Although Truex ran up front for most of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Martinsville Speedway, he never seemed to have quite the speed of his Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Denny Hamlin. Truex, however, was in a far more precarious situation in points than Hamlin and needed every available position to have a chance of

Sharp only started sixth for Sunday’s main race at Brands Hatch, which included former winners Jan Magnussen and Dennis Lind who were late additions to this year’s event. But it was two other former winners who started on the front row, with Joey Foster (Firman 2021) and Niall Murray (Van Diemen BD21) both intent on

The results of the F1 Global Survey commissioned by Motorsport Network in partnership with F1 and Nielsen Sports were released ahead of the United States Grand Prix after responses from more than 167,000 fans in 187 different countries. The survey revealed that F1’s audience is becoming younger and more diverse. The average age of respondents

Sainz has been hindered by slow pitstops three times this year, at the British and Turkish Grands Prix and again in the Austin race last Sunday. The Spaniard lost some 10 seconds at Silverstone, around five in Istanbul and three in the United States. Sainz reckons the problems have cost him “quite a lot of points”. “The

After recording multiple podium finishes in the championship, including a second place at the Italian track near Rome last year, 11-times Grand Prix winner Villeneuve took the landmark win for the Academy Motorsport/Alex Caffi Motorsport team from second on the grid. The Canadian’s race was not without drama, however, as he was adjudged to have

Conway, Kobayashi and Lopez, who also won August’s Le Mans 24 Hours, led home the sister #8 crew of Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Brendon Hartley for a Toyota 1-2 after a relatively uneventful race in the desert. Buemi started the race from the front after Hartley secured pole on Friday, but the #7 car

After the original plans for an event adjacent to the ocean front were abandoned, the track is being constructed on land around the Hard Rock Stadium, which is owned by the race promoters. Masi, who recently visited the home of the Miami Dolphins to check on progress, insists that the track will not conjure up memories of the infamous Caesars Palace venue used

Pascal Vasselon, technical director of Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe, believes that high tyre degradation around the Bahrain International Circuit could play into the hands of Alpine’s Gibson-engined A480. This is because the Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar weighs 110kg more than the grandfathered ORECA LMP1 design that formerly raced in the WEC as the

Hartley claimed his first pole of the Hypercar era with a 1m47.049s aboard the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID. That compared with the 1m47.447s from Kamui Kobayashi, who had topped the times in the second and third sessions of free practice in the #7 Toyota. Both Toyotas set only one timed lap around a circuit known

Look at Quartararo’s results from 2021 – five wins and five other podiums, scoring points in every single race – and his title win looks like a just end to a fantastic campaign for the Yamaha rider. But take a step back and observe Quartararo’s path to the 2021 world title, it further highlights just

While not an essential step on the junior single-seater career ladder anymore, it still provides plenty of thrills and spills, with this weekend’s 50th edition set to provide the same action. Two ex-F1 drivers and winners Roberto Moreno and Jan Magnussen return for the first time since their respective triumphs in 1980 and 1992, while

Penalties have once again become a talking point this year, with title contenders Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen both having taken fourth power units and the associated move down the grid. Many observers fear that another change and thus a penalty for either man over the final five races of the season could have a

Quartararo secured his first MotoGP title at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Misano, after championship rival Francesco Bagnaia’s crash from the lead made it mathematically impossible for the Ducati rider to stay in the battle. As a result, Quartararo became the first French top-class grand prix motorcycle champion, completing the feat in only his

As Jenson Button walks into the Haywood Racing awning, the noise is deafening. For three years the team has been trying to win the Festival with the Mygale. This time around it came good. Even ignoring the fact that the French car is clearly an excellent machine, its driver was always going to play a

Intrigue has surrounded the way that Mercedes has tuned its rear suspension system so that the back end of the car drops down at high speed on the straights. This behaviour helps reduce drag to boost top speed, and Red Bull believes it played a key part in the advantage that Mercedes had at the recent Turkish Grand Prix.

