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All the highlights from Sunday in WRC3 at the 2024 Croatia Rally.

Nikolay Gryazin romped his way to WRC2 victory on Sunday at Croatia Rally, maintaining French manufacturer Citröen’s perfect record in Zagreb.

Sébastien Ogier jumped from third to first overall on a dramatic Sunday at Croatia Rally, claiming a surprise win as Thierry Neuville and Elfyn Evans faced heartbreak.

The Toyota driver has been among the most critical of the new points system and again brought the subject back into question after finishing second behind team-mate Sebastien Ogier.Evans scooped 19 points from the weekend, picking up 15 for finishing second on Saturday before claiming three from the Super Sunday classification and one from the Power Stage.His tally matched title rival Thierry ...Keep reading

Malukas was brought in at the conclusion of the 2023 IndyCar season, signed to replace Felix Rosenqvist in the team’s No. 6 Chevrolet after the fallout from the Alex Palou contract drama.But a mountain biking accident in February dealt injuries that led to surgery on the left wrist of Malukas, which has left him unavailable for race weekends or testing since.Arrow McLaren has since leaned ...Keep reading

Mike Conway, Nyck de Vries and Kamui Kobayashi won by 7.081s in their #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar over the #6 Penske Porsche Motorsport 963 LMDh of Laurens Vanthoor, Andre Lotterer and Kevin Estre, both crews taking advantage of a timely switch to wets when the previously dominant Ferraris attempted without success to keep its dry tyres working.Starting sixth, Conway overtook Fred ...Keep reading

The Hyundai driver took a 4.9s lead into the final day after winning nine of the 16 stages up to that point, in what was an intense battle with Toyota’s Elfyn Evans.However, both Neuville and Evans hit trouble in stage 18 on Sunday morning, which effectively ended the pair’s victory hopes.Neuville drifted into a grass bank following a late pacenote call, costing him 23.3s while causing ...Keep reading

Stroll hit Ricciardo under the safety car as the field bunched up in the penultimate corner for a Lap 27 restart.A furious Ricciardo was forced to retire his damaged RB car, while McLaren's Oscar Piastri also sustained rear-end damage when Ricciardo's car was pushed into him.The stewards wholly blamed Stroll for not taking more care to avoid the contact and handed him a 10-second penalty and two ...Keep reading

Honda’s downturn in performance has continued into the new campaign, with the RC213V still lagging behind rivals despite the work that went into upgrading the bike over the winter.The Japanese manufacturer returned empty-handed from last weekend’s Americas GP, with Luca Marini finishing 16th and last in the sole-surviving Honda, as Zarco, LCR team-mate Takaaki Nakagami and factory rider Joan ...Keep reading

After five years away, Formula 1 returned to China, but it was Max Verstappen who streaked to a fourth victory of 2024 at the Chinese Grand Prix in a race featuring two safety cars. Lando Norris beat Sergio Perez to second, ending the streak of one-twos from Ferrari and Red Bull and hometown hero Zhou Guanyu battled his way to 14th. Bryn Lucas is joined by Jake Boxall-Legge and Jon Noble as we review the Chinese Grand Prix. 0:00 Intro 1:46 Sprint and Qualifying recap 7:57 Max Verstappen Domination... Читать дальше...

The Aston Martin driver started the Chinese GP with just one set of fresh hards and two sets of fresh mediums, so when he started the race on mediums and switched to his sole hards after 11 laps he was left without the strategy flexibility of his rivals when the first safety car period was triggered to recover Valtteri Bottas’ stricken Sauber.As Alonso had no more hard tyres that would get him ...Keep reading

With the field bunching up before the hairpin as the race was restarted on Lap 27, Stroll went into the back of Ricciardo, lifting the RB car up in the air and causing terminal damage to the Australian's car.Ricciardo was pushed into McLaren driver Oscar Piastri, who also sustained damage that compromised the rest of his race.The stewards swiftly exacted judgment on the incident, fully attributing ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen dominated once again, having hinted at his clear advantage in pace during Saturday's sprint race, but it did not go all Red Bull's own way as Sergio Perez was leapfrogged in the stops.No team was able to quite enjoy an error-free day, as the two safety cars put decision-making under the microscope, but it certainly ensured that China's return to the calendar was not a ...Keep reading

