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Encouraged by the success of the Blancpain Endurance Series, world-renowned Swiss watch manufacture Blancpain and the SRO Motorsports Group decide at the end of 2013 to extend their partnership to the Sprint series, previously promoted as the FIA GT Series, offering teams and drivers the opportunity to compete for an overall Blancpain GT Series title,
Mercedes’ Raffaele Marciello put in a second flawless drive in as many days to secure the FIA GT World Cup crown in Macau. Like Saturday’s qualifying race Marciello against faced competition from a pair of Porsches, Laurens Vanthoor leading the charge for the Rowe squad after getting past team-mate Earl Bamber on the opening lap.
Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi lamented a “wrong” Valencia qualifying strategy that left him mired in traffic and consigned him to a lowly 12th on the grid. While the other three Yamahas all made it to the top five in the second qualifying segment, Rossi was 0.976 seconds off the pace in the pole shootout
Ferrari’s inability to score pole position at the last two Formula 1 grands prix having held a strong qualifying advantage before that is “interesting”, says Mercedes technical director James Allison. Red Bull driver Max Verstappen has qualified on pole for the Brazilian GP, two weeks after Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas topped qualifying in the United States.
8:48 PM ET Associated Press POMONA, Calif. — Points leader Steve Torrence jumped to the No. 1 spot in the final Top Fuel qualifying session Saturday at the season-ending Auto Club NHRA Finals at Auto Club Raceway. The defending season champion Torrence powered to a 3.686-second run at 329.99 mph. “It’s a little bit disturbing
MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez says he won’t change his approach should younger brother Alex become his Honda team-mate in 2020, as has been strongly suggested. Autosport revealed on the Saturday of the Valencia Grand Prix that Honda was closing in on a deal that would bring ’19 Moto2 champion Alex Marquez to MotoGP next
McLaren Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz will start from the back of the grid in Brazil after an ignition wiring issue during qualifying caused a loss of power. Sainz slowed to a crawl and retreated to the pits during the opening stages of Q1, and was classified last during the session having been unable to
11:47 AM ET SAO PAULO, Brazil — Ahead of this weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix, Bruno Senna will drive a 1988 McLaren MP4-4 to celebrate the life of his uncle, the famous Ayrton, who died 25 years ago at the San Marino Grand Prix. The demonstration lap has been arranged by F1 sponsor Heineken as part
Johann Zarco has dismissed the notion of joining Avintia Ducati in MotoGP next year despite recent links and would rather return to Moto2 because Avintia is “not a top team”. Ousted KTM rider Zarco was one of the names tipped to replace the retiring Jorge Lorenzo at the factory Honda team, having had an impressive
Qualifying for the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series title decider at Homestead has been cancelled and the four championship contenders handed the first two rows of the grid. After persistent rain showers washed out both Friday’s planned practice sessions, NASCAR made the decision to forgo Saturday’s scheduled qualifying session and replace it with 50 minutes of
Lewis Hamilton narrowly defeated Max Verstappen to top final practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix, hinting at a tight Formula 1 qualifying battle between Mercedes and Red Bull. Hamilton’s 1m08.320s shaded Verstappen by just 0.026 seconds ahead of qualifying at Interlagos, with Ferrari slightly adrift of its two rivals. Verstappen headed the order at the
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Mercedes driver Raffaele Marciello held off Earl Bamber’s Porsche to win the qualification race for the 2019 FIA GT World Cup in Macau. The 12-lap race got off to a wild start with Dries Vanthoor firing his Audi into the wall at Mandarin as he tried to get a run on the polesitting Mercedes. The
Fabio Quartararo held onto top spot in FP2 to end Friday’s MotoGP practice for the Valencia Grand Prix fastest of all, while Yamaha stablemate Valentino Rossi crashed again. Petronas SRT rider Quartararo snatched first place away from works Yamaha man Maverick Vinales in the closing stages to lead the field on Friday by 0.148 seconds.
Williams Formula 1 driver Robert Kubica says water thrown up from a kerb by Kevin Magnussen triggered his heavy crash in second Brazilian Grand Prix practice. Kubica was on his first flying lap of the Interlagos weekend, having given his car to Nicholas Latifi for practice one, when his car snapped out of control in
9:22 PM ET Associated Press POMONA, Calif. — Funny Car championship contender Matt Hagan topped qualifying Friday at the season-ending Auto Club NHRA Finals. Coming off consecutive event victories to get into the title chase, Hagan had a 3.872-second run at 333.58 mph in a Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat. He has won two season championships.
Raffaele Marciello stormed to pole position for the FIA GT World Cup qualification race with a stunning late lap in his GruppeM Mercedes. The Italian couldn’t have left his run any later, charging to top spot right at the flag after failing to get a clean lap in between stoppages earlier in the session. The
In the space of three days, the World Rally Championship lost its 2019 season finale and potentially its most successful team of this century – Citroen – too. While WRC personnel were still making their way back from Australia following the cancellation of the event due to the horrendous bush fires that had raged in
MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez suggested that the Valencia Grand Prix host circuit Ricardo Tormo will be “critical” should temperatures plummet any more this weekend. The mid-November timing led to track temperatures not exceeding 21 degrees Celsius during Friday’s two free practice sessions. Numerous riders made complaints after Friday’s running about the track conditions, with
Daniil Kvyat’s off at the end of Friday practice at the Brazilian Grand Prix was caused by a ‘complete shutdown’ of his Honda-powered Toro Rosso Formula 1 car. Kvyat and his team-mate Pierre Gasly both suffered failures in FP2, with Gasly grinding to a smoky halt and Kvyat sliding off and nudging the barrier at
11:10 AM ET Maurice Hamilton Close • Veteran F1 journalist, covering the sport since 1977• Motor racing correspondent for the Observer for 20 years• Has written several books and covered F1 for BBC Radio 5 Live When the championship contender is starting from 14th on the grid and he hasn’t won a race in five months, you can’t
Formula 2 frontrunner Luca Ghiotto will make a switch to sportscar racing next season with the R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad. The 24-year Italian, who lies third in the F2 points this season heading into the Abu Dhabi finale at the end of this month, will contest both the endurance and sprint segments of the 2020
While Citroen’s immediate World Rally Championship future remains unclear, Autosport has learned it will definitely not be part of the series’ hybrid era in 2022. It is understood that Citroen could pull out of the WRC with immediate effect, with its 2020 programme currently under review. Citroen has previously taken a sabbatical from the WRC
Marc Marquez’s Moto2 champion brother Alex is among the contenders for a 2020 Honda MotoGP ride after Jorge Lorenzo’s retirement. The younger Marquez had already agreed a deal to continue with Marc VDS to defend his Moto2 title, while being linked to a 2021 MotoGP chance with Pramac Ducati. Lorenzo’s decision to retire at the