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KTM’s Miguel Oliveira headed Mir for second place at the chequered flag in Sunday’s 23-lap Mugello race, but was subsequently demoted to third for narrowly exceeding track limits on the run into the Casanova right-hander on the final lap. MotoGP’s current rules stipulate that a rider will be automatically demoted a place should they exceed track limits on the final lap of a ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3c4lk3c via IFTTT

After the COVID-19 pandemic prevented the Netherlands from hosting its first grand prix since 1985 last year, F1 will make its long-awaited return to Zandvoort on 5 September. The majority of F1 races took place behind closed doors last year, but fans have steadily been returning at events so far this season, including the last two races in Spain and Monaco. Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2Twj12D via IFTTT

Tributes flooded in on social media on Sunday following the announcement, while the paddock observed a minute of silence ahead of the MotoGP race in Dupasquier's honour. The decision to continue racing courted a strong response from some riders, with Francesco Bagnaia feeling it was incorrect to race, while Danilo Petrucci said he felt "dirty" taking part in the grand prix. Whether the race ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3wKmNUf via IFTTT

Marque founder Jim Glickenhaus made the comment after the conclusion of a successful 30-hour endurance simulation for his new 007 LMH at Aragon last weekend. The Pipo Motors-powered machine completed approaching 5000km over the course of the test on Friday and Saturday and was delayed by only one significant problem. "The car ran great, like a train," Glickenhaus told Autosport. "By the time ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3p8lUCd via IFTTT

Following comments from Lewis Hamilton about Red Bull's "bendy wing" over the Spanish Grand Prix weekend, a saga emerged surrounding the flexibility of the rear wings run by a number of teams.  The FIA wrote to teams announcing it would be clamping down on rear wing designs from the French Grand Prix onwards, sparking a variety of responses up and down the paddock. Mercedes and McLaren ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3wOf2wq via IFTTT

O’Ward started the race in 12th and quickly worked his way into the leading pack, leading 17 laps and running inside the top three places for the majority of the 200-lap race. However, the winner of IndyCar's second Texas race slipped to fourth on the final lap after 2019 Indy 500 victor Simon Pagenaud's Team Penske car blasted past him on the back stretch. O’Ward, who failed to qualify ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3c8rT4P via IFTTT

Rahal worked his way to the front from 18th at the start thanks to some impressive fuel saving, which allowed him to get a taste of the race lead on two occasions. But pitting from the lead on lap 118, Rahal left the pits without his left rear tyre properly attached to his car. Rahal spun on the warmup lane as his wheel rolled off, sending him into the Turn 2 wall. The wheel bounced off the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/34vDlDh via IFTTT

The Swiss rider was involved in a horrible accident during qualifying for the Moto3 Italian Grand Prix and was airlifted to hospital in Florence in a very serious condition. Tragically, he succumbed to his injuries on Sunday morning and passed away surrounded by his family. MotoGP held a one-minute silence ahead of Sunday’s race in Dupasquier’s memory, with his Prustel GP team in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3i60XGU via IFTTT

Marquez endured a difficult weekend at Mugello as he battled pain in his right shoulder as he continues his comeback to MotoGP following a nine-month injury layoff. Starting from 11th, Marquez was running in 10th when he made contact with Binder at the Poggiosecco right-hander on the second lap of the race and crashed. Marquez branded the clash a racing incident but accepted the blame for ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3fSuMb4 via IFTTT

Ocon has impressed through the early part of the season, scoring points in four out of five races and leading Alpine’s charge as two-time world champion Fernando Alonso continues to get up to speed upon returning to F1. Ocon’s performances have won praise throughout the F1 paddock and prompted Alpine to already open talks over a new deal, with his current contract due to expire at the end ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/34yR0K0 via IFTTT

