Day two of the rally was held over eight special stages and after the rain and high winds of the opening day, the weather was certainly smiling on the competitors. Some of the crews who were listed as retired on Leg 1 were back out on day two, with time penalties added for the stages…
The track was never quite dry or wet, and it was difficult to anticipate the chassis settings, the type of tyres to be used and the most appropriate pressure at the start time. Sometimes slick tyres were the best performers at the start of the session, but also those with the highest risk of accidents….
Jari-Matti Latvala leads Rally Italia Sardegna after the first loop of stages on Friday morning, heading a Toyota one-two with a 2.8 second advantage over Ott Tänak. After Thursday evening’s rally-opening Super Special Ittiri on a former motorcross track, the crews took on a loop of four stages to the North-Eeast of Alghero, in temperatures…
Brazilian driver earns Sprint Race victory ahead of Ghiotto and De Vries Sérgio Sette Câmara claimed a controlled first win of the 2019 FIA Formula 2 Championship, pouncing from third on the grid and maintaining the position, despite a late safety car bunching up the drivers and creating a tense final few laps. The…
Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc went quickest in final practice for the German Grand Prix, finishing 0.168s ahead of Red Bull Racing’s Max Verstappen and more than two tenths ahead of Ferrari team-mate Sebastian Vettel. Ferrari were quickly to the fore in the early part of the session with Leclerc setting a time of 1:13.117 on soft…
The Automobile Club d’Italia (ACI), the Touring Club Suisse (TCS), the Österreichische Automobil-, Motorrad- und Touring Club (ÖAMTC), working together with the Belarusian Auto Moto Touring Club (BKA), the Automobile Club of Moldova (ACM) and the Bosnia and Herzegovina Automobile Club (BIHAMK), further developed the donation programme launched in October 2018, with the aim of creating a bridge of solidarity between clubs, in support…
Max Verstappen has been stripped of his Mexican Grand Prix pole position after race stewards handed the Red Bull Racing driver a three-place grid penalty for failing to slow for single waved yellow flag at the end the third segment of qualifying at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodriguez. Moments from the end of the Q3 in…
The Italian Grand Prix stewards took no further action over the incident that opposed Kevin Magnussen and Fernando Alonso, but the Dane still picked apart his rival for his ‘disrespectful’ attitude. Alonso gained a tow from the Haas driver during Q2 before overtaking Magnussen on the run down to the first chicane, with the McLaren…
The Renault team is heading to Interlagos with its 30 point lead over Haas in the constructors championship intact. There had been fears that the margin could be slashed to just ten points if Haas had won its appear against Romain Grosjean’s exclusion from the Italian Grand Prix in September for running an illegal floor…
Formula 1’s director of motorsports Ross Brawn has given a glimpse of new live data infographics that will be used in the sport’s broadcast coverage next season. F1 and Amazon Web Services have been working together to find new ways of interpreting and sharing the massive amounts of data already available to teams behind the…