The Briton took the lead off the line from Nerea Marti, who had a poor getaway, before she was passed by Kimilainen into Turn 11 with less than 10 minutes remaining. A safety car ensued, before racing resumed on the last lap and the Briton reclaimed the lead into Turn 1, with the Finn running
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Ocon lost control of his Alpine A522 car through Turn 13 midway through FP3, causing him to crash into the wall on the right-hand side of the track. The severity of the impact left Ocon’s car with significant damage, and warranted a visit for the Frenchman to the medical centre where staff duly checked and
2:35 PM ET MIAMI — How in the world did the world’s most prestigious racing series arrive here? Not here as in Miami, but rather here as in this moment in time? Formula One’s former boss once said he didn’t believe his series needed the United States. Meanwhile, the U.S. motorsports community and its massive
Mercedes has struggled with extreme porpoising on its W13 car through the early part of the 2022 season, leaving it unable to challenge Red Bull or Ferrari at the front of the field. Mercedes brought a raft of updates for its car to Miami, including a low-drag rear wing and a revised front wing endplate
The first-ever Miami GP around the Miami Dolphins’ Hard Rock Stadium has been the most hyped up new F1 race in years and that has also been reflected in the ticket prices. Priced at $640 for the cheapest grandstand tickets, the second most expensive seats on the F1 calendar behind Monaco, sold out on the
6:01 PM ET McLaren’s Lando Norris took a dig at Mercedes rival George Russell at the inaugural Miami Grand Prix on Friday as he faced questions about his new helmet painted to look like a basketball. The two Britons are old friends from their time racing in junior series and appeared together in a scheduled
There were two red flags that held up proceedings – Carlos Sainz crashing in the early stages and Nicholas Latifi stopping late-on without drive on his Williams. In slightly cooler conditions compared to Friday afternoon’s earlier FP1 session, Latifi had led the pack out of the pits and duly established the first-place benchmark time at
F1 began its inaugural Miami GP with a frantic pair of practice sessions as teams and drivers got to grips with the Miami International Autodrome, where Charles Leclerc led the opening practice session before Russell capped an encouraging day for Mercedes with top spot in FP2. Carlos Sainz and Max Verstappen were the big names
6:40 PM ET Formula One’s commercial rights holders Liberty Media are buying a plot of land in Las Vegas for $240 million to locate the pit and paddock complex for a grand prix next year, they said on Friday. The floodlit race, to be held on a Saturday, will be the third U.S. round on
Watch highlights from Race 2 of the GT World Challenge Europe season, live from Brands Hatch. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader in GT racing. Join us for live and uninterrupted coverage of major events, as well as behind-the-scenes access, special features and fun from inside the
Leclerc, the points leader and two-time race winner so far in 2022, made the most of the extreme track evolution on the brand-new street track to set the benchmark at 1m31.098s. That gave him a slender cushion of seven hundredths of a second over Russell, as the W13 sports a more efficient front wing plus
The Italian has been Ducati’s leading light so far in 2022 on his GP21, having won twice in Qatar and America and leading the standings up until the Portimao round. He remains the top Ducati runner in the championship in third despite a difficult run to eighth in last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez,
Formula 1 has never raced in Miami before 2022 but plenty of other forms of motorsport have been active there – some even using the banner of the ‘Grand Prix of Miami’ long before F1 came to town. Miami used to play host to a downtown street race event, promoted by Cuban-American businessman Ralph Sanchez,
As part of the FIA’s clampdown on drivers wearing jewellery in the car, which is forbidden under the International Sporting Code, checks by teams were made part of the scrutineering process ahead of the Miami Grand Prix. Hamilton turned up to Friday’s FIA press conference wearing three watches, eight rings, bracelets and a necklace, and
2:20 PM ET Jeremy WillisESPN.com Formula One has taken over South Florida ahead of Sunday’s Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix (3:30 p.m. ET on ABC). Along with the Aramco United States Grand Prix in Austin, Texas, this is the only other event based in the U.S. The F1 circuit’s top drivers have also been enjoying the
