The 2023 edition of the Spa GT3 classic, a round of both the GT World Challenge Europe and the Intercontinental GT Challenge, had been announced for 29/30 July on the eve of this year’s event. The scheduling of the Belgian GP on that weekend, confirmed with the publication of the 2023 Formula 1 calendar on
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The Aprilia was expected to be in contention for victory coming to Aragon having taken some of the Italian marque’s best results of a season in previous years. But two crashes on Friday and a difficult FP3 forced Espargaro into Q1, though he managed to sail through that session into Q2 and qualify a solid
10:49 AM ET The Monaco Grand Prix will continue in Formula One until 2025. Monaco’s contract was up this year and there was doubts about whether F1’s most famous event would continue, but on Tuesday F1 confirmed a new three-year deal for the street race. The extension was confirmed alongside F1’s race schedule for 2023.
Following months of uncertainty about the future of the event, amid differences of opinion over the race hosting fee, TV rights, trackside sponsorship and infrastructure, a deal has finally been put together for another three years. The news came as F1 confirmed its 24-race 2023 calendar, which begins in Bahrain in March and finishes in Abu
It’s not altogether unusual for drivers to make a single appearance in a series and then disappear off to try their luck elsewhere. But it’s far less common to see a driver make a series of one-off appearances over a number of years, sufficiently talented to be repeatedly asked back, but without it ever leading
Montoya, son of former Formula 1 driver and Indy 500 winner Juan Pablo Montoya, and Fittipaldi, the namesake son of the two-time F1 world champion, will take part in the first day of testing tomorrow at the Spanish circuit. The three-day event features over 30 young drivers hoping to take part in the championship in
The returning Marquez was rear-ended by championship leader Fabio Quartararo when the Honda rider had a small moment applying the throttle through Turn 3 on the opening lap. This sent Quartararo into a sickening crash while bits of his Yamaha got stuck in the rear of Marquez’s Honda. When the six-time MotoGP world champion engaged
6:39 AM ET IndyCar’s Colton Herta said he never wanted the FIA to bend its own rules to allow him to race in Formula One next year. The American looks unlikely to be granted an exemption on his superlicence in order to allow him to move to Red Bull junior outfit AlphaTauri next season. Herta
Germany returns to the F1 calendar for the first time since 2016. The track and location may have changed in recent years, but its challenges still remain. Hear from Stoffel’s Race Engineer, Tom on the demands of a short (but not sweet) Hockenheimring. Subscribe and be the first to watch exclusive content from the Official
The new generation of 2022 machinery has produced a number of surprises this year, and teams have sometimes found themselves on the backfoot at race weekends where they expected to do much better. But there has also been a flipside to that too, with teams sometimes finding their performance far exceeds what they anticipated. Ferrari
The FIA World RX of Germany will bring thrilling motorsport action to the Nürburgring again this year. From 12-13 November, a double-header will be held in the Müllenbachschleife of the Grand Prix circuit. The fans will have a lot to look forward to at the World RX season finale – not only two entertaining WRC
The Yamaha rider long predicted Aragon to be one of the toughest races of the year for him, having typically struggled for form at the Spanish venue. Despite showing strong race pace in FP4 – which has convinced Quartararo that he is strong enough “to fight for the victory” – the 2021 world champion could
Max Verstappen looks almost certain to wrap up the F1 drivers’ championship in the next few races, with his first opportunity coming at the Singapore Grand Prix if he wins and title rivals Charles Leclerc and Sergio Perez do not score heavily. Verstappen has won 11 races this season so far, including the last five
Third in the opening one-hour encounter, which was won by AF Corse Ferrari pairing Pierre-Alexandre Jean and Ulysse de Pauw, was enough to secure the crown, while a thrilling final-lap victory on Sunday put the icing well and truly on the cake. Coming into the last Sprint Cup round of the season in Spain, Weerts
The first details of the internal combustion element of the car’s hybrid powertrain were announced on Monday along with the release of a further teaser image of the Lamborghini LMDh being developed in conjunction with French constructor Ligier Automotive. The LMDh engine will be a first ground-up design by the Lamborghini Squadra Corse in-house motorsport
