Новости за 30.12.2022

Following the DTMs takeover by the ADAC, as the Gerhard Berger-led ITR organisation that previously promoted the series announced it would be disbanded, it was announced that DTM will run on Pirelli rubber next year. That brings it in line with the ADAC GT Masters series, which has subsequently been rebranded as DTM Endurance and realigned as a support series, and championships run by the ... Keep reading

Alonso finished his second season since returning to F1 ninth in the championship, but rued a number of missed opportunities due to recurring reliability problems that emerged throughout the season. The Spaniard was open in his frustration about the problems Alpine faced at times, believing it had cost him dozens of points that resulted in a head-to-head loss to teammate Esteban Ocon in ... Keep reading

In his third season of racing in Super Formula, and only his second full campaign after a 2021 season disrupted by visa problems, Kondo Racing driver Fenestraz emerged as defending champion Tomoki Nojiris strongest rival in the championship fight. While Nojiri ultimately claimed a second title with a round to spare, Fenestraz beat Ryo Hirakawa to the runner-up spot, winning at Sugo and ... Keep reading

The races in question are Rounds 6 and 7, to be held at Sugo and Autopolis respectively. Predictably, SUPER GT has moved to avoid a clash between the Sugo race and the Fuji round of the FIA World Endurance Championship by shifting its annual trip to Japan's Tohoku region back a week to September 16-17. The Autopolis round was previously scheduled for September 30-October 1, but will now ... Keep reading

The team, branded as Wayne Taylor Racing with Andretti Autosport, will begin its partnership with two entries in the 2023 Roar Before the 24, the #10 Konica Minolta Acura ARX-06 LMDh car in the GTP class and the #93 Harrison Contracting Company Acura NSX Evo22 in the GTD class. The newly formed team will also compete in the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America series. The announcement ... Keep reading

After ending last year ninth in the standings, Williams slumped back to 10th place as it struggled to match the midfield teams for form across the course of the season. Alex Albon, Nicholas Latifi and one-race stand-in Nyck de Vries all managed to pick up points for Williams, but the total of eight for the season still left it well adrift of ninth-placed AlphaTauri, which finished on 35 ... Keep reading

However, a combination of poor reliability, strategy and driver errors, and rapid progress from Red Bull, meant that the team was unable to sustain its championship challenge for long enough. But although its title hopes faded, that did not stop it trying to continue to eke out performance from its 2022 challenger. Ferrari airbox detail Photo by: Giorgio Piola As the F1-75 was ... Keep reading

Porsche has built its 963, which it will use to return to top-level prototype racing for the first time since 2017, to LMDh regulations the prototype GTP rules set for the American IMSA series. Along with Cadillac, it will race LMDh-homologated cars in the WEC against machinery built to Le Mans Hypercar regulations from manufacturers that include giants Ferrari, Peugeot and ... Keep reading

The Dutchman, a Formula E champion in the 2020-21 season with the Mercedes outfit, has earned a move to the AlphaTauri F1 squad to partner Yuki Tsunoda at the team. After impressing in his one-race cameo at Williams in 2022 as a late call-up to substitute for Alex Albon, de Vries sufficiently turned heads among Red Bull's higher-ups to earn the race seat vacated by Pierre Gasly. James, de ... Keep reading

The WRC underwent its biggest sweep of rule changes for a generation leading to all-new hybrid powered cars. Introducing a bespoke 100kW hybrid unit to the cars was among a myriad changes to the regulations as the WRC introduced tougher spaceframe chassis, while the effectiveness of aerodynamics was reduced by around 15%. Trick centre differentials were also removed in favour of a simpler ... Keep reading

After a largely forgettable 2022 season, TOM'S has opted to pair 2021 GT500 champion Tsuboi and rising star Miyata in its de facto lead car for next year as it aims to regain the title. Miyata moves across from the sister #37 car after a season of partnering Sacha Fenestraz, taking the place of Giuliano Alesi. Tsuboi and Alesi managed only one podium finish last year on their way to a lowly ... Keep reading

Gasly will join Alpine next year after spending the entirety of his racing career to date under the Red Bull umbrella, with the majority of his time in F1 coming at its AlphaTauri team. The move will see Gasly replace two-time world champion Fernando Alonso, who signed for Aston Martin at the end of July. Ocon has raced for the Enstone-based team since 2020, and played a role in helping ... Keep reading

