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Hill is an accomplished NASCAR Xfinity Series driver with eight victories over the last three seasons. He finished a career-best fifth in the championship standings in 2023, narrowly missing the Championship 4. Previously, he competed in the Truck Series, where he also won eight races.A member of RCR's NXS program since 2022, Hill does have six previous starts in the Cup Series. He made his debut ...Keep reading

Masi came under fire for the way he handled the closing stages of the 2021 season finale, where he ended the safety car period just in time to enable a final-lap showdown between title rivals Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton.It allowed Red Bull driver Verstappen, who was on fresher tyres, to make a last-gasp pass on Mercedes rival Hamilton for the lead and with it clinch his maiden drivers' ...Keep reading

During FP1, the only dry Friday session, Melbourne winner Carlos Sainz set the best time of the Ferrari duo during a short flurry of hot laps conducted on softs but was nonetheless 0.213s shy of Max Verstappen's headline effort.In the meantime, Leclerc was eclipsed by both McLarens and stacked up sixth in the overall FP1 order, a quarter of a second away from his team-mate over his lap.The ...Keep reading

Watch the livestream of the 2024 WSK Open Series Round 1 action at Franciacorta Karting Track.

Before deciding to extend his contract with Yamaha - a deal announced on Friday - Fabio Quartararo had to choose between following two paths: to be competitive again as soon as possible, or to consider a more long-term and lucrative route. Yamaha's lack of progress makes it very difficult for the Frenchman to return to winning ways before the expiration of his new deal, which makes him the ...Keep reading

The Argentina GP at Termas de Rio Honda was scheduled to represent the third round of the 2024 MotoGP season. However, on 31 January it was officially cancelled by series promoter Dorna Sports.Due to harsh government spending cuts imposed by Argentina’s new president Javier Milei, the grand prix – which receives considerable public funding – could not be staged.Has the Argentina GP been ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen and Red Bull led the way in opening practice for Formula 1's 2024 Japanese Grand Prix, but this was far from a repeat affair of the opening day from the 2023 event at Suzuka just six months ago.This time, in the cooler April climate, rain intervened to limit running massively in FP2, while Red Bull was left eyeing Charles Leclerc's surprise early long-run times from FP1 with ...Keep reading

A new way of allocating wet-weather rubber for 2024 meant teams were reluctant to use any intermediate tyres in Suzuka’s damp FP2 session because they wanted to save them for later in the weekend.It meant that drivers sat in garages for most of the session, with the only major running coming very late on when conditions were dry enough for slicks.Read Also:

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“I really love this track,” says Franck Montagny of the Jerez circuit in southern Spain. “I remember my chief engineer in Renault’s test team was always saying ‘if there was a championship of 15 races in Jerez, you are world champion every year’.”The Frenchman never raced at the track he picks out as his favourite, but relished every time he got to drive it testing Formula 1 ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen set the pace for Red Bull in FP1, which was the only representative session on Friday, as he posted a time of 1m30.056s in his RB20.Sergio Perez finished just under two tenths down in second, followed by Australian GP winner Carlos Sainz in the Ferrari.Mercedes ended up a strong fourth and fifth, with George Russell leading team-mate Lewis Hamilton.What time does qualifying for the ...Keep reading

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If you've got an exciting new technology you'd like to see used throughout the varied world of sportscar racing, there are two organisations you need to be working with.The first of these, of course, is the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO), the body behind the Le Mans 24 Hours and the World Endurance Championship (WEC). And the other is the SRO Motorsports Group, the organisation at the centre of ...Keep reading

After a challenging start to the campaign where Mercedes has struggled with its W15, duo George Russell and Lewis Hamilton ended up fourth and fifth quickest respectively in Suzuka’s morning free practice session, which offered the only representative running with FP2 taking place in damp conditions.Off the back of a host of experiments that the team was running as part of its bid to get to the ...Keep reading

The American ran wide at the high-speed Dunlop Curve left-hander and having put his right-hand side wheels on the grass, he lost control and spun into the barrier.He hit with both the front and rear, damaging the suspension and cracking the gearbox of the FW46.Fortunately the chassis, which was shipped back to the UK and repaired after team-mate Alex Albon’s FP1 crash in Australia, escaped ...Keep reading

Quartararo made his MotoGP debut in 2019 with Yamaha at the satellite Petronas Sepang Racing Team, scoring seven podiums in a stunning rookie campaign.This earned him a promotion to the factory squad in 2021 to replace Valentino Rossi, with Quartararo arriving there as a three-time race winner following the 2020 campaign.Quartararo went on to win the world championship in 2021 and fought to the ...Keep reading

Rain started sporadically falling in the paddock with under an hour to go ahead of FP2's 3pm local time commencement, but this intensified with 15 minutes to go.It was therefore no shock when no cars headed out as FP2 did get underway, with few drivers even in their cockpits at this stage.After 12 minutes, Lewis Hamilton did venture out on the mediums, declaring the track "pretty dry", but he was ...Keep reading

While the revisions did not include any changes to its aggressive sidepod solution, which is a step above what any of its rivals have done so far, there was a notable tweak to the arrangements surrounding the cockpit.Red Bull has already raised eyebrows this year by having inlets in the channel behind the cockpit – with the squad having copied the high gulleys that Mercedes had utilised in ...Keep reading

Ricciardo has struggled to match team-mate Yuki Tsunoda this year and has suggested that something might not be right with his package.Racing director Alan Permane has stressed that the fresh chassis was being constructed anyway, and hasn’t been built because of any doubts over Ricciardo’s current car."For me the chassis is a big lump of carbon that we attach the suspension to, attach an ...Keep reading

Verstappen retired in the opening stages of the last race in Melbourne after his brakes overheated – with it appearing that the pad had jammed on to the disc because of an issue related to the caliper.While there has been no detailed explanation from Red Bull about what exactly happened to trigger the failure, various theories have emerged.One idea is that the culprit was the failure of the team ...Keep reading

The Red Bull driver followed the red flag-enforced hiatus, produced by Logan Sargeant's crash, with a hot lap on soft tyres that eventually landed on a 1m30.056s to throw down the gauntlet for the rest of the weekend.In anticipation of any inclement weather at Suzuka later on in the weekend, it appeared that many of the teams wished to prioritise the longer runs during FP1 in the event that FP2 ...Keep reading

The seven-time world champion retired in the early stages of the race at Albert Park after his Mercedes engine shut down following sensors detecting an unspecified problem.The power unit was flown back to Mercedes’ engine facility at Brixworth for post-race analysis to get an understanding of what happened, with no obvious explanation available immediately and the team unclear about whether or ...Keep reading