On an Imola weekend where Verstappen was the class of the field, Hamilton endured one of his most difficult weekends since he joined Mercedes as he qualified outside the top ten and came home 13th. That performance was in stark contrast to last year where Verstappen and Hamilton regularly battled for victories during a campaign where tensions erupted at
3:26 PM ET Formula One teams agreed to double the number of sprint races to six in 2023 in a meeting on Tuesday, but formal approval was stalled by the FIA who called for a further evaluation. The world governing body said in a statement that the proposal was to use the same format as
Picking a winner for the 350th Porsche Carrera Cup GB contest was always going to be tricky. There was no shortage of contenders on a grid packed with talented drivers. And, after a dramatic race, it was new Porsche Junior Adam Smalley who landed the first blow of the 20th anniversary season. While Smalley’s Redline
The Yamaha rider passed early leader Joan Mir on the fourth lap and romped to a crucial first win of a so far difficult season, having failed to win a race since Silverstone last year. Mir streaked away off the line from second on the grid to lead a race for the first time since
Hamlin tweeted a clip from American animated series Family Guy mocking Asian drivers, spliced with footage from the final lap at Talladega when Kyle Larson collided with Kurt Busch, who drives for Hamlin’s 23XI Racing team. Busch’s 23XI teammate Bubba Wallace was also collected in the crash. Larson is the only Asian-American driver at NASCAR’s
Following a meeting of the F1 Commission in London, plans by F1 owner Liberty Media to increase the number of sprint events met little resistance from teams. But, when the matter came down to getting the majority support it needed, the unanimous backing from the competitors and FOM was not enough to push the matter through
6:10 PM ET Associated Press Roger Penske has tweaked qualifying for next month’s Indianapolis 500 to add a shootout that will determine the first four starting rows for “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” Penske told The Associated Press the tweaks will create a high-pressure atmosphere on the second day of qualifying. “We’re going to have
Bahrain was a tough introduction to the campaign for the team and the MCL36, but the nice thing about the modern F1 calendar is that you don’t particularly get to dwell. On to Saudi Arabia… #FearlesslyForward Join McLaren Plus, our fan engagement programme which brings McLaren fans closer to the team with the most inclusive,
Top Performer – Kalle Rovanpera and Jonne Halttunen (Toyota) If they continue to perform at this level, there will be shortage of superlatives to describe Kalle Rovanpera and Jonne Halttunen. The pair take the top performer award for the second event in row, following their impressive run to victory in Sweden with a breathtaking display
Ducati was expected to hit the ground running in 2022 with its new challenger having gone into the winter with the best bike on the grid. But the changes to the Desmosedici have required a much longer adaptation period for its riders in the opening races, with its new engine leading to problems putting
Alonso was forced out of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix after just five laps, having picked up damage to the floor and sidepod of his Alpine after contact with Mick Schumacher on the opening lap. Alpine called Alonso into the pits when part of the sidepod on the right-hand side of his car detached on the main straight,
12:28 PM ET As Lewis Hamilton crossed the line in 13th place at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff issued an apology to his driver over the pit-to-car radio. “Lewis, sorry for what you have needed to drive today,” Wolff said. “This is undriveable and not what we deserve to score
Supercars will debut its next-generation hardware next season, with a pair of prototypes – one Chevrolet Camaro and one Ford Mustang – well into their testing programme. That programme is being run as a joint venture between Supercars itself and the two homologation teams, Dick Johnson Racing (Ford) and Triple Eight (Chevrolet). While drivers from
Honda overhauled its RC213V for the 2022 season after several lean seasons prompted by Marc Marquez’s serious arm injury in 2020 and a lack of results for HRC’s other riders. The new bike was met with glowing praise by most Honda riders in the pre-season, as the more rear-biased motorcycle delivered the rear grip it
The Milton Keynes-based team has found its chances against Ferrari in the early part of the season compromised by its car being well over the minimum weight limit – with some suggestions being that it was as much as 10kg too heavy. The extra weight has not only had a direct impact on lap time
