| | 2. F1 teams to discuss change to jump start regulations14:47[-/+]Категория(?) | Autosport can reveal that one of the items up for discussion at next week’s meeting of the Formula 1 Commission is whether or not the way the jump start regulations are currently framed is fit for purpose.At the moment, a jump start is defined entirely based on whether or not any movement is detected by FIA-supplied transponders before the start signal is given.However, there have been several ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
3. Verstappen: "Happier with pole than sprint race win" at F1 Chinese GP14:20[-/+]Категория(?) | Verstappen romped home to a 13-second win over Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton in Shanghai's 19-lap sprint, before going on to claim a dominant pole for Sunday's proper grand prix as well.A long-time opponent of the sprint format, Verstappen said he was more pleased with his pole position than with his sprint win, although he did concede its rejigged format with two separate parc ferme periods is a big ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
4. F1 Chinese Grand Prix – Start time, starting grid, how to watch, & more14:16[-/+]Категория(?) | Following the first sprint race of the season, Verstappen did the double on Saturday with sprint race victory and grand prix pole position – marking Red Bull’s 100th pole in F1.Sergio Perez made it an all-Red Bull front row ahead of Aston Martin’s Fernando Alonso who bounced back from retiring from the Chinese GP sprint race after picking up a puncture in a clash with Carlos Sainz.Lando ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
5. WEC Imola: Fuoco completes Ferrari's practice sweep in red-flagged FP313:37[-/+]Категория(?) | Having also set the fastest time in Friday’s second practice, Fuoco’s factory Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar carried on where it left off on Saturday morning with a lap of 1m31.272s that was not surpassed, before Paul di Resta beached the #94 Peugeot 9X8 LMH in the gravel at the Rivazza left-hander in the final minutes of the hour-long session.Fuoco’s time proved 0.034s quicker than ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
6. WRC Croatia: Neuville edges clear of Evans, Ogier in pursuit13:10[-/+]Категория(?) | Neuville and Evans started the day tied for the lead after ending Friday on identical times, and the fiercely competitive battle continued across the morning’s four stages.But it was championship points leader Neuville who had the measure of the Welshman to move into a 4.7s lead as the crews headed for service.Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier ensured the battle for victory remained between three ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
8. Ferrari F1 drivers split over China sprint race clash talks12:51[-/+]Категория(?) | Immediately after the sprint race Leclerc said he wanted to speak to team-mate Sainz about his “over the limit” defensive driving when the pair appeared to clash at Turn 14.Speaking after grand prix qualifying later on Saturday in Shanghai, Leclerc stated he had spoken to his fellow Ferrari driver to clear the air.“Yes, it is all done and it is all good. No problems,” Leclerc said.“I am ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
9. Hamilton blames wind for Q1 error as Mercedes "experiment"12:41[-/+]Категория(?) | Just hours after Hamilton had delivered his best result of the season so far as he finished second in the Shanghai sprint, he came crashing back to earth as he failed to make it out of the first session of qualifying.Having braked too deep at Turn 14 thanks to the tailwind, Hamilton lost crucial time and was knocked out as he ended up 18th on the grid.Reflecting on what happened, he said the error ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
10. Rast - "More time" needed for BMW to emulate Porsche WEC win with LMDh12:16[-/+]Категория(?) | The triple DTM champion believes that the victory achieved by Laurens Vanthoor, Kevin Estre and Andre Lotterer for Porsche Penske Motorsport in the Qatar 1812km season-opener gives BMW "hope" in the first year of its WEC programme with the M Hybrid V8 run by WRT.But he stressed that following a best result of 10th at the Losail International Circuit, promoted into the points by Cadillac's ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
11. Alonso considered aborting P3 lap in F1 China qualifying11:49[-/+]Категория(?) | Alonso impressed in Shanghai by beating the McLaren and Ferrari cars to third in Q3, the best-of-the-rest spot behind the dominant Red Bulls of polesitter Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez.But Alonso admitted that he considered aborting the final lap that pushed him up the grid after slipping up through the complex starting sequence of the Shanghai circuit, which made him lose a couple of tenths."In ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
