He pounced on the duel between front-row starters Oliver Rowland and Pascal Wehrlein to move for his second attack mode activation and rejoined from the effective joker lap in clean air. From there, Mortara kept Wehrlein at bay thanks in part to repeatedly finding masses of time through the banked final Turn 15 to prevent
Month: June 2021
Vinales registered his worst-ever qualifying in MotoGP with 21st on Saturday at the Sachsenring and could make no inroads into the points on Sunday. Having found it “impossible” to pass a brace of Avintia Ducatis on the outer reaches of the points, Vinales wound up 19th and last of the classified runners having backed off
Verstappen executed an aggressive two-stop strategy to win the French GP ahead of one-stopping Mercedes driver and title rival Lewis Hamilton, with the circumstances of the race playing out along similar lines to the season opener in Bahrain and the Spanish GP. Hamilton won both of those events after Verstappen botched his late passing attempt
5:50 PM ET Associated Press LEBANON, Tenn. — New Orleans Saints All-Pro running back Alvin Kamara has gone beyond being just a fan of NASCAR and sponsoring a car. He’s now advising NASCAR on how to add more fans as its first “Growth and Engagement Advisor.” “I’m excited they carved out a role for me,”
Newgarden had controlled the entire race through four caution periods but, on the final restart preceding a two-lap shootout to the end, the two-time champion’s car was stuck in fifth gear and left the Penske driver having to drive at a crawl. Palou could simply nip past before Turn 1, and put together a healthy
The Brit lined up second for the first race of the Mexican double-header alongside Porsche’s disqualified on-the-road winner Wehrlein but claimed the German’s scalp on Sunday. After progressing through from a composed group three run in which he complained of a lack of rear grip, Rowland moved into the superpole shootout and overcame a messy
The Honda rider resisted pressure from KTM’s Miguel Oliveira in Sunday’s 30-lap Sachsenring race to claim his and Honda’s first MotoGP victory in 581 days since the 2019 Valencia GP. It comes after Marquez was forced to sit out the 2020 season with a badly broken right arm, which required three operations and has severely
After a struggle off the line from his 14th spot grid berth, and an opening lap that saw him shuffled backwards, Russell produced an impressive drive, making the most of an early pit stop, to climb to 12th at the chequered flag. Such was his and the Williams’ pace, Russell was able to pull off
9:33 AM ET Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez held off KTM’s Miguel Oliveira to complete a thrilling comeback win at the German Grand Prix on Sunday, taking the chequered flag for the first time since a career-threatening right-arm injury last year. Despite being unbeaten at the Sachsenring in his previous 10 appearances, Repsol Honda rider
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The 17-year-old rookie won three of the first four races in 2021, but failed to crack the top six in the previous three rounds before returning to the top of the podium at the Sachsenring having come from 13th on the grid. Tatsuki Suzuki grabbed the holeshot from third on the grid on his SIC58
Marquez hasn’t been defeated at the Sachsenring since his first season in the 125cc class back in 2009. Many had predicted prior to the weekend that he could keep the streak going and secure his first win since the arm injury that put him out of the 2020 campaign, as the track’s anti-clockwise nature of
“You are looking at an astonishing situation,” cried legendary commentator Murray Walker – and he wasn’t exaggerating. Ivan Capelli was holding off Alain Prost’s Ferrari and was just a few laps away from winning the 1990 French Grand Prix for Leyton House, a team that had failed to qualify on half of its attempts in
7:39 PM ET Associated Press LEBANON, Tenn. — Kyle Busch raced to his 100th career Xfinity Series victory Saturday at Nashville Superspeedway, where he won for the fourth time. Busch won in the Xfinity Series in 2009 and the Truck Series in 2010 and 2011, but the track closed the year he won his last
Colton Herta was the first driver to get below 1m47s as the teams debated over whether to run used red soft tyres which were degrading rapidly, or the primary tyres which were capable of squeezing out three rapid laps, even if the ‘peak’ lap wasn’t necessarily higher. Only Newgarden and engineer Gavin Ward, who had
The German combo led comfortably from pole for the first Puebla E-Prix and crossed the line with a clear 3.6s margin but were soon sent to the bottom of the timing screens. The reprimand was dealt for the team not declaring the tyres on Wehrlein’s car, which would deny both parties their first series wins
