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Max Verstappen fights past Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso to win the Chinese Grand Prix sprint race.

Max Verstappen fights past Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso to win the Chinese Grand Prix sprint race.

The championship leader appeared out of sorts in the opening flurry of laps as he struggled to charge his battery with the selected hybrid settings, but a series of changes on his steering wheel appeared to rectify the issue.With greater forward momentum, Verstappen pulled himself out of third with a simple DRS overtake on the second-placed Fernando Alonso, and then pounced on a Turn 14 lock-up ...Keep reading

The FIA began a detailed probe on Friday night after two separate fires on the same area of grass inside Turn 7 disrupted running on the opening day of track action.First practice for the Chinese Grand Prix on Friday morning had to be red-flagged after a blaze erupted on the grass before the same section later caught fire at the end of the first session of sprint qualifying.While there was no red ...Keep reading

With so little practice running before parc ferme conditions beginning for sprint qualifying and the sprint itself, it is all too easy to get lost with the impact of any developments.This is why, for example, Aston Martin elected to fast-track its recent upgrade package to Japan because it did not want it rolled out in China nor Miami.But Haas elected to buck that trend this weekend in Shanghai ...Keep reading

Derani lapped his #31 Action Express-run Cadillac V-Series.R in 1m11.388s around the 1.9-mile temporary circuit.The GTP class is using Michelin’s soft-compound tire at Long Beach for the first time outside of Daytona night running, but times were way off last year's qualifying session on harder rubber – pole being a 1m09.909s by Filipe Albuquerque’s Acura.Derani laid down an early marker of ...Keep reading

The Mexican delivered a quick run of 1m06.6874s in Group 1 running on a set of softer alternate tires to set the day’s best time.Team Penske’s Will Power, who was best in the second group, delivered a mighty effort of his own with the lap of 1m06.7811s that led the group and ultimately put him second overall.The rest of the top five in overall times between all segments featured Scott ...Keep reading

Bourdais lapped his #01 Chip Ganassi-run V-Series.R in 1m11.637s around the 1.9-mile temporary circuit in the 90-minute session.Nick Tandy set the earlier pace in the #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963, lapping in 1m12.579s, a quarter of a second clear of Connor De Phillippi’s RLL BMW M Hybrid.FP1 pacesetter Pipo Derani began chipping away in his #31 AXR Cadillac V-Series.R, getting within 0.237s ...Keep reading

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

Follow live text and BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra commentary of the sprint race and qualifying at the Chinese Grand Prix.

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?