| Tuesday, June 3rd 2014, 13:41 GMT |
Plans for a Romanian group to join the Formula 1 grid with a new team as early as next year are understood to have gained approval from the FIA.
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, June 3rd 2014, 15:27 GMT |
Valtteri Bottas believes the Williams Formula 1 team can still carry the fight to Red Bull at this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix, despite a tough race in Monaco last time out.
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| Tuesday, June 3rd 2014, 15:57 GMT |
Aspar MotoGP rider Nicky Hayden has undergone surgery to cure the wrist problem that forced him to withdraw from the Italian Grand Prix last weekend
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| Monday, June 2nd 2014, 15:29 GMT |
Jorge Lorenzo believes he would have beaten Marc Marquez to victory in MotoGP's Italian Grand Prix if his Yamaha had just a little more straightline speed
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Monday, June 2nd 2014, 13:53 GMT |
A decision on the time period for which 2014-specification DTM cars will be homologated for is expected to be made at a series commission meeting this week
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, June 2nd 2014, 15:40 GMT |
McLaren should make a step forward in this weekend's Canadian Grand Prix, because its Formula 1 car will suit the Montreal circuit better than recent venues, according to Eric Boullier
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| By Glenn Freeman | Sunday, June 1st 2014, 13:55 GMT |
Carlos Sainz Jr completed a Formula Renault 3.5 double at Spa, cruising to victory after his main rival Oliver Rowland hit trouble in the pits.
Rowland had chased Sainz throughout the first stint, with the gap fluctuating as they traded fastest laps and left everyone else behind.
By the time they came in together for their mandatory pitstops Rowland was within one second of the leader, but he stalled as he made his stop and lost 11 seconds, dropping him out of contention.
That promoted Will Stevens to second, while Rowland rejoined fourth behind Richie Stanaway.
The Briton could do nothing about the FR3.5 returnee, but in the end he didn't have to, as Stanaway was penalised 20 seconds for making his pitstop outside of the designated window.
Stanaway pitted at the end of lap 12 (the last lap of the window), but as he crossed the start/finish line in the pits that was counted as stopping on lap 13.
Pierre Gasly jumped Norman Nato for fifth on the road during the pitstops, but the Red Bull junior could not quite get onto the tail of Stanaway and Rowland.
Stanaway's penalty - on his comeback two years after injuring himself at the same circuit in his last FR3.5 meeting - dropped him from a podium place to the lower reaches of the points.
Results - 21 laps: Pos Driver Team Time/Gap 1. Carlos Sainz Jr DAMS 2. Will Stevens Strakka +12.330s 3. Oliver Rowland Fortec +15.045s 4. Pierre Gasly Arden +15.888s 5. Norman Nato DAMS +23.181s 6. Jazeman Jaafar ISR +26.953s 7. Matias Laine Strakka +27.434s 8. Richie Stanaway Lotus +34.420s 9. Meindert van Buuren Pons Racing +45.751s 10. Marco Sorensen Tech 1 +45.937s 11. Marlon Stockinger Lotus +46.686s 12. Will Buller Arden +47.099s 13. Roberto Merhi Zeta Corse +57.776s 14. Beitske Visser AVF +1m02.128s 15. Oscar Tunjo Pons Racing +1m10.605s 16. Roman Mavlanov Zeta Corse +1m21.931s Retirements: Luca Ghiotto Draco 15 laps Sergey Sirotkin Fortec 6 laps Pietro Fantin Draco 0 laps Zoel Amber AVR 0 laps
| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Sunday, June 1st 2014, 13:07 GMT |
Marco Wittmann became the first two-time winner of the 2014 DTM season after cruising to an easy win for BMW at the Hungaroring.
While it was an action-packed race, none of the action involved the leader.
Wittmann started from pole on the option tyre, had more than 40 seconds up his sleeve over the best of the option-shod runner after the compulsory stops were completed, and ultimately claimed a comfortable and very straightforward 6.6s win over Audi's Miguel Molina.
"It was important to hold the gap [after the stops], and that's what happened," said Witmmann, who now leads the championship.
"It's a great result, our second win in the season - unbelievable."
Molina's race was similarly straightforward. Like Wittmann, he started on the option, and crucially managed to pass fellow option starters Antonio Felix da Costa and Timo Glock before the stops to grab second. From there, he could do enough to keep the second-stinters off his back, and claim a fine second.
"The car was good. P2 is a good result, after two difficult starts in the season," he said. "We deserve this podium."
Bruno Spengler was the best of the drivers who started on the harder rubber in third. The Canadian was already the best of the standard runners, which translated as 12th, before the stops.
Once on the softer rubber he barged his way through the field to claim third, helped somewhat in the latter stages when he faced little opposition from fellow BMW drivers da Costa and Glock.
Edoardo Mortara finished fourth after a race-long battle with Glock. The pair first made contact on lap 23, when Mortara successfully made a bump-and-run move on Glock through Turn 1.
But the battle raged on, the pair swapping paint numerous times right up until the last few laps. In the end, Mortara took the fourth spot, while Glock finished back in 19th after a last-lap clash with Nico Muller, who was trying to charge through on the softer tyres.
Adrien Tambay, Maxime Martin and Jamie Green finished fifth, sixth and seventh, the option-shod trio part of a messy closing stage of the race as they muscled past da Costa, who took his first DTM career points with eight.
