Abril finished second and 11th across the two races in Italy last month, making him the top Mercedes driver in the points standings in fourth position ahead of this weekend’s second round at the Lausitzring. However, the Monegasque has now lost all 21 points he scored during the season opener due to a fuel irregularity,

A tweak to the usual weekend format moved the longer opening practice run to Friday evening, after a morning shakedown, as the world’s first indoor-outdoor circuit made its official debut.  The tight 22-turn course is expected to produce processional racing with limited space for overtaking, while even a 4kWh race energy deduction made by the

The Brackley-based team had arrived at Silverstone off the back of a run of five consecutive Red Bull victories that had allowed its main rival to extend leads in both world championships. So it knew it was under pressure, at a track that should better suit its package, to turn the tables on Red Bull

Castroneves lost his full-time Team Penske IndyCar ride in 2017, as he switched across to the Acura Team Penske program in IMSA, culminating in the 2020 drivers’ championship. However, following the end of that project, he was cut loose by Penske after 21 years and signed for six races in the second MSR car alongside

F1 staged its inaugural 100km Saturday sprint race at the British Grand Prix last week at Silverstone as part of a shake-up of the race weekend format. While it was widely known that Monza would host the second sprint race, F1 had shied away from providing any official confirmation until Thursday evening, when it unveiled

F1 staged its inaugural 100km sprint race last Saturday at the British Grand Prix as part of a weekend format shake-up that will take place at two further events this year. Fans at the track were given three days of competitive action as qualifying moved to Friday, with the sprint race then taking place on

That’s a point not lost on 2012 Cup champion Keselowski, who at an official presentation announcing his long-anticipated team switch for 2022 on Tuesday went out of his way to compare his new driver/owner role at Roush to Tony Stewart’s move into a similar position at Haas CNC Racing in 2009. As Keselowski noted, Stewart

Raikkonen made the comment via team radio after finishing the British Grand Prix out of the points in 15th place. The Finn had gained places at the start in both the Saturday sprint and in the grand prix itself. He spent the latter part of the main event battling with Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, but

Julian Thomas came within a couple of corners of a double win in the Masters Historic GT support races at the British Grand Prix, his Shelby Daytona Cobra Coupe triumphing easily in race one but having a much tougher time in race two. In both, he was bettered off the line by 2013 British Touring

Corberi was condemned by the motorsport community after a video of the 2020 world karting finals at Lonato went viral on social media, where the 23-year-old was seen throwing a bumper at fellow karter Paolo Ippolito after being involved in a collision with him the previous lap. In another video that emerged later, Corberi appeared

IndyCar points leader Alex Palou reckons he would have done what both Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton did at Silverstone, adding all passing attempts in IndyCar are “on the limit”. Hamilton’s passing attempt at Copse corner in Sunday’s British Grand Prix resulted in contact that sent Verstappen’s Red Bull off-track and hard into the safety

Championship chief executive officer Jamie Reigle told Autosport in January that were was “no excuse” not to introduce a formal cost cap during the new rules cycle to stop “ineffective spending”. This comes against a backdrop of team budgets quadrupling in the seven-year history of Formula E, with the biggest manufacturers spending in excess of

Team co-owner Bobby Rahal has for many years talked about running three cars full-time in IndyCar if it made financial sense, and while Leader Circle funding – the money given to the top 22 cars in entrant points at the end of the year – is worth approximately $825,000 per car this year, that may

The Japanese manufacturer was enjoying its most dominant display of the Hypercar era so far on the WEC’s first visit to the Italian circuit, with the #7 GR010 Hybrid of Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Jose Maria Lopez pulling out a comfortable lead over the two Glickenhaus 007 LMHs and the sole grandfathered Alpine A480 campaigned

Leclerc had the best view of the opening lap crash at Silverstone, as he was running right behind the lead Red Bull and Mercedes cars. While he believes Hamilton had a bit more room to play with at the apex of the corner to avoid contact, the Ferrari driver believes that Verstappen was aggressive with

