Quartararo at a loss to explain Le Mans MotoGP Friday pace
For just the second time this season, Quartararo will make an appearance in the pole shootout qualifying session on Saturday after finishing Friday’s running at his home round in 10th.While Yamaha brought a raft of changes to its bike for the Jerez test after the Spanish GP, only a fewContinue Reading
Marquez explains worst Friday of 2024 MotoGP season in France
The Gresini Ducati rider crashed in the hour-long afternoon practice at Le Mans and struggled for pace through to the chequered flag.His penultimate flying lap in the session was thwarted by a yellow flag, before a mistake while fastest through the first sector on his last effort consigned him toContinue Reading
“Angry” Ericsson vows to get Indy 500 revenge after loss that “still hurts”
The ex-Formula 1 racer, who moved to Andretti Global’s IndyCar team from Chip Ganassi Racing on the off-season, came within 0.0974s of being the first back-to-back winner of the Indy 500 since Helio Castroneves achieved the feat in 2002.The race was red flagged while he was leading and, instead ofContinue Reading
Sauber: Bottas F1 race engineer switch down to Audi “anticipating” changes
Former Ferrari performance engineer Steven Petrik was installed as a replacement for Bottas’ engineer Alex Chan, whom the Finn had worked with since joining the team in 2022.Bottas noted that the decision was “not in my hands”, suggesting that this was part of Audi’s “reconstruction” of the Sauber team aheadContinue Reading
IndyCar Indy GP: Herta fastest from Canapino, as engine issues spark concerns
Herta, the current points leader in the IndyCar Series championship, delivered flying lap of 1m09.2863s on a set of softer alternates to set the quickest time on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.439-mile, 14-turn road course layout.The quick lap set by Herta came with less than three minutes remaining in the 75-minuteContinue Reading
Vodafone Rally de Portugal Friday morning highlights
Takamoto Katsuta delivered on his promise of adopting a more aggressive approach at the start of WRC rallies, seizing the lead of Vodafone Rally de Portugal on an action-packed Friday morning. SourceContinue Reading
WEC Spa: Ferrari beats Porsche to pole, top Toyota in seventh after lengthy delay
Fuoco took the top spot by almost exactly half a second at the wheel of the #50 Ferarri 499P Le Mans Hypercar in the 12-minute Hyperpole session for the fastest 10 cars in the first round of qualifying.The Italian’s 2m02.600s lap of the Circuit de Spap-Francorchamps pushed Porsche driver MattContinue Reading
Corey Heim to run Nashville Cup race with 23XI Racing
Heim, 21, currently competes full-time in the NASCAR Truck Series. He has seven career wins there and made the Championship 4 last year. The Georgia native also has ten NASCAR Xfinity starts, finishing as high as fourth at Richmond Raceway earlier this year.The rising star in the Toyota camp joined LegacyContinue Reading
Sargeant not distracted by Antonelli rumours after F1 future talks with Vowles
Antonelli is currently competing in his first season of F2 as his racing education as part of the Mercedes development programme and, with Lewis Hamilton leaving at the end of the season and heading to Ferrari, the Italian has been one of the drivers linked to the vacant seat alongsideContinue Reading
MotoGP French GP: Martin ends Friday practice on top, Marquez misses Q2 cut
Setting the pace in FP1, Martin continued that form in the hour-long second session at Le Mans with a new lap record of 1m30.388s.The championship leader headed Francesco Bagnaia on the factory team Ducati from Tech3 rookie Pedro Acosta, while Fabio Quartararo made it through to Q2 in front ofContinue Reading