12. 2024 F1 Chinese GP qualifying results: Verstappen takes pole11:32[-/+]Категория(?) | Verstappen will start ahead of team-mate Sergio Perez and Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3.Chinese Grand Prix grid: Verstappen on pole from PerezWhat happened in Chinese Grand Prix Q1?Verstappen set the pace with a lap time of 1m34.742s, 0.055s ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
13. F1 team-mates' qualifying battles: Chinese GP11:29[-/+]Категория(?) After every F1 qualifying session, Autosport publishes each team's qualifying record in terms of team-mate duels.This record is based exclusively on qualifying results so that grid penalties don't alter the statistics.When a driver can't put in a representative lap time due to a technical issue or an incident, this will be mentioned in the table.Red Bull
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14. F1 Chinese GP: Verstappen claims Red Bull's 100th pole over Perez11:27[-/+]Категория(?) | The championship leader had rarely looked beatable throughout the session and ploughed a lonely furrow in pursuit of pole position, particularly as nobody had been able to beat his opening 1m33.977s effort - let alone his ultimate pole lap.This set up a thrilling battle to join him on the front row, however, and a series of contenders all staked their claim to start at the front. Fernando Alonso ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
15. Why Imola could bring “more chaos” to the WEC10:37[-/+]Категория(?) | Following a season-opening race in Qatar that ran without interruption from safety cars, there is widespread expectation that Imola’s tight and undulating nature may conspire to produce incidents that the open, flowing nature of the Losail International Circuit helped negate.Imola, which has replaced Monza as the host of Italy’s WEC round for 2024 on what is expected to be a one-off basis ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
16. Alonso hit with penalty for Sainz clash in China F1 sprint09:58[-/+]Категория(?) | The Spaniard was locked in a tight fight with the Ferraris for third place in the closing stages of the Shanghai sprint event, as he battled rapidly degrading tyres.But as the pair swapped positions back and forth, they clashed at Turn 9 two laps from home in an incident that earned Alonso a puncture – which forced him into the pits for fresh tyres before he eventually retired.The stewards ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
17. Norris had no reason to apologise for China F1 sprint showing, says McLaren08:36[-/+]Категория(?) | Norris had started from the front after a brilliant showing in Friday’s wet qualifying session, but it all went wrong at Turn 1 of the sprint race after he came off worse in a side-by-side tussle with Lewis Hamilton.Having lost ground away from the grid, he found himself on the dirt on the outside of the long right- hand first corner. And, after instantly losing grip, he ran wide and dropped ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
18. Supercars New Zealand: Heimgartner splashes to Taupo opener victory08:28[-/+]Категория(?) | The Auckland-born driver took the lead after the first of two pit cycles on a wet 3.3km Taupo International Motorsport Park.Heimgartner took advantage of Brad Jones Racing's ace pitcrew, the nearly perennial winner of Supercars’ teams pitstop ratings, to jump past early leader Will Brown (Triple Eight Chevrolet), and held off Chaz Mostert for most of the first half of the race.When Mostert ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
19. Hamilton: Norris would have been better off conceding in Turn 107:48[-/+]Категория(?) | Norris had started Saturday’s sprint event in Shanghai from pole position but did not get away at the lights as well as fellow front-row starter Hamilton – who got inside him on the entry to the first corner.Hamilton hugged the inside line throughout the long right-hander, while Norris tried to hang it around the outside before he lost grip off-line and ran off the circuit – dropping down ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
20. Leclerc: Sainz “over the limit” with defence in F1 Chinese GP sprint race07:35[-/+]Категория(?) | In a DRS train behind Fernando Alonso, the battle erupted when Sainz attacked the Aston Martin driver around the outside of Turn 7, which invited both Serigo Perez and Charles Leclerc into the fight.After Alonso picked up a puncture in contact with Sainz, as the pair touched in Turn 7 before both going wide following further contact at Turn 9 to allow Perez to fly past, there was an all-Ferrari ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
21. 2024 F1 Chinese GP sprint results: Verstappen wins from fourth on grid06:51[-/+]Категория(?) | Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton grabbed the lead at the start, when pole-winner Lando Norris (McLaren) was slow away from the startline. After battling with Hamilton through Turn 1, Norris slid wide and off the track, tumbling a further five places.Promoted to third, Verstappen bided his time early on and then cruised past Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Hamilton to notch yet another F1 victory.F1 ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
