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Sauber Formula 1 team has promoted GP3 racer Tatiana Calderon to the position of its official test driver. The 24-year-old served as Sauber’s ‘development driver’ during 2017 alongside her second GP3 campaign. This year will see Calderon in an expanded role, dovetailed with her third season in GP3, this year with Jenzer Motorsport. “This collaboration […]
Sebastian Vettel was fastest on the opening day of the second week of testing in Barcelona, ahead of the 2018 Formula 1 season, as McLaren’s testing woes continue. Vettel set a 1m20.396s in the morning on medium tyres, and that lap would remain at the top of the timesheets until the end of the day. […]
Marcus Ericsson believes his Alfa Romeo Sauber Formula 1 team has made the biggest changes for the 2018 season. Ericsson continues with Sauber for a fourth consecutive season, partnering 2017 Formula 2 champion Charles Leclerc. The team has begun a new technical partnership with the Italian car manufacturer, as well as adopting a current power […]
Thierry Neuville survived gearbox woes to maintain his lead of Rally Sweden after the Saturday morning loop, ahead of Craig Breen who overtook both of Neuville’s team-mates for second place. Neuville battled through gearbox issues, which meant he had to manually change gear at the end of the first stage of the day. This was […]
Thierry Neuville will take a lead of 4.9 seconds into the second full day of Rally Sweden, the second round of the 2018 World Rally Championship. Neuville heads his team-mates Andreas Mikkelsen and Hayden Paddon, meaning Hyundai is currently locking out the podium positions. Neuville and Mikkelsen held a one-two into Friday afternoon, split by […]
“It’s going to happen. All the teams are happy. The whole reason for this is I am fed up with people talking about there being no overtaking.” Those were the words of Bernie Ecclestone ahead of the 2009 Formula 1 season, in which he wanted to introduce a new way of deciding who won the […]
Ott Tanak, who led Rally Sweden after Thursday’s opening stage, was left furious on Friday morning with the rally organisers’ job of ploughing the snow before the World Rally Championship drivers came through. Tanak extended his lead in the opening test, with a dominant stage victory over the Hyundai of Andreas Mikkelsen. He lost the […]
Thierry Neuville leads a Hyundai one-two after the Friday morning opening loop in Sweden, while championship leader Sebastien Ogier sits 11th. Neuville wrestled the lead from the overnight leader Ott Tanak on the second stage of the day Svullrya – the longest test of the rally. He topped that one while his team-mate Andreas Mikkelsen […]
Maximilian Gunther will make his Formula 2 debut with Arden International, partnering Honda junior and fellow Formula 3 European championship graduate Nirei Fukuzumi. Gunther has spent the last three years in Euro F3, scoring 31 podiums including 10 wins, with a best result of second place in the drivers’ championship in 2016. The Mercedes DTM junior […]
Eight privateer entries will compete against Toyota in the top-class of the 2018-19 World Endurance Championship. Rebellion return to LMP1 with two entries, Andre Lotterer heads the #1 car with Thomas Laurent leading the sister entry. ByKolles is also back with a solo ENSO CLM-Nissan P1/01 led by Oliver Webb, who drove for the team […]
Oliver Rowland will make his Le Mans 24 hours debut, as part of a full-time World Endurance Championship campaign with Manor’s LMP1 outfit. Rowland, who finished third in Formula 2 with DAMS last year, will make his WEC debut in the first round of its ‘superseason’, which kicks off a six-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps in […]
Van Amersfoort Racing has signed Keyvan Andres for the 2018 Formula 3 European Championship. Andres began his car racing career in the United States, before switching to Europe in 2016 to race in the Euroformula Open series. He finished 12th in the drivers’ championship and switched to Euro F3 in 2017 with Motopark. Andres was […]