And now Al Unser, four-time Indianapolis 500 winner, three-time Indycar champion, has left us at the age of 82 barely seven months after elder brother Bobby, leaving a similar-sized hole in the ranks of US open-wheel legends. He never relished the spotlight like Bobby, and would never have dreamt of being as strident, but while
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The success of Formula 3000 champions Juan Pablo Montoya, Bruno Junqueira and Sebastien Bourdais in Champ Car meant there was great expectation on the shoulders of 2003 king Bjorn Wirdheim when he headed Stateside in 2005. A money shortfall at his HVM squad, which couldn’t afford to go testing, and the lack of an experienced
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Reigning FE champion De Vries lapped the 1.7-mile configuration of the track in 52.552 seconds, setting his best time on his 25th of 62 laps. Vandoorne, Williams Formula 1 reserve Jack Aitken (Ed Carpenter Racing) and Juncos Holinger’s 2022 IndyCar driver Callum Ilott were also in attendance at the four-car evaluation test. De Vries, who
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The announcement from IGTC organiser the Stephane Ratel Organiser on Tuesday follows last week’s postponement of the South African series finale from its 4 December date this weekend as a result of the imposition of international travel restrictions to and from the country. They followed the identification of the new Omicron COVID variant in South
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The 27-year-old German has agreed his first manufacturer deal following five seasons of GT racing after calling time on a single-seater career that included two third-place championship finishes in GP3 in 2014 and 2015. His successes in the GT3 arena include a second-place finish in the Bathurst 12 Hours and a GT World Challenge Europe
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ORECA has won the tender to assemble the new contender under development on an as-yet-to-be disclosed car from Ferrari’s model range, as well as to provide after-sales service. The Paul Ricard-based organisation led by Hugues de Chaunac is taking over from Michelotto, which has built Ferrari’s GT3 challengers since the 458 Italia GT3 that started
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Due to COVID-19 pandemic protocols and for cost-saving, the vast majority of NASCAR race weekends have gone without practice or qualifying since early 2020. In a statement, NASCAR’s senior vice president of competition Scott Miller said: “NASCAR is excited to return practice and qualifying to its race weekends. “We missed seeing cars and trucks on track all
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Had it not been for an out-of-the-blue phone call, 1999 Macau Grand Prix winner Darren Manning believes he could still be racing in Japan to this day. Certainly, without the approach that resulted in the Yorkshireman racing for Derrick Walker’s Champ Car team in 2003 when he was on the brink of joining Team Impul
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