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AF Corse driver Robert Kubica was trying to put a lap on Dries Vanthoor in the seventh hour of the race when he side-swiped the BMW at the end of the Mulsanne straight, sending the car head-on into the barriers.The contact with the armco sent Vanthoor spinning to the other side of the track, where he came to a rest with severe damage to the front of the car.The #15 BMW retired immediately on the …Keep reading

The #83 AF Corse Ferrari continues to hold the net lead in the hands of Yifei Ye after the opening six hours of the race as rain hit the Circuit de la Sarthe, with the Frederic Makowiecki grabbing second late on in the #5 Porsche.Robert Shwartzman was able to pull out a lead of over 40 seconds in the satellite Ferrari following an impressive triple stint, with Ye carrying on the good work of his …Keep reading

Saturday’s qualifying session was cut to from two rounds to one due to an extended weather delay, but it was still run in groups.The top five speeds from each group were placed in the top 10 starting lineup, with the fastest speed of the 10 earning the pole.Larson, who won last weekend’s race at Sonoma for his third victory of the 2024 season, ended up going out last in Group B, which produced …Keep reading

The World Endurance Championship race has been shaped by a sudden shower at 5:38pm, before which the Nicklas Nielsen’s #50 Ferrari led Laurens Vanthoor’s #6 Porsche, Antonio Giovinazzi’s #51 Ferrari and Sebastien Buemi’s #8 Toyota.The Italian and the Swiss had previously overtaken Sebastien Bourdais’ Cadillac, respectively round the outside at Mulsanne and on the Mulsanne straight.Although the …Keep reading

For the last couple years, Truex has made year-to-year decisions on whether to return the following season – usually putting it off as long as possible.But the debate was never over performance on the track. Even though he remains without a win so far this year, Truex insisted results played no role.“We’ve had some disappointments this year, for sure,” he said. “But it’s not enough …Keep reading

Nielsen was running fractionally ahead of the #6 Porsche of Laurens Vanthoor after one hour of racing, but must serve a 10-second penalty at his next pitstop for an unsafe release.The three Ferrari LMH cars made blistering starts as the 92nd running of Le Mans 24 Hours got away at 4pm local time, with Nicklas in the #50 car jumping from fourth to slot into second.Nielsen then got a great run on …Keep reading

As it ran late with the production of its 2024 launch car, Williams started the season with a chassis that was significantly overweight.And while Williams had already taken 14kg out of the car over the off-season, its 2024 FW46 was still four, five-tenths per lap slower than it should have been.  A revised floor and other parts took some weight out on Albon’s side of the garage from Imola …Keep reading

The Porsche Penske factory team barely got one 963 into Hyperpole with an initial eighth time in the first qualifying session for Estre, before the #7 Toyota lost its laps due to causing a red flag, promoting Jota’s #12 Porsche into the top eight.Driving the #6 car, Estre went on to snatch pole position for the legendary World Endurance Championship race with a last-gasp Hyperpole effort which was …Keep reading

As most teams elected to give drivers pitstop practice in live conditions, only 12 of the 23 Hypercar entries set a time during the short 15-minute session that precedes the World Endurance Championship’s blue-riband event, with Kubica heading a Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar 1-2 in his customer #83 AF Corse example.His 3m29.260s lap time proved 0.409s quicker than Antonio Giovinazzi, the …Keep reading

From second on the grid Feeney (Triple Eight Chevrolet Camaro) had to follow polesitter James Golding (PremiAir Racing Chevrolet) for the opening three laps before finding a gap at Turn 6, and building a lead of up to three seconds.As the opposition pitted, Feeney waited until mid-race to make his mandatory stop, emerging with a lead of 1.62s. By the end of 48 laps his winning margin was …Keep reading