The Swede won his second round battle against team-mate Jordi Gene – eliminating the Spaniard from the title fight in the process and reducing the shoot-out to one between himself, Jean-Karl Vernay and Mikel Azcona. He then set the fastest time in his Time Trial – the maximum power 500kW single-lap shoot-out – to ensure
Month: October 2021
With the fight for the front in qualifying being a pretty fraught affair, it’s no surprise that the driver who comes out on top wants to feel rewarded. In Turkey, for example, Lewis Hamilton was a little bit disappointed that an engine grid penalty meant his supreme Q3 effort will never be recorded in the history books. PLUS: F1’s
The FIA confirmed at Friday’s World Motor Sport Council meeting that the new device, mandatory on all Rally1 hybrid cars next year, will take the form of a forward facing in-car camera. A statement issued by the FIA, which also confirmed the 2022 calendar, revealed that the camera will have the ability to scan the
Tanak crashed out of the penultimate round of the World Rally Championship after a high-speed incident on stage four while occupying sixth position. The Estonian misjudged a section of the Tarmac road and clattered into a tree stump, which has damaged the chassis of the i20 Coupe. The crash was the second high-profile moment Tanak
Ongoing difficulties with engine supplier Honda in 2017 left it facing performance and reliability troubles, and it ended the campaign ninth in the standings for the second time in three years. Its transformation since then has been remarkable, and its shock 1-2 at this year’s Italian Grand Prix has helped it already deliver more points
Ricciardo arrived in Turkey off the back of consecutive top-five finishes, winning the Italian Grand Prix at Monza and finishing fourth in Russia following the late rain shower. But Turkey proved to be a more challenging weekend for Ricciardo as McLaren struggled for pace, resulting in him dropping out in Q1. The team opted to
Logano’s Penske Racing team was one of 21 that participated in the two-day Charlotte test – the most teams to take part in a Next Gen test so far after an earlier eight-car test at Daytona International Speedway. During the test this week, NASCAR came up with multiple possible solutions for teams to try to
Motorsport Games Inc. (NASDAQ: MSGM) (Motorsport Games) announced that after a thrilling first race, the stage is set for round 2 of the Le Mans Virtual Series, the 6 Hours of Spa Virtual, slated for 16 October 2021 at 12:30 BST. Saturday’s race will feature 38 entries. Le Mans Virtual Series is a joint venture
The Hyundai driver has been testing the Korean marque’s i20 2022 prototype in recent weeks, adjusting to the new challenges of driving with a mandatory 100kW hybrid system. Neuville has been particularly outspoken against the WRC’s new Rally1 regulations, which introduces hybrid in addition to reduced aerodynamic and suspension travel, while the centre differential is
The 22-year-old Andretti Autosport beat HMD Motorsport rival David Malukas to the title and won half of the season’s 20 races, continuing his record of winning every championship on the Road to Indy ladder. Kirkwood earned a $1,369,425 scholarship for three IndyCar races in 2022 – including the Indianapolis 500 – but is fully focused
Across the three final races of the DTM season, van der Linde caused collisions with Lawson in each race, with a crash in the finale destroying his rival’s hopes of the claiming the 2021 title which was won by Maximilian Gotz – but only after Mercedes team orders’ gave the German the race win to
Ogier could seal an eighth world title on the fast-sweeping tarmac roads if he can outscore in-form Toyota team-mate Evans by six points at the penultimate round of the season. Evans heads into Spain off the back of a second victory of the season last time out at Rally Finland, which reignited his title hopes
Bottas scored his first win in over a year with a controlled display at the front of the pack in the Turkish Grand Prix last weekend, crossing the line over 14 seconds clear of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in damp conditions. By denying Verstappen victory, it ensured that Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton only slipped to
Since the 2018-19 season, the all-electric series has used a group qualifying system which effectively penalises the best-placed drivers in the championship. Drivers are split into qualifying groups of six, in descending championship order, with the result that the leading drivers have the worst track conditions and often end up near the back of the
Ratel plans to relaunch the event in 2023 as the inaugural round of the GT Experimental Tour, ideas for which he first floated in 2019. A competition that will initially be open to full-electric vehicles will combine road sections with short races, hillclimbs and speed events across its seven-day duration. GTX aims to create events
