaliate and retake third position on the entry to Scarperia, dropping Marquez back down to fourth.While Bastianini went on to ...Keep reading
Bagnaia claimed the lead at Turn 2 on the opening lap and never looked back, taking the chequered flag by 0.8s over team-mate Bastianini, as championship leader Martin had to settle for third. At the start of the race, Bagnaia made a brilliant launch from fifth on the grid, taking the outside line into Turn 1 to shoot up to second position, before sending his factory Ducati up the inside of Martin ...Keep reading
Hyundai’s Tanak and co-driver Martin Jarveoja were involved in rally-long battle with Toyota’s Ogier and Vincent Landais, as the WRC trailed a new shorter 48-hour format for the first time on Sardinia’s rough gravel roads.Tanak put Ogier under pressure through Sunday’s four stages overhauling a 17.1s to snatch a stunning win by 0.2s in the final stage, after Ogier suffered a final stage ...Keep reading
The Moto3 race was originally due to run over 17 laps, but was red flagged on the fourth tour following an incident between Filippo Farioli and Xabi Zurutuza.Zurutuza crashed at Turn 9 on lap three and was struck by the bike of Farioli, who was running directly behind. Zurutuza needed trackside medical assistance but was conscious throughout.Transferred to the medical centre, he was diagnosed with ...Keep reading
In fact, and I know I am in a minority here, but as Monaco Grands Prix go, it was one I actually enjoyed.Monaco Sundays have never been about overtaking. Everyone knows the second they turn up in the Principality that the fight for victory is 99.99% about getting yourself on pole position because, with passing almost impossible, track position is king.An overtake at Monaco is a rarity and it’s ...Keep reading
Espargaro announced ahead of last week's Catalan Grand Prix that he will retire at the end of the 2024 season, bringing to an end a 20-year career in the MotoGP paddock that has so far yielded three premier class victories with Aprilia.The Catalan already said at the time that he was seriously contemplating the possibility of becoming a test rider, given the experience he possesses.Despite the ...Keep reading
Tanak was embroiled in an intense fight for the rally lead with Toyota’s Ogier across Saturday’s rough gravel stages.The 2019 world champion trailed Ogier by 4.5s heading into Saturday’s stages, but emerged with a 3.5s lead after the morning loop.Ogier picked up a puncture in the day’s opening stage, which allowed Tanak to pounce as Ogier cautiously completed the loop without a spare ...Keep reading
The MotoGP silly season is in full swing heading into Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, with all eyes on the battle to fill the vacant factory seat at Ducati alongside Francesco Bagnaia.During the week, current championship leader and Pramac rider Jorge Martin emerged as the favourite to replace Enea Bastianini in Ducati’s line-up for 2025, although no confirmation has been forthcoming ...Keep reading
Tanak started the morning trailing Ogier’s Toyota by 17.1s but a strong run through the morning’s two stages reduced the deficit to 6.6s with two stages remaining.Hyundai’s Dani Sordo maintained third [+2m15.5s] ahead of Toyota’s Elfyn Evans [+2m38.0s], with M-Sport Ford’s Gregoire Munster, fifth [+6m10.0s].Hyundai’s Neuville and Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta rejoined the rally after ...Keep reading
And in particular it could finally go down the route that world champion Red Bull has put to good use of having a pull-rod front suspension concept.Ferrari has already managed to make significant progress this year with its SF-24, winning races and finding itself at a centre of a three-way fight with Red Bull and McLaren that could yet be for title glory.But as teams get close to the limit of what ...Keep reading
On the series’ debut on the tight and twisty 1.654-mile, nine-turn temporary street circuit in downtown Detroit, Taylor beat Porsche’s Mathieu Jaminet after pulling off a great overtaking move inside the final 25 minutes in GTP.AO Racing’s Seb Priaulx and Laurin Heinrich won the GTD Pro class.After the pair of factory-backed Porsche Penske Motorsport 963s swept the front row in qualifying ...Keep reading
Evans has cut a frustrated figure throughout this week’s Rally Sardinia, having been unable to find the confidence to extract the ultimate pace from his Toyota GR Yaris on the gravel stages.After finishing sixth in Portugal last month, the Welshman's struggles for speed have continued into Sardinia to leave Evans adrift of the victory fight.A puncture on Friday cost Evans time, but he was ...Keep reading
The timing of the deal comes less than a week after Newgarden captured his second consecutive victory in the Indianapolis 500, which gave legendary team owner Roger Penske 20 wins in IndyCar's blue ribband.Newgarden first joined Penske in 2017, winning the first of his two titles that year before adding his second in 2019.Of his 30 career victories to date, 27 have come with the organisation ...Keep reading
The WRC has been eyeing a return to the Middle East for some time, having last visited the region in 2011 for Rally Jordan.A 10-year deal with Saudi Arabia was announced at this weekend’s Rally Sardinia, which has been attended by HRH Prince Khalid Bin Sultan Al Abdullah Al-Faisal, Chairman of the Saudi Automobile and Motorcycle Federation and the Saudi Motorsport Company.Rally Saudi Arabia is ...Keep reading
Formerly the fastest newcomers in the Sidecar class, the Crowe brothers edged closer to TT victory success last year as they pushed the Birchall brothers.Favourites for victory in the class coming into TT 2024, the Crowe brothers – driver Ryan and passenger Callum – built on their supreme practice week pace in the first race on Saturday evening.Setting off second on the road, the Crowes took ...Keep reading
Herta navigated the 1.645-mile, nine temporary street circuit to put down a quick lap of 1m00.547s to claim the 12th pole of his IndyCar career, rebounding after crashing from second in the Indianapolis 500 last weekend.Chip Ganassi Racing’s Palou made a strong run at pole, but the reigning champion fell short by 0.152s to claim the second spot alongside Herta on the front row.The Team Penske ...Keep reading
Tanak headed into the afternoon stages with a 3.5s lead over part-time driver Ogier, but ended the day trailing the eight-time world champion by 17.1s.The Estonian revealed he’d received a team order to back off with the manufacturer’s championship in mind, after team-mate Thierry Neuville retired from third on stage eight.Ogier’s lead secured 18 provisional championship points, with Tanak ...Keep reading
Factory Ducati rider Bagnaia was finally able to end a barren run stretching all the way back to last year’s Austrian Grand Prix by taking the top spot in the half-distance race at Mugello, beating Gresini’s Marc Marquez by over a second.His victory followed just a week after he dropped his Ducati on the last lap of the Catalan Grand Prix sprint while leading, a mistake that not only cost him ...Keep reading
Championship leader Martin retired from Saturday’s sprint at Mugello while running third, losing the front-end of his GP24 into the first corner with four laps remaining.But even before his race-ending crash, the Spaniard was losing touch with eventual sprint winner Francesco Bagnaia and second-placed Marc Marquez, both on Ducati machinery, despite his strong record in half-distance races in ...Keep reading
Since his final TT success in 2000 in the Ultra Lightweight contest in 2000, just weeks before his death in a race in Estonia, Joey Dunlop’s tally of 26 victories on the island has been unmatched.John McGuinness had been the closest until last year, when he scored his 23rd win in the Zero TT in 2016, before Michael Dunlop notched up his 25th success last year.Dunlop matched his late uncle ...Keep reading
The WRC points leader was sitting third heading into stage eight [Tula], the final test of the morning loop, when he went off the road and into retirement.Neuville’s i20 N carried too much speed into a tight right-hander, which resulted in his car becoming beached at the side of the road. Neuville, co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe, and his car emerged from the incident unscathed.When asked to explain ...Keep reading
Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Castroneves, who also shares a minor ownership role within MSR, has been called upon to substitute for Blomqvist in the #66 Honda-powered entry in Detroit and will remain in the car for next week's round at Road America.The decision to pull the sportscar convert came after he crashed at Turn 1 on the opening lap of last week's Indy 500. In five points-paying ...Keep reading
Kirkwood had just let Andretti Global team-mate Herta through at Turn 3 when he got into a wheel-banging moment with AJ Foyt Racing’s Ferrucci at Turn 5.Kirkwood said over the radio: “Santino needs to get kicked out of the series.”A lap after that, Ferrucci weaved and balked Herta in the Turns 6-7 complex before Herta was able to pull off an inside pass in Turn 8 as Ferrucci dove to ...Keep reading
Dunlop moved into second on the all-time winners’ list at the TT in 2023 when he notched up his 25th success, putting him one off the record held by his late uncle Joey Dunlop since 2000.Winning both of the Supersport races last year, Dunlop was overwhelming favourite coming into Saturday’s opening contest for the class – which was delayed to 2:45pm local time due to a road traffic accident ...Keep reading
Quartararo was unlucky to retire from Saturday’s sprint race at Mugello on lap two of 11 when Miguel Oliveira crashed his Trackhouse Aprilia in front of him at Turn 10 following a failed attempt to overtake the Frenchman, leaving the former with nowhere to go.The 2021 champion went down with Oliveira into the right-hander and retired immediately, bringing a premature end to a Saturday in which ...Keep reading
Herta rocketed to the top of the leaderboard with a 1m01.572s lap around the tight and twisty 1.645-mile, nine-turn temporary street circuit based in the heart of Motor City.“Thankfully, I got one and it ended up being perfect and the tires were in the right temperature window,” said Herta, who nailed his quick lap after 22 minutes to set the best mark of the session.“I mean, you have to ...Keep reading
At the start of the race, the factory Ducatis shot to the front ahead of polesitter Martin's Pramac bike, with reigning champion Bagnaia taking the lead from team-mate Enea Bastianini.KTM’s Brad Binder jumped from 14th on the grid to take fourth behind Martin, with Marc Marquez dropping a place to fifth.Heading into lap three, Bastianini was trying to reclaim the second position he had lost to ...Keep reading
Sponsored by Former world champion Nico Rosberg once described it as like being "in a sauna on a spinning bike for two hours" and the unpredictability the unique conditions create gives fans their fair share of action and drama.Last year, more than 260,000 people flocked to the Marina Bay Street Circuit, which delivered plenty of on-track excitement – but just what are the key things that make ...Keep reading
IMSA’s premier sportscar series makes its racing debut at the tight and twisty 1.654-mile, nine-turn temporary street circuit in downtown Detroit on Saturday, with its GTP and GTD Pro classes making up a 21-car field.Tandy won pole from Porsche Penske Motorsport team-mate Dane Cameron by 0.124s in qualifying on Friday afternoon. Although his time was 3.7s quicker than the fastest GTD Pro car ...Keep reading
Despite the early drama of the loose water valve cover that risked derailing the event almost before it got going, a spectacular race on Sunday helped it live up to the anticipation.But perhaps the best news for organisers and the city came a few weeks later when a report concluded that the overall economic impact of the Las Vegas Grand Prix had been $1.5 billion – which was well up on the Super ...Keep reading
Tanak became embroiled in an intense fight with overnight leader Sebastien Ogier (Toyota) across the morning’s rough gravel stages with the lead changing hands twice, before Tanak ended the loop with a 3.5s lead.However, a stage eight exit for Neuville from third position was the biggest talking point of the loop. Neuville’s retirement handed third to Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta [+1m17.5s] ...Keep reading
Coming into 2024, only three riders had contracts in their back pockets which guaranteed them a place on the 2025 grid.That number has now jumped to seven with the latest announcement that Fabio Quartararo has signed on with Yamaha for two more years and Pedro Acosta will be promoted to the factory KTM squad.Here is how the grid is shaping up for the 2025 season.Ducati CorseRider 1: #1 Francesco ...Keep reading
The 20-year-old has secured a promotion to KTM’s top squad after just six rounds into his rookie campaign, where he has already secured two grand prix podiums and fought with champions including Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia.“It was important to me to keep pushing with KTM, and to see the whole project and the story until now and how we have grown in racing,” said Acosta.“So, it’s ...Keep reading
On Friday at the Italian Grand Prix, Pramac team boss Gino Borsoi told DAZN that his squad will be the only satellite structure with factory Ducatis in 2025.This comes after Marc Marquez, who looks like he will be passed over in favour of Jorge Martin for the factory team Ducati seat, told the media on Thursday that racing for Pramac in 2025 is “not an option”.As it stands, if Pramac activates ...Keep reading
The first 2024 TT race day was already hit with a schedule change owing to Thursday evening’s qualifying practice being cancelled due to a road traffic accident.This prompted the organisers to alter Saturday’s schedule, adding a two-lap Superbike/Superstock qualifying for 10:30am local time.The opening race of the event, the first four-lap Supersport contest, was due to get under way at 1:30pm ...Keep reading
The design is a clear philosophy departure from what the team started the season with, and points to a shift of approach as the German manufacturer aims to get its W15 performing better across a range of speeds.Early-season analysis of the silver arrow highlighted that its performance profile was too narrow – it was either competitive in high-speed corners but then lacking at slower ones, or was ...Keep reading
On the series’ debut on the tight and twisty 1.654-mile, nine-turn temporary street circuit in downtown Detroit, Tandy beat Penske stable-mate Dane Cameron and Cadillac’s Sebastien Bourdais to the fastest time in qualifying for GTP, while Antonio Garcia scored GTD Pro pole position as Corvette swept the field on home turf.There was an immediate strategy play, as both of Porsche Penske ...Keep reading
Palou, winner in Detroit last year, propelled his #10 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda to a flying lap of 1m01.7210s on the softer alternate tyres to set the pace in the session. The quick lap came during first group and rookies segment, which came in the 15 minutes after the all cars portion.“It was busy,” Palou said. “I went to visit the runoff areas a couple of times here and there; just trying ...Keep reading
FHO Racing rider Hickman, chasing to add to his tally of 13 TT wins this year, holds the outright lap record of 136.358mph set in last year’s second Superstock race.Having encountered an issue on that bike earlier on Friday’s bumper qualifying day, Hickman elected to begin Friday evening’s Superbike/Superstock session on his stock BMW.On pace for a 133mph lap from a standing start on his ...Keep reading
With Aston Martin team owner Lawrence Stroll continuing his push to turn the Silverstone-based squad into winners, Cardile has emerged as one of his outfit’s key targets to bolster its technical structure.As the current head of Ferrari's chassis and aerodynamics department, Cardile has played an important role in the development of the team’s recent challengers since joining the F1 operation ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion claimed two of Friday afternoon’s four gravel stages that made up a much shorter leg than usual courtesy of the WRC’s trial of a new event format.Starting fifth on the road, Ogier made the most of his road position and managed to hold off charge from Hyundai’s Tanak to take a 4.5s lead into Saturday.Hyundai’s Dani Sordo enjoyed a strong finish to the day to ...Keep reading
Ocon made a bold move on then ninth-placed Gasly in the first lap of the Monte Carlo race, diving down the inside at Portier, which turned out to be too optimistic – both Alpine cars collided and the former had to retire after being launched in the air.Gasly criticised his partner for not respecting team orders, explaining "the trailing car was supposed to help throughout the race", while team ...Keep reading
Italian helmet supplier Stilo has created a helmet which incorporates an onboard camera, similar to those in operation in F1, to provide a raw drivers’ eye view to the WRC’s television coverage.Stilo is working in conjunction with the WRC Promoter to develop a helmet camera with the device now reaching the testing stage.Helmet cameras have become popular in circuit racing with Formula E ...Keep reading
The six-time MotoGP world champion had been in the running for the factory team Ducati seat alongside Francesco Bagnaia for 2025.However, despite his recent run of podiums just six rounds into his time on the 2023-spec Ducati at Gresini, it appears the Italian manufacturer will promote last year’s championship runner-up and current points leader Jorge Martin.Marquez noted on Thursday ahead of ...Keep reading
In the closing stages of second practice at Mugello on Friday afternoon, Gresini’s Alex Marquez was forced to abort a flying lap when he came across a slow Bagnaia on the approach to Turn 12.Alex Marquez was enraged by this and vented his frustrations to Bagnaia on his bike as the pair rounded the corner.Both riders secured a place directly into Saturday’s Q2 qualifying, with Bagnaia leading ...Keep reading
“It's been 48 hours and I'm tired,” says Josef Newgarden when we ask how he's been since winning the 2024 edition of the Indianapolis 500. We’re in a 38th-floor hotel conference room looking out onto the Empire State Building, the sun is shining, and he’s on day one of a whirlwind NYC media tour. “I don't want to say [there’s a] downside to winning the Indy 500. But you win this race ...Keep reading
A lack of action and overtaking in last weekend’s Monte Carlo race, where the top ten drivers finished in the same position they started, has triggered calls for potential rule changes to help spice it up.Perhaps the most sensible idea has come from Mercedes driver George Russell, who reckoned that bringing only soft tyres to Monaco – rather than the usual three different compounds – would ...Keep reading
Toyota part-time driver Ogier made the most of his favourable road position to win one of the two afternoon tests to lead Hyundai’s Tanak by 1.8s.M-Sport Ford’s Adrien Fourmaux completed the loop in third [+10.5s], ahead of Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta [+13.5s], with the third Hyundai of Dani Sordo fifth [16.5s].Championship leader Thierry Neuville limited the damage of starting first on the ...Keep reading
Bagnaia dominated the hour-long afternoon session with a 1m44.938s, but after an investigation by the FIM stewards for blocking Alex Marquez on a flying lap, he has been given a three-place grid penalty.Tech3 GasGas rookie Pedro Acosta recovered to third after a fast crash at Turn 13 halfway through the session, while Marc Marquez secured direct passage into Q2 for the first time since the Spanish ...Keep reading
After McLaren announced its arrival at the top echelon of F1 in Miami and Imola, Ferrari officially joined the three-way fight in Monaco. While Monaco's cramped street circuit will always remain an outlier, it has confirmed trends that Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari have all closed up to within a tenth and a half, with the favourite on a given weekend partly down to the nature of the circuit and ...Keep reading
The WRC is conducting a trial of a new shorter format at the Italian Island gravel rally, which it hopes could offer event organisers more flexibility and help improve the championship's promotion. A move to vary event formats, to include endurance and sprint rallies from next season, is a key part of the WRC and the FIA’s future vision for top-level rallying.This weekend crews will contest a ...Keep reading
The overhaul in rules for 2026 will affect both powertrain and chassis design, with a near-50/50 split in power delivery from the internal combustion engine and the hybrid unit - which no longer includes the turbo-mounted MGU-H.With the increased reliance on hybridisation, the powertrains will be heavier in 2026, although the chassis is expected to lose weight through being shorter and 10cm ...Keep reading
Teams across both Hypercar and LMGT3 categories will not be allowed to artificially heat their tyres in the blue riband round of the World Endurance Championship on 15-16 June as per the updated sporting regulations for 2024.The WEC had originally imposed an outright ban on tyre warmers at the start of last season due to environmental reasons, but it was lifted on a one-off basis for Le Mans ...Keep reading
A long-serving member of the team, White moved to the Enstone outfit in 2016 to head up the operations side of the squad having previously worked as the deputy managing director of engines for Renault's powertrain arm in Viry-Chatillon.He had previously worked for Cosworth's F1 engine project prior to joining Renault in 2004, having been chief engineer at the British firm during its years owned by ...Keep reading
The Penske PC27 is a somewhat improbable choice for Al Unser Jr’s favourite car. A two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and two-time IndyCar champion, he had his greatest successes at the wheel of the Lola T90/00, Galmer G92 and Penske PC23-94 in US open-wheel racing.By contrast, he went winless in the radical PC27 throughout 1998 and doesn’t have entirely positive memories with it, having ...Keep reading
The Woking-based team introduced a major development step to its MCL38 at the Miami Grand Prix, which helped Lando Norris secure his maiden F1 victory.Since then, Norris took a second place at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, while team-mate Oscar Piastri finished runner-up in last weekend’s race in Monaco.But while McLaren is delighted that its updates have helped lift the team to challenge for ...Keep reading
On Thursday ahead of the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, reports emerged that Ducati has decided to promote Jorge Martin to its factory team for 2025.While initially, this looked like then leading to Marquez moving to Pramac to take a factory bike, the six-time MotoGP world champion complicated the situation by stating the team is “not an option for him”.Marquez later acknowledged that his ...Keep reading
F1 finances are as strong as they’ve ever been, as current revenue levels are understood to be over $3 billion.This has led to F1 teams increasing their profit margins, with Ferrari being estimated as the championship’s most valuable constructor at $3.9b, ahead of Mercedes on $3.8b.But even the least valuable teams are still financially strong, as Williams is worth approximately $725m.This ...Keep reading
Potential discussions have arisen as Ferrari prepares to open its first electrification plant next month, where it will produce its own batteries and fleet of electric vehicles.Work on the new ‘e-building’ has been ongoing since 2022 at the cost of 500 million euro, with that funding also going towards renewable energies and infrastructure, while up to 250 jobs will have been created as a ...Keep reading
For its home race, Aprilia has five RS-GPs on the grid with its two factory team riders, the Trackhouse Racing duo and wildcard Lorenzo Savadori.Vinales was the best of them at the top of the timesheets in the first 45-minute practice of the Mugello weekend, the Spaniard setting a 1m46.140s on a fresh medium rear tyre in the closing stages.He headed 2021 world champion Quartararo on the factory ...Keep reading
It was announced on Friday, on the eve of this weekend's MotoFest, that a proposed layout has already been drafted and that a feasibility study conducted by circuit designer Driven International has been submitted to the FIA World Motor Sport Council for approval.A period of consultation will take place involving local residents in the coming months to agree on how the project can be taken ...Keep reading
The WRC2 title contender had been set to tackle the 16-stage gravel rally, although the Swede was not registered to score championship points. However, Solberg and co-driver Elliott Edmondson have been forced out of the rally before the opening stage. Solberg is understood to be suffering from an allergic reaction which has required him to seek medical attention. “Oliver is taking medication ...Keep reading
Pin had withdrawn from the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine's second Spa-Francorchamps race last weekend after feeling some discomfort.The Frenchwoman has now posted a video on social media announcing that she will be unable to race at Le Mans, where she should have shared the Iron Dames' #85 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo 2 in the WEC's LMGT3 class with team-mates Sarah Bovy and ...Keep reading
Early Thursday morning, it emerged that Ducati had finally decided to choose Jorge Martin to join Francesco Bagnaia in the official Borgo Panigale team from next season.As the hours went by, Marquez's discourse hardened. At first, the multi-champion was asked about the news in question, and he was disoriented: “This is not the information I have,” he replied in one of the many interviews he ...Keep reading
Over the Monaco weekend, Ferrari and McLaren headlined the order as championship leader Red Bull struggled to contend with the street circuit's bumps and could only manage sixth through Max Verstappen - sandwiched by the two Mercedes drivers.Vasseur acknowledged that the field had compressed in 2024 and that the three teams who had won races so far this season could all contend for further ...Keep reading
The Honda Civic pilot was victorious in both of the 750 Motor Club Hot Hatch encounters at Castle Combe on Monday to take his tally for the year to nine and move him one clear of previous table-topper Piers Grange.However, it was not all smooth sailing for Brown as he was originally disqualified from the opening race, having been deemed to have overtaken another car under yellow flags - but he ...Keep reading
Marquez’s future had been of much speculation in recent months, as Ducati evaluates him for a possible promotion to the works team alongside Francesco Bagnaia on the back of his impressive adaptation to the Desmosedici at Gresini.However, championship leader Jorge Martin’s current form with Pramac, combined with his stance that he will not settle for anything less than the factory seat ...Keep reading
Last week, 2003 world champion Petter Solberg announced plans to come out of retirement to contest the Royal Rally of Scandinavia (13-15 June), which will mark his first full rally since Wales Rally GB in 2019. Petter is set to drive a family-owned Volkswagen Polo, which he drove to WRC2 victory in Wales five years ago, the very event when Oliver made his WRC debut.However, to add extra spice to ...Keep reading
Lancia announced this week that it plans to return to rallying after more than 30 years away following a commitment to a Rally4 programme with its new Ypsilon hatchback.Two-time world rally champion Biasion, Lancia's most successful driver in the WRC with 16 wins and two world titles, attended the Rally4 launch in Turin ahead of this week's WRC Rally Sardinia.While Lancia's commitment to return to ...Keep reading
This comes following reports this morning, first from Gazzetta dello Sport, that Ducati has decided to promote Jorge Martin to its factory team seat for 2025.Ducati had already outlined this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix as the place to make its decision, though said earlier this week that it wouldn’t make an announcement.Over the last few rounds, it has become clear that the battle for the ...Keep reading
The Australian has endured a difficult opening third of the 2024 season, in which his only points came through finishing fourth in the Miami Grand Prix sprint.This leaves him 14 points short of RB team-mate Yuki Tsunoda, who has impressed thus far in his fourth season with the team, and this has led to suggestions that Ricciardo might be at risk of losing his seat to reserve Liam Lawson.The Kiwi ...Keep reading
The early running in 2024 seemed to indicate a relatively clear pecking order. Red Bull is on top, followed by Ferrari, Mercedes and McLaren. Aston Martin was the clear fifth-best team, not quite able to hang with the rest of the top five on race pace, but still easily clear of RB and Haas.Fernando Alonso's heroics in qualifying saw him start on the front three rows four times over the first five ...Keep reading
On Thursday, Gazzetta dello Sport reported that the Borgo Panigale brand has finally decided on the Spaniard to join Francesco Bagnaia in the company's official garage, starting next season.Talks have intensified in recent days with Albert Valera, Martin's agent, who will be at the Italian Grand Prix this weekend - the event in which Ducati outlined it would like its final decision to be made.In ...Keep reading
Grand Prix racing's key stakeholders have begun discussions to frame the next Concorde Agreement, the document by which F1 is run, that is set to cover the period 2026 to 2030.History has shown that the Concorde discussions are often extremely fraught, as teams vie for greater commercial rights income from the promoter as well as over other teams.When Ecclestone was F1 supremo he often pitched ...Keep reading
At the Spanish Grand Prix this year, Marc Marquez scored his first grand prix podium aboard the Gresini-run 2023-spec Ducati he ditched the factory Honda for.As the Italian GP approaches, a sequence of win milestones throughout Ducati’s history corresponding to rider numbers could be added to by Marquez.Back at the second round of the current MotoGP campaign in Portugal, Martin – carrying the ...Keep reading
Four-time Indianapolis 500 winner Castroneves will pilot the Honda-powered No. 66 entry for this weekend’s Detroit Grand Prix and the following race at Road America on June 9th.The decision, according to an MSR press release, was mutual between both the team and Blomqvist for him to “step aside” for the two events. Blomqvist suffered an opening lap crash - where he went below the white line ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer took the covers off the facelifted version of its GT3 challenger at the Nurburgring on Wednesday night, just days before the circuit is due to host its annual 24-hour enduro on 1-2 June.The M4 GT3 has received a midlife refresh just three years after the car was introduced in 2022 as a successor to the M6; manufacturers typically run a new GT3 vehicle for at least four ...Keep reading
Autosport had mixed feelings following last weekend’s Monaco GP. On the one hand, it was fantastic to see Leclerc emotionally end his ‘jinx’ at his home circuit, particularly given the remarkable fact that he’d not won a GP since July 2022.But, on the other, it was hard not to think that the Monte Carlo streets are not an appropriate setting for a Formula 1 race, so limited was the ...Keep reading
Early season feedback from television images, especially in the night races, has highlighted the fact that it has become hard to distinguish some of the cars from certain angles.In particular it is understood that the Aston Martin and Mercedes liveries, plus the Williams and RB, have been singled out for the way that they can sometimes appear indistinguishable from certain viewpoints when running ...Keep reading
The team currently operates two full-time Cup teams with Michael McDowell and Todd Gilliland, while McDowell is set to leave the team for Spire Motorsports at the end of the year.The team has entered a third car on a part-time basis, and recently earned Ford Tier 1 status after forming a technical alliance with Team Penske.The charters, created with the start of the 2016 season, guarantees a team ...Keep reading
The 34-year-old will drive the Honda-powered #51 entry on the tight and challenging street circuit based in the heart of Motor City.The upcoming outing will mark Vautier’s return to the IndyCar Series for the first time since 2017, when he was called upon by the team as substitute for the injured Sebastien Bourdais at Texas Motor Speedway. The French driver finished 16th on what was his first ...Keep reading
Italian outlet Corriere della Serra and French newspaper L'Equipe have reported that the 74-year-old has been tapped up by Renault CEO Luca De Meo to become a special advisor to help the squad turn around its fortunes.Reportedly, his role would entail helping the team's recruitment drive to bolster its Enstone headquarters and its engine plant at Viry-Chatillon rather than a more hands-on ...Keep reading
The Champions Edition of F1 24 has been released and, alongside the launch, EA Sports has announced the new driver ratings for this season's F1 drivers. Unsurprisingly, Max Verstappen is leading the ratings after securing 19 out of 22 wins in 2023 and a further five so far this year.The Dutchman scored his highest-ever rating for the Formula 1 driving game franchise and is one of just two drivers ...Keep reading
Aston Martin brought an upgrade package to Imola, alongside many of its direct rivals, which meant that in the relative game of in-season development, the Silverstone-based squad hasn't been able to make much progress.The AMR24 has also proven harder to set up and drive, with both Alonso and team-mate Lance Stroll having similar complaints of how the car proved tough to keep balanced throughout ...Keep reading
VR46 rider Bezzecchi was an outside contender for the title during his breakthrough 2023 campaign, where he eventually finished third in the standings to champion Francesco Bagnaia and second-placed Jorge Martin after scoring victories in Argentina, France and India.But the Italian’s results have nosedived since he switched to last year’s GP23 bike, with the opening six rounds of the season ...Keep reading
- McLaren Racing - Early Careers Pathway 2024 - WokingMcLaren Racing is accepting applications for their Early Career Pathways 2024 programme.Here you can register which types of roles you would be interested in as a career.There are opportunities for apprenticeships, internships, graduate programmes, trainee programmes and work experience within the team.2. Red Bull Racing - Marketing Operations ...Keep reading
Sunday's 78-lap cruise through the Monaco streets was hamstrung by a heavy first-lap crash involving Sergio Perez and Haas drivers Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg.Under the resulting red flag, all drivers were allowed to change tyres, negating the need for mandatory pitstops later on.The rule stops disadvantaging drivers who are yet to pit right before a mid-race red flag, but having a lap-one ...Keep reading
Like everybody else, I have a bucket list of things that I keep creating. And, like most people, the rate at which the list grows generally exceeds the rate at which we actually do the things on it. With work and family commitments, time is the most valuable commodity for society today and, unless we proactively decide to do something, that bucket list is going to only go one way.In the past year ...Keep reading
Hamilton raised some eyebrows at the Monaco Grand Prix when he suggested he would be unable to ever outqualify Russell again this season – and was at pains to point out his team-mate had exclusive use of a new front wing for Monte Carlo.INSIGHT: Why Russell got new Mercedes F1 front wing over Hamilton in MonacoAlthough it subsequently emerged that Hamilton had turned down the opportunity to run ...Keep reading
Sebastien Ogier claimed a record-breaking sixth Rally Portugal victory last time out, but it was Thierry Neuville who left the weekend with the biggest laugh.Third place for the Hyundai driver extended his championship lead over Toyota’s Elfyn Evans to 24 points, as he only finished sixth which was the worst result of his 2024 season so far.It means Neuville is looking well on course for a ...Keep reading
“It could be right on the cusp of tripping over and then you’ve got 22 cars stopped out on the track and we all look a bit silly.” Andretti team principal Roger Griffiths’ comments during the opening practice session ahead of last weekend’s Shanghai E-Prix double-header reflected what many already felt, including this writer, that it did indeed look a bit silly.No more than five minutes ...Keep reading
Verstappen qualified and finish sixth in Monaco, while team-mate Sergio Perez was eliminated in Q1 and then caught up in a lap-one accident.It followed an already challenging weekend at Imola, where Verstappen and Red Bull had to dig deep to fix their car handling issues between free practice and qualifying, and the Dutchman was just able to keep McLaren's Lando Norris at bay in the race.Miami ...Keep reading
On Tuesday, the promoter of the Indian GP announced that this year’s MotoGP race was cancelled and it will look to reschedule the event in March 2025.Dorna had intended to slot the Kazakhstan GP, which was originally supposed to be held in June but had to be postponed due to severe floods in the region, into the weekend held by the Indian GP.MotoGP officials have now confirmed the change, with ...Keep reading
The 10-time grand prix winner has been with Aprilia since the latter half of the 2021 campaign, following his acrimonious split with Yamaha that year, and has become a firm favourite with management.Aprilia’s faith in Vinales paid off earlier this year in America when he scored his first grand prix win with the Italian manufacturer.It has been thought for a while that Vinales’ Aprilia future ...Keep reading
The incident, where Ocon tried to barge his way past Gasly, proved terminal for the aggressor as his car became briefly airborne and caused damage that could not be repaired during the red flag. It very nearly took Gasly out of the race too, as he sustained a puncture and suspension damage; thankfully for the ex-AlphaTauri driver, this was sorted out during the 40-minute stoppage.Famin warned of ...Keep reading
On Tuesday, team co-owners Gene Haas and Tony Stewart released a joint statement explaining their decision to shut the organisation after 15 years.“We have made the difficult decision to close Stewart-Haas Racing at the conclusion of the 2024 season. It is a decision that did not come easily, nor was it made quickly. Racing is a labor-intensive, humbling sport. It requires unwavering commitment ...Keep reading
Fairstreet Sports, the organiser of the event along with MotoGP rights holder Dorna, revealed on Tuesday that the second edition of the event has now been called off, confirming reports published by Autosport earlier this month.The Buddh International Circuit, located on the outskirts of capital Delhi, was due to stage the 14th round of the season on 23-25 September.Dorna's intention is to ...Keep reading
Six-time IndyCar Series champion and 2008 Indy 500 winner Dixon methodically moved forward after starting 21st and was leading after the final round of pit stops with less than 30 laps to go.However, Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden stormed by the No. 9 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, followed by the Arrow McLaren duo of Alexander Rossi and Pato O’Ward.While Dixon was able to gain a position back from ...Keep reading
Honda has been working behind the scenes in private tests to improve its troubled 2024 package, though its riders didn’t receive some hoped-for improvements at Barcelona last weekend.Johann Zarco did race with a new aerodynamic package, while an updated engine was used by Mir and Luca Marini also.But this did little to help Honda at Barcelona, with LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami the lead HRC rider ...Keep reading
Let's be upfront about it and admit that the story is slightly altered. While it is true that the first part of the equation must be cleared up by Ducati, the problem will not be completely solved until the chosen rider signs the contract.Of the three who started the race for that second factory Ducati, Enea Bastianini has been left behind, a circumstance that places Martin and Marquez in the two ...Keep reading
On Monday, Lancia announced that it will return to rally having committed to creating a Rally4 version of its new Ypsilon hatchback. The marque is synonymous with rallying having racked up a record 10 World Rally Championship titles, with its last arriving in 1992.While the announcement will see the brand competing in the two-wheel drive Rally4 class, it has created excitement that this might ...Keep reading
Zidane, a World Cup victor with France who also won three UEFA Champions League titles as a manager with Real Madrid, has been named as the official starter for the double-points WEC round by race organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest. That means he will wave off the 62-car field for the French enduro at the 16:00 start time on 15 June. Zidane said: “The Le Mans 24 Hours is beyond ...Keep reading
F1 24 is the latest entry in Codemasters and EA SPORTS’ long-running Formula 1 game series and features all the teams, circuits drivers and cars from the 2024 season, alongside a full suite of 2023 Formula 2 content (the 2024 F2 grid will arrive in a post-launch update).The developers have stuck with Codemasters’ proprietary Ego game engine for F1 24 so players shouldn’t expect radically ...Keep reading
Tatum’s Free Association, Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, Jason Keller (who wrote Ford vs Ferrari), Entertainment 360, Box to Box Films and Mediawan will produce a docuseries called The Greatest Race On Earth about the TT.Filming for the series has already begun at this year’s TT, which got under way with the first day of practice on Monday.Box to Box Films has a varied history in producing ...Keep reading
The Italian brand leaned into its history during Monday’s announcement where it confirmed a return to the stages through a Rally4 programme with its new Ypsilon hatchback. A version of its new offering was unveiled in a livery that recaptured the iconic Martini Racing stripes, synonymous with the brand in the 1980s and 1990s. While Lancia’s return to rallying won’t initially see it ...Keep reading
Andretti was refused a 2026 entry by F1 after the FIA had admitted its application on a technical basis.Ben Sulayem was a proponent of expanding F1's grid of 10 teams, opening up a tender process that only Andretti passed.“We have a contract, and our contract says we have up to 12 teams," he told Autosport last year. "So, we are not breaking the rules. We are, on the contrary, fulfilling the ...Keep reading
McLaren had hoped to push Ferrari into extending its lead at the front of the 78-lap race, in a bid to build a sufficient buffer between the cars in the top four and Russell to allow McLaren to make a pitstop.Having started on hard tyres, Russell switched to the medium compound during the early red flag, which forced him into managing his tyres to make it to the end. As the top four were all ...Keep reading
Repsol appeared on the livery of the Honda NSR500 in the premier class of the world championship in 1995, with Mick Doohan and Alex Criville as riders.Since then, the partnership has remained uninterrupted, with the current season marking its 30th anniversary.The partnership between Repsol and Honda has yielded 15 championship titles, 183 victories and 455 podiums.However, after Marc Marquez's ...Keep reading
How as a young child growing up in the principality, he would take the bus to school up the winding climb to Casino Square, dreaming how he would one day tear up the same roads in a scarlet Ferrari F1 car.How his late father Herve made every possible sacrifice to get him there but would pass away in 2017 before he ever got to see his son realise his dreams.How his late friend Jules Bianchi became ...Keep reading
Cost cap restrictions have sometimes led teams to question whether the investment of a Monaco-only rear wing is worth it, or whether they are better off just sticking with a higher-downforce specification that can be used at places like Budapest and Singapore.But with F1’s fight at the front between Ferrari, McLaren and Red Bull so close right now, all three teams knew they could not hold back ...Keep reading
The WRC and the FIA are keen to offer more varied event formats going forward, which could see more compact sprint events and longer endurance rallies become part of future championship calendars. Flexibility of event formats was among a raft of proposals tabled by the FIA as part of its vision for the future of rallying in February.To test the waters, Sardinia will trial a sprint format this ...Keep reading
As F1 machinery has grown ever bigger and heavier, it is clear the cars have outgrown the famous streets in terms of being able to offer thrilling wheel-to-wheel action.On occasions there have been calls that it is the layout that needs to be changed to try to open up a proper overtaking opportunity somewhere.Ideas have varied from potentially tweaking the Nouvelle chicane (could it be made wider ...Keep reading
Although two-time champion Bagnaia has been one of the star performers this year on the new GP24, the Italian hasn’t been able to convert his speed into top-line results in half-distance races that are now an important part of grand prix weekends.While championship leader Jorge Martin has once again emerged as the king of sprint races in 2024, Bagnaia has yet to finish on the podium in any of ...Keep reading
Perez damage bill up to three million euros, warns MarkoRed Bull advisor Helmut Marko reckons Sergio Perez's massive Lap 1 crash could cost the team up to three million euros.Perez hit the wall hard on the run up the hill towards Massenet after contact with Haas driver Kevin Magnussen.The Mexican was tagged by Magnussen on the right-hand side and hit the barriers sideways with the left-hand side ...Keep reading
The Ulsterman notched up his 25th win at the 2023 event, putting him one away from the all-time record of 26 set by his late uncle Joey Dunlop, which has stood since 2000 as the benchmark.He led the timesheets outright with a 129.59mph lap aboard his Hawk Racing-run Honda Superbike.He headed Davey Todd as he embarks on his first TT as a BMW rider following a switch from Padgetts Racing to TAS ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion crashed out of the lead on the final lap of the Catalan GP sprint to end a Saturday win drought dating back to the Austrian GP last year.It softened the blow of a difficult sprint for championship leader Jorge Martin, who was able to extend his points lead over Bagnaia. The factory Ducati rider bounced back brilliantly in the grand prix, however, to beat Martin for his ...Keep reading
Following a four-hour rain delay, the IndyCar blue ribband event boiled down to a dramatic showdown between Josef Newgarden and Pato O’Ward, with the Mexican taking the lead into Turn 1 on the 200th and final lap.But Team Penske's Newgarden wasn't finished and reclaimed the head with a daring outside move at Turn 3 before crossing the line to become the first back-to-back 500 winner since Helio ...Keep reading
The French manufacturer nearly had both its cars out of the Monaco Grand Prix early on after Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly collided on the exit of Portier on the opening lap of the original start.Ocon had made an optimistic lunge down the inside of Gasly on the entry to the corner and, as they exited, they clashed wheels.The incident pitched Ocon into the air and badly damaged his car as it ...Keep reading
The news ahead of this weekend's Rally Sardinia follows months of speculation linking the Italian manufacturer, the most successful in World Rally Championship history having won 10 constructors' titles (1974-1976, 1983, 1987-1992), with a rallying comeback.Following the announcement that it is reviving its famous HF [High Fidelity] brand in March, Lancia previewed its high performance ...Keep reading
Over the last few weeks, Ducati management has suggested that it wants to make a decision on who partners Bagnaia in 2025 by the Mugello race.Coming into this weekend’s seventh round of the year, it appears the decision is between championship leader Jorge Martin and eight-time grand prix world champion Marc Marquez.While a decision is expected soon, Ducati has told Autosport’s Spanish ...Keep reading
It was a thrilling edition of a race steeped in history, worthy of joining those that came before it in the stratosphere of motorsport's memorable moments. Strategic gamesmanship preceded a final showdown between two of the championship's brightest talents, and the conclusion did not disappoint: a fearless overtake around the outside on the final lap proved to be the clincher.But enough about the ...Keep reading
The Tech3 GasGas rider – who turned 20 over the Barcelona weekend – scored a second sprint podium of the season on Saturday and was in the rostrum hunt again in the grand prix.Acosta was running in second behind Pramac’s Jorge Martin when he crashed at Turn 10 on lap 11 of 24. The Spaniard remounted and finished 13th.A disappointed Acosta said of his crash: “We had a problem with the front ...Keep reading
After waiting out a four-hour rain delay, the 2021 NASCAR Cup champion finished 18th on his first IndyCar appearance with Arrow McLaren before heading to Charlotte in an effort to contest the Coca-Cola 600 Cup race.But his efforts to finish the 600-mile Cup race as part of the second leg of ‘The Double’ was foiled by the weather as that event was rained off before he could take over his ...Keep reading
Sainz controversially benefitted from being allowed to take his original third place on the grid for the Monaco restart after its early red flag, with Zhou’s role central to how things played out.The Ferrari driver's race had initially appeared to be over just a few seconds after the start when the Spaniard picked up a puncture as he clashed with Oscar Piastri at the first corner.A small cut in ...Keep reading
Van der Linde had moved into the lead of Sunday’s DTM race thanks to a brilliant overcut strategy executed by Abt Sportsline, jumping both team-mate Ricardo Feller and Manthey EMA driver Preining.But the South African was still trying to get heat into his new Pirelli tyres on lap 19 of 42 when Preining launched an attack into the long right-hander of Turn 6.Van der Linde was forced onto the ...Keep reading
With overtaking near-impossible in Sunday's race, and all cars getting their required tyre change in under the opening lap red flag, the only hope for some drivers to put real pressure on the car in front was to hope the required 19-second pitstop gap would open up behind them. That would allow them to stop again for fresh tyres and either quickly close the gap themselves or hope for a safety car ...Keep reading
With all drivers able to take a free pitstop under the early red flag, it meant a race of tyre preservation with track position king on the streets of Monaco, and Leclerc held his nerve to take an emotional victory after a series of cruel near-misses at his home race.Meanwhile it was a nightmare race for Max Verstappen down in sixth with his Red Bull unsettled over the Monaco kerbs. There was also ...Keep reading
An emotional retirement announcement, a chaotic sprint race and defiant comebacks were the main talking points from the 2024 MotoGP Catalan Grand Prix.Ahead of the sixth round of the season, veteran rider Aleix Espargaro announced to the world that he would be calling time on his MotoGP career at the end of the 2024 season. A career of 20 years that has been characterised by hardship, doubts and ...Keep reading
After his pole position on Saturday, Vergne woke up with a strong desire to repeat the feat. For Vandoorne, who had also qualified for the quarter-finals the day before, and who also had a race full of contacts in the pack, the objective of showing himself was also very clear.In both cases, the objective was achieved, and Vandoorne came very close to taking pole position (just one thousandth of a ...Keep reading
The Mexican driver struggled for pace through the Monte Carlo event, qualifying down in 18th before moving up two places thanks to the exclusion of the Haas cars.But his race ended on lap one with a high-speed accident after he clashed with Kevin Magnussen and was pitched at full speed into the barriers on the climb up from Ste Devote.The failure to score points in Monaco, off the back of a ...Keep reading
The Aston Martin driver spent much of the race playing the team game in building up a gap for Lance Stroll, which the Canadian could use to ditch his medium tyres and preserve his position.Alonso's understanding was that this was for the final point and, when Stroll picked up a puncture after knocking his left-rear tyre from the rim on the entry to the Nouvelle Chicane, the Spaniard believed the ...Keep reading
Quartararo made that comment after jumping from 17th on the grid to finish ninth in Sunday’s Catalan Grand Prix, securing his second top-10 finish of the season.The Frenchman was racing with a new aero package in Barcelona, part of the larger suite of upgrades that Yamaha has been testing between grand prix weekends in a bid to overhaul its troubled M1 challenger.The 2021 champion has previously ...Keep reading
Sainz had initially picked up a puncture after a clash with Oscar Piastri at the first corner, and his car skidded to a halt and appeared to be out of the race at Casino Square.But the pile-up involving Red Bull’s Sergio Perez and the two Haas cars brought out a red flag a few moments later, and served to give Sainz a lifeline.According to F1’s sporting regulations, the order for the restart ...Keep reading
During a caution for a spin by Corey LaJoie, Bell was the first off pitroad and took command when the race resumed on lap 236 of the scheduled 400 laps at Charlotte Motor Speedway.In clear air, Bell was able to extend his lead over Brad Keselowski as Byron made a three-wide move on the frontstretch – crossing into the infield grass – to move into third.Light rain forced NASCAR to throw a ...Keep reading
Despite a four-hour rain delay, the clouds diminished and an intense battle finished as the sunset on more than 300,000 fans at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.Newgarden, who started third, was forced to pull off a stirring last-lap pass, delivering a thrilling outside pass around Arrow McLaren’s O’Ward into Turn 3 and win by 0.3417s. He becomes the first driver to go back-to-back since Helio ...Keep reading
Leclerc was able to pull away in the late stages of the race from McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, with Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari in third to make it a double podium for the Scuderia.Joining Bryn Lucas on the Autosport Podcast is Alex Kalinauckas and Jake Boxall-Legge to discuss Leclerc’s excellent performance, a chaotic opening lap that led to both Haas drivers clashing with Sergio Perez and the two ...Keep reading
The Red Bull driver started and finished in sixth place, as the whole of the top 10 remained unchanged, in a race starved of action after the opening-lap red flag caused by Sergio Perez’s clash with the two Haas drivers, which enabled all the remaining drivers to swap tyres and gain a free pitstop.Despite Verstappen being one of the few drivers to opt for a second change of tyres, covering off ...Keep reading
Alpine had its best qualifying result of the season in the principality, with Gasly and Ocon qualifying 10th and 11th respectively on a track where overtaking is notoriously difficult.Carlos Sainz's puncture at the start promoted the blue-and-pink cars to ninth and 10th, but Ocon went on to dive down the inside of his team-mate at Portier, with their wheels interlocking.Ocon was launched into the ...Keep reading
Verstappen ultimately finished sixth, one place ahead of Hamilton, in a race determined by tyre management as the top 10 on the grid remained in the same order.With both drivers attempting to eke out the medium tyres they had switched to under a red flag on the opening lap, Mercedes made the first move in bringing seven-time world champion Hamilton into the pits on lap 51.But the Briton was not ...Keep reading
On a damp but drying track, Huff had soft slick tyres fitted to his Speedworks Motorsport-run Toyota Gazoo Racing GB Corolla GR Sport, but so did the sister LKQ Toyotas of Aiden Moffat, who was on the front row of the reversed grid, and Josh Cook, who lined up seventh.The only drivers to go for wet-weather rubber were Jake Hill, winner of the first two races of the day in his West Surrey ...Keep reading
The Monegasque led every lap of this year's edition of the Monte Carlo race, ending a long quest for a home win - a venue he had never previously scored a podium finish at among much-documented ill fortune.Recounting the final laps of the race, after ending a period of heavy pressure from runner-up Oscar Piastri by bolting into an ultimately unassailable lead, Leclerc revealed that it was a ...Keep reading
But, overall, the eighth round of the season did not provide much of a show, with the top 10 at the chequered flag in the same order they had qualified.Our writers give their verdict on the race.The gaps gambles enlivened things marginally: 1/10 - Alex KalinauckasAs this is a race-only rating, we must just assess the tedium that inevitably unfolded on Sunday. Taken as a whole weekend, with a ...Keep reading
The Mexican sustained a heavy crash after contact with the Haas driver at Beau Rivage, as Magnussen attempted to thread his car down the inside and found himself rapidly running out of space.This threw Perez into the barrier with considerable damage to his car, exacerbated when he clipped Nico Hulkenberg - who was attempting to clear the wreck.No further action was taken by the stewards, and ...Keep reading
In anticipation of the storms moving in, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway announced that the season's blue ribband race would be delayed with no amended start time issued."Given the proximity of lightning moving toward Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a decision has been made to pause pre-race ceremonies for the 108th Indianapolis 500 presented by Gainbridge and move fans out of the grandstands and the ...Keep reading
The factory Ducati rider was battling with Gresini’s Alex Marquez at the outer reaches of the top 10 in Sunday’s 24-lap Catalan GP when he was forced wide at Turn 1.Bastianini ran through the run-off area at Turns 1-2, with riders meant to demonstrate that they have lost at least a second in lap time to escape punishment.The stewards handed Bastianini – who was expecting Marquez to have to ...Keep reading
An audibly ecstatic Leclerc crossed the line 7.1s clear of Piastri to claim his first-ever victory at the Monaco street circuit, after overcoming the Australian at two standing starts after an early red flag, and then set the pace sufficiently to deny McLaren a tactical advantage. Despite periods of pressure from Piastri over the 76 laps of uninterrupted running following the early hiatus ...Keep reading
Hill started from pole position in a race delayed by a thunderstorm that struck during the preceding Formula 4 race, but he and Bobby Thompson briefly jumped their West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sports forward before lights out, earning themselves 10-second penalties.To add insult to injury, Thompson bogged down dramatically at the start proper, and converted his front-row grid position to fourth ...Keep reading
Bagnaia scored a key victory in Sunday's race at Barcelona after coming on top in a close duel with title rival Martin, overtaking him on lap 19 of 24 with an impressive move on the inside at Turn 5.It was the same corner at which he had slid off his factory GP24 on the final lap of Saturday's half-distance contest, a crash that further widened his deficit to Pramac rider Martin in the ...Keep reading
The Gresini Ducati rider failed to get out of Q1 two weeks ago at the French GP but managed to recover from 13th on the grid to finish second in both the sprint and grand prix at Le Mans.At this weekend’s Catalan GP, Marquez qualified a lowly 14th due to difficulties in extracting the best from fresh soft rubber but recovered to second in the sprint and third in the GP.But speaking after the ...Keep reading
On the uphill romp towards Massenet Red Bull driver Perez and Magnussen tangled wheels, sending Perez into a heavy crash that red-flagged the race.The chasing Nico Hulkenberg also got caught up in the accident after being unable to avoid Perez's spinning Red Bull clipping his rear axle, ending the race of all three drivers on the spot."It was obviously stupid between Kevin and Checo," Hulkenberg ...Keep reading
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc had just led away easily from pole ahead of McLaren driver Oscar Piastri, while behind Carlos Sainz first attacked Piastri at Ste Devote and then slid off at Casino Square with a suspected puncture.Perez was eliminated by Kevin Magnussen trying to poke his nose into a gap on the run up the hill before Massenet, with their crash wreckage then swinging across the track ...Keep reading
Bagnaia looked on course to take the sprint victory on Saturday when he crashed out of the lead on the final lap.Biding his time in the first half of the race, Bagnaia reeled in Pramac’s Martin to overhaul him on lap 19 of 24, before streaking away by 1.740 seconds to score his third grand prix win of the season.It moves him back up to second in the standings, though Martin has still extended ...Keep reading
Manthey EMA’s Preining fell behind both Feller and van de Linde at one stage, but quickly repassed the duo to claim his first win of 2024 and move into second in the standings.At the start of the race, the reigning champion pulled away cleanly from pole position to hold the lead over Feller, but couldn’t shake off the Swiss driver and race one winner van der Linde, who had got the jump on the ...Keep reading
With overtaking so difficult around the streets of Monte Carlo, the biggest advantage comes from track position.Poleman Charles Leclerc is the clear favourite to win if he can pull off a clean getaway against front-row starter Oscar Piastri and lead out of the opening corner.The relative ease by which drivers can keep hold of their places means they can manage their pace and extend stints – so ...Keep reading
Hill, who had a disastrous outing last time out at Brands Hatch, predictably converted his pole position into the race lead with his rear-wheel-drive West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport, while new-for-this-weekend team-mate Bobby Thompson surged from fifth to third behind championship leader Ash Sutton’s Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford Focus ST.On a track that had dried out just in time for ...Keep reading
The 18-lap Moto3 contest opened up Sunday’s race programme and proved to be another typical Barcelona slipstream fest.Championship leader Alonso prevailed as he faced high pressure on the final lap to score a fourth win of the season.The Aspar CFMoto rider was one of numerous names to take turns heading the field at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, but crucially led the pack onto the final ...Keep reading
The Andretti driver was only able to finish 11th, having struggled for pace throughout the 28-lap race at the Shanghai International Circuit after starting down in 14th.With Dennis only able to take fifth place from the opening race of the weekend a day earlier, the Briton is now 55 points behind championship leader Nick Cassidy with four races remaining.“He [Cassidy] is way too far ahead now ...Keep reading
Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen were disqualified on Saturday after post-session examinations of their cars showed their DRS wings opened more than the 85mm that is allowed in the rules.Talking about how Haas had found itself in such a situation, team principal Ayao Komatsu said it mainly revolved around a lack of communication between the departments of his team about the implications of a ...Keep reading
The Portuguese driver took a largely dominant win in the weekend’s second race at the Shanghai International Circuit, having led for the final 12 laps as he took his third on-the-road victory of the season.Da Costa had taken the lead from Andretti’s Nato on the approach to Turn 1 after shadowing the Andretti driver and admitted post-race that he looked to work with the Porsche customer ...Keep reading
The Aston Martin drivers are not having a good time. It’s FP1 for Formula 1’s 2024 Monaco Grand Prix, at the Loews hairpin.Every time Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll squirt down the hill towards Autosport’s vantage point it happens. From our perspective on the outside of the corner, the green cars are having to traverse F1’s slowest corner as if it’s a 50p piece – hands jerking at the ...Keep reading
O’Sullivan vaulted up the order having started from 15th on the grid after a late incident involving Zane Maloney and Joshua Durksen flipped the script.Campos driver Hadjar had been on course for victory and controlling proceedings once poleman Richard Verschoor (Trident) suddenly slowed and eventually retired, but he was left furious and reluctant to speak after seeing O’Sullivan's ART Grand ...Keep reading
Long before the advent of Las Vegas or Miami, Monaco was F1's marquee event that basked in its own glamour.Monaco, which first saw grand prix racing in 1929, and Formula 1 helped put each other on the map in the '50s and '60s. The grand prix built up a worldwide renown that has made it synonymous with the world championship and part of the Triple Crown of motor racing events alongside the ...Keep reading
Piastri ended up as Leclerc’s closest rival for pole in Monte-Carlo but fell 0.154s short as the home hero secured a third pole in four years at this famous street track.At the start of their respective best and final laps in Q3, the GPS data shows that Leclerc – in a boost after his Imola frustration on Ferrari’s lap-starting engine power output – got underway 1.9mph better off than ...Keep reading
Da Costa was the dominant force in the weekend’s second race at the Shanghai International Circuit, leading the majority of proceedings to claim his third on-the-road win this season.With experience of the previous day to rely on, and with Sunday’s race one lap shorter, the pace was noticeably higher during the 28-lap contest, as drivers and teams also battled with greater temperatures.Da ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer raised eyebrows at the start of the season when the front wing of its new W15 replaced its upper flap with a thin-strip of carbon fibre.With this strip hiding the rearward element of the wing element below, it ensured that the car fully complied with Article 3.9.1e of F1’s technical regulations that demands: “With the exception of the rearmost closed section, the ...Keep reading
Prema driver Mini moved to the top of the F3 standings for the first time this year with his first victory of 2024, surviving several interruptions by the safety car to become a record-breaking eighth different winner from as many races this season.The poleman made a slower getaway that second-placed Mansell (ART Grand Prix) but held his line through Sainte Devote and was able to manage ...Keep reading
The Briton found himself a tenth down on Vandoorne after the opening sector at the Shanghai International Circuit, with Formula E using a truncated layout of the grand prix layout.Hughes overturned the deficit into a gain of nearly half a tenth through the middle sector, but a quicker final sector for Vandoorne meant the pair were separated by the smallest ever margin for pole.The result marks ...Keep reading
Cole Pearn cut his teeth in NASCAR’s top level, helping guide Martin Truex Jr. to 24 wins over five seasons and the 2017 Cup title.After stepping away from the sport full-time at the end of 2019, though, he opted for a unique one-off opportunity to join Ed Carpenter Racing and engineer Conor Daly for the Indy 500 in 2020 – which was moved from May 24 to August 23 in a race behind closed doors ...Keep reading
In the sweltering heat of Friday afternoon, the drivers first had the opportunity to explore the circuit on foot. This is a vital exercise on any track - especially a new one - and one that allows them to visualise what they have previously perceived in the simulator.The first few minutes of testing, by way of a shake-down, enabled the drivers to confirm the type of circuit they were dealing with ...Keep reading
Speaking about the 0.078-second gap between them as they lined up fifth and seventh, Hamilton was eager to suggest that he never had any realistic chance of beating Russell because of their different-specification cars.“The team has worked really hard back at the factory to bring an upgrade in the last two races and also an upgrade this weekend - but we only had one, which George has,” he told ...Keep reading
Verstappen struggled throughout practice over the many kerbs and bumps around Monaco's tight street circuit.And while the Red Bull team turned around its practice woes last week in Imola, there was little that could be done to give Verstappen and team-mate Sergio Perez an RB20 that could beat Ferrari or McLaren in qualifying.Verstappen's first flyer in Q3 was good for third, but after brushing the ...Keep reading
After qualifying the FIA's scrutineering team found the DRS clearance on both Haas cars to be greater than the maximum allowed opening of 85mm.The matter was referred to the stewards, who confirmed the usual penalty of disqualification for both cars.Like its fellow competitors, Haas brought a new specification of rear wing to Monaco to cope with its huge downforce demands.Haas explained that it ...Keep reading
The Monaco weekend has been blighted by the banners that cover the Armco barriers around the Monte Carlo street circuit repeatedly coming away.In some areas, like the swimming pool, coverings have been rubbed away by cars repeatedly brushing the barriers.But, in Norris’s case, a whole section of the banners at Mirabeau was sucked off by the force of the cars running close to them.In the closing ...Keep reading
After qualifying, both Haas drivers were found to have a rear wing with a DRS clearance that exceeds the maximum permitted limit of 85mm on the outermost areas.The FIA's technical delegate Jo Bauer flagged the issues after scrutineering, writing in a statement that "the uppermost rear wing element adjustable positions were checked on car numbers 20 and 27."The LHS and RHS outermost area of the of ...Keep reading
The Gresini Ducati rider is quickly adapting himself from the Honda he rode for 11 years to the GP23 he has now, scoring podiums in four of the six sprints and twice in the previous two grands prix.But his last three weekend podiums have come after being forced to fight back from poor qualifying results, with his brace of runner-up spots in France happening after he started 13th.At Barcelona this ...Keep reading
Heavy rain prompted two red flag periods and led to a start/stop race, but van der Linde kept his calm and converted pole position into a dominant win over the Winward Mercedes of Maro Engel. Defending champion Thomas Preining ended up third in the Manthey EMA Porsche, making it three different manufacturers on the podium.The race got underway at 5pm local time with the sun shining brightly on ...Keep reading
Leclerc claimed his third career F1 pole in Monaco after edging out McLaren's Oscar Piastri in Q3 in Monte-Carlo, having topped FP2 and FP3 on his home streets.He also finished fifth in FP1, a session in which Mercedes led the way.Autosport understands the Silver Arrows decided to complete its main Friday qualifying simulation efforts in FP1 due to a risk of rain that never arrived in ...Keep reading
The Dane was heard to query a decision to pull out of a lap during Q2, in which he was slightly up on his delta from his opening outing of the session on the run up to Massenet.He was given the command to back out as early as Beau Rivage, and instead prepare for another attempt next time out.But this lap fell shy of his initial marker, a 1m11.725s, which consigned Magnussen to an exit from the ...Keep reading
Monaco native Leclerc has been the driver to beat all weekend and that continued following a pre-qualifying engine change, as he steadily lowered the benchmark to ultimately beat McLaren's Oscar Piastri to the top spot by 0.154s.Running its distinctive Ayrton Senna tribute livery this weekend, McLaren had been finding life difficult in low-speed sections, but when it counted Piastri ran Leclerc ...Keep reading
Hill, driving his West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport, ended up on opposite sides of the Norfolk circuit to reigning champion Sutton’s Alliance Racing-run NAPA Racing Ford Focus ST.Five of the six drivers to make it into the pole shootout opted for slick Goodyear tyres when the sun suddenly broke out, and Hill and Sutton continually traded fastest times.But due to the ritual among ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion enjoyed an eventful early part of the 12-lap sprint as he battled back from being shuffled down to fourth.When KTM’s Brad Binder crashed out of the lead on lap seven, Bagnaia was released into first place and looked on course to end a sprint win drought dating back to the 2023 Austrian GP.But at Turn 5 on the final lap, he crashed and registered a third sprint DNF of ...Keep reading
The Aston Martin driver had set a time good enough for 13th on his final lap, but was vulnerable to progress from drivers further back, culminating in a drop into the bottom five. He couldn't recover, having already pitted, and was out of time to set a final flying run.Citing the luck of the draw with traffic around the circuit, Alonso lent his support to a suggestion of using group qualifying to ...Keep reading
The Mexican driver managed to find his way into fifth after Saturday's earlier FP3 session, although brusquely noted that his Red Bull was "nowhere" ahead of the run-in to qualifying.His team made duly set-up changes to the RB20, but these were not enough to help Perez progress any further into qualifying and he ultimately shook out in a lowly 18th, only outqualifying the Saubers.Reflecting on his ...Keep reading
After every F1 qualifying session, Autosport publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don't alter the statistics.When a driver can't put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.Red Bull
Max ...Keep reading
The Mahindra driver finished eighth on-the-road in the first of two Shanghai E-Prix this weekend at the Shanghai International Circuit in China.The result marks the first time de Vries has finished in the points aboard a single-seater since he made his Formula 1 debut with Williams at the 2022 Italian Grand Prix, having disappointed with AlphaTauri last year.And although he claimed victory at ...Keep reading
Monegasque Leclerc dazzled throughout the Friday and Saturday sessions in Monaco, and built up his speed over the sessions to eventually land on a 1m10.270s - a tenth shy of Lewis Hamilton's record pole time set in 2019."It was nice, the feeling after a qualifying lap is always very special here," Leclerc said. "I'm really happy about the lap."Qualifying is not everything, as much as it helps ...Keep reading
The Trackhouse Racing rider qualified a career-best third for himself and the American team on Saturday morning at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.Fernandez, riding the 2023-spec Aprilia that won last year’s sprint and GP at Barcelona, took the lead on lap three of 12 and quickly broke away from the pack by almost a second.But on lap five, Fernandez crashed out at Turn 10, which he explained ...Keep reading
Set to end a barren sprint run without a win on Saturday since last year’s Austrian GP, Bagnaia fell off his factory Ducati at Turn 5 on the last lap of 12, while eight tenths clear of Aprilia’s Espargaro.Espargaro, who started from pole but got beaten up in the early laps, had recovered to second on lap eight and was promoted to the lead when Bagnaia crashed.It marks his first sprint win of ...Keep reading
Barnard became the seventh different F2 race winner this season, taking the chequered flag by over five seconds from Gabriel Bortoleto despite the final segment of the race being a five-lap dash after the stoppage.Prior to the Monaco weekend, Barnard was the only F2 driver without a point to his name, but after starting from reversed grid pole the British AIX driver looked composed throughout as ...Keep reading
As the dismal British spring climate brought rain sweeping in from the North Sea across East Anglia, Thompson quite literally made a splash on his BTCC return – and his debut in a rear-wheel-drive tin-top – by topping the second session in his West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport.But Thompson’s FP2 time was 0.209 seconds shy of the FP1 effort of Hill, who was top of the pile in that opening ...Keep reading
The two-day test will consist of a day of dry running on Tuesday with 2025 prototype slick compounds, before the track is made wet on Wednesday when the Italian tyre manufacturer tries out a new extreme wet compound. Ferrari's regular race drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz are set to test one day each.The wet track running is key because wet tyre tests are harder to organise, with Pirelli ...Keep reading
Jaguar’s Evans took victory in the first of two races this weekend at the Shanghai International Circuit, having taken the lead on the final lap from Wehrlein with a daring move around the outside of Turn 1.Wehrlein had headed the field for the final stages of the race having taken the lead after going side-by-side with Evans through the tight final sequence of corners used on the shorter ...Keep reading
The session was red-flagged after the opening 10 minutes when Valtteri Bottas clipped the Swimming Pool exit wall, an impact that broke the front-right suspension on his Sauber and caused him to stop at Rascasse.Once the Finn's car was moved behind the barriers as he could not recover to the pitlane, the session resumed in earnest - with all cars taking to the circuit on high fuel to log multiple ...Keep reading
ART driver Tsolov was rarely threatened in his lights-to-flag win, surviving two restarts and an investigation for illegal weaving.Team-mate Laurens van Hoepen dropped to third behind Tim Tramnitz (MP Motorsport) at the start and was unable to recover the position, despite his German rival's lack of pace.Remarkably, Tsolov’s success means that there is yet to be a repeat winner in F3 this ...Keep reading
On Thursday ahead of this weekend’s sixth round of the 2024 season, Espargaro grabbed a first pole of the season with a new lap record of 1m38.190s at the end of a dramatic Q2.Espargaro hailed the pole laps as “the best of my life”, saying: “I don’t have 100 pole position in my career, so even if it’s just one Saturday at my home GP it’s amazing to achieve the pole and especially ...Keep reading
On Thursday ahead of the Catalan Grand Prix, three-time MotoGP race winner Espargaro announced he will be retiring from racing at the end of the season.Insight: How Espargaro “silenced many mouths” during his underdog MotoGP careerThis has opened up a prime factory spot on the grid for 2025, which has already been linked to several high-profile names.In recent weeks, Enea Bastianini’s ...Keep reading
Getting the front and rear Pirellis into their perfect grip window can help unlock those extra hundredths that can make all the difference between pole position or even being dumped off the front row entirely.But as F1 braces for perhaps its most critical qualifying day of the year in Monaco, with the race all but won if you can lock out pole position, there is a factor that drivers agree stands ...Keep reading
Jaguar's Evans and Porsche rival Pascal Wehrlein largely dominated the majority of the 29-lap race at the Shanghai International Circuit, each leading for large portions around the truncated grand prix layout.Having taken the lead just past the halfway point, Wehrlein noticeably upped the pace and defended the position at various points around the lap, especially into the Turn 6 hairpin.But ...Keep reading
Discussions have begun between teams and F1’s commercial rights holder about the terms of a new Concorde Agreement deal that will define how the series is run from 2026.The document includes all the key commercial aspects of F1, including prize money and, as Autosport revealed last week, a move to cap Ferrari’s historic extra bonus payment.Sources have revealed that one other change being ...Keep reading
The Briton has been called upon on multiple occasions by Arrow McLaren through the early part of the 2024 campaign, after losing his full-time seat with Juncos Hollinger Racing at the end of 2023, and will start 15th for Sunday’s Indianapolis 500.Alongside his programme for Porsche privateer Jota in the World Endurance Championship, taking the team's first win at Spa earlier this month ...Keep reading
The FIA is looking to include many more items into the cost cap from 2026 onwards, with an initial target figure of around $220 million.Some initial proposals by the FIA featured the inclusion of HR items such as maternity/paternity leave and staff entertainment, which faced pushback from the teams.The FIA has since clarified that maternity/paternity leave is now set to be excluded again from the ...Keep reading
Vergne set a mighty opening sector at the Shanghai International Circuit, Formula E’s first visit to the venue which is using a different layout to the grand prix track.Despite marginally losing time to Nissan’s Rowland over the final two sectors, Vergne’s 1m13.322s, the fastest time from the entirety of qualifying, was enough for his first pole since Diriyah earlier this year.Jaguar’s ...Keep reading
The Frenchmen finished joint fastest in Saturday morning’s FP2 after both the Andretti and DS Penske drivers posted a 1m13.430s.Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein took third only 0.013s adrift and ahead of the second DS Penske of Stoffel Vandoorne and Nyck de Vries, as less than six tenths covered all 22 drivers.After the opening 10 minutes Envision’s Sebastien Buemi topped the order with a 1m13.696s ...Keep reading
The dashed white line has been a talking point for the last several years, but accelerated into concern in last year's race when Team Penske’s Josef Negarden dove down into the area in question in his ultimately successful bid to fend off Marcus Ericsson.Teams were made aware of the new changes in the drivers’ meeting on Friday morning ahead of final practice. The new protocol states any car ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc and Ferrari ended Friday on top at Formula 1’s 2024 Monaco Grand Prix – the home hero in command in FP2, while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen had another low-key Friday.The FP2 long-run averages suggest the world champion and his team have a clear edge, yet this will count for very little if they cannot sort a better set-up ahead of qualifying. So far, for that critical Monaco ...Keep reading
The Monegasque was just under 0.2 seconds clear of Lewis Hamilton in the second free practice session at the Monte Carlo circuit, and half a second clear of the nearest Red Bull - Max Verstappen, who was fourth fastest.Red Bull struggled to unlock performance from its RB20 and suffered over the bumps around the circuit, while the Ferrari seemed a far more competitive prospect after the opening ...Keep reading
The six-time IndyCar Series champion and 2008 Indy 500 winner throttled to a flying lap of 227.206mph around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which proved the best of the two-hour session.“Yeah, I think we rolled off pretty good,” said the Kiwi, who will start from 21st position.“We tried to go through some sequences and changes. Some are a little bit okay, some not so much.“I ...Keep reading
The Ferrari driver impressed on the opening day of his home race by dominating second practice, beating FP1 headliner Lewis Hamilton by 0.188s.With Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso taking third on the FP2 timesheet, it appeared to be a tricky day for Red Bull, with both Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez struggling with an ill-handling RB20. Verstappen ended the day fourth fastest with team-mate ...Keep reading
The Gresini Ducati rider was expected to fight for a first MotoGP win on the Desmosedici coming to Barcelona after back-to-back grand prix podiums at Jerez and Le Mans.But he downplayed this ahead of the weekend as Barcelona has typically been a weaker track for the six-time MotoGP world champion, who has only won twice in the premier class at the circuit.Having finished second in FP1, Marquez ...Keep reading
Barcelona has typically been a strong venue for Yamaha, though the circuit's low-grip nature has worked against the M1 lately with its traction issues.Despite this, at one point in second practice it looked like both factory Yamaha riders could secure a direct place in Q2 for Saturday’s qualifying.However only Alex Rins was able to break into the top 10 come the conclusion of the second practice ...Keep reading
Current points leader Martin and eight-time world champion Marc Marquez have emerged as the prime candidates to partner Francesco Bagnaia at Ducati in 2025, with Enea Bastianini unlikely to get a contract extension after the end of his current two-year deal.Pramac’s Martin has strengthened his bid for a promotion within Ducati with an exceptional run of results in the opening five rounds of the ...Keep reading
With a host of the deals of its senior staff members being up for renewal imminently, Red Bull has been going through the process of trying to shore up personnel for the next rules era that begins in 2026.The need to get a move on and sort out these details has been further ramped up by the decision of chief technical officer Adrian Newey to leave the squad, with his exit set for the first quarter ...Keep reading
Leclerc spent the majority of the session sat on top of the order, where he picked up the fastest time and then proceeded to whittle down the lap time across his medium and soft-tyre runs to demonstrate an early advantage.It took less than 10 minutes for the times to return to the ballpark that the drivers had explored in the earlier FP1 session, as Leclerc grabbed a 1m12.372s on the medium ...Keep reading
Red Bull Racing RB20 technical detail
Photo by: Giorgio Piola
Red Bull has a higher downforce rear wing configuration in Monaco, with a flat leading edge on the mainplane that leads into a tightly wound transition with the endplate.The upper flap also takes up more of the allowable box region and has a V-shaped notch and a Gurney flap on the trailing edge. Meanwhile, the tip section ...Keep reading
As part on the ongoing policy in qualifying of drivers needing to build their gaps coming out of the pitlane, rather than slowing on track, there have been repeated issues of drivers forcing their way into the queue at the exit.Drivers do not want to be left at the back of the train of cars because that risks them not getting their laps in.With Monaco being the shortest track of the season, and ...Keep reading
Espargaro won both the sprint and the grand prix at Barcelona last year, and ended Friday for the 2024 event 0.072 seconds clear of KTM’s Brad Binder after the South African suffered a pair of falls in the second session.For the second round in succession, six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez will have to go through the Q1 qualifying session after failing to do better than 12th in second ...Keep reading
The intent remains for the H24EVO to hit the track for the first time next year ahead of a possible race debut in 2026, as was initially communicated when first concept images of the third iteration hydrogen fuel cell prototype jointly developed by GreenGT and Le Mans 24 Hours organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest were revealed last October.Aslan told Autosport that the final design of the ...Keep reading
Palou stormed to pole for last year’s edition of IndyCar's blue ribband event, leading the charge for the Ganassi team as all four of its cars qualified in the top 10. Although the 27-year-old Spaniard is still leading a five-car CGR contingent this year, it comes after qualifying 14th for Sunday’s 200-lap race.It was the first time since 2019 that CGR failed to put a car in the top 12.Palou ...Keep reading
Emanuele Pirro is most closely associated with Audi due to his five Le Mans 24 Hours victories between 2000 and 2007 coming with its R8 and R10 machines. Those followed touring car successes for the brand during the previous decade, claiming successive titles across the Italian and German super touring series from 1994 to 1996. But it’s from Pirro’s prior spell with BMW at the Schnitzer team ...Keep reading
The Mercedes driver reached the peak of the FP1 times by 0.029s over McLaren's Oscar Piastri, as the top five were all within a quarter of a second in this weekend's opening timed session at the Monaco circuit.Hamilton's lap was succeeded by a red flag called for debris produced by Sauber's Zhou Guanyu, who survived a brush with the barrier at Turn 1 despite losing fragments of front ...Keep reading
Ferrari and particularly McLaren have moved to close the gap with the previously dominant Red Bull RB20 in recent weeks, with McLaren's Lando Norris taking his maiden win in Miami and backing that up with searing pace as he ran Verstappen close in Imola.Their battleground now shifts to the streets of Monaco, with Red Bull expecting it will struggle more on the kerbs and the bumps of the twisty ...Keep reading
A total of 10 events being held across last weekend provided plenty of opportunity for drivers to add to their win tallies and Ford Escort Mk2 racer Grange is one who managed just that.He topped the opening Blue Oval Saloon Series encounter at Mallory Park to move on to eight victories for the season and came within half a lap of adding a ninth in race two, only for the charging Olly Allen to ...Keep reading
The Jaguar driver topped the 30-minute session with a 1m13.215s, which was red-flagged after only five minutes had been completed when several cars came to a halt on track.This included both Porsches of Pascal Wehrlein and Antonio Felix da Costa, both ERT’s of Sergio Sette Camara and Dan Ticktum, as well as Mahindra’s Nyck de Vries.All five cars had to be recovered back to the pits on the back ...Keep reading
McLaren's cars have recently excelled in high-speed corners but have not been as strong as its main opposition in the low-speed stuff.Although the characteristics of the MCL38 have slightly changed with its latest upgrade – which has improved its performance in slower corners - the team is not yet a match for Red Bull in this area.With Monaco being the slowest circuit on the F1 calendar, on ...Keep reading
The sixth round of the 2024 campaign began with the two riders vying for a factory team Ducati seat for 2025 setting the pace across the first 45-minute practice of the weekend.Marquez set the early pace on his Gresini Ducati and led for much of the session before Martin – shod with fresh soft rubber – took over in the closing stages with a 1m39.579s.KTM’s Brad Binder completed the top three ...Keep reading
As reported earlier this week, as part of a planned revamp of the cost cap – which is likely to be expanded to around $220 million – more elements will be brought under its remit that were previously exempt.One of the considerations was for maternity leave and staff entertainment to be moved inside it – something that not all teams were happy with.On the maternity leave aspect, it was felt ...Keep reading
Kyle Larson will attempt ‘The Double’ this weekend, after qualifying for both the Indy 500 and NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600. The Hendricks Motorsport NASCAR driver will climb into an Arrow McLaren to race for the first time in the IndyCar championship. The Californian driver qualified fifth for the Indy 500 in his debut before flying to the practice session for the Coca-Cola 600, where he ...Keep reading
The Shanghai E-Prix double-header this weekend will mark the return of Sam Bird to Formula E, having been forced to sit out racing for a month due to a broken hand.The McLaren driver suffered the break in his left hand having crashed at Sainte-Devote in practice ahead of the Monaco E-Prix – becoming the latest driver to join a growing list that have suffered a similar fate.In the last two years ...Keep reading
Thanks to Espargaro’s efforts since 2017, the RS-GP has become one of the grid’s best packages, with the Spaniard having won three times on it since 2022 and Maverick Vinales taking victory at the Americas Grand Prix in April.Both Espargaro and Vinales are on expiring deals, though it wasn’t inconceivable to see both signing new contracts beyond 2024.A darling of Aprilia management, Vinales ...Keep reading
But as paddock whispers emerged in Monaco that the Spaniard is in talks with the Grove-based squad, a deeper analysis of what the team can offer shows it might not be such a crazy option for him.Of course, as a driver at the top of his game who has shown he can fight on equal terms with the very best, Sainz’s preference is obviously to keep himself in a race-winning seat for 2025.But with Red ...Keep reading
Monte Carlo's iconic street circuit is nearing its 100th birthday in 2029 and amid annual complaints about its cramped facilities and anachronistic nature, the track itself is still a drivers' favourite.Saturday's all-deciding qualifying session is held in the highest regard, as a defining driving experience not found elsewhere on the congested 24-race calendar.But with overtaking pretty much ...Keep reading
Under F1’s penalty points system – introduced in 2014 – some of his rivals have approached the threshold of 12 points and automatic suspension for one event. Daniil Kvyat in 2017, Lewis Hamilton in 2020, and Pierre Gasly last year. But their time close the limit lasted just a few months in each case.Rewind 27 years and Jacques Villeneuve faced having to go nine races with a suspended race ...Keep reading
The pair have tangled on multiple occasions each of the last two race weekends, with Ferrucci recently citing payback in practice at the last round on the Indianapolis road course before another on-track scuffle during the race. While those run-ins with Ferrucc’s No. 14 AJ Foyt Racing Chevrolet have left a sour taste, Grosjean is trying to focus forward but had stern words for the 25-year-old ...Keep reading
With F1 satisfied that its three races in the United States are enough for that market, attention has shifted to other regions to capture a growing worldwide interest in grand prix racing.Speaking at an F1 in Depth event in Monaco on Thursday night, which was co-hosted by Autosport Business, Maffei said that the successful return of the Chinese Grand Prix showed what was possible.“We're lucky ...Keep reading
Verstappen and Red Bull's dominance since the second half of 2022 has been such that the Dutchman has largely cruised to his second and third world titles, with observers expecting the radically different RB20 would keep the Milton Keynes-based squad's advantage intact.But gradual upgrades by McLaren and Ferrari have now all but closed the gap between the top three teams, with Lando Norris winning ...Keep reading
Sainz’s future has been the subject of intense speculation over recent weeks as he bids to finalise a race seat for next year.He is known to have an offer to join Sauber on a long-term deal that would run through into its transition to become the Audi works team from 2026.The German manufacturer wants an imminent decision as it has a desire to get its line-up sorted so it can focus on putting ...Keep reading
Yellow and red flags in qualifying can be particularly disruptive on the tight confines of the Monte Carlo street circuit, something which has been exploited in the past.In 2006 Michael Schumacher parked up on purpose at Rascasse to prevent Fernando Alonso from improving on the German's provisional pole time.Schumacher was put to the back of the grid by the race stewards as they deemed his action ...Keep reading
Excitement is at an all-time high with the build-up to the Indy 500 well underway - but the weather is not looking so kind. Rain is forecasted for race day, which could severely impact proceedings as the Indy 500 does not run in the wet, due to the threat of aquaplaning around the brickyard’s banked oval. So does this mean the 108th edition of what’s dubbed as ‘the greatest spectacle in ...Keep reading
Whenever an ‘exceptional press conference’ is quickly ushered into the MotoGP weekend schedule for a single rider, it usually means only one thing: retirement.Growing up in nearby Granollers, the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya seemed like the perfect place for 34-year-old Aleix Espargaro to begin winding down a MotoGP career that began in 2004 with a 24th-place finish in the 125cc Valencia ...Keep reading
De Ferran, who was the 2000 and 2001 CART IndyCar champion for Penske, passed away in December at the age of 56 following a heart attack during a driving event in Miami.Pagenaud, the 2019 Indy 500 winner also with Penske, has been out of racing action since his horrendous 180mph IndyCar practice crash at Mid-Ohio last July, which was caused by a manufacturer brake failure.The 40-year-old Frenchman ...Keep reading
Aston Martin came out of the blocks flying in 2023 with six podiums for the Spaniard across the first eight races.But as rivals Mercedes, Ferrari and in particular McLaren all made bigger gains over the past 12 months, Aston has found it hard to keep up in the development race, sliding to fifth in the pecking order.While its progress on track is stalling, the Stroll-owned team is still in a ...Keep reading
The Spaniard is out of contract at the end of this season after Ferrari elected to replace him with Lewis Hamilton for 2025.He is still weighing up his options, with Sauber having made him a lucrative offer to join the squad as it transitions into Audi from 2026.However, it is widely understood that the Swiss-based outfit wants an early decision – believed to be by the end of this month – from ...Keep reading
This Sunday's 108th edition of the Indianapolis 500 is the most prestigious event of the IndyCar season, as 33 cars vie for the honour of claiming one of motorsport's three biggest prizes. Eight previous winners are among the field, which features a NASCAR Cup champion among the impressive rookie crop, and will be led the green flag by an all-Team Penske front row.Scott McLaughlin set a new ...Keep reading
F3 cars became the headline act of the Macau Grand Prix weekend in 1983, replacing the Formula Pacific cars that had contested the event since 1974 and, in 2016, the competition was awarded FIA F3 World Cup status.But on Wednesday, the FIA revealed this would become the Formula Regional World Cup from November onwards, switching to the less powerful machinery that is used in regional competitions ...Keep reading
The championship’s two Japanese manufacturers have been working hard over the last few months to close the gap to their European rivals and return to the forefront after years of decline.Both have been taking advantage of the new concession system introduced by MotoGP this year by holding a number of private tests, but there appears to be a stark difference in how quickly the new parts actually ...Keep reading
It’s fair to say that the idea of a fully autonomous race raised more than a few eyebrows. In the automotive space, attempts at autonomous driving have been more hit than miss - driverless cabs going awry, ‘full self driving’ falling short of the mark - and while many people say they’re looking forward to a world where they can sit back and do nothing in their autonopod, the tech needed to ...Keep reading
The 34-year-old Spaniard will make the announcement on Thursday afternoon ahead of his home Catalan Grand Prix at Barcelona, where he won both the Saturday and Sunday races last year.Espargaro’s current Aprilia contract expires at the end of this year and he had already admitted at the signing of this deal two years ago that he expected it to be his last.Despite telling media at the Americas GP ...Keep reading
Die Aktuelle caused huge controversy when it published a front-page feature claiming to have a “first interview” with Schumacher since his 2013 skiing accident.Inside, and without any permission from the family, the magazine published quotes that had been generated by AI technology.The upset that the interview caused prompted the publishers to remove the magazine’s editor-in-chief Anne ...Keep reading
The 2003 world champion will make a comeback at the Royal Rally of Scandinavia in Sweden, which hosts the third round of the ERC from 13-15 June. The rally is based in Karlstad, the former home of Rally Sweden.Solberg is due to pilot a family-owned Volkswagen Polo R5 car at the event alongside co-driver Jonas Andersson, who usually navigates for Gus Greensmith in WRC2.The outing will mark the ...Keep reading
Although the demands of the tight and twisty Monte Carlo street circuit make it an obvious place to bring the highest downforce specification possible, the restrictions of the cost cap mean that not all teams elect to produce parts in that range.Many prefer to stick with a solution that is not as extreme but is suitable for some of the other medium to high downforce venues – as that is the more ...Keep reading
New track, new ambitions. Particularly since DS Penske likes to go to places where no one has ever driven a Formula E car. Usually, circuits that have never seen an electric single-seater, where the success of the weekend depends on preparation - and therefore on experience - work well for Jean-Eric Vergne and Stoffel Vandoorne.Last year's top points scorers in this configuration and good leaders ...Keep reading
Alpine stopped short of making a full commitment to the hydrogen ruleset that will be employed at the World Endurance Championship's showpiece event from 2027 following the global reveal of its Alpenglow Hy4 - powered by a hydrogen-fuelled internal combustion engine - at Spa earlier this month.However, Famin acknowledged that what Alpine has dubbed its 'rolling lab' would serve an important ...Keep reading
Rather than a token change of paint on the sidepod, or a different looking front wing, it has elected for a complete livery takeover in the iconic yellow, green and blue colours of Senna’s helmet.PLUS: How the wider motorsport world reacted to Senna’s deathBut one interesting stand out element of the McLaren livery is the fact that not all its normal papaya colour has been taken off – and ...Keep reading
Unsustainable, unnecessary and unhelpful. They may sound like strong terms, but – to this writer, at least – they perfectly describe the three-week spell of the national calendar we are currently in the middle of. And especially this past weekend of club motorsport.Let me explain. Over 18-19 May, there were 10 separate car racing events across the UK. From Thruxton to Bishopscourt and ...Keep reading
Both McLaren and Ferrari have heavily upgraded their cars over the past two races as the 2024 grid continues to converge.McLaren has looked particularly competitive in recent weeks, with Lando Norris taking his maiden win in Miami while challenging Red Bull's Max Verstappen until the final lap in Imola.But with Ferrari also within one or two tenths, Marko is expecting the Scuderia to be an even ...Keep reading
It wasn’t a classic, at least not for the first hour. But if a race can be judged on the finish, then the contest at Imola was one of the better Formula 1 events of 2024 so far.In our in-depth report, Jake Boxall-Legge explains how a combination of Red Bull getting its sums slightly wrong on the hard tyre, McLaren’s new-found pace, and some fine work by Norris made the final stages at Imola ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer has been involved in Formula E since the 2019-20 season, and over the last five seasons has taken seven victories across Gen2 and Gen3 eras.While the factory effort has only achieved a best result of fourth in the teams’ standings during that time, Porsche’s powertrain guided Jake Dennis to the drivers’ title last season for customer outfit Andretti.Ahead of the ...Keep reading
Ferrari recently helped the FIA with the evaluation of a more complete wheel guard concept during runs at Fiorano to see if it could help reduce spray.The design was much more dramatic than the original idea tried out at Silverstone last year, and Ferrari ran two cars close together to evaluate if it brought any improvement.The latest covers were deliberately over the top because the FIA wanted to ...Keep reading
F1 teams are constantly in discussion with series owners Liberty Media about the new Concorde Agreement, which is set to come into effect in 2026.The Concorde Agreement is pivotal for the day-to-day running of F1 and dates back to the 1980s, when it ended political disputes that plagued the championship at the time.Several editions of the Concorde Agreement have since been signed, with F1 ...Keep reading
The team’s VCARB 01 F1 car is showing impressive speed in qualifying – with its two cars having got into Q3 at Imola last weekend – but its race chances are being hurt by poor getaways.At the Imola Grand Prix, both Ricciardo and Tsunoda lost two places off the start – which were hard to recover from because of the difficulty of overtaking.PLUS: Why F1's artificial racing tools are to blame ...Keep reading
His long-awaited maiden Formula 1 victory in Miami made Lando Norris the 21st driver from the United Kingdom to become a grand prix winner. More racers from Britain than any other nation have stood on the top step of a world championship podium, a statistic which may be a source of hope for those aspiring hopefuls bubbling under in the junior categories.Autosport picks out five of the most likely ...Keep reading
Last week, Autosport announced that the Buddh International Circuit round, initially scheduled for 20-22 September, is set to be axed from the calendar after the race promoters breached a contract with Dorna Sports.In response to that, Pushkar Nath Srivastava, CEO of the Indian promoter, stated that the event would take place: "The race is planned. Everything that is flying around is rumours. All ...Keep reading
The phrase “just send it” is common among drivers, but the reality is very few have the courage to push through a corner at nearly 240mph without lifting, once something feels imperfect with the car.And they can’t really be blamed for that as one could imagine it is terrifying should something go awry at those speeds; if there is even enough time to feel fear in the moment.At 19 years old ...Keep reading
The F1 driver market is fast-moving and Haas's recent results – four points scores in seven grands prix in 2024 – have made it a more attractive option than the American squad previously was.Haas has at least one available drive for next year following Nico Hulkenberg's deal with Sauber/Audi, while Kevin Magnussen's future is also uncertain following a tricky start to the campaign for the Dane ...Keep reading
On the opening lap of the race, Busch hit the wall after Stenhouse went up the middle in a three-wide fight. Busch believed that Stenhouse had pushed him into the wall, although no contact was made.During the following lap, Busch pushed into the left-rear of Stenhouse's car, who ended up slamming the outside wall nose-first.A furious Stenhouse parked his wrecked car in the Richard Childress Racing ...Keep reading
For the Emilia-Romagna event, Ferrari had arrived at the first of two home races fielding considerable attention given its comprehensive first upgrade package was being unleashed.While it led the way in Friday practice last weekend, it fell behind Red Bull and McLaren in both qualifying and the race.But Ferrari team boss Fred Vasseur was adamant that “if we do 1-2 in quali, we do 1-2 in the ...Keep reading
The Albert Park venue is due to return to being the Formula 1 season-opener, having not held the first round since 2019, and it will therefore also replace Bahrain as the F2 curtain-raiser.Bahrain then becomes the second event, ahead of a trip to Saudi Arabia for round three.All of the other 11 venues also remain on the schedule in broadly the same order, with the season concluding at Yas Marina ...Keep reading
'Three left minus, long, bumpy', may resemble an ordinary rally pacenote. But this is how a World Rally Championship driver sees one of motorsport’s most famous corners – the Karussell at the Nurburgring Nordschleife.Yes, you have read that correctly. You could be forgiven to question 'what kind of fever dream am I about to read?' That’s a totally valid response, but this was by no means a ...Keep reading
Haas’ Kevin Magnussen is just two superlicence penalty points away from a full race ban after accumulating 10 points over the first six races of 2024. The Danish driver doubled his penalty points over the Miami Grand Prix weekend for several reasons, including leaving the track multiple times to gain an advantage and causing a collision with Logan Sargeant.Magnussen initially called the sprint ...Keep reading
A pretty extensive overhaul had been aimed at lifting the squad up the grid, but it ended up making the car more difficult to drive – contributing to Alonso’s hefty FP3 crash.Its struggles renewed concerns that the squad could be facing a repeat of what happened last year – when upgrades it introduced triggered some side-effects that hampered its performance.PLUS: Did Aston Martin's Imola ...Keep reading
Ryan Hardwick and Giorgio Roda, the bronze-graded drivers in the Proton Competition team that runs the Mustang in the WEC, both identified inexperience with the driveshaft-mounted sensors that enable power outputs to be regulated and help to uphold the Balance of Performance as the main element hampering Ford's efforts.Speaking to Autosport, Hardwick said that the torque sensor is "the biggest ...Keep reading
- Honda Racing Corporation UK - Power Unit System Engineer - BuckinghamshireHonda Racing Corporation UK (HRC UK) is a new company founded by Honda Racing Corporation to perform post-race maintenance and preparation tasks on the Honda build current F1 power units.As a Power Unit System Engineer your role will be to look after the operation and reliability of the power units (ICE and ERS System) ...Keep reading
Perez lost the runner-up spot in the drivers' championship to Charles Leclerc on Sunday after floundering throughout the Italian weekend, as Red Bull struggled to find the right set-up for its RB20.Perez is yet to beat Max Verstappen in qualifying or lead him on a single race this season, but his performance significantly deteriorated in Imola as he failed to reach Q3 – unlike both of sister ...Keep reading
Verstappen shocked the F1 paddock when he dovetailed the Imola Grand Prix with a Nurburgring 24 Hours sim race - both of which he won.The Red Bull driver claimed the chequered flag at Imola just 15 minutes after Verstappen’s co-driver Chris Lulham sealed his team’s victory at the Nordschleife on iRacing, the simulator platform the Nurburgring 24 Hours took place on.It received a lot of ...Keep reading
Earlier this month MotoGP announced the framework for its 2027 rules revolution, which is headlined by a switch from 1000cc to 850cc engines and a reduction in aerodynamics.The aim of MotoGP’s rules reset is to improve the on-track spectacle, while also becoming more road relevant, sustainable and cost-effective.However, the move to a small engine formula has led to fears that MotoGP bikes could ...Keep reading
As part of the ongoing efforts to frame a new Concorde Agreement, with documents having been recently distributed to teams, talks have begun about where the cost cap will fit into the bigger picture.The current system, which has a limit of $135 million and runs until 2026, appears to be working as well as possible despite the controversy over Red Bull’s spending breach in 2021.However, there ...Keep reading
The 30-year-old Kiwi will lead the 33-car field to the green flag for a three-wide rolling start across 11 rows for the 200-lap, 500-mile race.In a Penske sweep, its first since 1988, Will Power will start from the middle of the front row, with Josef Newgarden on the outside.Indy 500 grid: McLaughlin on pole from Power, NewgardenWhat happened in Fast Six qualifying?Last of the drivers to run as ...Keep reading
Larson, the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion, has impressed in the build-up to his Indy 500 debut, where he is set to start fifth on Sunday in the #17 Arrow McLaren-Hendrick Chevrolet.Although Hendrick is one of the most recognisable figures in motorsports, this marks his first time to be entered as a team owner in the Indy 500.The experience has been enough for Larson to entertain the possibility ...Keep reading
As previously reported, Symonds was set to leave his position as F1's chief technical officer after seven years in the job, playing a crucial role in contributing to F1's technical regulations for 2022 and 2026.With the chassis rules for 2026 all but finalised, Symonds decided to leave the organisation as had long been under consideration.It has now emerged that Andretti Cadillac is Symonds's next ...Keep reading
The 2024 season is starting to shift towards a three-horse race between Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari as car upgrades have appear to have whittled down the difference between the three teams to one or two tenths at best.There is little doubt Verstappen and Red Bull are still in a plum position to see out both championships, but with more than two thirds of the championship still to run, the recent ...Keep reading
Sutton tops the standings after the first two race weekends, despite not claiming any victories in his Alliance Racing-run NAPA Ford Focus ST.Last year he claimed a record-equalling fourth BTCC title and also tied the season-record wins tally of 12, initially set by Alain Menu in 1997.Not only has the power boost from hybrid and turbo been doubled for 2024, with restrictions for those in the ...Keep reading
The 25-year-old Mexican was Arrow McLaren’s best shot to win last year’s race until he crashed out in the closing stages as an ambitious move on eventual runner-up Marcus Ericsson ended in the Turn 3 wall.Although he was fifth quickest in practice on Monday, as teams reverted to race-spec turbo boost after three days in qualifying mode, the normally upbeat O’Ward was uncharacteristically ...Keep reading
Tanak has struggled to adjust to the i20 N Rally1 following his return to the Korean manufacturer this season but showed signs he’s made a stride forward by challenging for victory in Portugal earlier this month.Tanak drove around his set-up struggles on Portugal’s gravel roads to finish a season’s best second, 7.9s adrift of rally winner Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier.Tanak, who sits 31 points ...Keep reading
The Woking-based team has worked with sponsor partner OKX on the complete takeover of the MCL38 colour scheme – replacing its papaya orange with the yellow, green and blue colours of the late Brazilian’s iconic helmet.The car also features iconic Senna quotes inside the cockpit, as well as lettering featuring the three-time world champion’s name on the front and rear wings.While last ...Keep reading
The sixth round of the 2024 campaign takes place this weekend at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya and is expected to be a strong hunting ground for Aprilia.This is because of Aleix Espargaro’s run to victories in the sprint and the grand prix last year at the venue, while Maverick Vinales was second in the latter to complete Aprilia’s first 1-2 in MotoGP.Vinales says a repeat would be “a ...Keep reading
Renee is the Chief Operating Officer of Liberty Media, the company that owns F1. She has played a central role in the way the company has shaped and grown F1 since 2017. But she is also the CEO of Las Vegas Grand Prix, which meant she was in the hot seat and responsible for delivering F1’s most ambitious race in barely a year from the announcement.There were a few hiccups to say the least, from ...Keep reading
But as McLaren has closed in on the Milton Keynes-based squad, it is now under pressure to ensure that it leaves no performance on the table.And, with less than one tenth of a second being the difference between pole position and off the front row in Imola, Red Bull knows it has to throw everything it can at it now to avoid falling back.That is why it arrived at Imola with a handful of new parts ...Keep reading
BMW Motorsport boss Andreas Roos believes the credentials of event newcomers Raffaele Marciello, Marco Wittmann and Sheldon van der Linde will negate their lack of experience in the Le Mans 24 Hours on 15-16 June and says the WRT-run programme will have the “perfect combination”. Marciello and Wittmann have both won the Spa 24 Hours, while van der Linde has twice finished second in the ...Keep reading
Dealer Team Vauxhall under the helm of Bill Blydenstein is synonymous with Gerry Marshall and the Special and Super Saloon machinery he piloted in the 1970s. From Viva GTs, through Vauxhall Firenza ‘Old Nail’ and Ventora ‘Big Bertha’, to Firenza-based ‘Baby Bertha’, all are part of British racing folklore.But, while those cars’ nicknames helped earn them almost mythical status, Old ...Keep reading
Over the Miami Grand Prix weekend Horner shot back at suggestions from Mercedes and McLaren that Red Bull would be weakened by designer Adrian Newey's departure, and in particular McLaren CEO Zak Brown's belief that Newey "won't be the last domino" to fall at the team.Horner claimed his newly built-up engine division Red Bull Powertrains had captured as many as 220 people from Mercedes High ...Keep reading
Symonds has been part of the F1 organisation since 2017, having worked as part of a team that shaped grand prix racing's technical regulations to improve the racing.As well as contributing to the roles for the new 2022 ground-effect era, he was also involved in the creation of the all-new cars that are coming for 2026.But with the chassis part of those future rules now all but signed off, and due ...Keep reading
Teams are in discussions with F1 owners Liberty Media over the terms of the new Concorde Agreement that is due to come into force from 2026.The document defines how F1 is run – with one agreement relating to the regulatory framework of grand prix racing, and another outlining the commercial terms.Draft outline terms were recently sent to teams as the next step of this progress, ahead of what are ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer is working on a new development direction for its next update package, which it hopes will deliver a better balance for its car in both high- and low-speed corners.It has been working on having new components ready for the Canadian Grand Prix next month, but there remains a chance that items could be fast-tracked to Monaco if they are ready early.Lewis Hamilton recently ...Keep reading
Defending Indy 500 champion Newgarden served up a flying lap of 226.238mph in the No. 2 Team Penske Chevrolet to edge out Andretti Global’s Colton Herta by 0.0028s.“The team's done a great job,” said Newgarden. “I love this place. We're going to see how things shake up because you got to be ready for everything.”Herta, who was routinely in the mix and moved through the field on multiple ...Keep reading
The 37-year-old Briton has been out of racing action since the start of May after sustaining the injury in a practice crash ahead of the Monaco E-Prix.Bird went into the run-off area at Sainte Devote, leaving his hands on the wheel as the car struck the barrier, which broke a bone in his left hand.The injury immediately ruled him out of further action that weekend in Monte Carlo, and he was also ...Keep reading
Aston's major Imola update, which included a floor redesign, a front wing and diffuser, was shaken down by Fernando Alonso in FP1 before Lance Stroll also received the parts from FP2 onwards.However, on a weekend where rival teams also wheeled out new parts or further dialled in those from Miami, Aston's upgrades may have delivered absolute performance but not relative competitiveness.Alonso's ...Keep reading
McLaughlin set a memorable record-setting four-lap average of 234.220mph having set off as the last of the fast six, scoring Penske’s 19th Indy 500 pole.Team-mates Will Power and defending race winner Josef Newgarden will start alongside McLaughlin - the trio gave team owner Roger Penske his first front-row lockout for the race since 1988, when Rick Mears sat on pole, alongside Danny Sullivan ...Keep reading
Series promoter the Automobile Club de l’Ouest has stressed the importance of capping the expansion of the series, at least temporarily, following its return to its traditional eight events in 2024 after a contraction resulting from COVID.“It is not in the plan today to add a race because of the cost,” ACO president Pierre Fillon told Autosport.“The most important thing is to be careful ...Keep reading
This month marked the 30-year anniversary of Senna's fatal accident at Imola on 1 May 1994, which came the day after Austrian Ratzenberger lost his life in a crash.The death of Ratzenberger, which itself followed a serious practice accident for Senna's compatriot Rubens Barrichello, shook the Williams driver to the core at the time.In the wreckage of Senna's crashed car, marshals found an unfurled ...Keep reading
Formula 1 headed back to Imola after the 2023 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix was cancelled due to flooding in the Italian region. This time, the sporting contest went ahead in sunshine throughout.The race was awfully dull, until Max Verstappen’s struggles aboard his Red Bull and Lando Norris’s hard tyre brilliance in his McLaren combined to produce a thrilling late coda. That again enlivened a lead ...Keep reading
In the opening phase of the race, it was Verstappen who had the edge as, after holding the advantage at the start, he was steadily able to eke out a gap on the medium tyres to be more than six seconds clear up until the first round of stops.Things did not seem to change much as drivers switched to the hard, as Norris, who briefly lost a bit of time getting past Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, did not ...Keep reading
The Italian has endured a torrid switch from the VR46-run Ducati he raced last year to the factory Honda in 2024.Marini hasn’t qualified inside the top 20 across the first five rounds, while he is the only Honda rider not to score points in 2024 – with his best grand prix result so far a 16th.At the French Grand Prix, Marini finished last of the classified runners and was 40 seconds off the ...Keep reading
The Mexican had failed to make the top 10 in qualifying, instead being knocked out in Q2 with a lap time 0.015s slower than Daniel Ricciardo's on his RB.Perez started the race on hard tyres in a bid to make the most of any timely safety car intervention, virtual or otherwise, which ultimately failed to materialise during an uninterrupted race.But Perez did manage to outperform both RB cars and ...Keep reading
While some drivers take the title long before the final round – recently Max Verstappen took both the 2022 and 2023 titles with several races left to go – others can sit at the top of the table but still never claim the crown. Valtteri Bottas is one of those unfortunate drivers, having led the championship for just 24 days in 2019 before the season was eventually won by Lewis Hamilton. ...Keep reading
Is it a sign that McLaren's upgrades have made it a legitimate contender for the world championship, or another blip from Red Bull that opened the door?Joining Bryn Lucas on the Autosport podcast is Alex Kalinauckas and Filip Cleeren as they debate the quality of the race itself and the frustration over the lack of early action, not helped by a shorter DRS zone compared to two years ago, and the ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc took a popular podium at Imola, with Carlos Sainz in fifth, as Ferrari was beaten by McLaren as F1's closest challenger to Red Bull's Max Verstappen.With overtaking nearly impossible on similar tyre strategies, Ferrari feels it effectively lost the battle for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in qualifying, with Vasseur saying: "I think that if we do 1-2 in qualifying, we do 1-2 in the ...Keep reading
Former F1 racer and 2022 Indy 500 winner Ericsson was on course to make the field when he backed off at the end of his third tour of the four-lap qualifying run.After realising his error, he got back up to speed but it was too late to set a representative speed.That meant he had to sit in the pits, cooling his car, before a last-gasp final run, which ended inside the final five minutes of the ...Keep reading
As part of an official visit to Italy, Thavisin was present at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix for discussions with F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali, as well as meeting other stakeholders.The Thai Grand Prix project is being pushed for by the government, but it is understood that Thavisin has sounded out Red Bull about its potential interest in joining the push.Thavisin is targeting a deal to put on a ...Keep reading
Hours after team owner Roger Penske’s IndyCar drivers swept the front row for this year’s Indianapolis 500 in qualifying, Logano added a $1 million prize with his win in NASCAR’s annual all-star event.Logano, who has yet to win a points-paying NASCAR Cup race this season, started on pole and led 199 of the 200 laps. Denny Hamlin ended up Logano’s toughest challenger, nearly grabbing the ...Keep reading
Verstappen's busy driving, PR and engineering schedule at Imola did not stop him from competing in the most competitive field of iRacing's Nurburgring enduro with his Team Redline sim squad.After taking pole in Italy on Saturday, he took on a three-hour stint on his sim in the evening and tacked on another two hours on Sunday morning to help his BMW GT3 entry win the event.Team principal Horner ...Keep reading
The New Zealander was the last of the drivers in the Fast Six to go out and delivered an ominous opening lap of 234.526mph before going on to grab a four-lap average of 234.220mph to take the top spot from team-mate Will Power.The 2018 Indy 500 champion, Power gathered up a superb run that hit a four-lap average of 233.917mph, which knocked Josef Newgarden, team-mate to both McLaughlin and Power ...Keep reading
Dale Coyne Racing’s 19-year-old rookie is the only driver who will go home today, despite a huge scare for 2022 Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson (Andretti Global), who miscounted his laps and backed off after the white flag on his first run.He had to run again and jumped to P2 with just minutes remaining.Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) also went through the mill for the second ...Keep reading
The Italian squad had impressed in Friday practice but, in its preparations for qualifying, the team appeared to lack pace at the start of the lap relative to the cars ahead of it in the battle for pole position.GPS traces show that his Ferrari was between 3-4kph slower on the straights compared to the two McLarens, and even more in arrears compared to polesitter Max Verstappen - thanks to the tow ...Keep reading
Red Bull driver Verstappen narrowly edged McLaren's Lando Norris after he gapped the Briton in the first stint on mediums, but struggled much more on the hard Pirelli rubber for the majority of Imola's 63-lap race.Verstappen explained that he couldn't keep the hard compound in the right operating window, which led to a lack of grip that he says nearly saw him crash at Turn 7's Tosa hairpin."On the ...Keep reading
The Williams driver stopped on lap eight from running 14th early on in Sunday's race, but when he returned to the track he slowed down after traversing the Tamburello chicane where he spotted the extent of the problem.Albon then toured slowly back to the pits to switch to a new set of tyres and rejoined the race one lap down.He was then slapped with a 10s stop/go penalty for violating Article ...Keep reading
Norris initially struggled to keep up with polesitter Verstappen in the first stint on medium tyres, but after the sole pitstop for hard tyres the Briton started closing the gap with Verstappen.Norris started reeling Verstappen in over the final 15 laps but just failed to get within DRS range heading into the final lap.The British driver ended up less than a second behind at the line as the ...Keep reading
The Red Bull driver maintained a comfortable lead until the last few laps and rarely seemed to be threatened by the McLarens and Ferraris behind him.Our writers give their verdict on the seventh round of the 2024 season.Late Norris surge fails to disguise snoozefest: 4/10 - Filip CleerenAs much as the drivers love racing at Imola - can't blame them, it is a mega circuit - today's race further ...Keep reading
The Grove-based outfit is pushing to get itself much closer to F1’s 798kg minimum weight limit, with a host of new lighter parts to be fitted to Alex Albon’s car at Imola.In a surprise confession before track running begins, team principal James Vowles has said that the squad ironically left itself on the back foot last winter by its chase to reduce chassis weight.An aggressive development ...Keep reading
Pramac has until the summer to unilaterally validate the agreement that would allow it to remain the only team with full factory support from Ducati in 2025 and 2026. Renewing the agreement would maintain its current conditions, so that the two riders in its line-up would be hired directly by the Bologna factory, and both would have the latest generation of Desmosedici that are identical to those ...Keep reading
O’Neill, who held the roles of sporting director and team manager at Haas in F1 from 2014-17, steps into a newly created role by JHR and will work alongside current team manager David Morgan.O’Neill first worked in F1 by spending seven years at Jordan, fulfilling the roles of team manager and chief mechanic.He was then drafted in to set up the Marussia team, which later became Manor, for its ...Keep reading
Hamilton announced earlier this year that he would be leaving Mercedes at the end of this season and joining Ferrari as Charles Leclerc's team-mate for 2025.Although Vasseur has so far been reluctant to talk much about Hamilton, out of respect for current driver Carlos Sainz, he has now offered some background of the reasons for his determination to lure him on board.In an exclusive interview ...Keep reading
Ferrari completed an FIA test last Thursday at Fiorano to trial the second attempt at introducing spray guards to cover the wheels in the wet, in a bid to reduce the amount of spray thrown up that decreases visibility.As part of the test, the Fiorano test track was made wet on the straights and Charles Leclerc's brother Arthur was sent out with the new designs, which could be modified to be ...Keep reading
Abiteboul made the claims after his Hyundai team conducted computer simulations of the 2025 rules to see how removing hybrid, and modifications and air restrictor will affect the current Rally1 car.This comes after Toyota tested a physical GR Yaris, which featured a modified rear wing, that driver Elfyn Evans described as “not so exciting”.Hyundai, Toyota and M-Sport-Ford have strongly opposed ...Keep reading
- Formula One - Fan Strategy ManagerThis role with Formula One is on a 12 month fixed term basis and is reporting into the Head of Fan Strategy and Planning.You will apply research techniques to solving real-world challenges and finding opportunities for improvement across multiple projects, teams, and business units. You will support and manage research & insights projects throughout the ...Keep reading
Bastianini’s two-year contract with Ducati expires at the conclusion of the 2024 season and the Italian marque is yet to decide who will partner Francesco Bagnaia at its works team in 2025.Although the 26-year-old is still in the running for that coveted spot, his chances of extending his stay at the team are looking bleak due to the current success enjoyed by championship leader Jorge Martin ...Keep reading
The British manufacturer’s head of endurance, Adam Carter, explained that it would adapt to the proposed rule requiring factory entrants in the Hypercar division to field two entries if necessary.Aston Martin and partner team Heart of Racing announced one-car programmes with the Valkyrie for both the WEC and the IMSA SportsCar Championship last October, but since then it has emerged that the WEC ...Keep reading
Mercedes has struggled for performance against the likes of Red Bull, Ferrari and McLaren with a W15 car that both lacks downforce and has some undesirable handling characteristics baked into it.That meant the Mercedes has been tough to set up and exploit to its full potential, with the various track conditions and temperatures across the first six race weekends all causing different types of ...Keep reading
Born into a timber merchant’s family in Worcestershire, home to the hallowed Shelsley Walsh hillclimb, Hay’s mellifluous honeyed tones graced public address systems at speed events, circuit racing and rallying from the late 1950s.From the mid 1970s, Neville pioneered an unprecedented breadth of motorsport TV broadcasts, which blossomed in a golden age of manufacturer investment, sowing the ...Keep reading
As F1 drivers begin their circuit walks ahead of this weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, the most notable changes they will notice are in various run-off areas around the Italian venue.Key areas of the circuit have been reconfigured, with previous asphalt run off areas being reduced and replaced with gravel traps.They are on the exit of Piratella, where the gravel trap now runs much closer to ...Keep reading
The specialist insurer – which provides comprehensive cover for race and rally cars on events, alongside offering policies for the storage and transit of vehicles – has lent its backing to the rankings, which are based upon a driver’s race wins over the course of a season.“Every single club driver in the UK and Ireland can potentially be part of the rankings, and we’re therefore very ...Keep reading
Norris’s recent victory in the Miami Grand Prix wasn’t just about one of Formula 1’s best performers getting his long overdue first win, it was also about the faith that he has shown in McLaren and vice versa, as well as the constant push to improve that Norris has possessed since he was a teenager in the junior ranks.In this week’s issue, Alex Kalinauckas hears from Norris and McLaren ...Keep reading
Although Lando Norris’ triumph was not won entirely on pace, as Max Verstappen’s RB20 was damaged after he ran over that bollard, it was clear that McLaren’s upgraded MCL38 is now a serious challenger.What’s most important to understand, though, is that its success is not just the result of the single upgrade package brought to Miami.Instead, it has been a carefully plotted plan that can ...Keep reading
The 27-year-old, who won the Jack Sears Trophy in 2022 and was an overall podium finisher last year – both seasons in a Team Hard Cupra – drove WSR’s fourth BMW in the official pre-season test at Brands Hatch in April.But Thompson has been perennially underfunded, and the commercial numbers could not stack up for the opening two rounds of the season at Donington Park and Brands.Now the Essex ...Keep reading
Although the session was altered to start earlier at 10am ET (originally 12pm), the weather that also impacted Tuesday’s opening day hung around at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway overnight and delayed any running until 3:05pm ET.There was a frantic bout of action among the 34 cars once the session finally went green. Roughly 40 minutes into the running, McLaughlin’s No. 3 Team Penske ...Keep reading
Last week Richard Childress Racing made official that Brown will drive its #33 Chevrolet in the 9 June Cup race, becoming the latest Supercars standout to enter the US stock car racing scene.Last July, van Gisbergen became the first driver in more than 60 years to win a Cup race in his debut when he took victory in the inaugural Chicago Street Race driving for Trackhouse Racing.The victory served ...Keep reading
In Miami's sprint Magnussen was handed three 10-second penalties for leaving the track and gaining an advantage, which meant the Haas driver was able to keep Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton behind. He also received a fourth penalty, this time a five-second addition, for leaving the track for no justifiable reason that bolstered his penalty points tally in the process.While Magnussen ruined his own ...Keep reading
Racing as a duo with Norman Nato on Formula E duty in Berlin, British drivers Will Stevens and Callum Ilott triumphed in the third round of the 2024 WEC that was interrupted by a lengthy red flag and belatedly restarted following the completion of barrier repairs.Pitting shortly before the stoppage vaulted their Porsche 963 LMDh into a lead they kept to the end once the race resumed and the ...Keep reading
It has since become a highly prestigious race forming part of the elusive motorsport triple crown, which is awarded to any driver who wins the Monaco Grand Prix, Le Mans 24 Hours and Indy 500 in their career. So far only two-time Formula 1 world champion Graham Hill has achieved said feat, though many more have tried.The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has therefore played host to many iconic moments ...Keep reading
Harmony within the World Rally Championship has been a rare commodity over the last 12 months. Conflict over a lack of promotion or uncertainty over future technical regulations has been a regular theme.But at Rally Portugal last weekend, there was a moment where the WRC Promoter, key stakeholders and the FIA all appeared to be singing from the same hymn sheet. There was a genuine feeling that the ...Keep reading
Pulling became the first female driver to top the British F4 podium after dominating the reverse grid race on the Indy layout of the former British and European Grand Prix venue, taking the flag by over five seconds.Couple this with a dominant F1 Academy weekend in Miami, where the 21-year-old missed out on a perfect score only by failing to set the fastest lap in race one, and this is ...Keep reading
Aprilia rider Espargaro had a run-in with two different riders during last Sunday's race at Le Mans as he tumbled from running third in the opening stages to a disappointing ninth at the finish.On lap seven, Enea Bastianini threw his Ducati up the inside of Espargaro at Turns 9/10 while chasing him for sixth, with the Spaniard having to take the escape road before rejoining the track in ...Keep reading
F1 Academy is set to be the feature of a new Netflix documentary series in partnership with Reese Witherspoon’s production company Hello Sunshine. The documentary is currently in production and will feature a behind-the-scenes look at the 2024 all-female single-seater season. The multi-part documentary will feature all the drama of the series' fourteen races, giving fans an exclusive look at the ...Keep reading
Autosport has occasionally ridden in an Uber with a driver who believed they had missed their calling as a racing driver. But it’s not often that the individuals in question had a valid case. Rewind back to 2015 however, and that was the scenario facing Nicolas Costa, now racing for McLaren partner team United Autosports in the World Endurance Championship.The Brazilian was – for a second time ...Keep reading
Team Impul revealed on Tuesday that Barnicoat will step into its #19 car for this weekend’s second round of the season, following last week’s news that Theo Pourchaire will not return to the Japanese series to focus on IndyCar with Arrow McLaren.Lexus IMSA SportsCar Championship full-timer Barnicoat had his first taste of Super Formula machinery in last December’s post-season test with ...Keep reading
Albon was hailed as one of the stand-out performers of last season, scoring all but one of Williams' 28 points to drag it up to seventh in the constructors' standings.With over half the grid out of contract for 2025, that made the 28-year-old an enticing prospect for any top team looking to make a change. Albon was still under contract for next year, but never totally ruled out the possibility of ...Keep reading
HubAuto Racing becomes the third Porsche customer squad this week to announce its plans for the blue ribband round of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup on 29-30 June, with a trio of works drivers seeking to deliver the Weissach marque a first win since 2020.Laurens Vanthoor and Kevin Estre, team-mates in the World Endurance Championship in the factory Porsche Penske Motorsport LMDh 963 ...Keep reading
The recent Miami Grand Prix proved to be extremely tricky for drivers to find the sweet spot with their rubber, as a combination of temperatures, track surface and layout created a perfect storm of difficulty.For Hamilton, things have also not been helped with his Mercedes car being especially sensitive to tyre temperatures where it can easily fall in and out of the perfect operating ...Keep reading
When the first rumours surrounding Marquez's possible arrival to the factory Ducati team next season began to surface, the thesis of Red Bull's sponsorship quickly emerged as an insurmountable barrier to the success of the operation.Marquez relied on his private sponsors, most notably Red Bull, when he decided to forgo the money that would have come with the final year of his Honda contract in ...Keep reading
A reliable run for the factory Porsche Penske Motorsport and customer entries at the Le Mans 24 Hours next month with the existing engine is likely to lead to a decision to leave the upgrade on the shelf, 963 project manager Urs Kuratle has revealed.He explained that the improved durability of the 963 this year had largely removed the need for the new version of the engine, designed to reduce ...Keep reading
Albon's previous Williams contract was due to end in 2025, but his excellent 2023 form for the Grove team made him a left-field player in next year's driver market.But the 28-year-old has now pledged his future to Williams for 2026 and beyond, with the team announcing it has re-signed him on what has been called a "multi-year" deal."I am incredibly happy to be remaining with Williams Racing and to ...Keep reading
With F1 chiefs and the FIA close to finalising the 2026 chassis and power unit regulations over the next few weeks, attention has already shifted to the subsequent rules era.And in what could be a dramatic change of approach for F1 after what by then will have been more than 15 years of turbo hybrid engines, Domenicali has hinted that one option could be to abandon the current concept ...Keep reading
In an unprecedented MotoGP weekend, nearly 300,000 people filled the stands at Circuit Bugatti in Le Mans and this cinematic layout reached another extraordinary landmark as a massive attendance of 297,471 tickets were sold for the event.This meant a step up from the attendance record set in 2023, when MotoGP drew 278,805 spectators to set a record among two-wheeled racing circuits.FEATURE: 10 ...Keep reading
Maloney heads to Imola for the fourth weekend of the 2024 F2 season with a 15-point lead over Paul Aron.With seven events coming in the next 11 weekends, this number making up half of the season’s total outings, the upcoming period will see the championship picture rapidly take shape.But speaking to Autosport, Maloney reflected: “I’m not focussed on the championship, I’m not focussed on ...Keep reading
Through all his title victories in junior categories and the delivery of race wins for Maranello, Vasseur accepts that being on top is about brilliance in all areas.That is why his spell at Ferrari has been one of evolution rather than revolution – and is more about chipping away to make everything slightly better than finding a dream ingredient that changes it all at once.The result has been a ...Keep reading
The 29-year-old has over 250 starts as a Supercars driver, with 11 race wins to his name, finishing runner-up in the championship on two occasions.The Tickford Racing driver will remain with a blue oval-backed team in this stock car racing venture, driving the No. 60 Roush Fenway Keselowski (RFK) Racing Ford Mustang at Sonoma Raceway in June. BuildSubmarines.com will serve as the primary sponsor ...Keep reading
Joining Bryn Lucas on the Podcast is Alex Kalinauckas and together they discuss the big speculation around Williams and the future of American driver Logan Sargeant.Miami had rumblings that Williams was pursuing an exemption from the FIA to potentially have Mercedes junior Andrea Kimi Antonelli in the car despite not turning 18 until August, against the factory team's wishes. Is the writing on the ...Keep reading
As part of a collaborative effort between Chevrolet, Honda and IndyCar, the first-of-its-kind hybrid unit features the current 2.2-liter, twin-turbocharged V-6 engine paired with ultracapacitor hybrid technology.A total of 23,518 miles were completed among 28 drivers since testing began on 16 August last year.“The strength of this uncharted partnership between Chevrolet and Honda has pushed this ...Keep reading
As F1 moves towards its all-new rules era with revamped turbo hybrid engines, motor racing’s governing body has laid out ambitious plans for a change of car concept too.Beyond a shift towards active aero, the FIA wants to reverse the trend of cars having got heavier over recent years – with it accepted that the current 798kg minimum limit is too much.Now, as part of the FIA's widespread ...Keep reading
The Grove-based team was one of the surprises of 2023 when it jumped from the bottom of the 2022 constructors' championship to finish seventh as Albon fought for the top 10 in a number of races.But Williams' upward trajectory has so far failed to continue in 2024 due to a car that's not as competitive as the team expected.Williams is one of two teams - along with Sauber - yet to score a point ...Keep reading
Starting this year, the pitlane is effectively closed whenever a FCY or a safety car is deployed in the DTM, with any urgent visit to the pits made during that period not counting towards a driver’s mandatory stop.The purpose of this new regulation was to create a more fair contest, as previously any driver who had pitted under green conditions before the FCY/SC was left at a disadvantage to ...Keep reading
Jean-Marc Finot, the French manufacturer’s motorsport boss, told Autosport at Spa that “my feeling is that we are being treated unfairly”.He did not mention the BoP, because it is expressly forbidden for manufacturers, teams and drivers to talk about it in the series sporting regulations.But the interference from his comments has to be that Peugeot believes its updated 9X8 2024 Le Mans ...Keep reading
The six-time IndyCar Series champion and 2008 Indy 500 winner scorched around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a flying lap of 229.107mph in the #9 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda.Indy-only entry Marco Andretti got comfortable right out of the gate and delivered the second-fastest lap in the #98 Andretti Herta Honda that was just 0.121s off the mark set by Dixon.Two-time Indy 500 winner ...Keep reading
British Hillclimb Championship coordinator Tim Wilson admits he is not someone who likes to be overly dramatic. But he was genuinely fearful for the future of the discipline when the shock news emerged in October 2022 that Goodyear was planning to close Avon Tyres’ Melksham factory and the brand – synonymous with the world of hillclimbing – would disappear.“I was very worried – I don’t ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver felt that “everything he touched went wrong” last weekend as he witnessed his six-point deficit to championship leader Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville balloon to 24 points.Evans’ difficulties began on Friday as he and his Toyota team-mates Sebastien Ogier, Kalle Rovanpera and Takamoto Katsuta struggled to find a balance with their GR Yaris Rally1 cars on the gravel stages ...Keep reading
Newgarden’s regular strategist Tim Cindric and race engineer Luke Mason were both suspended by legendary team owner Roger Penske from IndyCar duties following the illegality scandal that has marred the start of the season.Newgarden was disqualified from his season-opening St. Petersburg victory due to illegal use of push-to-pass during restarts after all three of Penske’s entries mistakenly ...Keep reading
Acosta was once again the top rider in the KTM contingent at Le Mans, with a rapid launch allowing him to jump from seventh on the grid to run fifth in the opening laps.But the 19-year-old race came undone when he lost the front of his GasGas-branded RC16 into Turn 8 while trying to chase after the battling duo of Aleix Espargaro and Fabio di Giannantonio.It has been described by many as the ...Keep reading
The team did so to ensure it had enough time if there were teething problems for what is quite a substantial change, not only to the aerodynamic performance of the car but also to how the power unit and ancillaries are cooled.A package of this magnitude has taken some time for Ferrari to develop, prepare and manufacture, with the team clearly working around Formula 1's globe-trotting schedule to ...Keep reading
The Dane joined Haas in 2017, a year after the team made its grand prix debut, staying there until he lost his drive at the end of the 2020 season.Magnussen made a surprise return to Haas for 2022 after the team ousted Nikita Mazepin and Russian title sponsor Uralkali over the invasion of Ukraine.Magnussen's current contract expires at the end of this year, but the 31-year-old wants to extend his ...Keep reading
Ogier and co-driver Vincent Landais emerged from a rally that had five different leaders to defeat Hyundai’s rejuvenated Ott Tanak to take a second win of the season by 7.9s. The victory marked a record sixth Rally Portugal triumph, moving him one clear of WRC legend Markku Alen. Tanak delivered his best performance of the season to date to challenge Ogier for the win, with his bid only ...Keep reading
KTM endured its worst outing of the 2024 season at Le Mans, with Brad Binder the only rider out of its four-strong contingent to finish inside the top 10 on Sunday.Miller was running a distant 12th when he suffered a fall at Turn 11 on lap 16, bringing an early end to his weekend in France.But while the crash itself was puzzling for the Australian, he was more baffled by why he didn’t have the ...Keep reading
What are your memories of Roland? When did you first come across him?David Brabham: As we were coming up through the ranks, he was ahead of me – he was older than I was. Obviously, I knew of him because he was doing well wherever he was going, whether it was sportscars or single-seaters [including winning the 1986 Formula Ford Festival], touring cars.I think everyone loved his story because he ...Keep reading
Pulling became the first female driver to ever win a race in the British Formula 4 Championship by taking the chequered flag at Brands Hatch.It was a faultless drive from the 21-year-old, who started in pole position before winning the second race of the weekend by 5.5 seconds to leave her inside the championship top 10.The win added to Pulling’s terrific start to the year, as she has also won ...Keep reading
Andreas Roos, boss of BMW M Motorsport, believes the German manufacturer again “did some steps on pure pace”, even though a series of penalties for its two Hypercar entries prevented it from following up on the points-paying finishes of Qatar and Imola. “The pace was there to fight for position five, six, seven,” Roos told Autosport after the two BMWs came home 11th and 13th in ...Keep reading
The world-famous Indy 500 is often billed as ‘the greatest spectacle in racing’ with its banked ovals, historic traditions and wheel-to-wheel battles capturing the attention of fans across the globe. It dates back to 1911 when Ray Harroun won by just 1.43 seconds at the brickyard, yet that is not even the closest finish in the event’s history, as Al Unser Jr claimed victory by 0.043s in ...Keep reading
Mercedes is currently seeking a replacement for Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton, who will leave the Brackley-based squad at the end of the season to join the Maranello team in 2025.Team boss Toto Wolff has openly admitted that he would want to have Verstappen but his comments drew criticism from Red Bull managing director Oliver Mintzlaff, who said Wolff's public flirting with Verstappen showed a ...Keep reading
The group includes six promising 13-14-year-olds from Australia, Austria, Czech Republic, Malaysia, Slovakia and the UK, who will all now follow a technical and tactical coaching and development programme that aims to accelerate at least one of them onto the Grand Prix grid. A further four drivers under the age of 13 from Italy, Japan, Poland and the UK will join a new preparation programme that ...Keep reading
Drivers are handed penalty points in addition to sporting penalties if the stewards deem an incident necessary, with an accumulation of 12 points over a 12-month rolling period resulting in a race ban.Kevin Magnussen's recent spate of punishments has seen the Haas driver move perilously close to that mark, with 10 points to his name - the latest of which were added after the Miami Grand Prix.But ...Keep reading
Barnicoat, the reigning IMSA GTD Pro champion, will take over the cockpit of Impul’s #19 Toyota-powered SF19 following last weekend’s news that Pourchaire will join Arrow McLaren in IndyCar.The British driver’s appointment only covers the second round of the 2024 Super Formula season on 17-19 May, with Impul yet to decide who will occupy the seat for the remainder of the year.He will make ...Keep reading
Pramac Ducati rider Jorge Martin put in a perfect weekend to claim pole, sprint and grand prix wins, the latter coming after absorbing immense late pressure from Marc Marquez and Francesco Bagnaia.Martin is now 38 points clear in the standings and put in the best weekend of his career at a point in which Ducati is nearing a final decision on its second factory team rider for 2025.He is facing ...Keep reading
Something immensely popular in the NBA, NASCAR star Denny Hamlin created his own version of it last year after floating the idea of introducing a mid-season bracket tournament to the stock car racing world.NASCAR has now taken steps to create its own tournament, which will span across five races during the summer months of the 2025 season, aligning with the events broadcasted by TNT ...Keep reading
Grosjean was nicknamed 'The Phoenix' after surviving a horrific fiery crash in what was his final Formula 1 start in the 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix, escaping with only minor injuries.The Frenchman's livery for his third 500 reflects the design of the mythological Phoenix. His previous two starts came with Andretti, but he is yet to reach the chequered flag, with his best result 30th in 2023.“The ...Keep reading
The 2019 world champion ignited his season last weekend by ending a 2024 podium drought after losing out in an intense victory battle with Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier.Prior to Portugal, Tanak had struggled for form since rejoining Hyundai this year, headlined by mistakes in the season opener in Monte Carlo and in Sweden, followed by an unfortunate crash in Kenya.Finding the sweet spot in the i20 N ...Keep reading
Norris led home Verstappen in F1’s most recent race in Miami – the Briton gaining from a mid-race safety car just as he appeared to be growing into a victory threat and with Verstappen having damaged his Red Bull.The result has raised hopes of further battles between the pair now McLaren has made a step forward with its upgraded 2024 car, as occurred for much of the second half of the 2023 ...Keep reading
The DS Penske driver posted a 1m01.937s inside the final hour to become the only driver to break the 1m02s barrier during the two three-hour sessions at the Tempelhof Airport circuit in Germany, which played host to the Berlin E-Prix double-header over the weekend.The AF Corse World Endurance Championship driver completed 82 laps across the day, having also finished fastest in the opening ...Keep reading
After five rounds on the year-old Ducati, Marquez has scored two grand prix podiums and three sprint rostrums.His latest brace of podiums at the French Grand Prix came as he fought back from 13th on the grid, with the eight times world champion finishing second in both races at Le Mans.In the grand prix, he was just 0.446 seconds away from beating Jorge Martin and moves up to third in the ...Keep reading
The Brit lost his full-time seat with Juncos Hollinger Racing at the end of last season, despite impressing during his time with the team.But he was given the chance to race with Arrow McLaren in the opening round of the new campaign after David Malukas sustained a wrist injury in a pre-season mountain biking incident, Ilott going on to take 13th in the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg.Ilott also ...Keep reading
Jaguar and Porsche remain the two brands to beat for DS Automobiles, the only French manufacturer entered in the championship.The same old, same old. Or almost. On this Sunday at Berlin-Tempelhof airport, we can expect to see debates on a track that has evolved, with teams working hard overnight to refine their energy strategy for the second race of the weekend.At the front of the grid, the ...Keep reading
Serra, formerly the performance director at Mercedes, will take on the head of chassis performance engineering role at Ferrari on 1 October and will report to technical chief Enrico Cardile. The news of Serra's move was revealed by Autosport last year.The Frenchman entered F1 as an engineer for Michelin, before joining the BMW Sauber operation when the tyre company left the championship at the end ...Keep reading
BorgWarner, the namesake of the historic trophy for the Indy 500, has increased the prize by $20,000 each year since 1995, increasing riches and monetary rewards for any driver that visits Victory Lane in consecutive years.The prize money has only been claimed once, which came courtesy of Helio Castroneves after repeat wins in “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” in 2001 and 2002.Since the first ...Keep reading
The Hinwil-based outfit has yet to score points this season with the pack seemingly split between the top five and bottom five teams, though Haas and RB have breached the top 10.Whilst Zhou Guanyu and Valtteri Bottas have shown glimpses of form behind the wheel, their efforts have largely been hampered by persistent issues at pitstops linked to new equipment introduced over the winter.With ...Keep reading
Penske suspended four senior members of his IndyCar team last week – including his right-hand man Tim Cindric – following multiple disqualifications from the opening round of the series in St Petersburg due to illegal software and use of the push-to-pass system that contravened the rules.Ironically, the IndyCar team suspension meant Cindric was on site for the IMSA weekend at Laguna Seca ...Keep reading
The championship made a much-anticipated visit to Buddh International Circuit on the outskirts of Delhi last year as part of its expansion in South Asia, with the race running smoothly despite several hiccups and visa issues in the run-up to the event.However, in the last few months, there has been uncertainty about the second edition of the Indian Grand Prix, with local reports suggesting that ...Keep reading
The American car giant is teaming up with Red Bull Powertrains to help develop an engine for the new 2026 regulations.The ambitious plans, which will see Red Bull produce its own power unit for the first time in its history, have led to suggestions that it could be a step too far and risk the world championship-winning squad falling down the order if it does not hit the ground running.Recently ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin’s imperious French Grand Prix weekend came as a decision on who gets the second factory Ducati team MotoGP seat looms. The Pramac rider can do no more to prove himself at this rate, having taken pole with a lap record, won the sprint and emerged victorious in a smartly ridden, nailbiting grand prix at Le Mans. Already feeling like he’s done all he can, Martin’s French GP ...Keep reading
After taking over the race-leading car he shared with Julien Andlauer towards the end of the second hour, 2016 Le Mans 24 Hours winner Jani struggled to get the door shut as he rejoined the track.This continued for several laps as he circulated slowly under the virtual and then full safety car before eventually Jani succeeded.Speaking after a spirited drive to finish fifth, Jani said: "I don’t ...Keep reading
Quartararo enjoyed one of his stronger weekends on the weak Yamaha package in 2024 in front of his home crowd at Le Mans, qualifying eighth and fighting inside the top eight in the grand prix.The 2021 world champion was running sixth when he crashed out at Turn 9 on lap 17 of 27, but walked away from it still content with what he was able to do on the M1 last Sunday.“To be honest, I’m ...Keep reading
Just a few days after it emerged that Steiner was taking Haas to court in North Carolina for non-payment of commissions he says he is owed, it has become known that Haas has launched its own legal action in California.In court papers lodged in the Central District of California, Western Division, Haas argues that Steiner and his publisher Ten Speed Press acted unlawfully in publishing images that ...Keep reading
Norris secured his first victory in F1 around the Hard Rock Stadium, making use of an opportune pitstop under safety car conditions to leap ahead of Max Verstappen.But once the neutralisation was lifted, the McLaren stretched clear to win unchallenged, albeit with Red Bull later revealing Verstappen had sustained floor damage in an earlier off-track excursion.Yet the pace either side of the safety ...Keep reading
Chris Buescher, Keselowski's team-mate at RFK Racing, was working feverishly to hold off Reddick in the final laps when Reddick got into him as he attempted a slide job off Turn 4 and the two collided.That collision – which sent both drivers to the pits with flat tyres – opened the door for Keselowski to inherit the lead with eight of 293 laps remaining, and he held off Ty Gibbs by 1.214 ...Keep reading
Tandy (Porsche Penske Motorsport 963) passed Cadillac’s Jack Aitken inside the final dozen minutes of the 2h40m event that was run for GTP and GTD machinery only.The win was Roger Penske’s 100th victory in sportscar competition.Sebastien Bourdais, having whirled the Chip Ganassi-run Cadillac V-Series.R to a new track record in qualifying, led the field to green from Pipo Derani’s Action ...Keep reading
Power applied consistent pressure for the top spot on in-and-out-laps during the pit windows having started third, but the win was decided in the event’s only restart on lap 68 of 85.The Aussie lined up for the restart second in the No. 12 Team Penske Chevrolet and made a jump on leader Alex Palou. But it wasn’t enough to pull off the overtake as he was left watching the win escape ...Keep reading
The Hyundai driver had downplayed chances of a strong result in the first event of the WRC’s traditional gravel season given the disadvantage of opening the gravel roads on Friday.An impressive performance on Friday, which included a stunning stage win on Arganil, limited the time loss to 18.1s to keep the Belgian firmly in the fight.Neuville was able to steadily climb the leaderboard to sit ...Keep reading
Second-year British Touring Car Championship racer Ronan Pearson took his maiden win in the series in consummate style in the finale at Brands Hatch.The Scot was armed with a set of soft tyres upon his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N from reversed-grid pole position, but so was the Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra of front-row partner Aron Taylor-Smith.Taylor-Smith got a lightning start to move ...Keep reading
Eight-time world champion Ogier added yet another record to his glittering resume by scoring a record sixth career Rally Portugal after beating Hyundai’s Ott Tanak by 7.9s. The triumph marked Ogier’s 60th WRC win and his second from three rallies during a part-time campaign for Toyota this year.Rally Portugal, one of the founding members of the WRC in 1973, is a special place for Ogier having ...Keep reading
The Porsche driver was left to finish fourth in the sequel at the Tempelhof Airport circuit on Sunday, one spot ahead of Dennis as the pair battled for much of the 41-lap contest.Wehrlein was left unhappy with the actions of Dennis, the reigning champion using Porsche’s 99X Electric aboard the Andretti machine, as both failed to make progress due to the constant clashes.“I think driving other ...Keep reading
Martin emerged on top in an epic battle with fellow Ducati riders Francesco Bagnaia and Marc Marquez to win the French Grand Prix, extending his lead in the championship to 38 points after five rounds.The win on Sunday completed a perfect weekend for the Spaniard, who topped practice on Friday, claimed pole position in qualifying and grabbed maximum points from the sprint race on Saturday.The ...Keep reading
Tsunoda scored seventh in last weekend's Miami Grand Prix, cementing RB's sixth position in the constructors' table after team-mate Daniel Ricciardo scored fourth in Saturday's sprint.While Ricciardo had been struggling to get up to speed this year in the VCARB01, Tsunoda picked up the baton as the team's lead driver over the first five races of the season, grabbing six points in Australia and a ...Keep reading
Bagnaia once again went head to head with Pramac counterpart Jorge Martin and Gresini Ducati’s Marc Marquez for top honours in Sunday’s French GP at Le Mans.Martin ultimately came out on top in this battle to score his second grand prix win of the season and extend his championship lead to 38 points over Bagnaia.Bagnaia, having led for much of the 27 laps, found himself demoted to third on the ...Keep reading
The Gresini Ducati rider endured a tough qualifying which saw him knocked out in Q1, though he recovered brilliantly in the sprint to finish second.Marquez did the same again on Sunday, though took 17 laps to get into the podium places before closing down a two-second gap to catch eventual winner Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia.After securing second with a last-lap overtake on Bagnaia, Marquez ...Keep reading
The Northern Irish four-time champion once again led every lap on his way to victory in his West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport, despite a late safety car eradicating his advantage.The new regulation mandating each of the top 10 in race one use the hardest available tyre – the medium compound Goodyear at this event – served only to take out a variable among the leading contenders, but it ...Keep reading
The Portuguese driver took his second win on-the-road of the season in Germany, after also winning in Misano before he was disqualified due to a technical infringement, having led the majority of the race.Cassidy, who took victory in the opening race at the Tempelhof Airport circuit on Saturday, finished second on Sunday having snatched the position away from Nissan’s Oliver Rowland with two ...Keep reading
At the end of last month, Hulkenberg inked a new deal with Sauber to join the Swiss-based outfit next year ahead of its takeover by Audi, becoming the German manufacturer’s first factory signing for 2026.This means his term with Haas will come to a close at the end of the current season, leaving the squad to look for a replacement, who will likely not have the same experience as the veteran ...Keep reading
Having dominated the sprint race on Saturday, Martin converted pole to a second grand prix victory of the 2024 season to open up a lead of 38 points in the championship.Shadowing the factory team Ducati of Bagnaia for much of the 27-lap contest, Martin made his decisive move on the 21st tour to take the lead.Resisting immense pressure from Bagnaia over the final few laps, Martin’s victory was ...Keep reading
Eight-time world champion Ogier and co-driver Vincent Landais managed to avoid drama from 22 challenging gravel stages to take a second win from his 2024 partial campaign by 7.9s from Tanak, who secured his best result of the season so far.Ogier’s run to victory helped the Frenchman eclipse 1978 world champion Markku Alen as the most successful driver in Rally Portugal history.Championship ...Keep reading
Lietz revealed that he at first "had no idea" about the significance of his pass on team-mate Klaus Bachler into Les Combes, which secured victory for the #91 Manthey EMA Porsche he shared with Yasser Shahin and Morris Schuring, as he had begun the final tour in third place.Franck Perera's Iron Lynx Lamborghini was forced to pit for fuel with just one lap to go, but crossed the start-finish line ...Keep reading
Colin Turkington dominated the first race of the British Touring Car Championship round at Brands Hatch to notch up his 68th win in the series.The Northern Irishman opted to use the soft-compound Goodyear tyre for this race in his West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport and used it to perfection to win by a mammoth 6.826 seconds.Turkington’s team-mate Adam Morgan, alongside him on the front row ...Keep reading
A tense 20-lap Moto3 grand prix kicked off Sunday’s race action at Le Mans, with poleman David Alonso narrowing Dani Holgado’s championship lead with his third win of the season.Tech3 GasGas rider Holgado leaped Alonso off the line at the start and ran in the lead for the opening eight laps, before Intact GP’s Collin Veijer came through at the Turn 6 right-hander on the ninth tour.Veijer’s ...Keep reading
Urs Kuratle, director of the LMDh project at Porsche, explained that the win for British team’s 963 LMDh shared by Will Stevens and Callum Ilott and the performance of the Proton Competition entry driven by Julien Andlauer and Neel Jani provided validation of the decision to produce customer versions of car. “This is proof of the 963 and our decision to build cars for customers,” Kuratle ...Keep reading
Drivers appeared to favour making overtakes into Turn 11 during this year's race, with surprisingly few efforts made into the tight Turn 17 at the end of the lengthy, 1.3km back straight.This straight is preceded by a tight, fiddly section on the motorway underpass, which appeared to space out the cars by the exit of Turn 16 and thus made it difficult for drivers to make ground with DRS into the ...Keep reading
The Briton and his Andretti team put in a remarkable turnaround from yesterday having qualified on the back row of the grid before retiring in the race.Dennis pulled out a margin of 0.034s in the opening sector against Cassidy, the Jaguar driver having taken yesterday’s win at the Tempelhof Airport circuit after a superb under-the-radar drive.Cassidy’s deficit grew to 0.241s through the middle ...Keep reading
Thick fog provided a curveball for the field, but it failed to derail Ogier as the eight-time world champion led Tanak by 10.1s after the morning’s three stages. Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville held onto third [+1m12.1s], while M-Sport’s Adrien Fourmaux [+1m44.0s] leapfrogged Hyundai’s Dani Sordo [+2m44.2s] into fourth.Toyota’s Evans completed the three stages, but an overheating issue put ...Keep reading
The Spaniard was in pursuit early on after faltering away his start from pole, but regained the advantage with an overcut pit strategy on the second series of pit stops which propelled him into the lead on lap 45 of 85.However, a restart on lap 68 left Palou with the daunting task of fending off Team Penske’s Will Power heading through the wide Turn 1 of Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 14-turn ...Keep reading
The WRC Promoter presented its vision to its key stakeholder group, which included Hyundai, Toyota, Ford, Stellantis and Skoda alongside representatives from the FIA during a meeting at Rally Portugal on Saturday.Improving the promotion of the championship has been earmarked as a key goal by teams and drivers that have been critical of the WRC Promoter in recent months.On Saturday the WRC Promoter ...Keep reading
A driver aiming to compete in an F1 race has to accumulate a total of 40 points to be granted a superlicence, a system that was introduced for 2016.The FIA, Formula 1's ruling body, decided to introduce the points system after Verstappen made his grand prix debut at the age of 17 years and 166 days at the start of the 2015 season, jumping into F1 straight from European Formula 3.Some of the ...Keep reading
After their third and fourth place finishes in Monaco a fortnight ago, Vandoorne and Vergne arrived in Berlin with the firm intention of taking another big points tally. And they did, on the very first race!It's true that the two members of the DS Penske Team know the track inside out, as Berlin is the only city to have featured on the championship calendar since its inception. This time, however ...Keep reading
The Ferrari AF Corse team submitted a protest against the the stewards’ decisions declaring that the race would be restarted after the original time the event was scheduled to finish and the provisional results of the race.It was ruled inadmissible under the FIA’s international sporting code because “a stewards decision cannot be the subject of a protest”, according to the bulletin ...Keep reading
The 22-year-old Dane made the most of a front row start by jumping into the lead over pole-sitter Alex Palou at the start and appeared in control of the 85-lap contest in the early going.Everything changed, though, following the second round of pit stops.Lundgaard pitted his Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda on lap 40, exchanging softer alternate tyres for a set of scuffed harder ...Keep reading
Bourdais beat the sister Cadillac Racing entry of Pipo Derani and Philipp Eng’s BMW in the quickfire 15-minute qualifying session, ahead of this weekend’s 2h40m event that is being run for GTP and GTD machinery only.Derani’s #31 Action Express-run Cadillac V-Series.R had taken pole in each of the trio of preceding races, but its challenge at Laguna was stymied by a vicious crash in Jack ...Keep reading
After Ericsson and Herta qualified down in 21st and 24th respectively, the pair collided on the second lap of the Indy GP in a frantic opening to the fourth round of the IndyCar Series on Indianapolis’s 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course.It caused Herta – whose qualifying was ruined when his team ran him out of fuel – to tumble to the back of the field after being forced off the track and ...Keep reading
The reigning and two-time IndyCar Series champion handled getting behind early and utilised a sensational out-lap strategy to secure the lead and march to a 6.6106s victory.Palou, who came in as the defending race winner, led 39 of the 85 laps en route to collecting his first win of the season and 10th of his IndyCar career. The victory vaulted Palou into the overall lead in the championship ...Keep reading
Will Stevens and Callum Ilott secured the first customer victory of the Hypercar era for Jota in a 1-2 for the Porsche 963 LMDh, finishing 12.363s ahead of the factory #6 Penske Porsche Motorsport entry shared by Laurens Vanthoor, Andre Lotterer and Kevin Estre.Taking fuel shortly before the 1h44m red flag, caused when Earl Bamber's Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh clipped the WRT BMW M4 GT3 of Sean ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion claimed four of the day’s nine stages, including two of the afternoon tests, to fend off a charging Tanak.Ogier headed to service with a 11.9s lead over Tanak having started the day one second behind Toyota team-mate Kalle Rovanpera, who rolled out of the lead on the morning’s stage 11. Tanak’s strong run was rewarded by 15 provisional championship points - ...Keep reading
The two left pitlane running nose to tail and moments later went side-by-side and were not giving each other any space coming out of Turn 11. Ferrucci, coming up the inside, managed to get by Grosjean’s #77 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet as they approached traffic heading into Turn 12.A replay showed Ferrucci raising his hand above the aeroscreen of his #14 AJ Foyt Racing Chevrolet and ...Keep reading
Piastri had the better start of the two McLaren drivers in Miami, muscling his way past Norris, Carlos Sainz and Sergio Perez after the latter went straight on in the first corner.In a McLaren that didn't receive all the upgrades that Norris' MCL38 had equipped, Piastri nevertheless showed great pace early on and passed the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc to move up to second behind Max Verstappen.But ...Keep reading
The DS Penske driver finished second in the first of two races this weekend at the Tempelhof Airport circuit in Germany, where a new layout was used for the first time.As expected, the 15-turn track produced a typically frenetic Formula E encounter on Saturday as drivers ran three-wide at various points and changes of position occurred on almost a corner-by-corner basis.Following the race, Vergne ...Keep reading
Turkington, whose previous pole position in the series came back in August 2022 at Snetterton, ended up in a fight with the sister West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport of Adam Morgan, whose only BTCC pole was at Rockingham in 2018 in his Ciceley Mercedes days.With just seven seconds of additional hybrid and turbo boost allowed due to his pre-weekend championship position of fourth, and with Morgan ...Keep reading
Qualifying on pole with a new Le Mans lap record, Martin converted that to a dominant third sprint win of the 2024 season.With Francesco Bagnaia retiring with bike issues and his factory Ducati team-mate Enea Bastianini only fourth, Martin is now 28 points clear in the championship.This all comes as Martin’s 2025 future remains uncertain, with Ducati’s decision between him, Marc Marquez and ...Keep reading
Bagnaia had qualified second behind championship leader Jorge Martin, but was down to 14th by the end of lap 1 following a dreadful start on his GP24.Lacking the speed to mount any sort of recovery, the Italian then ran wide over the gravel at the exit of Turn 7 on the third lap, rejoining the track at the rear of the field.With it clear by then that the problem he was suffering was significant ...Keep reading
Bamber was pressuring Neel Jani's Proton Porsche 963 LMDh for third place with a little under two hours remaining in the race when the pair came upon the battle for fourth in the LMGT3 class on the run to Les Combes.With Jani delayed slightly behind Gelael's WRT-run BMW M4 GT3 and the D'Station Aston Martin Vantage of Erwan Bastard, Bamber had a run on the Swiss rounding the Kemmel Straight's ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion endured a difficult French GP weekend on the Gresini-run Ducati prior to Saturday’s 13-lap sprint.Out of the Q2 places after Friday’s running, Marquez was knocked out of Q1 in qualifying and starts 13th for both races at Le Mans.Despite this, he was able to launch his way up to fifth off the line in Saturday’s 13-lap sprint and went on to finish second having ...Keep reading
The Kiwi romped to a 4.6s win having only taken the lead of the 46-lap race – extended by six laps due to two safety car periods – for the first time just four laps from the end having started down in ninth.Cassidy went into energy conservation mode at the Tempelhof Airport circuit immediately, which was using a new layout this year, and dropped towards the back of the field where he remained ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver started the Saturday morning loop setting a blistering pace that resulted in a stage 10 win to open up a 6.7s lead over team-mate and fellow 2024 part-time driver Sebastien Ogier.However, Rovanpera’s rally quickly came undone on stage 11 [Montim, 8.69km] when the Finn lost the rear of his GR Yaris and hit a tree, which then pitched the car into a roll. The car eventually came ...Keep reading
Obliterating the lap record to take pole in qualifying earlier on Saturday, Martin seized the holeshot effortlessly off the line and led all 13 laps of the sprint race at Le Mans.Celebrating his 12th career sprint victory, Martin is now 28 points clear in the standings.He headed Gresini Racing rider and chief rival for the second factory Ducati seat in 2025 Marc Marquez, who leaped from 13th on ...Keep reading
The British driver had looked on course for his first F1 victory in Sochi in 2021 having secured his first pole position and led from the front, only to make a critical strategy error and stay out on slicks as a deluge of rain hit the circuit in the dying laps.That error of judgement has stuck with Norris, Joseph and the McLaren team, not least with taunts over social media - though Norris himself ...Keep reading
Formula E revealed the full line-up for the Berlin rookie test, with some familiar faces from Formula 2 appearing. Each of the 11 teams has nominated two rookies to take part in a full day of testing following the weekend's Berlin E-Prix.Twenty-two drivers will take part in the test session, with several current Formula 2 drivers such as Jak Crawford and Zane Maloney being joined by F2 2022 ...Keep reading
Dubliner Taylor-Smith stamped in a late effort in the cooler conditions of the first session to top the times at the wheel of his Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra on a 47.905s.Mikey Doble left it even later – the final lap of the session – to complete a 1-2 for the Midlands PMR squad with a lap just 0.007s adrift of his veteran team-mate.In the lunchtime session, it was the Excelr8 Motorsport ...Keep reading
For inaugural champion Marta Garcia, the reward was a fully funded Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine drive with Prema Racing, the team with which she had completed her victorious campaign (although she has now transferred into the sister Iron Dames operation). But given that FRECA is officially recognised by the FIA as a regional Formula 3 category, questions were inevitably asked ...Keep reading
Toyota’s eight-time world champion Ogier inherited the lead after Rovanpera’s Stage 11 exit, only to lose the advantage to Tanak on the next test. However, a slow puncture for Tanak in stage 13 helped Ogier open up a 13.6s lead at the end of the loop.Rovanpera’s surprise exit, followed by a retirement for Toyota driver Takamoto Katsuta, elevated Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville into the final ...Keep reading
The World Rally Championship promoter held a meeting with the key stakeholder group that included Hyundai, Toyota, Ford, Stellantis and Skoda alongside representatives from the FIA to deliver its vision for the future.The meeting largely centred on the championship’s promotional strategy which has attracted criticism from teams and drivers in recent months.The WRC Promoter issued a brief ...Keep reading
With Enea Bastianini setting a new lap record to get through Q1, the tone was set for the first sub 1m30s lap of the Le Mans circuit.Martin did so on his second flying lap with a 1m29.919s, which would ultimately cement him pole as the closing moments of Q2 turned into a crash fest.The Pramac rider tumbled at Turn 4 late on, while factory Ducati counterpart Francesco Bagnaia slid off at Turn 9 ...Keep reading
The Swiss-Italian posted a 1m01.741s, the fastest time from the entirety of qualifying, in his final duel to register his and Mahindra’s first points of the season having endured a difficult campaign so far.Mortara was only 0.011s quicker than Vandoorne in the opening sector of their final duel, but a less than ideal exit from the Turn 7 hairpin for the DS Penske driver meant he lost two ...Keep reading
Reigning world champion Rovanpera set a blistering pace in the morning’s opening test to extend his overnight lead from one second to 6.7s over Ogier, before drama struck on the following stage.Rovanpera lost the rear of his GR Yaris in fast right-hander and clouted a tree which pitched the car into a roll, before it eventually came to rest on its side up against a tree. Rovanpera and co-driver ...Keep reading
Newey has agreed a long-rumoured exit from Red Bull in early 2025, resulting in speculation over his next destination should the 65-year-old wish to remain in F1.The Briton joined Red Bull in 2006 after championship wins with Williams and McLaren, and his influence helped Red Bull climb out of F1's midfield and into the thick of title battles in the succeeding years.He will continue in his role as ...Keep reading
Frenchman Milesi explained that reaching the top 10 shootout in the car's third competitive outing had helped to lift spirits in the camp ahead of Saturday's 6 Hour race after both Signatech-run machines were involved in a first corner tangle in Italy, while each also had post-race time penalties for drive time infringements."It's good for mental heals in a way because after Imola for sure we were ...Keep reading
In a race that featured plenty of contact and spins, Chadwick managed to avoid the chaos to climb from sixth to third and within striking distance of the win on a late restart with three laps to go.Although there wasn’t enough time to chase down race winner Jacob Abel, the Briton was still able to clinch a career-best third-place result, which came in her 17th start.She became the first woman to ...Keep reading
Just over five months on from a frantic – but highly successful – inaugural Vegas street race, a third Miami GP might have felt a little old hat for America's recently acquired passion for F1. Had Miami been trumped?But fears that Sin City had stolen all the limelight were allayed by a sell-out 275,000 Miami GP weekend crowd and a plethora of global celebrities, musicians and sports stars and ...Keep reading
Times initially began to tumble at the Tempelhof Airport circuit as the abrasive concrete surface around a new 15-turn layout began to clear up on Saturday morning, with Guenther’s 1m02.834s fastest after the opening 10 minutes.Abt’s Lucas di Grassi soon moved to the top, though, lowering the session best to a 1m02.189s which remarkably stood as the fastest time until the final moments of the ...Keep reading
The Spaniard was quiet for the majority of qualifying, but managed to deliver a late flyer of 1m09.0004s to claim the top spot on the 2.439-mile, 14-turn IMS circuit.It was the fourth career pole for Palou, but his first on the IMS road course."Yeah, it's a tricky place," said Palou. "Every time you can start up front in IndyCar it makes a difference. We only used one set of alternates here in ...Keep reading
Evans was forced to drive to pacenotes read from a smartphone by his co-driver Scott Martin for three stages after the latter left his pacenote book at time control at the end of stage six.The unusual incident was triggered by a bottleneck at the end of stage 6. Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe faced a delay as officials marked their timecard that required Wydaeghe to exit his ...Keep reading
The car driven by Antonio Fuoco to a second consecutive WEC pole position in Friday afternoon's Hyperpole session has lost all of its times from qualifying and will now start from the rear of the Hypercar field for Saturday's 6 Hour race.The #5 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 LMDh will now assume pole position after Matt Campbell pipped the sole Chip Ganassi-run Cadillac V-Series.R of Alex Lynn by ...Keep reading
The 22-year-old Dane vaulted to the top of the leaderboard in the final moments of the 45-minute session with a 1m09.5588s.Will Power temporarily grabbed first in the final minute prior to Lundgaard’s late push, but his No. 12 Team Penske Chevrolet ended up 0.1311s off the pacesetter’s mark.Six-time IndyCar Series champion Scott Dixon, driving the No. 9 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda, claimed ...Keep reading
Reigning world champion Rovanpera snatched the rally lead on stage six, but the margin never grew larger than a second as the part-time driver battled with a GR Yaris that wasn’t too his liking.The Finn, who ended Friday morning in third, held onto the lead despite a late attack from Ogier, who shot from fourth to second on the day’s final stage. The battle at the front proved ...Keep reading
The Briton revealed that he made mistakes on his two quick laps aboard the #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar in the opening 15-minute qualifying session.That left him outside the top 10 cars that progressed to the final session in which team-mate Antonio Fuoco claimed pole position by half a second in the sister Ferrari. “I screwed up both laps basically,” Calado told Autosport.“I went long ...Keep reading
For just the second time this season, Quartararo will make an appearance in the pole shootout qualifying session on Saturday after finishing Friday's running at his home round in 10th.While Yamaha brought a raft of changes to its bike for the Jerez test after the Spanish GP, only a few items – and not the swingarm he was hoping to run – have been brought to Le Mans.But Quartararo – whose ...Keep reading
The problems began 25 minutes into practice as the No. 15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda of Rahal pulled out of the last corner and began slowing along the front straight of Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.439-mile, 14-turn circuit.As the Ohio native engaged the clutch to coast down the front straight, he reported “something isn’t right” over the radio before adding “it’s letting ...Keep reading
The Faenza-based team enjoyed its most competitive outing of the year in Miami last weekend, with Tsunoda scoring twice thanks to an eighth-place finish in Saturday's sprint followed by a strong drive to seventh in Sunday's race.Team-mate Daniel Ricciardo had a strong Saturday as well, qualifying and finishing fourth, before a rather anonymous grand prix in which he crossed the finish line in ...Keep reading
The Gresini Ducati rider crashed in the hour-long afternoon practice at Le Mans and struggled for pace through to the chequered flag.His penultimate flying lap in the session was thwarted by a yellow flag, before a mistake while fastest through the first sector on his last effort consigned him to 13th and a place in Q1.Marquez says this was the first Friday practice since jumping on the Ducati ...Keep reading
The ex-Formula 1 racer, who moved to Andretti Global’s IndyCar team from Chip Ganassi Racing on the off-season, came within 0.0974s of being the first back-to-back winner of the Indy 500 since Helio Castroneves achieved the feat in 2002.The race was red flagged while he was leading and, instead of ending under yellow as in previous years, the race was restarted for an unprecedented one-lap ...Keep reading
Former Ferrari performance engineer Steven Petrik was installed as a replacement for Bottas' engineer Alex Chan, whom the Finn had worked with since joining the team in 2022.Bottas noted that the decision was "not in my hands", suggesting that this was part of Audi's "reconstruction" of the Sauber team ahead of the German brand's entry as a full works outfit in 2026.Sauber representative Alunni ...Keep reading
Herta, the current points leader in the IndyCar Series championship, delivered flying lap of 1m09.2863s on a set of softer alternates to set the quickest time on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course layout.The quick lap set by Herta came with less than three minutes remaining in the 75-minute practice, bumping the feel-good story of Juncos Hollinger Racing’s Agustin ...Keep reading
Fuoco took the top spot by almost exactly half a second at the wheel of the #50 Ferarri 499P Le Mans Hypercar in the 12-minute Hyperpole session for the fastest 10 cars in the first round of qualifying.The Italian’s 2m02.600s lap of the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps pushed Porsche driver Matt Campbell down to second.Campbell hung onto a spot on the front row of Saturday’s Spa 6 Hours with a ...Keep reading
Antonelli is currently competing in his first season of F2 as his racing education as part of the Mercedes development programme and, with Lewis Hamilton leaving at the end of the season and heading to Ferrari, the Italian has been one of the drivers linked to the vacant seat alongside George Russell.But speculation that Antonelli could replace Sargeant this season gathered pace during the Miami ...Keep reading
Setting the pace in FP1, Martin continued that form in the hour-long second session at Le Mans with a new lap record of 1m30.388s.The championship leader headed Francesco Bagnaia on the factory team Ducati from Tech3 rookie Pedro Acosta, while Fabio Quartararo made it through to Q2 in front of his home fans.Saturday morning’s Q1 qualifying session will see several big names taking part, that ...Keep reading
Ahead of the two races in Germany, which will be held on a new configuration at the Tempelhof Airport circuit, the Attack Mode duration has been reduced to six minutes for the opening contest and just four minutes for the sequel, to be used across two activations.Previously this season, a total of eight minutes of Attack Mode has been available, whereby drivers go off the racing line through ...Keep reading
The meeting is expected to focus largely on conveying the promoter’s plans and initiatives regarding the promotion of the championship.It is understood the FIA will attend the discussion on Saturday morning alongside representatives from the WRC teams and members from the Ford Motor Company.The timing of the meeting arrives amid uncertainty regarding the technical regulations for the short-term ...Keep reading
Vettel emerged as a late contender to drive Porsche Penske Motorsport's third 963 LMDh at La Sarthe following a successful test at Aragon in March in which he completed around 600km.The German manufacturer delayed the announcement regarding its full Le Mans line-up, initially scheduled for the end of March, as it evaluated Vettel for one of the two remaining seats in its three-car factory ...Keep reading
On just his third lap of the session Estre produced a 2m04.162s in his #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 LMDh, putting him just 0.121s clear of the works #50 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar in which Fuoco had topped Thursday's earlier FP1.Fuoco also set his time in the early minutes of the 90-minute session, and neither would be bettered - although Alex Lynn came close aboard the sole Chip Ganassi ...Keep reading
Marcos has been Leclerc’s race engineer since he joined from Sauber at the start of 2019, getting the role after his working as a factory-based engineer when Carlo Santi had been race engineer for Leclerc’s predecessor Kimi Raikkonen in 2018.This followed long-time Ferrari driver coach and esteemed race engineer Jock Clear working to implement Leclerc’s engineering team for his first season ...Keep reading
Earlier this week, MotoGP announced the technical regulation framework it will introduce in 2027, headlined by a switch to 850cc engines.The aim of the new rules is to improve safety and the on-track spectacle through the removal of ride-height devices and reduction in aerodynamic development.Honda's Mir believes bikes in 2027 will become harder to ride but this is "very positive" for the ...Keep reading
This weekend marks the start of the traditional gravel rally season welcoming the strongest Rally1 field of the season to date, comprising five previous Portugal winners.Toyota has elected to field both its part-time drivers in the same event for the first time, with reigning world champion Kalle Rovanpera, a two-time Portugal winner (2022, 2023), alongside Sebastien Ogier, who has triumphed on an ...Keep reading
Zarco raged at chief FIM steward Freddie Spencer following last month’s Spanish GP after a collision with Aleix Espargaro late in the race.The French rider’s frustrations at the stewards’ processes – among other things – led to a fiery outburst in race control, before telling the media that he felt Spencer was not right for his job.On Thursday ahead of this weekend’s French GP, Zarco ...Keep reading
Michael Andretti’s face of thunder as he stormed down to the Porsche garage was just as memorable as the celebrations that soon followed after Jake Dennis secured his maiden Formula E title in London last season.The incident that prompted such rage from the founder of the Andretti Formula E team had centred around Porsche factory driver Pascal Wehrlein’s tactics at a crucial moment of the ...Keep reading
Ricciardo endured a tough start to the 2024 season, being outperformed by team-mate Yuki Tsunoda in the opening race while struggling to get comfortable aboard the VCARB01.The Australian's difficulties dashed the momentum of him being considered for a 2025 Red Bull seat, but in recent races, he has been working his way back to competitiveness.In China, following a requested chassis change ...Keep reading
Ducati is currently deciding which rider to place alongside Bagnaia in 2025, as Enea Bastianini’s two-year contract is due to expire at the end of the season.It has the option of extending its deal with Bastianini, promoting last year’s runner-up Jorge Martin from Pramac, or signing Marquez and forming an all-star factory team.Some insiders have questioned if Bagnaia would want a rider with ...Keep reading
The WRC is currently gripped by discussions over the technical rules for next year after teams strongly opposed the FIA’s proposal to make changes to Rally1 and Rally2 cars in a bid to boost entry numbers at events.The FIA intends to remove hybrid power from Rally1 cars and further reduce the performance of the vehicles by modifying the rear wing and the air restrictor. The WRC manufacturers ...Keep reading
MotoGP announced the full framework for its 2027 technical regulations overhaul earlier this week, headlined by a switch to 850cc engines and reduced aerodynamics.As with any major technical change, a reshuffle in the competitive order is anticipated, with all eyes on the struggling Japanese manufacturers to use 2027’s regulations to pull themselves up the order.Honda has had a woeful start to ...Keep reading
Brown stated that he had seen an increase in applications from those currently employed by Red Bull in the wake of the allegations and power struggle surrounding both team principal Christian Horner, and between the Austrian and Thai shareholders of the parent Red Bull companyHorner refuted those comments, stating that it was "inevitable" that other teams wished to capitalise on the ...Keep reading
A desire to maximise seat time for the regular drivers of its 2024-spec 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar, which is making only its second race outing prior to next month's Le Mans 24 Hours, was cited by technical director Olivier Jansonnie as a justification for not giving reserve Malthe Jakobsen a WEC race debut. "We’re looking for stability in our crew, basically, trying to make sure that we maximise the ...Keep reading
After 110 grand prix starts and 16 podium finishes, McLaren driver Norris won his maiden F1 race on Sunday after he benefitted from a safety car period following a collision between Haas' Kevin Magnussen and Williams driver Logan Sargeant.Norris was running fourth when his main rivals began to make their first and only pitstops, which they made before the safety car was deployed.The McLaren ...Keep reading
Antonio Fuoco led the way in the 90-minute session with a time that gave him a margin of more than a second over team-mate Antonio Giovinazzi.Fuoco posted a 2m05.690s early in Free Practice 1 aboard the #50 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar, which compared with Giovinazzi’s 2m06.831s in the #51.The times from Ferrari, which dominated last month’s Imola WEC round before strategic errors cost it ...Keep reading
Speaking exclusively to Autosport during last weekend’s third Miami GP at the Hard Rock Stadium, Epp said that the advent of a third grand prix in America – last November’s Las Vegas GP – expands the scope to distinguish them from one another.As a result, this means they can differentiate themselves – rather than be in competition with each other – and pursue their own types of fans ...Keep reading
Lando Norris scored his maiden F1 victory on Sunday for McLaren, the team's first since the 2021 Italian Grand Prix.The turnaround from the team's position last year has been heralded, with developments allowing McLaren to leap ahead of Aston Martin and Mercedes in the pecking order and, on occasion, challenge Red Bull and Ferrari at the front.Pointing to this as a source of inspiration for ...Keep reading
The announcement, which was made ahead of Porsche’s home event in Berlin on Thursday, means Andretti’s involvement with the German manufacturer will now extend to a four-year period.Andretti has used Porsche’s 99X Electric powertrain since the start of the Gen3 era in 2022 after previous partner BMW withdrew from the all-electric championship.The American team claimed two wins last season ...Keep reading
In June 2022, the Advanced Technologies arm of Red Bull's Formula 1 team revealed plans to launch its own £5 million hypercar, penned by Newey.The car will feature a two-seat carbon fibre monocoque chassis with a V10 engine and a carbon fibre gearbox. The car has been produced entirely in-house by Red Bull and only 50 will be manufactured.The RB17 will be presented on Friday 12 July in the ...Keep reading
David Floury, technical director of Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe, believes that its Italian rival will maintain at least some of the advantage it showed last time out at Imola before tactical errors when it rained allowed the Japanese manufacturer to come through to win. Floury intimated that the BoP changes for the Spa 6 Hours on Saturday will not fully close up the field in the WEC’s Hypercar ...Keep reading
Photos from the test showed Charles Leclerc's brother Arthur driving the 2023 Ferrari SF-75 with fully covered front and rear full-wet tyres. The guards include two holes in front but are fully covered at the back.The Italian squad's reserve driver Oliver Bearman ran behind Leclerc in a 2024 car to check the visibility.Formula 1's ruling body, the FIA, had run the first version of the spray guards ...Keep reading
In early April Liberty Media announced it had acquired Dorna Sports and MotoGP in a €4.2 billion deal it expects to close come the end of the year.FEATURE: Why MotoGP fans must be patient and accept some pain with Liberty’s takeoverThe Formula 1 owner has yet to talk about plans it has to grow the exposure of MotoGP, though increasing the series’ presence in America has been touted as a key ...Keep reading
Twelve months is a long time in motorsport. Plenty has changed since the last time the World Endurance Championship descended on Spa a little over a year ago. There’s a new system for calculating the Balance of Performance, Peugeot now has a vastly revamped 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar, Ferrari and Porsche have proven winning pedigree, while new LMDh protagonists from Alpine, BMW and Lamborghini have ...Keep reading
Norris has been good enough to be a grand prix winner for a long time, but Red Bull’s race pace and reliability have meant few opportunities for anyone else. In Miami last weekend, a chance came along and Norris grabbed it. Everyone seemed pleased, too – even Max Verstappen!Some will argue that the win was lucky due to the timing of the safety car that gave Norris track position. But, as Alex ...Keep reading
Norris' journey with McLaren goes back way further than that, with CEO Zak Brown taking a personal interest in the Briton's career even before he joined the Woking squad's young driver programme in 2017, aged 16."I regard Lando as a fabulous prospect," Brown said at the time. "He blew the doors off his rivals in not one but three highly competitive race series last year, then capped that by ...Keep reading
Lundqvist heads into this weekend’s round on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course eighth in the standings, which was aided by a recent strategic masterpiece to go from 19th to third at Barber.Although the outing came in only the 25-year-old Swede’s third points-paying race behind the wheel of CGR’s No. 8 Honda, he is resetting any expectations.“I wouldn't say that my expectations ...Keep reading
MotoGP will visit the Bugatti Circuit this weekend for the French Grand Prix. Last year’s race celebrated 1000 MotoGP races and was won by Marco Bezzecchi. The Italian took his second grand prix victory of 2023, after taking the top spot on the podium at the Argentine Grand Prix – which briefly gave him the championship lead. The French Grand Prix will take place on the Bugatti Circuit ...Keep reading
The Hyundai driver heads to Portugal this week - which marks the start of the WRC’s traditional gravel season - sitting fourth in the championship and 33 points adrift of championship leader and team-mate Thierry Neuville.After uncharacteristic errors in Monte Carlo and Sweden, Tanak showed signs of his pace in Kenya before an unfortunate crash from second position. Despite struggling with the ...Keep reading
Robyn was appointed to her role in November 2022 as part of a bid by FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to reform the management structure of the organisation.She was chosen after more than 15 years of experience in the automotive industry, having previously served as the CEO of Volvo in Switzerland since 2017, as well as holding management positions at Nissan and DaimlerChrysler.Since her ...Keep reading
Autosport understands that MotoGP rights holder Dorna has held several meetings with premier class teams to help honour the occasion.Dorna has suggested that the special liveries on the bikes should be vintage in nature and limited to one round, likely the British Grand Prix on 2-4 August.There are some teams on the grid that are absolutely committed to the idea of running special colour schemes ...Keep reading
The 39-year-old driver – who won the 2021 Daytona 500 for FRM – made the announcement on Wednesday posting a statement on social media.“For the past seven years, I’ve been fortunate to call Front Row Motorsports ‘home,’” said McDowell, who made his Cup debut in 2008.“Together, we’ve challenged the giants of NASCAR, leaving a mark on the sport that I’m proud to be a part ...Keep reading
The 24-year-old Briton is out of contract when the current campaign comes to an end in July which will also mark three years of racing in Formula E.During that time, Ticktum has raced with NIO 333 and under its new moniker, ERT, during the 2024 season.Ticktum recorded his best-ever result last month with fourth overall in the opening Misano E-Prix, but further strong results have been difficult ...Keep reading
Despite showing some impressive signs of recovery over the winter, and benefitting from a new concession system that came into force this year, Honda has struggled to make much progress at the beginning of the 2024 season.Approaching this weekend’s French Grand Prix, it sits at the bottom of the constructors’ standings on just 13 points, having failed to break inside the top 10 even once ...Keep reading
Around 2000 guests, ranging from drivers from all categories to family and friends - including F1 team boss Christian Horner, comedian Rowan Atkinson plus a host of fans who had been lucky to secure tickets - joined the ceremony at Westminster Abbey to pay tribute to Moss who died in April 2020.His Majesty the King was represented by his Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, with Prince Michael of Kent ...Keep reading
The seven-time MotoGP champion has outlined a plan to continue racing a WRT BMW M4 GT3 in the two series in what will be only his fourth year racing full-time in cars after retiring from two wheels at the end of 2021. “I like racing the GT3 car and for me, these two championships are the top two in the world,” said Rossi, who added a WEC campaign in the new LMGT3 class to his continued ...Keep reading
Ferrari's SF-24 will receive the first of three planned upgrade packages next week, when F1 heads to Italian soil for the first time in 2024.It has deployed its second and last filming session on its own Fiorano test track to give its comprehensive upgrades package a first run-in and reduce the calibration work needed at Imola.While filming days are limited to 200km and conducted on special ...Keep reading
A crushing 1-2 after a strategic masterclass in the last race, a 44-point lead in the teams’ standings and one of, if not the most, competitive packages in the Formula E Championship at the halfway point of the 2024 season.Heading into the second half of the campaign, which gets underway this weekend with the Berlin E-Prix double-header, Jaguar and its drivers Mitch Evans and Nick Cassidy are ...Keep reading
The Italian gravel rally, which hosts the sixth round of the championship, has confirmed an eight-car Rally 1 field primed to tackle the event’s new 48-hour sprint format from 31 May – 2 June.Eight-time world champion Ogier is on the list meaning he will contest three consecutive events for the first time this season, having won in Croatia last month ahead of an outing in Portugal this ...Keep reading
The Silverstone-based squad brought a new lower-drag rear wing to Miami in the hope that a better straightline speed would help it in the fight against its rivals.However, despite running it in practice, Aston Martin went back to its more usual configuration – which inevitably made things harder for its drivers Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll when it came to racing.Speaking about why the ...Keep reading
Marquez, Jorge Martin and Enea Bastianini are all in the running for a coveted seat at the works Ducati team next year, as the Italian manufacturer weighs up which rider to put alongside double champion Francesco Bagnaia.Although Ducati initially had reservations about Marquez joining its satellite Gresini team this year, it eventually gave the Spaniard the blessing to ride a year-old GP23 - and ...Keep reading
Ocon registered the first point-scoring finish of the year for the French squad after finishing 10th in last Sunday's race.The result marked the end of a point-less run that stretched to the 2023 Las Vegas GP for Alpine, which has struggled this year as a result of an overweight car that has failed to be competitive.Miami was the first grand prix where the team finally met the minimum weight limit ...Keep reading
As the official submission to the FIA about its developments revealed, almost no aerodynamic surface had been left untouched with the full package of changes that had been fitted to Lando Norris's car.While the Woking-based squad had teased beforehand about the revisions being part of efforts to address a weakness in low speed, the true motive of these latest developments was obvious: pure ...Keep reading
The 32-year-old Briton will contest the blue riband round of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup on 29/30 June aboard a McLaren 720S GTE Evo run by RJN Motorsport, the team with which he took his first steps in racing after winning Nissan’s gamer-to-racer academy scheme in 2011.Mardenborough, whose story was told in 2023 film Gran Turismo, will share the Pro-Am class entry with the ...Keep reading
Just days after Mario Andretti appeared on Capitol Hill, Republican Jim Jordan has written to F1’s owners demanding explanations for the decision-making process that has blocked Andretti’s hopes.American television and radio network NBC published a letter it had obtained from Jordan outlining a request for documents and information relating to F1’s call on denying Andretti a spot on the ...Keep reading
Last year saw a full resurfacing of the 11-turn, 2.238-mile road course for the first time since 2006, which also included a new pedestrian bridge on the front straight as part of a $14.9 million project.The project began shortly after last May’s IMSA event and was completed by July, with IndyCar the first major series to race on the new – and quicker – surface in September.Ricky Taylor ...Keep reading
A founding member of the inaugural WRC season in 1973, Portugal is a firm fan and driver favourite, thanks to its challenging, yet often brutal stages.Four different winners from as many events have left the championship delicately poised with Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville maintaining a six-point lead over Toyota’s Elfyn Evans after the pair finished third and second respectively on Croatia’s ...Keep reading
The 2024 WRC season is as open as it comes with four different winners in as many rounds to commence the campaign. Championship leader Thierry Neuville kicked things off with victory in the season-opening Monte Carlo Rally, before Esapekka Lappi won in Sweden, Kalle Rovanpera in Kenya and finally Sebastien Ogier in Croatia. But Rovanpera and Ogier are only contesting a part-time campaign in 2024 ...Keep reading
ABC's broadcast of Lando Norris's maiden F1 victory attracted an average audience of 3.1 million viewers, which beats the previous record of 2.6 million that watched the inaugural Miami event in 2022.It also marks a 48% uptick in viewership compared to last year, when the audience had dropped to 2.1 million for Miami's second event.Although the late afternoon timing of the Miami event pitches it ...Keep reading
Over the Miami Grand Prix weekend, it emerged several key Red Bull staff members, including long-time sporting manager Jonathan Wheatley, have been the subject of interest from Red Bull's competitors.McLaren F1 CEO Zak Brown said his outfit had seen "an increase in CVs coming our way from the team", suspecting that legendary designer Adrian Newey won't be the last domino to fall in the wake of Red ...Keep reading
Every episode will feature an insightful twenty-minute interview with a prominent figure from inside and around the sport, focusing on themes beyond the everyday news cycle.Joining James in the studio for analysis and discussion will be a rotating cast of key figures from Autosport and Motorsport’s global editorial team plus guests from the broader F1 media world.Thoughtful, accessible and ...Keep reading
Yamaha has been working on a new M1 in order to work its way back up the grid, having successfully convinced star rider Fabio Quartararo to stay with the marque for another two seasons.The overhaul of the M1 covers everything from chassis, swingarm, electronics and aerodynamics, with the new bike making its first public appearance at the post-Spanish GP test at Jerez last Monday.But while ...Keep reading
Garfinkel, who is the managing partner of the Formula 1 event and also boss of the Miami Dolphins NFL team, spoke to selected media including Autosport ahead of the third race weekend held at his venue.He said that the concession prices reflected the highly varied levels of disposable income of racegoers, from regular fans through to wealthy business people and celebrity VIP guests across the ...Keep reading
The Aston Martin driver thrust the issue of penalties into the spotlight at the Miami Grand Prix when he suggested some drivers got away unpunished in incidents because they were “not Spanish.”It came off the back of him earning penalties in the Australian Grand Prix and China sprint race for driving that he thought was within the boundaries of what is allowed, while he was annoyed that Lewis ...Keep reading
They include his right-hand man, Tim Cindric, who is the president of all his racing operations, along with long-time managing director Ron Ruzewski. In all, four individuals have been suspended for the next two races – which includes the Indianapolis 500.“I recognise the magnitude of what occurred and the impact it continues to have on the sport to which I’ve dedicated so many decades,” ...Keep reading
Its 499P Le Mans Hypercar has had 12kg added to its minimum weight and its maximum power reduced by 4kW (5bhp) for Saturday’s Spa 6 Hours, round three of the 2024 WEC. The BoP adjustment follows Ferrari’s dominant performance on home ground last month at Imola, which failed to yield race victory after a double tactical error when it started raining with two of the six hours remaining. A ...Keep reading
The Spanish GP at Jerez proved to be one of KTM’s best weekends of the 2023 campaign, with Brad Binder winning the sprint and finishing second in the main race ahead of team-mate Jack Miller.With Tech3 GasGas rookie Acosta coming to the 2024 Jerez round off the back of successive podium finishes, he and the rest of the KTM stable were expected to show strong.However, sixth was the best a KTM ...Keep reading
Sauber already made one of the first moves of the 2025 driver market by signing Nico Hulkenberg from Haas on a multi-year deal, which takes the German into its first year as the Audi factory team in 2026.With Lewis Hamilton moving from Mercedes to take his Ferrari seat next year, Sainz is the hottest property who’s currently not under contract for 2025. The 29-year-old already has links to Audi ...Keep reading
After a bunch of experiments over the first races of the campaign, the team thinks it finally has a direction it needs to pursue in a bid to deliver a package that is both quick in high-speed corners but then not sacrificing performance in the slow sections too.Team boss Toto Wolff has called recent months a "painful learning curve", but senses that things are on the up as he says the factory is ...Keep reading
Who’d have thought – just a year ago, when they were still suffering a ‘Jag Rac’ hangover – that early in 2007 Red Bull Racing would be fighting against the notion that they’re going to do rather well this season? For all that the creation of a modern F1 car is a team process, there are still those who believe that one person can make a difference.Has the hiring of Adrian Newey made ...Keep reading
The 20-year-old Frenchman was aided by team-mate Alexander Rossi, who helped shake down the No. 6 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet. Tony Kanaan, the 2013 Indianapolis 500 winner and the team’s sporting director, was also on-site to help provide mentorship.Pourchaire, who had only made his series debut last month with an 11th-place effort on the Streets of Long Beach, California, took to the 1.25-mile ...Keep reading
The Dane had an incident-filled time in Miami last weekend as he got involved in skirmishes in both the sprint and the grand prix.But it was the two penalty points he was given for colliding with Logan Sargeant in the race that has left him with a total on 10 on his licence – meaning he is just two away from an automatic race ban.Should he hit the mark and earn any more points over the remainder ...Keep reading
The McLaren driver crossed the line 7.6 seconds clear of the all-conquering Max Verstappen, converting a strategy in which he went long on the medium-compound tyres and pouncing on a safety car to cycle out ahead of the three-time world champion.Dispelling the disappointment of his 2021 near-miss at the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi, Norris' victory appeared to be a popular one among the rest of the ...Keep reading
The Mercedes boss found himself on the receiving end of scathing remarks from Mintzlaff over the Miami Grand Prix weekend, with the energy drinks company's managing director not happy about Mercedes trying to lure Verstappen away from his current squad.Mintzlaff told Bild Am Sonntag: “I understand the pressure that Toto Wolff and perhaps other teams have after years of being behind. But I think ...Keep reading
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Earl Bamber
Alex Lynn
Alex Palou
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Cadillac Racing
Cadillac V-Series.R
Sebastien Bourdais
Renger van der Zande
Scott Dixon
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Norris finally broke his duck in F1 on his 110th start, taking a convincing win at the Miami International Autodrome albeit with help from a well-timed safety car.It was Norris' first win in a motor race in over 2200 days, having previously claimed 15 podiums in F1 before climbing the top step.Norris admitted that finally taking his first victory was a weight off his shoulders, but according to ...Keep reading
The publication of the list followed last week’s deadline by which teams had to nominate their full line-ups for the French enduro on 15/16 June.The only remaining seats in the 23-strong Hypercar field in the additional factory Penske Porsche 963 LMDh have been filled, as expected, by Nick Tandy and Felipe Nasr.They rejoin Mathieu Jaminet, who was the only nominated driver on the release of the ...Keep reading
McLaren driver Lando Norris took his maiden grand prix win after he benefitted from the safety-car period following a crash between Haas' Kevin Magnussen and Logan Sargeant in the Williams on lap 28 of the race.Norris was the last of the frontrunners to pit, and managed to do so under safety-car conditions, meaning he emerged ahead of Max Verstappen to keep the lead.Sainz was running in front of ...Keep reading
After already having to alter the programme for this month’s Lausitzring round at the request of TV partner ProSieben, which is also broadcasting the Ice Hockey World Championship, the start of the second Zandvoort race has also been pushed back due to a scheduling conflict with the Le Mans test.While the timings for Saturday’s sessions remain the same, the second race on Sunday will now take ...Keep reading
By the time the 2027 MotoGP season rolls around, 10 years will have passed since the series’ last major regulations shake-up was introduced in 2016. That year saw the culmination of Dorna Sports’ masterplan to boost grid numbers and the competitive health of a championship battered by the fallout of the 2008 economic crisis.What started with the radical introduction of a production-based set ...Keep reading
Prior to Formula 1's third visit to the Hard Rock Stadium, nobody other than Max Verstappen had won a Miami Grand Prix. And it was set to be the same again, as the irrepressible Dutchman took victory in the sprint race and claimed pole position - albeit by just a tenth - which he seemed certain to convert.The course of the race's events were changed irrevocably by the fleeting contact of two bits ...Keep reading
The Brazilian will fill the vacancy at the factory Action Express Racing team for the French enduro on 15-16 June and join Pipo Derani and Jack Aitken, the team’s full-season drivers in the IMSA SportsCar Championship, in the #311 Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh.Drugovich has landed a factory drive in the Hypercar class after taking his first steps in sportscar racing this year in the European Le Mans ...Keep reading
What is perhaps most significant about it though is that the triumph was not the result of freak circumstances putting Verstappen out of contention, as happened in Australia with his brake problem.Instead, Norris had to work hard for it, holding off his Red Bull rival at the safety car restart and then extending his advantage to the end of the race to come home well clear for a very popular ...Keep reading
Having made a brilliant initial launch from fourth on the grid, Perez was able to draw alongside the two Ferraris ahead of him and make a lunge to grab second place behind polesitter Verstappen.But the Mexican was unable to get his car slowed down on time as he hit the brakes approaching Turn 1, nearly hitting the back of Verstappen's similar RB20 as they navigated the tight right-hander.Perez ...Keep reading
On the Autosport Podcast, Bryn Lucas is joined by Alex Kalinauckas to break down the action, including how Norris took advantage of the perfectly timed safety car after Logan Sargeant and Kevin Magnussen clashed.There's more on Max Verstappen who suffered floor damage from a rare error when cutting the sector 2 chicane, as well as Ferrari, with Carlos Sainz picking up a post-race penalty for ...Keep reading
During a break from his ongoing legal hush-money trial in New York, Trump made a controversial appearance in Miami on Sunday – whipping up the crowds and being spotted with senior figures from grand prix racing.He also posed for photographs at the McLaren garage and was spotted chatting to its CEO Zak Brown before the race – with many spectators chanting for him.Trump’s divisive nature ...Keep reading
Headlined by the switch from 1000cc engines to 850cc motors, the 2027 regulations will also include a stripping back of aerodynamics.Ride height devices will also be banned, while there have been smaller tweaks to things such as fuel tank capacity and the concessions system.Full 2027 MotoGP technical regulations breakdown
MotoGP class engine displacement will reduce from 1000cc to 850cc. The ...Keep reading
As first reported by Autosport last November, a move to downsize MotoGP’s current four-stroke 1000cc engines to 850cc has been a key pillar of the 2027 ruleset being devised by the championship in conjunction with the manufacturers.MotoGP’s Grand Prix Commission confirmed on Monday the complete 2027 rule framework.The proposal to downsize the engines for the first time since 2007 has been ...Keep reading
The French manufacturer’s reserve driver will race the #35 Alpine A424 LMDh for a second race in a row as Habsburg continues to recover from the back injuries sustained in testing at the end of March. Habsburg was initially listed in the car alongside Charles Milesi and Paul-Loup Chatin on the publication late last month of the entry list for the Belgian round of the WEC, but his name has now ...Keep reading
The Frenchman, the GT Le Mans IMSA SportsCar Championship class title winner in 2015 with the German manufacturer, will share Vector’s LMP2 ORECA-Gibson 07 with Stephane Richelmi and Ryan Cullen in what will be his 16th start at the French enduro.Gabriel Aubry, who was part of Vector’s WEC P2 line-up last year, was originally listed in the car but was not expected to be part of the team’s ...Keep reading
Verstappen found himself unable to match the pace of Norris after the safety car restart at Sunday’s Miami race, opening the door for his McLaren rival to secure the maiden victory of his career.The Dutchman had put down his lack of pace to balance the difficulties he had experienced all weekend and being uncomfortable with the hard tyres that he had switched to prior to the restart.But ...Keep reading
But was it luck, skill or a combination of both that secured him top spot?Further back, we also saw multiple incidents, including one between Oscar Piastri and Carlos Sainz, penalties galore for Kevin Magnussen over the weekend, and mixed fortunes over the sprint and main races in the United States.Bryn Lucas chats with Charles Bradley to answer the most pressing questions we're left with after ...Keep reading
For a few moments there were a pair of winners, one on the scoring monitor another on the video camera, after Larson and Buescher raced side by side off Turn 4 on the final lap of overtime and stayed that way as they took the chequered flag.The scoring monitor said Buescher won by 0.001 seconds, but NASCAR officials reviewed the video footage which showed Larson’s #5 Hendrick Motorsports ...Keep reading
Norris beat Red Bull's Max Verstappen in Sunday's Miami Grand Prix after a mid-race safety car allowed him to take the restart in the lead, but the Briton still managed to drive away from Verstappen to take a convincing maiden win.After 109 races without finding the top step of the podium, Norris' breakthrough win was long overdue, but the 24-year-old says he never doubted his day would come even ...Keep reading
The Ferrari driver had finished the race around the Hard Rock Stadium in fourth position, trailing team-mate Charles Leclerc, but falls one place behind Red Bull's Sergio Perez in the revised classification after being hit with a five-second penalty.Sainz had reached fourth place after a lengthy battle with McLaren driver Piastri, who had passed Leclerc to run second early on before a safety car ...Keep reading
A perfectly timed safety car period during his pitstop window allowed Norris to lead Verstappen at the restart, where many would have expected the Red Bull to come through and then pull away.Instead, Norris was not only able to stay in front and break DRS on the opening lap, but he then comfortably edged his way out in front as he reeled off a succession of faster laps.In the end, Norris came home ...Keep reading
The McLaren driver made the most of a safety car period to change tyres for the only time in the race and emerge in a lead he maintained all the way to the finish line.Our writers give their verdict on the sixth round of the 2024 season.Relief for Lando: 7/10 - Alex KalinauckasA mark up from Sainz's win in Australia simply because Verstappen was still in this contest with just over half the race ...Keep reading
Norris beat Verstappen by 7s, after benefiting from making his single pitstop under a safety car – unlike his rivals – for a clash between Kevin Magnussen and Logan Sargeant.Verstappen had won both previous Miami GPs but had already made his pitstop when the safety car was required. He earlier caused a virtual safety car of his own by hitting and dislodging the bollard at Turn 15, and admitted ...Keep reading
The McLaren driver capitalised on a well-timed mid-race safety car period to effectively have a free pitstop at the front of the field, and then unleashed some dominant form to head home world championship leader Max Verstappen for an emotional win.Having come so close to success several times in the past, perhaps most famously when a late rain shower cost him victory at the 2021 Russian Grand ...Keep reading
Norris beat Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc of Ferrari after the McLaren ace took full advantage to make his pitstop under the safety car, unlike all his rivals.2024 F1 Miami Grand Prix results
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The victory ends Norris’s streak as having the most podiums without a GP victory, with McLaren scoring its first such win since the 2021 Italian GP after Oscar Piastri’s 2023 Qatar sprint race triumph.At the start, Verstappen made a smooth getaway while Leclerc fell backwards off the line and got swamped before the late-braking Sergio Perez nearly wiped out Verstappen and pushed others ...Keep reading
Earlier this week it was announced talismanic designer Newey would step away from its F1 activities before becoming available for rival squads from March 2025 onwards.Newey's exit is seen by some competitors as a sign F1's dominant empire could be about to crumble amid internal power struggles, with McLaren CEO Zak Brown expecting "more dominos" to fall as he revealed Red Bull CVs are swirling ...Keep reading
The Grove-based outfit believes it has made progress from the car that helped it finish seventh in the standings last year, but has been caught out by the step forward that Haas and RB have made to lead the chasing pack behind the top five teams.PLUS: The short-term pain that hides a very real Williams improvementWilliams' situation has further not been helped by the early part of the season ...Keep reading
Richard Childress Racing officials confirmed to Autosport that the team is in discussions with Brown to drive the #33 Chevrolet in the 9 June race at the Sonoma road course.While the deal is not yet completed, an RCR spokesperson said it was “close” to being finalised with an accompanying official announcement.Brown, 25, would join Shane van Gisbergen, Brodie Kostecki and Cam Waters as ...Keep reading
Sunday's race is expected to be a one-stop affair amid the combination of the Miami International Autodrome’s twisty nature, a low-grip surface and warm track temperatures.The majority of drivers admitted that their qualifying form was dictated by how well they managed to keep the tyre working across a flying lap around the 3.363-mile circuit.“Unfortunately, I think the tyre compounds are a ...Keep reading
McLaren elected to bring a hefty revamp to its MCL38 for this weekend’s Miami race, which featured an overhaul of a number of aerodynamic surfaces aimed at helping lift the overall downforce of the car.But despite some promising flashes of speed throughout the weekend, McLaren has struggled to show its true potential and deliver a standout result.Lando Norris, who is the only driver to have the ...Keep reading
Last year Miami featured a glitzy opening ceremony with drivers presented to the crowd one by one by American rapper LL Cool J, flanked by Miami Dolphins cheerleaders, while will.i.am conducted an orchestra playing a song he had co-produced specifically for the race with Lil Wayne.The ceremony was met with mixed reviews by fans, especially its predominantly European TV audience, while several ...Keep reading
The present-day MotoGP bikes have been getting faster and faster and breaking long-time lap records at many circuits, as manufacturers eke out more and more speed from the current ruleset ahead of a major regulations overhaul in 2027.But a lot of the improved performance has come from increasingly sophisticated aero devices, which has led to criticism from some quarters.Six-time MotoGP champion ...Keep reading
McLaren's Lando Norris and Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell completed Q3 on the theoretically slower medium as teams battle to mitigate overheating issues on Pirelli's softer C4 compound.Even polesitter Max Verstappen said he struggled, with Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko commenting to ORF that the "incalculable" tyre characteristics mean "nobody had it under control", labelling ...Keep reading
Although the Monegasque could do little about stopping Verstappen from roaring to yet another victory in the sprint, the fact that he was able to match his pace once he dropped into clean air has left him upbeat about his chances.Critical, he thinks, for his chances to stop Red Bull from winning is to put Verstappen under pressure – something that he reckons could be on the cards.But asked why ...Keep reading
Earlier this week Red Bull announced that Newey would step away from its F1 team after a two-decade spell at the Milton Keynes-based team which yielded seven drivers' and six constructors' world championships.The news was received as a huge blow to Red Bull in Miami's F1 paddock, while the team itself played down the effect of the 65-year-old's departure.Red Bull credited Newey for his major ...Keep reading
MotoGP has a storied history in the United States, beginning with the country’s very first premier class race winner Pat Hennen in 1975 before the likes of Kenny Roberts Sr, Freddie Spencer, Eddie Lawson, Wayne Rainey and Kevin Schwantz celebrated title success for America across the 1980s and 1990s.In 2000, Kenny Roberts Jr took the 500cc crown, before the late Nicky Hayden beat Valentino Rossi ...Keep reading
Horner's position at the Milton Keynes-based squad was thrown into doubt earlier this year in the wake of complaints about his behaviour made by a female employee.The probe triggered a lengthy investigation which eventually cleared Horner but triggered an internal power battle that risked tearing the team apart.There was talk that the Thai majority owners of the Red Bull energy drinks company were ...Keep reading
Mirroring his tactics from the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Magnussen again held up midfield rivals to help Haas team-mate Nico Hulkenberg secure points in the sprint race.This time Magnussen went off as many as four times to avoid losing places, which ended up costing him 35 seconds worth of penalties, but crucially didn't prevent him from keeping track position until Hulkenberg was safe to collect ...Keep reading
Thanks to Formula 1 scheduling two successive sprint events early in the 2024 campaign, there’s now enough evidence to say the latest sprint tweaks have made things worse. No matter how hard TV commentators may screech otherwise…It’s a very long time since the initial sprint format meant F1 got that Copse clash between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton at the 2021 British Grand Prix, or ...Keep reading
The Haas driver picked up three separate penalties in his battle with Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton for leaving the track and gaining an advantage.Magnussen's driving mirrored tactics he used in Saudi Arabia earlier this year where, once penalised, he was able to defend to such an extent that team-mate Nico Hulkenberg could cement his own position. Once again the German was able to secure a ...Keep reading
Alonso received a 10-second penalty in China's sprint race after making glancing contact with Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz, which Alonso couldn't serve as he retired with a puncture.Alonso, who also received three penalty points, said he didn't understand why he was penalised for what he felt was a racing incident.Last week, Aston decided to ask for a right of review, which involves bringing ...Keep reading
Once again Verstappen did the double on Saturday, with sprint race victory followed by grand prix qualifying pole, just as he did during the Chinese GP and the first revised sprint event of the season.Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc has a second shot at Verstappen as he also returns to the front row alongside the Dutch driver, having qualified and finished second in the sprint.Carlos Sainz beat Sergio ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion notched up his seventh consecutive F1 grand prix pole position, backing up his sprint race pole from Friday in the process, to continue his domination in Miami having converted that pole into a sprint race win earlier today.But in a similar pattern to sprint race qualifying, the majority of drivers produced inconsistent form, with many of the top 10 shootout failing to ...Keep reading
After another difficult qualifying session in the Miami Grand Prix, as Russell and team-mate Lewis Hamilton could manage no better than seventh and eighth on the grid, the team is now clear about how far off the pace it is.While it has faith that its current W15 car has delivered some progress, Russell suggests that some of the challenges it is facing are a consequence of it having gone too far in ...Keep reading
For several races there has been unease at Aston Martin with how its drivers are getting the worst of some of the FIA race stewards' decisions.Alonso was handed a penalty in Australia for potentially dangerous driving, as the excessive manner in which he slowed down for a corner led to an accident for the chasing Mercedes of George Russell.Alonso was penalised again in China for making sideways ...Keep reading
In a rare interview, the Austrian has moved to rubbish any talk that Verstappen is considering overtures from Mercedes to join its squad in 2025, with the German manufacturer having spoken many times about its interest in getting the three-time world champion.And Mintzlaff has questioned whether it is correct for Wolff to have made several public remarks about his interest in luring Verstappen at ...Keep reading
After a disappointing qualifying showing on Friday for the Miami sprint race, with neither Hamilton nor team-mate George Russell making it out of SQ2, the seven-time world champion explained there were no extenuating circumstances for what happened.Instead, he says that ending up more than half a second adrift of pole position was a proper reflection of where Mercedes stacks up in F1 right now."I ...Keep reading
On Friday, Ricciardo provided the latest indication he is starting to turn the corner after a tough 2024 season start.Ricciardo's more promising pace in China was left unrewarded after a clash with Lance Stroll, but in Miami sprint qualifying the Australian took a surprising fourth starting place for Saturday morning's 19-lap contest.He finished four tenths off polesitter Max Verstappen in the Red ...Keep reading
Rear chatter has become a recurring problem in MotoGP this year, with Ducati riders being particularly outspoken about the issue since the opening round of the season in Qatar.Tech3 GasGas rookie Acosta hasn’t been spared of chattering either and once encountered the vibrations on his rear tyre at Jerez as he finished a distant 10th, his worst result in the premier class so far.Speaking ...Keep reading
As first revealed by Autosport, F1 teams and series bosses are considering the idea of extending the current points-paying positions beyond the current top 10.A proposal for it to cover the top 12 was evaluated at a recent F1 Commission meeting, but it was felt that more time was needed to nail down a bulletproof plan.And it has emerged that the main factor now being discussed is whether or not ...Keep reading
For its debut weekend, the entire suite of new parts has been fitted to Lando Norris' MCL38, while Oscar Piastri will have to wait until Imola to see the full advantages on offer, as only half of the new components have been installed on his machine.The changes made aren't new or revolutionary, with the team opting to make subtle alterations to a range of components so that they all complement one ...Keep reading
The squad had already played down expectations heading into its sophomore season in the DTM, claiming that the organisers ‘won’t allow’ Porsche to win back-to-back titles in the series after its 2023 success.But so uncompetitive were the two 911 GT3 Rs at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben that Manthey EMA drivers Thomas Preining and Ayhancan Guven could muster only one top 10 finish between them ...Keep reading
Earlier this week Red Bull announced Newey will leave the Milton Keynes-based squad after a nearly two-decade stint, playing an important role in designing the cars that propelled Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen to multiple world championships.But amid the inner politics that have divided Red Bull at the start of this year, Newey felt the time was right to quit the squad.While he will continue ...Keep reading
Sponsored by That is where the motorsport triple crown comes in, as it can only be awarded to a driver who has achieved success across different racing disciplines.So, what is the triple crown and who has claimed this feat?What is the motorsport triple crown?The triple crown consists of three races, each one showcasing a driver’s skill in a different racing discipline. It includes the ...Keep reading
Ducati rider Bagnaia went toe-to-toe with eight times world champion Marc Marquez in a thrilling battle for victory in the 25-lap Jerez grand prix.Bagnaia came out on top by just 0.372 seconds to score his second grand prix win of the season to close the gap to championship leader Jorge Martin – who crashed – to 17 points.FEATURE: The factors that will determine Ducati's second factory team ...Keep reading
Antonelli is being evaluated by Mercedes as an option to replace Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton for 2025, dovetailing a Formula 2 campaign at Prema with private testing in the Brackley team's previous F1 cars.But in recent days, the 17-year-old Mercedes protege has also been mentioned as an option to replace Williams' Logan Sargeant this year if the Grove-based squad decides it wants to switch ...Keep reading
Bottas will start last for Saturday afternoon's sprint action at the Hard Rock Stadium, actually only two places back from where he qualified after the stewards deemed he had impeded McLaren's Oscar Piastri during their near-crash in Friday evening sprint qualifying.The incident happened with four minutes left in SQ1, with Bottas heading into Turn 1 slowly having just completed a flying lap as ...Keep reading
F1 has altered its sprint race schedule once again, with sprint race qualifying shifting to Friday and the sprint race moving to Saturday. The race weekend format then reverts back to a traditional schedule for grand prix qualifying on Saturday afternoon with the grand prix on Sunday. Here’s how the latest sprint race format changes will work.In sprint race qualifying, Red Bull’s Max ...Keep reading
The Ferrari driver completed just three laps in practice after spinning at Turn 16 and suffering a clutch issue at the Miami track.But having been a prolific qualifier in his F1 career, with 23 pole positions, Leclerc admitted he was struggling to find the right window with the tyres in qualifying which was partly blamed for a poor run of form.Leclerc qualified seventh for the Chinese sprint race ...Keep reading
Norris had led SQ1 and SQ2 in his massively upgraded McLaren in Miami on Friday evening, with his time in the middle segment of sprint qualifying good enough to have beaten eventual session-topper Max Verstappen.But Norris lost 0.8s to the Red Bull in their respective first sectors on the sole runs in SQ3, which took place with the drivers running soft tyres after they had used mediums throughout ...Keep reading
Verstappen skated around the Miami Autodrome on his only lap in the top 10 shootout, but his nearest rivals also struggled to improve on their SQ2 times despite bolting on softer tyres for the final shootout.McLaren's Lando Norris particularly looked to have missed a chance for a second consecutive sprint pole, his table-topping SQ2 faster than Verstappen's pole-winning effort of ...Keep reading
After every F1 qualifying session, Autosport publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don't alter the statistics.When a driver can't put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.Red Bull
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Verstappen will start ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez (Red Bull) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three quickfire segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3. Per the new sprint weekend format, which was first trialed in China, these sessions set the grid for Saturday’s sprint and have no impact on ...Keep reading
Norris had led SQ1 and SQ2, with a time in the middle segment that would have been good enough to top SQ3, but on the switch to the soft tyres for the final segment he fell out of contention on the red-walled rubber – the Briton particularly paying for losing 0.8s tenths compared to Verstappen in the opening sector.Verstappen’s sprint race pole-clinching lap was not perfect as he had to ...Keep reading
On Wednesday, it was announced that design guru Newey would leave Red Bull after a 19-year stint, during which he helped the team win seven drivers' and six constructors' championships with Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen as its star drivers.It is understood Newey decided to leave Red Bull after becoming disillusioned with the outfit's internal politics, which has devolved into a battle for ...Keep reading
Speculation about Antonelli being fast tracked into an F1 seat this year has ramped up in the wake of the Mercedes junior being given extra days in testing a 2021 car to get him up to speed in grand prix machinery.Furthermore, it has emerged over the Miami GP weekend that a request has been lodged with the FIA for Antonelli to be granted an F1 superlicence, despite him not being the minimum 18 ...Keep reading
The surging growth that has seen the full-time entries go from 18 in 2017 to now 27 which has presented an ongoing problem that continues to worsen. That number is likely to only get bigger next year with Prema fielding two cars.At a time when there is a collective effort to push forward with a charter system in IndyCar and increased interest from prospective new teams, Rahal stressed the ...Keep reading
Abel Motorsports was up against the clock to be the 35th entrant in the 108th edition of the Indy 500, with Friday marking the deadline.Despite its best efforts, team manager John Brunner confirmed to Autosport his squad will not be among the participants."We're out," Brunner said. "We're pulling the plug."Brunner also noted there would be no exemptions."We are absolutely done," Brunner said. "I ...Keep reading
The Brackley team has struggled for consistency with its often ill-handling W15, finding it hard to produce a car that works across all corner types and speeds, with its limitations seemingly shifting from circuit to circuit.Further updates to make the car more benign to handle for Lewis Hamilton and George Russell are still in the works, but it has fast-tracked a new floor that was originally ...Keep reading
The championship leader went to the top of the order early on in the session prior to a red flag period but struggled upon the resumption of the session as his RB20 appeared to lack balance in the majority of the session.A lock-up at Turn 17 had nixed one lap and a miscue at the Turn 14-15 chicane cost another attempt at putting a time on the board, leaving the Dutchman languishing in 19th overall ...Keep reading
Earlier this week Red Bull confirmed its long-time design guru Newey would be leaving the team after a 19-year stint, which yielded seven drivers' and six constructors' championships so far.Newey was understood to be dissatisfied with the political power plays going on behind the scenes at Red Bull, which are yet to be resolved.When asked if Newey's shock departure amid its intra-team turmoil is a ...Keep reading
Newey announced earlier this week that he will be leaving his current Red Bull outfit at the start of next year, having grown unhappy about many aspects of working there over the past few months.The arrangement that Newey has reached with Red Bull means he will be a free agent from March 2025, which has opened the door for several teams to try to get hold of his services.While Newey is thought to ...Keep reading
The Enstone-based team has endured a torrid start to the new campaign as the A524 was initially off the pace and lacking downforce amid its major off-season concept change, running extra bodywork weight to pass a specific crash test and down on engine power compared to the Honda, Mercedes and Ferrari units with the Renault power Alpine uses.It is one of three teams yet to score – alongside ...Keep reading
The Woking-based outfit has spent recent weeks working on addressing weaknesses that it feels its MCL38 car has.However, despite the raft of changes that it has revealed ahead of first practice in Miami, Lando Norris has explained that the tweaks brought this time out are more aimed at purely lifting performance.Asked what he expected from the upgrade package, Norris said: "Hopefully a quicker ...Keep reading
As a consequence of production delays over the winter, the team had come into the 2024 campaign without a third chassis ready for its drivers Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant.It was a situation that proved costly at the Australian GP when a practice crash for Albon meant his car could not be used again that weekend, and the team had to make the difficult decision of moving him across to take ...Keep reading
Evans was offered a brief taste of the future when he piloted a modified Toyota GR Yaris during his pre-event Croatia Rally test last month.Fan vision captured from the test showcased the GR Yaris running with revised aerodynamics centred around the rear wing, which appeared to conform to the FIA’s proposed 2025 regulations.It is understood Toyota is the only team that has attempted to create ...Keep reading
Ahead of F1’s second sprint event of the year in Miami, Mercedes has taken on board a better understanding of what it did wrong in Shanghai two weeks ago.There, thanks to new parc ferme rules that opened up after the Saturday race, it elected to make massive set up changes to both Russell and Lewis Hamilton’s cars ahead of qualifying for the grand prix.Those changes proved not to bring any ...Keep reading
Following Nico Hulkenberg's impending departure at the end of 2024 to join Sauber next season, in preparation for its Audi rebrand in 2026, Haas now has an empty seat for 2025.Bearman, who is currently reserve driver for both Haas and Ferrari, is considered as the favourite to take over Hulkenberg's drive due to his current position in the team and will take part in six FP1 sessions this year.The ...Keep reading
As the RB20 is prepared for action we are able to see the front and rear brake assemblies in various states of undress. Disc fairings are used at both ends of the car to help control the passage of airflow and transfer of heat, with a window employed at the front end to allow some of that heat to migrate to the secondary nest within the drum, as seen on the left-hand side of the car. Notably ...Keep reading
Ocon and team-mate Pierre Gasly endured a torrid start to the 2024 season with Alpine, which is one of three teams yet to score points.The Bruno Famin-led outfit fast-tracked a new floor to China, which both drivers will now use in Miami, while it has also made efforts to bring the weight of its A524 down.Off the track, Famin has recruited senior engineer Sanchez as the Enstone-based squad's ...Keep reading
Ducati has two MotoGP rounds now in 2024 to choose from a list of three - Jorge Martin, Marc Marquez and Enea Bastianini - as to who will be its second factory team rider next season, something which will be highly influenced by economic factors, sponsorship and the individual will of general manager Gigi Dall'Igna.If we consider that all three candidates have sporting arguments to end up in the ...Keep reading
The all-female feeder series aims to give young women access to more track time at a high-performance level, enabling them to develop the fundamental level of technical, physical and mental ability to progress to the highest level.That ethos matches the philosophy of eponymous founder Tilbury, who set up the brand with the aim of “empowering everyone, everywhere to unlock the magic of ...Keep reading
Gordon Shedden has spent much of his career in Honda machinery so it’s no surprise that his favourite car comes from the Japanese manufacturer. But it’s not the 2006 Integra in which he scored his first British Touring Car win or the Civic with which he took his maiden crown.The three-time champion swiftly picks the first Team Dynamics-built Type R version of the ‘Next Generation Touring ...Keep reading
Audi is one of several possible destinations for Sainz ahead of his upcoming exit from Ferrari, with the German OEM having long been interested in securing his services for its F1 entry in 2026 when it rebrands the Sauber squad.In recent weeks, Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko suggested that Sainz has “a very lucrative offer from Audi that we can't match or beat” as the world champion ...Keep reading
Scheduled for 14-16 June, no new date has been given for the event but Dorna Sports hopes to still stage it this year.MotoGP was originally set to race in Kazakhstan at the new Sokol International Racetrack, near the country’s largest city of Almaty, last year as part of an expanding calendar.However, due to the circuit not being ready at the time for its 9 July slot, the event was axed and not ...Keep reading
Despite a contract that runs until 2028 and a dominant car in the RB20, Verstappen's future at Red Bull was called into question in the wake of the team's power struggles that had been simmering under the surface for a while and boiled over this year.Verstappen previously said it was key to his Red Bull future that all key pillars of the team remained in place, but one of its most crucial members ...Keep reading
F1 returned to Vegas for a first grand prix in 41 years with the 2023 event eventually won by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, using a new track incorporating the city’s famous Strip.But the event attracted considerable criticism for some initial ticket packages costing close to $1,000 for just the Thursday practice running, before prices fell considerably closer to the event.This decision was down ...Keep reading
Earlier this week it was confirmed that Newey will leave Red Bull after a 19-year stint at the Milton Keynes squad, having made a huge contribution to the team's two title streaks with Sebastian Vettel and now Verstappen.The news has been received as a huge blow for Red Bull, especially if it ends up losing Newey to a rival team amid interest from Ferrari.But while Verstappen praised Newey's ...Keep reading
Stroll ran into Ricciardo under the safety car in Shanghai, which ended Ricciardo's chance of scoring his first points of the 2024 season with RB.Ricciardo was incensed by the incident, especially after it became clear that Stroll ducked responsibility for the incident and blamed drivers ahead, saying it made his "blood boil".The Australian revealed in Miami that he and Stroll still hadn't cleared ...Keep reading
Aston Martin has lodged a petition to review the 10-second time penalty and three points on Alonso’s licence that were handed down for a collision he had with Carlos Sainz in the Chinese Grand Prix sprint.A stewards’ meeting has been called for 8am in Miami on Friday to judge whether or not Aston Martin has gathered a significant and relevant enough new piece of evidence to justify a fresh ...Keep reading
Ahead of Hamilton's arrival at Maranello next year, and in the wake of Newey's decision to leave Red Bull, Ferrari is known to be pursuing the design genius to come on board and help create a superteam.If its overtures are successful, then it would be a massive boost to Hamilton’s future title hopes, after he agreed a deal last winter to join the Italian outfit from 2025.Newey will become a free ...Keep reading
On Wednesday Red Bull announced Newey will leave the team in 2025 and he has been heavily linked with a move to Ferrari, while Aston Martin has also been seen as an option for the British designer.While his next career move isn't confirmed, Perez is certain wherever Newey moves to he will make a quick and positive input into multiple areas of any F1 team."Adrian, with the experience he has, he has ...Keep reading
The Briton broke a bone in his left hand following a crash in first practice ahead of last weekend's Monaco E-Prix, having hit the barrier into Sainte Devote.The injury took place to the same hand which Bird broke during the 2022 London E-Prix and which kept him out of the season finale in Seoul while he underwent surgery and recovery.After being assessed in Monaco, where it was confirmed Bird had ...Keep reading
Last week, Audi made its first move in F1’s turbulent driver market as it signed Hulkenberg to a multi-year contract that means he will leave the Haas squad at the end of the 2024 campaign.The move, which had been in the works since midway through 2023 and involved discussions about Hulkenberg possibly joining Sauber for this season before he ended up continuing for a second year with Haas ...Keep reading
Motorsport is one of the most expensive industries in the world as Red Bull paid a staggering $7,445,817 to enter the 2024 F1 season. But costs are also high at a national level with teams paying up to £29,000 for a space on the British GT grid. So it is no wonder why some motorsport teams will appoint a pay driver, which is a concept that’s very unique to the industry. What is a pay driver ...Keep reading
Fittipaldi says he “loved and admired Ayrton in equal measure” – which was in stark contrast with Senna’s relationship with the other Brazilian F1 great Nelson Piquet, as he and Ayrton shared a mutual loathing.Emerson first met Senna as a teenaged karter, and invited him into the Copersucar-Fittipaldi garage at a test at Interlagos in the mid-1970s: “The kart track at Interlagos was ...Keep reading
Newey renewed his contract with Red Bull last year, but it has been confirmed by the team that he will leave during the first part of 2025. There had been growing speculation about his future in recent weeks, and he is said to be unsettled with the current situation at Red Bull and the allegations surrounding misconduct by team principal Christian Horner - claims that were dismissed after a ...Keep reading
MotoGP is gearing up for the French Grand Prix at Le Mans at the Bugatti circuit. Last year’s grand prix was won by Marco Bezzecchi, who took the victory during the world championship’s 1000th grand prix weekend. The victory was the Italian's second grand prix win last year, after taking his first at the Argentine Grand Prix - which briefly gave him the championship lead.Last year's French GP ...Keep reading
Haas introduced its first major upgrade of the season at the Chinese Grand Prix, the VF-24 being equipped with updated floor fences, mirrors, cooling outlets and rear brake duct inlets.Both drivers were competitive at Shanghai with the new parts, as Kevin Magnussen finished 10th in the sprint while Nico Hulkenberg reached Q3 and scored a point in the main race, from ninth on the grid.However, the ...Keep reading
As of last year’s British Grand Prix, MotoGP has enforced minimum front and rear tyre pressures in a move ostensibly aimed at ensuring rider safety.However, this was largely criticised by riders last year as the minimum of 1.88 bar front pressure offered them little margin before the tyre ballooned and became more susceptible to crashes.Michelin agreed to lower the minimum front tyre pressure to ...Keep reading
Michael Andretti is on a mission to get his hugely successful team onto the F1 grid, with the latest twist in the saga seeing US Congress members demand that Liberty Media explain why a position in the paddock was denied earlier this year.Of equal importance to Andretti is positioning his team in feeder series including F2 and F3, but according to Michel, there have been no movements on this ...Keep reading
McLaren has enjoyed something of a renaissance under Stella's leadership following a difficult start to the 2023 season, scoring just 14 points in the opening five rounds. Heavy revisions to last year's MCL60 chassis, which came to life during the Austrian GP weekend, ensured that the team returned to challenging for poles and podium finishes.This rate of development continued and, building on ...Keep reading
Republican Congressman for Michigan John James – who represents an area that is synonymous with General Motors – took part in a press conference outside the US Capitol in Washington on Wednesday alongside Mario Andretti, 1978 Formula 1 world champion and patriarch of the Andretti Global team.Formula One Management, which Liberty owns, turned down Andretti’s bid as its “assessment process ...Keep reading
If a driver can extract just one more tenth out of their tyres over a single qualifying lap, that can be the difference between getting knocked out in Q1 or Q2 or making it all the way through to the final shootout.And further up in the fight at the front, such margins are defining whether drivers are getting stuck in a chasing pack battle or can enjoy some clean air to gun for a podium.As ...Keep reading
Reigning constructor world champions Toyota will field both its part-time drivers in the same event for the first time this season in Portugal next week as it looks to widen its seven-point gap over Hyundai in the championship.As a result, Toyota has nominated current world champion Rovanpera and eight-time world champion Ogier to score manufacturer points alongside this year’s title contender ...Keep reading
Sanchez will report directly to team principal Bruno Famin in his new role, and will oversee the new three-pillar technical structure implemented at the Enstone team. This means that the technical directors of each pillar: Ciaron Pilbeam of performance, Joe Burnell of engineering, and David Wheater of aerodynamics, will all report to Sanchez.Sanchez left his role at McLaren just one month ago ...Keep reading
The reigning double world champion and the Gresini rider locked horns in last Sunday’s 25-lap Spanish Grand Prix for the victory in a thrilling battle.Bagnaia ultimately came out on top, though only by 0.372 seconds to Marquez, who celebrated his first grand prix podium as a Gresini Ducati rider.The pair have clashed on track several times before, with Bagnaia’s first MotoGP win at Aragon in ...Keep reading
It’s very easy to use the phrase ‘transcended the sport’, but in the case of three-time Formula 1 world champion Senna there is no doubting the accuracy of what can often be a trite cliche.It’s hard to believe that it’s 30 years this week since the 1994 San Marino GP tragedy took him from the world. Even in an era of swashbuckling heroes, the brutality of his sudden loss sent shockwaves ...Keep reading
Following a U-turn on its F1 future, Honda signed with Aston Martin to become the Silverstone team's engine partner for F1's all-new power unit regulations in 2026.That means that, as it stands, Honda will no longer be powering the cars driven by its long-time protege Tsunoda, who rose through the ranks of its Honda Dream project to land a seat with AlphaTauri, now RB.Speaking exclusively to ...Keep reading
For the Miami event the Anglo-Italian team has repainted large parts of its VCARB01 car in what it has called a chameleon livery, akin to the similarly named prepaid debit card issued by one of its two title partners Cash App.The team has retained its blue and silver engine cover and its red and white wings, but has changed the rest of the car, with its one-off livery running from the nose through ...Keep reading
- Andretti Cadillac - Graduate Race Strategy Analyst - SilverstoneAndretti Cadillac have the opportunity for a Graduate Race Strategy Analyst to join the team at its new Silverstone facility.You will be responsible for assisting development strategy tools, processes, and analysis methods as well as assisting in race strategy execution and event reporting.To be considered for this role you will ...Keep reading
In January, grand prix racing’s commercial rights holder, Formula One Management, rejected the America squad’s bid to join the F1 grid next season, despite the championship’s regulator, the FIA, approving its technical capabilities last October.A statement from FOM read: “Our assessment process has established that the presence of an 11th team would not, on its own, provide value to the ...Keep reading
Hitech GP duo Tymek Kucharczyk and Will Macintyre both scored victories on a weekend of challenging weather conditions for the GB3 field at Silverstone. Kucharczyk took a double pole in a damp qualifying and the Polish racer led the opening contest while his team-mate Macintyre lost second at the start to Elite Motorsport’s McKenzy Cresswell.Kucharczyk pulled out a two-second advantage by the ...Keep reading
Senna's life has been extensively celebrated this week on the 30th anniversary of the three-time world champion's fatal accident at the San Marino Grand Prix on 1 May 1994.The Imola circuit is next up on the F1 calendar after the Miami Grand Prix and will inevitably be the scene of more tributes to the late Brazilian.Four-time world champion Vettel, who owns Senna's 1993 McLaren MP4/8, has ...Keep reading
The unique situation of over half the grid being out of contract for 2025, including some of F1's leading drivers, has led to one of the most highly anticipated silly seasons in history.The sheer number of seats up for grabs ahead of a crunch regulations change in 2026 was always going to lead to an early start to the merry-go-round, but Lewis Hamilton's shock decision to leave Mercedes for ...Keep reading
Both Zarco and team-mate Takaaki Nakagami got to run the overhauled version of the RC213V at Jerez on Monday, after HRC test rider Stefan Bradl raced with the same bike in Spain last weekend.However, the initial impressions of the upgraded Honda challenger were poor across the board, with Zarco saying the bike had failed to deliver a step forward in performance.“We did a few runs on it and we ...Keep reading
"I'm not going to celebrate like some people that it's 20 years on," says Alain Prost of the anniversary of Ayrton Senna's death at Imola on May 1 1994. "I can answer these questions about him, no problem - he was an exceptional guy - but I just don't see it the same way as the other guys do."To understand why, you have to appreciate the background of their shared history: Prost and Senna fought ...Keep reading
Last weekend Bagnaia produced one of his best MotoGP race wins to date as he held off Marquez late on in a spectacular battle to take Spanish Grand Prix victory.While Bagnaia has charged to back-to-back MotoGP world titles in 2022 and 2023, having stepped up to the factory Ducati squad in 2021, Marquez had suffered from a series of career-threatening injuries, the decline of Honda’s ...Keep reading
Sponsored by The tiny Principality is undoubtedly one of the most legendary destinations on the F1 calendar and MoneyGram is giving one fan and their guest the chance to experience the race weekend in a very unique way, with a package that includes viewing from onboard a yacht moored trackside in the harbour.The circuit offers a rare opportunity to get right up close to the cars and this ...Keep reading
The Pramac Racing rider lost the front end of his bike under braking for Turn 6 causing him to retire from the race lead, handing victory to Francesco Bagnaia.Martin did win the sprint race though, so he still holds a relatively comfortable points advantage after four rounds of the season.Who is leading the 2024 MotoGP world riders’ standings?Martin arrived at the Spanish GP leading the ...Keep reading
Red Bull announced on Wednesday morning that Newey would be leaving the world champion outfit early next year after deciding that he no longer wished to remain a part of the team.He will continue working for the Milton Keynes-based operation until the early part of 2025, which will involve finishing his RB17 hypercar, and will in the meantime attend specific races to work trackside – including ...Keep reading
Ferrari revealed last week that its Miami livery would feature two tints of blue to commemorate the 70th anniversary of its entry into the American market.In a limited tweak to its traditional red livery, the so-called Azzurro La Plata and Azzurro Dino hues have been applied on the wings, engine cover, halo, rear-views mirrors, as well as on the wheel rims of the SF-24 driven by Charles Leclerc ...Keep reading
During the three decades since the sickening image of the blue-and-white Williams striking the Tamburello wall was broadcast to a global audience of millions, Ayrton Senna has been transformed.On May 1 1994 he was already a racing superstar, regarded justifiably by many as the greatest of his generation, but since then the name Senna has grown into so much more. It's a global brand, a name on ...Keep reading
Sponsored by The narrow barriers around the city-centre circuit, coupled with extreme climate that pushes the drivers to the limit of exhaustion, make it one of the toughest races of all and there has been plenty of action under lights over the years. As F1 prepares to return for this year’s race, here is a rundown of the biggest moments of the last 14 years and where they happened. Start ...Keep reading
"Ayrton Senna is joining Williams..." I have to say that even though I was the team manager at the time, I had a certain feeling of trepidation when I heard this news. It was pretty daunting, because he was Ayrton Senna... he was coming with a little bit of a reputation.I suppose we thought he might be difficult to work with - all of the top drivers were demanding, but it was something we'd got ...Keep reading
The Spaniard is the only driver other than Max Verstappen to have won a race in 2024 and is just seven points behind his team-mate Charles Leclerc in the standings despite having missed the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on medical grounds.His strong form has made him a key player in the F1 driver market silly season for next year, having been linked with Red Bull and Mercedes, while Audi is known to ...Keep reading
A fortnight on from his maiden victory with Aprilia in the Americas GP, Vinales could muster only a ninth-place finish at Jerez, over 11s off race winner Francesco Bagnaia on the factory Ducati.He and Aprilia team-mate Aleix Espargaro were also the slowest of the Q2 runners in qualifying, ending up more than two seconds slower than the pace set by Gresini Ducati rider Marc Marquez in 11th and 12th ...Keep reading
For many, Ayrton Senna is the greatest Formula 1 driver of all time, and the passing of years since his death - at the peak of his powers aged 34 in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix - has only strengthened that conviction.To mark the 25th anniversary in 2019, Autosport decided to pick out and rank the three-time world champion's 10 finest race performances.Senna made 161 F1 starts and took 41 wins ...Keep reading
Following intense speculation about the future of the squad’s chief technical officer amid the behind-the-scenes unrest at Red Bull following the controversy surrounding team principal Christian Horner, the Milton Keynes-based team announced on Wednesday that Newey would be departing.It is not clear if Newey has made a definite decision on his next career steps but he has been most strongly ...Keep reading
As revealed by Autosport over the Chinese Grand Prix weekend, teams last week discussed a tweak to the regulations to clear up an aspect of the regulations that had caused unease.Previously, jump starts were judged entirely on whether or not the FIA-supplied sensors fitted to cars had picked up movement before the start signal was given.However, there had been some occasions when cars had appeared ...Keep reading
In court papers that have been lodged in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, Steiner has claimed that his former Haas team has not paid him for commissions that he was owed over several years, which was in violation of an employment agreement he had.Furthermore, he claims that the outfit, which he left at the end of last year after his contract was not renewed, continues to sell merchandise that features ...Keep reading
But one of the less well-known aspects of what happened on 1 May 1994, was the sense of helplessness unfolding for those inside the safety car which led the Formula 1 field early on.Faced with an under-powered Opel Vectra that was ultimately not fast enough to be running in front of F1 machinery, safety car driver Max Angelelli and former F1 race director Charlie Whiting, who was sat alongside ...Keep reading
Dale Coyne Racing previously confirmed Legge for its Honda-powered No. 51 entry - partnered with Rick Ware Racing - for the upcoming Indy 500, which will mark her fourth attempt in the crown jewel event.The Briton was eager for another chance at “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” after last year’s outing with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing ended prematurely with a crash on pit road after ...Keep reading
Race starts have always been the Achilles' Heel for Bezzecchi, with the Italian rider often unable to convert strong qualifying performances into top-tier race results after struggling to get away from the line.As recently as this month’s Portuguese GP, Bezzecchi reported that he is still having issues with the clutch on his Ducati, having found the GP23 to be “completely opposite” to its ...Keep reading
Starting their World Endurance Championship Hypercar programmes one year behind the likes of fellow LMDh entrants Porsche and Cadillac was always likely to mean a period of playing catchup for Alpine and Lamborghini in 2024. Two rounds into the season, that prediction has borne out and both marques are experiencing similar growing pains. In both camps, the message is very much the same – we need ...Keep reading
The Japanese marque has spent the past six seasons as Red Bull's powertrain partner and has achieved success through Max Verstappen's trio of drivers' titles, but has renewed its efforts for 2026 as Aston Martin becomes its works team.With its knowledge of developing V6 internal combustion engines for the current rules, Honda has instead elected to pin its primary efforts on nailing down the ...Keep reading
The start to the 2024 campaign has so far proven difficult for Yamaha, though it still managed to snare 2021 world champion Quartararo to a new two-year deal beyond the end of this season.At Jerez – a track Quartararo has won at twice in MotoGP – the Frenchman scored an unlikely third in the 12-lap sprint amidst a spate of crashes ahead of him, though was later penalised to fifth for having ...Keep reading
Alonso had been given a 10-second time penalty in the sprint and three penalty points on his licence after he collided with Carlos Sainz in the Saturday race.The Spaniards were fighting over third position when they clashed at Turn 9, which gave the two-time world champion a puncture and led to his retirement from the race. Sergio Perez took advantage of the incident to score a top-three ...Keep reading
The recent Chinese and Japanese Grands Prix highlighted how the variability produced by a pretty much nailed-on two-stopper helps trigger plenty of overtaking and action.F1's problem though is that this ideal combination of tyre compounds to deliver multi-stop excitement cannot be repeated at every track because the range of options is not wide enough.All too often one of the selections gets ...Keep reading
Late last week, German publication Auto Motor Und Sport reported that Newey was set to leave the squad, having indicated to colleagues that he was no longer happy with the working environment there.Now, following talks with the squad, it is understood that he has formally submitted his resignation and the focus will be on the terms of his departure.An official statement from Red Bull Racing is ...Keep reading
The FIA released its roadmap for the future of the WRC in February, which it hopes will attract new manufacturers to the championship.Included in a raft of proposals are technical changes to both Rally1 and Rally2 classes. The tweaks to the rules for 2025 and 2026 include the removal of hybrid power, a reduction in the aero, achieved by a modified rear wing, and a smaller air restrictor, to bring ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion forfeited the final year of his big-money HRC contract in 2024 to join the Gresini Ducati squad on a 2023-spec bike, as the Honda proved too uncompetitive.Twice a podium finisher in sprint races in the first three rounds of 2024, Marquez qualified on pole last weekend at the Spanish Grand Prix and finished second in the main race after battling with factory Ducati ...Keep reading
The Danish driver, who finished runner-up in the F2 standings last season with Prema, has most recently competed in the European Le Mans Series as well as conducting a simulator programme for Mercedes.The 22-year-old will drive for Mahindra on 13 May for a full day of rookie running following the Berlin E-Prix double-header at the Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit.“First of all, I’d like to say ...Keep reading
While the Enstone-based team is chipping away in taking off weight and adding aero performance to its A524 to get itself further up the grid, it is still far away from the lofty heights that parent company Renault wants to see it reach.When the decision was made last summer to axe team principal Otmar Szafnauer and replace him with Bruno Famin, it was triggered because of an impatience to get back ...Keep reading
It was initially reported that under 300,000 spectators made their way to the Jerez circuit for the fourth round of the 2024 season to watch home favourites Marc Marquez, Jorge Martin and Pedro Acosta, among others, battle it out for victory.This made the Spanish GP the most-watched MotoGP event in the series' history, eclipsing the record set by the French Grand Prix last year.But late on Monday ...Keep reading
Aston Martin has been fifth in F1 2024's pecking order so far both in terms of race performance and results, heading to Miami 12 points behind fourth-placed Mercedes.But while it has struggled to match the likes of Ferrari and McLaren over a race distance, the Silverstone team's qualifying performances have bucked that trend.In the hands of two-time world champion Fernando Alonso, Aston's AMR24 ...Keep reading
The 43-year-old Australian – a two-time IndyCar champion – started and finished second in Sunday’s Barber race, marking the 100th podium of career (tied with Michael Andretti for fourth all-time) in 288 starts.During the post-race press conference, Power was asked by Autosport if he feels closer to the form that won him the 2022 IndyCar title compared to last year, when his attention was ...Keep reading
In its bid to arrest a steady decline in performance over the last few years, Yamaha had been working behind the scenes on an all-new version of its MotoGP contender, which was finally ready for its first test after Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix.Both 2021 champion Quartararo and new recruit Alex Rins got to put the new M1 through its paces at the Jerez test, finishing 18th and 14th respectively ...Keep reading
On track, the IndyCar Series offers the most competitive open-wheel racing on the planet, including one of its greatest races in the Indy 500. Off track, it’s an absolute basket case and its appetite for self-harm has reached a new level.The storm that blew up around Team Penske last week is just the latest in a string of dysfunctional mishaps to roll your eyes at. While exploiting grey areas in ...Keep reading
Marking the first in-season test of the 2024 campaign, the MotoGP paddock remained at Jerez for an eight-hour session on Monday.Run in good conditions, VR46 Ducati rider Di Giannantonio led the way with Maverick Vinales chasing him on the factory Aprilia.Pramac’s Franco Morbidelli completed the top three from Spanish GP winner Francesco Bagnaia on the factory Ducati, while Alex Rins was 14th as ...Keep reading
Mercedes' performance has been up and down since the introduction of new ground-effect regulations in F1 two years ago, and the 2024 season has exemplified this issue so far.Hamilton branded his W15 "an amazing car" after the first two grands prix in 2024, before admitting to being "the least confident ever" in this machine following practice at the Australian Grand Prix. He then had his "best" ...Keep reading
Wittmann was leading Saturday’s opening race of 2024 when his Schubert Motorsport-entered BMW M4 GT3 suddenly began to slow down with four laps to go, before coming to a halt at the start/finish straight.The two-time DTM champion had tactically made his pitstop moments before the Full Course Yellow was deployed to assist the recovery of Ben Dorr’s stranded McLaren, which allowed him to jump ...Keep reading
The Australian has had a challenging start to the 2024 campaign as he has not found himself as confident with the handling of the VCARB 01 as team-mate Yuki Tsunoda.His struggles even prompted speculation that he could be dropped before the end of the campaign if things did not improve by the summer break.But off the back of a more encouraging showing in recent races, which coincided with a new ...Keep reading
Honda has scored just 13 points in the manufacturers’ standings after four rounds this season, with none of its riders breaking into the top 10 in grands prix yet.During the Americas Grand Prix, Mir was very critical of Honda for pursuing what he felt was the wrong bike concept and said the marque had to “take responsibility” for this.On Monday at the post-race Jerez test, however, Mir was ...Keep reading
Malukas has been the focal point of drama since suffering an injured left wrist that required surgery after a mountain bike accident on 11 February, less than a month before the season started on 10 March.Arrow McLaren cited the reason “due to him being unavailable for the entirety of the season to date, with no confirmed return date” behind its call to drop Malukas, which had put it in a ...Keep reading
While the introduction of a spending limit for teams in 2021 has helped compress the field, with the front to the back of the grid having never been closer, this season has witnessed an interesting split among the competitorsThe top five squads – made up of Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren, Aston Martin and Mercedes – have appeared to break away from the back of the pack, which has helped them ...Keep reading
While both team-mate Brad Binder and GasGas Tech3 rookie Pedro Acosta have finished on the podium this year, Miller has only managed one finish inside the top five in the opening four rounds of the season.Miller was running in 11th position on the factory KTM on lap 17 in Sunday's grand prix at Jerez when Pramac rival Morbidelli made a futile overtaking attempt going into Turn 5, sending both ...Keep reading
Amid F1's ongoing preparations for new engine and chassis rules from 2026, there have been some early concerns from teams about the regulations delivering unintended consequences.There were worries about drivers needing to change down gears on the straights to help charge batteries, while recent findings from simulators about cars spinning out easily with active aero engaged triggered some alarm ...Keep reading
As the day’s sunlight has barely crept up on the horizon, the banks surrounding the Angel Nieto Turn 8 and Peluqui Turn 9 are already buzzing with life. It can only be MotoGP Sunday at Jerez.MotoGP visits a lot of iconic venues where so much of the series’ 75-year storied history has been told. But few seem to elicit the same emotional response for so many as Jerez. Speak to many in the ...Keep reading
Korean tyre firm Hankook was announced as the WRC’s new official tyre supplier in December last year, securing a contract from 2025-2027, to take over from Pirelli, whose deal expires at the end of the year.Since winning the FIA’s tender, Hankook has been busily developing rubber for next year testing prototypes with WRC teams as early as February this year, before the world motorsport ...Keep reading
McLaren rolled out several major sets of upgrades at last year's Austria and Singapore rounds that completely turned around its fortunes, going from a midfield struggler to a team that could fight for podiums with Ferrari and Mercedes over the second half of the campaign.In the early races of 2024, McLaren managed to consolidate its position and even move ahead of Mercedes. But at the launch of ...Keep reading
The Gresini rider scored a first pole on the Ducati at Jerez last weekend and was leading the sprint race before crashing out.In the 25-lap grand prix, he battled his way back from dropping to fourth early to fight with reigning double world champion Francesco Bagnaia on the factory Ducati for the victory.Ultimately coming away with second, it was a result that meant a lot to the eight-time world ...Keep reading
Hamlin, who led all but 11 of the final 147 laps, was beaten by Larson to the race lead after their final green flag pitstops, but reclaimed it on the ensuing restart which followed after Ricky Stenhouse Jr wrecked during their stops.However, Larson was able to cut Hamlin’s lead to under a second with 40 of 400 laps to go, before a final charge over the last 10 laps.Hamlin just held Larson off ...Keep reading
The Maranello squad has generally been the stronger team in the first five races of the 2024 season, being the only non-Red Bull winner in the Australian GP thanks to Carlos Sainz's victory.But McLaren's Lando Norris had the upper hand in the last race in China, where he was Max Verstappen's closest challenger to finish in second.Ferrari duo Charles Leclerc and Sainz endured one of their weakest ...Keep reading
After starting 19th, Lundqvist was put into a unique three-stop strategy that began on lap 7, switching off from the harder primary tyre and running on the softer alternates for the remainder of the 90-lap race.Through the strategy and timing of cautions, the 25-year-old Swede was able to cycle up to the lead for four laps, showcasing enough pace and poise to hold polesitter – and eventual race ...Keep reading
A race full of action featured a bizarre moment that caught everyone off-guard after a mannequin called 'Georgina' – installed by eccentric track owner George Barber in 2016 – fell from the pedestrian bridge on to the grass at the side of the track near Turn 8 on lap 52 of 90.A.J. Foyt Racing’s Santino Ferrucci, running fourth at the time, could be heard over the radio shouting: “That ...Keep reading
The reigning champion started down in 10th place, after a mystifying slump in pace in the second round of qualifying on Saturday, but looked well set with a shot for victory after making his first pitstop under caution.But he was then coerced into make the second of his two-stop strategy under another yellow, after Sting Ray Robb’s AJ Foyt Racing car lost its steering and crashed at Turn 1.That ...Keep reading
After starting on pole in the No. 3 Chevrolet, McLaughlin made the best of a three-stop strategy to lead a race-high 58 of 90 laps around the 2.3-mile, 17-turn road course, beating Power, who underwent an engine change after the morning warm-up, by 1.3194s.Chip Ganassi Racing rookie Linus Lundqvist delivered an impressive drive to finish third – the first podium of his career.Meyer Shank ...Keep reading