Released on Thursday, the list contains no names that weren't already announced by their teams, but does clarify certain riders' number choices, as well as some tweaked team names for the upcoming campaign. Notable by its absence is the Pedercini Kawasaki team, which had even announced its participation in the 2023 season earlier this month as part of a new alliance with Vinales Racing. If ... Keep reading

The nine-time MotoGP race winner acrimoniously split with Yamaha midway through the 2021 season and found refuge at Aprilia. His adaptation to the RS-GP was initially very difficult, as Vinales had never ridden a bike in the premier class built around a V4 engine which has completely different handling characteristics, and therefore requires a different riding style, to that of the Yamaha ... Keep reading

The switch to 18-inch tyres was a major part of this year's revised technical package, although they were often overlooked during the season as attention switched to porpoising and the aerodynamic impact of the new rules. However, Stella admits that the team wasn't able to "mitigate" the impact of the new tyres as effectively as its rivals, which meant that they often required extra focus on ... Keep rea

The pair collided at the start of the British Grand Prix after Russell tagged Pierre Gasly's AlphaTauri that was caught between them leaving the startline, which saw Zhou's Alfa Romeo then immediately flipped onto its rollhoop and slid at high speed through the gravel trap. It then smashed over the tyre barrier and came to rest in between that structure and the track debris fencing protecting ... Keep reading

Haas bounced back from a point-less 2021 to finish eighth in this year's constructors' championship, enjoying highs through Kevin Magnussen's fifth place in Bahrain and his shock pole position in Brazil. Magnussen's result in Bahrain came despite his late return to the team following the exit of Nikita Mazepin and title sponsor Uralkali after the opening test in Barcelona in the wake of ... Keep reading

Branding rights and the promotion of DTM were sold by Gerhard Berger's ITR operation to prolific German motorsport promoter ADAC earlier this month. After a period of uncertainty for teams, it has moved quickly to establish a calendar and to announce new partners including a switch to Pirelli rubber that brings DTM in line with the ADAC's previously rivalling GT3 category, GT Masters. Newly ... Keep reading

Excluding the anomalous Indianapolis 500, 26 drivers have taken a single world championship F1 success. Some of those drivers should have won many more races, while others got on the list through good fortune or an outstanding performance. Here is our pick of F1's top 10 one-hit wonders, based on their drives to victory, the circumstances of that success and their overall careers. Were ... Keep reading

Porsche along with race team partners Penske and Multimatic dovetailed its 963s development program with being the guinea pig, according to its project manager Urs Kuratle, for IMSAs hybrid system. That program ran throughout this year, at a wide variety of racetracks across Europe and America. The Bosch-supplied motor generator unit is known to have caused major issues ... Keep reading

Its hard to think of a recent SUPER GT champion who has taken such an unlikely path to the top as Hiramine, who alongside teammate Bertrand Baguette ended a 27-year title drought for Team Impul this year. While Baguette is known to European audiences for his exploits in IndyCar, Formula Renault 3.5 and WEC, and the likes of Naoki Yamamoto, Sho Tsuboi and Yuhi Sekiguchi are all active in ... Keep reading

After making a stage-winning debut last year, Audis hybrid-electric RS Q e-tron E2 will be at least 100kg heavier than its direct rivals in the German manufacturers second outing in Saudi Arabia. Event organiser ASO revised the technical regulations for this edition of the Dakar, which starts on Saturday, with the minimum weight of hybrid or electric cars entered in the T1U division ... Keep reading

The BMW M3 that gave Bruno Spengler a long-awaited first DTM title in 2012 is perhaps an obvious pick for his favourite car. After several championship near-misses, the Canadian drove his Schnitzer Motorsport-run M3 to victory in four of that years 10 rounds and secured the title on the Bavarian brands return to the DTM after a 20-year hiatus. That also meant a perfect start to life at his ... Keep reading

While Alpine made good progress in speed terms in 2022, as it emerged as best-of-the-rest behind Red Bull, Ferrari and Mercedes, it did endure a spate of frustrating retirements too. Those DNFs left Fernando Alonso particularly annoyed, especially as a run of engine failures ran almost all the way to the end of the season. Speaking after another retirement in Mexico, Alonso said ... Keep reading

The Japanese brand proved a dominant force this year, winning seven of the 13 events as Kalle Rovanpera and Jonne Halttunen claimed the drivers and co-drivers crowns, while Toyota sealed a sixth WRC manufacturers title. The GR Yaris emerged as the fastest and most reliable of the all-new Rally1 cars, but its dominance began to wane as Hyundai became stronger in the second half of the ... Keep reading