Christopher Haase held a narrow lead in Sainteloc Audi R8 LMS he shares with Markus Winkelhock and Dorian Boccolacci after the race went green following the 10th safety car of the GT World Challenge Europe race late in the 18th hour. The German was just three tenths up on Mattia Drudi in the Attempto Audi
Month: October 2020
Audi ran one-two in the Spa 24 Hours at the three-quarter mark with its factory entries from the Sainteloc and Attempto teams. Christopher Haase held a narrow lead in Sainteloc Audi R8 LMS he shares with Markus Winkelhock and Dorian Boccolacci after the race went green following the 10th safety car of the GT World
Will Power topped the final qualifying session of the 2020 IndyCar season at St Petersburg, where title contenders Josef Newgarden and Scott Dixon will start from eighth and 11th respectively. Team Penske driver Power set two laps good enough for pole position in the final ‘fast six’ qualifying session, with his last effort of a
The French team’s Mercedes-AMG GT3 moved back to the top of the leaderboard with Fraga at the wheel just over 20 minutes before the first cut-off at which points are scored in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup blue riband. The Brazilian moved past the FFF Racing Team Lamborghini Hurcan GT3 Evo of Andrea
Mercedes led the Spa 24 Hours after six hours with the Auto Sport Promotion line-up of Raffaele Marciello, Felipe Fraga and Timur Boguslavskiy at the six-hour mark. The French team’s Mercedes-AMG GT3 moved back to the top of the leaderboard with Fraga at the wheel just over 20 minutes before the first cut-off at which
LCR Honda’s Takaaki Nakagami says he’s “not interested” in the title fight after claiming his maiden MotoGP pole in Teruel Grand Prix qualifying. In beating the field with a 1m46.882s lap on Saturday at Aragon, Nakagami became the first Japanese rider to claim a premier class pole since Makoto Tamada topped Valencia qualifying in 2004.
Colton Herta headed an Andretti Autosport 1-2 in opening practice for the IndyCar season finale on the streets of St Petersburg as Scott McLaughlin impressed on his series debut. Seven months after the season was due to get underway at the track, before the escalating COVID-19 pandemic caused the event to be postponed and rescheduled
Takaaki Nakagami has secured an historic maiden MotoGP pole position for the Teruel Grand Prix. Here’s how and when you can watch the race. It marks Japan’s first MotoGP polesitter in the premier class since Makoto Tamada in 2004, with Nakagami beating Petronas SRT Yamaha’s Franco Morbidelli by 0.063s, as new world championship points leader
Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato will continue with the Rahal Letterman Lanigan team in next year’s IndyCar Series. The 43-year-old Japanese driver first raced for RLL in 2012 before four largely fruitless years with AJ Foyt Racing and a single season with Andretti Autosport, yielding the 2017 Indy 500, before returning to Bobby Rahal’s
Michael Jordan’s new NASCAR Cup team was only given its new name this week, but the impact of 23XI Racing is already being felt. As JIM UTTER explains, it could be just the beginning of enormous possibilities for NASCAR Last month, NBA legend Jordan announced he would become the majority owner in a Cup series
The double-points GT World Challenge Europe round will now begin at 4pm local time rather than 3:30pm to enable barrier repairs to be completed. An extended section of the barrier on the outside of the track on the run from La Source to Eau Rouge was seriously damaged in a three-car accident in which Raul
The start of the Spa 24 Hours has been delayed after an accident in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo support race in which a driver sustained a suspected broken leg. The double-points GT World Challenge Europe round will now begin at 4pm local time rather than 3:30pm to enable barrier repairs to be completed. An extended
Stefan Bradl claims he will see out the 2020 MotoGP season, meaning injured world champion Marc Marquez will not return for the final three rounds. Marquez broke his right arm in a crash during July’s Spanish Grand Prix at the start of the season and has been out since. The Honda rider attempted to stage
The move is the result of what race director Alain Adam described as “exaggerated abuse” of the original guidance issued during the pre-event driver briefing. The drivers were told that track limits would only be enforced at the fast Eau Rouge sequence at the start of the Spa lap because the number of officials in
Spa 24 Hours organisers have issued a clampdown on track limits ahead of this weekend’s race after the majority of cars repeatedly ran off circuit during practice and qualifying. The move is the result of what race director Alain Adam described as “exaggerated abuse” of the original guidance issued during the pre-event driver briefing. The
The boss of the GT World Challenge Europe, of which the Belgian fixture is the blue riband round, explained that the imposition of new restrictions in the country gave him doubts earlier this week that the race could go ahead. “We had concerns in the last days when we were already here because the hospitals
Stephane Ratel has admitted to concerns that this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours would be cancelled as the result of the worsening COVID-19 situation in Belgium. The boss of the GT World Challenge Europe, of which the Belgian fixture is the blue riband round, explained that the imposition of new restrictions in the country gave him
McLaren would have considered signing Kevin Magnussen to its IndyCar team had it not already finalised its line-up for 2021, according to Zak Brown. Magnussen announced on Thursday that he would be leaving Haas at the end of the year after four seasons with the team, with his chances of remaining in F1 appearing slim.