In Larson's quest to complete 'The Double,' the week prior to the big races is actually posing the greatest scheduling challenge. On Fast Friday 17 May, the 2021 NASCAR Cup champion will not skip Indy 500 practice. With All-Star Race practice and qualifying happening on the same day and clashing with Indy, Larson has made the decision to skip Friday's on-track sessions at North Wilkesboro. 2014 ...Keep reading
Moffat’s LKQ-liveried Toyota Corolla GR Sport started on the front row alongside the polesitting Toyota Gazoo Racing GB version of Rob Huff from the other side of the Speedworks Motorsport stable, but neither could prevent Adam Morgan from propelling his rear-wheel-drive West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport into the lead at the start.Morgan stayed in front for three laps before the safety car ...Keep reading
When you think of Monaco in spring, you think of mild temperatures, spectacular manoeuvres on the track and light clothing. But with only 13°C on the ground and 15°C in the air for the first test session (at 7:30 am), it's not quite the same atmosphere.The drivers were cautious, the spectators were bundled up, and there was no getting away from the fact that everything was too much.British ...Keep reading
Ingram used his one available lap of hybrid to slice his way down the inside of long-time leader Hill at Redgate on the 14th lap of 18, and the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N was able to establish a small gap over the pair behind it, with Sutton’s NAPA-liveried Alliance Racing Ford Focus ST beating the West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport of Hill to second.From third on the grid, Hill launched ...Keep reading
LCR Honda’s Zarco and Aprilia’s Espargaro were battling at the outer reaches of the points in Sunday’s grand prix at Jerez when they collided at Turn 5 on lap 10.The incident was placed under investigation by the FIM stewards panel, but no further action has been taken following a hearing involving both riders.However, Zarco says double 500cc world champion Spencer – who has helmed the FIM ...Keep reading
Bagnaia and Marquez locked horns with each other in the latter stages of Sunday's 25-lap grand prix at Jerez after early leader Jorge Martin crashed out.Marquez chopped down a 1.2-second advantage Bagnaia held on lap 14 to get within striking range on the 21st tour.As Marquez threw his Gresini Ducati up the inside of Bagnaia, he ran slightly wide and on the cutback into Turn 10 the pair rubbed ...Keep reading
Pramac rider Martin had seized the early advantage at the Jerez circuit on Sunday, having passed both polesitter Marc Marquez and factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia in the opening two laps of the grand prix.Circulating almost a second clear of the chasing pack led by his 2023 title rival Bagnaia on the 11th lap, Martin suddenly lost the front of his Ducati GP24 under braking for Turn 6 and hit ...Keep reading
Haas has made considerable progress on the issue that blighted its F1 campaign last year, which was caused by a fundamental aerodynamic imbalance that meant the VF-23 could get its tyres working well for qualifying, but would then chew through them in races.In preparing its VF-24 2024 challenger in pre-season testing, Haas spent most of its time in Bahrain completing long-run efforts in a bid to ...Keep reading
After a two-hour delay due to the persistent heavy rain, the unfortunate crowd was treated to 14 laps under the safety car after the fast-starting Sam Osborne crashed heavily at the top of the Craner Curves on the opening lap when he was tapped by the Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra of Aron Taylor-Smith, and the Allied Racing Ford Focus barely slowed down across the wet grass on its trip into ...Keep reading
The Gresini rider qualified on pole for the first time on a Ducati before going on to score his first grand prix podium after a thrilling 25-lap race at Jerez on Sunday.Marquez locked horns with Bagnaia in the latter stages of the grand prix, with the pair engaging twice at Turn 9 on laps 21 and 22.On the first attempt, Marquez launched his bike up the inside of Bagnaia’s at Turn 9, before the ...Keep reading
Pramac Ducati rider Martin threatened to take a 47-point lead in the championship as he led the field on the 11th of 25 laps ahead of Bagnaia and Marquez.But a crash at Turn 6 flipped the grand prix on its head, with Bagnaia released into the lead and forced into a thrilling scrap with Gresini Ducati’s Marquez for the win.Beating Marquez by 0.372s after putting in a stunning Jerez race lap ...Keep reading
Engstler had been running a steady third behind polesitter Bortolotti and Mercedes rival Luca Stolz in the first part of the race, but an impressive strategy call from Grasser to pull him into the pits just before a Full Course Yellow elevated him to the lead.Engstler’s run to victory was made easier by an agonisingly slow pitstop for SSR Performance driver Bortolotti, a problem which also ...Keep reading
The region awoke to torrential rain, and there was chaos on the roads accessing the circuit, where the car parks were already turning into a quagmire in the early morning.The BTCC field went out on track for an exploratory 10-minute warm-up session at noon, by which time the rain had abated to become a fine drizzle.Several cars went off track and rejoined at the Old Hairpin – the lowest point of ...Keep reading
The 19-lap Moto3 race opened up Sunday's Spanish GP action, with drama striking almost immediately.Having lost out from pole on the run to Turn 1 at the start, Aspar CF Moto rider David Alonso retook the lead from David Munoz into Turn 6 on the opening lap.Leading the field into the last corner, Alonso crashed out, releasing Munoz into a comfortable lead as the Aspar rider rejoined at the back of ...Keep reading
Red Bull crushed the 2023 season by winning 21 out of 22 grands prix, with its early dominance allowing the team to hold off on producing many in-season car upgrades.Instead, the team focused most of its resources on 2024, producing a car that looks substantially different despite its predecessor's successes.Its decision to go for an aggressive evolution for the RB20 - instead of playing it safe - ...Keep reading
Huff, whose WTCC crown came in 2012, has joined the Speedworks Motorsport-run Toyota Gazoo Racing GB operation for his first full-time BTCC season since his rookie tin-top campaign in 2004.But Huff was blocked in the Donington pitlane by BTCC technical chief Sam Riches because his Corolla GR Sport had not been in the prescribed position outside its garage at the start of qualifying.The incident ...Keep reading
The 19-year-old Briton became the youngest starter of a Formula E race when he competed in Saturday’s Monaco E-Prix, having only been told 20 minutes before the second practice session that he would be competing.This was after regular McLaren driver Bird suffered a high-speed off at Sainte Devote in the day’s earlier FP1 session that left him with a broken bone in his left hand, meaning ...Keep reading
The Shanghai round was the first event where F1’s latest sprint format has been deployed –with the parc ferme restrictions on car adjustments relaxed between the two Saturday sessions.This opened the possibility for teams to run very experimental set-ups in the shorter races – especially for cars starting outside the top 10 on the grid – but in practice, the competitors felt any changes ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing’s reigning champion Palou set the pace overall in the first round of qualifying, lapping in the day’s quickest time of 1m05.5862s on fresh alternate tyres.But then his speed vanished in the second round, when the top 12 cars from the two groups run together.Palou lapped in 1m06.8819s on primary tyres on his first Top 12 Qualifying run, but only improved to 1m06.3013s on his ...Keep reading
The defending race winner, McLaughlin captured pole with a sensational run of 1m05.9490s around the 2.3-mile, 17-turn natural terrain road course, just 0.097s ahead of team-mate Power.It was the 300th IndyCar pole for Team Penske.The front row lockout delivered a positive result for the team amid a tumultuous week that featured IndyCar officials handing out severe penalties.Josef Newgarden, the ...Keep reading
McLaughlin set an early benchmark in the Fast Six pole shootout on alternates at 1m06.329s and ran a second lap on this set – but made a tiny error at Turn 5 – before switching to his second set.Power went earlier to his second set of alternates and lowered the bar to 1m06.046s with a minute to go, but then it was his turn to run wide at Turn 5.However McLaughlin wasn’t to be denied with ...Keep reading
Various members of the paddock have questioned the integrity of Team Penske after IndyCar officials stripped Josef Newgarden of his victory in the season-opening round for illegal use of the push-to-pass system, while Scott McLaughlin was also disqualified from his third-place finish for similar infractions.The revised classification, with Arrow McLaren driver Pato O'Ward promoted to victory ...Keep reading
The integrity of Team Penske was put into question by the paddock after IndyCar officials disqualified St. Petersburg race winner Josef Newgarden and third-place finisher Scott McLaughlin for illegal use of the push-to-pass system in last month's season-opener.Their team-mate Will Power also had access to the same software, which resulted from a coding change during hybrid testing that was not ...Keep reading
The 23-year-old Dutchman rocketed to the top of the leaderboard with a quick lap of 1m06.5463s at the 2.3-mile, 17-turn road course.“The car feels really good,” VeeKay said. “It felt pretty good yesterday.“Couldn't really get a lap in on the red tyres, but we made some changes overnight for what we thought was the right direction and it was the right direction. So that's really good.“I'm ...Keep reading
The Legacy Motor Club Toyota driver was originally released from the infield care centre following a multi-car wreck late in the race ultimately won by Tyler Reddick, but returned on his own complaining of back pain.He was eventually transported to a local hospital and diagnosed with a compression fracture, forcing him to sit out this week’s race at Dover.“To be honest right now, I’m feeling ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion was taken out of the 12-lap sprint at Jerez on Saturday when he got sandwiched between Marco Bezzecchi on the outside and Brad Binder on his inside.It has put Bagnaia 42 points back on Pramac's Jorge Martin, who won the chaotic sprint.The incident was placed under investigation by the FIM stewards but no further action was deemed necessary, a call Bagnaia hinted that he ...Keep reading
The Frenchman finished Saturday’s Formula E race in Monte Carlo fourth having shadowed DS Penske partner Vandoorne for much of the 31-lap contest.Vergne was left frustrated as both Nick Cassidy and Mitch Evans ahead backed the chasing pack up at various points to allow each of the Jaguar drivers to take both Attack Modes without losing positions.The strategy worked as Evans led home a Jaguar ...Keep reading
- Rovanpera’s brilliance, resilience and lucky “buckaroo” momentKalle Rovanpera may have inherited the rally lead after Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville and Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier suffered suspension failures, but the reigning world champion thoroughly deserved his third win of 2023.The stats again outline what a special drive this was from the 22-year-old Toyota driver. Despite facing the ...Keep reading
Construction work around the final sector of the Marina Bay city circuit means four of the characteristic 90-degree turns have been ditched. The replacement, a longer back straight, will ease the strain on the rear tyres. That could leave the door open for Ferrari in qualifying.The anticipated limited effectiveness of DRS will then slow a Red Bull recovery should one of Max Verstappen or Sergio ...Keep reading
The Italian GP was the last home race for the Milanese marque as its six-year relationship with Sauber approaches its conclusion. The occasion was celebrated with a special livery featuring the Italian flag, while Alfa also used the weekend to unveil the new 33 Stradale, a model that reflects the sporty image that its involvement in Grand Prix racing is supposed to project.The problem that the ...Keep reading
Three consecutive victories across the Brands Hatch and Red Bull Ring rounds on his way to third in the 2011 FIA Formula Two championship underline the Spaniard’s winning pedigree. And in developing a holistic approach to driver preparation that goes beyond the managerial staple of deal-making, Ramon is confident he can help drivers achieve their goals.“I work from every area that performance ...Keep reading
Last weekend’s Misano round featured the exact same top four in both the sprint and the grand prix, with Jorge Martin leading Marco Bezzecchi, Francesco Bagnaia and wildcard Dani Pedrosa.Across both races, there was one overtake between the top three, when VR46’s Bezzecchi passed Bagnaia for second – though his move in the sprint was a result of the factory Ducati rider running wide.Insight ...Keep reading
A first trial of an idea at Silverstone in July did not yield the results hoped for, with the wheel-fairings used only reducing the spray thrown up by a small amount.F1 chiefs know that a much bigger step is required if they are to limit spray enough to help cars race more in rainy conditions.The FIA’s single-seater director Nikolas Tombazis has explained that, following analysis of what ...Keep reading
The World Endurance Championship's two-month summer break ended with its annual trip to Fuji, where Toyota continued an unbeaten stretch dating back to 2016 with a 1-2 finish. But the Japanese marque didn't have it as easy as the result on paper suggested, as Porsche emerged as GR010 HYBRID's closest challenger to lead the most laps in its best showing to date.Le Mans Hypercar rivals Ferrari and ...Keep reading
The Finn was promoted to Hyundai’s third factory i20 N Rally1 car, shared with Dani Sordo, for WRC rounds in Estonia and Finland, filling the position left by the late Craig Breen.Last month the Korean marque revealed that Suninen will also be handed an opportunity for a third gravel rally when the WRC returns to Chile, for the first time since 2019, at the end of the month.PLUS: How the WRC saw ...Keep reading
Monday’s post-race test at Misano was seen as a critical moment for Honda in its hopes of convincing eight-time world champion Marc Marquez to honour his contract for 2024.But after the initial test of the first 2024 RC213V prototype, which focused largely on a new chassis, Marquez admitted Honda was “still far” from where it needed to be if this bike was to be the base for next ...Keep reading
If as team principal James Vowles suggests the FW45 is no longer a "one-trick pony" and can be a points challenger at tracks that are not dominated by long straights, then it's certainly a strong possibility.Williams currently has 21 points, ahead of Haas on 11, Alfa Romeo on 10, and AlphaTauri on three.A random wet race or an event of high attrition could change things around, but at the moment ...Keep reading
The MSR deal is a lifeline for Percat who has battled through a tough season and a half with Walkinshaw Andretti United.He was long expected to part ways with the team at the end of his current deal, which was recently confirmed, and was known to be part of a group of experienced drivers in the frame for the MSR seat along with Scott Pye.The 34-year-old has won out in the fight for the MSR seat ...Keep reading
The planned move up from the 36 cars accepted for this year’s series is a reaction to a significant increase in entries in the Hypercar class and a desire to find room for multiple manufacturers in the new LMGT3 category that replaces GTE Am for next season.There looks certain to be in excess of 20 cars in Hypercar with the arrival of BMW, Alpine, Lamborghini and Isotta Fraschini in the series ...Keep reading
Ricciardo has been absent from his stunted F1 comeback since the early stages of the Dutch GP three weeks ago, where he broke a metacarpal in his left hand in a crash at the Hugenholtz corner in second practice.He underwent surgery on his injury two days later as he was replaced for the event at Zandvoort by Red Bull junior driver and 2023 Super Formula title contender Liam Lawson.Lawson continued ...Keep reading
Starting with this weekend’s Singapore event and produced in conjunction with team sponsor OKX, McLaren has significantly upended its usual livery, with a mostly black design instead highlighted with the orange that usually makes up the majority of its car’s colours.McLaren says it is also making the change to continue its celebration of 2023’s 60th anniversary of the team’s founding as ...Keep reading
The Dane has struggled at times to get as much out of his Haas as team-mate Nico Hulkenberg, with the American-owned squad itself having endured some ups and downs.Digging a bit deeper into what has held him back, Magnussen has explained that one of the key factors has been how the VF-23 deals with the entry to and transition through corners.For Magnussen, his preference as a driver is for what is ...Keep reading
The 25-year-old, who was competing as a rookie in the Cup Series with the Legacy Motor Club team co-owned by Jimmie Johnson, was suspended by the team and later NASCAR itself on 5 August.It was deemed that Gragson violated the sport's code of conduct after liking a meme that mocked the 2020 murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers. A few days later, he officially parted ...Keep reading
With Red Bull dominating the current F1 season, the opposition has been casting a critical light both on the performance of the team and where Max Verstappen’s form stacks up in an historical context.Suggestions from Lewis Hamilton that Verstappen’s roll of victories had been achieved without as strong a team-mate challenge as he had faced in his own career served to trigger plenty of debate ...Keep reading
A seventh IndyCar title eluded him for the third consecutive season, but Dixon’s charge to close out the runner-up spot with three wins in the final four rounds shows he remains a force to be reckoned with.There were question marks going into August if the 43-year-old Kiwi would endure an ultra-rare win-less 2023, something that hadn’t happened since 2004. Then, he rattled off a remarkable run ...Keep reading
The 23-year-old Dane picked up five wins - including both oval races at Iowa and Illinois - and three further podiums, plus five pole positions from his second season in the championship previously known as Indy Lights. He only finished outside the top 10 once in 14 starts, after a crash at Road America.Maybe no performance was more impressive, though, than how the HMD Motorsports driver concluded ...Keep reading
There’s no hiding from the fact that the World Rally Championship is entering a crucial phase as it wishes to establish its future, improve its appeal and attract more manufacturers. And last weekend’s Acropolis Rally gave both the series and the FIA every incentive to ensure that its pathway is defined when the governing body’s president Mohammed Ben Sulayem uttered the words the majority ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer and the seven-time world champion ended months of speculation ahead of the Italian Grand Prix when they announced that they were extending their commitment to each other until at least the end of 2025. There had been some hope of getting the new deal sorted out earlier in the year, but the issue dragged. The hold-up even served to fuel speculation that Hamilton may not ...Keep reading
The Valkyrie LMH programme is set to be reactivated after more than three years on the back-burner as Aston and US-based team Heart of Racing ramp up a relationship that already straddles the GT arenas in IMSA and WEC.Autosport has learned that Aston and Heart of Racing, which is backed by computer games tycoon Gabe Newell, are closing in on a deal to bring a car conceived to start racing in 2021 ...Keep reading
Frenchman Nato departed the Nissan team after a single season that peaked with second in Rome, with former Mahindra driver Oliver Rowland returning to the squad he previously drove for in its Nissan e.dams guise to partner Sacha Fenestraz.Lotterer's departure from Formula E to concentrate fully on his World Endurance Championship endeavours with Porsche, which was announced last week, opened up a ...Keep reading
Last year, F1 switched to ground-effect-based cars which are set up extremely stiff to generate the most downforce. That set-up had the unintended side-effect of porpoising on most cars, with drivers bouncing violently on the straights.But even without the highly publicised bouncing effect, the low-ride heights have generally made the cars much less comfortable to drive, with more forces ...Keep reading
The team’s future in the WRC was called into question at last weekend’s Acropolis Rally following the publication of an interview with driver Pierre-Louis Loubet in French media that suggested the squad could be absent from next year’s Rally1 field. The article has since been labelled “fake news” and has been removed.M-Sport has endured a challenging 2023 campaign which Wilson admits has ...Keep reading
Haas has yet to get on top of its 2023 car's severe tyre woes, which have left the American-owned team unable to replicate its often-reasonable qualifying pace over a whole race stint.The Ferrari customer squad particularly struggles on hot and twisty circuits where Pirelli's tyres are tested the most, with its disastrous performance in the Italian Grand Prix another new low.Hulkenberg and ...Keep reading
The 37-year-old Spaniard finished fourth in both races, missing out on a podium by just 0.669s in the grand prix after hunting down reigning champion Francesco Bagnaia.It was just his third grand prix appearance since retiring at the end of 2018, having also participated in this year’s Spanish GP at Jerez.The three-time MotoGP championship runner-up was praised for his performance by other ...Keep reading
The #41 WRT ORECA-Gibson 07 shared by Kubica, Louis Deletraz and Rui Andrade dropped from second to sixth early on after Andrade was hit by the #23 United Autosports entry of Josh Pierson, an offence for which Pierson was slapped with a 10-second time penalty.While the incident put the #41 crew on the back foot, Kubica, Deletraz and Andrade clawed back the lost ground and returned to the front by ...Keep reading
The FIA launched a WRC tyre tender in July inviting tyre brands to submit their interest in becoming the championship's sole tyre supplier, with the current tender expiring at the end of next year.The tyre tender will cover a three-year period from 2025 to 2027, the last year of the contract coinciding with the WRC's expected move to new regulations.Italian tyre manufacturer Pirelli is currently ...Keep reading
WRC Promoter has collated a raft of ideas over the last three months to improve the championship, having faced criticism from drivers concerned by the WRC's appeal and perceived lack of direction.Following comments made by Hyundai's Thierry Neuville to Autosport at Rally Portugal, the WRC Promoter invited drivers to a meeting to share their ideas to help improve the category's appeal in ...Keep reading
Mercedes has endured a challenging campaign, the progress it had hoped to make with its W14 failing to materialise as it embarked on a 'painful' change in car concept.The team recognised it had aimed to run its aero platform too high, giving away too much performance compared to rivals running much closer to the ground.Mercedes believes that a fundamental overhaul of its approach for 2024 will ...Keep reading
Two-time champion Nojiri, who is aiming to capture a third crown in next month’s Suzuka season finale, fears outlawing damper development will make it harder for any team to overcome the inherent traits of its car, including the chassis.Super Formula’s plan to move towards a common damper is set to mark a major philosophical shift for the Japanese single-seater series.A desire on the part of ...Keep reading
The Japanese marque's technical director Pascal Vasselon made the comment after wrapping up the 2023 manufacturers' title with a 1-2 finish on home turf, having overcome a stiff challenge from Porsche.By contrast, the two Ferrari 499Ps finished a lap down in fourth and fifth on what was the Prancing Horse's least competitive showing since it stepped up to the top class of the WEC this ...Keep reading
It wouldn’t be unfair to say that the majority of the press corps who attended the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano felt the actual racing was something of an inconvenience. The traditional post-race test on the Monday was the far more important part of the weekend.For the last few months, as Yamaha and Honda have languished at the bottom of the manufacturers’ standings and struggled for any ...Keep reading
The Silverstone-based team concedes that this year’s car has been weak in that area, which is why it endured such a difficult weekend at Monza.Fernando Alonso had his least competitive showing of the season at the Italian Grand Prix, struggling to finish ninth, while Lance Stroll was out of the points in 16th.Alonso has urged the team to address efficiency, and McCullough agrees that it is a ...Keep reading
Palou started this year’s IndyCar blue ribband race from pole, but was pushed out of the lead fight following a collision with Rinus VeeKay in the pitlane. He bounced back to finish fourth, having charged up from last place.When asked about his hopes for winning the 2024 Indy 500, after ending his title-winning season with a third place at Laguna Seca on Sunday, Palou replied: “Well, that ...Keep reading
Stevenson, 55, is a stalwart of the Silverstone squad. He joined the team in its first guise as Jordan in the early 1990s and climbed the ranks to become chief mechanic before moving into his current role in 2005. As sporting director, he leads Aston Martin’s dealings with the FIA.This year, he compiled successful protests to overturn Fernando Alonso’s pitstop penalty in Saudi Arabia and ...Keep reading
Yamaha has struggled for power to match its rivals for the last few years in MotoGP, which has contributed to its slide down the pecking order.For 2023, it began working with former Ferrari F1 engine chief Marmorini to improve in this area, though that collaboration was geared more towards the 2024 season.Running the new engine on Monday at Misano's post-San Marino Grand Prix test, 2021 MotoGP ...Keep reading
Due to the difficulties facing the Japanese manufacturers in MotoGP this season and the knock-on effect this has had on the rider market, with Marquez and Fabio Quartararo’s futures uncertain, Monday’s Misano test has been seen as a crucial outing.The main stories from Monday revolved around Honda’s 2024 prototype and the new parts tested by Yamaha with a view to next year.Marquez ended the ...Keep reading
Corvette was in the hunt for victory for much of the six-hour Japanese enduro, with the team’s sole C8.R enjoying multiple stints in the lead after Keating qualified the car on pole position.However, Keating had to come into the garage to get the right-hand side door replaced after he was involved in a collision with the #54 AF Corse Ferrari of Thomas Flohr in the third hour. A 30-second stop/go ...Keep reading
From this weekend's Singapore Grand Prix, the FIA has got tougher on the design of front and rear wings in a bid to stop teams from playing games with flexible parts.As first revealed by Autosport, the FIA has demanded to see all design drawings of wings ahead of the Marina Bay race to check they comply and has outlawed specific wing ideas that it believes contravene the rules.This includes wing ...Keep reading
The WRC made the move to introduce hybrid power with its Rally1 regulations last year which coincided with a pioneering decision to adopt 100% sustainable fuel, provided by P1 Racing Fuels.However, the championship’s long-term future from 2027 and beyond has prompted the FIA to investigate a range of propulsion methods to future-proof the championship and align it with the automotive market ...Keep reading
The factory Ducati rider’s right leg was badly bruised when KTM’s Brad Binder ran over it in a horrific incident on the opening lap of the Catalan GP one week ago.Bagnaia was cleared to compete at his home GP and managed to scored third-place finishes in both the sprint and Sunday's full grand prix, albeit having his points lead cut to 36 from 50 by double winner Jorge Martin.Ducati factory ...Keep reading
The 23-year-old Formula 2 graduate ran 12 of 17 races, which excluded ovals, in a ride share agreement with Takuma Sato.However five tops 10s, including a best of sixth on the streets of Toronto, established Armstrong as a rookie of the year contender despite the schedule limitations.It was cemented after a stout recovery to finish eighth in Sunday’s season finale at Laguna Seca, bettering ...Keep reading
Prompted by an interview with ex-F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone earlier this year, plus archive footage of late FIA race director Charlie Whiting, Massa believes F1 and the governing body were aware of the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix ‘crashgate’ scandal in time to take action before the championship was decided.Former Ferrari and Williams racer Massa says he is developing a subsequent legal case to ...Keep reading
It made the claim despite its two 499P Le Mans Hypercars trailing home in fourth and fifth positions, a lap down on the Toyota GR010 HYBRIDs that blocked out the top two positions.“There is a status quo; this position is more of less the same from after the Le Mans 24 Hours,” said Giuliano Salvi, Ferrari’s race and test team manager.“Our position compared with Toyota is more or less as ...Keep reading
Marquez has a contract with Honda for 2024 but speculation about him cutting ties with the Japanese manufacturer for next year have been rife amid its ongoing struggles in MotoGP this season.During the San Marino Grand Prix weekend, Marquez became embroiled in rumours that he will join Gresini Ducati next season.He repeatedly stated when asked that he has a contract for 2024, while both Honda and ...Keep reading
FIA President Mohammed Ben Sulayem revealed at last weekend’s Acropolis Rally that the three-time WRC constructors’ winner (1995-1997) is considering a possible return to the championship.Subaru has a rich history in the WRC, running Colin McRae (1995), Richard Burns (2001) and Petter Solberg (2003) to world driver's titles before exiting at the end of 2008 due to the global financial ...Keep reading
The MotoGP title battle ignited at the San Marino Grand Prix as Jorge Martin’s brilliant double victory allowed him to close the gap on championship leader Francesco Bagnaia. Pramac’s Martin broke his pole duck in 2023 with a stunner in qualifying to smash the lap record, and duly converted this into dominant wins in the sprint and the grand prix.It has allowed him to cut the championship lead ...Keep reading
At two races this year – Hungary and Monza after the initial trial set for Imola had to be abandoned amid that race’s cancellation – Pirelli has experimented with shipping fewer tyre sets, with adapted rules implemented for qualifying.By mandating drivers run hards in Q1, mediums in Q2 and softs in Q3, Pirelli is able to bring just 11 tyre sets overall for each car and achieve an improvement ...Keep reading
Despite Zhou being the first full-time Chinese F1 racer, there has been speculation he does not come with major financial banking to incentivise Alfa Romeo to agree new terms.Speaking ahead of the summer break, Alfa Romeo F1 managing director Alessandro Alunni Bravi reckoned his squad wanted to retain its line-up of Zhou and Valtteri Bottas - who moved from Mercedes for 2022 on a two-year deal ...Keep reading
Pedrosa, who retired from full-time competition at the end of 2018, made his second wildcard appearance of the season at Misano last weekend.The 31-time MotoGP race winner finished fourth in both the sprint and the grand prix, narrowly missing the podium in each contest.His performances were met with praise from all of the riders on the grid, with Aprilia’s Espargaro – who struggled to ...Keep reading
The 30-year-old Kiwi started second but was involved in an opening lap crash in Turn 2, which pushed him down the order and into the pitlane for repairs.But another incident quickly followed for the Kiwi, as he made hard contact with the back of a slowing Benjamin Pedersen on lap 6 of 95. On this occasion, the race officials reviewed the incident but ruled it to have been a racing ...Keep reading
In only its second outing in the WEC’s top Hypercar class with the Porsche 963, Proton proved competitive as the car shared by Jani and team-mates Harry Tincknell and Gianmaria Bruni ran in the top five just shy of the two-hour mark.However, the team’s hard work was undone when Tincknell came in after his opening double stint to hand over to Bruni, as a problem occurred with the seat belts ...Keep reading
After powering past Brad Keselowski with 80 laps to go, Denny Hamlin appeared set to sweep victories in both Kansas races this season until Chris Buescher hit the wall with seven laps remaining and sent the race into a two-lap overtime.That set up several different pit strategies as Daniel Suarez stayed out and inherited the lead and three drivers took on only two tyres, that grouping headed by ...Keep reading
Due to construction work, the sequence of four near 90-degree corners towards the end of the lap which led the track under a grandstand has been removed for this year's race.In its place is a new, longer straight section that leads from the gentle left-hander at Turn 15 to the tight right-hander at what used to be Turn 20, but is now Turn 16.As well as creating a much quicker lap time, the changes ...Keep reading
The six-time champion kept his head when many around him lost theirs, beating Scott McLaughlin (Team Penske) and his champion team-mate Alex Palou after a race punctuated by a high number caution periods caused by a series of wildly over-optimistic lunges and collisions that had a definite end-of-term feel.Poleman Felix Rosenqvist (Arrow McLaren) led the 27-car field to green on his final start ...Keep reading
The Jaguar E-types had been outgunned by the AC Cobras in dry qualifying and William Paul started the car he shared with Priaulx from 13th.He kept the car in contention while Marino Franchitti led the early damp-but-drying running in the Bryant family Cobra.The pack was brought back together when Brian Caudwell’s Cobra got beached in the Lavant gravel, bringing out the safety car.Bill ...Keep reading
The exhibition race at the 17-turn, 3.067-mile circuit will take place on Sunday, 24 March, following an Open Test and qualifications on the Friday and Saturday.Per the series release, the event “will receive a network broadcast showcase on NBC”.“The IndyCar Series will add an incredible new event to our schedule with next year’s spectacular racing showcase at The Thermal Club,” said ...Keep reading
Honda is in the midst of one of its worst seasons ever in MotoGP, with it winning just one race and sitting joint last in the manufacturers' standings alongside Yamaha.So tough has the situation been at Honda that it has led to incessant rumours that Marc Marquez will break his contract for 2024 and join Gresini Ducati.While both parties have dismissed this, much has been made about the ...Keep reading
Martin romped to his second double of the season after leading every racing lap from pole at Misano in the sprint and the main race.With championship leader Francesco Bagnaia struggling to third in both contests due to his ongoing injury woes from his horror Barcelona crash one week ago, Martin has slashed his rival's advantage from 50 to 36 points.Asked now if he can think about the championship ...Keep reading
While F1 awaits official confirmation, Pirelli remains the favourite to beat Bridgestone to the contract, with many paddock insiders suggesting that the deal is now a formality and assuming that, as time drags on, a change becomes less likely.The twist is that sources suggest a strategic withdrawal from F1 by the Italian company when the next term ends is a possible scenario, one that would leave ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion recorded his third WRC victory of 2023 in one of the most brutal and unforgiving events in recent memory, taking the win by 1m31.7s from title rival and Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans.The Acropolis is renowned for being a rally of attrition but conditions for this year were even more challenging following Storm Daniel, which brought torrential rain to the region in the ...Keep reading
Another steamy afternoon on an abrasive track not known for its overtaking opportunities began – perhaps inevitably under these circumstances – with multiple cars in the gravel trap in the first sequence of corners.Two separate incidents at the 'Omega' right-hander meant an early red flag and a handful of cars – including the likes of BMW racer Sheldon van der Linde and Mercedes man Maro ...Keep reading
Having led from start to finish in Saturday’s sprint, Martin did the same from pole in Sunday’s full-distance race at Misano.Capitalising on the injuries for championship leader Francesco Bagnaia and VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi from their respective Barcelona crashes, Martin’s second double of the season has put him just 36 points behind in the standings.Pedrosa piled immense pressure on ...Keep reading
Vanthoor managed to wrest the lead of the six-hour contest away from home favourite Toyota with a bold move up the inside of poleman Mike Conway at the very start of the race.With both Toyotas being compromised, dropping the two GR010 HYBRIDs that had locked out the front row down the order, Vanthoor was able to build a gap at the head of the field in the #6 Porsche 963 he shared with Kevin Estre ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver was one of two Rally1 entries to complete the event's attritional 15 stages without a delay, affording the Finn a comfortable winning margin of 1m31.7s over title rival and team-mate Elfyn Evans.Rovanpera led the rally after winning Thursday night's asphalt super special in Athens but dropped to third when the rally tackled Greece's notoriously rough gravel roads.The stages were ...Keep reading
The 20-lap Moto3 contest kicked off race action at Misano on Sunday morning, with a tense four-rider battle for the victory going the way of Aspar’s Alonso.Poleman Jaume Masia made a lightning getaway on his Leopard Honda, building an early lead of almost a second as the chasing pack battled for places.Once Ajo KTM’s Deniz Oncu got through into second ahead of Diogo Moreira, he quickly ate ...Keep reading
It does not matter if it is bright green, yellow, blue or orange paint, flow-vis has become almost the universal way for teams to assess aero parts.However, Alpine raised a few eyebrows at last weekend's Italian Grand Prix when it appeared to roll back the clock and do something a bit more old-school with its aero testing.Instead of using flow-vis to check on a revised low downforce Monza-specific ...Keep reading
The championship leader could afford to back off during the pair of stages, ending the loop with a 1m29.2s lead over title rival and team-mate Elfyn Evans, who snatched second from Hyundai's Dani Sordo.Sordo started the morning in second spot but trailed Evans by 2.7s heading into the final stage.M-Sport's Ott Tanak maintained fourth (+4m25.8s) ahead of Hyundai's Esapekka Lappi (+6m18s) and ...Keep reading
The #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID of Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Jose Maria Lopez took the chequered flag 39 seconds clear of the sister #8 car shared by Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa and Sebastien Buemi, as the Japanese manufacturer celebrated its ninth WEC win at Fuji in 10 attempts.Porsche's lead car, the #6 machine of Laurens Vanthoor, Kevin Estre and Andre Lotterer, led for just under four ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion has been enveloped in gossip that he will switch to the Gresini Ducati squad in 2024 as Honda’s problems in MotoGP persist, though Marquez has continually stated “I have a contract” with HRC.Monday’s post-race test is seen as vital in Marquez’s decision to remain or leave Honda, with the Japanese marque bringing a prototype 2024 bike, which is already being ...Keep reading
The speedy Swede, who is joining Meyer Shank Racing in 2024, drove “a gorilla lap” flyer of 1m06.6416s lap on the 11-turn, 2.238-mile natural terrain road course.Fast Six qualifyingThe tense showdown right at the end of the Fast Six session edged out Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin by a narrow 0.0097s.Rosenqvist’s showing was 4.9s faster than Will Power’s pole from last year on the ...Keep reading
The Hyundai driver headed to Greece sitting 36 points adrift of Toyota’s Kalle Rovanpera, but was in strong position to close the gap after starting Saturday with a 25.5s advantage over the third-placed Finn.Neuville delivered an impressive performance over Saturday morning’s stages to lead Sebastien Ogier by 10.9s. However, the Belgian's rally unravelled when he hit a hole the road on stage ...Keep reading
The 22-year-old Dane had a clean session in comparison to his rivals, going to the top with a flying lap at 1m07.6154s around the 11-turn, 2.238-mile road course.Rinus VeeKay (Ed Carpenter Racing) ended up second, trailing by 0.0392 of a second. Newly crowned two-time IndyCar champion Alex Palou was the best Chip Ganassi Racing driver in third.Arrow McLaren’s Alexander Rossi was fourth, while ...Keep reading
The eight-time world rally champion was locked in a fight for victory with Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville, with the pair swapping positions across Saturday’s stages.Ogier inherited the rally lead on stage nine when Neuville a hit a hole in the road that caused terminal suspension damage.That left Ogier, who is driving a part-time WRC season this year, with a 12.4s advantage over Toyota team-mate ...Keep reading
On Friday, Malukas was announced as Meyer Shank Racing-bound Felix Rosenqvist's replacement at Arrow McLaren, completing the team's three-car 2024 lineup alongside Pato O’Ward and Alexander Rossi.Malukas, a Chicago-born American-Lithuanian, has spent the past two seasons at Dale Coyne Racing with HMD, earning a pair of podiums that includes a career-best runner-up last year at the 1.25-mile oval ...Keep reading
The Honda rider is contracted with the Japanese marque until the end of next season, but rumours have persisted about the chance of him breaking that contract for next year.Over the San Marino Grand Prix weekend, there were suggestions the six-time premier class world champion could switch to the Gresini Ducati squad at which brother Alex currently races.Insight: The signs suggesting Marquez is ...Keep reading
Championship leader Rovanpera started the day third, 25.5s down on overnight leader Neuville, but returned to the service park with a 2m04.4s rally lead over Hyundai’s Dani Sordo.Hyundai's Neuville retired from the lead on the afternoon’s first stage, handing the advantage to Ogier. However, the Toyota driver then lost four minutes to a suspension issue on the afternoon’s last test, dropping ...Keep reading
Pedrosa, who turns 38 later this month, is making his second grand prix appearance of the 2023 season as a KTM wildcard.In the sprint race at Misano on Saturday, Pedrosa narrowly missed a first podium since his last MotoGP win in Malaysia in 2017, finishing fourth behind Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia and ahead of KTM team-mate Brad Binder.Pedrosa retired from MotoGP at the end of the 2018 season ...Keep reading
The championship leader had his right leg run over by KTM's Brad Binder in a horrible accident in last week's Catalan GP.Though he was cleared to ride, Bagnaia struggled with the pain in his leg in Saturday's 13-lap sprint race and only narrowly fended off the KTM duo of wildcard Dani Pedrosa and Brad Binder for third.Bagnaia says his defence of Pedrosa into Turn 1 on the last lap was one of the ...Keep reading
The 34-year-old has driven for the family Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team since 2013 and made 275 starts to date since 2007 for teams including Newman-Haas Racing, Sarah Fisher Racing and Chip Ganassi Racing.Rahal says his Honda-powered #15 car has sponsorship for the entirety of next season, which means there is “zero pressure this offseason” and is “in a good place to go ...Keep reading
Vasselon, technical director of Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe, put the Japanese driver's advantage over team-mate Brendon Hartley down to his renowned qualifying pace and local knowledge of the Fuji Speedway."He got everything right: the timing, the tyre preparation and the way he handled the circuit," explained Vasselon."We have seen at Fuji drivers who are used to the circuit have a small ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen took his 10th win in a row in Monza last weekend, which was the 15th consecutive victory for Red Bull.Extending its clean sweep of 2023 race wins, the Milton Keynes team is another step closer to winning all 22 races this year, which would be unprecedented in the world championship.Insight: 10 things we learned from the 2023 F1 Italian Grand PrixMcLaren won 15 out of 16 races in ...Keep reading
The Pramac rider led from the off, and despite VR46 rider Bezzecchi attempting a fight back after passing Francesco Bagnaia for second, Martin held on for his second consecutive podium.Despite both carrying injuries after separate incidents in last weekend’s Catalan GP, home favourites Bezzecchi and championship leader Bagnaia completed the podium.It was far from easy for the Ducati factory ...Keep reading
HRT driver Stolz enjoyed a perfect rolling start from pole position, as his rivals tiptoed through the tight, technical opening sequence of corners.A brief safety car intervention to clear debris destroyed the clear lead Stolz had already built up, but the German simply pulled away again.He then pitted at the first opportunity when the window opened, despite this meaning a long second stint that ...Keep reading
Neuville held a 10.9s lead over Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier heading into stage 10, the second pass through Pavliani stage, but came to halt 11 kilometres into the 24.25km rough gravel test.Neuville’s i20 N Rally1 car suffered a bent front right wheel and damaged the suspension following an unfortunate impact with a hole in the road.The car came to a halt at the roadside, where the damage proved ...Keep reading
Bourdais and Renger van der Zande currently sit sixth in the standings with two races to go, having scored a single victory in their #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series.R at Laguna Seca in May.The Frenchman noted that the change in tyre compounds that began three races ago at Watkins Glen had adversely impacted Cadillac's form, having finished no higher than fourth since the six-hour ...Keep reading
As the last European round of the 2023 season, the Italian Grand Prix paddock was heaving with VIPs and paddock guests throughout the weekend.The number of paddock guests, part of the 304,000 fans attending the Monza weekend, is an indication of how popular F1 has become.But on the other hand, it has also made it much harder for drivers and teams to move around their workplace, with Autosport ...Keep reading
Lynn got down to a time aboard the #2 Cadillac V-Series.R that left him only three tenths behind the second-placed #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID qualified by Brendon Hartley during the 15-minute Hypercar qualifying period on Saturday afternoon. That represented a major step forward on the Caddy's performance during free practice: it could do no better than eighth in the Hypercar classification over the ...Keep reading
Calado could only manage sixth in the best of the two Ferrari 499P LMH cars in qualifying for the penultimate round of the 2023 WEC season, 1.2 seconds down on the #7 Toyota that took pole with Kamui Kobayashi at the wheel.Nicklas Nielsen in the sister #50 Ferrari was another tenth behind in seventh, as Ferrari failed to get a single car inside the top three for the first time in 2023. While ...Keep reading
Going without a pole since last year’s Valencia GP, Martin was a dominant force in qualifying at Misano on Saturday morning, as he set two outright lap records to seal the deal.A final effort of 1m30.390s moved him miles clear of the competition, with VR46 Ducati rider Marco Bezzecchi his closest rival in second, 0.397 seconds behind.One week on from his horror crash in Barcelona, championship ...Keep reading
Overnight leader Neuville lost the rally lead to Toyota’s Ogier in the day’s opening gravel test, but fought back to build up a 10.9s margin at the end of the Saturday morning loop.Championship leader Kalle Rovanpera meanwhile boosted his victory hopes with two impressive stages wins to sit 23.7s adrift in third.However, Rovanpera’s nearest championship rival and team-mate, Evans was forced ...Keep reading
The British squad has revealed an intention to file entries for two Isotta Fraschini Tipo 6 Competizione Le Mans Hypercars for the 2024 WEC.Vector team principal Gary Holland told Autosport: “We will be making two entries before the closing date in November and we hope and are hopeful that we will be granted them. “We believe that we will bring something to the championship, be a credible ...Keep reading
Trimby was an immensely important figure in the MotoGP paddock, owing to his work in making the championship what it is today.A former racer, Trimby – helped in no small part by his wife Irene - headed a union for grand prix riders in 1982 to help bring about better pay for competitors and improve safety.In 1986, Trimby founded and headed IRTA, which remains as the official body for race teams ...Keep reading
Motor racing's governing body is currently hard at work putting in place outline chassis regulations for the next rules era that will kick off in 2026.As well as a planned shift towards active aero to help reduce drag on the straights, the FIA has offered some more details about what else could be changing.Speaking in an exclusive interview with Autosport's Italian language sister site ...Keep reading
The ByKolles-run squad returned to the WEC this year with the non-hybrid Vandervell 680 LMH, the successor to the troubled CLM P1/01 LMP1 car that failed to finish Le Mans 24 Hours in six successive attempts.Vanwall’s season so far has been plagued by a number of reliability issues, most notably a brake explosion at Portimao that led to Jacques Villeneuve’s race-ending crash and an engine ...Keep reading
Race: 1973 Italian Grand Prix, MonzaCar: Tyrrell 006"We'd had a very good season at Tyrrell and I was leading the world championship going into Monza, which was the last grand prix in Europe. I knew I could secure the title before flying away, but then one of the rear tyres began to deflate during the race..."Although I didn't win the race it meant something to me that was more than just winning ...Keep reading
Kobayashi took the top spot with a best time of 1m27.794s around halfway through the 15-minute Hypercar qualifying session on Saturday afternoon, scoring a crucial bonus point for himself and his team-mates Jose Maria Lopez and Mike Conway.Brendon Hartley was 0.624 seconds adrift of Kobayashi in the #8 Toyota, ahead of the two factory Penske-run Porsche 963s.Kevin Estre briefly topped the times at ...Keep reading
Practice began on a wet track following a brief shower earlier on Saturday morning, but conditions improved sufficiently for slick tyres to be fitted just 15 minutes into the session.Ferrari was one of the first teams to make the move away from wets, with Alessandro Pier Guidi immediately improving by over two seconds to 1m35.275s to go fastest in the #51 499P.Lap times continued to tumble as the ...Keep reading
The 23-year-old Californian set the tone early with a flying lap of 1m07.5382s around the 11-turn, 2.238-mile natural terrain road course.His fastest time was achieved on a set of the harder primary tyre compound.Behind the Andretti Autosport pacesetter and two-time Laguna Seca race winner was Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward, who trailed by 0.0529s, and was ahead of team-mate Alexander Rossi in ...Keep reading
Storm Daniel has wreaked havoc in Greece this week severely affecting preparations for this weekend’s 70th anniversary Acropolis Rally.Torrential rain disrupted the recce schedule, while the extreme conditions made making accurate pacenotes impossible. The weather has drastically improved since the drivers completed their original recce, which has left the roads in vastly different shape from ...Keep reading
The 21-year-old Chicago-born American-Lithuanian has spent the past two years at Dale Coyne Racing with HMD, earning two podiums ahead of this weekend’s season finale at Laguna Seca.Malukas is set to drive Arrow McLaren’s Chevrolet-powered #6 entry, completing its line-up alongside Pato O’Ward and Alexander Rossi.Palou was expected to join the team for 2024, but he made a U-turn to stay with ...Keep reading
The Ford squad endured another challenging start to a World Rally Championship event as water pump issues ended Loubet’s and Ott Tanak’s hopes of a strong points haul.Loubet retired from the rally when his Puma ground to a halt on a road section before stage two, the first proper test of the rally.The Frenchman will not re-join the rally having only completed Thursday night's super ...Keep reading
Button praised Verstappen for his ability to adapt his driving style to the car he’s given, suggesting that not all drivers can cope in the same way.The 2009 world champion, who drove alongside Hamilton at McLaren in 2010-’12, said he would be “more fearful” going up against Verstappen.In recent weeks, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has suggested that Red Bull cars are designed around ...Keep reading
Carbon fibre chassis are not a new concept in MotoGP, but a full frame made of the material has not been used since Ducati did so with its 2009, 2010 and 2011 bike.Though it was a race winner with Casey Stoner, Ducati struggled to retain its title-winning form from 2007 when it ran a steel trellis chassis, and abandoned the carbon concept for 2012 when it switched to a conventional aluminium ...Keep reading
The Finnish driver’s i20 N Rally 1 car suffered a radiator leak thought to have been triggered by a nasty compression during the Loutraki stage.Lappi was forced to pull over after completing stage four to conduct repairs where he was able to limit the loss of water.As water continued to escape from his car Lappi and co-driver Janne Ferm secured some water bottles at the stage end to re-fill the ...Keep reading
The Ducati rider escaped serious injury on the opening lap of last week's Catalan GP after a huge highside before his leg was run over by KTM's Brad Binder.The championship leader suffered extensive bruising and is still undergoing physiotherapy, but rode on Friday, finishing 20th in FP1 and seventh in the afternoon’s session.Bagnaia said the morning’s running was “more tough,” but an ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion has been enveloped in gossip that he will switch to the Gresini Ducati squad in 2024 as Honda’s problems in MotoGP persist, though Marquez has continually stated “I have a contract” with HRC.Monday’s post-race test is seen as vital in Marquez’s decision to remain or leave Honda, with the Japanese marque bringing a prototype 2024 bike, which is already being ...Keep reading
In the wake of a season where Red Bull driver Perez has failed to match the performances of team-mate Max Verstappen, Marko has not held back in his criticisms at times of the Mexican.But in remarks he made to Red Bull’s own channel ServusTV earlier this week, he stepped up the rhetoric when he suggested that Perez’s nationality was to blame for some of his woes.“We know that he has problems ...Keep reading
Porsche has struggled to challenge Le Mans Hypercar manufacturers Toyota and Ferrari on its return to the top echelon of sportscar racing this year, managing only one podium with its 963 LMDh.The result in April’s Portimao round came after both Toyota (sensor) and Ferrari (front-axle brake-by-wire) were delayed, while Porsche lost out on a podium at Spa to Ferrari on the final lap.At the most ...Keep reading
In fact, one of the chief challenges that remains for the squad is in improving the aero-efficiency of its MCL60, which has manifested itself in the car being too draggy for some circuits.In that respect, last weekend's Italian Grand Prix offered a very different challenge, as the Monza track is all about straightline speed.And, with an apparent disadvantage in terms of straightline speed when ...Keep reading
Hyundai driver Neuville won only one of Friday's five stages, but the defending rally winner clocked a series of consistent times to lead 2011 Acropolis conqueror Ogier by 2.8s.Championship and overnight rally leader Kalle Rovanpera managed to limit the damage of starting first on the road to end Friday third, 25.5s adrift, with Toyota title rival Elfyn Evans a further 5.5s back in ...Keep reading
A week on from heading an historic Aprilia 1-2 at the Catalan GP, Espargaro will face the opening segment of qualifying on Saturday after a late fast crash at the penultimate corner on Friday afternoon at Misano.A last-gasp effort from Bezzecchi of 1m30.846s, marking a new lap record, put him top of the order from Aprilia’s Vinales.KTM wildcard Dani Pedrosa completed the top three on his ...Keep reading
The current deal that runs from 2021 and 2025 was negotiated by former F1 CEO Chase Carey in what was regarded as a new spirit of cooperation compared to the often confrontational debates of the earlier Bernie Ecclestone era.Preliminary discussions have already begun over the next Concorde, the first on Stefano Domenicali's watch as F1 CEO, even though it won't come into force until 2026.Maffei ...Keep reading
In the wake of complaints from a number of drivers that the current generation of cars is getting as difficult to race as close to each other as the previous rules set, it has emerged that the FIA has already been alerted to the situation.Its analysis of the performance of the current ground-effect machinery is that the 2023 cars have given away 50% of the gains that were achieved for 2022 in ...Keep reading
In its heyday, make no mistake, the Goodwood Motor Circuit always occupied a very special place within the burgeoning British motor racing scene. It never hosted a world championship grand prix, but it provided a much-loved stage for the infant British motorsport industry to strut upon.While active racing was pursued there for 18 years, 1948-66, the Motor Circuit’s subsequent test and ...Keep reading
Peugeot notched up its first podium finish with the 9X8 in the last round at Monza, with Jean-Eric Vergne, Paul di Resta and Mikkel Jensen finishing third in the #93 car behind the winning Toyota and the second-placed Ferrari.The breakthrough result came exactly a year after Peugeot made its WEC Hypercar debut at the Italian track, and followed a tough period in which it was bogged down by both ...Keep reading
Lovell has been the driver to beat in the Boxster Cup this year and took his 2023 tally to 11 with his hat-trick at the Festival of Porsche event. Those victories have in turn sent him 11th in Autosport's winners' table, a rise of 18 places.Despite relatively few club race meetings taking place last weekend, there was still quite a bit of shuffling in the rankings - but all of it occurred outside ...Keep reading
Autosport’s top 10 was determined by a panel including Toyota WRC team principal Jari-Matti Latvala, M-Sport Ford managing director Malcolm Wilson and Hyundai Motorsport’s WRC programme manager Christian Loriaux. Autosport also produced its own list.Each member of the panel selected an individual top 10 list, with the drivers each scoring points from 10 awarded to first down to one for 10th ...Keep reading
The M-Sport driver ended Friday morning’s two stage loop in fourth, 8.3s adrift of leader Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville, before drama struck in the tyre fitting zone.Tanak’s Ford Puma developed a water pump issue that triggered frantic work on the car, with Tanak and co-driver Martin Jarveoja assisting mechanics in finding a fix for the problem.The issue was resolved but at a cost as Tanak left ...Keep reading
While a number of outfits, including Ferrari, opted to bring bespoke aerodynamic designs for the high-speed Monza track, Red Bull went for a more low-key approach.With its RB19 car already pretty good in terms of aero efficiency, it opted simply to trim its regular upper flap to shed a little bit of drag.Despite that minimal effort to lift its top speed, Max Verstappen still qualified on the front ...Keep reading
It seems like a long time ago now, such has been Toyota’s recent domination of the event. But prior to its breakthrough in the 2018 edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours, mention of the Japanese manufacturer was often followed by reference to its ‘curse’.Toyota’s late failures at the world’s most famous endurance race used to be an annual talking point, and began with the misfortunes of the ...Keep reading
The Aruba.it rider, who regularly rides at the Misano World Circuit in his test role for the manufacturer, set a 1m31.909s to top the timesheet on Friday morning.He led from Marini, just one-tenth slower, who was confirmed on Thursday to be staying with VR46 for 2024, with Pramac’s Jorge Martin in third.Championship leader Francesco Bagnaia, who escaped serious injury in a crash at last ...Keep reading
As expected, the low-drag Williams excelled on the fast straights in the Italian Grand Prix, with Albon frustrating McLaren's Lando Norris by holding him off for seventh until the finish thanks to his car's superior top speed.PLUS: How Monza shows Albon's transformation to fearsome F1 battlerIt is the latest in a string of strong results for Williams, having started the second half of the season ...Keep reading
The 41-year-old German driver published a statement on social media confirming that he will focus solely on his Porsche commitments in the World Endurance Championship in 2024.It brings down the curtain on a six-season spell in Formula E that began when he joined Techeetah for the 2017/18 season, as well as more than two decades racing in single-seaters.In that time, Lotterer won the Formula ...Keep reading
The Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercars ended up 1-2 in the times during Friday afternoon's Free Practice 2, Sebastien Buemi in the #8 car ending up over a second clear of the Japanese manufacturer’s closest challenger. Buemi and Kamui Kobayashi in the sister car each set two lap times faster than the Antonio Felix da Costa managed in the third-placed Jota Porsche 963 LMDh. The #8 car in ...Keep reading
Although the circumstances surrounding the Crashgate controversy at the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix had been consigned to F1's history books by many, it has become a hot topic again.An interview Bernie Ecclestone conducted earlier this year suggesting that knowledge of Nelson Piquet Jr's deliberate crash was known early enough for the FIA and FOM to take action before the 2008 title was decided – ...Keep reading
Neuville completed the rally's first loop of gravel stages with a slender 2.0s advantage ahead of overnight leader Rovanpera, who impressed despite starting first on the road.Toyota's Sebastien Ogier, on his WRC return, reached the morning tyre fitting zone in third (+4.6s) ahead of M-Sport's Ott Tanak (+8.3), with title contender Elfyn Evans in fifth, 12.5s adrift.Hyundai's Esapekka Lappi ...Keep reading
The Swiss driver’s recovery from the injuries that led to his replacement for this weekend’s Fuji round by reserve driver Stoffel Vandoorne is on schedule and Peugeot is currently planning for him to retake his place in the #94 9X8 alongside Loic Duval and Gustavo Menezes at the eight-hour race on 4 November. Olivier Jansonnie, technical director on the 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar programme, said ...Keep reading
Antonio Fuoco set a best time of 1m35.649s at the end of the 90-minute session in the #50 Ferrari 499P LMH, a massive 2.6 seconds up on the sister #51 machine as the track rapidly improved late on.Best of the rest in third was the #94 Peugeot 9X8, followed by the two works Penske Porsche 963s in fourth and fifth, while home favourite Toyota was sixth and seventh with its two GR010 HYBRIDs.Despite ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Palou, who won his second IndyCar title for the team at Portland last weekend, had been driving TPC (testing previous cars) machinery as reserve driver for McLaren’s F1 team ahead of his expected switch to Arrow McLaren’s IndyCar squad next year.This was understood to be part of an evaluation phase of his potential to join McLaren’s F1 driver line-up in the future.But ...Keep reading
The speculation, which in recent weeks was labelled as a rumour, has kicked up a gear on Thursday at the San Marino Grand Prix, with some media outlets even writing that Marquez has already decided to quit his Honda contract a year early.Speedweek, a Red Bull-owned publication, claimed that Marquez will join Gresini with his brother, Alex, as team-mate, and with the energy drink brand as one of ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver set the pace on the 1.48km asphalt stage, held in front of a bumper crowd that had congregated around the Athens harbour.The stage was the first competitive running for WRC crews after organisers were forced to cancel the shakedown stage in host city Lamia due to the effects of Storm Daniel.Torrential rain and thunderstorms have caused flash flooding across Greece but organisers ...Keep reading
The Frenchman claimed his maiden world championship at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Misano two years ago after a crash from rival Francesco Bagnaia handed him the championship with two rounds remaining.But Yamaha has struggled since, and though Quartararo finished second in last year’s standings, he is currently 11th, 178 points behind Ducati rider Bagnaia.Quartararo has repeatedly aired his ...Keep reading
Championship leader Bagnaia had his leg run over by KTM's Brad Binder in a nasty accident on the opening lap of last week's Catalan Grand Prix, having highsided out of Turn 2.Bagnaia escaped without serious injury and has been cleared to race in this weekend's San Marino GP, despite suffering extensive bruising to his leg.The Ducati rider's crash was replayed 19 times before his true condition was ...Keep reading
The three-time constructors’ champion became synonymous with the WRC in the 1990s and 2000s winning drivers’ titles with Colin McRae (1995), Richard Burns (2001) and Petter Solberg (2003).Subaru, however, exited the WRC at the end of 2008 due to the global financial crisis.The brand has however remained involved in rallying through the Subaru Motorsports USA programme, which competes in the ...Keep reading
Hamilton, who has won in Singapore four times, believes that his team’s high-downforce package will work well at the Marina Bay street track.In July, he took pole position at the Hungaroring, another venue that played to the strengths of the Mercedes.“I feel like this [Monza] might be the worst one for us,” Hamilton said after finishing sixth in the Italian Grand Prix, one place behind ...Keep reading
The claim made ahead of the resumption of the WEC after its summer break at Fuji this weekend came despite a first podium for the French car at the previous round of the championship at Monza.The #93 entry shared by Paul di Resta, Jean-Eric Vergne and Mikkel Jensen took the first top-three finish for the 9X8 after leading much of the opening stint of the Monza 6 Hours in July.“At Monza we had ...Keep reading
The 23-year-old sits atop the Rookie of the Year standings despite running a partial campaign that has consisted solely of road and street circuits. He has recorded three top-eight results in 11 IndyCar starts.A former member of Ferrari's Driver Academy, Armstrong arrived in IndyCar after three years in Formula 2, winning four races and scoring a further four podiums from 2020-22.His first taste ...Keep reading
Goodwood’s Motor Circuit, like other ex-RAF Second World War aerodromes repurposed for car racing in peacetime, was not Britain’s grandest venue in its contemporary era. Aintree, with its imposing horse racing infrastructure, claimed that crown. Yet the hospitality lavished upon visiting sporting greats by the petrolhead ninth Duke of Richmond & Gordon – Brooklands race winner and aviator ...Keep reading
The team struggled for performance with its low downforce package over the Italian GP weekend, with Fernando Alonso qualifying 10th and finishing ninth, and Lance Stroll out of the points in 16th from 20th on the grid.With Ferrari logging third and fourth the Maranello team moved ahead of Aston into third place in the constructors' championship.The race provided the team with a painful reminder of ...Keep reading
The championship leader rolled his Toyota GR Yaris in stage eight which put him out of his home event as the Finn retired from an event for the first time this season.While Rovanpera emerged from the incident without any serious injuries, the 22-year-old reported after the event that he was suffering from pain in his ribs and back.As a result, Rovanpera elected to sit out a European Drift Masters ...Keep reading
Regions of Greece have been subjected to severe rainfall and thunderstorms over the past 72 hours, which has caused widespread disruption and flash floods.The storm has hit Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria claiming the lives of at least 14 people.The wild weather has disrupted preparations for the rally with the FIA forced to cancel Thursday’s shakedown stage after already electing to shorten stage ...Keep reading
Ahead of this weekend’s San Marino Grand Prix – both Marini and the team’s home race – it was confirmed he would stay with his half brother Valentino Rossi’s team for another year."Remaining in the Mooney VR46 Racing Team also in 2024 is for me a question of trust in a very close-knit working group, which has believed in me for many years," Marini said."As a team, we will do everything ...Keep reading
In Monza last weekend, Verstappen set a new record with his 10th consecutive grand prix win, while between them, the Dutchman and his Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez have won every race held so far in 2023.Maffei said that F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali is trying to focus on the fact that Verstappen is making history as he extends his record run, and that in itself is worth watching."The midfield is ...Keep reading
The Dutch driver added the record for the most consecutive F1 victories to his growing collection last weekend at Monza, with the youngest winner of a world championship race set to continue racking up success for many years to come.GP Racing editor Stuart Codling is joined by Mark Gallagher and Matt Kew to discuss the matter-of-fact 25-year-old's pursuit of continued success, and the question ...Keep reading
The Ducati rider was involved in a terrifying incident on the opening lap of last week's red-flagged Catalan GP in Barcelona.Bagnaia highsided violently exiting Turn 2 as he stormed into the lead from pole position and landed in the middle of the track as the rest of the pack raced towards him.KTM's Brad Binder could do nothing to avoid the Ducati rider and ran over his leg, at which point the ...Keep reading
Whether you drive a small car, a minibus or a sports car - experience the Nordschleife for four days in a row! The long tourist driving weekend will again attract Nurburgring fans from near and far. Anyone in possession of a driving licence and a properly registered car or motorbike can drive during opening hours.Visitors can top up their credit for the ride online at any time. All that is needed ...Keep reading
KTM has currently found no solution to its rider logjam for the 2024 MotoGP season, with five riders contracted for four bikes.At the centre of this is Moto2 championship leader and potential generational talent Acosta, who will be coming to MotoGP next season after KTM activated his contract for 2024.Insight: Why the hype around MotoGP’s next generational talent is justifiedBoth Brad Binder ...Keep reading
The deal also gives Liberty a foothold in other sports and major events on the hospitality and entertainment side, including NASCAR's Chicago street race, the NBA, Australian Open tennis and the Kentucky Derby.The deal to buy "greater than 90%" of Quint, which is expected to be completed before the end of the year, values it at $313million. The two organisations will continue to be run as ...Keep reading
After the flag in Italy, Vowles came on to the radio to tell Albon that he “made it look easy” while his engineer acknowledged that it was the Thai/British driver’s best race yet with the team.In achieving both of his 2023 seventh-place finishes, Albon made good use of the strong straightline performance of the FW45 to conduct a stout defence.However, Vowles stressed that it was easier to do ...Keep reading
There have been times in recent years when Ferrari has been (rightly) criticised for not making the most of the machinery at its disposal. But the home team’s performance last weekend was the opposite – and made the Monza event one of the best F1 races of 2023 so far.Ferrari saw an opportunity, committed to a bespoke package at the high-speed track, and made Red Bull fight for victory, as Alex ...Keep reading
Nemechek, 26, hasn't been full-time in the Cup Series since 2020 when he drove for Front Row Motorsports. After finishing 27th in points and losing his ride at FRM, he then essentially repeated the NASCAR ladder system.He drove a Toyota Tundra for Kyle Busch Motorsports in 2021, winning five races and finishing third in the final Truck standings. In 2022, he won two more races and ended the year ...Keep reading
In a sport where numbers are everything, there has been ever less room for sentiment. But when Ferrari headed to Monza, it couldn't help but pull out all the stops.Over 304,000 disciples headed to the temple of speed across the Italian Grand Prix weekend. While the wait for a first constructors' title in 15 years goes on, Ferrari fandom remains religion in Italy, with the pressure of expectation ...Keep reading
The Estonian enjoyed a solid outing with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, finishing exactly where he qualified: 18th.He went from start to finish without any interruptions and was the top finisher – and rookie – among the lapped cars.“Awesome to get through the race distance,” Vips said. “Just wasn't used to how long the race is; the F2 races are much, much shorter.“Being out of the car ...Keep reading
Greece has been subjected to flash flooding this week after receiving record-breaking rainfall courtesy of Storm Daniel. Last Sunday WRC crews were issued a severe weather warning of the approaching storm. The storm has hit Lamia, the host city for the Acropolis Rally, which has resulted in several roads being flooded around the service park. Rally event director Pavlos Athanassoulas told ...Keep reading
While the Italian Grand Prix featured a number of overtakes and plenty of wheel-to-wheel action to show what is possible with the current generation of cars, there is now some concern about the impact of development directions that teams are taking.As they probe ways to increase performance, this is inevitably resulting in the increased out-wash characteristic of airflow that is known to hurt the ...Keep reading
Signing Perez was the latest attempt by Red Bull to find a driver who could be a good wingman for its undisputed leader Max Verstappen, someone who could back up the Dutchman's success with enough podiums to land the Milton Keynes team the constructors' championship.Its junior drivers Pierre Gasly and Alexander Albon did't work out after being thrown to the lions early in their F1 careers, but the ...Keep reading
Mercedes had another difficult weekend at Monza, where Ferrari was clearly a step ahead and the W14 was the third-fastest car.George Russell and Hamilton eventually finished fifth and sixth as they showed an obvious top-speed handicap.Hamilton's life has been made harder of late by a couple of difficult qualifying sessions, with the seven-time champion starting only 13th at Zandvoort and eighth at ...Keep reading
Ducati rider Bastianini crashed under braking for Turn 1 at the start of last Sunday’s Barcelona race as he tried to recover from 14th following a grid penalty.He skittled a fleet of fellow Ducati that featured Johann Zarco, Marco Bezzecchi, Fabio Di Giannantonio and Alex Marquez.Bastianini suffered fractures to his left ankle and hand, which required surgery and will keep him out of this ...Keep reading
Since it launched in 1973, the WRC has created a myriad of memorable moments from emotional victories and defeats, historic game changing achievements, to feats that simply defy belief. Distilling all the action from the last half century into 20 defined moments is by no means a small task. To attempt this the WRC collated a panel of experts to produce a list of 50 moments which were then put to ...Keep reading
Magnussen qualified only 19th at Monza and was one of only three drivers to take a gamble by starting on the hard rather than medium Pirelli tyres.However, while Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas used the strategy to have strong races and earn points Magnussen finished 18th and last, behind team-mate Nico Hulkenberg.The intention had been to run a long opening stint on the hard, potentially ...Keep reading
Takahashi, who was part of the works Honda team that won the Suzuka 8 Hours last month, is set to make his first MotoGP appearance since he made a wildcard outing at Motegi back in 2015.The 33-year-old Japanese rider will fill in for Rins, who is still recovering from the broken right leg he sustained in a crash in the Mugello sprint race in June.Rins' place at LCR has been taken for the last ...Keep reading
Both Gasly and team-mate Esteban Ocon were eliminated in Q1, qualifying 17th and 18th respectively for the Italian GP.They didn't fare much better in the race, with Gasly just avoiding being lapped by winner Max Verstappen in 15th, while Ocon's car was retired as a pre-caution after he started encountering a steering lock issue.While Gasly explained that Alpine had expected to struggle in ...Keep reading
Miyata, a race winner in both Super Formula and SUPER GT, will partner Takeshi Kimura and Scott Huffaker at the wheel of the CarGuy Racing-branded Kessel Ferrari 488 GTE for Sunday's six-hour race.The Toyota WEC Challenge driver replaces factory Ferrari racer Daniel Serra, who according to a statement released by CarGuy is unable to travel to Japan due to "various circumstances".Miyata was due to ...Keep reading
The Belgian GP exposed the weakness of the MCL60 at high-speed tracks, and Norris found himself unable to defend in the race on his way to seventh place.At Monza, Norris qualified ninth and finished eighth having been stuck behind the Williams of Alex Albon for most of the race.Although the final outcome was actually a place lower than at Spa, Norris felt that the car was more competitive overall ...Keep reading
The 34-year-old Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing driver started on a set of softer alternate tyres and jumped out to lead the opening 21 tours of the 110-lap contest as he sought a first win since Detroit 2017.Rahal pitted on lap 22, pushing one lap farther than any other driver that began on the same tyre strategy, but was plagued by traffic during his out-lap and fell to fourth once the field ...Keep reading
The company, which is owned by former racing star Michael Andretti and Dan Towriss, the CEO and president of financial services company Group 1001, is making the move as it bids to join the Formula 1 grid in future in partnership with General Motors.Andretti’s team currently operates in eight motorsports platforms, racing across six continents. A decision on its future F1 entry is expected from ...Keep reading
M-Sport's WRC2 driver Munster had been tipped to receive a Rally1 outing this season, with the Belgian-born driver now set to take over the Puma owned by privateer Jourdan Serderidis, who has been helping the 24-year-old rising star.Before tackling Chile's gravel stages from 28 September to 1 October, Munster and co-driver Louis Louka will continue their WRC2 campaign at this week's Acropolis ...Keep reading
Following a spate of teasers, the latest official World Rally Championship video game is now confirmed – EA Sports WRC will be released 3rd November 2023.It will feature over 600km of stages replicating the current WRC season, including the hybrid Rally1 machines from Toyota, M-Sport Ford and Hyundai. These will sit alongside a proliferation of historic vehicles from the WRC's history and ...Keep reading
The longer the FIA delayed announcing its findings from the 2022 spending reviews, the greater the prospect was of one or more teams to have been found to be in breach. After the controversy triggered by Red Bull's 2021 overspend, and unease about the nature of the penalty handed down, more rule-breaking this time around would have been explosive.The ongoing wait in getting an FIA decision meant ...Keep reading
Pagenaud has been forced onto the sidelines ever since a heavy crash in practice for the Mid-Ohio round in July, triggered by an apparent brake failure, left him with post-concussion symptoms and curtailed his campaign.A host of drivers have filled in for the 2019 Indianapolis 500 winner, with former Ed Carpenter Racing driver Conor Daly, MSR's IMSA champion Tom Blomqvist and Indy NXT champion ...Keep reading
The Honda rider took a bold gamble on the soft rear tyre for last Sunday’s grand prix at Barcelona and ended up as top HRC runner in 13th.Marquez notes he tried to push in the early stages to see if he could keep pace with the group ahead of him battling for sixth headed by his brother Alex Marquez on the Gresini Ducati.But he saw “immediately I was over the limits” and elected to simply ...Keep reading
Aspirational enthusiasts and investors can experience the thrill of premium automobile collecting by buying fractional shares in investment vehicles that own individual rare, high-end collector cars. Investment activities will be enabled through a joint venture with Rally, the investment platform that pioneered fractional equity ownership for blue-chip collectible assets, backed by Jimmy Kimmel's ...Keep reading
Racewear giant PUMA created over 100 bespoke race suits, tailored to the actors' frames, plus hundreds of racewear items for the production of Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story – the new motion picture which is based on the unbelievable true story of a team of unlikely underdogs – a struggling working-class gamer, a failed former racecar driver, and an idealistic motorsport executive ...Keep reading
Heading into this weekend's penultimate round of the WEC season at Fuji, Hirakawa and his team-mates in the #8 GR010 HYBRID, Sebastien Buemi and Brendon Hartley, lead the drivers' standings on 115 points.The #7 Toyota crew of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez are 23 points down despite their victory last time out at Monza, tied with Ferrari trio James Calado, Alessandro Pier Guidi ...Keep reading
Verstappen has been rewriting the history book this season with the dominant RB19, having been undefeated since team-mate Sergio Perez's win in Baku.His win in last weekend's Italian Grand Prix was his 10th victory in a row, beating the all-time record he shared with Sebastian Vettel and Alberto Ascari, while Red Bull's streak of 15 wins is also unprecedented.Verstappen has regularly played down ...Keep reading
Although Marc Marquez insists time and again that he has a contract with Honda until 2024, several indications suggest that he is considering an exit that the Japanese manufacturer is trying to avoid with a recruitment plan that was launched in Austria.Marquez has been very careful with his words for months so that no one can accuse him of being a liar in the future. In recent weeks, the question ...Keep reading
Each team will receive a certificate of compliance for meeting the cap between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2022, which stands at a base of $135 million plus extras.The FIA added that non-F1 activities within each team were studied extensively, along with on-site visits, but none were found to have breached the cap amid earlier controversy that teams were using engineering off-shoots to ...Keep reading
His Aston Martin team knew in advance that Monza wouldn't play to the strengths of the AMR23, and that was reflected in qualifying, with Alonso earning 10th place and his lowest grid position of the season.Despite a typically feisty race, the Spaniard could not better ninth in the race, which matched Hungary as his worst result of the year, but at least extended his record of scoring in every ...Keep reading
Sadly, it can be rare to find common sense in motorsport. Yet last month's confirmation that the British Racing & Sports Car Club and MotorSport Vision Racing had reached an agreement to not run rival series for modern Formula Ford 1600 machines from 2024 is a rare exception to that rule.The end of the BRSCC’s long-running National FF1600 championship may be sad news for those who hark back to ...Keep reading
Hamilton made a rare error in the Italian Grand Prix when he accidentally interlocked wheels with Piastri at the second chicane in their fight for position and they made contact.The incident damaged Piastri’s front wing, forcing him into the pits for a replacement, and earned Hamilton a five-second penalty for causing the collision.Hamilton came on the team radio to explain that Piastri had ...Keep reading
The Yamaha rider rose from 18th on the grid to finish seventh in last Sunday’s grand prix at Barcelona, marking his best main race finish since he achieved the same result at the French GP.Having struggled all weekend for form at a venue where he won in 2022, Quartararo elected to revert to the settings he used last year, which allowed him to have what he considered “a great pace”.“For me ...Keep reading
The 42-year-old has spent the entirety of his Cup career with Gibbs since he made his debut at the top level in 2005, winning 50 of his 641 race starts.Hamlin's deal with JGR was due to expire at the end of this season, and he revealed last month that negotiations had been delayed in part by his involvement as a co-owner in rival Cup squad 23XI Racing, which currently has a technical alliance with ...Keep reading
Although ultimately Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc could do little to stop Red Bull roaring to another 1-2 finish, that they were at least able to battle wheel-to-wheel with F1’s current benchmark squad was something to be proud of after a 2023 campaign that has had its fair share of frustrations.PLUS: Why Sainz was able to make F1's 2023 Italian GP as good as it wasBut while Ferrari has ...Keep reading
The Italian crashed braking for Turn 1 on the opening lap of last Sunday’s Catalan GP having started from 14th following a grid penalty.Bastianini collected Pramac’s Johann Zarco, who in turn was forced into a collision with fellow Ducati riders Fabio Di Giannantonio, Alex Marquez and Marco Bezzecchi.The four-time grand prix winner was taken to the medical centre for checks and later ...Keep reading
Palou's Portland win provided Ganassi with its 15th IndyCar title – Palou’s second since joining the team in 2021 – and with a race to spare. Meanwhile, Dixon secured second in the overall standings with his fifth podium of the 2023 season.“Congrats to Chip on his 15th championship and Alex's second,” Dixon said. “They had a fantastic race [yesterday].”The 43-year-old New Zealander ...Keep reading
Sainz and Leclerc were running third and fourth after Red Bull’s Sergio Perez had passed both drivers and moved into second.Vasseur opted not to tell the drivers to hold station and bring home the points and instead, the message was passed on that they could continue to race each other to the flag, but with the proviso of “no risk”.Leclerc made several bold attempts to pass his team-mate ...Keep reading
After taking an emotional pole on Saturday, Sainz produced a combative display at Monza in front of Ferrari's tifosi, putting on a strong defence in the first stint of a one-stopper in an attempt to keep Verstappen's quicker Red Bull at bay.Sainz used his Ferrari's excellent top speed to successfully defend his position several times into the first two chicanes. But following a lock-up into Turn 1 ...Keep reading
Although Ferrari threw everything it had at securing victory in its home Formula 1 race at Monza, Red Bull proved too strong over the Italian Grand Prix weekend.It seemed inevitable that Max Verstappen would break the record for most consecutive wins in Ferrari's backyard, but that didn't stop the Scuderia - willed on by the scarlet-draped crowds - attempting to rain on the reigning champion's ...Keep reading
The Swiss-born Frenchman’s exit from Andretti Autosport is inevitable at season’s end, as reported by NBC Sports, while Grosjean also shared that discussions with other teams have taken place.After making 179 starts in F1 from 2009-2020, Grosjean moved to IndyCar in 2021 and ran a partial season with Dale Coyne Racing, earning three podiums – including two runner-up results – in 13 ...Keep reading
The Mercedes driver went across the escape road twice during the Italian Grand Prix, once in tandem with Sergio Perez during their battle for position, and then later on his own when he emerged from the pits alongside Esteban Ocon.On the latter occasion Russell was deemed to have gained an advantage, and having not given back the place he was handed a five-second penalty that ultimately had no ...Keep reading
A dramatic and historic Catalan Grand Prix is in the books as Aleix Espargaro led a first-ever Aprilia 1-2 in MotoGP. After taking victory in the sprint, Espargaro led team-mate Maverick Vinales in Sunday’s main race to score his second grand prix win of the season on home soil after April's Spanish GP at Jerez, capping a remarkable weekend for the Noale factory.It was almost overshadowed by ...Keep reading
The Spaniard elected to quit Yamaha a year early midway through 2021 having struggled for form on the M1 before he was ousted with immediate effect following the Styrian GP having been found to have deliberately tried to break his engine.Vinales subsequently signed for Aprilia and made his debut with the team later that year.At the time this move was questioned as Aprilia was not a frontrunning ...Keep reading
The Dutchman had opened up a solid lead towards the end of the Monza race, after biding his time early in the grand prix as he battled Ferrari's Carlos Sainz for the win before he moved to the front.But his hopes of an easy cruise to the flag suffered a late blow when his team came on the radio a few laps from the chequered flag and urged him to back off and not get near a gaggle of ...Keep reading
A weather warning was issued by the event’s clerk of the course, Anita Passalis, on Sunday night following news that heavy rain is expected to fall in the Lamia and Loutraki regions where the rally will take place.It is anticipated that the severity of the rain and the possibility of thunderstorms could cause disruption to the reece carried out on Tuesday and Wednesday.The rally is due to begin ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen took a record 10th consecutive F1 victory at the Italian Grand Prix as he overcame a strong challenge from Ferrari to continue Red Bull’s perfect run in F1 2023. And although there are still eight races to go at a variety of tracks, rivals are sceptical about there being any normal circumstances under which Red Bull’s dominance can be stopped. PLUS: Why Sainz was able to make ...Keep reading
Despite not winning the race, thanks to another dominant 1-2 from Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez, Sainz came home third having held off Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc in a thrilling finish.Elsewhere, Mercedes had a peculiar weekend, Liam Lawson is showing off his true potential and Alex Albon put in another great showing in his impressive season so far.Bryn Lucas chats with Alex ...Keep reading
Having won the sprint race on Saturday, Espargaro looked set to be beaten on Sunday by Aprilia team-mate Maverick Vinales after a mistake mid-race cost him a lot of time. As Vinales’ gap grew to over 1.3 seconds on lap 11 of 23, Espargaro only marginally chipped into this over the next few tours. But, as Vinales started to struggle with grip, Espargaro reeled him in. The 34-year-old took the ...Keep reading
It is understood that Sainz had a Richard Mille watch - the Alexander Zverev model named after the German tennis player worth £235,000 - taken as he left the Armani Hotel on Viale Manzoni. Three people, who are thought to have been waiting outside the hotel for some time, encountered Sainz and stole his watch. The F1 driver then set off in pursuit with his personal trainer, while bystanders who ...Keep reading
Ferrari threw everything at stopping the dominance of its Milton Keynes rivals, with a package specifically for Monza bedecked in a special livery to celebrate its Le Mans 24 Hours success.Carlos Sainz duly took his first pole position of the year to ensure the scarlet cars led from the front on Sunday, but had to settle for third behind the Red Bulls of Verstappen and Sergio Perez after surviving ...Keep reading
The Monza race eventually got going over 20 minutes after its scheduled start time due to a series of issues triggered by Yuki Tsunoda stopping on the initial warm-up lap as a result of a suspected MGU-H issue that AlphaTauri is still investigating. Following Tsunoda’s stoppage, the other drivers massed on the grid as they typically would for a standing start, before getting the order that the ...Keep reading
Larson grabbed control of the race late in the final stage, when he was first off pitroad after the field came in during a caution caused by Ryan Newman spinning off at Turn 4.Larson led on the restart with 51 of 367 laps remaining, then held on through two more late-race restarts.Reddick moved into second on the final restart with 31 laps to go and initially challenged Larson for the lead, but ...Keep reading
The AlphaTauri driver suffered a metacarpal fracture in practice for last month's Dutch Grand Prix, ruling him out of the Italian Grand Prix one week later as the Australian underwent surgery in Barcelona.Horner, whose team has loaned out third driver Ricciardo to sister squad AlphaTauri, says Ricciardo's recovery is going to plan but he believes the next double header on the calendar in Singapore ...Keep reading
The Mexican started sixth in his No. 5 Chevrolet-powered car and was a mainstay among the top five all race long. A caution on lap 85 of 110 meant the group of frontrunners that had been strung out were squeezed back together.When the restart came three laps later, O’Ward lined up fourth and immediately attempted to harry Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon for third. Moments later, any pressure ...Keep reading
Palou is being taken to the UK’s High Court over a contractual dispute with McLaren Racing, having performed an apparent U-turn on his previous decision to switch teams for 2024.It was that call in 2022 that led to Ganassi taking legal action against his own driver, which was settled by mediation that allowed him to stay with his IndyCar team but test F1 cars for McLaren.Speaking in Victory ...Keep reading
Palou beat Arrow McLaren’s Felix Rosenqvist by 5.4s to claim his fifth win of the season and his second IndyCar championship, following up his 2021 success. It is Ganassi’s 15th title in the series.Poleman Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) led the 27-car field to green, heading fellow alternate-tyred starters Scott McLaughlin (Team Penske) and Colton Herta (Andretti Autosport) ...Keep reading
The 34-year-old Ohio native captured his second pole of the season in Saturday’s qualifying session and did so as the only driver in the Fast Six to remain on the harder primary, black sidewall tire compound.The softer alternate, red labeled rubber was the option the rest of the group opted for and trailed in his wake. The pace felt familiar for Rahal, who compared it to the Brickyard weekend ...Keep reading
On lap 24 of 51, the McLaren pair came to blows at the first chicane as rookie racer Piastri re-joined the Monza track alongside earlier-stopping Norris in a dice for what was then 10th position. With Piastri on the inside at the tight first apex, the front-right of the Australian’s MCL60 glanced his team-mate's sidepod. There was no major damage and both escaped punishment from the ...Keep reading
Hamilton was coming through the field on an alternate tyre strategy, attacking McLaren's Piastri for eighth on his fresher mediums on lap 41.Hamilton passed Piastri on the inside of the second chicane, but squeezed the Australian towards the grass, his right rear tyre making contact with Piastri's front wing.After both drivers took to the escape road Piastri had to pit for a new front wing, losing ...Keep reading
Verstappen’s Italian GP victory has broken the all-time record for most consecutive F1 wins, while Red Bull also set a new record for most team wins in a row with 15, and while delighted to make further grand prix racing history, the Dutch driver hadn't been focused on the feat.Mercedes boss Wolff has also played down the value of the most consecutive wins record while highlighting ...Keep reading
As Max Verstappen chalked a record-breaking 10th consecutive GP win at Monza while Sergio Perez completed a Red Bull 1-2, the Ferrari team-mates diced frenetically for the final podium position.On lap 47 of 51, the pair began to trade blows as Leclerc gained DRS to attempt an overtake into Turn 1, but the Monegasque locked up to allow Sainz to recover the position.This set the tone for their ...Keep reading
Polesitter Sainz launched strongly to maintain the lead into the first Monza chicane and he then repeatedly defended well against front-row rival Verstappen during their early DRS battles down the main straight.But on lap 15 of a shortened 51, Sainz locked up during the big Turn 1 braking zone to compromise his apex and the tighter line then delayed his corner exit to allow Verstappen to challenge ...Keep reading
Polesitter Sainz enjoyed a strong initial launch to move across the racing line and hold his position ahead of front-row rival Verstappen into the opening chicane at Monza.Red Bull racer Verstappen was able to gain DRS to mount several attempted passes into the big braking zone at the end of the main straight, but Sainz defended strongly to hold first place.That was until lap 15 of a shortened ...Keep reading
For the 2023 season, a new minimum front and rear tyre pressure was implemented, which riders had to keep within for 50% of grands prix and 30% of sprints.However, this rule did not come into effect until the British Grand Prix last month as the Tyre Pressure Management System was not ready to be used by teams until then. From this weekend’s Catalan GP, the system has been fully automated, with ...Keep reading
Verstappen set a new, all-time record of 10 consecutive F1 race victories.Poleman Carlos Sainz led from the start for Ferrari but Verstappen began to attack him from lap six. It took him until lap 15 to find a way past, when Sainz locked up at Rettifilo and got a poor exit too, which allowed Verstappen to get a run on him on the run to Roggia.Once clear, Verstappen pulled well away from a huge ...Keep reading
Verstappen’s victory is his 10th in a row, which gives him the outright record of consecutive F1 wins ahead of Sebastian Vettel and Alberto Ascari.The start was delayed by nearly 20 minutes due to Yuki Tsunoda stopping with a suspected MGU-H issue, his cockpit smoking and the race reduced to 51 laps as the rest had to be re-dressed with their mechanics on the grid.When they did finally get away ...Keep reading
Championship leader Bagnaia crashed exiting Turn 2 on the opening lap of Sunday’s race while leading, when he was ejected from his Ducati.Landing heavily in the middle of the track, Bagnaia ended up in the path of KTM’s Binder, who could do nothing to avoid striking the Italian’s leg.Bagnaia is currently in hospital having checks on his leg, having seemingly escaped suffering any fractures ...Keep reading
Bagnaia was involved in a horrific incident on the opening lap of the grand prix while leading, after he was flung from his Ducati exiting Turn 2.The world championship leader then had his leg run over by KTM’s Brad Binder, who could do nothing to avoid him.Bagnaia, along with team-mate Enea Bastianini – who triggered a pile-up at Turn 1 – was taken to the medical centre, before being ...Keep reading
Bagnaia was involved in a horrific incident on the opening lap of the grand prix while leading, after he was flung from his Ducati exiting Turn 2.The world championship leader then had his leg run over by KTM’s Brad Binder, who could do nothing to avoid him.Bagnaia, along with team-mate Enea Bastianini – who triggered a pile-up at Turn 1 – was taken to the medical centre, before being ...Keep reading
Bagnaia was involved in a horrific incident on the opening lap of the grand prix while leading, after he was flung from his Ducati exiting Turn 2.The world championship leader then had his leg run over by KTM’s Brad Binder, who could do nothing to avoid him.Seconds earlier, Bagnaia’s team-mate Enea Bastianini triggered a multi-rider incident at Turn 1 that took down Pramac’s Johann Zarco ...Keep reading
The 24-lap race on Sunday in Barcelona has been halted after two major incidents in the first two corners.The first one was instigated by Ducati’s Enea Bastianini, who crashed on the way into Turn 1, triggering a collision with Pramac Ducati’s Johann Zarco.This then involved both Gresini Ducati’s of Fabio Di Giannantonio and Alex Marquez, and the VR46 Ducati of Marco Bezzecchi.All of those ...Keep reading
Early in Q1, Ocon passed Norris before the Ascari chicane, and Norris then re-passed heading in Parabolica just before he started a hot lap, with the Alpine driver appearing to jink towards the McLaren as the pair turned in.After completing the lap, as he was heading back to the pits, Norris told his team “what the Alpine driver did was very dangerous, by the way”.After the session, Norris ...Keep reading
A chaotic and dramatic 18-lap Moto3 grand prix kicked off racing action at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on Sunday.A typical multi-rider battle boiled down to a wild final lap, which saw championship leader Daniel Holagdo (Tech3 KTM) crashing out of podium contention down at Turn 10.Coming into the final corners, BOE Motorsports rider David Munoz found himself in the lead.But he was raided ...Keep reading
The Spaniard got through the first two qualifying segments in 10th and ninth places before finishing Q3 in 10th, which represents his worst grid position of the 2023 season so far.Alonso has said it was apparent at the start of the season that the team needs to improve its straightline speed performance, and still has to understand why it is lagging behind Williams, whose car is always ...Keep reading
The Italian GP has been the scene of many chaotic qualifying sessions in F1's recent past, with drivers playing a game of chicken trying to position themselves for a strong slipstream on Monza's long straights.The situation got completely out of hand in 2019, when drivers were very reluctant to be the first across the line, and therefore not benefitting from a draft while aiding their rivals.In ...Keep reading
The Prema rookie lined up second before passing poleman and championship leader Theo Pourchaire (ART) at Turn 3.Ferrari junior Bearman endured five safety cars, with a quick pitstop allowing him to emerge just ahead of Pourchaire to secure him victory.Ayumu Iwasa finished second for DAMS, having passed the Frenchman on lap 27, with Pourchaire third as the race finished behind the safety car.Vesti ...Keep reading
Verstappen’s Red Bull squad has either missed pole or lost it to a grid penalty four times this year, but still retains a 100% winning streak as its RB19 package is particularly dominant in race trim. The car’s relative qualifying weakness – it has nevertheless been taken to 10 poles via Verstappen and his team-mate Sergio Perez, who starts the Monza race in fifth – helped Ferrari pip Red ...Keep reading
Discussions are ongoing surrounding the Italian 17-year-old’s future, including the suggestion that he might progress directly to Formula 2, bypassing F3.He is currently leading the FRECA standings with four rounds remaining, driving for Prema.Though the move is currently being considered, a decision is yet to be made, and Wolff warned of the perils of creating “too much hype” around young ...Keep reading
Hamilton has triggered much debate over the Italian Grand Prix weekend after suggesting that Verstappen’s success in F1 has been easier to achieve because he has not faced a bigger challenge from his team’s second car.Speaking to Sky Sports F1 ahead of the Monza weekend, Hamilton said: “When I qualified half a second, six tenths ahead of Valtteri [Bottas], they [the media] didn’t say the ...Keep reading
The MP Motorsport driver lined up fourth, but was promoted to third after poleman Oliver Goethe suffered an issue in his Trident-run car on the formation lap.He then passed Prema driver Paul Aron to snatch second before the first stoppage.Once racing resumed, he made it past Caio Collet (Van Amersfoort Racing) for the first time, with the pair trading the lead several times over the coming ...Keep reading
Although George Russell exceeded expectations in qualifying at Monza with fourth place on the grid, less than four tenths off pole, it has come despite some obvious car limitations.Mercedes boss Toto Wolff believes nothing shows that more than the speed trap figures from Saturday, where the Silver Arrows squad ended up at the bottom of the rankings.Analysis of the top speeds through qualifying on ...Keep reading
The two-time series champion and reigning Indy 500 winner simply summarised the rebound after by quipping: “The car looks better than when I wrecked it.”Callum Ilott, who qualified eighth, continued to flex the muscle of his Chevrolet-powered Juncos Hollinger Racing entry, ending up second on the timesheets at 0.0809s behind Newgarden at the 1.964-mile, 12-turn natural terrain road course.Chip ...Keep reading
The 23-year-old Californian’s lap of 58.4576s around the 1.964-mile, 12-turn natural terrain road course was enough to claim third in the Fast Six shootout, which was 0.1381s off the pole-winning mark set by Graham Rahal.Herta was among five drivers to opt for the alternate, red sidewall tyres in the fight for pole, with Rahal the only driver that elected to go with the harder primary, black ...Keep reading
Rahal put down a flying lap of 58.3195s to best the 27-car field at the 1.964-mile, 12-turn circuit. It is the second time this season Rahal has captured the top spot, which he last accomplished in 2009.Rahal set his pole-winning time on a set of primary, black sidewall tyres and despite the other five drivers swapping to alternate, red sidewall tyres, no one was able to dethrone Rahal.The best of ...Keep reading
Grosjean had a small moment in Turn 6, which resulted in his Honda-powered Andretti Autosport entry to be caught by the surging Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet of Ilott.The British driver closed up to Grosjean and darted to the left for a move entering Turn 7, but the two hit flush wheel-to-wheel, which sent Ilott off course and through maze of dirt that wraps around the 12-turn, 1.964-mile road ...Keep reading
The New Zealander turned a flying lap of 58.1516s around the 1.964-mile, 12-turn course to take the top spot with 18 minutes remaining in the 45-minute session. He led a Team Penske 1-2, besting team-mate Josef Newgarden by 0.1179s.The outing was a night-and-day difference for Penske as a whole compared to Friday’s opening practice when McLaughlin, the defending race winner and polesitter, was ...Keep reading
Sainz converted his practice pace into pole position at Ferrari’s home race, beating Max Verstappen by just 0.013s in a thrilling qualifying.Charles Leclerc also narrowly missed out in third, just 0.067s off pole, which sets up a Ferrari fight against Verstappen who is aiming for a record-breaking 10th consecutive F1 win. Ferrari was made to sweat over a potential penalty for out-lap times in ...Keep reading
Gasly could not better 17th place in Saturday’s session, while his team-mate Esteban Ocon was one place and just 0.003s behind.Gasly, who finished third in the rain-affected Dutch GP last weekend, admitted that the A523 simply wasn’t fast enough on Monza’s straights.“Unfortunately, all weekend I was quite happy with the car balance, but we've just been two seconds off the pace the whole ...Keep reading
Sainz beat Red Bull’s Max Verstappen to claim the top spot on the grid for Ferrari’s home race by just 0.013s, with his team-mate Charles Leclerc only 0.054s further back in third. The Spaniard explained afterwards that although he had led FP2 and FP3 this weekend, and taken second behind Verstappen in FP1, at no stage before his final qualifying efforts had he taken the risks necessary to ...Keep reading
The Mexican got through Q1 in fifth place and was fourth in Q2 before earning fifth spot in the final session, having struggled throughout to match the pace of team-mate Max Verstappen.As the second occurrence of Pirelli’s alternative tyre allocation, with fewer sets and compulsory use of hard, medium and softs across the three qualifying segments, Monza was difficult for all drivers.However ...Keep reading
After the four Hondas occupied the final four spots on the timesheets at the end of Friday’s running in Barcelona, Marquez offered a moment of relief as he managed to get into Q2.The eight-time world champion shadowed KTM’s Jack Miller as a reference to produce a time good enough for second, though he later admitted that after that “real lap” he didn’t want to compete in Q2 as he knew ...Keep reading
Verstappen lost out on pole by 0.013s to Carlos Sainz, who sent the Ferrari tifosi into raptures with his fourth career pole and his first on the Scuderia's home soil.Ferrari brought a bespoke low-drag rear wing to its home track as it was keen to put on a strong display in front of its demanding fans, while Red Bull took a different approach with some Monza-specific tweaks that still prioritise ...Keep reading
One of the most famous moments in MotoGP history, Rossi snatched victory from Yamaha team-mate Lorenzo at the last corner of the 2009 Catalan GP with a daring overtake.In the 2023 Barcelona sprint, having faded from pole to eventual winner Aleix Espargaro, Bagnaia had to defend hard to keep the sister Aprilia of Vinales at bay.Though Vinales got close, he was pipped to second by the reigning world ...Keep reading
Espargaro topped both of Friday’s sessions at the Barcelona track on his Aprilia, while the Italian marque was also fastest in third practice and Q1 courtesy of RNF’s Miguel Oliveira.Having set a new lap record on Friday, Espargaro couldn’t carry this through into Q2 and was beaten to pole by Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia.He would go on to beat the world champion in the 12-lap sprint by 1.9s ...Keep reading
F1 drivers had been told ahead of qualifying at Monza that they had to maintain a maximum delta time for all of their laps throughout the three segments – not just the in-laps as is normally the case. It was made clear that only in “exceptional” circumstances as accepted by the stewards would drivers escape being deemed to have committed an offence. The maximum time allowed between the two ...Keep reading
Having set the fastest middle sector of the Q3 shootout, Carlos Sainz led the Ferrari attack on home soil as the Spaniard bagged pole position at Monza courtesy of a 1m20.294s effort.That placed him 0.013 seconds ahead of Red Bull's defending two-time champion Max Verstappen, while Leclerc was 0.067s shy of top spot as he headed the second row of the grid in front of Mercedes racer George ...Keep reading
Sainz will start ahead of Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) in Sunday’s race after the one-hour qualifying session on Friday, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.Italian Grand Prix grid: Sainz on pole from Verstappen
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The session at Monza also formed the second 2023 qualifying session run to the Alternative Tyre Allocation rules that required the drivers to run the hards throughout Q1, mediums in Q2 and softs in Q3.Both Ferrari drivers had faced a post-qualifying investigation for failing to follow the race director’s instructors in terms of the maximum lap time that had been set to avoid traffic chaos in the ...Keep reading
A year on from losing a podium on home soil for miscounting how many laps he had remaining, Espargaro made up for this by beating world champion Bagnaia by just under two seconds.Strong all weekend at Barcelona, Espargaro ran fourth on the opening lap having dropped from second on the grid but would take the lead on lap seven.Easing away from Bagnaia, Espargaro came under no trouble as he took the ...Keep reading
Lining up third, the Prema driver, who is second in the championship, had a great start as he and Richard Verschoor (VAR) tussled with poleman Ralph Boschung (Campos) for the lead.Boschung locked up into Turn 1 before Vesti made it into the lead soon after, with Verschoor in second.Despite an early safety car, Vesti remained in control, and though there was a second pause in action and a late ...Keep reading
While there are other high-speed tracks on the F1 calendar, the ‘Temple of Speed’ remains an outlier because so much of it is straights, and this necessitates a standalone downforce package. But the approach of teams is not uniform, as some have gone the extra mile in delivering a new package while others, perhaps limited by the cost cap, have made some more ad hoc tweaks.
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The Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola and the Italian Grand Prix at Monza both have contracts that run until the 2025 season, but beyond that, there are no guarantees for either. And amid growing competition from around the world for the right to host races, and suggestions other European races like Spa-Francorchamps and Zandvoort may have to rotate, the chances of Italy continuing to double up ...Keep reading
Rea joined Kawasaki in 2015 after six season at Honda in WSBK, with the Ulsterman going on to dominate the series aboard the ZX-10RR.He won six consecutive championships between 2015 and 2020, setting the record for the most race victories in the process at 119.Rea was dethroned by Razgatlioglu aboard the Yamaha in 2021, while Ducati dominator Alvaro Bautista was champion last year and is well on ...Keep reading
Saturday's FP3 was made more intriguing, and significant, due to the ATA or alternative tyre allocation in place for this weekend.Teams received two fewer sets of tyres from Pirelli and will also have to use all three compounds throughout the three qualifying stages. That meant that rather than just completing soft-tyre qualifying simulations, they also had to consider bringing the hard and ...Keep reading
For the first time in its history, MotoGP will race in India later this month after a deal was struck to host the event last year.MotoGP will race at the Buddh International Circuit, which was formerly constructed to host the Formula 1 Indian Grand Prix, doing so from 2011 to 2013 before it dropped off the calendar.There were concerns about the required multi-million-euro upgrades – which ...Keep reading
Aprilia continued to top every session up to Q2, after RNF’s Miguel Oliveira was fastest in third practice despite a crash, plus he topped Q1 to advance to the pole shootout.Setting the early pace, Espargaro would ultimately be denied a second home pole by Ducati’s Bagnaia after the latter fired in a 1m38.639s to take top spot by 0.104 seconds.Oliveira completed the front row, his first front ...Keep reading
Last season in the FIA Formula 3 Championship I had to deal with a loss of energy, feeling unwell, and I was losing lots of weight too. I managed OK in pre-season testing but, during the opening race weekend in Bahrain, I struggled. I had no strength to drive, and it was really hard. I was later diagnosed with Crohn’s disease, so withdrew from racing while I recovered and regained my fitness ...Keep reading
Links between Norris and Red Bull have increased over the Italian Grand Prix weekend after Norris admitted he would not be against teaming up with his friend Verstappen at some point. “It’s definitely something I would be open to in the future,” he said. “I think I can happily say Max is probably one of the best drivers ever in the history of Formula 1. I never raced against him until I ...Keep reading
The famous car is now owned by Button, who will share driving duties in the Freddie March Memorial Trophy with his close friend and GT racer Alex Buncombe.The C-Type is regarded as one of the most important models in Jaguar’s history, having won Le Mans in 1951 in the hands of Peter Walker and Peter Whitehead, and again in 1953 with Duncan Hamilton and Tony Rolt.One of just 53 C-Types that were ...Keep reading
F1 qualifying, and that of its junior formulae F2 and F3, has often been derailed by drivers backing up at the end of out-laps to find clear air for their push laps.That has caused major bottlenecks ahead of the final corner at most races, particularly at the recent Austrian and Belgian grands prix.In Monza's Friday F3 qualifying, traffic congestion caused a collision, with the session red-flagged ...Keep reading
Pedrosa won 31 MotoGP races in a career that spanned 2006 to 2018, all of which with Honda, as the Spaniard finished runner-up in the standings on three occasions.Considered one of the greatest riders never to win the MotoGP title, Pedrosa retired from full-time competition at the end of the 2018 season and duly signed a testing contract with KTM.Pedrosa has since been an instrumental figure in ...Keep reading
The MP Motorsport drivers tussled over the lead, swapping places several times during the 18-lap sprint race, but Williams junior Colapinto had the upper hand.Boya snatched the lead from poleman Colapinto off the line, but racing was quickly neutralised after Caio Collet, Paul Aron and Jonny Edgar collided further back.Racing resumed on lap five, with third-place runner Gregoire Saucy (ART) ...Keep reading
Sainz went quickest in Friday afternoon's one-hour FP2 session, his 1m21.355s just 0.019s quicker than McLaren's Lando Norris.The first Red Bull of Sergio Perez was 0.185s behind in third, followed by the second McLaren of Oscar Piastri and Perez' team-mate Max Verstappen.But when asked if Ferrari's tifosi can start dreaming after the Scuderia's impressive practice performance, Sainz pointed out ...Keep reading
The towering trees that used to push right up against the twin, quick right-handers early in the second sector have been dramatically thinned – the race missing an almost tunnel-like area where natural beauty met cutting-edge racing technology. The area around the track’s second chicane – the Variante della Roggia – is also looking shockingly barren this year, including as it backs onto ...Keep reading
The Dane’s rise to the top spot came on a set of alternate, red sidewall tyres with his Honda-powered Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing entry, putting down a flying lap of 58.1776s around the 1.964-mile, 12-turn natural terrain road course.It was only the second time Lundgaard led a practice session in the IndyCar Series, having previously done so last year on the streets of Nashville.Andretti ...Keep reading
The two drivers came together in Turn 4 with 47 laps to go, with the 21-year-old Chicago-born Dale Coyne Racing driver going on to stand on the podium while Team Penske’s McLaughlin eventually fell down to fifth.Following that, McLaughlin confronted Malukas on the podium and then confirmed there was “beef” on social media.Fittingly, the pair came into the media bullpen at the same time ahead ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz and Max Verstappen shared the practice spoils across the opening two Formula 1 sessions at Monza, as Sergio Perez crashed but still hailed his “best Friday in a while”.FP1 and FP2 provided hints of who will succeed in the 2023 Italian Grand Prix – the winner of which will receive a specially designed trophy inspired by the exhaust pipes used on F1 cars. This has been ...Keep reading
Byron has never been a part of the Championship 4, but many still point to this Hendrick Motorsports driver as the title favourite.One look at his 2023 season and it's easy to see why. Byron's five race wins is the most in the field. He also tops the rest of the pack on laps led and stage wins. With a total of four wins in his previous six seasons, 2023 has been a breakout year for the ...Keep reading
On his 29th birthday, Sainz topped second practice by 0.019s from McLaren’s Lando Norris in an eventful session stalled by two red flags; the first early on for Lance Stroll stopping with a suspected fuel system issue in his Aston Martin and the second late in the session for Sergio Perez crashing at the Parabolica. Despite his crash, Perez called his day his “best Friday in a while” as he ...Keep reading
Massa is one of several former drivers employed by the F1 organisation in ambassadorial roles, with the job involving attending a certain number of races per season in logoed shirts and undertaking tasks such as meet and greets in the Paddock Club.Others to have similar arrangements are Mika Hakkinen, Jacques Villeneuve and David Coulthard.However, matters became complicated after Massa started a ...Keep reading
Perez went off at the exit of the iconic Parabolica corner, bringing out a second red flag in the session topped by Ferrari's Carlos Sainz.Perez was fortunate to escape with only minor contact with the outside barriers, tapping the wall with his rear wing.Explaining the crash Perez said: "I understeered off on the exit and I tried to keep it nailed. I thought I had it under control but then I ...Keep reading
A brief statement from the PBM team said Bird died earlier on Friday having been hospitalised with illness."PBM is deeply saddened to announce the sudden passing of Paul Bird, the team owner of Paul Bird Motorsport."Paul Bird died earlier today at the age of 56 following a short time in hospital with illness. Paul's family are requesting privacy during this time."Bird was most associated with BSB ...Keep reading
Aleix Espargaro topped both sessions on Friday at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, heading factory Aprilia team-mate Maverick Vinales.The double grand prix winner set a new circuit lap record on his way to top spot in FP2 with a 1m38.686s, beating the existing record he set on his way to pole last year at the Catalan GP.VR46 Ducati rider Bezzecchi noted that the RS-GP seemingly had much better ...Keep reading
Gabriel Bortoleto has been crowned the 2023 Formula 3 champion, sealing the championship on Friday at Monza. The Trident driver dominated throughout, leading from the first race in Bahrain.Having finished sixth in the 2022 Formula Regional Championship, Bortoleto might not have been a favourite heading into the season. But like compatriot and good friend Felipe Drugovich’s dominant F2 title ...Keep reading
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was quickest in Free Practice 1, before Sainz set the fastest time of the day in FP2 at 1m21.355s, 0.019s quicker than McLaren’s Lando Norris and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez.The latter ended his day in the wall at the Parabolica.Italian GP FP1 results: Verstappen fastest from Sainz
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Oscar Piastri therefore nipped ahead of Verstappen in fourth during the session that was twice halted, with Charles Leclerc, so far the slower of the two Ferrari cars throughout practice at Monza, sixth in front of the Tifosi.Before any drivers could set a representative time in Friday’s second F1 session – the two Alfa Romeo cars had however completed initial laps well off the expected pace ...Keep reading
Vips, 23, who makes his IndyCar Series debut with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing in Portland this weekend, was dropped from the Red Bull Junior Team after using a racial slur on a live gaming stream.The Estonian had already made his FP1 debut for Red Bull at the Spanish Grand Prix, and was scheduled for another run at Silverstone, when he was heard using racist language during a video game ...Keep reading
After Verstappen qualified on pole for the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort with a 1.3-second gap to seventh-fastest Perez, Mercedes chief Wolff reckoned the difference was “odd” and “bizarre”.The Austrian added that Verstappen “destroyed every single team-mate” and suggested this was down to an “ability to create a car around himself that is very tricky to control but fast if you ...Keep reading
Norris caused a stir in last weekend's Dutch Grand Prix when he angrily slammed the team for leaving him out too long on slicks in the rain, shouting "are you stupid" to his race engineer.When asked about his comments in Monza, Norris admitted he was taken aback at how aggressive he can come across on the radio, while he didn't intend any offence."When you look at it after you always think 'I make ...Keep reading
As revealed by Autosport earlier this week, the FIA has issued a draft technical directive stating that from the Singapore Grand Prix it is to take a tougher stance on the flexibility of bodywork – especially front and rear wings.The FIA stated in the document that it believes outfits are exploiting "regions of purposely design localised compliance" plus "relative motion between adjacent ...Keep reading
Hamilton and Mercedes signed an agreement for the 2024 and 2025 seasons, that will extend his stay at Brackley, where he won six of his seven world titles, to 13 years.Hamilton previously hinted at being happy to stay in F1 for a number of years, but in the end both parties only settled on a fresh two-year-deal.According to Wolff, the shorter-term deal gives both parties flexibility for the ...Keep reading
Having led an Aprilia 1-2 at the end of first practice in Barcelona on Friday, Espargaro carried on his strong home form to top the second session by 0.362 seconds from team-mate Maverick Vinales.Crucially, Espargaro got this lap in before a late yellow flag for Luca Marini’s stricken VR46 Ducati caused havoc for many riders still on flying laps.Reigning world champion Francesco Bagnaia ...Keep reading
The 18-year-old Brazilian, who is part of Fernando Alonso’s A14 Management stable, secured the championship on Friday at Monza after his title rivals failed to secure pole.Either Prema driver Paul Aron or Campos Racing’s Pepe Marti needed to score the two bonus points for pole position to be in with a shot at the title.But after a much-interrupted qualifying session which saw three red flags ...Keep reading
But it has not been entirely smooth sailing in the 18 months since the new ground-effect cars emerged, with grand prix racing having endured its share of ups and downs.On the positive side, the cars do seem better able to follow each other than the older generation of machinery, which has allowed for some closer battles than we would have otherwise anticipated.However, there have been some ...Keep reading
Verstappen closed out the opening 20 minutes of the hour-long FP1 session with a 1m22.657s, bettering his previous effort of 1m23.027s on the hard compound of tyres.His Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez had got to within three tenths to slot into the runner-up spot in the session but was beaten by Sainz's 1m22.703s just after the opening half-hour elapsed.The alternative tyre allocation for the ...Keep reading
McLaren prioritised a revamp of the car before the summer break to add downforce to the car, meaning it didn't have the time to come up with a separate low-drag package.That made its MCL60 extremely vulnerable on the long straights at Spa-Francorchamps, where Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri were unable to race their rivals.The team has now moved to avoid a repeat at Monza, where aerodynamic ...Keep reading
The new motion picture feature tells the real-life story of a struggling working-class gamer being shown the ropes by his trainer, a failed former racer himself, all overseen by an idealistic motorsport executive who puts the Academy endeavour together to ensure authenticity in a life-like recreation of a racing pitlane, the cast of Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story are fully kitted out in ...Keep reading
From the start of this season, Verstappen has worked with Richard Cooke, who joined Red Bull from university in 2017 and was moved across from the simulator group to fill the race team role on a temporary basis.As performance engineer Cooke supports race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase, with the pair forming a close-knit three-man team with Verstappen himself.The job focuses on the car systems, such ...Keep reading
The 2019 world champion this year rejoined the Ford squad that afforded him his full-time WRC debut in 2012, essentially on a one-year deal.It appears Tanak will once again play a key role in the silly season as teams begin to form driver line-ups for the 2024 season.Tanak has endured a challenging return to M-Sport, headlined by a victory in Sweden and a second-place finish in Croatia, but his ...Keep reading
The current generation of cars must be run very low to the ground and be very stiffly sprung for the underfloor venturi tunnels and floor edges to generate the best downforce levels when working in conjunction with the rear diffuser.This has in turn changed how drivers feel their machines traversing the course compared to the ultra-high-downforce aerodynamic design era where Norris made his F1 ...Keep reading
The 11th round of the 2023 season marks the beginning of a frantic run in to the end of the year over the next 10 events, with the Catalan GP the first of a back-to-back with Misano.Espargaro – who last year lost a podium after miscounting how many laps he had remaining, and who is now wearing a special helmet referencing this – kicked off proceedings fastest of all with a 1m39.809s set on ...Keep reading
Perez enjoyed a strong start to the season, taking two early wins as he set out to pose a more credible title challenge to two-time world champion Verstappen.But from Miami onwards, where Verstappen came through the field to demote polesitter Perez to second, the Mexican has increasingly struggled to keep up with the Dutchman.Verstappen has since won nine consecutive races, taking both sprint wins ...Keep reading
Russell enjoyed a strong start to the year but gradually began struggling in qualifying throughout the second quarter of the season, out-qualifying team-mate Lewis Hamilton just once since Monaco, which put him on the back foot on Sundays.Over the race weekends before the summer shutdown Russell repeatedly stated "things weren't clicking" for him aboard the Mercedes W14.But as F1 reprised in ...Keep reading
In the wake of the departure of team principal Mattia Binotto earlier this year, the team had been without a formal technical director on the chassis side as this was a role that had been vacant for a while.It has long been anticipated that Cardile, who has been head of chassis since early 2021, would step up into the technical director role as incoming team principal Fred Vasseur restructured the ...Keep reading
When Miyata was unveiled earlier this year as Toyota’s latest Japanese protege in the World Endurance Championship, he was optimistic his new role wouldn’t prevent him from continuing to race in Super GT with the TOM’S squad.But hopes of being able to race in both championships were dashed when the 2024 Super GT schedule was revealed, featuring two clashes with WEC races: Suzuka (31 August-1 ...Keep reading
A run of rain-impacted events has highlighted a major problem the current generation of ground effect F1 cars have in throwing up too much spray.Visibility has been dramatically cut back compared to recent years, and it means it is not safe for cars to run in track conditions that would have been okay in the past.The FIA has already been testing the idea of cars running with wheel arches to try to ...Keep reading
Given his status as a three-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours, with a remarkable record of 10 outright podiums at the event, you’d have imagined that Rinaldo Capello would choose the French circuit as his favourite track. But a long-forgotten test at Imola, which ‘Dindo’ believes was instrumental in putting his name on the map, means it’s the current host venue of Formula 1’s Emilia ...Keep reading
In last weekend’s Dutch GP Alonso and Aston had their most competitive race since Canada in June, with the Spaniard charging up to second and chasing Max Verstappen across the line after the restart following the red flag.Alonso has generally been cautious this season when talking about form, but on his in-lap he said “we will win one race soon, we are getting closer.”Zandvoort was his ...Keep reading
The Ducati rider scored his third sprint/grand prix double of the 2023 campaign last time out in Austria, after dominating at the Red Bull Ring.It has given him a huge lead in the standings ahead of this weekend’s 11th round of the campaign in Barcelona, with Bagnaia 91 points adrift at the same stage of the 2022 season after five DNFs.While Bagnaia has three non-scores to his credit on Sundays ...Keep reading
At Indy, a stack-up crash – ironically caused by his younger Chip Ganassi Racing team-mates – led to him being punted from behind and spinning onto the infield grass on the opening lap. No bother, he pitted under the yellow, got rid of his least-preferred tyre, and split the remaining distance into two stops.With his rivals ahead all three-stopping, he knew that hitting his fuel number with ...Keep reading
Barring a shock twist such as injury or worse, Hamilton intends to extend his time driving at Mercedes in F1 through the 2024 and 2025 seasons – in the process competing in 13 seasons. That is two more than the current record of 11 which he currently shares with Michael Schumacher, after the German raced with Ferrari between 1996 and 2006. Hamilton already leads in terms of record number of ...Keep reading
In Zandvoort Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff hinted that Verstappen had the upper hand against Sergio Perez because the “tricky” car suited him better.Asked about the gap between the two team-mates, Wolff said: “We’ve seen that Max has destroyed every single team-mate that was with him."Whether or not it’s his ability to create a car around himself that is very tricky to control, but ...Keep reading
The double grand prix winner has been a key piece in the 2024 rider market puzzle, with Bezzecchi linked to the Pramac seat vacated by LCR Honda-bound Johann Zarco.Ducati made it clear from the start that Bezzecchi’s only chance of riding a factory-spec GP24 next season would be to join Pramac, with VR46 Racing remaining with year-old machinery.Over the Austrian GP weekend, it emerged that Rossi ...Keep reading
Ferrari has decided to make wholesale changes to its car for next year to dial out its unpredictable and sometimes downright crippling handling issues that have held back Sainz and team-mate Charles Leclerc.The pair often qualified reasonably well, with Leclerc even taking two poles, but have then fallen back through the order on the most demanding circuits, with the SF-23's high-downforce ...Keep reading
Although Alonso is coming off the back of an impressive second place in last weekend’s Dutch GP, the low downforce nature of the Monza circuit in Italy is not expected to suit his Aston Martin car as much.Ahead of the weekend, Alonso says that early simulation data from his squad suggests that his outfit will instead find itself having to give second best to both Williams and Ferrari.“They ...Keep reading
Both Hamilton and George Russell were confirmed as staying with the Brackley squad for the next two years earlier on Thursday, as they seek to renew Mercedes' challenges for the title after the past season and a half has yielded just one win.The extension to 2025 will keep Hamilton at the team for a 13th season, having joined Mercedes for 2013 and embarking on a tremendous run of success that ...Keep reading
By triumphing at his home race at Zandvoort last weekend, Verstappen equalled Red Bull predecessor Sebastian Vettel's record of nine consecutive wins, and thus victory at Monza will put him out on his own on 10 wins.Gasly, who won the race with AlphaTauri in 2020, cautioned that achieving success at the Italian venue isn't always straightforward."I think this weekend is actually probably the ...Keep reading
Despite only having three IndyCar Series starts under his belt, with a best finish of 12th, the 24-year-old Swede will effectively replace fellow countryman Marcus Ericsson in Ganassi’s elite driver line-up, who signed for Andretti Autosport last week.“Joining Chip Ganassi Racing is an absolute dream come true for me,” said Lundqvist. “Stepping up to race full-time in the IndyCar Series ...Keep reading
As rain hit the Zandvoort race from the start, Norris begged his team to stop for intermediates. But McLaren was one of several squads, including Mercedes and Williams, to brave it out and wait for the short shower to pass.As the circuit got wetter, Norris responded furiously to his race engineer's call to stay out, saying: "What the f***, are you stupid?"Norris then overruled the call to stay out ...Keep reading
The championship says the new car, which will be raced in the 2024, 2025 and 2026 seasons, hopes to be as close to an F1 car as possible in terms of safety, look, systems, performance, sustainability and accessibility.It completed a successful shakedown in July in Varano, with former F2 driver Tatiana Calderon at the wheel.There has previously been much debate about the necessity of power steering ...Keep reading
Hamilton’s contract with the team where he has raced since 2013 was set to run out at the end of this year, but he has long been expected to complete an extension. Russell is understood to have already been contracted to race with Mercedes until the end of the 2024 campaign as part of the long-term deal he signed to join the team back in 2021, but the announcement made on Thursday at the 2023 ...Keep reading
Yamaha’s Franco Morbidelli took aim at the television direction in MotoGP, noting that none of the midfield battles during the Austrian Grand Prix were given much airtime.While that’s not uncommon even in F1, a midfield battle that features two world champions in Marc Marquez and Fabio Quartararo, definitely warranted attention. After all, Max Verstappen’s charges through the field in Saudi ...Keep reading
The radical design, which fans out high in the air like the feathers of a peacock, prompted a great deal of close-up focus from onlookers, including several F1 team principals.But rather than it being the result of some wild idea by F2's design chiefs for the car to look fancy, instead, it has been created that way for a specific reason: to help the racing.As F2 boss Bruno Michel said: "The rear ...Keep reading
The FIA cost cap and Aerodynamic Testing Restrictions that limit wind tunnel and CFD hours pushes teams to start early on the development of a new car rather than immediately spend their way out of trouble.With the ATR having reset on 1 July, Aston Martin has lost 20% of its aero testing time (down from 40 wind tunnel runs to 32) to reflect its climb from seventh place in the constructors’ ...Keep reading
The team behind the all-electric off-road racing series, Extreme E, first revealed plans to create a pioneering hydrogen-powered off-shoot in 2022, with a prototype vehicle completing a shakedown last month.Now Extreme E organisers have laid the foundations for Extreme H to launch in 2025 with the series receiving FIA Championship status for its inaugural year. The intention from both parties is ...Keep reading
F2 series organisers say the new car, which will be raced in the 2024, 2025 and 2026 seasons, is as close to an F1 car as possible in terms of safety and accessibility.It is powered by a 3.4-litre turbocharged Mecachrome engine, and will comply with the FIA’s 2024 safety specification.The championship also hopes the car will accommodate a wider range of sizes of drivers to improve accessibility ...Keep reading
Previously, drivers with significant private wealth or backing from major sponsors could effectively buy a race seat at teams towards the lower end of the grid who were in need of a cash injection.But the rollout of the FIA Super Licence - whereby a driver must accrue 40 points based on their finishing position in other categories to be allowed to race in F1 - and the current commercial boom that ...Keep reading
Stroll has struggled all season to match the form of team-mate Fernando Alonso, although circumstances have also often hampered his weekends, such as the team's decision to keep him out on slicks during the wet early laps in the Dutch GP.Paddock gossip has suggested that Stroll might be considering his future as an F1 driver, although he has laughed off the idea that he might move into tennis. It ...Keep reading
The Kiwi stepped into the car on Saturday and gained his initial experience in wet conditions, qualifying 20th and last, after Ricciardo was ruled out with a broken hand in an FP2 crash.He sampled the car in the dry for the first time in the laps on the way to the grid and after the start he joined the first lap rush for intermediates.As one of the early stoppers he briefly held fastest lap on ...Keep reading
For the Dutch Grand Prix last weekend, Mercedes equipped its W14 machine with a revised floor edge, sidepod inlet and beam wing - all devised to chiefly improve performance at the rear of the car.In part, the arrival of these new components is to help sustain the team for the eight non-European races at the end of the season, for which the costs of freighting upgrades are considerably ...Keep reading
Wet weather often throws up dramatic or unusual races and the Zandvoort contest provided plenty of action. But, as we’ve come to expect recently, the dominant combination was still Red Bull and Max Verstappen.Jake Boxall-Legge explains how Verstappen overcame the conditions and a less-than-perfect strategy to take his ninth consecutive world championship victory in our in-depth report. That ...Keep reading
Verstappen and Hamilton have the highest profile rivalry on the grand prix grid, with the tension between the pair peaking in 2021 as they fought for the drivers’ championship.They notably collided at Silverstone, Interlagos, Monza and Jeddah before the controversial decider and mishandling of a late safety car procedure by the FIA in the Abu Dhabi finale.Despite this heated past, 1997 F1 title ...Keep reading
The very fact that bodywork cannot be totally rigid means that some flexibility has to be allowed for – and it is this grey area of what that margin is that has been the focus of toing and froing between the competitors and the governing body for years.What makes the situation even more difficult to police is the fact that the bodywork is designed to flex at high speed, so cannot be physically ...Keep reading
As originally reported by Autosport, Massa’s lawyers wrote to FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem and FOM CEO Stefano Domenicali earlier this month with a Letter Before Claim setting out the details of the Brazilian driver’s legal pursuit to rectify him losing the 2008 F1 world championship.According to the document, Massa's legal team alleged the Brazilian was "the victim of a conspiracy" over ...Keep reading
The striking one-off look, featuring gold ascents and highlights on an Italian flag tricolore that adorns the engine cover, will be used throughout the Monza weekend by Alfa Romeo duo Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu.The Sauber-run squad, which has run a handful of sponsor-led livery tweaks this year, will end its F1 partnership with Alfa Romeo at the conclusion of the 2023 season – the Italian ...Keep reading
Lando Norris qualified second for last week's Dutch Grand Prix behind Max Verstappen, the latest evidence of the giant leap McLaren has made with its B-spec upgrade it deployed before the summer break.That overhaul allowed it to challenge Mercedes, Ferrari and Aston Martin in the ever-fluctuating fight behind Red Bull, with no team being able to consistently claim the status of second-fastest ...Keep reading
Malukas finished third in his Dale Coyne Racing car – his second podium at the track formerly known as Gateway – after making contact with McLaughlin with 50 laps to go at Turn 4.Their clash pushed McLaughlin up the track and he would finish a lapped fifth after losing a further spot to Arrow McLaren’s Alexander Rossi.After the race, McLaughlin confronted Malukas during the podium ...Keep reading
The Scuderia endured a dismal Zandvoort outing, with Sainz classifying fifth as team-mate Charles Leclerc retired due to floor damage. This came after the Monegasque crashed in qualifying, with both drivers complaining that the SF-23 machine was skittish on the limit and they had "zero idea" how it would behave.Ferrari has promised an all-new car concept for 2024 and is confident the issues are ...Keep reading
The 911 GT3 R proved to be one of the more competitive cars at the beginning of the year, with a 1-2-3-4 result led by Christian Engelhart at Oschersleben prompting rivals to describe the DTM as a ‘Porsche Cup’ series.However, Porsche’s results took a nosedive at the fifth round of the season earlier this month, with not even a single car from the manufacturer finishing inside the top 10 in ...Keep reading
The saying goes that the facts don’t lie, which means when looking at the raw statistics, McLaren’s maiden season in Formula E will likely be judged overall as not a good one. Eighth in the teams’ championship – some 216 points behind champions Envision Racing – and only one rostrum across the 16 races is hardly something to write home about for a racing entity with such a successful ...Keep reading
The small bowtie-shaped device was located under the rear crash structure, in an area that has not previously been exploited by teams, and was designed to work in conjunction with the latest floor updates.Positioned exactly where the rear of the car is lifted in the pits meant Aston had to redesign the jack in order to ensure that the new part couldn’t be damaged.However during practice last ...Keep reading
The tender process for the all-electric championship’s Gen4 machine is set to close tomorrow (Thursday 31 August) after the opportunity to supply both the battery and the chassis was opened in June.The proposal for the new generation of Formula E car, which is set to be used from the 2026-2027 season over a period of at least four years, includes a vast increase in the amount of power which will ...Keep reading
The Milton Keynes outfit has won the first 13 races of the 2023 season, and Verstappen recorded his ninth consecutive victory in his home race at Zandvoort last weekend.The Dutchman and his team are set to add two more World Championship titles to Newey’s personal total, which also includes successes gained with Williams and McLaren.Newey believes that as he heads towards his third title ...Keep reading
Bezzecchi made his MotoGP debut in 2022 with the Valentino Rossi-owned squad and scored a maiden podium in that year’s Dutch GP.Remaining with the team for this season, Bezzecchi has been a consistent frontrunner, scoring two grand prix victories as he sits third in the standings on a year-old bike.Bezzecchi has been one of the key figures in the 2024 rider market silly season, with the Italian ...Keep reading
After a wet and wild Dutch GP, Max Verstappen delighted his home fans with a ninth victory in a row – putting him alongside Sebastian Vettel’s all-time record of most consecutive F1 wins. Therefore the Red Bull driver has the opportunity to take the record outright this weekend with a 10th straight triumph. Verstappen remains the firm favourite after team-mate Sergio Perez’s rollercoaster ...Keep reading
As part of a v1.10 update across PC, PlayStation and Xbox, several tweaks have been made to EA SPORTS F1 23 alongside the headline changes to a track layout and driver roster.In order to accommodate construction work near the circuit, Turns 16-19 cannot be used for the 2023 race, and thus the Marina Bay Street Circuit will be slightly shorted as a temporary measure. This layout is now recreated ...Keep reading
Rowland will partner Sacha Fenestraz in the second season of Formula E’s Gen3 era, replacing Norman Nato in Nissan’s driver line-up.The announcement marks a homecoming of sorts for the British driver, who spent his first three full seasons in Formula E with Nissan between 2018-21, scoring five pole positions, five podiums and a maiden win in Berlin in '20.Rowland switched to Mahindra in 2022 ...Keep reading
As first reported earlier this month, the FIA has been taking a close look at flexible wings over the first half of this season as it believes teams have been pushing the boundaries in terms of what is allowed.It is understood that several teams, including Aston Martin, were advised to make changes to their front wing designs around the time of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in a bid to ensure that ...Keep reading
The new addition could be found beneath the AMR23’s rear crash structure, as the designers had found a way to utilise a small bowtie-style winglet to work in conjunction with changes that were also made to the surface of the diffuser.While the team did not race the item in the end, its introduction should not be taken lightly. As Aston Martin had gone the extra mile to get the part on the car ...Keep reading
At Monza, the SF-23 machine will wear added yellow V stripes across the nose cone and engine cover.This is in deference to the paint job worn by the 499P Hypercar that won the blue-riband World Endurance Championship event earlier this year on the 100th anniversary of Le Mans.PLUS: How Ferrari scored a historic victory at Le MansThe races numbers (#16 for Charles Leclerc and #55 for Carlos Sainz) ...Keep reading
During the post podium celebrations at the Hungaroring in July, Norris managed to knock off Verstappen’s trophy as he undertook his trademark tactic of smashing his bottle of Ferrari sparkling wine down to get the bubbles flowing. The tapping down of his bottle on the top step bounced the trophy off, and it toppled over onto the ground, breaking in to several pieces. It emerged after the ...Keep reading
Triggered by the retirement of Sebastian Vettel, a whirlwind whipped through the paddock as Fernando Alonso's Aston Martin switch kicked off a fight between Alpine and McLaren over Oscar Piastri that was only resolved by F1's Contracts Recognition Board on the Zandvoort weekend.But just as F1's 2023 on-track action is not quite as exciting as last year, so too has grand prix racing's annual driver ...Keep reading
Drugovich has been an Aston junior driver for almost a year – he is also one of its official reserve drivers along with ex-McLaren racer Stoffel Vandoorne – and will take part in the FP1 action at the same Monza circuit where he secured the 2022 Formula 2 title. The Brazilian driver has previous experience of driving the AMR23 as he stood in for Stroll during several sessions of the Bahrain ...Keep reading
Having been at Ducati for the last four years, first with Avintia and then Pramac, Zarco has signed a two-year deal to join Honda and LCR in 2024 replacing Yamaha-bound Alex Rins.It will mark the second time Zarco has ridden the Honda in the premier class, having been drafted in to replace the injured Takaaki Nakagami at LCR for the final three rounds of 2019.The Frenchman, who was ousted from his ...Keep reading
Albon had started fourth and tumbled down the order as one of only five drivers to commit to slicks, opting not to make a late change to intermediates.He subsequently climbed back up the order and was running as high as sixth when the rain returned in the closing stages.Vowles conceded that staying out at the start ultimately turned out to be the wrong call."You either stop on lap one or lap two ...Keep reading
Rast has established himself as one of the best drivers to ever compete in the DTM, winning three titles (2017, ‘19, ‘20) and 25 races since he made his debut with Audi at Zandvoort in 2016.PLUS: The plug in and play stand-ins who got their timing just rightThe 36-year-old racked up his 100th race start at the Lausitzring earlier this month, making him the third-most experienced driver on the ...Keep reading
It was the first podium for the team and the Spanish driver since he finished runner-up in Canada in June, and it came after a run of four events in which he didn’t better fifth place.Alonso started the Zandvoort race in fifth but actually dropped a place at the start by pitting for intermediate tyres on the second lap rather than the opening tour.He subsequently made good progress up to third ...Keep reading
The tight pitlane and small main paddock have been regarded as the biggest compromises since discussions about a return of the race first began.The hope is that the changes will help to secure the event’s long-term future, while also allowing for any potential expansion of the F1 grid.The pitlane issue led to the FIA allowing drivers to start behind a safety car on intermediates rather than the ...Keep reading
“I don’t believe they have the technical expertise enough to regulate a world championship like us with all these manufacturers and drivers. They are not good enough.” As racing driver outbursts go, it doesn’t get much more damning than that. But, fresh with the raw emotion of having just been stripped of a well-earned second place in Formula E's first London E-Prix last month, Antonio ...Keep reading
The Dutch Grand Prix only returned to the F1 calendar in 2021 exclusively thanks to the huge interest in Verstappen, who has caused flocks of orange-clad Dutch fans to not only cheer him on in Zandvoort but across all European races.Verstappen has yet to disappoint the home fans, completing a hat-trick of Dutch GP wins on Sunday in front of some of the most energetic, sold out grandstands of the ...Keep reading
Vips will drive the #30 car that Jack Harvey vacated for the final three races of the season, as Bobby Rahal’s team evaluates talent for its 2024 line-up.The 23-year-old is a three-time Formula 2 race winner and a part of the Red Bull Junior Team between 2018 and 2022, but he was dropped after he used a racial slur on a Twitch livestream – just a month after making his F1 free practice debut ...Keep reading
The two-time world champion lined up fifth on the grid as rain arrived in time for the race start, with the whole field shod with slick Pirellis.Eventual race runner-up Alonso squeezed around the outside of fellow Spaniard and Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz through Turn 2 to cement his starting position before diving to the inside of the banked Turn 3 left-hander.As Mercedes racer George Russell and ...Keep reading
On Saturday at Daytona International Speedway, Kurt Busch decided to publicly declare what many have suspected – he has competed in his last NASCAR event.The 2004 Cup Series champion suffered a closed head injury in a wreck during qualifying at Pocono Raceway last July. He hasn't raced since but has made sponsor and TV appearances while serving as a mentor for drivers Bubba Wallace and Tyler ...Keep reading
The Australian has been sidelined by injury three rounds into his F1 return after crashing in second practice at Zandvoort.He locked the front wheels into the banked Turn 3 to shunt into the barrier. The steering wheel moved violently upon impact to result in a broken metacarpal in his left hand.Ricciardo underwent surgery and “metal work” in Barcelona on Sunday and is believed to have been ...Keep reading
Pagenaud has suffered ongoing concussion-like symptoms following his huge crash in practice at Mid-Ohio in July, which was caused by a brake failure.He has failed to gain clearance from IndyCar’s medical team after multiple evaluations since his horrendous wreck, and MSR has opted to put its 2024 signing Tom Blomqvist in the #60 car for the final two races of the season at Portland and Laguna ...Keep reading
Dixon has been testing the supercapacitor system on Honda’s side with Chip Ganassi Racing, which is being developed in conjunction with Chevrolet and Team Penske. It is a common hybrid across both powertrains.The hybrid is worth up to 150bhp, similar to the power level of the current push-to-pass engine boost system that operates on road and street courses in the series.Dixon and Penske’s ...Keep reading
The incident came just 24 hours after the American crashed heavily on slicks on a drying track having made Q3 for the first time in his rookie season.Sargeant stayed out on slicks in the wet early stages of the race and managed to survive the tricky conditions while losing a lot of time.With the track dry he was running in last place when he speered off the road after touching the inside kerb at ...Keep reading
The Englishman acknowledged that strategy calls played a role, especially the decision to stay out on slicks at the original start.However, he insisted that the MCL60 simply wasn’t as competitive on Sunday as it was in qualifying, citing the comparison with rivals Aston Martin and Mercedes as “terrible”.“There are times when it's down to pace and times when it's down to strategy, and the ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen looks essentially unstoppable in Formula 1 right now, but his 2023 Dutch Grand Prix victory was a masterclass in changing circumstances.He delighted his home fans for a third year in a row, with pictures of the crowd dancing throughout the late-race red flag stoppage entertaining many watching from afar, but Verstappen really had to work for this one.This is because others ...Keep reading
Vandoorne will share the #94 Peugeot 9X8 in the six-hour fixture in Japan with Loic Duval and Gustavo Menezes for what would be his first WEC outing in any category since the 2021 season finale in Bahrain.The Belgian has been called in by Peugeot following the news that Muller sustained an injury on his left collarbone in August. A decision was subsequently taken in consultation with his doctors ...Keep reading
The Trident driver took his maiden series victory in a mixed-up feature race which saw all top six title contenders encounter difficulties.Novalak was inside the top 10 by the first safety car, which came moments into the opening lap, and gained places as those ahead encountered trouble.He made a well-timed pitstop after championship leader Theo Pourchaire (ART) crashed out, dipping into the pits ...Keep reading
The six-time MotoGP race winner badly broke his right leg in a crash during the sprint race at the Italian GP back in June.Rins underwent surgery on the leg but recovery has been slower than expected, with the main issue now the healing of the nerves in his foot.He has been out of action since that sprint race, missing the last five rounds.Ahead of this weekend’s Catalan GP at Barcelona, LCR ...Keep reading
The Frenchman claimed after the race that the wet compound was “not the right tyre at any moment” and that if conditions were right for it, a red flag would probably result, which is exactly what happened.Ocon eventually claimed a point for 10th place on a day when team-mate Pierre Gasly gave the Enstone outfit a boost by finishing third, but he remained convinced that he could have done ...Keep reading
In a mixed weather race, Sainz admitted Ferrari "was nowhere" on pace and says both he and the team executed a near perfect race to finish fifth, holding off Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and McLaren's Lando Norris at the chequered flag."I would say after looking at the Alpine [we were] more [like] the sixth-fastest car this weekend," said Sainz. "I know at some point it looked that we even could ...Keep reading
Newgarden needed to stay within 108 points of series dominator Alex Palou to stay in mathematical contention and looked good early on when he led 98 laps of the race from his inherited pole position.But Palou’s Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate Scott Dixon used an alternate pit strategy to turn the race on its head, the Kiwi pitting three times to the five of the majority of his rivals.In his ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion continued Red Bull's streak of success after shrugging off the poor weather and a red flag at the Dutch coastal circuit.Fernando Alonso finished second for Aston Martin, with Alpine's Pierre Gasly completing the podium.PLUS: How Verstappen defied home pressure and two downpours to win F1's Dutch GPTo recap all the events of the race, Matt Kew joins live from the ...Keep reading
The Dutch Grand Prix was derailed by two rain showers, the latter of which prompted a red flag due to severe aquaplaning into Turn 1, which caused a crash for Alfa Romeo's Zhou Guanyu.At the start of the lap 62 downpour Verstappen wasn't entirely convinced about coming in for intermediates yet, with his race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase urging him that "it would be a good time to pit" as the track ...Keep reading
After his sublime spin and win at Indianapolis a fortnight ago, Dixon put on another fuel-saving masterclass to take victory – despite a nine-place grid penalty that meant he started 16th – by 22s from Pato O’Ward (Arrow McLaren) and David Malukas (Dale Coyne Racing).They were the only cars on the lead lap. Dixon used a three-stop strategy, while most of his rivals stopped five times.Josef ...Keep reading
The 160-minute race got under way with Jack Hawksworth leading the field from pole position in the #14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 and held the advantage through an early full course yellow caused by David Brule in the #92 Kelly-Moss with Riley Porsche 911 going off into the barriers.Not long after the #78 Forte Racing Lamborghini Huracan was buried nose-first into the tyre barrier by Misha ...Keep reading
Lloyd had started his Team Hard Cupra Leon from pole position and led the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N of Tom Chilton, who was soon given a five-second penalty for an out-of-position start.Butcher, from fifth on the grid, got past the West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport of Adam Morgan on the Craner Curves to move up to fourth in his Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Corolla.Aron Taylor-Smith was ...Keep reading
Perez's future has been the subject of endless speculation due to the large performance gap between him and team-mate Max Verstappen this year, with the Dutchman romping to his ninth consecutive victory at Sunday's Dutch Grand Prix.Recent comments by Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko further added fuel to the fire, the Austrian suggesting in several German-language interviews Perez was not 100% ...Keep reading
French driver Gasly finished fourth on the road in a chaotic rain-hit race at Zandvoort but a pitlane speeding penalty for Sergio Perez bumped him up to third. The result marks Alpine’s second top-three classification in as many rounds, with Gasly also ranking third in the Belgian sprint race.This brace of headline results follows immediately after team principal Otmar Szafnauer and sporting ...Keep reading
The championship leader, who extended his points advantage to 138 points following his Dutch Grand Prix victory, won the season opener in Bahrain as he sought to successfully defend his title once more.But he traded blows with Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez in the opening four races of the season, as the Mexican chalked up wins in Saudi Arabia and Baku while Verstappen took victory in ...Keep reading
Leclerc had a collision with Oscar Piastri on the damp first lap of the race before diving into the pits for a switch to intermediates, which proved to be slow as the crew wasn't ready with his tyres.The team could do nothing about the damage to his floor, and data indicated that he gradually lost more downforce as the race progressed.He tumbled down the order and, shortly after being demoted to ...Keep reading
Ricciardo, who was paid off by McLaren to not race with the team this season, has been side-lined by injury three rounds into his F1 return after crashing in second practice at Zandvoort.The Australian locked the front wheels into the banked Turn 3 to shunt into the barrier. The steering wheel moved violently upon impact to result in a broken metacarpal in his left hand.With Red Bull reserve Liam ...Keep reading
A rain shower hit Zandvoort on the opening lap of the race and seventh-starting Perez reacted fastest by pitting at the first opportunity to ditch soft Pirellis for intermediates.As the majority of the grid then stopped one tour later, the Mexican emerged with a 10.4 second advantage over George Russell as Verstappen fell to 14.246s behind come the fourth lap.Eventual race winner Verstappen then ...Keep reading
Mercedes immediately shot itself in the foot at Zandvoort by staying out too long on slicks when it started raining at the start.The team underestimated the intensity of the brief shower that shook up the order, as it also caught out other teams including McLaren and Williams.The strategy error hindered Lewis Hamilton's recovery from 13th on the grid and made George Russell lose a whole minute as ...Keep reading
On Sunday, Hamilton recovered from a disappointing qualifying session by moving from a lowly 13th grid spot to sixth.But the seven-time world champion's race could have been a lot better if he and Mercedes hadn't been on the wrong side of an early pitstop call.Rain arrived right after the start of the Zandvoort race, with the Mercedes drivers among the cars staying out too long on slicks, which ...Keep reading
McLaughlin topped the qualifying session around the 1.25-mile oval, which was delayed by rain yesterday, with a two-lap average of 49.1936s, a speed of 182.951mph.But before qualifying, IndyCar officials announced nine-position starting grid penalties for McLaughlin, Alex Palou, Scott Dixon and Takuma Sato (Chip Ganassi Racing), Kyle Kirkwood (Andretti Autosport) and Agustin Canapino (Juncos ...Keep reading
Alonso finished second in a rain-affected and red-flagged Zandvoort race, 3.7s behind home hero Verstappen in the Red Bull.When the race restarted with six laps to go after a long delay for a break in the weather, Alonso considered making a lunge on Verstappen into Turn 1, but he joked he thought better of it as he would have risked taking the Dutchman out and "not being able to exit the track"."I ...Keep reading
Verstappen his home race for a third year in succession from Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Pierre Gasly (Alpine).Red Bull’s Sergio Perez lost third on the road to Gasly due to a penalty for speeding in the pits shortly before a red flag was required following Zhou Guanyu’s hefty crash at Turn 1 in heavy rain that set up a five-lap sprint to the finish.2023 F1 Dutch Grand Prix resultsHow ...Keep reading
The championship leader kept calm during a six-lap shootout at the end of the race following a red flag for heavy rain, and managed a restart over Fernando Alonso perfectly to extend his streak of F1 victories in a dominant 2023 season.Heavy rainfall on the 61st lap produced a stoppage as the FIA stewards waited for some of the rain to clear, which offered Verstappen a challenge to the lead that ...Keep reading
On lap 61 of 72 anticipated heavy showers hit the Zandvoort track, prompted the entire field to change to intermediates of full wets.But even on rain tyres drivers struggled to navigate the Turn 1 hairpin, with Alfa Romeo's Zhou Guanyu helplessly aquaplaning off the road and into the TecPro barriers.That caused an initial Virtual Safety Car, which was soon converted into a red flag after 65 laps ...Keep reading
Ingram worked his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N ahead of the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST of Sutton on the fourth lap of 14, and stayed in front until the end of the race.Sutton appeared to make a decent getaway, with front-row partner Jake Hill unable to get his rear-wheel-drive, West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport ahead of the Ford.Ingram got alongside Hill down the Craner Curves, and ...Keep reading
Albon was the star of Saturday qualifying by taking fourth on the grid on the high-downforce Zandvoort loop. Rookie team-mate Logan Sargeant also claimed his best qualifying result of the season in 10th, with a Q3 crash ruling out an even better grid position.Williams has traditionally had an efficient, slippery FW45 car which has proven to be difficult for others to pass. Alpine's Pierre Gasly ...Keep reading
The three-time champion worked his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST around the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N of reigning title holder Tom Ingram on the second lap, and disappeared into the distance.Ingram ran a solid second for most of the race, but only just fended off the West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport of a charging Jake Hill in a near-photo finish.Sutton had qualified on pole, but a ...Keep reading
Roger Twelvetrees came off the track on the Stebbe Straight in the first few laps of the second race of the day at the VSCC’s final race meeting of the year.The race was quickly red flagged with several ambulances arriving on the scene of the crash.However, it was confirmed later by governing body Motorsport UK that Twelvetrees had not survived the crash.In a statement, Motorsport UK said ...Keep reading
Verstappen has won eight consecutive races since standing atop the podium at the Miami Grand Prix in May. Should he repeat the feat at Zandvoort, he will draw level with former Red Bull driver Vettel.The four-time champion scored his record run at the close of the 2013 season, as he secured the last of his four world titles. After qualifying on pole for the Dutch GP and having already overtaken ...Keep reading
By the end of that season, it will have been a decade since the Hinckley-based motorcycle manufacturer – which can trace its roots to the original Triumph Engineering Company founded in 1885 – became the sole engine supplier of the Moto2 class.Triumph’s arrival in Moto2 marked a big shift in performance for the class with its three-cylinder 765cc engine taking over from the Honda 600cc ...Keep reading
"Ask them to repeat that [name]," Max Verstappen chuckled when Autosport asked the Dutchman and fellow top three qualifiers Lando Norris and George Russell about why Zandvoort's so-called Hugenholtzbocht was causing so many headaches across the weekend.Verstappen's request prompted lacklustre efforts by his colleagues. But drivers didn't just trip up over the Dutch pronunciation of Turn 3's ...Keep reading
Russell spent three years at Williams at the start of his F1 career before switching to Mercedes full-time for 2022, with his close friend Albon his replacement as the Mercedes engine customer's lead driver.Williams has been struggling following years of underinvestment but, empowered by new owners Dorilton, former Mercedes man James Vowles has been overhauling the team to return it back to the ...Keep reading
The regulations state that drivers have to use full wet tyres if the formation lap starts behind the safety car.However, the Catch-22 is that if conditions are deemed safe enough for the safety car to be withdrawn the track is usually already too dry for wet tyres.At the rolling start of the sprint race at Spa last month half the field rushed into the pits to change to intermediates as the safety ...Keep reading
A incident-strewn feature race, which came after an abandoned sprint race on Saturday, saw four of the top six in the standings crash out, while the remaining two were handed 10-second penalties for collisions.The mixed-up order saw Trident driver Novalak, who had scored just two points in 2023 before this weekend, take his first win since his title-winning BRDC F3 campaign in 2019.Lining up 13th ...Keep reading
The idea has been floating around on social media in recent days and has been mentioned by Sky F1 commentator David Croft.This year Stroll has struggled to match Aston Martin team-mate Fernando Alonso, which has led some to speculate that he might be reconsidering his future.However, the 24-year-old is adamant that he won’t be switching sports any time soon.“Well, if I'm going to go on tour ...Keep reading
The #16 ARTA car of Fukuzumi and Otsu took advantage of a well-timed first pitstop under full-course yellow to cement their early lead, ultimately beating NISMO pair Tsugio Matsuda and Ronnie Quintarelli to victory by just over 10 seconds.However, they were excluded following post-race technical inspection due to an infraction relating to their car's skid block.It means the SARD Toyota GR Supra of ...Keep reading
The Hendrick Motorsport Chevrolet driver missed out on the playoffs for the first time since joining the Cup Series in 2016 after failing to secure the win he needed to progress.Bubba Wallace therefore secured the 16th and final spot on points, leaving 2020 champion Elliott unable to end this year higher than 17th.Elliott holds the fifth-best average finish among full-time drivers this year ...Keep reading
The American rookie was able to take advantage of the unexpectedly good form of the Williams at the Dutch GP venue, which also propelled his team-mate Alex Albon to fourth on the grid.Sargeant got through a wet Q2 in an encouraging 10th place but then crashed heavily on slicks early in the final segment of qualifying.He thus finished last in the session and will start Sunday’s race from ...Keep reading
Only twice this season - in a treacherous wet shootout in Canada and last time out at Spa prior to serving a gearbox penalty - had he been even further in front.With Charles Leclerc crashing and Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez running some 1.313s adrift of Verstappen’s 1min10.567s flier, it was left to Lando Norris to complete the front row and double underline McLaren’s turnaround. He pipped ...Keep reading
McLaughlin had spun through the grass exiting the pit lane as he pushed on his new, alternate-compound Firestone tyres, briefly entering the track at the apex, which caused Power to run up the track to avoid him through Turn 2.The two-time IndyCar champion hit the wall and spun back across the track and into the path of Chip Ganassi Racing’s Marcus Ericsson, who piled into Power and wrecked both ...Keep reading
The race was sent into a two-lap overtime following a horrific crash involving Ryan Preece that resulted in the Stewart-Haas driver being sent to hospital, with Kevin Harvick in the lead on his final outing at the superspeedway.But Harvick had Buescher and RFK team-mate Brad Keselowski behind him, and a push from the 2012 Cup champion moved Buescher ahead of Harvick shortly after the restart ...Keep reading
When the F1 Commission met at last month’s Belgian Grand Prix, the topic of engine equalisation was on the agenda.This followed claims from Alpine that its power unit supplier Renault needed to recover a potential 30bhp deficit relative to rivals Ferrari, Mercedes and Honda.Presently, F1 has an engine performance freeze. As such, Renault elected to target power with its split-turbo 2022 engine ...Keep reading
A pre-session downpour and high winds delayed the session by more than eight hours and when it did run for 60 minutes, Newgarden lapped the 1.25-mile oval, formerly known as Gateway, in 24.9944s at 180.040mph.It also marked the debut of Firestone’s softer alternate tyre on an oval, with teams mandated to run it in this session. Teams started on the primaries and most switched to the red-walled ...Keep reading
Autosport exclusively revealed that Reynolds was firmly in the frame to depart Grove Racing and join Team 18 last month.That has now been confirmed, Reynolds to join Mark Winterbottom in what will be a highly-experienced line-up at the GM squad next season.The move comes after Reynolds was only offered a single-year extension at Grove Racing, and opted for the security of what is believed to be a ...Keep reading
Hawksworth and fellow Briton Ben Barnicoat will head the pack at the start of Sunday's 160-minute race after outpacing the WeatherTech Racing Mercedes AMG GT3 Evo Daniel Juncadella shares with Jules Gounon by 0.096s.Halfway through the 15-minute qualifying session, Antonio Garcia in the Corvette Racing C8.R headed the times and reached a 1m45.133s best, but it wasn't enough for a place on the ...Keep reading
The 45-year-old was forced to vacate the cockpit of his 23XI Racing Toyota last July, just two months after taking the 34th win of his career at Kansas, when he suffered a concussion at Pocono.In October, he announced that he would not return as a full-time driver in 2023, allowing Tyler Reddick to make his switch from Richard Childress Racing one year earlier than planned. There was still hope ...Keep reading
Last week, Massa stepped up his legal battle over losing the 2008 title by sending a Letter Before Claim addressed to F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali and FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, setting out the details of his impending legal challenge over the result of the championship.Massa lost the title to McLaren's Lewis Hamilton by a single point but believes the result of the controversial Singapore ...Keep reading
The home hero charged to his eighth pole position of the season in a drying qualifying at Zandvoort, topping Q3 by 0.537s from McLaren’s Lando Norris.George Russell squeezed into third place late on in the session for Mercedes, to push Alex Albon down to fourth on an impressive showing for Williams.Q3 was interrupted twice by red flags due to separate crashes by Logan Sargeant and Charles ...Keep reading
The stewards have ruled that the AlphaTauri driver failed to satisfactorily move off the dry racing line through Turn 13 during Q2 while preparing for a push-lap.In doing so, he impeded seven-time world champion Hamilton, who subsequently failed to progress into the top 10 shootout and will start 13th.Tsunoda, who ran 14th fastest, will therefore drop provisionally behind Nico Hulkenberg, Zhou ...Keep reading
Hamilton only qualified 13th at Zandvoort after struggling to replicate his early Friday pace in his Mercedes W14.The seven-time world champion was caught out by several drivers blocking him on his flying laps, first by both Aston Martins in Q1 and then by AlphaTauri's Yuki Tsunoda in Q2.But afterwards, Hamilton conceded that his Mercedes was just too slow regardless of traffic, missing the cut to ...Keep reading
Leclerc, who scored pole in Azerbaijan and last time out at Spa, was running fifth when he ploughed into the wall with four minutes left in Q3 at Zandvoort.A small snap through the Turn 9 right-hander sent Leclerc over the greasy off-line asphalt and then onto the wet grass where he slid side-on into the barriers, ultimately leaving him ranked ninth.The Monegasque, who complained of poor car ...Keep reading
The New Zealander was drafted into the Faenza-based team after Daniel Ricciardo was injured in a crash at Zandvoort on Friday.The soaking wet FP3 session was his first F1 track outing of 2023 and his first experience of F1's intermediate tyres, and after a steady start he survived a spin that saw him tap the nose of the car on the barrier.He then ended up bottom of the order in 20th in the wet Q1 ...Keep reading
But this time Sutton had to fend off a stern challenge from reigning champion Tom Ingram, who ran him extremely close but could not prevent the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST squad from extending its 2023 pole wipeout to eight from eight.Sutton substantially lowered Ingram’s provisional pole time as the session headed into the final 10 minutes with a seemingly unbeatable effort.But with ...Keep reading
Albon topped Q1 on Saturday, ran third in Q2 and then completed the second row of the grid in the final shootout, having lapped 0.852 seconds adrift of clear polesitter Max Verstappen.Albon had expected a "rubbish" performance for the slippery Williams given the high-downforce requirements of Zandvoort which made the track "one of the worst ones" for the team.He had anticipated a tailwind into the ...Keep reading
The McLaren driver was the best of the rest behind the dominant Max Verstappen, qualifying second but some 0.537s off the Red Bull polesitter at Zandvoort.Norris briefly looked a threat for pole in the final Q3 runs, going quickest in the first sector, but conceded his second half of the lap, which is where he lost so much time to Verstappen, was poor by his own standards.“The first half the ...Keep reading
The Dutchman punched in a 1m10.567s lap to send the home crowd into raptures, which remained untouchable in the final moments of Q3 to ensure a third consecutive pole at his local race.Although the McLarens had headed the order prior to the Charles Leclerc-enforced red flag towards the end of qualifying, Verstappen made no bones of setting himself up for an all-or-nothing flyer at the end and set ...Keep reading
Verstappen will start ahead of Lando Norris (McLaren) and George Russell (Mercedes) in Sunday’s race after the one-hour qualifying session on Friday, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.Logan Sargeant caused a red flag in Q3 when he shunted his Williams, and a second was required for Ferrari’s Charles ...Keep reading
With the Berkshire-domiciled Yorkshireman’s Ford Focus ST already southbound on the M1 en route back to Motorbase Performance’s Kent premises after his hefty FP1 shunt, the second session began with angry black clouds looming beyond the Melbourne loop.Times had got down to around a second away from the early-morning session as competitors built up speed, but then the rain arrived, precluding ...Keep reading
The team has been without a technical leader since the December exit of Francois-Xavier Demaison, although Williams announced earlier this month that it had signed Alpine veteran engineer Pat Fry as its chief technical officer, but he will not start until the winter.The team is also still yet to appoint a technical director - likely to be a rival’s design second-in-command looking for a leading ...Keep reading
The race ran for just four laps, almost all of which was behind the safety car after a lap-one collision prompted a red flag.There was an eight-minute delay to the formation lap before a rolling start to the race as wet conditions continued to plague the Dutch coastal circuit.The red flags were waved after Kush Maini and Jak Crawford (Hitech) came together at Turn 5 before the Campos driver ...Keep reading
At 2.65 miles, the seaside venue is the second shortest on the calendar behind only Monaco.These tight confines have already led to several incidents throughout Friday practice of drivers complaining of having been blocked.Notably, Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg has escaped a punishment from the stewards for potentially impeding Max Verstappen through the Turn 12 left-hander during FP2.But drivers ...Keep reading
Ricciardo has suffered a break to the metacarpal in his left hand following a Turn 3 FP2 crash at Zandvoort. The impact with the barriers appeared to rip the steering wheel out of his hands.Red Bull reserve and Japanese Super Formula championship challenger Liam Lawson will deputise for Ricciardo for the rest of the Dutch GP weekend, while the Italian round follows immediately after.After a ...Keep reading
A rapid-fire final 10 minutes, produced by improving track conditions as the morning's heavy rain subsided, ended with Verstappen embarking on a series of quick runs having found confidence on the drying circuit.Lando Norris had assumed control over the session with around 20 minutes to go after trading places with McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri at the top, but Red Bull's Verstappen lodged a ...Keep reading
The 2019 series runner-up, who lies fifth in the 2023 standings, crashed his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST at McLeans in the closing stages of the first free practice session, moments after setting the quickest time to date.The damage to the rear end of the Focus following its enormous rear impact with the tyre wall is sufficient to rule him out, although Cammish escaped serious harm.“My ...Keep reading
Palou, the 2021 IndyCar title winner and current clear points leader, appeared poised to join the Arrow McLaren outfit for 2024 but has now seemingly gone back on the deal. He plans to instead remain with Chip Ganassi Racing - the team having previously filed a lawsuit against Palou, who signed a McLaren contract during 2022.Plausibly, Palou - who qualifies for an FIA superlicence to race in F1 - ...Keep reading
Protoypes will be run by Alpine and Red Bull in a test at Monza after the Italian GP, and by all teams on the Fridays of the Japanese and Mexican GPsThe Italian company dedicated all its in-season slick testing up to July on its no-blanket tyres, which it hoped would be approved for 2024.However, at Spa the F1 Commission agreed to stick with blankets for at least one more season, so Pirelli has ...Keep reading
We’ve tried to include a combination of great performances, close races, dramatic finishes and landmark moments.For this list, we’ve focused on the positive, so no 1992 British Touring Car finale here. There was definitely some fine driving in that famous event, but it’s probably more memorable for the controversy…PLUS: BTCC racers hit the big time – and each other1969 British GP - Duel ...Keep reading
The New Zealander has been drafted into AlphaTauri after Daniel Ricciardo broke a bone in his hand when he went off in FP2 avoiding the crashed car of Oscar Piastri.Ricciardo went to a local hospital and word soon came back to the Red Bull camp that he wouldn’t be able to drive for the rest of the weekend.Current Super Formula frontrunner Lawson knows Zandvoort well having contested the F2 event ...Keep reading
Yamaha currently sits joint-last in the manufacturers’ table with Honda in what has been an abysmal year for the Japanese brands in MotoGP.Quartararo, who won three races in 2022 and was runner-up in the standings, has just two podiums to his credit: a third at the Americas Grand Prix and a third in the sprint at Assen following a penalty for Brad Binder.The 2021 world champion has repeatedly ...Keep reading
McLaren has enjoyed an impressive leap forward with its upgrade package ahead of the summer break. But the Woking squad won’t rest on its laurels as it looks to unlock the full potential of this year's car.It is also keen to learn as much as possible ahead of 2024 so it can home in on a more specific development trajectory for its next challenger.The most significant portion of the upgrade ...Keep reading
The Australian was taken to hospital having crashed behind Oscar Piastri at the banked Turn 3. An X-ray confirmed he had sustained a break to the metacarpal in his left hand.This came after the driver, who had locked the front tyres through the corner, was still holding the steering wheel as it snapped violently upon impact with the outside barrier.Recalling the shunt, Ricciardo said: “I ...Keep reading
Lando Norris nudged ahead of home hero Max Verstappen to secure FP2's headline time at the Dutch Grand Prix, in a boisterous first day of Formula 1 action at Zandvoort.With passionate support for Verstappen emerging as early as Friday's practice sessions as his orange-dressed fandom descended upon the Dutch coast en masse, the current championship leader offered early delight having claimed the ...Keep reading
After Ferrari reserve Robert Shwartzman ran in the car during FP1 and classified 19th, Sainz clocked 16th in FP2. Team-mate Charles Leclerc finished 16th and then 11th.Both Scuderia drivers have called on the team to make major gains overnight, with Sainz supposing that Ferrari has again been caught out by a high-downforce track.He suggested Ferrari's larger rear wing specification could not match ...Keep reading
The 21-year-old took part in three F1 practice sessions last season, two for AlphaTauri and one for Red Bull, but will step up to make his racing debut at Zandvoort with the Italian squad. The Red Bull junior will step into fellow Antipodean Ricciardo’s seat after he was injured during FP2 on Friday, crashing at Turn 3 before sheepishly emerging while clutching his left arm. Having gone to ...Keep reading
Ricciardo was caught up in an accident of fellow Australian Oscar Piastri in the early stages of Friday's second practice session.Moments after Piastri had crashed his McLaren in Zandvoort's banked Turn 3, Ricciardo arrived at the scene and also hit the outside barriers while taking avoiding action.Ricciardo's steering wheel snapped violently upon impacting the wall, with the 34-year-old ...Keep reading
The British driver beat home favourite Max Verstappen to the fastest time in second practice at Zandvoort, displacing the Red Bull driver who headed the first session on Friday, as F1 returned to action after its summer break. The second practice session was stalled early on by a red flag after Oscar Piastri crashed at Turn 3, resulting in Daniel Ricciardo also hitting the wall trying to avoid ...Keep reading
The new Alpine A424 was put through its paces for three consecutive days at Paul Ricard this week, following an initial rollout on 2 August and a shakedown at Le Castellet Airport on Monday.WEC stalwart Nicolas Lapierre completed the first runs in the car on Monday and Tuesday before handing over the driving duties to Matthieu Vaxiviere on Wednesday. Vaxiviere and fellow Frenchman Charles Milesi ...Keep reading
The Australian returned to F1 race action from the Hungarian Grand Prix in July, replacing the ousted Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri, having lost his McLaren drive to Oscar Piastri at the end of 2022.Beginning his third weekend with the Red Bull-owned squad at Zandvoort, Ricciardo’s Friday was prematurely halted when he crashed just under 20 minutes into FP2.The eight-time grand prix winner ...Keep reading
Running opened on the harder two compounds of tyre with the Mercedes duo emerging on top on the medium Pirelli rubber through the first laps around the undulating beachside circuit in Zandvoort - George Russell moving ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton.Sergio Perez then found his way to the top with a 1m12.750s on his own mediums, prior to Hamilton's return to the top of the charts, as Red Bull ...Keep reading
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was quickest in Free Practice 1, before Norris set the fastest time of the day in FP2 at 1m11.330s, 0.023s quicker than Verstappen and Williams’s Alex Albon.Dutch GP FP1 results: Verstappen fastest from AlonsoWhat happened in Dutch GP Free Practice 1?Verstappen set the pace after 10 minutes with 1m13.275s on hard tyres, which he lowered to 1m13.191s.Logan Sargeant ...Keep reading
Haas has this week announced that it will retain driver duo Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen for 2024.Team principal Guenther Steiner praised their experience, with Haas having dropped young driver Mick Schumacher after his two multi-million-pound car-snapping shunts that forced 2022 upgrades to be abandoned to comply with the cost cap.Alongside the financial constraints, the move to six sprint ...Keep reading
Ferrari built a 2023 car which has on occasion excelled in qualifying, but has otherwise been very inconsistent over race distances and across grand prix weekends.That lack of consistency, which has been largely put down to the SF-23's aerodynamic characteristics, has held Ferrari back in its fight with Mercedes and Aston Martin for second in the championship behind the dominant Red Bulls, with ...Keep reading
Mercedes got its 2023 season off to a slow start with a car that hadn’t progressed enough from last season.However, after a significant upgrade programme the team has been logging points on a regular basis, with Hamilton and team-mate George Russell sharing four podium finishes between them in the last six races.The team is currently 51 points clear of third-placed Aston Martin, and 56 ahead of ...Keep reading
Ricciardo and McLaren parted ways two years into a three-year contract after the Australian struggled to get comfortable in the Woking team's Formula 1 cars, largely failing to match team-mate Lando Norris.Ricciardo gradually lost himself trying to dig his way out of his MCL36-shaped hole, having tried to force his driving style to such a degree that Red Bull "didn't recognise" him when he ...Keep reading
Sergio Perez was fourth in the other Red Bull, nearly half a second slower than Verstappen, with the Ferrari drivers well down the field after eschewing running the soft tyres throughout FP1.Verstappen topped the early running on the harder tyres that made up the opening quarter of the one-hour session – the home hero moving to the top of the timesheets with his first flying lap and then ...Keep reading
Ferrari was a front-running manufacturer in the first two years of the DTM’s GT3 era in 2021-22, with the factory-supported and Red Bull-branded AF Corse squad even challenging for the title with Liam Lawson in 2021.However, with AF Corse leaving and being replaced by Emil Frey as Ferrari’s sole representative in the DTM, and the ageing 488 GT3 also making way for the new 296 GT3, results were ...Keep reading
McLaren has taken a major step with a recent string of upgrades for the MCL60, and in both Britain and Hungary Norris led the chase of Red Bull and earned back-to-back second places.He acknowledges that the team can now expect to challenge for the top three on pure performance rather than having to wait for unusual circumstances to create a chance.“I think the majority of the time we've had an ...Keep reading
Manufacturers and teams have flirted with aerodynamic wings in MotoGP for decades, but development really began in earnest in 2015 when Ducati introduced winglets to its GP15.Despite attempts to quell aero development by the organisers since then, it has now become the key battleground in MotoGP, which has led to a negative effect on racing.MORE: 10 things we learned from the 2023 MotoGP Austrian ...Keep reading
The Finn was promoted to Hyundai’s third factory i20 N Rally1 car for WRC rounds in Estonia and Finland, filling the position left by the late Craig Breen.Suninen impressed in both outings on fast gravel stages, finishing fifth in Estonia before following that result up with a fourth at his home event in Finland.The 29-year-old’s season beyond those events had remained unclear until today’s ...Keep reading
Aston Martin trails Mercedes by 51 points as the campaign resumes in Zandvoort after the summer break, with the Silverstone squad having experienced a dip in form since Canada.For this weekend, the team has submitted to the FIA a heavily revised floor and diffuser.A revised lower surface of the floor body, reshaped floor fences and tweaked floor edge have been conceived in tandem to improve ...Keep reading
The American outfit revealed on Thursday that the pair would remain for 2024, as widely expected.Steiner said the decision was “straightforward” - despite Magnussen having struggled to match the qualifying pace of his returning team-mate - and so he did not begin to hold talks with other interested drivers.“It was pretty straightforward since a few months ago when I started to say, ’I ...Keep reading
Jeff Allam was part of the famed Super Touring era of 1990s tin-tops but it is the earlier rear-wheel-drive Group A Rover V8 that he selects as his favourite racer.Allam, who scored 17-time British Touring Car Championship wins, helped end the Ford Capri domination and took the 1982 Class A BTCC crown with a TWR 3500 S. He then raced the Vitesse version in the epic 1985-86 European Touring Car ...Keep reading
Red Bull has written history in 2023 by winning the first 12 races in a row, extending its streak of consecutive wins to 13.The reigning world drivers' and constructors' champions proved an outlier in an otherwise competitive midfield as F1's budget cap, its stable regulations and aerodynamic testing handicap have all played their part in bringing teams closer together.But there are signs that Red ...Keep reading
Bubba Wallace, who has never before made the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, sits 32 points ahead of his nearest competition in the final post-season spot currently.The pressure is high for the 23XI Racing driver, who admitted that Daytona will be "stressful as hell."A strong run on Saturday would solidify his points cushion, but none of that matters if one of the 16 full-time drivers below him in the ...Keep reading
Hamilton hasn’t won a race since he lost the World Championship to Max Verstappen at the Abu Dhabi finale in 2021, and he’s endured two tough seasons with difficult cars.However, he insists that the process of trying to improve both the machinery and the team itself has helped to keep him sharp for when Mercedes can give him a car that’s capable of winning on merit.“I don't think it's ...Keep reading
Leclerc originally committed his future to Ferrari with a five-year deal in 2019.False stories then emerged over the summer break suggesting he had inked a new £150 million package as part of an initial two-year extension with the option for a further three seasons together.But the Monegasque has rubbished those claims joking that he 'wishes' he had agreed such a lucrative deal. Instead, there ...Keep reading
Only two sets of the softer, red-walled alternate rubber will be made available to teams at World Wide Technology Raceway. They have been instructed to keep one set for the race and, unlike road and street courses, are banned from using them in qualifying.This means they will only get one chance to evaluate them in Saturday practice before having to use them for a stint (at least two laps are ...Keep reading
Mercedes currently sits second in the teams’ standings, 256 points behind dominant leader Red Bull, but 51 ahead of Aston Martin – despite only claiming five podiums so far compared to the green team’s six.Aston had been Red Bull’s closest challenger for much of the first half of the current campaign but has since fallen behind Mercedes, which has been able to score consistently even as ...Keep reading
Ferrari has struggled from the start of 2023 with excessive tyre wear paired and a lack of consistency in its race pace.That meant the Scuderia has struggled to convert its often-impressive qualifying speed into sustained race pace over a full grand prix distance.The team has been restricted to just three podiums, all through Charles Leclerc, who took two of his top three berths after falling back ...Keep reading
The Peugeot 107 driver has been the pacesetter for much of the series' season so far, although he narrowly missed out on completing a hat-trick in the reversed-grid finale.Nevertheless, Lettis leaves Kent with 11 wins to his name - five behind long-time table-topper Freddie Slater - and leaps up four places on the leaderboard to eighth.Lettis is the only change inside the top 10 of Autosport's ...Keep reading
After leaving Mercedes at the end of 2021, Bottas has been enjoying the relaxed atmosphere at what is currently the Alfa Romeo team.Last weekend, during the summer break, Bottas competed in a cycling event in Colorado dressed as Simpson's character Duff Man - for which he won the best costume award, winning his weight in beer and subsequently donating it to spectators and competitors.The Finn ...Keep reading
The Spanish driver’s current deal extends to the end of 2024, but he has stressed that he wants long-term stability and an early extension of his stay with the team.As such, he is keen to have his future sorted out by the end of this season.“I'm not going to lie, I don’t like going into my last year of a contract without really knowing where I'm racing the next year,” Sainz said in ...Keep reading
Fiat fun: Panda on the prowlA Fiat Panda provided the most unusual sight among a wide variety of machinery taking part in last weekend’s Clubsport Trophy mini-enduro race at Silverstone.The car was making its race debut in the hands of Fiat fanatic Dean Lomas. The long-time mechanic, who was also competing in his own first race, shared the Panda with Clubmans Sports Prototype regular Martin ...Keep reading
The Red Bull Ring has been a mainstay on the MotoGP calendar since it returned to the schedule in 2016, hosting events every year since – including double-headers in 2020 and 2021 during COVID times – and has become a firm fan favourite.It’s one of the better-attended events on the calendar, with a weekend total of 173,013 – including 93,519 on Sunday – turning up for the 2023 Austrian ...Keep reading
Several parties, including American powerhouse Andretti, have lodged their interest in joining the F1 grid as an 11th team, with FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem keen on expanding the current grid of 10 teams.Ben Sulayem says it is the FIA's duty to follow the regulations, which cater for up to 12 teams, as he eyes manufacturer involvement from the US and China."We have a contract [with Formula ...Keep reading
- Most consecutive F1 winsArguably the most challenging record on this list, as one slip-up on track or in the pits can reset the counter to zero. Throughout F1's history, only a select few have secured more than five consecutive victories - Alberto Ascari, Michael Schumacher (twice), Sebastian Vettel, Nico Rosberg and now Verstappen. Evidently, the Germans excelled in this regard, with Vettel ...Keep reading
F1's calendar has ballooned to 24 races in 2024 amid the series' surge in popularity, with owners Liberty Media keen on bringing the championship to new markets in major metropoles, including Miami and Las Vegas.It is also eyeing a race on the African continent, although efforts to revive the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami have yet to come to fruition.With the 2024 calendar posing several ...Keep reading
This year is a special one for Silverstone. The Northamptonshire circuit is celebrating 75 years since motorsport was first hosted at the old airfield and this weekend's Silverstone Festival event is set to be a great way to mark the occasion.From classic Formula 1 cars to more modern sportscar greats, machinery from just about every era of the track's history is set to do battle, while a host of ...Keep reading
The 2023 campaign is Hulkenberg’s first for Haas after he spent the three preceding seasons acting as a reserve driver for the Racing Point/Aston Martin team, while Magnussen is Haas’s longest serving driver.The pair currently sit 14th and 18th in the 2023 drivers’ standings, with Haas eighth in the constructors’ championship on 11 points, after the first half of its campaign was dominated ...Keep reading
Before the Formula 1 season kicks back into gear at Zandvoort this weekend, we celebrate two birthdays. The WRC is 50 years old in 2023, so now seemed like the perfect time to put together a special track (stage?!) test. Petter Solberg, the 2003 world champion, and Autosport’s Tom Howard descended on Goodwood for a brilliant day with key cars from the main WRC eras. Solberg tells us what he made ...Keep reading
Speaking in the immediate aftermath of the announcement that Andretti had signed 2022 Indianapolis 500 winner Ericsson, who moves from Chip Ganassi Racing, Malukas was insistent that it doesn’t change anything for his future plans.When asked by Autosport if it narrowed his options in any way, Malukas replied: “His move doesn't really affect anything from my side but obviously it's good for ...Keep reading
The Scuderia has lost its highly-rated race director Laurent Mekies, who will join AlphaTauri as team principal. Meanwhile, head of vehicle concept David Sanchez has switched to McLaren.Team boss Vasseur has moved to hire Mercedes performance director Loic Serra. However, contract lengths mean he will not officially join until 2025. Vassuer has said further announcements concerning signings will ...Keep reading
Andretti confirmed the deal on Wednesday, which means the 2022 Indianapolis 500 winner will join Colton Herta and Kyle Kirkwood next season.It also means that current Andretti driver Grosjean will now face a battle to retain his place at the team, with Dale Coyne Racing’s David Malukas strongly tipped to take its fourth car in 2024.Fellow F1 refugee Ericsson has won four IndyCar races so far but ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Dixon spun to the tail of the field on the opening lap after being rear-ended by Romain Grosjean as his team-mate Marcus Armstrong spun in front of the pack, but he pulled off a remarkable recovery by pitting immediately and then executing a pseudo-two-stop strategy at Indy’s road course with 80 laps to go.After the race, Ganassi’s managing director and Dixon’s ...Keep reading
Aston Martin sprung a surprise at the start of 2023 by competing for podiums after finishing 2022 in a lowly seventh position in the F1 world constructors' standings.A reinvigorated Fernando Alonso, who joined from Alpine, claimed six top-three finishes, although recently the Silverstone team has found the going got tougher.Mercedes and Ferrari both took steps to rein Aston in, while McLaren too ...Keep reading
In his first major signing since taking charge at Grove, ex-Mercedes head of strategy Vowles has recruited veteran engineer Pat Fry as chief technical officer from Alpine.Vowles has also indicated that the technical director, who will work directly below Fry, is more likely to be another team’s second-in-command awaiting a breakout role.But, beyond that, Williams is more interested in “diverse ...Keep reading
In last Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix, just under five seconds covered the riders from eighth down to 13th, which featured grand prix winners in Fabio Quartararo, Aleix Espargaro, Enea Bastianini, Morbidelli and Marc Marquez, as well as multiple podium finisher Johann Zarco.But very little of this group was given any airtime during the live world feed broadcast of the grand prix, despite the ...Keep reading
The interest in the Red Bull Formula Nurburgring is huge. 30,000 tickets for the grandstands around the Mullenbachschleife and the paddock set up there are completely sold out.When Daniel Ricciardo, Sebastian Vettel, Gerhard Berger, Ralf Schumacher and Mathias Lauda, among others, take to the Nurburgring Nordschleife in different Formula 1 cars on Saturday as part of the 12h Nurburgring (9-10 ...Keep reading
His name might not have been well known to the public, but within the series he had earned a lot of respect thanks to his spell with the FIA under Jean Todt.The 52-year-old Austrian has a busy CV, having worked in a variety of sports before finding his way into motor racing. As such he brings an intriguing range of experience to the job of overseeing the political and commercial aspects of the ...Keep reading
It will be the first of two rookie sessions in 2023 for the Russian-Israeli driver, who had previous outings for the Maranello outfit in Austin and Abu Dhabi last year.All teams have to field a rookie who has started no more than two races in two FP1 sessions during the season.Shwartzman’s run will be the first by any reserve or non-race driver this year, although the FP1 appearances by Oscar ...Keep reading
Since he stepped up to the premier class in 2019 with Petronas SRT, Quartararo has been a constant in the battle for the podium for Yamaha, winning races every year through 2020 to 2022 and securing the title in 2021.But, since the second half of last season, results have started to dwindle for Quartararo as the Yamaha’s lack of competitiveness became more apparent.After 10 rounds of the 2023 ...Keep reading
The Scuderia emerged as the nearest challenger to Red Bull at the start of the second ground-effects F1 era and finished 2022 as the championship runner-up.But it has now dropped behind Mercedes and Aston Martin to fourth in the 2023 constructors' standings ahead of the second part of the campaign.Alongside this performance drop-off, criticism remains over the team's strategy calls and pitstop ...Keep reading
And he reckons as much despite the "visceral unpleasantness" that it can entail, especially during a spell of ground-effects grief for the Silver Arrows.The former Lotus and Ferrari engineer first punched in at Brackley in early 2017, meaning he was on board for five of the eight consecutive constructors' championship crowns. But in April 2021, he assumed the more overarching role of chief ...Keep reading
MotoGP’s new tyre pressure rules, enforced from the British GP, have been met with widespread criticism from riders.In a dry race now, riders must complete 50% of a grand prix distance and 30% of a sprint inside the minimum pressures set by Michelin – which was 1.7 bar on the rear, and 1.88 bar on the front.Ostensibly introduced as a safety measure, many riders have noted that the high front ...Keep reading
The Swiss outfit has managed just nine points over the opening 12 races of the season, having managed 51 points at the same interval last season. Bottas's eighth place at the season opener in Bahrain remains the high water mark this year.Explaining where the team has fallen short, Bottas felt that the team started the season from a weaker position compared to last year, and has been unable to ...Keep reading
The swelling of manufacturer involvement in the WEC's Hypercar class means there is no room for LMP2 next season, prompting category stalwart United to enter IMSA on a full-time basis.The 2020 Le Mans 24 Hours LMP2 class-winning team has made select North American outings in recent years alongside programmes in the WEC and European Le Mans Series, recording a best result of third at Watkins Glen ...Keep reading
This was always going to be a far from straightforward year for Ginetta, a stalwart of the UK national racing scene.The Yorkshire manufacturer not only revamped its portfolio of series for 2023 (axing the GT4 Supercup and merging the GT5 Challenge into a new GT championship), but it also ended its 15-season association with British Touring Car organiser TOCA and committed to running solely at ...Keep reading
Bird has been a stalwart of Formula E since its inception in 2014, driving for Virgin Racing, Envision Racing and more recently Jaguar over the last nine years.The 36-year-old spent the last three seasons with the British manufacturer, scoring two wins during the first of those campaigns in Diriyah and New York.But Bird’s form fell away this season as he failed to score a win and finished eighth ...Keep reading
Over the winter, newly promoted team principal Andrea Stella led a thorough review of the Woking design department. It subsequently let go of technical chief James Key, restructured its leadership, and hired David Sanchez from Ferrari and Red Bull veteran engineer Rob Marshall.With elements of that revised set-up in place, McLaren upgraded its current MCL60 from what was a backmarker car in the ...Keep reading
The deal comes after Pramac confirmed Zarco’s departure over the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, with Rins’ move announced during the British GP.Zarco has been a Ducati rider since 2020, when the Italian marque signed him to a deal to join the Avintia satellite squad.He will move to the Honda team next season, though the Frenchman's team-mate is yet to be confirmed.Speaking after the ...Keep reading
Autosport has learned that Marc van der Straten's team, which was negotiating with several candidates who had offered themselves as Arbolino's replacement with a view to 2024, closed the deal last weekend at the Red Bull Ring with the current second-placed rider in Moto2. Aspar followed suit with Dixon.Arbolino is now in his third season in Moto2. After a very solid start to the season, in which ...Keep reading
A multinational business dealing in money transfers, MoneyGram became Haas's title sponsor for the 2023 season and beyond on a multi-year deal.The deal emerged after the team had ended its deal with previous title sponsor Uralkali - a Russian chemicals giant owned by Dmitry Mazepin, father of former driver Nikita - ahead of the 2022 season in response to the outbreak of the Russo-Ukrainian ...Keep reading
Last week, it was announced that Taylor will return to the team run by his father Wayne at the wheel of a second Acura ARX-06 LMDh in the IMSA SportsCar Championship next year, partnering up with Louis Deletraz.It brings an end to not only a four-season spell at Corvette, but more than a decade as a driver for General Motors, as he campaigned Corvette DP and Cadillac DPi machinery during his first ...Keep reading
And there are many good reasons why it has quickly become a must-see event for fans.Propelled by the success of local hero Max Verstappen, the event features a highly charged atmosphere, with every seat filled and music pumping through the speakers in between the racing action.Fans are looked after and kept entertained throughout the day, with the seaside setting adding to the sense of fun. It ...Keep reading
The Pramac Ducati rider was handed a long lap penalty for last Sunday’s Austrian GP after he was deemed to have been at fault for triggering a multi-rider pile-up on the opening lap of the sprint contest.The incident was investigated for several hours after the sprint race on Saturday, with Martin insisting he was not to blame.The stewards took a dim view of his actions, however, and he was ...Keep reading
The ballooning weight of current-era F1 cars has become increasingly unpopular with drivers and teams, with this year's minimum weight of 798kg well over 200kg higher compared to cars from 15 years ago.It is one of the key aspects FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem wants to tackle for the next 2026 regulations cycle, even though most teams reckon F1 would do well to keep car weight on a similar ...Keep reading
The NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, which features 16 drivers, takes place over the final ten races of the year, beginning with the Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway from 1-3 September.Every three races, four drivers are eliminated until there are just four remaining. They then face-off in a one-race battle to decide the champion at Phoenix Raceway from 3-5 November.There is just one regular season ...Keep reading
The global championship, which was unveiled in Johannesburg on Monday, has been co-founded by three key players in the A1 Grand Prix World Cup of Motorsport of 2004/05 to 2008/09.Liu Yu and Tokyo Sexwale, the former seat holders of the national A1GP teams from China and South Africa respectively, have joined forces with the championship’s general manager and then commercial head during its ...Keep reading
Following three weeks off, F1 picks up the pace once again by starting a run of 10 races in 14 weeks to round out the season.The main focus will be on if any of the teams can halt Red Bull’s unbeaten 2023 campaign so far, while Max Verstappen goes into his home round off the back off eight straight wins. The Dutch driver has the chance to equal Sebastian Vettel’s all-time record of nine ...Keep reading
Aston Martin began the season as the surprise second-best team to Red Bull with Alonso scoring six podium finishes across the opening eight weekends of the year, including second-place results in Monaco and Canada. However, as rival teams have introduced upgrades at recent grands prix, Aston Martin has fallen down the pecking order, with Mercedes and McLaren leapfrogging the Silverstone-based ...Keep reading
He will once again stand in for former champion and Indy 500 winner Simon Pagenaud, who continues to be sidelined with concussion-like symptoms following his horrendous accident at Mid-Ohio.As reigning Indy NXT champion, Lundqvist is no stranger to oval racing and has raced at World Wide Technology Raceway near St. Louis on three previous occasions. But this Sunday’s Bommarito Automotive Group ...Keep reading
Newgarden will share the #7 Porsche 963 LMDh car with Matt Campbell and Felipe Nasr in the IMSA season-finale at Road Atlanta on October 14.It follows Newgarden’s maiden IMSA outing in this year’s Rolex 24 at Daytona, where he drove an Oreca 07 entered by Tower Motorsport to fifth in class alongside fellow IndyCar ace Scott McLaughlin, Kyffin Simpson and John Farano.Newgarden, who has scored ...Keep reading
The KTM rider celebrated a brace of second-place finishes at the team’s home round at the Red Bull Ring last weekend, after following Francesco Bagnaia home in both the sprint and the grand prix.Binder ran Bagnaia close in the early stages of both contests but was quickly dropped by the Ducati rider, with the South African over five seconds adrift at the chequered flag on Sunday.The KTM rider ...Keep reading
It’s a challenge that many teams have either faced in recent years or are currently tackling head-on.At one extreme there’s Aston Martin, whose Silverstone factory – created for the birth of the original Jordan outfit in 1991 – had long ago outlived its useful life.Owner Lawrence Stroll had the funding and commitment required to buy an adjacent site, build a completely new facility, and ...Keep reading
Haas's 2023 challenger showed flashes of pace in qualifying, particularly in the hands of the returning Nico Hulkenberg.But problems with the VF-23's excessive tyre overheating, especially on more demanding circuits and in warmer conditions, have prevented the team from converting its one-lap pace into decent results over a race distance.Hulkenberg and team-mate Kevin Magnussen have each only ...Keep reading
Bortolotti became the first repeat winner of 2023 when he beat Abt Audi's Ricardo Feller in a race-long battle at the 4.3km circuit, taking the championship lead in the process.However, his post-race celebrations were rather tame due to heat exhaustion on a hot day in eastern Germany, with the ambient temperature reaching 30C and temperatures inside his car peaking at 70C. Images showed SSR ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia’s total dominance of the Austrian Grand Prix was just one storyline in an eventful weekend for MotoGP.The Ducati rider now leads the championship by 62 points after registering his third sprint/grand prix double of the 2023 season.A decent challenge from KTM and Brad Binder wasn’t enough to throw Bagnaia off his perch, but it at least showed why the Austrian brand was keen to ...Keep reading
The FIA rules specify that every race driver has to give up an FP1 session for a rookie who has started no more than two grands prix.However, a race driver who is a rookie at the start of the season is deemed to qualify, which means that Oscar Piastri with McLaren, Logan Sargeant with Williams and Nyck de Vries with AlphaTauri all ticked the box when they took part in FP1 at the opening race of ...Keep reading
Paddon and co-driver John Kennard headed into the asphalt rally equipped with a 55-point lead over nearest rival Martins Sesks after scoring a win in the season opener in Portugal followed by four second place finishes and a third.A top five finish at the Barum Czech Rally Zlín would have been enough secure the title.The former factory Hyundai World Rally Championship pairing were sitting fourth ...Keep reading
The introduction of the cost cap for the 2021 season intended to close up the competition between F1 teams, by reducing the effect of the top teams' financial advantage.Although that effect has helped to create a tight midfield pack thus far, it has also limited the development scope of the current generation of cars and made it more difficult to overcome a slow start.The effect on components with ...Keep reading
Grove kickstarted a day of driver action in the driver transfer market by announcing it will part ways with 2017 Bathurst champion Reynolds.In a brief statement, the team said: “Penrite Racing wish to make a statement regarding their 2024 driver line-up.“Penrite Racing will not be renewing David Reynolds’ contract for 2024. We wish Dave the best in his future endeavours.”Reynolds is set to ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion had not seen the chequered flag on a Sunday in MotoGP prior to Austria since the 2022 Malaysian GP, marking a near-year stint of 301 days without a grand prix finish.At all of the grands prix Marquez started in 2023 prior to Austria he had crashed out, with all of his points up to last weekend coming in the sprint contests.But a gamble on the soft rear tyre in the hot ...Keep reading
Former Mercedes man Vowles took over the reins of Williams at the start of this year, having been appointed by owners Dorilton Capital to oversee a complete overhaul of the historic Grove squad.He found a previously cash-strapped team that had been focused on short-term survival until Dorilton took over its ownership in 2020 and has been severely lagging behind the competition in terms of its ...Keep reading
Byron, who had not finished better than 14th in the past five races, left little doubt in Sunday’s race, leading 66 of the 90 laps.Byron cycled into the lead following an early caution in the final stage for team-mate Chase Elliott’s stalled car and cruised to a 2.632-second win over polesitter Denny Hamlin.The victory for the #24 Hendrick Motorsports driver is a series-leading fifth triumph ...Keep reading
Supercars has ambitions to extend its existing 10-race calendar to 12 races in the coming years with a New Zealand round high on its list of priorities.As confirmed on Monday morning following the weekend’s action at The Bend that saw Brodie Kostecki complete a clean sweep of victories, this target has now been met, with the New Zealand Government confirming its backing via the Major Events ...Keep reading
Poleman Nojiri and Lawson, who started third, went side-by-side through the Turn 1 and 2 right-handers on the opening lap of Sunday’s race, with Lawson attempting to go around the outside of his Team Mugen colleague.But Nojiri edged Lawson out wide and onto the kerb, causing Lawson to lose control and spin into the path of the chasing pack, whereupon he was involved in a multi-car collision with ...Keep reading
Bagnaia stormed to a dominant victory in Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix by over five seconds, completing his third sprint/GP double of the season after winning Saturday’s half-distance contest at the Red Bull Ring also.Qualifying on pole and setting the fastest lap in both contests this weekend as well as leading every single racing lap, it was a perfect round for the Ducati rider.Now ...Keep reading
Bezzecchi is one of the key players at the centre of the rider market silly season for 2024, having been linked to a move to Pramac Ducati.Ducati has made no secret of its keenness to secure Bezzecchi to a new contract but insists the only chance he will have to get a factory bike next year will be with Pramac.VR46 will continue to run year-old machinery in 2024, but Bezzecchi’s first choice ...Keep reading
McLaren missed its 2023 season targets with a draggy launch car, which led to significant changes within the organisation led by incoming team principal Andrea Stella.The first fruits of Stella's revamped technical structure were brought to the track in the final races before the summer break, propelling Norris to two podiums while his impressive rookie team-mate Oscar Piastri scored second in ...Keep reading
The Frenchman has been a Ducati rider since 2020, when the Italian marque signed him to a deal to join the Avintia satellite squad.This came after Zarco elected to quit his KTM deal a year early during a difficult season on the RC16 following his switch from Tech3 Yamaha, before the Austrian marque parted ways with him with immediate effect after the San Marino GP.Zarco was reticent to join ...Keep reading
Although Bortolotti held the lead from pole position at the start, he was unable to pull away from the chasing pack as he did at the Nurburgring a fortnight ago, with 20kg of success ballast on his Lamborghini keeping Feller in the hunt.It wasn’t until Feller ran wide at the exit of Turn 7 after 25 minutes of racing that Bortolotti got some breathing space, with the Italian’s lead growing to ...Keep reading
Once again he nailed his start from pole position – just as he did in the sprint - in Sunday’s full-length race at the Red Bull Ring to keep the fast-launching KTMs behind him into Turn 1.Despite an early threat from Brad Binder, Bagnaia was never headed in Austria and stormed to the chequered flag over five seconds clear of the KTM rider for his fifth grand prix victory of the season.Bagnaia ...Keep reading
As in previous years, the title battle went down to the final round of the 2022-2023 Formula E Championship after another frenetic season of racing. There were no fewer than seven winners across the campaign, representing six different teams and using three different powertrains, such was the competitiveness of the championship this term.Porsche and its customer Andretti Autosport initially ...Keep reading
With Dandelion driver Kakunoshin Ota stalling on the grid after qualifying second, Lawson got on the offensive from third place and challenged his Mugen team-mate Nojiri for the lead in the opening sequence of corners.The two drivers ran side-by-side into the Turn 2 right-hander but Lawson was left with little room and had to go over the kerbs at the exit of the corner.This left him spinning back ...Keep reading
A thrilling 20-lap Moto3 contest began the day’s racing action at the Red Bull Ring, with 0.005 seconds the winning margin.Ajo KTM rider Deniz Oncu snatched victory from Tech3 KTM rider Daniel Holgado after the latter tried a last-corner move on Intact GP’s Ayumu Sasaki.Holgado, who led for most of the race, managed to take the lead away from Sasaki at the last corner.But the momentum he lost ...Keep reading
These comments came after Pol Espargaro finished sixth in the sprint race at the Austrian Grand Prix in just his second weekend back in action following four months on the sidelines with serious injuries.The eight-time MotoGP podium finisher suffered fractures to his jaw and his back after hitting an unprotected tyre barrier in FP2 at the season-opener in Portugal and was only cleared to ride ...Keep reading
Makino was running inside the top 10 on the opening lap when Red Bull junior Liam Lawson suffered a spin while battling with Mugen team-mate Tomoki Nojiri for the lead.The Dandelion driver was unable to avoid the out-of-control Mugen car ahead of him, with the contact sending his car airborne.Makino landed on track in a near-upright position before smashing into the armco barriers adjacent to a ...Keep reading
This weekend’s 10th round of the 2023 season at the Red Bull Ring is sponsored by CryptoDATA, which is RNF’s title partner and part-owner.As a result, RNF is running a striking one-off light blue and pink livery for the RS-GPs of Miguel Oliveira and Raul Fernandez.The livery, according to the team’s social media channels, is inspired by Barbie – with the new film recently smashing box ...Keep reading
The legendary F1 designer is currently Red Bull’s chief technical officer and, although he admits the countdown to his retirement is now underway, he still maintains a hands-on involvement in the squad. Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache thinks that the manner of Newey’s involvement, in looking at the big picture, works really well in helping the team get the best out of ...Keep reading
Double grand prix winner Bezzecchi is at the centre of the key rider market moves for 2025, with the VR46 rider torn between remaining at his current squad or moving to Pramac.A move to Pramac is Bezzecchi’s only chance of riding a works-spec Ducati in 2024, with VR46 to continue running year-old Desmosedicis.Speaking to Sky Italia at the Austrian Grand Prix, MotoGP legend Rossi says his VR46 ...Keep reading
Red Bull junior Lawson spun on the opening lap after running wide at the exit of Turn 2 while battling with Nojiri for the lead, with Tadasuke Makino and Yuhi Sekiguchi both going airborne in the ensuing mayhem.Although the Mugen team was able to repair Lawson's damaged car during the red flags and send him back out on track, he rejoined the field in last place, with a drive-through penalty for ...Keep reading
Kostecki was largely untroubled in the final 20-lapper of the weekend with a challenge from Cam Waters persistent but at no point overly dangerous.Even better for Kostecki was that his key title rivals all failed to fire, Shane van Gisbergen the best of them in fifth place.That gives Kostecki a 137-point lead over van Gisbergen, while Broc Feeney is now 258 points back after finishing last in that ...Keep reading
Kostecki had to out-last a race-long attack from Randle, the gap between the pair barely getting over a second.At the same time, he was complaining about handling issues with his Erebus Camaro.But he was able to do enough to win the race and extend his championship lead over Shane van Gisbergen to 111 points.Kostecki made a lightning start from the outside of the front row, which allowed him to ...Keep reading
Hamlin went out twice in the final round of Saturday’s qualifying session, and posted the fastest average lap speed on his first run before he topped it on his second at 125.298 mph – one of the few to improve on the second attempt.The pole is Hamlin’s fourth this season and 40th of his career. It is also his third pole on road or street courses, having also qualified first at Sonoma and the ...Keep reading
A multi-rider collision on the opening lap of Saturday’s 14-lap sprint contest was triggered when Martin, trying to recover from 12th on the grid, made contact with Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo as he attempted to overtake on the inside of Turn 1.This forced Quartararo into Maverick Vinales, which then led to Marco Bezzecchi, Johann Zarco and Miguel Oliveira crashing out.Quartararo, Vinales and ...Keep reading
Rins elected to sign for the factory Yamaha squad for next season and exit a two-year works deal with Honda having felt a lack of support from the Japanese manufacturer this season.Over the British Grand Prix weekend, Zarco became linked to the vacant LCR seat and on Saturday morning at the Austrian GP, French television network Canal+ effectively announced that a deal was done.That proved to be ...Keep reading
The VR46 rider was taken out of Saturday’s 14-lap sprint at the Red Bull Ring when Pramac’s Martin clattered into Fabio Quartararo, who in turn hit Maverick Vinales into Bezzecchi, Johann Zarco and Miguel Oliveira.The incident is currently under investigation and no outcome has been made yet, with Martin going on to finish third in the sprint having also escaped punishment for a collision ...Keep reading
Martin triggered a pile-up into Turn 1 on the opening lap when he made contact with Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo trying to overtake him on the inside.Quartararo was forced into a collision with Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales, who dropped from second after a bad start, which then led to himself, the Yamaha rider and Ducati’s Enea Bastianini running off track while Miguel Oliveira, Marco Bezzecchi ...Keep reading
The Yamaha rider was forced into a recovery ride in Saturday’s 14-lap sprint at the Red Bull Ring after getting caught up in the Turn 1 chaos triggered by Pramac’s Jorge Martin.Quartararo recovered to 15th having tumbled out of the top 10 to 20th on the opening lap, but was forced to serve a long lap penalty for causing a collision with Aprilia wildcard Lorenzo Savadori on the sixth tour.The ...Keep reading
Dixon was speaking after a two-day test at Sebring, in which the 2.2-litre, twin-turbocharged V6 engines were paired with the common hybrid components in full regeneration mode for the first time.The Kiwi drove the Chip Ganassi Racing-run Honda test car, while Will Power handled the Team Penske-fielded Chevrolet version. Both drivers recorded over 800 laps, and approximately 1,400 miles, between ...Keep reading
Starting from pole at the Red Bull Ring, Bagnaia fended off the fast-starting KTM duo of Brad Binder and Jack Miller on the run to Turn 1 to take the holeshot.Quickly pulling a gap to Binder in second, Bagnaia on his factory Ducati increasingly came under less threat as the 14-lap contest ticked away, reaching the chequered flag 2.056s ahead for his fourth sprint win.Bagnaia’s sprint victory now ...Keep reading
Emil Frey Ferrari driver Aitken led nearly the entire race from pole position, save for the pitstop phase, beating the SSR Performance Lamborghini of Mirko Bortolotti by 2.3s after one hour of racing at the 4.35km circuit.Kelvin van der Linde finished third for Abt Audi, making it three different manufacturers on the podium.When the first of the two races at the Lausitzring this weekend got ...Keep reading
Verstappen has repeatedly voiced his concerns over F1's growing calendar, which will peak at 24 races next year and involve nearly 200,000 miles of air travel despite modest efforts to reduce its footprint.A double-header in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia will kick off F1's record season, followed by four individual flyaway events in Australia, Japan, China and Miami as well as two triple-headers later ...Keep reading
Having felt a lack of factory support from Honda this season, Alex Rins announced a few weeks ago that he would be quitting his HRC deal with LCR a year early and join Yamaha for 2024.Over the British Grand Prix weekend, Zarco emerged as favourite to replace the Spaniard, with the Frenchman having contested three rounds for LCR at the end of 2019 following his departure from KTM.Zarco has been a ...Keep reading
The LCR rider has been absent since badly breaking his right leg in a crash during the Italian Grand Prix sprint race.With recovery taking longer than expected, particularly due to the nerves in his foot, Rins’ comeback date remains up in the air as he continues to be replaced by Iker Lecuona.During his time away from racing, Rins was announced as a Yamaha rider for 2024, breaking his two-year ...Keep reading
In a frantic final 15 minutes, pole position changed hands frequently as Ducati, Aprilia and KTM battled for top honours.A late 1m28.539s from reigning world champion Bagnaia moved him to top spot and allowed him to take his fifth pole of the season.Vinales was second from KTM’s Brad Binder to complete the front row, as Fabio Quartararo was the sole Japanese manufacturer representative in the ...Keep reading
The Austrian manufacturer is currently facing a seat logjam for the 2024 season, with five riders contracted but only four bikes available at the moment.At the centre of this is Moto2 championship leader and prospective generational talent Pedro Acosta, who is confirmed as stepping up to MotoGP in 2024.FEATURE: Why the hype around MotoGP’s next generational talent is justifiedBut both Jack ...Keep reading
Kostecki was forced to recover after a sluggish start from pole position, overhauling both Chaz Mostert and Thomas Randle in the first stint.He then benefited from a fierce battle between the pair behind him, eventually cruising to a 1.7s win.His series lead is now 80 points over Shane van Gisbergen, with Broc Feeney in third, 99 points behind.Brown's title hopes took a hit, meanwhile, as the ...Keep reading
Vowles was headhunted by Williams owner Dorilton from Mercedes at the start of this year to oversee a total rebuild of the struggling squad.He soon impressed on the American investment firm that Williams' overhaul would take years as it is lagging behind its midfield rivals in many areas of its Grove base's infrastructure.Despite its predicament, Williams has grabbed some standout results with ...Keep reading
The South African has been part of the KTM family since 2015, when he joined the Ajo squad in Moto3 – with whom he won the 2016 lightweight class world championship.Binder remained with KTM upon his step to Moto2 in 2017, finishing runner-up in the standings in 2019 before moving to MotoGP the following year with the Austrian manufacturer.He stunned in his third grand prix when he took a ...Keep reading
The Briton was nudged into a crash at the final corner of the opening lap of the Silverstone race two weeks ago when he tried to go around the outside of Binder.Binder was handed a long-lap penalty for the incident, while Dixon was unable to re-join.After the incident, a heated Dixon slammed Binder on TNT Sport, branding him a “clown” and calling for him to be banned by the stewards.On Friday ...Keep reading
Honda introduced a new aero fairing onto Takaaki Nakagami’s LCR-run bike at the British Grand Prix two weeks ago, with the package resembling KTM and Ducati’s design philosophy.For this weekend’s Austrian GP, both Marquez and team-mate Joan Mir have the new kit, with the former spending Friday’s practice sessions running the old package back-to-back with the updated one.Though feeling like ...Keep reading
The sheer scale of the support for local hero Max Verstappen can be intimidating to overseas visitors of fans of other drivers, and Zandvoort is keen to avoid the sort of harassment issues that were reported in Austria last year.The Red Bull Ring issues prompted the F1 organisation and race promoters to clamp down on unruly or intimidating behaviour, and led to the Drive it Out campaign, which ...Keep reading
Espargaro is competing in his second grand prix weekend since returning from a lengthy spell on the sidelines with serious injury.Suffering multiple back and jaw fractures after an FP2 crash at the season-opener in Portugal, Espargaro was finally cleared to return at the British GP two weeks ago.The Tech3 rider finished Friday's running at the Red Bull Ring in 15th but has been given a three-place ...Keep reading
The 2009 Formula 1 world champion will join regular drivers Tijmen van der Helm and Mike Rockenfeller for the 10-hour Road Atlanta endurance event.It marks his first prototype race appearance since the 2018 World Endurance Championship round at Shanghai, the last of his four outings in the BR Engineering BR1-AER LMP1 car.Button, who raced with Rockenfeller in the Garage 56 NASCAR project at Le ...Keep reading
With team owner and mentor Valentino Rossi in attendance at the Red Bull Ring this weekend, Bezzecchi set a new lap record on the revised Spielberg layout to lead Friday’s second session by 0.044s.Bezzecchi did stop on track on the run down to Turn 4 at the end of the session having run out of fuel before the chequered flag.He headed Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales and championship leader Francesco ...Keep reading
Last year, the glitzy Miami Grand Prix joined Austin's Circuit of the Americas on the F1 calendar, benefitting from the increased global appeal of grand prix racing in the wake of its Netflix boom.This season, Las Vegas is aiming to top that with an extravagant event set around its iconic Strip, promoted by F1 itself.But while COTA chief Bobby Epstein admitted that the new arrivals drowning out ...Keep reading
Masters Endurance Legends frontrunner Steve Tandy, who has sold the second-generation Peugeot 908 LMP1 turbodiesel in which he was a race winner last year, will drive an Acura that has been restored by BBM Sport.Bob Berridge’s operation has purchased two of the cars designed by Wirth Research for the 2015 season and has undertaken a nine-month rebuild of the first chassis.The car was given a ...Keep reading
Verstappen won his eighth consecutive race before the summer break at Spa, which extended Red Bull's clean sweep of winning all of 2023's 12 races so far, an all-time record.Red Bull has now bagged the past 13 grands prix, a record that would have extended to 23 had it not lost out to George Russell and Mercedes in last year's Brazilian Grand Prix.But despite the team's unprecedented dominance ...Keep reading
Trying to express my emotions on winning the Formula E world championship is always going to be difficult. It’s not just this year, it’s so many years of hard work that have gone in to try and become the best in the world at something.It just means the absolute world to me and the whole Andretti Autosport team. Seeing the emotions of everyone in London at the finale was something that I never ...Keep reading
As has been the case since the British GP, the opening 45-minute session of the weekend does not count towards the qualifying groups for Saturday.Run under dry conditions, Zarco fired in a 1m29.838s after switching to a fresh medium rear tyre to end first practice 0.399 seconds clear of the field.He bested 2021 world champion Quartararo and the Aprilia of Maverick Vinales.Vinales set the early ...Keep reading
Having been in championship contention during the first half of last season, Ferrari's 2023 fortunes have not been as kind and the team has managed just three podium finishes this season.All three have been courtesy of Charles Leclerc as Sainz has not managed to stand among the top three finishers this season, as an inconsistent SF-23 car has vacillated throughout the top 10 order.The continued ...Keep reading
MotoGP’s Japanese manufacturers are enduring a torrid 2023 campaign as both occupy the last spots on the constructors’ table having enjoyed very little success this season.Honda scored a victory with Alex Rins at the Americas GP, but this has proven to be an outlier as no other HRC podium has come since, while Yamaha has just two rostrums to its credit.In recent months, Dorna Sports’ chief ...Keep reading
By comparison with his earlier career in touring cars that yielded titles in four consecutive seasons, the four World Endurance Championship GTE Pro wins Andy Priaulx scored as part of the Ford GT programme appear small fry. Yet the Guernseyman regards his first three-and-a-bit years of his ongoing relationship with Multimatic as one of the most enjoyable periods of his career. And that goes some ...Keep reading
The news follows confirmation earlier today that Le Brocq will depart Matt Stone Racing at the end of the current campaign.The 31-year-old, who scored his second victory in Supercars at Hidden Valley in June, is now locked in at Erebus alongside championship leader Brodie Kostecki for 2024.He becomes the latest domino to fall in the driver market amid Shane van Gisbergen's impending switch to ...Keep reading
Aston Martin shocked F1 this year with its AMR23, the potential of which was rumoured to be huge even before a wheel had been turned at pre-season testing.The whispers and murmurs up and down the paddock about its prowess were confirmed in Bahrain, with a rejuvenated Fernando Alonso taking the podium and an injured Lance Stroll sixth, the first of six rostrums for the former.Aston's results ...Keep reading
Rahal was denied his first race win in the series since 2017 when Dixon, who suffered an opening-lap spin, pulled off a remarkable comeback drive on an alternate strategy.It meant Rahal caught him in the closing stages, but Dixon had stored more overtake allocation - due to fuel saving - and so was able to deploy his push-to-pass (which at the Indy road course was 200s in total for the race, in a ...Keep reading
In April Massa signalled his intention to take legal action against the results of the 2008 F1 world championship, which he lost out to McLaren's Lewis Hamilton by a single point.Massa acted on information from former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, who suggested that knowledge of the controversial 2008 Singapore GP 'crashgate' was available early enough for action to be taken before the result of ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion has scored just 15 points in the opening nine rounds of a torrid 2023 campaign for Honda, with rumours continuing to swirl about a potential early exit from HRC for 2024.While he stated at the British Grand Prix that “my intention” is to honour his current contract with Honda, which expires at the end of 2024, uncertainty remains as links to KTM persist.KTM ...Keep reading
The 2020 world champion signed a two-year deal with Honda to join its factory squad from this season after Suzuki elected to quit the championship at the end of 2022.Mir’s season so far has been miserable, with the Spaniard scoring just five points in total and hasn’t seen a chequered flag on a Sunday since the opening round of the campaign in Portugal – when he finished 11th.Since then ...Keep reading
Back on track: Onyx outing on anniversaryThe last Monteverdi Onyx ORE-2 Formula 1 car was the star of the demonstration programme at Brands Hatch’s Festival Italia last weekend, exactly 33 years since the team folded after failing to qualify either car for the 1990 Hungarian Grand Prix.Chassis 007 was driven at Brands by Henry Pearman and traces its origins to the West Sussex workshop run by ...Keep reading
Velo is one of the brands McLaren sponsor British American Tobacco has created to pivot away from cigarettes towards tobacco-free nicotine products, such as Velo's flavoured nicotine pouches or the Vuse brand's e-cigarettes.In April this year, the Dutch government joined a growing list of European countries to ban the sale of all types of nicotine pouches over health concerns, in particular ...Keep reading
Former Williams Formula 1 reserve Aitken will partner Pipo Derani for the entire 2024 campaign at the wheel of AXR’s Whelen Engineering-branded #31 Cadillac V-Series.R.He takes the place of Alexander Sims, who is moving back to Corvette Racing after joining AXR for the start of 2023.Aitken was chosen as the ‘extra’ alongside Derani and Sims for the four races that make up this year's IMSA ...Keep reading
Sharing driving duties across the two Pratt Miller Motorsports-run Corvette Z06 GT3.Rs in the GTD Pro class next year will be Nicky Catsburg, Antonio Garcia, Tommy Milner and Alexander Sims, with exact combinations still to be announced.Catsburg and Sims will embark on their first full IMSA seasons as Corvette drivers, while Milner will return to full-time competition for the first time since 2021 ...Keep reading
The Ferrari driver’s interest in the endurance classic was piqued this year, when he attended the event to see the Prancing Horse’s Hypercar squad triumph.And having said during his appearance there that he was open to the idea of competing at the Circuit de la Sarthe in the future, he has now opened up on an extra suggestion as to how he wants to go about it.Speaking in an exclusive interview ...Keep reading
Hughes joined McLaren having spent two years with Mercedes as the German manufacturer’s reserve and development driver during its time in Formula E, before the operation was taken over by McLaren this season. The Briton immediately impressed on his debut in Mexico City, qualifying third and challenging towards the front before finishing fifth. He claimed pole in only his third outing in ...Keep reading
Current Moto2 championship leader Acosta is set to step up to the MotoGP world championship next year with KTM, though where remains a mystery.KTM has four bikes spread across the factory team and the GasGas-branded Tech3 satellite squad, but all riders occupying those seats have contracts.FEATURE: Why the hype around MotoGP's next generational talent is justifiedBoth Brad Binder and Jack Miller ...Keep reading
Hulkenberg was signed for 2023 to replace the accident-prone Mick Schumacher, who scored points in his second season of F1 but also showed an alarming tendency to cost the team high repair bills.This followed a three-year spell where Hulkenberg was often called upon as a super-sub at Racing Point and Aston Martin, jumping into the car at short notice during three separate COVID-19 diagnoses.In ...Keep reading
Formula 1 races this year have become an exercise in inevitability. Even if Max Verstappen is beaten to pole, or is bumped down the grid by a penalty as in Spa, it seems only a matter of time until he gets to the front. Red Bull’s reign of dominance has been halted only by F1’s summer break, but there’s no reason to expect its merciless pursuit of a first clean sweep in world championship ...Keep reading
McLaren has been slipping backwards in recent years, which led to wholesale changes to the technical structure and to its Woking infrastructure, projects overseen by incoming team boss Andrea Stella and by CEO Zak Brown.While the benefits from its new wind tunnel and other facilities won't be tangible until next year, McLaren has already been reaping the rewards from its structural overhaul, which ...Keep reading
While Slater has dominated Ginetta Junior this season, Clarke has been the undisputed star of the Clubmans Sports Prototype category and scored another two triumphs in his Phantom PR22 at Oulton Park, his lead almost 40 seconds each time.Not only do those successes narrow the gap to Slater, but they also propel Clarke back to second a week after dropping behind Lucas Romanek.It was a rare weekend ...Keep reading
Alonso carries around a reputation for being a tough customer keen on expanding his influence within a team, which was mainly born from his stints at McLaren.The two-time world champion joined Aston from Alpine for 2023, eager to secure a multi-year deal with the Lawrence Stroll owned team.In an exclusive interview with Autosport, Krack says the team and Alonso are working harmoniously and thinks ...Keep reading
The Award, which started in 1989, aims to find and assist the best junior British racing drivers. The prize for this year’s winner includes £200,000 and a Formula 1 test drive with the Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant F1 Team.The final 10 are:Taylor Barnard (FIA F3)James Hedley (GB3)Arvid Lindblad (Italian F4)Joseph Loake (GB3)William Macintyre (British F4)Tom Mills (GB4)Abbie Pulling (F1 ...Keep reading
McLaren, with 183 world championship grand prix wins, is the second-most successful team in Formula 1, behind only Ferrari. Like any team that’s been around for six decades, it’s had its ups and downs, but there can be no doubt that the British squad has produced some of the greatest racing cars of all time, often piloted by the sport’s finest exponents. In this week’s issue we celebrate ...Keep reading
The Milton Keynes-based squad has produced some eye-opening performances this year thanks to a huge advantage that drivers Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez enjoy when the DRS is open.The opposition have been looking closely to try to understand if there is a clever trick that Red Bull has deployed to deliver the speed boost.Lewis Hamilton also recently prompted some intrigue about what Red Bull was ...Keep reading
The 2021 NASCAR Cup champion aims to make his IndyCar Series debut in a Hendrick Motorsports-owned fourth McLaren entry in the 108th running of the Indy 500 next May.A necessary step towards that is gaining his clearance as a rookie, which has now been arranged for a test in October.Larson has already driven the car virtually on GM’s simulator, and has had his seat fitting at McLaren’s ...Keep reading
Alpine owners Renault want to see the team achieve success sooner rather later, despite the stated 100-race plan that Szafnauer and his colleagues had put in place.It’s no secret that Enstone fell back during the Lotus/Genii period, and even in the early days of Renault’s second spell of ownership there was not enough investment.Over his 18-month spell at Alpine Szafnauer led the push for ...Keep reading
2021 Formula 2 champion Piastri came into McLaren this season following a protracted transfer saga involving Alpine, with the battle between the two teams indicative of how much was expected of the Australian rookie.Piastri's debut season was starting to be overshadowed by an underperforming car until a comprehensive summer upgrade package gave McLaren's MCL60 a huge boost in competitiveness.It ...Keep reading
Bruce McLaren’s firm made its F1 world championship debut in 1966 and the New Zealander scored its maiden victory in the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix. Since then, 19 other drivers have taken wins for McLaren and seven have won drivers’ titles.PLUS: The numbers that reveal McLaren's revivalFor the selection of the top 10 McLaren F1 drivers, Autosport has considered the amount of success the drivers ...Keep reading
He had competed in Sir Alec Issigonis’s mighty machines from 1967 to 2021, winning several hundred races and many titles.Newmarket-born Baldwin’s phenomenal success was underpinned by immaculate preparation and supreme driving skill.He won the National Mini Miglia Championship seven times between 2000 and 2013, aged 59-72.PLUS: The greatest club racing characters Heading Marshall of ...Keep reading
“Feet on the ground.” A phrase repeatedly uttered by Aki Ajo, team boss and owner of Ajo Motorsport, during our interview with him in his office at the British Grand Prix. Ajo, a Finnish former racer, has run an ultra-successful outfit in the lightweight and intermediate class championships in the MotoGP paddock, overseeing the development of some of the series’ biggest names.In typically ...Keep reading
Hulkenberg has started 193 F1 races – not including the 2013 Melbourne, 2015 Spa and 2020 Silverstone races he failed to start – with a best result of fourth.He achieved that result three times for what was then called Force India and Sauber between 2012 and 2016, but had several other podium near misses.These include his crash with Lewis Hamilton after leading much of the 2012 Brazilian Grand ...Keep reading
The pair have not always seen eye-to-eye this season, and there have been a number of times when radio messages have highlighted disagreements about their approach.In Australia, Leclerc was unhappy that he did not get the tow that he had been expecting to get from Sainz in qualifying.At the Austrian GP, Sainz came on the radio early in the race to ask Ferrari to move Leclerc aside, but his request ...Keep reading
"It all started with a problem.“ This is how track manager Niek Oude Luttikhuis describes the first talks with Formula 1 about a possible return to Zandvoort. And that is the story of this problem, an extraordinary idea and its implementation. Or in a nutshell: How the F1 track in Zandvoort got its steep curves.Such a thing had not yet been a topic in 2018, but when Zandvoort first put out its ...Keep reading
In fact, providing Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez aren't derailed by a dose of bad luck over the second half of the season, it could become the first F1 challenger ever to deliver a season clean-sweep.But while the RB19 is leaving others in its wake, Red Bull's own perception of the car is markedly different. It does not see the RB19 as being a particular stand-out contender that has delivered ...Keep reading
Van Gisbergen’s exit from Supercars was all but a formality, with Triple Eight managing director Jamie Whincup stating in July that he won’t stand in the way of the Kiwi after he revealed his intention to make a full-time move to NASCAR in the wake of his Cup Series victory in Chicago.Despite Van Gisbergen officially being contracted until 2024, Triple Eight has agreed to grant the 33-year-old ...Keep reading
Daly will drive for his third IndyCar team of the season, having lost his full-time 2023 ride at Ed Carpenter Racing to Ryan Hunter-Reay after Detroit. He then subbed twice for the sidelined Simon Pagenaud at Meyer Shank Racing at Mid-Ohio and Iowa.Harvey joined RLL from Shank in 2022 and lies 22nd in the drivers’ championship, which is where he finished in points last season.He was expected to ...Keep reading
Szafnauer departed the team after last month's Belgian Grand Prix as part of wholesale changes at the Enstone outfit, with long-time sporting director Alan Permane also leaving.The news followed the departure of Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi, who was moved aside by Renault CEO Luca de Meo to a position away from the F1 programme.At Spa, interim team principal Bruno Famin said Szafnauer and Renault were ...Keep reading
Sport is built on rivalries. Think of Liverpool versus Manchester United. Federer versus Nadal. Senna versus Prost.In motorsport, it’s harder to pick out defining rivalries between teams given the constantly changing competitive landscape. But not so in the US, where the tussle for supremacy between two of IndyCar’s most successful operations has taken on a new dimension in an altogether ...Keep reading
On the one hand, they want to produce a car that feels real and challenging to the hardcore sim-racers, but if they do that too well then it risks alienating the casual gamer who just wants to jump in and have some immediate fun. It’s a balancing act that the official F1 games have had to tread in recent years, and it’s something that was central to one of the big changes made to this ...Keep reading
This year’s TT featured an increased race schedule, which included an additional Superstock and Supertwin contest.In total, there were eight solo races (Superbike TT, Supersport TT 1, Supertwin TT 1, Superstock TT1, Supersport TT 2, Superstock TT 2, Supertwin TT 2 and the Senior TT) and a pair of Sidecar outings.That format will remain for 2024, with race action beginning on Saturday 1 June ...Keep reading
MIAMI (Aug. 15, 2024) – Driven Lifestyle, whose mission is to connect millions of ardent fans, car enthusiasts, and stakeholders through an integrated ecosystem of trusted brands and immersive experiences, announced today the launch of the duPont REGISTRY Group. The duPont REGISTRY Group was established to invest in and create culture, community and commerce at the intersection of technology ...Keep reading
Ricciardo's three-year McLaren contract was ended one year early last winter after the Australian struggled to get on with the team's F1 cars.In the difficult-to-handle McLaren, Ricciardo was consistently behind team-mate Lando Norris during his two seasons in Woking, despite taking a shock win at the 2021 Italian Grand Prix.Ricciardo was then snapped up by Red Bull as a third driver during his ...Keep reading
However, despite some clearly more prescriptive regulations, there were distinct differences between each machine, with the sidepods, in particular, offering a wide variety of design solutions.Now, a year and a half into this regulatory era, we have started to see a wholesale shift towards one of these concepts – the downwash solution - as teams realise it best serves the overall aerodynamic ...Keep reading
Honda continues to languish in second-to-last in the constructors’ standings ahead of only Yamaha, after both marques combined to score just three points from the recent British Grand Prix weekend.Read more: The forgotten trooper of Honda's MotoGP miseryHRC has scored a victory in 2023 courtesy of Alex Rins at the Americas GP, but this has so far proven to be an outlier result – with the ...Keep reading
The Maranello squad has endured a difficult 2023 campaign where its hopes of challenging for the championship quickly evaporated off the back of race struggles with its SF-23 car. But, under new team boss Vasseur, the squad has made a number of infrastructure changes and car tweaks that appear to have helped turn things around – with Leclerc back on the podium at the recent Belgian Grand ...Keep reading
Piastri looked set for a low-key debut season with McLaren as his team missed its development targets for its 2023 car and started off the season on the back foot.The MCL60's deficiencies only allowed the Australian to score five points in the first nine races, while experienced team-mate Lando Norris similarly failed to wring a string of results out of the relatively inefficient and hard-to-drive ...Keep reading
You couldn’t make this up, because if you did you’d simply get laughed at. Just over 12 months after his contractual future between Chip Ganassi Racing and McLaren blew up, a second explosion has been detonated by the likely two-time IndyCar champion.After final practice at Indianapolis on Friday evening, a letter from McLaren Racing chief executive Zak Brown to his employees was leaked. The ...Keep reading
Hulkenberg’s hiring by Haas to replace the crash-prone Mick Schumacher in late 2022 reignited an F1 career that had appeared over when he was dropped by Renault (now Alpine) in favour of Esteban Ocon for 2020. He has since shone in qualifying for Haas – making six 2023 Q3 appearances and qualifying third in Canada before being penalised for a red-flag infringement in that session – and ...Keep reading
Williams looked set for another difficult campaign as incoming team principal James Vowles embarked on a huge rebuild of the long-time backmarker.PLUS: How Williams' new leader forged his data-driven F1 ethosWhile that process will take several years, Williams is fighting over scraps with its FW45, which is lacking aerodynamic load compared to its competitors.But just like its predecessor, the ...Keep reading
Ken Kawauchi was one of the keys to the success at Suzuki on its return to MotoGP from 2015 and, together with Davide Brivio, he took charge of the technical side up until the Japanese manufacturer quit the series at the end of 2022.Alex Rins joined Suzuki on his MotoGP debut in 2017 and remained part of the team until its racing division was closed last year.Both Rins and Kawauchi found refuge at ...Keep reading
The Silverstone-based squad started the year as Red Bull’s main challenger, but has since had to face an increased threat from Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren which have all made gains during the campaign. A recent dip in form was blamed on the side effects of an upgrade path that the team took, but Autosport also reported recently that the squad could have been hit by an FIA flexi wing clampdown ...Keep reading
The Lamborghini SC63 LMDh began the test on Thursday when it was photographed in action by Autosport and continued testing into Friday with Andrea Caldarelli, Mirko Bortolotti and Daniil Kvyat carrying out driving duties.It was the second test for a car that will begin racing in 2024: the SC63 was given a shakedown at Vallelunga at the start of this month.The car was run by a combination of crew ...Keep reading
Making his third and final planned Cup appearance of the season in a Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang after taking in the Circuit of the Americas rounds and the Chicago road course, Button started 31st in the 39-car field and endured an eventful race to finish a lap down on winner Michael McDowell.The Briton admitted to making mistakes after having to serve a pitlane speeding penalty and another for ...Keep reading
The Frenchman joined the Enstone-based squad at the start of this year, and hoped it would be able to improve on its fourth-place finish in the 2022 constructors’ championship standings. However, Alpine has endured a turbulent campaign beset by incidents and internal politics. Gasly and team-mate Esteban Ocon have accidentally driven into each other twice, and the A523 has slipped back into ...Keep reading
Shane van Gisbergen's impending move to NASCAR has sparked a remarkable merry-go-round with multiple race-winning seats up for grabs.Will Brown is now all but a lock to replace van Gisbergen at Triple Eight after Erebus announced that it has given Brown an early release on his contract.That, however, has opened up a vacancy at Erebus, which has emerged as a force in the early stages of the Gen3 ...Keep reading
The Monegasque driver’s current contract runs out at the end of the 2024 season and there has been no rush from either his side or Ferrari’s to get an extension sorted out so far. That delay, allied to a frustrating campaign with Ferrari that did not deliver the results hoped for, triggered speculation about other teams vying for Leclerc’s service. Front-runners Mercedes, Aston Martin and ...Keep reading
McDowell took advantage of a slow pit stop by Daniel Suarez to extend his lead in Stage 2 and never looked back at Indianapolis. The 38-year-old native of Phoenix, Ariz., deftly out-duelled Chase Elliott down the stretch as the race ended with a 77-lap green flag run. He cleared Elliott by 0.937 seconds to win Sunday’s race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course.Although McDowell was in ...Keep reading
Torrential rain soaked the teams on the grid, forcing everyone onto wet-weather tyres, and Sutton was the master of the conditions in his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST. He had already made up one position when the safety car unleashed the field after five laps of assessing the conditions, thanks to Aron Taylor-Smith pitting his Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra with a technical ...Keep reading
Larson, the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion, will become the first driver since Kurt Busch in 2014 to attempt the 1,100-mile double.Tony Stewart was the most successful of those who have attempted it, finishing ninth in the 1999 Indy 500 and then fourth in the Coke 600.The car is a combined effort between HMS and McLaren, and the paint scheme reflects that. Larson's No. 17 Arrow McLaren-Hendrick ...Keep reading
Dixon, 43, scored a win that means he’s taken a victory in each of the last 19 seasons of IndyCar competition. He joined the series, in its CART incarnation, in 2001 and became its youngest winner as a 20-year-old at Nazareth.His only winless seasons came in 2002, when he first joined Chip Ganassi Racing in a third car after PacWest Racing folded due to financial issues, and 2004 – when his ...Keep reading
Hill led from start to finish and used his pole position to build up an early advantage at the wheel of his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport while Sutton worked his way through from sixth on the grid. The three-time champion was up to third within the first few corners, before the race went under a brief safety car – Jade Edwards had been edged wide as she ran side by side with Sam ...Keep reading
The team has made a major step with its car after releasing the first part of its anticipated upgrade package at the Austrian GP. Benefitting from the updates, Norris has subsequently finished second in both the British and Hungarian GPs.However, Norris insists that the way the car has to be driven still doesn't gel with his personal style, and that the same applies to team-mate Oscar ...Keep reading
Two-time series champion Newgarden also admitted that the weekend as a whole was a struggle, as Team Penske searched for pace in the second round of the year around the Indy’s road track.This year’s Indy 500 winner Newgarden lost a lap when he struck Marcus Armstrong’s stranded Chip Ganassi Racing car at Turn 7 on the opening tour, having started 25th on the grid after qualifying down in ...Keep reading
Van Gisbergen is set to become the next New Zealander to tackle the US racing scene with a full-time move from Supercars to NASCAR next year.He made his oval debut in the Truck Series on Friday, finishing a credible 19th, and will make a second Cup Series start on the Indianapolis road course tomorrow from eighth on the grid.He has effectively been sharing the track with fellow Kiwis Scott Dixon ...Keep reading
Ingram and his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N squad appeared to have made the right call to pull him into the pits for wet-weather tyres on the ninth lap of 24 when rain began making the circuit treacherous at the Clark/hairpin end of the course. A couple of safety car periods pulled those who had remained on the lead lap after pitting onto the back of the train and, as conditions worsened and ...Keep reading
Oliveira joined the RNF Aprilia squad for the 2023 having spent four years with KTM, who ploughed a massive amount of resource into its MotoGP project since joining the class in 2017.Aprilia has always been one of the smaller manufacturers on the grid in terms of resource, with it only this season expanding its presence to supply a satellite squad.In last weekend’s British GP, all four Aprilia ...Keep reading
The Finn has an option to stay at the current Alfa Romeo titled team into 2024 as part of an original two-plus-one-year contract that he signed with the squad ahead of the 2022 campaign.But despite some early promise after his switch from Mercedes, Alfa Romeo has slipped down the midfield order and currently lies ninth in the constructors’ championship.This also comes at a time when it is ...Keep reading
Talk of a sensational defection from one of the five Ford teams has been gaining traction since the recent Sydney SuperNight.It comes as the Blue Oval squads continue to struggle against the Camaro-shod outfits due to a lack of rear tyre life.Changes were made to the Ford rear aero package for Townsville after a parity review was triggered after Darwin.Although the Townsville event yielded the ...Keep reading
Dixon won on his record 319th consecutive start in the series, despite spinning to the tail of the field on the opening lap in a multi-car collision at Turn 7 that involved two of his team-mates.After pitting on lap five, to get rid of his primary compound tyres, he was able to charge through the field on an alternate-tyred strategy – while saving enough fuel to make the finish without an extra ...Keep reading
Dixon won by less than half a second from Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Graham Rahal and Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward.Title contenders Alex Palou (Chip Ganassi Racing) and Josef Newgarden (Team Penske) endured a wild first lap in which both made contact with Marcus Armstrong, with Newgarden losing a lap as Palou escaped relatively unscathed and finished in the top six.Poleman Rahal led the ...Keep reading
The two-time World Endurance champion and overall winner in the 2021 Le Mans 24 Hours will start 28th in his Cup debut on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Road Course, driving the #67 23XI Racing Toyota.He joins a star-studded field that includes Shane van Gisbergen, Brodie Kostecki, Jenson Button, and Mike Rockenfeller for Sunday's race."It’s been a long preparation for myself," said Kobayashi ...Keep reading
Suarez, who remains without a win this season and sits five points outside the playoffs, turned the fastest average lap speed early in the final 10-minute round of Saturday’s qualifying session at 99.814 mph.Nearly every car – including Suarez – went out in the final minute to make a second attempt but Reddick came up just short (99.649 mph) to knock Suarez off the pole.The pole is the first ...Keep reading
Ganassi responded to the overnight story that broke about McLaren revealing that Palou “does not intend to honor his contractual obligations to race with us in IndyCar in 2024 and beyond".On Saturday morning, Palou’s now-former management team, Monaco Increase Management, stated that it was "bitterly disappointed to learn about Alex Palou’s decision to break an existing agreement with ...Keep reading
The three-time champion wrung everything out of himself and his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST in the Q2 top-10 shootout to pip the One Motorsport Honda Civic Type R of Josh Cook by 0.006 seconds.Qualifying had started on a wet track with the entire field on grooved tyres, but at the halfway point former World Touring Car champion Rob Huff was the first to emerge on the soft-compound ...Keep reading
Despite F1 enjoying a rise in popularity around the world, triggered by its expansion on social media and Netflix's Drive to Survive series, not all countries have gone through the same thing. One place where F1’s popularity has stalled is Germany. The nation has not hosted an F1 race since the Eifel Grand Prix at the Nurburgring in 2020, and its most iconic world champion racers – Michael ...Keep reading
Dixon came to Moto2 in 2019 having previously been a race winner in British Superbikes, and scored his maiden grand prix victory at the Dutch GP in June.Over the MotoGP summer break, he became linked with a potential step to the premier class and thinks “there’s still a couple of options” for him, despite the available rides already being earmarked for others.In the frame for a Gresini ...Keep reading
This year’s Indy 500 winner suffered a disastrous qualifying session on Friday, failing to progress from Q1, and was scheduled to start the race from 19th on the grid.But IndyCar revealed on Saturday morning that Newgarden has taken a fifth engine, which is classed as an unapproved engine change and will instead start from 25th on the grid.He begins the day 84 points behind series dominator Alex ...Keep reading
Hill whisked his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport around the short Scottish circuit 0.169 seconds quicker than the closest opposition during the slightly less wet second session.The Kentishman, who lies fourth in the championship, completed two laps quicker than the best set by anybody else, with the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N of reigning champion Tom Ingram his closest ...Keep reading
The FIA declared on Saturday that the all-electric RX1e class will not be in action at next weekend’s World Rallycross Championship round at Estering in Germany (19-20 August) on safety grounds.The decision follows the cancellation of the RX1 class at the Lydden Hill round last month to understand the cause of a fire that broke out in the British venue's paddock, which destroyed Lancias driven ...Keep reading
This latest contractual saga follows a protracted legal battle over his services for 2023, when Ganassi filed a lawsuit against its own driver after he signed a contract with McLaren in the summer of 2022.A legal mediation led to him staying with Ganassi for this season, in which he seems certain to claim his second championship, but allowed him to drive McLaren Formula 1 cars and serve as the ...Keep reading
Red Bull celebrated its 100th F1 world championship race win with Max Verstappen’s victory in the 2023 Canadian Grand Prix – an achievement only four other teams (Ferrari, McLaren, Williams and Mercedes) have scored in the competition’s 73-year history. By achieving that feat in a 14-year period since Sebastian Vettel won the 2009 Chinese GP ahead of his then team-mate Webber, Red Bull is ...Keep reading
Dixon lapped the 14-turn, 2.439-mile IMS road course in 1m10.9851s in the 30-minute session, which acts as the warm-up for tomorrow’s race.The session took on more importance after a remarkable qualifying session beforehand, in which title contenders Alex Palou (Ganassi) and Josef Newgarden (Penske) could only manage eighth and 19th on the grid respectively.Firestone has brought a harder ...Keep reading
He said the Fast Six session was “really tricky” due to the problem, but he beat his Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team-mate Christian Lundgaard by just over a tenth of a second to take his fourth career pole and his first since Detroit 2017.“In Q1, I think we were still P2 or 3, but I was not pleased at all with the car,” he said. “Even in Q2, when we were P1, it was just a terrible ...Keep reading
Rahal lapped in 1m10.1132s and will start ahead of team-mate Christian Lundgaard and Alexander Rossi of Arrow McLaren.It wasn’t a great qualifying for championship frontrunners Alex Palou, who will start from the fifth row in ninth place, and Josef Newgarden, who will start down in 19th after he failed to make it past Q1.Fast Six qualifyingDevlin DeFrancesco set the early pace at 1m10.8193s but ...Keep reading
The factory Acura team’s current deal ends after this season’s Petit Le Mans in October and its future with the brand was put in question following the manipulation of tyre data in the season-opening Daytona 24 Hours, which it won.The team was assessed a 200-point penalty for the infringement and it apologised to Acura and HPD, along with its partners, which finance the operation. Acura is ...Keep reading
Former F2 frontrunner Sargeant was drafted in this year to slot in alongside Alex Albon and found it hard to match his more experienced team-mate while making his fair share of rookie errors.But in recent races the American has made progress, most notably with finishing 13th at the Red Bull Ring and just outside the points in 11th at Silverstone, his best result so far. But the net result is ...Keep reading
He will take the place of Helio Castroneves, who will instead take a minority ownership role with the team and solely contest the Indianapolis 500 in his quest for a record fifth victory.Castroneves won the 2021 Indy 500 in MSR’s biggest achievement to date, and the team will add a third car at the Indy 500 next year.Blomqvist, who won the 2022 IMSA SportsCar Championship and the 2022 and 2023 ...Keep reading
Rahal lapped the 14-turn, 2.439-mile IMS road course in 1m09.8421s in the 90-minute session for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing.Given IndyCar already raced on the circuit layout in May, track activity was sparse to begin with apart from rookies, who are allowed an extra set of primary tyres.May’s polesitter Christian Lundgaard led the way for the Rahal team after 30 minutes with a lap of ...Keep reading
The 2005 season was a period of change for the Indy Racing League side of the US open-wheel split, as road and street courses were added to the schedule for the first time since the inception of Tony George’s series in 1996. And two impressive performances from a series rookie switching over from Formula 1 with one of the series’ grandee names hinted at a bright future ahead.But although ...Keep reading
With the German manufacturer having realised it has taken the wrong approach with its 2023 car, having been too cautious with its ride height target, the team has been chasing solutions to get it closer to the front of the grid. And while more downforce would not go amiss, its technical director James Allison has said a particular effort has been thrown at trying to improve the handling and ...Keep reading
Cars are currently locked into parc ferme after the first session on Friday, and thus they have to run both qualifying sessions and the sprint and main event with the same set-up unless teams opt to make changes that oblige the driver to start from the pitlane.In Spa Russell and Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton ran different downforce levels from the start of the weekend.With poor weather further ...Keep reading
Despite his 17 starts in the Bathurst 1000, yielding a pair of second places, many of Paul Radisich’s fondest memories are rooted in the British Touring Car Championship’s 1990s Super Touring era. A couple of massive accidents in Australia’s Great Race, where the Kiwi sustained multiple injuries in 2006 and ’08 that ended his professional career, probably don’t help the fearsome Mount ...Keep reading
Yamaha and Honda's current crisis has led Dorna Sports to consider reviving manufacturer concessions in a bid to help the struggling Japanese brands.But Oliveira believes teams with more bikes should face restrictions, and struggling smaller teams should be given more test days and tyres than those seeing success.The RNF Aprilia rider raced under concessions at KTM, with whom he competed with at ...Keep reading
The American-owned outfit has been chasing a cure for the high tyre degradation woes that have derailed its prospects at several races this year. Its VF-23 car appears to be quite aggressive on its rubber, which is great for switching tyres on for single qualifying laps but is a big handicap to its drivers when it comes to management in the races. Work is ongoing at its Banbury factory to try to ...Keep reading
Instead, what Zandvoort unleashed since its comeback was a vision of F1’s future: of a venue willing to go the extra mile in delivering entertainment and an exciting package for fans that went far beyond just what was happening on track.In fact, Zandvoort has been praised by F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali for delivering "fresh air", and helping set a benchmark for what is expected from modern era ...Keep reading
The Kiwi has kicked off a full-time transition to the NASCAR system which will come into effect next year.He will make two starts in the States this weekend, firstly in the Truck Series later today (local time) at Indianapolis Raceway Park, before a second Cup Series appearance at the Indianapolis road course on Sunday.Speaking to media in the lead-up to those races, van Gisbergen hinted at a lack ...Keep reading
Brown, who was under contract with Erebus until the end of the 2024 Supercars season, recently emerged as the front-runner to replace van Gisbergen.It was thought that Erebus majority owner Betty Klimenko had informally granted a release. That release has now been formalised with Brown's impending exit now confirmed by Erebus. “Will has been a part of our team for almost six years and while we ...Keep reading
Ricciardo, who was Red Bull's third driver after his McLaren exit, was drafted in at Red Bull's sister team to replace Nyck de Vries from Hungary.In his two races before the summer break the 34-year-old Australian has shown he has regained his competitive edge, outqualifying team-mate Yuki Tsunoda in Hungary and in Spa's sprint shootout. A deleted lap time in Belgian Grand Prix qualifying cost ...Keep reading
McLaren started the season off the pace with a car that was both lacking overall downforce and suffering from a lack of aerodynamic efficiency, meaning it creates too much drag for a given downforce level.Incoming team principal Andrea Stella rolled out a recovery plan to get the team's MCL60 back on track, which included a philosophy change and then a comprehensive upgrade package overseen by a ...Keep reading
The prospect of top-level international rallying returning to the UK has increased following the news last month that Rali Ceredigion is in discussions to join the ERC.The asphalt event located around the seaside town of Aberystwyth has been growing in stature since its inaugural edition in 2019. This year it will host the fifth round of the British Rally Championship and a round of the FIA ...Keep reading
Szafnauer parted company with Alpine after the recent Belgian Grand Prix following a disagreement between himself and the sportscar manufacturer’s bosses over the timeline needed for it to win in F1.While Szafnauer said his decades of experience in F1 prompted him to feel it would take until 2026 for Alpine to hit its target, the company’s senior management was adamant that it could be ...Keep reading
Car maker’s involvement in the management of motorsport programmes has been thrust into the spotlight by the 'football manager' style turnover of senior staff at the Alpine Formula 1 team. It doesn’t take an expert to realise that seven team principals across 10 years for the Enstone team is not conducive in creating stability to be successful. The team could learn a lot from how Toyota has ...Keep reading
Bautista will contest the Sepang event on a factory-supported Desmosedici GP22 in the colours of Aruba.it, the title sponsor of the works Ducati WSBK outfit, on 10-12 November.It will mark the 38-year-old Spaniard's first grand prix appearance since the end of the 2018 season, the year before he made the switch to Superbikes with the Borgo Panigale marque.Bautista has already undertaken two tests ...Keep reading
Last week on 5 August, the NASCAR Cup Series rookie was indefinitely suspended by both the team and then NASCAR.This was in response to an Instagram post that Gragson liked, which appeared to mock the 2020 murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.The 25-year-old immediately apologised for his actions, posting the following statement: "I am disappointed in myself for my ...Keep reading
Van Gisbergen, who makes his second NASCAR Cup start this weekend on the Indianapolis Road Course for Trackhouse, watched his old sparring partner McLaughlin in Chevrolet’s simulator this week, as his fellow Kiwi prepared for his IndyCar element of the double-header weekend.McLaughlin defeated van Gisbergen in their last three seasons racing together in Supercars and since then he has won ...Keep reading
Both the Scottish and Irish Legends categories headed to Wales for a combined event and McLeish was one of several drivers to enjoy success at Anglesey.His three wins have taken his 2023 tally to 12 and have catapulted him up seven places in Autosport's table.Stewart Black narrowly denied McLeish a fourth victory in the opening heat on Sunday and that success has in turn allowed him to jump up ...Keep reading
In late 2022, the Grove team tied down lead driver Alex Albon on a multi-year contract, but uncertainty surrounds the future of his stablemate Logan Sargeant for next season.Ex-Mercedes head of strategy Vowles has publicly backed the American, who is yet to score a point during his rookie term but previously axed him from the Silver Arrows junior fold.With Vowles targeting a five-year recovery ...Keep reading
The Frenchman has been linked to replace Yamaha-bound Alex Rins at LCR Honda for the 2024 season, as VR46’s Marco Bezzecchi looks set to take his place at Pramac Ducati.Zarco rode three races for Honda at the end of 2019 replacing the injured Takaaki Nakagami at LCR, and was heavily linked to a factory HRC ride for 2019 before inking a KTM deal instead – something he told Motosprint several ...Keep reading
Esprit emerges: Howard-Chappell's returnJohnny Herbert’s 1992-93 Formula 1 Lotus engineer George Howard-Chappell raced his Esprit Turbo for the first time since 750 Motor Club Roadsports in 1994 in the Modern Classics contest at Donington Park last weekend.Bought back from Nick Olson, it was rebuilt during COVID lockdowns. “The rain didn’t help us [he spun out after touching a McLeans kerb] ...Keep reading
Red Bull has won all 12 races before the summer break, making the prospect of the team winning every race in 2023 increasingly plausible.The most recent Belgian Grand Prix showed there is no end in sight yet for Red Bull's dominance, with Max Verstappen finishing 32 seconds clear of the first non-Red Bull car of Charles Leclerc in the Ferrari.But while fans and observers are desperate to see more ...Keep reading
There can be no denying the success of the Porsche Carrera Cup GB Junior scheme at identifying talented sportscar stars of the future. Not only have each of the past four Juniors gone on to win the Carrera Cup GB title – and current Junior Adam Smalley is heading this year’s standings, too – but they have continued to impress beyond the UK series. Two are now factory drivers with major GT ...Keep reading
First of all, Alex Kalinauckas takes a look at the running themes of 2023 and how they might play out between now and the end of the season. Meanwhile, Jake Boxall-Legge – that’s Mr Boxall-Legge to you! – brings you his driver reports. Who does ‘Sir’ rank as top of the class, and who’s staying behind for extra tuition?One driver who was undoubtedly on top of the sport was Tazio ...Keep reading
The three-time Supercars champion will depart the Aussie series at the end of the current season as he looks to build a new career in NASCAR.He has already made a winning start to stock car racing with victory on the streets of Chicago, and will make a first oval start in the Truck Series this Friday night before a second Cup Series start on Sunday.Speaking ahead of those next two outings, van ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer has endured a challenging time since the switch to ground-effect cars at the start of the 2022 campaign.Last year’s W13 was blighted by porpoising, and the squad battled with a small ride height operating window for where its car produced downforce, which effectively forced it to run very close to the ground.This had a double whammy effect of risking bouncing as the ...Keep reading
The younger brother of six-time series champion Marc first entered the MotoGP ranks in 2020 with Honda but it was at the British Grand Prix last weekend that he scored his first premier class victory, topping the sprint race.The result marked his first win since his title-winning Moto2 campaign in 2019 and followed three tricky years on Honda machinery that featured just two podium results.Despite ...Keep reading
Starting from sixth at Spa-Francorchamps, Verstappen took the lead from team-mate Sergio Perez on lap 17 and won the race at a canter, putting Perez 22 seconds behind, with Red Bull's nearest challenger Charles Leclerc 32 seconds in arrears.While Red Bull has demolished the competition in 2023, its RB14 winning all 12 races so far, Horner thinks Verstappen's dominance over Perez and the ease with ...Keep reading
