Unbeaten during the opening half of the 2014 MotoGP season, reigning champion Marc Marquez will be fighting for an incredible ten wins in a row when the action restarts at Indianapolis this weekend. Marquez’s faultless results have handed him a 77-point lead over Repsol Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa and he is also yet to lose […]
Ecclestone trial stopped for $100 million German court has halted a bribery trial against Bernie Ecclestone in exchange for his paying a $100 million fee.It was almost as if he had worked it out so that everyone in Formula One would be away on their annual August break, so as to guarantee minimal fuss. Knowing […]
Craig Breen is focused on being fully fit for round eight of the FIA European Rally Championship later this month after he hurt his back in a heavy landing during Finland’s world championship qualifier yesterday.Breen, an ERC event-winner with the Peugeot Rally Academy squad, was in ninth position when the incident occurred and required medical […]
After paying a record R205m at auction last month for the iconic circuit that has hosted local motorsport, Formula One, MotoGP and World Superbikes, Porsche SA CEO Toby Venter says he intends to bring the track back to its former glory. Porsche South Africa CEO, Toby Venter wants to return Kyalami racetrack to its glory […]
The MotoGP World Championship returns to action after a short break this coming weekend, with the Red Bull Indianapolis Grand Prix marking Round 10 of the 2014 season. This will be the seventh successive year that MotoGP has visited the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway venue and, since last season, some modifications have taken place. The […]
Jose Maria Lopez has taken a potentially pivotal stride towards the 2014 World Touring Car Championship title at his first attempt after producing a perfect maximum score in ideal surroundings around the Termas de Rio Hondo. Under immense pressure to perform on his return to Argentinian soil having established himself as the driver to beat […]
ws The GP3R will host the seventh round of the World Rallycross Championship at the Trois-Rivieres street circuit and will see all four heats.Friday 8 August will go down in history as the day the FIA World Rallycross Championship presented by Monster Energy staged its first event outside of Europe as part of the annual Grand […]
Bernie Ecclestone looks set to avoid jail and retain control of formula one.Germany’s Suddeutsche Zeitung is reporting on Saturday that the F1 chief executive has negotiated a US $100 million settlement with prosecutors in his high-profile corruption case in Germany. The newspaper did not name its sources but said the settlement, negotiated in Munich on […]
Max Vatanen gained more vital experience in the cut and thrust of the World Rally Championship with a stage-winning performance on Rally Finland, the fastest WRC event of them all.The 23-year-old son of Finnish rallying legend Ari Vatanen was taking part in the Jyvaskyla-based event for the first time as part of the Drive DMACK […]
The Atlas Copco Ford Racing team is going all out to regain some of the championship momentum lost in the previous rounds when the Donaldson Cross Country Championship arrives at Sun City for the Force Fuel 450.Despite winning the second race of the season and claiming regular podium finishes during the year, arch-rival Toyota has […]
Johan Fourie in the Alcohol Killer BMW 335i has extended his lead in the Bridgestone Production Car championship, scoring the motorsport equivalent of a perfect 10 at Phakisa Freeway near Welkom on August 2.In class T there were very different finishing orders in the two races, the 12-lap feature highlighted by a very robust confrontation […]
THE Engen Volkswagen Cup series is best-known for delivering on enthusiastic driving performances from competitors eager to grab any advantage in their search for track position and championship points. Round five at Phakisa Freeway in Welkom, Free State on Saturday was no different. Duvall Maritz (25) was an early casualty when he hit the barrier […]
– José-María López achieved a clean sweep at his home meeting in Argentina, with two race wins and one pole position. – Yvan Muller, Pechito’s fiercest rival for the World Championship, secured two podium spots, while Sébastien Loeb finished 4th and 6th. – López’s maximum points haul puts him 60 points clear of Muller in […]
