Championship leader Verstappen pipped Leclerc to pole position in qualifying at Zandvoort on Saturday, edging the Ferrari driver out by just two hundredths of a second in Q3. Overtaking is notoriously difficult around the tight Zandvoort layout, making it important for Leclerc to get the jump on Verstappen early on for the best chance of
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The six-time MotoGP world champion will return to riding for the first time in three months since his fourth major arm operation on Tuesday at the post-San Marino Grand Prix test. Declared fit by MotoGP doctors on Saturday at Misano, Marquez admits he’s not sure if he will do both days of the test and
5:45 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Team Penske powered its way around Portland International Raceway on Saturday in a 1-2-3 qualifying sweep that poised the IndyCar championship leaders for a big swing against Ganassi in the title fight. Scott McLaughlin won the pole — his third of the season — and picked up
Mercedes bounced back from a difficult weekend at Spa to qualify fourth and sixth for the Dutch Grand Prix with Hamilton and team-mate George Russell, getting in the mix with the Ferrari and Red Bull cars. Hamilton ended qualifying four-tenths of a second off Max Verstappen’s pole position time, but was forced to abandon his
Leclerc had led the way after the first fliers in Q3 and set an even quicker first sector time on his final run to conclude qualifying. But he could not then even better his personal best in sector two, let alone set a time that Verstappen could not match on the way to Q3’s quickest
Light rainfall hit qualifying for the San Marino Grand Prix on Saturday, but the Q2 pole shootout session was still run on slick tyres. Quartararo could only manage eighth, one place ahead of nearest title rival Aleix Espargaro on the Aprilia, but behind an armada of Ducatis headed by Jack Miller. His in-form team-mate Francesco
McLaughlin, a rank outsider in the points race with a 54-point deficit to Power heading into the final two races, pipped Newgarden by 0.078s in the decisive Fast Six session to secure the top spot – although a six-place grid penalty for Newgarden’s engine change will drop him to eighth on the grid. Points leader
7:53 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Steve Torrence won the Pep Boys NHRA Top Fuel All-Star Callout specialty race Saturday at Lucas Oil Raceway as part of the NHRA U.S. Nationals. In the final round of the specialty event with a total purse of $130,000, Torrence, the four-time defending series champion, had a 3.692-second
Alonso, who had sailed through Q1 in ninth place and was eighth after the first runs in Q2, ended the session in 13th. The two-time champion found Perez’s Red Bull running slowly on an in-lap through the Turn 9 right-hander. The Spaniard was convinced that the had the potential to start well inside the top
After losing much of his FP1 session to a gearbox problem, Verstappen recovered in fine style to secure pole position at his home race for the second year in a row. Despite going quicker in the first and third sectors, a mistake at Turn 10 proved costly for Charles Leclerc, as the Ferrari driver trailed
Bagnaia came into Saturday’s qualifying session carrying a three-place grid penalty for the race after impeding other riders in FP1 at Misano. The Ducati rider, who is 44 points behind championship leader Fabio Quartararo having won the last three races, qualified second in the iffy conditions at Misano and will drop to fifth for the
All three Penske drivers ducked under the FP1 benchmark set by Newgarden during a session blighted by several red flags, including an 80-minute delay for a fallen trackside screen, but the best non-Penske entry in FP2 couldn’t match the double champion’s 58.576s Friday best. Colton Herta came closest to breaking the stranglehold for Andretti Autosport,
12:19 PM ET ZANDVOORT, Netherlands – Lewis Hamilton felt he could have set up a tantalising start alongside 2021 title rival Max Verstappen at the Dutch Grand Prix as Mercedes bounced back to form. Last week Mercedes languished off the pace at the Belgian Grand Prix but has been in the mix with Red Bull
Paddock insiders have suggested that the ease with which 2021 Formula 2 champion Piastri was able to walk away from Alpine, after the team had invested heavily in bringing its reserve driver through the ranks, will discourage people from spending in the future. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff noted at Spa that “it’s important that junior
In the wake of the Contract Recognition Board deciding that Alpine has no claims to the Australian for next year, it has been confirmed that he will be joining McLaren in 2023. For now, Piastri remains as Alpine’s official reserve driver – and he is continuing to work with the Enstone-based squad in its simulator
Gloomy but dry conditions greeted the field as the final timed practice of the weekend got underway at Misano. Though dry, conditions weren’t optimal for time attack laps, with three riders inside the top 10 on combined times failing to improve on their Friday best efforts. After 15 minutes of running only 15th-placed Fabio Di
1:00 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Justin Ashley led Top Fuel qualifying Friday night in the NHRA U.S. Nationals with a 3.716-second pass at 330.23 mph. “You always want to come out hot and make a good run down the track,” Ashley said. “It’s a special weekend for us and we always want to
It’s been another action-packed Friday for F1 at Zandvoort, with Ferrari finishing 1-2 in second practice after Mercedes pulled off its own top spots lockout in opening practice. But for F1 world championship leader Red Bull it was a tricky day, with home hero Max Verstappen missing the majority of first practice due to a
The Contract Recognition Board’s ruling on the Piastri case on Friday revealed that the deal between the Australian and McLaren was completed on the day after the British Grand Prix. This prompted a great deal of speculation about whether Ricciardo had been kept in the dark initially, as he had made a statement on social
Bagnaia has been handed a three-place grid drop for Sunday after he was deemed to have ridden irresponsibly towards the end of FP1 and forced LCR Honda’s Marquez to abort a flying lap – which also led to Gresini’s Enea Bastianini, who was fastest on Friday, lifting off too. The Ducati rider explained that he
4:53 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Colton Herta receives a buzz on his phone alerting him every time his name is linked to a Formula One seat next season with AlphaTauri. The speculation is so rampant that Herta said Friday that he has stopped reading the reports. He has also informed his father,
Piastri was confirmed as a McLaren driver for at least the next two seasons after the F1 Contract Recognition Board decided in favour of the Woking-based team in its contract dispute with Alpine. Piastri will race alongside Lando Norris, with the latter entering his fifth season with the team and already fully established as a
The British driver topped FP1 at the Dutch Grand Prix on Friday, before dropping to fifth in FP2 as Ferrari pair Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz locked out the top two spots. Russell said the Mercedes W13 “is working better, there’s no doubt about it” in the Netherlands, but doesn’t expect to be in the
The three-time race winner came off his GSX-RR at the penultimate corner at Misano during the second 45-minute practice session of the day. When TV cameras cut to him, the Spaniard was seen waving his arms at one of the marshals as his bike was hauled away. Rins told the media afterwards that the reason
9:52 AM ET Oscar Piastri will replace Daniel Ricciardo at McLaren in 2023 after the FIA’s contract recognition board (CRB) upheld the team’s contract with the Formula 2 champion. McLaren and Alpine both felt they had a valid contract for the Australian’s services for next season. On Friday the CRB upheld McLaren’s contract, revealing he
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The Mexican ran the alternative specification at last weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix and struggled to match Verstappen as he charged to victory from 14th on the grid. The Perez floor specification is a new design direction that Red Bull originally trialled with Verstappen at the British and Austrian Grands Prix, before it was briefly abandoned. The
The Aston Martin driver is currently evaluating his future options after announcing that he will be retiring from grand prix racing at the end of this season. Vettel has been quite active in his environmental concerns, and that has inevitably prompted some to suggest that he could pursue something in the all-electric Formula E series.