On Saturday at the Italian Grand Prix, 19-year-old Moto3 rider Dupasquier was involved in a horrible accident in Moto3 qualifying and sustained injuries which would ultimately prove fatal. At the time it happened, a replay of the accident was shown on the world feed coverage before live shots of his trackside medical assistance was continually shown during the red flag delay. Miller was ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3uBNqcC via IFTTT

“This is not the first time that this happens, it’s not going to be the last.” Franco Morbidelli perfectly summed up the gut-wrenching reality of motorsport on Sunday following the MotoGP Italian Grand Prix, a day marred by the tragic death of 19-year-old Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier. The young Swiss was in his second season in the world championship and showing considerable justification ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3c5PTp7 via IFTTT

That's the hope of many in the sport, and the plan has the tentative support of a majority of team bosses. It was discussed at a meeting of the F1 Commission late last year, and in an exploratory vote, eight of out 10 teams backed the basic principle. The vote was on a "statement of intent" about something that probably seemed far away at the time. However, any decision that adheres to the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3fYPJkC via IFTTT

Chip Ganassi Racing's Palou led 35 laps and looked immensely strong throughout, able to pass cars on the inside or outside whenever he needed to. He and Castroneves’s Meyer Shank Racing-Honda reduced the ‘net’ lead battle (behind two off-strategy cars) to a duel over the closing laps, swapping positions back and forth. However, after passing Palou around the outside of Turn 1 at the start ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2SI67xY via IFTTT

Both 14-time winner Peterhansel and triple champion Sainz have been poached from the successful Mini squad run by X-raid, while Ekstrom has been a part of Audi fold for almost the entirety of his professional motorsport career. The trio will be responsible for developing and testing the electric 4x4 prototype that Audi has been designing for more than a year in collaboration with Q Motorsport ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3fyf9Xp via IFTTT

Following his exit from Racing Point at the end of last year, one-time grand prix winner Perez linked up with Red Bull for 2021, replacing Alexander Albon on a one-year deal. Perez is yet to score a podium for Red Bull and has picked up less than half as many points as team-mate Max Verstappen, who leads the drivers’ world championship after five races. But the Mexican driver has helped ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3yMtNBU via IFTTT

Autosport understands that the parties involved are working through the final details of the deals, with announcements set to come in the following days. Once the alliances have been made official, Ducati will be poised to grow its margin as the best-represented manufacturer on the MotoGP grid. It has run eight bikes before, with three satellite teams in Pramac, Avintia and Aspar having ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3fxR2rI via IFTTT

A GPB holding company that owns the majority of Prime Automotive Group's assets sold more than 20 dealerships in the past few years. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/3wLgrny via IFTTT

Its plans to resume production at many lower-margin vehicle plants suggests the automaker has turned a corner in dealing with a crisis that has cost the industry tens of billions of dollars. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/3yIIk1o via IFTTT

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Castroneves, driving for Meyer Shank in a part-time entry, swept past Chip Ganassi Racing’s Palou on the penultimate lap to claim his fourth Indy 500 victory – joining the likes of AJ Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears on the joint-most wins at the Brickyard. A thrilling three-driver battle for the lead between Castroneves, Palou and Arrow McLaren SP’s Pato O’Ward set the tone for the second ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/34tBezY via IFTTT

Drivers Molly Taylor and Johan Kristoffersson have now partnered to win both races in the short life of the all-electric SUV off-road racing championship. They ran out as victors by 15s in a red-flagged finale following a first-corner collision with the X44 car owned by seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton. With Taylor having led at the close of the opening lap for the driver ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2RNoCBb via IFTTT

The reduced dust clouds compared to an inaugural event in Saudi Arabia in April enabled a four-car finale for the first time on the four-mile beach course close to Lac Rose. But that showdown was soon cut to just two entries after early crashes for the X44 team owned by Hamilton and fellow Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button’s JBXE challenger. With Sebastien Loeb having started the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2Tvgfus via IFTTT

