Indholdsfortegnelse for 23/05/24 i Autosport

A tougher test for Verstappen with more yet to come?

It wasn’t a classic, at least not for the first hour. But if a race can be judged on the finish, then the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix was one of the better Formula 1 events of 2024 so far. As Jake Boxall-Legge shows in our report (p14), a combination of Red Bull getting its sums slightly wrong on the hard tyre, McLaren’s new-found pace, and some fine work by Lando Norris made the final stages at Imola tense. Yes, Max Verstappen won again, but this time he really had to work for it. Given the team’s struggles last Friday and Sergio Perez’s performance, was this one of Verstappen’s better wins? The upgraded Ferrari SF-24 (see p25) also wasn’t too far behind. The next stop is Monaco, where home hero Charles…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Albon pledges future to Williams with new contract extension

FORMULA 1 The Williams Formula 1 team has tied down Alex Albon to a multi-year contract extension until at least the end of 2026. Albon’s previous Williams deal was due to end next year, but his excellent 2023 form for the team made him a left-field player in the ongoing silly season. Now the 28-year-old’s pledging of his future to the Grove squad has taken him off the market. “This is a long-term project that I really believe in and want to play a key role in, which is why I have signed a multi-year contract,” he said. Team boss James Vowles was pleased to secure his lead driver for the foreseeable future as he continues to put the building blocks in place for Williams’s recovery plan. “He has exceptional…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Exclusion and race ban hit new McLaren juniors

FORMULA 3 McLaren has recruited highly rated Formula 3 rookies Alex Dunne and Martinius Stenshorne to its driver development programme, but no sooner had this been announced than they both hit dramas in their 2024 campaigns. Irishman Dunne, who made a sensational F3 debut at last November’s Macau Grand Prix after finishing as 2023 GB3 runner-up, qualified fifth at Imola last Friday. But the 18-year-old’s MP Motorsport car was banished to the back of the 30-car grid for both races when it was found to have ‘a non-conformity with the front anti-roll bar links’, believed to be a simple case of parts intended for the rear being used. From there, he recovered to 14th and 16th positions in the two races. Norwegian Stenshorne’s setback came even sooner. The 18-year-old, who…

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Autosport|23/05/24

THREE-CYLINDER ENGINES MAKE ‘OLD F3’ DEBUT

SUPER FORMULA LIGHTS Japan’s Super Formula Lights series kicked off its spec engine era with last weekend’s delayed opening round at Autopolis. The second-tier Japanese series has switched to a new one-make, TOM’S-built 1.6-litre turbocharged three-cylinder unit, replacing the old two-litre normally aspirated formula. Also making its debut was the Dallara 324, an update of the 320 chassis produced for SF Lights and Euroformula Open to keep the spirit of ‘traditional’ F3 alive. Changes include a new engine cover with a more conventional air intake above the driver’s head, without the side-mounted airbox of old, and revised sidepods. Additionally, Kumho has taken over as the tyre supplier following Hankook’s withdrawal in the wake of the plant fire that curtailed its involvement in Japanese motorsport. SF Lights’ intended Motegi opener last…

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Autosport|23/05/24

When Max Mosley came calling

Today, Thursday 23 May, is the third anniversary of the passing of Max Mosley. While the youngsters hopefully reading this – probably some of my recent Formula 4 drivers! – possibly will not know of him, many other people will remember him, but not necessarily solely for good reasons. Max courted controversy because of his upbringing, his family and his absolute self-belief. He was extremely intelligent, did not suffer fools lightly, and he made that very clear. He would have made a great politician, because he could debate better than anyone. But he chose to use his skills in the motorsport world, and we should be thankful for that. As team principal of the March Formula 1 team in the 1970s, he became pals with a certain Bernie Ecclestone, owner…

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Autosport|23/05/24

TRACKSIDE VIEW

To reach Acque Minerali, you actually have to walk up a slight hill. It’s counterintuitive, but that’s the nature of the undulating Imola course. It’s one of F1’s classic venues, wrapped in parkland, with a thin ribbon of Tarmac weaving between trees along the back end of the circuit. Why Acque Minerali? The worthy answer is that there are three distinct phases that we get to watch here: how each driver exits Piratella and meanders down the hill, determine how each car is sprung as they reach the compression at the bottom, and how much rear-end downforce they have on the corner exit. In reality, we’re here it’s because it’s shaded and it’s a sunny day. FP1 opens, with a variety of cars carrying aero rakeage and other measuring devices,…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Stroll scores for Aston amid Alonso disaster

With Fernando Alonso’s Imola race a glorified test session from the pits, Lance Stroll led the line for Aston Martin. He qualified only 13th, and Stroll felt that Aston’s introduction of an updated floor, front wing and diffuser at Imola wasn’t enough to “catch those teams further up”. He could not make any inroads at the start, so ran long on the medium rubber before using his hard tyre life offset to overtake Valtteri Bottas, Daniel Ricciardo, Nico Hulkenberg and Yuki Tsunoda in the second stint. Alonso’s FP3 Rivazza 2 crash meant having his gearbox and engine swapped for pool parts and missing the start of Q1. There he was eliminated after another off exiting Tamburello that caused floor damage and confusion about his fuel load. Alonso started on soft…

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Autosport|23/05/24

DRAWING BOARD

FERRARI UPGRADES ARRIVE BUT REMAIN UNPROVEN… Ferrari’s biggest upgrade package of the season so far had been teased with a series of spy shots from a Fiorano shakedown, before debuting at Imola. A series of bodywork changes set off by a reprofiling of the sidepod inlet were matched by changes to the floor and wings, as the Prancing Horse hoped to match McLaren’s push for performance over 2024 and start pressuring Red Bull. The sidepod inlet now features an overbite, a la Red Bull’s and McLaren’s designs, and the vertical inlet below has now been incorporated into the opening. As a result, the undercut around the sidepod is more pronounced, and the cooling outlets over the engine cover have received detail changes too. Viewing the car from face on, Ferrari…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Meguetounif gets mega tune of Marseillaise

