What is a sprint race and why are they coming to F1? A sprint race is essentially a shortened version of a normal race, taking place over a shorter distance. They’re used in many other series, though perhaps most notably for Formula 1 is their inclusion in the Formula 2 race weekend. In F2 the
Month: April 2021
Last year’s F2 runner-up Ilott was announced as Alfa Romeo’s second reserve driver earlier this week ahead of his grand prix weekend debut in opening practice for the Portuguese Grand Prix. Taking over from Antonio Giovinazzi, Ferrari youngster Ilott completed 21 laps and finished the session 17th overall, lapping four-tenths of a second off Kimi
The 37-year-old was set to pilot one of three BTC Racing Honda Civic Type FK8s this season alongside Josh Cook and new recruit Jade Edwards. Upon moving to the Brackley squad last season after a challenging season with Team Hard in 2019, Crees won the Jack Sears Trophy for drivers without an outright BTCC podium.
Coming off the back of a promising debut in Bahrain, the Japanese rookie had hoped to impress more at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix a fortnight ago. However, a crash in Q1 that left him at the back of the grid, allied to a spin in the race, meant he missed out on points. Tsunoda
On Wednesday, Tanal Entertainment – a Saudi holding company belonging to Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah Al Suad – announced it had struck a deal with VR46 and Aramco to bring Rossi’s team to MotoGP from 2022. Though no official statement from the Rossi camp was made, VR46 did confirm to Autosport the news was correct.
After quitting the premier class in 2004, Aprilia returned to MotoGP in 2015 as a factory entrant running in conjunction with Gresini Racing. This partnership has continued through to 2021, though the current agreement between Aprilia and Gresini expires at the end of this season – with the latter confirming its return to independent team
Aside from five minutes of two-stage pit-speed limiter practice on Saturday and five minutes of install laps on Sunday, the 24-car field will be granted just one-hour of practice (75 minutes for rookies) before qualifying gets underway. As was introduced on ovals last year, each driver’s first lap of qualifying will set the grid for
Following last year’s cancellation, the United States Grand Prix will take place at Circuit of the Americas with fans in the grandstands as tickets for the race weekend of October 22-24 are now on sale. The race was one of the casualties of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, as the Formula 1 season centred on
The original plan was for him to run Le Mans with G-Drive as well as run the ovals for Dale Coyne Racing with RWR-Honda. However, when Le Mans was pushed back from its traditional mid-June date to 21-22 August due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Fittipaldi was forced to choose between sharing G-Drive’s LMP2 Aurus (ORECA)
The new breed of Le Mans Hypercar machines that will debut at Spa this weekend are expected to be five seconds slower than the LMP1 cars they replace, as they are not only down on power but also significantly heavier. To ensure Hypercars are still faster than LMP2 cars, LMP2 cars have had a 40bhp
Observed from an angle slightly above and behind the rear wing, the video offered a unique perspective of an F1 car being pushed to its limit around the Monte Carlo streets. As Alesi darted through the iconic corners, and blasted through the tunnel, the sensation of speed accompanied to the sound of the 3-litre flat
Sebastien Buemi posted his 2m04.669s with 30 minutes left on the clock of the three-hour Prologue session on Tuesday afternoon aboard the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar. The time, an improvement of less than a tenth over the previous Toyota best set by Jose Maria Lopez in the sister car on Tuesday morning,
Ilott, who is racing in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup for the Iron Lynx team, will step into the Alfa Romeo C41 for the opening practice session at Portimao – although it has yet to be disclosed whether he will replace Kimi Raikkonen or Antonio Giovinazzi in the session. The British driver will
Although Daly races for Ed Carpenter Racing across the road and street courses, along with the Indianapolis 500, he will assume duties for the British squad at Texas when ECR team owner Ed Carpenter takes his usual role of contesting the oval races – and Daly is also expected to drive at Gateway later this
When you’re trying to go as fast as possible around a race track, the most important piece of the puzzle is almost always the driver. Sure, Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen wouldn’t be winning races every week if they didn’t have the best equipment, but there’s a reason they’ve ended up with the fastest cars
