May 24, 2024

Katherine Legge sat in her race car at Indianapolis Motor Speedway last Sunday, shaking. It was her final chance to qualify for the Indianapolis 500, and she felt like throwing up.  “Subconsciously, you know it’s now or never,” Legge tells me when we talk afterward. “But you don’t acknowledge it consciously. You go through every single emotion at Indy: frustration, anger, excitement …Keep reading

The Briton reached the peak of the FP1 times by 0.029s over McLaren’s Oscar Piastri, as the top five were all within a quarter of a second in this weekend’s opening timed session at the Monaco circuit.Hamilton’s lap was succeeded by a red flag called for debris produced at Turn 1 by Zhou Guanyu, who survived a brush with the barrier despite losing fragments of front wing.Read …Keep reading

The McLaren driver suffered the break in his left hand having crashed at Sainte-Devote in practice ahead of the Monaco E-Prix – becoming the latest driver to join a growing list that has suffered a similar fate.In the last two years alone there have been several drivers across multiple disciplines who have suffered broken hands, to the point that it has now become the predominant injury in …Keep reading

Espargaro won both the sprint and the grand prix at Barcelona last year, and ended Friday for the 2024 event 0.072 seconds clear of KTM’s Brad Binder after the South African suffered a pair of falls in the second session.For the second round in succession, six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez will have to go through the Q1 qualifying session after failing to do better than 12th in second …Keep reading

As part on the ongoing policy in qualifying of drivers needing to build their gaps coming out of the pit lane, rather than slowing out on track, there have been repeated issues of drivers forcing their way into the queue at the exit.Drivers do not want to be left at the back of the train of cars because that risks them not getting their laps in, so there can be some frantic jostling for …Keep reading

Red Bull Racing RB20 technical detailPhoto by: Giorgio PiolaRed Bull has a higher downforce rear wing configuration in Monaco, with a flat leading edge on the mainplane that leads into a tightly wound transition with the endplate.The upper flap also takes up more of the allowable box region and has a V-shaped notch and a Gurney flap on the trailing edge. Meanwhile, the tip section …Keep reading