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Thierry Neuville insists his first focus is on delivering a “consistent run” at this week’s Central European Rally as the Hyundai driver closes in on a maiden World Rally Championship crown.Neuville heads into the WRC’s penultimate round, spread across the asphalt roads in the Czech Republic, Austria and Germany, with a 29-point lead over nearest rival and team-mate Ott Tanak.The Belgian will …Keep reading

Six races to go: the calendar’s final quarter. The business end of the year. The last push. That bit of the year where all the races turn into an amalgamated blob of half-remembered overtakes at weird times of the day, before finally concluding in an Abu Dhabi encounter that will either be saturated in tedium, or offer a masterclass in how to put on a championship finale. And never the twain shall …Keep reading

Can a driver with a 52-point lead with six rounds of a Formula 1 season remaining really not be considered the favourite to win the world championship?To many F1 observers, the Dutchman’s current points pile and cracking capabilities combine to make him unstoppable in 2024. This is regardless of how good McLaren and Lando Norris were in winning commandingly in Singapore last time out, or the fact …Keep reading

Erebus Motorsport’s victory in the Supercars showpiece Bathurst 1000 has taken a sour turn, with one of the team’s crew members attacked amid celebrations on Sunday evening.Race winner Brodie Kostecki revealed details of the incident when speaking on Monday’s Seven Network breakfast programme Sunrise, stating that it had left a crew member and his partner hospitalised.“One of our crew members …Keep reading

Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff says people are wrong to think Lewis Hamilton could face some struggles adapting to his new life at Ferrari.Hamilton is leaving Mercedes at the end of this season after a 12-year spell to join Ferrari as team-mate to Charles Leclerc.It will be the first time that he has raced for a non-British-based team in F1, having originally started his career with McLaren in …Keep reading

When Kyle Larson captured the checkered flag at Charlotte, all four Hendrick Motorsports drivers managed to advance into the Round of 8. That is no longer the case.Alex Bowman, driver of the No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet, has been disqualified after failing post-race weight requirements in technical inspection. The car was too light. He had finished 18th, winning Stage 2, but that’s all …Keep reading

Joey Logano has made the Championship 4 every other year since the format’s inception in 2014, but that odd statistic ends this year: he was eliminated from the playoffs by four points in Charlotte.Those four points were of a certain significance to Logano. When Austin Dillon ran him over (and Denny Hamlin moments later) for the Richmond win this past summer, Logano wasn’t just denied a checkered …Keep reading

After winning the opening stage by staying out, Tyler Reddick restarted deep in the field for Stage 2. When Austin Dillon spun in the tight Turn 7 just ahead, Reddick was entering the corner too hot and started to slide out of control. Reddick was slowed by slamming doors with his car owner and fellow Toyota driver Denny Hamlin, an act that lifted the No. 45 23XI Racing Toyota completely off the …Keep reading

Kyle Larson took a commanding victory at the reconfigured Charlotte Roval, ahead of Christopher Bell and William Byron. Larson then took daughter Audrey for a ride around the track in his No. 5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet after she retrieved the checkered flag for him.”It’s the first time in my playoff career I’ve not been close to the cut line so it was good to have a little bit of a …Keep reading

The four-inch curbing at Turn 16 is no more, just hours before the start of Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series elimination race at Charlotte. The corner apex, which was extended before the race weekend, created a narrower final corner.Commonly called ‘turtles’ or ‘sausage kerbs’ elsewhere in the world, drivers were aggressively running over the top of the curbs during practice in qualifying, and later …Keep reading