Chastain will pilot the #1 Chevrolet Camaro alongside teammate Daniel Suarez in the No. 99 as the team expands to a two-car operation with the acquisition of CGR. The 28-year-old joined Ganassi full-time at the start of the 2021 season, scoring two top-fives and six top-tens with a career-best result of second at Nashville. He
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Defending race winner Vanthoor was sharing the #47 KCMG Porsche 911 GT3 R with Nick Tandy and Maxime Martin. However, just beyond the 16-hour mark, Porsche announced that Vanthoor had been forced to withdraw from the remainder of the race, leaving team-mates Tandy and Martin to complete the race as a duo. Vanthoor subsequently tweeted
Verstappen faced a late drama ahead of the Hungaroring race when the power unit he had been scheduled to run had to be replaced on Saturday night after Honda detected problems with it. The engine, which was the one that had suffered a 51G impact in his British Grand Prix accident, had run without problems
Barritt was advised by doctors to withdraw from last month’s Rally Estonia following four stages after sustaining neck and back pain, that necessitated a trip to hospital for precautionary checks. While Toyota confirmed the Briton was ok following his hospital visit in Estonia, Barritt is a notable omission on the entry list for Rally Ypres
The #34 machine that South African van der Linde shared with David Pittard and Marco Wittmann had run third in the early laps after a bullish start from Pittard, but dropped back down the order with a puncture. However by nightfall the crew were back in contention for a podium, only for an engine failure
As we revel in what is continuing to shape up as a classic year for Formula 1, Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix marked a new peak for the season so far. Complete with a wet start, a red flag, tyre gambles, fights through the field and a tense battle for victory, we couldn’t have asked for
The decision, which was announced on Monday, comes after years of discussion between MotorSport Vision – which operates the championship – and the FIA over the use of the Formula 3 mantra. The FIA launched its Regional F3 concept in 2017 and with it, intended to limit the use of ‘F3’ to championships that were
Andrea Piccini, a winner of the race as a driver with the Phoenix Audi squad in 2012, described Pier Guidi’s drive over the final half hour to haul the Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo he shared with Nicklas Nielsen and Come Ledogar back into the lead as “unbelievable”. “We know we had a good
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Ocon benefitted from first-lap drama and a strategy miscue by Mercedes to move into the lead of the race on the fifth lap before controlling proceedings en route to a surprise win for Alpine. Ocon spent the majority of the race being closely followed by Aston Martin’s Sebastian Vettel, who was within DRS range for
Post-race inspections had found that Vettel’s Aston Martin car did not have the minimum one-litre of fuel that the FIA mandates for its analysis checks. As the failure to have the minimum amount of fuel was a breach of the technical regulations, then Vettel was disqualified from his second place finish behind Alpine’s Esteban Ocon.
His injuries, which also include a minor lung contusion, were sustained when his Emil Frey Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo was involved in a multi-car incident in the opening hour of the double-points round of the GT World Challenge Europe. The fractured vertebra was described as stable and Aitken is hoping to be discharged from hospital
The world champion was extremely fatigued and felt some mild dizziness after battling hard to grab a podium finish at the Hungaroring. After feeling uncomfortable on the podium, he delayed his post-race media commitments so he could be looked at by the Mercedes team doctor. Feeling better later on, Hamilton duly appeared at the mandatory FIA
Russell finished Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix in eighth place to score his first points for Williams since making his F1 debut for the team in 2019. Russell and team-mate Nicholas Latifi both vaulted up the order after the Turn 1 collisions, but clung on to their points-paying positions to give Williams its best result since
8:30 PM ET Associated Press POMONA, Calif. — Ron Capps and Leah Pruett gave Don Schumacher Racing a nitro sweep Sunday in the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway. Capps topped the Funny Car field and Pruett won in Top Fuel for their first victories of the season. Capps raced to his 67th
Having secured maximum bonus points for the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup by virtue of leading after both six hours and 12 hours, the #51 Ferrari 488 GT3 driven by Alessandro Pier Guidi, Come Ledogar and Nicklas Nielsen continued to head the field with six hours to run. Both the Iron Lynx car and
Vettel finished second at the Hungaroring behind first-time winner Esteban Ocon after not being able to find a way past the Alpine driver, scoring his second podium of 2021 for his new team. After crossing the finish line, Vettel parked his car at the side of the track at Turn 12 after being ordered to
In scrutineering checks after the race the FIA could only retrieve 0.3 litres of fuel from the car, when the rules mandate that one litre should be left in the tank for sampling. The team believes that 1.74 litres of fuel should have been in the car, and thus there are still 1.44 litres in
Pier Guidi went around the outside of the WRT Audi driven by Dries Vanthoor in wet conditions at the fast Blanchimont left-hander to reclaim the lead that the Iron Lynx Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo he shared with Nicklas Nielsen and Come Ledogar had held for much of the double-points round of the GT World Challenge
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After carnage at the wet start took out several contenders and polesitter Lewis Hamilton made a wrong decision not to come in for slicks at the restart, the Mercedes driver released Alpine’s Ocon and Vettel into an unlikely fight for victory. Vettel hounded the Frenchman lap after lap, dipping in and out of DRS range
Ocon scored a surprise win for Alpine in a chaotic Hungarian Grand Prix, benefitting from the first-lap chaos before pitting for slicks instead of taking the standing start. It meant he moved into the lead of the race when Lewis Hamilton pitted one lap later to make the switch, before holding his nerve to keep
12:41 AM ET Associated Press POMONA, Calif. — Ron Capps took the No. 1 spot in Funny Car qualifying Saturday night in the Lucas Oil NHRA Winternationals at Auto Club Raceway. Capps had a 3.941-second run at 321.35 mph in a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat in the final session of the day. Winless this season,
Schumacher crashed heavily at Turn 11 during FP3 at the Hungaroring, leaving his Haas VF-21 car with significant damage that meant he ultimately took no part in qualifying. It marked the second time Schumacher has missed qualifying this year after a crash in FP3, following an accident in Monaco at the end of May. Schumacher
The incident took place during the Classic Touring Car Racing Club’s Pre 93 & Pre 03 Touring Car race, when two drivers made contact along the start-finish straight during the opening laps. One car was sent into the barrier on the outside of the circuit where it was launched into the air and collided with
Aitken’s Emil Frey Lamborghini and Rigon’s Iron Lynx Ferrari were involved in a four-car accident at the top of Eau Rouge on the 10th lap of the double-points round of the GT World Challenge Europe, which resulted in an extended period of yellow-flag running. The injuries of Aitken and Rigon were described by the race
For just a fortnight on from their collision at the British Grand Prix, the cynics suggested that Hamilton’s leisurely holding up of Verstappen was a bit of a psychological offensive – and potentially aimed at trying to time out his Red Bull rival from getting a final Q3 run in. When Verstappen made it across