All 10 qualifying sessions and races, taking place across eight Formula 1 Grand Prix weekends, will be broadcast live by Sky. The all-female championship had previously been broadcast by Channel 4, who will continue to show highlights, as well as free-to-air coverage of the British Grand Prix support race at Silverstone. The new Sky deal
The Yamaha rider now has 69 points, joint with Suzuki’s Alex Rins, who made a stunning charge from 23rd to finish fourth. Elsewhere, Honda had a difficult weekend, with all their riders struggling for pace. Read Also: Marquez led his brother Alex Marquez in sixth, while Espargaro was ninth – all three HRC runners over
Fernando Alonso hasn’t won a world championship in 15 years, or a grand prix in the past eight seasons, yet he remains one of the best drivers ever to grace an F1 grid. As Alonso heads towards his 41st birthday, and the twilight of his career, OLEG KARPOV asks if there’s still time for one
6:27 AM ET IMOLA, Italy — Red Bull boss Christian Horner labelled the team’s one-two finish at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix one of its best ever performances in Formula One. Red Bull arrived in Imola with a string of reliability issues at recent races which had looked like a serious early threat to its
Middleton, who won the British GT4 championship in 2018, was set to take over from Imperiale Racing team-mate Alberto di Folco in the first of two one-hour Sprint Cup races but was clipped by the oncoming BMW M4 GT3 of Jens Klingmann which pulled into the box in front. “The BMW was sort of on
The Alpine team was deemed by the FIA stewards to have performed an unsafe release after Ocon emerged side-by-side with Hamilton, forcing the Mercedes driver to cede him the position. Ocon received a five-second penalty for the incident, and having finished in 11th place with a queue of cars behind him the Alpine driver slipped
A strategy blunder in the wet-to-dry Q1 qualifying session at Portimao last weekend left Rins at the back of the grid in 23rd, but a stunning start in Sunday’s race led to him jumping up to 10th on the opening lap. Rins march continued in emphatic fashion as he carved through to fourth by the
After Charles Leclerc and Ferrari utterly dominated the Australian Grand Prix to grab an early advantage in the 2022 Formula 1 season, Max Verstappen and Red Bull repaid the favour at Imola – profiting from both the sprint race format and Leclerc’s late error at the Variante Alta. F1 returned to Europe for the first
12:03 PM ET IMOLA, Italy — Ferrari will be reluctant to admit it, but the pressure ratchets up when it races on home soil. The expectations of victory are always significantly multiplied in Italy and the cost of mistakes become massively amplified. It’s a pressure no other team in F1 faces. Individual drivers may feel
From 11th on the grid at Imola, Russell made a good start and had a superb race to fourth place in the tricky wet/dry event. Hamilton meanwhile struggled to make progress and finished where he started in 14th on the road, spending most of the race stuck behind Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri, but gained a place
The reigning world champion stormed to his first win since the 2021 British GP on Sunday at Portimao, having taken the lead from Suzuki’s Joan Mir on the fourth lap of 25. Quartararo proceeded to streak clear of the field to a winning margin of 5.4 seconds to take the lead in the championship for
Erik Jones was leading on the final lap but the drivers behind him were getting antsy to make a move. Kyle Larson moved to the top lane to get around him and Jones followed him in an attempt to block. Chastain, who was running third on the last lap, elected to remain on bottom lane
Leclerc had looked on course for a guaranteed third place towards the end of Sunday’s race at Imola, with Red Bull duo Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez in front. However, on lap 50, Ferrari elected to pit Leclerc for soft tyres in a bid to try to get the Monegasque at least one more position.
9:03 PM ET Associated Press BAYTOWN, Texas — Houston native Erica Enders closed Houston Raceway Park with a victory, beating Camrie Caruso on Sunday in the final NHRA SpringNationals in the first all-woman final in NHRA Pro Stock history. Enders had a 6.568-second pass at 210.24 mph in a Chevrolet Camaro for her third victory
Hill was excluded from third position in race one when his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330e M Sport incurred damage as a result of which it failed the ride-height test, before racing from the rear of the grid to ninth in race two. He was drawn on pole position for the reversed grid, and drove