Toyota’s Ott Tanak is within touching distance of victory on Rally Portugal, as Kris Meeke dropped behind World Rally Championship rival Thierry Neuville with a costly spin. Meeke grabbed 1.9s from Tanak’s overnight 4.3s lead on the opening stage of the day but Tanak responded on the next two stages to rebuild an 8.1s advantage.
Month: June 2019
Scott Dixon says he and Ganassi have no choice but to take a more aggressive approach in terms of aiming for race wins, as his IndyCar title hopes faded in Detroit. Five-time champion Dixon claimed only 17th at the Indianapolis 500 and made a rare error in the opening Detroit race on Saturday. Dixon clipped
Bentley made up for its 2018 disappointment at Paul Ricard by dominating this year’s edition of the Blancpain GT Endurance Cup’s 1000km race. Jordan Pepper, Steven Kane, and Jules Gounon missed out on victory 12 months ago after being overtaken by the Emil Frey Lexus with three corners to go. This year they dominated from
Josef Newgarden narrowly beat Alexander Rossi to victory during a caution-filled wet/dry first IndyCar race of the weekend in Detroit. Team Penske driver Newgarden was a low-key third through the opening stint but a fortuitously-timed sole pitstop ensured he leapt Rossi, and he held off his Andretti rival through to the chequered flag. The start
The first of this weekend’s two IndyCar Series races at Belle Isle has been delayed indefinitely due to thunderstorms. The opening Detroit race was scheduled for 15:50 local time but a delay of at least an hour is expected due to the weather conditions. An advisory for fans at the circuit stated: “Inclement weather is
Marc Marquez is adamant that Ducati ordered its test rider Michele Pirro to follow him during qualifying for MotoGP’s Italian Grand Prix at Mugello. Honda rider Marquez scorched to his fourth pole position of the 2019 campaign on Saturday, benefitting from Andrea Dovizioso’s tow to beat Fabio Quartararo by two tenths of a second. Explaining
Toyota’s Ott Tanak clung onto the lead of Rally Portugal over Kris Meeke and Thierry Neuville, as both he and team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala suffered damper issues. Latvala had carved 12.2 seconds out of Tanak’s lead on Saturday morning after selecting a harder tyre compound than his immediate rivals, but his work was undone on the
Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi said that an issue with his brakes in Saturday morning’s third practice session was the catalyst for him qualifying 18th for his home grand prix at Mugello. Rossi was on course to set a top 10 laptime at the end of FP3, but ran off-track as a result of an
Jorge Lorenzo feels team-mate Marc Marquez’s imperious MotoGP form means Honda is reluctant to make changes to its RC213V that may help out other riders. The three-time MotoGP champion replaced a struggling Dani Pedrosa at the Honda works team at the off-season, but has so far struggled to attain results. Marquez, who has given Honda
Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi claimed pole position for the first race of IndyCar’s double-header around the streets of Belle Isle in Detroit. An acrobatic lap from Rossi in the faster Group 2 session netted the American his sixth career pole, as he beat Scott Dixon by two-tenths of the session. Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden was
The Williams Formula 1 team’s Heritage arm ran its inaugural client trackday at Jerez early last month. The privately owned cars that ran included Keke Rosberg’s 1983 Monaco Grand Prix-winning FW08C, Nigel Mansell’s legendary 1992 FW14B and one of the FW17s that took pole position at 12 out of 17 races in 1995 in the
Renault is considering building a ‘qualifying’ car for 2020 as part of its effort to move up the order in Formula 1. Although it has faced a difficult start to the current campaign, the team is convinced that the baseline of its 2019 challenger is good enough to help it break free of the midfield
Marc Marquez secured his fourth pole position of the 2019 MotoGP season, beating Fabio Quartararo by 0.214s at the end of a frenetic qualifying session for the Italian Grand Prix. Reigning champion Marquez established a new lap record at Mugello with his best time of 1m45.519s on his Honda, eclipsing the 1m45.733s set by Quartararo
Toyota’s dominance of the World Rally Championship on Rally Portugal continued on Saturday morning, but Jari-Matti Latvala has sliced rally leader Ott Tanak’s advantage to just 5.1 seconds. Tanak’s morning was not plain-sailing, as the Estonian “f*cked” the brakes aboard his Yaris to lose nine seconds to stage eight winner Kris Meeke. Tanak’s lead gap
Bentley Team M-Sport claimed a maiden pole position for the 1000-kilometre Blancpain GT Endurance Cup race at the Paul Ricard Circuit. Jordan Pepper, Steven Kane, and Jules Gounon took the top spot in the three-part qualifying session with a 1m53.338s average aboard their Bentley Continental GT3 and claimed Team M-Sport’s first pole position. Their average
Ducati works rider Danilo Petrucci topped Saturday morning practice at the Italian Grand Prix with a new fastest-ever MotoGP lap of Mugello. The local hero recorded a 1m46.056s, surpassing the previous record held by Valentino Rossi, while both Rossi and Petrucci’s teammate Andrea Dovizioso ended up missing the cut for automatic progression to Q2. Despite
Formula 1 championship leader Lewis Hamilton believes his start to the season has been “quite an average performance from myself”, despite winning four of the six races so far. Hamilton’s Monaco Grand Prix victory moved him 17 points clear of Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas in the title battle. It came after only his second pole
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