Despite having won the previous two editions Rally Finland then driving for Toyota, the 2019 WRC champion is not regarded as the favourite to triumph at the 70th edition of famous event. That tag belongs to Toyota which will field five Yaris WRC entries that have been developed on the Finnish gravel roads. This weekend
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The Irishman has been operating a partial WRC campaign with Hyundai since 2019, after three seasons at Citroen, sharing the Korean manufacturer’s third car with Dani Sordo. Breen has enjoyed the strongest run of results of his career this season, recording back-to-back second place finishes at Estonia in July and Ypres in August. The 31-year-old
The 25-year-old is heading Cupra Racing’s challenge on the WTCR with three podiums in the past four races in his Cupra Leon Competicion. He also holds a commanding lead in TCR Europe, having won five times, and closed in on securing the title in the penultimate round of the championship at Monza last weekend. Azcona’s
O’Ward racked up his first two IndyCar wins and four other podium in 2021, taking the fight to eventual champion Alex Palou down to the last round of the season. Unfortunately his #5 Arrow McLaren SP car was tagged at the hairpin by Ed Jones at the end of the first lap of last Sunday’s
The images are the work of the celebrated photographers from Motorsport Images, principally Rainer Schlegelmilch, Ercole Colombo, Michael, and Steven Tee as well as Mark Sutton. “I believe the most fitting word is ‘intensity ‘”, writes Domenicali. “This is the key ingredient of Formula 1 but also of life. You will find it in every
The Canadian had a power unit change prior to qualifying after suffering an issue on Friday, and thus started 18th, just ahead of the also-penalised Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen. In his first stint on the medium tyres, he got caught behind the Haas of Nikita Mazepin but, after an early switch to the hards
The Australian appears unlikely to graduate to an F1 race seat next year and could face a year on the sidelines despite emerging as the favourite to win the F2 championship this year. After scoring his second feature race win in Sochi, Piastri has opened up a 36 point lead over Guanyu Zhou, who is
Palou wrapped up the 2021 IndyCar title with fourth place at the final round at Long Beach, which saw him secure the crown 38 points ahead of two-time champion Josef Newgarden. Having only stepped up to IndyCar last season with Dale Coyne Racing, after catching the eye finishing in third place in the Super Formula
Sochi served up a Formula 1 race to savour on Sunday as both rain and records fell, delivering a dramatic finish that will live long in the memory. Lewis Hamilton became the first driver in F1 history to hit 100 grand prix wins, finally ending his wait to hit triple-digits. But it was not a
The 42-year-old Frenchman has pledged his support for Foyt’s team in 2022 – what he intends to be his final season of open-wheel racing – but it will be on a part-time basis. The four-time Champ Car series winner is expected to be announced as a full-time driver in one of the Cadillac DPi-V.Rs run by Chip Ganassi
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Palou clinched the title by virtue of finishing fourth as Pato O’Ward, who was his closest challenger heading into the race, retired from the after-effects of a first-lap clash with Ed Jones. O’Ward was turned into a spin on the first lap by an optimistic lunge from Jones, who attempted to clear
Stroll careened into the back of Gasly’s AlphaTauri at Turn 8 as the rain began to fall, leaving the circuit desperately slippery for the drivers as they tried to persevere with their slick tyres. This turned Gasly into a full 360-degree spin, for which Stroll has now had 10 seconds added onto his total race
Nasr led from pole in the 100-minute contest aboard the Whelen Engineering/Action Express Racing-run Cadillac DPi-V.Rs, before handing over to Derani who finished well clear of the similar Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac of Magnussen/van der Zande. French pair Loic Duval and Tristan Vautier completed the podium sweep for JDC/Miller Motorsports. The leading prototype contenders made
Andretti Autosport’s James Hinchcliffe was the first to turn a 1m09s lap in the 45-minute session, having won at the street circuit back in 2017, to put him a quarter of a second clear of the rest of the pack after 10 minutes. The pack was headed by championship leader Alex Palou – the Spaniard
