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Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver Hamlin reported that he struggled to stay in the draft during Thursday night’s Duel race. This was after he’d spun entering the pit lane, meaning he starts deep in the pack in 30th position for the first points-scoring race of NASCAR’s Next Generation era. “There’s a lot of factors that
After two difficult campaigns, Honda has radically overhauled its RC213V for the 2022 season in a bid to fix the rear traction problems it had been suffering. This problem of a lack of traction seriously affected Espargaro’s adaptation process to the Honda last year, with the Spaniard scoring just one podium in 2021 having notched
Team officials have discussed the removal of the rule for a number of years, which had been in place since 2014 and required all drivers who reached Q3 to start the race on their Q2 set of tyres. The rule aimed to create an extra layer of jeopardy as it would encourage some teams to
7:00 AM ET DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Here at Daytona, the sun is shining, the seagulls are gulling, and the hotels are price gouging. All that means it must time for 64th edition of the “Great American Race,” the Daytona 500, the “Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing,” run at the “World Center of Racing”
The Spaniard joined Ferrari as a replacement for Sebastian Vettel at the beginning of last year and now heads in the 2022 campaign as the final season of the initial two-year contract he agreed to sign back in early 2020. Sainz completed a successful first season with Ferrari in 2021 as he finished as best-of-the-rest
As part of an F1 restructuring in 2013 to help boost the income of F1’s governing body, teams have faced high entry fees to take part in the world championship. They are based on a two-tier system, with the constructors’ champion having to pay a greater contribution than everyone else. The fees for 2022 have
10:26 PM ET Associated Press POMONA, Calif. — Robert Hight topped Funny Car qualifying Friday night in the NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series’ season-opening Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals. Hight, a three-time season champion, had a 3.882-second run at 330.89 mph in a Chevrolet Camaro SS. If it holds up Saturday, it would give Hight
The nine-time world champion retired from MotoGP at the end of 2021, bringing to a conclusion a glittering 26-season in grand prix motorcycle racing. For 2022, Rossi will embark on a full campaign on four wheels in the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance and Sprint Cups with WRT and Audi – with Rossi holding a
Andretti, the 1978 F1 world champion, took to Twitter on Friday evening to reveal his son Michael – who raced for McLaren in 1993 – had intentions to enter a team into F1, writing: “Michael has applied to the FIA to field a new F1 team starting in 2024. “His entry, Andretti Global, has the
Keselowski left Team Penske to become an owner-driver for the former Roush Fenway Racing team over the off-season, and got off to a winning start by passing former team-mate Ryan Blaney with four tours of the 60-lap race to go. The 2012 Cup champion then held off his replacement in the #2 Penske Ford, Austin Cindric,
Former F1 race director Michael Masi failed to implement two articles of the sporting regulations surrounding the restart of races in Abu Dhabi. Only select cars were allowed to unlap themselves, instead of the call being given to all cars, while the race resumed at the end of the same lap they were given the
7:32 AM ET DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — While the main conversation at Daytona International Speedway this week has revolved around NASCAR’s new Next Gen race car, and rightfully so, another next generational movement is taking place behind the wheel of that car. With all due respect to the machines the sanctioning body has touted as
Two-time series runner-up Muller will spearhead Rosberg’s line-up for the second season of the DTM’s GT3 era, partnered once again by American youngster Dev Gore. The Swiss driver will combine the eight-round DTM campaign with his LMP2 commitments in the FIA World Endurance Championship with the Vector Sport team, as he gets set to be
While exiting Turn 2 on the final lap of the second Duel that sets the grid for the Daytona 500, leader Logano came under attack from Chris Buescher, who darted to the inside to attempt a pass. In response, 2015 Daytona 500 winner Logano attempted to block Buescher’s advance but instead got hit from behind and was spun
COTA has been a mainstay on the F1 calendar since F1 returned to the United States in 2012, and has enjoyed a surge in interest lately thanks to the growth in the American fanbase. F1 reported a crowd of 400,000 for October’s race weekend at COTA, which was the last race under the previous contract.
8:28 AM ET Lewis Hamilton said he “lost a little bit of faith” in the fair policing of Formula One after missing out on last year’s title in controversial circumstances at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Hamilton was beaten to the 2021 title by Max Verstappen in Abu Dhabi after race director Michael Masi bent
The Volkswagen Group has been weighing up a potential F1 entry under the next generation of power units arriving in 2026 for some time, with officials from its Porsche and Audi brands playing a key role in high-stakes meetings. Porsche has been linked with a potential Red Bull link-up since the departure of the team’s
As it headed into the 2021 campaign under its new identity, the Enstone-based squad elected to have a pretty unique management system in place. It did away with having a designated team boss and instead had a triumvirate running things: Laurent Rossi as CEO, Marcin Budkowski as executive director and Davide Brivio as racing director.
10:33 AM ET DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — As Daytona Speedweeks (OK, it’s actually Speedweek now) have reached full speed leading into Thursday night’s dual 150-mile qualifying races, everyone in the Cup Series garage seems to agree that NASCAR’s newly christened rides, the so-called Next Gen machines, were needed. OK, they agree for the most part.
F1 and the FIA came in for criticism about how the final laps were handled at the last year’s season finale, which triggered the investigation led by new FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem over the winter. The outcome sees Masi replaced as F1 race director by WEC race director Eduardo Freitas and former DTM race
Brivio helmed Suzuki from 2013 as he prepared it for its full-time MotoGP return in 2015, and helped guide the marque to its first MotoGP world title in 20 years when Joan Mir won the 2020 championship. A talismanic figure for Suzuki, he dropped a bombshell on the eve of the 2021 MotoGP season when
Lopez, who was fourth driver in AXR’s #48 Cadillac DPi-V.R in the Daytona 24 Hours, will join Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Rockenfeller for the IMSA Sports Car Championship’s 12-hour classic, which the team won in 2015 and 2019. With the race held on 19 March, some hoped it would be possible for an IndyCar driver
Villeneuve, who won the F1 title in 1997 two years after his 1995 Indy 500 victory, ensured himself of a starting spot in NASCAR’s biggest race of the season on Sunday in qualifying on Wednesday night. Driving the #27 Hezeberg Ford Mustang, the Canadian takes one of the four non-charter spots on the grid, with Beard Motorsports’ Noah
Let’s start at the front of the car and get straight into the innovations: Ferrari has opted for a four-element front wing, the maximum possible under the new regulations. The nose is connected to all four elements of the wing but is a very slender design when compared with what we’ve seen elsewhere, not only
11:34 AM ET Former Aston Martin team principal Otmar Szafnauer has joined rivals Alpine as their new team boss as part of a wider restructuring of the French Formula One outfit’s management, the Renault-owned manufacturer said on Thursday. The Romanian-American, who left Aston Martin last month, will assume the role of team principal, which was
Shot 100% on the HERO4® camera from http://GoPro.com. Ryan Villopoto’s Moto 1 from round 1 of the 2015 FIM World Motocross championship in Qatar.
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Ferrari launched its new car for the 2022 season on Thursday, featuring a radical design under the revised technical regulations and a new red and black livery. Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr are set to enjoy their first extended running in the F1-75 car when pre-season testing begins at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya on
Larson pipped 2021 poleman and Hendrick team-mate Alex Bowman to secure top spot for the 2022 season opener, the first points-scoring round of NASCAR’s Next-Gen era. Larson’s average lap speed in the final round was 181.159 mph – the fastest lap recorded in both rounds, after he’d been second fastest in the first runs. His