Ed Carpenter Racing has announced it has signed Conor Daly as a full-time driver in its #20 car for the 2022 IndyCar season. Daly, who drove the #20 car at the road and street courses during the past two seasons while team owner Ed Carpenter contested the ovals, will now take over the entry for the entire 2022 season. Daly's future at the team was thrown up in the air when ECR lost its ... Keep reading
Sainz was never threatened in the 346km loop near Bisha since he grabbed the lead at the third waypoint from Overdrives Lucio Alvarez - the Spaniard successfully tackling the soft dunes towards the end of the stage en route to a comfortable 3m10s victory. This was Sainzs second stage win in the Dakar this year and the fourth for Audis new hybrid RS Q e-tron contender. The result ... Keep reading
Once the 2021 Formula 1 season draws to a close, attention will immediately turn to preparations for 2022s all-new rules. F1 will receive one of its biggest technical overhauls for next season, with a seismic shift in the aerodynamic regulations, which should act as a soft reset for all of the teams in the championship. The new regulations have been paired with a number of changes to the ... Keep reading
Wickens has been rehabilitating since his brutal accident in IndyCars race at Pocono in August 2018, in which he suffered a thoracic spinal fracture, spinal cord injury, neck fracture, tibia and fibula fractures to both legs, fractures in both hands, a fractured right forearm, fractured elbow, a concussion, four fractured ribs and a pulmonary contusion. Almost 1000 days later, in May last ... Keep reading
A full-season deal with the Italian squad follows the Australian's cameo at the post-season test in Abu Dhabi late last year. He was 10th fastest on the first of the three days despite having no experience in F2. Williams' promotion to F2 follows two seasons in Formula 3 with Jenzer Motorsport, the 2021 campaign yielding his first podium and 19th place in the points. "I'm extremely proud ... Keep reading
As Formula 1s driver market silly season wound down in 2021 and this years grid fell into place, Alfa Romeo left it late to finalise its line-up. Talks with Andretti over a possible takeover of the Sauber Group postponed a final decision on who would partner the incoming Valtteri Bottas in 2022. But the eventual collapse of talks meant that Guanyu Zhou clinched the seat to complete ... Keep reading
Ahead of the series third season, it will stage a test at the Inde Motorsports Ranch between 31 January and 4 February using US specification F4 cars. The all-female championship staged its first-ever round outside of Europe last October at the Circuit of the Americas in support of the US Grand Prix, holding a double-header season finale. Drivers attending the test include 2020 Britcar ... Keep reading
It was less than four months ago, during an interview at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where Wilson said, Were all behind, when it came to the development and testing of the new car. At that point, NASCAR had conducted just one multi-car test at Daytona International Speedway, and that produced a list of new issues, including driver cockpit overheating and problems with the cars ... Keep reading
Alpine have confirmed the latest F1 management shake-up during the 2022 pre-season, parting company with executive director Marcin Budkowski.
«Ливерпуль» — «Брентфорд». Прогноз (к. 2.02) и ставки на футбол, чемпионат Англии, 16 января 2022 года
The round-the-clock GT enduro was set to run on 25-27 February, however it will now take place on 13-15 May. The postponement has been prompted by the current outbreak of the Omicron strain of COVID-19 on Australia's east coast, with daily cases currently higher than has been seen at any other point of the pandemic. NSW alone yesterday recorded 92,264 new positive cases, although that ... Keep reading
Since 1997, the winner of the Daytona 500 has been presented with the Harley J. Earl Trophy in Victory Lane, and the winning car is put on display in its race-winning condition for one year at the Motorsports Hall of Fame and Museum adjacent to Daytona International Speedway. However, with the delays in the development of the NASCAR Cup Next Gen car and supply-chain issues for its parts and ... Keep reading
Late last season Budkowski was linked with a possible role at Aston Martin, and the recent departure of team principal Otmar Szafnauer has opened up a potential opportunity at the Silverstone outfit. Szafnauers name has also been mentioned in connection with Alpine in what would be a straight swap of two of F1s key figures. Budkowski joined the then Renault team in 2018 in a surprise ... Keep reading
The 1999 Le Mans 24 Hours was a catalogue of disasters for Mercedes as first Mark Webber (twice) then Peter Dumbreck experienced with terrifying consequences the aerodynamic instability of its CLR. Its remaining car was withdrawn, and Mercedes hasnt been back to Le Mans in an official capacity since. Until now sort of. This weekends final round of the Le Mans Virtual Series, the ... Keep reading
A special F1 Show as the Sky Sports pundits reflect on the aftermath from the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that sealed Max Verstappen's first World Championship.
