Starting fourth, Vandoorne was able to keep track of the leading trio of polesitter Mitch Evans, Pascal Wehrlein and Jean-Eric Vergne, sticking behind and opting to save energy in the early stages. Once the first flurry of attack mode activations took place after the opening 10 laps, Vandoorne was able to restore his position by
Month: April 2022
Making his debut in MotoGP in 2008 with Yamaha as a double 250cc world champion, Lorenzo would go on to win 47 races and three premier class world titles in 2010, 2012 and 2015. Lorenzo switched to Ducati in 2017 and joined an elite list of riders to have won races for multiple manufacturers when
Rossi’s shunt after 15 minutes was a strange one, the car fishtailing viciously on the exit of the final turn, despite not initially riding the curbs. The #27 Andretti car, which had been seventh fastest up to that point went onto the grass and smacked an unprotected part of the barrier, most heavily with its
UK specialists Apex Circuit Design laid out the 5.41-kilometre anticlockwise circuit, which hosts its first Formula 1 Grand Prix next weekend, around the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens. Its most sinuous section is through Turns 13-16, which wind around the entrance and exit ramps and beneath the flyover sections of the Florida Turnpike, the main
1:52 PM ET Associated Press DOVER, Del. — Chris Buescher was the surprise pole winner Saturday at Dover Motor Speedway, turning a lap of 160.149 mph to win his first career top spot. The RFK Racing driver will be joined on the front row by Denny Hamlin, who was ordered this week by NASCAR to
Evans had made his way to his first final duel of the season by virtue of dispatching Lucas di Grassi and Jean-Eric Vergne on his road to the shootout for pole, and immediately made an impression by going a tenth faster than Wehrlein in the opening sector. His advantage then continued to grow, standing at
The perfect conditions on Saturday morning at Jerez allowed lap time improvements on the combined order to come in almost immediately in the third and final 45-minute practice of the weekend. Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro was the first significant rider to make an improvement on the combined times with a 1m37.732s which put him top
Magnussen and team-mate Romain Grosjean were replaced by rookies Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin for 2021, largely for financial reasons. But after Haas terminated Mazepin’s contract in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, due to the Mazepin family’s links with the Russian Kremlin, Magnussen was brought back and given a second chance alongside Schumacher.
Rossi described the 2.43-mile circuit on which he never competed during his bike career as “a great track, fantastic” ahead of the start of his assault with the WRT Audi squad on the Sprint Cup segment of this year’s GTWCE. “The layout is interesting, it is a very old-style track,” said the seven-time MotoGP champion,
The reigning world champion had just gone to the top of the order around 15 minutes into the opening session at Jerez on Friday when he was flicked from his bike at the final corner having touched a damp patch. He got back onto his bike and rolled it into pitlane, but was seen visibly
Herta lapped the 2.366-mile 17-turn Alabama course in 1m06.5149s to shade defending series champion and 2021 Barber winner Alex Palou (Chip Ganassi Racing) by 0.05s. Alexander Rossi was precisely 0.1s behind team-mate Herta but shaded fellow Andretti Autosport driver Romain Grosjean to secure third spot. In a session that suggested Honda have retained somewhat of
Ferrari announced at Imola last week that Sainz had agreed a new two-year F1 deal running to the end of the 2024 season following a successful start to life at Maranello. It ensures Ferrari will run an unchanged driver line-up with Sainz and team-mate Charles Leclerc until at least the start of 2025, giving the
The Aprilia rider was caught on camera on the pitstraight at the end of FP2 at Jerez on Friday gesticulating towards Marquez, but no incident between the pair was caught on screen. Espargaro later explained that Marquez allegedly waited on track for a minute until the Aprilia rider came round late on in FP2 so
Just a week after the previous round in Portugal, won by Quartararo, MotoGP rolled into Jerez on Friday for the opening day of the sixth round of the 2022 campaign. Overnight rain left damp patches on track for FP1, but the session was still run on slicks, with Suzuki’s Joan Mir leading his team-mate Alex
He’s so far been overshadowed by new team-mate Alex Albon, having found it harder to adapt to the new car than the former Red Bull man, and also endured a series of accidents that have obliged the team to focus as much on replenishing spares as on readying updated parts. It was all looking so
