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Alex Bowman wins crazy race against time

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Alex Bowman wins crazy race against time

Due to an almost two-hour rain delay within the second stage, NASCAR set 8:20 p.m. local time as the ultimate finish for Sunday's originally scheduled 75-lap race.

Alex Bowman was one in all a handful of drivers who didn’t pit for the beginning of the ultimate stage and stayed on wet weather tyres.

After battling with sports automotive star Joey Hand for several laps, Bowman moved into the lead on lap 51, just before Josh Berry was yellow flagged for hitting the tire barriers.

When the race resumed on lap 54 with about 4 minutes remaining on the clock, Bowman accelerated well off the restart after which passed the fast-approaching Tyler Reddick – on latest slicks – by 2.863 seconds to take his first win of the 2024 season and secure a spot within the playoffs.

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Watch: Alex Bowman on Chicago's win: 'I comprehend it means quite a bit to this team'

Bowman’s last victory got here on March 6, 2022, at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and now all 4 Hendrick Motorsports drivers have qualified for the 16-driver playoff.

“Whenever you go to the track with Hendrick Motorsports, you have a chance,” Bowman said after the race. “But first I even have to apologize to the blokes within the No. 23 (and driver Bubba Wallace). I just messed something up attempting to activate the wipers, missed the turn and ruined their day. I hate it. I’m still embarrassed about it, but we now have a trophy to take home and I comprehend it means quite a bit to this team. They put me able to win the race.

“Man, I broke my back, I had a brain injury, and we've been sort of struggling since then, and I haven't – you begin to wonder if you happen to're ever going to have a likelihood to win a race. The last one we won wasn't something to rejoice.

“We're going to drink so much damn bourbon tonight, it's going to be a bad deal. I'll probably wake up naked on the bathroom floor again. It's just part of the deal.”

Ty Gibbs finished third, Hand driving the third automotive for RFK Racing was fourth, and Michael McDowell accomplished the highest five.

Ricky Stenhouse Jr., Todd Gilliland, William Byron, Kyle Busch and Ryan Blaney accomplished the highest ten.

The two essential candidates to win on Sunday ended their struggles prematurely.

Three-time Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen, who won the race last 12 months, crashed on lap 25. Kyle Larson, who began from pole position, crashed on lap 34.

The start of Sunday's race was briefly delayed after a protester – holding a “Free Palestine” banner – climbed the fence at Turn 3 and handcuffed himself to it before being removed by police.

Light rain fell during a break within the race, and NASCAR allowed teams to make your mind up whether to start out the race on wet-weather tires before the beginning.

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After a detailed battle with Christopher Bell, van Gisbergen had emerged ahead and secured the Stage 1 victory when the yellow flag was brought out with three laps remaining attributable to a crash involving Corey LaJoie. Bell finished second, Gibbs third, Chase Briscoe fourth and Larson fifth.

Stage 2

After a rain delay of nearly an hour and 45 minutes, Hand took the lead when a lot of the cars within the lead decided to pit for the break and maintained his advantage over Bowman by 0.131 seconds to win Stage 2. Keselowski was third, Carson Hocevar fourth and Martin Truex Jr. rounded out the highest five.

On lap 25, with the sphere racing within the rain, Bowman spun out while passing Bubba Wallace at Turn 2, then at Turn 6, Briscoe locked up his brakes on the entry to Turn 6 and spun violently, hitting the tire barriers and hitting last 12 months's race winner, van Gisbergen.

Following the collision with Briscoe, Van Gisbergen hit the wall, however the damage to Van Gisbergen's No. 16 Chevrolet was too severe for him to proceed.

Stage 3

Following the break between Stages 2 and three, several drivers opted to pit for slicks, but Hand remained on the right track and led.

NASCAR had previously scheduled the race to finish at 8:20 p.m. local time attributable to approaching darkness, which meant there was about 16 minutes remaining when the race resumed on lap 49.

On lap 50, Bowman closed in on Hand's rear bumper, and the 2 drivers separated themselves from the majority of the sphere, battling for the lead.

