Herta lapped the 2.366-mile 17-turn Alabama course in 1m06.5149s to shade defending series champion and 2021 Barber winner Alex Palou (Chip Ganassi Racing) by 0.05s. Alexander Rossi was precisely 0.1s behind team-mate Herta but shaded fellow Andretti Autosport driver Romain Grosjean to secure third spot. In a session that suggested Honda have retained somewhat of
Ferrari announced at Imola last week that Sainz had agreed a new two-year F1 deal running to the end of the 2024 season following a successful start to life at Maranello. It ensures Ferrari will run an unchanged driver line-up with Sainz and team-mate Charles Leclerc until at least the start of 2025, giving the
The Aprilia rider was caught on camera on the pitstraight at the end of FP2 at Jerez on Friday gesticulating towards Marquez, but no incident between the pair was caught on screen. Espargaro later explained that Marquez allegedly waited on track for a minute until the Aprilia rider came round late on in FP2 so
Just a week after the previous round in Portugal, won by Quartararo, MotoGP rolled into Jerez on Friday for the opening day of the sixth round of the 2022 campaign. Overnight rain left damp patches on track for FP1, but the session was still run on slicks, with Suzuki’s Joan Mir leading his team-mate Alex
He’s so far been overshadowed by new team-mate Alex Albon, having found it harder to adapt to the new car than the former Red Bull man, and also endured a series of accidents that have obliged the team to focus as much on replenishing spares as on readying updated parts. It was all looking so
6:28 AM ET All-electric racing series Formula E has launched a new net carbon zero car to compete its 2022-23 season. The triangle-shaped ‘gen 3’ car will increase the top speed of Formula E’s racers to 200 m/ph (320 km/h). It will feature two different powertrains, one at the front and one at the rear,
This week’s pre-season test at Portimao started late in the evening and until 10pm local time, with Dennis Olsen ending the test sessions fastest for the SSR Porsche team. Although the schedule was not by design but circumstances, as the DTM needed extra time in daylight to set up TV cameras after last weekend’s MotoGP
Heavy rain on Thursday evening left some damp patches on track for the start of Friday’s running at the sixth round of the 2022 campaign at Jerez, but the entire field headed out on slicks to get some laps under their belts. Reigning world champion Quartararo, who is twice a winner at Jerez in MotoGP,
Speaking ahead of the series’ return to Barber Motorsports Park, where he scored his first win for the Honda powered Chip Ganassi Racing last year, Palou said there was nothing missing in the HPD-built units’ repertoire. However, Palou admits that Chevrolet, as witnessed by Penske’s start to the season, has improved its engines this season.
Questions about whether or not the Mercedes power unit has fallen back have, for example, been clouded by its underperforming chassis and the drag levels of its high-downforce wing. At the opposite end of the debate, at Alpine it has been hard to split how much of its progress have come from aero and how much from its engine. What isn’t
Unusual car of the week: Sports 2000 Shrike Is it a hovercraft? Is it a spaceship? No, it’s Rob Hall’s Shrike P15, which took a Sports 2000 victory at Silverstone last weekend. The category allows more freedom than most when it comes to car designs and the Shrike’s unusual contours are the perfect example of
On Thursday ahead of this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez, MotoGP governing body the FIM announced testing for the 2023 season would be reduced to just eight official days across the year. Five days of running will be had in the pre-season spread across a two- and three-day test – as was the case
After an awful weekend in Australia that saw four crashes, the Silverstone-based team bounced back at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix to earn eighth place with Sebastian Vettel and 10th with Lance Stroll. After the race, Vettel said his result was like a victory given the team’s struggles so far in 2022. Krack says the
The all-new car boasts a reworked design that Formula E states was inspired by the design of a fighter jet, and continues the championship’s ethos of developing a car specifically to race on the cast of street courses on the calendar. This extends to a slightly shorter car to allow drivers to go wheel-to-wheel on
The six-time MotoGP world champion was the first Honda across the line last week at Portimao, but was 16 seconds off the win down in sixth spot having been expected to fight for the podium. All Honda riders have made complaints about the marque’s radically overhauled challenger for 2022 in recent rounds despite the bike
