The Pramac ace – who same through Q1 – snatched the front spot from fellow Ducati rider Jack Miller, with Francesco Bagnaia in third. The Italian manufacturer secured the top five spots in Q2, with Martin’s team-mate Johann Zarco in fourth and Gresini Racing’s Enea Bastianini in fifth. Martin’s pole time of 2m02.039s was enough
Defending Long Beach winner Herta delivered the eighth pole position of his IndyCar career after struggling during Friday practice on the extremely gripped-up street track. Herta produced a 1m05.309s lap in the decisive Fast Six session, eclipsing the previous qualifying lap record by 0.9s and earning pole by 0.445s over Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden. But
The Alpine driver says the impact left him with sore thumbs, but he insists he will be OK for the race. Alonso was on a lap that might have earned him pole position in Q3 when a hydraulic failure towards the end of the lap pitched him off the road and into a tyre barrier.
4:59 PM ET Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — Colton Herta broke the Long Beach track record in Saturday qualifying, and the California native will start from the pole for his home IndyCar race. Herta turned a lap at 1 minute, 05.3095 seconds on the temporary street course set up through downtown Long Beach to
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Herta was the first driver to drop into the 66s around the 1.968-mile course, with a 66.5710sec on his sixth lap that at the time left him half a second clear of the field. However with 35mins to go, a spin at Turn 6 saw last year’s Long Beach winner strike the wall with his
With cooler conditions greeting the riders for the start of Saturday’s action, lap time improvements on the combined order pivotal to deciding who goes straight into the pole shootout in qualifying later were few and far between. After 15 minutes of the 45-minute session, only three riders had gone quicker than their Friday bests –
When Jack Harvey struck the wall during second practice at TMS last month, Ilott’s Juncos Hollinger Racing car was next through. A pushrod from the broken Rahal Letterman Lanigan car flew up and struck Ilott’s aeroscreen, but managed to leave just a hairline fracture on the screen. “What’s amazing for me is I just came
Following consecutive Q3 appearances for the team in Bahrain and Jeddah, Magnussen failed to make it out of Q1 at Albert Park and only managed the 17th fastest time, while team-mate Mick Schumacher was the slowest in the Q2 session and will start 15th. But rather than the performance being a concern that the team has lost
11:01 AM ET Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — Jimmie Johnson pulled one glove over the carbon-fiber splint built specifically for his broken right hand. A piece of tape around two fingers outside the glove was to prevent him from using his pinkie — the digit closest to the fracture — as he drove his
At the end of Q1, Albon parked his Williams on track in the final sector after hurriedly being told by his race engineer to stop the car immediately. It soon transpired Albon’s car was stopped because it was almost out of fuel, F1 cars having to produce at least a one litre fuel sample so
The six-time MotoGP world champion was ruled out of last weekend’s Argentina GP after his violent crash at the previous round at Mandalika, which left him with concussion and forced him to miss that weekend’s Indonesian GP. Marquez was left suffering vision problems, which also sidelined him for three months late last year, but made
The NASCAR legend appeared to grab too much kerb at the Turn 5 right-hander, and bounced nose-first into the tyre wall on corner exit, his right hand still holding the steering wheel. The incident brought out the red flag, and Johnson initially told NBC that his hand was fine. However, the IndyCar sophomore was unable
McLaren endured a miserable start to the season in Bahrain as both Norris and team-mate Daniel Ricciardo failed to score any points, having struggled to compete with majority of the midfield teams. Progress was made in Saudi Arabia one week later as Norris finished seventh, but the team made a big step forward in Australia
7:05 AM ET Charles Leclerc‘s Australian Grand Prix pole position could be at risk after he was summoned to see the stewards on Saturday evening. Leclerc has been called to see the stewards at 20:55 local time for driving unnecessarily slowly during an in-lap to the pits in Q1, the opening segment of qualifying. For
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, F1 announced the cancellation of the race in Sochi scheduled for 25 September, as well as terminating the grand prix’s contract. It has left a gap on the initial 23-race calendar that F1 was looking to fill with a return to Qatar, which hosted its first grand prix
The Frenchman set a 2m02.542s to beat Ducati’s Jack Miller to the top spot by over 0.2s in FP2, with reigning world champion Fabio Quartararo leaping up to third late on with a 2m02.837s. The second 45-minute session of the weekend took place under perfect conditions at the Circuit of the Americas, with lap times
Pagenaud, the 2016 Long Beach winner, clocked a 1m07.1991s in the session, eclipsing two-time Long Beach winner Alexander Rossi of Andretti Autosport by 0.4021s. Pagenaud’s best time was two seconds quicker than Colton Herta’s first practice time from last year’s Long Beach in September. Apart from the usual problems of drivers outbraking themselves and having
Sebastian Vettel suffered a high-speed crash exiting Turn 10 before team-mate Lance Stroll crashed at Turn 11 in the closing stages, bringing the session to an early end. After missing the opening two races of the season due to COVID-19, Vettel’s difficult return to action in Australia continued as he crashed out 20 minutes into
9:58 PM ET Associated Press LONG BEACH, Calif. — Jimmie Johnson injured his hand Friday in a crash during practice at the Long Beach Grand Prix. The seven-time NASCAR champion said he needed further evaluation. Johnson did not remove his hands from the steering wheel — standard practice in open wheel racing but not common
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Quartararo is out of contract with Yamaha at the end of this season, having signed with the Japanese marque to join its factory squad for 2021 – replacing MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi. The Frenchman went on to win the 2021 title, ending a six-year drought for Yamaha dating back to Jorge Lorenzo in 2015, with
The second 45-minute session of the weekend took place under perfect conditions at the Circuit of the Americas, with lap times instantly surmounting the best from FP1. Ducati’s Jack Miller was the first to break Alex Rins’ benchmark from this morning with a 2m03.567s, having set the early pace with a 2m04.121s. It wouldn’t be
As part of a push to increase overtaking opportunities around the reconfigured Albert Park circuit, the FIA has increased the number of DRS zones around the track. And a fortnight on from the bizarre scenes at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, where Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc played cat and mouse with the final DRS
8:27 AM ET Sebastian Vettel took an unorthodox way back to the pit lane during a Friday practice session at the Australian Grand Prix, and it cost him €5,000. Vettel was forced to stop his Aston Martin at Turn 10 of Melbourne’s Albert Park circuit after suffering a loss of power. To get back to
With 15 minutes to go in first free practice, Vettel suffered a loss of power, forcing him to pull up his AMR22 car at the side of the track at Turn 10. After the chequered flag, Vettel used a marshal’s scooter to make his way back to the pitlane, running on the final sector of
The three-time race winner has been a stable of Ducati’s line-up since he joined Pramac in 2018, with the Australian earning a step up to the factory squad last year. He finished fourth in the points having scored two wins in 2021, albeit 61 points adrift of runner-up team-mate Francesco Bagnaia. Miller’s future with Ducati
Brad Keselowski and RFK Racing were docked 100 driver and owner points, while crew chief Matt McCall was fined $100,000 and suspended for four races, after it was discovered that that illegal modifications to parts supplied by NASCAR were run on the 2012 Cup Series champion’s #6 Ford Mustang. The penalty dropped new team co-owner Keselowski, who
With Audi and Porsche poised to confirm their F1 entries for 2026 once new rules have been finalised, the focus has been on how the two German car manufacturers will secure their places on the grid. While it is looking increasingly likely that Porsche will tie-up with Red Bull, and make use of the team’s