Motor Sport

Sport newsIn addition to the European Hill Climb Championships, Pf is used in a dozen national championships in Europe and the Middle East, the most recent adopters being Austria, Luxembourg and Germany. Pf is opening a new era to define classes or groups in motosport and its principles may be used in other disciplines; actually some Slalom organizers already use it. Pf in Category 1 is now well established, after three years of experimentation and two…

Sport news16-STRONG HYPERCARSeven renowned manufacturers will have their eye on the prize in the premier class that will see a battle featuring the likes of Ferrari, Porsche, Peugeot, Cadillac, Vanwall, Glickenhaus and Toyota.The Japanese marque will be aiming for its sixth consecutive win. Porsche will be target its 20th overall victory, while Ferrari returns to the top tier at Le Mans after a 50-year-long hiatus. The Italian supercar maker can draw on nearly 75 years…

Sport newsTAG Heuer Porsche’s António Félix da Costa prevailed in a captivating inaugural Cape Town E-Prix today (25 February), fighting through the field from outside the top ten to deny DS Penske’s Jean-Éric Vergne back-to-back victories with a breathtaking penultimate lap pass.Da Costa did not really feature in the battle for honours until midway through round five of the 2022/23 ABB FIA Formula E World Championship campaign. The initial stages of the race, indeed, were…

Sport newsSergio Pérez set the fastest time of the three days of pre-season testing in Bahrain with the Mexican racer beating Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton by more than three tenths of a second as Valtteri Botta took third spot for Alfa Romeo ahead of Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.As his defending champion team-mate Max Verstappen had done on the opening day of testing, Pérez spent the full day at the wheel of the RB19 and in hot temperatures…

Sport newsAlfa Romeo driver Zhou Guanyu set the fastest time of the second day of Formula 1’s pre-season test in Bahrain, with the Chinese driver edging out defending world champion Max Verstappen by four hundredths of a second. There was trouble for Mercedes, however, as George Russell was forced to stop at the side of the track with hydraulic problems.Verstappen, who ran both sessions in the Red Bull Racing B19 yesterday, handed over driving duties…

Sport newsDefending champion Max Verstappen topped the timesheet as pre-season testing for the 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship got underway in Bahrain. The Red Bull driver narrowly beat Fernando Alonso who got his Aston Martin career off to a swift start. Third place went to Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz. Verstappen set good pace across a marathon day at the wheel of his new RB19. The Dutchman was the only driver to run for the full day…

Sport newsThe following is an overview of the key discussion points and decisions.Wet tyres and wet weather package Following successful testing by Pirelli, with the support of teams, Pirelli have arrived at a wet weather tyre which is much more performant than the previous specification – this tyre does not require the use of tyre blankets.The tyre construction will be available from the 2023 FIA Formula 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.The F1 Commission approved this change…

Sport newsSébastien Loeb and Nasser Saleh Al-Attiyah are the top seeds for the forthcoming Abu Dhabi Challenge, round two of the FIA World Rally-Raid Championship (W2RC), which will carve its way through the UAE’s vast Empty Quarter and its swathes of towering sand dunes from February 26th to March 3rd. The duo are currently separated by just two points in the Drivers’ Championship with nine-time WRC winner Loeb and his Belgian co-driver Fabian Lurquin leading…

FIA newsWidely hailed as one of the best races in ABB FIA Formula E World Championship history, the inaugural Hyderabad E-Prix (11 February) was a smooth affair from start to finish – thanks in no small part to a comprehensive suite of pre-event preparations.As the first completely new circuit visited during Season 9 in the pioneering all-electric series, a special training programme was implemented in the Indian city, to ensure the local ASN and its…

FIA newsAurelia Nobels, 16 years old, started her karting career in Brazil before competing internationally in 2020 and 2021.In 2022, she made her single-seater debut, racing in the Formula 4 Brazilian Championship as well as gaining valuable experience in selected rounds of the Spanish and Danish Formula 4 Championship.In parallel, she took part in the 2022 FIA Girls on Track – Rising Stars programme, designed to detect and nurture young female racing talents of between…