Schumacher and Mazepin both graduated to F1 last year from Formula 2, joining Haas as part of an all-new line-up for the American team. Haas treated 2021 as a transition year, opting against any development of its car ahead of the campaign so it could divert all of its resources to the new regulations in
From pole position, Tristan Vautier’s JDC Miller MotorSports Cadillac DPi-V.R made a brilliant start as Tristan Nunez came up from the second row to claim second but only until the twisty infield when Renger van der Zande made several brave passes to claim second – up from sixth – in the Chip Ganassi Racing #01
The 21-year-old Mexican finished third in last year’s championship, just a year after claiming fourth, and the 2018 Indy Lights champion also nailed his first two wins in IndyCar. But the second half of the season saw O’Ward struggling to find a set-up that didn’t overwork his rear tyres on road courses and lose him
That’s why, in the latest list of our ‘Top 10 drivers’ series, we’ve extended the remit beyond F1 to include all grand prix racing, which kicked off with the 1906 French GP near Le Mans. The importance of events, many of which were standalone or part of the European Championship, varied but the top ones
The nine-time world champion came through an epic four-day head-to-head fight with eight-time champion Ogier to claim his 80th WRC win, arriving a decade after winning his last championship. Loeb, driving for M-Sport Ford in one-event deal, was fast from the outset in the new Rally1 hybrid Puma, pushing Toyota’s Ogier hard. The 47-year-old took
Vincent Joseph Granatelli, son of charismatic STP promoter Andy Granatelli, was a crew chief when STP ran the famous turbine cars, and was also involved in the STP team’s brief flirtation in Formula 1, which saw Mario Andretti score a podium in a March 701. But Vince truly emerged from the shadow of his father
Take a lap around Sebring International Raceway with Joao Barbosa in the No. 5 Mustang Sampling Racing / JDC-Miller MotorSports Cadillac DPi ahead of the 2020 Cadillac Grand Prix of Sebring. Watch the race live on Saturday, July 18 on NBCSN at 5:30 p.m. ET.
Flexing wings are a perennial topic in F1, which came up again in 2021 when two separate aero rows between Mercedes and Red Bull took centre stage. After May’s Spanish Grand Prix Mercedes was unhappy about Red Bull’s “bendy” rear wing, which led to more stringent test at the French Grand Prix, much to the
The Toyota driver was well placed to pocket valuable points, sitting in third behind teammate Sebastien Ogier and M-Sport’s Sebastien Loeb, both of whom will not be contesting a full season in the WRC. After winning the day’s first stage, Evans set a blistering pace through the infamous Sisteron stage before misjudging a right-hand corner
After finishing second and third in the IndyCar championship in 2018 and 2019 respectively, Rossi has suffered over the past two seasons, collecting a total of six podium finishes and taking ninth and 10th in the end-of-season points tallies. Over the same period, Herta has scored four wins and been third and fifth in points,
Former Formula 1 driver Tim Schenken presented the Formula 2 champion with the prestigious award at Albert Park, home of the Australia Grand Prix, this morning. Piastri is just the second driver to win the award twice, the other being Will Power, and the first to go back-to-back. The award is one of Motorsport Australia’s
Vautier lapped the 3.56-mile course in 1m34.034s, which eclipsed van der Zande in the similar #01 Cadillac DPi-V.R of Chip Ganassi Racing by less than 0.1s. The Dutchman was trying to respond when he went off at Turn 5 and went into the tyres. That brought out the red flag with under five minutes to
Calderon has been announced as the third Foyt driver in all 12 road and street courses on the 2022 IndyCar schedule. The Colombian has only had one day of testing – at Mid-Ohio last July – and will have just three more before the season starts at the end of February. But she feels that her
In 2021 F1 trialled sprint races at three grands prix to a mixed reception, the latest push by F1’s owners Liberty Media to find new ways of engaging fans and growing the sport. Efforts to improve the spectacle also include drastic new technical regulations for 2022 as well an ever-decreasing budget gap, awarding a point
Reigning world champion Ogier extended his lead to 21.1s over nine-time world champion Loeb having started the day 9.9s behind the M-Sport Ford driver. Ogier moved back into the lead after winning two of the three morning stages before a stunning drive on the day’s last test, in tricky snow, ice and dry conditions, catapulted