The Swiss 19-year-old Dupasquier tragically died from injuries sustained in a horror qualifying crash on Saturday at Mugello, with the FIM announcing his passing just before Sunday’s Moto2 race. A moment of silence was held on the grid ahead of the MotoGP race, but track action in Moto2 and MotoGP carried on as normal. Bagnaia, who led for the first lap before crashing out on the second ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3p4UpcR via IFTTT

Hamilton was raised on a council estate in Stevenage, with his father holding down multiple jobs to fund his early karting career that helped pave the way for his success in F1. The seven-time F1 world champion said in an interview with Spanish publication AS that F1 “has become a billionaire boys’ club”, adding: “If I were to start over from a working-class family, it would be ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3c4yc9o via IFTTT

Bastianini smacked into the back of his Ducati stablemate Zarco as they warmed up their brakes on the way to their grid slots just before the start of Sunday’s 23-lap Mugello race. The Avintia rider was unable to take the start as a result, while Zarco had to complete the race with some cosmetic damage to his GP21. Bastianini – who hurt his leg in the incident – says Zarco’s braking ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3vzYEzv via IFTTT

A lowly seventh place for Lewis Hamilton was accompanied by urgent questioning of his strategy from the world champion, who lost two places to Sebastian Vettel and Sergio Perez over the pitstop sequence. Then there was the very public embarrassment of the crew struggling to remove the right-front wheel from the car of Valtteri Bottas, forcing the retirement of an otherwise healthy ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3i4lyeE via IFTTT

Swiss rider Dupasquier was involved in a horror accident in qualifying for the Moto3 class on Saturday at Mugello and had to be airlifted to hospital in Florence, where he was said to have been in a “very serious condition”. Tragically, the 19-year-old succumbed to his injuries, with MotoGP confirming on Sunday morning that Dupasquier had passed away. The MotoGP paddock held a minute of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3p7dsU6 via IFTTT

Not since the days when AJ Foyt was the ultimate American racing hero has one driver done so well in so many categories. Tony Stewart is a throwback to the old days of motorsport in the United States, when a true racer was not afraid to climb into any type of car and take on the best the sport had to offer. This weekend, Stewart will prove his all-rounder qualities once again when he returns to ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3wAMir8 via IFTTT

The MotoGP field assembled ahead of the 23-lap race for a moment of silence to remember 19-year-old Moto3 racer Jason Dupasquier, who died from injuries sustained in a horrible crash in qualifying on Saturday. The drama of the race started before lights out, when Avintia rookie Enea Bastianini ran into the back of Johann Zarco as he warmed up his brakes on the grid on the warm-up lap. This ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3vC3Pz9 via IFTTT

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Reduced dust levels for the four-mile beachfront course in Lac Rose allowed for much closer racing than in the inaugural Saudi Arabia round. That was typified in the first semi-final as the Rosberg X Racing crew of Johan Kristoffersson and Molly Taylor battled back to win against X44 and the Abt Cupra squad as the three cars were split only by 3s. After topping the combined qualifying runs ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3hYy7bk via IFTTT

The sixth round of the 2021 Moto2 world championship was marred by the announcement ahead of the race that 19-year-old Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier had passed away from injuries sustained in a horror qualifying crash on Saturday. At the start of the 21-lap race, poleman Fernandez grabbed the holeshot from Ajo KTM team-mate Gardner. Marc VDS rider Sam Lowes quickly worked his way back into ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3p3cx6Y via IFTTT

Sometime Jaguar and Red Bull grand prix racer Klien will take part in three of the eight DTM rounds this year in a McLaren 720S GT3 entered by JP Motorsport, with plans to expand to a full season programme in 2022. Klein has competed in a wide variety of championships since he contested the last three of his 51 grands prix with Hispania Racing in 2010, sampling everything from single-seaters ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3wIOLjo via IFTTT

