McLaughlin relishes “gnarly” run to snatch record Indy 500 pole
McLaughlin set a memorable record-setting four-lap average of 234.220mph having set off as the last of the fast six, scoring Penske’s 19th Indy 500 pole.Team-mates Will Power and defending race winner Josef Newgarden will start alongside McLaughlin – the trio gave team owner Roger Penske his first front-row lockout forContinue Reading
WEC calendar won’t expand in 2025
Series promoter the Automobile Club de l’Ouest has stressed the importance of capping the expansion of the series, at least temporarily, following its return to its traditional eight events in 2024 after a contraction resulting from COVID.“It is not in the plan today to add a race because of theContinue Reading
Tearful Vettel ‘finishing Senna’s job’ with Austrian flag tribute at F1 Imola
This month marked the 30-year anniversary of Senna’s fatal accident at Imola on 1 May 1994, which came the day after Austrian Ratzenberger lost his life in a crash.The death of Ratzenberger, which itself followed a serious practice accident for Senna’s compatriot Rubens Barrichello, shook the Williams driver to theContinue Reading
10 things we learned at the 2024 F1 Imola Grand Prix
Formula 1 headed back to Imola after the 2023 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix was cancelled due to flooding in the Italian region. This time, the sporting contest went ahead in sunshine throughout.The race was awfully dull, until Max Verstappen’s struggles aboard his Red Bull and Lando Norris’s hard tyre brilliance inContinue Reading
Why Norris fell away and then “spiralled” back at Verstappen
In the opening phase of the race, it was Verstappen who had the edge as, after holding the advantage at the start, he was steadily able to eke out a gap on the medium tyres to be more than six seconds clear up until the first round of stops.Things didContinue Reading
Marini bemused by his Honda MotoGP pace in 2024 – but just how bad is it?
The Italian has endured a torrid switch from the VR46-run Ducati he raced last year to the factory Honda in 2024.Marini hasn’t qualified inside the top 20 across the first five rounds, while he is the only Honda rider not to score points in 2024, with his best grand prixContinue Reading
Why Perez thought P8 was “the best we could get” at F1 Imola GP
The Mexican had failed to make the top 10 in qualifying, instead being knocked out in Q2 with a lap time 0.015s slower than Daniel Ricciardo’s on his RB.Perez started the race on hard tyres in a bid to make the most of any timely safety car intervention, virtual orContinue Reading
Onboard with Bruno Baptista at Cascavel
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Which F1 driver has led the world championship the longest?
While some drivers take the title long before the final round – recently Max Verstappen took both the 2022 and 2023 titles with several races left to go – others can sit at the top of the table but still never claim the crown. Valtteri Bottas is one of thoseContinue Reading
Video: Norris just misses out on catching Verstappen at the F1 Imola GP
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