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Reigning world champion Rovanpera snatched the rally lead on stage six, but the margin never grew larger than a second as the part-time driver battled with a GR Yaris that wasn’t too his liking.The Finn, who ended Friday morning in third, held onto the lead despite a late attack from Ogier, who shot from fourth to second on the day’s final stage.     The battle at the front proved ...Keep reading

The Briton revealed that he made mistakes on his two quick laps aboard the #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar in the opening 15-minute qualifying session.That left him outside the top 10 cars that progressed to the final session in which team-mate Antonio Fuoco claimed pole position by half a second in the sister Ferrari.“I screwed up both laps basically,” Calado told Motorsport.com. “I went ...Keep reading

Antonelli is currently competing in his first season of F2 as his racing education as part of the Mercedes development programme and, with Lewis Hamilton leaving at the end of the season and heading to Ferrari, the Italian has been one of the drivers linked to the vacant seat alongside George Russell.But speculation that Antonelli could replace Sargeant this season gathered pace during the Miami ...Keep reading

The problems began 25 minutes into practice as the No. 15 Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing Honda of Rahal pulled out of the last corner and began slowing along the front straight of Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.439-mile, 14-turn circuit.As the Ohio native engaged the clutch to coast down the front straight, he reported “something isn’t right” over the radio before adding “it’s letting ...Keep reading

For just the second time this season, Quartararo will make an appearance in the pole shootout qualifying session on Saturday after finishing Friday's running at his home round in 10th.While Yamaha brought a raft of changes to its bike for the Jerez test after the Spanish GP, only a few items – and not the swingarm he was hoping to run – have been brought to Le Mans.But Quartararo – whose ...Keep reading

The ex-Formula 1 racer, who moved to Andretti Global’s IndyCar team from Chip Ganassi Racing in the off-season, came within 0.0974s of being the first back-to-back winner of the Indy 500 since Helio Castroneves achieved the feat in 2002.The race was red flagged while he was leading and, instead of ending under yellow as in previous years, the race was restarted for an unprecedented one-lap ...Keep reading

The Gresini Ducati rider crashed in the hour-long afternoon practice at Le Mans and struggled for pace through to the chequered flag.His penultimate flying lap in the session was thwarted by a yellow flag, before a mistake while fastest through the first sector on his last effort consigned him to 13th and a place in Q1.Marquez says this was the first Friday practice since jumping on the Ducati ...Keep reading

The Faenza-based team enjoyed its most competitive outing of the year in Miami last weekend, with Tsunoda scoring twice thanks to an eighth-place finish in Saturday's sprint followed by a strong drive to seventh in Sunday's race.Team-mate Daniel Ricciardo had a strong Saturday as well, qualifying and finishing fourth, before a rather anonymous grand prix in which he crossed the finish line in ...Keep reading

Herta, the current points leader in the IndyCar Series championship, delivered flying lap of 1m09.2863s on a set of softer alternates to set the quickest time on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course layout.The quick lap set by Herta came with less than three minutes remaining in the 75-minute practice, bumping the feel-good story of Juncos Hollinger Racing’s Agustin ...Keep reading

Fuoco took the top spot by almost exactly half a second at the wheel of the #50 Ferarri 499P Le Mans Hypercar in the 12-minute Hyperpole session for the fastest 10 cars in the first round of qualifying. The Italian’s 2m02.600s lap of the Circuit de Spap-Francorchamps pushed Porsche driver Matt Campbell down to second. Campbell hung onto a spot on the front row of Saturday’s Spa 6 Hours with ...Keep reading

Heim, 21, currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Truck Series. He has seven career wins there and made the Championship 4 last year. The Georgia native also has ten NASCAR Xfinity starts, finishing as high as fourth at Richmond Raceway earlier this year.The rising star in the Toyota camp joined Legacy Motor Club as a reserve driver prior to the start of the 2024 season. When Erik Jones was ...Keep reading

Setting the pace in FP1, Martin continued that form in the hour-long second session at Le Mans with a new lap record of 1m30.388s.The championship leader headed Francesco Bagnaia on the factory team Ducati from Tech3 rookie Pedro Acosta, while Fabio Quartararo made it through to Q2 in front of his home fans.Saturday morning’s Q1 qualifying session will see several big names taking part, that ...Keep reading

Ahead of the two races in Germany, which will be held on a new configuration at the Tempelhof Airport circuit, the Attack Mode duration has been reduced to six minutes for the opening contest and just four minutes for the sequel, to be used across two activations.Previously this season, a total of eight minutes of Attack Mode has been available, whereby drivers go off the racing line through ...Keep reading

The meeting is expected to focus largely on conveying the promoter’s plans and initiatives regarding the promotion of the championship.It is understood the FIA will attend the discussion on Saturday morning alongside representatives from the WRC teams and members from the Ford Motor Company.The timing of the meeting arrives amid uncertainty regarding the technical regulations for the short-term ...Keep reading

Vettel emerged as a late contender to drive Porsche Penske Motorsport's third 963 LMDh at La Sarthe following a successful test at Aragon in March in which he completed around 600km.The German manufacturer delayed the announcement regarding its full Le Mans line-up, initially scheduled for the end of March, as it evaluated Vettel for one of the two remaining seats in its three-car factory ...Keep reading

Lando Norris took his maiden win in Miami as McLaren rolled out a significant 10-part upgrade package.While Red Bull's polesitter Max Verstappen struggled with floor damage, Norris was handed a free pitstop as he had stayed out until a mid-race safety car was called.But even before his lucky break Norris displayed searing pace on the medium tyres, and on the hard-tyred restart he comfortably held ...Keep reading

Toyota driver Katsuta, starting sixth on the road, produced a strong and consistent pace across Friday morning’s four stages to take a 2.9s lead over Neuville at the midday tyre fitting zone.Reigning world champion Kalle Rovanpera managed to drive around an ill-handling Toyota to sit third, 3.3s adrift, ahead of Hyundai’s Ott Tanak [+4.1] and Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier [+7.5s], who also ...Keep reading

Machine met F1 talent, and one team's misfortune meant a victory for Munich-based team TUM.After a week of build up, and plenty of lapping, the first ever A2RL teams got to the event they'd been waiting for: the first ever race in an all-new extreme motorsport.In the lead up, teams had been hammering around the circuit as quickly as their meticulously coded ones and zeroes would allow, getting ...Keep reading

Sainz and double event winner Nani Roma will be two of the four drivers to represent Ford in the prestigious Dakar event in Saudi Arabia next year, with its remaining line-up to be announced at a later date.This would mark the Spanish driver's fourth stint with the American auto giant, having periodically competed with its range of cars in a World Rally Championship career that lasted almost 20 ...Keep reading

Martin has been pushing Ducati to finally offer him a promotion to the factory team that he believes he thoroughly deserves, having finished second in the championship last year to Francesco Bagnaia.Earlier, Martin's only realistic rival for that seat was incumbent Enea Bastianini, but Marquez has now joined the fray after making a sensational switch from works Honda to Gresini this year.With ...Keep reading