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Eckes led the first 100 of the 200-lap race – including collecting both Stage wins – but the one-stop pit strategy his team employed left him 19th when the final stage got under way.With 75 laps to go, Eckes had raced his way back into the top 10 but then a string of cautions for multi-truck wrecks gave him several restarts to gain track position.He finally caught leader Ty Majeski with 27 …Keep reading
As part of an effort to better manage his time amid F1’s calendar expansion, Wolff had planned to miss some of the flyaways – and Japan was one of those where he had originally intended to remain back at base.But off the back of a troubled start to the 2024 campaign for his squad, which included a double DNF in the Australian GP, Wolff changed his plans at the last minute and elected to commit …Keep reading
Hill is an accomplished NASCAR Xfinity Series driver with eight victories over the last three seasons. He finished a career-best fifth in the championship standings in 2023, narrowly missing the Championship 4. Previously, he competed in the Truck Series, where he also won eight races.A member of RCR’s NXS program since 2022, Hill does have six previous starts in the Cup Series. He made his debut …Keep reading
Masi came under fire for the way he handled the closing stages of the 2021 season finale, where he ended the safety car period just in time to enable a final-lap showdown between title rivals Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton.It allowed Red Bull driver Verstappen, who was on fresher tyres, to make a last-gasp pass on Mercedes rival Hamilton for the lead and with it clinch his maiden drivers’ …Keep reading
During FP1, the only dry Friday session, Melbourne winner Carlos Sainz set the best time of the Ferrari duo during a short flurry of hot laps conducted on softs but was nonetheless 0.213s shy of Max Verstappen’s headline effort.In the meantime, Leclerc was eclipsed by both McLarens and stacked up sixth in the overall FP1 order, a quarter of a second away from his team-mate over his lap.The …Keep reading
The 2024 Porsche TAG Heuer Esports Supercup season concludes at the Temple of Speed on Saturday. Four races are scheduled at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza, two for the Supercup and two for the preceding All-Stars series, where the respective championship battles are set to wrap up. Live streaming of the events begins on Saturday, April 6th, at 18:00 GMT (2PM ET) via Porsche’s channels on YouTube and Twitch with the All-Star series up first, taking on the circuit in the Porsche 911 GT3 R (992). The pros, in their usual Porsche 911 GT3 Cup (992) machines, take off one hour…
Motorsport.com understands that over the recent Saudi Arabian Grand Prix weekend, Stroll presented pre-eminent F1 designer Newey with a big-money bid to move.Read Also: Formula 1Aston Martin makes offer to poach Newey from F1 rival Red Bull Although Newey has turned down opportunities to leave Red Bull since joining in 2006, most notably rejecting advances from Ferrari, such …Keep reading
There was a touch of inevitability. Red Bull’s significant Suzuka upgrade has not slimmed the RB20 as predicted, with rumours Ferrari was rushing its important Imola updates scotched too on what was overall something of a slow news day on Thursday.Then there’s the drivers involved. Alonso and Russell are rather divisive figures amongst F1’s fanbase. But there was nevertheless a surprise split in …Keep reading
Max Verstappen and Red Bull led the way in opening practice for Formula 1’s 2024 Japanese Grand Prix, but this was far from a repeat affair of the opening day from the 2023 event at Suzuka just six months ago.This time, in the cooler April climate, rain intervened to limit running massively in FP2, while Red Bull was left eyeing Charles Leclerc’s surprise early long-run times from FP1 with …Keep reading
A new way of allocating wet-weather rubber for 2024 meant teams were reluctant to use any intermediate tyres in Suzuka’s damp FP2 session because they wanted to save them for later in the weekend.It meant that drivers sat in garages for most of the session, with the only major running coming very late on when conditions were dry enough for slicks.Read Also: Formula 1F1 Japanese GP …Keep reading