The 19-year-old crashed at the Arrabbiata 2 right-hander at Turn 9 at the end of qualifying for the Moto3 class at Mugello while on a flying lap. Tech3 KTM rider Ayumu Sasaki was following Dupasquier at the time and could do nothing to avoid the Prustel GP rider – with Sasaki then launched in the air. While Sasaki walked away from the incident, Dupasquier had to be treated trackside by ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3i07HWJ via IFTTT

Sainz and Norris raced together at McLaren in 2019 and 2020, striking up one of the closest partnerships on the grid as they lifted the team to third place in the constructors' championship. Sainz left McLaren at the end of last year to join Ferrari, but Norris had continued his impressive form, scoring two podiums so far this season. McLaren rewarded Norris for his impressive form by ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3i3uXmL via IFTTT

Following the horrible incident which has left Jason Dupasquier in a serious condition in hospital in Florence, the Prustel GP team elected to withdraw Ryusei Yamanaka from Sunday’s Italian GP. Drama erupted on the opening lap of the race when Max Racing’s Adrian Fernandez ran into the back of VR46 Academy wildcard Alberto Surra at Turn 1, taking both down. Further round the lap at the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3fx59NT via IFTTT

Ogier will heavily scale back his WRC involvement at the end of this season, having made his WRC debut back in 2008 and collected seven world titles. The Frenchman does intend to put together a partial programme in 2022 when the new Rally1 regulations come into effect, with Toyota his first choice. Although it is yet to be seen how many appearances Ogier will make, Rally Monte Carlo appears ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/34vPqZu via IFTTT

In something of a slow burner, the race came alive in the final hour as the #63 Lamborghini partnership of Andrea Caldarelli, Mirko Bortolotti and Marco Mapelli – which had dominated proceedings for close to five hours – began to struggle with pace. Bortolotti started the car from pole and was comfortably in charge at the halfway stage, but a full course yellow period and strong late-race ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3gb3Eo3 via IFTTT

Schumacher made his F1 debut in 2021 with Haas after winning the Formula 2 title last year, joining Vettel as the only other German driver on the grid. Vettel has taken a keen interest in Schumacher’s career, having raced against his seven-time world champion father, Michael, between 2010 and 2012, and looked up to him during his own early career. Vettel and Schumacher have been spotted ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3wGeIA0 via IFTTT

Toyota debuted a new hydrogen-burning engine it says holds big potential for the company, the industry and for carbon neutrality goals in a world gone gaga over EVs. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/2SAI442 via IFTTT

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The highly decorated American short-course oval champion was on course for a flying run along the four-mile beach course in Lac Rose when his Odyssey 21 machine stopped. LeDuc had recovered 5.3s to X44 pacesetter Cristine Gutierrez and her nine-time World Rally champion team-mate Sebastien Loeb during the first half of the lap when the incident occurred. He has now revealed that a tree ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3vzB9qs via IFTTT

The 2016 IndyCar champion will start Sunday's race from 26th on the middle of the ninth row, behind team-mates Scott McLaughlin in 17th and Josef Newgarden in 21st, while 2018 Indy 500 winner Will Power will start from the back row in 32nd. But despite Penske's struggles for one-lap pace, which he said the team is "still trying to understand", Pagenaud reckoned he has as good a race set-up as ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3fzQAJM via IFTTT

Chip Ganassi Racing driver Dixon scooped his fourth pole position at the Brickyard by pipping Colton Herta and Rinus VeeKay in last week's Fast Nine, and after finishing second to Takuma Sato last year will hope to finally add a second 500 victory to his 2008 triumph. Team Penske's Power meanwhile had a difficult qualifying, leaving the 2018 winner to start 32nd after needing the last-row ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3g0kZzY via IFTTT

The French-Spanish pair carried a fine 4.239s advantage over from the Saturday morning session on the four-mile beach course. Times would prove almost invariably slower in the afternoon shootout as the sand ruts grew deeper. That meant Loeb and Gutierrez returned a stint of 10m57.567s, a little over 10s adrift of their morning pace, but they remained the only duo to dip under the 11-minute ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2Tskebb via IFTTT