While its race form hasn’t been able to match that due in essence to excessive tyre usage, that one-lap pace has been impressive and it has been sustained even in the context of a tight development race, with all teams regularly bringing new parts.Haas hasn’t always been able to keep up with its rivals over the course of a season, and the fact that it has in 2023 reflects the healthy budget ...Keep reading
The South Korean marque has made significant strides to catch WRC pacesetter Toyota this season but, after nine rounds, Hyundai has achieved only one victory in Sardinia compared to Toyota’s seven.Arguably Hyundai’s biggest improvement has arrived in fast gravel rallies. In Estonia, it finished second, third and fifth, while last weekend Neuville scored a second consecutive runner-up result ...Keep reading
With just three races to go until the NASCAR Cup playoffs, the 82-lap race around the Indianapolis road course will be action-packed with high drama and even higher stakes for those not yet locked in.But there's another element to this Sunday's race: An F1 world champion, two Le Mans 24 Hours winners, a DTM champion, a three-time Supercars champion,and the current Supercars points leader will also ...Keep reading
Speaking after Sunday’s Nashville race, which he finished second after starting from pole position, McLaughlin branded the restarts in the series as a “joke”.He felt the stop-start nature of the end to the race prevented him from attacking eventual winner Kyle Kirkwood, who won his second street race of the season for Andretti Autosport.“I just think, from a sport perspective, the restarts ...Keep reading
Norris generally races with his long-time race engineer Will Joseph manning the radio, but on occasion, Joseph has been swapping roles with Norris' performance engineer Jose Manuel Lopez, including in various sessions over the last couple of race weekends.When asked about the plan behind rotating race engineers, which is not that common across the grid, team principal Andrea Stella said the team ...Keep reading
In a rare offering, Schumacher’s 2002 Australian Grand Prix-winning Ferrari F2001b will be available to purchase with Sotheby’s Sealed.Chassis 215 is one of very few F1 chassis to have never finished outside the podium positions during its competition career, presenting a remarkable opportunity to acquire an outstanding machine of the modern era.One of the most recent Schumacher Ferrari F1 ...Keep reading
The Italian, who graduated to the factory team from Gresini this season, missed the first five races of 2023 after suffering a broken shoulder blade in the Portuguese Grand Prix sprint race.Bastianini returned at Mugello, finishing ninth in the grand prix, with a best result of eighth next time out at Sachsenring.He failed to score at the British GP, finishing 13th in the sprint race before ...Keep reading
McLaren’s switchover to its own brand-new wind tunnel at its Woking factory is expected to take place this month, bringing an end to a 12-year partnership it had using the Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe (TGR-E) facility in Cologne.The squad originally began using Toyota’s former F1 wind tunnel back in 2010 and it has helped in the design of every McLaren challenger since.But while the change of ...Keep reading
After nine rounds of the 2023 MotoGP season, Honda’s haul of points in the constructors’ championship – in which only the leading rider from each brand contributes – is 89. Of that 89, 27 of those have been scored by LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami. Alex Rins has contributed the most at 47 and Marc Marquez the final 15.Ironically, the Honda rider with the most points in 2023 and the only one with ...Keep reading
Over the past three races, Russell took a fifth and two sixth-place finishes, while team-mate Lewis Hamilton grabbed a podium and two fourth-place results, as Mercedes battled McLaren and Ferrari for the status of second-fastest team.Since the Austrian Grand Prix weekend at the start of July, Russell has said on several occasions that "things aren't clicking" between him and the W14.When team boss ...Keep reading
Former Mercedes head of strategy Vowles took control of the Grove outfit in February as the replacement for ex-Volkswagen motorsport boss Jost Capito, who left after two years.He is trying to gather voting support for future F1 Commission meetings to allow Williams more capacity within the capital expenditure spending limitations to upgrade its factory.But Vowles has warned that, even if new ...Keep reading
And although the 43-year-old’s agreement with Team Hard to replace Nicolas Hamilton at the wheel of one of the Kent squad’s Cupra Leons is for this weekend only, Huff has indicated that he is open to contesting further rounds. Huff, whose WTCC title came in 2012 with the RML-run factory Chevrolet team, is competing this season in the TCR World Tour at the wheel of a Comtoyou Racing Audi. He ...Keep reading
Last season, the French rider narrowly missed out on the world title despite making up for the shortcomings of his Yamaha, losing out to Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia at the final round in Valencia.It took until Bagnaia and Ducati’s engineers unlocked the full potential of the Desmosedici GP22 to turn it into the almost perfect prototype, which enabled the Turin native to overhaul a 91-point ...Keep reading
One of the standout characteristics of the dominant RB19 is the DRS advantage that has helped Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez often be unstoppable on the straights. It has been key in producing some impressive qualifying performances and allowing both drivers to breeze past the opposition in races without much difficulty. While the scale of the Red Bull DRS gain prompted theories earlier in the ...Keep reading
Off the back of a successful first two events for the Miami Grand Prix, the Hard Rock Stadium event is expanding capacity next year, which includes extra grandstands on the start/finish straight.But despite feeling that the demand is there to attract more fans, race organisers are not resting on their laurels. Instead, they are looking to improve on some critical aspects they think can elevate the ...Keep reading
From testing in 2022 until May’s Monaco Grand Prix, Mercedes pioneered the use of its 'zeropod' car architecture. It then switched the W14 to run a downwash philosophy, as favoured by Red Bull, but with the addition of a ‘waterslide’ akin to that of McLaren and Aston Martin.With the upgrade fitted, Hamilton led a 2-3 result in the following Spanish GP. But Mercedes had also enjoyed a ...Keep reading
Even before the first laps had been completed at the Nurburgring, BMW was downbeat about its chances at the former German Grand Prix venue, with the boost pressure of the M4 GT3 having been significantly reduced compared to the previous rounds.But the decision to go aggressive on strategy in both races made things worse for its most high-profile signing, with Rast failing to score points during an ...Keep reading
Pagenaud has missed every race since his horrendous Mid-Ohio crash in practice last month, which was caused by a brake failure, as IndyCar’s medical team has refused to clear him to race after he displayed concussion-style symptoms.Lundqvist made a highly impressive IndyCar debut in Nashville last weekend, qualifying in 11th and running as high as third during the pitstop cycles. He was on for ...Keep reading
Mike Rockenfeller, 39, will drive the No. 42 Legacy Motor Club (LMC) Chevrolet following the indefinite suspension of Noah Gragson.The German racing driver will also run Watkins Glen the week after IMS. Josh Berry drove the car this past weekend in Michigan.Gragson was suspended after liking a meme that mocked the 2020 murder of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers.Rockenfeller ...Keep reading
- Rovanpera crashes out but still leaves impact on rallyKalle Rovanpera crashing out of a rally lead and completely retiring from an event is a rare collector's item. In fact, last weekend’s shock Rally Finland exit was only his third retirement in 41 top-flight WRC starts.It was just unfortunate his first full retirement since Croatia 2021 came in front of thousands of passionate fans ...Keep reading
The relentless push for the Japanese tech giant to turn its PlayStation franchises into TV programmes and films continues unabated. Hot on the heels of HBO’s The Last of Us rendition and the Uncharted adaptation follows not God of War or Horizon, but perhaps surprisingly the Gran Turismo film.Directed by Neill Blomkamp (District 9), this is not the story of laser scanning tracks or recording ...Keep reading
The Spaniard joined Honda’s factory team for 2023 alongside Marc Marquez after Suzuki’s shock exit from the series at the end of last season.The 2020 world champion has only finished one grand prix, the season opener in Portugal, where he took all five of the points he has scored so far this season.Mir sat out the Argentina GP after a crash in the sprint and withdrew from the Italian GP after ...Keep reading
After an uneven rookie season, Zhou was afforded the room to grow at the Hinwil squad for a second year. The Chinese driver has rewarded that faith with more consistent and confident performances across the first half of the 2023 season.Even if Alfa's disappointing car performance meant it has been tough for Zhou to stand out, he hopes to use the August break to agree terms on a fresh ...Keep reading
The Japanese brand is one of three manufacturers currently represented in rallying’s tier alongside Hyundai and Ford via its partnership with M-Sport.Toyoda, the figure that brought Toyota back to the WRC after a 17-year absence in 2017, confirmed the brand is committed to the WRC.This commitment arrives amid uncertainty regarding the future direction of the category with a significant shift in ...Keep reading
The Tech3 GasGas rider had been out of action since suffering multiple back and jaw fractures in a crash during FP2 for the Portuguese GP and made his return at Silverstone last weekend.At the end of a mentally and physically draining weekend, Espargaro finished both races and scored points in the grand prix and took the chequered flag in 12th.Speaking to the media at the end of his comeback ...Keep reading
While former team principal Otmar Szafnauer and sporting director Alan Permane both reckoned that it would realistically take a few more years for the Enstone-based squad to hit its victory targets, the French car manufacturer’s senior management believed it could be done quicker. It was this disconnect of timeline and ambition that ultimately saw Alpine pull the trigger and part ways with both ...Keep reading
Championship promoters had been working on an expanded 14-round schedule for next year which would have included a new desert-based round in Saudi Arabia.The event had been touted as a possible addition to this year’s calendar but a deal was unable to be reached in time and has been pushed back a year. The WRC and organisers in Saudi Arabia still harbour hopes of securing an agreement but it ...Keep reading
The Kiwi will continue his rapid transition to the NASCAR system with two separate outings in Indianapolis later this week.The first is a debut in the third-tier Truck Series with the Trackhouse Racing-aligned Niece Motorsports squad.That will come at Indianapolis Raceway Park, marking van Gisbergen's first race on a bitumen oval.He will then make a second Cup Series start for Trackhouse at the ...Keep reading
The Dutchman previously spent four seasons with Envision between 2018-2022, during which time he took two wins and secured a best result of fourth in the drivers’ standings during the 2018-2019 campaign. Frijns moved to Abt Cupra this year but endured a miserable season, breaking his wrist in the opening round and as a result missed four races. On his return to racing, he only finished in the ...Keep reading
With Fernando Alonso having helped breathe some excitement into the early races, as he emerged as the shock main challenger to Red Bull, the squad even came close to victory in the Monaco Grand Prix. But after an impressive six podium finishes out of the first eight races, including seconds in Monaco and Canada, things became a bit more difficult. Alonso’s best results since the Austrian ...Keep reading
After the final round of green flag pitstops, Buescher cycled into the lead but with Truex – who had won the first two stages – close behind and looking for the clean sweep.With 12 laps to go Truex went to Buescher’s inside and edged ahead briefly for the lead.Buescher, however, used the approaching lapped car of Michael McDowell as a pick and side-drafted Truex to pull back into the lead ...Keep reading
Team Penske’s reigning champion was late getting into his #12 Chevrolet-powered car when he misplaced his regular earbuds and was then horrified to discover that his spare set wasn’t in his helmet bag either.Someone had to run to his RV in the paddock to get them, which delayed Power from getting into the car. His late departure from pitlane meant he had to drive flat-out to catch up with the ...Keep reading
The start of the Saturday sprint event at Spa was delayed by rain, and when it eventually got underway the cars ran on full wet tyres behind the safety car – as mandated by the rules – before the field was released.Half the cars then came straight in for intermediates, with the rest following suit at the end of the first flying lap. It was only double stacking and pitlane traffic ...Keep reading
Twelve races down there's a lot of data available to explain where Red Bull is so good, how McLaren and Aston Martin changed throughout the season, where Mercedes and Ferrari need to improve, and how far back the midfield teams really are this season.Martyn Lee chats with Jon Noble and returning special guest Blake ‘BrrrakeF1’ Hinsey, ex-Red Bull performance engineer, to discuss all the ...Keep reading
The 2021 world champion came together with the VR46 rider on lap 18 of Sunday's race, losing the front of his fairing, which forced him to pit for his other bike.Marini escaped unscathed, while Quartararo went on to finish 15th of the 17 riders to cross the line, the Frenchman running as high as seventh at one stage having started last.Asked whether the tangle was the result of a mistake ...Keep reading
SSR Performance driver Bortolotti was unable to take the start in the second race of the weekend after the technical issue that first appeared in qualifying couldn't be fixed in time for the formation lap.But having dominated Saturday's opening contest to score his first DTM win, the Italian driver was well versed with the conditions at the Nurburgring, and he put his knowledge to good use to help ...Keep reading
After he finished a close second for the second season running in Nashville, at what’s become IndyCar’s trickiest street course, McLaughlin was clearly extremely hot and nearing exhaustion in both his post-race TV interview and the press conference that followed.When the race was red flagged with five laps to go, McLaughlin desperately gesticulated for his cockpit cooling fan to be brought to ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion is contesting a partial WRC campaign for the second consecutive season, with the Frenchman expected to compete in as many as seven rounds this year.After missing last month’s round in Estonia and last weekend’s trip to Finland, Ogier is expected to make his sixth start of the season at the Acropolis Rally from 7-10 September.The 39-year-old has won three of his ...Keep reading
Brown emerged as a key contender for the Triple Eight seat, which will be vacated by NASCAR-bound Shane van Gisbergen, over the Sydney SuperNight weekend.It now appears that a deal will go ahead, with Brown and T8 well advanced with negotiations.The move will require Brown to break his existing contract, given he is technically locked in at Erebus until the end of 2024.That was seen as a major ...Keep reading
Stroll missed pre-season testing in Bahrain after breaking both his wrists and a toe in a crash while cycling in Spain three days before that event was due to start.But just one week later he returned for the season-opener in Bahrain in a car team-mate Fernando Alonso has taken to six podiums so far after the team’s major performance turnaround from finishing seventh in last year’s ...Keep reading
MotoGP’s return from its summer break did not disappoint, as a dramatic weekend concluded with a thrilling British Grand Prix.The rider market saga kicked off proceedings at Silverstone, with news of Alex Rins replacing Franco Morbidelli at Yamaha in 2024 opening up more rumours about bike swaps.On track, Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro put in a stunning charge from 12th on the grid to steal victory ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver came through an intense battle with Hyundai’s Teemu Suninen to claim the final podium spot at last weekend’s high-speed gravel rally, marking the Japanese driver’s best result of the season to date.The Finland-based Katsuta headed to his second home round low on confidence after struggling to unlock pace from his GR Yaris in Estonia last month, where he finished seventh ...Keep reading
Williams team boss James Vowles has been seeking greater capital expenditure freedom for his squad, after discovering that its facilities are well down compared to many rivals.While F1’s financial rules allow some spending on capex improvements, Williams feels the $36 million allowed over a four-year period is not enough to get where it wants to be. The matter was discussed at last week’s F1 ...Keep reading
The Aspar rider was running in 17th having just overtaken the Intact GP bike of Binder’s at the end of the opening lap.As Binder tried to cut back to the inside through Club corner, he touched Dixon on the outside and sent him into a crash.Binder was given a long-lap penalty for the clash, but Dixon feels the FIM stewards should “ban him because he’s stupid”.Dixon is now 52 points off the ...Keep reading
The perils of racing single-seaters in the rain were highlighted last month by the fatal accident of Formula Regional racer Dilano van 't Hoff at Spa, with the lack of visibility in the rain a major factor in the multi-car collision that claimed the Dutchman's life.Rain also derailed the Belgian Grand Prix's Saturday sprint, which was shortened to 11 laps following five formation laps behind the ...Keep reading
The Ducati rider led for much of Sunday’s 20-lap Silverstone grand prix, holding his nerve when rain fell in the latter stages while Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro and Maverick Vinales, and KTM’s Brad Binder bore down on him.Bagnaia was ultimately beaten by Espargaro after a last-lap move into Maggotts.In MotoGP’s last wet contest in Argentina, Bagnaia crashed while running in second, and has ...Keep reading
It may only be just over a week since the 2022-2023 Formula E season ended in London, but nothing ever stands still in motorsport and the focus of teams has already switched to next year’s opening round in January and Mexico City.A sign of intent has already come from Jaguar Racing, which has become the first team to formally announce its two-driver line-up for the upcoming campaign; and what a ...Keep reading
The start of Sunday’s race was delayed by more than 90 minutes due to rain but eventually got under way, only to see the race placed under caution on lap 75 of 200 when it returned to area around the 2-mile oval.After waiting more than 50 minutes, NASCAR decided to postpone the remainder of the race until 12 p.m. ET on Monday.At the time the race was called, Tyler Reddick was in the lead ...Keep reading
The Kiwi finished runner-up to Jake Dennis in this year’s drivers’ standings after taking four wins across the season, including in Berlin, Monte Carlo, Portland and London.The last of those four victories also helped Envision seal the teams’ title having been tied on points with the works Jaguar outfit heading into the final round.Cassidy has spent three seasons in Formula E with Envision ...Keep reading
After more than a season of Mercedes going it alone in pursuit of its zeropod concept, it finally abandoned the idea as it pursued the growing trend for what has become known as the downwash solution. The fact that Red Bull had been so successful from the off with its downwash design inevitably prompted suggestions that Mercedes’ change of tack would bring some immediate and automatic ...Keep reading
Few can match the record of his Lincolnshire-based Neil Brown Engineering company, which built engines that were victorious in European and British Formula Ford 2000 in the 1980s, via domination in British Formula 3, a host of DTM and British Touring Car Championship title successes, to servicing the spec engines in British Formula 4.From his early days at BRM and Vegantune, then one of the top ...Keep reading
Kirkwood scored his second victory of 2023, his first season with Andretti Autosport, by 0.7s after a four-lap sprint to the finish that followed a late-race red flag.“We were really good on the initial lap [of the restart] but right there at the end, man, they were so fast and they ran me down on that last lap,” Kirkwood told NBC.“I really only made a couple of passes on track and they ...Keep reading
Kirkwood finished 0.7633s ahead of Team Penske’s polewinner Scott McLaughlin and series dominator Palou (Chip Ganassi Racing). The race was red-flagged in the closing stages for a multi-car pileup, but Kirkwood kept his cool for his second win of the season after breaking his duck at Long Beach.Following an aborted start, McLaughlin led the field to green from Pato O’Ward (Arrow McLaren) and ...Keep reading
Drama began even before the 160-minute race got underway, with the pole-sitting #31 Action Express Cadillac forced to start from the back after an incident for Alexander Sims in warmup.On the pace lap, another GTP entry found trouble when Connor De Phillippi spun his #25 Team RLL BMW.The resulting cleanup led to the race starting behind the safety car. When the green flag finally waved, Campbell ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion endured a torrid first half of the 2023 campaign, scoring just 15 points from eight rounds in which he missed races in five of them and crashed 14 times.It plunged his continued future at Honda into doubt, though he said during the Silverstone weekend that his “intention” is to see out his current contract.Altering his approach this weekend, Marquez was not ...Keep reading
The Aprilia rider pipped championship leader Bagnaia on the line by 0.215 seconds after an enthralling last-lap battle on slick tyres as rain fell in parts of the Silverstone track.Espargaro made his decisive move on the run into the first part of the Maggotts complex on the final tour, slicing through on Bagnaia to score his first win of the season.But Espargaro says that move was the result of ...Keep reading
A frantic 15-lap Moto3 contest kicked of Sunday’s race action at Silverstone, with Aspar’s David Alonso coming from last on the grid to take a sensational maiden victory.The Spaniard aced his start from last to get into the lead battle early on and hit the front for the first time on lap six.He made a decisive move on the last lap into Stowe, outdragging Intact GP’s Ayumu Sasaki and ...Keep reading
Evans produced one of his most dominant displays of his WRC career to clinch a sixth career victory at one of the world’s most revered rallies.The Toyota driver’s 39.1s win over Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville ensured the Welshman is now the most successful British driver in the event’s 72-year history, with this win arriving after his 2021 success.The result means Evans matches Finnish world ...Keep reading
Following the Fast Six session that set the front three rows of the grid, NBC Peacock cameras caught the moment as Herta stomped to the #28 car’s pit and, with his hands on his hips, asked the sister team why Grosjean’s car was released directly in front of him.Herta qualified third, while Grosjean – who was slowest in the session – pointed at his strategist and appeared to mouth “it ...Keep reading
Mercedes factory driver Auer had looked set to score a first victory of a 2023 season that he began by injuring his back at Daytona, the Austrian taking the lead from polesitter Ricardo Feller on lap seven.But Grasser driver Paul showed rapid speed after putting on a new set of wet tyres late in the race, snatching the top spot from his Winward rival with 15 minutes to go.The result made Paul the ...Keep reading
The Aprilia rider’s second career grand prix victory came after he threw his RS-GP up the inside of Ducati’s Bagnaia into Maggotts on the final lap and fended him off through the rest of the tour.A late rain shower turned the final laps into a five-rider battle for the win, with KTM’s Brad Binder completing the podium behind long-time leader Bagnaia.A brief shower of rain prior to the start ...Keep reading
Newgarden starts ninth on his hometown track – with Chip Ganassi Racing rival Palou going from fourth – as he bids to reduce the 80-point deficit in the season's closing stages.“Not a great qualifying session for us,” Newgarden admitted to NBC Peacock after qualifying was topped by his team-mate Scott McLaughlin.“We’ll work from the top 10 there and make some magic in the race ...Keep reading
The Welshman produced his most convincing display in a Rally1 car to date on his way to scoring a second WRC victory of the season by a margin of 39.1s over Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville.Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta (+1m36.7s) edged Hyundai’s Teemu Suninen (+1m41.0s) to the final podium position, while Toyota team boss Jari-Matti Latvala’s one-off WRC comeback resulted in an impressive fifth ...Keep reading
Verstappen and Lambiase raised eyebrows with a vocal disagreement over their run plan during Friday qualifying for last week's Belgian Grand Prix.That was followed up by more fiery exchanges in the race, particularly when Lambiase asked his driver to "use your head more" in the final stint when Verstappen took too much life out of his new soft tyres.Verstappen then joked that he would push on and ...Keep reading
Katsumasa Chiyo and Mitsunori Takaboshi took full advantage of the mixed conditions in Sunday's 100-lap race in their Michelin-shod #3 Nissan Z, taking their first victory of the season by a commanding 43.9 seconds.Two Honda NSX-GTs completed the podium, as ARTA duo Hiroki Otsu and Nirei Fukuzumi were best of the Bridgestone runners in second, followed by Team Kunimitsu pair Naoki Yamamoto and ...Keep reading
After winning seven of Saturday’s eight stages, Evans recorded two more stage wins to extend his lead to 38.2s over Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville.Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta edged Hyundai’s Teemu Suninen to hold third by 6.3s heading into the rally’s final stage this afternoon. Katsuta’s team boss and three-time Finland winner Jari-Matti Latvala maintained fifth overall on his WRC comeback ...Keep reading
To help reduce the dirty air produced and allow cars to follow one another more closely, the design rulebook was reset for 2022 to move to ground-effects and away from complex top surfaces.Aerodynamic development for this year has reduced the effectiveness of the shake-up, with reports it is again harder to chase through corners, but the consensus is that the rethink has been a success.However ...Keep reading
McLaughlin lapped the 11-turn, 2.1-mile temporary street course with a best lap of 1m14.6099s, and will start ahead of Pato O’Ward (Arrow McLaren) and Colton Herta (Andretti).Qualifying was delayed by over three and a half hours due to track conditions after heavy rain caused standing water when it was originally slated to run. As a consequence, it ran in dry and sunny weather instead.Fast Six ...Keep reading
Derani lapped the newly repaved Road America course in 1m47.730s, earning pole position for the first time since Sebring.It looked like it could be a front row lockout for Cadillac with Sebastien Bourdais trailing Derani for some time, but Matt Campbell would make a late push for pole that very nearly succeeded.The #7 Penske Motorsport Porsche ended up second, just 0.068s off pole. Bourdais was ...Keep reading
Rain showers caused a delay to the second free practice session earlier, which eventually ran for 30 minutes, after which it rained again and left more standing water around the 2.1-mile, 11-turn temporary street circuit.Marcus Ericsson topped the session for Chip Ganassi Racing ahead of Ed Carpenter's Rinus VeeKay.IndyCar qualifying was due to start at 2:45pm ET but it quickly became evident that ...Keep reading
Evans won seven of the day’s eight stages to open up a 32.1s lead over Hyundai WRC title rival Thierry Neuville, with four stages remaining on Sunday.The highlight was a stunning effort in stage 15 where he was 7.8s faster than rival Neuville across 18.94 kilometres of slippery gravel roads.Evans has shown strong pace throughout the rally to match the performance of rally favourite and ...Keep reading
The Ducati rider lined up fourth for Saturday’s race before dropping five positions on the opening lap.He then ran wide at Turn 15 to drop more positions, eventually finishing the race behind team-mate Enea Bastianini as the lowest-running Ducati.Reigning world champion Bagnaia said he felt like “something was not working well” during the earlier practice session, with the bike “moving a ...Keep reading
The Gresini rider went from third on the grid in the damp 10-lap sprint at Silverstone on Saturday to claim his first MotoGP victory after fending off a late charge from poleman Marco Bezzecchi.It marked Alex Marquez’s first grand prix win of any kind since 2019 in Moto2, and the first for the Marquez family since Marc’s Emilia Romagna GP victory in 2021.Despite struggling to a lowly 18th in ...Keep reading
A pre-session downpour delayed the start of practice, and when it did run for 30 minutes, Ericsson lapped the 2.1-mile temporary street course in 1m31.7999s.Ganassi’s series dominator Alex Palou was one of the first cars on track, setting the bar at 1m35.0152s, and was also the first to find the run-off at Turn 11, requiring a spin-turn to get back on track.He wouldn’t be the last, with ...Keep reading
Having qualified last, Yamaha rider Quartararo could do no better than 21st in the 10-lap sprint on Saturday at Silverstone.For much of the contest, all of the six riders on Japanese bikes occupied the bottom six places in the field, with only Franco Morbidelli marginally sparing blushes by taking the chequered flag in 15th.It continued the dearth in results the Japanese manufacturers have ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver reeled off seven consecutive stage wins to turn an overnight 6.9s lead into a commanding 32.1s advantage over Neuville heading into the final day.After losing third following a spin in the morning, Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta snatched the final podium position back from Hyundai’s Teemu Suninen. Jari-Matti Latvala, the only other Rally1 field to complete full rally distance to ...Keep reading
Gragson, 25, was first suspended by the race team and then by the sanctioning body. The 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series championship runner-up is a rookie in the Cup Series this year and currently sits 33rd in points.Xfinity Series regular Josh Berry will drive the #42 car this weekend at Michigan in place of Gragson.Berry has made several starts this year, filling in for Chase Elliott and Alex Bowman ...Keep reading
The Gresini Ducati rider lined up third and despite briefly falling back off the line to fifth, took two positions in as many corners to run second.He snatched the lead from KTM rider Jack Miller at Stowe the following lap and despite VR46 rider Bezzecchi’s late charge, Marquez took his maiden win.Bezzecchi’s second place finish sees him take second in the standings, with Maverick Vinales ...Keep reading
Through Verstappen.com Racing, the Dutchman and his family are planning to put together a two-car GT3 team that could compete in series like the GT World Challenge (GTWC) from 2025 onwards."It all started with Team Redline in sim racing," Verstappen said in an interview the Dutch magazine Formule 1."With Verstappen.com Racing we are sponsoring and supporting various racing activities from ...Keep reading
SSR Performance’s Bortolotti was unchallenged in the hour-long opening contest at the former German Grand Prix venue, resisting two safety cars periods and a brief rain shower to take the chequered flag by 1.1s over Winward Mercedes’ Lucas Auer. Championship leader Thomas Preining completed the podium in third.As the race got underway at a dry Nurburgring circuit, with dark clouds hanging ...Keep reading
Heavy rain has battered the Silverstone circuit all morning and led to the MotoGP final practice and qualifying sessions being run in extremely difficult conditions.Numerous riders crashed across both qualifying segments, including poleman Marco Bezzecchi, third-placed Alex Marquez and championship leader Francesco Bagnaia.As a result, the riders have organised a meeting for early afternoon, in ...Keep reading
Heavy rain has battered the Silverstone circuit all morning and led to FP3 and qualifying being run in torrid conditions.Both sessions ran to length, with VR46 Ducati rider Marco Bezzecchi claiming pole as Marquez put his Gresini Ducati third.Qualifying was filled with crashes, with both Bezzecchi and Marquez going down, as did Francesco Bagnaia, Fabio Di Giannantonio and Luca Marini.Marquez was ...Keep reading
VR46 Ducati rider Bezzecchi set the pole time with just over three minutes to go in an very wet Q2 with a 2m15.359s, before he crashed at the Vale chicane while on another quick flying lap.That time proved enough, though, with his nearest rival KTM’s Jack Miller, 0.270 seconds adrift as Alex Marquez brushed off a crash to complete the front row.In a fall-filled Q2, championship leader Francesco ...Keep reading
The Hyundai driver closed to within 6.9s of Evans after claiming three stage wins on Friday afternoon, but on Saturday morning Neuville struggled in tricky wet conditions.Evans fought back claiming all four stages to extend his overall advantage over Neuville to 17.7s as the Belgian was unable to match the pace of the Toyota.Neuville came close to beating Evans in stage 12, missing out by 0.4s ...Keep reading
From the thrilling opening round in Mexico City to the final moments at the London E-Prix, Dennis relives how he fulfilled his dream of becoming Britain's first Formula E champion.In the episode, Dennis reflects on his motorsport career that led to this high point. From an early career in karting to winning the Autosport BRDC Award in 2012 at the age of 17.INSIGHT: The road to becoming Britain's ...Keep reading
Vowles has been at the helm since February and after a three-month back and forth, managed to tempt Alpine chief technical officer Pat Fry to join the Grove squad from 1 November.While the team hopes this coup will enable it to tempt other senior figures, the technical director who will report to Fry is more likely to be a rival squad’s design number two seeking a lead ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver starred in challenging wet conditions to win all four stages of the morning loop to transform his overnight 6.9s lead to 17.7s, as WRC crews headed to the midday service.Hyundai’s Teemu Suninen snatched third from Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta after an error from the Japanese driver.Three-time Rally Finland winner Jari-Matti Latvala successfully navigated the stages to hold fifth ...Keep reading
Jake Dixon had a comfortable career in front of him in 2017. Having stepped up to the British Superbike Championship in 2016 for a part-campaign that was interrupted by a broken hip following a brake failure at Oulton Park, he bounced back with his first race wins in 2017. The youngest ever rider to make BSB’s old showdown championship-deciding format, in 2018 he was runner-up in the ...Keep reading
A few weeks ago Ricciardo was first touted as a possible post-shutdown replacement for Nyck de Vries at the Faenza team, with the Dutchman expected to have a last chance to prove himself with the run of European races up to Spa.But de Vries was dropped after the British Grand Prix, and Ricciardo was fast-tracked into the seat for Hungary and Belgium, with limited time to prepare.While the timing ...Keep reading
The two-time series champion lapped the 11-turn, 2.1-mile temporary street course in 1m16.4042s but ended his session by smashing the wall at Turn 1.After a rain shower that impacted the preceding Indy NXT practice, the track had dried completely for the 75-minute session.Chip Ganassi Racing’s rookie Marcus Armstrong set the early pace at 1m18.2776s, less than a tenth clear of Toronto winner ...Keep reading
North America's premier sportscar series will return to the Motor City – at its new downtown Detroit street course – after a one-year absence with a 100-minute sprint race featuring the GTP and GTD Pro classes on Saturday 1 June.The GT-only event at Lime Rock Park has been dropped to accommodate the event on the schedule.The addition of a fifth IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup event is an ...Keep reading
Bezzecchi is enjoying a strong sophomore campaign in the premier class with Valentino Rossi's squad, securing his maiden grand prix victory in Argentina before adding a second in France and a sprint win at Assen to sit third in the standings.The Italian's future has been subject of speculation over the summer break, with Bezzecchi being heavily linked to a switch to Pramac.Insight: How VR46 is ...Keep reading
The 2021 world champion endured a difficult day at Silverstone on Friday, finishing 10th in first practice before ending up 11th in the second session to narrowly miss out on progressing directly into Q2.Quartararo currently sits ninth in the standings after eight rounds, with a best result of third in the United States Grand Prix and in the Assen sprint race.Speaking after Friday's track running ...Keep reading
Evans spent the majority of the day fighting with world championship leader Rovanpera, after the Finn assumed the rally lead on stage two and then went on to reel off five consecutive stage wins.Rovanpera’s roll on stage eight handed Evans a lead which he maintained across the afternoon to hold a 6.9s gap over Neuville after 10 of 22 stages. Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta completed the day in ...Keep reading
The Tech3 GasGas rider suffered a horrible crash in FP2 for the season-opening Portuguese GP, sustaining multiple back and jaw fractures after hitting an unprotected tyre barrier.Espargaro has been out of action since then, only riding his MotoGP bike prior to Friday at Silverstone slowly up the hill at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last month.Returning to full-time action on Friday at ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion has scored just five points in a woeful 2023 campaign, in which he has missed five grands prix due to various injury woes and crashed 14 times in eight rounds.While Marquez is contracted to Honda through to the end of 2024, the problems Honda is facing in MotoGP at present have led to speculation that he could quit – with KTM thought to have contacted LCR and ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion seemed to be in control of the rally, winning five consecutive stages to open up a 5.7s lead over Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans, despite starting first on the road.However, the 22-year-old made a rare error resulting in his GR Yaris rolling onto its roof during the second pass of the fast and undulating Myhinpaa (stage eight) gravel test.Rovanpera and co-driver Jonne ...Keep reading
The race is the first to be promoted and organised by Liberty and the F1 organisation, with the support of the city authorities and the main casino organisations.As a starting point, Liberty purchased a site on which to build a permanent pit and paddock infrastructure, with the construction having to move quickly in order to be ready for November’s race.In addition to costs associated with the ...Keep reading
Formula 1 is populated by drivers and teams alike who revel in the competitive aspect, and will do whatever it takes to win.For the most part, the desire to become the best driver or to build the best car suffices - but there’s also the desire to put the limits of the regulations to their absolute extremities – and F1 is no exception.Thus, teams will spend long periods of time assessing the ...Keep reading
Ben Sulayem has noted that it was the FIA’s duty to open up an entry process as the Concorde Agreement allows for up to 12 teams, and he’s insisted that he was fulfilling the rules by so doing.The governing body is still reviewing the packages presented by the potential newcomers.F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has always insisted that an 11th entrant would have to add value to the sport, an opinion ...Keep reading
The Hyundai pairing were sitting in fourth head into stage five, the final test of Friday morning’s loop, when drama struck.Lappi ploughed into trees lining the gravel road after misjudging a right-hander. The impact caused significant damage to the i20 N and it is unlikely the car can be repaired to return on Saturday.Both driver and co-driver emerged from the crash relatively unscathed. Lappi ...Keep reading
As part of a format tweak for the remainder of the 2023 season, Friday’s second practice session is the only one that now counts towards Saturday’s qualifying.The top 10 riders at the end of the session progress directly into the Q2 qualifying segment, while the rest go through Q1.Aprilia’s Espargaro fired in a 1m58.183s on his final lap to see out second practice fastest of all, dethroning ...Keep reading
Isotta had hoped to race the Tipo 6 LMH Competizione at the Bahrain WEC finale in November on a non-points, invitational basis ahead of its full entry into the series with Vector Sport next year, though it had already backed away from a firm commitment to do so when it demonstrated the car the Monza round last month.Now, it has confirmed that the debut for the Tipo 6 hybrid with Vector will be ...Keep reading
Rovanpera and co-driver Jonne Halttunen lost control of their GR Yaris going over a crest 11.1km into the famous Myhinpaa stage.The Finnish duo rolled before eventually coming to a halt upside down at the edge of the gravel road.Rovanpera and Halttunen emerged from the incident unscathed, while the damaged car was rolled back onto its wheels several minutes after the incident but remained stranded ...Keep reading
Simona de Silvestro makes no secret of her unfinished business in Supercars. She said as much immediately after her deal with Dick Johnson Racing, which will see her make a one-off return for the Bathurst 1000, was made public.“I think there is always unfinished business,” she said. “When I look at my three years in Supercars I developed quite well in the three years, but the car I was in ...Keep reading
Last week Fry was announced as Williams' new CTO, having departed an Alpine team in turmoil after its upper management sacked team boss Otmar Szafnauer and long-time sporting director Alan Permane.The deal to sign Fry, who is set to take up his position before the end of the year, predates Alpine's flurry of management changes by several months.According to Vowles, the coup to convince the ...Keep reading
Speaking at the announcement of Nashville taking the place of Laguna Seca as the final round of the 2024 IndyCar calendar, Team Penske’s Newgarden – who hails from nearby Hendersonville – said he hopes for a tight championship finale on the new track layout that takes in much more of the city’s downtown district.“I think as a driver, to speak on everybody's behalf, we all love coming to ...Keep reading
Overall numbers for the full season are expected to be higher than last season, with 22 races held in both years, and the more lucrative Las Vegas race in effect replacing the French GP.However, the loss of the Imola race due to local flooding meant that only six events were held in the April-June period, instead of seven as was originally scheduled, and as was the case in 2022.The significance is ...Keep reading
The main F1 support category has retained its 14-round calendar, that was trimmed to 13 rounds due to the cancelled Imola event called off by flooding, with only one major change compared to this year.F2 will no longer head to the Netherlands for a Zandvoort round and instead will run an event at the Qatar GP on the 29 November-1 December.The switch has partly been made to provide a better balance ...Keep reading
Yet his place in the history of the French enduro was sealed when he hit more than 250mph on the Mulsanne Straight at the wheel of a Peugeot-powered WM Group C car during the race in 1988.Or rather it was assured two years later when the four-mile drag of public road that is correctly called the Ligne droite des Hunaudieres was split into three with the construction of the pair of chicanes we know ...Keep reading
As motor racing’s governing body continues its evaluation of potential new entries from 2025, Ben Sulayem says he thinks the arrival of manufacturers from the world’s two largest economies would be great for F1.Speaking to Autosport sister site Motorsport-total.com, Ben Sulayem believed that car makers from the USA and China would deliver a huge uplift for F1’s popularity and marketing ...Keep reading
The 2024 DTM schedule is effectively identical to this year, as it will include the same six circuits in Germany, plus the additional venues in Austria and the Netherlands.However, the date and order of some rounds has been changed for next season, which will be second under the aegis of Germany's largest automobile club following its sale by previous owner ITR in December.The season will kick off ...Keep reading
The Italian set a 2m00.295s on his final attempt to top the timesheet, with Marini just 0.036s behind him.Bezzecchi, who sits second in the championship standings after the summer break, set an early benchmark of 2m04.821s to lead early on, improving to a 2m00.885s on his fifth lap.That lap remained quickest for much of the session, before Marini went faster with five minutes left, just ...Keep reading
From this weekend’s ninth round of the 2023 season onwards, riders must run to the minimum tyre pressures for the front and rear compounds in the sprint race and the grand prix.The front minimum is 1.9 bar, while the rear minimum is 1.7 bar.This rule has been in place since the start of the year, but will only be officially regulated from this weekend’s British GP – with riders expressing ...Keep reading
Rovanpera managed to tame changeable conditions to win three of the four high-speed gravel stages to lead Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans by 3.9s at midday service.Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville completed the loop in third (+12.3s) while Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta inherited fourth (+16.0s) after Esapekka Lappi crashed out in stage five.Teemu Suninen (Hyundai) and WRC returnee Jari-Matti Latvala ...Keep reading
The M-Sport driver suffered a power loss in during his pass through stage three (Lankamaa, 14.21km) on Friday morning which was caused by an impact to the bottom of his Ford Puma.Tanak, who started the day leading the rally after winning Thursday night’s Super Special, believes his car struck a bedrock during the stage which went through the car’s sump guard.The impact caused terminal damage ...Keep reading
Following last weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix, Permane and team principal Otmar Szafnauer parted company with Alpine following differences of opinion between themselves and the senior management of the French sportscar manufacturer over the squad’s direction.PLUS: Why 'football manager' approach to F1 team principals won't boost Alpine's formIt brings to an end Permane’s remarkable 34-year ...Keep reading
Arguably no driver is as closely associated with the Ford-powered Lola B02/00 Champ Car chassis as Sebastien Bourdais. In its five seasons of competition, two of which as Champ Car became a de-facto single-make category following the disappearance of Reynard from the US open-wheel series by 2005, the Frenchman won three titles on the bounce and made Formula 1 realise what it had missed out on.From ...Keep reading
Matsuda was involved in an incident with two GT300 cars exiting the high-speed 130R in the closing stages of June's third round of the season, the impact with the barriers and catch fencing destroying his NISMO-run Nissan.The two-time GT500 champion had to be airlifted to hospital, but Nissan reported he had avoided any significant injuries. Three days later, he was transferred from intensive ...Keep reading
Just as Red Bull’s rivals appeared to be closing in on F1’s benchmark squad, Max Verstappen and team-mate Sergio Perez were gifted a step forward in pace with an overhaul of their RB19 for the Hungarian Grand Prix.The winning margins since the update landed have been above 30 seconds over the nearest non-Red Bull car, putting it back on a par with where it started the season.The changes to the ...Keep reading
Tanak had started the day leading the rally after winning Thursday’s night’s Super Special, but an engine issue for the second event in succession proved to be the 2019 world champion’s downfall on Thursday morning.The Estonian lost the rally lead to Kalle Rovanpera in stage two before heading into stage three, the famous 14.21km Lankamaa test.However, as Tanak reached the six kilometre mark ...Keep reading
Nashville joined the IndyCar roster in 2021, running an 11-turn layout primarily around the Nissan Stadium – home of the Tennessee Titans NFL team – and featuring only a short loop around the downtown area across the Korean War Veterans Memorial Bridge.From 2024, a new 2.17-mile, seven-turn circuit will be constructed that still includes the venue’s signature bridge section, but will also ...Keep reading
The M-Sport-Ford driver produced a committed run through the 3.48km mixed surface Harju test, held on streets and parkland roads within the host city of Jyvaskyla.Tanak clocked a time 0.6s faster than Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville, while championship leader Kalle Rovanpera was a tenth further back to clock the third fastest time."The ones we are fighting are very strong obviously – we need to put ...Keep reading
The Italian has been associated with Yamaha since 2019, when he joined the Petronas SRT satellite squad having made his premier class debut in 2018 with Marc VDS Honda.It was announced on Wednesday that Morbidelli will make way for LCR Honda rider Rins next season, who will partner 2021 world champion Fabio Quartararo.Speaking ahead of the British Grand Prix, Morbidelli said he had been ...Keep reading
The reigning Moto2 world champion told Autosport he is “really happy” for a 2024 deal to have been completed amid rumours he would lose his seat to KTM prodigy Acosta, who is currently second in the Moto2 standings.Acosta already confirmed earlier this year that he would be stepping up to MotoGP in 2024, but with KTM having Pol Espargaro, Brad Binder and Jack Miller on two-year deals ...Keep reading
From this weekend’s Silverstone round, the new Tyre Pressure Management System will come into use, which measures the pressure of front and rear compounds.This rule was set to be enforced from the start of the 2023 season, but has been kicked down the road as testing of the new TPMS continued.The minimum riders and teams must adhere to is 1.9 bar (27.6psi) of pressure on the front and 1.7 bar ...Keep reading
Earlier this year, motorsport’s governing body invited potential new teams to express their interest in joining the F1 grid from as early as 2025.The evaluation process of those applications is ongoing, with several teams, including Andretti-Cadillac, Hitech, Craig Pollock’s Formula Equal and LKY SUNZ going public with their ambitions.Other squads, including Rodin Carlin and an entry from ...Keep reading
The Silverstone-based squad started the 2023 campaign as Red Bull’s main rival, but has faced some recent struggles that dropped it back into the chasing pack behind F1’s most dominant team.Team principal Mike Krack explained ahead of last weekend’s Belgian GP that its dip in form was related to a change of car characteristics – labelled ‘side effects’ – that were triggered by recent ...Keep reading
Williams team principal James Vowles has led the quest for extra leeway on investment spending within the cost cap restrictions in order to allow the Grove outfit to update its outdated factory infrastructure.Other teams that have specific investment projects on hold also want an extra allowance, but are willing to accept a smaller headline number than Williams.An option that would allow the FIA ...Keep reading
The Japanese brand has based its WRC team in Jyvaskyla since its decision to return to rallying’s top tier in 2016, which has since resulted in three constructors’ crowns (2018, 2021-22) and four drivers’ titles (2019-2022).Ahead of this weekend’s Rally Finland, held in Jyvaskyla, a letter of intent was signed between the City of Jyvaskyla, the Toyota WRC team and the Toyota Mobility ...Keep reading
On Wednesday prior to this weekend’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone, Yamaha announced it was parting ways with Franco Morbidelli at the end of the 2023 season.This all but paved the way for Rins to join the Japanese marque from LCR Honda, with that move confirmed shortly after.Rins joined LCR Honda this year after Suzuki quit MotoGP at the end of 2022, and is the only rider of the marque’s ...Keep reading
Red Bull has utterly dominated so far with an unbeaten start to the 2023 season, but behind them the battle between Mercedes, Aston Martin, Ferrari and McLaren was tighter than ever.Alpine has also featured on the F1 podium this year amid a turbulent time within the team, and behind them Haas, Williams and Alfa Romeo looked to make gains to jump up the pecking order.F1 has already seen its ...Keep reading
A new online automotive auction destination called Sotheby’s Motorsport has been launched, focused on 21st century sports, exotic, and luxury vehicles priced over $100,000 to approximately $1,000,000.The new platform is a joint venture between RM Sotheby’s and Motorsport Network. Its goal is to provide a high-touch experience for users in the growing online car auction sector.RM Sotheby’s is ...Keep reading
The Van Diemen JL13 driver (number 73 above) has launched a three-pronged attack this year, contesting the National, United and Castle Combe FF1600 championships.And, while in recent weeks he has usually only registered one win per event, his tally has now risen to 11 victories after a further success when the National series headed to Northern Ireland. He jumps up four places on the leaderboard ...Keep reading
As previously reported, the South Korean brand’s team principal Cyril Abiteboul is evaluating a move from three to four factory entries for 2024, having fielded three cars in the top tier since 2019.Internal discussions regarding an expansion are continuing. They centre around budget and the ability to secure a driver line-up to make the most of the extra investment from Hyundai.Abiteboul says ...Keep reading
The centrepiece to those changes was made to its sidepods, and builds on the conceptual shift taken at the Monaco Grand Prix when it opted to abandon the 'zeropod' concept used since the start of the current ground effect era.Mercedes had switched to a wider, downwash ramp-style solution in a similar vein to its rivals, but it appears it cannot go as aggressive with the bodywork shaping as it ...Keep reading
From the moment it was first announced that the Legends Cars would be making three guest appearances on the British Touring Car support bill this year, there was plenty of excitement. The five-eighths scale imitations of 1930s American machines have a reputation for producing some dramatic racing and seemed like the perfect fit for BTCC events, particularly in the absence of the action-packed ...Keep reading
Despite setting a pre-season target to retain fourth place in the 2023 constructors’ championship while closing the gap to Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes, the Enstone team has fallen to sixth behind midfield rivals McLaren and Aston Martin come the summer break.Given the drop off, Alpine owner Renault Group has sought to replace company CEO Laurent Rossi while allowing team principal Otmar ...Keep reading
The Japanese single-seater series has been eyeing a place on the undercard of F1's annual visit to Suzuka, which will take place on 5-7 April next year instead of its usual slot in the autumn.That weekend had traditionally been the date for Super Formula's season-opening race, which has taken place at Fuji in recent years.A 2024 calendar issued by national federation JAF on Thursday revealed that ...Keep reading
It emerged early last month that the Faenza squad is to undergo a rebrand for next year. Selling the naming rights will enable the outfit to become more financially sustainable.This comes after new Red Bull management - led by Oliver Mintzlaff after the death of company co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz - opted against a total sale of AlphaTauri.Instead, the team will consolidate around its UK ...Keep reading
Batmobile brilliance: BMW CSL starsRichard Bradley put in one of the Oulton Park Historic Gold Cup weekend’s stellar performances, bringing Patrick Blakeney-Edwards’ BMW 3.0 CSL home fifth in Saturday’s Historic Touring Car Challenge race.“The power, grip and handling are fantastic,” enthused Bradley, the 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours LMP2 winner. Built by Schnitzer from a 1969 2800CS, chassis ...Keep reading
Announced on Thursday, the schedule has a similar look to this year's version, with two visits each to Fuji and Suzuka and single fixtures for Okayama, Sugo, Autopolis and Motegi.Okayama keeps its traditional role as the curtain-raiser, and is set to host the opening race of the year on 15 April, while the season will wrap up at Motegi on 3 November.The fifth round of the season at Suzuka is a ...Keep reading
Jake Dennis has shared podiums with Max Verstappen, Charles Leclerc, George Russell, Esteban Ocon and Alex Albon, but he never got the chance to join them on the Formula 1 grid. He has, however, just become a world champion following the Formula E finale in London last weekend.Stefan Mackley reports from the double-header in this week’s issue and charts the rise of Dennis, who is the third ...Keep reading
On Friday afternoon Perez qualified third for the Spa-Francorchamps race, behind team-mate Max Verstappen and Ferrari's Charles Leclerc.After Perez's final qualifying lap team principal Christian Horner came on the radio to congratulate the Mexican, who replied: "Ah, you will talk to me now..."Horner replied: "I will talk to you. I said to you top five, mate. You've blitzed it."The exchange began ...Keep reading
The 2019-20 Formula E champion had finished second on-the-road in the first of two races at the ExCeL London, having climbed from 17th on the grid.But his Porsche team were informed just before the end of the race that he had been handed a three-minute penalty due to a technical infringement.This was deemed to be because ‘the minimum tyre pressure was under the minimum value given by the tyre ...Keep reading
Evans has raced with Jaguar since both he and the British marque joined the all-electric championship back in 2016, with the Kiwi’s new contract set to make it the longest driver-team partnership on the grid.During his seven-year tenure with the team 29-year-old Evans has taken 10 wins, four of which came this season has he finished third in the drivers’ standings behind champion Jake Dennis ...Keep reading
It was the Belgian’s first running in an F1 car since he tested for Mercedes in Abu Dhabi at the end of 2021.The two-day session, which was also attended by McLaren, featured rainy conditions throughout and only wet and intermediate tyres were used.The poor weather meant that Pirelli didn’t conduct any running with its no-blanket slick tyres, which won’t be used in 2024 following a recent F1 ...Keep reading
Between 2014-21 the Brackley team won the constructors’ title eight times and took seven drivers’ titles between Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.Its form took a dive with the W13 under the new aerodynamic regulations last year, and it has only scored one win over the last two seasons.A series of updates has improved this year’s W14, but in recent races Russell has questioned the set-up ...Keep reading
The phenomenon that dominated the team’s 2022 season has largely disappeared with this year’s W14, helped by regulation tweaks over the winter.But both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell reported the problem at Spa, with the latter noting that he experienced a “huge amount”.Elliott says the team will have to determine whether it was track specific or related to set-up, given that under the ...Keep reading
Armstrong, who leads the rookie standings despite running a non-oval schedule in CGR’s #11 car, has scored top-10 finishes in half of his eight IndyCar starts.He’s handed over the car to Takuma Sato for all of the oval events but has set his sights on running full-time with the team that leads this year’s championship with Alex Palou.When asked by Autosport what his ideal 2024 plan would ...Keep reading
For the first 10 rounds of the season, attention at AlphaTauri was biased towards full-time rookie Nyck de Vries and his struggles to step up to F1 as he drew criticism from Red Bull bosses Christian Horner and Helmut Marko.The FIA Formula 2 and Formula E champion was sacked after Silverstone to be replaced by eight-time grand prix winner Ricciardo. The Australian generated such media interest ...Keep reading
Frijns currently races with WRT in the LMP2 class, which will no longer form a part of the WEC from next year when the Belgian outfit steps up to the Hypercar class to run BMW's M Hybrid V8.The LMDh racer has been fielded in the IMSA SportsCar Championship by the Rahal team this season, while WRT recently commenced testing the car that will mark BMW's return to the WEC for the first time since it ...Keep reading
Big grids of GT3 machinery may be nothing out of the ordinary in Europe, but the sight of 36 cars assembling for the GT World Challenge Asia round at Fuji in June marked an important achievement for a championship that was forced into hibernation for two seasons during the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic.With cross-border travel in Asia made impossible, GT Asia ground to a halt in 2020-21 before ...Keep reading
The M-Sport-Ford driver heads to the WRC’s famous fast gravel rally with the envious record of three wins in his last four outings in Finland, including a heroic drive to defeat home hero Kalle Rovanpera last year. Tanak is in need of a strong result to boost his WRC title aspirations after a five-minute engine change penalty robbed the Estonian of a chance to claim a strong points haul at ...Keep reading
Hulkenberg has shown good pace on his return to a full-time drive in 2023, regularly making Q3 and qualifying as high as second in Canada, before he took a penalty hit in Montreal.However, the car has inevitably fallen off the pace in races and used its tyres too hard.In the first half of the season his best result was seventh in Australia, although he also picked up a sixth in the Austrian GP ...Keep reading
Former Alfa Romeo team principal Vasseur took the reins at Maranello in January after the departure of Mattia Binotto.One of his main tasks was to strengthen the team with some key hirings, a task made harder by the time it takes to recruit key personnel who are tied down by gardening leave.The job was then made even more difficult by the departures of two leading Ferrari players, with race ...Keep reading
Aside from the catastrophe caused by his crash and injury at Jerez in July 2020, for Marc Marquez the first part of the 2023 season has undoubtedly been one of the most unrecognisable moments of his career."Injury aside, this is the worst moment of my sporting life," he said after crossing the finish line 17th in the Assen sprint race on 24 June.Marquez has 85 victories to his name, 59 of them in ...Keep reading
“I got as far as Stowe and the drive unit failed,” he explained. DW Racing’s Ben Caisley therefore secured pole, closely followed by ex-Formula 2 and F3 racer Hector Hurst on his debut with Scorpio Motorsport, and Valour’s Chris Preen.Preen’s challenge lasted until the first corner, where there was contact from behind with DW’s Andy Lowe. As Preen spun, he also had contact with DW’s ...Keep reading
Following the replacement of Laurent Rossi as Alpine CEO, team principal Otmar Szafnauer and sporting director Alan Permane have left by mutual consent following last weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix.With chief technical officer Pat Fry also moving to Williams, the attention on Enstone has been squarely focused at the depleted senior-level structure.PLUS: Why 'football manager' approach to F1 team ...Keep reading
On Wednesday morning ahead of this weekend’s British Grand Prix, Yamaha announced it would be parting ways with Morbidelli at the end of the 2023 season.Morbidelli has been a Yamaha-backed rider since 2019 and was runner-up in the championship the following year, but has struggled for form since stepping up to the factory squad midway through 2021.It has been rumoured for some time that Rins ...Keep reading
Morbidelli has been associated with Yamaha since 2019, when he joined the Petronas SRT satellite squad in 2019 having made his premier class debut in 2018 with Marc VDS Honda.Having been resoundingly beaten by rookie team-mate Fabio Quartararo in 2019 on lesser machinery, Morbidelli bounced back in 2020 to win three grands prix and finish runner-up in the championship to Suzuki’s Joan ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion is currently waiting for his lawyers and Mercedes representatives to clarify the final elements of a new deal that will commit him to F1 for the next few years. Delays in getting the contract across the line have triggered speculation that there are aspects of the deal that have not been easy to resolve. One issue that has cropped up recently is the suggestion ...Keep reading
As the Dutchman roared away to a crushing victory in the Belgian Grand Prix last weekend, he joked with his Red Bull team that he had such a lead over the opposition that he might make an extra stop just to give his mechanics some extra pit stop practice.Red Bull boss Christian Horner later explained that his request was refused because of the risk of something going wrong with the stop and ...Keep reading
Spa was seen by the Williams team as a track that would favour the low-drag characteristics of the FW45 and give Albon a chance to repeat the points-scoring form that he’s previously shown this year at Sakhir, Montreal and Silverstone.He jumped up from 15th to 10th with a strong first lap and ran as high as seventh before his early first stop.However, with his focus on saving his tyres, and ...Keep reading
“To become world champion is something we all dream of.” For Jake Dennis, that dream became a reality in the London E-Prix as he sealed the 2022-2023 Formula E title in front of his home crowd. It certainly wasn’t easy, with wheel-to-wheel battles and two red flags putting Dennis’s crowning in doubt until the very final moments.In fact, it has been far from easy all season for the Briton ...Keep reading
Ricciardo’s second outing with AlphaTauri was a tough ask as he was thrown into a sprint weekend that was impacted by rain, and with only the FP1 session in which to hone the set-up.He made his life more difficult by losing his best time in Q1 to a track limits offence at Eau Rouge, which consigned him to 19th on the grid for Sunday’s main race.In Saturday's sprint he was encouraged by a ...Keep reading
Speaking after the recent double-header races at Iowa Speedway, where he scored a brilliant brace of victories to narrow the gap to 80 points, Indy 500 winner Newgarden admitted that his team needs to do better on non-oval tracks if he is to challenge his Chip Ganassi Racing rival.When asked if the squad had been too inconsistent on road and street courses this year, Newgarden replied: “I think ...Keep reading
Ahead of a landmark moment for the team, as it prepares to put its 2024 car in its new wind tunnel for the first time, the squad still wants to eke out one final effort for its current MCL60.For beyond bespoke low-drag solutions that will be needed for high-speed tracks like Monza and Las Vegas later this year, team principal Andrea Stella says that there are further improvements to come to help ...Keep reading
The reigning world rally champion heads to Finland after producing arguably his most dominant drive yet to claim a 10th career WRC win in Estonia two weeks ago.Rovanpera continued a perfect lead up to his home event by winning the Hyacenter Rally in Tampere, Finland last weekend, after defeating Toyota WRC team-mate Elfyn Evans by 11.6s across the eight stages.However, the 22-year-old is expecting ...Keep reading
Ahead of last week's Belgian Grand Prix Alpine dismissed team boss Szafnauer and long-time sporting manager Alan Permane, just a week on from Renault CEO Luca de Meo replacing Laurent Rossi with Philippe Krief as the Alpine brand's CEO.This move was explained by incoming interim team principal Bruno Famin as Szafnauer "not being on the same timeline" as Alpine on how fast its march to the front of ...Keep reading
In motorsport, money alone is not enough to win races. But despite the cost cap, the famous budget limits imposed by the FIA, some teams have unaccounted for internal resources. In Formula E, the two manufacturers with the most back-up resources are Porsche and Jaguar. They have been able to go further in researching the operation of their electric single-seaters, and have benefited from feedback ...Keep reading
As its first of two mandatory rookie runs in Friday first practice sessions, Mercedes has handed the 21-year-old Dane a run in the team's Mercedes W14 at the Mexico City race at the end of October."I'm incredibly proud to be doing the FP1 session in Mexico City with the Team, it's a dream come true," Vesti reacted to the news."To think in less than two months that I'll be doing my first official ...Keep reading
For a charitable organisation that has been helping support UK motorsport for over 45 years, the British Motorsport Training Trust has not exactly been a well-known name. Every year it gives grants totalling six-figure sums to fund training and safety initiatives, and yet it has been operating somewhat behind the scenes. Until now, that is.A rebrand to become the British Motorsport Trust, in ...Keep reading
Toyota WRC boss Latvala is making a rare return to the WRC for his home event to pilot a fourth Toyota GR Yaris entry.It will be the first time the 18-time WRC rally winner will compete at the top level since a one-off outing at Rally Sweden in 2020 prior to taking up the team principal role at Toyota.The decision to contest Rally Finland, which was only made after Toyota’s dominant 1-2-3-4 at ...Keep reading
The two-day test is the latest step in Pirelli’s programme of no-blanket slick running, although it is set to be compromised by rain.Pirelli’s hope was to introduce the new tyres in 2024, but at last Friday’s F1 Commission it was agreed to postpone the move to remove blankets, and then have another look for 2025.The decision came too late for Pirelli to change its run plan for Spa, and thus ...Keep reading
As Autosport revealed last week, the FIA tabled discussions at this weekend’s F1 Commission meeting to evaluate whether action needed to be taken in balancing the performance of engines to help out Alpine supplier Renault. It is understood that the Renault engine could be as much as 30hp down on the best of the opposition, with no prospect of closing the gap because of F1’s engine ...Keep reading
After 18 months in charge of the team, Szafnauer completed his final weekend with Alpine at Spa on Sunday evening, following Friday's announcement of his departure.He will be replaced on an interim basis by Bruno Famin, who is also Alpine’s VP of motorsport.After Sunday’s race Szafnauer said an emotional farewell to team members in the garage and motorhome before heading to the airport. His ...Keep reading
Russell made a good getaway from eighth and coming down the hill from La Source he tried to pass the ailing Piastri, the Australian having damaged his car when squeezed between the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz and the inside barrier.Russell headed to Piastri's left, following Lando Norris, but finding the route blocked, he was forced to back off.Fernando Alonso, Yuki Tsunoda and Lance Stroll all went ...Keep reading
The world champion had irrepressibly risen from the sixth place on the grid, having dropped five places due to a gearbox change penalty, and by lap 17 of 44 Verstappen had passed Sergio Perez to pull out an 8.9s lead by the time the two Red Bulls made their final pitstops.PLUS: The surprise star of Verstappen's latest Spa masterclassAfter this, Verstappen unleashed an out-lap one second quicker ...Keep reading
Lundqvist is the latest driver to step in for Simon Pagenaud, who continues to recover from a horrendous practice accident at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course earlier this month.The former series champion and Indy 500 winner has been advised once again by the IndyCar medical team to not participate in this weekend’s event in Nashville.Conor Daly and Tom Blomqvist have previously subbed for the ...Keep reading
This year's edition of the Belgian Grand Prix yielded yet another Max Verstappen masterclass as the Dutchman waltzes away with the Formula 1 title.Born in Belgium, Verstappen cruised to victory at his second home race to extend his advantage in the championship to a whopping 125 points over Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez, having won the last eight races.While battles for the lead were effectively ...Keep reading
A dominant force throughout the 1960s and early 1970s, Agostini won a record 15 grand prix motorcycle world titles – eight of which were in the premier class known today as MotoGP.With 122 grand prix victories to his credit, Agostini achieved more than most could ever dream of between 1963 and 1977.Between 1967 and 1972, Agostini was frighteningly consistent, winning every race he entered in the ...Keep reading
Alonso finished the Spa race in fifth place, beating the Mercedes of George Russell and the surviving McLaren of Lando Norris.The solid result followed huge frustration on Saturday, when the Spaniard qualified only 15th in the shootout after team-mate Lance Stroll brought out a red flag, and then spun off early in the sprint.In the main event he jumped up from ninth to sixth on the first lap ...Keep reading
Verstappen utterly demolished the competition in Sunday's race at Spa-Francorchamps, beating team-mate Sergio Perez by 22 seconds and putting Red Bull's nearest challenger Charles Leclerc on 33 seconds in his Ferrari.The Dutchman's dominance was such that he soon joked with his race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase about making an extra pitstop for the fastest lap to give his crew "some extra pitstop ...Keep reading
The eight-time MotoGP podium finisher suffered multiple fractures to his back and jaw after hitting an unprotected barrier in a crash in FP2 for March’s season-opening Portuguese Grand Prix.Espargaro underwent surgery on his injuries and had to have his mouth wired shut for the better part of a month early in his recovery.This forced him onto a liquid diet and contributed to him losing 2.5kg per ...Keep reading
The team has gradually introduced a major upgrade package for its MCL60, but drivers and management have sought to play down expectations for recent races. Nevertheless, McLaren scored podiums at the Red Bull Ring, Silverstone and in the Spa sprint race last weekend.However, Lando Norris then classified seventh in the Belgian GP after dropping three places during the opening stint due to struggles ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion led a fifth Red Bull 1-2 of the 2023 season in another Belgian Grand Prix masterclass, as Sergio Perez had no answer to Verstappen’s pace.Charles Leclerc completed the podium for Ferrari having kept clear of Lewis Hamilton in his Mercedes, while there were plenty of intriguing storylines further down the field including a painful race for McLaren.PLUS: The key ...Keep reading
On a day when many drivers suffered tyre issues Leclerc had a strong run to third place behind the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.After two difficult weekends in Britain and Hungary, it was the Italian team’s first podium since the Monegasque driver took second in Austria.Leclerc suggested that there were signs of improved tyre degradation even in races where the team had poor ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer introduced a decent upgrade for its W14 at Spa-Francorchamps last weekend, which included new sidepods and an updated floor.However, the arrival of that coincided with Mercedes battling the return of bouncing on the straights, which proved to be its biggest headache throughout 2022.Wolff says the team needs to find answers quickly as to why the phenomenon it felt it had got ...Keep reading
Buescher, who started 26th, dominated along with RFK Racing team-mate and co-owner Brad Keselowski, as the two combined to lead 190 of the 400 laps.Buescher emerged as the race leader following the final round of green flag pitstops but saw his big lead over Hamlin disappear when a spin by Daniel Suarez brought out a late caution and set up a restart with three laps remaining.Hamlin initially ...Keep reading
The Formula E season finale took place at the ExCeL London’s unique indoor/outdoor layout on Sunday, which was affected by standing water due to heavy rain.Prior to the two stoppages, race director Scot Elkin had instructed drivers to follow the safety car to assess conditions before deploying the red flag.With only six laps completed behind the safety car and nearly an hour and 20 minutes after ...Keep reading
The Envision Racing driver started on pole for the final Formula E race of the season at the ExCeL London’s indoor/outdoor circuit, which was twice red-flagged due to torrential rain.Once uninterrupted green flag running got under way after conditions improved, Cassidy romped away at the front with only fellow Kiwi Mitch Evans able to keep within touching distance.By the end of the 38-lap race ...Keep reading
The Envision Racing driver took a lights-to-flag victory after an imperious performance in treacherous conditions having rebuffed a strong challenge from Jaguar’s Evans.The win and sixth place finish for Sebastien Buemi means Envision has provisionally claimed the teams’ championship having been in a battle against Jaguar entering the final race of the season.Cassidy and Evans dominated ...Keep reading
Red Bull celebrated Max Verstappen's and Sergio Perez's 1-2 victory at Spa-Francorchamps with a standard team photo, followed by champagne celebrations in front of its garage in the pitlane.As team members, including Verstappen and team principal Christian Horner, cleared off to avoid a champagne shower, the team's pitboard fell on top of its constructors' trophy, completely destroying it in the ...Keep reading
The reversed-grid race allowed the Northern Irishman to take his tally of wins at the North Yorkshire circuit to a remarkable 14, and for himself and Ingram to mitigate the points damage over the weekend to Ash Sutton, who was a first-lap casualty.From pole, Turkington got away in front with his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport, but fellow front-row man Josh Cook probed around the outside ...Keep reading
After their high-profile disagreement in qualifying at Spa, plus interest in Verstappen’s relationship with Lambiase growing in 2023 with an absence of a victory battle against Red Bull’s rivals, the pair again attracted attention with their discussions at various points of the Dutchman’s dominant win on Sunday.Once Verstappen had reached second place behind early leader and team-mate Sergio ...Keep reading
Norris finished where he started in seventh but struggled on the medium Pirellis during his opening stint to lose three places before pitting on lap five of 44 for hard tyres.The Briton reckoned this part of the race was "terrible" as it left him trapped between defending through the first sector before then being unable to pass later in the lap.He explained: "It was terrible - it's an honest ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion took a low-key fourth place in the final F1 race before the summer break, unable to halt Max Verstappen’s charge through the field to victory, but kept clear of rivals behind him while also picking up the bonus point for fastest lap with a late pitstop for fresh tyres.But worryingly for Mercedes, Hamilton reported he suffered with F1 car bouncing throughout the ...Keep reading
The pair came together on the opening lap of Sunday's Spa race, with Sainz, who started fourth, locking up and colliding with Piastri on the inside of Turn 1.The McLaren was pinched against the inside wall, damaging its suspension and ripping the side of the Ferrari’s right sidepod, with Piastri slowing on the run downhill to Eau Rouge and later stopping.Though the stewards took no action over ...Keep reading
Despite starting from the third row, due to a grid penalty for a new gearbox, Verstappen worked his way to the front by lap 16 – taking the lead from team-mate Sergio Perez (Red Bull), who’d led since passing poleman Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) on the opening lap.2023 F1 Belgian GP results
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The reigning world champion launched from sixth due to a gearbox penalty, but surged into the lead on lap 15 and ran unchallenged to the chequered flag to score Red Bull's 12th-consecutive win of the season.When the lights went out, polesitter Leclerc swung across Perez’s bows to maintain the lead at La Source, where Carlos Sainz, starting fourth, locked up and then collided with Oscar Piastri ...Keep reading
The three-time champion started his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST from second on the grid, but he was on the soft Goodyear tyre whereas pole-sitting team-mate Dan Cammish was on the medium compound. Predictably, the extra grip helped Sutton get in front at the start, and he continued to pull away, setting the fastest lap along the way, to win by 7.682 seconds. Cammish himself was ...Keep reading
In a repeat of the qualifying final duel from Saturday, the two Kiwis went head-to-head with Evans less than a tenth faster than Cassidy in the opening sector at the ExCeL London’s indoor/outdoor circuit.Cassidy regained that deficit in the middle sector with the duo setting almost identical times in the final segment – Cassidy’s 1m10.092s just 0.010s faster than yesterday’s race winner ...Keep reading
Like the rest of the teams, the Woking outfit only had Friday’s FP1 session during which to experiment before the set-up of the cars was locked in as parc ferme took effect for qualifying.With an eye on the predicted wet conditions, McLaren went for a higher level of downforce than its rivals with both cars, a move that paid off in the sprint event when Oscar Piastri briefly led and finished ...Keep reading
On Saturday afternoon in London, the stakes were very different for each team.On home turf and in front of their home fans, title-contending Jaguar and Envision Racing had very high expectations. For Porsche, a perfect display was required to remain in contention for the constructors’ championship, while Andretti, the German manufacturer's customer team, had Dennis battling to claim the ...Keep reading
The local man got the jump at the lights, and headed team-mates Dan Rowbottom and Ash Sutton throughout for a Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST 1-2-3.Second and third positions swapped on the final lap, when Rowbottom allowed championship leader Sutton – who had also gained the point for fastest lap – into the runner-up position.The three Fords were scarcely troubled. Cammish and front-row ...Keep reading
Since the start of July, Alpine has replaced outspoken CEO Laurent Rossi - who has been moved aside to work on “special projects”. Then, on the Friday of the Spa weekend, it was announced team principal Otmar Szafnauer - at the helm for 18 months - and sporting director Alan Permane - an Enstone veteran of 34 years - will leave following the race. Meanwhile, chief technical director Pat Fry ...Keep reading
While the Mexican has never overtaken his two-time defending champion team-mate Max Verstappen in the standings this year, he closed to six points after winning the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in late April.But his form leading into the summer break has been dogged by a run of five consecutive failures to progress into Q3.This has forced him to fightback in the races although, in the fastest car in ...Keep reading
A late downpour caused the 2023 Belgian Grand Prix sprint race to be delayed. The field was then led by the safety car for five formation laps ahead of a rolling start.The safety car train helped clear standing water to cut spray and help visibility, but all cars pitted within two laps to fit intermediate tyres since the wet weather crossover had arrived.As such, drivers reckoned the blue-walled ...Keep reading
All so familiar so far at Spa. Rain, risk, and Red Bull running away with a 2023 Formula 1 race.That's how this season’s second sprint race ended, with Max Verstappen in complete control up front, despite the proceeding’s early intrigue of McLaren’s Oscar Piastri leading the initial laps.Verstappen and his Red Bull team ultimately made the correct choice in not stopping at the end of the ...Keep reading
Race winner in yesterday’s race at the ExCeL London, Evans remained towards the top of the times for the duration of the 30-minute session on Sunday morning.The Kiwi was fastest after the opening 10 minutes with a 1m11.079s, before lowering his best to a 1m10.946s.Evans’ win yesterday elevated him into second in the championship, just eight points ahead of fellow Kiwi Nick Cassidy, while their ...Keep reading
Heavy showers, which had all but prevented running in Friday's single free practice session, continued to wreak havoc on the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, with the start for Saturday afternoon's sprint delayed by 35 minutes.Eventually the race got under way after five formation laps to clear out some of the standing water and try to reduce the spray that limited visibility, a topic that has been put ...Keep reading
Doohan driver started 11th for Virtuosi for Sunday’s race, lining up on the medium compound tyres to run the alternative strategy as the majority of the field opted for softs.He made steady progress in the early stages, running ninth before the first safety car. A well-timed pitstop for softs under the second safety car meant he rejoined in second, behind Pourchaire, who had switched to ...Keep reading
Hamilton tried to pass the Mexican heading into Stavelot, and they made side-to-side contact, with the left front wheel of the Mercedes hitting the Red Bull’s sidepod.The Mexican was subsequently forced to retire from the race due to bodywork and floor damage, while Hamilton received a 5-second penalty that dropped him from fourth to seventh in the final classification.“It was massive damage ...Keep reading
The likelihood of the three-time Supercars champion departing Australia at the end of this season has been growing since his sensational win on his debut in the NASCAR Cup Series earlier this month in Chicago.He is under contract with Triple Eight in Supercars next year, but the team has been clear that it will release him if needed.That is now all but a certainty, van Gisbergen confirming to ...Keep reading
Mercedes had looked on course for a decent result in the sprint shootout session at the Belgian Grand Prix on Saturday after Lewis Hamilton was fastest overall following the first run in SQ3.But his hopes of turning that form into a pole position for the sprint were derailed after he and team-mate George Russell tripped over each other.Hamilton ended up starting his final lap right behind Russell ...Keep reading
The Jenzer Motorsport driver, who lined up 10th for Sunday’s race, took advantage of starting on wets on the damp track as the leaders ran on slicks to make huge moves on the first lap.He was running second by lap three behind Paul Aron, who started 11th, before the Prema driver pitted for slick tyres.This handed Barnard the lead, and despite a strong challenge from Christian Mansell (Campos) ...Keep reading
Kostecki will become the second Supercars driver to make a NASCAR cameo this year following Shane van Gisbergen's sensational debut victory in Chicago earlier this month.Kostecki and van Gisbergen will both be on the Indy road course grid, the latter making a second start for Trackhouse Racing, while the former makes his debut in an extra RCR Camaro.The major backing for the Kostecki car is coming ...Keep reading
If a race is declared wet and is started behind the safety car, drivers are obliged to run Pirelli's blue-walled extreme wet tyres.However, the anomaly is that once conditions become raceable, the wet tyre is regarded as being of little use.In the Spa sprint, there was a rush into the pits for intermediates once the race got underway, with half the grid coming in at the start, and the remainder at ...Keep reading
The Kiwi was only headed in the first few laps of the race before taking control of the 36-lap affair.He expertly managed his tyres on the high-deg Sydney circuit to come home comfortably ahead of Andre Heimgartner and Anton De Pasquale.The win moves van Gisbergen into third in the standings, 13 points ahead of teammate Broc Feeney and 54 behind leader Brodie Kostecki. Will Brown is still second ...Keep reading
The Porsche driver climbed up the order during a chaotic opening race at the ExCeL London this weekend, which featured two red flags as Jake Dennis claimed the Formula E title.After starting 17th, da Costa finished second on-the-road, but was informed just moments from the end of the race that he had been handed a three-minute penalty for a technical infringement as the “minimum tyre pressure ...Keep reading
Cassidy entered the first of the weekend’s London E-Prix races 24 points behind Jake Dennis in the championship, with both title protagonists starting on the front row for Saturday’s race.While Cassidy led from pole, his team-mate Buemi moved ahead of Dennis and acted a rear-gunner which allowed Cassidy to take both Attack Mode activations and remain in the lead.Cassidy then allowed Buemi ...Keep reading
The penultimate round of the season proved to be a dramatic affair, with the race red flagged twice in the closing stages for incidents - Dennis’ chances of claiming the title swinging throughout the 37-lap race.Having been pushed back after initially starting on the front row alongside main championship rival Nick Cassidy, his title chances were boosted after Cassidy collided with Envision ...Keep reading
The Mercedes driver also referenced Ayrton Senna’s famous quote about no longer being a racing driver if you don’t go for a gap.The Turn 15 incident led Perez to retire from the race with bodywork damage and triggered a five-second penalty for Hamilton after the stewards decreed that he was predominantly at fault.That dropped him from fourth place on the road to seventh in the final sprint ...Keep reading
The Prema driver ran into the back of Trident rival Bortoleto after he had passed him for ninth at Turn 1 on lap nine.Bortoleto slowed before coming to a stop on track after Radillon having suffered damage to the rear of his car, prompting another safety car in a much-interrupted race.The penalty drops Beganovic from ninth in the classification to 23rd. He also received two penalty points for the ...Keep reading
Hamilton was deemed by the FIA to have been at fault for a brush with Perez as they battled for position through Paul Frere in the damp opening section of the sprint race.The contact between the Mercedes and Red Bull left Perez with a hefty amount of damage, and the Mexican later retired from the race after a trip through the gravel.But while Perez and the FIA felt that Hamilton was to blame ...Keep reading
Gasly’s opinion centres on the ongoing visibility problem F1 drivers face when running in the wet with the new ground effect generation of cars, which lift huge volumes of spray into the air and push it over a wider area.In the sprint race that Max Verstappen won on Saturday, Gasly ended up third behind McLaren’s Oscar Piastri – that pair opting to pit at the end of the formation lap to ...Keep reading
The Briton finished third on-the-road in a tense penultimate round, which would have been enough for the title, but the result was guranteed when he was promoted to second after Antonio Felix da Costa was handed a three-minute penalty for a technical infringement after finishing second.Dennis’ closest championship rival Cassidy had led early in the race from pole, but his championship chances ...Keep reading
Verstappen topped qualifying from Ferrari driver Leclerc on Friday, but Red Bull's championship leader will start from sixth after fitting a fifth gearbox of the season.But a dominant performance in Saturday’s rain-shortened sprint, which he also started from the front after defeating sprint race adversary Oscar Piastri, means Verstappen remains the odds-on favourite heading into ...Keep reading
The two-time world champion lined up only 15th for the shorter Saturday contest as a legacy of not setting a time in Q2 owing to the red flag caused by team-mate Lance Stroll shunting.Starting behind Stroll in 14th, by virtue of not having track position, he was kept out for an extra lap before pitting to swap his starting wet tyres for intermediates in a rain-affected bout.But on lap three of the ...Keep reading
The governing body initially said no points would be given out after the incident-strewn race on a damp track saw the safety car run for much of its 12 laps and finished under caution.Caio Collet took victory for Van Amersfoort Racing, with Taylor Barnard second for Jenzer Motorsport in his maiden series podium and Prema driver Paul Aron in third.The series said in a press release after the race ...Keep reading
A late downpour meant the field launched for the Saturday race behind the safety car ahead of a rolling start.Drivers reported improved conditions to immediately ditch full wet tyres for intermediates, but 10 drivers stayed out to avoid losing time in a busy pitlane.Piastri pitted straight away for intermediates, while Red Bull took the "safer call" by delaying Verstappen's stop for another lap - ...Keep reading
To reduce spray after a late downpour, five formation laps were run behind the safety car ahead of a rolling start.Although drivers reported conditions were clear for intermediate tyres, half the field stayed put for an extra lap on full wets. This was to avoid losing time to a double-stack pitstop and a delayed release in a congested pit-lane.Polesitter Verstappen remained on circuit while ...Keep reading
The race started behind the safety car, with McLaren’s Oscar Piastri following it into the pitlane to switch his wets for intermediate tyres. That paid off as he took the lead from Verstappen, who pitted at the end of the first racing lap.Verstappen passed Piastri for the lead on lap six, following a further safety car intervention after Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso crashed out.2023 F1 ...Keep reading
After spots of rain had fallen sporadically as the cars initially lined up on the grid 20 minutes ahead of the scheduled start time – already pushed back by 35 minutes thanks to the similar delay to the start of sprint shootout qualifying – it began coming down heavily 10 minutes later. This led the FIA to officially delay the start before it announced the formation lap would begin at 17.12 ...Keep reading
The Van Amersfoort Racing driver was found to have used a throttle map not in compliance with Article 3.6.5 of the Technical Regulations for both the formation lap and race start.As a result, the Dutchman loses second place, promoting ART Grand Prix’s Theo Pourchaire to second and MP Motorsport driver Dennis Hauger onto the podium in third.This helps Pourchaire’s title bid, with an extra two ...Keep reading
The Yorkshireman put in a peach of a lap to lead a 1-2-3 for the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST squad and continue the Kent operation’s 100% run of pole positions during the 2023 season. Team-mate Dan Rowbottom had just snatched provisional pole as the clock ticked down towards the final few minutes, only for Cammish to immediately eclipse the bearded Midlander’s effort by 0.166 ...Keep reading
This weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix marks a year since Audi formally announced its 2026 F1 entry initially via a works powertrain programme before confirming a Sauber buyout.But Audi has since moved to replace CEO Markus Duesmann, who presided over the entry.There is also widespread speculation that the manufacturer’s engine programme is running months behind schedule. Audi did announce in June ...Keep reading
The Rodin Carlin driver had scored eight podiums before finally taking his first victory in the series on Saturday in Belgium.Having lined up third, he held position off the line behind poleman Jehan Daruvala (MP Motorsport) and Van Amersfoort Racing driver Richard Verschoor.Though Daruvala initially took control, he was forced to retire on lap two after his headrest flew off, handing the lead to ...Keep reading
Waters finished second on the road in Saturday night's first race in Sydney that was won by Brodie Kostecki, but was demoted to fifth thanks to a five-second time penalty. The penalty was for an unsafe release after Broc Feeney was judged to have been required to slow in the fast lane to avoid contact with Waters.A furious Waters then unloaded on Supercars in an expletive-laden radio rant that ...Keep reading
Envision Racing’s Cassidy was fastest in the first and second sector during the final duel against his fellow Kiwi, putting him more than two tenths up on Evans.But a blistering final sector ensured Jaguar’s Evans took pole position, and more importantly, denied Cassidy three points in his bid to overthrow Dennis at the head of the standings.Evans will start sixth for this afternoon's race due ...Keep reading
It obliged Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll to switch from intermediates to medium rather than soft tyres on a drying track, with the Canadian subsequently crashing heavily on his final lap.Under sprint shootout rules, drivers are obliged to use medium tyres in SQ1 and SQ2, then softs in SQ3.However the rules also state that if the track is declared wet by the FIA those rules won’t apply, and ...Keep reading
On a drying Spa-Francorchamps circuit, timing the final flyer to perfection was of the essence, with Red Bull's Max Verstappen pipping McLaren prodigy Oscar Piastri to the top of the timesheets.Mercedes appeared to have misjudged its drivers' positioning to start the final lap, with Russell hindering Hamilton after locking up his tyres into Turn 1.Hamilton then passed Russell on the Kemmel ...Keep reading
Ingram moved his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N to the top of the pile deep into the final 10 minutes of FP2, and finally headed the way by 0.135 seconds from the Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST of Dan Cammish.Josh Cook had led the way in FP1, in a One Motorsport Honda Civic Type R that seems to be going better than before this season.Cook’s FP1 best was 0.030s clear of the West Surrey ...Keep reading
On a weekend when the French F1 outfit announced the exit of team principal Otmar Szafnauer and sporting director Alan Permane as part of a shake-up, Prost has voiced his dismay at what has become of the squad. The Frenchman, who was an advisor and non-executive director for the Renault/Alpine squad from 2015 until 2022, thinks that the French sportscar maker has made a critical error in ...Keep reading
The two Ferrari drivers ended up third and fourth with Carlos Sainz ahead, while Charles Leclerc made a small error on his final Q3 lap that proved costly in the fight for pole.The shortened 12-minute Q1, 10-minute Q2, eight-minute Q3, was delayed by 35 minutes due to heavy rainfall prior to the original start time.When the drivers did get going they generally ran throughout each segment, other ...Keep reading
The victory helped Kostecki to leapfrog team-mate Will Brown at the top of the standings by 23 points, although Brown did finish third thanks to penalties for Cam Waters and Shane van Gisbergen.The big loser at the start was Andre Heimgartner, who squandered the pole position he'd earned earlier in the day with a slow getaway.He was swiftly swallowed up by Kostecki, Brown, Waters, Cam Hill and ...Keep reading
The race saw Caio Collet take his first win of the season, but zero points were awarded because two full racing laps of the shortened contest were not completed.Bortoleto was running in the points when he suffered contact from Prema driver Dino Beganovic at Turn 1, ending his race, in an incident which is being investigated.The Trident driver currently leads the standings by 42 points, and will ...Keep reading
Envision Racing’s Cassidy, who enters this weekend’s double-header at the ExCeL London’s unique indoor/outdoor circuit 24 points behind Dennis in the championship, set a 1m11.264s three minutes from the end of the session which proved to be the fastest time.This was after a crash in the final minute for Abt Cupra’s Robin Frijns at Turn 16, which brought out the red flag and prevented ...Keep reading
Heavy rains have been disrupting the Spa-Francorchamps event all weekend, with Friday qualifying for tomorrow's grand prix delayed by 10 minutes.While conditions were expected to get slightly more benign from Saturday onwards, fresh showers hit the Ardennes loop ahead of Saturday's sprint shootout, which sets the grid for the afternoon sprint race.Thirteen minutes before the sprint shootout, which ...Keep reading
Leclerc, one of F1’s star qualifiers, has had several disappointing results against the clock in 2023, as he has struggled to keep to the minimalistic approach required in mixed conditions to reduce mistakes and keep the sensitive Pirelli tyres in the correct state with his aggressive driving style. In addition to his Barcelona exit when that qualifying session had followed a wet FP3 and he ...Keep reading
With its factory lagging behind that of rivals Williams has been the main voice in a push to allow teams extra CapEx [capital expenditure] headroom in order to bring their facilities up to the standard of pacesetters Red Bull and Mercedes.However, others including Alpine, McLaren, Alfa and AlphaTauri are also keen to have an extra opportunity to invest to a greater or lesser extent.Friday’s F1 ...Keep reading
An incident-strewn race on a damp track, which as in Hungary was shortened by three laps due to concerns over tyres, saw the safety car run for much of its 12 tours and finished under caution.As no two consecutive racing laps were completed without disruption, it will not count for points.This preserves championship leader Gabriel Bortoleto's 43-point advantage despite a first non-finish of the ...Keep reading
After years where the accepted wisdom in F1 is that the route to success is a well-defined vision, stability, investment, and realism, Alpine going separate ways with two of its most senior figures seems a step in the opposite direction. It also comes against the backdrop of the team appearing to lurch from one decision to the next without any kind of overall strategy. Just three weeks ago ...Keep reading
Heimgartner and his Brad Jones Racing Camaro were unstoppable in the final two segments of the three-part battle for pole, topping the second segment with a remarkable 1m29.280s before running early in Q3, banking a 1m29.422s.That would have been good enough for pole, but he went back out for a final run anyway and improved to a 1m29.344s to put the position beyond doubt."It's harder that way ...Keep reading
Roger Williamson was going to be a world champion. The way he handled a Formula 3 GRD 372 in 1972 and an F2 March-BMW 732 in '73 left no doubt, and a test for BRM at Silverstone in February in the latter year merely confirmed it. He was... fast. But there was more to him than that; he had an unquenchable determination, and he never gave up.Born in Leicester in February 1948, the 25-year-old car ...Keep reading
The 2003 Champ Car title-winner has yet to miss a race in SRX, recording one podium in 15 starts since the series' inaugural season in 2021. It was founded by three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Tony Stewart, running six races every summer. On Thursday, the Canadian was battling with IndyCar title-challenger Josef Newgarden for fifth with 12 laps to go in the main event. Tracy squeezed ...Keep reading
Williams has lured Alpine's Pat Fry to Grove. His appointment was confirmed minutes after the French squad revealed team principal Otmar Szafnauer and sporting director Alan Permane will leave after this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix.These departures follow that of the outspoken Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi, who ultimately presided over the F1 team, being moved aside to work on “special ...Keep reading
We enjoyed our time with F1 Manager 2022. It had all the sheen of an officially licenced Formula 1 game; combining approachability for the “Drive to Survive” generation with just enough depth to satisfy veteran F1 fans. For around 17 hours, it was an engaging experience to transform Ferrari into a proud Prancing Horse by winning both Driver and Constructor championships at a canter ...Keep reading
F1 has turned its sprint race into a standalone Saturday event, with sprint qualifying deciding the starting grid followed by the sprint race later in the day. Here’s how the latest sprint race format changes will work. During qualifying for Sunday’s grand prix, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen set the fastest lap time in Q3 but will start from sixth place due to a five-place grid drop for a ...Keep reading
In Q2, Magnussen hit the wall coming out of Speaker's Corner and, with his damaged Haas, the Dane stuck to the racing line through the following corners, severely hindering Leclerc.The Monegasque driver made his displeasure known on the team radio and called for Magnussen to be penalised.Following a post-session investigation, the stewards slapped Magnussen with a three-place grid penalty for ...Keep reading
In Q1 Hamilton was seen moving off the track through a wet Eau Rouge - Raidillon complex on driver's left and rejoined the track directly ahead of team-mate George Russell, when both Mercedes drivers were on their out laps.Russell had to take avoiding action, while behind them the Alfa Romeo of Valtteri Bottas was also hindered.The incident was reported to the stewards, who investigated it after ...Keep reading
The pair had a tetchy exchange at the end of the middle segment of qualifying that Verstappen would go on to top on Friday at Spa, which featured an expletive-laden rant from the driver.As he returned to the pits having just scraped through Q2 in 10th, Verstappen was seemingly irate with Red Bull’s insistence he went on to complete a full lap at lower speed to recharge his battery ahead of a ...Keep reading
Norris went off the track at Stavelot in the first half of a wet Q1, skating through the gravel as his race engineer suggested the Briton had sustained front wing damage.Closer inspection in the garage revealed Norris had significantly damaged his floor, which left him compromised for the rest of the mixed-weather session.Norris ended up making it into Q3 but had to settle for seventh behind ...Keep reading
The wet opening practice session at Spa-Francorchamps left teams blind about choosing their best set-ups for the Belgian weekend – especially with parc ferme conditions kicking in from the start of Friday afternoon’s qualifying session.Lewis Hamilton admitted it was a complete guessing game about how best to approach things, with Mercedes in the end covering its bases and opting for a lower ...Keep reading
Ricciardo set a time that would have been good enough for 10th place in Q1, but it was quickly deleted for a track limits offence after he went wide and off the track at the top of Eau Rouge.The AlphaTauri driver admitted that the mistake was costly and stressed that he would have been faster had he not gone offline."I think as well I lost a bit of time from the track limits," he said when asked ...Keep reading
Verstappen set the fastest time in Friday qualifying at Spa-Francorchamps, which will be converted to sixth on the grid due to a gearbox penalty, after putting a massive eight tenths on Ferrari's Charles Leclerc at the end of Q3.But Verstappen almost didn't make it through to the top 10 shootout at all, having just dodged elimination in Q2 while the track was still wet.A disagreement over his run ...Keep reading
Leclerc took second in Friday qualifying for Sunday's race, ceding eight tenths to Red Bull's Max Verstappen in Q3 on a drying track.But as Verstappen was hit with a five-place grid penalty for taking his fifth gearbox of the season, one more than is allowed, Leclerc will line up first on Sunday.After recently admitting he was struggling in mixed-weather conditions, particularly with finding grip ...Keep reading
Hamilton was leading his team-mate Russell through the famous Eau Rouge-Raidillon ascent but the seven-time world champion appeared marginally slower and off-line through the left-right.Towards the top of the hill, Hamilton drove off the circuit, drifting over the painted run-off before rejoining marginally ahead of Russell, who lifted off the throttle in response.Hamilton was placed under ...Keep reading
Leclerc will start ahead of Sergio Perez (Red Bull) and Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top 10 shootout of Q3.As this is a sprint weekend format, these sessions set the grid for Sunday’s race and have no impact on Saturday’s sprint event.Verstappen got his ...Keep reading
Verstappen had entered the qualifying session at Spa having had a fifth gearbox of the season fitted, which triggers a five-place grid penalty for the GP, but does not impact his starting spot for Saturday’s sprint race.The Dutchman had trailed Leclerc after the first runs in Q3 – having only just scraped through in 10th in Q2 following the switch from wet to dry tyres in that session, and as ...Keep reading
The so-far untitled film has been in development since 2021 and finally commenced filming at live F1 events at Silverstone earlier this month.That work continued in Hungary last time out and is also ongoing at the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa this weekend, but after the SAG-AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) strike started on 14 July, it has not involved the film’s ...Keep reading
The ExCeL London venue is unique on the Formula E calendar, and in world motorsport, as it consists of elements both indoor and outdoor. The opening three turns and final bend are sheltered inside the ExCeL building, while the remainder of the track is open to the elements along the service roads surrounding the venue. Although the track has been on the Formula E calendar for the last two ...Keep reading
This season Alpine has struggled to live up to its goal of maintaining fourth in the championship, which it claimed last year.Luca de Meo, group CEO of Alpine's parent company Renault, decided to take swift action by replacing Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi with Philippe Krief before last weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix.On Friday, Alpine announced further management changes, with team boss Szafnauer and ...Keep reading
The Andretti Autosport driver holds a 24-point lead over nearest championship rival Nick Cassidy and is 20 points further ahead of Mitch Evans, with only 58 points available this weekend in London.Dennis has had considerable success at the unique indoor/outdoor ExCeL London venue over the last two years, claiming one win in both seasons at the track when he drove a BMW-powered Gen2 machine.But the ...Keep reading
Five days after dominating Rally Estonia, the reigning world champion Rovanpera is set to tackle the Hyacenter Rally, in Tampere, Finland, alongside his Toyota teem-mate Evans, who finished fourth last weekend.It's the first time Toyota has fielded its two lead GR Yaris entries in a national rally outside of the WRC schedule this year. The Hyacenter Rally features eight stage comprising 80 ...Keep reading
Szafnauer will leave by “mutual agreement” after this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix.Alpine noted that he “will continue his duties as normal for this weekend’s race in Belgium, before leaving the team ahead of the summer break.“The team would like to thank Otmar for his hard work over the past 18 months and for leading the team in achieving fourth place in the 2022 constructors' ...Keep reading
For the past two seasons, ITV has aired two MotoGP rounds live on free-to-air television, with the British GP at Silverstone included.It marked the first time UK viewers have been able to watch MotoGP live on terrestrial television following the broadcasting rights shifting from BBC to BT Sport (now TNT Sport) in 2014.This has contributed to a decline in interest in MotoGP in the UK, with TNT ...Keep reading
The prelude to the sole practice session featured rain, and a wet track greeted the drivers as they sought to cram their sprint weekend preparation into the hour-long running.Alex Albon was first to brave the conditions on the intermediate tyre, followed by team-mate Logan Sargeant, as Lewis Hamilton emerged on the wet tyre in his first run with Mercedes' new upgrades.Albon set the first timed ...Keep reading
The decision was made at today’s F1 Commission meeting at Spa where the FIA, the F1 organisation and the teams talked through a number of key issues.Tyre blankets were one of the main items on the agenda. The 2024 rules specify that they are used, and it would have taken a vote and agreement for that to change.However, as previously reported, the consensus is that while the prototypes ...Keep reading
In 2022, the two races already held at the end of July at the same venue were more successful for Stoffel Vandoorne than for Jean-Eric Vergne, who was pushed off the track by another competitor.On his way to his first world title (then with Mercedes), the Belgian driver had finished second and then fourth on the most specific track of the entire calendar. After the lanes of Battersea Park, Formula ...Keep reading
While practice sessions lost to bad weather are a regular risk at Spa, the fact that this year it is a sprint weekend has made it more complicated than usual, with two qualifying sessions and two races to squeeze in.Possible scenarios were discussed at the regular team managers' meeting on Friday morning.In essence, it has been agreed that the priority is to have a proper normal qualifying session ...Keep reading
Anthony Reid was undoubtedly one of the stars of the British Touring Car Championship’s golden Super Touring era. He was fortunate enough to drive the Nissan Primera and Ford Mondeo – two of the period’s most successful cars – and twice finished runner-up in the standings, in 1998 and 2000.Reid also had the chance to race alongside a roll call of tin-top greats. Alain Menu and Rickard ...Keep reading
After the Radical Cup UK supported the British Touring Car Championship for its last two weekends of racing, the series is now back in action at a Silverstone MotorSport Vision Racing event.With championship leader Daryl DeLeon having now stepped up to the BTCC, defending Radical Cup UK champion James Lay will be the favourite for the weekend's triple-header in his Doris Motorsport SR3 RSX.Lay is ...Keep reading
Having abandoned the zeropod concept at the Monaco Grand Prix, the team has pressed on with optimising its new development direction as it has brought a raft of upgrades for the Spa-Francorchamps weekend. In the FIA technical submission documents Mercedes sent to the FIA, it outlined key changes it has made to its car. The most visible difference is in the sidepods area, which has been a major ...Keep reading
Red Bull has frequently enjoyed a top speed advantage in qualifying, up to 5mph, when drivers Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez can activate their DRS on the main straights.Engineers have relayed to Autosport that they suspect this potency is derived from the ratio of drag delivered by the RB19's rear wing and beam wing.The car runs a larger rear wing surface to increase drag. This then produces a ...Keep reading
The announcement was made on Friday by Toyota and his Cerumo team, for which the 48-year-old has driven continuously since the 1999 season.In that time, he scored three GT500 titles in 2001, '05 and '13 while racking up 19 wins, putting him second to Tsugio Matsuda in the all-time list, and 24 pole positions, an outright series record.In a short statement, Tachikawa said: "It has been with the ...Keep reading
Alpine A523 nose and front wing detail
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Alpine has two different front wing configurations at its disposal in Belgium, the one with the wavy trailing edge first seen in Hungary (bottom) and their lower downforce variant (top).
AlphaTauri AT04 rear detail
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AlphaTauri's rear wing offering for the Belgian Grand Prix has a shallow ...Keep reading
It’s understood that the news of his move will be formally confirmed at Spa later today, and that he will be able to start in his new job at the end of this year.Williams has been without a technical leader since the departure of Francois-Xavier Demaison in December as part of the management shake-up that also saw team principal Jost Capito leave.New team principal James Vowles made it clear ...Keep reading
Team bosses and F1 chiefs are due to discuss the tyre blanket issue at a meeting of the F1 Commission at the Belgian Grand Prix on Friday.F1 tyre supplier Pirelli has been working hard to develop tyres that do not need pre-heating, with its testing programme reaching a conclusion after the British GP.But despite feeling confident that it has done all it can to deliver tyres that will work with the ...Keep reading
The immediate future of the three-time Supercars champion is subject to fevered speculation following his stunning win on debut in the NASCAR Cup Series earlier this month.He has now locked in a second Cup start at Indianapolis next month and is widely expected to make a full-time move into the NASCAR system next year.Should he head Stateside, it will require a contract release from Triple Eight ...Keep reading
Alonso pointed out that the run of podiums at the start of 2023 was not expected, and claimed that each weekend is “a celebration” as the team remembers where it was a year ago.After logging six podiums in the first eight races, the team has slipped back as McLaren has made a step and Mercedes has been consistently near the front.Alonso insists that he’s not worried, as the team is still ...Keep reading
Red Bull said ahead of Friday running at Spa-Francorchamps that it had elected to fit a fifth gearbox to Verstappen’s RB19 for this weekend’s race. F1 drivers are limited to four of the gearboxes assemblies for the full season and Verstappen is the first driver to exceed that. The move comes after an early part of the season where Verstappen frequently complained about gear sync issues ...Keep reading
The German marque has named Nurburgring-based Manthey, which it part owns, to run a pair of the latest 992-shape 911 GT3 R contenders introduced this year.They will be the only 911s on the WEC grid in 2024 because each marque involved in the class that takes over from GTE Am will be allowed two entries only.Selected manufacturers, of which Porsche will automatically be one because of its ...Keep reading
Speaking on his Speed Street podcast, Daly explained the moment he came upon Sting Ray Robb’s left-rear wheel on lap 157 during his third outing subbing for the sidelined Simon Pagenaud at Meyer Shank Racing.Robb’s car had left pitlane without the wheelnut attached to its left-rear corner, and when he got to Turn 3 at low speed, it detached from the car and rolled up the racetrack, directly ...Keep reading
Even before van Gisbergen’s victory for Chevrolet squad Trackhouse Racing on his NASCAR debut, there had been growing international attention on NASCAR’s top series this season.NASCAR’s Hendrick Motorsports-run Garage 56 Chevrolet at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, which included 2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button and 2011 Le Mans winner Mike Rockenfeller, was well-received by fans ...Keep reading
The topic of safety has become a major talking point ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix in the wake of the recent fatal accident of youngster Dilano van 't Hoff in a wet Formula Regional European Championship at the track.Some have suggested that the incident requires the FIA to be extra cautious about the conditions it deems acceptable to race in.But double world champion Verstappen thinks that ...Keep reading
The fact that the news came a few weeks after neighbouring Austria agreed on a deal to run its race until 2030 was perhaps not a coincidence, as both announcements reflect a growing trend for circuits to secure long-term futures.In both cases, there was no big hurry to extend those contracts. As recently as March, Red Bull-owned Austrian promoter Projekt Spielberg had signed a deal that ran to ...Keep reading
The bid is centred around Rali Ceredigion, an asphalt event located around the seaside town of Aberystwyth, that is growing in stature since its inaugural edition in 2019.This year the event [2-3 September] will host the fifth round of the British Rally Championship and a round of the FIA European Rally Trophy. Last year’s rally was won by former works Hyundai WRC driver Hayden Paddon ...Keep reading
On Thursday ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix, Ferrari announced its sporting director Laurent Mekies – who has been at the team since 2018 – has now officially left the Scuderia.He is on gardening leave until 1 January, when he will replace Franz Tost as the team principal of AlphaTauri. Mekies's role has been taken at Ferrari by Maranello veteran Diego Ioverno.Mekies leaving follows Ferrari ...Keep reading
Russell indicated that there could be a repeat of the 2021 race day with little or no track running thanks to the conditions amid ongoing concerns over visibility.Safety in the wet at Spa was brought into sharp focus by the death of Dutch youngster Dilano van ’t Hoff in a FRECA race at the venue earlier this month.After the accident, the GPDA wrote to the FIA asking to be informed of the result ...Keep reading
McLaren driver Norris attracted attention in the aftermath of the race at the Hungaroring, where he had finished second to dominant victor Verstappen, as he knocked the Red Bull driver's trophy from the top step of the podium.Norris slammed down his own celebratory bottle of sparkling wine onto the same area to get the bubbles flowing forcefully as he has done since he was a junior racer ...Keep reading
It is widely anticipated that an evolution of the Rally1 hybrid regulations, featuring minor changes from those introduced last year, will form the rules for 2025 and 2026, which the FIA has been working towards for several months.As previously reported, the formalisation of the regulations hinges on reaching a deal with a hybrid unit supplier. Compact Dynamics, which designed and supplies WRC ...Keep reading
In a decision that caught everyone by surprise - from the members of the team itself to the rest of the paddock - Suzuki decided in early 2022 to shut down its MotoGP programme at the end of the campaign. Despite the brutal blow for the Hamamatsu-based team, which had to face most of the year with an uncertain future, the manufacturer left the championship in the best possible way from a sporting ...Keep reading
The Frenchman has invited all F1, F2 and F3 personnel to take part in a special ‘Run for Anthoine’ around Spa on Thursday night in honour of the late Hubert, who was killed in an F2 crash over the 2019 GP weekend.The event has added poignancy following the recent death of Dilano van ‘t Hoff in a Formula Regional European Championship race at Spa earlier this month, with a moment being set ...Keep reading
First Michael Cullen and then James Clarke had trimmed the gap to Slater but it now stands at four victories again after his 15th and 16th triumphs of 2023 at Cadwell Park.However, it was not a clean sweep for the teenager in Lincolnshire as he stalled and subsequently retired from the finale - which also meant he missed out on the chance of clinching the title with two events to spare after a ...Keep reading
After grabbing pole position from Max Verstappen by just 0.003 seconds, Hamilton was eager to point out that the DRS edge that Red Bull had earlier in the campaign was gone.“I mean, they’ve still got the DRS, but they don’t have the DRS advantage all of a sudden that they used to have. Where did that go?” the Mercedes driver told Sky Sports F1.“They’ve just had an upgrade, so we ...Keep reading
Long-time Mercedes driver Marciello had been set to join Lamborghini and drive for the Iron Lynx team, which next year will debut the new SC63 LMDh in both the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championship.Now, Autosport sources have revealed, BMW has come in with a deal to lure him to race its M Hybrid V8 LMDh, which will compete in the WEC for the first time next year with WRT ...Keep reading
After it emerged in 2022 that numerous teams had been taking advantage of a grey area in the regulations and running tyre pressures outside of the recommended minimum limit, new regulations were implemented for 2023.For 2023, riders and teams must adhere to a minimum front tyre pressure of 1.9 bar (27.6psi) and 1.7 bar (24.7psi) on the rear.However, this rule coming into force has been kicked down ...Keep reading
The Australian, who signed for Red Bull for this season on a one-year deal in a third driver role, was parachuted in to replace sacked AlphaTauri racer Nyck de Vries after 10 races.He was trailed by a Netflix ‘Drive To Survive’ camera crew for the Thursday media day in Budapest and his sessions with journalists in Red Bull hospitality were rammed.His roundtable interview session in Spa also ...Keep reading
In April AlphaTauri announced that Mekies would replace its long-time team boss Franz Tost, who is stepping down at the end of the season. It also appointed former FIA man Peter Bayer to become the team's first bespoke CEO, overseeing a wide range of organisational changes.After the switch was announced Mekies continued in his sporting director role, while Ferrari and Red Bull worked out the ...Keep reading
The Silverstone-based squad started the 2023 campaign as Red Bull’s closest challenger, scoring six podiums in eight rounds.But since Fernando Alonso's second in Canada, it has dropped back in to the chasing pack as others like McLaren, Mercedes and Ferrari have made rapid progress.There has also been a fascinating change in its performance profile as an early season strength in low-speed ...Keep reading
“It would mean the world. Everyone in motorsport strives to be world champion at what they do.”For Jake Dennis, this weekend’s London E-Prix double-header could well be the culmination of a lifetime’s ambition as he sits on the verge of being crowned the 2022-2023 Formula E world champion.The Briton has every chance of walking away with the title this weekend – at his home event of all ...Keep reading
Qualifying gave the impression that the race could be close, but there was only ever going to be one winner last weekend. Once he had overcome polesitter Lewis Hamilton, Verstappen was in total control at the Hungaroring.While all but the most hardcore of Red Bull fans would surely like to see more F1 competition at the front of the field, Red Bull deserves its new world championship record of 12 ...Keep reading
The first and second stages of a three-step upgrade to change “pretty much every single aerodynamic part on the car” appears to have turned around McLaren’s poor start to the season.Since the first updates arrived in Austria, Lando Norris has qualified inside the top four for the three GPs and finished runner-up to Max Verstappen at Silverstone and last weekend at the Hungaroring.But team ...Keep reading
Ferrari has slipped back in the last two events, with the two cars finishing ninth and 10th at Silverstone, and seventh and eighth in Hungary last weekend.However, Vasseur says the Italian outfit should just focus on its own performance and not get too hung up about the pacesetters."Red Bull are in front but I think the feeling was quite the same when Mercedes was in front a few years ago,” he ...Keep reading
As a result, Autosport removed the online version of the article from the website and digital version of the magazine.Autosport acknowledges the serious harm to the reputations of Welch Motorsport, Dan and John that the article may have caused.John is a former British and European Rallycross championship driver and British Rallycross champion, who went on to establish as owner and principal the ...Keep reading
As the FIA continues its probing of the team submissions from the 2022 campaign, it emerged over the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend that a further round of questions have gone back to some of the leading outfits as part of a push for further clarifications.This comes on top of one of the current big talking points being how much teams are benefitting from using non-F1 parts of their business to help ...Keep reading
A key part its strategy with next year’s W15 is to design a car that has plenty of scope for development and allows the team to make the in-season leap that McLaren has made this year.From the introduction of the current regulations last year, Mercedes had to concentrate on firefighting and addressing the bouncing issue that was so prevalent in 2022.This year the team used a lot of resources ...Keep reading
F1 Academy launched in 2023 as a female-only single-seater feeder series, picking up several talents from the now defunct W Series.From next year all 10 F1 teams will be able to nominate one driver each in one of the 15 cars, while also having their livery used. The remaining five cars will be filled by drivers with other partners.Susie Wolff, F1 Academy's managing director, said: "This landmark ...Keep reading
The upgrade comes soon after a new front wing was introduced at Silverstone, as the team tries to improve its performance in the wake of the recent huge leap made by close rival McLaren.The team had a strong run when Esteban Ocon qualified fourth and finished third at Monaco, while Pierre Gasly was fourth-fastest in Q3 in Spain before being hit by a six-place grid penalty.However, recent weekends ...Keep reading
Last weekend, Josef Newgarden made the IndyCar Series title fight interesting. Well, a bit. The Team Penske driver’s double victories at Iowa Speedway, a track he truly excels at, puts him 80 points off dominator Alex Palou. So, should Chip Ganassi Racing’s Spanish ace be worried?Not really. Those 80 points are effectively a win and a sixth-placed finish, so Newgarden is going to have to keep ...Keep reading
Suninen returned to rallying’s top tier last weekend after receiving a call up from Hyundai to drive the third i20 N Rally1 that has been shared between Dani Sordo and the late Craig Breen this season. Estonia marked Suninen’s first top-level WRC outing since standing in for Ott Tanak at Hyundai for the 2021 Rally Monza season finale after parting company with M-Sport mid-season during a ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer secured its first pole position of the season at last weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix, when Lewis Hamilton beat Max Verstappen to the front spot on the grid by 0.003 seconds.However, Hamilton’s Mercedes W14 was no match for Verstappen’s Red Bull in the race, and he fell down the order to finish fourth by the chequered flag - almost 40 seconds adrift of the winner.With ...Keep reading
They say it’s calm in the eye of a storm, and last weekend’s British GT three-hour away-day in Algarve was indeed a stormy affair. Numerous incidents and three safety car interruptions – one of which lasted half an hour – jumbled the order, yet out the other side came the most likely of winners who, amid all the drama, put in a typically calm and classy performance.Even as the mayhem was ...Keep reading
Standing on the balcony of the recently constructed Hilton hotel overlooking the Wing pit complex, as a bike trackday thunders beneath us, brings into focus just how impressive a facility Silverstone has become.Compared to the first time this writer attended the Northamptonshire venue in 2012, just two years after the wing was constructed, Silverstone has really grown into an impressive complex ...Keep reading
For an outfit that finished seventh in the standings last term, it emerged as the surprise package, the team closest to troubling Red Bull.PLUS: How Aston Martin broke into F1’s lead packBut in the five grands prix since, an Aston driver has only once more classified in the top three. Alonso’s second place in Canada disrupts a run of two sevenths, a ninth and a fifth-place finish on his side ...Keep reading
Italian tyre manufacturer Pirelli is currently the official tyre supplier to all categories within the WRC after winning the FIA’s last WRC tyre tender in 2019 to supply tyres from 2021 to 2024. This included the last season of the WRC generation car and the first three campaigns under Rally1 hybrid regulations.French brand Michelin had previously supplied WRC teams until the end of 2020 prior ...Keep reading
As with previous 2023 events it means that car set-up is frozen after FP1 as the field heads into qualifying, and any changes thereafter will trigger a pitlane start for the sprint and the grand prix itself.The teams already have some experience of the new format, which was used in Azerbaijan and Austria.However, it will be particularly challenging at Spa, where cars are especially sensitive to ...Keep reading
The Japanese single-seater series is understood to have taken the decision after consultations with teams this year, but a final call on which brand’s products will be used as standard components has not yet been made.Inertia dampers, also known as inerters or ‘j-dampers’, are also set to be outlawed as part of the changes.Damper development has been a key Super Formula battleground for many ...Keep reading
At the recent Austrian and British Grands Prix, McLaren introduced the first two stages of a pivotal three-step update that will mean “pretty much every aerodynamic part on the car changes”. While the final components originally scheduled for last weekend’s Hungarian GP have been delayed owing to design and production timelines, Norris has finished second in the last two races behind ...Keep reading
O’Ward finished third in Saturday’s opening race at the 7/8-mile short oval, having been the only McLaren driver to qualify in the top 10 for either race.After Race 1, O’Ward said of Team Penske’s dominating cars: “They were specifically strong in getting through traffic, and I would get stuck. I wasn't able to really place the car where I needed to in order to get by some of the slow ...Keep reading
- Kalle Rovanpera at his very best is Sebastien Loeb-likeKalle Rovanpera racked up his 10th World Rally Championship victory of his already record-breaking career but last weekend’s runaway performance was perhaps his best yet.The reigning world champion’s slow start to his title defence this year raised questions that were answered by his dominant victory in Portugal, but his total ...Keep reading
Aston reserve driver Vandoorne will share driving duties with team regular Lance Stroll, while Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri will have a day apiece for McLaren.It will be the Belgian's first on-track outing in a current F1 car since he drove for Mercedes in the Abu Dhabi test in December 2020.While the focus of the Spa test is on Pirelli's blanket-free tyres, it will give Vandoorne a valuable ...Keep reading
McLaren went three rounds into 2023 before scoring a point as it struggled to find competitive form out of its car.But a raft of upgrades brought for both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri in recent races has allowed the former to score consecutive second-place finishes, while Piastri was in the top five for the past two races.Albeit 136 points adrift of Mercedes in second in the constructors' ...Keep reading
Formula 1 has always relied on junior categories to feed it with the next generation of drivers, and its teams are eager to snap up the brightest talents within them.The “old” Formula 2, a ruleset rather than its own separate entity, would sometimes share grids with F1, before a change in regulations made the two their own distinct championships.The second-tier category was rebranded in 1985 ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing star Palou saw Team Penske’s oval ace Newgarden reduce his points lead reduce from 117 to 80 after his closest rival scored a brace of victories at Iowa, the type of venue that the Spaniard admits is his weakest suit.Although he finished a lapped eighth on Saturday, Palou rebounded on Sunday to salvage a podium finish. When asked by NBC what he’d said to Palou in the ...Keep reading
Ricciardo joined his old team on loan from Red Bull from Budapest onwards to replace the ousted Nyck de Vries.One area de Vries struggled with in the AT04 was its corner entry weakness, an issue that also hurt Ricciardo during his troubled time at McLaren.Ricciardo said he quickly felt at home in the car following his eight-month sabbatical, as he out-qualified team-mate Yuki Tsunoda and finished ...Keep reading
However, the consensus in the paddock is that blankets will ultimately be kept for slicks next season, with only wets and possibly intermediates running without them.The matter will be discussed at the F1 Commission in Spa on Friday after Pirelli submitted a report on its testing programme to the FIA.The 2024 regulations currently state that blankets will be used next year, and the FIA has to ...Keep reading
The WRC is currently undergoing an extensive review in a bid to improve its appeal following recent criticism from drivers, teams and fans.A list of ideas put forward by stakeholders have been collated following several meetings over the last two months. The WRC Promoter and FIA are now working on a proposal of changes for 2024 that will eventually be tabled to the FIA World Motor Sport Council ...Keep reading
For a sport that takes place at a frenetic pace, the speed of change in motorsport can be remarkably slow at times. Traditions are well established and are often religiously stuck to with very few daring to break the mould. Yet trying something new is important to keep offering fresh ideas for competitors – although such innovation can be tricky at a time of financial uncertainty, like at ...Keep reading
Alonso finished in that position in Hungary last weekend, a place ahead of team-mate Lance Stroll.The Spaniard was as high as seventh on the first lap, but he lost out to Sergio Perez and George Russell, both of whom were coming through the field after poor qualifying sessions.Alonso, who logged six podium finishes in the first eight races of 2023, has accepted that Aston has now slipped down the ...Keep reading
They have utilised a feature that connects the rear wing endplate and upper flap’s tip section differently in a bid to help manipulate airflow in this area of the car. It is the result of teams clearly poking and prodding to try to reverse the impact of changes made by the FIA to reduce wake turbulence created by cars, which then improves their ability to follow one another more closely. The ...Keep reading
As exclusively revealed by Autosport, the Swiss star will return to Supercars for the first time since departing the series at the end of 2019.She will campaign a DJR Ford Mustang at the Bathurst 1000, which she'll share with teenage sensation Allen. The de Silvestro/Allen entry will be backed by Shell V-Power and run as #98 as a tip of the hat to Shell's premium 98 octane fuel."I am thrilled to ...Keep reading
Autosport revealed over the Hungarian Grand Prix weekend that the idea of introducing a mechanism to equalise power units among the manufacturers has been tabled by the FIA for discussion at this week’s meeting of the F1 Commission. It is understood that the move has been prompted by concerns that the Renault engine, which is used by Alpine, has fallen behind rivals and could be as much as 30hp ...Keep reading
After a run of 12 races in 21 weeks, the Formula 1 paddock heads into a summer break in August immediately after the Belgian GP.There will be no official F1 track action for an entire month, with the teams reconvening at the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort on the 25-27 August.That means over three weeks off from the grind of the F1 circus and travelling the world, and while all involved will get to ...Keep reading
Reigning champion Power finished just 0.7s behind Newgarden following a late-race yellow flag that led to a three-lap sprint to the end of the race.But Power thinks he could’ve moved ahead of his team-mate after the final pitstops if he wasn’t delayed leaving his pit box by Marcus Ericsson, who was pitting ahead of him just as he was ready to leave.When asked if he had a car capable of ...Keep reading
F1 travels straight from the Hungarian GP to Spa-Francorchamps to conclude a frantic period of four races in five weeks.The Belgian GP will run the sprint race format, last used at the Austrian GP at the start of July, which means more points and prizes are on offer. However, it will require someone stopping Max Verstappen and Red Bull which have become an unstoppable force lately. Fresh from a ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton – Mercedes – Contract until the end of 2023
Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes-AMG signs an autograph for a fan
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Lewis Hamilton’s current contract with Mercedes was announced at the 2021 Austrian Grand Prix when the Briton was mid-way through the single-season deal he had signed in earlier in the same year.With the seven-time ...Keep reading
The Milton Keynes-based team made F1 history at the Hungarian Grand Prix, as Max Verstappen's triumph meant the squad became the first to win 12 races in a row.It overhauled the impressive run that McLaren had in 1988 when Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost helped it pull off 11 consecutive victories before it was beaten at that year's Italian Grand Prix.Red Bull's form in Hungary was helped by an ...Keep reading
The high-speed gravel rally is likely to be omitted from the 2024 calendar with neighbouring Latvia already confirmed to be joining next year’s schedule. Long-time European Rally Championship event, Rally Liepaja, is expected to take Estonia’s place.Estonia made its WRC debut in 2020 by becoming the first rally of the WRC’s return from its hiatus following the COVID-19 pandemic.The rally has ...Keep reading
Team Penske driver Newgarden led for 341 laps of the total 500 laps, scoring his fifth and sixth career victories at the short-track oval.That puts him in an elite group of having six or more IndyCar wins at a single venue, which includes AJ Foyt, Mario and Michael Andretti, Bobby Unser, Al Unser Sr and Jr, and Scott Dixon.It was his fifth straight victory on ovals – adding to his success at ...Keep reading
For the first time since 2016 and not counting the pandemic-disrupted 2020 season, Budapest is not Formula 1’s last venue before the summer break, with the upcoming trip to Spa set to do that shortly this year. But there were familiar feelings elsewhere, as the narrow, lower-speed Hungarian track produced another dull race, with Max Verstappen dominating for Red Bull up front. That combo did at ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer first joined the all-electric championship in 2019 with an initial plan to remain in the category for five years, taking its involvement up until the end of the 2023-2024 season.But on Monday it was announced Porsche would extend its commitment to the championship for at least an additional two years, up until the end of the 2025-2026 season.“We want to showcase ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc finished only seventh after his race was compromised by a wheel gun issue in a pitstop and a five-second penalty for pitlane speeding, while his team-mate Carlos Sainz could only recover to eighth after a disappointing qualifying session saw him start 11th.The result followed another tough race at Silverstone where Ferrari finished ninth and 10th as McLaren’s improved form and a ...Keep reading
The Hyundai driver emerged as the best of the rest behind a dominant rally winner Kalle Rovanpera last weekend, finishing 52.7s behind the inspired Toyota driver who recorded 13 consecutive stage wins.While the gap to the winner was significant, Neuville delivered arguably his best showing on fast, smooth gravel stages since finishing second at Rally Finland in 2013.The surface has proved to be a ...Keep reading
The Hungarian Grand Prix paddock was awash with fresh cost cap speculation, with wild rumours that some teams had already been found to be in breach of the limits – something strongly denied by the governing body. F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali had also expressed his eagerness ahead of the weekend to complete the investigations because that was the best way to stop mounting speculation. "Control is ...Keep reading
After two years of underperforming alongside Lando Norris, McLaren paid Ricciardo last season to depart a year ahead of his contract expiring to make way for 2021 Formula 2 champion Oscar Piastri.Ricciardo opted to take time away from the spotlight, moving to Red Bull in a third driver role on a 12-month deal, and planned to wait for a 2024 race seat rather than accept a less competitive drive.But ...Keep reading
Alfa Romeo launched a partnership with Kick before the start of the 2023 season, with its Spa livery the first occasion the new streaming platform receives a prominent spot on the bodywork of its 2023 C43 car.The car raced by drivers Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu will feature bright green Kick logos and decals on the front wing, rear wing and sidepod with matching wheel rims.Kick is a ...Keep reading
While battling for tenth place with 55 laps to go, Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet driver Dillon and his former team-mate Reddick made contact entering Turn 1 as they ran three-wide with Brad Keselowski to their outside.Dillon was the only one who lost out, spinning across the track and slamming the outside wall.The 2018 Daytona 500 winner was able to climb from the car under his own power ...Keep reading
The number was announced as the timeline for Alpine to work its way to the front of the F1 field after Szafnauer was put in charge of the Enstone team at the start of 2022.However, a recent management reshuffle at Renault’s Alpine division has seen the sportscar company’s former CEO Laurent Rossi moved aside.Given that Rossi hired Szafnauer there has been some speculation about the latter’s ...Keep reading
Including last year’s Abu Dhabi GP triumph, Red Bull has won the last 12 races which surpasses McLaren’s 11 straight victories set during the 1988 season.Verstappen was in dominant form once again, winning by over 33 seconds from McLaren’s Lando Norris, who kept clear of Sergio Perez who completed the podium on his charge from ninth on the grid.Meanwhile, it was a nightmare race for Alpine ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion had pulled off a shock pole at the Hungaroring on Saturday, as he edged out Max Verstappen by 0.003 seconds. It was his first pole position since the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. But despite the clear pace of the Mercedes W14 over a single lap, Hamilton was unable to do anything to stop falling away over the course of the Hungarian race. He lost out to Verstappen ...Keep reading
The subject of extra 'capex' headroom within the FIA financial regulations has emerged in recent months as a way of attempting to level the playing field, and thus any decision could have a significant impact on grand prix racing in future years.Over the Budapest weekend a new idea emerged that will see the specific requirements of teams examined and approved by the FIA on a case-by-case basis ...Keep reading
After the final round of green flag pitstops, Larson and Hamlin battled for the lead on a restart with seven of 160 laps remaining – just after Alex Bowman lost control of his car racing Hamlin and crashed at Turn 3.Hamlin got to the inside of Larson, drifted up the track and nudged him briefly into the wall. Hamlin skirted by to claim the lead and then held off Tyler Reddick until a last-lap ...Keep reading
As the drivers began their traditional spraying of Ferrari sparkling wine, Norris performed his trademark tactic of getting the bubbling flowing by smashing the bottom of his bottle down on the ground. He used the top step of the podium as his base but, as he made contact, the impact was enough to bounce Verstappen’s nearby winner’s trophy off and it hit the floor and broke into ...Keep reading
From 16th on the grid, Arrow McLaren driver Rosenqvist used strategy and passing moves to work his way through the order in Sunday's second race of the double-header weekend.He was also helped by the timing of the yellow for Sting Ray Robb’s car losing a wheel, which elevated him to fifth. Going into the final stint, the Swede was elevated to second after gaining spots around the last bout of ...Keep reading
Newgarden charged to the front in the early stages of the 250-lap race on the short oval, passing his team-mates Will Power and Scott McLaughlin in one fell swoop on lap 32 as they got balked in traffic.As on Saturday, the two-time IndyCar champion again led the majority of the race, as McLaughlin and Power proved strong at different points of the event. In the final stint, Arrow McLaren’s Felix ...Keep reading
Leclerc eventually finished the race in seventh after he was delayed by a jack issue at a pit stop and received a five-second penalty for pitlane speeding, the latter costing him a place to George Russell after the flag.The Monegasque was also heard during the race questioning the timing of a strategy call, but he downplayed the emotion that appeared to be attached to the message.“The problem is ...Keep reading
The Chinese racer managed his best F1 qualifying effort to date on Saturday to start fifth but was swamped by the pack after a sluggish getaway, before running into the back of Daniel Ricciardo's AlphaTauri under braking for Turn 1.Ricciardo then inadvertently punted Esteban Ocon into Pierre Gasly, with both Alpine cars eliminated as a result.Zhou copped front wing damage in the impact and also ...Keep reading
Alfa Romeo driver Guanyu Zhou appeared to trigger anti-stall when he attempted to launch from fifth on the grid after starring in qualifying. As he worked to recover, he nosed into the back of the returning Daniel Ricciardo under braking into the Turn 1 downhill right-hander.This projected the AlphaTauri into Ocon and the rear axle of his Alpine was launched into the air. He landed on the sidepod ...Keep reading
Piastri was running second behind race leader Max Verstappen in the early stages at the Hungaroring when at the first stops, the team elected to pit third-placed Norris instead.The extra pace that Norris got from fresh rubber was enough to help him leapfrog Piastri, who stopped one lap later, and found himself emerging from the pits behind his team-mate.While the decision to pit the second car was ...Keep reading
Having missed out on pole to Lewis Hamilton by just 0.003s, Verstappen complained after the session of his RB19 being "all over the shop" and struggled with a lack of feeling at the wheel.Verstappen's fortunes in the race were not nearly as close run, as he secured a crushing victory in Hungary over Lando Norris with a 33.7-second advantage.Reflecting on his race, Verstappen suggested that the ...Keep reading
Verstappen scored his seventh GP win in a row in Budapest, having dived past polesitter Lewis Hamilton into Turn 1 before pulling 34 seconds to runner-up Lando Norris.His latest success, as team-mate Sergio Perez recovered from ninth to third, landed Red Bull a 12th consecutive victory to break the championship record set by the revered McLaren MP4/4 in 1988.Given the current level of command ...Keep reading
Rovanpera produced arguably his most crushing WRC victory of his career to date to defeat Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville by 46.5s on Estonia’s fast gravel roads.The reigning world rally champion emerged in the rally lead on Friday despite opening the road. He then went unbeaten across Saturday and Sunday, racking up 13 consecutive stage wins mirroring similar displays by nine-time world champion ...Keep reading
Perez charged back from ninth on the grid with several crucial passes to join winner Max Verstappen on the rostrum, as Red Bull broke a 35-year record by scoring its 12th victory in succession.The Mexican's race came after he'd ended a run of five grands prix which he'd started outside the top 10 on the grid, only mustering a single podium in that period at the Red Bull Ring.The return of Daniel ...Keep reading
Verstappen made a better start than poleman Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes), who lost further spots to both McLarens. Oscar Piastri profited from hugging the inside of Turn 1, while Lando Norris drove around the outside of Hamilton at Turn 2.Norris undercut Piastri for second place at the first round of pitstops, and clung on to the runner-up spot despite a charging drive from the second Red Bull of ...Keep reading
Verstappen crossed the line with a whopping 33.7s lead over Lando Norris, who had to deal with a late fright from Sergio Perez for second before the Mexican was challenged by Hamilton for third at the end.Hamilton was slower away off the line compared to Verstappen and attempted to bear right along the straight to defend, but could not prevent the championship leader from claiming the lead into ...Keep reading
The trial of the new Alternative Tyre Allocation rules at this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix has prompted some debate about whether or not the move to improve sustainability is the right direction.For the Hungaroring weekend, F1 has reduced the number of dry tyre sets available to drivers from 13 to 11, with teams also forced to use the hard, medium and soft compounds in the three qualifying ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver clinched his second win of the season in stunning fashion, beating Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville by 52.7s after a streak of 13 consecutive stage wins.Rovanpera claimed maximum points after winning the rally-ending Power Stage as the Finn went unbeaten across Saturday and Sunday’s stages. The feat sparked comparisons to when Sebastien Loeb won all 12 stages to win the 2005 Tour ...Keep reading
Following the decision to cancel Saturday's RX1e races, a brief statement issued on Friday evening stated that World RX's second-tier RX2e championship and the British Rallycross Championship 5 Nations Trophy would continue as planned but with no track action for the RX1e cars.A further update was issued late on Saturday evening that explained the decision "to permanently stop round four of the ...Keep reading
The Swiss outfit surprised the paddock when both cars were consistently fast throughout qualifying, with Zhou Guanyu topping Q1 and eventually earning fifth place.Bottas was as high as fourth in Q2 and then took seventh in Q3, split from his team-mate by the Ferrari of Charles Leclerc.Alfa has been bringing new parts to the C43 on a regular basis recently, with a major floor package introduced at ...Keep reading
After his performance at Silverstone where he successfully converted his front-row start into a second-place finish, Norris anticipated a much harder time of it at the Hungaroring circuit, noting after the British Grand Prix that the McLaren's performance in low-speed corners was still "poor".McLaren nonetheless impressed in qualifying in Hungary, locking out the second row of the grid as Norris ...Keep reading
Hamilton beat world championship leader Max Verstappen to the top spot on the grid at the Hungaroring, ending the Dutchman’s five-race run of pole positions. And with Mercedes having struggled with car balance for much of the season, and having low hopes for this weekend's event, Hamilton’s shock effort has proved once again how difficult the 2023 ground effect machines are to ...Keep reading
The Virtuosi driver led from pole for the duration, breaking DRS to Frederik Vesti (Prema) by lap seven before building a five-second lead before Vesti pitted.Doohan followed suit two laps later and emerged in front, eventually building a nine-second lead for his first win since Belgium last year.It comes after a struggle so far in 2023, his second F2 season, having only taken two podiums after a ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion remained in a class of his own to claim the three morning stages to increase his rally lead to 46.5s over Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville.Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi managed to continue to hold onto third, increasing his margin over Toyota’s Elfyn Evans by 9.1s ahead of the rally ending Power Stage this afternoon.Hyundai’s Teemu Suninen remained in fifth (+2m12.7s) but ...Keep reading
The Dane qualified 19th for this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix while team-mate Nico Hulkenberg continued his strong one-lap form by running to 10th place in Budapest.Magnussen blamed a 0.511s gap in Q1, when both cars were running with hard tyres under the experimental Alternative Tyre Allocation, on his discomfort aboard the VF-23.He says that as the car has evolved, he has struggled to find ...Keep reading
Back in May, Perez’s Monaco Grand Prix qualifying accident resulted in his car being lifted high above the track to offer photographers a clear view of the underside of the RB19.Rival teams were left rubbing their hands about finally getting a chance to better understand what F1’s benchmark squad has done with its floor.So when Perez’s RB19 had to be retrieved in Hungary following his smash ...Keep reading
As a result, the Red Bull F1 driver crossed the timing line in Q3 with seven seconds left to run but having circulated 0.02s slower than his previous effort. That left the door open for Lewis Hamilton. In a shootout where track evolution was pronounced, he was the last person over the line and bolted to a 1m16.609s. That returned his 104th pole position and prevented Verstappen from snaring a ...Keep reading
The Williams junior put in a masterclass to seal a fourth win of the season and jump up to second in the championship standings.He crossed the line 2.3s ahead of rookie team-mate Dino Beganovic, with fellow Williams Academy member Franco Colapinto in third for MP Motorsport.Having lined up on pole, 2021 Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award winner O’Sullivan held off his ...Keep reading
High-level sources have revealed that the topic of engine equalisation has been added to the agenda of next week’s meeting of the F1 Commission that is to take place at the Belgian Grand Prix.It is understood that the issue has been tabled following analysis by the FIA about the performance of the current power units, fuelled by concerns from French manufacturer Alpine that its Renault engine is ...Keep reading
Newgarden worked his way past fellow Penske drivers Scott McLaughlin and poleman Will Power to grab the lead just before half distance of the 250-lap race.That proved to be the key move, with Newgarden staying out front for his first win since the Indianapolis 500 in May – and to keep up his 100% record on ovals this year.Power led the field to green, leading team-mates McLaughlin and Newgarden ...Keep reading
The 160-minute race got underway with Ross Gunn leading the GTD Pro field in the #23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3. He got away cleanly from Jack Hawksworth in the #14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3 and Antonio Garcia in the Corvette Racing C8.R.Mike Skeen, driving the #32 Korthoff Motorsports Mercedes AMG GT3, led the non-Pro class to the green flag, but faced an immediate challenge ...Keep reading
The reigning world rally champion won all nine of the day’s stages held on Estonia’s fast gravel roads, to open up a 34.9s lead over Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville heading into Sunday.It is the first time the 22-year-old factory Toyota pilot has achieved the feat of nine consecutive stage wins in his WRC career.Rovanpera was never really threatened by his rivals throughout the day as he and ...Keep reading
For the round at the Hungaroring, F1 changed the rules governing tyre allocation and restricted each car to just 11 sets of slick Pirelli rubber over the weekend. This also locked the teams into running hard tyres in Q1, medium tyres in Q2, and softs in Q3.The side-effect of the reduced allocation was hindered practice running, although FP1 was arguably hit less hard as wet weather offered the ...Keep reading
Ricciardo qualified 13th in Budapest for AlphaTauri, with his team-mate and main reference Yuki Tsunoda failing to make it out of Q1 in 17th place.The Australian admitted that returning to the cockpit had been a challenge, but he felt “relaxed” and “happy” doing it.“Of course coming into the weekend I knew there would be a bit of a hill to climb,” he said. “And I was trying not to ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion delivered his best display of the season to date to transform a 3.0s overnight advantage into a 34.9s over Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville.Neuville lost 6.5s to a slow puncture during the morning loop but was unable to match the pace of the Toyota driver.Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi will head into Sunday with a 7.3s margin over Toyota’s Elfyn Evans after an intense battle ...Keep reading
Zhou Guanyu qualified an impressive fifth for Alfa Romeo at the Hungaroring, split from his team-mate Valtteri Bottas by Leclerc in the Ferrari.The Monegasque driver's team-mate Carlos Sainz didn't even make it to Q3, ending the Q2 session in 11th place after missing out by just 0.002s.Asked if he was concerned about the team's pace given he felt he had put on a good lap, he said: "It's not really ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen had been unbeaten in qualifying since the Monaco Grand Prix in May, but Hamilton ended that run to secure the first pole of the year for Mercedes by the slender margin of 0.003s.Hamilton's record-extending 104th F1 pole was also his first since the 2021 Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, with the elated seven-time champion remarking that ending his lengthy drought made it feel "like the ...Keep reading
The revised and more robust construction emerged from R&D for 2024 and Pirelli fast-tracked its introduction for the British GP weekend in order to deal with increasing downforce levels without raising minimum pressures.While the general consensus in the paddock was that the change didn’t make much difference to the pecking order Alonso is convinced that it has had an impact."We are one-tenth ...Keep reading
Russell, whose fortunes contrasted dramatically with those of team-mate and pole winner Lewis Hamilton, admitted that he was hampered badly by traffic.He was caught out as he tried to start his lap in the first part of qualifying, noting that the gentleman's agreement about drivers not passing each other was not respected by some of his rivals."My whole session was on track at the wrong time ...Keep reading
Sunday’s race was set to be 24 laps but will now run for 19 after a report from Pirelli recommended that the distance was shortened due to the level of tyre wear experienced in Saturday’s sprint race.Some drivers complained of excessive wear on the medium compound, with second-place finisher Nikita Bedrin saying “mid-race the tyres started to die.”Race winner Gabriele Mini said: "At the ...Keep reading
Power topped the two-lap qualifying session around the 0.875-mile oval with a best lap of 17.7246s, which was a fastest speed of 181.578mph.Power set the pace on both laps, which meant he takes pole position for each of the races. It also spelled series poles number 69 and 70 for the Australian, who credited his car’s balance for its speed.The format for the double-headers was each driver ...Keep reading
Van Gisbergen shocked the motor racing world earlier this month when he became the first driver in modern NASCAR history to win on debut.The sensational victory came on the streets of Chicago with the Kiwi taking over the Project 91 entry at Trackhouse Racing.It has now been confirmed that the Supercars regular will return to the Cup fold for the Indianapolis road course race next month.That will ...Keep reading
The MotoGP silly season has kicked into overdrive over the summer break amidst Honda’s woes, with much of the speculation centring on the Japanese marque’s riders.Marc Marquez’s future with the brand has been thrown into the air following a bruising start to the 2023 season, in which he has scored just five points, despite his contract running to the end of 2024.He has once again been linked ...Keep reading
Norris headed the Q2 times on medium tyres, as F1 rolled out a new 'alternative tyre allocation' trial that stipulated which compounds teams must run in each qualifying segment, but came up just short in Q3 following the switch to the soft rubber.The Briton was denied a second career F1 pole as he clocked a 1m16.694s that was just 0.085s slower than pacesetter Lewis Hamilton's Mercedes, who pipped ...Keep reading
The world champion put himself at the top of the timesheets after the first run in Q3 but failed to improve on the critical final effort as Hamilton beat him to the top spot on the grid by just 0.003 seconds.Reflecting on why he had not kept up his run of pole positions that stretched back to the Monaco Grand Prix, Verstappen blamed a lack of good balance throughout qualifying.“I have been ...Keep reading
The switch to ground-effect cars last year heralded a lean period for Hamilton and Mercedes, with the seven-time world champion going without a win since 2021 and having to wait 33 races before qualifying on pole again.Having ended Friday's practice session with his car feeling "at its worst", Hamilton topped FP3 on Saturday morning before going on to beat Max Verstappen by 0.003 seconds on his ...Keep reading
Hamilton will start ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Lando Norris (McLaren) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top 10 shootout of Q3.F1 trialled a new tyre format this weekend, that mandated teams to run the hard Pirellis in Q1, mediums in Q2 and softs in Q3.Hungarian GP qualifying results ...Keep reading
The Mercedes driver was the last driver to cross the line in Q3 at the Hungaroring, and overturned Max Verstappen's benchmark lap to claim his first pole position of the season.The qualifying format was tweaked as part of an 'alternative tyre allocation' trial, where only hard tyres could be used in Q1, medium tyres in Q2, and softs in Q3, which yielded a competitive qualifying session.Lando ...Keep reading
The MP Motorsport driver lined up second before taking the lead at Turn 1 from polesitter Kush Maini (Campos).He managed to build a solid lead over second-placed Iwasa (DAMS) and although the Japanese driver began to close after a virtual safety car, he cleared off into the distance finish 4.2s clear.Iwasa had lined up fifth and made a fantastic start, jumping up to second by Turn 2 before setting ...Keep reading
The Budapest venue already had paperwork in place to run the race until 2027 but that deal has now been extended.A new pit building and main grandstand, which have been in the works since 2015, are expected to be completed in time for the 2026 event.As per the last two years, the Hungarian GP will run as the penultimate race before the summer break in 2024. It has a 19-21 July slot.F1 president ...Keep reading
Just weeks after Vasseur revealed that he had signed a "top guy" to join the team in 2025, the identity of the individual has finally emerged as being Mercedes' performance director Loic Serra.First reported by Italian website Formu1a.uno and confirmed to Autosport by sources with good knowledge of the situation, Serra has agreed to leave his current job and move to the Italian team.However, it is ...Keep reading
Tanak was handed a five-minute penalty when his M-Sport team were forced to change the engine on his Ford Puma after it developed a significant fault during Thursday’s shakedown before the rally had begun.Under the current regulations, WRC teams are restricted to two engines per chassis across the season as part of cost saving measures under the Rally1 regulations introduced last year.The ...Keep reading
Unfortunately, the first track running of the prototype wheel arches or 'spray guards', as some are informally calling them, was not an instant success.However, as a first step and in terms of data gathering and correlation, it was a useful exercise, and at least provided the FIA with a starting point as it tackles an issue that was brought into focus by the red-flagged Belgian Grand Prix of ...Keep reading
With the introduction of the alternative tyre allocation for this round, limiting teams from 13 sets of tyres per weekend to 11, the teams attempted to use FP3 as preparation for each phase of qualifying. This yielded all-out times across the full range of compounds, rather than simply bolting on softs as hot-lap preparation.Track temperatures of 45C and above also made it more difficult for the ...Keep reading
The Grove-based squad came in to this season following a difficult 2022 campaign where it finished last in the constructors’ championship.But under the leadership of new team principal James Vowles and changes in its technical structure, it has delivered some solid gains with its FW45 challenger.This included a major push to bring a decent upgrade package to the Canadian Grand Prix, which has ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion delivered a perfect start to Saturday’s high-speed gravel stages to extend his overnight advantage to 20.3s over Neuville, who lost time to a slow puncture.Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi edged Toyota’s Elfyn Evans in an intense fight for third, as 1.9s separated the pair. Teemu Suninen maintained his fifth position (+1m02.0s) in the third Hyundai i20 N.M-Sport’s ...Keep reading
The FIA Formula 2 and Formula E champion was dropped by the Red Bull stable only 10 races into his full-time rookie F1 season in favour of a return for Daniel Ricciardo.Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko reckoned de Vries “didn't do one super lap that really amazed us” as he struggled to rival team-mate Yuki Tsunoda.De Vries posted on social media: “Of course, it hurts that the F1 ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer is trying to plot a path back to the front of grand prix racing but still has some way to go before it is in a position to challenge Red Bull on pure pace for race wins.While an upgrade package introduced at the Monaco Grand Prix helped deliver a step forward in form, it continues working hard to try to unlock more performance from the W14.Speaking ahead of the Hungarian ...Keep reading
The Alpine Academy racer lost the lead to Nikita Bedrin (Jenzer) off the line, but made it back into the lead by lap eight before cruising to victory.Bedrin, who started second after a previous series best start of 14th, snatched the lead at Turn 1, but lost out when Mini deployed DRS.He held second before a final lap shootout with championship leader Gabriel Bortoleto saw the Trident driver ...Keep reading
The Northeast Grand Prix will feature the GTD Pro and pro-am GTD classes only, with no prototypes present at the tight Connecticut road course.Gunn claimed his second IMSA pole and will head the field after logging a best effort of 50.593s in the frantic 15-minute qualifying session, in which with traffic posed issues for several drivers.The #23 HoR Aston beat fellow Briton Jack Hawksworth in the ...Keep reading
Newgarden, this year’s Indianapolis 500 winner, topped the 90-minute session around the 0.875-mile oval with a best lap of 18.242s, a speed of 176.428mph. He has led 1,056 laps and has four wins to his name in 12 starts here.Ed Carpenter set the early pace at 172.678mph for his own team, 0.3mph ahead of series dominator Alex Palou (Chip Ganassi Racing). The latter’s team-mate Marcus Ericsson ...Keep reading
On Friday morning a fire broke out at the Kent track which has wrecked Special ONE Racing’s entire paddock equipment and cars, including both Loeb and team-mate Guerlain Chicherit’s Lancia Delta Evo-E RX machines. Nobody was injured in the fire.Due to an ongoing investigation into the fire the World Rallycross track action and races scheduled for Saturday have been cancelled, with a review ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion made light work of sweeping the fast gravel stages to end Friday with a 3.0s lead over Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville heading into Saturday’s nine stages.Rovanpera’s surge to the rally lead included two stages wins in the afternoon despite facing the disadvantage of facing the rutted roads first. The 22-year-old’s stage winning performances provided another reminder ...Keep reading
Ferrari's Charles Leclerc closed out a frantic FP2 session in preparation for Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix, as neither Red Bull nor Mercedes set the Formula 1 timing screens alight.The Monegasque beat Silverstone podium-finisher Lando Norris to the uppermost echelon of the timing board amid a session that was influenced by both earlier rainfall and the alternative tyre allocation trial set for ...Keep reading
Tanak has largely dominated the times to claim six of the event’s eight stages to date, winning five of Friday’s seven tests including a clean sweep of the morning loop.The performance would have translated into a rally lead had the 2019 world champion avoided a five-minute penalty for an engine change on Thursday before the rally begun.Tanak’s stirring effort in difficult circumstances has ...Keep reading
In a mixed up opening day at the Hungaroring, first practice was disrupted by two red flags, the first for a heavy crash for Sergio Perez, and rain which limited the running.As a result, FP2 saw a variety of run plans that ended with Leclerc on top for Ferrari from McLaren’s Lando Norris, while Max Verstappen was down in 11th for Red Bull.Mercedes endured a tough day on the timesheet, with Lewis ...Keep reading
Devised ostensibly to improve F1's sustainability credentials by reducing the freight required per event, the tyre allocation for each driver has dropped from 13 sets to 11 for Budapest.In addition, compounds have been mandated for qualifying. The hard Pirelli will be enforced for Q1, mediums for Q2 and then the softest rubber for the Q3 shootout for pole position.The alternative tyre allocation ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion ended the dry second practice session at the Hungaroring down in 16th on the timesheets, with team-mate George Russell in last, as the pair each used just a single set of mediums throughout.But while aware that the squad was on a different programme to everyone else, Hamilton had a pretty downbeat assessment on the feeling from his W14.“It wasn't feeling good,” he ...Keep reading
The Australian is making his comeback with AlphaTauri at the Hungaroring this weekend after being drafted in as replacement for Nyck de Vries.And although he was one of several drivers not to complete a flying lap in the rain-interrupted first practice session, he ended the afternoon’s FP2 running 14th, less than half a second behind team-mate Yuki Tsunoda.Speaking after he got out of the car ...Keep reading
The FIA in turn was moved to remind the F1 CEO and everyone else that the regulations are the responsibility of the governing body and not the commercial rights holder.That little exchange was further evidence that the cost cap is now an integral part of the way the championship functions, amid the inevitable innuendo in the paddock and suggestions that some teams may have gone over the limit last ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver appeared to make light work of opening the roads to end the day with a slender 3.0s lead over Neuville. Neuville assumed the rally lead on stage two and held the advantage until stage six when Rovanpera managed to overhaul the Belgian after claiming his second stage win of the event.However, M-Sport’s Ott Tanak delivered the drive of the day to win five of the seven stages to ...Keep reading
George Russell’s Mercedes was quickest in a rain-impacted Free Practice 1, before Leclerc set the fastest time of the day in a dry FP2 at 1m17.686s, 0.015s quicker than Lando Norris (McLaren) and Pierre Gasly (Alpine).Hungarian GP FP1 results: Russell fastest from PiastriWhat happened in Hungarian GP Free Practice 1?The session started on a dry track, but Red Bull’s Sergio Perez crashed after ...Keep reading
In contrast to the two red-flag periods and inclement weather that interrupted the earlier hour-long session, second practice was run in the dry despite earlier threats of continued rainfall.The Williams duo kicked off the session with times in the mid-1m19s, Logan Sargeant emerging ahead of Alex Albon, but the two were quickly eclipsed by Lando Norris's 1m19.044s as the field sought to make up ...Keep reading
De Vries was axed by AlphaTauri in favour of Daniel Ricciardo ahead of this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix after failing to score a point in the opening 10 races of the year.And although AlphaTauri accepts that de Vries faced difficult circumstances, being a rookie in a uncompetitive car beginning with a run of tracks he had not competed at before, it felt that progress should have come by ...Keep reading
McLaren team principal Andrea Stella stated that “pretty much every single aerodynamic part” on the MCL60 machine will change as part of a three-stage development package.The first step, which accounted for 50% of the modifications, was given to Lando Norris’s car in Austria. A revised sidepod inlet, halo fairing, engine cover and overhauled floor featured.Stage two, put at around 25% ...Keep reading
The introduction of the current ruleset in 2022 brought a seemingly prescriptive approach to developing the rear wing, with the prevailing design trend creating a curved merging of the upper element and mainplane into the rear wing endplate.This was introduced to reduce the turbulence produced by the rear wing; fewer exposed edges offered less opportunity to produce tip vortices, which the ...Keep reading
A bulletin has been issued by the technical delegates from WEC organisers the FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest confirming the compliance of the six cars from which components were taken at post-race scrutineering after the centenary running of Le Mans on 10-11 June.They were the Hypercar contenders that finished in the top three, the #51 Ferrari 499P, the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID and the #2 ...Keep reading
As had been anticipated, the revisions incorporate all the main elements of the sidepods – including the inlet, the undercut and the contours of the bodywork.The size and shape of the inlet has already been a focal point for its development this season, as the team introduced a shallower but wider variant at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix (below).However, the Hungaroring upgrade takes the concept a ...Keep reading
Before the one-hour session really got going, it was suspended when Perez crashed on his first timed lap on the medium tyres – the field split across running that compound and the softs at this stage.With two minutes completed and before anyone had set a time, Perez lost control of his RB19 after dipping his left-rear on the outside grass through the long right of Turn 5.It snapped away from him ...Keep reading
The Hyundai driver was reported to have started stage three late which left the Finn potentially facing a time penalty.However, Lappi has since explained that he started the stage on time but was briefly delayed due to a miscommunication with the startline marshals.Lappi headed to the stage start having lost hybrid power following a heavy landing in the day's opening test and was initially told he ...Keep reading
Rather than drivers having free tyre choice, the hard compound will be mandated in Q1, mediums for Q2 and then the red-walled soft rubber for the Q3 shootout for pole position.This Alternative Tyre Allocation has been ostensibly devised to improve the championship’s sustainability credentials. By lowering the number of tyre sets each driver may use during a weekend from 13 to 11, the amount of ...Keep reading
Hyundai driver Neuville produced head turning speed on the fast gravel roads to leap into a 6.8s lead over championship leader Kalle Rovanpera, having started the day sitting fourth overall.Rovanpera produced an impressive damage limitation drive considering the Toyota driver had to open the loose gravel stages.However, it was a determined Tanak, hit by a five-minute engine change penalty ...Keep reading
The Milton Keynes-based squad has been dominant this year, with Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez winning all 10 races so far. Its success has come despite it steering clear of the kind of major overhaul that rivals like Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren have unleashed on their 2023 challenges.Although up until now Red Bull’s developments were quite steady paced, it has made a concerted effort for ...Keep reading
Mercedes revamped its troublesome W14 from the Monaco Grand Prix, revising the floor, front suspension and sidepods in a bid to turn around its campaign and close the gap to Red Bull.While it feels that it has made some good gains, both Hamilton and team-mate George Russell are well aware that more is needed before the team can hope to challenge for race wins on pure pace.Mercedes has plans to ...Keep reading
There’s a level of familiarity that Guy Smith experiences whenever he visits the former Mosport track, since 2012 known as Canadian Tire Motorsport Park. And that’s not just down to the many times he’s driven the FIA Grade 2 circuit’s 2.459-miles of challenging asphalt winding through the Ontario countryside. Scarborough and Whitby are within an hour’s drive, while Hull is just under ...Keep reading
Norris qualified second and briefly led the British Grand Prix before finishing second behind Max Verstappen, while his team-mate Oscar Piastri started third and finished fourth after losing out to Lewis Hamilton under the safety car.While acknowledging the Silverstone result and the leap in performance since the first part of the latest upgrade package was introduced in Austria, Norris insists ...Keep reading
The Mexican has failed to feature in Q3 on six occasions this season, making the cut just four times.This includes an ongoing streak of five early exits, a run that has seen team-mate Max Verstappen take pole position on each occasion. Although Perez has recovered positions during the races, he has only been able to reach the top three by the chequered flag once during this period. Asked if he ...Keep reading
There are 20 drivers on the current Formula 1 grid, and some of them have been at the top of the sport for a very long time.Some drivers even return to the cockpit of F1 machinery after time away because they’re seen as a better option than giving a newcomer an opportunity.But that’s not to say that teams aren’t scouting the next generation. There are no fewer than 48 candidates across the ...Keep reading
Alpine A523 front wing detail
Photo by: Giorgio Piola
Alpine followed-up on the introduction of a new front wing architecture at Silverstone with a fresh upper flap design in Hungary. The flap features a wavy trailing edge to help deliver the level of downforce required, while also providing the necessary assistance from an outwash point of view.
Red Bull Racing RB19 technical ...Keep reading
The 70-year-old, who won the 1986 Indy 500 as a driver and the 2004 and 2020 races as a team owner, underwent triple bypass heart surgery last June after being told by doctors that he’d suffered a heart attack in May.Speaking on Sunday after his driver Christian Lundgaard won the Toronto IndyCar race – the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team’s first win in the series since Takuma Sato’s ...Keep reading
The 2019 world champion kicked off the 21-stage event by winning the opening 3.3km Tartu Vald test but is sitting last in the overall standings after being hit with a five-minute penalty following an enforced engine change after shakedown.Facing an uphill struggle to score championship points, Tanak highlighted what could have been by winning the spectator stage by 0.6s from Toyota’s Elfyn Evans ...Keep reading
There has been increased scrutiny in recent weeks on the FIA’s structures and regulations that F1 operates under.This has included scepticism over potential new team entrants, unease over some of the aspects of the planned 2026 regulations and opinions on future engine regulations surrounding the move to fully sustainable fuels.Furthermore, this week F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali said it was his ...Keep reading
Former Alfa Romeo technical director and Ferrari engineering boss Philippe Krief, who joined Alpine in early March, has been appointed as Rossi's successor.He will continue in his role as vice president of engineering and product performance until further notice and report to Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo.Rossi "will now focus on special projects linked to the transformation of the Group".De Meo ...Keep reading
F1 rookie De Vries was dropped by the Faenza team last week and has been replaced by former McLaren driver Ricciardo from this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix.When asked by Autosport if he had sympathy for de Vries, Ricciardo cited his own experience of returning from a spell out of the cockpit in the first half of this season as an example of what can happen.“For sure you feel for other ...Keep reading
De Vries was sacked by Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko last week after a disappointing first half to the 2023 campaign.His axing is the latest in the long line of mid-season swaps by Red Bull, with the Dutchman being replaced by Daniel Ricciardo from this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix.PLUS: The five challenges between Ricciardo and Perez's Red Bull F1 seatHamilton, who worked with de ...Keep reading
Many observers see Ricciardo’s arrival at AlphaTauri as the replacement for Nyck de Vries as in effect a holding situation and an opportunity for the Australian to put in a claim for a return to a Red Bull Racing seat.Perez is contracted to the end of 2024, which has led many observers to assume that Ricciardo will return to RBR after a season and a half with AlphaTauri.However, the Mexican ...Keep reading
Team founder Jim Glickenhaus has stuck to his vow not to continue in the series this year with his Pipo-engined 007 Le Mans Hypercar without sponsorship.No funding was forthcoming before the freight left by sea this week for the Asian leg of the WEC comprising the Fuji 6 Hours on 10 September and then the eight-hour fixture in Bahrain on 4 November.Glickenhaus hasn’t ruled out rejoining the WEC ...Keep reading
Toyota's championship leader Rovanpera and M-Sport rival Tanak headed into the event as the overwhelming favourites to challenge for the win on Estonia’s fast gravel roads.However, an enforced engine change on Tanak’s Ford Puma due to a significant failure following Thursday’s shakedown has effectively put the Estonian out of the victory hunt on home soil before the rally has begun.WRC ...Keep reading
Ricciardo is making a shock comeback with his old Faenza team from this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix onwards, replacing rookie Nyck de Vries, who was moved aside after 10 races.The Australian's F1 return came much quicker than he had anticipated after needing to take time off following a difficult two-year spell at McLaren which sapped the 34-year-old of confidence.After Ricciardo returned to ...Keep reading
Toyota will debut its new engine update at this weekend’s Rally Estonia after the reigning world champions elected to use one of its homologation jokers to make the change.It has been widely considered that Hyundai has held a top end speed advantage over Toyota since the introduction of the Rally1 regulations last year.The deficit between the teams was at its most prominent in high speed ...Keep reading
Lappi suffered three failures related to the i20 N Rally1’s prop shaft that ultimately curtailed a realistic shot at a podium, while shining a spotlight on the team’s reliability concerns.Hyundai is aware that it will need to re-design the component in the future to fully fix the problem, but containment measures are in place for this weekend’s fast gravel round in Estonia.Abiteboul says a ...Keep reading
Clubmans Sports Prototype dominator Clarke continued his impressive form by winning the opening two races in Leicestershire, but he was denied another clean sweep after an electrical fault on his Phantom PR22 in the finale.Nevertheless, it was still enough for him to retake second on Autosport's leaderboard and close to within two victories of leader Freddie Slater's 14 wins.However, another ...Keep reading
Zak O’Sullivan and Luke Browning are old rivals. The compatriots have plenty of history, with tensions first coming to a head in the 2020 British Formula 4 finale. As COVID lockdowns left circuits without spectators, O’Sullivan and Browning headed to Brands Hatch tied. By the final race, Browning had a 16-point lead, but his route to sealing the crown was far from straightforward.O’Sullivan ...Keep reading
After losing his McLaren drive to Oscar Piastri, the Australian is making his F1 race return at this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix as a replacement for the axed Nyck de Vries.Although he is excited about his comeback at the team he last raced for in its Toro Rosso guise in 2013, he is mindful that the AlphaTauri is the slowest car on the grid with the Faenza squad firmly at the bottom of the ...Keep reading
De Vries was dropped by the Faenza team last week in favour of Daniel Ricciardo just 10 races into his rookie season.Speaking ahead of this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, Tsunoda says he learned a lot from the 2020-21 Formula E champion despite being the more experienced driver in F1 terms, specifically in terms of how detailed feedback can be.The 2013 Rush movie highlighted Lauda’s acute ...Keep reading
The FIA and Formula One Management are currently evaluating which of the two tyre giants should be handed the official F1 tender contract from 2025. Both Pirelli and Bridgestone are highly respected as companies, and F1 teams have so far steered clear of declaring a firm preference for one over the other. Vasseur is equally diplomatic, saying he has “faith” in both companies to be able to ...Keep reading
A strike led by the Screen Actors Guild over pay and residuals has disrupted work on a number of movies involving some of the industry’s biggest stars. With Brad Pitt understood to be showing solidarity for the action, there were inaccurate reports last week that production of the new F1 film would be halted until the strike was over. However, while Pitt himself may be absent, filming for the ...Keep reading
It follows the more substantial changes that the team made to its front wing's architecture at the British Grand Prix, signifying the position that this new upper flap design fills in the downforce hierarchy.What has appeared at the Hungaroring is clearly an option that should fall on the higher end of its downforce selection chart.The update introduced at Silverstone incorporated a wider moveable ...Keep reading
The French manufacturer scored its first WEC podium with the 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar last time out at Monza, the result for the #93 machine di Resta shared with Mikkel Jensen and Jean-Eric Vergne marking the first time Peugeot had finished on the same lap as the leader.Insight: 10 things we learned from the 2023 WEC 6 Hours of MonzaFor di Resta, the podium finish was a first step towards achieving ...Keep reading
Tanak reported an engine issue with his Ford Puma after clocking the fastest time in the first pass of Thursday morning's 4.08km shakedown stage.The 2019 world champion was forced to be towed back to the service park, where his M-Sport team could investigate the problem.M-Sport declared the issue to be "fairly significant", which prompted the British squad to change his engine.Teams are able to ...Keep reading
Grand prix racing has enjoyed a huge expansion under new owner Liberty Media, with the decision to open up social media channels and commit to the Netflix Drive to Survive series seen as pivotal aspects in attracting new fans. But as Domenicali eyes opportunities to make F1 even bigger in the future, especially by tapping into fresh markets, he believes the key to achieving it is more ...Keep reading
Sebastian Vettel described de Vries’s sacking as “brutal”, and it’s hard not to feel sorry for the Dutchman. Ten races for AlphaTauri is not really enough, particularly as the AT04 is far from the team’s best.On the other hand, it’s nice to see Ricciardo back on the grid. The Australian’s time at McLaren did not do his talent justice and, if he really has rediscovered his mojo ...Keep reading
Far behind sovereign Red Bull, which has won all 10 grands prix so far, Mercedes holds second as F1 heads towards the halfway point the season.But it has been a bumpy road to get there, with the status of second-fastest team changing hands on a week-to-week basis.Surprisingly, Aston Martin started the season in that position, but it has been sliding back in recent weeks on high downforce tracks ...Keep reading
Van Gisbergen made his NASCAR Cup debut at Chicago earlier this month on the streets of Chicago. After starting third, he was able to win on debut after a dramatic late-race charge to the front.No driver had managed to accomplish the feat at the top level of NASCAR in over 60 years.Just over a month after his Chicago triumph, van Gisbergen will again drive the Project91 entry for Trackhouse ...Keep reading
The Yorkshire-based car maker has enjoyed a relationship with the BARC dating back to when Lawrence Tomlinson bought the company ahead of the 2006 season.But now Ginetta is switching allegiances a year after leaving the BARC-administered British Touring Car Championship support bill and focusing on BRSCC-run British GT events.“We want to keep Ginetta at the forefront of UK racing, as well as ...Keep reading
Power was running fourth, closing in on Alex Palou and Colton Herta, when he was forced into a splash-and-go stop as the white flag flew after his team miscalculated how much fuel he had used on his final stint.Team-mate Josef Newgarden was similarly affected but had saved enough fuel to make the finish in fifth place – although his car spluttered to a halt on the in-lap. Power slumped to ...Keep reading
As Red Bull bids to continue its lock out of race victories in Hungary this weekend, its closest competitors still admit they are behind the Milton Keynes-based squad.While major upgrades introduced by both Mercedes and Ferrari have produced encouraging steps forward, the scale of the car changes they want to introduce have been limited on budget grounds.Both teams are of the view that if spending ...Keep reading
De Vries was ousted from his AlphaTauri seat by Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko on Tuesday just 10 grands prix into his rookie season, in which he failed to get on par with team-mate Yuki Tsunoda.AlphaTauri called on Red Bull's third driver Ricciardo to take the Dutchman's place, the Australian joining the Faenza squad on loan after impressing his parent team during a Pirelli test at Silverstone.De ...Keep reading
The updated rear-wheel bearing retaining nut is being distributed to all IndyCar entrants from this weekend’s double-header oval event at Iowa Speedway, where its use will be mandatory. The strength of the part has increased by 60 percent over the previous design.Revisions to the component came after a “meticulous review” of the Indy 500 incident, where the left-rear wheel assembly of ...Keep reading
Romain Grosjean – a 10-time podium finisher in Formula 1 – was expected to excel when he switched to Andretti Autosport last year. He had shown great promise with minnow team Dale Coyne Racing after crossing the Atlantic in 2021. But he lies 13th in points right now, exactly where he ended up in last year’s standings – not what he nor team owner Michael Andretti signed up for.Also, the ...Keep reading
The showcase event was held for the first time ahead of the London E-Prix double-header last year and will once again take place before this season’s finale on Friday, 28 July, at ExCeL London. 'Change. Accelerated. Live.' is set to bring the brightest minds together from various sectors and industries including motorsport, politics and education, all of which will offer a unique insight into ...Keep reading
LEC back out from the cold: Aurora Trophy battleHistoric racer Peter Williams is now racing one of the two LEC grand prix cars built for David Purley in 1977.Chassis number two is owned by Ron Maydon from Masters Historic Racing and is based in North America. Williams’ car is a recreation of chassis one, the car destroyed in Purley’s major accident at Silverstone in qualifying for the 1977 ...Keep reading
The ATA rules are designed to improve F1’s sustainability credentials by reducing the number of sets that Pirelli has to bring to each weekend while also potentially creating some strategic variety on race day.The format will also be trialled at the Italian GP before its impact is assessed by the FIA and a more extensive use in the future is considered.The standard weekend allocation of dry ...Keep reading
There’s no escaping the reality: motorsport still has a major diversity problem. Have things improved? Almost certainly. But enough? Far from it.All of motorsport is guilty of it and every series and discipline must do better. That’s no small task. It requires a lot of time, money and resources to be dedicated to the problem, and finding a person or an organisation with all three isn’t easy ...Keep reading
The Dutchman cautioned recently that he felt that would be the case under the new regulations, noting that there would be a “massive development war” between the manufacturers.Audi will join F1 to take over the Sauber team that currently runs the Alfa Romeo effort, as well as supplying power units, while Honda has forged a works return with Aston Martin after previous partner Red Bull formed ...Keep reading
As reported by Autosport earlier in May, Audi will restructure its GT3 programme next year by limiting its participation to technical support and supply of spare parts.This could have a serious impact on its DTM teams, which have relied not only on Audi’s financial backing but also factory drivers since the series switched to a GT3 formula in 2021.Abt Sportsline has a 24-year-old history ...Keep reading
Rins has been out of action since badly breaking his right leg in a crash during the sprint race at the Italian Grand Prix.The five-time MotoGP race winner has since undergone two operations on his broken tibia and fibula, and will not return to racing until the Austrian GP in mid-August at the earliest.Lecuona, who previously rode for the Tech3 KTM squad in 2020 and 2021 before moving to WSBK ...Keep reading
The reigning Jack Sears Trophy champion has relinquished his seat at the Team Hard Cupra squad to Michael Crees, who returns to the squad with which he contested his rookie BTCC season in 2019 at the wheel of a Volkswagen CC.Thompson has occasionally mixed it with the big guns this season with the minnow Hard operation, scoring a second place at Brands Hatch in May and qualifying fourth at Oulton ...Keep reading
Fastidious preparation underpinned a relatively short racing career over which he achieved much success, despite never attracting the financial support his ability merited. From gearbox karting, mechanical engineering graduate Morgan switched to Formula Ford with an Alexis Mk18B “bought complete for £800 from a guy in Birmingham” in 1974. It lasted about six races, ending its days against ...Keep reading
The American had a difficult start to a schedule dominated by unfamiliar venues and tricky street and temporary tracks that saw him involved in a string of incidents as he struggled to keep up with team-mate Alex Albon.However, in Austria he had a strong run to 13th in a race of low attrition, while at Silverstone he finished 11th and just four seconds behind the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz.Robson ...Keep reading
The factory Hyundai driver is the most experienced full-time driver in the championship, having racked up 149 WRC starts dating back to 2009 and won 18 rallies, while finishing runner-up in the standings on five occasions (2013, 2016-2019).Neuville is currently the only Rally1 driver contracted for next season. Although the Belgian’s deal with Hyundai is set to expire at the end of 2024, he is ...Keep reading
Matsuda's #23 NISMO Nissan Z was involved in a high-speed accident at the 130R corner that brought the third round of the season to a premature halt.Matsuda had been trying to negotiate GT300 traffic at the time of the crash, getting tangled up with the apr Toyota GR86 of Manabu Orido and the JLOC Lamborghini Huracan of Kosuke Matsuura, which was also left badly damaged.The 44-year-old was ...Keep reading
McLaren commissioned a new wind tunnel – which after several delays was completed earlier this summer but is yet to be put into use. Until the new tunnel goes live, McLaren uses Toyota's tunnel in Cologne, and the logistics involved in sending parts off to Germany has impacted the team's speed in bringing development parts to its race cars.It also overhauled several other facilities at its ...Keep reading
Daly, 31, drove the Honda-powered #60 AutoNation/SiriusXM-backed car at Mid-Ohio after Pagenaud suffered a huge crash in practice. Daly finished 20th, ahead of team-mate Helio Castroneves.Following further evaluation, Pagenaud has still not been cleared by IndyCar’s medical team due to concussion-like symptoms.“I’m thankful to Mike and Jim to calling me up to fill in for Simon again this ...Keep reading
The Canadian, who started 61 F1 races for Williams with a career-best result of seventh in the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, has stayed away from the spotlight since losing his seat at the end of last year.Having decided that he did not want to switch to other racing categories in the short term, he has now revealed that he plans to do something completely different.In a post on social media on ...Keep reading
The shape of teams’ sidepod designs has been thrust into the spotlight in F1’s latest ground effect era as initially there was a fascinating variety of different concepts at play.However, the advantage that Red Bull appears to have gotten from its downwash concept appears to have won out as many of its rivals have followed suit in copying it.Ferrari abandoned its in-wash solution at the ...Keep reading
The temperature went up drastically last weekend in Rome, both on and off the track. The Formula E title battle reached fever pitch when championship rivals and childhood friends Mitch Evans and Nick Cassidy collided, paving the way for Jake Dennis to put one hand on the title. A 24-point lead ahead of the London E-Prix double-header at the end of the month places Dennis firmly in the pound ...Keep reading
Norris and Piastri took second and fourth respectively in the recent British Grand Prix.It was a breakthrough result for McLaren and its upgrade package after struggling through the first half of the season, but it was also big boost for rookie Piastri, who took his best result in F1 by some margin.The highly rated Australian has repaid the faith shown in him by McLaren when it went to great ...Keep reading
The Andretti Autosport driver stormed through the field from 14th on the grid to finish third, his first podium of the season despite starting the last two races from pole position.“It's been really good,” he said of his pace in recent events. “It's a little embarrassing it took this long.“We've had good cars all year, and just whatever has happened. It's great to finally get that monkey ...Keep reading
Until 2020 the series was a silhouette touring car championship predominantly contested by manufacturer-financed teams, but the withdrawal of Audi prompted a reboot towards GT3 cars for 2021.After two seasons of GT3 regulations, DTM promoter ITR was dissolved at the end of 2022 and the championship taken over by German organiser the ADAC, which moved to scale back the number of flyaway rounds and ...Keep reading
Since the start of season 9 of the Formula E world championship, the leaders have always been more or less the same. Nevertheless, as a sign that nothing can be taken for granted, teams like Porsche, with one of the biggest budgets in the field, have oscillated between success and absence. It was also clear that manufacturers with a customer team benefited from data from four cars instead of two ...Keep reading
After leaving the Hyundai fold and returning to M-Sport, Tanak heads into Rally Estonia sitting tied for third in the championship standings, 42 points adrift of Toyota’s defending champion Kalle Rovanpera.The 2019 world champion has shown flashes of pace since winning February's Rally Sweden but has ultimately been unable to score a podium since finishing second to Toyota’s Elfyn Evans in ...Keep reading
As Ricciardo prepares for his F1 comeback at this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix, the Australian is well aware that he is going to face a pretty challenging time in an AlphaTauri car that has left the team at the bottom of the constructors' championship standings.But reflecting on the reasons why Ricciardo has elected to throw himself in at the deep end as a replacement for Nyck de Vries, Red Bull ...Keep reading
It was revealed last week that Audi’s customer racing division will be downsized next year, with the German manufacturer ending the production of R8 LMS GT3 and other racing models within its range. Audi’s works driver pool will also be disbanded, impacting 14 drivers, while teams that are accustomed to receiving financial support from the brand will also be affected.The decision about ...Keep reading
The FIA is currently working through the submissions for the 2022 season that have been handed to it by teams, and has increased its analysis of competitor spending in a bid to stamp out any clever workarounds.As reported by Autosport last month, this has also included a deep dive in to team’s non-F1 activities to make sure that ideas are not being fed back to the grand prix operation outside of ...Keep reading
British Formula 4 celebrated a milestone moment at Oulton Park last month when its 250th race was held.The category was born out of the old British Formula Ford series and got off to a flying start back in 2015 when a host of drivers that are now stars on the international stage were among a talented grid.Over the past eight years there have been plenty of unforgettable moments – from barely ...Keep reading
The headlines have been dominated by a driver change at AlphaTauri, as rookie Nyck de Vries has been axed after just 10 races and replaced by Daniel Ricciardo.The Australian, who raced for the Italian team in 2012-13 under its Toro Rosso guise, will be the central focus going into the race weekend because if he can produce strong performances it is likely to put Sergio Perez under greater pressure ...Keep reading
Following in the footsteps of fellow Supercars star Shane van Gisbergen, who won on his NASCAR debut in the Chicago street race earlier this month, Kostecki will join the NASCAR field on the Indianapolis road course on 13 August.The 25-year-old will link up with RCR team-mates Austin Dillon and two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch as part of an alliance of sorts between Kostecki's ...Keep reading
Speculation in the Italian press last week suggested that Ferrari had set its sights on luring Albon on board for after Sainz’s current contract runs out at the end of next year.However, Ferrari team principal Frederic Vasseur has dismissed the idea of any movement for Albon, who himself made it clear in recent weeks that his own focus is on a long-term future with Williams.Vasseur, who knows ...Keep reading
In the previous nine races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Truex had led 768 laps – including winning the pole last year – but had never finished better than third.In Monday’s rain-delayed race at the one-mile oval in Loudon, Truex and his #19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota were again dominant, leading 254 of 301 laps.With three restarts in the final 23 laps, Truex still had to work for the win.He ...Keep reading
Six driver and co-driver pairings selected from regional finals held across the world will tackle six European rallies this year behind the wheel of an M-Sport Ford Fiesta Rally3 car.The best four crews at the end of the six rallies will receive a fully funded two-year programme in the Junior WRC beginning in 2024. If one of the finalists wins the JWRC title, they will earn a coveted WRC2 campaign ...Keep reading
Power and the chasing Marcus Ericsson’s Chip Ganassi Racing entry were both forced to make shock splash-and-go pitstops as the white flag flew in order to make it to the finish.Ericsson salvaged 11th place, which just ensures he stays fourth in points, while Power dropped to 14th and lost his seventh place in the standings as a direct result.Asked if he was surprised to have to pit so late ...Keep reading
The Italian outfit has had a challenging first half to the 2023 season, with its car struggling to deliver consistent performances in races despite being quick over a single lap.Ferrari has made good gains with recent upgrades and feels it is beginning to edge nearer to the dominant Red Bull team.Team principal Fred Vasseur thinks it is now critical for Ferrari to deliver a car that gives drivers ...Keep reading
In May 1923, a lone Bentley left London and headed for the ferry en route to France. Canadian John Duff was at the wheel and sitting alongside was fellow racer Frank Clement, while behind, cramped together with tools and spares, perched mechanics Arthur Saunders and Jack Besant. Their destination: Le Mans – the first edition of a new race for production cars to be held over 24 hours.One hundred ...Keep reading
Palou, who increased his points lead to 117 over Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate Scott Dixon, damaged his wing in a collision with a spinning Helio Castroneves that sent him into a concrete wall at the penultimate restart.The secondary collision damaged the right-hand side of the nose structure, which allowed the front wing to pivot up on the left side and down on the right. The tear in the nose ...Keep reading
WRC teams have elected to enter local rallies this season following the FIA’s decision to implement new testing restrictions to clamp down on costs.As a result, manufacturer teams are limited to 21 days (a maximum of seven per driver) instead of 28 as stipulated last year.Toyota, Hyundai and M-Sport Ford have all chosen to enter their Rally1 machines in national rallies this year to recover the ...Keep reading
Lundgaard’s dominant victory from pole position on the streets of Toronto on Sunday marked a huge turnaround for Bobby Rahal’s team after a disastrous Indianapolis 500 was followed by another poor performance at the Detroit Grand Prix.But internal changes at the team, which included some staff being let go, have revitalised the squad and it scored its first IndyCar success since Takuma ...Keep reading
The 2023 season has seen the MotoGP weekend format undergo one of its most radical changes ever with the introduction of sprint races at every round.This has led to the combined times at the end of Friday’s two practice sessions determining which riders progress directly to Q2 in qualifying and who has to face the Q1 elimination.Previously, it was the combined times at the end of Saturday’s ...Keep reading
Ali Donnelly is a no-nonsense Irish woman whose career spans Sport England and a stint as spokesperson for the British Prime Minister. She's one of the vanguard driving greater female participation in sport.
Stepping into motorsport earlier this year as CEO of the More than Equal project, she was surprised to find very little data on numbers of women competing around the world and no targets ...Keep reading
The Woking-based team caused a stir at the British Grand Prix as a major upgrade package helped Lando Norris emerge as Max Verstappen’s main threat for the race victory, with the McLaren driver second and team-mate Oscar Piastri fourth.
That star performance came in the wake of a disappointing start to the 2023 campaign for McLaren, which confessed on the eve of the season that its ...Keep reading
When Mercedes launched its 2023 W14 there were a lot of comments about the return to a black livery. The base colour is that of the naked carbon fibre structure, with no paint applied at all. And the reason? To save weight.
Mercedes is not alone in stripping paint, or at least refraining from applying it in the first place, for this reason. But given the current minimum weight limit is a ...Keep reading
Vettel retired from racing in F1 at the end of the 2022 season having made his debut in 2007 with a one-off BMW outing in America before stepping in at Toro Rosso for the remainder of the year.
The German, speaking at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last weekend, says there has been “lots of interest” in him being given a role within F1 and isn't ruled out a future involvement in promoting ...Keep reading
Crutchlow made his MotoGP debut with the Tech3 Yamaha squad in 2011 having competed in World Superbikes with the Japanese marque.
Scoring his first MotoGP podiums with Yamaha, Crutchlow moved to Ducati in 2014 before switching to Honda with LCR from 2015, with which he won all three of his grands prix triumphs in his career.
Retiring from racing at the end of the 2020 season, Crutchlow ...Keep reading
After playing a starring role in Canada, sealing six points for seventh place, Albon just missed out on the top 10 in Austria.
But the Anglo-Thai driver took another haul of points with eighth at the British GP to lift Williams above Alfa Romeo in the constructors' standings, delivering all of the Grove team's 11 points so far.
On a circuit that wasn't expected to be Williams' strongest ...Keep reading
Brede was a well-known and widely-liked figure in both two and four-wheeled motorsport in Australia.
He enjoyed a successful career as a driver that saw him make six Bathurst 1000 starts, and he also ran Suzuki's factory Australian Superbike programme.
His passing has prompted a wave of tributes, led by his good friend and one-time Bathurst co-driver Will Davison, who posted a heartfelt ...Keep reading
The planned increase in electrification, with a 50-50 power split from the battery and combustion engine, has prompted concerns about drivers running out of energy on the straights and needing to change down gears to recharge.
There has also been some scepticism about whether or not the need for less draggy F1 cars can be achieved without it taking away some of the spectacle.
But ...Keep reading
In a mixed-up strategy race, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing driver Lundgaard dominated the opening stint but a yellow at half-distance after Romain Grosjean crashed his Andretti Autosport car set off a chain of events that meant he had to battle his way back to the head of the field.
Lundgaard passed points leader Alex Palou, up from 15th on the grid, for the victory in the final third of the ...Keep reading
On the track where Rossi had achieved race-winning success in MotoGP on three occasions, 'The Doctor' achieved a breakthrough in his new career.
Alongside Team WRT BMW team-mate Maxime Martin, there had been a small amount of luck involved in Sunday’s second one-hour encounter of the weekend – the sister #32 WRT BMW of Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts dropped 13-seconds and the lead ...Keep reading
The Andretti Autosport driver took a lights-to-flag victory on Sunday in Rome after starting from pole, leading every lap and taking the bonus point for the fastest lap.
It means the Briton is 24 points clear of Nick Cassidy in the championship standings after the Envision Racing driver was collected by fellow Kiwi Mitch Evans early in the race which meant neither driver scored ...Keep reading
The Briton was battling for the lead against eventual winner Jake Dennis at the midpoint of Sunday’s race and made several attempts to overtake the Andretti Autosport driver.
But he was unable to find a way past and eventually dropped back to third behind Nissan’s Norman Nato by the end of the race despite having more energy than the two drivers ahead.
The result was still a ...Keep reading
The Jaguar driver lost control in the braking zone to the 90-degree left of Turn 7 on the second lap of Sunday’s race, having locked the rear axle when running behind championship rivals Jake Dennis and Cassidy.
Evans hit the Envision Racing machine of Cassidy directly ahead, being launched into the air before landing in the barrier while Cassidy took to the escape road.
Both ...Keep reading
As part of a trial that started at the Austrian Grand Prix, F1 has begun experimenting with displaying the heart rates of two drivers at each F2 event.
The data is utilised in a new TV graphic, indicating Intensity Level, which is broadcast on the race feed.
It is understood that the F2 experiments are being used to see if the technology is ready and can be adapted for use in F1.
However ...Keep reading
NASCAR made the call Sunday morning hours before the scheduled start time to postpone the Crayon 301 until Monday. The race will be broadcast live on USA Network.
A flash flood warning and tornado watches were in effect around the area of the track in Loudon, N.H., when the race was called at approximately 10:45 a.m. ET.
Monday’s forecast calls for much better conditions – partly cloudy ...Keep reading
Dixon topped the 30-minute session around the 11-turn, 1.786-mile Exhibition Place street course with a best lap of 1m01.3208s.
The session started in damp conditions after a rainy and foggy start to the day, but the track quickly dried out with all cars on slick tyres. After a dry-wet-dry qualifying, many drivers had an abundance of tyres to use to get a final read on degradation over a ...Keep reading
The Andretti Autosport driver took a lights-to-flag victory having never been headed from pole during the 24-lap contest, but only after resisting intense early pressure from Nissan’s Norman Nato and Jaguar’s Sam Bird who completed the podium.
Bird’s team-mate Evans was forced to retire after colliding with fellow Kiwi and championship leader Cassidy at Turn 7 on the second lap as ...Keep reading
Long Beach GP winner Kyle Kirkwood, Colton Herta and points leader Alex Palou will start eighth, 14th and 15th respectively after a tricky dry-wet-dry qualifying session proved difficult to conquer.
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Palou will start from his worst starting position of the season in 15th, having a previous worse of seventh for the opening races at St Petersburg and Texas.
When asked by ...Keep reading
The air was already 30C when the electric single-seaters took to the track at precisely 8.10am on Saturday.
The first practice session, which took place the day before, saw six drivers from six teams occupy the top six places, with no clear pace leader emerging.
Jean-Éric Vergne, sixth and seven-tenths from the front, had, as usual, taken the time to rediscover the track. He knows the ...Keep reading
The F1 organisation has given its support to the production by giving unprecedented access, even allowing it take over a pit garage and run cars on track between sessions at some races.
Last weekend at Silverstone the film’s converted F2 cars were placed at the back of the grid, and stars Brad Pitt and Damson Idris were allowed to join the national anthem ceremony, standing alongside Max ...Keep reading
The Andretti Autosport driver had built up a margin of three-tenths over the opening two sectors in the final duel and posted a 1m37.986s.
Cassidy, who finished second in Saturday’s opening Rome E-Prix but took the championship lead from Dennis as a result, put in an impressive final sector to slash the margin but fell 0.071s short at the line.
Dennis also receives three points for ...Keep reading
Rossi will start from near the back of the grid after his steering wheel completely shut down on the approach to Turn 1 in the second qualifying group. It left him stranded near Turn 2 for much of the session and he will start 26th in the 27-car field.
“My steering wheel failed in the braking zone and I didn’t have the ability to shift or pull [the] clutch,” he said. “I’ve never seen ...Keep reading
Vettel drove for the Faenza-based team when it was known as Toro Rosso before moving to Red Bull and winning four world championships prior to leaving for Ferrari.
He remains on friendly terms with the Milton Keynes-based team and its boss Christian Horner.
Speaking in an ITV interview at Goodwood on Saturday, Vettel stressed that he is happy to see his former team-mate Daniel Ricciardo make ...Keep reading
Starting second on the grid behind polesitter Tadasuke Makino, Lawson passed the Dandelion driver shortly after the pitstop phase to take the lead before marching to a comfortable 4.4s victory.
With Ritomo Miyata finishing only third and Tomoki Nojiri having an uninspiring race en route to eighth, Lawson sits just one point adrift of his TOM'S rivals in the standings with just three races left ...Keep reading
The Jaguar driver claimed pole, victory and fastest lap in Saturday’s opening race in Rome to propel himself firmly back into title contention and posted the fastest time in FP3 on Sunday morning.
With the session held in cooler conditions than at the same point yesterday, times began to tumble as all those who had been involved in yesterday’s multi-car crash were able to take to the ...Keep reading
Lundgaard lapped the 11-turn, 1.786-mile Exhibition Place street course with a best lap of 1m04.1567s, and will start ahead of Scott McLaughlin (Team Penske) and Pato O’Ward (Arrow McLaren) after a thrilling Fast Six session that was only decided on the final laps.
Palou confessed he didn’t get a good enough lap in on the softer alternate tyres in the opening group session and will start ...Keep reading
The Andretti Autosport driver headed into Saturday’s race leading the championship, one point ahead of Nick Cassidy and a further 28 points clear of Evans.
Having avoided a crash for Sam Bird immediately in front, which triggered a multi-car collision and lengthy red flag, Dennis resumed the race in fourth and made quick progress up the order.
After getting ahead of Evans into ...Keep reading
Bird was running fourth when he lost control of his Jaguar machine through the high-speed left sweep of Turn 6 and bounced off the barrier.
After coming to a stop on the racing line, Bird was hit first by Envision Racing’s Buemi and then suffered a second impact with the Maserati of Edoardo Mortara.
All three drivers were eliminated in the accident, which also claimed Antonio Felix da ...Keep reading
Herta topped the 45-minute session around the 11-turn, 1.786-mile Exhibition Place street course with a best lap of 1m00.5657s.
With rain threatening, the track was busy right from the start of the session as teams tried to get runs in before the showers took hold.
Herta set the early pace at 1m03.5437s before Scott Dixon (Chip Ganassi Racing) and then Romain Grosjean (Andretti) usurped him ...Keep reading
Off the back of his early success in Super Formula, Lawson had been thought of as a contender to make the step up to F1 as early as this year in the event that Red Bull elected to replace de Vries amid the rookie’s struggles.
But Ricciardo was instead given the nod to step in for de Vries for the final 12 races of the 2023 campaign, with AlphaTauri making it clear it favoured an experienced ...Keep reading
The Jaguar driver beat fellow Kiwi and championship protagonist Nick Cassidy by 1.6 seconds to the win, as the runner-up spot moved the Envision Racing driver into the points lead.
Maserati’s Maximilian Gunther completed the podium while Jake Dennis – who had led the championship standings ahead of the race – took fourth after a defensive drive over the final laps to keep Jean-Eric Vergne ...Keep reading
The first of two races in Italy was halted on the ninth lap of racing after numerous cars were involved in a high-speed accident.
Jaguar’s Sam Bird, who had started on the front row alongside team-mate Mitch Evans and had initially led the opening laps, lost control through the high-speed left-hand Turn 6 sweep having run wide when in fourth place.
While Jake Dennis ...Keep reading
De Vries was ousted just 10 races into his rookie F1 season after failing to match AlphaTauri team-mate Yuki Tsunoda, with Red Bull calling up its third driver Ricciardo to replace the Dutchman from next week's Hungarian Grand Prix onwards.
ANALYSIS: Why Red Bull's patience wore even thinner with de Vries amid Ricciardo's rebuild
While he has no defined expectations for his first races ...Keep reading
Blomqvist has been called up from Meyer Shank Racing’s Acura IMSA SportsCar Championship squad to replace Simon Pagenaud in its #60 Honda-powered entry.
Pagenaud is recovering from concussion-like symptoms and hasn’t been cleared by IndyCar’s medical team for this weekend’s event.
Blomqvist, the 29-year-old Briton who is the son of World Rally champion Stig, has been tipped to ...Keep reading
With F1 committed to using fully sustainable fuels from 2026 rather than going down an all-electric route, thoughts are already being put towards what type of power unit the series could use further down the road.
And, with Domenicali having been clear recently that he wants to see car weight coming down, one area where significant mass could be reduced is with the hybrid power units ...Keep reading
Bird – who at one stage in qualifying had been stripped of a place in the duels due to a stewards’ decision, before being reinstated – was fractionally quicker than Evans through the opening sector.
But the Briton set a middle sector more than a second slower than his Kiwi rival, a deficit that remained until the flag as Evans set a 1m39.089s to take pole.
Second practice pacesetter ...Keep reading
The nine-time world rally champion contested four WRC rounds with M-Sport Ford last year, which included a memorable victory at Monte Carlo. The Frenchman also led in Portugal and Greece before being forced to retire.
Loeb has been absent from the WRC this season despite M-Sport harbouring hopes a deal could be reached with the 49-year-old, who was open to adding WRC events to his schedule ...Keep reading
However, Horner stressed that the Detroit giant is not interfering with the business and is letting the Milton Keynes engineering team get on with the job.
Ford is backing the new power unit currently being created for the future rules at Red Bull’s impressive new facility in Milton Keynes, having taken up an opportunity originally offered to and rejected by Porsche.
The manufacturer's ...Keep reading
The Jaguar driver was already top of the times with a lap that would have been good enough to end the session fastest heading into the final five minutes.
But the Kiwi, who won both races in Rome last year, set a blistering final lap as he became the only driver to go below the 1m38s barrier, setting a 1m37.881s, which was 0.613 seconds faster than championship leader Jake Dennis.
The ...Keep reading
With the threat of thunderstorms for the majority of Saturday and wind speeds approaching 60mph, the gates at Goodwood will remain closed.
This comes after fans were forced under umbrellas and in gazebos as rain soaked the hillclimb event on Friday as the event celebrates its 30th anniversary.
Prior to the cancellation, the weather had already caused a change to the schedule, with the Red ...Keep reading
Kirkwood topped the 75-minute session around the 11-turn, 1.786-mile Exhibition Place street course with a best lap of 1m00.8075s.
Chip Ganassi Racing’s rookie Marcus Armstrong set the early pace at 1m03.8989s as drivers encountered a track that was bumpier than ever after a brutal winter in the Canadian city.
Sections of the track had been resurfaced since, but the patchwork quality of ...Keep reading
The 18-time WRC rally winner and Toyota WRC boss is set to make a competitive return to rallying’s top flight with an outing at Rally Finland in a 2023 specification GR Yaris Rally1 next month.
While Latvala is scheduled to conduct a pre-event test day in the car before the rally, the Finn logged some valuable seat time at this week’s Goodwood Festival of Speed, which included runs ...Keep reading
Alfa started the 2023 season on the front foot with four points for Bottas' eighth place in Bahrain and team-mate Zhou Guanyu has also shown marked improvement compared to his 2022 rookie campaign.
But amid F1's extremely tight midfield battle, the Sauber-run team has missed out more often than not, having only scavenged points in four weekends out of 10 grands prix so far.
In the British GP ...Keep reading
The Briton currently leads the championship standings by one point from Envision Racing’s Nick Cassidy, having finished in the runner-up spot in the last three races held in Jakarta and Portland.
Dennis is a further 15 points clear of Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein, with the German manufacturer also supplying the same powertrain to Andretti this season.
With just four races left ...Keep reading
“It’s fundamental to our existence and the future that we get this right.” Such a statement might seem extreme, almost sensationalist, but Motorsport UK CEO Hugh Chambers is acutely aware of exactly how important embracing sustainability has become.
Whether it’s referred to as climate change or global warming, it is (pardon the pun) a hot topic and with good reason. The flooding that ...Keep reading
The New Zealander sits fourth overall in the standings, 32 points adrift of Jake Dennis at the top of the standings having lost ground at the previous round in Portland where he finished fourth.
Just four races remain this season, with a double-header in Rome this weekend followed by another double-header in London at the end of the month, with Evans aware that he needs to make inroads ...Keep reading
Large parts of Europe are currently experiencing a heatwave, with air temperatures in Italy expected to hit 42C over the coming days.
This is significantly hotter than on Formula E’s previous visits to the Rome street circuit and means drivers, teams and cars will be pushed to the limits.
“It’s going to be challenging for the drivers, the battery, the teams,” said championship leader ...Keep reading
Szafnauer also wants the team to continue its push to bring new parts to the track over the remaining races as it tries to recover ground in the constructors’ championship.
After a promising run that include a third place in Monaco, Alpine has slipped down the pecking order in the last two races, despite a new front wing introduced at the British GP showing some promise.
Both Alpine cars ...Keep reading
Tom Howard, Marcus Simmons and Kevin Turner hosted the Autosport fan stage and on today's podcast we're delighted to bring you one of the interview sessions with two title winning drivers, Alain Menu and Tim Harvey.
The event will return in 2024 and is scheduled for 29-30 June. Once again Super Touring Power will feature races on both the Grand Prix and Indy layouts of the Brands circuit. Next ...Keep reading
The American-owned outfit has long pursued the same sidepod design as Ferrari, which provides it with its power unit and a raft of customer parts.
But while it made complete sense to follow the same route as its partner up until now, the sidepod concept has come under the spotlight again after Ferrari made a shift towards another solution.
From the Spanish Grand Prix, Ferrari ...Keep reading
A decision on whether extra entries will be accepted is expected to be announced in the coming weeks, with Andretti and Hitech the highest-profile candidates.
The process is run by the FIA, but the F1 organisation also has to agree to allow a new team to join the field.
Existing teams have made clear that they don’t want to let another entrant in and Domenicali has voiced his support for ...Keep reading
Giorgio Sanna, head of the Lamborghini Squadra Corse motorsport department, has stated that Iron Lynx will remain the manufacturer’s sole representative in both series over the full life-cycle of the new SC63 unveiled at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Thursday.
Sanna stopped short of describing Iron Lynx, which was announced as Lamborghini's partner for the LMDh programme for 2024 last ...Keep reading
The 32-year-old switched from the BTC Racing Honda squad to the Team Hard Cupra battalion for this year, but after a troubled start to the campaign, she has gone back to her old home, now known as One Motorsport.
One has parted company with Will Powell, whose Motus One GT squad was merged into the Brackley team over the winter.
Since the end of last month, Powell now no longer ...Keep reading
Tomas Enge’s long stint as part of Prodrive’s sportscar operation yielded great success. He won the GTS class at the Le Mans 24 Hours with the Ferrari 550 Maranello in 2003 and claimed the Le Mans Series LMP1 crown in 2009 aboard the Lola-Aston Martin. But despite not managing to add to his Le Mans win tally with it, he holds the Aston Martin DBR9 GT1 in even higher esteem and selects it as ...Keep reading
With F1 now fully committed to incorporating a selection of sprint races throughout the F1 calendar, talks are set to begin about ways to further fine-tune the spectacle in 2024.
While grand prix bosses are happy to keep the number of sprint races at six for next year, a gathering of the F1 Commission scheduled for the Belgian Grand Prix weekend looks set to discuss tweaks to the sprint ...Keep reading
The team was found guilty of gaining a "huge and unfair advantage", according to a stewards' bulletin, from having RFID scanning equipment in the pitlane during practice at the Formula E event in the USA.
Vergne took to social media immediately after the decision to state that the system was to “merely read the serial number of the tyres in order for us to know what tyres are being used by ...Keep reading
McLaren produced a shock performance in last weekend’s British Grand Prix as Lando Norris secured a spot on the front row and then emerged as Max Verstappen’s main threat in the race to come home in second.
But the way he was able to hold off Lewis Hamilton in the closing stages of the race, despite being on slower hard compound tyres, left many rivals impressed about the amount of ...Keep reading
WRX will culminate its second season under all-electric regulations this year with a doubleheader round in Hong Kong on 11-12 November, the championship's first visit to Asia.
Speaking to Autosport, Tim Whittington said the Hong Kong event will be "the most important thing we do this year" as the first true inner-city event staged by the world championship since its inception in 2014.
He ...Keep reading
Horner implied that he is more up to speed with what is happening at the new Red Bull Powertrains division, which he officially oversees and which is on the same site as the RBR race team in Milton Keynes.
He made the comments in the context of his warning that the 2026 regulations need to be changed to avoid the need for “Frankenstein” cars, and that the current balance between combustion ...Keep reading
The claim was made on Thursday by José Vicente de los Mozos, the president of the executive committee of the IFEMA fairgrounds and convention centre located to the northeast of the Spanish capital.
Opened in 1991 IFEMA has become a major centre for conferences and conventions, and there is enough land in and around it to form the basis of a race circuit, with the existing buildings called into ...Keep reading
The French GP returned to Circuit Paul Ricard in 2018 after a long absence, but its contract was not renewed after the 2022 event, and it fell off this year’s schedule.
Even before Ricard’s demise was confirmed a street event in Nice had emerged as a possible replacement, although some observers thought that F1’s interest was also related to its ongoing negotiations with Monaco over a new ...Keep reading
As he did in June, Cullen prevailed in both Irish Stryker races and the pair of Fiesta ST contests at Mondello - but he had to fight to take that clean sweep of wins. One of his main rivals was his son Victor, the pair enjoying a super scrap in the Stryker opener.
Those triumphs enable Cullen to climb 10 places on the leaderboard and they take him to 11 victories for the season - now just three ...Keep reading
Formula E visited Rome for the first time in Season 4 (2017-2018) and has returned every year since, with the exception of 2020 due to the COVID pandemic. On 11 April 2018, the electric single-seater championship even received the blessing of Pope Francis, to whom the car was presented outside his home in the Vatican. This was not a first for the Pontiff, who had previously blessed a Lamborghini ...Keep reading
Alonso lost out to both cars of Red Bull, McLaren and Mercedes, but Krack sees the positives as the team still outscored rivals Ferrari by six points to three, although Mercedes made a net gain of 18 points.
The battle for second in the constructors’ championship is currently led by Mercedes on 203 points, with Aston third on 181 and Ferrari fourth on 157.
"Verdict is damage limitation,” ...Keep reading
After eight rounds of the 2022 season, Aprilia had scored a grand prix victory and four other podiums courtesy of Aleix Espargaro.
At the same point in 2023, Aprilia has just two rostrums to its credit, with Vinales second in the season-opening Portuguese GP and Espargaro inheriting third at the Dutch GP following a track limits penalty for Brad Binder.
Vinales sits 12th in the standings on ...Keep reading
Rather than making his comeback in the kind of race-winning RB19 machinery that he shone with during this week’s Silverstone tyre test, he will be battling a car that has left AlphaTauri currently at the bottom of the constructors’ standings.
Worse than that, the Australian will also find himself having to cope with a critical weakness in the AT04 that is in the very area that left ...Keep reading
The Kent squad’s machinery have been the cars to beat this season, with Ash Sutton leading the drivers’ standings, and contributing to a clean sweep of five pole positions out of five together with team-mates Dan Rowbottom and Dan Cammish.
This comes after Motorbase investigated a switch to a rear-wheel-drive car model for 2023, only to elect instead to plough its resources into the ...Keep reading
The 2023 calendar was originally announced with 24 races before the Chinese GP was dropped due to the lingering effects of COVID-19.
The Emilia Romagna GP was cancelled at the last minute due to flooding but many team members were already in Italy or on their way, so in effect, they worked 23 weekends even if the Imola race didn’t take place.
The Shanghai event is back on the calendar for ...Keep reading
Aston Martin (five times), Mercedes (twice), Ferrari (twice) and now McLaren. If you remove the incredible Red Bull RB19 from the 10 Formula 1 races held so far in 2023, there would be quite a few different winners and a fascinating title contest. And Norris would now be a grand prix victor after an impressive drive in front of his home fans at Silverstone.
As Alex Kalinauckas shows in our ...Keep reading
The covers came off a car to be known as the Lamborghini SC63 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on Thursday.
Its nomenclature combines the SC used on a trio of specials developed by the Lamborghini Squadra Corse motorsport department and the racing number used successfully by teams running its Huracan GT3, which is taken from the year of the establishment of the Italian marque ...Keep reading
After Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri qualified second and third for the British GP, Russell rightly predicted after qualifying that McLaren also had good race pace, and that the orange cars would not fade on Sunday.
Norris eventually finished second having held off Russell's team-mate Lewis Hamilton, while Oscar Piastri took fourth after losing out to Hamilton by pitting before the safety ...Keep reading
The Goodwood Festival of Speed is an annual highlight of the UK motorsport season. There is always plenty to see and do at the Sussex extravaganza and this year’s 30th birthday edition is set to be extra special.
Alongside the event’s own anniversary, numerous other major milestones are being celebrated in 2023 from across the various branches of the sport: from sportscars to US stock cars ...Keep reading
The celebration of the halcyon Super Touring period of tin-top racing proved popular with fans and also attracted a host of stars to the 2023 event, with Kiwi aces Paul Radisich, Greg Murphy and Steven Richards being tempted to Kent while current British Touring Car frontrunner Jake Hill won all four Super Tourers races in a Nissan Primera.
OPINION: Why Super Touring Power should become a ...Keep reading
The team has acted swiftly after the Dutchman's difficult start to the season, with former McLaren driver Ricciardo returning to a race role.
ANALYSIS: Why Red Bull's patience wore even thinner with de Vries amid Ricciardo's rebuild
Jake Boxall-Legge joins Martyn Lee to discuss the latest F1 driver merry-go-round and why AlphaTauri has decided to act now.
They also assess how de Vries ...Keep reading
The US entrant has revealed that a decision is still pending on its participation in the Fuji and Bahrain races in September and November respectively with its solo full-season Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 Le Mans Hypercar.
It hangs on the Glickenhaus Racing team finding sponsorship to move forward with its programme, according to team founder Jim Glickenhaus.
“We’ve made no decision; we can’t ...Keep reading
On Tuesday AlphaTauri and parent team Red Bull announced de Vries would make way for Red Bull's third driver Daniel Ricciardo from next week's Hungarian Grand Prix, meaning the Australian will make a shock return with his former team halfway into his sabbatical from F1.
Explaining his decision to oust 28-year-old rookie de Vries after just 10 races, Red Bull advisor Marko said the Dutchman was ...Keep reading
Red Bull has won all 10 races so far this season, with its outstanding RB19 car all but certain to propel runaway leader Max Verstappen to a third consecutive drivers' world championship.
The Milton Keynes team's generous advantage has allowed it to already start focusing on next year's car without having to bring any significant upgrades to its current machine, which has in turn allowed its ...Keep reading
Both of MotoGP’s Japanese manufacturers, Yamaha and Honda, have endured difficult 2023 campaigns, with the former scoring just two podiums in the first eight rounds.
Fabio Quartararo was third in the Americas Grand Prix and inherited that position in the Dutch GP sprint following a track limits penalty for KTM’s Brad Binder.
Yamaha currently sits last in the constructors’ table, seven ...Keep reading
In recent weeks some engine manufacturers have indicated that the rules should perhaps be revisited while there is still time, with particular reference to the current 50:50 balance between combustion engine and electrical power.
Christian Horner has been particularly vocal on behalf of Red Bull Powertrains, claiming that drivers will have to change down on the straights and that teams will ...Keep reading
Malthe Jakobsen was not even a year old when Tom Kristensen secured his record-equalling sixth victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2004. The Danish endurance legend pulled clear of Jacky Ickx’s tally over the coming years and by 2013 had amassed a remarkable nine in the world’s most famous endurance race, cementing his legacy as ‘Mr Le Mans’ and going a long way to raising the event’s ...Keep reading
In other words, putting Ricciardo in the car is not just a case of short-term expediency and giving the Australian a chance to get up to speed ahead of a potential return to the main Red Bull team.
The change of direction is part of a reboot for AlphaTauri after a detailed analysis of its role within in the Red Bull camp, and a firm decision from the drinks company’s top management not to ...Keep reading
Penske has outlined a desire to host a six-hour WEC race on the same weekend as the IMSA SportsCar Championship round at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, which he bought along with the IndyCar Series in November 2019.
The idea was discussed with the WEC for 2024 as the series looked for a replacement for Sebring as the venue for its US round, but it wasn’t possible for scheduling ...Keep reading
As reported by Autosport's sister website Motorsport-Total.com back in May, Audi will not provide factory support to any of its customer teams across GT3 racing from next year.
This would primarily affect those squads that compete in the DTM as well as major endurance races such as the Spa 24 Hours and the Nurburgring 24 Hours.
Further, its pool of 14 works drivers, which includes Ricardo ...Keep reading
With racing in short supply during MotoGP's summer break, the focus of attention in the world championship is monopolised by the buzz of possible market movements. Aside from the case of Marc Marquez, who is devoting this summer to unravelling the scenario of his hypothetical departure from Honda, Marco Bezzecchi is another rider on the grid who is attracting a lot of attention.
The 24-year-old ...Keep reading
The huge leap forward that McLaren has made with its Austrian and British GP package, which was inspired by both Red Bull and Aston Martin sidepod ideas, has left rivals pondering if they too need to make a dramatic change of direction.
And while Mercedes has long insisted that sidepod and bodywork tweaks are not a key performance differentiator, rivals are clearly seeing good ...Keep reading
M-Sport has been developing the Ford Ranger T1+ alongside Neil Woolridge Motorsport [NWM] and Ford Performance to tackle next year’s Dakar Rally, which will be a first for the British squad.
The next stage of this venture will see the operation debut the Ranger for next year's Dakar at the Baja Spain Aragon Rally from 21-22 July.
This is the first step of a plan for a full factory-backed ...Keep reading
The Woking-based team caused a surprise at the British Grand Prix as it made the most of a raft of recent upgrades to grab a slot on the front row with Lando Norris and finish second behind race-winner Max Verstappen.
PLUS: The pre-qualifying pick that helped Norris battle Verstappen and "murder" Hamilton
But rather than feel that this is the peak of McLaren's potential for the ...Keep reading
In 2023, 68 teams will take part in the final event of the F1 in Schools project, which is held annually to encourage students to enrol in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects.
The 2023 world finals will be held at the upcoming Singapore Grand Prix, where the teams from 26 of the 60 countries where F1 in Schools is active will compete for victory by racing mini ...Keep reading
It has been fuelled by Tuesday’s confirmation that Daniel Ricciardo will replace Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri from the Hungarian GP.
The Australian now has the opportunity to prove that he has put his McLaren struggles behind him and is worthy of a return to a Red Bull race seat alongside Max Verstappen.
Perez had another difficult Saturday at Silverstone last weekend, finishing only ...Keep reading
In its efforts to continue to improve the quality of the racing of the Next Gen car on shorter tracks and road courses, NASCAR will test some new aero packages created around a newly designed splitter.
Six drivers – Christopher Bell, Harrison Burton, William Byron, Justin Haley, Ryan Preece and Erik Jones – will take part in the test Monday and Tuesday. Goodyear tyre officials will also be ...Keep reading
IndyCar Series’ medical staff did not clear Pagenaud to compete at Toronto this weekend, as the Frenchman continues his recovery from the effects of a dramatic barrel-rolling crash that took place in Saturday’s practice at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
Instead of running Conor Daly again as substitute driver, it will parachute its IMSA SportsCar Championship ace Blomqvist into the #60 ...Keep reading
It was chosen via a fan vote that was launched over the weekend of the Monaco GP.
Gulf was keen on the eye-catching experiment it conducted at Monaco in 2021 when a partner of McLaren, but the company added a twist by leaving the final choice up to Williams fans and running it at a different series of races.
The four options created by the Williams marketing department were ...Keep reading
Any other team ejecting its rookie driver after less than half a season would have caused a serious stir in Formula 1.
But the fact that De Vries' removal from Red Bull's second team AlphaTauri was almost greeted with a sense of inevitability speaks volumes on the company's - and in particular advisor Helmut Marko's - notorious lack of patience once one of its drivers fails to deliver.
There ...Keep reading
In the earlier days of the championship, it was not uncommon for the smaller teams to phase out drivers depending on the money they could bring, while larger teams were not above that either if a driver had been unable to live up to expectations.
It proved to be the latter in de Vries' case, as the Red Bull-owned team once more flexed its itchy trigger finger to relieve the Dutchman of his ...Keep reading
After a costly non-score at the Le Mans 24 Hours, the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID of Mike Conway, Jose Maria Lopez and Kamui Kobayashi recorded its third win of the season on Ferrari’s home turf.
First corner contact that delayed the leading Toyota and Ferrari protagonists in the world championship aided Peugeot in its bid for a first podium finish of the 9X8 programme, while Proton Competition ...Keep reading
After scoring outright wins at Sebring and Monza with its A480 grandfathered LMP1 car in the Hypercar class last season, Alpine reverted to LMP2 in 2023 ahead of a return to the top class next year with the A424 LMDh car developed with ORECA.
However, the 2016 and 2018-19 LMP2 champion team endured a trying opening three rounds to the season with seventh at Spa its best result, before the ...Keep reading
Earlier on Tuesday it emerged that de Vries had been dismissed after just 10 grands prix following a disappointing start to his F1 career with the Italian squad.
AlphaTauri has now confirmed the de Vries' exit and has announced that Red Bull third driver Ricciardo will step into the Dutchman's seat for the remainder of the 2023 season.
"Scuderia AlphaTauri announces that Daniel Ricciardo ...Keep reading
Jaguar and Porsche, along with respective customer teams Envision Racing and Andretti Autosport, have proven the dominant forces in the 2022/23 season, having won all bar two of the 12 races that have taken place so far.
Andretti’s Jake Dennis leads the drivers’ standings by a single point from Nick Cassidy (Envision) ahead of this weekend’s Rome E-Prix, while works Porsche driver Pascal ...Keep reading
Dutchman de Vries had been under pressure for weeks after a disappointing start to his F1 career with the Italian squad.
Alongside fellow rookie Logan Sargeant, de Vries is the only driver yet to register points in 2023 as he struggled for pace compared to team-mate Yuki Tsunoda.
His cause wasn't helped by AlphaTauri underperforming with this season's AT04, which has left the team last in ...Keep reading
Having started eighth, the Williams driver was among those who ran long first stints and were able to time their pit stops to coincide with a virtual safety car period after Kevin Magnussen stopped on track.
It quickly turned into a full safety car period and after the resumption, Albon was running in ninth place.
He managed to get by Carlos Sainz and, in the closing laps, was ...Keep reading
Despite the presence of police forces, four activists from ‘Extinction Rebellion Racing’ and ‘Last Generation’ managed to gain access to the opening turn of the track prior to the second race of the weekend.
A marshal who tried to stop the protestors from invading the track was injured in the process, according to a report by dpa referring to a police ...Keep reading
A race debut for the revived Italian marque’s Tipo 6 LMH Competizione at the Bahrain season-finale in November officially remains the target.
But Isotta motorsport boss Claudio Berro has stressed that it will not compromise the development and homologation of the car ahead of its full entry into the WEC in 2024 with the British Vector Sport team.
Sources within ...Keep reading
In fact, such was the advantage of the MCL-60 through some of Silverstone's fastest turns last weekend that Lewis Hamilton labelled it a 'rocketship' as he was left powerless to challenge it.
A first package of updates appeared at the Austrian Grand Prix followed by a second step in Britain, which included a new front wing. These combined to help Lando Norris secure a front-row grid slot and ...Keep reading
DJR is one of two teams to have had a wildcard application for the two Supercars endurance races, the Sandown 500 and the Bathurst 1000, approved by the Supercars Commission.
While the applications still technically need to be approved by the Supercars Board, the Commission's decision to tweak the superlicence rules to facilitate the entries is a solid sign that both DJR and Blanchard Racing ...Keep reading
Sprint races have marked one of the biggest single format changes in grand prix motorcycle racing’s more than 70-year history.
While reviews of the sprint format were mixed from the riders to begin with, after eight rounds criticisms of the half-distance races have faded away.
For the most part, the sprints have added an exciting new dynamic to race weekends and have generally proved to be ...Keep reading
In the opening race at the popular German street venue, Winward Mercedes driver Schumacher was battling with Luca Engstler for 19th position when he made contact with the Audi driver at the apex of Turn 1, sending the 23-year immediately into retirement.
The stewards deemed Schumacher responsible for the collision and handed him a five-second penalty, which dropped him from 14th to outside the ...Keep reading
Ricciardo signed up as Red Bull’s third driver this year in a bid to rebuild his career after losing his seat at McLaren following two disappointing campaigns.
And while Red Bull admitted that the Australian seemed out of sorts with his driving during his first runs in the team’s simulator, he made rapid progress to get back up to speed and is now viewed as an important weapon in the ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz qualified fourth and fifth, but in Sunday’s race, they tumbled down to ninth and 10th, not helped by the fact that both stopped before a safety car intervention that gave rivals a helping hand in the form of cheap stops.
However, Vasseur says that the other key issue was that the team didn’t get enough information on tyre degradation on Friday when Charles ...Keep reading
Shank’s Acura ARX-06 scored its second GTP victory of the season at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park, following the deduction of 200 points due to tyre data manipulation after its Daytona success – a victory it was allowed to keep in the record books as the rules transgression was only found after the results were declared official.
Colin Braun – who shared the win with Tom Blomqvist – ...Keep reading
Russell followed Leclerc closely for the first 18 laps of the race but could not get by until the latter made an early first stop.
Later Russell emerged from his own slow mid-race pitstop behind Leclerc having run an unusually long first stint on the soft tyres.
The pair then enjoyed a brief but spectacular tussle before Russell went past on his way to an eventual fifth place.
"I felt ...Keep reading
The pair elected to participate in last Saturday’s one-day gravel rally to aid their preparation for Rally Estonia’s high-speed stages.
Tanak was eager to unlock speed from his M-Sport Ford Puma with the event following a pre-event test where a modified rear wing was tested.
The 2019 world champion won all nine stages to win the rally by 38s from Suninen, who was making his first ...Keep reading
A double DNF in the British Grand Prix helped the resurgent McLaren leapfrog it for fifth in the constructors’ championship, as it faces an increasingly tough battle in the ultra-close midfield.
And things have not been easy off track either, with the Enstone-based squad having been on the receiving end of criticisms from CEO Laurent Rossi at the Miami Grand Prix over what he felt had been ...Keep reading
Pitt also admitted that he felt “a little giddy” as shooting for the film got underway over the British GP weekend, including sequences involving him driving the production’s F2-based car in between real sessions.
The Hollywood star gave his first extensive insight into the movie and its plot in an interview conducted in the film’s Silverstone garage by Martin Brundle for Sky Sports ...Keep reading
Cameron, Michael Christensen and Frederic Makowiecki completed Sunday’s 6 Hours of Monza in fourth in the best of the two Porsche Penske Motorsport cars, finishing a lap down on the race-winning #7 Toyota of Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Jose Maria Lopez.
Although the #5 Porsche 963 ran as high as second due to the pitstop cycle after starting from eighth on the grid, it was never really ...Keep reading
Toyota gained something approaching revenge on Ferrari for its Le Mans 24 Hours defeat in the Italian manufacturer’s backyard at Monza. Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Jose Maria Lopez took what on paper looked like a narrow victory, but in reality they had a clear advantage in last Sunday’s World Endurance Championship round. And that explained its big rival’s disquiet after the ...Keep reading
Together with Ben Keating and Nico Varrone, fourth place in the six-hour race was enough for the American squad to claim the final GTE Am title before the arrival of LMGT3 rules for 2023 will render its C8.R ineligible.
Back-to-back victories at Sebring and Portimao, followed up by a second place at Spa and a third win of the season in the double points Le Mans 24 Hours, had put Corvette ...Keep reading
A major upgrade package introduced over the past two races helped Norris produce a star performance on home ground at Silverstone last weekend.
The young Briton qualified on the front row and briefly led the opening stages before coming home in second place behind race winner Max Verstappen and ahead of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton.
The scale of McLaren’s progress has left rivals hoping they ...Keep reading
United Autosports team boss Richard Dean said the stipulation that the pits are closed when the race director triggers a full course yellow or safety car resembled “a lottery” that some teams could derive “a huge benefit” from while others lost out.
Article 14.6.5 of the WEC sporting regulations determines that the pit entry is closed in the first three laps of a safety car ...Keep reading
With Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi embarking on ambitious plans to expand sales of the French sportscar manufacturer, he felt that the company’s motorsport activities needed to be given more attention than he could provide himself.
As a result, he has appointed Alpine’s F1 engine chief Bruno Famin as VP of Alpine Motorsports.
Famin will report directly to Rossi and will manage all ...Keep reading
Manthey EMA driver Preining claimed his first victory of the 2023 season in Sunday’s second race at the Norisring after passing polesitter Rast for the lead with a “hard and opportunistic move” on lap 44 of 74.
Having already cleared Rast’s Schubert team-mate Sheldon van der Linde a few laps earlier, Preining made another pass at the tricky Turn 1 hairpin, sending his Porsche up the ...Keep reading
Silverstone almost always serves up something special. And the 2023 edition again thrust itself into race-of-the-year contention as Formula 1 fans were treated to a thrilling encounter.
While Red Bull matching McLaren's consecutive race win record should have been the main headline of the weekend, McLaren ensured the headlines went its way with Lando Norris wowing the Silverstone grandstands ...Keep reading
Olivier Jansonnie, technical director on the 9X8 programme at Peugeot Sport, described the third place for Mikkel Jensen, Paul di Resta and Jean-Eric Vergne in Sunday’s Monza 6 Hours as “quite logical and well deserved”.
He explained that it followed the increase in competitiveness of a car that has struggled since its debut at the corresponding WEC race last year. The year-on-year ...Keep reading
It came after two earlier failures for Hulkenberg himself, which have added to the team’s woes as it fights to develop a car which is quick in qualifying but is usually too hard on its tyres in races.
Magnussen had stopped on track in Q1 at Silverstone after suffering an oil pressure issue, although it was believed at the time that the PU - which was new in Austria - had not been damaged and ...Keep reading
After a run of podium finishes, Alonso has endured a tougher time in the last two races, but he was satisfied to earn some decent points with seventh place in the British GP.
The Spaniard indicated that the result actually flattered the team and was better than what he had expected heading into the race.
“We weren't fast enough in any session on the weekend, so it was not different in the ...Keep reading
The Mexican driver failed to reach Q3 for the fifth grand prix qualifying session in a row last weekend, as he landed 15th on the grid for the British GP before battling back to sixth.
He now sits 99 points behind team-mate Max Verstappen in the standings. Meanwhile, Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso trails Perez by 19 points in third.
But Red Bull team principal Christian ...Keep reading
Ehrlacher, who claimed back-to-back WTCR titles between 2020-2021, will get his first on-track taste of the Gen3 machine with DS Penske having been the team’s simulator driver.
The Frenchman will compete in the 30-minute rookie session on Friday prior to the double-header in Rome along with 10 other drivers nominated by teams.
This includes ex-Formula 1 driver and Lamborghini ...Keep reading
Norris grabbed the lead off the line and held off the dominant Red Bull for the opening stages, before Verstappen inevitably swept by to charge yet another win to maintain the team’s 100% win record in 2023.
But the McLaren driver held off Lewis Hamilton after a safety car bunched the pack up, despite a tyre compound disadvantage, to take a stellar second place.
PLUS: The pre-qualifying ...Keep reading
The phrase used in a cursory statement issued after the Le Mans 24 Hours-winning WEC Hypercar squad was beaten by Toyota can be regarded as a clear reference to the revised Balance of Performance that came into effect for the Monza 6 Hours.
The release, issued after midnight local time following the race, also said that after its victory at Le Mans last month Ferrari’s “expectation was to ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer was outgunned by McLaren at the British Grand Prix in the battle behind Red Bull, as Lewis Hamilton did not have the pace to overhaul Lando Norris for second spot.
A major overhaul of the W14 introduced at the Monaco Grand Prix had initially appeared to give the squad the uptick in form it felt it needed to fight for wins, but it has failed to build on that early ...Keep reading
As Red Bull has won every round so far in 2023, Mercedes, Ferrari, Aston Martin and - following the British Grand Prix last weekend - now McLaren have fought to be the second-fastest team.
Factors such as track characteristics, the rate and effectiveness of upgrades and strategy decisions have created a considerable variation in competitiveness from one weekend to the next.
This means ...Keep reading
After contact with Corey LaJoie early in the second stage, Byron received damage to his #24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet and fell a lap down.
Thanks to some more cautions and quick repairs, Byron returned to the lead lap and stayed on the track between Stages 2 and 3 to move towards the front of the field.
Two laps following the start of the final stage, Byron swept around A.J ...Keep reading
Sebastien Buemi, Ryo Hirakawa and Brendon Hartley had recovered from two separate time penalties to extend its championship lead over the Le Mans 24 Hours-winning #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar on its home turf.
But a bulletin issued by the stewards hours after the race stated that the GR010 HYBRID LMH had exceeded "the maximum released powertrain power" stipulated by the Balance of ...Keep reading
The sixth round of America’s premier sportscar series boasted a 34-car entry for a 2h40m race around the 2.45-mile track that was formerly known as Mosport.
Blomqvist led the field to green in MSR’s Acura ARX-06, almost touching through Turn 1 with Ricky Taylor in the Wayne Taylor Racing example. Sebastien Bourdais got his Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series.R ahead of Pipo Derani’s ...Keep reading
Leclerc and Sainz fell from fourth and fifth on the Silverstone grid to finish ninth and 10th, with both losing out from a mid-race safety car that compromised strategy and left them on weaker hard tyres.
Despite ongoing criticism of Ferrari's strategy, Sainz defended what he reckoned to be a "50-50" call and instead laid blame with the inconsistent nature of the car that was exacerbated by ...Keep reading
A late caution period triggered by Kevin Magnussen’s stranded Haas initially brought out a virtual safety car, which prompted the leaders to head for the pits.
At the time, with second-placed Norris around nine seconds adrift of race leader Max Verstappen who seemed out of touch, McLaren felt that the safer option was to switch Norris to hards rather than take unnecessary risks and go on to ...Keep reading
The pair tussled at Stowe, with Stroll passing Gasly for 11th off the track before they came together at Club later in the race.
The contact left Gasly with terminal suspension damage, while Stroll received a five-second penalty for causing the collision.
Asked by Autosport what had happened during the pair's battle, Gasly said: "To me it was quite clear and it's been always in the ...Keep reading
Verstappen was jumped off the line by Norris to the delight of the home fans in attendance at Silverstone, which also let Piastri get close to the Red Bull driver.
Norris led the first four laps of the race and managed to resist any early efforts from the Dutchman, but Verstappen managed to make his way back past on lap 5 with a move on Norris at Brooklands.
Speaking about his slow start ...Keep reading
The Australian lined up third for Sunday’s race before falling behind Lewis Hamilton to finish fourth after the unfortunate timing of his pitstop shortly before the safety car.
Though he said it “hurts to be so close to a podium,” Piastri said it was promising that both McLaren drivers were able to cling to Verstappen for much of the race.
Given it was his first race with the team’s ...Keep reading
Bouncing back from their failure to finish at Le Mans that so severely dented their title chances, the polesitter delivered a controlled victory aboard the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar.
A race that featured three safety cars meant their advantage was just 16.5s over the #50 Ferrari 499P LMH of Miguel Molina, Nicklas Nielsen and Antonio Fuoco, but the Toyota had looked ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion benefitted from the timing of a safety car to put himself into a podium position spot late on as he ran third behind Norris.
At the restart, he was on what looked to be the better soft tyres, against Norris on the hards, but he failed to find a way past.
While he managed to hustle his way alongside at one point on the run down to Copse Corner, the straight-line ...Keep reading
The Briton took his best-ever result at his home race, taking an early lead before finishing as runner-up to Red Bull's Max Verstappen.
He pitted during the safety car caused by Kevin Magnussen's Haas stopping on track and was given the hard Pirelli tyres, with Verstappen and third-place runner Hamilton on the softs.
It meant Norris had to work harder to fire up his tyres, with the two ...Keep reading
Despite losing the lead at the start to McLaren’s Lando Norris, Verstappen passed him after five laps and scored yet another victory – surprisingly his first with the British GP title – despite a safety car interruption.
Norris held second from a charging Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) – who dropped as low as 10th on the opening lap – to make it two British drivers on the ...Keep reading
At the start, Norris was able to blast past polesitter Verstappen as the Red Bull failed to accelerate despite the Dutchman reacting well enough, which meant Piastri also had a look to the inside of the first corner starting in third.
There, Verstappen went the long way around to cement second and he then chased Norris down the Wellington straight – where the leader successfully weaved ...Keep reading
Preining slipped from second to fourth with a sluggish start but was able to fight his way back after the mid-race pitstop, overtaking polesitter Rast with 20 minutes to go to claim his first victory of the 2023 season.
Reigning champion Sheldon van der Linde rounded out the podium spots behind team-mate Rast, with 20kg of success ballast on his car preventing him from repeating his Saturday ...Keep reading
Pitt and director Joseph Kosinski attended the gathering essentially to introduce themselves and thank the drivers in advance for accepting any inconvenience associated with the production of the new Apple-backed F1 movie.
After months of preparation shooting began in earnest this weekend, and the film’s fictional 11th team has a high profile presence in the paddock and pitlane.
The ...Keep reading
The ART rookie took his maiden victory on Sunday despite a five-second penalty after running wide while fighting DAMS driver Ayumu Iwasa for the lead on lap one.
Martins went on to cross the line seven seconds ahead of second-placed Zane Maloney (Hitech) to retain the win.
Speaking after the race, Martins said he hadn’t considered the possibility of a penalty until his engineer suggested ...Keep reading
Mercedes got its Silverstone weekend off to a bad start on Friday when Russell and team-mate Lewis Hamilton were only 12th and 15th respectively in FP2.
However, after overnight work, helped by a sim session that Mick Schumacher reported on social media that finished at 2:15am, the W14 was in much better shape on Saturday.
Russell and Hamilton qualified sixth and seventh behind the Red Bull ...Keep reading
Alpine A523 technical detail
Photo by: Giorgio Piola
Alpine has an entirely new front wing design for the British Grand Prix (lower of the two), with changes to the outboard section of the flaps and their meeting point with the endplate, as well as the diveplane on the outside of the endplate.
There have been changes too to the position of the infra-red camera pod on the ...Keep reading
Perez was sent out of the Red Bull garage during a red flag break to recover the abandoned car of Kevin Magnussen, but having claimed the spot at the head of the queue at the exit he had to wait longer than the team had anticipated for the session to resume.
In the meantime, he lost tyre temperature, and after a frantic final run, he finished the session in 16th place. He subsequently gained a ...Keep reading
The ART rookie and reigning F3 champion started on pole and though he briefly lost the lead to Ayumu Iwasa (DAMS) on lap one, reclaimed the position quickly, though he was later penalised for gaining an advantage off-track.
Despite three safety cars and the five-second penalty, which he was handed after his pitstop, the Alpine Academy member managed to clear a seven-second gap to second-placed ...Keep reading
The privateer German squad, a staple of the GTE Am class, only received its Porsche 963 LMDh one week before the fifth round of the WEC following a shakedown at Weissach in the hands of Kevin Estre.
It had no opportunity to test the chassis prior to practice commencing on Friday.
Tincknell, who shares the car with Gianmaria Bruni and Neel Jani, explained that "every lap is a learning lap" ...Keep reading
Silverstone event commander detective superintendent Richard Tompkins says that a “ring of steel” will be erected around the circuit permitter in a bid to prevent a repeat of the disruption in the 2022 race.
Five people from Just Stop Oil jumped the barriers on the opening lap of last year’s GP but an early red flag for Zhou Guanyu rolling at Turn 1 meant the field slowed by the time it ...Keep reading
The Woking-based squad has made some impressive gains with its MCL60 after unleashing a raft of upgrades to its car since Austria last weekend.
The scale of its progress, which has resulted in Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri securing second and third on the grid at the British Grand Prix, has prompted some pointed remarks about its design being similar to Red Bull's RB19.
Lewis Hamilton said ...Keep reading
The reigning Euroformula Open champion lined up second behind his Italian team-mate before taking the lead on lap 15 after Fornaroli began to struggle with his tyres.
Despite a second safety car and late rain, Goethe held on for his maiden series victory, with Fornaroli second and Pepe Marti in third for Campos.
Fornaroli led off the line, with Marti taking second from Goethe on the first ...Keep reading
Having scored his maiden podium since his switch to Audi on Saturday, Rast carried that form into qualifying for the second leg of the DTM’s blue riband event, setting a rapid time of 48.622s in Group A.
The German driver then had to spend the next 20 minutes in the Schubert garage as he waited for the second group of drivers to complete their session, with the DTM having gone for a ...Keep reading
The world championship leader was spotted with a bandage on his right hand after securing pole position at Silverstone on Saturday.
Speaking about what had happened, the Dutchman said he hurt a finger on the day before track action began.
“I just sprained my finger a little bit,” he explained after qualifying. “My hand has been bothering me a little bit. Today it was better, but I ...Keep reading
The WEC Hypercar frontrunners who led the way in qualifying on Saturday made the claim in the knowledge that track temperatures will hit in excess of 50C over the course of the Monza 6 Hours and that they will have to undertake double stints on a set of Michelins over the course of the race.
Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe technical director Pascal Vasselon said: “The track temperature should be ...Keep reading
McLaren has proved to be the surprise of the British Grand Prix weekend as Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri secured second and third on the grid at Silverstone in the updated MCL60 car.
The dramatic progress that McLaren has made since switching floor and sidepod concepts has raised eyebrows at other teams, as the Woking-based squad has jumped from fighting near the back to becoming one of Red ...Keep reading
That was the team’s best Saturday result at Silverstone before this weekend, when Lando Norris shone and went one better in his metal-effect machine.
He was met by cheers from the grandstands as he crossed the line to complete a final flying lap in Q3. Norris shot to provisional pole courtesy of a 1m29.861s effort.
While he was knocked off top spot in the dying moments by Max Verstappen ...Keep reading
De Pasquale executed a three-stop strategy, helped slightly by an early safety car, to secure the first proper Gen3 win for a Ford driver.
Cam Waters did technically win the season-opener in Newcastle, however that was only after the Triple Eight Camaros were excluded for a non-performance technical breach.
Since then it's been a Camaro whitewash, before this breakthrough victory for De ...Keep reading
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri secured second and third on the grid for Sunday’s race as they made good use of the latest upgrades.
But nobody at the squad was getting too carried away with things, as there was an acceptance that the high-speed nature of the Silverstone circuit, allied to cooler temperatures, helped play to the strengths of the MCL-60.
And while not wishing to be too ...Keep reading
Blomqvist lapped the challenging Canadian road course in 1m05.653s, just 0.081s ahead of the Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport ARX-06 of Ricky Taylor.
Pipo Derani set the benchmark at 1m06.502s in the Action Express Racing Cadillac V-Series.R, which Taylor beat with 1m05.734s. Blomqvist then took over with 1m05.653s, 0.081s faster than Taylor, but admitted to a “messy ...Keep reading
The Red Bull driver saw off a McLaren attack to take pole, beating Lando Norris by 0.241s, who led an impressive qualifying display for the Woking-based squad with Oscar Piastri completing a 2-3.
But it was a nightmare qualifying again for Verstappen’s team-mate Sergio Perez, who dropped out in Q1 after being shuffled out by the final flying lap improvements.
Charles Leclerc ...Keep reading
The Williams driver was third in both practice sessions on Friday, and was then second in the rain hit FP3 session on Saturday.
While other teams such as McLaren and Mercedes stepped up their game in qualifying, he was seventh in Q1, fourth in Q2 and then eighth in the final session.
Albon said that unlike some rivals Williams had been in good shape from the off at Silverstone, and that ...Keep reading
After heading the final practice session on Saturday, the French manufacturer's two cars both finished inside the top six within half a second of Kamui Kobayashi's polesitting Toyota GR010 HYBRID.
Jean-Eric Vergne was 0.304s shy in the #93 Peugeot that will start tomorrow's six-hour race from fourth, while Menezes was three places further back and 0.422s down in the sister #94 ...Keep reading
The two-time champion ran to ninth on Saturday, lapping 0.939 seconds slower than polesitter Max Verstappen. Team-mate Lance Stroll, meanwhile, clocked 12th position.
That marked the worst qualifying result of the season for Alonso, who notably was second quickest over a flying lap in Saudi Arabia, Miami, Monaco and Canada.
He reckoned Aston Martin had virtually achieved its maximum at ...Keep reading
Both drivers made pointed remarks over the radio during Q1 on Saturday as they tussled for track position while running in third and fourth respectively.
Leclerc said "nice, Carlos, nice, good overtake in the last corner..." after Sainz passed him on track for position, despite the Monegasque driver having priority in the session.
Sainz then said: "It's a bit unfair what you're asking me to ...Keep reading
Lando Norris missed out on pole position by 0.241 seconds to Max Verstappen in the dying moments of the top 10 shootout. He will start from second place ahead of rookie team-mate Oscar Piastri, who leads the second row of the grid.
Meanwhile, Mercedes managed a 6-7 result. George Russell pipped his seven-time champion stablemate Hamilton by 0.056s but the pair ended up over 0.4s adrift of the ...Keep reading
Exclusion from qualifying is the standard outcome for the offence, with Alex Albon the last driver to get such a penalty at last year’s Australian GP.
Bottas stopped on track in Q1, reporting no power, having already done enough to progress through to Q2 in 11th place.
He was not able to take part in the second session, and thus without setting a time he was classified 15th after ...Keep reading
The Dutchman, who took pole for the race having pipped home favourite Lando Norris at the post, was spotted with a damaged front wing in the pitlane during the red flag period in Q1.
It emerged that on exiting his pit garage, Verstappen had not been able to filter out into the fast lane without making contact with the opposite wall and broke off the left hand side of his front wing.
This ...Keep reading
Norris finished Q3 just 0.241 seconds off Max Verstappen’s pole time, with team-mate Oscar Piastri a further tenth behind him.
He had clinched provisional pole in the closing stages before he was demoted by the reigning world champion’s best time, a 1m26.720s.
It marks the Woking-based team’s best qualifying of the year, with Norris’ previous best a third-place start in ...Keep reading
Verstappen will start ahead of the McLarens of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.
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Verstappen drew first blood in Q3, the only driver among the 10 contenders to set their first lap on fresh soft tyres having saved a set earlier on in qualifying, and logged a 1m27.084s.
This was over 0.6s clear of Lewis Hamilton's next-best time, a 1m27.717s, as the Briton beat a rapid Oscar Piastri after the opening array of laps.
But Verstappen's pole time seemed up for grabs and ...Keep reading
The pair repeatedly tussled for the final podium spot during Saturday’s race, with Prema driver Bearman running ahead for much of the race.
They were running behind Isack Hadjar (Hitech) when they first came to blows, with Virtuosi driver Doohan going off at the exit of Stowe and calling for Bearman to be penalised for pushing him off.
But the Ferrari junior pushed on, passing Hadjar up ...Keep reading
Kobayashi claimed the top spot in qualifying by just over one hundredth of a second aboard the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar, in a closely fought session in which the top three cars were separated by a tenth.
A 1m35.358s from Kobayashi compared with Fuoco’s 1m35.375s in the #50 Ferrari 499P LMH, while Brendon Hartley was just behind on a 1m35.480s in the second of the ...Keep reading
The Prema Racing driver crossed the line 13 seconds ahead of second-placed title rival Theo Pourchaire in a dominant performance.
The Dane endured an early safety car and was unchallenged thereafter to take his third win in four rounds.
Pourchaire lined up third for ART and though he briefly fell back to fourth, made it back to second to finish ahead of Jack Doohan (Virtuosi).
It was far ...Keep reading
Over 120 people have made the move from Mercedes since the Red Bull project was launched, including several key players who are now leading the development of the 2026 Ford-backed engine in Milton Keynes.
Audi has also been hiring experienced F1 people to work at its new power unit facility in Germany.
Both new entrants have also been chasing the top university graduates, making it even ...Keep reading
Having qualified on pole position in his Schubert Motorsport BMW, van der Linde was unfazed by two safety cars as he led virtually every lap of the race en route to a fifth career win in the DTM.
Rast secured his first podium as a BMW driver in second following a rapid start, while Dennis Olsen completed the podium spots after late troubles for Abt Audi’s Kelvin van der Linde.
As the race ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton serves as executive producer for the as-yet-unnamed film, and the former world champion has played a big part in helping it come together and ensuring a level of authenticity in the script.
A fictional 11th team called Apex has a strong presence in the paddock and has taken over a pit garage, complete with a “prat perch” on the pit wall opposite.
With the F1 ...Keep reading
As teams continue developments for the next era of power unit regulations, they have started to discover the performance quirks that are around the corner.
And one of the weirdest aspects of rules that are aimed at being more sustainable is that drivers are going to get engaged in fuel-burning activities once again to try to charge their batteries.
Fuel burn is the activity of deliberately ...Keep reading
Leclerc punched in a 1m27.419s prior to a smattering of rainfall, which briefly intensified enough to dampen the circuit and reduce the available grip for the second half of the session.
Early on, Max Verstappen posted a 1m28.836s on the medium compound but came under threat from the Ferrari duo. Neither Charles Leclerc nor Carlos Sainz could match the Dutchman in the final sector despite ...Keep reading
One year on from the Peugeot 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar’s competition debut at the Italian track, Vergne set the early pace in the hour-long session before he was usurped by Antonio Fuoco’s Ferrari, the Italian posting a 1m35.923s in his 499P LMH.
But Vergne then responded with the fastest time of the weekend to date aboard the #93 Peugeot, setting a 1m35.878s that proved 0.045s faster than Fuoco ...Keep reading
The two-time world champion, who looks well on course to take his third title this season, is in the form of his career as rivals are left scratching their heads about how to beat him.
Red Bull's domination has meant that opportunities for others to win are slim, and it means that rising youngsters like Norris are having to tread water until they can get hold of more competitive ...Keep reading
The Argentinian lined up fourth for Saturday’s sprint race, with the start delayed by 10 minutes as rain began to fall, though all of the field bar Gregoire Saucy (ART) stuck with slick tyres.
Colapinto took third at Village on lap one as team-mate Jonny Edgar fell back off the line as poleman Sebastian Montoya (Hitech) held the lead from Jenzer driver Taylor Barnard.
Williams junior ...Keep reading
For the 2023 British Grand Prix this weekend, Pirelli has introduced a new construction that is designed to be more resilient to cope with the rapid escalation in car performance. The compounds are unchanged.
Driver feedback following the two practice sessions across Friday is that they are sliding around more, although this might also be attributed to the high pressures used for ...Keep reading
Due to the short nature of the Nuremberg street circuit, the 27-driver grid was split into two groups for qualifying, with each group getting 20 minutes of on-track time.
Van der Linde was part of the second qualifying session and lapped the 2.3km circuit in 48.775s in his Schubert BMW, beating Thomas Preining’s time from Group A by 0.178s to take pole position.
Manthey EMA’s ...Keep reading
The team submitted eight technical changes to the FIA for the Silverstone weekend. These are led by a reworked floor with a raised edge, a tweaked diffuser to reduce how much the wake from the rear tyres distorts the airflow and wider engine cover bodywork.
An extra winglet has been added to the rear suspension wishbone and a revised rear and beam wing introduced to reduce drag and improve ...Keep reading
Supercars approved a revised rear aero package for the Mustang ahead of this weekend's Townsville 500 in a bid to help find parity with the Chevrolet Camaro.
The tweaks to the rear wing and boot spoiler were expected to improve the rear stability of the Mustang and address rear tyre life issues that have helped the Camaro prove unbeatable so far this season.