22. F1 Chinese GP: Verstappen beats Hamilton to sprint win06:46[-/+]Категория(?) | The championship leader appeared out of sorts in the opening flurry of laps as he struggled to charge his battery with the selected hybrid settings, but a series of changes on his steering wheel appeared to rectify the issue.With greater forward momentum, Verstappen pulled himself out of third with a simple DRS overtake on the second-placed Fernando Alonso, and then pounced on a Turn 14 lock-up ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
23. Shanghai F1 grass fire mystery remains; emergency team on standby05:52[-/+]Категория(?) | The FIA began a detailed probe on Friday night after two separate fires on the same area of grass inside Turn 7 disrupted running on the opening day of track action.First practice for the Chinese Grand Prix on Friday morning had to be red-flagged after a blaze erupted on the grass before the same section later caught fire at the end of the first session of sprint qualifying.While there was no red ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
24. The Haas F1 updates that have bucked a sprint race trend05:10[-/+]Категория(?) | With so little practice running before parc ferme conditions beginning for sprint qualifying and the sprint itself, it is all too easy to get lost with the impact of any developments.This is why, for example, Aston Martin elected to fast-track its recent upgrade package to Japan because it did not want it rolled out in China nor Miami.But Haas elected to buck that trend this weekend in Shanghai ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
25. Long Beach IMSA: Derani takes pole for Cadillac by 0.009s, then wrecks04:07[-/+]Категория(?) | Derani lapped his #31 Action Express-run Cadillac V-Series.R in 1m11.388s around the 1.9-mile temporary circuit.The GTP class is using Michelin’s soft-compound tyre at Long Beach for the first time outside of Daytona night running, but times were way off last year's qualifying session on harder rubber – pole being a 1m09.909s by Filipe Albuquerque’s Acura.Derani laid down an early marker of ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
26. IndyCar Long Beach: O’Ward leads Power in opening practice02:37[-/+]Категория(?) | The Mexican delivered a quick run of 1m06.6874s in Group 1 running on a set of softer alternate tyres to set the day’s best time.Team Penske’s Will Power, who was best in the second group, delivered a mighty effort of his own with the lap of 1m06.7811s that led his bracket and ultimately put him second overall.The rest of the top five in overall times between all segments featured Scott ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
27. Latvala: Neuville, Evans tied for WRC Croatia lead "something special"Пт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Hyundai’s Neuville and Toyota driver Evans incredibly clocked identical overall times to sit tied for the lead on Friday night after 119.74 competitive stage kilometres.Neuville claimed three of the four morning stages on the way to opening up a 10.1-second lead over Evans until a puncture on stage six cost the Belgian valuable time.Evans moved into a 1.6s lead before Neuville responded on the ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
28. WEC Imola: Ferrari remains on top in FP2 as Fuoco beats PorscheПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Fuoco carried on where fellow works Ferrari driver Yifei Ye left off in first practice aboard the #83 customer AF Corse-run example, setting a lap of 1m30.957s with over an hour remaining in the session that could not be surpassed.The effort put him 0.342 seconds clear of the championship-leading #6 Penske Porsche Motorsport 963 LMDh in which Kevin Estre had previously clocked the benchmark time.A ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
29. WRC Croatia: Neuville, Evans tied for the lead after eight stagesПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Hyundai’s Neuville and Toyota’s Evans couldn’t be split after 119.74 competitive stage kilometres, ending the day with identical overall times.Neuville had been in control of the rally, winning three of the four morning stages that contributed to a 10.1-second lead over Evans, before knocking a tyre off the rim in stage six.This strife helped Evans close to within 0.1s before the Welshman ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
30. WIN! A VIP Race Weekend Experience in MonacoПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Sponsored by This incredible experience is just part of the incredible prize up for grabs in the MoneyGram Monaco Dream Weekend competition with the MoneyGram Haas F1 Team, which is giving fans from the UK and Europe the chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime trip.A home race for many of the F1 drivers, Monaco is like nothing else on the F1 calendar. With impossibly narrow streets, incredibly ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