The 19-year-old Swiss rider Dupasquier is in a “very serious condition” in hospital in Florence following a horrible accident during qualifying for the Moto3 race. Quartararo admitted it was hard initially for him to regain his focus when the delayed FP4 session finally got underway following the accident, but would go on to claim pole with a new Mugello lap record of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3vxzUIc via IFTTT

Marquez followed Vinales on both of their runs in Q1 at Mugello on Saturday, with the Honda rider using this to sail through to Q2 while Vinales ultimately missed out and will start 13th. Visibly frustrated with Marquez – who even followed Vinales through pitlane when he tried to find clear air – the Yamaha rider didn’t blame Marquez for his Q1 exit, admitting he simply wasn’t quick ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3wJpy8s via IFTTT

Quartararo smashed the lap record around Mugello, logging a 1m45.187s laptime to secure his fourth consecutive MotoGP pole - beating Ducati's Francesco Bagnaia after the Italian headed the field in the second and third practice sessions.  Pramac Ducati rider Johann Zarco continued his impressive start to the season by completing the front row, as Aprilia's Aleix Espargaro got out of Q1 and ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2RW3usf via IFTTT

The 19-year-old crashed at the Arrabbiata 2 right-hander at Turn 9 at the end of qualifying for the Moto3 class at Mugello while on a flying lap. Tech3 KTM rider Ayumu Sasaki was following Dupasquier at the time and could do nothing to avoid the Prustel GP rider, with Sasaki launched in the air. Gresini’s Jeremy Alcoba was also caught up in the incident. While Sasaki and Alcoba walked ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3vAOBds via IFTTT

After a difficult start to the year the former Racing Point team showed much improved form in Monaco, where Sebastian Vettel finished fifth and Lance Stroll eighth. The team lost much of the momentum that it had established at the end of last season as a result of the changes to aerodynamic rules introduced for this year. It has regularly been bringing updates to the car, including further ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3c35ohJ via IFTTT

Marquez followed Vinales on both of their runs in the first 15-minute qualifying session at Mugello on Saturday afternoon, with the Yamaha rider visibly frustrated by Marquez deliberately stalking him to use as a reference. The Honda rider would go through to Q2 while Vinales will have to start Sunday’s 23-lap Italian GP from 13th. However, Vinales does not blame Marquez’s tactics on his ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3uxsLq7 via IFTTT

The Honda rider followed Vinales out of pitlane in both of his runs in the first 15-minute shootout session at Mugello on Saturday afternoon. Vinales was visibly furious at this, with the Yamaha rider even aborting an outlap to come through pitlane again to try and shake Marquez – only for the Honda man to follow him through. In need of a lap to try to get into Q2, Vinales had no choice ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3p06Eay via IFTTT

Qualifying was delayed following a serious incident in the preceding Moto3 Q2 session, with Swiss rider Jason Dupasquier airlifted to hospital in Florence for further assessment. Jack Miller emerged from the early salvo of laps fastest with a 1m45.796s on his factory Ducati, though Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro edged ahead moments later with a 1m45.651s having utilised a tow from the sister works ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2Th9Nab via IFTTT

The X44 duo headed an entertaining shootout as official reserve driver Jutta Kleinschmidt stepped in and starred for Abt Cupra and the Chip Ganassi Racing entry finally showed its speed. X44 was the sixth team out on the four-mile beach front course near to Lac Rose, with Loeb taking the start for the two-lap qualifying run. A rule change for Senegal means that drivers have to alternate for ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3c2RAnp via IFTTT

Giovinazzi is in his third full season with Alfa Romeo, scoring the Swiss team's first point of 2021 with a 10th place in Monaco. After a difficult debut campaign with the team in 2019, Giovinazzi got on par with Raikkonen as the pair finished 2020 with four points each, while Giovinazzi narrowly outqualified the 2007 world champion by nine to eight. The Italian vowed to keep learning from ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3vxsJ2P via IFTTT

