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The Mexican had failed to make the top 10 in qualifying, knocked out in Q2 with a lap time 0.015s slower than Daniel Ricciardo’s on his RB.Perez started the race on hard tyres in a bid to make the most of any timely safety car intervention, virtual or otherwise, which failed to materialise as the whole race was run uninterrupted.Perez did manage to outperform both RB cars and Nico Hulkenberg’s …Keep reading

Formula 1 headed back to Imola after the 2023 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix was cancelled due to flooding in the Italian region. This time, the sporting contest went ahead in sunshine throughout.The race was awfully dull until Max Verstappen’s struggles aboard his Red Bull and Lando Norris’s hard tyre brilliance in his McLaren combined to produce a thrilling late coda. That again enlivened a lead …Keep reading

As part of an official visit to Italy, Thavisin was present at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix for discussions with F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali, as well as meeting other stakeholders.The Thai Grand Prix project is being pushed for by the government, but it is understood that Thavisin has sounded out Red Bull about its potential interest in joining the push.Thavisin is targeting a deal to put on a …Keep reading

Charles Leclerc took a popular podium at Imola, with Carlos Sainz in fifth, as Ferrari was beaten by McLaren as F1’s closest challenger to Red Bull’s Max Verstappen.With overtaking nearly impossible on similar tyre strategies, Ferrari feels it effectively lost the battle for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in qualifying, with Vasseur saying: “I think that if we do 1-2 in qualifying, we do 1-2 in the …Keep reading

Verstappen’s busy driving, PR and engineering schedule at Imola did not stop him from competing in the top split – the most competitive field – of iRacing’s Nurburgring enduro with his Team Redline sim squad.After taking pole in Italy on Saturday, he took on a three-hour stint on his sim in the evening, tacking on another two hours on Sunday morning to help his BMW GT3 entry win the event.Team …Keep reading

In the opening phase of the race, it was Verstappen who had the edge as, after holding the advantage at the start, he was steadily able to eke out a gap on the medium tyres to be more than six seconds clear up until the first round of stops.Things did not seem to change much as drivers switched to the hard, as Norris, who briefly lost a bit of time getting past Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, did not …Keep reading

Vittorio Ghirelli and Martin Doubek both completed a sweep of their respective EuroNASCAR Pro and EuroNASCAR 2 events on Saturday and Sunday at the 4.085-kilometer road course outside of Rome.Ghirelli seemed invincible at Vallelunga. After leading all practice sessions, winning the pole and the race on Saturday, the Italian completed a dominant weekend sweep with another victory on Sunday.The PK …Keep reading

Reality hit the 43-year-old Aussie in exactly the 38.3753s it took team-mate Scott McLaughlin’s opening lap that equates to running 234.526mph around the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway.“It sucks, man,” said Power, a two-time IndyCar Series champion. “As soon as I saw the first lap, I knew it was over.”Power ended up with a four-lap average of 233.917mph, while McLaughlin soared to …Keep reading

Hours after team owner Roger Penske’s IndyCar drivers swept the front row for this year’s Indianapolis 500 in qualifying, Logano added a $1 million prize with his win in NASCAR’s annual all-star event.Logano, who has yet to win a points-paying NASCAR Cup race this season, started on the pole and led 199 of the 200 laps, which included the use of multiple tire compounds this season.Denny …Keep reading

In what turned out to be a rather tame first 100 laps of the 200-lap main event, the race actually got off to an eventful start as Kyle Busch tagged the outside wall on the opening lap as the field went three-wide.Busch, who thought he had been hit by Ricky Stenhouse Jr., then knocked Stenhouse into the wall on lap 2 in retaliation. The damage was extensive and brought an early end to …Keep reading