The Gresini rider beat future factory Ducati team-mate Francesco Bagnaia by 0.042 seconds in a thrilling Aragon GP on Sunday. His fourth win of the season netted Ducati its third-successive constructors’ championship, but also put the Italian into an outside title challenger position after a crash for points leader Fabio Quartararo meant Bastianini’s deficit was
Under a rule introduced for 2022, both race drivers have to give up a free practice session for a driver who has made two or fewer starts. Early in the season, most teams were in no hurry to field rookies as they felt their race drivers needed all the mileage they could get in the
The 18-time grand prix winner, who started 322 races between 1993 and 2011, struck a late deal to join Scuderia Baldini alongside another former F1 driver, Giancarlo Fisichella at the wheel of a Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo. “It’s just an amazing feeling to be back driving a Ferrari and to be alongside my great friend
Mercedes is yet to win a race in 2022 after struggling to compete with Red Bull and Ferrari since the overhaul of the car designs for this season. But after combatting a porpoising problem on its W13 car through the early part of the year, Mercedes has been getting closer to the front, recording a
The S650 Mustang will underpin a wide-ranging factory-backed motorsport programme that includes NASCAR, Supercars and customer GT racing. While speaking to Australian media during the Mustang launch, Rushbrook was asked if he would like to see Supercars adopt hybrid technology in the future. Ford Performance boss Mark Rushbrook, as part of the global launch of
The three-time MotoGP race winner and Yamaha test rider has been drafted in at RNF to replace the retired Andrea Dovizioso through to the end of the season. Having not raced since the 2021 Aragon GP when he was replacing Maverick Vinales at Yamaha, Crutchlow managed to score two points in 14th last Sunday and
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Herta, who has scored seven wins in his first four seasons of IndyCar racing and finished third and fifth in the 2020 and ’21 championships, has only 32 of the required 40 points to be granted a superlicence. Thus he would have been relying on the FIA making him a special case in order to
Moto3: Guevara claims lights-to-flag victory to extend title lead The 19-lap Moto3 race kicked off Sunday’s racing action at Aragon, with poleman Izan Guevara leading every single lap to claim his fourth win of the 2022 campaign. Guevara kept the lead into Turn 1 on his Aspar GasGas ahead of Max Racing Husqvarna’s Ayumu Sasak
The Honda rider was making his MotoGP comeback this weekend at Aragon having been absent since May’s Italian GP following a fourth major operation on the right arm he badly broke in 2020. Qualifying 13th, Marquez leapt up to sixth at the first corner in Sunday’s 23-lap race but suffered a moment on the gas
In the wake of his F1 debut at Monza the Dutchman has potential opportunities with Alpine and Williams as well as the chance to join the Red Bull camp, but he insists that he is not in a position to choose where he goes. If he does join AlphaTauri then Pierre Gasly will be released
Driving Red Bull design guru Adrian Newey’s Jaguar E-type, the 2009 Formula 1 world champion jumped poleman Bill Shepherd’s AC Cobra on the run to Fordwater on the opening lap. Button streaked away from the field and was 13.9 seconds clear when the first safety car was called. He immediately started building a lead at
Quartararo was eliminated on lap one when he ran into the back of Marc Marquez after the Honda rider had a small slide exiting Turn 3. Bagnaia went on to finish second, 0.042 seconds behind Gresini’s Enea Bastianini after a thrilling duel, to reduce his championship deficit to Quartararo to just 10 points with five
F1’s TV department is always looking for new angles and fresh shots. This year has seen the return of the pedal cam two decades after the last experiment, while the Dutch GP opened up an opportunity to try something different in order to give a better impression of how steep the banked corners really are.
The Yamaha rider was jumped off the line into Turn 1 by the returning Marquez, who hadn’t raced since he went for surgery on his right arm following May’s Italian GP. Marquez had a slide on the way out of Turn 3 on the opening lap and caught Quartararo unaware, with the Yamaha rider spearing
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