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The Prancing Horse was nailed on to win last weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix and allow Charles Leclerc to erode the points margin to Verstappen. But it spectacularly dropped the ball on strategy, giving the Dutchman the chance to grab victory in a Red Bull that wasn’t the quickest car, and despite spinning on his rise

After Sebastian Vettel announced his F1 retirement at the end of 2022, Aston Martin swooped for Alonso with a multi-year deal announced the morning after the Hungarian Grand Prix. Such was the shock of the deal, Alpine only learned of it through Aston’s press release confirming the news. The saga then took a fresh twist,

Evans started the season among the favourites to challenge for the WRC title after finishing runner-up to Sebastien Ogier for the previous two campaigns, but this year the Welshman has been unable to defeat Toyota team-mate Rovanpera in the Rally1 hybrid cars. Rovanpera has won five of seven events this year to move into a

The governing body has promised to impose stricter tests as a direct result of Zhou Guanyu’s accident at the British Grand Prix, which saw the Chinese driver’s Alfa Romeo roll hoop fail after contact with the track with a force that exceeded anything that had previously been foreseen. Alfa Romeo has been working closely with

Earlier today Alpine released a statement saying reigning FIA Formula 2 champion Piastri would take Aston Martin-bound Fernando Alonso’s seat at its F1 team next year. The news came without any comment from Piastri both in the press release and on his own social media channels, with the announcement on the Australian driver’s future also

OPINION: Sebastian Vettel is set to leave Formula 1 at the end of 2022 and will, rather shockingly, be replaced by Fernando Alonso at Aston Martin. But what about the final chapter of the other driver that defined the post-Michael Schumacher era? In Hungary, Lewis Hamilton spoke about his future in the context of Vettel’s

The Toyota driver is likely to face a weight of expectation on his shoulders to deliver hoards of Finnish rally fans a first home win since team-mate Esapekka Lappi’s triumph in 2017. Rovanpera will head into his home event as the favourite after a stunning run of five wins from seven WRC events to date

Traditionally hosting the final race before the summer break, the circuit has held a race every year since 1986, with every world champion bar Alain Prost and Nico Rosberg taking at least one victory ever since. Tickets for next year’s Hungarian GP are now available to book with Motorsport Tickets. In recent years, it has

The German manufacturer appears to have turned the corner on its early campaign troubles as it bagged a second double podium finish in a row at the Hungarian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton recovered from a DRS failure in qualifying to take his second successive second place finish, while George Russell completed the podium after starting from

The two-time F1 world champion will leave Alpine at the end of the season to join Aston Martin, acting as the latest bombshell in the F1 driver market. Alonso will replace the retiring Sebastian Vettel, and opens up a seat with Alpine that looks set to be taken by Oscar Piastri. Alonso said on Sunday

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

The Mercedes driver finished second in Sunday’s race, having lined up seventh after a DRS failure on his final Q3 lap scuppered his chances of matching team-mate George Russell’s pole time. Russell finished third, with Max Verstappen taking victory despite having started down in 10th. But seven-time F1 world champion Hamilton says, though the cooler

Helped by problems for Max Verstappen, Sergio Perez and Lewis Hamilton the A522s of Ocon and Alonso qualified fifth and sixth, separated by just 0.060s. Alonso was ahead of Ocon on Friday and was second overall in the wet FP3 session. He was also faster than the Frenchman in both Q1 and Q2, taking third

Rossi, who will depart Andretti Autosport for Arrow McLaren SP at season’s end, claimed victory by 3.544s over Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing rookie Christian Lundgaard to end a 49-race winless run. Rossi ran second on the opening lap behind AMSP polesitter Felix Rosenqvist, but lost out to Herta following a lap four restart. When Herta

The Briton was almost a second off the pace of the Ferraris down in eighth after Friday’s running, with team-mate Lewis Hamilton expressing shock at how inconsistent the 2022 Mercedes was from track to track. A wet FP3 did nothing to boost Mercedes morale with Russell constantly complaining of a lack of grip on both

