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Sport newsThere was little to separate fully-electric and sustainably-fuelled combustion engined cars at the World RX of Hungary, as Niclas Grönholm (EV) and Johan Kristoffersson (ICE) won Rounds 3 and 4 of the FIA World Rallycross Championship respectively as an evenly matched ‘Battle of Technologies’ raged at a blisteringly hot Nyirád Racing Center double header.Grönholm clinched his first victory of the season on day one – the CE Dealer Team by Volvo Construction Equipment driver…

Sport newsWith Pietro Ometto co-driving his Citroën C3 Rally2, Pirelli-equipped Crugnola repeated his breakthrough Rally di Roma Capitale triumph of 12 months ago on the back of a faultless performance in the scorching Italian sunshine.Despite an intercom issue, Simone Campedelli finished second driving a Škoda Fabia RS Rally2 on Pirelli tyres with Efrén Llarena third on his first outing in a Michelin-shod Fabia RS Rally2, the Spaniard’s first ERC podium since May 2023. But it was…

Sport newsGeorge Russell has been disqualified from the Belgian Grand Prix after his Mercedes W15 was below the 798kg minimum weight, handing victory to team-mate Lewis Hamilton.Russell took a sensational win at Spa with a well-worked one-stop strategy, but following the race the FIA Technical Delegate reported that while Russell’s car was initially weighted it met the minimum weight of 798.0 kg. However, when “fuel was drained out of the car and 2.8 litres of…

Sport newsGeorge Russell spring a strategic suprise at Spa, making a one-stop strategy wiork to snatch a third career grand prix victory from under the nose of long time race leader Lewis Hamilton who finished a little over half a second ahead behind his Mercedes team-mate and 0.6s clear of third-placed McLaren driver Oscar Piastri. At the start of the race, Ferrari polesitter Charles Leclerc got away well to take the lead. Behind him fellow front-row starter…

Sport newsDRIVERS 1 – George RUSSELL (Mercedes)2 – Lewis HAMILTON (Mercedes)3 – Oscar PIASTRI (McLaren)  TRACK INTERVIEWS(Conducted by Guenther Steiner)   Q: Oscar, It’s a fantastic result, your third, you know. I mean, again, a podium, you keep on bringing them. Did you think you can get the Mercedes after the last stop?Oscar PIASTRI: Honestly, yes, I thought I could, but I mean, clean air was such a big difference today. Once I got a little bit of clean air in the middle stint,…

Sport newsLast year’s winner, competing in a Pirelli-equipped Citroën C3 Rally2, carried an advantage of 0.8sec into Saturday’s running following his fastest time among the ERC contenders through the Colosseum super special in the centre of Rome on Friday night.Slovenian Boštjan Avbelj cut that gap to 0.1sec when he went quickest through this morning’s opening test, Alatri, only for Crugnola to respond on the first run through the 28.74km Santopadre – Fontana Liri stage to…

Sport newsLando Norris beat team-mate Oscar Piastri by two tenths of a second to give McLaren a 1-2 in second practice for the 2024 FIA Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in third place, just 0.002 behind the second McLaren. At the start of the second hour of practice, Verstappen quickly moved to the top of the timesheet, using the C3 Medium tyres to work his way to an early benchmark of…

Sport newsThe FIA World Rally Championship’s summer of speed concludes with the fastest event of them all from August 1-4 when Secto Rally Finland hosts round nine of the 2024 season.A mainstay of the WRC since its formation in 1973, Rally Finland stands as one of the championship’s most iconic events, its fast-paced gravel stages generously coated with jumps and crests that create an exciting challenge for the drivers and a stunning spectacle for the…

Sport newsSaudi Arabia’s Yazeed Al-Rajhi and his German co-driver Timo Gottschalk and the Portuguese pairing of João Ferreira and Filipe Palmeiro lead a quality-packed 110-vehicle entry into this weekend’s Baja Spain Aragón, round three of the 2024 FIA World Baja Cup. The entry list includes 27 cars in the Ultimate category, a staggering 57 running in the Challenger section for lightweight prototype cross-country machines and a further 26 entered in the SSV section. Al-Rajhi (Toyota Hilux Overdrive)…

Sport newsDRIVERS – Lance STROLL (Aston Martin), Kevin MAGNUSSEN (Haas), Carlos SAINZ (Ferrari), Daniel RICCIARDO (RB), Valtteri BOTTAS (Kick Sauber)Q: It’s been a busy news cycle since we were last gathered in Hungary. And Valtteri, can we start with you, please? And the news that Andreas Seidel has been replaced by Mattia Bonotto in the team. What’s your reaction, first of all?Valtteri BOTTAS: Yeah, quite sudden news. I believe everything happened pretty quickly, but obviously those…