The Alpine team was deemed by the FIA stewards to have performed an unsafe release after Ocon emerged side-by-side with Hamilton, forcing the Mercedes driver to cede him the position. Ocon received a five-second penalty for the incident, and having finished in 11th place with a queue of cars behind him the Alpine driver slipped
Month: April 2022
A strategy blunder in the wet-to-dry Q1 qualifying session at Portimao last weekend left Rins at the back of the grid in 23rd, but a stunning start in Sunday’s race led to him jumping up to 10th on the opening lap. Rins march continued in emphatic fashion as he carved through to fourth by the
After Charles Leclerc and Ferrari utterly dominated the Australian Grand Prix to grab an early advantage in the 2022 Formula 1 season, Max Verstappen and Red Bull repaid the favour at Imola – profiting from both the sprint race format and Leclerc’s late error at the Variante Alta. F1 returned to Europe for the first
12:03 PM ET IMOLA, Italy — Ferrari will be reluctant to admit it, but the pressure ratchets up when it races on home soil. The expectations of victory are always significantly multiplied in Italy and the cost of mistakes become massively amplified. It’s a pressure no other team in F1 faces. Individual drivers may feel
From 11th on the grid at Imola, Russell made a good start and had a superb race to fourth place in the tricky wet/dry event. Hamilton meanwhile struggled to make progress and finished where he started in 14th on the road, spending most of the race stuck behind Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri, but gained a place
The reigning world champion stormed to his first win since the 2021 British GP on Sunday at Portimao, having taken the lead from Suzuki’s Joan Mir on the fourth lap of 25. Quartararo proceeded to streak clear of the field to a winning margin of 5.4 seconds to take the lead in the championship for
Erik Jones was leading on the final lap but the drivers behind him were getting antsy to make a move. Kyle Larson moved to the top lane to get around him and Jones followed him in an attempt to block. Chastain, who was running third on the last lap, elected to remain on bottom lane
Leclerc had looked on course for a guaranteed third place towards the end of Sunday’s race at Imola, with Red Bull duo Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez in front. However, on lap 50, Ferrari elected to pit Leclerc for soft tyres in a bid to try to get the Monegasque at least one more position.
9:03 PM ET Associated Press BAYTOWN, Texas — Houston native Erica Enders closed Houston Raceway Park with a victory, beating Camrie Caruso on Sunday in the final NHRA SpringNationals in the first all-woman final in NHRA Pro Stock history. Enders had a 6.568-second pass at 210.24 mph in a Chevrolet Camaro for her third victory
Hill was excluded from third position in race one when his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport incurred damage as a result of which it failed the ride-height test, before racing from the rear of the grid to ninth in race two. He was drawn on pole position for the reversed grid, and drove
Mir led the 25-lap race early on, but was soon swallowed by eventual winner Fabio Quartararo and dropped to third late on as he battled with a lack of feeling on his medium front tyre. On lap 19 Miller lined up a pass on Mir into the first corner, but lost the front-end of
Verstappen won the award following his 2021 F1 title triumph over former Laureus award winner Lewis Hamilton, who jointly won the 2020 edition of the awards with footballing great Lionel Messi. The Dutchman beat American football icon Tom Brady, Bayern Munich and Poland striker Robert Lewandowski, marathon running legend Eliud Kipchoge, swimmer Caeleb Dressel –
1:03 PM ET IMOLA, Italy — Toto Wolff said Mercedes has not produced a car worthy of Lewis Hamilton’s status as a seven-time world champion after seeing him get lapped by Max Verstappen and finish 13th at Imola. In one of the most ordinary displays of his illustrious career, Hamilton found himself stuck behind AlphaTauri’s
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Leclerc was on course for a comfortable third place behind the dominant Red Bulls of winner Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez and was just looking to salvage a result on Ferrari home soil after team-mate Carlos Sainz was taken out on the first lap. But on lap 53 of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Leclerc
The six-time world champion was expected to be one of the main combatants in Sunday’s race at Portimao despite qualifying down in ninth. But Marquez failed to make inroads at the start and could only manage sixth, some 16 seconds from race winner Fabio Quartararo, after battling with Honda team-mate Pol Espargaro and his LCR