When Sebastien Bourdais suffered his awful-looking 228mph accident during qualifying for the 2017 Indy 500, he not only broke his pelvis and left hip, he also blew apart his and Dale Coyne Racing’s best chance of Indy 500 glory. Seb was on the third lap of his qualy run, and his first two were the
Included as part of this was a new floor and beam wing, as the Enstone-based team continues to optimise its aerodynamic package over the first phase of the championship. Most interestingly, one of the floor’s new features is the addition of a metal stay, something Alpine had previously not needed like other teams. While its
3:56 AM ET Lewis Hamilton has downplayed speculation he is unhappy with Formula One, posting to Instagram that he will be the one to decide when his “masterpiece” is finished. Seven-time world champion Hamilton has endured a difficult start to the new season with Mercedes. After scoring a podium at the opening race in Bahrain,
Red Bull’s F1 fightback was always likely to come sooner rather than later, but it was unfortunate for Ferrari and its fans that the blue team’s first 1-2 for six years should arrive on Italian soil last weekend. As Matt Kew shows in our GP analysis, Red Bull had a small but significant edge at
The German car manufacturer has been held back so far this season by porpoising, which has forced the team to run its W13 with a much higher ride height than it was originally designed for. Raising the platform is costing it a lot of downforce, but the outfit remains convinced that if it can switch
4:10 AM ET Formula One race directors Eduardo Freitas and Niels Wittich have both tested positive for COVID-19, raising questions about who will take charge of next week’s inaugural Miami Grand Prix, British media reported on Wednesday. A well-placed source confirmed to Reuters that the news, first reported by the Daily Telegraph and Sky Sports
Following a successful first campaign with GT3 cars, the DTM returns this year with an expanded grid of 29 cars – the biggest field since the revival of the championship in 2000. A lot of eyeballs will be on nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb as he makes his DTM debut for Red Bull in
On Ferrari’s home turf, Sainz had been eager to get a good result under his belt after the disappointment of his early exit from the Australian Grand Prix. But it all went wrong within seconds of the Emilia Romagna start after Ricciardo tagged Sainz at the first chicane and pitched him off into the gravel
3:10 PM ET Formula One’s 46-year wait for a woman driver is likely to continue for some years but next week’s Miami Grand Prix could be a significant springboard for the all-female W Series, according to founder Catherine Bond Muir. The single-seater championship, which uses F3 cars and partnered with Formula One in 2021, has
Although best known for his exploits in the DTM with Audi, Rockenfeller has been competing in major enduros on both sides of the Atlantic for nearly two decades, winning both the Le Mans 24 Hours and the Daytona 24 Hours in a single calendar year in 2010. The German driver called time on his glittering
The veteran Spaniard currently sits third in the championship and just three points from joint leaders Fabio Quartararo and Alex Rins, after claiming his second podium of the campaign in third in last weekend’s Portuguese Grand Prix. Espargaro stormed to his first grand prix victory and Aprilia’s first in the modern MotoGP era in Argentina,
Szafnauer says that the A522 again demonstrated good one lap pace, even if was not so evident in either the sprint or the main race. Fernando Alonso trialled a new floor through the weekend which appeared to work well, and contributed to him qualifying fifth. However the Spaniard dropped back with tyre graining in the
7:26 AM ET Associated Press HOBART, Australia — A 59-year-old driver was killed in a crash at the Targa Tasmania rally Wednesday, a year after three competitors died in the annual race. The Australian man and a female passenger were in a 1989 Porsche 944 S2 when it crashed over an embankment on a closed
With the DTM completing set-up work for TV production during the day, the on-track running didn’t begin until 5pm in the evening and continued well into the dark – with the chequered flag waved at 10pm. It was reigning ADAC GT Masters champion Feller who made the most of the conditions, lapping the Portuguese circuit
Quartararo hadn’t won a race since Silverstone 2021 last August, but surmounted early leader Joan Mir on the fourth lap and romped to a crucial first win of a so far difficult season. Mir streaked away off the line from second on the grid to lead a race for the first time since his title-winning