FORMULA 3 IMOLA (ITA) 18-19 MAY ROUND 3/10 Luke Browning lost his grip on the F3 championship battle at Imola while continuing the worrying statistic of failing to register a point in any sprint race this season. But it was better news for Oliver Goethe and Sami Meguetounif who took their first victories, meaning there is still yet to be a repeat winner in 2024. Bernd Maylander led the majority of the Saturday sprint race, his Mercedes safety car sent onto the track on four occasions. Reversed-grid polesitter Kaper Sztuka was quickly thrust down the order and out of the podium places, with Noel Leon moving in front from Tim Tramnitz and sixth-placed starter Goethe. But the action was quickly frozen after Mari Boya spun into the gravel at the…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Makino and Dandelion flower at last

SUPER FORMULA AUTOPOLIS (JPN) 19 MAY ROUND 2/7 Tadasuke Makino finally ended an agonising wait for his first Super Formula win in last weekend’s second round of the season at Autopolis. Now in his sixth season in the Japanese series and with six previous podium finishes to his name, Dandelion Racing driver Makino earned victory at his 39th attempt in dominant style as the season resumed after a two-month interval since the opener at Suzuka in March. From second on the grid, Makino got the jump on poleman and fellow FIA F2 race winner Ayumu Iwasa at the start, and was able to open up a comfortable lead as the Team Mugen car of Iwasa dropped to third and got held up by the slower Nakajima Racing machine of Naoki…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Logano wins $1m before punch-up

NASCAR ALL-STAR RACE NORTH WILKESBORO (USA) 19 MAY Joey Logano’s dominant win in Sunday night’s NASCAR All-Star Race left little doubt, but a post-race brawl in the garage provided plenty of drama at North Wilkesboro Speedway. Logano capped an impressive day for Team Penske by leading 199 of 200 laps, and his Ford held off a late charge from the Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota of Denny Hamlin to win the $1million event for the second time in his career. The victory came hours after team owner Roger Penske’s IndyCar drivers swept the front row for the Indianapolis 500. Logano has yet to win a NASCAR Cup race this season, and it had been over a year since his most recent victory. “I wish this one counted for points, but a…

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Autosport|23/05/24

WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR IN THE INDY 500

LARSON: 1100 MILES IN ONE DAY There are very few things that Kyle Larson hasn’t experienced in motorsport. He has long been notorious for bouncing from his main focus in the NASCAR Cup to various dirt tracks across the country to race late models, midgets or sprint cars. Now he adds IndyCar to his CV with the 108th running of the Indianapolis 500 on 26 May. The 2021 NASCAR Cup champion will be driving the Chevrolet-powered #17 entry that is co-entered by Arrow McLaren and Rick Hendrick, for whom Larson drives in NASCAR. At 31, he is the fifth driver to attempt ‘The Double’, competing in the Indy 500 and the 600-mile Cup race at Charlotte Motor Speedway on the same day. The last to do that was Kurt Busch…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Silverstone plans GP circuit date for smaller clubs

SILVERSTONE Silverstone is planning to run a two-day event on its Grand Prix circuit next year at which smaller clubs will be able to buy track time. The Northamptonshire venue intended to adopt a similar concept for a one-day meeting on the GP layout earlier this month, but was unable to fill the track time at relatively short notice so instead promoted three poorly supported Allcomers races. These sat alongside Historic Sports Car Club Classic Formula Ford and Derek Bell Trophy races on a short timetable. Now, with costs of hiring the GP circuit having increased significantly, Silverstone is planning to run a race weekend in 2025 for clubs unable or unwilling to commit to a full day. “We’ve had some enquiries and would like a mix of different content,”…

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Autosport|23/05/24

HAYWARD ENJOYS A WINNING RETURN IN CLUBMANS

CLUBMANS Former Clubmans champion Michelle Hayward enjoyed a winning return to racing at Donington Park earlier this month on her first weekend back following cancer treatment. Hayward won the CSP2 title in 2018, 2021 and 2022 before stepping up to the top CSP1 division last year. But she had to miss April’s season-opener at Silverstone while she recovered from surgery, with Tom Commander instead piloting the upgraded Phantom P82TR. Hayward was instantly on the pace upon her return in Leicestershire, qualifying on pole and winning the opener. “I’m totally stoked for getting back after everything I’ve been through and to put it on pole and win my first race – I’m chuffed to bits,” said Hayward, who added that the off-season tweaks had made a significant difference. “Last year, we…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Ex-Henton March 782 undergoes shakedown ahead of Zandvoort

HISTORIC F2 Historic Formula 2 racer Mark Charteris has targeted next month’s big Zandvoort event for the debut of his ex-Brian Henton March-Hart 782 following a post-restoration shakedown on Silverstone’s National circuit last Friday. Charteris reimported chassis 23 from South Africa in 2022, and entrusted its rebuild to Richard Evans, who previously restored the ex-Project Four Racing/Eddie Cheever BMW-engined 782 he found in the US and shares with Andy Smith. Henton bought his car for 1978, finishing fifth at the Nurburgring and sixth at Enna-Pergusa. Signed by Toleman Group Motorsport alongside Rad Dougall for 1979, he raced the March – repaired after a clash with Cheever at Hockenheim – at the Argentinian Temporada races. The Briton retained the 782 for 1979, and raced it, with ramped sidepods, to second on…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Formula Vee action headlines 750MC event

SILVERSTONE 750MC 18-19 MAY It was a weekend of contrasting fortunes for Matt Harbot, who bounced back from mechanical dramas to claim his second Formula Vee victory during the 750 Motor Club meeting at Silverstone. The Volkswagen-based single-seater series boasted a strong 33-car field for its first visit to Silverstone’s National circuit in 12 years. On his first appearance of the season, three-time champion Martin Farmer was unable to beat his own lap record from 2012 but still recorded a superb triumph from 12th on the grid in Saturday’s contest. Farmer avoided a first-lap melee that eliminated several drivers, including championship contender Ben Cressey, to climb to sixth in his GAC. After making up four more places over the next two laps, he snatched the lead into Brooklands from Harbot,…

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Autosport|23/05/24

WEEKEND WINNERS

CIVIC CUP Races 1 & 3 Josh Files (EP3) Race 2 Max Edmundson (EP3) AUDI TT CUP Races 1 & 2 Carl Swift Race 3 Steve Foden TCR UK Races 1 & 3 Adam Shepherd (Cupra Leon TCR) Race 2 Brad Hutchison (Cupra Leon TCR) MINI SE7EN Race 1 Joe Thompson Race 2 Ross Billison MINI MIGLIA Race 1 Kane Astin Race 2 Aaron Smith FIESTA JUNIOR Race 1 Jenson Mason (Mk7 Zetec S) Race 2 Finn Leslie (Mk7 Zetec S) FIESTA ST240 Races 1 & 2 Alastair Kellett (below) Race 3 John Cooper ZEO PROTOTYPE Races 1 & 2 Mike Jenvey (Jenvey Gunn TS6) MG METRO CUP Race 1 Robbie Kenning Race 2 Mike Williams For full results visit: tsl-timing.com…

