Max Verstappen won the 2024 Austrian Grand Prix sprint race after fending off an intense early attack from McLaren Formula 1 team-mates Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris.After the contest had been shortened to 23 laps as an extra formation lap was required to to photographers standing behind the barriers atContinue Reading
World rally champion Kalle Rovanpera produced a stunning effort to lead Rally Poland by 0.1s from Toyota team-mate Elfyn Evans as the top three were covered by 2.7s on Saturday morning.Despite his limited and rushed preparation for the event, Rovanpera showed his class to overhaul overnight leader Hyundai’s Andreas MikkelsenContinue Reading
World champion Francesco Bagnaia headed Jorge Martin in a tight pole battle at the MotoGP Dutch Grand Prix, as a late crash for Marc Marquez left him seventh.Bagnaia and standings leader Martin traded all-time Assen lap records at the start of the Q2 session, before the former smashed it withContinue Reading
Esteban Ocon’s Austrian Grand Prix sprint qualifying SQ3 out-lap driving left two of his rivals baffled after it appeared to thwart the chances of the chasing Sergio Perez and Pierre Gasly.While Ocon finished eighth in SQ3 – ahead of Gasly but behind Perez – all three drivers ended the session feelingContinue Reading
Nikola Tsolov has secured his second win of the Formula 3 campaign in the Austrian sprint race, holding off Martinius Stenshorne and Christian Mansell in a final-lap restart after a late safety car.Starting from pole, Stenshorne immediately surrendered the lead of the 21-lap race to Mansell after making a tardyContinue Reading
Following a calamitous 2023 edition overshadowed by penalties and investigations, Formula 1’s latest track limits solution in Austria got off to a solid start.Last year the Red Bull Ring’s final two corners caused huge problems by featuring an all-tarmac run-off that didn’t punish drivers for going wide, with FIA raceContinue Reading
A scant 0.093 seconds separated Max Verstappen and Lando Norris in their Austrian Grand Prix sprint qualifying laps, as the two once again start on the front row.The duo were separated by less than two-tenths throughout their sole SQ3 laps, the gap only growing between them during the mid-corner phase,Continue Reading
Martins Sesks’ top-flight World Rally Championship debut at Rally Poland is “one of the strongest in a while” according to M-Sport team principal Richard Millener.Last year’s European Rally Championship runner-up has stepped up to rallying’s top Rally1 class with M-Sport as part of two-round deal, supported by the WRC, thatContinue Reading
Caio Collet believes making his Formula E debut at such short notice will be “a hard task” as he replaces Oliver Rowland at Nissan for the Portland E-Prix.The Brazilian has been drafted in to replace Rowland this weekend after the two-time Formula E race winner was declared ill ahead ofContinue Reading
Elfyn Evans has led a call for action to be taken to address the spectator safety issues that have forced World Rally Championship organisers to cancel two Rally Poland stages.Spectators standing in dangerous places to watch the cars pass through the stages forced officials to act on safety grounds toContinue Reading