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Formula 1 championship leader Valtteri Bottas topped the timesheet in FP2 ahead of the 2019 Chinese Grand Prix, edging Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel while his team-mate Charles Leclerc lost track time. As one of the first drivers to post a qualifying simulation run, Vettel claimed the provisional top spot on the timesheet with a 1m33.357s benchmark. […]
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Denny Hamlin recovered from two pitlane penalties to win in Texas and take a his second victory of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season. Daytona 500 winner Hamlin was handed his first drivethrough penalty for speeding in the pitlane during stage one. He climbed back through the field to win stage two, […]
Max Verstappen was “not too disappointed” with his fourth place finish in the Formula 1 Bahrain Grand Prix, after he “just tried to survive” balance issues in his Red Bull. The team struggled for pace throughout the weekend, with Verstappen qualifying in fifth place and 0.886 seconds adrift of polesitter Charles Leclerc. Red Bull team-mate […]
Penske’s Brad Keselowski dominated in Martinsville to claim a second NASCAR Cup Series victory of the 2019 season, beating Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott. Keselowski led 446 of 500 laps – the first time a driver has led over 400 laps in one race at Martinsville since Jeff Gordon in 1997 – winning both stages en […]
Daniel Ricciardo has suggested that his preparation for the Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix was compromised by being “too busy trying to please everyone” at his home race. Ricciardo’s first race with Renault ended in retirement at mid-distance after a freak incident at the start had removed him from points contention. Launching from 12th […]
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch clinched his 200th victory across NASCAR’s three national series’, claiming a second consecutive Cup Series win with a dominant drive at Fontana. Busch comfortably won the first two stages but complicated his route to race victory when he picked up a pitlane speeding penalty at the start of the third […]
Red Bull boss Christian Horner believes that the team “overperformed” in the Formula 1 2019 season-opening Australian Grand Prix in which Max Verstappen clinched third place. After starting in fourth, Verstappen was able to extend his first stint further than both Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel ahead to hold a tyre advantage in the closing […]
Lewis Hamilton admitted that the Australian Grand Prix was “pretty much done” after the start in which he lost the lead from pole to Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas. Mercedes sealed a one-two in the 2019 Formula 1 season-opener in Melbourne, with Bottas claiming a first win since 2017 after beating Hamilton off of the front […]
Valtteri Bottas dominated the Formula 1 2019 season-opener, to win by 21 seconds ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Bottas, who called the race his “best ever,” seized the lead at the start, beating polesitter Hamilton away from the line and controlling first place throughout the first stint. With Hamilton pitting […]
Ferrari’s new recruit for the 2019 season Charles Leclerc was “not happy” with fifth in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix after a “messy lap” in Q3. Leclerc, who topped the timesheet in Q2, failed to improve on his second and final lap in the top 10 shootout segment of qualifying and was demoted from […]
Sebastian Vettel has stated that he is “not too worried” about the gap to Mercedes after finishing third in qualifying for the Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton clinched a sixth consecutive pole position in Melbourne, beating team-mate Valtteri Bottas in what was a close dual between the Mercedes pair. Vettel ended up […]
Lewis Hamilton snatched a sixth consecutive Australian Grand Prix pole position, beating Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas who joins him on the front-row for the Formula 1 2019 season-opener. Bottas had held provisional pole after the first runs in Q3, with Hamilton a full 0.457s adrift after he hit the kerb at Turn 1 and bounced […]