On what was the second time this season that the BTCC has adopted a top-10 shootout, the Scot and his Speedworks Motorsport-run Corolla topped both sessions to continue their form from free practice. Butcher, who is carrying 9kg of success ballast into the weekend, led the way in Q1 by 0.069 seconds over the West
As first revealed by Autosport, the category has scrapped plans to hold double-headers at Queensland Raceway and SMP to help complete the 12 rounds required by its broadcast agreement. Instead SMP will host an unprecedented quadruple header with racing from the last weekend in October right through until the third weekend in November. There will
38 teams, 21 LMP2’s and 17 LMGTE machines will go head to head for their starting positions in the 4 Hours of Monza, Italy. The driver line-up for Monza was revealed earlier in the week and will feature three drivers per team. Louis Deletraz, Sérgio Sette Câmara, Beitske Visser, Will Stevens, Timmy Hansen and Néstor
The Prema driver took second place to secure the drivers title after rival Jack Doohan failed to score any points, having fallen backwards at the start, eventually finishing in 15th. Hauger started in fourth but moved up the field into second, taking far more than the six point advantage needed over Doohan to take the
Steiner admits that having two rookies this season left the team with “no reference” after previously employing Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen. Next year’s rule changes mean a reset for all teams, and Steiner concedes that having a more experienced driver in the camp would be a benefit. Haas currently employs Pietro Fittipaldi, who did
When it was pointed out to Romain Grosjean after his spectacular run to third place at Laguna Seca last Sunday that he was only 20 points behind Scott McLaughlin in the IndyCar championship, and therefore the Rookie of the Year battle was still on, the Frenchman was gracious in his response. Rather than point out
Ferrari revealed over the summer break that it was working on bringing a “significant” step in performance for its power unit during the second half of the season. The team announced on Wednesday that it would debut its updated hybrid system at this weekend’s Russian Grand Prix, fitting Leclerc’s car with a new power unit.
The Dutch venue’s original three-year contract with the DTM expired last weekend after two thrilling races in front of a 40,000-strong crowd, as Liam Lawson took the championship lead from Kelvin van der Linde. The circuit first appeared on the calendar in 2019 and has been hosting races every year since then, taking over from
Ferrari has a place at Haas that is currently used by Mick Schumacher, but the contract that guaranteed a slot at Alfa Romeo – used by Charles Leclerc in 2018 and subsequently by Antonio Giovinazzi – has been changed for 2022. While Alfa boss Fred Vasseur hasn’t ruled out keeping Giovinazzi, he is looking at
The nine-time MotoGP race winner announced back in June that he would be quitting Yamaha a season into his current two-year deal with Yamaha as the relationship between both parties soured irreparably across the 2021 campaign. Vinales was later confirmed as an Aprilia rider for 2022, though his debut was pushed up to last week’s
The Finn recorded his second career WRC win at the Greek classic which returned to the WRC calendar for the first time 2013. In the latest episode of Gravel Notes, host Tom Howard is joined by 2003 WRC champion and 2004 Acropolis winner Petter Solberg to review Rovanpera’s latest triumph and the 2021 title race
With a 35-point margin over his only real rival now, Pato O’Ward, Palou needs to only finish 11th on the streets of Long Beach to seal the deal. Even if O’Ward was to match Palou’s tally of three wins, and earn all bonus points available with Palou classified 11th, the Arrow McLaren SP driver would
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The British driver will team up with Logan Sargeant and Zdenek Chovanec to compete in the seventh round of the year, making his debut in the championship. Yeany is unable to compete in Sochi due to prior commitments in the US, but had been set to complete the season with Charouz at Austin before the
Newgarden used a four-stop strategy after starting 17th, including two sets of Firestone alternate compound tyres [red side-walled] to charge up to seventh in the closing stages of the race. However, on a day when championship leader Alex Palou finished second, Newgarden saw his deficit grow from 34 points coming into the weekend to 48
Having qualified eighth for the opening race of the weekend, van der Linde elected to extend his first stint, hoping to overcut his rivals by running in clear air. But the strategy backfired when the safety car was deployed on lap 15 of 35 for debris on track, with a bollard having come loose and