The Toyota driver started the Saturday morning loop setting a blistering pace that resulted in a stage 10 win to open up a 6.7s lead over team-mate and fellow 2024 part-time driver Sebastien Ogier.However, Rovanpera’s rally quickly came undone on stage 11 [Montim, 8.69km] when the Finn lost the rear of his GR Yaris and hit a tree, which then pitched the car into a roll. The car eventually came ...Keep reading
Obliterating the lap record to take pole in qualifying earlier on Saturday, Martin seized the holeshot effortlessly off the line and led all 13 laps of the sprint race at Le Mans.Celebrating his 12th career sprint victory, Martin is now 28 points clear in the standings.He headed Gresini Racing rider and chief rival for the second factory Ducati seat in 2025 Marc Marquez, who leaped from 13th on ...Keep reading
For inaugural champion Marta Garcia, the reward was a fully funded Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine drive with Prema Racing, the team with which she had completed her victorious campaign (although she has now transferred into the sister Iron Dames operation). But given that FRECA is officially recognised by the FIA as a regional Formula 3 category, questions were inevitably asked ...Keep reading
Toyota’s eight-time world champion Ogier inherited the lead after Rovanpera’s Stage 11 exit, only to lose the advantage to Tanak on the next test. However, a slow puncture for Tanak in stage 13 helped Ogier open up a 13.6s lead at the end of the loop. Rovanpera’s surprise exit, followed by a retirement for Toyota driver Takamoto Katsuta, elevated Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville ...Keep reading
The World Rally Championship promoter held a meeting with the key stakeholder group that included Hyundai, Toyota, Ford, Stellantis and Skoda alongside representatives from the FIA to deliver its vision for the future.The meeting largely centred on the championship’s promotional strategy which has attracted criticism from teams and drivers in recent months.The WRC Promoter issued a brief ...Keep reading
The Swiss-Italian posted a 1m01.741s, the fastest time from the entirety of qualifying, in his final qualifying duel to register his and Mahindra’s first points of the season having endured a difficult campaign so far.Mortara was only 0.011s quicker than Vandoorne in the opening sector of their final duel, but a less than ideal exit from the Turn 7 hairpin for the DS Penske driver meant he lost ...Keep reading
With Enea Bastianini setting a new lap record to get through Q1, the tone was set for the first sub-1m30s lap of the Le Mans circuit.Martin did so on his second flying lap with a 1m29.919s, which would ultimately cement him pole as the closing moments of Q2 turned into a crash-fest.The Pramac rider tumbled at Turn 4 late on, while factory Ducati counterpart Francesco Bagnaia slid off at Turn 9 ...Keep reading
The British driver had looked on course for his first F1 victory in Sochi in 2021 having secured his first pole position and led from the front, only to make a critical strategy error and stay out on slicks as a deluge of rain hit the circuit in the dying laps.That error of judgement has stuck with Norris, Joseph and the McLaren team, not least with taunts over social media - though Norris himself ...Keep reading
Reigning world champion Rovanpera set a blistering pace in the morning’s opening test to extend his overnight lead from one second to 6.7s over Ogier, before drama struck on the following stage.Rovanpera lost the rear of his GR Yaris in fast right-hander and clouted a tree which pitched the car into a roll, before it eventually came to rest on its side up against a tree. Rovanpera and co-driver ...Keep reading
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All the Friday highlights from WRC3 at Rally de Portugal.
Super Swede Oliver Solberg showed his mettle at Vodafone Rally de Portugal on Friday, shrugging off an engine issue in his Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 to take a 7.3sec overnight lead.
Kalle Rovanperä overcame a challenging Friday to lead a frenzied see-saw battle for the Vodafone Rally de Portugal top spot.
Frenchman Milesi explained that reaching the top 10 shootout in the car's third competitive outing had helped to lift spirits in the camp ahead of Saturday's 6-hour race after both Signatech-run machines were involved in a first corner tangle in Italy, while each also had post-race time penalties for drive time infringements."It's good for mental heals in a way because after Imola for sure we were ...Keep reading
Newey has agreed a long-rumoured exit from Red Bull in early 2025, resulting in speculation over his next destination should the 65-year-old wish to remain in F1.The Briton joined Red Bull in 2006 after championship wins with Williams and McLaren, and his influence helped Red Bull climb out of F1's midfield and into the thick of title battles in the succeeding years.He will continue in his role as ...Keep reading
Times initially began to tumble at the Tempelhof Airport circuit as the abrasive concrete surface around a new 15-turn layout began to clear up on Saturday morning, with Guenther’s 1m02.834s fastest after the opening 10 minutes.Abt’s Lucas di Grassi soon moved to the top, though, lowering the session-best to a 1m02.189s which remarkably stood as the fastest time until the final moments of the ...Keep reading
Ty Majeski appeared ready to give Ford Performance its first win of the 2024 NASCAR season and had built a more than five-second lead when a late-race caution for a wreck sent the race into overtime.All the lead-lap trucks elected to pit for new tires and Majeski’s team got him off first to retain the lead. On the ensuing restart, Majeski chose the outside lane while Chastain took the inside ...Keep reading
In a race that featured plenty of contact and spins, Chadwick’s Andretti Global machine managed to avoid the chaos, climbing from sixth to third and within striking distance of the win on a late restart with three laps to go.Although there wasn’t enough to make a run at race winner Jacob Abel, the Briton was still able to capture a career-best third-place result, which came in her 17th ...Keep reading
The latest edition of the championship rivalry building between Abel and Nolan Siegel (HMD Motorsports) took to the 2.439-mile, 14-turn circuit, with the former successfully defending the lead despite a restart with three laps to go to win by 0.5470s.It is the second career victory for Abel, who collected his first in the last round at Barber Motorsports Park.“Yeah, this is awesome,” Abel ...Keep reading
Albuquerque beat BMW’s Philipp Eng and Mathieu Jaminet (Porsche Penske Motorsport 963) in the 90-minute opening practice session for the fourth round of the series.Eng set the pace early in the session in his #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 with a lap of 1m14.453s, before Albuquerque’s #10 Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Acura ARX-06 just beat that with 1m14.434s.“I felt really good, I felt really ...Keep reading
The three-time Supercars champion became the first driver in more than 60 years to win a Cup race in his debut when captured the victory in the inaugural Chicago Street Race last July driving for Trackhouse Racing.The win served as the instigator for the 34-year-old Kiwi to make a permanent move to NASCAR competition this season, where he is running a full Xfinity schedule and partial Cup ...Keep reading
The Spaniard was quiet for the majority of qualifying, but managed to deliver a late flyer of 1m09.0004s to claim the top spot on the 2.439-mile, 14-turn IMS circuit.It was the fourth career pole for Palou, but his first on the IMS road course.Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Christian Lundgaard ended up second, just 0.0917s off of Palou’s time.Team Penske’s Will Power made a dramatic late ...Keep reading
