Analysis: Where Piastri found his F1 Dutch GP pole advantage

The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Playoffs opened with yet another victory by championship favorites Corey Heim and the Tricon Garage No. 11 on Saturday at Darlington while other favorites suffered through a variety of attrition along the way.Chandler Smith entered as the third seed, 16 points above the cutline, but hit the wall racing for the lead in the opening stages. His truck was broken ...Keep reading

The NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series Playoffs opened with yet another victory by championship favorites Corey Heim and the Tricon Garage No. 11 on Saturday at Darlington while other favorites suffered through a variety of attrition along the way.Chandler Smith entered as the third seed, 16 points above the cutline, but hit the wall racing for the lead in the opening stages. His truck was broken ...Keep reading

Pato O'Ward might not be able to take home the NTT IndyCar Series title this year. But with the runner-up championship result in hand, the Mexican star has a new accomplishment to chase in the season finale at Nashville Superspeedway.“I’ve never won a race from pole,” O’Ward said Saturday. “That’s on my to-do list this weekend.”O’Ward laid down a two-lap qualifying time of ...Keep reading

Timmy Hill has been racing at the national level of NASCAR since 2011, and he's always been a driver who tries to do a lot with very little resources.Since then, he has started 143 Cup, 243 Xfinity, and 117 Truck races. He currently competes as a driver/owner with Hill Motorsports, a race team that consists of the following full-time employees: Terry Elmore (crew chief), 'Big Jim' Marks, and ...Keep reading

Mercedes' Toto Wolff has suggested McLaren should "let it roll" as Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri fight for the drivers' title, but team principal Andrea Stella has set out the difference between equal opportunities and unregulated freedom.McLaren delivered its second front row lockout in three race weekends in the Netherlands, with Piastri getting the better of title rival Norris by just ...Keep reading

M-Sport Ford’s double Rally Paraguay retirement was caused by the same piece of bedrock, according to team principal Richard Millener.The World Rally Championship squad were dealt a cruel blow on Saturday morning as the pair of Ford Pumas driven by Josh McErlean and Gregoire Munster were forced into retirement with identical problems.It appears a piece of bedrock in the Carmen del ...Keep reading

M-Sport Ford’s double Rally Paraguay retirement was caused by the same piece of bedrock, according to team principal Richard Millener.The World Rally Championship squad were dealt a cruel blow on Saturday morning as the pair of Ford Pumas driven by Josh McErlean and Gregoire Munster were forced into retirement with identical problems.It appears a piece of bedrock in the Carmen del ...Keep reading

Mercedes' Toto Wolff has suggested McLaren should "let it roll" as Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri fight for the drivers' title, but team principal Andrea Stella has set out the difference between equal opportunities and unregulated freedom.McLaren delivered its second front row lockout in three race weekends in the Netherlands, with Piastri getting the better of title rival Norris by just ...Keep reading

M-Sport Ford’s double Rally Paraguay retirement was caused by the same piece of bedrock, according to team principal Richard Millener.The World Rally Championship squad were dealt a cruel blow on Saturday morning as the pair of Ford Pumas driven by Josh McErlean and Gregoire Munster were forced into retirement with identical problems.It appears a piece of bedrock in the Carmen del ...Keep reading

It was 'Heim Time' once again as the NASCAR Truck Playoffs began at Darlington. Earning his eighth win of the 2025 season, Corey Heim has already guaranteed his advancement into the next round.Heim has now won four of the last five Truck races on the schedule, and the TRICON driver has already reached 19 career victories."I felt like the No. 34 [Riggs] and the No. 38 [Smith] were really ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli reckons his incident in opening practice for the Dutch Grand Prix was the root cause of his poor qualifying result.The 19-year-old only qualified 11th at Zandvoort, after understeering off at Turn 9 in FP1 which beached his Mercedes in the gravel and brought an early end to his session.Team-mate George Russell qualified fifth, meanwhile, so ...Keep reading

Mercedes Formula 1 rookie Andrea Kimi Antonelli reckons his incident in opening practice for the Dutch Grand Prix was the root cause of his poor qualifying result.The 19-year-old only qualified 11th at Zandvoort, after understeering off at Turn 9 in FP1 which beached his Mercedes in the gravel and brought an early end to his session.Team-mate George Russell qualified fifth, meanwhile, so ...Keep reading

Alex Albon cut a very frustrated figure after qualifying for the Dutch Grand Prix after struggling to manage tyre temperature on his Williams Formula 1 car.Albon suffered a Q2 elimination as he qualified 15th for Sunday’s grand prix at Zandvoort, while team-mate Carlos Sainz progressed to Q3 with ninth.The Thai-Briton immediately reacted by saying “no tyres at all, why do we do this to ...Keep reading

Christian Horner contacted Toto Wolff after his shock Red Bull F1 exit

Tom Chilton led Tom Ingram to a Hyundai 1-2 in wet qualifying for the British Touring Car Championship round at the Donington Park Grand Prix circuit.Conditions deteriorated during the second phase of qualifying, so that everyone took to the track on wet-weather Goodyears in the Quick Six shootout.It resulted in Chilton’s Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N Fastback beating the sister car ...Keep reading

Toprak Razgatlioglu should have made one key decision differently, he is told

Ott Tanak’s World Rally Championship title bid suffered a blow as a puncture derailed his Rally Paraguay victory hopes, while Kalle Rovanpera began to pull clear at the front.Toyota’s Rovanpera benefitted from Tanak’s woes as the Finn completed Saturday morning’s four stages with a 16.7s lead over Hyundai’s Adrien Fourmaux, while Sebastien Ogier climbed to third [+17.2s].WRC ...Keep reading

Oscar Piastri pulled something special out of the bag to edge out pre-qualifying favourite Lando Norris and claim pole at Zandvoort.