Mir led the 25-lap race early on, but was soon swallowed by eventual winner Fabio Quartararo and dropped to third late on as he battled with a lack of feeling on his medium front tyre. On lap 19 Miller lined up a pass on Mir into the first corner, but lost the front-end of
Verstappen won the award following his 2021 F1 title triumph over former Laureus award winner Lewis Hamilton, who jointly won the 2020 edition of the awards with footballing great Lionel Messi. The Dutchman beat American football icon Tom Brady, Bayern Munich and Poland striker Robert Lewandowski, marathon running legend Eliud Kipchoge, swimmer Caeleb Dressel –
1:03 PM ET IMOLA, Italy — Toto Wolff said Mercedes has not produced a car worthy of Lewis Hamilton’s status as a seven-time world champion after seeing him get lapped by Max Verstappen and finish 13th at Imola. In one of the most ordinary displays of his illustrious career, Hamilton found himself stuck behind AlphaTauri’s
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Leclerc was on course for a comfortable third place behind the dominant Red Bulls of winner Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez and was just looking to salvage a result on Ferrari home soil after team-mate Carlos Sainz was taken out on the first lap. But on lap 53 of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Leclerc
The six-time world champion was expected to be one of the main combatants in Sunday’s race at Portimao despite qualifying down in ninth. But Marquez failed to make inroads at the start and could only manage sixth, some 16 seconds from race winner Fabio Quartararo, after battling with Honda team-mate Pol Espargaro and his LCR
The seven-time world champion endured a hugely frustrating Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, as he was left a ‘sitting duck’ when he got trapped in a DRS train and ended up a lowly 13th. After the race, team boss Toto Wolff apologised to Hamilton over team radio for being given an “undriveable” car. Hamilton’s title chances
1:40 PM ET IMOLA, Italy – Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc‘s late battle for victory at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix’s sprint race was the icing on the cake for Formula One boss Ross Brawn, who is already planning to roll out the format at twice as many races in 2023. Imola’s race is the
Toyota driver Rovanpera increased his advantage over Tanak to 28.4s with two stages remaining after the 2019 world champion’s gamble to fit soft tyres backfired. In a bid to try to reel in Rovanpera’s 19.9s overnight margin, the Estonian opted for an alternate tyre strategy, but lost significant time on the day’s opening stage to put
Qualifying at Portimao on Saturday was hectic as Q2 was the first session of the weekend to be run in fully dry conditions. This meant lap times improved throughout the 15-minute session as the track evolved, with top spot changing hands constantly. Marquez was on a lap in the dying stages of Q2 that was
The German manufacturer’s competitive struggles have hit a season low so far at Imola, with neither Lewis Hamilton or George Russell making it in to the top 10 in qualifying. The pair did not make much progress in the sprint race either, and are at risk of coming away from the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix
8:54 PM ET Associated Press BAYTOWN, Texas — Steve Torrence took the No. 1 spot in Top Fuel qualifying Saturday at the final NHRA SpringNationals, moving past Brittany Force at Houston Raceway Park. The track that hosted its first national event in 1988 is closing after the event to make room for Katoen Natie’s expanding
Tanak emerged in the battle for victory at the asphalt event after rally leader Rovanpera picked up a front left puncture, which cost the Finn almost a minute of his 1m23s advantage on Stage 11. The Hyundai driver managed to apply pressure on Rovanpera throughout the afternoon, closing to within 13s of the Finn, before
The 2020 title winner took his first ever front row qualifying result in last year’s Algarve GP at Portimao, and was in the fight for pole on Saturday for the 2022 Portuguese GP. Mir in the end lost out to Pramac’s Johann Zarco by 0.195 seconds, but still held onto a career-best second. Speaking after
The reigning F1 world champion reeled in Charles Leclerc after the Ferrari driver grabbed the lead at the start of the sprint race, with Verstappen regaining the lead on the penultimate lap. It meant Verstappen converted pole position from Friday’s qualifying into the sprint race win and will start Sunday’s grand prix from the front
2:50 PM ET IMOLA, Italy — Lewis Hamilton wrote off his chances of competing for the Formula One title this year after falling 50 points adrift of championship leader Charles Leclerc at Saturday’s sprint race at Imola. Hamilton finished 14th in the sprint race, which sets the grid for Sunday’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, after