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WEEKEND WINNERS

THRUXTON BMWs/OPEN SERIES Races 1 & 2 Graham Crowhurst (M3 E46) JAGUAR CHAMPIONSHIP/MG TROPHY Races 1 & 2 Colin Philpott (XJS) SLICKS SERIES Jamie Sturges (Cupra Competicion TCR) SPECIAL SALOONS & MODSPORTS/FUTURE CLASSICS Races 1 & 2 Andy Southcott (MG Lenham Midget-Vauxhall) MODERN CLASSICS/TIN TOPS/PUMA CUP Stuart Daburn (TVR Tuscan Challenge) MAGNIFICENT SEVENS Stephen Collins (Caterham C400) OULTON PARK EQUIPE LIBRE Tom Smith (Lotus Elan) EQUIPE GTS Simon Cripps (MGB Roadster) EQUIPE F2 ATLANTIC Races 1 & 2 Tom Smith (March 74B, below) EQUIPE LIBRE PLUS WITH BCV8s Neil Fowler/Russell McCarthy (B GT V8) EQUIPE MG CUP Races 1 & 2 Stuart Tranter (Rover 220 Turbo Tomcat) For full results visit: tsl-timing.com…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Blackburn and Greenan among the Bishopscourt stars

BISHOPSCOURT BARC 18-19 MAY Garry Manning and his team put on a superb weekend of motorsport action at the annual Bishopscourt Motor Races in County Down last weekend. The event has become a favourite of many classes, but a date change early in the year – owed to the movement of the North West 200 bike race – prevented it from attracting some of the bigger grids that have been seen in recent years. Nevertheless, the on-track action and value for those who made the trip was clear for all to see, with the Irish Formula Vee Championship putting on a superb display of close racing throughout the field on Sunday. Colm Blackburn put his Leastone on the top spot in qualifying for both races, which he successfully converted into…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Double delight for the HSCC’s Wolds winners

CADWELL PARK HSCC 18-19 MAY Double single-seater victories for Jon Milicevic, Samuel Harrison and Benn Simms topped the Historic Sports Car Club’s annual trek to Lincolnshire for the Wolds Trophy. On a weekend of repeat winners, Milicevic had to work hard in the opening Historic Formula 3 counter as Peter de la Roche mounted a strong challenge. However, when the Alexis faltered, Milicevic’s Brabham BT21B was away and gone. Harrison, too, had his rivals, notably Ben Glasswell – who was flying in the opening FF2000 race before he put a wheel wide at Charlie’s and spun into the wall. Instead, Graham Fennymore took up the chase of the young Yorkshireman. Simms stepped back to Historic FF1600 for the weekend, accompanied by his rival and mate Callum Grant. The two triple…

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Autosport|23/05/24

The rise and rise of a superteam

BOOK REVIEW GROWING WINGS: THE INSIDE STORY OF RED BULL RACING Ben Hunt RRP: £22 When you trace the lineage of each of the 10 current Formula 1 teams, Red Bull remains the second youngest – it joined the grid as Stewart Grand Prix in 1997 before evolving into Jaguar in 2000 and then its current guise in 2005. The only team that’s younger is Haas, which made its debut in 2016. It is through this prism that Red Bull’s success must be gauged. To date it has taken 118 race wins, 102 pole positions, six constructors’ titles and seven drivers’ crowns. For a team that had topped the podium just once in its first 134 attempts, achieving what it has in the subsequent 377 grands prix is a staggering…

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Autosport|23/05/24

McLaughlin heads Penske clean sweep

INDIANAPOLIS 500 Scott McLaughlin delivered a memorable record-setting run last Sunday to claim pole position for this weekend’s 108th running of the Indianapolis 500. And while the lights shone on a magical moment for the New Zealander, it was also a remarkable performance for Team Penske with a sweep of the front row – something done only one other time by the team, in 1988. McLaughlin, driving Penske’s #3 Chevrolet-powered entry, was the last of the drivers in the Fast Six to go out and nailed an opening lap of 234.526mph before tallying a four-lap average of 234.220mph – the fastest pole in Indy 500 history – to take the top spot from team-mates Will Power and Josef Newgarden. It is the seventh pole of McLaughlin’s IndyCar career, and Penske’s…

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Autosport|23/05/24

FORMULA 1

Four-time world champion and F1 history buff Sebastian Vettel drove his 1993 ex-Ayrton Senna McLaren MP4/8 around Imola last Sunday before the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix to pay tribute to the triple F1 title winner and Roland Ratzenberger, who lost their lives at the track 30 years ago. While doing so, he brandished the flags of their respective Brazilian and Austrian nations. HYBRID DEBUT AT MID-OHIO IndyCar has named the 7 July Mid-Ohio round as the competition debut for its much-delayed hybrid system. The hybrid will be used in conjunction with the existing push-to-pass facility, but with a limit on usage based on lap length. It means that IndyCar machinery can access over 800bhp for the first time in two decades, while “additional horsepower is expected in the coming years…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Consistency puts British pair into Euro series lead

GT4 EUROPEAN British youngsters Tom Lebbon and Josh Rattican have moved to the top of the GT4 European Series after the opening two double-headers. Singleseater convert Lebbon and British GT graduate Rattican added a third and fourth at Misano last weekend to their second and third from Paul Ricard. The pair are driving a McLaren Artura GT4 fielded by Elite Motorsport, the team with which Lebbon won the 2020 Ginetta Junior title and fielded Rattican to the runner-up slot in the 2021 Ginetta GT4 Supercup. They fended off a challenge from a brace of Porsches to complete the podium at the Misano opener, won by the Mercedes of Lluc Ibanez and Alexandre Papadopulos. In the second race, early contact from Lebbon with a Porsche enabled the sister Elite McLaren of…

