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Ferrari academy driver Dino Beganovic will make the step up to Formula 2 with DAMS for the final two races of the season in Qatar and Abu Dhabi.The 20-year-old replaces Juan Manuel Correa, who returned to competition in 2021 after sustaining serious injuries in the same crash at Spa Francorchamps in 2019 that claimed the life of Anthoine Hubert.In what was a highly competitive F3 campaign which …Keep reading

A limited number of tickets for MotoGP’s new season finale in Barcelona are on sale, with all proceeds set to be donated to the victims of the devastating floods in Valencia.Ticket prices for what is officially being branded as the Solidarity Grand Prix of Barcelona start at 55.30 euros and go as high as 108.50 euros for the ‘Excellence’ grandstands, according to a statement released by …Keep reading

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has insisted there was no reason for Sergio Perez not to have followed Max Verstappen through the field and scored big points at the Brazilian Grand Prix.After another Q2 elimination in qualifying, albeit just a place behind team-mate Verstappen before the three-time champion’s five-place grid penalty, Perez started 12th. Yet, after a race that included an …Keep reading

This year hasn’t quite gone as Ross Chastain had planned: He narrowly missed making the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs despite consistently good results. His first win of the season finally came in late September (outside of the regular season) at Kansas Speedway — and Chastain credits his fitness regimen for his consistency, despite being out of the running now for the championship.“We just …Keep reading

Nico Hulkenberg has revealed how the marshals at Turn 1 for the Formula 1 Brazilian Grand Prix were “partying” after illegally helping the Haas driver rejoin the race after an off.The German spun out in difficult conditions at Interlagos and although he failed to reach the barriers at the first corner, he became beached on a crest in the run-off area, with his rear wheels in the air.This led to …Keep reading

Three-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Andre Lotterer believes that winning the World Endurance Championship title this year means more than his 2012 triumph with Audi.The German, who sealed the crown in Bahrain on Saturday with Porsche Penske Motorsport team-mates Laurens Vanthoor and Andre Lotterer, suggested that his second world crown conveys more prestige than the maiden triumph secured in the …Keep reading

Reigning two-time world rally champion Kalle Rovanpera swapped a rally car for a Red Bull RB8 Formula 1 car in a test at the Red Bull Ring.Suggestions the 15-time WRC rally winner could drive an F1 car emerged earlier this season while a picture posted on his Instagram of a visit to the Red Bull Racing workshop in Milton Keynes last month further fanned speculation.Read Also:WRCToyota …Keep reading

DS Penske’s Maximilian Guenther finished the second day of Formula E pre-season testing in Jarama fastest, just 0.031s clear of Kiro’s Dan Ticktum.The German posted a 1m28.408s in the final hour of the afternoon session at the Jarama Circuit just outside Madrid, which is hosting Formula E testing this week after the flooding in Valencia.How Formula E resolved its logistical nightmare to save …Keep reading

The peculiarity of the free tyre change that is allowed under Formula 1’s red flag rules has long been a source of frustration to drivers.When the situation crops up, like it did in Brazil last weekend and at the Monaco GP in May, those who are caught on the wrong side of things bemoan the sheer randomness of it.In Monaco, it was all about how the hard compound starters were compromised by the …Keep reading

Ducati test rider Michele Pirro will be drafted in at VR46 for the final round of the 2024 MotoGP season at Barcelona, Motorsport.com has learned.Pirro will be riding one of VR46’s GP23 bikes in the Barcelona GP on 15-17 November, with Fabio di Giannantonio again absent from racing after getting surgery done on his left shoulder last Wednesday.Although Andrea Iannone impressed VR46 in the …Keep reading