6:28 AM ET All-electric racing series Formula E has launched a new net carbon zero car to compete its 2022-23 season. The triangle-shaped ‘gen 3’ car will increase the top speed of Formula E’s racers to 200 m/ph (320 km/h). It will feature two different powertrains, one at the front and one at the rear,
This week’s pre-season test at Portimao started late in the evening and until 10pm local time, with Dennis Olsen ending the test sessions fastest for the SSR Porsche team. Although the schedule was not by design but circumstances, as the DTM needed extra time in daylight to set up TV cameras after last weekend’s MotoGP
Heavy rain on Thursday evening left some damp patches on track for the start of Friday’s running at the sixth round of the 2022 campaign at Jerez, but the entire field headed out on slicks to get some laps under their belts. Reigning world champion Quartararo, who is twice a winner at Jerez in MotoGP,
Speaking ahead of the series’ return to Barber Motorsports Park, where he scored his first win for the Honda powered Chip Ganassi Racing last year, Palou said there was nothing missing in the HPD-built units’ repertoire. However, Palou admits that Chevrolet, as witnessed by Penske’s start to the season, has improved its engines this season.
Questions about whether or not the Mercedes power unit has fallen back have, for example, been clouded by its underperforming chassis and the drag levels of its high-downforce wing. At the opposite end of the debate, at Alpine it has been hard to split how much of its progress have come from aero and how much from its engine. What isn’t
Unusual car of the week: Sports 2000 Shrike Is it a hovercraft? Is it a spaceship? No, it’s Rob Hall’s Shrike P15, which took a Sports 2000 victory at Silverstone last weekend. The category allows more freedom than most when it comes to car designs and the Shrike’s unusual contours are the perfect example of
On Thursday ahead of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez, MotoGP governing body the FIM announced testing for the 2023 season would be reduced to just eight official days across the year. Five days of running will be had in the pre-season spread across a two- and three-day test – as was the case
After an awful weekend in Australia that saw four crashes, the Silverstone-based team bounced back at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix to earn eighth place with Sebastian Vettel and 10th with Lance Stroll. After the race, Vettel said his result was like a victory given the team’s struggles so far in 2022. Krack says the
The all-new car boasts a reworked design that Formula E states was inspired by the design of a fighter jet, and continues the championship’s ethos of developing a car specifically to race on the cast of street courses on the calendar. This extends to a slightly shorter car to allow drivers to go wheel-to-wheel on
The six-time MotoGP world champion was the first Honda across the line last week at Portimao, but was 16 seconds off the win down in sixth spot having been expected to fight for the podium. All Honda riders have made complaints about the marque’s radically overhauled challenger for 2022 in recent rounds despite the bike
When Sebastien Bourdais suffered his awful-looking 228mph accident during qualifying for the 2017 Indy 500, he not only broke his pelvis and left hip, he also blew apart his and Dale Coyne Racing’s best chance of Indy 500 glory. Seb was on the third lap of his qualy run, and his first two were the
Included as part of this was a new floor and beam wing, as the Enstone-based team continues to optimise its aerodynamic package over the first phase of the championship. Most interestingly, one of the floor’s new features is the addition of a metal stay, something Alpine had previously not needed like other teams. While its
3:56 AM ET Lewis Hamilton has downplayed speculation he is unhappy with Formula One, posting to Instagram that he will be the one to decide when his “masterpiece” is finished. Seven-time world champion Hamilton has endured a difficult start to the new season with Mercedes. After scoring a podium at the opening race in Bahrain,
Red Bull’s F1 fightback was always likely to come sooner rather than later, but it was unfortunate for Ferrari and its fans that the blue team’s first 1-2 for six years should arrive on Italian soil last weekend. As Matt Kew shows in our GP analysis, Red Bull had a small but significant edge at
The German car manufacturer has been held back so far this season by porpoising, which has forced the team to run its W13 with a much higher ride height than it was originally designed for. Raising the platform is costing it a lot of downforce, but the outfit remains convinced that if it can switch
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