On lap 51, Bowman passed Hand to take the lead for the primary time within the race, just before the yellow flag was brought out for hitting Josh Berry within the tire barriers at Turn 2.

The race resumed with about five minutes remaining with Bowman ahead of Hand, Keselowski and Truex.

McLaughlin 'fed up with over-cutting' gives back to IndyCar team

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McLaughlin 'fed up with over-cutting' gives back to IndyCar team

IndyCar Series results have been a mixed bag for Scott McLaughlin recently, and on Sunday his strategy of overcoming overcuts worked to his advantage, earning him a third-place finish at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course.

Starting sixth within the No. 3 Team Penske Chevrolet, the 31-year-old McLaughlin quickly moved up one position early within the race, passing Marcus Ericsson at the primary corner.

He then opted to remain out for 2 laps longer than anyone else, using a two-stop strategy, benefiting from the slow track to set fast lap times after which pitting on lap 30 to return to motion in third place – two places higher than his pre-pit stop position.

The New Zealander took to the track at the least a lap later than anyone else in the sphere through the second cycle, pitting on lap 56 and returning clear of all competition.

He ultimately finished a distant third with a time of 16.1558 seconds behind race winner Pato O'Ward and almost seven seconds ahead of fourth-place Colton Herta, whom he passed in the primary round of pit stops.

It’s McLaughlin’s second podium within the last three races and fourth this season. He also recently finished third at Road America after which a heartbreaking twenty first at Laguna Seca – his fourth Twentieth-or-worst finish of the yr.

“As everyone knows, we’ve had our ups and downs the last few events,” said McLaughlin, currently eighth within the championship standings.

“It’s nice to get one other solid result and hopefully we will go to Iowa where we all know we’ll probably be pretty fast. It’s only a matter of putting all of it together on this short stretch of time until the top of the championship.

“I actually enjoyed the hybrid integration. I actually enjoyed learning it throughout the weekend and the race.

“But we did a lot of that first stint overcutting those guys. I’m sick of overcutting, so I thought, ‘Hell yeah, I’ll overcut.’ I think we were the last ones to pit and we probably led our laps there.”

Scott McLaughlin, Team Penske Chevrolet

Scott McLaughlin, Team Penske Chevrolet

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The sojourn in no man’s land gave McLaughlin a more in-depth take a look at the hybrid unit, which made its race weekend debut on the 2.258-mile, 13-turn road course in Lexington, Ohio.

“I lost a lot of time in that first stage but in the end I tried to make the most of the day, save as much fuel as possible and I just passed the guys in the overcut but they were already very far away,” he said.

“Honestly, it was a little bit of a test for me. I used to be trying various things with the hybrid, push-to-pass, all that stuff. It was really fun.

“We learned a lot of things, we got points and we hope to use them later, whether it’s next year or at the end of the year.”

Reddick 'screwed up' try to snatch Chicago's win from Bowman

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Reddick 'screwed up' try to snatch Chicago's win from Bowman

Following an almost two-hour rain delay in Stage 2, NASCAR set the finish time for the originally scheduled 75-lap race on the Chicago Street Course at 8:20 p.m. local time.

With the two.2-mile, 12-turn course drying out quickly ahead of the ultimate stage and time running out, Reddick was amongst a gaggle of teams that pitted for slicks, hoping they might be faster.

More than half a dozen drivers opted to remain on the track, using wet-weather tyres to keep up track position, including eventual race winner Alex Bowman.

Initially, the tire difference didn’t appear to amount to much of a bonus as Bowman passed Joey Hand for the lead, but a caution on lap 52 for a automotive that got stuck within the tire barriers allowed Reddick and the others to get the higher of them again.

The race resumed roughly 4 minutes before the white flag waved, signalling the beginning of the ultimate lap.

This time, Reddick moved ahead in his No. 45 23XI Toyota, and he quickly moved into second place and commenced chasing Bowman.

Just before the ultimate lap, Bowman after which Reddick hit the wall and all of Reddick's momentum was lost. Bowman ultimately won the race from the checkered flag by 2.863 seconds.

