Новости за 21.03.2024

In a wild Bristol race featuring extreme tire wear, Joe Gibbs Racing prevailed with Denny Hamlin taking victory over Martin Truex Jr. as they battled through slower traffic. Another veteran, Brad Keselowski, finished third.Truex is now tied with Kyle Larson for the regular season points lead as the series heads to the tricky Austin, Texas road course known as COTA.Tyler Reddick is the defending ...Keep reading

Earlier this week ahead of the Portuguese Grand Prix, Ducati announced it had signed Moto2 star Aldeguer to a two-year factory contract.Aldeguer, who won five races on his way to third in the Moto2 standings last year, was linked to possible 2024 MotoGP steps with Honda and VR46 before electing to remain in the intermediate class with Speed Up for one more year.The 18-year-old is one of the ...Keep reading

Since retiring from full-time NASCAR Cup series competition after the 2017 season, Earnhardt Jr. has run select Xfinity races every year since.He normally picks short tracks, such as Martinsville Speedway, Richmond Raceway, but also Darlington Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway. Last year, he ran two races, including one at Bristol Motor Speedway.Driving the No. 88 JR Motorsports Chevrolet ...Keep reading

The eight-time grand prix world champion only signed a one-year deal with Gresini for the 2024 season and is a key piece of the rider market for next year.While Ducati management has publicly never ruled out the possibility of Marquez being signed by the manufacturer in 2025, a new contract for reigning double world champion Francesco Bagnaia and Moto2 star Fermin Aldeguer have taken two factory ...Keep reading

A native from Hedensted, Denmark, Lundgaard has only known life at RLL since coming to the IndyCar Series since making his debut in 2021. Since then, he claimed the Rookie of the Year in 2022 – the same year he signed a contract extension – and scored a breakthrough victory at Toronto last season en route to finishing eighth in the championship.Ahead of the opening practice for the Grand Prix ...Keep reading

Toyota has announced that the eight-time world champion will pilot one of its three factory GR Yaris Rally 1 cars at the asphalt event, which hosts the fourth round of the WRC season, from 18-21 April.Read Also:

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Ogier and co-driver Vincent Landais will join Toyota’s full-time drivers Elfyn Evans and ...Keep reading

Despite radically overhauling its bike for over the winter, the start of Honda’s 2024 campaign showed that its gap to leaders hasn’t narrowed over the winter.In Qatar, LCR’s Johann Zarco was the top RC213V rider at the chequered flag in 12th, with Joan Mir 13th for the factory team and Marini struggling to 20th.But Honda has already started to make use of its concession benefits this year ...Keep reading

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From dream first starts for Alex Rins, to hometown glory for Miguel Oliveira, and one of the closest finishes in MotoGP history, the Portuguese Grand Prix has seen them all. These are the top 5 iconic moments from the Portuguese Grand Prix. Any device, anytime, anywhere! MotoGP VideoPass™ brings you every second of every round this 2024 season. SIGN UP NOW!

It is often taken for granted that racing drivers can do things like that, and after all, it's only a couple of years since Alex Albon performed a similar feat, returning in Singapore after missing the Italian GP following an appendix removal.Albon, however, had two free weekends between races, so what Sainz is doing this weekend should not be underestimated.Melbourne on Thursday was the first ...Keep reading

The Australian found himself on the receiving end of a pointed remark from Red Bull's motorsport advisor after a disappointing showing in the Saudi Arabian GP, where he was outqualified once again by team-mate Yuki Tsunoda.Writing in his column for Speedweek about the performance of RB's two drivers, Marko said: "There is a lot at stake this season for both Yuki and Daniel. Yuki's qualifying was ...Keep reading

The 2021 world champion is one of the big figures on the rider market for 2025 as his current Yamaha deal expires at the end of the 2024 season.Quartararo has already admitted he has held talks with other manufacturers over his future as Yamaha continues to struggle for form following a winless 2023.After struggling to 11th in the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix two weeks ago, Quartararo said ...Keep reading

