On Friday, the grass on the roadside caught fire twice at the Shanghai track. Unprecedented problems have made life difficult for F1 drivers. The FIA and the organizers of the Chinese GP assume that the fire was started by sparks coming from under the cars. Katarzyna Łapczyńska April 19, 2024, 14:16 Press materials / Pirelli … Read more
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Verstappen set his fastest lap in one minute and 28.197 seconds, 0.066 seconds ahead of teammate Sergio Perez. The third best time was shown by “McLaren” pilot Lando Norris, completing the lap in one minute and 28.489 seconds. After the first two places of the Ferrari drivers in the competition at the previous stage in … Read more
As already announced last year, the five-time Dakar Rally winner Nasser Al-Attiyah, world rally legend Sebastian Loeb and Christina Gutierrez will be the three Dacia factory pilots. During the presentation, Dacia also revealed that next year it will participate in the entire season of the World Rally Raid Championship, instead of focusing only on Dakar. … Read more
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For 33 years, the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya has not known what life is like without Formula 1. In 2026 its contract with Liberty Media ends, the year in which it will coexist with the premiere of the Ifema urban circuit in Madrid, with an agreement until 2035 The negotiations, still open: a project led by … Read more
The new 2024 “Calendar Rally in Latvia” is out The new “Rally in Latvia Calendar” has been brought to the attention of fans of the Latvian rally – a compilation of 12 bright moments of the last season’s Latvian and Baltic rally, presented by rally photographersRaimonds Volonts and Jānis Asaris. Traditionally, the calendar will feature … Read more
The six-time “MotoGP” champion, who has won all his titles in the “Honda” team, will leave it after this season, but already next year he will represent the “Gresini” satellite unit of “Ducati”. The successful Spanish motorcyclist decided that it would be better to start with a year-old “Ducati” model, than to continue struggling in … Read more
Blush was 26th in qualifying on Friday, but in the first round on Saturday he defeated American Chelsea Denoff, the leader of the master race, who was later defeated to end his Formula Drift career as the 2023 champion. In the round of 16, the Latvian racing driver was superior to the American Robert Thorn, … Read more
We already announced that the Polish Rally, which last took place in the WRC Championship in 2017, could return to the 2024 World Rally Championship (WRC). After 2017, the Polish stage left the WRC calendar due to repeated violations of spectator safety regulations. Former Formula 1 and rally driver Robert Kubica, 2022 WRC2 champion Kajetan … Read more
In the absolute overall ranking of “Samsonas Rally Utena”, the crew E.Blūms/D.Eglītis finished in fourth place. The overall victory of the rally for the Nordstrand crew, the Lithuanian crew V.Jurkevičius/A.Paliukenas in second place, 20.04 seconds behind the leader. Estonians E.Kaur/A.Birjukov are in third place, losing 21.06 seconds to the leader. The rally took place on … Read more
“Already since Saturday I felt good on this track and I can drive at a good speed,” said Favre. “The track was tough. Everything went according to plan in the first race, until after the springboard my bike came to a sudden stop. At first I thought the fault was the chain, but in fact … Read more