Tyler Reddick, 23XI Racing, Monster Energy Toyota Camry

Tyler Reddick, 23XI Racing, Monster Energy Toyota Camry

Photo: David Rosenblum / NKP / Motorsports images

“We had a big lead on Alex there, and I don’t know, it’s puzzling to me. I obviously just screwed up,” said a disillusioned Reddick after the race. “I used to be attempting to stay in a dry groove, and I had good enough. I turned the wheel an excessive amount of.

“I just wasn't focused enough, I guess. I knew I was going to get there. I knew the quicker I got there, the more options I had. It was going to be a little smoother on the (racing) line out of Turn 8.”

Sunday's race was the third consecutive time Reddick was on pace to earn his second victory of the 2024 NASCAR Cup season but fell short.

He led before the long rain break two weeks ago in New Hampshire, but he was not the identical when NASCAR decided to restart the race and finish it on wet-weather tires. He finished sixth.

Last weekend in Nashville, Reddick seemed to be in prime position to catch leader Joey Logano on the ultimate restart because the race went right into a record five overtimes, but he was unable to pass him and finished third.

“Yeah, we just didn't give ourselves a chance to race with (Bowman), unfortunately, with that. I hate that. That's not what this (team) is about, that's not what this team is about,” Reddick said.

“We need to start building on these victories and winning them.”

Ferrari sees WEC engine power increase ahead of Interlagos

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Ferrari sees WEC engine power increase ahead of Interlagos

Ferrari has regained the engine power it lost ahead of its victory within the 24 Hours of Le Mans on the Interlagos World Endurance Championship this weekend.

The Italian manufacturer’s 499P has seen its maximum power drop by 1.7% above 250 km/h (155 mph) as a part of a brand new power boost within the Hypercar Balance of Performance class, introduced ahead of last month’s Le Mans WEC race.

In the BoP report published for the 6 Hours of Sao Paulo, the Ferrari Le Mans hypercar achieved a positive results of 1.8%.

Ferrari has kept away from criticising the ability cut at Le Mans, but technical director Ferdinando Cannizzo asked the media to “draw their own conclusions” on the impact of the change following the primary on-track motion on the test day preceding the event.

He stressed that “on a track like Le Mans we drive at a speed of over 250 km/h” [155mph] 45% of the time” and that the lack of power will affect the automobile's ability to race.

Ferrari increased its straight-line speed during race week, but the choice to scale back the ability of the 499P engine resulted within the Toyota GR010 HYBRID LMH proving to be the quicker automobile in wet and damp conditions.

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#51 Ferrari AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi

Photo: Rainier Ehrhardt

The maximum power of the 499P hybrid powertrain below the 250 km/h threshold has been reduced for the WEC race in Brazil, the fifth round of the championship, from 508 kW at Le Mans to 503 kW (from 678 to 674 hp).

The minimum weight of the automobile has also been increased in comparison with the French enduro from 1,043 to 1,060 kg.

However, each the engine power and weight of the Ferrari are largely in step with the outcomes from the WEC round at Spa in May, as is the case with most Hypercars.

This is since the WEC, FIA and Automobile Club de l'Ouest rulemakers consider that Le Mans has a separate BoP attributable to the unique characteristics of the 8.47-mile Circuit de la Sarthe.

Power was down from 506kW at Spa and weight up from 1,053kg for Ferrari in comparison with the race in Belgium, where the marque was on target for victory however the race was controversially restarted beyond its scheduled finish following a red flag.

Only the Porsche 963, Peugeot 9X8 2024 and Isotta Fraschini Tipo 6 Competitizone LMH have recorded double-digit weights since Spa.

The Porsche LMDh is 14kg heavier, the Peugeot LMH is 14kg heavier and the Isotta has lost 30kg.

Peugeot's power increased by 2kW from the Spa's, while Porsche's power increased by 5kW to 512kW, with no positive or negative power gains for either automobile.

The Toyota GR010 will likely be 4 kg lighter than at Spa and its power will likely be 9 kW less.

However, the automobile received an extra power increase correction of two.8%.

The Alpine A424 LMDh, one in all the fastest cars on the Le Mans straight, received a correction of -1.3% above 250 km/h.

