Wickens – who suffered a serious spinal cord injury in an IndyCar crash at Pocono in 2018 that left him paraplegic – was making his debut in the series, sharing a Target SRL-entered Hyundai Elantra N with his fellow Canadian co-driver Mark Wilkins.This was the first race of a double-header event to start the NLS endurance racing season, a 28-lap stanza around the fearsome 12.9-mile circuit ...Keep reading
The Spaniard arrived at Suzuka in a buoyant mood after leading team-mate Charles Leclerc to a 1-2 finish at the Australian GP, and hopes had been high of a strong showing in qualifying after some promising long-run form in practice.However, Ferrari endured a more challenging time in the fight for grid positions, as Sainz ended up fourth on the grid, 0.485 seconds adrift of pole position man Max ...Keep reading
Acosta's impressive march through the field in the Qatar GP to run as high as fourth because sliding down to ninth already grabbed attention.But it was a similar charge from seventh on the grid last time out in Portugal that culminated in a maiden podium in third, after Aprilia's Maverick Vinales crashed out on the last lap, that looks to have set the tone for the rest of Acosta's year.While much ...Keep reading
Beyond the headline lap times that have hinted at signs of progress in unlocking pace from its W15, the mood of its drivers is far more upbeat than at any point this season.Indeed, Lewis Hamilton declared that there had been a "night and day" difference in how comfortable he felt in the car – something that has not been common throughout the troubled campaigns Mercedes has endured in the latest ...Keep reading
Hamilton qualified only seventh for the Japanese GP, 0.569s off poleman Max Verstappen but just 0.084s shy of the fourth-placed Ferrari of Carlos Sainz.Despite the disappointing grid position, the seven-times world champion insists that the past two days have given him a clearer idea of what direction his team needs to take.He says that he’s had to make minimal changes to his W15 over the ...Keep reading
Max Verstappen will lead an all-Red Bull front row at Suzuka after topping qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix on Saturday.McLaren ended up as Red Bull's nearest challenger on a single-lap, with Lando Norris putting his MCL38 third on the grid behind Sergio Perez's RB20.Ferrari driver Carlos Sainz, the winner of the Australian GP a fortnight ago, will line up fourth ahead of the top Aston ...Keep reading
Teams all too frequently bin off one of the choices – either because the soft is too aggressive, the medium falls into no-man's land, or the hard is too conservative – but this weekend's race in Japan has left what Pirelli's head of car racing Mario Isola says is a real "headache" for strategists.With high-degradation Suzuka making a one-stop pretty much a no-goer (unless we end up with a ...Keep reading
Earlier this week, Liberty announced that it had acquired 86% ownership of Dorna Sports and the MotoGP World Championship in a deal worth €4.2 billion.Under Liberty’s ownership, MotoGP hopes to replicate the success F1 has had in breaking through to a wider audience since the American media giant took it under its wing in 2016.The US is a key market for MotoGP, which will visit the Circuit of ...Keep reading
Multiple sources have confirmed to Motorsport.com that Toyota, Hyundai and M-Sport have collectively written a letter to the FIA expressing a need for the current Rally1 technical rules to see out the original window from 2022 to the end of 2026.In February, the FIA’s working group revealed its vision for the future of top-level rallying, including a raft of proposals incorporating changes to ...Keep reading
Perez missed out on pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix to reigning world champion team-mate Max Verstappen by a slender 0.066 seconds as Red Bull scored a 1-2 result.With Perez out of contract at the end of the year, many believed RB driver Daniel Ricciardo would take his place. However, the Australian has struggled against stablemate Yuki Tsunoda.Combined with the availability of Carlos ...Keep reading
Russell was only ninth fastest in Q3, with team-mate Lewis Hamilton marginally better in seventh - albeit the latter was still 0.589 seconds slower than polesitter Max Verstappen.An eventual 0.811s deficit for Russell was partly the result of a final-sector mistake. Otherwise, he reckoned he would have been 0.4s better off to potentially qualify inside the top five."We predicted before the session ...Keep reading
The Suzuka weekend has unfolded unusually, with FP2 effectively being washed out by drizzle, which meant the teams spent most of FP3 on Saturday morning concentrating on long-run data gathering, rather than the typical qualifying simulation efforts.In these, Verstappen trailed his team-mate Sergio Perez by an average of 0.122 seconds each time, while both were trumped by Ferrari's Charles Leclerc ...Keep reading
Leclerc, renowned for his one-lap pace, was only eighth fastest as he lapped 0.589 seconds slower than polesitter Max Verstappen while outgoing Scuderia team-mate Carlos Sainz ranked fourth.But the Monegasque was at a loss to explain the disappointing performance on his side of the garage, implying that it was just a freak episode that only happens “once in a season” as the fundamentals of the ...Keep reading
The Spaniard ended Q1 second fastest but as the pace sharpened he dropped to fifth place in both Q2 and Q3, but he still felt the pace jump from Aston's car updates were greater than predicted.Alonso ran the previous AMR24 car package during Friday practice at Suzuka, with team-mate Lance Stroll using the upgrades to provide comparison running, before both drivers switched to the upgrades - which ...Keep reading
After every F1 qualifying session, Motorsport.com each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don't alter the statistics.When a driver can't put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.Read Also:
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The Red Bull drivers were amongst just a handful of drivers to gain time on the second runs in Q3, where Ferrari's challenge failed to materialise and the Mercedes drivers ended up behind Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso.Verstappen led the way on a 1m28.240s on the first Q3 fliers, where Norris was his closest challenger after producing a then session-best opening sector.But he could not replicate ...Keep reading
Verstappen will start ahead of team-mate Sergio Perez and McLaren’s Lando Norris after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3. Japanese Grand Prix grid: Verstappen on pole from PerezRead Also:
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Grant Enfinger gets into the side of Dean Thompson as the No. 5 Toyota crashes into the wall late in the race at Martinsville Speedway.
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After the initial sighter runs had been completed, most teams sent their drivers out for lengthy stints on higher fuel to see how they stacked up on the tricky tyre management task at this demanding layout with its abrasive track surface.Of the typical frontrunners, the two leading teams in that class so far this season – Red Bull and Ferrari – produced mirrored run plans that paint a ...Keep reading
The last race at the Shanghai circuit was held in 2019, before COVID-19 triggered an extended absence from the country.Since then, the F1 technical regulations have changed substantially, including a switch to 18-inch tyres.Inevitably the track surface will also have altered over the intervening years, but unusually Pirelli has not been able to send engineers to assess it in advance, which would ...Keep reading
Under brighter and slightly warmer conditions compared to Friday, Verstappen lined up first at the end of the pitlane and led off on a long first stint on the mediums, which meant he set the first place benchmark at 1m30.265s, but was soon supplanted by the soft-shod Hamilton.The Mercedes driver’s 1m30.065s first flier remained the top spot throughout the first third of the one-hour session ...Keep reading
Even though Waters got knocked out of the race after 176 of 200 laps, that didn’t negatively affect his experience.“I had so much fun tonight and all day today. It is totally different racing from what I usually do, and I just wanted to learn,” he said. “I learned so much.“There at the end, I just had nowhere to go and knocked the radiator out of it. It is a shame, but I was having fun ...Keep reading
Christian Eckes shares his thoughts after a dominant race win at Martinsville Speedway and the momentum the No. 19 team is building in 2024.