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North America’s premier open-wheel championship made a much-anticipated return to the 4.014-mile, 14-turn natural terrain road course in 2016, following a nine-year hiatus.”We’re thrilled to continue our partnership with IndyCar,” said Mike Kertscher, President and General Manager of Road America.”This collaboration not only ignites the fervour of our passionate racing fans but also plays a …Keep reading

On a weekend when the FIA’s plans for the rules revolution coming in 2026 have been put under the spotlight because of concerns about car performance, Norris has said there could be another consequence too.He fears that there is a huge likelihood of the rule change blowing apart the grid and moving it away from the super close competition that witnessed the top seven drivers in qualifying for …Keep reading

The reigning two-time champion is dovetailing a partial WRC campaign with a four-round stint in the one-make Porsche series this year, with this weekend’s visit to the Dutch Grand Prix venue marking the start of his circuit racing career.The factory Toyota WRC driver finished fourth and fifth from a field of 23 cars, driving a Porsche 911 GT3 Cup car prepared by Red Ant Racing.Rovanpera …Keep reading

The Spaniard is currently weighing up opportunities he has from Williams and Sauber/Audi next year, with both squads clear that he is their number one target for a 2025 contract.While the Sauber offer has been there for a while, Williams has been pushing hard in recent weeks to convince Sainz it can deliver him a good enough package.Sainz is well aware of how determined team boss Vowles is to get …Keep reading

Coming into the 2024 event, Dunlop stood on the edge of greatness after notching up his 25th TT victory last year.One more would see him match his late uncle Joey Dunlop. And he did just that in the first race of the week, going on to become the all-time number-one winner at the TT with 29 victories.Dunlop did this in a fragmented week of racing as poor weather caused a major headache for the …Keep reading

Kamui Kobayashi topped the times in the first of the two three-hour sessions of the Le Mans Test Day on Sunday with a 3m28.467s lap aboard the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar.That gave him a margin of more than seven tenths over Porsche driver Kevin Estre, who ended up on a 3m29.205s aboard the #6 963 LMDh fielded by the factory Porsche Penske Motorsport team.BMW took third sport with the …Keep reading

And it is going to take a lot more than a fifth place in qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix – and a curt response to the 1997 world champion – to secure it.Unsurprisingly, Villeneuve’s takedown ahead of qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix has attracted plenty of attention.Signed by Sky Sports F1 for this weekend, presumably largely for his forthright opinions, it is difficult to …Keep reading

Following a number of trying race weekends where Aston Martin appeared to have slipped to sixth in the pecking order, the Silverstone-based team bounced back with a stronger qualifying performance in Montreal.Alonso qualified sixth just 0.228s shy of Mercedes’ polesitter George Russell, who beat Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in a dead heat in a scintillating Q3 shootout.The tiny gap between Russell …Keep reading

Villeneuve, the 1997 F1 world champion, caused a stir in Montreal when he told Sky that he did not know why Ricciardo, an eight-time grand prix winner, was still around the sport.He said: “Why is he still in F1? We’re hearing the same thing for the last five years. We have to ‘make the car better for him, poor him.’ No. You’re in F1. If you can’t cut it, go home.”But Ricciardo delivered the …Keep reading

However, it was the Mercedes driver who got pole position, his second in F1 following on from his maiden one in Hungary in 2022.It was the first time since 1997 that fans witnessed such a situation. What happens when two F1 drivers set the same time in qualifying?The fourth paragraph of Article 39.4 of the FIA F1 Sporting Regulations, i.e. (iv), states that: “If two or more drivers set identical …Keep reading