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The track was dry as qualifying began, but rain was falling to make conditions extra sketchy. Bourdais started the ball rolling with a 1m11.979s lap, but this was soon bettered by Albuquerque’s Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05. The Portuguese produced a 1m11.481s, then 1m10.751s and finally 1m10.661s. But Bourdais wouldn’t be denied, the Frenchman unleashing a

The Andretti Autosport driver led 50 of the 75 laps completed before the race hit its two-hour maximum duration. He headed Simon Pagenaud, who scored his best result since switching from Team Penske to Meyer Shank Racing over the off-season, while polesitter Will Power (Penske) took the lead of the championship by finishing third. With a

Mortara pounced upon a mistake from Vergne, who was baited into attacking the Venturi driver at Turn 6 with three laps remaining and went deep – recovering but shipping over a second to the leader. This gave Mortara free licence to extend his lead and rocket off into the distance, ensuring he claimed his second

This expands the British team’s reach in electric motorsport, following its decision to join the Extreme E series for this year. It had already signed an option deal to enter Formula E for the championship’s ninth season, which it has completed on by purchasing the Mercedes squad. The Formula E team will join McLaren’s Formula

The 2014 IndyCar champion’s pole time of 1m09.766s on worn red tyres, just pipping his Chip Ganassi Racing rival on 1m09.809s, was the 64th of his US open-wheel career and leaves the Australian just three poles short of Mario Andretti’s record tally. Palou delivered on a day when his Ganassi team-mates all fell in Q1

Sordo is set to make a planned first WRC start of a part-time campaign driving Hyundai’s third i20 N, which he is sharing with Oliver Solberg, on Portugal’s gravel roads next weekend. Solberg, the son of 2003 world champion Petter, has contested the opening three rallies of 2022 and will switch to a Hyundai WRC2

The second edition of the Cavallino Classic Modena will take place at Casa Maria Luigia, combining excellent cars, exceptional hospitality, and the amazing food of Massimo Bottura, the chef patron of three-Michelin-star restaurant Osteria Francescana based in Modena. The three-day event will take place from 29 to 31 May and will be limited only to 20 cars. Some of

Rinus Van Kalmthout’s tweet last June, after he took a strong runner-up finish in the first Detroit IndyCar race, stood out to this writer. Posing with his trophy, his face was fixed in a startled yet thrilled expression, like someone who’d just walked into a surprise party full of friends he hadn’t seen in years.

Wright on the money: Cockshoot Cup recovery Better known for his exploits in Ford Sierra RS500 and Escort Mk2 machinery, Mark Wright produced a stunning performance to win the first Cockshoot Cup race at Cadwell Park in his MGF Cup car. A failed alternator prevented Wright setting a qualifying time among the 29-car Cockshoot entry

Half a second was all that split the winning Barwell Lamborghini from the pursuing Garage 59 McLaren after three hours of flat-out racing at Silverstone that ran uninterrupted for the duration. As Sandy Mitchell and Adam Balon banished the memories of a tricky British GT season opener at Oulton Park, the pair needed an inch-perfect

The Moroccan city has hosted four previous Formula E races, the last of those in 2020 prior to the world-wide shutdown of all racing events prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, at the Circuit International Automobile Moulay El Hassan. It had briefly featured on last season’s calendar, having been granted a return before the race was

SSR Performance was one of the two teams representing Porsche on the manufacturer’s debut in the DTM last week, fielding a pair of factory-backed 911 RSR GT3 cars for Dennis Olsen and works driver Laurens Vanthoor. However, the German team struggled for performance in the first qualifying session of the Portimao double header, with Olsen

The Alpine driver explained that he felt only “50%” physically after his heavy crash in FP3 on Saturday, with 51G impact into a concrete wall on the exit of turn 13. With no time to repair the car fully, Ocon had to miss qualifying, and was thus obliged to start from the back of the

Perez had been running close behind Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz in the early stages of the race, and appeared poised to launch a challenge for what would have been third spot when his engine lost power. The problem was traced to a sensor fault triggering an automatic shutdown of some systems, and the team’s engineers had

