Acura grabs lead from Cadillac after crash-filled opening
As movie producer Jerry Bruckheimer waved the green flag, poleman Pipo Derani (#31 Action Express Cadillac) led from the #7 Penske Porsche of Felipe Nasr, who grabbed second place into Turn 1 from Bourdais’ Chip Ganassi-run Caddy. Derani pulled over 1s clear almost immediately, Bourdais tracked Nasr and repassed him on lap three, to restore […]
Neuville’s focus on WRC points and beating Ogier on Monte Carlo Saturday leg
Hyundai driver Ogier dug deep on the final stage of the day to beat Ogier by 4.1s and reclaim the lead from his Toyota rival to take a 3.3 second advantage into Sunday’s stages. A drive that the Belgian called “pure perfection from the beginning to the end” was also enough to earn him a […]
Neuville edges Ogier in enthralling head-to-head
Neuville started Saturday afternoon with the rally lead, but two stage wins from Ogier, including the Frenchman’s 700th career fastest time, gave the Toyota driver a 0.8s lead over Neuville after the day’s penultimate stage. But Hyundai’s Neuville responded brilliantly to stun Ogier in the final test and move back into a 3.3s lead, which […]
Race wins, not F1 title, the realistic goal before 2026
The Briton has just signed a new contract extension at McLaren, keeping him at the Woking-based squad until 2027 at the earliest, which he hopes will put him on the path to achieve his world title dream. But while McLaren has made rapid progress with its car to emerge as a challenger to Red Bull […]
Porsche “can close out as good as anybody”
The reigning Indianapolis 500 champion only made his sportscar debut at Daytona 12 months ago in a Tower Motorsports LMP2 car, before making his PPM GTP bow at Road Atlanta’s IMSA SportsCar Championship season-closing Petit Le Mans – where he finished fourth in a factory-entered 963. Sharing with Dane Cameron, Felipe Nasr and Matt Campbell, Newgarden […]
Aston Martin begins test programme for Valkyrie LMH racer
The British manufacturer’s test programme commenced earlier this month with the Valkyrie AMR Pro track day car, out of which the new LMH to be raced by the Heart of Racing team from next year is being developed. Aston Martin head of endurance racing Adam Carter described the run at Silverstone as an “early systems […]
Pacenote information was the difference in surge to Monte WRC lead
The Hyundai driver started the morning sitting third but a stunning effort on stage nine, held in tricky frosty conditions, brought the Belgian into the victory fight. Neuville took 18.8s out of Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier to climb to second and was 9.6s quicker than rally leader Elfyn Evans. Neuville then assumed the rally lead on […]
Cadillac not the favourite for Daytona 24 Hours win
The Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh took pole for the race last weekend and was the fastest GTP class car in each of the four practice sessions this week, but Bourdais insisted that it is unlikely to be the car to have in the all-important final stages of the race. “We’re plenty quick on outright pace: we […]
The returning Daytona Prototype king who strengthens Porsche’s IMSA attack
Porsche’s inaugural campaign with its 963 in the IMSA SportsCar Championship last year took a while to get into its stride, so the Penske-run operation made a big call to retrieve Dane Cameron from its World Endurance Championship line-up to bolster its American efforts. The softly spoken 35-year-old Californian, a former rising star in open-wheel […]