Co-driver of the No. 86 Meyer Shank Racing Acura NSX GT3, Katherine Legge finds herself within reach of her first GT Daytona (GTD) championship in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with one race remaining in 2018. Legge sits down with Justin Bell to discuss what factors have led to her success and the impact she
Red Bull has agreed in principle to let Gasly go to Alpine as a replacement for the departing Fernando Alonso, freeing up a slot at AlphaTauri. Horner has suggested that Herta is the only choice to replace Gasly, and that Red Bull won’t release the Frenchman if the IndyCar star is not able to take
The Ducati rider held off race-long pressure from future factory team-mate Enea Bastianini to take the win at Misano, his sixth in total this season, with championship leader Quartararo back in fifth place. It means Bagnaia has moved ahead of Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro as closest contender and is now 30 points off the top having
Petty GMS Motorsports driver Jones, who had run in in the top 10 for most of the 367-lap race, inherited the lead with 22 laps remaining when the engine blew on Kyle Busch’s Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota under caution. Jones then led the way on the restart on lap 348 and spent the final 20
6:24 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Scott McLaughlin led a Team Penske rout at Portland International Raceway by scoring his third victory of the season in a 1-2 finish that moved Will Power one race closer to the IndyCar championship. McLaughlin led 104 of the 110 laps Sunday to pick up his third
During the safety car period produced by Valtteri Bottas’ stranded Alfa Romeo, Russell took the opportunity to call his own shots and asked for a set of soft tyres to complete the final stages of the race. Running second at that point, Russell conceded the place to race winner Max Verstappen as Hamilton stayed out
Sainz had been running third in the early stages of the 72-lap race ahead of the charging Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton, before the Ferrari driver’s race unravelled in the pits. In order to combat Hamilton’s strong pace on the medium tyres, Ferrari elected to react by calling Sainz to pit to try and maintain track
The Yamaha rider started eighth in Sunday’s San Marino Grand Prix and made up no places at the start until two riders crashed out in front of him on the second lap. Quartararo made one overtake on Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro for fifth but could do no more than this. With Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia winning the
Polesitter McLaughlin dominated the race, leading 104 of the 110 laps, to score his third win of the 2022 season. It was enough to keep the New Zealander in the title race ahead of next weekend’s Laguna Seca decider, 41 points shy of Power. A late caution caused by a clash between Rinus Veekay and
7:30 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Ron Capps won the Pep Boys NHRA Funny Car All-Star Callout on a hole-shot Sunday in the NHRA U.S. Nationals. Capps beat Matt Hagan in the final round to take the $80,000 top prize in the bonus event at Lucas Oil Indianapolis Raceway Park. Capps, the defending series
Tsunoda pulled up at the side of the track on Lap 43, reporting to AlphaTauri over the radio that not all of his tyres were fitted correctly. Thirty seconds later, Tsunoda was told to continue as there was no data suggesting anything was wrong. He returned to the pits to have his seatbelts retightened and
The McLaren driver is being replaced by Piastri for 2023, after the youngster was grabbed by the Woking-based squad from the grasps of Alpine. Piastri’s signing came ahead of McLaren agreeing a contract termination with Ricciardo, meaning he would not see out the third and final year of his original deal. The Piastri matter went
After a near-15-year career racing in the premier class, three-time championship runner-up Dovizioso has now retired from MotoGP following Sunday’s Misano race. Dovizioso announced during the British GP weekend that Misano would be his last outing, with Yamaha test rider Cal Crutchlow taking his place for the final six rounds of 2022. The RNF Racing
1:07 PM ET ZANDVOORT, Netherlands – Daniel Ricciardo called fellow Australian Oscar Piastri, who is replacing him at McLaren next season, to tell him there are no hard feelings about how things have played out this year. After a protracted legal tug of war between Alpine and McLaren, this week it was confirmed Piastri will
The performance came after it emerged that he won’t be part of the Ferrari family next year, and is set to be dropped by Haas. Schumacher sailed through the first two parts of Zandvoort qualifying in 12th and ninth places before earning eighth in the final session, helped by a hydraulic problem keeping Lance Stroll in
The FS2 broadcast which includes highlights from Round 3 and Round 4 race of the IMSA Prototype Challenge presented by Mazda championship at Barber Motorsports Park, April 22-23.
