Following their win in the Le Mans 24 Hours in June, Hirakawa and his team-mates aboard the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid, Sebastien Buemi and Brendon Hartley, sit second in the drivers’ standings with only the Bahrain season finale to come after this weekend’s first Fuji race since 2019. They trail Alpine trio Nicolas Lapierre, Matthieu
Month: September 2022
Gresini rider Bastianini and his future factory Ducati team-mate Bagnaia engaged in a tense duel for the win at Misano last Sunday. The pair came close to a collision on the final lap into Turn 4, but both emerged unscathed and ran line astern into the last turn. Bastianini got a good run on Bagnaia
1:05 PM ET AlphaTauri has defended itself against accusations that Yuki Tsunoda‘s retirement from the Dutch Grand Prix was staged to help Red Bull win the race. Tsunoda’s stoppage on Lap 46 was a key moment in the race, triggering a Virtual Safety Car period that allowed Max Verstappen to make a pit stop with
After being pushed hard by Ferrari in qualifying, it was Mercedes who emerged as Red Bull’s closest contender on race day with Lewis Hamilton and George Russell showing great pace. But some late strategy calls left Hamilton fuming over the radio after Mercedes kept him out during the safety car, leaving him powerless to stop
Mercedes made an ambitious one-stop strategy work by fitting Lewis Hamilton and George Russell with the hard at the end of their first stint, bringing them into contention for victory. Red Bull committed to a two-stop strategy with Verstappen, who was set to emerge from the pits behind both Mercedes cars after making his final
The Italian was 91 points adrift of reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo in the standings after registering a fourth DNF of the campaign at the German GP. But a run of victories through Assen, Silverstone, Red Bull Ring and last Sunday at Misano has put him up to second, 30 points behind Quartararo. Despite the
After finishing runner-up in Portland, Power heads to next week’s season finale at Laguna Seca with a 20-point lead over team-mate Josef Newgarden and Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda’s Scott Dixon, with race winner McLaughlin still in the hunt, albeit 41 points adrift. After following McLaughlin to the chequered flag, while title rival Dixon recovered from 16th
9:35 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Greg Anderson won his 100th career NHRA race, defeating Dallas Glenn in the Pro Stock finals of the U.S. Nationals on Monday. Anderson reached 208.07 mph in his 6.587-second winning run. Seven of his victories have come at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. “I don’t know if I
The capacity crowd at Zandvoort was treated to exactly what it wanted as Max Verstappen triumphed on home soil to take his win tally for 2022 into double digits. For those watching on TV, they were treated to what they wanted too as, after the race initially appeared to be a damp squib, it evolved
The accusations on social media were stoked by the impact the virtual safety car had on the race that followed Tsunoda’s retirement, favouring Max Verstappen at the expense of Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell. Red Bull head of strategy Hannah Schmitz has been the victim of online abuse as a result. The drama
Over the San Marino Grand Prix weekend KTM signed the Spaniard to race for its GasGas Tech3 customer team, which will continue to employ the Austrian marque’s RC16. The current Moto2 leader will be replaced at KTM Ajo by fellow Spaniard Albert Arenas. Fernandez, who is currently competing in his sixth Moto2 season, signed a
Although he lost ground on long-time rival, Team Penske’s Will Power in the points race by finishing right behind him in the Grand Prix of Portland, Dixon has overcome theoretically bigger points deficits with one round to go and claimed the championship. Although the 2015 finale at Sonoma Raceway was worth double points, Dixon was
6:30 AM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Scott Dixon watched Scott McLaughlin lead lap after lap around Portland International Raceway and figured at some point, his fellow New Zealander would be ordered to pull over. There’s a championship on the line – the closest IndyCar title fight in 19 years – and McLaughlin is
The Dutch Grand Prix proved to be another tough one for Ferrari as it faced fresh dramas in the pitlane that derailed its hopes of a better result. Carlos Sainz had been battling Lewis Hamilton over the first stint before it went wrong at his first stop when Ferrari failed to have all the tyres
Co-driver of the No. 86 Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3, Katherine Legge finds herself within reach of her first GT Daytona (GTD) championship in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with one race remaining in 2018. Legge sits down with Justin Bell to discuss what factors have led to her success and the impact she