31. Lauda's 1976 German GP helmet to be auctioned at F1 Miami GPПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Three-time F1 world champion Lauda survived the crash at the Nurburgring, even though his crash helmet was torn from his head during the brutal head-on impact with the barrier, before his stricken Ferrari 312T2 was then rammed by Brett Lunger’s Surtees.Four of his fellow drivers assisted in pulling Lauda from his burning car, which crashed on the second lap at the Bergwerk section of the ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
33. MotoGP schedule: When is the next MotoGP race and where will it be held?Пт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | MotoGP are gearing up for the Spanish Grand Prix - otherwise known as the Gran Premio de Espana in Jerez. The event was won last year by the 2023 world champion Francesco Bagnaia, who also won the race in 2022.The Italian became a two-time world champion at the season finale last year after successfully beating title rival Jorge Martin. Bagnaia took seven race wins and 15 podiums from the 20-race ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
34. Honda MotoGP boss "confused" by "good improvements" not workingПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | The Japanese manufacturer has made an abysmal start to the new campaign on its radically overhauled RC213V package.Scoring just eight points out of a possible 111 from the opening three rounds, no Honda rider has cracked the top 10 yet in either sprint or grand prix.In last weekend’s Americas Grand Prix, only one Honda rider – Luca Marini – finished the race, albeit 33.529 seconds behind the ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
36. New Time Attack competition for 1990s F1 cars launched by AGS successorПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | AGS Formule 1, which now runs a driving school and experience events, has launched the F1 '90s Time Attack Mediterranean Challenge for F1 cars built between 1986 and 2000 and 1985-2000 Formula 3000 machinery.Four rounds are planned, starting this weekend at the Historic French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard.The entry for Ricard includes two AGS chassis, a 1989 JH24 and a 1991 JH25, driven respectively ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
37. Red Bull in no rush to finalise 2025 F1 line-upПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Red Bull already has Max Verstappen under contract for 2025, while Perez has impressed in the opening part of the 2024 season to ensure he is likely to retain his seat at the team.Perez stated on Thursday that, given the dynamic nature of the 2025 driver market, he expected "to know my future in the coming weeks, because everything is moving quite fast. So I think it's important not to wait for ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
38. Oliveira reckons MotoGP “looks too easy” on TV nowПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Oliveira was speaking of his experiences at Trackhouse Racing’s NASCAR facility in Concord, North Carolina, prior to last weekend’s Americas Grand Prix.Admitting he knew very little about NASCAR prior to his visit, he says he gained a greater appreciation of the series and the intricacies of it that go far beyond drivers simply turning left.When asked about this, he noted that MotoGP could do ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
39. WEC Imola: Ye fastest to lead Ferrari 1-2 in practiceПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Ye went fastest half an hour into the first 90-minute session with a 1m31.347s aboard the customer AF Corse-run 499P Le Mans Hypercar to push the best of the works Ferraris with Antonio Fuoco at the wheel down to second position.Fuoco ended up on 1m31.503s, which gave him a margin of nearly half a second over the first non-Ferrari, the Peugeot 2024 LMH driven by Mikkel Jensen that finished on ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
40. F1 teams and Pirelli had no warning of “painted” Shanghai track surfaceПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | With F1 teams having done a lot of pre-event work in the simulator based on information from both Pirelli and the FIA, they were caught out when they arrived at the circuit on Wednesday by the visibly different track surface.While drivers said it looked like the track had been “painted”, it emerged that it was actually a liquid bitumen surface treatment that had been applied last year to help ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
41. Sainz will have to "survive with what we have" in F1 China sprintПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Sainz qualified fifth and team-mate Charles Leclerc seventh as the Ferraris struggled to get their tyres warmed up in a rainy end to Friday's sprint qualifying.Leclerc went off when it started raining, bending his steering rack, which Sainz admitted could have easily happened to him too."With the intermediate tyres we waited a long time at the pitlane exit, they got cold, and then Charles and I ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