Mattias Ekstrom came from nowhere on the soft tyre to grab ninth at the end, while Mike Rockenfeller took the last point on offer in 10th, having been in contention for fourth before the option runners showed up at the end.
Robert Wickens was the best-placed Mercedes, but despite an impressive drive, switching from option to standard, he could manage just 11th, one spot out of the points.
Still, he fared better than Paul di Resta (18th) and Gary Paffett, who retired on the first lap after copping a hit from Joey Hand.
Results - 41 laps: Pos Driver Team/Car Time/Gap 1. Marco Wittmann RMG BMW 1h08m35.291s 2. Miguel Molina Abt Audi +6.615s 3. Bruno Spengler Schnitzer BMW +21.842s 4. Edoardo Mortara Abt Audi +29.960s 5. Adrien Tambay Abt Audi +30.112s 6. Maxime Martin RMG BMW +30.357s 7. Jamie Green Rosberg Audi +34.403s 8. Antonio Felix da Costa MTEK BMW +34.560s 9. Mattias Ekstrom Abt Audi +34.826s 10. Mike Rockenfeller Phoenix Audi +36.017s 11. Robert Wickens HWA Mercedes +38.732s 12. Nico Muller Rosberg Audi +41.105s 13. Martin Tomczyk Schnitzer BMW +1m00.014s 14. Pascal Wehrlein HWA Mercedes +1m00.170s 15. Joey Hand RBM BMW +1m04.407s 16. Daniel Juncadella Mucke Mercedes +1m04.809s 17. Vitaly Petrov Mucke Mercedes +1m19.739s 18. Paul di Resta HWA Mercedes +1m25.635s 19. Timo Glock MTEK BMW +1m28.687s Retirements: Christian Vietoris HWA Mercedes 36 laps Augusto Farfus RBM BMW 31 laps Timo Scheider Phoenix Audi 10 laps Gary Paffett HWA Mercedes 1 lap
| By Mark Glendenning | Sunday, June 1st 2014, 14:55 GMT |
Takuma Sato will start the second of this weekend's IndyCar races in Detroit from pole position after triumphing in a dramatic qualifying session on Belle Isle on Sunday.
The second qualifying group, which included Sato, only had four minutes of green flag time at the end of their session due to a red flag.
With the circuit improving with every lap, there was a distinct advantage for those who managed to time final run properly, and Sato was one of several drivers to make substantial gains in the final few seconds.
The AJ Foyt driver's pole lap of 1m16.1371s beat what looked like a fairly strong benchmark of 1m16.3739s set by James Hinchcliffe from the first group.
Sato's success came at the expense of Helio Castroneves, who appeared to have secured a clean-sweep of poles for the weekend until the final moments, with Mike Conway set to join the Brazilian on the second row.
Graham Rahal, who finished a close second to Will Power on Saturday, opted to qualify on a set of scrubbed reds and save a new set for the race, a strategy that leaves him starting from 14th behind Justin Wilson.
But the real stories of the weekend are even further back, with the two most recent champions preparing to start from the last row.
Scott Dixon was well off the pace in the first group, while Ryan Hunter-Reay crashed heavily at the start of the second group's session, bringing out the red flags that set up the manic finish a few minutes later.
"It just snapped out and I couldn't catch it," said the Indy 500 winner. "Got caught out by the colder temps. Totally my fault."
Pos Driver Team/Engine Time 1. Takuma Sato Foyt/Honda 1m16.1371s Group 2 2. James Hinchcliffe Andretti/Honda 1m16.3739s Group 1 3. Helio Castroneves Penske/Chevy 1m16.3624s Group 2 4. Mike Conway Carpenter/Chevy 1m16.8580s Group 1 5. Ryan Briscoe Ganassi/Chevy 1m16.5382s Group 2 6. Carlos Munoz Andretti/Honda 1m16.9340s Group 1 7. Simon Pagenaud Schmidt/Honda 1m16.8539s Group 2 8. Will Power Penske/Chevy 1m17.0297s Round 1 9. Sebastian Saavedra KV/Chevy 1m17.0688s Group 2 10. Josef Newgarden Fisher/Honda 1m17.1310s Group 1 11. Sebastien Bourdais KV/Chevy 1m17.1155s Group 2 12. Carlos Huertas Coyne/Honda 1m17.4651s Group 1 13. Justin Wilson Coyne/Honda 1m17.1660s Group 2 14. Graham Rahal Rahal/Honda 1m17.5948s Group 1 15. Juan Pablo Montoya Penske/Chevy 1m17.2979s Group 2 16. Mikhail Aleshin Schmidt/Honda 1m18.1119s Group 1 17. Tony Kanaan Ganassi/Chevy 1m17.3386s Group 2 18. Marco Andretti Andretti/Honda 1m18.1820s Group 1 19. Jack Hawksworth Herta/Honda 1m17.4172s Group 2 20. Charlie Kimball Ganassi/Chevy 1m18.1871s Group 1 21. Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti/Honda No time Group 2 22. Scott Dixon Ganassi/Chevy 1m19.4557s Group 1 All drivers use Dallara chassis
| By Ben Anderson | Friday, May 30th 2014, 14:16 GMT |
Simona de Silvestro says she has encountered no gender discrimination in motorsport during her rise to a Formula 1 role with Sauber.
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