Following months of speculation regarding a change in the DJR ownership structure, talks of a potential buy-in ramped up during the Townsville 500 weekend. Story, who co-owns the team with racing legend Dick Johnson, has now moved to clarify the current ownership situation. He says there is no firm agreement in place as of yet,
Month: July 2022
Following a number of incidents at races last year concerning track limits, new F1 race directors Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas adopted a stricter approach for 2022, defining the edge of the track as being the white line and sanctioning any breaches accordingly. The Red Bull Ring in Austria typically sees drivers running wide at
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The double world champion was forced to start Sunday’s 71-lap grand prix from the back of the grid after his Alpine went into “full blackout” ahead of Saturday’s sprint race, which he was due to start from ninth. Alpine put Alonso on the hard tyre to begin with, which he used to coast into the
In May McLaren announced that Andretti Autosport driver Herta, a seven-time race winner in the IndyCar Series, will be part of the team’s testing programme with the 2021 MCL35M car. The team has now revealed the 22-year-old American will test at Portimao’s Algarve International Circuit on Monday and Tuesday, with McLaren’s simulator driver Will Stevens
2:46 PM ET SPIELBERG, Austria — Mercedes boss Toto Wolff believes life bans should be handed out to “brainless” abusive fans after a number of incidents among attendees at the Red Bull Ring overshadowed the Austrian Grand Prix. Multiple accounts of homophobic, racist or sexist abuse were shared on social media by fans in the
In May McLaren announced that Andretti Autosport driver Herta, a seven-time race winner in the IndyCar Series, will be part of the team’s testing programme with the 2021 MCL35M car. The team has now revealed the 22-year-old American will test at Portimao’s Algarve International Circuit on Monday and Tuesday, with McLaren’s simulator driver Will Stevens
The Mercedes driver tangled with Perez fighting for fourth place on the first lap, with Russell hitting the side of the Red Bull on the exit of Turn 4 which sent the Mexican off. Russell was given a five-second penalty for the incident, while Perez later retired from the race due to the damage sustained
Throughout the Austrian F1 race weekend, a number of fans have been subjected to harassment by other supporters at the track including the use of homophobic and racist slurs, catcalling and other abusive comments. F1 responded to the reports and announced it will speak to the Red Bull Ring race promoters to seek action. Vettel
6:33 AM ET SPIELBERG, Austria — Formula One will discuss “unacceptable” reports of fan harassment with the organisers of the Austrian Grand Prix. On Friday and Saturday numerous fans took to social media to report racist, homophobic and sexist abuse aimed in their direction at the event. The behaviour of the fans at the Red
The Hitech rookie led from pole, with the formation lap starting behind the safety car before a rolling start. He rapidly built up a strong lead to second-placed Victor Martins, with a 2.3s gap by lap eight. Despite a safety car on lap 21 closing the gap, the young Red Bull junior held on to
The reigning world champion topped Friday’s qualifying session to take pole for the sprint race on Saturday, which he duly converted to victory over Ferrari duo Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz. In last month’s Azerbaijan GP, Verstappen said he was asking Red Bull to give him a better car for qualifying having felt he was
2:41 PM ET SPIELBERG, Austria — Lewis Hamilton has questioned why fans at the Austrian Grand Prix cheered after he crashed out of qualifying on Friday evening. Hamilton lost control of his Mercedes in Turn 7 and crashed into the barriers lining the outside of the track. The impact was severe enough to damage his
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Officials were forced to abandon the start procedure for the 24-lap sprint at the Red Bull Ring when Alfa Romeo driver Zhou Guanyu slowed and lost power at the final corner. It resulted in an extra formation lap being called, giving time for Zhou to get his car back going and rejoin at the back
The Red Bull driver dominated the second sprint race of the season to convert his qualifying pole position into top spot on the grid for Sunday’s grand prix, and picked up the maximum eight points for the sprint race win. Verstappen’s charge was aided by the Ferrari pair of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz battling
The Aston Martin driver will see the stewards at 6pm local time at the Red Bull Ring on Saturday for an incident that happened during the drivers’ briefing which took place after qualifying on Friday evening at the track. It remains unclear what the details are behind the stewards hearing, with the FIA bulletin stating:
As the grid was vacated before the start, Alonso’s car was left on the grid on its jacks with the tyre blankets still attached, as the team was frantically trying to solve a technical issue on the car. But as the grid was led around for another formation lap due to Zhou Guanyu‘s engine shut-off,
8:14 AM ET Ferrari will run its original prancing horse emblem on its Formula One cars at this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix to mark 90 years since it first appeared on a Scuderia Ferrari racing car. The famous logo made its debut on an Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 MMs entered by the company’s founder Enzo
After what appeared to be an improvement in his performance after the Monaco Grand Prix, Ricciardo has endured more challenging times at the British GP and in Austria this weekend. He never looked like challenging for points after a lowly qualifying at Silverstone, and at the Red Bull Ring he failed to make it out
He eclipsed chief 2022 rival Charles Leclerc in the dying moments of a session twice red-flagged, owing to crashes from both Mercedes drivers, who had been a credible pole threat. The Ferraris left the pits ahead of the Red Bull for the final 2m30s qualifying shootout. Leclerc set a personal best first sector, lost time
2:45 PM ET Associated Press Matt Kenseth wasn’t sure he was ready to retire from NASCAR competition the first time in 2017, when his seat was given to a younger driver. Kenseth was still winning race when he stepped away as a two-time Daytona 500 winner and the 2003 Cup champion. In fact, he won
The new car is in compliance with the Prototype rules that the IMSA and ACO devised for 2023, and will see the Cadillac compete in both the IMSA SportsCar Championship and the World Endurance Championship. The new car replaces the DPi-V.R which, since the Daytona Prototype international rules were introduced to IMSA in 2017, has
Perez made it through to the final session of qualifying at the Red Bull Ring with his final Q2 lap after his initial time was deleted when he exceeded track limits. But it emerged in the aftermath of the session that Perez appeared to have breached the track limits on that last lap as well,
3:52 PM ET SPIELBERG, Austria – Sergio Perez has dropped from fourth on the grid at Saturday’s Austrian Grand Prix sprint race to 13th after all his lap times during Friday’s Q3 session and one from Q2 were deleted. Perez cut a corner at Turn 8 on his fastest lap in Q2, meaning he progressed
Romain Dumas led the way in the solo Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 LMH with a 1m37.984s lap, which put him six tenths up on the solo Alpine-Gibson A480 and eight tenths ahead of the fastest of the two Peugeot 9X8s in third. Alpine driver Andre Negrao headed the times with a 1m38.602s midway through the session before
The pack headed out en masse at the start of the one-hour session – the teams’ only chance to get prepared ahead of Friday’s qualifying session and the two races to come. All cars ran the medium tyres in the early stages, with Alpine’s Fernando Alonso setting the first place benchmark at 1m09.438s. That was