Новости за 10.04.2024

The Reigning Indianapolis 500 champion, Newgarden nailed a flying lap of 228.811 mph around the 2.5-mile superspeedway in the opening two hours of the day.Kyle Larson, the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series champion, delivered a thrilling run of his own after putting his No. 17 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet second on the timesheets at 226.384 mph. The California native is preparing for his first start in “The ...Keep reading

Truex's No. 19 Joe Gibbs Racing team has had plenty of speed this season. He’s led laps in all but two of eight races so far and led the third most laps (352) among series drivers.In fact, his 18th place effort last Sunday at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway is his worse finish of the 2024 season and the only time he’s not been running on the lead lap at the end of the race.That record, including ...Keep reading

Prema Racing became the latest team to declare a full-time commitment to North America’s premier open-wheel championship, announcing on Tuesday intent to field two entries for 2025.The Italian outfit joins the likes of Juncos Hollinger Racing, Meyer Shank Racing and McLaren Racing - who purchased a 75% stake in Arrow McLaren (SP) in 2021 – as teams that have come into IndyCar on a full-time ...Keep reading

Talking tyre strategy, red flags, race pace and more with our Trackside Engineering Director, Andrew Shovlin, after the Japanese Grand Prix. Get the lowdown on all the events from Suzuka in our Akkodis Race Debrief.

The most successful junior single-seater team of recent years on the European ladder announced this week that it will combine its programmes in Formula 2, Formula 3, the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine and various Formula 4 championships with a move into the US open-wheel scene next year.It will enter a two-car team using engines from Chevrolet and base itself from a new ...Keep reading

It is evident that artificial intelligence (AI) holds transformative potential across various domains, a fact often misconceived by many.Contrary to popular belief, mere automation does not equate to AI. True AI involves software that learns, improves, and autonomously makes decisions. Currently, in the realm of Formula E, the use of AI beyond social media applications remains limited. However ...Keep reading

The team revealed the driver change on social media, with McAleer stepping up to full-time GTD running alongside co-driver Sheena Monk in the Acura NSX GT3 Evo22 beginning on the upcoming Streets of Long Beach April 19-20.McAleer was part of the Gradient’s effort as an endurance co-driver for the Daytona 24 Hours in January. In 2022, McAleer’s only previous full-time campaign in GTD, he ...Keep reading

Valentino Rossi’s VR46 squad made its MotoGP premier class debut in 2022 after agreeing a deal with Ducati for one factory-specification bike that went to Luca Marini, and a year-old bike that went to Marco Bezzecchi.Motorsport.com understands that VR46 has the option to renew with Ducati for 2025 and 2026, with the option set to expire at the end of May, but the team would have to settle for ...Keep reading

Andretti has begun a move into a new facility on the Silverstone Park estate as its F1 project continues to progress, and the plan is to also occupy an adjacent larger building.Assuming that the team’s F1 entry eventually gets a green light, it will base F3 and F2 programmes at the new site.Read Also:

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The team was granted an entry by the FIA last October, but failed to pass the second stage of the process when F1 did not approve its bid in a statement issued on January 31. The project thus remains in limbo while discussions continue behind the scenes.The team continues to target an entry in 2026, should an agreement with F1 be reached.Read Also:

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After Bahrain, the AMR24 appeared benchmarked as the fifth fastest car in the leading group on race pace, finishing ninth and 10th.Fernando Alonso subsequently finished fifth in Saudi Arabia and sixth on the road in Australia, prior to receiving a penalty.In Japan, the Spaniard earned sixth after what he claimed to be one of the best five weekends of his career while team-mate Lance Stroll had a ...Keep reading

Vettel completed almost two grand prix distances over four stints in Porsche Penske Motorsport's 963 hypercar in testing at Aragon in Spain, logging 118 laps in its major pre-Le Mans, 36-hour endurance test.Porsche’s director of factory racing, Urs Kuratle, remarked that Vettel “mastered it extremely well”.“Sebastian certainly doesn't have to prove that he can drive a car," Kuratle told ...Keep reading

However, according to information gathered in recent weeks, any possible sale of the outfit would likely be on the condition that any new owner would continue to use Renault engine power for the foreseeable future.The opening four races of the 2024 season have confirmed Alpine is in a difficult spot, with it standing last in the constructors’ championship on zero points with Sauber and ...Keep reading

The pair touched at the restart following the early red flag, with Gasly losing what the team later estimated as around 33 points of downforce, which equates to a potential lap time impact of up to 0.7-0.9 seconds.Ocon also suffered some damage, and thereafter both drivers had an even trickier race than they had anticipated with the difficult A524, eventually finishing 15th and 16th, with Gasly ...Keep reading

BMW Motorsport boss Andreas Roos has revealed that it has ditched the problematic wheel rims supplied by Rimstock in favour of products from German auto parts maker BBS.While Rimstock filed for bankruptcy last year, which “played a role” in BMW’s decision to swap suppliers, the “technical anomalies and problems that we had at the beginning of 2023” were also key factors in the move to ...Keep reading

The design centres around how the flaps connect to the endplate and how that can be used to amplify the outwash effect that’s being generated.This is something that the regulations for this newer generation of cars was supposed to limit, in order to improve wheel-to-wheel racing by means of reducing the overall wake output of the cars.However, knowing the value of generating outwash from the ...Keep reading

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The 26-year-old ended his three-month absence from behind the wheel of his Erebus-run Chevrolet Camaro at Winton Motor Raceway on Wednesday, completing a full day's testing.Kostecki has sat out the opening two rounds (and six races) of the season and said that the test was about “trying to find my feet again".“It’s just like riding a bike, you have a few wobbles and then you find your ...Keep reading

McGuinness, who turns 52 this month, already confirmed his returned to the TT for 2024 late last year as he continues with the official Honda team.The TT legend will lead the field away on his Fireblade CBR1000RR-R in the Superbike, Senior and Superstock races at this year’s event.McGuinness will be followed by Jamie Coward for KTS Racing aboard a Honda, with new official Honda signing Dean ...Keep reading

The German manufacturer is facing up to the reality that it has still not mastered its understanding of the latest ground-effect regulations, with its W15 not producing the Red Bull-challenging form hoped for.In fact, Mercedes has admitted that its 2024 challenger is exhibiting characteristics that ‘make no sense’, with increased levels of downforce not translating into extra performance on ...Keep reading

Marc Marquez is the most successful rider at the Circuit of the Americas, having won the race seven times since it joined the MotoGP calendar in 2013. Alex Rins, now at Yamaha, and Ducati's Enea Bastianini, are the only other riders in the field to have claimed victory in the Americas GP.2024 MotoGP Americas Grand Prix session ...Keep reading