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Chip Ganassi Racing's Scott Dixon has produced an impressively consistent first half to the season - hardly a tradition for him - but has not been able to find Victory Lane yet is leading the championship. The ludicrous helping of points handed out for Indy 500 qualifying is partly responsible for the polesitter's tally, but Dixon also missed out in a huge way at that event. On race ...

There have been rumours for several weeks that new contenders were pondering getting involved in grand prix racing, but no firm plans had been revealed.However, an update of Britain's Companies House register has revealed the renaming of a business as China F1 Racing Team Limited.The company, which had previously been called Bronze Fortune Limited, is run by a French lawyer called ...

To replace 2016 British Grand Prix winner Maverick Vinales, who is now leading the championship with Yamaha, Suzuki signed Iannone, who finished his first test at Valencia last November impressed with the GSX-RR's handling.But seven races into the new season, Iannone is only 15th in the championship with an average grid position of 11th and a best race result of seventh.Suzuki has ...

Sam Hornish Jr. ready to relive Iowa success again with Team Penske.One year after scoring a win in his return to the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Hornish hopes to make a repeat appearance in Victory Lane.Most drivers who are out of the car for nine months are likely just hoping to get comfortable in the seat again, but then most aren't Hornish or driving for Team Penske.Hornish will ...

There was more going on during the race than Martin Truex Jr. winning two more stages and Kyle Larson winning his second Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race of the season. Click below to watch and listen. ...

Ocon caused some headaches for the team in Canada when his brilliant pace as he closed in on Perez left the pitwall facing a team orders headache about whether or not to swap its drivers around.And while in the end the team elected not to impose team orders, chiefs have admitted that the situation may prompt a rethink about its rules of engagement for the rest of the year.Force ...

Albon broke his collarbone in a mountain biking accident on 10 June and although he is recovering after successful surgery, the placement of his over-the-shoulder seat belts meant he was ruled out of racing in Baku, where he will be replaced by Sergey Sirotkin."I've got one of the metal plates inside," he told Motorsport.com."You see MotoGP guys and they can jump on the bike pretty ...

Such an approach is also being pursued by Mercedes, and it reflects the fact that in the fourth season of the current formula the manufacturers are finding it harder to make significant gains.Earlier in the season, Red Bull's management suggested Montreal as the venue for a performance upgrade, and the team's frustration about its absence was very clear."No, there won't be," ...

On Saturday evening, three and a half hours into the race, when our car lost its front axle drive, it looked like it was game over.But a little under 21 hours later, I lifted the Le Mans winners' trophy for the second time in my career on the podium in front of a never-ending sea of fans, after a rollercoaster of a race.Everyone who's been at Le Mans before, whether as part of a team ...

Sainz suggested via team radio that Kvyat was "not respecting" arrangements for when they would 'tow' each other on fast laps during qualifying at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.But Kvyat said Toro Rosso's policy is for its drivers to take it in turns at alternating races to help the other out, with Kvyat the beneficiary in Canada as per the rotation.When asked by Motorsport.com for ...

If last year's Le Mans felt like an overly-long FIA World Endurance Championship round, with three LMP1s split by a minute before Toyota's now-legendary final-lap implosion, last weekend's 85th running was pleasingly old-school. It was a race of gruelling attrition, albeit to a degree few experts were predicting. An LMP2 car on the podium had been widely tipped, but nobody would have ...

Rusinov will be forced to serve the penalty at the next WEC round at the Nurburgring, after his second-hour collision at Le Mans with the GTE-Am Proton Porsche 911 of Khalid Al Qubaisi that forced them both out of the race with accident damage."We were preparing to Le Mans the whole year - I definitely didn't want to end my race after an hour," Rusinov - who had started the race from ...

In 2017, Guintoli's main campaign is British Superbike, as the Frenchman left WSBK after seven years.However, he also stood in for the injured Alex Rins in Suzuki's MotoGP department at Le Mans, Mugello and Barcelona respectively.Guintoli will be joined by Suzuki MotoGP test rider Takuya Tsuda and Joshua Brookes, who also made the move from WSBK to BSBK for 2017, in the Suzuka ...

For the first time since 1999, Toyota fielded three entries at La Sarthe in 2017 in a bid to finally claim the prize that has eluded it, adding an additional TS050 Hybrid to its usual two FIA World Endurance Championship cars.However, the #9 machine driven by Nicolas Lapierre, Jose Maria Lopez and Yuji Kunimoto failed to finish after being eliminated in a crash with Simon Trummer's ...

Kaltenborn joined Sauber in 2000 as head of its legal department, before rising to CEO in January 2010 and taking a share in the company.When Longbow Finance acquired the company last year, founder Peter Sauber retired with Kaltenborn retaining her position but relinquishing her shares.Multiple sources have said Kaltenborn has left her position, though the Swiss team has yet to ...