The seven-time world champion endured a hugely frustrating Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, as he was left a ‘sitting duck’ when he got trapped in a DRS train and ended up a lowly 13th. After the race, team boss Toto Wolff apologised to Hamilton over team radio for being given an “undriveable” car. Hamilton’s title chances
1:40 PM ET IMOLA, Italy – Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc‘s late battle for victory at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix’s sprint race was the icing on the cake for Formula One boss Ross Brawn, who is already planning to roll out the format at twice as many races in 2023. Imola’s race is the
Toyota driver Rovanpera increased his advantage over Tanak to 28.4s with two stages remaining after the 2019 world champion’s gamble to fit soft tyres backfired. In a bid to try to reel in Rovanpera’s 19.9s overnight margin, the Estonian opted for an alternate tyre strategy, but lost significant time on the day’s opening stage to put
Qualifying at Portimao on Saturday was hectic as Q2 was the first session of the weekend to be run in fully dry conditions. This meant lap times improved throughout the 15-minute session as the track evolved, with top spot changing hands constantly. Marquez was on a lap in the dying stages of Q2 that was
The German manufacturer’s competitive struggles have hit a season low so far at Imola, with neither Lewis Hamilton or George Russell making it in to the top 10 in qualifying. The pair did not make much progress in the sprint race either, and are at risk of coming away from the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix
8:54 PM ET Associated Press BAYTOWN, Texas — Steve Torrence took the No. 1 spot in Top Fuel qualifying Saturday at the final NHRA SpringNationals, moving past Brittany Force at Houston Raceway Park. The track that hosted its first national event in 1988 is closing after the event to make room for Katoen Natie’s expanding
Tanak emerged in the battle for victory at the asphalt event after rally leader Rovanpera picked up a front left puncture, which cost the Finn almost a minute of his 1m23s advantage on Stage 11. The Hyundai driver managed to apply pressure on Rovanpera throughout the afternoon, closing to within 13s of the Finn, before
The 2020 title winner took his first ever front row qualifying result in last year’s Algarve GP at Portimao, and was in the fight for pole on Saturday for the 2022 Portuguese GP. Mir in the end lost out to Pramac’s Johann Zarco by 0.195 seconds, but still held onto a career-best second. Speaking after
The reigning F1 world champion reeled in Charles Leclerc after the Ferrari driver grabbed the lead at the start of the sprint race, with Verstappen regaining the lead on the penultimate lap. It meant Verstappen converted pole position from Friday’s qualifying into the sprint race win and will start Sunday’s grand prix from the front
2:50 PM ET IMOLA, Italy — Lewis Hamilton wrote off his chances of competing for the Formula One title this year after falling 50 points adrift of championship leader Charles Leclerc at Saturday’s sprint race at Imola. Hamilton finished 14th in the sprint race, which sets the grid for Sunday’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, after
What. A. Race! You won’t see a better season opener than this. Balfe Motorsport’s Adam Carroll held off a charging Jules Gounon to claim victory in the day’s first race at Oulton, while GT4 winners Steller Motorsport ensured Audi doubled up. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader
Hill, who switched to the West Surrey Racing-run BMW squad over the winter, pipped four-time champion Colin Turkington to his maiden BTCC pole position by just 0.018 seconds. It was a strong bounceback from Hill, whose preparations hit trouble with gearbox problems during the second free practice session. But there were problems for the Motorbase
The three-time MotoGP race winner made his debut with LCR back in 2015 when he was signed to a three-year contract by Honda to come directly from Moto3, where he finished runner-up in the championship in 2014. After a difficult debut aboard the underpowered RC213V-RS open class bike, Miller moved to Marc VDS for the
The Red Bull driver had a poor getaway from pole position and lost the advantage to Ferrari’s Leclerc, who began to open up a clear advantage at the front after an early safety car period. But Leclerc’s fortunes turned when he began suffering graining on his right front tyre, and his pace fell away. That
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