When VCU won nine of its final 12 games of the 2020-21 season, it looked as if the Rams were poised to make a respectable run on college basketball's biggest stage. That was until lingering effects of the pandemic nixed VCU's chances of recording its first NCAA Tournament win since 2016. Positive COVID-19 tests forced the Rams to forfeit their meeting with Oregon, but VCU now has a chance to redeem itself in the first r
Two of the hottest teams in the country meet when sixth-ranked Marquette plays Vermont in a first-round East Region matchup Friday in Columbus, Ohio. Marquette (28-6) is the No. 2 seed in East, its highest in program history. The Golden Eagles have won nine straight and are coming off their firstBig East tournament championship. Vermont (23-10) enters the first-round game as the 15th seed in the East after capturing the
Ducati has not been dethroned throughout the five days of official testing this winter, with its riders taking top honours in Malaysia and Portugal. Bagnaia was first out on track on Sunday on his factory team Ducati and would end the day 0.296s clear of the field with a new unofficial lap record of 1m37.968s. Though the world champion was first on track on Sunday morning, the opening hour ... Keep reading
James Calado crashed the #51 Ferrari AF Corse entry at the fast and bumpy first corner of the Sebring International Raceway on his out-lap in the first of two sessions on the second and final day of the pre-season official WEC test. The incident at Turn 1 resulted in an immediate red flag, which lasted for more than 10 minutes while the car was retrieved and the barriers repaired. The ... Keep reading
The Japanese manufacturer was fastest in three of the testing periods totalling 12 and half hours of track time, with Jose Maria Lopezs 1m48.208s aboard the #7 entry from the opening period on Saturday morning standing as the best of the weekend. That was narrowly faster than the 1m48.216s set by Brendon Hartley in the #8 Le Mans Hypercar on Sunday afternoon. Hartleys best in the final ... Keep reading
The 2021 world champion issued a stark warning after Saturdays session at the Algarve track, claiming his Yamaha team will not be ready for the opening round of the campaign on 26 March. But the Frenchman was a much happier figure at the end of his programme on Sunday, as Yamaha worked with 2022 set-up ideas to allow him to feel stronger on the bike. Crucially, Quartararo felt he ... Keep reading
For the second consecutive week, Hendrick Motorsports teammates Kyle Larson and William Byron appeared the class of the field and won the first two stages. However, following a round of green-flag pit stops late in the final stage, Harvick came out in second behind Larson and slowly began to run him down. Harvick in his final fulltime season in the NASCAR Cup Series passed Larson for ... Keep reading
Kevin Harvick appeared in command and head to the win at Phoenix Raceway when a late-race caution for a spin by Harrison Burton sent all the lead-lap cars to pit road. The top six, including Byron, took on only two new tires, but Kyle Larson was first off pit road. Shortly after the restart with three laps remaining, another wreck sent the race into a two-lap overtime. On the ensuing ... Keep reading
Schumacher's struggle with Haas during 2022 received its own episode in season five of the popular series, zooming in on the German's frequent crashes in the first half of the season and his lack of pace compared to experienced team-mate Kevin Magnussen. The show particularly focused on Schumacher's qualifying crash in Saudi Arabia and his shunt during the Monaco Grand Prix, before covering his ... Keep readin
Tickford Racing left the Newcastle 500 with the heftiest damage load of all of the teams with two of its four Mustangs finding the wall. James Courtney ended up nose first in the wall at Turn 9 in the Shootout on Sunday, which marked the first major crash for a Gen3 car. Delan Fraser then ended up in the pitwall at the start of Sunday's race after turning across the front of Macauley ... Keep reading
Larson was leading late last week at Las Vegas Motor Speedway when a late-race caution sent the race into overtime. Larsons HMS teammate, William Byron, beat him off pit road and then passed leader Martin Truex Jr. before holding off Larson for the win. Sunday at Phoenix Raceway, after Larson and Byron had dominated much of the race, Kevin Harvick appeared headed to victory when a late-race ... Keep reading
Hendrick Motorsports dominated Sunday at Phoenix, but Kevin Harvick methodically made his way to front of the field. In his final season of competition, the veteran driver took the lead in the final stage and was living up to his nickname as 'The Closer.' But a caution with ten laps to go changed everything. Harrison Burton spun, and there was split strategies among the frontrunners as they ... Keep reading