Crutchlow is now into his third season with leading Honda satellite squad LCR, with which he won two grands prix in 2016, and has been taking on an increasing test and development workload for the factory.Honda's announcement of Crutchlow's new deal also confirmed that it was continuing with LCR as well.Tetsuhiro Kuwata, general manager of HRC's race operations management division ...

Hazelwood is the only change to the team's enduro line-up in terms of signings, with Ash Walsh and Macauley Jones both retained for a second year.There has been a shift in the pairings, though; while Walsh will partner Tim Slade again, Macauley Jones has been moved over to join Nick Percat in the #8 Commodore.New signing Hazelwood will be paired with Tim Blanchard, having sampled the ...

The 48-year-old German driver will take part of a WRC event with a top-level car for the first time since 2004, when he also contested his home rally.He had a part-time campaign with a 2001-spec Ford Focus two years prior to that, entering six rallies in the 2002 season.Kremer has been a WRC2 regular since 2013, collecting five podiums in 21 rallies.He tested the new-generation ...

Bernie Ecclestone once infamously said that he didn't see the need for F1 to win over the 'young generation' because they hadn't got the money to buy Rolex watches. But the reality is that every sport needs to attract new followers if it is to prosper long term.Getting youngsters hooked on a sport ensures you have your audience of the future. But in an era where F1 has been pushing ...

McLaren's criticism of Honda ramped up in Canada with Fernando Alonso's engine failure three laps from the chequered flag - that robbed the team of its first point in 2017 - the latest in a string of breakdowns.McLaren boss Zak Brown has admitted McLaren has alternative plans in mind for 2018 if Honda's struggles continue, with rumours suggesting it could switch back to Mercedes ...

The NASCAR team at Motorsport.com needs your input and questions for this week's NASCAR Mailbag. Do you have something on your mind and you're wondering what the answer is or do you have a concern about the sport that would you would like some insight on from our panel? Send us your questions.From Kyle Larson scoring his second Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series win of the season to any ...

Former president of Pocono Raceway Joe Mattioli and former CEO of Baker Curb Racing Matt Crews has proposed a Grand Prix of Nashville to the Metro Sports Authority.The race would use a temporary 1.72-mile street track [see diagram, left], designed by NZR Consulting's famed track designer Tony Cotman, that would go around the Nissan Stadium, home of NFL team the Tennessee Titans, and ...

The Formula 1 calendar for next season was just announced.Amid the changes from this year we have the return of both French and German GPs, the Azerbaijan Grand Prix was moved to April and there will not be a Malaysian race next year.Below, full calendar.Formula 1 2018 CalendarMarch 25 Melbourne, AustraliaApril 8 Shanghai, ChinaApril 15 Sakhir, BahrainApril 29 Baku ...

Brett Bodine is a former driver longtime fans remember competing in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series for almost two decades. Younger fans might know him as the pace car driver on Sunday afternoons.Bodine grew up the middle brother with his elder sibling, Geoff, and younger brother, Todd, in Chemung, N.Y. Their father owned and operated Chemung Speedrome and Brett credits being ...

Bottas was signed as a last-gasp replacement for 2016 world champion Nico Rosberg, who retired over the winter, initially on a one-year deal to partner Lewis Hamilton.Speaking at the FIA Sport Conference in Geneva, Wolff said he was pleased with Bottas's start to life at Mercedes.However, Wolff stressed the Finn knew he would be unlikely to secure a contract extension early in the ...

The Brazilian, who currently sits second in the standings, 32 points behind leader Sebastien Buemi, had a successful operation on his broken right fibula last Thursday in Sao Paulo.He was forced to sit out last weekend's Le Mans 24 Hours, which he was due to contest with the AF Corse Ferrari GTE squad, but has declared himself on course to be back in action in New York."I am ...

Abreu and his father David are hosting this weekend's Boys and Girls Club Dirt Classic benefitting the Boys & Girls Clubs of St. Helena and Calistoga, Calif. The event will feature two separate classes - Sprint Car Challenge Tour 360's and the King of the West-NARC 410-winged-sprints. Abreu, along with Tony Stewart and Ricky Stenhouse Jr., are scheduled to rac ...

Of the five hybrid LMP1 cars entered for the 85th running of the French endurance classic, just two made the finish, and even then only after encountering major reliability issues - allowing an LMP2 car to lead outright for two-and-a-half hours.The sixth LMP1 car in the field, the #4 ByKolles ENSO CLM P1/01, was the very first retirement of the race, as Webb sustained damage on the ...