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Heavy rain in the hours leading up to lights out at Spa resulted in the start being delayed by 25 minutes, after which a handful of formation laps were completed behind the safety car before the race was red flagged. A wait of almost three hours followed, with little change in the levels of rain

The nine-time World Rally champion kicked up spray as he touched the water’s edge when he dived past the Veloce Racing machine of Stephane Sarrazin for position in the first semi-final of the Arctic X-Prix in Kangerlussuaq. The Extreme E twitter account shared a video of the overtake, which drew comments saying the move was

Quartararo took the lead on lap five of 20 and eased away from the rest of the field to open up a gap of 65 points in the championship over reigning world champion Joan Mir, who was ninth in the race. Honda’s Pol Espargaro converted his first pole for the Japanese marque into the holeshot

Three-time MotoGP race-winner Crutchlow is making an unexpected Silverstone outing in 2021 as a temporary replacement for the exiled Maverick Vinales at the factory Yamaha squad, having originally meant to be filling in for the injured Franco Morbidelli at Petronas SRT. The British rider – who retired at the end of 2020 and spent the

Sebastien Loeb and Cristina Gutierrez had run fastest in the morning by a sound 3.7s but were pipped in the second session by the final flying run of Nico Rosberg’s concern. This came after Loeb acknowledged a deliberately conservative lap in a bid to avoid the reliability woes that had afflicted their rivals in addition

That’s certainly the hope after the Italian company recently signed off on the specification of its new rubber, pending official homologation by the FIA. The switch from the current 13-inch size to 18 inches would be a major challenge for a tyre supplier in any circumstances, but it comes in parallel with a huge change

The Finn has endured a difficult campaign with the British team and has run a split campaign in both WRC and WRC2. Suninen released a statement on Friday night confirming his departure from the outfit, stating the decision has been communicated to M-Sport, although the team has yet to issue a statement. The immediate departure

The MotoGP world championship leader’s 1m59.317s gave him top spot by 0.512 seconds from Ducati’s Jack Miller in FP2, having bounced back from a nasty crash at the start of the session in which he suffered a twisted ankle. Pramac Ducati’s Jorge Martin continued to impress with third place in FP2, ahead of a resurgent

The Mexican joined the outfit on a one-year deal at the start of this season, as Red Bull elected to look outside of its young driver programme for the first time in years. Although Perez has had some difficulties adapting to the unique characteristics of Red Bull’s F1 car concept, he has scored well and

SRT joined grand prix racing in Moto3 in 2015 and expanded to Moto2 by 2018, before stepping up to MotoGP in 2019 as a Yamaha satellite team. Running with factory support for Franco Morbidelli in 2019, Fabio Quartararo in 2020 and Valentino Rossi in 2021, SRT forged closer ties with Yamaha than the previous Tech3

Triumph has been the official Moto2 engine partner since 2019, when it took over from long-time supplier Honda. The Moto2 class previously ran Honda’s four-cylinder CBR600 engine from the class’ inception in 2010 through to 2018, before Triumph introduced its three-cylinder 765cc engine. The new engine has proven to be a success, with the unit

In what is a hotly-contested category, Rudman was in scintillating form in Leicestershire, triumphing in all bar one race to rocket up 25 places on the leaderboard. The 2019 Legends champion has now taken 12 victories this year, putting him five behind runaway table-topper Cam Jackson – who has the potential to further add to

The Briton told Autosport that the slender margin the #28 JOTA ORECA 07-Gibson he shared with Stoffel Vandoorne and Sean Gelael finished behind the class-winning WRT car in last weekend’s World Endurance Championship blue riband event was difficult to take.  “It was great to get second, but to lose by seven tenths is bittersweet,” he

The DTM has witnessed an influx of part-season and guest entries this year after adapting off-the-shelf GT3 cars, which are significantly cheaper to run than their Class One predecessors. Twenty-three cars took to the track for the fourth round of the season on 20-22 August, with 19 full-season entries joined by the JP Motorsport McLaren

F1 heads to its traditional post-summer break venue at Spa-Francorchamps which is set to welcome a thrilling return to action as the world title fight intensifies between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen after a pair of dramatic races at Silverstone and the Hungaroring before the break. After the high-profile clash between the world title protagonists

