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Sport newsThe 23-year-old belied his lack of experience to set a succession of top-three category stage times in a Ford Fiesta Rally4 – one week after he won the RC3 class on Rallye Weiz in Austria, the second event on the FIA Rally Star Training Season schedule.Jürgenson qualified for the FIA Rally Star programme by winning the European Final in January 2022. He’s now one of six young talents enrolled in the initiative, which aims…

Sport newsMax Verstappen made Formula 1 history as he scored a record 12th win in a row for Red Bull, with the Dutch driver taking his ninth win of 2023 ahead at the Hungarian of McLaren’s Lando Norris, while the final podium place went to Sergio Pérez who surged through the third place from P9 on the grid. Starting from the front row, Verstappen beat pole position driver Lewis Hamilton to the punch into Turn 1 at…

Sport newsJack Doohan went untroubled from pole position to score his first victory of the year for Invicta Virtuosi Racing. The Australian held the lead from lights out and never gave it up, managing the gap to PREMA Racing’s Frederik Vesti behind.The Dane finished second to strengthen his Drivers’ Championship advantage once more, while Victor Martins secured third for ART Grand Prix to take the sixth podium of his rookie season.AS IT HAPPENEDDoohan got a…

Sport newsKalle Rovanperä and co-driver Jonne Haltunnen have completed Estonia’s fourth FIA World Rally Championship event with their third consecutive victory on the country’s high-speed gravel stages.Driving a Toyota GR Yaris Rally1 Hybrid, Finn Rovanpera beat Thierry Neuville and Esapekka Lappi, who finished second and third respectively in their Hyundai i20 N Rally 1 Hybrids.“For the championship it’s a really important place to get good points, that was the plan,” said the 22-year-old Finn, who…

Sport newsFrom lights out to the chequered flag, Zak O’Sullivan was in complete control throughout the 19 laps of action at the Hungaroring. Nailing his getaway and extending his lead lap-by-lap, the Briton secured his third win of the 2023 campaign, elevating him up five places into the Championship hunt and second in the Standings.Dino Beganovic ran his own race, finishing comfortably in second to complete a 1-2 finish for PREMA Racing. MP Motorsport’s Franco Colapinto got…

Sport newsKalle Rovanperä took a huge step towards his third consecutive Rally Estonia victory with a supreme performance on the penultimate leg of the FIA World Rally Championship round today (Saturday).The 22-year-old, who became the youngest WRC event winner in history on the country’s fast-paced gravel roads two years ago, reeled off nine consecutive benchmark times to pull clear of Thierry Neuville.Reigning FIA world champion Rovanperä relegated Neuville for top spot early on Friday afternoon…

Sport newsLewis Hamilton topped the timesheet in the final hour of practice ahead of the Qualifying for the 20223 FIA Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix, with the Mercedes driver beating Drivers’ Championship leader Max Verstappen by more than two tenths of a second. The Red Bull driver’s team-mate, Sergio Pérez was third. With the Alternative Tyre Allocation set to make its debut in Qualifying at the Hungaroring, a format that requires teams to use a Hard…

Sport newsKalle Rovanperä came out on top of a thrilling chase for FIA World Rally Championship success with Thierry Neuville to lead Rally Estonia after today’s pulsating opening leg (Friday).Just 3.0s separate the duelling duo after 133.38 kilometres of thrilling competition on lightning-fast gravel roads around Estonia’s second city Tartu, host to round eight of this year’s WRC season.Hyundai i20 N Rally1 Hybrid star Neuville was quickest out of the blocks and outpaced his Finnish…

Sport newsMercedes’ George Russell topped the timesheet ahead of McLaren’s Oscar Piastri and Aston Martin’s Lance Stroll in an opening practice session for the 2023 FIA Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix that was disrupted by rain and by two red flags for crashes involving Red Bull’s Sergio and Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz. Under grey skies, the opening hour of practice got underway with Russell leading Williams’ Alex Albon out on track. They were immediately followed by AlphaTauri’s…

Sport newsImage credit: MercedesCan you give us an overview of how the FIA Formula 1 Financial Regulations are applied and how teams make their submissions? We are effectively in the third year of application. The first full cycle of review took place in 2022 based on the 2021 submission and overall it was a positive experience for us and for the teams. We’re now quite far into the 2023 review of the 2022 submissions. The process works…