The Finn set a 1m34.326s to take pole position for the Dutch round off the back of her win last weekend at Spa – her second in the series. Despite some confusion around the timing board, which suggested Powell could have taken pole, it concluded that Kimilainen had the top spot. It puts her back
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Albon looks set to make a full-time return to F1 next year as both Williams and Alfa Romeo have shown an interest in signing the Anglo-Thai driver, who raced for Red Bull from mid-2019 until the end of 2020. Red Bull F1 boss Horner said on Friday afternoon that a decision on Albon’s next step
The factory Toyota drivers have been testing the all-new Rally1 Yaris in France as development of the Japanese marque’s 2022 WRC challenger ramps up. Up until now testing has been conducted by Toyota’s test driver Juho Hanninen, but this week’s tarmac test in France, held near to the Monte Carlo rally route, allowed Evans and
Last Sunday Yamaha confirmed 15-time MotoGP race-winner Dovizioso will end his sabbatical in this month’s San Marino Grand Prix when takes over the SRT M1 to be vacated by factory team-bound Franco Morbidelli. Dovizioso is due to continue with SRT in whatever guise it becomes in 2022 following the Malaysian squad’s MotoGP exit at the
In the a caution-strewn race on the streets of Nashville last month, six of the nine penalties issued were a result of driver misdemeanours, while 27 of the 49 laps under caution at the Gateway oval last time out were a direct result of car-to-car contact. After that last race, six-time champion Scott Dixon said
This weekend marks the first Dutch Grand Prix since 1985 after changes were made to the Zandvoort track to bring it up to F1 spec, capitalising on the massive levels of support for Max Verstappen. As part of the changes, three corners – Turn 1 (Tarzanbocht), Turn 3 (Hugenholtzbocht) and Turn 14 (Arie Luyendijkbocht) –
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The next race of the 2017 WeatherTech Championship season: The Chevrolet Sports Car Classic on the streets of beautiful Belle Isle Park in Detroit, Michigan. The action in Motor City is always exciting, and this year will continue that trend.
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When the Dutch GP was first put on the 2020 calendar and plans for the track revisions were confirmed, Pirelli considered making a special tyre to cope with the extra high loadings that were expected on the re-profiled final turn. Banking has been an issue for F1 tyres in the past, most notably with the
The 2020 Formula 2 championship runner-up will make his US open-wheel debut with the newly renamed Juncos Hollinger squad, Ricardo Juncos’s team revealing a tie-up with new partner Brad Hollinger last month as it returns for the final three races of 2021 for the first time since the 2019 Indianapolis 500. Ilott has spent this
The home hero endured a frustrating day at times on F1’s first visit to the circuit since 1985, as many of his quick laps had to be aborted because of the numerous red flags that were brought out in the two practice sessions. Ferrari duo Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr ended up top of
The 1982 World Rally Championship runner-up said in an interview with Le Figaro that there was a “limited level” in the all-female series “since the best performers don’t participate.” Mouton, head of the FIA’s Women in Motorsport Commission, said: “If the W Series can be seen as a detection/selection channel to attract more young women
The return of Zandvoort to the calendar for the first time since 1985 marks a home race for Max Verstappen. Perimeter roads by the seaside track have been lined with flags, overwhelmingly showing support of the Red Bull driver. Although there is no on-track action on Thursday, fans also queued up on the access roads
The Finn announced his shock departure from M-Sport last Friday leaving the British squad with immediate effect despite being rostered to pilot the team’s WRC2 entry at the Acropolis Rally later this month. Suninen was also set to jump back behind the wheel of a M-Sport WRC Ford Fiesta at Rally Finland in October. In
Dixon made his MotoGP debut last weekend at the British GP filling in for the injured Franco Morbidelli on SRT’s ‘A-spec’ Yamaha. Yamaha test rider Cal Crutchlow had been filling in at the Austrian double-header, but Maverick Vinales’ ousting from the factory Yamaha team forced the marque to call up Crutchlow to replace the Spaniard.
The Britain-born California-raised 36-year-old competed for the IndyCar legend’s team full-time in 2020, while this year he raced on the Indianapolis road course in May in the Tresiba-backed #11 car. He then suffered an agonising near-miss in attempting to qualify for this year’s Indianapolis 500. “I cannot wait to get back behind the wheel of
Formula 1 was a very different place the last time the coastal resort of Zandvoort hosted a grand prix. Three-time world champion Niki Lauda was in the twilight of his career, doing battle with rising stars like Alain Prost and Ayrton Senna. Nelson Piquet was right in the middle of his illustrious F1 career, heading
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Check out the sights and sounds from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at the 2017 Rolex 24 At Daytona.
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Hamilton faced booing and jeering from F1 title rival Verstappen’s fans at the Hungarian Grand Prix before the summer break following their controversial collision at Silverstone two weeks earlier. Hamilton brushed off the boos at the time, but is set to face a similarly hostile welcome to the Dutch Grand Prix this weekend as Verstappen
The nine-time MotoGP race-winner was ousted from the factory Yamaha squad earlier this month following a suspension by the team after he deliberately tried to damage his bike in the Styrian Grand Prix. Vinales had already made the decision to quit Yamaha a year earlier than his current contract period was due to expire as
With F1 still analysing exactly what went wrong at the Belgian Grand Prix last weekend as it failed to run any racing laps, there have been some comparisons with how the series managed to pull off events in the past in even worse conditions. One of the most difficult wet races was the 2007 Japanese
The two-time Porsche Carrera Cup GB title winner has predominantly raced historic machinery since his final Carrera Cup season in 2011 – including finishing as Classic Formula Ford runner-up two years ago – but made his return to a modern Porsche in the Sprint Challenge GB as a guest driver at Thruxton last weekend. Harvey
Last weekend’s British GP was the first MotoGP event in the UK since 2019 after the COVID-19 pandemic forced last year’s race to be cancelled. Silverstone welcomed a sold out crowd for the event, with over 142,000 people attending the event across the weekend. In conjunction with Towcester Community Larder, which takes surplus groceries and
The 2019 Indy Lights champion has endured a patchy IndyCar career since graduating to the series in 2020, scoring a podium in Iowa for Arrow McLaren SP before suffering a heavy shunt in that year’s Indianapolis 500 that left him with late-diagnosed concussion. Askew made an impressive comeback last October in St Petersburg – the 2020 finale
The 2007 F1 world champion, Raikkonen was out of contract with Alfa Romeo at the end of the year and widely expected to leave the team. The Finn has now confirmed he will be leaving F1 at the end of the season, calling time on a career in the series spanning over 20 years. Raikkonen
When strapped into a Maserati MC12, Michael Bartels was one of the most prolific drivers of the GT1 era, collecting four drivers’ titles between 2006 and 2010, and tallying three victories in the Spa 24 Hours between 2005 and 2008. But his career also straddled another famous era, the German having made his sportscar debut
Kimi Raikkonen is the most experienced Formula 1 driver of all time. Starting the 2020 Eifel Grand Prix moved him past Rubens Barrichello’s previous mark of 322 world championship starts, and his decision to call time on his F1 career – announced on the eve of the Dutch Grand Prix – came after his 341st