Evans and his team-mates Kalle Rovanpera and Takamoto Katsuta all opted to take only soft tyres for the loop held on roads that were much more abrasive than those navigated on Friday. While Evans briefly managed to overhaul Hyundai’s Teemu Suninen to claim second overall and Rovanpera climbed to fourth after winning stage seven, their
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Espargaro was in the fight for a top-five position when his RS-GP suddenly slowed on lap eight of Saturday’s 12-lap race, won by Jorge Martin’s Pramac Ducati, forcing him into the pits and retirement. It follows a similar episode in last weekend’s Indian Grand Prix but, while Espargaro put that problem down to the intense
Piastri secured the first podium of his F1 career with third at last weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, joining team-mate Lando Norris on the rostrum, but admitted after the race that it was not his finest performance. Reflecting on why he felt that way, the Australian rookie explained that, on a day when there was a
Green Hell Driving Days, 30 September to 3 October Extended tourist driving weekend on the Nordschleife: From Saturday, 30 September to the Day of German Unity on 3 October, the barriers to the world’s most beautiful 20.832 kilometres will open for four days in a row. From 8:00 am to 7:00 pm, everyone has the
Going through its worst-ever phase in grand prix racing, Honda has had to resort to changes in its technical line-up in a bid to keep hold of star rider Marquez. Ahead of this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, it emerged that long-time technical chief Shinichi Kokubu has been moved aside as part of the reshuffle, with
Red Bull clinched its sixth constructors’ title with six races to spare in Japan, which is another entry for the Milton Keynes squad into the series’ record book that it has been steadily rewriting this year. Team principal Horner conceded that losing its streak of consecutive race wins in Singapore was inevitable. And while the carrot of
Leonardo Gorini and Luca Pirri have been entered as the GT2’s inaugural drivers, as the Italian manufacturer makes its long-awaited follow-up to the revered MC12 GT1 that bowed out at the end of its title-winning 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship campaign. PLUS: The unwanted GT car that changed sportscar racing forever Maserati made its motorsport return by
After an impressive start to the rally, Loubet was sitting fourth heading into stage three when he went off the road at high-speed. The Frenchman appeared to carry too much speed into a right-hand corner which resulted in his car being sent into a frightening series of rolls, before coming to rest on its roof.
Crutchlow is making a one-off MotoGP appearance this weekend at the Japanese Grand Prix for Yamaha in order to evaluate a raft of items to aid 2024 development. Due to the regulations, Crutchlow is not allowed to test the 2024 engine prototype that was brought to the Misano test and which Fabio Quartararo said he
After a strong run of points finishes for Albon, Williams is currently in a solid seventh in the championship on 21 points, ahead of Haas on 12, Alfa Romeo on 10, and AlphaTauri on five. However, while Williams has no new parts coming through the system for the FW45 as it focuses on its 2024 car,
Williams boss James Vowles says the team is “nowhere near” parting company with Logan Sargeant, who the team wants to keep in the car for 2024. Sargeant has struggled in his rookie season and a string of costly crashes over the past few races has ramped up pressure on the Floridian. The American’s place at
“Strange and exciting.” Those are the words that came into FIA chief technical and safety officer Xavier Mestelan Pinon’s mind when he was told about the Garage 56 entry for this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. And for good reason. The car that filled the grid slot reserved – but not always allocated – for
The reigning champion was an encouraging second-fastest on the opening day of the Motegi weekend, only 0.029 seconds shy of pacesetter Brad Binder on the KTM. Both Binder and Bagnaia, as well as third-placed Aprilia rider Aleix Espargaro, eclipsed the eight-year-old Motegi lap record that was set by Jorge Lorenzo in FP2. Having arrived in
After using customer units from McLaren and latterly Mercedes since its early Force India days in 2009, the Silverstone outfit is currently ramping its own transmission department ahead of 2026, when its new relationship with Honda obliges the team to create a bespoke gearbox. Inevitably, that push has focused Aston’s attention on the costs associated
The team made a bigger loss despite upping its turnover from sponsorship and prize money by over $32m, with the numbers reflecting an overall increase in costs in the first year of the new regulations. Following a reorganisation, the team now operates under the banner of AMR GP Limited, which is a subsidiary of AMR
Kokubu has been a mainstay at the Japanese manufacturer for over three decades, having joined Honda in 1986, working on both its MotoGP project and briefly in Formula 1. He did not travel to India last week and is also not present at Motegi for the Japanese Grand Prix, and will most likely be followed
The aim of the update was to reduce some of the losses being generated along the floor’s length, which in-turn will have helped result in an uptick in performance too. The changes started at the front of the floor assembly, with the fences being slightly modified to ensure a better localised flow, whilst also improving
Sep 28, 2023, 08:56 AM ET New Zealand-based Rodin Cars said on Thursday its bid to enter Formula One as an 11th team and with a female driver had been rejected and it expected Andretti Global to be the only successful applicant. Rodin’s Australian founder David Dicker said in a statement the company had proposed
The British operation’s participation in rallying’s top tier was called into question during the Acropolis Rally earlier this month. Team founder Malcolm Wilson has since reiterated that M-Sport has no intention to stop its Rally1 programme and “will be doing whatever we can to try and find a way to stay in at the highest
With an end to Honda’s current competitive woes nowhere in sight, Marquez has done little to quell talk of a sensational switch to satellite Ducati machinery, which would entail ending his contract with the marque with which he has spent his entire premier class career. After a disappointing first test with the 2024 prototype Honda
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