Red Bull has agreed in principle to let Gasly go to Alpine as a replacement for the departing Fernando Alonso, freeing up a slot at AlphaTauri. Horner has suggested that Herta is the only choice to replace Gasly, and that Red Bull won’t release the Frenchman if the IndyCar star is not able to take
The Ducati rider held off race-long pressure from future factory team-mate Enea Bastianini to take the win at Misano, his sixth in total this season, with championship leader Quartararo back in fifth place. It means Bagnaia has moved ahead of Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro as closest contender and is now 30 points off the top having
Petty GMS Motorsports driver Jones, who had run in in the top 10 for most of the 367-lap race, inherited the lead with 22 laps remaining when the engine blew on Kyle Busch’s Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota under caution. Jones then led the way on the restart on lap 348 and spent the final 20
6:24 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Scott McLaughlin led a Team Penske rout at Portland International Raceway by scoring his third victory of the season in a 1-2 finish that moved Will Power one race closer to the IndyCar championship. McLaughlin led 104 of the 110 laps Sunday to pick up his third
During the safety car period produced by Valtteri Bottas’ stranded Alfa Romeo, Russell took the opportunity to call his own shots and asked for a set of soft tyres to complete the final stages of the race. Running second at that point, Russell conceded the place to race winner Max Verstappen as Hamilton stayed out
Sainz had been running third in the early stages of the 72-lap race ahead of the charging Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton, before the Ferrari driver’s race unravelled in the pits. In order to combat Hamilton’s strong pace on the medium tyres, Ferrari elected to react by calling Sainz to pit to try and maintain track
The Yamaha rider started eighth in Sunday’s San Marino Grand Prix and made up no places at the start until two riders crashed out in front of him on the second lap. Quartararo made one overtake on Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro for fifth but could do no more than this. With Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia winning the
Polesitter McLaughlin dominated the race, leading 104 of the 110 laps, to score his third win of the 2022 season. It was enough to keep the New Zealander in the title race ahead of next weekend’s Laguna Seca decider, 41 points shy of Power. A late caution caused by a clash between Rinus Veekay and
7:30 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Ron Capps won the Pep Boys NHRA Funny Car All-Star Callout on a hole-shot Sunday in the NHRA U.S. Nationals. Capps beat Matt Hagan in the final round to take the $80,000 top prize in the bonus event at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. Capps, the defending series
Tsunoda pulled up at the side of the track on Lap 43, reporting to AlphaTauri over the radio that not all of his tyres were fitted correctly. Thirty seconds later, Tsunoda was told to continue as there was no data suggesting anything was wrong. He returned to the pits to have his seatbelts retightened and
The McLaren driver is being replaced by Piastri for 2023, after the youngster was grabbed by the Woking-based squad from the grasps of Alpine. Piastri’s signing came ahead of McLaren agreeing a contract termination with Ricciardo, meaning he would not see out the third and final year of his original deal. The Piastri matter went
After a near-15-year career racing in the premier class, three-time championship runner-up Dovizioso has now retired from MotoGP following Sunday’s Misano race. Dovizioso announced during the British GP weekend that Misano would be his last outing, with Yamaha test rider Cal Crutchlow taking his place for the final six rounds of 2022. The RNF Racing
1:07 PM ET ZANDVOORT, Netherlands – Daniel Ricciardo called fellow Australian Oscar Piastri, who is replacing him at McLaren next season, to tell him there are no hard feelings about how things have played out this year. After a protracted legal tug of war between Alpine and McLaren, this week it was confirmed Piastri will
The performance came after it emerged that he won’t be part of the Ferrari family next year, and is set to be dropped by Haas. Schumacher sailed through the first two parts of Zandvoort qualifying in 12th and ninth places before earning eighth in the final session, helped by a hydraulic problem keeping Lance Stroll in
The FS2 broadcast which includes highlights from Round 3 and Round 4 race of the IMSA Prototype Challenge presented by Mazda championship at Barber Motorsports Park, April 22-23.