“We've lost the victory, fastest lap, and pole position. I hope that's the end of it. Something has to change.” That’s how Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko responded to TV reporters at the Formula 1 Portuguese Grand Prix with post-race emotions still running high after a spate of high-profile track limit infringements. The problem is, track limits will always be a point of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3oZGrsE via IFTTT

Tsunoda's heated and often expletive-ridden team radio messages attracted a lot of attention this season and drew mixed responses from fans and observers. Speaking on F1's Beyond The Grid podcast, Tsunoda accepted that his temper behind the wheel and his team radio communications are a "main topic" to improve in the coming races, admitting he doesn't know why he gets so hot under the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3fVwW9Q via IFTTT

The 2019 world champion, who joined Hyundai from Toyota ahead of the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign, missed a golden opportunity to add a second victory of the season in Portugal when he retired from the lead on Saturday afternoon with suspension damage. Tanak re-joined on Sunday under Super Rally rules to bank all five points in the rally-ending Power Stage, which leaves him 34 points behind ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2RVrv2D via IFTTT

Pleasant conditions for the start of FP3 meant combined timesheet improvements were had almost instantly, with KTM’s Miguel Oliveira – armed with the RC16’s new chassis and fuel – jumping up to fourth overall and top in the session with a 1m46.331s early doors. Pramac’s Johann Zarco fired in a 1m46.201s moments later to take over top spot in FP3 and move up to second on the combined ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3uwA7tS via IFTTT

F1 teams have been engaged in debate over the stability of rear wings since the Spanish Grand Prix, when Lewis Hamilton passed comment about Red Bull running a “bendy wing”. The FIA has since moved to clamp down on the flexi-wings by introducing new rigidity tests that will come into force from the French Grand Prix.  But Mercedes and McLaren were left unhappy that the FIA had not ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3c09PcY via IFTTT

Decisions to develop additional battery factories in Europe and North America could be made this year. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/3vwAmGM via IFTTT

The revamped event will use digital tools to bring together "virtual and physical experiences" after automakers switched product launches to internet livestreams during the pandemic. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/3hWxHSN via IFTTT

An unlikely sequence of events led Townsend Bell to sample a Jaguar Formula 1 car at Valencia in 2003. Runner-up to Scott Dixon in the 2000 Indy Lights championship, the Californian romped to the 2001 title and had made his top-flight debut in CART before the end of the year. A promising career lay ahead in Indycar racing, but after a scrappy half-season in 2002 with Pat Patrick’s team, Bell ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3fPFQpv via IFTTT

The Yamaha rider was one of several late on in this afternoon’s second practice at Mugello forced to abort fast laps due to encountering a high volume of traffic. Quartararo – who was fourth overall on Friday - conceded this kind of behaviour is acceptable in a qualifying situation, but shouldn’t be the case in practice and especially not at such a fast track like Mugello. “Yes, I ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2RKcJvR via IFTTT

Ocon has picked up points in four of the first five races of the year, leading Alpine's charge by outscoring two-time world champion teammate Fernando Alonso 12-5 so far this season. The French driver's displays have drawn praise from across the F1 paddock, and has helped spark an early start to talks over extending his contract with Alpine beyond the end of the season.  Alpine ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3wIDKye via IFTTT

Played out on gravel roads, the test of the team's new Rally1 car was overseen by the team’s technical director, Tom Fowler, and follows the first running of the GR Yaris-based competition car with its hybrid kit in Finland earlier this month. On that occasion, the squad’s recognised test driver Juho Hanninen covered 600km in the supermini. Confirmation of the Rally1 car’s presence in ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3vvY6Lb via IFTTT

