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Valentino Rossi’s VR46 squad “doesn’t agree” with Ducati’s decision to cut down the supply of factory MotoGP bikes to just three next season.Team boss Alessio ‘Uccio’ Salucci has expressed his disappointment over Ducati only providing the outfit with a single example of the GP25 in 2025, when Pramac has enjoyed two of the latest-spec bikes in the last two seasons.VR46 had originally …Keep reading

Just one month after Sergio Perez secured a two-year contract extension with Red Bull, his Formula 1 future seems to be unravelling.Performance clauses are putting Perez at risk of losing his seat in a near future, as the grid becomes more and more competitive.The Mexican has scored just 11 points in the four grands prix since his new deal was announced – fewer than Haas’s Nico Hulkenberg or …Keep reading

Team Penske’s Scott McLaughlin won a chaotic opening race of IndyCar’s double-header at Iowa Speedway on Saturday night.The New Zealander started second and took advantage of a rapid pitstop to jump into the lead and hold the field at bay to win by 0.4814s over Arrow McLaren’s Pato O’Ward at the 0.894-mile oval.It is the fifth win of McLaughlin’s career, second of the season and …Keep reading

PJ Hyett took pole position for the IMSA SportsCar Championship at the LMP2-led round at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.Hyett’s AO Racing Oreca beat the similar cars of Daniel Goldburg (United Autosports) and Gar Robinson (Riley) in qualifying for Sunday’s race, which features a 34-car entry.The premier class GTP hybrids have taken a break from the fearsome 2.459-mile, 10-turn road course near …Keep reading

The format for the double-headers saw each driver receive two single-car laps, with the first setting their position for the opening race on Saturday night and the second determining their spot for Sunday’s event. The qualification order went in reverse of entrant points.Herta, driving the No. 26 Andretti Global Honda, stormed to a quick first lap of 187.655mph to take his first pole on an oval …Keep reading

After a wild side-by-side battle with Justin Allgaier that lasted nearly a lap with four of 90 laps remaining, Custer pulled ahead and held on to take the win in Saturday’s race at Pocono Raceway by 0.670 seconds.While Custer was the series points leader coming into the race, the win is the first of the season for the driver of the No. 00 Stewart-Haas Ford and locks him into the playoff field …Keep reading

Hamlin has enjoyed immense success in his Cup career, but his detractors love to point out the one thing he has never done is win a series championship, although he has been in position several times over the years.The 43-year-old driver of Joe Gibbs Racing’s No. 11 Toyota, in fact, is once again in good shape to contend for the series title this season, with three wins in hand already and …Keep reading

One week after qualifying second at the Chicago Street Course, Gibbs – the last car to go out in the final round of qualifying on Saturday, bested that effort by one spot by laying down a blistering lap at 170.039 mph.Gibbs just edged William Byron (169.661 mph) to take the top starting position in Sunday’s race at Pocono Raceway and his third consecutive top-10 start.Gibbs now has two career …Keep reading

Andretti Global’s Louis Foster pulled off a late pass and surged to victory in a wild Indy NXT race at Iowa Speedway.The 20-year-old Briton started second and stalked team-mate James Roe until pulling off the winning move with an outside pass with five laps to go as a late caution left him coasting to the finish at the 0.894-mile oval.“We discussed prior to the race that we were going to save …Keep reading

Toyota claimed its first pole position of the 2024 World Endurance Championship campaign as it blocked out the front row for Sunday’s Sao Paulo 6 Hours.Kamui Kobayashi took the top spot in the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID in the 10-minute Hyperpole session for the fastest 10 cars in opening qualifying.The Japanese driver’s 1m23.140s around the Interlagos circuit gave him a a margin of just over one …Keep reading