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Autosport|23/05/24

F1 MONACO GRAND PRIX PREVIEW

Monaco Length 2.074 miles Number of laps 78 UK START TIMES Friday 24 May FP1 1230 FP2 1600 Saturday 25 May FP3 1130 QUALIFYING 1500 Sunday 26 May RACE 1400 CATCH THE RACE LIVE SKY SPORTS F1 BBC RADIO 5 LIVE TV Highlights CHANNEL 4 1830 TYRE ALLOCATION CHAMPIONSHIP POSITIONS Drivers Constructors MONACO STATS Previous winners 2023 POLE POSITION Max Verstappen 1m11.365s POLE LAP RECORD Lewis Hamilton 1m10.166s (2019) RACE LAP RECORD Lewis Hamilton 1m12.909s (2021) Monaco podiums…

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Autosport|23/05/24

MAX PASSES LANDO’S LATE IMOLA TEST

If this year’s edition of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix had been held last season, Max Verstappen’s victory from pole position at a circuit notoriously difficult to overtake on would have been a foregone conclusion. Even in races where a Red Bull’s usual prodigious pace had been missed, Verstappen could be expected to control the race from the front lines. It looked certain to go that way in the first 44 laps at Imola. Verstappen was 7.4 seconds clear of Lando Norris, the McLaren driver struggling for pace on the hard tyres and just about repelling Charles Leclerc’s DRS-assisted overtures for second place. The gap to the front had been growing; not at a particularly rapid rate, but enough for Verstappen to look reasonably secure. But there was a sudden…

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Autosport|23/05/24

MERCEDES INSISTS PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE DESPITE MEDIOCRE SHOWING

Mercedes was left insisting that it had made progress with its W15 at Imola, despite Lewis Hamilton and George Russell gaining just one place between them and scoring sixth and seventh respectively in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. Russell started sixth while, behind him, Yuki Tsunoda’s RB headed Hamilton on row four. Hamilton gained seventh immediately off the line with RB’s start problem, then ran just behind Russell until the lead Mercedes was the first frontrunner to pit on lap 21 of 63. This would have consequences for Russell later on, because Hamilton stopped six laps later and gained a big tyre life advantage. The pair eventually repassed the yet-to-pit Lance Stroll and Sergio Perez, running a chunk down on Carlos Sainz. Sixth looked to be Russell’s finishing position, but…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Q&A

ALEX ALBON WILLIAMS DRIVER What happened at the first pitstop with your loose right front? I didn’t feel it coming down the pits, but as soon as I took the pit limiter off there was a vibration and I could tell something was wrong. Did you feel it was safe to drive back to the pits? Yeah. Because it was still attached. I think if I felt… when I was turning around corners you could see if the tyre was going to fall off. But it would only go to a point and stop. I could see it was quite safe. There was only about 10mm of movement on the tyre. So, was the race a test session after that? Yeah, exactly. We were just trying some stuff – trying…

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Autosport|23/05/24

EMILIA ROMAGNA GP DRIVER RATINGS

RED BULL MAX VERSTAPPEN Started 1st -----------------Result 1st 8 Without lucky tow behind Hulkenberg, he’d have been outqualified by both McLarens. Had Norris licked in first stint, but track limits abuse was careless. Lost tyre performance window as hard tyres wore and cooled, and was nearly caught by Norris. Did well to see off the McLaren’s charge. SERGIO PEREZ Started 11th ---------Result 8th 3 Many poor things, but Tosa Q2 slide must go down as a massive error. Also crashed in FP3, was slow in Q1 so wasted a set of soft tyres, and lost 5s with Rivazza 1 off during the race. Did outdrag Ricciardo at the start, but just lacked pace on both hard rubber and medium. MERCEDES LEWIS HAMILTON Started 8th --------------Result 6th 5 Outqualified by Tsunoda’s RB, which marks…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Rossi flourishes on four wheels in WRT BMW 1-2

GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE SPRINT CUP MISANO (ITA) 18 MAY ROUND 2/5 Hopeful they came, delirious they left. The omnipresent Valentino Rossi fans had much to celebrate last Saturday at Misano as their hero drove the best race of his short four-wheeled career to take a second GT3 win and underline his vastly improved car-racing prowess. On one hand, it looked easy: Maxime Martin started the Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 from pole, led his stint and relayed Rossi for the win. Simple. The truth was more nuanced. For a start, their BMW wasn’t necessarily the fastest – pole had initially gone to the sister car of Dries Vanthoor, only for the Belgian to be one of myriad drivers to be penalised for track-limit violations. Vanthoor slumped to sixth and…

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WEEKEND WINNERS

GT WORLD CHALLENGE EUROPE SPRINT CUP MISANO (ITA) Race 1 Maxime Martin/Valentino Rossi Team WRT (BMW M4 GT3) Race 2 Dries Vanthoor/Charles Weerts Team WRT (BMW M4 GT3) PORSCHE SUPERCUP IMOLA (ITA) Larry ten Voorde CLRT SUPER FORMULA AUTOPOLIS (JPN) Tadasuke Makino Dandelion Racing (Dallara-Honda) GT4 EUROPEAN SERIES MISANO (ITA) Race 1 Lluc Ibanez/Alexandre Papadopulos NM Racing Team (Mercedes-AMG GT4) Race 2 Ricardo van der Ende/Benjamin Lessennes L’Espace Bienvenue (BMW M4 GT4) SUPER FORMULA LIGHTS AUTOPOLIS (JPN) Races 1 & 3 Seita Nonaka TOM’S Race 2 Syun Koide B-Max Racing Team POWERED BY For full results visit motorsportstats.com…

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WEEKEND WINNERS

AUSTRALIAN SUPERCARS WANNEROO (AUS) Race 1 Chaz Mostert Walkinshaw Andretti United (Ford Mustang) Race 2 Cameron Waters Tickford Racing (Ford Mustang) NASCAR ALL-STAR RACE NORTH WILKESBORO (USA) Joey Logano Team Penske (Ford Mustang) EUROCUP-3 RED BULL RING (A UT) Race 1 Owen Tangavelou MP Motorsport Race 2 Bruno del Pino MP Motorsport BRAZILIAN STOCK CARS CASCAVEL (BRA) Race 1 Eduardo Barrichello Full Time Sports (Toyota Corolla) Race 2 Bruno Baptista RCM Motorsport (Toyota Corolla) POWERED BY For full results visit motorsportstats.com…