KTM’s Miguel Oliveira set the early pace at the start of FP2 with a 1m47.185s before setting the best lap of the day at that point with a 1m46.584s to go top of the combined times. After a tough start to the 2021 campaign, KTM has come to Mugello armed with a new chassis for its factory riders first tested at the post-race Jerez test. Oliveira’s advantage at the head of the individual ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3hZSDbF via IFTTT

Authorities in Zhejiang and Guangxi provinces have either asked government bodies to check and report on any employees who have bought Teslas. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/34sSxRD via IFTTT

The 50-year-old last contested a full season in any motor racing discipline in 2015 when he finished third in the TCR International Series standings, driving a Team Craft-Bamboo SEAT Leon. After a period on the sidelines, Gene is back and with some gusto committing to a dual campaigns for Cupra in the FIA World Touring Car Cup and the all-new electric Pure ETCR touring car series, which will ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3yNAOlR via IFTTT

As electric vehicles take hold throughout the industry, suppliers will likely face the biggest disruptions — and the biggest opportunities. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/3yJp83v via IFTTT

The automaker is promoting the sale of the factory to the Shunyi district government in China's capital city, Yonhap news agency reported. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/3fQYnBH via IFTTT

The BMW unit filed a trademark with the German patent office for the name Silent Shadow, a nod to the Silver Shadow model sold from 1965 to 1980. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/3yMew48 via IFTTT

Stellantis has chosen the top executives in its engineering organization following the FCA-PSA merger in January. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/3uAFDvO via IFTTT

The two-time 500 winner has qualified 24th on his return to the Brickyard behind the McLaren team’s full-timers Pato O’Ward and Felix Rosenqvist in 12th and 14th respectively. While Montoya has enjoyed a solid car under him in race-trim level through the busy practice days, off-track, Brown says the Colombian has been a major asset for the team. “I think we’ve got good racecars ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3fS5mKH via IFTTT

Hamilton lost the lead of the F1 drivers’ championship for the first time this season after finishing seventh in Monaco last Sunday, while Verstappen claimed victory for Red Bull. The result came at the end of a week that had seen Hamilton say on Wednesday that Verstappen “feels perhaps he has a lot to prove” with aggressive on-track moves in wheel-to-wheel battles.  Verstappen ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2RR9J0A via IFTTT

The influential nonprofit consumer research organization said it removed the designation after Tesla ditched radar as a supplement to its camera-based sensors. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/34pXYkr via IFTTT

The Swiss group is willing to negotiate on investments, guarantees and the purchase price for Lamborghini, founding partner Rea Stark said. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/3wGwrHC via IFTTT

Bagnaia comes into this weekend’s Mugello race second in the championship and just a point off the lead having scored three podiums in 2021’s first five races. Ducati has won the Italian GP at Mugello for the event’s last three editions and is favourite to continue that run following back-to-back victories for Jack Miller at Jerez and Le Mans. Bagnaia is yet to register his first ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3hZ0Exn via IFTTT

F1 teams regularly churn out stops in around two seconds, so it was quite a shock to find that Mercedes had to wait until the car was back in the factory on Tuesday morning to get the wheel off. That was more than 43 hours after the pitstop began. So, what went wrong for Mercedes and what's so special about the equipment that teams are using that enable them to break the two-second ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3uo9Bms via IFTTT

MotoGP had to cancel its visit to Mugello in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with continued restrictions forcing the 2021 Italian GP to be held behind closed doors for the first time. A frequent visitor to Mugello in his role as Ducati test rider, Michele Pirro set the early pace on the Pramac Ducati as he steps in to replace the injured Jorge Martin. Pirro’s initial effort of ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3fvfI40 via IFTTT

Muller is currently in his second season in FE with Dragon and scored the team’s maiden podium of the Gen2 era in the first of the Valencia races, finishing second to Mercedes driver Nyck de Vries. However, the Swiss driver is unavailable for the championship’s first visit to Puebla due to the clashing DTM season opener at Monza, where he will be competing for Audi squad Team ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3bWnYYD via IFTTT