There was scepticism following ...Keep reading
As expected, given the propensity for teams to do so, the main changes are made in the outer portion, altering how the flaps and endplate interact in order to improve the outwash effect.
Alpine has achieved this by increasing the chord length of the mainplane whilst reducing the chord length of the three flaps thereafter.
This tightens the gapping between each flap at the ...Keep reading
The Erebus driver put in a controlled performance over 250 kilometres to score a fourth victory of the season so far.
With team-mate Brodie Kostecki, who came into the race as the series leader, enduring a tough afternoon and finishing 19th, Brown secured a 43-point advantage at the top of the drivers' standings. Broc Feeney, who finished second on Saturday, is only a single point further ...Keep reading
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz pushed Max Verstappen close on pure pace at the end of the opening practice sessions for Formula 1’s 2023 British Grand Prix, but a close look at the data shows the Red Bull driver was under little pressure when it comes to race speed.
In the other Ferrari, an electric problem meant Charles Leclerc missed all of FP2, while the Aston Martin drivers had little things ...Keep reading
McLaren Racing chief Brown says Palou’s IndyCar results this year have been “very impressive”, alongside which the 26-year-old Spaniard has conducted multiple tests in its TPC (testing previous car) F1 programme.
Palou is currently 110 points clear of his IndyCar opposition after a stunning first half to the season for Chip Ganassi Racing that has included four race victories.
His most ...Keep reading
Verstappen maintained his dominant grip of top spot in F1 by leading both practice sessions on Friday at Silverstone, but did see his advantage trimmed to just 0.022s by Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz in FP2.
But it was a frustrating afternoon for Ferrari as Charles Leclerc missed the entire FP2 session due to an electrical issue.
Williams impressed on one-lap pace with Alex Albon third and ...Keep reading
The Briton and team-mate George Russell ran a different programme to other squads on the opening day of action, as they steered clear of using the soft tyre in FP1.
However, after going for the softer compound in the afternoon, neither driver found a major step forward in lap time – which has left them confused about what is happening. Hamilton ended up 15th in FP2, with ...Keep reading
In FP1, Alex Albon was an impressive third fastest, and the Thai/British driver then underlined the speed of the car by repeating the performance in FP2.
However, while Albon has been an occasional visitor to the top 10 this season, what caught the attention of rivals was that rookie Logan Sargeant was fifth fastest in FP2 in what was by far the best showing of the American's season so ...Keep reading
The 2008 Canadian Grand Prix winner leads the LMP2 standings heading into this weekend's Monza six-hour race after finishing runner-up in class at the Le Mans 24 Hours last time out with team-mates Louis Deletraz and Rui Andrade.
Kubica has raced in LMP2 with Deletraz since his full-time switch to sportscars in 2021, winning that year's European Le Mans Series crown with WRT and only ...Keep reading
The WEC introduced new rules for 2023 prohibiting the use of tyre warmers, but this was temporarily relaxed for the Le Mans 24 Hours last month after several incidents for drivers fresh out of the pits on cold tyres amid cool temperatures at Spa.
However, with temperatures for the Italian round of the WEC significantly warmer than those seen at Spa in April, AF Corse technical manager Luca ...Keep reading
The Austrian was left to rue a tough weekend for his team at the Red Bull Ring last time out as a penalised Lewis Hamilton dropped behind George Russell for a 7-8 result.
Mercedes reckons that poor showing was an outlier and the eight-time constructors’ champion has everything necessary at its disposal to bounce back.
Notably, the W14 will wear a new front wing for Silverstone to improve ...Keep reading
Kamui Kobayashi was quickest initially in the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar and then improved to a 1m36.363s to give him a margin of just under two tenths over Antonio Fuoco in the #50 Ferrari 499P LMH.
The Italian driver jumped to second just under halfway through the 90-minute afternoon session to split the Toyotas, his 1m36.533s just shading Brendon Hartley’s 1m36.686s in the ...Keep reading
Verstappen was quickest in FP1 and FP2, setting the fastest time of the day at 1m28.078s, just 0.022s quicker than Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, while Alex Albon shone for Williams.
British Grand Prix FP1 results: Verstappen fastest from Perez
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Several other teams had disrupted sessions – including Aston Martin and Mercedes – while Williams produced a stunning result in front of its home fans.
The start of the session was delayed by five minutes so the track could be swept thoroughly following several offs and crashes occurring in the Formula 2 qualifying session, but FP2 ran to its usual one-hour limit.
Nyck de Vries led the ...Keep reading
Earlier this week, F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali and the seven team principals from British teams visited Downing Street for a summit meeting with the Secretary of State for DCMS (Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport) Lucy Frazer, as well as advisers to the Prime Minister.
While the primary aim from F1’s perspective was to ensure the government was aware of the importance of ...Keep reading
A decision is expected soon on whether or not an extra team will be invited to join the grid in the future, with the Andretti/Cadillac project being the highest profile of those who have applied.
Existing teams have consistently made clear their opposition to having a new team take a share of the championship's income, indicating that additional entrant must bring something to F1.
Despite ...Keep reading
Domenicali was speaking on the eve of the British Grand Prix at the London launch of a new book, Ferrari: From Inside and Outside. The book features the work of two of F1’s greatest photographers, Ercole Colombo and Rainer Schlegelmilch. Domenicali was part of Ferrari’s dream team with Jean Todt, Ross Brawn and Michael Schumacher that dominated the sport in the 2000s and team principal until ...Keep reading
The Red Bull sister squad currently props up the constructors' standings on two points, versus the haul of five for next-placed outfit Williams. This follows a ninth-place finish in 2022.
This poor adjustment to the ground-effect rules change led new Red Bull management to consider a total sale of the Faenza-based team. However, it has finally resolved to rebrand AlphaTauri, concentrate its ...Keep reading
M-Sport, working in conjunction with NWM, revealed plans to take on one of the world's most gruelling rallies last year, which has resulted in an extensive development programme to prepare a Ford Ranger, initially conceived by South African firm NWM.
The plan is to create a Ranger T1+ available to be purchased by customers, with orders set to open next month. M-Sport and NWM will then combine ...Keep reading
Concerns have emerged in recent weeks about the risks of a wrong step with the new cars in 2026 ruining the spectacle.
World champion Max Verstappen said that a simulation run he had with the 2026 car, where he was forced to change down gears on the straight to recharge the battery, left him far from happy.
“To me, it looks pretty terrible,” said Verstappen. “If you go flat ...Keep reading
His tragic death in an Aida testing accident in 1999 meant Shingo Tachi’s true potential was never fully realised. British Formula 3 observers in 1996 were afforded brief glimpses of the Japanese driver’s talent when, aged 19, he raced a two-year-old Dallara-Toyota run by Alan Mugglestone under the Team Magic Racing banner to second in the Class B standings. In his obituary, Autosport remarked ...Keep reading
The Dutchman is hunting for his sixth consecutive win this weekend at Silverstone, a feat only achieved by four other drivers, as he makes his 150th start for the reigning champions.
Despite struggling for grip in the opening stages, he managed to take an early lead with a 1m30.443s on the hard Pirelli tyres.
He continued to improve throughout before switching to the soft compound with ...Keep reading
Using the Dallara-built Formula 2 chassis, the car has been augmented with new bodywork to offer the illusion of contemporary F1 machinery, leaning into the design sensibilities enforced by the 2022-spec regulatory framework.
The details are admittedly convincing, although the car is slightly shorter compared to the rest of the field as the F2 chassis is approximately 400mm shorter in its ...Keep reading
Le Mans 24 Hours winner Pier Guidi snared the top spot aboard the #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar by just 0.003s over Ye’s Porsche 963 LMDh in a 90-minute session that was red flagged with a little over two minutes left on the clock.
Pier Guidi logged a best effort of 1m37.533s in the car he shares with James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi, which had been 0.076s behind Ye in Calado’s ...Keep reading
Mercedes and McLaren will take part in a test on the national circuit on 13 July with the Wellington Straight to be artificially soaked to allow the FIA to gather data on the arches or “mudguards”.
The idea emerged after the 2021 Belgian GP at Spa as a way of allowing races or sessions to proceed in conditions that would normally be regarded as too dangerous due to poor ...Keep reading
The entry list was so big it was split into 10 different grids and the cars that made the biggest impact in each all had one thing in common – a combination of technological innovation and beauty that made them a fans’ favourite and also a winner on track.
As a partner of the event since it began in 2002, Richard Mille is no stranger to creating its own icons in the world of watches – ...Keep reading
Red Bull’s Christian Horner has suggested that the 50% electrical contribution is too big, and that his team’s early simulations suggest that drivers will have to change down on the straight, while Max Verstappen has said the plans look "pretty terrible".
Vasseur says that it’s difficult for anyone to produce accurate speed trace figures because the chassis and tyre rules for 2026 have ...Keep reading
The Italian outfit has battled with a lack of consistency from its SF-23 throughout this season, especially in races when its drivers struggle with a lack of confidence because car handling is not predictable.
Upgrades to the car introduced since the Spanish Grand Prix have helped improve matters considerably, and both Sainz and Charles Leclerc were left bullish after last weekend's race in ...Keep reading
I expected my debut season in Formula 3 in 2022 to be one of learning, building and focusing, but it didn’t end up being that way. After Silverstone, which was round four, I had a turning point and I started to get some good results. At the end of the year, I was only seven points off the championship, which subsequently was enough to get me up to F2.
Being with Prema for F3, if you get a ...Keep reading
Last month’s double-points round of the WEC at Le Mans was described as “a turning point” for the Peugeot 9X8 Le Mans Hypercar programme by its technical director, Olivier Jansonnie, straight after the race.
But Jansonnie stressed ahead of the post-Le Mans resumption of the WEC at Monza this weekend that the 9X8 still lacks the consistent pace of its rivals in the Hypercar ...Keep reading
The Milton Keynes-based team has embarked on an ambitious programme to produce its own power unit from the start of the 2026 season.
It has combined forces with Ford and the work at its new facility is advanced, with around 350 staff already working on the future engine which has been on the dyno since last year.
While Red Bull acknowledges the supreme challenge of going up ...Keep reading
This year Porsche returned to the top flight of the WEC for the first time since 2017 with the 919 Hybrid LMP1, partnering up with US squad Penske to run its two-car works programme.
So far its best result has been a third place at the Portimao 6 Hours with the #6 car crewed by Vanthoor, Kevin Estre and Andre Lotterer.
The #6 entry had also been in podium contention at Spa, before it shut ...Keep reading
The KTM rider lapped the Townsville street circuit alongside the reigning Supercars champion and NASCAR sensation during sponsor rides.
It marked his first experience in one of the wild V8 touring cars and came about through the joint link with Red Bull.
“First time in a V8 Supercar and to get in with Shane was awesome," Miller told Autosport.
"I was quite impressed with [how] the car ...Keep reading
The 2024 schedule was released this week and is set to feature a record total of events, which has been the subject of much discussion ahead of the British Grand Prix.
As part of that, Verstappen said for him 24 races was “too many” but added that “we just have to deal with it”.
This follows the Dutchman saying back in Australia in April “I won't be around for too long” regarding ...Keep reading
Pascal Vasselon, Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe technical director, explained that the Japanese driver who shared the second-placed GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar with Sebastien Buemi and Brendon Hartley was caught out by a rearward brake balance setting at the tight Arnage right-hander.
This had not been communicated to Hirakawa when he took over from Hartley for the run to the chequered flag and ...Keep reading
Two races ago, Max Verstappen’s winning margin in Canada was a season-low 9.5-seconds over Aston’s Fernando Alonso (bar the safety car-ended Australian race), while Lewis Hamilton had chased the Red Bull home in Spain.
Last time out in Austria, Ferrari was the closest challenger at the front to F1’s current dominant team – albeit set to finish north of 24s behind with Charles Leclerc ...Keep reading
In the previous event at Watkins Glen, Kirby sparked a four-car crash that took out two Lamborghini Huracan GTD contenders and severely delayed Chip Ganassi Racing’s GTP Cadillac at the entry to The Boot section.
Kirby was determined by IMSA race director Beaux Barfield, in conjunction with IMSA supervisory officials, to have been responsible for the pile-up that enraged factory Lamborghini ...Keep reading
The new design still harnesses many of its predecessor's features, such as the semi-detached flap and endplate juncture.
However, there's also a big change to how the wing is loaded across its span and how it interacts with the nose.
The triangular junction of the endplate's leading edge has been retired in favour of a more rounded finish, which has not only resulted in the diveplane being ...Keep reading
Five people jumped the barriers on the opening lap of the 2022 race but an early red flag for the Zhou Guanyu rollover at Turn 1 meant the field slowed by the time they arrived at the protestors from environmental activist group Just Stop Oil on the Wellington Straight.
In total, six were found guilty of conspiracy to commit a public nuisance and were served with various sentences: up to 12 ...Keep reading
Andretti is the highest profile contender of the teams that have indicated an interest in joining the grid, and an answer is expected soon on whether any of the contenders have been successful.
However, the incumbent teams who face a dilution of their future income have made it clear that any new entrant has to bring something valuable to the table and that benefits the series, which is a view ...Keep reading
The two-time world champion has been left far from impressed about his first experience of the future engine and car rules during trials on the Red Bull simulator.
He had previously spoken out about the way that drivers could be forced to change down gears on the straight to try to recharge batteries and said all indications looked "very bad" about the impact on the racing.
Speaking ahead of ...Keep reading
Shane van Gisbergen’s miracle NASCAR win completes the creation of a second dimension for Supercars. It is no longer just a destination category. It can be a pathway as well.
The series has always enjoyed a healthy notoriety outside of Australia and New Zealand, largely thanks to the spectacle that is the Bathurst 1000. At least once a year, better-than-casual motorsport viewers around the ...Keep reading
Eighteen-year-old MP Motorsport driver van ’t Hoff lost his life during the second rain-soaked Formula Regional European by Alpine Championship race last weekend at Spa.
The crash happened on the Kemmel Straight, after the Eau Rouge and Raidillon sequence, and bore similarities to the 2019 incident that killed FIA F2 driver Anthoine Hubert.
Following the Hubert incident, run-off areas were ...Keep reading
Three weeks ago, Hill had a solitary UK win to his name in 2023 from his victory at the Goodwood Members’ Meeting in a Ford Capri, but in mid-June, he claimed his first two BTCC successes of the season in his West Surrey Racing BMW.
And at Brands Hatch last weekend he scooped a quartet in the ex-Aiello Nissan Primera GT to move onto seven, sending him into 10th place in the ...Keep reading
American Snow had served as managing director commercial since February 2022, and after just 18 months in the job he has decided to return to his home country.
A similar route has been taken by several of his fellow countryman who were recruited by Liberty Media to serve in F1 commercial roles and who did not want to make a long-term commitment to living in Europe.
Snow’s immediate ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing ace Dixon has conceded his Spanish team-mate is going to be “tough to overcome” after scoring his fourth win of 2023 in the midpoint race of the season at Mid-Ohio last weekend.
Palou is enjoying his best-ever start to an IndyCar campaign that threatens to eclipse his results in 2021, when he won the title in his first season with the Ganassi team – only his second ...Keep reading
Neal, whose son Matt won three outright BTCC titles with the team, was emulated by Gordon Shedden, who not only took triple crowns but also matched Neal Jr’s record of 52 race wins with Dynamics.
“Steve and Matt gave me my chance in touring cars in 2006,” Shedden, who claimed Dynamics’ last BTCC race win at Croft in 2022, told Autosport.
“Matt had just won the ...Keep reading
Last weekend's Red Bull Ring event descended into near farce as race control could not keep up with the more than 1200 track limit offences that were alleged to have taken place.
Delays in going through them eventually meant the final result was not sorted until many hours after the race.
As part of that late investigation, several drivers, including Sainz and Lewis Hamilton, got penalties ...Keep reading
The British squad was announced last month as the first customer for the new Corvette Z06 GT3.R in next year’s WEC when LMGT3 regulations replace the existing GTE Am rule set.
TF currently runs two Aston Martin Vantage GTEs in the WEC and European Le Mans Series, which will also swap GTE rules for GT3, and has previously run GT3-spec Vantages in both British GT and GT World Challenge ...Keep reading
The Prancing Horse scored a historic first outright Le Mans win in 58 years last month, also marking the first triumph in the WEC for its new 499P LMH contender.
Pier Guidi was part of the line-up of the winning #51 Ferrari crew alongside James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi, who beat the best of the Toyota GR010 HYBRIDs by one minute and 20 seconds at the conclusion of a thrilling battle at La ...Keep reading
The pair feature on the 19-car entry list for the one-day gravel rally which will take in 68.53km of stages.
For Suninen, the event represents his first competitive drive behind the wheel of the Hyundai i20 N Rally1 after receiving a call-up to drive the team’s third car for upcoming WRC rounds in Estonia (20-23 July) and Finland (3-6 August).
The 29-year-old, who has recently been ...Keep reading
The Australian moved to KTM for the 2023 season having been with Ducati since 2018 and scored his first podium with the Austrian manufacturer with a third at the Spanish GP.
Though he has yet to repeat this, Miller and KTM have been a regular fixture in the podium battle at all rounds this season.
Reflecting on the first half of the 2023 campaign, Miller said: “First ...Keep reading
A detailed investigation comprised of nearly 13,000 respondents and over 70 in-depth interviews with industry leaders has uncovered that motorsport is one of the lowest-performing sports for gender equality, only behind American football, with an average participation across all categories of just 10% for female drivers.
Lella Lombardi was the last female driver to race in Formula 1 in the 1976 ...Keep reading
The ex-Formula 1 racer was drafted in to join Mahindra ahead of last month’s Jakarta round, in place of Oliver Rowland, and was kept on for the following race in Portland.
Now the Indian manufacturer has confirmed Merhi will remain on board alongside Lucas di Grassi for the remaining double-headers of 2022/23 in Rome and London.
Speaking at Portland, Merhi said he was hopeful of making a ...Keep reading
Bridgestone, which has been absent from F1 for 15 years, passed the technical vetting undertaken by the FIA, and has been deemed qualified to be the F1 tyre supplier following the initial tender phase.
Phase 2 is the commercial side, as the supplier is also an official partner of the F1 organisation, paying a substantial fee into the pot that is eventually split with the teams. It's not just ...Keep reading
The New Zealander believes he and team-mates Sebastien Buemi and Ryo Hirakawa will face a strong challenge from Le Mans 24 Hours winners Ferrari for the title starting at the Monza 6 Hours this weekend, even though their points lead is the equivalent to a victory in a regular six-hour WEC round.
“We look strong in the championship because we are 25 points ahead, but we’re definitely looking ...Keep reading
Formula 1’s visit to Silverstone is always one of the highlights of the motorsport season. Hamilton, Russell and Norris explain why they like the high-speed circuit so much and assess their chances ahead of this weekend’s contest.
Rising star Ollie Bearman will be the only British driver on the F2 grid at Silverstone. He is our guest columnist and discusses the highs and lows of his rookie ...Keep reading
As China returns to the calendar after years of COVID-related delays, F1 finally has achieved its record-breaking 24-race schedule, the maximum currently allowed under F1 and the FIA's commercial agreements.
The 2024 schedule contains the same 24 events as the original 2023 plans but has seen several tweaks to make the calendar more sustainable by grouping regional races.
"We're working on ...Keep reading
As preparations get underway at Silverstone for this weekend’s round of the F1 world championship, a full garage and pitwall set up devoted to the APXGP squad that Pitt drives for has been constructed.
This weekend’s GP will mark the first time that filming for the as-yet-unnamed Apple movie will take place at an F1 event.
It is understood that there will be a ...Keep reading
The Supercars star made history with a shock win on debut in the NASCAR Cup Series on the streets of Chicago last weekend.
Already known to be looking at options outside of Supercars, van Gisbergen looks set to make a Stateside switch on a full-time basis sooner rather than later.
He is currently under contract with Triple Eight for the 2024 Supercars season, however, T8 managing director ...Keep reading
Speaking during the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, seven-time world champion Hamilton acknowledged that the championship was now in another period of one-team dominance given the run of ground-effects form currently enjoyed by Max Verstappen and Red Bull.
The Mercedes driver accepted that he had been the beneficiary of such levels of command previously, but reckons this pattern of ...Keep reading
Schumacher took the wheel of McLaren's 2021 MCL35M car on Wednesday as part of F1's so-called TPC rules, which allow tests with two-year-old machinery.
The test is part of Mercedes' arrangement of sharing its test and reserve drivers with McLaren, which takes customer engines from the German manufacturer.
In previous years it had agreed a deal with Mercedes to call upon Stoffel Vandoorne and ...Keep reading
The tweaks came close to helping Charles Leclerc to the grand prix pole position, but he missed out on beating Max Verstappen by 0.048s.
Even having a sniff of the top spot was a sure sign of the progress that Ferrari has made since both updating its sidepods at the Spanish Grand Prix and unlocking some critical answers about how best the SF-23 should be set up.
Indeed, it seems that insight ...Keep reading
As part of the commemorative livery, the engine cover of the Williams FW45 driven by Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant has been draped in the Union Jack. The Grove-based team’s 800-race landmark is also referenced on the sidepods.
Its sponsor Gulf has received more prominent branding on the car's rear wing endplates.
The Silverstone weekend was set to be Williams' 800th grand prix, but due to ...Keep reading
Some deals are done direct by F1 commercial director Brandon Snow or the teams’ commercial departments, but many come in through agencies that then help the sponsoring brand to activate its sponsorship through hospitality or PR and content programmes. One of the largest agencies in motorsport is CSM, headed by David Webb.
Webb’s route to F1 was unconventional. He was in the British Army for ...Keep reading
How good was Dilano van ’t Hoff, the 18-year-old Dutch talent who tragically lost his life in a Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine crash at Spa last Saturday?
In 2021, it seemed that he was a huge talent. Fifteen wins from 41 Formula 4 starts in his rookie season of car racing indicated that here was a big name for the future. He blitzed the Spanish championship (current FIA F3 ...Keep reading
The Tech3 rider crashed in the latter stages of FP2 in the season-opening Portuguese Grand Prix and suffered numerous fractures, including to his back and jaw, after hitting an unprotected tyre barrier.
Espargaro required surgery on the three vertebrae he broke in his back, and his jaw had to be wired shut for a month, forcing him onto a liquid diet.
Speaking in his first appearance since ...Keep reading
The German outfit, a long-time campaigner of Porsche GT machinery, will become the second customer team in the WEC’s top Hypercar class this weekend at Monza after fellow Porsche squad Jota, which first raced its 963 at Spa.
Jani joins Harry Tincknell and Gianmaria Bruni at the wheel of the WeatherTech-liveried #99 car for the fifth round of the season as well as the final two races of 2023 ...Keep reading
Next year's calendar is similar to the one originally announced for 2023, with the Chinese GP set to return and no new events added.
Unusually the first two races of the season will held be on Saturdays, with the second round in Saudi Arabia moving from Sunday to accommodate Ramadan, while the previous weekend’s opener in Bahrain has also moved forward by a day to ensure that there is the ...Keep reading
Andrew Edwards, who oversees van Gisbergen at Triple Eight, was on hand for the shock victory on the streets of Chicago.
Speaking to Autosport, Edwards revealed that it was a late call to make the trip with van Gisbergen, after Trackhouse Racing reached out to learn more about the star Kiwi.
"It’s a bit of a surprise, the whole thing," he said. "Trackhouse kind of reached out and were ...Keep reading
Aramco subsidiary Valvoline Global has signed on to become the Silverstone outfit's long-term official lubricant partner.
At Silverstone Valvoline's red and blue V-shaped logo will feature on the engine cover, sidepod and front wing of the AMR23 car driven by Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll.
The American company's branding will continue to feature throughout 2023 when Aston Martin reverts ...Keep reading
As it nears the start of its 10th season, Formula E is at a critical juncture. Now a well-established part of the motorsport landscape, it still faces a daunting task to break out from its current position as a niche within a niche to achieve true mainstream recognition, not helped by the COVID-19 pandemic and the quickfire exits of Audi, BMW and Mercedes.
Tasked with driving the series to ...Keep reading
The opening lap of last year’s Silverstone race was red-flagged after Zhou Guanyu flipped his Alfa Romeo on the run to Turn 1.
This neutralising of the race was fortunate, however, as members of Just Stop Oil were making their way onto the Wellington Straight as the field trundled down the section of track at reduced speed.
In the year since this incursion, protestors for the group have ...Keep reading
Murphy was part of an antipodean contingent that travelled to the UK for the Super Touring Power event at Brands Hatch last weekend.
While he was there in a competitive sense, racing a Nissan Primera Super Touring car, he was also reacquainted with his former Tasman Motorsport VE Commodore Supercar (above), which is now owned by Alex Sidwell and lives in the UK.
Murphy cut demonstration laps ...Keep reading
After Suzuki’s MotoGP withdrawal at the end of last season, Rins landed at the LCR Honda squad while former team-mate Joan Mir became Marc Marquez’s team-mate at the factory Honda squad.
Despite racing for the satellite squad, Rins is directly contracted to Honda and his initial agreement expires at the end of 2024, but it does include a clause that could allow him to leave early if he was ...Keep reading
Current British Touring Car Championship star Jake Hill was just five years old when he watched Laurent Aiello win the BTCC title in 1999, but Hill himself became a Super Touring winner by securing a clean sweep at the inaugural Super Touring Power meeting.
The 20-car Super Tourers entry, including five machines from New Zealand, contested a pair of races on both of Brands Hatch’s Grand Prix ...Keep reading
That’s certainly how it looked after wet weather voided the strict tyre usage rules in the Saturday shootout and allowed everyone to use whatever slick compound they wanted to over the three sessions.
That led to some frantic laps as drivers worked their way through the soft tyres that they had access to. But there was the unusual sight of Nico Hulkenberg using new mediums in SQ3 to secure ...Keep reading
The car’s key weakness has been rear-end entry stability, and Eddolls acknowledged that it hasn’t helped the Dutchman, who like the other F1 newcomers also faced a run of tricky street and temporary tracks in the first part of the season.
De Vries has struggled thus far to match team-mate Yuki Tsunoda, and has been under pressure from his team boss Franz Tost and Red Bull motor ...Keep reading
The accident that tragically claimed Dilano van 't Hoff's life happened nearly 600 miles from the Red Bull Ring. But the Formula 1 drivers were united in their reaction last weekend.
They spoke eloquently and thoughtfully in the hours after the news of the Dutchman’s death had reached Austria from Spa. And many did so again following the grand prix won by Max Verstappen – an event preceded ...Keep reading
Although the German manufacturer endured what it called a ‘bruising’ race in Austria last weekend, it maintains faith that there is much more performance to be unlocked from its W14.
It also plans to unleash its latest set of upgrades at this weekend’s British Grand Prix, which is understood to include an updated front wing that is aimed at helping improve aero balance – ...Keep reading
Horner has been active in F1 Commission and team principal meetings in suggesting that grand prix racing’s bosses need a rethink over plans for the 2026 cars.
In particular, he is concerned that engines running out of power on straights because batteries are not powerful enough, allied to cars that cannot compensate in performance terms, could hurt the show.
He is clear ...Keep reading
Both the second-tier Xfinity and Cup Series raced on the 2.2-mile, 12-turn course created through Grant Park in downtown Chicago, but the biggest hurdle faced by NASCAR ended up being battles with the weather.
NASCAR newcomer Shane van Gisbergen took a dramatic victory in his Cup debut in Sunday’s race. The participation of the three-time Supercars champion came as part of Trackhouse ...Keep reading
F1 2023's extremely tight midfield battle is trademarked by an ebb and flow of teams rushing out parts that can yield several positions, but while several teams have made significant gains, Alfa Romeo has been quietly slipping backwards in recent weeks.
Valtteri Bottas and Zhou qualified 14th and 17th respectively at the Austrian Grand Prix. And while Bottas' race was compromised by front wing ...Keep reading
Royal Rally of Scandinavia is a new event that utilises some of the famous roads that were part of Rally Sweden when the WRC round was based in the Varmland region around the city of Karlstad, before its move to north to Umea in 2022. The route will include the iconic Colin’s Crest named after the late 1995 world rally champion Colin McRae.
The rally has attracted 47 entries, and the Solberg ...Keep reading
De Vries was given a five-second time penalty and two points on his licence after the third on-track confrontation between the pair in two weekends became the first to draw the attention of the stewards.
In Montreal, both drivers came to a halt on the circuit after De Vries misjudged a move down the inside, but no action was taken by the FIA.
Early in the Austrian race, Magnussen said that ...Keep reading
Marco Bezzecchi's MotoGP contract with VR46 expires at the end of this year. The owner of the Ducati team for which he competes, and with which he is negotiating a contract extension, is also the same corporation that represents him.
In his second season in MotoGP, the 24-year-old Italian has picked up the baton left by Enea Bastianini to become an unexpected guest in the title race on a ...Keep reading
Herta has qualified on pole for the most recent races at Road America and Mid-Ohio, but having slumped from first to fifth in the former after a strategy error, he was the architect of his own downfall on Sunday when he was caught speeding in the pits.
Herta had already lost the lead to series dominator Alex Palou in the first round of pitstops and was battling to stay ahead of Scott Dixon in ...Keep reading
The non-score at Le Mans for #7, which resulted from Kobayashi being hit by two cars as he reduced speed for an 80km/h Slow Zone, followed a problem with one of the official series sensors on their GR010 at the Portimao round in April. That restricted them to ninth position and only two points.
Conway believes that the 41-point gap to the sister #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar driven by ...Keep reading
After a strong recent run, Alpine had a below-par weekend in Austria, with the only highlights a seventh for Ocon in the rain-affected sprint and 10th in the Grand Prix for Pierre Gasly - after a post-race penalty relegated him one position.
In contrast to rivals such as Ferrari and McLaren, the team didn’t bring any updates to the Red Bull Ring. But the introduction of a new front ...Keep reading
Dutch teenager van 't Hoff was killed in a multi-car crash that occurred during the second of two races held in support of the Spa 24 Hours last weekend.
His MP-run machine was struck at high speed by Adam Fitzgerald while stationary on the Kemmel Straight, the result of an earlier incident involving several other cars at Raidillon in wet conditions following a late safety car restart at the ...Keep reading
With two weeks remaining for followers of the world’s premier endurance sportscar series to have their say on the future direction of the WEC, they have already voted in their tens of thousands on a variety of topics.
Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), Le Mans Endurance Management, promoter of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) and Motorsport Network launched the survey to capture ...Keep reading
Constant track limits abuse by drivers in Turns 9 and 10 of the Red Bull Ring flooded the FIA stewards with incidents to review.
On Sunday afternoon the FIA had to look at over 1,200 potential transgressions to determine if drivers deserved to be penalised.
That manual process took over four hours after the race and resulted in a revised classification, with Carlos Sainz, Lewis ...Keep reading
Last weekend, 18-year-old Formula Regional driver Dilano van 't Hoff suffered a fatal accident at Spa, when the Dutchman was hit by a following car while stationary on the Kemmel straight.
The crash happened on a last-lap restart in heavy rain, which dramatically reduced visibility.
It is the second fatal accident at the venue in four years' time after Anthoine Hubert was killed in F2 in ...Keep reading
Super Touring cars were amazingly sophisticated and expensive, which helps to explain why getting a consistently strong grid of them for a historic championship has always been a challenge. But it is possible to relive one of the true heydays of tin-top competition, as last weekend’s Brands Hatch Super Touring Power Event proved.
A fine field of 20 cars qualified for the first race on the ...Keep reading
The recent triple-header prior to the summer break were bruising for Honda, which had three riders – Joan Mir, Alex Rins and Marc Marquez – suffer various broken bones as a result of crashes.
Rins had to undergo two operations on a badly broken leg after a crash in the Mugello sprint, while Mir fractured his hand at the Italian Grand Prix and has been absent since.
Marquez suffered a ...Keep reading
The decision, which came just before the halfway point due to impending darkness, completely changed the complexion of the race.
Drivers who had pitted during earlier caution periods could potentially stretch the fuel and make it to the abbreviated distance without any further stops.
This was not the case for race leader Christopher Bell, who had won both stages. After he and the other ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer has been in talks with the seven-time champion for weeks now as they look to extend their partnership beyond the end of this season.
Recently, both Mercedes and Hamilton expressed some optimism that a deal could get across the line imminently with several meetings to discuss the matter having been arranged.
However, still nothing has been signed ...Keep reading
Michelin stunned the paddock when it announced in May that this season will be its last competing in the Japanese series’ top category, a move that leaves Nissan’s two NISMO-run cars needing to find a different supplier for 2024.
Bridgestone currently supplies 10 of the 15 cars in the GT500 field, up from nine last season, and has already said it would be open to adding NISMO and sister ...Keep reading
The future of the three-time Supercars champion has been a hot topic for some time, based largely on his dissatisfaction with the new Gen3 cars.
Speculation of a move to the US has now been turbocharged by van Gisbergen's NASCAR victory in Chicago last weekend as part of Trackhouse Racing's Project91 programme.
As it stands, van Gisbergen is under contract with Triple Eight until the end of ...Keep reading
Autosport revealed recently how motor racing's governing body has been ramping up its investigations into teams cost cap submissions.
FIA representatives have been visiting teams to check on their cost cap figures, and some squads have been handed questionnaires demanding more than 100 answers as clarification is sought over their spending.
The FIA has also begun checks into the use by teams ...Keep reading
The Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar will run 5kg heavier and with maximum power reduced by 12kW or 16bhp from the levels at which it won the double-points round of the WEC last month with Antonio Giovinazzi, Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado.
Toyota, which finished second and 1m21s in arrears of Ferrari in the 24 Hours, has an unchanged weight for the Monza 6 Hours on 9 July and will run ...Keep reading
McLaren has revealed a chrome livery for this week’s British Grand Prix, with portions of the car that were previously pale blue changed to reflect the silver livery that was run between 2006 and 2014.
After changing the badge on its social media profile to chrome ahead of the launch, excitement quickly built over a return to the former look.
But rather than go ‘all in’, the team ...Keep reading
McLaren recently ran a trio of tribute liveries at the Indianapolis 500 to commemorate its unique Triple Crown successes. These were combined into a single look for Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, who ran the revised livery in Monaco and Spain.
Continuing its celebration, McLaren has revealed a return to the ‘fan-favourite’ chrome look that featured between 2006-2014, and was run by Lewis ...Keep reading
F1 sprints from the Red Bull Ring to Silverstone this weekend as the action continues with the iconic British GP, as Max Verstappen made it five consecutive wins plus a sprint race victory at the Austrian GP.
But Verstappen has never won the British GP – although he did win at Silverstone in F1 in the 2020 70th Anniversary GP – with the British track an unhappy hunting ground for the ...Keep reading
Verstappen was 24 seconds clear of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc in the closing stages of the Red Bull Ring race, which was just more than the time lost by pitting for fresh tyres.
But despite the close margins and the risk of losing the lead if the stop went wrong, Red Bull elected to pit the world champion for softs so he could snatch the fastest lap point on the run to the chequered ...Keep reading
The three-time Supercars champion shocked the racing world by winning the Chicago street race as a ring-in for Trackhouse Racing on Sunday – marking the first victory for a debutant in NASCAR's modern era.
While there was an expectation that van Gisbergen would be competitive given his vast street circuit experience in Australia, a victory on debut was still thought to be ...Keep reading
Formula Regional driver van 't Hoff was killed on Saturday on the final lap of the race after spinning on the Kemmel straight in heavy rain and being hit by a following car as he was unsighted due to severe spray.
The incident drew parallels to Anthoine Hubert's fatal accident at the 2019 F2 round, which occurred in the dry but also involved a driver being unable to react to a stationary car in ...Keep reading
On-track, the 2023 edition of the Austrian Grand Prix offered plenty of wheel-to-wheel action, arguably yielding one of the more exciting Formula 1 races of the year.
But many of its biggest talking points were off it - and quite literally too, as a track limits storm raged during and after the race at the Red Bull Ring.
The result itself was familiar, as Max Verstappen streaked to his ...Keep reading
Autosport revealed over the Austrian Grand Prix weekend that concerns have emerged about the danger of F1 making a mis-step with the rules if it does not perfectly marry the chassis regulations to planned all-new engines.
With there being an equal 50/50 split between internal combustion engine power and electrical power, concerns have emerged about drivers running out of battery power halfway ...Keep reading
The AJ Foyt driver cost race winner Alex Palou a 5s chunk of the lead that he’d built up, and while it didn’t impact the outcome of the result, it left Palou frustrated.
Drivers aren’t obliged to give up their position, especially when it comes to going a lap down in case a full-course yellow comes out, which would allow them to cycle to the back of the pack for the restart.
“I know ...Keep reading
Race control was tasked with reviewing more than 1200 instances of cars having reportedly exceeded track limits - all of which came through Turns 9 and 10 at the Red Bull Ring - by running over the painted white lines that denote the edge of the circuit with all four tyres.
For a 71-lap race, that works out as an average of 17 potential incidents per tour or 60 possible infringements for each ...Keep reading
The Romanian manufacturer announced plans to take part in the FIA World Rally-Raid Championship including the Dakar Rally in an online presentation on Monday, confirming rumours that the Renault Group had been working on returning to the world’s toughest cross-country rally.
Renault scored its one and only victory in Dakar in the third edition of the event back in 1982, when the event was ...Keep reading
After introducing a raft of upgrades in Monaco, Mercedes seemed to be on an upward trajectory with a double podium in the Spanish Grand Prix and another podium place for Hamilton in Canada.
But two weeks on Mercedes took an alarming step back in Austria, with Hamilton and team-mate George Russell finishing eighth and seventh respectively.
Hamilton said the Brackley team's Red Bull Ring woes ...Keep reading
In fact, several of the drivers who battled Van Gisbergen down to the end in Sunday’s race said the Kiwi’s performance was entertaining, but also a little humbling.
The three-time Supercars champion looked to be a contender all weekend on the 2.2-mile, 12-turn course in the Grant Park of downtown Chicago.
He was fastest in Saturday’s practice and came up just short in qualifying ...Keep reading
The Red Bull Ring is familiar to track limits violations, but after checking over 1200 potential breaches at the Austrian GP, the FIA changed the final order for a large portion of the grid with multiple post-race penalties.
Mixed into this was McLaren's best result of the year with Lando Norris in fourth, another strong win by Max Verstappen, a lacklustre weekend for Mercedes and an unusual ...Keep reading
The reigning F1 world champion only briefly dropped out of the lead due to a split strategy against Charles Leclerc but was still able to comfortably win – and he even pitted late on for fresh tyres to grab the bonus point for fastest lap.
PLUS: The VSC tactic that encouraged Red Bull to lose the lead in Verstappen's Austrian GP triumph
Leclerc duly had to settle for second for Ferrari, as ...Keep reading
McLaren finally introduced its first true performance upgrade of the 2023 season on Norris' car last weekend, which allowed him to qualify in the top four for both Saturday's sprint and Sunday's grand prix.
While McLaren benefitted from both Mercedes and Aston Martin having an off-weekend, Norris still produced a spirited drive to fifth, which became fourth after an additional track limits ...Keep reading
Ferrari brought another incremental upgrade to the Red Bull Ring with a revised floor and front wing.
The update was designed not only to add aerodynamic load but also make the SF23 more benign and increase its operating window, after struggling with tyre wear and race pace inconsistency on high-downforce circuits like Barcelona.
Initially the upgrade seemed to work as planned as Leclerc ...Keep reading
However, that recommendation made immediately after the 2022 Austrian Grand Prix, was rejected by circuit bosses who elected instead to keep the same configuration of kerbs and run off.
As F1 chiefs begin an investigation into the near-farce at the Austrian GP where more than 1200 tracks limits offences left the result of the race hanging in the air until five hours after the race as ...Keep reading
With NASCAR celebrating its 75th anniversary, van Gisbergen stunned the motorsport world by winning the rain-delayed first street race in Cup series history.
A late caution for a two-car crash sent the race into a two-lap overtime but van Gisbergen, who had grabbed the lead on the previous restart, had little trouble holding off Justin Haley by 1.259 seconds to claim the win.
The Kiwi did a ...Keep reading
The 18-time WRC rally winner will forsake his role as Toyota WRC team principal for a weekend to pilot a fourth GR Yaris at the gravel rally, alongside reigning world champion Kalle Rovanpera, Elfyn Evans and Takamoto Katsuta.
It will be the Finn’s first rally behind the wheel of a Rally1 car and his first WRC event since Rally Sweden in 2020, when he drove a privately-run Toyota Yaris with ...Keep reading
With continued heavy rain and flooding throughout Sunday, NASCAR has placed the scheduled 5pm local time start of the inaugural Chicago Street race on hold.
The event is the first street race in the 75-year history of the Cup series, scheduled to be run on a 2.2-mile, 12-turn circuit that carves through the Grant Park area of downtown Chicago near the banks of Lake Michigan.
Standing water ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen dominated the Red Bull Ring race to win from Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and team-mate Sergio Perez. But the provisional result was soon plunged into doubt.
Aston Martin launched a protest in relation to incidents of breaches of track limits – predominately at Turns 9 and 10 – not being correctly identified and penalised.
The FIA then revealed that it had been unable ...Keep reading
Championship dominator Palou took control during the middle stint of his two-stop strategy, moving clear of pole position winner Colton Herta of Andretti Autosport, who once again suffered painful misfortune that cost him a podium finish when he was caught speeding in the pitlane.
Poleman Herta led the field to green and held the top spot through the first corner, ahead of Rahal Letterman ...Keep reading
Aston Martin lodged its appeal against the provisional race classification after claiming that a number of cars were not penalised for potentially having breached track limits repeatedly.
The FIA has since revealed it was unable to review all reports of cars having strayed beyond the painted white lines with all four wheels during the race since there were over 1200 cases during the 71 ...Keep reading
The result of the 71-lap race remains provisional as of Sunday evening following a protest from Aston Martin concerning how breaches of track limits were punished.
Of the 20 drivers, only Mercedes racer George Russell and Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso escaped without at least one incident of a track limits violation - the vast majority of which occurred through the high-speed right handers ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton led team-mate George Russell for a 7-8 result at the Red Bull Ring.
Seven-time champion Hamilton finished 39 seconds behind runaway victor Max Verstappen, who might have crossed the line a further 20s ahead had he not made a late pitstop to successfully take the bonus point for fastest lap away from Red Bull stablemate Sergio Perez.
Hamilton, who struggled with car ...Keep reading
The 34-year-old New Zealander is making his NASCAR Cup Series debut this weekend, driving a third entry for the Trackhouse Racing team.
Trackhouse won just last weekend at Nashville, and two of the team's four victories have come on road courses. They have fast cars, and that combined with Van Gisbergen's natural skill makes for a dangerous combination - even if he is a rookie in the ...Keep reading
As the track limits saga continued to dominate the Austrian event, eight drivers received track limit penalties, including Hamilton, and the issue is central to a post-race protest launched by Aston Martin.
While Hamilton did get hit with a five-second penalty for exceeding track limits at Turn 10, Norris felt he was due to gain further penalties due to continued transgressions when chasing the ...Keep reading
The Spaniard equalled his best result of the season with fourth place at the Red Bull Ring while his team-mate Charles Leclerc finished runner-up to dominant victor Max Verstappen.
Sainz had pressured Leclerc for second during the opening stint, but it was agreed that the Ferrari duo would not fight for position.
This pre-race order would come to leave Sainz vulnerable during an early ...Keep reading
The Silverstone team took a double points finish at the Red Bull Ring, with Fernando Alonso finishing sixth and Lance Stroll rounding out the top 10.
The team initially refused to disclose what the grounds for its protest were, but the FIA soon confirmed that Aston took issue with the manner in which the stewards applied track limits penalties.
"A protest has been lodged by Aston Martin ...Keep reading
Leclerc scored only the second podium of the season for the Scuderia as he claimed second place at the Red Bull Ring. The Monegasque also finished third in round four in Azerbaijan.
He enjoyed a 10-lap spell in the lead by undercutting dominant race winner Max Verstappen during an early virtual safety car but was repassed and fell 24 seconds behind the lead Red Bull.
That gap fell to 5s at ...Keep reading
They completed a third victory for the German team after its 2016 and ’20 wins with BMW and Porsche respectively in the double-points round of the GT World Challenge Europe by 11.1s over the second-placed Auto Sport Promotion Mercedes shared by Raffaele Marciello, Jules Gounon and Timur Boguslavskiy.
The winning BMW M4 GT4, which started from down in 26th position after missing out on a spot ...Keep reading
Perez missed the Thursday media day to rest after falling sick on Wednesday night.
He then underperformed during the Friday qualifying session for the full grand prix by exceeding track limits through the final two corners to have three lap times deleted for a Q2 exit.
But after finishing second in the sprint race, Perez then climbed from 15th to complete the Red Bull Ring podium on Sunday ...Keep reading
Verstappen dominated the race, although Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc did lead for a few laps during the pitstop cycle, on his way to finishing second, ahead of Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, who drove from 15th to third after his disastrous qualifying.
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Verstappen nailed the start to head off Leclerc’s run to the inside for the first corner and then dropped him again following an early safety car needed to clear debris from contact between cars back in the pack at Turn 1.
The early phase was Verstappen simply driving clear of Leclerc and Sainz, who was initially told he had to sit behind his team-mate and not attack – a call he got ...Keep reading
Daly, who was fired from his Ed Carpenter Racing ride ahead of the most-recent Road America round, will return to the series at the wheel of MSR's Honda-powered AutoNation/SiriusXM spare car.
IndyCar medics didn’t sign off Pagenaud to contest qualifying, and a follow-up test did not provide the suitable clearance for the 2019 Indianapolis 500 winner to race today either.
Daly was present ...Keep reading
Despite Hamlin’s very productive career, road courses have never been his strong suit. His lone victory – he has 49 in his career – came at Watkins Glen in 2016.
After out-duelling three-time Australian Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen and Tyler Reddick in the final round of qualifying, Hamlin won the pole for Sunday’s first street course race in the 75-year history of the Cup ...Keep reading
The team has been branded as AlphaTauri – the clothing subsidiary of the Red Bull group - since the 2020 season.
However, as recently revealed by Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko, that deal is coming to end, creating the opportunity to rebrand the Faenza outfit next season.
It’s not yet clear whether the team will be named after a sponsor, or a generic chassis name will be ...Keep reading
McLaren had hoped to get the stewards to look once again at the decision to penalise Norris for “unsportsmanlike behaviour” after he backed off to create a gap between himself and team-mate Oscar Piastri ahead of a double stack stop at Montreal.
For the right of review to go ahead under the FIA’s International Sporting Code, McLaren had needed to submit a “significant, new and ...Keep reading
Russell's admission came during an off-beat weekend in Austria, in which he was knocked out of Q2 of grand prix qualifying in 11th by Williams driver Alex Albon.
"Things just aren't really clicking at the moment my end," Russell admitted bluntly.
"At the start of the season I felt a lot more confident, and I was able to put the car on the limit. Now I'm struggling generally and ...Keep reading
Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso qualified sixth and seventh for Sunday's grand prix before repeating this achievement in sprint qualifying, but this time with Alonso in the more advanced position before a Leclerc penalty promoted both drivers one grid slot.
Stroll got ahead on the first lap of the sprint and, helped by staying out on intermediate tyres, he and Alonso eventually finished fourth ...Keep reading
The ebullient and ever-cheerful Midlander, whose son Matt became a three-time BTCC champion with the team he had founded, began his racing career after he bought a Formula Junior Kieft in 1959 with some of the proceeds from an insurance payout following a motorcycle accident.
Eventually Neal moved into saloon cars and became one of the renowned exponents of Minis – ironically one of the ...Keep reading
Unusually the latest move follows soon after a four-year extension from 2024 to 2027 that was announced as recently as March.
The extended contract, signed with Red Bull subsidiary and race promoter Projekt Spielberg, reflects the drinks company’s ongoing commitment to F1 after the death of founder and figurehead Dietrich Mateschitz last year.
It also takes the race deal well into the ...Keep reading
Van 't Hoff, an 18-year-old talent racing for Dutch team MP Motorsport, was killed when he crashed on the Kemmel straight in heavy rain and was then hit laterally by a competitor, who was unable to see van 't Hoff's car due to the enormous amount of spray on the straight following the fearsome Raidillon corner.
Four years on from Anthoine Hubert's fatal accident at the 2019 F2 round at ...Keep reading
Magnussen and De Vries were set to start 19th and 20th on the grid respectively, so both their teams elected to breach parc ferme rules and make changes to the cars with a minimal penalty.
In Magnussen's case, Haas opted to tweak the set-up of his VF-23 car.
De Vries' changes are much bigger in scope, with AlphaTauri changing the Dutchman's rear wing and beam wing to a previous specification ...Keep reading
The sun finally burst through the clouds overlooking the Red Bull Ring on Saturday evening – three hours after the Austrian Grand Prix sprint race had concluded. Rain and low-hanging, misty cloud had otherwise prevailed on a day of glory, reflected tragedy and controversy in the Styrian mountains.
The glory belonged to Max Verstappen and Red Bull – the combination also having a ...Keep reading
The McLaren driver had headed into Saturday’s sprint as Red Bull’s potential main challenger after qualifying third behind Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez. But it all went wrong at Turn 3, as an opportunity to pounce on his Red Bull rivals nearly tripping over themselves evaporated when his car went into anti-stall and delayed him.
Norris did not know at the time of the incident ...Keep reading
Horner has voiced worries in both F1 Commission and team principal meetings that grand prix racing's chiefs need to be careful about how the 2026 rules package comes together, as there is a risk of them unleashing 'Frankenstein' cars if they get it wrong.
He suggests that with the combustion engine and battery configuration leaving open the door for power units to rapidly run out of electric ...Keep reading
The Dutch driver took Van Amersfoort Racing’s first F2 win at the Red Bull Ring, having lined up 11th before getting lucky with a tyre gamble.
Though Frederik Vesti led for much of the 40-lap race, a safety car with 12 laps remaining allowed Verschoor, who started on the soft tyres rather than the super softs, to make a well-timed stop.
Both he and Ayumu Iwasa (DAMS) took full ...Keep reading
Leclerc started ninth in Saturday's 24-lap sprint, which commenced in intermediate conditions but ended on a drying track.
Amid a split between drivers who stayed out on inters and those who came in for slicks, Leclerc was in the latter camp but admitted he was "completely off the pace" with slicks in damp conditions.
The Monegasque dropped to 12th at the finish, 50 seconds behind Red Bull's ...Keep reading
Button is making his second NASCAR Cup Series start this weekend on the streets of Chicago.
Once again driving the No. 15 Rick Ware Racing Ford - with support from Stewart-Haas Racing - he quickly asserted himself as one of the faster drivers on track.
It's a bit more of a level playing field this weekend with everyone experiencing this circuit for the first time. His previous ...Keep reading
Toto Wolff did, however, call Verstappen’s driving at Turn 1, after the Red Bull driver had been held up by Hamilton at the final corner with just 12 seconds remaining in Q1, a “revenge foul”.
Verstappen in turn expressed his annoyance at Hamilton’s driving in the incident and then claimed the second part of what happened was simply “a bit of a shame”.
What happened ...Keep reading
The Prema Racing driver lined up sixth, making up a place on the first lap before an early safety car.
He was then able to capitalise on contact between poleman Gregoire Saucy (ART) and his team-mate Paul Aron to move into the podium places.
The 2021 Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year was then able to pass fellow Prema driver Dino Beganovic for second on lap 14, before ...Keep reading
Three-time Australian Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen had posted the fastest average speed as all 10 cars took to the track in the last minute of Saturday’s final round of qualifying.
Van Gisbergen actually improved on his speed but so did Reddick and Hamlin. Hamlin’s wicked fast lap at 89.557 mph – the fastest registered of the day so far – gave him the top starting position in ...Keep reading
Herta lapped the 13-turn, 2.258-mile road course with a best time of 1m06.3096s, and will start ahead of Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) and Kyle Kirkwood (Andretti).
Last year’s pole-winner, Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward, spun out of qualifying during the opening stage and so will start at the back of the grid.
Fast Six qualifying
The Firestone Fast Six field was split ...Keep reading
Van Gisbergen, the three-time Australian Supercars champion making his Cup debut this weekend in the No. 91 Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet, set a blistering pace throughout the 50-minute session.
He remained at the top of the speed chart most of the practice and set his best average lap speed of 88.571 mph in the final minutes.
Cup veteran Denny Hamlin ended up second-fastest (88.262 mph) and ...Keep reading
Having qualified fifth for Sunday’s Grand Prix, Hamilton endured a disastrous shootout session on Saturday ahead of the sprint, losing his best time in Q1 to track limits and then getting caught up with Max Verstappen on what would have been his last flying lap.
That left him 18th on the grid, and after a fraught race in the midfield that included a charge after a stop for slick tyres ...Keep reading
Hulkenberg holds the record for the most F1 starts (189) without a top-three finish.
Extending his run of strong one-lap performances this season, he qualified fourth for the Red Bull Ring sprint race and then gained a position through Turn 3 when third-starting Lando Norris suffered a loss of traction to trigger anti-stall aboard his McLaren MCL60.
Meanwhile, a slow-launching Max Verstappen ...Keep reading
On Saturday Verstappen won the sprint race from pole position and can complete the clean sweep on Sunday as he starts from pole for the grand prix, after topping Friday’s qualifying.
But for Sergio Perez, who finished runner-up to Verstappen in the sprint race after almost clashing with his Red Bull team-mate on the opening lap, he will start from a lowly 15th place after having ...Keep reading
The Canadian’s impassioned call came after Dutch Formula Regional driver Dilano van ’t Hoff lost his life on Saturday in an accident on a rain-soaked circuit at the top of Raidillon.
The incident involved a high-speed collision and was similar in nature to the accident that cost the life of F2 driver Anthoine Hubert at the same part of the track in 2019.
The fact that two young drivers ...Keep reading
Unlike team-mate Oscar Piastri, Norris has benefitted this weekend from the major upgrades brought to the MCL60 for the Red Bull Ring. His car was fitted with a new floor and sidepod design.
He used the revised machine to snare fourth in the Friday qualifying session to determine the grid for the full grand prix and then went one better in the Saturday shootout to land third for the 24-lap ...Keep reading
Pagenaud reported a brake failure at the end of the 180mph backstretch at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.
The 2016 champion and ’19 Indy 500 winner’s Meyer Shank Racing car hit the grass verge at barely abated speed, before becoming airborne.
As it hit the gravel, which is on a downslope at ‘China Beach’, the car was launched into six-and-a-half somersaults and came to rest on its ...Keep reading
Saturday polesitter Verstappen complained of wheelspin off the line in the slippery conditions. This delay allowed Perez to dive up the inside into the Turn 1 right-hander.
But Perez’s tight line on entry forced him wide over the painted exit kerbs, which meant he lost traction and then appeared to drift back across the circuit to the inside.
That delay under acceleration allowed ...Keep reading
The Red Bull duo of Verstappen and Sergio Perez swapped the lead on the opening lap with some robust driving between the team-mates, each blaming the other.
But Verstappen got clear as Perez got trapped behind Nico Hulkenberg’s Haas for a dozen laps, and motored away to another dominant victory, with all the action happening behind as the track dried and some switched to slicks.
2023 F1 ...Keep reading
There, each Red Bull driver appeared to push the other off-track, and that allowed Nico Hulkenberg to play an early starring role for Haas before he had to complete a late charge on slicks as his starting intermediates faded.
At the start, Perez made a slightly better getaway compared to polesitter Verstappen and then shot to the inside alongside the pitwall as the pair raced to Turn ...Keep reading
Power topped the 45-minute session around the 13-turn, 2.258-mile road course with a best lap of 1m06.4905s.
Andretti Autosport’s Colton Herta set the early pace at 1m07.7772s before a red flag for Pagenaud’s huge somersault at Turn 4, the Frenchman immediately radioing-in to report that he’d suffered a complete brake failure.
His Meyer Shank Racing car was launched over the grass ...Keep reading
Only Lando Norris has the updates at his disposal for the time being, with Oscar Piastri forced to wait until the British Grand Prix as the team prepares enough parts for both sides of the garage.
As expected, given that even Mercedes and Ferrari have abandoned their own design concepts and switched to the now common downwash ramp-style solution, McLaren has also made a directional ...Keep reading
Sainz was stuck in the garage until the final minutes of the session after reporting brake-by-wire problems on his Ferrari.
He came back out in time to attempt one flying lap, which propelled him from last to first.
"It was a very stressful Q1 in these conditions," Sainz smiled. "Obviously, not ideal to be able to do only one lap in Q1 and to put it on P1 was a pretty heroic lap.
"Without ...Keep reading
The Hitech driver started on the slick tyres despite a damp track, slipping back off the line as those on wet tyres profited.
But as the Red Bull Ring dried and those ahead pitted for primes, he was able to claw back positions and retook control on lap five.
From there, the Red Bull junior was able to build a 2.5s lead to take his maiden win ahead of 2022 F3 champion Victor Martins (ART) and ...Keep reading
During Q1 of the Saturday morning shootout qualifying session, the Ferrari driver got in the way of his McLaren competitor in the final sequence of corners.
Piastri complained on the team radio about the matter and both drivers were summoned to see the stewards after the session.
Following a hearing, the stewards concluded that while Leclerc had not had as clear communication to warn him ...Keep reading
The two-time world champion will start the shortened Saturday afternoon race at the Red Bull Ring from seventh place on the grid, one spot ahead of his Silverstone team-mate Lance Stroll.
Alonso reckoned that the one-lap result from the Aston Martin duo was “kind of a miracle” since an extra qualifying shootout for a sprint round and a drying session had exposed a flaw in the ...Keep reading
“Aren't these the 20 best drivers in the world or what?”
No, given the strength and depth of talent in other motorsport categories. But, if you found yourself shrieking that or likewise into the internet or some other unfortunate place after Formula 1 qualifying at the 2023 Austrian Grand Prix, you’re the problem.
Not the rules and not the drivers.
Since the FIA ...Keep reading
The death of the 18-year-old MP Motorsport driver was announced by FRECA, two and a half hours after the second of the two single-seater races on the bill of the Spa 24 Hours round of the GT World Endurance Challenge ended with a red flag.
No details of the accident were revealed by FRECA in the short statement.
The race, round eight of the 2023 series, was stopped on what should have been ...Keep reading
The day starting in raining conditions at the Red Bull Ring and sprint qualifying being declared wet meant the strict slick compound requirements for the compacted session were suspended and drivers could use whatever tyres they wanted throughout.
In the end, other than the Williams completing early Q1 laps on intermediates, the drivers ran slicks throughout.
Verstappen made full use of the ...Keep reading
Ferrari and Red Bull being closely matched on one-lap speed this weekend has raised hopes of a possible race-long battle between them in the sprint event – if Leclerc and Verstappen repeat their qualifying result in the shootout session.
Should that happen and Verstappen heads his 2022 title rival on the grid for Saturday afternoon’s race – a situation that is not guaranteed after the wet ...Keep reading
The Prema Racing driver, who was on provisional pole on Friday before his lap was deleted for exceeding track limits, had entered Saturday frustrated but confident after a tricky qualifying.
He started eighth for the reverse grid sprint race, but a strong start saw him jump into third on lap one.
The Estonian driver clung onto leader Pepe Marti (Campos Racing) and second-placed Kaylen ...Keep reading
In Saturday's first race of the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine (FRECA) at Spa-Francorchamps, MP Motorsport driver Sami Meguetounif was tipped into the gravel after contact with Van Amersfoort Racing's Joshua Dufek at Les Combes.
The single-seater championship's stewards deemed the contact a racing incident, with neither driver wholly to blame.
When they posted their ...Keep reading
The Mexican driver has had a disappointing run of races, which has included him getting knocked out of Q2 for the Austrian Grand Prix after falling foul of three separate track limits offences.
Ahead of an imminent run in an RB19 for Daniel Ricciardo after the British Grand Prix, where he will conduct Red Bull’s Pirelli tyre test, there have been inevitable suggestions that the Australian ...Keep reading
The team opted to give the first step of a new package that will be split over three races only to Lando Norris, allowing it to perform a direct back-to-back with Oscar Piastri’s standard car over the whole Red Bull Ring weekend.
Norris was sixth fastest in Q1 after losing a lap time to track limits that would have put him third. Subsequently he was third in Q2 and fourth in Q3, behind only ...Keep reading
In a statement on Friday, NASCAR confirmed an employee of a private contractor working on the construction of the Chicago Street Course had suffered a “fatal medical emergency”.
Police reports and WGN of Chicago identified the man as a 53-year-old who worked for a staging and lighting company.
Around 12:30pm local time, the victim was working on the front straight area of the course near ...Keep reading
For the second year in a row in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix, a host of laps were deleted for drivers running too wide out of the final two corners – especially during the middle part of the session Verstappen eventually topped.
Afterwards he said the problem “almost looked like we were amateurs out there” – a suggestion he continued in the post-qualifying press ...Keep reading
O’Ward topped the 75-minute session around the 2.258-mile road course with a best lap of 1m06.4935s, ahead of points leader Alex Palou (Chip Ganassi Racing).
Josef Newgarden set the early pace with a lap of 1m07.3573s in his Chevrolet-powered Team Penske entry, but was then shaded by Arrow McLaren’s Felix Rosenqvist at 1m07.3249s and Will Power (Penske) slotted into P2 with ...Keep reading
A close associate of Vijay Mallya, Fernley held the role at the Silverstone team from its first season under the Force India name in 2008 until the summer of 2018, when Lawrence Stroll bought the assets of the company and relaunched it as Racing Point.
A native of Stockport, Fernley had an initial involvement with F1 via the Ensign team in the early 1980s, helping close friend Jim Crawford to ...Keep reading
Norris dropped from 9th place to 13th and out of the points in Montreal after receiving the sanction for what the FIA deemed was unsportsmanlike behaviour.
This was in relation to what the FIA believed was a deliberate attempt during a safety car period to hold back rivals and get a buffer between himself and team-mate Oscar Piastri, who was ahead of him on track, so he did not lose time during ...Keep reading
The wheel arch or “mudguard” concept emerged after heavy rain meant that the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix ran without any racing laps being completed.
The idea is that all cars have the facility for the wheel arches to be fitted in cases of extreme wet weather in order to ensure that track action can take place. If the track dries, the devices will stay on the cars.
The FIA outlined its plan ...Keep reading
The Dutchman had been summoned to see the stewards at the Red Bull Ring for holding up Kevin Magnussen in Q1.
The Red Bull driver had secured pole position during a frenetic qualifying which was overshadowed by a spate of track limit penalties.
But nearly two hours after the chequered flag, the FIA stewards announced that Verstappen was under investigation for an incident with the Haas ...Keep reading
The Red Bull driver failed to make it into Q3 at the Red Bull Ring after failing to set a clean lap during the session.
And while being clearly outside the white lines in the first two runs, Perez thinks it's unfair that he was also penalised on his final effort when he felt he had been disturbed by the Williams of Alex Albon.
"There's so many things I can control and unfortunately, with ...Keep reading
The Red Bull driver secured pole position during a frenetic qualifying session at the Red Bull Ring, which was overshadowed by a spate of track limit penalties.
But nearly two hours after the chequered flag, the FIA stewards announced that Verstappen was under investigation for an incident with Magnussen.
According to a short statement issued by the FIA, Verstappen is alleged to have held up ...Keep reading
With margins tight on the short Red Bull Ring, Russell qualified in 11th when his best Q2 time was deleted for crossing the track limits in the final corner, a recurring theme in qualifying for Sunday's grand prix.
But even without having laptimes taken away Russell appeared to be struggling for pace, which he doesn't have an answer for.
"Just not quick enough today," he said. "I think from ...Keep reading
F1 has turned its sprint race into a standalone Saturday event, with sprint qualifying deciding the starting grid in the morning followed by the sprint race in the afternoon. Here’s how the latest sprint race format changes work.
Qualifying for Sunday’s grand prix was held on Friday, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen taking pole position from Charles Leclerc in the Ferrari, while ...Keep reading
As revealed by Autosport earlier, F1 teams have been asking the FIA to conduct a more thorough analysis of the impact of the new 2026 cars and engines amid concerns about how they will perform on track.
There are worries that plans for increased reliance on batteries – with a 50/50 split between combustion engine and electric power production – could backfire and leave cars unable to run ...Keep reading
The defending two-time champion landed his fourth pole position in a row courtesy of a 1m04.391s effort at the Red Bull Ring. He led Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc by 0.048s.
But the Friday qualifying session for the grand prix on Sunday was most notable for the number of lap times deleted for drivers exceeding track limits through the final two corners.
Red Bull driver Sergio Perez failed ...Keep reading
Ferrari brought a revised floor and front wing to this weekend's Red Bull Ring sprint event as part of its strategy to fast-track plenty of smaller upgrades.
The revised package appeared to give Leclerc and Sainz an immediate boost after just a single free practice session to dial them in on Friday, as the pair qualified in the top three behind Red Bull's polesitter Max Verstappen.
"I don't ...Keep reading
Verstappen will start ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.
As this is a sprint weekend format, these sessions set the grid for Sunday’s race and have no impact on Saturday’s sprint event.
Austrian Grand Prix ...Keep reading
Under cloudy skies and in stronger winds compared to Friday’s earlier practice session, the drivers found themselves incurring multiple track limits penalties – particularly in Q2.
Verstappen led the way in all three segments and after the first runs in Q3, where Leclerc trailed by 0.206s behind the world champion for Ferrari.
On the second and final Q3 goes, Verstappen led the pack ...Keep reading
Huber Motorsport driver Cairoli topped the times in Friday afternoon’s Superpole session for the fastest 20 cars in the opening qualifying session on Thursday.
The Italian posted a 2m16.880s on his first flying lap aboard the #20 Porsche 911 GT3-R to edge out AF Corse Ferrari driver Alessio Rovera by just over a tenth.
Cairoli and team-mates Jannes Fittje, Tim Heinemann and Antares Au are ...Keep reading
Red Bull was hit with a 70% allowance of wind tunnel and CFD time as part of F1's Aerodynamic Testing Restrictions, a table which awards less development time the better a team performs in the constructors' championship.
As the reigning champion Red Bull therefore received the smallest allowance of all 10 teams, which comes on top of an additional restriction as a punishment for breaching the ...Keep reading
The Swiss team has been bringing new parts to the track on a regular basis at recent races, but the Silverstone update is seen as particularly valuable as it is aimed at improving the performance of the C43 in fast corners, an area where the car has been lacking.
Bottas says that previous upgrades have already had a positive impact, but that has to some degree been disguised by disappointing ...Keep reading
After a difficult start to the 2023 season, the team began its pursuit of a different concept when it introduced the first tranche of upgrades to the current W14 model in Monaco.
The revised car subsequently showed signs of good progress in Spain and also performed well in the Canadian Grand Prix, at a venue that wasn’t expected to play to its strengths.
Hamilton made it clear that he’s ...Keep reading
Ricciardo is currently serving as reserve driver for Red Bull and AlphaTauri, and inevitably he has been mentioned in connection with a seat at the latter in 2024.
However, the team has always been seen in the Red Bull camp as a training ground for young drivers, and Tost says that won’t change unless it’s deemed that none of the youngsters are ready for F1.
“The philosophy is quite ...Keep reading
On several occasions this season, including most recently at the Canadian Grand Prix, Haas has seen high grid spots turn into lowly finishing positions as a result of its problem, which is exacerbated running in traffic in race situations.
Nico Hulkenberg qualified second in Montreal and then started fifth after being hit with a penalty for driving too fast under the Q3 red flag, but came ...Keep reading
On a warm and sunny afternoon in the Styrian hills, Lewis Hamilton opened the session with a 1m09.021s, but Max Verstappen's 1m08.094s soon blew that into the reeds as the current championship leader made the most of the session's early phases.
Sergio Perez turned up the pace with a 1m07.595s lap to go top and, although Verstappen closed off the opening five minutes with a 1m07.145s, the ...Keep reading
Red Bull Racing RB19 technical detail
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A look at the internal brake disc fairing and caliper design on the Red Bull RB19 without the outer brake drum in place.
Red Bull Racing RB19 technical detail
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A closer look at the brake caliper and the tube-like fins used to help manage temperatures.
Red Bull Racing ...Keep reading
Yamaha’s 2023 season has been disappointing, with the Japanese marque bottom of the manufacturers’ table having scored just one grand prix podium and one sprint rostrum courtesy of 2021 world champion Quartararo.
The Frenchman has complained numerous times this season that everything Yamaha tried with the new bike in the winter never worked, with Quartararo reverting to 2021 set-up ...Keep reading
With five wins, 10 pole positions and 24 podium finishes, Mahindra Racing can claim to be one of the more successful teams in Formula E. Present since the championship's inception in 2014, it had time and again proved its credentials by taking the fight to some of the best in the business.
However, the Indian manufacturer has been on a downward trajectory over the last few years and the ...Keep reading
As F1 gears up for an overhaul of both the power unit and chassis regulations, concerns have emerged about the potential of a negative impact on the spectacle if elements of the new package do not work as hoped.
Autosport has learned that at the regular team principals' meeting at the Canadian Grand Prix with F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali, fresh fears were raised specifically about the power unit ...Keep reading
On Thursday, Hamilton suggested that Red Bull's dominance is likely to continue despite the budget cap as the huge gap it enjoys affords it to shift its development efforts to next year's car earlier than its rivals.
The seven-time world champion, therefore, suggested implementing a summer deadline, which would be the earliest point from which any team could switch attention to its car design ...Keep reading
McLaren realised even before the season started that it had dropped the ball on its MCL60 concept and changed its floor philosophy for April's Baku round, which set a new development baseline rather than delivering an immediate performance improvement.
The raft of upgrades McLaren is introducing over the three July rounds represents the first true upgrade push for the season, which the Woking ...Keep reading
Alonso has proved to be one of the stars of the 2023 campaign after bagging six podiums, while Stroll has endured a more challenging time with his best result being fourth place at the crash-hit Australian GP.
And although Stroll has singled out Alonso as the "best team-mate" he has ever had in F1, he says that is no excuse for not lifting his own performances to try to match him.
"In terms ...Keep reading
Norris was penalised in Montreal for slowing down too much behind the safety car from the hairpin to the pitlane, thereby purposefully opening a gap to team-mate Oscar Piastri so McLaren could perform a double pitstop without Norris risking losing a position to Charles Leclerc.
Norris was slapped with a five-second penalty which perplexed him at the time, and two weeks on the Briton says he is ...Keep reading
“It was like travelling to another world. We all loved the track, because it was so different and the atmosphere was amazing. It was just one big adventure.” The words belong to 1970s and 1980s touring car star Pierre Dieudonne and their subject is the Brno street circuit in the former Czechoslovakia.
The Belgian was twice a winner, in 1976 and 1979 driving a BMW 3.0 CSL for Luigi Racing ...Keep reading
Last year, several protestors from the Just Stop Oil group got onto the circuit at the start of the Silverstone race, just before it was red-flagged for Zhou Guanyu’s accident.
Seven people were subsequently arrested, and F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali called their actions “completely irresponsible and dangerous” and said their actions “put lives in danger”.
Similar protests have ...Keep reading
The future of the three-time Supercars champion has been the subject of significant speculation recently.
Earlier this year he inked what was billed as a multi-year contract extension with his Triple Eight team, only for the driver himself to clarify that it was actually just a single-year deal that covered 2024.
Even his continuation next year has been the subject of speculation given his ...Keep reading
The Thai driver has put himself back in the spotlight after some impressive drives for Williams this season, including a brilliantly executed seventh place in Canada as he held off intense pressure from chasing cars.
That performance earned him the F1 Driver of the Day Award, which is voted for by fans.
Having also been singled out for praise from his former Red Bull boss Christian Horner ...Keep reading
BMW drivers Connor De Phillippi and Nick Yelloly can now celebrate their first Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) victory, despite crossing the finish line second to the #6 Porsche 963.
In post-race technical inspection, the Porsche was found to have a chassis skid plate measuring thinner than the legal minimum. It was moved to the rear of the class finishing order, which elevated the #25 BMW to ...Keep reading
The Red Bull Ring lap is the fifth shortest on the 2023 calendar at 2.68 miles. However, its high-speed nature means that in a dry session, it is likely to produce the quickest time.
Max Verstappen claimed pole at the circuit last season in 1m04.984s. The next-fastest was his 1m10.342s run at Zandvoort.
In previous years, this has led to congested out-laps as drivers seek clear air for their ...Keep reading
Last year I had a great second season in the Porsche Carrera Cup GB. It was nice to get that championship wrapped up and, staying on with Team Parker Racing from 2021, it was important to hit the ground running. It was nice, a weight off my shoulders and a box ticked.
This season I was really expecting to be a gold-rated driver, but coming in as I did with a silver grading meant there were ...Keep reading
Hamilton is part of a Mercedes team that dominated the series and won seven drivers’ titles from 2014-2020.
He admits that such a position gives teams the option to stop developing their current car and make an early move to the next model – thus helping to perpetuate their level of success and creating periods of dominance.
He says that If teams were prevented from switching their ...Keep reading
Kanaan, who has claimed the 2004 IndyCar title and has 17 IndyCar Series wins to his name since joining America’s premier open-wheel class in 1998, hung up his helmet after racing a fourth car for McLaren in this year’s 107th running of the Indy 500.
His new role is to provide guidance and strategy for on-track and off-track advancement, and the 48-year-old Brazilian will travel with ...Keep reading
There has been intense speculation about Leclerc’s Ferrari future after his and the team’s title challenge in 2022 fell apart.
The Scuderia’s SF-23 package this year has been running well adrift of Red Bull’s class leading RB19.
During the early rounds of the season, Leclerc was linked with Mercedes as the German manufacturer is yet to sign Lewis Hamilton to a new deal alongside ...Keep reading
Hill got a taste of motorsport’s potential future at Daytona’s Sandown circuit, when he became the first person to drive a kart powered by fully synthetic fuel, produced by former F1 technical chief Paddy Lowe’s company Zero.
The carbon neutral fuel, which Zero makes from air and water using renewable energy, can be dropped directly into any engine. Once available at ...Keep reading
Ocon has already made contact with the Hollywood star and is planning to visit him on the set of the next Deadpool 3 film in London.
Reynolds and his colleagues Rob McElhenney and Michael B. Jordan are part of a consortium of three US-based entities that have combined to acquire a 24% stake of the Alpine team.
"I think it's fantastic," said Ocon when asked by Autosport about the ...Keep reading
The tweaks were trialled at a filming day Ferrari conducted at Fiorano earlier in the week where its F1 challenger ran alongside its Le Mans-winning Hypercar.
This was a shrewd move by the Scuderia, given that teams have less time to evaluate parts during free practice at the Red Bull Ring because it is a sprint event.
The changes that Ferrari have made are pretty extensive but mainly focus ...Keep reading
Strategy is a major talking point of an F1 grand prix weekend, with teams formulating initial plans well in advance of arriving at the track.
Strategy is ultimately dictated by tyre life, with each driver limited to 13 sets of dry rubber to last the three days. This number is made up of eight sets of the designated soft compound, three of the medium, and two of the hard.
Many factors are ...Keep reading
The WRC is working on an expanded 14-round calendar for next year with the aim of adding a desert based-round in Saudi Arabia.
The championship continues to harbour a wish to return to the UK, which has been absent from the WRC schedule since the 2019 Wales Rally GB.
A bid fronted by promoter Bobby Willis to bring the WRC back to the UK in Northern Ireland has made three attempts to join the ...Keep reading
As the rules were originally written, drivers were obliged to use new medium tyres in Saturday’s SQ1 and SQ2 sessions, and then new softs on SQ3.
Teams realised that they didn’t have to save a set of new softs for SQ3 if they felt that those tyres would be more useful earlier in the weekend, either in FP1 or Friday’s qualifying session for the grand prix.
In Baku, Yuki Tsunoda and ...Keep reading
De Vries has faced a rough first third of his rookie season, struggling to get on Tsunoda's pace as a lack of consistency has held him back across the first eight races.
He is one of two drivers yet to register points, alongside fellow rookie Logan Sargeant, although that is also partly due to an underperforming AT04.
Pressure on De Vries has already started mounting, with Red Bull advisor ...Keep reading
- Reid to reunite with old rivals
Anthony Reid’s passion for Super Touring machinery is plain to see. He describes the 1990s as the British Touring Car Championship’s “zenith” and says this period “really made my name in motor racing”.
Reid has been a regular in the Classic Touring Car Racing Club’s Super Tourers series over the past two years, and is grateful to Richard ...Keep reading
The Japanese manufacturer recently announced an official return to F1 with Aston Martin for 2026, with it having originally intended to quit the series entirely so it could focus on electric road car development.
The U-turn marks another step in the stop-start nature of Honda in F1, with it having had four official eras so far – 1964-68, 1983-92, 2000-08 and 2015-21.
Since 2022, it has ...Keep reading
The all-electric series revealed a 17-race calendar spanning 13 locations last week, with a long-awaited first trip to Tokyo the only confirmed new venue so far.
Three TBC slots remain to be filled, two early in the calendar in February, and a third later in the season in May.
The first two of these are most likely to be occupied by returning venues Cape Town and Hyderabad, pending the ...Keep reading
The grid was cut down by two at the end of last year when Suzuki elected to quit MotoGP, citing financial reasons for its decision to withdraw one year into a new contract with the championship.
In recent weeks, there have been rumours about the possibility of KTM expanding its presence to six bikes for 2024 as it looks to find a place for its prodigal talent Pedro Acosta.
However, in an ...Keep reading
Foden (above right) won all three Welsh MX-5 Championship races - for Mk1 models of the sportscar - to continue his strong start to the season and take his tally for the year to nine.
The treble success means he has improved by six spots in the rankings and he is now five wins behind table-topper Freddie Slater.
But Foden was not the only driver to score a hat-trick at Anglesey, as Elliot ...Keep reading
Frontier Developments' F1 Manager series got off to a solid start with last year's F1 Manager 2022. The game was accessible enough for casual Formula 1 fan but retained enough detail to satisfy hardcore enthusiasts.
However, for several players, the game lacked the kind of depth seen in other sports management franchises like Football Manager and Out of the Park Baseball, missing key ...Keep reading
The idea was logical that if there was less disturbed air thrown up by cars then this should allow some closer racing.
The subsequent simplification of car's upper surfaces, with more reliance on the underfloor to generate downforce, certainly seemed to achieve some of these goals initially.
But, as the teams now have a more sound understanding of the fundamentals, they are ...Keep reading
Three British stars of Formula 1 look out at you from the front cover of this week’s edition of Autosport magazine – on sale on 29 June – and none of them are the country’s most famous or successful exponent at the sport’s top level. But Lewis Hamilton can’t go on forever, and it’s time – especially with British Grand Prix week at Silverstone fast looming – to look at who out of ...Keep reading
D'station has been on the WEC grid in the GTE Am class since 2021, running an Aston Martin Vantage GTE in partnership with TF Sport.
Gentleman driver Satoshi Hoshino has shared driving duties with D'station team manager Tomonobu Fujii throughout that period, with the pair being joined by a revolving cast of silver-rated drivers.
So far they have scored two podium finishes, one at Monza in ...Keep reading
The start of F1’s new ground effect era witnessed some interesting variation in sidepods, with Red Bull one of many to adopt what is known as a downwash design.
Elsewhere on the grid, Ferrari had its in-wash bathtub solution and Mercedes went with its zeropods.
But as teams have come to better understand what is needed to extract the best performance from the current ...Keep reading
Event organisers have today revealed that an all-new head-to-head asphalt stage will be built within the 45,000 capacity Toyota Stadium in the Aichi region of Japan.
The new stage will become part of the rally schedule with the field set to tackle it once a day from Thursday through to Saturday in front of a packed crowd.
Toyota Stadium hosted the event’s ceremonial start and finish last ...Keep reading
The FIA introduced spending limits for the 2021 season with the long-term goal of making the series more tightly contested by working to limit the leading teams’ ability to outspend the rest of the grid.
It was also hoped that closing the resource gap would allow for more underdog winners. However, Red Bull has dominated the ground-effects era and is enjoying a perfect win record so far in ...Keep reading
Ganassi heads into this weekend’s halfway IndyCar round at Mid-Ohio holding a 1-2 in points with Palou leading Ericsson by a whopping 74 points. Team Penske's Josef Newgarden is the best non-Ganassi driver, a further seven points behind.
Palou has already equalled his win tally from his title year with CGR in 2021. Meanwhile Ericsson, the winner of the season-opener in St Petersburg, came ...Keep reading
In recent weeks plenty of discussion and brainstorming has focused on how rallying’s top tier can be improved on several levels. This has largely been orchestrated by current World Rally Championship drivers who believe it is time for the discipline to make changes to grow. Technical and sporting regulations, event formats and series promotion are all topics that have been debated in several ...Keep reading
Aston Martin brought a new package to the Canadian Grand Prix earlier this month, featuring a heavily revised sidepod and floor.
The update enabled Fernando Alonso to take second after a more difficult Spanish Grand Prix, albeit on a low-downforce Circuit Gilles Villeneuve that was more suited to the AMR23.
Its update was mainly focused on efficiency, with the team admitting that Red Bull's ...Keep reading
AlphaTauri is in-line for a management restructure as long-serving team boss Franz Tost will step aside at the end of the campaign to be replaced by respected Ferrari racing director Laurent Mekies.
Marko has now said that this extensive overhaul will extend to the AlphaTauri name. Speaking to Austria’s Kleine Zeitung, the 80-year-old explained: “AlphaTauri will have two new leaders in ...Keep reading
The Ford squad has been absent from the WRC podium since Ott Tanak finished second in Croatia back in April, a result which was then followed by the Estonian finishing fourth in Portugal before an electrical fault robbed him of a top 10 result in Sardinia.
Last weekend, Tanak led the Safari Rally heading into Friday, but his hopes of a podium were dashed when a tyre came off the rim ...Keep reading
Gabriel Bortoleto was yet to turn one year old when his mentor Fernando Alonso won his first world championship with Renault in 2005. But the Brazilian teenager has learned a lot from the Spaniard, having been taken under his wing as part of A14 Management last September.
Moving to Europe aged 11 to compete in karting, Bortoleto made his car racing debut in 2020, finishing fifth in Italian F4 ...Keep reading
GMF Capital (GMF), the family office for Gary Fegel and a leading private investment firm, today announced it has completed the acquisition of Motorsport Network Media LLC (MSNM), a global digital media platform in motorsport and automotive, for an undisclosed sum.
Terms of the acquisition include GMF Media, an affiliate of GMF Capital, acquiring the controlling majority stake in MSNM, with an ...Keep reading
The recent celebration of its 150th race may be well behind Ferrari’s tally of 1060 but, if the calendar keeps going the way it is, then by 2025 it should be ready to eclipse March and BRM’s tally of 197 starts.
Considering more than 160 teams (either individual entities or names) have raced in F1, that Haas has done so much but still remains the new kid on the block says ...Keep reading
Tom Ferrier’s squad has run Aston machinery since its first season of competition in the 2014 British GT championship, winning its first GT3 title in 2016 before sweeping both the GT3 and GT4 categories in 2019.
TF has been a WEC mainstay in GTE Am since the 2018-19 season, taking its first Le Mans victory in 2020 and claiming the class championship last season.
Its move to forge a new ...Keep reading
The Frenchman joined the US entrant for this month’s Le Mans 24 Hours WEC round to drive the additional Glickenhaus 007 Le Mans Hypercar entered for the French enduro.
He has moved over to the team’s solo full-season WEC entry to drive alongside Romain Dumas and Olivier Pla for the Monza 6 Hours on 9 July, as shown by a revised entry list published on Wednesday.
Berthon takes the ...Keep reading
Norris acknowledged that the team has had to be patient after making few changes thus far this year while waiting for a major package to come through the system, with elements set to arrive in stages over the next three races.
After deciding on a change of philosophy the team brought a first step to Azerbaijan back in April, but that was never expected to provide a significant improvement in ...Keep reading
Concessions were introduced in 2014 in a bid to help balance the field and provide a greater competitive platform for prospective manufacturers, which helped bring Suzuki, Aprilia and KTM to the grid between 2015 and 2017.
Those who ran under concessions received a number of benefits over non-concession manufacturers, who at the time were Honda and Yamaha, which included unrestricted in-season ...Keep reading
We’ve been here before, of course. Multiple times in fact. Talks of reviving the A1GP ‘World Cup of Motorsport’ since its demise in 2009 have invariably led to nothing down the years, the closest thing to a resurrection coming in the form of the even more short-lived Formula Acceleration 1 series won by Dutchman Nigel Melker in 2014. It’s fair to say that championship, which used the ...Keep reading
With Verstappen dominating the current era, F1 viewers regularly listen into the in-race conversations between the Dutchman and his engineer.
But even before Red Bull’s current wave of success increased coverage of their team radio exchanges, Lambiase had forged a reputation for keeping Verstappen in check with a no-nonsense demeanour his driver responded to positively – even teasing ...Keep reading
The 12-turn, 2.2-mile street course will take the Cup and Xfinity series through the city with the start/finish line and pit road placed on South Columbus Drive, near the iconic Buckingham Fountain.
The course will run through Grant Park and approach the northern edge of Soldier Field, home of the NFL’s Chicago Bears. The track will also run along Lake Michigan on South Lake Shore ...Keep reading
Johnson was set to make his fourth Cup start of the year, driving the No. 84 Legacy Motor Club Chevrolet in the inaugural event.
He ran the season-opening Daytona 500, COTA, and the Coke 600. Johnson was also a part of the Garage 56 NASCAR entry at the 24 Hours of Le Mans earlier this month.
The decision to bow out of the Chicago race comes following news of a terrible tragedy ...Keep reading
For the Canadian GP earlier this month, Aston Martin debuted more aggressive sidepod bodywork and a revised floor design for its AMR23 which Alonso used to secure his sixth podium result of the season, finishing second to Max Verstappen.
But the Spaniard says Aston Martin’s push to fully understand its update risks being stymied by this weekend’s Austrian GP, which will run as the second ...Keep reading
Stolz finished third in the second of the two races at the Dutch venue on Sunday, holding off two-time champion Wittmann by just 0.249s in a tense battle.
The AMG works driver was running behind Wittmann in the first stint but jumped his fellow German by pitting a lap later. Stolz's HRT crew serviced his Mercedes-AMG GT3 in 7.9s compared to the 9.3s it took for DTM newcomer Project 1 to change ...Keep reading
F1 sprint races are into their third year, with the latest changes aimed at improving the spectacle. After the latest changes debuted at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the F1 sprint race is back for the Austrian GP.
Here’s what you need to know about the F1 sprint race.
What is a sprint race and why are they in F1?
In 2021, sprint races were introduced into F1 as a way to ...Keep reading
The Grove-based outfit had initially planned to hold its celebrations at next month’s Silverstone race, but the cancellation of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix meant that its 800th GP shifted back to Hungary.
To not let down its British fans, with home support having played such an important part in its history, Williams has announced plans to commemorate its historic landmark across both ...Keep reading
The all-electric series unveiled its 2023/24 calendar ahead of last weekend’s Portland race, headlined by a long-awaited visit to Japan’s capital city in late March.
Tokyo’s inclusion on the calendar comes as no surprise, as Formula E had signed a memorandum of understanding with the city’s metropolitan government late last year to hold an event in the Ariake area of Koto Ward, near the ...Keep reading
The Spaniard and his team-mate Charles Leclerc have struggled for much of this season with their SF-23 proving to have a lack of consistency, especially on Sundays.
This has left the duo unable to take the fight to Red Bull in grands prix, even though in qualifying the car has often shown itself to be quite close to the RB19.
Ferrari has seen signs of progress in recent weeks ...Keep reading
As MotoGP enters its six-week summer break, Honda is looking to solve its MotoGP crisis with three of its riders out injured and a bike which is at the back of the field alongside fellow Japanese manufacturer strugglers Yamaha.
To make matters worse, during the triple-header in June, Honda lost Joan Mir and Alex Rins to injury while Marc Marquez battled through the pain of a fractured rib and ...Keep reading
As part of the championship’s push to be net carbon zero by 2030, F1’s chiefs have been looking at areas where more sustainable solutions can be introduced.
One idea, which is now being rolled out at the Red Bull Ring this weekend, is a central power generation farm that it is hoped can cut emissions by around 90%.
The farm, which will be located at the inside of the final corner ...Keep reading
Top Performer - Sebastien Ogier and Vincent Landais
There are not many drivers that can overcome the many hurdles Sebastien Ogier faced at Safari Rally Kenya and still come out on top. The eight-time world champion may be semi-retired these days, but he is still at the very top of his game.
Ogier and co-driver Vincent Landais assumed the rally lead on stage two and that was where they stayed ...Keep reading
It also reflects an intriguing move by Renault to boost the profile of its sportscar brand and eventually generate more income around the F1 project, helped by the involvement of Hollywood star Ryan Reynolds and his associates Rob McElhenney and Michael B. Jordan.
To recap a consortium of three financial entities, Otro Capital, RedBird Capital Partners and Maximum Effort Investments ...Keep reading
After a one-week breather following Canada, F1 charges into a run of races in July before the summer break, starting at the Red Bull Ring before trips to Silverstone, the Hungaroring and Spa-Francorchamps.
Fresh from celebrating its 100th F1 grand prix victory, Red Bull goes into the first of its two home races as strong favourites given the defending champions have won every race so far in ...Keep reading
The manufacturer has fielded three cars in the WRC’s top tier since 2019 but is considering expanding its line-up to four for the 2024 season. The last time it ran four cars in a WRC event was 2018 Rally Portugal when it entered Thierry Neuville, Dani Sordo, Hayden Paddon and Andreas Mikkelsen.
New team principal Cyril Abiteboul says running a fourth car is on the team’s wish list with a ...Keep reading
As reported by Autosport last week, the FIA has closed off a potential loophole that some teams may have been using in getting personnel outside of their main F1 team to help work on car design and development projects.
The fear was that some squads were employing staff outside of the cost cap to work on separate special projects, such as designing road cars, yachts and bicycles, but then ...Keep reading
Open engine competition was a feature of the old All-Japan Formula 3 series, and has continued in Super Formula Lights, which began in 2020 with the arrival of the current Dallara 320 chassis.
TOM'S, Spiess and Tomei are the engine manufacturers currently represented, although TOM'S only supplies its own cars and the ThreeBond-branded Tomei unit is only used by one of B-Max Racing's Masters ...Keep reading
Newey has been a central figure in Red Bull’s rise from F1 newcomer when it took over the Jaguar team in 2005, to the super team status it achieved in the years following its first race victory in 2009.
With Red Bull having become the fifth F1 team to reach 100 race wins with Max Verstappen’s victory in the recent Canadian Grand Prix – after Ferrari, McLaren, Williams and Mercedes ...Keep reading
Neuville was excluded from the event last weekend, where he finished eighth, after stewards determined a “person connected with the crew travelled on or over the route of two Special Stages, after reconnaissance, without authorisation” following the official pre-event recce.
Article 35.4.2 of the FIA World Rally Championship states: “After the publication of the Supplementary Regulations ...Keep reading
The #14 Vasser Sullivan-run RC F of Hawksworth and Ben Barnicoat had led for over 100 laps of the six-hour race when it received a drive-through penalty for pitlane speeding after its final pitstop.
Hawksworth, who had just taken over from his team-mate, rejoined in second place and chased down the leading Corvette of Antonio Garcia, passing it in the final hour with an aggressive lunge, but he ...Keep reading
Wallace is one of just 17 drivers to have made more than 20 appearances in the world's most famous sportscar race, which he won at the first attempt in 1988 for Jaguar alongside Jan Lammers and Johnny Dumfries in the TWR-built XJR-9.
He joins host Martyn Lee, Autosport's chief editor Kevin Turner and Autosport Plus editor James Newbold to recall that famous victory, as well as several notable ...Keep reading
Pierre Gasly caused an early red flag during first practice for the recent Canadian Grand Prix when he stopped with what he reported to be a driveshaft failure. But it has since transpired that the “freak” fault came with the steering wheel losing its power supply and engaging the clutch.
The 2020 Italian GP victor was also stymied by an Azerbaijan FP1 hydraulics leak that led to an engine ...Keep reading
The Aprilia rider proved correct with his assessment of Binder’s mistake at Turn 8 on the last lap, with confirmation of the South African’s one-place demotion coming moments after the chequered flag.
While that meant that KTM rider Binder had managed to lose a podium finish twice on the same weekend, after also being demoted from third in the sprint race, Aprilia was able to celebrate its ...Keep reading
The Belgian squad, which will compete in the WEC as BMW M Team WRT, completed its first circuit test with the car at Aragon last week, following a roll-out at the end of May.
WRT’s first M Hybrid V8 was driven at the Spanish circuit by BMW factory drivers Jesse Krohn, Sheldon van der Linde and Dries Vanthoor.
No mileage figure completed by the car over the course of three days ...Keep reading
The #25 M Hybrid V8 of Yelloly and Connor De Phillippi lost the lead in the final six minutes of the six-hour race at the iconic Watkins Glen track in upstate New York to the #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963.
But the Nick Tandy/Mathieu Jaminet-crewed Porsche was stripped of victory when its underfloor skid block measured less than the permitted minimum thickness. The PPM team has since stated ...Keep reading
The principle that when things go wrong they can always go worse suits Honda like a glove. It has hit rock bottom in the last two weeks. Neither Marc Marquez, Alex Rins nor Joan Mir, their three most competitive riders, took part in the last two stops of the calendar, at Sachsenring and Assen, as they were injured.
The most glaring case is that of Marquez, the mainstay of the whole set-up, who ...Keep reading
The weaknesses of the team's i20 N Rally1 were made clear in Kenya last weekend after Esapekka Lappi suffered three prop shaft failures followed by another problem that left the Finn with only two-wheel drive.
Lappi was unable to complete any runs in shakedown after two prop shaft failures, while the third took him out of a strong third position on his debut at the African event.
On top of ...Keep reading
The team is currently embarking on its Red Bull Powertrains project, which was formed in the wake of Honda’s decision to pull out of F1 in an official capacity back in 2021 – a decision the Japanese manufacturer has since reversed and by 2026 will supply Aston Martin with engines as a part of a new works deal.
Although Red Bull has been a de facto works F1 outfit at various points during ...Keep reading
As is sometimes the case with rolling starts, there was a short time difference between when each driver hit the accelerator as the lights went green at the Dutch venue. This caused chaos in the midpack, with Winward’s Auer coming off worse as his Mercedes sustained damage to its radiator and a loose bonnet.
Video material presented by the stewards revealed that Auer, who had qualified ...Keep reading
Formula E made a rare trip to a permanent circuit in Portland. Set up outside the city, the track is rural and the walls have disappeared in favour of patches of grass.
The two long straights also made life complex on the battery side: "It's the most complicated circuit we've come across from an energy point of view," said DS Penske's Vergne before the race. "In the simulator, we'd never worked ...Keep reading
The Silverstone-based squad, which currently races in F2, F3 and F4, announced on Monday that its parent company Hitech Global Holdings Limited had sold a 25% stake to Kazakh businessman Vladimir Kim.
Kim’s main interests are in the mining, banking and aviation sectors, with his Kazakhmys and KAZ Minerals Group’s work in extraction and processing of copper ore making it one of the top 10 ...Keep reading
Red Bull’s rivals were delighted over the Monaco Grand Prix weekend when images of the Red Bull floor design were obtained in the wake of Sergio Perez’s crash in qualifying.
A number of outfits made sure to conduct a deep analysis of the Red Bull design to try to better understand how the RB19 is such a dominant car.
But while some may be tempted to copy elements of the Red Bull floor in ...Keep reading
Edwards’s abrupt decision following the 2016 season to retire from NASCAR competition at age 37 was a surprise as drivers winning races and contending for championships rarely step aside at their prime.
Edwards, then driving for Joe Gibbs Racing had lost an opportunity at his first Cup title in the 2016 season finale, but had enjoyed an impressive career including 28 Cup wins and one ...Keep reading
Portland’s atypical track layout, featuring mostly fast corners and few heavy braking zones, meant drivers faced tight energy-saving requirements, effectively forcing them to circulate far off their real pace in the first two-thirds of the race before upping the pace.
Lap times were as much as 10 to 12 seconds slower than the pole time set by Jake Dennis initially, leading to constant ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia extended his MotoGP world championship lead with victory in the Dutch Grand Prix and in the process halted a clean sweep by Marco Bezzecchi, who topped every practice session, grabbed pole and won the sprint race.
That all shook out to see the reigning world champion take a 35-point lead over Jorge Martin into the summer break, with Bezzecchi just one further point behind in ...Keep reading
Earlier this month, it was announced that retired four-time F1 world champion Vettel will make his return to the cockpit of grand prix machinery for the showcase event in Germany on 9 September.
He will pilot the Red Bull RB7 - an Adrian Newey-designed car that claimed 12 race wins in addition to securing 18 of the 19 available pole positions - in which he dominated the 2011 season.
For the ...Keep reading
The Spaniard, whose current contract with the Italian team runs until the end of 2024, has already been singled out as a potential candidate to join Audi when the German manufacturer completes its takeover of the Sauber squad.
However, in an exclusive interview with Autosport, Sainz said that current speculation linking him with Audi was wide of the mark as there had been no discussions ...Keep reading
The Kiwi is set to make his NASCAR debut at the Chicago street race next weekend as part of Trackhouse Racing's Project 91 programme.
He jetted into the United States late last week to begin his preparations, which included being trackside with the team in Nashville over the weekend, watching team-mate Ross Chastain end a one-year winless spell.
The up-close experience with oval racing ...Keep reading
Schumacher was signed as a Mercedes reserve for 2023, after losing his race seat with Haas at the end of last year. He has since been singled out for praise by Lewis Hamilton and George Russell for the contribution he has made in the simulator to race weekend progress.
While delighted with the input that Schumacher is making, Wolff is open that he wants to see the young German ...Keep reading
Chastain, who came into the weekend stating he needed to “wreck less and win more”, claimed pole position and ended a more than year-long winless streak in Nashville.
With 70 of 300 laps remaining, Chastain ran down Denny Hamlin to take the lead then stayed out front through the final round of pitstops.
Martin Truex Jr closed up to Chastain’s rear bumper multiple times in the last 50 ...Keep reading
On Monday Alpine's parent group Renault announced it has sold the shares, valuing the team at $900m, to an investment group including Otro Capital, RedBird Capital Partners and Maximum Effort Investments.
US investment firm RedBird's portfolio includes the third-largest stake in Fenway Sports Group, a group which owns the MLB team Boston Red Sox and Premier League club Liverpool FC. It ...Keep reading
The #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 of Nick Tandy and Mathieu Jaminet scored a dramatic overall victory at Watkins Glen after passing the #25 BMW M Team RLL BMW M Hybrid V8 of Nick Yelloly and Connor De Phillippi with just six minutes of the six-hour race remaining.
That’s the way the cars finished as a full-course caution came out a lap later, due to Bill Auberlen rolling his Turner ...Keep reading
Neuville and co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe have lost eighth place and the five bonus points for winning the rally-ending powerstage after FIA stewards determined that a “person connected with the crew travelled on or over the route of two Special Stages, after reconnaissance, without authorisation.”
Neuville admitted in a stewards hearing “that he was aware of the identified person and that ...Keep reading
Jaminet passed Connor De Phillippi’s Rahal Letterman Lanigan-run BMW with just six minutes of the six-hour race remaining. The race went full-course yellow just moments later, as a BMW GTD car somersaulted on the approach to the final corner.
The fifth round of America’s premier sportscar series began with the prototype classes starting in championship order, after the multi-car shunt that ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion scored this third win of a partial WRC campaign after seeing off Toyota team-mate and championship leader Kalle Rovanpera by 6.7s in a gruelling battle in Kenya.
While Ogier led the event from stage two, the Frenchman encountered a series of problems that threatened to derail his victory hopes.
Ogier enjoyed a near-perfect Friday, winning four of the six stages ...Keep reading
Bezzecchi defeated Francesco Bagnaia to win the sprint race on Saturday, when both riders ran a soft rear tyre, but he had to give best to the factory Ducati in the longer, hotter Dutch Grand Prix at Assen, when most of the field took the medium rear tyre.
“Pecco was a bit stronger than me on the medium rear tyre,” said Bezzecchi. “I thought about using the soft until the very last ...Keep reading
The 2021 world champion came into the weekend with a twisted ankle and fractured toe after an accident while running in Amsterdam in the build-up to the event.
After securing a podium in the sprint on Saturday, Quartararo’s Dutch GP took a turn for the worse as he further displaced that fracture with a crash on the third lap of Sunday’s grand prix.
Fellow French rider Johann Zarco ...Keep reading
The South African rider crossed the line in third place in both the sprint and grand prix races, but was demoted by officials on both occasions.
After multiple infractions in the Saturday race, he received a three-second time penalty in lieu of a long-lap penalty he couldn’t take due to the late notice. This dropped him from third to fifth, with Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo inheriting a ...Keep reading
The Milton Keynes team has won all eight grands prix so far, with Verstappen claiming six of the victories, and although Hill thinks Mercedes has made a step forward in recent races, he believes the performance gap is still so big that all of Red Bull’s rivals will struggle to catch up without hitting the cost cap limit this year.
“I think Mercedes have turned a corner, but the question is ...Keep reading
The factory Ducati rider held off sprint race winner Marco Bezzecchi to avenge Saturday’s contest, in which Bagnaia had had to settle for second.
As Bagnaia celebrated an increased points lead of 35 points over Jorge Martin and 36 over Bezzecchi, Aprilia enjoyed a podium finish for Aleix Espargaro.
The Sunday race began in similar fashion to Saturday’s sprint, with Bezzecchi once again ...Keep reading
With Audi having been handed a 20kg weight reduction overnight, Feller was able to take pole position in a red-flagged qualifying and then lead every lap en route to a second career win at the Dutch venue.
Manthey EMA’s Thomas Preining finished 2.7s behind Feller to score his second podium of the season, while HRT Mercedes driver Luca Stolz rounded out the rostrum spots after holding off ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion and co-driver Vincent Landais came under pressure from championship leader Rovanpera across Sunday’s final six stages to clinch his third win of a partial 2023 WRC campaign by 6.7s. The margin was the closest in the event’s 70-year history.
Ogier produced a faultless drive on Kenya’s challenging, rough gravel stages, assuming the rally lead from M-Sport’s ...Keep reading
Puig made the comments shortly after the team announced that Marquez will not take part in today’s Dutch GP as a result of the injuries picked up in a spate of crashes last time out in Germany.
Marquez did contest yesterday’s sprint race at Assen, which he started and finished 17th following an accident with Ducati’s Enea Bastianini in qualifying.
“We have a contract, but every ...Keep reading
Leopard Racing rider Masia came out on top of a 10-rider battle at Assen to win the Moto3 race.
The Honda rider briefly lost the lead to Ayumu Sasaki (Intact GP Husqvarna) towards the end of the 20th and final lap, but was able to re-pass the Japanese rider under braking for the final chicane.
With championship leader Daniel Holgado (Tech 3 KTM) having started from the back of the grid ...Keep reading
Cassidy came out on top in what proved to be a three-way battle for honours in the closing stages of a race characterised by extreme energy saving and pack racing for most of the distance, before the pace picked up for the closing stages.
Both Dennis and da Costa enjoyed stints leading the race at various points of the race, but in the end both Porsche powertrain users were beaten by the ...Keep reading
Both Vandoorne and team-mate Jean-Eric Vergne were forced to start Saturday's race from the pitlane when DS Penske was found guilty of gaining a "huge and unfair advantage", according to a stewards' bulletin, from having RFID scanning equipment in the pitlane.
An initial version of the bulletin said that the team had been using this to obtain information on what tyres its rivals were running ...Keep reading
The Yamaha rider enjoyed a morale-boosting podium in Saturday's sprint race, despite finishing fourth on the road behind KTM’s Brad Binder, as he was promoted to third following a track limits penalty for the South African.
“That was the only way for me to overtake Brad,” joked the French rider after what was just his second podium of the season. “But I had more pace than him today ...Keep reading
At the 1973 Canadian Grand Prix, a Porsche pace car intervened for the first time after a collision between Francois Cevert and Jody Scheckter.
The FIA's 50-year safety car anniversary is somewhat misleading, however, as further appearances were few and far between. The safety car as we know it has only been a regular fixture since the 1993 season.
One man has been at the wheel for 24 of ...Keep reading
With just under four minutes left to go in the session, Grasser Racing driver Schmid lost control of his Lamborghini coming out of Turn 3, with his SSR Performance counterpart Deledda crashing his Huracan at almost the same time at Turn 8.
The red flag was deployed to assist marshals in recovering the two Lamborghinis, before the track was cleared again for a short, three-minute restart to the ...Keep reading
The Spaniard was declared unfit to ride in the eighth round of the season on Sunday morning due to a rib fracture sustained over the course of a bruising German Grand Prix last weekend.
Marquez crashed five times across the Sachsenring round, with his final fall in warm-up leading to a small hand fracture and ruling him out of the main grand prix.
Further check-ups revealed an ankle injury ...Keep reading
The Toyota duo continued an enthralling head-to-head as championship leader Rovanpera applied pressure on long-time leader Ogier to reduce the gap to 13.6s with three stages remaining.
Elfyn Evans remained on course to claim the final podium position despite a small scare. The Welshman headed to service 2m49.5s adrift and 35.7s ahead of Toyota team-mate Takamoto Katsuta.
Dani Sordo ...Keep reading
Envision Racing driver Cassidy judged the energy-saving requirements of the high-speed Oregon venue to perfection as he beat Andretti man Jake Dennis at the end of the 32-lap contest by 0.294 seconds.
It puts Cassidy within a single point of championship leader Dennis with four races to go this season.
Antonio Felix da Costa completed the podium for Porsche, having diced with Cassidy for the ...Keep reading
On his team's home turf, Andretti driver Dennis produced a lap of 1m08.931s in the pole shootout to beat Nissan rival Fenestraz by a scant 0.079s.
It gives him three bonus points that puts him two points clear of erstwhile leader Pascal Wehrlein at the head of the standings heading into Saturday's race.
Fenestraz had the better start to the lap of the two finalists, having been half a tenth ...Keep reading
Mixed weather conditions greeted the fifth round of America’s premier sportscar series but, following the multi-car shunt that halted the joint LMP2/P3 session, that and the GTP session that was meant to follow were abandoned.
All prototypes will therefore line up in championship order, with the #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 of Nick Tandy and Mathieu Jaminet starting from pole, ahead of ...Keep reading
Nato left it until the final minute of the 30-minute session to set the best lap of 1m09.101s, eclipsing Maserati MSG driver Guenther by 0.139s.
Sam Bird was third-fastest for Jaguar, just two thousandths further back, posting his best time after the chequered flag fell.
For much of the session it had been McLaren driver Rene Rast in control of the timesheets, the triple DTM champion having ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver managed to cut into team-mate Sebastien Ogier’s lead on Saturday afternoon after starring in extreme wet conditions on the day’s final stage.
Ogier had extended his overnight lead to 32.0s heading into the final stage of the loop, but suffered a double front puncture and dropped 15.3s to Rovanpera, who won the test and trimmed Ogier’s lead to 16.7s.
Prior to his stage ...Keep reading
Chastain lost a chance at his first Cup win of the 2023 season at the end of the 14 May race at Darlington.
Larson squeezed Chastain into the wall on a restart with 13 laps remaining as he tried to hold on to his lead. On the next restart, Chastain attempted a similar move to try and halt Larson’s advance, but this time both cars were wrecked.
Chastain received plenty of criticism in ...Keep reading
The Honda factory rider returned to MotoGP action at Assen after withdrawing from the last round at the Sachsenring following five crashes during the weekend that left him with multiple fractures.
Marquez crashed into Enea Bastianini during Q1 in an incident he later apologised for, and was unable to progress from his 17th position on the grid in Saturday's sprint race.
The result ...Keep reading
Hyundai's weaknesses with its i20 N Rally1 have been thrust into the spotlight in Kenya following three prop shaft failures on Esapekka Lappi’s car.
The issue prevented the Finn from completing any runs in shakedown after suffering two failures on Wednesday before a third struck on Saturday, which took him out of a comfortable third place.
These issues have occurred in addition to a front ...Keep reading
The Italian wasn’t angry about the incident in Q1, which took place well off the racing line, where Bastianini was trying to stay out of the way after aborting his lap due to a mistake.
Marquez was on a similar line and failed to spot the cruising Ducati in time to avoid ploughing into the back of it.
Bastianini revealed that the Spaniard had sought him out to apologise following the ...Keep reading
This follows Brad Binder’s demotion from third to fifth in today’s sprint race, after the KTM rider ventured just a fraction onto ‘the green’ exiting the right-hander at Stekkenwal.
Due to the penalty being issued so late in the race, three seconds were added to his finishing time in lieu of a long-lap penalty.
Asked if the circuit has always been difficult from a track limits ...Keep reading
That’s perhaps not surprising given that for many years the team struggled to balance the books. Spending on equipment for the factory was not a priority compared to reaching the end of the season. It’s taken the arrival of Vowles, a man with so much intimate knowledge of how Mercedes operates, for the realisation to fully sink in in terms of just how far the team lags behind.
The good news ...Keep reading
Eight-time world champion Ogier started Saturday with a 22.8s lead and the Toyota driver went on to stamp his authority on the event in the afternoon.
However, heavy rain arrived during the day’s final stage, which allowed Rovanpera to cut Ogier’s lead to 16.7s ahead of Sunday’s final six stages.
Toyota’s Elfyn Evans ended the day in 2m23.3s down on Rovanpera in third after ...Keep reading
Although VR46 rider Bezzecchi briefly lost the lead from pole position, the man who had dominated the entire weekend was soon back past Bagnaia's factory machine. The world champion, who had started second, had no answer.
The result consolidates Bezzecchi's hold on third in the standings, with Bagnaia still leading Pramac Ducati’s Jorge Martin. Bagnaia's advantage has been stretched ...Keep reading
Having set the pace in both practice sessions on Friday and also taken pole position in the opening qualifying of the weekend, Engel was again untouchable in his Landgraf Mercedes as he scored an emphatic six-second win over reigning champion Sheldon van der Linde.
It marked Engel’s first win in the DTM since Moscow in 2017 and represented a major turnaround for Mercedes after its quartet of ...Keep reading
The Finn inherited third on Saturday morning after making the most of a stall for Toyota’s Elfyn Evans on stage eight, but Lappi’s rally came to a premature end on stage 11.
Lappi pulled off the road at the 22km mark of the 29.32km Soysambu test with what appeared to be a terminal technical issue.
Hyundai is yet confirm the reason for the retirement, but the nature of his exit would ...Keep reading
Having been fastest in all three practice sessions, Bezzecchi beat Ducati factory rider Francesco Bagnaia and his own team-mate Luca Marini as the Italian marque sealed the front row.
The Pramac Ducati team had a terrible start to Q2, with Johann Zarco wheeling an apparently hobbled bike away from the track and Jorge Martin losing the rear end at the Turn 5 hairpin behind the pits ...Keep reading
After finishing runner-up to Mick Schumacher in the 2020 FIA Formula 2 Championship, Callum Ilott made his IndyCar debut in 2021 with Juncos Hollinger Racing at Portland. At the time, he was a test driver with the Ferrari Driver Academy and was Alfa Romeo’s second reserve driver in Formula 1, sharing the role with Robert Kubica.
But the Briton's F1 prospects fell through when Alfa ...Keep reading
Having already topped the two practice sessions on Friday, Engel was also unbeaten in the 20-minute pole shootout on Saturday morning as he clinched the top spot with a time of 1m32.585s.
Porsche’s Dennis Olsen first broke Engel’s practice benchmark, setting a time of 1m33.279s with 10 minutes to go as Manthey EMA elected to complete its flying laps early on.
Olsen’s team-mate Thomas ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion came through challenging damp and muddy conditions to preserve his lead, although Ogier's overnight advantage over championship leader Rovanpera was cut by 0.7s to 22.1s.
Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi climbed into the podium positions, 1m18.4s adrift as Toyota’s Elfyn Evans dropped to fourth after losing time navigating a water splash.
Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta ...Keep reading
Red Bull has taken over Mercedes' position as the dominant force in F1 since the 2022 regulations change to ground-effect based cars, with Max Verstappen an overwhelming favourite to grab his third consecutive world drivers' championship this year.
Mercedes dropped the ball with its 2022 car and has since been working its way back in contention, with a concept change of its 2023 car offering ...Keep reading
The all-electric series’ only United States race on the 2022-23 calendar features a very different track layout to the typical street tracks that make up the bulk of the schedule, with long straights, fast corners and very few hard braking points.
It has left teams expecting a race where the focus will be on energy saving for the majority of the 28-lap duration, with drivers looking to ...Keep reading
The 2021 Safari Rally winner made a bold decision to take only one spare wheel, instead of two, for Friday’s six stages at a rally renowned for being rough on tyres.
The call proved to be an inspired move as Ogier used his lighter GR Yaris to good effect, winning four of the six stages to head into Saturday with a 22.8s advantage over team-mate Kalle Rovanpera.
It was a calculated risk ...Keep reading
The Honda rider suffered a bruising weekend at the German GP in which he crashed five times, the last one leaving him with multiple fractures and ruling him out of the grand prix.
He elected to race this weekend at Assen but has altered his approach to reduce risk, given how bad the Honda is performing right now.
Ending Friday practice 19th overall, Marquez says he had no choice but to be at ...Keep reading
As part of MotoGP’s format shake-up for 2023 to include sprint races, the combined order at the end of Friday’s two practice sessions decides which riders go straight to Q2 in qualifying and who has to go through Q1.
The riders requested this to be altered from this year’s British Grand Prix in August, so that only the times at the end of FP2 counted towards qualifying.
However ...Keep reading
Rossi first spoke out about the topic after he felt was ‘jumped’ on a number of restarts at the Indy 500 in May.
Then a video tweeted by IndyCar’s social media team showing Jack Harvey’s start at Road America last weekend, from his nose-mounted camera, sparked Rossi to criticise the way starts and restarts are being handled by race control, as it appeared to show him jumping ahead of ...Keep reading
Salom tragically died after an incident during practice for the Moto2 Catalan Grand Prix in 2016, aged just 24.
The Spaniard was a former rival of Vinales’, the pair battling throughout the 2013 Moto3 campaign for the title – with the latter taking the crown as Salom ended up third.
Both moved on to Moto2 in 2014, before Vinales stepped up to MotoGP in 2015 with Suzuki, while Salom ...Keep reading
The Hyundai driver was sitting fourth, 35.3s adrift of rally leader Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier, when he hit a compression that broke the front left suspension on his i20N during stage six.
Unable to repair the damage, Neuville was forced to pull over and retire from the action.
The Belgian had already endured an eventful morning that included being distracted by a bee that had entered his ...Keep reading
Team principal James Vowles made the call to fast-track an update package that wasn’t originally intended for Montreal, and the factory managed to produce enough new parts for Albon’s car.
In addition, Albon was given a brand new Mercedes power unit in the search for an extra edge over the weekend.
A brilliant strategy call saw Albon fastest on slicks on a drying track in the Q2 session ...Keep reading
The factory-supported effort will run alongside additional customer programs, run under the Corvette Racing umbrella, which is set to be announced in the coming weeks as will the driving lineup for the Pratt Miller-run works cars.
In total, four of the new cars are expected to be on the IMSA grid next year.
It extends Corvette Racing’s association with Pratt Miller, which is currently in ...Keep reading
From the launch of the MCL60, new team principal Andrea Stella played down expectations and stressed the need to be “realistic” after off-season development targets were missed.
A key update package was ushered in for round four in Azerbaijan, with the revised floor and rear wing said to mark the specification in which the car should have started the year.
Stella now reckons that nearly ...Keep reading
The Moto2 and Moto3 tyre supply has always differed from the MotoGP class, with Dunlop rubber powering the lower categories for over a decade now.
Dunlop's current contract with Dorna Sports, MotoGP's promoter, comes to a conclusion this year.
Autosport understands Italian tyre brand Pirelli will take over as the sole supplier for Moto2 and Moto3 from the 2024 season, building on its top ...Keep reading
Having dominated the opening practice at Assen on Friday morning, Bezzecchi carried that form into the hour-long afternoon session to lead Pramac’s Jorge Martin by 0.130 seconds.
Bezzecchi’s FP1 time went unchallenged until he bettered it on the penultimate lap of his session.
For the first half an hour, only reigning world champion Francesco Bagnaia had made a dent on the combined ...Keep reading
Toyota driver Ogier won four of the day’s six stages to head into Saturday with a 22.8s lead over Rovanpera, who impressed despite starting first on the road.
Ogier held a 2.5s lead following the morning loop, with his only issue a lack of hybrid on stage four. He then produced a faultless afternoon performance to clean sweep the three stages.
Toyota’s Elfyn Evans held a relatively ...Keep reading
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The FIA recently opened the tender for the F1 tyre contract from 2025 to 2027, with an option for it to be extended by another year.
Last week the selection process moved on to its second stage, as F1's governing body completed its evaluation of applicants and selected approved bidders.
It is understood that Pirelli and Japanese manufacturer Bridgestone have been chosen to go ...Keep reading
The twice-around-the-clock enduro at the Nurburgring Nordschleife has been pushed back from 11-12 May to 1-2 June after the WEC and Formula E scheduled races at Spa-Francorchamps and Berlin for the same weekend.
Scheduling the WEC's Spa 6 Hours for the same weekend was a decisive factor for the Nurburgring 24's change of date. With the GT3 cars that forms the top class at the Nurburgring ...Keep reading
As on three occasions since the start of the season, the drivers of the electric single-seaters in the Formula E world championship will be racing on a new track. This is also the first time that the series has visited the north-west of the United States, and the city of Portland in Oregon, was not chosen at random. It is often held up as an example for its policy of environmental protection ...Keep reading
Acosta, who is 19 years old, made his Moto3 debut in 2021 with the Ajo KTM squad and scored a podium in his first race, before taking his maiden grand prix victory in the following Doha GP from pitlane.
The young Spaniard won six grands prix on his way to the Moto3 title in his rookie year before stepping up to Moto2 with Aki Ajo’s squad in 2022.
Taking three wins in his first Moto2 season ...Keep reading
Formula E returns to America this weekend and while New York City, Miami and Long Beach have each played host to the all-electric championship in the past, a new location awaits drivers and teams this time around Stateside.
It will be the first time the series has used the Portland layout which, for fans of IndyCar, will be a familiar sight having been a staple on the American single-seater ...Keep reading
F1's calendar ballooned to a record 24 races for 2024 with the addition of the inaugural Las Vegas Grand Prix in November.
The return of Shanghai's Chinese Grand Prix was then cancelled as a result of China's on-going COVID-19 policy, while Imola's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix was called off due to severe flooding, reducing the calendar down to 22 races.
The 2024 calendar is expected to feature ...Keep reading
When you’ve raced over a dozen different Formula 1 cars from Minardi to Ferrari, and enjoyed a lengthy GT racing career in the Prancing Horse’s machinery, choosing a favourite is going to be tough.
Post-F1, Giancarlo Fisichella has notched up two class victories at the Le Mans 24 Hours with AF Corse, in 2012 and 2014. Naturally, he considers the Ferrari 458 GTE with which he took those GTE ...Keep reading
A year on from his maiden MotoGP podium at the Dutch venue, Bezzecchi kicked off the 2023 Assen weekend by leading the field by 0.314 seconds having taken control of FP1 early on.
Bezzecchi went top with a 1m33.961s with around seven minutes of the session gone and began a succession of standings-topping laps, culminating in a 1m33.289s.
This would go unchallenged until the final 16 minutes ...Keep reading
The Hyundai driver endured an eventful Friday morning in Kenya which began with a strange brush with the wildlife in the opening Loldia (19.17km) test.
However, it wasn’t Kenya’s usual wild animals that disrupted Neuville. At the start of the stage, a bee managed to find its way inside his Hyundai i20N and into his eye-line while navigating through the jungle.
Despite the ...Keep reading
The category to be known as Electric Sport Vehicle will be open to GT machinery and what the governing body is describing as “coupe-shaped sports sedans” with a minimum power output of 300kW (402bhp) in standard form.
ESV has been conceived in the spirit of the long-standing Group N production category to allow electric vehicles to be incorporated into existing competitions, including ...Keep reading
As part of what sources have suggested is a ramped-up effort by motor racing’s governing body to ensure compliance with the cost cap rules, it has now stepped in regarding the use of special project divisions outside of F1 teams that some suspected were being used to help find performance gains.
In recent years it has been common for F1 teams to employ senior technical staff to work in ...Keep reading
Eight-time world champion Ogier started the day 0.1s behind overnight leader Tanak but headed to midday service with a 2.5s lead over Toyota team-mate Kalle Rovanpera.
Elfyn Evans completed the loop in third, 19.5s adrift, but ahead of Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville, who endured an eventful morning to reach service 21.5s back.
Toyota’s Takamoto Katsuta sat in fifth (+29.1s) in front of ...Keep reading
The ex-Renault, Ferrari and McLaren grand prix driver secured his sixth podium of the 2023 campaign last weekend in Canada.
That haul after eight rounds is double the number of top-three results that the Spaniard achieved during his previous seven full-time seasons in F1.
Alonso finished second in Montreal, crossing the line 9.57 seconds behind dominant winner Max Verstappen. But he kept the ...Keep reading
The 2023 MotoGP season ushered in one of the biggest format changes in the series' history, as half-distance sprint races were added to the schedule at every round.
As such, the entire makeup of a race weekend was altered to suit, with qualifying taking place on Saturday morning and deciding the grid for both the sprint and the grand prix.
Another major change was made to Friday's running ...Keep reading
NASCAR brought a modified Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1, run by powerhouse team Hendrick Motorsports, to showcase a high-powered stock car to a European audience at the world famous 24-hour race earlier this month.
The prime mover behind the programme was NASCAR president Jim France, who wished to honour his father Bill Sr – the man who first brought NASCAR machinery to Le Mans in ...Keep reading
The KTM rider caused a storm last Sunday at the German Grand Prix when he called on rivals complaining about the problems they have been having with their bikes to “shut the fuck up and get on with the job”.
Miller didn’t name anyone in his comments, but it was thought it was in part aimed at Marc Marquez – who withdrew from the German GP after suffering five crashes on his troubled ...Keep reading
Without doubt one of the biggest appeals of endurance racing is the multi-class format that it provides, allowing cars and drivers of different performance and abilities to take to the track at the same time. It means that simply being the fastest is not enough to guarantee a crew victory, as traffic management and strategy all become more significant factors in reaching the top step of the podium ...Keep reading
The Pramac rider scored his first grand prix victory in two years last weekend at the German Grand Prix, when he beat world champion Francesco Bagnaia by just 0.064 seconds.
Martin is now just 16 points behind Bagnaia in the championship coming into this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix at Assen.
Over the last few months, Martin’s future has been a topic of discussion as links to the factory ...Keep reading
Perez has now failed to make Q3 at three consecutive events, the streak having started with a qualifying crash at Monaco that led to a scrappy race and no points in the principality.
In Spain, he recovered well from 11th on the grid to fourth after a solid race, and while in Canada his run from 12th to sixth was respectable it was evident that he didn’t have the pace that he ...Keep reading
The fan-funded scheme is to open voting among its members that will enable a protege to compete in the FIA Formula 3 Championship, the new LMGT3 division in the World Endurance Championship, or the headline LMP2 class of the ELMS, in which Habsburg was triumphant last season.
This covers the three main bases of the current motorsport landscape – single-seaters, GT and ...Keep reading
Pirelli has been working to create tyres that do not need pre-heating, with teams and the FIA poised to vote next month on whether or not to go ahead with a tyre warmer ban for 2024.
So far the issue has been mainly focused on the safety of the tyres, with a number of drivers questioning whether or not it is worth the risk of more accidents on cold tyres just to save money in needing tyre ...Keep reading
Remembering Rindt: Mathai's Lotus
German Oliver Mathai’s high-winged Lotus-FVA 59B gave a snapshot of Thruxton king Jochen Rindt’s second of three European F2 victories from 1968-70 when it competed in last weekend's Thruxton Historic event.
Driving the sister Roy Winkelmann Racing car, run for future March co-founder and FIA president Max Mosley, Mathai’s efforts were appreciated by ...Keep reading
A dominant win by 9.57 seconds for Verstappen in last weekend’s Canadian GP drew the two-time reigning champion level on 41 victories with Ayrton Senna, Hamilton’s racing hero.
Coincidentally, the Montreal venue is also where Hamilton matched Senna’s qualifying tally of 65 pole positions in 2017. The Brit now holds 103 poles, equal to his score of GP ...Keep reading
The 70th anniversary Safari Rally kicked off with a 4.48km head-to-head super special stage, lined by thousands of fans in the centre of Nairobi.
Tanak won his duel with Toyota’s Elfyn Evans by 3.3s with his effort emerging the fastest once all the head-to-heads were completed.
"[Safari Rally Kenya is] a demanding one. Let's see after Saturday. I would say this day will tell us a lot,” ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion withdrew from last weekend’s German GP having suffered five crashes across a round that is becoming viewed as the nadir of the Honda/Marquez relationship.
Marquez is still contracted to Honda for another year, but the events of Germany have raised discussion about the possibility of the Spaniard buying out of his deal.
Read more: Why a MotoGP divorce is ...Keep reading
Vinales joined Yamaha for the 2017 season and stayed there until midway through 2021, scoring eight of his nine MotoGP victories with the squad.
As his results slumped following a round one win in Qatar in 2021, the relationship between Vinales and Yamaha had soured irreparably by the time of the Dutch GP – at which he was on pole and finished second.
On the Monday after the Assen round ...Keep reading
“Richard Burns crossed the final flying finish line, punched the air and shouted something so obscene that the BBC won’t be able to show the moment!” That was how Autosport’s rally reporter Keith Oswin described Burns’ first win of what would become a glittering but unfortunately short World Rally Championship career on the 1998 Safari Rally.
In recent years, this clip of Burns and ...Keep reading
Slater has been the class of the field so far this year and has taken his 2023 tally to 14 wins from 18 races after three further triumphs at Snetterton.
While he may have only enjoyed very narrow margins of victory this time, there is nothing small about his lead at the top of Autosport's winners' table as he is now four clear of second-placed James Clarke.
But Slater was not the only ...Keep reading
The German, who joined Mercedes in his new role this year after two seasons competing for Haas, will complete runs on both the Saturday and Sunday of the three-day Goodwood event on 14-16 July.
The W02 was the second car designed and built by the Mercedes F1 team following its purchase of Brawn GP at the end of the 2009 season.
Raced by Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg, the car was a ...Keep reading
Quartararo has enjoyed a lot of success at the TT Circuit Assen in his grand prix career, scoring podiums in all three classes of the world championship.
In 2021, he scorched to victory at the venue on his way to that year’s title and was a factor in the podium battle last year before crashing out.
In the modern MotoGP era dating back to 2002, Yamaha has won the Dutch GP 10 times.
With ...Keep reading
Leclerc initially hit out at Ferrari after getting knocked out of Q2 in Montreal when he and the team had failed to capitalise on improving track conditions.
He had initially ventured out at the start of the session on intermediate tyres but, with a dry line emerging, he requested an immediate change to slicks.
The team denied that and ordered him to put a banker lap in before he changed ...Keep reading
Deletraz has been team-mates with ex-Formula 1 driver Kubica since 2021, when he moved full-time into endurance racing after making select GT World Challenge Europe outings and finishing fourth in a Le Mans one-off with Rebellion in 2020.
Together, the Swiss and the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix winner claimed the 2021 European Le Mans Series crown with WRT and were only denied victory at Le Mans by ...Keep reading
Red Bull is only the fifth Formula 1 team to reach a century of successes in the 73 years of the championship, so this week we celebrate that milestone in this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (22 June).
As well as Jake Boxall-Legge’s in-depth report on events in Montreal, Alex Kalinauckas speaks to team boss Christian Horner about how far the squad has come since joining F1 in 2005, we ...Keep reading
In the closing stages of the Canadian Grand Prix the rear wing on Ocon's Alpine F1 car started oscillating violently over the high Montreal kerbs.
That alarmed the chasing McLaren driver Lando Norris, who raised the issue with his team and afterwards said he was "ducking on the straights" fearing the wing would come off.
Ocon continued to finish eighth, with his team boss Otmar Szafnauer ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer will return to the grand prix fold for the advent of the new engine regulations that notably ditch the expensive and complex Motor Generator Unit–Heat (MGU-H).
Audi reports that since the end of last year, a one-cylinder mule engine has been tested. But in time for 2024, it expects to have a complete 1.6-litre turbo hybrid powertrain ready to run on a dyno.
To aid ...Keep reading
The Japanese manufacturer took the covers off the forerunner of what will be its first entry into the GT3 marketplace in almost a decade at last year’s Tokyo Auto Salon, with ambitions of taking it to the World Endurance Championship and Le Mans 24 Hours.
Since then, the car is known to have started track testing, and was spotted in action during a private test session at Toyota-owned Fuji ...Keep reading
Kenya’s new president made the visit to Safari Rally Kenya on Wednesday, where he joined Loubet in the co-driver seat of his M-Sport Ford Puma Rally1 for a ride through the event's shakedown stage.
It was Ruto’s first experience of the WRC which has a long standing relationship with the country through the Safari Rally, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary event this year.
Loubet ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer has been encouraged by a recent upgrade package to its W14 that appears to have helped it close the gap to the front.
However, the squad is well aware that wider changes are still needed for next year as elements of its current challenger are still far from perfect.
Such a significant step is not easy in F1’s cost cap era, with teams constantly having to juggle ...Keep reading
SHR officials introduced Berry at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Wednesday as the new driver of its No. 4 Ford beginning in 2024, replacing future NASCAR Hall of Fame driver Harvick, who is retiring at the conclusion of the 2023 season.
Berry will not only move into a successful squad but will also retain Harvick’s talented crew chief, Rodney Childers, as the team’s leader.
Harvick and ...Keep reading
The two-time Safari Rally podium finisher rolled his GR Yaris during his third shakedown run which ripped the rear wing and damaged the right rear of his car.
The car was transported to the Naivasha service park where Toyota began to repair the vehicle following an FIA inspection that confirmed the GR Yaris’ roll cage hadn’t been damaged in the crash.
The car will now make the trip to ...Keep reading
However, the rush of excitement he got in the aftermath of that first triumph back at the 2009 Chinese Grand Prix helped drive him and his staff to want to deliver more and more success in F1.
Max Verstappen’s triumph in last weekend’s Canadian GP was Red Bull’s 100th victory in F1 and put it now fifth in the standings of F1’s all-time winners.
Of the four squads ahead of ...Keep reading
As an engineer, the lure of working at Le Mans can be the most exciting phase of a sportscar career. The whole experience, from the scrutineering that takes place in the town’s centre square with all the teams forming up one by one to have photographs taken, to being on the pitstraight with the cars lined up across the road in their qualifying order before they are wheeled to their start ...Keep reading
Leading up to the Canadian's home race, his father and team owner Lawrence Stroll aspired to have both cars on the podium but, after a disappointing mixed-weather qualifying, Stroll was eliminated in Q2 and started 16th due to an impeding penalty.
Stroll actually enjoyed one of his stronger 2023 races on Sunday. Despite losing out to an unfortunately timed early safety car, he came through the ...Keep reading
The 2009 Formula 1 world champion is running three Cup races this season in Rick Ware Racing’s #15 Ford with assistance from Stewart-Haas Racing, with his next Cup outing coming on 2 July in NASCAR’s first street race. He will also contest the 13 August round on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course.
Button had an eventful debut in March at Circuit of the Americas ...Keep reading
Palou scored his third win of the season at Road America on Sunday, extending his lead to 74 points over his team-mate Marcus Ericsson.
In securing his team's 250th race victory, the 2021 champion is now 81 points clear of best non-Ganassi driver Newgarden.
But the Indianapolis 500 winner, who finished second on Sunday, shrugged off the deficit as the series approaches ...Keep reading
The Milton Keynes-based squad became just the fifth team in F1 history to reach a century of grand prix wins, joining Ferrari, McLaren, Williams and Mercedes.
PLUS: The curious case of Red Bull's place in F1 history
Autosport Grand Prix editor Alex Kalinauckas sat down with Red Bull team principal Christian Horner earlier this week for an interview as part of our celebration of Red Bull's ...Keep reading
Team bosses have been cautious about coming out against the new tyres in public, but equally they have shown little enthusiasm for the change, and it’s believed that most do not want it to happen.
Drivers are not keen on the new tyres, with the Grand Prix Drivers' Association director George Russell – who tested the most recent iteration – making it clear that he believes they will be ...Keep reading
Last weekend’s German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring marked another milestone for Ducati, as it occupied the top five spots of a race for the first time.
Pramac’s Jorge Martin also ended its grand prix victory drought in Germany dating back to 2008, with the Sachsenring for many years seen as arguably Ducati’s worst on the calendar.
The top five in the grand prix consisted of two Pramac ...Keep reading
Perez has endured a poor run of form since taking pole position at the Miami Grand Prix in May. After losing out to Verstappen in that race, despite the championship leader having started ninth, the Mexican has failed to reach Q3 in consecutive races.
These struggles have also continued on race days, with Perez only the seventh-highest scorer across Monaco, Spain and Canada, registering ...Keep reading
One minute and 22 seconds. That was all that separated Toyota from a sixth consecutive victory at the Le Mans 24 Hours. And what shouldn’t be forgotten is what a historically slim margin that is in the context of the French enduro that was celebrating its centenary running.
Since World War II, there have only been 10 occasions on which the two leading cars have even finished on the same lap ...Keep reading
Circuit Park Zandvoort, now renamed the CM.com Circuit Zandvoort, was often the scene of the Dutch Grand Prix between 1952 and 1985. On 25 August 1985, it hosted - until its return in 2021 - the hitherto last F1 race. That same year, Keke Rosberg clocked the highest average speed over a lap in F1 in his Williams FW10 at Silverstone: 257.506 kph. That record would only be broken in 2004 by ...Keep reading
The Australian series will move to an all-in parade concept, with the entire 25-driver field lapping the circuit on the back of an open truck at the 7-9 July meeting.
That will replace the traditional drivers parade used at major Supercars events where drivers, or enduro pairs, sit in individual open vehicles.
The F1 style parade will take place at 11:05am local time on the Sunday of the ...Keep reading
The German managed to qualify an impressive second in Montreal, helped by a red flag preventing any late quicker laps for rivals.
However he then lost three places for going too quickly on his lap back to the pits after the session was stopped.
He ran fifth in the opening stages of the race and had lost a couple of spots when he made an early pit visit on lap 11 – just before the safety ...Keep reading
Acosta has put his trust in KTM and will fulfil the contract that keeps him at the Austrian brand at least until the end of 2024.
"We want to give KTM the first opportunity to go up to MotoGP with them, beyond the options contemplated in the contract," Albert Valera, Acosta’s manager, told Autosport.
"KTM has always been very good to Pedro, and he is very grateful."
With this decision ...Keep reading
The Gen3 Camaro continued its dominant run at Hidden Valley, the GM product having been first across the line in all 15 races so far this season - although Tickford Mustang driver Cam Waters inherited victory in the Newcastle season opener when both Triple Eight Camaros were disqualified.
The second race in Darwin was particularly damning with Camaros making up the top nine – the first ...Keep reading
The Italian outfit has endured a challenging season so far, with both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz battling inconsistency with the SF-23, which has made it an especially difficult car to drive in races.
Its situation has also not been helped by the departure of some key personnel, including head of vehicle concept David Sanchez who is joining McLaren. Furthermore, sporting director Laurent ...Keep reading
Buoyed by his efforts behind the wheel of NASCAR’s Garage 56 Le Mans 24 Hours Chevrolet Camaro, and a part-time road and street course schedule in NASCAR Cup with Rick Ware Racing's Ford Mustang, Button revealed that he’s now ready to commit to a full-time programme next year for the first time since his Super GT season in 2019.
Since then, the 2009 Formula 1 world champion’s racing ...Keep reading
Rougher gravel stages caused by the recent weather plus further heavy rain showers forecast this week have several drivers predicting that the 70th anniversary edition of the event will be one of the most difficult in recent memory.
While the event’s 19 stages remain largely the same routes, some sections of the stages have changed dramatically, requiring crews to make new pacenotes.
Tanak ...Keep reading
Celebrities, invited guests and members of the international media are permitted in limited numbers to join series officials and team personnel on the grid in the build-up to races for F1, Formula E, the World Endurance Championship and so on.
However, this access is currently under scrutiny after guests - including Brazilian footballer Neymar Jr - were still positioned at the edge of the grass ...Keep reading
The provisional schedule was released on Tuesday after being ratified by the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council and features 17 races across 13 venues for the landmark season.
The race in Japan is set to take place on 30 March and will be the first FIA world championship race of any kind to be held in the country’s capital city.
Formula E’s CEO, Jeff Dodds, said: “Tokyo will be a ...Keep reading
Starting from 10th and 11th respectively after a problematic mixed weather qualifying session, Charles Leclerc and Sainz successfully used a one-stop strategy to move up the order and finish fourth and fifth.
Not only was getting the race strategy right a welcome reprieve for the beleaguered outfit, but Ferrari also showed much better race pace and consistency in Montreal's dry race after ...Keep reading
Earlier this year, the teams agreed to allow blanket-free full wets from the Emilia Romagna GP onwards.
After the Imola event was cancelled, the tyres were used for the first time by three drivers in the Monaco race and were then tried by the whole field in FP3 in Canada.
As Pirelli works towards the possible introduction of blanket-free slicks for 2024, the company wanted to fast-track its ...Keep reading
Palou had a healthy 5s lead over Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden going on to the final lap but came across Armstrong on the approach to The Kink – one of the fastest and most fearsome corners in American motorsports.
Armstrong – who previously tumbled down the order due to a strategy error – had gone off at the Carousel and rejoined directly in front of the race leader.
Fortunately, he ...Keep reading
The Mexican had a poor Q2 session and started 12th, with the team then opting for a one-stop strategy starting on the hard tyres in an attempt to boost him up the order.
While he made good progress, he got caught behind the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz. They also pitted only once but ran an opposite strategy with an opening stint in mediums.
Right at the end of the race ...Keep reading
The Honda rider withdrew from the German GP having crashed five times at the Sachsenring, the final of his accidents resulting in him suffering a small fracture in his hand.
But he will make his return at this weekend's round in Assen with the hopes of "putting the hard weekend in Germany behind me" after what the team called a "bruising" round.
He will be joined at the factory Honda squad ...Keep reading
Aprilia has only scored 99 points from the first seven rounds of the 2023 season and has just one podium, courtesy of Maverick Vinales’ second at the Portuguese Grand Prix.
At the same stage in 2022, Aprilia had won a race and stood on the podium on three other occasions, with its points haul also standing at 99.
At the German Grand Prix last weekend, Espargaro was ninth in the sprint and ...Keep reading
Manthey EMA driver Preining was on course to win the second race at Oschersleben from pole position until he was handed a long-lap penalty for a pitstop infringement, dropping him to third at the finish.
A Manthey EMA mechanic was found to have briefly left the rear tyre on the ground in the pitlane while he closed his fireproof suit, contravening a rule which states that the tyre must be held ...Keep reading
Just after the halfway mark, on lap 36, De Vries made a bold overtake into Turn 1 while the pair were squabbling over 12th place.
Magnussen refused to yield on the outside, which became the inside for Turn 2, and the pair then traded glancing blows, which allowed Mercedes' George Russell past.
De Vries and Magnussen continued their fight towards Turn 3, where De Vries outbraked himself on ...Keep reading
Germany was presented as the best possible barometer to gauge the health of the Marc Marquez/Honda partnership. It was once virtually unbeatable, taking six MotoGP crowns out of seven between 2013 and 2019. But the conclusion drawn from last weekend's visit to the Sachsenring, where previously he had nothing but victories, is that the best option for his future is to consider going ...Keep reading
But there was a lot more to the upgrade than initially met the eye, especially as the team was fairly coy when it came to detailing the changes it had made in the official car presentation submission document before the action got underway.
This is usual fare to be honest though, as all of the teams have, over time, become more accustomed to generalising the changes being made to their cars at ...Keep reading
Stella said the team was “very surprised” that Norris was penalised for unsportsmanlike behaviour after being deemed to have created a gap to his team-mate Oscar Piastri prior to a double-stacked pit stop.
Norris was running behind the Australian when a safety car triggered by George Russell’s accident gave drivers an opportunity to make cheap stops. McLaren duly decided to double stack ...Keep reading
The rally has prided itself on being one of the WRC’s jewel in the crown events given its difficulty to win. Its unique stages feature a mix of rough gravel and soft sandy roads sprawled across Kenya’s iconic wildlife-filled savannah. amid changeable weather, poses an altogether different challenge for crews.
Last year’s Safari winner and reigning world champion, Kalle Rovanpera ...Keep reading
Last weekend's gravel rally marked the competitive start of the FIA’s new global talent search initiative that aims to unearth future WRC stars.
Six pairings selected from regional finals held across the world will tackle six European rallies this year behind the wheel of an M-Sport Ford Fiesta Rally3 car. The best four crews at the end of the six rallies will receive a fully funded two-year ...Keep reading
The 2020 world champion crashed during the second practice session of the Italian GP weekend and fractured the little finger on his right hand.
He withdrew from the remainder of the Italian GP with the hopes of being fit enough to race at the Sachsenring but was unable to participate and was not replaced.
In the first official entry list for the Dutch Grand Prix, Iker Lecuona appears in ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer has been encouraged by the step forward that has been delivered by the major update it first introduced at the Monaco Grand Prix.
A revised floor, new sidepods and different front suspension has delivered podium finishes for Lewis Hamilton in the last two races, and he battled Fernando Alonso hard in Canada last weekend on his way to finishing third.
But ...Keep reading
The shock move follows another disastrous result for Alesi, the son of ex-Formula 1 driver Jean, in last weekend's Sugo race as he spun on the opening lap and was collected by Yuhi Sekiguchi, eliminating both drivers.
Alesi had gone into the 2023 campaign, his second as a full-timer at TOM'S, under big pressure as the team elected to keep him in place after trialling two-time race winner ...Keep reading
Red Bull celebrated 100 race wins at the weekend courtesy of Max Verstappen claiming victory in the Canadian Grand Prix by 9.57 seconds over Fernando Alonso.
Hamilton completed the podium, but a strong initial launch meant he temporarily jumped Alonso to follow Verstappen. The Mercedes driver then noted the strength of the rear axle of the RB19 and how he fell back to the Red Bull through major ...Keep reading
Zarco found himself in third in Sunday’s 30-lap grand prix at the Sachsenring after KTM’s Brad Binder crashed out on lap 19.
Too far away from the leading duo of Jorge Martin and Francesco Bagnaia to catch them, Zarco had managed to grow the gap to the chasing VR46 Ducatis behind him.
At Turn 1 on the last lap, Zarco had a big scare on the front-end under braking and nearly ...Keep reading
Dixon finished just two-tenths of a second behind Arrow McLaren’s O’Ward, who punted him out of the Long Beach Grand Prix in April.
The six-time champion was livid with the move, which O’Ward was unrepentant over, and declared: “If that's how the series wants us to race, then I guess it's all gloves off from this point.”
Having chased down O’Ward in the closing laps, Dixon was ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen stormed to another this season with his fine performance in the 2023 Canadian Grand Prix, but this one had a special impact for Red Bull. It now joins Ferrari, McLaren, Williams and Mercedes in securing 100 Formula 1 race victories.
Behind Verstappen came a scrap between multiple world champions Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton, which appeared to delight both. But much ...Keep reading
From 10th on the grid, Albon used a one-stop strategy to gain track position and thereafter kept a train of cars behind him as he tried to make his second set of tyres last to the flag.
His single pit stop jumped him ahead of the McLarens of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, which had started ahead.
Helped by his car’s inherent straightline form, Albon used all his racing guile in ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Palou was running second to Andretti Autosport’s Colton Herta when he ran wide at Turn 5 just before half distance, allowing Team Penske’s Newgarden to get a run on him into the uphill left-hander at Turn 6.
As they arrived in the braking zone, Indy 500 winner Newgarden squeezed him at the turn-in point, causing a collision that sent Palou wide onto the ...Keep reading
Jorge Martin announced himself as a true MotoGP title threat with a double victory at the German Grand Prix. The Pramac Ducati rider went without a grand prix victory since the 2021 Styrian GP, but finally took a full 25 points after beating Francesco Bagnaia in a thrilling scrap. A win in the sprint meant Martin left Germany with a maximum haul of 37 points and is now just 16 behind Bagnaia in ...Keep reading
Marquez endured a miserable weekend at the Sachsenring in which he crashed five times, the last one leaving him with a small fracture on his thumb.
The eight-time world champion ultimately withdrew from Sunday’s race, leaving Nakagami as the only Honda rider on the grid.
Following Marquez at the time he crashed in Sunday’s warm-up session, Nakagami says the Spaniard “wasn’t ...Keep reading
In the closing stages of the race, the rear-facing camera on Ocon’s A523 showed the wing oscillating in dramatic fashion at high speed.
McLaren’s Lando Norris, who was following the Alpine closely, made it clear that he viewed it as a safety issue.
The FIA’s current policy in situations when there is an issue with items such as loose bodywork is that the onus is on the team ...Keep reading
The Italian outfit found itself on the receiving end of criticism from Charles Leclerc after a request he made to switch to slicks early in Q2 was over-ruled by the team, who wanted him to put a banker lap in on inters.
But, by the time he had completed that first run and made the switch to slicks, rain had returned, and Leclerc missed the best window to set a better time – which ...Keep reading
Despite it not being Red Bull’s strongest showing of the season, Verstappen was still able to control from the front to take his sixth win from eight races in 2023, but it was another tough weekend for team-mate Sergio Perez after a poor qualifying meant he could only recover to sixth.
PLUS: How Verstappen helped Red Bull reach F1's 100 club in Canada
Fernando Alonso and Lewis ...Keep reading
Alonso was holding off Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton for second in the closing stages when he was told by the team to start lifting and coasting, without being given any explanation.
After the race, team principal Mike Krack revealed that Aston's request was triggered by an apparent issue with the fuel system, which turned out to be a false flag.
"We thought we had a problem with the fuel ...Keep reading
But as the first third of the season is now over, we're starting to see the grid fall into place in some ways and develop in others.
From Alex Albon's brilliant seventh-place finish and the fight for second between Fernando Alonso, Sergio Perez (and maybe even Lewis Hamilton), to a confusing penalty for Lando Norris and Ferrari's surprise strong strategy, Martyn Lee chats to Jon Noble and Alex ...Keep reading
Verstappen radioed his team on lap 11 of the Montreal event to notify the pit wall that he had struck a bird, but the Dutchman’s car did not appear to suffer any major damage and he did not report any subsequent loss of performance on his way to a sixth win of 2023.
But during post-race inspections when Verstappen's RB19 was returned to the garage, Red Bull found that the remains ...Keep reading
Autosport revealed in May that Red Bull chief technical officer Newey had recently agreed a contract extension to remain at the Milton Keynes outfit which he moved to in 2006.
However, the duration of this latest deal for the 64-year-old has not been publicly disclosed.
Newey joined Max Verstappen on the 2023 Canadian Grand Prix podium last weekend as Red Bull celebrated its ...Keep reading
Senna collected his victories between 1985 and 1993 prior to his death in 1994. For years, the Brazilian's record was dwarfed by only Alain Prost's total of 51 wins but has since been surpassed by Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel, and Lewis Hamilton.
Verstappen has now reached that level with his win in Montreal, his sixth of the season, a level simultaneously achieved while assisting Red ...Keep reading
Norris was penalised for slowing down too much under the safety car on lap 12, thereby leaving a gap with team-mate Oscar Piastri, which gave McLaren more breathing space to perform a double pitstop.
The FIA stewards gave the Briton a five-second penalty for "unsportsmanlike conduct" in their verdict: "The driver slowed under the Safety Car to avoid a delay during a 'double stack' for his ...Keep reading
Five drivers’ and four constructors’ titles headline a CV that includes 75 world championship grand prix wins, enough for sixth on the all-time list behind Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, Williams and Lotus.
It also has a major junior driver programme, which has launched the careers of many successful drivers, including Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen.
For this list of top 10 F1 drivers ...Keep reading
Fourth-starting Russell initially challenged a slow-launching Fernando Alonso for third place before settling into position. But on lap 12 of 70, he ran deep into the Turns 8-9 chicane to hit the inside kerb.
That deflected him wide into the exit wall where he damaged his front wing and rear-right wheel.
Russell managed to limp the W14 back to the pits for repairs and he did resume ...Keep reading
Poleman Herta led for 33 of the 55 laps and held a 1.2s lead over Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou at the start of the final stint.
But the fact he pitted a lap earlier than the majority of his rivals at the four-mile track meant he had to drive his car to a higher fuel number.
As he was forced to drop his pace to make it to the end, Palou passed him along with Josef Newgarden (Team ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion completed the podium behind Fernando Alonso and dominant race winner Max Verstappen, who claimed Red Bull's 100th championship win by 9.57 seconds.
Hamilton enjoyed a strong launch and initially jumped front-row starter Alonso into the first corner.
He then stayed ahead through the first round of pitstops - notably escaping a penalty for a potential unsafe ...Keep reading
The Aston Martin driver lost out to third-starting Lewis Hamilton initially into Turn 1 and was later required to briefly touch the brakes at the first round of pitstops when the Mercedes appeared to be released into his path.
This incident was reviewed but passed without a penalty from the stewards.
Alonso then recovered his original starting position with the aid of DRS to pass his former ...Keep reading
The championship leader was unstoppable in his bid to secure Red Bull's landmark victory, as the Anglo-Austrian outfit becomes the fifth team in F1 to score over 100 victories.
He beat Alonso with a winning margin of 9.5s, as the Spanish driver overcame a fast-starting Lewis Hamilton to secure the runner-up spot in the race.
Verstappen had been able to lead away from the start line ...Keep reading
Andretti Autosport's Herta made his final pitstop a lap sooner than Palou and paid the penalty in the closing stages, as he was forced to lower his pace and tumbled back to finish fifth.
Josef Newgarden (Team Penske) finished second, ahead of a closely matched Pato O'Ward (Arrow McLaren) and Scott Dixon (Ganassi).
Poleman Herta had earlier led the field slowly to green and he held his lead ...Keep reading
Turkington started the day 27th and last on the grid but shot his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport back into contention with storming drives over the first two races.
That put him third on the reversed grid for the finale, and Turkington got himself ahead of the front-row-starting Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST of Dan Cammish at the start to move up into ...Keep reading
Hamilton and Russell qualified fourth and fifth respectively in a chaotic wet qualifying in Montreal, in which the pair were briefly under threat of not making it into Q2 amid ever-changing conditions.
They will both move up a place after a penalty for Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg, who starred with a second place in Q3 but was later demoted for a red flag infringement.
Earlier this month both ...Keep reading
Martin was a winner in his maiden season in MotoGP in 2021 and was expected to add to this in 2022 with the Pramac Ducati team.
But the 2022-spec Ducati he was on wasn’t as competitive as the factory team version, which ran a slightly older engine owing to the latest version being too aggressive.
Martin only scored four podiums in 2022, matching his 2021 tally, and was overlooked by Ducati ...Keep reading
The Mexican finished the session in 12th place and missed out on Q3 for the third race in a row.
Like other drivers Perez opted to do a banker lap on intermediates before pitting for slicks, only to find the rain returning, and Valtteri Bottas in front of him.
However, unlike Ferrari's Charles Leclerc, who also missed Q3, he wasn’t frustrated by the call to start the session with inters ...Keep reading
Marquez withdrew from Sunday’s German Grand Prix after suffering his fifth crash of the weekend in the warm-up session.
The crash left him with a small fracture on his thumb, though he was declared fit to race by the MotoGP medical team.
Marquez missed three rounds through injury after a crash in Portugal, and has yet to see a chequered flag in a grand prix, while his best result remains a ...Keep reading
On Friday, Leclerc revealed a tribute helmet sporting the iconic red and black colour scheme used by former Ferrari driver Gilles Villeneuve, after whom the Canadian Grand Prix venue was named.
But Leclerc's announcement surprised the Villeneuve family as neither the Ferrari driver nor his management had asked the family for permission.
After talks between Leclerc and Villeneuve's sister ...Keep reading
The 2023 MotoGP season has seen both of the series’ Japanese manufacturers struggle for form, with Yamaha scoring just one podium in seven rounds and Honda’s Americas GP win with Alex Rins proving to be a fluke result.
This coincides with a shift in balance on the grid towards the European manufacturers over the last year, with Ducati leading the way from KTM and Aprilia.
The German ...Keep reading
Having anticipated a tough challenge at this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, where the long straights and slow corners were not expected to suit the Mercedes package, a fourth and fifth place on the grid - upgraded to third and fourth due to Nico Hulkenberg's penalty - in tricky wet conditions was encouraging.
With Lewis Hamilton having declared ahead of the weekend that Mercedes now had its ...Keep reading
With rear-wheel-drive traction from his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport, it was no surprise that Hill got the jump on Sutton’s Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST at the start.
Sutton stayed close on the opening tour, but Hill set fastest lap on lap two and then went quicker still the following time around to draw out a gap at the front.
But then the safety car emerged – Will ...Keep reading
Albon finished the wet Q1 session in a solid sixth place, and at the start of Q2 he was the only driver to be sent out on slick tyres rather than intermediates on the drying track.
He duly logged a time that no one else could match even after a mass switch to slicks as the rain restarted.
A scrappy Q3 session left him 10th – prior to gaining a place from a penalty for Carlos Sainz – but ...Keep reading
The disrupted weekend at Montreal, with FP1 effectively wiped out by CCTV problems and rain impacting Saturday’s running, has left teams facing more uncertainties on strategy.
It has, however, triggered greater freedom on tyre choice management throughout the event as teams have not needed to preserve race sets as much as they would at a more normal event.
But as the tyre choices of the ...Keep reading
A sprint winner twice in 2023, including on Saturday at the Sachsenring, Martin hasn’t won a grand prix since the 2021 Styrian GP in his rookie season.
But he ended that drought in brilliant fashion, resisting immense pressure from reigning world champion Bagnaia to beat him in a run to the line by just 0.064 seconds.
It has marked him out as a serious title contender now, as the Spaniard ...Keep reading
Once he had got the jump on the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST of poleman Sutton at the start, it was imperative for Hill to keep the 2023 points leader at bay while the tyres on his rear-wheel-drive West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport got up to temperature.
Sutton tried a move on the outside of the Island hairpin on the opening lap, but Hill held on.
Next, Sutton got a run on Hill ...Keep reading
The Australian had enjoyed an encouraging weekend in Montreal up until his accident, as he made it through to the final qualifying segment.
However, he ended up against the barriers early on in Q3 as he spun on the exit of Turn 8.
The incident briefly stopped the session and meant Piastri ended up ninth fastest overall, before moving up a place after Carlos Sainz’s grid drop.
Asked by ...Keep reading
The Honda rider has endured a bruising weekend at the German GP, crashing five times so far – the latest of which in morning warm-up left him with a fracture in his hand.
Marquez crashed in FP2 pushing for a lap time to get into Q2 and wiped out Pramac’s Johann Zarco as he exited the pitlane.
Both riders were unharmed in the incident, but locked horns as Marquez apportioned blame on ...Keep reading
A tense 23-lap Moto3 grand prix kicked off race action on Sunday at the Sachsenring, as victory was decided at the last corner between Oncu and Ayumu Sasaki.
Sasaki took the lead early on his Intact GP Husqvarna and at one stage was over 1.5s clear of the field, as poleman Oncu fought with Dani Holgado.
Oncu started to bring Sasaki back to him, but as the Ajo KTM rider closed in he began to ...Keep reading
Gasly was trying to finish his fast lap towards the end of the session when he came across a gaggle of cars heading into the final corner, including Sainz, who was moving very slowly and was about to start his own lap.
Gasly had to abandon his lap and failed to progress out of the session in 17th place, while Sainz – who qualified eighth – later received a three-place grid penalty for ...Keep reading
The 100 per cent winning streak continued for the Camaro across the weekend with Chevs filling the eight of the nine podium spots on offer across the three races.
Even more troubling was that the top nine cars in race 2 were Camaros while the brand was first across the line in the top five positions in race 3.
The only sign of hope for Ford was a pole and a fast start to race 1 for Cam ...Keep reading
The four-time champion progressed from the original half-hour qualifying session into the top-10 shootout, where he ended up seventh at the wheel of his BMW 330e M Sport.
But Turkington was later excluded after it was found that there was an insufficient sample size in the car for a fuel test.
The catalyst for the error was a red flag after 10 minutes of the first qualifying session, caused ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion has endured a miserable weekend at the Sachsenring, a venue in which he has never been beaten at in the MotoGP class.
Marquez crashed in FP2 pushing for a lap time to get into Q2 and wiped out Pramac’s Johann Zarco as he exited the pitlane.
Both riders were unharmed, but engaged in a war of words afterwards as Marquez apportioned full blame onto Zarco.
Read ...Keep reading
In previous years, drivers overshooting Turn 1 could return to the track beyond Turn 2 and blend into traffic relatively safely.
However, for this year’s GP weekend, the FIA extended the end of the barrier to stop cars that were out of control, potentially due to mechanical failures, from spearing across into traffic that was exiting Turn 2.
As a result of the change, drivers who ran wide ...Keep reading
The Spaniard raced in MotoGP full-time from 2006 to 2018 with Honda, winning 31 grands prix and finishing second in the championship on three occasions.
Pedrosa retired from full-time competition at the end of the 2018 season and signed for KTM as an official test rider.
He continually turned down wildcard opportunities until 2021, when he made his KTM race debut at the Styrian Grand ...Keep reading
From second on the grid, Miyata passed polesitter and early leader Toshiki Oyu on lap 13 of 51 and then enjoyed a relatively straightforward run to the finish, claiming a dominant 22-second win.
With Mugen’s Lawson finishing only fifth due with a strategy that backfired, Miyata overturned what had been a two-point deficit in the standings to take a 12-point lead into the final four races of ...Keep reading
The MSR Camaro driver was untroubled across the 35 laps as he became the second surprise winner of the weekend, following Mark Winterbottom's drought-breaking victory yesterday.
It marked a first win for MSR and second for Le Brocq, who took a maiden victory at Sydney Motorsport Park in 2020 when driving for Tickford Racing.
It also followed a frantic repair job by MSR after Le Brocq's car ...Keep reading
Feeney made light work of the start from pole, holding the lead into turn 1 before charging into a handy early lead.
His cause was helped by Shane van Gisbergen piling pressure on Andre Heimgartner across the first few laps as they fought over second place.
Heimgartner was resolute in his defence, weathering the initial van Gisbergen storm before the Triple Eight driver backed off and ...Keep reading
The Haas driver was found to have gone faster than the minimum delta time set by the FIA ECU on his return to the pits when the session was red flagged in Q3, as Oscar Piastri put his McLaren in the wall at Turn 7 amid wet conditions in Montreal.
Hulkenberg had set a lap good enough for second on the grid moments before the red flag emerged, and the worsening rainfall ensured that nobody was ...Keep reading
In a wet and wild qualifying at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, the Red Bull driver splashed to his 25th F1 career pole position, ahead of surprise package Nico Hulkenberg who secured a front-row start for Haas.
But Hulkenberg faced a post-qualifying stewards hearing for a red flag infringement during Q3.
Hulkenberg’s Q3 stunner saw Fernando Alonso pushed back to third for Aston Martin ...Keep reading
Towards the end of Q1 Alpine driver Gasly was one a flying lap when he encountered a nearly stationary Sainz at the final chicane, as the Spaniard was creating space for himself to embark on a final lap attempt.
The incident forced Gasly off onto the escape road, which meant that the Frenchman stayed 17th and was eliminated, rather than improving his lap time to book a comfortable spot into ...Keep reading
On his second flying lap in a wet Q3, Alonso set the fastest middle sector and was set to overhaul Nico Hulkenberg's surprise effort for second place, but was denied the chance to complete his lap when Oscar Piastri hit the wall at Turn 7.
This produced a red flag, that Alonso caught just as he was leaving the chicane before the start-finish straight, forcing him to abort his run late ...Keep reading
Leclerc reported early on his out lap that the line looked dry and later said, “I think we should box for softs,” only to be told, "Verstappen stayed out.”
He then repeated his request for softs before adding, “Let me know if you want me to put a lap in,” after which the team made it clear that he should log a banker lap on the intermediates, which he then did before pitting.
Alex ...Keep reading
The German had posted a time good enough to join Max Verstappen on the front row of the grid in Q3, seconds before the red flag was issued by the stewards following Oscar Piastri's crash on the exit of Turn 7.
Following the clean-up operation of the Australian's stranded McLaren, the session resumed but in far worse conditions than those that had preceded the short hiatus.
This cemented ...Keep reading
The German driver battled into Q3 as conditions dried out from heavy rain and then nailed his second flying lap in the final part of qualifying to lift himself up to second place just seconds before a red flag for Oscar Piastri’s crash.
With the conditions getting worse during the stoppage as the rain returned, it meant Hulkenberg’s front-row spot was secured next to polesitter Max ...Keep reading
Power’s car had to be rebuilt after a bizarre crash in Saturday morning’s practice session with six-time champion Scott Dixon, who didn’t see the Australian coming after he’d spun and allowed Grosjean to pass.
Dixon then immediately drove into Power’s path, wrecking both cars, which led to a physical altercation when Power shoved his shoulder as he confronted his fellow Indy 500 ...Keep reading
Verstappen will start ahead of Nico Hulkenberg (Haas) and Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.
Canadian Grand Prix qualifying results: Verstappen on pole from Hulkenberg
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Although a dry line had emerged by the start of Q2, offering drivers to take a chance on running with soft tyres, the conditions had worsened by the start of the final part of qualifying and the rain picked up in intensity.
Armed with intermediate rubber, Verstappen collected a 1m27.059s with his first lap of the session, as Fernando Alonso got to within 0.25s of the championship leader's ...Keep reading
On the recently-repaved 4.048-mile road course, Dario Franchitti’s qualifying track record of 1m39.866s remained out of reach despite the new high-grip surface. The Fast Six shootout was an intriguing battle, with most cars running the harder primary tyres but Arrow McLaren’s practice pacesetter Alexander Rossi gambled on the softer alternates.
O’Ward set the early pace with 1m41.9957s on ...Keep reading
Leclerc revealed his special helmet design on social media on Friday, but he hadn’t told the Villeneuve family what he was planning to do.
While the gesture was obviously intended to honour one of his predecessors at Ferrari the helmet design is trademarked, and thus there were potential issues around the Italian team’s current sponsors being associated with it.
Leclerc was alerted to ...Keep reading
Red Bull's RB19 has been the class of the field in 2023, propelling Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez to a clean sweep of seven wins in the first seven races of the season.
The car has looked particularly planted in high-speed corners but, despite its downforce prowess, the car has also enjoyed a straightline speed advantage over the competition, both with and without DRS.
When asked about the ...Keep reading
Rain had fallen all morning in Montreal to produce a series of small puddles around the circuit, while the cold conditions yielded a track temperature of just 17.5 degrees Celsius at the opening of the session.
Haas pairing Nico Hulkenberg and Kevin Magnussen were first to explore the damp track with the full wet tyre, Hulkenberg setting a 1m34.889s moments before Magnussen kicked off with a ...Keep reading
Dixon spun his Chip Ganassi Racing car on the exit of Canada Corner and let Andretti Autosport's Romain Grosjean past him as he got back up to racing speed. But Dixon then suddenly swerved left into the path of Team Penske's Will Power, who was on a hot lap.
The pair collided, smashing the left-front wheel of Dixon's car before they both slammed into the concrete wall.
Power, whose car ...Keep reading
Yamaha still has only one podium to its credit in 2023 courtesy of a third for Quartararo in the Americas Grand Prix in April, while the Frenchman is its top runner in the standings in ninth – 86 points off the lead.
Quartararo has previously complained this year about Yamaha making little progress with its M1 in the four years he has been with the Japanese marque.
When asked about Yamaha ...Keep reading
Rossi topped the 45-minute session around the fabled 4.048-mile road course with a best lap of 1m41.9112s.
While the track is much faster on the racing line, thanks to the track’s first full repave since 1995 that took place last October and November, there’s a huge grip disparity off-line which has been catching out the unwary if they run wide.
The session was red-flagged after just ...Keep reading
The three-time champion sailed easily through to the top 10 shootout by topping the first qualifying session, and then stamped in two laps quicker than the best anyone else could manage in his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST.
Sutton’s third consecutive pole came by 0.225 seconds from the West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport of Jake Hill, and was achieved despite his being allowed ...Keep reading
Many complaints have been raised by riders this year regarding the increased difficulty they are having in racing each other owing to the downforce modern MotoGP bikes are creating now.
A much-maligned front tyre pressure rule, which was enforced properly from the Italian GP, has also added to this problem, with riders noting how difficult their bikes are when following others due to the sharp ...Keep reading
The Honda rider endured a bruising Saturday at the Sachsenring having crashed three times in qualifying on his way to seventh on the grid.
Briefly running fifth in the sprint, Marquez faded to 11th at the chequered flag to end a MotoGP contest of any kind at the Sachsenring without a win for the first time ever.
Marquez says after qualifying that he saw “the balance was not enough” to ...Keep reading
Gasly received three places apiece for holding up Carlos Sainz and Max Verstappen in separate incidents in Barcelona.
He matched team-mate Esteban Ocon's Monaco performance in qualifying fourth, but his six-place cumulative penalty dropped him down to 10th.
He then lost more places with a scrappy first lap before eventually recovering to score a point in 10th place.
Gasly visited the ...Keep reading
Only Alex Albon has the updates this weekend, with Logan Sargeant having to wait until at least the next race in Austria before getting to run them.
The list of parts that have been changed includes the floor body, sidepod and engine cover bodywork. But there is also a revised mirror layout, a new halo fairing, new external geometry for the suspension fairings, rear brake ducts and rear wing ...Keep reading
Martin took his first sprint win of the season at the French GP and added a second to his tally in Germany, taking the chequered flag 2.4 seconds clear.
The Pramac Ducati rider took the lead on lap four with a daring double overtake and instantly opened a near-second gap to the chasing pack.
It moves him up to second in the championship, 21 points behind Bagnaia after the factory Ducati ...Keep reading
As revealed by Autosport, F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali and FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem are eyeing a reduction in car weight for the next rules cycle in 2026.
F1's current generation of cars has a minimum weight of 798kg, which is the highest they have ever been in the history of the world championship.
With F1 braced for the potential for larger batteries in 2026 as a consequence of a ...Keep reading
Ingram set the fastest lap of the early-morning FP1 period in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N, 0.022 seconds clear of the Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST of championship leader Ash Sutton.
Ingram also looked set to be the swiftest of all in FP2 with a lap just 0.064s shy of his earlier effort, only to be pipped at the chequered flag by the Team Hard Cupra Leon of Bobby Thompson to ...Keep reading
Everyone has their breaking point. And everyone reacts in a different way when frustrations boil over, generally doing so in a way that is out of character. This is very much what we are seeing unfold in front of us with Marc Marquez.
It’s no secret he is losing patience with Honda. Having gone through the injury hell of his badly broken right arm in 2020 and put himself through more misery ...Keep reading
On-track action during FP1 only lasted three minutes after a stoppage by Alpine's Pierre Gasly caused an early red flag.
Even after the Frenchman's stricken car was removed from the racetrack, the session remained on halt because of a synchronisation issue with the local CCTV camera circuit, which for safety reasons is required to be working properly so all on-track action can be monitored ...Keep reading
Q2 was run on a drying track after rain earlier this morning, with Bagnaia edging pole by 0.078 seconds as numerous riders had laps cancelled due to a spate of late crashes.
Honda’s Marc Marquez endured another miserable day at the Sachsenring following his controversial collision with Johann Zarco on Friday.
Marquez crashed in Q1 but managed to make it into the next part of qualifying ...Keep reading
Verstappen finished 0.424s down on Mercedes' pacesetter Lewis Hamilton in Friday's second practice session, which was extended to 90-minutes after technical issues at the circuit curtailed FP1.
The runaway championship leader said Red Bull "had some work to do" after struggling over the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve's many bumps and high kerbs, which upset the balance of his RB19.
“I think we ...Keep reading
Waters was leading the opening heat of the Darwin Triple Crown when his Mustang burst into flames in the engine bay at the start of the fifth lap.
The fire was reminiscent of the engine fires that rocked the category at Albert Park and led to sweeping changes to venting.
However in this case there was a completely different cause to the fires, with a loose fuel connector leading to a leak ...Keep reading
An informal association has been operating this season, with all drivers in a WhatsApp group and Shane van Gisbergen, Chaz Mostert, Will Davison and Cam Waters charged with taking ideas and notes to Supercars and Motorsport Australia.
There is now significant momentum towards the formation of an official, recognised drivers association.
The full driver group met on Friday evening in Darwin ...Keep reading
Formula 1's bizarre brace of Friday practice sessions for the Canadian Grand Prix ended with Lewis Hamilton holding the fastest time, as rain and technical issues left their respective marks.
The seven-time world champion moved to the top of the timesheets at the expense of his team-mate George Russell, in an important FP2 session as brief running in FP1 was caused by issues with the circuit's ...Keep reading
The veteran inherited the lead early in the race thanks to a spectacular engine fire for Cam Waters, before withstanding intense, race-long pressure from Broc Feeney.
The win was Winterbottom's first since Pukekohe 2016 and first podium since Wanneroo in 2018.
It is also Team 18's first win in Supercars.
"I'm emotional," said Winterbottom. "That's awesome. I told [team owner] Charlie ...Keep reading
After a delayed and curtailed opening practice due to CCTV system issues at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, practice properly got under way in the second session which was extended to 90 minutes to make up for the lost running.
Hamilton led a Mercedes 1-2 from team-mate George Russell, profiting from a later soft tyre run compared to rivals, before a heavy rain shower hit the track in the ...Keep reading
The duo led the way in the extended second free practice session in Montreal which took place after first free practice had to be abandoned because of CCTV problems.
But in the wake of the performance boost delivered by upgrades at the Spanish GP, the team's form around the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve has raised hopes of a proper challenge again this weekend.
However, both drivers felt that ...Keep reading
The second practice session was extended by half an hour following the opening session's curtailment as technical issues emerged with the circuit's CCTV system.
This left the teams, who had managed only the most cursory of laps in FP1, with the bulk of the data to gather ahead of Saturday's preparations for qualifying.
Charles Leclerc was first to bother the stopwatch, setting the opening ...Keep reading
Rossi topped the 75-minute session around the fabled 4.048-mile road course with a best lap of 1m41.779s, with times massively faster than last year’s pace thanks to the track’s first full resurface which took place last October and November, since 1995.
It also meant that tyre squeal from the natural understeer characteristics of the Dallaras was audible over the sound of their engines in ...Keep reading
The governing body has already announced that the second practice session will begin 30 minutes earlier than originally planned to accommodate for it increasing by 50% up to 90 minutes in length.
This follows heavy disruption during FP1 on Friday. Running was originally interrupted by Alpine driver Pierre Gasly pulling up with a suspected driveshaft failure on the run between Turns 7 and ...Keep reading
The TV presenter made the commitment on social media after Ocon qualified fourth and started third in Monaco, noting during the race: “Come on Alpine. I’ll buy you all a pint if you get a podium here.”
The Frenchman duly finished third, and on Monday Clarkson arrived at the Enstone factory with a tractor and a supply of his Hawkestone beer.
Ocon met Clarkson to thank him personally for ...Keep reading
Its feat has partially been driven by the additional CFD and wind tunnel time afforded by its relatively poor performance last season.
However, it also has been helped by a wholesale design shift it undertook at last year's Spanish Grand Prix as it moved to the downwash sidepod concept originally favoured by Red Bull, AlphaTauri and Alpine.
Having committed so early to that route also gave ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen led the pack out of the pits at the start of the one-hour session and he set the first place benchmark at 1m20.154s in his RB19 which was fitted with an aerodynamic load-measuring device.
He was quickly shuffled back in the standings as the rest of the drivers that had headed out when the track went live posted their opening times, with Bottas's 1m18.728s the best of the very ...Keep reading
Running in FP1 had originally been stopped after Alpine's Pierre Gasly came to a halt on the long run between Turns 7 and 8 due to a driveshaft issue.
Once his car was pushed behind the barriers as FP1's first five minutes closed out, the session did not get going again as originally anticipated.
Mercedes had been so certain green flag conditions would soon return it sent Lewis Hamilton and ...Keep reading
The Dutchman looks on course to take his third world championship this season with Red Bull in a class of its own right now.
Its advantage has opened up the prospect of the Milton Keynes-based team taking victory in every race, a feat that has never been achieved in the history of F1.
Verstappen has played down the chances of that happening though, as he thinks it too much to ...Keep reading
Marquez lost the front-end of his Honda braking for Turn 1 late on in FP2 at the Sachsenring, with his errant bike slamming into the side of Zarco’s Pramac Ducati.
Zarco’s bike was destroyed in the tangle but both riders were unscathed, while Marquez later blamed the Frenchman for the crash as he felt he wasn’t looking where he was going.
Neither rider felt the nature of the pit exit ...Keep reading
Villeneuve scored his maiden victory for the Italian team at the first Montreal F1 event in 1978, and after his death at the 1982 Belgian GP, the track was renamed in his honour.
Last May Leclerc drove Villeneuve's 1979 Ferrari 312T4 at Fiorano to mark the 40th anniversary of the Zolder accident and the helmet represents another step for the Monegasque driver in honouring the Ferrari ...Keep reading
Honda rider Marquez was beginning a flying lap in the closing stages of FP2 when he lost the front-end of his bike braking into Turn 1.
At the same time, Zarco was exiting pitlane and was wiped out by the errant Honda, which ripped the front wheel of the Ducati off.
Both riders were unscathed in the incident, but Marquez feels Zarco should have been looking for oncoming traffic as he exited ...Keep reading
The South Korean marque has relaunched a driver development programme as previously predicted by Autosport, with Suninen and reigning WRC2 champion Emil Lindholm the first drivers selected to be part of the initiative.
The scheme, which was first launched in 2017, aims to develop the next wave of Rally1 drivers.
Suninen will step into the Hyundai i20 N Rally1 Hybrid to replace the late Craig ...Keep reading
Ryan Hunter-Reay “was not pursuing” an IndyCar Series return until Ed Carpenter called him last week, but the man they call ‘Captain America’ is ready to grasp this fresh opportunity. It’s the latest twist of a rollercoaster career that’s seen Hunter-Reay reach the peaks of a championship title in 2012 and win the Indianapolis 500 in 2014.
His career in Indy cars began in the Champ ...Keep reading
While the afternoon running for the lower classes was affected by wet weather, it had cleared in time for the hour-long second practice for the MotoGP field.
Bezzecchi led the way with a 1m20.271s after snatching the top spot by 0.040 seconds on his final lap.
The session was twice hit by red flags, with the latter coming after a frustrated Marc Marquez lost the front end of his Honda into ...Keep reading
The team has so far been quite conservative with its developments of the AMR23, with many of its main rivals having unleashed major changes to their 2023 challengers.
But just a fortnight after Fernando Alonso urged the team to step up its progress in a bid not to lose ground in the fight to be Red Bull's main challenger, Aston Martin has made some pretty extensive changes to its car.
The ...Keep reading
After a strong run of races, Perez had a disastrous weekend in Monaco, failing to score after a crash early in Q1, and another qualifying mistake in Barcelona saw him start down the field and recover to fourth in the race.
Having at one stage put himself within six points of team-mate Max Verstappen in the title battle Perez is now 53 behind.
"Basically, I want to reset, go again,” he said ...Keep reading
The Bathurst Regional Council announced on Friday evening that two grants totalling $12.5million [£6.7million] have been withdrawn by the federal government.
The two grants, one worth $10million and one worth $2.5million, were awarded to the council to go towards the construction of a second circuit in Bathurst to sit alongside the famous Mount Panorama circuit.
However the grants required ...Keep reading
A look at the Ferrari SF-23’s rear end, including the rear suspension and driveshaft fairings, the single pillar rear wing mount, and the double mouse house in the diffuser’s sidewall. Also note the upper beam wing element which straddles the width of the rear wing assembly and sits atop the crash structure, rather than being mounted to the side of it as many other teams opt to do.
...Keep reading
It was inevitable really. The welcome accumulation of manufacturers in the Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship means sportscar racing is in a state of rude health. And the onset of the LMGT3 class is expected to bring greater variety than the outgoing GTE class, which bode farewell to Le Mans last weekend. But all of this has put the squeeze on grid spaces, and something had to ...Keep reading
Magnussen returned to the fold for the 2022 season after Nikita Mazepin left the team after the first pre-season test at Barcelona, and immediately impressed after a year away to collect the majority of Haas' points last year.
His then-team-mate Mick Schumacher was not retained for 2023 as Haas opted for the more experienced Hulkenberg to replace him, and the veteran German has so far proved to ...Keep reading
The team introduced a major upgrade package in Monaco, and while the full potential was not clear in the principality, the team had a strong weekend in Spain, with Hamilton and team-mate George Russell finishing second and third.
Asked if he had confidence that the momentum would continue in Canada this weekend Hamilton made it clear that he did.
“Yeah, definitely a lot, that we've been ...Keep reading
Honda is in the midst of a dire period in MotoGP, with two of the last four years seeing the brand go winless in the premier class.
While LCR’s Alex Rins was able to end its victory drought earlier in 2023 at the Americas GP, it has so far proven to be an outlier result as all of HRC’s stable struggle on the troubled RC213V.
FEATURE: The crisis point Honda has reached in ...Keep reading
Karun Chandhok has had a lot of team-mates in his eclectic career, but one name stands out when it comes to choosing his favourite. Bruno Senna immediately comes to mind for the Indian and not just because the duo ended up as colleagues in GP2, Formula 1 and Formula E.
“From the first GP2 test we did together at Jerez [in 2007], we just got on really well,” says the Sky F1 pundit, who raced ...Keep reading
The announcement was made in the wake of last weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours, which ended in disappointment for Dillmann as the Vanwall Vandervell Le Mans Hypercar’s Gibson engine suffered a terminal failure in the morning hours.
Dillmann was sharing the car with Esteban Guerrieri and Tristan Vautier, a last-minute replacement for 1997 Formula 1 champion Jacques Villeneuve, but the new car ...Keep reading
The Spaniard found out the hard way about Ferrari’s difficulties with race pace at his home grand prix a fortnight ago when he qualified on the front row but then slumped to fifth by the chequered flag – more than 45 seconds adrift of race-winner Max Verstappen.
Ferrari has struggled all season with its SF-23 showing decent pace in single-lap conditions in qualifying but then lacking ...Keep reading
MotoGP’s return to German comes as part two of a triple-header prior to the summer shutdown, which began last week with the Italian GP at Mugello.
Unsettled weather forecasts for the Sachsenring weekend proved correct on Friday morning as light rain midway through FP1 interrupted proceedings.
While it called a brief pause to the action, the weather didn’t spoil an enthralling end to the ...Keep reading
Hyundai announced last month that Demaison, who helped Volkswagen during its domination of the WRC from 2013-2016, will assume the technical director role at the South Korean marque following a stint at Williams.
The team had been operating without a designated technical director, with the renowned Christian Loriaux working as a technical adviser in a contractor role. Loriaux has now taken ...Keep reading
The weight of Formula 1 cars has ballooned by 200kg over the past two decades, with the 2023 minimum weight of 798kg for an empty car setting a new record.
The excessive weight of the current crop of cars, which has made them more sluggish to drive in low-speed corners, has become a point of contention, with early plans being made to make them lighter again from 2026 onwards.
Speaking to ...Keep reading
Tyre-warming blankets were originally meant to be banned from next season onwards, until the rules were later amended so that they will remain – but with the option for the FIA to re-impose the ban after a final decision is made by the end of July.
Mercedes driver Russell was one of four drivers to take part in a crucial Pirelli test at Barcelona in the week following the Spanish Grand Prix ...Keep reading
Red Bull announced this week that four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel has signed up to run alongside Daniel Ricciardo at a special event at the famous track in September.
Vettel is due to run the 2011 RB7 car that he took to that year's world championship, while Ricciardo will run in an RB8 from the following season. It will be the first time in a decade that F1 machinery has run at the ...Keep reading
Key was eased out of a similar role at McLaren earlier this year after a shake-up of technical responsibilities.
He was soon hired by his former boss Andreas Seidl, who as CEO of Sauber Motorsport is responsible for preparing the Swiss organisation for the arrival of Audi in 2026.
Key, who had a previous spell at Sauber between 2010 and 2012, will join the Hinwil outfit on 1 September. He ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion has yet to see a chequered flag in a grand prix in 2023 and has scored just 15 points from the opening six rounds – though he did miss three with injury.
Having crashed out of the Italian Grand Prix last weekend, Marquez admitted that the constant falls he was suffering on the troubled 2023 Honda were “difficult on the mental side”.
Despite talks that ...Keep reading
Cull's Capri: Rouse replica
Equipe Classic Racing co-owner Rob Cull’s labour of love, an Andy Rouse Ford Capri replica, had its latest outing last weekend.
After its engine failure on its Brands Hatch debut, the Capri had a standard two-litre road unit in at Silverstone in the Equipe 70s race.
“We’re waiting on the three-litre to come in,” said Cull. “We’ve got about 100bhp ...Keep reading
If someone offers you the chance to go to the Le Mans 24 Hours, never say no. If you do, then you are missing out on one of the most incredible weekends you’ll ever have in your life.
On Thursday afternoon I was presented with a very last-minute opportunity to go to the centenary Le Mans to cover the event for Autosport’s social media channels. Within a couple of hours, the flights were ...Keep reading
Photographs of the underside of Sergio Perez’s RB19 were widely distributed over the Monaco Grand Prix weekend after the Mexican driver crashed in qualifying.
The shots revealed the level of complexity that Red Bull has put into its floor concept, and were of huge value to rival teams to help them try to catch up with the current world champion squad.
But for Williams, it was the wider ...Keep reading
West was in stunning form in Wiltshire, winning the two Kumho BMW contests as well as both Classic Thunder races in his E46 M3 - despite some hard-fought battles with rivals.
Those successes have not only allowed West to shoot up 10 places in Autosport's rankings, but have also taken West's tally to nine for the year.
This moves him to within two wins of table-topper Freddie Slater, although ...Keep reading
The all-female championship held its inaugural season in 2019 as part of the DTM’s support bill.
After the 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID pandemic, the series returned, this time on the Formula 1 support bill.
It was forced to end the 2022 season early due to fundraising issues, with Jamie Chadwick securing her third consecutive title after the Singapore round last ...Keep reading
Sidecar racing has to be the most bonkers form of motorsport on the planet. Essentially aeroplane wings on three wheels, the sight of a driver pushing to their limits while relying implicitly on their passenger – kept attached to the outfit by nothing more than arm strength and bravery – to make all of the right movements to get the thing round a corner.
Take that concept and put it on ...Keep reading
The one-time grand prix winner crashed while cycling at Mugello last Thursday and “destroyed” his heel.
Initial x-ray scans showed no fractures, though his foot did suffer from a lot of swelling.
Undergoing an MRI on Monday after the Italian GP – in which he finished sixth – it was found he had in fact suffered two fractures in his foot.
“So, the foot… it was good in Mugello ...Keep reading
F1’s new financial rules have been hailed as a success at reining in spend by bigger teams since they were introduced in 2021, but problems have since emerged – including that teams are strictly limited on capital expenditure.
This means some teams therefore find it difficult to upgrade equipment not given exemptions in the cost cap – such as building whole new factories or establishing ...Keep reading
The 2020 championship runner-up is facing an uncertain MotoGP future as his Yamaha contract comes to an end at the conclusion of this season, with his results since last year not matching those of when he was part of Petronas SRT.
Morbidelli has repeatedly faced questions about his future in recent rounds, with the Italian telling Autosport in an exclusive interview at the French GP that he had ...Keep reading
The Australian stepped up to a McLaren race seat for 2023 after spending last year as Alpine reserve and test driver.
With McLaren’s car not being as quick as the team had hoped, it has not been the smoothest of rookie campaigns for Piastri, but he feels he is making progress.
And he has singled out the assistance that Webber, a veteran of 217 grands prix, is giving him – both in terms ...Keep reading
Wadoux will share the #88 AF Corse ORECA LMP2 with her current team-mate in the World Endurance Championship, Luis Perez Companc, and Ferrari Hypercar driver Nicklas Nielsen for the six-hour race on 25 June.
The car is making its first IMSA appearance since the season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona, where Nielsen shared duties with Julien Canal, Francois Perrodo and Matthieu Vaxiviere.
It will ...Keep reading
Over the years several Formula 1 drivers have tried their hand at rallying, think Kimi Raikkonen and Robert Kubica, who both enjoyed spells in the World Rally Championship in the last decade. But few drivers harbouring dreams of climbing the ladder to reach the pinnacle of motorsport have chosen to enhance their chances through rallying.
Step forward Red Bull F1 junior Zane Maloney. Simply ...Keep reading
Vice president of motorsports Reid Atherton made the comments after it was announced on the Friday ahead of the Le Mans 24 Hours that the Austin track would take over the WEC's US round from Sebring following the conclusion of its three-year contract.
The 1 September event will form part of an expanded eight-round calendar that includes new rounds in Qatar and Imola, with Interlagos returning ...Keep reading
Le Mans couldn’t have asked for a better way to celebrate its centenary. The new Hypercar era properly getting under way and a titanic battle for victory going the way of Ferrari must have been more than even the Automobile Club de l’Ouest and FIA could have hoped for.
AF Corse, Ferrari and drivers James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi narrowly beat Toyota, which put up ...Keep reading
Of a 17-race calendar, only Melbourne, Monaco and Montreal took the championship away from permanent circuits.
Wind on to 2023 and the balance has shifted to eight street venues versus 14.
And following the cancellation of the Chinese and Emilia Romagna Grands Prix, from the eight rounds run so far, only the Bahrain curtain-raiser and most recent hop to Barcelona have taken place at anything ...Keep reading
Japanese youngster Miyata, a race winner in both Super Formula and SUPER GT, was named as the latest member of Toyota’s WEC Challenge programme in the lead-up to last weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours, and was embedded within the team for the French classic.
The 23-year-old will also join the Cologne-based outfit for the next two WEC races at Monza and Fuji and undertake simulator work in between ...Keep reading
Red Bull has been in a class of its own so far in 2023, with drivers Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez winning all the races and already looking out of reach in the championship standings.
The scale of its advantage has left many anticipating that Red Bull could be set for a historic run of winning every race this year.
The lack of a fight at the front has, however, triggered concerns about F1 ...Keep reading
Wayne Taylor Racing joined forces with his father Michael’s Andretti Autosport team this year to bolster its technical strength to run the complex ORECA-chassised, HPD-powered ARX-06 hybrid machine.
Following the most recent round at Laguna Seca, WTR confirmed it will run a second entry in the series for 2024, and that it had re-signed Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor to spearhead its ...Keep reading
The four-time world champion, who retired from F1 at the end of last season, has spent the early part of this year away from the spotlight and spending more time with his family.
However, on Wednesday he announced that he would be back behind the wheel as he joins up with former Red Bull team-mate Daniel Ricciardo at a special Nordschleife event that will take place on 9 ...Keep reading
Ferrari wins on its factory prototype comeback. And narrowly so at the end of an intriguing and sometimes thrilling battle with Toyota. All five major car manufacturers involved in Hypercar lead at some point or other. The centenary edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours definitely got a race befitting of such a significant moment in its history. There can be no question of that.
There is, however ...Keep reading
While rivals outfits like Aston Martin have hailed the significance of a works partnership from the next rules cycles in 2026, McLaren thinks there are bigger influences on performance than the power unit.
That is why, for McLaren boss Andrea Stella, the bigger effort right now needs to be on addressing the elements that have much more of a say in the speed of its car.
“If we ...Keep reading
He cautioned that teams should be wary of trying to replace experienced team members with cheaper personnel in order to stay within the cap.
The cost cap excludes the salaries of each team’s top three employees – typically the team principal and technical director plus one other – and includes everyone else with a direct involvement in the design, manufacturing and operation of the ...Keep reading
The brand has just announced another fully-fledged factory racing programme, with at least a two-year commitment to a Dakar Rally programme using the Ford Ranger.
That joins the growing list of Ford Performance programmes around the world, headlined by the impending entry to Formula 1 with Red Bull in 2026.
There are also factory programmes in NASCAR, Supercars and, as of next year, customer ...Keep reading
In fact, this year marks the 45th anniversary of the first race in Montreal, famously also the maiden victory of local hero Gilles Villeneuve.
The circuit that was later renamed after the Ferrari legend has been a near-constant presence on the schedule ever since, apart from glitches for financial reasons in 1987 and 2009, and during the COVID-hit years of 2020 and 2021.
Significantly ...Keep reading
The British team, which has three LMP2 wins at La Sarthe under its belt, led the centenary running of Le Mans at one stage with its new 963, which had only made its World Endurance Championship debut in the previous race at Spa.
That was until Yifei Ye, who shared the Hertz-sponsored #38 car with Antonio Felix da Costa and Will Stevens, suffered a crash at the Porsche Curves while he was ...Keep reading
Le Mans, France, Wednesday, 14 June 2023. Le Mans Ultimate – the official game of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and World Endurance Championship – was announced ahead of the eagerly-anticipated Centenary edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans (10-11 June), with a first look available for fans to play during the build-up to the ultimate endurance race.
An early version of the game developed by Studio ...Keep reading
Espargaro battled through a heel injury from a cycling accident at Mugello last weekend to qualify eighth and stay there for the sprint, before snatching sixth from KTM’s Jack Miller in the Italian Grand Prix.
Ducati dominated the weekend at Mugello, with Francesco Bagnaia taking pole, sprint victory, grand prix win and fastest lap, while the Italian brand locked out the rostrum in both ...Keep reading
Host Martyn Lee sits down with sportscar experts Gary Watkins and Jamie Klein. Together, they dissect the critical moments, unexpected setbacks, wet-weather surprises and driver performances that made this one of the most unforgettable races in recent history.
Martyn presents three key questions to our guests: did Ferrari win Le Mans on merit? Did Toyota contrive to lose it? Or was Ferrari ...Keep reading
“Well, I’ve never had this before,” says McLaren ambassador Kris. He is Autosport’s guide for an afternoon at the McLaren Technology Centre and just as he clears his throat to introduce the MP4/13 from 1998 in all its monochrome glory, Mika Hakkinen unexpectedly wanders into earshot. No pressure, then, to remember that the Finn standing only five yards away won eight grands prix aboard ...Keep reading
During the off-season Vowles moved from a Mercedes team that won eight consecutive world championships to a squad that finished bottom in four of the past five seasons.
After years of under-investment, Williams' facilities were always going to pale compared to those of the Brackley squad. But Vowles has discovered some elements that are a world away from what is needed to compete at the ...Keep reading
Last Sunday at Mugello, Marc Marquez met with Shinji Aoyama - the second-highest ranking executive at Honda Motor Company - to discuss the crisis that HRC is going through in MotoGP and to convey his frustration at the lack of a reaction.
The meeting took place at Honda's motorhome, starting at 11am and lasting for 25 minutes. In addition to Marquez and Aoyama, who had arrived at the circuit by ...Keep reading
The Blue Oval announced today the formation of a full factory Dakar programme using a T1+ version of the Ranger, which will be run in collaboration with Neil Woolridge Motorsport in South Africa and M-Sport in the UK.
The programme will effectively be launched in stages, with an existing NWM-built Ranger, powered by a 3.5-litre Ecoboost engine and based on the previous generation model, further ...Keep reading
The new tyres derived from Pirelli’s 2024 testing programme have been introduced in order to deal with higher than expected load levels as teams have developed their cars and added downforce.
Teams tested them en masse for the first time on Friday in Barcelona, when they were given two sets of the hard C1 compound per driver.
However, most teams opted not to conduct a direct back-to-back ...Keep reading
A new year, a new official Formula 1 video game from Codemasters and Electronic Arts. F1 23 has some ground to make up after F1 22’s post-launch instabilities, superfluous supercars and inconsistent handling left us looking elsewhere for our virtual driving kicks after the initial sheen had worn off.
For this year, we must first touch upon Braking Point 2, a story mode continuation from F1 ...Keep reading
The Faye Ho-run FHO squad currently competes in the British Superbike Championship with Peter Hickman and Josh Brookes, as well as on the roads at the North West 200 and TT.
Hickman won four races at this year’s TT, including the Senior TT finale on his FHO BMW Superbike, which the team managed to get ready on the morning of the last day of the event having battled issues with for the ...Keep reading
Verstappen is currently marching towards a third successive world title, with his 2023 successes so far featuring little in the way of the wheel-to-wheel scrapping that characterised his 2021 success over Lewis Hamilton and his early 2022 fights against Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.
The Dutchman did mount a feisty defence against Carlos Sainz at the start of the recent Barcelona race ...Keep reading
Hunter-Reay, 42, will drive the #20 ECR-Chevrolet entry in place of Daly, who lost his ride after the first seven races of 2023 as the team sought a change of direction and improved results.
Hunter-Reay’s only IndyCar start in the past two seasons was at May’s Indianapolis 500, where he finished 11th in a one-off for Dreyer and Reinbold.
But he has remained in the paddock as an advisor ...Keep reading
Knaus, who is Hendrick Motorsports' vice-president of competition, oversaw the program to bring a modified Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 to the centenary Le Mans event, to honor NASCAR's 75th season.
He said the effort required to get the stock car to the start of the race was a huge achievement, regardless of it finishing the 24 hours in 39th position and completing 285 laps.
The car ...Keep reading
Luca Ciancetti, who leads the Glickenhaus motorsport programmes at Podium Advanced Technologies, made the claim despite the team falling down the Hypercar order from its podium finish behind the two Toyotas last year and fourth place in 2021.
He insisted the team could have “no complaints” after scoring a top-six result with the best of its Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 Le Mans Hypercars in the face ...Keep reading
The topic of eFuels has been pushed more into the spotlight by Formula 1’s drive to utilise a 100% sustainable drop-in fuel for its next generation of engines in 2026. This follows the World Rally Championship in 2022 introducing a blend of synthetic and biofuel, which it claims is 100% renewable, and for this season IndyCar introduced its own blend that uses second-generation ethanol derived ...Keep reading
The change in how air behaves over the top of the sidepod may appear to be quite subtle, which is why teams have long played down the significance of the performance gain from this area of the car.
However, as McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has explained, the real gains from shifting sidepods are far more to do with how the shape of the sidepods interacts with the rest of the car rather ...Keep reading
Scherer teamed up with Albert Costa and Kuba Smiechowski to score Polish squad Inter Europol's first World Endurance Championship victory last weekend, but had to race through the pain barrier after his left foot was run over by Nicky Catsburg's GTE Am Corvette during his first pitstop handing over to Smiechowski.
After Inter Europol adapted its run plan to give Scherer more time to rest, the ...Keep reading
Despite having the largest presence in the Hypercar field at four cars, three works Porsche Penske Motorsport 963s and an additional customer car for Jota, Porsche's hopes of challenging for victory were wrecked by a series of accidents and reliability dramas.
Its best finisher was the #5 car of Dane Cameron, Frederic Makowiecki and Michael Christensen, which was on course to finish fifth until ...Keep reading
F1 reduced its carbon footprint by 17% over the first two full years of the initiative up to 2021, with last season’s figures yet to be finalised.
The 2030 deadline was announced in November 2019 following a year of research by F1 that also involved stakeholders such as the FIA, teams and race promoters.
Ongoing reductions are based not just on the introduction of future technologies but ...Keep reading
The Spaniard suffered a bruising weekend at Mugello, crashing heavily twice on Saturday – the second one seeing him hitting a barrier lining the track.
After qualifying 19th, Fernandez struggled to 17th in the race.
Having been unable to sleep much the night before the grand prix due to the pain from his crashes, Fernandez had been given medication by MotoGP doctors to help with ...Keep reading
Among other duties, Vowles was in charge of Mercedes' young driver programme before joining Williams as a team principal this year.
Under his watch Mercedes recruited several top-line prospects, including Italian prodigy Andrea Kimi Antonelli who is rapidly rising through the single-seater ranks.
Now 16, Antonelli smashed through the karting pyramid in 2018 and 2019, which landed him a spot ...Keep reading
After the cancellation of last month's race, its promoter Formula Imola agreed with the Italian body ASN and F1 to donate the top three trophies and the winning constructors' version to a charity auction.
In addition, Pirelli offered the pole position tyre award, while podium sparkling wine supplier Ferrari Trento donated a bottle of the type used on the podium.
All the items were ...Keep reading
Following the winter departure of team boss Andreas Seidl, who moved to become CEO at Sauber, Stella and McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown completed a major review of the heritage outfit’s leadership structure.
This led to the immediate exit of executive technical director James Key, who has since been signed by Seidl. He was replaced by a three-pronged system to cover aerodynamics, car concept ...Keep reading
Dennis enjoyed a strong showing in the Indonesian double header, qualifying on the front row for the first time since the season opener in Mexico City before going on to finish second in each of the two races.
This made him the second highest points-scorer over the course of the weekend, only behind Race 2 winner Maximilian Guenther of Maserati.
With five races remaining in Formula E’s ...Keep reading
For a brief period in Formula 1 history, the Senna and Verstappen names lined up together on the grid. Little did anyone know, as Ayrton Senna drew his Williams-Renault onto pole position for the 1994 Brazilian Grand Prix, that the great Brazilian had just a few weeks to live. And, similarly, little did anyone know, as Jos Verstappen slotted his Benetton-Ford into ninth position for the getaway ...Keep reading
The 2020 world champion crashed during the second practice session of the Italian GP weekend and fractured the little finger on his right hand.
He withdrew from the remainder of the Italian GP with the hopes of being fit enough to race at the Sachsenring this weekend.
However, Honda has now confirmed the Spaniard will take no part in the German GP, compounding what has already been a ...Keep reading
Lynn finished third overall in the centenary edition of the French endurance classic in the #2 Cadillac V-Series.R he shared with Earl Bamber and Richard Westbrook, a lap down on the winning #51 Ferrari and the second-placed #8 Toyota.
It marked the British driver’s first visit to the podium at Circuit de la Sarthe since he, Harry Tincknell and Maxime Martin won the GTE Pro category for ...Keep reading
Without wishing to put too fine a point on it, there is no better a big bike rider at the Isle of Man TT than Peter Hickman right now. From his first win in the Superstock class in 2018, he has raised the game on big bikes, setting a new outright lap record at the TT in that year’s Senior on his BMW Superbike at 135.452mph.
In 2019, Hickman won the Superbike TT and the Superstock race, and ...Keep reading
Mercedes has been left upbeat about its prospects for the rest of the season after a major upgrade package to its W14 helped Lewis Hamilton and George Russell produce a double podium finish in the recent Spanish Grand Prix.
It came after a difficult start to the campaign where the German manufacturer quickly realised that its 'zeropod' concept was not going to deliver the performance it needed ...Keep reading
Tom Blomqvist, Josh Pierson and Oliver Jarvis had moved into the class lead after a storming stint in the wet from Blomqvist when the Briton briefly went into the gravel.
Upon approaching the Porsche Curves, he found he had no brakes and made contact with the barriers which triggered the in-car medical light.
Once cleared after undergoing medical checks, Blomqvist returned to the cockpit as ...Keep reading
The Grand Tour presenter has found F1 hard to steer clear of this season after attending the Bahrain season opener, his first time at a track "in years".
On that occasion, he listed all the teams that he would have cause to support, but gave special mention to Alpine, a team that is based close to him in the Cotswolds.
The Monaco Grand Prix saw Clarkson throw his backing behind the Enstone ...Keep reading
Leclerc, who has five grand prix victories to his name with the Prancing Horse, was present at the Circuit de la Sarthe as Ferrari scored its first overall win there since 1965.
When asked by Eurosport if he'd like to race a Ferrari at Le Mans in future, he replied: "I mean, why not? I would love to, it's an incredible event.
"For sure, one day in my life, I want to tick that box and when ...Keep reading
Drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell have complained about lacking confidence with the rear axle of the W14. This is partly due to the cockpit being placed further forwards relative to previous years, but any resolution will have to wait for an all-new chassis to be constructed for next season.
By way of a more immediate fix for the nervous handling, as part of its major upgrade package ...Keep reading
After a reduced stint in Europe due to the cancelled Emilia Romagna GP at Imola, F1 takes its traditional venture to Canada and the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve with Red Bull on the cusp of recording its 100th F1 grand prix victory.
The reigning F1 world champions have dominated the opening third of the season by winning every race – Max Verstappen picking up five wins and Sergio Perez the ...Keep reading
The Spaniard was sat behind Jack Miller, Luca Marini and Marc Marquez in the early stages of Sunday’s grand prix at Mugello.
Coming into Turn 1, Marquez got out of shape on the brakes and came close to hitting all three riders as he ran wide into the corner.
Explaining what happened, Marquez claimed he was sucked into the mistake by the strong slipstream he had from the riders ahead and ...Keep reading
Kubica, Deletraz and Yi Yifei led onto the final lap in WRT's maiden attempt at the race two years ago, only to be foiled by a freak throttle sensor failure that caused their engine to shut down and meant they were not classified.
After spending 2022 at Prema, finishing second at Le Mans, Kubica and Deletraz returned to WRT for this year's World Endurance Championship and led for a total of 39 ...Keep reading
The Grove-based squad drafted in Vowles from Mercedes last winter in a bid to turn around several disappointing seasons and make the most of opportunities offered by the new era of F1.
But his knowledge of the level of technology and sophistication that top teams operate at has exposed just how far behind Williams is right now.
Williams' head of vehicle performance Dave Robson said Vowles ...Keep reading
The 2021 world champion came into the Italian GP weekend carrying the set-up he used that year having found none of Yamaha’s 2023 developments worked in previous rounds.
But this failed to transform his fortunes as he could only qualify 15th behind team-mate Franco Morbidelli and could manage only 10th in the sprint and 11th in the grand prix.
Quartararo raced the medium rear tyre having ...Keep reading
Rahel Frey, Michelle Gatting and Sarah Bovy took their Porsche 911 RSR-19 to fourth place in what was the final race at the Circuit de la Sarthe for GTE machinery, missing out on the final podium spot to the GR Racing Porsche squad.
That was despite the pink-liveried #85 car featuring in the thick of the lead battle for much of the race, as the field was thinned out by multiple incidents in ...Keep reading
MotoGP returned to action at the Italian Grand Prix after a three-week break, with Francesco Bagnaia delighting the home crowd with a perfect weekend.
Having been wiped out of the French GP to register his third grand prix non-score of the year, Bagnaia bounced back emphatically with pole, sprint victory and a win in the grand prix to extend his championship lead.
He was chased home on ...Keep reading
McLaren announced ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix that Marshall, who is a former chief designer at Red Bull, will be joining it at the start of next year as technical director of engineering and design.
His signing comes as part of a major recruitment drive that McLaren has unleashed to ensure it makes the most of a new windtunnel and simulator that are coming on tap in the next few ...Keep reading
Olivier Jansonnie, technical director at Peugeot Sport, made the claim after the best of its 9X8s led the double-points round of the World Endurance Championship on four separate occasions and was running among the frontrunners until the 12th hour of the race.
“It was a turning point; it was our best race so far,” said Jansonnie. “We showed some race pace, and on some ...Keep reading
Tsunoda had been well-placed to score points in the Monaco Grand Prix last month as he ran ninth with 20 laps to go. But in the final stages of the rain-hit race, he was passed by both McLarens and continued to slip down the order. He eventually finished in 15th as rookie team-mate Nyck de Vries grabbed 12th.
The Japanese racer noticeably struggled with his brakes, voiced his complaints ...Keep reading
In the 16th hour of the race, Ryo Hirakawa was seen rapidly losing time to the chasing #51 Ferrari of Alessandro Pier Guidi, the Japanese driver’s entire 12s advantage being wiped out in the course of a single stint.
When Hirakawa brought the #8 Toyota back into the pits, the team was forced to change the entire front-end of the car, allowing the #51 Ferrari that had stopped at the same time ...Keep reading
It took 33 laps for Truex to get into the lead in Sunday’s race but once he did, he didn’t deviate far from it with a fast #19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota.
A late-race caution, triggered by Hamlin’s crash into the wall, sent most of the lead-lap cars – including Truex – into the pits for new tyres but Chase Elliott, and two other runners lower down the order, stayed out on the restart ...Keep reading
Had Honda not been so hasty in quitting F1 in the first place, or been prompter in approving its return, then Red Bull would have had no need to do its own thing on the engine front and commit hundreds of millions of pounds to its new Powertrains division.
It was no wonder that Max Verstappen’s first response to the news of Honda staying in F1 was to suggest it was a bit ...Keep reading
Johnson crossed the finish line in 39th position and completed 285 laps of the 8.4-mile circuit in the modified NASCAR Cup Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 run by Hendrick Motorsports.
The car ran as high as 27th overall but suffered a setback on Sunday morning when it suffered a driveline failure that required a lengthy repair.
“My heart is full,” said Johnson, who shared the car with ...Keep reading
Catsburg had started the sole Chevrolet Corvette C8.R from pole and maintained the lead at the start before making an early stop under the safety car.
But less than 90 minutes into the race, Catsburg was back in the pits with a front-right damper failure that took nearly 10 minutes to repair and dropped Catsburg, Nico Varrone and Ben Keating two laps behind the leaders.
Yet, despite the ...Keep reading
Pier Guidi and his team-mates in the #51 Ferrari 499P, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi, made history for the Prancing Horse by beating the Toyota GR010 HYBRID by one minute and 27 seconds in a chaotic and attritional race.
The Italian driver had been leading the race approaching midnight when he got his car beached in the gravel at the first Mulsanne chicane while trying to avoid another ...Keep reading
It was the first ever World Endurance Championship victory for a Polish team, and the car was chased home by Team WRT’s #41 car that featured Polish ex-Formula 1 driver Robert Kubica in its lineup.
The gap between the two ORECA-Gibson 07s was just 21s after 24 hours of racing.
“It’s unbelievable, it was so hard fighting to the very last second at the finish,” said Swiss driver ...Keep reading
Honda has endured a miserable 2023 season on its troubled bike, with a win from LCR’s Alex Rins in Austin and a sprint podium in Portugal for Marquez the only highlights.
At Mugello, Joan Mir was forced to withdraw from the weekend after a crash in practice, while Rins has to have surgery on a broken leg he suffered in an incident in the sprint contest.
Marquez, who was seventh in the ...Keep reading
The #2 Chip Ganassi Racing V-Series.R had a relatively trouble-free race across the 24 hours, apart from a spin for Westbrook in the night after being caught out on slicks in a downpour.
The car, which is the full-season World Endurance Championship entry that he shares with Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn, finished a lap down on the leading Ferrari and Toyota to take the final step of the ...Keep reading
Installed for the final double stint of the race, Hirakawa lost his chance to challenge for the win when he spun at Arnage in the penultimate hour – damaging the front and rear of the car against the barrier and then taking time to rejoin the track before pitting for repairs.
Hartley revealed after the race that Hirakawa had been sent out with “maximum attack” orders but also explained ...Keep reading
The factory Ducati rider cruised to his third grand prix victory of the 2023 season in front of his home fans at Mugello, capping off an Italian GP weekend in which he also qualified on pole and won the sprint contest.
This comes after Bagnaia was involved in more online criticism for comments he made about the competitiveness of MotoGP now, which were taken out of context.
However, this is ...Keep reading
On the Italian manufacturer's return to top-flight competition at the Circuit de la Sarthe with the new 499P Le Mans Hypercar, the #51 crew delivered Ferrari its first outright Le Mans win since Masten Gregory and Jochen Rindt took top honours in 1965.
Pier Guidi took the chequered flag one minute and 21 seconds ahead of the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID of Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo ...Keep reading
Having navigated his way through tricky conditions in Saturday’s sprint race at Mugello to win from pole, Bagnaia did the same with ease in Sunday’s full distance contest.
Overtaken off the line by the KTM of Jack Miller, Bagnaia scythed past into Turn 2 to retake the lead and was never headed again across the 23-lap grand prix.
It marks his second sprint/grand prix double of the season ...Keep reading
The Japanese driver was installed at the wheel of the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid with around two hours left on the clock, taking over from Brendon Hartley, and was around 16 seconds in arrears of the Ferrari of Antonio Giovinazzi.
But just three laps into his stint, Hirakawa appeared to suffer a rear lock-up exiting Indianapolis, putting him in the barriers at Arnage and leaving the Toyota with ...Keep reading
The race for the overall win took a fresh twist in the 19th hour when the leading #51 Ferrari 499P failed to get away immediately after its pitstop as Antonio Giovinazzi handed over to Alessandro Pier Guidi, requiring a power cycle to get going again.
That eradicated an advantage of a minute that Ferrari had over the sole surviving Toyota GR010 Hybrid, the #8 car, which had been bolstered by ...Keep reading
The 17-lap Moto3 grand prix kicked off Sunday’s race action at Mugello, Daniel Holgado scored his third win of the 2023 season by 0.051 seconds.
The typically massive lead group battle traditionally seen at Mugello in the Moto3 class gave way to a tense five-rider fight for victory.
Poleman Deniz Oncu made a hard overtake at the Turn 9 right-hander on the final lap and pulled a gap on the ...Keep reading
As the clock creeps past the 20-hour mark, the #5 963 LMDh is the Porsche’s best representative in sixth, six laps lap down on the leading #51 Ferrari, after losing time during the night with first a sensor problem and then a cooling leak that necessitated a 23-minute repair job in the garage.
The sister #6 entry was challenging for fourth place after dawn when Kevin Estre made an error ...Keep reading
Red Bull won four titles at the end of the V8 era in 2010-13 but lost out to Mercedes when the hybrid V6 power unit was introduced in 2014.
The team finally won its first title under the current regulation with Max Verstappen in 2021, before adding a second drivers’ title – and the constructors’ championship – last season.
Red Bull has dominated the 2023 season, winning all races ...Keep reading
The #8 Toyota had been at the head of the field as dawn broke at the Circuit de la Sarthe, but Ryo Hirakawa started to lose time with a damaged front splitter and a slow right-rear puncture to his hybrid-powered LMH contender.
This brought the #51 Ferrari of Alessandro Pier Guidi into play, with the Italian rapidly closing an 11s gap with a series of rapid laps.
Pier Guidi was able to bring ...Keep reading
Endurance racing is enjoying a boom period as manufacturers flock to build cars for the new Hypercar class regulations with the aim of winning the Le Mans 24 Hours.
But over the years there have been many successful machines that never raced in the world’s most prestigious sportscar event, either due to incompatible regulations, poor timing or in some cases a lack of will on behalf of the ...Keep reading
The feature documentary project was announced by Apple in March of last year. It will entail a film crew shadowing the seven-time world champion both in the F1 paddock and in his personal life. This and archive footage will be spliced alongside high-profile interviewees.
While details thereafter are scarce, it is known that the behind-the-scenes programme will be produced by Hamilton ...Keep reading
As daylight broke over the Circuit de la Sarthe, Ryo Hirakawa led Alessandro Pier Guidi by 12s with nine hours to go, the gap between them fluctuating in the heat of battle.
In hour 13, Brendon Hartley unleashed a phenomenal stint in the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID, extending a 17s lead over the #51 Ferrari of Antonio Giovinazzi – which had led at the halfway point.
Giovinazzi then ...Keep reading
Ferrari’s James Calado led Toyota’s Sebastien Buemi by 4s at the 12-hour mark, as the race enjoyed its most settled phase since the wild opening and jaw-dropping drama of the subsequent hours.
Calado took the lead during a pitstop cycle after he’d closed on Buemi, who took new tyres when the Ferrari was double-stinting. The #8 Toyota is also due a 5s penalty for a pitstop ...Keep reading
Nico Muller led the race at the nine-hour mark in the #94 Peugeot 9X8, ahead of Ryo Hirakawa in the #8 Toyota GR010, Alex Lynn’s Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series.R and the Ferraris of polewinner Antonio Fuoco and Alessandro Pier Guidi.
At the end of the eighth hour, race leader Pier Guidi spun his #51 Ferrari into the gravel at the first Mulsanne chicane, beaching his car as two cars ...Keep reading
The #51 Ferrari 499P was holding a comfortable lead of some 47 seconds at the head of the field over the Peugeot of Nico Muller when Pier Guidi lost control heading into the first chicane on the Mulsanne straight.
Pier Guidi appeared to be trying to avoid another car that had gone off track ahead of him, and his car needed assistance from the recovery vehicles to get back on track.
That ...Keep reading
Nick Tandy was at the head of the field aboard the #75 Porsche 963 as the race reached quarter-distance, 1.7s ahead of the #51 Ferrari 499P of Alessandro Pier Guidi, shortly before making a pitstop.
Following the safety car intervention that lasted one hour and 25 minutes, the strategies in the Hypercar class diverged, as a number of cars failed to switch back to slicks on the drying track ...Keep reading
The #38 Jota Porsche 963 was comfortably leading the race when Yifei Ye went too wide at the Porsche Curves, hitting the tyre barriers side-on.
While the impact was relatively small, it stripped off the entire rear bodywork of the Porsche, exposing its entire V8 twin-turbo engine.
Yifei was able to bring the car he shares with Antonio Felix da Costa and Will Stevens back into the pits for ...Keep reading
The AF Corse #50 Ferrari 499P of Antonio Fuoco was circulating nearly 20 seconds clear of the chasing pack when the safety car was called into action due to heavy rain at the Porsche Curves just before the end of hour 3.
Fuoco’s team-mate Nicklas Nielsen had moved the #50 into the effective lead by pitting early in the opening hour. It put the car out of sequence with the rest, but Fuoco was ...Keep reading
There was drama on the opening lap for the American manufacturer, which has three of its new V-Series.Rs contending for overall honours at Le Mans this year, when Jack Aitken crashed the #311 Action Express car at the first chicane.
Then, midway through the second hour, Sebastien Bourdais in the #3 Caddy was involved in a three-way incident at the Dunlop chicane with two GTE cars that left the ...Keep reading
The MotoGP world champion extended his lead in the riders’ standings to four points by winning the Mugello sprint race, but had to overcome a threat of rain which disrupted his rhythm at the front.
At the end of lap two the rain flags were displayed and Bagnaia, as the leader, took caution through Arrabbiata 2 to gauge conditions on his slick tyre-shod Ducati.
But his hesitance saw the ...Keep reading
It was the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID of Sebastien Buemi that held the advantage over the #51 Ferrari of James Calado at the end of a first hour of action at the Circuit de la Sarthe interrupted by a safety car period following a crash for the Action Express Racing-entered Cadillac.
Jack Aitken appeared to simply lose control of the third-string #311 V-Series.R exiting the first chicane, suffering ...Keep reading
The LCR Honda rider went down on the fourth lap of the sprint in an incident not picked up by TV cameras. Rins was conscious throughout and after the crash he was transported to the circuit medical centre where it was confirmed he had suffered a broken right leg.
Rins has been taken to the Careggi hospital in Florence close to the circuit by medical helicopter to undergo further tests ...Keep reading
The Ulsterman was odds-on favourite to win the Senior TT finale on Saturday after taking victory in the opening Superbike race of the 2023 event last week on his Hawk Racing-run Honda.
A win on Saturday would have put him equal on 26 with his late uncle Joey Dunlop at the top of the victory records, but instead he had to settle for third as FHO Racing was able to solve its issues with its BMW ...Keep reading
Hickman won four races at the 2023 TT, with a double in the Superstock class, a win the second Supertwin contest and victory in Saturday’s Senior TT.
But after his two Superstock wins – the second of which coming after setting an outright lap record of 136.358mph – protests were lodged by a rival, thought to be someone from within the Michael Dunlop camp.
The first was for allegedly ...Keep reading
Bagnaia blasted clear from pole position but briefly lost the lead when spots of rain fell at the end of lap two, as Jorge Martin took the initiative with riders tentatively judging the conditions.
But the rain spots relented and at the start of lap four Bagnaia charged back into the lead at the first corner, and a lap later Bezzecchi repeated the trick on Martin to take second ...Keep reading
As part of an effort to improve the dominant RB19, Red Bull made modifications to the floor edge and the upper corner of its diffuser ahead of the Barcelona weekend.
The change at the rear of the car – where the tops corners of the diffuser were profiled for greater curvature – were particularly interesting because the team admitted it was an idea taken from other cars.
In its ...Keep reading
The Englishman decided on Friday morning that he would be racing his Superbike-spec M1000RR BMW in the Senior TT having struggled on it throughout the fortnight.
Taking the lead from the second sector of the opening lap, Hickman eased away from his rivals on corrected time to celebrate back-to-back Senior TT wins and the 13th victory of his career on the Isle of Man.
The expected battle ...Keep reading
The former Toro Rosso driver insisted that a finish in the top five in the double-points round of the World Endurance Championship is a realistic target for the French manufacturer, even though it ended up slowest in qualifying of the five major car makers racing in the Hypercar class at Le Mans.
“If we don’t have any technical issues and we don’t make any mistakes then a top-five ...Keep reading
Button is part of Hendrick Motorsports' all-star line-up for the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 innovative car for this year's 24 Hours, alongside seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson and 2010 Le Mans winner Mike Rockenfeller.
Both Button and the Hendrick team believe the qualifying pace of the car, when it was four seconds faster than the leading GTE Am cars, exceeded expectations - ...Keep reading
Calado topped the timesheets after the chequered flag fell with a lap of 3m30.113s at the wheel of the #51 499P Le Mans Hypercar he shares with Alessandro Pier Guidi and Antonio Giovinazzi.
That was enough to beat the pole-sitting #50 car, in which Nielsen set a best effort of 3m32.959s, by a comfortable 2.8 seconds.
Best of the rest behind the Ferrari LMHs was the #3 Cadillac V-Series.R ...Keep reading
Hickman has had a tough two weeks with the Superbike version of the M1000RR, with the Englishman beaten by Michael Dunlop on the Hawk Racing Honda in the opening race for the class last Sunday.
The FHO rider detailed “unnerving” brake issues on the bike caused by a lack of stability, while he also had to battle a quickshifter problem.
Despite this, he was under 10 seconds away from ...Keep reading
Bagnaia set a time of 1m44.855s with just under three minutes to go in Q2, edging out Marquez - who was following him on track - by just under a tenth of a second.
Amid a threat of rain in the second part of qualifying, all riders headed out on track early to get a banker lap in. After the first set of runs, it was Jorge Martin who led the session for Pramac on a 1m45.268s, with VR46’s Marco ...Keep reading
GTE cars have featured in the World Endurance Championship since its rebirth in 2012 but, from next year, will be replaced by the new LMGT3 class.
The GTE Pro division was already axed for 2023 amid dwindling numbers, leaving only the GTE Am division that will also disappear at the end of this season.
Despite a plethora of manufacturers having GT3 machines - with Ford revealing its new ...Keep reading
The Japanese manufacturer pulled the covers off its GR H2 Racing Concept at Le Mans on Friday during the ACO's annual press conference, with Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda set to complete a demonstration lap in its GR Corolla before the 24 Hours begins at 4pm local time today.
Toyota is the first manufacturer to formally lodge an interest in the ACO's hydrogen category, in which cars will be ...Keep reading
The 2023 Isle of Man TT has been one for the ages. Perfect weather conditions throughout allowed ample practice time, which already suggested lap records would be broken in race week.
Michael Dunlop set the tone with an unofficial lap record of 135.537mph on his Hawk Racing Honda Superbike in practice, having never even done a 134mph before this year. And indeed, the lap times tumbled. The ...Keep reading
While F1’s engine regulations from 2026 are set in stone, the chassis rules are far from being finalised as series bosses weigh up the direction they want to see things go.
But one key area that F1 and the FIA are in agreement over is that efforts must be made to reduce the weight of the cars, which are heavier now than they have ever been.
For this season, the minimum car ...Keep reading
When you’re stuck to a yearly release schedule, it can be very difficult to innovate year after year. It’s generally accepted that 12 months isn’t enough time to create a new video game from scratch, so what tends to happen is an iterative approach that builds over time.
This is something that, of late, the MotoGP video games have wrestled with. Last year, there was an intriguing ...Keep reading
The solo Vanwall Vandervell 680 was 15th-fastest of the 16 cars in the Hypercar field for the World Endurance Championship blue riband, ahead of only the Jota Porsche 963 LMDh that failed to set a lap due to hybrid issues.
Tom Dillmann set the car’s best lap of 3m29.745s, which put it some 4.5 seconds slower than the pace-setting Ferrari 499P, and more than a second behind the best of the ...Keep reading
The Repsol Honda rider crashed at Turn 1 around the halfway mark of the hour-long session, ending his day.
It marked the 2020 MotoGP world champion’s 12th crash so far this season, more than he had in the whole of 2022 while riding for Suzuki.
Honda said Mir had suffered damage around the fifth finger of the right hand, and would not continue with the weekend due to the “demanding nature ...Keep reading
Although neither the rider nor Yamaha has commented on it, Autosport has learned that both parties have decided to end their agreement and Mahe is absent from Mugello this weekend.
It is not yet known who will assume that role ahead of 2024, a key season in which the 2021 MotoGP world champion must decide his future.
Mahe began his relationship with Quartararo in mid-2016, when the Frenchman ...Keep reading
The Aprilia rider was cycling at Mugello on Thursday when he had a “big, big crash”, injuring his back, arm and “destroying” his heel.
He said he is now in “a lot of pain” and though nothing was broken in the crash, is unable to use his rear brake.
Despite his injuries, Espargaro finished ninth in the combined timings for FP1 and FP2, and will head straight into Q2 on ...Keep reading
GT convert Rossi contested the two Road to Le Mans support races that form part of the Le Mans Cup championship in a Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 that he shared with Jerome Policand - who admitted he originally thought the chance to partner the Italian was a joke.
Rossi briefly led the opening race on Thursday before getting baulked at the first Mulsanne chicane by two LMP3 cars that tangled directly in ...Keep reading
The Meyer Shank Racing driver in the IMSA SportsCar Championship's GTP division has joined LMP2 squad Algarve Pro Racing to make his first Le Mans appearance since he finished second in the GT2 class in 2007.
Braun will line up ninth in the pro-am ORECA-Gibson 07 he shares with James Allen and bronze George Kurtz, who Braun has spent a decade coaching since his first foray in ...Keep reading
As part of an upgrade delivered at the Spanish Grand Prix, the Italian squad abandoned the bathtub in-wash sidepod design that it had used since the start of 2022.
Instead, the team switched to a more Red Bull-style of downwash solution that is aimed at changing the way airflow over the car interacts with the floor.
Having faced a difficult start to the year, the change in ...Keep reading
Dunlop was on course to match the all-time TT wins tally of 26 set by his late uncle Joey Dunlop having won his 25th race on Wednesday in the Supersport class.
A dominant winner in the Supertwin race on Tuesday, Dunlop was all but assured a second victory on Friday.
But his Paton broke down over the mountain section, leaving Mike Browne to take a comfortable lead and stare down his maiden TT ...Keep reading
Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe technical director Pascal Vasselon caused a stir following the official Test Day when he described the new rules, which will see the entire 62-car field packed up behind a single safety car following full-course cautions for the first time, as a “big step towards the Americanisation of Le Mans”.
The changes will allow cars that have fallen a lap behind their class ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion set a 1m45.436s to top the timesheets in the final five minutes of the session, having entered FP2 in 16th overall.
Having been running outside the top 10 early on, factory Ducati rider Bagnaia had a brief off at San Donato, heading into the gravel.
He continued before improving to third with a 1m46.944s, chipping off lap time as the session continued before both ...Keep reading
Hickman notched up his 11th career TT win in Friday’s second Superstock contest of the 2023 event, securing a class double.
But the real headline came as Hickman guided his FHO Racing BMW to a new outright lap record of 136.358mph – smashing his existing one set on a Superbike in the 2018 Senior TT of 135.452mph.
This is the second time this TT that the outright lap record was ...Keep reading
Keating had put the sole Chevrolet Corvette C8.R on pole by 1.5 seconds during the Hyperpole session on Thursday.
The car he shares with Nicky Catsburg and Nico Varrone is among the favourites to take the class spoils - and it currently leads the GTE Am World Endurance Championship standings.
However, in the night-time session following the Hyperpole contest, Keating was deemed by stewards ...Keep reading
Hickman became the fastest ever TT rider officially in 2018 on his BMW Superbike when he posted a 135.452mph lap on his way to Senior TT victory.
Michael Dunlop set an unofficial record of 135.531mph in practice on his Hawk Racing Honda Superbike.
Leading every sector of the three-lap Superstock race on Friday, Hickman absolutely smashed his own outright lap record on a stock bike at ...Keep reading
This is one of the big ones. Many drivers have made their names in the Le Mans 24 Hours and some are synonymous with the event.
More than 350 have stood on the outright Le Mans podium, so selecting the top 10 from the event’s first century was one of the most challenging tasks we’ve taken on…
For this list, we considered the drivers’ success and impact specifically at the 24 Hours ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer produced a notable step forward in form at the Spanish Grand Prix, as Lewis Hamilton and George Russell finished second and third behind race-winner Max Verstappen.
The potential of its revamped car, which features new sidepods, front suspension and floor, is clear to see, as the squad targets making further steps to try to close the gap to Red Bull.
But ...Keep reading
The Spa-Francorchamps event was told by F1 in no uncertain terms to improve its fan offering in the wake of a disastrous, rained-out 2021 edition, with its heritage as one of F1's most historic and exciting circuits no longer sufficient to stay on the calendar.
Spa bought into Liberty Media's vision of what a modern grand prix should look like and pulled out all the stops to reinvigorate its ...Keep reading
Based on the seventh-generation, road-going muscle car, the Ford Mustang GT3 was finally revealed on Friday ahead of the centenary edition of the French endurance classic.
Ford had previously only released some shots of the car in pure carbon fibre form in March from a test session at Sebring, which followed a short shakedown at a test facility near the Multimatic workshops in ...Keep reading
Friday is the penultimate day of the 2023 programme at the TT, with the second Superstock and Supertwin race of the week taking place.
Racing was due to begin at 11:45am local time with the three-lap Superstock contest before the Supertwin class got away at 2pm.
However, the clerk of the course announced immediately after this morning’s warm-up lap that there would be a delay of 45 minutes ...Keep reading
The move was announced by the 2019/20 P2 champion team in the wake of confirmation on Friday that there will be no P2 class in the world championship next season.
United, which is co-owned by McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown, will make its first full-season IMSA assault with a pair of ORECA-Gibson 07s while continuing to compete in both the European and Asian Le Mans Series next ...Keep reading
The car was unveiled on Friday at Le Mans and is due to complete a demonstration lap of the circuit on Saturday morning with Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda driving.
The GRH2 follows a series of other models Toyota has created for the top-class of the WEC and its presentation comes after comments from technical director Pascal Vasselon on Thursday that a win for a hydrogen car in 2026 "should be ...Keep reading
Marquez topped the 45-minute session with a time of 1m46.121s, which put him 0.087s ahead of Quartararo and 0.104s clear of KTM’s Brad Binder, as three different manufacturers finished inside the top three.
It was Ducati wildcard Michele Pirro that headed the timesheets early on, lapping the circuit in 1m47.905s in the first five minutes of the session before improving to a 1m46.917s to set a ...Keep reading
Both teams have admitted that McLaren CEO Zak Brown spoke to Horner several weeks ago about the possibility of McLaren using the new Ford-backed Red Bull Powertrains PU in 2026.
Marshall has recently been working at RBP prior to agreeing to join McLaren as technical director, engineering and design, in January.
That led to suggestions that his move could somehow be linked to a PU deal, but ...Keep reading
The French manufacturer revealed the A424 Beta in a special press conference on Friday morning at the Circuit de la Sarthe ahead of this weekend's Le Mans 24 Hours.
Based on the next-generation ORECA LMP2 chassis, the new car will be powered by a 3.4-litre, single-turbo V6, bolstered by the standard rear-axle hybrid system common to all LMDh cars developed by Bosch, Xtrac and Williams Advanced ...Keep reading
The unmistakable rumble of the Sauber-Mercedes C9’s V8 was the soundtrack to a breakout year in Kenneth Acheson’s racing career. Two wins in the 1989 World Sports Prototype Championship and second at the Le Mans 24 Hours marked a remarkable return to the international racing scene for the Ulsterman, who had four years earlier struggled with desperately uncompetitive Formula 1 machinery before ...Keep reading
Jani will share Proton’s sole #99 Porsche 963 hybrid contender with Gianmaria Bruni and Harry Tincknell in the final three races of the seven-round WEC season.
It will mark Jani’s return to the top echelon of prototype racing since his 2018/19 WEC campaign with Rebellion Racing in an Oreca-built R13 non-LMP1 hybrid.
“I am very excited to join Proton Competition on their new journey in ...Keep reading
Only Hypercars and LMGT3 machinery will be eligible to enter the WEC next season, with the long-standing LMP2 class a casualty of growing demand for grid slots in the rejuvenated top category.
The impending arrival of Lamborghini, BMW and Alpine in the top class for 2024, as well as boutique marque Isotta Fraschini, is expected to result in a top-class entry of up to 20 cars next season, with ...Keep reading
The home of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix has been announced as a replacement for the Monza WEC round, alongside the confirmation of the return of Austin and Interlagos to the schedule.
Imola’s place on the calendar has been precipitated by the requirement to move the Italian round of the WEC from the July date Monza has occupied since 2021.
The shift is required to accommodate an ...Keep reading
With Audi and Honda swelling F1’s ranks by committing to the sustainably fuelled turbo hybrid regulations from 2026, the significance of what is happening goes well beyond the spectacle of having six car makers going up against each other on track.
In fact, there is a bigger global picture at play here and one that could well dictate the future of road car engines.
It did not take long ...Keep reading
Leupen expressed his frustration at both the Balance of Performance changes made to the Hypercar class in the run-up to last weekend’s Test Day, made without the consent of the manufacturers, and the decision to bring back tyre warmers for Le Mans only.
Toyota was the worst-hit of the Hypercar manufacturers by the BoP adjustments, having 37kg of extra weight added to its GR010 HYBRID - ...Keep reading
Taking over the #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar that Alessandro Pier Guidi drove to second in Hyperpole, Calado whisked to a time of 3m27.275s shortly before Jean-Eric Vergne’s #93 Peugeot 9X8 LMH brought out the red flags when it stopped between the two Mulsanne Chicanes.
The one-hour session was restarted with 20 minutes still on the clock, but there were few noteworthy improvements ...Keep reading
Ferdinando Cannizzo, Ferrari’s sportscar racing technical director, explained that the 3m22.982s lap with which Antonio Fuoco claimed the pole for this weekend’s blue riband round of the World Endurance Championship exceeded expectations.
Fuoco ended up seven tenths quicker than team-mate Alessandro Pier Guidi as the two Ferrari 499Ps Le Mans Hypercars blocked out the front row starting ...Keep reading
The British driver ended up 14th, four places behind team-mate Filipe Albuquerque, after a "stressful" session blighted by red flags on Wednesday that decided the eight cars to progress to Thursday's Hyperpole shootout.
Blomqvist explained that a mistake on his only clear lap at the Ford Chicane had meant he ended up in a provisional 10th, before being docked his best time for failing to slow ...Keep reading
Fuoco paced the 30-minute session, featuring the fastest eight cars from Wednesday's first qualifying, with a best time of 3m22.982s at the wheel of the 499P he shares with Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen.
Both of the Ferrari LMHs jumped to the top of the timesheets early on, with Alessandro Pier Guidi initially leading the way on a 3m23.987s in the #51 car ahead of Fuoco in the sister #50 ...Keep reading
The FHO rider finished second in Sunday’s Superbike TT having come close to beating the outright lap record at 135.445mph on a bike with brake and quickshifter issues.
On the same M1000RR in Superstock trim, Hickman stormed to his first win of the 2023 TT in Tuesday’s first outing for the class.
This has led to questions about him potentially racing his Superstock bike in the Senior ...Keep reading
Toyota had seemed set to return to the top of the Le Mans timesheets for the first time since opening practice on Wednesday, with Kamui Kobayashi heading the majority of the session.
However, a late 3m26.579s from Antonio Fuoco in the #50 499P LMH smashed Kobayashi's best by almost a second.
And, with eight minutes to go, Alessandro Pier Guidi set a 3m27.013s lap to go second, despite the ...Keep reading
Perez won two of the four opening races of the 2023 season, and after his victory in the Azerbaijan GP, he was just six points behind Verstappen and touted as a potential title challenger.
The gap was extended when the Dutchman led a Red Bull 1-2 in Miami, and then the Mexican had a disastrous weekend in Monaco, crashing in Q1 and finishing well out of the points after a fraught race.
Perez ...Keep reading
The Hendrick Motorsports machine was almost four seconds faster than the quickest GTE Am entry in Wednesday's opening qualifying session, despite the team's modest pre-event public predictions of being somewhere in the middle of the GTE Am pack.
PLUS: How NASCAR is aiming to thrill on its Le Mans return
Instead, 2010 Le Mans winner Mike Rockenfeller posted a 3m47.976s lap that was only 8.5s ...Keep reading
The official Mercedes reserve was drafted in for the second day of testing for Pirelli at Barcelona on Wednesday, as work continues evaluating tyres that are not heated by blankets.
The run was the first opportunity that Schumacher has had to drive the W14 since he joined the German manufacturer, and he duly completed 152 laps over the course of the day.
Having already earned big ...Keep reading
Jerome Policand revealed to Autosport that he did not believe WRT boss Vincent Vosse’s offer to race with the seven-time MotoGP champion aboard one of his team’s BMW M4 GT3s in the support event on the bill of this weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours.
“Vincent called me and said, ‘Do you want to drive in the Road to Le Mans race,” said Policand, a veteran of 13 Le Mans starts who ...Keep reading
The region of Quebec in which Montreal sits is experiencing its worst fire season on record, with more than 150 blazes having been reported.
Smoke from the fires has been drifting south across Canada and into the United States, with New York, in particular, being engulfed amid growing health concerns over the toxic air.
Tens of millions of people in the US are currently under air quality ...Keep reading
For this year’s centenary edition of the endurance racing blue ribband, the previous system of splitting the field behind three safety cars spaced around the 8.467-mile circuit has been dropped and a single pace car will be used in the event of a serious incident.
This will allow cars that are almost a full lap behind their class leader to make up the deficit as Le Mans adopts the wave-by ...Keep reading
Pascal Vasselon, technical director of Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe, is confident there is “no roadblock” to achieving WEC promoter the Automobile Club de l’Ouest’s target of having hydrogen-powered machinery competing on equal terms with the existing cars in the Hypercar class from '26.
“Everything is possible with a technological push,” Vasselon told Autosport.
“There ...Keep reading
At last week's Spanish Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton and George Russell scored a double podium after the Brackley team's comprehensive upgrade package delivered a solid step forward.
While Hamilton still finished 24 seconds behind dominant winner Max Verstappen, Mercedes' W14 was the second-strongest car on the high-downforce circuit, providing the team with a solid baseline to continue its ...Keep reading
Hunter-Reay was a full-time driver in the IndyCar Series until he lost his DHL-backed Andretti Autosport drive to Romain Grosjean last year.
He returned to the series at Indy last month, finishing 11th in a one-off start for Dreyer and Reinbold. He will drive ECR’s Chevrolet-powered #20 entry in place of Daly, whose departure from the team was announced yesterday, from the Road America race ...Keep reading
Ginetta Junior star Freddie Slater is the new name at the top – with the Yorkshire marque holding its G Fest event at Silverstone last weekend, there were six races for the 15-year-old to take part in. Slater won four of them and, although he was denied a further victory by a post-race penalty for contact, that didn’t prevent him from marching to the summit.
Slater is now on 11 wins ...Keep reading
The SF-23 has been quick over one lap in qualifying thus far this season but has usually lost out to Mercedes, and often Aston Martin, over a race distance.
That pattern was repeated in the Spanish GP when Carlos Sainz qualified second but was jumped by both Mercedes drivers, as well as the Red Bull of Sergio Perez, in the race.
Vasseur indicated that the ongoing strong qualifying form ...Keep reading
The TDS-entered ORECA-Gibson 07 entered under the Tower Motorsports banner suffered heavy damage when Thomas clouted the TF Sport-run D'Station Aston Martin Vantage GTE that Casper Stevenson had spun into the barriers at the fast sweeper before Tertre Rouge.
Several cars avoided the stranded machine before bronze driver Thomas, who was a late replacement for the original entrant John Farano ...Keep reading
The 2021 world champion has scored just one podium from the opening five rounds of the 2023 campaign and is currently 45 points off the championship lead.
Yamaha threw a lot of development parts to its M1 over the winter, which ended up making matters worse for Quartararo throughout testing.
This forced him to go back to older settings on his bike on the last day of testing in Portugal ...Keep reading
Motorsport – and Le Mans in particular – has long been a pioneering proving ground for new technologies. However, as the world zeroes in on net zero goals, reducing carbon emissions in such a high-performance environment for such a long period of time is a major challenge.
The race organisers are working with TotalEnergies to explore all the options and Romain Aubry, the company’s ...Keep reading
Having ended 2020 as championship runner-up on the Petronas SRT Yamaha, Morbidelli’s time in MotoGP has grown immensely difficult.
INSIGHT: Yamaha’s once leading light fighting for his MotoGP future
Since switching to the factory Yamaha squad midway through 2021, Morbidelli has scored a best of fourth – which came in 2023 in Argentina in the sprint and grand prix – and is now under ...Keep reading
That’s two different rulebooks to which a manufacturer can build a car for the top category of the series. So on the 16-stong Hypercar entry for Le Mans this year there are nine LMHs and six LMDhs.
What is LMH and LMDh?
LMH stands for Le Mans Hypercar, a rulebook that has been in force in the WEC since 2021. LMDh is new for 2023, but you’ll never see the name written out, it’s ...Keep reading
From the launch of the MCL60, Stella stressed a need for the team to remain “realistic” as it started the campaign with an underbaked design.
In the meantime, he led an overhaul of the technical division by getting rid of director James Key before hiring David Sanchez from Ferrari and experienced Red Bull chief engineer Rob Marshall.
A major upgrade for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix ...Keep reading
As the excitement builds towards the centenary edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, fans of endurance racing will have a chance to make their voice heard about the sport.
Photo by: Motorsport.com
Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO), Le Mans Endurance Management, promoter of the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) and Motorsport Network today launched the 2023 ...Keep reading
Alongside what’s said to be smoother driver behaviours, less repetitive crashes, differing racing lines, greater tyre temperature simulation and pitcrew training, F1 Manager 2023 will also include a visor-fitted camera angle and a real-world race replication Race Replay mode.
Race Replay mode detailed
Debuting this season is the first gameplay mode for the series outside of the ...Keep reading
The Milton Keynes-based squad was left annoyed over the Monaco Grand Prix weekend when images of its secret floor and diffuser design were revealed in public as Sergio Perez’s crashed car was craned away in qualifying.
Several of Red Bull’s competitors have said they have gained important knowledge from the RB19 being on display, with Mercedes admitting it had a “nice clutch” of ...Keep reading
On the one hand, we got exactly the winner we expected in Barcelona but, on the other, the track changes at the end of the lap made for more action and the revised Mercedes W14 suddenly came alive last Sunday.
As Alex Kalinauckas explains in his weekly column and our in-depth report, there were several reasons why Mercedes jumped Aston Martin and Ferrari in Spain. Some of them were ...Keep reading
Van der Zande, who shares the #3 Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac V-Series.R with Sebastien Bourdais and Scott Dixon, was speaking prior to Wednesday’s first qualifying session in which the Ferrari and Toyota Le Mans Hypercars set the pace.
However, the Dutch driver singled out the speed of the Porsche 963, which like the Caddy is built to LMDh rules.
Asked how he perceived the speed of ...Keep reading
The floor was exposed after Logan Sargeant crashed at the final corner in FP3 in Barcelona and his car was loaded onto a truck.
That came just a week after the undersides of the Red Bull RB19 and Mercedes W14 were both captured after accidents in Monaco led to them being craned away.
The apparent simplicity of the Williams floor in comparison to those of other cars – especially the Red ...Keep reading
Laurens Vanthoor went quickest with just over 30 minutes of the two-hour night session remaining on Wednesday aboard his Porsche 963 LMDh to beat Ferrari driver James Calado’s mark by three tenths.
