Lawson was the favourite for the 2021 drivers’ title heading into the final race of the season at the Norisring on Sunday, and strengthened his chances of lifting the trophy by taking pole position in his AF Corse Ferrari – extending his championship lead to 22 points in the process. But the 19-year-old was hit
The latest coming together between the pair came three weeks after a fiery post-race confrontation at Bristol, when a delayed Elliott – who had suffered a puncture in contact from Harvick while battling for the lead – deliberately held up the 2014 champion and helped his Hendrick Motorsports team-mate Kyle Larson to steal victory. Stewart-Haas
Hamilton had staged a recovery from 11th on the grid to challenge for a podium finish in the wet Istanbul race, when his main rivals elected to stop for fresh intermediate rubber. With the older tyres holding up well at that point, Hamilton elected to push on and ignore a call from his Mercedes pits
Kristoffersson had to give second best to a resurgent Kevin Abbring in the Intermediate Classification, as the Renault Megane campaigner recovered from a first corner incident on Saturday afternoon to set the fastest time in Q4 and finish at the head of the qualifying order. But, while Abbring won the race to turn one in
With track conditions at Istanbul not drying up enough to be suitable for slicks, leaders Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen elected to pit around lap 36 for fresh inters to see them through to the end. But Leclerc, who had been shadowing Verstappen prior to the pitstops, chose to stay out and initially it appeared
8:13 PM ET Associated Press ENNIS, Texas — Greg Anderson broke the Pro Stock victory record with his 98th win Sunday in the Texas NHRA FallNationals at Texas Motorplex. The 60-year-old Anderson won when Chris McGaha red-lighted in the final. “I saw (McGaha’s red light) on the scoreboard and I had a difficult time getting
At the British GT in 2019, three cars went wheel-to-wheel through motorsport’s most famous corner (Eau Rouge) as they battled it out for second place. Will Callum Macleod, Glynn Geddie or Rob Bell come out on top?
The Australian enduro has been given a March 20 date for 2022, six weeks later than its traditional calendar slot on the first weekend of February. IGTC boss Stephane Ratel said on the announcement of the date during his eponymous organisation’s annual press conference at the Barcelona GT World Challenge Europe round on Sunday: “It
Turkington was drawn on pole position for the reversed grid, got the jump at the start, survived a restart following an early safety car and was never threatened en route to his milestone BTCC race win. The West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330i M Sport crossed the line 4.096 seconds clear, although the gap was up
Gasly touched Alonso’s rear-left wheel at Turn 1 on the first lap, sending the Alpine driver into a spin and tumbling down the running order. Moments later Alonso was involved in a second clash, this time sending Mick Schumacher into a spin and he picked up a five-second penalty for causing the collision. Often first-lap
The Scot converted his prime spot on the grid into the lead off the line, and his Team Dynamics Honda Civic Type R was never seriously challenged. Dan Lloyd finished second for the second consecutive race in his Power Maxed Racing Vauxhall Astra, and kept Shedden honest for almost the entire distance. The Yorkshireman never
The Woking-based team is coming off the back of two of its strongest weekends in recent F1 history, having finished 1-2 in Italy and taking pole and coming close to a win for Norris in Russia a fortnight ago. But the MCL35M has not been as competitive around Istanbul Park this weekend, with Norris lining
Tandy and Milner, in the #4 Corvette C8.R, had been embroiled in a fight with the sister #3 car, driven by Jordan Taylor and Antonio Garcia, but Garcia spilled his team’s chances after clashing with the GTD-leading Turner BMW. Taylor had snatched past pole-winner Milner at the start, finding a dry strip on a damp
Alonso was called to the stewards after qualifying following an incident right at the start of his first flying lap in Q1, when he came across yellow flags at Turn 1. As he set his fastest sector time up to the point he automatically triggered an investigation, but the stewards quickly realised that it made
9:18 PM ET Associated Press ENNIS, Texas — Robert Hight held onto the top spot in Funny Car qualifying Saturday at Texas Motorplex in the Texas NHRA FallNationals. Hight raced to his first No. 1 qualifier of the season and 70th overall with a 3.878-second run at 331.94 mph Friday in a Chevrolet Camaro. “We’re
Having starred in the Swedish round of the series at Holjes, on another low-grip circuit, Abbring again shone in the Unkorrupted Renault Megane in the opening session at Spa, winning his race from the front in Q1 to better Kristoffersson and three-time Spa 24 hr winner Timo Scheider in the overall session times. Points leader
Team Hezeberg, a joint effort between racing legend Toine Hezemans and Dutch entrepreneur Ernst Berg, plans to field the No. 27 Ford Mustang in several races next season as the Cup Series debuts the Next Gen car. The team’s operations in the United States will be based at Reaume Brothers Racing in Mooresville, North Carolina.
