F1 pulled off a major coup earlier this year by getting all the agreements and permissions necessary to use the Las Vegas city streets and run its cars past some of the city’s major casinos. A letter of intent from Liberty Dice, a new entity created by the championship’s owner Liberty Media, lays out the
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The team has been struggling all season to fully understand the car built to F1’s latest regulations. Occasional signs of promise have encouraged it to stick with the narrow sidepod concept, while others have been gravitating in a common direction. George Russell’s pole in Hungary followed by a second consecutive two-three finish for Lewis Hamilton
Vinales acrimoniously split with Yamaha following last year’s Dutch GP, before an attempt to intentionally damage his M1 in the Styrian GP led to the Japanese marque ousting him with immediate effect. He signed a deal to join Aprilia from the Aragon GP onwards and scored his first podium on the RS-GP at Assen in
Heading into the summer break the team lies ninth in the world championship, ahead of only Williams. Apart from a high of a sixth place for Sebastian Vettel in Azerbaijan, the team has logged an eighth, a ninth and six 10th places in the first part of the season. Krack says the main issue is
After a fuel strategy didn’t work out due to how the caution periods unfolded, Newgarden made a late pitstop under yellow and had to climb back up from 14th place. After moving up to 10th place, at the penultimate restart following a caution period he made a bold dive up the inside of three cars
Palou finished third in a wild and unpredictable Nashville race, and has closed the gap to championship leader Will Power to 33 points. However, his Chip Ganassi Racing team-mates Scott Dixon – who won in Nashville – and Marcus Ericsson are only six and 12 points respectively in arrears of the Team Penske driver. Given
The Spaniard suffered a frightening highside going through Farm Curve during FP4 for last weekend’s British Grand Prix and had to be stretchered off track. Espargaro was taken to the circuit’s medical centre and had to be helped into the building by two members from his Aprilia team, but was later cleared to take part
Reddick got through Turn 1 on the restart unscathed while most of the field did not, including Ross Chastain, who ran off onto the access road and returned to the track in the lead. With multiple cars going off track battling for position, Reddick eventually ran Chastain down and passed him for the lead and
Four-time F1 world champion Vettel announced ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix that he will retire at the end of the 2022 season, bringing to an end his 15-year stint on the grid. Along with Hamilton, Vettel has been a leading voice for issues outside of F1 in recent years, placing particular focus on the
The Japanese single-seater series will again visit five different tracks next year, with Fuji Speedway maintaining the second date that it picked up last year at the expense of Motegi. Suzuka also keeps both of its dates, while Autopolis, Sugo and Motegi will be visited once apiece. Okayama, dropped from the 2021 schedule owing to
For the second year in a row, MotoGP’s pre-season testing phase in 2023 will consist of just five days of running spread over two tests as part of the series push to reduce the number of days of riding as its calendar expands beyond 20 races. MotoGP’s first three-day test of 2023 will take place
In a race delayed by almost two hours due to thunderstorms and then stalled by multiple caution periods and a late red flag, Dixon came through the carnage for his second win of the season by seeing off McLaughlin in a sprint to the finish. IndyCar points leader Will Power also suffered damage during the
Harvick had just made his final green-flag stop for tyres and fuel when Christopher Bell and Ross Chastain wrecked on lap 160 of 200 to bring out a caution. Bell had attempted to block an advance by Chastain and the two ended up crashing together at the Turn 4 wall, allowing the leaders to pit.
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McLaren is believed to have signed Piastri initially on a reserve driver deal for 2023, one that it intends to upgrade to a race seat, assuming that a plan for Ricciardo’s early exit is eventually agreed. Ricciardo has a firm McLaren contract for next season as part of the original three-year deal that he signed
On a dry track, but with rain showers looming in the vicinity, Albuquerque (Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05) led from pole ahead of Alex Lynn’s Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac. Richard Westbrook’s JDC-Miller Cadillac grabbed third initially from Tom Blomqvist (Meyer Shank Racing Acura), who lost a further spot when Sebastien Bourdais bullied his way past
The championship leader had to serve a long penalty in Sunday’s 20-lap race at Silverstone as punishment for his collision with title rival Aleix Espargaro in the Dutch GP in June. Quartararo ran second in the opening three laps before serving his penalty on the fourth tour. Though he only lost around 1.6s, he dropped
During the weather delay at the Nashville race, Paretta Autosport announced an additional date to its original three-race roster for 2022. Although the team is not yet prepared to reveal the next title sponsor for the #16 Paretta entry, team principal Beth Paretta was able to confirm the team and Simona De Silvestro’s presence on
9:05 PM ET Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Scott Dixon passed Mario Andretti for second on IndyCar’s all-time wins list with a victory Sunday in the messy Music City Grand Prix that pulled him within reach of a record-tying seventh series championship. Dixon overcame a poor qualifying effort, damage to his Chip Ganassi Racing car,
There have been some stupendous performances over the years and, in this episode of Autosport’s “Short View Back to the Past” series, Chief Editor Kevin Turner picks out F1’s greatest qualifying laps. Please let us know in the comments about any laps we’ve missed and any other topics you’d like us to take on. Want
But a double-podium for BRC Hyundai driver Mikel Azcona helped the Spaniard take a major step towards the coveted crown. Both races followed a similar pattern with Huff’s Zengo Motorsport CUPRA moving into the lead at the start of race two from a front-row start just as Berthon’s Comtoyou Audi had done in the earlier
The Italian finished Friday’s running in 11th, slightly improving on Saturday morning to finish FP3 in seventh place before qualifying in fifth for the race. Having struggled with tyres on the difficult track, he asked long-time mentor Rossi and Ducati world champion Stoner for advice on how they had tackled Silverstone, having won a race
Andretti, 35, is the grandson of motorsports icon Mario Andretti. Andretti competed full-time as an IndyCar driver from 2006 to 2020, winning twice. Since then, he has made one-off appearances in the Indianapolis 500, a race he has started 17 times. Most recently, he earned the championship in Season 2 of Tony Stewart’s six-week Superstar
That’s the consequence of a design direction that the team has taken with the new regulations. Its drivers have often found themselves at the top of the speed trap figures in 2022, while in previous seasons they’d be at the bottom more often than not. In order to tackle this issue in Hungary, Red Bull introduced a new beam
The three-time MotoGP race winner will join KTM next year at its factory squad after signing a two-year deal to join the Austrian manufacturer, partnering Brad Binder. Miller has been a mainstay of Ducati’s line-up, first at Pramac and then its factory squad, since 2018, and has been a key asset in its development drive
Silverstone returned to hosting MotoGP back in 2010, having last done so in 1985 before the series moved to Donington Park between 1986 and 2009. When MotoGP returned to Silverstone it used the International Pit Straight – now known as the Hamilton Straight – and the Wing paddock complex. But in 2013, MotoGP moved to
Scott McLaughlin delivered his second IndyCar pole with the fastest time at Nashville to beat a resurgent Romain Grosjean, after lightning during a rainstorm caused a 90-minute delay. Grosjean had put his Andretti car on top during the Fast Six, getting ahead of Christian Lundgaard – but McLaughlin eclipsed the Frenchman’s time late on –
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Alonso turned down the chance to extend his stay at Alpine by taking up an offer to join Aston Martin on a “multi-year” deal that takes him to at least the end of the 2024 season. PLUS: The traits that fuelled Alonso’s unexpected Aston Martin move Heading into this season’s summer break, Alpine lies in fourth place in the