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Corberi, 23, was involved in an incident at Lonato during the world finals of the KZ category in which he crossed the track and threw the front fairing of his kart at another driver while the race was still ongoing. Corberi faced widespread condemnation through motorsport for his behaviour towards Paolo Ippolito, having also sparked

The 2014 IndyCar champion’s Team Penske-Chevrolet finished just 0.4s adrift of the Spaniard, who notched his maiden series victory on his first start for Chip Ganassi Racing, after the pair had completed a two-stop race. However, in the first stint Palou had been able to keep pace with the three-stopping leaders, Pato O’Ward and Alexander

In a race dominated by Joe Gibbs Racing, Hendrick Motorsports driver Bowman pounced on a late restart to charge past Joey Logano and leader Denny Hamlin to assume control of the race in the dying stages. He had little trouble from that point hanging on for the win, finishing 0.381 seconds ahead of Hamlin to

Norris had been in third place for the restart on lap 35, after the race was red-flagged following a clash between George Russell and Valtteri Bottas, tucked in behind leader Max Verstappen and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc. After Verstappen had nearly spun at the restart, it meant Leclerc didn’t find a useful tow behind the Red

Quartararo repeated his Doha race-winning route to victory at the Algarve, recovering from sixth at the end of the first lap to lead early on and go on to dominate to take a 15-point lead in the championship. Johann Zacro powered his Pramac Ducati into the lead at the start as poleman Quartararo dropped back,

Following its season of inactivity, the IndyCar Series’ feeder championship returned with a 13-car entry, an improvement on the eight AER-powered Dallara IL-15s that started its last race at Laguna Seca in September 2019. Swedish 22-year-old Lundqvist, the 2018 British F3 champion, was an expected favourite after scoring 15 wins from 17 races on his

Ex-Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean was the first of the runners to duck under the 1m07s barrier, with the IndyCar rookie logging a 1m06.942s lap in his Dale Coyne Racing with RWR-Honda, despite flirting with the dirt exiting Turn 13. Colton Herta had moved to the top of the timesheets prior to a brief stoppage

Following his impressive showing on debut in Bahrain three weeks ago, Tsunoda arrived at Imola hopeful of challenging for a second haul of points and a maiden Q3 appearance. But the Japanese driver lost the rear of his AT02 car at the exit of the Variante Alta chicane, causing him to spin backwards into the

Marquez made his long-awaited comeback on Friday at the Algarve International Circuit, having sat out the 2020 season after breaking his right arm badly in the season-opening Spanish GP at Jerez. Third-fastest on a drying track in FP1, Marquez bagged himself a provisional Q2 place after ending FP2 sixth quickest with a lap just 0.473s

Rossi, who battled for the 2018 and 2019 IndyCar titles, slumped to ninth in the points table last season, as Andretti Autosport struggled for race day performance in the first two-thirds of the season, and then saw pitstop issues hamper them on strong days such as the Indianapolis 500. Ahead of Sunday’s season-opener at Barber

The tifosi may be absent this weekend, but watching on their TVs at home, the team’s devoted fans have some cause for optimism after enduring a painful 2020 season. In Sakhir, Charles Leclerc pulled out a superb lap to qualify fourth, an outcome that few expected prior to the session. He wasn’t able to sustain

Marquez has been out of action since his aborted comeback attempt at the Andalusian GP last July just days after the first operation he had on the broken right arm he damaged in the Spanish GP. Undergoing two further operations having missed the rest of the 2020 season and the opening two rounds of 2021

Englishman Carchedi has worked with Mir since the Spaniard’s debut in MotoGP in 2019, with the pair winning the world championship last season. Mir will be without his right-hand man for this weekend’s third round of the 2021 season in Portugal after Carchedi failed a pre-travel COVID test. Carchedi has gone into isolation in Andorra

The British manufacturer is working on a racing comeback in the GT4 category, in which it successfully competed with the Evora Cup GT4 customer car in the 2010s. A motorsport return is on the cards as part of a relaunch of Lotus under the ownership of Chinese car maker Geely, which took a controlling interest

A charging drive earned Steve Simpson the season-opening Tin Tops victory in the Peugeot 206 RC he shared with father Colin for the Classic Sports Car Club event at Oulton Park. The pair qualified second but were promoted to pole by gearbox failure on the Honda Integra of Nigel Ainge and Danny Cassar. Simpson Sr

