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Factory Ducati rider Enea Bastianini says he doesn’t consider himself a contender in the 2024 MotoGP title battle despite scoring a double victory in the British Grand Prix last weekend.Bastianini pulled off his best performance in years to win both the sprint and the main race at Silverstone, comfortably outgunning team-mate Francesco Bagnaia and Pramac rival Jorge Martin.The result elevated …Keep reading

James Vowels is not pressing the panic button, despite seeing Williams’ rate of progress slow during the 2024 season. At the end of the last campaign, Vowles had seen the team climb up to seventh in the constructors’ championship and it had amassed 28 points. In doing so, he received high acclaim for the achievement.However, now 19 months in his role as team principal, at the halfway point of the …Keep reading

Connor Zilisch will race full-time in the NASCAR Xfinity Series driving the No. 88 Chevrolet for the JR Motorsports organization in 2025.The 18-year-old Trackhouse Racing development driver stormed onto the racing scene in 2024 compiling an impressive resume that includes LMP2 victories at the Rolex 24 in Daytona, the Twelve Hours of Sebring. #18 Era Motorsport ORECA LMP2-Gibson: Dwight …Keep reading

Helmut Marko has insisted Sergio Perez is still the best option to finish the Formula 1 season alongside Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen.Perez’s slump in performance in the second quarter of the campaign has allowed McLaren to narrow the gap to Red Bull in the constructors’ standings to 42 points by the summer break.Read Also:Formula 1Is Red Bull’s faith in Perez bounce-back …Keep reading

If the 2024 season has taught F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali one key lesson, it is that it is impossible to predict with any certainty how things are going to turn out.While many were talking back in March of Max Verstappen potentially winning all the races this year after his dominant start in Bahrain, it did not turn out that way at all.In fact, with seven different winners from the first half of the …Keep reading

Fabio di Giannantonio has agreed a contract directly with Ducati to race for the VR46 team in MotoGP next year.As revealed by Motorsport.com last month, di Giannantonio has signed a two-year deal that will see him continue at Valentino Rossi’s MotoGP squad until the end of the current regulations in 2026.He will be one of the only three riders on the 2025 grid to compete with the factory-spec …Keep reading

Former Formula 1 driver and 2021 Formula E champion Nyck de Vries will compete in two rounds of this year’s Super Formula season with Team Impul.De Vries, 29, will make his debut in the Japanese single-seater series at Motegi on 23-25 August, before contesting the Fuji double-header on 11-13 October. He will vacate the cockpit of the #19 SF23 entered by Impul for the season finale at Suzuka on …Keep reading

Sawalich, a 17-year-old development driver with Joe Gibbs Racing, had led the race early but his involvement in an incident with a lapped car sent him to the rear.Lavar Scott led on a late restart before Sawalich regained the lead with three laps to go, only to see Scott come right back and battle side-by-side with Sawalich.The tight battle for the lead allowed Kris Wright to sneak up on the …Keep reading

It was around this time a year ago the technical alliance between A.J. Foyt Racing and Team Penske began taking shape, which has proven beneficial for both organizations this season.The partnership has proven huge for Foyt’s team, which has enjoyed a resurgence with Santino Ferrucci scoring seven top-10s and sitting 10th in the championship standings through 12 races, with Penske-affiliated …Keep reading

Former NASCAR Canada champion Treyten Lapcevich held off a late-charging Heim to earn his first series victory late Saturday night at North Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway.However, in a statement released Tuesday, CARS Tour officials announced Lapcevich’s No. 77 Chad Bryant Racing entry had been disqualified after an unapproved part was found to have been used on the car during the race.Series …Keep reading