In a move the FIA has said will bring more “transparency” to the stewarding practices of Formula 1 race weekends, motorsport’s governing body has made some of its guidelines available to the public for the first time.Here, Autosport highlights some of the interesting points from the information at hand.Mohammed BenContinue Reading
Motorsport UK has mandated that Impact Data Recorders are fitted to all cars competing in British and junior racing championships with immediate effect and is evaluating a wider rollout.The devices, which weigh only 12 grams, measure the gravitational impact of crashes and secondary impacts and show how much the carContinue Reading
Brad Pitt revealed that the plot of F1: The Movie took inspiration from some infamous moments in the championship’s history – notably the 2008 Crashgate scandal that rocked the Singapore Grand Prix and resulted in bans from Formula 1 for several members of the Renault team.At the 2008 Singapore GrandContinue Reading
The FIA has published its Formula 1 penalty system guidelines which breaks down the levels of penalties and points applied for each offence.The document published is strictly a guideline, much like the F1 racing guideline released simultaneously on the eve of the Austrian Grand Prix, but provides insight into theContinue Reading
The FIA has published this year’s updated F1 racing guidelines as well as its penalty system amid calls for more transparency.F1’s racing guidelines, which suggest how the FIA’s race stewards might judge on-track incidents, have been the subject of much debate over the past 12 months and have seen substantialContinue Reading
And then there was one. Perhaps we should not have been surprised to see Carlos Sainz Sr decide not to pursue a late push for the FIA presidency.After all, last month, Mohammed Ben Sulayem received a timely boost via a letter of support signed by 36 clubs, the majority ofContinue Reading
Following a tripleheader weekend at Pocono Raceway, NASCAR chose to take the No. 9 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet of Chase Elliott and the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of Christopher with them back to the R&D Center for further inspection.Both cars were fine, but that was not the case forContinue Reading
NASCAR’s annual All-Star Race offers no points and has no impact on the champion, but one million dollars is plenty of incentive for the drivers to give it their all. Well, it’s no longer the only event that offers such a prize as NASCAR introduces an in-season tournament that willContinue Reading
Any long-time NASCAR fans know the name Larry McClure, as he was the co-owner at Morgan-McClure Motorsports alongside Tim Morgan and brother Jerry McClure, which operated a NASCAR team from 1983 through 2012. Larry’s family confirmed that he passed away on Wednesday at Johnston Memorial Hospital in Abingdon, Virginia.McClure’s race teamContinue Reading
The Trackhouse Racing teammates will compete head-to-head in the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at the Chicago Street Course in July. Shane van Gisbergen and Connor Zilisch will both be driving for JR Motorsports that weekend, running the same sponsors but with inverse paint schemes. SVG and Zilisch are both Red BullContinue Reading