Payne wins strategic battle in second race, Brown in last

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Payne wins strategic battle in second race, Brown in last

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New Zealander Matt Payne used a three-stop technique to take the Grove Racing Ford Mustang to the front of the sphere with 22 of the 88 laps remaining to say his second profession Supercars victory and his first of the 2024 season.

The 21-year-old was the primary driver to pit, which obliged him to implement a three-stop strategy, which allowed him to win by 6.06 seconds.

“We’ve had a couple of tough rounds lately and I knew we had a good race car yesterday,” said Payne, who began tenth on the grid after a chaotic Shootout lap.

“We tried to copy this with a unique team strategy.

“We kept pushing, hard work but very satisfying. To get a win here is a morale boost halfway through the season.”

The battle for second place was a repeat of Saturday’s battle for victory, with Cam Waters (Tickford Ford) and Chaz Mostert (Walkinshaw Andretti United Ford) battling it out with different strategies, with Waters pitting twice and Mostert following Payne’s plan, making three stops and passing six cars (from eighth on the grid) to maneuver into second over a dozen laps.

Both riders were trailing the finish line for the ultimate 15 laps, but Waters held on to the lead and finished second.

“It was a great day for us and a great weekend for the team but we had no chance of matching Matty’s three-stop performance,” said Waters after a successful weekend.

“I knew a number of people would take a probability and check out it, but we stuck to our stance and stuck to it. [a two-stop strategy].

“Always Chaz and me! I wish it was someone else, it was cool to fight Chaz again.”

Mostert said: “It was a good fight. The first stage was great fun and it put us in a position to fight for the podium. To get two podiums here is amazing, it's a big turnaround for us from Darwin.”

In a race dominated by Fords, the one Chevrolet to challenge was surprise polesitter Jack Le Brocq, who qualified fastest for the primary time in his profession, on his thirty second birthday. The Erebus Motorsport Camaro used a two-stop strategy, but lacked the speed at race pace to challenge for victory.

Fifth was the consistent Thomas Randle, whose Tickford Mustang produced a surprising rally to take second place early within the race, ahead of Ryan Wood (Walkinshaw Andretti United), who rode consistently to turn into the second Chevrolet driver on the road.

Triple Eight's disappointing weekend continued. After Will Brown's impressive return on Saturday, hopes were high on Sunday morning, however the points leader qualified 4 places lower than he did on Saturday and began the race from seventeenth on the grid.

On the primary lap he collided with David Reynolds (Team18 Chevrolet) and needed to pit with front-end damage. He lost a lap and fought back to complete twenty fourth and last, in a race with no retirements or safety cars.

Teammate Broc Feeney began sixth, but crashed into the wall on the primary lap and struggled to seventh, greater than 30 seconds behind the winning Ford.

As a result, Brown’s 141-point lead within the race has been reduced and he now leads the title race by 78 points over Feeney, 1515-1437. Mostert stays in third place with 1341, while Waters moves as much as 1126 points but stays in fourth. Payne moves as much as fifth with 1065 ahead of James Golding (PremiAir Chevrolet) with 980.

The next round of Supercars racing will happen at Symmons Plains in Tasmania on 17-18 August. After Saturday’s heat and rain in north Queensland, teams will face what might be a really cold track, with temperatures in Launceston having dropped below freezing over the past week.

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Thiim fulfils '20-year dream' and joins father Kurt as DTM winner

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Thiim fulfils '20-year dream' and joins father Kurt as DTM winner

Aston Martin works driver Nicki Thiim fulfilled a “20-year dream” by joining his father and 1986 champion Kurt on the DTM race winner’s list on the Norisring on Sunday.
Driving a Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo 2 for the SSR Performance team, polesitter Thiim survived a late safety automobile period to secure his first DTM race win on his twelfth attempt.

The Danish driver was visibly moved as he crossed the finish line at the top of lap 69 and burst into tears when he arrived for post-race interviews.

The DTM has all the time held a special place in Thiim’s heart as a consequence of his father’s long and successful spell within the series within the late Eighties and early Nineties. As well as winning the title in his first attempt in 1986 in a Rover Vitesse, the elder Thiim won a complete of 20 races in three different makes, including BMW and Mercedes.