Vanthoor posted a 3m29.157s to go quickest aboard the only one of the three Porsche Penske Motorsport entries not to make it through to the Hypercar qualifying session for the double-points round ...Keep reading
Jean-Marc Finot, the French manufacturer’s motorsport boss, said that the in-house Peugeot Sport team was “improving but not by enough” after Mikkel Jensen and Loic Duval ended up outside the top eight cars that have gone through to final qualifying.
Peugeot will be the only one of the five major car makers participating in the World Endurance Championship's Hypercar class ...Keep reading
Drivers and team representatives took part in an online meeting on Wednesday, instigated by the championship’s promoter, to share ideas to improve the championship.
The WRC called a meeting following the comments made by Hyundai Thierry Neuville in the lead-up to last month’s Rally Portugal, where he claimed the championship needed to make changes to improve its appeal for manufacturers and ...Keep reading
The 2021 Le Mans 24 Hours winner and team principal of Toyota's WEC arm was announced on Wednesday at La Sarthe for a one-off NASCAR outing at the Indianapolis road course in August, driving a third 23XI Racing Camry.
Kobayashi will take over the #67 car previously driven by Travis Pastrana to an 11th place finish at the Daytona 500 for his first outing in a stock car, following in the ...Keep reading
Cars progressing to Hyperpole:
Hypercar
50 Ferrari AF Corse#51 Ferrari AF Corse#7 Toyota Gazoo Racing#8 Toyota Gazoo Racing#5 Porsche Penske Motorsport#75 Porsche Penske Motorsport#3 Cadillac Racing #2 Cadillac Racing
LMP2
28 JOTA#41 Team WRT#63 Prema Racing#48 IDEC Sport#10 Vector Sport#47 COOL Racing#923 Racing Team Turkey #9 Prema Racing
GTE Am
83 Richard ...Keep reading
Apart from his usual strong run at the Indianapolis 500, where he finished eighth, Daly has struggled for speed elsewhere this year, with a next-best result of 14th at the St Petersburg opener. He finished 15th in Sunday’s race at Detroit.
Daly, 31, began his IndyCar career in 2013 and has hopped between its smaller teams ever since. He scored a remarkable pole position with ...Keep reading
A new 1.645-mile track was constructed in the shadow of the Renaissance Center, the global headquarters of General Motors, and used some stretches of the Formula 1 track, which was used from 1982 to 1988.
Penske Corporation’s president Bud Denker was the mastermind of the project, inspired by IndyCar’s successful event on the streets of Nashville.
FEATURE: Why Detroit GP nostalgia isn't ...Keep reading
The Ulsterman edged closer to the all-time TT win record of 26 on Wednesday after scoring his second Supersport victory of the 2023 event on his MD Racing Yamaha.
Dunlop beat Peter Hickman by just under 10 seconds to notch up his 25th career win, setting a new Supersport lap record of 130.403mph – the first-ever 130mph lap of the TT course for the class.
Speaking to TT+ after his fourth ...Keep reading
Williams has only scored one point this season, courtesy of a 10th-place finish for Albon in the Bahrain season opener. At this point in 2022, it had three of its eventual eight points.
Despite the downturn in the constructors’ standings, the ‘supertimes’ metric that records each team’s fastest lap during a race weekend indicates that Williams has closed the gap to leading outfit Red ...Keep reading
The American brand last secured a class success at La Sarthe in 2015, despite coming close in several editions since then - including having two cars in GTE Pro victory contention last year before neither ultimately finished.
Now, with the Chevrolet Corvette C8.R GTE's final appearance in the enduro coming with a sole GTE Am entry this weekend, Catsburg says there is a strong focus on returning ...Keep reading
The two Toyota GR010 HYBRIDs locked out the top two positions during Wednesday afternoon's three-hour session, with Brendon Hartley setting the pace aboard the #8 car on a 3m27.742s.
That was almost two seconds up on the best time set in Sunday's official test day.
It was the sister #7 Toyota that led the way for most of the session, as Jose Maria Lopez punched in a 3m28.290s early on, going ...Keep reading
I wouldn’t say there are any rude riders in the MotoGP paddock. But there are definitely those who treat media duties as part of the job description. Franco Morbidelli is always the opposite. As he rocks up to the Yamaha hospitality at Le Mans, Morbidelli is keen to chat about life and his time off between the Spanish and French GPs.
He mentions how time off is necessary for all in the ...Keep reading
The team delivered its best result of the 2023 season last weekend as Lewis Hamilton and George Russell finished second and third behind runaway race-winner Max Verstappen.
The result, allied to the strong pace of the W14 throughout the race, has suggested that Mercedes' revamp of its car has delivered a significant leap forward in form after months of struggling with its 'zeropod' ...Keep reading
Dunlop has been rewriting the record books in 2023 having moved into second spot on the all-time winners list on Tuesday with a victory in the Supertwin class.
Victorious in the first Supersport race, Dunlop beat Hickman by 9.6s in Wednesday’s outing and posted the first ever 130mph lap for the class.
Dunlop is now just one win away from matching the all-time record tally of 26 set by his ...Keep reading
The legends at the LEGO Group have recreated Peugeot’s 9X8 machine in 1:10 form in a LEGO® Technic™ model designed for adults, but with a massive 1,775 pieces in the box the challenge is can it be built within half the length of the race itself?
The level of detail achieved by the design teams from Peugeot Sport and the LEGO Group in the model is quite incredible, and the intricacy ...Keep reading
The 2016 IndyCar champion and 2019 Indy 500 winner with Team Penske forms part of Cool Racing’s roster in the LMP2 ORECA-Gibson 07 over a decade after his last Le Mans appearance when he finished second with Peugeot in 2011.
The Meyer Shank Racing IndyCar driver has regularly competed in sportscars in the meantime however, finishing second in the Daytona 24 Hours with an Action Express ...Keep reading
Hulkenberg was fast throughout the Spanish GP weekend, qualifying ninth and starting eighth after gaining a spot from a penalty for Pierre Gasly.
He ran in the same position in the early laps of the race but had to pit and abandon his soft tyres after just eight laps.
That led him into a three-stop strategy that saw him in 15th place at the flag after running mediums, hards and mediums for ...Keep reading
As part of a sudden and unexpected change in Balance of Performance for the centenary edition of the French endurance classic, the minimum weight of the two Toyota GR010 Hybrids has been raised by 37kg, the highest increase for any car in the Hypercar class.
This contributed to Toyota’s underwhelming showing in the pre-Le Mans 24 test, with the best of its two hybrid LMH contenders ending up ...Keep reading
In a press conference at Le Mans prior to first practice on Wednesday, Toyota Racing Development president David Wilson revealed that Kobayashi will campaign the #67 Toyota Camry previously raced by Travis Pastrana to an 11th place finish at the Daytona 500 on 13 August.
He will become the first Japanese driver since Hideo Fukuyama in 2003 to start a Cup race.
Kobayashi's cameo outing with ...Keep reading
The undisputed kings of the Sidecar class at the TT, the Birchalls tallied up their 13th victory on Saturday and posted the first ever 120mph lap for the class with a 120.357mph effort.
Coming into Wednesday’s second and final Sidecar contest of the 2023 TT as favourites, the Birchalls didn’t disappoint.
Setting off at the number one spot, the Birchalls stole a 2.8-second lead over the ...Keep reading
The Italian driver made the remarks despite setting the pace in last Sunday’s official test day at the wheel of the #51 499P Le Mans Hypercar he shares with Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado for the World Endurance Championship blue riband.
Giovinazzi set a best time of 3m29.504s in the afternoon session, topping the times by a tenth of a second from Porsche driver Laurens Vanthoor ...Keep reading
Former McLaren F1 team-mates Hakkinen and Coulthard joined Rovanpera’s Toyota team for a pre-event test in Sardinia.
At the test, Hakkinen and Coulthard both climbed aboard the current WRC specification Toyota GR Yaris alongside Rovanpera for a blast through Sardinia’s rough gravel roads in a special feature for sponsor Unibet.
The 22-year-old admitted he enjoyed frightening the ex-F1 ...Keep reading
Instead of neutralising the race with the use of three safety cars, as has been the case in the World Endurance Championship’s blue riband event in recent years, a new procedure has been introduced this year that will see the whole field packed up behind a single safety car prior to each restart.
Additionally, any car that is behind the class leader in the safety car queue will be permitted ...Keep reading
The Silverstone-based team endured a challenging Spanish GP last weekend as Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll ended up finishing behind both Mercedes and Ferrari in the fight to be Red Bull’s closest challenger.
With its rivals having introduced major upgrades to their cars over the past two races, Aston Martin’s lack of performance could suggest that it has been overtaken in pace terms as ...Keep reading
Matsuda was involved in a high-speed accident at 130R on lap 59 of 77 in the 450km race last Sunday that left the #23 NISMO Nissan Z almost completely destroyed.
The 43-year-old was transferred to hospital by air, but Nissan announced that he had escaped any serious injuries that evening.
On Wednesday, Matsuda updated his social media for the first time since the accident to say that he had ...Keep reading
McLaren had its strongest qualifying performance of the season in Barcelona with Lando Norris taking a surprise third on the grid, while Piastri earned 10th before gaining a spot from a penalty for Pierre Gasly.
The drivers cautioned before the race that conditions in qualifying had flattered the car.
However, the race proved to be even tougher than expected. Piastri slipped back to 13th ...Keep reading
Abiteboul believes the championship's event format can be improved to increase its appeal for teams, drivers and fans.
The former Renault Formula 1 boss’ call to action came in response to comments made by Toyota’s Kalle Rovanpera in the post event Rally Sardinia press conference.
FEATURE: WRC Sardinia postcard
Rovanpera feels a fresh set of tyres specifically for the rally ending ...Keep reading
Key will join the Sauber-run team on 1 September, taking over the role from Jan Monchaux.
He has been identified as the man to lead the team into its Audi era by Sauber Motorsport CEO Andreas Seidl, his former boss at McLaren in 2019-2022.
Key already knows the Hinwil operation well having served as technical director in the post-BMW period from 2010 to 2012, before he moved to Toro ...Keep reading
Torras had an accident at the Alpine section of the 37.75-mile circuit on the final lap of Tuesday’s Supertwin race.
The Spaniard, aged 46, had been competing at the TT since 2017 and scored a best of 15th in last year’s Supertwin race.
FEATURE: The moral complexities of the Isle of Man TT that can't be ignored
In Tuesday afternoon’s Superstock race, he set his fastest ever lap ...Keep reading
The Ulsterman scored his 23rd TT victory on Sunday in the Superbike race to match John McGuinness’ tally and put him just three away from his late uncle Joey Dunlop’s record of 26.
Michael Dunlop is now second all-time on the winners list at the TT after cruising to his third win of the 2023 event in the Supertwins class.
Starting sixth on the road, Dunlop led the entire race on ...Keep reading
Top Performer - Esapekka Lappi and Janne Ferm
He didn't stand on the top step of the podium, but in the words of Hyundai team principal Cyril Abiteboul, “For me, Esapekka has been the man of the rally.”
The one-time WRC rally winner delivered one of the drives of his career to finish second behind eventual winner and Hyundai team-mate Thierry Neuville. He took the fight to ...Keep reading
Porsche had marked itself out as a clear favourite for the title at the beginning of Formula E's Gen3 era, when factory driver Pascal Wehrlein and Porsche-powered Andretti ace Jake Dennis locked out the top two spots in Mexico City and Diriyah, with Wehrlein even taking a rare double win in Saudi Arabia.
A podium and a victory followed for Wehrlein's team-mate Antonio Felix da Costa in ...Keep reading
Thirty five years after Ayrton Senna drove his McLaren to victory in the last Formula 1 Detroit Grand Prix, the event returned to the city's downtown streets.
IndyCar raced thrice more on a modified version of the track used by F1 from 1982-88, but this run ended infamously after 1991, when Mario Andretti crashed into a recovery truck and son Michael then shunted into Dennis Vitolo’s stranded ...Keep reading
Hickman enjoyed two podiums in the first two races of the 2023 event, but was resoundingly beaten by Michael Dunlop in the Supersport and Superbike TTs.
The Englishman admitted that he battled brake and quickshifter problems on his FHO Racing BMW Superbike in the race, and has faced issues on the M1000RR in that trim throughout practice.
But on the Superstock version of that bike, Hickman ...Keep reading
Behind runaway race winner Max Verstappen, Lewis Hamilton led team-mate George Russell to bag a double podium for Mercedes to jump Aston Martin in the constructors’ standings. This came as Stroll classified in sixth ahead of home favourite Fernando Alonso in seventh.
Since the AMR23 has often been the second-quickest machine behind the Red Bull RB19 throughout the early races this season, the ...Keep reading
Urs Kuratle, project leader on the 963, described last Sunday’s Le Mans test day as “definitely satisfying” after a Porsche was in the top three in the times in both sessions on Sunday.
The first track running of Le Mans week on the full 8.47-mile Circuit de la Sarthe followed a significant test programme since the previous WEC round at Spa at the end of April.
What happened at the Le ...Keep reading
Leclerc started from the pitlane in Barcelona after he qualified only 19th and the team opted to make changes to his car for the race.
However he was only able to rise to 11th place after his SF-23 again performed inconsistently across stints, even when running the same tyre compound.
Team-mate Carlos Sainz also struggled as he slipped from second on the grid to fifth at the chequered ...Keep reading
F1 decided to bypass the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya tight chicane and instead restore its original final sector, with two fast right-handers leading onto the main straight, in a bid to improve the show.
It was a popular decision among the drivers, with Mercedes' George Russell saying it "turned one of the worst corners in F1 into one of the best", but the jury was still out on whether or ...Keep reading
United Autosports team principal Richard Dean and WRT founder Vincent Vosse criticised the 20-minute stop-and-hold penalty to be taken by six P2 teams in opening free practice for his weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours round of the World Endurance Championship round.
Together with a third team boss, who asked not to be named, they argued that the penalty dished out to the Vector Sport, AF Corse, TF ...Keep reading
The iconic asphalt rally has been based out of Monte Carlo for the last two years, with a service park constructed around the start/finish straight and the swimming pool chicane sections of the famous grand prix circuit.
Automobile Club de Monaco has today announced that the rally will return to Gap, which has previously hosted the event from 2014-2021 due to "major works" to infrastructure in ...Keep reading
Following a week of solid riding throughout the rest of qualifying and the opening two race days, Monday marked a well-needed rest day for the TT paddock.
Action was meant to resume on Tuesday morning at 11:45am local time with the first Superstock race of the week.
However, organisers issued an update stating there would be a 30-minute delay to Tuesday’s programme while they wait for ...Keep reading
It's the 91st running of the race, although billed as the centenary race, as it's 100 years since the first event in 1923.
Ferrari recently ended the Le Mans test day fastest, as Toyota faced up to challenges following the recent chance to balance of performance rules. The Hypercar class is increasingly competitive with Porsche also quick ahead of qualifying.
On today's podcast Gary runs ...Keep reading
The story began in London on 27 June 2015, during the first two Formula E races.
Yves Bonnefont, the first managing director of DS Automobiles - a brand created in 2014 - launched the DS Virgin Racing team alongside Sir Richard Branson, becoming the first premium manufacturer to enter the discipline.
A few months earlier, Xavier Mestelan Pinon, then technical director at Citroën in the WRC ...Keep reading
The team is currently searching for at least one driver to join its WRC ranks to share the third i20 N with Dani Sordo following the tragic loss of Craig Breen in a Rally Croatia testing accident in April.
Hyundai WRC2 driver Teemu Suninen and WRC2 champion Emil Lindholm have been linked to the drive, with the former testing an i20 N at the team’s Finland test base prior to last weekend’s ...Keep reading
For the return of ground-effects at the start of 2022, Red Bull (downwash), Ferrari (in-wash) and Mercedes (size-zero) all developed radically different sidepod designs.
With Red Bull emerging as the dominant force, it left many to suppose that sidepods are the determining factor in car performance. As such, questions were asked of Mercedes for it not converging around the Red Bull design ...Keep reading
To underline its status as a world championship, F1 has coveted a race in Africa. A return to the famed Kyalami circuit, which last hosted a GP in 1993, has long been the frontrunner.
F1 CEO and president Stefano Domenicali has held meetings with circuit officials and other South African GP stakeholders over the past year to revive the event.
A 2024 slot was originally in mind although there ...Keep reading
Three of the team’s four drivers encountered issues with the GR Yaris while traversing water crossings during last weekend’s rain-impacted round on the Italian island.
Unseasonal rain showers created incredibly tricky conditions which also made the water splashes deeper and provided an extra challenge to crews.
Toyota’s GR Yaris appeared to particularly struggle in the water as ...Keep reading
At the Spanish Grand Prix, Red Bull appeared with changes to the floor's edge wing and the diffuser, using features widely seen on competitors' machinery.
These were most likely spotted by Adrian Newey on his regular grid walks before the Milton Keynes-based squad applied its own twist on a couple of solutions others have used for some time.
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Former WEC GTE Pro sparring partners Bruni and Tincknell will give Proton Competition's US-based Porsche 963 its debut at Road America on 6 August, just four weeks after they drive the sister car in the WEC’s Hypercar class for the first time at Monza at the beginning of July.
Proton boss Christian Ried told Autosport that it made sense to have the same drivers for the team’s ...Keep reading
Earlier this year, the FIA opened up the tender process for F1's official supply contract from 2025 to 2027, with the possibility of it being extended until 2028.
The deadline for applicants was 15 May, with the FIA now going through the process of evaluating the proposals from interested parties before making a call on who the approved bidders are on 16 June.
The successful candidates will ...Keep reading
McLaughlin, who started from the front row, collided with Grosjean’s Andretti Autosport just after two-thirds distance at Turn 1, as the Frenchman rejoined from the pits.
Despite being on cold tyres, Grosjean went straight for the apex at Turn 1 as McLaughlin attempted to pass him on the inside, leading to a collision that sent the New Zealander into a huge slide. The pitlane exit line ...Keep reading
After crashing out of Top 12 qualifying on Saturday, Kirkwood was rear-ended at Turn 3 by Juncos Hollinger Racing’s Callum Ilott on the opening lap of the race around the new 1.7-mile downtown Detroit street course.
The impact smashed his rear wing, requiring his team to fit a new one under caution. They managed to replace it without losing a lap, but it meant the Long Beach Grand Prix winner ...Keep reading
The four-time NBA champion and two-time Olympic gold medallist will be given the honour of being the official starter for the 2023 edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours, which gets underway at 4pm local time on 10 June.
Since 1949, the race starter role has been frequently given to a personality from the world of politics, sport, film or other celebrity industries.
Previous official starters ...Keep reading
After receiving criticism following practice and qualifying, including from pole winner Alex Palou saying it was “too tight” and too short” for IndyCars, the post-race opinion had mellowed towards the 1.645-mile layout.
“It was a really fun race,” said Palou. “It was a lot better than I expected. We had a lot more grip today than what we did [before]. I think the track evolved a lot ...Keep reading
The pair endured a difficult opening day of practice at Barcelona as Mercedes finally got some proper running of its new W14 upgrade package.
The struggles even left Hamilton feeling that he would not make it through to Q3 in qualifying because the car was so difficult to drive.
But a late-night simulator session for Schumacher back at Mercedes’ Brackley factory on Friday ...Keep reading
Rosenqvist and Rossi had already swapped places through Turn 1 and Turn 2 with four laps to go, but on the penultimate tour they raced wheel-to-wheel again, this time at Turn 3.
Rosenqvist lunged to the inside, where Rossi pinched him towards the apex. After rounding the corner side by side, they touched – Rosenqvist’s right-rear to Rossi’s left-front – and Rossi was sent into the ...Keep reading
The world championship leader raised some smiles in second practice at the Spanish Grand Prix when his response to a radio message about his run plan regarded a ringtone that could be heard from the garage.
Verstappen was able to recognise it as the one used by Red Bull's motorsport advisor Marko.
"Someone's phone is going," said Verstappen. "Is that Helmut's?"
The team's subsequent ...Keep reading
The Finn produced one of the drives of his WRC career as he became locked in an intense fight for victory with Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier for 14 of the 19 gravel stages, held in challenging weather conditions.
Lappi ended Friday with a 0.1-second lead over the eight-time world champion only to fall 18.2s behind at the end of Saturday morning.
However, Lappi applied pressure to close to ...Keep reading
After what seemed like an endless string of street circuits and semi-permanent venues monopolising the opening part of the 2023 calendar, Formula 1 went back to basics at Barcelona.
Under its previous configuration, the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya had been extensively mined for data amid thousands of miles in testing down the years, but a reversion to the classic layout offered a slightly ...Keep reading
Le Mans, France, Monday, 5 June 2023. In recognition of the FIA World Endurance Championship – the ultimate endurance racing challenge, cars representing the ultimate in technology, durability, and performance, and taking place at the ultimate motorsport venue, there can only be one name for the official game for the 24 Hours of Le Mans and FIA WEC: Le Mans Ultimate.
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Jaguar suffered an unusually off weekend on Formula E's second visit to Indonesia, with both the factory team and customer Envision squad struggling to contend with the frontrunners on the 2.4km track.
Although Evans qualified an impressive third, he was simply not able to match the pace of front-row starters Maximilian Gunther and Jake Dennis.
Despite falling as far back as 18.5s, a gap ...Keep reading
The Silverstone-based squad has been Red Bull’s closest rival for much of this season but endured its most difficult outing of the year at Barcelona.
Lance Stroll and Fernando Alonso did not have the pace on the soft early on to take the fight to Mercedes and Ferrari, and in the end, they came home a distant sixth and seventh.
Team principal Mike Krack believed his squad’s ...Keep reading
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The FHO Racing rider has been king of the Superbike class at the TT for the last two years, but admitted ahead of Sunday’s six-lap race that his preparations on the M1000RR had not gone to plan through practice week.
Hickman eventually finished second to Michael Dunlop in Sunday’s Superbike contest, 8.2 seconds adrift, and came close to posting a new outright lap record after a final tour ...Keep reading
The driver of the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID made the comment after the Japanese manufacturer could do no better than third across the two sessions of Sunday’s official test for the double-points round of the World Endurance Championship next weekend.
Kobayashi talked without reference to the Balance of Performance changes made in the WEC’S Hypercar class last week, which raised the ...Keep reading
The upgraded W14 proved effective in the warmer race temperatures as Russell climbed from 12th on the grid to third place to complete a double podium behind team-mate Lewis Hamilton.
Rain, which had hit the track during Saturday practice, had threatened to disrupt the event but never materialised. However, Russell did briefly ask his race engineer Marcus Dudley at half-distance if any other ...Keep reading
The car has regularly been fast over one lap, which was evident once again at the Spanish GP, where Carlos Sainz qualified second.
However, the team continues to struggle in races, with the car behaving differently from stint to stint.
In Barcelona, Sainz slipped down to fifth place at the flag, while from a pitlane start following his qualifying issues, Charles Leclerc could not rise ...Keep reading
While the reigning F1 world champion didn’t have a completely trouble-free afternoon, it was still another near-perfect display from the Dutchman who moves 53 points clear of title rival and team-mate Sergio Perez, who recovered from another poor qualifying display to take fourth place.
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Mercedes enjoyed a solid ...Keep reading
The Stellantis brand had suffered a woeful start to the 2023 FE season after taking over the team from Venturi, with a lack of pace compounded by mistakes on the part of Gunther and particularly team-mate Edoardo Mortara.
But Maserati started to turn its fortunes around from Berlin onwards, with Jakarta confirming the progress team has made as Gunther outduelled Andretti’s Jake Dennis in the ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion was expecting a tall order in Sardinia starting first on the gravel stages on Friday at a rally that has yielded a best result of fifth in three previous top-tier attempts.
However, the Finn finished third behind Hyundai duo Thierry Neuville and Esapekka Lappi after coming through desperately tricky conditions on Friday morning, before rain showers added to the ...Keep reading
The Tech3 rider had hoped to return to racing this weekend at the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, but is still suffering from an edema around his vertebrae that needs treatment.
The Spaniard was thrown from his GASGAS-branded KTM in the latter stages of FP2 at the season-opener in Portugal and hit an unprotected barrier.
He was taken to hospital where he was diagnosed with multiple fractures ...Keep reading
Mercedes persisted with its troubled 2022 car concept in the belief that dialling out porpoising would unlock its true potential on the new W14.
But it turned up at Bahrain winter testing further behind Red Bull than it finished 2022, leading to a tough decision to change the concept of its floor, sidepods and suspension mid-season, with the revamped W14 debuting at the Monaco Grand Prix.
It ...Keep reading
The FIA Formula 3 and GT World Cups will headline the 70th anniversary running of the Macau Grand Prix meeting on the weekend of 18/19 November following three years during which travel restrictions into China resulting from the COVID pandemic precluded an international presence.
The F3 fixture, which also carries the Macau GP title and is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, and ...Keep reading
Busch dominated much of the race – leading 121 of the 243 laps – but had to wait a near two-hour weather delay for lightning with the race just five laps old.
Busch powered past Kyle Larson and Denny Hamlin on a restart on lap 184 to move into the lead for the final time but then had to fend off repeated challenges on restarts.
A late-race caution for a wreck involving Austin Dillon and ...Keep reading
Palou led the majority of the race, but Power used an alternate tyre strategy to lead a chunk of the event, the pair trading the lead before Palou stamped his authority on proceedings.
A flurry of late yellow flags threatened to cause chaos but Palou kept his cool through all of them to beat Power by just over 1s and extend his championship lead.
After one false start, as the field ...Keep reading
Hamilton's current Mercedes deal runs out at the end of this season, prompting traditional speculation on whether the 38-year-old will re-commit to the team that propelled him to six of his seven world championships or walk away from the series.
It even prompted wild speculation about a possible move to Ferrari, which was quickly refuted by all parties.
Both Hamilton and Wolff have regularly ...Keep reading
Antonio Giovinazzi ended the six hours of testing ahead of next weekend’s double-points round of the World Endurance Championship with the best time of the day aboard the quickest of the two Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercars.
The Italian’s 3m29.504s set early in the afternoon session edged out the best of the Porsche 963 LMDhs, which ended up second on a 3m29.648s from Laurens Vanthoor.
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Alonso started only eighth after two mistakes in qualifying compromised his session and gained only one position to finish seventh in the race behind team-mate Lance Stroll.
This marked the second time in 2023 that he hasn't been on the podium for Aston Martin, with Alonso noting: “We didn’t have the pace, so that the biggest problem.
“It was not that we were unlucky or on differing ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer saw Lewis Hamilton and George Russell finish second and third at Barcelona behind race winner Max Verstappen, moving the squad up to second in the constructors' championship standings.
But a few hours after the race, the team was notified that team members may have breached the regulations in the post-race parc ferme zone that is created in the pitlane.
The FIA ...Keep reading
After suffering a delaminated tyre in race one, Rowbottom had battled his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST from the back of the grid to 11th on the road in the sequel.
That should have given him second on the grid for the finale, but a three-place grid penalty forced him to start from fifth.
Rowbottom got up to fourth at the start, then speared inside the Speedworks Motorsport Toyota ...Keep reading
Dunlop stormed to his second victory of the 2023 TT in Sunday’s six-lap Superbike race aboard his Hawk Racing Honda, marking his first victory in the class since 2018.
The Ulsterman is now joint-second on the all-time TT winners list with John McGuinness on 23, and is just three away from the all-time record of 26 belonging to his late uncle Joey Dunlop.
Though Dunlop eased off on the ...Keep reading
On lap 56 of 66 in a round dominated by Red Bull driver Max Verstappen, Alfa Romeo racer Zhou used DRS to challenge Tsunoda for ninth place around the outside into the Turn 1 right-hander.
But as the corner transitioned into Turn 2, Zhou appeared to jink his machine to the left to then take to the escape road before he rejoined the circuit several car lengths behind Tsunoda.
The FIA stewards ...Keep reading
Neuville scored Hyundai’s first WRC win of 2023 after coming through challenging wet conditions to lead a 1-2 for the South Korean marque, with Esapekka Lappi finishing 33.0s behind.
It was the first victory for the team since the tragic loss of Breen to a testing crash in April, leading Neuville and team principal Cyril Abiteboul to pay tribute to the Irishman in the victory ...Keep reading
McLaren driver Norris qualified a season-best third in Spain, but his hopes of a points finish were curtailed on the first lap when he clashed with Hamilton's Mercedes at Turn 2 and had to pit at the end of the opening tour.
Hamilton escaped without significant damage and went on to finish second.
Speaking after he was eventually classified 17th, Norris stressed that even before the contact ...Keep reading
Sainz qualified second for his home race, but as has been the case in previous races, Ferrari's comparatively poor race pace made him slide backwards, his Ferrari struggling with the bumpy and fast nature of the Barcelona circuit as it was outclassed by Mercedes on tyre management.
After an early first pitstop, Sainz went from the soft onto the hard tyres, which allowed Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton ...Keep reading
The Ulsterman opened up his TT account for 2023 with an emphatic victory in the Supersport class on Saturday to notch up his 22nd career win.
Leading every single sector of the six-lap Superbike race on Sunday, Dunlop has moved into joint second on the all-time winners list alongside TT legend John McGuinness with his second victory of the event.
Dunlop took the lead through the first sector ...Keep reading
After qualifying a disappointing 12th, Russell confirmed Mercedes' improved race pace from Friday practice to move up to third behind winner Max Verstappen and team-mate Lewis Hamilton.
Russell and Hamilton used their superior tyre management, which allowed them to avoid the hard tyre on their two-stopper, to defeat Ferrari's Carlos Sainz, who dropped from second to fifth.
According to ...Keep reading
At the start, polesitter Verstappen swung right after leaving the line to cut off the momentum of fellow front row starter Carlos Sainz, but the Ferrari – on soft tyres versus the mediums on the Red Bull – got a slipstream and attacked on the outside line at Turn 1.
Verstappen was therefore forced to run very deep as he defended hard from the inside line, but kept enough of his car on the ...Keep reading
Verstappen dominated the race after fending off a first-corner challenge for Carlos Sainz’s Ferrari.
Mercedes had the second-fastest car in the race, and Lewis Hamilton and George Russell filled the podium spots, ahead of the other Red Bull of Sergio Perez, who rose from 11th to finish fourth.
2023 F1 Spanish GP race ...Keep reading
Once again, the three-time champion led from start to finish in his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST in another processional race at the front.
As in the first race, reigning title holder Tom Ingram held second position throughout at the wheel of his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N.
Just as earlier, Ingram had some threat from Josh Cook’s One Motorsport Honda Civic Type R – in ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer had the first run of its upgraded F1 challenger on a proper circuit in Spain this weekend, after the parts appeared originally in Monaco.
And as Lewis Hamilton put himself in contention for a front row start, before a collision with team-mate George Russell damaged his car and compromised his later form, Mercedes says it has taken huge encouragement from what it ...Keep reading
Antonio Fuoco claimed the top spot in the three-hour morning session of the Test Day with a 3m30.686s aboard his 499P Le Mans Hypercar, which put him six tenths up on Gustavo Menezes in the best of the Peugeot 9X8 LMHs.
Menezes posted a 3m31.346s, which gave him a margin of just over a tenth over Yifei Ye’s 3m31.477s in the British Jota team’s customer Porsche 963 LMDh.
The second ...Keep reading
Norris qualified third for the Barcelona race behind pole-winner Max Verstappen and home hero Carlos Sainz – his best qualifying result of 2023 by four positions (his next best was seventh in Azerbaijan).
The Briton said afterwards the result left him “shocked” as he had thought “it was going to be tough to get out of Q1”, and outlined his belief that the Barcelona layout ...Keep reading
The three-time champion led from start to finish in his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST, and never came under serious threat.
Behind Sutton, reigning title holder Tom Ingram similarly held second position throughout in his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N.
Ingram regularly came under pressure from Thruxton king Josh Cook – the circuit’s all-time BTCC wins record ...Keep reading
Steiner spoke out against the decision of the stewards at the Monaco GP to impose a time penalty on Nico Hulkenberg for an opening-lap collision.
With Steiner feeling that Hulkenberg did not make any untoward contact, he said the time had come for the appointment of full-time professional stewards.
"Every professional sport has got professionals being referees and stuff like ...Keep reading
Neuville and co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe enjoyed a relatively comfortable run through Sunday’s four stages to complete a 33 seconds victory from Hyundai team-mate Esapekka Lappi.
World champion and standings leader Kalle Rovanpera completed the podium in third, 1m55.3s in arrears.
The journey to reach the finish was far from easy as unseasonable rain showers produced treacherous conditions ...Keep reading
Alonso's problems started when he ran wide onto the gravel at the final corner as he started his first lap in Q1 in Barcelona.
He recovered to get out of that session in 12th and then took eighth in Q2. With the car in a better state for Q3, Alonso believed he could still have made the front row, but a mistake on his final lap consigned him to ninth.
The team managed to gradually repair the ...Keep reading
Bearman bounced back after a tricky weekend last time out in Monaco to take another victory, having secured a clean sweep at the previous round in Baku.
It marked Prema’s second win of the weekend, with team-mate Frederik Vesti taking victory in Saturday’s sprint race.
Fighting off a challenge from Enzo Fittipaldi (Rodin Carlin) at the start, Bearman broke the DRS chain by lap six to ...Keep reading
Yet his dash to pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix was made that bit easier again when the only other driver to top a qualifying shootout this term, Charles Leclerc, was knocked out in Q1. Two more big scalps were claimed in Q2 as Sergio Perez and George Russell were also eliminated.
His path looking clearer, Verstappen was left to bolt to a 1m12.727s effort with some eight minutes of Q3 ...Keep reading
The Monegasque driver endured a difficult Saturday as he struggled with a mystery problem on his SF-23 that left him getting dumped out in Q1.
Speaking after the session, Leclerc said the issue seemed worse on left-hand corners.
“During the red flag, I was at 70km/h and there was just no warning,” said Leclerc, who ended up qualifying 19th.
“The left-hand corners ...Keep reading
Gunther had also started Saturday’s opening race in Indonesia from pole position, but showed far superior long-run pace in the second leg of the double header, converting pole into the lead then outduelling Andretti’s Jake Dennis to score his first FE win in three years.
A good getaway meant Gunther maintained his advantage into Turn 1, with Dennis also staying in second position ...Keep reading
The nine-time TT winner won all of the big bike races at the 2022 event on the new M1000RR, which he said after the Senior TT last year was the “best” bike he’d ever ridden around the 37.75-mile course.
Hickman was quick throughout practice week on his Superbike, ending Friday with a near-record lap of 134.91mph despite being visibly unhappy with his machinery when he came back to parc ...Keep reading
The Campos Racing driver led from the off, and despite a brief challenge from second-place starter Taylor Barnard at Turn 1, was largely unbothered from there.
The safety car was deployed on lap three after Luke Browning’s Hitech-run car came to a stop on track, but Marti got the jump on the restart to maintain the lead.
MP Motorsport’s Franco Colapinto passed Jenzer driver Barnard for ...Keep reading
Having started last in Monaco after a crash in Q1, Perez again had a torrid time in Barcelona, scraping through to Q2 in 15th place and then going off into the gravel at Turn 5 late in Q2.
Although he had time for another run, he struggled to get his tyres in the right window and could only qualify 11th, 10 place behind pole-winning team-mate Max Verstappen.
"Unfortunately, the off that ...Keep reading
The #23 NISMO Nissan Z of Matsuda and the #87 JLOC Lamborghini Huracan GT3 of Matsuura were caught up in a frightening accident at 130R that brought out the red flags on lap 59 of 77.
Both Matsuda and Matsuura were reported to be conscious and ok, with Matsuda being transferred to hospital by helicopter for further examination.
No replay of the accident was shown on TV, nor were images of ...Keep reading
Pierre Gasly repeated Ocon’s performance in the principality by being fourth fastest on a day when others didn’t get it right, although he was then demoted six places for impeding both Carlos Sainz and Max Verstappen.
Ocon meanwhile didn’t have a perfect lap in Q3, but was still seventh fastest before gaining a spot on Sunday’s grid thanks to his team-mate’s penalty.
“It's ...Keep reading
Sidecar driver Ben and his passenger brother Tom Birchall dominated Saturday’s three-wheel race on the Isle of Man for their 13th TT victory.
They did so having also made history with the first-ever 120mph Sidecar lap of the 37.75-mile TT course, posting a 120.357mph effort on lap two or three.
The Birchalls held the Sidecar lap record prior to Saturday, having set a 119.250mph lap in ...Keep reading
The Spaniard managed to put revisions to the SF-23 to good use at Barcelona as he emerged as Max Verstappen’s closest challenger for pole position.
But while the performance at such an aero-critical track bodes well for showing that Ferrari has found gains, Sainz believes that the nature of the Barcelona track has not actually played to its best potential.
He thinks that the ...Keep reading
Russell also struggled with bouncing in Barcelona’s high-speed corners which made his Mercedes W14 even trickier to drive on the limit, with the Briton reporting a belief that there was something wrong with his tyres early in Q1.
“The car wasn't feeling okay every single lap of the session,” said Russell when asked by Autosport about the car's behaviour.
“We made some small ...Keep reading
Despite holding a healthy 36.4s overnight lead, Neuville elected to push while the majority of his rivals opted to preserve their cars and tyres.
Heading into the final two stages of the rally, the Belgian opened up a 43.0s lead over Hyundai team-mate Esapekka Lappi, while championship leader Kalle Rovanpera maintained a lonely third, 2m11.2s adrift.
Toyota’s Elfyn Evans cemented fourth ...Keep reading
Having been unbeaten over a single lap all weekend, Gunther again emerged as the fastest driver of all in Sunday’s qualifying as he set a stellar lap of 1m07.753s to defeat Dennis by over half a second in the finals.
Gunther was quicker than Dennis from the get-go in their duel, immediately establishing a 0.134s advantage before steadily building that gap over the remainder of the lap.
By ...Keep reading
Speaking after qualifying fourth for the 100-lap race around the new street course in downtown Detroit, Chip Ganassi Racing’s Dixon joined many drivers in likening the event to Nashville, which has gained a reputation for producing chaotic IndyCar races.
When Dixon was asked by NBC Peacock what he expected from Sunday’s race, he replied: “Probably a lot of unexpected things to happen! I ...Keep reading
Practice at the new track, which is built in downtown Detroit around GM’s Renaissance Center headquarters, was plagued by a succession of red and yellow flags as drivers struggled with their braking stability on the bumpy and twisty 1.7-mile layout.
Traffic also caused a huge issue, with Andretti Autosport’s Colton Herta claiming that Saturday's 45-minute practice period was the only ...Keep reading
Palou earned his second straight pole for Chip Ganassi Racing, following on from the Indianapolis 500, on the new street track that’s been constructed by Penske Entertainment Corp around the GM headquarters at the city’s Renaissance Center.
Although it’s his first IndyCar pole on a street course, he immediately spoke out about how its nine-turn layout is too short and twisty for ...Keep reading
The eight-time world rally champion veered off the road in stage 14 in desperately wet conditions, while holding a 4.3s lead over Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi.
Ogier has taken an 18.2s lead into Saturday’s afternoon stages where the rally began to slowly unravel.
The Frenchman damaged the radiator of his GR Yaris in the same water splash that caused his Toyota team-mate Takamoto Katsuta ...Keep reading
As has been the case since the start of the season, the driver who took pole position - in this instance, Maximilian Gunther (Maserati) - did not win the race. Instead, the German finished third, ahead of the Penske DS entries of Stoffel Vandoorne and Vergne.
A few hours earlier, qualifying delivered the names of the favourites. At the end of Groups A and B, the four cars in the Stellantis ...Keep reading
Having raced on nearby Belle Isle Island from 1992, Penske Entertainment Corp revived the downtown circuit for the IndyCar event with a short and sharp 1.7-mile, nine-turn layout in the shadow of the General Motors Renaissance Center.
Following up his Indianapolis 500 pole, Palou set the early pace in the Fast Six shootout with 1m03.7423s but was soon toppled by Team Penske’s Indy 500 winner ...Keep reading
But, as the team radio messages sent to both drivers prior to the incident revealed, the unnecessary incident was the result of simple miscommunication in the heat of the moment during a complicated end to Q2.
Both drivers had been released from the pits on a slightly different run plan, with Russell scheduled to finish his final push effort as Hamilton started his.
But Russell was forced to ...Keep reading
Gasly initially ran to the fourth fastest time in Q3, with his 1m12.816s flying lap placing him 0.544s off Red Bull's runaway polesitter Max Verstappen.
That effort might have marked Gasly’s best starting position since he lined up in second place for the 2021 Qatar Grand Prix. However, he has been hit with two lots of three-place grid penalties after being found guilty of blocking Verstappen ...Keep reading
The event will remain in Saudi Arabia for the fifth year running, and will be held from 5 to 19 January.
The 5,000-kilometre route, encompassing a prologue and twelve competitive stages, will begin in the historic town of Al-Ula before competitors venture across the Empty Quarter to the Red Sea town of Yanbu.
Organisers state that 60 per cent of stages will be new, with the ...Keep reading
Red Bull driver Verstappen punched in a 1m12.272s on his first run in the decisive Q3 session, which was enough to secure his fourth pole of the 2023 season.
Nearest rival, Ferrari’s home hero Carlos Sainz, was a full 0.462s adrift of the flying Verstappen as the double world champion continued his recent devastating form.
Sainz professed that he’d “left nothing on the table” in ...Keep reading
Ogier started the day 0.1 seconds behind Lappi but managed to overhaul the Finn to take an 18.2s lead into the afternoon.
Lappi reduced Ogier’s lead across the afternoon before the latter ran off the road in stage 14, handing Neuville, who won five of the day’s eight stages, to lead Lappi overnight by 36.4s.
World champion Kalle Rovanpera inherited third (+1m50.7s) after a trouble free ...Keep reading
The Briton finished 11th in FP1 on Friday, which he says was "probably one of our worst FP1s of the season in terms of pace," before going on to finish 14th in FP2.
He improved to 10th in a rain-hit FP3 on Saturday morning before finishing third in qualifying, despite saying he "wouldn't say we felt anywhere near this good."
Asked whether he was surprised by the result, Norris said: "I would ...Keep reading
This year marks the centenary of the Sidecar class at the TT, with the first of two races in 2023 taking place on Saturday evening.
A serious road traffic accident this morning delayed the three-lap Sidecar contest to 5pm, but it proved worth the wait as the Birchall brothers made history.
Dominating the race, the Birchalls stormed to victory, having set the first ever 120mph lap for the ...Keep reading
Sainz ended up as Max Verstappen’s closest challenger for pole position in qualifying at Barcelona on Saturday, where Perez was eliminated in Q2 in the second Red Bull.
Perez could not match Verstappen’s pace or confidence on the slippery track surface – doused in rain during FP3 and still greasy when Q1 got going amid spots of rain falling at the southern end of the circuit.
When ...Keep reading
Due to space issues at the 1.7-mile, layout in the shadow of the General Motors Renaissance Centre that replaces the old Belle Isle venue on the calendar for 2023, the pitboxes have been split in two.
Half of the cars are serviced on either side, following a pitlane entry to driver’s right before Turn 9 that funnels the field in and then splits them in two. A blue line down the middle of ...Keep reading
Alonso ran wide through the gravel on his out-lap at the start of the session, damaging the floor sufficiently to make the car tricky to drive for the remainder of qualifying.
Thereafter, he noted that it handled "weirdly" but the Spaniard remains convinced that he was still on target for the front row before he made a mistake and ran wide on his final lap.
The error meant Alonso had to ...Keep reading
Near the end of Q2, Russell and Hamilton were starting flying laps when the former moved to the inside of the pit straight to grab a tow from Ferrari's Carlos Sainz, and then moved back onto the racing line.
But Russell appeared to be unaware that Hamilton behind him was also on a flyer and was about to overtake him on the outside when his team-mate inadvertently closed the door.
Hamilton ...Keep reading
As championship leader, Sutton was running the minimum hybrid boost allowance of one second per lap at a minimum speed of 135mph on his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST, yet he was still able to put himself at the front.
The achievement means that the NAPA Racing-liveried Focus squad has headed qualifying at all four rounds so far this season.
Free practice pacesetter Josh Cook had ...Keep reading
Ferrari's qualifying bid was derailed by team-mate Charles Leclerc's undiagnosed car issue that got the Monegasque driver eliminated in Q1 for the first time this season.
But in front of his Spanish fans, Sainz had a much stronger afternoon by taking second place behind the untouchable Red Bull of world champion Max Verstappen.
"It was very good today, I felt like I was driving very well," ...Keep reading
Pascal Vasselon, Toyota Gazoo Racing’s technical director, said the decision of WEC rule makers the FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest to unilaterally make revisions outside the scope of the new BoP rules introduced for 2023 has set an unwelcome precedent.
“We can say that we have been surprised that the regulations have changed without the agreement of all the manufacturers,” ...Keep reading
In a briefly red-flagged Q1 session, Leclerc reported a problem with his rear tyres over the radio as he struggled to hook up a solid qualifying lap.
After fumbling his first flyer, Leclerc was under pressure to secure a Q2 spot in the final seconds of the session, but he could do no better than 19th while team-mate Carlos Sainz sailed through in fourth.
Afterwards, Leclerc said he didn't ...Keep reading
Verstappen will start ahead of Sainz and Lando Norris (McLaren) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.
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Spots of rain falling ahead of Q1 led to that segment featuring many offs and a red flag – with Fernando Alonso picking up damage in an incident that meant he was not a pole threat.
In the other Red Bull, Sergio Perez was knocked out in Q2 after he too went off the track in what were tricky conditions throughout the session.
In a fully dry Q3, Verstappen was the sole runner to take new ...Keep reading
The Ulsterman ended practice week the fastest rider of all with an unofficial lap record of 135.531mph, with Dunlop also leading the Supersport times in qualifying.
Dunlop was only briefly headed in the four-lap contest, before ultimately winning by 12.3 seconds from Peter Hickman.
The race was delayed by three hours owing to a serious road traffic accident on the mountain this morning, but ...Keep reading
Having raced on nearby Belle Isle Island from 1992, Penske Entertainment Corp decided to revive the downtown circuit for the IndyCar event with a new 1.7-mile, nine-turn layout in the shadow of the General Motors Renaissance Center.
Teams and drivers got their second taste of the circuit in a 45-minute session on Saturday morning, the lack of grip evident when Andretti Autosport’s Colton ...Keep reading
Cassidy struggled to seventh in the first of two FE races in Indonesia, failing to make much in-roads from 10th on the grid in his Jaguar-powered Envision car despite saving his final Attack Mode activation in hope of a late charge.
With title rival Pascal Wehrlein winning the race after qualifying a strong third, Cassidy’s lead in the championship has been slashed from 20 points to just two ...Keep reading
The Prema Racing driver extended his lead in the standings in Saturday’s sprint - having lined up third - after winning the feature race in Monaco last weekend.
He took second from Jak Crawford (Hitech) around the outside of Turn 1, briefly making contact, before passing polesitter Amaury Cordeel (Invicta Virtuosi) for the lead on the second lap.
Despite the tricky conditions, Vesti was ...Keep reading
Having raced on nearby Belle Isle Island from 1992, Penske Entertainment Corp decided to revive the downtown circuit for its IndyCar event with a new 1.7-mile, nine-turn layout in the shadow of the General Motors Renaissance Centre.
It utilises some sections of the 2.5-mile track used by Formula 1 between 1982 and 1988, and teams and drivers got their first taste of the circuit in a 90-minute ...Keep reading
Tanak’s Ford Puma initially ground to a halt after running through a water splash in sight of the finish on stage 10. The 2019 world champion lost 20 seconds as the car stalled, although he was able to engage EV mode briefly to finish the stage.
Once across the finish line the Puma suffered a complete electrical system blackout caused by water entering the car.
Tanak was sitting in sixth ...Keep reading
The West Countryman, the BTCC wins record holder at Thruxton, comfortably headed both of the 35-minute sessions in his One Motorsport Honda Civic Type R, raising anticipation that the Brackley squad could be on the verge of turning the tide from its disappointing start to the season.
Cook emerged from the pits in the first session when the green lights were switched on with five minutes ...Keep reading
Evans and Bird were running in eighth and ninth positions with just three laps to go in Indonesia when Bird misjudged his braking into Turn 1, hitting the back of the Kiwi’s car.
The contact between the Jaguars was gentle but it was enough to pitch Evans into a spin and into the barriers, putting him out of the race.
Bird survived the contact and looked set to salvage some points for ...Keep reading
Teams were braced for inclement weather, with thunderstorms fast approaching Barcelona from the Pyrenees in the north.
The session started on dry-weather tyres, but spots of rain were soon reported around the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
That completely disturbed the teams' usual run programmes in FP3, with all drivers rushing out of the pits at the drop of the green flag to get some ...Keep reading
Steiner was outspoken ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix in expressing his annoyance about why Nico Hulkenberg was handed a penalty for an opening-lap collision at the Monaco Grand Prix.
He thinks it was unfair for Hulkenberg to be sanctioned for what he felt was a non-incident, when other drivers had got away with much worse.
"Lap one: we get a penalty for what I think is not a collision," ...Keep reading
Having recovered from a poor start that had dropped him from second to fourth, Dennis launched an attack on Wehrlein for the lead of the race going into Turn 1 on lap 24 of 36.
But the Porsche driver moved to the right to cover the inside line, forcing Dennis to back off in order to avoid contact, and nearly lose a position to Maserati MSG's Maximilian Gunther in the process.
Dennis kept the ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion started the loop 0.1s adrift but ended with an 18.2s lead after the pair enjoyed a thrilling battle before Lappi's challenge began to unravel in the final two stages.
Hyundai's Thierry Neville maintained third spot, 6.5s behind Lappi, while world champion Kalle Rovanpera headed to service in fourth, 1m03.5s in arrears.
Toyota's Elfyn Evans was forced to nurse ...Keep reading
The Monaco Grand Prix weekend lifted the lid on the underfloor designs of the Mercedes and Red Bull cars as they were craned away following accidents for Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez.
Teams are very secretive about these designs as they can't be seen under normal circumstances, and therefore snapshots of the floors generated a frenzy over the Monaco weekend.
Mercedes technical director ...Keep reading
Racing at TT 2023 was due to get underway at 11:45am with the opening Supersport race of the week, followed at 2:15pm by the first Sidecar contest of the event.
There was also meant to be a one-lap solo warm-up session at 10:30am, with roads closing around the 37.75-mile course at 10am.
TT organisers announced this morning that the schedule for Saturday has been delayed by an hour due to a ...Keep reading
The Maranello-based team has moved away from the bathtub in-wash sidepod concept it has used since the start of 2022 to a more Red Bull-style downwash solution for this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix.
While the team was long convinced that its original sidepod design was competitive, analysis of its current situation in F1 has highlighted that changing approach has more potential to deliver gains ...Keep reading
Prema driver O’Sullivan lined up on pole and despite his Hitech rival getting close to a move at Turn 1, held onto the lead.
The safety car was almost immediately deployed, but O’Sullivan held firm on the restart, with an early jump allowing him to maintain the lead.
Despite several more challenges from Browning and another safety car interruption on lap 16, O’Sullivan was able to ...Keep reading
Wehrlein moved into the lead of the race early on after passing both Jake Dennis and polesitter Maximilian Gunther, and then held off the duo in the closing laps to clinch his third victory of the season.
Lining up third at the start, Wehrlein made a rapid getaway from the cleaner side of the grid to immediately jump Dennis’ Andretti, before challenging the Maserati MSG of Gunther for the ...Keep reading
Hulkenberg, who has not raced at Barcelona since 2019 with Renault, ended the second practice session on Friday afternoon behind only Fernando Alonso and Red Bull pacesetter Max Verstappen.
The returning German, who was still yet to take the 170mph final corner flat out, eventually posted a 1m14.177s as he ran 0.27s off the pace. A margin of 0.536s covered the following 12 cars down to his ...Keep reading
Miller signed a two-year factory deal with KTM when Ducati elected to move him out of its works team set-up in favour of Enea Bastianini.
The Australian was offered a chance to remain at Ducati, but only on a one-year deal at Pramac.
Miller, who was runner-up in the 2014 Moto3 world championship with KTM, has made an instant impression on the Austrian marque in 2023 having scored two podiums ...Keep reading
The Barcelona running is significant because Pirelli only has one more session with its 2024 tyres – after the British Grand Prix at Silverstone with Red Bull among those taking part – before the FIA makes a final call on whether to push ahead with the original plan to run without blankets next season.
The rules currently say that blankets will be retained for 2024, and the decision on ...Keep reading
For the first time since 2006, the championship will cut out the oft-maligned low-speed Turn 14-15 left-right chicane and will revert to the two high-speed open right handers to complete the lap.
This has increased the final-corner apex speed up to 170mph, with the aim being to allow drivers to follow more closely onto the main straight to slipstream and mount an overtake.
While single-car ...Keep reading
Loubet endured an eventful Friday at the rough gravel event which ultimately ended with a crash on stage seven.
The Frenchman started the day strongly, running as high as third overall after the morning loop.
However, his rally began to unravel when he suffered a gear selection issue at the start of stage five that prevented the 2019 WRC2 champion from starting on time, resulting in a ...Keep reading
The new composites department will be housed in the factory McLaren used before its move the gigantic MTC facility two miles from central Woking in 2003, and it is set to open for production later this summer.
The team considers the investments in its new manufacturing process to be on a par with its other major infrastructure upgrades also set to be completed soon, including its new MTC-housed ...Keep reading
Having been quickest in the two practice sessions across Friday evening and Saturday morning, Gunther was also untouchable in qualifying as he defeated Andretti’s Jake Dennis with a time of 1m08.141s.
Gunther was able to pull an advantage of 0.368s in the early stages of the final, with Dennis only fractionally closing the gap in the second sector of the track.
The gap between the two ...Keep reading
Having raced on nearby Belle Isle Island from 1992, Penske Entertainment Corp decided to revive the downtown circuit for the IndyCar event with a new 1.7-mile, nine-turn layout in the shadow of the General Motors Renaissance Center.
It utilises some sections of the 2.5-mile track used by Formula 1 between 1982 and 1988.
Teams and drivers got their first taste of the circuit in a 90-minute ...Keep reading
The eight-time world rally champion was largely in command during Friday morning’s loop of stages, winning two of the three tests to open up a 16.3s lead over Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi.
The highlight of the loop was a faultless first run through Monte Lerno (49.9km), where he was 12.7s faster than anyone else.
However, wet weather dominated the afternoon loop which Ogier’s feels caught ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen and Red Bull did as they have for the rest of Formula 1 2023 so far and dominated the opening day of practice at Barcelona, quickest by a big margin over long runs and topping the times overall.
The field appears very close behind, however, and there is hope – quite a bit from Red Bull’s rivals and surely for neutral observers too – that forecast wet weather could shake-up ...Keep reading
The Finn revealed in the buildup to the rally that he intended to try an experimental set-up he’d discovered in testing prior to the event.
After winning Thursday night’s super special, Lappi started the day with a 0.2s lead over Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier. But he ended Friday morning 16.3s behind Ogier, electing for a more hard tyre focused strategy in the morning’s 49.9km ...Keep reading
Mahindra and Rowland came to a “mutual agreement” to part ways last week, one-and-a-half years after the British driver joined the squad for the final Gen2 season in 2022.
It left Mahindra in a rush to look for a replacement, with former Formula 1 driver Merhi eventually chosen to take his place at the team for this weekend’s double header in Indonesia.
Bertrand revealed that Mahindra ...Keep reading
Following his victory in Monaco last weekend, Verstappen carried on where he left off by clocking the fastest times in both free practice sessions at the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona on Friday.
After gapping the field by 0.768s in FP1, Verstappen improved his best effort to a 1m13.907s in the afternoon as the only driver to dip under the 1m14s bracket.
Laptimes have improved significantly ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion endured a difficult opening day of practice at Barcelona, as Mercedes had its first proper run on a regular circuit of new upgrades following their introduction in Monaco.
Hamilton ended second practice 11th fastest overall, 0.642 seconds adrift of pace setter Max Verstappen, with team-mate George Russell less than two-tenths quicker in eighth.
But with the ...Keep reading
Verstappen, who led both Friday practice sessions, was one of many F1 drivers to give Barcelona's tweaked layout the thumbs up.
Ahead of the 2007 edition the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya was slowed down with a tight final chicane, which drastically reduced speeds through the right-hander leading onto the start-finish straight.
In addition to safety concerns, the original change was made in ...Keep reading
The Ulsterman did so by setting a new unofficial lap record of 135.531mph, though because it was posted in practice it doesn’t count on the official statistics.
The current outright lap record belongs to Peter Hickman, who posted a 135.452mph average lap speed in 2018.
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Ferrari opted for the in-wash bathtub solution, Mercedes had its zeropods, and Red Bull went for a downwash idea.
As time has gone by, most of the grid have picked up the downwash route and pushed their development in that direction.
Last weekend Mercedes finally relented too, with its upgrade package at Monaco moving to its version of that solution. Now, in Spain, Ferrari has shifted in ...Keep reading
Verstappen was fastest in both FP1 and FP2, but Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso got to within 0.17s of the championship leader in the latter.
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At the start of the 60-minute session, AlphaTauri’s Nyck de Vries set the first-place benchmark at 1m17.918s during the opening laps using the prototype compound construction set to become standard across Pirelli’s range from the upcoming British GP, which several other runners sampled early on too.
But Alonso, Valtteri Bottas and Esteban Ocon all then cycled through to temporarily head the ...Keep reading
Eight-time world champion Ogier took a 16.3s lead over Lappi heading into the afternoon's three stages after winning two of the three morning tests, held in largely dry conditions. However, Lappi starred in the wet to grab the rally lead on the final stage of the day, despite picking up a left rear puncture.
Lappi's team-mate Thierry Neuville headed to the service in third, 18.6s adrift after a ...Keep reading
Alonso was in a fight for victory with Max Verstappen during last weekend's race, and had a clear opportunity to move to the front during the critical pitstop phase as the rain came in.
However, when Alonso did go for his first stop, he elected to stick to slicks as he and the team were sceptical that the rain would last.
The move proved to be an error, as the downpour got immediately worse ...Keep reading
The official existing lap record around the 37.75-mile TT course stands at 135.452mph set by Peter Hickman in the 2018 Senior race.
As practice came to a close for TT 2023 ahead of the first race day on Saturday, Dunlop on his Hawk Racing Honda unofficially set the fastest ever lap of the mountain course with 135.531 mph on his final lap of the Superbike/Superstock session.
Coming into ...Keep reading
The porpoising sensation that many thought had been left in the 1980s returned to the series during the early part of 2022 upon the rejig of the regulations that heralded the return of ground effects.
Porpoising occurs when, the faster a car travels, the more the air passing over pushes it closer to the track. But when it begins to touch the surface, the underfloor airflow stalls to slash ...Keep reading
Marshall, who held the chief engineering officer title at Red Bull, will join McLaren in January as technical director, engineering and design.
Only two months ago, when McLaren announced a restructuring based on three technical directors, that job was given to Neil Houldey.
After it became apparent that Marshall could join the team, Houldey agreed to step aside and become his ...Keep reading
With a long and wide-ranging CV in off-road racing and other disciplines, it’s fair to say that Tanner Foust has experienced many interesting tracks during his highly-decorated motorsport career. From drift racing to hillclimb, rallycross and Extreme E, Foust has seen it all. And perhaps unsurprisingly given his three rallycross titles across the GRC and ARX series, it’s his passion for the ...Keep reading
The current Barcelona venue has been on the calendar since 1991 and for this year, the final chicane has been ditched in favour of a return to high-speed Turns 13-14. This tweak has been devised to boost overtaking.
The last time the series used this configuration was in 2006.
But starting from the 2026 season, plans are afoot to devise a street race in the Spanish capital, Madrid. F1 CEO ...Keep reading
Hyundai driver Sordo was struggling for grip before going off the road less than two kilometres from the end of the extended 49.9km stage four, introduced for the 20th anniversary of Italy's World Rally Championship event.
Sitting sixth overall, Sordo was fighting for grip from his hard tyres when he slid off the road at tight left-hander. The Spaniard elected to push on in the hope it would ...Keep reading
To select our top 10, we looked at how well the drivers got on at Le Mans, the circumstances of their failures, and the amount of success scored elsewhere.
We’ve excluded current drivers, which means triple Le Mans polesitter and five-time overall podium finisher Stephane Sarrazin isn’t quite eligible, even though he hasn’t contested the 24 Hours since 2019. However, since we first ...Keep reading
Verstappen set his headline time halfway through FP1 as the Red Bulls proved to be on the pace straight away, and looked untouchable in a warning shot to his rivals as they hope to end the Milton Keynes squad's monopoly on race wins in 2023.
This was F1's first session at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya without the much-derided final chicane since 2006, making Fernando Alonso the only driver ...Keep reading
Former Formula 2 racer Hughes moved to Formula E this year with McLaren, having previously acted as a reserve driver for the British-based team in 2021-22 when it was owned and operated by Mercedes.
He made an immediate impression in the championship by qualifying third on his debut in Mexico City and finishing fifth in the race, with his stock rising further when he took pole in only his third ...Keep reading
As the championship enters its closing phase, the contenders for the drivers' title are beginning to become clear with the top five in the standings all representing different teams.
For Nick Cassidy (Envision Racing), Pascal Wehrlein (Porsche), Jake Dennis (Avalanche Andretti), Mitch Evans (Jaguar) and Jean-Éric Vergne (DS Penske) - and also for a few others- there is still everything to play ...Keep reading
The Mexican lost major ground to Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen in the championship in Monaco last weekend, after an unnecessary crash in Q1 left him at the back of the grid.
After failing to make much progress in the race as he got caught up in incidents, he is now facing a 39-point deficit to Verstappen in the standings ahead of this weekend's Spanish GP.
Perez feels it was important ...Keep reading
Ayumu Iwasa has had, by all accounts, a fantastic start to 2023. The second-year DAMS Formula 2 driver has taken three wins and one pole position already, giving him the most victories of anybody and a placing of third in the standings after five rounds.
The Japanese youngster won two titles in as many years in 2019 and 2020 and was subsequently snapped up by Honda as part of its Formula ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver, returning to the World rally Championship after sitting out last month’s visit to Portugal, won two of three gruelling gravel stages to head to midday service with a 16.3s lead.
M-Sport’s Pierre-Louis Loubet drove around an engine issue to sit third (+22.0s), with Toyota’s Elfyn Evans, fourth (+25.9s) and team-mate Takamoto Katsuta, fifth (+30.1s). Hyundai’s Thierry ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer hopes that this weekend's event at Barcelona will deliver a better opportunity to understand the true potential of its car overhaul than it was able to gauge at Monaco.
With the tight and twisty Monte Carlo layout making it almost impossible to get clear data on the progress made, the high-speed aero demands of Barcelona should better allow a clear picture to ...Keep reading
Gunther lapped the 2.4km circuit in the Indonesia capital in 1m08.946s towards the end of the 30-minute session, edging out his team-mate Edoardo Mortara by 0.191s to claim the top spot.
The two Maserati MSG cars were quick from the onset, with Gunther setting the early pace on a 1m10.811s and Mortara backing up his team-mate in second.
A number of drivers then enjoyed stints at the top of ...Keep reading
Red Bull stole a march on the rest of the field with the 2022 ground-effect regulations and is set to dominate the series for the second year in a row with an even bigger advantage over its rivals Ferrari, Mercedes and Aston Martin.
As with previous eras of dominance, such as Mercedes' unstoppable streak at the start of the turbo hybrid era, critics have suggested that Red Bull's supremacy is ...Keep reading
With temperatures expected to hit 34 degrees Celsius in the Indonesian capital, and the humidity expected to rise to as much as 70%, drivers are bracing themselves for what they believe will be the most physically demanding weekend of the season.
Several drivers on the grid already have experience racing in such extreme conditions from Formula E's maiden visit to Jakarta in 2022, but the ...Keep reading
While acknowledging that Aston is bringing updates on a regular basis, the Spaniard cited recent major changes from Ferrari, Mercedes and Red Bull as a warning that his team had to keep pace.
Aston brought its first upgrade package for the AMR23 to Monaco as a legacy of the cancelled Emilia Romagna Grand Prix pushing back the introduction of new parts.
For the principality race, Aston ...Keep reading
In the wake of personal frustration over his driver Nico Hulkenberg earning a penalty at the Monaco Grand Prix that has left him confused, Steiner believes a system overhaul is required.
He thinks the FIA system of using unpaid stewards is no longer fit for purpose, and believes it is time for professionals to be brought in and help deliver improved consistency.
“I think we have to just go ...Keep reading
At the French Grand Prix last month, over 278,000 spectators attended the extraordinary Le Mans. Moreover, it confirmed Ducati's dominance in the world of two-wheeled racing.
France, where Ducati achieved five podiums out of six possible and two victories with Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi, was also the launch pad for the brand's first electrified motorcycle, which will serve as prototypes ...Keep reading
A return to the previous high-speed final sector, last used by the championship in 2006, has shortened the lap by 18 metres. The change was conceived to boost overtaking possibilities.
This comes amid complaints of stale racing so far this year, claims that have been exacerbated by shortened DRS zones in Miami and Azerbaijan and teams using robust hard tyres to execute one-stop ...Keep reading
Ferrucci, who finished third in last weekend’s Indianapolis 500, took some laps around the street course layout – which will be used for the first time this weekend – in his Chevrolet Tahoe SUV in the off-season.
The 1.7-mile, nine-turn circuit features a huge straight on one of Detroit’s most famous streets and, unique in IndyCar, a split pitlane.
“That place looks phenomenal,” ...Keep reading
The Finn successfully navigated the 3.23km test, held across a mix of tarmac and gravel surfaces in host city Olbia, to clock a time 0.2s faster than M-Sport’s Ott Tanak.
"This is fun. You have enough space, it's wide enough, you can play with the car,” said Lappi, who is planning to run a measured gamble on set-up for this weekend’s rally.
“On the gravel you just go fully sideways ...Keep reading
As reported by Autosport earlier, Ferrari is abandoning its long-running in-wash style sidepod concept for a Red Bull-style downwash design.
As our exclusive images show, the new Ferrari sidepods are a total revamp of what the SF-23 has run with so far.
The new version does away with the bathtub central section that has been a hallmark of the Ferrari cars since the start of 2022.
Instead ...Keep reading
Mercedes’ long-awaited developments to the sidepods of its W14 challenger – plus new suspension arrangement, tweaked floor, rear wing and rear brake winglets – finally appeared at last weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix, having initially been expected to run at Imola before that race was cancelled.
Evaluating upgrades at Monaco is notoriously difficult given the track’s unique layout, low ...Keep reading
During a dry first stint of a mixed-weather Monaco race, Sainz was wedged in between third-placed Esteban Ocon and Lewis Hamilton when the latter was called into the pits by Mercedes on lap 33.
Ferrari opted to respond by bringing Sainz in on the next lap to avoid an undercut by Hamilton.
But in doing so, it also gave up the possibility of challenging Ocon for third, which would have been ...Keep reading
Alfa Romeo is ending its current title arrangement with Sauber at the end of this season and has not yet finalised whether or not it will continue any involvement in F1.
At the Monaco Grand Prix, a meeting between Haas team boss Guenther Steiner and Alfa Romeo CEO Jean-Philippe Imparato prompted suggestions that the team and car maker were set for a title sponsorship arrangement in ...Keep reading
Costello was due to contest the Supertwins and Sidecar class at the 2023 TT, having made her debut in the latter in 2019.
She made history in 2019 when she became the first female competitor ever to finish both a solo race and a Sidecar contest at the same TT.
Costello had linked up with FHO Racing – who run Peter Hickman in the big bike classes – for her Sidecar campaign at the 2023 ...Keep reading
Esteban Ocon started and finished third in the principality, while Gasly took seventh despite being frustrated by making a stop for dry tyres shortly before the rain came.
The Monaco performance came after disappointing weekends for the team in Bahrain and Baku, and the ensuing public criticism from Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi.
"I'll say I see more smiles," Gasly said when asked by Autosport if ...Keep reading
The 27-day wait between the last Formula E round and this weekend’s Jakarta E-Prix double-header has been a long one for Porsche following its worst event of the season.
Neither Pascal Wehrlein nor Antonio Felix da Costa finished in the points on the road in Monte Carlo, and although the former was promoted to 10th after a post-race penalty for Sam Bird, the one point was scant consolation ...Keep reading
The Hinwil outfit currently lies eighth in the constructors’ championship, with Bottas only logging points when he finished eighth in the opening race in Bahrain.
Bottas admits he has re-evaluated his goals for this season, and switched his focus from achieving specific results to helping the team make progress in what he says is a “challenging” year.
“[We're] definitely we're not ...Keep reading
The manoeuvre first appeared in 2019, when Simon Pagenaud used the tactic to keep his rivals at bay on the way to victory for Team Penske.
In recent years, it has become more prevalent – with some drivers swerving wildly off Turn 4 and into the pitlane entrance to deter those following from using their slipstream. Josef Newgarden used the move to help him to stay ahead of Marcus Ericsson ...Keep reading
Nicholls has been the voice of Formula E since the championship began back in 2014 and has provided commentary for BBC Radio 5 Live on Formula 1 since 2016.
Ahead of the Jakarta E-Prix double-header this weekend, Formula E confirmed that Nicholls would step down from his role with immediate effect but cited no reason for the split.
It has subsequently emerged that Nicholls was sacked after ...Keep reading
Slater has been the class of the Ginetta Junior field this year, utterly dominating the opposition and winning seven of the nine races to date.
But it could easily have been a 100% success record, had Slater not received track-limits penalties in one race at each of the Silverstone and Donington events.
Nevertheless, he has still shot up Autosport's winners' table, rising five places into ...Keep reading
The Italian outfit is bidding to turn around a disappointing start to the campaign where it has especially struggled with the race pace of its new SF-23.
But as it gets ready to introduce a raft of updates for this weekend's race at Barcelona, sources have revealed that one key area of change will be in its sidepod concept.
The team has made good use of an inwash solution since the launch of ...Keep reading
The 2020 championship runner-up has endured a torrid spell in MotoGP since the 2021 season when he lost most of the campaign to a knee injury while also stepping up to the factory Yamaha squad midway through the year.
His form failed to improve in 2022 as Yamaha started to slip behind its rivals, with the Italian scoring just 42 points and a best result of seventh in the wet Indonesian Grand ...Keep reading
Sardinia is renowned for producing rough gravel stages but a revised route for this weekend’s 20th anniversary event is set to deliver perhaps the toughest conditions of the season.
Four-time Sardinia winner Sebastien Ogier, returning to the championship this weekend after sitting out Portugal, is expecting a gruelling rally after likening the stages to those seen in Kenya, which has earned a ...Keep reading
With Honda now confirmed at Aston Martin, seven teams either have an internal supply or a works partner, counting both RBR and AlphaTauri as recipients of the Ford-backed unit being developed by Red Bull Powertrains. There are no works deals left for McLaren, Williams or Haas to take.
Aston Martin team principal Mike Krack cautioned recently that a works partner would be crucial in 2026 as the ...Keep reading
The Monte Carlo weekend proved to be an eye-opener for teams as the often well-hidden underside of some of the top contenders – including the Red Bull and Mercedes – were shown off as cars were retrieved on cranes.
Lewis Hamilton's crash in final practice at Mirabeau and Sergio Perez's accident in qualifying at Ste. Devote both required their car to be lifted high off the track, revealing ...Keep reading
Last year’s runner-up to Red Bull has now slipped behind Aston Martin and Mercedes to fourth in the constructors’ championship ahead of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix.
Unlike rivals who chose to bring major upgrade packages anyway to the unrepresentative Monaco lap following the cancellation of the Emilia Romagna GP, Ferrari instead opted to hold off its bodywork upgrades scheduled for ...Keep reading
The 2019 world champion has been struggling to unlock the set-up sweet spot in his Puma this season which has hampered the Estonian’s pace outright pace.
In Portugal last month, Tanak identified that the car’s suspension was an area earmarked for improvement. Since the event, M-Sport’s suspension supplier Reiger has provided upgraded components which were run for the first time during the ...Keep reading
The new tyres are a response by Pirelli to increasing downforce levels and cornering loads, and represent a fast-tracking of a construction that was originally intended for 2024.
Some teams have already tried the new spec in “blind” 2024 testing, but Barcelona will be an opportunity for everyone to run the definitive versions, with each driver getting two extra sets of C1 tyres to be used ...Keep reading
When it was clear McLaren had missed its targets for the start of the season, it decided to roll out a three-pronged upgrade plan to get the MCL60 to the level the team believes it should be, having debuted a draggy specification in Bahrain.
The first package of updates was launched in Baku, and while the team was satisfied it produced the expected results and correlated well with its wind ...Keep reading
They revealed their intent to revise the BoP for the double-points round of the World Endurance Championship to the manufacturers on Wednesday, Autosport has learned, just four days before the cars are due on track for the Le Mans Test Day on Sunday.
The changes were presented by the FIA and the ACO as a done deal and there was no attempt to gain the unanimous agreement that in theory was ...Keep reading
In the hands of Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin has been the surprise package of the 2023 F1 season, with Alonso sitting third in the standings behind Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.
The two-time world champion also kept Aston Martin one point ahead of Mercedes in the constructors' championship with five podiums in sixth races.
Last weekend, only a stunning final sector allowed Verstappen to ...Keep reading
The championship has been pushing for a meeting with the series’ drivers to discuss the future direction of the category following Thierry Neuville’s comments in Portugal last month, where he declared the WRC needs to “change” to improve engagement with manufacturers, media and the fans.
A meeting was initially tabled to take place at this weekend’s Rally Sardinia but instead will ...Keep reading
The Silverstone squad - through its Force India, Racing Point and now Aston Martin guises - has used Mercedes power since 2009 to score one win, 14 podiums and two pole positions.
Aston Martin’s coming switch to Honda marks the first time a customer has broken ties with Mercedes since 2014.
But this decision is due to the benefits that a works deal gives Aston Martin, rather than any ...Keep reading
After Peter Hickman notched up a 132mph lap on his FHO Racing BMW Superbike on Tuesday evening, Harrison raised the game for practice week in 2023 on Wednesday.
Wednesday’s running began with the Superbike and Superstock class session, with Hickman leading the pack away on his Superstock machine for two laps.
Harrison set off behind him on his DAO Racing Kawasaki Superbike, and set the ...Keep reading
Toyota, Ferrari, Cadillac and Porsche have all had their minimum weights raised for the centrepiece round of the World Endurance Championship on 10/11 June.
The biggest weight increase is for the Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar, which won the opening three rounds of the 2023 WEC.
It has been hit with a 37kg increase, while the Porsche 963 LMDh has had its minimum weight increased by ...Keep reading
Last weekend the team had its best weekend of the year as Esteban Ocon qualified third and Pierre Gasly seventh, and subsequently finished in the same positions.
Permane insisted the latest updates have helped to find performance and that Ocon’s result was achieved on merit, albeit helped by a grid penalty for Charles Leclerc that handed him a place.
Asked what he expected for the ...Keep reading
With the addition of sprint races in 2023, after five rounds there have already been 10 races completed, with three different riders winning the sprints and the grands prix.
Heading into next weekend’s Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, Francesco Bagnaia’s points lead over Marco Bezzecchi stands at just one as the reigning champion has suffered three DNFs in the first five GPs.
FEATURE: Why ...Keep reading
“We often say that the best drivers are perhaps not the ones driving, but those that have never had the opportunity,” says 2001 world rally champion co-driver and FIA deputy president Robert Reid, as he watches on as FIA Rally Star finalists strap themselves into a Ford Fiesta Rally3 car, for a first taste in remote Sardinia.
It’s a statement that perfectly explains why the FIA has ...Keep reading
The 1997 Formula 1 world champion explained in a statement issued on Wednesday that he had yet to receive any communication from the team regarding last week’s announcement that Tristan Vautier would be joining the Hypercar class squad in his place.
Villeneuve, 52, expressed disappointment with the former ByKolles team’s decision to bring in Vautier to share the Vanwall-Gibson 680 Le Mans ...Keep reading
“And, if you look to your right, you’ll see a GT3 car in its natural environment”. OK, so no one actually said that to this writer’s knowledge, but it certainly wouldn’t have been an out of place statement at Donington Park last weekend.
The reason being that the British GT Championship had put on a Circuit Safari, whereby a Routemaster double-decker bus took some lucky passengers ...Keep reading
The original series, which was launched in 2005, was generally regarded as successful. It attracted good teams and talented drivers – Nico Hulkenberg used it as a key stepping stone to Formula 1 – and the concept of nations battling each other was popular with fans.
However it didn’t work out in commercial terms, and the whole thing collapsed in 2009. Initial attempts to revive it with ...Keep reading
F1 is continuing its mission to broaden its audience with bespoke coverage from the Hungaroring designed to capture the imagination of children.
The UK broadcast will feature presenters of the Sky Kids show FYI, Braydon and Scarlett, and go-karter Zac, who will join 2016 F1 champion Nico Rosberg and Danica Patrick to create F1 Juniors.
The series will create a dedicated International Feed ...Keep reading
The chicane before the last corner has been removed from the layout creating a high-speed run through what are now Turns 13 and 14 that puts extra stress on the tyres.
Tyre management has been a key issue in F1 this season, with some teams struggling more than others, and Red Bull showing clear superiority over rivals at most venues.
“I think the left front will be crying for the whole ...Keep reading
The way that stranded cars are retrieved by marshals in Monaco, by being lifted high on cranes rather than on the back of low loaders, meant several stricken machines had their undersides revealed in all their glory after incidents.
Just hours after the Mercedes W14 floor was shown off following Lewis Hamilton’s crash in final practice, Red Bull had to endure its own car’s secrets being put ...Keep reading
There were a pair manufacturers at the 1991 Le Mans 24 Hours trying to make it two wins from two starts at the French classic. Jaguar was aiming to repeat its 1990 triumph, while Mercedes was looking to follow up on its 1989 victory after a year away. Then there was Porsche with the factory-backed Joest team and its flotilla of privateers, 15 Group C cars in total.
Peugeot had arrived with a ...Keep reading
Jonny Adam and James Cottingham became the first pairing to claim two wins in British GT this season, their success allowing them to regain the lead in the championship as just 12 points cover the top four crews.
The 2 Seas Motorsport entry never dropped out of contention during the two-hour contest at Donington Park, sailing through to another victory as other leading protagonists made ...Keep reading
After years where McLaren had pinned belief of a turnaround of fortunes in F1 on improved facilities and revised management structures, it is clear it is no longer simply sitting back and hoping for the best.
Instead, McLaren CEO Zak Brown and newly appointed team principal Andrea Stella have got their elbows out and accepted that if they didn’t take action – and plot an entirely new course ...Keep reading
Sardinia is renowned for its brutal rough gravel stages that test the WRC drivers and cars to the limit, and this year marks the event's 20-year anniversary.
Toyota’s Kalle Rovanpera heads to the Italian island leading the championship by 17 points after scoring a much-needed victory in Portugal last month, ending a drought since lifting the 2022 world title in October ...Keep reading
Lowther made his TT debut in the Sidcear class in 2014 and stood on the podium in 2019.
After driver Alan Founds was seriously injured at Brands Hatch in a crash last year, neither could contest in the 2022 TT – which was the event’s comeback after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID pandemic.
Ahead of Tuesday’s second day of qualifying practice, Founds posted on his Facebook page ...Keep reading
Elliott and Hamlin were battling for position just 15 laps shy of halfway when Hamlin pushed up the track, causing Elliott to hit the outside wall.
Elliott then appeared to turn down the track into the right-rear fender of Hamlin's car, sending him head-on into the outside wall in a violent crash that eliminated both drivers from the race.
Although Elliott said it wasn't intentional ...Keep reading
Leclerc overcame a three-place grid penalty for blocking Lando Norris in qualifying to score sixth in his home race last weekend but made the SF-23 out to be “very difficult to drive in traffic”.
Team-mate Carlos Sainz notably tagged Esteban Ocon and ran off at Mirabeau corner on his way to eighth.
Meanwhile, an upgraded floor for the previous Miami round was conceived to make the car ...Keep reading
And while the big-ticket items, such as the sidepods and front suspension, were obvious talking points, there were also some interesting detail changes that emerged too.
In terms of the new front suspension arrangement, the main change came to the pickup position at the chassis end on the lead arm of the upper wishbone.
The arm is now mounted on the top corner of the chassis, rather ...Keep reading
Speaking at Monday night’s Indy 500 Victory Celebration banquet, Kirkwood paid tribute to the AMR safety crew and all the medical team at IndyCar, having been trapped upside down after sliding along the track following the Turn 2 crash when he clipped a spinning Felix Rosenqvist.
The second year driver, who scored his maiden IndyCar win at this year's Long Beach round, was eventually ...Keep reading
Kanaan called time on his open-wheel racing career last weekend with his 390th start in US open-wheel racing since his graduation to Champ Car in 1998.
He agreed a one-race deal with Arrow McLaren to make a 22nd Indy 500 appearance after finishing third with Chip Ganassi Racing last season.
The 2004 IndyCar champion and 2013 Indy 500 winner bows out with a total of 17 wins at the premier ...Keep reading
The Australian followed ninth-placed team-mate Lando Norris over the line to record a double points finish for the team in a performance that passed without major error.
That was despite the treacherous wet conditions late on that notably caught out more experienced operators Sergio Perez and George Russell.
Piastri reckoned he survived the 78 laps without so much as grazing the barriers ...Keep reading
After three red flags, Newgarden decisively passed Marcus Ericsson in the one-lap shootout that decided Sunday's showpiece. A robust defence exiting Turn 4 ensured he held off Chip Ganassi Racing's defending winner to secure his first and team owner Roger Penske's 19th Indy 500 victory.
Analysis: How Newgarden rose to be a thorn to Ericsson’s double Indy 500 bid
Remarkably ...Keep reading
Marshall will leave reigning constructors’ champion Red Bull at the end of the 2023 season, although steps back from his current role with immediate effect, to bring his 17-year stint in Milton Keynes to an end.
In January 2024, Marshall – a former Renault designer who is credited with evolving the team’s innovative mass damper system that helped it to the 2005 and 2006 constructors’ ...Keep reading
Christened the Alpine A110 R Le Mans, the ORECA LMP2-based hybrid contender will be revealed on 7 June at the Circuit de la Sarthe ahead of the centenary edition of the French endurance classic.
It will succeed the Alpine A480-Gibson with which the French manufacturer competed in the WEC in 2021-22, before returning to the LMP2 class this year with an ORECA 07.
The A480 was an ORECA-built ...Keep reading
The Spaniard secured his best result of the season in the Monaco Grand Prix as he took second place behind Verstappen in the rain-affected race.
But although Alonso's fifth podium finish of the year has confirmed his spot as Red Bull’s main challenger, he has already slipped to 51 points adrift of Verstappen in the drivers’ standings.
The current advantage that Red Bull has ...Keep reading
Hindsight can be a wonderful thing. And there are certainly some decisions and actions Motorsport UK has taken in recent months surrounding the thorny issue of track limits that, with the benefit of hindsight, it admits could have been handled differently. It is reassuring to hear such honesty from the organisation’s CEO Hugh Chambers, even if it does not alter what has gone before.
But now ...Keep reading
The Invicta Virtuosi driver contracted a broken wing before spinning out at Massenet while running in fourth.
Upon his rear impact with the wall, his car burst into flames and prompted a red flag with half the road blocked.
Zane Maloney, who had been running behind Doohan for Rodin Carlin, had a near-miss but took evasive action.
Speaking after the race, the Alpine Academy member said he ...Keep reading
Van der Linde scored just five points across the two races at the 3.7km track in Germany, and his lack of one-lap pace was a particular cause of concern as he failed to qualify higher than 15th in his BMW M4 GT3.
His woes were compounded by a botched pitstop in Saturday’s opening contest, with the Schubert mechanics dropping his car off the jack while the front-left tyre was still to be ...Keep reading
Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver Hamlin was battling Elliott's Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet during Stage 2 when he drifted up the track and Elliott, on his outside, made contact with the Turn 4 wall.
Elliott then came down the track hooked Hamlin head-on into the outside wall on the front stretch. Both cars suffered terminal damage, but the drivers were checked and released from the ...Keep reading
The aforementioned timing is relevant because the result came just a few weeks after Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi surprised the paddock with strong criticism of his own team in a French TV interview, saying the team's performance was "unacceptable" and at times "amateurish".
The strong race in Monaco took some of the pressure away, and a clearly delighted Rossi was happy to be front and centre ...Keep reading
Concerned by the future direction of rallying and its ability to connect with manufacturers, 2016 Rally Argentina winner Hayden Paddon has embarked on a voyage of discovery.
In 2019, the Kiwi former Hyundai WRC driver began developing an all-electric Hyundai Kona rally car with his 10 person team in New Zealand. The sole goal is to prove the concept of high performance all-electric ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer introduced a major update at the Monaco Grand Prix, which included new sidepods, revised front suspension and floor tweaks.
While the nature of the Monte Carlo street track meant it was hard to gauge exactly how much of a step forward the new parts delivered, the team was encouraged by the first signs from the changes.
However, team principal Toto Wolff says that a ...Keep reading
Coming one day after Josef Newgarden won the Indianapolis 500 for Team Penske, Blaney won out in a race delayed one day by rain after beating William Byron's Hendrick Chevrolet at a restart with 20 laps to go.
Blaney and Byron had traded the lead multiple times during the race, with Byron having the added advantage of the first pit stall which repeatedly gave him the lead off pit ...Keep reading
The defending world champion is leading the standings heading into this weekend’s Italian round, but will face a tall order to repeat the drought-breaking victory he scored in Portugal last month.
His position atop the standings will mean Rovanpera will be disadvantaged by road cleaning on Sardinia’s rough and dusty stages.
The 22-year-old has also openly admitted that this event is ...Keep reading
De Vries has had a rough start to his F1 career, struggling to match team-mate Yuki Tsunoda in his first five F1 races after being signed to replace Pierre Gasly.
The 27-year-old Dutchman has suffered a spate of costly crashes while also failing to match the Japanese driver's pace both in qualifying and in races.
In Monaco De Vries reached Q2 for the second consecutive time as he cut the ...Keep reading
Rossi, who won the centenary Indy 500 in 2016, finished this year’s race in fifth position in his first start in the event for McLaren since his switch from Andretti Autosport.
He was particularly annoyed about a lap 101 restart, following the first caution of the day for Sting Ray Robb’s Turn 1 crash, when Marcus Ericsson swept past him and Rinus VeeKay around the outside of Turn 4, giving ...Keep reading
In a land that’s spawned perhaps more than its fair share of conspiracy theories – take your pick from JFK, the moon landings, 9/11 and what Donald Trump’s hair is made from – Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 produced a new one: It was fixed to allow track and series owner Roger Penske’s driver Josef Newgarden to win.
To countenance that belief, you’d have to completely discredit why ...Keep reading
Race control officials opted to throw the red flag on lap 198 after a multi-car collision coming to the green flag with four laps remaining, which left only time for a single-lap, green-white-checkered finish for cars that came straight from the pitlane.
That allowed Newgarden to pass last year’s winner Marcus Ericsson to triumph in America’s biggest open-wheel race at his 12th ...Keep reading
After the Emilia Romagna GP was cancelled due to flooding in the region, the Monaco GP welcomed F1 from another mini break with a dramatic race weekend full of talking points.
From Max Verstappen’s latest masterclass, to Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez’s nightmare in Monte Carlo, the principality witnessed a huge swing in the title fight towards the Dutchman as he now leads the standings by ...Keep reading
Monday marked the first day of a packed 2023 schedule that will see 10 races in total, eight of which coming in the solo classes.
An untimed practice kicked off proceedings in the morning, before the first qualifying sessions got underway at 2pm local time.
The first bikes on track this afternoon were the Supersport and Supertwins, with Dunlop leading both categories.
The Ulsterman, who ...Keep reading
Having started from seventh on the grid on the hard tyres Gasly rose up the order as others pitted, and by lap 44 he was in third place.
Up and down the pitlane drivers were being told that rain was expected but rather than have Gasly wait for a possible opportunity to switch straight to intermediates, the team called him in for medium tyres just a few laps before the rain hit.
He was thus ...Keep reading
Red Bull maintained its perfect victory sweep at the start of the 2023 season, with Max Verstappen’s commanding victory in last weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix.
But, as ever, there was plenty more to the overall event story – with Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin taking to the stage even more centrally than usual this season and Sergio Perez having an awful weekend that may have already blown ...Keep reading
Schubert BMW driver Rast was fighting with Engel for ninth position on the second lap of the race when he pushed his Landgraf Mercedes rival wide and over the grass at the exit of the Hasseroder right-hander.
Engel rejoined the track and tapped Rast’s M4 GT3, although it was Engel who took the worst of the hit as his car slewed sideways on the short dash towards the next ...Keep reading
Leclerc was penalised for impeding Lando Norris in the tunnel in Q3 after his team failed to warn him early enough about the fast-approaching McLaren driver.
The penalty dropped Leclerc from third on the grid to sixth, making his life much harder for Sunday’s race, in which he eventually finished in the same position.
Leclerc, who has regularly had bad luck in Monaco, tried to be positive ...Keep reading
O’Ward led the most laps in Sunday’s 107th running of America’s premier open-wheel race, and was at the front at a restart with eight laps to go.
But after one restart was waved off, for bringing the field to green too slowly, O’Ward was prone to attack when the race went green again.
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Ericsson and race winner Josef Newgarden of Team Penske passed him on the ...Keep reading
Starting from pole position, Preining put in a faultless drive in his Porsche 911 GT3 R, surviving two safety car restarts to lead into the final 10 minutes of the race.
A victory looked certain at this stage, with his closest rival Christian Engelhart circulating three seconds behind him in the Toksport WRT Porsche.
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For the majority of the 107th running of the Indianapolis 500, the race lived up to its grand billing as ‘The Greatest Spectacle in Racing’. Run at a searingly fast pace, and with just a couple of minor shunts to disrupt its flow, it became bogged down by a sequence of late-race, multi-car accidents and a trio of red flags. Its denouement was the Indy 2.5, a final-lap shootout straight out of ...Keep reading
The Red Bull driver lined up last for Sunday’s race, having crashed out of qualifying in Q1.
He went on to pit five times in a dismal race which saw him lapped twice by team-mate and race winner Max Verstappen, who now leads the championship by 39 points.
Despite it marking Perez’s first scoreless race of the season, the Mexican said his mistake was “very costly” and ...Keep reading
Ocon was fourth fastest in qualifying in the principality, lapping 0.188s shy of polesitter Max Verstappen. He then inherited a place when Charles Leclerc was penalised for blocking Lando Norris.
In the race, 2021 Hungarian GP winner Ocon held on against Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton during a rain-hit final stint to score his first podium of the season aboard the upgraded A523 machine ...Keep reading
The reigning F1 world champion produced a flawless performance on the streets of Monte Carlo as others faltered, most notably team-mate and chief title rival Sergio Perez who crashed in the first part of qualifying and finished a lowly 16th place.
Monaco had been pinpointed as Alonso’s best chance to end the Red Bull runaway train, but key pitstop calls and timings didn’t fall his way at ...Keep reading
Supercars has signed a two-year extension with the state government that will see Wanneroo Raceway continue to host the Perth SuperSprint.
The circuit has been a regular on the Supercars calendar since the early 1970s.
Previously the event was promoted by the WA Sporting Car Club, which owns and operates Wanneroo Raceway, however more recently Supercars has taken over the promotion ...Keep reading
Alonso switched from his hard tyres to mediums as the first signs of a shower hit some areas of the track.
After the rain intensified and spread over the whole circuit, he quickly came in again for intermediates.
Alonso held onto his second place, but Krack insists that had the Spaniard made a single stop instead of two he still wouldn’t have beaten race winner Max Verstappen.
He ...Keep reading
Sainz was incensed when Ferrari called him into the pits on lap 33, one lap after the Alpine of Esteban Ocon that he was shadowing during the entire first stint.
Despite a slow stop from Alpine, Sainz didn't manage to overcut the Frenchman and he felt Ferrari should have been more patient as he had more pace in hand on his tyres, which he had been able to save while being stuck behind the ...Keep reading
The 600-mile NASCAR Cup race was originally scheduled to go green at 6:21pm local time and cap a day of giant motorsports events following the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix and the Indianapolis 500.
Red Bull driver Max Verstappen claimed victory after surviving a mid-race shower in Monaco, while Team Penske's Josef Newgarden prevailed over Marcus Ericsson in a one-lap dash to decide the Indy ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing driver Ericsson was beaten to victory by Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden by 0.0974s after leading him to the green flag for a green-white-checkered finish.
Although Ericsson held the lead through Turn 1 and 2, Newgarden got a run to pass him on the backstretch into Turn 3, which proved to be the decisive move.
But Ericsson didn’t think the race should’ve been ...Keep reading
The race was halted for the first time with 14 laps remaining when Felix Rosenqvist (Arrow McLaren) crashed out of fourth place at Turn 1, clipping Kyle Kirkwood’s Andretti Autosport car which slammed into the wall and flipped over at Turn 2.
That set up an eight-lap sprint to the finish, but another red flag was required as Pato O’Ward (Arrow McLaren) clashed with Ericsson (Ganassi) and ...Keep reading
Russell looked like benefitting from a slow stop for Alpine's Esteban Ocon and a late call to intermediates for Ferrari's Carlos Sainz to climb to third as rain hit the principality in the final third of the race.
But after his pitstop for intermediates on lap 55, Russell appeared to get distracted by a yellow flag for a lapped Lance Stroll and joined the Aston Martin driver up the Mirabeau ...Keep reading
Sainz survived early contact with Alpine’s Esteban Ocon at the Nouvelle Chicane with minor front wing damage to keep the podium in sight through the opening half of the race.
On lap 33 of 78, Ocon suffered a slow stop as he switched to fresh mediums, with Ferrari opting to pit Sainz on the following tour in an attempt to utilise the overcut and cover off Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton, who was ...Keep reading
Initial drizzle in the second sector during the race's second half bloomed into heavier rain, which prompted a series of cars to make the leap onto the intermediate tyre in a bid to anticipate worsening conditions.
Valtteri Bottas and Lance Stroll led the switch, with Zhou Guanyu and Alex Albon following suit.
Alonso subsequently made his first trip to the pitlane at the end of the 54th lap ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton and George Russell bagged a 4-5 result to mark the debut of the heavily revised W14, which has now gained more conventional sidepods and new front suspension.
While the positions were unchanged, Russell was hit with a five-second penalty for rejoining the track in an unsafe manner as he made contact with Red Bull’s Sergio Perez at Mirabeau.
Although Hamilton had the pace in ...Keep reading
Polesitter Verstappen had built a comfortable lead over second-placed Alonso, but with rain looming the Aston Martin driver enjoyed a strategic advantage by starting on the hard tyre, while Verstappen began to struggle on worn mediums.
As the rain eventually hit and then intensified, Verstappen pitted on lap 56 of 78 for intermediates and managed to undo Alonso's tyre advantage as well as the ...Keep reading
Verstappen, who had comfortably led from pole all race, kept his head cool on worn medium tyres when a brief but intense rain shower spiced up the second half of what was shaping up to remain a lifeless Monaco race.
Having held off on making a pitstop to get rid of his old tyres because he didn't want to give up track position to the chasing Fernando Alonso on hards, Verstappen was rewarded for ...Keep reading
The Dutchman converted pole position successfully despite having to contend with the rigours of a wet race among the final third of the contest, extending his stint on the medium tyres to cover off the looming threat of rain.
With a dry start to proceedings, the medium-shod Verstappen resisted the challenge from Alonso on the hards at the start, and immediately began to cement his lead early on ...Keep reading
Verstappen led every lap, ahead of Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, but had to negotiate his way through a heavy rain shower. He clipped the wall just before pitting for intermediate tyres but benefited when Alonso stopped for slicks just before the rain arrived.
Verstappen had one more wall hit with nine laps to go at the exit of the Swimming Pool section, but survived for his 39th F1 ...Keep reading
In a fortnight that features motorsport’s biggest events in the Monaco Grand Prix, the Indianapolis 500 and Le Mans 24 Hours, the TT is set to be another of the highlights.
The event returned in 2022 after a two-year absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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As teams have been aggressive in chasing performance, running cars with high degrees of camber, issues have arisen with blistering seen on tyres removed from some cars, with drivers complaining of vibrations and cording of the rubber.
The compound used by Firestone is essentially the same as used last year, although the tyres now incorporate a synthetic rubber created with recycled butadiene, a ...Keep reading
Preining had looked set for a third career victory in the DTM having led the race comfortably from pole position until the final 10 minutes, when his Manthey EMA team was found to have not correctly completed the pitstop procedure.
The 24-year-old was handed a long-lap penalty for the infringement, leaving him down in third and elevating Toksport WRT duo Engelhart and Tim Heinemann up to first ...Keep reading
In a frantic end to the Q3 shootout, Alonso, Alpine's Esteban Ocon and Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc all traded provisional pole until Red Bull world champion Max Verstappen clinched his first Monaco pole with a hair-raising final sector.
The Dutchman said he "clipped a few barriers" in the process and Alonso also admitted he took a few "uncomfortable risks" in his hunt for his first pole ...Keep reading
Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer has been under pressure since his CEO Laurent Rossi made critical comments about the Enstone outfit’s ‘amateurish' form and mistakes that have been made.
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With handy timing Esteban Ocon qualified a surprise fourth in Monaco, while Gasly earned a respectable seventh ...Keep reading
Long since a mainstay of the Formula 1 calendar, and almost as long since derided for its dull on-track action and ostentatious partying, the Monaco Grand Prix faces among the most criticism of the calendar’s circuits.
At the same time every year, the harbour of Monte Carlo fills up with ever bigger vessels for a weekend of champagne, celebrity, social media posturing and glamour, a word ...Keep reading
The Briton joined the team ahead of the 2021-2022 season and secured a podium finish in Seoul but has endured a difficult campaign this year.
He has registered just two points finishes all year, including sixth in Hyderabad and 10th in the opening Berlin E-Prix race, leaving him with a total of nine points.
He was left with a bruised hand which required a hospital visit in ...Keep reading
As Hamilton’s Mercedes was lifted into the Monaco skyline following his barrier collision at Mirabeau towards the end of FP3, the paddock was treated to a view of the W14’s underfloor, an area of the car that we’re rarely able to see.
The timing of the incident was especially frustrating for Mercedes, with team principal Toto Wolff describing the lift as an act straight out of Cirque du ...Keep reading
The Prema Racing driver, in his second F2 season, took a lights-to-flag win to repeat his success in Saudi Arabia.
The race was red-flagged after a crash for Virtuosi driver Doohan at Turn 3 saw his car burst into flames, prompting a clean-up operation which stalled action for 20 minutes.
Vesti crossed the line 2.5s clear of second-placed Theo Pourchaire, who faces a post-race investigation ...Keep reading
Sergio Perez crashed out of qualifying at Sainte Devote and, due to the tight confines of the principality street circuit, his RB19 was hoisted out of the way - allowing photographers to capture its floor.
Given engineers estimate 60% of car performance is now generated by the underbody aerodynamics following the 2022 switch to ground-effect rules, teams have kept this area a closely guarded ...Keep reading
Norris hit the barrier in Q2 and his crew had to replace left front suspension components before he could resume in Q3.
However, they didn’t change anything on the right front, where Norris also had a touch with a barrier during the session.
The Englishman admitted that he had to overcome concerns about going flat out straight away in Q3 with the repaired car.
In the end, his final ...Keep reading
Manthey EMA driver Preining topped the 20-minute session with a time of 1m21.347s, beating the similar Porsche 911 GT3 R of Toksport WRT driver Tim Heinemann by 0.055 seconds to pole in a somewhat anticlimactic end to qualifying.
It marked Preining’s first pole in DTM in 18 attempts, the Austrian driver having never started higher than second on the grid despite scoring two wins in his rookie ...Keep reading
With the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix cancelled owing to extreme flooding in the region, attention was turned last week by reported claims that Ferrari had made an offer to Hamilton for the 2024 season.
While Hamilton’s current Mercedes contract is coming to an end and Ferrari would always consider the driver if he was ever available, the Briton has long since pledged his loyalty to the Silver ...Keep reading
Aston Martin, meanwhile, has shone with the ability of Fernando Alonso to out-brake rivals into corners and then jump back on the power early.
With those contrasting traits, the tight Monaco lap was thought to be the green team’s best chance of topping the leaderboard.
Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin AMR23
Photo by: Simon Galloway / Motorsport Images
How the Q3 thriller ...Keep reading
The Hitech driver, who finished as runner-up to his Prema rival in last year’s Formula Regional European championship, took a lights-to-flag win for his first triumph in the series.
Having lined up on pole, Mini maintained his lead through the first safety-car restart before building a 1.4-second gap to Beganovic by lap 12 of 27.
The pair broke away from Paul Aron (Prema) and Hitech’s ...Keep reading
Qualifying for the race last weekend was a battle for pole between Chip Ganassi Racing, McLaren and Ed Carpenter Racing – with cars from each team filling the front row on Sunday.
But even though the highest-placed Penske is 12th, with Will Power, and Andretti car is 15th, with Kyle Kirkwood, O’Ward believes they will still be a threat in the race.
"It’s going to be a dogfight for ...Keep reading
Red Bull driver Verstappen surged to his third pole of 2023 by just 0.084s with a remarkable late effort to usurp Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso, who had until the dying moments of the session looked set to claim his first pole since Hockenheim 2012.
At the circuit where pole position has more value than any other, due to the difficulty of overtaking at the Principality, Verstappen had ...Keep reading
The Ferrari driver appeared to slow in the tunnel section as Norris’ rapid McLaren approached from behind on a flying lap in Q3, forcing him to take evasive action.
Leclerc had been set to line up third for his home race, but will now drop to sixth. Norris will start 10th for Sunday’s race.
The FIA stewards said Leclerc “had finished his final lap of Q3 and was in the Turn 4 through ...Keep reading
Hamilton - who crashed in FP3 - got out of Q1 at the last minute with his final run, and the same thing happened as he made it out of Q2 with his last lap.
In the final segment he earned sixth on the grid, with the potential to move up a place if third-placed Charles Leclerc receives a penalty for impeding.
Hamilton also acknowledged that the upgrades Mercedes introduced to this weekend have ...Keep reading
The Alpine driver stunned the paddock when he set a 1m11.553s effort with just a handful of minutes remaining in Q3 to take provisional pole.
Ocon dropped to fourth following the final runs as eventual polesitter Max Verstappen, Fernando Alonso and Charles Leclerc all registered faster times.
But he will be lifted to third, matching his career-best grid position, by Leclerc's ...Keep reading
The Red Bull driver made a successful swoop for pole in the dying stages of Q3 to deny Alonso the chance of a first F1 pole since 2012, using the final corners to overturn a deficit of two tenths accrued in the opening pair of sectors.
Thanks to the vastly improved form of the Aston Martin team in 2023, Alonso has been able to consistently run at the front after years of struggling with ...Keep reading
Hamilton hit the barriers late in final practice on Saturday to trigger a red flag. As his W14 was recovered, it was raised several storeys high to allow photographers to capture the underbody design.
With engineers estimating that 60% of car performance is owed to the floor, following the 2022 shift to ground-effects, the underbody aerodynamics have been a particularly closely guarded ...Keep reading
The two-time champion headed a thrilling Q3 session at two points, but was pipped on both occasions by Max Verstappen as the Red Bull driver's prowess in the final sector decided pole in his favour.
After his first flying lap in Q3, Alonso felt that he "drove like an animal" to briefly head the session, but had to dig deeper in his second run in his bid to overturn Verstappen.
He reckoned ...Keep reading
On his second qualifying lap of Q1 Perez lost the rear of the car turning into Sainte Devote, slapping the left-rear corner of his Red Bull RB19 into the barriers.
Perez's accident brought out the red flag and caused sizeable damage to his car.
"Unbelievable day. I cannot believe what I've done," Perez responded to the costly incident.
"It just caught me by surprise, just getting that ...Keep reading
Red Bull's championship leader was down in fifth after the first barrage of Q3 runs. Amid scintillating pole bids by Esteban Ocon, Charles Leclerc and Alonso, Verstappen then had the last word as the chequered flag dropped.
Despite two personal bests he was still trailing Aston Martin driver Alonso heading into the final sector, but with a stunning recovery his 1m11.365s effort pipped the ...Keep reading
The Dutchman overcame a two-tenth deficit to Alonso in the final sector to make a last-gasp swoop for the fastest time, his resulting 1m11.365s cementing his first pole position in qualifying at the Monte Carlo circuit.
Verstappen had set a banker with a 1m12.102s at the start of the session, but the lap was immediately outclassed by Alonso, who grabbed a 1m11.706s to raise the bar considerably ...Keep reading
Verstappen will start ahead of Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.
Besides the thrilling ending to Q3, where pole changed hands four times in the final two minutes, the big shock was last year’s race winner ...Keep reading
It would be a bold claim to suggest that one motor racing event trumps all others, but to witness the start of the Indianapolis 500 from its fabled ‘yard of bricks’ is like standing next to a swirling tornado. It’s not just the sight of 33 cars rushing along at over 220mph, which is almost overwhelming in itself, but the rush of air and visceral noise that arrives with them – many running ...Keep reading
ACO president Pierre Fillon stated an intent to progressively introduce the new fuel at the centrepiece round of the World Endurance Championship between 2026 and the start of the next decade ahead of this weekend’s Fuji 24 Hours in which Toyota is competing with a hydrogen-powered Corolla.
The road map he laid down included two key announcements about the new class for hydrogen-powered ...Keep reading
Wilson suffered a fractured vertebra in Monday’s crash, which required surgery on Wednesday night, but he is determined to make a full recovery and return to contest the race next year with his Cusick Motorsports/Dreyer and Reinbold team.
Graham Rahal will sub for him on Sunday, and Legge has requested to see Wilson in hospital as he recovers from surgery.
“Stef and I have been ...Keep reading
DAMS driver Iwasa lined up second on the reversed grid behind fellow Red Bull junior Isack Hadjar, holding his place off the line.
But on the safety car restart on lap six, Frenchman Hadjar suddenly slowed with a mechanical issue that forced the Hitech driver to drop down the order before retiring.
After inheriting the lead Iwasa began building a substantial advantage ...Keep reading
Before the Monaco Grand Prix, weekend Honda announced it would return to F1 as a fully-fledged engine manufacturer by supplying works power units to Aston Martin from 2026, when F1 moves to new engine regulations with a higher degree of electrification and sustainable fuels.
Honda is the last of the six manufacturers that registered for the new engine cycle to commit to a programme, which ...Keep reading
Apart from a brief period shortly after his pitstop, SSR Performance driver Perera was never threatened at the front of the field as he started his first full season in the DTM with a fine four-second victory.
Two-time DTM Trophy champion Tim Heinemann impressed on his step up to the DTM with a charging drive from seventh to second in his Toksport WRT Porsche, while Emil Frey driver Aitken ...Keep reading
The junior series returned to the principality for the first time since 2012 this year, with its last visit having come under its previous guise as GP3.
It was announced in November that F3 would make its return in place of Formula Regional European Championship and alongside F2, which has long been a mainstay of the weekend.
Speaking after Saturday’s sprint race, winner Pepe Marti said it ...Keep reading
First held in 1929, the famous street race has made efforts to modernise via the construction of a new pit facility while for 2023, it has notably relinquished control of its oft-maligned TV broadcast production and handed over sponsorship and advertising after past conflicts with F1’s own partners.
However, the circuit layout has largely remained unchanged. This has left the emphasis to ...Keep reading
Sergio Perez posted the first representative laptime with a 1m15.641s to go top, managing to avoid a stopped Esteban Ocon in the tunnel as the Alpine driver reported a loss of power. The Frenchman returned his car to the pits after a swift reset at the steering wheel, but this forced him to spend the next 20 minutes in the garage.
Pierre Gasly found a glimmer of hope for Alpine by going quicker ...Keep reading
The Campos Racing driver started on reverse-grid pole for Saturday’s race as the series made its first visit to the principality since its GP3 guise in 2012.
Despite one safety car, it was a sedate race for F3, with few moves among the top 10.
After the restart, Marti managed to build a convincing gap, having opened up three seconds to Leonardo Fornaroli in the first 11 laps of racing ...Keep reading
Former Mercedes chief strategist Vowles joined the Grove outfit as team principal this year, with his official starting date listed as 20 February.
He has used his brief tenure so far to evaluate the 10th-placed outfit, which is currently without a full-time technical director to lead its in-season car development.
Vowles reckons the nine-time constructors' champion, bought by American ...Keep reading
Qatar stepped in at a late stage during the COVID-hit 2021 season to fill a hole in the calendar left by the cancellation of other events.
The country subsequently signed a 10-year deal with F1 to start in 2023, with 2022 skipped to avoid any clash with the FIFA World Cup.
After the initial F1 event had to deal with the compromises created by small pit garages that were designed for MotoGP ...Keep reading
Perera set a lap of 1m21.370s in his SSR Performance Lamborghini Huracan GT3 on the DTM’s first visit to Oschersleben since 2015, beating Aitken's Emil Frey Racing Ferrari 296 GT3 to pole by just 0.018s in a closely-contested qualifying.
Lamborghini drivers held the top spot for much of the 20-minute qualifying, with Alessio Deledda setting the early pace in his Grasser Racing example with a ...Keep reading
And, while it is still early in the weekend, Valtteri Bottas’ eighth place slot in FP2 has at least offered an early indication that its changes could have shifted it up a gear in the ultra-tight midfield battle.
The revisions are quite extensive, as there’s also some high downforce, circuit specific updates that are loaded on to the car to deal with the exacting demands of the Monte Carlo ...Keep reading
Palou beat VeeKay to pole by the second-closest margin in Indy 500 qualifying history, at 0.004s and 0.006mph last Sunday.
Today, Palou set the fourth fastest lap in the final practice session before the green flag flies on the 107th running of the Indy 500 on Sunday. He said VeeKay wasn’t at all interested in drafting past him, as they practised race simulation running on track together, and ...Keep reading
"In the next 10 years.. I'm going to be punchy and say yes," said Wolff. "But I think with F1 Academy we are creating such a strong pathway that, when the first one comes, more will follow. That's the plan."
Speaking at the Financial Times Business of F1 Forum in Monaco, organised in conjunction with Motorsport Network, the former Williams development driver delivered her vision for the series ...Keep reading
The two-time world rally champion reunited with his 2000 and 2002 championship winning co-driver Timo Rautiainen to make a return to competitive rallying at the all-new event in northern Italy, celebrating Group A and WRC car era machinery.
The rally, held in the town of Varzi, is the brainchild of former Hyundai Motorsport boss Andrea Adamo, and marked Gronholm’s first rally outing since ...Keep reading
During Friday’s two-hour Carb Day practice, 2016 Indy 500 winner Rossi was one of the drivers to experiment with the underwing strakes that IndyCar has opened up for use along with bargeboards and an increased range of rear wing angles.
Drivers have continued to complain about the ability to overtake, especially when mired in a pack of cars, but Rossi is sure it’s a step forward from a ...Keep reading
The Friday practice bragging rights ahead of Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix belonged to Max Verstappen, who headed FP2 while FP1 chart-topper Carlos Sainz crashed in the second session.
Collecting a 1m12.462s despite none of his sector times being of sufficient quality to grace the timing boards in purple, Verstappen stitched together a consistent trio of splits to ensure he made the most of ...Keep reading
After struggling with the ride of his RB19 car over kerbs and bumps in an FP1 session headed by Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, Verstappen turned the tables in FP2.
The Dutchman’s benchmark effort on soft tyres of 1m12.462s was 0.065s faster than Charles Leclerc’s Ferrari and Verstappen’s place atop the times was secured when Sainz crashed out.
The Spaniard clipped the wall at ...Keep reading
McLaughlin will mount his third assault on the Borg-Warner Trophy at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Sunday from 16th, with Will Power the only Penske runner to make the Fast 12 pole shootout.
In last year's race the Kiwi showed strongly before his race came to a sudden end with 50 laps remaining when a snap of oversteer sent him into the Turn 3 wall.
His damaged car then skated ...Keep reading
The team has debuted a significant package of bodywork and suspension changes that were supposed to have run for the first time at the cancelled Imola event last weekend.
Despite the obvious complications inherent in learning about a new package on a tricky street track, the team opted to keep them on the car and put some miles on them.
Lewis Hamilton finished FP2 in sixth place while his ...Keep reading
Two-time Indy 500 winner Sato lapped the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval in 39.4988s, a speed of 227.855mph.
In the final two hours of running before the Indy 500 race start, the track was filled with the 33 cars right from the green flag – although there were a couple of early yellows for track inspections.
Ahead of his final start in IndyCars, Tony Kaanan set the early ...Keep reading
Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz was fastest in FP1 but he crashed out of FP2, which was topped by Verstappen.
Monaco Grand Prix FP1 results: Sainz fastest from Alonso
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Driver
Laps
Time
Gap
Interval
km/h
1
Carlos Sainz
26
1'13.372
163.730
2
Fernando Alonso
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Almost the entire field opened their lap tallies on the medium tyres, barring the hard-shod Ferrari duo, and ownership over the fastest lap time quickly changed hands as the times tumbled.
Valtteri Bottas was among the first drivers to set a somewhat representative time, but it didn't last long at the top as the circuit continued to rubber in; Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton set times in the ...Keep reading
Honda announced its F1 exit in 2021 but agreed a deal to continue to supply its power unit for chassis partner Red Bull until the end of 2025 and the demise of the current engine regulations.
But the Japanese manufacturer will return to the series in 2026 as the works partner for Aston Martin, with Red Bull having already created its own in-house Powertrains division in the meantime.
Max ...Keep reading
Rahal, who failed to qualify his regular Honda-powered Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing car, takes over from the injured Stefan Wilson at Cusick Motorsports/Dreyer and Reinbold – which is a Chevy-powered team.
Rahal admits he has “spent my entire career with Honda”, and when asked by Motorsport.com if there were any subjects he’s not allowed to ask about the engine side, he replied ...Keep reading
Like others, Ferrari is introducing parts in Monaco that were supposed to have made their debut at the cancelled Imola race.
Another package is due next week in Barcelona, where traditionally teams try to make a significant step with a major update.
However, Vasseur says it is best to not read too much into the outcome of the Spanish weekend, as it will represent just one step in an ongoing ...Keep reading
Alfa Romeo driver Valtteri Bottas set the initial pace with a 1m26.993s, but that was rapidly bettered by a series of quicker times from Zhou Guanyu, Fernando Alonso, Hamilton and Lando Norris, as first place benchmark was 10s lower by the end of the opening five minutes of the one-hour session.
Alonso and Norris exchanged positions at the front, with the latter and the two Ferrari drivers the ...Keep reading
Led by double world champion Fernando Alonso, the Silverstone team currently sits second in the constructors’ championship behind Red Bull after the first five rounds of the season.
But whereas the Milton Keynes squad has excelled so far largely due to its powerful DRS and aerodynamic efficiency, GPS data reveals Aston Martin to have impressive braking and low-speed traction. It is therefore ...Keep reading
The team has designed four potential options, and the winner of the public vote will be used on its cars at the Singapore, Japanese and Qatar Grands Prix.
Gulf was keen to repeat its popular one-off arrangement with McLaren at the 2021 Monaco GP, but with the vote and a different set of races adding a twist.
The four liveries are called Heritage, Contemporary, Visionary and Bolder than ...Keep reading
Many great sportscars have won the Le Mans 24 Hours. In fact, victory at the world's most famous endurance event has made the reputation of many fine racers. But there have been some that missed out.
To pick out the best cars never to have won the Grand Prix d'Endurance, we looked at several factors. The key ones were how well they got on at Le Mans, the circumstances of their failures, and ...Keep reading
After a disappointing start to the season with its new W14 challenger, Mercedes has been working hard at its Brackley factory on a raft of changes to the car.
As well as seeking overall downforce gains with the latest developments, Mercedes has been eager to deliver a more consistent and stable platform for its drivers.
That is why beyond the obvious visual changes to the sidepods, there ...Keep reading
One-time grand prix winner Martin made his MotoGP debut with Ducati as a Pramac rider in 2021 and won the Styrian GP in his rookie year.
Martin was locked in a battle with Enea Bastianini last season for a place at the factory Ducati squad but was beaten to the seat by the four-time race winner.
The Spaniard remained on a factory contract for 2023 to stay at Pramac, but in the early part of ...Keep reading
Supercars is a technical parity formula. The cornerstone of the series is that a well built, well set-up and well driven car can win any race, regardless of the badge that's on the front.
In some ways, parity has become a simple prospect to achieve over the years. As the cars have become more controlled, there are less factors that need to be equalised. It was even easier at the end of the Gen2 ...Keep reading
While the power unit rules have already been fixed, everything related to the chassis is still under discussion, and inevitably part of the focus is on cost reduction.
Gearboxes are an obvious target as they are not regarded as a performance differentiator, and efforts have been made in the past to address the issue of cutting expenditure, including a failed attempt to introduce a common ...Keep reading
Certainly, the risk of mounting a successful passing move on the principality's streets is high, and any misjudged moves on a driver can often come at a high price.
While Monaco earned its reputation when the cars in F1 were not particularly egregious in size, the current crop of oversized machines has exacerbated the situation.
20 years ago, F1 cars were approximately 4.5m in length and ...Keep reading
On Wednesday, Honda announced that it would rejoin F1 as a full power unit manufacturer for the Aston Martin team, coming on board in 2026 when F1 introduces a new engine formula.
Martin Whitmarsh, Group CEO of Aston Martin Performance Technologies, explained that the Silverstone team had to become independent to achieve sustained success, moving away from a reliance on its current engine and ...Keep reading
The Enstone-based squad found itself in the firing line from Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi over the Miami GP weekend, as he lashed out at its lack of results this year.
“I'm noting not only an obvious lack of performance and rigour in the delivery, but also potentially a state of mind that is not up to this team's past standards,” Rossi told Canal+
Rossi also said he was far from impressed at ...Keep reading
Despite holding onto the the standings lead it had been a tough weekend up until Garcia's win for the Prema Racing-run local driver.
It was another Spaniard, Nerea Marti, who took pole for the opening race, but the Campos Racing driver could not prevent Hamda Al Qubaisi bursting through at the start to put her MP Motorsport car in front. The Emirati held on all the way to win, and her team-mate ...Keep reading
The two drivers both had the option to run either a medium/hard or hard/medium one-stopper combination.
From pole, Perez was in effect obliged to start on the medium as he couldn't risk losing out off the line to those around him, while starting ninth after a mistake in qualifying Verstappen had more freedom and opted for the hard.
PLUS: How Verstappen deployed an under-appreciated ...Keep reading
Lando Norris lost an estimated 0.2 seconds per lap in Florida following a Turn 1 hit from Nyck de Vries that damaged his floor. He finished 17th as Oscar Piastri classified in 19th.
The team had considered retiring Piastri altogether as the rookie worked to manage spiking brake temperatures while a fix for a brake-by-wire hydraulic system fault was sought.
With that misfortune arriving ...Keep reading
Verstappen, who clocked up 106 starts during his F1 career with Benetton, Simtek, Footwork, Tyrrell, Stewart, Arrows and Minardi, has been a long time fan of rallying, electing to switch to the discipline last year.
His maiden season included an outing at the World Rally Championship round in Ypres last August.
The father of reigning F1 world champion Max Verstappen, who won Sunday’s Miami ...Keep reading
With five successive wins at the start of the 2023 Formula 1 season, there was little to be learned in Max Verstappen’s Miami Grand Prix triumph for his Red Bull squad – bar the team nailing the tricky demands of the track’s new surface around the home of the Miami Dolphins NFL team.
But for the Dutchman, his recovery from a wrecked Q3 to win ahead of pole-sitting team-mate Sergio Perez ...Keep reading
The asphalt at the Hard Rock Stadium track was re-laid by circuit specialists Tilke for this year’s Miami GP, following problems in the inaugural 2022 event.
However, the surface still posed issues for drivers with a lack of grip – especially off the racing line – which triggered a number of incidents throughout the weekend.
One of the factors that limited the grip on offer ...Keep reading
Leclerc started only seventh after his crash in qualifying, and in a race not impacted by safety cars, he finished in the same position 52.9 seconds behind winner Red Bull's Max Verstappen.
His Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz fared little better on his run to fifth, having overcome a five-second penalty for speeding in the pitlane.
Leclerc said it was hard to predict the behaviour of the car ...Keep reading
Having lost out on a shot to set a qualifying time on Saturday after botching his first run, he was denied a further chance by Charles Leclerc's late-session crash.
Despite initially dropping to 10th, the two-time world champion carved through the field before passing Perez on the 48th lap to take victory.
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Perez: "Really poor" medium stint compromised F1 Miami ...Keep reading
With a little over 60 of 267 laps remaining in Sunday’s race won by Denny Hamlin, Gragson, Chastain and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. got three-wide racing for position through Turns 3 and 4.
Chastain got loose and his Trackhouse Chevrolet drifted up the track and close to Gragson, whose Legacy Motor Club Chevrolet was running in the outside lane.
No contact was made, but the situation resulted ...Keep reading
Ducati joined the MotoGP grid in 2003 and in 2007 celebrated its first world title with Stoner at the helm.
When Stoner left Ducati at the end of 2010, the Italian marque slumped down the order and wouldn’t win another grand prix until 2016, while it wouldn’t be until 2022 that it crowned a world champion for a second time.
Bagnaia overcame a 91-point deficit midway through the 2022 ...Keep reading
The Spaniard took his fourth third-place finish in five races at the Miami Grand Prix, as he admitted that there is now a hunger to start delivering better results.
But rather than start setting unrealistic expectations for the battle ahead, Alonso said Aston Martin needed to accept that Red Bull remained a clear step ahead.
However, he believed that at some point a ...Keep reading
The team endured another difficult weekend at the Miami Grand Prix as struggles in practice and qualifying were followed by more encouraging pace in the race.
The team has admitted, however, that this rollercoaster of form that the W14 has demonstrated has left it unable to understand exactly what has gone wrong.
PLUS: How Verstappen defeated Perez in Miami
For the next race ...Keep reading
A temporary gantry that faced away from the grid was erected on the main straight where American rapper LL Cool J presented each driver to the fans ahead of the US national anthem.
Meanwhile, Will.i.am led an orchestra that performed his and Lil Wayne’s new F1-inspired song ‘The Formula’, which was released on the Saturday of the Miami GP weekend.
Owing to the revised format, drivers ...Keep reading
With just under 25 of 267 laps remaining in Sunday’s NASCAR contest, Hamlin worked his way around William Byron and set his sights on leader Larson.
With five laps to go, Hamlin got side-by-side with Larson for the lead but was forced to back off. On the final lap, Hamlin again got near Larson off Turn 2 and nudged Larson’s #5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet in the left-rear, which knocked ...Keep reading
Starting on the front row alongside polesitter Sergio Perez, Alonso was unable to follow the Mexican in the dominant Red Bull and had to concede another spot to eventual winner Max Verstappen in the sister RB19.
After taking his fourth podium in five grands prix, Alonso conceded his team's perspective on success is starting to shift.
But he is aware that it would take severe Red Bull ...Keep reading
Perez started from pole with Verstappen down in ninth after the Dutchman failed to set a lap in Saturday's Q3 qualifying shootout.
But starting on the hard compound, Verstappen effortlessly carved through the field on Sunday and kept his tyres alive until lap 45 of 57.
Verstappen's enduring hard tyre pace allowed him to almost lead by a pitstop when he finally came in for ...Keep reading
His team-mate Sergio Perez led from pole position, running medium tyres like the majority of the field, while Verstappen started ninth on hards after his qualifying woes restricted him to ninth on the grid.
As expected, Verstappen worked his way through the field, and led the middle stages of the race after Perez pitted.
After Verstappen stopped, he rejoined just behind Perez, but quickly ...Keep reading
The Dutchman won from ninth on the grid, after losing out on a shot to set a qualifying time on Saturday after botching his first run, and was denied a further chance by Charles Leclerc's late-session crash.
He was equipped with the hard tyre on a contra-strategy to Perez, who began the race from pole position on the medium compound, and the Mexican made sure to stay ahead of fellow front-row ...Keep reading
Collard had led since depriving reversed-grid polesitter Bobby Thompson of first position on the opening lap, but notification of his penalty came through a few laps from the finish, while Sutton was breathing down his neck.
Undeterred, the duo fought on, and Sutton’s Motorbase Performance Ford got an overlap on the Speedworks Motorsport Toyota of Collard as they raced onto the final lap ...Keep reading
As F1 races look to innovate and keep themselves fresh, one idea being considered is for Miami to follow Las Vegas and run at night.
Speaking on Sunday morning, Miami GP managing partner Tom Garfinkel said that a night race was something being evaluated amid talks with F1.
"We've had some discussions about potentially doing that," Garfinkel told selected media, including ...Keep reading
Such was the determination to get things sorted for this year that Miami F1 chiefs brought in famed track design company Tilke to resurface the Hard Rock Stadium venue.
However, as F1 made its return to the American track, the same complaints returned as drivers bemoaned the unique nature of the surface.
Sergio Perez said that grip had been so low on Friday that it was almost intermediate ...Keep reading
The Monegasque driver has twice crashed at Turn 7 this weekend, first losing the car in second practice on Friday before the rear snapped and he span into the barrier in Q3.
The resulting red flag left Sergio Perez on pole ahead of Fernando Alonso, while Leclerc's banker lap placed him seventh with 2022 championship rival Max Verstappen in ninth.
Leclerc explained on Saturday that he took a ...Keep reading
The matter was discussed in Friday’s drivers’ briefing in Miami as part of the ongoing fallout over the chaotic final restart in Melbourne, when there were several accidents.
Many drivers feel that marbles on the grid in the closing laps create a disparity between the two sides of the grid, generating extra potential for incidents at the first corner.
One of the issues is that in ...Keep reading
Alpine has endured a torrid run since the Australian GP, with both Gasly and team-mate Esteban Ocon colliding in Melbourne, while neither could crack the points scoring positions in the sprint or the main race in Azerbaijan.
Gasly qualified a season-best fifth in Miami, with Ocon three spots behind, and is determined to use this as a springboard to build on Alpine's meagre eight-point haul for ...Keep reading
Sutton’s win was built upon a blistering first lap, in which he deprived first-race winner and poleman Colin Turkington of the lead at the Druids hairpin.
Tom Ingram was also on the move, and steamed up the inside of Jake Hill for third at Druids before slicing inside Turkington into Surtees to grab second place.
Sutton’s Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST instantly stamped in fastest ...Keep reading
Mistakes by other drivers, notably Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen, left Magnussen in a surprise fourth place after the first runs in the last segment of qualifying.
A crash for Leclerc brought out the red flag and ensured that nobody could improve their times on their second runs and demote Magnussen.
He then survived an impeding investigation after an incident with Lewis Hamilton early ...Keep reading
The Frenchman made a last-minute stop after running hard tyres for most of the race in an attempt to gain from the handy timing from a safety car that never materialised for him.
When he finally came into the pits at the end of the penultimate lap, he found a group of people in the pit entry as the procedure for setting up parc ferme had started, as the FIA officials involved didn't realise ...Keep reading
Jelley’s West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport was clipped by the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST of Dan Rowbottom as they accelerated through Clark Curve at the end of the first lap.
The contact speared Jelley into the barrier separating the track from the pitlane entry, and he was also collected by WSR BMW team-mate Adam Morgan.
Rowbottom, in turn, sustained further damage to his ...Keep reading
Turkington, with the soft option tyres fitted to his West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport, got the launch from second on the grid, but the problem was he had to do it twice.
That was due to a four-car pile-up at the end of the opening lap that caused a delay of almost an hour for barrier repairs to be carried out.
Turkington had only just cleared the polesitting Motorbase Performance Ford ...Keep reading
Helped by problems for Max Verstappen and a red flag that curtailed track action Alonso qualified second behind Sergio Perez in Florida, matching his previous best performance of the year in Jeddah.
Asked about the prospects for a victory Alonso was keen to downplay his chances.
“I don't think that we have to target a win, especially after how the weekend went,” he said.
“I think ...Keep reading
Following the winter departure of team principal Andreas Seidl, who is now CEO of Sauber, his replacement Andrea Stella led a full review of the operation in conjunction with boss Zak Brown.
This resulted in an overhaul of the technical department, with director James Key jettisoned in favour of a new three-pronged leadership structure featuring Ferrari head of vehicle concept David ...Keep reading
In the rolling hills north of Los Angeles, next door to a movie lot, Honda’s American motorsport division HPD has produced some of the most potent engines in US motorsport; powerplants that have claimed 18 IndyCar championships and 15 Indianapolis 500 wins, along with a surfeit of sportscar titles and a trio of overall Daytona 24 Hours victories for its luxury Acura marque.
But Honda is a ...Keep reading
After a difficult weekend in Miami, which saw Lewis Hamillton fail to make it out of Q2, Mercedes is now counting down the days until it unleashes a major upgrade at Imola.
But as well as the performance of the car being far from what the team hoped for, Wolff has said there are various characteristics from it that have triggered his squad’s competitive struggles.
“I think ...Keep reading
With the squad having faced a challenging first part to the campaign, having scored just eight points and lying sixth in the constructors’ championship, Rossi has been far from impressed at the job he thinks the team has done.
Speaking to French channel Canal+ before qualifying for the Miami Grand Prix, where its driver Pierre Gasly delivered a season-best fifth place on the grid, Rossi ...Keep reading
Having sailed through Q1 and Q2 at the head of the times, Verstappen made an error on his first run in Q3 and had to abort it.
That left him in ninth and at risk of remaining in that position should a red flag interrupt his second attempt, which was exactly what happened after Charles Leclerc crashed his Ferrari.
Despite his obvious frustration – exacerbated by the fact that Red Bull ...Keep reading
The Red Bull driver notched up his second pole of the season in dramatic circumstances, when his first Q3 effort was enough to take top spot as his rivals faltered before Charles Leclerc crashed late on and caused a red flag to prematurely end the session.
With all drivers in the top 10 shootout unable to complete their respective final laps, the order was effectively set after the first runs ...Keep reading
Aston Martin's pace was an unknown factor heading into qualifying after Alonso and team-mate Lance Stroll finished 12th and 14th respectively in final practice.
Alonso also barely scraped by in Q1, with Stroll even eliminated in 18th. But in Q2 the two-time world champion came to the fore with third, under three tenths shy of pacesetter Max Verstappen.
In a disrupted Q3 shootout the Spaniard ...Keep reading
Perez nabbed pole on his first Q3 run as team-mate Max Verstappen made a mistake and aborted his lap, with Perez leading Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso and Ferrari's Carlos Sainz.
Leclerc then crashed on the second run, bringing out a red flag that ended the session without anyone getting a second lap on the board, locking Perez in for pole.
The result came as a surprise to ...Keep reading
Perez will start ahead of Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) in Sunday’s race after the one-hour qualifying session on Saturday, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc crashed out of Q3, while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen didn’t complete a lap in the session ...Keep reading
Perez logged a 1m26.841s amid the first flying runs in Q3 to take the early advantage on the timing board, as Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen went wide through Turn 5 and aborted his initial run - retreating to the pitlane.
Leclerc, meanwhile, tapped the wall on the exit of Turn 16 and then suffered a lock-up at the following corner, which proved only enough for seventh after the initial set ...Keep reading
The 2023 FIA sporting regulations theoretically permit as many as three new teams to enter to take the grid up to 26 cars. The extended deadline for interested parties to apply for the 2025-27 seasons is 15 May.
Andretti - in conjunction with General Motors firm Cadillac - Panthera Team Asia, and Hitech GP are viewed as the more credible candidates, while the LKY SUNZ party has recently stated ...Keep reading
Esteban Ocon was first on track and first to set a lap, posting a 1m31.125s on the medium compound which proved to be enough for an early edge over Lewis Hamilton on softs.
The Ferrari duo then set their first laps of the session on softs and, of the two, Carlos Sainz posted the faster time with a 1m30.748s, three tenths clear of Charles Leclerc's first lap as the Monegasque recovered from his ...Keep reading
Neither Wehrlein or Porsche scored any points on-the-road in the Monaco E-Prix, with the German driver finishing in 11th after a difficult afternoon where he failed to make progress from 12th on the grid.
He was promoted to 10th post-race after a penalty for Jaguar’s Sam Bird, but the result still marks six races in succession where Wehrlein has failed to finish on the podium, which is in ...Keep reading
As the seconds ticked down in a soggy top-10 Q2 shootout, it appeared that Colin Turkington would secure pole position in his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport.
Turkington’s team-mate Jake Hill was first to flash across the line at the chequered flag, and recorded a time to propel himself onto the front row just 0.006 seconds adrift.
But Cammish, who had pitted for a new set of front ...Keep reading
Following Cassidy's success last time out in Berlin, the Envision Racing driver's Monaco victory has launched him into the lead of the championship.
Evans had been leading at the halfway stage of the race after passing Cassidy into Sainte Devote, but the Jaguar driver dropped behind his fellow Kiwi just two laps later at the same spot.
It proved to be the race-winning move as two late safety ...Keep reading
Mekies has agreed to leave Ferrari and join AlphaTauri as its new team principal to replace Franz Tost, who is stepping down at the end of the year.
But no date has been set for Mekies’ arrival as he remains under a long-term contract to Ferrari, so his release needs to be agreed.
Tost himself said the matter would likely be one for Red Bull and Ferrari to resolve.
“First of all, it's ...Keep reading
McLaren introduced a new package in Baku which represented the car it felt it should have started the season with, adhering to a different floor philosophy that tried to address the lack of efficiency of the Woking team's launch spec MCL35.
But while the new floor delivered a small boost once it was put on the car in last week's Azerbaijan Grand Prix, the car's continued inefficiency was still ...Keep reading
The Kiwi had started ninth after missing out on the qualifying duels but stormed to the front of the pack just after the halfway point of the 29-lap race.
The race-winning move came into Sainte Devote on lap 18 as he overtook Mitch Evans, the Jaguar driver having jumped Cassidy at the same spot two laps earlier.
The race, which didn’t feature the extreme pack shuffling that has been a ...Keep reading
Tost caused a stir when at an FIA press conference at the Saudi Arabian GP he criticised his engineers.
Fellow team bosses were surprised that the Austrian would chastise his employees in public, even given his plain-speaking reputation.
Asked on that occasion about the team’s early-season form, he made it clear that he’d been led to believe over the winter that the AT04 would be much ...Keep reading
Hill was one of a raft of late improvements in the opening session, which took place amid light drizzle, and steered his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport around the Indy Circuit 0.097 seconds quicker than the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST of three-time champion Ash Sutton.
Apart from a few people bedding in wet-weather rubber, the competitors ran on slick tyres throughout, and the ...Keep reading
It’s one of the classic motorsport debates. There have been many brilliant Le Mans cars in the century since the inaugural event, but which are the greatest?
For this list, we’ve taken into account the level of success scored specifically at Le Mans, the level of opposition each car faced, the wider impact of the designs on the 24 Hours, and ‘X factor’ – Le Mans is such an emotive and ...Keep reading
Maffei suggests that all parties will benefit from the early conclusion of a new contract while the series is in a strong position and interest is growing worldwide.
The current deal, which covers the years 2021-25, was signed on the watch of former F1 CEO Chase Carey and the next one will be the responsibility of his successor Stefano Domenicali.
“We have several years left to run on the ...Keep reading
Hughes had been fractionally faster than Fenestraz in the opening sector despite a slide through Sainte Devote, but the Briton initially threw away the chance of pole after cutting the Nouvelle Chicane.
Fenestraz posted a 1m29.131s which would have been enough for the top spot, but he was stripped of his lap time post-session after he was found to have exceeded the 350kW power limit during his ...Keep reading
When it comes to updates pertaining to the floor, there’s always aspects of a redesign that we’re unable to quantify, given that the majority of the changes will be made to parts of the floor we cannot see, such as the underfloor.
However, we do know, courtesy of the car presentation submission document that the teams must complete prior to an event, that Ferrari has made changes to the ...Keep reading
After the asphalt started to break up during the inaugural running of the race last season, F1 organisers tasked Hard Rock Stadium and grand prix managing director Tom Garfinkel with relaying the circuit.
The renowned Tilke company was called to lay the fresh asphalt.
That new surface helped Max Verstappen top FP2 on Friday morning with a lap record. His 1m27.930s effort beat his 2022 pole ...Keep reading
The German posted the quickest time with his final run, a 1m29.269s putting him to the top of the times and just 0.007s clear of Jaguar’s Mitch Evans.
Gunther had earlier headed the times approaching the 10-minute mark in the session with a 1m31.002s, before Evans became the first driver to go below the 1m31s barrier.
The Kiwi posted a 1m30.784s to put him fastest as McLaren’s Jake ...Keep reading
A decisive 1m27.930s set Max Verstappen atop of the charts in the second Miami Grand Prix free practice session, the two-time Formula 1 champion beating Carlos Sainz by 0.3s.
This was over two seconds quicker than the FP1 headliner set by Mercedes’ George Russell, who had led a Mercedes 1-2 in the opening Friday session at the Miami International Autodrome, despite losing approximately 25 ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion had been right behind Mercedes team-mate George Russell as they topped the timesheets in FP1, but his form fell away in the evening practice session as Hamilton ended up seventh – nearly one second adrift of pace-setter Max Verstappen.
Reflecting on the struggles to find a good balance with the car, Hamilton said that the contrast of performance over the day had ...Keep reading
The reigning F1 world champion returned to the top of the times after a Mercedes 1-2 in first practice, as Verstappen posted a best lap of 1m27.930s to lead the second session by 0.385s from Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz.
Charles Leclerc slotted into third place but crashed late on for Ferrari, clattering the barriers head-on at Turn 7, to trigger a brief red flag in FP2.
Azerbaijan GP winner ...Keep reading
The Ferraris were the first to break into the 1m31s at the opening of the session, Carlos Sainz posting a 1m31.787s before he was shaded by Leclerc by three tenths in the initial runs.
This was still well over a second slower than George Russell's benchmark from FP1, although Perez eventually brought the pace closer with his 1m30.757s, but this was eclipsed by Verstappen's ...Keep reading
George Russell of Mercedes was quickest in FP1, before Verstappen topped FP2 with the fastest time of the day.
Miami Grand Prix FP1 results: Russell fastest from Hamilton
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Driver
Laps
Time
Gap
Interval
km/h
1
George Russell
18
1'30.125
216.179
2
Lewis Hamilton ...Keep reading
With Red Bull's RB19 proving to be the class of the field and well clear of the opposition, the fight for the drivers' championship appears to be exclusively between its drivers.
Such an internal rivalry has proved hard for squads to deal with in the past because it heightens the prospects of competitive tensions boiling over.
Horner is well aware of the dangers that such a scenario poses ...Keep reading
In a bid to improve sustainability credentials for 2023, Pau GP organisers made running biofuels a necessity for series at the 80th running of the grand prix.
But Euroformula hasn’t been able to meet the fuel requirement and has subsequently withdrawn from the event.
The inclusion of the FIA eTouring Car World championship (ETCR) and a demo by fellow electric series ERA at least year’s ...Keep reading
Kevin Magnussen led the pack around at the start of the early running on the medium and hard tyres – the Dane therefore establishing the first place benchmark at 1m36.852s using the yellow-walled rubber.
Esteban Ocon and Nico Hulkenberg then forged ahead on the medium and hard tyres respectively, before Lewis Hamilton ended the opening five-minutes of the one-hour session by going quickest on ...Keep reading
Jaguar powertrains have dominated the last three races in the all-electric championship, with Mitch Evans winning twice for the British marque and customer team Envision taking victory last time out in Berlin courtesy of Nick Cassidy.
It’s signified a big turnaround in the championship battle, as Porsche hit the ground running with the new-for-2023 Gen3 cars, winning four of the first five ...Keep reading
The 45-year-old winner of the 2008 Daytona 500 retired at the end of the 2021 campaign after 20 full seasons in Cup.
But the 2014 Cup Series runner-up will make his first appearance with the Next Gen car at Darlington Raceway next weekend in the #15 Mustang driven by 2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button at Circuit of the Americas last month.
“I am grateful for the opportunity ...Keep reading
Earlier this week, Autosport revealed that chief technical officer at Red Bull Newey had extended his contract with the energy drinks team.
Verstappen, who has won all his races under Newey’s watch, expressed his content over the aero guru's decision - even though he dismissed any suggestion that his own future would be linked to him.
"Nothing will influence anything to ‘28 because I ...Keep reading
The revived Italian car maker is now looking to the Bahrain series finale of the 2023 WEC in November to race its Tipo 6 LMH Competizione for the first time ahead of a full programme in 2024 with partner team Vector Sport.
Isotta motorsport boss Claudio Berro explained that the focus through the summer would now be on testing the car developed by Michelotto Engineering in Italy rather than ...Keep reading
The USA has emerged as a contender to join the WRC schedule for the first time since the Olympus Rally in 1988.
A brand new event is being planned in Chattanooga in southeast Tennessee, utilising gravel roads located in in the Cherokee National Forest and around the Ocoee River region in Polk County.
The planning committee for the project features an experienced group of rally competitors ...Keep reading
Speaking for the first time since the format changes for Azerbaijan, the Italian suggested that sprints at a third of the races would be his preference.
With F1’s expected ongoing calendar of 24 grands prix, that would equate to eight per season in a slight increase on the six scheduled for this year.
Speaking in a call with Wall Street analysts, Domenicali said: “We don't want to go in ...Keep reading
The introduction of the new-for-2023 Gen3 machines have created a different style of racing in the all-electric championship this year which has been criticised by some drivers and fans.
The less aero efficient cars mean that the slipstream is far greater than previous seasons, leading drivers to deliberately slip back in the pack in order to save further energy and not lead.
A total of 190 ...Keep reading
The Mexican, who made 59 grand prix starts for Sauber and Haas in F1, has been brought into the Glickenhaus Racing line-up together with Nathanael Berthon to drive its additional Le Mans Hypercar entered for the French enduro on 10/11 June.
They were confirmed on Friday alongside Franck Mailleux in the #709 Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 with the publication of the full entry list which features ...Keep reading
The subject has been in the spotlight since the Baku weekend, where there was relatively little passing over the sprint and Sunday's race.
Several drivers blamed the shortened DRS zone in Azerbaijan. However, there is also a bigger picture of it becoming progressively more difficult for cars to follow as teams have developed their aero packages under the regulations that were introduced at the ...Keep reading
Bastianini broke a shoulder blade after VR46 Ducati rider Luca Marini collided with him in the Portuguese GP sprint race.
The four-time race winner didn’t require surgery on the injury, but was ordered to rest to allow his shoulder to heal. That forced him out of the Argentina GP, while he was deemed unfit to race at the Americas GP in April.
Bastianini was cleared to return for the ...Keep reading
The Maserati name returned to single-seater racing this season having taken over the Venturi Racing entry in the all-electric championship, but the team has endured a difficult start to the year.
After six races Maserati MSG had only registered three points courtesy of Edoardo Mortara before Maximillian Gunther secured a podium in last month's opening Berlin E-Prix, with Mortara again in the ...Keep reading
For the second year running Alfa Romeo missed the mark at the start of the season. But unlike in 2022 when it had to work through various teething problems, this year Alfa's C43 challenger has been a well-balanced platform.
Instead, its problem in a tight midfield battle has been a lack of pure performance which has made scoring points a difficult prospect.
Bottas and team-mate Zhou Guanyu ...Keep reading
The Mexican’s triumph at the recent Azerbaijan Grand Prix has put him firmly in to world title contention as he hunts down Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen.
But, with five of his six F1 race victories having come on street circuits, there remain question marks over whether he can deliver success at more traditional venues.
Yet Perez believes that the progress he has made in unlocking ...Keep reading
The new FIA initiative open to 17-26 year-old aspiring rally drivers aims to provide a pathway for future talent onto the WRC pyramid.
Peruvian driver Cilloniz took the title after seeing off competition from Maja Hallen Fellenius (Sweden), Kristie Ellis (South Africa) and Pragathi Gowda (India) at the Maggiora Offroad Arena in Italy on Thursday.
The four finalists were put through their ...Keep reading
Seven-time champion Hamilton is a producer and advisor to the new F1 film project that has been backed by Apple.
Filming is due to start soon at grand prix events, and speculation ran rampant earlier this week that Pitt was going to run in a real car in practice at the British Grand Prix alongside the current field.
The suggestions of the film crew being run as an 11th team prompted a ...Keep reading
They were the little and large of Porsche’s sportscar racing programme, so it’s little surprise that Jorg Bergmeister picks Patrick Long as his favourite team-mate.
They drove Porsches together, primarily in America, for eight seasons out of 10 between 2004 and 2014. That included a stint in Daytona Prototypes with Alex Job Racing, but they are more famously associated with racing GTs for ...Keep reading
Monaco, its breath-taking view of the Mediterranean, its port, its casinos, its yachts, its luxury cars... and above all its unique history with motor racing. No other country in the world has such a relationship with motorsport, especially on a surface area of 2km.
Like the 24 Hours of Le Mans or the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix, the Monaco E-Prix is the one that every Formula E driver wants to ...Keep reading
Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur said after last weekend’s event in Baku that his squad intended to unveil the real start of its 2023 development plan at this weekend’s Miami race, with further additional early-season tweaks to the SF-23 package expected at the following few rounds.
This would come after Ferrari only made circuit-specific tweaks, plus minor front wing and floor updates ...Keep reading
The 2020 world champion with Suzuki has endured a torrid start to life as a factory Honda rider, having scored just five points from the first four rounds.
After Honda scored victory at the Americas Grand Prix with LCR’s Alex Rins, its Spanish GP weekend brought the Japanese manufacturer crashing down to earth as its best result on both races was a ninth from Takaaki Nakagami.
Mir crashed ...Keep reading
Ford squad WAU had been toying with the idea of a third entry for the Great Race this year.
Plans for the additional entry started when the team retained long-time co-driver Luff in its line-up, despite signing Lee Holdsworth and Fabian Coulthard as co-drivers for its regular entries.
As revealed by Autosport, Simona de Silvestro was also part of the wildcard plans and considered the ...Keep reading
Cullen, who was a key member of Hamilton's support team as his physio and assistant, departed from her role early in the season.
Her role is now split between two new physiotherapists, although much of Hamilton's support network remains the same behind the scenes.
Hamilton and Cullen remain in contact to plan "the next fun adventure", and the seven-time world champion added that he hoped ...Keep reading
Extreme tyre degradation plus Fernando Alonso’s late scraps with Carlos Sainz and Lewis Hamilton injected excitement into the Bahrain season opener. Max Verstappen recovering from 15th to second did similar for Saudi Arabia before the red flag chaos unfolded in Australia. Those events aside, the on-track action has left plenty to be desired. And when there was no such smokescreen in either ...Keep reading
The Mexican’s victory in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix has moved him to within six points of world championship leader Max Verstappen and confirmed him as a genuine challenger for the crown.
Reflecting on the Baku performance, and especially on the way he controlled the pace at the front - like in Saudi Arabia - Perez has singled out work he did with his engineers over the winter in addressing ...Keep reading
In the second year of the 2022-era of ground-effect machines, following other cars in traffic has become more difficult as teams have found ways to add downforce to their cars, making it progressively harder to overtake.
Last week's colourless Azerbaijan Grand Prix painfully highlighted the lack of action on a street circuit that used to be known for its wild drag racing along its trademark ...Keep reading
Tsunoda was forced to retire from the Saturday race in Azerbaijan after a strange opening two laps to the sprint.
The Japanese brushed the wall on the opening lap after clashing with team-mate Nyck de Vries and, as he returned to the pits, his right rear tyre flew off the rim – briefly rolling down the track.
Having made it back to the pits for a change of tyres, Tsunoda then faced fresh ...Keep reading
The call came after the DRS zone on the main straight at last weekend's Azerbaijan GP was cut by 100 metres, to the frustration of some drivers.
However, Alonso pointed out that the FIA knows from data gathered at last year's races that both tracks were among the easiest for overtaking under DRS, and he agrees with the move to trim the zones.
PLUS: How Baku's sprint format change exposed ...Keep reading
Ex-McLaren F1 driver Michael Andretti has bolstered the chances of his team proposal being given the green light to enter the series in 2026 after gaining the support of GM sub-brand Cadillac.
But unlike fierce American automotive rival Ford, which has partnered with Red Bull Powertrains predominantly via a commercial relationship, GM covets a major technical presence in F1.
GM motorsport ...Keep reading
The 2017-2018 Formula E champion sits third in this year’s standings, 19 points off championship leader and Porsche driver Pascal Wehrlein.
Vergne is the only driver other than those using a Porsche or Jaguar powertrain to take victory this season, having finished first in Hyderabad.
Further podiums in Cape Town – where he lost the lead to Porsche’s Antonio Felix da Costa on the final ...Keep reading
As reported before the season, the first five races of 2023 would see changes to the DRS zones, either extensions or reductions, in order to better balance overtaking.
In Miami the first two of three DRS zones have had their activation points moved further up the road.
The first DRS activation point on the flat-out run to Turn 11 has been pushed back from 30m after Turn 9 to 105m after the ...Keep reading
Celebrating the 1993 European GP: Donington Historic Festival
Daily Formula 1 demonstrations at last weekend’s Donington Historic Festival turned the clocks back 30 years to the 1993 European Grand Prix.
Enthusiasts appreciated Steve Ottavianelli giving his ex-Michael Schumacher Benetton-Ford B193 plenty of welly.
One of Alain Prost’s 1993 championship-winning Williams-Renault FW15s ...Keep reading
De Vries crashed during Friday qualifying for last weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix and then suffered another incident in the race when he tapped the inside wall at Turn 5, having to retire with a bent front-left toe link.
The 2020/21 Formula E champion is still chasing his maiden points, with fellow rookie Logan Sargeant the only other driver yet to score as 2023's tight midfield battle has ...Keep reading
Pedrosa raced in the premier class between 2006 and 2018, winning 31 times and finishing runner-up in the championship on three occasions – doing all of this with Honda.
Retiring at the end of 2018, Pedrosa joined KTM as its official test rider and has made two wildcard outings with the brand, in Austria in 2021 and in last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez.
FEATURE: 10 things we ...Keep reading
AlphaTauri announced ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix that it has signed Mekies as its new team principal replacing Franz Tost, who will stand down at the end of this season.
However, no date has been set for Mekies' arrival at the Faenza-based squad because he remains under a long-term contract at Ferrari.
Tost suggested that the exact timing was something that would need to be sorted out ...Keep reading
It’s incredibly ironic that in the wake of a dull Azerbaijan Grand Prix that left most Formula 1 fans craving more overtaking, many of those same people will be poised to criticise Formula E this weekend - but for the exact opposite reason.
For while overtaking might be at a premium in F1, the same certainly can’t be said for the all-electric single-seater championship which resumes this ...Keep reading
In an announcement on Wednesday, IMSA stated that LMP3 cars will not be eligible to compete in its flagship series following this year’s Petit Le Mans season finale at Road Atlanta.
This will leave the championship with a four-class structure, with two categories each for prototype and GT cars.
LMP3 cars will however continue to find a home in the IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge, which ...Keep reading
The 2023 F2 season saw Invicta Watch Group and F2 team Virtuosi Racing team up for a multi-year title sponsorship deal, renaming the outfit Invicta Virtuosi Racing and establishing a new working relationship between the parties.
Invicta, an American watch company, has a history of working with iconic sports brands, including a collaboration with basketball star Shaquille O’Neal, but the ...Keep reading
After realising too late it was pursuing a concept that would lead to a less efficient car design, the MCL60's draggy launch spec hamstrung the Woking team both in lap time and in its ability to overtake other cars.
In the meantime, it prepared a tweaked floor approach that saw the light of day at last weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix.
Behind the scenes new team boss Andrea Stella received a ...Keep reading
How Perez defeated Max Verstappen to win last weekend’s race is explained by Jake Boxall-Legge’s report in this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (4 May). And whether the Mexican can really provide a genuine championship threat to his illustrious Dutch Red Bull team-mate is tackled by Alex Kalinauckas.
It’s hard to see Perez beating Verstappen over a 23-race season and it should be ...Keep reading
The RNF Aprilia rider sustained a dislocated and fractured left shoulder in a crash with Fabio Quartararo on the opening lap of last Sunday’s Spanish GP which triggered an early red flag.
Oliveira was unable to make the restart due to his injuries – now fully diagnosed as a dislocated left shoulder, fracture in the humerus and an anterior ligamentous labrum injury – which have also ruled ...Keep reading
The new-for-2022 regulations were established specifically to improve the spectacle and increase overtaking by reducing the turbulent wake of the cars, with an emphasis on generating downforce from the floor.
But while the gaps between teams have closed up since last year, producing one of the most competitive midfields in recent history, the on-track spectacle remains a point of concern.
A ...Keep reading
After missing its performance targets for the start of the 2023 F1 season and falling further behind to Red Bull, Mercedes made the drastic decision to change its W14 car's layout.
A new floor and sidepod concept, as well as a suspension re-design, are being readied in time for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola later this month.
Under F1's restrictive budget cap, set at a base limit of ...Keep reading
The occupants of the #36 Toyota GR Supra came through from sixth on the grid to beat the pole-sitting Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT of Naoki Yamamoto and Tadasuke Makino by 28 seconds in the 450km race, which ran completely caution-free.
Rounding out the podium was the Real Racing Honda of Nobuharu Matsushita and Koudai Tsukakoshi after both the Kondo Racing Nissan and #8 ARTA Honda hit late ...Keep reading
Red Bull announced before the start of the season that it would race with three one-off liveries at F1 2023's three American-based races in Miami, Austin and Las Vegas, with a so-called Make Your Mark competition set up for fans to design the colour schemes.
Argentina's Martina Adriano came up with the winning design for this weekend's second running of the Miami Grand Prix.
The graphic ...Keep reading
The Irishman teamed up with Breen for the final WRC round in Japan last year ahead of the 2023 campaign with Hyundai, which would have seen the duo share the third factory i20 N.
Fulton was alongside Breen for what was the 33-year-old’s final WRC event at Rally Sweden, where the pair finished second, before the former tragically died in a testing accident ahead of last month’s WRC round in ...Keep reading
A statement describing the ban on pre-heating tyres introduced in the WEC for this season as a necessary move for the series followed criticism from drivers and team principals.
"Moving away from tyre heating was a much-needed step from a sustainability point of view and something that the FIA Endurance Commission agreed on as part of a long-term WEC tyre road map,” said Marek ...Keep reading
So, it’s no wonder that both McLaren and Alpine, who are vying for honours at the head of the chasing pack, are pushing on hard with car developments
Both teams brought similarly sized upgrades to Azerbaijan, which appear to have improved the overall performance of their cars relative to the rest.
As part of both update packages, there were changes made to the design of their floors, with ...Keep reading
Not only will we see the return of Braking Point, the immersive story mode starring Aiden Jackson and Devon Butler, but the new game is also set to include new improvements to the physics, and importantly, the full roster of drivers, teams and tracks for the 2023 Formula 1 season from day one.
Full 2023 calendar, plus some extras
As we hoped and expected, the full calendar for the 2023 ...Keep reading
British representation in sportscar racing is in a healthy place at the moment. For evidence of that, look no further than last weekend’s Spa World Endurance Championship round. Seven Britons featured in the top Hypercar class, split across five different manufacturers. And there was no shortage of noteworthy performances to be found.
United Autosports driver Tom Blomqvist stormed to LMP2 ...Keep reading
According to Autosport’s sister website Motorsport-Total.com, there are plans to close Audi Sport Customer Racing at the end of the current season to allow the marque to prioritise its upcoming entry into Formula 1 in 2026.
This would make customer racing the latest programme to be scuppered by the Audi board in recent years following its factory exits from DTM in 2020 and Formula E in 2021 ...Keep reading
Alpine brought a substantial upgrade package with a new floor to the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, but its plan backfired spectacularly at F1's first sprint weekend of the 2023 season.
With just a single 60-minute practice to get the tweaked car set up, both Alpines hit trouble as Pierre Gasly's car caught fire due to a hydraulic leak after just completing seven laps while Esteban Ocon was ...Keep reading
Rossi will drive a BMW M4 GT3 prepared by Team WRT in the second round of the Le Mans Cup, which forms part of the Road to Le Mans support package.
This would be Rossi's first taste of the Circuit de la Sarthe, although he has previously driven on the Bugatti layout that is an annual fixture on the MotoGP calendar.
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His team-mate for the two ...Keep reading
Motorsport UK met with stakeholders in November last year to devise a new strategy to help grow rallying in the UK and promote the discipline to both existing and new audiences. The introduction of a rally festival to showcase the discipline was tabled by by M-Sport-Ford World Rally Championship team principal Richard Millener.
While the concept is in its infancy, the idea is to bring rallying ...Keep reading
Fixes for the W14’s cockpit being placed too far forward relative to the front wheels, and the true impact of the technical switch of Mike Elliott and James Allison, likely will not be realised until 2024.
But after identifying design flaws with the car prior to Bahrain pre-season testing, a B-spec machine has been promised, with the first major upgrade set for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix ...Keep reading
The team had been yet to announce its plans beyond Portugal for the third car since Craig Breen’s passing, until today’s announcement that Sordo will now add Sardinia (1-4 June) to his programme.
It is unclear who will pilot the car in the remaining seven events on the calendar.
The South Korean squad will return to fielding three cars at next week’s Rally Portugal, an event which ...Keep reading
The 2009 Formula 1 world champion is returning to the double-points round of the World Endurance Championship this year in the Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 based on the Next Gen NASCAR Cup car together with Jimmie Johnson and Mike Rockenfeller.
But while he is excited about this year's opportunity, the Briton stressed that he has hopes of returning in the Hypercar class in ...Keep reading
Magnussen will drive a second Oreca 07-Gibson entered by Inter Europol in the French endurance classic, sharing the car with his former High Class Racing team-mate Anders Fjordbach and gentleman driver Mark Kvamme.
This would be Magnussen’s second Le Mans outing in an LMP2 car following his maiden appearance in 2021 with High Class, where he achieved his long-held dream of racing with his son ...Keep reading
I'm not sure I’ve ever headed to the Le Mans 24 Hours hoping for high temperatures and sunny weather. I’m no sun worshipper, and too much heat doesn’t make life any easier for a pasty-faced Englishman over the busiest week of my year. But this time I’m praying that the 24 Hours next month is a hot one. That’s not for my benefit, you understand, but for the sake of driver safety, the ...Keep reading
Espargaro was thrown from his GASGAS-branded KTM in the latter stages of FP2 at the season-opener in Portugal last month and hit an unprotected tyre barrier.
The Spaniard was taken to hospital where he was diagnosed with multiple fractures, including to his jaw and his back.
Espargaro underwent surgery on his injuries and for the four weeks after, he had his jaw wired shut to aid ...Keep reading
The nine-time world champion made the trip last weekend to the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez, a circuit that has always been devoted to him.
In addition to signing the contract that makes him a Yamaha ambassador, Rossi witnessed on Sunday the victory of Francesco Bagnaia, one of his pupils in the VR46 Riders Academy, who also regained the championship lead.
On Saturday at Jerez, the rider from ...Keep reading
The Spaniard was outperformed all weekend by Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc, who took pole for both the sprint and the Grand Prix, and finished second in the shorter race and third in the main event.
Sainz in contrast had to settle for fifth place in both after experiencing a difficult weekend that was exacerbated by the lack of practice running and the imposition of parc ferme after FP1 ...Keep reading
Three-time DTM champion Rast will compete for BMW in a variety of GT3 races and championships this year, having ended a decade-long association with rival German marque Audi in the wake of its decision to scrap its LMDh programme.
The 36-year-old got his first experience of BMW’s GT3 contender as part of a two-day private test at Oschersleben last month and logged more miles in the M4 in the ...Keep reading
Its sponsorship partnership with Red Bull, and a high-profile presence it has at this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix and the forthcoming Las Vegas event, are much more about shifting perceptions of what it is about now.
While it may be best known for the chain of more than 250 Hard Rock Cafes around the world, its push into the hotel and casino business have seen it evolve in to an entertainment ...Keep reading
Vettel, who retired from F1 at the end of last season, last appeared at the Goodwood event in 2012 when he piloted the RB7 he took to the previous year’s title.
Now he will return and is due to drive some of the significant F1 cars he owns, including Nigel Mansell’s title-winning Williams FW14B and his ex-Ayrton Senna McLaren MP4/8 from 1993, up the hill over the 15-16 July weekend.
All ...Keep reading
Speculation emerged in recent weeks that Leclerc was in talks with Mercedes as it ponders a possible replacement if Lewis Hamilton does not stay in to next year.
But Leclerc himself denied there had been any contact with Mercedes nor its boss Wolff – although he intriguingly added the word ‘yet’ at the end of his sentence.
Speaking at the Azerbaijan Grand ...Keep reading
Tuesday afternoon's announcement of Legacy MC's intention to switch manufacturers at the end of the 2023 season means there will now be eight full-time Toyota teams on the grid next season, the most since the 2011 season.
Currently Joe Gibbs Racing and 23XI Racing are the only two organisations running Toyotas.
Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson, who won all ...Keep reading
Straight from the first sprint race weekend at the Azerbaijan GP, where Sergio Perez won both the sprint and main race for Red Bull, F1 travels almost 7000 miles to Miami for the second-ever race at around the Hard Rock Stadium.
Red Bull remains the team to beat after recording its third 1-2 from the opening four rounds, with Ferrari hoping its upgrades help improve its race pace, having been a ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion, who is again contesting a partial campaign this year, had been tipped to make the trip to the Italian gravel rally held from 1-4 June.
Toyota has now moved to confirm Ogier’s attendance after the Frenchman completed a pre-event test in Sardinia last week. Ogier will be absent from the service park at the next WRC event held in Portugal next week.
Ogier is ...Keep reading
After being blighted by sensor issues in Portugal, the #7 Toyota crew got their championship challenge back on track with a second victory of the season at Spa.
Mike Conway, Jose Maria Lopez and Kamui Kobayashi staved off the challenge of their sister #8 GR010 HYBRID which had started from the back of the grid following Brendon Hartley’s qualifying crash, as Kobayashi built a big enough ...Keep reading
In Sunday's Baku race Russell had to take avoiding action on the lap 13 restart not to hit Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso into Turn 1.
Russell had to veer right, which made him miss the apex of the 90-degree left-hander and left him wide onto the dirt on exit.
That gave the chasing Lance Stroll the momentum to pass him for seventh place on the inside into Turn 2. Stroll's move also backed up ...Keep reading
The Austrian will teach a course for first and second year MBA students course under the title Mercedes F1: Leading a High-Performance Team.
The course will take place in January 2024, taking advantage of a rare relatively quiet period in Wolff’s usually hectic schedule as boss of the Brackley organisation.
Wolff will teach the course in conjunction with Professor Anita Elberse, with whom ...Keep reading
F1 team principals had varying opinions on how the Baku weekend played out, in some cases perhaps influenced by how their own teams had fared.
Any such discussion has to be undertaken in the right context. Firstly the principle of sprint weekends has been established over the last two seasons, and it's obvious that they are not going away, so the debate is about the specific changes made to the ...Keep reading
The Angolan prevailed in the #41 WRT ORECA-Gibson 07 alongside Louis Deletraz and Robert Kubica thanks to a four-second shorter final pitstop than erstwhile leader Tom Blomqvist's #22 United Autosports ORECA.
In a race disrupted by four safety cars, the #41 crew was hampered by the timing of the third when Jacques Villeneuve's Vanwall Hypercar clashed with the GTE Am Ferrari of Francesco ...Keep reading
The Spaniard qualified on pole for the sprint and grand prix at Jerez last weekend, but could only manage a best of fifth on Sunday having crashed in the Saturday contest.
Due to red flags, both races were started twice, but Espargaro failed to convert pole to the holeshot, dropping to fourth each time as the KTM duo of Brad Binder and Jack Miller vaulted into the lead.
Espargaro says his ...Keep reading
The new-for-2023 collaboration has allowed Porsche to become the dominant force in the all-electric category, as it leads both the Drivers’ and Teams’ championships ahead of the next round in Monaco this weekend.
Integral to the brand’s ongoing success has been its technological collaboration with Cato Networks, a world-leader in cloud networking and security infrastructure.
The ...Keep reading
Thomas Laudenbach, head of Porsche Motorsport, made the claim before and after last weekend’s Spa 6 Hours round of the 2023 WEC, after there was no BoP revision for the Belgian race following the opening two events of the season at Sebring in March and Portimao in April.
Asked if there could be a change following Spa, he replied. “Which we all know is going to come.
“We clearly expect ...Keep reading
The new series takes a travelling group of nine factory-supported touring car drivers to rounds of various regional championships, and the opener was shared with TCR Europe in Portugal, creating a 22-car field.
Michelisz, the 2019 WTCR champion, placed his Hyundai Elantra on pole ahead of team-mate Mikel Azcona, while Audi Sport drivers filled the second row, with new signing Rob Huff ahead of ...Keep reading
Both the sprint and the main event in Baku were notable for a lack of passing compared to previous events at the track.
The FIA has the right to adjust the activation point of DRS zones, usually based on data gathered at the last event at the venue and at previous races during the current season.
Drivers already highlighted their concerns about the 100 metre cut in Baku during their Friday ...Keep reading
The younger brother of the late 1995 world rally champion is the latest name to join the entry list for this all-new rally event held in Varzi, northern Italy from 24-27 May, which celebrates Group A machinery from 1994 through to the World Rally Car era that ended in 2021.
McRae is set to pilot an Impreza which is the same specification as the one that won the 1995 WRC title. The 52-year-old ...Keep reading
The WRC has previously indicated that four manufacturer teams at the top level would be its ideal prospect for the championship moving forward.
Since Citroen's exit at the end of 2019, the championship has operated with three teams comprising Toyota, Hyundai and the semi-works M-Sport Ford, which are committed until at least the end of 2024.
The introduction of the new Rally1 hybrid ...Keep reading
The two drivers have enjoyed a friendly relationship this year and during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix Stroll told the team that he wouldn't attack Alonso while running behind him, and the Spaniard later passed on brake balance information to help his team-mate.
Alonso made it clear that he's helping Stroll because he believes that he represents the long-term future of the team.
"We talk a lot ...Keep reading
The Prema-run Spaniard inherited a pair of pole positions when Abbi Pulling, who had been quickest in both wet qualifying sessions, was excluded and banished to the back of the grid along with her Rodin Carlin team-mates due to non-homologated parts on the leading edge of the floor under the sidepods, which the British team claimed was not performance enhancing.
Garcia enjoyed an all-Spanish ...Keep reading
Morbidelli was involved in a red flag incident on the first lap of the sprint race at Jerez at Turn 2 when he made contact with Alex Marquez, with Marco Bezzecchi also involved.
Then on the first lap of the grand prix on Sunday, Fabio Quartararo on the other Yamaha collided with Miguel Oliveira after the Frenchman was squeezed between the RNF rider and Bezzecchi.
There have been first-lap ...Keep reading
Winward driver Auer completed 66 laps of the Hockenheim circuit in Germany in a test session on Thursday, where he was joined by five other GT3 and 16 LMP3 cars.
The Austrian set a best lap of 1m37.911s in his Winward Mercedes, putting him comfortably clear of all GT3 entrants that were simultaneously testing at the venue.
Auer had previously taken pole position in last year’s Hockenheim ...Keep reading
Ferrari installed a new rear wing on the SF-23 which featured a revised layout for the mainplane, top flap and the tip section of the endplate.
These changes all appeared subtle at first but, when overlaid (inset above), we can see how different the two solutions are.
Notably the central spoon-shaped section of the mainplane has been flattened, while a steeper gradient is used in the ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc took Ferrari's first pole of the season in last weekend's Azerbaijan Grand Prix but in the race he was powerless to keep the much faster Sergio Perez and Max Verstappen behind as Ferrari was soon resigned to tyre saving.
Leclerc gave Ferrari a much-needed first podium in third behind the two Red Bull drivers, but his 21-second deficit showed the Scuderia still has a lot of ...Keep reading
After his younger brother, Ryan Truex, earned his first Xfinity Series win Saturday at Dover, Martin was first off pit road during a late-race caution thanks to a two-tyre stop.
He quickly cleared Ryan Blaney for the lead on the restart with seven laps to go and edged Ross Chastain – who took four tyres on his final stop – by 0.505 seconds at the checkered flag to earn his first win of the ...Keep reading
Monday’s eight-hour session at Jerez is one of two scheduled in-season tests in 2023, with factories rolling out a number of notable updates to try.
The early part of the test saw three riders – Fabio Quartararo, Aleix Espargaro and Jonas Folger – try a radio system where race direction warnings were fed to them.
The idea is for this to be used as an extra warning system for riders in ...Keep reading
The Italian acknowledged that at one stage there was a possibility that the Australian might have missed some of Saturday’s sprint day track action in order to focus on being fit for Sunday’s main event.
In the end Piastri greatly impressed the team by not only completing the weekend but also finishing a respectable 11th in the Grand Prix.
“We had a couple of points during the weekend ...Keep reading
The French car manufacturer’s sporting director saw first-hand the challenges that Alpine faced as its weekend “snowballed out of control” following a fire on Pierre Gasly’s car on Friday.
At an event where the team had hoped to have a trouble-free run to evaluate a new floor update, it encountered engine swaps, crash repairs, setup changes, pit exit starts, and then a dramatic pitlane ...Keep reading
McLaughlin on fresher tyres and no fuel worries was able to pounce on the two-stopping polesitter Romain Grosjean when the Frenchman ran wide at Turn 5 on Lap 72, shortly after running out of push-to-pass boost.
McLaughlin drew alongside him on corner exit, and the Chevrolet easily out-accelerated the Honda-powered Andretti Autosport machine along the long drag to Turn 8.
Thereafter ...Keep reading
Sergio Perez’s latest street track victory has raised his hopes of really taking on Max Verstappen for the 2023 world title. That and the Mexican driver’s victory in the tweaked sprint format, along with his team-mate’s George Russell clashes, meant Perez left the Baku weekend nine points closer in the points standings. He is now just six back from the reigning world champion.
That is the ...Keep reading
Pedrosa made the second wildcard appearance of his time as a KTM test rider since retiring from full-time competition at the end of 2018 last weekend at Jerez.
Despite not having taken part in a grand prix weekend since 2021, Pedrosa topped FP1 at Jerez, ended Friday third overall, qualified sixth and finished there in the sprint, and was seventh in the grand prix.
Read more: 10 things ...Keep reading
Hamilton was running fifth in the early stages but, along with initial race leader Max Verstappen, he was one of several drivers who pitted under green-flag conditions just before a safety car emerged.
Many of his rivals were able to make cheap stops and, by the time it had all shaken out, Hamilton had tumbled to 10th.
Under the safety car, he inevitably sounded frustrated on the radio ...Keep reading
The South Korean manufacturer became the sole tyre supplier to the championship for 2023, replacing Michelin rubber which had been used since the inaugural season in 2014.
Since its introduction – which coincided with the new-for-2023 Gen3 machines – the Hankook tyre has been criticised by drivers, with many complaining the compound is too hard and generally lacking in grip compared with ...Keep reading
This project, still at an embryonic stage and with a lot of development ahead, is initially born with the spirit of playing in favour of safety, although other practical applications are not being ruled out depending on the outcome of future tests of the system.
The idea is that Race Direction can communicate with the riders through previously recorded messages, when they approach an area of ...Keep reading
Having made the decision to start the race on slick tyres on a damp track, van der Zande was running a strong second behind the race-leading #7 Toyota when he lost control of the #3 Cadillac V-Series.R on the approach to the Eau Rouge/Raidillon complex in the second hour of the race.
With the two lapped Ferrari LMH cars running close behind him, van der Zande’s Cadillac went off the track and ...Keep reading
Drivers Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll were reckoned to have lost 0.2s on the main straight in Baku during the Friday practice run and both the grand prix and sprint race qualifying sessions.
The malfunction was primarily caused by an aerodynamic characteristic of the new low-drag wing specification, which meant the overtaking device was oscillating and would only intermittently ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia bounced back to prove critics wrong with victory in the MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix.
Back-to-back grand prix crashes for Bagnaia had resumed doubts about his ability to handle pressure, but the Ducati rider brushed those aside at Jerez with his second main race victory of the season.
He now leads the championship again by 22 points heading to France, while KTM emerged from ...Keep reading
Did Ferrari run their perfect race, or were they just fortunate with the weather and Aston Martin's lacklustre Baku performance? What is the fallout after Sergio Perez fought back and beat Max Verstappen? Was Sprint Saturday a success? And what happened during Esteban Ocon's pitlane incident?
Jon Noble, straight from Azerbaijan, joins Matt Kew and Martyn Lee to discuss these topics and more ...Keep reading
The Briton, who sealed third place on the final lap of the Spa 6 Hours with Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi, told Autosport that “maybe we could have given them a fight” but for the three extra pitstops the #51 Ferrari 499P made in comparison with the winning Toyota.
“There was one point where I thought we could have fought with the Toyotas,” said Calado, who took the ...Keep reading
Having overhauled Charles Leclerc in Saturday’s sprint race, Perez gained a slice of fortune with the safety car timing to leapfrog Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen with a cheap pitstop and took full advantage by running untroubled to victory.
Perez’s Baku double has seen him close to six points behind Verstappen in the drivers’ standings, while Red Bull’s dominant start to the 2023 ...Keep reading
The legendary F1 designer’s current deal had been up for renewal at the end of this year, prompting recent speculation that he could be targeted by competitors.
But on the back of a dominant start to the 2023 season for Red Bull’s RB19, sources have revealed that the team and Newey have moved quickly to sort out the details of a new arrangement that will see them work together for many more ...Keep reading
After fending off fellow two-stoppers Pato O’Ward and Alex Palou in the opening laps, polesitter Grosjean controlled the opening stint.
But Sting Ray Robb’s Dale Coyne Racing with RWR car ground to a halt just a few laps after the first of former Formula 1 driver Grosjean’s two stops, and it also prompted the fastest three-stoppers to make their second stops before the full course caution ...Keep reading
The four-time race winner scored his first podiums as a KTM rider last Sunday at Jerez when he was third in both the sprint and the grand prix.
Miller joined KTM after losing his factory team seat at Ducati to Enea Bastianini, with the Italian brand instead offering him a one-year contract to return to Pramac as a works rider.
Despite what looked like a tough winter for KTM, both Brad Binder ...Keep reading
The Italian outfit knows that its current weakness against Red Bull is in managing tyres over a race stint, with there being little to separate the two teams in single-lap qualifying form.
Despite making a breakthrough in unlocking better race pace in Australia, and grabbing pole position for Baku’s sprint and grand prix, the team was still no match for Red Bull over long runs last ...Keep reading
Victories for Perez in both Saturday’s sprint and Sunday’s grand prix in Azerbaijan left the Mexican just six points shy of his team-mate after the first four events of the 2023 campaign.
Horner stressed that the team is happy to see the points shared out between the duo as it helps to lift both drivers clear of the rest of the field.
He says the strong showing from both drivers will ...Keep reading
The Azerbaijan Grand Prix was dominated by talk over the new sprint timetable and debate about whether or not it risked taking attention away from the main race on Sunday.
However, a lack of action in the grand prix itself has highlighted that the current generation of cars are not delivering the kind of spectacle hoped for when new rules were introduced from 2022.
Wolff believed ...Keep reading
Grosjean led Alex Palou away but Pato O’Ward was inside Palou into Turn 1 - however, when O’Ward also tried to get around Grosjean at Turn 5 he lost momentum, and Palou was able to draft by him into Turn 8 to reclaim second.
Further back, Scott Dixon got around McLaughlin, as all three Penske drivers were struggling with pace on primary tyres, although Josef Newgarden did move up to sixth ...Keep reading
Quartararo collided with RNF Aprilia’s Oliveira on the opening lap of Sunday’s main race at Turn 2, which led to the red flags being shown.
The Yamaha rider was able to restart the race, while Oliveira was taken to the medical centre where he was diagnosed with a dislocated shoulder.
On his way to the grid for the restart, Quartararo was given a long lap penalty for the ...Keep reading
The world champion crashed out of the lead of the Americas GP two weeks ago and fell from second in the wet Argentina GP prior to that.
This raised doubts about his form after he suffered five DNFs in 2022 and was forced to recover a 91-point deficit to win the championship.
He batted away questions about pressure prior to the Spanish GP weekend and in parc ferme after beating Brad Binder to ...Keep reading
The 2.3-mile 17-turn track has hosted IndyCar since 2010 and has become one of the favourite venues among fans and drivers for its undulating nature, which creates turns that demand great commitment from the drivers but also present great sight-lines for spectators.
The multi-year extension coincides with the new multi-year agreement between Medical Properties Trust/Children’s of Alabama with ...Keep reading
With rain set in for the remainder of the day, NASCAR called the event off early on Sunday morning and the 400-mile race has instead been postponed until noon ET on Monday.
With qualifying also rained out on Saturday, Kyle Busch’s opportunistic win last week at Talladega helped him land the pole for this week’s race as the line-up was set by NASCAR’s performance metric.
Busch ...Keep reading
Early leader Verstappen was brought into the pits on lap 10 of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix after starting to struggle with his rear tyres and being put under pressure by team-mate Sergio Perez.
Moments before the decision AlphaTauri's Nyck de Vries had stopped on track after clipping the wall in Turn 5 and as the safety car was brought out, the move backfired on Red Bull.
With Verstappen ...Keep reading
Ocon stretched his starting hard compound Pirellis until the final lap, with his Alpine team hoping a late safety car or red flag event might create an opportunity for the driver to gain a cheaper pitstop.
With no such incident occurring, to avoid disqualification and similar to Haas’ Nico Hulkenberg, Ocon was required to pit on the run to the chequered flag in order to change onto a set of ...Keep reading
Verstappen's countryman Nyck de Vries clipped the inside wall at Turn 6 on the 10th lap which broke the front-left suspension on his AlphaTauri and left him stranded on the morsel of run-off available at the corner.
Red Bull elected to pit Verstappen at the end of that lap but, as he was leaving the pits, the safety car emerged to allow the marshals to clear up de Vries' car.
This prompted ...Keep reading
Polesitter Leclerc was passed by Max Verstappen and eventual Baku victor Sergio Perez come only lap six of 51, with the Ferrari driver opting not to fight the Red Bulls to preserve his Pirelli tyres.
The Monegasque eventually finished 21 seconds adrift of Perez but held off Aston Martin driver Alonso by 0.8s to end the two-time champion’s run of consecutive podiums at the start of the ...Keep reading
Bagnaia spent much of the 24-lap Spanish GP fighting with the KTM duo of long-time leader Brad Binder and Jack Miller and only moved into the lead on lap 21.
The Ducati rider kept a relentless Binder at bay to score his second grand prix win of the year to retake the lead in the standings after erstwhile championship leader Marco Bezzecchi crashed out.
Sprint race winner Binder and Miller ...Keep reading
Alongside Haas' Nico Hulkenberg, Alpine driver Ocon had completed the entire race on the hard tyre, hoping for a late red flag to give him a free, mandatory swap to a different compound.
When that red flag didn't arrive, Ocon waited until the start of the final lap to dive into the pits and pick up soft tyres.
But with race leader Sergio Perez about to cross the line to take the win in Baku ...Keep reading
Friday and Saturday qualifying topper Leclerc had launched cleanly to comfortably hold off front-row rival Verstappen into Turn 1 at the race start.
But the Ferrari driver was then left vulnerable as DRS was activated at the start of lap three of 51, with the chasing defending champion cutting the 0.4-second gap before using the overtaking aid to pass over the line.
A compliant Leclerc was ...Keep reading
Perez led Verstappen home after a tepid Azerbaijan Grand Prix, but his afternoon nearly came undone when on lap 34 he clipped the outside wall on the entry to Turn 15.
The Mexican came away unscathed but afterwards admitted his error led to a hard thump on the right-front corner of his Red Bull RB19.
"Really hard," he said about the hit. "I had a bit of luck, especially with the front right ...Keep reading
Perez benefited when team-mate Max Verstappen pitted just before a safety car, which cost him two places.
Before that, Verstappen had passed Ferrari’s pole-winner Charles Leclerc to take the lead at the start of lap four and pulled away. A safety car was called after Verstappen made his pitstop, dropping him to third as his rivals pitted under yellow.
Despite quickly repassing Leclerc ...Keep reading
The Mexican driver took advantage of a pitstop under the safety car to emerge in the lead after Verstappen had led the early phases of the race from polesitter Charles Leclerc.
Leclerc led away at the start line from Verstappen and, without DRS being made available in the opening series of laps, was able to hold a scant lead over the two-time champion.
But at the end of the third lap ...Keep reading
A thrilling 19-lap Moto3 scrap began the day’s action at Jerez, with Ivan Ortola claiming the 99th victory in the class since its inception in 2012 for Spain.
The Angeluss MTA rider snatched a second victory of the 2023 season after he capitalised on a slow run through Turn 11 on the last lap for Aspar’s David Alonso.
Ortola steamed up the inside of the Colombian and held firm through ...Keep reading
The nine-time grand prix motorcycle world champion joined Yamaha in 2004 and helped transform the Japanese marque’s form, winning back-to-back titles.
Rossi would win two more with Yamaha in 2008 and 2009 to take his premier class haul to seven, and ultimately finished his MotoGP career with the marque at the end of 2021.
The Italian served two stints with Yamaha, first from 2004 to 2009 ...Keep reading
The multiple incidents at the Australian Grand Prix highlighted issues that drivers were having getting temperatures into their tyres on the way to standing restarts, when they were obliged to initially follow the safety car until it turns its light out.
The subject was discussed at length in Friday's drivers' briefing in Baku, and on Saturday morning the FIA canvassed teams before confirming a ...Keep reading
The Briton, who secured a second WEC win of the season with Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez, explained that he knew the call to start their Toyota GR010 HYBRID on dry-weather Michelins was “the correct one even if we knew it was going to be a bit tricky”.
“On the first lap, I looked at the cars around me on wets and thought, man, this is going to be hard,” Conway told ...Keep reading
Russell muscled ahead of Max Verstappen at the start of Saturday's sprint event, but after a resumption following a safety car period, the Dutchman passed him on the run down to Turn 1.
Although that move was achieved with DRS not yet activated, Red Bull's speed on the straight when it is open has been a focus of attention for rivals all season.
"We know what the speed difference is," said ...Keep reading
The Prema driver held the lead off the line and despite briefly dropping behind Theo Pourchaire on lap three, recaptured the front spot on the following tour.
From there, it was a straightforward cruise to victory for the Ferrari Academy driver to take his second win of the weekend.
Enzo Fittipaldi finished second for his first podium with Rodin Carlin, having passed Pourchaire just five ...Keep reading
Feeney made a good getaway from pole, initially leading the race from fellow front-row starter Lostecki.
The series leader only last three laps in second place, though, until teammate Brown eased past at the last corner.
The trio ran in that order until lap 20 when Kostecki was first to hit the lane.
He re-emerged behind an early stopping Tim Slade, who had taken his service from fifth ...Keep reading
In the end the team had nothing to gain by so doing and the anomaly in the regulations is set to be addressed before the next sprint event in Austria.
McLaren could potentially have gained an advantage because Norris had used up all of his soft tyres in FP1 and regular qualifying on Friday. The rules state that on Saturday drivers can only use new medium tyres in SQ1 and again in SQ2, and then ...Keep reading
The German was due to start from 16th on the grid, following Alpine's decision to start Esteban Ocon from the pitlane in both the sprint and grand prix, amid a difficult qualifying performance.
Hulkenberg's fortunes improved in the sprint shootout where he qualified 12th, but fell back through the 17-lap race having endured severe rear tyre graining throughout and he finished 15th.
Haas has ...Keep reading
Alonso and team-mate Lance Stroll had been struggling with the DRS overtaking device all weekend on their new low-drag wing for Baku's long straights.
The problem came up in Friday practice and continued all the way through both qualifying sessions this weekend, and while Alonso reported no problems during Saturday's 17-lap sprint race he wasn't totally convinced the issues is fully resolved ...Keep reading
Ferrari will soon lavish the SF-23 with performance-finding upgrades. But for now, after a dismal start to the campaign, set-up tweaks alone have allowed the team to take a marked step forward in Australia and this weekend again in Azerbaijan. As proof, lead charge Charles Leclerc used the revised format for sprint race rounds to snare two pole positions across Friday and Saturday in ...Keep reading
Verstappen was left furious after Saturday’s Baku F1 sprint race when he felt Russell had unnecessarily made contact with him as they battled for third position in the first corners of the race.
The Red Bull driver confronted Russell in parc ferme after the race and, left unimpressed with his rival’s explanation, muttered that he was a ‘d***head’ as the Briton walked away.
With ...Keep reading
Once Sergio Perez had shaken off polesitter Charles Leclerc in Formula 1’s sprint race at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, victory seemed to be plain sailing.
The Mexican, a winner here in 2021 and a driver who has always performed strongly in the Azerbaijani capital, stuck with the Monegasque on the sixth-lap restart under the safety car and waited until DRS was available.
He scampered free of ...Keep reading
Honours were even between front row starters Brown and David Reynolds when the lights went out, Brown retaining the lead on the way out of Turn 1 thanks to having the inside line.
Reynolds initially dropped into second, however left the door open for a lunging Brodie Kostecki to sneak through at Turn 7 on the first lap.
A lap later Reynolds was too timid in his defence again as Anton De ...Keep reading
Andretti Autosport’s Grosjean was fastest initially in the top six pole shootout with a 1m06.0289s, 0.0341s ahead of Pato O’Ward of Arrow McLaren, but on fresher tyres Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin displaced him at the head of the times.
However, Grosjean, who lost an engine yesterday, delivered a 1m05.8396s with his fourth lap and it was Alex Palou of Chip Ganassi Racing who came ...Keep reading
The five-time World Rally Championship rally winner was invited by the Hyundai Portugal squad to deputise for Breen, who lost his life in a Rally Croatia testing accident earlier this month.
Breen had been competing in the Portuguese national championship alongside his WRC commitments for the Hyundai factory team. The Irishman won the opening round in Fafe but crashed out of the following round ...Keep reading
Tsunoda started two places ahead de Vries but on the first lap the Dutchman got past him as the pair exited Turn 2.
The Japanese driver then had a look down the outside at Turn 3, but on the exit de Vries took his line and clipped his team-mate’s front wing.
While de Vries continued unscathed Tsunoda lost the left side part of the wing and immediately told the team that he had to ...Keep reading
Yesterday’s pacesetter McLaughlin wasted no time in flirting with the 1m06-second barrier, getting down to a 1m07.0036s on his third lap and then broke through it with a 1m06.7282s on his fifth lap.With 36 minutes to go, his nearest challenger became team-mate Newgarden, just 0.0053s behind, but Christian Lundgaard and Graham Rahal were an encouraging third and sixth for Rahal Letterman ...Keep reading
The polesitting trio’s #7 GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar beat the sister crew of Sebastien Buemi, Ryo Hirakawa and Brendon Hartley - that had started from the back of the grid after the latter’s qualifying crash - by 16.637s.
The #8 car had pulled what appeared to be a decisive advantage with the assistance of two full course yellow interventions during the middle phase of the race, before ...Keep reading
Pedrosa won 31 grands prix and finished runner-up three times in the championship with Honda in a MotoGP career that spanned from 2006 to the end of 2018.
Since retiring, Pedrosa joined KTM as an official test rider and has been instrumental in helping develop the bike into a race-winning package.
Making his second wildcard outing in four years this weekend at the Spanish GP, Pedrosa has ...Keep reading
Leclerc claimed both pole positions on offer at the Baku round, topping Friday qualifying and Saturday’s new sprint race qualifying session, but he couldn’t convert the latter into victory as he was reeled in by Sergio Perez in the sprint.
But the Ferrari driver did hold on for second place ahead of Max Verstappen, who clashed with George Russell on the opening lap of the sprint, which ...Keep reading
The Yamaha rider made contact with Gresini Ducati’s Alex Marquez at Turn 2 on the first lap of the sprint race on Saturday.
The contact resulted in both crashing, with VR46 Ducati’s Marco Bezzecchi also caught up in it as he struck Morbidelli’s errant Yamaha.
The sprint was red-flagged after this and all riders were able to restart, while the incident has been placed under ...Keep reading
Under the safety car during Saturday's sprint, the Ferrari driver appeared to be raising the alarm about a cut to the power unit, and was publicly revealed as such on television with an on-screen graphic.
Asked about his comments regarding a 'cut' during the official post-sprint press conference, Leclerc clarified that it he was actually talking about a cat running across the path of the safety ...Keep reading
The Mercedes driver enjoyed the stronger launch in Saturday's sprint race to dive up the inside of fourth-starting Verstappen into Turn 1 in Baku and the duo continued to run side-by-side until the exit of the Turn 3 left-hander.
In their exchange, Russell and Verstappen bumped at the apex of Turn 2, with the impact tearing a gash in the left sidepod of the Red Bull before the Dutch driver then ...Keep reading
Quartararo has spent the entirety of the Jerez weekend expressing his unhappiness at the 2023 Yamaha package, which he said on Friday had steadily lost all of its strong points at the Spanish GP venue over the last four years.
The 2021 world champion, whose previous worst Jerez qualifying in MotoGP was second, struggled to 16th in Saturday’s shootout and could only manage 12th in the sprint ...Keep reading
Verstappen, who had qualified third, was hounded by fast-starting Russell into the first sequence of 90-degree left-handers of the Baku City Circuit.
An aggressive Russell tapped Verstappen's sidepod into Turn 2 and caused the Dutchman to slide, which gave Russell momentum on the stretch towards Turn 3. Verstappen then had to cede the position when he nudged Turn 3's outside wall.
The Red ...Keep reading
Saturday polesitter Leclerc launched cleanly to hold position into Turn 1 and then retained control over second-starting Perez at a safety car restart that followed AlphaTauri driver Yuki Tsunoda shedding a tyre.
But shortly after DRS was enabled, the Red Bull's straightline advantage allowed Perez to dive cleanly up the inside into Turn 1 of lap eight for the lead and the eventual win by ...Keep reading
In the first sprint race of the season, which followed a new qualifying format (see below), Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc led from pole ahead of Perez, as Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and George Russell (Mercedes) clashed over third. After a safety-car interruption, Verstappen retook third from Russell.
Perez used DRS to pass Leclerc on lap eight of 17 and pulled clear to take victory, while Leclerc ...Keep reading
Starting second, Perez slotted in behind Leclerc at the start and stuck with him through the opening lap, before the race was paused for a safety car period produced after Yuki Tsunoda hit the wall at Turn 14 on the opening lap.
The Japanese driver tore the right-rear tyre off the rim, appearing to have had contact with team-mate Nyck de Vries to damage his front wing.
A virtual safety car ...Keep reading
Binder locked horns with team-mate Jack Miller for victory in the sprint race, making a decisive move on the penultimate tour before scampering 0.428 seconds clear to the chequered flag.
Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia was second after passing Miller on the last lap to close to three points off the championship lead, after VR46 Ducati’s Marco Bezzecchi could only manage ninth in a chaotic ...Keep reading
The Ferrari Academy driver lined up ninth for Saturday’s sprint, having bagged pole for the feature race in qualifying on Friday, carving his way through the field and avoiding chaos to find himself fourth.
But the second safety car restart, caused by Roy Nissany crashing out of 11th at Turn 15 six laps from the end, saw leader Dennis Hauger, Victor Martins and Jehan Daruvala crash ...Keep reading
Hamilton created Mission 44, which has aims to improve diversity in F1 and the wider motorsport world, in 2021 in the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter protests witnessed across the world in 2020 – investing £20m of his own money at that stage.
Mission 44 is aimed at improving education and opportunities overall for black students in the UK, as well as improving diversity and ...Keep reading
The American driver had done enough in SQ1 to make it through to the second qualifying segment, ending the first session in 11th, but struck the wall at Turn 15 late on, leaving him set to start the sprint race in 15th place.
The impact with the barriers on the downhill exit damaged his car, with his right rear corner being ripped off, but Sargeant suffered no injuries.
Despite there being ...Keep reading
A late standing restart at the recent Australian Grand Prix led to chaos as drivers struggled on cold tyres, and that triggered a spate of collisions at the first corner that brought out a fresh red flag.
Following lengthy discussions in Friday night’s F1 drivers’ briefing in Azerbaijan, it is understood that Fernando Alonso suggested a tweak to procedures that could be brought in to play ...Keep reading
Espargaro snatched his first pole of the 2023 season in a dramatic qualifying at Jerez, the Spaniard beating KTM’s Jack Miller by 0.221 seconds with a final lap of 1m37.216s.
Light rain started to fall prior to the 15-minute pole shootout getting underway, with that precipitation carrying on for the first half of Q2.
Espargaro was unable to test the conditions on wet tyres first because he ...Keep reading
Adding to what has already been a troubled weekend for the French manufacturer, with Pierre Gasly starting 19th for both the sprint and main race following mechanical problems and a crash on Friday, the squad was hit by further woes on Saturday.
Ocon had qualified 13th for the sprint, one spot behind where he will line up for the race, but he will now no longer take up his place on the ...Keep reading
Formula 1 and the Baku City Circuit organisers behind the race have been in negotiations over a new deal to keep the six-kilometre street venue on the calendar, with "positive" talks having been ongoing throughout the F1 weekend.
Baku has been able to entice a sell-out crowd to the 2023 race, helped by the introduction of a new sprint format featuring standalone qualifying and race sessions on ...Keep reading
The Monegasque, who started third in Bahrain and qualified second-fastest in Saudi Arabia, beat Red Bull to the top spot for the first time this season, before repeating the feat on Saturday morning in F1's first-ever sprint qualifying in which he also claimed pole.
The result came after Ferrari endured a difficult weekend in Australia, and in the aftermath of the news of the impending ...Keep reading
The Briton had a frustrating time in Friday qualifying at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix as a mistake on his final Q2 run left him knocked out of the session and down in 11th on the grid.
But, without having been allowed to change car settings much because of parc ferme rules, Russell was able to put in a much more competitive performance as he grabbed a place on the second row in Saturday morning's ...Keep reading
In a special press conference on Saturday at the MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix, Dorna Sports and the FIM unveiled this new championship.
The FIM Women’s World Championship will take place over six rounds in 2024 in Europe and will be part of the World Superbike support bill.
The series will be a single-make championship, though no manufacturer has been lined up. It is hoped the level of bike ...Keep reading
Ahead of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, AlphaTauri revealed that Tost would be stepping down at the end of this season, with his Italian outfit to be run by Ferrari sporting director Mekies and new CEO Peter Bayer.
But the announcement of Mekies' recruitment did not go down well at Ferrari, as it was unaware of the development. Its team principal Fred Vasseur said the timing of the press release ...Keep reading
Light rain prior to the start of the Q2 session turned qualifying on its head, with the sprinkling continuing as the riders headed out on track for the pole shootout.
In a Q2 session that saw provisional pole change hands 14 times across 15 minutes, Aprilia’s Espargaro nailed his final run to be one of the last across the line to start his last lap while conditions were at their best to ...Keep reading
The Ferrari driver had been at the top of the timesheets after the first run in the final SQ3 session, before drivers completed a cool down lap and went for a second effort.
But with the best performance having been taken out of the mandatory softs, Leclerc said that with his second effort being slower in the first sector, he went too far in trying to recover time.
“The soft was a little ...Keep reading
A 1m41.697s from Leclerc amid the first runs in the eight-minute SQ3 session proved unassailable, and a second set of laps from both Perez and Verstappen could not topple the Monegasque's searing pace around the Baku circuit.
The Red Bull duo were especially keen to be first out in the final part of qualifying, sitting at the pitlane exit for a few minutes between sessions, and immediately ...Keep reading
The two title contenders started the 42-lapper side-by-side on the front row, Kostecki getting the best of the run to Turn 1 from the outside to sweep into the lead ahead of van Gisbergen and David Reynolds.
The leading trio then continued to run in that order across a fairly tame first stint, Kostecki's advantage sitting at around half a second.
That was until the end of lap 17 when van ...Keep reading
The four-time MotoGP race winner suffered a broken shoulder blade after Luca Marini collided with him in the sprint race at the Portuguese GP in March.
Though Bastianini didn’t require surgery on the injury, it forced him to miss the Argentina GP the week after Portugal and the third round in America.
Bastianini completed a private test on a Ducati superbike on Tuesday prior to the Spanish ...Keep reading
The change is intended to give drivers a better chance of getting heat into their tyres in an attempt to avoid the sort of chaos that was seen after restarts at the last race in Australia.
Following the multiple restart incidents in Melbourne, drivers complained that they had struggled to get their tyres up to temperature for restarts while following the safety car for the initial part of the ...Keep reading
The December departure of former team boss Mattia Binotto has left Ferrari without a technical director, and it has since lost head of vehicle concept David Sanchez to McLaren.
That led new team principal Fred Vasseur to state last month that there would be no more high-profile departures, however it has now been announced that Ferrari racing director Laurent Mekies will leave one Italian ...Keep reading
Pascal Vasselon, Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe technical director, described the opening two days of the Spa 6 Hours meeting “as not our best race weekend so far”, despite Kamui Kobayashi taking pole position in the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID.
Vasselon explained that the lack of running for its pair of Le Mans Hypercars during the trio of free practice sessions will compromise its ...Keep reading
However, he insisted that the Enstone outfit has no regrets about its decision to bring a significant upgrade for the A523 to a sprint weekend, despite knowing that there would be limited time to hone it.
All teams had just the single FP1 session in which to prepare for Friday afternoon’s qualifying.
Pierre Gasly missed much of the session after a hydraulic leak caused a fire, while his ...Keep reading
Inevitably, after a warm-up lap at the start of the session, the veterans parked and let the rookies use their extra set of primary tyres to clean the track and add grip to the surface already christened with Firestone rubber thanks to the Indy NXT cars on track earlier in the afternoon.
Despite a lurid moment at Turn 9 in his #11 Chip Ganassi, Marcus Armstrong was the first to lap the course ...Keep reading
Poleman Kobayashi, who inherited the top spot after Ferrari's Antonio Giovinazzi had his best lap deleted for a track limits infringement, made the comments after Brendon Hartley crashed the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID on his first lap out of the pits at Raidillon.
Technical director Pascal Vasselon confirmed the crash was "just a classic off on cold tyres, which we know can happen".
Speaking ...Keep reading
Will Stevens logged the seventh fastest time in Friday evening's Hypercar session on the first appearance for a customer 963 LMDh in the WEC, 2.095s down on the polesitting #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID of Kamui Kobayashi.
His time was 0.601s off Kevin Estre in the lead Penske-run works Porsche in sixth, but 0.743s ahead of the sister #5 car in the hands of Fred Makowiecki.
Having not run the car ...Keep reading
As revealed by Autosport a loophole has emerged in the new sprint format regulations regarding the usage of tyres in the shootout.
Drivers are obliged to use one set of new medium tyres in SQ1, another new set of mediums in SQ2, and then a set of new softs in SQ3.
The intention was that all teams would have to save those three new sets to use on Saturday.
However the rules as published ...Keep reading
The revised colour scheme for the trio of entries run by the Porsche Penske Motorsport squad in the double-points round of the World Endurance Championship on 10/11 June celebrates the 75 years of the marque and the 100th anniversary of a race it has won a record 19 times overall.
The extra car entered in the French enduro in addition to the two full-season entries also marks the anniversary of ...Keep reading
The Red Bull driver experimented with a different approach to his final run in Q3 to get more heat into his tyres, as he aimed to hold on to the top spot he had secured earlier after the first runs.
But the plan did not work as Verstappen struggled for grip on his last effort, opening the door for Ferrari's Charles Leclerc to take a surprise pole position.
With teams having had just a single ...Keep reading
Helped by the arrival of a tweaked floor and wing changes as part of ongoing revisions to the MCL60, Norris banked the team’s best qualifying result of the year with seventh in Baku.
His time of 1m41.281s left him behind only the Ferraris, Red Bulls, Mercedes and the sixth-placed Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso, who lapped a narrow 0.03 seconds ahead of the Briton.
But Norris reckoned ...Keep reading
Giovinazzi found two tenths on a second quick lap aboard his Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar to leapfrog AF Corse team-mate Miguel Molina and Kobayashi right at the end of the 15-minute Hypercar session.
The Italian’s 2m00.777s was good enough to give Ferrari pole by just three hundredths before the time was scratched out for the infraction on the exit of Les Combes.
Kobayashi moved back to ...Keep reading
With a 1m40.203s lap at the close of the session, Leclerc chalked up his first pole of the season - his 19th in F1 - to beat the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez to the punch.
Leclerc admitted his surprise at beating the brace of RB19s to the front of the grid, but he explained that much of the groundwork had been laid by the team during the Australian Grand Prix ...Keep reading
Fresh for 2023, F1 has revamped its sprint race schedule, which makes the Saturday action a standalone event, with a new sprint qualifying session on Saturday morning replacing the previous second practice session.
Sprint qualifying will set the grid for the sprint race on Saturday afternoon.
Friday’s qualifying session therefore sets the grid for the grand prix on Sunday, and Charles ...Keep reading
The 31-time MotoGP race winner is making a wildcard appearance this weekend at Jerez with KTM, marking just his second outing since retiring from full-time competition at the end of 2018.
Though he tested recently at Jerez on the RC16, Pedrosa was still stunned when he topped FP1 with a 1m36.770s on Friday morning.
This time kept him third on the combined order come the end of the day’s ...Keep reading
Alonso and team-mate Lance Stroll struggled to maintain their excellent early-season performance in qualifying at Baku's high-speed street circuit.
Speed traces from Q3 indicated that neither driver gained top speed in Baku's two DRS zones and afterwards the pair confirmed that Aston Martin's DRS was malfunctioning.
"I think we could have been a little bit better," said Alonso, who qualified ...Keep reading
The four-time race winner broke his shoulder after a collision with Luca Marini in the sprint race at the Portuguese GP last month.
Having missed the previous two rounds due to the injury, Bastianini was cleared by doctors to race this weekend following a test on a Ducati superbike at Misano on Tuesday.
However, Bastianini struggled throughout Friday's practice sessions, ending the day down ...Keep reading
Last Sunday, the Mercedes driver teased a picture on his Instagram story wearing a face mask, which he later revealed was part of an effort to watch the season-opening British Touring Car Championship action without attracting much attention.
Although he was spotted in the paddock observing his brother’s race day preparations with his Team Hard squad, Hamilton was able to spend time trackside ...Keep reading
While Hamilton was not too disheartened to qualify fifth in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, just behind Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, the near one-second gap to poleman Charles Leclerc was an eye-opener.
And reflecting on the scale of the top-speed advantage that Red Bull has, and the way Ferrari is so quick in the middle sector, Hamilton said Azerbaijan has exposed the scale of work Mercedes needs to ...Keep reading
Vasseur was responding to ongoing speculation about Leclerc's growing frustration at Ferrari, amid suggestions that he might look elsewhere at the end of his current contract.
The Frenchman stressed that successful team projects are always built around the contribution of a driver, citing examples that included the Michael Schumacher era at Maranello, and insisted that Leclerc is fully immersed ...Keep reading
The Frenchman scored his first MotoGP pole at Jerez in 2019 as a rookie and took his first win at the track in 2020, was on course to do the same in 2021 before arm pump problems struck him, and was second in 2022.
However, at the end of Friday’s running at the Spanish GP, Quartararo was only 15th on the combined order and will have to face a volatile Q1 session in qualifying that features ...Keep reading
World champion Verstappen held on to provisional pole after the first of two hotlaps with a 1m40.445s in his Red Bull RB19, with Leclerc posting an identical lap time to go second, because the Dutchman had set the time first.
On the deciding run, Verstappen could only find a minimal improvement to a 1m40.391s, while his Ferrari rival put two tenths on him with a 1m40.203s.
It's the first ...Keep reading
Leclerc had previously set an identical Q3 time with rival Max Verstappen as both drivers notched a 1m40.445s, but it was the Red Bull racer who lapped first to provisionally hold the top spot.
But Leclerc fought back in the dying moments with a personal best first and final sector in addition to running faster than anyone through the middle part of the lap to bank a 1m40.203s to pip Verstappen ...Keep reading
Leclerc will start ahead of the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez in Sunday’s race after the one-hour qualifying session on Friday, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.
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The Ferrari driver secured his first pole of the year on his final effort of the session, a 1m40.203s, having ratcheted up his pace from a strong opening run in the last part of qualifying to prove unassailable for the two Red Bull drivers.
On their first flying runs of Q3, Verstappen and Leclerc set identical times - both crossing the timing line with a 1m40.445s apiece, with Perez a tenth ...Keep reading
The one-hour afternoon session at Jerez saw little in the way of overall lap time improvements until the closing stages, when FP2 exploded into a frantic time attack.
Espargaro was the best of the bunch with a 1m36.708s from Aprilia team-mate Maverick Vinales, while FP1 pacesetter Dani Pedrosa was third overall.
A disastrous afternoon for last year’s Spanish GP winner Bagnaia, four-time ...Keep reading
Allison has just returned to the role of technical director at Mercedes after the German manufacturer swapped Mike Elliott across to take his previous position of chief technology officer.
With Mercedes working on an aggressive update package for the current W14, Allison has taken charge of working out how best to attack future development.
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Rob Bell has never raced on the Nurburgring Nordschleife, but the Eifel region still holds some special memories for the British sportscar ace. The Nurburgring Grand Prix circuit is often viewed as the poor relation to the 12.944-mile motor racing Mecca that countless drivers (including Yvan Muller) have cited as their favourite, and has come in for plenty of criticism since it was introduced in ...Keep reading
The modifications centre around the car's sidepods, with the shape of the inlet and underbite corrected in order to improve flow to the radiators, coolers and ancillaries housed within. The reshaping will obviously have a bearing on the external flow stream too.
Red Bull has achieved this by widening the aperture and raising the leading edge of the underbite, which alters the aspect ratio, but ...Keep reading
The 2019 world champion once again showed flashes of speed in Croatia last weekend on his way to finishing second, 27s behind eventual winner Toyota’s Elfyn Evans.
Tanak finished fifth on debut driving the Puma in Monte Carlo in January, before going on to win on snow in Sweden in February.
Last month, the Estonian fought back from a mechanical issue to claim ninth on Mexico’s gravel ...Keep reading
The rule in question relates to tyre usage for the three-part Saturday shootout session that determines the grid for the sprint later in the day.
The intent of the rule is that teams have to use new medium tyres in SQ1 [Sprint Shootout Q1] and again in SQ2, and then use new softs for the final SQ3 session.
However, the rule as written doesn’t actually oblige teams to save a new set of ...Keep reading
As the only chance to get prepared for all of the competitive sessions to come this weekend, a big queue formed at the end of the pitlane ahead of the 60-minute session getting underway, headed by Verstappen.
The first time was set by AlphaTauri’s Nyck de Vries, which established the leading benchmark at 1m49.541s.
De Vries and his team-mate Yuki Tsunoda were the only runners using the ...Keep reading
Times set early in the one-hour session were around 20 seconds off the dry pace set on Thursday, but improved steadily before a final flurry of quick times saw several different manufacturers take turns atop the leaderboard.
It was Kobayashi’s #7 GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar that ended up fastest with a 2m08.702s effort, despite the Japanese running wide at Blanchimont after he passed a GTE ...Keep reading
The Honda rider has been absent since fracturing his hand in the controversial collision with Miguel Oliveira in the first grand prix of the season in Portugal that has led to a long-running appeal process to have a double long lap penalty overturned.
Marquez underwent surgery at the Clinica Ruber Internacional in Madrid immediately after the Portuguese GP, where he was operated on by Dr. Roger ...Keep reading
Pedrosa won 31 MotoGP races in an illustrious career in the premier class that spanned from 2006 to 2018, all of which being run as a factory Honda rider.
Since retiring, Pedrosa has been a KTM test rider and made a one-off wildcard outing in 2021 at the Styrian GP – in which he was 10th after being involved in a fiery crash with Aprilia's Lorenzo Savadori in an aborted race ...Keep reading
The race, held on a high-speed course around the city of Baku, has been characterised by its action-packed races to become something of a modern classic in F1's current cast of circuits.
Having achieved a sell-out crowd for the first time in its history, the 2023 edition of the Baku race also features F1's first trials of its new sprint weekend format, featuring standalone qualifying for the ...Keep reading
F1 has tweaked the format for this weekend's first sprint event of the 2023 season in Baku, with a single free practice session on Friday followed by qualifying for Sunday's grand prix.
Saturday now features a shorter sprint qualifying 'shootout' for the afternoon's sprint race, meaning drivers will get thrown right into competitive action in the morning without a practice session to warm ...Keep reading
The Woking-based squad admitted at the launch of its new MCL60 that it had not hit the performance targets it wanted with its 2023 challenger and was working on a major overhaul.
The result of those efforts has now appeared in Baku, with a raft of tweaks aimed at both improving the car and making it better suited to the low-drag demands of the high-speed street circuit.
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Le Mans Endurance Management, a subsidiary of Le Mans organiser the Automobile Club de l'Ouest that runs the WEC and ELMS, signed the deal with the Belgian track ahead of this weekend's third round of the 2023 WEC.
Spa has been a mainstay of the world championship since 2012, when the WEC began in its current guise, and marked the debut outing of the new Hypercar class when it hosted the first ...Keep reading
In response to Mercedes’ ongoing ground-effects struggles with the W14 car at the start of the 2023 season, Allison has reverted to his previous 2021 position of technical director.
This enables him to take a more hands-on role with influencing current car development, while Elliott now holds a longer-term strategic position in the capacity of chief technical officer.
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Giovinazzi’s #51 499P Le Mans Hypercar dipped under the benchmark time set in opening practice by Sebastien Buemi’s #8 Toyota GR010 LMH, posting a best lap of 2m01.871s.
That proved 1.278s faster than Molina in the second Ferrari, which spent much of the first half of the session in the garage before its 2m03.149s lap.
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Jim Hurtubise was the man who warned them all. He set a four-lap qualifying average of 149.056mph on the fourth day of time trials for the 1960 Indianapolis 500 – a new record and about 2.5mph faster than Eddie Sachs’s polewinning average from a week earlier. Then he informed anyone who’d listen that there was someone even better coming soon…
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The new sprint format, which will leave a sole practice session over the weekend as Saturday's sessions have been switched to sprint qualifying and race sessions, will be put to the test for the first time in Baku before being used in five more races this year.
The Spaniard, who has enjoyed a great run of form in his opening three races at a much-improved Aston Martin team, has finished the ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion slid out of the Americas Grand Prix two weeks ago while leading, marking the fourth time he has done this since 2020.
Crashing twice in three grands prix in 2023, Bagnaia in Austin blamed his falls on the new Ducati being too stable, which meant it was harder to feel the front end.
On the eve of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, Bagnaia somewhat backtracked on ...Keep reading
That was one of the obvious questions to emerge when the former’s planned move to Faenza was announced on Wednesday in the wake of rumours about his possible departure.
Vasseur remains bullish, insisting in essence that Ferrari is a big organisation and that it’s not about individuals.
However, there’s no doubt that Vasseur saw his fellow Frenchman and long-time friend as one of his ...Keep reading
Scrutiny over calls made by F1 race control ramped up after the chaotic end to the Australian Grand Prix, which was red-flagged three times and then restarted to finish under the safety car.
Russell, who is a director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association (GPDA), said that the biggest concern was an apparent lack of consistency in some of the decisions.
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The world champion has made no secret of his dislike for sprint race events, and remarks he made on the topic at the Australian Grand Prix were interpreted by some as being a quit threat over them.
But ahead of the first F1 sprint weekend of the year in Baku, Verstappen has shed some light on his true thought process regarding his future in grand prix racing after his current contract runs out ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion fractured the first metacarpal of the thumb in his right hand in a controversial collision with Miguel Oliveira during the Portuguese Grand Prix season-opener last month.
Following immediate surgery to stabilise the fracture, the Honda rider has been sidelined and will miss this weekend's Spanish GP at Jerez.
After scans on Tuesday, Marquez was told it was "too ...Keep reading
The 2022 Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year winner has become the latest member of the Formula 1 team’s junior line-up, alongside 2021 Award winner Zak O’Sullivan.
Browning currently competes for Hitech Pulse-Eight in Formula 3, and sits 10th in the drivers’ standings with 14 points and a best finish of fifth in Bahrain.
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The 2023 season was billed to be the longest in MotoGP history at 21 events, though has been cut back by one after the FIM and Dorna Sports announced on Wednesday that the inaugural Kazakhstan GP had been cancelled due to homologation hurdles.
The new campaign kicked off on 26 March in Portugal and will run to 26 November in Valencia.
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Mercedes, Ferrari and Aston Martin were closely matched over the first three races of 2023, taking turns to lead the pursuit of Red Bull in qualifying and races, with the three teams clearly a step ahead of the rest.
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Bastianini suffered a broken shoulder blade in a collision with VR46 Ducati rider Luca Marini on the second lap of the sprint race at the season-opening Portuguese GP last month.
The Ducati rider was ruled out of the remainder of the Portugal weekend and underwent further checks on his shoulder, which determined he would not need surgery.
However, Bastianini was unable to take part in the ...Keep reading
The Monegasque driver has scored just six points in 2023, for seventh place in Saudi Arabia, after being forced out of the races in Bahrain and Australia.
But as well as his Ferrari squad facing challenges in making its SF-23 car quicker, the Maranello outfit has faced upheaval with the resignation of senior figures including car concept chief David Sanchez and sporting director Laurent ...Keep reading
Buemi jumped to the head of the timesheets after a 12-minute red flag midway through session aboard the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar with a 2m02.982s that gave him a margin of more than a second and a half over Ferrari driver Antonio Fuoco.
Fuoco also set his time in the #50 Ferrari 499P LMH, a 2m04.632s, straight after the red to sneak ahead of the second Toyota of Jose Maria ...Keep reading
“I’d like to say it was mapped out and planned, but it wasn’t. We only intended to get a race trailer and GT3 Audi, and have some fun. I sometimes wonder how we ended up here!”
Ex-Formula 3000 and endurance racer Richard Dean is pretty honest about the modest origins of the United Autosports squad he set up with current McLaren boss Zak Brown in 2009. It may only have been intended to ...Keep reading
The unpredictability of sport is what keeps fans coming back for more. And while the race results from the recent Formula E double-header in Berlin followed a somewhat familiar pattern, with New Zealanders Mitch Evans and Nick Cassidy taking the spoils for Jaguar and Envision Racing respectively, qualifying saw what might have been the biggest surprise of the season so far.
Abt Cupra is ...Keep reading
Following approval at this week’s F1 Commission meeting, this weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix will witness a revamped schedule.
Saturday’s running will be completely standalone from the rest of the weekend, with there being a sprint shootout qualifying session in the morning followed by the short race in the afternoon.
The change means that teams will lose the normal Saturday morning ...Keep reading
Marathon effort: Bower's extraordinary challenge
Two-time Pre-’93 Touring Car champion Ian Bower last weekend attempted the extraordinary challenge of racing at Brands Hatch and competing in the London Marathon on the same day.
Bower started Saturday’s Pre-’93 race but his Sunday plan was derailed by a timetable change. The category’s second race was brought forward by nearly two ...Keep reading
Should the legendary Italian team stick or twist? It’s clear that Red Bull has gone down the right aero path and that Mercedes needs to change its concept, but Ferrari sits somewhere in the middle – even Carlos Sainz and team boss Fred Vasseur don’t seem to entirely agree on what to do next.
On paper, things look bad for Ferrari – it currently sits fourth in the constructors’ table ...Keep reading
But the impact of the changes are being felt much further down the road in Maranello too, as it has provided yet another headache for Ferrari and its new team principal Fred Vasseur.
With Italy’s most famous squad already facing a challenge in turning around the form of the SF-23 to take the fight to Red Bull, the departure of Mekies is far from ideal.
For with Ferrari having ...Keep reading
The asphalt round joined the WRC in 2021 and has quickly built a reputation as one of the most challenging tarmac rallies on the schedule.
Last weekend’s rally won by Toyota’s Elfyn Evans, held in front of a healthy four-day crowd, was the event’s last of its current contract.
PLUS: How Evans ended his WRC drought in Croatia
However, WRC event director Simon Larkin has indicated ...Keep reading
Last year the second of two DRS activation points was drawn 347 metres past Turn 20, the final flat-out kink leading onto Baku's ultra-long main straight.
For 2023, the race director's circuit map shows the point has now been pushed back by 100 metres to 447m after Turn 20, in effect reducing the distance the drag reduction system can be used on the main straight.
The detection point remains ...Keep reading
A change before the Spa 6 Hours, round three of the 2023 WEC, was the only opportunity for revision in the first half of the season under a new BoP system introduced for 2023.
The BoP for the first four races up to and including Le Mans was set ahead of the season-opener at Sebring in March, with a shift in the balance between the Le Mans Hypercars and LMDh machinery being the only permissible ...Keep reading
They were agreed between rule makers the FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest and the manufacturers on Wednesday afternoon ahead of the start of practice on Thursday for this weekend’s Spa round of the championship.
The move follows the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID losing 11 minutes in the pits early in the second hour of the Portimao WEC round earlier this month when a rear driveshaft torque ...Keep reading
Bowman, who turned 30 this week, was competing in the Limit Sprint Car Series at 34 Raceway in Iowa when the crash occurred.
He flipped multiple times after colliding with Conner Morrell, and suffered a compression fracture of a vertebra.
Hendrick Motorsports expects him to be out of action for three to four weeks.
He is not the first HMS driver sidelined by an ...Keep reading
AlphaTauri has announced that Tost will step down as team principal at the end of the 2023 season, with Mekies due to return to the Italian squad in his place - and will join the team at an undisclosed date.
In addition, former FIA executive director Peter Bayer will join AlphaTauri later this season as its CEO, with his remit to oversee the strategic direction of the team across both its ...Keep reading
The ORECA-chassised Acura has been the standout car in the IMSA SportsCar Championship, although crashes have blunted its race results since scoring a 1-2 finish in the Daytona 24 Hours.
Built to LMDh regulations, it has regularly outpaced rivals Cadillac and Porsche that will race at this year’s centenary Le Mans 24 Hours in June.
But the situation is clouded by Acura being an ...Keep reading
Former Porsche factory driver Rockenfeller, who set a distance record that still stands on his way to Le Mans victory in 2010 aboard Audi's R15-plus, will race the 2021 Sebring 12 Hour-winning team's newly-delivered car from the 12-14 May Laguna Seca round onwards.
He will share with 19-year-old Dutchman Tijmen van der Helm, who finished fourth in the LMP2 class on his Le Mans debut in 2022 and ...Keep reading
A pole position margin of 2.6 seconds does not usually bode well for a race, particularly one scheduled to last for 180 minutes. But those hardy few who stayed at Snetterton last Sunday to see the revived Autosport 3 Hours were rewarded with an exciting and unpredictable contest.
Not for the first time in our sport, one key ingredient was a change in the weather, even though the rain caused one ...Keep reading
Indeed, even F1’s pacesetting team itself joined in the fun when its motorsport director Helmut Marko joked earlier this year that it has been nice to see ‘three Red Bulls’ on the podium.
While such comments are easy to make, and have certainly been fuelled by the team’s technical director Dan Fallows having previously worked at Red Bull, the reality of the Aston Martin AMR23 shows it ...Keep reading
Created by Damon Hill OBE and in recent years closely overseen by Derek Warwick, both of whom are former BRDC Presidents, the programme has a strong record of results with SuperStars chalking up an impressive total of 384 wins, 1,558 podiums and 342 pole positions, with over 45 drivers becoming full-time professionals during their time on the programme.
Martyn Lee and Kevin Turner sit down with ...Keep reading
The world rally champion finished fourth on Croatia’s asphalt roads after a difficult event that was hampered by a lack of outright pace on Friday and a wheel failure.
Rovanpera lost more than two minutes when he struck the same pothole on stage 2 as Toyota team-mate Sebastien Ogier, who also suffered a flat tyre.
The Finn however struggled to find the sweet spot in his GR Yaris until ...Keep reading
For all the impressive drives during his domination of British Formula 4 last year, Alex Dunne never scored a win quite like one Louis Sharp achieved at Donington Park last weekend. Starting 20th on the fully reversed grid for race two, Sharp’s expectations were low. Yet he kept his head in tricky wet conditions and claimed a remarkable victory.
The Rodin Carlin driver admitted he was “very ...Keep reading
De Vries was brought in for the 2023 F1 season alongside Yuki Tsunoda to replace the experienced Pierre Gasly, who was tapped up by Alpine.
De Vries is an F1 rookie, with just one previous grand prix start to his name, when he stood in for the injured Alex Albon at last year's Italian Grand Prix.
Tsunoda, now in his third season, is the team's more experienced driver in F1 terms, but the ...Keep reading
This year was meant to mark a record-breaking year for MotoGP, as it embarked on what was supposed to be its longest season ever at 21 rounds.
MotoGP added two new events to the provisional schedule for 2023, pending final sign-off at the track homologation stage, with Kazakhstan and Indian rounds joining the fray.
The Kazakhstan GP was due to take place on the 9 July at the new Sokol ...Keep reading
Virtual simulation isn’t a new concept in motorsport, but it’s one that has gone from being the domain of multi-million-pound space-age Formula 1 team factories a couple of decades ago to something achievable on a £70 game disc you can buy on the high street.
In the last decade or so, the home console racing simulation experience has exploded into new realms. Titles like Grand Turismo ...Keep reading
So, with F1 having approved plans on Tuesday for an overhaul of its sprint race weekend format, teams will be studying the revised regulations to ensure that they are on the front foot and ready to go into battle in Baku this weekend.
While the FIA has announced outlines for the revised sprint weekend format – which includes the new Sprint Shootout qualifying session – it is the formal ...Keep reading
The idea of cars running LED wheel covers to display extra information to fans has been considered for several years, and the option was even there in the rules for them to be introduced for racing if the technology was ready.
As long ago as the 2021 post-season test in Abu Dhabi, McLaren trialled the LED light system on its cars, amid hopes that they could be used to help fans better ...Keep reading
After a difficult start to the season, the car showed signs of progress in Australia, helped by an issue for Sergio Perez in qualifying, which saw George Russell take second on the grid and Lewis Hamilton finished runner-up in the race.
But speaking on the F1 Nation podcast Allison, who has returned to the technical director role after a job swap with Mike Elliott, said the car’s performance ...Keep reading
Kondo, who took over the chairmanship of Super Formula promoter JRP this month, made the comments in an informal media gathering held ahead of last weekend’s Suzuka race.
The former racing driver and current team owner, whose Kondo Racing squad competes in both Super Formula and Super GT, said previous attempts to arrange such an event were undone by the series’ unwillingness to race in the ...Keep reading
The UK has become a backbone of rallying’s top flight, appearing on the inaugural calendar in 1973 and holding a spot on the schedule until 2019 courtesy of Rally GB, formerly known as the RAC Rally.
However, the event dropped off the calendar in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and has failed to return.
PLUS: How Evans ended his WRC drought in sombre Rally Croatia
A bid fronted ...Keep reading
The SR1 was first conceived in 2012 and has acted as an entry point for drivers wishing to race prototype machinery.
It will now undergo an upgrade courtesy of the XXR modifications, which have already been implemented on Radical's SR3 and SR10 models.
The changes include a new aerodynamic design in the form of a central LMP-inspired ‘fin’ and a new engine, the Generation 5 1340cc power ...Keep reading
Having undergone surgery on his right thumb a day after the Portuguese GP on 27 March, Marquez visited the Ruber Internacional Hospital in Madrid again this week to get an update on his health.
The medical team led by Dr. Roger de Ona deemed his clinical and radiological progression as satisfactory, but concluded that he needed more time to fully recover from the injury.
As such, it has been ...Keep reading
A fallow period on-track belies teams working to sign off upgrades to be manufactured and freighted to Azerbaijan.
With the hole in the calendar meaning fewer races have been run at this point in the year, it allows any new parts to be bolted on sooner and improve performance for a greater amount of time. Add in a cost cap that deters expensively transporting excess items to the Middle East ...Keep reading
Mercedes’ ongoing troubles in F1’s new ground-effect era are the subject of GP Racing’s cover story this month, written by Pat Symonds – formerly Michael Schumacher’s race engineer and one of the consultants responsible for F1’s new ruleset.
When Mercedes talks about its development direction being “a dead end” and that “a new concept” is required, what does that actually ...Keep reading
The change, which comes part way into a record-breaking season of 23 races, is set to reduce the number of grid penalties applied for the use of extra PU elements in the latter part of the campaign.
With immediate effect, each driver is allowed to use four rather than three examples of the internal combustion engine, turbo, MGU-H and MGU-K within this season before penalties kick in.
The ...Keep reading
Competing in Croatia less than a week following Craig Breen’s shock passing was always going to be incredibly difficult. But the World Rally Championship should be proud of its fitting tribute and celebration of one of its most loved characters.
Emotions were still raw in the service park while many still struggled to accept the loss of the factory Hyundai driver, who died whilst preparing to ...Keep reading
The new format will be used for the first time this weekend in Azerbaijan, the first of the six sprint weekends on the 2023 schedule, with the Austrian, Belgian, Qatar, USA and Sao Paulo events to follow.
The changes have been designed to create a standalone Saturday event that doesn't impact the grid for Sunday's main race in an attempt to encourage drivers to push harder, as a mistake will be ...Keep reading
In what has been a difficult start to the 2023 season for Honda, Rins ended the Japanese marque’s victory drought when he won last week’s Americas Grand Prix.
It capped off a weekend in which Rins was also second in the sprint contest, and has vaulted him to third in the standings – 40 points clear of the next-best Honda, LCR team-mate Takaaki Nakagami, in 17th.
While Rins has had ...Keep reading
Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly made heavy contact with the wall after they touched following the final grid restart in Melbourne.
The incident caused extensive damage to both cars, but the Alpine factory started immediately replenishing its stock of spares, taking advantage of the three-week break between races.
Szafnauer admits that there was a risk that the extra work might delay the Baku ...Keep reading
Until his 2023 appointment at the helm of Williams, Vowles served two decades at Brackley, rising to the ranks of Mercedes chief strategist and latterly its motorsport strategy director.
Beyond influencing in-race strategy, Vowles co-managed the Three-Pointed Star’s junior driver roster in his former position and steered the manufacturer’s presence in other categories.
He was considered ...Keep reading
After missing out on the final qualifying phase by five-thousandths of a second, and then dropping fighting back from 19th to seventh place on Saturday, Vergne was hungry for revenge on Sunday.
"The first race was really complicated," said the French driver. "Everyone wants to preserve their energy by staying in the pack, I was hit several times and I even spun out. At the end of the day I was ...Keep reading
Jota and JDC-Miller received one example each of Porsche’s hybrid contender on Friday, a day after Matt Campbell shook down both cars around the German marque’s Weissach testing facility.
It makes Porsche the first manufacturer to supply an LMDh or an LMH car to a privateer, having stated from the very beginning of the project that it wants customer entries to complement the factory Porsche ...Keep reading
After a difficult start to the 2023 season for the W14, Allison has traded his previous chief technical officer role with erstwhile technical director Mike Elliott.
In essence, it means that Allison will now have a more hands-on approach with the car and the current racing programme while Elliott will take a longer-term strategic view.
Allison previously served as technical director before ...Keep reading
Masaaki Bandoh, chairman of SUPER GT promoter GTA, travelled to the ADAC’s headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany on February 28 to pitch a new category of cars that would sit above current GT3 machinery.
The idea is to come up with a set of regulations that will be attractive to championships across the globe, including IMSA in North America, thus making each series more viable to ...Keep reading
There aren't too many 97-year olds that retain a capacity for constant reinvention to keep up with the times. But the Le Mans 24 Hours is a great exception to that norm and organising body the Automobile Club de l'Ouest has proven time and again over the years that it is not afraid to embrace change, with last weekend's Virtual edition of the race the latest example.
From the controversial ...Keep reading
The 33-year-old factory Hyundai WRC driver tragically died in a testing crash in preparation for Rally Croatia a fortnight ago.
Hyundai team principal Cyril Abiteboul explained the details of the accident last week, revealing that a fence post had intruded the cabin of the i20 N. The team is working alongside the FIA in carrying out a full investigation into the incident.
PLUS: How Evans ...Keep reading
Whether you want to call McLaren a fallen giant or a just sleeping one, it has to be said CEO Zak Brown and new team principal Andrea Stella are leaving no stone unturned to wake it back up.
After noticing his team was falling behind on development through 2022, Brown gave Stella the remit to come up with a new technical structure, replacing technical director James Key and empowering ...Keep reading
The car is a one-off build – which looks like a reimagining of a Group B rally car – and was conceptualised by the engineering brainboxes at Honda Performance Development in Santa Clarita, California.
Built at Honda’s Automotive Development Center in Ohio by the Honda of America Racing Team, ‘The Beast’ is being unleashed in the wild at selected IndyCar events this year ...Keep reading
Ogier is contesting a part-time campaign for the second consecutive season after bowing out as a full-time driver to spend more time with his family following his eighth world title in 2021.
The 39-year-old competed in six rallies last year and has already participated in three events this season, winning rounds in Monte Carlo and Mexico to lead the championship.
Last weekend Ogier finished ...Keep reading
The reigning Formula 2 champion set a 1m05.509s lap during Monday afternoon’s running to lead the day ahead of Nissan's reigning F3 champion Victor Martins.
Drugovich was only 0.208s slower than the quickest time of the Berlin E-Prix double-header weekend set by fellow Maserati MSG driver Maximilian Guenther in FP2 for Saturday's race.
The Brazilian had finished 12th in the morning ...Keep reading
As revealed by Autosport earlier this month, Massa has been spurred into action by comments from former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone suggesting that knowledge of the controversial 'crashgate' moment at the 2008 Singapore GP came early enough for action to be taken that season.
However, by the time that Nelson Piquet Jr.'s deliberate crash that helped Renault team-mate Fernando Alonso win was ...Keep reading
Under proposed plans to allow for greater tactical decision-making during races, drivers would be required to make a mandatory pitstop where they would recharge four kilowatt hours of energy within 30 seconds via a 600kW "booster".
The concept was originally looked at being implemented for this season with the new-for-2023 Gen3 cars, but this has now been postponed as reported by Autosport's ...Keep reading
Baku is the first F1 sprint event to be held on a street circuit, and the chances of accidents occurring have been ramped up by the decision to make the sprint a standalone event.
That is being done largely to encourage drivers to take more risks and produce a better show on Saturday because there will be no impact on their grid positions for Sunday’s main event.
As an extra challenge, the ...Keep reading
F1 sparks back into life after a month-long break due to the cancellation of the Chinese Grand Prix. The Baku event begins a run of five races across six weeks, while the majority of teams are expected to deliver a raft of upgrades in the coming rounds which may shake-up the pecking order.
During the impromptu break Ferrari saw its attempt to overturn Carlos Sainz’s Australian GP penalty ...Keep reading
The Abt Cupra squad has endured a difficult start to the season with the new-for-2023 Gen`3 machines having decided relatively late to return to the championship after a year away.
It’s left the German outfit, which is using the Mahindra powertrain, generally at the back of the field in the races with neither Muller nor his team-mate Robin Frijns scoring any points this season ahead of the ...Keep reading
However, some prefer to do things that take them out of their comfort zone and that provide not only a useful distraction from the pressures associated with their profession, but that can also lay the foundations of the life that will follow their retirement.
The classic example is Lewis Hamilton, who has a wide range of interests in clothing, music, food and now movie production. The ...Keep reading
Breen was complementing his WRC third driver commitments for the Hyundai factory squad by running the Portuguese national series for the Hyundai Portugal squad in an i20 N Rally 2 car.
Following Breen’s tragic passing in a crash preparing for last weekend’s WRC round in Croatia, the Hyundai Portugal squad has now confirmed it will continue to field two cars in the championship with Meeke to ...Keep reading
The HoR team won the IMSA GTD class title last year with Roman de Angelis, and took class victory in this year's Daytona 24 Hours ahead of the leading GTD Pro crews with its Aston Martin Vantage GT3.
It will field a GTE-spec Vantage for the first time at Spa for Ian James, Alex Riberas and Daniel Mancinelli after taking over the GTE Am class entry previously held by Dalla Lana, who has called ...Keep reading
Last week, the magazine Die Aktuelle featured a story claiming to be Schumacher's first interview since his 2013 skiing accident.
The magazine's front cover featured a picture of a smiling Schumacher promising a "first interview". Inside it went on to present a story with mock quotes generated by AI technology, with the tagline "it sounded deceptively real".
The jarring piece upset the ...Keep reading
Titled 'Idols', the film's script will recreate fictitious races supported by real images of the three world championship categories - MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3.
Some will be edited, while others will be shot specifically for the film during future grand prix weekends.
The film's main protagonist is a Moto2 rider who comes to the world championship from the FIM JuniorGP series, and is ...Keep reading
With the team open to the fact that it has gone down the wrong path with the design of its 2023 F1 car, it is inevitable that the most visual of changes will be the biggest evidence of it doing things differently.
But amid plenty of chatter about ‘concepts’ in Formula 1, Mercedes has been eager to emphasise that there is a big difference between a shift in how a car looks and a proper ...Keep reading
Wallace was leading at the start of the final lap of overtime Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway, when Ryan Blaney's Penske Ford got a strong run entering Turn 1 and attempted to pass.
Blaney went low and high and was blocked both times by Wallace’s 23XI Toyota. On the third block attempt, Blaney had seen enough and made contact with Wallace who was sent up the track and into the ...Keep reading
Alonso joined Aston Martin after a dismal 2022 campaign in which the Silverstone team finished seventh with just 55 points.
While it made encouraging development progress throughout last season, its giant leap in 2023 has been one of the talking points of the year so far, with the Spaniard bagging three consecutive podiums as Aston heads to Baku sitting second in the standings.
The team of ...Keep reading
Wallace's 23XI Toyota led the way on the start of the final lap in second overtime, but Blaney was closing fast to challenge for the lead.
Wallace moved high, then low to block and finally on the third attempt got hit by Blaney to trigger a multi-car wreck that ended the race under caution.
Busch, who had lined up third to start the second overtime, was ahead of Blaney when the ...Keep reading
A slow launch from George Russell to trigger contact with the AlphaTauri of Pierre Gasly sent the Mercedes spinning into Zhou on the approach to the Turn 1 right-hander.
The collision with rookie Zhou was enough to flip his car, which then skated on its roll hoop across the asphalt before digging in through the gravel trap.
The Alfa then became airborne to clear the tyre barrier until it was ...Keep reading
The Yorkshireman made the most of being gifted the reversed-grid pole position, and led from lights to flag in wet conditions at the wheel of his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST.
It wasn’t easy for him early on – Tom Ingram speared down the inside of Colin Turkington into the Old Hairpin on the opening lap and, once an early safety-car period had ended, he applied pressure to ...Keep reading
Neuville left nothing on the table as he produced a blistering run to edge Toyota’s Kalle Rovanpera by 0.9s in stage 20 to claim the five bonus World Rally Championship points on offer.
It was an emotionally-charged run following the disappointment of falling short of the overall rally victory, that he and the team were dreaming of to honour Breen, who died in crash during pre-event testing ...Keep reading
The Briton entered the Berlin double-header second in the standings but had not finished in the points since January following a number of incidents.
Dennis was running towards the front in Saturday’s race at the Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit when he lost control heading into Turn 6 and collected Antonio Felix Da Costa, later blaming a braking issue.
The much-needed result finally came ...Keep reading
The Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit in Germany was holding a double-header this weekend, which marked the halfway point in the championship’s 16-race calendar.
As drivers performed burnouts before taking their positions on the grid, headed by both Abt machines after a shock qualifying performance, several protestors entered the track from the far side of the circuit.
The start procedure ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver scored a first WRC win since Finland in October 2021 after he and co-driver Scott Martin came through to chalk up a comfortable 27.0s victory over M-Sport’s Ott Tanak on Croatia’s asphalt stages.
Evans labelled the win as “insignificant” after he crossed the finish line at the final stage, as the rally community mourns the loss of factory Hyundai driver Breen who died ...Keep reading
A race on the famous Strip in Nevada will mark the first time that F1 and its owner Liberty Media have taken the act of race promotion in-house, rather than relying on a local third party to organise the event before the championship claims back a substantial fee.
F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has hinted that this experiment could be repeated for future new races should Vegas prove ...Keep reading
The Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N benefited from being one of those to pit at the end of the green-flag lap for wet-weather Goodyear tyres when rain made the going slippery.
Chilton was able to defeat Adam Morgan – the West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport newcomer was another to pit at the same time – by 7.394 seconds as the rain increased, making it impossible for those on slick ...Keep reading
Envision Racing’s Cassidy took what proved to be a commanding win having led for the final 16 laps of the race, maintaining his position at the head of the field while saving enough energy despite not running in the slipstream.
The Kiwi climbed from eighth on the grid after losing his qualifying duel time due to an infringement, and was never truly headed after moving to the front at the Turn ...Keep reading
Hill, who finished second in his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport, was held responsible for the incident that sidelined three-time champion Ash Sutton’s Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST.
The Kentishman has kept his second place in the results, but will start race two from fifth on the grid.
Hill made a better launch off the grid than Sutton and the polesitting Motorbase Ford of ...Keep reading
Evans and co-driver Scott Martin delivered a faultless drive to score a first win since Rally Finland in October 2021 by a margin of 27.0 seconds from Tanak on Croatia’s challenging asphalt stages.
Esapekka Lappi secured third, 58.6s adrift, to score his first podium of the season for Hyundai, who fielded a reduced two car line-up following the tragic death of its third Craig Breen in a ...Keep reading
Cammish emerged on top after a race-long battle with Jake Hill in wet conditions, and managed to work his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST past the West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport of Hill on the 19th of what became 21 laps of racing.
Hill had emerged relatively unscathed from contact with the front-row-sitting Motorbase Fords off the grid at the start of the race.
While poleman Dan ...Keep reading
The day started well for the French team DS Penske, with Jean-Eric Vergne and Stoffel Vandoorne both finishing third and fifth in practice.
"Depending on whether you look at the data for 300 kW or 350 kW, the situation is more or less to our advantage," said Eugenio Franzetti, DS Performance Director. "But I prefer not to give any predictions for the future, because sometimes it comes down to ...Keep reading
Both drivers have yet to score points this season but sensationally reached the final part of qualifying for the team’s home event in wet but gradually improving conditions.
Frijns claimed his second Formula E pole having dominated the final duel, setting a quicker time than his German team-mate in all three sectors to finish 0.632s clear, posting a 1m18.748s.
Both Abt drivers had been ...Keep reading
The two-time championship runner-up produced a measured drive across the morning’s three stages to push his advantage over M-Sport Ford’s Ott Tanak out to 28.1s ahead of the final stage.
Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi maintained third position, 1m02.7s adrift, while his team-mate Thierry Neuville returned to action after crashing out of the lead on Saturday morning.
World champion Kalle ...Keep reading
The Pramac rider was locked in a head-to-head duel with Gresini’s Enea Bastianini across the 2022 campaign to secure the factory seat being vacated by Jack Miller, who signed a two-year deal with KTM.
With Bastianini winning four races in 2022 on a 2021-spec bike and finishing third in the championship, he was given the nod to join world champion Francesco Bagnaia at the factory Ducati ...Keep reading
TOM'S driver Miyata came from 12th on the grid to pass Tsuboi around the outside of Turn 1 on the penultimate lap of the 31-lap race to seal his first win in the Japanese single-seater category.
Miyata had vaulted into contention thanks to a safety car period that was prompted when Nojiri and Oyu came to blows on the latter driver's out-lap, putting both in the barriers and out of the ...Keep reading
2021 Formula 2 champion Piastri was drafted in to replace fellow Australian Daniel Ricciardo, who failed to live up to expectations in his two seasons in the team as he struggled to come to grips with McLaren's cars.
The expectation was that highly-rated Piastri would be able to get closer to Norris than Ricciardo did from an early stage and the 21-year-old has already delivered on that ...Keep reading
The Jaguar driver, who won yesterday’s race at the Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit to make it back-to-back Formula E victories, moved to the top of the times with his final effort.
His 1m15.955s was approximately 10 seconds off the pace shown yesterday as drivers adapted to the slippery and treacherous conditions.
A red flag was deployed on the five-minute mark after Rene Rast was unable ...Keep reading
The 2019 world rally champion produced an impressive push at the start of the afternoon loop, resulting in the 2023 Rally Sweden winner cutting Evans’ rally lead from 19.1 seconds to 12.5s, before drama struck on the day's penultimate stage.
