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In the 30-minute session, featuring the fastest six cars from each class, Kobayashi drew first blood by setting a lap of 3m23.900s on his first attempt, over a second quicker than stablemate Hartley in the #8 Toyota. Olivier Pla was third fastest in the #708 Glickenhaus, a full 2.5 seconds in arrears but two seconds

Despite the rollout of vaccines to combat COVID-19 in 2021, the MotoGP calendar has still been heavily affected by the pandemic owing to fresh outbreaks and changing travel restrictions. All but one flyaway race has already been cancelled for 2021, with the Japanese, Australian and Thailand races scrubbed from the calendar, as well as the

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Stoker’s ‘Motor Sport for All’ paper has been overseen by nine-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner and FIA Drivers Commission president Tom Kristensen, who is the candidate for FIA deputy president for sport. It covers all areas of motorsport development from safety and education to diversity and access. Its objectives include: Prioritising safety in the

The Korean marque ended its WRC victory drought in style as Thierry Neuville led home Craig Breen to score a one-two at last weekend’s event in Belgium. It was Hyundai’s first win since Ott Tanak’s triumph at February’s Arctic Rally Finland and arrives after the team witnessed likely wins slip from its grasp in the

Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe technical director Pascal Vasselon described the position of the Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 LMH at the top of the timesheets at the end of the nine-hour test as “very good news” and said that the Japanese manufacturer is “happy for them and the series”. “It would not at all be entertaining if they

The ex-Formula 1 racer and current Chip Ganassi Racing IMSA SportsCar Championship driver is set to make his Le Mans debut this weekend at the wheel of a High Class Racing-run ORECA 07 LMP2, sharing a cockpit with his father Jan and fellow countryman Anders Fjordbach. On Sunday, the trio ended up 12th in the

Rossi was one of a handful of riders, which included race winner Brad Binder, to stay out slicks for the wet final three laps of Sunday’s chaotic Austrian GP. The Petronas SRT rider looked on course to claim a shock 200th podium when he found himself in third, but was shuffled back to eighth in

The Mercedes driver was involved in a number of tight battles throughout the 32-lap contest on the Tempelhof circuit and was lucky to avoid any serious damage to his car after several close calls. This included a lengthy fight with the Mahindra of Alexander Sims for the final spot of the podium, before he made

Vinales was suspended by Yamaha following last weekend’s Styrian GP for allegedly trying to deliberately blow up his bike’s engine. Since the announcement of his suspension and withdrawal from this weekend’s Austrian GP, both Yamaha and Vinales have remained tight-lipped on the matter. Speaking to Sky Italy on Saturday at the Red Bull Ring in

The local hero produced a masterclass, dominating the evening loop of stages as the sun began to set in Belgium, winning all three tarmac tests to open up a 7.6s lead over Breen. Neuville and Breen proved the class of the field making the the most of their knowledge of Rally Ypres’ peculiar tarmac roads

On Thursday Yamaha dropped the bombshell that it had suspended Vinales and withdrawn him from this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix for allegedly trying to deliberately blow up his bike’s engine in last week’s Styrian GP. Vinales is unlikely to see out the 2021 season following this incident, having already requested his two-year deal be terminated

Vinales has been suspended by the team for allegedly deliberately trying to blow up his bike’s engine during last Sunday’s Styrian GP. Having been stood down for the second Red Bull Ring race, Yamaha says any future participation for the manufacturer will be decided following further discussions. OPINION: Why Vinales may never ride a Yamaha in

The Briton, who won LMP2 in 2014 and GTE Pro in 2021 respectively, will race the #99 Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR as part of an all-new line-up for the double-points round of the World Endurance Championship on 21/22 August. Tincknell has replaced Porsche factory driver Patrick Long as the professional in the car. Porsche

On Thursday ahead of this weekend’s 11th round of the 2021 season, Yamaha announced it had suspended Vinales and withdrawn him from the Austrian GP for “irregular operation” of his M1 in the Styrian GP. Autosport understands that Vinales was deliberately trying to blow up his bike’s engine in the Styrian GP by over-revving it.

The M-Sport Ford driver enlisted the services of the four-time Ypres winner and seven-time Belgian rally champion in the build up to the rally, which is a brand new event for Greensmith and many of the WRC field. The connection with Snijers, who won the Ypres event every year between 1991 and 1994, came via

The entry as the 10th team in the all-electric SUV off-road racing series was announced in June. McLaren joins Cupra and GMC as the third manufacturer involved – while Lotus Engineering has a technical partnership with Jenson Button’s JBXE outfit. Championship co-founder Alejandro Agag has maintained the series will be capped at 12 teams, chiefly

Real life driver names, Murray Walker’s iconic commentary, plus sophisticated (for the time) track mapping and car models, all helped ensure the game became a best-selling classic. “It was huge and was something I really enjoyed playing as a kid,” smiles the Australian. Despite the graphics, modelling and handling all moving on tremendously over the

According to this organisers, the contract for the Challenge Bathurst sprint and regularity event with the Bathurst Regional Council includes a two-week exclusion period prior to the nominated event. That means no other events that require a full closure of the Mount Panorama road, of which only five are permitted each year, can take place

LMH has been introduced as a replacement for the LMP1 category, in a bid to reduce costs at the top end of endurance racing and increase its appeal to automotive manufacturers, after the likes of Audi and Porsche withdrew to leave Toyota as the only OEM remaining. Toyota introduced its GR010 HYBRID for the start

While sometimes the upgrades were pretty obvious, at other races the changes seemed negligible. However, nothing new is ever introduced by an F1 team if there isn’t performance to be had – so it’s always important to explore every minute alteration. Autosport has already covered the changes that Red Bull has been implementing to its brake duct inlet on

The Frenchman has been part of Renault’s F1 programme since 1999, and early in his career worked as an engine engineer for a host of drivers including Fernando Alonso and Jenson Button. In 2009, Taffin stepped up to take overall control of Renault’s F1 activities and then from 2014, at the start of the current

Although there are homologation limits in place for engine manufacturers, which restrict them to just one update from last year, it has emerged that Ferrari has so far not unleashed all the changes it wanted to make with its 2021 power unit. While other car makers introduced all their new components at the start of

The Silverstone-based team had hoped to get the FIA stewards to look once again at its case, after Vettel’s car was excluded from its second place finish in Budapest for failing to have a mandatory one-litre of fuel remaining for post-race checks. Aston Martin initially believed that telemetry data from the car showed there to