Factory Ducati MotoGP rider Francesco Bagnaia claimed a crucial pole position for the Barcelona Grand Prix, while championship leader Jorge Martin could only qualify fourth.Bagnaia set a time of 1m38.641s on his final flying lap around the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Q2, which was enough to beat track specialist Aleix Espargaro by 0.055s.Italian Bagnaia had…
Argentina has taken its first tentative steps towards a return of its Formula 1 grand prix in Buenos Aires but will have several hurdles to overcome to get there.Argentina’s former vice president Daniel Scioli, who currently serves as the country’s tourism minister, led a delegation that also included the Argentinian automobile federation president Cesar Carman…
The Tech3 team has been assured that KTM’s flagship MotoGP programme will remain ‘untouched’ despite the company facing a major financial crisis.Earlier this week, Pierer Mobility Group revealed it is in discussions with both owner Pierer Bajaj AJ and existing creditors to secure bridge financing in the “three-digit million range”.The company’s sales had dropped by…
McLaren junior Ugo Ugochukwu topped an anti-climactic Macau Grand Prix qualifying race that finished behind the safety car amid heavy rain.Polesitter Ugochukwu initially faced a threat from fellow front-row starter Oliver Goethe but was able to keep the Red Bull Junior at bay.The race was then neutralised for the first time after just the second…
Broc Feeney won the Saturday race at Albert Park but second place was enough for his Triple Eight Chevrolet team-mate Will Brown to secure the 2024 Supercars championship with a race to spare.Feeney started the race from third on the grid, and watched as the Tickford Racing Ford Mustangs of Tom Randle and Cam Waters…
Raffaele Marciello has continued his remarkable record in Macau by triumphing in the FIA GT World Cup qualification race, leading all of the contest bar one corner.Marciello has won both races at the last two editions of this event with Mercedes and again triumphed from pole upon his first outing around the Guia circuit for…
FIA F3 race winner Dino Beganovic has described the 12 red flags during the two Macau Grand Prix qualifying sessions as “embarrassing”, having been caught up in one of the many clashes.The Ferrari Driver Academy member was at the top of the timesheets when he encountered the stranded car of Rintaro Sato, who had crashed…
Red Bull Junior Oliver Goethe admits he “got away with” accidentally setting his fire extinguisher off when battling for Macau Grand Prix pole.While it was a chaotic qualifying session for all the Formula Regional World Cup drivers on Friday, when seven red flags followed five stoppages the previous day, it was even more eventful for…
In the round-up: Leclerc expects “big challenge” from Hamilton • Hill to leave Sky’s F1 coverage • Ugochukwu takes Macau pole in chaotic qualifying
You don’t have a fraction of the talent that Michael Schumacher held in his left pinky finger, but if you have enough money you can buy the car he used to win his final races. Fighting tooth-and-nail with eventual champion Fernando Alonso in 2006, Schumi used this chassis as a tool to win the San…
