Encouraged by the success of the Blancpain Endurance Series, world-renowned Swiss watch manufacture Blancpain and the SRO Motorsports Group decide at the end of 2013 to extend their partnership to the Sprint series, previously promoted as the FIA GT Series, offering teams and drivers the opportunity to compete for an overall Blancpain GT Series title,
Month: October 2021
5:53 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Amid a season of self-described suffering, Marc Marquez was all smiles as he returned to his winning form in Texas. The Repsol Honda rider dialed up his old speed for a dominant victory at the MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas on Sunday, while championship leader Fabio
Breakout rookie Fernandez led all 18 laps of Sunday’s Moto2 race at the Circuit of the Americas and is now just nine points from the championship lead, after Gardner fell on lap six while trying to chase down the Spaniard. Home hero Cameron Beaubier briefly snatched the lead from a season-best fifth on the grid,
Miller monstered the field in FP3 on Saturday morning by over six tenths, putting him in a firm favourite slot to take pole for the first time this season. Having topped FP4 with a 2m04.028s on a hard rear tyre, Miller could barely improve on this by three tenths on his best Q2 lap on
From a low-key beginning with Bahrain in 2004, F1 now have four grands prix in the region, all with contracts that ensure they will be on the calendar for the foreseeable future. Even allowing for the inevitable expansion beyond this year’s 22 races that is a high percentage of events concentrated in a relatively small
Bagnaia has scored three poles on the bounce since Aragon, converting his previous two into back-to-back victories to cut Quartararo’s championship lead down to 48 points with four races to go. The Ducati rider dominated qualifying at the Circuit of the Americas on Saturday, beating Yamaha’s Quartararo by 0.348 seconds for pole. With Bagnaia showing
Bagnaia stormed to his third-successive pole and fourth overall in 2021 with a lap 0.348-seconds clear of the field in Saturday’s qualifying at the Circuit of the Americas. The Ducati rider has converted his last two poles at Misano and Aragon into victories and has given himself an outside shot at the championship, having closed
The championship leader has been found guilty of failing to have his helmet correctly fastened throughout Saturday’s Stage 12. The matter was reviewed by the FIA stewards resulting in Ogier and co-driver Julien Ingrassia being issued with the time penalty and monetary fine. Luckily for Ogier, the time penalty will not affect his position overall
The Circuit of the Americas in Texas has notoriously been a bumpy circuit, with numerous riders making calls the track to be totally resurfaced after a partial job in 2019 failed to solve the issues they’d previously been facing. COTA underwent another partial resurfacing ahead of the 2020 season, with Turn 1, Turn 9, the
Having started from pole, and briefly lost the lead to Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz Jr, Norris had moved back to the front and looked to have everything under control as the laps counted down. But a late race shower turned the Sochi race on its head, and the decision to stay out on slicks proved costly
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After jumping from third to the lead courtesy of four stage wins in the morning, Evans came under severe pressure from Tanak, who won three consecutive stages as the afternoon loop began. Title contender Evans responded winning the day’s penultimate test before sharing the spoils with Tanak on the final stage, held on the streets
Saturday’s MotoGP action is continuing as normal despite numerous comments from riders after Friday labelling the Circuit of the Americas’ track surface as dangerous. LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami set the early pace in the session with a 2m04.918s on his Honda, before HRC stablemate and Friday pacesetter Marc Marquez edged ahead. Marquez sat top after 10
During his two-year spell at Renault in 2019 and 2020, Ricciardo had a wager with then team principal Abiteboul that if they scored a podium then the Frenchman would have to get his first tattoo. That top three finish was duly delivered at last year’s Eifel Grand Prix at the Nurburgring, when Ricciardo came home third
Sainz joined Ferrari from McLaren for the 2021 season, and is currently leading team-mate Charles Leclerc in the drivers’ championship, scoring three podiums and 112.5 points so far this season. Sainz qualified second for the Russian Grand Prix last weekend, led the early part of the race and eventually finishing third after a well-timed switch to intermediates during
MotoGP is making its first visit to COTA since 2019 after last year’s race was cancelled due to the global pandemic, with the circuit having been resurfaced in places since then. However, the notoriously bumpy Texan circuit has visibly developed much more vicious ripples in its asphalt – with many riders having major moments over
Alfa Romeo is known to be weighing up replacing Giovinazzi for next season, considering a number of drivers to partner the incoming Valtteri Bottas from Mercedes. Alpine junior and F2 title contender Guanyu Zhou is understood to be leading the chase for the seat, but no decision has yet been taken by the team. Giovinazzi
The wet weather of the morning session gave way to blazing sunshine for the second 45-minute outing of the weekend. Pramac’s Jorge Martin set the initial pace on his Ducati at a 2m07.650s, though this was immediately bettered by Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo. The championship leader’s 2m07.529s didn’t keep him top of the pile for long,
Six-time MotoGP world champion Marquez swept top spot on both Friday practice sessions at Circuit of the Americas, edging Ducati’s Jack Miller in each session, with the Spaniard’s advantage narrowed to just 0.015s at the end of FP2 by the Australian. After struggling in the damp conditions in the morning session, MotoGP points leader Fabio
Whitmarsh was recently announced as the Group CEO of the newly-created Aston Martin Performance Technologies entity. Since leaving McLaren in 2014, the 63-year-old has mainly been involved in the America’s Cup with Ben Ainslie Racing, latterly as chairman of BAR Technologies. He also briefly had a consultancy role with the FIA when the new financial
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