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How Mercedes tamed its troublesome W15 F1 car

Mercedes started the season with a W15 that proved a tricky beast for both Lewis Hamilton and George Russell.

Motorsport

Ocon expects Alpine F1 team to keep rotating heavier chassis between drivers

Gasly and Ocon both scored points in Montreal amid some unease over a late position swap. But the fact that both drivers ended up in the top 10 was already a positive result for Alpine after a disappointing qualifying result for Ocon. Ocon went out in the first stage of…

Autosport

Le Mans 24 Hours: Ferrari survives late drama to score back-to-back wins

Nickas Nielsen, Antonio Fuoco and Miguel Molina took the chequered flag in the #50 Ferrari 499P with a 14s margin over the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID of Nyck de Vries, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez, as the #51 Ferrari of Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi rounded…

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Le Mans 24h, H21: Cadillac, Toyota, Ferrari battle it out for the win

WHAT A BATTLE ! Between #6 Porsche & Ferrari #51! 🥊#LeMans24 #WEC pic.twitter.com/PVg5bd2wvg

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Le Mans 24h, H18: Porsche surges ahead of Toyota as safety car returns

The factory #6 Porsche Penske 963 of Laurens Vanthoor was circulating a few seconds clear of the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID driven by Ryo Hirakawa after 18 hours of racing at Le Mans, with marshals still replacing the barriers at Indianapolis under the caution period.

Motorsport

The Alpine A290 is the hot hatch EV we’ve been waiting for

Is this warmed-up Renault 5 enough to prove electric cars can be fun?

Hulkenberg wants Haas review into 'unhealthy' F1 Canada car issue

The German failed to progress from Q1, qualifying only 19th in what was a far departure from his previous efforts this season. A bold gamble on full wet tyres saw both Hulkenberg and team-mate Kevin Magnussen scythe through the field and into the top 10 in the opening eight laps…

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Le Mans 24h, Hour 6: Ferrari keeps Hypercar lead as rain falls

The #83 AF Corse Ferrari continues to hold the net lead in the hands of Yifei Ye after the opening six hours of the race as rain hit the Circuit de la Sarthe, with Frederic Makowiecki grabbing second late on in the #5 Porsche.

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Le Mans 24h, H6: Ferrari in front in Hypercar as rain returns

The #83 AF Corse Ferrari continues to hold the net lead in the hands of Yifei Ye after the opening six hours of the race as rain hit the Circuit de la Sarthe, with the Frederic Makowiecki grabbing second late on in the #5 Porsche.

Motorsport

Le Mans 24h, Hour 3: #83 Ferrari leads from Toyota after rain shower

The World Endurance Championship race has been shaped by a sudden shower at 5:38pm, before which the Nicklas Nielsen's #50 Ferrari led Laurens Vanthoor's #6 Porsche, Antonio Giovinazzi's #51 Ferrari and Sebastien Buemi's #8 Toyota.

Autosport

Le Mans 24 Hours: Kubica tops warm-up, Toyota's De Vries crashes

As most teams elected to give drivers pitstop practice in live conditions, only 12 of the 23 Hypercar entries set a time during the short 15-minute session that precedes the World Endurance Championship’s blue-riband event, with Kubica heading a Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar 1-2 in his customer #83 AF…

Motorsport

Le Mans 24 Hours: What's changed for WEC's main event in 2024?

The world’s most prestigious endurance race is back as this weekend drivers will tackle Circuit de la Sarthe for the Le Mans 24 Hours. Ferrari are the defending champions having won the race’s centenary edition in 2023, which was its first overall victory at Le Mans since 1965. But the…

Autosport

Red Bull might not take Yuki Tsunoda seriously yet, but RB does

Tsunoda was labelled a fast but slightly inconsistent hothead upon his F1 arrival in 2021 at the tender age of 20, going viral because of his expletive-laden radio messages. But with it being easier to calm a fast driver down than it is to make a consistently average driver faster,…

Autosport

Alpine prioritising "professionalism" in search for Ocon replacement

Ocon and Alpine announced prior to the Canadian Grand Prix that they would part ways at the end of 2024, in the wake of his first-lap clash with team-mate Pierre Gasly at Monaco.

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Le Mans 24 Hours: Toyota edges Ferrari in final night practice

Hartley clocked a best time of 3m29.451s in his #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar after 20 minutes of the hour-long session, and remained at the head of the leaderboard as rain began to fall at the Circuit de la Sarthe.

InsideEVs

The Alpine A290 Is The Electric Hot Hatch You Want But Can’t Have

Look at it! It’s delightfully cute and with Alpine’s know-how, it should handle like a dream.

Autosport

Bottas: Sauber fix for F1 struggles "not rocket science"

The Hinwil-based outfit is the only team not to score points in the current campaign, having seen its qualifying performances drop since the start of the season. Bottas had been running well in mixed conditions in Montreal before pitting "one lap too early" to switch to slicks as the track…

Motor1

The New Alpine A290 Hot Hatch Wants to Make EVs Fun to Drive

The feisty electric car has up to 215 horsepower.

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FIA warned the "ship has sailed" for F1 2026 engine tweaks

Amid the backdrop of the FIA admitting that its draft 2026 technical rules are going to need refining to make cars faster, one possibility that has emerged to help things is tweaking the engines. As part of a push to secure the headline 50-50 split of power input from the ICE and…

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Le Mans 24 Hours: Toyota back on top in FP2 after qualifying disaster

Sebastien Buemi went quickest in the two-hour FP2 night session on Wednesday in the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar with a time half a second up on his nearest rival.

Autosport

How Red Bull has taken another leap with F1’s rear wing trend

The semi-detached rear wing tip solution is one example of this right now – as rivals clearly saw the potential on offer when Aston Martin and Alpine simultaneously debuted original versions of the two slightly different solutions in Monaco last year.

Autosport

What is BoP? The regulation that's part of sports car racing

BoP is a part of how sports car racing is governed, but making sense of it is not always easy given much of it is hidden from the public domain. Manufacturers in the World Endurance Championship are even forbidden from discussing BoP, however some facts are still known. What is…

Autosport

Alpine promises Ocon equal F1 status with Gasly despite impending departure

Ocon was annoyed after the Canadian Grand Prix that the team had not followed through on a promise that, after giving up a place to Gasly to see if he could attack Daniel Ricciardo, the position was not given back before the chequered flag.

Autosport

The story behind Ocon's Canadian GP Alpine F1 outburst

Having given up a position late on to team-mate Pierre Gasly to allow him to try to overtake Daniel Ricciardo ahead, Ocon felt massively let down when the pledge to swap positions back if it failed did not happen. As a consequence, Ocon was livid and lambasted his team's decision…

Motorsport

Horner: Perez needs to rebound from "horrible" weekend

By virtue of Max Verstappen’s hard-fought Montreal F1 victory and the retirements of both Ferrari drivers, Red Bull more than doubled its constructors’ championship lead over the Scuderia to 49 points.

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