Mosack won his first series race a year ago with Joe Gibbs Racing at Kansas, but Tanner Gray completed dominated much of Saturday’s race driving for the same team – JGR’s No. 18 Toyota – with which Mosack won in 2023.By the time of the halftime break in the 100-lap race, Gray had built a more than 10-second lead on the field and only five cars remained on the lead lap. A caution late in ...Keep reading
Norris retired at the start of Saturday's 19-lap contest after tangling with Aston Martin's Lance Stroll, with the second Aston of Fernando Alonso and Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton also caught up in a four-way melee.After exiting his stricken McLaren, which sustained floor and rear-end damage, Norris crossed the circuit to return to the pitlane on foot but did so without permission from the ...Keep reading
The opening corner of Saturday morning’s sprint event proved dramatic as an aggressive move down the inside by Hamilton triggered a chain of events.On his outside, Fernando Alonso had tried to leave some room and brushed Lance Stroll before then being tagged by Hamilton and pushed wide into his Aston Martin team-mate again - who subsequently tipped McLaren’s Lando Norris into a spin which ...Keep reading
The 34-year-old Australian scored his best F1 result since the 2021 Russian Grand Prix for McLaren, gaining a spot from Red Bull’s Sergio Perez at the first corner but then dropping behind him five laps later, shortly after a safety car restart.After losing DRS on Perez, Ricciardo came under incessant pressure from Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz for the rest of the race but he held the Spaniard at bay ...Keep reading
The seven-time world champion and his Haas rival had some fraught moments during their fight for eighth place in the sprint.Magnussen picked up a penalty for cutting the chicane on one lap, they banged wheels later on and then both ran off the circuit later during their fight.Read Also:
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Magnussen was handed three 10-second time additions for repeatedly leaving the track and gaining advantages, plus one five-second penalty and a black-and-white warning flag for additional track-limits abuse during the 19-lap contest around the Hard Rock Stadium on Saturday afternoon.Read Also:
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Alonso was caught out at the opening corner in Miami when Hamilton came diving down the inside, forcing the Spaniard wide and into his Aston Martin team-mate Lance Stroll, who in turn collected McLaren’s Lando Norris.Having picked up a puncture in the incident, Alonso dropped to the back of the field and was not able to stage much of a recovery as he came home 17th.Read Also:
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Verstappen beat Leclerc and his Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez in an action-packed 19-lap race, the second sprint event of the season.F1 Miami GP sprint results
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At the start, Leclerc appeared to gain well against Verstappen before the polesitter swung left and made sure of the lead into Turn 1, where Leclerc saw off Sergio Perez's attentions and that allowed Daniel Ricciardo to slip ahead into third as they raced away.Lando Norris never got that far as he was taken out on Turn 1's outside line – the McLaren an innocent victim of a chain of events ...Keep reading
The company not only has to hone its tyres for cars that each year generate more load and produce faster lap times, but it also has to prepare for and adapt to any upcoming rule changes.Last year for example Pirelli had a focus on developing tyres to run without blankets in 2024, only for the planned change to be abandoned.And that in turn has had a major impact on this season. Usually Pirelli ...Keep reading
Ducati rider Bagnaia went toe-to-toe with eight times world champion Marc Marquez in a thrilling battle for victory in the 25-lap Jerez grand prix.Bagnaia came out on top by just 0.372 seconds to score his second grand prix win of the season to close the gap to championship leader Jorge Martin – who crashed – to 17 points.It came after a tough run for Bagnaia following his Qatar GP win, with ...Keep reading
As first revealed by Motorsport.com, F1 teams and series bosses are considering the idea of extending the current points-paying positions beyond the current top 10.A proposal for it to cover the top 12 was evaluated at a recent F1 Commission meeting, but it was felt that more time was needed to nail down a bulletproof plan.And it has emerged that the main factor now being discussed is whether or ...Keep reading
