The four-time champion progressed from third on the grid to second at the start, then took one lap after an early safety car to work a way around the reversed-grid polesitting Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N of Tom Chilton. Turkington had extended an enormous margin of 1.286 seconds within a lap of the pass, with
The 2022 Bahrain and Australian GP winner was on his third lap aboard the 1972 Ferrari 312B3 as part of a parade alongside ex-Ferrari driver and six-time Le Mans victor Jacky Ickx. Leclerc headed out for a slow sighter lap but soon picked up the pace and on his third lap, lost the rear of
7:49 PM ET Associated Press DINWIDDIE, Va. — Brittany Force won the Top Fuel class in the Virginia NHRA Nationals on Sunday and John Force Racing teammate Robert Hight took the Funny Car crown at Virginia Motorsports Park. Force beat four-time defending season champion Steve Torrence with a 3.770-second pass at 334.07 mph for her
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Daly finished fifth in a chaotic race hampered by changeable weather, that was made worse by visibility issues when peering through the aeroscreen, fitted to his Ed Carpenter Racing entry. Daly reported he had water building up around the dividing ridge in the centre of his aeroscreen in the worst of the wet conditions in
Bastianini won Sunday’s French GP at Le Mans after a brief dice with Bagnaia that ended up with the factory Ducati rider making a mistake while leading on lap 21 of 27 and crashing out a few corners later. It marked the third win of the season for Bastianini aboard his Gresini-run 2021-spec Ducati and
Albuquerque in the Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05 got the jump on polesitter Sebastien Bourdais in the #01 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R. The turbocharged car pulled ahead from Turn 4 with Jarvis tucking the Meyer Shank Racing Acura into third ahead of the second Ganassi Cadillac fourth, ahead of Tristan Vautier (JDC Miller Motorsports
It might not have been a perfectly smooth weekend, but the Miami Grand Prix was a huge success for Formula 1. The crowds came, the place was thronged with more A-listers than we’ve ever seen at one event, and in the end it produced a decent race, helped by a late safety car that livened
7:54 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — As Colton Herta set up his winning pass Saturday, all he could see were red flashing lights. He still charged forward. The 22-year-old California driver quickly darted to the inside of Pato O’Ward on a late restart, took the lead for good with nine laps to go and
Despite starting from 14th, Herta ended up leading 50 of the 75 laps, on his way to victory in a chaotic weather affected race held on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. The race started in wet conditions but Herta quickly switched to the red walled slicks on lap 3 before rain showers doused the
It was an action-packed 12 hours for the quartet, particularly during a wild stint from Habul early in the race that included two drive-through penalties for restart infringements and a spin at the final corner. However the car stayed on the lead lap all day, before flawless stints from Stolz and Gounon in the last
Jack Miller got the holeshot from second on the grid at the start of the race, but soon dropped behind polesitter Bagnaia on the sister factory Ducati and the fast-starting Gresini bike of Bastianini in third, paving the way for a two-horse race for victory. Bastianini started piling pressure on the Spanish GP winner in
The reigning Formula E champion looked imperious in the lead, having wrested control of the race as early as the first corner from Mortara with a surprise launch down the inside from third on the grid. Mortara, who was perhaps preoccupied with trying to defend from fellow front-row starter Robin Frijns, left a smidgen of
The FIA restructured its F1 operations for this year following the controversial end to the 2021 season in Abu Dhabi that saw race director Michael Masi fail to implement the regulations. It led to Masi being replaced by two race directors, Niels Wittich and Eduardo Freitas, and major changes to the support they have in
8:24 AM ET Formula One championship leader Charles Leclerc crashed the 1974 Ferrari of three-time champion Niki Lauda during a demonstration run at the Monaco Historic Grand Prix on Sunday. The current Ferrari driver was at the wheel of the Ferrari 312 B3, which Lauda drove in period, for a handful of demonstration laps on
