Toyota LMP1 driver Jose Maria Lopez has dropped out of a planned appearance in the Spa 24 Hours with Audi. The Argentinian driver had been announced as part of the Land Motorsport’s line-up for the Belgian endurance classic, and was due to join Christopher Mies and Ricardo Feller in the team’s Audi R8 LMS in
Month: July 2019
Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff says Lewis Hamilton made “all the data look a little bit silly” when he took the fastest lap in the British Grand Prix. Hamilton had already been on his hard tyres for 31 laps when he decided to go for the extra point at the end of the
Alfa Romeo technical director Simone Resta will leave the team at the end of the month to rejoin his ex-Formula 1 employer Ferrari. Resta joined Alfa one year ago when it was entered in F1 as Sauber after establishing himself as an important part of Ferrari’s design team. Heading up Sauber/Alfa’s technical department gave Resta
Sage Karam and Conor Daly will return to the Carlin team for this weekend’s IndyCar race at Iowa. Karam made his return to competing on street courses for the first time in four years last weekend at Toronto and finished 21st, as he replaced Red Bull junior driver Patricio O’Ward who was contesting a Super
Elfyn Evans will miss next month’s World Rally Championship round Rally Finland after injuring his back at last week’s Rally Estonia, and will be replaced by Gus Greensmith. Evans finished the event in fourth place, but following physio work on his back, medical specialists have advised against tackling a rally of similar nature in a
Although Formula 1’s 2021 rules have not yet been finalised, the ideas are advanced enough for technical expert Giorgio Piola to imagine how the new generation of cars will look. Here, he offers more detail about the changes that will appear from 2021 as F1 bids to create a formula that allows cars to follow
William Storey is no longer associated with Rich Energy, UK government documents have confirmed – and in addition the company has been renamed Lightning Volt. Storey had been in dispute with shareholders of the company since last Wednesday, when he announced on Twitter that the sponsorship with the Haas F1 team has been terminated. Those
Three-time Toronto IndyCar winner Will Power says the crash that ended the Penske driver’s race last weekend on the penultimate lap was a “terrible mistake”. Power is behind both his Penske team-mates Josef Newgarden and Simon Pagenaud in the standings in fifth, and is yet to win a race while his team-mates have won three
The bump at Silverstone’s Brooklands corner that Daniel Ricciardo highlighted as something that could make MotoGP riders “pretty angry” was already known about before the Formula 1 weekend. Silverstone underwent a complete resurfacing this year after the previous asphalt laid in 2018 deteriorated substantially and a lack of drainage led to the cancellation of a
Aston Martin’s first public run of the Valkyrie hypercar it developed with Red Bull was chosen for the British Grand Prix partly to give “two fingers” to the company’s critics. The road-going version of the Aston Martin/Red Bull Advanced Technologies-developed Valkyrie, which will be built for the new World Endurance Championship rules as well, complete
Robert Wickens says driving again is “the best therapy” after leading parade laps at the Toronto IndyCar race in a specially adapted road car with hand controls. Wickens hadn’t driven a car in public since his “life-changing” accident in IndyCar at Pocono in 2018 but returned to drive at the head of the field before
Sebastian Vettel’s clash with Max Verstappen in the British Grand Prix was the latest in the growing list of high-profile errors the Ferrari Formula 1 driver has made in battle. On a weekend where he was already being noticeably outperformed by team-mate Charles Leclerc, Vettel was attempting to reclaim the third place he had just
Max Verstappen reckons Charles Leclerc was so robust with his defensive driving in the British Grand Prix because he was ‘still sore’ over their clash in Austria. The Red Bull and Ferrari drivers fought wheel-to-wheel for the first time at Silverstone since their controversial incident at the Red Bull Ring two weeks before. With Leclerc
Ott Tanak deliberately chose an adverse starting spot on Rally Estonia, in preparation for next month’s World Rally Championship event in Finland where he will run first on the road. All four WRC manufacturers sent cars to Estonia for the non-championship round, as a test for one of the series’ headline events just over the
Lewis Hamilton says he decided not to block Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Valtteri Bottas while the pair battled for the lead in the early laps of the British Grand Prix. Hamilton managed to squeeze past race leader Bottas around the outside exiting Brooklands on the fourth lap, but Bottas then surged back past heading into
