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McLaren junior Ugo Ugochukwu has won the Macau Grand Prix after a race that featured a red flag and five safety car periods.Ugochukwu led every lap and managed every restart of the chaotic contest perfectly to mirror his success in Saturday’s qualifying race.The Formula Regional World Cup race began behind the safety car as the Guia circuit still featured some damp patches after heavy rain earlier …Keep reading

Ducati team boss Davide Tardozzi joked that someone would have to shoot Pramac rider Jorge Martin for him to finish lower than fourth in Sunday’s MotoGP finale in Barcelona.Martin is on the verge of winning the 2024 MotoGP title in his final race appearance on a Ducati, despite factory rider Francesco Bagnaia comprehensively outperforming him in Saturday’s sprint to take a dominant victory.With …Keep reading

New Supercars champion Will Brown scored an almost unbelievable win in the 24th and final race of the championship on the streets of Adelaide.Brown mounted a brilliant recovery after dropping to last place after his Triple Eight Chevrolet was turned around by his former team-mate Brodie Kostecki at Turn 7 early in the race. As Brown recovered, his team-mate Broc Feeney and Walkinshaw Andretti …Keep reading

Antonio Fuoco has hit out at a “dirty move” from Raffaele Marciello that cost the Italian a chance of taking Ferrari’s first FIA GT World Cup win in Macau.Fuoco had shown impressive pace amid the tricky wet conditions of the Guia circuit’s streets, passing Dries Vanthoor for second with a move at R Bend a couple of laps after the race began in earnest, having started behind the safety car.He was …Keep reading

Maro Engel has won a dramatic FIA GT World Cup race as he defied a five-second penalty for causing a collision to top a remarkable wet contest around the Macau Guia circuit.The first five laps were run behind the safety car amid torrential rain earlier in the morning but the race exploded into life when it finally went green.BMW’s Raffaele Marciello was aiming to score a third consecutive win in …Keep reading

Stéphane Tribaudini, Renaud Kuppens, Paolo Biglieri and Shota Abkhazava are the four polemen for the Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Finals that will take place between today and tomorrow on the Jerez de la Frontera circuit.Glorious sunshine since the early hours on the track named after Angel Nieto greeted the best AM and LAMBORGHINI CUP categories drivers from the Asia, North America and Europe …Keep reading

Renaud Kuppens and Holger Harmsen were the winners of the AM and LAMBORGHINI CUP classes at the end of the first Super Trofeo World Final race at Jerez, where the action was non-stop leaving the outcome uncertain even after the chequered flag.At the start Stéphane Lemeret took advantage of a mistake by Stéphane Tribaudini to slip past his VSR rival into the lead with his CMR Huracan, while …Keep reading

The first race of the Lamborghini World Finals held this afternoon at the Angel Nieto Circuit in Jerez de la Frontera and dedicated to the Pro/Pro-AM classes, provided endless twists and turns right from the very first corner.Many protagonists were expected but they dropped out, mainly due to accidents, in an uncertain race from lap 1 to the final corner before the chequered flag.The first major …Keep reading

Rising MotoGP star Pedro Acosta believes Marc Marquez tried to overtake him “like no one was there” after his early exit from Saturday’s Barcelona Grand Prix sprint race.Acosta made a quick launch from sixth on the grid to jump to fourth place at the start, behind the Ducati GP24s of Enea Bastianini, Francesco Bagnaia and Jorge Martin.But heading into the tight right-hander of Turn 3, Acosta …Keep reading

Macau’s Guia circuit has a reputation for being brutally unforgiving. With drivers negotiating the streets at high speeds and millimetres from the walls, it is inevitable that some accidents will happen. But that does not excuse the 12 red-flag periods that occurred during qualifying for this year’s Macau Grand Prix.Yes, there are some mitigating factors that explain the volume of incidents …Keep reading