The 2021 Aprilia MotoGP bike has proven to be the marque’s best of the modern four-stroke era, which began back in 2002, with Espargaro consistently scoring top eight results this season. Aprilia hasn’t had a front row start in the premier class since Jeremy McWilliams was on pole for the 500cc race in Australia, with
The Red Bull driver claimed the fifth F1 pole position of his career, and first since the 2021 season-opener in Bahrain, with a stunning late lap at Circuit Paul Ricard to keep clear of Mercedes duo Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas. Hamilton will line up alongside Verstappen – who admitted he had not expected to
1:28 PM ET Separated by just four points in the championship and by 0.245s in qualifying at Paul Ricard on Saturday, there is no let-up in the championship battle between Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton this year. On Sunday afternoon, the two drivers will vie for position on the run down to Turn 1 at
Both 15-minute qualifying sessions at the Sachsenring on Saturday featured a number of riders backing off and cruising on track as they searched for a faster rider to use as a reference. This led to a lot of gesturing from riders on track – most notably from Tech3’s Danilo Petrucci in Q1, who flashed Avintia’s
The French rider snatched top spot in Q2 at the Sachsenring with just under two minutes remaining to sit on provisional pole with a 1m20.236s lap. Pushing for a second lap, Zarco crashed at the Turn 5 left-hander, but held onto his pole as the rest of the field failed to find enough of an
Wolff had said in an interview provided to media by the FIA that it was possible for the world champion team to delay making a final call on whether or not to retain Valtteri Bottas. Asked about the timing of a second driver decision if Lewis Hamilton was definitely staying, Wolff had indicated that the
7:33 PM ET Associated Press ELKHART LAKE, Wis. — Romain Grosjean paced IndyCar’s opening practice at Road America and immediately wished he was not at the top of the board. “I don’t like topping free practice,” the Frenchman said after Friday’s session. Grosjean went 1 minute, 47.6781 seconds in his Dale Coyne Racing with RWR
In the wake of the Aston Martin and Red Bull tyre blowouts at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Pirelli concluded that one of the factors in the incidents was teams not running tyres at pressure levels it expected. As a result, the FIA has revised tyre checking procedures from this weekend’s race in France, with tyres
Fresh from winning the Catalunya MotoGP last time out, Oliveira continued to grab the headlines with the fastest lap time in FP2 to take top spot by 0.220 seconds from Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo. FP1 timesheet-topper Marc Marquez, who remains undefeated at the Sachsenring in his MotoGP premier class career, faded to 12th place in the second
Current Williams driver George Russell is at the heart of this year’s driver market movements as Mercedes considers moving its star junior up to its senior squad for next year as a replacement for Valtteri Bottas. But Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff revealed on Friday that a decision on Russell’s future may not be made
10:48 PM ET Associated Press LEBANON, Tenn. — Ryan Preece won the first NASCAR race at Nashville Superspeedway in a decade by scoring a victory in his first career Truck Series start. Preece got in a truck for the first time to get bonus track time ahead of Sunday’s Cup race, the first ever for
Making his first visit to the 4.014-mile circuit, Grosjean clocked a best time of 1m47.678s to rebound well from a difficult weekend in Detroit in which he retired from both races. His best effort was 0.124s quicker than 2012 champion Ryan Hunter-Reay’s Andretti Autosport machine, while Team Penske’s two-time champion and 2018 Road America winner
Dupasquier sadly succumbed to injuries sustained in a serious accident during qualifying for the Moto3 Italian Grand Prix. MotoGP held a minute of silence ahead of the Italian GP following Dupasquier’s death, while his Prustel GP team vowed to continue racing on in his memory. This weekend’s German GP is the home round for the
While the German manufacturer hopes to nail down a fresh contract with Lewis Hamilton around the summer break, it is more uncertain about the timing of making a call on its second seat. Both Bottas and Russell are out of contract at the end of this year, and there have been suggestions that the team
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