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Autosport|23/05/24

New Cayman RS gives drivers more bite

PORSCHE SPRINT CHALLENGE GB Porsche Sprint Challenge GB frontrunner Max Coates says the new RS version of the 718 Cayman GT4 being introduced to the series from its season-opening round this weekend is an “awesome” car to drive and a major step forward on its predecessor. This year’s 22-strong Sprint Challenge grid will feature a mixture of RS and older Clubsport versions of the Cayman. Coates – the highest-placed driver continuing from last year after finishing third in the standings – is among an expected 14 RS entries for Snetterton’s curtain-raiser. The RS is a substantially upgraded car and features a four-litre engine that produces 75bhp more than the 3.8-litre motor of the earlier Cayman, while it also boasts a seven-speed rather than six-speed gearbox and improved aerodynamics. Coates, who…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Disabled drivers secure scholarship

MOTORSPORT UK A record number of disabled drivers took part in a special Motorsport UK StreetCar scholarship event at Bicester Motion earlier this month, with four of them securing fully funded seasons for competing in autosolos. Sixteen drivers were involved in the shootout, organised in collaboration with Loughborough Car Club. Dean Linnell, Dominic Pearson, Ian Dance and Luke Delahunty were successful and will each contest autosolos with a StreetCar-affiliated club in their local area, and they will all have access to a specially adapted car. “It’s incredibly important to us here at Motorsport UK that we are able to diversify and improve accessibility for drivers to come along and try our sport,” said Motorsport UK CEO Hugh Chambers.…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Higgins realises boyhood TR7 dream on Manx

HISTORIC RALLYING Three-time British Rally champion Mark Higgins recently lived out a boyhood dream by tackling his native Manx Rally in a Triumph TR7 V8 like Tony Pond used to drive – and he almost came away with a victory. After several years away from rallying to focus on his new career as a movie stunt driver, and claim a British Rallycross title in 2018, Higgins is competing in the British Historic Rally Championship this year in the David Appleby Engineering TR7 used by current BRC leader Chris Ingram on last November’s Roger Albert Clark Rally. Higgins, who has won the Manx Rally five times in four different cars, is the only driver to win the famous island event more times than the late Pond, who secured four Manx victories…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Equipe 50s series gets standalone grids

EQUIPE 50s Equipe Classic Racing organisers have decided to run standalone grids for their 50s series, which will begin next month at Silverstone. The 50s series was launched during the 2020 season but quickly lost momentum due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with cars for the category placed alongside Pre-’63 machines on the same grid. With numbers having grown over the past four years, and after consultation with drivers, the decision has been taken to move back to standalone races, beginning with the Silverstone event on 8-9 June. Equipe partner Rob Cull said: “The 1950s produced some of the most iconic racing cars that deliver close and exciting racing. We think these standalone races will give some great racing with an emphasis on competitive yet high driving standards.” Cars run on…

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WEEKEND WINNERS

FORMULA VEE Race 1 Martin Farmer (GAC Vee) Race 2 Matt Harbot (AHS Dominator) TOYOTA MR2s Race 1 Adam Lockwood (Roadster) Race 2 Shaun Traynor (Roadster) SPORTS 1000/CUP 200 Race 1 Ryan Yarrow (Spire GT-3) Race 2 Rich Miles (Spire GT-3) BIKESPORTS Race 1 Steven Larkham (Radical PR6) Race 2 Leon Morrell (Radical SR3 RSX) MIGHTY MINIS Race 1 David Kirkpatrick (Super) Race 2 Neven Kirkpatrick (Super) 116 TROPHY Mack Priestwood 116 SPRINT TROPHY/120 COUPE CUP Races 1 & 2 Anthony Seddon (120i) CLASSIC STOCK HATCH Race 1 Stewart Place (Peugeot 205 GTI) Race 2 Jason Wood (Vauxhall Nova GTE) LOCOST Races 1 & 2 Daniel Garrett ALFA ROMEOS Race 1 Jamie Thwaites (Giulietta, below) Race 2 Steve Deeks (4C) ROADSPORTS Scott Parkin (Audi TT) For full results visit: tsl-timing.com…

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Autosport|23/05/24

JENVEY STILL A TOP GUNN AS HE REACHES WIN 76

Zeo Prototype stalwart Mike Jenvey scored the 75th and 76th race victories of his career with a double success aboard his self-developed Jenvey Gunn TS6 at Snetterton. In a national racing landscape littered with one-make categories, Zeo provides a relatively rare opportunity for innovative engineering to create some of the fastest machinery seen regularly on British circuits. Jenvey’s 101mph Snetterton pole lap was quicker than every GT3 Am drivers’ qualifying time at last year’s British GT event and beaten by only six of the 19 Pro racers. It was on a par with LMP3 Cup pace when it visited in 2017-18. The Jenvey Gunn is a decade-plus development of the two-litre Duratecengined Gunn TS6 in which the two-time Formula Vee champion won Sports 2000 titles in 2009 and 2012, before…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Leaders in trouble as Equipe races are endurance tests

OULTON PARK EQUIPE 18 MAY It was a day of difficulties at the front when Oulton Park was swarmed by cars of the 1960s and 1970s as part of the Equipe Classic Racing event on Saturday. The most surprising victim came in what was set up to be a thrilling final 20 minutes of the 40-minute Libre race between the brutish power of Danny Winstanley’s Jaguar E-type and Tom Smith’s nimble Lotus Elan. Winstanley had built a lead of around seven seconds from pole ahead of the pit window, but what Smith described as the “pure racing” nature of his Elan had kept him well within touching distance. Pitting earlier was key to Smith’s race plan, particularly as a swathe of backmarkers sat between him and the E-type, and after…

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Autosport|23/05/24

WEEKEND WINNERS

MALLORY PARK CTCRC PRE-’93/PRE-’03 TOURING CARS & BLUE OVAL SALOONS Race 1 Piers Grange (Ford Escort Mk2) Race 2 Olly Allen (Ford Fiesta Mk6) CTCRC PRE-’83 GROUP 1 TOURING CARS Race 1 Stephen Primett (Ford Escort Mk1) Race 2 Jonathan Corker (Datsun 510) COUPE CUP Races 1 & 2 Daniel Munro 500 OWNERS’ ASSOCIATION Races 1 & 2 Alex Wilson (Cooper Mk10) BRSCC SUPER CLASSIC PRE-’99 FORMULA FORD 1600 Races 1 & 2 Tom Hawkins (Swift SC95) MG OWNERS’ CLUB Races 1 & 2 Steve McDermid (ZR 170) CTCRC PRE-’66 TOURING CARS Races 1 & 2 Dan Lewis (Austin Mini Cooper S) CTCRC CLASSIC THUNDER Race 1 Nick Vaughan (Audi A3) Race 2 Colin Voyce (Ford Escort) CMMCS INTERMARQUE SILHOUETTES Race 1 Paul Knight (Vauxhall Tigra) Race 2 Colin Smith…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Mini racers entertain in Wales

