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If the final six races of 2024 are a shootout for next year’s Red Bull seat alongside Max Verstappen, then series returnee Liam Lawson certainly made an impression.Fresh from a spell on the sidelines as Red Bull’s reserve driver, Lawson kicked off his stint replacing Daniel Ricciardo at Red Bull’s RB team with a third-fastest time in Q1 at Austin. He was three tenths off leader Verstappen, and …Keep reading

Sébastien Ogier says he needs a “reset” after a third consecutive incident cost Toyota valuable points in its bid to defend the World Rally Championship manufacturers’ title.The eight-time world champion was in the box seat to deliver a fourth victory from his partial campaign at the Central European Rally, having ended Saturday with 18 provisional points after building a 5.2s lead over …Keep reading

Ferrari will continue with an unchanged Hypercar class driver line-up in next year’s World Endurance Championship.Antonello Coletta, Ferrari’s head of sportscar racing, confirmed on Sunday that the #50 499P Le Mans Hypercar will be raced in 2025 by Antonio Fuoco, Nicklas Nielsen and Miguel Molina and #51 by James Calado, Alessandro Pier Guidi and Antonio Giovinazzi for a third consecutive …Keep reading

The final race of the weekend at Imola saw James Owen and Bence Valint split the Trofeo Pirelli AM and Trofeo Pirelli titles. The Meridian Modena – Engstler driver seized the moment in tricky conditions to win the AM world title ahead of his rivals and winning the overall race.Owen made the most of the rain, which fell heavily in the last 10 minutes of the race. This was the key factor that …Keep reading

Henry Hassid was crowned world champion in the Coppa Shell category thanks to a superb race in comeback style. Starting from P8 on the grid, the Frenchman stamped his authority on the competition right from the start, quite literally flying on the damp track of the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari in Imola.The Kessel Racing driver took just one lap to pass from eighth place to first as he looked to …Keep reading

Lando Norris has revealed why his Formula 1 race engineer made a rare intervention on the team radio before his pole lap for the United Stated Grand Prix.Norris took a sixth pole of 2024 at the Circuit of the Americas thanks to narrowly beating title rival Max Verstappen after the first of two planned runs in the Q3 shootout.A late yellow flag for George Russell’s crashed Mercedes prevented anyone …Keep reading

Max Verstappen insists he simply “doesn’t care” about the feud between Red Bull team principal Christian Horner and McLaren boss Zak Brown.The latest spat between the two has overshadowed much of the track action at this weekend’s United States Grand Prix in Austin, where Verstappen qualified second behind title rival Lando Norris.Brown was leading the charge for Red Bull to face punishment if a …Keep reading

Factory Lamborghini driver Mirko Bortolotti was crowned the 2024 DTM champion after finishing second to Luca Engstler in Sunday’s finale at Hockenheim, as title rival Kelvin van der Linde struggled to 12th.Having retaken the lead in the championship by scoring three bonus points in qualifying on Sunday morning, SSR Performance’s Bortolotti became the first Lamborghini driver to clinch a title in …Keep reading

Charles Leclerc believes Ferrari remains in contention for Formula 1 victory at the United States Grand Prix despite falling short of Lando Norris and Max Verstappen in qualifying.Leclerc took fourth on the grid, just 0.09 seconds away from team-mate Carlos Sainz as the Spaniard clinched third for Sunday’s race at Austin.The Monegasque did not think the early end to Q3 – caused by George Russell’s …Keep reading

Factory Ducati rider Francesco Bagnaia is optimistic of regaining the points lost to Jorge Martin in Australia as MotoGP heads to two of his favourite tracks for its next rounds.Bagnaia’s deficit to Pramac Ducati’s Martin doubled from 10 to 20 points over the weekend at Phillip Island, where he finished fourth in the sprint and third in the grand prix, while Martin took a win and a second …Keep reading