The 2019 world champion won four of the six stages to open up a 58.3s advantage aboard his Ford Puma, having started the day with a 4.2s margin over Suninen. An inspired tyre call across the morning loop helped Tanak increase his lead to 47.8s, before a masterclass in tyre management maintained his momentum in
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Quartararo led home the Yamaha charge as he dropped one place from his grid slot of 14th, having failed to escape the first part of qualifying earlier in the day. Team-mate Franco Morbidelli was a place further back in 16th, while wildcard Cal Crutchlow capped off a miserable day for the Iwata firm in 18th
Red Bull clinched its sixth constructors’ title with six races to spare in Japan, which is another entry for the Milton Keynes squad into the series’ record book that it has been steadily rewriting this year. Team principal Horner conceded that losing its streak of consecutive race wins in Singapore was inevitable. And while the carrot of
After Mazda followed Nissan through the exit door at the end of 2021, last season’s DPi class was contested exclusively between Cadillac and Acura teams, but the move to all new LMDh cars running spec hybrid systems for 2023 has attracted Porsche and BMW to join the renamed GTP division. All four manufacturers have won
Espargaro was in the fight for a top-five position when his RS-GP suddenly slowed on lap eight of Saturday’s 12-lap race, won by Jorge Martin’s Pramac Ducati, forcing him into the pits and retirement. It follows a similar episode in last weekend’s Indian Grand Prix but, while Espargaro put that problem down to the intense
Piastri secured the first podium of his F1 career with third at last weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, joining team-mate Lando Norris on the rostrum, but admitted after the race that it was not his finest performance. Reflecting on why he felt that way, the Australian rookie explained that, on a day when there was a
Sato, previously head of development for the Honda RC213V, will start in his new role as general technical director on October 1, the same day the Japanese Grand Prix takes place at Motegi. However, it remains to be seen whether the appointment will have any impact when it comes to the subject of determining Marc
Martin posted a 1m43.198s on his first run in Q2 on Saturday morning to beat Brad Binder’s Friday benchmark, which in turn surpassed Jorge Lorenzo’s 2015 record, by almost three tenths of a second. It gives Martin a second pole in the last three races, as well as a 10th in a row for Ducati.
The Woking-based outfit recently ended a long-running deal it had to use Toyota’s wind tunnel in Cologne, as it shifted its programme to its own new facility in Woking. But rather than it being the end of their association, it appears that the McLaren and Toyota partnership is actually evolving and getting closer. Evidence of
Leonardo Gorini and Luca Pirri have been entered as the GT2’s inaugural drivers, as the Italian manufacturer makes its long-awaited follow-up to the revered MC12 GT1 that bowed out at the end of its title-winning 2010 FIA GT1 World Championship campaign. PLUS: The unwanted GT car that changed sportscar racing forever Maserati made its motorsport return by
Tanak completed the day’s six demanding gravel stages with a 4.2s lad over Suninen, who impressed in only his third Rally1 start. Tanak led the rally after winning the opening stage before losing the advantage following a spin and loss of hybrid in stage two. However, the 2019 world champion was able to rattle off
The reigning champion was an encouraging second-fastest on the opening day of the Motegi weekend, only 0.029 seconds shy of pacesetter Brad Binder on the KTM. Both Binder and Bagnaia, as well as third-placed Aprilia rider Aleix Espargaro, eclipsed the eight-year-old Motegi lap record that was set by Jorge Lorenzo in FP2. Having arrived in
After using customer units from McLaren and latterly Mercedes since its early Force India days in 2009, the Silverstone outfit is currently ramping its own transmission department ahead of 2026, when its new relationship with Honda obliges the team to create a bespoke gearbox. Inevitably, that push has focused Aston’s attention on the costs associated
Williams boss James Vowles says the team is “nowhere near” parting company with Logan Sargeant, who the team wants to keep in the car for 2024. Sargeant has struggled in his rookie season and a string of costly crashes over the past few races has ramped up pressure on the Floridian. The American’s place at
After a strong run of points finishes for Albon, Williams is currently in a solid seventh in the championship on 21 points, ahead of Haas on 12, Alfa Romeo on 10, and AlphaTauri on five. However, while Williams has no new parts coming through the system for the FW45 as it focuses on its 2024 car,
Crutchlow is making a one-off MotoGP appearance this weekend at the Japanese Grand Prix for Yamaha in order to evaluate a raft of items to aid 2024 development. Due to the regulations, Crutchlow is not allowed to test the 2024 engine prototype that was brought to the Misano test and which Fabio Quartararo said he
It speaks volumes for the premium Christian Danner puts on honesty that the drivers he immediately considers for his favourite team-mate both were willing to go beyond the racing norm of looking after number one. Just as Alfa Romeo colleague Giancarlo Fisichella didn’t shy away from revealing to Danner the differences between the engines in
The Brazilian is one of the most successful drivers in the all-electric championship’s history, having been a stalwart of the series since its inception in 2014. During that time di Grassi amassed a record 13 wins – joint equal with Sebastien Buemi – and 12 of which came with the Abt squad where he spent
The reigning world champion has an opportunity to seal a second consecutive world title this weekend, although the Finn rates his chances of achieving the feat as “small” heading into the gravel rally. Rovanpera holds a 33-point lead over his Toyota team-mate Evans with 90 points remaining from the final three events of the season.
