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Hyundai’s Neuville and Toyota driver Evans incredibly clocked identical overall times to sit tied for the lead on Friday night after 119.74 competitive stage kilometres.Neuville claimed three of the four morning stages on the way to opening up a 10.1-second lead over Evans until a puncture on stage six cost the Belgian valuable time.Evans moved into a 1.6s lead before Neuville responded on the ...Keep reading

The 49th edition of the Grand Prix of Long Beach will see drivers from both series take to the 1.968-mile, 11-turn temporary street circuit that has undergone some slight improvements.Among the notable changes are improvements to the curbing in Turn 5. Significant work was done to allow the longer bolts that are attached to the curbs to withstand the pounding from the sports cars.There was also ...Keep reading

Online ticket sales for the 2024 Chinese Grand Prix launched at 8 p.m. China Standard Time on January 9th of this year, and by 8:01 the operation was in trouble. Overloaded servers wreaked havoc on a system designed to link pre-ordered tickets with either a national ID or an international passport, blocking buyers who thought they had already, in some ways, won the lottery. Chaos and frustration ...Keep reading

The opening two rounds, including a non-points event as the most recent act, has featured zero on-track passes for the lead.In the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden dominated to lead 92 of 100 laps and claimed victory by 7.9121s over Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward. The race featured zero on-track passes for the lead, with the four changes of the top spot ...Keep reading

This weekend’s round on the Streets of Long Beach will comprise 85 laps (167.28 miles) around the 11-turn, 1.968-mile temporary circuit.When is the IndyCar race at Long Beach?Date: Friday, April 19 – Sunday, April 21Race start: 3:45pm ETTrack: 11-turn, 1.968-mile clockwise street courseRace distance: 85 laps/167.28 milesFirestone tire allotment: Six sets primary, four sets alternate to be ...Keep reading

Fuoco carried on where fellow works Ferrari driver Yifei Ye left off in first practice aboard the #83 customer AF Corse-run example, setting a lap of 1m30.957s with over an hour remaining in the session that could not be surpassed.The effort put him 0.342 seconds clear of the championship-leading #6 Penske Porsche Motorsport 963 LMDh in which Kevin Estre had previously clocked the benchmark time.A ...Keep reading

Hyundai’s Neuville and Toyota’s Evans couldn’t be split after 119.74 competitive stage kilometres, ending the day with identical overall times.Neuville had been in control of the rally, winning three of the four morning stages that contributed to a 10.1-second lead over Evans, before knocking a tyre off the rim in stage six.This strife helped Evans close to within 0.1s before the Welshman ...Keep reading

Derani lapped his Action Express-run Cadillac V-Series.R in 1m13.477s around the 1.9-mile temporary circuit in the one-hour session.The GTP class is using Michelin’s soft-compound tire at Long Beach for the first time outside of Daytona night running, and an extra set has been made available for Saturday’s 100-minute race.Ricky Taylor made an early error in the #10 Wayne Taylor Racing with ...Keep reading

This incredible experience is just part of the incredible prize up for grabs in the MoneyGram Monaco Dream Weekend competition with the MoneyGram Haas F1 Team, which is giving fans from the UK and Europe the chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime trip.A home race for many of the F1 drivers, Monaco is like nothing else on the F1 calendar. With impossibly narrow streets, incredibly high-speed corners ...Keep reading

Three-time Formula 1 world champion Lauda survived the crash at the Nurburgring, even though his crash helmet was torn from his head during the brutal head-on impact with the barrier, before his stricken Ferrari 312T2 was then rammed by Brett Lunger’s Surtees.Four of his fellow drivers assisted in pulling Lauda from his burning car, which crashed on the second lap at the Bergwerk section of the ...Keep reading

Taming the insane speed of an F1 car takes extraordinary skill and incredible technology. The brakes glow red hot. The drivers feel huge G-forces. How do F1 braking systems work, and how do drivers cope every time they slam their left foot into the pedal?

A sprinkling of the wet stuff turned qualifying for the Sprint at the Chinese Grand Prix into a thriller, with Lando Norris taking a superb pole for McLaren with Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton completing an unusual front row.

The drivers and teams report back on Friday practice and Sprint Qualifying at the Shanghai International Circuit ahead of the Formula 1 Lenovo Chinese Grand Prix 2024.

A pumped up Zhou Guanyu delighted his home fans in Sprint Qualifying at the Shanghai International Circuit, making it through to the final segment – SQ3 – before taking P10, one place behind his Kick Sauber team mate Valtteri Bottas on a strong day for the Swiss team.

Carlos Sainz has explained how Ferrari failed to “switch on” their tyres when dry conditions were replaced by rain during the closing stages of Sprint Qualifying at the Chinese Grand Prix.

Norris will start ahead of Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) and Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three quickfire segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3. Per the new sprint weekend format, these sessions set the grid for Saturday’s sprint and have no impact on Sunday’s main event. Read ...Keep reading

Johnny Herbert won the Le Mans 24 Hours with a Mazda 787B – a firm favourite among sportscar fans – and three Formula 1 races in Benetton and Stewart machinery. But the two cars he selects from his career are machines he failed to win in.“The best car I drove at Le Mans was the Bentley, very nicely engineered,” says Herbert of the Speed 8 he shared with Mark Blundell and David Brabham to ...Keep reading

Oliveira was speaking of his experiences at Trackhouse Racing’s NASCAR facility in Concord, North Carolina, prior to last weekend’s Americas Grand Prix.Admitting he knew very little about NASCAR prior to his visit, he says he gained a greater appreciation of the series and the intricacies of it that go far beyond drivers simply turning left.When asked about this, he noted that MotoGP could do ...Keep reading

The Frenchman was granted Alpine's new floor upgrade initially pencilled in for Miami, as one undertray construction was fast-tracked in time for the Chinese Grand Prix.This new floor features changes to the diffuser, heavily revised front fences, and a new floor edge wing that features a slot towards the rear.Although these changes should yield an uptick in performance, Ocon stated that the ...Keep reading

The Japanese manufacturer has made an abysmal start to the new campaign on its radically overhauled RC213V package.Scoring just eight points out of a possible 111 from the opening three rounds, no Honda rider has cracked the top 10 yet in either sprint or grand prix.In last weekend's Americas Grand Prix, only one Honda rider – Luca Marini – finished the race, albeit 33.529s off the pace at a ...Keep reading