Piquet, the 2014/15 Formula E champion, will drive an ORECA 07 LMP2 car for United Autosports a day after the 2022 WEC season finale at the Bahrain International Circuit on 13 November. He will share the Anglo-American squad’s #22 entry with fellow Brazilian Daniel Schneider and two-time Le Mans 24 Hours starter Andy Meyrick, while
Part inspiration, part insanity. If you haven’t seen it already, Ross Chastain didn’t lift off, didn’t even brake for Turn 3 on the final lap of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup playoff race at Martinsville but instead kept his throttle foot nailed to the boards and actually changed up to fifth gear – traditionally never used at
Quartararo comes into this weekend’s title decider in Valencia 23 points down on Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia and must win on Sunday to have any hope of retaining his world championship. The Frenchman has been lavished in praise by some of his rivals – including Bagnaia – for the job he has done in keeping the
Max Verstappen’s Formula 1 career has been littered with record after record, most of which have been related to his age: youngest this, youngest that. But by claiming the record for the most victories in a single season with his 14th win of the year in Mexico last weekend, Verstappen offered another reminder – if
Last weekend’s race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez in Mexico City attracted a sell-out crowd of 397,000 fans over three days, once again making it one of the best-attended races of the season. The continued strong fan presence in Mexico comes amid F1’s current boom in the neighbouring United States, which will host three races
The Ducati rider says there is “still a possibility” that Quartararo could clinch the title at this weekend’s Valencia Grand Prix, despite the Yamaha rider needing to win to have a chance of retaining his crown. Bagnaia won last time out at the Malaysian Grand Prix, but Quartararo recovered from 12th to third to keep
Ferrari clearly lost form last weekend as the Italian team made compromises to ensure reliability at the high altitude track, leaving Mercedes clear to take the fight to Red Bull. However, while altitude is still an issue in Brazil it is not as extreme, and in addition the lower downforce levels won’t favour the W13
The reigning world champion comes into this weekend’s Valencia Grand Prix finale 23 points behind Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia and needs to win to keep his hopes alive. With Bagnaia only needing two points, and the continued power and grip problems Quartararo has faced on the Yamaha making his hopes of defending his title remote, the
The Spanish rider joined the team in 2019 before taking the team’s first riders’ championship in 20 years the following year. It was confirmed in May that the Japanese manufacturer would exit the championship at the end of 2022, despite having only made its return in 2015. Mir, who will move to Honda for 2023
The Awards, which date back to 1982, celebrate the top drivers and competition machines each year. The nominees in the eight categories open to public vote in 2022 have now been revealed (below). Autosport.com subscribers and magazine readers are able to vote for the nominee they think performed best in each category. The categories open
The Australian put in his best performance of the year in Mexico City last weekend, using a successful medium/soft tyre strategy that gave him the pace to charge up to seventh place – while negating a 10-second penalty for colliding with Yuki Tsunoda. The race came just a week after one of Ricciardo’s most disappointing
The team has maintained a wall of silence on the identity of Tom Blomqvist’s team-mate in the squad’s new Acura ARX-06 LMDh in 2023. “I’m not staying,” said Jarvis, who joined the team after four IMSA seasons with Mazda. “It was a one-year agreement and there has been a decision not to continue. For whatever
The move has been planned as part of an additional change for 2024, where tyre blanket use is set to be totally abandoned within the championship’s sustainability drive. But lowering tyre blanket temperature alone has proved to be unpopular with the drivers and has been in the headlines in particular since the recent United States
Fourmaux was originally entered to pilot one of three M-Sport Ford Pumas at the asphalt event, alongside regulars Craig Breen and Gus Greensmith. However, a week before the trip to Japan, it has been confirmed that the Frenchman and co-driver Alexandre Coria now won’t be competing. It is not the first time the team has
