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On paper, it sounded reasonable enough: Lola T97/30 chassis, Ford Zetec-R V8 engines and, most importantly, major corporate backing from Mastercard. But F1 teams don’t race on paper, and the reality was a total disaster.The driver of the project was Mastercard’s eagerness to launch the ‘F1 Club’ for card holders that was supposed to fund the team. It meant that the project was horribly …Keep reading
The Melbourne race turned out to a huge chance for F1’s bottom five teams, who would normally be finishing 11th at best on pace.Between the races in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia only Haas had managed to score a single point in Jeddah.But after the retirements for Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and both Mercedes cars of Lewis Hamilton and George Russell, suddenly three points-scoring positions opened …Keep reading
Komatsu admitted that the team had called Magnussen into the pits at the wrong time, losing the Dane two places in the process.Like in Saudi Arabia, Haas split the strategies of the two drivers, with Nico Hulkenberg running a long opening stint on the hard tyre before pitting for mediums under the VSC.With fresher tyres, Hulkenberg came up behind Magnussen who, despite his obvious frustration …Keep reading
In the first season where the eNASCAR Coca-Cola iRacing Series regular season has been broken up into Segments, the first is set to wrap up on Tuesday night at Richmond Raceway. With a special Heat format set to make its debut and a possible 50 standard points on the line instead of the usual 40, whoever finishes the night atop the standings will collect an additional five playoff points. Kanaan Esports’ Kollin Keister currently leads the way through three races. Spire Motorsports’ Casey Kirwan is second, only four points back. Parker White (Williams Esports), Daytona winner Wyatt Tinsley (QuikTrip Pioneers…
Ocon had made his first tyre change on lap 9 just before the tear-off became lodged in a brake duct of his Alpine A524, triggering overheating.At the time, he was in a fight with Kevin Magnussen, Alex Albon and Nico Hulkenberg, with both Haas drivers eventually finishing in the points. However, the brake temperature issue obliged Ocon to make a second stop just seven laps after his first.It …Keep reading
Ferrari introduced a new but simplistic solution in Melbourne, as a winglet could be found mounted on either side of the curved exhaust surround and rear wing pillar mounting on the SF-24.It’s interesting that we haven’t seen anyone place winglets here before, given it’s clearly allowable within that box region especially as Formula 1 designers have a penchant for placing aerodynamic …Keep reading
Second-starting Sainz passed polesitter Max Verstappen around the outside on lap two before the Red Bull champion retired with a fiery rear-right brake failure. That enabled Leclerc to complete a Ferrari 1-2.While Verstappen’s car was ailing from the race start, which made the RB20 feel as though the “handbrake” was left on, the Ferrari duo believed they were already in contention for …Keep reading
Still recovering from appendicitis surgery, Sainz won the Melbourne event after overtaking polesitter Max Verstappen on Lap 2 as the Dutchman hit trouble with the brakes.After Verstappen retired on Lap 4, Sainz comfortably had the measure of Ferrari team-mate Charles Leclerc to take his first win since last year’s Singapore Grand Prix, being the only driver other than Verstappen to win a race …Keep reading
The RB team is fielding an all-Japanese line-up in first free practice with Iwasa joining regular driver Yuki Tsunoda in the VCARB01 in their home round.RB has given Iwasa the first of two mandatory rookie FP1 slots for the year, with the 22-year-old among the roster of young driver prospects that also includes reserve driver Liam Lawson and F2 driver Isack Hadjar.Read Also: Formula …Keep reading
Welcome back to This Week in iRacing, our weekly post that details all you need to know about what is going on in the world of iRacing! As always, This Week includes topics ranging from official eSports to some of the top community-driven events, and everything in between. Here’s what you should know for 2024 Season 2 Week 3, from March 26th to April 1st, 2024. For the Members: iRacing Official Series Highlights Every week, iRacing offers daily, even hourly racing that members can get into, based on where their license level is at. There are also some special series…