PEMBREY BARC 18-19 MAY Three chaotic Mini Challenge Trophy races at Pembrey last weekend resulted in three different winners as Harry Hickton maintained his early lead in the championship standings. Qualifying had been topped by Alex Keens, but his brave attempt to hold on at the front in a wet-but-drying opener was ultimately in vain as he slipped down to fifth having been overhauled mid-race by a charging Sam Gornall. The Westbourne driver crossed the line first ahead of team-mate Hickton and PerformanceTek Racing’s Jamie Keates, but the lead pair were both hit with penalties for contact with James Black. That promoted Keates into top spot for his maiden win, from Gornall and Hickton. The reversed-grid contest was dominated by Alex Solley, who started from pole and raced away from…

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Autosport|23/05/24

WHAT’S ON

INTERNATIONAL MOTORSPORT Monaco Grand Prix F1 World Championship Round 8/24 Monte Carlo, Monaco 26 May Live Sky Sports F1, Sun 1355 Highlights Sky Sports F1, Sun 1700, Channel 4, Sun 1830 Indianapolis 500 IndyCar Round 5/15 Indianapolis, USA 26 May Live Sky Sports F1, Sun 1730 Catalan Grand Prix MotoGP Round 6/21 Barcelona, Spain 25-26 May Live TNT Sports 2, Sat 1330, Sun 1215 Highlights ITV4, Mon 2000 Shanghai E-Prix Formula E Round 8/10 Shanghai, China 25-26 May Live TNT Sports 3, Sat 0700, Sun 0700 FIA Formula 2 Round 5/14 Monte Carlo, Monaco 25-26 May Live Sky Sports F1, Sat 1310, Sun 0835 FIA Formula 3 Round 4/10 Monte Carlo, Monaco 25-26 May Live Sky Sports F1, Sat 0940, Sun 0655 Porsche Supercup Round 2/8 Monte Carlo, Monaco 26…

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Autosport|23/05/24

FROM THE ARCHIVE

Emanuele Pirro (Audi A4) makes a move on the Peugeot 406 of Laurent Aiello on the opening lap of race one of the German Super Touring Cup’s 1997 visit to the Norisring, the halfway point of the season. Polesitter Aiello had been demoted o. the line by the superfast-starting BMW 320i of Jo Winkelhock, just out of frame. The Peugeot was soon back ahead of Pirro and in hot pursuit of Winkelhock, taking the lead on lap 10 of 22, then was repassed five tours later. At the flag, Aiello was just over a second adri. of his chief title rival. His second place was one of 17 podium finishes from 20 races, 11 of which were victories, achieved en route to championship success, compared to title runner-up Winkelhock’s tally…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Vasseur coy on Newey-to-Ferrari speculation

FORMULA 1 Ferrari Formula 1 team boss Fred Vasseur is remaining tight-lipped on the chances of securing Adrian Newey after being linked with the departing Red Bull designer. Newey is set to leave Red Bull after an extremely successful 18-year stint at the team, designing the cars that propelled Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen to seven world championships. Amid political unrest at Red Bull and a “whole host of other reasons”, Newey has decided to walk away from the Milton Keynes squad, and for now has shifted his focus to completing the RB17 hypercar that will be presented at July’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. Newey, who has been heavily linked to a Ferrari role as teams lay the groundwork for the crucial 2026 regulation changes, has negotiated a deal that…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Aston OK with two-car plan

WEC Aston Martin is ready to step up to run two Valkyrie Le Mans Hypercars in next year’s World Endurance Championship if demanded by the regulations. The British manufacturer has made it clear that it will adapt to any rule shift for 2025. One-car assaults on the WEC and the IMSA SportsCar Championship were announced back in October when the wraps came off the revival of the Valkyrie LMH programme in conjunction with the Heart of Racing squad. Stepping up to two cars for the WEC will not be a problem should a regulation mandating that manufacturers run two cars in the Hypercar class get the sign-off as expected. “We fully support what WEC is doing as the championship grows,” said Aston head of endurance Adam Carter. “We are committed…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Porsche wheels out the big guns

SPA 24 HOURS World Endurance Championship points leaders Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor are among the Porsche drivers to join the entry for next month’s centenary Spa 24 Hours. The German manufacturer has stacked additional entries for the double-points GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup round with stars from its factory roster. Estre and Vanthoor, who have been on the podium every time out in the WEC so far alongside Andre Lotterer with Porsche Penske Motorsport, will contest the Belgian enduro on 29-30 June in a 911 GT3-R fielded by Taiwanese entrant HubAuto Racing. The Spa winners of 2019 (Estre) and 2014 and 2020 (Vanthoor) will be joined in the car, fielded with backing from Porsche Motorsport Asia Pacific, by 2015 IMSA SportsCar Championship GT Le Mans title winner Patrick…

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Autosport|23/05/24

The problems with Imola?

Yes, the coda was excellent. Lando Norris flinging his McLaren, Max Verstappen wrestling his Red Bull – both around a brilliantly brutal track. But if bad tonic makes up 90% of your G&T, it’s going to leave an overly bitter taste. And that was last weekend’s Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. When any prospect of a 2021-style Tamburello tussle between the two front-row starters was lost, and it became clear that Verstappen had Red Bull’s typical degradation advantage on the softer medium tyres after his practice struggles had raised hopes, any chance of a properly decent race appeared gone. Imola needs all the help it can get in this department, especially with the hosts of a new Bangkok race actually in attendance last weekend. The narrow track, with all its history,…

