Two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso says that his victory for Toyota at last weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours was on a “higher level” than any other Le Mans win. Alongside former F1 drivers Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastien Buemi, Alonso won by over two laps in the #8 Toyota TS050 HYBRID ahead of team-mates in […]
Red Bull has announced that it will be powered by Honda in Formula 1 on a two-year deal beginning with the 2019 season, ending a 12-year partnership with Renault. After McLaren severed ties with Honda at the end of last season, the Japanese manufacturer entered a partnership with Red Bull junior team Toro Rosso. This […]
LMP2 class winner G-Drive Racing has been disqualified from the 2018 Le Mans 24 Hours after scrutineers found the use of an illegal part to speed up pitstop times. The G-Drive #26 ORECA 07 Gibson driven by Jean-Eric Vergne, Roman Rusinov and Andrea Pizzitola had taken a comfortable LMP2 victory by two laps on Sunday. […]
Toyota remains 1-2 in the 2018 Le Mans 24 Hours, with the #7 car leading by over a minute and a half from team-mates in the #8 following a penalty. After having run within 10 seconds of each other in the opening hours of the race, the #8 team suffered a significant setback in the […]
Ex-Formula 1 driver Kamui Kobayashi topped the timesheet in the #7 Toyota during morning warm-up for the 2018 Le Mans 24 Hours, edging team-mate Sebastien Buemi in the #8 car. Mike Conway and Jose Maria Lopez completed the first two stints in the 45-minute session, before handing the #7 to team-mate Kamui Kobayashi for the […]
Two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso and Sebastien Buemi will start the 2018 Le Mans 24 Hours from pole position after team-mate Kazuki Nakajima secured the #8 Toyota pole position. The team held provisional pole entering the final of three qualifying sessions after Nakajima had posted a 3m17.270s benchmark with his first lap on Wednesday […]
Toyota remains fastest following a second qualifying session for the 2018 Le Mans 24 Hours that was brought to an early end after a crash for the LMP2 #47 car. It was an incident-packed second qualifying, albeit with few lap time improvements against the times set during Wednesday evening’s two-hour session. As a result, the […]
Toyota secured a one-two finish in the opening qualifying session for the 2018 Le Mans 24 Hours, with Kazuki Nakajima setting the benchmark in the #7 on his opening lap. The twilight opening minutes of the two-hour session provided the fastest track conditions, with the majority of personal bests being set during the first runs. […]
The Canadian Grand Prix may not have delivered its typical blockbuster dose of sporting unpredictability, but what it did serve up in 2018 was a host of intriguing storylines. Several drivers delivered hugely impressive performances. Sebastian Vettel was at his imperious best, taking pole position on Saturday before delivering a textbook demonstration of how to […]
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen topped his first session of the 2018 Formula 1 season, posting the fastest time in opening practice for the Canadian Grand Prix. He was compromised in the opening 50 minutes of the 90-minute practice after suffering a puncture on his first of two tyre sets allocated for the session. As such, […]
His 64th and most recent race victory at last month’s Spanish Grand Prix was a comfortable cruise – Lewis Hamilton’s 18th career win at the 2012 Canadian Grand Prix was anything but. In my view, that race was a modern classic. A strategic battle between multiple drivers from multiple teams and with all three podium […]
Alex Tai has stepped down from his role as DS Virgin Racing’s team principal and CEO in Formula E. Having held the position since the inaugural 2014/15 FE season, this weekend’s race in Zurich will be the first in which DS Virgin has not been led by Tai. In a statement released by the team, […]