Albuquerque improved on his morning best by just over one tenth with a 2m04.822s set aboard United’s ORECA-Gibson 07 in the second session of the two-day test ahead of this weekend’s series opener at the Belgian track. Racing Team Nederland driver Job van Uitert ended up one thousandth of a second behind Albuquerque, while Robin
Andretti Autosport’s Herta led the second round of the season for 97 of the 100 laps, holding off a strong run from Team Penske-Chevrolet’s Josef Newgarden. In the first stint, in which he was using Firestone’s softer alternate compound of tyres, Herta pulled a 2.5-second gap over Meyer Shank Racing’s Jack Harvey – and then
Following lengthy discussions about the idea of holding a trio of sprint race Saturday events this year, a framework of rules plus an extra financial package have been put in place between the teams and F1’s bosses. The matter still needs to go through the formal channels to be put in to the rules, with
Team Penske-Chevrolet’s two-time champion was beaten by Herta in the second round of the 2021 NTT IndyCar Series, despite a strong effort to displace him following the two restarts in the final stint. Newgarden cautioned against ignoring his 2019 title rival Alexander Rossi, but believes Herta has gained preeminence in the Andretti Autosport-Honda squad which
Speaking exclusively to Autosport, 1978 F1 World Champion Andretti – whose family team ran Californian Herta to his fourth career IndyCar Series victory at St Petersburg on Sunday – says the news that a second grand prix in Miami will join Austin’s United States GP on the 2022 F1 schedule is the perfect time for
DiBenedetto took the Stage 1 win under caution when a multi-car wreck erupted on the backstretch that sent Joey Logano’s #22 Team Penske Ford barrel-rolling down the track. Following a series of bumping moves, Logano appeared to get turned by Denny Hamlin’s Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota. Logano’s car veered left and made slight contact with
Herta had dominated proceedings at St. Petersburg, and although Penske’s Newgarden put the Andretti Autosport driver under pressure following two yellow flags in the final quarter of the race, Herta resisted his efforts to claim his fourth career IndyCar win. From pole, Herta immediately began to clear the rest of the pack at the start
The Saturday round drew widespread criticism when only nine of the 24 drivers were classified, and a further five cars were disqualified for exceeding energy limits. Teams have referred to the race as the electric championship ’s ‘2005 Indianapolis Grand Prix’ moment in circumstances FIA Formula E director Frederic Bertrand said he hoped “will never
Brivio left his position running Suzuki’s MotoGP squad off the back of last year’s world championship victory to take up a senior F1 role with Alpine. The Italian serves as the racing director for Alpine, jointly running the outfit alongside executive director Marcin Budkowski following its restructuring of its management team. Discussing his first two
The Andretti Autosport driver earned his first pole position of the season in the Fast Six, beating Meyer-Shank Racing’s Jack Harvey by 0.249s with a 1m00.321s lap. His best time came on his fourth lap of the session, as the red-walled alternate compound took longer than expected to come into an optimal performance window, but
Buemi has endured a tough start to the 2020/21 campaign as the team continues to race with its old powertrain – having delayed the introduction of its new kit until next month’s Monaco E-Prix. The 2015/16 champion scored only 11 points in the opening two double headers of the year, but qualified a season-best fourth
The 21-year-old, who had also topped Q2, went 0.249s faster than Meyer-Shank Racing driver Harvey with his final run to claim top spot with a 1m00.321s effort on his fourth lap. In doing so, he becomes the first non-Team Penske driver since Robert Wickens in 2018 to claim pole at the Florida circuit. Harvey’s best
The Belgian, who led the rally overnight on Friday but lost out with an incorrect tyre choice on Saturday’s morning loop, was unable to use the single spare tyre he carried in the boot of his Hyundai i20 Coupe as the lifting device needed to raise and lower the car on road sections to change
Wheldon, who died in an IndyCar crash at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway in 2011, won the 2005 series title for Michael Andretti’s team when it was known as Andretti-Green Racing and scored 16 IndyCar wins in a career that included two Indianapolis 500 victories in 2005 and 2011. The Briton had been due to
The two-time series champion, a winner at the Florida street course in 2019 and 2020, topped the timesheets with a 1m00.062s lap that was over a tenth clear of his 2019 title rival Alexander Rossi and just shy of the track record. Ex-Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean set the early pace for Dale Coyne Racing,
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