Ott Tanak’s World Rally Championship lead has been extended to 35 points over Thierry Neuville after recording a third successive Rally Germany victory for Toyota. Tanak led a clean sweep of the podium for the Japanese marque, with Kris Meeke coming home 20.8s in arrears, with Jari-Matti Latvala third. Neuville salvaged finished behind Hyundai team-mate
Month: August 2019
WRT gave Audi its first Intercontinental GT Challenge victory of 2019 following a dominant showing in the second running of the Suzuka 10 Hours. The #25 crew comprising Kelvin van der Linde, Dries Vanthoor and Frederic Vervisch took the chequered flag 40 seconds clear of the #999 GruppeM Mercedes that won the event last year.
Toyota’s Ott Tanak is within touching distance of a fourth World Rally Championship victory in five outings ahead of the final stage of Rally Germany. Tanak maintained his overnight lead of 25.1 seconds over team-mate Kris Meeke after taking it easy on the passes through Grafschaft and Dhrontal on Sunday morning. The third Toyota of
Takuma Sato held off Ed Carpenter to take victory in IndyCar’s Gateway race, just a week after shouldering the blame for causing a lap-one crash at Pocono. Sato qualified fifth but was forced to climb from the back of the field after running wide on marbles early on, cycling into the lead near the finish
Ott Tanak leads a Toyota one-two-three ahead of Sunday’s final Rally Germany stages, as his World Rally Championship rivals Thierry Neuville and Sebastien Ogier both punctured on the Panzerplatte test. Hyundai driver Neuville and Tanak had been embroiled in an intense battle for the lead on Friday that continued into Saturday morning. Neuville began Saturday
Injured Honda MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo says it was “not worth” pushing any harder in British Grand Prix qualifying to advance on a season-worst 21st position. Lorenzo is making his comeback at Silverstone this weekend following two months on the sidelines to recover from a back injury sustained in a crash during first practice at
Valentino Rossi says securing a front row starting spot for MotoGP’s British Grand Prix was made sweeter by recent calls from his detractors that he should retire. The Yamaha rider equalled his best qualifying performance of 2019 at Silverstone as he ended up behind only Marc Marquez, securing his first front row since April’s Austin
LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow says “a bit of an amateur mistake” led to his crash in MotoGP qualifying at Silverstone. Crutchlow will start his home race from ninth on the grid after sliding off the track at Stowe while on course to improve on his final flying lap in Q2. Speaking after the session,
Thierry Neuville’s hopes of beating Toyota’s Ott Tanak to Rally Germany victory and the World Rally Championship title were dealt a major blow by a puncture on the Panzerplatte stage. A number of drivers suffered punctures on the stage during the pre-event recce, which crews use to make pace notes, but Neuville was the only
World Rally Championship points leader Ott Tanak continues to lead Rally Germany for Toyota as Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville was left to rue a minor mistake on Saturday morning’s second stage. Neuville had chopped 1.3 seconds out of Tanak on the first run of Freisen to trim the Toyota’s overall advantage to 1.5s. But he overcooked
The spectator who fell around five metres onto a stage and narrowly avoided being hit by Citroen’s Mads Ostberg is reportedly uninjured. On SS5 of Rally Germany, the second running of the 19.44kmh Stein und Wein stage, the spectator fell off a short wall “head first” onto the stage on a straight section, just as
Fabio Quartararo smashed the existing Silverstone MotoGP lap record to lead Valentino Rossi in British Grand Prix FP3 by 0.146s, while Andrea Dovizioso missed the Q2 cut. Marc Marquez set the initial pace in the third 45-minute session of the Silverstone weekend on the Honda, going top initially with a 2m00.598s, which he improved to
Josef Newgarden took his eighth career pole for the IndyCar round at Gateway, while title rival Alexander Rossi will start the race from 11th on the grid. Newgarden, who was champion for Team Penske-Chevrolet in 2017 – winning that season’s Gateway round – set a two-lap average of 186.508mph to beat the provisional pole time
An “angry” Pol Espargaro wants MotoGP to address “dangerous” situations created by the presence of replacement riders, after he was balked by Sylvain Guintoli in Friday practice at Silverstone. Suzuki test rider Guintoli has made two prior appearances as a wildcard rider this year and is standing in for the injured Joan Mir in the
Jorge Lorenzo admits he has more “fear” of crashing and worsening the back injuries he suffered at Assen, which is hindering his MotoGP comeback at the British Grand Prix. The Honda rider ended up 21st-fastest during Friday practice for this weekend’s racing at Silverstone, some 3.7 seconds off the pace established by Petronas SRT’s Fabio