MotoGP completes its latest triple-header with a second consecutive race at Aragon with the Teruel Grand Prix. Here’s how to watch qualifying. Honda’s resurgence has continued at Aragon with Alex Marquez topping the first practice session before Takaaki Nakagami took over at the top in second practice on Friday, beating Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales as LCR
The Italian posted a 2m32.166s during the Super Pole session held on Friday evening to claim the top spot in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 he shares with Felipe Fraga and Timur Boguslavskiy, his time putting him two tenths up on the best of the WRT Audis in second position. The times improved over the course of
Raffaele Marciello claimed pole position ahead of this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours round of the GT World Challenge Europe for the Auto Sport Promotion Mercedes team. The Italian posted a 2m32.166s during the Super Pole session held on Friday evening to claim the top spot in the Mercedes-AMG GT3 he shares with Felipe Fraga and
Alex Marquez says his MotoGP champion brother Marc told him not to show up to the Teruel Grand Prix “with the aim of winning” following his Aragon GP podium. Honda rookie Alex Marquez finished second in last weekend’s Aragon round having taken his maiden podium the week before in the wet French GP. Marquez topped
He revealed that uncertainty over the terms of the UK’s exit deal from the European Union explained why his Stephane Ratel Organisation had decided not go with Silverstone to fill a TBA in May on the provisional calendar published early last month. “It is the Brexit effect,” said Ratel, who had previously stated that Silverstone
Brexit has been blamed for the disappearance of Silverstone from the GT World Challenge Europe schedule for next season by series boss Stephane Ratel. He revealed that uncertainty over the terms of the UK’s exit deal from the European Union explained why his Stephane Ratel Organisation had decided not go with Silverstone to fill a
Former Volkswagen and Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Andreas Mikkelsen is set to make his first rally appearance of 2020 on next month’s Rally Hungary. Mikkelsen will start the European Rally Championship round in a Skoda Fabia Rally2 Evo owned by the Topp-Cars Rally Team. The Norwegian will be eligible to score ERC points as
Michelin has explained what caused Fabio Quartararo’s front tyre pressure to go “out of control” during last weekend’s MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix, which left him in 18th. Petronas SRT’s Quartararo opted for the medium front tyre for last Sunday’s Aragon race, but after three laps began to drop down the order as the pressure in
Michael Jordan and Denny Hamlin’s new NASCAR team will be known as 23XI Racing, and the team will field the No. 23 Toyota Camry with driver Bubba Wallace in 2021. NBA legend Jordan and three-time Daytona 500 winner Hamlin combined their iconic numbers to create the team name, and social media channels for 23XI Racing
The Belgian squad’s #31 factory Audi R8 LMS driven by Dries Vanthoor, Christopher Mies and Kelvin van der Linde ended up nearly two tenths clear at the head of the times in the night-time aggregate session held on wet track. Van der Linde set the fastest time across the four 15-minute periods with a 2m34.255s,
The WRT Audi squad topped opening qualifying for this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours round of the GT World Challenge Europe. The Belgian squad’s #31 factory Audi R8 LMS driven by Dries Vanthoor, Christopher Mies and Kelvin van der Linde ended up nearly two tenths clear at the head of the times in the night-time aggregate
Three-time Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin says he’ll be “doing cartwheels, going crazy” if he finishes in the top 10 on his IndyCar debut with Team Penske. McLaughlin, who earlier this month wrapped up his third consecutive Supercars title with DJR Team Penske, was due to make his IndyCar race debut on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway
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