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 up ... Keep reading
As Motorsport.com 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 outlined his interest in incorporating him into its structure in the near future. At first, it appeared the Japanese manufacturer was thinking of Lopez as a possible replacement for Franco Morbidelli at the factory ... 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
The Houston, TX.-based Ferrari team is working to defend its 2022 IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup this season with Ferrari Competizioni GT official drivers Davide Rigon and Daniel Serra. The new driver being announced for the second round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship is Brazilian Gabriel Casagrande. The 28-year-old is best known for his exploits in the Brazilian Stock Car Pro ... Keep reading
The Sydney Motorsport Park test marked the first time all 25 of the brand new Gen3 cars shared the same circuit at the same time. Supercars used that opportunity to monitor and collate data that will now be used to finalise the sporting and technical rules. That included weighing all of the cars as it looks to settle on a final minimum weight for the 2023 season. It's expected the heavier ... Keep reading
Keselowski and his RFK Racing Ford team-mate Chris Buescher led a combined 74 of the 212 laps, with Keselowski leading the most with 42, and he won the first stage. But they lost their stranglehold at the front of the field with four laps remaining, when Richard Childress Racing Chevrolet pairing Kyle Busch and Austin Dillon drafted past their Mustangs, with more Chevys pushing them from ... Keep reading
The Indy NXT by Firestone Grand Prix will take place Friday, Aug. 11 on the IMS road course, joining the NTT IndyCar Series, NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series on the schedule. It will serve as the 10th of 14 rounds in the calendar for Indy NXT formerly Indy Lights. To feature Indy NXT by Firestone during this elite NASCAR-IndyCar weekend is a tremendous opportunity, said ... 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 ... Keep reading
NASCAR on Wednesday announced the 45-year-old native of Vernon, Texas, had been suspended following a violation of Sections 4.1 & 10.1.A of the NASCAR rulebook, in particular its Substance Abuse Policy. As is typical, NASCAR did not divulge the substance which resulted in the violation. Roper did not compete in the 2023 series opener at Daytona International Speedway last weekend but his ... Keep reading
Schenken will work as a mentor for the team of race directors that cover the SpeedSeries categories, including TCR Australia, Trans Am, S5000 and Touring Car Masters, in a role labelled Motorsport Australia Race Director Head Coach. There will be a particular focus for Schenken on working with long-time motorsport administrator Michael Smith, who will step into the TCR Australia race director ... 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
The Milton Keynes-based team held a 2023 launch in New York earlier this month, but it only unveiled a new livery on an updated version of last seasons 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 10:00 local Bahrain 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 will ... 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
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 a very notable omission is 2021 champion Gotz. Gotz emerged victorious in the DTMs ... 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 DTMs 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 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 Motorsport.com: One of my dreams has always ... 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 photo shoot 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
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 that 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
Bridgestone Americas announced today that major strides have been made during the off-season to incorporate more sustainable and bio-circular materials into the 2023 NTT IndyCar Series season, highlighting the advancement of three key initiatives that will make the upcoming season the most sustainable to date for Americas premier open-wheel racing series. The alternate [softer] compound ... 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
Following the season-opening spectacle that is Daytona 500, NASCAR's 'true' season begins now. Auto Club Speedway kicks off a three-week stretch on the west coast in what is going to be the final race on the two-mile oval before it is reconfigured into a short track. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. snapped a 199-race winless streak with his Daytona 500 victory, and returned JTG Daugherty Racing to ... 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