Новости за 14.03.2023

The Milton Keynes-based outfit has emerged from the winter as the team to beat, with its 2023 F1 challenger proving to be a step clear of its main opposition in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. Its impressive progress comes despiteRedBullhaving been handed an extra 10% reduction in its allocated wind tunnel and CFD time as the result of overspending on its way to ... Keep reading

The association is currently being led by Shane van Gisbergen, Will Davison, Chaz Mostert and Cam Waters, who take feedback from the rest of the driver group on an array of matters. The four 'elected' drivers then take problems and solutions to the Motorsport Australia race control team, namely race director James Taylor and driving standards advisor Craig Baird. The genesis of the ... Keep reading

Lamborghini gave the new Huracan GT3 Evo2 its debut in January's Rolex 24 at Daytona, and as well as the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, examples of the car are also set to race in GT3-based series such as the DTM and GT World Challenge Europe this year. However, long-time Japanese Lambo customer JLOC is still running its pair of entries in SUPER GT's lower GT300 class in the ... Keep reading

McLaughlin turned 104 laps of the 2.366-mile course in Birmingham, AL, setting a best lap of 1m06.222s, two-tenths faster than defending IndyCar champion teammate Power. Fastest Honda representative was Christian Lundgaard of Rahal Letterman Lanigan, in third, who ran 81 laps to shade 2021 IndyCar champion Alex Palou, who was fastest of the Chip Ganassi Racing quartet. Two-time champion ... Keep reading

Sundays race served as the debut of NASCARs new aero rules this season for road courses and a majority of tracks measuring 1.058-mile or less in distance, including Phoenix. The rules package, which was tested in the offseason at Phoenix, consists of a 2-inch spoiler and the removal of three diffuser strakes and engine panel strakes. The changes led to approximately 30-percent reduction ... Keep reading

A number of drivers struggled with soaring cabin temperatures in the new Gen3 cars during Saturday's opening leg of the Newcastle 500. Reynolds appeared to be one of the worst hit by the conditions, the Grove Racing driver emerging from his Mustang worse for wear after 95 laps. It's the second time in recent history that Reynolds has been badly hit by heat exhaustion, his run to second on ... Keep reading

The Ducati rider topped last weekend's final pre-season test in Portugal with an unofficial lap record having been fastest on both days at the Algarve track. This completed a clean sweep for Ducati in winter testing, the marque topping all five days in 2023 with its riders. Ducati's strong winter has come against a backdrop of struggles for Honda, KTM and Yamaha, with the latter only making ... Keep reading

In Q1 for the Bahrain Grand Prix, the entire field was covered by just 1.2s, with the teams outside last year's top five all making vast improvements compared to their 2022 form. Verstappen thinks the more competitive field is because several teams have either taken design cues from Red Bull's leading 2022 package or from Ferrari's concept, which also proved competitive for large spells of last ... Keep readin

Nojiri is aiming to become the first driver to win three Japanese top single-seater titles in a row since Satoru Nakajima in 1986 this year, having established himself as the dominant driver of the past two seasons. The Team Mugen star's title defence ostensibly got off to a positive start in last week's one and only pre-season test at Suzuka as he set the best time across the two days of ... Keep reading

Pascal Vasselon, Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe technical director, insisted that the his team's performance in the official pre-season WEC test that took place last weekend ahead of next Friday's Sebring 1000 Miles championship opener "didn't look good if you compare them with the IMSA test a few weeks ago". The 1m48.208s first-session best from Jose Maria Lopez in the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID stood ... K

Aston Martin stunned the paddock with its promising pace during winter testing, which was confirmed in the Bahrain Grand Prix as Alonso scored a podium on his first race for the Silverstone-based team. The season opener at Sakhir showed that Aston, which finished seventh in the 2022 Constructors Championship, has bridged the gap from the midfield to the frontrunners and that it can ... Keep reading

Speaking on his Dirty Mo Media podcastActions Detrimental, Hamlin admitted that the late-race contact was intentional and explained where things currently stand between himself and Chastain. At the end of the race, both drivers had gained track position with a two-tire call. They restarted near the front for a sprint to the checkered flag, but it all went wrong when Hamlin slid up from ... Keep reading

The 2020 world champion was forced to look for a new ride for this season after Suzuki declared it would be quitting MotoGP at the end of 2022, with Mir eventually signing a two-year deal to join the factory Honda squad. The pre-season testing phase has not been easy for Honda, with eight-time world champion Marc Marquez admitting after the Portugal test last weekend that the 2023 RC213V is ... Keep reading

A poor adaption to the new-for-2022 ground-effects regulations left Williams uncompetitive last season to wind up bottom with eight points - compared to 35 for AlphaTauri in ninth. That led to the high-profile departure of CEO and team principal Jost Capito after his two years at the helm. He was followed out the door by long-time Volkswagen Motorsport ally Francois-Xavier Demaison, who was ... Keep reading

The Spaniard classified fourth in the season opener and was 48s adrift of runaway winner Max Verstappen at the flag, while team-mate Charles Leclerc retired with a power unit electrical failure on lap 39 of 57. That comparatively poor performance prompted new team principal Fred Vasseur to defend the 2023 car, insisting that an imperfect set-up was responsible for the pace deficit rather than a ... Keep reading

It's not often that beer and sporting success go hand in hand. However, wind back the clock to Rally Mexico 2014 and this popular beverage played an unlikely, yet vital cameo in saving Hyundai from the heartbreak of throwing away a first World Rally Championship podium at the final hurdle. The moment is among motorsport's strangest stories and has earned a rightful place in WRC folklore. This ... Keep reading

F1 is pushing ahead in abandoning fossil-based products from 2026, as it makes the commitment for cars to be fuelled by 100% sustainable fuel. The move forms part of a joint effort for the series to be carbon neutral by 2030, as well as hoping that the championship's best brains can come up with a drop-in fuel that will then be available to the public to help reduce pollution in the wider ... Keep reading

With Jost Capito gone after his short tenure in charge, new recruit James Vowles now has the reins of the team, and the Sakhir result represented a pretty good start for the new boss. Vowles would be the last man to claim any responsibility for the strong performance in the season opener, simply because he hadn't had time to make his mark, having started at Grove just a few days before the ... Keep reading

LMC announced Tuesday that Johnson will enter the March 26 race at Circuit of the Americas and the May 28 Coca-Cola 600 in the No. 84 Chevrolet. Both entries will be sponsored by Club Wyndham, the countrys largest vacation club, which has been associated with team ambassador Richard Petty for more than 20 years. Johnson, a seven-time Cup champion and now co-owner of Legacy MC, is running ... Keep reading

Криштиану Роналду рад выходу «Аль-Насра» в полуфинал Кубка Саудовской Аравии.

A rugby game was marred by chaotic scenes at the final whistle, with three players reportedly attacked and one sustaining major injuries after being stabbed with a bottle

Главный тренер "Ливерпуля" Юрген Клопп прокомментировал завтрашний ответный матч с "Реалом" в 1/8 финала Лиги чемпионов.

Our photographers were out in force last weekend. Matt Smith was at TCU when LSU visited Fort Worth, and Mark Rigney and Will Chu were in Southern California for matches at UCLA and USC. Click on any photo to view full size as we present their top shots from the weekend:

Сегодня, 14 марта, проходит ответный матч в рамках 1/8 финала Лиги чемпионов между «Манчестер Сити» и «РБ Лейпциг».

Former England head coach and 2003 Rugby World Cup-winner Sir Clive Woodward has laid out plans to put his old side back on track following their record loss to France