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Autosport|23/05/24

QUALIFYING

Before the weekend, you’d hardly have got long odds on Max Verstappen matching Ayrton Senna’s record with an eighth successive pole position. After Friday’s sessions, however, it looked increasingly unlikely that the Dutchman would draw level with yet another Formula 1 record. It’s not an exaggeration to say that Red Bull was in trouble before qualifying started. A setup miscue across Friday’s sessions prompted a flurry of overnight work after Verstappen and Sergio Perez found their RB20s awkward to deal with across Imola’s range of shortapex corners, but changes for FP3 threw the balance too far the other way; the car was too on-the-nose in FP1 and FP2, but this went too far rearwards for Saturday morning. Further changes for qualifying brought the cars alive. Verstappen could start attacking the…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Perez struggles again but possible new contract still looms

Sergio Perez was left to reflect that eighth in the Imola race “was the best we could get” after his qualifying underperformance left him starting 11th. It capped a poor weekend overall for the Mexican, despite suggestions in the paddock that Red Bull is leaning towards retaining him for 2025. Perez went through the same Friday practice struggles as Max Verstappen, with Red Bull’s initial set-up needing considerable overnight simulator fettling from Toyota World Endurance driver and Formula E champion Sebastien Buemi, along with Formula E world champion Jake Dennis. But Perez’s weekend got worse when he crashed at the Variante Alta chicane late in FP3. After missing the Q3 cut, when he was caught out by a lack of rear grip on his final Q2 flier, Perez started the…

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Autosport|23/05/24

RB SHOWS PROMISE BUT ONLY GETS A POINT AT HOME

RB left its home race frustrated about scoring only one point, with Yuki Tsunoda shining all weekend and Daniel Ricciardo joining him in starting in the top 10. Tsunoda was immediately on it at Imola, finishing third in FP2 and repeating that result in Q2. The Japanese driver is boosted by his previous testing experience at Imola, just 10 miles up the road from RB’s Faenza facility. Ricciardo struggled more on the punishing layout, but he found enough in qualifying to reach Q3 for the first time in 2024 and line up ninth behind Lewis Hamilton and his team-mate. At the start, both drivers were sluggish away, which allowed Hamilton to jump Tsunoda, Nico Hulkenberg to get both, and Sergio Perez to pass Ricciardo. Tsunoda said that improving starts on…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Hadjar wins amid pit dramas

FORMULA 2 IMOLA (ITA) 18-19 MAY ROUND 4/14 The good, the bad and the ugly of Formula 2 were on display across the Imola weekend, which featured a second consecutive feature race win for Isack Hadjar and a maiden F2 victory for Franco Colapinto at the eleventh hour in the sprint. After a controversial qualifying session, Prema Racing pair Ollie Bearman and Andrea Kimi Antonelli were disqualified from second and fourth respectively for track-limit breaches, and later reinstated. But nothing could prepare for the madness of the opening exchanges of Saturday’s reversed-grid sprint race, where five drivers were eliminated on the run to Tamburello. Colapinto was three wide with Roman Stanek and Dennis Hauger when a slight movement from the eventual race winner caused the Czech and Norwegian to spin…

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Autosport|23/05/24

A perfect starter for ten Voorde

PORSCHE SUPERCUP IMOLA (ITA) 19 MAY ROUND 1/8 After Harry King took two wins in the Porsche Carrera Cup Germany opener at Imola last month, Larry ten Voorde exacted revenge on the return to the Italian venue for the German manufacturer’s Formula 1-supporting flagship series last Sunday. The Dutchman beat the Brit to pole on his first outing with Come Ledogar’s CLRT squad, but King nosed ahead on the run down to the Tamburello chicane at the start, before ten Voorde just about squeezed in front. Behind them, Marvin Klein jumped Robert de Haan to move up into third position. Following an early safety car, ten Voorde built himself some breathing space over the Lechner Racing entry of King, who came under race-long pressure from Klein. At half-distance, the Frenchman…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Mustangs gallop in the wild west (of Australia)

AUSTRALIAN SUPERCARS WANNEROO (AUS) 18-19 MAY ROUND 4/12 After eight races of Chevrolet dominance, Ford has finally broken through to take its first two wins in the 2024 Supercars Championship at Wanneroo Raceway in Western Australia. It was Chaz Mostert and then Cameron Waters who ended the drought to register victories in the two races. Walkinshaw Andretti United racer Mostert won the Saturday race after taking pole position, and Waters replicated those achievements the next day in the Tickford Mustang, but only after a pitlane penalty demoted Mostert, who had finished ahead of him on the road, to second place. The WAU crew had released Mostert into the path of Waters’s team-mate Thomas Randle, who was forced to hit the brakes. Mostert later put his hand up and explained that…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Is the Williams revival still on track?

Sentimentality is in short supply in modern Formula 1, and so it should be; a rich heritage is not a prerequisite of success, and neither does it guarantee that. Just ask the spectre of Lotus, or Brabham, or any of the other teams whose past glories eluded them when their coffers became conspicuously bare in the early 1990s. Williams was not far from enduring a similar fate just five years ago. The effect of underinvestment began to snowball: car development troubles rolled the team towards the rear of the field; sponsors began to flock to more successful teams; and the Grove squad had to look to drivers to fill the void in its precarious bank balance. When Dorilton Capital acquired the team from the Williams family, it was tinged with…

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Autosport|23/05/24

GB4 return for McNeilly with Fox Motorsport

GB4 GB4 race winner Liam McNeilly will return to the championship this weekend for the next round at Donington Park. The now 18-year-old claimed his second victory of 2023 at Donington en route to third in the points with Fox Motorsport. This term McNeilly has focused on competing in America in the USF Juniors category, where he took pole and won on his debut at NOLA Motorsports Park and is currently third in the points. He said: “My next USF Juniors race isn’t until the middle of June, so the chance to get back behind the wheel in racing conditions was just too good to miss. “Donington’s a great track and I’ve had some of my best wins in both GB4 and Ginettas there. Helping the Fox drivers this year…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Audi TT regular Laidlaw joins TCR UK, while others are absent

TCR UK Audi TT Cup regular Steve Laidlaw made his TCR UK debut at Snetterton last weekend, driving a Hyundai i30 N prepared by Capture Motorsport. Laidlaw, who also races in Clio Cup Middle East and was formerly a CityCar Cup frontrunner, planned to compete in TCR and the Audi series in Norfolk, but for Saturday’s races handed his TT over to son Sam, whose own was damaged in Friday testing. “I bought this i30 but hadn’t done anything with it for ages,” said Laidlaw, who qualified 10th among the three-yearlow 12-car TCR entry and steadily improved his pace, taking a best result of eighth. “The car’s absolutely unbelievable. The difference between a road car that’s been converted to be a race car versus a purpose-built race car is pretty…

