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Marking the first in-season test of the 2024 campaign, the MotoGP paddock remained at Jerez for an eight-hour session on Monday.Run in good conditions, VR46 Ducati rider Di Giannantonio led the way with Maverick Vinales chasing him on the factory Aprilia.Pramac’s Franco Morbidelli completed the top three from Spanish GP winner Francesco Bagnaia on the factory Ducati, while Alex Rins was 14th as ...Keep reading

Hemric, in his first season driving the No. 31 Chevrolet full-time for Kaulig Racing, has had a rough return to the Cup series.After finishing 16, 18th and 19th in the season’s first three races, he went five straight races ending the day 28th or worse. After a 20th place finish the following week at Texas, he dropped to 31st in the series standings.But last week at Talladega, Hemric was able to ...Keep reading

McLaren rolled out several major sets of upgrades at last year's Austria and Singapore rounds that completely turned around its fortunes, going from a midfield struggler to a team that could fight for podiums with Ferrari and Mercedes over the second half of the campaign.In the early races of 2024, McLaren managed to consolidate its position and even move ahead of Mercedes. But at the launch of ...Keep reading

While both team-mate Brad Binder and GasGas Tech3 rookie Pedro Acosta have finished on the podium this year, Miller has only managed one finish inside the top five in the opening four rounds of the season.Miller was running in 11th position on the factory KTM on lap 17 in Sunday's grand prix at Jerez when Pramac rival Morbidelli made a futile overtaking attempt going into Turn 5, sending both ...Keep reading

Wittmann was leading Saturday’s opening race of 2024 when his Schubert Motorsport-entered BMW M4 GT3 suddenly began to slow down with four laps to go, before coming to a halt at the start/finish straight.The two-time DTM champion had tactically made his pitstop moments before the Full Course Yellow was deployed to assist the recovery of Ben Dorr’s stranded McLaren, which allowed him to jump ...Keep reading

After four rounds in 2024, Honda has scored just 13 points in the manufacturers’ standings, with none of its riders breaking into the top 10 in grands prix yet.During the Americas Grand Prix, Mir was very critical of Honda for pursuing what he felt was the wrong bike concept and said the marque had to “take responsibility” for this.On Monday at the post-race Jerez test, however, Mir – who ...Keep reading

Malukas, a Chicago native, has been the focal point of drama since suffering an injured left wrist in a mountain bike accident on February 11 that required surgical repairs, less than a month before the season started on March 10.Arrow McLaren cited the reason "due to him being unavailable for the entirety of the season to date, with no confirmed return date," which put the team in a situation to ...Keep reading

Amid F1's ongoing preparations for new engine and chassis rules from 2026, there have been some early concerns from teams about the regulations delivering unintended consequences.There were worries about drivers needing to change down gears on the straights to help charge batteries, while recent findings from simulators about cars spinning out easily with active aero engaged triggered some alarm ...Keep reading

As the day’s sunlight has barely crept up on the horizon, the banks surrounding the Angel Nieto Turn 8 and Peluqui Turn 9 are already buzzing with life. It can only be MotoGP Sunday at Jerez.MotoGP visits a lot of iconic venues where so much of the series’ 75-year storied history has been told. But few seem to elicit the same emotional response for so many as Jerez. Speak to many in the ...Keep reading

Mercedes' performance has been up and down since the introduction of new ground-effect regulations in F1 two years ago, and the 2024 season has exemplified this issue so far.Hamilton branded his W15 "an amazing car" after the first two grands prix in 2024, before admitting to being "the least confident ever" in this machine following free practice at the Australian Grand Prix. He then had his ...Keep reading

Korean tyre firm Hankook was announced as the WRC's new official tyre supplier in December last year, securing a contract from 2025-2027,  to take over from Pirelli, whose deal expires at the end of the year.Since winning the FIA's tender, Hankook has been busily developing rubber for next year testing prototypes with WRC teams as early as February this year, before the world motorsport governing ...Keep reading

The Gresini rider scored a first pole on the Ducati at Jerez last weekend and was leading the sprint race before crashing out.In the 25-lap grand prix, he battled his way back from dropping to fourth early to fight with reigning double world champion Francesco Bagnaia on the factory Ducati for the victory.Ultimately coming away with second, it was a result that meant a lot to the eight-time world ...Keep reading

While the introduction of a spending limit for teams in 2021 has helped compress the field, with the front to the back of the grid having never been closer, this season has witnessed an interesting split among the competitorsThe top five squads – made up of Red Bull, Ferrari, McLaren, Aston Martin and Mercedes – have appeared to break away from the back of the pack, which has helped them ...Keep reading

The Maranello squad has generally been the stronger team in the first five races of the 2024 season, being the only non-Red Bull winner in the Australian GP thanks to Carlos Sainz's victory.But McLaren's Lando Norris had the upper hand in the last race in China, where he was Max Verstappen's closest challenger to finish in second.Ferrari duo Charles Leclerc and Sainz endured one of their weakest ...Keep reading

With his victory Sunday at Dover (Del.) Motor Speedway, Hamlin earned his series-best third NASCAR Cup win of the 2024 season in the first 11 races.Oddly enough, however, Hamlin’s victories are also his only top five finishes of the year. And he has just one other finish in the top 10 – an eighth at Las Vegas.While he has four finishes of 19th or worse – including back-to-back finishes of ...Keep reading

After starting 19th, Lundqvist was put into a unique three-stop strategy that began on lap 7, switching off from the harder primary tire and running on the softer alternates for the remainder of the 90-lap race.Through the strategy and timing of cautions, the 25-year-old Swede was able to cycle up to the lead for four laps, showcasing enough pace and poise to hold pole-sitter – and eventual race ...Keep reading

Larson and Hamlin both made their final green flag pit stop in Sunday’s race on the same lap in the final stage, but Larson was able to get off pit road first and held the lead when a caution interrupted the cycle of stops.Hamlin, however, grabbed it right back on the ensuing restart as Martin Truex Jr. hit Larson from behind and the remainder of the race turned into a cat and mouse chase that ...Keep reading

A race full of action featured a bizarre moment that caught everyone off-guard after a mannequin called “Georgina” – installed by eccentric track owner George Barber in 2016 – fell from the pedestrian bridge on to the grass at the side of the track near Turn 8 on lap 52 of 90.A.J. Foyt Racing’s Santino Ferrucci, running fourth at the time, could be heard over the radio shouting: “That ...Keep reading

Hamlin, who led all but 11 of the final 147 laps, got beat by Larson on pit road on their final green flag pit stop but reclaimed it on the ensuing restart.Larson was able to cut Hamlin’s lead to under a second with 40 of 400 laps to go, fell back a pit and put on one final charge over the last 10 laps before Hamlin held him off by 0.256 seconds to earn his third win of the 2024 ...Keep reading

The reigning champion started down in 10th place, after a mystifying slump in pace in the second round of qualifying on Saturday, but looked well set with a shot for victory after making his first pitstop under caution.But he was then coerced into make the second of his two-stop strategy under another yellow, after Sting Ray Robb’s AJ Foyt Racing car lost its steering and crashed at Turn 1.That ...Keep reading