The Briton qualified sixth in Jeddah, behind the four cars of Ferrari and Red Bull, and the Alpine of Esteban Ocon, and finished sixth, having no pace to match the frontrunners. His teammate Lewis Hamilton qualified only 16th and finished 10th, having taken a different and ultimately less optimal route with the car for qualifying.…
Cook, 30, has scored 11 race wins aboard BTC’s Honda Civic Type R machinery since his move to the team for 2019, and had long been expected to stay put at the team for a fourth successive season. He joins Jade Edwards, who was confirmed for a second campaign at BTC by the squad on…
Schumacher had been bidding for a spot in Q3 at Jeddah when he lost control of his VF-22 at the exit of Turn 10 – with the car spinning around and smashing into the concrete wall on the outside of Turn 11. It then slid down the track before striking the barriers on the other…
Matsushita has returned to Honda for the 2022 season after a single GT500 campaign last year with Nissan, joining Koudai Tsukakoshi at the wheel of Real’s Astemo-branded #17 Honda NSX-GT in place of Bertrand Baguette. Read Also: Why Honda and Nissan’s SUPER GT driver ‘swap’ is a win-win The Real pairing have enjoyed a strong…
NASCAR on Tuesday suspended Bootie Barker, crew chief for Wallace’s No. 23 23XI Racing Toyota, for four races after Wallace’s car lost a wheel during Sunday’s race at Circuit of the Americas. Also suspended for the next four races were team members Caleb Dirks and Adam Riley. The violation falls under Section 10.5.2.6 of the…
The six-time MotoGP world champion suffered a violent accident during the warm-up session on the Sunday of the Indonesian GP, when the rear of his Honda let go through the fast Turn 7 right-hander. He was thrown from his bike and landed heavily on his right side, with Marquez suffering a concussion in the…
Red Bull introduced its third rear wing specification in Saudi (bottom, below) as it looked to trim downforce and drag further still for the high-speed street circuit. The spoon shaping was retained, albeit with a much shallower mainplane and consequently more graduated spoon shaping (dotted green line). However, this forced the designers to create more…
The Dick Johnson Racing ace will join experienced production car racer Anthony Soole and Adam Burgess in a BMW M4 run by Holy Smoke Racing. They will run in the outright-contending Class X as they look to help keep BMW’s perfect record in the 6 Hour alive. De Pasquale joins a number of his Supercars…
The 2024 engine tests continued for a third day today with Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon continuing to pound the pavement with Honda Performance Development’s 2.4-liter engine, and Will Power taking over the Penske-run Chevrolet 2.4-liter car from teammate Josef Newgarden. Testing for these next-gen engines – currently running without the spec hybrid units they…
The pair traded places several times during a fraught battle in the early stages of the Saudi Arabian GP. Szafnauer, who at one point was pictured on the pit wall with his head in his hands, admits that his main concern was that the pink cars were losing ground to those behind. Valtteri Bottas and…
