Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz set the fastest time across the day, but only after team-mate Charles Leclerc dislodged a drain cover which took time to fix.The loss of running, though, allowed for even more time to spy on the new 2024 cars in the pitlane and garages.INSIGHT: What we learned on dayContinue Reading
Day two of 2024’s F1 Pre-Season Testing is over, bringing up a whole new list of things to discuss. Are drainage covers becoming a problem in the Venturi Tunnel era of Formula 1? Has Red Bull found some mechanical issues with their RB20? And which teams are looking on formContinue Reading
Allmendinger has won two races in the No. 16 car (Indy RC 2021 and Charlotte Roval 2023), but will only run select races this year as he competes for the NASCAR Xfinity Series championship.He finished sixth in the season-opening Daytona 500. Josh Williams will drive the car at Atlanta MotorContinue Reading
F1 is officially underway for 2024 with pre-season testing this week at the Bahrain International Circuit.It follows a dominant championship-winning campaign for Max Verstappen, who broke several records in 2023 including most wins in a season (19), most points in a year (575) and biggest title winning margin to secondContinue Reading
The Australian ended Thursday’s track running fifth overall, 1.4s down on Ferrari pacesetter Carlos Sainz after both had used the C4 soft tyre.It followed Ricciardo setting the fourth-fastest time on Wednesday, 1.2s off pacesetter Max Verstappen in the Red Bull RB20, but on a par with the McLaren of Lando Norris and Sainz.The teamContinue Reading
20 years ago today, the NASCAR Cup Series took the checkered flag for the very last time at Rockingham Speedway. The D-shaped 1.017-mile oval hosted Cup races from 1965 to 2004.Now, 2004 was a year of change for NASCAR, utilizing a playoff format for the first time in its history. AsContinue Reading
Red Bull’s substantial step for this season has caught rivals by surprise after most of them focussed on trying to work out what made last year’s RB19 so competitive, and inevitably ended up with cars that owe much to the title winner.Red Bull itself has now gone in a differentContinue Reading
Audi and Ford/Red Bull Powertrains are both currently developing new power units for the first year of the new rules in 2026, while Cadillac intends to enter as a manufacturer in 2028 with the mooted Andretti team.The change to the new rules is a tricky one, even for the establishedContinue Reading
Kvapil, the 20-year-old son of former NASCAR Truck champion Travis Kvapil, will drive JRM’s No. 88 Chevrolet in the April 6 race.As a product of JRM’s Late Model organization, Kvapil becomes its fifth driver to make his Xfinity debut for the organization, joining Richard Boswell, Josh Berry, William Byron andContinue Reading
The new SF-24 has looked good from the start of testing in Bahrain, and crucially its on-track behaviour has mirrored that seen in the Maranello simulator.Team-mate Carlos Sainz led the second day of testing outright, while Leclerc was fastest in the truncated morning running.Leclerc says that the team is inContinue Reading