Rear chatter has become a recurring problem in MotoGP this year, with Ducati riders being particularly outspoken about the issue since the opening round of the season in Qatar.Tech3 GasGas rookie Acosta hasn't been spared of chattering either and once encountered the vibrations on his rear tyre at Jerez as he finished a distant 10th, his worst result in the premier class so far.Speaking ...Keep reading
For its debut weekend, the entire suite of new parts has been fitted to Lando Norris' MCL38, while Oscar Piastri will have to wait until Imola to see the full advantages on offer, as only half of the new components have been installed on his machine.The changes made aren't new or revolutionary, with the team opting to make subtle alterations to a range of components so that they all complement one ...Keep reading
After a disappointing qualifying showing on Friday for the Miami sprint race, with neither Hamilton nor team-mate George Russell making it out of SQ2, the seven-time world champion explained there were no extenuating circumstances for what happened.Instead, he says that ending up more than half a second adrift of pole position was a proper reflection of where Mercedes stacks up in F1 right now."I ...Keep reading
Sponsored by That is where the motorsport triple crown comes in, as it can only be awarded to a driver who has achieved success across different racing disciplines.So, what is the triple crown and who has claimed this feat?What is the motorsport triple crown?The triple crown consists of three races, each one showcasing a driver’s skill in a different racing discipline. It includes the ...Keep reading
The squad had already played down expectations heading into its sophomore season in the DTM, claiming that the organisers ‘won’t allow’ Porsche to win back-to-back titles in the series after its 2023 success.But so uncompetitive were the two 911 GT3 Rs at Motorsport Arena Oschersleben that Manthey EMA drivers Thomas Preining and Ayhancan Guven could muster only one top-10 finish between them ...Keep reading
On Friday, Ricciardo provided the latest indication he is starting to turn the corner after a tough 2024 season start.Ricciardo's more promising pace in China was left unrewarded after a clash with Lance Stroll, but in Miami sprint qualifying the Australian took a surprising fourth starting place for Saturday morning's 19-lap contest.He finished four tenths off polesitter Max Verstappen in the Red ...Keep reading
Antonelli is being evaluated by Mercedes as an option to replace Ferrari-bound Lewis Hamilton for 2025, dovetailing an F2 campaign at Prema with private testing in the Brackley team's previous F1 cars.But in recent days, the 17-year-old Mercedes protege has also been mentioned as an option to replace Williams' Logan Sargeant this year if the Grove-based squad decides it wants to switch ...Keep reading
All the highlights from the race in round 2 of the 2024 SUPER GT championship at Fuji. Watch the full race here.
Earlier this week Red Bull announced Newey will leave the Milton Keynes-based squad after a nearly two-decade stint, playing an important role in designing the cars that propelled Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen to multiple world championships.But amid the inner politics that have divided Red Bull at the start of this year, Newey felt the time was right to quit the squad. While he will ...Keep reading
Red Bull's Max Verstappen topped the sole practice session on Friday and is also the favourite for pole position on Saturday afternoon.The Dutch driver won the previous two editions of the Miami GP in 2022 and '23.What time does qualifying for the Miami Grand Prix start?The qualifying for the Miami GP will begin at 4pm local time (-4 GMT) on Saturday at the Miami International Autodrome around the ...Keep reading
Miami will host a Sprint for the first time this year, with a short 100km race set to take place on Saturday morning ahead of the main qualifying.The grid for the Sprint was decided by a separate shootout, which was held on Friday afternoon in place of FP2. Max Verstappen claimed pole position for Red Bull, with Ferrari's Charles Leclerc securing second spot on the grid.What time does the sprint ...Keep reading
Waters, an 11-time winner in Supercars, will make his second Truck start of the 2024 season at Kansas with ThorSport Racing.He is adamant he would like to find an eventual home in a NASCAR national series, but knows the path is not an easy one.“I would love to race NASCAR full-time, but getting into NASCAR is very challenging,” Waters said Friday at Kansas Speedway. “And right now, I’m ...Keep reading
Bottas will start last for Saturday afternoon's sprint action at the Hard Rock Stadium, actually only two places back from where he qualified after the stewards deemed he had impeded McLaren's Oscar Piastri during their near-crash in Friday evening sprint qualifying.The incident happened with four minutes left in SQ1, with Bottas heading into Turn 1 slowly having just completed a flying lap as ...Keep reading