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Norris has led McLaren’s efforts so far this season, scoring 76 of its 95 points and recording its best result of the season by finishing third at Imola in April. Team-mate Daniel Ricciardo has failed to match Norris for form, prompting McLaren to swoop for Oscar Piastri as a replacement for 2023. Ricciardo’s struggles with the current McLaren

Mitch Evans’ title hopes became more precarious after failing to make the qualifying duels, with a 21-point gap to overcome if he is to win the 2021-22 Formula E title, and starts only 13th after being bumped out of the top four of his group late on. The final battle between da Costa and Mortara

Turkington trailed Hill’s sister WSR-run BMW 330e M Sport after the first runs, and during the second half of the session improvements were few and far between as the track temperature approached 40C. Out came the WSR trio of Hill, Turkington and Stephen Jelley – who were already running 1-2-3 – for their final runs

After calling time on his Super GT career at the end of last year, the former Renault, McLaren and Caterham F1 driver has focused on his Japan Rally Championship commitments this year. Driving a Rally2-spec Skoda Fabia run by Team Aicello, he and co-driver Sae Kitagawa have won five of the six JRC rallies so

The Yorkshireman found a bundle of time in the middle part of the lap to flex a huge advantage over di Grassi, which gave him enough of a buffer when he went wide at the final corner. Although di Grassi had started the lap in better fashion, Rowland got into his stride and found a

NASCAR allowed Raikkonen and fellow series debutant Mike Rockenfeller, who will race for Spire Motorsports in the event, to drive an Action Express-run Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 test car as part of its Select Driver Orientation program at VIRginia International Raceway. The 2007 Formula 1 world champion will drive for Trackhouse in the road course race

Ott Tanak clinched a first WRC win for Hyundai on Finland’s iconic fast gravel roads last weekend, after the Estonian produced an against-the-odds performance to defeat Toyota at the Finnish-based team’s home event. PLUS: How Tanak spoiled Rovanpera’s Finnish homecoming Tanak’s success was Hyundai’s second win of the 2022 season after the 2019 world champion had

Ferrari test driver Shwartzman is set to fulfil Ferrari’s young driver requirement for practice sessions in 2022, featuring in two FP1s over the final nine races. The 2019 FIA F3 champion will be fielded using an Israeli licence after the FIA banned drivers from using Russian flags in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine

In a move to restrict excessive car bouncing, the FIA will introduce measures aimed to halt the phenomenon by enforcing an Aerodynamic Oscillation Metric (AOM) that teams cannot exceed from the Spa-Francorchamps race. It is also understood that the FIA is installing measures to outlaw tricks some teams are believed to have made in flexing

As part of a major investment by the Milton Keynes-based squad, it has committed heavily to designing and manufacturing its own power units for the next set of F1 regulations from 2026. Its new Red Bull Powertrains division is already up and running and the team has attracted some well-known figures from Mercedes to help

Back after nearly 60 years: Malcolm Douglas There aren’t many drivers who have a gap of almost 60 years between races on British soil, but that’s the case for Ginetta competitor Malcolm Douglas. He successfully raced a G4 in the UK in the 1960s before emigrating to Canada and later competing in a Brabham BT8.

After a strong 2021 the Faenza outfit has demonstrated somewhat erratic form this season, often slipping to the bottom of the midfield pack. However, Gasly is reluctant to blame a lack of resources relative to its immediate rivals, and insists the team has a strong core of people who can address the current issues. “Compared to

The nine-time WRC champion had long been tipped to rejoin the Ford squad for the gravel round in Greece from 8-11 September, with his entry now confirmed by M-Sport. This will be Loeb’s fourth outing in the M-Sport Ford Puma this season after appearances at Monte Carlo, Portugal and the Safari Rally. The Frenchman has

The Hyundai driver took victory ahead of the Finnish superstar, but Rovanpera was still able to extend his WRC lead to 94 points with just five rounds remaining. Esapekka Lappi completed the podium but only after a hectic final day after he rolled his Toyota and needed to use water from the local lakes to

Top Performer – Ott Tanak and Martin Jarveoja Victory in Finland driving inferior machinery against the might of Toyota on home soil, and the in-form Kalle Rovanpera, was something special. Hyundai’s Ott Tanak and Martin Jarveoja were simply in a different league in Finland and rightfully deserve the top performer award. The fact Tanak described

Perez scored his second victory for Red Bull in May’s Monaco Grand Prix to move to within 15 points of team-mate Max Verstappen at the top of the championship, only for their fortunes to since take different directions. While Verstappen has won four of the six races since Monaco, Perez has just two runner-up finishes to show for

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

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 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

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

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 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

Lappi’s hopes of reeling in rally leader Ott Tanak began to unravel on Stage 15, when a rock flicked up by his GR Yaris hit the windscreen right in the Finn’s eye-line. The impact caused several cracks to the windscreen and severely impaired his vision. Following the incident, Lappi was unable to deliver the pace

Albuquerque initially moved to the top spot in the Daytona Prototype international class with a 1m49.303s lap, then improved to 1m48.955s as the only driver to duck under the 1m49s barrier. “It just felt amazing,” the Portuguese said of his pole-winning lap, the first for WTR since Laguna Seca in May. Alex Lynn responded with

US racing stalwart Michael Andretti’s bid to expand his multi-series operation to F1 has been met by fierce resistance from most of the discipline’s current 10 entrants. Concerned teams are weary of having to share F1’s prize money with an additional competitor and feel the current $200 million dilution fund is not sufficient as the

Tanak turned heads throughout Friday’s running to end the day with three stage wins and a 3.8s lead over Lappi, who headed Toyota’s four car contingent. Prior to the rally, Toyota were heavily tipped to dominate the fast gravel event given the GR Yaris has emerged as the pacesetting Rally1 car this year, with Kalle

The Ducati rider came off at Turn 7, sliding across the gravel runoff area before making contact with the outside wall. Though the Australian came away uninjured, albeit feeling “pretty tender,” he believes the “pretty tight” corner needs to be looked at and airbags considered as an extra measure. Miller also said it could have

Bird sustained a fracture in a lap 1 incident at the second London E-Prix, but was able to continue through the Sunday race and score points in eighth place. Following an x-ray after the race, Bird was found to have sustained a displaced mid-shaft fracture to his left hand, and thus his participation in the

The Belgian produced a committed run through the 3.48km tight and technical tarmac/gravel super special held in the city of Jyvaskyla. Despite not feeling completely comfortable in his i20 N, Neuville ended the stage 1.2s quicker than team-mate Tanak. “I always like the super special stages and I had some great fun in there, but

The Yamaha rider shares Monster Energy and Petronas sponsorship with seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton and joined the team for the French Grand Prix weekend at Paul Ricard in July. It was reported during that weekend that Quartararo would be completing a test with the team later this year, but he says it is “not