The Imperial Toyota Cullinan Rally, round five of the SA National Rally Championship, will feature three new special stages out of a total of 12 over the two-day event that starts from the Zonderwater Correctional Services facility north-east of Pretoria on August 15.There will be six special stages on Friday covering some 78 kilometres of […]
Volkswagen’s Jari-Matti Latvala delivered in front of his home fans and took an emotional victory on Rally Finland on Sunday. It was Latvala’s third WRC win of the season and his second on the ‘1000 Lakes Rally’, as it use to be known. The result also means Volkswagen stretches its unbroken run of WRC triumphs […]
The organisers seemed to have saved the best for last as Ruuhimäki was followed by another classic at Myhinpää. Fast flowing corners, crests and dips provided one of the toughest challenges of the weekend. The fight for victory at Neste Oil Rally Finland will go down to the final stage after Sébastien Ogier clawed back […]
The final day opened with a Rally Finland classic. Ruuhimäki is famed for a sequence of flat-out jumps near the end. After a long straight and several 90 degree corners, the jumps started at 2.5km, building up to the big ones in the final section. Fastest time for Jari-Matti Latvala through the opening stage of […]
A defiant Jari-Matti latvala ended the penultimate leg of Rally Finland with a 3.4sec lead over team-mate Sebastien Ogier following a dramatic final to the day.Five wins from six stages enabled Latvala to stretch his overnight lead from 19.7sec to a comfortable 31.1sec. But the Finn hit a hole across the road in the rutted […]
Dominance followed by drama: Latvala/Anttila still up front in their home event Victory within reach for Ogier/Ingrassia, Mikkelsen/Fløene comfortably in fourth place Volkswagen Polo R WRC celebrates 600th top-three time since January 2013 . With a combination of driving expertise and nerves of steel, Jari-Matti Latvala/Miikka Anttila (FIN/FIN) held on to their […]
Surkee had several rhythm changes which challenged drivers’ abilities to adapt. Wide roads contrasted with narrower sections, with rocks lining the roadside in the latter.Jari-Matti Latvala’s Neste Oil Rally Finland lead came under threat from Volkswagen team-mate Sébastien Ogier as brake problems continued to hinder the Finn. Latvala ceded 7.3sec to his colleague as he […]
Mökkiperä is a Finland classic but this year it was run in the opposite direction to normal. The first part was on flat roads with long straights and 90 degree corners, before turning into a high-speed roller coaster over big jumps and through fast bends. Mads Østberg retired from fifth place at Neste Oil Rally […]
Lewis Hamilton, shown leading teammate Nico Rosberg in Hungary, ignored team orders to allow Rosberg to pass last weekend. Although Mercedes brass have come out in support of Hamilton’s decision, they have reportedly mandated that drivers follow team orders from this point on.Mercedes’ title-warring drivers have been told they must follow team orders over the […]
Himos was a mixed surface test on service roads around a ski resort. Leustu was a slightly longer version of the 2013 test and again tackled in the opposite direction to its usual format. The first 4km were narrow before it opened and became faster. Sébastien Ogier and Jari-Matti Latvala shared the stage wins at […]
Surkee had several rhythm changes which challenged drivers’ abilities to adapt. Wide roads contrasted with narrower sections, with rocks lining the roadside in the latter.Three out of three for Jari-Matti Latvala as the leader completed a hat-trick of stage wins on Saturday morning at Neste Oil Rally Finland. The Finn was quickest by 4.1sec in […]
This is only the second time Jukojärvi has been run in this direction. Known for its countless junctions, it’s quite different to the traditional Finnish stage.World champion Sébastien Ogier regained second place in Neste Oil Rally Finland after completing Jukojärvi 4.0sec faster than Kris Meeke. Meeke relegated Ogier to third yesterday afternoon as the Frenchman […]
Mökkiperä is a Finland classic but this year it was run in the opposite direction to normal. The first part was on flat roads with long straights and 90 degree corners, before turning into a high-speed roller coaster over big jumps and through fast bends. Leader Jari-Matti Latvala extended his Neste Oil Rally Finland advantage […]