Multiple IndyCar champion Scott Dixon says repairing his arm could be an “off-season project”, as the Kiwi is suffering with tennis elbow. Chip Ganassi Honda driver Dixon emerged as the closest challenger to eventual winner Simon Pagenaud – who won this year’s Indianapolis 500 – in last weekend’s IndyCar race at Toronto, despite suffering with
Ducati MotoGP sporting director Paolo Ciabatti has accused his Honda counterpart Alberto Puig of misinterpreting his statements in order to manufacturer controversy. Ciabatti was referring to Puig’s interview given to El Confidencial, in which the Spaniard attacked Ducati for implying that its recent MotoGP success would have been impossible without five-time premier class champion Marc
Kentucky NASCAR Cup Series winner Kurt Busch says he was “proud” of his brother, Kyle, for their fight for victory last weekend in which the two made contact. Penske’s Joey Logano looked home and dry before a caution triggered a five-lap showdown. Chip Ganassi Chevrolet driver Kurt Busch had fresher tyres and drove around the
Simon Pagenaud resisted a late charge from Scott Dixon to claim his third win of the 2019 IndyCar season in Toronto. The Indianapolis 500 winner led from pole and was putting in a dominant display until the final round of pit stops when the resulting traffic from the cycle allowed fellow front-row starter Dixon to
Lewis Hamilton says he went against his Mercedes Formula 1 team by not pitting for fresh tyres for a late British Grand Prix fastest lap attempt. Hamilton scored a record-breaking sixth victory at Silverstone after a safety car period allowed him to jump ahead of polesitting team-mate Valtteri Bottas. The two Mercedes drivers opted for
An unusual high-voltage problem denied Alex Albon a points finish in the British Grand Prix after his Honda Formula 1 engine issue prevented him from making a second pitstop. Albon was among the first drivers to make a schedule stop, on lap 13 of 52, and he spent most of the Silverstone race inside the
A pair of superb stints from Christopher Haase and Simon Gachet gave Sainteloc Racing its first Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe win of the season in the second Zandvoort race. The Audi R8 pairing led comfortably throughout with Haase building a mammoth 13-second advantage ahead of the mandatory pit-stops. Gachet continued the domination in the
Red Bull Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly says he has made a “massive step” forward during what he feels is so far his “strongest” weekend of the season at Silverstone. Gasly qualified fifth for the British Grand Prix, matching his strongest grid position of the year, as he ended up just under half a second
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kurt Busch clinched his first victory of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season, beating his brother Kyle Busch in a thrilling overtime finish at Kentucky. Penske’s Joey Logano had seemed on course for victory after he battled past dominant stage two winner Kyle Busch (Joe Gibbs Racing) to take the lead for
Simon Pagenaud claimed pole position for the Toronto IndyCar race as Scott Dixon spun on his final fast lap. Pagenaud squeezed in a 58.429s lap around the 1.78-mile street course, reaching the line just before the session ended. Dixon, who had led for much of the final ‘fast six’ session, kept his time as his
Daniel Ricciardo has praised Renault for putting aside the ‘frustrations’ of having to abandon some of its new upgrades as it returned to form at the British Grand Prix. Following a deeply disappointing outing in Austria a fortnight ago, Renault went back on a setup direction and decided to take off some of the new
Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff said he was ‘surprised’ to see Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton claim the front row in qualifying for the British Grand Prix. Bottas set a time of 1m25.093s to deny his team-mate Hamilton a pole in his home race at Silverstone by a margin of just 0.006s, but
Akka ASP duo Vincent Abril and Raffaele Marciello claimed their first Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe victory of the season in the opening race at Zandvoort. The pole-sitting #88 Mercedes-AMG built a lead either side of the mandatory pit-stop to beat the Grasser Racing Team Lamborghini of Mirko Bortolotti and Christian Engelhart by over eight
Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto believes there is no doubt that Sebastian Vettel is “fully committed” to a future in Formula 1 with the Italian team. Vettel has admitted that the direction F1 takes with its 2021 rules will be an important factor in deciding whether to stay in the championship beyond next season. His
Team Penske-Chevrolet’s Simon Pagenaud went fastest in second practice for Honda Indy Toronto, just beating Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda’s Felix Rosenqvist. The 2019 Indianapolis 500 winner set a time of 59.8708s around the 1.786-mile street course with Rosenqvist a mere 0.0603s behind him. Pagenaud, who claimed pole at the Toronto circuit in ’17, had a clear
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