Albon: Williams ‘needed to capitalise’ on F1 Australia GP attrition
The Melbourne race turned out to a huge chance for F1’s bottom five teams, who would normally be finishing 11th at best on pace.Between the races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia only Haas had managed to score a single point in Jeddah.But after the retirements for Red Bull’s Max VerstappenContinue Reading
Lundqvist: IndyCar right to experiment with Thermal $1m Challenge race
Lundqvist was the best-placed rookie in the non-championship round on Sunday, finishing sixth in the two-segment main event that had a $500,000 prize on the line after a straightforward drive – starting and finishing fourth – in the second heat race.The 2022 Indy NXT champion finished directly behind Ganassi team-mateContinue Reading
Why a national racer gets more joy from giving back to motorsport
Dan Cammish’s loss of his Team Dynamics drive on the eve of the 2021 British Touring Car Championship campaign, amid Honda and other team sponsors withdrawing, was one of the shocks of that off-season. Yet it set in motion a sequence of events that has led one seasoned Formula FordContinue Reading
Komatsu: Magnussen a team player despite reason to be “pissed off”
Komatsu admitted that the team had called Magnussen into the pits at the wrong time, losing the Dane two places in the process.Like in Saudi Arabia, Haas split the strategies of the two drivers, with Nico Hulkenberg running a long opening stint on the hard tyre before pitting for mediums underContinue Reading
Leclerc knew Ferrari could win F1 Australian GP from FP1
Second-starting Sainz passed polesitter Max Verstappen around the outside on the second lap before the Red Bull driver retired with a fiery rear-right brake failure. That enabled Leclerc to complete a Ferrari 1-2.While Verstappen’s car was ailing from the race start, which made the RB20 feel as though the “handbrake” was left on,Continue Reading
Turkington gets new BMW engine for 2024 BTCC title attack
BMW UK has belatedly confirmed that Turkington and Adam Morgan will continue alongside the Laser Tools Racing with MB Motorsport entry of Jake Hill in the WSR stable of 330e M Sport machinery, and has unveiled the livery of its cars.The BMWs suffered last season with a lack of straight-lineContinue Reading
Ocon: Visor tear-off cost likely points finish to Alpine F1 team
Ocon had made his first tyre change on lap nine, just before the tear-off became lodged in a brake duct of his Alpine A524 to trigger overheating.At the time, he was in a fight with Kevin Magnussen, Alex Albon and Nico Hulkenberg, with both Haas drivers eventually finishing in the points. However,Continue Reading
Why MotoGP’s star rookie Acosta has already got KTM orbiting around him
Pedro Acosta’s third place in last weekend’s MotoGP Portuguese Grand Prix makes him the third youngest rider in the premium category ever to score a podium. Only Randy Mamola (19 years and 261 days) and Eduardo Salatino (19 days and 274 days) have managed the feat at a younger age thanContinue Reading
How to watch WRC’s Safari Rally: schedule, line-up and more
The WRC heads to Kenya for its breathtaking Safari Rally to continue an epic start to the 2024 season.Last time out, Esapekka Lappi ended a six-and-a-half-year victory drought by winning the attritional Rally Sweden after Kalle Rovanpera, Ott Tanak and Takamoto Katsuta all found the snowbanks.The crashes handed a sizeableContinue Reading
Neuville hopeful Hyundai has addressed WRC Kenya reliability woes
The Safari Rally, which hosts the third round of the WRC season this week, is renowned as a car-breaker thanks to its unique blend of rough terrain and changeable weather.It has proven to be a bogey event for Hyundai since the event returned to the calendar in 2021, with itsContinue Reading