Mercedes may have won the opening five rounds of the 2019 Formula 1, but each of its triumphs have come at different types of track. By removing the circuit variety and simply expressing the pace of each F1 team as a percentage from the fastest laps each set at each race, the true competitive spread
Month: May 2019
Juncos Racing’s already questionable entry for the 2019 Indianapolis 500 suffered a huge blow early in ‘Fast Friday’ practice when Kyle Kaiser crashed. The 2017 Indy Lights champion was commencing a qualifying simulation with the car trimmed out and running the 1.4-bar turbo boost that the IndyCar teams will use for qualifying this weekend. At
Honda rider Jorge Lorenzo says his improved MotoGP form in practice at Le Mans felt like a “small victory” as a change to his bike’s seat paid off. Lorenzo, whose first season as a Honda rider reached an early nadir with a poor showing last time out at Jerez, ended Friday practice at Le Mans
Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso admitted his riding was “too aggressive” in Friday practice for the French Grand Prix at Le Mans. Dovizioso was in the top five in both sessions, ending the day fifth fastest overall, and was confident that he will be in podium and victory contention on Sunday. But he said he
Maverick Vinales topped a crash-filled Friday afternoon MotoGP practice for the French Grand Prix at Le Mans as Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi was left facing a possible Q1 appearance again. Championship leader Marc Marquez led most of the session but his 1m32.2s efforts at the time were slower than Fabio Quartararo’s morning benchmark, before times
Formula 1 should continue to use Barcelona for pre-season testing even if the circuit falls off the race calendar in 2020, reckons Red Bull team boss Christian Horner. Spanish Grand Prix bosses are negotiating with F1 over the future of the race, which is under threat following the return of the Dutch Grand Prix at
Formula 1 teams are being reduced to “playing games with the thermometer” by 2019 tyre behaviour, says Gene Haas. The Haas team has struggled all season to stay in the optimum tyre operating window in races, despite often showing promise in qualifying. Warmer conditions and the nature of the Barcelona track contributed to an improved
It is Indianapolis 500 qualifying this weekend, and while IndyCar has changed over the years the emotion around its premier race has not waned. One man very familiar with what the teams will be thinking going into this weekend’s battles both for pole and to avoid being ‘bumped’ is legendary Indy mechanic and fabricator Eamon
Fernando Alonso and McLaren have one final day of Indianapolis 500 practice to recover lost ground after the two-time Formula 1 champion’s crash and loss of Thursday running. Alonso has completed just 96 laps over the past three days of practice, compared to the 302 laps that busiest driver Spencer Pigot of Ed Carpenter Racing
Petronas SRT Yamaha rookie Fabio Quartararo was quickest in the first practice session ahead of his home MotoGP race at Le Mans. Quartararo, who had become MotoGP’s youngest-ever poleman last time out at Jerez, was the only rider to dip below 1m32s in Friday morning practice, using a pair of fresh soft tyres to lead
Ed Carpenter Racing Scuderia Corsa driver Ed Jones topped a third day of practice for the Indianapolis 500 cut short by rain and thunderstorms. The final hour and a half of the planned seven hours of running was scrubbed off, ensuring Chevrolet-powered Jones’s eighth lap of 37, a 227.843mph effort set in the morning, remained
Pramac Ducati MotoGP rider Jack Miller has revealed Aleix Espargaro confronted him after their collision in the Spanish Grand Prix, saying the Spaniard told him he deserved to crash. Aprilia rider Espargaro and Miller were fighting for 10th place with three laps remaining when Espargaro made a move at the final corner. Miller wanted to
Johann Zarco says he accepts KTM MotoGP boss Stefan Pierer’s criticism of him following the Spanish Grand Prix earlier this month, admitting he “lost some control” at Jerez. Zarco’s Jerez weekend started poorly with two crashes on Friday, and an irate debrief from Zarco to his KTM engineering crew after one of his falls was
New Red Bull Formula 1 junior Patricio O’Ward walked away from a crash on the third day of practice for the Indianapolis 500 in which his car was briefly airborne. Carlin driver O’Ward was running behind three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves when he appeared to turn in too sharply at Turn 2 – as
Max Verstappen’s performances in Formula 1 have been “phenomenal” since he “selected another gear” after last year’s Monaco Grand Prix, his Red Bull team boss Christian Horner believes. Verstappen passed both Ferraris on the opening lap to finish third in Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix, earning his second podium of the season and moving back ahead
