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Sophia Dunkley leads South East Stars to a thrilling final-over victory against champions Southern Vipers as the Rachael Heyhoe-Flint Trophy returned.

The title rivals were locked in a titanic scrap across the day’s eight stages, which saw the lead change hands and the margin between the pair never exceeding five seconds, having started Saturday tied on overall times.A maximum attack approach, assisted by a beneficial tyre call in unpredictable weather, ultimately resulted in Hyundai driver Neuville ending the day with a 4.9s lead from Evans ...Keep reading

Jean-Eric Vergne insisted that he and the Peugeot Sport team left nothing on the table on the way to 15th position in the opening qualifying session, five places off the cut-off for the Hyperpole final. He added that only a small improvement would have been possible without the red flag two minutes before the end of the initial period of qualifying. “As a team we did a very good job and we ...Keep reading

The defending race winner, Kirkwood delivered a flying lap of 1m06.4731s (106.581 mph) in the final seconds to lead the session on a chilly morning at the 11-turn, 1.968-mile temporary street circuit.Herta, who led the majority of the second half of the session, ended up trailing by 0.0155s behind Kirkwood.Christian Lundgaard also took advantage of a late run and jumped to third, 0.1100s off the ...Keep reading

Perez enjoyed a solid start to the year with three podiums in four races, all runner-up spots to Verstappen.Those performances have strengthened his position within the team as it is weighing up whether to renew the Mexican's expiring contract or bring in new blood for 2025 and beyond, with plenty of free agents on the market for next year.Last year, Perez appeared to struggle under his own ...Keep reading

McDowell, whose first career pole came earlier this season at Atlanta Motor Speedway, was fastest in both rounds on Saturday, winning the pole with an average lap speed of 182.022 mph over fellow Ford driver Austin Cindric (181.739 mph).In three superspeedway races this season, McDowell has started second, first and now second. He was involved in a wreck in the season-opening Daytona 500 and ...Keep reading

The Belgian was pushing for a place in the Hyperpole session ultimately topped by Antonio Fuoco in a Ferrari top three sweep when he rotated the WRT-run M Hybrid V8 on the exit of the fast Piratella left-hander.Read Also:


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Having avoided contact with the wall and got going again, Vanthoor felt the session was red flagged ...Keep reading

The drivers and teams report back on the Sprint and Qualifying at the Shanghai International Circuit ahead of the Formula 1 Lenovo Chinese Grand Prix 2024.

Chris Medland picks out five key things to keep an eye on when the lights go out on race day in Shanghai...

McLaren had targeted a May release for its first big upgrade batch for the MCL38 driven by Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri and has now confirmed that it is on course to bring the new specification to the Miami Grand Prix held on 5 May."For Miami, we will have finally the first round of upgrades to our car," team boss Stella confirmed in Shanghai.McLaren has started off the 2024 season in promising ...Keep reading

Larson was not allowed to make a qualifying attempt Saturday at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway and his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports team could face further NASCAR penalties.Prior to the start of the first round of Saturday's qualifying session, NASCAR announced Larson would not be allowed to participate and was sent his No. 5 Chevrolet Camaro back to the Cup Series garage.A NASCAR spokesman said the ...Keep reading

A reshuffle of Formula 1's rather Marmite sprint weekend format has now come to pass at the Chinese Grand Prix, as the sprint race - won by Max Verstappen, no less - moved to the morning rounds.Last year's arrangement of settling the grid on Friday for the grand prix offered the pleasing sibilance of Saturday sprint sessions, but at the detriment of the teams as they were already locked into parc ...Keep reading

Antonio Fuoco set two laps good enough for pole position aboard the #50 factory 499P Le Mans Hypercar at the head of a block-out by the three Ferraris in the 10-minute Hyperpole session. The Italian jumped to the top of the times with a 1m29.735s before improving to a 1m29.466s right at the end. “I felt really good inside the car, really confident,” said Fuoco. “The first lap was already ...Keep reading

Aston Martin had filed a protest against the result in the wake of Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz's off-track excursion in Q2.Sainz spun out of the final corner and tapped the tyre wall on the opposite side of the circuit, causing a red flag as he was stationary for over a minute.Read Also:


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Verstappen will start ahead of team-mate Sergio Perez and Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.Chinese Grand Prix grid: Verstappen on pole from PerezRead Also:


Formula 1F1 Chinese GP: Verstappen claims Red Bull's 100th pole, Perez ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen will line up first on the grid yet again after scoring Red Bull's 100th pole position in qualifying on Saturday. He will be joined by team-mate Sergio Perez as part of an all-Red Bull front row lockout.Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Lando Norris (Ferrari) will start second and third respectively.What time does the Chinese Grand Prix start?The Chinese GP will begin at 3pm local ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen is in imperious form as he takes pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix, leading Sergio Perez to a Red Bull one-two.

The 34-year-old has been racing full-time in MotoGP since 2012 and has been with Aprilia since 2017, developing the RS-GP into a race-winning package in that time.His current contract with the Italian marque expires at the end of the year and he is giving himself until the Italian Grand Prix in May to see where his form is at before deciding on a direction to take.If he remains a racer, he says he ...Keep reading

The Australian had come into the Chinese Grand Prix off the back of a difficult start to the season, where he had been struggling for pace against team-mate Yuki Tsunoda and facing questions over his future.With no obvious explanation for his difficulties, the team believed a well-timed change of chassis for this weekend would at least be able to tick that issue off as a factor in his form.And ...Keep reading

Matt Youson takes a look at the different pit stop and tyre options that are available to the teams on race day in Shanghai...