The Japanese manufacturer has revealed that it could take a leaf out of arch-rival Ferrari's book and run a third car on a satellite basis in the future.But Toyota WEC race director Rob Leupen has revealed that it is already too late to put such a plan into place for next season and that an extra full-season entry in the Hypercar class could not come on stream before 2026."We see what Ferrari is ... Keep reading
Andretti recently opened a new headquarters in Silverstone and has now started a recruiting spree to populate its European base with F1 staff, despite having been told by the series it will not be allowed to enter in the 2026 season.The 60 vacancies include senior F1 roles such as head of aero development, head of mechanical design and various other engineering positions including aerodynamics and ... Keep reading
The name will be the same. 12 years after he left, Nico Hulkenberg is heading back to the Sauber Formula 1 team in 2025. Yet his circumstances are much changed and so are the team's - and the championship overall from the final days of the V8 engine era.As the Audi rebrand looms, this is the shot Hulkenberg felt he'd previously been unjustly denied in F1. And it's one he's absolutely ... Keep reading
The 2022 champion was happy to go about his own programme for the majority of both 35-minute periods at a bitterly cold Leicestershire circuit and on each occasion he set the standard as the chequered flag flew.In FP1, Ingram and his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N smashed the previous best of Dan Cammish after flashing Jake Hill out of the way as he descended the Craner Curves to the ... Keep reading
The Porsche driver, who won last time out in the Misano E-Prix and is now championship points leader courtesy of his pole, steadily increased his margin to Vandoorne (DS Penske) over all three sectors around the Monte Carlo circuit.The Germans 1m29.861s left him 0.433s clear and on pole for Saturday afternoon's 29-lap race.Wehrlein's greatest threat looked like it would come from Jaguar drivers ... Keep reading
In a special press conference held at Barber Motorsports Park on Friday morning, an emotional Newgarden who had to regain his composure several times after his voice broke down says he didn't know he was doing anything wrong.He claimed that he misguidedly believed the restart rules had been changed, as per the exhibition race at The Thermal Club that followed the St. Pete season opener ... Keep reading
Of far greater importance to Marc Surer than the results he achieved in his on-and-off partnership with Manfred Winkelhock between 1977 and 1985 is his friendship with the exciting German driver. The late elder brother of the no less flamboyant Smokin Jo Winkelhock shared BMW, Ford and Porsche machinery with Surer in endurance racing, most notably beating the factory teams with their ... Keep reading
The reigning world champion has won the Spanish GP for the past two years and comes into the 2024 edition off the back of two disappointing rounds in Portugal and America.In a crash-strewn session, Bagnaia left it to the end of the hour to produce a 1m36.025s to lead the way by 0.100 seconds from Aprilias Vinales.Marc Marquez looked on course to take top spot from Bagnaia at the end but came up ... Keep reading
Vermeulen is about to embark on his second season in the DTM with Emil Frey Racing after a rookie campaign in which he finished 16th in the standings with a best finish of fifth at the Sachsenring.The 21-year-olds Ferrari 296 GT3 will once again carry the colours of Verstappen.com Racing, a project that was started by the triple F1 champion in 2022.Having mentored the young Dutchman over the ... Keep reading
This weekends round at Barber Motorsports Park will comprise 90 laps (207 miles) around the 17-turn, 2.3-mile natural terrain road course.When is the IndyCar race at Barber?Date: Friday, April 26 Sunday, April 28Race start: 1:40pm ETTrack: 2.3-mile, 17-turn natural terrain road courseRace distance: 90 laps-207 milesFirestone tire allotment: Six sets primary, four sets alternate. One ... Keep reading
The British manufacturer announced the decision ahead of this weekends Monaco E-Prix, having reached its 100-race milestone in Tokyo earlier this year.Its maiden entry into the all-electric championship in 2016was the first time Jaguar had competed in single-seaters since the brand left Formula 1 in 2004, with the remains of the team sold to Red Bull.During its time in Formula E, Jaguar has ... Keep reading
Jaguar's Evans was in strong form on Saturday morning across each of the two 30-minute practice sessions, as the Kiwi ended with a 1m29.521s around the Monte Carlo circuit.Heading into the final 10 minutes in FP2, Edoardo Mortara's 1m30.452s stood as the benchmark before his lap was bested by Evans, who became the first man to dip below the 1m30s barrier posting a 1m29.648s.Any chance for ... Keep reading
In Shanghai, Aston Martin protested against the qualifying result after Ferrari's Carlos Sainz rejoined Q2 after spinning off the track.Sainz was stationary for 1m17 after tapping the wall coming out of the final corner, but the Spaniard managed to get going again and advanced to Q3 at the expense of Aston driver Lance Stroll.As its driver was eliminated, Aston decided to protest the results based ... Keep reading
