WTCR Hyundai teams BRC Hyundai N Lukoil Squadra Corse and Engstler Hyundai N Liqui Moly Racing Team will each debut two Elantras in this year’s eight-round championship. Touring car legend Gabriele Tarquini, a winner of BTCC, ETCC, WTCC and WTCR titles, will pilot an Elantra for the BRC squad alongside 36-year-old former WTCR champion Norbert
Month: April 2021
Only 42 of 500 laps were completed on Saturday night before the remainder of the postponed Cup race was run on Sunday afternoon. But a late-race red flag for a multiple-car wreck pushed the race into the night and it was then that Truex’s Toyota came to life. Truex caught his Joe Gibbs Racing team-mate
The latest series of Drive to Survive has served to divide opinion among F1 supporters, with some revelling in the background insights while others getting riled by the way it has top-spun some of the drama. In particular, the frequent cutting in of radio conversations or comments to play up controversy grated with some –
Envision Virgin Racing driver and championship rookie Cassidy had snared pole by three tenths over fellow newcomer Norman Nato but lost that lead at Turn 3 in the race. Following the start procedure behind the safety car owing to damp patches at Turns 5 and 7, Cassidy led away but span almost immediately when he
Chevrolet struggled last year even at 1.4-bar turbo boost for qualifying, with rookie Rinus VeeKay of Ed Carpenter Racing being the only runner to qualify in the Fast Nine against Honda-powered rivals. On race day, at 1.3-bar turbo boost, the Chevrolet drivers could match the Hondas but had to lean off the fuel mixture sooner
The Italian has taken over the Tech3 seat vacated by factory rider Miguel Oliveira after the Italian lost his place at Ducati for 2021. Tech3 managed to win two races in 2020 courtesy of Oliveira, but has endured a difficult start to the 2021 campaign with Petrucci. He qualified 21st and 17th for the opening
Due to persistent rain showers and thunderstorms, Saturday night’s Cup race was stopped after 42 laps and has been postponed until 4pm local time on Sunday. When the Cup race was halted, Denny Hamlin was the leader followed by Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, Martin Truex Jr and Chase Elliott. The latest schedule changes have meant
Race director Scot Elkins elected to start the field behind the safety car on account of the wet track, but when green flag conditions were called Lotterer attempted an opening-lap pass on polesitter Vandoorne into the Turn 7 left-hander. The Porsche driver dived up the inside of the 90-degree corner and made contact with Vandoorne.
Polesitter Vandoorne led the field at the start of the race behind the safety car that was called in response to a light rain shower that hit the circuit between qualifying and the race. Vandoorne was tagged on the opening lap by Andre Lotterer and dropped to 13th but recovered strongly, aided by a penalty
Returning two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Juan Pablo Montoya says he was encouraged by his pace in IndyCar’s Indianapolis Motor Speedway test, despite moments that “scared the hell out of me”. The 2000 and 2015 winner is attempting to qualify for his first Indy 500 since 2017 in a third Arrow McLaren SP entry, having concentrated
In its push to create more downforce and reduce the drag on its FW43B car for 2021, Williams opted for an aggressive design approach that causes its performance to dip in windy conditions. Williams driver Russell struggled with the gusty conditions during both pre-season testing and the opening grand prix of the year in Bahrain,
The Team Penske driver’s top speed of 226.819mph was 2.392mph quicker than the fastest effort on Thursday, a 224.427mph achieved by Sebastien Bourdais in the rookies and refreshers session. Graham Rahal (Rahal Letterman Lanigan) and Will Power (Penske) were the first to break into the 225mph bracket around the 2.5-mile oval, but this was exceeded
Boles and Indiana governor Eric Holcomb – an IndyCar fan and longtime friend of Team Penske president Tim Cindric – were interviewed by Marty Snider on NBC Peacock’s live stream during the second day of testing at Indy. After last year’s Indy 500 was delayed until August but still had to be held in front of
VeeKay crashed at Turn 1 at IMS on his fifth lap of the test, spinning at almost 220mph before slamming into the wall with the right side of his car. He stepped out of the car flexing his left hand, and it was later confirmed that he’d broken the top bone of his index finger
McLaren finished third in last year’s constructors’ championship and the Woking outfit is tipped to confirm its status as best of the rest behind Red Bull and Mercedes in 2021. While McLaren drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Norris qualified sixth and seventh respectively in Bahrain, behind a Ferrari and an AlphaTauri, Norris worked his way up
