The 23-year-old, who also won the 2018 Ginetta Junior and 2021 GT4 Supercup titles with Elite Motorsport, will partner Shaun Balfe after the Am driver moved across from Barwell Motorsport. Smalley was selected as Porsche’s junior driver for the 2022-23 season as he went on to finish runner-up in the Carrera Cup in 2022, before
Saturday’s 300-mile Xfinity Series race had been a mundane affair, featuring mostly single-file racing with drivers apparently unwilling to take risky moves for fear of losing track position. Numerous cars running out of fuel at the end set up a dramatic two-lap overtime and surprise winner, but that was hardly indicative of what much of the
It revolves around the phrase “the greatest spectacle in racing,” which was originally trademarked by former track owner Hulman and Company in 1986, and which has been used extensively in promotion ever since. Early last year, the Liberty Media-run Las Vegas GP used the phrase “the greatest racing spectacle on the planet” on social media,
Suarez, who had recovered from a multi-car accident on the second lap, lost the lead on a restart with five of 260 laps remaining, but was able to power to the outside lane on the final lap as Kyle Busch and Ryan Blaney raced side-by-side. Suarez made it three-wide coming off Turn 4 and the
Gianmaria Bruni has been a Porsche man since 2017, but it’s the first chapter of his sportscar career at Ferrari that he looks back on to pick a favourite team-mate. In his four years of sharing a car with Toni Vilander, the pair enjoyed great success, and enjoyed numerous collaborations outside their season-long campaigns in
Gotz will make his debut in the British championship having been a long-time Mercedes factory driver and having first linked up with 2 Seas in the Gulf 12 Hours at the Yas Marina Circuit last December, finishing third. Prior to that, the German won the Spa 24 Hours in 2013 and the Blancpain Sprint Cup
The opportunity for the 24-year-old Swede to get some extra running on Monday and Tuesday came about after hopes for track time in last month’s Daytona 24 Hours fell through. Although Lundqvist has put in a significant amount of time in the simulator, he noted it is limited by Honda and that the focus is
The Trackhouse Racing Chevrolet driver took the lead after the final set of green flag pitstops, and narrowly avoided a 23-car pileup in the closing laps. Daytona 500 glory was in sight, but the battle wasn’t over just yet. William Byron (Hendrick Chevrolet) took over at the front when racing resumed after a brief red flag
Hendrick Motorsport driver Byron made a timely charge to the front of the field following the final round of green flag pit stops. After a massive late wreck, Byron bolted to the lead on a restart with four of the 200 laps remaining. Approaching the white flag to signal one lap remaining, Byron moved to
Byron, who had never finished better than 21st in the NASCAR Cup season opener, grabbed the lead from Ross Chastain on a restart with four of 200 laps remaining. Byron had just taken the white flag – signalling the start of the final lap – when a multi-car wreck erupted behind him which forced NASCAR
The 25-year-old Briton was called upon after Malukas recently sustained a wrist injury while mountain biking that required surgery last week and will leave him out for at least six weeks. Ilott spent the past two seasons with Juncos Hollinger Racing, scoring a best finish of fifth in 2023 at St Petersburg and Laguna Seca. Left
Sato, who has been linked with Honda throughout his career, will compete in this year’s Indianapolis 500 with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing in the quest for a third victory in the event. His appointment mirrors a similar move at Toyota where former F1 racers Kazuki Nakajima and Kamui Kobayashi have both been given management roles. Sato
BMW’s bid for a first event win since 2010 began well as the WRT-entered #32 BMW M4 GT3 secured pole, with Sheldon van der Linde’s lap of 2m01.981s enough to head the top 10 shootout. The South African’s closest rival, Supercars racer Broc Feeney aboard the Triple Eight Mercedes, was 0.256s slower. SunEnergy1’s Mercedes has
The three-time Supercars champion logged only three laps in the race before as he was one of more than two dozen cars caught up in multi-car wreck on lap four of 100. Gus Dean got loose after getting hit from behind and turned into Venturini Motorsports team-mate Toni Breidinger in Turns 1 and 2, which
The South African was the sole non-Mercedes-AMG driver in the second of two 15-minute sessions, each with five cars, to take pole with a with a time of 2m01.9810s in the Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 he will share with Belgians Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts. “Just coming back to Bathurst and driving the track
