The Silverstone-based team endured a frustrating first qualifying session of the season in Bahrain as both stand-in driver Nico Hulkenberg (17th) and Lance Stroll (19th) were knocked out in Q1. It was a disappointing result for the squad as it had hoped to make some good progress up the grid this year. However, the team
1:10 PM ET Lewis Hamilton believes Mercedes will be fighting for scraps behind Ferrari and Red Bull at the Bahrain Grand Prix. Hamilton qualified fifth in a session that felt like a changing of the guard in F1 after eight years of Mercedes being the benchmark. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc edged out Red Bull’s Max Verstappen
The New Zealander revealed that he vowed to himself that he wasn’t going to lose victory in round two of the IMSA series together with Alex Lynn and Neel Jani after dropping back as the result of a drive-through with just over an hour to go. “After the drive-through, I said to myself there was
Marquez was launched from his Honda through the Turn 7 right-hander in the closing moments of Sunday morning’s 20-minute warm-up session at the Mandalika International Street Circuit. The Spaniard destroyed his motorcycle while he landed heavily on his left arm and looked to have taken a knock to his head having crashed at around 186km/h.
Harvey, who has qualified only 24th yet was fastest of the Rahal Letterman Lanigan-Hondas in a strangely poor event for the team so far, was on his 26th lap of the 1.5-mile track in final practice when his car understeered in the middle of Turn 2. Harvey downchanged, his car started oversteering, and its right-rear
Sainz revealed after Friday’s practice running at the Bahrain International Circuit that he was struggling to understand the Ferrari F1-75 car over the short runs, leaving him with work to do overnight. But he bounced back in qualifying by taking provisional pole in Q3 ahead of Leclerc and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, only to slip
4:41 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Felix Rosenqvist earned a much-needed pole Saturday in qualifying at Texas Motor Speedway, where IndyCar is desperately trying to develop a second passing lane in what could be the final race for the series at the track. Rosenqvist turned two laps at 221.110 mph in his
Pipo Derani jumped into the lead aboard the #31 Action Express Cadillac DPi-V.R in the run-up to the six-hour mark when the half dozen DPis at the front of the field ducked into the pits during the fourth safety car of the race. The #31 car, which had stopped only 11 laps before, needed a
To cope with the extreme heat at the new Mandalika track in Indonesia, MotoGP tyre supplier Michelin has brought a carcass that was last raced in Thailand in 2018. This was in response to tyre problems that appeared during last month’s pre-season test at Mandalika. But the old tyre design has caused issues for some
Oval IndyCar rookie Jimmie Johnson, the fifth driver to run, was the first driver to crack 220mph on a lap, reaching the 220.006mph mark on his first flyer in his Chip Ganassi Racing machine. A 219.724mph lap on his second tour left him with an average of 219.865mph. This was immediately edged by Andretti Autosport’s
At the start of F1’s new era with the ground-effect cars, Ferrari claimed the first honours with Leclerc’s pole for the Bahrain GP, secured on his final Q3 run by beating Max Verstappen by 0.123 seconds. The Red Bull driver did prevent a Ferrari front-row lockout, with Carlos Sainz Jr slotting into third having held
5:21 PM ET Kevin Magnussen described his Formula One comeback as a crazy roller-coaster ride after qualifying his Haas a sensational seventh for Sunday’s season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. The only team that failed to score a point last year suddenly look like top 10 runners and Magnussen, drafted in as a late replacement for sacked
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Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas and Guanyu Zhou opened the final one-hour practice session at the Bahrain International Circuit, with Lewis Hamilton also out on track early as he continued to search for solutions for the Mercedes W13’s handling issues. Hamilton was the first driver to set a half decent lap with a 1m34.256s on softs
Quartararo’s title defence began in difficult fashion in Qatar, where a lack of rear grip and horsepower meant he qualified 11th and could only finish the race ninth. Despite a tricky FP1 session and several technical issues, the Yamaha rider has been much stronger in Indonesia, storming to pole on Saturday by over two tenths
