WhileLarson won the opening stage,Preece was also a contender up inside the top-five. However, not long after the start of the second stage, Larson tried to clear up in front of Preece but the Stewart-Haas Racing driver still had his nose in there. Preece hit the wall as a result, and later spun after more contact with other cars broke a toe-link on his Ford Mustang. He was ... Keep reading
From sixth on the grid, Kondo Racing man Yamashita finished third on Sunday behind Tomoki Nojiri and Sho Tsuboi, albeit finishing fourth on the road and gaining a place from Liam Lawsons penalty. It marked his first top-three finish in Super Formula since the opening round of the 2020 season at Motegi. He went on to finish seventh in that years standings, but slumped to 14th the following ... 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 Tyler Reddick in the final five laps. Reddick, who won Stage 2, had pit for new tires during the break and put them to good use and put himself in position to challenge for the win down the stretch. With Reddick closing in for a final ... Keep reading
Yeley is a veteran of the sport with over 350 starts at the Cup level since 2004 and almost 400 starts in the Xfinity Series as well. Although he first arrived on the scene as a young gun at Joe Gibbs Racing, he struggled for results and was ultimately replaced. The journeyman driver has piloted cars for a dozen different Cup Series organizations since then. His career results ... 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 Ducatis first riders title in 15 years, since Casey Stoners 2007 triumph at the start of the 700cc era. As expected, Bagnaias feat earned him praise from all sides, especially given his comeback fight ... Keep reading
Reddicks No. 45 23XI Racing team decided to stay out during the break between Stages 1 and 2 and make their pit stop between Stages 2 and 3. After Reddick won Stage 2, the call to pit left him 12th to restart the final stage while Christopher Bell stayed out and drove off with the lead. Reddick methodically made his way forward, moving into second on Lap 223 after making brief contact ... Keep reading
The Melbourne race was red-flagged for a third and final time on Lap 57 of 58 after a chaotic restart, which prompted a 30-minute delay to work out how the event would finish. With just one lap remaining, the safety car led out the surviving cars across the line in order of the previous restart, which gave the race an anticlimactic end and was a blow to drivers that were eliminated. Alpine's ... Keep reading
Despite driving with a broken finger,Briscoe had managed to work his way up to second late in Sunday nights race at the Bristol Dirt Track and was starting to put serious heat on leader and eventual race winner Christopher Bell. On Lap 224 of 250, Tyler Reddick got to the inside of Briscoe and claimed the second spot. In his effort to get back around Reddick, Briscoe ended up hitting ... Keep reading
Hulkenberg returned with the US-owned F1 team after three years without a full-time seat. During his absence, he kept his hand in with five reserve appearances with Racing Point-Aston Martin. The German has twice made Q3 in the first three races with his new team, and in Australia he scored his first points with a strong run to seventh place, although Haas felt he should have been a place ... Keep reading
Oyu, who has joined the rebranded Servus Japan-run TGM outfit for 2023 after three seasons at Nakajima Racing, qualified third for the second round of the season, and passed poleman Nojiri on the opening lap into Turn 3. He maintained the advantage until the safety car was called shortly before the pit window opened on lap 10 of 41, which prompted almost the entire field to come in for their ... Keep reading
In these days of 20-plus race Formula 1 seasons, its astonishing that any driving career from the 10-Grands-Prix-per-year era in Jimmy Clarks case, only for seven complete seasons could amass statistics that still stand strong in the F1 history books. After all, Lewis Hamilton with Mercedes-Benz, Sebastian Vettel with Red Bull and Michael Schumacher with Ferrari have enjoyed long ... Keep reading
Nojiri was the man to beat virtually throughout the 45-minute qualifying session on Saturday,which marked the first official running of the weekend with the new SF23 package following the cancellation of Friday practice. The Team Mugen driver set the benchmark time of 1m22.062s around the halfway mark that would go unbeaten for the remainder of the session. That compares with a ... Keep reading
Last week, William Byron'sNo. 24 and Alex Bowman'sNo. 48 were handed L1-level penalties after the cars were taken back to the R&D Center for further inspection.. They were each docked 60 driver points and five playoff points, and the interim crew chiefs were hit with two-week suspensions. There were also fines totaling $150,000. The loss of points cost Bowman the ... Keep reading
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Red Bull junior Lawson will begin Saturday's opening race of the 2023 season from the second row, after qualifying just two tenths slower than Mugen team-mate and reigning champion Tomoki Nojiri. Read Also: Fuji Super Formula: Nojiri on pole for opener, Lawson third That's despite the New Zealander having no prior experience of Fuji, a situation exacerbated by Friday's free ... Keep reading
The Austrian first arrived in F1 as a shareholder of the Williams team in 2009, before making the move to become 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 ... 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
TOM'S driver Alesi was fighting the ThreeBond machine of Fukuzumi for eighth place in the closing stages of the 41-lap race when the pair came to blows approaching Turn 1 at the start of lap 36. The incident brought out a safety car period that effectively ended the race early, as the clean-up operation could not be completed in time for green flag action to resume due to the volume of dirt ... Keep reading
In fact, despite not having a win so far in 2023,Bowman has been the series most consistent performer in his No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet with a 7.1 average finish. But since March 15, Bowman has gone from leading the series standings to 27th back to leading and this now in seventh and all due to NASCAR penalties. On March 15, all four Hendrick Cup teams were hit with ... 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
The Team Impul driver qualified seventh for Sunday's race and ran in that position in the early stages until being handed a 10-second stop-and-go penalty for a violation of the start procedure. By contrast, Nojiri won the race from pole in a repeat of the second leg of last year's Fuji opener to give himself an early championship lead. Read Also: Fuji Super Formula: Nojiri wins Race ... Keep reading
Bell pitted at the end of Stage 1 and never returned to pit road, staying out at the end of the second stage and inheriting the race lead. He went on to lead the final 100 laps, fending off all challengers and earning his fifth career Cup Series victory. Reddick was the runner-up for the second consecutive year while previous winners of the event Kyle Busch and Joey Logano ended the day with ... Keep reading
The two-time champion was beaten in a straight fight by Lawson in Saturdays 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 Lawsons sensational pace was no surprise, likening him to another of his former team-mates Stoffel Vandoorne - with whom he shared a ... Keep reading
Amid a disappointing start to the 2023 season, Tost said at the Saudi Arabian GP that he didnt trust his engineers after the AT04 failed to live up to expectations. The team showed some signs of progress in Melbourne, where Yuki Tsunoda qualified 12thand scored the teams first point of the season with 10thplace, having risen as high as fifth before the red flag after the third ... Keep reading
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