The eight-time and outgoing world champion sealed his first WRC victory since securing the 2021 title at Rally Monza last November with a faultless drive on Spain’s asphalt roads. After securing the rally lead last Friday, the 38-year-old reeled off eight stage wins to take a relatively comfortable victory by 16.4s from Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville,
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Stroll and Alonso were involved in a huge crash on the back straight on lap 22 of the race that briefly sent Alonso’s Alpine car airborne. As Alonso moved to the left to pass Stroll, the Aston Martin driver shifted across to defend, only for their wheels to make contact. It sent Stroll spinning into
Toyota completed a clean sweep of WRC titles this year by wrapping up the manufacturers’ crown in style, and with a round to spare, after Sebastien Ogier clinched victory at Rally Spain, with Kalle Rovanpera finishing third. The coveted manufacturers’ title followed one round after Toyota pairing Rovanpera and Jonne Halttunen secured the drivers’ and
Ricciardo has been considering his future options after confirming back in August that he would be leaving McLaren at the end of the season, one year before the end of his contract. The eight-time grand prix winner has since accepted he won’t be racing in F1 next year but has been linked with a potential
Sainz edged out Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc by just 0.065 seconds during their final runs in Q3 to claim his third F1 career pole. Sainz’s maiden pole came at Silverstone in wet conditions, while he inherited first on the grid for the Belgian Grand Prix in August due to grid penalties. The Spaniard recently vented
The event is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a sell-out crowd, the last tickets having gone some time ago. The weekend is expected to be an overwhelming success. Miami is already here, and Las Vegas is coming, but Austin – the race that set in motion the surge in F1’s popularity in the USA long
Bagnaia was forced to go through Q1 after crashing while following Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo in the latter stages of FP3 this morning. The Ducati rider eased through the first part of qualifying with Marc Marquez in tow, ensuring all four title challengers contested the pole shootout session. But drama ensued across the 15-minute Q2, as
Leclerc was one of three drivers to run two of the 2022 Pirelli compounds – along with Valtteri Bottas and Daniel Ricciardo – because he sat out FP1 with Robert Shwartzman driving his F1-75 as part of the rookie practice running mandated in the 2022 rules. As the rest of the field completed set run
It emerged on Thursday of the United States Grand Prix that the FIA had opened negotiations with Red Bull over the terms of an Accepted Breach Agreement – this reflects the governing body alleging the 2021 runner-up team to have overspent last season. Then, a Red Bull press conference expected on Friday to address the
The all-female W Series support category – which operates with the aim of creating a pathway for women to race in F1 – was supposed to stage its penultimate round of the year this weekend in Texas on the undercard of the United States Grand Prix. However, earlier this month, the championship announced that it
F1 is currently waiting to hear from the FIA about any potential action against Red Bull after the team was deemed to have breached the $145 million budget cap for the 2021 season. Red Bull has strongly denied that it exceeded the budget cap for last year, and is now in talks with the FIA
It will be the 10th time the Circuit of The Americas will have hosted the United States Grand Prix, and its big birthday bash promises to be one to remember. F1 is estimating that 440,000 fans will attend the race from Friday to Sunday, which would make it a record-breaking weekend. At a time when
In a WMSC meeting on 19 October, an updated Formula E calendar was ratified, along with the Valencia pre-season test dates at Valencia from the 13-16 December. The original calendar draft unveiled after the WMSC meeting in June featured three calendar slots to be confirmed, with the already agreed Cape Town E-Prix left off the
Motor racing’s governing body came under fire at Monza after it took almost four hours after qualifying for the final grid to be sorted in the wake of a host of penalties being handed out. Fans were upset that they did not know what was going on, while some teams themselves were unsure about how
Indeed, the last grand prix victory came in Austria back in July, and all seven races held since then, starting with France, have been won by Red Bull Racing. Meanwhile, the Maranello cars have continued to demonstrate the strong qualifying pace that has been evident since the start of the year, with Charles Leclerc and
The 2016 Stock Car Brasil champion was inducted into Red Bull’s DTM line-up this year following Liam Lawson’s decision to focus on Formula 2, racing a Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo operated by AF Corse. Quick straight out of the blocks after limited pre-season testing, Fraga scored his podium on his second series start at Portimao and claimed
The factory Chevrolet team will field a solo Corvette C8.R in the seven-round series in the WEC’s remaining GT class after the axing of GTE Pro, in which it is competing this year with Nick Tandy and Tommy Milner. The drivers announced for the pro-am car so far are Nicky Catsburg, who moves into a
However, rival Red Bull quickly hit its stride and since the summer break has stepped even further clear, especially in race pace, as the RB18 appears to have a clear edge with its tyre management characteristics. A lot of the focus for the swing in performance has inevitably been around aero development, as that’s an
That means picking out the top 10 Ferrari F1 drivers is incredibly difficult, with some top drivers and world champions missing the cut. But we’ve given it a go. For this list, Autosport’s chief editor Kevin Turner assessed the amount of success the drivers scored with Ferrari, the impact they had on the team and