Denny Hamlin overcame a pair of penalties to take his second win of the season in the NASCAR Cup series’ first visit to Texas in 2019. The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver, who won the season-opening Daytona 500, won the second stage of the race and capitalised on a problem for team-mate and points leader
Month: March 2019
Denny Hamlin overcame a pair of penalties to take his second win of the season in the NASCAR Cup series’ first visit to Texas in 2019. The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver, who won the season-opening Daytona 500, won the second stage of the race and capitalised on a problem for team-mate and points’ leader
Nico Hulkenberg says his retirement from Formula 1’s Bahrain Grand Prix was “brutal”, after he and Renault team-mate Daniel Ricciardo exited the race within moments of each other. The German had fought his way up to sixth – which included battling through a “war zone” of an opening lap – but was robbed of a
Valentino Rossi said he was riding “like when I was young” in MotoGP’s Argentina race, in which he stole second place from Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso on the last lap. With Marc Marquez rapidly pulling away to take a dominant win, Dovizioso and Rossi were left fighting for second at the Termas de Rio Hondo circuit.
Marc Marquez scorched to his first MotoGP win of 2019 in Argentina, beating runner-up Valentino Rossi by a commanding margin of almost 10 seconds. Honda rider Marquez made the perfect launch from pole position to make a break at the start, opening up a one-second lead over a similarly fast-starting Valentino Rossi on the opening
Daniel Ricciardo didn’t replace his Renault steering wheel because he felt it would be dangerous after being told not to touch his Formula 1 car to “avoid potential electrocution”. Ricciardo retired from the Bahrain Grand Prix with just a few laps remaining, reporting that his car had switched off completely as he approached the first
Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Thierry Neuville took a dramatic Tour of Corsica win as Elfyn Evans’ M-Sport Ford Fiesta suffered a puncture on the final stage. Evans had led Neuville by 11.5 seconds heading into the powerstage after a stunning time earlier in the morning allowed him to reclaim the lead he lost on
Thailand is the latest addition to the MotoGP world championship courtesy of the state-of-the-art Buriram venue; Motorsport Live takes a closer look to the event and wider country. Thailand became the latest Asian country to host a world-class motorcycling event when a World Superbike round was held for the first time at the Chang International
Robert Kubica says the reduced gap between himself and rookie Williams team-mate George Russell in Bahrain qualifying means nothing considering the aerodynamic discrepancy between their Formula 1 cars. Kubica qualified less than a tenth behind Russell in Bahrain, after being more than 1.7s off in Australia. Kubica said after Friday practice he felt he was
M-Sport World Rally Championship driver Elfyn Evans has snatched the lead of the Tour of Corsica from Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville on the penultimate stage. Neuville overhauled Evans on the final of Saturday’s action to establish an overnight lead of 4.5 seconds, taking 16s out of his rival in that test alone. However Evans – boosted
Marc Marquez does not have the pace to “run away” from the rest of the field during MotoGP’s Argentina race, believes Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso. Marquez scored his fifth pole in six years at the Termas de Rio Hondo circuit on Saturday, beating Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales by 0.154 seconds in qualifying. It followed the Honda rider
The HubAuto Corsa Ferrari 488 of Nick Foster, Tim Slade and Miguel Molina won the second round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge at Laguna Seca. The KCMG Nissan GT-R of Alex Buncombe, Kastsumasa Chiyo and Joshua Burdon led the opening hour of what would turn out to be a caution-free race, after Buncombe deposed the
Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Daniil Kvyat was denied a crucial fresh-tyre run in the second segment of Bahrain Grand Prix qualifying by what he described as an “operational issue”. The Russian scrapped his second run in Q2 after the outlap and was resigned to 15th place on the grid. His absence in the dying
The M-Sport World Rally Championship team ‘won’t sleep’ in order to optimise Elfyn Evans’s Ford Fiesta in his victory battle with Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville on the Tour of Corsica. Evans – who has one top flight WRC win on Rally GB in 2017 – sits 4.5 seconds behind Neuville, having dropped 16s to the Belgian
Reigning champion Marc Marquez took pole position for MotoGP’s Argentina race with Honda after beating Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales and Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso in a frenetic qualifying battle. After topping the pre-qualifying FP4 session despite suffering a rare mechanical failure, Marquez seized the initiative early on in Q2 at Termas de Rio Hondo with an early