Under a dark sky at the Hungaroring, the times tumbled throughout qualifying but only dipped under Beitske Visser’s top time from practice with five minutes of the session remaining, with the same driver putting in a 1m43.609s to grab provisional pole. That triggered a flurry of late improvements, but Visser wrestled back provisional pole from

The aim during design and development of the new car based on the 992-shape 911 was to make it “fast for longer,” according to Sebastian Golz, project manager on the latest-generation 911 GT3-R. “Our task was less about making the new 911 GT3-R even faster – the classification within performance windows set by the Balance

The high downforce nature of the Hungaroring means that the team not only has new parts on the car, but also some older ones which help suit the team’s needs too. This starts at the front of the car, as the team utilises a more highly loaded front wing, having previously trimmed the upper elements

Russell’s team-mate Lewis Hamilton says his younger compatriot could be the next British world champion, and Luke Smith has considered the merit of that view for an in-depth look into the former Williams man’s first year in silver. BRDC President David Coulthard is the subject of this issue’s long interview with Mark Gallagher, discussing his

Antonio Fuoco, Davide Rigon and Daniel Serra topped the times in the #71 Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo during aggregate qualifying from which the quickest 20 cars made the cut for Friday evening’s Superpole session ahead of this weekend’s double-points round of the GT World Challenge Europe. Fuoco set the fastest time of the

The Modified Fords ace was back to his unstoppable form at Snetterton – having suffered a steering problem last time out at Oulton Park – and grabbed all three wins in his Escort Cosworth. Those latest successes take his tally to 10 and have allowed him to rocket 19 places up the leaderboard and close

The Front Row Motorsports driver, who was sitting 20th in the championship standings, has taken a major hit after violations were found on the #34 Ford Mustang. NASCAR has docked both the driver and team 100 points, as well as 10 playoff points, while Crew chief Blake Harris has been fined $100,000 and suspended for the

The Woking-based team started the 2022 campaign on the back foot, as brake problems in the final pre-season test in Bahrain left it struggling for pace at the Sakhir opener. The extent of its troubles there prompted McLaren to put in place a recovery plan to get it back towards the front of the pack – which appears

Unlike many of its midfield rivals, Haas has opted against designing a major upgrade for its VF-22 car so far this season, instead focusing on small refinements and unlocking the potential of the existing package. Magnussen scored the team’s best result of the season at the opening round in Bahrain, finishing fifth, and admitted in Austria

Perez will own one of potentially 12 teams competing in the E1 championship that is set to commence in 2023, with his squad set to compete with the Mexican national colours adorning its RaceBird boat. Back in 2010, Perez drove for Agag’s Barwa Addax GP2 squad and finished second to Pastor Maldonado in the standings

Having previously expressed interest in competing in the top class of the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time since its 1999-winning V12 LMR challenger, BMW has now confirmed that it will be present in the Hypercar category of the WEC from 2024 with its BMW M Hybrid V8. The LMDh car, which will

The last time the World Touring Car Cup was thrown into Goodyear tyre safety turmoil, just two months ago at the Nurburgring, we were at pains to stress it was nothing like the Indianapolis 2005 Formula 1 farrago. This time, on the short circuit at Vallelunga last weekend, the parallels were admittedly closer, largely because

Next weekend’s double header at the London ExCeL circuit precedes the season finale in Seoul, which takes place at the Sports Complex in Songpa-gu built for the 1988 Olympics. Vandoorne currently leads the drivers’ championship by 11 points over Edoardo Mortara, as the two have frequently traded the lead of the standings throughout the year.

Spengler, the 2012 DTM champion, was sent to hospital for checks after crashing in Vallelunga’s fast Turn 2-3 sequence. The Canadian’s all-electric Romeo Ferraris-built Alfa Romeo Giulia suddenly broke loose and shot backwards into the gravel before being flicked into the air, landing hard and impacting the tyre barrier. This prompted his team to issue

Paul Ricard might have been sweltering as the mercury climbed to 35 degrees Celsius, but from lap 19 of 53 in the French Grand Prix last Sunday, Max Verstappen barely had to break a sweat to chalk his seventh victory of the 2022 Formula 1 campaign. While nearest title rival Charles Leclerc held track position