Category: SPORTS NEWS
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IndyCar’s weird 2024 calendar could work against Palou –
[ad_1] We’re halfway through the 2024 IndyCar season and there’s a clear trio of drivers who you could say are the main contenders for the title. Behind them, there are drivers who were fast but inconsistent, steady but not performing at their best, too error-prone, or lacking in other areas to continue the challenge. Especially…
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Mark Hughes on the extraordinary leader Aston Martin’s just hired –
[ad_1] Aston Martin is bringing Andy Cowell – who was a key part of Mercedes’ dominance from 2014 to 2020 – back to Formula 1 as its new group chief executive. Cowell is known as an engine expert. But as Mark Hughes explains in this column he wrote to mark Cowell’s departure from Mercedes in…
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Honda’s new signing is first bright spot of its 2024 MotoGP season –
[ad_1] Even the Abu Dhabi Auto Racing League The successful pursuit of Aleix Espargaro as MotoGP’s new test rider – in a deal announced on Tuesday morning – represents the biggest bright spot in Honda’s miserable 2024 season. The redesigned RC213V showed signs of life in pre-season but proved to be a huge disappointment almost…
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Winners and losers as Portland shakes up Formula E title fight –
[ad_1] Formula E’s second – and for now, final – visit to Portland was always likely to offer the leading contenders a few hurdles to negotiate if they wanted to emerge unscathed. But few could’ve predicted the title race opening up in quite the way it did across the weekend’s two races. Here’s our pick…
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Alpine’s mini-revival boosted by senior F1 tech arrivals –
[ad_1] The revival of the Alpine team on the Formula 1 track is expected to be boosted by the arrival of more important technical recruits who have now started working with the team. Three senior officials started at the team on July 1, arriving from Red Bull and Ferrari. Michael Broadhurst and Finn Dhanani return…
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Title fight tide turns + Hamilton to MotoGP? –
[ad_1] Even the Abu Dhabi League for self-driving car racing With Pecco Bagnaia now on Jorge Martin’s tail in the MotoGP championship battle and both Martin and Pramac’s Ducati exits hanging over the rest of the season, is the 2024 title battle going in only one direction? That’s what Simon Patterson, guest pundits Megan White…
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What time is the British Grand Prix? F1 qualifying and race times –
[ad_1] One of the biggest sporting events in the UK this year is approaching – as Formula 1 heads to Silverstone for the British Grand Prix this weekend. Last year’s race marked the start of McLaren emerging as front-runners once again. Now that it is Red Bull’s closest rival in Formula 1 2024, what are…
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Aldeguer Leads All-Boscoscuro Front Row –
[ad_1] Moto3 is back this weekend after a three-week break since the Moto2 Italian Grand Prix in Mugello. Sergio Garcia leads the riders’ standings after seven rounds, but Joe Roberts is the most recent winner after his Mugello triumph. Fermin Aldeguer took pole position in qualifying, as Boscoscuro put four bikes in the top five…
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Four consequences of F1’s most predictable driver market move –
[ad_1] Lance Stroll signing a multi-year Formula 1 contract extension with Aston Martin is probably the least surprising bit of 2025 driver market news so far. But it’s still a move with consequences – especially given that the new deal will mean he’ll race alongside Fernando Alonso when Aston Martin teams up with Honda on…
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Miller claims KTM blindsided him with 2025 MotoGP seat U-turn –
[ad_1] Jack Miller said KTM told him it would keep him somewhere within its ranks until 2025 and then gave him just hours’ notice that it had signed Ena Bastianini and Maverick Vinales for its remaining MotoGP championship seats instead. Miller lost his factory ride when KTM promoted Pedro Acosta to its lineup alongside Brad…