What. A. Race! You won’t see a better season opener than this. Balfe Motorsport’s Adam Carroll held off a charging Jules Gounon to claim victory in the day’s first race at Oulton, while GT4 winners Steller Motorsport ensured Audi doubled up. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader
Hill, who switched to the West Surrey Racing-run BMW squad over the winter, pipped four-time champion Colin Turkington to his maiden BTCC pole position by just 0.018 seconds. It was a strong bounceback from Hill, whose preparations hit trouble with gearbox problems during the second free practice session. But there were problems for the Motorbase
The three-time MotoGP race winner made his debut with LCR back in 2015 when he was signed to a three-year contract by Honda to come directly from Moto3, where he finished runner-up in the championship in 2014. After a difficult debut aboard the underpowered RC213V-RS open class bike, Miller moved to Marc VDS for the
The Red Bull driver had a poor getaway from pole position and lost the advantage to Ferrari’s Leclerc, who began to open up a clear advantage at the front after an early safety car period. But Leclerc’s fortunes turned when he began suffering graining on his right front tyre, and his pace fell away. That
1:37 PM ET IMOLA, Italy — Lewis Hamilton is hoping to salvage a result from this weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix after qualifying 13th on the grid ahead of Saturday’s sprint qualifying race. The seven-time champion failed to make the top-ten shootout in Friday’s qualifying session after struggling for performance in wet conditions. Saturday’s sprint
Mugen Honda driver Nojiri topped morning practice and his Q1 segment before posting a 1m36.352s in the Q2 shootout to take his second pole of the season and the ninth of his career, as well as his first at the Japanese Grand Prix venue. The three bonus points boosts his total to 41, putting him five
The Ducati rider was one of several caught out by the wet conditions on Friday at the Algarve International Circuit, with Bagnaia falling from his bike at Turn 3 early on in FP2. The Italian was seen scooping up some of the gravel into his hands and delivered it to Ducati team manager Davide Tardozzi
The Ferrari driver had looked to have the edge in pace during the early stages of qualifying but, in the crucial first Q3 runs, it was the strategy options he and Max Verstappen took that proved crucial. With the Imola track drying out, it was clear that the fastest laps of the session would likely
10:15 PM ET Associated Press BAYTOWN, Texas — Brittany Force had the fastest pass in Houston Raceway Park history Friday to take the lead in Top Fuel qualifying at the final NHRA SpringNationals. Force broke her own speed record at the track with a 3.695-second run at 333.58 mph. The track that hosted its first
Rovanpera produced a faultless performance on Croatia’s tricky wet and slippery asphalt roads to open up a 1m04s lead over Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville heading into Saturday. The three-time WRC event winner won six of the eight stages while also avoiding the punctures from cuts and gravel dragged into the road that afflicted the majority of
The reigning world champion ended Friday’s running 20th on the combined standings and 1.395 seconds off pacesetter Marc Marquez on the Honda. The Yamaha has typically struggled in wet conditions in previous years, though the high-grip nature of the Mandalika circuit helped Quartararo to second in the wet Indonesian GP. Despite his lowly position after
The NASCAR legend, a four-time winner of NASCAR’s Brickyard 400 at IMS, is contesting his first full season of IndyCar after a road-and-street course-only programme in 2021. Johnson scored his best IndyCar result to date on his first oval appearance at Texas Motor Speedway last month, claiming an impressive sixth-place finish, but Indy’s 2.5-mile speedway
Ferrari driver Sainz crashed out early in the second stage of qualifying for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix on Friday, losing control at the exit of Rivazza after running over the kerb on the outside of the corner. Sainz had been trying to improve his initial lap time before the incoming rain arrived and while
2:34 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — The IndyCar Series and Indianapolis Motor Speedway are going green. Penske Entertainment, the parent company of the series, announced Friday that it will start implementing more eco-friendly plans starting with next month’s Indianapolis 500. The race is scheduled for May 29. All tires delivered to the speedway will