The Andretti Autosport driver led 50 of the 75 laps completed before the race hit its two-hour maximum duration. He headed Simon Pagenaud, who scored his best result since switching from Team Penske to Meyer Shank Racing over the off-season, while polesitter Will Power (Penske) took the lead of the championship by finishing third. With a
The six-time world champion struggled with a lack of rear grip with the hotter temperatures experienced this afternoon at the French Grand Prix in qualifying and could only manage 10th on the grid. Marquez says his feeling was strong in the cooler conditions on Saturday morning, but got worse over the rest of the day
The track was dry as qualifying began, but rain was falling to make conditions extra sketchy. Bourdais started the ball rolling with a 1m11.979s lap, but this was soon bettered by Albuquerque’s Wayne Taylor Racing Acura ARX-05. The Portuguese produced a 1m11.481s, then 1m10.751s and finally 1m10.661s. But Bourdais wouldn’t be denied, the Frenchman unleashing a
Record TV figures, a sell-out crowd and an influx of star power helped make it one of F1’s biggest events to date, further laying the foundations for the expansion to three American races next year once Las Vegas joins the calendar. But for Michael Andretti, more needs to be done to grow American interest in F1
10:25 PM ET Associated Press DINWIDDIE, Va. — Matt Hagan made the quickest Funny Car run in Virginia Motorsports Park history Saturday to top qualifying for the Virginia NHRA Nationals. Hagan had a 3.853-second pass at 331.45 mph in Tony Stewart Racing’s Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat for his second No. 1 of the season and
As predicted, it was a difficult start to the round-the-clock race with more than an hour of full pre-dawn running in foggy conditions. However race control has mostly let the race run despite the obvious visibility challenges, the safety car only used to retrieve a crashed MARC car from the top of the Mountain. That
The Andretti Autosport driver led 50 of the 75 laps completed before the race hit its two-hour maximum duration. He headed Simon Pagenaud, who scored his best result since switching from Team Penske to Meyer Shank Racing over the off-season, while polesitter Will Power (Penske) took the lead of the championship by finishing third. With a
The Italian set a new lap record on Saturday in France to claim his second-successive pole position and Ducati’s first at Le Mans. Bagnaia led Ducati team-mate Jack Miller by 0.069 seconds in the end, but was not confident of being able to fight for pole during the preceding 30-minute FP4 session because he
That’s because the placement of the chicane, and the tight sequence of corners around it, was effectively forced on organisers because of its geographical location under the Turnpike road bridges. As the project’s lead design engineer Andrew Wallis put it, the layout had to “thread the needle” to satisfy FIA track safety regulations. UK-based track
After the second practice session on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.439-mile road course, 18 of the 27 cars finished within half a second of top spot, so small mistakes were expected to be costly in qualifying. Power took pole in the Fast Six shootout by a mere 0.042s ahead of reigning champion Alex Palou (Chip
The cooler autumn temperatures and ban on tyre warmers under the event’s temporary Pro-Am rules meant drivers were able to constantly improve on a single tyre set during the two 15-minute qualifying sessions. The organisers had originally planned to stage a top 10 shootout, before concerns over the operating window for the Pirelli tyres prompted a meeting
Mortara pounced upon a mistake from Vergne, who was baited into attacking the Venturi driver at Turn 6 with three laps remaining and went deep – recovering but shipping over a second to the leader. This gave Mortara free licence to extend his lead and rocket off into the distance, ensuring he claimed his second
Italian rider Bagnaia blitzed the Circuit Bugatti lap record in the pole shootout on Saturday, lapping the track in 1m30.450s to secure the fifth pole for a Ducati rider in seven qualifying sessions in 2022. Jack Miller backed up the performance of Bagnaia to grab second spot on the grid, setting a time that was
F1’s current owner Liberty Media has followed a route of chasing new additions to the calendar in large population areas, rather than permanent venues in the middle of nowhere. With Miami and Jeddah having recently hosted races on city tracks, a new grand prix is set to take place in Las Vegas next year. While