It was announced today that Action Express Racing (AXR) and Chip Ganassi Racing, currently running Cadillac DPi-V.Rs, will both campaign the next-gen Cadillacs in the IMSA SportsCar Championship in 2023. The Denver-based team has a successful history with General Motors, winning three straight IMSA championships as well as a Daytona 24 Hours and Sebring 12

The two-time champion made a slow start to the 2021 season as he got accustomed to GT3 cars, managing a best finish of fifth in the opening two rounds of the season. The Germany-based Walkenhorst team also faced a learning curve of its own on its debut in the DTM, having to adapt from endurance

The #33 TF Aston Martin Vantage of Felipe Fraga, Dylan Pereira and Ben Keating eventually finished second, a lap behind Nicklas Nielsen, Alessio Rovera and Francois Perrodo’s AF Corse Ferrari after a close battle that lasted for much of the race. TF had recovered from Fraga being turned around on the first lap of green

The Weissach marque endured a disappointing 24 hours in which it rarely matched the class leaders for the second year in a row, but finished third and fourth in GTE Pro after the second entries from Ferrari and Corvette both hit problems. It particularly struggled for straightline speed, with both factory cars 3.4km/h down on

The nine-time grand prix motorcycle world champion announced earlier this month that he will be retiring from MotoGP at the end of the 2021 season. With a legendary career spanning 26 seasons in grand prix racing, Rossi has been a key figure in boosting the popularity of MotoGP and bringing it to mainstream attention through

Frijns, who shared the winning #31 WRT ORECA-07 Gibson with Ferdinand Habsburg and Charles Milesi on the Belgian team’s first Le Mans outing, came out of the night with a 45-second lead over the #41 sister car of Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Louis Deletraz. But on Sunday the #41 car steadily closed the gap

The 2019 champion, who was denied victory in 2015 following contact at the last corner with Mattias Ekstrom, led semi-final one from lights to flag to secure the front row for the all-important final. As on day one, the Swede didn’t have things all his own way in qualifying on Sunday, with Dutchman Kevin Abbring and

In a race of attrition that saw nine retirements and two safety car periods, Albon avoided the chaos that ensued behind him to score a second DTM win for the AF Corse-run Ferrari team following team-mate Liam Lawson’s win in the season opener. At the initial start, Albon made a brilliant getaway to lead the

With both Toyota GR010 Hybrids on slightly differing pit strategies, the lead of the race changed hands multiple times in the early morning hours following the safety car period at the eight-hour mark that brought both cars together on track. Mike Conway took the initiative in the #7 Toyota when Kazuki Nakajima came in from

In the third hour Davidson was leading his class in the #38 JOTA ORECA-Gibson 07 he shared with Antonio Felix da Costa and Roberto Gonzalez when he got caught out by a sudden rain shower in Turn 1. Behind a spinning Porsche GTE Am car, Davidson also lost control and spun in the gravel. Because

The gentleman racer, the enthusiastic amateur, the rich hobbyist, they all have their place in international sportscar racing. And always have. Whisky heir Rob Walker, the future Formula 1 entrant, drove at least a couple of stints at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1939 wearing a pinstripe suit on Saturday evening. It was that

Montoya, whose father races for DragonSpeed in the 2021 World Endurance Championship, including this weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours, will get behind the wheel of the American outfit’s Oreca-Gibson LMP2 car at the traditional end-of-year rookie test, which takes place on Sunday November 7 following the Bahrain season finale. Montoya’s surprise call-up happened in person

Japan is set to host the championship’s final round from 11-14 November although the rising number of COVID-19 cases has resulted in confirmation this week that October’s Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix will be cancelled for a second consecutive year. MotoGP has already scrubbed its Japanese GP from its calendar earlier this year before this

That Red Bull is on a roll at the moment is obvious – we can measure its advantage not just in terms of lap times and race results, but also in the quantity of innuendo directed at it by rivals. Mercedes might have landed a couple of blows by lobbying for new wing flexibility tests

Nicolas Lapierre got within three tenths of Kazuki Nakajima’s time-topping Toyota during the fourth period of free practice that followed the Hyperpole qualifying session. Nakajima set the pace from the beginning of Thursday evening’s night session in the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID, ending up on a 3m27.994s. Lapierre posted an improvement with 40 minutes to