The four-time WRX champion clinched the title last year in dramatic circumstances at the Nurburgring when he overturned a 17-point deficit to beat fellow Swedish driver Timmy Hansen on wins countback. Last season Kristoffersson jumped behind the wheel of an Audi S1, with his previous world title triumphs coming in a Volkswagen entry, which he returns to for 2022. The Kristoffersson ... Keep reading
The FIA confirmed in the days following Max Verstappens last-lap title win over Lewis Hamilton that it would be launching a full investigation into the race restart, which was subject to protests by Mercedes. Mercedes opted to end its pursuit of action after the FIA announced its plans to analyse what happened in Abu Dhabi, but said it would actively work with this commission to build a ... Keep reading
The impending sale of the team was first revealed last November, which prompted strong denials by team boss Jonathon Webb via other media outlets. However, as predicted, the team has indeed changed hands which has seen successful drag racer and businessman Xiberras become the new owner of Team Sydney. Autosport understands the deal was put to the Supercars Board as early as December but has ... Keep reading
According to Autosport sister site Motorsport-Total.com, Modlinger has departed his role at Abt - where he has worked since 2018 - to take up his new position with Porsche amid a new management structure at the team. Following the departure of Pascal Zurlinden - Porsche's former head of factory motorsport - last year for personal reasons, the German manufacturer has elected to break down the ... Keep reading
The Jean-Eric Vergne and Adrian Newey-backed outfit endured a fraught maiden season in the all-electric SUV off-road racing championship last year. Two-time W Series champion Jamie Chadwick only contested three of the five rounds as a legacy of calendar clashes. Meanwhile, experienced team-mate Stephane Sarrazin was ousted ahead of the finale in Dorset following a spate of crashes. With ... Keep reading
The Ford squad was forced to curtail its running in France on Wednesday after Breen and co-driver Paul Nagle clipped a bridge, sending the Puma into a spin before rolling down a 15 metre drop off the side of the asphalt road, with the car coming to rest on its roof. Luckily Breen and Nagle escaped the incident unscathed but the crash halted the test and initially threatened to derail the ... Keep reading
Pier Guidi and Calado will be joined for the season-opening round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship by WEC regular team-mate Daniel Serra and Davide Rigon, who lost his seat in the factory AF Corse GTE Pro team last year to Miguel Molina. Giuseppe Risi's Texas-based privateer team has been a regular entrant at Daytona in recent years against the factory teams in GTLM, which has been replaced ... Keep reading
Marquez was forced to miss the final two rounds of the 2021 season when a concussion suffered in a motocross training incident in November led to a return of the double vision issues he previously had in 2011 after a Moto2 crash. Honda confirmed on Thursday that Marquez's recovery had progressed sufficiently enough for him to return to motorcycle training this week. But speaking after ... Keep reading
Masi was roundly criticised for his handling of the late safety car restart in the 2021 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which resulted in Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton losing the race lead and the world championship to Red Bull rival Max Verstappen on the final lap. Masi permitted the lapped cars between Hamilton and Verstappen to pass the safety car, but kept those behind Verstappen in ... Keep reading
American motorsport marque Andretti was in talks with the owners of Sauber - which operates the Alfa Romeo-branded F1 team - over a possible takeover in the autumn of last year. Andretti already enjoys a presence in IndyCar, Formula E, Supercars and Extreme E, and was looking to extend its reach to F1 by purchasing a majority stake in the Sauber Group. Michael Andretti planned to field ... Keep reading