A blistering Friday afternoon performance from Jari-Matti Latvala saw him stretch his lead at the head of the Rally Finland.The Finn added less than four seconds to his overnight lead during this morning’s four special stages. But a hat-trick of stage wins this afternoon allowed him to build a 19.7sec lead in his Volkswagen Polo […]
Kakaristo comprised a large part of the classic Ouninpohja stage but with some of the wide road roller-coaster sections missing. It was last used in 2008, but in the opposite direction.Kakaristo was dry and loose and road opener Sébastien Ogier cut a frustrated figure at the stage end. He dropped 8.3sec to leader Jari-Matti Latvala […]
Another test new to most drivers as it was last used 11 years ago. The opening section was blindingly fast before it merged with the more familiar route in Päijälä village. Plenty of flat-out crests and jumps here.Jari-Matti Latvala extended his lead into double figures for the first time at Neste Oil Rally Finland as […]
Last used in the 1980s, it offered a mix of fast and technical sections. It started on a wide road in a protected historical area and the first 9.6km were typical fast Finnish roller-coaster roads before it became narrower towards the finish. Thierry Neuville has been sidelined from Neste Oil Rally Finland after his Hyundai […]
Four time world champion Tommi Makinen chauffeured Toyota president, Akio Toyoda through the forsts today at Neste Oil Rally Finland in the Japanese company’s new four-wheel drive GT 86 car.It was the first public appearance of the car that Toyoda asked Mäkinen to build. It came just 24 hours after Toyoda took the wheel himself […]
Andy Meyrick drove a series of impeccable stints to help ensure a solid finish for the Bentley Continental GT3 in Bentley’s first return to 24-hour racing since winning Le Mans in 2003. Andy, Guy Smith and Steven Kane had a difficult race but managed to overcome bad luck to cross the line ninth in the […]
Formula 1 teams must stop trying to control their drivers so much if the sport is going to make them heroes again, reckons Red Bull boss, Christian Horner. As F1 continues to search for answers over a decline in fan interest levels, one theory gaining traction is that drivers have been made too corporate and […]
Kakaristo comprised a large part of the classic Ouninpohja stage but with some of the wide road roller-coaster sections missing. It was last used in 2008, but in the opposite direction. Painaa was a mix of old familiar tests and used as the Power Stage in 2013. Kris Meeke and Sébastien Ogier claimed stage victories […]
While Michael Schumacher continues to recover from a serious head injury suffered in a skiing accident on Dec. 29, his family may be considering a non-traditional course of treatment.According the the London Daily Mail in a published report on Tuesday, Croatian neurosurgeons have developed a microchip implanting technique that may be able to help Schumacher […]
It’s all systems go for the return of national championship motorcycle racing to Durban for more than half a century on August 24. The KwaZulu-Natal SuperGP will be round five of the new-look South African national motorcycle championships, the Monster Energy SuperGP Champions Trophy, following the postponement of the previously scheduled Nelson Mandela Bay SuperGP […]
Another test new to most drivers as it was last used 11 years ago. The opening section was blindingly fast before it merged with the more familiar route in Päijälä village. Plenty of flat-out crests and jumps here. Volkswagen claimed its 250th stage win with the Polo R when Jari-Matti Latvala further extended his […]
It looks like the Nissan GT-R is trying to eat the red Audi R8 pace car in front of it for lunch.The two speed demons are slithering their way around Circuit de la Sarthe in Le Mans, France, leading a caravan of brand-new GT-Rs driven by journalists from around the world. But the man behind […]
Last used in the 1980s, Friday’s opener offered a mix of fast and technical sections. It started on a wide road in a protected historical area and the first 9.6km were typical fast Finnish roller-coaster roads before it became narrower towards the finish. Just 1.6km was all Robert Kubica managed before the Pole’s day came […]
A 2.27km stage to complete Thursday’s stage action in Finland and Jari-Matti Latvala leads overnight, Ogier +4.5, Meeke +9.2, Hänninen + Hirvonen +26.4, Mikkelsen +27.2, Østberg +30.9, Neuville +38.8, Prokop +1:09.4, Solberg +1:13.8, Evans +1:14.8… Latvala collected a hay bale on the 2.27km Harju stage and dropped 0.8 to hs VW teammate and rival Sébastien […]