Grasser Racing’s Mirko Bortolotti claimed pole position for the opening Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe race at the Nurburgring. Bortolotti set a best time of 1m54.926s to put his #63 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 just six hundredths of a second clear of the championship-leading Black Falcon Mercedes of Luca Stolz. The similar Lamborghini of Marco Mapelli
Month: August 2019
Charles Leclerc asked his Ferrari Formula 1 team to abandon “the perfect slipstream” and send him on-track “whenever the car was ready” for his Belgian Grand Prix pole lap. Leclerc had a comfortable advantage after the first runs at Spa and eventually qualified on pole by 0.7 seconds after improving on his second attempt, while
3:36 PM ET SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — Ferrari’s first front-row lockout since the Bahrain Grand Prix should be followed by its first win of the season… right? The red cars have looked dominant this weekend but you would forgive a Ferrari fan for feeling pessimistic given how the season has gone so far. Our round-up of
FFF Racing’s Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli moved into the lead of the Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe after leading a Lamborghini one-two in the first race at the Nurburgring. The #563 Huracan GT3 started sixth on the grid but made inroads into the advantage of the leading Lamborghini of Mirko Bortolotti and Christian Engelhart
Charles Leclerc claimed pole position for Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix with a huge advantage of 0.748 seconds over Ferrari team-mate Sebastian Vettel. Leclerc set the pace on the first runs in the Q3 top-10 shootout with a lap of 1m42.644s, which would have been enough to be sure of pole position. But he improved
7:21 AM ET SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — Mercedes faces a battle to get Lewis Hamilton’s car ready for qualifying at the Belgian Grand Prix after the world champion crashed out of final practice. Hamilton made an uncharacteristic error during the session, losing control of the car on the approach to the quick right-left kink at Turn
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The 2019 season will see SRO Motorsports Group unite the sprint-format championships formerly known as the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup, Blancpain GT Series Asia and Pirelli World Challenge GT to form a new global initiative: the Blancpain GT World Challenge. This exciting international endeavour will present GT3 manufacturers, partners and teams with the
Sebastien Bourdais topped the second practice at IndyCar’s Portland round moments before crashing, while Colton Herta set the quickest lap across the two sessions. Bourdais’ Dale Coyne Racing-run car had just edged prior pacesetter Will Power of Penske by 0.0289s when he locked up going into the final corner and hit the tyre wall. But
Red Bull boss Christian Horner has explained in detail for the first time why it opted to demote Pierre Gasly just days after the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix. While Red Bull appeared ready to give Gasly more time to recover after a disappointing first half to the campaign, it announced early in the summer
12:27 PM ET SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — The Belgian Grand Prix is usually a good time for engine manufacturers to introduce a new upgrade. It is the first of two races, the second being Monza’s Italian Grand Prix, consisting of long straights which rely on outright power and place less emphasis on clamping downforce to a
Fabio Quartararo was once again fastest at the Misano MotoGP test, after topping Friday’s running by 0.476s over Ducati’s Danilo Petrucci. The rookie edged out Petronas SRT team-mate Franco Morbidelli in Thursday’s afternoon session at the San Marino Grand Prix venue by just 0.023s. Quartararo was passed fit to ride just days after his heavy
Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson is on the cusp of missing the playoffs title shootout for the first time in his career, with just two races until the cut-off. After the upcoming Darlington and Indianapolis races over the next two weekends, the Cup points will be reset to create a 16-driver championship fight field
Red Bull will look at drivers outside its pool for its 2020 Formula 1 line-up if it feels none of the current contenders can “get the job done”. Alex Albon has replaced Pierre Gasly at the team from this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix following Gasly’s struggles over the first part of the season. Gasly has
1:21 PM ET SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — Lewis Hamilton is convinced Mercedes is in the mix with Ferrari at the Belgian Grand Prix despite his team’s significant disadvantage in engine power. Ferrari has not won a race yet in 2019 but Spa is the first of two races at power-sensitive circuits. The Italian team is expected
M-Sport Ford’s Elfyn Evans will miss a third round of the World Rally Championship due to his back injury, and not return until his home event in Britain in October. Evans sustained the injury in a bad landing from a jump when contesting the non-championship Rally Estonia in July. He has already missed the Finnish
Charles Leclerc headed a Ferrari one-two in the second Formula 1 free practice session for the Belgian Grand Prix, comfortably ahead of Sebastian Vettel. Leclerc hit the front in the early running when the majority of runners concentrated on using the medium-compound Pirellis, with Red Bull driver Max Verstappen only 0.017 seconds slower. Vettel was
9:54 AM ET Formula One is considering carrying out tests on the current race weekend format during the 2020 season, including a Saturday qualifying race. The existing format to every grand prix weekend has come under scrutiny in recent weeks — currently every one follows the same format, with two practice sessions on a Friday
As the latest issue of F1 Racing magazine hits the streets ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix, the Flat Chat with Codders podcast tackles Formula 1’s burning issues. Star columnist Mark Gallagher joins F1 Racing editor Ben Anderson and host Stuart Codling to get to the bottom of what’s eating Sebastian Vettel and his team.
