Dixon had booked his place into the Fast Six by going fastest in the preceding Top 12 session, edging Rinus VeeKay for pace with a 233.510mph run. Last to take to the track in the final part of qualifying, the six-time IndyCar champion and 2008 Indy 500 winner delivered two laps over 234mph and even
The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya announced it had been sold out for the 2022 edition of the race after going through two COVID-19 years with limited attendance, stating 300,000 flocked to the Barcelona venue across the weekend. But soon enough it became apparent the venue was not prepared for the sell-out crowd, with larges queues forming
6:35 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Scott Dixon used a breathtaking run of more than 234 mph to post the fastest Indianapolis 500 pole run in history. The New Zealander will lead the field to green in “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing” for the fifth time in his career. Considered the best driver of
Mercedes brought a raft of updates to Barcelona for the Spanish Grand Prix, but Hamilton said he was still struggling with the W13 car in qualifying, leaving him sixth on the grid. Contact with Haas driver Magnussen on the opening lap caused Hamilton to slow and forced him into an early pitstop, leaving him over
Verstappen stormed into the championship lead after taking the victory at Barcelona while erstwhile tabletopper Charles Leclerc retired from the lead of the race with a power unit problem. But the early stages of the grand prix did not go to plan for Verstappen as an error at Turn 4 when he was running second
10:08 AM ET BARCELONA, Spain — Charles Leclerc lost what looked like a routine Spanish Grand Prix win when his Ferrari car lost power mid-way through the race. Leclerc was leading comfortably until lap 27, when his Ferrari slowed dramatically. Leclerc brought the car into the pits to retire, opening up a huge opportunity for
The ART driver passed Trident’s Roman Stanek on the run down to Turn 1, having had a better start than the Trident driver. He quickly built up a solid lead and despite two safety cars, held on to take his third series victory. Stanek took second place and sits second in the drivers’ standings, resisting
The high-pressure nature of professional sport and the personal sacrifices that must be made to become elite often make sportsmen and women polarising characters. It seems that fact is only heightened in motorsport. But, very occasionally, one comes along who totally bucks the trend, who is universally appreciated. Nicky Hayden typified the latter category. One
Mercedes drivers Russell and Lewis Hamilton qualified fourth and sixth respectively on Saturday, but both felt the team had made a big step forward to solve its porpoising problems thanks to the updates brought to Barcelona. Hamilton said the updates gave Mercedes a “glimpse of hope” after struggling in the early part of the season,
6:04 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Rain held off long enough on Saturday to complete the first round of qualifying for the Indianapolis 500 on a soupy day that still produced eye-popping speeds not seen in 26 years at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Rinus VeeKay and Pato O’Ward, a pair of young new stars, posted
The air at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was dense and relatively still this morning, vastly different from yesterday’s hot and gusty conditions, and the speeds reflected this as drivers attempted four-lap qualifying simulation runs. In Group 1, Jimmie Johnson turned the fastest lap with the aid of a tow, a 233.961mph, and turned a 233.7 four-lap
The two Saturday qualifying sessions at Indianapolis determined the positions outside of the top 12 and track temperatures had dropped by the end of the initial runs of the second segment. Callum Ilott of Juncos Hollinger Racing was the first to do a retake run and improved by 0.7mph but only gained three places, and lost
In the circumstances, Norris was pleased to have made the top 10 in Q2 for the Spanish GP before a track-limits penalty cost him the laptime that would have put him eighth in the session, leaving him stranded instead in 11th place. Norris was subsequently able to view the FIA’s footage of his costly run
8:57 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Jimmie Johnson felt comfortable from his very first laps of Indianapolis 500 preparation. The seven-time NASCAR champion knows his way around The Brickyard — he won at Indianapolis Motor Speedway four times in a stock car — so not even a brush with the wall in an Indy
Pato O’Ward made the initial run with an average of 233.037mph, but it was eclipsed by the very next runner, VeeKay. The Ed Carpenter Racing driver, who started fourth and third for his first two Indy 500s, delivered an opening lap of 234.702mph, and although his fourth lap dropped to 232.655mph, his average was a