Tanak initially reported in stage 15 that he had suffered an issue with his handbrake which left the Estonian frustrated as it allowed Evans to ...Keep reading
Evans inherited a 19.1s lead on Saturday morning after Friday’s pacesetter Thierry Neuville retired for the day after crashing out in stage 11 in the morning loop.
However, Evans faced a stern challenge from Tanak in the afternoon, who reduced the gap to 12.5s before a mechanical issue struck his car in the day's penultimate stage.
Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi struggled for outright pace ...Keep reading
The Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit is holding a double-header this weekend in Berlin, with Mitch Evans taking victory and Jaguar securing a 1-2 in the opening race.
While Saturday’s event was held under perfect blue skies and bright sunshine, rain is expected for the second contest which will be the first time the Hankook tyre has been called into action during a wet race.
The South ...Keep reading
Dennis entered the Berlin double-header second in the championship standings despite having not scored a point since January.
The Briton qualified a strong fifth for the first of two races at the Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit this weekend and led at various points.
He was running sixth and attempting to pass Maximilian Gunther’s Maserati MSG machine in front heading into the Turn 6 ...Keep reading
The Kiwi led a Jaguar Racing 1-2 at the Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit after team-mate Sam Bird made a last-lap overtake on polesitter Sebastien Buemi.
While Bird also started on the front-row, Evans missed out on the qualifying duels and started down in ninth but made steady progress in the 43-lap contest which included leading briefly at the midway point of the race.
With drivers ...Keep reading
Three-time champion Sutton, starting his second season with the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus squad, led the way in the regular 30-minute qualifying session from Rowbottom to the tune of 0.135 seconds.
But in the top 10 shootout, Sutton fell foul of new track limits regulations due to be implemented this summer by governing body Motorsport UK, but which BTCC organiser TOCA elected to ...Keep reading
The 2020 championship runner-up has been under pressure to retain his factory Yamaha seat beyond 2023, having endured a lacklustre campaign in 2022 and a largely underwhelming season so far this year.
After a strong weekend in Argentina, in which he was fourth in qualifying, the sprint race and the grand prix, Morbidelli’s Yamaha future was called into question again when the Japanese marque ...Keep reading
Mitch Evans made it back-to-back Formula E wins after taking victory in the opening Berlin E-Prix as team-mate Sam Bird made it a Jaguar 1-2.
The Kiwi made the pivotal move for the lead with four laps remaining, diving to the inside of poleman Sebastien Buemi with a decisive pass into Turn 1.
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Evans, who had started ninth and ...Keep reading
The Hyundai driver was leading the rally by 10.8 seconds from Toyota’s Elfyn Evans when he went off the road 5.2km into a brand new test for this year’s rally.
Neuville misjudged a long right hander which resulted in his i20N drifting wide and into a piece of concrete which broke the left rear damper and upright which forced the Belgian to retire from Saturday’s action.
“I was trying ...Keep reading
The Northern Irishman eclipsed the quickest time of the opening session set by Ash Sutton, which had been a gargantuan 0.476 seconds clear of closest pursuer Turkington and had seemed to send out an ominous warning that the three-time title winner and the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus squad will be tough to beat in 2023.
During a run of several laps in the early stages of the lunchtime ...Keep reading
The Faenza-based team admitted it had missed some of its development targets to start the 2023 season and has been stuck near the back of the grid across the first three races.
After failing to score in the first two rounds, Tsunoda took a solitary point in a chaotic Australian Grand Prix, leaving AlphaTauri alongside Williams at the bottom of the table.
In a tight midfield the ...Keep reading
Evans started the day 5.7s behind leader Neuville but the Welshman inherited the rally lead when his Hyundai rival went off the road in stage 11, which forced the Neuville to retire from the day’s action.
The sole remaining Hyundai of Esapekka Lappi headed to service in third, 44.8s adrift.
Only 4.7s covered fourth to seventh with M-Sport’s Pierre-Louis Loubet leading the best of the ...Keep reading
Buemi gained nearly two tenths on Jaguar’s Bird in the opening sector at the Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit and extended that advantage in the second part of the lap.
Despite being fractionally slower in the final sector, Buemi’s 1m05.605s was enough to hand him his 16th Formula E pole by 0.137s as Jaguar powertrains locked out the front-row.
Bird had beaten Dan Ticktum at the ...Keep reading
The Belgian ran wide at a medium-speed right hander in stage 11 (10.13km) and clipped a rock with the rear of his I20 N, which sent the car off the road and into the trees lining the road.
Neuville and co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe emerged from the incident unscathed but the damage to the car was too severe to continue.
Neuville had started the day with a 5.7-second lead over Toyota’s Elfyn ...Keep reading
The leafy glades of Imola’s public park play host this weekend to the opening round of the 2023 Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine, and the two races – one on Saturday, one on Sunday – will properly capture the attention of single-seater aficionados and talent spotters.
Every now and then a young driver comes along surrounded by a massive buzz: think Max Verstappen in the ...Keep reading
One-lap form will be especially important in Baku as the sprint event will have its own qualifying session on Saturday, so drivers and teams will have to get it right twice.
Ferrari had the second-fastest car over one lap in both Bahrain and Saudi Arabia behind Red Bull, but it stumbled in Australia, where both Mercedes and Aston Martin were ahead.
Vasseur says that the team has to ...Keep reading
The German topped the morning session from the midway point before improving on his personal best at the very end, eventually posting a 1m05.301s which left him more than two tenths clear of Nick Cassidy.
A red flag was deployed shortly after the opening five minutes when Oliver Rowland went off at Turn 1, the Mahindra driver making light contact with the barrier but unable to get ...Keep reading
The breach occurred on stage 2 when the Toyota pairing were forced to change a wheel after hitting a compression while leading the rally.
Ogier and Landais were able to change the wheel in a little over a minute and only lost 1m32s on the stage following the stoppage.
However, it has been deemed that Ogier and co-driver Landais didn’t have their safety harnesses correctly fastened while ...Keep reading
Aitken, part of the line-up that delivered the first victory with Cadllac’s V-Series.R last month in the 12 Hours of Sebring driving for Action Express Racing, will join Bourdais and van der Zande in the #3 Cadillac for next week’s third round of the World Endurance Championship at Spa-Francorchamps.
The trio will race in the 13-car Hypercar category alongside the full-time #2 Cadillac ...Keep reading
The South Korean marque is running a reduced two car entry following the tragic death of its third driver Craig Breen in a testing accident in the lead up to the asphalt event.
The team only elected to compete in the rally after careful consideration and discussions with the Breen family, the Irishman’s surviving co-driver James Fulton, and team members.
Both cars driven by Neuville and ...Keep reading
Neuville held a 16.1s rally lead on Friday morning after early leader Sebastien Ogier suffered a wheel failure on his Toyota during stage 2, but the Belgian faced a stern challenge from Toyota’s Evans in the afternoon.
Neuville, piloting a Hyundai carrying a tribute to the late Craig Breen, witnessed his lead reduce to 5.7s over Evans heading into Saturday.
M-Sport-Ford's Ott Tanak ...Keep reading
Traditionally, just 33 cars start the Indianapolis 500, with any extra entries having to go through Bump Day during the qualifying weekend to bag a place on the starting grid. The last time this happened was in 2021.
Abel will be on the back foot since all its rivals took part in Friday's open test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, with day two cancelled due to bad weather.
Abel is ...Keep reading
The Tempelhof Street Circuit is notorious for having an abrasive surface compared to other venues on the calendar, with the previously used Michelin tyres prone to overheating there.
The French manufacturer has been replaced by Hankook as the sole tyre supplier to the championship this season. Some drivers have suggested the new compound doesn’t offer as much grip as the Michelin ...Keep reading
After finishing seventh in 2022, Aston Martin has made a major leap forward, holding second in the constructors' standings after three races by virtue of Fernando Alonso's three consecutive podiums.
It is the most significant year-on-year improvement for an F1 team in many seasons, but Stroll's ambitions reach much further.
The Canadian billionaire has been assembling a team to fight for ...Keep reading
The Andretti Autosport driver sits second in the standings – 24 points behind championship leader Pascal Wehrlein – but has not finished in the points since January when he took two second-place finishes in Diriyah.
The Brit failed to score in both Hyderabad and Sao Paulo following collisions, branding Dan Ticktum “a plonker” for the contact in the latter, while serving a penalty ...Keep reading
Having returned to MotoGP full-time in 2015 and won the championship with Joan in 2020, Suzuki made the shock announcement part way through the 2022 season that it would be ending its involvement at the end of the campaign.
Suzuki cited financial reasons as well as changing market trends as its primary reason, with the Japanese marque's withdrawal from factory-supported racing having a knock-on ...Keep reading
On Friday morning, Autosport revealed that Allison is going back to the previous position he held at the team, with his successor Mike Elliott swapping roles in the other direction and becoming the team's chief technical officer.
In several ways, this is starkly new ground for the modern Mercedes squad, in that it finds itself in such dire straits compared to its years as F1's dominator that a ...Keep reading
For two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner and long-time Formula 1 tester Alex Wurz, the question of choosing a favourite racing car isn’t dictated by whether he raced or tested it. Instead, it’s something rather more simple that is behind the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association president’s pick of the McLaren MP4-17D, a machine that narrowly missed out on the F1 world championship in 2003 with Kimi ...Keep reading
The first five places in the teams' ranking are in fact occupied by only three manufacturers. Porsche, the strong leader, and customer team Andretti in fifth, while Jaguar is in third outpaced by its customer squad Envision Racing. Fourth place, just one point behind the British manufacturer, goes to the DS Penske team.
But DS Penske has scored the most points, 75, in the last three races, on ...Keep reading
The Cheshire team has expanded to three Toyota Corolla GR Sports for 2023, with 10-time race winner Rory Butcher and Ricky Collard joined by Ciceley Motorsport BMW refugee George Gamble.
Speedworks had used the TOCA customer engine since its arrival in the BTCC in 2011, but pressed the green light on a bespoke powerplant from the Toyota range last September, with BMW and Honda supplier Neil ...Keep reading
The Belgian, driving one of two Hyundai’s carrying a special tribute livery to the late Craig Breen, ended the morning loop at the asphalt rally with a 16.1s lead over Toyota’s Elfyn Evans.
M-Sport’s Ott Tanak managed to reach service park in third, 22.1 seconds adrift despite struggling with his Ford Puma, while the sister Hyundai of Esapekka Lappi was fourth, 34.9s in arrears ...Keep reading
The switch, which forms part of a raft of changes the team is making to help it return to the front of the F1 grid, will see Allison return to the role of technical director, while Elliott is to take up the position of Chief Technical Officer.
The bold change, which comes 20 months after Allison originally moved into the CTO position, has been prompted by Elliott concluding that the skills he ...Keep reading
The series hasn't had the most dramatic of silly seasons - indeed, the top six drivers from 2022 all line up with the same teams and machinery in 2023 - but there are plenty of factors that could shake things up.
For the first time, Ash Sutton and Dan Cammish have had a full winter to work with the tech team within the Motorbase Ford line-up, ditto Jake Hill with the West Surrey Racing BMW ...Keep reading
Rast joined BMW as a factory driver in 2023, ending a 12-year association with Audi that yielded three titles in the DTM as well as victories at the Nurburgring 24 Hours and Spa 24 Hours.
Following the switch, Rast will drive the BMW M4 GT3 in the DTM this year, a car that is radically different to the Audi R8 LMS GT3 with which he finished third in the championship in 2022 with one victory at ...Keep reading
Six members of the environmental activist group broke onto the circuit during the opening lap of last year’s F1 race but a red flag owing to the crash for Alfa Romeo driver Zhou Guanyu meant the cars had slowed significantly when they passed the demonstrators on-track on the Wellington Straight.
Three of the protestors were given suspended prison sentences and the others handed community ...Keep reading
The two-time IndyCar champion lapped the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 227.686mph, 0.9mph ahead of 2008 Indy 500 winner Scott Dixon.
That’s the way it remained until very late in the session when 1Conor Daly sprung into the 227s, laying down a 227.466mph lap in his Ed Carpenter Racing entry.
Behind Dixon was Long Beach winner Kyle Kirkwood, who was fourth fastest for ...Keep reading
There's been a cloud over the short-term future of the three-time series champion recently, with van Gisbergen refusing to commit to Supercars until Gen3 had been rolled out.
His relationship with the series was further stretched earlier this year when he locked horns with Mark Skaife over being critical of the new cars.
Despite all that, the Kiwi has now formally committed to both the ...Keep reading
The 33-year-old Irishman’s career has been tragically cut short before it reached its prime. While a WRC win ultimately eluded Breen, his passion and rally knowledge was unquestionable, and his heart on the sleeve approach and quick wit made him a firm fans' favourite.
Nine WRC podiums, including six second-place finishes, proved that while he was a loveable character with an infectious ...Keep reading
After half an hour of the first two-hour session for the Indy 500 veterans, Chip Ganassi Racing’s Ericsson sat at the top of the speed charts.
Having lapped the 2.5-mile course in 40.1194s, 224.330mph, last year's Indy 500 winner was over one mile per hour clear of Colton Herta of Andretti Autosport and Dale Coyne Racing’s David Malukas.
Another former winner, Pagenaud was ...Keep reading
F1 has long been looking at format tweaks to enhance the entertainment, particularly with regards to reducing the standard grand prix format's three practice sessions and instead introduce some form of jeopardy from Friday onwards.
It is that idea that led to the introduction of sprints and FOM is now evaluating further tweaks to make Fridays more exciting.
While Steiner is one of ...Keep reading
From Esports glory to on-track promise: Lucas Blakeley
Reigning Formula 1 Esports champion Lucas Blakeley shone after making a return to Formula Ford competition at Silverstone last weekend with leading outfit Kevin Mills Racing.
The 21-year-old, who famously defeated Sebastian Vettel in a heat at the 2022 Race of Champions, held his own in United FFord against experienced ...Keep reading
Rossomondo has been brought in to replace Manel Arroyo as chief commercial officer at Dorna, having previously served as vice president of global sponsorship and media for the National Basketball Association in North America.
He was present at the Americas Grand Prix last week for the first time, with Dorna CEO Carmelo Ezpeleta describing his arrival to the series as "a new era in ...Keep reading
The revised rules have been agreed with the teams and are set to be formally approved next week and then used in Azerbaijan, the venue for the first of this season’s six sprint events.
Fridays will run to a familiar sprint pattern with FP1 followed by qualifying, but with the grid counting for Sunday’s main event.
In place of FP2 a shorter version of qualifying will be run on Saturday to ...Keep reading
The rally world has been shocked by the death of Hyundai driver Breen, who died in a testing crash last week in preparation for the asphalt event.
The fourth round of the world championship has continued albeit in a subdued and sombre manner with all drivers and teams paying tribute to the 33-year-old Irishman.
After careful consideration, which included discussions with Breen's family ...Keep reading
It's all change for 2023 with a very different feel to the British Touring Car Championship support series line-up. After over a decade with two series on the bill, Ginetta has departed. Instead, the Porsche Sprint Challenge GB Cayman series joins the support package on a full-time basis. Plus there are plenty of intriguing guest categories also due to appear.
But, even among the ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion won last year’s visit to Croatia after coming through a thrilling final stage showdown with then Hyundai driver Ott Tanak.
While the route is largely unchanged from last year, Rovanpera believes the roads are rougher and will feature more cuts with more sharp edges on the sections of differing tarmac compared to 12 months ago.
Significant rain in the lead up to ...Keep reading
McLaren has a long history of giving drivers a break into F1 – in recent years this includes Lewis Hamilton, Kevin Magnussen, Stoffel Vandoorne and Lando Norris, who this year was joined at the orange team by rookie Oscar Piastri.
Its programme has been updated to now, per a McLaren team statement, “support young drivers in their development from karting to professional racing driver with ...Keep reading
“We look like a bunch of wankers.”
It’s fair to say that a star was born when Guenther Steiner uttered words to that effect on an early season of Drive to Survive. Just as much as the Netflix documentary has propelled Formula 1 into the limelight and helped it amass a new following, so too it has done the same for the Haas F1 team principal.
T-shirts emblazoned with his face and ...Keep reading
Several years ago, McLaren operated a three-person technical structure with Tim Goss, Matt Morris and Peter Prodromou working alongside each other.
Goss and Morris later left the team, and in 2019 James Key joined as technical director with overall responsibility for the car.
The latest structure has derived from a review commissioned by CEO Zak Brown and conducted by Stella over the latest ...Keep reading
Fernando Alonso has starred to take a hat-trick of podiums – even if sometimes they’re belated – while Lance Stroll has raced well despite carrying an injury. It’s been a remarkable turnaround since the green team’s travails only 12 months ago, and it’s a story into which Alex Kalinauckas delves. Team chief Mike Krack is particularly interesting and – who knows? – perhaps Aston ...Keep reading
Lawson has switched to Japan’s top single-seater series for his 2023 campaign after two seasons in F2, causing a sensation by winning on his debut for Team Mugen at Fuji Speedway earlier this month.
The New Zealander came to Super Formula having already amassed the 40 points necessary for a superlicence through his exploits in F2, DTM and other junior single-seater series like Formula 3 and ...Keep reading
What makes it unique is that it is being promoted by Liberty Media and F1 and not by a local third party. The city and the casinos that own the land are partners, but the commercial rights holder is taking the big risks and stands to win or lose depending on how the weekend pans out.
F1's role as a promoter is a fascinating development for the series and one that established race organisers ...Keep reading
Team boss Jim Glickenhaus has revealed that the chances of the Mercedes factory driver, winner of the DTM in 2021, racing one of his two Pipo-engined 007 Le Mans Hypercars entered for the double-points round of the World Endurance Championship on 10-11 June are receding.
“I don’t see it happening, although there are still discussions,” he told Autosport.
“It’s a shame that it’s ...Keep reading
Ingram claimed the BTCC title for the first time in the final race last year at the wheel of his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N and, after the cars arrived in parc ferme, outgoing champion Ash Sutton peeled the #1 sticker off the window of his Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus ST and stuck it onto Ingram’s car.
Ingram has always raced with the #80 – his only previous outright crowns ...Keep reading
After persisting with its troubled 2022 concept, Mercedes found out even before the season started that it had likely made the wrong decision and instead devoted its development resources towards a changed floor and sidepod concept, which is being readied for next month's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola.
It remains committed to that course change, even if Hamilton and George Russell ...Keep reading
These days, team owner Michael Andretti is far more comfortable sitting in front of the media than he ever was as a driver, but still, it’s not his favourite activity. So it was a pleasant surprise to see him twice visit the Long Beach media centre last weekend. But he had good reason: at this venue where he scored his first Indy car win (1986) and his 42nd and final win (2002), he saw three of ...Keep reading
Hyundai team principal Cyril Abiteboul read a prepared statement to the media in Croatia on Wednesday to explain what happened in the incident in which Breen died last Thursday during a pre-event test on Croatian roads. Co-driver James Fulton was unharmed in the incident.
Abiteboul confirmed that the accident occurred at a relatively low speed and that the car had collided with a wooden fence ...Keep reading
The FWA, which has been established by Frank’s daughter and former deputy team principal Claire, is aiming to raise £1.5 million to kickstart its work over three initial years.
This will be aimed at improving the lives of people who have suffered a life-changing spinal cord injury and the organisation is being created in conjunction with the Spinal Injuries Association (SIA).
The SIA ...Keep reading
The Italian manufacturer has revealed an intent to make an additional Le Mans entry in the Hypercar class, for the car that Iron Lynx run in the IMSA SportsCar Championship in North America alongside the LMDh fielded in the full WEC season.
Lamborghini motorsport boss Giorgio Sanna confirmed the plan for a two-car assault on Le Mans at last weekend’s Portimao WEC round when asked about how ...Keep reading
The South Korean marque announced earlier this week that it would honour Breen, who died in Rally Croatia testing crash last Thursday, by running a special colour scheme on its entries for the fourth round of the WRC.
After careful consideration, which included discussions with Breen's family, surviving co-driver James Fulton, and Hyundai Motorsport’s crews and team members, the team decided ...Keep reading
Until now the shootout format has been used on a largely experimental basis, but for this season it will feature at five of the 10 rounds; the first two events at Donington Park and Brands Hatch, along with Oulton Park, Knockhill and Silverstone.
Hill won qualifying bragging rights in 2022 for claiming the Goodyear Wingfoot title based on qualifying points in his first season at the wheel of a ...Keep reading
Audi didn’t have to look very far when it came to finding a race team for its debut at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1999. Joest Racing would have been top of anyone’s list after back-to-back victories in the French enduro in 1996 and ’97. But how it came to be in that position – one that has resulted in 11 Le Mans wins with the German manufacturer – is a complex story of chance and ...Keep reading
Under WRC regulations teams can register three crews to be eligible to score constructer points, with only the highest-finishing two crews scoring points.
However, following the tragic death of Hyundai driver Craig Breen in testing crash last week leading up to the event, Hyundai will only field two cars this weekend, after deciding to contest the event following careful discussions with ...Keep reading
That possibility is one of the more intriguing stories to have emerged during the April break, and while it may sound a little far-fetched, history has shown that anything can happen in F1, especially when it comes to juggling team identities and power unit suppliers.
The 2026 season will see a reshuffle of engine partners with Sauber leaving Ferrari to become the works Audi outfit, and Red ...Keep reading
Pramac Ducati’s Martin ran wide at Turn 2 on the opening lap and tried to recover ground into Turn 3 when he lost the front-end and wiped out Marquez.
Marquez was taken to the medical centre for checks on his knee after he got stuck between both stricken Ducatis and hit the wall, but was cleared of any serious injury.
Though conceding he is “angry” at the missed opportunity brought ...Keep reading
Austin, which last hosted the WEC in 2020, looks to be favourite to take the all-important North American slot on the schedule in place of Sebring.
Interlagos, which was on the calendar in 2012-14, appears set to effectively replace Portimao when the series calendar goes back to its traditional eight races.
WEC boss Frederic Lequien refused to confirm any new or returning races for next year ...Keep reading
Ilott struck the Turn 1 wall on lap 6 of the race, and had to limp around a whole lap, to get his punctured right-front tyre replaced. That put him a lap down, so when the full-course caution came out for Scott Dixon being in a tyre wall on lap 20, his team delayed his first scheduled stop to allow him to get his lap back on the pack that was cruising behind the safety car.
However, a delay in ...Keep reading
New Williams boss Vowles has readily acknowledged the team must overcome years of underinvestment, which has previously led it to recruit the well-funded Nicholas Latifi, Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin.
Given F1’s popularity surge in the United States, some have labelled the signing of Sargeant – the first full-time American race driver in the series since Alexander Rossi’s four-race ...Keep reading
The WRC heads to Croatia in a sombre mood following the death of Hyundai driver Craig Breen, who succumbed to injuries sustained in a testing crash ahead of the event last Thursday.
The 33-year-old was set to make his second WRC start of the season in the third Hyundai entry, which has now been withdrawn from the event.
As a mark of respect and after discussions with Breen’s family and ...Keep reading
Barry Ryan took a huge risk at the end of 2020.
In the space of 12 months the Erebus CEO had gone from having a settled, experienced, mostly-harmonious and well-performing driver duo in David Reynolds and Anton De Pasquale to having, well, a rookie and a vacant seat. De Pasquale was poached by Dick Johnson Racing, effectively to replace IndyCar-bound Scott McLaughlin. And as for Reynolds, who ...Keep reading
It’s moments before Kevin Magnussen clonks the wall to rip off a tyre on lap 54 of 58 in the 2023 Australian Grand Prix. The shredded rubber will shortly result in a second red flag to cause the contest to descend into chaos. Anyhow, at this point, Max Verstappen leads Lewis Hamilton by almost 8.5 seconds. That margin pushes Red Bull more than a lap of its home race ahead of any rival Formula 1 ...Keep reading
The Portuguese rider was wiped out of a podium position on the third lap of last month’s opening round of the 2023 season at the Algarve International Circuit.
Oliveira suffered tendon damage on his right side as a result of the heavy hit and was forced to miss the Argentina GP the following week.
The RNF rider was cleared to race at the Circuit of the Americas and managed to score points ...Keep reading
Alpine overtook McLaren to finish fourth in 2022 and for this year its target was to be closer to third place than to fifth.
That goal took an unexpected hit due to Aston Martin's giant leap forward, with the Silverstone team second behind Red Bull after three grands prix as it demoted Alpine to sixth, currently behind Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren.
While Aston looks too far ahead ...Keep reading
The Chip Ganassi Racing driver moved to the top of the standings by finishing third behind first-time winner Kyle Kirkwood and his Andretti Autosport team-mate Romain Grosjean.
Ericsson, who started on the front row on a street course for the first time, lost out to Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden in the pits when the majority of the field stopped under yellow, and then on the lap 25 restart ...Keep reading
Ferrari chose to highlight a rare example of a driving penalty that was challenged by a right of review process, ironically by the very team that Fernando Alonso – the "victim" of the Melbourne incident – currently drives for.
It stemmed from a spectacular crash on the final lap of the 2014 Canadian GP that saw Force India's Sergio Perez and Felipe Massa of Williams make contact while ...Keep reading
The WEC organisation has outlined its strategy for putting together the grid for LMGT3, which replaces the GTE Am class in 2024, while stressing that further discussions within the FIA Endurance Commission are required before any sign-off by the World Motor Sport Council.
Under the plan, each manufacturer would be limited to a maximum of two entries and would be responsible for selecting the ...Keep reading
Five manufacturers filled the top five positions after six hours of racing in Portimao on Sunday, but as in Sebring it was Toyota that claimed the spoils.
The #8 crew of Sebastien Buemi, Ryo Hirakawa and Brendon Hartley enjoyed a one-lap advantage over the pursuing Ferrari and Porsche, while Cadillac and Peugeot also got cars to the flag before the second entries from the podium-finishers after ...Keep reading
The Australian made a good start from 10th on the grid in Sunday’s grand prix and got up to third on the opening lap behind Francesco Bagnaia and eventual winner Alex Rins.
As he tipped into Turn 7 on lap seven of 20, Miller slid out of the race, but feels the tyre conservation of the KTM would have put him into victory contention later in the race.
“I felt honestly the victory was on ...Keep reading
The FIA has dismissed the Scuderia petitioning Sainz’s five-second penalty that was awarded in Melbourne for the Spaniard hitting Fernando Alonso at the final standing restart.
With the round heavily disrupted and ultimately finishing with a procession behind the safety car, the reprimand dropped Sainz from fourth at the flag down to a point-less 12th.
Ferrari launched its right of review ...Keep reading
The French firm revealed the bold colour scheme that will adorn both of its entries for the World Endurance Championship centrepiece on Monday at the Milan Design Week event.
Spanish artist J.Demsky produced the design, which draws inspiration from the double Le Mans-winning Peugeot 905 of the early 1990s with its choice of colours.
Friday favourite: The Peugeot axis that claimed Group C’s ...Keep reading
Ferrari requested a right to review from the FIA for the five-second penalty that, due to the safety car finish in Melbourne, dropped Sainz from fourth place down to a point-less 12th.
Sainz was reprimanded by the stewards for tagging the Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso into a spin at Turn 1 of the final standing start restart, although the two-time F1 world champion was eventually restored to ...Keep reading
Ferrari had appealed to the governing body for a right to review in response to Sainz being handed a five-second penalty for tagging with Fernando Alonso during the final restart of the Melbourne race.
This came as part of several restart incidents to ultimately cause the grand prix to end behind the safety car, with the bunched train of cars causing Sainz to drop from fourth to 12th in the ...Keep reading
The British squad is due to shakedown its new LMDh machine at Weissach this week ahead of the third round of the 2023 WEC at Spa on 29 April.
Porsche factory driver da Costa will form part of the squad’s line-up for Spa alongside Ye Yifei and Will Stevens, although Matt Campbell is expected to perform shakedown duties.
The Portuguese explained that he will miss Thursday’s two practice ...Keep reading
Three days after demanding more attention from Honda regarding the development of its 2023 bike, Alex Rins brought out his best in Austin to take a resounding victory that will undoubtedly lead the Japanese marque to give him more prominence.
No matter how well the Spaniard had done in the past at the Circuit of the Americas, where he had won in all three categories that make up the world ...Keep reading
Espargaro’s rear ride height device malfunctioned on the opening lap of the Americas GP last Sunday and he was forced to navigate the opening corners with his Aprilia stuck in a lower position.
As he opened the throttle to exit Turn 12 on the first lap, Espargaro crashed and was unable to rejoin.
Espargaro says this issue has happened before with the 2023 RS-GP but normally when conditions ...Keep reading
The Australian series traditionally bases its pitlane order on finishing position in the teams' championship the previous season, with the best-placed team occupying the final garage at the pit exit end.
Cars are grouped in two to count for the teams' championship, however four-car teams are then pitted together based on their best-placed duo.
However that could change next season with the ...Keep reading
The Russian-born driver, who is currently competing under an Italian race licence, raced in F1 as part of the Red Bull driver academy for six years between 2014-2020 and achieved three podiums.
He was recently announced as a Lamborghini LMDh prototype driver ahead of the Italian marque's entrance into the top class of the World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship next ...Keep reading
Motorsport Australia and the Victorian state government announced plans for a new permanent facility in Avalon, around 50 kilometres south-west of Melbourne, last weekend.
As it stands the governing body has been promised $1.6 million of government funding to develop a case study for the venue that can then be taken back to the government to lobby for more money for the build.
A 150-hectare ...Keep reading
Major investment from the manufacturer into Sauber will allow Audi to enter F1 for 2026 with a works engine programme and race team, while sister Volkswagen Group marque Porsche has now officially put its topflight entry on hold after partnership talks failed with Red Bull and McLaren.
Audi’s arrival in F1 was conditional on the specification of new-for-2026 engine rules that do away with the ...Keep reading
F1's 2023 season started with three trips to the Arabian peninsula in four weeks for testing and the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian grands prix. It then headed to Melbourne for a standalone weekend on the other side of the world, before another planned standalone weekend in China - that has been cancelled due to COVID-19.
Next up F1 travels to Baku, which is twinned with a race in Miami the weekend ...Keep reading
Racing and test manager Giuliano Salvi conceded that the Italian manufacturer and the factory AF Corse team could have “pushed a bit more” on the second race outing for the 499P Le Mans Hypercar despite claiming second place with the entry shared by Antonio Fuoco, Nicklas Nielsen and Miguel Molina.
He explained that the cautious game plan in Sunday’s Portimao 6 Hours included the strategy ...Keep reading
After an uneven debut season that hinted at Zhou's underlying promise, the Chinese driver was retained for a second season and immediately got off to a stronger start. While he was behind Bottas in Bahrain, Zhou qualified and finished ahead of the Finn in a difficult race for Alfa Romeo in Saudi Arabia.
When both drivers struggled with unexpected balance issues in Melbourne, Zhou outqualified ...Keep reading
Rins capitalised on a second successive grand prix crash for Francesco Bagnaia to end Honda’s victory drought in MotoGP, while notching up LCR’s 100th podium.
It also marked Rins’ second MotoGP win at the Circuit of The Americas. He took his maiden premier class victory there in 2019 after defeating Valentino Rossi in a memorable head-to-head fight.
Marini took over the chase of Rins ...Keep reading
The Swiss driver started third in Long Beach and was closely tracking his polewinning Andretti Autosport team-mate Kyle Kirkwood for most of the race. But having pitted a lap before Kirkwood – by team design, to respond to Josef Newgarden making his final stop – he didn’t have the fuel to allow him to use his huge amount of push-to-pass boost at the end.
Grosjean, who is in his ...Keep reading
Quartararo inherited second in Sunday's 20-lap grand prix at the Circuit of the Americas when race leader Francesco Bagnaia crashed out.
For the first 12 laps of the main race, Quartararo fended off VR46 Ducati rider Marini but could do nothing to stop the Italian from outdragging him on the back straight on the 13th tour.
Quartararo had to settle for third, which marked his first podium of ...Keep reading
The Spaniard has finished third in all three races held thus far in 2023, and he has helped to lift the Silverstone team to second place in the current championship standings.
Krack acknowledged that the fact that the Aston Martin mechanics have sung Alonso's name beneath the podium indicated the esteem in which he had held.
"I think it was a confirmation basically, of where he's standing in ...Keep reading
The factory Hyundai driver tragically succumbed to injuries in an accident last Thursday in preparation for this weekend’s WRC round in Croatia.
Breen adopted #42 when he joined Hyundai as part-time driver for the first time in 2019 and continued to run the same number during his only full-time season with M-Sport last year, before returning to Hyundai to share the team’s third car for ...Keep reading
Despite a woeful beginning to 2023 for Honda, LCR’s Alex Rins gave the Japanese marque some much-needed hope after claiming its first win since the 2021 Emilia Romagna GP last weekend in Texas.
Rins is a Circuit of the Americas specialist and capitalised on yet another critical error for Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia.
But that doesn’t detract from the fact that his ending of Honda’s ...Keep reading
Breen was set to pilot the team’s third car at the asphalt event which would have marked his second WRC outing of the year after rejoining the South Korean marque as a part-time driver for the 2023 season.
The 33-year-old Irishman succumbed to injuries sustained in a crash during a pre-event test for the asphalt rally last Thursday. Breen’s co-driver James Fulton was unharmed.
Hyundai ...Keep reading
Jarvis, Josh Pierson and Giedo van der Garde beat team-mates Phil Hanson, Freddie Lubin and Ben Hanley by 0.68s in Portugal on Sunday, despite Jarvis needing to rely on pitboard communication from his team during his closing double stint.
Van der Garde had been due to see out the race with a triple stint, but was brought in for Jarvis after only one of them when the team lost communication with ...Keep reading
Villeneuve expressed relief that the failure of the front-right disc on the Vanwall-Gibson Vandervell 680 with just over an hour of the race to go happened at Turn 10.
“Having that happen at Turn 10 was certainly better than at Turn 1,” Villeneuve told Autosport. “It’s never nice to lose the brakes, but it was probably a good place to have a failure like that.
“I knew what had ...Keep reading
Following its takeover of DTM from ITR, the ADAC organised two days of testing in Austria on Saturday and Sunday to help teams gear up for the new season.
Although there was heavy snow at Spielberg on Friday, the weather had mostly cleared by the time the test started on Saturday morning, allowing for two days of mostly dry-weather running.
Engel, who will race for the new Landgraf team as a ...Keep reading
The Brazilian participated in F1 pre-season testing with Aston Martin following a wrist injury to Lance Stroll and had been on the verge of making his F1 debut in the Bahrain Grand Prix before the Canadian made a last-minute return.
Drugovich, the reigning F2 champion, will conduct the FE test with Maserati MSG Racing next Monday following the Berlin E-Prix double-header at the Tempelhof Street ...Keep reading
On lap 20, O’Ward dived down the inside of six-time IndyCar champion Dixon in Turn 8. It was a very late manoeuvre, but the Arrow McLaren driver's wheels were fully alongside those of the Ganassi car. The pair made contact that sent Dixon spearing into the tyre wall.
"I was on the inside, he decided to stay on the outside, and I'm pretty much alongside him,” said O’Ward who has four ...Keep reading
Rins ended Honda’s victory drought dating back to the 2021 Emilia Romagna GP last Sunday at the Circuit of the Americas, when he capitalised on a crash for early leader Francesco Bagnaia to score his sixth career win.
The result marked his first win for Honda, LCR’s first since Argentina 2018 with Cal Crutchlow and the 100th podium for the team at the end of a weekend in which Rins was also ...Keep reading
For 2022, F1 switched to a car concept based around exploiting the ground effect from the floor, with the aim of making it easier for drivers to race each other by reducing the turbulent wake.
The regulations were also tightened to make it less likely that one team would steal a march on the opposition. Alongside the effects of the budget cap, it was hoped that F1's new era would produce a grid ...Keep reading
Two cars were badly damaged at the Australian Grand Prix, with Nick Percat's Mustang catching fire at the start of Friday's race, before James Courtney's did likewise on Saturday.
Emergency meetings on the Saturday night led to a number of technical changes being implemented for the Sunday race, as well as a move to a safety car start, as part of a wide-ranging mitigation plan.
The series ...Keep reading
Pascal Vasselon, Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe technical director, argued that it was unfair that the #7 GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar was forced to make an 11-minute pitstop after torque sensor mandated by the FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest on the left-rear driveshaft failed in the Portimao 6 Hours.
The sensors measuring the power delivered through each driveshaft are a key component of ...Keep reading
The nine-time world rally champion will join Guerlain Chicherit to form the new Special ONE Racing team, which intends to field two Delta Evo-e cars in this year’s all-electric World Rallycross Championship.
The car has been designed and developed by Chicherit’s own GCK Motorsport team, which first revealed plans in 2021 to revive the iconic Lancia Delta that made a name for itself in the ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion is in the last year of his current deal and is so far yet to announce a contract extension, despite saying a renewal would come as a formality over the recent off-season.
Hamilton has long since stated his ongoing commitment to Mercedes, which first backed him when he was 13 years old and also underpinned his F1 debut as engine partner to ...Keep reading
Passing was at a premium in Sunday’s race and Larson struggled to run mid-pack most of the day, but he moved into the top-five by staying out when most others pit for a caution on Lap 305 of 400.
While under another caution on Lap 343, Larson pit but took on only two new tyres and lined up fifth on a restart behind four other drivers who had remained on the track.
With 29 laps remaining ...Keep reading
The second-year driver, who joined Andretti from AJ Foyt Enterprises for 2023, started on pole before leading 53 of the 85 laps, briefly losing the lead to Josef Newgarden of Team Penske.
But a great overcut on both Newgarden and Grosjean at the second pitstop saw him emerge in front and hold steady to the end, crossing the line a second ahead of his team-mate.
He took victory in his 20th ...Keep reading
Bagnaia dominated the sprint race at the Circuit of the Americas on Saturday having taken pole with a new lap record, and was leading the grand prix on Sunday when he crashed at Turn 2 on lap eight of 20.
It marked his second-successive grand prix crash, with Bagnaia throwing away 45 points in two rounds and dropping to 11 points behind Marco Bezzecchi in the standings.
Bagnaia is at a loss ...Keep reading
Honda had gone winless in MotoGP since the 2021 Emilia Romagna GP, while LCR has gone without victory since the 2018 Argentina GP.
While times have continued to be tough for Honda in 2023, Rins built on a podium in the sprint race on Saturday to score his sixth career grand prix victory on Sunday having piled early pressure on poleman Bagnaia.
Reigning world champion Bagnaia dominated the ...Keep reading
Where has the time gone?! It’s already over a month since the 2023 club circuit-racing campaign began when the Classic Sports Car Club shook off the winter blues with its successful season-opening event at Silverstone at the end of February.
Since then, a further six events have taken place in England and, although the season is truly beginning in earnest during this Easter Bank Holiday ...Keep reading
Last season Bagnaia achieved what seemed unthinkable by recovering from a 91-point deficit to Fabio Quartararo to be crowned world champion at the final round in Valencia, marking Ducati’s first riders’ title in 15 years, since Casey Stoner’s 2007 triumph at the start of the 700cc era.
As expected, Bagnaia’s feat earned him praise from all sides, especially given his comeback fight ...Keep reading
The two-time champion was beaten in a straight fight by Lawson in Saturday’s curtain-raiser, although Nojiri struck back with a straightforward win from pole in the second race.
Speaking in the aftermath of finishing second in the first race, Nojiri said that Lawson’s sensational pace was no surprise, likening him to another of his former team-mates Stoffel Vandoorne - with whom he shared a ...Keep reading
Red Bull has dominated the three events held so far in 2023, with Max Verstappen winning in Bahrain and Australia and his team-mate Sergio Perez triumphing in Saudi Arabia.
While some observers have expressed concerns that a year of supremacy by one team will be bad for F1 and following on from Red Bull's dominant 2022 season, Steiner stressed that sporting integrity should always have priority ...Keep reading
Bell, who inherited the lead by staying out between Stages 2 and 3, led the final 100 laps but had to ward off repeated challenges, with the last coming from Reddick in the final five laps.
Reddick, who won Stage 2, pitted for new tyres during the break and put them to good use to challenge for the win .
On lap 224 of the 250-lap encounter, Reddick went to the inside of Chase Briscoe and ...Keep reading
While Red Bull has enjoyed a perfect record of three wins across the opening races in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Australia, in the latter event Mercedes replaced Aston Martin as the second-best team.
But the cancellation of a return to China has now left a four-week gap in the calendar until the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, across 28-30 April.
Given the pause and then a return to Europe after a run ...Keep reading
Robby Gordon wants to be the next Indycar racer in Formula 1. He’s on his way to the top. His first car race was in the Daytona 24 Hours sportscar race and his first single-seater start was in an Indycar. But in between, he destroyed Formula 3000 and Winston Cup machines.
I first came across Robby Gordon at the 1991 Daytona 500, where the mercurial youngster was making his Winston Cup debut ...Keep reading
Vettel retired at the end of last year after a 15-year career which yielded four consecutive world championships for Red Bull from 2010 until 2013.
He ended his run in F1, which also included a long stint at Ferrari, with two years in the midfield at Aston Martin, where he failed to find success apart from a solitary podium in 2021 at Baku.
But just as Aston found a huge leap in performance ...Keep reading
Sebastien Loeb hasn’t been snapped up by a World Rally Championship team for a part-time drive this year, but the phone may already be ringing again after his latest triumph. The nine-time world champion once again reminded the rallying fraternity of his supreme talent last Sunday by adding the Azores Rally to his glittering list of achievements.
Competing on his first traditional rally of ...Keep reading
The timetable of a race weekend has been thrust into the limelight following comments from F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali that he is in favour of scrapping free practice sessions.
This has been followed by drivers and championship chiefs pushing to revise the structure of a sprint round by ditching the unpopular Saturday FP2 session in favour of a separate qualifying shootout.
While Wolff said ...Keep reading
Lawson, who caused a sensation by winning on his debut in the Japanese series in the opening race on Saturday, finished third on the road in Sunday's second encounter behind Tomoki Nojiri and Sho Tsuboi.
However, a five-second penalty for violating the safety car procedure demoted him to fifth in the final classification.
The penalty came about as a result of Lawson trying to create a large ...Keep reading
The 2021 World Superbike champion will team up with the Iwata marque's regular test rider Cal Crutchlow at the Spanish circuit for two days of testing from 10-11 April.
Razgatlioglu previously tested the YZR-M1 last June in an outing at Motorland Aragon which was cut short due to inclement weather.
The Turkish rider, who rides for Yamaha's works WSBK outfit, is sitting second in the ...Keep reading
At the start of the race, polesitter Nojiri immediately moved to the right to cover off a fast-charging Toshiki Oyu, who had made a blistering start from third on the grid to pass Ritomo Miyata for second.
While Nojiri managed to initially hold off Oyu, the TGM driver was the quicker of the two and went around the outside of the double champion into Coca-Cola corner to take the lead.
The ...Keep reading
From Baku onwards, the first of six sprints this year, teams have discussed a format change in which the sprint event and the grand prix each have their own qualifying sessions.
The new format, which is yet to be finalised, has received universal backing as it means the sprint will no longer impact the main race and drivers have no reason to play it safe on Saturday.
But Red Bull's ...Keep reading
Morbidelli enjoyed his best weekend since early 2021 last week at Rio Hondo, after qualifying fourth and finishing in that position in both the sprint race and the grand prix.
It marked his best results as a factory Yamaha rider, with the 2020 championship runner-up struggling throughout 2022 in his first full season with the Japanese marque's works squad.
Although Morbidelli was easily the ...Keep reading
Lawson stunned the Japanese series' establishment by becoming the first driver in the modern era of Super Formula to win first time out, after pulling off an undercut strategy to pass Mugen team-mate and two-time champion Tomoki Nojiri.
The New Zealander had pulled more than five seconds clear at the head of the field when the safety car was called following a collision between Giuliano Alesi ...Keep reading
The Austrian first arrived in F1 as a Williams shareholder in 2009, before becoming team principal and co-owner of Mercedes from 2013.
He then helped lead the German manufacturer to a run of eight consecutive constructors’ championships from 2014 to 2021, with Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg taking seven drivers’ titles in that period.
However, Wolff said he did ponder stepping away ...Keep reading
Having qualified third on the grid, Lawson passed the TGM car of Toshiki Oyu following a safety car restart on lap eight of 41 before settling in behind pole-sitter and Mugen team-mate Nojiri.
Lawson fell as much as two seconds behind Nojiri over the following few laps, but the gap between the two had halved when the Kiwi came into the pits at the end of lap 21 for his mandatory tyre ...Keep reading
Webster has had a slightly unorthodox motorsport career so far. The now 20-year-old started in karting, securing an Australian KA4 Junior title in 2016 and third in the 2018 Victorian Kart Championship (KA3 Junior).
But, he then moved to the one-make Hyundai Excel series, the championship for mid-’90s humdrum hatchbacks.
While it’s a vibrant scene, seen as a stepping stone for ...Keep reading
The Italian squad has endured its worst start to a Formula 1 season since 2009, when it failed to score a single point in the first three races of the campaign.
Its lack of performance compared to pacesetter Red Bull prompted Sainz to suggest at the Australian Grand Prix that it was in need of a direction change.
"At the moment the Red Bull is superior everywhere," said Sainz. "It's superior ...Keep reading
The GB3 Championship is on the rise. Following one of its most successful seasons in 2022, a series record of 24 drivers are confirmed ahead of this weekend’s Oulton Park opener, and a grid of 27 cars could even be reached later this year.
The series will again use the Tatuus MSV-022 chassis, which was widely praised throughout the paddock during its first season of use in 2022 and, if ...Keep reading
Hamilton's contract with Mercedes runs out after this season, and the team and driver have yet to settle on an agreement to extend it.
While there had been some hope of the matter quickly getting sorted over last winter, the discussions have been put on hold until Wolff and Hamilton can set aside a suitable time for talks to take place.
But with no firm commitment from Hamilton about his ...Keep reading
Isotta’s Tipo 6 LMH Competizione will be given a shakedown at the Vallelunga circuit close to Rome over two days on 11-12 April.
Driving duties will be handled by Maurizio Mediani, who is a test driver for the Michelotto Engineering organisation that has led the design and development of the Tipo 6.
The 54-year-old Italian, who drove SMP Racing’s BR01 Nissan-engined LMP2 car in the 2016 ...Keep reading
With many expecting the Grove-based outfit to be pegged to the back of the field after a low-key pre-season test in Bahrain, the squad has impressed greatly and made a good step forward since last season.
Williams' head of vehicle performance Dave Robson said much of the progress had come from work specifically addressing areas where it thought it had underperformed in 2022 with its ...Keep reading
The Sports Car World Championship wasn’t in the best of health by 1992 following the withdrawals of Jaguar and Mercedes. And Group C as a world championship platform duly ceased to exist after a Magny-Cours finale that attracted a pitiful eight-car entry.
It was left to Peugeot to fight off Toyota for the honour of the final pukka world title for prototypes until the World Endurance ...Keep reading
The Melbourne race descended into controversy as a total of four red flags and three standing starts disrupted proceedings as the field finished in a procession behind the safety car.
Many felt that the decision to restart the race on lap 56 with a standing start to tee up a two-lap shootout encouraged a spate of crashes into Turn 1 as drivers considered riskier late overtakes.
Consternation ...Keep reading
Bezzecchi is the product of the VR46 Academy set up by nine-time grand prix motorcycle world champion Rossi in 2014 to nurture up-and-coming Italian talents.
Making his MotoGP debut last year, Bezzecchi scored a maiden podium at Assen and a first pole in Thailand, and was touted as a dark horse for big results in 2023.
Qualifying second at Rio Honda and finishing in that position in the ...Keep reading
These include a range of race meetings which provide the backbone to the racing scene in the UK, as well as more niche disciplines including hillclimbs and drag racing.
Autosport has picked five top-draw events taking place in April and which should be part of any avid motorsport’s must-visit destinations.
British GT ChampionshipWhen: 8-10 AprilWhere: Oulton Park, Cheshire
The opening ...Keep reading
After Max Verstappen headed a dominant Red Bull 1-2 over Sergio Perez in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, while Mercedes chalked fifth and seventh place, Russell said that he expected the Milton Keynes team to “win every single race this season”.
But Mercedes’ enjoyed a notable jump in performance in Australia after using practice to refine suspension set-up in a bid to make up for ...Keep reading
Red Bull was found guilty of breaking the cost cap limit in 2021, and the team was fined $7 million plus given a 10% reduction in aerodynamic testing for 12 months from October 2022.
Despite that extra handicap being added to its position as world champions at the bottom of the aero testing sliding scale, the team has dominated the first three races of the season.
“I think it was not a ...Keep reading
The Spaniard was given a five-second penalty by the stewards for causing a collision with Fernando Alonso at the chaotic restart after the second red flag, which saw a string of incidents generate a third red flag.
The penalty was awarded before the resumption for the single lap run to the chequered flag behind the safety car.
An emotional Sainz made it clear on team radio that he felt he ...Keep reading
NASCAR took William Byron's #24 and Alex Bowman's #48 cars back to the R&D Centre after the Richmond round for what it called “further inspection”.
The teams were found to have made illegal modifications to the greenhouse of both cars.
The #24 and #48 teams have each been docked 60 driver and owner points, as well as five playoff points. Interim crew chiefs Brian Campe and Greg Ives ...Keep reading
Once again, the big prize for the winner will be a seat at the table on the Scuderia Ferrari Esports team, becoming a full-time member for 2024.
Regions that can compete in the competition include Europe, North America, and for the first time in competition history, Asia-Pacific.
Jonathan Riley scored the overall title last year and now competes as a member of the Ferrari Esports ...Keep reading
NASCAR fined Hamlin $50,000 and docked him 25 points for intentionally crashing into Ross Chastain and sending him into a wall at the end of the Cup race at Phoenix on 12 March.
Hamlin wasn’t initially penalised at the time, but was given the penalty after he admitted on his podcast the next day that he intentionally hit Chastain on the final restart of the race. The two drivers have had ...Keep reading
The race weekend occurred following a backdrop of controversy: FIA president Max Mosley had been exposed by a UK tabloid sting in the week leading up to the event, and some teams were calling on him to step down.
On track, BMW’s Sauber era was blossoming, with Robert Kubica scoring his first career F1 pole position, just 0.027s ahead of the Ferrari of Massa. This came despite a lock-up that ...Keep reading
The American-headquartered company has won the FIA tender to provide rubber for the category that replaces GTE in 2024.
The three-year deal announced on Thursday, after a virtual vote by the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council, follows on from Goodyear becoming the exclusive supplier in the LMP2 class of both the WEC and the sister European Le Mans Series from 2021, in what was described at the ...Keep reading
If you were fortunate enough to watch the IndyCar action from last week’s second round at Texas Motor Speedway, you may still be raving about the racing. If you’re a Pato O’Ward or Arrow McLaren fan, you will feel slighted that he lost his last chance to snatch the lead from eventual winner Josef Newgarden of Team Penske, thanks to a fifth caution period for Romain Grosjean’s wreck on the ...Keep reading
In a statement with its decision, the three-member panel said the team did violate NASCAR rules and upheld much of the harsh penalties issued to the team, including the $100,000 fine and four-race suspension for crew chief Trent Owens and the loss of 10 playoff points.
The panel did, however, reduce the 100 owner and 100 driver points penalties to 75 points each.
The appeals panel members ...Keep reading
Tsunoda finished 10th in the Australian Grand Prix after spending much of the race fighting McLaren's Oscar Piastri.
Through Albert Park's fastest speed trap – at the second intermediate timing point – he was 17th fastest, logging 314.2 km/h compared to the 339.9 km/h of the fastest car, the Red Bull of Sergio Perez.
Speaking after scoring the team's first point of the year in Australia ...Keep reading
The new nose and front wing aim to increase downforce and also help give the team more options to balance the car.
Alfa Romeo’s head of trackside engineering Xevi Pujolar said the downforce gains from the updates had wider benefits for the whole car.
“We thought that front wing would bring back the car balance,” he explained. “I don't think we have particular weaknesses at ...Keep reading
Mighty Mustang: Reynolds's Mach 1
Almost no car at Brands Hatch's Equipe Classic Racing event last weekend was as striking as the mammoth 1971 Ford Mustang Mach 1 that Martin Reynolds twice took to third place in Equipe 70s.
He’s renovated the ex-Marcus Bicknell car over the past three years, and now his aim is to “get a total handle of it”.
Reynolds plans to run the car shortly in ...Keep reading
The virtual competition held using the RaceRoom platform last year culminated in an in-person final, held within NCME University of Bolton using Racing Unleashed simulators. The prize was the opportunity to train, test and be in with the chance of a full season's racing.
Since the victory in May 2022, Fairclough then went on to compete in the British F4 Esports ...Keep reading
Dovizioso got his first taste of GT3 machinery at Hockenheim on 28-29 March, sharing an M4 GT3 with two-time DTM champion and factory BMW driver Marco Wittmann.
Wittmann has already been signed by Project 1 to lead its assault on the DTM and the team has been looking for a second driver to complete its line-up for the 2023 season.
Dovizioso, who impressed during a guest outing in an Audi ...Keep reading
Hamilton noted at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix that he didn’t “feel connected” to the car, and prior to the Australian GP he elaborated by suggesting the car’s cockpit is too far forward, affecting his feel for the steering.
Allison says Mercedes will take advantage of the gap in the schedule before the Azerbaijan GP at the end of April to work on mechanical elements of the W14 F1 car ...Keep reading
The former factory Hyundai driver had hoped to return to the WRC after losing his drive with the South Korean marque at the end of 2018, but has been unable to return to top-flight competition since.
The 2016 Rally Argentina winner was set to join M-Sport for selected rounds in Finland and Australia in 2019 although a testing crash ruled him out of the former, while the latter was cancelled due ...Keep reading
Asencio will head up the team's commercial and marketing operations from New York, starting on 10 April, as the squad looks to grow its financial activities following the takeover by Dorilton Capital in August 2020.
The American's CV includes five years as UFC's senior vice president for global partnerships, where he was responsible for all commercial revenue, as well as almost two years in a ...Keep reading
Valentino Rossi discovered speed by competing with everything that had wheels attached on the streets of Tavullia, playing with his friends, joking and always trying to win, with the competitiveness that has always been his trademark. As if in a game, a young Rossi arrived in the world championship in 1996, and he continued to race for the fun of it, taking his friends to races and turning the ...Keep reading
After the Saudi Arabian GP, the team announced that technical director James Key had left and that a new arrangement had been put in place headed by three technical directors, namely Peter Prodromou (aerodynamics), Davide Sanchez (car concept and performance) and Neil Houldey (engineering and design).
Brown says that the changes were motivated by the lack of development of the 2022 car, and ...Keep reading
“I’m convinced, without fail, I have the best driver in GT racing with me.” It’s quite a statement to make about your team-mate, but John Ferguson has every reason to believe just that about the driver he’ll be racing alongside in this season’s British GT3 Championship, which kicks off at Oulton Park this weekend.
Regarded as one of the fastest if not the fastest GT3 driver in the ...Keep reading
The 31-year-old brother of seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton will therefore remain with the Kent squad for a fourth successive season to race a Cupra Leon.
Although Hard possesses just three TBL entrants’ licences, it is also using one owned by its former driver Carl Boardley plus two belonging to Aiden Moffat, whose Scottish team’s Infinitis were based at Hard’s premises ...Keep reading
The South African sensationally won the sprint race on Saturday at the Argentina GP despite starting 15th on the grid, but had no such luck in the full-distance contest on Sunday.
Binder was nudged slightly by the Aprilia of Vinales under braking for Turn 5 as the latter tried to make an overtake, with the KTM rider crashing.
He was able to re-join and finished last of the 17 runners, while ...Keep reading
Red flag delays meant the final restart took place a lot later than the race was expected to run, which may have contributed to the chain of first lap incidents that led to the final red flag, with Perez also citing cold tyres as another factor.
Perez was among those involved as he went across the grass and gravel at Turn 1 while avoiding Pierre Gasly, who was in turn edged wide ...Keep reading
Poleman Verstappen was overtaken by George Russell at the initial start, and he then lost a further spot at Turn 3 when, in Horner's words, Hamilton "sent a missile" down the inside and made an aggressive pass.
Verstappen then sat in third watching the Mercedes drivers battle before Russell pitted when a safety car came out after Alex Albon crashed.
The subsequent red flag gave Hamilton and ...Keep reading
The German says that a grid start and sprint to the finish presents too much risk and that drivers who have worked hard to get into strong positions in the closing laps have too much to lose.
Following a red flag triggered by Alex Albon's Turn 6 crash, the Melbourne race was stopped for a second time with three laps to go after Hulkenberg’s team-mate Kevin Magnussen hit the wall at Turn 2 and ...Keep reading
The Brazilian has been prompted into action by recent comments from former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, who offered fresh insight into the critical 2008 Singapore Grand Prix that proved hugely costly to Massa’s title ambitions that year.
That Singapore race is most famously known for the deliberate crash triggered by Nelson Piquet Jr., which brought out a safety car that ultimately helped ...Keep reading
The 32-year-old has spent the first two full seasons of her BTCC career with BTC Racing in Honda machinery, twice getting into the points positions with 15th-place finishes, but now joins Dan Lloyd, Bobby Thompson, Dexter Patterson and Jack Butel in a five-car Team Hard line-up of Cupra Leons.
Edwards will therefore join Patterson and Butel in the quest for honours in the Jack Sears Trophy, the ...Keep reading
There are numerous reasons for Super Touring being upheld as the British Touring Car Championship’s zenith over 20 years on. Close racing between cars that looked and sounded different, while bearing a similarity with those you might find in the supermarket car park, is surely a factor.
But another is the glut of big-name drivers who had proven their worth all over the globe and brought real ...Keep reading
The LCR Honda rider was trying to pass Quartararo for 10th on the opening lap of Sunday’s rain-hit grand prix at Rio Hondo when he went into a corner hot and made contact with the Yamaha.
Quartararo was forced onto the painted run-off area, plummeted to 16th in the depleted 17-rider field and was forced into a recovery ride.
The incident was placed under investigation by the FIM stewards ...Keep reading
Sainz made contact with Alonso's Aston Martin at the second restart with two racing laps to go, which spun his fellow Spaniard around.
The race was red-flagged for a third time and the FIA opted to run the final lap to the flag behind the safety car using the previous grid order, which meant that Alonso regained his third place.
Sainz, who had recovered from losing out by pitting under the ...Keep reading
A second red flag induced by Kevin Magnussen clipping the wall enabled the field to switch to fresh soft tyres during the stoppage for a third standing start on lap 56 of 58.
But the Melbourne race was halted swiftly after the restart due to a chaotic Turn 1, where Fernando Alonso was spun by Carlos Sainz, the Alpine team-mates eliminated each other and Logan Sargeant hit Nyck de ...Keep reading
Aron has mostly focused on his Prema management duties since finishing sixth in the 2018 European F3 season.
But this year he will compete in GT World Challenge Europe with Theeba Motorsport, enter the ADAC GT Masters series with Haupt Racing Team and contest the Nurburgring 24 Hours as a Mercedes junior driver.
During his three seasons in the DTM-supporting regional F3 series, the Estonian ...Keep reading
So hectic was Mercedes factory driver Jules Gounon’s racing schedule in February that he only spent one day at home.
Following his GTD Pro class victory in the Daytona 24 Hours, he headed directly Down Under for the Bathurst 12 Hour the following week and secured a remarkable outright win for his pro-am entry, his third in succession in the event making him the only three-time winner in its ...Keep reading
Aprilia locked out Friday practice at Rio Hondo last weekend and threatened to repeat its victory performance from the 2022 Argentina GP.
Even after a tough sprint, in which Maverick Vinales was seventh after sustaining aero damage and Espargaro crashed out, both riders were convinced their dry pace was still good enough to fight for the win.
However, in the wet grand prix on Sunday, both ...Keep reading
The action, which alleges that the team made "fraudulent statements" when it signed the deal with mobile phone company ROKiT, has been dismissed by Williams as "spurious".
ROKiT claims that Williams promised that it would have a competitive car in 2019 while knowing that it did not have sufficient funds to back up that claim.
In addition to the team itself, the action names as defendants ...Keep reading
The squad duly arrived in Australia with a new layout for its front wing, which took into account a revised flap arrangement as well as tweaks to the endplate and diveplane areas.
This was aimed at helping balance the car with the various rear wing choices it has on offer.
The endplate is now more cambered across the top and middle section, which presents more of the diveplane to the ...Keep reading
Newgarden dominated the first half of the 250-lap race around the 1.5-mile track, but following the second round of pitstops, O’Ward got around the #2 Penske and pulled away to a seven second lead, lapping everyone up to and including third-placed Romain Grosjean of Andretti Autosport.
However, a timely caution pulled the McLaren back into Newgarden’s sights and he was also able to ...Keep reading
The 2023 Extreme E season kicked off earlier this month with back-to-back races in Saudi Arabia and one team that stood out from the rest of the competition was Veloce Racing.
Kevin Hansen and Molly Taylor put in a stunning effort in the opening leg of the Desert X-Prix to notch up Veloce’s maiden win, before finishing runner-up in Sunday’s second contest to put the team at the top of the ...Keep reading
The Dutchman had a comfortable lead when Kevin Magnussen crashed and the debris trail he left led race director Niels Wittich to call for a red flag with three laps to go.
Verstappen was thus left on pole for a potential two-lap sprint to the flag but with a strong risk of losing the lead given that he had got away badly at the two previous starts.
In the event, Verstappen did get to the ...Keep reading
An incident-packed Australian Grand Prix was, for those encumbered by a European time zone, certainly worth getting up for. Although another Max Verstappen victory was unsurprising given his and Red Bull’s advantage in the early part of the 2023 Formula 1 season, late chaos threatened to derail the otherwise settled pecking order.
In F1’s first triple red-flagged race (or quadruple, if one ...Keep reading
Albon was running in sixth place when he had a high-speed spin into a barrier and his damaged car rolled back towards the edge of the track.
The first drivers on the scene, Pierre Gasly and Hulkenberg, had virtually no warning – and only just missed the stricken Williams as they passed it at full speed. Hulkenberg admitted that he had a narrow escape.
"Holy moly, I mean seriously I had a ...Keep reading
MotoGP celebrated its newest winner at the Argentina Grand Prix as the series’ new era continued to divide reaction.
A depleted 17-rider grid took part in Sunday’s wet contest at Rio Hondo, which was dominated by sophomore Marco Bezzecchi to claim his first win and Valentino Rossi’s first as a team owner.
Listening to several riders after the enthralling Saturday sprint, Bezzecchi ...Keep reading
While there is a separate debate raging about whether or not standing restarts are a good idea at all after the late-race chaos in Melbourne, another problem emerged earlier in the event.
With the first red flag having been triggered by Alex Albon's crash on lap seven, the go-ahead for a standing restart was given by race control.
The rules require the safety car to lead the cars around in ...Keep reading
Zarco came from sixth on the grid to finish runner-up to Marco Bezzecchi in the rain-hit 25-lap grand prix at Rio Hondo, after passing poleman Alex Marquez for second on the last tour.
The Pramac Ducati rider had immense pace in the second half of the race to get himself into podium contention, but at one stage he was down in eighth and over eight seconds from the rostrum.
Zarco’s wet form ...Keep reading
Following the second red flag period initiated by the right-rear tyre breaking free from the Haas of Kevin Magnussen, Sainz clipped Alonso during the race restart on the exit of the Turn 1 right-hander.
Two-time F1 world champion Alonso had lined up third for the third standing start of the heavily disrupted Melbourne race with his compatriot alongside on the second row of the grid.
Alonso ...Keep reading
The Williams driver was running in an impressive sixth place in Melbourne in the early stages, and looked comfortably on course for a top ten finish.
However, on lap seven, he slid wide running through Turn 6 and then crashed into the barriers at Turn 7, before spinning back on to the track.
As well as putting himself out of the grand prix, Albon’s incident brought out the first of the ...Keep reading
Courtney's Mustang was one of two Fords badly damaged by engine fires across the Albert Park weekend.
Nick Percat's Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford was first to go up in flames on Friday, before Courtney's car followed suit a day later.
The nature of the fires prompted crisis meetings in the Supercars paddock and led to sweeping technical changes for Sunday's final race, which was started ...Keep reading
The Melbourne race was dominated by three in-race red flags, leading to lengthy delays and chaotic standing restarts, the latter of which eliminated several drivers.
On lap 7 Alex Albon's crash brought out the first safety car of the race, which prompted Mercedes' race leader George Russell to pit for hard tyres.
But soon after his pitstop, which dropped him to seventh, the red flag came out ...Keep reading
The Gresini Ducati rider qualified on pole for the first time in his MotoGP career after gambling on slicks on a drying track at Rio Honda last Saturday.
While he was only able to finish fifth in the sprint race, Marquez ran in the podium places throughout the 25-lap rain-hit Argentina GP and scored his first MotoGP rostrum since the 2020 Aragon GP.
After two difficult years with LCR Honda ...Keep reading
Westacott fronted media on Monday morning in Melbourne following what is his final race at the helm of the Australian GP promoter.
Unsurprisingly the two key topics were a pair of significant safety issues that occurred yesterday – a fan injured by debris in the crowd and the premature track invasion at the end of the race.
A fan was hit by carbon fibre debris from Kevin Magnussen's car ...Keep reading
Leclerc was thrown off the track after contact with Lance Stroll when he attempted to pass the Aston Martin around the outside of Turn 3.
The Monegasque ended up beached in the outside gravel trap, ending his race after just three corners.
Leclerc's second retirement in three grands prix means he's still stuck on a mere six points. In Bahrain he retired with power unit troubles, which led to ...Keep reading
The fight for victory sparked into life after Noah Gragson slammed the outside wall, forcing the sixth caution of the race, which saw all the lead-lap cars pit with Martin Truex Jr retaining the lead off pitroad.
With 55 laps to go, several cars started making what they hoped would be their final pitstops, with Byron the first frontrunner to do so. Race leader Truex followed soon after, pitting ...Keep reading
The 2021 IndyCar champion found himself in the fight for victory at the 1.5-mile oval before ultimately losing out to eventual winner Josef Newgarden, who took the win by 1.2s from Arrow McLaren's Pato O'Ward.
Palou, whose final pitstop had come 25 laps before those of Newgarden and O’Ward, commented: "I didn't know they were on new tyres at the end; [the team] didn't tell me – ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion ran third for the first 14 tours of the 25-lap rain-hit grand prix at Rio Hondo, before passing Alex Marquez for second on lap 15.
Bagnaia looked comfortable in second and nailed on for a podium before he slid off his factory Ducati at the penultimate corner on lap 17.
He re-joined the grand prix and took the chequered flag down in 16th, and has been dethroned ...Keep reading
Bezzecchi made history at the end of Sunday’s rain-affected grand prix at Rio Hondo as he scored his maiden victory in MotoGP and the first for series legend Valentino Rossi’s team.
Both in their sophomore seasons in the premier class, Bezzecchi dominated the Argentina GP from the moment he took the lead on lap one from second on the grid, ultimately taking the chequered flag over four ...Keep reading
The 2021 world champion was nudged off track at Turn 7 by LCR Honda’s Nakagami on the opening lap of Sunday’s wet Argentina GP and dropped from 10th to 16th.
This forced Quartararo into a recovery ride, with the Yamaha rider finishing just behind KTM’s Jack Miller in seventh.
The incident was placed under investigation, but the FIM stewards deemed no further action was ...Keep reading
Polesitter Felix Rosenqvist didn’t last a lap in the lead, the Arrow McLaren losing out to Scott Dixon’s Ganassi entry at the end of the first lap, and then Penske’s Newgarden, and fellow McLaren drivers Pato O’Ward and Alexander Rossi demoted him to fifth. Newgarden and Dixon swapped the lead twice before Newgarden moved to the head of the field and eked out a small gap.
O’Ward ...Keep reading
VR46 Ducati rider Bezzecchi made an immediate impression on the MotoGP paddock in his debut season in 2022 when he scored a podium at Assen.
Riding the championship-winning 2022-spec Ducati for his sophomore campaign with Valentino Rossi’s team, Bezzecchi eased to a maiden grand prix victory at a wet Rio Hondo to add to the second he claimed in Saturday’s sprint.
Nailing his launch off ...Keep reading
While polesitter Verstappen largely dominated at Albert Park, the race will be remembered for three red flags, the last of which resulted in the 58 lap affair finishing under the safety car.
Verstappen initially lost the lead at the start to Mercedes’ George Russell, while Lewis Hamilton also nipped by into second.
However, the complexion of the race changed when Williams’ Alex Albon ...Keep reading
A wet 18-lap Moto3 race kicked off Sunday’s grand prix proceedings, with chaos erupting throughout the field.
Leopard Honda’s Suzuki inherited the lead on the third lap when Tech3 KTM’s Deniz Oncu spectacularly slid out of first going through Turn 11 after a scrappy start to his race.
Suzuki’s pace proved no match for the rest of the field as the Japanese rider eased to victory by ...Keep reading
Event organisers have elected to push forward the race start to ensure the encounter runs to its full intended length of 250 laps.
The command for “Drivers, start your engines” at Texas Motor Speedway was originally scheduled for 11.10am local (Central) time with the green flag dropping at 11.15am, driver introductions will now commence at 10.26am, the national anthem will be sung at ...Keep reading
The South African’s prospects for the sprint were not positive when he could only go 15th fastest in the iffy conditions that dominated qualifying on Saturday morning at the Rio Hondo track.
But Binder made a blinding start in the 12-lap sprint race to jump up to fifth on the opening lap, before eventually taking the lead on the third tour.
Despite late pressure from VR46 Ducati’s Marco ...Keep reading
In an unusual step, The Australian Grand Prix Corporation was formally summoned to the stewards after the conclusion of a chaotic third round of the 2023 world championship at Albert Park that was red-flagged on three occasions.
A fourth red flag was shown after Max Verstappen's Red Bull took the checkered flag as "a large group of spectators managed to break the security lines and accessed the ...Keep reading
Haas lodged a complaint in the aftermath of the Melbourne event after feeling that the regulations had not been correctly applied in determining the order for the final safety car restart that decided the finishing positions.
A chaotic second red flag restart had brought about another stoppage, and F1's race control decided to determine the running order based to how the cars were before the ...Keep reading
Following a second red flag, caused by Kevin Magnussen clipped the wall to rip off the right-rear tyre from his Haas, Gasly lined up fifth for the race restart but locked up into Turn 1 to miss the rear of Fernando Alonso.
He careered across the runoff but rejoined alongside team-mate Esteban Ocon, who had formed on the grid in 10th, but then appeared to drift over the circuit to pinch his ...Keep reading
It means that Bryan Herta will now call the shots for 2021 Indy Lights champion Kyle Kirkwood, while Scott Harner will oversee Herta.
The decision comes as a surprise just one race into the season for two reasons.
Firstly, the Herta father-son combination had seemed far more harmonious – and more productive – than when Michael Andretti called strategy for son Marco Andretti, or ...Keep reading
The 2020 world champion was forced into a recovery ride in Saturday’s 12-lap sprint after struggling to 18th and last on the depleted grid in qualifying.
On the opening lap, Mir crashed heavily going through Turn 7 and had to be taken to the medical centre for a check-up.
Initial scans revealed no serious injuries, but he was taken to hospital in Santiago del Estero for further checks on ...Keep reading
The 2020 championship runner-up endured a torrid 2022 campaign with the factory Yamaha squad as he failed to get anywhere near the podium and was outclassed emphatically by team-mate Fabio Quartararo.
After a tough start to the 2023 season in Portugal, in which he was 14th in both the sprint race and the grand prix, Morbidelli has been the strongest Yamaha rider in Argentina so far this ...Keep reading
The nine-time WRC champion was invited by event organisers to tackle the famous Portuguese island rally, which this year has dropped off the European Rally Championship calendar.
Piloting a Toksport Skoda Fabia RS Rally2 machine for the first time, Loeb and co-driver Laurene Godey combined to fend off three-time WRC event winner Andreas Mikkelsen to win the gravel rally by 19.2s.
Making his ...Keep reading
The race was halted for the first time on lap nine of 58 owing to a shunt for Alex Albon, who lost the rear of his Williams FW45 through Turn 7 to nose into the wall and bounce back over the kerbs.
While a safety car was deployed initially, the race was then red-flagged. The FIA justified this due to the amount of gravel and debris that needed clearing.
The grand prix was red-flagged twice ...Keep reading
The American-owned outfit appeared to have been the biggest gainer from a chaotic second red flag restart as Nico Hulkenberg moved up to fourth place on the road as a number of front runners crashed out in the chaotic first few corners.
With a third red flag being brought out, the FIA elected to go for another restart – although this time it was behind a safety car and the cars only went ...Keep reading
The Ferrari driver tangled with Fernando Alonso at the second race restart of a chaotic Australian GP, sending his fellow Spaniard into the wall at Turn 2 before the third red flag.
Amid the FIA’s final restart decisions, Sainz lined up for the final lap in fourth but was given a five-second penalty for the incident, so when the race ended under safety car conditions he was relegated to 12th ...Keep reading
In the climax to a chaotic and controversially handled race, Gasly had lined up fifth for the second red flag restart but locked up into Turn 1 to avoid clipping Fernando Alonso's Aston Martin.
That forced him over the run-off and as he rejoined alongside Ocon, who restarted in 10th, Gasly drifted over the track to the exit wall to initiate the contact that wiped out both cars.
Despite the ...Keep reading
With the Dutchman clearly knowing that there was a lot to lose if he made a poor getaway for the second red-flag restart, he made sure to place his car in the most aggressive spot possible.
But as well as angling himself slightly towards the right to shut off rivals getting him down the inside, Verstappen also pulled incredibly far forward.
In fact, overhead footage of the Red Bull car and ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion climbed from third on the grid to lead in the early stages of the race, having robustly passed a slow-starting Verstappen on the inside into Turn 3.
That move handed him second at the time to leading team-mate George Russell, who then dropped to seventh as a result of pitting under a safety car that morphed into the first of three red flag stoppages.
Hamilton ...Keep reading
The Dutchman had made a poor getaway from pole position and lost out to Mercedes driver George Russell into Turn 1.
Then, as Hamilton got a run on him out of Turn 2, he was cautious under braking for Turn 3 and that allowed his Mercedes rival to get his nose inside.
As Hamilton snatched second, he moved wide on the exit and Verstappen felt he had not been given the necessary racing room that ...Keep reading
Verstappen had dominated most of the proceedings despite losing the initial lead from pole to Mercedes’ George Russell and Hamilton.
A first red flag caused by Alex Albon crashing out solo and putting debris and gravel across the road meant Russell dropped down the order, having been pitted just before the race was stopped and was running in safety car conditions.
At the second standing ...Keep reading
Verstappen lost his lead from pole at the start, as the Mercedes duo of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton passed him in the opening corners.
But Verstappen took control after a restart following Alex Albon’s Turn 6 crash, passing Hamilton using DRS in the ultra-fast section ahead of Turn 9 while Russell - who had pitted immediately after the Williams shunt when a safety car was briefly ...Keep reading
Albon was running in sixth place but lost the rear of the FW45 through Turn 7 to career across the gravel trap and nose heavily into the barrier before bouncing back towards the asphalt.
The Thai-Briton lost the front wing and damaged the rear wing in the immediate impact before the car came to a rest over the kerbs and was unable to continue.
An initial safety car was deployed before the ...Keep reading
The purpose of the meeting was not to have a formal vote, but in effect to get a mandate from the teams for the FIA to press ahead with finalising the regulatory details in time for Baku.
The rules will also have to be checked and tested by the team sporting directors in the sporting advisory committee, before being formally ratified ahead of the round, from 28-30 April.
Various potential ...Keep reading
Bottas and Perez were due to start on the last row after qualifying 19th and 20th respectively and their teams have decided to make changes to the suspension set-up ahead of Sunday's Melbourne race.
Red Bull has also taken the opportunity to replace Perez's energy store and control electronics.
Both power unit items are Perez's third examples of 2023, with only two of each allowed. Given ...Keep reading
Iwasa came out on top against Theo Pourchaire at the end of a frenetic 33-lap encounter with not only his first feature race of the season but the lead of the championship, the DAMS driver now holding an eight-point advantage over ART Grand Prix’s Pourchaire.
A late collision between Victor Martins and sprint race winner Dennis Hauger meanwhile handed the final spot on the podium to Arthur ...Keep reading
The race got underway in unique circumstances, the safety car leading the field for a lap before releasing the cars single-file.
That was part of the mitigation measures put in place by Supercars following two seperate engine fires on Friday and Saturday.
Polesitter Feeney led initially, although starting on the hard compound Dunlop meant he would always be a sitting duck.
He was quickly ...Keep reading
From pole, Trident driver Bortoleto didn’t put a wheel wrong over the course of the 23-lap race, holding off ART man Saucy to make it back-to-back feature race victories by 0.596 seconds.
Alpine junior Gabriele Mini led home a long train of battling cars to take the final podium spot for Hitech.
Bortoleto maintained the lead from Saucy and Mini at the start on a relatively calm ...Keep reading
Before the final hour got underway, the field was split in two to practice running the high line, and it went largely incident-free, until Conor Daly had a spin out of Turn 4, thankfully keeping his Ed Carpenter Racing car off the wall. Rookie Benjamin Pedersen in the #55 AJ Foyt Racing machine had to take swift avoiding action, but he did this without problem.
Through the hour that followed ...Keep reading
Espargaro was left stranded in ninth after struggling in the wet-to-dry qualifying earlier on Saturday and was forced to get his elbows out in the sprint to make up positions.
Getting as high as seventh, Espargaro crashed out going through Turn 9, which he said was his own mistake.
However, he feels he was driven to it due to the aggression levels required to make up ground in the frenetic ...Keep reading
The new Honda signing has endured a miserable weekend at Rio Hondo so far, ending Friday last on the timesheets and failing to lift himself out of that position in qualifying.
On the opening lap of Saturday’s 12-lap sprint in Argentina, Mir crashed at Turn 7 and was taken to the medical centre for checks.
Initial scans revealed no serious injury on his right ankle, but Mir has been ...Keep reading
A difficult qualifying for KTM left Binder down in 15th ahead of team-mate Jack Miller, but the South African rider made a blistering start to jump up to fifth on the opening lap.
Binder took the lead on lap three and bolted into the distance to ultimately keep a hard-charging Bezzecchi at bay by just 0.072 seconds to become the second-ever sprint race winner in MotoGP.
Bezzecchi rebounded ...Keep reading
Rosenqvist headed Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon with McLaren's Alexander Rossi, third fastest in the session.
Team owner/driver Ed Carpenter, in his first outing of the 2023 season, set the bar with an average of 218.375 mph over two laps, with a 1mph difference between Laps 1 and 2. This was immediately beaten by rookie Benjamin Pedersen in the AJ Foyt Racing car with a ...Keep reading
After George Russell and Lewis Hamilton grabbed second and third on the grid for the Australian Grand Prix, both drivers said the result was far beyond expectations after Mercedes' difficult start to the season.
But Alonso, who has qualified fourth in Melbourne, sees things very differently and believes that Mercedes has a much better package in the W14 than it has been making out.
Asked ...Keep reading
After an intriguing silly season saga last summer Brown snapped up 2021 Formula 2 champion Piastri to replace fellow Australian Daniel Ricciardo, who had struggled to match Norris in his two challenging years with the team.
While Piastri was a highly regarded prospect in the paddock, the decision still carried some risk as the 21-year-old had not even tested for the team before being ...Keep reading
The Gresini rider fell off of his Ducati while trying to pass Honda’s Joan Mir at the penultimate corner of the Rio Hondo track as he looked to cement his place at the top of the timesheets in a wet Q1.
Marquez quickly re-joined and retained his Q2 spot, though moments later he was forced to abandon his number one bike when it caught fire as a result of crash damage.
Gambling on slick ...Keep reading
The younger Marquez brother has not headed a grid since his title-winning Moto2 season in 2019, with the Gresini rider finding life in MotoGP largely tough going since stepping up in 2020 with Honda.
Marquez led Fabio Quartararo through Q1, but crashed at Turn 13 on his final lap as he tried to pass Honda’s Joan Mir.
That wasn’t enough to deny him top spot in Q1, though the crash left ...Keep reading
McLaughlin's best effort pipped Arrow McLaren's Pato O'Ward by 0.0238s around the 1.5 mile oval, with O'Ward's team-mate Alexander Rossi third fastest.
In the cool of the morning and with IndyCar having allowed extra downforce components this weekend, and drivers able to catch some strong tows, speeds looked startlingly good.
McLaughlin, who qualified and finished second in last year’s ...Keep reading
What had been a consistent 0.4-second deficit in the dry to pacesetter Max Verstappen across Friday and Saturday morning practice in Melbourne was suddenly slashed in half right when it counted.
At the start of a second season of ground-effect struggles for the eight-time constructors’ champion, George Russell hustled the limited W14 round just 0.236s short of the 1m16.732s Red Bull ...Keep reading
However, the Spaniard says that the direction the team has taken has also made him more comfortable with the car over one lap.
Both Sainz and his team-mate Charles Leclerc faded badly in the Saudi Arabian GP after pitting for the hard tyres and eventually finished sixth and seventh.
The team has spent the days since then investigating the issue and came to Melbourne with some potential ...Keep reading
The Australian Grand Prix has a long tradition that pre-dates its arrival on the Formula 1 schedule as a fully-fledged world championship round in 1985. Indeed, Lewis Hamilton's two wins in 2008 and 2015 mean he's still one behind Roberto Moreno's treble at Calder Park between 1981 and 1984!
From the streets of Adelaide to its current destination of Albert Park in Melbourne, F1's home in ...Keep reading
George Russell and Lewis Hamilton will start second and third in Melbourne, helped by a disastrous qualifying session for Red Bull's Sergio Perez that left the Mexican in 20th and last place on the grid.
The Mercedes performance represents a clear step forward after the first two races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, which led the team to investigate a change of car concept.
Wolff stressed ...Keep reading
Bagnaia swept both the sprint race and the grand prix last week in Portugal, but had a tough Friday at the Argentina Grand Prix.
Only 10th at the end of FP1 as he struggled to find a strong base set-up, Bagnaia and Ducati were able to improve in the afternoon session to secure a direct spot in the Q2 pole shootout session for qualifying on Saturday.
As part of the new sprint weekend format ...Keep reading
Norris endured a messy qualifying session at Albert Park and took 13th in Q2 following slip-ups on his hotlaps, finishing three tenths off Williams's Alex Albon - who was the last driver to make the top 10 cut-off.
When Norris was asked by Autosport whether his mistakes were the result of a car that's inherently hard to drive or down to him to overdriving the MCL60 to chase performance that ...Keep reading
The issues have occurred on Ford Mustangs from different teams, with flames engulfing James Courtney's Tickford machine in Race 3 after Nick Percat's Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford was also caught fire early in yesterday's second race of the Albert Park weekend.
The source of the fires is yet to be determined, with WAU left convinced the problem on Percat's car was electrical in ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion saw off both Mercedes drivers to take pole, while Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez skated off track into the gravel in Q1, leaving him to qualify down in last place for the Albert Park race.
Perez blamed a brake balance issue for his qualifying off, which was a problem he also suffered throughout final practice.
With Mercedes showing promising pace after a tough ...Keep reading
Russell ended up just 0.236s behind Verstappen in Q3 at Albert Park, with his team-mate Lewis Hamilton third in the sister Mercedes, a somewhat surprise result for the Black Arrows squad after its difficult start to the new campaign and having been 0.6s off the pace in both Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.
Although Verstappen heads into Sunday’s race as the heavy favourite for victory, Russell ...Keep reading
The dominant winner in Melbourne last season, Leclerc will line up for the race in seventh after lapping 0.637s off the pace of polesitter Max Verstappen, while Sainz will start from fifth.
While Ferrari has opted against introducing upgraded aero parts for this weekend, unlike Mercedes and Red Bull, Leclerc still shouldered responsibility for the lacklustre result, saying he “wasn’t ...Keep reading
With the Red Bull of Sergio Perez eliminated in Q1, Alonso was a strong contender to qualify on the front row for Sunday's Melbourne race alongside overwhelming favourite Max Verstappen, who duly took pole.
But, behind the world champion, Mercedes drivers George Russell and Lewis Hamilton proved the surprise package of qualifying by beating Alonso to start second and third ...Keep reading
Williams Academy member Colapinto scored his first win of the season in an incident-packed sprint race at Melbourne, taking the lead after the first safety car restart before enduring two more.
He was over three seconds clear of the field when the safety car was called for the fourth and final time, with the first-ever F3 race at Albert Park ending under caution.
But Colapinto, Mari Boya ...Keep reading
Kostecki, who broke through for his maiden Supercars win on Friday, took the flag ahead of Shane van Gisbergen but may face sanction after the Erebus Camaro appeared to baulk Declan Fraser upon its release from the pits.
At the very front it was a mostly straightforward start to the race as Kostecki charged into the lead from pole, followed by his team-mate Will Brown and Bryce Fullwood's ...Keep reading
Perez had a disrupted FP3 as he joined the session 20 minutes late, and he ended up over half a second down on team-mate Max Verstappen after two push laps were wrecked by locking up under braking.
Speaking after qualifying, Perez explained that "we thought we fixed that" prior to qualifying, only for his RB19 to skate into the gravel on his first push lap in Q1 at Turn 3 after locking his ...Keep reading
The Williams driver proved to be one of the major surprises of a close fight for positions in Melbourne as he secured eighth place on the grid, just one spot behind Ferrari's Charles Leclerc.
With him readily admitting his team does not have one of the fastest cars in F1 right now, Albon says that the performance owed almost everything to the way that he and his engineers got on top of tyre ...Keep reading
This imposing wooden structure was the visible symbol of a new global partnership that MotoGP rights holder Dorna has struck with fast-growing Spanish beer brand Estrella Galicia.
Becoming one of the official beer partners of the world championship, Estrella Galicia's new hospitality unit is designed as a networking hub as well as to increase brand awareness.
With this agreement, Estrella ...Keep reading
Russell pinched second on the grid in the dying moments of qualifying in Melbourne as he ran 0.236s adrift of pacesetter Max Verstappen, who led the way for Red Bull courtesy of a 1m16.732s lap.
Team-mate Lewis Hamilton, meanwhile, will head the second row in third place after running 0.372s behind.
That result marked Mercedes’ best Saturday of its trying season, as it awaits significant ...Keep reading
The former F1 race director has been on the ground at the Australian Grand Prix throughout the week, primarily in his new role as the Chairman of the Supercars Commission.
However his time has been split between the Supercars and the F1 paddock, marking his return to the latter for the first time since the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Masi parted ways with the FIA amid the fallout from that ...Keep reading
Verstappen will start ahead of the Mercedes duo of George Russell and Lewis Hamilton after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.
Australian Grand Prix qualifying results: Verstappen on pole from ...Keep reading
After a light rain shower had hit the Albert Park track just ahead of the one-hour session getting underway, and with the C4 softs holding on for multiple laps but requiring multiple warm-ups to be at their best, the Melbourne crowd was treated to an action-packed session.
Having fuelled to run for huge chunks of laps at a time in Q1 and Q3, most of the Q3 runners opted for two new tyre runs of ...Keep reading
The MP Motorsport driver led from lights-to-flag to secure his third series victory and his first since moving to the reigning champions for 2023.
Despite a mid-race safety car and further rainfall, Hauger held off Jak Crawford and Kush Maini as the two rookies completed the podium for Hitech and Campos Racing respectively.
A wet-to-dry track and intermittent showers ended several ...Keep reading
After Friday's rain-affected FP2, Saturday's final practice session predominantly took place on a dry Albert Park circuit despite the threatening Melbourne clouds, although a morning drizzle had further washed away the rubber that had been built up over the weekend.
Due to the Friday disruptions, most teams wasted little time taking to the track to get both their high fuel and qualifying runs ...Keep reading
Colapinto took control of the race after executing a brilliant pass on poleman Sebastian Montoya through the Turns 9/10 complex after the first of three safety car restarts.
The MP Motorsport driver then survived two subsequent restarts and was over three seconds clear of the field when the safety car was called for the fourth and final time, with the first-ever F3 race at Albert Park ending ...Keep reading
Rio Hondo was the scene of Aprilia’s and Espargaro’s maiden MotoGP win 12 months ago, with both picking up where they left off on Friday this year.
After Maverick Vinales was fastest in FP1 ahead of Espargaro, the latter led the second Aprilia 1-2 of the day in FP2 by 0.162s.
Asked why the RS-GP is so good around Rio Honda, however, Espargaro couldn’t explain it as he doesn’t feel ...Keep reading
The 2021 world champion said on Thursday ahead of the Rio Hondo event that he is battling rear grip issues on the 2023 Yamaha, which led to his comments after the Portuguese GP that he is currently unable to properly race his rivals.
Throughout Friday’s two practice sessions in Argentina, Quartararo was constantly spinning his rear tyre as he accelerated and could only go 14th quickest on the ...Keep reading
Threats of rain stayed away as the hour-long second practice at Rio Honda got underway, with 2022 Argentina GP winner Aleix Espargaro taking over from team-mate Maverick Vinales to head the field.
A late surge of time attack laps as the field tried to bag a place in the top 10 to get directly into Saturday’s Q2 qualifying session led to Espargaro producing a 1m38.518s to end Friday fastest of ...Keep reading
Autosport understands the 2014 and 2022 champion, whose current contract finishes at the end of this current season, is signed up for 2024 and ’25 with both parties considering ’26 as an option.
Power was unwilling to comment on the subject while team president Tim Cindric had not yet responded to Autosport's inquiry at time of writing, just ahead of this weekend’s second round of the ...Keep reading
Ricciardo had stepped away from a full-time race seat following the 2022 season, after he and McLaren agreed to part company in the wake of a frustrating two years.
While the Australian had initially considered moving to another team, he ultimately felt a year helping out as Red Bull's third driver would be a better bet for him.
Red Bull plans to make use of Ricciardo for both reserve and ...Keep reading
The Spaniard was flicked from his Tech3 GASGAS in the closing stages of FP2 at the Algarve International Circuit’s Turn 10 last Friday.
He sickeningly hit a tyre barrier that was not protected by an air fence and suffered fractures to his jaw and back, as well as trauma to his lungs.
Espargaro was airlifted to hospital in Faro that Friday before being transferred to Barcelona, where he ...Keep reading
Chief of which are flag-to-flag races thanks to dynamic weather, ranked online events and a social media feed within the career mode.
Flag to flag races debut
A much-requested feature, dynamic weather makes its first appearance within MotoGP video games. Unlike MotoGP 22, for example, in MotoGP 23 you will see races start dry before it then rains, forcing a pitstop and a ...Keep reading
The 2023 MotoGP season continues just five days after the dramatic opening round of the season in Portugal, with the opening 45-minute session of the Argentina weekend taking place in dry conditions under threateningly grey clouds.
Having broken its MotoGP victory duck one year ago at the Rio Honda circuit, Aprilia set the early pace as Vinales ended FP1, 0.284 seconds clear of 2022 Argentina ...Keep reading
Nowadays, the notion seems difficult to imagine. The idea of Formula 1 stars Lando Norris or George Russell taking part in a British Endurance sportscar race at Snetterton, while champion Lewis Hamilton competes in a single-seater contest on the support bill, seems somewhat far-fetched – not least because of the ever-expanding F1 schedule.
But, in decades gone by and during a time when ...Keep reading
Gasly departed the Red Bull stable, swapping AlphaTauri for Alpine, to replace Aston Martin-bound Fernando Alonso as part of the 2022 driver market ‘silly season’.
The 2020 Italian Grand Prix victor kicked off his Alpine tenure by qualifying last for the Bahrain opener after exceeding track limits but recovered to ninth in the race. He repeated that result in Saudi Arabia to finish one ...Keep reading
Folger’s only MotoGP campaign was back in 2017, competing for Tech3 on Yamaha machinery, and highlighted by a second-place finish at his home round at the Sachsenring.
But the German’s rookie premier class campaign was cut short by illness which was later diagnosed as Gilbert’s syndrome.
Since then Folger has made sporadic outings in Moto2 and the World Superbike championship at ...Keep reading
Many countries around the globe have a rich motorsport landscape that is little-known beyond their borders. The well-established domestic touring car championships of Brazil and Argentina, for example, visit some truly superb tracks – anyone remember the Potrero de los Funes Circuit around a reservoir that briefly appeared as part of the FIA GT1 world championship? – that capture the ...Keep reading
On Thursday, Perez stressed that he now feels he has an equal opportunity to succeed at Red Bull and is supported by the team.
However, the Saudi Arabian GP winner added that before he arrived at Red Bull in 2021 "they were just going racing with two cars because they had to".
The clear implication was that his immediate predecessors Daniil Kvyat, Pierre Gasly and Alex Albon did not enjoy ...Keep reading
Mixed Melbourne weather and Formula 1 data systems trouble resulted in frustratingly truncated first practice running for the 2023 Australian Grand Prix, where Red Bull led the way but faced rare issues.
Max Verstappen topped the times in FP1, the only fully dry session on Friday at Albert Park, but had off-track moments and a dramatic spin late in the session, while team-mate Sergio Perez also ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion’s 1m18.790s to top first practice was the fastest overall lap time on the opening day of F1 track action at Albert Park, after second practice was hit by rain, leaving Fernando Alonso’s 1m18.887s in FP2 fractionally off the outright best time.
In an eventful opening day at the Australian GP, FP1 was halted by two red flags; the first for a GPS data loss which ...Keep reading
After 40 minutes the opening practice session at Melbourne's Albert Park was red-flagged due to a loss of GPS data, which meant teams could no longer track each other on around the circuit.
That problem, which was triggered by a glitch in the distribution of live tyre information, caused several near-misses on track as drivers no longer received traffic advisory calls from their team.
Before ...Keep reading
The basic idea is for the sprint event and the grand prix to have their own qualifying sessions, and for the result of the sprint not to impact the grid positions for the main event.
The plan was announced by F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali at the last F1 Commission meeting, where it received widespread support from team bosses.
It was then presented to the teams' sporting directors at a recent ...Keep reading
The opening one-hour practice session at Albert Park was stopped after 40 minutes when it became clear that teams were unable to track cars on the circuit and as a result, there were several crash near-misses.
The FIA, therefore, opted to stop the session for nine minutes while the problem was investigated.
It quickly became apparent that the lack of live GPS tracking was creating the main ...Keep reading
After drivers George Russell and Lewis Hamilton scored sixth and seventh in qualifying for 2023 opener in Bahrain, Wolff declared that the team would change its car concept.
While trackside engineering director Andrew Shovlin has since revealed Mercedes realised the limits of the W14 in the wind tunnel even before hitting the ground in testing, a major car redesign is a months-long ...Keep reading
The DAMS driver was quick from the off, tackling torrential downpours before setting a 1m45.118s to top the timesheets for his first pole position since Abu Dhabi last season.
He went quickest at the halfway mark and despite being briefly demoted by ART driver Theo Pourchaire, reclaimed the top spot before a crash from third-placed Martins saw the session end three minutes early.
Home ...Keep reading
A review conducted by team principal Andrea Stella at the request of CEO Zak Brown has led to the departure of erstwhile McLaren technical director James Key.
The team is introducing a new structure headed by three technical directors, namely Peter Prodromou (aerodynamics), Davide Sanchez (car concept and performance), and Neil Houldey (engineering and design).
Norris says he has complete ...Keep reading
The question of a potential night race around the Albert Park circuit was posed to Westacott during an appearance in the Sky Sports commentary booth during second free practice on Friday.
While not championing the idea, Westacott urged the AGPC to keep an open mind when it comes to innovation for the event.
The key, according to Westacott, is the long-term deal in place between the Victorian ...Keep reading
Suppression of driver opinion has been a hot topic in recent weeks, the matter thrust into the spotlight at the season-opener in Newcastle thanks to a silent protest of sorts from Shane van Gisbergen.
The reigning series champion declined to address TV and media questions in full following his Race 2 win, which he later explained was a response to being told not to be critical of the new-spec ...Keep reading
Verstappen was fastest in FP1 for Red Bull, despite a spin, and Alonso was quickest for Aston Martin in a rain-impacted FP2.
Australian Grand Prix FP1 results: Verstappen fastest from Hamilton
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Verstappen led the pack out of the pits at the start of FP2, but it was Carlos Sainz who logged the first time to set the first place benchmark, the Spaniard putting in a 1m20.378s on the medium tyres.
A few minutes later, Verstappen beat this with a 1m19.759s while also running the mediums, before Sainz shot back ahead with his second lap to complete a 1m19.695s.
But this only stood as the ...Keep reading
Ahead of this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix, as fully revealed by Autosport, F1 race director Niels Wittich has reminded the teams that their staff scaling pitwall fences is outlawed under the FIA’s International Sporting Code requirements and is subject to penalties.
This constitutes a new clampdown on a long-standing tradition of F1 team members climbing up and leaning through pitwall ...Keep reading
There was drama before the second race of the weekend even started, initially thanks to delays from the crash-affected Formula 3 qualifying.
That meant the Supercars race went from a 15-lap duration to a time certain finished at 3:33pm local time plus one lap.
As the delayed start neared, there was a light sprinkle of rain around the Albert Park precinct, with the race declared wet for a ...Keep reading
Baku is the first of six sprint events on the 2023 schedule, and it comes at a time when teams are still building up spares inventories, introducing upgraded parts and in some cases complete new packages that will be in limited supply.
The fact that the race is followed one week later by another street event in Miami puts even more pressure on teams to leave Baku with a minimal amount of ...Keep reading
A mechanic works on the car of Max Verstappen, Red Bull Racing RB19
Photo by: Lionel Ng / Motorsport Images
As Red Bull’s RB19 is prepared for action we’re treated to a view of the front brake assembly at different stages of the build, with the brake caliper fairing installed on the left-hand side of the car, while it’s naked on the right.
Note that the fairing doesn’t ...Keep reading
The Trident rookie, who won the Bahrain feature race, set a 1m33.025s during the final flurry of laps as several drivers crashed in the closing moments of the session.
Bortoleto took an early lead with a 1m34.064s, and despite being demoted by Franco Colapinto, reclaimed the top spot before the end of the session to lead by almost 0.2s.
Second-year ART driver Gregoire Saucy will line up ...Keep reading
Verstappen’s 1m18.790s led the way ahead of Lewis Hamilton, who jumped up the order late on after initially struggling with the handling of his W14, and running adrift of his team-mate George Russell during the early exploratory laps on the harder tyres.
Sergio Perez took third in the second Red Bull ahead of Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso, although the former’s best time was set on ...Keep reading
The clarification has resulted from a review of the Alonso penalty stop and the grid placement offence that triggered it.
As well as a tidying up of the penalty pitstop rules the review has resulted in changes to the grid boxes, which have been extended in width from 2.5m to 2.7m from this weekend, with an experimental central white line added to help to guide the drivers in Melbourne.
In ...Keep reading
Triple Eight has been at odds with Supercars and Burgess since the Saturday evening of the season-opening Newcastle 500 earlier this month.
It was at that point the two T8 Camaros were stripped of their one-two finish in Race 1 thanks to the placement of a dry ice radiator on the driver's side of the cars.
While not allowed under the technical regulations, T8 argued that it had sought and ...Keep reading
MotoGP stewarding has been under the spotlight this week following the crash between Marc Marquez and Miguel Oliveira in the Portuguese GP, and the resulting fallout over the penalty applied.
Marquez was given a double long lap penalty for the incident, that initially looked like it would never be served as he was ruled out of the Argentina GP last Monday due to injury.
The FIM stewards then ...Keep reading
Yamaha developed a new, more powerful engine for the 2023 season after several years of languishing at the bottom of the MotoGP speed traps.
While it has been a step forward, Quartararo still struggled to overtake during the Portugal Grand Prix weekend, as he finished 10th in the sprint and eighth in the grand prix.
He later admitted that he “can’t fight” with his rivals on the 2023 ...Keep reading
The Australian made a strong start to life with KTM last weekend in Portugal with fourth in the sprint and seventh in the grand prix, brushing aside what appeared like a difficult winter for the Austrian manufacturer.
Miller is looking to become the first rider since Loris Capirossi to have won races for three different manufacturers, having done so already with Honda in 2016 and Ducati in 2021 ...Keep reading
Gonzalez won the British F3 National class title with T-Sport in 2006, then raced in GP2 and tested for the Lotus/Caterham and Marussia F1 teams before a six-race IndyCar spell for Dale Coyne Racing in 2015. Subsequent health issues then sidelined the British-educated Venezuelan.
“I stopped because, for some time, I became slightly ill,” said the 36-year-old, who contributes to ESPN ...Keep reading
Marciello and Gounon claimed the Endurance Cup crown last year together with fellow AMG factory driver Daniel Juncadella after following podiums at Imola and Paul Ricard by winning the Spa 24 Hours, while Marciello also earned the overall GTWCE crown after finishing second in the Sprint Cup with Boguslavskiy.
The Russian 22-year-old has driven for the team since 2019, when he won the Endurance ...Keep reading
Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe technical director Pascal Vasselon believes that the revised safety car system could make “Le Mans a bit of a lottery”.
The old system of three safety cars being deployed on the long 8.47-mile Circuit de la Sarthe is being replaced by a new procedure whereby the field will be lined up behind a single course vehicle when the race goes green.
“The ...Keep reading
Marquez wiped out RNF Aprilia rider Oliveira on the third lap of last Sunday’s grand prix in Portugal when he locked up under braking for Turn 3.
The incident left both unable to compete in this weekend’s Argentina GP, with Marquez undergoing surgery on Monday for a hand fracture while Oliveira is now recovering from tendon damage.
FEATURE: The trust issues created by MotoGP's ...Keep reading
Erstwhile technical director James Key has departed McLaren, leaving a three-pronged new arrangement headed by three technical directors, namely Peter Prodromou (aerodynamics), Davide Sanchez (car concept and performance) and Neil Houldey (engineering and design).
Stella suggested that under the previous structure the contribution of Prodromou in particular had been restricted.
“I think ...Keep reading
F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali thrust the sanctity of free practice into the limelight in an interview last weekend with SportTV. He said: "I am a supporter of the cancellation of free practice sessions, which are of great use to the engineers but that the public doesn't like."
Arguments in favour of slashing the three one-hour sessions include taking away data from engineers and drivers to increase ...Keep reading
What a story it would be if the Le Mans 24 Hours produced a grandstand finish — perhaps the closest ever in its history — in this the centenary year for the French enduro. I reckon there’s a decent chance of its happening as the clock strikes four on 11 June, and I’m not making that prediction because the sell-out crowd is going to be watching one of the best fields in the top class in ...Keep reading
Just like in any other sport, in Formula 1 if drivers don’t follow the rules set out by the FIA, then they can be penalised for it.
However, it isn’t rare for drivers to find themselves victims of bizarrely harsh penalties which sometimes don’t even seem to make sense - like the infamous 65-grid penalty Stoffel Vandoorne suffered in Spa in 2017.
F1 can be a complicated form of ...Keep reading
In the wake of penalties given out to Alonso and Alpine's Esteban Ocon in the opening two races of the season for starting outside their markers, the FIA has widened the grid boxes in Melbourne.
But despite an extra 20cm of space, plus the trial of a new guidance line to help drivers line up, Alonso is sceptical of them being enough to assist with the difficulties being faced.
In particular ...Keep reading
With Red Bull's new RB19 proving to be the class of the field this year, the championship battle already looks set to be a straight head-to-head between Perez and Max Verstappen.
The potential for that fight to get quite intense was made obvious at the recent Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, when Perez edged out his team-mate in the scrap for the win. But their battle was somewhat overshadowed by ...Keep reading
The man who heads race promoter Saudi Motorsport Company, and who is largely responsible for the success of the event, is Briton Martin Whitaker.
Prior to becoming involved in the circuit and event operation business, Whitaker's career followed an unusual path that saw him working for bosses as diverse as Bernie Ecclestone, Jean-Marie Balestre, Max Mosley and Ron Dennis.
Along the way, he's ...Keep reading
Browning recently made headlines by winning the prestigious Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver Award, which recognises the most promising young drivers in the UK. He also recently joined the Hitech team for the start of the 2023 Formula 3 season.
On the podcast he talks about his experience of battling to win the championship in GB3, his journey to winning our young driver award and how ...Keep reading
While the team has solved the porpoising and bouncing that underlined its 2022 fall to third, the fixes have exposed an underlying ground-effects concept that fundamentally lacks performance.
As a result, Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff announced after only qualifying in the Bahrain season-opener that the team would change its design philosophy.
Hamilton has now pinpointed further ...Keep reading
After winning two of the opening three races in 2022 before going on to be well beaten by Red Bull in that campaign, Ferrari’s 2023 season has started badly in comparison – with Sainz’s fourth place at the Bahrain season-opener the team’s best result so far.
It currently sits fourth in the constructors’ standings – behind Aston Martin and Mercedes in trailing Red Bull – and has ...Keep reading
Pole winner Anton De Pasquale made the best of the start in cold, drizzly conditions, the Dick Johnson Racing Ford driver initially leading the Camaros of Kostecki (Erebus) and van Gisbergen (Triple Eight).
Kostecki made life hard for himself soon after, though, showing the nose on De Pasquale at Turn 3 which then compromised his exit.
That allowed van Gisbergen to charge into second place ...Keep reading
It’s easy to be clever in hindsight, but it’s not hard to believe that Lewis Hamilton really did have his doubts about the 2023 F1 season from the moment he first saw the new Mercedes W14.
Following your own design concept is commendable – and can be beneficial as well as provide some variety on the grid. But it is already clear that Mercedes should have changed its design path last year ...Keep reading
Speaking in Melbourne ahead of this weekend's Australian Grand Prix, the reigning double world champion said that initially he felt like he was “missing a lung” and admitted that he didn’t feel good in the car from the start of the weekend.
Verstappen arrived late in Jeddah after giving himself an extra day to recuperate at home in Monaco from what was said to be a stomach ...Keep reading
The move that prevents a long-standing tradition of team staff waving their successful cars home at the end of grand prix will come into focus from this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park.
It follows a situation last time out in Jeddah where team personnel from Red Bull and Aston Martin were spotted climbing to the top of the lattice metal debris fencing that lines the Saudi ...Keep reading
Last week Piquet was fined £780,000 by a Brazilian court for the comments, which he made on a podcast in November 2021 in response to a question about the clash between Hamilton and Max Verstappen at that year’s British Grand Prix.
Shortly afterwards Piquet apologised, conceding that his language "was ill thought out, and I make no defence for it".
He also said that the racist term he ...Keep reading
Located in Dumfries and Galloway, the disused coal mine is to be transformed into a Pumped Storage Hydropower plant and wind farm – an ideal location for Extreme E to promote electric power and clean energy solutions.
The energy project was finally confirmed last October, as landowners Buccleuch and Foresight Energy Infrastructure Partners reached a deal that would see the latter lease the ...Keep reading
McLaren started the 2023 season with a draggy car after taking the wrong direction in floor development last winter.
In a tight midfield the team is yet to score point, although its regression in performance has been compounded by reliability issues and on-track incidents.
Having realised even before the season kicked off in Bahrain that it would start the year on the backfoot, the ...Keep reading
Ocon and Alonso were respectively penalised at the Bahrain and Jeddah races that opened the 2023 campaign after lining up too far outside of their grid slots.
In each incident, Ocon and Alonso had placed their wheels over the white painted lines on the edge of the grid boxes – but remained behind the yellow line that denotes how far forward a car can start – and so were handed five-second ...Keep reading
When Brad Keselowski’s Ford Mustang pulled off with no power in the Esses with 12 laps to go, it unfortunately spoiled what would’ve been a fascinating endgame over who had sufficient fuel to make the finish to a thus-far excellent stock car road course race.
Could anybody beat race dominator Tyler Reddick – who had the fastest car but was clearly managing his pace to save fuel? Last ...Keep reading
Project 91’s stated intention is to field “world-class drivers from other disciplines to compete at NASCAR’s highest level”.
After fielding Raikkonen at Watkins Glen last year, Marks said he’d increase the programme to “six to eight” Cup races in 2023, while retaining its focus on road courses.
Raikkonen also finished 29th place at the NASCAR Cup race at the Circuit of the ...Keep reading
Unreliability and damage for both Piastri and team-mate Lando Norris in the opening two races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have left McLaren bottom of the constructors’ championship and without a point.
Despite this poor opening, 1996 F1 world title winner Hill reckons rookie Piastri will not need to worry about a bad run sapping his confidence, even if the Australian is yet to deliver a ...Keep reading
The IMSA SportsCar Championship team-mates have been named alongside Felipe Nasr in the additional car that will join Porsche Penske Motorsport’s two full-season World Endurance Championship entries in the Hypercar class for the double-points round on 10-11 June.
Tandy’s 11th Le Mans start reprises his debut in the top class at the French enduro in 2015 when he drove the third Porsche 919 ...Keep reading
The 1992 Indianapolis 500 saw 10 former winners start the race – but none of them won it. The highest-placed former winner that day was four-time Indy victor Al Unser Sr of Team Menard, who managed to coax the notoriously fast-but-fickle Buick engine past the chequered flag. He was 10 seconds behind the winner, his son Al Unser Jr, who won for Team Galles by holding off Scott Goodyear’s Walker ...Keep reading
The 16-time TT winner was due to compete for the TAS Racing-run Milwaukee BMW squad this year but has been forced to miss the event having been absent from the top 20 seeded riders list that was released on Tuesday.
Hutchinson suffered a stroke earlier this year while cycling in Spain and said British Superbike rider Jason O’Halloran “saved his life” who was with him in ...Keep reading
Rins joins Honda and LCR for 2023 after Suzuki elected to quit MotoGP at the end of the 2022 campaign, and finished his debut weekend with his new employers with a 13th in the sprint race and 10th in the grand prix.
The five-time race winner says his biggest issue in the main race in Portugal was being unable to stick with rival bikes on straights owing to the Honda’s rear grip issues, which ...Keep reading
The Haas driver has made his comeback with Haas this season, having not raced full time since he was dropped by Renault at the end of 2019.
He kept race-sharp, however, as reserve and test driver for the Racing Point/Aston Martin team over the past three years, taking part in four grands prix in that period.
But as he bids to make the most of his fresh opportunity with Haas, the German has ...Keep reading
The Chip Ganassi Racing-run factory team will field its IMSA SportCar Championship pairing of Sebastien Bourdais and Renger van der Zande in the additional Caddy V-Series.R LMDh at the Spa 6 Hours on 29 April, round three of the 2023 WEC.
They join the full-season Ganassi entry run under the Cadillac Racing banner for Earl Bamber, Alex Lynn and Richard Westbrook.
The move is a prelude to the ...Keep reading
Marquez was handed a double long lap penalty by the FIM stewards for triggering a crash that took both him and Oliveira out of the race, while he also clipped Jorge Martin which forced him off track and dropped him down the order.
The original penalty stated it would be served at the Argentina GP, but since then Marquez has needed to undergo surgery to his right metacarpal injured in the crash ...Keep reading
Following a frantic start to the new MotoGP season and the debut of the sprint race, the series doesn’t miss a beat as it moves straight to Argentina for the second round this weekend.
The MotoGP grid will be without four regular riders due to injuries from Portugal; with Pol Espargaro ruled out after his heavy practice crash, Enea Bastianini absent after a collision in the sprint race and ...Keep reading
While the Silverstone-based squad has proved to be a close challenger to Red Bull in the opening two grands prix of the season, it has also been clear that there are big differences in how the two cars perform.
While Aston Martin’s AMR23 has clear strengths in braking, acceleration and low-speed corners, it is also noticeable how much it is giving away to Red Bull on the ...Keep reading
The Mercedes F1 junior returned to the Italian team for 2023, having spent his second Formula 3 and first F2 season with ART Grand Prix.
He took victory in the feature race in Saudi Arabia, his first since the Baku sprint in 2022, clinching the win after his rivals spun out.
Vesti believes that returning to the team with which he won the 2019 Formula Regional European Championship ...Keep reading
Eight months have passed since the announcement of the introduction of sprint races for the 2023 MotoGP season. That time frame has given rise to countless debates and disagreements between some about the suitability of the formula that finally made its debut last weekend in Portugal.
The evaluation of this first experience was most positive from the spectacle, commercial and promotional point ...Keep reading
Nine-time world champion Sebastien Loeb joined the team to contest four WRC events last year to help boost the squad’s championship hopes.
The move proved successful with Loeb and co-driver Isabelle Galmiche winning the 2022 season opener in Monte Carlo. The pair also led in Portugal before a crash halted their progress, while mechanical issues robbed them of a chance to challenge for a ...Keep reading
Williams languished at the bottom of the 2022 championship and arrived at last month's Bahrain pre-season test with caution, playing down any hopes it would be able to move up the grid after a winter spent in limbo.
But in Bahrain the team's lead driver Alex Albon grabbed a point after reaching Q2. While neither he or rookie team-mate Logan Sargeant managed to escape Q1 in Saudi Arabia, Albon ...Keep reading
Last weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix was the first ever sprint weekend for MotoGP, with a half-distance race taking place on Saturday to compliment Sunday’s traditional full-length contest.
The addition of sprints has led to a change in the weekend format, with two practices taking place on Friday, qualifying on Saturday morning and the sprint later that day.
Bagnaia won both the sprint ...Keep reading
Neil Brown Engineering is producing a new Toyota powerplant for Speedworks Motorsport’s trio of Corolla GR Sports, as the Cheshire team makes the switch from the TOCA customer engine.
Butcher will be joined in the line-up by George Gamble, who had a race-winning BTCC rookie season in 2022 with the Ciceley Motorsport BMW squad, while Ricky Collard remains on board.
Collard has gone back on ...Keep reading
As rivals try to get to the bottom of what Red Bull has done to produce such a dominant car as its 2023 challenger, there has been an increased focus on the gains coming from it having such a stable platform.
While the car is producing good levels of downforce with brilliant efficiency, and a powerful DRS, one aspect not to be overlooked is the way that the car maintains its ride in ...Keep reading
With just over 60 days to go until first practice for the 2023 event, organisers have released the starting order for the top 20 riders for this year’s Superbike TT, Senior TT and Superstock TT races.
Australian David Johnson will lead the field on his Jackson Racing Honda, as he gets set to make his return to the event having been forced to sit out the 2022 races with injury.
Going away ...Keep reading
The final 10 laps of the Cup event won by Tyler Reddick took almost an hour to complete, with a trio of overtime restarts required following a series of Turn 1 multi-car pileups after restarts, which resulted in car and tyre damage causing cautions for debris.
In total, there were five restarts in the final 15 laps. Harvick, who was in the thick of the action in his Stewart-Haas Racing Ford ...Keep reading
The Australian spent five seasons with Ducati, initially with Pramac between 2018 and 2020, before stepping up to its factory squad in 2021.
The four-time race winner has switched to KTM for 2023 and enjoyed a strong debut at the Portuguese Grand Prix, finishing fourth in the sprint and seventh in the main race.
Comparing the RC16 to the Desmosedici he previously rode and which won both ...Keep reading
Fallows was recruited from Red Bull Racing, where he had been one of Adrian Newey's key lieutenants for many years, and began work at the Silverstone team in April.
Inevitably, that has led to pointed suggestions from the Red Bull camp that the very competitive AMR23 is a copy of its car.
However, McCullough says that Fallows and new head of aerodynamics Eric Blandin were keen to mix their ...Keep reading
“It’s unanimous – every rider in the safety commission isn’t happy. I know it’s not easy, but what we don’t feel comfortable with is that it’s always different. They aren’t always equal with the same actions.”
These were the words of Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro, and the ‘they’ he is referring to is MotoGP’s FIM stewards panel – back in August of 2020. Circumstances ...Keep reading
Named Formula Equal, the proposed team is expecting to operate with 50/50 percent split between men and women working at the outfit, and is planning to work out of an unspecified "Gulf area country" - with Saudi Arabia believed to be among the key underwriters of the project.
Pollock, formerly the manager of 1997 F1 champion Jacques Villeneuve, revealed the plans on Tuesday in an interview with ...Keep reading
In two years Haas has gone from employing two rookies in Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin to having one of the most experienced line-ups on the grid, with Hulkenberg returning from three years without a full-time drive to partner Kevin Magnussen in 2023.
The German made Q3 and qualified 10th on his debut for the team in Bahrain, and also started 10th in Saudi Arabia after gaining a spot from ...Keep reading
Brake systems are an area of constant development as teams attempt to reduce weight, improve heat dissipation and increase the car’s overall stopping performance.
Red Bull has made several changes to its brake calipers for 2023, as it continues to make small incremental gains. The brake assembly of last year's RB18 was a fascinating case study from the squad, as many refinements ...Keep reading
Located next to the Santana district of Sao Paulo, where the legendary driver Ayrton Senna was born, the race took place on the Sambadrome, the scene of the city's carnival every February.
As in India and South Africa, the 2.96km track was unknown by the drivers. Only the simulator preparation had revealed the bumps of the asphalt. For the sixth race in a row, the winner of the E-Prix was not ...Keep reading
On lap three of last Sunday’s Portuguese GP, Marquez collided heavily with RNF’s Oliveira at Turn 3 when he locked up under braking.
The incident took Marquez and Oliveira out of the race, and also forced Pramac’s Jorge Martin off track after he was clipped by the Honda rider.
Marquez suffered a fractured thumb, Oliveira sustained tendon injuries and Martin revealed that the crash ...Keep reading
After crashing out of Saturday's sprint race in Portugal, VR46 Ducati rider Bezzecchi thrust himself into podium contention in Sunday's grand prix.
The Italian, who started seventh, was one of the big winners of the lap three clash involving Marc Marquez, Jorge Martin and Miguel Oliveira as he was instantly promoted to fourth.
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According to a report on Autosport's sister site, Motorsport-Total.com, Porsche has now decided against pursuing options in grand prix racing.
The decision has been made after it came very close to a deal with Red Bull last year before talks fell through when the Milton Keynes-based team grew concerned about losing its independence.
At the time, Porsche was clear that it would continue to ...Keep reading
The Sao Paulo E-Prix last weekend was the first Formula E race to be held in Brazil and marked the third new location on the bounce that the championship has visited in recent months.
This followed Hyderabad in India and Cape Town in South Africa, with a new venue in Portland also taking the place of New York City for the USA round in June.
Sette Camara believes that although the new venues ...Keep reading
On lap three of last Sunday’s opening grand prix of the season, Marquez locked up under braking for Turn 3 and slammed into the side of RNF Aprilia’s Oliveira.
The incident took both riders out of the race on the spot, while Pramac’s Jorge Martin says he suffered a broken toe in the contact which forced him off track and dropped him down the order.
Marquez suffered a fracture to his ...Keep reading
The former Renault Formula 1 boss, who took over as team principal of the South Korean marque in January, revealed his initial key objectives for the team last month, including a refinement of the team’s structure, roles, communication and decision making.
In addition to this, the Frenchman stated an ambition to make the squad “more engineering led”, with the latest part of this project ...Keep reading
In the wake of the restructuring of its technical department last week which included the departure of technical director James Key and confirmation that former Ferrari man David Sanchez will join in 2024, McLaren has been pushing hard to sign further top-level personnel.
Having undertaken a comprehensive review of its organisation over the winter, one of the conclusions was that its aero ...Keep reading
Piastri had a frustrating time in the opener in Bahrain, admitting to mistakes in qualifying that cost him a shot at Q2, and then suffering an electrical issue early in the race.
But in Jeddah he made Q3 and qualified ninth on a day when team-mate Lando Norris damaged his car early in Q1.
In the race both drivers were compromised by early stops for front wing damage. Piastri eventually ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer has had a difficult start to the new season, with its 2023 F1 challenger proving to be no match for the dominant Red Bull team.
Straight after qualifying for the season-opener in Bahrain, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff said that the squad had already thrown the towel in on its design concept and would start work on a completely new direction.
While his comments after just a ...Keep reading
The RNF Aprilia rider was running in podium contention on lap three of Sunday’s Portuguese Grand Prix when he was wiped out by Honda’s Marquez at Turn 3.
Marquez locked up under braking and made contact with Jorge Martin before clattering into Oliveira.
Both were taken out on the spot while Martin was forced off track and dropped down the order, with the Pramac rider saying afterwards ...Keep reading
At least Kimi Raikkonen had faced the NASCAR Cup experience once before, arriving at the Circuit of the Americas having been booted out of last year’s race at Watkins Glen and into the tyrewall, so at least he knew what he could expect.
Fellow F1 world champion Jenson Button joined him at COTA, and they were quickly lapping at a decent pace in practice and qualifying – where the pair were ...Keep reading
NTT has been the title sponsor of IndyCar since 2019 and will continue in that capacity with this multi-year extension that goes into effect in 2024. NTT and NTT DATA will also continue as the official technology partner for IndyCar, the series, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR Brickyard weekend.
“NTT is an excellent partner across our enterprise with strong expertise ...Keep reading
The Silverstone and Enstone teams have often been close rivals in recent years, with the transfer of team principal Otmar Szafnauer between the two camps and Fernando Alonso's move in the opposite direction adding an extra edge.
However in the two races held so far this year, Aston Martin has been far ahead, with Alonso securing two third place finishes while Alpine has not finished higher ...Keep reading
After a pair of dominant Red Bull displays in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, Max Verstappen goes into the race weekend with a one-point lead in the standings over team-mate Sergio Perez having snatched the bonus point for fastest lap off the Mexican in Jeddah.
Despite reliability worries for Red Bull, the team is heavy favourite to repeat its strong results at the start of this season, but goes into ...Keep reading
After its breakthrough season in 2022 when it finally became grand prix winners, Aprilia has made a strong start to the new campaign in Portugal.
Both Vinales and Aleix Espargaro were fifth and sixth in the inaugural sprint race, while Vinales pressured reigning world champion Francesco Bagnaia for most of the 25-lap grand prix.
Vinales took the chequered flag 0.687s behind Bagnaia and felt ...Keep reading
Suarez was running in the top-five and in contention for the win as the race went into the first of three two-lap overtimes, but got shoved off the course and into Martin Truex Jr. heading up the hill to Turn 1.
The contact was instigated by his Trackhouse Racing team-mate Ross Chastain bumping into Bowman, who then hit Suarez and sent him into Truex.
Both Truex and Suarez ended up ...Keep reading
The Briton started in 10th for the inaugural Formula E race in Brazil due to serving a five-place grid penalty for a collision with Jaguar team-mate Mitch Evans in Hyderabad.
A qualifying accident in Cape Town which resulted in him being unable to start the race meant he was unable to serve the penalty there.
Bird made steady progress in the early stages of the Sao Paulo race and jumped ...Keep reading
Five days of testing were all the field had to get itself ready for the 2023 season, two of which taking place at the Algarve International Circuit which played host to the opening round of the campaign. Therefore, when bikes hit the track for the first practice of MotoGP’s revised format, the spread was tight and everyone was dialled in.
Though the new format brought about a new way of ...Keep reading
Soon after the race, Mercedes driver Hamilton said he had never seen a car have such an edge over the opposition as the RB19.
"I've definitely never seen a car so fast," remarked the seven-time world champion after finishing 25s behind the Dutchman in fifth, despite starting seven positions ahead thanks to the Red Bull's Q2 engine issue.
"I think when we were fast, we weren't that fast. I ...Keep reading
The 2009 Formula 1 world champion was making the first of three planned outings in the Cup Series this year in a Rick Ware Racing Ford, as he gears up to a return to the Le Mans 24 Hours with Hendrick Motorsport's Garage 56 NASCAR programme.
Button finished 18th as the best of the road course ringers, ahead of Jordan Taylor and former F1 rival Kimi Raikkonen, after an eventful race ...Keep reading
After a difficult winter testing phase, Quartararo appeared to make a breakthrough with the 2023 Yamaha on the final day of the Portugal test, particularly over a single lap.
But Quartararo could only manage 11th in qualifying at the Algarve International Circuit, which became 10th when Ducati’s Enea Bastianini was unable to start the grand prix through injury sustained in the sprint ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer has had a difficult start to the 2023 campaign, with the new W14 proving to be well adrift of the pace-setting Red Bull RB19.
The competitive situation has prompted Mercedes to work on a complete revamp of its design concept, which it hopes can deliver big steps forward in pace over the remainder of the season.
Wolff has long talked about the management challenges ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion got his title defence off to the best possible start in Portugal, as he won both the sprint contest on Saturday and Sunday’s main race to open up a 12-point lead in the standings.
Bagnaia took the lead of the feature race at the end of lap two, having started second, but was hounded to the chequered flag by Aprilia’s Maverick Vinales.
Having at one stage been ...Keep reading
During a visit to the opening round of the MotoGP season in Portugal, Domenicali was interviewed by Portuguese channel SportTV for his thoughts on various topics.
But it was one remark that caused a stir as it suggested that he was looking at a bold shake-up of the F1 weekend timetable.
"I am a supporter of the cancellation of free practice sessions, which are of great use to the engineers ...Keep reading
On his second Cup outing with the Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet squad, Raikkonen started 22nd in Sunday's race and ran in the midfield for most of the day.
However after a late caution brought the field back together, the Finn eyed an opportunity to gain track position. Having pitted just before the yellow flag, he stayed out and jumped up to fourth with less than ten laps to go.
But what ...Keep reading
Toyota driver Reddick and poleman William Byron's Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet spent much of Sunday's race trading the lead, but the former Richard Childress Racing man moved out front for the final time on lap 64 of what was originally scheduled as a 68-lap race.
To preserve the win, however, Reddick had to fight off repeated challengers in three two-lap overtimes to claim his ...Keep reading
Williams is a team in transition after years of chronic underinvestment, and as part of its overhaul, owner Dorilton Capital appointed Vowles to replace outgoing team boss Jost Capito in January.
Vowles, Mercedes' former Mercedes head of strategy, has the unenviable task of turning the team's fortunes around.
Williams placed last in the 2022 championship, its fourth time at the bottom in six ...Keep reading
In a statement released on Monday morning, Honda revealed that Marquez had broken the first metacarpal of the thumb of his right hand following his collision with RNF rider Oliveira in the Portuguese Grand Prix on Sunday.
The fracture was discovered when Marquez returned to his home country of Spain and it was immediately operated upon at the Ruber Internacional Hospital in Madrid by a ...Keep reading
The Honda rider collided with RNF Aprilia’s Oliveira on the third lap of 25 in Sunday’s race after locking his front brake on the way into Turn 3.
The incident took both riders out on the spot and forced Pramac’s Jorge Martin to run off track and drop to 16th, while Marquez has been left with a suspected fracture in his right hand.
Marquez has been handed a double long lap penalty ...Keep reading
Marquez wiped out RNF Aprilia rider Oliveira on the third lap of Sunday’s grand prix at the Algarve International Circuit when he misjudged his braking and touched Pramac’s Jorge Martin.
The incident took both Marquez and Oliveira out of the race, left the latter with bruising on his right side and has potentially caused a fracture in the Honda rider’s right hand.
Marquez has been ...Keep reading
The Honda rider started both the sprint race and the main grand prix from pole after surprisingly topping qualifying.
Marquez converted this to a third-place finish in the sprint and was a factor in the podium battle early on.
An aggressive start saw Marquez force both himself and Pramac’s Jorge Martin slightly wide at the third corner on the opening lap as he tried to reclaim the lead ...Keep reading
2016/17 Formula E champion di Grassi finished a distant 13th on the championship’s first visit to Brazil, two places ahead of Mahindra teammate Oliver Rowland, after a day in which the Indian manufacturer failed to trouble the frontrunners.
It followed on from a disastrous weekend for Mahindra in Cape Town, where both its factory cars and the customer Abt entries had to be withdrawn from the ...Keep reading
Bagnaia made a late charge in Saturday’s inaugural sprint contest in Portugal to take the first win on offer in 2023, and backed this up with a measured ride to keep Aprilia’s Vinales at bay for the first grand prix victory of the year.
The factory Ducati rider got pinched off the line from second by poleman Marc Marquez and Pramac’s Jorge Martin.
But when Marquez made contact with ...Keep reading
The 19-lap Moto3 season-opener kicked off proceedings for the 2023 lightweight class campaign in typically wild fashion.
Having taken the lead on the second lap from fourth on the grid, Tech3 KTM rider Dani Holgado fended off a hard-charging lead group of 10 competitors to claim a first grand prix victory for himself and the team in the class.
Holgado held off David Munoz on the BOE KTM ...Keep reading
Williams currently uses Mercedes PUs but has the option to switch to another partner when the new regulations come in.
In theory, Mercedes might be obliged to part company with one of its three customers as under the 2026 PU regulations a manufacturer can only supply three teams, including its own works outfit, “unless agreed otherwise by the FIA.”
Ferrari will lose ...Keep reading
Honda endured a torrid winter testing phase this winter, with eight-time world champion Marquez admitting ahead of this weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix that he cannot be considered a title contender right now.
But, utilising a tow from Ducati’s Enea Bastianini, Marquez grabbed a surprise pole for this weekend’s sprint race and grand prix in Portugal.
He managed to capitalise on late ...Keep reading
Gasly has been at the centre of a focus on F1’s driver penalty points system after he totted up 10 points – just two shy of the limit before a race ban kicks in – last year.
With some of his points coming from minor offences like track limits, his situation prompted discussion over the winter about whether the system needed a rethink to ensure innocent drivers did not fall foul of a rule ...Keep reading
Vandoorne claimed his first pole for DS Penske after beating Antonio Felix da Costa in the qualifying duels, and led the early stages of the race before fading back to sixth at the finish.
The unique nature of the Brazilian circuit, which included long straights not commonly used in Formula E, meant drivers were reluctant to lead in order to save energy in the slipstream.
Despite attempts to ...Keep reading
Saturday saw the inaugural MotoGP sprint contest take place at the Algarve International Circuit, which was won at the end of the 12 laps by Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia.
Mir’s sprint race lasted only 13 corners, however, after he was involved in a collision with Yamaha’s Quartararo that led to the Honda rider crashing out.
Quartararo was knocked to the back of the field, but recovered ...Keep reading
Dennis was running just outside the top 10 and was shadowing points leader Pascal Wehrlein after both title protagonists qualified down the order for Saturday’s race.
Heading into Turn 1 just before half distance, Ticktum’s NIO 333 machine made heavy contact with the rear of Dennis’ Andretti car which caused significant damage to the latter.
This became evident into the right-hander of ...Keep reading
The Spaniard crashed into the tyre barriers located at Turn 10 of the Portuguese track in FP2, in an impact that caused several fractures to his jaw and back, as well as severe trauma to the lung area.
Espargaro will remain under observation for another 24 hours in hospital in Faro before doctors assess the possibility of giving him permission to be transferred to Barcelona in the coming days ...Keep reading
The first round of the 2023 MotoGP season has been an eventful one thus far, starting with Pol Espargaro’s horrendous accident on Friday in FP2 that left him with fractures to his jaw and back.
This raised numerous safety concerns from riders about the Algarve International Circuit, centring on the lack of an air fence at Turn 10 where he crashed (which has since been rectified) and the ...Keep reading
The 2007 world champion is making his second race outing in the NASCAR Cup Series at Circuit of the Americas this weekend, rejoining the Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet team with which he made his debut at Watkins Glen last year.
The Finn, who retired from F1 at the end of the 2021 season after making 349 race starts, will start 22nd in tomorrow's race, two positions ahead of NASCAR Cup rookie ...Keep reading
Saturday at the 2023 Portuguese Grand Prix saw MotoGP stage its first ever sprint race, with Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia winning the 12-lap contest as poleman Marquez completed the podium.
Several riders were critical of the riding aggression seen in the sprint race, with Yamaha’s 2021 champion Fabio Quartararo calling the contest “a jungle” and warning “a big crash” will happen soon ...Keep reading
New Zealander Evans defended fiercely against compatriot Cassidy over the final lap, notably into the Turn 4 chicane and through the final sequence of corners, as the leading trio were covered by just over half a second at the flag.
Antonio Felix da Costa was the leading Porsche runner in fourth, heading home the DS Penske duo of Jean-Eric Vergne and Stoffel Vandoorne.
Championship leader ...Keep reading
Bastianini was involved in a collision triggered by VR46 Ducati counterpart Luca Marini on the second lap of Saturday’s inaugural MotoGP sprint race, won by Francesco Bagnaia.
Marini crashed while trying to go up the inside of Bastianini and skittled the factory Ducati rider, who had to go to the medical centre for checks.
Preliminary scans revealed he had fractured his right collarbone ...Keep reading
Raikkonen and Button, the F1 world champions of 2007 and 2009, will start 22nd and 24th respectively for the first NASCAR road course of the season, while sportscar racer Jordan Taylor starred on his first outing subbing for the injured Chase Elliott at Hendrick Motorsports by setting the fourth-quickest time.
23XI Racing Toyota driver Tyler Reddick had topped Group B ...Keep reading
The inaugural MotoGP sprint race took place on Saturday at the Portuguese Grand Prix, with Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia triumphing in the 12-lap dash.
Quartararo, who ended up without points in 10th, was involved in a first-lap clash with Joan Mir after the Honda rider made contact with the Yamaha at Turn 13 and crashed.
On the following lap, VR46 Ducati rider Luca Marini crashed into his ...Keep reading
In an interview on a Brazilian podcast in November 2021, Piquet used a racial slur referring to seven-time world champion Hamilton, while being asked on his views on Hamilton's British Grand Prix clash with Max Verstappen.
Piquet apologised for his remarks when they surfaced last June, stating his language "was ill thought out, and I make no defence for it".
He also claimed he was ...Keep reading
As part of a major shake-up to the MotoGP format for 2023, half-distance sprint races take place on the Saturday of every grand prix weekend.
Bagnaia converted second on the grid to make history as MotoGP’s first ever sprint race winner, as he capitalised on a mistake from Pramac Ducati counterpart Martin on the final tour.
Poleman Marc Marquez completed the podium after home hero Miguel ...Keep reading
Erik Jones is 21st in the series standings, after finishing eighth at Atlanta Motor Speedway last weekend in his first top-10 of the season, while rookie team-mate Noah Gragson is 27th following his a personal best finish of 12th.
Since last November when the former Petty GMS Racing team announced its new part-owner in seven-time Cup Series champion Johnson, the rebranded ...Keep reading
The DS Penske driver was marginally slower in the opening sector in Brazil during the qualifying final shootout, but found over a tenth of a second in the middle sector to put him in prime position.
The Belgian held his advantage through the final sector to post a 1m11.904s, which put him 0.063s clear of Porsche driver da Costa to ensure he secured his maiden pole for DS Penske and first of the ...Keep reading
Red Bull has started the 2023 season in truly dominant form, with its RB19 appearing to be around one second per lap quicker than the rest of the field in race trim.
While Red Bull has played down talk that it is a shoe-in for the F1 title this year, rivals are not anticipating being able to slash its advantage in the short-term.
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The eight-time world champion endured a tough winter testing phase with the 2023 Honda, and felt coming into this weekend’s first round of the 2023 season that he could not be considered a title challenger at the moment.
Indeed, Marquez was outside of the Q2 cut-off for qualifying at the end of Friday’s practices down in 14th and was wary that making it out of Q1 on Saturday morning would ...Keep reading
As part of MotoGP’s radical format shake-up for 2023, qualifying now takes place on Saturday morning and sets the grid for both the main grand prix on Sunday and this afternoon’s new sprint contest.
A difficult winter on the 2023 Honda left Marquez feeling like the bike he currently has isn't enough for him to be a title contender.
But, having come through Q1 with setting new lap record ...Keep reading
Da Costa’s best lap – a 1m11.496s – came as the chequered flag was shown at the Brazilian venue after the Portuguese driver had not featured near the top of the times for the majority of the 30-minute session.
Gunther finished second having occupied the top of the times for a large portion of the running with a 1m11.762s, putting him 0.266s behind da Costa, while Nissan’s Norman Nato ...Keep reading
The Spaniard was flung from his Tech3-run, GASGAS-branded KTM in the closing stages of Friday’s FP2 session as he headed through the Turn 10 right-hander at the Algarve International Circuit.
Espargaro landed heavily before violently barrelling through the gravel trap and hitting the barrier on the edge of the track.
The session was immediately red-flagged and Espargaro was attended to by ...Keep reading
The 2009 Formula 1 world champion is making his NASCAR debut this weekend aboard the #15 Rick Ware Racing Ford Mustang, with technical support from Stewart-Haas Racing.
In the only 50-minute practice session this weekend, he ran 13 total laps and logged the 28th quickest time out of 39 entries. He was 1.770s slower than pace-setter Tyler Reddick's 23XI Racing Toyota, but ahead of 2007 F1 ...Keep reading
As part of MotoGP’s introduction of sprint races to every grand prix in 2023, the entire weekend format has been adjusted. A key change has been made to Fridays, with both practice sessions now taking place after Moto2 and Moto3. Previously, MotoGP practices were sandwiched between Moto3 and Moto2.
As a result, FP2 now takes place at 3pm local time and runs for an hour instead of 45 ...Keep reading
Stella says Red Bull has simply done everything better than the rest and that now it’s a question of trying to match that progress.
McLaren made a step towards that goal this week by announcing a restructuring that included the departure of erstwhile technical director James Key.
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Stella says ...Keep reading
The Indian manufacturer was forced to withdraw Lucas di Grassi and Oliver Rowland in South Africa, as well as the customer Abt cars of Nico Muller and Kelvin van der Linde due to the issue.
Bertrand confirmed the problem centred around a wishbone on the rear suspension which had failed on both Mahindra machines and one of the Abt vehicles after FP2, leaving the teams no choice but to withdraw ...Keep reading
Tech3 GASGAS rider Espargaro suffered a nasty highside going into Turn 10 late on in FP2 and violently bounced through the gravel before hitting the barrier.
Espargaro was treated trackside by medical staff before being loaded into an ambulance to be taken to the medical centre, after which he was airlifted to hospital in nearby Faro.
An update from MotoGP’s doctor Angel Charte revealed ...Keep reading
After five years as a Ducati rider, Miller joins the factory KTM squad for 2023. But the transition was a difficult one of the winter, as the RC16 lagged behind its rivals throughout testing as all riders struggled for rear grip.
Ending FP1 at the Algarve International Circuit in 12th, Miller made a shock jump in lap time of almost 1.9s to produce a 1m37.709s in FP2 to end up as the only KTM ...Keep reading
The Dutchman suffered a break to his left wrist in the opening race of the season at the Mexico City E-Prix in January after hitting the back of Norman Nato’s Nissan.
After undergoing surgery that evening to add a metal plate, the 31-year-old only made his racing return for the World Endurance Championship’s Sebring 1000 Miles a week ago.
After finishing sixth in the LMP2 class with WRT ...Keep reading
Espargaro returns to KTM in 2023 with the rebranded Tech3 GASGAS squad following two dismal years with Honda.
Following a difficult winter testing phase, Friday in Portugal didn’t get off to the best of starts for Espargaro as he ended FP1 down in 20th.
At the start of this afternoon’s FP2 session, Espargaro suffered a small off which put a halt to his session.
With just under 14 ...Keep reading
The championship will race for the first time in the country on Saturday on a similar layout which was previously used by IndyCar between 2010-2013.
A characteristic of the venue is the use of four notable straights around the 1.83-mile circuit, a feature that has not been common at other Formula E tracks due to the nature of the electric machines.
“The passing opportunities here should be ...Keep reading
After a winter of toil for Miller and KTM, the Australian ends the first day of the 2023 season with a new lap record at the Algarve International Circuit after a late surge to the top with a 1m37.709s.
Having gotten underway at 3pm local time, the one-hour FP2 – which has been extended for 2023 as part of the format shake-up – the session didn’t finish until almost two hours later due to ...Keep reading
Among the 39 entries for Sunday’s race at COTA are past Formula 1 champions Kimi Raikkonen and Jenson Button, Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Jordan Taylor and IndyCar racer Connor Daly.
Team Penske racer Cindric, the 2022 Daytona 500 winner, had an extensive sportscar background himself before embarking on his full-time NASCAR career.
While he began with an advantage on road courses from ...Keep reading
The Milton Keynes outfit has got its 2023 season off to a dominant start by logging 1-2 finishes in the first two rounds of the season.
However, Horner expects other teams to make progress, and stresses that Red Bull has to make the most of its early advantage.
"It's so early in the season,” he said in an interview on a Sky TV business programme. “I mean, it's a 23-race calendar, we've ...Keep reading
Rast and Taylor will race as team-mates for the first time in the centenary edition of the French endurance classic this year, sharing an ORECA-Gibson 07 entered by the TDS Racing with Tower Motorsports owner John Farano.
The Canadian 63-year-old earned his entry for winning the IMSA LMP2 title last year, having been partnered for the bulk of the year by Louis Deletraz.
Farano's bronze ...Keep reading
Formula 1 in Saudi Arabia has weathered a fair few storms, from sportswashing criticisms and concerns over human rights to the safety doubts after the missile attack at the race in 2022. On the eve of the event taking place last weekend, human rights group Reprieve issued a strongly worded statement regarding the situation inside Saudi Arabia.
Maya Foa, Director of Reprieve, said: "For all the ...Keep reading
Stegelmann will be responsible for the 'Global Partnership Acquisition' at the team and its fashion branch.
Stegelmann previously worked as Chief Commercial Officer of the Motorsport Network, later managing the sales team of ITR, which organised the DTM series until 2022.
He was also involved in the sales and marketing concept, development and implementation of Formula E.
Before that, his ...Keep reading
Dario Franchitti isn’t short of remarkable cars to choose from when it comes to selecting a favourite.
The four-time IndyCar champion has driven dozens of notable racers, from the Mercedes-Benz W196 that Juan Manuel Fangio took to the 1954 Formula 1 world championship to Colin Chapman's twin chassis Lotus 88.
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You might have expected the ...Keep reading
Bottas is the subject of an exclusive no-holds-barred interview (and an unusual photoshoot) in GP Racing this month. Now free of the corporate leash he’s enjoying life – and racing – once again. He explains why he rejected advice to ‘be more evil’ while at Mercedes and why he’s taking a stand for drivers to be able to express themselves.
GP Racing columnists Mark Gallagher and Matt ...Keep reading
The Spaniard switched to Honda for 2023 after Suzuki, with whom he made his debut in 2019, elected to quit MotoGP at the end of last season.
Mir is the fifth rider in six years to join Marc Marquez at the factory Honda squad, with all of his predecessors dating back to Dani Pedrosa’s final campaign in 2018 enduring a difficult time on the bike.
Pre-season testing has been tough for Honda ...Keep reading
The trajectories of the French manufacturer and its German competitor are opposed in the world of electric single-seaters.
On the one hand, DS Automobiles, first associated with Virgin Racing and then with Techeetah before teaming up with Penske, has won everything in Formula E: 16 victories, 46 podiums, 21 pole positions and 4 titles in seven seasons and 5 races.
On the other hand, Porsche ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing’s six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon was driving for Honda around the 14-turn 2.439-mile course, while Team Penske’s two-time and reigning champion Will Power took the wheel for Chevrolet.
Although the test was for 2024 – when IndyCar will introduce a hybrid system mated to the 2.2-litre, twin-turbo V6s – the event was shrouded in secrecy.
Representatives ...Keep reading
For the first time since the 2006 season, a new grand prix motorcycle campaign begins in Europe, with Portugal marking the first of 21 rounds in 2023 – all of which feature sprint races on Saturdays.
Following a test at the Algarve International Circuit two weeks ago, the season began under damp conditions as light rainfall prior to the first 45-minute session of the year left the track ...Keep reading
Entrepreneur Adam Norris – who made his fortune running one of Britain’s most successful pension advice companies – is the founder of Pure Electric, an e-scooter business that he created after Lando signed his first F1 contract with McLaren.
With his son being well looked after by one of the sport’s greatest teams, Norris Sr felt he needed another passion project to get ...Keep reading
A disappointing start to this season for Mercedes has led to speculation that seven-time world champion Hamilton will grow frustrated after a second barren year and potentially look for an alternative home.
While the currently dominant Red Bull is obviously attractive to all drivers on the grid, team boss Horner has stressed that both reigning world champion Max Verstappen and Saudi Arabian ...Keep reading
Cracking America can be a gamechanger for any business, which is why the advancement of plans for the USA to join the World Rally Championship in 2024 is significant. The WRC has targeted a round in the USA since 2018 and it appears those plans have taken a significant step forward following last week’s announcement that Chattanooga in Tennessee will host a demonstration event from 7-8 April. A ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc both lost ground to rivals ahead on the hards – having started on the medium and soft respectively – on their way to distant sixth and seventh places.
Vasseur suggests that the hard compound simply didn’t work effectively on the SF-23 with the track temperatures at the time, and stresses that the team has to focus on ensuring that the car is competitive in ...Keep reading
The reigning champion has been embroiled in a feud with series legend, commentator and Supercars Board member Mark Skaife since the season-opening Newcastle 500.
The furore was sparked when van Gisbergen shut down media questions after winning the Sunday race – something he explained in the press conference was a protest against calls to not criticise the new Gen3 platform.
But despite ...Keep reading
Triple Eight duo Shane van Gisbergen and Broc Feeney were stripped of first and second position from the opening leg of Newcastle 500 on 11 March, with Tickford's Cam Waters declared the eventual winner of the race.
The Red Bull Camaros were found to have positioned a dry ice radiator for a helmet fan on the driver's side of the car and not the passenger side, in direct breach of Supercars' ...Keep reading
While the introduction of a cost cap since the start of 2021 is widely viewed as having been a success in closing up the field, there are some areas where its scope is felt to be too restrictive.
It has helped in not allowing the bigger teams to spend their way to a huge advantage, but there are aspects to it that have prevented smaller outfits from making the gains they ...Keep reading
Top speed has been a key deficit Yamaha has had to endure in recent years, with a lack of engine power seriously impacting Quartararo’s hopes of defending his world title last year.
Yamaha enlisted the help of former Formula 1 engine chief Luca Marmorini to help with development of its 2023 engine, and the speed trap figures throughout winter testing were positive.
However, coming into the ...Keep reading
Bagnaia made history in 2022 when he bounced back from a deficit of 91 points midway through the season to become Ducati’s first MotoGP world champion since 2007.
The Ducati rider has elected to swap his #63 plate for #1 for 2023, marking the first time a champion has carried that number since Casey Stoner in 2012.
Read more: Can anyone stop "changed" Bagnaia as Ducati tightens its ...Keep reading
The 2022 season marked Honda’s second winless campaign in three years in a spell that has been dominated by bike problems and injury woes for Marquez.
Despite numerous changes over the winter in terms of personnel, with Ken Kawauchi coming from Suzuki to replace Takeo Yokoyama as technical director, Marquez ended the final pre-season test in Portugal two weeks ago claiming the RC213V is only ...Keep reading
The team is currently evaluating a change of direction for its W14 car after realising that its ‘zeropod’ idea is not going to deliver the performance levels hoped for.
Having settled on a change of path, Mercedes has talked of there already being promising results from its CFD and wind tunnel work which it hopes it can unleash in the early stages of the European season.
While some of ...Keep reading
“The buzz for any of the events is the same – it’s a privilege. You’re not there to prove you can outdrive everybody. It’s important to understand those things, it’s competitive theatre.”
Wise words from Rob Wilson, who most reckon has driven more laps of the Goodwood Motor Racing Circuit than anyone else since winning its race school apprenticeship in the mid-1970s.
Offering ...Keep reading
It often happens in F1 that lacklustre performance from a new car triggers the departure of the senior technical figures that pulled it together.
But in McLaren's case, the exit of technical director James Key and the appointment of a new technical executive team has been a long time coming, and the wheels were set in motion weeks before the MCL60 hit the track.
McLaren CEO Zak Brown alluded ...Keep reading
The second-year driver, who finished sixth in the standings last year, has had a difficult start to 2023, failing to score at the opening round in Bahrain.
He fared better last time out in Saudi Arabia, taking two points from the sprint race before finishing second in Sunday’s feature race.
The Australian said his podium felt like he was kickstarting the season from a points perspective ...Keep reading
Off the back of a disappointing start to the 2023 campaign, with the squad having yet to score a point in the opening two grands prix of the season, McLaren has revealed a revamp of its technical department.
As Key, who joined the team in early 2019, departs the outfit with immediate effect, McLaren has opted for a new structure.
The team is to move away from having a single technical ...Keep reading
The Japanese manufacturer has endured a tough 12 months as it suffered its second winless campaign in three years, and is coming into the 2023 campaign – which starts this weekend in Portugal – off the back of a tough pre-season.
Eight-time world champion Marc Marquez admitted after testing that the 2023 RC213V is currently only good enough to fight for between fifth and 10th place.
As ...Keep reading
Antonello Coletta, Ferrari’s sportscar racing boss, has stressed that the Italian manufacturer remains “totally concentrated on WEC” in the wake of the debut for its new Hypercar class prototype in last week’s Sebring 1000 Miles season-opener.
He explained that a 2024 IMSA programme in GTP will not come onto the agenda until the summer, “probably after the Le Mans 24 ...Keep reading
Ocon and team-mate Pierre Gasly were both left asking for more performance after they finished eighth and ninth in the Saudi Arabian GP.
The two cars ran a few seconds apart for much of the race, with the drivers enjoying a brief fight after the safety car restart.
The A523's pace clearly indicated that it is the fifth quickest car at the moment.
Ocon made it clear that the current ...Keep reading
Given Max Verstappen’s speed throughout the Jeddah weekend, many still expected him to be a threat for victory despite starting 15th. But, while the reigning champion easily made his way into second, team-mate Perez managed to stay out of reach to record his fifth F1 win.
Autosport’s new F1 writer Jake Boxall-Legge explains how Verstappen sliced through the pack and Perez held firm in our ...Keep reading
Since retiring from F1 and his subsequent sportscar career, the 1995 Canadian Grand Prix victor has made a number of appearances in historic machinery, including competing at the Goodwood Revival and in the Monaco GP Historique.
His latest is due to be on 7-8 April in V de V’s six-hour contest that is part of the Grand Prix de France Historique meeting at Paul Ricard, the circuit that Alesi ...Keep reading
From the February launch of the MCL60 car, which is an evolution of the 2022 design that Stella said McLaren was “not entirely happy with”, the prevailing sentiment has been that the team must be “realistic” in the early races.
While Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri both hit reliability problems in the Bahrain season opener, they were buoyed by pace that should have left them on the cusp ...Keep reading
After a driveshaft failure in qualifying relegated Verstappen to starting 15th in Jeddah, the two-time world champion climbed the order in the race but had to settle for second behind team-mate Perez, who had a free run to pole.
That means Verstappen and Perez head to Australia with one win each and just one point separating them in the standings - with Verstappen grabbing the fastest lap bonus ...Keep reading
In Bahrain's season opening race, Alpine driver Ocon was penalised for incorrectly positioning his car in his grid slot.
The same thing happened to Aston Martin's Alonso in Saudi Arabia, as the Spaniard was given a five-second time penalty for starting too far to the left of his box. However, Alonso still finished on the podium behind winner Sergio Perez and his Red Bull team-mate Verstappen ...Keep reading
The UK is blessed with an abundance of championships and series that cater for a huge variety of machines, perhaps none more so than with GT racing. Three key championships – British GT, GT Cup and the British Endurance Championship – are not only surviving but thriving, despite occupying a similar space in the market.
This year all of them are set to feature strong grids once again, as ...Keep reading
After the Bahrain Grand Prix team boss Toto Wolff made it clear that it was time to look at a change of direction, and that there would be “no holy cows” in terms of sticking to established ideas.
The definition of exactly what the concept of an F1 car entails has been a talking point in recent weeks, with Wolff making it clear that it extends beyond the trademark ‘size zero’ sidepods ...Keep reading
This growth can be attributed to several factors, including the impact of the Netflix series Drive to Survive and the expansion of the US Grands Prix to include a second race in Miami and a third race in Las Vegas. In 2023, it also has the added value of an American driver in Logan Sargeant.
However, the series must still establish a foothold in a market dominated by the NFL, NBA, and ...Keep reading
The changes made to the outer portion of the front wing’s upper flap and where it connects with the endplate will be familiar, as a number of teams have made headway in this region so far this season.
The alteration made by Ferrari is subtle at this stage though, with just a c-shaped cut-out made in the junction of the upper flap and endplate. Beyond that, the team still used ...Keep reading
Speaking on F1's Beyond the Grid podcast, Stoddart reflected on Alonso's rookie season as the Spaniard joined Minardi at the age of 19.
Alonso joined a team that was close to going out of business before Stoddart's European charter airline company bought it in December 2000, and turned up for his first race at Melbourne in the following year with minimal experience of the PS01 car.
Stoddart ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver finished a distant fourth in the first gravel round of season last weekend, 1m55.3s adrift of rally winner and team-mate Sebastien Ogier.
Rovanpera was faced with the challenge of starting second on the dusty gravel stages on Friday, before becoming the effective road sweeper during the morning loop after passing an ailing Ott Tanak who was suffering from a turbo ...Keep reading
Mercedes' poor start to the season looked set to continue when it struggled through Friday practice, but after overnight work the team unearthed more performance for qualifying.
While Lewis Hamilton still struggled to get to grips with certain characteristics of the W14, team-mate Russell made a step forward by qualifying fourth, which became third after Charles Leclerc's grid penalty.
It ...Keep reading
The car based on the seventh-generation Mustang and developed by Ford Performance in conjunction with Multimatic Motorsports is undertaking it first track miles at Sebring over the course of a three-day test this week.
Confirmation that the Mustang GT3 has started running came via a Twitter post of footage of the car on track at the Florida venue from Ford boss Jim Farley.
It is understood ...Keep reading
The Red Bull Camaros were stripped of their results from the Supercars opener earlier this month following a dominant one-two finish.
The issue was the incorrect positioning of a dry ice radiator for a helmet fan which was on the driver's side of the car, not the passenger side, as dictated by the technical regulations.
Triple Eight immediately appealed the disqualification and the matter ...Keep reading
Hydrogen has long been touted as the silver bullet to answer motorsport’s sustainability problem. Water is the sole byproduct of fuel cell vehicles using green hydrogen – that is, hydrogen produced by a process of electrolysis using renewable energy sources, rather than derived from natural gases where carbon monoxide is also emitted in its production – and a growing number of programmes are ...Keep reading
Despite continuing with Audi for the DTM, Abt announced in February that it would enter the 24 Hours for the first time since 2017 with a Lamborghini GT3 EVO2 and contest several rounds of the Nordschleife-based Nurburgring Endurance Series (NLS) in preparation.
It finished eighth in last weekend's opening NLS round with Lamborghini factory driver Marco Mapelli and van der Linde, who has ...Keep reading
The Silverstone squad has shown race pace second only to reigning constructors’ champion Red Bull at the start of the new season, with Alonso reinstated to third place in the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix after his team successfully appealed a 10-second reprimand for the rear jack touching the car during a pitstop penalty.
This strong form has landed at a time when Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff ...Keep reading
With the pace of Red Bull’s RB19 appearing to be well clear of the rest of the field, the Milton Keynes-based squad already looks locked in to win this year’s championships.
But the prospect of the title battle being over so early has prompted some to fear that a one-sided campaign could be a turn off for fans.
Red Bull’s rivals do not see any grounds for ...Keep reading
Fernando Alonso finished a strong third in the season opener at Sakhir, albeit helped by the retirement of Charles Leclerc.
However, Krack says the team remained “cautious” about the rest of the season, while knowing that Jeddah’s high-speed corners and long straights would provide a different test.
Last weekend Leclerc outqualified Alonso, but the Ferrari driver dropped back on the ...Keep reading
Development of the Tipo 6 LMH Competizione led by Michelotto in Italy has continued since the launch at the end of February of the completed car powered by a bespoke three-litre twin-turbo V6 developed by HWA and a hybrid system supplied by Williams Advanced Engineering.
It is currently running on an all-wheel-drive dyno at automotive engineering specialist AVL in Italy for a second time and ...Keep reading
Mark Miles, president and CEO of Penske Entertainment, and vice president Michael Montri toured the track and the facilities of the Termas racetrack which has hosted MotoGP since 2014 and is a regular on the domestic TC2000 touring car series calendar.
The pair were accompanied by Juncos Hollinger Racing team co-owner Ricardo Juncos and Ricardo Sosa, executive secretary of the National ...Keep reading
In both cases, the drivers were deemed to have placed their cars too far to one side of their grid boxes at the start, and both subsequently received penalties.
The decisions by the stewards were based on an addition to the International Sporting Code that was introduced for 2022, which says that a car "must be stationary at its allocated grid box with no part of the contact patch of its front ...Keep reading
Top Performer - Sebastien Ogier and Vincent Landais
Two record breaking victories from two WRC events contested and the championship lead. It has been a perfect start to the year for Sebastien Ogier and new co-driver Vincent Landais.
But it was the manner of the Toyota driver's latest triumph in Mexico which confirmed Ogier is driving at his very best. Armed with a favourable road ...Keep reading
This will be Raikkonen's first start at COTA since finishing 13th for Alfa Romeo in the 2021 United States Grand Prix. It was also the scene of the 2007 world champion's final F1 win for Ferrari in 2018.
He will race the No. 91 Chevrolet Camaro fielded by Trackhouse Racing’s part-time crew led by 23-race winning crew chief Darian Grubb, who won a Cup Series title with Tony Stewart in ...Keep reading
The Rally Sweden winner endured an eventful rally as he recovered to finish ninth after losing 12 minutes to a turbo failure on Friday, while claiming four bonus championship points on the powerstage.
Tanak had started the rally by winning Thursday night's two superspecial stages before drama struck on stage 3. The 2019 world champion, who also faced the disadvantage of starting first on the ...Keep reading
Revealed last year during the Austrian Grand Prix, MotoGP is making the most radical format shake-up to a race weekend for decades in 2023.
On the Saturday of all 21 rounds this season, a sprint race running to half the distance of the main grand prix will take place.
It is a format tweak that is set to have major ramifications on the destiny of the 2023 world championship.
Ahead of this ...Keep reading
The two-time FE race winner broke his left wrist after clouting the back of Norman Nato's Nissan on the opening lap of the season-opening Mexico City E-Prix and was replaced by Abt reserve driver Kelvin van der Linde for the Diriyah double-header and Hyderabad round.
Van der Linde was also scheduled to race on home turf in Cape Town, but both Abt entries and those of technical partner Mahindra ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion has had a difficult start to the campaign, with Mercedes not delivering the step forward it hoped to be able to challenge Red Bull this year.
However, his situation has been further hampered by the fact that he does not appear as settled with the handling of the W14 as team-mate George Russell.
While he thinks his situation could be helped by the team bringing ...Keep reading
Team owner Jim Glickenhaus told Autosport that it would be “logistically too difficult” to undertake a Nurburgring programme with the Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus 004C GT car around the 24 Hours on 20/21 May at the same time as racing in the WEC with the 007 Le Mans Hypercar.
“Our 004C is ready to go, but we’re not going to race at the ‘Ring this year because we have to concentrate on ...Keep reading
Team orders have often caused controversy in the DTM, with Audi, Mercedes and BMW all being called out for favouring one or more drivers during the full-blown manufacturer era of the series.
More recently, Mercedes orchestrated a late-race swap between its three leading drivers at the Norisring season finale in 2021, allowing Maximilian Gotz to snatch an unlikely title win from Red Bull ...Keep reading
Ferrari arrived at the start of the season in Bahrain, with Charles Leclerc retiring from third place and Sainz struggling to keep up with Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso, "cooking" his tyres as he lost out on a podium.
Ahead of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, team boss Fred Vasseur maintained that Ferrari's main issue in Bahrain was a lack of pace rather than a return of its poor tyre ...Keep reading
The careers of Anthony Davidson and Takuma Sato overlapped at several junctures. The pair finished first (Sato) and second as Carlin team-mates in the 2001 British Formula 3 championship, then were reunited for 2003 when Sato arrived as a race driver at the BAR Formula 1 team where Davidson was a test and reserve driver. Then, when Davidson was finally given a full-time F1 drive at Super Aguri for ...Keep reading
A driveshaft failure in qualifying at Jeddah meant Verstappen had to start the race from 15th place.
He used Red Bull's impressive pace advantage to finish second behind team-mate Sergio Perez, beating the Mexican to the fastest lap to lead the 2023 drivers' championship by a single point.
PLUS: How Perez kept Verstappen's Saudi GP surge at bay
But while Verstappen limited the damage and ...Keep reading
Pirelli has been the sole provider of tyres to the series since 2011. This followed on from a one-make deal with Bridgestone, which also featured alongside Michelin in the last tyre war that ran through the mid-2000s.
While the Italian manufacturer is fully expected to apply once again and then retain the rights, the motorsport governing body has issued a customary invitation to tender for the ...Keep reading
The Razlan Razali-owned squad was formed out of the Petronas Sepang Racing Team, which pulled out of MotoGP at the end of the 2021 season.
PLUS: How one MotoGP team went from title fights to losing it all in four years
RNF continued on as a Yamaha customer for 2022, but the outfit who took Franco Morbidelli to runner-up spot in the 2020 championship struggled for form and was ...Keep reading
Evans came embroiled in an intense battle for second with Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville that went right down to the wire at the first gravel round of the season.
The Welshman inherited second on Saturday morning following Esapekka Lappi's crash from the lead, but held only a 11.6s margin over Neuville in third.
A charging Neuville cut the deficit to 4.3s heading into Sunday’s final four ...Keep reading
For the second race in a row, Formula 1 witnessed a Red Bull domination, as Sergio Perez led home Max Verstappen in the third Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
But, it was a somewhat different story from Bahrain, as – for the first time in their time as team-mate’s – Perez took the top spot with Verstappen just one step down. That was in large part down to the Dutchman’s qualifying driveshaft ...Keep reading
F1 is back in Sin City! After an absence of 41 years, grand prix cars will roar up and down the dazzling streets of Las Vegas.
VISTA Las Vegas in association with McLaren offers guests a chance to overlook the track from the rooftop of the Cromwell. This exclusive party will be attended by F1 legends and celebrities, as a more exclusive way to experience F1 in Vegas.
There will be live ...Keep reading
Piastri damaged the right side of his wing when he touched Gasly's Alpine at the exit of Turn 2, and just a few hundred metres later debris flew off the Australian's car.
In a bizarre coincidence, his McLaren team-mate Lando Norris hit the debris from Piastri's car and also had to make an early stop.
Piastri had no option but to pit at the end of the first lap, while Norris initially ...Keep reading
The Italian manufacturer made its long-awaited return to the top class in world sportscar racing last weekend at the 2023 WEC season-opener Sebring 1000 miles.
The #50 Ferrari 499P driven by Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen claimed a podium on debut in third place, two laps down on a Toyota 1-2, with the sister #51 Ferrari taking 15th overall driven by Alessandro Pier Guidi ...Keep reading
MIPS, which stands for Multi-directional Impact Protection System, is a technology developed in 1996 by specialists from the Royal Institute of Technology and brain surgeon Hans von Holst.
Helmets fitted with MIPS help to reduce the rotational motion placed on the brain during an incident where the head comes to a sudden stop.
It does so through a layer of low-friction material inside the ...Keep reading
The #31 Cadillac V-Series.R shared by Aitken, Alexander Sims and Pipo Derani was the prime beneficiary when both Penske Porsche 963s and the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-06 were eliminated in a three-way crash inside the final 20 minutes of the race.
Aitken was at the wheel of the Whelen Engineering-sponsored #31 machine at the time of the crash, and subsequently held off a challenge from the ...Keep reading
The two factory Porsche Penske Motorsport cars finished fifth and sixth in the Hypercar class at the end of eight hours of racing at the Sebring International Raceway, trailing the dominant Toyota GR010 Hybrids by a worrying margin of four laps.
Porsche was in the fight for the final spot on the podium in the first half of the race but didn’t have the pace to hold position against Ferrari or ...Keep reading
The Italian squad had hoped that the layout and different demands of the Jeddah circuit would allow it to pose a bigger threat to Red Bull than it was able to at F1’s season opener in Bahrain.
However, despite Charles Leclerc managing to deliver a qualifying time good enough for the front row, the Scuderia’s race pace was lacking.
Having initially looked strong in the early ...Keep reading
Verstappen started the Jeddah race from 15th after a driveshaft failure prevented him from setting a lap time in Q2.
Thanks to Red Bull's majestic pace and a well-timed safety car, the two-time world champion sliced through the field to take second behind team-mate Sergio Perez, who executed a perfect race to win from pole.
But the Dutchman survived another driveshaft scare in the second ...Keep reading
Polesitter Perez lost the lead into the first corner to Fernando Alonso, with Max Verstappen battling back from 15th on the grid after suffering a driveshaft failure in qualifying.
The Mexican hauled in Alonso to regain the lead early on, and managed a safety car period and a charging Verstappen to secure his fifth F1 career win in another Red Bull domination.
Verstappen had to settle for ...Keep reading
The Japanese manufacturer, who claimed a 1-2 victory in the Sebring 1000 Miles, will run for three days from Monday as it undertakes a third endurance simulation with the updated 2023 version of the GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar.
The test is taking place at Sebring because Toyota had to cancel a long-distance run scheduled for the Algarve International Circuit in Portugal.
FEATURE: How one ...Keep reading
This is the full breakdown of the key moments in that timeline: from Alonso lining up in second place to gaining, losing and then finally, and officially, regaining his 100th F1 podium.
Alonso commits his crime, but does he do the time?
20:03 – Alonso completes the formation lap and lines up second alongside the Red Bull of polesitter Sergio Perez. But when he comes to a stop on the grid ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion got a first-hand glimpse of the kind of advantage that Red Bull has when Max Verstappen had little problem blasting past him during his Saudi Arabian Grand Prix recovery.
Verstappen’s climb from 15th on the grid to second place behind team-mate Sergio Perez has highlighted the advantage that Red Bull has, and does nothing to quell belief that the ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion leads the WRC championship standings after scoring a dominant record-breaking seventh victory in Mexico last weekend.
Victory in Mexico followed a record ninth Monte Carlo win at the season opener in January. The two wins have now lifted the part-timer to the top of the championship standings, three points ahead of Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville despite competing in ...Keep reading
Leader Perez and his Red Bull team-mate Verstappen were pushing hard in the final laps of the Jeddah race, with the Mexican successfully maintaining the gap.
However, Verstappen heard a strange noise which led to the team to study the data for signs of a possible repeat of the Dutchman’s driveshaft failure in qualifying, while Perez was worried about a long brake pedal. It was at this point ...Keep reading
Alonso had initially been handed a post-race 10-second drop after a late ruling from the FIA judged that he had not correctly served an in-race penalty for starting out of his grid box.
While officials had initially deemed that Alonso’s car had been stationary for five seconds before mechanics touched it, the FIA later changed its mind.
On the last lap of the race, the stewards were asked ...Keep reading
The best F1 driver in history is a debate that has, and will continue to, rage as long as Formula 1 exists, but we look at who the best drivers are statistically.
Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes, 1st position, celebrates on arrival in Parc Ferme
Photo by: Jerry Andre / Motorsport Images
- Lewis Hamilton - 103 wins
First race: 2007 Australian Grand Prix
World ...Keep reading
Hamilton started the race in seventh place and finished it in fifth after passing team-mate George Russell and benefitting from the retirement of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc.
However, he was powerless to hold off the Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso, who had a bad start and eventually recovered to finish third.
Asked if he was concerned that the team hasn’t made much progress since last ...Keep reading
After backing Luca Marini’s side of the Avintia garage in 2021, VR46 stepped up to MotoGP properly in 2022 as a Ducati satellite outfit.
Originally embroiled in controversy surrounding title sponsorship from Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco, which vehemently denied any such deal when it was announced by Tanal Entertainment in 2021, VR46 found primary backing from Italian banking firm ...Keep reading
The Italian squad had hoped to be able to lead the challenge against Red Bull in F1’s season opener last weekend.
But despite pushing its rival hard in qualifying, worse tyre degradation in the race left it well adrift before Charles Leclerc suffered an engine problem while running third.
PLUS: The critical Red Bull tyre tactic Ferrari couldn't copy in Bahrain GP
That left the ...Keep reading
Norris suffered a power unit pneumatic issue that led to six pitstops and his eventual retirement in the closing laps, while team-mate Oscar Piastri retired early with an electrical failure.
However Norris tried to see the positives, pointing out that he would have scored points had he not had problems.
He started 11th in a race that saw Valtteri Bottas move up from 12th to eighth, and ...Keep reading
But it was a tough start to the season for both Ferrari and Mercedes, as Charles Leclerc retired while running in third with an engine issue and both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell struggled for pace against the frontrunners.
Further back it was a nightmare Bahrain GP for McLaren, with Oscar Piastri suffering a gearbox and steering wheel problem on his F1 debut and Lando Norris hobbled to ...Keep reading
The two-time world champion claimed his first podium since the 2021 Qatar Grand Prix when he finished third behind Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez in Sundays’s Bahrain F1 season opener.
What is perhaps most impressive about his "unreal" result is that it has been achieved in his first race with the Aston Martin squad, which finished seventh in the constructors’ ...Keep reading
Byron, who had dominated the event and won the first two stages having led 176 of 271 laps, lost the lead during a round of late pitstops and it appeared his Hendrick Motorsports team-mate Kyle Larson was set to cruise to victory.
But Aric Almirola’s spin seven laps from the end sent the race into a two-lap overtime. Martin Truex Jr elected to remain on the track while Byron and Larson came ...Keep reading
Following a poor final restart, Ericsson was applying pressure to leader O’Ward in the closing stages of Sunday's race when the Mexican ace suffered what was described as a “plenum event” that briefly zapped the car’s power under acceleration from the final turn.
With Ericsson just 0.6s behind, the delay was enough to see the reigning Indy 500 champion claim the lead with four laps to ...Keep reading
Team Penske driver McLaughlin and Andretti Autosport’s Grosjean were battling over the lead after the final round of pitstops, having earlier almost come together at Turn 4 after the first pitstop sequence.
With 28 laps to go, leader McLaughlin emerged from the pits on cold tyres, with Grosjean – on recently changed and fresh hot rubber – right behind him. As they charged towards ...Keep reading
Ericsson's late move on O'Ward to secure victory arrived after polesitter Romain Grosjean and Scott McLaughlin collided while dueling for the lead the sent the duo into a tyre wall.
This allowed Arrow McLaren's O’Ward to hit the front, but a small engine issue for the leader allowed Ericsson to slip past and sprint away in the closing lap.
A disconsolate O’Ward held off Scott Dixon to ...Keep reading
F1 debutant Piastri became the first driver of the new season to retire after attempts to rectify an electrical issue aboard his MCL60 by fitting a new steering wheel failed.
By staying out longer than rivals on his starting soft tyres, the Australian had risen to 12th when he pitted at the end of lap 12. But the ineffective reset forced his early bath.
Stella has revealed that the attempted ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen led a dominant Red Bull 1-2 in both qualifying and the race, with nearest rival Fernando Alonso in the Aston Martin finishing over 38 seconds behind in third place after Charles Leclerc retired mid-race with an engine issue.
With Mercedes struggling for performance, Russell has put Red Bull in a league above the rest of the F1 field and expects them to be able to win all 23 races ...Keep reading
Fourth-starting Sainz was on course for third place when his Scuderia stablemate Charles Leclerc was forced to retire on lap 39 out of 57 with a suspected engine failure.
However, the 2022 British GP victor was then bumped off the podium in the dying stages by compatriot Fernando Alonso, the two-time world champion making his Aston Martin debut.
Sainz called out poor tyre degradation aboard ...Keep reading
The two-time champion kicked off his title defence in imperious fashion by scoring his first win at the Bahrain International Circuit by 11.9s over Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez.
Despite starting on used softs compared to Ferrari rival Charles Leclerc’s brand-new Pirellis, Verstappen escaped DRS range and boasted a 1.8s lead at the end of the second lap.
He then stretched his rubber a ...Keep reading
Leclerc was running a lonely third place in the Bahrain Grand Prix behind the dominant Red Bull duo, as Max Verstappen went on to lead a 1-2 in the opener, until his Ferrari engine lost power and forced him out of the race on lap 40.
Speaking immediately after the race, Leclerc didn't know the cause of his retirement from the race but was already frustrated by Ferrari's pace deficit to Red Bull ...Keep reading
The two-time champion was fortunate to come away from the opening lap of his Aston Martin debut unscathed after receiving a whack to the rear-right from Lance Stroll, as the team-mates already engaged in their own respective duels with the Mercedes duo.
Fifth-starting Alonso then came to the fore in the final stint as he maximised his hard tyres to chase after Lewis Hamilton, executing a ...Keep reading
Verstappen led easily away from pole position, while Perez lost second to Leclerc after he made a slow getaway and fell behind the Ferrari driver.
Any hope of a battle for the lead was quickly extinguished when Verstappen romped clear of Leclerc by over half-a-second a lap, with Perez tracking Leclerc across the first stint before the made their first of two pitstops.
Leclerc was the first ...Keep reading
Verstappen controlled the race at the front from the start, as Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc grabbed second early on thanks to starting on fresh soft tyres.
Verstappen’s Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez passed Leclerc to take second place on lap 26, which looked to have assured the podium order before half distance. But Leclerc’s Ferrari ground to a halt on lap 41 with an engine problem ...Keep reading
Alpine hid its true potential in testing at Sakhir by not running soft tyres or low fuel, but Gasly picked up the pace in second practice, when he was an encouraging seventh.
However, while team-mate Esteban Ocon progressed to Q3 and earned ninth place on the grid, Gasly fought understeer and traction issues and was slowest of all in Q1.
"It's clearly a one-off," he said when asked by ...Keep reading
Rivals had pegged Williams as the 10th-fastest team in the 2023 field after testing at Sakhir, a view that Albon himself supported.
However, the former Red Bull driver put in a sensational performance in Q1 to progress through in ninth place, while cars from Haas, McLaren, AlphaTauri and Alpine did not make the cut.
His hopes of making it any further were dashed by an issue with a front wing ...Keep reading
There are so many reasons to be enthusiastic about the 2023 IndyCar season, and we have outlined the potential storylines of excitement and intrigue here. But there is another reason why IndyCar and its followers need this year to be thoroughly absorbing; it may help distract from the series fumbling and bumbling over the introduction of its next engine formula.
Let’s recap. On the eve of ...Keep reading
The ART Grand Prix driver, who finished second last year, made a long stint on the softer of the two tyre compounds work in his favour to crush any of Ralph Boschung's early hopes of winning both races in Bahrain.
Pourchaire instead secured a commanding win having preserved the lead off the line at the start, avoiding the first lap chaos behind him to emerge scot-free.
He endured a safety ...Keep reading
Red Bull swept the front row at Sakhir with Max Verstappen on pole and his team-mate Sergio Perez alongside.
Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz are behind in third and fourth, but rather than focusing on consolidating those positions and defending from Aston Martin and Mercedes that line up behind, Clear is adamant Ferrari is looking ahead.
Crucially Leclerc saved a set of new soft tyres for ...Keep reading
Stella’s sentiments were shared by Lando Norris, who highlighted the progress made by Aston Martin over the winter as something that McLaren could aspire to match within this season.
McLaren failed to get a car into Q3 for the first race of the season in Bahrain, with Norris starting 11th and arguably flattered by poor sessions for others, while his rookie team-mate Oscar Piastri ...Keep reading
Alonso shocked F1's silly season last summer when he slid into the Aston seat left vacant by the retiring Sebastian Vettel, leaving Alpine scrambling to find a replacement as it also saw junior driver Oscar Piastri move to McLaren.
The 41-year-old has a history of making bold team decisions, often ending up at the wrong team at the wrong time, ever since claiming two world titles for Renault in ...Keep reading
Hitech driver Mini had been running in third by the end of the first lap, having been passed by Bortoleto (Trident) and Gregoire Saucy (ART) off the line.
He retook second place from Saucy on lap four before passing Bortoleto for the lead on lap 10, but was handed a five-second penalty for a start procedure infringement.
Mini had looked set to retain at least fourth place before a ...Keep reading
After a troubled pre-season testing run, the German manufacturer brushed itself off, dug deep, got to the bottom of the problems it faced with the W13, and later in the season won the Brazilian Grand Prix.
Fast forward to now and an almost identical six tenths gap – from a 0.680 seconds deficit to pole position in 2022 to a 0.632 seconds gap this year – has triggered a completely different ...Keep reading
After topping FP2 and FP3, Alonso confirmed Aston Martin's giant leap forward by qualifying fifth in the AMR23, just six tenths off polesitter Verstappen, with team-mate Lance Stroll qualifying eighth.
Speaking straight after qualifying, Alonso said his pace was almost "too good to be true" but felt that with Aston Martin's historically stronger race pace he might be able to mount a podium ...Keep reading
And for good measure, the latest creation to come out of Maranello excels in the very same areas of the Sakhir circuit as the now-retired RB18. Imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery.
How Verstappen drew first blood
Max Verstappen bagged his 21st and latest pole position in Formula 1 courtesy of a 1m29.708s effort. He pipped team-mate Sergio Perez by 0.138s as ...Keep reading
Fellow Andretti driver Kyle Kirkwood began the final qualifying session at a disadvantage, having used two sets of fresh alternate Firestones to get out of Q1, so had no fresh alternates for the last segment.
However, that issue seemed small when he slid straight on at the final turn, and missed the tyre barrier to crunch hard into the concrete.
Once the action resumed, Penske's Scott ...Keep reading
Herve Poncharal’s veteran squad continues its partnership with KTM in 2023, having linked up with the Austrian manufacturer in 2019 after 20 years as a Yamaha customer.
Tech3 originally ran with Red Bull Cola title sponsorship backing in 2019 and 2020, before it was entered as KTM Tech3 Factory Racing from 2021 without a notable title partner.
For 2023, the outfit will run under the GasGas ...Keep reading
Ferrari driver Leclerc looked to have the potential to beat Perez and possibly even threaten eventual pole winner Verstappen for top spot, but surprisingly climbed out of his F1-75 ahead of the second and final runs.
This, he and Ferrari claimed, was a tactic to save a set of brand-new soft tyres to use at the start of Sunday's race, which they hope will provide more grip off the line and then ...Keep reading
After setting the fastest times in second and third practice, Alonso was in the hunt for pole position in Bahrain but ran early to set his final Q3 lap and duly qualified in fifth.
The Aston Martin driver ran 0.628s adrift of polesitter Max Verstappen to also fall behind Sergio Perez and an all-Ferrari second row. But the two-time champion kept both Mercedes at arms’ length, with Russell ...Keep reading
After a disappointing qualifying for the season-opener in Bahrain, with George Russell and Lewis Hamilton qualifying sixth and seventh, Wolff said the reality of his team’s lack of performance had hit home.
With the squad having pushed on with the same car concept as last year, while many rivals had gone down the Red Bull downwash solution, Wolff said it was time to admit his outfit had got ...Keep reading
After Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso paced two of the three practice sessions, Red Bull fought back in qualifying as reigning world champion Verstappen led a 1-2 ahead of team-mate Sergio Perez.
Alonso dropped to fifth in Q3 of qualifying, falling behind both Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, while the Monegasque driver opted against a final run to preserve a set of soft tyres for ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion progressed from Q2 in third place, and then qualified seventh in the final session, a place behind team-mate George Russell.
Hamilton said that the team had made some good progress after a difficult Bahrain test and a disappointing start to the race weekend on Friday.
“I thought it'd be worse than that, so positive,” he said. “We did some great work ...Keep reading
Alonso and his Aston Martin team were the talk of the paddock after topping for FP2 and FP3, with the expectation that the Silverstone team could at least challenge Mercedes to enter the top three.
The two-time F1 world champion did exactly that in qualifying, taking fifth place behind the four cars from Red Bull and Ferrari and narrowly ahead of Mercedes' George Russell and Lewis ...Keep reading
After Red Bull appeared to be the strongest team by some margin during pre-season testing last week, Verstappen had to persevere with more understeer during Friday practice as a result of Red Bull electing to raise the ride height of its RB19.
That left team-mate Sergio Perez - more comfortable with a lazy front axle - to top FP1 before Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso ran fastest in FP2 and ...Keep reading
Leclerc jumped out of his SF-23 after posting his banker lap in Q3 to forfeit his shot at pole position, with the driver settling for third place by lapping 0.292s adrift of Max Verstappen and behind the second Red Bull of Sergio Perez.
While this led to some speculation that he might have encountered a technical issue - with the Monegasque triggering a red flag in Q1 when his car twice shed ...Keep reading
Verstappen will start ahead of Red Bull Racing team-mate Sergio Perez and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc after the one-hour qualifying session, which was split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.
Bahrain Grand Prix qualifying results: Verstappen on pole from ...Keep reading
Two-time St. Petersburg winner Josef Newgarden became the first driver of the session to make contact with the wall, bending the rear toelink of his Team Penske car at the exit of Turn 10.
Meanwhile, the Chip Ganassi Racing team was looking strong in the early minutes of the session, with Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson on top with a 1m01.001s, but 15 minutes in, it was the Arrow McLarens of ...Keep reading
Carlos Sainz finished fourth ahead of his compatriot Fernando Alonso, with the Aston Martin driver only running once in the final segment due to having one set fewer of the soft tyres compared to the Red Bull and Ferrari drivers.
Verstappen had led Leclerc after the first runs in Q3 by 0.103s, but just as the action was due to reach qualifying’s climax the latter was suddenly climbing from ...Keep reading
The series veteran, driving for Campos Racing, was untroubled throughout the 23-lap sprint race, leading from the off before cruising home 10 seconds clear of second-placed driver Dennis Hauger.
Boschung had claimed four podiums across the past six seasons in F2, but the top step of the podium had evaded him until Saturday’s sprint race.
There was a fierce battle for second, with several ...Keep reading
Motorsport is dangerous. It's an exploit to be taken seriously, and nothing less than peak physical fitness is expected of drivers to reach peak performance.
But motorsport is also a highly competitive business, and the stakes are high. When money has been invested, taking the decision to prioritise health over competition isn't easily made and history is littered with cases of drivers throwing ...Keep reading
Vowles joined Williams in January and well understands the scale of the challenge that he faces to lift the team off the bottom of the standings.
PLUS: What Williams’s new boss must do to change the fortunes of F1’s backmarker
In a column posted on the Williams website last week, the former Mercedes strategy director suggested that he had little interest in devoting all-out effort ...Keep reading
Fallows joined Aston Martin in April 2022 as part of owner Lawrence Stroll’s recruitment drive, having spent 16 years as one of Adrian Newey’s key lieutenants at Red Bull.
The revised design team that also includes former Mercedes aero chief Eric Blandin created a car that Fallows says features 95% new parts, a figure that rivals have acknowledged is high given that a lack of rule changes ...Keep reading
The sweltering afternoon conditions in Sakhir were not particularly inviting for fast times, with early laps over two seconds slower than during Friday night's FP2.
After some unrepresentative efforts Ferrari's Charles Leclerc went top with a 1m33.574s on softs, a time which was gradually improved upon by first Lewis Hamilton and then Alonso.
The Spaniard, who had caused a stir by topping ...Keep reading
Fernando Alonso protégé Marti had a difficult rookie season in 2022, scoring his first points with ninth in the final round at Monza before continuing with Campos Racing for his second season.
The Spaniard lined up second on the reversed grid behind MP Motorsport polesitter Colapinto and stuck with the Argentine throughout the opening stages before making his move on lap 14 around ...Keep reading
As part of an effort to reduce the number of tyres that are brought to grands prix, at two races this year an experiment will take place for a new qualifying format.
The number of tyre sets available to each driver for the weekend will be reduced from 13 to 11, and there will be a new approach for qualifying.
Currently drivers are completely free to choose which tyres are used in the three ...Keep reading
At the start of the 2023 F1 season, Aston Martin has caught the eye with its AMR23 during pre-season testing and this pace duly translated on Friday at the Sakhir circuit as Alonso topped second practice with a best lap of 1m30.907s.
Insight: What we learned from Friday practice at F1's 2023 Bahrain GP
That put the two-time F1 champion ahead of both Red Bulls, the team many fancy as ...Keep reading
This weekend’s race is the first since the controversial clampdown on the making of political statements that was announced by the FIA during the winter.
It was later clarified that drivers are allowed to say what they want in interviews and press conference and the ban related to formal events such as the grid ceremony and podium.
Given the sensitivity over LGBTQ matters in the ...Keep reading
The 1994 British rally champion and WRC podium finisher received his first outing in a fully fledged Rally1 hybrid after plotting the car Jourdan Serderidis will drive at Rally Mexico later this month.
Wilson was called upon to shakedown the Puma at M-Sport’s purpose built 1.7mile test track located adjacent to the British team’s Dovenby Hall headquarters in Cumbria.
The 67-year-old has ...Keep reading
Some of the most significant changes in the way F1 is broadcast have taken place behind the scenes, especially with its production facility at Biggin Hill in the UK having been revamped this winter to make it state-of-the art.
But where F1 never stands still is in trying to enhance what fans see at home, either when grands prix are broadcast live from trackside, or in terms of other ...Keep reading
The 2020 champion suffered an injury to his left leg while snowboarding in Colorado, a Hendrick team statement said.
He was scheduled to undergo surgery on Friday night, and his length of recovery is currently unknown.
Elliott will be replaced by Xfinity Series regular Josh Berry, the 32-year-old a five-time race winner at the second tier of NASCAR competition.
He has only ...Keep reading
In the wake of Verstappen’s third-place finish in Monte Carlo, as Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez triumphed, both drivers found themselves subject to a Ferrari protest about crossing the pitlane exit line.
During an early change of tyres on the damp but drying track, both were observed from on-board footage to have swerved towards the yellow pitlane exit line that drivers are not ...Keep reading
The first red flag of the session was caused by Benjamin Pedersen locking up into Turn 4, the car trying to swivel left, and making hard contact with its left front wing against the wall.
The second red flag was caused by a concrete patch of the track on the exit of fifth-gear Turn 3 coming up that needed clearing. By then the remaining three rookies – Marcus Armstrong, Sting Ray Robb and ...Keep reading
Alfa Romeo C43 technical detail
Photo by: Giorgio Piola
Alfa Romeo is the first team to apply a solution that was pioneered by Mercedes in 2022, with the Swiss-based outfit looking to refine the flow structures at the front of the car, to improve performance downstream.
Mercedes introduced its widebody chassis blister solution as part of a larger package of updates at the British ...Keep reading
Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin backed up their promising Formula 1 2023 testing form with the quickest time in the opening practice running for the Bahrain Grand Prix, but pre-season favourites Max Verstappen and Red Bull are lurking close behind.
In fact, judging by the times logged in the late-FP2 race data gathering exercises and based on information supplied from sources from the paddock ...Keep reading
Onboard TV footage showed the Aston Martin driver apparently resting his right hand at times and focusing on using his left to push the top of the steering wheel into the tight right-hander at Turn 1.
He was also seen using assistance from his mechanics to get out of the car during second practice.
Stroll missed last week's three days of testing in Bahrain while recovering from his ...Keep reading
In the later FP2 session, which best replicates qualifying conditions, Leclerc was fourth fastest as his Scuderia team-mate Carlos Sainz ran to 14th.
Leclerc was 0.46s adrift of Aston Martin pacesetter Fernando Alonso and 0.3s in arrears of 2022 title rival Max Verstappen before the shift to focus on race stint simulations.
While Leclerc expected the strong Aston pace to drop off on ...Keep reading
Verstappen and team-mate Sergio Perez finished second and third respectively in FP2, narrowly behind Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso.
But neither had a smooth day after Red Bull lost the car balance during FP1 and only got into a reasonable window well into FP2.
Rather ominously, it meant that neither Verstappen nor Perez have been able to unlock the car's full potential, with Verstappen ...Keep reading
Alonso looked fast throughout the first day of the 2023 season and took the top spot in the late afternoon FP2 session after lapping 0.169s faster than the Red Bull of Max Verstappen.
His team-mate Lance Stroll was sixth fastest, despite the Canadian missing last week’s testing and being replaced by Felipe Drugovich, due to a wrist injury and thus having to dial himself in.
After a strong ...Keep reading
After uncertainty about Mercedes' competitive situation following testing, Hamilton and team-mate George Russell endured a difficult opening day of practice in the Bahrain Grand Prix.
Hamilton ended the more representative second practice session down in 10th, once place ahead of Russell.
But with the new W14 lacking performance against pace-setters Aston Martin and Red Bull, Hamilton was ...Keep reading
Reports emerged in Germany on the final day of pre-season testing in Bahrain last week that Red Bull - whose senior structure has been tweaked following the death of company co-founder Dietrich Mateschitz late in 2022 - was evaluating the future of its second squad.
This was supposedly down to the questionable effectiveness of a 2020 rebrand from Toro Rosso to AlphaTauri in promoting the ...Keep reading
The Frenchman, who finished second in the drivers’ standings last year, put in a stunning lap to finish qualifying 0.7s clear of rookie team-mate Victor Martins.
Having led practice earlier in the day, the championship favourite put in a 1m40.903s to take the front spot for Sunday’s feature race at Sakhir.
Despite being in his third F2 season, this was only Pourchaire's his second pole ...Keep reading
Alonso caused a huge twist in F1's transfer market last summer by signing a deal with Aston Martin, leaving Alpine after two seasons.
Ahead of his 19th season in F1, the 41-year-old has looked as hungry and ambitious as ever, hoping his decision to jump ship will pay off as the AMR23 looked promising in Bahrain testing.
According to the team's tech chief Fallows, Alonso has injected his new ...Keep reading
Red Bull’s Sergio Perez beat Alonso to set the quickest time in FP1, held in full daylight conditions, before double world champion Alonso topped FP2 after darkness had descended.
Bahrain Grand Prix FP1 results: Perez fastest from Alonso
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Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc finished fourth in a session where the top 13 drivers finished within one-second of each other, the Mercedes drivers were locked in the pack and Nico Hulkenberg produced a starring effort for Haas.
With the temperatures down 5C to 22C in the evening running under lights, several teams immediately headed out on the soft tyres they had eschewed in the hot FP1 running ...Keep reading
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His comments suggest that while the team is planning to move away from the “size-zero” design introduced in Bahrain a year ago on the W13, it won’t necessarily be following the trend towards the concept used so successfully by Red Bull last year, and since copied by others.
Team boss Toto Wolff flagged an in-season sidepod change at the launch of the W14 last month when the new car was ...Keep reading
Initially signed on a three-year deal, McLaren has been a Mercedes engine customer since 2021. This followed its turbulent divorce from Honda and three-year tie-up with Renault.
But ahead of the new 2026 engine regulations, which will ditch the expensive MGU-H and boost the electrical assistance to 50%, Brown has been to visit the fledgling Red Bull Powertrains site in Milton Keynes for very ...Keep reading
Team principal Toto Wolff was spotted walking arriving in the Bahrain paddock with Red Bull’s former HR director and COO Jayne Poole on Friday morning, and Mercedes has confirmed that she has been signed as a senior advisor at the squad.
It is understood that she will work closely with Wolff and be involved in evaluating the current infrastructure at Mercedes, plus offer advice on any ...Keep reading
The Alpine Academy driver set a 1m47.055s two minutes from the end of the session which no other drivers were able to better.
Mini, who finished second in Formula Regional European championship last season, moved to the top of the times early during the 30-minute qualifying session ahead of series returnee Pepe Marti (Campos Racing).
At the halfway mark, the Frenchman was the only driver to ...Keep reading
Team-mate Charles Leclerc won two of the opening three rounds last season to thrust Ferrari into drivers’ and teams’ championship contention, but a combination of poor reliability and strategy – plus strong in-season Red Bull development – enabled Max Verstappen to comfortably defend his crown.
Added to how strongly Red Bull performed in pre-season testing in Bahrain last week, the ...Keep reading
Tomczyk is a familiar figure at Abt having raced for the long-time Audi factory squad for a decade from 2001 to 2010, although it was following his switch to Phoenix Racing in 2011 that he won the DTM title.
His stint with Abt yielded four race victories and a best finish of third in the championship in 2007, when he helped the squad to clinch the teams’ title.
PLUS: The remarkable ...Keep reading
The 2022 Formula 2 season threw up many surprises, but the biggest of those was MP Motorsport being crowned as double champion. The Dutch outfit had never won an F2 or F3 title before September, but a triumphant charge from Felipe Drugovich, aided by team-mate Clement Novalak, resulted in the team capturing both crowns.
Led by Sander Dorsman, the Dutch outfit has enjoyed much success in Spanish ...Keep reading
The benchmark from Perez came halfway through the hour-long session and, despite a late effort from Alonso, the Red Bull driver's time stood firm.
In warm 27-degrees C conditions, albeit unrepresentative of those the drivers will face in the night-time qualifying and race sessions, Williams' Alex Albon was first onto the scene as the Grove team sought to get the early running in, with new ...Keep reading
In his new role, Gass will assist with the development of the Gen4 regulations - planned for the 2026-27 season once the Gen3 package has completed its four-year cycle.
Formerly chief engineer at the Toyota F1 team, Gass joined Lotus in 2010 before moving to Audi two years later, subsequently becoming its head of motorsport in 2017. He was named as Jota's new team principal for its customer ...Keep reading
The subject of jewellery and specifically Hamilton's nose stud became a hot topic during the 2022 season under new race directors Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas.
It is covered by Appendix L, Chapter III , Article 5 of the FIA International Sporting Code, which reads "the wearing of jewellery in the form of body piercing or metal neck chains is prohibited during the competition and may ...Keep reading
Andrew Kirkaldy's team won the 2016 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup outright with the McLaren 650S GT3 and returned to the marque in 2022 to run its 720S after three years with Aston Martin.
The season yielded the Pro Am title in the GTWCE Sprint Cup with Dean Macdonald and Miguel Ramos, whose results in the Endurance Cup made him the overall GTWCE Pro Am champion, while the team also ...Keep reading
Kovalainen won the 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix for McLaren and earned three more podium finishes in an F1 career that tallied 111 starts between 2007 and 2013.
He subsequently switched to racing in Japan and won the Super GT title at the second attempt in 2016, a feat managed by Button two years later.
Interview: How Super GT helped heal Kovalainen’s F1 "scars"
The 2004 Race of ...Keep reading
Pirelli has revamped its rubber for 2023 in a bid to make the fronts stronger, which is aimed at dialling out the understeer that became a common factor throughout last season.
But following the first proper test with the new tyres in Bahrain last week, world champion Max Verstappen said his impression was that the fronts felt the same, but it was the rears that felt weaker.
"They give less ...Keep reading
Rough gravel rallies proved to be a weakness for the GR Yaris last year in an otherwise dominant 2022 campaign for the Japanese marque, that resulted in a drivers’ and constructors’ title double.
Abrasive gravel rallies in Sardinia and Greece were the only events Toyota failed to score a podium last season. The lack of pace in these conditions has pushed the team to find solutions to avoid ...Keep reading
McLaren is bracing for a tough start in Bahrain with a draggy car that has missed its launch targets, with the Woking team realising too late it had gone in the wrong direction.
Due to the lead times involved, it will take McLaren until the Azerbaijan Grand Prix at the end of April to introduce an upgrade package that represented the car it should have started the season with.
Facing the ...Keep reading
As the driver who has the most wins of anybody in Spa 24 Hours history, you’d bank on Eric van de Poele selecting one of the machines that carried him to victory in the Belgian classic as his favourite car. But BMW’s all-conquering M3 tin-top, with which van de Poele also won the DTM crown in 1987, and the Maserati MC12 GT1 he took to three wins between 2005 and 2008 are beaten to top spot by ...Keep reading
Both Button and Hill have voiced the opinion that Hamilton could lose interest if he finds himself with an uncompetitive Mercedes for a second consecutive season.
Hamilton’s contract runs out this year and, inevitably, speculation about his long-term plans has already begun, even before the first race of the season.
When asked about the comments made by Button and Hill, Hamilton said ...Keep reading
A cast list of drivers largely staying the same, and largely in the same places, might lead you to expect the 2023 IndyCar season to be a rerun of 2022. This belief could be compounded by the fact that the campaign ahead will be the 12th for the 2.2-litre twin-turbo V6s from Chevrolet and Honda, the sixth for the universal aerokit, and the fourth for the aeroscreen. Even the schedule is largely ...Keep reading
The dynamic in the Italian outfit changes this year as team veteran Pierre Gasly has moved on and been replaced by rookie Nyck de Vries.
While the Dutchman is in his first year, he is older than Tsunoda and brings experience from other categories, as well as the knowledge gained with other F1 teams.
Tost has made it clear that he expects the newcomer to make an impact from the off.
Longer ...Keep reading
Relative to the size of the actual logos of the car, the deal received a lot of media coverage thanks to the familiarity of the brand across motorsport, and the perceived iconic status of its orange and blue colours.
At a time when so many relatively obscure tech or crypto companies are coming into F1 in order to get their names known globally, Gulf already has a level of recognition that ...Keep reading
His comments echo those the seven-time world champion made after his first run in the troubled W13 last season in what turned out to be his first winless campaign in F1.
However Hamilton says that the team is in much better shape as the porpoising that afflicted the old car is now absent, making it easier to push on with performance development.
"I knew from the moment I drove the car where ...Keep reading
As well as last year's W13 suffering from porpoising and a lack of useable downforce, it also left Lewis Hamilton and George Russell facing a deficit on the straights.
The team was keen to address its aero efficiency for this year, but one of the notable factors in last week's Bahrain test was that it appeared to have not made dramatic progress on that front.
Part of the explanation seemed ...Keep reading
There has been much speculation about Aston's potential for the upcoming campaign after Fernando Alonso put the AMR23 in the top three spots on both the opening two days of pre-season testing in Bahrain last week and then produced an eye-catching race simulation run on that event's final evening.
That meant Aston did not get involved with the performance runs produced by most other teams at ...Keep reading
Power, the 2014 and ’22 champion, led his Penske teammates Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin in a Penske 1-2-4 in the 2022 points standings, with Ganassi’s Scott Dixon, Palou and Marcus Ericsson filling out places 3-5-6.
But Power said there were other teams he is watching warily.
“I think you'll learn over the first five races who is really right in the game,” he said. “It's so ...Keep reading
Last week Stroll suffered a bike accident while training in Spain, injuring both of his wrists.
While his left wrist was just "banged up", his right wrist suffered a fracture and had a pin inserted by famed MotoGP doctor Xavier Mir in Barcelona.
Reserve driver Felipe Drugovich deputised during last week's winter test, but Stroll will be back in the car this weekend despite his wrist ...Keep reading
The Mercedes camp was buoyed by the lack of bouncing during the first of three days at the Sakhir circuit following a 2022 significantly hampered by the returning porpoising sensation.
But both Lewis Hamilton and Russell were more demur during a second day that was dogged by wayward car balance before the latter was forced to retire early from the afternoon session.
Russell had to park up ...Keep reading
The injury was sustained when the Spaniard crashed into the wall during Q3 in Australia last year. Alonso suffered a hydraulics failure aboard his Alpine to end a lap headlined by the fastest second sector of any driver.
While the two-time F1 champion did not miss a race, he did continue to sport bandages on his wrist through to the Monaco Grand Prix four rounds later.
Speaking ahead of the ...Keep reading
Williams finished the 2022 season at the bottom of the constructors' championship and while Albon feels the team has made progress compared to last year, he still thinks its new FW45 will be the slowest car on the grid for the 2023 season opener.
"I'm possibly a little bit more pessimistic than optimistic, so I do think, at least from the initial looks at testing, we are the 10th quickest ...Keep reading
As first reported by Autosport, dynamic panels that are fitted in sections along either side of the cockpit and are visible from onboard cameras allow the team to change the branding on the car while it is out on track.
McLaren initially trialled the concept during free practice sessions from last year’s United States Grand Prix, but wanted to check on their effectiveness and any potential ...Keep reading
Zak O’Sullivan and Ollie Bearman had very different rookie Formula 3 seasons in 2022.
The British pair both entered their maiden campaigns as reigning champions – O’Sullivan of GB3 and Bearman of both Italian and German F4. And while O’Sullivan stayed with Carlin for his step up, Bearman, as a new recruit to the Ferrari Driver Academy, headed straight for the top with junior series ...Keep reading
Factors that had limited this in the past were viewed as the outwash - the flow of air coming from the trailing edge of a wing - generated by the front wing, plus the various tricks employed with the front brake ducts and axle.
This was why F1 chiefs and the FIA put a great deal of effort in to ensure that the regulations were pretty robust in these areas.
A soft launch of these ideas was ...Keep reading
The 20-strong group of cross-party MPs, notably including former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his shadow chancellor John McDonnell, has called for an independent inquiry into the championship and governing body’s activities in countries with “questionable human rights records”.
This comes ahead of the opening round of the 2023 campaign in Bahrain this weekend before the Saudi Arabian ...Keep reading
Last month Ford announced a plan to expand its motorsport commitments by returning to F1 as an engine supplier in conjunction with current world champions Red Bull, coinciding with the launch of F1's new engine rules.
The American brand confirmed that its F1 expansion would not affect its current motorsport programmes, including its long-standing relationship with the WRC through British squad ...Keep reading
Dunlop tallied up his 21st TT victory in the 2022 event with a double in the Supersport class aboard his own MD Racing Honda, putting him third overall in the win standings and just five away from matching his legendary Uncle Joey’s record.
The Ulsterman was due to contest the big bike classes at the 2022 TT with PBM Ducati, but that fell through at the last minute and he hooked up with Hawk ...Keep reading
The teenaged Borgudd watched Stirling Moss race at Karlskoga in 1959 and was hooked. Already a budding musician, he joined the merchant navy at 14, refocusing on cars in his early twenties. That the Swede reached Formula 1 – in what was a bit more than a cameo role, for a world championship point for sixth place in the 1981 British GP was a mighty effort with ATS – was remarkable.
After 10 ...Keep reading
In an effort to make F1 more open to the media and fans, the FIA introduced new procedures last year to increase the transparency of the latest developments brought to each race.
As part of revised sporting regulations, teams now have to notify the FIA in advance of each grand prix weekend about any new "major aerodynamic and bodywork components and assemblies" that are intended to be ...Keep reading
After three days in Bahrain we know a little more about what F1 could look like in 2023. Some of what we learned from testing was fairly predictable – Red Bull looks impressive and Ferrari appears in the ballpark – but some of it was more surprising, such as the pace and confidence from Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin.
In this week’s 108-page special, our F1 team delves into the details ...Keep reading
The Grove Racing driver is known to have suffered with cabin temperatures during the previous campaign, despite Supercars drivers generally using cool suits during longer races.
He was worst affected in the opening leg of the Gold Coast 500 while trialling an electric cool suit as opposed to the traditional dry ice system.
Reynolds managed to survive a gruelling 250-kilometres around the ...Keep reading
The Canadian was forced to miss last week’s pre-season testing at the Sakhir circuit after injuring himself in an accident while training.
While there was great uncertainty about his physical state, and whether or not he could be fit in time for this weekend, his Silverstone-based team announced on Thursday that he had got the green light for a return.
Aston Martin had given reserve driver ...Keep reading
The DBX707 replaces the original DBX model that served for the 2021 and 2022 seasons, and it represents a significant upgrade in performance, with obvious benefits in terms of the response time and ability of the crew to reach an accident scene.
Aston Martin shares the FIA medical and safety car supply deal with Mercedes. Previously the choice of which marque was used at which track was largely ...Keep reading
The 42-year-old has signed to race a Proton Competition Porsche in at least the first three rounds of the WEC, alongside 2021 IMSA GTD champion Zacharie Robichon and two-time Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Harry Tincknell, and will also contest the first two rounds of the European Le Mans Series for Proton with Robichon and Alessio Picariello.
He already had a guaranteed entry in the Le Mans 24 ...Keep reading
On Wednesday F1 announced increased revenue and profits for 2022, as well as a record overall payment of over $1.1 billion split between the 10 teams.
In the early years of Liberty’s ownership several teams were in financial trouble and came close to failing, with Force India and Williams surviving only when they found new owners.
But team values have risen dramatically during F1’s ...Keep reading
The 60-year-old rally legend sustained multiple spinal fractures in a crash during January's Dakar Rally. He rolled his Audi on the ninth stage of the Saudi Arabian event, leading to T5 and T6 vertebral fractures that put him out of the rally.
With the two-time World Rally Championship winner still in recovery, Sainz's Audi Dakar team-mate and recent Race of Champions winner Ekstrom has stepped ...Keep reading
Behind the obvious top trio of Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes, they say a toss of a coin will decide which of the seven other squads are strongest in 2023. Even then, the order will change from one race weekend to the next as the timing of upgrades and differing circuit characteristics upset the status quo. No one will be massively cut adrift, lapping purely to make up the numbers.
On the final ...Keep reading
Browning enjoyed a whirlwind 2022 by taking the GB3 championship crown, also with Hitech, and going on to be named Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year following a rigorous two-day test at Silverstone.
Browning, who beat Ollie Bearman, Jamie Chadwick and Louis Foster to the award, is the final driver named on the 2023 F3 grid and joins Sebastian Montoya and Gabriele Mini at ...Keep reading
The International Olympic Committee has confirmed its line-up for the upcoming Olympic Esports Week, including a motorsport event that utilises Gran Turismo 7.
A return to virtual events for the IOC, following its first use in 2021, the competition held in Singapore will also see tennis, sailing, cycling and chess categories alongside the racing component.
The event also marks ...Keep reading
Once the morning haze had burned off, Cape Town’s scenery was suffused by a resplendent azure sky. A solitary puffball of cloud remained perched atop Table Mountain, a cotton-candy feast, while the sun gifted the waves at Mouille Point Beach with a glittering veil as they crashed onto the sand under the heavy coastal breeze.
Everyone in the paddock loved being in South Africa. Green Point and ...Keep reading
During pre-season testing in Bahrain last week, German publication Auto Motor und Sport reported that a Red Bull management structure - rejigged following the death of company founder Dietrich Mateschitz last year - was considering a sale of AlphaTauri.
This was supposedly related to dissatisfaction with the team’s new identity, the squad having been rebranded from Toro Rosso for 2020 ...Keep reading
Haas went through several lean years leading up to 2021, and decided to focus fully on exploiting the following year's rules reset. It signed the well-funded but inexperienced duo of Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher to get it through a compromised 2021 season.
While Mazepin was replaced by Magnussen on the eve of the 2022 campaign due to the Russian invasion of ...Keep reading
Rivals and pundits who crunched the numbers after the three days of running at Sakhir reckon it might be so.
The car looked good from the start, but it was a race distance undertaken by Fernando Alonso late on the final day that caught the eye. The Spaniard was running a medium/hard/medium tyre combination that saw him get faster and faster.
It was a strong conclusion to a test that began ...Keep reading
The duo, who have been part of the line-up since the US entrant joined the WEC in 2021 with the Pipo-engined 007 Le Mans Hypercar, were confirmed when the entry list for the opening round of this year’s series at Sebring was published on Wednesday.
Briscoe and Pla will join fellow team regular Romain Dumas in the Glickenhaus squad’s full-season entry in the Hypercar class for the ...Keep reading
Vasseur joined the Italian squad earlier this year in the wake of the resignation of former team principal Mattia Binotto.
It is widely perceived outside of Ferrari that the politics within the walls of the Maranello factory can be quite intense, which is why there has been such a high turnover of team bosses in recent years.
However, ahead of his first race in charge of the ...Keep reading
Last year, many F1 teams struggled with excessive bouncing on the new ground effect cars, which led to lobbying to tweak the regulations for 2023 on safety grounds.
For 2023 the floor edges were raised by 15mm to prevent teams running their challengers as closely to the ground as last year and reduce the bouncing effect.
Few cars appeared to experience porpoising during the three-day test ...Keep reading
The Isotta Fraschini Tipo 6 Competizione, which will be raced in partnership with the British Vector Sport team, was unveiled on Tuesday at the Automobile Club Milano.
The reveal of the car developed by Michelotto Engineering means the marque has met its stated target of completing the car by the end of February.
Isotta director of motorsport Claudio Berro said: "Today, we ...Keep reading
Peugeot endured a fraught return to top-flight sportscar racing in the WEC last year, suffering a myriad of technical issues when it joined the Hypercar class field for the final three rounds of the season at Monza, Fuji and Sakhir.
While some gremlins were expected on its debut in Italy and again on its second race appearance in Japan, Peugeot was left particularly frustrated when it ...Keep reading
One of the WRC's most famous events, known as the "Gravel Grand Prix", is set for a fresh look this year, with more than half the route changed while almost a third of the mileage will be completely new for drivers.
The ninth round of the 13-round WRC season (3-6 August) will be contested over 22 stages, totalling 320.56 kilometres.
The route includes the return of the Myhinpaa test, which ...Keep reading
Stroll had to miss last week’s Bahrain test due to a wrist injury, leaving Alonso and rookie Felipe Drugovich to undertake the initial sorting and development work on the new car.
Alonso admits that he doesn’t have enough of a reference to properly analyse the behaviour of the AMR23 and compare it with its predecessor.
While the Spaniard drove last year’s AMR22 in November's Abu Dhabi ...Keep reading
TV coverage showed the car bottoming heavily at times during the test as it appeared to tend towards bouncing.
However, Harman insisted that was a result of experiments that weren't necessarily intended to be useful at the Sakhir track specifically, but which could apply to other tracks.
That focus on exploring the car meant that team never ran with the softer Pirelli tyres and low fuel ...Keep reading
New signing Ott Tanak's triumph in Sweden earlier this month ended the Ford squad's WRC victory drought that had stretched back to January 2022, when Sebastien Loeb scored a famous win in Monte Carlo.
This latest win came following a faultless drive from Tanak in only his second WRC appearance driving the Ford Puma. The Estonian however scored only one stage win, proving that the current ...Keep reading
The Australian is making his F1 debut for McLaren at the Bahrain Grand Prix, and had his first proper run in the new MCL60 last week.
Although McLaren is facing some competitive struggles with its new car, that has not stopped Piastri from showing just what he is capable of.
In particular, McLaren team principal Andrea Stella has cited the way in which Piastri made rapid progress in a series ...Keep reading
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Sebastien Bourdais
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The facility beneath the 63,000-seater state-of-the-art venue's South Stand will open later this year to electric karts and upon completion will become London’s longest indoor track.
It will gain accreditation from the National Karting Association, meaning it can be used as a venue for national championships, while Spurs will create a driver academy programme.
F1 and the club will ...Keep reading
In the group qualifying stage, Mortara carried too much speed through Turn 9 and was spat into the wall, bringing the session to a halt.
Any evidence of a red or yellow flag was not immediately apparent and, for many of the drivers, a radio message from race director Scot Elkins was their earliest piece of information.
Bird, who was approaching the Turn 8-9 section of the Cape Town circuit ...Keep reading
The 33-year-old series veteran completes an all-Irish line-up at the wheel of the Midlands squad’s Vauxhall Astras, with Dubliner Taylor-Smith joining Northern Irish GT convert and BTCC rookie Andrew Watson.
Taylor-Smith raced for six seasons in the BTCC from 2012-17 before spreading his wings into GT competition and then returning to tin-tops with Team Hard, where he raced one of the Kent ...Keep reading
The Northern Irishman has signed a deal to race a BMW M4 GT3 for the Belgian squad in the Bronze Cup class for Platinum-Silver-Bronze lineups alongside his regular partner in the 2022 GT4 European championship Tim Whale and team returnee Lewis Proctor.
The team had announced in December that MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi, Maxime Martin and Augusto Farfus would helm one of its two Pro entries ...Keep reading
The long-time Audi squad which won five titles with the brand between 2002 and 2009 has, as expected, scaled down to two cars following the departure of Rene Rast to BMW, but has retained the three-time champion's two team-mates from the 2022 season.
Despite his own exit from Audi's factory driver pool, van der Linde's involvement was not in doubt as he has raced for the team's Formula E arm ...Keep reading
The Milton Keynes-based squad is coming off the back of a 2022 campaign where its RB18 had phases where either one or the other driver was happier.
At the start of the season, when the car suffered from understeer due to being overweight, those characteristics favoured Perez much more. But as the team reduced the car’s mass, that help make its front end better at turn-in, and that swung ...Keep reading
The Cape Town track, specially laid out on public roads for this first E-Prix, was new to everyone. In addition to the work on the simulator, there was also a reconnaissance of the circuit on foot, a very instructive moment before the first test session where everyone was able to get a more precise idea of the layout and its demands.
"I had seen things in the simulator, such as the bumps, which ...Keep reading
Four cars were taken out of the race by the chain-reaction crash, which occurred just before half distance during the final race at the Californian track in its two-mile format. In total, 10 cars were involved in the wreck – making it the largest multi-car crash in the track's Cup history.
Team Penske’s Logano said the larger restart zone – which has been expanded by 50% for the first ...Keep reading
At last year's first Barcelona test, the Alfa Romeo team was hit by various reliability issues, a trend which continued to persist throughout the season.
But last week Bottas and Zhou Guanyu completed a combined 401 laps over three days, albeit after one stoppage for Bottas with a suspected Ferrari power unit issue and a minor systems error.
"It was definitely way better than last year at ...Keep reading
The Sakhir International Circuit has hosted the opening round of the F1 season on four previous occasions since it made its debut on the calendar in 2004 - claiming the honour in 2006, 2010, 2021 and 2022.
In each of those years, at least one driver made their first F1 start in the Bahrain Grand Prix, while in 2020 the track hosted two races on consecutive weekends with the Sakhir Grand Prix on ...Keep reading
The Hypercar field for the double-points round of the World Endurance Championship on 10-11 June represents a three-car increase on the 13 full-season entries for the first edition of the series in which LMDh prototypes will race against Le Mans Hypercar machinery.
Porsche Penske Motorsport has entered an additional 963 LMDh despite previously backing away from any plan to field one or both the ...Keep reading
Straight off the back of pre-season testing, F1 stays in Bahrain for the opening grand prix of a 23-race season which concludes in Abu Dhabi in late November.
Red Bull impressed at the three-day test, meaning it is up to the likes of Ferrari and Mercedes to take the challenge to the reigning world champions.
PLUS: How the F1 2023 competitive order is shaping up after Bahrain ...Keep reading
While the Aston was only the seventh fastest car on aggregated headline times over the three-day test, its consistent pace and a good long run performance by Fernando Alonso caught the eye of rival teams, with many observers suggesting that Aston could lead the chase of the top three.
However, when asked if expectations have now changed Krack was keen to downplay the relevance of the strong ...Keep reading
A cursory glance at the timesheets already pointed in that direction, with Sergio Perez having set the benchmark overall in the late flurry of lower fuel runs on the final evening as teams finally unlocked some potential.
In fact, it was only Guanyu Zhou's glory run late on Friday to go top that prevented a clean sweep of Red Bull's dominance over the three days.
Even away from the headline ...Keep reading
The change will ensure that the lap finishes with two fast corners, as it did in the past, and the hope is that it will allow cars to follow more closely onto the straight and encourage overtaking.
The new version of the track measures 4.657kms, compared with the 4.675kms of the previous iteration with the chicane.
The removal of the chicane has been in discussion for some years, and the key ...Keep reading
The double MotoGP podium finisher was the only Honda rider to get the difficult RC213V to a rostrum in his rookie year in 2020 when he was with the factory squad, but struggled to replicate this with LCR in 2021 and 2022.
With just two top eight finishes to his credit in 2022 on the Honda, Marquez elected to move to the Gresini Ducati squad for 2023 and felt “immediately at home” on the ...Keep reading
The Maranello-based outfit raised some eyebrows when the front wing of its 2023 challenger featured the very same slot gap separator trick concept that Mercedes had been told it could not run last year.
The idea is that the support elements are shaped in such a way that they help divert airflow to better increase outwash – something the FIA had hoped to minimise with the new generation of ...Keep reading
Busch, who moved from Joe Gibbs Racing to Richard Childress Racing over the winter, grabbed the lead on lap 143 and held on through a final round of green-flag pitstops to keep clear of Chase Elliott to win by 2.998 seconds.
The win gives the 37-year-old the outright record for most consecutive seasons with at least one victory, as he pulls clear of seven-time NASCAR champion Richard Petty to ...Keep reading
At McLaren's 2023 launch, even before a wheel was turned, the team realised it was in for a rough start to the new season because it found it had missed its aero targets.
Last week's three-day Bahrain test has gone reasonably well, but it also confirmed the team's expectation that just like last year it would start 2023 with a car that is too inefficient, and therefore generates excessive drag ...Keep reading
The electric off-road series will now hold ten races across its five meetings in 2023, after staging its first double-header round in Sardinia last season.
In a series of format tweaks designed to prioritise racing, single car qualifying time trials will be replaced with two rounds of two five-car qualifying heats. This follows the championship introducing a single round of heats last ...Keep reading
The Italian constructor this year returns to top-flight prototype racing with a fully-fledged factory programme for the first time in 50 years, fielding a pair of 499Ps in the WEC after being lured by its new Le Mans Hypercar regulations.
Ferrari’s track record of nine outright wins at Le Mans 24 Hours, coupled with its success in Formula 1 and the WEC’s now-defunct GTE Pro category, means ...Keep reading
The third day of testing also allowed us to seek out some more of the interesting technical details we haven’t covered so far, with teams not only trialling new parts but also being less covert with the ones they might have been hiding in the opening few days.
Ferrari introduced a new rear wing design on the third day of running, with several changes – including a different downforce level ...Keep reading
Sources suggest that the 10 current teams want the anti-dilution fee to be boosted to at least $600m, with one team principal telling Autosport that it was the lowest figure that has been mentioned, and that it could go higher.
If agreed the new number could force Michael Andretti to reconsider his plans to enter with General Motors brand Cadillac, which are built around the current ...Keep reading
Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly did not feature that high on timing screens over the three-day pre-season test in Sakhir as the team focused on longer runs and experimentation with its A523, deciding not to run with low fuel or use the softest tyres in Pirelli’s range.
However, rivals have indicated that the Enstone team looks competitive and will potentially be vying with Aston Martin to be ...Keep reading
The Silverstone team says that it will give the Canadian “every chance” to compete in the opening race of the season after a cycling accident forced him out of the three-day pre-season test in Bahrain.
A decision on who will race next weekend could be left until the last minute, and Stroll may possibly even drive the car in FP1 with the option of stepping out if he is unable to perform ...Keep reading
Reigning world champion Bagnaia will be joined at the factory squad by four-time race winner Bastianini in 2023 after he fought off Pramac’s Jorge Martin to claim the factory seat vacated by KTM’s new signing Jack Miller.
There were several flash points across the 2022 season in which Bagnaia and Bastianini locked horns on track, most notably at the penultimate round of the campaign in ...Keep reading
Last December, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest and the FIA announced that tyre warmers would be scrapped from both the WEC and European Le Mans Series this year in a move "designed to reduce the teams’ environmental impact".
As such, the respective qualifying sessions for both the prototypes - including Hypercar and LMP2 - and GTE cars will be extended to 15 minutes to allow drivers additional ...Keep reading
Red Bull emerged from F1’s pre-season test at Sakhir widely regarded as the team to beat, with the RB19 appearing to be very reliable and quick on both short and long runs.
But while the pace of the Red Bull appeared to be bad news for Ferrari, which is targeting a fight for world championship glory this year, Vasseur seems far from alarmed about what he has seen in running so ...Keep reading
Having taken his maiden pole position at the Cape Town E-Prix after beating Maximilian Guenther in their qualifying final, Fenestraz had lost out to the eventual top two of Antonio Felix da Costa and Jean-Eric Vergne over the course of the 32-lap race.
The Franco-Argentine had managed to put a move on long-time leader Cassidy to move up to third, which he looked set to hold onto until the final ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton and George Russell made an encouraging start to the 2023 test on Thursday with a car that didn't seem to suffer from porpoising like its cursed predecessor.
But the week took a wrong turn on day two, when the Brackley team struggled with the balance throughout the day in both the hot daytime and cooler evening conditions.
The team admitted it was mystified by its loss of ...Keep reading
Stroll missed pre-season testing in Bahrain after sustaining injuries during a cycling incident while training in Spain.
Krack insisted that Stroll remains the Plan A and that no alternatives would be considered until it is clear that the Canadian can’t drive in next week’s Bahrain GP.
Official reserve driver Felipe Drugovich remains the obvious favourite to get the seat given that he ...Keep reading
The Mexican beat Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton to the fastest time on the final day in Bahrain, with Valtteri Bottas in third for Alfa Romeo.
PLUS: What we learned on the final day of F1 testing in Bahrain
Earlier in the day, Charles Leclerc led the morning's running for Ferrari, clocking a 1m31.024s on Pirelli's C5 tyres to lead Mercedes' George Russell by four tenths.
But ...Keep reading
A report in German publication Auto Motor Und Sport on Saturday suggested that AlphaTauri’s future was up in the air on the back of its disappointing results last year.
As Red Bull itself dominated both F1 championships, AlphaTauri endured some frustrations with its car and ended up ninth in the standings - leading to a big drop in commercial rights income.
The AMuS story claimed that Red ...Keep reading
Da Costa attempted to collect his second attack mode, a one-minute duration - on the 25th lap of the race - but missed one of the activation loops and was left without his second hit of 350kW power.
This had allowed Vergne to eradicate much of da Costa's advantage and ultimately collected the lead when da Costa took a more successful second pass through the Turn 12 loop.
Although this gave ...Keep reading
The Portuguese cemented a famous victory at the inaugural Cape Town race after passing Jean-Eric Vergne around the outside of the flat-out Turn 8 on the penultimate lap, having done the same to Nick Cassidy to secure his earlier lead.
On both occasions, da Costa gathered great momentum out of Turn 7 and reeled in his fellow podium finishers in over the stretch along the beachfront.
He caught ...Keep reading
Perez set the time on the last of the three days of testing, before the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix at the Sakhir circuit on March 5. Lewis Hamilton was second-quickest for Mercedes, ahead of Valtteri Bottas for Alfa Romeo.
Mercedes bounced back after a scare on day two, which led to an overnight investigation in its lack of pace, with the second-quickest time on the final day, set by ...Keep reading
Under a searing sun the opening phase of the final opportunity to test ahead of next week's Bahrain Grand Prix was dominated by longer runs, with Perez moving up the order courtesy of a 1m31.714s on Pirelli's mid-range C3 tyres.
Mercedes' Hamilton joined the fray with a 1m31.960s on the same compound during what seemed like a more positive afternoon for Mercedes than Friday.
As the sun set ...Keep reading
The Portuguese had surged from 11th on the grid to factor into the leading battle, taking the lead from Nick Cassidy on the 24th lap with a brave outside pass in the flat-out Turn 8 before motoring off into the distance.
With enough of a lead to take his second and final attack mode, da Costa missed one of the three activation loops and haemorrhaged part of his lead to the chasing Vergne ...Keep reading
Mercedes was pleased to report “no bouncing” during the first of three days of testing at Bahrain as it has sought to eliminate the porpoising phenomenon that dogged it last year.
But the second day of running was blighted by persistent mid-corner balance issues for both Hamilton and team-mate George Russell, before the latter parked up in the afternoon with a hydraulics failure.
While ...Keep reading
The new car has looked comfortably fast from the start of testing on Thursday, and it has also run with few apparent issues, although Verstappen lost some track time on Friday.
PLUS: What watching trackside in Bahrain indicates about F1 2023
The world champion had the car to himself on Thursday and then shared it with Sergio Perez on Friday before the Mexican was its sole occupant on ...Keep reading
Ferrari’s F1-75 package from 2022 packed on impressive downforce levels with its heavily sculpted sidepods feeding airflow into the floor and underfloor Venturi tunnels, but it suffered on the straights compared to the slippery, efficient Red Bull RB18.
That car went on to dominate the 2022 championship while Ferrari’s initially excellent challenge imploded and the Scuderia’s new 2023 ...Keep reading
As reported by Autosport on Friday, F1 teams, the FIA and FOM are all due to hold a vote after this year’s British Grand Prix to decide whether or not to go ahead with a ban on tyre warming.
There have been many attempts in the past to outlaw tyre blankets, on both cost and sustainability grounds, but each time the efforts have been abandoned because of complications in coming up with ...Keep reading
Even before pre-season testing started in Bahrain there were positive rumours about Aston's aero numbers.
While it is still hard to draw conclusions from the timesheets as testing rolls into the third and final day, rival drivers and teams have seen enough from Alonso's long runs and his AMR23's compliant behaviour to single Aston out as one of the teams to watch this season.
"It's clear ...Keep reading
The rookie driver prised an opening over Guenther in the first sector, getting just under half a tenth ahead, but was able to extend his advantage - and Fenestraz's eventual 1m07.848s was far too much for the German driver to beat.
Despite showing great speed throughout the weekend and having headed FP2, Nick Cassidy had been brushed aside in the semifinals by Fenestraz by just over a tenth, as ...Keep reading
With times at the Bahrain International Circuit improving as teams shifted to more performance work, Leclerc clocked a 1m31.024s on Pirelli's C5 tyres to lead Mercedes' George Russell by four tenths.
Following two flawless days Alfa Romeo hit trouble in Sakhir, Valtteri Bottas causing a red flag as he ground to a halt with suspected gearbox problems.
It was the second red flag of the session ...Keep reading
The Indian manufacturer grounded all four cars during qualifying; Nico Muller, Oliver Rowland, Lucas di Grassi and Kelvin van der Linde did not leave the garage at any point as Mahindra assessed its options to determine if it could take part.
It was later confirmed that Mahindra would not continue with the weekend in Cape Town, citing that it had concerns about the integrity of its rear ...Keep reading
Team principal Andrea Stella's admission that the squad was not "entirely happy" with the launch specification version of its 2023 challenger had laid down a clear marker in reducing expectations.
Launches are normally happy scene-setters for the campaign ahead, and it is quite rare for teams to deliver such a downbeat assessment as their shiny new model is revealed.
The conclusion was that ...Keep reading
There was plenty of early doors aero rake action, just as there was on day one, with teams using that time just as the session kicks off to do some constant speed runs before getting into the thick of the action.
Mercedes W14
Photo by: Giorgio Piola
McLaren MCL60 detail
Photo by: Giorgio Piola
The rakes being used carry an array of kiel probes that measure ...Keep reading
Although warm at 22 degrees C, the session began under slightly overcast conditions as the morning cloud was yet to burn away.
Mortara was the first driver into the 1m11s as the times quickly began to tumble, but was quickly shuffled out of top spot as the pace aligned with that from Friday’s FP1 session.
Jean-Eric Vergne stepped into the 1m10s, but was then ...Keep reading
British F1 viewers can watch every race live on Sky Sports F1, or catch the highlights on Channel 4.
This arrangement is the result of several years of evolution of F1 broadcasting rights in the UK. The BBC used to show 10 races live each season, but ended its deal three years early in 2015 due to budget cuts.
Channel 4 took over from the BBC until the end of the 2018 season, but since then ...Keep reading
The Chinese racer's lap time was faster than what was managed during testing at the same venue last year, despite tweaks to the technical rules, although it was set on the very softest Pirelli tyre compound so is not truly representative.
However, the Red Bull - in the hands of Max Verstappen, at least - is looking genuinely quick, while Fernando Alonso continued to impress for Aston ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer enjoyed an encouraging first day of testing, but things went awry on Friday as it struggled to find a good balance with the W14.
George Russell ended the day down in 13th on the timesheets, two seconds off pacesetter Zhou Guanyu, while Lewis Hamilton was a further three tenths adrift.
Mercedes’ efforts were further hampered by a hydraulic problem that hit ...Keep reading
The Woking-based squad has been open since its launch that it is not entirely happy with the initial specification of the MCL60, which has lacked competitiveness in the Bahrain pre-season test.
It is unsure just how much difficulty it is going to face in next week's F1 season opener, but remains optimistic that upgrades planned from the Azerbaijan Grand Prix can help it turn things ...Keep reading
Among its most significant changes, IndyCar has mandated stronger rear-wheel tethers and a more ‘forgiving’ steering arm, which is designed to take more punishment without breaking.
In the cockpit, the large U-shaped device that incorporates the rear headrest with the side padding has been redesigned to include a larger amount of cushioning to protect a driver’s head in the event of an ...Keep reading
After taking over from team-mate Sergio Perez for the afternoon session, Verstappen instantly lit up the timesheet in the Red Bull RB19 and carved his way to top spot with a 1m31.650s on the C3 tyres.
The reigning world champion, who also spent the entire opening day of the test driving for Red Bull on Thursday, was duly further ahead on his test programme as some rivals didn’t switch focus ...Keep reading
Technical director Francois-Xavier Demaison and head of aerodynamics Dave Wheater both left the team in December, in parallel with the departure of former team principal Jost Capito.
While Williams moved quickly to hire Vowles from Mercedes as its new team boss, the two top technical jobs remain unfilled.
Given the gardening leave that such positions usually involve, it could be many months ...Keep reading
The Argentinian, who will share Vanwall’s Le Mans Hypercar with Villeneuve and Tom Dillmann, believes that the 51-year-old veteran “will be there on lap time” when the 2023 WEC begins with the Sebring 1000 Miles on 17 March.
“It is very good to have him on board, he is a world champion, of course, and I think he is going to be quick as well, which is what matters in the end,” said ...Keep reading
The race is situated in the Green Point area of Cape Town, overlooked by the Table Mountain and Signal Hill natural landmarks, with the circuit also featuring a high-speed section along the beachfront.
This will be South Africa's first world championship single-seater event since the 1993 Formula 1 race at Kyalami, with home hero van der Linde continuing to deputise for the injured Robin Frijns ...Keep reading
The Woking-based team has faced a few teething problems in pre-season testing, with its running slightly limited on Thursday after needing to reinforce parts to avoid failures.
Furthermore, drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri have not looked especially comfortable out on track, with their lap times not at the head of the timesheets either.
McLaren's difficulties are not a ...Keep reading
The Frenchman broke a nearly two-year victory drought in Formula E when he held off Nick Cassidy in Hyderabad, and took the first win of DS's alliance with the Dragon Penske outfit.
This came despite a four-percent energy deficit to the Kiwi, who was unable to mount a pass on Vergne in the dying stages as the Parisian put in a sterling defensive drive.
Asked if it felt good knowing that he ...Keep reading
Mercedes has been under scrutiny during Bahrain testing as it seeks to recover from a 2022 campaign hurt by porpoising and drag that caused its fall to third in the points.
Initial feedback from Russell and Lewis Hamilton has been that the new challenger has wayward car balance, but that this is far easier to solve compared to the “alarm bells ringing” in 2022 as Mercedes has made a “step ...Keep reading
When Franck Lagorce was chosen to replace Johnny Herbert at Ligier for the final two rounds of the 1994 Formula 1 season, his debut couldn’t have come under more challenging circumstances.
Suzuka is about as difficult a circuit as they come, and that’s when drivers can see where they’re going. The Japanese Grand Prix that year was held in utterly appalling conditions that would almost ...Keep reading
Latvala’s Toyota squad has headed to Spain this week for a multi-day test, beginning today, to prepare for next month’s opening gravel rally of the season in Mexico.
While Toyota largely dominated the 2022 season by sweeping both the drivers’ and constructors’ titles, the GR Yaris showcased weakness on rough gravel rallies such as Sardinia and the Acropolis compared to its Hyundai and ...Keep reading
On a hot Friday morning Haas' Kevin Magnussen led the early running with a first representative time, a 1m33.710s on Pirelli's mid-range C3 compound.
Sainz then grabbed the lead with a 1m32.653s effort, which he later improved to a 1m32.486s in his C3-shod Ferrari.
It meant the Spaniard had improved on Max Verstappen's Thursday benchmark by four tenths, with Ferrari continuing to head the ...Keep reading
Official supplier Pirelli has been making preparations for F1 to abandon the use of tyre warmers from next year as part of a wider push to improve grand prix racing's sustainability.
However, with previous attempts to ban tyre warmers having been abandoned because of the technical complexities of devising with products that can cope with excessive temperature and pressure variations, the change ...Keep reading
Not since the end of the Group A era three decades ago has Australia’s Supercars championship undergone a technical revolution as big as this one. Even the Gen2 cars were a clear evolution of the first five-litre Group 3A Holden Commodores and Ford Falcons that debuted way back in 1993. Of course, the product was refined over the journey.
Car of the Future, introduced in 2013, was a ...Keep reading
Following an encouraging opening day of running for the new C43 at the Bahrain pre-season test on Thursday, both Valtteri Bottas and Zhou Guanyu were left upbeat by some specific areas of progress made over the winter.
Beyond some general aerodynamic and performance upgrades, the drivers are especially boosted by both reliability progress and more rear-end stability, issues that plagued the ...Keep reading
Haas is one of three teams, including Red Bull and Mercedes, to have mounted a winglet on the inboard rear quarter of the front wing endplate.
Haas VF-23 front wing detail
Photo by: Giorgio Piola
In this case, the Haas winglet also has a slot to marry-up with the slots below it between the front wing elements.
Aston Martin AMR 23, detail front wing
Photo by ...Keep reading
The 38-year-old Japanese driver has been brought back into the driving squad to take a role most recently filled by new AlphaTauri Formula 1 driver Nyck de Vries.
Nakajima will dovetail his reserve duties with the vice-chairmanship of the Cologne-based Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe organisation that runs the two-car WEC squad, the role he was given on hanging up his helmet after ...Keep reading
The evolutions undertaken on the Toyota GR010 Hybrid for the 2023 WEC season are centred on driveability, serviceability and reliability, Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe technical director Pascal Vasselon has revealed.
Aerodynamic changes to the car unveiled on Friday include new dive-planes at the front and wing endplates at the rear. The bodywork revisions were conceived to ...Keep reading
Factory driver Preining won twice in Porsche's first season in the DTM last year with two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Timo Bernhard's operation, following up the Weissach marque's first series victory at the Norisring with a charging drive at a wet Red Bull Ring, while Porsche-contracted Olsen dominated from pole for SSR Performance at Spa.
Preining's move to join the incoming Manthey effort ...Keep reading
For the first E-Prix in Cape Town, three teams are to be followed closely. Tag Heuer Porsche, currently leading the championship, Avalanche Andretti, the German manufacturer's customer team, but above all DS Penske, which is for the moment the only team to have dominated Porsche-powered squads this season.
After Jake Dennis’s victory for Andretti ahead of Porsche’s Pascal Wehrlein in ...Keep reading
Team principal Gunther Steiner says that the money has been fed straight into the development budget for the VF-23.
The team’s push for cost savings reflects the fact that Moneygram title sponsorship and an eighth-place finish in the 2022 world championship has given it the funds with which to push up to the cost cap for the first time.
Haas used to travel worldwide with a two-part pit ...Keep reading
The beginning of season five starts with a quick recap of the 2021 season finale which, for some fans, might prove a bruising experience given the controversial events from the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
But that shouldn't detract from what is another must-watch series, with the opening segment of the 2022 season providing a nice palate cleanser as buddies Mattia Binotto and Gunther Steiner enjoy a ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen pipped new Aston Martin signing Fernando Alonso to lead the times as Red Bull's new RB19 finally broke cover.
Most teams enjoyed a reliable start to the three-day test, as the porpoising problem that overshadowed the early running last year was largely put to bed.
PLUS: What we learned on day one of F1 testing in Bahrain
To reflect on the opening day's events, Alex ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer had an encouraging opening day to pre-season testing in Bahrain on Thursday, its 2023 challenger proving to be much better handling than last year’s troubled W13 as Lewis Hamilton finished sixth on the timesheets headed by Red Bull's Max Verstappen.
Twelve months ago, the team had undergone a disastrous test in Bahrain as both its drivers struggled to contain the ...Keep reading
Stroll was ruled out of this week's three-day test after a cycling incident left him with what team boss Mike Krack has now revealed is a wrist injury.
The team still doesn't know if Stroll will definitely be fit enough to take part in the Bahrain Grand Prix next weekend.
Reigning Formula 2 champion Felipe Drugovich took over the car for Thursday morning's session, although his running was ...Keep reading
Parent company Bridgestone Americas says that major strides have been made during the off-season to incorporate more sustainable and bio-circular materials into its IndyCar products, which it believes will make the upcoming season the most sustainable to date.
The alternate, softer compound Firestone Firehawks used in last year’s Music City Grand Prix on Nashville's streets will become the ...Keep reading
Verstappen, the only driver to run for the full day as all other F1 teams split their programmes, put in a 1m32.837s midway through the afternoon to improve on his effort that led the morning session.
It looked nailed on to give Red Bull top spot until a number of teams started to focus on performance runs on the softer compound tyres.
Alonso, on fresh C3 tyres, duly leapt to 0.029 seconds ...Keep reading
The Milton Keynes-based squad was handed a $7 million fine and a 10% reduction in its aero development allowance as the result of being found to have overspent on its way to the 2021 world championship.
While the financial penalty will not produce too much pain, the reduction in its wind tunnel and CFD allowance means it will have significantly less development time than some of its closest ...Keep reading
An updated International Sporting Code issued ahead of the 2023 season that applies across top-level motorsport now classes the following as a rule breach: “The general making and display of political, religious and personal statements or comments notably in violation of the general principle of neutrality promoted by the FIA under its Statutes, unless previously approved in writing by the FIA ...Keep reading
Twelve months on from its troubled test in Bahrain, where the German car manufacturer was plagued by excessive porpoising, the team seemed in a much happier place with its car.
And although lap times were largely irrelevant as teams focused their initial efforts on getting an early understanding of their cars, Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff said early feedback from George Russell was ...Keep reading
Fiery exhaust overrun has been spotted on cars throughout the spate of shakedowns and tests in recent weeks.
Once a common sight in Supercars, flames all but disappeared when the series switched to E85 fuel in 2009, the exception being licks of blue during night time running.
The return of flames visible in daylight with these new Gen3 cars, running brand new-spec V8 motors, was evident when ...Keep reading
In an opening session with one red flag interruption, caused by an early on-track stoppage for Aston Martin’s Felipe Drugovich who is standing in for the injured Lance Stroll, reigning world champion Verstappen traded best lap times with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz.
Sainz’s 1m33.253s led for the majority of the morning, but was beaten by Verstappen’s 1m32.959s set 35 minutes before the lunch ...Keep reading
Last season de Vries sampled the 2022 Williams, Mercedes and Aston Martin cars, and also completed some laps in a 2021 Alpine.
Tost says the Dutchman's recent F1 mileage as well, as the overall experience that he has gained in other categories, enabled him to offer useful feedback when he tried the AlphaTauri at the Abu Dhabi test in November, in effect alerting the team to some of the ...Keep reading
The Briton comes into the line-up in the #22 United ORECA-Gibson 07 alongside long-time team-mates Albuquerque and Hanson in place of Will Owen as the silver-rated driver.
Lubin is making the switch to sportscar racing after a season in Euroformula Open in which he took one win on the way to fourth in the championship with Team Motopark.
He told Autosport: “One of my dreams has always been ...Keep reading
Amid almost no fanfare, the first glimpses of Red Bull's latest F1 challenger were seen as the car was wheeled down the pitlane following the traditional pre-testing photoshoot on the grid.
And, as expected from a team that had performance in hand for most of last season, there has been no revolution with its car. Instead, it is more of a soft evolution of the winning concepts seen on the ...Keep reading
F1’s only 2023 pre-season test is kicking off in Bahrain and we’ll finally start to get an idea of which teams have made the most progress for the second year of this ground-effects era.
Ferrari and Mercedes are the squads most likely to challenge the Red Bull operation that set the pace in 2022. They had very different types of launches earlier this month, with Ferrari exuding confidence ...Keep reading
The duo will join Alessio Deledda at the three-car SSR Performance outfit, which left the Porsche stable over the winter and will field the latest-generation Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO II in the DTM’s first season under the ADAC umbrella.
Both Bortolotti and Perera make the switch from fellow Lamborghini squad Grasser Racing, which is expected to downscale its DTM involvement from four cars ...Keep reading
The results of the all-in pre-season test favoured the Chevrolet teams heavily, with Camaros filling 11 of the top 12 spots in the final standings.
The trend was in keeping with concerns from Ford and its teams heading into the Gen3 era that the Camaro is a better package, particularly in terms of straightline speed.
Supercars is planning another aero homologation test next week while ...Keep reading
Featuring 21 races across seven rounds, the inaugural season of F1 Academy will kick-off at the Red Bull Ring in Austria on 28-29 April, with further standalone events at Valencia, Barcelona, Zandvoort, Monza and Paul Ricard until the end of July.
Following a three-month break, the championship will conclude on the support bill for the US Grand Prix on 21-22 October, giving budding female ...Keep reading
The Italian outfit’s strategy calls came under the spotlight last year after a number of high-profile costly errors.