The 45-year-old will make his single-seater debut this season after almost two decades at the top level of stock car racing, contesting the 13 road and street course races on the IndyCar schedule with reigning champion squad Chip Ganassi Racing. Johnson will join six-time series champion Scott Dixon, ex-Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson and second-year

The theme for this year’s event is ‘The Maestros – Motorsport’s Great All-Rounders’ and Team Penske’s success across a diverse range of categories – including IndyCar, NASCAR and in sportscars – will be celebrated. A number of key cars from the squad’s history are due to form part of the celebration alongside the man himself.

On paper a ninth place finish for rookie Yuki Tsunoda represented a solid if unspectacular start to the season for the Italian team. However, it was the pace that the AT02 showed on Saturday that really caught the attention of rivals. Tsunoda sailed through Q1 in second after a lap that McLaren boss Andreas Seidl

James has played an instrumental role in creating and implementing many of the technical systems and processes that have helped make F1 such a global hit – including the establishment of its state-of-the-art broadcast centre. As well as helping ensure the series remained at the cutting edge of technology and never missed a beat during

The Duke of Edinburgh died at the age of 99 last Friday, with the British Royal funeral taking place at St George’s Chapel at Windsor on 3pm this Saturday. In line with multiple other sports, F1 and the FIA has confirmed the Emilia Romagna GP schedule will be altered “out of respect” to avoid running

Brown originally joined McLaren in 2016 before becoming CEO in 2018. A year later, he appointed Seidl as team principal, with the pair having divided responsibilities that play to their strengths. With a number of F1 teams adopting similar structures of having roles spread across a number of senior figures rather than one overall chief,

The US entrant appeared on the initial entry list for the Spa 6 Hours on May 1 published last month, but marque founder Jim Glickenhaus stressed that he had not committed to taking part with his pair of Pipo-engined 007LMHs. Now, he has confirmed that Glickenhaus Racing will miss the Belgian series opener and instead

WTCR Hyundai teams BRC Hyundai N Lukoil Squadra Corse and Engstler Hyundai N Liqui Moly Racing Team will each debut two Elantras in this year’s eight-round championship.  Touring car legend Gabriele Tarquini, a winner of BTCC, ETCC, WTCC and WTCR titles, will pilot an Elantra for the BRC squad alongside 36-year-old former WTCR champion Norbert

Envision Virgin Racing driver and championship rookie Cassidy had snared pole by three tenths over fellow newcomer Norman Nato but lost that lead at Turn 3 in the race. Following the start procedure behind the safety car owing to damp patches at Turns 5 and 7, Cassidy led away but span almost immediately when he

The latest series of Drive to Survive has served to divide opinion among F1 supporters, with some revelling in the background insights while others getting riled by the way it has top-spun some of the drama. In particular, the frequent cutting in of radio conversations or comments to play up controversy grated with some –

The Formula 2 driver had emerged at the front of the Red Bull junior talent conveyor belt heading into 2020 before the Estonian’s plans became severely impacted by COVID-19. Red Bull had placed Vips with Team Mugen in Super Formula for 2020, but as the global pandemic hit the rising star was unable to enter

Race director Scot Elkins elected to start the field behind the safety car on account of the wet track, but when green flag conditions were called Lotterer attempted an opening-lap pass on polesitter Vandoorne into the Turn 7 left-hander. The Porsche driver dived up the inside of the 90-degree corner and made contact with Vandoorne.

Polesitter Vandoorne led the field at the start of the race behind the safety car that was called in response to a light rain shower that hit the circuit between qualifying and the race. Vandoorne was tagged on the opening lap by Andre Lotterer and dropped to 13th but recovered strongly, aided by a penalty

In its push to create more downforce and reduce the drag on its FW43B car for 2021, Williams opted for an aggressive design approach that causes its performance to dip in windy conditions. Williams driver Russell struggled with the gusty conditions during both pre-season testing and the opening grand prix of the year in Bahrain,

VeeKay crashed at Turn 1 at IMS on his fifth lap of the test, spinning at almost 220mph before slamming into the wall with the right side of his car. He stepped out of the car flexing his left hand, and it was later confirmed that he’d broken the top bone of his index finger