The Yorkshireman made the most of being gifted the reversed-grid pole position, and led from lights to flag in wet conditions at the wheel of his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST. It wasnt easy for him early on Tom Ingram speared down the inside of Colin Turkington into the Old Hairpin on the opening lap and, once an early safety-car period had ended, he applied pressure to ... Keep reading
The Pramac rider was locked in a head-to-head duel with Gresinis Enea Bastianini across the 2022 campaign to secure the factory seat being vacated by Jack Miller, who signed a two-year deal with KTM. With Bastianini winning four races in 2022 on a 2021-spec bike and finishing third in the championship, he was given the nod to join world champion Francesco Bagnaia at the factory Ducati ... Keep reading
Wallace led the way on the start of the final lap in second overtime but Ryan Blaney was closing fast to challenge for the lead. Wallace moved his No. 23 Toyota high, low to block and finally on the third attempt got hit by Blaney to trigger a multi-car wreck, which ended the race under caution. Busch, who had lined up third to start the second overtime, was ahead of Blaney when the caution ... Keep reading
Lawson finished fourth in Sunday's third round of the season as the top Honda-powered driver behind Toyota trio Ritomo Miyata, Sho Tsuboi and Ryo Hirakawa, continuing his strong start to his rookie campaign. The New Zealander had made his way up from eighth on the grid to third before he made his mandatory pitstop when the window opened on lap 10 of 31, undercutting poleman and long-time leader ... Keep reading
A race on the famous Strip in Nevada will mark the first time that F1 and its owner Liberty Media have taken the act of race promotion in-house, rather than relying on a local third party to organise the event before the championship claims back a substantial fee. F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali has hinted that this experiment could be repeated for future new races should Vegas prove ... Keep reading
Evans inherited a 19.1s lead on Saturday morning after Fridays pacesetter Thierry Neuville retired for the day after crashing out in stage 11 in the morning loop. However, Evans faced a stern challenge from Tanak in the afternoon, who reduced the gap to 12.5s before a mechanical issue struck his car in the day's penultimate stage. Hyundais Esapekka Lappi struggled for outright pace ... Keep reading
The Toyota driver scored a first WRC win since Finland in October 2021 after he and co-driver Scott Martin came through to chalk up a comfortable 27.0s victory over M-Sports Ott Tanak on Croatias asphalt stages. Evans labelled the win as insignificant as he crossed the finish line at the final stage, as the rally community mourns the loss of factory Hyundai driver Breen who died in ... Keep reading
Dalla Lana, 57, had contested the opening two rounds of the WEC alongside Aston factory driver Nicki Thiim and Zimbabwean Axcil Jeffries but steps away citing a desire to focus on business interests. The Canadian won the GTE Am drivers' world championship crown in 2017 and claimed 17 class wins from 69 starts. He came close to a class victory at Le Mans in 2015 before a late accident and ... Keep reading
The Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit in Germany was holding a double-header this weekend, which marked the halfway point in the championships 16-race calendar. As drivers performed burnouts before taking their positions on the grid, headed by both Abt machines after a shock qualifying performance, several protestors entered the track from the far side of the circuit. The start procedure ... Keep reading
Gragson, who drives the No. 42 Chevrolet for Legacy Motor Club, had driven an impressive race and found his way near the front of the field when the final stage got underway. He quickly gave Harrison Burton a big push on the restart that put Burton in the lead. However, just 15 laps later, Gragson got into the right-rear of Burton in Turn 3 to send Burton spinning out of the lead. Gragson ... Keep reading
Alonso joined Aston Martin after a dismal 2022 campaign in which the Silverstone team finished seventh with just 55 points. While it made encouraging development progress throughout last season, its giant leap in 2023 has been one of the talking points of the year so far, with the Spaniard bagging three consecutive podiums as Aston heads to Baku sitting second in the standings. The team of ... Keep reading
Under proposed plans to allow for greater tactical decision-making during races, drivers would be required to make a mandatory pitstop where they would recharge four kilowatt hours of energy within 30 seconds via a 600kW "booster". The concept was originally looked at being implemented for this season with the new-for-2023 Gen3 cars, but this has now been postponed as reported by ... Keep reading