Lando Norris believes getting blocked by Romain Grosjean in Bahrain Grand Prix qualifying was caused by his penalised Formula 1 rival being “screwed over” by Sebastian Vettel. Grosjean picked up a three-place grid penalty, dropping him from eighth to 11th, for impeding Norris during the opening part of qualifying at the Sakhir circuit. The Haas
Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville holds a shock Tour of Corsica lead of 4.5 seconds over M-Sport’s Elfyn Evans overnight, as Toyota’s World Rally Championship leader Ott Tanak hit trouble. Tanak had led the rally heading into the afternoon in his Yaris WRC ahead of Evans, with Neuville’s i20 Coupe WRC 17.2s behind. Fiesta WRC driver Evans
Marc Marquez ended third practice for the MotoGP Argentina Grand Prix fastest, as Friday pacesetter Andrea Dovizioso suffered a crash towards the end of the session. Honda rider Marquez, fastest in FP1 on Friday but only eighth in FP2, was first to beat Dovizioso’s benchmark at Termas de Rio Hondo with an early lap of
MotoGP riders have complained about track conditions at Termas de Rio Hondo, saying they are having difficulty passing on parts of the Argentina circuit that are “like ice”. The Termas circuit is notorious for having low grip as it is used infrequently throughout the year, which requires riders to clean the track up throughout the
Jorge Lorenzo says his woes on the opening day of MotoGP’s Argentinian Grand Prix were more a result of his inexperience on Honda’s bike than his injuries. Lorenzo, who fractured his wrist while training in January then cracked a rib at the Qatar season opener, said he would be extra careful at this weekend’s Argentina
Ferrari has dismissed suggestions that its form at the Australian Grand Prix was hurt by cooling problems with its Formula 1 car. The team started the season-opening weekend as clear favourite after a strong showing in pre-season testing, but it was unable to replicate that form in Melbourne as Mercedes turned the tables to take
World Rally Championship points leader Ott Tanak has stolen the lead of the Tour of Corsica as his battle with rival Elfyn Evans intensifies. Tanak admitted on Friday that he “wasn’t quite at the limit yet,” but there was “no holding back” from the championship leader on Saturday morning. He took 0.6 seconds out of
Danilo Petrucci has described the opening day of track action for this weekend’s Argentina Grand Prix as his worst since he joined the factory Ducati MotoGP team. While Andrea Dovizioso and Jack Miller ensured Ducati locked out the top two times on the opening day of track action at Termas de Rio Hondo, Petrucci ended
Honda’s second attempt to have its Ducati-style MotoGP winglet approved in Argentina has been successful. A swingarm-attached winglet was run by Ducati on all three of its 2019-spec bikes in Qatar, but the part was protested by rival manufacturers Aprilia, Honda, Suzuki and KTM after the race. Ducati argued the appendage was used primarily to
Mercedes Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton says Ferrari’s strong performance has made Bahrain Grand Prix practice “completely different” to the season opener in Australia. Ferrari finished off the podium and almost a minute adrift of Hamilton’s race-winning team-mate Valtteri Bottas in Melbourne, having led the way in pre-season testing. But Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc
Andrea Dovizioso beat Ducati MotoGP stablemate Jack Miller by just 0.009 seconds to end Friday practice for the Argentina Grand Prix at Termas de Rio Hondo on top. Practice one pacesetter Marc Marquez led much of the 45-minute second session, beating his benchmark from the morning with a 1m39.812s before improving to a 1m39.497s. But
Robert Kubica says he is driving a “completely different car” compared to Williams Formula 1 team-mate George Russell, despite them running ostensibly identical set-ups. Kubica, who was a second slower than Russell in second practice for this weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix, was at a loss to understand why the data indicated that the cars have
Tour of Corsica stewards have returned Elfyn Evans to the lead of the rally after he lost time catching Kris Meeke on the final Friday stage. Evans took the lead of France’s World Rally Championship round on the first stage of the afternoon and looked set to remain out front overnight. But the M-Sport Ford
Ott Tanak returned to the Tour of Corsica lead temporarily, but Elfyn Evans will be given first place back having become stuck behind World Rally Championship rival Kris Meeke. Although Evans dropped from first to third when caught behind Meeke’s slow-moving car on Friday’s final stage, Autosport understands that stewards will award Evans the same
Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez commanded the opening practice session for this week’s Argentina Grand Prix, beating Jack Miller by over three tenths of a second. Marquez was the first rider to dip into the 1m40s at the Termas de Rio Hondo track, and early on in the 45-minute session he enjoyed a one-second buffer
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