Lewis Hamilton topped Q3 on Saturday at Istanbul Park, but will drop to 11th on the grid thanks to a penalty for an engine change prior to the race weekend. It means Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas will start from pole on Sunday ahead of Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who doubted he could challenge Mercedes for
The championship will instead stick with an updated version of the existing format, with any necessary changes included. The current sporting regulations developed organically over the last few decades, initially on the watch of the late FIA race director Charlie Whiting. While in essence they follow the timeline of a race weekend – from practice
F1 chiefs are set to reveal a draft 2022 calendar next week for grand prix racing’s biggest ever season, which will run from the middle of March to the middle of November. The high number of races crammed into the time frame means the return of the disliked triple headers, and there have been concerns
1:16 AM ET Associated Press ENNIS, Texas — Brittany Force broke both ends of the Texas Motorplex record in Top Fuel qualifying Friday night for the Texas NHRA FallNationals. Force made the fifth-quickest run in NHRA history with a 3.637-second pass at 335.32 mph. She’s trying to earn her 11th No. 1 qualifier of the
Milner turned a 1m40.263s lap of the 18-turn track to clinch pole, the pair less than 1.2s ahead of Cooper MacNeil in the WeatherTech Racing Porsche. In GT Daytona’s amateur section of qualifying which sets the grid for the class, Robbie Foley put the Turner Motorsports BMW M6 almost three tenths of a second clear
Ferrari announced ahead of the race weekend at Istanbul Park that Sainz would be starting at the back of the grid on Sunday after the team took an all-new power unit, giving him the upgraded hybrid system. It meant Sainz focused his Friday running on race pace to prepare for Sunday’s grand prix, but Leclerc
Check out the sights and sounds from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at the 2017 Michelin GT Challenge at VIR.
The Zengo Motorsport Cupra Leon driver was the second to run in the top-five Q3 shootout and set a time of 1m38.757s. That ended up just 0.091s faster than the effort from Norbert Michelisz, who was the last to go in his BRC Hyundai Elantra. “With 20kg more weight from the last race, to get
After drivers struggled to find grip on the newly-resurfaced track last season, Pirelli went one step softer for this year’s race, switching from the C1, C2, C3 combination to the C2, C3 and C4. However, having made that choice, Pirelli learned that the characteristics of the track had been changed after the race promoter decided
The Japanese manufacturer is to leave F1 at the end of this year, but has just announced a detailed new tie-up with its current engine partner. With Red Bull taking on the IP of the current Honda power unit, current engineers involved with the project will continue to work on grand prix racing activities for
With the world champion team concerned about the risk of a reliability failure in the closing stages of the championship, it has opted to fit Hamilton with a fresh internal combustion engine for this weekend’s Turkish Grand Prix. The choice to change just a single component means Hamilton will get a 10-place grid penalty rather
F1 is set to reveal its calendar for next season in the coming week ahead of the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council meeting, with a 23-race schedule anticipated. F1 CEO and president Stefano Domenicali has already confirmed plans for a 23-race season that, despite finishing earlier in the year than 2021, will feature the most
More than a quarter of a century since the original Team Lotus closed its doors, the legendary British constructor is still one of the most successful in Formula 1 history. The 79 world championship F1 wins scored by the firm founded by Colin Chapman puts Lotus fifth in the table, behind Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes and