Новости за 26.11.2021

It may have taken a week but finally, after five wins out of five, the winning streak of Team Abu Dhabi came to an end courtesy of the Bangla Tigers.

Roschon Johnson ran for a career-high 179 yards and a touchdown on 31 carries and the Texas defense produced two fourth-down stands in the fourth quarter as the Longhorns stampeded past Kansas State 22-17 on Friday in the Big 12 Conference regular-season finale for both teams in Austin, Texas. Texas (5-7, 3-6 Big 12) snapped a six-game losing streak, its longest since 1956. The Longhorns still could earn a bowl spot if n

Andretti Autosport has been strong on street courses for the past four seasons, and Rossi believes his quarter of the team made a breakthrough on natural road courses in the final third of this season. But he says the team is still missing vital speed on ovals other than Indianapolis, which next year will comprise Texas Motor Speedway, Iowa Speedway and Gateway. In August, on our #27 car ... Keep reading

Drivers Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin have scored no points in a difficult 2021 campaign for Haas, which is set to finish last in the F1 constructors' championship this season. The trying campaign, allied to the increasing demands of a 23-race schedule next season, has left the team with a likely challenge of keeping its best personnel delivering to the maximum. Mazepin Sr has now put ... Keep reading

The nine-time MotoGP race winner switch to Aprilia from Yamaha ahead of the San Marino Grand Prix, after losing his ride with the latter following an irreparable souring of relations which led to him deliberately trying to damage his M1s engine in the Styrian GP. Having used the final races of 2021 as extended test sessions on the Aprilia, Vinales continued that work at the post-season Jerez ... Keep reading

The squad has faced a run of issues with its medium downforce configuration in the last few grands prix, which have given it headaches throughout practice. TV images have shown the top element of the rear wing flapping when DRS is open, with the problem appearing to be caused by the actuator element not being able to cope with the forces being put through it. The issues in practice in Qatar ... Keep reading

An exclusive interview with Verstappen was the cover feature of Novembers edition of GP Racing and the tensions in the world championship battle have grown even more feverish since it hit the news stands. GP Racing editor Ben Anderson and columnist Mark Gallagher join host Stuart Codling to debate the latest developments in what is an increasingly bitter fight. Verstappens on-track ... Keep reading

The battle on track between F1's top two teams this year has been accompanied by a fight off it amid recent questions being posed by Red Bull about the Mercedes rear wing. Red Bull suspects that Mercedes has been running a flexible rear wing to boost its top speed, and has based its suspicion on photos that it believes shows score marks on the inside of endplates. Mercedes insists that it is ... Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton won the inaugural Qatar Grand Prix last weekend to reduce Max Verstappens lead to just eight points with two rounds to go, and Fernando Alonso scored his first Formula 1 podium for seven years. We explain how it happened as well as rating the drivers. The battle between Mercedes and Red Bull also got controversial again, with arguments over on-track clashes, rear wings and ... Keep reading

The nine-time grand prix world champion retired from MotoGP at the end of last season, bringing to a close a 432 GP career spanning 26 campaigns. During his tenure Rossi won championships with Aprilia in the 125cc and 250cc classes, Honda two-stroke 500cc and four-stroke MotoGP machinery, and Yamahas in MotoGP. During the Valencia finale a special display of all of Rossis title-winning ... Keep reading

The 19-year-old F3 driver will join the team at Jeddah and Yas Marina alongside Ralph Boschung. Caldwell did not take part in the recent F3 post-season test in Valencia and says he is targeting a seat on the F2 grid in 2022. In 2021, he took one F3 win and three further podiums with Prema Racing, finishing eighth overall. It was his second season in the third tier, following a rookie ... Keep reading

At last weekend's Qatar GP, it took over 21 hours from the end of qualifying before final decisions were announced after Max Verstappen, Carlos Sainz and Valtteri Bottas were accused of yellow flag offences. After qualifying finished at 6pm local time, summonses for the three drivers were issued between 8.37pm and 9.40pm, asking for them to appear before the stewards the following afternoon ... Keep reading

