What we learned from MotoGP’s Sepang 2024 test
As MotoGP heads off from its annual winter Sepang residency, this year’s pre-season shakedown and test had plenty of focus points going into it and even more coming out.Ducati demonstrated its new weapon will remain the standard as a number of its riders went under the lap record with ease.Continue Reading
WRC Sweden test delivers “good steps” forward for Evans
To prepare for the WRC’s only round on snow, the title contender entered the Arctic Lapland Rally last weekend in Finland ahead of a pre-event test this week.Evans came out victorious in Lapland after Toyota team-mate Kalle Rovanpera suffered a technical fault in the last stage. Rovanpera had set theContinue Reading
Friday favourite: The Peugeot “spaceship” that wowed an F1 veteran
Just five race outings in the Peugeot 908 were enough for Christian Klien to select the turbodiesel LMP1 machine as his favourite racing car. A solitary win, achieved in the 2009 Spa 1000km when Audi stayed away, was the high point of the Austrian’s involvement with the Peugeot factory squadContinue Reading
Ricciardo: Rivals will now take revamped RB F1 team “more seriously”
The team, which launched its new VCARB 01 in Las Vegas late on Thursday night, will continue with its most experienced ever line-up this season, with Ricciardo joined by Yuki Tsunoda.PLUS: How the renewed Red Bull influence is present in RB’s new F1 carThe Australian said the move away fromContinue Reading
Ferrari to carry new energy drink F1 sponsor into Hamilton era
The US-based company had a low-key arrangement with the team last season that covered the three American races in Miami, Austin and Las Vegas.That has now extended to a full global partnership with its logos featured on the cars and on drivers’ overalls.Founded in 2004, Nasdaq-listed Celsius Holdings sold anContinue Reading
All-electric junior touring car series to support Formula E, DTM
The series, which was founded and debuted in Sweden last year, will be open to drivers aged between 15-25 who are taking their first steps into racing.The 20 drivers, consisting of male and female participants, will compete across six rounds this season.This includes Misano, Berlin, Monaco and London for FormulaContinue Reading
WRC champion Rovanpera announces circuit racing plans
The two-time world rally champion had indicted a wish to broaden his motorsport horizons after announcing plans that he and co-driver Jonne Halttunen will contest a partial World Rally Championship campaign this year, which begins at Rally Sweden next week.The 23-year-old admitted late last year that he wanted to tryContinue Reading
Quartararo: Yamaha MotoGP team still chasing mechanical grip “missing since 2019”
The Japanese manufacturer had been testing an upgraded version of the M1 across the two tests at Sepang this month in its pursuit to close the gap to the front and become a race-winning force in MotoGP again.Quartararo and new signing Alex Rins both got to ride the 2024 versionContinue Reading
Red Bull F1 team makes first option move on Albon
Albon has been the subject of intense speculation over his future in recent weeks, with reports linking him to Red Bull as Sergio Perez’s replacement, as well as the vacant Mercedes seat in the wake of Lewis Hamilton’s shock Ferrari move for 2025.While speculative reports Red Bull offered Albon aContinue Reading
Super GT switches qualifying format to aggregate lap times
As part of the overhaul, lap times of each car from Q1 and Q2 sessions will be combined to determine who gets to start the race from pole position.Teams will be limited to a single set of tyres throughout Q1 and Q2, which must then be used in the openingContinue Reading