The reigning F1 world champion collided with his Red Bull rival on the opening lap of the Silverstone race at Copse when the pair were running side-by-side with Verstappen on the outside aiming to cut across to defend his lead. Hamilton’s left front wheel hit Verstappen’s right rear tyre and sent the Dutch driver into

Verstappen was spun into the barriers at Copse Corner on the opening lap of the race after clashing with title rival Hamilton. The pair had already battled hard for several corners, before Hamilton got a run on Verstappen on the blast down to Copse and drafted alongside the Red Bull on the entry to the

While Lewis Hamilton was fastest in Friday’s traditional qualifying session at Silverstone, which decided the grid for Saturday’s sprint race, Verstappen’s sprint win means he is officially credited with pole position. The FIA’s decision to grant pole to the sprint race winner, rather than the fastest driver from qualifying, has caused controversy among fans and

Rovanpera ended Saturday in the box seat to become the youngest ever WRC rally winner after a dominant display on Estonia’s fast and flowing gravel stages. The 20-year-old transformed an overnight 8.5s lead over Hyundai’s Craig Breen into a 50.7s advantage heading into the final day on Sunday. Rovanpera produced one of the drives of

The Red Bull driver ended up the biggest loser in the sprint race and will start tomorrow’s main event at Silverstone from last place on the grid after retiring late on due to safety concerns after a spin. Perez had been battling Fernando Alonso and Lando Norris when he lost control of his RB16B F1

Jose Maria Lopez led the way in the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid for the second session in a row, but Nicolas Lapierre in the solo Alpine A480-Gibson and Olivier Pla in the #708 Glickenhaus 007 LMH took second and third in the times ahead of the #8 Toyota.  Lopez found more a second and a

The Frenchman, who moved across to America’s top single-seater category this season, had previously admitted to being wary of racing on ovals due to their high-speed nature. However, he believed he could “put fear aside” and as early as March, the 10-time F1 podium finisher spoke to team owners Dale Coyne and Rick Ware about

Mercedes driver Hamilton will start the sprint qualifying race ahead of Max Verstappen (Red Bull) and Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3. The result of the sprint race, which takes

Since Sauber’s Alfa Romeo deal began in 2018, one seat in the team has been reserved for a driver nominated by engine partner Ferrari from its pool of young talent. Charles Leclerc occupied it in 2018, before current incumbent Antonio Giovinazzi took over the following year. On Tuesday, Sauber announced that it has extended its

The Finn, who topped the day’s earlier shakedown, clocked a best time of 1m42.8s following his run through the tight and technical 1.64km gravel stage in front of a big crowd. “This is one of the rallies where I like to drive and like to push, so hopefully we can fight,” said Rovanpera. Hyundai’s Craig

The 2012 Cup series champion, who gave Penske its first title in NASCAR’s premier division, has driven for the team since the end of 2009 following his breakthrough victory at Talladega earlier that year with Phoenix Racing. But following speculation that he will become a co-owner in a new Roush-Fenway-Keselowski Cup team, it was announced

The Belgian suffered the heartbreak of a suspension failure on the final day of the Safari Rally last month, robbing him the chance of a likely victory, which would have been his first triumph since Monte Carlo last year. It was the third rally in a row that Hyundai had suffered a rear suspension failure

As part of the deal, HendrickCars.com will become the majority sponsor for Larson in 35 of the 36 points-paying races. They will also back Larson’s dirt endeavours, becoming a primary sponsor in all non-NASCAR events he competes in. Larson’s current agreement expires at the conclusion of 2022, but this new contract extends his stay with

In April a Saudi company known as Tanal Entertainment issued a press release announcing VR46 would come to MotoGP in 2022 with Aramco as its title sponsor, with VR46 confirming the news last month alongside a three-year deal with Ducati. However, the title sponsorship deal between Aramco and VR46 doesn’t actually exist, despite insistence from

It’s a stock phrase on the list of a racing commentator’s cliches that races are never won at the first corner. But last weekend at Donington Park proved to be the exception as Richard Neary’s Team ABBA Mercedes-AMG somehow emerged from Turn 1 in second, having started tenth and last in GT3 after an exploding