Formula Winter Series Aragon: Three new winners as title contenders struggle
MP Motorsport’s Keanu Al Azhari, Rodin Motorsport’s Thomas Strauven and Campos Racing’s James Egozi claimed the victories, as Griffin Peebles eked out a slight points advantage over Andres Cardenas on a difficult weekend for the title contenders.Race 1The opening race on Saturday afternoon got off to a horrifying start whenContinue Reading
GT4 Winter Series Aragon: Two wins out of three for Forsetti’s Aston
Race 1Jamie Day stroked to a comfortable win in the opening sprint race of the category’s penultimate weekend on Saturday afternoon to add to Forsetti’s impressive GT4WS trophy haul.The Aston was untroubled from a safety car start introduced to save time in a busy racing schedule, Day quickly opening aContinue Reading
GT Winter Series Aragon: Heyer and Hartling top of a Mercedes trio
Race 1The opening 30-minute sprint race of the category’s penultimate weekend proved eventful on Saturday afternoon, as Martin Kaczmarski and Heyer duelled for the victory.From the rolling start, Heyer got the jump into Turn 1 from polesitter Kaczmarski, as a number of Porsche GT3 Cup cars caused havoc after startingContinue Reading
Prototype Winter Series Aragon: Konrad Motorsport clinches LMP3 double
Race 1Soufi and van Berlo paid tribute to their absent team chief Franz Konrad, who was recovering in hospital from an accident, after completing an emphatic night-race victory in the opening encounter on Saturday evening.Soufi opened up a big lead as headlights blazed in the darkness, then handed over toContinue Reading
Vegas has been “a little bit of a struggle” for points leader Kyle Busch
Busch finished 12th in the season-opening Daytona 500 before coming just 0.007s shy of victory at Atlanta. Unfortunately for Busch, that narrow margin was still only good enough for third place.Between those two results and the stage points he scored during the first two races, the two-time NASCAR Cup SeriesContinue Reading
Hamilton: Mercedes F1 team now in “building process”
The team had a difficult race in Bahrain, with unexpected power unit temperature issues afflicting both cars from the early stages.George Russell slipped back from an early second to finish fifth, while Hamilton moved up to seventh from ninth on the grid, having gained places from Fernando Alonso and OscarContinue Reading
Toyota expects another “difficult” WEC race in Imola if car weight remains same
The Japanese manufacturer fears it could end up being in the same position as in Saturday’s Qatar 1812Km season-opener, where its two cars finished sixth and ninth after struggling for pace all week at the Losail International Circuit.A front-row starting position following an impressive lap from Nyck de Vries inContinue Reading
Alonso: Aston Martin back to normal after exceptional Bahrain F1 qualifying
In an extremely tight qualifying battle, Alonso’s final Q3 lap was good for sixth, 0.363s off polesitter Max Verstappen and only half a tenth behind George Russell in third.But Alonso slid down the order to finish ninth in the race, being unable to keep up with the Mercedes of Lewis HamiltonContinue Reading
Could Red Bull civil war really trigger shock Verstappen F1 switch to Mercedes?
One thing is sure though: this saga is far from over, and the ultimate end game may not become clear for quite some time yet.Ever since the controversy first blew up last month, there had been speculation that this stretched far beyond being an internal matter involving Horner and aContinue Reading
10 things we learned at the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix
Formula 1 racing returned with the new season finally kicking off for real with the 2024 Bahrain Grand Prix. But there was so much similar from the overall story of 2023 it rather deflated the whole affair from early on in the 57-lap main event. Max Verstappen appeared to beContinue Reading