June 21, 2024

The New Zealander wasn’t involved near the top of the leaderboard until near the end of the session when he rolled to a lap of 1m07.6325s around the 2.238-mile, 11-turn natural terrain road course.Andretti Global’s Colton Herta, a two-time winner of the event, was second at just 0.0991s off the mark.Chip Ganassi Racing’s Alex Palou, also a former winner at Laguna Seca, was third at 0.1046s …Keep reading

Juri Vips provided the latest update regarding an opportunity to return to the grid of the IndyCar Series in a fourth entry for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing (RLL).A 23-year-old Estonian, Vips contested two races at the end of 2023 in RLL’s No. 30 Honda, which began the year with Jack Harvey before a switch was made for Conor Daly to have a one-off outing at Gateway. Vips qualified and finished …Keep reading

This weekend will be the second time North America’s premier open-wheel championship will race on the completely resurfaced 2.238-mile, 11-turn natural terrain road course.Located in Monterey, California, the race is set for 95 laps (212.61 miles) with Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon winning last year’s round when the event was held as the season finale in September. There have been six …Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes topped the times as practice at Formula 1’s 2024 Spanish Grand Prix got under way, while Red Bull and Max Verstappen appeared to be struggling.But, digging beyond the headline times in FP2 reveals that Verstappen and co are far from panicking – with a major set-up change coming for his RB20 on Saturday that will bring both one-lap and long-run gains.At the same …Keep reading

Williams junior Franco Colapinto revealed that he veered off track on Barcelona’s pit straight in Formula 2 qualifying in his frustration at missing pole position by just 0.006s.Such were the fine margins in what was comfortably the closest session so far in 2024, the first season with a new car that replaced the previous generation machine used since 2018, that the MP Motorsport driver was even …Keep reading

Custer’s return to the Cup Series at the Haas Factory Team would likely not be a surprise as his father, Joe, will manage the one-Cup, two-Xfinity car operation and Haas Automation has been part of the younger Custer’s entire NASCAR career as a sponsor.Custer, 26, has made no secret of his desire to return to Cup. He won the Xfinity championship in his return to the series last year and …Keep reading

Porsche’s Dane Cameron set the pace in opening practice for the sixth round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship at Watkins Glen, ahead of the returning Tom Blomqvist for Cadillac.IMSA brings a 56-car field to the classic 3.4-mile road course, which hosted the United States Grand Prix for 20 years, set in the rolling hills near the Finger Lakes in upstate New York.Cameron led the way in the …Keep reading

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has revealed that the police are involved in investigating the source of an anonymous email accusing the team of trying to deliberately sabotage Lewis Hamilton’s car.An anonymous email, sent to the same list of F1 and media representatives who were forwarded alleged WhatsApp messages involving Christian Horner earlier this year, said Mercedes was playing a dangerous …Keep reading

Alpine Formula 1 team boss Bruno Famin says he “doesn’t really mind about the past” after the team announced the controversial Flavio Briatore as its executive advisor.On Friday morning Alpine confirmed the news that Briatore had been brought in by Renault group CEO Luca de Meo as an executive advisor.While the news of Briatore being handed an advisory role had been circulating for the past weeks …Keep reading

Lewis Hamilton posted the fastest time in FP2 ahead of Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix as the Mercedes driver beat Carlos Sainz by a scant 0.022 seconds.The seven-time F1 champion vaulted to the top of the order amid the mid-session soft tyre running to displace home favourite Sainz, who had kicked off the running on the C3 tyres – the softest compound for this weekend.George Russell had led the …Keep reading