Over 140 cars – including 28 in the SP9 category for GT3s – were entered for the four-hour race on the Nordschleife, but the event was abandoned due to heavy snow that descended on the Eifel region prior to qualifying on Saturday morning. Alfa Romeo Formula 1 reserve Kubica, who will race in the European
The race had been delayed to Monday following persistent rain around the Tennessee venue, flooding the parking and camping areas, along with the dirt-paved circuit. Logano first picked up the lead of the race towards the end of the second stage, as leader Daniel Suarez – who had remained in first throughout a competition caution,
The Japanese driver already had a debut point for 10th place in his pocket, but he showed that he already means business by stealing ninth place from Stroll at the start of the final lap. Tsunoda had been frustrated in qualifying, starting only 13th after struggling on the medium tyres in Q2, while his team
Red Bull and Honda protege Tsunoda was promoted to AlphaTauri at the expense of Daniil Kvyat after a sole season in Formula 2 and immediately impressed by scoring points on his F1 debut in Bahrain. Tsunoda only started 13th on the grid after struggling to put a good lap together in Q2, but then produced
After missing out on Q3 with the medium tyres, Perez was due to start 11th but triggered an aborted start when his RB16B shut off and coasted to a halt before the final corner. With no power, the Mexican couldn’t communicate with his team, but despite his relative unfamiliarity with the car and the Honda
The Spaniard was in the mix for a top ten finish at the F1 season opener as he battled with McLaren, Aston Martin and Ferrari rivals over the early stages of the Sakhir race. But just when it looked like he was on course to deliver points in his first race for Alpine, despite some
Track limits played a pivotal role in the outcome of Formula 1’s entertaining 2021 season opener, as with four laps to go Red Bull’s Max Verstappen overtook erstwhile leader Lewis Hamilton at Turn 4 but had to hand the position back to the defending world champion after leaving the track. In qualifying track limit transgressions
Mercedes and Red Bull deployed differing tyre strategies, with Verstappen’s offset rubber life advantage in the final stint meaning he was chasing Hamilton after leading the early stages from pole. With four laps to go, Verstappen attacked Hamilton around the outside of Turn 4, which has been heavily policed for track limits by the FIA,
In a stunning show of speed in qualifying, Bagnaia destroyed the lap record at the Losail International Circuit with a 1m52.772s to take his first premier class pole position, beating a trio of Yamaha riders in the process. Fabio Quartararo led the charge for Yamaha to take second place ahead of team-mate Maverick Vinales, with
The ART Grand Prix driver initially finished second on the road behind race winner Oscar Piastri, although stewards had earlier issued a 10-second time penalty to Lundgaard for contact with Lirim Zendeli that ultimately ended his race. Lundgaard pulled up in the parc ferme to appear on the podium before the timing screen updated the
During an extremely tight first qualifying phase, Vettel needed a second flyer to claim a spot in Q2. Vettel’s final attempt was thwarted by two yellow flags however, which meant the four-time world champion couldn’t improve his personal best and languished down in 18th place. First Vettel had to slow down in Turn 1 for
Scott Dixon, Josef Newgarden, Alexander Rossi and Pato O’Ward were in action on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, using the push-to-pass system at 1.5-bar to simulate the burst of released energy from a KERS unit. IndyCar will replace the current 2.2-litre twin-turbo V6s with KERS-supplemented 2.4-litre twin-turbo V6s in 2023, with the target being a combined
The Suzuki rider admitted after pre-season testing that he started the season only “70%” ready having lost a vital day of work on the 2021 GSX-RR chassis to poor weather conditions (with Mir confirming on Friday he is using the 2020 frame). Mir began the day fifth fastest, but faded to outside of the Q2
With an engine development freeze carrying over into the start of 2021 for all but Aprilia and KTM, Yamaha’s power deficit to its rivals – and Ducati in particular – remains substantial. This is accentuated in Qatar owing to Losail’s one kilometre long main straight, with the fastest Ducati clocking 354km/h during Friday practice, while
With growing indications that the lower-rake cars have come off worst with F1’s 2021 rule changes, it appears that those affected have been hard at work trying to mitigate the damage. While Mercedes has been the focus of the impact on the low rake cars, Aston Martin too appears to have suffered a step back
