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Alexander Rossi put together his most complete weekend of the 2024 IndyCar Series season by finishing third on Sunday at Laguna Seca.The result is not only Rossi’s best result of the season, it also stands as his third top five over the last three races, and sixth top 10, to sit seventh in the championship standings after eight points-paying rounds.Sunday’s result matches his best with Arrow …Keep reading

Mercedes says its deficit to Red Bull and McLaren in Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix does not show the true picture of its potential.Lewis Hamilton delivered his first non-sprint podium of the season in Spain, as he finished third behind Max Verstappen and Lando Norris.But while the top duo were separated by just 2.2 seconds at the end, Hamilton ended up a further 15 seconds back – suggesting …Keep reading

Aprilia says adapting to an all-new MotoGP rider line-up remains the only “question mark” for the marque as it prepares to welcome Jorge Martin and Marco Bezzecchi from Ducati in 2025.Aprilia’s MotoGP programme is set for a major reshuffle next year, with the two riders who have played a major role in transforming the RS-GP into a race-winning bike leaving for pastures new.Aleix Espargaro …Keep reading

RB’s Daniel Ricciardo says there is no need to revert the team’s upgrades just yet as it investigates a “really strange” drop in performance at the Spanish Grand Prix.RB brought an elaborate upgrade package to Barcelona, which included a new rear wing, updated sidepods and engine covers and a re-profiled floor.The team hoped those updates would keep its VCARB01 at the forefront of F1’s tight …Keep reading

After starting eighth in the No. 77 Juncos Hollinger Racing Chevrolet, the 38-year-old Swiss-born Frenchman quietly lurked among the top 10, with the move forward coming through working the overcut of pit strategy on two of his three pit stops. The significant play to press up the grid came after the caution on lap 36 of 95, only 10 laps after Grosjean’s first pit stop. He was elevated from …Keep reading

Berry, in his rookie Cup season with Stewart-Haas Racing, started Sunday’s race strong but when it was red-flagged after 219 laps due to heavy rain he was mired in 20th.NASCAR, however, elected to wait out a nearly two-hour, 15-minute delay and mandated teams run the final 77 competitive laps on wet weather tires.Berry’s No. 4 Ford came alive after the break and by the time of the final …Keep reading

Lando Norris may have been kicking himself for losing out in Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix, but the team reckons there was nothing more he could have done.Norris was left frustrated with himself that, despite securing pole position and having what appeared to be the fastest car at Barcelona, he was beaten to the chequered flag by Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.The Briton felt that with a better …Keep reading

Juan Manuel Correa secured an emotional return to the Formula 2 podium on Sunday, 24 hours after losing a top-three result through a post-race penalty and five years to the day since his last official appearance in the top three.That occasion had come in the F2 sprint race during the 2019 French Grand Prix weekend, a race that famously saw Anthoine Hubert send the crowds into raptures as he scored …Keep reading

Only tepid expectations preceded this year’s edition of the Spanish Grand Prix. Most expected the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya’s painful adherence to conventional track design to suit the Red Bulls perfectly, given the team had laboured with literal and metaphorical bumps in the road.Although the predictions were largely right as Max Verstappen chalked up another win to add to his impressive …Keep reading

Rising World Rally Championship star Sami Pajari will now make his Rally1 debut in Finland instead of Latvia following a change to Toyota’s driver line-up.Toyota announced last month that Pajari and co-driver Enni Malkonen will step up from driving a Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 car in WRC2 to pilot a fourth GR Yaris Rally1 at the gravel rally that will make its WRC debut from 18-21 July.However, the …Keep reading