Titled Idols, the film's script will recreate fictitious races supported by real images of the three world championship categories - MotoGP, Moto2 and Moto3 - some edited, and others that will be shot specifically for the film during future grand prix weekends. The film's main protagonist is a Moto2 rider who comes to the world championship from the FIM JuniorGP series, and who is presented ... Keep reading
Larson was collected when Ross Chastain and Noah Gragson came together in front of him, spinning down onto the apron. The No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet then shot back up the track, which is when Ryan Preece slammed into the passenger-side door of the car. The violent impact caused significant damage to the side of Larson's car, and a door bar inside the cockpit could be seen pushed ... Keep reading
The Abt Cupra squad has endured a difficult start to the season with the new-for-2023 Gen3 machines having decided relatively late to return to the championship after a year away. Its left the German outfit, which is using the Mahindra powertrain, generally at the back of the field in the races with neither Muller nor his team-mate Robin Frijns scoring any points this season ahead of the ... Keep reading
The Tempelhof Airport Street Circuit is holding a double-header this weekend in Berlin, with Mitch Evans taking victory and Jaguar securing a 1-2 in the opening race. While Saturdays event was held under perfect blue skies and bright sunshine, rain is expected for the second contest which will be the first time the Hankook tyre has been called into action during a wet race. The South ... Keep reading
They gained important points that put them ahead of the pack in the championship standings after two events in 2023. Three-time champion Mauricio leads with 70 points, four ahead of 2021 titlist Casagrande. Driving for the A.Mattheis Vogel team, Casagrande started from pole position in race 1 and led from start to finish to win, beating the KTF Sports Cruze of Guilherme Salas. RCM Motorsport's ... Keep reading
Baku is the first F1 sprint event to be held on a street circuit, and the chances of accidents occurring have been ramped up by the decision to make the sprint a standalone event. That is being done largely to encourage drivers to take more risks and produce a better show on Saturday because there will be no impact on their grid positions for Sunday's main event. As an extra challenge, the ... Keep reading
Admittedly, attempting to reign in teams efforts to alter what is basically a spec car comes at a cost, particularly in unwelcome headlines and media focus on issues other than competition. Not issuing those penalties, however, also comes at a cost to teams, which is a big reason why the Next Gen car was developed in the first place. Its essential that we keep the business model ... Keep reading
The car is a one-off build which looks like a reimagining of a Group B rally car and was conceptualized by the engineering brainboxes at Honda Performance Development in Santa Clarita, California. Built at Hondas Automotive Development Center in Ohio by the Honda of America Racing Team,The Beast is being unleashed in the wild at selected IndyCar events this year ... Keep reading
Burton was ruled the leader after a four-car wreck on Lap 111 placed the race under its second red flag of the day and sent it to overtime. Debris on the track sent the race into a second overtime and this time, Burton easily pulled ahead of Sheldon Creed and held him at bay by 0.113 seconds to earn his first win of the 2023 season. The victory is the first for Jordan Anderson Racing and ... Keep reading
Both drivers have yet to score points this season but sensationally reached the final part of qualifying for the teams home event in wet but gradually improving conditions. Frijns claimed his second Formula E pole having dominated the final duel, setting a quicker time than his German team-mate in all three sectors to finish 0.632s clear, posting a 1m18.748s. Both Abt drivers had been ... Keep reading
2021 Formula 2 champion Piastri was drafted in to replace fellow Australian Daniel Ricciardo, who failed to live up to expectations in his two seasons in the team as he struggled to come to grips with McLaren's cars. The expectation was that highly-rated Piastri would be able to get closer to Norris than Ricciardo did from an early stage and the 21-year-old has already delivered on that ... Keep reading
TOM'S driver Miyata came from 12th on the grid to pass Tsuboi around the outside of Turn 1 on the penultimate lap of the 31-lap race to seal his first win in the Japanese single-seater category. Miyata had vaulted into contention thanks to a safety car period that was called when Nojiri and Oyu came to blows on the latter driver's out lap, putting both in the barriers and out of the ... Keep reading
Cammish emerged on top after a race-long battle with Jake Hill in wet conditions, and managed to work his Motorbase Performance Ford Focus ST past the West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport of Hill on the 19th of what became 21 laps of racing. Hill had emerged relatively unscathed from contact with the front-row-sitting Motorbase Fords off the grid at the start of the race. While poleman Dan ... Keep reading