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For the return of ground effect in 2022, Mercedes pioneered its distinctive size-zero sidepod car concept but concluded its defence of the constructors' title with only one grand prix victory.Having run the car too low that year, Mercedes raised the platform for 2023 but hit an aerodynamic performance ceiling to prompt major bodywork design changes from Monaco.For this year's W15 challenger ...Keep reading

The Spaniard has stressed that first, he will make a call on whether or not he wants to remain in F1 in 2025 and will then decide where he will drive, with staying at Aston Martin his priority.Lewis Hamilton's departure for Ferrari has left a vacant seat at Mercedes for next season, while ongoing talk about Max Verstappen's possible departure from Red Bull could open up another tantalising ...Keep reading

The teenager's drive to seventh place when he deputised for Carlos Sainz at Ferrari in Jeddah has inevitably led many observers to assume that he will be promoted to a Haas race seat in 2025.Bearman drove for the US outfit in two FP1 sessions last season, and he has a programme of six outings lined up for this year.However, Hulkenberg believes that Bearman should focus on his immediate job in F2 ...Keep reading

Kevin Magnussen’s Jeddah race had already been spoiled by a 10-second penalty for contact with Alex Albon when he passed Yuki Tsunoda while running off the circuit. The move subsequently earned him a second 10-second penalty.He then followed orders to slow down the Japanese driver and others in the following group in order to allow team-mate Nico Hulkenberg to create a window for what was in ...Keep reading

Over the last few years, riders have been calling for the gravel traps at the circuit near Portimao to be altered due to what they felt was a dangerous size of stone being used.This issue first came into the spotlight at the 2022 Portuguese GP when Ducati's Francesco Bagnaia suffered a crash during Friday practice and subsequently scooped up a handful of stones from the gravel to take back to his ...Keep reading

Instead, the day will be turned into a test day, as both endurance series accuse each other of unfair practices.The start of the racing season at the famous Nurburgring-Nordschleife now falls into the hands of the long-established and rival ADAC Nurburgring Langstrecken-Serie organised by the VLN on April 6-7th.The newly-formed NES, organised by the Automobilclub von Deutschland (AvD) with the ...Keep reading

Feeney arrived at the Australian Grand Prix second in the points but, after taking pole position for the weekend's opening race, could only watch on as Anton de Pasquale took an early lead in the shortened 18-lap race.But the positions swapped back before the end of the first lap, with Feeney passing Dick Johnson Racing driver de Pasquale. The latter's day continued to get worse as Will Brown and ...Keep reading

The McLaren driver was lucky to escape a penalty after he edged forward before the lights went out at Jeddah a fortnight ago.While rivals, including George Russell, complained about him jumping the start as his car was seen to move, the FIA stewards ruled that there had been no offence as the car transponder had not triggered anything untoward.Norris himself admitted to being “a little bit ...Keep reading

F1 Academy managing director Wolff revealed ahead of this weekend’s Australian Grand Prix that she has personally filed a criminal complaint in the French courts against the FIA.In December, the FIA started looking into a potential conflict of interest between Wolff and her husband Toto - the Mercedes motorsport boss - supposedly after F1 team bosses complained that confidential information had ...Keep reading

The Spaniard acknowledges that he hasn’t yet returned to 100% fitness after having his appendix removed in Saudi Arabia two weeks ago.However, he remains confident that he will be able to drive this weekend, despite not undertaking any training or using the Maranello simulator since his operation.Sainz plans to drive the SF-24 in practice on Friday in Melbourne – with adjustments to his belts ...Keep reading

Although he has three top 10 starts in five races this season, Cindric's  fourth place finish at Atlanta is his only finish better than 22nd and finds himself mired in 21st in the series standings.Cindric and his No. 2 Ford team have had speed, they’ve just not been able to get through most races to demonstrate their full potential. He’s been caught up in accidents at Daytona and Phoenix and ...Keep reading

The F1 Driver Academy managing director, who is wife of Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff, found herself at the centre of a media storm in December after the FIA announced it was looking into a potential conflict of interest between them.This followed a media report suggesting that confidential information had been shared between the pair, and that teams had complained to the FIA. Both these counts ...Keep reading