F1 announced in April that it would be holding ‘sprint qualifying’ at three events this year, running a 100km race on Saturday afternoons to set the grid for the grand prix on Sunday. Silverstone will stage F1’s first sprint race in July at the British Grand Prix, rejigging its weekend schedule by running qualifying on Friday evening. F1 has been working with AWS to provide in-race ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3oYFpNI via IFTTT

Supercars is investigating a move to paddle shift with assisted shift technology as part of its new-for-2022 Gen3 regulations. The category currently uses a sequential stick shift and clutch, with drivers able to flat-shift on the way up, but needing to heel-and-toe on the way down through the gears. There is little in the way of support of the paddle shift move from the current drivers, the ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3uw6fxP via IFTTT

What is a sprint race and why are they coming to F1? A sprint race is essentially a shortened version of a normal race, taking place over a shorter distance. They’re used in many other series, though perhaps most notably for Formula 1 is their inclusion in the Formula 2 race weekend. In F2 the sprint race is 120km and the feature race covers 170km, though are usually no less exciting. The ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3e84fHi via IFTTT

Average credit scores for consumers who financed new and used vehicles are higher, and delinquency rates are lower. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/3oTXfkO via IFTTT

Championship organisers have overhauled calendars and formats for F2 and Formula 3 this year as part of a cost-saving strategy, with both series contesting the same amount of races but over eight meetings instead of 12. While the two championships no longer appear on the same bill at Formula 1 events in a move to cut teams' expenditure, it has created lengthy gaps between events. F2 drivers ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2QXcZHf via IFTTT

Pramac first became a Ducati customer squad back in 2005 and in recent years has effectively become the Italian manufacturer’s junior squad. The current factory Ducati line-up of Jack Miller and Francesco Bagnaia were promoted from Pramac for this season, while the likes of double race winner Danilo Petrucci and one-time grand prix victor Andrea Iannone came through Pramac to the factory ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3bZVugL via IFTTT

It was a superb performance from the Mexican, who managed his tyres in the opening laps and, after going long, was able to deploy sufficient pace to jump three cars after his pitstop. However, it was also a question of what might have been had he qualified closer to teammate Max Verstappen, rather than seven places behind the Dutchman. Qualifying remains an Achilles Heel for Perez in 2021 as ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/2RNARgQ via IFTTT

The chip crisis remains fluid globally, said GM spokesman David Barnas, but the automaker's supply chain team has made strides to mitigate the impact. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/3hXESKA via IFTTT

Hyundai will finalize its plans to switch to full-electric models within the next six months, Reuters reported. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/34oC2X0 via IFTTT

Having scored Honda’s only podiums in 2020 when he was a rookie, much was expected of the younger Marquez brother in 2021 on his switch to LCR with full factory backing from HRC. However, Marquez has so far failed to make it out of Q1 in qualifying and has crashed out of three of the first five races this season. Scoring his best result of the year last time out in the flag-to-flag French ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3fN5HhD via IFTTT

During the build-up to this year’s British Grand Prix at Silverstone, 1996 Formula 1 world champion Hill and three-time grand prix winner Herbert will join forces for a one-off show to remember tales and stories from their time in F1. The two drivers-turned-pundits will be joined by Sky Sports F1 colleague Rachel Brookes who will interview the pair on stage in front of an audience at Cadogan ... Keep reading from Autosport.com - All - Stories https://ift.tt/3hXpCgw via IFTTT

Gerard Dwyer joined Rivian this week as vice president of business finance, according to a post on LinkedIn. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/3wtYLwK via IFTTT

The extension of the EV tax credit would be a boon to motorists looking to buy from Tesla and GM, whose offerings are no longer eligible for the credit under current law from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/2SB5LZO via IFTTT

The plant will supply high-tech mirrors to BMW, Mercedes and Volvo, a Magna spokeswoman confirmed. from Section Page News - Automotive News https://ift.tt/3yHH7HS via IFTTT