Ogier and co-driver Vincent Landais triumphed following an incident-filled Sunday that saw the pair inherit the lead after Hyundai driver Neuville and Toyota’s Evans both crashed in stage 18 of 20.Ogier took the first win of his 2024 partial campaign from Evans by 9.7s, while Neuville had to settle for third [+45.9s] after his costly error. The battle for victory developed into a three-way ...Keep reading

The RB driver has been penalised having been found guilty of overtaking Haas driver Nico Hulkenberg under safety car conditions on lap 28 at the Shanghai International Circuit.Ricciardo, who has also been hit with two penalty points for the offence, had been hit by Lance Stroll at the previous safety car restart, sustaining heavy damage through which he would ultimately retire from the ...Keep reading

On F1's return to the Shanghai International Circuit for the first time since 2019, Verstappen cemented his position as the runaway points leader with a lights-to-flag win in the RB20.Norris enjoyed a strong run to second, leaving Sergio Perez to settle for third in the other Red Bull.The Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz occupied positions fourth and fifth, ahead of the lead Mercedes ...Keep reading

Following a promising second place in Saturday morning's sprint, Hamilton faced a recovery race from 18th on the grid.But the seven-time world champion initially failed to make much progress on his soft tyres, rising to 15th before moving on to the medium compound.He said his car had so much understeer during the first half of the race that he thought something was broken."I thought maybe at the ...Keep reading

Sébastien Ogier has taken the Croatia Rally lead in dramatic circumstances on Sunday morning after Thierry Neuville and Elfyn Evans both went off the road in SS18.

After losing a place to George Russell at the start while fighting Ferrari team-mate Carlos Sainz, Leclerc made early progress using a one-stop strategy to move up to fourth place.But having been predicted to be the team closest to Red Bull on race pace, both Ferraris were unable to make any further gains, as Leclerc finished off the podium – 4.5s off Sergio Perez in third and nearly 10s off ...Keep reading

Norris finished second in Shanghai after benefitting from a safety car period to make his only pitstop and come out ahead of Sergio Perez, but then managed to keep his hard tyres alive to comfortably control the gap with the Mexican.The result came as a surprise for McLaren at one of its intrinsically worst circuits, for while it could keep up appearances with strong qualifying performances, it ...Keep reading

As the field got ready to restart the race on Lap 27, a lock-up from Aston Martin's Fernando Alonso into the hairpin caused a concertina effect for cars having to brake behind him.Several places behind the Spaniard, his team-mate Stroll crashed into the back of RB's Ricciardo, lifting the Australian's car up and causing damage that would end up terminal for both cars.Stroll initially blamed the ...Keep reading

The two manufacturers that will line up behind the Ferrari top-three block-out on the grid believe the Italian marque will maintain its qualifying advantage in the six-hour race.“We are trying to be optimistic but, on pure pace, we are not there with Ferrari,” said Porsche driver Kevin Estre, who took fourth position aboard the #6 963 LMDh in Saturday’s Hyperpole qualifying session.“Of ...Keep reading

On the back of scoring Red Bull's 100th pole position on Saturday, Verstappen was never threatened in the first F1 race in Shanghai since 2019 and effortlessly overcame two safety car restarts in the middle period of the race.After leading the field away without any real threat from behind, Verstappen unearthed a 1.6-second gap at the end of the first lap over Fernando Alonso, who had opened his ...Keep reading

All the highlights from Saturday in WRC3 at the 2024 Croatia Rally.

Nikolay Gryazin is four stages away from clinching the Croatia Rally WRC2 victory after steering his Citroën C3 Rally2 to a 39.5sec lead over team-mate Yohan Rossel on Saturday.