In the second Duel of the evening, Hamlin had powered by to the lead with five of 60 laps to go, but Bell had made his way to second at the start of the final lap. As the duo entered Turns 3 and 4, Bell first dived low, then high to get around Hamlin and held
Two-time Indy 500 champion Sato will pilot the #75 Honda-powered entry, having spent last season competing in the five oval rounds for Chip Ganassi Racing, which featured a best result of seventh in the Indy 500. It will be the third time Sato has driven for RLL, with previous runs coming in 2012 and then again
The 2024 NASCAR Cup season has begun in earnest. Following the non-points exhibition race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum won by Denny Hamlin earlier this month, Joey Logano took pole for this weekend’s Daytona 500 season opener by leading a Ford front-row lockout in qualifying on Wednesday night. Thursday night’s twin 150-mile qualifying races
Momentum of putting an event on in South America picked up significant steam late last year, with Miles telling Autosport “it’s all in good shape” in November. Plans were taking shape to hold a non-points race at Autodromo Termas de Rio Hondo, in the province of Santiago del Estero, this autumn after the conclusion of
Team Penske’s Logano was the last of the 10-car final round to qualify and bolted to the top of the speed chart with an average lap speed of 181.947mph to secure pole for Sunday’s race. Logano’s pole is the first for a Ford driver in the pole since Carl Edwards in 2012 and first in the
Looking at his results at superspeedway races, that shouldn’t come as a surprise. Four of Blaney’s 10 Cup victories have come at Daytona or Talladega. In the Daytona 500, the Team Penske driver has two runner-up finishes and has been so close to capturing the chequered flag on several other occasions. “I feel like I’ve been close
The 22-year-old, who joined Arrow McLaren over the winter, underwent surgery on Tuesday afternoon to repair ligaments in his dislocated left wrist, the team confirmed on Wednesday. The recovery timetable is estimated at six weeks once the stitches are removed on 22 February. With the season starting in four weeks on 8-10 March on the
The Music City Grand Prix was being set up as the final race of the upcoming season on 15 September, but now the event has been pulled in favour of a return to Nashville Superspeedway. IndyCar made its debut on the 11-turn, 2.170-mile street circuit in 2021, which carried drivers across the Korean War Veterans
The Swiss-born Frenchman moved over to JHR during the offseason following a two-year stint with Andretti Global. Since becoming a full-time outfit in the IndyCar Series in 2022, JHR have expanded from one to two cars and steadily improved from breaking into the top 10 to scoring multiple top fives; both were fifth-place results (St.
The 22-year-old is entering his third season in the IndyCar Series but first with Arrow McLaren, having been added to its 2024 line-up following the contract fallout drama surrounding Alex Palou. According to a team representative, Malukas sustained the injury while “biking out west”. Although a fracture has been confirmed, the current plan is for
The path to the IndyCar Series for Tom Blomqvist is not so much about the road less travelled, but rather one paved in perseverance. Born in Britain, raised in New Zealand, he’s built up a diverse background that features a promising junior formula career that veered into DTM and Formula E, among others, before becoming
First introduced in 2016, the Mercedes-AMG GT3 is now one of the oldest models in circulation in GT3 racing, having recently completed seven years in service. Although it received an Evo update in 2020 and continues to pull in new orders, a new Mercedes GT3 car has been overdue for some time. While some other
The 2021 NASCAR Cup champion will make his IndyCar debut in May’s blue ribband with Arrow McLaren, in partnership with Hendrick Motorsports, and completed 172 laps of Phoenix Raceway on Monday. The test was moved up by a day due to the impending threat of rain, which forced Larson to “get my mind right to prepare
The most successful driver in the history of the race, having won each of the past three editions in 2020, 2022 and 2023, Gounon will again line up with fellow Mercedes gun Luca Stolz and SunEnergy1 patron Kenny Habul as he begins his defence of the Intercontinental GT Challenge title on 18 February. Gounon, Stolz
After finishing fifth in NASCAR’s preseason exhibition at the Los Angeles Coliseum on Saturday night, 2021 Cup champion Larson will resume his preparations for his first attempt at the Indianapolis 500 at the one-mile, low-banked Phoenix tri-oval. The outing is regarded as a rookie evaluation for the team and not an IndyCar Series test. A representative
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