The MP Motorsport driver, who started in fourth, was boosted to third after Calan Williams failed to get off the grid for the formation lap due to an issue and his Trident-run car was pushed to the pitlane. He swept past Jake Hughes (Van Amersfoort Racing) and ART Grand Prix’s Theo Pourchaire before Turn 1
Mercedes endured a nightmare start to the ground-effect era with a car that suffered from wild porpoising, which forced the team to run its car higher than it wanted. The bouncing also prevented the Brackley outfit from chasing pure performance until the issue could be resolved, as evidenced by 2022’s first five races across which
9:58 AM ET Mercedes have not given up on defending their Formula One constructors’ title despite a difficult start to the season, the team’s technical director Mike Elliott said on Saturday. The team, who have won the past eight world championships, are third overall after five races and 63 points adrift of leaders Ferrari, with
Auer, who won the opening round of the 2022 season in Portimao and has three DTM victories to his name at the east German track, posted the benchmark time of 1m30.654s in the opening half of the 20-minute session but couldn’t improve his time further as others around him closed in. Van der Linde, who
De Vries made his first F1 race weekend appearance on Friday when he took part in opening practice for the Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The Dutchman finished the session in 18th place, but managed to outpace full-time Williams driver Nicholas Latifi by one-tenth of a second despite having just two-and-a-half hours
9:41 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Takuma Sato was the fastest driver at Indianapolis Motor Speedway before IndyCar drivers were given some extra boost for Friday’s practice. He was even quicker afterward — despite the incredibly gusty winds. The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner from Japan finished atop the speed chart for the third consecutive
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As the wind started to drop, and track temperature went down, the 2013 Indy 500 winner embarked on a qualifying simulation run and turned laps of 231.392mph, 230.419mph, 230.668mph and 229.589mph. That meant an average of 230.517mph which vaulted him to the top ahead of by far the quickest rookie, David Malukas. Twice he completed
Things didn’t look that promising, however, when he first joined the famous Italian team in 1996. Only a drive of wet-weather virtuosity got him off the mark when Ferrari was outgunned by Williams. In the latest of Autosport’s “Short View Back to the Past” series, chief editor Kevin Turner looks at Schumacher’s brilliant drive in
6:58 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — First came the wind – 41 mph gusts that created some of the most challenging conditions in Indianapolis Motor Speedway history — and the rain was expected to follow. It put IndyCar on its heels on “Fast Friday” as race officials scrambled to save qualifying for the Indianapolis
Leclerc was quickest in both FP1 and FP2, ahead of Mercedes duo George Russell and Lewis Hamilton, his Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz and Red Bull’s reigning world champion Max Verstappen across the two one-hour sessions. Spanish Grand Prix FP1 results: Leclerc fastest from Sainz What happened in Spanish GP Free Practice 1? After early running
While the Silverstone-based team had been open in recent weeks that a major revamp was coming, few had been expecting it to have adopted much of the concept that Red Bull has put to use so far with the RB18. But while even Red Bull has admitted that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,
9:36 AM ET BARCELONA, Spain — Formula One’s governing body, the FIA, have announced that Aston Martin’s upgraded car is legal after it launched an investigation into the apparent similarities between its AMR22 car and Red Bull’s RB18. Aston Martin is among a number of teams that have brought significant updates to this weekend’s Spanish
Sato, who led practice on the opening day before Wednesday’s running was called off due to rain, put the Dale Coyne Racing car on top of the speed charts with a lap of 227.519mph, just 39.5572s around the iconic 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Endorsing the promise shown by the Coyne cars in traffic was his
Eventually taking its name from famed Mercedes engineer and designer Rudolf Uhlenhaut, the coupe was a closed-cockpit variant of the 300 SLR sportscar – itself based on the W196 grand prix racer -that most famously won the Mille Miglia in 1955 in the hands of Stirling Moss. The coupe was crafted for the 1956 season