The former rally co-driver, who was elected along with new FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem last December, made the comment ahead of next month’s date conflict between the centrepiece round of World Endurance Championship and the Azerbaijan Grand Prix in Baku. He pointed out that avoiding a clash next year will be particularly pertinent because

A crash between Pierre Gasly and Lando Norris towards the end of Miami’s inaugural F1 race triggered the safety car and appeared to hand a golden opportunity for Ferrari to take a strategy gamble. By the time race control had switched from a virtual safety car to full safety car, race leader Max Verstappen had

But the on-track spectacle left a lot to be desired at stages on Sunday. While a late safety car threatened to shake-up the running order, the difficulty drivers faced overtaking meant action came at a premium. Charles Leclerc fought as hard as he could to try and catch race leader Max Verstappen, but even with

He also expressed his frustration at having to hand a place back to Lewis Hamilton after going off track during their late battle, although he soon regained it and finished ahead of his teammate. However, the episode cost him any chance of gaining ground on the cars ahead. Russell had started on the hard tyres

However, technologies to get an optimal vision are often unknown and underused, both at the track and on the daily roads. The legendary Le Mans 24 Hours, renowned laboratory of innovations, and Essilor lenses, the global leader in ophthalmic lenses entered into a unique partnership for motorsport: here are the qualified “points of view” of

Calado explained that he “gave it everything” as he resisted the advances of Michael Christensen’s Porsche 911 RSR on the way to completing class victory in the AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo he shared with Alessandro Pier Guidi. “I nearly crashed the car three times on the last two laps,” said Calado after taking

Leclerc claimed a third pole of the 2022 season by topping qualifying ahead of his Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz, with Verstappen ending up third after his final Q3 lap went wrong.  The Red Bull/Ferrari battle has swung across the opening rounds, with Red Bull’s better end-of-straight speed proving to be critical in Verstappen’s Jeddah victory, as

The F1 world championship leader headed a Ferrari 1-2 in qualifying to push Max Verstappen into third place after the Red Bull driver had held provisional pole after the first runs in Q3.  It marks Leclerc’s third pole of the season and acts as a good omen for the Monegasque driver as he has gone

The Briton took the lead off the line from Nerea Marti, who had a poor getaway, before she was passed by Kimilainen into Turn 11 with less than 10 minutes remaining. A safety car ensued, before racing resumed on the last lap and the Briton reclaimed the lead into Turn 1, with the Finn running

Mercedes has struggled with extreme porpoising on its W13 car through the early part of the 2022 season, leaving it unable to challenge Red Bull or Ferrari at the front of the field. Mercedes brought a raft of updates for its car to Miami, including a low-drag rear wing and a revised front wing endplate

There were two red flags that held up proceedings – Carlos Sainz crashing in the early stages and Nicholas Latifi stopping late-on without drive on his Williams. In slightly cooler conditions compared to Friday afternoon’s earlier FP1 session, Latifi had led the pack out of the pits and duly established the first-place benchmark time at

Leclerc, the points leader and two-time race winner so far in 2022, made the most of the extreme track evolution on the brand-new street track to set the benchmark at 1m31.098s. That gave him a slender cushion of seven hundredths of a second over Russell, as the W13 sports a more efficient front wing plus

Last year in the Porsche Carrera Cup North America was a good learning curve for me. It was my first time driving a Porsche GT3 Cup car, it’s a phenomenal car to drive but very different compared to the front-engined cars that I’m used to. I loved it. It really requires precision, keeping it on

Since launching the series in 2019, Drive to Survive has become one of the most popular shows on Netflix, with season four reaching number one in the world in 33 countries this year. Filming for season five has already been taking place this year, but official confirmation of the series arrived on Thursday ahead of

And in sport, seven is a number that has also come to gain great significance, reaching far beyond the back of David Beckham’s football shirt. In Formula 1, Michael Schumacher’s tally of seven world championships long stood as a landmark most though impossible to reach. That was until Lewis Hamilton drew level in 2020, and

And just as we’ve seen a variety of different sidepod solutions from teams this year, it appears – from the glimpses we have been able to get – there are varied approaches to the floor too. Each team has its own interpretation on how best to extract performance within the bounds of the new regulations,