Last year in the Porsche Carrera Cup North America was a good learning curve for me. It was my first time driving a Porsche GT3 Cup car, it’s a phenomenal car to drive but very different compared to the front-engined cars that I’m used to. I loved it. It really requires precision, keeping it on
The corner is a tightening left-hander that leads into the sharp-left Turn 8 and then onto a long straight that features a DRS zone. It is followed by a heavy braking area into Turn 11, which is expected to be a popular overtaking spot. After drivers tried the track in team simulators and walked it
10:20 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — British driver Stefan Wilson spent an entire year hoping to drive in this year’s Indianapolis 500. All he has to do now is qualify. Cusick Motorsports and DragonSpeed announced Thursday that they have hired the 32-year-old British driver, virtually assuring race organizers they will fill the traditional 33-car
Since launching the series in 2019, Drive to Survive has become one of the most popular shows on Netflix, with season four reaching number one in the world in 33 countries this year. Filming for season five has already been taking place this year, but official confirmation of the series arrived on Thursday ahead of
Yamaha has come into the 2022 season with a bike that hasn’t evolved much from the 2021 M1 Quartararo won the championship with, particularly in terms of horsepower. Quartararo struggled to ninth in Qatar, was eighth in Argentina and seventh in Austin, while in the wet in Indonesia he was second, victorious in Portugal and
Since taking over as F1 race director, Niels Wittich has clamped down on a number of elements of the regulations, including the wearing of jewellery and the correct underwear that complies with the FIA’s requirements. Wittich reminded drivers ahead of the Australian Grand Prix that wearing jewellery in the car was banned under the International
5:36 PM ET MIAMI – Pierre Gasly drives Formula One cars for a living and can boast that he is a grand prix winner, but he says the best experience of his life so far was having dinner with Michael Jordan this week ahead of the Miami Gand Prix. Gasly, who drives for Red Bull’s
And in sport, seven is a number that has also come to gain great significance, reaching far beyond the back of David Beckham’s football shirt. In Formula 1, Michael Schumacher’s tally of seven world championships long stood as a landmark most though impossible to reach. That was until Lewis Hamilton drew level in 2020, and
On Monday Autosport broke the bombshell news that Suzuki will quit MotoGP at the end of the season in a decision it only communicated to the race team on the same day during the post-race test at Jerez. An official announcement was expected on Tuesday, but did not materialise. Instead, Dorna Sports – MotoGP owners
The #25 DragonSpeed/Cusick Motorsports car becomes the 33rd – and likely final – entry in the 106th running of the Indianapolis 500, with the equipment is being supplied by AJ Foyt Racing. Cusick Motorsports was founded just last year by entrepreneur Don Cusick, who backs Wilson in the four Michelin Endurance Cup rounds of the IMSA SportsCar Championship,
In collaboration with team sponsor FTX, the cryptocurrency exchange, a range of digital collectibles have been released for the Miami weekend. These include special designs from artist Mad Dog Jones, whose artwork featuring a Mercedes F1 car will adorn the rear wings of both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell in Miami. After the race weekend,
3:23 PM ET Daniel Ricciardo started the final lap of last year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix title showdown right on the tail of Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. What followed was one of the most dramatic moments in Formula One history, but Ricciardo, long regarded as one of F1’s most talented drivers, wasn’t part of
And just as we’ve seen a variety of different sidepod solutions from teams this year, it appears – from the glimpses we have been able to get – there are varied approaches to the floor too. Each team has its own interpretation on how best to extract performance within the bounds of the new regulations,
Alex Palou showed all his IndyCar rivals how to win a championship last year, with three wins and five other podiums meaning he finished in the top three in half the races during 2021. The #10 Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda driver’s average finishing position across the 16-race championship was 7.3. Eliminate two DNFs, neither of which were
The inaugural Miami Grand Prix that takes place this weekend has generated a huge amount of hype and interest, with F1 chiefs capitalising on the championship’s booming following in the United States. But with other countries looking to grab a race themselves a grand prix, and Las Vegas is already confirmed for 2023, there is