The 34-year-old Scot’s nomadic but brief BTCC career peaked in 2020 when, for the first time, he entered the final round still in mathematical title contention with the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus team. But with long-time Speedworks star Tom Ingram jumping ship to the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai squad, Butcher has been lined up as his
The current 2.2-litre twin-turbo V6s used in the IndyCar Series will be replaced in 2023 with 2.4-litre V6 units, still using twin turbos but also with a hybrid unit. To simulate the effects of the 100hp boost that IndyCar is striving for from the hybrid unit on ovals as well as road and street courses,
The Frenchman shared how he was deeply affected by the death of his close friend Anthoine Hubert in a Formula 2 crash at Spa in 2019, their shared rise through the ranks and his feelings of returning to the scene of the accident for last year’s Belgian GP. He also discussed his feelings of not
Juan Pablo Montoya, Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso are regarded as one of F1’s greatest-ever rookie intakes, the trio each enjoying standout seasons with the Williams, Sauber and Minardi squads that would set them up for lengthy top-line careers. Montoya overtook Schumacher three times on track during the season and finally broke his duck in
It’s also a question that is impossible to answer, simply because even the man himself is adamant that he doesn’t yet know. Speculation about Hamilton’s career plans has been rife since his new one-year deal was finally announced on 8 February, a little over a month before the start of testing in Bahrain. It’s not
The biennial event was planned for July 2020 and was initially postponed for a year as COVID-19 took hold across Europe, but amid the current situation and restrictions on large spectator events the promoters have confirmed the event has been postponed this year and pushed back to July 2022. A press statement said: “Due to
In an interview with Autosport, Nissan’s global chief operating officer Ashwani Gupta revealed that the manufacturer would continue in the series for the duration of the new 350kW cars. This formal commitment comes alongside Nissan’s move to an all-electric road car line-up “by the early 2030s” and its target to be carbon neutral by 2050.
The FIA Formula 3 graduate has been heavily linked to a promotion to the Dutch squad’s F2 programme, with an appearance at the pre-season test only serving to strengthen speculation. MP Motorsport has today confirmed via social media that Verschoor will indeed join the team for the F2 season opener, although Autosport/Motorsport.com understands the deal
In a radical shake-up for the 2021 campaign, Bristol Motor Speedway will stage the first NASCAR Cup dirt race since 1970, as part of a wider overhaul which saw a record seven road course events on the 36-round Cup calendar, including visits to circuits such as Austin, Road America and the Indianapolis road course for the
Johnny Dumfries had impeccable credentials when he was signed up to be Ayrton Senna’s team-mate at Lotus for 1986. He was a British Formula 3 Champion, and a dominant one at that. He’d been test driver for Ferrari. And he’d raced in Formula 3000. That wasn’t the CV of a driver who was going to
The reigning FIA Formula 3 champion is making the step up F2 this year with champion outfit Prema Racing and is among a group of young drivers expected to impress. Already a rising star in the junior ranks, Piastri was snapped up by the Renault Sport, now Alpine Academy, in 2020, resulting in a F1
The young Briton impressed at last year’s Sakhir Grand Prix when he stood in for Lewis Hamilton, who was forced out of the event after contracting coronavirus. Although Russell only did that one outing for Mercedes before Hamilton returned in Abu Dhabi, it was enough for him to get a proper insight in to how
Larson took both stage victories and led a race-high 269 of 325 laps but a 56-lap run on the same set of tyres took them beyond their limits, opening the door to the rapidly chasing Blaney. With eight laps remaining and as Larson and Blaney both approached the lapped car of Joey Logano, Blaney dove
Like with the final Moto3 pre-season test, Moto2’s final three-days of running ahead of the season had to be moved to Qatar this weekend due to the COVID-19 pandemic having originally been scheduled to take place at Jerez in Spain. After the first day of running on Friday, Ajo KTM’s new signing Remy Gardner –
Several private tests for the Moto3 class have already taken place during the pre-season, while the final official outing had to rescheduled to this weekend and moved to Qatar due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Testing began on Friday, with Petronas Sprinta’s new signing Darryn Binder – who has moved over from the CIP squad
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