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Daytona 24 Hours- Tandy puts Porsche on top in wet FP5 at Roar

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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

Acura beats Porsche to pole for 2023 Daytona 24 Hours

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Due to poor weather and only two of the new GTP cars taking to the track in Saturdays 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



Norris- McLaren must match Ferrari's F1 ground-effects gains for 2023

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McLarenfailed 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

WRC Monte Carlo- Dominant Ogier scores record Monte Carlo victory

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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

Daruvala joins MP Motorsport for fourth F2 campaign

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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 outfits 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

Russell felt "a bit of a rookie" during first Mercedes F1 year in 2022

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After starting his F1 career at Williams during its rebuild from its results nadir of 2018-2019, Russells 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

How F1s bigger wheels have impacted car designs

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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

Tanak- M-Sport can pull off quite a big job to catch WRC rivals

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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 Sundays ... Keep reading

MotoGP champion Bagnaia to race #1 as Ducati reveals 2023 colours

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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 protg 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

Neuville not too alarmed by Toyotas WRC Monte Carlo dominance

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Hyundai found itself trailing Toyota for outright speed on the Monte Carlo asphalt as the latter racked up 16 stage wins to the Korean marques 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

Why a Supercars enigma is back after going "cold turkey"

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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 teams 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

Inquest rules C1 driver's fatal Snetterton crash was an accident

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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 cornerafter 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

BMW bullish for Daytona 24 debut despite subdued IMSA qualifying

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BMW was visibly off the pace in Sundays 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

Old Aston Martin team wouldn't have overturned 2022 F1 form - Stroll

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At the start of 2022s new ground effect era, Aston Martins 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

F1 to change shortened-race points rule after Verstappen title confusion

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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

Race of Champions 2023 line-up complete as Ekstrom joins Team Sweden

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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 14thplace as the German manufacturers leading finisher, and will now swap sand for snow and ice at this years Race of Champions held at Pite Havsbad on 28-29 January. Ekstrom, a three-time Race of Champions winner, will compete for ... Keep reading

Albon- "Privilege" to have long-term stability in F1 with Williams

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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

Rast Mexico FE exit after contact shows Gen3 cars "structurally weak" - Rowland

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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





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