Ott Tanak and Thierry Neuville remain extremely closely-matched at the head of the Rally Germany order at the end of Friday’s stages. Their afternoon battle replicated their morning form – Neuville quickest on the opening stage then World Rally Championship leader Tanak fighting back on the next two. Hyundai driver Neuville managed to halve Tanak’s
Ott Tanak inched into an early Rally Germany lead over Thierry Neuville, as the pair left their World Rally Championship rivals trailing on Friday morning. Hyundai driver Neuville had snatched first place from Thursday evening pacesetter Tanak’s Toyota by going quickest on the opening Stein und Wein stage, taking a 0.7-second lead. But Tanak –
Valentino Rossi says he can sympathise with Johann Zarco’s decision to quit KTM after one MotoGP season, as the situation reminds him of his own struggles at Ducati. Zarco shocked the paddock when KTM announced an early end to his two-year contract in the wake of the recent Austrian Grand Prix, a move that will
World Rally Championship points’ leader Ott Tanak beat his title rivals on the first stage of Rally Germany to lead overnight, the three title contenders split by one second. The first stage offered a rare opportunity for crews to tackle a representative road to open the rally – having also used the test on shakedown
Jorge Lorenzo admits the two big June crashes that had left him with an injured back created “doubts” and affected his “commitment” to his current MotoGP programme with Honda. The three-time MotoGP champion was on the sidelines for four grands prix after fracturing a vertebra in practice at Assen, in a fast crash that came
Toyota has made changes to the positioning of the rear wing on its Yaris WRC, following a World Rally Championship rules clarification by the FIA. During the Rally Finland weekend, the FIA said a clarification of rear wing measurements was necessary, while stressing that no car in the championship was running illegally. Toyota’s rear wing
Johann Zarco felt that continuing with KTM for the 2020 MotoGP season without any improvements would have meant that he “failed” in his career, so preferred to leave. In a shock decision, Zarco decided to end his contract with the factory KTM team one year early and will depart at the end of 2019. The
Opel has launched what it believes is the first rally championship for electric cars, replacing its flagship junior series with the ADAC Opel e-Rally Cup for the Corsa-e from 2020. The ADAC Opel Rallye Cup – which uses the marque’s Adam model – has helped to produce a number of rally talents including WRC 2
Two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso says climbing the Namibia dunes for the first time with the Toyota Hilux was “shocking”, as his Dakar Rally preparation programme began in earnest. Alonso has been testing the Hilux in Namibia since Tuesday, following Toyota’s announcement that he would embark on a rally-raid initiation programme with the view
Dale Earnhardt Jr’s plan to contest next weekend’s NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Darlington is still on despite his recent plane crash. Earnhardt, who retired from full-time NASCAR competition at the end of the 2017 season, has still competed in one Xfinity race each season. His lone start this year was planned for August 31
Olympic legend, and accomplished racer, Sir Chris Hoy will celebrate his childhood hero by driving Colin McRae’s 1996 Subaru Impreza during the build-up to the World Rally Championship’s Rally GB. Hoy will take to the WRC event’s new Oulton Park special stage in the Impreza that McRae took to victory in Spain in 1996. The
NASCAR has taken further steps to reduce Cup drivers’ participation in its lower level Xfinity and Trucks series. Stock car racing’s governing body has made a series of rules adjustments in recent years to prevent its top tier drivers dominating the support categories too. From next season drivers with more than three full-time seasons in
Cal Crutchlow says a new MotoGP deal with Honda “has been discussed”, but still believes it is likely his current contract will be his last. The three-time premier class grand prix winner joined Honda satellite squad LCR in 2015 after a difficult year at Ducati, and became an official HRC-contracted rider in ’17. He extended
Citroen is hopeful that an engine upgrade and a better understanding of its asphalt performance will give Sebastien Ogier the chance to fight for victory on Rally Germany. A strong start to the 2019 season where Ogier’s return to Citroen after seven seasons away yielded victories in two of the first three rounds aboard the
The Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing IndyCar team has defended its driver Takuma Sato over his part in the five-car opening lap crash at Pocono last weekend. Andretti duo Alexander Rossi and Ryan Hunter-Reay ran side-by-side with Sato on the opening lap heading towards the second corner before the RLLR driver appeared to squeeze Rossi, leading
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