Mercedes Formula 1 junior George Russell topped the timesheet in a truncated Formula 2 practice session at the Hungaroring after a crash for Russian Time’s Tadasuke Makino. ART Grand Prix’s Russell, who has claimed the last three F2 pole positions and enters the weekend with a 37 point championship lead, ended up 0.302 seconds ahead […]
Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo edged Sebastian Vettel in opening practice for the Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix, despite running a harder tyre than the Ferrari driver. Vettel had led the timesheet after the opening 40 minutes of the session, with Red Bull electing to use the medium compound tyre at the start of the session. […]
The Hungarian Grand Prix has been on the Formula 1 calendar since 1986 and the event has made a habit of delivering classic races, in spite of the circuit’s rather peculiar characteristics. It’s difficult to know who to attribute the quote “Monaco without the walls” to – it’s a phase that is so commonly used […]
Toyota’s Ott Tanak posted the fastest time in superspecial stage one of Rally Finland, with the World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville finishing second. Drivers faced the added complication of damp sections on the Harju stage with light rainfall during the opening runs. Conditions had, however, improved by the time that the WRC field entered the stage. […]
Red Bull Formula 1 junior Daniel Ticktum beat Guan Yu Zhou to the top of the combined timesheet in practice for the European Formula 3 championship round at Spa Francorchamps. Two 40-minute practice sessions were held back to back. After ending the opening session in 16th, Ticktum vaulted to the top of the times in […]
Nature intervened during the German Grand Prix, raining on what was sure to be a victory parade for home hero Sebastian Vettel and opening the door for Lewis Hamilton. Victories rarely come more unexpectedly than this – Hamilton, who suffered a hydraulic failure in qualifying and started from 14th on the grid, charged back into […]
Sauber’s Formula 1 rookie Charles Leclerc finished at the top of the timesheet after only nine cars set timed laps in a rain-soaked FP3 ahead of the German Grand Prix. Ahead of the weekend, wet conditions had been anticipated for Saturday. With teams not permitted an additional set of wet and intermediate tyres in the case […]
Renault e.dams’ Sebastien Buemi secured a second pole of the weekend in New York, beating the Techeetah pair in qualifying ahead of the final E-Prix of the season. Buemi, was one of four drivers from the second group in a damp qualifying session to progress to superpole. He was the penultimate car to run in superpole […]
Audi’s Daniel Abt set the pace in a wet final practice session ahead of the Formula E season four finale and the second race in the New York E-Prix double-header. Finishing one-two in Saturday’s race, Audi enters the final day of the 2017/18 season second in the teams’ championship. The team is five points behind […]
Carlin’s Nikita Troitskiy claimed his first European Formula 3 Championship victory in a shortened third race at Zandvoort after Julian Hanses’s car was awkwardly stranded in the gravel. Troitskiy started third. He immediately jumped to second when front row starter Juri Vips bogged down off the line. After shadowing Red Bull Formula 1 junior Daniel […]
Jaguar Racing’s Mitch Evans was fastest in the second practice session ahead of the first race of Formula E’s New York double-header, while championship leader Jean-Eric Vergne was 14th. Evans waited until towards the end of the session before recording his benchmark time. On a traffic-free run, he posted a 1m13.207s to demote Dragon’s Jerome […]
Carlin’s Devlin DeFrancesco has withdrawn from the 2018 European Formula 3 Championship, as he switches his focus to the GP3 Series. DeFrancesco joined Carlin in Euro F3 for the final two rounds of the 2017 season as a guest driver, after a title-winning campaign in Spanish F3. Despite returning with Carlin at the start of this season, […]