Catch up with the race highlights from the season opener at Imola. The Audi from Team WRT took the first win of the year, courtesy of Dries Vanthoor, Kelvin van der Linde, and Charles Weerts. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader in GT racing. Join us for
Month: April 2022
Leclerc has held an edge over Sainz throughout the first two race weekends of the year, with the Monegasque driver having found the right driving style and set-up for the new 2022 cars. After a 2021 campaign where there was little to separate Leclerc and Sainz, Red Bull had been counting on the two drivers
Honda overhauled its MotoGP package for 2022 after several years of struggle, with its latest RC213V more rear biased to aid the traction it used to miss. This has helped Espargaro in particular to be more competitive on the bike, with the Spaniard fighting for victory in the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix before finishing third.
Last week F1 announced the Las Vegas Grand Prix would return to the calendar from next year with a November date slot, bolstering the number of races in the United States to three grand prix in 2023 alongside the Miami Grand Prix and the United States Grand Prix in Austin. Check out the circuit layout
12:03 PM ET Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas — Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez said Wednesday he has been medically cleared to return to racing this weekend at the Grand Prix of the Americas after vision problems sidelined him for the previous two races. Marquez, who missed most of the 2020 season with injuries, crashed hard
Back in 2019, Autosport thrashed it out after Colin Turkington secured his fourth BTCC crown that season. Here’s how the debate between three series correspondents went down. EDD STRAW: Apart from Colin Turkington, Andy Rouse is the other driver with four titles so it’s a good opportunity to discuss who is the greatest BTCC driver,
The Honda rider crashed heavily during warm-up for the Indonesian GP last month and was ruled unfit to race after suffering a concussion. On the flight home from Indonesia, Marquez began to experience problems with his vision and was diagnosed with a new episode of diplopia – also known as double vision. This forced Marquez
Amid worldwide freight delays that have been triggered by rising transport costs and the impact of the Ukraine war, shipments of equipment that teams had sent weeks ago risked not making it on time. A ship containing the freight of three teams, which had originally been expected to take 42 days, was delayed by more
6:30 AM ET The Australian Grand Prix circuit in Melbourne has undergone some changes for the latest edition of the race. Darrian Traynor/Getty Images Australian Grand Prix organisers will hope the days of single-lane racing at Albert Park are over as they unveil long-awaited changes to Melbourne’s lakeside circuit this week. Albert Park has hosted Formula
The new Hyundai WRC recruit enjoyed a confidence boosting run out at the championship’s last round in Sweden, posting a series of strong times that placed the Swede 1.6s from the lead after four stages. Solberg drifted away from the lead battle as the rally progressed, ultimately finishing sixth after a throttle issue resulted in
Espargaro stormed to an historic first pole for Aprilia in the modern MotoGP era on Saturday at Termas de Rio Hondo and looks among the fastest on race pace following practice. Aprilia has been on a steady trajectory towards the front of the field since last season, while Espargaro’s run to fourth in Qatar
But their ability to be flexible at the front of the car – especially amid the restrictions of the cost cap – will be helped by clever nose solutions. The make-up of the nose structure up and down the grid has changed for 2022, with many of the teams taking the opportunity to use a
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A win and a further podium on the inaugural weekend for the GB4 Championship handed Alex Walker the points lead leaving Snetterton. The Elite Motorsport driver blended speed with consistency, but had to give best to Nikolas Taylor in qualifying as the British-Malaysian bagged a double pole ahead of his racing car debut. “I’m just
Rins hadn’t finished on the podium since last August’s British GP before the Termas race, but carved his way through from seventh to third in the early stages. He steadily chipped away at the leading duo of Jorge Martin and eventual winner Aleix Espargaro, but couldn’t quite bridge the gap – taking the chequered
F1’s move to ground effect designs this season triggered headaches in early testing with most outfits suffering from their cars bouncing down the straights. Several teams found that the problems were exacerbated at high speed by their floors flexing down at the edges – which better sealed air flow under the car but led to
Works drivers Nicki Thiim, Marco Sorensen and Maxime Martin will share a TF-run Aston Martin Vantage GT3 in the Nurburgring-Nordschleife enduro on 28-29 May together with track record holder David Pittard, who is racing for the factory-run NorthWest AMR squad in the 2022 World Endurance Championship. The campaign in the top SP9 class, which will
Ricciardo and teammate Lando Norris have struggled in the opening two races of 2022 as McLaren was caught off the pace of the frontrunners. After finishing in the top four in the past two seasons, McLaren was blown away by the opposition at a painful Bahrain opening weekend, Ricciardo and Norris finishing in 14th and
On his 200th MotoGP start, Espargaro made history by claiming the first win for Aprilia in the modern era of the premier class at the Argentina Grand Prix – while also ending a drought for himself dating 283 races back to his 125cc debut in 2004. Espargaro joined Aprilia from Suzuki in 2017 and has been
After several tough seasons, Ferrari gradually fought its way back to the top and is now enjoying its most competitive season in years. It took a 1-2 win with Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz in Bahrain, followed by another podium for both drivers in Saudi Arabia. The Scuderia has produced what is clearly the team’s best
12:10 AM ET “What the hell is wrong with this guy?” CS Santosh often looked into the mirror and wondered. He had no broken bones, no visible scars. On the outside, he was a guy who appeared completely normal. Yet he couldn’t sit up without serious effort, couldn’t walk without support and felt inexplicably drowsy
There is a vast array of cars and championships in club motorsport that are portrayed as being entry-level introductions to the sport. But not all of them are as basic as they first appear and the machines instead require a raft of repurposing to make them fit for the race track. The MG ZR 160s
The Yamaha rider suffered a lack of rear grip in the opening laps of Sunday’s Termas de Rio Hondo race and slumped from sixth on the grid to 13th. He eventually took the chequered flag in eighth, though was 10.215 seconds from race winner Aleix Espargaro on the Aprilia. It continued an inconsistent start to
F1 announced last week that it would be adding a third grand prix in the United States to the calendar from next year, unveiling plans for a night street race in Las Vegas. The addition of the Las Vegas Grand Prix comes ahead of this year’s inaugural event in Miami. The new races join the
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Sainz has started the year with back-to-back podium finishes, following home team-mate Charles Leclerc in Bahrain to complete a Ferrari 1-2 before taking third in Saudi Arabia. But Sainz has been open about his difficulty in matching Leclerc through the early part of the year, calling Bahrain his “most difficult weekend” as a Ferrari driver.
The four-time MotoGP race winner was lucky to escape punishment for braking hard on the main straight out of frustration at the end of Saturday’s FP2 when got caught up in traffic. He ultimately failed to make it into Q2 and was unable to get out of Q1 in qualifying, with Bagnaia ending up 14th
F1 returns to Albert Park for the first Australian GP since 2019, after the 2020 event got cancelled when a member of the paddock tested positive for COVID-19, just days before the global pandemic struck, while F1 wasn’t able to return to Melbourne in 2021. With a new era of F1 cars, Albert Park has
It was not all smooth sailing for the #32 Audi R8, piloted by Dries Vanthoor, Kelvin van der Linde and Charles Weerts, although through pit strategy they reclaimed first place after losing it to fellow Audi runners Sainteloc Junior Team’s #25 entry. WRT’s #32 team had bagged the first pole position of the 2022 season
This all started from us being irritated. Back in 2016, the first time Autosport undertook a project to rank the world’s major categories based on lap time, the impetus came from the annoying crowing of a cluster of so-called motorsport authorities that LMP1 cars from the World Endurance Championship were faster than Formula 1 machinery.