The McLaren driver believes the championship needs to reconsider its attitude to crashes, feeling that too much effort is made in glorifying accidents rather than focusing on F1’s other elements. Last year, Ricciardo spoke to F1 chiefs to voice his displeasure at the way that they had repeatedly played repeats of Romain Grosjean’s fiery accident
Starting his fifth lap of the famed 2.5-mile oval, the front-left wheel of the #21 ECR machine went down below the white line negotiating Turn 1 and the rear continued to swing around, but it went through only one 360-degree spin before striking the outside SAFER barrier on the exit of Turn 1 with its
Ahead of its switch from Class One to GT3 machinery, the DTM held a two-day test at the former German Grand Prix venue from 7-8 April, with the data from the running to be used to finalise the BoP for the new season. After the pitlane was opened at 9am local time, 2017 Audi TT
The car, which will be sponsored by long term Foyt partner ABC Supply, will also carry the #1 that Foyt’s Bowes Seal Fast Trevis-Offenhauser ran when he defeated Eddie Sachs at the Speedway in May 1961. Foyt would win Indy again in 1964 – the last Indy victory for a front-engined roadster – 1967 and
Verstappen was engaged in a close battle with Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton throughout the F1 season-opener in Bahrain that was settled in the final stages. Verstappen overtook Hamilton with four laps to go around the outside of Turn 4, but was forced to hand back the position after officials ruled that he made the overtake
The series will stay on at the Glen after the Sahlen’s Six Hours race on 27 June, to run a 2hr40min event on Friday, 2 July. The new race will feature all five classes (DPi, LMP2, LMP3, GTLM and GTD), while only the GTD race will count towards the eight-race Sprint Cup point standings. The
Following the demise of the Class One era, Wednesday’s test day marked the first official DTM running with GT3 cars that will form the basis of the championship in 2021. A total of four sessions were held during the day, two of them shared with the GT4-based DTM Trophy, with a total of eight hours
If you’re a regular viewer of Sky Sports and Channel 4’s F1 coverage, you’ll no doubt have heard the pundits and commentators talk about high downforce and power tracks. Although these aren’t official terms, they help describe the different characteristics of each new circuit and explain why teams don’t simply qualify in the same order
Miller ended last weekend’s second round of the 2021 season in ninth after suffering from arm pump in the closing stages of the race. He admitted after the race he was evaluating having surgery on his arm, with Ducati confirming Miller went under the knife in Barcelona at the Dexeus University Hospital, with the operation
After every race this season, the FIA will select a finishing car at random and subject it to a deeper level of checks and analysis than is usually the case, focusing on particular areas. Teams are trusted to show up with cars that are fully legal, and indeed the F1 sporting regulations note that “competitors
Tanak scored only his second World Rally Championship win as a Hyundai driver at February’s Arctic Rally Finland where he defeated the Toyota Yaris of Kalle Rovanpera by 17.5 seconds. The result moved him up to fifth in the standings and was in stark contrast to the opening round at Rally Monte-Carlo where he retired
The former Haas Formula 1 development driver finished fourth in the 500 last year for Dale Coyne Racing, and earned rookie of the year honours in a 2019 season which yielded three fourth-place finishes on the Texas, Pocono and Gateway ovals. Ferrucci switched to the second-tier NASCAR Xfinity Series for 2021 with Sam Hunt Racing
McPhee and Gresini rider Alcoba were part of the manic lead group in Sunday’s thrilling Moto3 encounter in Qatar. Alcoba ran into the back of McPhee’s team-mate Darryn Binder at Turn 1 at the start of lap 15, crashing out while his errant Gresini bike flicked into McPhee’s path and hit the Scotsman on the
The two-day test at the Red Bull Ring was a significant milestone for Correa, who contested his first competitive motorsport session since surviving a tragic multiple car Formula 2 crash at Spa in 2019 that claimed the life of Anthoine Hubert. The 21-year-old American has been on a long road to recovery, that has included
The two-time 500 winner was announced as the team’s third, Indy-only driver last December, alongside full-timers Pato O’Ward and Felix Rosenqvist. Arrow McLaren SP revealed on Monday that Montoya’s orange and white entry will pay tribute to Revson’s effort in qualifying for the 1971 edition of the Memorial Day Weekend classic. That year, the works team