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Autosport|23/05/24

New Thruxton owner in action aboard Camaro

THRUXTON Thruxton’s new owner Alex Thistlethwayte raced at the UK’s fastest circuit on Saturday for the first time since he bought the venue. The 57-year-old Hampshireman finished 13th and ninth in the Classic Sports Car Club’s Special Saloons/Future Classics races in his 1968 Chevrolet Camaro. Grandson of Tom Thistlethwayte, who raced his three-litre Bentley in the 1926 Le Mans 24 Hours as a works entry shared with factory driver Clive Gallop, Alex has previously competed at Thruxton in his Ford Mustang notchback and Aston Martin DB4 GT. The 5.7-litre Camaro looked very different to the last time he took it to Thruxton, having been restored by Alan Mann Racing into its 1971 Ovaltine livery.…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Calendar congestion

Unsustainable, unnecessary and unhelpful. They may sound like strong terms, but – to this writer, at least – they perfectly describe the three-week spell of the national calendar we are currently in the middle of. And especially this past weekend of club motorsport. Let me explain. Over 18-19 May, there were 10 separate car racing events across the UK. From Thruxton to Bishopscourt and Snetterton to Oulton Park, almost every one of our race tracks was playing host to a car fixture. On the surface, that sounds great. After all, surely it’s proof that these venues are doing what they were built for. However, such a menagerie of meetings puts strain on a limited number of officials, marshals and other vital volunteers – and not to mention divides a finite…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Civic Cup spoils for Files and Edmundson

SNETTERTON BRSCC 18-19 MAY Area Motorsport duo Josh Files and Max Edmundson were the class of a quality Civic Cup field at Snetterton, as the former broke his championship duck and the latter maintained his lead atop the standings. Multiple TCR champion Files had scored two podiums at last month’s season opener despite a faulty differential but, with that diagnosed and fixed, he raced to a brace of wins from pole position at his local circuit. Edmundson twice followed his illustrious team-mate home, which sandwiched a superb drive to victory in the reversed-grid encounter. He started it ninth, but was fourth within a lap, before passing Spencer Stevenson, who was hampered by damper trouble, then Alex Kite with an audacious outside charge around Coram. Edmundson eventually pressured team-mate Liam McGill…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Crowhurst wins stripes and stars BMW M3 double

THRUXTON CSCC 18 MAY Competing in the BMW races at Saturday’s Classic Sports Car Club Thruxton Thriller event hung in the balance for Graham Crowhurst on Tuesday, with the engine out of his M3 E46. A huge team effort got him there, with little expectation of success, but pole position and two charging victories exceeded his wildest dreams. In a heady ‘stripes and stars’ tussle, Crowhurst beat Nathan Wells – whose 1m17.688s (109.17mph) fastest lap in his stunning E46 GTR was the day’s best – and Niall Bradley (E46) in the restarted opener. Swamped in an awful second start from fourth, Matty Evans snarled his 1M Coupe V8 back from almost last to third, which became second when Wells spun at the chicane and couldn’t restart. Top Jaguar qualifier Colin…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Allen bosses rivals with back to front victory

MALLORY PARK BARC/CMMC 18-19 MAY Olly Allen produced the drive of the weekend at Mallory Park’s Classic & Modern Motorsport Festival event to storm through the entire combined Pre-’93 & Pre-’03 Touring Cars and Blue Oval Saloons field to take an impressive victory. After crashing his Ford Fiesta Mk6 out of race one on Saturday, Blue Oval competitor Allen was forced to start at the back of the grid on Sunday with 22 cars in front of him. Yet that didn’t faze Allen, who battled his way through, setting fastest lap after fastest lap. By the closing stages, he had caught the Ford Escort Mk2 of leader Piers Grange, who had triumphed in race one the day before. Allen managed to squeeze past him on the final lap with only…

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Autosport|23/05/24

The race is on!

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Autosport|23/05/24

WEEKEND WINNERS

CADWELL PARK HISTORIC FORMULA 3 Races 1 & 2 Jon Milicevic (Brabham BT21B) HISTORIC FORMULA FORD 2000 Races 1 & 2 Samuel Harrison (Reynard SF79) HISTORIC FORMULA FORD 1600 Races 1 & 2 Benn Simms (Jomo JMR7) 70s ROAD SPORTS Races 1 & 2 John Williams (Porsche 911SC) REAR-ENGINED FORMULA JUNIOR Races 1 & 2 Andrew Hibberd (Lotus 20) FRONT-ENGINED FORMULA JUNIOR Races 1 & 2 Alex Morton (Condor S2) HISTORIC ROAD SPORTS/HISTORIC TOURING CARS Races 1 & 2 John Shaw (Morgan +8) HISTORIC MODSPORTS & SPECIAL SALOONS Races 1 & 2 Myles Castaldini (Davrian Mk8) SUPERKARTS Races 1, 2 & 3 Tom Hatfield (Anderson VM) PEMBREY MINI CHALLENGE TROPHY Race 1 Jamie Keates Race 2 Alex Solley Race 3 Harry Hickton BRITISH TRUCK RACING Races 1 & 3 Ryan…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Emilia Romagna Grand Prix review

autosport.com/podcast Joining Bryn Lucas on the Autosport podcast to run down all the action from the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix are Alex Kalinauckas and Filip Cleeren. Has McLaren positioned itself as a genuine contender to Red Bull or was this just another blip from F1’s dominant force? There’s also a deep dive into Sergio Perez’s lacklustre weekend, questions asked as to whether Ferrari should be disappointed by its outing on home soil, and just what was going on when Valtteri Bottas and James Vowles went for a coffee?…

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Autosport|23/05/24

Penske PC27

The Penske PC27 is an unexpected choice as Al Unser Jr’s favourite car. The two-time Indianapolis 500 winner and double Indycar champion had his greatest successes in the Lola T90/00, Galmer G92 and Penske PC23-94. He never won a race in the PC27 he drove throughout 1998, and for parts of 1999 in B-spec form. But Unser singles out the car he raced to a best result of second at Motegi in 1998 as one “I truly enjoyed driving, testing, going out and being a part of the development”. He is adamant that factors other than the chassis prevented John Travis’s design from winning: “The way the car was designed was just beautiful and John Travis did a fantastic job. It was such a pleasure to drive.” Unser, who picked…

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