The move announced on Monday by race organiser and WEC promoter the Automobile Club de l’Ouest follows the announcement by Russian entrant G-Drive Racing that it is putting its sportscar programmes on hold for 2022. Entries for the 90th edition of Le Mans on 11-12 June have been re-opened on 7 March at 3pm CET
The South African came through Q1 in qualifying to put his RC16 seventh on the grid, and used this to springboard himself into podium contention at the start of Sunday’s 22-lap race. Though pressuring eventual winner Enea Bastianini on the final lap for victory, Binder had to settle for runner-up spot – only by 0.347
It is not really a surprise though, because teams do not forget the concepts that worked in the past and that may be relevant for the revamped rules package. Here, we take a look at the key areas of the 2022 cars where some old ideas have been given a modern touch. At the front
4:33 PM ET Italy’s Imola circuit will continue to host Formula One until 2025, the sport announced on Monday. The track returned to the calendar in 2020, for the first time since 2006, as Formula One sought to fill gaps left by other races cancelling due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It retained its place in
F1 Manager 2022 will be developed by Frontier Developments, which revealed a launch trailer for the new game on Monday as part of its announcement. It is the first management game as part of a “long term, multi-title agreement” according to F1, and is a first official foray into the genre since F1 Manager was
The four-time race winner came into the new campaign as hot favourite to challenge for the championship after finishing 2021 runner-up, while declaring in November’s Jerez test that Ducati had improved on an already “perfect bike”. But the pre-season for Ducati was difficult, as a problematic 2022 engine – with an aggressive power delivery –
The home of the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari returned to the F1 schedule in 2020 when it helped the series as it managed to put on a full calendar during the COVID-19 pandemic. The track, which hosted the Italian Grand Prix in 1980 and the San Marino GP from 1981 to 2006, proved
1:28 PM ET Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has said he believes former F1 Race Director Michael Masi was removed due to pressure from Mercedes, accusing the rival team of “bullying.” Masi botched the finish of the title decider between Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton last year. The race was settled
Watch Ricky Carmichael as he attempts to tackle the track and find the fastest lines at the 2012 Daytona Supercross by Honda in Daytona, Florida.
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Perspective can be an incredible tool. And the shocking events unfolding in Ukraine have certainly put other problems into perspective. Suddenly, concerns that seemed significant no longer have the same importance given the battle for survival many Ukrainians are now facing. Motorsport feels inconsequential in comparison. And yet all sport can have a vital role
Honda has completely revised its RC213V for 2022 after several difficult seasons on the bike, with Marquez’s 2020 injury layoff and physical problems in 2021 prompting HRC into a rethink. The new RC213V had proven to be a strong package throughout testing and into the Qatar weekend, with Marquez third on the grid and Espargaro
Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr. were battling back-and-forth for the win when a caution for a wreck with two laps remaining sent the race into overtime, opening up the chance for Bowman to strike. All the lead-lap cars pitted but three Hendrick Motorsports drivers – Kyle Larson, Bowman and William Byron – only took
The American-owned outfit announced at the weekend that it was terminating the contract of Nikita Mazepin and its title sponsor Uralkali with immediate effect, in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Mazepin’s dismissal means the team now faces an urgent task to work out its plans for who will line up alongside Mick Schumacher
5:50 AM ET Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc compared the “porpoising” sensation in new Formula One cars to turbulence on a plane and said it made him feel ill in the opening preseason test. F1’s new cars displayed one very odd bit of behaviour at the first test in Spain, bouncing up and down on their
Tandy will complete a full campaign in the WEC for the first time since Porsche LMP1’s programme came to an end in 2017, partnering his regular IMSA team-mate Tommy Milner in Corvette’s sole C8.R in the GTE Pro division. But Tandy’s return to the WEC will come at the expense of his previous programme in
Quartararo has made no secret of his displeasure at an apparent lack of progress from Yamaha in getting more top speed from its bike and said in pre-season testing that he’d already reached the limit of the 2022 M1. The reigning world champion could do no better than 11th on the grid for Sunday’s 22-lap season-opener
Krack started work at Aston Martin this week after serving out his notice with his previous employer BMW. The team is undergoing a management restructuring while also building a new campus adjacent to the existing factory. Krack worked closely with Vettel when he first arrived in F1 with BMW Sauber as a test and reserve driver in
Martin got a terrible launch from pole position and slid to eighth on the opening lap, while Bagnaia went from ninth to 16th at one stage. The latter managed to recover positions into the top 10 by mid-distance and tried to overtake Martin into Turn 1 on lap 12, but he tucked the front on
The 2020 Moto2 world champion claimed his first victory in the premier class and the Gresini team’s first since 2006 when he stormed to the win in the opening round of the 2022 campaign on his year-old Ducati. Having put in his best-ever MotoGP qualifying of second, Bastianini was expected to be in the hunt
Bottas joined Alfa Romeo for this year following a five-season stint at Mercedes, where he scored 10 race wins and helped the team win the constructors’ championship every year. Mercedes opted to promote junior driver George Russell into the seat alongside Lewis Hamilton for 2022, leaving Bottas to agree on a multi-year deal with Alfa Romeo. Alfa Romeo
The team’s hard work is paying off. After a successful filming day and a productive three days at the pre-season test, we leave Spain with plenty of data to analyse before we head to Bahrain for the second test. #FearlesslyForward Join McLaren Plus, our fan engagement programme which brings McLaren fans closer to the team
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All teams experienced the effect on the Spanish track’s main straight to a greater or lesser degree and a lot of focus centred on Leclerc after a video clip posted by F1 caught his Ferrari F1-75 suffering extreme levels of porpoising. In Barcelona teams were able to dial it out with rideheight and aero adjustments but
Vinales won the Qatar GP in 2021 when he rode for Yamaha and is twice a winner at the event. After a strong pre-season on the 2022 Aprilia, Vinales has been off-colour all weekend at Losail and could do no better than 19th on the grid while team-mate Aleix Espargaro was fifth – with almost
Albon lost his Red Bull drive at the end of the 2020 F1 season and rather than being picked up by sister team AlphaTauri, the Anglo-Thai driver instead spent a year outside the category, racing an AF Corse Ferrari in the DTM. This year Albon makes his F1 comeback with Williams, which drafted him in to
One-lap pace has been a key problem for the Suzuki duo in the past, with Mir and team-mate Alex Rins only scoring two front row starts in 2021. Suzuki ended Friday in Qatar fastest of all, with Rins first and Mir third, and looked to have made a step in time attack mode. But in
The six-time MotoGP world champion guided his radically revised 2022 Honda to third on the grid in Saturday’s first qualifying session of the season at the Losail International Circuit. Marquez said pre-weekend that he wouldn’t be able to fight for victory in Qatar and echoed this on Saturday, despite showing strong race pace in FP4.
On Saturday morning, Haas announced it had terminated its title sponsorship with Russian chemical giant Uralkali and Mazepin – whose father owns Uralkali – also losing his drive for the 2022 season. This came as a response to Russia’s widely condemned invasion of Ukraine last week, with countries worldwide imposing sanctions on Russia.
The Spaniard scored his fifth career MotoGP pole on Saturday when he stormed to a 1m53.011s lap in qualifying at the Losail International Circuit. It marked Martin’s second pole in Qatar, having taken a maiden qualifying success in last year’s Doha GP when he was a rookie before converting that into a first podium. The