Tsuboi set the third-fastest time of the opening day of the test on Saturday and overall in the #36 TOM'S Toyota he shares with Ritomo Miyata, lapping within two tenths of the pace set by ARTA Honda's Nirei Fukuzumi. However, during the 10 minutes of GT500-only running in which most teams performed qualifying simulations on Saturday afternoon, the top GR Supra was the SARD machine in eighth ... Keep reading
As the flurry of social media posts from the paddock at 5:30pm on Sunday correctly pointed out, it's now time to go racing in MotoGP in 2023. Two final days of testing at the Algarve International Circuit brought this year's pre-season phase to a close, with Ducati maintaining an ominous 100% hit rate across all test days ahead of the new campaign. Reigning world champion Francesco Bagnaia led ... Keep reading
The NSX-GT contingent locked out the top spots overall in last weekend's first official pre-season test, which was also the first to be held entirely with SUPER GT's new-for-2023 carbon-neutral fuel (CNF). Honda has consistently been quickest throughout winter testing, with the ARTA Honda team notably topping four out of six private test days and setting a blistering new unofficial lap record ... Keep reading
What made it stand out was the fact thatAstonMartins top three finish pretty much came out of the blue for a team that had headed in to the winter quite under the radar. Yet, over the course of a few months from finishing seventh in last years constructors championship, it has made a leap forward to produce arguably the second-fastest race car. Such rapid ... Keep reading
The Gen3 Supercars era got off a politically-charged start in Newcastle last weekend with the very first race ending in the top two cars being disqualified. The Triple Eight Camaros were thrown out of the race due to a dry ice driver cooling device that was located on the driver's side of the cockpit. The rules explicitly state that cooling devices need to be on the passenger side of the ... Keep reading
The cars started from 11th and 18th, with Lando Norris making a series of pitstops and finishing two laps down and Oscar Piastri retiring early. One event into the season and McLaren is officially last in the constructors' championship. It was not a great start by any measure for a team that has set fourth place as a minimum achievement in 2023. However, while the reliability issues were ... Keep reading
Mercedes unveiled its six-strong driver roster for the 2023 DTM season at the end of February, headlined by Lucas Auer, Luca Stolz and Maro Engel. But fellow works driver Gotz was curiously absent from the announcement, despite having clinched the 2021 title on Mercedes return to the DTM. The 37-year-old is instead expected to compete in other GT3 categories and endurance races in the ... Keep reading
Anthony Davidson is back at the wheel of a prototype, just a year and a bit on from his retirement from the cockpit. And he now understands the challenges faced by the drivers out on track in the World Endurance Championship aboard the successors to the LMP1 machinery in which he carved out a stellar sportscar career. Theyre having to wrestle the steering wheel much more than I ever ... Keep reading
The Briton crashed into the already shunted Ed Carpenter Racing car of Rinus VeeKay on Lap 42 at the Turn 4 tire wall. His car then took a second impact, this time from behind, as it served as a launch ramp for Kyle Kirkwoods Andretti Autosport machine which flew over the stricken RLL machine. Harvey was taken to hospital for evaluation at a local hospital to investigate a his sore right ... Keep reading
Berry, who competes fulltime in the NASCAR Xfinity Series for JR Motorsports, was tapped as the last-minute substitute for Elliott at Las Vegas, when Elliott suffered a broken left leg in a snowboarding accident prior to the race weekend. While Berry, 32, had made two previous Cup starts in his career, none had come with the Next Gen car, which debuted in 2022. Trying to keep pace and dealing ... Keep reading
Chester, who took over from James Allison as technical director at the Enstone team in 2013 when it was known as Lotus, remained in charge of the squad's technical operations until 2020. Thereafter, he joined the Mercedes Formula E squad where he was part of the team's back-to-back drivers' titles in 2020-21 and 2021-22, and remained there for its initial transition to McLaren. In Andretti's ... Keep readi
Certainly, the first two contests on the Jeddah Corniche Circuit havent been short of talking points. See Verstappen clipping the wall in 2021 to scupper his hitherto sensational Q3 lap before the title battle with Lewis Hamilton took another heated turn as the protagonists repeatedly went wheel-to-wheel between red flags before their infamous collision. Then, last year, after the very ... Keep reading
The damage to the car after the Britons off at Turn 1 on his out-lap at the start of second morning of the two-day official pre-season test was largely confined to the right-front corner, according to Ferrari. One corner we will have to change, but the rest is pretty small details, Giuliano Salvi, Ferraris sportscar race and testing manager said. It was nothing serious for ... Keep reading