Motorsport history is full of iconic moves that raised questions at the time but ultimately proved to be major coups for a marque. Michael Schumacher’s switch to Ferrari in 1996 as the Italian brand’s Formula 1 title drought stood at 15 years and Lewis Hamilton’s switch to an inconsistently competitive Mercedes in 2013 – one
Kirkwood arrives in IndyCar with a phenomenally strong reputation from Road to Indy’s junior open-wheel categories, the first driver to claim the championship in USF2000, Indy Pro 2000 and Indy Lights. However, Andretti Autosport, with whom he raced in Indy Lights, were unable to create a slot for him in IndyCar, after Michael Andretti’s Formula
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Some opt to shut themselves away completely for a bit, so their mind is clear of all stresses and distractions. Others will kick a football about behind the garages to raise the heart rate and sharpen their responses. Pierre Gasly is often spotted playing a reaction test with his trainer; who drops tennis balls from
The Korean marque has faced a challenging start to the new hybrid Rally1 era as a series of issues have stymied the new i20 N on its competitive debut at this weekend’s Monte Carlo Rally. Hyundai made a slow start on Thursday with all three of its cars well adrift of their M-Sport Ford and
The Indy Lights champion ran 75 laps of the Sebring Raceway’s 1.7-mile short course on Tuesday and ended the session content that the team is making strong progress in terms of dampers for street courses, and that Chevrolet, too, is making strides in driveability. This was Kirkwood’s first test with the Chevrolet-powered AJ Foyt team,
The Swiss-based squad was one of the first to call time on any upgrades for last year’s challenger, as it instead decided to focus all its resources on preparing its 2022 design for the new regulations. But while it hopes that the work for this season will pay off, Vasseur has confessed that there were
The east coast of Australia is currently dealing with a surge in Omicron cases, New South Wales and Victoria the worst hit with daily cases in the 10s of thousands. On Monday NSW also recorded its deadliest day of the pandemic so far with 18 deaths, while hospital admissions are on a steep rise. The
The M-Sport driver clinched a first stage win of his WRC career in style by beating multiple world champions Sebastien Loeb and Sebastien Ogier in their backyard in Monte Carlo. Greensmith has emerged as one of the star performers from the opening two days of WRC’s Rally1 hybrid era having quickly gelled with the new
The Ducati MotoGP rider has been back in his native Australia since early December, when he returned for a cameo in the Australian Superbike Championship. He was due to return to Europe ahead of next Friday’s pre-season launch, however those plans have been scuppered by Miller contracting COVID-19. In a video posted to social media
The 41-year-old New Zealander scored just one win last year and finished fourth in the championship, only the third time he has slipped outside the top three since 2006, in a remarkable run for the Chip Ganassi Racing legend. He was unfortunate that his strategy in the second Texas race stumbled due to an unfortunately-timed
The Milton Keynes-based squad, which has set up its own engine facility in the wake of Honda’s withdrawal from F1, announced a number of high-profile signings from Mercedes last year. In April, Hodgkinson was announced as the new technical director, but it was unclear when he would be able to join because he was firmly
The 42-year-old retired from MotoGP at the end of the 2021 season, bring to an end a 26-year career in grand prix motorcycle racing that yielded nine world titles across 125cc, 250cc and MotoGP classes and 115 total grand prix victories. Rossi repeatedly stated last year that he would switch to GT racing at the
Vesti joined ART for his sophomore FIA Formula 3 campaign last year, replicating the fourth-place finish he had secured in his maiden F3 season with Prema – albeit with two fewer wins at the French squad. Having won the feature race at the Red Bull Ring last year Vesti had hoped to contend for the
Bumps have been an ongoing issue at the Austin venue, leading to complaints from both Formula 1 drivers and MotoGP riders. When MotoGP returned to COTA last year after missing the previous season riders were quick to express their concerns, led by 2021 world champion Fabio Quartararo who branded the circuit a “joke”. “It’s more or