This included bad pit calls at the Monaco Grand Prix that cost Charles Leclerc a potential victory, as well as a bizarre call that left the Monegasque driver as the only driver on intermediate tyres for the start of Q3 at the Brazilian Grand Prix.
The team was ...Keep reading
After the DTM revealed the 13 teams that will participate in the championship in its maiden season under the ADAC umbrella, Mercedes became the first manufacturer to unveil its full programme for the year on Thursday.
A total of six drivers will represent the German marque in 2023 across three teams, but Gotz is a very notable omission. He emerged victorious in the DTM’s first season under ...Keep reading
The Milton Keynes-based team held a RB19 launch in New York earlier this month, but it only unveiled a new livery on an updated version of last season’s RB18.
The new car then completed a private shakedown test at Silverstone, but Red Bull restricted the images that were released from the promotional day.
Only blurry videos of the RB19 were distributed, and spy footage of the ...Keep reading
Due to relatively stable technical regulations, F1 winter testing has reverted to just a single three-day test at the Bahrain International Circuit.
Testing starts on Thursday 23 February at 07:00 GMT (10:00 local time) and runs until Saturday. All three days follow the same schedule, with the running taking place from 10:00 until 14:15 and from 15:15 until 19:30, pausing for a lunch break. It ...Keep reading
Stella says the team will try not to focus initially on direct comparisons with Lando Norris, who is heading into his fifth year of F1.
Instead the team will concentrate on ensuring Piastri is as prepared as possible for the challenge of his first season at the top level.
“Let's say the way we set this topic up internally is not much in relation to Lando when it comes to Oscar, but it's in ...Keep reading
What is Drive to Survive?
Drive to Survive is a Netflix docu series produced by Box to Box Films, giving fans unprecedented access into the colourful world of Formula 1. Each race weekend the series' crew follows a different team, zooming in on the season's biggest talking points and controversies while also showing a more human side of the 20 drivers, 10 team bosses and other key ...Keep reading
As Autosport has learned, the Spaniard met with Lin Jarvis, director of Yamaha, on the Saturday of the last race weekend of last season in Valencia.
In that meeting, Jarvis showed the Spaniard his interest in incorporating him into its structure in the near future.
At first, it even seemed the Japanese manufacturer was thinking of Lopez as a possible replacement for Franco Morbidelli at the ...Keep reading
Following the DTM's sale from Gerhard Berger's ITR operation to the ADAC, it was announced in December that the Red Bull AF Corse team would not continue in the championship this season.
That appeared to throw Ferrari's participation into doubt, as no other squad used the Italian marque's products in the 2022 season.
But with the old 488 GT3 now replaced by the ORECA-built 296, AF Corse's ...Keep reading
Despite many decades of involvement in F1, Newey remains at the top of his game and most recently helped Red Bull’s title successes last season.
Aston Martin’s new technical director Dan Fallows worked alongside Newey for many years at Red Bull, and says it was an eye-opening experience for him understanding how he operated.
Fallows reckons it was Newey’s mindset in not believing that ...Keep reading
The UK has become a backbone of rallying’s top flight, appearing on the inaugural calendar in 1973 and holding a spot on the schedule until 2019 courtesy of Rally GB, formerly known as the RAC Rally.
However, the event dropped off the calendar in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and has failed to return.
A bid fronted by promoter Bobby Willis to bring the WRC back to the UK in Northern ...Keep reading
Although the tyre compounds remaining unchanged from 2022 – other than the addition of a new C1, with the previous tyre of that specification becoming a new C0 to close the performance gap between the harder rubber types and those typically used as mediums – Pirelli has changed the construction of all its tyres.
The main changes have been made to the front tyres to reduce the understeer ...Keep reading
But once the finished cars had gone public, it was inevitable we would see teams hone-in on the agreed best ideas, even if it meant switching concept.
The imposition of a cost cap limited how much change was possible during the 2022 campaign, though, with biggest revisions always likely to be made over the last winter.
As F1’s 2023 cars have broken cover, it has been ...Keep reading
F1 testing was reduced from six to three days for 2021, with just three test days in Bahrain instead of two three-day tests in Barcelona.
For 2022, winter testing expanded to six days again, a one-off concession so teams could get more time to trial their brand-new machinery following a major rule change.
But this year the number of days has been limited to three once again, with testing ...Keep reading
The Aussie series is embroiled in a parity storm just over a fortnight out from the start of the new season in Newcastle.
The homologation of the new Gen3 cars has proven problematic, with Ford concerned over the parity in terms of both engine and aero performance.
As expected the latter will now be addressed with a re-run of the VCAT homologation process, which involves measuring aero ...Keep reading
The Californian squad, which has taken GT World Challenge America spoils in each of the last two seasons, will be back for the full GTWCE season for the first time since it managed a best finish of sixth running Bentleys in the COVID-impacted 2020 season.
It also entered last year's Spa 24 Hours with Orange1, placing 11th overall with American team regulars Andrea Caldarelli and Jordan Pepper ...Keep reading
The entire Supercars field ran its Gen3 cars together for the first time today in a single, crucial all-in test at Sydney Motorsport Park.
The first opportunity to gauge comparative performance came amid an ongoing parity saga with the new cars, as Ford continues to voice concerns over aero and engine performance compared to the Camaro.
Supercars is set to head back to the runway for more ...Keep reading
Rowbottom, who took one victory during a two-year stint with the Team Dynamics Honda squad in 2021-22, will partner three-time champion Ash Sutton plus Dan Cammish and Sam Osborne in Motorbase’s squad of Ford Focus ST machinery.
The 34-year-old Midlander replaces Ollie Jackson, who is returning to the Porsche Carrera Cup GB but will retain a BTCC Motorbase presence through his Mountune engine ...Keep reading
The Japanese series announced last year plans to switch to a second-generation biomass fuel supplied by German firm Haltermann Carless for the 2023 campaign as part of a drive to reduce carbon emissions.
Teams sampled the fuel in a post-season test at Motegi after the final round of the season last year, but difficulties in supply mean most manufacturer testing over the winter has been ...Keep reading
Spanish oil giant Repsol has been the factory Honda squad’s title sponsor since 1995 and continues its partnership into 2023, despite rumours in recent years of the tie-up ending.
Honda comes into 2023 off the back of its second winless campaign in three years as it looks to turn around its troubled RC213V and challenge for the championship for the first time since 2019.
Eight-time world ...Keep reading
The Scot claimed his maiden British GT title at the Donington Park finale last year after taking two wins and a further four podiums during the campaign at the wheel of a RAM Racing-run Mercedes-AMG.
Insight: How a Pro mindset finally secured a British GT Am an overdue title
Having raced with the squad since 2019, Loggie has decided to move away from RAM – with team founder Dan ...Keep reading
Twelve months on from McLaren facing a disastrous test in Bahrain and disappointing opening race after suffering brake overheating problems, the squad has made efforts to ensure there is no repeat trouble this time around.
Well aware that there is just a single test before the opening 2023 race at Sakhir, McLaren booked in one of its two filming days for Bahrain on Tuesday to check that ...Keep reading
The change of specification was formally approved at today’s meeting of the F1 Commission, which was held at the F1 organisation’s HQ in London.
An F1/FIA statement said that "following successful testing by Pirelli, with the support of teams, Pirelli have arrived at a wet weather tyre which is much more performant than the previous specification – this tyre type does not require the use ...Keep reading
Following the first year of the new generation of cars, it was widely accepted that at some venues DRS passes had been too easy, while at others the zones were too short.
Having looked closely at the data of last season, the FIA has now revealed that tweaks will be made at the Bahrain, Jeddah, Melbourne, Baku and Miami circuits to better balance things out.
Although there has been no ...Keep reading
In motorsport, the usual path to management is thus: start out as a junior employee, work your way up, and eventually you can earn the keys to one of the many kingdoms of racing.
There are a few exceptions to the rule, as the likes of new Ferrari Formula 1 boss Frederic Vasseur earned their keep by running their own race teams before earning a move into the top flight. Christian Horner did the ...Keep reading
Seidl's move to Sauber was announced late last year, and Stella was immediately named as his successor as team principal.
Stella joined McLaren from Ferrari in 2015 and has had various job titles, latterly serving as racing director.
Brown says that Stella's knowledge of the team made the transition much easier than if an outsider had come in and had to learn his way around the ...Keep reading
F1's team boss merry-go-round started with Mattia Binotto leaving Ferrari at the end of November to be replaced by Alfa Romeo's Fred Vasseur.
Andreas Seidl left McLaren to become Alfa's CEO, with Andrea Stella replacing him at the Woking squad while Alessandro Alunni Bravi was appointed Alfa's team representative on F1 weekends.
In January, Mercedes strategy director James Vowles became the ...Keep reading
Preview
Another unfamiliar racetrack awaits teams and drivers in Cape Town – only two weeks after the race in Hyderabad. Pascal Wehrlein and António Félix da Costa from the TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team underlined in India that they can easily handle such challenges: The German extended his lead in the drivers’ standings, with his Portuguese teammate clinching his first podium for ...Keep reading
This quarter’s update includes an exciting new vehicle – the Honda Civic Type R, the introduction of the superb, laser-scanned version of Long Beach, and a wealth of improvements to enhance the player experience.
Following the partnership between the British Touring Car Championship (BTCC), Motorsport Games and Studio 397, a seventh real world car into the NGTC specification BTCC content ...Keep reading
The team confirmed on Monday that Stroll had been injured in a cycling accident while training, and won’t be able to take part in the three-day test.
Formula 2 champion Drugovich has been thus called up and will get an unexpected opportunity to try the new AMR23.
Fernando Alonso will drive the car on Thursday afternoon, but the team says it has not yet firmed up its schedule for the ...Keep reading
For the upcoming campaign, Mercedes has gone back to using the colour scheme it ran during the 2020 and 2021 seasons, when the W11s and W12s were painted black at Hamilton’s behest to highlight motorsport’s diversity issues, as well as the problem of global racial inequality.
This time, however, while Mercedes is pleased its livery can again help to promote those important messages, the ...Keep reading
Team Rosberg carried Audi driver Rene Rast to each of his DTM championship victories between 2017 and 2020 and was a race-winner in last year's championship with Nico Muller in Portimao.
But like all DTM teams, it faced uncertainty last autumn when it became clear that series promoter ITR was in talks with the ADAC that ultimately resulted in a sale of the branding rights. It was only in ...Keep reading
“It has been such a horrible, horrible black place where I was last year. Don’t let anyone ever put you down, because only you know your true potential. The people close to me know it and finally we managed to get it back out again. I’m just so happy to be back fighting at the front again with this amazing team, amazing car.”
This emotional response from Craig Breen after returning to ...Keep reading
Yamaha will be the only manufacturer on the grid in 2023 to field just its two factory team bikes, after losing its satellite tie-up with RNF Racing – who has joined forces with Aprilia for the next two seasons.
The role of satellite teams has changed considerably in MotoGP in recent years, with them very much seen as simply more than mere customers – with Ducati taking the lead in this ...Keep reading
The team is operating under Alfa Romeo badging for one final season in 2023, and is set to revert to a Sauber chassis name for two years before Audi’s official arrival in the series.
Seidl says he wants Sauber to raise its level of competitiveness on track and at the same time become more attractive to drivers, staff members, sponsors and fans.
“Every area of the group is growing, and we ...Keep reading
Toyota will enter the third year of WEC’s Hypercar era with an updated version of the GR010 Hybrid that won the last two titles, but will have to do without tyre warmers as part of a change in regulations for 2023.
Both Porsche and Cadillac have extensive data about how cold Michelin tyres perform on outlaps when they debuted their respective 963 and V-LMDh cars at the Daytona 24 Hours last ...Keep reading
The Spaniard switched to Ferrari for 2021, as it struggled to eliminate its excessive aerodynamic drag given the freeze in the regulations and only two permitted development tokens.
Nevertheless, he finished fifth in the drivers’ championship to rank two places ahead of team-mate Charles Leclerc and with four podiums compared to the Monegasque’s one.
But Leclerc streaked ahead in 2022 ...Keep reading
The elder of the van der Linde brothers was absent from Audi’s customer racing announcement on Tuesday, where it named 14 drivers as part of its factory line-up for 2023.
He leaves Audi after nearly a decade under its umbrella, winning the GT Masters title in 2014 and 2019 and coming close to clinching the championship in the DTM at his first attempt in 2021. His other successes include two ...Keep reading
Bert Taylor is laughing and, all things considered, it’s lovely that he’s able to do that. At the end of 2020, he exited the British Touring Car Championship when he quit the BTC Racing squad he had founded, but sold to fellow ex-short-oval man Steve Dudman. It’s fair to say that the two did not split on good terms. In early 2021, Taylor became ill with COVID-19 and then suffered a ...Keep reading
The former Haas driver suffered a spectacular accident on the opening lap of the 2020 Bahrain GP when he made contact with the AlphaTauri of Daniil Kvyat and speared into the barrier on the exit of Turn 3.
His car split in half upon the violent impact and exploded into flames, with Grosjean miraculously escaping with only minor injuries despite sitting in the car for 28 seconds while it was on ...Keep reading
Indeed, the narrative surrounding the Silverstone-based squad these days is more about when it will start winning in F1, rather than if.
With its new star driver, the fruits of its recruitment drive paying off with its AMR23 design, a new factory almost finished, and the support of huge investment from Lawrence Stroll, all the right elements appear to be falling into place for that push towards ...Keep reading
Hamlin, who led the race for six laps, said on his podcast that he had a big opportunity to win until the final pitstop cycle, when he pitted from a top-five place with 23 laps to go with Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team-mate Martin Truex Jr.
The plan was for them to rejoin in tandem, but Truex needed much less gas to get the end and exited the pits too far ahead of Hamlin to draft ...Keep reading
A timely caution following a strategic pass for the lead on the final lap of the second overtime preserved Stenhouse’s win in the NASCAR blue ribband, the first for the two-time Xfinity champion since the summer Daytona race in 2017.
It was a much-needed win for Stenhouse and his team, as he ended a personal winless streak of 199 races while the team took its first win since 2014 ...Keep reading
At one stage last year Wolff suggested the 2022 car, which eventually won the Brazilian Grand Prix in the hands of George Russell, should be consigned to the “caves” under the Mercedes museum in Stuttgart.
But instead Wolff later thought about placing the car in the F1 team’s lobby as a reminder not to be complacent, but he now says the aim of putting it on show would be to encourage his ...Keep reading
The Miami Grand Prix is back! Formula 1 returns to the Sunshine State for only the second year in its history as F1 Miami tickets go on sale in the most sought-after grandstand spots!
May 2023 will see the world flock to Florida for this high-octane, all-American show of motorsport magnificence. Expect celeb sightings, F1 drama and sunny weather.
Book your F1 Miami tickets here!
Max ...Keep reading
Vowles left Mercedes, where he was highly regarded as its strategy director, to head up Williams after the departure of former team principal Jost Capito.
The move was endorsed by Mercedes chief Toto Wolff, who said he had "no doubts whatsoever" that Vowles "has all the necessary skills to become a fantastic team principal".
Williams driver Alex Albon said he was excited about Vowles' ...Keep reading
A title-winner as Audi’s factory team in 2017/18, Abt has struggled for performance and reliability on its comeback to Formula E as a Mahindra customer team, enduring a frustrating quartet of races across Mexico City, Diriyah and Hyderabad.
As the only team yet to score a point in FE’s Gen3 era, Abt sits at the very bottom of the team standings going into this week’s inaugural event in ...Keep reading
The team issued a brief statement on Monday afternoon announcing that the Canadian had been sidelined for the 23-25 February test as a result of a “minor accident” but that he likely faces a quick recovery.
Aston Martin says it will release a further update on Stroll’s condition ahead of the Bahrain Grand Prix, the opening round of the season scheduled for 3-5 March.
“Whilst ...Keep reading
As the reigning Formula Regional European champion, Ferrari Driver Academy prospect Dino Beganovic has a lot of pressure on his shoulders as he graduates this year to Formula 3. The Swedish youngster is riding high after claiming his first title in car racing last October, and is one of the series’ most exciting young prospects heading into this season.
Beganovic, who claimed four wins and ...Keep reading
Marquez is in the penultimate year of a four-season deal with Honda, which he signed at the start of 2020 prior to suffering the badly broken right arm that would derail his career.
The eight-time world champion – who won six MotoGP titles in seven years between 2013 and 2019 – has made it clear that his wish is to remain with Honda, but will look outside of the Japanese marque if it does ...Keep reading
With an F1 power unit freeze in place since the start of last year, manufacturers are not allowed to deliver any specific performance upgrades.
However, car makers can still introduce reliability fixes, some of which may also deliver consequential power gains.
There has even been talk over the winter that some manufacturers have found double-digit horsepower increases as the result of ...Keep reading
Following last year’s technical regulations overhaul, F1 undergoes minor changes to the new era of ground-effect cars launched last season.
The biggest tweak to last year has been the car floors raised by 15mm on safety grounds to combat the porpoising issue which dominated the 2022 season technical rules talking points.
Various other rules around the new regulations have been tightened ...Keep reading
Hyderabad was the first of a series of three all-new races for Formula E, with Cape Town to follow on 25 February before the world championship heads to Sao Paolo in Brazil on 25 March.
With international motorsport in India having endured a fallow period since the collapse of its F1 grand prix, few marshals had extensive motorsport experience before the race weekend.
PLUS: Why the ...Keep reading
Verstappen won the prestigious trophy last year following his intense title win over Lewis Hamilton and is one of the six nominees for 2022 after cruising to a second F1 title with Red Bull.
The Dutchman took 15 race wins in 2022, breaking the all-time record previously shared by Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel, as he wrapped up the championship with four races to spare.
But ...Keep reading
Launching a new team can be a daunting process. After all, it can take years for a fledgling operation to grow and for success to be achieved. But that was not the case for frontrunning Ginetta Junior squad R Racing. The Norfolk team went from a tiny single-car outfit to a slick five-car operation in less than a year. Two drivers’ titles, a pair of teams’ championships, two Winter Series ...Keep reading
McLaren and Aston Martin, who share engine partner Mercedes, have agreed to a deal where reigning Formula E champion Vandoorne and 2022 Formula 2 champion Drugovich will be made available to the Woking team in case it needs a replacement for regular drivers Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.
The deal covers the majority of the 2023 F1 season from the early March start in Bahrain until round 15 ...Keep reading
DKR drivers Charlie Eastwood, Ayhancan Guven and Salih Yoluc took victory in Sunday's second of two races held at the Yas Marina Circuit and claimed the title after profiting from problems for their rivals in the latter stages.
Eastwood had been running third with 15 minutes of the four hours remaining, but moved into the lead after Saturday race winners Malthe Jakobsen and Alexandre Coigny ...Keep reading
The Japanese company is one of six manufacturers that have registered their interest in producing engines for the new regulations that begin in 2026.
While continuing with current partners Red Bull and AlphaTauri is no longer possible because they have committed to a future with Ford, Honda is now evaluating options elsewhere.
It kept the door open on a 2026 entry by notifying the FIA last ...Keep reading
Making his return to Daytona for the first time since he contested the 2013 Xfinity series, the 11-time X-Games gold medalist and founder of the Nitro Circus started his week on a high note by locking himself into the race on qualifying speed.
That meant Pastrana could afford to spend the qualifying Duels races getting used to how his 23XI Racing Toyota car performed in the draft ...Keep reading
A grid of 42 cars marks a reduction of one car compared to last season, although there was only one race, May's Fuji 450km, in which all 43 cars initially entered for the 2022 campaign actually took part.
As has been the case in recent years, Toyota has the most cars entered in the GT500 class with six GR Supras split between five teams, while Honda fields five cars and Nissan ...Keep reading
Vasseur started work as Ferrari team principal in early January after the Scuderia parted ways with former team boss and long-time engine engineer Mattia Binotto at the end of its promising but ultimately disappointing 2022 campaign.
The move reunited Leclerc and Vasseur after the former made his F1 debut with Alfa in 2018, having also raced for Vasseur’s ART Grand Prix junior team in GP3 in ...Keep reading
As the race reached its crunch point, Daniel Suarez went off on lap 198 and ended up in the infield grass to bring out a caution and send the race into a first period of two-lap overtime.
Stenhouse grabbed the lead for the first time in the race with a shove from Kyle Larson in the first overtime, but a clash involving Austin Dillon and William Byron sent the race into a second two-lap ...Keep reading
De Vries has been snapped up by AlphaTauri for 2023 in the wake of an impressive F1 debut at last year's Italian Grand Prix, where he scored points after standing in for the unwell Alex Albon at Williams.
And Shovlin, speaking in a new book about the careers of Dutch drivers Max Verstappen and de Vries, does not hold back in stating just how good a driver he thinks the youngster ...Keep reading
The Spaniard retired from MotoGP at the end of the 2019 season, following a campaign truncated by injury, but he continued to be open to motorsport opportunities in the four-wheeled world.
Last year, Lorenzo enjoyed a season in the Porsche Carrera Cup Italy, ending the year 14th in the drivers’ standings, while he also made a guest start in the Porsche Supercup at Imola and ...Keep reading
Vergne led the new DS Penske partnership to a breakthrough win in the inaugural Hyderabad E-Prix in India last weekend, defeating the superior Jaguar-powered Envision car of Nick Cassidy in a tense finish to the race.
It followed a challenging start to the Gen3 era for French manufacturer DS, which has joined forces with Jay Penske’s squad after terminating its ...Keep reading
Launched officially on Thursday, the car is very different to the A522, with new rear suspension among the changes, many of which are intended to help with a weight-saving programme that has put the car under the minimum limit.
The power unit department in Viry also focused on reliability over the winter after a series of frustrating issues in 2022.
“It's a good evolution compared to last ...Keep reading
Motorsport is a notoriously difficult and expensive industry to break into, especially for aspiring drivers who require vast amounts of money to compete the further up the ladder they climb. Even becoming an engineer or a mechanic can prove a tricky path to follow, with a limited number of opportunities, and those chances are further limited by socio-economic factors. But Burnley College is aiming ...Keep reading
This is why every season there is some toing and froing between the competitors and the FIA in this endless battle for performance.
The 2023 season has already shown two clear examples of ways teams have aggressively pursued ideas that some of their rivals may have presumed were banned.
Mercedes and Ferrari both revealed some intriguing aspects to their front wings on their launch ...Keep reading
Villeneuve was announced last month as one of the three drivers for the ByKolles-run Vanwall outfit’s return to the WEC with the new Vandervell 680 Le Mans Hypercar, alongside Tom Dillmann and Esteban Guerrieri.
It marks the latest chapter in a nomadic post-F1 career for the 51-year-old Canadian driver, who made his last grand prix start in 2006 and was a part of Peugeot attack on the Le Mans ...Keep reading
The Australian governing body held its 2022 awards in Melbourne on Saturday night, the first time the event has been held since 2020 after two years of cancellations due to the pandemic.
Motorsport Network was a prominent winner on the night, Australian editor Andrew van Leeuwen taking home two awards.
He was recognised as Journalist of the Year, while also picking up the Story of the Year ...Keep reading
Drivers and teams are charged a fee to participate in the world championship based on their results from the previous year, with a flat fee adding to a set amount per point scored.
Due to the ever-increasing number of events and the introduction of sprint races there are more points on offer than ever before.
With 23 races and six sprints, there will be 443 more points available in 2023 than ...Keep reading
After a disappointing start to launch season for fans, as teams mostly elected to steer clear of showing off their proper cars, it was not until earlier this week that some real machinery was put on display.
Aston Martin was among the first to pull the covers off a genuine 2023 challenger on Monday, with an unveiling of its AMR23 in front of guests, fans and media at its new ...Keep reading
The 21-year-old Frenchman will graduate to F2 in 2023 having clinched the F3 title in a dramatic season finale at Monza, winning the championship amid a red-flagged feature race that wasn't restarted.
Insight: How a red-flagged race determined F3 champion Martins' destiny
The Alpine Academy member partners 2022 runner-up Theo Pourchaire at ART, who finished third in the teams’ ...Keep reading
Last summer, Piastri was at the centre of a tug-of-love between McLaren and Alpine, for whom he served as reserve driver and was previously a member of its junior programme.
After Fernando Alonso’s move to Aston Martin was announced, Piastri was initially named by Alpine as his replacement, but he quickly denied that was the case via social media as he had already signed a deal with ...Keep reading
NASCAR took a big step in 2012, moving from engines with carburetion to electronic fuel injection, which followed a change in 2011 to the use of Sunoco Green E15 fuel, blended with 15% bioethanol.
While NASCAR and its OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) all appear to agree on a next step to a form of hybrid technology or electrification, how that will begin and on what timetable seems much ...Keep reading
Reigning riders’ and constructors’ champions Ducati have become the reference in MotoGP in terms of bike design, with the Desmosedici’s stopping power and its engine grunt something rival marques have been trying to copy.
Espargaro was sixth fastest overall in last weekend’s Sepang pre-season test, which was topped by Ducati riders across all three days, and believes Ducati is still ...Keep reading
Laura Wontrop Klauser, sportscar programme manager at Cadillac parent company General Motors, conceded that the absence of European test miles for the Chip Ganassi Racing squad that will field a single V-LMDh in the WEC “could be called a handicap”.
But Klauser stressed that she doesn’t believe “it is something that is going to completely put us out of the running”.
“It’s just ...Keep reading
Black is back, and in a big way. The coming Formula 1 season is hardly shaping up to be a vintage year for eye-catching liveries. As the name of the MCL60 alludes, McLaren is celebrating its diamond anniversary this year. But its latest creation doesn’t pay tribute to an illustrious history by wearing a predominantly papaya paintjob. There’s just as much exposed carbon fibre weave as there is ...Keep reading
The 27-year-old, a two-time GT300 class champion for Kondo Racing alongside Joao Paulo de Oliveira, posted a brief statement on his Twitter account hours after NISMO announced that his seat would be taken by Teppei Natori this year.
While details of the incident remain unclear, multiple sources have indicated that it relates to Fujinami punching one of the drivers belonging to his KF Motorsport ...Keep reading
The Mythical Cars Rally is brand new event held in Varzi, northern Italy from 24-27 May that will be open to Group A machinery from 1994 through to the World Rally Car era that ended in 2021.
Organisers Automobile Club Pavia plan for a seven stage rally on the asphalt roads around the town, comprising 80 competitive kilometres.
It is hoped a selection of iconic machines from the Group A and ...Keep reading
Hollywood star Pitt visited last October’s United States Grand Prix alongside producer Jerry Bruckheimer, director Joe Kosinski and screenwriter Ehren Kruger to discuss the project with teams and F1 officials.
Seven-time F1 world champion Hamilton is serving as a producer and advisor on the project through his production company, Dawn Apollo Films.
The movie is set to star Pitt in ...Keep reading
The Garage 56 project, which is anticipated to be approved for entry by l'Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) in the coming weeks, is a partnership between NASCAR, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet and Goodyear.
The systems and components of the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 are largely unchanged from the Next Gen racecar that competes in the NASCAR Cup Series. Among the changes made to prepare the car for ...Keep reading
It is the latest development of a saga that began in late 2022 when an updated version of the FIA's International Sporting Code included a new Article 12.2.1.n.
This states that drivers will be in breach of the rules if they show "the general making and display of political, religious and personal statements or comments notably in violation of the general principle of neutrality promoted by the ...Keep reading
Several noteworthy changes will take effect in the second year of the NASCAR Cup's Next Gen era.
A series-first street course, wet tyres on short ovals, a returning seven-time champion, a retirement tour for a Daytona 500 winner and former champ, as well as big driver moves and the arrival of two red-hot rookies should provide all the ingredients for fireworks.
Here’s how NASCAR is ...Keep reading
Alpine's launch event in London on Thursday night means we've now seen at least the livery of all 10 F1 challengers on the 2023 grid.
How much each team revealed varied from Red Bull simply repainting a 2022 car and the usual low-key Haas livery rendering, to the Ferrari with its innovative front wing and suspension set-up.
And while several cars have now been pictured out on track, there ...Keep reading
In a document distributed to the teams on Friday, titled, ‘Guidance on the Principle of Neutrality (Article 12.2.1.n of the ISC)’ the governing body has explained how an update to its long-standing International Sporting Code published late in 2022 will work in practice regarding drivers making personal statements on various issues and topics.
In the document, a copy of which has been seen ...Keep reading
Company founder Jim Glickenhaus has long been vocal about the fact that his eponymous firm has not been able to enter its cars in IMSA and the blue riband Daytona 24 Hours, owing to the North American series’ strict criteria on what constitutes a manufacturer.
IMSA regulations require any participating manufacturer to produce 2,500 cars a year.
In an online press call organised by the ...Keep reading
The WRC has today confirmed that the Baltic nation’s Tet Rally Liepaja event, which has featured in the European Rally Championship, will be promoted to WRC status from next year.
Tet Rally Latvia takes place on gravel roads and has a reputation for being one of the most challenging rallies in Europe.
The rally will cover a widespread area of Latvia, stretching from the cities of Riga and ...Keep reading
To close up a grey area in the regulations, MotoGP rule makers have mandated strict enforcement of minimum tyre pressures on the front and rear compounds for 2023.
Revelations that many riders had been operating outside of the front limit last year prompted the rule change, though most argued when quizzed on it that they did so on safety grounds.
For 2023, riders and teams must adhere to a ...Keep reading
Teams have long used ballast to optimise weight distribution from track to track, although in recent years with the hybrid cars it has proved harder for them to get below the minimum limit in order to take advantage of it.
Last year, most teams were significantly overweight and all have stressed that they have worked hard to lose weight from their cars over the winter.
However, Alpine is the ...Keep reading
“I'm very demanding in everything that I do,” he said at the launch of Aston Martin’s new car, the AMR23, earlier this week. “I give my 100%, and expect the same of the people that I work with.”
It’s an obsession for the best that has fuelled frustration in the past and even caused relationships within teams to snap. Alonso was open last year in his belief he was performing at his ...Keep reading
Jonathan Diuguid, boss of the Porsche Penske Motorsport squad, said there is “definitely confidence” that it can go into the double-header Sebring weekend when it will race a pair of 963s in both the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championship with a reliable car.
He explained that Porsche and Penske has been working with the suppliers of each of the components of the ...Keep reading
But despite not holding back in bringing as many developments as it could, the French team has found room to make some pretty big changes for this season’s A523.
The 2023 challenger features a revised nose and front wing package, with Alpine deciding to dabble with an idea that rivals have abandoned.
PLUS: Can the A523 break Alpine out of the midfield?
The raised nose tip arrangement ...Keep reading
Norris told Autosport that former team-mate Daniel Ricciardo enjoyed a much smoother acclimatisation to the new breed of ground-effects machinery in the early part of 2022.
The Briton added that he was forced to significantly change his driving style to adapt to last year’s MCL36 but brake cooling issues in Bahrain testing had severely limited his mileage.
He therefore reckoned it took a ...Keep reading
As previously reported, the WRC Promoter revealed plans in May last year to revamp its visual platform, known as Rally.TV, in a bid to grow the discipline in new markets.
"We want to reach new markets, we want to enter new markets and implement in new countries so this is our plan to develop the TV so we are very, very confident," said WRC Promoter managing director Jona Siebel at Rally ...Keep reading
Auer was involved in a violent crash in the opening practice for January’s Daytona 24 Hours, the 28-year-old smashing head-on into a concrete wall at Turn 1 in his #53 Winward Mercedes-AMG GT3 car.
He had to be transported to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach where the full extent of his injuries were revealed, and he was subsequently operated upon in the same facility.
The original ...Keep reading
David Brabham agonises for a while before picking the Mount Panorama Circuit at Bathurst as his favourite track, when we pin him down backstage at the Autosport International show.
The 1997 Bathurst 1000 winner has raced on more circuits than most would care to name across a glittering career that took him to all corners of the globe. From his native Australia to the United Kingdom, Japan and ...Keep reading
The German, who was dropped by Haas at the end of last year, has signed as Mercedes' official reserve driver this year.
He believes the opportunity of working alongside Lewis Hamilton and George Russell will be a great help for his own personal development as he targets an eventual racing comeback.
While there were no opportunities for him to keep racing in 2023, he suggests the door is ...Keep reading
Daly, a late entry from boxer Floyd Mayweather's The Money Team to drive its No. 50 Chevrolet, has little NASCAR experience having only started four races across its three divisions since 2018.
The 31-year-old had to race his way into the 40-car field in the second of two 150-mile qualifying races at Daytona International Speedway, but his odds of making the cut appeared slim.
Daly was ...Keep reading
The German driver will drive for PHM Racing by Charouz this season and is part of the French team’s Rac(H)er programme, which hopes to boost diversity within Alpine.
It will also provide resources and training with the aim to fielding a female driver in Formula 1 in the future.
She is the third Alpine Academy member on the 2023 grid, alongside Hitech Pulse-Eight's Gabriele Minì and ART ...Keep reading
Contesting the opening duel, Logano grabbed control of the race following his green-flag pit stop on Lap 31 of 60 and held off a last-lap charge by Christopher Bell to claim the win by 0.018 seconds.
At the start of the final lap, Bell and his #20 Toyota was able to pull out of line without any tow assistance and nearly powered past Logano under his own steam before settling for second.
At ...Keep reading
Throughout 2022, Ocon placed a renewed focus on his physical efforts and training regime in a bid to find more performance in the car, aiding his push to statistically his most successful season in F1 to date.
Although Ocon failed to score a podium finish, he recorded his highest points total for a single season to date en route to eighth place in the drivers’ championship for ...Keep reading
Alpine will continue racing with a French racing blue and BWT pink livery on the A523, although it too follows the recent trend of leaving parts of its car in unpainted carbon fibre to save weight.
As in 2022, the team also presented a second, predominantly pink livery which will be used in the opening three races in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Australia.
Drivers Esteban Ocon and newcomer ...Keep reading
The Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet driver claimed pole for Sunday’s 500 with an average lap speed of 181.686 mph, easily holding off his team-mate Kyle Larson for the top spot.
With the pole in hand, Bowman will now start on front row of the season-opener for a NASCAR-record sixth consecutive time in a chain unbroken since he joined Hendrick's Cup lineup in 2018.
Of his four ...Keep reading
The new owners of two-time Le Mans 24 Hours runner-up Pescarolo Sport, the team established in 2000 by four-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Henri Pescarolo, have concluded a deal to join forces with Peugeot for next year’s WEC.
Either one or two 9X8 Le Mans Hypercars will be run from the factory under the banner of Pescarolo Sport, the rights to which were acquired by current owner Jocelyn ...Keep reading
In the picturesque snow and ice covered event, Tanak delivered M-Sport’s first WRC win for over a year to jump to the top of the drivers’ standings after the opening two rounds.
Defending world champion Kalle Rovanpera was held back by being the first on the road to start, losing vital time to his rivals, and could only muster fourth place as he lost out in a podium fight to Thierry ...Keep reading
The Dutch driver, who joins Van Amersfoort Racing this season, set the quickest time of the three-day test at Bahrain International Circuit during Wednesday afternoon’s running.
He topped the timesheet from reigning Formula 3 champion Victor Martins of ART, whose second fastest time in the same session was just 0.008s slower.
2022 F2 runner-up Theo Pourchaire (ART) was third quickest ...Keep reading
Its well-managed art of keeping a check on expectations means it has typically never been too bullish about its prospects, even when it has had by far the best car on the grid.
But the tone surrounding the launch of its new W14 seemed a departure from the past, as there was a greater sense of caution that seemed to solidify rumours its performance may not be as good as some of its fans may have ...Keep reading
After three operations allowed him to return to action for the 2021 campaign, it became clear that his arm still wasn't right and he was being severely limited on the bike.
Something that prompted thoughts of retirement - as an emotional Marquez lays bare in Amazon's docuseries Marc Marquez: All In, which release on 20 February - he underwent a fourth operation last summer to have his right ...Keep reading
Le Mans organiser the Automobile Club de l'Ouest set up a working group in 2017 to establish a zero emissions class at the famous endurance race, and had targeted a launch in 2024 after revealing plans for Red Bull Advanced Technologies and ORECA to design a concept chassis.
GreenGT, which has partnered with the ACO to develop a hydrogen-powered LMP3 racer, that has managed times comparable ...Keep reading
When it comes to Daytona 500 finishes, Kevin Harvick’s 2007 duel to the stripe with Mark Martin is undoubtedly one of the best ever. Harvick won by 0.02s, the second-closest finish in the Great American Race’s history. Behind them, a huge wreck kicked off, leading to Clint Bowyer somersaulting across the finish line in flames. Thankfully, he clambered out unhurt.
This weekend, Harvick will ...Keep reading
The 11-time X-Games gold medalist and founder of the Nitro Circus is driving a third entry for 23XI Racing, which is co-owned by Cup driver Denny Hamlin and NBA legend Michael Jordan.
While it may appear on the surface an athlete who lives on the edge of danger on a regular basis should be immune to fear, Pastrana said that’s not necessarily true and especially when it comes to making his ...Keep reading
The 2004 IRL IndyCar champion and 2013 Indy 500 winner revealed on Wednesday that he would call time on his Indy career for good after contesting oval-only schedules since 2020.
He had planned to step away at the end of 2020, only for the pandemic to wreck his planned farewell tour.
The 48-year-old Brazilian will bow out after contesting his 390th and final IndyCar race in May's ...Keep reading
The Briton, always known affectionately as ‘Pricey’ in the paddock, ran Mansell and Brundle in the British Formula 3 Championship in 1977 and 1982 respectively, a series his David Price Racing squad would win in 1984 with Johnny Dumfries.
Bell raced for DPR at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1995 and 1996 aboard a McLaren F1 GTR and it was in sportscar racing that Price enjoyed some of his greatest ...Keep reading
The famous rough gravel rally has penned a two-year contract extension with the WRC following the event's successful return to the top tier of rallying in 2021 after an eight-year hiatus.
The Acropolis Rally has earned itself the reputation as one of the toughest rallies in the world, and is a founding member of the WRC’s inaugural season in 1973.
Last year the rally welcomed the return of ...Keep reading
Mercedes made a bold statement about its quest for improvement by revealing its black and raw carbon fibre skin on the new W14 Formula 1 car on Wednesday.
While that move triggered a lot of interest, there were actually a lot of other detailed areas of the car that deserve as much attention.
PLUS: Can the W14 take Mercedes back to the top?
The W14 itself hasn't been completely overhauled ...Keep reading
The ART Grand Prix driver, who returns for his second year in the series, topped three of the five sessions at the Sakhir International Circuit, finishing second and third where he wasn’t quickest.
His fastest time came during the morning session on day two, with a 1m46.642s the quickest time overall as the only driver to dip below 1m47s.
Saucy finished 15th in F3 last year, scoring 30 ...Keep reading
Ferrari and its customer teams Alfa Romeo and Haas suffered regular problems over the course of last year.
Under the current engine freeze, manufacturers are only allowed to work on reliability updates, although it's been rumoured that Ferrari has also found extra performance.
Such a gain would be perfectly legal if better reliability meant that the engine could be run consistently at higher ...Keep reading
As first reported by Autosport, the two-time British Touring Car Championship race winner will join Ash Seward Motorsport for the 2023 TCR Australia season.
The deal marks a return to the cockpit for the 32-year-old after he walked away from the BTCC to relocate to Australia last year.
Oliphant will make his TCR Australia debut at Symmons Plains on February 24-26 driving the Autoglym-backed ...Keep reading
McLaren, Ferrari and Williams are three of the biggest Formula 1 names, and all had milestone moments in their 2023 campaigns as this week began. McLaren and Ferrari both launched their new machines, while the Williams FW45 hit the track for the first time.
We take a look at all of them in this week’s issue, with technical editor Jake Boxall-Legge investigating the latest trends as the second ...Keep reading
Standalone contests are planned at two special US-themed events – the American SpeedFest at Brands Hatch in June and the second running of the US AutoShow fixture at Oulton Park in August – while Corvettes are also set to have a strong presence on the Thundersports grid at the rebranded Silverstone Festival at the end of August.
The races will be open to the initial C1, C2 and C3 Corvette ...Keep reading
HMS driver Alex Bowman, who announced a three-year contract extension earlier on Wednesday, posted the fastest lap of qualifying in the final round, a 181.686mph, to claim the pole for Sunday’s Daytona 500.Joining him on the front row is Larson, who just missed out after posting a 181.057 mph lap.
Bowman has now started on the front row of the season-opener for a NASCAR record sixth ...Keep reading
The FIA announced earlier this month that it was appealing for expressions of interest from potential new F1 teams, with a view to expanding the grid to 11 or 12 teams as early as 2025.
Andretti Global is currently the most vocal party looking to join the F1 grid in the future, securing a partnership with US automotive giant General Motors for its entry proposal.
PLUS: The hockey ...Keep reading
Rutter, a seven-time winner at the TT, brought the RCV to the TT in 2019 and enjoyed top 10 success on the Isle of Man and at the North West 200, as well as winning a curtailed Macau Grand Prix on the bike.
The RC213V-S is the road-going version of Honda’s RC213V MotoGP bike, which Rutter will run with Bathams Racing in 2023 having run BMW machinery in the Superbike category last ...Keep reading
Reddick, who won his first Cup Series races with Richard Childress Racing in 2022, made the move to 23XI in the off-season, replacing Kurt Busch.
When asked what it felt like to drive for six-time NBA champion Jordan, who co-founded the team with Hamlin ahead of the 2021 Cup season, Reddick said: "It’s a huge responsibility.
"That guy has done nothing but win, on and off the race track ...Keep reading
Cassidy, fresh off a runner-up finish for Envision Racing in last weekend’s Formula E round in Hyderabad, tested the Honda-powered Ganassi car of 2021 IndyCar champion Alex Palou at Sebring on Tuesday.
Driving the sole Honda-powered car in action in the eight-car test, the 28-year-old New Zealander turned 156 laps of the 1.7-mile short course, and finished the day 0.636s off top spot but ...Keep reading
The new rule, added to the International Sporting Code for this season, requires drivers to have any such statements approved by the FIA in advance.
Several drivers have expressed their dissatisfaction with the move, although F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has insisted that it may not be as draconian as some fear, and hopes that the FIA will issue a clarification.
“I'm not too sure why the FIA ...Keep reading
That’s because the team’s rebuilding plan, formulated mainly by Stella’s predecessor Andreas Seidl and technical director James Key, is focused on infrastructure upgrades, and in particular the new windtunnel.
McLaren has for many years rented time in the Toyota facility in Cologne, with all the obvious logistical issues inherent in having staff travelling back and forward and spread ...Keep reading
Green worked alongside Gary Anderson as one of the designers of the original Jordan 191 in 1991, before leaving to join the then new BAR outfit in 1998.
He subsequently had a spell at Red Bull before returning to the Silverstone team, by then known as Force India, in 2010.
He served as technical director for Force India, Racing Point and Aston Martin prior to taking on the role of chief ...Keep reading
Pourchaire finished as runner-up in the 2022 title fight to Felipe Drugovich, despite having been the pre-season favourite.
Despite suggesting he would not come back for a third year in the series, Pourchaire returns to F2 this season, with reigning FIA Formula 3 champion Victor Martins joining as his team-mate in place of Frederik Vesti.
PLUS: The next steps for France's latest F1 ...Keep reading
Less than a month after declaring that he didn’t expect to make a decision over his future until he finished the Indy 500 in May, the 48-year-old Brazilian has declared that his 390th Indy car start will be his last.
The 2004 Indy car champion and 2013 Indy 500 winner retires with 17 wins at the top of US open-wheel racing, having been held in great affection by fans worldwide.
Kanaan won ...Keep reading
Among several initiatives the WRC promoter is deploying in order to increase the reach of the series, the cognoscenti can be forgiven for sometimes overlooking a key element – video games.
Yes, the new look Rally.TV service and a calendar that reaches more of the globe are vital. As is the revised YouTube content strategy enacted for this season.
But, video games are ...Keep reading
The FIA updated its International Sporting Code in December to prohibit drivers from making personal, political or religious statements at races without prior consent from F1’s governing body.
Although the FIA said the move was merely formalising a process that is already in place, a number of drivers have raised concerns about their ability to highlight important issues.
Hamilton has been ...Keep reading
The Scot will line up alongside Cook at the Brackley squad, formerly known as BTC Racing, in Honda Civic Type R machinery.
Cook and Moffat will form a two-car attack under the banner of Starline Racing by One Motorsport, in deference to new title backing from Starline, a division of aftermarket giant LKQ Euro Car Parts.
Moffat, 26, has raced since 2019 with his own family team under the name ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer launched its new W14 at Silverstone on Wednesday, with the car featuring a more aggressive version of the ‘zero-pod’ concept that it ran with last season.
But with Mercedes now alone in its sidepod design, as most rivals have copied Red Bull’s idea, it has emerged that it too is also readying a different solution.
Speaking at the launch, Wolff said that, while ...Keep reading
Seven-time F1 world champion Hamilton is entering the final year of his current Mercedes contract in 2023, having signed a two-year deal during the 2021 season.
Mercedes F1 chief Wolff said last month that both the team and Hamilton remained aligned on their goals, and that he anticipated it would take “a few hours” to get a new agreement in place.
Asked by Autosport on Wednesday ...Keep reading
The Italian made his MotoGP debut in 2008 with Honda for the Scott Racing satellite squad before getting a call up to the factory squad the following season, scoring his first win at the British Grand Prix.
PLUS: Why Marquez’s toughest MotoGP foe is stopping at the right time
Dovizioso moved to Yamaha with Tech3 for 2012 before stepping to Ducati for 2013, with whom he rode until the ...Keep reading
In the biggest shake-up to the grand prix format for decades, MotoGP will introduce half-distance sprint races on the Saturday of every round in 2023.
The sprint is an independent race and will not count as a qualifying for the main grand prix, which will continue to take place on Sundays.
The introduction of the new format came as a surprise to the riders when it was announced last year as ...Keep reading
O’Ward lapped the 1.7-mile Sebring short course in 51.882s, around a quarter second faster than his new team-mate Alexander Rossi and his longer-standing team-mate Felix Rosenqvist who was a tenth further back.
All three were able to outpace Felipe Nasr, Porsche Penske Motorsport’s sportscar ace, who nonetheless did a fine job in the #2 Team Penske normally driven by Josef ...Keep reading
The eight-time constructors' champions unveiled its striking looking 2023 F1 challenger at Silverstone on Wednesday morning.
While much of the focus was on the new black colour scheme, with the team stripping back to raw carbon fibre to save weight, there are some other big steps on the car.
The W14 features revised front and rear suspension, as well as notable changes to the shape of the ...Keep reading
The German car manufacturer revealed its new W14 at Silverstone on Wednesday morning, with the team electing this season to abandon its famous silver colours once again.
But a close examination of the car showed that, unlike in 2020 and 2021 when the squad painted its cars black as a show of support for diversity, this time the situation is very different.
Rather than the car being painted ...Keep reading
In a digital launch broadcast online on Wednesday, Mercedes revealed the updated W14 car alongside drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, team principal Toto Wolff and new reserve driver Mick Schumacher.
The new car features a striking black livery, used by Mercedes through 2020 and 2021 as part of its anti-racism messaging. The team returned to its traditional silver last year but has now ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver battled with his GR Yaris across the snow rally resulting in the Welshman finishing a distant fifth, 1m24.0s behind winner M-Sport’s Ott Tanak.
The lack of pace came as a surprise given Evans had challenged for the victory in Sweden, 12 months ago.
Heading into the second round of the championship, Evans had shown strong pace behind the wheel of the ...Keep reading
But while it may stick to the core philosophy of the F1-75, there are some fascinating areas of development that the Scuderia has focused on.
Starting with the sidepods, this has been a focus of all the car launches so far this season, with most of the field gravitating towards a variation of the Red Bull design that proved to be successful last season.
Ferrari has, as you'd expect ...Keep reading
The 21-year-old Scot therefore joins reigning champion Tom Ingram, plus veteran Tom Chilton and fellow newcomer Nick Halstead, at the Surrey operation.
Pearson finished fourth in the BTCC-supporting Mini series last year, and was the leading driver from the large Excelr8 line-up in that arena.
He had intended to stay in the Mini ranks for 2023 and continue as a member of Excelr8’s BTCC ...Keep reading
McLaren, like many of its rivals, switched its sidepod concept during 2022, moving away from the narrow rear body design that it employed at the start the season to something more representative of the downwash ramp solution seen on the Red Bull and AlphaTauri.
As the season progressed, it made further changes to the inlet region too, with the update introduced at the Singapore Grand Prix once ...Keep reading
The Italian team took the covers off its SF-23 challenger at its Fiorano track on Tuesday as part of a launch occasion that was open to invited media and a grandstand full of Ferrari fans.
After a short series of interviews with Sainz, his teammate Charles Leclerc and new team principal Frederic Vasseur, Ferrari completed the SF-23’s initial laps – with Leclerc driving for two tours ...Keep reading
Former Formula 1 driver Pic bought the team in February 2022 from co-team principals Olivier and Gregory Driot who had been in charge since the passing of their father and team founder Jean-Paul Driot in 2019.
DAMS finished sixth in the teams’ standings last season, with Red Bull junior Iwasa taking fifth in the drivers’ championship after feature race wins at Paul Ricard and Abu ...Keep reading
Ferrari's new car was revealed on Tuesday in a public season launch event at its Fiorano track that included the car's first installation laps, which took place with Leclerc at the wheel before he handed over to team-mate Carlos Sainz.
Although each driver could only complete a handful of laps on demonstration Pirelli tyres – two for Leclerc and three for Sainz – they were able to provide ...Keep reading
Despite a tricky pre-season and tough start to the 2022 season, the Ducati ended the campaign as by far the best bike on the grid.
After the first three days of testing of 2023 in Malaysia last weekend, the Italian marque appears to have taken a step forward with the GP23, with Bagnaia second overall on the combined timesheets behind VR46’s Luca Marini on a 2022-spec Ducati.
Bagnaia says ...Keep reading
Top Performer - Ott Tanak and Martin Jarveoja
No matter what the discipline, the best drivers are those who can conjure a victory while driving cars that are not the fastest. Ott Tanak is most definitely one of those drivers, as he again proved with his run to victory in Sweden.
The M-Sport Ford Puma wasn’t the quickest on the Swedish snow but Tanak was able to coax enough from it to ...Keep reading
While the revised front wing design has inevitably attracted a lot of attention, Ferrari says that the suspension has been changed for both aerodynamic benefits and to provide a greater range of setting adjustments on race weekends.
The SF-23 made its debut at Fiorano on Tuesday when Charles Leclerc gave it its first shakedown laps.
"The 2023 car is an evolution of the one we raced last ...Keep reading
Breen impressed throughout on his first start of a partial campaign for Hyundai this year after leaving a full-time seat at M-Sport over the off-season.
The Irishman, boosted by a favourable road position, found himself with an opportunity to claim a maiden WRC win after scoring four stage wins that resulted in a rally lead that lasted until Saturday night.
Breen was locked in a tense ...Keep reading
The new SF-23 was fitted with an identical series of cleverly-shaped front wing slot gap separators that rival Mercedes had been forced to remove last year when doubts emerged about their legality.
PLUS: Can Ferrari's new car topple Red Bull's modern F1 dominance?
Mercedes had arrived at the United States Grand Prix with a new update package that included a revised front wing.
The ...Keep reading
After looking like it would seriously challenge Red Bull and Max Verstappen for the championship in the early part of last year, Ferrari’s season unravelled due to a mixture of poor reliability and some strategy miscues.
Some of the strategy calls – notably at Silverstone, where Ferrari kept Charles Leclerc out on used tyres for the safety car restart, and in Hungary, where Leclerc was ...Keep reading
Just moments after Ferrari's new F1 challenger was revealed at Maranello, Leclerc took to the circuit to complete two laps.
Running live on camera, Leclerc had little trouble getting up to speed as he briefly explored the potential of the new car, and he sounded upbeat afterwards.
"It feels good," said Leclerc. "I mean the first kilometres with this new project after doing so many kilometres ...Keep reading
In an event at Maranello on Tuesday, the Italian squad was joined by new team principal Fred Vasseur as well as its drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz for the unveiling.
The SF-23 builds on the progress the team made with last year's F1-75, which won four races and secured 12 pole positions.
But, after failing to capitalise on early season promise as rival Red Bull roared to both ...Keep reading
The new car is the first to be produced under the tenure of new team principal Frederic Vasseur, the former Alfa Romeo boss replacing the outgoing Mattia Binotto after Ferrari's mixed 2022 campaign.
Leclerc finished runner-up to Red Bull's Max Verstappen in the first season of F1's new ground effect regulations, winning two of the opening three rounds before the Dutchman found ...Keep reading
The Abt Sportsline team won five titles in the DTM with Audi between 2002 and 2009, and has been a mainstay of the series following its transition from silhouette touring cars to GT3 machines.
It ran Audi factory drivers Kelvin van der Linde and Rene Rast to third in 2021 and 2022 respectively, with both keeping their title hopes alive to the final race.
Despite uncertainty over the future ...Keep reading
The Briton, who finished fourth in W Series last year, will join the new all-female championship for the 2023 season.
She managed a best finish of second on two occasions, at Circuit of the Americas in 2021 and at Barcelona last year.
Pulling has also become a fully-fledged member of the Alpine Academy, having previously been an affiliate to the team.
The 19-year-old is the sixth ...Keep reading
The team failed to capitalise on the major 2022 ground-effects regulation changes after constructing an overweight MCL36 that struggled with early brake cooling issues and then lost out in the development battle with rival squad Alpine to slip to fourth in the standings.
With team principal Andreas Seidl since moving to Sauber - which is in the process of being taken over by Audi - and Red Bull ...Keep reading
The former Formula 1 ace lapped the 1.7-mile short-course in 52.059s, a mere 0.03s faster than Kirkwood, the 2021 Indy Lights champion who arrives at Michael Andretti’s squad after spending his rookie season with AJ Foyt Racing.
Callum Ilott was the fastest Chevrolet runner in third, as per the second day of testing at Thermal Club two weeks ago, lapping the course in 52.137s, in his Juncos ...Keep reading
Nine-time grand prix winner Webber is part of his younger countryman’s management team, along with his wife Ann Neal. Together the couple helped to steer Piastri through the difficult period last year after he left the Alpine team in controversial circumstances, when the French squad and McLaren battled for his services in 2023.
The Contract Recognition Board subsequently confirmed that he ...Keep reading
Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso has joined Aston Martin for 2023 in one of the biggest off-season driver moves, leaving Alpine after two years.
On Monday, Aston Martin launched its updated car, the AMR23, that Alonso hopes can help put him back into contention at the front of the field alongside new team-mate Lance Stroll.
While Alonso felt it was “a possibility” he can fight ...Keep reading
After a challenging start to the 2022 campaign, where the Silverstone-based squad had to change concept early on, it believes it has made a good step over the winter.
Technical director Dan Fallows said the new AMR23 was 95% different from its predecessor, with the outfit having adopted some key changes heading in to 2023.
This includes a heavily revised front wing, new sidepods that ...Keep reading
The Enstone outfit has opted not to reveal proper images of the car until then, although some spy shots circulated on social media not long after it took to the track.
Esteban Ocon was the first to drive the new car, completing nine laps, before new signing Pierre Gasly took over and ran a further eight laps and the team reached the 100km limit allowed by the rules.
Alpine followed Alfa ...Keep reading
The governing body has controversially updated its International Sporting Code ahead of the 2023 season to require drivers to seek FIA permission to make personal statements.
A new clause says a breach of the rules now extends to “the general making and display of political, religious and personal statements or comments notably in violation of the general principle of neutrality promoted by ...Keep reading
The Woking-based team unveiled its new MCL60 at its factory on Monday evening. The car features some bold aerodynamic steps compared to its 2022 challenger, including a much more aggressive sidepod solution.
Although McLaren hopes to be able to use the 2023 campaign to close in on the top three outfits, new team boss Andrea Stella has urged caution about expecting too much in the early ...Keep reading
In a launch event at its Woking factory, the team also presented new driver Oscar Piastri alongside established McLaren star Lando Norris, and Andrea Stella, who takes over as team principal following Andreas Seidl’s departure to the Sauber-run Alfa Romeo squad at the end of 2022.
The MCL60 shown on Monday appears to be very much an evolution in terms of the aerodynamic concept begun with the ...Keep reading
After finishing a strong second in the inaugural Hyderabad E-Prix last Saturday, Cassidy has flown straight to Florida to take part in a group test for Ganassi, driving one of its four Honda-powered Dallara IR18s at Sebring.
Cassidy’s contract with Envision is up for renewal at the end of the 2023 Formula E season, giving him the option to pursue other opportunities outside of the ...Keep reading
Last year's Sweden winner Rovanpera expected a tough fight opening the snow-covered roads as the best-placed of the full-time WRC drivers from the previous round in Monte Carlo.
Rovanpera was able to show flashes of speed to score six stage wins, more than another driver, but could only finish fourth after losing a fight with Hyundai's Thierry Neuville. The 22-year-old ultimately finished 25.1s ...Keep reading
Almost three months since the entire MotoGP grid was last on track together, the first collective test of 2023 at Sepang invites observers to take certain things for granted. Ducati's superiority appears unquestionable, after its riders topped the times on all three days. But the test has also thrown up some unexpected elements, such as Yamaha's final day struggles that prompted criticism from its ...Keep reading
Race 4
The premiere of ABB FIA Formula E World Championship in the capital of the southern Indian state of Telangana was an outstanding advertisement for fully electric racing. On the 2.816-kilometre street circuit at the shores of the Hussain Sagar Lake, the 22 drivers treated fans to gripping battles for positions and spectacular overtaking manoeuvres. After 33 laps, both Porsche 99X Electric ...Keep reading
While there are no real surprises in the design layout, it is interesting to see how the team has taken inspiration from elsewhere on the grid in an effort to re-establish itself as part of the chasing pack.
The nose design has received changes, as the tip has been extended forward to meet with the lead element of the front wing's main plane. It creates a similar feel to what was seen from ...Keep reading
Indeed, recent decades have highlighted some extremes - from the 1980s and 1990s when questionable super exotic blends were the only way to win, to the current turbo hybrid era where it is about getting the most energy out of a set weight of fuel.
But, as F1 eyes a carbon-zero future, attention is now shifting to the impact of the switch to fully sustainable fuels from 2026.
And, while the ...Keep reading
Hyderabad played host to India's first world championship-level motorsport event in over a decade on Saturday, with the streets around the Hussain Sagar lake near the city centre turned into a temporary circuit for the occasion.
Measuring 2.8km in length, track featured a wide variety of corners and provided for high average speeds, drawing praise from drivers who felt it was one of the most ...Keep reading
The Brackley squad is now known as One Motorsport, and will continue to field Honda Civic Type R machinery in the BTCC this season.
Current team owner Steve Dudman bought out BTC founder in Bert Taylor in 2019, although Taylor stayed on at the squad until the end of the 2020 season.
The renaming removes the last vestiges of Taylor’s era, and also eliminates what was at times confusion ...Keep reading
Andretti, who runs several outfits in world motorsports including one of IndyCar's leading teams, has been working on an F1 bid for years and felt he finally had the missing ingredient to sway the sport by partnering with a top-level OEM in General Motors.
But most of F1's existing 10 teams - who have a say in any new team joining - are still hesitant to accept Andretti into the fold as an ...Keep reading
Mir, the 2020 world champion, joins Honda on a two-year deal from this season after being left without a ride when Suzuki elected to quit MotoGP at the end of 2022.
Having made his Honda debut in November in the post-race Valencia test, Mir spent three full days on the RC213V at Sepang this weekend, ending up 12th overall and just over a tenth of a second shy of eight-time world champion ...Keep reading
The 23-year-old had been on the sidelines since losing his seat with Haas on the eve of the 2022 F1 campaign after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, but made his sportscar debut in the first of four four-hour races to be held over the next fortnight on Saturday.
Mazepin teamed up in 99 Racing's ORECA-Gibson 07 with 2016 Le Mans 24 Hours winner Neel Jani and Portuguese Goncalo Gomes, the latter a ...Keep reading
The British squad had previously conducted a livery launch to demonstrate its revised paint scheme and new sponsor portfolio, continuing with a blue and black scheme into 2023.
This was painted onto last year's FW44, a car that managed eight points in the hands of Alex Albon, Nicholas Latifi and Nyck de Vries.
Ahead of its Silverstone run, the FW45 has been given its first public outing and ...Keep reading
But what many don’t realise is that before these images reach us, they have travelled many thousands of miles in a near instant. And this involves quite a bit of technology.
Television production of a Formula 1 race is a huge undertaking. For each grand prix event, there are 90 cameras and 147 microphones installed, plus around 80 kilometres of cable have to be laid.
In the past ...Keep reading
Vergne clinched his first Formula E win in nearly two years on Formula E’s maiden visit to India on Saturday, beating the Jaguar-powered Envision car of Cassidy by just 0.400s after 33 laps of racing.
The Frenchman was at a significant disadvantage to Cassidy in the closing stages of the race, facing an energy deficit of as much as 4% to the Kiwi due to a combination of an inferior powertrain ...Keep reading
The change in naming pattern is a nice touch from a team that has always been very engaged with its history. While recent years haven’t offered anything like the kind of heyday that has left the corridor next to the MTC’s canteen filled with trophies - designed on purpose for the employees to walk past every day - the team has been firmly on the path to recovery.
Or so it ...Keep reading
The Mercedes driver is a minority owner as part of the Walton-Penner group that bought the three-time Super Bowl-winning Broncos in 2022 – led by Walmart heir Rob Walton and Greg Penner, the retail giant’s chairman, and his daughter Carrie – in a massive $4.65billion deal.
There are two other minority owners that complete the Broncos ownership group – former USA secretary of state ...Keep reading
In only the second round of the season, the South Korean marque attempted deploy team orders by switching the positions of its drivers Neuville and Craig Breen ahead of the final powerstage.
Contesting only a partial season, Breen had led Hyundai’s charge for the majority of the rally on his return to the WRC.
The 33-year-old led the event from Friday afternoon until Saturday evening when ...Keep reading
The 2021 world champion has been buoyed by Yamaha’s increase in engine power for 2023 having long requested a step in top speed, and was pleased at the Sepang test that the Japanese marque had brought so many new items to try.
But, on the final day in Malaysia, Quartararo was left scratching his head why he struggled so much in time attack mode on the 2023 bike, having ended the day ...Keep reading
The 2019 world champion headed to Sweden with low expectations given he is yet to fully acclimatise to the Puma following his high-profile switch from Hyundai back to M-Sport this season.
Tanak had struggled for consistent outright pace in January’s season opener in Monte Carlo, where he finished fifth, but on the Swedish snow the 35-year-old showed improved pace.
The Estonian wasn’t the ...Keep reading
Rowland had finished no higher than 13th in the three races prior to Hyderabad after a challenging start to the year, with a lack of efficiency of the Mahindra powertrain hurting his chances of breaking inside the top 10.
But Rowland went on to enjoy his most fruitful outing of FE’s Gen3 so far on Mahindra’s home turf last Saturday, running inside the top 10 throughout the race and climbing ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion has not been enthused about the progress Honda has made with its troubled bike since last November’s Valencia test.
After the first day of this weekend’s Sepang test, Marquez felt he was “still far from the top” with the 2023 Honda.
The Spaniard started the test with four RC213Vs to try, whittling that down to one come the afternoon of Sunday’s ...Keep reading
The Estonian delivered a measured and faultless drive to come through a tense head-to-head with Hyundai’s Craig Breen, that dominated the majority of the weekend.
Competing in his second event driving the M-Sport Ford Puma following his switch from Hyundai, Tanak claimed a 18.7s victory from Breen. Hyundai deployed team orders ahead of the final stage by making Breen check in late to put him ...Keep reading
Newcomers Andrea Stella on behalf of McLaren and James Vowles for Williams will be joined by Alessandro Alunni Bravi, who has taken on the team principal role for Alfa Romeo, although officially he's known as team representative.
Alunni Bravi will be working in tandem with Andreas Seidl, who has come in as Sauber Group CEO with an overview of the whole organisation. The German’s ...Keep reading
Although the general layout of the 2.8km circuit was unanimously approved by drivers as Formula E made its first visit to India, the chicane that forms Turns 1 and 2 was a major talking point all weekend.
What was originally supposed to be a straightforward right-hander was turned into a complex right/left chicane on the final version of the track, with the change aimed at giving cars another ...Keep reading
The third and final day of the Sepang test in Malaysia was once again affected by rain, but only late on in the final hour when most had completed their run plans.
A late time attack just before the end of the penultimate hour put Marini to the top of the times with the best lap of the test at 1m57.889s to complete Ducati’s clean sweep at Sepang.
A damp start when the track opened at 10am ...Keep reading
The Japanese driver is entering his third year with AlphaTauri, but is coming off the back of a fairly disappointing 2022 campaign where he finished in the top ten just four times.
His tally of 12 points left him down in 17th in the overall standings, and it is clear that Tost feels the youngster needs to lift his game in 2023.
Speaking as AlphaTauri unveiled the livery of its new car at an ...Keep reading
Sargeant will make his F1 debut next month with Williams, graduating off the back of an impressive rookie campaign in Formula 2 where he finished fourth in the championship.
It completes a swift career turnaround for Sargeant, who, after narrowly missing out on the title to fellow F1 2023 rookie Oscar Piastri in the 2020 Formula 3 championship, was unable to make the step up to F2 the following ...Keep reading
When Valtteri Bottas took the new car out of the garage in Barcelona for the first time, it was running a completely different floor to the original renders from when it was revealed.
On the real car, it was a much more traditional edge compared to the radical serrated side that had been present on launch day. In fact, so unique was the jagged floor that it looked like the sort of thing that ...Keep reading
The 2019 world champion managed to pull a further 3.0s clear of Hyundai rival Craig Breen to lead the Irishman by 11.2s with two stages remaining at the snow rally.
Equipped with fresh studded tyres, Tanak was able to clock the second fastest time on Stage 16 (Vastervik, 26.4km), while Breen, utilising a mix of new and worn tyres, was only able to post a time good enough for fourth.
Tanak's ...Keep reading
The Italian squad held a livery launch in New York on Saturday night and also took the opportunity to release some basic renders of its 2023 challenger.
The actual AT04 will have a shakedown at Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli on Tuesday ahead of the start of pre-season testing in Bahrain on February 23.
While the renders issued on Saturday do not show much detail on the car, they do ...Keep reading
The Faenza-based squad showed off its new colours at an event hosted in the Lincoln Centre, during New York Fashion Week.
The tweaked livery features slightly more red than last year, which has been prompted by a new sponsorship deal with PKN Orlen.
Team principal Franz Tost said that the squad’s decision to hold its livery launch in the United States was testament to the growth of F1 in ...Keep reading
Hyundai duo Craig Breen and Esapekka Lappi, and M-Sport’s Ott Tanak suffered sudden front tyre failures during Saturday afternoon.
In Stage 13, the failure contributed to Lappi firing off the road and into the snowbank, resulting in the Finn losing seven minutes, dropping him outside of the top 10 having held third up until that point.
On the same stage team-mate and then rally leader ...Keep reading
The Irishman was forced to complete the final three stages of the Saturday afternoon loop without the use of hybrid power after an issue with the 100kW Compact Dynamics built unit.
Breen started Saturday leading Tanak by 2.6s, with that lead briefly extending to 3.0s at the end of the morning loop.
But as the afternoon progressed, the Hyundai driver, contesting the first event of his 2023 ...Keep reading
The pair both survived tyre delaminations in consecutive stages across the afternoon loop, which had a significant impact on the fight for the lead.
Tanak ultimately emerged with an 8.6s lead over Breen, which he will take into Sunday’s final three stages. Breen had held a 2.6s lead overnight but lost ground across the afternoon.
Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville ended the day in third, 23.7s ...Keep reading
The American outfit has been constrained by budget limits in recent seasons, which left its hands tied in terms of being able to afford regular development steps.
In 2021, the team brought only a single upgrade to the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix very early in the campaign, whereas last year it focused its efforts on a single new package that it brought to the Hungarian Grand Prix.
With rivals ...Keep reading
Ducati came into last year as the favourites to win the championship, but the early races of its campaign with its 2022 bike were troubled.
A strong post-season test at Jerez in 2021 gave way to a difficult pre-season in 2022, particularly with the new engine, with Bagnaia ultimately switching to a hybrid 2021/2022-spec unit for the start of the season.
Ducati was able to get on top of its ...Keep reading
And whilst there are no real surprises in its DNA, there's plenty of detail for us to pick over when comparing it to last year's challenger and some of its competitors.
At the front, the video showing the VF-23 rollout from the garage has revealed a change to the ratio of static and moveable sections of the front wing flaps. There is more surface granted to the static section beside the nose ...Keep reading
Rick Mears announced his retirement in speech at the Team Penske dinner in December 1992, one week after he turned 40. It came at the end of an unusually torrid year for the man who had only the previous season cemented his status at Indianapolis Motor Speedway with a memorable triumph over Michael Andretti to join A.J. Foyt and Al Unser Sr as a four-time Indy 500 winner.
But his 1992 ...Keep reading
Wehrlein arrived in India as the championship leader on the back of his stunning double win in Saudi Arabia, and Porsche was again considered the team to beat around the 2.8km circuit despite the expected threat from Jaguar.
But Wehrlein’s participation in the race was thrown into doubt just minutes into the start of on-track action on Friday evening, when he lost control of his Porsche and ...Keep reading
Jaguar had appeared to be the team to beat on Formula E’s first visit to India, the home country of parent company Tata, with Evans taking pole position and Bird setting the pace in morning practice.
However, Jaguar’s chances of claiming a victory ended in dramatic circumstances after Bird slammed into the side of Evans’s car going into Turn 3, with the damage rendering both cars out of ...Keep reading
Latifi was dropped by Williams at the end of last year after spending three seasons with the team, during which time a number of his sponsors featured prominently on the car, including Lavazza and Sofina.
Williams unveiled the livery for its new FW45 car at its Grove base on Monday, as well as announcing the arrival of a new partner in the form of iconic brand Gulf Oil.
James Bower, the ...Keep reading
A lack of engine power dogged Quartararo's title defence in 2022, with Yamaha forced to abandon its new engine prior to testing last year due to reliability issues and run a specification closer to the 2021 version.
Since then, Yamaha has been hard at work to develop a new, more powerful engine, bringing various versions to tests at Misano and Valencia last year prior to this weekend's ...Keep reading
DS Penske driver Vergne was considerably low on energy in the final stages of the 33-lap contest compared to Envision’s Cassidy, who kept the pressure up on him in a bid to take only his second career victory in FE.
But Vergne covered off the inside line into the Turn 3 hairpin - the primary overtaking point of the race - on every lap since a late safety car period triggered by McLaren’s ...Keep reading
The Hyundai driver, contesting a first WRC event of a partial campaign, netted a fourth stage win of the snow rally to briefly extend his lead to 5.7s before Tanak fought back on the final stage of the loop.
Tanak struggled for pace in the day’s first two stages but a push in Stage 11 cut Breen’s advantage back to 3.0s.
Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi was unable to close on Breen and Tanak ...Keep reading
Unpredictable weather forecasts affected the entirety of the second eight-hour session of the 2023 MotoGP pre-season, with a damp track greeting the field when the pitlane opened at 10am local time.
While all bar HRC test rider Stefan Bradl and Yamaha test rider Katsuyuki Nakasuga would eventually put times on the board, with Pramac's Martin leading the way on a 1m58.736s, it wouldn't be until ...Keep reading
The American-owned outfit was the first to reveal its livery for the year ahead, but was always clear that the original shots were of its 2022 car.
However, as it builds up for a filming day at Silverstone, Haas showed off the new VF-23 in shots from its factory.
Pictured with staff and drivers Kevin Magnussen and Nico Hulkenberg, the new car featured some interesting changes from last ...Keep reading
After two punishing years at McLaren, during which he won the 2021 Italian Grand Prix but otherwise struggled to get on par with Lando Norris, Ricciardo decided to take a sabbatical from F1.
The 33-year-old is still keeping his foot in the door, signing a deal to become Red Bull's third driver, a role which mainly involves simulator and marketing duties but would also keep him in the frame to ...Keep reading
The series, unveiled at the Hyderabad E-Prix, has pledged to provide an affordable championship for junior drivers, while also providing opportunities for new talent to get into motorsport.
There will be two levels in the ACE Championship - a top-tier "Championship" and a lower-level "Challenger Series", although one of the quirks of the series is that the same cars will be used in both.
The ...Keep reading
There was little to separate Evans and Vergne in the final leg of qualifying, with the DS Penske driver holding an early edge before Evans quickly reversed the advantage before the end of the first sector.
The real-time gap between the two continued to ebb and flow, with Evans extending his advantage to as much as 0.125s before Vergne brought down the deficit to the Jaguar.
The duel between ...Keep reading
Jaguar driver Bird set a time of 1m13.631s with just five minutes remaining in the second practice on Saturday morning, heading a closely-contested contest that saw 18 of the 22 drivers finish within a second of each other.
The laptimes tumbled as the track rubbered in during the 30-minute session, with Bird’s teammate Mitch Evans the first to beat the FP1 benchmark 10 minutes into the ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion faced the most challenging of the road conditions thanks to his road order, which left him unable to stay in touch with leader Hyundai’s Craig Breen.
Rovanpera started the day leading the rally by 1.6s from M-Sport Ford’s Ott Tanak after winning Thursday night’s Umea Sprint super special.
However, a combination of cleaning the roads of snow and being first ...Keep reading
The Irishman, contesting his first event of a partial 2023 campaign with Hyundai, set a blistering pace on his return to the WRC, winning three of Friday’s seven stages on Sweden’s snow covered roads.
Making the most of a favourable road position, Breen managed to hold off a late charge from M-Sport’s Ott Tanak, the driver that filled his seat at the Ford team this year, to end the day ...Keep reading
The Irishman, contesting a partial season with the Korean brand, quickly gelled with the i20 N to chalk up three stage wins that helped the former M-Sport driver into a slender 2.6s advantage.
Breen’s afternoon push helped the 33-year-old snatch the lead from Tanak, who had held sway heading into the midday service. Tanak was however able to respond late on Friday with a first stage win of ...Keep reading
The Grove-based squad has long believed that its best chances of success in grand prix racing come from it being fully independent.
But while its decision from the start of last year to take a Mercedes gearbox, rather than produce its own, marked a big departure from its policy of the past, the team says that it will not make any further steps in the direction of becoming a customer ...Keep reading
The Japanese driver, competing in his first event as a factory pilot, had been running in fifth position having ended the morning loop by winning Stage 4, before midday service.
However, in the first test (Brattby 2) of the afternoon loop Katsuta clipped a snowbank on the exit of a left hander, which pitched the GR Yaris into a roll, before eventually coming to rest on its wheels.
The car ...Keep reading
While Nissan has bagged a single points finish so far in 2023 thanks to an eighth-place result for Fenestraz in the second Diriyah race, McLaren has managed to regularly fight at the front in both qualifying and the race with the same powertrain, with Rene Rast's podium in Saudi Arabia being the highlight of its short FE foray so far.
McLaren, in fact, stands third in the championship heading ...Keep reading
On Thursday, the MCUI released a statement saying it had taken the decision to cancel all of Northern Ireland’s road racing and short circuit racing events in 2023 due to spiralling insurance costs.
Public liability costs for even organisers have tripled for 2023 from £170k to £410k and created an unsustainable situation, with the effects of Brexit being blamed as a contributing ...Keep reading
The special arrangements for new suppliers were agreed upon as part of the package to encourage new manufacturers like Audi to join the sport in 2026.
In essence, they are allowed extra spending power and extra dyno time relative to the established manufacturers in the build-up to the introduction of the new regulations.
New suppliers can spend an extra $10m in 2023, $10m in 2024, and $5m in ...Keep reading
The Motorcycle Union of Ireland announced via a statement on Thursday night that, due to a tripling in the price of public liability insurance, costs of running road racing events in Northern Ireland had become unsustainable.
Following a crisis meeting, the governing body announced that all road racing and short circuit contests in Northern Ireland have been cancelled for 2023.
A statement ...Keep reading
Last week, the FIA formally started the process to accept expressions of interest from potential new F1 teams, with the Andretti/General Motors entry the most publicly-known push to join the grid.
But F1 itself and some of the existing teams have raised concerns about the impact of possibly adding an 11th team, as it would reduce their prize money shares. The feeling is that unless a new ...Keep reading
After a number of unsuccessful attempts to bring Formula E to India, Mahindra will finally be able to race in front of its home crowd for the first time this weekend as Hyderabad hosts the fourth race of the 2022/23 season.
Mahindra has already scored a podium in the Gen3 era of FE courtesy of di Grassi's third-place result in the season opener in Mexico City, but it drew a blank last time out ...Keep reading
The surge in interest from potential race hosts reflected F1’s continued growth and commercial boom, something that is undeniably a good thing for everyone associated with the championship.
But the number of races - ultimately knocked down to 23 after China’s cancellation - only fuelled concerns about the wellbeing of those working the entirety of the gruelling schedule, and the continued ...Keep reading
Even in the cost of living crisis we're currently enduring, there's plenty of optimism to be found on the UK motorsport scene. As Stephen Lickorish outlined in his recent column, several themed events will be highlights on the national racing calendar in 2023, while numerous new championships are set to make a splash on the club scene.
Following in the footsteps of our international ...Keep reading
Valtteri Bottas gave the car its first track mileage at a filming day at the Spanish GP venue, with Guanyu Zhou due to sample it in the afternoon.
It was the first appearance of the real car, previously seen only in show car form and in renders, and also the first track running for any 2023 F1 machine.
The Swiss team has paid particularly attention to the rear end of the car, which has a new ...Keep reading
After a difficult title defence year in 2022 that saw him lose his crown to Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia, Quartararo was clear in his comments to Yamaha for the winter that it had to make big gains with the top speed of its M1.
A new engine tested at Sepang on Friday left Quartararo and Yamaha second on the top speed charts at 334.3km/h compared to Ducati’s 336.4km/h.
But the Yamaha rider ...Keep reading
Having registered its second winless season in three years in 2022, Honda was expected to be the marque with the most to test come the first pre-season outing of the year this week in February.
Indeed, Marquez had four bikes in his garage and three 2023-spec prototypes to try on Friday at Sepang. He finished the day 12th overall, just under a second off the pace, after 58 laps of ...Keep reading
The 2019 world champion moved into a 2.1s over Hyundai’s Craig Breen, competing in his first event of his partial WRC campaign after departing M-Sport, as tricky snow and icy conditions benefitted those running lower down in the road order.
Tanak’s surge to the front came despite failing to secure a fastest stage time on the three tests.
Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi made the most of his ...Keep reading
The 12-event series will feature 28 races in total with a mix of formats ranging from 70-100 kilometre sprint races, 250-kilometre refuelling races and the two endurance races, the Sandown 500 and the Bathurst 1000.
The season will kick off with the Newcastle 500, which will feature two 250-kilometre races with two compulsory stops. The same format that will be used for the Townsville 500, the ...Keep reading
For all his 69 Formula 1 starts — and 31 laps led — Bruno Giacomelli is probably best remembered for his exploits over the course of the 1978 European Formula 2 Championship with March. And his domination thereof. He looks back on that year as the highpoint of his career, and certainly the most satisfying season.
“That car is very much in my heart all these years later,” says Giacomelli ...Keep reading
Rising insurance costs has been an issue across all of Ireland in recent years, but has mainly affected the smaller road racing events.
However, in a hammer blow to the sport of motorcycle racing in Northern Ireland, all events including the country’s largest outdoor sporting meeting, the North West 200 has had to be called off for 2023. It was reported the North West 200 contributed ...Keep reading
For the first time since November, the entire MotoGP grid assembled for the opening day of three at the Sepang International Circuit as testing got underway.
Three days of running had already taken place at the Malaysian Grand Prix venue earlier this week, but was open only to test riders and rookies.
There will be five days of testing ahead of the start of the 2023 season on 26 March, with ...Keep reading
A multiple championship-winning marque with the now-defunct Techeetah squad, DS switched to the Dragon Penske squad for the beginning of FE’s Gen3 era, but has found it hard to replicate the kind of success it enjoyed during the last rules cycle.
In the opening three races across Mexico City and Diriyah, DS Penske could only manage a best finish of seventh, leaving it seventh out of 11 ...Keep reading
F1 world champion Verstappen revealed towards the end of 2021 that he had refused to take part in any direct interviews for Drive to Survive’s fourth season, citing faked storylines that made it “over the top”.
While Verstappen said last March that he would not change his mind and consider returning, talks with producers ultimately paved the way for him to be interviewed for season five ...Keep reading
Oliphant walked away from the BTCC at the end of the 2021 season to relocate to New South Wales with his Australian fiancee.
That meant he spent the 2022 season on the sidelines, although was known to be exploring options for a return to the cockpit.
That return is now set to take place with Oliphant expected to be a regular in TCR Australia this season.
Autosport understands he'll be on ...Keep reading
The Milton Keynes-based squad had originally looked set to tie up with German car manufacturer Porsche from 2026, with negotiations reaching such an advanced state last year that anti-cartel authorities were notified.
However, amid concerns from Red Bull that Porsche's requested buy-in of the team could lead to it losing its independence, the discussions collapsed last summer.
Since then ...Keep reading
MotoGP attempted to replicate the boom Formula 1 has enjoyed in recent years courtesy of Netflix’s Drive to Survive with its own docuseries in 2022.
But, despite favourable reviews, MotoGP Unlimited was a commercial flop, as a lack of a coordinated media campaign, a botched launch with dubbing issues, and a lack of release in key markets saw the series make little impact on the ...Keep reading
Chandhok takes on topics up and down the grid, from Red Bull’s likely challengers to how much work is needed at Williams, via the line-ups that could prove most explosive on and off track.
Joining Chandhok and podcast host Martyn Lee is Autosport chief editor Kevin Turner and Grand Prix editor Alex Kalinauckas.
You can listen to the podcast using the player below, or via all good ...Keep reading
Speaking in the first episode this week of his new podcast, Actions Detrimental with Denny Hamlin, he questioned the wisdom of running so many cars on the temporary short track, which has been the non-championship NASCAR Cup Series curtain-raiser for the past two seasons.
The Coliseum, site of the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games, usually plays host to College American football, football games and ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver, starting first on the road, blitzed the 5.16km Umea Sprint super special stage held in front of a sizeable crowd, to grab an early rally lead.
Despite some sections being incredibly slippery and traction at a premium, Rovanpera was the driver to beat as he completed the test 1.6s faster than his nearest rival M-Sport’s Ott Tanak.
"In some sections it's quite slippery ...Keep reading
The governing body has launched a consultation surrounding proposals originally put forward by its race committee – changes that include redefining what constitutes an abuse of track limits in the UK.
OPINION: Why national motorsport's track limits shakeup is deeply flawed
Under the existing rules, drivers are judged to have left the track if “any wheel of the car goes completely beyond ...Keep reading
“It’s stirred up a lot of emotion,” says one club chief of Motorsport UK’s proposal to toughen the regulations surrounding track limits. And that is an enormous understatement.
The plans to not only tighten the rules of what is permitted but also introduce penalties for the very first offence and ban drivers from protesting others over missed track-limits abuses have proven highly ...Keep reading
Perez joined Red Bull for the 2021 season to replace Alex Albon, but like Albon and Pierre Gasly before him the Mexican found it tough to get close to team-mate Max Verstappen and get on top of Red Bull's machinery.
With the onset of new ground effect regulations for 2022, Perez made a strong start relative to Verstappen in the initially-overweight RB18. His early form yielded a pole in ...Keep reading
The former Renault F1 boss is undertaking only his second WRC event as team principal after leading the team at Monte Carlo in January, but the Frenchman has already identified areas for improvement.
One of Abiteboul’s key early objectives is to improve the way the team communicates, engages with its drivers and its decision making process. Having spent the majority of his career working in ...Keep reading
Like in recent years, there will be just two pre-season tests prior to the start of the 2023 season: one in Malaysia on 10-12 February, and one in Portugal on 11-12 March.
As has been the case since 2021, there are just five days of official pre-season running permitted before the new campaign gets underway.
The Sepang test in February will mark the first time the entire MotoGP grid has ...Keep reading
The team will continue to run under the Alfa Romeo name in 2023, and is expected to revert to the Sauber identity for two final interim years with Ferrari power, before its partnership with Audi begins in 2026.
The Hinwil outfit has also seen a change of management in recent weeks as Fred Vasseur, who hired both Bottas and Zhou, has left for a new job at Ferrari.
Meanwhile, former McLaren ...Keep reading
It doesn’t seem that long ago that we were reviewing the 2022 F1 season and rating the performances of the drivers and teams. And yet, here we are already in F1 2023 launch season, ignoring for the moment the fact that most teams have so far only really ‘launched’ new liveries (kudos to Alfa Romeo for actually showing us a fresh car!).
Amid all the usual showings of confidence and ...Keep reading
The eight-time grand prix winner is now linked to Ford through the carmaker's recently-announced deal with Red Bull.
As part of his third driver duties Ricciardo spent the day at Ford's HQ where he sampled a number of cars on Ford's test track.
Among them was a DJR Team Penske-built Gen2 Ford Mustang Supercar which is based at Ford HQ and often driven by Ford CEO Jim Farley in demonstration ...Keep reading
The Northern Irishman last competed in a UK championship in 2019, when he went on to become that year’s Porsche Carrera Cup champion with JTR, while also being the German marque’s official Junior driver.
The 22-year-old will now make his debut in British GT having spent the last few years racing with BMW in the Nurburgring Endurance Series and GT World Challenge.
“This will be the ...Keep reading
Acura enjoyed a perfect start to the new GTP era with a one-two finish for its two new ARX-06 prototypes, as Meyer Shank Racing took victory in the IMSA SportsCar Championship opener ahead of Wayne Taylor Racing.
While the Honda brand proved itself the class of the field at Daytona, Porsche managed to get one of its new 963s on the front row before suffering reliability issues in the race ...Keep reading
Yet his stint at Renault was just one chapter in a long and varied motorsport career that included the design of the chassis in which he took the title at the end of a hard-fought campaign in the 1976 European Formula 2 Championship.
Jabouille, who has died aged 80 after a long illness, was an engineer by trade rather than training: he’d briefly studied modern art at the Sorbonne. His ...Keep reading
The Grove-based squad is chasing improved fortunes in 2023 after it finished bottom of the constructors’ championship last season.
It has also undergone further management upheaval over the winter, with team principal Jost Capito and technical director Francois-Xavier Demaison departing.
While the timing of the change was not ideal, the team’s designers have been able to push on with the ...Keep reading
M-Sport elected to field a Ford Puma Rally1 for new signing Tanak at the Otepaa Winter Rally, in addition to a pre-event test in Ostersund, Sweden, to prepare for the WRC’s only snow rally of the season, which begins on Thursday.
Tanak spent the majority of the WRC season opener in Monte Carlo adjusting to the Puma following his off-season move from Hyundai.
The 2019 world champion ended ...Keep reading
As the rider considered by many to be the most influential in the history of the brand, along with Valentino Rossi and Mick Doohan, it's logical that most of the elements in the Honda revival equation revolve around Marc Marquez.
The Spaniard, who will be back on the RC213V after spending the winter preparing physically to be at his best for the start of the season, got serious last year ...Keep reading
The study, conducted by Epsilon Technologies and Far Consulting, tracks the impact of 30,000 social media posts made by riders in MotoGP and the teams from the beginning of January last year until 6 November, when the championship drew to a close in Valencia.
In total, the MotoGP spectrum generated more than 378 million impressions, 150 million of those thanks to the official accounts of the ...Keep reading
Ford announced last week that it would be returning to F1 in 2026 through a technical partnership with Red Bull.
The deal will see it work with the energy drink giant’s powertrains division for the next generation of power units that will be introduced in 2026, which place a greater focus on electric power and sustainable fuels.
It marks a return of the Ford name to F1 for the first time ...Keep reading
Ekstrom claimed the 2016 title in an ERS RX-built Audi S1 with four wins helping him to beat Johan Kristoffersson to the crown, and finished runner-up to his fellow Swede on a further three occasions in 2017, 2018 and 2020.
His last World RX appearances came with the Munnich Motorsport SEAT team at the Latvia double-header in 2021, and he didn't participate last season as the championship ...Keep reading
Ben Sulayem was elected the president of F1’s governing body in December 2021, and quickly outlined a plan to restructure the FIA’s F1 operations.
This included an overhaul of race control, sparked by the controversial end to the 2021 season in Abu Dhabi, as well as changes to the senior FIA management such as appointing a CEO for the first time.
As part of this process, Ben Sulayem ...Keep reading
Both teams rolled out their first Gen3 cars at Queensland Raceway on Tuesday and were set to shake down their second cars at the same venue tomorrow.
However both have pulled the pin on those plans and will instead wait until next week to continue their testing programmes.
For DJR it appears the issues are a combination of parts supply for the #11 car, which was meant to run tomorrow, and ...Keep reading
Hamilton’s tallies of 82 victories and six world titles with Mercedes, scored in 200 starts, are world championship records for a driver at one team.
Before Hamilton starts his 11th Mercedes campaign, we’ve decided to rank his 10 seasons at the Silver (and Black) Arrows.
PLUS: Assessing Hamilton's remarkable decade as a Mercedes F1 driver
We’ve rated them on Hamilton’s ...Keep reading
Porsche powertrains have finished first and second in all three races of the 2022-23 season so far, with Andretti's Dennis winning the Mexico opener from Porsche's Pascal Wehrlein.
Wehrlein then won both Diriyah races from Dennis to take the championship lead heading into Formula E's first visit to Hyderabad.
Reflecting on his brace of second places at Diriyah, Dennis said that he was "happy ...Keep reading
The Red Bull driver is well known for preferring a pointier front end, as he has no concerns about his cars being more nervous at the rear.
This trait was the opposite of what he started the 2022 campaign with, thanks to the combination of an overweight Red Bull car and the understeer characteristics of Pirelli’s latest generation of tyres.
While Red Bull worked hard to address the weight ...Keep reading
Pastrana, an 11-time X-Games gold medalist, had already announced he would attempt to qualify for the 2023 Daytona 500 with 23XI Racing.
On Tuesday, Niece Motorsports named Pastrana the driver of its No. 41 Chevrolet for the 17 February Truck Series race.
Niece plans to run the No. 41 full-time during the 2023 season, using a variety of drivers including Pastrana, Ross Chastain, Chad ...Keep reading
The Northern Irishman had long been expected to take up his customary seat with the Sunbury team, and will line up alongside Jake Hill, Stephen Jelley and Adam Morgan in an expanded four-car line-up of BMW 330e M Sport machinery.
Turkington, who is second on the all-time BTCC winners list, has taken 52 of his 63 race victories with WSR-run cars, 48 of them in BMWs.
He dropped to fourth, one ...Keep reading
He also stressed that he expects the FIA to clarify exactly what the new ruling means.
The FIA made a change to the international sporting code for 2023 banning comments by drivers on “political, religious or personal” issues without obtaining prior permission from the governing body.
Due to the winter break few drivers have responded in public to the news, although as media activities ...Keep reading
F1 revealed last March that it would be returning to Las Vegas in November 2023, hosting a street race around the centre of the city with part of the track incorporating the iconic Strip.
The race will take place on Saturday night in Las Vegas, capturing the primetime audience in the United States amid the current boom of American F1 interest.
An initial three-year contract covering 2023-25 ...Keep reading
Rumours ran riot on F1 social media that Porsche was about to announce a grand prix partnership on January 16 with a Gulf-backed Williams team.
The theories had been triggered by the German manufacturer posting a promo video on its Formula E Instagram page.
Showing an old television broadcast that, after a bit of interference, mentioned a 16 January date, Twitter posts analysing freeze ...Keep reading
Roll hoops came under the spotlight after Alfa driver Zhou Guanyu's huge accident at the start of last year's British Grand Prix.
Alfa was the only team using the blade design permitted by the FIA, and in an unprecedented occurrence, its pointed top dug into the track and was eventually snapped off as Zhou skidded across the asphalt towards the barrier at Silverstone's Abbey ...Keep reading
Daly, an Indiana native, made his full NASCAR Cup debut last year at the Charlotte Roval and was classified 34th, three laps down on winner Christopher Bell.
He will drive the #50 Chevrolet Camaro for The Money Team once again as an open entry, in an increasingly strong entry list for the 500 on 19 February.
With no charter, Daly will have to fight his way into the 40-car field through ...Keep reading
The Franco-Argentine was running ninth on the final lap, trailing the Maserati MSG car of Mortara, but was struggling to mount a challenge owing to the flat-out nature of the race's last throes following a safety car period.
Having noticed Mortara trying to save energy ahead by lifting early, Fenestraz decided to make a move on the Swiss driver and try to double his points haul in one fell ...Keep reading
Vowles will take over as team principal at Williams on 20 February after announcing last month he would be leaving his position of motorsport strategy director at Mercedes.
Vowles takes over at Williams from Jost Capito, who exited the team in December after two seasons in charge.
Vowles will be tasked with pushing to turn the team around after it slumped to the foot of the constructors' ...Keep reading
Sweden’s unique blend of snow and ice is likely to provide a hard fought and fast contest among the sharp end of the Rally1 field.
Last year’s winner Kalle Rovanpera is expected to be among the favourites following a strong start to his title defence in Monte Carlo after netting second behind rally winner and Toyota team-mate Sebastien Ogier.
Part-time challenger Ogier, will be absent in ...Keep reading
The new red and carbon livery seen on the C43 represents a final fling for the Alfa name as the team gradually starts to build up its resources and staffing levels.
The impact of that expansion may be seen more clearly in 2024, as the latest car was designed like its predecessor on a relatively tight budget and is a logical progression from the Swiss outfit's first attempt with the current ...Keep reading
In this week's Autosport magazine, our team of writers have picked out the UK events and championships they are most looking forward to attending or following over the coming year. Despite some of the depressing headlines in the news, this feature makes clear that there is still plenty to eagerly anticipate in the world of national motorsport for 2023.
Last week we highlighted the volume of new ...Keep reading
South African van der Linde pipped Mercedes driver Lucas Auer and Rast's Abt Audi to his first DTM crown last season, in a successful maiden campaign for the new BMW M4 GT3 and series newcomer Schubert, but the championship's future was then plunged into doubt when Gerhard Berger's ITR group sold rights for the series to rival German promoter the ADAC.
After some uncertainty, the ADAC announced ...Keep reading
The two-time Cup Series champion has joined Richard Childress Racing for 2023 after a 15-year run with Joe Gibbs Racing that yielded both of his titles, won in 2015 and 2019.
The 37-year-old, who finished third in the non-championship Clash race at the LA Coliseum on Sunday, released a statement on Monday responding to reports of his brief detainment in Mexico last month.
"In late ...Keep reading
Zhou says that he never felt more nervous than he did before his first Grand Prix start in Bahrain last year, a race in which he scored a point with 10th place.
As the only newcomer on the 2022 grid he went on to enjoy a solid season, despite being hit by reliability issues that cost him valuable points, and the team took up its option to keep him for this year.
PLUS: How F1’s sole ...Keep reading
The car features an eye-catching red and carbon black livery designed by Alfa Romeo's main road car styling department, without the white that has been part of the established look since the company first joined forces with Sauber as a sponsor in 2018.
Alfa Romeo's deal with the Swiss organisation ends this year prior to two transition seasons with Ferrari power before the team becomes the ...Keep reading
With its rivals having so far only shown off their new liveries, Alfa Romeo is ready to offer us a glimpse of what changes it has made for its C43.
The Sauber-run team finished sixth in the constructors' championship last year, and is entering into the final year of its Alfa Romeo partnership as the Swiss outfit prepares to morph into its Audi guise for 2026.
Following the departure of ...Keep reading
Aside from IndyCar’s five days of open testing – last week’s two days at Thermal Club, two at Indianapolis in April, and one on the eve of the season finale at Laguna Seca – the teams are permitted just two other test days.
One of these must be pre-season, the other is in-season, and teams who figure in the secondary Indy NXT series previously known as Lights get an additional day ...Keep reading
Wallace was a frontrunner in the early stages of the non-championship invitational race that kicks off the 2023 Cup season before he allowed his 23XI Toyota Camry’s temperatures to drop too low during a spate of caution periods.
Once remedied, Wallace battled back into the battle at the front of the field until a clash over second place with Dillon – with just seven laps of the 150 to go ...Keep reading
Williams finished 10th in last year’s world championship, having scored just eight points – 27 fewer than closest rivals AlphaTauri.
Albon stressed that he and new recruit Logan Sargeant will have to work closely together in order to help develop the new FW45, which will be shaken down next week.
However, he conceded that it won’t be easy as the team has to make such big steps ...Keep reading
Katsuta will pilot the third points scoring GR Yaris for the first time in his career at Rally Sweden after earning a promotion to the seat for half of the 2023 season.
The Japanese driver has been driving a fourth GR Yaris, not eligible for manufacturer points, in the WRC since 2020, having come through Toyota’s WRC Challenge driver development programme.
However, Esapekka Lappi’s ...Keep reading
After making his debut in the final race of 2020, the three-time Supercars champion's IndyCar rookie season netted just one podium, but his bigger concern was not getting the most out of Firestone’s softer compound tyres in qualifying.
He did so with aplomb in 2022 by taking pole and victory in the St. Petersburg opener, later capturing two more poles and two more wins on his way to fourth in ...Keep reading
After Gulf's sponsorship deal with McLaren came to an end last year, the oil giant has switched to the Williams team – with its logos appearing on the rear wing and nose of the team’s 2023 challenger.
While its brand presence may not appear to be as large as it was at McLaren, which was helped by the colours of the car, Williams says that the full scale of Gulf’s involvement will become ...Keep reading
The FIA updated its International Sporting Code in December to prohibit drivers across its championships from making “political, religious or personal” statements without prior permission.
In recent years, a number of drivers, including Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel, have used their platforms on race weekends to speak up about important social issues, ranging from Black Lives Matter ...Keep reading
In a dedicated event organised at its Grove factory, Williams showcased the colour scheme that will eventually be used on the FW45 car the team is currently finishing building.
It will be driven by Albon and Sargeant for the first time in a shakedown event at Silverstone on Monday 13 February.
Williams' 2023 livery bears a considerable resemblance to the colours with which it ended running ...Keep reading
Hawksworth, a race-winner in the IMSA SportsCar Championship's GTD Pro class for the factory Vasser Sullivan Lexus squad, will pair up with fellow IMSA racer Tristan Vautier and bronze-rated gentleman driver Fred Poordad in an ORECA-Gibson 07 entered in the LMP2 Pro-am subclass.
It marks ex-IndyCar racer Hawksworth's first foray into European racing since a partial campaign in the GT World ...Keep reading
As Formula 1 begins to emerge from its winter hibernation for launch season, several motorsport series around the world have already shaken off the cobwebs and begun their pursuit of glory.
The opening salvos of the World Rally Championship, Formula E and the IMSA SportsCar Championship have given us a taster of what to expect from Kalle Rovanpera's title defence, the all-electric series' new ...Keep reading
For the second consecutive season, the race took place on a made-from-scratch quarter-mile asphalt oval inside of the LA venue.
When it came to Sunday night’s main event, a number of drivers made daring moves that resulted in numerous accidents.
The 150-lap main event ended up with 16 cautions with all but one involving at least two cars.
This was in stark contrast to the 2022 event ...Keep reading
While Ford's domestic sales stalled in 2022 - partly due to the electronic chip shortage which hampered the entire sector - its EV sales doubled to make it the US's second-largest EV automaker behind Tesla. New models include the all-electric Mustang Mach-E and even an electric version of its iconic F-150 pickup truck, the F-150 Lightning.
Ford was looking for ways to increase its reach around ...Keep reading
The announcement follows Vandoorne leaving the Mercedes Formula E outfit with which he won the 2021/22 title to join DS Penske, which is part of the same Stellantis automotive group as Peugeot.
The 30-year-old will take the place vacated by British driver James Rossiter, who announced his decision to step down from racing last year to become the team principal of Maserati MSG in ...Keep reading
Ricciardo made his first official reappearance as a Red Bull employee at the team's 2023 livery launch event in New York last Friday, where it also announced an impending engine partnership with Ford.
He confirmed he is set to complete a series of tyre tests for Red Bull "in the middle of the year" but said "mainly the sim work is the driving stuff for now".
Red Bull has no plans for ...Keep reading
Preparations for the 2023 MotoGP season will kick up a gear this month with the first pre-season test of the year taking place in Malaysia.
The 22-rider grid has had just one day of 2023 running up to this point, coming in the post-Valencia Grand Prix test last November, with the 10-12 February Sepang test set to lay the first battlelines of the new year.
While the most radical change for ...Keep reading
Gass, who was head of motorsport at Audi in 2017-20, will lead the British operation’s assault on the top category of the 2023 WEC as team principal of Hertz Team Jota.
He joins the reigning LMP2 champion team from Audi where he was moved into an undisclosed role after being replaced as head of its racing activities in November 2020 by Julius Seebach.
Gass will oversee Jota’s Hypercar ...Keep reading
As reported by Autosport previously, the Signatech run-Alpine team will run two rebadged Oreca 07-Gibson cars in the LMP2 class of the WEC this year, a transition season for the team before it returns to the Hypercar category in 2024 with an LMDh contender.
Matthieu Vaxiviere and Andre Negrao, who raced for the team with a grandfathered LMP1 car alongside Nicolas Lapierre in 2021-22, have both ...Keep reading
For this year, the FIA's International Sporting Code contains a clause noting that “the general making and display of political, religious and personal statements or comments notably in violation of the general principle of neutrality promoted by the FIA under its statutes” would be a breach of the rules, unless approved by the governing body.
As the move happened during the winter break ...Keep reading
With a nudge from behind Truex got around then-leader Ryan Preece with 24 of the 150 laps remaining and managed to stay out front despite two late-race cautions and subsequent restarts.
Joey Logano won the inaugural event last year and ended up winning the series championship, leading to good omens for Truex, who had been considering retirement last year before he signed another one-year deal ...Keep reading
Castroneves is well-loved within the Meyer Shank organisation, not least because he delivered the team’s first win, and its biggest, the 2021 Indianapolis 500.
But days after winning the IMSA SportsCar Championship for the team, Blomqvist tested the squad’s Honda-powered IndyCar at Sebring and proved sensationally fast.
On the back of a desultory year in IndyCar for Castroneves, in which ...Keep reading
The second campaign of the DTM’s GT3 era will be remembered for a number of good storylines, but one race that grabbed headlines for all the wrong reasons was the opening leg of the Hockenheim finale.
While all eyes were on the title battle out front, a number of incidents erupted lower down the grid, with videos of a high-speed crash between David Schumacher and Thomas Preining in particular ...Keep reading
After McLaren decided last summer to replace him for 2023 by rookie Oscar Piastri, Ricciardo's chances of landing a solid seat for this season were dwindling when the Australian decided to take a sabbatical instead.
Ricciardo said he wanted to use 2023 to take a break and mentally reset after two punishing years with McLaren, in which he failed to get to grips with the car and was ...Keep reading
Kirkwood, who topped the fourth session of the IndyCar test at Thermal Club, won 31 of his 50 races on the Road To Indy and was champion in USF2000, Indy Pro 2000 and Indy Lights.
But when the Michael Andretti and Sauber Formula 1 deal fell apart at the 11th hour in 2021, Colton Herta’s planned move to F1 was stymied and he remained in IndyCar, which meant Andretti had no room for ...Keep reading
Like Pierre Gasly before him Albon found life difficult as Max Verstappen's team-mate, especially given the Dutchman's particular driving style which the team had developed the car around.
While the Thai driver was retained by the Red Bull family as Sergio Perez came in to replace him, a season in the DTM only made him more determined to prove his worth.
Albon admitted being ...Keep reading
GruppeM driver Maro Engel and SunEnergy1 Racing's Jules Gounon came together in the final hour of a dramatic Mount Panorama race, as Engel tried to reclaim a lead he's lost due to a slow stop.
The GruppeM car was largely in control of the race heading into the final two stints with both track position and the optimal strategy.
However the team was then compromised by a faulty modem in the ...Keep reading
Introduced ahead of the 2021 season, the ATR was conceived in tandem with the budget cap to inspire a more competitive field and increase the financial sustainability of the series.
The ATR sliding scale therefore limits windtunnel runs and computational fluid dynamics hours, meaning Red Bull has been hit by a total 25% cut for 2023 after winning the constructors’ championship last ...Keep reading
Just a week after they combined to win the Daytona 24 Hours, Engel and Gounon became bitter rivals in the closing stages of the Bathurst race.
Engel and his #999 GruppeM Mercedes team-mates had gone into the final stages of the race in control, only for an in-car modem, provided by the event itself, to fail.
Replacing the unit meant a longer final stop which opened the door for Gounon in the ...Keep reading
First up it’s a trip to magical and historic Imola on 19-21 May, before the F1 circus lands at Monza on 1-3 September for a high-octane blast around the Temple of Speed.
And in a first for this year, sales for these historic races have opened together – meaning tickets are now available.
The Formula 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix is set to take place on 21 May at extraordinary Imola. Being ...Keep reading
The opening salvo of the Intercontinental GT Challenge round was headed by polesitter Maro Engel's GruppeM Mercedes ahead of the similar Triple Eight machine started by Maxi Gotz, the Manthey Porsche with Thomas Preining at the wheel, Luca Stolz in the SunEnergy1 Mercedes and Augusto Farfus's WRT BMW M4.
Audi's best hope of victory was eliminated from contention just half an hour into the race ...Keep reading
M-Sport elected to field new signing Tanak in the Estonian national rally to offer the 2019 world rally champion extra testing mileage in the Puma ahead of Rally Sweden.
New testing restrictions have been imposed on WRC teams this year in a bid to clamp down on costs by limiting manufacturer teams to 21 pre-event test days (a maximum of seven per driver) instead of 28 permitted last year.
As ...Keep reading
Most cars that win in Formula 1 are special. The level of competition ensures that genuinely poor designs rarely get near a podium, particularly given the reliability of modern racing machines.
But sometimes a combination of luck, inspiration and/or unusual weather gives underdog cars their moment in the limelight. For this list, we looked at the overall pace of the cars, their reliability, how ...Keep reading
The Briton attracted attention at the Singapore Grand Prix when he questioned why Haas racer Schumacher was being so aggressive in their battle for position.
“Schumacher is defending like it’s the race of his life, crikey,” declared Russell at one point, as their fight eventually ended in a clash.
After his first season at Mercedes, Russell said that that moment ...Keep reading
Shell has produced a new race fuel for IndyCar that consists of a blend of second-generation ethanol derived from sugarcane waste and other biofuels, to create a fuel that is 100 percent comprised of feedstocks categorised as renewable.
It makes IndyCar the first US-based motorsports series to power racing with 100 percent renewable race fuel, and enables at least 60 percent greenhouse gas ...Keep reading
The French GP slips off the schedule this year, after a four-year return to the F1 calendar at Paul Ricard from 2018 to 2022, which could mean another lengthy spell on the sidelines.
It was previously dormant from 2009 to 2017 after an 18-year run at Magny-Cours, which took over from Ricard in 1991 due to political reasons.
Former F1 racer Alesi, who took up his new role this week, is clear ...Keep reading
After winning the Indianapolis 500, Chip Ganassi Racing driver Ericsson was well in the hunt for the championship and sat at the top of the points table for six races, before being overhauled by eventual champion Will Power and sliding back to an eventual sixth in the points.
The Swede topped IndyCar's official pre-season test at Thermal Club in Palm Springs on Friday, but speaking ahead of the ...Keep reading
Folger will work with incumbents Dani Pedrosa and Mika Kallio on the 2023-spec KTM RC16 in his new role, joining the team just before the start of official testing at the Sepang International Circuit in Malaysia on 5-7 February.
The 29-year-old's appointment comes as KTM aims to mount a serious challenge for the title this year, having finished fourth out of six in the 2022 manufacturers' ...Keep reading
The American auto giant announced on Friday that it would be returning to F1 in 2026 after striking a deal with Red Bull to work together on power units.
The partnership will mark the return of the Ford name to F1 after 22 years, its last foray coming when it owned the Jaguar team that was ultimately sold to Red Bull in 2004.
During its time away from F1, Ford has remained at the top level ...Keep reading
The Mercedes-AMG GT3s were clearly the class of the field at Mount Panorama today, with GruppeM driver Engel topping the final qualifying session for the Intercontinental GT Challenge opener before going toe-to-toe with Triple Eight young gun Broc Feeney in the pole shootout.
A rapid final lap from Engel sealed the Allan Simonsen Pole Award, his 2m00.881s the fastest ever lap for a GT3 car ...Keep reading
The 38-year-old has been a mainstay of the WEC since the series’ inception, initially as a Toyota driver in the top LMP1 class until he was dropped by the marque in mid-2014.
After a limited programme with the KCMG LMP2 team in 2015, which included his first of four Le Mans 24 Hours class wins, Lapierre joined the Signatech-run Alpine LMP2 outfit in 2016 and took that year's WEC class title ...Keep reading
The Blue Oval has been worried about the competitiveness of the Mustang compared to the Camaro since the seventh-generation model was official unveiled at Bathurst last year.
Those concerns were heightened at the VCAT aero homologation test, ultimately prompting another round of testing with the two prototypes last month.
It's understood the concerns lie with both the aero performance of the ...Keep reading
Red Bull motor sport advisor Marko made the claim in a recent TV interview while discussing the Dutchman’s appearance in the Virtual Le Mans 24 Hours and his dedication to driving whenever he can.
The simulator in a plane story was subsequently widely reported, but Verstappen says what he actually told Marko last year was that he will have one installed in the new motorhome that he is taking ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing driver Ericsson took only four laps to lower the IndyCar lap record at the venue, beating Colton Herta's Thursday effort with a 1m38.422s lap.
Rahal Letterman Lanigan driver Christian Lundgaard, who was second quickest on Thursday afternoon, was just 0.145s slower than the defending Indianapolis 500 winner.
Kyle Kirkwood, who replaces Alexander Rossi in Andretti ...Keep reading
Liam Lawson lapped Mount Panorama in a V8-powered Red Bull RB7 today in a special demonstration run at the Bathurst 12 Hour.
There was a lot of anticipation heading into the weekend that the demo, with the car that carried Sebastian Vettel to his second world title in 2011, could yield a new unofficial Bathurst lap record.
The Bathurst benchmark was set in 2011 when Button stopped the clocks ...Keep reading
Factory Mercedes driver Engel had already topped the 40-minute qualifying session to snare provisional pole with a 2m01.053s lap, which eclipsed the 2m01.286s time set by Shane van Gisbergen in 2016.
Engel, the 2014 Bathurst poleman, then staged a thrilling battle in the second part of the Shootout with fellow Mercedes driver Broc Feeney and the pair traded fastest times as they flirted ...Keep reading
The matter relates to a loan that the current AlphaTauri Formula 1 driver took in 2018 from Schothorst’s investment fund Investrand to help fund an F2 campaign with Prema Racing.
The Dutchman had needed to raise half a million Euros for that season and with help from sponsors like Jumbo, he managed to get half of that amount. For the other half, he borrowed from Investrand.
Schothorst ...Keep reading
During a season launch in New York on Friday, where Red Bull announced a new major partnership with Ford from 2026, the team revealed what it claimed was its 2023 challenger – the RB19.
However, the car on display appeared to have no visible differences from last year’s championship-winning RB18 – and even featured the 2022 mirrors that would be illegal for this season as they are too ...Keep reading
The former Mercedes strategy director was announced last month as the new team principal of Williams and his appointment received the blessing of Toto Wolff, who conceded that he’d been grooming Vowles as a potential successor.
Inevitably the news led to speculation that the teams could potentially work together more closely from now on, given Vowles’s long relationship with ...Keep reading
The blue oval is one of three brands alongside Toyota and Hyundai currently represented in rallying’s top tier through its long standing partnership with British operation M-Sport.
Ford renewed its commitment to the WRC by agreeing to help M-Sport develop the all-new Ford Puma designed to compete in the WRC’s new Rally1 hybrid regulations, introduced last year.
Ford Performance and its ...Keep reading
Ganassi took only four wins in 2023 compared to the nine claimed by Team Penske, although it did secure victory in the blue ribband Indianapolis 500 with Marcus Ericsson.
Dixon, Alex Palou and Ericsson finished third, fifth and sixth in the final points table, but none entered the 2022 finale with a truly realistic shot at the title which was claimed by Will Power over Penske ...Keep reading
The 22-year-old Formula 2 convert ended the first day of official IndyCar testing at the Thermal Club track in Palm Springs tenth of 27 runners.
Armstrong was 0.535s off pace-setter Colton Herta’s top time and 0.510s behind leading Ganassi driver Alex Palou.
Having tested at Sebring with Dale Coyne Racing last fall, it was Armstrong’s first day of running with the squad ...Keep reading
F1 is set to debut its next generation of power units in 2026, placing a heavy emphasis on the use of sustainable fuels and greater electric power in a bid for improved sustainability whilst not impacting the on-track spectacle.
Talks with both existing and potential new manufacturers have been ongoing for some time regarding the regulations, but the FIA revealed on Friday that six parties have ...Keep reading
Red Bull held its F1 2023 season launch in New York City on Friday, a decision reflecting the growth of the series in the United States and significance of the market.
But as part of the announcement, Red Bull F1 chief Christian Horner revealed the team was set to hold a competition called ‘Make Your Mark’, inviting fans to design different liveries for the races in Miami, Austin and Las ...Keep reading
Red Bull opted to hold its season launch in New York in front of its American title sponsor Oracle, revealing a livery similar to its previous colour schemes on a show car.
Oracle continues to occupy the prime sponsor slots on the car. Its actual 2023 challenger, the RB19, is still kept tightly under wraps.
The Red Bull launch was accompanied by the news that Ford will return to F1 as ...Keep reading
While Ford's tie-up with the Red Bull team had been anticipated for a while, with Autosport revealing the possibility back in December, the situation regarding AlphaTauri had been less clear.
With current supplier Honda having registered its interest in producing a power unit for the 2026 regulations, there had been speculation it could do something exclusively with AlphaTauri.
But, as Ford ...Keep reading
Red Bull is the second team to launch its 2023 machine after Haas released digital renderings of the new livery that will be run on its VF-23 challenger last week.
The Milton Keynes-based team won both the drivers' and constructors' F1 titles last year, as Verstappen secured his second world title.
Its launch follows the news announced earlier today that Ford will return to F1 as an ...Keep reading
How fitting that Red Bull is about to launch its 2023 Formula 1 season in New York City. At first glance, a glitzy livery unveil in the world’s most-recognisable metropolis is wholly in-keeping with the outfit’s incredible marketing campaigns that no other grand prix team comes close to matching.
But the reason for crossing the pond is much more significant this time around: in another very ...Keep reading
Having quit F1 at the end of the 2004 season, when it pulled the plug on the Jaguar operation and its badging of Cosworth engines, Ford announced on Friday that it will be coming back for the new engine era that begins in 2026.
Its early morning announcement only made reference to its plans to enter F1 again, and it did not detail which teams it would be working with.
However, as Autosport ...Keep reading
Although the event is being hailed as the 2023 car launch, Red Bull has history from last year of bringing out a rebranded old car and pretending it is a shiny new model.
The likelihood is that, with the first F1 test still several weeks away, what appears in New York will at best be a hybrid of the 2022 and 2023 models, featuring some old and new elements.
It will then, almost certainly, be ...Keep reading
“I can say almost unequivocally my best times and favourite team-mate without any animosity, ego, anything, would be Rickard,” says Harvey, speaking backstage at the Autosport International show. “We honestly never had a bad moment between us which is rare among team-mates. I thoroughly enjoyed his team effort, his friendship, his work ethic, everything was just very easy to get on ...Keep reading
Coming out of the hairpin at the reimagined Deep Forest Raceway, I have momentum on the Ford GT Gr.3 ahead of me. I duck out from behind its rear wing, moving left as we approach an innocuous-looking kink that leads onto the main straight.
We’re now alongside each other, and to check the ever-decreasing gap between the two cars, I instinctively look to my right, not with a press of a button ...Keep reading
The Italian posted a 2m03.995s as the Pro drivers took to the track for the second time in the final 40 minute session of the day.
Supercars ace Chaz Mostert emerged second fastest overall after posting a 2m04.088s, driving the #65 Melbourne Performance Centre Audi, the time set in the opening practice session.
The Sun Energy1 Racing Mercedes outfit was third thanks to Luca Stolz’s effort ...Keep reading
From 2014 to 2022, the Indy 500 offered 100 points to the winner, 80 to the runner-up and 70 to the third-place finisher as opposed to 50-40-35 for regular IndyCar races.
Although no Indy 500 winner in that period went on to take the series title, it was felt that double-points unduly hurt those who suffered a bad Month of May.
An official IndyCar statement read: “Over the years, the rule ...Keep reading
Vasseur briefly lived with Wolff when he moved to the UK to be Renault team principal in 2016, and the pair have been close ever since.
But with Vasseur having taken over the helm at one of Mercedes' chief F1 rivals, there has been much intrigue about how much they will be able to remain friends if they get locked in an intense battle for victory.
Furthermore, F1's infamous labelling of the ...Keep reading
A lack of success enjoyed by most of the new series launched in the UK last year certainly does not seem to have put off organisers from developing fresh ideas for 2023, as a plethora of creations are set to grace the circuits this season.
INSIGHT: Did the new national series of 2022 fly or flop?
Some of the new offerings seem distinctly familiar, while others are radically different - ...Keep reading
It’s easy to forget what a risk he seemed to be taking when he flew the family nest of McLaren to strike out on his own at Mercedes. But six world titles prove that it was entirely justified, and who’s to say there won’t be more?
In our cover feature, our Grand Prix Editor Alex Kalinauckas analyses Hamilton’s past decade, with insights from the Mercedes team’s engineering chief Andrew ...Keep reading
The Andretti driver lapped the 17-turn 2.9-mile course in 1m39.3721s, beating his 1m39.9303s effort from the morning session.
The opening two-and-a-half-hour session featured two red flags – both for harmless spin-and-stalls by Felix Rosenqvist of Arrow McLaren and Helio Castroneves of Meyer Shank Racing.
Herta became the first driver to crack the 100-second barrier with a 1m39.9303s ...Keep reading
Kubica and Deletraz both make the move across from the Prema squad, joining WRT's previously-announced silver-rated driver Rui Andrade at the wheel of the Belgian team's #41 Oreca 07-Gibson.
Sean Gelael is so far the only driver named for the #31 WRT entry.
Kubica contested his first full season in sportscar racing for WRT in 2021 in the European Le Mans Series, winning that year's title ...Keep reading
The Parisian, who took the European Formula 2 title in 1976, made 49 F1 starts between 1975 and 1981, getting his full debut at the 1975 French Grand Prix for Tyrrell.
But Jabouille will always be synonymous with Renault, the marque with which he contested most of his grands prix.
In 1979 Jabouille took Renault's first ever Formula 1 win at the French Grand Prix at Dijon-Prenois. The win not ...Keep reading
Jarvis was not retained by the Meyer Shank Racing Acura team after he clinched the final crown of IMSA's DPi era with Tom Blomqvist, having signed up for an LMP2 programme with United in the WEC that took precedence.
The 2005 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner and former Audi LMP1 racer will be reunited with Blomqvist for select rounds of the 2023 WEC - with ex-Formula 1 racer Giedo van der ...Keep reading
Kevin Buckler’s The Racers Group outfit had won the GT class at Daytona in 2002, aided by two young Porsche factory drivers: Timo Bernhard and Jorg Bergmeister.
“2002 was the first time they’d ever been to the US, and it was with us,” says Buckler. “At first, I didn’t really want these Porsche UPS Junior Drivers – but they turned out to be legendary.”
Bernhard and Bergmeister ...Keep reading
The Award has been running since 2015 as part of a joint venture between Williams and Autosport that forms a key part of the annual Autosport Awards prize gala at the end of every motorsport season.
Where previously entries for the Award where only accepted from students at eight of the UK’s leading universities with a strong reputation for engineering courses, entries are now open to anyone ...Keep reading
Vasseur has been drafted into Maranello for 2023 after his predecessor Mattia Binotto resigned last year amid a belief he did not have the confidence of Ferrari's senior road car management.
And while Vasseur is confident that Ferrari has everything in its hands to be able to fight for the F1 championship this year, Montoya believes there are still elements that the Frenchman will struggle ...Keep reading
Nowadays, the process is a lot more rigorous and pretty regimented in its details when it comes to allowing exclusive access to the F1 club.
It is a necessary formality, though, because F1 needs to know that all its entrants have the necessary backing and skill to do a good job.
The last thing the FIA and Formula One Management (FOM) want is for teams to turn up for one or two years ...Keep reading
As part of a joint effort between NASCAR, Hendrick Motorsports, Automobile Club de l’Ouest, IMSA and Goodyear, the modified Next-Gen-based Camaro ZL1 will take part in this year's centenary Le Mans 24 event.
Last week, 2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button was announced as one of the drivers of the Garage 56 entry alongside NASCAR legend Jimmie Johnson and sportscar ace Mike ...Keep reading
The UK has been absent from the WRC schedule since Wales Rally GB in 2019 after the COVID-19 pandemic forced the cancellation of the 2020 event amid reduced funding from the Welsh government.
Following the loss of the event, a bid fronted by promoter Bobby Willis attempted to bring the WRC to Northern Ireland in 2021 and 2022, but the project failed to secure the £2 million funding to run the ...Keep reading
Last December, the Andretti Autosport IndyCar driver was confirmed as part of Lamborghini’s roster of drivers destined to help develop the marque’s LMDh prototype and then race it in 2024.
As part of that deal, Grosjean is racing a Lamborghini Huracan GTD Pro car run by the works Iron Lynx team at IMSA endurance events this year.
In his debut for the team at last week’s Daytona 24 ...Keep reading
Former McLaren team principal Seidl has replaced Fred Vasseur, who has left to replace Mattia Binotto at Ferrari.
Seidl has come in solely as CEO in order to focus on the bigger picture of all the companies in the Sauber Group as the organisation continues to grow ahead of the planned transition to the full Audi identity in 2026, and as such he won't attend all the races.
Managing director ...Keep reading
Lazenby built an Austin 7 Special in his youth, then, following RAF service, he worked at Lotus. Initially, he worked in the Elite assembly shop, before joining Colin Chapman’s Team Lotus, under Jim Endruweit.
Preparing Clark’s F1 cars, and on the Indianapolis 500 crew with which the world champion won at their third attempt in 1965, brought action and adventure before he joined Lotus ...Keep reading
Following FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem’s statement earlier this year that he wanted the governing body to evaluate the idea, documents have now been formally published for interested parties to express their interest in joining.
In a statement issued on Friday, the FIA said it would evaluate the potential of new teams based on “rigorous financial and technical analysis” as well as ...Keep reading
The Anglo-Chinese squad has shown impressive one-lap pace with its Gen3 package, with Ticktum making it into the qualifying duels twice in the opening three races of the 2022-23 season.
The team has struggled to remain that those heights during the races, as its powertrain efficiency has been lacking compared to its rivals, and thus Ticktum and new team-mate Sergio Sette Camara have often gone ...Keep reading
F1 underwent a rules revolution at the start of last year, as the return of ground effect aerodynamics were aimed at allowing cars to follow each other better and therefore make overtaking easier.
But with mixed conclusions about the scope of the improvement, off the back of a dominant season for Red Bull, Elliott thinks it would be wrong to believe that things had dramatically ...Keep reading
Jani, 39, will share the French squad's Oreca 07-Gibson with Rene Binder and silver-rated teenager Nico Pino.
It follows the news in December that Jani would be ending a 10-year stint as a Porsche works driver after missing out on a seat in the German manufacturer's new LMDh project for 2023.
The Swiss driver, who also tested for the Meyer Shank Racing IMSA team last October, said he would ...Keep reading
Armstrong will drive the #11 Ganassi on the 12 road and street courses on the 2023 IndyCar schedule, with Takuma Sato taking over the ride on the five ovals.
The 22-year-old New Zealander says he has already been impressed by the outlook and approach of the 14-time IndyCar champions.
“Everyone has been giving me more information than I could have ever imagined really,” he said. “So ...Keep reading
The company was title sponsor to the team of Aiden Moffat, which merged with the BMR Racing operation of Ash Sutton’s then-manager Warren Scott for 2020 and 2021, with Sutton claiming both crowns at the wheel of one of the squad’s Infiniti Q50s.
Laser Tools announced late last year that it was pulling out of the BTCC, but its statement left the door open to a return in the future – ...Keep reading
Schumacher found himself without a seat for the 2023 season after two tough years at Haas and the 23-year-old was snapped up by Mercedes as a reserve driver behind Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas.
McLaren has now announced that it will continue its arrangement of sharing reserve drivers with its engine supplier.
In previous years it had agreed a deal with Mercedes to call upon Stoffel ...Keep reading
One of the few negatives that came out of the debut of the Next Generation car in the 2022 season were complaints from drivers of more significant impacts from rear-end collisions with the car.
Two drivers – Kurt Busch and Alex Bowman – were sidelined with concussions during the season after their respective cars were involved in accidents which sent both backing into the wall.
Busch has ...Keep reading
With Arrow McLaren expanding to three full-time entries for 2023, Rossi arrives at the team with seven years of experience at Andretti Autosport.
And while O’Ward is not expecting favours from his new team-mate, he firmly believes that Rossi will be a big help in developing Arrow McLaren’s set-ups.
"At the end of the day, as much as team-mates will help in order to gather data, it ...Keep reading
Alonso returned to F1 with Alpine in 2021 after taking a two-year break to race in the FIA World Endurance Championship, the Indy 500 and the Dakar Rally.
Alonso's third stint at the Enstone outfit got off to a slow start but once he got back up to speed the Spaniard re-found his old form, frequently suggesting he was driving at his best-ever level in 2022, a season which was blighted by ...Keep reading
In the latest in a new series of top 10s, this week's show brings you the discussion around the 10 best wet weather drives in F1 history.
A fan of Ayrton Senna's breakout Toleman drive at Monaco in 1984, or an ardent Jenson Button fan who gladly dies on the hill of Canada 2011 being the best? Listen in to hear where your favourites sit.
On the show, host Martyn Lee is joined by Autosport ...Keep reading
The Acura ARX-06, which won on its competition debut in last weekend's IMSA SportsCar Championship, will be confined to North America for 2023 with parent brand Honda yet to give the go-ahead for the car to be raced in the World Endurance Championship.
A spokesperson for Honda in Japan told Autosport late last year that nothing had been decided about a potential WEC or Le Mans entry in 2024 ...Keep reading
Firstly, it showed that F1’s Liberty Media era is not afraid to think outside the box, and has ruled nothing out, when it comes to ensuring that grand prix cars are as raceable as they possibly can be.
For the 1978 Brabham fan car, which Niki Lauda took to victory in that year’s Swedish Grand Prix, remains an iconic machine and will be a talking point forever because of its ...Keep reading
While 2020 and 2021 were tricky years to launch new championships because of the uncertainty caused by the looming spectre of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was still far from straightforward last year, either.
Spiralling inflation put pressure on everyone's pursestrings as the season wore on and this can have a particularly negative impact on categories trying to get off the ground.
Therefore ...Keep reading
Button got his first seat time at Daytona in the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 that Hendrick Motorsports will take to the Le Mans 24 Hours in June on Tuesday.
Project leader Chad Knaus explained that Button has already proved a useful addition to the team, given his previous high-level international racing exploits, but his height meant it would provide an additional challenge when it comes to driver ...Keep reading
On-screen graphics are regularly evolving to aid fans’ understanding of F1, while fresh camera angles and techniques are constantly explored to bring the on-track action alive.
But no camera angle has got as close to giving fans a true feeling of what it is like inside the F1 cockpit than Driver’s Eye. Through a small 9mm x 9mm camera fitted to the padding of the helmet, fans are able to ...Keep reading
Kvyat and Bortolotti will share Prema’s second Oreca 07-Gibson with the previously-announced Doriane Pin, forming an all-rookie line-up in the LMP2 class of the WEC.
The Italian outfit’s primary #9 entry will be shared by one-time Formula 3 race winner Bent Viscaal, 20-year-old Romanian Filip Ugran and Juan Manuel Correa.
Correa, who was announced by Prema in early January alongside Pin ...Keep reading
McRae, the son of former World Rally Championship driver Alister and nephew of the late 1995 WRC champion Colin, has been eyeing a move into European competition having largely focussed his career around his native national championship in Australia.
The 18-year-old had set his sights on competing in the Junior World Rally Championship after testing a Rally3 JWRC specification Fiesta last year ...Keep reading
The SR10 was first launched in 2020 and over 100 cars have since been delivered to customers, the majority heading to the US.
Now, following the announcement of an enhanced XXR version of the SR3 last year, similar developments are being applied to the SR10.
One of the most noticeable differences is new-look front louvres on the car, which have been created to improve the SR10’s ...Keep reading
Ben Sulayem has found himself at the centre of a storm in recent weeks amid a public falling out with Formula 1’s commercial rights holders.
Comments he made about what he felt was an ‘inflated’ $20 billion price tag for F1, suggested in a report that Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund was looking at buying it, did not go down well with the series.
In a letter that F1’s legal ...Keep reading
Chastain entered the final corner at Martinsville Speedway and simply did not lift, passing five cars, breaking the track record and snatching the hopes of progressing to the final four from Denny Hamlin while riding against the outside wall.
Videos of the move became viral and it was viewed over 100 million times across social media. Having progressed into the battle for the title through his ...Keep reading
Gasly joined Alpine for 2023 after spending the bulk of his career with Red Bull's sister team, AlphaTauri, and its predecessor, Toro Rosso, making his debut for the latter in 2017.
Gasly was promoted to Red Bull's senior team in 2019 as Daniel Ricciardo's replacement, only to return to Toro Rosso 12 races later in a straight swap with Alex Albon during the summer break after struggling for ...Keep reading
The Proton Competition-run WeatherTech Racing Mercedes AMG GT3 which MacNeil shared with factory Mercedes drivers Gounon, Daniel Juncadella and Maro Engel led 229 of the 729 laps that their car completed and won the class by 3.9 seconds after an absorbing three-way fight with the factory Corvette Racing C8.R and the #14 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F.
The only setbacks for the team over ...Keep reading
Sordo spent the past six seasons with McLaren's F1 team as head and director of vehicle performance and, prior to that, enjoyed 10 seasons with Red Bull.
Before that, Sordo had spells as a race engineer at Toro Rosso, at Jaguar and at Arrows.
Since last September, Sordo has overseen engineering at Rahal Letterman Lanigan’s new headquarters, and aims to bring over two decades of F1 ...Keep reading
Haas is the first team to show its 2023 colour scheme, with Red Bull Racing set to be next to do so in an event in New York on 3 February.
The white, red and black look echoes the logos of new Haas title sponsor MoneyGram, whose involvement was announced at last year's US GP.
The revised livery is broadly similar to last year's at the front, but with a much-extended area of black on the ...Keep reading
Last year he won his first Daytona 24 Hours on his way to the final title of IMSA's DPi era alongside Oliver Jarvis, and last weekend he added a second Rolex watch to his collection in the Florida endurance classic with Acura.
It marks a remarkable turnaround for a driver who went through a difficult phase in his final years with BMW, but whose junior single-seater record suggested that the ...Keep reading
Button is due to get his first taste of the modified Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 at Daytona International Speedway’s road course on Tuesday.
As part of a joint effort between NASCAR, Hendrick Motorsports, Automobile Club de l’Ouest, IMSA and Goodyear, the 2009 Formula 1 world champion will share the Next Gen-based Chevy with Mike Rockenfeller and Jimmie Johnson in the centenary edition of the ...Keep reading
The Jaguar driver felt that a podium at the very least was in the offing but was denied at the line by Rene Rast, who had defended third place despite running out of energy by the final corner.
Although Bird had mounted an earlier overtaking effort on the German, he went straight on at Turn 18 and had to concede the position back to Rast.
Following the safety car brought out on lap 28 for ...Keep reading
Rahal called the opening race of the 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship “a good start for us” despite the two BMW M Team RLL entries in the GTP class suffering significant delays on the way to sixth and ninth positions.
“I have to say that the testing was not easy, but after the Roar [pre-event test and qualifying weekend] I got confident, as there was reliability there as well as ...Keep reading
Haas announced in October that international payment company MoneyGram would be joining as its new title sponsor, providing a big financial boost to one of the smallest operations on the F1 grid.
Haas F1 chief Steiner confirmed at the time of the announcement that the injection of cash would allow the team to reach the budget cap, putting it on a more level playing field with the other ...Keep reading
The Chevrolet squad went public with a number of key details for its 2023 programme today including the engineering line-ups.
Winterbottom and Pye will continue with the same race engineers as 2022 with Manuel Sanchez working with the former and Richard Hollway with the latter.
Pye will also have consistency in terms of his data engineer with Mark Sylvester staying on, while Julia McGarry ...Keep reading
David Salters made the remarks after Acura secured a 1-2 finish in the IMSA SportsCar Championship season-opener, with the #60 Meyer Shank Racing ARX-06 leading home the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing example.
PLUS: How MSR took Acura to the first win of sportscar racing's new era
Four of the nine GTP cars in the field finished on the lead lap, while six were classified ahead of the best LMP2 ...Keep reading
It has also prompted many industries to evaluate the impact that advancement in AI technology will have on them in the next few years – both in terms of how it can be successfully exploited, and where it could also replace humans.
Formula 1 doesn’t escape this, with teams already using AI across a wide range of its activities – including car setups, development directions ...Keep reading
Albuquerque and his team-mates in the #10 Acura ARX-06, Ricky Taylor, Brendon Hartley and Louis Deletraz, almost completed a sensational comeback as they recovered from three laps down to challenge for victory in the final hours of the IMSA SportsCar championship season-opener.
But after making his way ahead of the two Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillacs to take second, the Portuguese driver was ...Keep reading
Two-time world champion Alonso has earned a reputation during his lengthy career as being fiercely competitive and ruthless when it comes to achieving his goals on track.
But while there have been occasions when his tactics have caused internal political problems at teams, Stroll says he is relishing the arrival of someone who is so willing to push him to the limit.
"It's no fun when you're ...Keep reading
Although both of its Porsche Penske Racing 963 GTP cars led laps on its debut in the IMSA SportsCar Championship, only the #7 car finished the race, 34 laps behind the winner – after a lengthy delay to replace its energy storage system.
The #6 entry, which looked likely to contend for the win until Sunday morning, retired with a broken gearbox.
Porsche now has just over six weeks to ...Keep reading
With an engine freeze in place from the start of last year, a number of car makers elected to risk reliability in a bid to ensure they had the best possible baseline of performance.
Both Ferrari and Renault, which powers the Alpine team, admitted that they had pushed things to the limit in the quest for longer-term gains. They knew that the rules would permit them to make changes to improve ...Keep reading
Adam Breeden, the pioneer of competitive socialising in the UK and entrepreneurial force behind some of the sector’s most successful concepts, has officially opened his most ambitious and exciting project. F1® Arcade, the world’s first official premium F1 experiential venue, opened on December 12, 2022 in London at One New Change, St Pauls.
The immersive state of the art F1 racing ...Keep reading
Deletraz will share an ORECA-Gibson 07 with TF regulars Charlie Eastwood and Salih Yoluc in the Pro-Am sub-division of LMP2, replacing one-time Formula 1 starter Jack Aitken in the team’s line-up.
This would be Deletraz’s third different team in ELMS in as many seasons, following one-year stints with WRT and Prema - both of which resulted in the Swiss driver taking the overall title.
He ...Keep reading
Aston Martin factory drivers Marco Sorensen and Darren Turner were joined by Bronze-rated team principal James and Canada's Roman de Angelis to secure victory in the 23-car GTD class on Sunday's IMSA SportsCar Championship season opener, enjoying a virtually clean race barring a brief power reset in the morning hours.
They led a 1-2 for the British marque ahead of the Magnus Racing ...Keep reading
The part-time rally driver will drive a fourth Toyota at the snow rally from 9-12 February after Toyota elected to rent out a GR Yaris as part of its 2023 plans.
The car has become available to hire after the team reshuffled its driver line-up following Esapekka Lappi’s decision to leave Toyota for a full-time seat at Hyundai.
This resulted in Takamoto Katsuta earning a promotion from its ...Keep reading
Allen and his co-drivers in the #55 Proton ORECA-Gibson 07, Fred Poordad, Francesco Pizzi and Porsche factory driver Gianmaria Bruni, were credited with a winning margin of just 0.016 seconds over the identical machine of Hanley, George Kurtz, Matt McMurry and Esteban Gutierrez.
Heading into the closing stages of the race, Allen had been third behind both Hanley and the AF Corse car of Matthieu ...Keep reading
Whereas once the key to aerodynamic performance lay in wings and other aero surfaces, now more downforce as an overall percentage can be found through exploiting the underside of the car to maximum effect.
When considering the floor, we're not only talking about the visible upper surface. We also have to factor in the underfloor which, from 2022 onwards, has taken on a much more in-depth design ...Keep reading
The German scored his first podium since returning to the all-electric championship after a year away, and also collected McLaren's first podium since its transition from the Mercedes brand.
Rast managed to pick up the lead having been able to undercut early leader Mitch Evans on their attack mode strategies, but did not put up too much of a fight against the charging Porsche-powered pair of ...Keep reading
Audi announced in August last year that it will be entering F1 in works capacity on the advent of new engine regulations in 2026, amid a boom in the world championship's popularity across the world.
This was followed by the news in October that Sauber, which currently operates as Alfa Romeo Racing, will become its “strategic partner” and use its Hinwil facility to build the chassis.
At ...Keep reading
Auer was set to partner Daniel Juncadella and Nicky Catsburg in Craft-Bamboo Racing's all-Pro Mercedes AMG for the Intercontinental GT Challenger opener next Sunday.
That was until the 2022 DTM runner-up was ruled out of both the Daytona 24 and the Bathurst 12 Hour after suffering broken vertebrae in a nasty crash during practice on Thursday.
That left Craft-Bamboo looking for a last-minute ...Keep reading
MSR repeated its 2022 triumph in the opening round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship as it delivered a debut win for the new Acura ARX-06, with Tom Blomqvist leading home a one-two for Acura in the #60 car he shared with Colin Braun, Simon Pagenaud and Helio Castroneves.
While the MSR Acura was a factor at the front of the field throughout the race, it wasn't without its challenges as the ...Keep reading
Acura finished first and second as IMSA’s new GTP era got underway, with Meyer Shank Racing leading Wayne Taylor Racing's identical machine over the line, as the #01 Ganassi machine Bourdais shared with Renger van der Zande and Scott Dixon completed the podium.
The sister #02 CGR Cadillac that Earl Bamber, Alex Lynn and Richard Westbrook will race in the World Endurance Championship full-time ...Keep reading
Tom Blomqvist crossed the line in the #60 entry he shared with Colin Braun, Simon Pagenaud and Helio Castroneves 4.1 seconds clear of the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing ARX-06 of Filipe Albuquerque, Ricky Taylor, Brendon Hartley and Louis Deletraz in a nailbiting finish to the 61st running of the Florida endurance classic, which was punctuated by 14 caution periods.
After a long stretch of green-flag ...Keep reading
After a near-six hour stretch of green flag running was brought to an end by a shunt for the High Class Racing LMP2 car of Anders Fjordbach in hour 21, the two Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-LMDhs and the MSR Acura ARX-05 were bunched together by the ninth full-course caution of the race.
Prior to that, Scott Dixon aboard the #01 Cadillac had been some 50 seconds clear of Simon Pagenaud in ...Keep reading
The Swede, who twice prevailed against Schumacher’s seven-time world championship-winning father Michael in the 2007 and 2009 finals, didn’t hide the feelings stirred up by facing the ex-Haas F1 racer on the same stage so many years later. Beating him two-nil in the final only added to the Audi Dakar ace's delight.
Ekstrom booked his passage to the final by defeating US rallycross ace ...Keep reading
Eight-time world champion Ogier recorded a record ninth Monte Carlo win at last weekend’s WRC season opener, after winning nine of the 18 stages, the Toyota driver leading the rally from start to finish.
The victory pulled Ogier one win clear of nine-time world champion Loeb’s record at the famous alpine asphalt event, with Ogier now leading his compatriot 9-8 in the Monte Carlo victory ...Keep reading
Red Bull swept to its first championship double since 2013 last year as it wrapped up both titles with more than a month to spare.
Max Verstappen won a record 15 races en route to his second F1 drivers’ championship, while Sergio Perez’s pair of victories and biggest season points haul to date aided Red Bull in securing the constructors’ title.
Although Ferrari put up a serious ...Keep reading
CGR driver Sebastien Bourdais propelled the #01 Cadillac V-LMDh to first position shortly after the end of the 15th hour after passing the Porsche of Nick Tandy, who had been struggling on old tyres and subsequently headed to the pitlane for fresh rubber.
This initially established a Cadillac 1-2 at the head of the field, with Alex Lynn trailing Bourdais in the #02 car, but MSR moved back up to ...Keep reading
Westbrook was speaking with over six hours remaining, having just exited the third-placed #02 car – which is running as a one-off entry by Chip Ganassi Racing before embarking on a full-time World Endurance Championship campaign.
“There’s just a really interesting strategy going on out there,” he told NBC Peacock. “We’ve got a tyre allocation this year which is new, so we’re ...Keep reading
The MSR team that had been the class of the field suffered technical drama shortly after the midway point of the race, with the engine cover of the #60 Acura ARX-06 having to be taken off during a full-course yellow due to a suspected gearbox leak.
This dropped Simon Pagenaud down to third when the race went back to green, but the 2016 IndyCar champion made quick work of Pipo Derani in the #31 ...Keep reading
The Belgian was set for a points finish before a late tumble into 11th as Dan Ticktum made his way past to secure the final point of the Saturday race.
It proved irrelevant as Vandoorne was burdened with 24s added to his race time for failing to use both attack mode activations and dropped to the bottom of the race classification.
Explaining the issue, the reigning champion recalled that he ...Keep reading
The timing of the change of team principal, during the critical busy winter period when big decisions are made, meant the Prancing Horse could not avoid a bit of uncertainty until replacement Fred Vasseur got his feet inside Maranello at the start of January.
After a fortnight getting to know better the inner-workings of the team, this ...Keep reading
Following the fifth yellow flag, at the end of the ninth hour, leader Renger van der Zande in the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-LMDh sprinted away but Jack Aitken in the #31 Action Express Racing Cadillac got ahead of Richard Westbrook in the #02 Ganassi machine.
But it wasn't long before Westbrook was demoted back to fifth, Mathieu Jaminet in the #6 Porsche 963 and Tom Blomqvist in the ...Keep reading
The #60 Acura ARX-05 was second for the restart after the fourth full-course caution of the race, which came early in the seventh hour when the LMP2 class-leading #11 TDS Racing ORECA of Steven Thomas picked up damage in an incident at the Bus Stop chicane.
Castroneves lined up alongside the #31 Action Express Racing Cadillac of Pipo Derani when the race went back to green, but locked his rears ...Keep reading
With the first pitstops out of the way, Tom Blomqvist’s Meyer Shank Racing Acura led the similar car of Wayne Taylor Racing, driven by Ricky Taylor, by 10 seconds.
Taylor had a similar margin over the quintet of #02 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac (Alex Lynn), #6 Porsche Penske Motorsports 963 (Nick Tandy), #01 CGR Caddy (Sebastien Bourdais), #7 PPM 963 (Felipe Nasr), #31 Action Express Racing ...Keep reading
Polesitter Hughes was unable to match his frontguard rivals for efficiency and, after losing the lead to Evans at the start of the second Diriyah E-Prix, was in the fight for a mid-points placing.
A strong attack mode strategy eventually brought Hughes ahead of Evans, but the British racer had to defend heavily from the Jaguar driver in the final laps as he ran low on energy.
He admitted to ...Keep reading
From the pole, Blomqvist led the field at the start in the #60 MSR Acura ARX-06, while Sebastien Bourdais managed to moved up from fourth to second aboard the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-LMDh heading through the first sequence of corners.
Front-row starter Felipe Nasr was demoted to third in the best of the Penske-run Porsche 963s, the #7 car, followed by Ricky Taylor aboard the #10 ...Keep reading
Button will join Jimmie Johnson and Mike Rockenfeller behind the wheel of the Hendrick Motorsports-prepared Chevrolet Camaro at the 24 Hours of Le Mans later this year as a Garage 56 entry.
The 43-year-old didn't say no to the prospect of potentially running NASCAR Cup races in the future, though says he would only be interested in road courses - and due to recent schedule changes at NASCAR's ...Keep reading
The Porsche driver once again produced a tactical masterclass to shake out into the lead by the end of the attack mode phase among the leaders, and then had to withstand pressure from Dennis to pick up a second consecutive victory.
Another strong start, this time from fifth on the grid, handed Wehrlein fourth place after the opening array of corners as Sebastien Buemi was offline into the ...Keep reading
Conway has joined Vasser Sullivan regulars Ben Barnicoat and Jack Hawksworth at the wheel of the team's #14 Lexus RC F GT3 in the GTD Pro class for the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship opener.
It marks his first outing in a GT car since he contested an International GT Open round on the now-defunct Valencia street track in 2008, when he was racing in the GP2 Series.
While Conway has ...Keep reading
Mazepin will share an Oreca 07 entered by 99 Racing with factory Lexus driver Ben Barnicoat and bronze-rated Felix Porteiro in the premier LMP2 class of the Asian LMS, beginning with the season opener in Dubai on 11 February.
This will mark Mazepin’s first foray into circuit racing since he was dropped by the Haas F1 team on the eve of the 2022 season following Russia’s invasion of ...Keep reading
Button will join seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson and 2010 Le Mans winner Mike Rockenfeller in the Garage 56 line-up.
Garage 56 is the entry that the Automobile Club de l'Ouest sets aside for the “technology of tomorrow and beyond” of innovative machinery.
The entry – a modified version of the Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 race car – is a collaboration of NASCAR ...Keep reading
Magnussen’s F1 career looked to have ended in 2020 when he was dropped by Haas at the end of the season, prompting him to move into sportscar racing in the United States.
But after Nikita Mazepin’s contract was terminated in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Magnussen returned to Haas on a multi-year deal. The Dane finished fifth in his comeback race in Bahrain, and went on ...Keep reading
Partnered once again by his father Petter, the younger Solberg was unbeaten on the day and will go into tomorrow’s Race of Champions at the same venue as firm favourite.
The Norwegian rally aces both contributed to their quarter-final victory over Team France, in which they won four out of four against Adrien Tambay and a certain Sebastien Loeb.
But from the semi-final onwards, it was the ...Keep reading
Guenther carried too much speed into Turn 11 and the understeer prevalent in his car caused him to veer into the barriers, causing significant tub damage on the front-right part of the car.
This ended the German racer's day as the damage was too heavy to prepare his car for the race, and the work carried into the night as the Maserati MSG mechanics prepared his car for Saturday's ...Keep reading
Tandy, who is sharing the #6 Porsche 963 with Dane Cameron and Mathieu Jaminet for this weekend's IMSA SportsCar Championship curtain-raiser, observed how limited running has been on Michelin's new low-temperature soft tyre in the build-up to the event.
The bulk of pre-event running with the new LMDh prototypes has been done with the high-temperature soft compound, and Tandy believes some cars ...Keep reading
The British driver had found a tenth over Evans in the opening sector and tacked on a smidgen more to his advantage in the next part of the lap, but a lairy moment through the final part of the downhill sweepers gave Evans a glimmer of hope.
With almost nothing between them at this stage, Hughes had to collect himself and focus on the final part of the lap, which he duly did so - but typically ...Keep reading
The recently retired F1 driver discussed his fascination of rallying ahead of this weekend’s Race of Champions in Sweden, where he will compete alongside World Rally Championship drivers past and present in Sebastien Loeb, Thierry Neuville, Petter Solberg and Oliver Solberg.
Vettel revealed that he regularly follows the WRC and is in awe of the skills required to compete in the ...Keep reading
Speaking to Autosport ahead of the 61st running of the Florida sportscar classic, Laudenbach admitted that Porsche Penske Motorsports' debut with the LMDh 963 will require “a little bit of luck” in terms of reliability, given all the teething trouble encountered in pre-season testing with the new common electrical hybrid system.
"We are ready,” he said of the opening round of the ...Keep reading
Sam Bird kicked off the more representative times of the session with a 1m12.163s, but the pace quickly escalated as the drivers shook off the morning cobwebs and began their runs in earnest.
Friday's polesitter Sebastien Buemi then collected a 1m11.620s, which was quickly knocked off the top by the NIO 333 pairing of Sergio Sette Camara and Ticktum.
Antonio Felix da Costa, who was caught up ...Keep reading
The Briton scored his first Formula E podium in over a year after a trying 2021-22 season and had led the majority of the race's first two-thirds, but was powerless to resist Pascal Wehrlein's lap 30 overtake for the lead.
Despite a deficit to the Porsche-powered cars of Wehrlein and Andretti's Jake Dennis in the race, Bird scored a comfortable third-place finish having been on form since ...Keep reading
Vasseur was signed up by Ferrari in the wake of Binotto resigning last year, after feeling he did not have the necessary support of Ferrari chairman John Elkann and CEO Benedetto Vigna.
While Binotto expressed his ‘regret’ at the time about having to leave behind a team that he felt was on the up, it appears he made sure not to leave Vasseur in the lurch.
Speaking to ...Keep reading
The 2015-16 Formula E champion joined the Envision team for this season after leaving Nissan, as the British team began a partnership with Jaguar for the Gen3 era.
Buemi had been with Nissan through its various incarnations since the beginning of Formula E in 2014, joining the then-e.dams Renault team for the all-electric championship's inaugural season.
After a disappointing past two ...Keep reading
The ex-Formula 1 and current IndyCar star is making his IMSA SportsCar Championship debut this weekend with the Iron Lynx team in the GTD Pro class, sharing a Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo2 with Mirko Bortolotti, Andrea Caldarelli and Jordan Pepper.
It follows the news last month that Grosjean will be part of the Italian brand's twin attack on IMSA and the FIA World Endurance Championship with a ...Keep reading
The South African was named as Robin Frijns' replacement at the Abt team for the foreseeable future while the Dutchman recovers from his hand and wrist fractures sustained in a collision with Norman Nato in Mexico.
Although DTM race winner van der Linde spent time in the simulator preparing for his first race in Formula E, he only had two practice sessions in the real car ahead of qualifying ...Keep reading
Auer was set to make his Mount Panorama debut next week as part of Craft-Bamboo's all-Pro Mercedes entry alongside Daniel Juncadella and Nicky Catsburg.
However a huge crash during Thursday practice for the Rolex 24 has left the Austrian with several fractured vertebrae, ruling him not only out of the Daytona 24 Hours, but the Bathurst 12 Hour as well.
Craft-Bamboo is now engaged in an ...Keep reading
The GTP teams practiced fuel stops, tyre stops, driver changes and, in the case of the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-LMDh, practiced a swift nose change. Out on track, the teams were also testing the softer Michelin compound for use at night in the colder temperatures.
Particularly worth noting for the drivers and race engineers was the behavior of the softer rubber, given that there is a ...Keep reading
The #88 entry for rookie Pedersen, who stepped up from Indy Lights after a fifth-placed finish in the championship, was to be paired with its traditional #14-registered car for Santino Ferrucci.
The two numbers combined are often used to refer to fascist ideologies, and have been used by people who identify as neo-Nazis and white supremacists as a shorthand code to promote their ...Keep reading
Taylor qualified the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura in third and the car has appeared to be consistently quick in all track conditions, but he expects teething troubles for all the GTP cars which are new and running spec hybrid systems.
“If you talk about the pace of the car, I'm confident,” he told Autosport. “But outside of that I don't think anybody can really have a lot of confidence in ...Keep reading
Pierre Fillon, president of championship promoter the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, has insisted that it is far from certain the WEC will continue to join the IMSA SportsCar Championship at Sebring in March beyond the end of its current five-season deal with the Florida venue this year.
His comments follow those of WEC series boss Frederic Lequien in December that he was not looking beyond the ...Keep reading
The German carved through the pack after qualifying ninth, eventually working his way up to leader Sam Bird by the 24th lap of the opener in the Saudi Arabian double-header.
Although his initial attempt at claiming the lead on the following lap was unsuccessful, Wehrlein continued to track Bird throughout the following laps and, after the Briton's defence ran out of steam, the Porsche driver ...Keep reading
The German driver made a pass on long-time leader Sam Bird to get to the front, and was able to resist Dennis' advances in order to chalk up his first win of the season in Saudi Arabia.
Having made up three places on the first lap after benefitting from a pile-up between Mitch Evans, Lucas di Grassi and Oliver Rowland, Wehrlein made up another place on the eighth lap when Rene Rast went too ...Keep reading
Making its public debut at Daytona International Speedway ahead of Saturday’s Daytona 24 Hours, the Corvette Z06 GT3.R is Chevrolet’s first car that fully meets FIA technical regulations for GT3 cars.
The C8.Rs run last season and this season are GTLM/GTE Pro cars converted to GT3 standard for IMSA and WEC competition following the deletion of those two categories.
Design and development ...Keep reading
Matt Campbell set the early running with a 1m35.941s in the Porsche Penske Motorsports 963, although Jack Aitken soon joined him, the Action Express Racing Cadillac V-LMDh producing a lap just 0.032s slower.
At this point 2016 IndyCar champion Simon Pagenaud in the Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 lay third, and with 32 minutes to go, he trimmed his deficit to top spot down to 0.182s.
Right ...Keep reading
W Series, with its all-female grid, provides 18 full-time seats, while Extreme E’s unique sporting format has a 50-50 gender split between men and women. Further support will come in 2023 with the introduction of F1 Academy, a new feeder series aimed at helping women join the single seater pyramid.
Yet, if you search the top echelons of some of the most popular motorsports, you’ll find them ...Keep reading
From the high-profile errors that derailed its bid for victory at the Monaco Grand Prix, to questions over not pitting Charles Leclerc late on at Silverstone, to the bizarre intermediate tyre qualifying gamble in Brazil, it was a recurring theme throughout the campaign.
While the mistakes prompted some to suggest that Ferrari needed to be harsh and replace its strategy chiefs, then team ...Keep reading
Auer was involved in a massive crash shortly after setting the fastest time in the opening practice session on Thursday, the DTM ace having to be retrieved from his car after smashing the barriers smashing the concrete wall near Turn 2.
The Austrian driver was subsequently transported to a hospital and is understood to have suffered fracture vertebrae, which will require surgery as per ...Keep reading
Rallying’s top tier is currently in the process of formulating its immediate and long term regulations, with propulsion a key topic for discussion.
Last year the WRC introduced a move to hybrid power, and became the first FIA world championship to use 100% sustainable fuel, through its Rally1 regulations, which will remain in place until the end of 2024.
It is widely expected that these ...Keep reading
It is one of the most exciting weekends in motorsport this year, because the Daytona 24 Hours marks the start of the new era.
Last weekend saw Tom Blomqvist put his Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 LMDh car on pole in a last-gasp effort which set the scene for this weekend’s IMSA opener.
The grid has so much to look out for. Nine of the new GTP class cars, 10 LMP2 entries, nine LMP3s ...Keep reading
Buemi has hence matched Jean-Eric Vergne's series pole record of 15, and his first since the New York City E-Prix in 2019.
The opening sector was incredibly close, with Hughes a nose ahead with a 0.003s advantage. He extended that to 0.05s, but Buemi had been excellent throughout the session in the final sector.
Hughes clocked a 1m09.495s to set the benchmark, but Buemi ended his run to pole ...Keep reading
BMW qualified a distant seventh and eighth for the opening round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship during the Roar before 24 last week, and again proved to be the slowest of the four GTP manufacturers during a trio of practice sessions at Daytona International Speedway on Thursday.
Although BMW’s decision not to prioritise pure performance has been a key factor in the Rahal Letterman ...Keep reading
The Gen3 car was launched without a conventional rear braking system, as the regeneration at the rear axle offered enough stopping power to slow the cars down for each corner.
Concerns over the off-season about the braking, manifested by incidents for Sam Bird and Sebastien Buemi during private and collective testing respectively, have expedited the introduction of an emergency system for the ...Keep reading
The scenario facing Martin Donnelly when he arrived at Brands Hatch for the 1989 International Formula 3000 round wasn’t too dissimilar to the one he’d been presented with the previous year. As in 1988, when he was readying for his debut in the Formula 1 feeder series with Eddie Jordan Racing, the Ulsterman had no points to his name after a series of mishaps had blighted his expected 1989 ...Keep reading
The iconic Blue Oval brand is understood to be in advanced talks with Red Bull about badging the team’s power units from the start of the 2026 season.
There are even suggestions that the deal could be firmed up before the start of the forthcoming campaign.
For now, Ford is remaining silent on the state of play with Red Bull.
However, it has admitted that the ramping up of ...Keep reading
Ticktum's strong first and final sectors carried him to the top of the timesheets, initially with half a second over Jaguar's Mitch Evans.
Although Buemi and Stoffel Vandoorne filled that bracket by the close of the session, Ticktum's time handed him an ultimately unassailable advantage.
Jake Dennis was top after the opening 10 minutes of the session with a 1m11.376s, deposing last year's ...Keep reading
Latvala announced at the WRC 2023 launch in Monte Carlo that he is hoping to contest a round of the Japanese Rally Championship to assist with the development of the new Rally2 GR Yaris.
Toyota revealed its Rally2 GR Yaris concept, its first entry into the Rally2 arena, at last year’s WRC season finale in Japan.
It has now been confirmed the car will undergo a year of development in 2023 ...Keep reading
Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz both won races for Ferrari last year, but it was Leclerc who finished second in the championship, 62 points clear of Sainz, who admitted he struggled to adapt to the Ferrari F1-75 car as quickly as his team-mate.
Talk of team orders between Leclerc and Sainz emerged as early as round four at Imola last season after Leclerc forged an early lead at the top of the ...Keep reading
Aitken has spent the past three years as reserve driver for Williams, and made his first grand prix start in the 2020 Sakhir Grand Prix deputising for George Russell, who in turn replaced a COVID-19-struck Lewis Hamilton at Mercedes.
He maintained his relationship with the Grove-based squad even after ending his full-time single-seater career in 2021 in favour of a switch to endurance racing ...Keep reading
Red Bull will run the 2011-spec car in a special demonstration around the famous Mount Panorama circuit during the 12 Hour weekend.
While the initial announcement didn't name who would drive the car, prompting speculation that Daniel Ricciardo could make an appearance on home soil, it has now been confirmed that Super Formula-bound Lawson will be behind the wheel.
It will mark the Kiwi's ...Keep reading
Although Maserati MSG showed well in pre-season testing, as Maximilian Guenther was a near-permanent fixture at the top of the timesheets at the Valencia circuit, the team came back to earth with a bump in Mexico.
There, the team struggled to switch the tyres on in qualifying, and struggled to replicate its pace in December testing as it failed to trouble the scorers.
Guenther finished 11th ...Keep reading
The Swiss team has landed a new title backer in Stake, an online gambling and casino company, and will be known as Alfa Romeo F1 Team Stake.
Orlen entered F1 when Kubica was a race driver with Williams in 2019, and then went to Alfa Romeo the following year. With no race seat available Kubica took up a reserve and FP1 driver role that he held for three seasons at the Swiss squad.
He was ...Keep reading
Vasseur took over as Ferrari team principal earlier this month following Mattia Binotto’s departure in December, having overseen Sauber’s F1 operation for the previous five years.
He joins a Ferrari team that has not won an F1 championship since 2008, and saw its early promise in 2022 fade through the season.
As well as losing ground on Red Bull in the development battle, Ferrari also ...Keep reading
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The Penske-run #7 Porsche 963 of Campbell was the first car to duck below the 1m36s barrier, turning a 1m35.802s after 20 minutes to eclipse the Cadillac V-LMDh cars of Alex Lynn and Alexander Sims by over 0.4s. Ricky Taylor moved up to also shade the Cadillacs, but was still over 0.33s off top spot.
His full-time partner Albuquerque cut the deficit back to 0.172s with half an hour to ...Keep reading
Westbrook and Scott Dixon held the top two spots in the #02 and #01 Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac entries ahead of the third Caddy of Jack Aitken and Action Express Racing in the early stages.
The Porsche 963s were both in action in the session, Matthieu Jaminet in the #6 car just ahead of the #7 of Matt Campbell, who in turn was one-thousandth faster than Brendon Hartley’s best effort in ...Keep reading
Auer lost control of his #57 Winward Racing Mercedes-AMG GT3 coming out of Turn 1, just moments after setting the fastest time in the GT Daytona class, before smashing head-on into the concrete wall near Turn 2 that separates the pit exit from the race track.
The accident triggered a red flag interruption of about 20 minutes, in which time Auer was retrieved from the stricken car. According to ...Keep reading
After a GTD car choking on pit entry caused the first red flag, the running was interrupted again after only 16 minutes due to debris at Turn 2. At that point, only Philipp Eng in the #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 had set a vaguely representative time, with a 1m39.586s.
When action resumed Tom Blomqvist drove the polesitting Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 to the top of the times with a 1m35.688s run, a ...Keep reading
The 31-time MotoGP race winner will make his second competitive start for KTM since joining the Austrian manufacturer as a test rider in 2019, having retired from full-time competition the season before.
Along with Mika Kallio, the Spaniard has led the KTM test team with the development of the RC16 and will compete alongside factory riders Brad Binder and new signing Jack Miller at Jerez on ...Keep reading
Paul Scriven, a Liberal Democrat life peer, has written to Ben Sulayem to express his concerns about both the FIA's clampdown on drivers making political statements, as well as the president's failure to respond to correspondence sent last year.
In the letter, a copy of which has been seen by Autosport, Lord Scriven explains that he was one of 90 lawmakers who wrote to the FIA last March to ...Keep reading
In the name of adequate separation with the new GTP machines that will make their debut in this weekend's IMSA SportsCar Championship curtain-raiser, the ORECA 07-Gibson LMP2 has been slowed down substantially with a suite of technical changes announced last month.
These include a 10kg weight increase, a power reduction by way of a 35mm air restrictor, and a reduction in revs from 8,700rpm to ...Keep reading
The former Renault Formula 1 boss began his foray into rallying by leading the Hyundai squad for the first time at last weekend’s WRC season opener in Monte Carlo.
While Hyundai were comfortably beaten by Toyota, the Korean marque left the principality with a third place finish through Thierry Neuville, albeit 44.6s behind winner Sebastien Ogier. Unlike last year, all three i20 Ns finished ...Keep reading
The German returns to the grid with Haas this season after three years as a reserve for the Racing Point/Aston Martin team.
During that time he made five appearances as a substitute for drivers who were sidelined by COVID-19.
Daniel Ricciardo has made it clear that he sees his new job as a Red Bull reserve as a chance to get his head together after a tough 2022 season, and Hulkenberg agrees ...Keep reading
The new series, run by the same organisers as the all-electric Extreme E championship, was announced last February and is slated to begin in the second quarter of 2024.
Extreme E chief championship officer James Taylor told Autosport that French manufacturer SRT, which currently supplies XE and sister series Formula E, would build a new chassis for Extreme H that he described as “a generation ...Keep reading
Two-time Formula E champion Vergne, who will make his 100th race start in the category this weekend at the Diriyah round, has been a frequent critic of the all-weather tyre construction used in the electric championship.
Hankook took over from Michelin for the Gen3 era of Formula E, and has produced a harder tyre which has proven tricky for the teams' tyre engineers to find the sweet spot of ...Keep reading
The WRC has long held an ambition to secure a foothold in the USA, with the American market deemed a key battleground for championship stakeholders and a region with growing support for rallying.
Rallying's top tier last visited the USA in 1988 when the Olympus Rally in Washington was won by Lancia's Miki Biasion.
Speaking to Autosport at last weekend's Monte Carlo Rally, WRC event director ...Keep reading
Although it didn’t appear in the first Formula 1 world championship in 1950, as Ferrari did, the legend of the Silver Arrows had already been forged before the Second World War.
For this list, Autosport chief editor Kevin Turner assesses the amount of success the drivers scored with Mercedes, the impact they had on the team and the circumstances of their time there.
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FIA president Ben Sulayem tweeted at the start of the month that he wanted to explore the possibility of expanding the F1 grid by calling for expressions of interest from potential new teams.
This was soon followed by Andretti announcing a new partnership with General Motors to form Andretti Cadillac Racing and join the F1 grid in the future.
Andretti’s plans have so far been ...Keep reading
The Austrian manufacturer made its debut in MotoGP in 2017 and will be looking to mount a serious charge for the championship for the first time after ending 2022 fourth out of six in the constructors’ table.
PLUS: How MotoGP’s underachiever is working to reverse its fortunes in 2023
KTM has refreshed its line-up at its factory squad for 2023, with four-time race winner Jack Miller ...Keep reading
The Historic Sports Car Club revealed in November that it planned to hold a three-hour race at the Norfolk circuit after a break of eight years. Autosport will be supporting the event, which will be run in the spirit of the original 1950s and 1960s races.
The contest was first held in 1957, when it was won by Ken Rudd in an AC Ace, and other former winners include two-time Formula 1 champion ...Keep reading
The major F1 rules revolution finally arrived in 2022. The first season of ground-effects went reasonably well and the regulations remain fairly stable for this season. There are, however, some minor tweaks – as well as three new drivers on the grid and an F1 returnee – so this week Autosport is your guide to F1 2023.
Our technical editor Jake Boxall-Legge runs through the changes and looks ...Keep reading
The Australian series has moved to a random allocation for engines due to the centralisation of providers.
While previously there was complete freedom with engine supply, some teams having their own in-house shops while others sourced motors from rival teams or specialist builders, that isn't the case with the new Gen3 motors.
Instead there are two dedicated engine suppliers, with Herrod ...Keep reading
Following the departure of Sauber CEO and Alfa Romeo F1 boss Frederic Vasseur to Ferrari in December, Sauber signed ex-McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl to take over as CEO.
It was also confirmed at the time that Sauber - which operates the Alfa Romeo F1 team - would be splitting the roles, and was still looking for an F1 team chief.
Sauber announced on Thursday that Alunni Bravi, who is ...Keep reading
Porsche has seven of its new 992-type 911 GT3 Rs entered for the IMSA SportsCar Championship season opener across both the GTD Pro and GTD classes, but proved off the pace in last weekend's pre-event Roar test.
The best of the marque's cars, the #16 Wright Motorsports example, qualified 21st of the GTD cars, almost three seconds off the pace of the pole-winning Mercedes-AMG GT3, while the #80 ...Keep reading
Westbrook, who will contest the full FIA World Endurance Championship with Chip Ganassi Racing’s Cadillac team, makes a one-off IMSA start in this weekend’s Daytona 24 Hours.
He spent last season in IMSA with the JDC-Miller Motorsports Cadillac DPi team, after four seasons of GTLM competition with CGR’s Ford GT program in America.
Speaking about his Cadillac ...Keep reading
This week's podcast looks at the 26 drivers who took a single world championship F1 win. Some of those drivers should have won many more races, while others got on the list through good fortune or an outstanding performance.
Here is our pick of F1's top 10 one-hit wonders, based on their drives to victory, the circumstances of that success and their overall careers.
We’re excluding those ...Keep reading
The two-time WEC champion will pair up with Euroformula Open graduate Vlad Lomko for his debut in the ELMS aboard the ubiquitous ORECA-Gibson 07.
The Cool outfit part-owned by former Toyota LMP1 racer Nicolas Lapierre finished fifth in the 2022 ELMS standings, with Lapierre joined by Ye Yifei and Niklas Krutten.
Lapierre, who raced against Lopez during his two-year GP2 stint in 2005-06 and ...Keep reading
Hubert was the leading talent in Renault’s young driver programme - since rebranded as the Alpine Academy - after winning the GP3 title in 2018 before moving up to Formula 2 the following year.
He won races at Monaco and Paul Ricard prior to his death in an accident during the feature race at Spa.
Gasly and Hubert were close friends after rising through the junior ranks of French ...Keep reading
The Paolo Campinoti-owned Pramac squad ended last year as the leading independent outfit, after finishing fourth in the teams’ standings while contributing eight podiums to Ducati’s successful march to the constructors’ championship.
Pramac will continue as a Ducati satellite outfit in 2023, and will be the marque’s only customer squad to be fully factory-supported.
The team will ...Keep reading
An unusual lack of wintry conditions transformed the WRC season opener into a flat out dry asphalt sprint, which led to several calls from drivers to move the rally further north to guarantee the traditional snow and icy stages of the past.
This was the second year the rally has been largely devoid of snow. Only the Sisteron stage in 2022 was affected by snow and ice, and for this year that ...Keep reading
After a season like 2022 it would be easy for Wolff, Lewis Hamilton, George Russell and their Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS F1 Team colleagues to consign their difficult memories to the bin and move on. But that’s not how Formula 1 works.
The sport is all about relentless self-improvement and when you are a team accustomed to success, that suddenly finds itself winning neither a Drivers’ nor ...Keep reading
To focus on the result – a 22-lap victory for Hurley Haywood and Peter Gregg with Brumos Racing – doesn’t tell half the story. And while team owner/driver Gregg is sadly no longer around to tell the tale, Haywood, who just a few years earlier had been in the Vietnam War, takes up the story…
“Roger Penske got a car, and Peter got a car,” Haywood, now 74, says of the ...Keep reading
The Australian enduro on 3-5 February has attracted a grid of 28 cars, with full Pro crews once again eligible after the 12 Hour was switched to a Pro-Am event for its first running since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2022.
The field is headlined by the return of the SunEnergy1 squad, which prevailed at the 12 Hour with Gounon, Stolz, Habul and Martin Konrad last season, and went on to secure the ...Keep reading
The 2019 Super GT champion was at the wheel of the Rookie Racing Toyota GR Supra when he suffered an off at the high-speed 130R corner and hit the barriers at speed late in the opening session of the two-day test.
The 27-year-old was taken to hospital following the incident, but his team announced he had escaped serious injury.
Now Rookie Racing has confirmed that the one-time Super Formula ...Keep reading
Led by Australian businessman and entrepreneur David Dicker, the move will see Rodin Cars become the majority shareholder of the Farnham-based outfit.
Trevor and Stephanie Carlin will continue at the helm to lead the team on a day-to-day basis with no changes to personnel or operations.
The team, which participates in British F4, FIA F3 and FIA F2 along with British GB3, will also expand in ...Keep reading
After a disappointing qualifying session, where he was dumped out in the group stages and ended up starting 14th on the grid, reigning champion Vandoorne had been hoping to make up the shortfall in the race.
Although the DS Penske team, which he joined from the departing Mercedes team at the end of the 2021-22 season, showed good pace in practice, it appeared to lose ground from qualifying ...Keep reading
For the second year in a row Autosport’s National Driver Rankings were headed by the Historic Formula Ford 1600 champion in 2022. And, again, the table-topper also excelled in several other machines.
But, unlike last year’s conqueror Cam Jackson – who was already a well-established name at the forefront of historic motorsport with multiple titles under his belt – Samuel Harrison ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion had been tight-lipped on his 2023 plans this year, but in an interview with French broadcaster Canal + he confirmed his attendance at the gravel rally from 16-19 March.
Mexico returns to the WRC this year for the first time since 2020, when the event was cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic. It will host the third round of the WRC season.
The popular gravel rally ...Keep reading
Rather than it being a side story to F1’s ongoing Netflix-era soap opera, it potentially marks the start of a change of dynamic in the way the championship is run.
While in public there has long been a united front between FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem and F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali, paddock regulars know that things have been different behind the scenes. Away from the spotlight of ...Keep reading
Balfe, who finished third alongside Rob Bell in 2019 despite his Balfe Motorsport outfit missing the opening round at Oulton Park due to teething problems with its new McLaren 720S GT3, returned to the series last year after sitting out 2020 and focusing on International GT Open the following season.
He and team-mate Adam Carroll won the opening round of the season at Oulton Park in an Audi R8 ...Keep reading
The new enforced concept called for a total rethink, given the upper section of endplate had been eradicated and a contoured transition was needed to join with the mainplane and upper flap.
The design constraints still allowed for numerous interpretations though, as teams sought to find a balance between the downforce they could generate, and the downside of drag ...Keep reading
The 40-year-old East Midlander has always been expected to be back with the Sunbury operation this year alongside 2022 team-mates Jake Hill and Colin Turkington plus team newcomer Adam Morgan as WSR expands to a four-car line-up.
While Hill and Morgan have already been confirmed, four-time champion Turkington’s position is still yet to be officially announced.
Jelley made a step forward in ...Keep reading
Top Performer - Sebastien Ogier and Vincent Landais
Much like Roger Federer’s domination of Wimbledon in his prime, watching Sebastien Ogier master the Monte Carlo Rally year after year is one those awe inspiring sporting moments.
At 39-years-old and a semi retired rally driver, Ogier was in a league of his own as he and new co-driver Vincent Landais delivered a Monte Carlo masterclass to ...Keep reading
The A522 car was by no means the fastest of the chasing pack every weekend, but it was on many occasions, showing particularly well at high-efficiency tracks, and in low-speed corners. In the end, it proved just good enough to outscore the competition.
After three successive years in fifth place under the Renault and Alpine names, the Enstone outfit moved up to fourth, ahead of close rivals ...Keep reading
New testing restrictions have been imposed on WRC teams this year in a bid to camp down on costs by limiting manufacturer teams to 21 days (a maximum of seven per driver) instead of 28 as stipulated last year.
Speaking to Autosport prior to the last weekend’s season opener in Monte Carlo, Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville labelled the rule change as “ridiculous” and suggested it would ...Keep reading
Ben Sulayem took to social media on Monday to express his concern about the implications of an exaggerated price for F1.
In the wake of a report from Bloomberg that Saudi’s sovereign wealth fund had tabled a $20 billion bid for F1 but without interest from owner Liberty Media, Ben Sulayem said he was worried about potential consequences of such figures being thrown around.
In particular ...Keep reading
WTR and Andretti Autosport have revealed a plan to expand its Acura attack in the IMSA SportsCar Championship to two cars next year, and then turn its attention to Europe – targeting the biggest sportscar race of all, the Le Mans 24 Hours.
Taylor’s team currently fields a single GTP Acura ARX-06 entry in IMSA competition, with Acura’s other car run by Meyer Shank Racing.
Honda’s ...Keep reading
The former Force India Formula 1 driver will share the ubiquitous ORECA-Gibson 07 with 2003 Le Mans 24 Hours winner Guy Smith and American gentleman driver Jim McGuire in the six-round ELMS, which begins on 23 April at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.
Di Resta has been a regular part of United's line-up since his switch to sportscars in 2018, most notably winning the LMP2 class at the Le ...Keep reading
The WRC has been working alongside the FIA to develop the future pathway for rallying’s top tier ever since the launch of the Rally1 hybrid rules last year.
This has included a series of discussions with manufacturers already involved in the discipline and other marques not currently competing, to understand the required ruleset for 2025 onwards that will attract new brands to ...Keep reading
Last year, in the wake of the controversy over the FIA's handling of the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, motor racing's governing body elected a system whereby F1 race control was led by two different individuals.
Wittich and Edoardo Freitas shared the race director role for much of the season, as the FIA took on board the lessons from what had gone on before.
In the end, Wittich was assigned the ...Keep reading
The young Brazilian-American, who was called up for two grands prix at the end of 2020 as replacement for the injured Romain Grosjean, will twin his reserve duties with Haas alongside his efforts for the Jota team in WEC’s LMP2 class.
As part of his Haas responsibilities, Fittipaldi will likely get some test mileage – most likely in pre-season running in Bahrain and during Friday free ...Keep reading
Yamashita suffered an off at 130R at the wheel of his Rookie Racing Toyota GR Supra during the morning session as group testing for the 2023 season kicked off at the Japanese Grand Prix venue.
However, the 2019 GT500 champion appeared to escape any serious injury in the accident, the cause of which remains unclear.
A short statement from Rookie Racing posted on Twitter said that Yamashita ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen clinched the F1 title in Suzuka last year in the wake of Charles Leclerc being handed a five-second penalty for having cut the chicane and gaining an advantage on the final lap.
Leclerc's demotion to third gave Verstappen an unassailable lead in the standings, but even the Red Bull driver was left unsure about the situation because he and his team had been under the impression ...Keep reading
Albon returned to F1 full-time last year with Williams after spending a year in a reserve and test role with Red Bull, who dropped him from its line-up at the end of 2020.
He excelled upon his return to the grid, leading Williams’ efforts at the back of the field with points finishes in Australia, Miami and Belgium. It was enough for Albon to secure a multi-year contract extension with the ...Keep reading
Tandy appeared to be on course to grab provisional pole for the first competitive outing for Porsche Penske Motorsport's new hybrid prototype in Sunday's qualifying session.
But, after setting two fast sector times, Tandy locked up his left-front tyre and lost control of the rear at the Bus Stop chicane, spinning head-on into the tyrewall.
After causing a red flag, which cost him his two ...Keep reading
A story by Bloomberg last week suggested that Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund had been interested in purchasing F1 from current owner Liberty Media for a $20 billion price tag, but the proposal was rejected.
While sources suggest that the report was not totally accurate in that discussions never opened seriously with Liberty about a buyout, the eye-watering valuation of F1 has raised some ...Keep reading
Though Ducati shot its bolt a day early by accidentally revealing 2022 MotoGP title winner Francesco Bagnaia would be running the #1 on its website, that fact was finally confirmed on Monday morning at the Italian marque’s launch event in the Dolomites.
And thus the debate over the draw of the #1 plate continues: fans either feel passionately that a world champion must carry the #1 plate, as ...Keep reading
At the start of 2022’s new ground effect era, Aston Martin’s launch specification car proved unsuited to the new rules.
Just like Mercedes, the team had anticipated producing a lot of downforce when the car was close to the ground, but it found that porpoising prevented it being able to run as low as it would like.
To avoid the bouncing, the team had to continue to raise the car's ride ...Keep reading
BMW was visibly off the pace in Sunday’s Roar before the 24 qualifying event, with Philipp Eng in the best of the two M Hybrid V8s ending up 0.7s slower than the pole-sitting MSR Acura of Tom Blomqvist in seventh.
Nick Yelloly was another tenth adrift in the sister #25 car, beating only the #6 Porsche 963 that lost its two best two times due to a crash for Nick Tandy.
However, BMW is not ...Keep reading
Hyundai found itself trailing Toyota for outright speed on the Monte Carlo asphalt as the latter racked up 16 stage wins to the Korean marque’s two.
Those two fastest stage times were delivered by Neuville on Saturday on his way to finishing third, 44.6s behind winner Sebastien Ogier.
Both Hyundai and Toyota upgraded the aero on their respective i20 N and GR Yaris challengers for the new ...Keep reading
The two-time DTM champion, one-time World Rallycross champion and FIA eTouring World Cup winner has recently competed at the Dakar Rally for Audi, taking 14th place as the German manufacturer’s leading finisher, and will now swap sand for snow and ice at this year’s Race of Champions held at Pite Havsbad on 28-29 January.
Ekstrom, a three-time Race of Champions winner, will compete for ...Keep reading
Rowland and Rast came together at the Turn 5 hairpin with four laps remaining, and left the McLaren driver having to pull over at the side of the road on the exit of Turn 7 with broken suspension.
This concluded a difficult return to the series for Rast, who rejoined Formula E after a year away following the departure of Audi at the end of 2020-21.
Rast's recall of the incident suggested ...Keep reading
Angela Lucas, 42, died from head injuries after the C1 she was driving in the four-hour race left the track and crashed into barriers at the opening Riches corner after being struck from behind by another competitor.
An inquest heard she had been unsecured when she crashed, with Motorsport UK finding her safety harness had probably become accidentally unbuckled as she tried to correct her ...Keep reading
Some areas of the cars required a deeper analysis to understand their implications – with perhaps one of the biggest being the shift in size of wheel rims from 13 to 18-inches.
This change created a knock-on effect to the design of several other components, with the FIA making efforts to clamp down on the use of tricks that teams had used in the past to better manage airflow in this ...Keep reading
Daruvala will join his 2022 team-mate Dennis Hauger at MP Motorsport, with both drivers making the jump from Prema Racing after being impressed by the Dutch outfit’s stellar title-winning campaign last year.
The Indian driver enjoyed his best season so far in F2 last year, scoring a maiden feature win at Monza en route to seventh in the standings.
However, his results fell below ...Keep reading
Bagnaia ended a 15-year title drought for Ducati dating back to 2007 last season, when he clinched the championship at the final round of the campaign.
The Valentino Rossi protégé had to overturn a 91-point deficit at the midway stage of the season to win the title, making him the first rider in MotoGP history to have staged such a comeback.
Stepping up to the factory Ducati squad in 2021 ...Keep reading
The Estonian steadily made progress in unlocking speed from the Ford Puma package in his first competitive outing in the car at Monte Carlo, but ultimately was unable to sustain a challenge at the sharp end.
While hampered by an electrical problem on Thursday followed by an intermittent power steering on Saturday, a glimpse into the potential of Tanak/M-Sport package arrived on Sunday’s ...Keep reading
It was a Sunday evening in late November 2019. Richie Stanaway stood out the front of the Garry Rogers Motorsport garage in the Newcastle pitlane as cold beers were passed around to celebrate the end of team’s time in Supercars.
With GRM pulling out, and following two difficult seasons in Supercars, it was hard to see Stanaway landing another full-time ride, at least in the short term. Surely ...Keep reading
After starting his F1 career at Williams during its rebuild from its results nadir of 2018-2019, Russell’s move to Mercedes meant he slotted into an operation that had won the previous eight world constructors’ titles and produced the engines that power the works squad and its three customer teams.
But as well as learning new and additional processes at Mercedes’ Brackley base, Russell ...Keep reading
Due to poor weather and only two of the new GTP cars taking to the track in Saturday’s two-hour evening session, the class was granted an extra 15 minutes preparation before qualifying.
Sebastien Bourdais and Alex Lynn were installed in the #01 and #02 Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac V-LMDh entries; Nick Tandy and Felipe Nasr took charge of the Team Penske-run Porsche 963s; Philipp Eng was ...Keep reading
Following Citroen’s departure at the end of 2019, rallying’s top tier has been contested by three manufacturers in Toyota, Hyundai and Ford, although the latter is a semi works relationship with British squad M-Sport.
This season marks the second year of the WRC’s Rally1 hybrid regulations which were originally conceived to attract fresh manufacturer interest, but has only so far only ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion produced a dominant performance on the Monte Carlo’s famous asphalt roads to take a comfortable 18.8s victory from reigning world champion and Toyota team-mate Kalle Rovanpera.
Ogier’s triumph makes him the most successful driver in the famous event’s history, as the 39-year-old pulled one victory clear of nine-time world champion Sebastien Loeb’s record at ...Keep reading
McLaren failed to win at the start of the second ground-effects F1 era last year, with Norris achieving a sole team podium in the Emilia Romagna GP.
The struggles with its MCL36 left the Woking outfit to take its first major competitive backwards step since the start of its Andreas Seidl-led recovery plan.
From scoring third in the 2020 constructors’ ...Keep reading
Ogier and new co-driver Vincent Landais clinched nine of the 18 stages in what proved to be an unusually dry WRC season opener to claim a comfortable win by 18.8s from world champions Kalle Rovanpera and Jonne Halttunen.
Competing in only a partial campaign, Ogier once again outlined his supreme knowledge of the twisty Monte Carlo roads, and was never headed throughout the four days of ...Keep reading
Philippe Alliott, Julian Bailey, Gregor Foitek, Olivier Beretta, Max Papis. All share a unique feat: their one visit to an International Formula 3000 podium resulted in victory.
That saves them from consideration for this list, ranking the best drivers to race in the main Formula 1 feeder series from 1985 to 2004 without standing on the top step of the podium.
For some, their lack of an ...Keep reading
Only four of the 10 teams have an unchanged driver line-up - Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes and Alfa Romeo - meaning the remaining six will have spent much of this winter getting their new signing up to speed, learning the ropes and embedded within their team.
But it will also leave drivers facing new dynamics to work with. Team-mate relationships are often in the spotlight in F1, especially when ...Keep reading
Mathieu Jaminet was the first driver to set a representative time in damp conditions, getting down to a 1m46.370s in the #6 Porsche 963 with just 40 minutes remaining.
He then pitted to hand off the Penske-run GTP car to Nick Tandy.
The Briton worked down into the 1m47s, and reset the session benchmark to 1min46.206s before the return of rain with half an hour to go.
The only other GTP ...Keep reading
The eight-time Monte Carlo winner managed to stave off his charging Toyota team-mate Kalle Rovanpera to extend his overall lead to 17.2 seconds with two stages remaining at the alpine asphalt classic.
Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville held onto third position despite suffering a half spin and hybrid issues during Sunday morning’s loop.
The Belgian was 38.1s behind Ogier but comfortably clear of ...Keep reading
Reigning world champions Toyota has so far dominated the rally, winning 12 of the 14 stages, occupying the top two positions courtesy of Sebastien Ogier and Kalle Rovanpera, with Elfyn Evans in fourth and Takamoto Katsuta in sixth.
After witnessing Toyota claim all the stages on Thursday and Friday, shared across three of its drivers, Hyundai managed to end its stage-winning drought on Saturday ...Keep reading
Braun lapped the 3.56-mile road course, which hosts the 61st Daytona 24 Hours next weekend, in 1m35.038s to top the timesheet in the quickfire hour-long fourth session of the three-day ‘Roar Before The 24’ event.
With rain threatening as a cold weather front sweeps across Florida, the action came thick and fast from the start of the session. Michael Christensen (#7 Penske Porsche 963) ...Keep reading
The Ford squad has seen power steering issues affect both Ott Tanak and Pierre-Louis Loubet during the asphalt rally, which has dented the team's hopes of repeating last year's Monte Carlo double podium.
Loubet lost his power steering following an off track excursion in Stage 5 on Friday and was forced to complete the day’s remaining stages on Monte Carlo’s infamous twisty roads without ...Keep reading
Ogier started Saturday’s leg with a 36.0s lead but a decision to preserve his advantage allowed Rovanpera to reduce the deficit across the afternoon to 16.0s ahead of Sunday's final four stages.
Rovanpera inflicted the most damage to Ogier’s lead courtesy of a crushing Stage 14 win held in darkness.
Hyundai finally ended Toyota’s stranglehold of the fastest stage times as Thierry ...Keep reading
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Cadillacs were the first cars to show their hand in GTP, with Sebastien Bourdais #01 and Alex Lynn (2) ducking into the 1m35s with their third laps, but then Tom Blomqvist sent the Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06 to the top with a 1m35.363s lap of the 3.56-mile Daytona International Speedway.
Then the #6 Porsche 963, which had sat idle for most of Friday’s second ...Keep reading
Next week’s Daytona 24 Hours will feature 61 starters, including nine cars in IMSA’s new premier GTP class. With the first day of 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship action now in the books in the Roar Before the 24, Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac’s Sebastien Bourdais suggested the GTP participants are treading especially carefully when lapping the four lower classes, since no manufacturers have ...Keep reading
Williams junior Sargeant will make his F1 debut in Bahrain after being handed a seat for 2023 alongside Alex Albon, becoming the first full-time American on the grid since Scott Speed in 2007.
Sargeant was drafted in to replace Nicholas Latifi - who left Williams after three years - following an impressive rookie year in F2 that saw him take two wins and finish fourth in the ...Keep reading
The eight-time world rally champion was afforded the luxury of not needing to push during the morning loop, but still picked up a stage win as his lead over Rovanpera stood at 30.0s at the midday tyre fitting zone.
World champion Rovanpera claimed two stage wins to apply some pressure on Ogier, while maintaining Toyota’s perfect stage win record at the rally to date.
Hyundai’s charge was ...Keep reading
The introduction of new regulations by both the WEC and the IMSA SportsCar Championship have brought an unprecedented number of manufacturers to the top echelon of sportscar racing, with Porsche, Toyota, Peugeot, Ferrari, BMW, Cadillac, Acura, Lamborghini, Alpine and Glickenhaus all having confirmed factory programmes for the coming seasons.
This has brought back much needed life to prototype ...Keep reading
The Fausto Gresini-founded team enjoyed a breakout 2022 season with Enea Bastianini, who guided the squad to four victories and mounted an outside charge for the title for much of the year.
Last year marked the first since 2014 where Gresini ran as a true independent team, having severed ties with Aprilia as its factory entrant at the end of 2021.
Gresini’s success came in the wake of the ...Keep reading
Russell and Hamilton are set to embark on their second season as Mercedes team-mates in the 2023 campaign, which will follow the difficult 2022 season where Mercedes’ W13 challenger was initially badly off the pace and impacted severely by porpoising.
Although Hamilton was known to prefer Mercedes possibly keeping Valtteri Bottas across the garage rather than ...Keep reading
On his fifth lap of the session, Filipe Albuquerque in the #10 Acura ARX-06 of Wayne Taylor Racing beat the fastest lap that Meyer Shank Racing’s Acura, driven by Colin Braun, set in the morning session. A 1m35.580s around the 3.56-mile course put him some 1.6s ahead of his nearest opposition, which came from the #02 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-LMDh and the two BMW M Hybrid ...Keep reading
The M-Sport driver was caught out by an ice patch on the final corner of the Le Fugeret - Thorame-Haute stage, the first test of the Saturday morning loop.
Loubet’s Ford Puma slid wide after hitting the ice while crossing a bridge that marked the end of the 16.8km stage. The right-rear corner of the car clouted the barriers causing significant damage as it bent the right rear wheel and ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion will head into Saturday equipped with a 36.0s lead over world champion Kalle Rovanpera, after winning six of the first eight stages.
While Ogier has dominated his opposition, the Toyota driver’s run to a commanding advantage has been far from straightforward.
Toyota was forced to complete a “record” gearbox change, after a clutch issue was found during ...Keep reading
Speaking during testing at Daytona, where the 2015 Le Mans 24 Hours and Petit Le Mans winner was driving the new Porsche 963 ahead of his full-time IMSA GTP campaign, Tandy believes the coming seasons of unification across both prototype and GT classes can be huge for sportscar racing on both sides of the Atlantic.
PLUS: The long road to convergence for sportscar racing's new golden ...Keep reading
This weekend’s Monte Carlo Rally is former Toyota and Hyundai driver Tanak's first rally in the machine that won in the principality last year in the hands of nine-time world champion Sebastien Loeb, having re-joined the Cumbrian squad who started his WRC career in 2011 during the off-season.
With only one-and-half test days under his belt prior to the rally, 2019 WRC champion Tanak ...Keep reading
Coming into 2023, Honda has refreshed its rider line-up, with ex-Suzuki riders Joan Mir and Alex Rins joining it factory team and satellite LCR squad respectively, while Marquez has enjoyed a trouble-free winter.
In its race department back in Japan and within the race team itself, Honda has also gone through a reshuffle, with the signing of a key name in ex-Suzuki technical chief Ken ...Keep reading
Eight-time world champion Ogier is yet to beaten in Monte Carlo this year, having won the five stages to date. The feat was made even more impressive given the Toyota driver was without hybrid boost for two of the three stages this morning.
Ogier’s advantage heading into the afternoon loop has ballooned to 32.7s after Evans suffered a right rear puncture on Stage 5, which dropped him from ...Keep reading
The Frenchman will continue with the team, with whom he won the F3 title, for his rookie F2 challenge alongside 2022 F2 runner-up Theo Pourchaire, who was announced on Thursday.
Alpine academy member Martins claimed the F3 crown in Monza in September, beating Zane Maloney and Ollie Bearman to the title.
Martins took part in November’s post-season F2 test in Abu Dhabi with ART and finished ...Keep reading
The Woking outfit has expanded its racing operations considerably in recent years after fresh investment over the previous two years, starting with it taking a majority shareholding in the Schmidt Peterson Racing IndyCar team ahead of the 2020 season - which now races as Arrow McLaren.
It has also diversified its interests by extending its reach into electric racing, setting up an Extreme E ...Keep reading
Kevin Siggy should currently be preparing for a season in the DTM Trophy, the former GT4 support class of Germany’s premier GT3 series. Instead, he’s been focusing on the Le Mans Virtual Series and a calendar filled with sim racing Esports events which will undoubtedly be successful for the Team Redline driver. When it comes to non-iRacing virtual competitions, Siggy is among the very ...Keep reading
F1 overhauled its technical ruleset for the 2022 season in a bid to reduce the amount of downforce lost when cars were following each other, allowing them to get closer and attempt more overtakes.
The changes were widely praised by the F1 drivers, while Pirelli reported the number of overtakes in F1 had risen from 599 over the 2021 season to 785 last year.
But attention is already moving ...Keep reading
The band is back together. Penske and Porsche have teamed up to run the new 963 LMDh car in both the World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship. And expectations are rightly high after the huge success enjoyed by their last collaboration on the RS Spyder LMP2 project, which yielded American Le Mans Series class titles in all three years that the factory programme ran.
All who ...Keep reading
The W13 came to be most closely associated with the porpoising problem that impacted every F1 team to some extent during the first season of the championship returning to running ground-effects designs.
Although Mercedes was able to address the specific aerodynamic porpoising issue, it then spent the next phase of the campaign working to fix a ride problem the porpoising had been masking before ...Keep reading
The eight-time world champion and eight-time Monte Carlo winner kicked off his partial WRC season in style to head into Friday with a 6.0s lead over Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans.
New M-Sport signing Ott Tanak ended the opening tests in third, 15.4s adrift despite being without fifth gear aboard his Ford Puma.
Thierry Neuville led Hyundai’s charge in fourth but was lucky not fall further ...Keep reading
Six drivers’ and five constructors’ titles headline a CV that includes 92 world championship grand prix wins, enough for sixth on the all-time list behind Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes, Williams and Lotus.
For this list of top 10 F1 drivers, we’ve taken into account the amount of success the racers scored with Red Bull and its sister team Toro Rosso/AlphaTauri, the impact they had and the ...Keep reading
The Silverstone squad is gearing up for the launch of its AMR23 car at its factory on 13 February, with interest surrounding the team heightened with it having signed Fernando Alonso to partner Lance Stroll for the 2023 season.
Although it remains coy about the details of the design of its new challenger, Aston Martin’s deputy technical director Eric Blandin suggests there should be some ...Keep reading
Saudi Arabia hosted its first F1 race in 2021 at the Jeddah Corniche Circuit, which was intended to be a temporary home for the grand prix before moving to the new-build city of Qiddiya on the outskirts of Riyadh.
But as work continues on the state-of-the-art facility, Jeddah is now expected to host the race for at least another four years, with a number of the temporary facilities at the track ...Keep reading
Known primarily for its engine work in Formula 1, taking 176 wins in total, and in the present day the engines for both the Aston Martin Valkyrie and Gordon Murray T.50 hypercars, Cosworth has launched its first foray into sim racing with the CCW MkII Pro Sim steering wheel.
Unveiled at the Autosport International show at the Birmingham's NEC, it is created in collaboration with ...Keep reading
The Italian tyre brand has developed an entirely new tyre for the 2023 season opener which is expected to operate in low temperatures synonymous with Monte Carlo. In addition to the new supersoft, Pirelli has refined its soft compound tyre for the event.
Th soft and supersoft tyres are expected to be the options used most by WRC crews as conditions are expected to be dry with limited sections ...Keep reading
Alpine signed Gasly from AlphaTauri for this year following Fernando Alonso's move to Aston Martin and junior driver Oscar Piastri's switch to McLaren, forming an all-French line-up with Ocon.
There have previously been tensions between Gasly and Ocon stemming from their younger years, but both were quick to stress when the move was announced that there were no longer any issues that would ...Keep reading
Magnussen’s participation in the flagship round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship was plunged into doubt when doctors discovered a cyst that needed to be removed prior to the start of the Formula 1 season.
While the surgery was successful, the Danish driver has been advised against competing in the Floridian endurance race to make a full recovery in time for his primary campaign in ...Keep reading
Abiteboul is attending his WRC round this weekend in Monte Carlo, taking change of the South Korean factory squad as its new team principal.
This role is the Frenchman first foray into rallying having spent the majority of his career working in F1 as team principal at Caterham (2012-2014), before joining Renault, where he headed the Enstone team until 2021 when it rebranded to Alpine.
While ...Keep reading
The 2019 FIA Formula 3 champion and 2021 Formula 2 runner-up didn't race last season as he focused on his Ferrari F1 duties, although he did make two official free practice appearances at the Circuit of the Americas and Abu Dhabi.
For 2023 Ferrari has positioned Shwartzman in GT racing, where he'll campaign the Italian marque's new 296 GT3 in one of two factory-entered crews for the GTWCE ...Keep reading
The 2022 MotoGP season concluded with Francesco Bagnaia and Ducati claiming an historic title, ending a 15-year wait for the Italian manufacturer as Bagnaia became the first rider ever to overturn a 91-point deficit to claim the championship.
Last year marked the end of a period of reasonable stability for MotoGP, with 2023 ushering in one of the biggest wholesale changes seen for many years as ...Keep reading
Schumacher was dropped by Haas, and left Ferrari's young driver academy, at the end of last season after two years of mixed fortunes in F1.
While he had some impressive days of racing, there were also frustrations triggered by a number of high-profile crashes.
After losing his race seat, Mercedes wasted little time in signing Schumacher as its official reserve driver for 2023.
Mercedes ...Keep reading
Fresh from finishing runner-up at this year’s Dakar Rally, the nine-time World Rally Champion is set to head back to Sweden after winning the Race of Champion’s first venture on snow and ice last year.
Loeb defeated Sebastian Vettel in the final to take his fourth Race of Champions victory which equalled the all-time record he now shares with fellow Frenchman Didier Auriol.
Loeb is ...Keep reading
The eight-time world rally champion will once again contest a partial campaign in 2023 for reigning champion Toyota, piloting a third car which he will share with Takamoto Katsuta.
After losing out to M-Sport's Sebastien Loeb last year when a puncture on the penultimate stage derailed a likely victory , Ogier is already eying the prospect of adding to his tally in the principality.
Ogier and ...Keep reading
De Vries will race full-time in F1 this year with AlphaTauri after being signed as Pierre Gasly’s replacement following the Frenchman’s move to Alpine.
At 27, de Vries will be one of the oldest full-season rookies in recent memory, but clinched the seat after impressing upon a late call-up for his F1 debut at Monza last year, finishing ninth for Williams when Alex Albon was ruled out ...Keep reading
The Frenchman, who was runner-up to Felipe Drugovich in 2022, scored three wins and seven podiums in 2022.
Pourchaire, who is a member of the Sauber Academy, made his F1 weekend debut last year in an FP1 session at Circuit of the Americas.
PLUS: The next step for France's latest F1 hopeful after his F2 title defeat
His team-mate at the French outfit, who finished third in the teams’ ...Keep reading
Abiteboul's recent arrival at Hyundai, after a long spell in F1 as a team boss at the Caterham and Renault squads, helped fuel speculation that the company could be eyeing a move into grand prix racing.
F1 chiefs have long talked about a number of manufacturers holding talks behind the scenes to join the sport after new engine regulations kick in from 2026.
It has been suggested that Hyundai ...Keep reading
F2 and F3 are back in less than two months time, with many drivers switching teams and graduating from F3 to F2.
Both championships saw their winners crowned in Monza, with Victor Martins winning F3 for ART and Felipe Drugovich taking the F2 title in the penultimate round for MP Motorsport.
This year, F2 has a 14-round calendar, while F3 visits 10 rounds, and both will race in Australia for ...Keep reading
Since Norris arrived on the F1 grid in 2019, Pierre Gasly, Esteban Ocon, Carlos Sainz and George Russell have joined the list of world championship race winners. And two of those now have seats in two of the big three F1 squads.
McLaren, of course, used to be an F1 powerhouse, and Zak Brown’s team did give Norris his big break. But loyalty will surely only last so long as the Briton watches ...Keep reading
Last month, the Japanese single-seater series confirmed it will implement a major update to the existing SF19 chassis with refreshed aerodynamics aimed at improving the car’s raceability, as well as new Yokohama tyres partially made from sustainable materials.
The final version of what will be known as the SF23 has so far been tested at Suzuka and Motegi, following a series of development ...Keep reading
On the opening lap of the Mexico City E-Prix, Frijns went into the back of Nissan driver Norman Nato, which caused a sudden twist on the steering wheel. Frijns was unable to let go in time and, following a trip to hospital, it was found that he had sustained a fracture to his left wrist and hand.
Frijns has since undergone surgery, and was able to return home afterwards - but faces a layoff as ...Keep reading
Both the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro prototypes have been in action across Wednesday and Thursday as Supercars and manufacturers Ford and GM look to finalise homologation.
The Ford Mustang has been a sticking point when it comes to final homologation with Blue Oval officials concerned over what it perceives is a performance disadvantage to the Camaro.
While Ford appears to believe it ...Keep reading
The Briton renewed his relationship with the Woking squad twice in quick succession. He agreed one contract extension in May 2021 before inking another on revised terms in February of last year.
Provisionally, that means he will remain with McLaren - which finished fifth behind Alpine in the constructors’ championship last season - until the end of 2025.
But Red Bull team boss ...Keep reading
After enduring a point-less 2021 when it opted against developing its car, Haas immediately enjoyed an upswing last year under the new technical regulations. Magnussen finished fifth in the Bahrain season-opener, and would establish himself as a regular points-scorer in the early part of the year.
Although Haas’s form would ultimately tail off, causing it to slip to eighth place in the ...Keep reading
Following Takuma Sato’s departure to Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda for an oval-only program, and Formula 2 driver Marcus Armstrong – who tested for Coyne last October – being snapped up by CGR to drive the same #11 entry on road and street courses, team owners Coyne and #51 car co-owner Rick Ware were left with good quality albeit lower-profile names available.
Following a test on 4 ...Keep reading
Toyota's Kalle Rovanpera will seek to defend the title he won in 2022 against rejuvenated opposition, with 2019 world champion Ott Tanak returning to M-Sport for the first time since 2017 and former Toyota man Esapekka Lappi taking the Estonian's old drive at Hyundai alongside team leader Thierry Neuville.
Both Lappi and Neuville will have a new boss in former Renault Formula 1 team principal ...Keep reading
The 27-year-old Northern Irishman was appointed as an Aston Martin Racing junior ahead of a 2019 season spent with Garage 59 in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup and raced a TF Sport-run D'Station Aston in the World Endurance Championship's GTE Am class in 2021.
Autosport understands that Watson, who had previously raced McLaren GT3 cars for the Von Ryan, Garage 59 and Strakka teams ...Keep reading
Chadwick has worked with Williams since 2019, and is the highest-profile female driver with links to an F1 team.
After capturing her third W Series title last year, Chadwick will shift her racing focus to the United States in 2023, joining the rebranded Indy NXT series with Andretti Autosport.
Although the move has put her on the IndyCar junior ladder, Chadwick will continue to work with ...Keep reading
After some teething problems with last year’s inaugural grand prix, circuit bosses have committed a big investment to deliver improvements to the event that takes place around the Miami Dolphins home ground.
One of the biggest changes is the decision to move the F1 team paddock hospitality area to inside the football ground and on the pitch, rather than crammed around the outside of it like ...Keep reading
Porsche Formula E driver da Costa and ex-Formula 1 racer Stevens are moving across to Jota’s new entry in the Hypercar class after winning the WEC LMP2 title alongside Roberto Gonzalez with the team in 2022.
They will share the 963 with 2021 European Le Mans Series champion Yifei Ye, the Porsche Asia Pacific Motorsport-backed driver who was announced as part of the line-up by Jota in ...Keep reading
But what is notably different between the current seven-time world champion and the driver who joined the squad back in 2013 as a single title winner is his approach.
His years of experience at Brackley, through many highs and lows, have given Hamilton a wealth of data to fall back on and the knowledge of where to focus his efforts.
Nobody is perhaps better placed within Mercedes to offer ...Keep reading
Bottas joined Alfa Romeo on a multi-year deal in 2022 after a five-season stint at Mercedes, and helped the Swiss-based team secure its best championship result since 2012 as it finished sixth in the constructors’ standings.
The Finn has previously spoken about the importance of the stability offered by having a multi-year deal in place after previously only getting one-season extensions at ...Keep reading
After a dominant 2022 campaign to become the youngest-ever world champion, Toyota’s Kalle Rovanpera will aim to become only the sixth driver to successful defend the championship crown.
A combination all fresh driver line-ups, revised Rally1 cars and a new calendar promises an intense fight for the 2023 title.
New driver line-ups
One of the wildest silly seasons has resulted in all ...Keep reading
The announcement confirms third-year F2 racer Enzo Fittipaldi and last year's FIA Formula 3 runner-up Zane Maloney will drive for Carlin in F2, with Isack Hadjar and Jak Crawford also graduating from F3 to F2 with Hitech.
Liam Lawson, Dennis Hauger, Ayumu Iwasa, Souta Arao, Arvid Lindblad, Crawford and Hadjar will continue as members of the academy.
Newcomers Sebastian Montoya, Enzo Deligny ...Keep reading
The 50-year-old made his 100th TT start last year in the opening Superbike race of the event and rode to a fighting fifth with Honda.
He had re-joined the team in 2022 after an acrimonious split, which followed an accident at the 2017 North West 200 in which he badly broke his leg.
Coming into the TT, McGuinness had already admitted in the months prior that it could be his last – but was ...Keep reading
Power was set to make his IMSA SportsCar Championship debut at the wheel of Kenny Habul’s GTD-class SunEnergy1 Mercedes AMG GT3, sharing the ride with Habul, Axcil Jefferies and Fabian Schiller.
However, Power is standing down from the line-up as his wife Elizabeth has spent more than a week in hospital, including two days in ICU, and has undergone back surgery.
The 2014 and 2022 IndyCar ...Keep reading
Nielsen, who has most recently worked for Formula One Management (FOM), has had a lengthy career in grand prix racing which included spells at Lotus, Tyrrell, Benetton and AlphaTauri.
In his new role at the FIA, he will be responsible for all sporting matters, including the development of race control and the remote operations centre, as well as future updates to the sporting ...Keep reading
Nasr, who won the IMSA SportsCar Championship in 2018 and 2021 in Action Express-run Cadillacs, raced for Sauber in F1 from 2015-16 – with a best result of fifth on his grand prix debut in Australia.
The 30-year-old Brazilian signed for Porsche’s factory sportscar team at the end of 2021, winning the GTD Pro class at the Daytona 24 Hours with Pfaff Motorsports' 911 GT3R last year, and ...Keep reading
The likes of Lewis Hamilton, Ayrton Senna, Alain Prost, and Niki Lauda have all brought trophies back to Woking.
But now added to the roster is 21-year-old Scotsman Lucas Blakeley, who, as well as winning last year’s F1 Esports championship, helped McLaren Shadow secure the constructors’ championship too for the first time since it joined the sim racing series.
The success is McLaren’s ...Keep reading
Pastrana, an 11-times X-Games Gold Medalist, has a resume that is frankly too long to list here.
He has proven to be a versatile competitor who is up for just about any challenge, and has enjoyed immense success in everything from supercross bikes to rally cars.
The 39-year-old founder of the Nitro Circus also had a brief detour into the NASCAR world.
Pastrana started 42 NASCAR Xfinity ...Keep reading
Many feared these limits could lead to a batch of identikit machines, with only liveries and negligible design differences being the means to tell them apart.
However, as F1 teams unleashed their 2022 machines at the start of the new era, it became apparent that these worries had been misguided as there were clear areas of wriggle room for designers to express themselves and make a ...Keep reading
Extra Glickenhaus and Vanwall Le Mans Hypercars, together with the two additional LMDhs Cadillac is expected to field, would bring the Hypercar class entry for the centrepiece WEC round on 10/11 June to 17 cars.
The last time more cars raced in LMP1, the predecessor of Hypercar, came in 2010 when 18 took the start of the 24 Hours.
The addition of four cars to the 13 on the 2023 full-season ...Keep reading
IndyCar team boss Dale Coyne stated that his contract with Takuma Sato last year was one-year with a one-year option, that included a clause that precluded him from racing for any other team in 2023. This was confirmed by Sato’s manager Steve Fusek in the summer and the off-season. However, there was some wriggle room – a matter on which Coyne doesn’t wish to comment, even as late as ...Keep reading
The Japanese 45-year-old, who won the Indy 500 in 2017 for Andretti Autosport and in 2020 for Rahal Letterman Lanigan, joins CGR after a single season with Dale Coyne Racing.
The ex-Formula 1 driver will share the #11 entry with ex-Formula 2 driver and IndyCar rookie Marcus Armstrong, who will contest all the road and street course rounds.
Scott Dixon, Alex Palou and Marcus Ericsson ...Keep reading
The original schedule had been set for 24 events, with the event in Shanghai provisionally put down for 16 April.
However, ongoing restrictions in China relating to COVID-19 meant it was not possible for F1 to go ahead with the race there.
The cancellation of the Chinese GP left a big gap in the calendar between the Australian GP on 2 April and the Azerbaijan GP on 30 April.
F1 did ...Keep reading
The German car manufacturer is coming off the back of a challenging 2022 campaign, where it struggled initially with high levels of porpoising on its W13.
However, an intensive in-season effort to get to the bottom of the problems helped deliver a good step forward and the squad was able to pull off a 1-2 finish in the Brazilian Grand Prix.
PLUS: How Russell can make F1 history again in F1 ...Keep reading
The FIA has imposed a testing reduction for this season with the view to ease the financial pressures on teams as testing is one of the largest expenses during a season.
Last season teams were handed 28 test days plus a number of extra test outings to conduct tyre testing on behalf of the championship’s control supplier Pirelli.
Under the new testing guidelines, manufacturer drivers will ...Keep reading
Over the off-season, Coyne tested Marcus Armstrong but he has been recruited by Chip Ganassi Racing to drive the #11 CGR on road and street courses, while Coyne’s former full-timer in the #51 entry co-owned by Rick Ware Racing, Takuma Sato, is the primary candidate for the #11 on ovals.
Coyne, who sifted through six potential candidates for the #51 car, tested Sting Ray Robb on 4 January at ...Keep reading
The pair will share the Pro-Am entry in the Intercontinental GT Challenge round with the squad's regular amateur GT driver Prince Jefri Ibrahim. He teamed up with T8 Supercars drivers Shane van Gisbergen and Broc Feeney to finish third in the Pro-Am edition of the race last May.
The car will run under the Boost Mobile Racing and Johor Motorsports Racing banners and will be one of two T8 ...Keep reading
On the positive side, its revamped Renault E-Tech RE22 power unit locked in both a decent step forward in horsepower, but also a compact design that helped with packaging of the A522 car to help improve its aerodynamics.
But the quest to make aggressive gains was not without its downsides. Too many times Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon would find points opportunities evaporate thanks to engine ...Keep reading
The Japanese manufacturer was unsuccessful in its bid to defend its riders’ title with Fabio Quartararo in 2022, with the French rider scoring three wins and ultimately losing the championship to Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia.
With Quartararo helping Yamaha to second in the manufacturers’ standings, the 2021 world champion was able to mask what was largely a difficult year for the ...Keep reading
The 60-year-old World Rally legend suffered a major shunt just six kilometres into Stage 9 of the Dakar, when his Audi rolled upside down while tackling a dune – landing heavily on its nose and then roof.
Sainz had initially looked set to withdraw from the event, and was even on his way to hospital after reporting chest pains, only to change his mind midway through the journey and ask ...Keep reading
Following a difficult 2021 that saw the team opt against car development and fail to score any points, Haas made a flying start to 2022 as Kevin Magnussen finished fifth in the season-opener.
But the upswing in form from Haas led to scrutiny from other teams, including McLaren, which raised concerns about the relationships between so-called A- and B-teams in F1.
Haas has enjoyed a technical ...Keep reading
The upcoming season will be the first where IMSA’s new-for-2023 LMDh regulations for its premier GTP class will race in the Hypercar category of the FIA World Endurance Championship, allowing Porsche’s 963 to race on both sides of the Atlantic.
There, it will race against Le Mans Hypercar machinery from fellow automotive giants Ferrari, Peugeot and Toyota that are built to a different ...Keep reading
The Autosport International was back for the first time since 2020 with over 100,000 expected through the doors, at our traditional starting point on the motorsport calendar.
Host Martyn Lee is joined on stage by Autosport F1 reporter Luke Smith, Autosport Grand Prix editor Alex Kalinauckas and GP Racing editor Stuart Codling to discuss some of the recent news dominating Formula ...Keep reading
The team endured a difficult off-season, with cancelled tests restricting the amount of running it could do ahead of the Mexico opener while the ZF-designed Mahindra powertrain was also late in arriving.
Although performances in testing suggested that the team was not too far behind in terms of pace, the team was not able to optimise the running of its hardware, with di Grassi stating that the ...Keep reading
Wadoux, 21, has been named as part of the Italian manufacturer’s Competizione GT roster for the coming season and will race a Ferrari 488 GTE Evo run by the AF Corse squad in the GTE Am class of the series.
The entry has been made under the banner of watchmaker Richard Mille, whose Signatech-run ORECA-Gibson 07 LMP2 prototype Wadoux raced in the WEC in 2022.
She has joined Ferrari after a ...Keep reading
If foreign drivers have become scarce in Super Formula and Super GT recently, non-Japanese engineers are an even rarer breed. Indeed, since the days of the late, great Ricardo Divila, foreign engineers working in the upper echelons of Japan’s two premier categories can almost be counted on a single hand.
There was the Australian Matt Harvey, who spent a single season working for ...Keep reading
It is not lost on him that for four of the last five years, Williams has found itself pegged to the bottom of the constructors’ championship. Plus, more recently, it has faced fresh uncertainty following the departure of team principal Jost Capito and its technical director FX Demaison.
Turning the squad’s fortunes around quickly is not going to be an easy task for Vowles, as he is comes in ...Keep reading
The British squad pulled off the signing of the silly season by securing 2019 world champion Tanak following a shock departure from Hyundai at the end of last season.
M-Sport today unveiled a new look 2023 Ford Puma which will contest the 13-round WRC season.
The team has elected to field only two full-time manufacturer entries this year, with Tanak joined by French rising star Pierre-Louis ...Keep reading
Rookie Piastri replaces Daniel Ricciardo, who in stark contrast was in his 12th season last year, and carried with him the experience of scoring eight grand prix victories.
While Piastri has a lot to learn, Stella is confident that the team can look to Lando Norris as it hones the 2023 car.
"I think the important point is to have continuity with Lando, he keeps the kind of reference," said ...Keep reading
As revealed by Autosport earlier this month, the series will use a short burst of testing with the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro prototypes in a bid to finally formalise the homologation.
The driving force behind the additional testing is Ford which is known to be dissatisfied with the aerodynamic performance of the Mustang compared to the Camaro, while there are also question marks over ...Keep reading
F1’s governing body caused a stir just before Christmas when it announced it was banning all drivers from making any non-neutral "political, religious or personal" statements or comments without prior permission.
In an updated version of the FIA's International Sporting Code, which governs the running of sanctioned motorsport competitions from the start of 2023, the governing body outlined a ...Keep reading
The Ford squad has today taken the covers off the latest version of its Puma, which this year will be driven by an all-new driver line-up of 2019 world champion Ott Tanak and French rising star Pierre-Louis Loubet.
Tanak has returned to the Cumbrian squad to spearhead the team’s attack following his departure from Hyundai at the end of last year, after exercising an option leave the South ...Keep reading
F1 will overhaul the regulations for its V6 hybrid power units in 2026, placing a greater emphasis on electric power and sustainable fuels as part of the series’ push to become carbon neutral by 2030.
The plans have already successfully brought the Volkswagen Group into F1 through Audi, which will enter in 2026 as an engine supplier. Its sister brand, Porsche, remains ...Keep reading
Bird had to contend with software issues in Friday's free practice session and, although these were corrected overnight, a motor failure forced the Jaguar driver to pull over in the stadium section of the circuit to enact a reset of the systems.
Jaguar then had to change the rear of the car in time for qualifying, but did not have enough time to complete a full set-up and thus Bird could only ...Keep reading
In GTE, the #888 R8G Esports Ferrari of Alexander Smolyar, Scott Andrews, Timotej Andonovski and Erhan Jajovski headed the class.
The race was halted due to two red flags in the opening six hours, then at dawn Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen retired the #1 Team Redline entry following a disconnection while leading. The event was also host to some extremely close-quartered racing.
At ...Keep reading
The French manufacturer unveiled its all-new Clio Rally3 at the Pas de la Casa Circuit in Andorra today following an extensive 5,000 kilometre development programme carried out since May last year.
The Clio Rally3 signifies Renault’s renewed commitment to rallying, with the brand now joining Ford in having built cars to Rally3 regulations.
As reported last year, the Renault Group through ...Keep reading
Only 34 drivers in the history of the world championship have managed the ultimate prize of winning an F1 drivers' title, with half of those winning more than one.
That means that there were a great many names to consider when weighing up the latest top 10 for Autosport's new podcast series. Indeed, many could be considered more complete drivers than those who did snare the world championship ...Keep reading
Dries Vanthoor and Mohammed Al Saud, also victorious last year with WRT, were joined by Jens Klingmann, Diego Menchaca and Jean-Baptiste Simmenauer aboard the winning #7 BMW M4 GT3.
With Vanthoor at the wheel, WRT took the lead for the final time with 20 minutes to go when Robert Renauer pitted the Herbert Racing Porsche for a fuel stop. Despite a fortunately-timed Code 60 which minimised his ...Keep reading
The Briton qualified third and, although he dropped behind the Porsche of Pascal Wehrlein as the German manufacturer showed great pace in Mexico, he battled with polesitter Lucas di Grassi to try to secure a podium.
In that battle, Hughes was also attempting to keep fourth away from the chasing Andre Lotterer, but a yellow flag produced for team-mate Rene Rast - who had pulled over on the exit ...Keep reading
Albon signed for Williams ahead of the 2022 season after spending a year in a reserve role with Red Bull, who had dropped him from its full-time line-up at the end of 2020.
The Anglo-Thai driver enjoyed an impressive season for Williams, leading its efforts at the back of the grid by scoring four of its eight points and winning praise for his efforts. It resulted in Albon signing a multi-year ...Keep reading
In another characteristic display from the Qatari driver, Al-Attiyah switched to a conservative approach once all his rivals had fallen by the wayside, playing the long-game instead of going all-out for individual stage honours.
Finishing a safe eighth place on the final 136km test between Al-Hofuf and Dammam on Sunday, he took overall honours by 1hr20m49s in one of the most one-sided ...Keep reading
The Abt driver went into the back of Nissan driver Nato at the Turn 10 chicane, ultimately coming to rest in the wall to bring out the first safety car of the race.
Frijns was taken to hospital, where it became apparent that his left wrist had been broken as a result of the impact.
"Robin broke his left wrist and will need to undergo an operation here in Mexico," read a statement from the ...Keep reading
Russell joined Mercedes' F1 line-up at the start of 2022 after spending five years as a member of its junior driver programme, with the final three as a racer for Williams in F1 after winning back-to-back championships in GP3 and Formula 2.
But the Briton's start to life at the Mercedes works squad changed suddenly from hoping for race victories and a possible title tilt when the first ...Keep reading
The Warwickshire-born driver secured a crushing victory in the first race with the Gen3 machinery, as the Porsche-powered cars showed great pace at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, with eight seconds in hand over Pascal Wehrlein at the line.
Having secured second on the grid, Dennis was able to pass polesitter Lucas di Grassi after the Brazilian suffered a small mistake into the first corner ...Keep reading
The Avalanche Andretti driver atoned for his qualifying error that cost him pole by pouncing on a mistake from polesitter Lucas di Grassi to pick up the lead, and overcame a hit to his lead from a mid-race safety car to waltz into an unassailable lead.
Dennis overcame a slight challenge from Jake Hughes to retain second off the line, but could not challenge di Grassi in the opening stages ...Keep reading
Andretti CEO Michael Andretti has made no secret of his ambition to get his eponymous team into F1 and, although his bid for an entry was heralded by FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, the 10 teams in the series have been less welcoming.
That stance from some of the teams, particularly Mercedes, has softened slightly with Andretti's tie-up with GM's Cadillac brand, while Alpine is believed to ...Keep reading
Dennis' Turn 3 lock-up set the Briton off-line for the following hairpin, and he locked up for a second time to deliver a terminal blow to his chances of kicking off 2022-23 with a pole position.
This meant that di Grassi could back off and simply cross the line to bag pole position, while Dennis was upset having had to contest the final with a broken front wing - caused by contact with a ...Keep reading
His role with the Spirit team, which brought Honda back into F1 in 1983, and the first of two stints at Bentley as team director of the organisation that triumphed at Le Mans with the Speed 8 LM-GTP coupe were just two chapters of a varied and successful motorsport management career spanning five decades.
Wickham, who was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease in 2019, worked all over the world ...Keep reading
Gasly signed for Alpine in the wake of Fernando Alonso’s exit to Aston Martin and the team’s failure to secure Oscar Piastri’s services following a ruling by F1’s Contract Recognition Board.
It marked the first F1 move outside of the Red Bull umbrella for Gasly, who has spent the entirety of his F1 career with AlphaTauri and its predecessor, Toro Rosso, with the exception of a ...Keep reading
A combination of Envision's status as a non-manufacturer team and teething problems at Valencia has contributed to a lack of mileage, and Cassidy also had to share his car with new team-mate Sebastien Buemi after the Swiss also contended with technical struggles in December's test.
Although Cassidy managed more than double the laps of Buemi across the Valencia test, the 2015-16 champion had ...Keep reading
Varrone joins Corvette’s line-up following a successful appearance in the post-season rookie test in Bahrain, where he was pitted against Zimbabwean driver Axcil Jefferies, and a private run at Sebring in December.
This would be Varrone’s second full campaign in the GT ranks after a successful 2022 season which yielded a class win with Rinaldi Racing in the European Le Mans Series and ...Keep reading
A lairy end to the session resulted in a number of changes at the top of the timing sheets but, once the music stopped, Wehrlein ended the session with a 1m13.496s on a cold morning at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez.
The session began just after sunrise in Mexico City, with early trepidation from the drivers as they waited for the track conditions to come to them.
That preceded a flurry of ...Keep reading
Audi announced at the end of August that it would be entering F1 for the first time when the next set of power unit regulations are introduced for the 2026 season.
The F1 entry will see Audi link up with Sauber, which currently races under the Alfa Romeo banner. Audi will supply engines to the Swiss-based squad and take a majority shareholding to form its works F1 operation.
The revised ...Keep reading
One of the most garlanded motorsport brands in the world will be participating in the biggest Esports event of the year this weekend.
Peugeot Sport 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual entry not only marks its first appearance in the Le Mans Virtual Series, yet also Peugeot Sport’s debut in racing Esports as a whole.
“We are really excited,” said Vincent Dussossoy ...Keep reading
Vanwall has been granted an entry for the 2023 series with its new Vanderwell 680 Le Mans Hypercar, with Dillmann named as one of the three drivers alongside Esteban Guerrieri and Jacques Villeneuve.
It follows the Austrian outfit controversially missing out on a grid slot in 2022, despite the ByKolles team having been part of the WEC landscape for many years beforehand with its LMP1 ...Keep reading
Symonds has been working with F1 to help shape its technical regulations and improve on-track racing since 2017, playing a significant role in the new car designs that debuted last year.
At the end of 2021, it emerged that Symonds and F1 technical boss Ross Brawn were both set to leave their roles at the end of the 2022 season once the new technical regulations had completed ...Keep reading
The Frenchman had the third-fastest time in the cumulative fastest lap standings from the test at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, having topped one of the seven timed sessions in December's collective running.
This, along with new team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne's performance and the pace of Maserati MSG in the test, hinted at the Stellantis-designed Gen3 powertrain package's credentials as an early ...Keep reading
Having fallen out of contention for overall honours after multiple punctures and a roll in the opening days of the rally-raid, Bahrain Raid Xtreme driver has since turned his attention to individual stage victories, going all-out in his Prodrive Hunter in the second week of the event.
Since being handed a victory in Stage 8 due to a penalty for Carlos Sainz Sr, Loeb has been untouchable in the ...Keep reading
Abt has rejoined Formula E for this season, the first of the new Gen3 era, after a year away having followed ex-partner manufacturer Audi out of the door at the end of 2020-21.
The German team linked up with Mahindra for a powertrain supply deal, while Frijns joined from Envision after four years with the British outfit.
Having been a late addition to the grid Abt has been open about its ...Keep reading
Hamilton revealed at the end of last year that he planned to sign off on a contract extension with Mercedes over the winter, with his current deal coming to an end in 2023.
Speaking to selected media including Autosport at the United States Grand Prix, Hamilton had said: “We are going to do another deal.
“We're going to sit down and we're going to discuss it in these next ...Keep reading
The DS Penske driver spent the session intermittently headlining the timing boards, and beat rookie Jake Hughes to the punch at the end of the session to claim the early bragging rights.
McLaren's Rene Rast set the first benchmark with a 1m19.069s, but that was quickly usurped by Vergne's first run - as the Frenchman took 0.3s out of the German's time.
But the times quickly began to tumble ...Keep reading
The grid has been set for the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual, with manufacturer-backed Porsche Coanda and Romain Grosjean’s eponymous R8G Esports squad sharing the LMP and GTE qualifying laurels respectively.
There was a brand new qualifying format, with a 30-minute joint session to kick off proceedings, before the top six from each class progressed to a Hyperpole shootout to set the top ...Keep reading
The switch from a traditional braking system at the rear of the Gen3 car to an electronic system operated by the motor on the rear axle has forced a new avenue of development, with teething issues for a number of manufacturers.
New Envision recruit Sebastien Buemi endured a high-profile crash on the final day of testing at Valencia known to be connected to an issue with the braking system - ...Keep reading
Acura enters the first season of IMSA’s GTP era with its ARX-06 built to LMDh rules, which debut in the Daytona 24 Hours at the end of January, using a 2.4-litre V6 that features a twin-turbo.
Salters said his design team had “a lot of freedom” and took “quite a lot of risk” with the powerplant, which is paired with the first electrical hybrid system in top-class American ...Keep reading
Vowles was announced on Friday as the new Williams team principal, bringing an end to a long and successful career at Mercedes.
And while Mercedes has long benefited from Vowles’ involvement, and will lose his valuable input, in terms of strategy it has emerged that there had already been a shift in approach from the middle of last year as he stepped back from having such a hands-on ...Keep reading
Red Bull has enjoyed its most successful F1 season to date in 2022, with Max Verstappen wrapping up his second consecutive drivers' world title and the team finally dethroning Mercedes in the constructors' championship, its first teams' trophy since 2013.
The successor to the Red Bull RB18 will therefore have a tough act to follow and it will be first shown to the public on 3 February, with the ...Keep reading
The nine-time world champion joined the Ford squad for four rallies last season, which included a memorable 80th career WRC win at Monte Carlo last January.
Loeb was absent from M-Sport’s 2023 team announcements to date as the British outfit elected to scale back to only two full-time manufacturer entries, driven by new signing Ott Tanak and Pierre-Louis Loubet.
M-Sport is however set to ...Keep reading
The 2005 Malaysian Grand Prix was not a memorable one for BAR-Honda. Both cars were out by lap three, and predictably it was an opportunity for Autosport’s resident cartoonist Jim Bamber to poke fun. Having waited years for the opportunity to race a BAR in anger, long-time tester Anthony Davidson recalls his last-minute call up to replace an unwell Takuma Sato as an “unbelievably ...Keep reading
In amongst creating videos about the latest BeamNG.drive updates and testing the BMW M4 GT4 in Spain, YouTube sensation Jimmy Broadbent has found the time to compete in the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual.
This coming weekend, he’ll take to the simulated Circuit de la Sarthe alongside Beitske Visser, Michele D’Alessandro and Muhammed Patel in a BMW M8 GTE for the MAHLE ...Keep reading
Both Red Bull and Aston Martin were found to have broken the 2021 cost cap during investigations last year, as new spending restrictions in grand prix racing were enforced for the first time.
While Aston Martin’s offence was a procedural breach, Red Bull’s was more controversial as it was found to have overspent by $1.8 million. It was handed a $7 million fine and a 10 percent reduction in ...Keep reading
Carrying his impeccable form into the final days of the two-week rally-raid, Loeb picked up his fifth consecutive stage win on Friday’s 185km test between Empty Quarter and Shaybah, beating Audi’s Mattias Ekstrom to the top spot by 3m19s.
As was the case in the first half of the two-day marathon stage on Thursday, the Bahrain Raid Xtreme driver led from the very beginning in his ...Keep reading
The 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion will join McLaren Racing for next year's Indy 500, racing a car co-owned by Rick Hendrick.
In recognition of this co-ownership by Hendrick, whose team has amassed 14 NASCAR Cup Series titles, and who is chairman and CEO of Hendrick Automotive Group, this fourth Arrow McLaren will carry title partnership from HendrickCars.com.
Larson, 30, has won a ...Keep reading
F1's biggest teams have other racing programmes or non-motorsport technology departments into which they have moved personnel, as they’ve downsized to meet the requirements of the cap.
However, staff can be switched back to F1 as and when needed, and their time allocated to the cap.
Szafnauer suggests that while Alpine benefited initially from already being the right size to hit the cap ...Keep reading
The Japanese brand has today unveiled the latest version of its championship-winning GR Yaris, which features revisions to its engine and aerodynamics.
Last year the GR Yaris emerged as the machine to beat as the WRC adopted new Rally1 hybrid regulations.
The car scored seven wins from the 13 events with Kalle Rovanpera scoring six victories on his way to becoming the youngest-ever world ...Keep reading
Spengler, the 2012 DTM champion, will share Studie’s sole BMW M4 GT3 with Le Mans 24 Hours winner Seiji Ara, effectively replacing fellow works driver Augusto Farfus in the team’s line-up.
The Canadian is expected to take part in around five races of the eight-round SUPER GT season, which kicks off at Okayama on 15-16April.
Two-time GT500 champion Masataka Yanagida will serve as the ...Keep reading
The two Kiwis will team up for the revived Sandown 500 and the Bathurst 1000, with Stanaway replacing Grove Racing-bound Garth Tander in the T8 line-up.
Stanaway's appointment follows his triumphant return to Supercars at the Bathurst 1000 last year where he starred in the Boost Mobile-backed wildcard entry.
That was his first appearance in Supercars since he walked away from the series ...Keep reading
The 2014 Cup champion, a regular for the Stewart-Haas Racing Ford squad since that title year, will call time on a glittering career that counts wins in the Daytona 500, Coca-Cola 600, Brickyard 400 and Southern 500.
He has been a fixture in the Cup series since 2001, when he was promoted by Richard Childress Racing to replace Dale Earnhardt Sr following his death in the Daytona 500 and ...Keep reading
In recognition of this co-ownership by Hendrick, whose team has amassed 14 NASCAR Cup Series titles, and who is chairman and CEO of Hendrick Automotive Group, this fourth Arrow McLaren will carry title partnership from HendrickCars.com.
Larson, 30, has won a total of 19 Cup points races as well as the 2019 and 2021 NASCAR All-Star Race.
In his 2021 championship campaign alone, the ...Keep reading
The 32-year-old will drive the team’s #78 Dallara-Chevrolet and will partner Britain’s Ilott, becoming the first driver from Argentina to contest a full season of IndyCar since Juan Manuel Fangio II 25 years ago.
Canapino has claimed 15 national championships in his homeland, winning multiple titles in the Super TC2000, Top Race V6 and Turismo Carretera categories.
In 2019, he raced a ...Keep reading
You would be forgiven for thinking that three seasons in W Series, two 24 Hours of Le Mans entries and 15 years of competitive motorsport were enough to keep Beitske Visser busy.
But, no, the 27-year-old Dutch driver is committed to sim racing too, and not just for real-world practice, but competitively for an Esports team.
“l enjoy participating in competitive virtual ...Keep reading
After a difficult 2021 season that saw it pick up just 13 points, Alfa Romeo made an impressive start to last year as new signing Valtteri Bottas helped establish the team as regular points scorers.
Alfa Romeo benefitted from being the only team that had got close to the weight limit under the new regulations, allowing it to pick up 51 points in the opening nine races courtesy of Bottas and ...Keep reading
Garage 56 is the entry that the Automobile Club de l'Ouest - organisers of Le Mans - sets aside for the “technology of tomorrow and beyond” of innovative machinery.
The entry for 2023 is a modified version of the Next Gen Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 car raced in NASCAR and is a collaboration between the series, Hendrick Motorsports, Chevrolet, IMSA, and Goodyear.
“It is without a doubt on my ...Keep reading
A teaser for the new season revealed it will be released on 24 February, a week before the 2023 season opening Bahrain Grand Prix.
The latest season will recap the dramatic 2022 F1 season, which saw Max Verstappen take his second consecutive drivers’ championship.
The new trailer shows F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali discussing the rules change which came into effect last year, with him saying ...Keep reading
Each of the three designs has a different colour from the Cadillac V-Series emblem but share a V-Series graphic. Chip Ganassi Racing’s #01 is in gold, its #2 car is in blue while Action Express Racing’s #31 car is in red. What was formerly the #02 entry is now #2 in tribute to the Briggs Cunningham “Le Monstre” that competed at Le Mans in 1950.
"From an aesthetic point of view, the LMDh ...Keep reading
The British Grand Prix has become one of the most popular races on the F1 calendar amid the series’ current boom, boasting sell-out crowds since the return of fans to sporting events last year.
A record crowd of 400,000 fans was recorded over three days for last year’s race, won by Carlos Sainz for Ferrari, exceeding the 100,000 mark for each day of on-track action.
But in a bid to give ...Keep reading
MIAMI, 12 JANUARY, 2023 — Motorsport Games Inc. (NASDAQ: MSGM) (“Motorsport Games” or the “Company”) today announced the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual, the esports finale to the ever-entertaining Le Mans Virtual Series, takes place this weekend on January 14 and 15, 2023. The all-star entry list has attracted the interest of major broadcasters from around the globe including Motor ...Keep reading
The 2014 NASCAR Cup champion announced will retire from full-time competition following the 2023 season and is expected to transition into the broadcast booth to be a TV analyst for Fox Sports’ NASCAR coverage in 2024.
The 2023 season is the final one in Harvick’s current contract with Stewart-Haas Racing as a Cup driver and Harvick has duly confirmed it will be his last in NASCAR as a ...Keep reading
Before we started our discussion about the 24 Hours of Le Mans, David Brabham and I chatted about dogs. My Puggle, Ruxin, barked at a bird outside and we both laughed when I brought him on camera.
Brabham asked me the first question, actually: “What kind of dog is that?”
Our canine diversion just goes to show Brabham’s amiable nature and at-ease approach ...Keep reading
BMW has stated that it is planning to give the 43-year-old Italian a test outing in the M Hybrid V8, probably some time toward the end of the year.
The revelation follows the announcement from the German manufacturer just before Christmas that Rossi is joining its factory GT3 line-up for his second full season of car racing in 2023.
BMW M Motorsport boss Andreas Roos said: “We plan to give ...Keep reading
In many ways it is a reboot for the ground-breaking series. Just before Christmas we dispatched our Formula E man Jake Boxall-Legge to Valencia for the pre-season test, to take a close look at the new generation.
We dive into what is so special about the Gen3 cars, which drivers and teams are the ones to look out for this season plus is this the reset the series needs to reach the motorsport ...Keep reading
After Alpine operated without a clear team principal in 2021 last season, Alpine CEO Laurent Rossi returned to a more traditional structure.
Szafnauer reports to Rossi, who has overall responsibility for the road car division as well as the racing team, and as such has a hand in big decisions such as driving hirings.
After leaving Aston Martin at the start of last year Szafnauer said a team ...Keep reading
Haas announced ahead of the season finale in Abu Dhabi that Hulkenberg would be joining the team for the 2023 season, replacing Mick Schumacher as Magnussen’s team-mate.
Magnussen and Hulkenberg previously clashed in the wake of the Hungarian Grand Prix in 2017, when Hulkenberg called the Dane “the most unsporting driver on the grid.” Magnussen replied by telling Hulkenberg to “suck my ...Keep reading
Conway, a two-time World Endurance Championship title-winner, has been driving for Toyota in the WEC since 2015, and has racked up one win, four runner-up finishes and a third in the Le Mans 24 Hours.
In IMSA endurance races, he has scored three runner-up finishes at Petit Le Mans, three third places at the 12 Hours of Sebring, and a runner-up finish in the 2018 Daytona 24 Hours.
Conway ...Keep reading
Williams announced on Wednesday that it would be holding a season launch event on 6 February, making it the earliest unveil date of the six teams who have confirmed their plans so far.
The event will take place at 2pm UK time on 6 February via the Williams website and its app, during which the team will reveal its livery for the 2023 season.
The announcement made no mention of the team’s ...Keep reading
The Bahrain Raid Xtreme driver led from start to finish on the 114km Haradh to Shaybah stage, the shortest contest at this year’s Dakar Rally, eventually taking the win by 3m04s over Audi’s Mattias Ekstrom.
It marks Loeb’s fourth stage win at the Dakar Rally this year.
Stage nine was marred by drama due to Carlos Sainz’s retirement from the event due to car damage and tragedy ...Keep reading
The initiative, founded by 13-time Grand Prix winner David Coulthard and entrepreneur Karel Komarek in June 2022, is committed to investigating the issues impacting female participation and progression to elite-level motorsport.
As part of its research, it has launched a Global Attitude Survey designed to explore the opinions, perceptions, and challenges which women face.
The 10-minute ...Keep reading
An intention to take part in some WEC rounds this year on a race-by-race basis was outlined by Isotta general manager Claudio Berro and partner team Vector Sport following their omission from the 2023 entry list published on Wednesday.
Berro suggested that a first race for a car to be known as the Tipo 6 Competizione at Monza on 9 July made sense for Isotta if the FIA and WEC promoter the ...Keep reading
After missing out on an F1 return for this year, Giovinazzi was announced as part of Ferrari’s driver line-up in the Hypercar class of the World Endurance Championship on Tuesday.
Although the sportscar programme and return to Le Mans will be Giovinazzi’s primary focus through 2023, he is due to remain on hand for Ferrari as its F1 reserve driver through this year, according to Autosport ...Keep reading
The factory teams from major car manufacturers Toyota, Peugeot, Ferrari, Porsche and Cadillac have been joined by Glickenhaus and Vanwall, as well as the Jota and Proton customer Porsche squads.
But there is no place for Isotta Fraschini, which made a bid for a single entry with its new Le Mans Hypercar in conjunction with the British Vector Sport team.
The revived Italian marque ...Keep reading
When Irving Berlin’s There’s No Business Like Show Business hit the silver screen in 1954, Autosport had only been on the shelves for four years, Juan Manuel Fangio had just claimed his second world title, the reign of Queen Elizabeth II was in its infancy, and hardly anyone had heard of Elvis Presley. But it really does sum up Autosport International, which is back this week at the Birmingham ...Keep reading
In the wake of the controversy over former F1 race director Michael Masi’s handling of the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the FIA overhauled the way that grand prix events were run last season.
Rather than having a single race director, the FIA shared out the role last year – with Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas dividing up the F1 season between them.
However, from the Japanese Grand Prix ...Keep reading
The SunEnergy1 squad, owned by US-based Australian Kenny Habul, was recently locked in as the 61st entry for the opening round of the IMSA season.
Team Penske ace Power will share the GTD Mercedes with Habul, Fabian Schiller and two-time Dubai 24 Hours winner Axcil Jeffries for the endurance classic.
The event will mark Power's first appearance in the Daytona 24, the Aussie hoping to use it ...Keep reading
Having been scaled back to a Pro-Am race last year, the opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge returns to full strength in 2023 with the summer date revived along with the return of all-Pro GT3 line-ups.
That has seen an upswing in entries, with eight more cars locked in for this year's race compared to 2022.
There is also a significant shift in the amount of overseas entries ...Keep reading
The bad news was confirmed as night closed in on the Dakar Rally bivouac, and Sainz dropped out for good after his major accident on the ninth stage - won by Sebastien Loeb - of the world's toughest race.
The Spanish driver received medical assistance for chest pains and even got into the medical helicopter, but returned to try to get his Audi RS Q e-tron E2 back to the bivouac after just five ...Keep reading
Tuesday saw the running of the ninth stage of the 2023 Dakar, with WRC legend Sebastien Loeb taking victory in the stage.
However, Tuesday's action has been marred by an announcement from Dakar organisers this evening that a spectator died following an incident on the stage.