The Briton, whose decision to leave Meyer Shank Racing was announced back in July, was confirmed as the driver of RLL’s newly full-time #45 entry for 2022 on Monday. He will join Graham Rahal at the squad, while the departure of RLL’s 2020 Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato was announced last week – with Christian
He has put forward a series of changes to the FIA because he believes the current structure threatens the future of his GT World Challenge Europe series as well as some of his other championships. Ratel wants to do away with the distinction between the platinum and gold ratings as it stands today and then
Late in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race on the Charlotte Roval, the rear bumper cover of Chase Elliott’s #9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet dislodged and began dangling from behind his car. Elliott had wrecked on lap 55 of 109 after being hit by Kevin Harvick, which left the reigning Cup champion with severe rear-end damage. In
As a preview to round two of the online championship, a track guide to Spa has been created in conjunction with LEGO® Technic™ – the Official Engineering Partner to the Le Mans Virtual Series – featuring the stunning Porsche 911 RSR. The video looks ahead to the 6 Hours of Spa, which takes place this
John Probst, NASCAR’s senior vice president of innovation and racing, said the updates to the Next Gen chassis that will be introduced to the Cup Series in 2022 will be primarily made to its front and rear clips – all of which can be retrofitted into an existing clip. There will also be changes to
FIA F3 has confirmed its teams for the next three-year cycle from 2022-2024, with nine of the current 10 outfits retained for the period. Dutch operation Van Amersfoort Racing will field three cars to complete the 30 car entry having been selected to join the championship. F3 boss Bruno Michel revealed earlier this season that
On a wet track Hamilton was trying to carve his way back through the field after a grid penalty made him start in 11th. By Lap 35 Hamilton had moved up to fifth and launched an attack on Red Bull’s Perez on Istanbul Park’s back straight. After the pair went wheel-to-wheel through the final corner
In an elongated and ongoing IndyCar silly-season, Harvey’s departure from Meyer Shank Racing was the first – and arguably most surprising – piece of concrete news. Soon he was linked with the team co-owned by Bobby Rahal, David Letterman and Mike Lanigan, but all parties involved remained publicly mute on the subject. However, in August
After Gotz’s race one victory closed the gap to 19 points, Lawson’s pole position for Sunday’s season finale stretched his margin out to 22 points – meaning Gotz needed to win without the AF Corse Ferrari driver scoring. An opening lap collision between Lawson and fellow title challenger Kelvin van der Linde’s Abt Audi at
The latest coming together between the pair came three weeks after a fiery post-race confrontation at Bristol, when a delayed Elliott – who had suffered a puncture in contact from Harvick while battling for the lead – deliberately held up the 2014 champion and helped his Hendrick Motorsports team-mate Kyle Larson to steal victory. Stewart-Haas
Larson first noticed an electrical problem on his car early in Stage 2 and when he pitted under caution on lap 34, his team discovered he had lost an alternator belt. Changing the battery provided a quick fix but the team formulated a plan to change the belt under additional stops. Once the work was
Turkington was drawn on pole position for the reversed grid, got the jump at the start, survived a restart following an early safety car and was never threatened en route to his milestone BTCC race win. The West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330i M Sport crossed the line 4.096 seconds clear, although the gap was up
Kristoffersson had to give second best to a resurgent Kevin Abbring in the Intermediate Classification, as the Renault Megane campaigner recovered from a first corner incident on Saturday afternoon to set the fastest time in Q4 and finish at the head of the qualifying order. But, while Abbring won the race to turn one in
The Scot converted his prime spot on the grid into the lead off the line, and his Team Dynamics Honda Civic Type R was never seriously challenged. Dan Lloyd finished second for the second consecutive race in his Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra, and kept Shedden honest for almost the entire distance. The Yorkshireman never
The Australian enduro has been given a March 20 date for 2022, six weeks later than its traditional calendar slot on the first weekend of February. IGTC boss Stephane Ratel said on the announcement of the date during his eponymous organisation’s annual press conference at the Barcelona GT World Challenge Europe round on Sunday: “It