O’Ward enjoyed a breakout season in IndyCar last year with Arrow McLaren SP, scoring two wins and remaining in title contention until the final round of the season. It led to the Mexican driver receiving his first Formula 1 test at the end of last year in Abu Dhabi, after which he outlined a two-year
Following the conclusion of a detailed report in to the finish to last year’s season finale, motor racing’s governing body published its conclusions on Saturday. As well as revealing an executive summary of its investigation, the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council also endorsed its key findings – which suggested that the fault for what went
9:36 AM ET Racing’s governing body the FIA has said “human error” contributed to the controversial finish at last year’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix but insisted former race director Michael Masi acted in good faith throughout. Masi incorrectly applied the Safety Car procedure at the end of the title decider between Max Verstappen and Lewis
Nicolas Lapierre, Andre Negrao and Matthieu Vaxiviere proved the class of the field at the Florida track aboard their Alpine A480-Gibson grandfathered LMP1, converting their pole position into a comfortable win over the sole surviving Toyota GR010 Hybrid. It followed a frustrating 2021 season for the Signatech-run outfit, which managed a pair of second places
Heavy rain ahead of Saturday’s track action beginning left the Mandalika circuit damp for the start of the third MotoGP session of the weekend. As a result, there would be no overall lap time improvements on the combined order and a volatile group will face Q1 in qualifying later today. That group features six-time world
As IndyCar racing attempted to pull itself apart in 1996, with the infamous split caused by the formation of the Indy Racing League, the CART World Series side of the deal received its best possible gift: Alex Zanardi. From the ashes of Team Lotus in Formula 1, and just a handful of BPR GT and
Just one week on from Haas announcing him as replacement for the ousted Nikita Mazepin, Magnussen proved the potential of his team’s VF-22 by setting the tenth fastest time in FP2 on Friday. With team-mate Mick Schumacher clocking the eighth fastest time, Haas looks poised to deliver a dramatic step forward in form considering it
9:24 AM ET Reuters and ESPN Seven times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said on Friday his €50,000 fine for missing last year’s FIA gala awards ceremony will be put towards helping improve diversity in motorsport. The Briton skipped the governing body’s presentation after a controversial final race of the season in Abu Dhabi
Defending Hypercar class champion Lopez was trying to lap the #88 Dempsey Proton Porsche of Julien Andlauer during the race’s fourth hour when they made contact, sending the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID into the barriers at Turn 9. Lopez was able to return to the track on his own power and tried to limp back
The 2020 world champion was one of the strongest riders through practice for the Qatar weekend, though tyre problems left him struggling to sixth in the race. His start to the Indonesian GP weekend wasn’t as strong, with technical issues thwarting him in the afternoon, while yellow flags on his final flying laps on soft
Since the PJ1 TrackBite was added to parts of the track surface in November 2019 to boost traction for the Goodyear tyres of the NASCAR stock cars, IndyCar drivers have found it thoroughly incompatible with their Firestone rubber, some comparing it to black ice. In effect, IndyCar drivers at full racing speed – as opposed
The new era of F1 with ground effects car has arrived, which looks set to tighten up the competitive order and provide plenty of surprises up and down the grid. Defending F1 world champion Verstappen went fastest in FP2 with a 1m31.936s for Red Bull, beating Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc by just 0.087s, with his team-mate
2:33 PM ET Mercedes looked a long way off the pace in practice for the Bahrain season-opener on Friday and seven times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton and new team mate George Russell saw no quick fix. Hamilton was ninth in the second session at Sakhir, with Russell fourth. The pair were seventh and
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Aston Martin announced on Thursday morning that four-time world champion Vettel had tested positive for Covid-19, ruling him out of this weekend’s Bahrain season-opener. It prompted the team to turn to reserve driver Hulkenberg to stand in for the weekend, giving him an unexpected return to F1 after more than 18 months on the sidelines.