Asked in regards to the significance of his victory on the legendary Norisring street circuit, where his father won two DTM races, the 35-year-old said: “My father was an important hero [for me]and now [winning] here on the Norisring means quite a bit to me.

“I don't even know where to start. It's unbelievable. This has been my dream for over 20 years.

“I saw my father racing on the racetrack in the 90s. Ever since I was a big boy, I dreamed of being like these guys here. I've traveled all over the world and mainly competed in endurance races, I won last week in Spa [at the 24-hour race] and now here. I don't know what to say.”

Nicki Thiim, SSR Performance Lamborghini Huracán EVO GT3

Nicki Thiim, SSR Performance Lamborghini Huracán EVO GT3

Photo: Alexander Trienitz

Thiim was given the prospect to race within the DTM for the primary time in 2022 when he signed with T3 Motorsport, but parted ways with the team just three rounds into the yr, with the privateer Lamborghini squad withdrawing from the championship with no single point to their name.

After a brief break, Thiim returned to DTM this yr with the approval of Aston Martin, joining the factory-backed SSR Performance Lamborghini team alongside multiple race winner Mirko Bortolotti.

However, as was the case with the shortened 2022 season, the beginning of the season was a nightmare, as he withdrew from the primary three races at Oschersleben and Lausitzring – mainly as a consequence of mechanical issues.

But after taking a commanding victory within the 24 Hours of Spa just the previous weekend in a Comtoyou Racing Aston Vantage GT3 with team-mates Mattia Drudi and Marco Sorensen, he also managed to show the tide of his DTM campaign around by taking pole position and victory on Sunday.

“Honestly, these have been the hardest six months of my entire career,” he admitted.

“Nothing worked, regardless of what, but with labor and dedication you’ll be able to really achieve something. I all the time believed in myself and naturally the team didn’t let me down either.

“So it's about winning and losing together, and of course I'm very proud to be standing here now and celebrating a DTM victory. It shows me once again that I'm not too old for something like this.”

Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races: This is Preparation!

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Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races: This is Preparation!

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New set for this week Gran Turismo 7 Daily races starting today will feature free vehicle setup and customization for the primary time in an extended time.

The race where you have got to make use of the Suzuki Jimny is placed within the Race A slot. This means you won’t see any changes to your Driver Rating (DR) whatever the result – with DR updates disabled – so it gives you a very good opportunity to mess around with tuning and settings with none major consequences.

There are literally three restrictions: you have got to be using a Suzuki Jimny, it needs to be fitted with one in all three Comfort tyre classes, and you possibly can’t exceed the Performance Point (PP) limit of 420. Apart from these requirements, you possibly can do anything you need to your Jimny – including ‘extensive’ body modifications and engine swaps – except fit nitrous oxide.

Once you've built the automotive, you have got complete freedom over the vehicle's set-up, and tuning it to it’s a surprisingly difficult event. The Alsace Test Course, which resembles a rollercoaster, hosts an eight-lap race, and with a banked corner and an enormous drop-off and compression after a climbing section, your suspension can have to do loads of work.

One thing to look at out for here is the False Start Check. You should keep your automotive stationary – either use the brakes or the handbrake – between the last starting light coming on and all of the lights going out to start out the race. Any movement will lead to a brief power limit penalty, which is annoying at best and can cause anyone behind you to run into your slow-moving automotive at worst…

This week’s Race B is a typical Sport mode race, with the core Gr.3 esports cars going head-to-head on the Nurburgring GP circuit in a five-lap sprint.

Apart from the undeniable fact that the required tyres are, unusually, Racing Medium, there isn’t much else that you must know for the race. Simply pick your favourite Gr.3 automotive and head out for a fast jaunt.

This week's Race C gives you a rarer probability to make use of the Gr.1 cars, for a rather beastly race around Interlagos. That was after all the venue for the Manufacturers Cup final in a live event in Montreal over the weekend, but you'll be going a bit faster within the Le Mans prototype class (and similar).