12:37 PM ET SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — Having lost his 2020 Renault seat to Esteban Ocon, Nico Hulkenberg‘s most obvious landing spot on next year’s grid would be alongside Kevin Magnussen at Haas. Hulkenberg and Magnussen had an infamous spat after the 2017 Hungarian Grand Prix, following a collision on track. Hulkenberg sought out the Danish
Fresh from suffering a mild concussion in a crash at the British Grand Prix, Fabio Quartararo topped the first day of MotoGP testing at Misano by 0.023 seconds. Quartararo highsided exiting the first corner at the start of last Sunday’s Silverstone race, with Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso launching over the top of the rookie’s stricken Petronas
Formula 1’s 2020 race calendar will feature a record 22 grands prix and features significant change from ’19’s schedule. The German Grand Prix stayed on the calendar this year in part thanks to the support of Mercedes but has lost its place for 2020, and the Italian Grand Prix makes the cut ahead of an
12:54 PM ET Reigning Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton has launched a plant-based burger chain, Neat Burger. Hamilton has paired up with Beyond Meat and UNICEF ambassador Tommaso Chiabra to found the company which hopes to “transform the way people see plant-based food”. The first Neat Burger will open just off London’s Regent Street
Formula 1 drivers have been told that practice and qualifying times will be deleted if they are found to have abused track limits at the Belgian Grand Prix’s Raidillon corner. It comes as part of a continuing trend of the FIA clamping down on drivers trying to take a straightline approach at the top of
9:26 AM ET SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium — Kimi Raikkonen has pulled a muscle ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix this weekend, forcing Alfa Romeo reserve driver Marcus Ericsson to miss an IndyCar race after being placed on stand-by. On Thursday morning, the Schmidt Peterson IndyCar team confirmed American driver Conor Daly will stand-in for Ericsson for
Encouraged by the success of the Blancpain Endurance Series, world-renowned Swiss watch manufacture Blancpain and the SRO Motorsports Group decide at the end of 2013 to extend their partnership to the Sprint series, previously promoted as the FIA GT Series, offering teams and drivers the opportunity to compete for an overall Blancpain GT Series title,
Max Verstappen believes Red Bull is moving away from “quite painful” performances at power-sensitive Formula 1 tracks, while Honda’s negative feeling towards such circuits is also disappearing. Verstappen has won two races with Honda power so far in 2019, in Austria and Germany, but also had the pace to finish on the podium in Britain
12:00 AM ET Laine Clark Despite his management’s bold claims, Supercars star James Courtney insists he is “unemployed and handing out the resume” ahead of the 2020 season. Former championship winner Courtney dropped the bombshell on Tuesday that he would be leaving Holden powerhouse Walkinshaw Andretti United (WAU) at season’s end after a nine-year stint.
The Hyundai World Rally Championship team has to stop relying on its rivals to falter, says team boss Andrea Adamo as he hit out at a “wasted” Rally Germany opportunity. Dani Sordo was comfortably in the fight for a podium on last weekend’s event before a gearbox issue halted his progress on the Friday, forcing
Valentino Rossi says Yamaha is now delivering updates to improve its MotoGP bike that he has been requesting for “two and a half years”. Rossi started the year with two podiums, but has failed to return to the rostrum since then while works team-mate Maverick Vinales won at Assen and Petronas SRT’s Fabio Quartararo has
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