No fewer than 12 countries made it onto the planned five-round schedule for Extreme E’s second season that was released last month, a plot that Autosport understands is intended to drive competition and increase host fees to attract the highest bidders. However, despite the Outer Hebrides appearing on the championship’s shortlist to replace the cancelled

While the world champion team was forced to see title rival Max Verstappen triumph on a day when Lewis Hamilton’s tyre strategy did not pay off, it thinks there are still grounds to be encouraged by what it saw. In particular, it reckons that on a race weekend where Red Bull had the competitive edge,

Perez was running third in the closing stages at Austin, with second placed Hamilton on course to grab the extra championship point that comes from taking the fastest lap. With the title battle between Verstappen and Hamilton so tightly poised, one of the features of this season has been of Mercedes and Red Bull trying

Williams Formula 1 development driver Chadwick and Alice Powell will share Richard Mille’s Oreca 07-Gibson at the Bahrain International Circuit on November 7, a day after the 2021 WEC title decider at the same venue in the Gulf nation. The Signatech-run Richard Mille team stepped up to the WEC this year and fields an all-female

The Formula Ford Festival began its history in 1972, when the very first competition took place at Snetterton. After the mass fanfare around its launch and promotion leading up to the event, 85 cars were in attendance for a quartet of heats, two semi-finals and the grand final. As expected, it sported some of the

The former factory Volkswagen, Citroen and Hyundai WRC driver, a three-time WRC event winner during his time with the German marque, secured a second major rally title of the season, just a week on from securing the WRC2 title. Mikkelsen, who previously won back-to-back Intercontinental Rally Challenge titles in 2011 and 2012, clinched the ERC

The Russian endured a challenging weekend at Austin, as he fell foul of track limits on numerous occasions and struggled for pace in the race before coming home last of the classified finishers. But it emerged afterwards that Mazepin’s hopes of doing anything of consequence on Sunday were dashed very early on after his headrest

Larson, who dominated much of the race, powered to the lead on a restart with 39 of 267 laps remaining and held off late challenges from first Kevin Harvick and then Elliott by 3.619s at the finish. Larson has now won the first two races of the semi-final round of the series playoff and remains

Verstappen lost the lead from F1 title rival Lewis Hamilton at the start, but was able to get back in front after undercutting at the first round of pitstops, coming in at the end of lap 10. Mercedes pitted Hamilton three laps later, and while he was able to close through the second stint thanks

This year’s two title rivals are starting on the front row for Sunday’s US Grand Prix – the first time they have lined up alongside each other at the head of the pack since the Zandvoort race in early September and three events on from their Monza crash. That was the second collision between the

The Red Bull driver beat F1 title rival Lewis Hamilton to pole with his final lap in qualifying, taking top spot by 0.209s to secure his ninth pole of the season.  It marked a strong turnaround by Red Bull after Mercedes looked to have the stronger package after the opening practice session, while Verstappen also

The Ducati rider claimed his fourth consecutive pole position by progressing through Q1 and storming the pole shootout in tricky conditions to take top spot by 0.025s from team-mate Jack Miller.  It was a nightmare qualifying for MotoGP world championship leader Fabio Quartararo as he failed to progress from Q1 and then had his best

Title rivals Bagnaia and Quartararo both had to go through Q1 at Misano, but while the former eased through and went on to take the top spot for the fifth time in 2021, late yellow flags meant Quartararo will start a season-worst 15th. The Misano track dried sufficiently enough for the field to run slicks

The joint driver standings leader set a 2m05.673s to take the top spot, closely followed by Abbi Pulling, less than 0.2s behind her. Chadwick, driving for Veloce Racing, also led first practice, while Pulling also finished second in the earlier session for the PUMA team in just her third race weekend in the series. 2019

Bottas set the quickest time of the day in FP1, which was fractionally faster than Red Bull’s Sergio Perez managed when he topped FP2 later in the afternoon. US Grand Prix FP1 results: Bottas fastest from Hamilton What happened in Free Practice 1? Following an early red flag for Fernando Alonso’s Alpine grinding to a