42. F1 Chinese GP sprint race and qualifying - Start time, how to watch & moreПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | F1 has altered its sprint race schedule once again, with sprint race qualifying shifting to Friday and the sprint race moving to Saturday. The race weekend format then reverts back to a traditional schedule for grand prix qualifying on Saturday afternoon with the grand prix on Sunday. Here’s how the latest sprint race format changes will work. In sprint race qualifying, McLaren’s Lando Norris ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
43. WRC Croatia: Neuville sets the pace to lead title rival EvansПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | The Hyundai driver set the pace winning three of the four stages to open up an 8.6s lead over nearest title rival Evans.Eight-time world champion Sebastien Ogier coped admirably as stage conditions worsened after every pass to end the loop in third, 21.5s adrift. Hyundai’s Ott Tanak held fourth [+37.3s] despite struggling with his i20 N.M-Sport’s Adrien Fourmaux completed the top five [+41.6s] ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
44. FIA still chasing answers over bizarre Shanghai F1 grass firesПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | First practice on Friday morning had to be red flagged after a fire erupted on the grass on the inside of Turn 7 at the Shanghai International Circuit.The same section later caught fire at the end of the first session of sprint qualifying, which led to the start of SQ2 being briefly delayed.Following the first problem on Friday morning, the FIA visited the area before qualifying to try to ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
45. Hamilton expects to lose positions if F1 China sprint is dryПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Hamilton was one of the standout performers of a wet final qualifying segment on Friday afternoon, taking second behind McLaren's Lando Norris.The seven-time world champion said his car "came alive" in the wet, but he's realistic about its potential if Saturday morning's sprint is held in dry conditions."It was pretty tricky conditions. Not a lot of grip for everyone, but so happy," he told F1 ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
46. Verstappen 'deserves' fourth in China F1 sprint qualifying with wet strugglesПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Having claimed every pole position so far in the 2024 F1 season, Verstappen looked strong favourite again after topping Q2 of sprint qualifying in the dry.But as rain fell at the Shanghai International Circuit it produced a major unknown given no driver had any wet running at a track F1 had not visited for five years.With multiple drivers slipping off the track in Q3, Verstappen had two lap times ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
47. Why Norris' China F1 sprint pole lap was deleted and reinstatedПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Rain made the already slippery Shanghai surface even more treacherous and Friday afternoon's final segment of sprint qualifying was peppered with incidents, with world champion Max Verstappen going off twice and Charles Leclerc tapping the wall with his front wing.McLaren driver Norris bagged sprint pole, but not before his lap was briefly deleted. Right before embarking on the lap that would ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
48. Norris' F1 China sprint pole lap down to "all or nothing" approachПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Norris had his penultimate timed lap deleted for track limits at Turn 16, but his 1m57.940s follow-up ultimately proved unbeatable during a wet and slippery final part of sprint qualifying - which yielded multiple mistakes across the field.This lap was initially chalked off for track limits as well, suspected to be a result of Norris going off at the final corner of the previous lap, but it was ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
49. 2024 F1 Chinese GP sprint qualifying results: Norris takes poleПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Norris will start ahead of Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) and Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) after the one-hour qualifying session, which is split into three quickfire segments with five cars each being knocked out in Q1 and Q2 before the top-10 shootout of Q3. Per the new sprint weekend format, these sessions set the grid for Saturday’s sprint and have no impact on Sunday’s main event. Chinese ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
50. F1 Chinese GP: Norris takes sprint pole in chaotic dry-to-wet qualifyingПт, 19 апр[-/+]Категория(?) | Rain emerged at the end of the SQ2 session and continued to pepper the Shanghai circuit during the intermission, necessitating the use of intermediate tyres for the final stage of qualifying to decide pole.Track conditions were evidently very slippery, as a number of drivers over-extended beyond the circuit's environs and had to recover from the run-off; Charles Leclerc hit the wall after spinning ... Keep reading Медиа: image / jpeg | ↑ |
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