The climbing number of COVID-19 cases in both Oregon and California, and the states’ anticipated reaction to that, caused many in the IndyCar paddock to wonder if the races at Portland International Raceway (12 September), Laguna Seca (19 September) and the streets of Long Beach (26 September) might again come under threat. All three venues
Month: August 2021
Ahead of the new technical regulations for 2022, the team owned by American industrialist Gene Haas decided to start with a clean slate this year. Reluctant to keep pumping large sums of his own money into the team, Haas wanted the team to bring in a larger share of the budget itself. Long-time drivers Romain
The two-hour FP2 session was run in darkness throughout, with all drivers required to complete at least five laps at night ahead of Saturday’s race. Jose Maria Lopez set the early pace in the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID he shares with Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi with a time of 3m29.810s, while Kazuki Nakajima worked
Bagnaia was part of the leading group which pitted on lap 25 of 28 of Sunday’s crazy Red Bull Ring race when the rain fell harder. The Ducati rider began the final lap 27.3s behind eventual winner Brad Binder – who’d stayed out on slicks – down in 10th, before putting in a lap 15s
Despite having made an impressive start to life as a Ferrari driver, the Spaniard feels he is yet to have a full weekend without any problems, claiming he doesn’t see the current season as his strongest in F1 yet. Sainz is ahead of team-mate Charles Leclerc in the standings after 11 races, and has been
Kobayashi set the session’s benchmark time of 3m26.279s aboard his Toyota GR010 HYBRID in the first half of Wednesday night’s one-hour qualifying, going over a second quicker than team-mate Brendon Hartley in the sister #8 car that currently leads the World Endurance Championship points standings. In the second half of the session, Alpine driver Matthieu
Quartararo came to the Austria double-header to kick off the second half of the season 34 points clear of the rest after four wins from the first nine rounds. And after a third and seventh in the Red Bull Ring races, Quartararo’s lead has swollen to 47 points heading to next weekend’s British Grand Prix.
In response to the increased quantity of cases, NASCAR reintroduced a policy to require all team personnel and media wear a face mask in enclosed areas of the track at all times, regardless of vaccination status. This week, NASCAR has announced several additional changes – effective with this weekend’s races at World Wide Technology Raceway
For with it well entrenched in that ultra-close midfield pack, any small pace advantage that rivals gained as they pushed on with their current cars risked shuffling the Hinwil-based operation down the order. Sure enough, with most of the grid bringing at least some major developments early in the campaign, it’s been perhaps a tougher
Check out the sights and sounds from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.
Almost a year since his maiden F1 podium, Lando Norris was on the rostrum again in Spielberg. Every podium is special but what made this one that little bit sweeter was the pace we showed; but for a five-second time penalty, it’s possible to argue that Lando could have finished second. The positives on Sunday
Aston Millar could hardly have hoped for a better weekend on Ginetta Junior’s annual visit to Knockhill. The 16-year-old from R Racing backed up two wins with a brace of second places from the four races to give himself a six-point championship lead over Liam McNeilly. Millar narrowly lost out to polesitter McNeilly by just
Vinales has been suspended by Yamaha following the Styrian GP, in which he attempted to deliberately damage his bike’s engine in the closing laps. Yamaha announced on the eve of last weekend’s Austrian GP that Vinales had been suspended and withdrawn from the second Red Bull Ring race. Vinales publicly apologised to Yamaha on Saturday
Alonso made headlines when he produced a tenacious drive in the Hungarian Grand Prix, crucially holding off Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton for several laps while teammate Esteban Ocon secured his maiden victory. But Budapest wasn’t the first time 40-year-old Alonso left his Enstone team stunned by his race craft and his ability to read races from
Porsche locked out the top three places in the GTE Pro class on Sunday, with works driver Kevin Estre laying down the benchmark of 3m52.901s in the #92 car in the morning session – just 0.003s up on team-mate Gianmaria Bruni’s #91 RSR-19. The afternoon session was headed by WeatherTech’s Earl Bamber, whose 3m52.938s lap
Mir has so far only scored three podiums from the first 11 races of the Suzuki rider’s title defence, while runaway championship leader Fabio Quartararo has won four races on his way to a 47-point advantage. The Spaniard salvaged fourth from the chaotic end to last Sunday’s Austrian GP, when he pitted for his wet
Gasly was promoted from Toro Rosso, AlphaTauri’s previous identity, to Red Bull in 2019 but was demoted back to the Faenza team after only half a season alongside Max Verstappen. The Frenchman grew from the experience and bounced back strongly in 2020, a season capped off with a maiden win in Monza. In 2021 Gasly
Pierson, who lies fourth in the 2021 USF2000 Championship on the Road to Indy ladder, is on course to beat the record set by fellow American Matt McMurry in 2014 should he make the grid in one of United’s LMP2 ORECA-Gibson 07s at Le Mans on June 11/12 2022. He will be 16 and 117
Espargaro was one of a handful of riders – including eventual race-winner Brad Binder – who gambled on staying out on slicks when the rain intensified in the closing stages of last Sunday’s Red Bull Ring contest. The Aprilia rider found himself in second as he started lap 26 of 28, but tumbled back to
The Maranello squad endured one of its worst seasons in recent times last year, finishing down in sixth position in the constructors’ championship, its worst result since 1980. Despite chassis development being restricted by the regulations this season, Ferrari has been one of the most improved teams, scoring three podiums, including Leclerc coming close to
Check out the sights and sounds from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta.
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The Irishman followed Thierry Neuville home to score a memorable one-two for Hyundai Motorsport at the Ypres Rally, an event he previously won in 2019 when it was part of the European Rally Championship. Breen and Neuville were in a league of their own on the narrow tarmac stages as they pulled away from the
Martin was one of the leading riders to pit for his wet bike on lap 25 of 28 of last Sunday’s Austrian GP as the rain started to fall heavier at this point of the race. The Pramac Ducati rider started the final lap in 11th and thought he “destroyed my race” by pitting, but was
For the second straight race, Penske’s two-time champion Newgarden will suffer a grid penalty, this time for running his fifth engine of the season. In the streets of his home city of Nashville, Newgarden crashed in the dying moments of the second stage of qualifying, which automatically incurs a loss of fastest lap for disrupting
That fight became even closer after Hungary, where neither of the orange and blue cars scored as a result of first lap contact, and Carlos Sainz Jr logged a valuable third place. The two rivals are now locked together on 163 points, with the Maranello outfit officially ahead thanks to the two second places it
Corvette introduced its mid-engined C8.R in 2020 but decided to sit out last year’s edition of Le Mans, meaning Sunday’s official test day was the first time the new car took to the Circuit de la Sarthe. The pair of C8.Rs brought up the rear of the GTE Pro field, with Milner setting a 3m53.440s in
Binder has emerged as the leading candidate to take one of the two vacant SRT Yamaha’s for next season, the younger brother of double MotoGP race winner Brad Binder set to be promoted directly from SRT’s Moto3 team. Analysis: The Moto3 rider set for the great leap to MotoGP in 2022 This comes after Maverick Vinales’
Albon, who scored two F1 podium finishes for Red Bull Racing last year before being replaced by Sergio Perez, is currently in DTM. He made a name for himself in the junior formulae, where he finished second only to current Ferrari ace Charles Leclerc in GP3, while in Formula 2 he was third in the
Unlike the hyper-specific world of engineers, Garage Technicians are expert adapters, getting involved with a bit of everything to help the team run through a race weekend. This flexibility and diversity makes the role an interesting and varied one, and to find out more we spoke to Haas F1 Team’s Marek Smrek to see what
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