A two-time race winner in the FIA World Endurance Championship with Rebellion, Nato made his Formula E debut in 2021 as a replacement for Felipe Massa, teaming up with series regular Edoardo Mortara at Mercedes customer Venturi. The French driver finished on the podium in only his fourth race appearance in Rome, only to be disqualified soon after for exceeding his energy allocation. Another ... Keep reading

Blandin is still working at Brackley and is not expected to join his new team until October next year, after he has completed his gardening leave. His appointment comes as a surprise as he is the first key player to be headhunted from Mercedes, the power unit and gearbox supplier to Aston Martin. An Aston spokesperson told Autosport: We can confirm that Eric Blandin will begin working for ... Keep reading

The former Toyota, Volkswagen and M-Sport driver was installed as team boss of the Japanese marques WRC programme this year, taking over the position held by four-time WRC champion Tommi Makinen. Latvala has overseen a successful 2021 campaign resulting in Toyota reclaiming the manufacturers crown from rivals Hyundai, recording nine wins from 12 rounds. Toyota drivers finished first ... 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 1. Lewis Hamilton - 102 wins First race: 2007 Australian Grand Prix World ... Keep reading

Alpine enjoyed a competitive race at the Losail International Circuit, Fernando Alonso scoring his first podium on his return to the revamped Enstone team while Ocon took fifth, as both drivers managed to execute a marginal one-stop strategy. But Alpine's result was not down to just strategy alone, as shown by Alonso's fifth place in qualifying, which after penalties for Max Verstappen and ... Keep reading

A cramped workshop provided the catalyst for the creation of one of the UKs leading historic sportscar operations. When Bob Berridge and his guys at Chamberlain-Synergy Motorsport started having to shuffle cars around like one of those Chinese magic puzzles, he says to get to the one they needed to work on, it was clearly time for a change. New premises, new partners, a new ... Keep reading

In the 1960s and 70s, it was widely accepted that racing came with a real risk of severe injury or death and it took some time before the culture of striving to protect lives set in. Three-time world champion Jackie Stewart played an important part in the push for safety during some of F1's most dangerous years, advocating mandatory seatbelts and full-face helmets, as well as for better ... Keep reading

Somewhere in a parallel universe, junior single-seater cognoscenti are still raving about a 2015 MSA Formula season in which McLaren Formula 1 star Lando Norris fought it out with fellow explosive talents such as IndyCar sensation Colton Herta, Formula 2 maverick Dan Ticktum and newly crowned three-time British Touring Car champion Ash Sutton. Sutton had a deal in place to compete in what ... Keep reading

Horner was summoned to see the stewards after the race in Losail for having hit out at a rogue marshal who he blamed for putting out the yellow flags in qualifying that earned Max Verstappen a grid penalty. The FIA was clear that it could not accept its officials being criticised in such a manner, and Horner duly apologised for his words both in private to them and later in public via ... Keep reading

The Veloce Racing star took four wins and finished on the podium in all but one race on her charge to victory. But it wasnt without challenges primarily the one posed by title rival Alice Powell, who took the fight to Chadwick right until the last round, entering the season finale double header level on points. But will either driver return to the all-female championship next year? ... Keep reading

The KTM team, which will enter its sixth season in MotoGP next year, is currently seeking to take a new step forward in its project which, after a successful 2020 in which the Austrian manufacturer secured its first victories in the top tier, has stagnated this past season. In order to get its MotoGP programme back on track, KTM has elected to bring Guidotti into the fold. Guidotti, who has ... Keep reading

If Matt Edwards has taught followers of the British Rally Championship any valuable life lesson it is that you should never give up, even when the odds appear to be heavily weighted against you. Going into last weekends deciding round, the Ulster Rally, Edwards had it all to do. He trailed title rival Osian Pryce by eight points, and he needed to win in a car hes had minimal opportunities ... Keep reading

The 31-year-old got engaged during the summer, and is making the move to the Sydney area to support the career of his fiancee, whose family business has a base Down Under. After a rookie BTCC season in 2018 with a Ciceley Motorsport Mercedes, Oliphant moved to WSR for 2019. He scored his first win in 2020 in the reversed-grid race on the Brands Hatch GP Circuit, and then claimed another in 2021 ... Keep reading