Championship leader Verstappen pipped Leclerc to pole position in qualifying at Zandvoort on Saturday, edging the Ferrari driver out by just two hundredths of a second in Q3. Overtaking is notoriously difficult around the tight Zandvoort layout, making it important for Leclerc to get the jump on Verstappen early on for the best chance of
The six-time MotoGP world champion will return to riding for the first time in three months since his fourth major arm operation on Tuesday at the post-San Marino Grand Prix test. Declared fit by MotoGP doctors on Saturday at Misano, Marquez admits he’s not sure if he will do both days of the test and
5:45 PM ET Associated Press PORTLAND, Ore. — Team Penske powered its way around Portland International Raceway on Saturday in a 1-2-3 qualifying sweep that poised the IndyCar championship leaders for a big swing against Ganassi in the title fight. Scott McLaughlin won the pole — his third of the season — and picked up
Mercedes bounced back from a difficult weekend at Spa to qualify fourth and sixth for the Dutch Grand Prix with Hamilton and team-mate George Russell, getting in the mix with the Ferrari and Red Bull cars. Hamilton ended qualifying four-tenths of a second off Max Verstappen’s pole position time, but was forced to abandon his
Leclerc had led the way after the first fliers in Q3 and set an even quicker first sector time on his final run to conclude qualifying. But he could not then even better his personal best in sector two, let alone set a time that Verstappen could not match on the way to Q3’s quickest
Light rainfall hit qualifying for the San Marino Grand Prix on Saturday, but the Q2 pole shootout session was still run on slick tyres. Quartararo could only manage eighth, one place ahead of nearest title rival Aleix Espargaro on the Aprilia, but behind an armada of Ducatis headed by Jack Miller. His in-form team-mate Francesco
McLaughlin, a rank outsider in the points race with a 54-point deficit to Power heading into the final two races, pipped Newgarden by 0.078s in the decisive Fast Six session to secure the top spot – although a six-place grid penalty for Newgarden’s engine change will drop him to eighth on the grid. Points leader
7:53 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Steve Torrence won the Pep Boys NHRA Top Fuel All-Star Callout specialty race Saturday at Lucas Oil Raceway as part of the NHRA U.S. Nationals. In the final round of the specialty event with a total purse of $130,000, Torrence, the four-time defending series champion, had a 3.692-second
Alonso, who had sailed through Q1 in ninth place and was eighth after the first runs in Q2, ended the session in 13th. The two-time champion found Perez’s Red Bull running slowly on an in-lap through the Turn 9 right-hander. The Spaniard was convinced that the had the potential to start well inside the top
After losing much of his FP1 session to a gearbox problem, Verstappen recovered in fine style to secure pole position at his home race for the second year in a row. Despite going quicker in the first and third sectors, a mistake at Turn 10 proved costly for Charles Leclerc, as the Ferrari driver trailed
Bagnaia came into Saturday’s qualifying session carrying a three-place grid penalty for the race after impeding other riders in FP1 at Misano. The Ducati rider, who is 44 points behind championship leader Fabio Quartararo having won the last three races, qualified second in the iffy conditions at Misano and will drop to fifth for the
All three Penske drivers ducked under the FP1 benchmark set by Newgarden during a session blighted by several red flags, including an 80-minute delay for a fallen trackside screen, but the best non-Penske entry in FP2 couldn’t match the double champion’s 58.576s Friday best. Colton Herta came closest to breaking the stranglehold for Andretti Autosport,
12:19 PM ET ZANDVOORT, Netherlands – Lewis Hamilton felt he could have set up a tantalising start alongside 2021 title rival Max Verstappen at the Dutch Grand Prix as Mercedes bounced back to form. Last week Mercedes languished off the pace at the Belgian Grand Prix but has been in the mix with Red Bull
Paddock insiders have suggested that the ease with which 2021 Formula 2 champion Piastri was able to walk away from Alpine, after the team had invested heavily in bringing its reserve driver through the ranks, will discourage people from spending in the future. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff noted at Spa that “it’s important that junior