In the wake of a technical directive from the FIA on the eve of the Montreal weekend to help reduce porpoising, F1 teams were advised they could add a second stay to help stiffen their floor. Mercedes was the only outfit that elected to go down that route, as it trialled an interim solution on
In the early stages of the delayed FP4 session on Saturday at the Sachsenring, Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro crashed at the final corner and brought out yellow flags. Just moments later, Miller crashed at the same corner. Luckily nobody was at the scene of the crash as the marshals concluded clearing the Espargaro incident, but Miller
The Monegasque driver, who is fighting Max Verstappen for the F1 world title, had already been set for a 10-place grid drop as the result of a new control electronics on Saturday. However, during final free practice on Saturday morning, the FIA announced that Leclerc will take a number of new power unit components for
12:06 PM ET MONTREAL – AlphaTauri boss Franz Tost said it is absolutely certain Pierre Gasly will still be racing for the team in 2023. Sergio Perez’s newly signed Red Bull extension to 2024 left a big question over Gasly’s future within the company’s driver programme. With Max Verstappen staying at Red Bull until 2028,
The Walkinshaw Andretti United driver finished fourth in today’s first of three races at the Hidden Valley circuit. However following a post-race investigation the result won’t stand, his Walkinshaw Andretti United crew found guilty of illegally using a battery-operated air blower on the car on the grid. “Rule D8.1.8 prohibits the use of any device
Despite conditions being perfect for the start of the final 45-minute practice, improvements on the combined order were few and far between for much of FP3. Friday’s fastest rider Francesco Bagnaia set the early pace on his factory team Ducati with a 1m20.690s on the individual session timesheet. But it wouldn’t be until the final 20
Former W Series driver Schiff became a key part of the Sky Sports F1 presenting team for this season, hosting its Monday motorsport review show Any Driven Monday and joining its coverage at a number of F1 races. Earlier this week, Schiff faced abuse from an online troll that questioned her racing record, leading to
10:09 PM ET Associated Press BRISTOL, Tenn. — Four-time defending season champion Steve Torrence led Top Fuel qualifying Friday at Bristol Dragway in the NHRA Thunder Valley Nationals. Winless this season, Torrence had a 3.791-second run at 317.79 mph in his 11,000-horsepower Capco Contractors dragster. “To come here and make a good run right off
The seven-time champion evaluated an experimental floor in Montreal’s first session on Friday. However, that was abandoned for second practice, when he and team-mate George Russell went completely separate ways with their set-up directions. But after telling his team over the team radio that the car was left “undrivable”, Hamilton later explained just how terrible
The three-time MotoGP race winner fractured his wrist at the first corner of the Catalan GP when he was wiped out by Takaaki Nakagami in an incident that led many riders to question race direction’s operation. Rins was passed fit to ride on Thursday at the Sachsenring and ended Friday 11th overall despite suffering a
With the ever-present threat of rain, the first session was busier than usual with teams and drivers maximising track time. But the rain also stayed away throughout the second session, which featured both Ferrari and Red Bull quick on the low-fuel runs. The long-run race pace was good for the Red Bull of Max Verstappen,
7:48 PM ET MONTREAL – Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc will face a 10-place grid penalty from wherever he qualifies for the Canadian Grand Prix. Ferrari has fitted new components to his car after he suffered an engine failure while leading the Azerbaijan Grand Prix last week. The penalty hands a huge opportunity for Red Bull and
Walker Racing – Team Australia as it was rebranded with Aussie Vineyards backing – had only ditched its Reynard 02Is at the end of 2004, one of the last two Champ Car teams to do so, and so 2005 was very much a learning year for Derrick Walker’s team with the ageing Lola B2K. It
As per the original ground-effect F1 era in the early 1980s, porpoising has returned whereby airflow stalls over the floors and therefore detaches and reattaches itself to the car. This forces the downforce to breakaway, creating a cycle where cars are pulled into the track surface and then released at higher speeds. To combat this,