Formula 1’s commercial boss Sean Bratches says a return to the African continent is a priority for Liberty Media, and that Marrakech has expressed an interest in holding a race. Morocco hosted a round of the world championship on a single occasion – the 1958 season finale – on a road course in Casablanca. Stirling
The Spanish Grand Prix is usually accompanied by Formula 1’s band of teams bringing their first large upgrade packages of the season, and the 2019 edition was no exception. Every team on the grid brought something new to Barcelona; the culmination of the early season’s hard work, the engineers could now assess if the long
The Bathurst 12 Hour will revert back to a three-day event in 2020 and keep its now-traditional early February date. Having experimented with a four-day format in 2019, organisers have opted to return to the three-day set-up for 2020 and will start proceedings with practice on Friday. That means no active track action on the
One-time IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden put Penske top of Thursday practice for the Indianapolis 500, as both Fernando Alonso and Felix Rosenqvist crashed. Chevrolet-powered Newgarden lapped the Indianapolis Motor Speedway at 228.856mph to edge out Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda’s Scott Dixon by 0.021mph. Ed Carpenter Racing, which took pole for the 2018 race through team owner
The new Montreal pits and race control building was officially unveiled at Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix circuit after a particularly hard winter delayed the construction works. The city and the race promotion organisation committed to the $39m new facility after signing a contract that runs until 2029, in one of the last deals agreed
McLaren’s Fernando Alonso has explained the cause of his crash in IndyCar practice for the 2019 Indianapolis 500. Alonso’s #66 McLaren Racing-Chevrolet made contact at Turn 3, having added 46 laps to his total of 50 on Tuesday. Why Alonso’s second Indy 500 will be much harder The former Formula 1 driver was running directly
Carlos Sainz Jr believes Formula 1 must become “more attractive” to prevent events like the Spanish Grand Prix from losing more spectators as a consequence of predictable results. It is widely anticipated that the Spanish race will fall off the calendar in 2020, with the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort set to occupy its traditional
Wales Rally GB should make a short-term move to Northern Ireland for 2020 and then rotate around Britain to safeguard its World Rally Championship future, says the WRC Promoter. The 2020 calendar will be discussed at Friday’s meeting of the WRC Commission in Geneva. Corsica and Germany are expected to drop off the calendar to
Zandvoort organisers are hoping that a revised final corner with steeper banking will contribute to increased overtaking opportunities when the Dutch Grand Prix returns to the track in 2020. The changes to the right-hander named after Arie Luyendyk, which leads onto the pit straight down to the heavy braking zone at the famous Tarzan first
LCR rider Cal Crutchlow says he feels less comfortable with the current specification of the Honda MotoGP bike, which “feels nothing like” the 2018 version. While he has nine points fewer than at the same stage last year, Crutchlow has looked in solid enough form on the 2019-spec RC213V, scoring a podium in Qatar and
Will Power and Simon Pagenaud put Team Penske at the top on the opening day of 2019 Indianapolis 500 practice, while Fernando Alonso had further electrical problems. Power got a major tow to set his fastest speed of 229.745mph, on his 41st of 68 laps edging team-mate and last weekend’s Indianapolis road course race winner
Formula 1 test debutant Callum Ilott says he was caught off guard by the “weird” moment that led to him spinning his Alfa Romeo and crashing at high speed. Ilott had just set his best time of the day at Barcelona when the rear snapped in the fast Turn 3 right-hander, leading to a rear
Valtteri Bottas topped the first day of the Barcelona Formula 1 test with a laptime just a tenth of a second slower than his Spanish Grand Prix pole position mark. The Mercedes driver topped the morning running, but improved his time in the afternoon using the Pirelli C5 tyres, which are two steps softer than
Gil de Ferran admits that McLaren going it alone at the 2019 Indianapolis 500 is a “big step”, but insists that the team has not underestimated the challenge. De Ferran is now McLaren’s sporting director, but he began his association with the team by working as an advisor to Fernando Alonso in 2017, as the
Haas Formula 1 team title sponsor Rich Energy Ltd and its CEO William Storey have lost a copyright infringement claim filed by specialist bicycle manufacturer Whyte Bikes. The Sussex-based company took action to defend its stag logo, claimed that the Rich Energy logo was a copy of its own and was being used without authorisation.
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