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The 2024 NASCAR Cup season has begun in earnest.Following the non-points exhibition race at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum won by Denny Hamlin earlier this month, Joey Logano took pole for this weekend's Daytona 500 season opener by leading a Ford front-row lockout in qualifying on Wednesday night.
Logano and McDowell underlined the potency of the new Mustang by locking out the front row ...Keep reading

Kevin Harvick didn’t have the quickest car at Daytona and struggled against an overheating problem that dropped him back into the murkier zones of the whirling dervish pack, but what he did have was the right move up his sleeve at the crucial moment.He grasped American racing’s biggest prize away from one of its best-loved racers, Mark Martin, in brilliant – yet controversial – ...Keep reading

Forty cars will start the most-watched motorsports event in the United States on Monday afternoon, an event that is rain-delayed from Sunday, which also serves as the annual season-opener for the NASCAR Cup Series.2024 Daytona 500 starting lineup 



Pos
Nº
Driver 
Manufacturer 


1
22 
Joey Logano
Ford


2
34 
Michael ...Keep reading

Fourmaux delivered the best result of his WRC career to date to finish a milestone third, 47.9 seconds behind eventual Rally Sweden winner Esapekka Lappi of Hyundai.The M-Sport Ford driver successfully navigated incredibly challenging conditions that caught out world champions Kalle Rovanpera and Ott Tanak to end Saturday in second position, behind Lappi and in front of Toyota’s Elfyn Evans, to ...Keep reading

Formula 1 urges Red Bull to resolve the controversy surrounding team principal Christian Horner "as soon as possible".

Horner is the subject of a probe launched by Red Bull’s energy drinks parent company into unspecified allegations made against him by a female employee.He has denied any wrongdoing and recently faced lengthy questioning by the independent barrister who has been appointed by Red Bull to look into the matter.While Red Bull is going through the process of analysing the findings of the investigation ...Keep reading

Ferrari dropped a bombshell on the motorsport world earlier this month when it announced that it had signed seven-time F1 champion Hamilton for 2025.It will bring to an end a fruitful 11-year partnership with the Mercedes F1 team, whom Hamilton joined from McLaren at the end of 2012 and won six of his seven world titles between 2014 and 2020.Quartararo is a known F1 fan and lover of cars, and ...Keep reading

The Hyundai driver beat Toyota’s Elfyn Evans by 29.6 seconds across Sweden’s 18 snow stages to clinch a first win since his breakthrough 2017 Rally Finland victory.The success ended a 2,394 day wait to stand on the top step of a WRC top tier podium, following his Finland win, 60 rallies ago when driving for Toyota.The Finn, competing in the first round of a partial programme this year, made ...Keep reading

It is why we saw different floors on McLaren images, and Red Bull tried to hide the sidepod inlets on its new RB20 to keep the prying eyes of rivals away from what it is really doing for a little while longer.Sometimes though, teams go the extra mile beyond disguising what they are doing, by throwing a few deliberate distractions out there.Remember the fake serrated floor that appeared on the Alfa ...Keep reading

The Italian manufacturer is entering its 10th season since its return to the premier class in 2015, when it joined the grid in partnership with Gresini Racing.From 2022, Aprilia was entered as a standalone factory team after Gresini elected to link up with Ducati.That year marked a breakthrough for Aprilia, who scored its first victory in MotoGP with Aleix Espargaro in Argentina.Espargaro was able ...Keep reading

The Daytona 500 now joins the Xfinity Series race on Monday, creating the first-ever Monday doubleheader at Daytona International Speedway.The Xfinity Series race will broadcast on Fox Sports 1, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. The Daytona 500 will be live on Fox, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.Fans with Saturday grandstand tickets and admission to the Fanzone may attend both races on Monday.The ...Keep reading

This year’s red-and-yellow colour scheme of the 499Ps fielded in the Hypercar class by the AF Corse team once again celebrates the success of the previous factory Ferrari prototype, the 312PB of 1972 and 1973.The livery incorporates a new shade of Ferrari racing red inspired by the F2007 Formula 1 car in which Kimi Raikkonen took the Italian manufacturer’s most recent world drivers’ ...Keep reading

Carlos Sainz cut a relaxed figure when he faced a series of questions centring around Lewis Hamilton taking his seat at Ferrari for 2025 and his next move during Ferrari’s launch last week. That is because the Spaniard, a two-time race winner in F1, will know he has plenty of options elsewhere on the grid and is one of the most sought-after racers right now given his experience and current form.

Ferrari might have been the only team to score a Grand Prix victory bar champions Red Bull in 2023, but that doesn’t mean the season was a success for the Scuderia. With the steady hand of Fred Vasseur guiding the ship as he begins his second year as Team Principal, will Ferrari produce a car capable of mounting a championship challenge this season?

F1 Hall of Fame journalist David Tremayne finally reveals the truth about Senna's flirtation with Indycar amid tension with McLaren boss Ron Dennis...

Part-time pairing Lappi and co-driver Janne Ferm successfully navigated through 18 challenging snow stages to score a second career win with a 29.6-second margin over Toyota’s Elfyn Evans.Lappi’s triumph ended a six and a half-year victory drought, arriving on the first start of his 2024 part-time programme.

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Theo Pourchaire has become the third driver in succession miss out on a graduation to Formula 1 in the year after winning the Formula 2 title. As with Oscar Piastri (2021) and Felipe Drugovich (2022) before him, the Sauber junior will watch from the sidelines this year, though he will keep himself race sharp in Japan’s Super Formula championship as he seeks to further his case for a promotion to ...Keep reading

Gateshead's Clasper Village site has stood empty since the final properties were demolished in 2018.

Follow live text commentary from day one of 2024 pre-season testing at the Bahrain International Circuit.

Hyundai driver Lappi took no risks to complete Sunday morning’s stages safely with a 34-second lead over Evans, who jumped ahead of M-Sport’s Adrien Fourmaux (+48.1s).Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville remained in a comfortable fourth overall (+1m50.6s) as WRC2 leader Oliver Solberg rounded out the top five (+4m51.2s). The new Super Sunday points format for 2024 added another storyline to ...Keep reading