The 2022 Yamaha doesn’t perform well when grip is at a premium on tracks, with the reigning world champion admitting on Friday in Barcelona he was worried about his pace in low grip conditions before ultimately going on to win the race as the circuit improved over the rest of the weekend. Quartararo has gone
The news not only puts the future of prospects of Paul Ricard retaining the race in doubt, it potentially also gives F1 a bargaining chip in its ongoing negotiations over a new deal for the Monaco GP. A French GP in Nice would give the sport a high profile new event just a few miles
12:24 PM ET Associated Press LAKE OZARK, Mo. — Former NASCAR driver and Fox Sports analyst Clint Bowyer struck and killed a pedestrian on a highway exit ramp in southwest Missouri earlier this month, police said. The crash occurred June 5 on a ramp off of U.S. 54 near Osage Beach, Missouri, according to a
Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda It’s hard to knock a team that has started the 2022 season in roughly the same way as it ended the last, with three of its drivers in the top six in the championship, one of them leading. The down side is that they have scored only one win so far: the
The Renault-owned marque has been competing in the top class of the WEC for the past two seasons with the Alpine A480-Gibson, a grandfathered LMP1 design that previously raced as the Rebellion R-13. However, the car had to be given special dispensation to race on in 2022 against the Le Mans Hypercars of Toyota, Glickenhaus
For the first time since he made his MotoGP debut in 2013, a rider other than Marc Marquez will win at the Sachsenring this weekend as the six-time world champion continues his recovery from a fourth right arm surgery. Pramac’s Johann Zarco, who ended Marquez’s pole run at the German GP last year, set the
Haas has generally not suffered from excessive porpoising or bouncing this season, but in Baku all teams were affected to some degree. Schumacher had the novel experience of not being unable to relax on the main straight as he had to deal with the bumps. After trying to brace himself in the seat he found
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Following its eighth consecutive F1 constructors’ championship victory last year, Mercedes has struggled to compete at the very front of the pack so far this season under the revised technical regulations. Russell and team-mate Lewis Hamilton’s efforts have been blighted by a continuing porpoising issue on the Mercedes W13 car, leaving them a step behind
The Aprilia rider miscalculated how many laps were left in the Catalan Grand Prix two weeks ago and backed off at the start of the final lap believing he’d taken the chequered flag. It wasn’t until he got to Turn 3 that he realised his error and quickly recovered to fifth, having been sat in
As the team that has faced the biggest challenge in taming the bouncing of its W13 car, anything that helps get rid of the phenomenon would appear to be something it could gain from. For if all teams are forced to run in a setup window where porpoising is not a risk, then it could
1:04 PM ET MONTREAL, Canada — Motor racing’s governing body, the FIA, has introduced measures aimed at eliminating the dangerous levels of bouncing some Formula One cars have been doing at high speeds this year. There were concerns about Lewis Hamilton‘s health after the Azerbaijan Grand Prix when he climbed out of his car with
Warwick reunites with old car: Chevron B38 Thirty years after he won the Le Mans 24 Hours with Peugeot, Derek Warwick returned with his family to Thruxton where he cut his racing teeth having moved from short ovals. The 1973 World Superstox champion raced Formula Ford Hawke DL12 and DL15 chassis in 1975-76, before graduating
KTM announced last week that it had signed three-time MotoGP race winner Miller on a two-year deal to join Brad Binder at its factory squad next season. It marks the rekindling of a relationship that powered Miller to runner-up spot in the 2014 Moto3 world championship before he signed with Honda to jump directly to
The drivers made their plea at their regular briefing on Friday in Baku after several suffered neck and back issues on the bumpy circuit. Previously such problems had been confined to those driving for teams suffering most with porpoising or bouncing, notably George Russell of Mercedes and Carlos Sainz of Ferrari. Over the Baku weekend
5:10 AM ET Mercedes pushed Lewis Hamilton’s car setup too far in Azerbaijan last weekend and cannot cause him such pain again, the Formula One team’s head of strategy said on Wednesday. The seven-time world champion suffered severe back pain due to wrestling with his bouncing car in Baku and said “he was praying for