Organisers confirmed that the spectator was from Italy and was airlifted to a hospital following an incident on a ...Keep reading
The NASCAR Whelen Euro Series announced in October that it would unofficially kick off its 2023 season on 4-5 March in Rovaniemi, Finland, with an all-star race where for the first time in history NASCAR cars would race on ice.
The series, however, announced Tuesday it has indefinitely postponed the new NASCAR Arctic Ice Race.
According to series president and CEO Jerome Galpin, supplying ...Keep reading
Mercedes' 2022 challenger has gone down as its worst since it became a regular title-winning force at the start of the V6 hybrid era in 2014, with the first Silver Arrow since 2019 most closely associated with the porpoising problem that impacted all F1 squads in the first season of the championship's return to ground-effects regulations.
After the team discovered the severity of its porpoising ...Keep reading
The American, who plans to lodge an entry with the General Motors Cadillac brand to join F1 as soon as possible, has found little support among the current competitors for his ambitions.
While FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem is eager to add more teams to the grid, and believes GM’s involvement will be a boost to the series, Andretti has not found the support he hoped for among potential ...Keep reading
The 29-year-old Italian has been named as part of a six-strong squad for Ferrari’s two entries in the Hypercar class alongside five regulars from its GT roster.
Giovinazzi, who raced for Alfa Romeo in F1 from 2019 to 2021, will drive the #51 499P in the seven-round WEC together with 2022 WEC GTE Pro champions Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado.
The sister #50 entry will be crewed by ...Keep reading
The son of seven-time Formula 1 race winner Juan Pablo Montoya was previously a Red Bull athlete, but has now become a full member of the academy.
Red Bull Racing advisor Helmut Marko said in a recent interview with Auto Motor und Sport that Montoya would be making the step up to FIA Formula 3, but his racing seat for this season is yet to be announced.
He is set to take part in the Formula ...Keep reading
Amid a developing political battle over the plans by Andretti Global to enter F1 with the General Motors-backed Cadillac name, Sulayem has been a lone voice so far in publicly supporting the team's ambitions.
F1's commercial rights holders, FOM, plus the majority of teams on the grid, are sceptical about the added value an Andretti-Cadillac project could bring to the sport, and some squads ...Keep reading
A huge line-up of teams and drivers will participate in the final round of this year’s elite sim racing series and with the championships in both LMP and GTE on the line, the exciting showdown is one race you won’t want to miss. Formula 1 and IndyCar stars such as Max Verstappen and Romain Grosjean have already competed in this year’s Le Mans Virtual Series and with teams required to field ...Keep reading
Driving for the Bahrain Raid Xtreme team, Loeb led a 1-2-3 result for the Prodrive Hunter on the 358km special between Riyadh and Haradh, with Teltonika Racing’s Vaidotas Zala and GCK Motorsport driver Guerlain Chicherit rounding out the podium spots.
Loeb led early on over the gravel terrain that greeted competitors at the resumption of the rally-raid following a day’s rest in the Saudi ...Keep reading
They are a little surprising, with three different categories represented in the top three, perhaps underlining the fact that the show in Birmingham is not F1-focused. While all these moments are undoubtedly memorable, the order is not what we expected and the impact of Hollywood’s Le Mans ’66 is apparent. It would be interesting to see how the list might change if the exercise was repeated in ...Keep reading
“Passion sometimes is perhaps more important than winning all the time,” said 2003 World Rally champion Petter Solberg when asked during an Autosport podcast last week to sum up the career of the late Ken Block, who died aged 55 in a snowmobiling accident.
Solberg couldn’t have hit the nail on the head any harder. Block wasn’t a world champion and, while a look over his career shows ...Keep reading
Last month, the FIA updated its International Sporting Code to prohibit drivers in all its championships from making “political, religious or personal” statements or comments that go against the neutrality outlined in its statutes unless they have permission.
In recent years, a number of F1 drivers have used their platforms to speak up about important issues such as LGBTQ+ rights ...Keep reading
The South Korean marque has become the first WRC team to reveal its 2023 challenger, which will be piloted by a new look driver line-up as new signings Esapekka Lappi and Craig Breen join Thierry Neuville and the experienced Dani Sordo.
The latest specification i20 N features updated bodywork to the front and rear of the car. The bonnet has been flattened and extended while the front arches ...Keep reading
Following a successful first season in the WEC last year that included a podium finish at the Le Mans 24 Hours, Prema will expand to two Oreca 07s in the LMP2 division this year, with Correa and Pin split across the two entries.
For Correa, it marks a step up to the world championship after a brief foray in the European Le Mans Series in 2022 with Prema, which culminated in him leading the ...Keep reading
As F1 enters the second year of a power unit freeze that lasts until the end of 2025, there are now strict limits on what elements on engines can be changed.
Hardware tweaks solely aimed at delivering a boost in power are not allowed, but the FIA is able to approve changes aimed at solving genuine reliability problems.
However, such tweaks can cause controversy if, as a consequence of ...Keep reading
Colapinto, 19, made his debut in FIA Formula 3 last year with Van Amersfoort Racing, taking pole on debut in Bahrain before scoring sprint race victories at Imola and Monza. The Argentinian finished ninth in the drivers’ standings with three further podiums to his name.
Williams announced on Monday that Colapinto had become the latest young driver to join its junior programme, as well as ...Keep reading
The Irishman has returned to the South Korean marque in the role he held from 2019-2021, sharing the third i20 N with Dani Sordo.
Breen’s return to Hyundai was among several unexpected twists of the WRC silly season, having agreed a two-year full-time deal with M-Sport at the end of 2021.
However, Breen endured a difficult time at M-Sport last season, with a third on debut at Monte Carlo ...Keep reading
Verstappen clinched his second F1 title with four races to spare, and went on to score a record 454 points in single season with 15 victories to his name.
It meant Verstappen ended the year 146 points clear of Leclerc in the final standings despite the Ferrari driver initially looking like his most likely rival for the championship.
Leclerc won two of the first three races to pull a 46-point ...Keep reading
The Frenchman joined Nissan in an all-new line-up, partnering compatriot Sacha Fenestraz at the Japanese manufacturer ahead of the first season of the Gen3 regulations.
Nissan's pace looked generally impressive in testing at Valencia across the works team and at McLaren, and Nato topped the one-hour session tacked onto the end of the Thursday media day.
However, he explained that it had ...Keep reading
After months of facing a cold shoulder from rival outfits and F1 owners Liberty Media, it appeared on the face of it he had got all his ducks in a row.
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem had gone public in his desire to get more teams on the grid, and the GM-backing for a Cadillac-badged operation certainly seemed a big enough deal to prove the value his new team would bring to grand prix ...Keep reading
Lawson will race in Super Formula this year after two seasons in Formula 2, and had his first taste of the Japanese championship in December’s post-season rookie test at Suzuka driving the #15 car raced last season by Ukyo Sasahara.
The New Zealander impressed on the opening day of the test by finishing ninth in the afternoon session and getting within a second of the ...Keep reading
For while Vasseur is wise enough to know there is no magic switch he can flick that will automatically propel Ferrari to the front, he’s equally aware that he has been drafted in for one thing: world championship glory.
With Ferrari chiefs John Elkann and Benedetto Vigna having lost patience with and faith in Vasseur’s predecessor Mattia Binotto, who they could so easily have given another ...Keep reading
The World Endurance Championship will allow the new breed of LMDh cars to compete against LMH machinery in the Hypercar class from 2023 as part of a convergence process with the IMSA SportsCar Championship.
The LMDh has been devised as a cost-effective entry route into the pinnacle of sportscar racing, with each car based on an LMP2 chassis and running a hybrid system that is built and sold by ...Keep reading
The part-time WRC driver has made sporadic appearances in rallying’s top tier since 2015, although each drive has been behind the wheel of an M-Sport Ford Fiesta or Puma.
Last season Bertelli piloted an M-Sport Puma at Rally New Zealand, where the 34-year-old finished seventh overall.
Bertelli revealed the news of his switch to a Toyota in a post on social media, where he showcased a mock ...Keep reading
The new ground-effects cars that were finally introduced for the 2022 season are the heaviest in the championship’s history at 798kg.
That figure is actually 3kg up on the minimum weight target number for F1’s latest rules reset, but this was increased to incorporate the metal floor stays several teams ran throughout last season to improve their problems with porpoising, as well as ...Keep reading
After Ben Sulayem revealed at the start of this week he wanted the FIA to explore starting the process to get a new team on the grid, Andretti announced a new partnership with US auto giant General Motors with the intention of entering F1.
The plan would see Andretti race in partnership with GM brand Cadillac, bringing a new manufacturer name to F1 in the process should it be granted an entry ...Keep reading
Sainz had looked like the man to beat in the 367km special between Al Duwadimi and Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, the Spanish driver leading from the very first checkpoint to take a provisional 1m39s victory over Bahrain Raid Xtreme driver Loeb.
However, the celebration at Audi turned out to be short-lived as Sainz was soon handed a five-minute time penalty for speeding, stripping him of first ...Keep reading
Albon made his F1 return with Williams last year after spending 2021 in a reserve and development role at Red Bull, and quickly emerged as the team leader at Grove.
The Anglo-Thai driver recorded a best finish of ninth in Miami along with points finishes in Australia and Belgium, and won praise for his performances throughout the season.
But Williams struggled to regularly compete with ...Keep reading
Following the audit of the first year of F1's financial regulations in 2021, Red Bull was found to have exceeded the $145 million budget cap by 1.6%, resulting in a $7m fine and a 10% reduction in its aerodynamic testing for 12 months.
The sanction drew mixed reactions from the F1 paddock. While Red Bull labelled the penalty "draconian" and "enormous", Ferrari sporting director Laurent Mekies ...Keep reading
The duo will be joined by Devlin Francesco in the three Michelin Endurance Cup events during the season, with NASCAR Cup ace Austin Cindric serving as the squad's fourth driver for the season-opening Rolex 24 at Daytona.
De Francesco and Lux will head to the Daytona International Speedway classic as the reigning LMP2 champions, having won the 2022 edition of the event in a DragonSpeed Oreca 07 ...Keep reading
Now that Christmas is already becoming an increasingly distant memory and any leftovers have long since disappeared, this is the perfect moment to take stock of the previous 12 months.
Autosport has already assessed how the major English circuit racing clubs performed during 2022 and highlighted how many categories displayed impressive resilience amid the cost-of-living crisis. But, at the ...Keep reading
With the stage for bikes and quads cancelled due to weather conditions, Al-Attiyah had to open the road in the 333km special between Riyadh and Al Duwadimi in his Toyota Hilux.
Carrying a lead of more than an hour into the day, and with external assistance prohibited as part of the ‘marathon’ rules that cover both stages 7 and 8, the Qatari driver played it safe in his bid to defend his ...Keep reading
What makes the perfect race track? Autosport has polled plenty of drivers over the past year in our Friday favourite series, and plenty of common themes occur. It must have a mix of challenging corners, be good to race on, and a good atmosphere always helps.
But what about the virtual realm? That was the question we pondered in coming up with this list of our favourite fictional racing ...Keep reading
The FIA World Rally-Raid Championship’s Committee announced a change in the Balance of Performance on Wednesday to give cars in the T1.U class for prototype cars using renewable energies – which includes Audi’s RS Q e-tron E2 – an extra 8kW, which is believed to be worth 11bhp.
Al-Attiyah was outraged by the measure, however, and appeared to accuse the organisation of favouritism on ...Keep reading
Zhou graduated to F1 last year with Alfa Romeo, forming an all-new line-up at the Swiss-based squad alongside Bottas, who joined from Mercedes.
While Bottas was responsible for 49 of Alfa Romeo’s 55 points in 2022, Zhou drew praise for his performances through his rookie campaign, scoring a best result of eighth place at the Canadian Grand Prix.
Bottas agreed with the ...Keep reading
After a difficult start to last season, as Mercedes battled excessive porpoising with its W13, the German car manufacturer made good gains over the second half of the year.
Russell was able to deliver his maiden victory at the Brazilian Grand Prix and his bosses are bullish that the lessons they took on board will put them in good stead for the design of the new W14.
Speaking to Autosport ...Keep reading
McLaren will unveil its new F1 car for the coming season, set to be called the MCL37, on 13 February - the same day that Aston Martin’s challenger is launched.
The launch will be the first official event for McLaren’s revised driver line-up in 2023, which sees 2021 Formula 2 champion Oscar Piastri join Lando Norris at the team.
Piastri got his first taste of McLaren F1 machinery towards ...Keep reading
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750 Formula ChampionshipPeter Bove (Darvi 88P)
Alfa Romeo ChampionshipAndrew Bourke (156)
Armed Forces Race ChallengeDoug Inglis (Mazda MX-5)
Bikesports ChampionshipSimon Walker-Hansell (Radical SR3 RS)
BMW Car Club Racing ChampionshipLee Piercey (E36)
Classic Stock Hatch ChampionshipChris Dear (Peugeot 205 GTI)
Club Enduro ChampionshipRobert Baker/Carl Swift ...Keep reading
Of all the circuits on the current Super GT calendar, Fuji Speedway is certainly the most ‘Tilke-like’, owing mostly to the Toyota-owned venue’s 2005 renovation that enabled it to (briefly) snatch away the Japanese Grand Prix from Suzuka for 2007-08.
Few would argue that any other track besides Suzuka has any right to be regarded as the spiritual home of Japanese motorsport, and Fuji, at ...Keep reading
Toyota’s Al-Attiyah and Peterhansel fought tooth and nail for much of the shortened 358km special between Ha’il and Riyadh, with Peterhansel reversing Al-Attiyah’s early advantage to grab the lead at the second checkpoint.
Peterhansel had built an advantage of well over a minute after crossing the timing mark at 207km, but disaster struck just minutes later when his Audi RS Q e-tron was ...Keep reading
Mercedes withdrew from Formula E at the end of last season, with McLaren buying up the team as a going concern to enter the championship for 2022-23.
Rast made a return to the all-electric series after a year out, having previously raced for the Audi squad in 2020-21 as Lucas di Grassi's team-mate.
The three-time DTM champion says it is an "honour" to be a part of McLaren's history, drawing ...Keep reading
Fittipaldi will race Jota’s solo full-season WEC P2 entry with a ORECA-Gibson 07 alongside David Heinemeier Hansson and Oliver Rassmussen as Jota attempts to retain the title it won with Antonio Felix da Costa, Will Stevens and Rorberto Gonzalez in 2022.
Fittipaldi and Heinemeier Hansson are moving across from the Inter Europol team with which they raced together in 2022 European Le Mans ...Keep reading
The Swedish team contributed to the demise of the World Touring Car Cup last year when it withdrew from the series mid-season following safety concerns over Goodyear’s spec tyres.
Now it plans to return to international touring car racing with a four-car team, in a series that has yet to announce a calendar and about which few details are officially known.
Opinion: Why departing WTCR ...Keep reading
Red Bull enjoyed a dominant end to 2022 as Max Verstappen clinched his second straight drivers' championship, while the team claimed its first constructors' crown since 2013, winning 17 of the 22 races.
Verstappen and teammate Sergio Perez won 10 of the final 11 races in 2022, with Red Bull's only defeat in this period coming at the Brazilian Grand Prix when George Russell took victory for ...Keep reading
Block famously run under #43 throughout a career that included 25 starts in rallying’s top tier, where he recorded a best result of seventh at Rally Mexico in 2013.
He died on 3 January from injuries sustained in a snowmobile incident.
The American, who shot to fame thanks to his hit Youtube Gymkhana video series, also used the number when competing in the US Rally Championship, Global ...Keep reading
The five-time MotoGP race winner has joined LCR on a two-year factory contract with Honda for 2023, following Suzuki’s decision to quit the series at the end of 2022.
Rins comes to Honda during a difficult period for the Japanese marque, after it registered its second winless campaign in three years in 2022 with a bike all of its riders felt was very difficult to extract performance ...Keep reading
After terminating Nikita Mazepin’s contract in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine last February, Haas turned to Magnussen as a last-minute replacement for the 2022 season.
Magnussen raced for Haas between 2017 and 2020 before losing his seat, but quickly made a splash upon his return by finishing fifth in Bahrain, despite only signing in time for the second pre-season test.
The ...Keep reading
Promising an “all-American team” complete with an American driver, the news on Thursday was largely met with enthusiasm from fans eager to see an expansion of the grid.
Yet F1’s response was lukewarm at best. Its statement made zero mention of either Andretti or Cadillac, and served a reminder that any new entry requires its approval, not just that of the FIA.
There is a lengthy ...Keep reading
Andretti announced on Thursday that it had reached a deal with GM to lodge an expression of interest with the FIA to enter F1 as soon as it could. If successful, the team will run under the Cadillac banner.
The involvement of GM in the project has caused a surprise because it is not thought the American manufacturer had any intention of building its own F1 power unit from 2026, with the ...Keep reading
Andretti Global announced on Thursday that it was tying up with General Motors to lodge an intention of entry to join the grand prix grid in the future.
The announcement came a few days after FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem said he wanted to open the doors to potential new teams.
This follows months of wrangling over Andretti's previous interest, which was never enthusiastically embraced ...Keep reading
Andretti revealed last February that it was planning to open an F1 operation in the future, and spent much of the 2022 season discussing the possibility of expanding the field with the existing 10 teams.
FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem revealed on Twitter earlier this week that he had asked his team to look at starting the process for expressions of interest from potential new F1 teams ...Keep reading
The British-based Dynisma company, which recently built Ferrari’s new generation simulator at Maranello, has also created what is touted as the most realistic F1-spec sim that is available for anyone to buy right now.
The DMG-1 simulator, or motion generator as the company prefers to call it, offers a response time that sets a new benchmark in helping ensure drivers get feedback as quick as ...Keep reading
Greensmith will return to the WRC2 class this season after a three-year stint driving for M-Sport Ford's top-flight WRC team.
The 26-year-old's move to the WRC2 arrives after a deal couldn't be reached to stay at M-Sport for 2023, ending an eight-year partnership in the process. The Ford team will field only two full-time entries in the WRC this year for Ott Tanak and Pierre-Louis Loubet.
As ...Keep reading
MIAMI, 5 January, 2023 — Motorsport Games Inc. (NASDAQ: MSGM) (“Motorsport Games” or the “Company”) today announced another star-studded entry list has been released for the third edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual, the final round of the 2022-23 Le Mans Virtual Series season. The event will take place on 14-15 January 2023 and will be held virtually, with the 180 ...Keep reading
David Coulthard, who recently co-founded the More Than Equal initiative to put women firmly into F1 seats with the potential to win “championships, not just races,” in his words, is definitely smiling.
Despite more women and more initiatives than ever making headway in motorsport, there are still huge barriers to progression. Top of the mind is physicality – the sheer physical strength ...Keep reading
Ahead of next week’s Autosport International show, fans were asked to vote for their favourite motorsport memory from a shortlist chosen by a panel including three-time Formula 1 world champion Sir Jackie Stewart.
The joint initiative between Autosport and the Race Against Dementia charity resulted in McRae’s charging recovery drive in a Prodrive Subaru Impreza topping the list with 20% of ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver was furious at a Balance of Performance tweak which gave cars in the T1.U class using renewable energies – effectively main rivals Audi – an additional 8kW which equates to 11bhp ahead of Thursday’s stage, stating it would ‘kill the race early’.
But on the 373km sand and dune covered stage, the second loop around Ha’il, the defending Dakar Rally champion saw ...Keep reading
After two seasons where McLaren has enjoyed a relaxed atmosphere between Norris and Daniel Ricciardo, the arrival of Piastri looks set to deliver a very different dynamic at the team.
Piastri is at a very different stage in his career compared to Ricciardo, and will want to make a name for himself after being at the centre of a tug-of-war battle between McLaren and Alpine over his services for ...Keep reading
Szafnauer worked with Ocon at Force India/Racing Point in 2017-18, when the Frenchman was involved in several controversial clashes with Sergio Perez.
Last season at Alpine there were moments of tension between Ocon and Fernando Alonso, notably at Interlagos, where they collided on the first lap of the sprint.
That led to both men getting a talking to from the team management. Szafnauer ...Keep reading
The Aussie series continues to face a race against time to finalise the homologation of its next-generation Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro racer.
While the majority of the control components have been signed off, there are some brand specific parts – such as bodywork and engine specification – that are still undergoing parity work.
It was revealed at the 2022 season finale in Adelaide ...Keep reading
With the FIA’s rules strict that any driver who hits 12 points must sit out the next race, AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly found himself on the cusp of having to skip a grand prix after racking up 10 points.
Gasly was so close to the prospect of falling foul of an unintentional rules breach from just two extra points, that there was even wild talk he could earn himself a deliberate sanction to ...Keep reading
Autosport International fans were asked to vote for their best moments before Christmas and now we have the results. Although the top 10 ranking isn’t what we expected, it’s nice to see a mix of rallying, sportscar and tin-top events up there with some of the most famous moments in Formula 1 history.
A special gallery based on the poll, which aims to raise money for Jackie Stewart’s Race ...Keep reading
News of the Frenchman’s death was announced on Wednesday by Le Mans organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, though no cause of death was given.
Ferte, younger brother to fellow racer Alain, forged a successful career in sportscars, which included 13 starts at Le Mans over a 20-year period.
It peaked at the 24 Hours in 1991 when he finished second together with Davy Jones and Raul ...Keep reading
The FIA World Rally-Raid Championship’s Committee announced an immediate change in the Balance of Performance to give cars in the T1.U class for prototype cars using renewable energies – which includes Audi’s RS Q e-tron E2 – an extra 8kW, which is believed to be worth 11bhp.
A statement read: “Following the data analysis of the vehicles entered in the T1.U and T1+ categories on the ...Keep reading
Through a series of messages posted to social media on Wednesday, Alpine confirmed that its new car will be unveiled to the world on 16 February.
The car will follow the naming pattern that started when the Renault-owned squad was rebranded as Alpine in 2021, taking the A523 name, and will be launched in London.
It makes Alpine the fourth team to confirm its launch date ahead of ...Keep reading
The start of an engine freeze from 2022 to 2026 could have been a moment when things calmed down a bit, as teams have to stick with the same designs for several years now.
However, a total of 36 engine grid penalties, which came from 137 times drivers exceeded component limits, showed the challenge manufacturers still face to keep within the limits.
There were 20 occasions when drivers ...Keep reading
Williams confirmed Jost Capito’s exit after two years heading up its F1 operations, along with the technical director he appointed, FX Demaison, in December. It marked a big change at the top of the team, signalling a desire from its owner, Dorilton Capital, to clean house and go in a different direction.
The team said it would announce a replacement “in due course” and is yet to confirm ...Keep reading
Australian Campbell, who will race in the new GTP class of the IMSA SportsCar series alongside ex-F1 racer Felipe Nasr in a 963, said the car is “totally different” to what he’s raced before but working on a project from the start has accelerated his learning.
The 963 will make its debut in the season-opening 24-hour race at Daytona after an intense testing programme that has been ...Keep reading
It was the kind of press conference question that often results in disinterested, throwaway response from Formula 1 drivers keen to get media duties over with. Who were the drivers you raced coming through the ranks in karting that didn’t make it to grand prix racing, but should have done?
Max Verstappen and Carlos Sainz gave roundabout answers without naming any names, but Valtteri Bottas ...Keep reading
In the wake of the problems that a number of teams faced last year with excessive bouncing, the FIA intervened to try to eradicate the phenomenon.
As well as introducing a short-term fix by the use of an Aerodynamic Oscillation Metric (AOM), F1's governing body also pushed through changes to the 2023 technical regulations.
One of the key ones was a 15mm raising of the floor edges, which is ...Keep reading
The Spaniard, who is bidding for his fourth victory in the Rally-Raid classic, lost a huge amount of time to his rivals after he was forced to stop twice for problems with his Audi RS Q e-tron E2.
He started the 467km special between Alula and Ha'il with an advantage of 2m12s over reigning champion Nasser Al-Attiyah of Toyota, with both drivers having scored one stage win apiece during the ...Keep reading
The 2021 Indy Lights champion, who has raced with the VSR outfit since 2020, will co-drive with GTD full-timers Aaron Telitz and Frankie Montecalvo and endurance-race extra Parker Thompson in the team’s #12 entry.
Kirkwood, who will be entering his second IndyCar season with Andretti Autosport in 2023 after contesting his rookie campaign with AJ Foyt Racing last year, excelled in ...Keep reading
Team owner Wayne Taylor revealed that he initially rebuffed Andretti’s advances before changing tack once his squad began testing with the new-for-2023 Acura ARX-06 LMDh in the summer.
Taylor saw the need for the additional technical resources that one of the big US racing teams could provide as WTR goes up against Penske and Chip Ganassi Racing, which are respectively fielding Porsche and ...Keep reading
Perhaps most famous for his viral Gymkhana YouTube stunt videos, which have attracted more than 650 million views, prior to internet fame Block was a successful entrepreneur before indulging in his passion for all things rallying.
Co-founder of DC Shoes, Block began competing in his native USA in 2005, initially in the Rally America series. Within two years he was making cameos in the World ...Keep reading
As part of an optimisation process conducted over the winter, Ferrari has targeted key areas of improvement that it thinks can lift it chances for the new season.
The first is in aerodynamics, with the team set to further refine the innovative scoop sidepods to help better manage airflow – both in improving downforce but also in reducing drag.
Beyond that, Ferrari also wants to reduce the ...Keep reading
Gone are the days when it was a fight for teams to survive in F1. Not long ago, even the tally of 10 was an achievement - only nine raced towards the end of 2014 - so why not open things up and give F1 more cars, more drivers and more action?
It's something FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, publicly for the first time, has now expressed a desire in exploring. In a tweet sent from his official ...Keep reading
Sainz arrived into the 467km special between Alula and Ha’il with a small advantage of 2m12s over reigning champion Al-Attiyah, with both drivers having scored one stage win apiece during the opening two days of action in Saudi Arabia.
But the Spaniard received a big hit to his hopes of adding a fifth Dakar win to his CV when the Audi RS Q e-tron E2 broke down 213km into the stage with ...Keep reading
While the American’s competitive arena was in rally cars, the influence he had stretched far beyond asphalt and gravel stages – and reached not only into the Formula 1 paddock, but the wider world too.
Block's Gymkhana videos were the stuff of legend, as his groundbreaking use of social media to make the thrills of modern motorsport mainstream was streets ahead of anything championship ...Keep reading
Block, famous for becoming a YouTube sensation through his Gymkhana stunt videos, which led to career in rallying and Rallycross, succumbed to injuries after a snowmobile crash in Utah on Monday.
The 55-year-old’s passing has triggered an enormous outpouring of tributes from across the motorsport fraternity.
Eight-time world rally champion Sebastien Ogier competed alongside Block when the ...Keep reading
After a recent spell as F1’s managing director of motorsport, Brawn elected to step away and into retirement following the 2022 season.
But after a career that included taking his own team to the F1 title in 2009, plus playing a key role in Ferrari’s dominance in the 2000s, Brawn does not want to turn his back completely on the series.
Instead, he says that if there are any areas that he ...Keep reading
Marquez badly broke his right arm in 2020 at the season-opening Spanish GP, and ultimately missed the entire season having been forced to have surgery three times on the injury.
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Those operations left him with a right humerus that had rotated over 30 degrees from its original position, which was hindering him on his bike when ...Keep reading
Nojiri goes into the 2023 campaign searching for a third consecutive title after taking a dominant second crown last year with a round to spare.
However, the arrival of the Dallara SF23, featuring a substantially revised aerodynamic package, and new Yokohama tyres with more sustainable materials means that the knowledge acquired by Nojiri and Team Mugen over the past four seasons will be less ...Keep reading
The pair have clashed five times, a list including multiple incidents in the inaugural Saudi Arabian Grand Prix as one, since the start of 2021 in their closely-fought and controversial title battle season at the end of F1’s previous rules cycle and the conclusion of last season.
Most of the incidents occurred during 2021, but at the penultimate round of the 2022 season, which Verstappen had ...Keep reading
His death after the crash in Utah was confirmed by his rally team the Hoonigan Racing Division late on Monday, US time.
Block is survived by his wife Lucy and three children.
"It's with our deepest regrets that we can confirm that Ken Block passed away in a snowmobile accident today," read a statement posted to Instagram.
"Ken was a visionary, a pioneer and an icon. And, most importantly ...Keep reading
The F1 grid has stood at 10 teams since the collapse of the Manor squad at the end of the 2016 season, but the series has enjoyed a significant commercial boom in the meantime.
It has led to a number of parties publicly expressing a desire to join the F1 grid, the most notable being Andretti Global, headed up by Michael Andretti.
Until now, the FIA has not made any public indication that it ...Keep reading
Stamp, stamp, clap. Stamp, stamp, clap.
When the public address system at Rockingham Motor Speedway near Corby blared out We Will Rock You by Queen in the early 2000s, it spelled doubly good news. Firstly, spectators sitting in the chilly grandstands could start to get circulation back into their feet. Second, it signalled that an ASCAR race was about to begin.
The largely unimaginative ...Keep reading
Toyota’s Al-Attiyah overturned a 1m34s deficit to Erik van Loon on the final split of the 430km Sea Camp to Alula stage, the fourth-longest stage of the 2023 Dakar, to win Monday’s contest by 14s from the Overdrive entrant.
The stage win promoted the Qatari driver and co-driver Mathieu Baumel to second place, 2m12s behind Audi’s Sainz in the overall classification.
Sainz was first on ...Keep reading
As the Praga R1 – a thoroughbred mini-prototype race car from the Czech purveyors of karts and Dakar trucks – entered the paddock, its driver dipped the clutch and gave the throttle three short, sharp, stabs.
The engine revs rose in line with the staccato blips, the sound of a highly tuned four-cylinder turbocharged engine ricocheting off the nearby pitlane ...Keep reading
Aston Martin is currently still working from the original Jordan factory that was first used in 1991, with many employees located in a temporary stack of cabins alongside the main building and the windtunnel staff working at the Mercedes facility in Brackley.
The new facility that is being built alongside its existing base will see everyone in one building, with the entire design department in ...Keep reading
F1 has been unable to race in China for the past three seasons due to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent travel restrictions put in place.
The Chinese GP did appear on the provisional 2023 F1 race calendar, only to be dropped due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions, with no replacement event named and the season reduced to 23 rounds.
But at the end of last year, Chinese authorities announced ...Keep reading
The Moto3 and Moto2 world champion – and younger brother of six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez – made his debut in the premier class in 2020 with the factory Honda squad.
But, before the COVID-delayed season even began, Alex Marquez was signed to a new factory contract for 2021 that would result in him moving to the satellite LCR team to make way for Pol Espargaro.
Marquez was the ...Keep reading
After being dropped by McLaren for 2023, Ricciardo made it clear that he did not have a serious interest in potential opportunities with teams like Haas and Williams.
He preferred instead to take a year out in a third driver role with Red Bull, allowing him to take a step back and find new motivation ahead of a hoped-for return to a race seat in 2024.
Having spent a year on the sidelines in ...Keep reading
Sainz’s teammate Mattias Ekstrom led the majority of the 367km special near Sea Camp in Saudi Arabia, the former DTM ace grabbing the lead at the first checkpoint and steadily building his advantage from there.
But the complexion of the stage changed completely between the final two checkpoints, with Sainz producing a heroic effort to jump from fourth - and more than two minutes down - to ...Keep reading
Albon, who replaced George Russell this season at the Grove outfit after a year on the sidelines, suggests that the FW44 was too peaky in terms of its performance over a range of different circuits.
Albon scored points on only three occasions in 2022, with a high of ninth place in Miami. He is hence hoping that the new FW45 will be more consistently competitive and create more points-scoring ...Keep reading
Red Bull completed its first double championship win since 2013 last year as Max Verstappen clinched his second drivers’ title with four races to spare, which the team followed by sealing the constructors’ crown at the next round in the USA.
Verstappen won a record 15 races through 2022, while Red Bull set a new record for the number of points scored by a team through a single ...Keep reading
Speaking ahead of the start of the new LMDh era of the IMSA SportsCar Championship, HPD president David Salters said his team had been given “a lot of freedom” and took “quite a lot of risk” in the 2.4-litre design, which is paired with the first electrical hybrid system in top-class American racing.
“In the back of our mind, we thought this might be the last one that we really make ...Keep reading
The new regulation meant teams were obliged to give two free practice sessions per season to a driver who had not yet competed in more than two grands prix. As teams fulfilled this requirement, a total of ten ‘rookies’ who had not taken part in a race got their opportunity to run in practice.
There was also Pietro Fittipaldi, who had already contested two races for Haas in 2020 ...Keep reading
Following pandemic-devastated 2020 and 2021, in which amateur competitors were trying to regroup, the past 12 months brought unexpected challenges for everybody, not least those rooted in war-torn Ukraine.
On a personal level, the passing of my father – who took me to a Silverstone MG Car Club clubbie in 1958, and British Grands Prix in 1967 and 1973, then saw me land a Clubmans podium there ...Keep reading
It’s hard to think of a recent Super GT champion who has taken such an unlikely path to the top as Kazuki Hiramine, who alongside team-mate Bertrand Baguette ended a 27-year title drought for Team Impul this year.
Belgian ace Baguette is known to international audiences for his exploits in IndyCar, Formula Renault 3.5 and the World Endurance Championship. Other title-winners such as ...Keep reading
The 45th edition of Dakar kicked off on New Year’s Eve with a short 13km timed run on the shores of Red Sea in Saudi Arabia, with the entire section designed around the Sea Camp that also serves as the first bivouac of the rally.
Although there was little opportunity to gain time on rivals, the Prologue was fairly significant as it helps determine the starting order for the first stage proper ...Keep reading
The Red Bull driver said at the 2021 Turkish Grand Prix that whether he won or lost his epic fight with Hamilton and the Briton’s Mercedes squad, he would be satisfied with the outcome.
Over one year on, where there is evidence to both suggest his 2021 triumph did alter Verstappen’s approaching to racing Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and Hamilton’s team-mate George Russell, but was ...Keep reading
There are dozens of championship battles every year in the world of club motorsport, yet some will be remembered much more than others.
Whether it's because the racing was particularly close - and fraught at times - or whether the outcome was decided by dropped scores, or even a court hearing, here are some of the greatest national rivalries from the past season.
10. Rob Welham v the F1000 ...Keep reading
The team secured its best constructors’ championship finish since 2012 by holding on to sixth place ahead of Aston Martin at the final race of the season despite finishing tied on points.
Alfa Romeo took sixth on countback thanks to Valtteri Bottas’s fifth-place finish at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in April, which was a better result than either Aston Martin driver managed all ...Keep reading
Isotta and Silverstone-based Vector, which was established for an LMP2 campaign in the WEC in 2022, will submit a solo entry in the Hypercar class for the LMH under development at GT specialist Michelotto in Italy.
Their plan is to join the 2023 WEC at round three at Spa at the end of April after testing of the new hybrid contender begins at the end of February.
Vector was one of four teams ...Keep reading
However, it would be wrong to say that such brilliant form was obvious when it first emerged, or indeed even when it first raced.
After having to give second best to Ferrari early on in the season, it was only an intense development push from the energy drinks giant that helped it go on to achieve a title double.
Let’s take a look at how Red Bull turned its RB18 ...Keep reading
The Japanese brand proved a dominant force this year, winning seven of the 13 events as Kalle Rovanpera and Jonne Halttunen claimed the drivers’ and co-drivers’ crowns, while Toyota sealed a sixth WRC manufacturers’ title.
The GR Yaris emerged as the fastest and most reliable of the all-new Rally1 cars, but its dominance began to wane as Hyundai became stronger in the second half of the ...Keep reading
Who can forget its entry in the British Touring Car Championship in the late 1990s, with the team central to the boom years of Super Touring.
Then there was the role that Williams played in developing some iconic motorsport machinery – including the Metro 6R4 Group B rally car and the Le Mans-winning BMW V12 LMR.
But now it’s amazing to think that the only motorsport ...Keep reading
During the off-season, many of the teams hit issues in their private testing programmes owing to a shortage of common parts and with reliability concerns heading into Valencia's collective test.
Although the DS Penske and Maserati MSG teams looked strongest on the timing boards at the close of the four days at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo, the other manufacturers showed flashes of promise among ...Keep reading
The BMW M3 that gave Bruno Spengler a long-awaited first DTM title in 2012 is perhaps an obvious pick for his favourite car. After several championship near-misses, the Canadian drove his Schnitzer Motorsport-run M3 to victory in four of that year’s 10 rounds and secured the title on the Bavarian brand’s return to the DTM after a 20-year hiatus. That also meant a perfect start to life at his ...Keep reading
While Alpine made good progress in speed terms in 2022, as it emerged as best-of-the-rest behind Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes, it did endure a spate of frustrating retirements too.
Those DNFs left Fernando Alonso particularly annoyed, especially as a run of engine failures ran almost all the way to the end of the season.
Speaking after another retirement in Mexico, Alonso said ...Keep reading
After making a stage-winning debut last year, Audi’s hybrid-electric RS Q e-tron E2 will be at least 100kg heavier than its direct rivals in Saudi Arabia.
Event organiser ASO revised the technical regulations for this edition of the Dakar, which starts on Saturday, with the minimum weight of hybrid or electric cars entered in the T1U division increased from 2000kg to 2100kg.
No such change ...Keep reading
Excluding the anomalous Indianapolis 500, 26 drivers have taken a single world championship F1 success. Some of those drivers should have won many more races, while others got on the list through good fortune or an outstanding performance.
Here is our pick of F1's top 10 one-hit wonders, based on their drives to victory, the circumstances of that success and their overall careers. We’re ...Keep reading
Porsche – along with race team partners Penske and Multimatic – dovetailed its 963’s development programme with being the "guinea pig", according to its project manager Urs Kuratle, for IMSA’s hybrid system.
That programme ran throughout this year, at a wide variety of tracks across Europe and America. The Bosch-supplied motor generator unit is known to have caused major issues ...Keep reading
Haas bounced back from a point-less 2021 to finish eighth in this year's constructors' championship, enjoying highs through Kevin Magnussen's fifth place in Bahrain and his shock pole position in Brazil.
Magnussen's result in Bahrain came despite his late return to the team following the exit of Nikita Mazepin and title sponsor Uralkali after the opening test in Barcelona in the wake of ...Keep reading
There was plenty of action across the 2022 national racing season, and a number of notable performers rose to the top during the course of the campaign. Here are the drivers that made Autosport's annual top 10 list from across the myriad of series.
10. Felix Fisher, 1st CCRC FF1600
Felix Fisher was the ‘nearly man’ of Castle Combe’s super-competitive Formula Ford championship ...Keep reading
The switch to 18-inch tyres was a major part of this year's revised technical package, although they were often overlooked during the season as attention switched to porpoising and the aerodynamic impact of the new rules.
However, Stella admits that the team wasn't able to "mitigate" the impact of the new tyres as effectively as its rivals, which meant that they often required extra focus on ...Keep reading
Branding rights and the promotion of DTM was sold by Gerhard Berger’s ITR operation to prolific German motorsport promoter ADAC earlier this month.
After a period of uncertainty for teams, it has moved quickly to establish a calendar and to announce new partners including a switch to Pirelli rubber that brings DTM in line with the ADAC’s previously rivalling GT3 category GT ...Keep reading
While the on-track battles swung between multiple teams, the driver market really sparked into action when Sebastian Vettel announced his F1 retirement at the end of 2022.
That paved the way for Alonso to go to Aston Martin and then Alpine lost two of its drivers in one swing, as Oscar Piastri headed to McLaren as Daniel Ricciardo’s replacement.
It is time to review how it all came to pass ...Keep reading
The races in question are Rounds 6 and 7, to be held at Sugo and Autopolis respectively.
Super GT has moved to avoid a clash between the Sugo race and the Fuji round of the World Endurance Championship by shifting its annual trip to Japan's Tohoku region back a week to 16-17 September.
The Autopolis round was previously scheduled for 30 September-1 October, but will now instead take place ...Keep reading
The pair collided at the start of the British Grand Prix after Russell tagged Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri that was caught between them leaving the startline, which saw Zhou’s Alfa Romeo then immediately flipped onto its rollhoop and slid at high-speed through the gravel trap.
It then smashed over the tyre barrier and came to rest in between that structure and the track debris fencing ...Keep reading
The nine-time MotoGP race winner acrimoniously split with Yamaha midway through the 2021 season and found refuge at Aprilia.
His adaptation to the RS-GP was initially very difficult, as Vinales had never ridden a bike in the premier class built around a V4 engine – which has completely different handling characteristics, and therefore requires a different riding style, to that of the Yamaha ...Keep reading
Gasly will join Alpine next year after spending the entirety of his racing career to date under the Red Bull umbrella, with the majority of his time in F1 coming at its AlphaTauri team.
The move will see Gasly replace two-time F1 world champion Fernando Alonso, who signed for Aston Martin at the end of July.
Ocon has raced for the Enstone-based team since 2020, and played a role in helping ...Keep reading
However, a combination of poor reliability, strategy and driver errors, and rapid progress from Red Bull, meant that the team was unable to sustain its championship challenge for long enough.
But although its title hopes faded, that did not stop it trying to continue to eke out performance from its 2022 challenger.
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As the F1-75 was ...Keep reading
The team - branded as Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport - will begin its partnership with two entries in the 2023 Roar Before the 24 at Daytona, with the #10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-06 LMDh car in the GTP class and the #93 Harrison Contracting Company Acura NSX Evo22 in the GTD class.
The newly formed team will also compete in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America series.
The ...Keep reading
Last week’s lead national news story is one that doesn’t exactly reflect the Christmas spirit. Three drivers being investigated in National Court disciplinary hearings, with one banned for life after throwing a chair and making death threats towards a clerk of the course, is a depressing snapshot of some of the characters who can be found in national racing.
Governing body Motorsport UK is ...Keep reading
The Dutchman, a Formula E champion in the 2020-21 season with the Mercedes outfit, has earned a move to the AlphaTauri F1 squad to partner Yuki Tsunoda at the team.
After impressing in his one-race cameo at Williams in 2022 as a late call-up to substitute for Alex Albon, de Vries sufficiently turned heads among Red Bull's higher-ups to earn the race seat vacated by Pierre Gasly.
James, de ...Keep reading
After ending last year ninth in the standings, Williams slumped back to 10th place as it struggled to match the midfield teams for form across the course of the season.
Alex Albon, Nicholas Latifi and one-race stand-in Nyck de Vries all managed to pick up points for Williams, but the total of eight for the season still left it well adrift of ninth-placed AlphaTauri, which finished on 35 ...Keep reading
The WRC underwent its biggest sweep of rule changes for a generation leading to all-new hybrid powered cars.
Introducing a bespoke 100kW hybrid unit to the cars was among a myriad changes to the regulations as the WRC introduced tougher spaceframe chassis, while the effectiveness of aerodynamics was reduced by around 15%.
Trick centre differentials were also removed in favour of a simpler ...Keep reading
For half a century, BMW’s motorsport division has been producing fantastic cars. It’s main areas of success have been on the road and in touring car racing, but it’s also taken big victories in sportscar competition and Formula 1.
To help mark its 50th birthday, we decided to pick out the 10 best BMW Motorsport machines and talk to some of those lucky enough to get behind the ...Keep reading
Alonso finished his second season since returning to F1 ninth in the championship, but rued a number of missed opportunities due to recurring reliability problems that emerged throughout the season.
The Spaniard was open in his frustration about the problems Alpine faced at times, believing it had cost him dozens of points that resulted in a head-to-head loss to team-mate Esteban Ocon in ...Keep reading
Porsche has built its 963, which it will use to return to top-level prototype racing for the first time since 2017, to LMDh regulations – the prototype GTP rules set for the American IMSA series.
Along with Cadillac, it will race LMDh-homologated cars in the WEC against machinery built to Le Mans Hypercar regulations from manufacturers that include giants Ferrari, Peugeot and ...Keep reading
Zhou became the first Chinese driver to race in F1 this year, joining Alfa Romeo alongside Valtteri Bottas to form an all-new driver line-up for the Swiss-based team.
Ahead of his F1 debut, Zhou faced criticism and even racist abuse online as trolls claimed he only got the nod for the seat due to his nationality and the associated sponsorship.
But Zhou hit back on debut in Bahrain ...Keep reading
Following the DTM’s takeover by the ADAC, as the Gerhard Berger-led ITR organisation that previously promoted the series announced it would be disbanded, it was announced that DTM will run on Pirelli rubber next year.
That brings it in line with the ADAC GT Masters series, which has subsequently been rebranded as DTM Endurance and realigned as a support series, and championships run by the ...Keep reading
Gasly led AlphaTauri to its highest points total in an F1 season through 2021, scoring 142 points en route to sixth in the constructors’ standings to mark the outfit’s best campaign including its time operating as Toro Rosso.
But the team struggled to capitalise on the new regulations as it slipped back to ninth in 2022, picking up just 35 points between Gasly and team-mate Yuki ...Keep reading
After a tense and controversial battle with Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton to claim a maiden F1 world championship in 2021, Verstappen’s run to the 2022 crown was a much more dominant affair.
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc initially took the fight to Verstappen as the Monegasque opened up a 34-point lead over the world champion after the first three races.
However, once Red Bull addressed its ...Keep reading
Ricciardo left the team at the end of this season after two difficult years that saw the high of victory in the 2021 Italian GP, but which generally left both parties frustrated as he tried to come to terms with the car.
Stella insists that Ricciardo, who is returning to Red Bull Racing as reserve driver, had a positive impact on McLaren.
"One point I would highlight from a race team point ...Keep reading
As reported by Autosport earlier this year, KTM – which shares a title sponsor in energy drinks giant Red Bull with the reigning F1 champions – has been working closely with the team to develop its aerodynamics packages for 2023.
PLUS: How MotoGP’s underachiever is working to reverse its fortunes in 2023
KTM managed two victories in 2022 courtesy of the now RNF Aprilia-married ...Keep reading
After taking over the former Force India outfit owner Lawrence Stroll launched a major recruitment drive, taking Fallows and other key names from Red Bull Racing, as well as deputy technical director Eric Blandin from Mercedes, and engineering director Luca Furbatto from Alfa Romeo.
Fallows says the combination of newcomers from teams across the paddock and long-time members of the Silverstone ...Keep reading
But the German car manufacturer certainly would never have predicted the kind of difficulties it faced with its W13.
Having suffered the most extreme porpoising on the grid, Mercedes found itself enduring some pretty painful moments in trying to get to the bottom of what had gone wrong.
Despite a few false dawns along the way, Mercedes steadily got to grips with its concept, unleashed more ...Keep reading
In a wide-ranging interview with Autosport's sister site Motorsport.es, which covers MotoGP’s new sprint race format, calendar changes and Dorna’s operation of the series, Ezpeleta gives his take on F1’s spike in interest and how MotoGP works concurrently alongside its four-wheel counterpart.
Ezpeleta has given credit to F1’s recent rise but feels these trends come in “waves” ...Keep reading
The British squad endured a difficult 2022 campaign as the team fell behind its WRC rivals, recording only one victory and a total of three podiums across 13 events with its Ford Puma Rally1.
However, M-Sport has reshuffled its pack for 2023, signing 2019 world champion Tanak to lead its attack alongside Pierre-Louis Loubet, who has received a promotion to a full-time seat after an impressive ...Keep reading
The British racer spent two seasons in the Far East, one in 2007 in All-Japan Formula 3 with TOM’S, and a second in 2014 in Super GT with SARD. But both times, he was tempted back to Europe for the following season by Audi.
Jarvis was approached by TOM’S to race in F3 in 2007 following his appearance in the Macau Grand Prix the previous autumn, which capped off a season in which he finished ...Keep reading
Ocon led Alpine's efforts in F1 this year, narrowly outscoring team-mate Fernando Alonso as the team took fourth in the constructors' championship, finishing at the head of the midfield.
The Frenchman regarded it as his best F1 season to date, having returned to the grid with Renault in 2020 before the team was rebranded as Alpine the following year.
As well as going through different names ...Keep reading
Mercedes topped the times at the Spanish Grand Prix venue with what was an early development phase package, an achievement that required significant ride height changes and metal floor stays not originally designed to be run nor considered legal under F1’s original technical rules to be added.
But director of trackside engineering Andrew Shovlin has revealed that although the team’s issue ...Keep reading
After you've tucked into your second helping of turkey and escaped the in-laws, pop in your headphones to play along with our festive podcast looking back at 2022.
Question master Luke Smith tests the memory of our F1 experts, with events on and off track the subject of our Christmas quiz. But can you do better than our editors? Luke is joined by Alex Kalinauckas, Matt Kew and Stuart Codling to ...Keep reading
His off-track work at an orphanage is helping to make a meaningful difference to the lives of those in need in Thailand, yet his efforts in F1 are also acting as a source of inspiration.
Enzo Tarnvanichkul may only be 13 years old, but his achievements are already standing him out as a star for the future. This year, he won the FIA OK Junior karting world championship, becoming the second Thai ...Keep reading
Sainz became an F1 race winner this year with Ferrari by taking victory at the British Grand Prix, as well as scoring pole positions in Belgium and the USA to mark his most successful season in F1 to date.
But Sainz also fell 62 points short of Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc's tally over the year, his efforts not helped by six retirements - including in Austin after being hit at the first ...Keep reading
The six-time MotoGP world champion has been a Honda rider throughout his entire career in the premier class, making his debut with the marque in 2013 and winning the title on his first attempt.
The Marquez/Honda tie-up has yielded six premier class titles, 59 race wins, 100 podiums in total and 63 poles.
At the start of 2020, Marquez signed a four-year extension with Honda to take him ...Keep reading
The tension was palpable. In the immediacy of the Gran Turismo Nations Cup world final, which effectively determines the best Gran Turismo driver in 2022, no one was quite sure who was the champion.
A grand podium celebration should have been underway, a heavy gold trophy in the hands of the winner, lights flashing and confetti falling.
But we were waiting. As presenters ...Keep reading
The Frenchman earned a good reputation in junior categories by winning the 1981 French Formula 3 championship for the Motul Nogaro team and also taking fourth that year in the European series.
He stepped up to the European F2 championship for 1982, claiming his first podium finishes in 1983.
Streiff also made four Le Mans 24 Hours starts across his career, finishing overall runner-up for ...Keep reading
Mercedes announced last week that it signed Schumacher as its new reserve driver for the 2023 season, marking a return of the iconic family name to the team 11 years after his father, Michael, made his final F1 start.
It marks the next step in Schumacher’s career after losing his F1 seat with Haas last month following two seasons with the team, as well as ending his partnership with Ferrari ...Keep reading
In a post on social media on Friday, AlphaTauri revealed a render of an F1 car under branded covers on the famous Brooklyn Bridge.
It stated "Save the Date" with "February 11 NYC" made clear. A hashtag emphasised that this would be a livery launch rather than a reveal of its 2023 challenger.
It is likely then that AlphaTauri will wait until the first day of pre-season testing in Bahrain on ...Keep reading
Ocon picked up the majority of Alpine’s points this year as it finished fourth in the F1 world constructors’ championship, beating McLaren at the final race of the season.
Although Ocon failed to record a podium finish through 2022, he said it had been his best season to date in F1, a feeling supported by his biggest points total in a single campaign.
PLUS: How Alpine won ...Keep reading
Making the most of improved resources at Enstone, and a much-improved power unit from Viry-Chatillon, the team ended up being one of the surprises of the campaign.
That was partly the result of it adopting an aggressive development push compared to other teams – with it bringing updates to almost every race of the season rather than staggering them like rivals.
Alpine A521 and 522 ...Keep reading
Norris is under contract until the end of 2025, after signing a fresh deal earlier this year.
However, the departure of McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl to Sauber has already prompted suggestions that, when the squad rebrands as Audi for 2026, it could attempt to lure Norris.
McLaren CEO Zak Brown is aware that Norris’s speed makes him an attractive option for his team’s competitors ...Keep reading
A decision has been taken at the Red Bull headquarters in Austria to pull the plug on its DTM programme in 2023, ending the energy drink giant’s involvement as a team owner after just two seasons.
Red Bull had previously green-lit plans to continue in the DTM that would have seen AF Corse enter two examples of the new Ferrari 296 GT3 in 2023.
But the DTM ended up undergoing a ...Keep reading
Formerly operating the works Audi team, Abt spent a season on the sidelines following the departure of the German manufacturer, but has made its way back into Formula E as a Mahindra-powered customer outfit.
The team has garnered support from Volkswagen Group brand Cupra, and has signed a proven pairing of Robin Frijns and Nico Muller for its first year back.
Explaining the work required to ...Keep reading
Shortly before factory staff disappeared for the Christmas break, Mercedes hit its target of getting the W14 fired up at Brackley before the holidays.
In a short video published by Mercedes, the team teased the firing up of the car – but made sure to reveal no clues about potential changes to its design.
Mercedes is coming off the back of a disappointing F1 season, where it failed to win a ...Keep reading
Nine-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Tom Kristensen is spoiled for choice when it comes to picking a favourite car. He won the world’s most prestigious endurance race five times in an Audi R8, and once each in a Porsche WSC-95, Bentley Speed 8, Audi R10 and Audi R18.
“The most elegant is certainly the Bentley,” he says.
Then there are his six Sebring 12 Hour wins to consider; two in the ...Keep reading
The middle phase of the 2022 campaign was dominated by the controversy over porpoising, and the impact of a technical directive from the FIA to try to help address the matter.
As well as imposing an aerodynamic oscillation metric to limit the bouncing, the FIA also tightened up checks on flexible floors amid suspicions that teams had been using some tricks to run closer to the ground.
These ...Keep reading
Cadillac will have three V-LMDh cars in action at the Daytona 24 Hours, two run by Chip Ganassi Racing and the other by Action Express Racing, as IMSA enters a new era of hybrid prototypes.
All teams have faced difficulties with the transition from pure combustion Daytona Prototype international cars to the hybrid LMDh ruleset, with the spec system causing reliability headaches in ...Keep reading
Albon was dropped by Red Bull after a difficult 2020 saw him struggling to match team-mate Max Verstappen.
He spent last year racing in the DTM before joining Williams as a replacement for Mercedes-bound George Russell for this season.
He made the points on three occasions, earning ninth place in Melbourne and finishing 10th in both Miami and Spa.
"I think it's been a tricky one in some ...Keep reading
However, it all went very wrong at the start as brake problems in pre-season testing and the opening round in Bahrain left it struggling for pace. While it managed to make a recovery, the team openly admitted that the 'aftershock' of the Sakhir troubles was felt for months.
Tracking McLaren's car development, it was clear progress was not as quick as it had perhaps hoped because resources were ...Keep reading
Isotta is close to deciding between two teams bidding to run a solo four-wheel-drive hybrid LMH for the Italian brand in next year’s WEC, according to new general manager Claudio Berro.
“We have had discussions with four teams: Italian, German, British and Swiss, to work with us in ’23,” said Berro, whose long motorsport career includes running the Maserati MC12 GT1 programme in the ...Keep reading
The 18-year-old Briton becomes the Dutch team's second signing, joining Formula Regional European Championship graduate Mari Boya, with a third driver yet to be announced.
Red Bull junior team member Edgar had a disrupted 2022 campaign with Trident, his diagnosis with Crohn’s disease forcing him to sit out two rounds.
However, he ended the campaign with a run of six points finishes in ...Keep reading
After struggling to overcome early-season porpoising problems, Mercedes faced a number of false dawns with its W13 when it appeared that updates had resolved the majority of their issues.
Encouraging weekends in Spain, Silverstone and Hungary were all followed by disappointments, prior to the squad finally making a breakthrough at the United States Grand Prix.
In an interview published by ...Keep reading
The Finn sampled the Hyundai i20 N for the first time this month following his high-profile full-time switch from the world champion Toyota to fill the vacant Hyundai seat left by Ott Tanak, who has since joined M-Sport Ford.
Lappi has so far clocked up almost 600 kilometres of running in the i20 N having tested the car on Tarmac in Germany and on snow at the team's testing ground in ...Keep reading
Team owner Lawrence Stroll has ambitions to challenge for the world championship in the coming years, which would mean beating the works Mercedes team with the same engine.
Traditionally top teams prefer to be in charge of their own destiny by having control over power unit development and the capability for the engineers to work closely with the chassis department.
Stroll has hinted in the ...Keep reading
The Brazilian explained that the Gen3 car was "counterintuitive" to anything he's experienced before on the car, explaining that the reliance on systems - particularly with the addition of a front regen motor and the removal of rear brakes - takes some of the onus away from the drivers.
He explained that driving the Gen3 was not a world away from a GT car, and that its limits have to be ...Keep reading
Our team of correspondents travel the world to bring you the inside track from Formula 1, World Rally Championship, MotoGP, sportscars, GTs, Formula E, touring cars and much, much more. At the end of every season we ask them to rank the drivers from the series they cover, and that’s how we start to compile the overall list.
The 2022 list appears in the bumper Christmas edition of Autosport ...Keep reading
The nine-time motorcycle world champion switched to car racing in 2022 with WRT, contesting the full GTWCE schedule across the Endurance and Sprint Cup.
Following WRT's switch from Audi to BMW for 2023, the team announced he will remain part of its GTWCE programme and would also take in next month's Dubai 24 Hours and the Bathurst 12 Hour that opens the Intercontinental GT Challenge ...Keep reading
Expectations were high coming into 2022. A switch from Cupra to BRC Hyundai raised the stakes, especially as the 26-year-old was replacing newly retired tin-top legend Gabriele Tarquini, who became his team manager.
But Azcona matched and surpassed Hyundai’s hopes. Four wins in the World Touring Car Cup were the result of a new-found maturity and consistency that made him an easy champion ...Keep reading
Sebastien Ogier chose not to defend his eighth World Rally Championship crown in favour of a part-time campaign with Toyota, combined with a partial World Endurance Championship run with the Signatech-run Richard Mille team, taking ninth in LMP2 on his Le Mans 24 Hours debut.
Despite limited time in the WRC’s new Rally1 machines, Ogier quickly adapted and should have won in Monte ...Keep reading
As reigning DTM title-winner Maxi Gotz arrived from HRT, Lucas Auer faced a challenge at his Winward Mercedes team. But it wasn’t a contest.
Twice a winner in 2022, the Austrian furthered his credentials and would have stolen the title without a puncture at Spa while second.
His points tally from the second half of the season was unrivalled; he finished no lower than seventh (Spa DNF ...Keep reading
Nobody won as many races as Tom Ingram in this year’s British Touring Car Championship.
He was quick, kept up his superb racecraft and showed immense mental capacity in absorbing the requirements brought by the introduction of hybrid power boosts for 2022. So much so that Ingram is one of the two drivers who sits on the series’ Sporting Working Group, which came up with the hybrid sporting ...Keep reading
A low-key season with Corvette Racing? That overlooks a superlative performance at Le Mans – including pole position – that should have made the Brit and Tommy Milner WEC title winners. Add the 50 points lost when team-mate Alexander Sims was taken out of the lead and they would have sealed the final GTE Pro crown.
That had a lot to do with an against-the-odds victory next time out at ...Keep reading
Did pole in Brazil get Kevin Magnussen over the line here? It helped, but he was in the frame for a Top 50 spot anyway. That’s because he was brought back in from the cold and immediately moved Mick Schumacher aside to lead Haas.
While fifth in the Bahrain opener was the high point, he scored points six more times to double his team-mate’s tally. With Haas suffering in the development race ...Keep reading
Another year, another World Rallycross title. But this time Kristoffersson did it with electric power as he produced a seamless shift into the series’ new era.
Unlike his triumph on wins countback last year, the Swede was the man to beat from the off, winning eight out of 10 rounds to secure his fifth world title.
Kristoffersson also applied his electric racing knowhow in Extreme E as ...Keep reading
Louis Deletraz was a prolific LMP2 racer - and winner with six victories - in his second full season of sportscar racing. He claimed one championship, had a big hand in the victory in another, and finished on the podium at Le Mans. His successes explain why he ended the year with a factory Acura deal for 2023.
At Prema, he repeated the ELMS title he won in 2021, and in the WEC he was ...Keep reading
Lady Luck rarely seemed to glance favourably at Filipe Albuquerque this year, but he continued to show why he is one of the world’s top prototype exponents, especially in North America.
Acura and Cadillac waged a titanic battle in IMSA, the Portuguese remaining with Ricky Taylor at Wayne Taylor Racing after an agonisingly close second in 2021. Opportunistic late passes at Laguna Seca, Watkins ...Keep reading
The 2019-20 Formula E champion’s year began with a disappointing Diriyah weekend, but he gradually found greater consistency. Citing “small details” as the main mitigating factor in his results, da Costa had the best average grid position of anyone in 2022, but struggled for a podium until he’d claimed pole in Morocco.
Top 10: Ranking the best Formula E drivers of 2021-22
His New ...Keep reading
That he won the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup with Charles Weerts at the WRT Audi squad was hardly news, given they sealed a hat-trick of titles in the short-format segment of the premier GT3 series.
But beyond the series he’s made his own, the younger of the Vanthoor brothers notched up a second victory in the Nurburgring 24 Hours and once again reinforced his reputation with his ...Keep reading
When everything clicked, Thierry Neuville was extremely difficult to beat in 2022. But the Belgian was let down by an underdeveloped, tricky to drive and unreliable Hyundai i20 N on several occasions.
Neuville’s never-give-up attitude was seen in Croatia. He and co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe collapsed after pushing their unresponsive car for more than a kilometre into service, but still finished ...Keep reading
In his second year with Toyota’s NASCAR Cup Series juggernaut Joe Gibbs Racing, Christopher Bell rose to the fore of its four-car team perhaps sooner than was intended.
Three wins, along with making it to the Championship Four after an opportunistic victory at Martinsville, were a great return for the 2017 Truck Series champ in the #20 car he took over from Erik Jones only last ...Keep reading
What was already a good year for the van der Lindes thanks to Kelvin’s Nurburgring 24 Hours victory was made exceptional when younger brother Sheldon scooped the DTM title.
The BMW ace won more races than anyone, nursing his rubber with full ballast to complete a Lausitzring weekend sweep, but his most important result was recovering second at Hockenheim after a tyre infraction left him 16th ...Keep reading
A surprise title contender in his maiden Formula E season in 2021, Jake Dennis did not struggle for pace this year, but Andretti’s loss of works BMW support hurt the American squad’s chances. Strong in qualifying, he could be counted on to deliver when Andretti had its software right, but there were often energy management concerns that cost him.
London was the highlight, with back-to-back ...Keep reading
Should a driver whose mistake at the Sebring WEC opener resulted in a DNF really be this high in the list? Yes, if you consider the way the Argentinian performed under pressure at Le Mans in June.
Lopez’s seat at Toyota was under threat, but he produced his best performance of the season. He was the quickest of the trio in the second-placed #7 Toyota over the full distance, more than two ...Keep reading
Following the first year of action of F1's new regulations, with ground effect cars aimed at improving the racing, the season witnessed a varied mixture of grand prix entertainment through the campaign.
And while there were some thrillers, including the Brazilian and United States Grands Prix, there were also some lacklustre events, like the boring Mexican GP and the far-from-thrilling races in ...Keep reading
Drugovich stunned onlookers with his charge to the F2 title among a strong field. In his third year of F2, the Brazilian claimed a points lead he would not lose during the fourth of 14 rounds, and took the MP Motorsport squad to its maiden F2 drivers’ title while also leading it to the teams’ crown.
Five wins (including Monaco) and six further podiums were a strong return, and his reward ...Keep reading
Returns to the Top 50 for the first time since 2019 after being benched by Red Bull. Back then, Albon was criticised for too many crashes and falling too far behind his stablemate.
Neither can be said of his distinguished F1 return, even if the intra-team competition wasn’t anything like as stiff: he trounced Nicholas Latifi.
His finest performance in the backmarker Williams came in ...Keep reading
After a distinctly off-colour 2021, Vergne proved it was merely a blip and returned to championship contention in 2022.
The double Formula E champion rivalled Stoffel Vandoorne for consistency in the opening rounds and stood atop the standings at the end of the Rome weekend, but DS Techeetah struggled to find the next level and Vergne failed to find a win.
PLUS: The top 10 Formula E ...Keep reading
Led Alfa Romeo to the best constructors’ result of its Sauber era and had the measure of rookie team-mate Zhou Guanyu – 14-7 and 11-4 in qualifying and race head-to-heads. Both gained from Alfa starting at the minimum weight limit, then struggled more as rivals slimmed down.
Early highlights were his Emilia Romagna Grand Prix pace and points, and qualifying results in Bahrain and ...Keep reading
The Swiss remained at the top of his game in the World Endurance Championship.
Buemi was probably at his best when it mattered most – at Le Mans. He was quickest of Toyota’s sextet over the first 16 hours. That means something because it really was nip and tuck between the two crews. It was a flat-out confrontation, even if the passes on the track were strictly choreographed from the ...Keep reading
His season got off to a bad start by missing the opening two races with COVID-19, then Vettel crashed twice on his return in Australia. There were further frustrations such as his Austria qualifying track limits transgression, impeding Lewis Hamilton and Sergio Perez while being lapped in Zandvoort, plus turning in and glancing Fernando Alonso at Suzuka Turn 1.
But he showed great tyre ...Keep reading
When he departed Supercars in 2020, you might have expected that was the last McLaughlin appearance in our Top 50. But an absolute transformation in qualifying pace for his second IndyCar season has catapulted him into our spotlight once more. Three top-drawer wins and three pole positions made him stern opposition for his Penske team-mates and Ganassi’s aces.
Insight: The top 10 IndyCar ...Keep reading
There’s little indication that the Ganassi contract dispute and a potential move to Arrow McLaren SP distracted Alex Palou from his job, but there were too many weekends this year when the reigning IndyCar champion looked solid but not a star.
He was strong at Indy again – the only driver who kept up with Scott Dixon, until a badly timed yellow cost him dear – but on other ovals he was ...Keep reading
Tangible success has been a long time coming for the Anglo-Kiwi-Swede. More than a decade after his second Autosport BRDC Award nomination, the now-29-year-old finally delivered.
Some were surprised when Mike Shank tabbed Blomqvist to join IMSA veteran Oliver Jarvis for his Acura team following a promising test, but he was clearly the standout driver in this year’s IMSA SportsCar series. He ...Keep reading
Proof that class is permanent, as one of motorsport’s all-time greats continued to deliver at the highest level.
Runner-up on the Dakar Rally, one week later Loeb became the oldest winner in WRC history aged 48 when he claimed an 80th career win on the Monte Carlo. Of the four WRC rallies he contested for M-Sport Ford, Loeb led three. He beat Sebastian Vettel to a fourth Race of Champions ...Keep reading
The accolades just kept coming for Raffaele Marciello in 2022.
Four pole positions from five GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup sessions, converted into three routine wins by Timur Boguslavskiy (a fourth at Valencia was only lost on the final lap amid changing weather), helped secure the overall GTWCE crown.
A first 24-hour race victory at Spa contributed to a long-awaited GTWCE Endurance ...Keep reading
An up and down F1 campaign, but he edged Fernando Alonso in their qualifying head to head, even if he generally trailed the Spaniard on race pace.
Ocon had mid-season qualifying struggles with oversteer, put in fine overtaking moves in Spain and Belgium, plus a bold pass on Valtteri Bottas in Mexico where he battled an engine issue. But mistakes hitting Mick Schumacher in Bahrain and Yuki ...Keep reading
Separating Toyota’s drivers isn’t easy, so close are they on the stopwatch lap after lap, race after race – and season after season.
So, when one of them does something a bit special, he’s an obvious candidate for this list, especially when he ended up as world champion and won Le Mans. Step forward Brendon Hartley.
He starred in qualifying twice in 2022, first at Le Mans, where he ...Keep reading
For the second year running, Honda’s man proved he is the current class of the field in Super Formula, becoming the series’ first back-to-back champion since Tsugio Matsuda in 2007-08.
But Toyota’s resurgence meant he had to work hard to repel the threats of both Sacha Fenestraz and Ryo Hirakawa. Indeed, while Nojiri was the qualifying master, converting his frequent poles into wins was ...Keep reading
Breakout NASCAR Cup seasons don’t get any bigger than this: Chastain wasn’t even sure that he’d have a ride in 2022 after Trackhouse bought Chip Ganassi Racing – but new team boss Justin Marks put his faith in him, and Chastain paid him back handsomely.
After starting the season with full funding for only the first 10 races, he delivered three top threes before his maiden Cup win at ...Keep reading
Heroics from Pier Guidi in a Ferrari are nothing new. He did it again in the wet at Spa – this time in the WEC round, not the 24 Hours – over a marathon stint lasting more than four hours. But it was at the finale in Bahrain where Ale produced his most amazing performance, one that sealed the title for the Italian and James Calado when all looked lost.
Had he not sussed, after fourth gear ...Keep reading
Two wins and a sole pole position marked Sergio Perez’s most prosperous F1 season to date. But he still paled in comparison to Max Verstappen. Especially when it’s noted that, until the Red Bull went on a crash diet, its habit of understeering favoured the Mexican and hurt his team-mate.
PLUS: Why Perez’s new-era F1 promise deteriorated into disappointment
To his credit, Perez was ...Keep reading
A strange year because, while Scott Dixon had the edge on reigning champion Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate Alex Palou overall, he sometimes struggled more than you would expect – a tad slower than Palou and Marcus Ericsson on occasion.
For the third straight year, he was fastest at Indy and missed out, and this time it was his fault. Without that 1mph breach of the pitlane speed limit, he ...Keep reading
Ott Tanak was the only driver able to apply pressure on runaway world champion Kalle Rovanpera this year. Had Hyundai delivered the fully fettled i20 N Rally1 with which it ended the season at the start of 2022, the title battle could have been a different story.
PLUS: Ranking the 10 best WRC drivers of 2022
Despite reliability issues and complications within the team, prompting a switch to ...Keep reading
Mortara dropped a place in the Formula E standings, following his runner-up finish in the 2020-21 season, but the Swiss was much more impressive this time.
A rapid start to the year preceded a dismal Rome and Monaco, but the Venturi driver bounced back in style, taking his first two poles in the Berlin races and winning the first.
PLUS: The top 10 Formula E drivers of 2021-22
He ...Keep reading
While Charles Leclerc found an instant affinity with ground-effects, Carlos Sainz took his time adapting to the twitchy Ferrari F1-75. He was too slow against his team-mate and too error prone. His spin into the Melbourne gravel was particularly poor.
But from Canada in June onwards, he started to fulfil his brief as Ferrari’s tacit number two before bagging his first F1 pole and win at ...Keep reading
Fernando Alonso was a regular F1 2022 qualifying star, especially in the wet/changeable sessions. His Q3 P2 in Canada was the highlight, but that race ended with a downward slide due to an engine air leak, while he suffered five reliability DNFs that all cost points and was hit by a spinning Mick Schumacher at Imola, so should’ve finished higher in the standings.
He erred moving late when ...Keep reading
The double victory in Rome that ignited Mitch Evans’s championship aspirations was the best indicator of the Kiwi at his relentless best: the Jaguar driver roared through to the front of the pack in both instances, and left the Italian capital with a 50-point haul.
The issue was that the opening three races had yielded just one point, and he was always playing catch-up afterwards. The ...Keep reading
Joey Logano joined the two-time club of NASCAR Cup Series champions in 2022. Across the season he produced four victories, but it was his execution in the playoffs that truly sealed this deal. Two wins, including the all-important Phoenix finale, gave team supremo Roger Penske a unique double of NASCAR and IndyCar titles in the same season.
It’s Logano’s second title in five years, and in ...Keep reading
Van Gisbergen took his brilliance to new heights in 2022. In Supercars he romped to a record-breaking 21 wins for the season, including the Bathurst 1000.
That level of dominance would usually be tedious but, given he started from pole just seven times, there was plenty of showmanship on offer. He would consistently run long in races, take the undercut on the chin, and then charge his way back ...Keep reading
It was harder for Norris to shine quite so brightly this year compared to his star turn in 2021. McLaren took a backwards step and the obvious Daniel Ricciardo malaise meant beating the Australian became an expectation. For his own part, Norris concedes that his adaption to ground-effects really was too slow.
Nevertheless, he was the only non-Ferrari, Red Bull or Mercedes driver to notch a ...Keep reading
Like all aces, Will Power constantly evolves, and this year he confounded those who thought he might never restrain his overt race-by-race desire to win, to instead focus on the ultimate prize. He still got irate with fate and poor strategies, but his driving was unaffected. If he started uncharacteristically low on the grid, he just carved through the field for a top-four ...Keep reading
For a third straight year, Josef Newgarden finished runner-up in the IndyCar championship but, in our estimation, by a small margin, he was top dog. He’s the driver that his peers most often expect to be a winning threat, wherever he starts on the grid.
Insight: The top 10 IndyCar drivers of 2022
This is partly down to traditionally strong strategies from Tim Cindric, but the Team ...Keep reading
A paragon of consistency, Vandoorne perhaps best encapsulated the idea of ‘building a championship’ through his near-omnipresence in the points.
He ventured outside the top five only three times in his title-winning season, only failed to score points in Mexico, but took just one victory all year, when he beat Mitch Evans to Monaco glory.
It helped that Mercedes continued its ...Keep reading
Although Mercedes was out of title contention, Russell ended 2022 with his stock greatly enhanced by beating Lewis Hamilton in the standings and with a Formula 1 grand prix win to boot.
Russell said he still “felt a bit of a rookie” at times in 2022, but only in the sense that, now racing for Mercedes, he had a bigger workforce and additional tools and systems to call upon. It was a ...Keep reading
Red Bull will take part in the Intercontinental GT Challenge season opener with an off- and on-track activity.
That will include an RB7, used during the 2011 F1 world championship season, running demonstration laps of the iconic Bathurst circuit.
The driver of the car for the demo will be officially unveiled in the new year, however it could easily fall under the remit of new third ...Keep reading
Williams team principal Jost Capito revealed over the United States Grand Prix weekend that Formula 2 driver Sargeant would be getting a race seat for next year, so long as he gained the required FIA superlicence points.
It left Sargeant facing pressure to get over the 40-point threshold with his F2 results in the final round in Abu Dhabi, but he did enough to clinch fourth place in the ...Keep reading
Audi held a presentation in Madrid on Tuesday ahead of Sainz and co-driver Lucas Cruz embarking on an 11th Dakar Rally together.
Its RS Q e-tron E2 is an evolution of the car that Sainz drove to stage wins last year, but he was thwarted in his bid for overall honours due to navigational issues.
Insight: How Audi took the Dakar by storm with its hybrid game-changer
Audi has improved ...Keep reading
Tandy will race full-time in the IMSA SportsCar Championship in 2023, driving for the new Porsche Penske Motorsport team and partnering Mathieu Jaminet.
Although the 963 also boasts a hybrid system, its single-spec energy recovery layout is very different from the cutting-edge bespoke technology that the 919 used from 2014-17. The 919 boasted both kinetic and thermal systems, and powered each ...Keep reading
But an early headstart on its 2022 car, allied to it being helped out by F1’s aero development handicap system, did just the trick in allowing it to impress a few times this season.
The C42 was one of the shortest cars on the grid and also one of the first to make the minimum weight allowed in the regulations.
These factors, coupled with some other smart design choices, set the team ...Keep reading
For both Schumacher and Vettel it will be their first race outing since leaving a full-time F1 seat at the end of 2022, with four-time world champion Vettel retiring and Schumacher's services not being retained by Haas.
Schumacher made his ROC debut in Mexico in 2019, reaching the ROC Nations Cup final alongside his close friend Vettel and the pair also teamed up when ROC first visited the snow ...Keep reading
Audi has come under fire in recent times for scrapping its LMDh project and not providing a clear roadmap for its GT3 customer racing programme, even as it confirmed plans to enter Formula 1 from 2026 in conjunction with Sauber and launched a successful first on the Dakar Rally in 2022.
PLUS: The scale of the challenge facing Audi's F1 assault
This led to an exodus of leading ...Keep reading
As Honda ramps up its 2023 MotoGP preparations following a tough year which yielded just two podiums and left it bottom of the constructors’ standings, the Japanese manufacturer has also restructured its engineers and technicians formation for next season.
Autosport has been able to confirm that Takaaki Nakagami’s crew chief Guidotti will move to the factory team to become new signing Joan ...Keep reading
It’s been five years since Pierre Gasly finished runner-up in Super Formula on his way to a Toro Rosso F1 drive, but his 2017 campaign is still looked back upon with fondness in the Japanese series’ paddock. That’s partly because no other Red Bull junior since has come close to matching Gasly’s achievements, but also partly because it represented a high point in the series’ ...Keep reading
The first stage of the team’s new £200 million factory is due to open in May, acting as a big shot in the arm for its push to grow, while the arrival of Fernando Alonso is also set to be a major storyline through 2023. Year three of five is a big one.
But while it may want to emulate the likes of Mercedes and Red Bull by competing for world titles, and has enlisted talent from an array of ...Keep reading
The 39-year-old, who did the Le Mans/WEC title double with Porsche in 2016, has confirmed he will not be staying with a manufacturer he joined at the beginning of 2013 ahead of its WEC entry with the 919 Hybrid LMP1 the following year.
Jani’s departure follows a season in 2022 in which he was one of Porsche’s Formula E reserve and test drivers but did not race for the marque.
It was ...Keep reading
With the American-owned Haas squad having made a notable shift in its driver policy, moving away from youngsters and going for more experienced hands, Steiner is clear about the current difficulties F1 teams face in driver selection.
After feeling that an all-rookie line-up of Nikita Mazepin and Mick Schumacher in 2021 was a better policy for its long-term future, Haas has gone in a completely ...Keep reading
Alonso and Ocon concluded two seasons racing together at Alpine in the Abu Dhabi season finale at the end of last month, ahead of Alonso’s switch to Aston Martin for the 2023 season.
The year saw Ocon finish ahead of Alonso in the final points standings, outscoring him 92-81, meaning he ended their two-season partnership with a better points record (166-162) and a higher race finish through ...Keep reading
Greensmith’s future at the Ford squad appeared uncertain after the team entered three cars for next month’s Monte Carlo Rally with the Briton’s name omitted from the roster.
Instead, the team will field Ford Puma Rally1s for new signing Ott Tanak and Pierre-Louis Loubet on a full-time basis, while privateer Jourdan Serderidis will pilot the third car. Serderidis will also feature at ...Keep reading
News that the FIA had updated its International Sporting Code to restrict ‘political’ statements in Formula 1 and other series has rightly been met with disappointment.
It comes after weeks of debate about FIFA’s intervention throughout the World Cup in Qatar on the highlighting of social issues, preferring to “stick to football” despite the controversies surrounding the ...Keep reading
Speaking after this month’s two-day group test for all GTP contenders in the IMSA SportsCar Championship at Daytona, Leschiutta said that his BMW M Team RLL’s test program has been hugely challenging due to compressed timeframes.
This came after an attempted 24-hour test at Sebring was cut short last month by gearbox issues related to the electric motor in the new common hybrid system, as ...Keep reading
Thiim has been a mainstay of Aston’s GTE programme since 2013 and has since established himself as one of the top drivers in the category, winning the Le Mans 24 Hours in his class in 2014 and the WEC titles in 2016 and 2019-20.
His experience and success makes him an ideal candidate for a promotion to the top class, which will see entries from the likes of Toyota, Porsche, Ferrari, Cadillac ...Keep reading
GP Racing columnists Mark Gallagher and Matt Kew join editor Stuart Codling to debate the hot topics of Vettel’s life in F1. How did the cheeky young hotshot who liked to quote Monty Python become a four-time world champion – and become public enemy number one after publicly shunning team orders? Why did the German public not take him to their hearts as they did Michael Schumacher? Why did he ...Keep reading
Mercedes saw its streak of eight consecutive constructors’ championship victories come to an end this year as it struggled to get to grips with the new technical regulations.
The team was blighted by a porpoising issue through pre-season testing before deeper problems with the W13 car emerged in the early part of the season, leaving it well behind front-runners Ferrari and Red ...Keep reading
Standing at 184cm, Marini is one of the paddock’s tallest riders, and thus is one of its heaviest at 69kg compared directly to his team-mate Marco Bezzecchi, who weighs 61kg.
Currently in MotoGP, there is only a mandated minimum weight limit for motorcycles – which comes in at 157kg, and does not take the rider into consideration.
This is at odds even within its own paddock, as both ...Keep reading
In an updated version of the FIA's International Sporting Code, which governs the running of all sanctioned motorsport competitions from the start of 2023, the governing body outlined a new offence.
A new Article 12.2.1.n states that drivers will be deemed to have committed a breach of the rules if they show "the general making and display of political, religious and personal statements or ...Keep reading
The UK-based motorsport firm has focused on performance, usability and durability when developing the updated version.
The SR3 XXR is designed to be more thrilling and provide drivers with the power to lap for longer, with more agility and speed.
Powering the major change is the all-new engine from in-house Radical Performance Engines (RPE).
Delivering 232bhp from the revised 1500cc unit ...Keep reading
Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes enjoyed an almost complete lock out of the top three positions throughout 2022.
McLaren’s Lando Norris was the only driver outside of the top three squads to take a podium finish, when he finished third at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.
The advantage of the biggest squads prompted concern that F1’s effort to close up the field was not working, especially as ...Keep reading
Entries for the Monte Carlo Rally closed at midnight last Friday with organisers confirming a maximum 75 car field for the 2023 WRC curtain raiser from 19-22 January.
The entry list features 10 Rally1 cars, including three M-Sport Ford Pumas.
M-Sport has today confirmed that Greek privateer Serderidis will drive the third car in Monte Carlo for what will be a fourth WRC outing in a Puma ...Keep reading
But while it ultimately missed out on beating its rival on countback, even getting in that battle was impressive considering how challenging the start of its year had been.
The 2022 campaign proved to be a down-and-up season for the British marque, as it abandoned its launch sidepod concept design early on after being unable to get the performance out of it that it had hoped for.
Here we ...Keep reading
The matter related to a Classic and Modern Motorsport Club Southern Super Saloons and Tin Tops race at Brands Hatch last month.
BMW 318Ti driver Paul Kaynes was left “unnerved”, according to the report of a National Court hearing into the case, by the variable speed of Bernard Baxter’s Audi A3 during the contest and, after the race, Baxter approached Kaynes to explain there was a problem ...Keep reading
The Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup that supported DTM from 2010 to 2014 is unlikely to be remembered among the greatest one-make saloon car categories. But it was the crucial stepping stone on two-time Nurburgring 24 Hours winner Kelvin van der Linde’s journey from South Africa to becoming an Audi factory GT driver and securing his younger brother Sheldon’s passage to Europe – which this year ...Keep reading
Mercedes found itself as one of the worst-hit teams by the porpoising issue that impacted most of the grid when the new-design cars for 2022 debuted in February.
The problem escalated to a level that prompted the FIA to intervene on safety grounds and introduce aerodynamic rule changes for 2023, a move some teams – including Red Bull – had rallied against.
A bigger row emerged in October ...Keep reading
Peugeot has yet to have a trouble-free race since it joined the WEC for the second half of the 2022 season in Monza, with a myriad of issues preventing it from finishing on the podium against Toyota and Alpine in the Hypercar class.
There was optimism that it would finally be able to turn around its fortunes in the season finale in Bahrain after an encouraging private test and a favourable ...Keep reading
The Briton, who is not defending his IMSA title in the renamed GTP class, will join full-season drivers Dwight Merriman and Ryan Dalziel and third driver Christian Rasmussen aboard Era's Oreca 07 for the Florida classic.
Jarvis took outright Daytona 24 honours last year sharing Meyer Shank Racing's Acura ARX-05 with Tom Blomqvist, Simon Pagenaud and Helio Castroneves, going on to win the title ...Keep reading
The Alpine Affiliate, who is signed to two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso’s A14 Management, makes the move up to F3 with the reigning teams and drivers’ champions.
The Bulgarian 16-year-old dominated Spanish F4 this season, taking 13 wins on his way to the title.
He took part in the post-season test at Jerez with ART, with whom Victor Martins won the 2022 title.
Tsolov ...Keep reading
I've never hung on to the steering wheel of a car so much as I am now lapping Barcelona's Formula 1 track.
As the left-hand wheels touch the kerb on the flat-out run up to Turn 9, both the deep rumbling noise and the vibrations that rattle the cockpit smash your senses.
But there is little time to think about that, or even enjoy just how frickin' cool it feels (and sounds).
Eyes are ...Keep reading
Monte Carlo Rally organisers confirmed that it has received the maximum 75 entries for the 2023 curtain raiser featuring 10 Rally1 cars including three Pumas.
M-Sport had yet to declare the number of Pumas it would run in Monte Carlo before entries for the 19-22 January season opener closed at midnight last Friday.
The identity of the third driver that will join the recently announced Ott ...Keep reading
The Franco-Argentine racer finished second in the standings in Japan's premier single-seater category, finishing his season at the end of October before making the switch to Formula E with Nissan.
He was handed a surprise chance to start his first Formula E race in Seoul at the end of the 2021-22 season, substituting for the injured Antonio Giovinazzi at Dragon Penske.
But with a full-time ...Keep reading
Reflecting on the progress that the Woking-based squad has made since he joined at the end of 2016, Brown said the team was in a difficult spot in his early days.
Amid the on-track difficulties posed by the troubled partnership with Honda, and a board room battle between Ron Dennis and Mansour Ojjeh, Brown said that it was a far from happy ship.
“In terms of morale; there was a total lack ...Keep reading
The introduction of a budget limit from the start of 2021 was driven by a desire to level up the playing field and ensure that the big-spending squads did not have an unfair advantage.
With the system now up and running, Brown reckons some thought should be given to unleashing more innovation in the technical rules.
PLUS: How departing F1 boss Brawn sees new rules and the future
He ...Keep reading
Hallbery’s love of racing came from being brought up watching speedway at Wembley but also going to grands prix around Europe. He was drawn to the Brabham team and started a fanzine when attending the London College of Printing. This was his calling card in 1986 when he came for an interview for the first step on the Autosport ladder as editorial assistant.
Helping to produce the magazine ...Keep reading
Espargaro endured a difficult time with Aprilia since joining the marque in 2017, with a lack of progress on the Italian bike forcing him to consider quitting MotoGP back in 2019.
But major steps forward in the development of the RS-GP meant in 2022 Espargaro became a dark horse championship contender, having won his first ever grand prix in Argentina and tallying up five other ...Keep reading
Our UK-only deal means you can get a 20% discount for a six-month magazine subscription if you pay via direct debit. That’s 26 issues for £71.49 and the offer ends on 8 January 2023.
For an extra £5, you can get the print and digital bundle that includes the printed magazine, digital edition on all devices and Autosport Plus, which includes our in-depth, subscriber-only content ...Keep reading
Cars built to the LMDh ruleset that replaces the IMSA SportsCar Championship’s Daytona Prototype international class next year will be eligible to race in the World Endurance Championship’s Hypercar class against bespoke Le Mans Hypercars (LMH).
LMDh manufacturers must incorporate a spec hybrid system that produces 50kW (67 horsepower) into their powertrain package, which can produce a ...Keep reading
After a run of eight successive constructors’ championship titles since 2014, Mercedes found itself on the back foot with the W13, which struggled with porpoising and a lack of performance.
The opening phase of the year was especially difficult, as the squad lost weeks of development time trying to get to the bottom of what had gone wrong with its design.
PLUS: Why Mercedes believes it can ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer has revealed how the 10 drivers for the dual programme run by the Porsche Penske Motorsport squad announced over the past year will be split across the two series.
The #5 WEC entry will be shared by Dane Cameron, Michael Christensen and Frederic Makowiecki, while the #6 963 will be raced by Andre Lotterer, Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor.
Nick Tandy and Mathieu ...Keep reading
After retiring from racing full-time at the end of 2020, Britain’s Crutchlow joined Yamaha – with whom he made his MotoGP debut in 2011 with Tech3 – as its official test rider.
Crutchlow carries out private tests for Yamaha in both Europe and Japan, and is also its first reserve rider – with Crutchlow contesting the final six races of 2022 with RNF after Andrea Dovizioso retired from ...Keep reading
In the wake of Liberty’s takeover from CVC in 2017, F1 has enjoyed a massive uplift in popularity.
Its opening up of social media channels, and the success of Netflix’s Drive to Survive series, has delivered a younger and more diverse audience to the series.
PLUS: Departing F1 boss Brawn on new rules and the future
And while some elements of Liberty’s actions ...Keep reading
The final six hours of testing began in similar fashion to the running on Tuesday and Wednesday, with Maserati driver Guenther top of the pile after the opening 20 minutes. He posted a 1m26.647 as his initial benchmark, and later took three tenths out of it.
Sebastien Buemi then brought out a red flag as he crashed at Turn 4 and required a clean-up operation, with a crane summoned to peel the ...Keep reading
Ferrari forged an early lead in both championships as Charles Leclerc won two of the opening three races, taking victory in Bahrain and Australia.
Max Verstappen failed to finish both races due to a fuel pump issue, while Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez also retired in Bahrain with the same problem.
This left Ferrari already facing questions about implementing team orders to help Leclerc's ...Keep reading
The Dutchman, who scored one win and three more podiums with Trident in 2022, will move to the Zeewolde-based VAR team for its sophomore F2 campaign.
He finished 12th in the standings in 2022, slipping one position in the standings from his disrupted 2021 campaign split between MP Motorsport and Charouz, taking his only victory at the season opener sprint race in Bahrain.
The 2019 Macau ...Keep reading
The 43-year-old Italian will again contest the full season of GT World Challenge Europe across the Sprint and Endurance disciplines after completing his first full season of car racing in WRT-run Audis this year.
Seven-time MotoGP champion Rossi, who managed a best finish of fifth alongside Frederic Vervisch and Nico Muller in the Endurance Cup this year, will again run the #46 on his BMW M4 ...Keep reading
Following this year's United States Grand Prix, the FIA took action to change its approach to using black and orange flags - used to instruct a driver to pit when their car is damaged - after complaints from Haas, which felt it had been unfairly penalised earlier in the season.
Haas drivers were told to pit on three occasions in 2022 due to loose front wing endplates, despite the team feeling ...Keep reading
The season finale flashpoints are interspersed with behind the scenes footage of the title fights from each of the main WEC categories to bring the tension to life.
Expert commentator and 2014 WEC champion Anthony Davidson also provides insight through context within the title fights, explaining how Porsche’s GTE Pro world championship fight was swung away from it and towards Ferrari by ...Keep reading
The Silverstone-based squad will unveil its new AMR23 F1 challenger with a live event from its Silverstone campus on 13 February.
The reveal will take place in front of a small select audience, as well as be broadcast across its digital channels.
Aston Martin is attempting to rebound from a disappointing 2022 campaign, where its AMR22 did not hit ambitious targets.
The team went the wrong ...Keep reading
Fourmaux has been selected to pilot one of two M-Sport-run Ford Fiesta Rally2s next year alongside WRC2 regular Gregoire Munster, who will switch from Hyundai to Ford machinery.
The news ensures Fourmaux remains with the British outfit following a disappointing 2022 campaign driving one the team’s three Ford Pumas in the WRC’s top Rally 1 class.
The announcement also follows confirmation ...Keep reading
Motor racing's governing body revealed last month that it was going to start some trials for wheel arches to help in wet-weather races.
With the lack of visibility due to spray being thrown up as the main limiting factor in heavy rain conditions, it is hoped that covering the wheels could help in this regard.
Work is already underway to evaluate the idea, and it is hoped that prototype ...Keep reading
Christian Fittipaldi and Joao Barbosa held clearly-defined roles during their enormously successful period as team-mates at Action Express Racing between 2011 and 2019.
Fittipaldi, a race-winner in CART Indycar whose diverse career took him to Formula 1 and later to NASCAR, was the qualifier who took the cut-and-thrust race starts. Barbosa, a late bloomer whose sportscar reputation was growing ...Keep reading
The Birmingham-born driver spent five seasons racing in the nominal third tier of single-seater racing, spread across the now-defunct GP3 Series and both incarnations of FIA Formula 3.
He was handed opportunities to step up to Formula 2 with HWA and Van Amersfoort, dovetailing those drives alongside his Mercedes Formula E simulator role.
Hughes told Autosport that he felt he had to "fight" ...Keep reading
After winning eight constructors’ titles in a row, Mercedes endured a tricky campaign through 2022 as it struggled to match Red Bull and Ferrari under the new regulations.
Drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell were hindered by a porpoising issue through the early part of the season, but as the team moved to fix the problem, deeper issues with the W13 car became apparent.
The squad was ...Keep reading
The new category is aimed at providing a stepping-stone for young female racers after karting as they plan to move up the single-seater ladder.
It will run at Formula 4 level, and there will be seven events, each featuring three races. As well as competing, there will be a total of 15 days of official testing to help the drivers gain valuable experience.
The majority of the rounds will take ...Keep reading
Maximilian Guenther says his chart-topping pace in Valencia Formula E testing shows Maserati MSG's running is "going well", but says that it does not really matter for its 2022-23 preparations.
The Bavarian racer, new to the Maserati MSG squad for this season after leaving Nissan, headed both morning and afternoon sessions during the opening day of testing, and carried that form into the second ...Keep reading
Four-time MotoGP race winner Miller switches to the factory KTM squad for the 2023 season following five years with Ducati, first at Pramac before stepping up to the works team in 2021.
Miller has been an instrumental part in Ducati’s bike development, and marks one of several major pieces of personnel poaching of the Italian marque’s talent KTM has done over the last year – including ...Keep reading
As part of F1 owner Liberty Media’s overhaul of grand prix racing that has included new cars, it made an effort to ensure that the gap between the big spending teams and the others got closer.
This included the introduction of a cost cap, a revamp of F1’s prize money structure and aero testing restrictions that give more development time to the slowest squads.
It was prompted by big ...Keep reading
Three days after the conclusion of the IndyCar season, Ganassi confirmed that its 2021 championship-winner would remain on board for 2023. However, this only came after a torrid legal battle through the summer, after Palou embarked on discussions to join Arrow McLaren SP, with the ultimate aim of becoming part of the McLaren F1 line-up.
The Spanish ace has now tested a McLaren F1 car on three ...Keep reading
Marciello has exclusively raced Mercedes since switching to sportscars in 2017 following a race-winning stint in Formula 2, and this year was crowned champion in both the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup and ADAC GT Masters series.
The Italian-born 27-year-old, who also scooped the overall GT World Challenge Europe title and won the Spa 24 Hours in a successful 2022 season, will make a ...Keep reading
There were plenty of different approaches to both car concept and development programmes, with no two teams opting for identical routes.
With the dust now settled on the campaign, we take a deep dive into how each competitor dealt with the season just gone.
Williams
We kick things off with Williams, a team that was hoping to make another leap forward up the grid, having steadily climbed ...Keep reading
An hour-long session was added to Thursday's media day to give the teams more time to acquaint themselves with the Gen3 machinery, ahead of the final six hours of running on Friday.
Oliver Rowland (Mahindra) set the early pace to kick the session off, but his 1m26.878s was chalked off for track limits - so Abt driver Robin Frijns stepped up to fill the void with a 1m26.431s to go ahead in the ...Keep reading
The American was announced over the United States Grand Prix weekend as Williams' 2023 Formula 1 driver, but only on the proviso that he could qualify for a superlicence.
Sargeant had to avoid finishing lower than sixth in the drivers' standings to get over the 40-point threshold and came into the Abu Dhabi finale third in the standings.
But with the points tightly bunched, as just 12 ...Keep reading
Branding rights and promotion of the DTM have passed from Gerhard Berger’s ITR organisation, which is now in the process of being disbanded, to German motorsport promoter the ADAC.
The latter announced in a press conference last Thursday how the DTM would sit within its pyramid of championships, confirming that it would continue as a single driver per car series for GT3 machines with ...Keep reading
The Indian squad was the first team to run publicly with its Gen3 car at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, but came away from its private testing programme with a sense that it was behind schedule.
Rowland explained that a cancelled test in Calafat and a COVID diagnosis meant that he was afforded limited seat time, and instead had to run in a catch-up test in the week prior to the Valencia test ...Keep reading
M-Sport has today confirmed the 25-year-old Frenchman will join the recently confirmed Ott Tanak as part of the Ford squad’s roster for the 2023 season.
As previously reported, Loubet was in the frame for a promotion to a full-time seat for the first time in his top flight WRC career after an impressive seven-round campaign with M-Sport this year.
PLUS: How Christmas came early for M-Sport ...Keep reading
ROC returns to the Pite Havsbad resort in the north of Sweden on January 28-29 to race on a track drawn on the frozen Baltic Sea, a new snow and ice-based formula which was well received earlier this year.
Rosenqvist, Neuville and Drugovich will make their Race of Champions debuts near the Arctic Circle, with event veterans Tom Kristensen and David Coulthard also added to the line-up.
They ...Keep reading
What's the difference between an F1 reserve driver and a test driver?
Additional drivers within Formula 1 teams don't all have the same job title. The terms 'third driver' and 'reserve driver' are both in regular use, although some teams combine this role.
The third driver is better described as the test driver. Teams rope them in to help the regular drivers and engineers improve the ...Keep reading
David Salters, the president of Honda Performance Development – its US racing arm – revealed that his staff have worked closely with HRC in Japan, where its two-time F1 World Championship-winning power unit and electric hybrid systems were devised.
Salters who previously worked for Mercedes-Benz High Performance Engines in F1 in the pre-hybrid turbo era, said leaning on Honda’s vast ...Keep reading
The fastest lap from last year's Valencia Formula E test, a 1m25.763s set by Mortara, was overturned for the first time by the Swiss driver's new team-mate Maximilian Guenther on the second day of running in this year's test.
Guenther's best lap of the day, a 1m25.449s, only showed an improvement of just over three-tenths over a less powerful and heavier car - despite expectations that the Gen3 ...Keep reading
The future of LMP2 cars in the WEC appears to be in doubt, with it being speculated that they will not be allowed to enter any race other than the Le Mans 24 Hours from 2024.
With the Hypercar class expected to attract nearly 20 entries, and a new division for GT3 likewise expected to feature a bumper grid, there is unlikely to be enough space for a secondary prototype category at the regular ...Keep reading
The former McLaren, Renault, Caterham and Lotus F1 driver switched to rallying last full-time competing in the Japanese Rally Championship, which he conquered this season, driving a Skoda Fabia Rally2 alongside long-time co-driver Sae Kitagawa.
Following his success in Japan’s national series, the Finn made his World Rally Championship debut at the season ending Rally Japan in November, which ...Keep reading
The Maserati MSG racer swept to the fastest lap in all timed sessions, as per his efforts on Tuesday, but ultimately settled on his best – a 1m25.449s time – at the end of the day to beat Stoffel Vandoorne to the punch.
Wednesday’s running consisted of a race-day dress rehearsal, featuring a half-hour practice session prior to a loose qualifying run-through and a mock race ...Keep reading
Ferrari announced on Tuesday that ex-Sauber F1 chief Vasseur would be taking over as team principal and general manager in January following Mattia Binotto’s resignation.
Vasseur will join Ferrari after a six-season stint overseeing Sauber’s F1 efforts, racing under the Alfa Romeo brand for the past four years, as well as previously spending a brief period at Renault in 2016.
Speaking at ...Keep reading
After a full season out of Formula E, ABT will return together with CUPRA this year in what will be a new adventure for the Spanish brand in the world of competition and electric racing.
On the first day of pre-season testing at the Ricardo Tormo Circuit in Valencia, CUPRA opened the doors of its garage to Autosport to tell a little more in depth why a brand still so young has taken the ...Keep reading
It’s not often that a top racing driver uses the word ‘discombobulating’. In fact, few have the vocabulary to venture much further than ‘confusing’. So, it’s just as well that it’s a racesuit-clad dictionary of the calibre of all-time British Touring Car wins record holder Jason Plato who’s been asked to do something a bit, well, discombobulating.
Plato, you see, was asked along ...Keep reading
After eight seasons of using Michelins, the series awarded Hankook with the contract for the 2022-23 season and beyond. Although the overall brief has remained the same for the Korean manufacturer, which has been asked to produce tyres for all weathers, the construction presents an entirely different challenge.
Named the Hankook iON, the development of the tyre has had to be all things to all ...Keep reading
The car giant was last officially involved in F1 with Jaguar from 2000 to 2004, but the team never achieved the levels of success it hoped for.
After pulling the plug on the operation, it sold the squad to Red Bull which went on to multiple world championship successes.
Ford also badged the Cosworth engines of the Jordan team in 2003 and 2004 as part of a separate deal to its work ...Keep reading
The Spanish venue’s current Grade 1 configuration, which features a tricky chicane before the final corner, has long come under criticism for not being very conducive to racing.
Its tight Turns 14/15 left-right chicane was supposed to offer the benefits of a slow corner leading on to the long straight and help cars follow each other.
Instead, the layout with its high kerbs has proved to be ...Keep reading
The DTM has hit the reset button. Again.
Switching organiser from ITR to the ADAC may not look like such a big change compared to that experienced by the DTM over the winter of 2020-21. But, to the teams that went through the shift from Class 1 tin-tops with full manufacturer teams to becoming GT3 customers, it has been an unwelcome reminder of the uncertainty that brought.
“It is, in a ...Keep reading
Lawson’s long-anticipated move from Formula 2 to Super Formula was confirmed by Honda this week, with the Kiwi driver being named as team-mate to reigning two-time series champion Tomoki Nojiri at Team Mugen.
He will become the first international Red Bull junior to race in the Japanese series since Juri Vips in late 2019 as he bids to impress for a chance to race for AlphaTauri in ...Keep reading
The MP Motorsport driver scored 265 points in 2022, taking five wins and 11 podiums on his way to the title.
Theo Pourchaire was second on 164 points, with third-placed Liam Lawson on 149.
Speaking at the FIA Prize Giving in Bologna, Drugovich said it had been an “amazing season” which had “opened a lot of doors.”
Days after winning the title in Monza, Drugovich was announced as ...Keep reading
Verstappen swept to his second F1 world title in 2022, setting a new record with 15 wins in a single season and a new high points tally of 454, leaving him 146 clear of Ferrari rival Charles Leclerc in second place.
Although Verstappen’s dominance meant he clinched the title with four races to spare, the Dutchman had feared his title chances were in doubt as early as the fourth race at ...Keep reading
Late last month it was revealed that the Super Formula calendar will be made up of just nine races in 2023, one fewer than this year, with the August Motegi fixture being run as a single-race event.
The increase in the number of races from seven to 10 for 2022 was well-received in the paddock, and championship promoter JRP suggested that the number of double-headers could increase in future ...Keep reading
After winning eight consecutive constructors’ championships, Mercedes endured a difficult first year under the revised technical regulations in 2022, initially struggling to challenge leading teams Red Bull and Ferrari.
Porpoising proved to be one of Mercedes’ biggest weaknesses in the early part of the year, hindering the form of both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, before further ...Keep reading
The Mercedes-AMG factory drivers won the blue ribband round of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup together with Raffaele Marciello, and secured the title by defeating Iron Lynx Ferrari driver Antonio Fuoco over the five-round series.
Juncadella, who was also confirmed last weekend as the Intercontinental GT Challenge champion in last weekend's Gulf 12 Hours despite retiring from the ...Keep reading
The German driver, who joined the Monaco-based outfit from Nissan over the off-season, set a 1m26.096s in the morning session which stood as the fastest time of the day.
He also headed the rain-affected afternoon running when the timing slate was wiped clean, just over a tenth slower than his best lap before lunch.
Rene Rast and Jake Hughes were the first to hit the ground running on the ...Keep reading
WEC boss Frederic Lequien insisted on the launch of the new Middle Eastern event at the Lusail International Circuit that Sebring remains the preferred option for the North American round of the series.
He believes that the 1000-mile fixture on the undercard of the Sebring 12 Hours IMSA SportsCar Championship round could still work as the second round of the series in its traditional mid-March ...Keep reading
Williams go the ball rolling on Monday evening when it announced team principal Jost Capito was leaving his role at the end of the year.
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Following its takeover of the DTM from long-time organiser ITR, the ADAC outlined last Thursday its plans to put the series at the top of its pyramid of championships in 2023 and revealed an eight-race calendar predominantly based in German-speaking countries.
It also stated that “significant measures to reduce budgets are also planned for competitors”, but these have yet to be ...Keep reading
It must feel as if Christmas has come early for M-Sport. Months of negotiations have finally yielded the present they all wanted: the signing of 2019 world rally champion Ott Tanak.
Tanak rejoining the Ford squad that launched his WRC career would have prompted a collective sigh of relief, not only from an M-Sport team looking to bounce back from a disappointing 2022, but from the Estonian’s ...Keep reading
The Woking-based squad announced on Tuesday that it was appointing Andrea Stella as its new team principal to replace Seidl.
As part of a team boss merry-go-round, Seidl has been lured away to join Sauber as its new CEO, in the wake of the Swiss-based outfit losing Fred Vasseur to Ferrari.
It comes as Sauber prepares to become Audi's works team from 2026.
Seidl’s departure from McLaren ...Keep reading
The German driver will undertake the role alongside his test and reserve duties for Avalanche Andretti, which will tackle season 9 as a Porsche customer team.
Beckmann, who replaces Neel Jani at Porsche, drove his first test laps in the enhanced Porsche 99X Electric Gen3 in Spain in October.
The 22-year-old said: "Joining Porsche as Formula E enters a new era is an exciting challenge.
"It ...Keep reading
The Austrian manufacturer has won a race at least once a season since 2020, but consistency has eluded the marque in that time.
While Miguel Oliveira won twice in 2022, he did so in wet conditions, and was only 10th in the standings, while all of KTM’s dry podiums were courtesy of Binder with rostrums in Qatar, Japan and Valencia.
Having been forced into making 96 overtakes across the ...Keep reading
Just look at how Sebastian Vettel's decision to retire before F1's summer break set off a chain of events that ended up with Fernando Alonso at Aston Martin, Pierre Gasly at Alpine and Nyck de Vries at AlphaTauri (and that's ignoring the Oscar Piastri to McLaren shenanigans).
What is much rarer is for this kind of crazy merry-go-round to involve Formula 1 team principals to the extent it has ...Keep reading
Want to become a Formula 1 team principal? Well, current evidence would suggest that if you’re white, male, somewhere between 50 and 70 and German is your home language, you’ll walk straight into a job.
Okay, so perhaps it’s not the most diverse group of individuals heading up the 10 teams that currently make up the Formula 1 field. But at least there are no fixed CV requirements for ...Keep reading
While most of the focus in endurance racing has been on the new LMDh offerings, that’s certainly not to say there’s no new developments in the world of GT4 competition, with the McLaren Artura and new BMW M4 set to race across the globe in 2023.
McLaren’s previous model, the 570S, was released in 2016, with the British manufacturer selling more than 180 examples, the last being produced ...Keep reading
Last week the 2019 world champion completed a move to rejoin the Ford squad after leaving Hyundai at the end of the season with a year remaining on his contract.
The switch has seen Tanak reunite with the British team that launched his WRC career in 2011. It was at M-Sport that the Estonian claimed a maiden podium in 2012 (Sardinia), and the first of his 17 top-flight wins in 2017.
The ...Keep reading
However, he will not have the team principal title, and will instead help Sauber to appoint someone to take up the role.
Fred Vasseur, whose departure to Ferrari was confirmed on Tuesday, held both the CEO and team principal jobs at the Hinwil outfit.
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Seidl is an obvious choice to take over the organisation that has been ...Keep reading
The Japanese single-seater series has been working on an overhaul of the current Dallara SF19 package since the start of 2022, conducting a number of tests across a range of circuits with a pair of development cars.
Ahead of October's season finale, the final version of the 2023 car was demonstrated, featuring revised front and rear wings, sidepods and floor, partly made from Bcomp flax fibre ...Keep reading
Team owner Jim Glickenhaus told Autosport at the launch of the new Qatar WEC fixture scheduled for the Losail International Circuit in 2024 that he will definitely return to the series for a third season with a minimum of one Pipo-engined 007 LMH.
That followed previous statements that he was still working on plans for 2023 to continue in the WEC and that finding a commercial partner or a ...Keep reading
Ever since reports arose in the days leading up to the Abu Dhabi season finale that Mattia Binotto was on his way out at Maranello, and that Vasseur had been identified as the man to replace him, the winds have been blowing one way.
It marks the greatest challenge to date of Vasseur's long and largely successful career in motorsport. He'll now face the pressures of not only a team, but a ...Keep reading
Autosport understands Seidl is set to end his four-season stint heading up McLaren’s F1 operation and take over from Vasseur, who is poised to become Ferrari’s new team boss.
The move will see Seidl prepare for a future reunion with the Volkswagen Group through Audi, which will take over the Sauber team - that currently races as Alfa Romeo - in 2026.
Seidl previously headed up sister VW ...Keep reading
Vasseur, 54, joins Ferrari after spending the last five years with Sauber, who announced the Frenchman’s departure earlier today.
Vasseur will step into the shoes of Binotto, who resigned from his role in charge of Ferrari’s F1 operations at the end of last month.
His official role will be team principal and general manager, starting on 9 January.
“I am truly delighted and ...Keep reading
Ferrari is expected to announce soon that the Frenchman is heading to Maranello as the replacement for Mattia Binotto, who handed in his resignation last month.
Vasseur’s name was first mentioned in connection with the top Ferrari job even before Binotto’s departure was confirmed.
The 54-year-old joined Sauber in July 2017, shortly after the new shareholders - led by billionaire Finn ...Keep reading
The WEC has signed a six-year contract with the Losail International Circuit to host a round of the championship, guaranteeing its place on the schedule until 2029 at least.
Losail will also be the venue for the official pre-season WEC test known as the prologue ahead of the race.
No date has been given for what will be a six-hour event, which still needs to be ratified by the FIA World ...Keep reading
The Cumbrian had spent his entire Formula E career with the NIO 333 outfit across its various guises, having joined for the 2015 London E-Prix when it was known as Team China Racing.
There, he scored two ninth-place finishes and was signed to the team on a full-time basis for the following year, where he remained through its transition to NIO and its purchase by 333 Racing.
Although ...Keep reading
In a statement issued by the team on Monday, it was confirmed that Capito had stepped down as team principal and CEO, with technical director FX Demaison also leaving his post.
Williams said it would announce its new team principal and technical director “in due course.”
"It has been a huge privilege to lead Williams Racing for the last two seasons and to lay the foundations for the ...Keep reading
But while there was no doubt big progress was made in improving the ability of cars to follow each other closer, the season just gone was not without its faults.
Red Bull's dominance meant the championship battle was pretty much a foregone conclusion after the summer break and, while some of the racing was good, it was not the dramatic improvement some had hoped for.
As one of the key ...Keep reading
America’s biggest form of motorsport, NASCAR, is very traditional. There’s a staid way of doing things and, even if the unexpected occurs every now and then, the rule of thumb is that the powerhouse teams always win.
What doesn’t happen is a start-up operation arrives at its top level, bragging a co-owner who’s a Grammy Award-winning megastar. It then buys an entire team from one of ...Keep reading
The Briton returned to racing for RNF for the final six rounds of 2022 after Andrea Dovizioso retired following the San Marino Grand Prix in September.
Crutchlow retired from full-time racing after the 2020 season, but deputised for the injured Morbidelli at Petronas SRT last year at the Styrian and Austrian GPs, before briefly replacing ousted Maverick Vinales at the British and Aragon GPs at ...Keep reading
The decision by team principal Mattia Binotto to resign after the disappointments of the 2022 campaign has left the squad facing a more difficult winter than anticipated.
For whatever the qualities that Binotto's likely successor Fred Vasseur will bring with him, it is going to take time for him to understand the strengths and weaknesses of the organisation to work out where change is ...Keep reading
The Ford squad is continuing to push to reach an agreement with the nine-time world champion, who claimed an 80th career win and record equalling eighth triumph at the famous asphalt rally this year.
Loeb enjoyed a partial WRC campaign with M-Sport this season which he dovetailed around successful campaigns in the World Rally-Raid Championship and Extreme E.
PLUS: Ranking the top 10 WRC ...Keep reading
The Japanese manufacturer pulled out of F1 at the end of the 2021 season, with it clear that its focus on its electric road car business meant it could no longer justify a programme in the series.
But it still kept its toe in the water as it leased the IP of its power units to Red Bull from 2021, which duly went on to win the drivers’ world championship with Max Verstappen.
Its ongoing ...Keep reading
Perez made a strong start to his second season with Red Bull in 2022, taking pole in Saudi Arabia and victory in Monaco to leave him 15 points off Verstappen after the opening seven races.
But the Mexican’s form took a dip ahead of the summer break as he conceded the development of the RB18 car had left him feeling less comfortable with the car.
Perez rallied with his second win of the ...Keep reading
Last week, the ADAC revealed how it will overhaul the sportscar racing landscape in Germany, having taken over the branding rights and promotion of the DTM from its previous owner ITR.
While the announcement alleviated any concerns about the future of the DTM, with the championship retaining its one-driver, sprint race format, there are potential ramifications on GT Masters, the erstwhile ...Keep reading
From a humble truckie’s mate to mechanic, race engineer and now an experienced team manager, Chris Mower has filled just about every position going on a race team in a career spanning over 30 years on both sides of the Atlantic in single-seaters and sportscar racing.
He followed in the footsteps of father Derek by working as a mechanic for Team Lotus in Formula 1 before the pair teamed up to ...Keep reading
As previously reported by Autosport, Red Bull junior driver Lawson is moving to Super Formula after two seasons of racing in FIA Formula 2, and had his first taste of the Japanese series in last week’s post-season test at Suzuka.
The New Zealander joins the title-winning Mugen operation alongside reigning two-time champion Tomoki Nojiri, effectively taking the place of Toyota-bound Ukyo ...Keep reading
The first was won by Felipe Baptista ahead of Daniel Serra, and Ricardo Mauricio triumphed over former Renault F1 driver Nelson Piquet Jr in the second.
But Barrichello, who retired from F1 at the end of 2011 having served stints with Honda, Brawn GP and Williams following his Ferrari exit at the end of 2005, was the man of the weekend, winning his second stock car title in Brazil following his ...Keep reading
In the wake of it emerging that Red Bull had broken the 2021 cost cap limit, Brown wrote to FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem and F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali urging them to treat the matter with the utmost seriousness.
In the letter, he wrote: “The overspend breach, and possibly the procedural breaches, constitute cheating by offering a significant advantage across technical ...Keep reading
The Red Bull Junior and Honda Formula Dream Project driver, who finished fifth in the standings in 2022, will stay with the French outfit for his second campaign.
Iwasa took feature race victories in France and Abu Dhabi, along with two pole positions and a further four podium finishes.
He will partner Arthur Leclerc, who moves up from FIA Formula 3, where he finished sixth this season with ...Keep reading
The Australian said during the season finale in Valencia that his time with the Italian outfit had been “an amazing journey”.
Miller returns to KTM next year alongside Brad Binder at its factory squad, having ridden for the Ajo team in Moto3 in 2014 when he was runner-up in the standings.
He said he hopes for “something different, something fresh” from the move, which comes after two ...Keep reading
My European Le Mans Series season was a bit up and down. We came so close in so many races to getting a strong result, and we felt like the win was never really coming until we got to the last part of the season when we managed to dominate at Spa in September and I finally achieved my first win of the year.
Our biggest issue was being consistent. We struggled at some races more than others, and ...Keep reading
He believes that the current arrangement should be adjusted to take into account the increase in the number of events, including the six sprints on the 2023 schedule.
The Frenchman is currently on 10 points, and if he reaches 12 before he drops his earliest score in late May he could be banned for a race.
Others edging close to the limit are Lance Stroll on eight points, Alex Albon on seven ...Keep reading
During his sabbatical from Formula 1 after a difficult second stint at McLaren, Alonso ventured into a wide variety of motorsport disciplines including endurance racing, but arguably faced his toughest challenge when he entered Dakar at the beginning of 2020.
Driving the factory Toyota Hilux in the prestigious cross-country rally in Saudi Arabia, the Spaniard exceeded expectations by finishing ...Keep reading
The DTM faced uncertainty when it emerged that previous organising body the ITR would be disbanded, and that it had entered into discussions with rival promoter the ADAC to continue the DTM name in 2023.
Both the DTM and the ADAC’s GT Masters series for crews of two drivers per car utilise GT3 regulations, and it was unclear in what form the DTM would live on when it was announced that the ...Keep reading
Leclerc looked poised to mount a title challenge for the first time in his F1 career after winning two of the first three races, surging into an early points lead thanks to the victories in Bahrain and Australia.
But Leclerc would score just one more win all season as Max Verstappen and Red Bull pulled ahead in the fight, aided by a car that was clearly a step ahead in performance from the ...Keep reading
The windtunnel is part of the new factory project currently underway at Silverstone, but while the main facility is scheduled to be occupied by next May, the adjacent tunnel won’t be in use until the following year.
The team currently uses the Mercedes tunnel in Brackley, and will do the initial work on the AMR25 in that before making the switch to the new facility when it is completed and ...Keep reading
Owing to the tight and small circuit configurations, robust racing between drivers has been prevalent during Formula E races, especially as bodywork has historically mitigated wheel-to-wheel contact.
But the exposed wheels of the Gen3 car presents more risk, particularly if drivers lock horns, and Barclay suggests that this is the key reason that Formula E may be less of a contact sport going ...Keep reading
Earlier this year Penske revealed he had held talks with the WEC about staging a race on the Indianapolis road course, which previously hosted Formula 1 events from 2000 to 2007, saying the plan was at “the top of his list”.
The discussions precede Penske’s eponymous squad joining forces with Porsche for its LMDh programme in both the WEC and the IMSA SportsCar Championship from ...Keep reading
The prize giving saw Verstappen, F1 runner-up Charles Leclerc, third-place driver Sergio Perez and Red Bull team boss Christian Horner, collecting the F1 constructors’ championship, pick up the biggest prizes of the night.
During a week of World Motor Sport Council and FIA General Assembly meetings, the prize giving culminated in Verstappen being presented the world championship trophy by FIA ...Keep reading
During this offseason, something calling itself the IndyCar Drivers Association sent a letter to five very senior members of Penske Entertainment, asking for IndyCar to step up its marketing. It was, by most accounts, an ill-conceived and ill-constructed missive from a loose band of drivers, and apparently it went down like a cup of cold vomit with those at the top.
At the very least, it came ...Keep reading
Following Ferrari’s failure to win the world championship this year, Binotto offered his resignation after feeling he did not have the full support of the Italian manufacturer’s senior management team.
Ferrari accepted his decision to quit and is currently finalising a replacement, with Alfa Romeo team boss Frederic Vasseur favourite to take the job.
Binotto’s departure could disrupt ...Keep reading
The Danish pairing, who are in action together in this weekend’s Gulf 12 Hours in Abu Dhabi, will once more drive for Ohio-based MDK Motorsports.
It will be Kevin Magnussen’s third start in the Floridian sportscar classic, following on from his Cadillac DPi program with Chip Ganassi Racing – which he bailed out from after last year’s event when he received his F1 ...Keep reading
The Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) division will form the top class of the IMSA SportsCar series, which kicks off with the series' marquee event, the Daytona 24 Hours at the end of January. Cadillac and Porsche will also run these cars in the World Endurance Championship, as they chase the biggest sportscar race of all – the Le Mans 24 Hours in its centenary year.
So what does the future of US ...Keep reading
The team announced recently that current incumbent Mattia Binotto has resigned and will leave at the end of December, with his replacement yet to be confirmed.
Alfa Romeo boss Fred Vasseur, who has worked extensively with Leclerc in the past at both ART and Sauber, is widely regarded as a favourite to get the job.
"Mattia called me to announce that he would stop,” said Leclerc. “I ...Keep reading
The Toyota driver produced a dominant run to a maiden world title this season, recording six wins and 70 fastest stage times to become the championship’s youngest ever world champion.
The 22-year-old Finn smashed the previous record set by the late 1995 world champion Colin McRae by five years and 88 days.
While Rovanpera dominated the 2022 season, Tanak emerged as the Toyota driver’s ...Keep reading
Gasly heads to Alpine in 2023 after a difficult final year with the Faenza team, which struggled to find form for much of the season.
The Frenchman says that his former colleagues are confident that the new AT04 will be the best car they have built to date.
He admits that with all teams developing their cars for the second season of the current rules it’s hard to predict the form book, and ...Keep reading
Alpine has committed to building an LMDh car for what has been touted as a new golden era of sportscar racing, but its ORECA LMP2-based contender won’t be ready until the second year of the regulations cycle in 2024.
Some feel this could place Alpine on the back foot compared to other LMDh manufacturers such as Porsche, Cadillac and BMW, while also forcing it to play catch up to the likes of ...Keep reading
Verstappen swept to his second world title in dominant fashion this year, scoring a record 15 wins through the season behind the wheel of the Red Bull RB18 car, while Red Bull also clinched its first constructors’ title since 2013.
The dominance of the RB18 came despite an extended development cycle for the RB16B in 2021, when Verstappen was engaged in a close fight for the championship with ...Keep reading
With all the commotion about a certain Netflix release that hit the screens recently, docuseries are quite the thing at the moment. So it’s timely that the latest offering from BAFTA-winning "Senna" writer and producer Manish Pandey should drop at Christmas on Discovery+ and other platforms internationally.
Having dominated F1 for over 40 years, Bernie Ecclestone was moved aside in 2017 as ...Keep reading
Ocon finished the 2022 season in eighth in the drivers' standings, 11 points clear of teammate Fernando Alonso, the Spaniard rather bearing the brunt of Alpine's reliability issues.
But while an absolute highlight, such as his shock win in the 2021 Hungarian Grand Prix, was missing from Ocon's year, the Frenchman says 2022 felt like his most complete season yet as an all-round ...Keep reading
With all four titles on the line, and the knowledge for GTE Pro combatants that the victorious crew would be the class’s final champions, the pressure was on as drivers prepared to climb aboard their cars for one last time in 2022.
We follow Peugeot drivers Gustavo Menezes and Nico Muller during their pre-race meal, see Toyota Gazoo Racing team principal Kamui Kobayashi checking out the ...Keep reading
It was announced earlier today that the five-time Bathurst 1000 winner had declined an endurance driver contract extension with T8.
His new home has swiftly been revealed, with Tander signing on with Ford squad Grove Racing for the 2023 Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000.
The Blue Oval move is significant given that Tander is among the legendary Holden drivers from the modern era.
While he ...Keep reading
Morbidelli has endured a tough two years in the premier class after finishing runner-up in the standings in 2020 with three race wins.
The Italian was hit by a knee injury in the first half of 2021 having struggled for form on his 2019-spec Yamaha at Petronas SRT, before a mid-season move to the factory Yamaha squad and long into 2022 failed to produce any results.
Morbidelli scored 42 ...Keep reading
The Anglo-Chinese squad unveiled its Gen3 livery and has retained its dark blue background, but has augmented that with solid red, white and teal flashes.
It heads into the ninth season of Formula E with a revised line-up, with Sergio Sette Camara coming in to partner Dan Ticktum - as long-serving Oliver Turvey steps away from the team after eight years at the squad.
After test days at ...Keep reading
Norris claimed third place for McLaren at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in April, benefitting from a late error by Charles Leclerc that dropped the Ferrari driver back to sixth place.
Norris said ahead of the summer break that it “blows my mind” McLaren managed to score a podium given its early-season car struggles, the team having enduring a sluggish start in ...Keep reading
When it comes to making a good rallycross track, a few key ingredients are needed. First, a mix of challenging corners where drivers can take different racing lines. Then you need a passionate crowd creating an amphitheatre atmosphere. A good history also helps.
Throw in some spectacular jumps plus blind crests and in Sweden’s Holjes Motorstadion– which first hosted the European Rallycross ...Keep reading
The German car manufacturer went completely its own route for 2022, adopting a ‘zero sidepod’ solution on the W13, which was very different to the downwash Red Bull idea and the inwash Ferrari concept.
But while Mercedes endured difficulties with its 2022 challenger, the team remained adamant that its issues were nothing to do with its very different sidepod solution.
With its key ...Keep reading
The Spanish brand makes its debut in Formula E alongside the outfit, which missed the 2021-22 season due to Audi's exit from the electric single-seater category.
In recent years, CUPRA has targeted the vast majority of its racing projects in the electric sector, developing the world's first 100% electric racing car, better known as the e-Racer, used in the FIA ETCR.
It is in this ...Keep reading
Belgians Vanthoor and Weerts formed a successful duo at Audi team WRT in the GT World Challenge Europe, taking three consecutive Sprint Cup titles in the Audi R8 LMS as well as an overall title in 2021.
Along with the Vincent Vosse-led team, the pair have moved to BMW for 2023, defending the Bavarian brand's colours in the GT World Challenge Europe and Intercontinental GT Challenge with the BMW ...Keep reading
Hawksworth and Barnicoat powered the VS Lexus team to second in this year's GTD Pro standings on the strength of two wins, four other podium finishes and two pole positions. Success included glory in the prestigious Petit Le Mans, along with IndyCar racer Kyle Kirkwood.
Barnicoat finished second in standings and even Hawksworth clinched sixth despite missing two races due to an injury in a ...Keep reading
In November, the FIA's World Motor Sport Council ratified Formula E's planned 'attack charge' pitstops with an introduction potentially set to be rolled out later in the season.
Before this is introduced, the 'regular' attack mode has been modified to allow the drivers to take more control over their own strategy, with a maximum of four minutes allowed during the race. The driver can then ...Keep reading
The new model is the first to have been developed under former Red Bull man Fallows, who started work at the Silverstone outfit in April, and head of aerodynamics Eric Blandin, who was previously at Mercedes.
This year’s AMR22 was designed to allow for a change of concept, and it was developed substantially over the season. Fallows suggests that the next year’s car will represent a further ...Keep reading
Four-time world champion Vettel retired from F1 at the end of the 2022 season, having announced plans to hang up his helmet back in July.
The German driver enjoyed stints with Toro Rosso, Red Bull, Ferrari and Aston Martin in F1, as well as making a big impact in recent years by speaking up on important topics such as environmental and social rights.
Vettel was recognised for his ...Keep reading
The DTM will now sit at the top of the revamped ADAC umbrella, with GT Masters and Prototype Cup Germany occupying the space directly below it under the DTM Endurance banner.
The DTM will keep its existing single-driver, sprint race format in 2023, allowing for some differential with what is currently known as GT Masters, as well as other championships using the GT3 ruleset.
Moreover ...Keep reading
His nine championships across both hillclimbing and circuit racing reflected supreme skill and consistency, spurred on by younger brother Robert, who double-drove initially.
Charles’s starts on the hills were astonishing. Like the legendary Roy Lane, he rarely wasted a rev. Driving a Hillman Imp bought from David Franklin, and subsequently a new Davrian Mk7, the spaceframe Solo Stiletto and ...Keep reading
Below is an overview of all current Formula 1 grand prix deal and the duration of the contracts as of December 2022.
French Grand Prix - Paul Ricard: out of contract
The contract with Formula 1 expired at the end of 2022, and the race doesn't feature on the 2023 calendar. It is possible that a rotation schedule with a race in Belgium or Germany will be devised, but the chance of France ...Keep reading
Mercedes had arrived at the United States Grand Prix in Austin with a new front wing design, but its use of provocative slot gap separators quickly garnered attention from its rivals.
The team’s opposition felt that the new fin-like variants carried much more aerodynamic intent in diverting airflow than the rules were supposed to allow.
Rivals suspected that the way the separators were ...Keep reading
This time last year, this feature was full of positive stories about clubs bouncing back from the COVID-19 uncertainty in spectacular style with impressive entry numbers for many. Then the club racing world was dealt another shockwave. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February has contributed, along with other factors, to prices spiralling upwards and concern returning.
INSIGHT: The data that ...Keep reading
From 2001 through to the end of 2018, Yamaha partnered with French outfit Tech3 to run two satellite M1s on the MotoGP grid alongside its factory entry.
This lengthy marriage yielded 31 podiums and gave the likes of Cal Crutchlow, Ben Spies, Bradley Smith, Pol Espargaro and Johann Zarco their debuts in MotoGP.
PLUS: The Ducati rider who is more than just the brother of a MotoGP ...Keep reading
The Dutch driver will return to the WEC for the first time in two years to drive United’s #23 Oreca 07-Gibson with Oliver Jarvis and Josh Pierson in the LMP2 class.
He has been called in to replace British driver Tom Blomqvist, who has to prioritise his commitments in the IMSA SportsCar Championship with Meyer Shank Racing during the two clashing weekends with WEC in 2023.
The 6 Hours of ...Keep reading
The new generation of ground effect cars introduced this year were aimed at making the racing more exciting by allowing drivers to run closer together – which would then have a knock-on benefit of improving overtaking chances.
However, one characteristic that emerged throughout 2022 was that the DRS offset between closed and open become much more powerful, so drivers were almost guaranteed a ...Keep reading
Mercedes suffered its worst F1 campaign since 2012 this year. It’s well-known that the new ground-effects regulations caught out the Silver Arrows, despite impressive downforce numbers on paper, but there were signs of recovery in the final months of the season.
There’s still a way to go to challenge Red Bull, but there are plenty of reasons to think Mercedes could be the team to take the ...Keep reading
In the grand scheme of things, it may not seem especially important whether a particular club racing series attracts 22 or 23 cars for a race. Both are perfectly reasonable entries and anyone watching is hardly going to notice the one missing car between the two. But, to the organising clubs, it most definitely does make a difference. At a time of rising costs across a wide range of areas, every ...Keep reading
Lawson made his Super Formula debut in the opening day of post-season testing on Wednesday, driving the Honda-powered Team Mugen car that was raced this season by Ukyo Sasahara.
The 20-year-old was best of the five rookies taking part in the test, ending up ninth-fastest in the afternoon session and 10th overall, within one second of the pace set by Naoki Yamamoto.
Reflecting on his first ...Keep reading
Riding the wave of interest surrounding Max Verstappen since his debut in 2015, Zandvoort underwent significant changes and investment to get back up to F1 standards ahead of hosting its first grand prix last year, its return delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
An initial three-year deal was signed from 2020, with the delay pushing its expiring until after the 2023 race, but talks have been ...Keep reading
Draft plans to turn the WEC into a two-class championship for the Hypercar and new LMGT3 divisions were rubber stamped at Wednesday’s FIA World Motor Sport Council in Bologna.
A statement from WEC promoter and Le Mans organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest explained that the interest in the Hypercar and LMGT3 classes will “result in some rational adjustments to the grid”.
“To ...Keep reading
Since the introduction of F1 sprint races in 2021, teams have been given additional breathing room in the budget cap make up for the extra on-track running, as well as receiving an accident allowance for major incidents in the 100km Saturday events.
The matter has been a subject for debate between the teams, F1 and the FIA for some time.
It put the brakes on the planned expansion of the ...Keep reading
The US has hosted a Formula E round in every season barring the COVID-hit 2019-20 championship, with New York's Brooklyn Street Circuit holding all of the American races since 2016-17.
Renovations at the Red Hook Cruise Terminal meant that New York was unable to host a round for 2022-23, and Formula E considered options to double up with an IndyCar round to ensure that the US stayed on the ...Keep reading
Following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020 and the delayed start to that season, the FIA introduced a strict set of protocols to reduce the risk of spreading the virus and keeping the paddock safe.
Steps were taken to relax restrictions through 2021, including a return of the media and outside personnel to the paddock, before further steps in 2022 saw the end of ...Keep reading
The Silverstone-based squad stood out on the grid this year for the way that it frequently went in to grand prix races with no new medium and hard compound tyres left.
That was because regularly in free practice sessions it scrubbed race sets of tyres for a single lap.
The tactic caused some intrigue and prompted theories that the team was doing it because it believed that putting tyres ...Keep reading
It means that the WEC teams are scheduled to have their cars ready for round three at Spa and the IMSA squads not until round four at Laguna Seca at the earliest.
The British Jota team, which claimed its third Le Mans LMP2 victory this year, was the first customer team to declare a programme in WEC for 2023. This was followed by JDC-Miller Motorsports revealing its plans to run a car in the ...Keep reading
The two-time Formula E title winner joined DS in switching to the team formerly known as Dragon Penske Autosport, following the break between the French manufacturer and Techeetah.
Thus, many of the DS engineers have become embedded within the set-up to retain continuity, and the team has switched to DS's base of operations in Versailles.
Asked by Autosport if it felt like a continuation of ...Keep reading
The Barbadian driver, who finished as runner-up in FIA Formula 3 in 2022, made the announcement on Instagram on Wednesday.
He will also serve as one of the Formula 1 team’s reserve drivers.
It is not yet known who he will drive for in 2023, but he took part in the Abu Dhabi post-season test with Carlin, alongside fellow Red Bull junior Enzo Fittipaldi.
Maloney wrote: “I am thrilled to ...Keep reading
Wolff and Binotto went head-to-head on a number of issues while heading up their respective teams over the past four seasons, particularly through 2019 amid concerns about the legality of Ferrari’s power unit.
Ferrari announced last week that Binotto had resigned from his role and would leave Maranello at the end of the month, ending a 28-year stint with the Scuderia. The news has left one of ...Keep reading
VeeKay joins Steven Thomas, Scott Huffaker and Mikkel Jensen in the #11 ORECA - Gibson 07.
The Dutchman is set for his third Daytona 24 Hours after contesting this year's edition with Racing Team Nederland, an entry which was run by TDS. The Dutch team finished second alongside Frits van Eerd, Giedo van der Garde and Dylan Murry.
VeeKay didn't get to drive in his 2021 debut with DragonSpeed ...Keep reading
Autosport revealed over the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend that Baku and Spa were both being lined up to host a sprint after it was agreed in September there would be six 100km sprints in 2023, up from three this year.
On Wednesday, F1 formally confirmed the six sprint locations for 2023, which are:
Azerbaijan - Baku City Circuit (April 30)
Austria - Red Bull Ring (July 2)
Belgium - ...Keep reading
The 2019 world champion has emerged as key part of the WRC silly season after exercising a clause to end his Hyundai tenure with a year remaining on his contract after a challenging 2022 campaign.
Today’s announcement has ended the speculation surrounding Tanak’s future with the Estonian penning a deal to return to the Ford squad that ignited his WRC career in 2011.
Tanak had been facing ...Keep reading
Hulkenberg will return to F1 after three seasons away, having left Renault at the end of the 2019 season, to replace Mick Schumacher at the American squad.
But while the 35-year-old German always maintained he was not desperate to return, he kept his foot in the door and deputised on five occasions over the last three seasons for drivers hit by COVID-19.
In 2020 Hulkenberg made three ...Keep reading
Autosport sources understand Abiteboul has emerged as the successful candidate after the brand’s lengthy search for a new leader.
Hyundai has been searching for a new leader since long-time boss Andrea Adamo left the South Korean marque in December last year.
The Frenchman will effectively take over from countryman Julien Moncet, the team’s former powertrain boss, who was promoted as ...Keep reading
There are an almost infinite number of set-up combinations available to competitors in motorsport that can be tailored for track conditions, driver preferences and car characteristics. The exact same solution is unlikely to be found between two cars from the same one-make series, let alone between factory teams in international GT racing and an amateur racer making their start at grassroots ...Keep reading
The former Formula 1 driver has headed up the DTM since 2017, when he took over the helm of the ITR organisation that has run the championship since 1986.
But last week it was announced that following negotiations with ADAC the ITR would be dissolved and the DTM would be taken over by the organiser of the rival two-driver GT Masters series which also uses the same GT3 platform.
Speaking to ...Keep reading
Despite a lacklustre start to the campaign, when it struggled with reliability and was on the back foot in pace terms, Red Bull successfully turned its season around.
A combination of weight reduction and aero improvements to the RB18 made it the dominant car after the summer break, as the team romped to both championships, and Ferrari had nothing in ...Keep reading
Chevrolet and Honda have swivelled their resources from testing their 2.4-litre engines to cooperating with each other and working with a new hybrid component supplier after it became clear that the proposed component from Mahle would be insufficient for the rigours of IndyCar racing and would not be ready in time for the 2024 season.
On the eve of the 2022 season, IndyCar announced that ...Keep reading
The iconic Italian brand announced earlier this year that it would join the all-electric single-seater series as a powertrain supplier to the Venturi squad for the start of the Gen3 era.
Its step into Formula E ends a 60-year spell on the sidelines in world motorsport for Maserati.
The Maserati MSG team will field Edoardo Mortara and Maximilian Gunther for the 2023 season.
On Tuesday in ...Keep reading
Following the overhaul of the technical regulations for this year and the return of ground effect, a number of teams encountered severe porpoising through pre-season testing.
Although many teams made changes to their cars to combat the issue, the recurring problems prompted the FIA to intervene on safety grounds mid-season, introducing a new metric to measure how much the cars were ...Keep reading
A drive for the 1997 title winner aboard a Vanwall Vandervell LMH was described as “a possibility” by team boss Colin Kolles after Villeneuve’s test with his squad at Barcelona last week.
Kolles would not elaborate on the prospects of 51-year-old Villeneuve returning to top-flight sportscar racing for the first time since his two-year stint with the Peugeot LMP1 squad in the 2007 and 2008 ...Keep reading
A plan to reshape the WEC without LMP2 except for the Le Mans 24 Hours double-points round will be put to the FIA World Motor Sport Council on Friday, Autosport understands.
It reflects the likely growth in Hypercar entries in what will be the second season in which LMDh hybrid prototypes against the Le Mans Hypercars introduced in 2021 in the top division of the WEC.
Next season there will ...Keep reading
Ducati rider Bagnaia suffered four DNFs in the first 10 races of the 2022 season, three of which his own crashes, which led to him slipping 91 points off championship leader Fabio Quartararo at the midway point of the year.
The Italian rallied in the second half of the season, winning six times to add to his total haul of seven to overturn his deficit. Despite registering a fifth DNF in Japan ...Keep reading
Two-time world champion Verstappen has previously said he did not expect to keep racing in F1 into his 40s, and that he is keen to sample other disciplines of motorsport.
Verstappen signed one of the longest contracts in F1 history when he penned an extension with Red Bull until the end of 2028 earlier this year, by which point he will be 31 years old.
In an interview with ...Keep reading
Tsunoda is set for his third F1 season with the Italian team after learning the ropes alongside Pierre Gasly.
With the Frenchman departing for Alpine, Tsunoda will be joined by Nyck de Vries, who boasts an impressive CV across Formula E, Formula 2 and sportscars, but is a rookie in F1.
While Tsunoda has been with the team for two years, Red Bull driver mentor Helmut Marko still thinks ...Keep reading
The Brands Hatch British Touring Car finals meeting is often a time for reflection. Among the excitement and tension of the title deciders, many are also looking back over the season and plenty of drivers will be preparing to bid farewell to teams or series.
But this year’s curtain-closer truly was the end of an era as it marked Ginetta’s final appearance on the BTCC bill. While Ginetta ...Keep reading
Last Friday, it was announced that ADAC has acquired the brand rights to the DTM and will become the promoter of the championship from 2023.
It followed Berger dissolving DTM's parent body ITR, of which he was the sole owner, amid uncertainity over generating enough revenue to cover its costs next year.
Berger kept a low-profile in the last few weeks as he negotiated a deal with ADAC, which ...Keep reading
The Woking-based squad fully accepts that its current infrastructure puts it on the back foot against bigger squads like Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull.
However, there are hopes that the addition of major new investments in a windtunnel and simulator, which are due to be ready next year, will have a big impact in pushing it forwards.
Until that happens though, McLaren is ...Keep reading
Ben Sulayem became the successor to Jean Todt in last December’s election, and arrived at Formula 1's governing body in the days after the controversial 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
But reflecting on his experiences over the past 12 months, Ben Sulayem says that there was no honeymoon period for him as he walked straight into a legal issue.
This involved a court case in the United States ...Keep reading
The next-gen cars will be powered by completely new engines that are more heavily based on production units than the current pushrod V8s. The new Ford is a 5.4-litre version of the quad cam Coyote, while the Chevrolet is a 5.7-litre pushrod motor.
There will also be a philosophy change when it comes to teams accessing motors. Until now there has been complete freedom on engine supply, with some ...Keep reading
The veteran of 179 Formula 1 starts will join the Italian manufacturer’s roster of contracted drivers for next year and will play a key role in the development of the World Endurance Championship and IMSA SportsCar Championship contender, as well as undertaking a limited programme of GT events with the factory Iron Lynx squad.
Grosjean will dovetail testing the LMDh and appearances at the ...Keep reading
Castroneves, 47, ran a partial schedule in the six-race Superstar Racing Experience (SRX) Series this summer on short ovals, and series CEO Don Hawk had told him if he won a race, he’d find him a ride in the Daytona 500.
The Brazilian promptly won the next race at Pensacola, even though he wasn’t originally scheduled to take part in it.
Hawk later clarified that the “intention ...Keep reading
Two-time IndyCar champion Newgarden and his race-winning team-mate McLaughlin will share the team's ORECA-Gibson 07 with 2021 Formula Regional Americas champion Kyffin Simpson and the team's 2022 LMP2 champion John Farano.
Along with Farano’s title, the Rick Capone-run squad won the teams' title this year as Farano and Louis Deletraz racked up two wins and three further podium ...Keep reading
The Italian outfit began the year as the team to beat, with Charles Leclerc winning two of the opening three grands prix of the campaign.
As well as having the fastest car in terms of out-and-out pace, the early phase of the season was notable also for Ferrari mostly enjoying better tyre degradation than rival Red Bull.
However, as Red Bull began to take weight off its ...Keep reading
Alonso was released by Alpine to drive an unbranded AMR22 in the Pirelli tyre test that followed the Abu Dhabi GP, giving him a useful head start as he gets to know his new team.
He may get more running in the 2022 car as Pirelli starts its 2024 tyre testing programme in the new year.
“It was very impressive, very impressive by the efficiency of transmitting the messages,” said Krack of ...Keep reading
Ferrari’s 2022 engine was a good step forward this year, with outgoing boss Mattia Binotto claiming that the Maranello squad had made the biggest progress season to season that he had ever known.
"On the power unit, we set big numbers in terms of objectives,” he said over the summer.
“And what I've seen that we have been capable of developing during last season for 2022 on the power ...Keep reading
IMSA will welcome a new breed of LMDh machinery from Cadillac, Acura, Porsche and BMW in the rebranded GTP class next year, marking the start of a new golden era of sportscar racing.
Although based on LMP2 cars like their DPi predecessors, LMDh machinery is far more complex and also features a spec hybrid system designed jointly by Bosch, Williams Advanced Engineering and Xtrac.
All four ...Keep reading
He only logged two grand prix victories during his two-year stint at Maranello, but he played a huge role in helping to steer the team through a traumatic time, with Villeneuve’s death followed a few months later by another devastating accident that ended the career of Didier Pironi.
Tambay’s easy-going personality made him the perfect man for such a difficult task. Hugely charming and ...Keep reading
The Mercedes outfit led by 13-times Le Mans starter Jerome Policand won the Spa 24 Hours and GTWCE Endurance Cup titles this year with Raffaele Marciello, Jules Gounon and Dani Juncadella, and secured the GTWCE overall title with Marciello after he finished second in the Sprint Cup.
ASP has made one previous Le Mans appearance in 2014 under the Team Sofrev banner, finishing ninth in the GTE Am ...Keep reading
The younger of the Binder brothers was promoted straight from Moto3 to MotoGP for 2022 with the new RNF Yamaha satellite team, with the South African bringing backing with him.
RNF – formerly Petronas SRT – elected to split with Yamaha for 2023 having been unable to secure a longer-term deal with the Japanese marque, and will become Aprilia’s first satellite squad next year.
Binder ...Keep reading
Saudi Arabia has been on the Formula E calendar since 2018, holding races on the Riyadh Street Circuit - named in deference to the nation's capital on which Diriyah sits on the outskirts.
Since then, Formula 1 has got its own Saudi race on the streets of Jeddah, having already held races in Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and Qatar.
Boutagy, CEO and founder of promotion company CBX, says that the ...Keep reading
Alpine clinched P4 in the constructors' championship at the final race in Abu Dhabi, ending the year 14 points clear of McLaren and finishing as the leading midfield team behind Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes.
While McLaren opted for less frequent but bigger development packages over the season, Alpine took a more regular approach to bring new car upgrades for Esteban Ocon and Fernando Alonso ...Keep reading
Red Bull swept to both championships in 2022 as Max Verstappen scored a record 15 victories in a single season to clinch his second drivers’ title.
Sergio Perez finished third in the championship with two wins, helping Red Bull wrap up the constructors’ crown with three races to spare.
But Red Bull’s season was not without its setbacks, most notably when it received a $7 million fine ...Keep reading
The 20-year-old Briton will receive £200,000, a test in an Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula 1 car, full British Racing Drivers' Club membership and an Arai helmet as his prize.
Browning beat fellow finalists Ollie Bearman, Jamie Chadwick and Louis Foster to become the 33rd winner of the Award, which aims to find and boost rising British single-seater racers.
He was announced as the ...Keep reading
The Red Bull star scored a record-breaking 15 wins from 22 races in 2022 and clinched his second world title with four rounds to go.
Autosport readers have voted Verstappen the best racing driver of 2022, ahead of main F1 rival Charles Leclerc, IndyCar champion Will Power and Formula E title winner Stoffel Vandoorne.
Verstappen’s victory was announced on 4 December at the Autosport Awards ...Keep reading
Vettel scored 53 world championship grand prix victories from his 299 world championship starts and took four consecutive titles between 2010 and 2013 with Red Bull. He retired from F1 after finishing 10th for Aston Martin in November’s Abu Dhabi GP season finale.
The 35-year-old German received his Award, which recognises lifetime achievement in motorsport, from Autosport F1 reporter Luke ...Keep reading
Returning to the Autosport Awards for the first time since 2019 after it could not be held during the COVID-19 pandemic, the prize has been revamped for this year.
Preston, an engineering graduate from the University of Southampton, was chosen as the winner as a result of his work as an engineer on Williams’s professional Esports team, which competes in the official sim racing competitions ...Keep reading
The British star joined Mercedes alongside Lewis Hamilton for 2022 and, after a tricky campaign with the W13, scored his first world championship grand prix win at Interlagos in Brazil.
The win, which came a day after Russell had overtaken Max Verstappen to head the sprint race, was his 81st GP start and helped the 24-year-old to fourth in the drivers’ championship.
The Award, which is ...Keep reading
The seven-time F1 champion battled to help Mercedes develop its troubled W13 during 2022 and finished sixth in the drivers’ standings with nine podium finishes.
Autosport readers have voted Hamilton the best British driver of the season, ahead of new team-mate George Russell and McLaren’s rising F1 star Lando Norris, and IMSA SportsCar champion Tom Blomqvist. It is the eighth time Hamilton ...Keep reading
The Red Bull RB18 Formula 1 contender has won Autosport’s 2022 International Racing Car of the Year Award presented by Blink Experience.
The RB18 helped Max Verstappen to his second world title with a record-breaking 15 grand prix wins from 22 races. Sergio Perez added two other victories as Red Bull scooped its sixth constructors’ crown.
Autosport readers have voted the RB18 the best ...Keep reading
Zhou, who became the first Chinese driver to compete in F1 full-time, scored six points on his way to 18th in the standings.
Autosport readers voted Zhou the best rookie of 2022, ahead of Toyota’s World Endurance champion Ryo Hirakawa, IndyCar podium finisher Christian Lundgaard and F2 race winner Logan Sargeant.
Zhou’s success was announced on 4 December at the Autosport Awards at ...Keep reading
The accolade, launched in 2021 and first won by Jean Todt, recognises an individual who has given a lifetime of service to the sport and who leaves a lasting legacy for future generations.
As well as his success across Formula 1, the Indianapolis 500, Trans-Am, Can-Am and sportscar racing, Penske also became the first team owner to run both the IndyCar and NASCAR Cup drivers’ champions in the ...Keep reading
The award jury selected the 22-year-old sim racing team as the best in the past 12 months ahead of Veloce Esports, R8G Esports and Apex Racing.
A veteran of racing Esports, the squad shows little sign of waning competitiveness. Winner of the inaugural iRacing World Championship Grand Prix Series 10 years ago, Redline has dominated across multiple platforms and competitions in 2022.
It kicked ...Keep reading
Autosport and Traxion.GG readers have voted the 25-year-old British entrant as the best sim racer this season, ahead of Kevin Siggy, Enzo Bonito and last year’s winner Frederik Rasmussen.
Baldwin has taken four separate championships this year, plus several other notable performances, setting him apart from the competition.
The former World's Fastest Gamer winner racer took home the Alpine ...Keep reading
The 29-year-old secured his first British Touring Car title in 2022, scoring six wins with his Excelr8-run Hyundai i30 Fastback N.
Autosport readers have voted Ingram the best National driver of the season, ahead of his BTCC rivals Ash Sutton and Jake Hill, and British Formula 4 dominator Alex Dunne.
Ingram’s victory was announced on 4 December at the Autosport Awards at Grosvenor House on ...Keep reading
Rovanpera won six rounds on his way to the crown with Toyota to become the youngest WRC champion at the age of 22.
Autosport readers have voted the Finn the top rally driver of 2022, ahead of Hyundai’s Ott Tanak and Thierry Neuville, and M-Sport’s Sebastien Loeb. It is the first time Rovanpera has won the honour.
Rovanpera’s victory was announced on 4 December at the Autosport Awards ...Keep reading
The Yaris was victorious on seven of the 13 World Rally Championship events in the first year of the hybrid Rally1 regulations and scooped both the manufacturers’ crown and drivers’ title with Kalle Rovanpera.
Autosport readers have voted the Yaris the best rally car of 2022, ahead of its WRC rivals the Ford Puma Rally1 and Hyundai i20 N Rally1, and the Dakar Rally-winning Toyota GR DKR ...Keep reading
It’s almost time to reveal the winner of the 2022 Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year. At Sunday night’s Autosport Awards at Grosvenor House, Ollie Bearman, Luke Browning, Jamie Chadwick or Louis Foster will be crowned as the 33rd winner of the initiative to find and help the best up-and-coming British single-seater talents.
Of the previous 32 winners since David Coulthard ...Keep reading
The news of Tambay’s death was communicated by his family to French agency AFP on Sunday. He had been known to be suffering from Parkinson's disease, a progressive disorder that affects the nervous system, as well as diabetes.
Born on June 25, 1949, Tambay went on to spend a decade in F1, racing for some of the biggest teams in grand prix racing including McLaren, Ferrari and Renault.
He ...Keep reading
Red Bull was found guilty in October of having breached last year’s cost cap limit. It was handed a $7 million fine and given a 10 percent reduction in wind tunnel time as a punishment.
Many of Red Bull’s rivals had wanted much stricter sanctions laid down, but Sulayem thinks the FIA handled matters in the right manner, especially with cost cap rules being in their ...Keep reading
Ahead of January’s 24 Hours of Le Mans Virtual, the 500 Miles of Sebring was the final chance for teams to log valuable championship points and practice during a race scenario.
Consequently, several entrants were working once again with their FIA-graded pro drivers, delivering extra seat time. It meant the likes of Max Verstappen, Romain Grosjean, Raffaele Marciello and Beitske Visser lined ...Keep reading
The Kiwi celebrated his third Supercars title in spectacular style following the final race of the season in the South Australian capital.
Following a frustrating race where he finished seventh thanks to a drive-through, van Gisbergen thrilled the crowd on the home straight with a flamboyant burnout display.
He initially cut donuts around the championship trophy which had been set up on the ...Keep reading
Following the conclusion of the 2022 F1 season in Abu Dhabi two weeks ago, the focus of the sporting world has been on Qatar, which is hosting the FIFA World Cup.
Qatar has come into criticism over its human rights record and the treatment of migrant workers in the construction of the stadiums for the tournament, as well as its laws against the LGBTQ+ community.
F1 first raced in Qatar last ...Keep reading
There was formation flying from the Dick Johnson Racing Fords early in the race with Anton De Pasquale leading Will Davison by around a second across the first stint.
Van Gisbergen, meanwhile, cleared Feeney at the start and settled in behind the two Shell Mustangs.
At one point the Kiwi looked like he may challenge Davison for second, however he ended up holding station until Davison pitted ...Keep reading
This has been a great year. The guys at Hitech worked so hard and it was so nice to be able to reward them with both the drivers’ and teams’ titles in GB3.
We could have sewn it up a lot earlier, but we made it a bit difficult for ourselves. Regardless, the outcome was still the same, and I’m absolutely delighted to be a double British champion. I’m the only person to win British F4 and ...Keep reading
Throughout his F1 career, Perez has carved out a reputation as being one of the strongest drivers when it comes to tyre management, particularly during his stints with Sauber and Force India.
But Perez admitted after the season finale in Abu Dhabi that he had struggled more with this year’s Pirelli tyres, which changed to 18-inch wheel rims and were designed to allow drivers to push ...Keep reading
The Austrian marque has enjoyed an embarrassment of riches in terms of the young talent it has been able to promote through the grand prix ranks over the years.
PLUS: How KTM failed one of its brightest MotoGP talents
In 2022, it fielded Brad Binder and Miguel Oliveira at its factory team – both of whom have come through the junior ranks with KTM – while the Tech3 satellite outfit had ...Keep reading
The Japanese manufacturer was “far” from its full-season testing allocation of 20 car days in 2022, having not run its LMH contender privately since just before the second round of the championship at Spa in May.
The Le Mans 24 Hours test day in June and the post-season rookie test in Bahrain, where it was obliged to give 30 laps in the car to Lilou Wadoux, were the only two occasions where ...Keep reading
Some say you should be judged by how you deal with failure. If that’s the case then BMW’s response to being thrashed in the 1972 European Touring Car Championship has to be regarded as one of the finest moments in motorsport history.
Stung by defeat at the hands of Ford, BMW created its Motorsport division. For 50 years it has been a source of success for the Bavarian manufacturer in ...Keep reading
F1’s new rules era of ground effect cars was aimed at spicing up the racing and making the grid much closer.
However, despite a thrilling start with little to separate Ferrari and Red Bull early on, progress by Verstappen’s team in reducing the weight of its RB18 helped him pull clear and dominate the second half of the season.
Verstappen was able to clinch the title at the Japanese ...Keep reading
In the early stages of the race it looked to be a battle between front-row starters Cam Waters and Scott Pye.
Waters led Pye across the first stint, the gap steadily increasing to around 2.5s before Pye took his first stop on lap 24.
Waters followed suit two laps later, the Tickford driver resuming with a comfortable margin over Pye – only to nearly throw it away on lap 28 when he clipped ...Keep reading
Following Jimmie Johnson’s departure, the car will be run as #11, and Armstrong will team up with New Zealand compatriot and six-time champion Scott Dixon, 2021 champion Alex Palou and 2022 Indy 500 winner Marcus Ericsson for the 12 non-ovals on the 2022 calendar.
The 22-year-old had been in negotiations with Dale Coyne Racing before and after testing for the team impressively at Sebring in ...Keep reading
But for Mercedes chief strategist James Vowles, his focus right now is on getting himself back in action as soon as possible. Not from the pitwall, though, but actually out on track racing.
After an encouraging maiden campaign in the Asian Le Mans Series earlier this year, he is eager to return again for the 2023 season, as well as hopefully get an outing in the Gulf 12 Hours this ...Keep reading
The Italian F1 squad announced earlier this week that it had accepted Binotto’s offer to resign from his role as team principal after just less than four years in the job.
Binotto’s decision came off the back of a rollercoaster season for Ferrari, where the highs of early season race victories were clouded by later frustrations over poor reliability, strategy errors and driver ...Keep reading
The luxury Danish audio brand has worked together with Autosport to select four of the season’s best moments and the winner, which will be decided by a panel of experts, will be announced at the Autosport Awards at Grosvenor House on Park Lane on 4 December.
There were plenty of candidates for the accolade and the final four come from the Formula 1 world championship and the NASCAR Cup ...Keep reading
“I loved the cars that gave you an advantage. Unfortunately, whenever I had one of those something seemed to go wrong and we didn’t win anyway!”
Notwithstanding his 1970 Le Mans 24 Hours victory in a Porsche 917, Richard Attwood didn’t always have the best luck during a career that spanned Formula 1 and sportscar racing in the 1960s and early 1970s.
PLUS: The 'slow' Porsche that ...Keep reading
Jocelyn Pedrono, who acquired the rights to the Pescarolo brand in 2016, has revealed an intention to bring back the famous French marque to the Le Mans 24 Hours and the World Endurance Championship with a customer car.
He clarified that legendary team founder and four-time Le Mans winner Henri Pescarolo is not involved in the project.
"Returning to endurance racing has always been the ...Keep reading
FIA Formula 3 race winner Ollie Bearman, GB3 champion Luke Browning, W Series dominator Jamie Chadwick and recently crowned Indy Pro 2000 champion Louis Foster battled it out for prizes that include a test in Aston Martin F1 machinery.
The quartet took to Silverstone’s Grand Prix circuit in October for a somewhat damp two-day test in MotorSport Vision Formula 2, United Autosports-run Ligier ...Keep reading
Audi announced at the end of August that it would be entering F1 for the first time from 2026 as a power unit supplier, before a link-up with Sauber was confirmed in October.
The deal will see Sauber serve as the strategic partner for the Audi team, developing the chassis out of its Hinwil base in Switzerland while the power unit is looked after by Audi in Neuburg, Germany.
Audi has provided ...Keep reading
The 26-year-old missed the 2021 season but put in several impressive performances during the 2022 campaign.
Thompson made himself ineligible for future contention in the Jack Sears Trophy, for drivers who have never previously scored an overall podium finish, on two counts: finishing third at Brands Hatch; and winning the JST crown.
He is now targeting the Independents’ crown in 2023 after ...Keep reading
The announcement ends any uncertainty about the future of the series, following the news on Wednesday that its parent body, ITR, was being dissolved.
With this acquisition, the ADAC aims to reorganise the structure in German motorsport and create synergies with other categories under its umbrella, it said in a statement.
GT Masters, which also runs on the GT3 ruleset like the DTM, is one of ...Keep reading
The pressure cranks up in the latest instalment at the closing round of the 2022 season, as qualifying takes central focus across all categories.
GTE goes first, which sets the scene for the intense title battle between Porsche and Ferrari the GTE Pro class, as Alessandro Pier Guidi spins during a qualifying lap which wrecks the #51 Ferrari’s hopes and then also dampens Michael ...Keep reading
Solberg has found himself without a drive for 2023 after Hyundai elected to drop the 21-year-old from its factory Rally1 operation at the end off the year, citing a wish to field a more experienced driver line up.
The South Korean marque has since announced that Craig Breen will fill the position after the Irishman left a two-year deal with M-Sport a year early.
As previously revealed ...Keep reading
F1 has not raced in China since 2019 due to the nation’s travel restrictions as it continues to pursue a zero-Covid policy, which has recently sparked protests in a number of major cities.
The Chinese Grand Prix was listed on the 2023 calendar for April 16, but it was always conditional on restrictions being eased in time for F1 to enter the country and hold the race smoothly.
In a ...Keep reading
As the 2022 Formula 1 season comes to its conclusion, focus shifts towards 2023 and what intriguing storylines and battles will unfold.
After one of the biggest overhauls in technical regulations F1 has ever seen, a sense of stability will greet next season, but it hasn’t stopped plenty of changes elsewhere to enable the upcoming campaign to stand out.
Key driver market changes will come ...Keep reading
In recent years MotoGP has seen greater development in aerodynamics and in ride height devices on bikes, which have led to debates on safety and on whether they add any value to the spectacle.
PLUS: Was MotoGP 2022 won by Bagnaia - or lost by Quartararo?
From 2023, front-positioned ride height devices have been outlawed – a move which Ducati felt was unsporting when it was agreed upon by ...Keep reading
Hearing the roar of a Formula 1 car around the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit is always special, especially for whoever is lucky enough to be behind the wheel. But for one young British driver on a cold and damp October morning, it’s truly a momentous occasion.
Zak O’Sullivan is stepping into an F1 car for the first time, but he’s cool, calm and collected – far more so than ...Keep reading
Nyck de Vries will join the F1 grid full-time in 2023 at the age of 28 with AlphaTauri after impressing in a one-off appearance for Williams at Monza this year.
Although de Vries will be older than over half the F1 grid, he has gained a wealth of experience in other categories such as Formula 2 and Formula E, as well as working with Mercedes in F1 as a reserve driver.
De la Rosa made his F1 ...Keep reading
With grand prix racing chiefs having had a complete season to fully understand the impact of the new generation of ground effect F1 cars, a focus is now being made on fine-tuning elements of the regulations.
One aspect that became an annoyance for many in 2022 was how easy it was for drivers to get past other cars once they got within DRS range.
At several tracks, overtaking moves ...Keep reading
As reported by Autosport on Monday, Toyota team Speedworks Motorsport has taken one of the two TBLs that were released onto the market by the withdrawal from the BTCC of Ciceley Motorsport.
This means that the Cheshire squad moves up to three cars, one year after it tried to do the same – Speedworks was one of three teams offered the loan of an extra TBL for 2022, before sticking to two ...Keep reading
The Briton has filled one of the two vacant seats in the three-car squad of Cadillac V-LMDhs for Daytona on 28/29 January alongside six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon, who will race one of two Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac Racing entries.
Aitken will race alongside full-season Action Express drivers Pipo Derani and Alexander Sims, while three-time overall Daytona winner Dixon will line up ...Keep reading
Gasly made his first appearance for Alpine during the post-season test day at the Yas Marina Circuit, giving him an introduction to the team ahead of his move from AlphaTauri for 2023.
The Frenchman spent a full day in the A522 car, marking his first run-out in F1 machinery that did not have ties to Red Bull after spending the entirety of his career to date under its ...Keep reading
The 28-year-old Kentishman stormed to third place – the top BMW driver – in 2022, his first season as part of the WSR line-up.
There was talk at the end of the season that his management, Mark Blundell’s MB Motorsport, could strike out on its own away from WSR for next season, but this blew over very quickly.
“For me there isn’t a better touring car team on the grid,” Hill told ...Keep reading
DS Automobiles announced its tie-up with the Dragon Penske squad after the end of the Gen2 era, ending its partnership with the Techeetah team which has since dropped off the grid.
The French manufacturer unveiled its E-TENSE FE23 livery, bringing over the black and gold colours while using the diamond design employed by Dragon Penske over the previous two seasons.
PLUS: How Jaguar got its ...Keep reading
Latifi made his final F1 appearance with Williams in Abu Dhabi after the team opted to replace him with Formula 2 driver Logan Sargeant for the 2023 season.
The Canadian scored nine points during his three-year stint with Williams, but struggled to match the form of team-mate Alex Albon throughout this season.
After picking up his only points of the year in Japan by finishing ...Keep reading
The three-time W Series champion will become the first woman in 13 years to compete full-time in the series, formerly known as Indy Lights.
She will drive the #28 car, sponsored by DHL, for the 14-race season, which starts in St Petersburg, Florida, on 3-5 March.
Chadwick will also remain a member of Williams Formula 1 team’s young driver academy, with an enhanced role to be announced in ...Keep reading
The Spaniard, who took his first IndyCar title with Ganassi in only his second season in the series, made his grand prix weekend debut this year when he drove the McLaren in opening practice for the United States Grand Prix.
He had also tested the MCL35M at Barcelona and the Red Bull Ring as part of his role in the squad's driver development programme.
Palou will compete in IndyCar next ...Keep reading
The entire rally-raid will take place in Saudi Arabia for a fourth year in succession, with attempts to expand it to other countries in the Gulf having come to a nought. However, the route has been significantly altered and expanded, with the rally running to 14 stages in 2023 compared to 12 this year.
The action will commence from a dedicated Sea Camp on the west coast of Saudi Arabia, with a ...Keep reading
The issue returned to the spotlight after Sergio Perez’s Monaco Q3 accident became a topic of conversation in the wake of Max Verstappen’s refusal to cede a place to his team-mate in the Brazilian Grand Prix after being instructed to do so by Red Bull.
Sainz, whose Ferrari was damaged when he hit the Red Bull of Perez in Monaco, said on Thursday that drivers are keen to see penalties for ...Keep reading
Grand prix racing’s chiefs have openly been looking at introducing active aero from the start of the next rules era from 2026.
This was originally spoken about as a way of helping improve fuel efficiency, with cars able to have low drag configuration for the straights and then switch to a high downforce setup for the corners.
But F1 is evaluating going much further than that and using ...Keep reading
Next year, a Chevrolet NASCAR will start the Le Mans 24 Hours in the Garage 56 invitational slot, which got me thinking about what I would do if I had an unlimited budget to design and build a clean sheet racer that doesn’t conform to the rulebook.
Le Mans is probably the ultimate challenge for a vehicle because it requires very high energy density, so battery-electric powertrains won’t ...Keep reading
Brawn is a motorsport legend. Along with Adrian Newey, he has more F1 world titles to his name than any other non-driver of the past three decades. That brings with it a huge amount of credibility, which is one of the reasons why he was brought in to help F1 revamp its technical regulations.
Now that Brawn is retiring from F1, it seems a good time to get his views on how well the 2022 ...Keep reading
SA has emerged as a leading contender to host Rally Australia should it return to the WRC schedule.
The event, which was mostly recently held in Coffs Harbour in New South Wales, has been absent from the calendar since 2019.
It has long been expected that for Australia to return to the WRC schedule a new event would be required, with Coffs unpopular with the teams due to its distance from ...Keep reading
Steiner has become one of the most popular fan figures in F1 as a result of his role in the Netflix series “Drive to Survive”, largely for his forthright approach and colourful language.
But Steiner’s thoughts will now be available for fans to read in the new book, published by Transworld and due for release next April.
The book promises to be “uncompromising and searingly honest ...Keep reading
Kubica made the switch from single-seaters following the end of his comeback season in Formula 1 in 2019, initially spending a year in the DTM before moving on to endurance racing.
The Polish driver has found a fair bit of success in the LMP2 class since then, winning the European Le Mans Series title at first attempt in 2021 with WRT and nearly adding a prestigious Le Mans 24 Hours victory to ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen swept to his second straight F1 drivers’ championship this year, wrapping up the title with four races to spare en route to a new record of 15 wins in a single season.
Verstappen spearheaded Red Bull’s efforts as claimed its first constructors’ crown since 2013, with team-mate Sergio Perez scoring two wins and finishing third in the standings.
After spending the early ...Keep reading
An off-shoot of the successful DAMS squad, e.dams had been part of Renault's entry in Formula E during the first four years of competition, before uniting with Nissan as Renault departed from the series.
After the DAMS Formula 2 squad was bought by ex-F1 driver Charles Pic, Nissan bought up the e.dams spin-off to take full ownership of the race team - and will now compete as the Nissan Formula ...Keep reading
The Kiwi was embroiled in a four-way battle for last season's title, but his hopes of overhauling eventual champion Stoffel Vandoorne were dented by an electrical issue at London's E-Prix despite his best efforts in the Seoul finale.
This preceded preparations for Formula E's Gen3 ruleset, which features a more powerful drive motor, regenerative braking at both the front and rear of the car ...Keep reading
Morgan has spent 11 seasons in the BTCC, 10 of them with his family’s Ciceley Motorsport operation, which announced its pull-out from the series on Monday in order to focus on historic racing.
But, as predicted by Autosport on Monday, Morgan is to race as part of an expanded four-car line-up at WSR.
The Sunbury team supplied Ciceley with two newly built BMW 3 Series machines prior to the ...Keep reading
The Monegasque driver made the most of Ferrari’s strong start to the 2022 campaign as he won two of the opening three grands prix.
However, the combination of a resurgent Red Bull, plus reliability and strategy struggles at Maranello allied to driver errors led to derailing Ferrari’s title hopes.
All of this has been pushed further into the spotlight following Ferrari's announcement on ...Keep reading
The regulations for F1’s new era of fully sustainable fuel-powered cars were published earlier this year, and potential entrants were originally given a 15 October deadline to sign up.
While new entrant Audi was the first to do so, many of the current manufacturers stalled on the plan and that prompted agreement to delay the deadline – originally until 15 November, but this was subsequently ...Keep reading
Sargeant will make his F1 debut next year for Williams, replacing Nicholas Latifi after securing enough superlicence points through his rookie Formula 2 season to make the step up.
Williams has now revealed that Sargeant will race with #2 as his permanent number in F1, becoming the second driver to use it since the system was introduced in 2014.
The team made the announcement in a short ...Keep reading
In a meeting with all 17 employees at the company’s headquarters in Munich on Wednesday, Berger announced that ITR will not organise the 2023 DTM season, with talks being held for an orderly dissolution of the business.
This does not mean the DTM is coming to a close, and Berger remains in discussions with ADAC to bring the championship under its umbrella.
“The discussions with the ADAC ...Keep reading
Earlier this year, Albon visited the Wat Sakaeo orphanage near Bangkok that is supported by the Iceman Charity which is run by Volker Capito, the brother of Williams team principal Jost.
Albon dyed his hair red after visiting the orphanage back in March and later encouraged the F1 paddock to do the same as part of a fundraising push, which was furthered by a decision to auction off his ...Keep reading
For its second season under GT3 regulations in 2022, the DTM took a major step forward in competitiveness. Not only were grid sizes bigger, only once dipping below 20 cars as a product of the Hockenheim race one crash-fest, but the pool of quality drivers scrapping for honours was back to a level comparable with the manufacturer-based Class 1 era with a mix of established factory drivers and ...Keep reading
Francesco Bagnaia ended a 15-year wait for Ducati when he won the world title at the Valencia finale earlier in November, the Italian overturning a 91-point deficit at the halfway point of the season to beat 2021 champion Fabio Quartararo by 17.
In the latter part of the campaign, Ducati did issue instructions to its seven other riders that they had to be mindful when racing Bagnaia and don't ...Keep reading
However, he stressed that the team has to make steps next year, especially as the AMR23 will be the first car designed and built under technical director Dan Fallows and other key hirings.
At the start of 2021, having taken over the Racing Point entry, Aston Martin set its sights on winning the world championship within five years.
Aston had a tricky start to this season, with the cars ...Keep reading
Japan's top single-seater series embarked on its largest calendar since 2008 this year as it expanded from seven races to 10, turning three of its seven meetings into double-header events.
In August, a provisional calendar was released with all seven rounds being listed as three-day events, but without specifying the number of races.
However, JAF's announcement on Wednesday states that the ...Keep reading
Earlier this season, the WRC announced plans to launch a revamped visual platform for rally fans in bid to grow the discipline in new markets.
"We want to reach new markets, we want to enter new markets and implement in new countries so this is our plan to develop the TV so we are very, very confident," said WRC Promoter managing director Jona Siebel at Rally Portugal in May.
The WRC has now ...Keep reading
Doohan returns for a second season with the team, having finished sixth in 2022 with three wins and six podiums in his debut year.
The Alpine Academy driver was the third highest-placed rookie of the season behind Logan Sargeant, who graduates to Formula 1 with Williams next season, and Ayumu Iwasa.
Doohan also made his F1 weekend debut in 2022, taking part in FP1 sessions for Alpine in ...Keep reading
Alpine clinched P4 in the standings at the Abu Dhabi season finale, ending the year 14 points clear of McLaren and finishing as the leading midfield team behind Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes.
It marked the team’s best result in the constructors’ championship since 2018, and was a big turnaround from its low-key showing in pre-season testing.
Reflecting on the season, Alpine chief Rossi ...Keep reading
This month's Motegi Super GT finale marked the end of a four-year stint racing in Japan for Fenestraz, who has signed a two-year deal to race for Nissan in Formula E starting next season.
The Franco-Argentine driver had initially hoped to combine his FE commitments with a partial campaign in either Super GT or Super Formula, but instead looks set to focus fully on his Nissan duties.
During ...Keep reading
Tuesday’s announcement that Binotto would be leaving his role as team principal at the end of the season came following weeks of speculation he was being ushered towards the exit after 28 years.
Ferrari said in the statement making Binotto’s departure official that the process to find a new team principal was “underway” and “expected to be finalised in the new year.” Alfa Romeo F1 ...Keep reading
There were two factors at play here: the first that the setup of its power unit, and especially its turbo size, was not ideal for the high-altitude races in Mexico and Brazil.
But beyond that was the confirmation from Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto after the final race that the Maranello squad had had to wind back engine performance in the latter stages of the year because of reliability ...Keep reading
Cadillac will be competing in the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championship next year against so many high-level brands, Porsche, Ferrari, Peugeot and others. The exciting thing for me in the new era of sportscar racing is that the fans will be watching huge grids that aren’t made up of cookie-cutter cars. The different appearance of the machinery is what is going to give ...Keep reading
The Spanish rider, who returns to KTM with its rebranded Tech3 GasGas squad for the 2023 season, said it was "difficult to accept" the team's decision to pause development on his bike ahead of his departure.
Espargaro struggled this season, finishing 16th in the standings with a best finish of third at the season opener in Qatar and repeatedly stated his unhappiness later in the year at Honda ...Keep reading
The 2022 Australian GP drew what was a record crowd of the Melbourne era with a four-day attendance of 419,114.
That eclipsed the previous four-day record of 401,000 set in 1996, the year the AGP moved from Adelaide to Melbourne.
In response to the record, the Australian Grand Prix Corporation has announced that grandstand capacity has been bolstered for 2023.
Thanks to a redesign of the ...Keep reading
The Jeddah Corniche Circuit hosted its first F1 race in 2021, becoming the fastest street circuit on the calendar but drawing criticism from some drivers due to the tight layout and poor visibility in blind corners.
Ahead of its second race in March 2022, Jeddah made a series of tweaks to the track to improve sightlines and make it safer for the drivers, as well as widening the circuit in ...Keep reading
With car designers always keen to make mirrors interfere as little as possible with airflow over the car, the FIA has long had to push hard to enforce their size and position on safety grounds.
But for such a high-tech series like Formula 1, it seems out of place that it is still relying on an old concept of fixed mirrors that have been an ever-present on cars since they first raced.
Indeed ...Keep reading
On a weekend when the curtain came down on the WTCR in Saudi Arabia, where Mikel Azcona clinched the title during qualifying on Saturday, Comtoyou Audi driver Berthon led the first of the two night races all the way from pole position as BRC Hyundai’s Norbert Michelisz chased him.
The Hungarian made a number of attacks before tyre and brake wear forced him to back off and defend from Franco ...Keep reading
Nasser Al-Attiyah and Klara Andersson bounced back from a penalty in their qualifying heat to win the final for Abt, ahead of McLaren’s Tanner Foust and Emma Gilmore, but third was enough for X44’s Sebastien Loeb and Cristina Gutierrez to seal the crown.
Hamilton’s squad secured the Extreme E title after all three of its championship rivals failed to progress to the final, but the ...Keep reading
The recent bankruptcy of FTX in the wake of an $8 billion liquidity crunch sent panic through the crypto markets – which in turn has had an impact on F1 teams.
Eight of the squads on the grid have sponsorship deals with crypto firms, with F1 itself having a major deal with exchange Crypto.com.
FTX was a sponsor of the Mercedes team, and the trouble prompted the ...Keep reading
“It’s certainly one of my favourite cars.” That’s quite an endorsement from touring car legend Steve Soper, who isn’t short of choices when it comes to racing machines from his long and successful career. But the Ford Sierra RS 500, which he drove in the late 1980s in the British Touring Car Championship and across the globe, holds a special place for him and with fans.
“At the time ...Keep reading
2018 witnessed the inaugural Nations Cup and Manufacturer Series (now Manufacturers Cup), two racing Esports competitions within Gran Turismo tied to an FIA association. The aim is to find the quickest nation and car producer in the world, using the games as an Esports platform.
They have returned each year since, initially using Gran Turismo Sport before transitioning to Gran Turismo 7 for ...Keep reading
Van der Linde has been a regular in a wide variety of endurance races in both Europe and America, including the Nurburgring 24 Hours, Spa 24 Hours and the Daytona 24 Hours, and also won the Petit Le Mans in his class in 2017.
However, the 23-year-old has never had a chance to race on the legendary Mount Panorama track, which plays host to the Bathurst 1000 Supercars classic as well as the ...Keep reading
Vettel retired from grand prix racing after the Yas Marina event last weekend, having decided to call time on his career so he can spend more time at home with his family.
It also comes against the backdrop of him becoming an environmental campaigner, having done much to raise the profile of climate and social concerns over the past few years.
As he walked into the F1 paddock for ...Keep reading
Spaniard Azcona, 26, became champion at the end of the Q2 session when Munnich Motorsport’s Nestor Girolami, the only driver with a hope of beating him to the title, slumped to the 12th fastest time - missing out on the points on offer in qualifying in order to remain mathematically in the title hunt for Sunday's two races.
The new champion and his BRC Hyundai N Squadra Corse team celebrated ...Keep reading
This month’s Bahrain 8 Hours finale marked the end of the all-professional GTE division in the WEC, amid a shift in manufacturer interest to the new Hypercar class for prototype cars.
GTE Pro had been a permanent staple of the championship since its rebirth in 2012 and was loved by fans across the world for its entire tenure, even at the height of the LMP1 class in the mid-2010s.
It ...Keep reading
As I flashed past the chequered flag at Oulton Park and saw my team leaning over the pitwall, arms raised, it came home to me what a remarkable achievement we had just pulled off. It was remarkable for many reasons.
Firstly, having started the UK Fun Cup race series 20 years ago, I was now back racing in it and managing a team that had just won the highly competitive 2022 championship. Who ...Keep reading
While Ferrari made a step forward in 2022 and finished runner-up in both championships, its best result since 2018, the year was not without its disappointments.
And in particular Ferrari found itself in the firing line after seeing a number of possible victories ruined by poor reliability, strategy errors or driver mistakes.
Reflecting on the events of the 2022 ...Keep reading
The two-time Formula 1 world champion is one of several international stars from across the Honda two-wheel and four-wheel motorsport stable slated to appear in Sunday's celebration, which will mark the first running of Thanks Day since Japan's borders opened following the COVID-19 pandemic.
Verstappen is set to take part in a special demo run with last year's Red Bull RB16B alongside team-mate ...Keep reading
The two-time F1 world champion returned to grand prix racing at the start of 2021, having spent two seasons away from the series following his departure from McLaren at the end of 2018.
While the initial races after his return were difficult for him, as he admitted to playing catch-up in getting used to the cars, tyres and controls, he made rapid progress over the second half of that ...Keep reading
The circuit hosts races for both series in the summer months, as thousands of racing fans head to the Catalan capital for action under the Spanish sun.
The Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix is set to take place on 4 June, with Spaniards Fernando Alonso and Carlos Sainz will be hoping to give the fans something to cheer about on home turf.
Next year’s race will mark 10 years since a Spanish ...Keep reading
The Dutchman enjoyed an early end to the 2022 contest where his run of dominant form over the second half of the season meant he wrapped up his second drivers’ crown at the Japanese Grand Prix.
This was in stark contrast to his maiden title success in 2021 which went down to a nail-biting finale in Abu Dhabi and ended in controversial circumstances over the FIA’s handling of a late-race ...Keep reading
The WRC had indicated earlier this year a desire to add a desert event in the region, which has been described by the championship’s event director Simon Larkin as a “missing piece” from the series schedule.
It was anticipated that an event, understood to be held in Saudi Arabia, would be included on next year’s schedule but it was absent from today’s confirmation of a 13-round 2023 ...Keep reading
The Woking-based squad caused a stir in the middle of 2020 when it emerged that it was renewing an historic partnership with Gulf – which had originally been a team partner as long ago as 1968.
From the 2020 British GP, McLaren's cars carried the famous blue and orange colours of Gulf as part of a deal that included its supercar brand.
The partnership proved a success and, most famously at ...Keep reading
The reigning F3 champion set a 1m35.908s lap of Yas Marina Circuit during Friday’s morning session, the quickest across all three days of the test.
He led from Virtuosi driver Jack Doohan, who finished sixth in F2 this season, and runner-up Theo Pourchaire.
Day 1
Richard Verschoor topped the opening day of the test, beating the Prema duo of Frederik Vesti and Ollie Bearman with a ...Keep reading
The Swiss team secured the position in Abu Dhabi after finishing equal on points with Aston Martin, and winning on a countback of best individual race finish.
It was the best result in the standings for the Sauber-run operation since it finished sixth in 2012, and followed two eighth places and a ninth in the three years under the Alfa Romeo name.
With each position representing an estimated ...Keep reading
It all goes down to the wire in Bahrain in the WEC title decider, with the joys and despair captured by the latest instalment of the documentary that goes into the most intimate parts of the paddock to reveal what really goes on.
Starting with team personnel arriving at the Bahrain International Circuit, each squad refamiliarises itself with the paddock after a year away.
Then the ...Keep reading
As previously reported, the WRC has been keen to re-establish a more global calendar akin to its schedule prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.
After a lengthy delay the FIA has now ratified a reshuffled 2023 schedule with an anticipated round in the Middle East, thought to be Saudi Arabia, absent from the calendar.
The season will feature four tarmac and eight gravel rallies, alongside the ...Keep reading
Binotto had found himself at the centre of F1's rumour mill on the eve of the season finale in Abu Dhabi when stories emerged that Ferrari was lining up Alfa Romeo boss Fred Vasseur to replace him.
Ferrari moved quickly to deny the story though, with Binotto and the team's drivers repeatedly playing down talk of a change over the Abu Dhabi weekend.
However, the matter appears to have not ...Keep reading
McLaren slipped from fourth to fifth after being outscored by Alpine, which produced a less reliable but still faster car, and the Woking team wasn't helped by Daniel Ricciardo's well-documented struggles.
Norris acknowledged McLaren's car wasn't good enough to do much more than it did and says P5 is where the team belongs. "Yeah, it's where we deserve to be ...Keep reading
Ahead of his move to Aston Martin for 2023, Alonso was permitted to complete a first run with the team earlier this week in the post-season test at the Yas Marina Circuit.
Alonso completed 97 laps in the Aston Martin AMR22 car, and said he was now “100-plus” per cent happy with his decision to leave Alpine for the British team after the first run-out.
But the car had to ...Keep reading
Double MotoGP podium finisher Marquez will switch from Honda after three seasons (one with the factory squad in 2020 and two with LCR in 2021/2022) to Ducati after signing a deal with Gresini to ride a year-old Desmosedici in 2023.
Marquez was released by Honda to test the Ducati in the first pre-season test of 2023 on the Tuesday following the Valencia Grand Prix.
Having endured a difficult ...Keep reading
Three front runners emerge when Autosport asks two-time CART Indycar champion Gil de Ferran for his favourite team-mate, before the 2003 Indianapolis 500 winner selects a driver he spent but one season racing alongside back in 1990.
Their careers might have gone in different directions, but de Ferran and David Coulthard have been firm friends ever since they drove together at Paul Stewart ...Keep reading
The Japanese manufacturer announced on Friday that Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Jose Maria Lopez will again race the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBIRD and that reigning champions Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa will stay together in the #8 Le Mans Hypercar.
Lopez, who won the WEC title with Kobayashi and Conway in 2019/20 and 2021, has been retained for a sixth season by the Toyota ...Keep reading
For the first time since the turbo hybrid rules were introduced in 2014, Mercedes failed to win either a drivers’ or constructors’ championship this year.
But with F1 history books often showing that dominant teams can spend years in the doldrums once they are finally beaten, Mercedes knows that there is a risk this year’s dip in form may not be a ...Keep reading
The German manufacturer is coming off the back of a challenging campaign where it struggled to get on top of the new-rules era, losing out to rivals Red Bull and Ferrari.
Its new W13 car struggled badly with porpoising early on and, despite some good progress over the year that allowed George Russell to lead a Mercedes 1-2 in Brazil, still ended the campaign with a performance deficit to the ...Keep reading
Red Bull scored its 17th victory of the year to close out the 2022 season in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, capping off a dominant campaign that saw it capture both titles for the first time since 2013.
Max Verstappen picked up a record 15 wins over the season, while Red Bull set a new record for the number of points scored by a team in a single year.
The team started 2022 struggling for reliability ...Keep reading
Jarvis and team-mate Tom Blomqvist beat Wayne Taylor Racing duo Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor in an all-Acura battle for the championship this year with victories in the Daytona 24 Hours and the season-closing Petit Le Mans.
However, the British driver won’t get a chance to defend his title at the start of IMSA’s GTP era, with his place in the team being taken by 2014 Daytona winner ...Keep reading
Both DTM and ADAC’s GT Masters are yet to reveal their calendars for the 2023 season and, according to Autosport's German language sister title Motorsport-Total.com, the two series have been negotiating joint activities behind the scenes for several weeks now.
Such a collaboration would have been unthinkable two years ago, when DTM’s switch to GT3 regulations was followed by a war of words ...Keep reading
The trailer for Marc Marquez All In, released on Thursday, shows the Honda rider recovering from his latest surgery earlier this year as he continued to suffer the effects of his horrific 2020 crash at Jerez.
The film documents his triumphant return, eventually scoring his 100th podium at the Australian Grand Prix.
It will be available in over 200 countries and territories from ...Keep reading
The innovative concepts, involving the Mercedes front wing endplate and the Aston Martin rear wing, have been made illegal through changes in F1's technical regulations.
Both concepts raised eyebrows when they were introduced because, while fully complying with the wording of the rules and being deemed legal by the FIA, they appeared to go against a broad concept that car designs to increase ...Keep reading
Gen3 may be the single biggest change drivers have faced in the five-litre era of touring car racing in Australia.
When Car of the Future replaced Project Blueprint for the 2013 Supercars season there were a lot of technical changes. Some, such as the independent rear suspension and the move from 17 to 18-inch rims, required a re-think from the drivers. But Car of the Future was largely about ...Keep reading
The Historic Formula Ford 1600 champion leads the way having secured 21 victories this year, but is just one win ahead of Mazda MX-5 ace Ben Short.
Third-placed Liam McGill - who won the Focus Cup and Scottish Fiesta crowns this year - also remains in contention should he enter the Boxing Day Plum Pudding season finale and enjoy success.
There have been relatively few changes to the winners' ...Keep reading
Haas announced last Thursday that it had signed Hulkenberg for next year to replace Mick Schumacher as Kevin Magnussen’s team-mate.
It will mark Hulkenberg’s first full season of racing since 2019 when he drove for Renault, having since made a handful of starts as a stand-in driver.
To help Hulkenberg in his preparations for next year, Haas handed the German the complete day of test ...Keep reading
Having taken a grid penalty for his incident with Kevin Magnussen in Brazil, the Australian moved up from 13th on the grid to ninth at the flag, successfully holding off Sebastian Vettel.
Ricciardo, who has long intended to sit out 2023 and look for a race seat for the following year, was announced on Wednesday as third driver for Red Bull Racing.
The Australian said he tried to stay focused ...Keep reading
After the drama and excitement of George Russell’s first Formula 1 victory in Brazil, usual 2022 service was restored last weekend. Verstappen never looked like losing, while Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc battled for second in the race and the championship – a fight won brilliantly by the Ferrari driver.
As Alex Kalinauckas explains in our in-depth report, the differing strategies ...Keep reading
"No matter how talented you might be, the simple truth is that, without the right connections and a whole heap of cash, it’s nigh on impossible to crack.” Paddy McGuinness’s introduction to the most recent episode of Top Gear highlighted a simple truth about motorsport.
The popular BBC programme has used national racing as a playground before (see Finishing Straight, Autosport 14 July) ...Keep reading
The 25-year-old made his MotoGP debut last year with Avintia Ducati on a GP19 backed by VR46, before racing a 2022-spec Ducati this season with the VR46 squad.
Marini was one of two Ducati riders not to score a podium in 2022 alongside Gresini rookie Fabio Di Giannantonio, but enjoyed a consistent campaign in 12th in the standings on 120 points.
MotoGP is no stranger to having family ...Keep reading
During the summer break Alpine intended for reserve driver Piastri to step into the seat left by Aston Martin-bound Fernando Alonso but was caught out by the Australian rookie signing a deal with McLaren to replace Daniel Ricciardo.
Amid the ensuing fallout F1's Contract Recognition Board ruled in Piastri's and McLaren's favour, Alpine has had to shop around for a ...Keep reading
GP Racing magazine editor and host Stuart Codling is joined by columnist Mark Gallagher and Autosport F1 editor Matt Kew to talk about the Dutchman's incredible year, which included a record-breaking 15 wins in a season. But could his chances of a 2023 repeat be thwarted by a limitation on development following Red Bull’s cost cap breach?
The team also discuss Australian Oscar Piastri, who ...Keep reading
In a statement released on Wednesday, Richard Mille said the brand will 'evolve while remaining faithful to its initial objectives', without revealing if it plans to continue its involvement in motorsport in some capacity in 2023.
The team was founded by watch magnate and the chairman of the FIA’s endurance commission, Richard Mille, in 2020 with the aim of promoting female talent in ...Keep reading
Ricciardo leaves the team after two disappointing seasons at McLaren, with the team deciding in the summer to end his contract one year early and move for rookie Oscar Piastri, who got his first run with the team in Tuesday's post-season test at Yas Marina.
The Australian's struggles proved particularly costly in the constructors' championship, as McLaren fell from fourth to ...Keep reading
With a new formula in place for the next four seasons of Formula E, Williams Advanced Engineering reclaimed the single-spec battery tender from McLaren Applied Technologies, having also produced the Gen1 battery pack.
But reported difficulties in testing for multiple manufacturers during the off-season, as they look to develop their understanding of the all-new Gen3 car, have limited running in ...Keep reading
"Today it was a Benny Hill show and we still finished second. It just shows that you never give up, keep going.” The opening laps for Ian Loggie at the British GT Donington Park finale, which included a first-corner excursion and a harmless spin a few tours later, may have been somewhat comical, but there was nothing funny about the situation for the Scot in search of the GT3 title.
But it ...Keep reading
The result of this slow-down in performance orientated parts arriving at the track inevitably leads to teams narrowing their focus further still, with teammates often running different setups and aerodynamic configurations during free practice sessions as they seek the balance required around the entirety of a lap.
As qualifying approaches this usually leads to convergence on both sides of the ...Keep reading
Eight-time grand prix winner Ricciardo raced for the team between 2014-2018, scoring seven of his eight wins for the Milton Keynes squad and twice finishing third in the world championship.
After his exit from McLaren was confirmed back in August, he was left without a full-time seat on the grid for next season, but will rejoin Red Bull and assist with testing and simulator work, as well as ...Keep reading
Vettel made his 299th and final grand prix start in Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, ending his career with a 10th-place finish for Aston Martin.
The weekend was filled with tributes to the outgoing Vettel, who announced back in July he would be retiring at the end of the season.
Alpine driver Ocon spent the early part of the race battling with Vettel, keeping him at bay despite coming under ...Keep reading
Verstappen first claimed #1 after winning last year's world title in Abu Dhabi and used it for the 2022 world championship.
Taking back-to-back world titles, the Dutchman again gets to choose between #1 and his personal race number 33, which he has used since his karting days, but has decided to honour the custom of carrying the world champion's number.
"Yes, I will use number 1 again next ...Keep reading
Hirakawa was chosen to replace Kazuki Nakajima aboard the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid this season off the back of his successes in both Super Formula and SUPER GT in recent seasons, joining Sebastien Buemi and Brendon Hartley.
The trio went on to take victory in June's double-points Le Mans round and at Fuji in September, with second place in this month's Bahrain finale behind the sister #7 car ...Keep reading
After more than eight hours of action in both wet and dry conditions, the fourth running of the EnduroKa IndyKa 500 at Brands Hatch was won on the road by just 0.590 seconds on Sunday.
The two most successful teams of the season fought a late duel, Adam Blair bringing IP Racing’s car to the flag just ahead of Chris Weatherill in AxiaMetrics’ example. Tense final laps might have been even ...Keep reading
Gardner – son of 1987 500cc world champion Wayne – stepped up to MotoGP with Tech3 and KTM this season as reigning Moto2 champion.
PLUS: How KTM failed one of its brightest MotoGP prospects
But the Australian struggled all year aboard the RC16, scoring a total of just 13 points from 20 races and a best result of 11th.
Gardner was informed mid-season that he would not be retained by ...Keep reading
Rao joined the FIA in June as its interim secretary general for motorsport, replacing Peter Bayer following his exit from the governing body.
Rao previously worked at the FIA as its legal director between 2016 and 2018 before joining Mercedes, serving as general counsel and later as a special advisor to team principal Toto Wolff.
Her return to the FIA sparked concern among some rivals, with ...Keep reading
As part of its punishment for breaching last year’s cost cap, Red Bull was handed a $7 million dollar fine and a 10% reduction in windtunnel time as part of F1’s aerodynamic testing restrictions.
The extra loss of windtunnel running will mean Red Bull is heavily compromised compared to Mercedes, which gets a lot of extra running as the result of finishing ...Keep reading
In Formula 1, all drivers use a fixed race number. The championship introduced this concept in 2014 to increase the recognition of the drivers on the track for the fans. In previous years, the starting numbers were handed out based on the final ranking in the previous world championship standings.
Now only the world champion for the new season can choose to change his number: he gets the offer ...Keep reading
F1 overhauled the design of the cars for 2022 in a bid to create closer wheel-to-wheel racing and reduce the impact of dirty air reducing downforce when following, allowing for more overtaking action.
This was achieved by redesigning the shape of the front and rear wings, removing bargeboards and bringing back ground effect-style aerodynamics.
Drivers were largely positive about the impact ...Keep reading
Lewis Hamilton and Russell qualified fifth and sixth for the last round of the season, with Russell claiming fifth in the race after his team-mate's late retirement.
Russell's day was made harder after he lost out to Lando Norris on the first lap, and was initially stuck behind the McLaren driver.
He also lost time with a five-second penalty for an unsafe release, which he took at his second ...Keep reading
Tandy is returning to Porsche’s factory stable next year as part of its twin assault on the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championship with the 963 LMDh.
It marks the end of his spell at Corvette after just two seasons, the Briton having originally joined its C8.R programme last year following Porsche’s exit from IMSA’s GTLM division.
But Tandy had originally ...Keep reading
Few figures in global motorsport have made as much of an impact as Penske, 85, who receives the award that was created to recognise the handful of very special individuals who have not only contributed a massive amount to the sport during a long career, but who will also leave a lasting legacy.
For some people, Penske’s accomplishments in motorsport is evident in the statistics. Team Penske ...Keep reading
Following Sunday's season finale, all 10 teams stayed on at the Yas Marina Circuit for Tuesday's nine-hour test day that saw them field two cars each, using one for young drivers and one to help Pirelli with 2023 tyre testing.
After seeing teammate Charles Leclerc set the fastest time in the first half of the day, Sainz took over in his Ferrari F1-75 with around four hours remaining.
The ...Keep reading
The second season of Extreme E will come to an end on the 26-27 November in Punta del Este in an intense year for the electric SUV championship.
The ABT CUPRA XE squad arrives eager to finish the championship on a high, after a valuable podium finish at the last event, the Antofagasta Minerals Copper X Prix in Chile, back in September.
As she did in Chile, Andersson will once again replace ...Keep reading
As 9am came around and the light at the end of the pit lane went green, Alonso immediately peeled out of the Aston Martin garage, running in a sponsorless livery, blank overalls and a camo dazzle helmet, and was the first man out of the pit lane.
He did the same when the session resumed after a red flag for Oscar Piastri’s stoppage in the third hour. But was it a coincidence?
“No,” he ...Keep reading
Pre-season, Yamaha was forced to ditch its planned 2022 engine over reliability issues, meaning it had to race with a motor with a power output similar to the 2021 bike.
This, as well as problems with traction, led to a difficult campaign for all Yamaha riders – with Franco Morbidelli, Darryn Binder, Andrea Dovizioso – who retired after the San Marino Grand Prix – and Crutchlow, who ...Keep reading
Alonso dropped a bombshell on the F1 driver market when he signed a deal in July to join Aston Martin for next year, leaving Alpine after two years.
Although Alonso does not officially start with Aston Martin until the new year, the two-time world champion was able to take part in Tuesday’s post-season test running in Abu Dhabi with the British team.
Alonso completed 97 laps in the AMR22 ...Keep reading
Tom Ingram and Excelr8 Motorsport were victorious at the end of the first campaign under the new hybrid regulations. Their Hyundai i30 N was a winner in the opening race of the season, and Ingram remained in the title hunt throughout before an invincible performance on finals weekend at Brands Hatch.
Insight: The double act that carried Ingram to long-awaited BTCC title glory
The hybrid ...Keep reading
Ricciardo is facing a stint on the F1 sidelines as he waits to see if a race seat opens up for 2024. He is widely tipped to return to Red Bull Racing next year in a role that could include reserve and test duties and promotional runs.
Over the Abu Dhabi weekend he explained why he had pursued a non-racing role over a race seat, admitting that he wanted a break from competition.
He has left ...Keep reading
Both men spun when Schumacher ran into the Williams driver, and while both were initially able to continue, Latifi lost time in the pits for damage inspection and later retired with an electrical issue.
Schumacher, who received a five-second penalty for causing a collision, finished his final race for Haas in 16th place.
"In general with these cars you don't really have a big overview of ...Keep reading
Pourchaire had looked set to participate in the test at Suzuka on December 7-8 alongside Kazuto Kotaka, as the French driver was in the frame to take over from Formula E-bound Sacha Fenestraz at the Toyota-affiliated Kondo outfit.
However, Autosport understands that the deal has now faltered, suggesting that a third consecutive season in F2 with his current ART Grand Prix team is now ...Keep reading
The Frenchman finished 14th overall in the 2022 drivers' standings on 40 points, contributing to MP's first F2 teams' title win as team-mate Felipe Drugovich claimed the drivers' championship.
Novalak makes a return to Trident for his second full year in the championship, having raced for the Piedmontese squad in his 2021 Formula 3 campaign - in which he placed third overall ahead of his ...Keep reading
Nine-time world champion Loeb rejoined the WRC this year to contest four rallies behind the wheel of an M-Sport Ford Puma.
The 48-year-old claimed a famous 80th career WRC win in January's Monte Carlo Rally, which proved to be M-Sport’s only victory this season.
Loeb outlined the Puma can match its WRC rivals by leading in Portugal, Kenya and Greece, but hopes of a further podiums were ...Keep reading
The Maranello-based squad started the 2022 campaign as the team to beat, with Charles Leclerc winning two of the opening three grands prix of the season with the F1-75.
However, Red Bull quickly bounced back from its difficult start to bring rapid performance improvements to its RB18 that eventually helped Max Verstappen seize control of the drivers' championship.
The Dutchman, who clinched ...Keep reading
Teams stayed on at the Yas Marina Circuit for Tuesday’s test, running from 9am to 6pm to give them a chance to complete some final runs with their 2022 cars.
Deals were struck for drivers to swap teams for the test, including two-time world champion Alonso, who appeared with Aston Martin for the first time ahead of his switch from Alpine in 2023.
Alonso was the first driver out of the pit ...Keep reading
The curtain has fallen on Formula 1’s 73rd season, and it truly has been a spectacular one. Verstappen was crowned the drivers’ world champion for the second straight year, while Red Bull took top honours in the constructors’ championship after a lengthy gap.
But just how dominant were they from a numbers perspective? Let’s take one last look at the records Verstappen and Red Bull broke ...Keep reading
It had been suggested that WRT could enter the DTM next year in partnership with BMW, replacing Walkenhorst Motorsport in the Bavarian marque’s factory-supported programme.
Walkenhorst recently announced that it would race in ADAC GT Masters next year, but is yet to confirm whether it will continue in the DTM for a third season.
Speculation regarding WRT’s potential return was ...Keep reading
Alonso made his final appearance for Alpine in Sunday’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix ahead of his move to Aston Martin, but failed to make it to the chequered flag due to a water leak.
Although Alpine still secured fourth in the constructors’ championship, Alonso was left ruing yet more lost points after his sixth retirement of the season. He had been fighting for points, sitting 10th in the ...Keep reading
Motorsport is constantly evolving and is one of few sports where males and females can compete against each other on equal terms. Today, females have become more visible in the racing world, but the challenges they continue to face keep preventing them from competing at the top tier of racing, especially in Formula 1.
In America, NASCAR’s Xfinity Series had Natalie Decker, and there were ...Keep reading
Mercedes made an ambitious one-stop strategy work by fitting Lewis Hamilton and George Russell with the hard at the end of their first stint, bringing them into contention for victory.
Red Bull committed to a two-stop strategy with Verstappen, who was set to emerge from the pits behind both Mercedes cars after making his final pit stop.
But a VSC called following Yuki Tsunoda's stoppage on ...Keep reading
After being pushed hard by Ferrari in qualifying, it was Mercedes who emerged as Red Bull’s closest contender on race day with Lewis Hamilton and George Russell showing great pace.
But some late strategy calls left Hamilton fuming over the radio after Mercedes kept him out during the safety car, leaving him powerless to stop Verstappen from passing him on the restart for the lead.
So why ...Keep reading
Former Audi and BMW racer Tomczyk, the 2011 DTM champion, has taken on more responsibility within organising body ITR following a recent internal restructure.
Speaking to Autosport at the recent Nurburgring round, he concurred with comments made by ITR boss Gerhard Berger in June that it was “very difficult” to foresee a return to the UK in the near future having been absent from the ...Keep reading
Over the San Marino Grand Prix weekend KTM signed the Spaniard to race for its GasGas Tech3 customer team, which will continue to employ the Austrian marque's RC16.
The current Moto2 leader will be replaced at KTM Ajo by fellow Spaniard Albert Arenas.
Fernandez, who is currently competing in his sixth Moto2 season, signed a deal for one year with an option on KTM's side to extend ...Keep reading
The Italian was 91 points adrift of reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo in the standings after registering a fourth DNF of the campaign at the German GP.
But a run of victories through Assen, Silverstone, Red Bull Ring and last Sunday at Misano has put him up to second, 30 points behind Quartararo.
Despite the relentless form, Bagnaia – who surmounted a three-place grid penalty last ...Keep reading
Verstappen scored his 10th victory of the season at Zandvoort on Sunday after overtaking Lewis Hamilton on the final safety car restart using fresh tyres.
Mercedes managed to get Hamilton and team-mate George Russell into contention after opting for a one-stop strategy and displaying good pace on both the medium and the hard tyre.
Had it not been for a Virtual Safety Car period, Verstappen ...Keep reading
Although he lost ground on long-time rival, Team Penske’s Will Power in the points race by finishing right behind him in the Grand Prix of Portland, Dixon has overcome theoretically bigger points deficits with one round to go and claimed the championship.
Although the 2015 finale at Sonoma Raceway was worth double points, Dixon was still a daunting 47 points down on leader Juan Pablo Montoya ...Keep reading
Gresini rider Bastianini and his future factory Ducati team-mate Bagnaia engaged in a tense duel for the win at Misano last Sunday.
The pair came close to a collision on the final lap into Turn 4, but both emerged unscathed and ran line astern into the last turn.
Bastianini got a good run on Bagnaia on the drag to the chequered flag, but missed out on the win by just 0.034 seconds.
Ducati ...Keep reading
I’m sat in a sim racing cockpit, the force feedback of the Thrustmaster steering wheel doing its best to rip my hands clean off as I ascend a giant sand dune. The nose of my Toyota Hilux is pointing at the sky.
Over the blind precipice, I grab air, way more than anticipated, but I keep the throttle pinned wide open. These rally raid-specification dampers should be able to handle anything I ...Keep reading
The plan is to construct a purpose-built FIM and FIA-accredited track at an undisclosed venue in the kingdom, which would make Saudi Arabia the second country in the Middle East to host a MotoGP race after the neighbouring Qatar.
It is unclear if this track is the same as the one planned in Qiddiya near Riyadh that is expected to take over the running of Saudi Arabia’s annual Formula 1 race ...Keep reading
The Dutch Grand Prix proved to be another tough one for Ferrari as it faced fresh dramas in the pitlane that derailed its hopes of a better result.
Carlos Sainz had been battling Lewis Hamilton over the first stint before it went wrong at his first stop when Ferrari failed to have all the tyres ready for the Spaniard.
Later on, during the intensity of the late safety car stops, Sainz was ...Keep reading
After finishing runner-up in Portland, Power heads to next week’s season finale at Laguna Seca with a 20-point lead over team-mate Josef Newgarden and Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda’s Scott Dixon, with race winner McLaughlin still in the hunt, albeit 41 points adrift.
After following McLaughlin to the chequered flag, while title rival Dixon recovered from 16th to third, the 2014 IndyCar champion ...Keep reading
The Ducati rider held off race-long pressure from future factory team-mate Enea Bastianini to take the win at Misano, his sixth in total this season, with championship leader Quartararo back in fifth place.
It means Bagnaia has moved ahead of Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro as closest contender and is now 30 points off the top having been 91 points adrift after the German GP in June.
The San ...Keep reading
Red Bull has agreed in principle to let Gasly go to Alpine as a replacement for the departing Fernando Alonso, freeing up a slot at AlphaTauri.
Horner has suggested that Herta is the only choice to replace Gasly, and that Red Bull won’t release the Frenchman if the IndyCar star is not able to take up the seat – which would leave Alpine searching for another driver.
The challenge is that ...Keep reading
Despite Ferrari looking like Red Bull’s biggest threat at Zandvoort, strategy and race flashpoints put Mercedes as the closest contenders to Verstappen.
Lewis Hamilton had appeared set for a late race showdown with Verstappen on their opposing strategies, but a late race virtual safety car and full safety car, plus a pitstop call, left the British driver powerless to stop his rival charging ...Keep reading
The minimum weight of the Toyota GR010 HYBRID and Peugeot 9X8 Le Mans Hypercars has been reduced by 18kg for the penultimate round of the 2022 WEC in Japan on Sunday.
Toyota and Peugeot will be able to race at 1053kg and 1061kg respectively under the Balance of Performance for the Fuji 6 Hours released on Monday.
The maximum power allowed to the normally-aspirated Gibson V8 that powers the ...Keep reading
It will be the first time that the 51-year-old has driven a near-contemporary F1 car since his last race with BMW Sauber at Hockenheim in 2006.
The chance came about through his relationship with broadcaster Canal+, and is part of a 25th anniversary celebration of his world championship title, achieved with a Renault-powered Williams in 1997.
Villeneuve drove for the Enstone team in the ...Keep reading
Petty GMS Motorsports driver Jones, who had run in in the top 10 for most of the 367-lap race, inherited the lead with 22 laps remaining when the engine blew on Kyle Busch's Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota under caution.
Jones then led the way on the restart on lap 348 and spent the final 20 laps holding off a fierce challenge from Busch's team-mate Hamlin, winning by 0.252 seconds at the flag.
The ...Keep reading
Hamilton was left furious after Mercedes elected to keep him out on old mediums at the late safety car in Zandvoort, which left him exposed to Max Verstappen behind him who had stopped for fresh softs.
The situation had further shifted against Hamilton when his team-mate George Russell, who had initially been behind him and could have acted as a buffer to Verstappen, was stopped for fresh softs ...Keep reading
Polesitter McLaughlin dominated the race, leading 104 of the 110 laps, to score his third win of the 2022 season. It was enough to keep the New Zealander in the title race ahead of next weekend's Laguna Seca decider, 41 points shy of Power.
A late caution caused by a clash between Rinus Veekay and Jimmie Johnson briefly threatened McLaughlin's victory hopes, but the Penske driver held his ...Keep reading
Tsunoda pulled up at the side of the track on Lap 43, reporting to AlphaTauri over the radio that not all of his tyres were fitted correctly.
Thirty seconds later, Tsunoda was told to continue as there was no data suggesting anything was wrong. He returned to the pits to have his seatbelts retightened and a different set of tyres fitted to his car.
But soon after going back out on-track ...Keep reading
The McLaren driver is being replaced by Piastri for 2023, after the youngster was grabbed by the Woking-based squad from the grasps of Alpine.
Piastri’s signing came ahead of McLaren agreeing a contract termination with Ricciardo, meaning he would not see out the third and final year of his original deal.
The Piastri matter went all the way to F1’s Contract Recognition Board and, amid ...Keep reading
Sainz had been running third in the early stages of the 72-lap race ahead of the charging Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton, before the Ferrari driver's race unravelled in the pits.
In order to combat Hamilton's strong pace on the medium tyres, Ferrari elected to react by calling Sainz to pit to try and maintain track position.
However, the call was made while Sainz was in the final corner which ...Keep reading
During the safety car period produced by Valtteri Bottas' stranded Alfa Romeo, Russell took the opportunity to call his own shots and asked for a set of soft tyres to complete the final stages of the race.
Running second at that point, Russell conceded the place to race winner Max Verstappen as Hamilton stayed out on used mediums, which ultimately cost him the lead as Verstappen stalked the ...Keep reading
Verstappen controlled proceedings at the front of the pack for much of Sunday's race at Zandvoort, only for a late-race safety car following Valtteri Bottas's stoppage to throw a curveball.
Red Bull opted to give up track position and pit Verstappen for a fresh set of soft tyres, while Mercedes kept Lewis Hamilton out on his existing set of mediums ahead of teammate George Russell to sit first ...Keep reading
When a full safety car period was called for Valtteri Bottas stopping at Turn 1 with engine failure, Red Bull pitted Max Verstappen to switch to softs while Mercedes initially kept both Hamilton and team-mate Russell out to move into a 1-2.
A lap into the safety car period, Russell was then pitted for softs by Mercedes, with Hamilton kept out on his older mediums to lead at the restart from ...Keep reading
The DAMS driver reached 13 points on Sunday after he was penalised for making contact with David Beckmann while driving behind the safety car.
The pair were jostling for position behind Marino Sato when they came together, with Nissany and Beckmann making contact while the latter also hit the rear of Sato, leaving the Van Amersfoort Racing driver with a broken front wing.
Both ...Keep reading
Who is leading the 2022 F1 World Championship Drivers' points?
Red Bull’s reigning champion Verstappen scored a maximum 26 points at Zandvoort and his lead in the World Championship is up to 109 points over Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc, who moves back to second in points ahead of Verstappen’s teammate Sergio Perez.
Perez is level with Leclerc on 201 points, with Mercedes’ George Russell ...Keep reading
The Mercedes team principal explained his squad's call to leave Lewis Hamilton out on medium tyres in the lead while Red Bull pitted Max Verstappen for softs under a late safety car in the Zandvoort race.
Under the same safety car, Mercedes pitted George Russell for softs, putting him behind Verstappen on track in third place, to split its strategy for the sprint to the finish.
The call ...Keep reading
After a near-15-year career racing in the premier class, three-time championship runner-up Dovizioso has now retired from MotoGP following Sunday’s Misano race.
Dovizioso announced during the British GP weekend that Misano would be his last outing, with Yamaha test rider Cal Crutchlow taking his place for the final six rounds of 2022.
The RNF Racing rider finished 12th on his final MotoGP ...Keep reading
The Yamaha rider started eighth in Sunday’s San Marino Grand Prix and made up no places at the start until two riders crashed out in front of him on the second lap.
Quartararo made one overtake on Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro for fifth but could do no more than this.
With Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia winning the Misano race, Quartararo’s championship lead has shrunk slightly to 30 ...Keep reading
Although Verstappen won from pole and initially looked to have Leclerc easily covered, Mercedes’ race pace brought it into play with a one-stop strategy versus Red Bull’s planned two services.
That gave Lewis Hamilton a sniff of an unlikely win, before he initially lost that then regained in during dramatic virtual and the full safety car periods close to the end of the race.
When the ...Keep reading
Verstappen led from pole, ahead of the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz. They all started on soft tyres, whereas Mercedes duo Lewis Hamilton and George Russell opted for mediums from the start – which allowed them to target a one-stop strategy after switching to hards.
That strategy was ruined by an odd-looking scenario with AlphaTauri’s Yuki Tsunoda stopping on track ...Keep reading
Ahead of the Misano weekend, Ducati confirmed Bastianini would join Bagnaia at the factory squad next year, with the pair reigniting their Le Mans duel in the latter stages of the San Marino GP.
Bagnaia prevailed in a tense run to the line to claim his fourth-successive victory and move to 30 points behind Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo in the championship after the Frenchman could do no better ...Keep reading
The performance came after it emerged that he won’t be part of the Ferrari family next year, and is set to be dropped by Haas.
Schumacher sailed through the first two parts of Zandvoort qualifying in 12th and ninth places before earning eighth in the final session, helped by a hydraulic problem keeping Lance Stroll in the Aston Martin garage.
“Obviously we still have tomorrow ...Keep reading
The 23-lap Moto3 race was a dramatic affair that saw home favourite Dennis Foggia on the Leopard Honda, Ajo KTM’s Jaume Masia, championship leader Izan Guevara and Tech3 KTM’s Deniz Oncu battle for victory.
All four riders took turns leading the grand prix, with Foggia emerging as the victor at Misano by 0.298 seconds after the battle behind gave him crucial breathing space on the last ...Keep reading
There were several stoppages during the Zandvoort race, with an early red flag after Logan Sargeant crashed out at Turn 7, prompting barrier repairs.
The safety car then came out on lap 17 after Marino Sato hit the wall at Turn 2 after his front left wheel was not fitted properly.
But as Liam Lawson led the field into the restart, the pack was bunched up and a late restart saw several ...Keep reading
Ogier will once again pilot the third factory Toyota GR Yaris, he has been sharing with Esapekka Lappi, for New Zealand’s return to the WRC for the first time since 2012.
The Frenchman had previously told Autosport that New Zealand was on his wishlist of events to contest this season in his partial WRC campaign this year.
Event organisers have confirmed this morning that Ogier and ...Keep reading
Mercedes endured a difficult Belgian Grand Prix last weekend as Hamilton finished more than a second off Max Verstappen’s pole time in qualifying on Saturday. He then retired from the race after a first-lap clash with Fernando Alonso.
But Mercedes bounced back at Zandvoort as Hamilton qualified fourth despite being forced to lift off during his final Q3 lap, which he thought cost him a ...Keep reading
The MP Motorsport driver cruised to victory at his team’s home race, enduring a red flag and two safety cars for a lights-to-flag win.
Drugovich could now secure the title at Monza next weekend, with main rival Theo Pourchaire scoring just one point this weekend after crashing in qualifying.
A chaotic feature race saw five drivers eliminated, including Jack Doohan, who was running in ...Keep reading
Although the Zandvoort circuit has made clear already that flares should not be taken into the venue, that has not stopped some fans sneaking them in.
But the problems became extreme on Saturday when, on two separate occasions, orange flares were thrown on to the track during qualifying.
The first flare landed in the middle of the circuit and triggered a red flag, while a second flare ...Keep reading
The six-time MotoGP world champion will return to riding for the first time in three months since his fourth major arm operation on Tuesday at the post-San Marino Grand Prix test.
Declared fit by MotoGP doctors on Saturday at Misano, Marquez admits he’s not sure if he will do both days of the test and will only know afterwards if he can make the Aragon GP the following week.
But he is ...Keep reading
Championship leader Verstappen pipped Leclerc to pole position in qualifying at Zandvoort on Saturday, edging the Ferrari driver out by just two hundredths of a second in Q3.
Overtaking is notoriously difficult around the tight Zandvoort layout, making it important for Leclerc to get the jump on Verstappen early on for the best chance of reducing the 98-point gap between them in the ...Keep reading
A combination of factors in Britain has triggered a huge increase in energy bills for consumers, but things are even worse for businesses as there is no system to put a cap on prices.
Mercedes has found that over the course of 2022 its energy costs have tripled – and looks set to get even worse over the winter as prices are again expected to escalate.
With the F1 team having few options to ...Keep reading
The Trident polesitter repeated his stellar drive at Spa to take back-to-back wins, having also taken a podium at the Hungaroring.
Despite Martins taking the lead off the line, Maloney recaptured the front spot at the halfway mark before enduring two safety car restarts to take victory.
Martins had immediately taken the lead into Turn 1, with Maloney wide across the grass at the exit but ...Keep reading
Herta is being lined up by Red Bull as a replacement for Pierre Gasly, should a deal be concluded for the Frenchman to be released in order to join Alpine.
However, Herta currently has only 32 of the 40 points required to get a superlicence, unless the FIA uses force majeure to grant him one. The governing body is already looking into his case.
Speaking to Autosport, Red Bull’s Helmut ...Keep reading
Although ultimately it was a matter for F1’s Contract Recognition Board, and cost Alpine nearly £540,000 in legal fees, it also included the situation descending at times into personal insults.
Piastri has faced accusations of lacking ‘integrity’ by Alpine team principal Otmar Szafnauer for turning his back on the squad that helped guide his career as part of its young driver Academy ...Keep reading
McLaughlin, a rank outsider in the points race with a 54-point deficit to Power heading into the final two races, pipped Newgarden by 0.078s in the decisive Fast Six session to secure the top spot - although a six-place grid penalty for Newgarden's engine change will drop him to eighth on the grid.
Points leader Power will therefore line up on the front row of the grid, with impressive rookie ...Keep reading
All three Penske drivers ducked under the FP1 benchmark set by Newgarden during a session blighted by several red flags, including an 80-minute delay for a fallen trackside screen, but the best non-Penske entry in FP2 couldn't match the double champion's 58.576s Friday best.
Colton Herta came closest to breaking the stranglehold for Andretti Autosport, with Rahal Letterman-Lanigan Racing ...Keep reading
After losing much of his FP1 session to a gearbox problem, Verstappen recovered in fine style to secure pole position at his home race for the second year in a row.
Despite going quicker in the first and third sectors, a mistake at Turn 10 proved costly for Charles Leclerc, as the Ferrari driver trailed Verstappen by just 0.021s.
Carlos Sainz took third in the sister Ferrari ahead of Lewis ...Keep reading
Alonso, who had sailed through Q1 in ninth place and was eighth after the first runs in Q2, ended the session in 13th.
The two-time champion found Perez's Red Bull running slowly on an in-lap through the Turn 9 right-hander.
The Spaniard was convinced that the had the potential to start well inside the top 10, and made his frustration clear on team radio after realising that he had been ...Keep reading
Bagnaia came into Saturday’s qualifying session carrying a three-place grid penalty for the race after impeding other riders in FP1 at Misano.
The Ducati rider, who is 44 points behind championship leader Fabio Quartararo having won the last three races, qualified second in the iffy conditions at Misano and will drop to fifth for the grand prix.
Quartararo struggled to eighth while ...Keep reading
Leclerc had led the way after the first fliers in Q3 and set an even quicker first sector time on his final run to conclude qualifying.
But he could not then even better his personal best in sector two, let alone set a time that Verstappen could not match on the way to Q3's quickest time in that part of the track for Red Bull.
This ended up being costly for Leclerc, as a purple sector in the ...Keep reading
The Hitech GP driver started second but led by Turn 1, passing Novalak off the line to take command of the sprint race.
He dominated from there and held off MP Motorsport rival Novalak on the lap 29 safety car restart to secure his third sprint race victory after wins at Imola and the Red Bull Ring.
Novalak took second at his team’s home race, his maiden series podium, with reigning ...Keep reading
Mercedes bounced back from a difficult weekend at Spa to qualify fourth and sixth for the Dutch Grand Prix with Hamilton and team-mate George Russell, getting in the mix with the Ferrari and Red Bull cars.
Hamilton ended qualifying four-tenths of a second off Max Verstappen's pole position time, but was forced to abandon his final effort in Q3 following a spin for Sergio Perez.
"I think if ...Keep reading
The second part of 2022 qualifying at Zandvoort was halted after a lit flare was thrown from the grandstand overlooking the exit of Turn 12 and the final part of the track's stadium-like section, while a second flare was dropped near the pit exit in Q3.
It is understood that the second flare did not reach the track, but its orange smoke could be seen billowing through the barriers ahead of the ...Keep reading
Light rainfall hit qualifying for the San Marino Grand Prix on Saturday, but the Q2 pole shootout session was still run on slick tyres.
Quartararo could only manage eighth, one place ahead of nearest title rival Aleix Espargaro on the Aprilia, but behind an armada of Ducatis headed by Jack Miller. His in-form team-mate Francesco Bagnaia will still start ahead of reigning world champion ...Keep reading
Verstappen will start ahead of the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.
Dutch Grand Prix qualifying results: Verstappen on pole from ...Keep reading
Verstappen ended up with pole after reversing Leclerc’s advantage from the opening Q1 runs, with the session marred by fans throwing flares onto the Zandvoort track, which caused Q2 to be briefly suspended.
Leclerc led Verstappen by 0.059s after the first Q3 runs, with the 2022 frontrunners converging on pace after Red Bull’s tricky start to the weekend.
The Ferrari driver set the ...Keep reading
Miller had gone without a pole since the 2018 Argentine GP when he took top honours on his Pramac Ducati in similarly changeable conditions, the Australian beating team-mate Francesco Bagnaia – who is carrying a three-place penalty - by 0.015 seconds.
Spots of rain began to fall around the back of the Misano circuit in the preceding FP4 session, but conditions on track were still good enough ...Keep reading
It was announced before the Belgian GP that McLaren will be parting company with Ricciardo at the end of this season, with Oscar Piastri announced as his replacement on Friday.
Alpine, having lost Piastri to McLaren, Haas and Williams all have open seats that could be options for Ricciardo.
The Australian has indicated that he wants to get through the Spa/Zandvoort/Monza triple header ...Keep reading
Paddock insiders have suggested that the ease with which 2021 Formula 2 champion Piastri was able to walk away from Alpine, after the team had invested heavily in bringing its reserve driver through the ranks, will discourage people from spending in the future.
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff noted at Spa that “it's important that junior programmes are being respected,” while RBR’s Christian ...Keep reading
After leading a Ferrari 1-2 in second practice on Friday evening, Leclerc continued his good form so far this weekend at Zandvoort by closing out FP3 at the top of the timesheets.
Leclerc finished just 0.066 seconds clear of Mercedes driver Russell, while home favourite Max Verstappen could only muster third place, a further tenth of a second off the pace.
It came after Verstappen had ...Keep reading
The ART Grand Prix driver missed the Barcelona F3 round after suffering a stress fracture in his foot in Bahrain, which also forced him to sit out the start of his European Le Mans Series LMP2 campaign with Prema.
Correa came close to victory in Austria, but a broken gearbox screw scuppered his chances and forced an early retirement.
He finally secured second place in the sprint race at ...Keep reading
The American driver has emerged as a candidate for an AlphaTauri seat should one become available if Pierre Gasly goes to Alpine.
Drivers need 40 points to get a superlicence based on their best three performances over the previous four seasons, with an extra year now included to cover the years affected by COVID-19.
Heading into 2023 Herta will only have 32 points based on his best three ...Keep reading
The reigning Moto2 world champion told the media on Thursday at the San Marino Grand Prix that he was informed by KTM in Austria that he would not be racing for Tech 3 in 2023 because he was “not professional enough”.
Gardner declined to say who told him this and what the specific reason for this accusation was, though it is thought it relates to criticism both he and his manager have made ...Keep reading
F1’s Contract Recognition Board announced on Friday that Piastri's only valid contract for 2023 was with McLaren, putting an end to the dispute with Alpine which claimed to have a deal in place for him to replace Fernando Alonso.
Piastri opened up about the saga in an interview with F1 that was published on Saturday, revealing the way in which Alpine handled matters was “upsetting” ...Keep reading
Starting in fourth, Collet moved up to third off the line before snatching second from Zak O’Sullivan around the outside of Turn 1.
A battle for the lead with Correa ensued, with the MP Motorsport driver taking the lead with DRS at Turn 3 on lap five.
From there, he opened up a four second lead to cross the line for his first win since Hungary.
Correa, driving for ART, finally took his ...Keep reading
The 2020 MotoGP world champion was thrown from his GSX-RR bike on the opening lap as the field descended into Turn 4, the Spaniard running slightly ride before the rear wheel came around and spat him into the air before landing hard in the gravel trap.
X-rays performed at the track revealed a small fracture in the talus bone of his right ankle, before further tests in Mallorca conducted by Dr ...Keep reading
The Chinese driver said it was “nice to see” the drivers holding common ground, including on controversial topics such as whether the Saudi Arabian GP should take place after a missile strike nearby.
He also said he was heartened by the reaction to his massive Silverstone crash, with both F1 and his peers checking on his wellbeing, which “means a lot.”
Zhou said: “It was great ...Keep reading
Top Performer - Ott Tanak and Martin Jarveoja
For the second consecutive rally, Hyundai’s Ott Tanak and co-driver Martin Jarveoja deserve the Top Performer Award after coming through a particularly challenging Ypres Rally Belgium to claim their third victory of 2022.
Ypres’ tricky narrow tarmac roads can catch out the best of drivers, as championship leader Kalle Rovanpera and 2021 ...Keep reading
The Campos Racing driver has suffered with facet syndrome this season, causing him neck pain, which first forced him to withdraw from the Barcelona round in May after practice.
He attempted to drive in Monaco and took part in both practice and qualifying before withdrawing from the event.
Despite returning in Baku, finishing ninth in the feature race, he withdrew from the Silverstone round ...Keep reading
The Aprilia rider struggled all weekend at the Red Bull Ring and had to go through Q1 in qualifying for the first time since the Austin weekend at round four.
Eventually qualifying ninth, a front holeshot device issue dropped him to 12th at the start before he ultimately ended the race in sixth.
The result meant he is now 32 points off championship leader Fabio Quartararo, who finished ...Keep reading
But amid growing indications that confirmation of their intentions for 2026 is now imminent, Audi may be the first to reveal its plans and could do so as early as this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix.
After months of discussions to sort out a partner team, it is understood that an agreement is now in place between Audi and the Sauber team, which currently competes under the Alfa Romeo ...Keep reading
Despite losing his 100% record of points finishes at the Norisring in early July, Lamborghini factory driver Mirko Bortolotti still overhauled BMW rival Sheldon van der Linde to assume the points lead, as Porsche and Ferrari claimed their first wins of the season.
Thomas Preining's victory in the opening race for the single-car Team Bernhard outfit was also the first victory for a Porsche in ...Keep reading
The father of reigning F1 world champion Max Verstappen turned heads on his WRC debut, running as high as 25th overall and leading the Masters Cup class at the wheel of a DG Sport Competition-prepared Citroen C3 Rally2 car.
Verstappen and co-driver Harm van Koppen eventually finished the rally 60th after running off the road during Stage 13, but the Dutchman did finish ahead of WRC championship ...Keep reading
Six-time champion Dixon entered the final oval race weekend of the season second in the standings, just six points behind series leader Will Power.
But the Kiwi wasn't in the reckoning for victory on what he described as “an average night”, with his efforts to pit early at each scheduled stop stymied by backmarkers.
His deficit to Power was extended to 14, despite the 2014 champion ...Keep reading
After his demotion from Red Bull to Toro Rosso - now AlphaTauri - halfway through 2019, Gasly regained his confidence and started growing into the role of team leader in Faenza.
But while he was hoping to have done enough to earn a second chance at Red Bull's main team, Red Bull instead enlisted Sergio Perez in 2021 when Gasly's successor Alex Albon was also cast aside.
In May this year the ...Keep reading
Never one to hold back on his true feelings, Steiner can sometimes be pretty brutal when it comes to speaking out about any errors that he, his team and especially his drivers have made in the heat of competition. It’s part of his personality and, far from a boring corporate boss who just spouts PR lines, it has made him a must-speak-to figure in the paddock.
But that is not to say there ...Keep reading
Back in 2013, Autosport compiled a list of the 50 greatest drivers never to have raced in F1. Just one Japanese driver made the grade, and that was Satoshi Motoyama, who at No. 27 ranked ahead of some illustrious names, including the late Gonzalo Rodriguez, 1999 Indianapolis 500 winner Kenny Brack, multiple GT champion Christophe Bouchut and Le Mans ace Andre Lotterer (prior to his one-off F1 ...Keep reading
After almost a full month off, F1 resumes after the summer break at Spa-Francorchamps which starts a run of nine races over the next three months to conclude the 2022 campaign.
Max Verstappen’s F1 world drivers’ championship lead stands at 80 points following his victory at the Hungarian GP last time out, coupled with a strategy blunder by Ferrari which saw Charles Leclerc fade to sixth ...Keep reading
Recently announced among BMW's roster of factory drivers after his departure from Audi, Rast will dovetail his as-yet-undisclosed duties for the Bavarian marque with Formula E.
Rast raced for the Audi squad for half of 2019-20 and full-time in 2020-21 prior to the marque's departure at the end of that season, and has since focused on his DTM title aspirations with the firm.
Insight: How ...Keep reading
Following an €80 million overhaul of the venue, aimed at improving safety for both cars and the return of bike racing, the F1 track is set to deliver a different feel for drivers and teams.
While some of the changes such as the reprofiling of crash barriers at Raidillon will make little difference to on-track performance, there will need to be some readjustment for the five corners that have ...Keep reading
The Enstone-based squad has been relentless in bringing upgrades to its A522 car, which has helped Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon score the points to put it fourth in the constructors' championship prior to the summer break.
And while rival teams have had their developments constrained by F1's cost cap, Alpine has not had to hold back, and is planning a recruitment drive to boost its staffing ...Keep reading
The Hyundai driver produced a faultless drive to successfully navigate through the tough Asphalt event, won by Hyundai team-mate Ott Tanak, to net fourth position.
Heading into the event the 20-year-old revealed that he had completed a 40km quad bike drive at full speed at his home, as a way to deal with the anger and disappointment of crashing out at the first corner of Stage 2 in Finland two ...Keep reading
The satellite Ducati rider ran in the podium battle for much of Sunday’s Red Bull Ring race, at the scene of his first MotoGP win in last year's Styrian GP, and was fighting with factory counterpart Miller over the final rostrum spot.
But Martin slid off at Turn 1 as he went for a move up the inside of the Australian, before remounting to finish down in 10th.
Speaking afterwards ...Keep reading
After two years without a victory, Ferrari has emerged as a championship challenger this year, with both Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz grabbing wins in the first half of the 2022 campaign.
The team was well aware of the opportunities that the new rules reset would offer, as it pushed extra hard to ensure its F1-75 was as competitive as possible.
But while some suggested that Ferrari made ...Keep reading
French pair Fenestraz and Nato replace the Japanese manufacturer's previous drivers Sebastien Buemi and Maximilian Gunther for the ninth season of the all-electric championship.
Nato makes his full-time return to Formula E after driving for Venturi in 2020-21, while Fenestraz will take on his first full season following his Formula E debut in the second race of this month’s Seoul season ...Keep reading
His #91 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 was driven for the first time at Watkins Glen over the weekend by 2007 Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen, who ran in the top 10 before crashing out in the final stage.
Project 91’s stated intention is to field “world-class drivers from other disciplines to compete at NASCAR’s highest level”. Trackhouse already fields two full-time Cup cars with drivers ...Keep reading
Rockenfeller made his first Cup race start on Sunday at Watkins Glen, driving the #77 Chevrolet for Spire Motorsports.
Already in an unfamiliar setting, the German road racer got to experience NASCAR’s version of racing in the wet before the track dried out, ran near the front early in the event and even duelled with former Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen on the ...Keep reading
F1's financial regulations installed a team cost cap in 2021 which has been lowered and set at $140m for 2022, with $1.2m added for having more than 21 races per season plus extra costs allowed for sprint races.
The team cost cap has primarily pinched the spending of the three biggest squads – Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull – while all F1 teams have needed to keep control of spending to ...Keep reading
The Hyundai driver recorded back-to-back WRC wins for the first since his 2019 world championship winning season, following his against the odds success in Finland two weeks ago.
Tanak fended off Toyota’s Elfyn Evans to take the win by 5.0s, while Toyota’s Esapekka Lappi claimed third and Hyundai’s Oliver Solberg clinched a career best fourth.
PLUS: How Tanak triumphed amid a ...Keep reading
The runaway championship leader made his first costly error of the season on the Belgian asphalt roads when he crashed out of Stage 2 while leading the rally.
The accident was the 21-year-old’s first since Rally Finland in October last year, having finished in the points at every WRC event that has followed since then. Heading into Belgium, the Finn had built up a 94-point lead after ...Keep reading
The team intends to build a 575,000square-foot facility that will occupy approximately 90 acres near the Indianapolis Metropolitan Airport. The new global headquarters would add up to 500 jobs to the local community, with the plan to fully open by early 2026.
The $200 million facility is planned to serve as the headquarters of Andretti’s global commercial functions and the base of ...Keep reading
The Canadian driver has been outperformed by new teammate Alex Albon so far this season, with the Anglo-Thai driver 11-2 up on their qualifying head-to-head and 10-3 in front on their race head-to-head while he has also scored all of the team's points.
Latifi appeared to struggle to adapt to the new F1 cars and rules this year, but since a chassis change at the Silverstone round plus receiving ...Keep reading
Will Kimi Raikkonen's appetite have been sufficiently whetted by his first taste of the NASCAR Cup Series to come back for more? That's the million dollar question.
Over the years, this writer has covered ex-Formula 1 stars Mika Hakkinen, Jean Alesi, Heinz-Harald Frentzen and David Coulthard in the DTM and the likes of Nigel Mansell, Gianni Morbidelli, Derek Warwick and Johnny Herbert in the ...Keep reading
Correa signed with the Italian outfit earlier this year, as it branched out into sportscar racing as part of a new alliance with the Iron Lynx outfit, and planned to combine it with a season in FIA Formula 3 with ART Grand Prix.
But the American was ruled out of the opening ELMS round in France after suffering a stress fracture in his left foot during the F3 season opener in Bahrain.
The ...Keep reading
The series is enjoying one of its most competitive eras ever, but the interest has waned in recent years.
This is largely driven by the retirements of big names like Valentino Rossi, Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo, while the new crop of riders haven’t been marketed as well and the series’ biggest draw in Marc Marquez has been absent with injury.
As part of a move to boost the series’ ...Keep reading
This weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix at Spa could be the last for the time being as F1 plots its calendar for next year that will reach the limit of 24 races.
Spa is one of the most popular tracks on the F1 calendar thanks to its fast layout and world-renowned corners such as the Eau Rouge-Radillon complex, making it one of the most challenging for drivers to master.
Asked about the ...Keep reading
The three-time race winner started on pole for Sunday's 28-lap Red Bull Ring race, but was jumped off the line by eventual victor Francesco Bagnaia and quickly shuffled back to third.
Bastianini engaged in a tight tussle with Pramac's Jorge Martin – with whom he is vying for a place at the factory Ducati squad for 2023 – and was running in fourth when he ran over a kerb exiting Turn 9 on ...Keep reading
Bagnaia fended off a late charge from championship leader Fabio Quartararo in the Austrian Grand Prix to score his third-successive win.
It marks the first time a Ducati rider has achieved the feat since double MotoGP world champion Stoner in 2008 when he won the British, German and Dutch GPs back-to-back.
Bagnaia is now just 44 points off of Quartararo in the standings having been 91 adrift ...Keep reading
The Ferrari reserve driver will take the wheel of the VF-22 at both Monza and the Circuit of the Americas, with current drivers Mick Schumacher and Kevin Magnussen taking it in turns to hand over their cars to the Italian.
Giovinazzi last competed in F1 in 2021 before making the move to Formula E with Dragon Penske Racing, but retained his role with Ferrari.
He could also be a contender ...Keep reading
The Finn was entering his first competitive event after retiring from F1 at the end of 2021, and from 27th on the grid his Trackhouse Chevrolet progressed into the top 20 early in the wet early phases of Sunday's race.
As the track dried, he was on a strategy that would allow him to progress inside the top 10 at the start of the second stage. He held his own and ran as high as eighth until ...Keep reading
Masi is set to become the new chairman of the Supercars Commission, marking a return to the category where he cut his teeth before joining the FIA.
He will replace outgoing chairman Neil Crompton who is understood to have lost his post due to key figures wanting to bring Masi on board.
Supercars is thought to have been seeking approval from teams for Masi's appointment during the Sandown ...Keep reading
F1's gliding budget cap was set at $140m for 2022, with $1.2m added for having more than 21 races and as an extra allowance for sprint race costs.
After long discussions that figure exceptionally increased by 3.1% to help teams stay under the cap in the face of rising inflation, and the allowance remains subject to a planned 3% indexation in 2023.
While the cap has been hailed as one of the ...Keep reading
Elliott led the field on the restart with five of 90 laps remaining, Larson pressuring him alongside, and as the two exited Turn 1 Larson appeared to lock up his brakes and drifted wide, which forced Elliott to take avoiding action and allowed Larson to move into the lead.
Larson then had to hold off a furious challenge from A.J. Allmendinger to take the win by 0.882 seconds.
It’s just the ...Keep reading
Although the exact details of his programme will be revealed at a later date, BMW said he will drive a number of cars from its stable next year.
In 2023, the Munich-based manufacturer will compete in the IMSA SportsCar Championship with the new BMW M Hybrid V8, before expanding into the WEC for 2024, while having extensive presence in GT3 racing with the new-for-2022 M4.
PLUS: Why BMW ...Keep reading
The Dale Coyne Racing with HMD driver had just pitted from the lead on lap 211 when rain halted the Gateway race three laps later, putting him fifth for the delayed race restart but with fresher tyres and no fuel worries compared with Power and Pato O’Ward ahead.
He jumped Power on the restart, then fell back behind before passing him for good on lap 230. 14 more laps of the 1.25-mile oval ...Keep reading
Newgarden scored his fifth win of the season at Gateway after a bold strategic move under caution and an incisive pass on team-mate Scott McLaughlin on a restart following a 2 hour and 15 minute rain delay both paid off.
The result vaulted the two-time IndyCar champion from fourth to second on the points table, just three behind Team Penske team-mate Power, who could only salvage sixth after ...Keep reading
The 2019 world champion claimed back-to-back WRC victories for the first time since his championship-winning season after fending off Toyota’s Elfyn Evans in an attritional Ypres Rally.
Tanak’s win arrived two weeks after scoring an against the odds triumph in Finland, but the Estonian admitted it was a “big surprise” to win on tarmac in Belgium.
The rally wasn’t without its ...Keep reading
The Ford squad has struggled for results in recent months with its last podium arriving in June, courtesy of Craig Breen’s second place finish in Sardinia.
This weekend in Belgium the team’s fortunes failed to improve as all three drivers Breen, Gus Greensmith and Adrien Fourmaux were involved in costly incidents.
Breen was running fifth when a mistake in Stage 10 of the asphalt rally ...Keep reading
The Italian led every lap of Sunday’s Red Bull Ring race to claim his fourth victory of the season and third on the bounce to keep his championship hopes alive.
Bagnaia, who grabbed the holeshot from second on the grid, took the soft front tyre as he expected cooler conditions and possibly rain to affect Sunday’s grand prix.
But stable conditions meant he struggled with front locking on ...Keep reading
The reigning world champion was expected to struggle at the Austrian venue owing to the emphasis it puts on horsepower.
But the Yamaha rider came away with a second-place finish and was just 0.492 seconds behind race winner Francesco Bagnaia on the factory Ducati at the chequered flag.
Quartararo is now 32 points clear in the championship standings after Aleix Espargaro was sixth, though the ...Keep reading
Having been 91 points down on Quartararo in the championship after a fourth DNF of the season in Germany, victories at Assen, Silverstone and now Red Bull Ring have put Bagnaia just 44 points behind in the standings.
Bagnaia, who only lost the lead briefly in a fight with team-mate Jack Miller before controlling from the front, becomes the first Ducati rider since Casey Stoner in 2008 to ...Keep reading
The 2019 world champion came under pressure from Evans early on Sunday morning’s asphalt stages before going on to seal the win by 5.0s. The victory arrived just two weeks after his triumph in Rally Finland.
Tanak and co-driver Martin Jarveoja produced a faultless drive from start to finish. The Estonian was in contention from the beginning after ending Friday 2.5s shy of team-mate Thierry ...Keep reading
The 2021 Moto2 championship runner-up stepped up to MotoGP in 2022 with Tech3 and KTM in a move he didn’t want to make in the first place.
Fernandez had been keen to join Yamaha’s satellite squad RNF – formally Petronas SRT – but was unable to when KTM held him to a contract despite there being a half-a-million-euro buyout clause.
In a difficult debut season on the RC16, Fernandez ...Keep reading
Ricciardo looks set to leave McLaren at the end of the 2022 season as the team looks to agree terms to end his contract early, having swooped to sign Oscar Piastri to partner Lando Norris.
It will bring to an end two difficult seasons for Ricciardo at McLaren, where despite scoring the team’s first victory in almost nine years at Monza last year, he has struggled to match Norris for ...Keep reading
After a collision in the British GP, Max Racing Husqvarna rider Ayumu Sasaki had two long-lap penalties to serve at the Red Bull Ring.
Seizing the lead on the opening lap, Sasaki wound up in 18th after serving his penalties. But the Japanese rider carved through the field to return to the head of the pack on lap 13 on 23.
Though he came under intense pressure over the final tours from fellow ...Keep reading