Reigning Indy 500 champion Newgarden faced the press for the first time at Barber Motorsports Park today, just days after the revelation that he and Team Penske team-mate Scott McLaughlin had been disqualified from the season-opening St. Petersburg race for breaking IndyCars push-to-pass rules at restarts.Penskes Tim Cindric revealed that an illegal line of code was to blame for the system ... Keep reading
Newgarden was stripped of his victory in the season-opening Grand Prix of St. Petersburg last month, along with Penske team-mate Scott McLaughlins third-place finish, after both were found by IndyCar officials to be in violation of illegally using the overtake boost on restarts.The infractions were found during the warm-up session in last weekends round in Long Beach, which led to IndyCar ... Keep reading
Sponsored byMonaco is considered home for almost half of the 20 drivers on the current F1 grid as well as Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff but there are more reasons than just the huge tax-free benefits that draw them there.One of the world's smallest nations, Monaco has a total area of just over two square kilometres barely bigger than London's Hyde Park. However, it is jam-packed with ... Keep reading
Alonso's recent Aston Martin contract extension means he will carry on racing until at least the end of the 2026 F1 campaign, by which time he will be 45.That would make him the oldest F1 driver to compete since Graham Hill in 1975.Alonso already holds the record for the most grand prix races ever started and is set to hit an unprecedented 400 GPs at the 2024 Qatar round.It is 23 years since the ... Keep reading
Martin leapt into the lead on the opening lap but was quickly reeled in and passed by poleman Marquez, who looked on course for a first Gresini Ducati win.But on lap nine of 12, Marquez fell off at Turn 9, just seconds after third to fifth-placed Alex Marquez, Enea Bastianini and Brad Binder slid off at Turn 5.Maverick Vinales crashed at the same place on the following lap while running third ... Keep reading
IndyCar officials disqualified St. Pete race winner Josef Newgarden and third-place finisher Scott McLaughlin for illegally using the overtake system in last month's season-opener, which occurred after a line of software code was changed during hybrid testing and mistakenly used in race mode as the 2024 season kicked off.Their team-mate Will Power, who didn't use the system illegally but could ... Keep reading
The Porsche driver, who won last time out in the Misano E-Prix and is now championship points leader courtesy of his pole, steadily increased his margin to Vandoorne over all three sectors around the Monte Carlo circuit.Reigning champion Jake Dennis could only finish ninth for Andretti ahead of ERT's Dan Ticktum.The German's 1m29.861s left him 0.433s clear and on pole for Saturday afternoon's ... Keep reading
Pramac's Jorge Martin leads the championship on 80 points as MotoGP makes its first visit of 2024 to Spain, with Ducati rider Enea Bastianini his closest rival on 59 points.Victory in the Americas Grand Prix has promoted Aprilia's Maverick Vinales to third in the standings, 24 points behind Martin.2024 MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix session ... Keep reading
Yamaha's Quartararo qualified a career-worst 23rd in the damp Q1 session, but put on a sensational fightback in the early stages of the 12-lap sprint at Jerez on Saturday.Leaping up to 11th on the opening lap, Quartararo was in the points in ninth on the third tour and vaulted up to third after a spate of crashes in the latter stages.Quartararo fended off KTM wildcard Pedrosa by 0.050 seconds to ... Keep reading
Gresini rider Marquez made a relatively slow launch from pole position to drop to third at the start, but repassed both KTM's Brad Binder and Pramac star Jorge Martin to retake the lead on lap 7.By the start of lap 9, Marquez had pulled himself clear of the chasing pack and was seemingly on his way to a first victory of 2024, only to suffer a fall at the Turn 9 left-hander.The Spanish rider was ... Keep reading
The top speeds all came from the second 20-minute session, which also proved the most dramatic.Blaneys average lap speed of 159.468 mph topped the overall speed chart, followed by Tyler Reddick (158.982 mph) and Chase Briscoe (158.478 mph) all from Group B.William Byron was fastest in the Group A with an average lap speed of 158.954 mph.Both Zane Smith and Kaz Grala hit the wall hard in ... Keep reading
The two Kiwis dominated proceedings in Monte Carlo, with Evans winning by nearly one second having led the majority of the 31-lap contest, which was extended by two laps due to a pair of safety car periods.Evans had shown impressive pace throughout practice on Saturday morning but errors from himself and Cassidy in their qualifying semi-final duels meant they lined up on the second row of the ... Keep reading
