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Both Christopher Bell and Carson Hocevar, and their respective crew chiefs, have moved on from the incident on pit road in the Southern 500 that derailed the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 20.
Bell finished 29th, and left Darlington Raceway just 11 points above the playoff elimination cutline due to the damaged sustained in the incident.
Immediately after the race, Bell understood the contact to be ...Keep reading

Matt Youson takes a look at the different pit stop and tyre options that are available to the teams in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza.

Technically speaking, Tyler Reddick has an opt-out clause in his NASCAR Cup Series contract with 23XI Racing that he could execute if his car does not have an active charter attached to it.
That opt-out was successfully publicized in December by 23XI Racing and Front Row to receive a preliminary injunction from the Western District of North Carolina that forced NASCAR to recognize the two teams ...Keep reading

Carson Hocevar is basically Thanos but instead of collecting Infinity Stones, the second-year NASCAR Cup Series driver is collecting Chevrolets.
To wit, he is the driver of the No. 77 Spire Motorsports Chevrolet NextGen but has also generated headlines earlier in the summer for acquiring a 1997 Silverado pickup dressed up an in era appropriate Dale Earnhardt vinyl. This week, he acquired a 1977 ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen set the fastest F1 lap in history in taking pole position for the Italian Grand Prix, and he is feeling optimistic for Sunday's race.

Max Verstappen set the fastest F1 lap in history in taking pole position for the Italian Grand Prix, and he is feeling optimistic for Sunday's race.

To the surprise of many, Max Verstappen grabbed his fifth pole-position of the Formula 1 season at the same track he had described the Red Bull car as “a monster” just 12 months ago.
So how have Verstappen and the Milton Keynes-based team been able to tame that monster and complete the fastest lap in F1 history?
“We have obviously learned and understood quite a lot since last year,” ...Keep reading

"If you can help Lando, if you can tow Lando up to Turn 4, but just make sure we don't impede - gap three," Piastri's race engineer Tom Stallard requested at the end of Q2.
Oscar Piastri had just finished his final lap to book a place in Q3, while Lando Norris was still under big pressure to deliver.
In what he admitted had been a messy qualifying until that point, Norris had to abort an ...Keep reading

Harry Benjamin, Jennie Gow and Alice Powell reflect on qualifying at the Italian GP.

For a minute or so on Saturday afternoon at Monza, Lando Norris was not only provisional polesitter for the Italian Grand Prix, but also a record-breaker: his 1m18.869s lap meant an average speed of 264.423km/h, faster than Lewis Hamilton’s 264.362km/h, set during qualifying for the 2020 race here.
Then Max Verstappen went faster still, with a 1m18.792s lap: 264.681km/h. Another new ...Keep reading

The drivers and teams report back on all the action from final practice and Qualifying at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, for the 2025 Italian Grand Prix.

Max Verstappen claimed a scintillating pole position at Monza, beating the Mclaren pair fair and square on a scorching hot day in Italy. The Dutchman will start from P1 tomorrow with Lando Norris alongside, while championship leader Oscar Piastri lines up third. But who else excelled at the Temple of Speed? Here are all the best facts and stats from Qualifying…

1 – Max VERSTAPPEN (Red Bull Racing) 2 – Lando NORRIS (McLaren) 3 – Oscar PIASTRI (McLaren)

Oscar Piastri admits that McLaren's pace ahead of the Italian Grand Prix has "not been quite as comfortable" as other weekends this year after missing out on pole position.

Chris Medland picks out five key things to keep an eye on when the lights go out on race day at Monza.

George Russell believes "we definitely underperformed" during Qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix, with the two Mercedes drivers set to start from the third row.

Max Verstappen claimed his fifth pole position of the season in a thrilling Qualifying session for the Italian Grand Prix.

Alex Albon has cited Williams’ struggles to get the soft tyre working as being the root of their Qualifying troubles at the Italian Grand Prix, with the team suffering a double Q2 exit despite displaying promising pace in the weekend’s practice sessions.

Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc has made it clear that he “couldn’t do much more” after finishing Saturday’s Qualifying session for the Italian Grand Prix in a “disappointing but not surprising” fourth place.

Max Verstappen denied McLaren and Ferrari pole position for the Italian Grand Prix in one of the closest Qualifying sessions of the season.