2:53 PM ET Mauro Forghieri, the technical director and designer who helped Ferrari win a string of Formula One titles from the 1960s through to the 1980s, has died in Italy at the age of 87. “Legends last forever…It’s been an honour making history together. Ferrari and the world of motorsport will never forget you,”
Forghieri is widely regarded as one of the key players in the history of Scuderia Ferrari, having been a team manager and both a chassis and engine designer with the Maranello outfit. His stint with the company lasted from 1959 to 1987, encompassing some of its most memorable successes. He is credited with an involvement
Raikkonen made his Cup Series debut in Trackhouse’s #91 entry at Watkins Glen earlier this year, creating a huge buzz as the former F1 star made his return to NASCAR after making previous starts in the lower-tier Xfinity and Truck series. The Finn ran has high as eighth position in the pitstop cycle until he
The third-year Cup driver at Joe Gibbs Racing had started the season getting caught up in a wreck in the Daytona 500 and a week later retired before half-distance at Fontana with an engine failure. After a 10th-place finish at Las Vegas – on a weekend where the Toyota driver did win the pole –
Sounds of pre-season GTP testing at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
Ferrari endured one of its most challenging outings of the season in Mexico last weekend as it could not extract its regular pace from the F1-75. That left the door open for Mercedes to emerge as Red Bull’s main challenger for victory. In the end, Carlos Sainz was the lead Ferrari to come home in
During a lengthy career as the technical chief at Ferrari, from 1962 to 1984, he helped guide Ferrari to four drivers’ titles, seven constructors’ crowns and 54 grand prix victories. He originally joined Ferrari as an apprentice in 1960, having graduated from the University of Bologna with a mechanical engineering degree. Having made a good
Chastain became an instant Cup Series cult hero when he deliberately drove his car flat-out into the Martinsville wall at the final turns, to ‘video game’ his way to the transfer spot that he required to challenge for the title at Phoenix this Sunday. His wall-riding exploit has since gone viral on social media, as
10:54 AM ET Max Verstappen is enjoying the most dominant of Formula One seasons, but Red Bull team boss Christian Horner reckons the double world champion still deserves more recognition. The 25-year-old took a record 14th win of the season in Mexico City on Sunday and has now scored more points in a single campaign
In an interview with Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf that was published last Saturday, Alonso discussed the value of F1 titles won against drivers from other teams compared to those fought only against a team-mate. Alonso took to Twitter after the quotes began to circulate to say that “all titles are amazing” and he was “tired
However the Spaniard was left frustrated by a lack of pace after he drove a lonely race from fifth on the grid to fifth at the flag, finishing 58 seconds behind winner Max Verstappen, and clear of team- mate Charles Leclerc. From the start of the weekend it was apparent that Ferrari faced compromises on
9:19 AM ET Associated Press The tit-for-tat war between Zak Brown and Chip Ganassi took another turn Tuesday when Arrow McLaren SP announced it had signed both a Ganassi sponsor and Tony Kanaan to drive the Indianapolis 500. Kanaan spent four seasons driving for Chip Ganassi Racing and the last two Indianapolis 500s. The 2003
The Australian went from medium to soft tyres and had sufficient pace to not only charge up to seventh place, but also negate a 10 second penalty for contact with Yuki Tsunoda. In contrast Norris, who stopped earlier, joined several others in going from the medium to the hard, only to find it was lacking
F2 will be contested over 14 rounds, as it was this year, while F3 increases from nine to 10 race weekends in 2023. Both series will race in Melbourne for the first time, with F3 also undertaking its first race weekend in Monaco since 2012 when the series was known as GP3, and visiting three
In an interview on Tuesday morning, on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio’s show “The Morning Drive,” NASCAR’s chief operating officer, Steve O’Donnell, made clear Chastain’s move was “within the rules.” Desperate to make up positions on the final lap of Sunday’s race at Martinsville Speedway, Chastain entered Turn 3 full-throttle and deliberately drove into the SAFER barrier
Took an inside look at Loris Baz’s perspective on being the tallest racer in the Moto GP class at the fourth round of the 2016 Moto GP in Jerez, Spain Shot 100% on the HERO4® camera from http://GoPro.com.
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