Indeed, it's the LMP – or moderately LMPH – that you just'll need on this race, since the increased downforce and hybrid push-out on corner exit of the fashionable cars make all of the difference on the twisty Interlagos circuit. The leaderboard is now stuffed with Porsche 919s, and it's more likely to prove that within the race too.

It's a 15-lap race with a compulsory pit stop. That requires you to make at the very least one run through the pits, whether you're filling up on fuel or tires or not, otherwise you'll get a one-minute penalty at the top of the race. It doesn't matter once you stop, so long as it's between the top of lap one and the beginning of lap 15.

You don't must refill or refresh your tires, despite the x5 tire wear multiplier and the requirement for mid-sized racing tires, but you possibly can spend a couple of seconds (within the infinite pit lane) changing tires to achieve the advantage of a faster time on the ultimate lap of the race.

To access Daily Races, you could unlock Sport Mode by completing Menu Book 9 (“Championship: Tokyo Highway Parade”) within the single-player hub GT Cafe. A PlayStation Plus subscription is required to participate.

WITH GT7Daily Races are updated every Monday for the lifetime of the sport. By now, a brand new set of races ought to be out on Monday, July fifteenth.

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Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races July 8: Race A

  • Path: Alsace – Test track, 8 laps
  • Car: Suzuki Jimny XC '18 – Garage/Car Specified
  • Power/Weight/PP Limit: 420 PP
  • Tires: Comfort Soft/Medium/Firm
  • Settings: Allowed
  • Start type: Grid start with false start control
  • Mandatory stop: 0
  • Fuel consumption: 1x
  • Tire Application: 1x

Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races July 8: Race B

  • Path: Nurburgring – Grand Prix, 5 laps
  • Car: Gr.3 – Garage/Specific Car
  • Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOPs (M)
  • Tires: Medium Races
  • Settings: Partially allowed – brake balance, differential, suspension
  • Start type: Start rolling
  • Mandatory stop: 0
  • Fuel consumption: 1x
  • Tire Application: 1x

Gran Turismo 7 Daily Races July 8: Race C

  • Path: Interlagos Autodromo, 15 laps
  • Car: Gr.1 – Specified automotive
  • Power/Weight/PP Limit: BOPs (M)
  • Tires: Medium Races
  • Settings: Partially Allowed – Brake Balance
  • Start type: Start rolling
  • Mandatory stop: 1
  • Fuel consumption: 3x
  • Tire Application: 5x

Inside Formula 1's flyover of the British Grand Prix

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Inside Formula 1's flyover of the British Grand Prix

“The meals on board are awful and the baggage allowance is extremely limited,” was the joke when asked to affix the Red Arrows for his or her legendary opening sequence on the British Grand Prix.

The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team is the perfect within the business. Its trademark Diamond Nine shape, and its tight combination of manoeuvre and precision flight have been thrilling crowds since 1965.

They put in one other good display on Sunday before the distinctive red Hawk aircraft crossed the starting line at Silverstone just before Hannah Waddingham finished singing the ultimate words of the national anthem.

The timing was perfect, as might be expected from Red Arrows pilots who’ve been practicing their maneuvers for years.

But additionally they share some similarities with the racers on the grid below, as Red 4 Lt. Ollie Suckling explained.

He tells Motorsport.com: “We work to make marginal gains, similar to in motorsport. The key to having a terrific show is to make it as perfect as possible. We have a briefing 55 minutes before the beginning and also you exit on the runway a couple of minutes before the beginning.

“We need to follow the black line on the map, but we use mental arithmetic to calculate the proper time, using timing trombones – 90-degree turns – to eliminate any timing errors.

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“We have done the manoeuvres tons of of times during winter training sessions, which start in October. It is a standard misconception that we go on holiday when the season ends and go straight into training for the following season, working in smaller teams.

“We fly to Croatia and Greece because the weather is more stable there and we work to make the shows look great by flying three times a day, five days a week.”

In addition to meticulous planning, pilots are physically just like Formula One drivers in terms of the physical preparation needed to address the intense G-forces within the cockpit.