Martin, who arrives in Japan only 13 points behind fellow Ducati man Francesco Bagnaia, topped the timesheets with a best effort of 1m45.192s, which was enough to top the session by 0.138s from Augusto Fernandez. That came at the end of a run of three successive improvements for the Pramac rider, who knocked Bagnaia off
Sargeant’s future at Williams has been in doubt in the wake of a run of accidents since the summer break. He crashed heavily in qualifying and the race at the Dutch Grand Prix, hit the barriers at the Singapore GP, and then went off in a big accident during Q1 for the Japanese GP last
Sep 28, 2023, 08:56 AM ET New Zealand-based Rodin Cars said on Thursday its bid to enter Formula One as an 11th team and with a female driver had been rejected and it expected Andretti Global to be the only successful applicant. Rodin’s Australian founder David Dicker said in a statement the company had proposed
The British operation’s participation in rallying’s top tier was called into question during the Acropolis Rally earlier this month. Team founder Malcolm Wilson has since reiterated that M-Sport has no intention to stop its Rally1 programme and “will be doing whatever we can to try and find a way to stay in at the highest
The FIM announced on Wednesday that next year’s calendar will take in 22 rounds beginning in Qatar on 10 March and finishing in Valencia on 17 November. The new schedule features the return of the Aragon Grand Prix, which has been absent for 2023, as well as the second attempt at staging the Kazakhstan GP
NASCAR and Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS) both confirmed the news on Thursday. The Brickyard 400 has long been considered a crown jewel on the NASCAR calendar, first joining the schedule in 1994, but following the 2020 NASCAR Cup season it was removed. NASCAR still competes at Indianapolis Motor Speedway but on the road course layout.
A surge in competitiveness by McLaren since a mid-season upgrade has left the Woking-based squad just 49 points behind Aston Martin in the fight for fourth place in the constructors’ championship. Norris has no doubts that McLaren now has a car that can help close the gap in the remaining six races, and thinks that
Austin Lindberg, Senior EditorSep 28, 2023, 09:21 AM ET Marc Marquez and Honda are accustomed to winning championships. They’ve fallen well short of expectations in 2023. Diogo Cardoso/DeFodi Images via Getty Images For decades, Honda has been synonymous with success in MotoGP. The Japanese manufacturer won its first world championship in 1983, when Freddie Spencer pipped
The Frenchman and Stoffel Vandoorne were confirmed on Thursday to be staying with the DS Penske squad in Formula E for the 2023-24 season. Both drivers are also due to compete for Peugeot in the WEC next season, but provisionally there are three clashes between the championships across the year. This includes the WEC Prologue
The German manufacturer has had a challenging 2023 campaign, with its W14 not having made the step forward that the squad anticipated. It has been no match for the championship-winning Red Bull team, despite undergoing a change of design direction from the Monaco Grand Prix. PLUS: The F1 treasure map where Hamilton hopes Mercedes hits
With an end to Honda’s current competitive woes nowhere in sight, Marquez has done little to quell talk of a sensational switch to satellite Ducati machinery, which would entail ending his contract with the marque with which he has spent his entire premier class career. After a disappointing first test with the 2024 prototype Honda
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