August 14, 2024

NASCAR says Dillon’s controversial Richmond win will not count towards the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs, revoking his automatic playoff berth.He will keep the victory, but it will not count towards the driver and owner championships. Joey Logano passed Dillon for the lead to start the two-lap overtime and looked like he would hang on for the win when Dillon drove deep into Turn 3 on the final lap …Keep reading

One statistic that is often representative when analysing a rider’s MotoGP campaign is the number of crashes they suffered during the given season.Too many crashes usually indicate that something is not quite right, although there are some cases where even higher-placed riders in the standings end up in the gravel too often.Gresini’s Marc Marquez may have got his smile back after switching …Keep reading

Two-time World Endurance Championship title winner Ben Keating will make a return to the series for his home race in Austin next month.Keating will join up with the Proton Competition Ford squad in LMGT3 at the Circuit of the Americas on 1 September for his first appearance in a regular WEC race since leaving the series, in the wake of winning his second GTE Am title last year.The 52-year-old …Keep reading

Juncos Hollinger Racing has confirmed Conor Daly will contest the remaining five rounds of the 2024 season in the IndyCar Series.A veteran of 110 career IndyCar starts, Daly will drive the team’s No. 78 Chevrolet-powered entry that was recently occupied by Agustin Canapino.The team and Canapino mutually parted ways a week ago after a string of five consecutive finishes of 18th or worse – with …Keep reading

Imagine for a minute that motor racing could be added, retrospectively, to the 2024 Olympic Games. Each country would be able to send four drivers to compete across a range of disciplines. With this in mind, I am giving readers the chance to be a selector; who would you choose for Team GB?But before you nominate Lewis Hamilton, Lando Norris and George Russell as three-quarters of the next British …Keep reading

Alpine is planning a “quite big” upgrade, which will form the basis of its 2025 car, for the final stages of the Formula 1 season.The French manufacturer has had a challenging 2024 campaign, with its A524 challenger starting the year in Bahrain as the slowest on the grid. Since then the team has undergone major infrastructure changes, which has included the departure of technical director …Keep reading

Former KTM technical director Fabiano Sterlacchini is in negotiations with Honda to join its MotoGP ranks, Motorsport.com understands.Sterlacchini spent 17 years at Ducati, rising to the role of MotoGP technical director before signing with KTM in June 2021 to lead its engineering department.In July the Austrian brand announced it had been unable to reach an agreement to renew Sterlacchini’s …Keep reading

Daniel Ricciardo reckons that his RB Formula 1 team-mate Yuki Tsunoda has the ability to succeed in Formula 1, and believes the Japanese driver simply needs to prove he can execute when winning opportunities come his way.Tsunoda has proven himself as RB’s de facto team leader over 2024, his fourth season in F1, but has been overlooked by Red Bull’s management as it considered Liam Lawson and …Keep reading

A new World Rally Championship docuseries will launch later this month, offering fans a rare behind-the-scenes look at M-Sport Ford’s 2024 campaign.The series titled ‘More than Machine’, produced in partnership with team sponsor SafetyCulture by Superlative Films, is a six-part documentary that follows the daily lives of M-Sport’s drivers Adrien Fourmaux and Gregoire Munster, engineers …Keep reading

Pramac’s Jorge Martin wrest back the lead in the championship at Silverstone a fortnight ago, but only sits three points clear of factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia.British GP winner Enea Bastianini is now up to third in the standings, 49 points of Martin. The next few rounds will give a clear indication as to whether he can mount a serious title challenge.2024 MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix …Keep reading