“Obviously, I am disappointed that I’ve been put in a tough spot,” said Smith in a release on Saturday.”I am diligently exploring quality driving opportunities and hope to quickly wrap up my plans for next year. Meanwhile, kudos to our No. 71 Cup team. We’ve turned our year around thisContinue Reading
Lando Norris will start from pole position for the Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix. Here’s how and when you can watch the race.The McLaren driver produced a storming lap to take pole position by 0.356s over Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, with Oscar Piastri taking third place.George Russell’s late improvement pushedContinue Reading
Max Verstappen has failed to put an end to speculation linking him with a switch to Mercedes – just 24 hours after boss Toto Wolff revealed he was still in discussions with the Red Bull driver’s management team over the summer.Wolff is close friends with Verstappen’s father Jos, and spokeContinue Reading
A quarter of a second advantage in the first sector of the Zandvoort circuit laid the foundations for Lando Norris’ decisive Dutch Grand Prix pole, built upon by a solid final split.The final 0.356-second gap between Norris and Max Verstappen in qualifying was representative of a comparative gulf, given theContinue Reading
Josh Cook achieved his first British Touring Car Championship pole position in over two years after just pipping Colin Turkington to top spot around Donington Park’s Grand Prix layout.The pole was Cook’s first since switching to a Speedworks-run Toyota Corolla for this season and he finished up just 0.071 secondsContinue Reading
George Russell believes tyre overheating led to his half-second deficit to Dutch Grand Prix polesitter Lando Norris after being on the pace throughout Q1 and Q2.Russell and Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton are looking to build on winning three of the last four races, but as the F1 season resumed in ZandvoortContinue Reading
Charles Leclerc has declared his 0.909s gap to Lando Norris’s Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix pole lap time for McLaren was “too much” for Ferrari.The Scuderia, which has slipped behind Mercedes and McLaren in the battle to get on terms with Red Bull since Leclerc commandingly won at Monaco in May,Continue Reading
Red Bull is pinning its hopes on winning Formula 1’s 2024 Dutch Grand Prix on set-up changes making Max Verstappen’s RB20 “calmer” after Lando Norris beat him in Zandvoort qualifying.Motorsport advisor Helmut Marko believes the 0.356s gap between Norris and Verstappen was inflated by a slide for the Dutchman atContinue Reading
Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward believes the hybrid unit introduced midway through the IndyCar season has impacted the series’ racing product. The hybrid unit was a collaborative effort between IndyCar, Chevrolet and Honda, and paired the 2.2-litre, twin-turbocharged V6 internal combustion engine with an electrical low-voltage motor generator unit and a 320Continue Reading
After every F1 qualifying session, Autosport publishes each team’s qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don’t alter the statistics.When a driver can’t put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this willContinue Reading