Tokyo Formula E layout not “the best they could have done”, say drivers
The all-electric championship will make its first appearance in Japan this weekend at a 20-turn, 1.606-mile circuit located in Tokyo’s Big Sight area by the docks.The street circuit is noticeably twisty and technical, with little in the way of straights unlike the previous round in Sao Paulo, which featured ampleContinue Reading
WRC Safari Rally: Rovanpera stuns rivals to lead as Neuville suffers puncture
Two-time world champion Rovanpera, making the second start of a partial WRC campaign, managed to tame an at times ill-handling GR Yaris to open up a 15.5s lead over Hyundai’s Esapekka Lappi.Ott Tanak headed to midday service in third [+16.8s] ahead of Toyota pair Takamoto Katsuta [+41.3s] and Elfyn EvansContinue Reading
2024 NASCAR Richmond schedule, entry list, and how to watch
William Byron earned pole position, led the most laps, and became the first repeat winner of the 2024 season with his victory last weekend at COTA. Martin Truex Jr. has taken sole possession of the points lead, leading Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Ty Gibbs by 5pts.The series now heads to Richmond,Continue Reading
Supercars ace Cam Waters to make NASCAR Truck debut at Martinsville
Following in the footsteps of Supercars champs Shane van Gisbergen and Brodie Kostecki, Waters will make his NASCAR debut early next month.The Australian driver has started nearly 250 Supercars races during his career, winning 11 races. He has been the championship runner-up twice, and has three podiums in the series’Continue Reading
Safari Rally Kenya Thursday highlights
FIA World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville took a slender 0.1-second lead over his Hyundai team-mate Ott Tänak after winning Safari Rally Kenya’s opening stage on Thursday. SourceContinue Reading
Kenya president pushing for longer WRC Safari Rally
The Safari Rally is renowned as the most gruelling event on the WRC schedule testing drivers and teams to the absolute limit.The event returned to the WRC calendar in 2021 after a 19-year hiatus but in a much shorter format. This year’s edition, operated by a new Kenyan organiser, willContinue Reading
The good, bad, and ugly of IndyCar’s half-baked exhibition race
Was this really the best North America’s premier open-wheel championship could do? And at what cost?When the $1 Million Challenge was revealed by IndyCar roughly six months ago in a made-for-TV spectacle at a club track outside of Palm Springs, California, it came with unpleasant realities: the need to fillContinue Reading
How WRC Rally1 teams embraced the return of the snorkel
A change in FIA regulations that coincides with the Safari Rally moving to a more traditional March date in Kenya’s rainy season has allowed Rally1 teams to fit these devices to cars for the first time.Snorkels have long been a feature in the WRC and have been particularly associated withContinue Reading
Vasseur: More consistent car means Ferrari F1 drivers no longer in “survival mode”
Last year Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc often had to focus on tyre management, which was made more difficult by inconsistent and unpredictable behaviour even between sets of the same compound.This year’s SF-24 has proved to be much more benign and predictable on long runs, and that was a keyContinue Reading
Byron to ‘shoot for the stars’ at Richmond and Martinsville
Byron, who drives the No. 24 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports, became the series’ first repeat winner of the season with his dominating win last weekend at Circuit of the Americas.With his victory in the season-opening Daytona 500, Byron already has a leg up on his competition but this weekend’s raceContinue Reading