9:12 AM ET Formula One approved a small increase to its $140 million per team annual budget cap on Friday to help with the burden of inflation and rising energy and freight bills. The change was announced by the governing FIA after a meeting of the Formula One commission at the Austrian Grand Prix and
Month: July 2022
In the original seven-round calendar for the 2022 WRX season revealed last December, Holjes in Sweden was listed as the opening round on 2-3 July with a TBC date against a planned season finale in Cape Town, South Africa. A further update was issued in March, with Holjes becoming an official launch event headlined by
The Monegasque driver was left hugely disappointed after the British Grand Prix when a late call to pit team-mate Carlos Sainz rather than himself ended up costing him the chance of a podium finish. Having been left frustrated earlier in the race that Ferrari did not move Sainz out of the way after feeling he
12:38 PM ET Charles Leclerc dismissed reports of division and frustration inside Ferrari on Thursday after teammate Carlos Sainz won the British Grand Prix last weekend. Reports in Italy said Leclerc’s engineers boycotted a photograph to celebrate Sainz’s first Formula One win, angry that their man had lost a victory on strategy at Silverstone. Leclerc
Johan Kristoffersson and Mikaela Ahlin-Kottulinsky looked to have taken their second victory of the season in the first of two rounds staged by the electric off-road series in Sardinia on Thursday, after Kristoffersson’s collision with Carlos Sainz Sr in the final had caused a red flag. Following the restart, the RXR crew came home 10.36
Hamilton and Verstappen experienced a fierce rivalry through their fight for last year’s F1 championship, going wheel-to-wheel at a number of races that included a handful of collisions. The first major incident between the two drivers came at last year’s British Grand Prix, where they collided when battling for the lead at Copse on the
4:28 PM ET Max Verstappen responded to Lewis Hamilton’s dig about not being a sensible driver by saying it is reassuring that even a 37 year old can learn how to take a corner properly. Hamilton battled cleanly with Charles Leclerc at the British Grand Prix and praised the Ferrari driver for being “sensible”, saying
The 13-time F1 race-winner has recently kickstarted the More Than Equal campaign to help empower female racing drivers to reach the top tier of single seater racing, working across fields including driver coaching, psychology and sponsorship. The not-for-profit development structure, which Coulthard has launched with Czech businessman Karel Komarek, will work with Hintsa Performance to
Russell was caught up in the same sequence of events on the first lap at Silverstone, having collided with the AlphaTauri of Pierre Gasly to then rotate and hit Zhou’s car. Once Russell stopped at Abbey with left-rear damage, having witnessed the Alfa Romeo land between the tyre wall and catch fencing, he ran with
7:40 AM ET Red Bull has clarified that Juri Vips has lost his test and reserve driver roles with its Formula One team but remains part of the driver programme despite using a racial slur on a livestream last month. Vips’ contract for those roles was terminated on June 28 after a week-long investigation into
Boschung has missed the Barcelona, Monaco and Silverstone rounds of this season due to an ongoing issue with his neck. With Silverstone and Red Bull Ring backed by a week, Campos and Boschung have taken the decision to bench the Swiss race in Austria and replace him with Merhi. Merhi finished third in Formula Renault
Albon was involved in a massive multi-car pile-up at the start, which saw Alfa Romeo’s Zhou Guanyu roll into the catchfence after sliding across the run-off inverted. Albon was the other main victim after being tagged from behind by Sebastian Vettel as cars were taking avoiding action. The Anglo-Thai suffered a hard head-on hit with
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Check out the sights and sounds from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at the 2018 Motul Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta.
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It’s hard to pick a star of the 2022 IndyCar Series over its first nine rounds, because of the closeness of the competition. The pacesetter at the previous round can so easily be an also-ran at the next. For that reason, one has to salute Josef Newgarden, who has accumulated wins on an oval, a
Tsunoda struggled at Red Bull’s sister team AlphaTauri in his 2021 debut season, but the brand continued investing in him by relocating him to Italy closer to the team’s Faenza factory and it extended his stay in F1 for a second season. While Tsunoda has shown some improvement during a sophomore year in which his team has found
4:09 PM ET Associated Press NASCAR on Wednesday penalized Noah Gragson for a deliberate and dangerous crash he caused in the Xfinity Series race at Road America. Gragson, who turns 24 later this month, was docked 30 points and fined $35,000 by NASCAR for intentionally crashing into Sage Karam on Saturday at the road course
The British squad has elected to promote its WRC2 driver to a Rally1 drive for his home event (4-7 August) to mark a first start in the WRC’s top tier. The 28-year-old has been steadily climbing the WRC ranks having won the 2020 WRC3 title, before finishing third in the WRC2 standings last year, following
Two-time world champion Alonso returned to F1 in 2021 with Alpine after taking two years out of the championship to explore other racing interests in the Le Mans 24 Hours, the Indy 500 and the Dakar Rally. At 40, the Spaniard is the oldest driver on the grid, yet he has been clear in his ambition to
The German finally broke his duck by finishing eighth at Silverstone after chasing Max Verstappen to the chequered flag. While the result will put a stop to the previous questioning about when he would score his first points, Steiner says now expectations could be pitched too high. “I think it will give him a little
Indeed, a lot of observers were left scratching their heads at some pretty aggressive attack and defence moves, and especially moments where drivers appeared to have been squeezed off the track. There were several examples throughout the afternoon of drivers being on the outside of their rivals but finding themselves left with no room on
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James Stewart (@js7) takes his first win of the season and the Coliseum is greeted with an amazing surprise during opening ceremonies in the 4th round of Monster Energy Supercross in Oakland, CA! Watch the video to see what everyone’s talking about! For full event
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Grasser Lamborghini driver Bortolotti reclaimed the top spot from Sheldon van der Linde at the Norisring on Sunday after finishing second to Felipe Fraga as his Schubert BMW rival van der Linde finished outside the points in 15th. Bortolotti now heads the standings by nine points over the South African after notching his fourth
According to reports in Spanish outlet Diario de Ibiza, Bagnaia crashed a Citroen into a ditch on the side of a road in the early hours of Tuesday morning. The Guardia Civil and local police arrived at the scene and performed a breathalyser test on the driver, who was identified as Bagnaia. Bagnaia gave a
Sainz scored his maiden F1 victory in Sunday’s British Grand Prix, passing team-mate Leclerc with 10 laps remaining thanks to his fresh set of soft tyres following the safety car restart. Ferrari opted to keep Leclerc out during the safety car period due to his fresher hard tyres and better track position, but he ultimately
5:45 PM ET Associated Press Michael Andretti acknowledged Tuesday that the meltdown of his IndyCar team at Mid-Ohio was unacceptable and said his four drivers will be expected to work together as teammates the remainder of the season. Andretti led an emergency meeting after Sunday’s race at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, where a fracture in
After a four-year COVID-19 enforced layoff, a record number of spectators, cars and drivers gathered at the Circuit de la Sarthe last weekend to celebrate the 10th edition of what has become arguably Europe’s most popular historic motorsport event, the Le Mans Classic. Organised since 2002 by Peter Auto and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest,
Quartararo has been vocal about Yamaha’s lack of top speed gains with its engine since the November post-season test at Jerez last year, and admitted during February’s pre-season testing that the minimal progress with the M1 meant his MotoGP future beyond 2022 was open. In the early races he struggled for results, finishing ninth in