Suckling added: “I only joined the Red Arrows in 2022 and Lando Norris joined us along with his race engineer Will Joseph and trainer Jon Malvern to do some flying.

“The training we do is similar in terms of the neck exercises. It was interesting to talk to Jon about the fact that there is also an element of mental and physical training. To be in the Red Arrows, you have to have a winning attitude.”

Of course, the speed is analogous, but while Formula One drivers can reach 210mph, pilots can reach over 500mph on the Silverstone circuit and 350mph on the straight throughout the national anthem. So Suckling didn’t have much time to take all of it in.

“We don’t have much time to look out the window,” he says, “but we get a lot of messages from people saying how much they like it, and that’s the most important thing.”

“I’m all smiles” after fighting for victory in Chicago Cup

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“I’m all smiles” after fighting for victory in Chicago Cup

Hand, 45, won the category and overall within the Rolex 24 at Daytona endurance race. Although he’s an experienced race automobile driver, NASCAR continues to be recent to him.

Sunday was just his eighth profession Cup start, driving a part-time automobile for RFK Racing often called Stage 60. There wasn’t much buzz surrounding Hand, who qualified thirty eighth. But when rain hit the track and the race descended into chaos, Hand and the No. 60 team were capable of capitalize in a giant way.

He was already quite high up the grid but decided to remain on his aging wet tyres on a drying track while many of the other competitors were taking a pit stop. He actually won the second stage and led the ultimate 20 minutes of the race.

Though he fought hard, he couldn’t fend off Alex Bowman’s No. 48 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet. While Bowman took the win, Hand ultimately finished fourth. It was still an enormous accomplishment for the veteran sports automobile driver. His best Cup finish before Sunday was a Twentieth-place finish at Sonoma Raceway in 2022.

Joey Hand, RFK Racing, BuildSubmarines.com Ford Mustang

Joey Hand, RFK Racing, BuildSubmarines.com Ford Mustang

Photo: Danny Hansen / NKP / Motorsports images

“It was a great day,” Hand said after the race. “I’m all smiles. It was loads of fun. It’s loads of fun when you could have a automobile that’s going to the front. RFK, that Stage 60 automobile and that group of men and girls were awesome. We had an amazing time together. We didn’t qualify well, but I told them we were lots higher. I used to be lying in bed last night and I dreamed about being within the front.

“It was loads of fun. I like that form of environment where everyone has to seek out a distinct way and there's no set plan of what you're going to do. I've won loads of races like that in my life. I assumed there was a likelihood to win one other one, which was going to be huge. To finish fourth, starting thirty eighth, in that automobile, was loads of fun.

“What can you say? We went to the front and I'm happy about that.”

Hand ultimately led a complete of seven laps and was the Ford driver at the highest of the finish line. Earlier this 12 months, RFK competed in Stage 60 at Sonoma with Supercars star Cam Waters, who finished thirty fifth after being caught in a crash. They also drove the automobile within the season-opening Daytona 500 with David Ragan, who finished Twentieth.

IndyCar CEO Frye praises 'good first weekend' for hybrids

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IndyCar CEO Frye praises 'good first weekend' for hybrids

This 12 months’s round at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course marked the debut of the hybrid-electric system, a project that originally faced some challenges, but IndyCar president Jay Frye expressed appreciation for the tip result.

The series introduced a first-of-its-kind hybrid system, a part of a three way partnership between Chevrolet and Honda, during which the present 2.2-litre twin-turbocharged V6 petrol engine is paired with a low-voltage (48V) motor-generator unit (MGU) and a supercapacitor energy storage system (ESS) capable of manufacturing as much as 320 kilojoules per lap.

The power output, when combined with the IndyCar’s standard push-to-pass system, increases the overall output to 120 horsepower, giving the motive force a complete of greater than 800 horsepower.

IndyCar Hybrid Unit

IndyCar Hybrid Unit

Photo: Honda

Early on, issues arose with the self-start feature, one among the important thing changes that permits drivers to press a sequence of buttons to start out or restart a stopped vehicle as a way to prevent a yellow flag from interrupting the race.

However, the issues that surfaced on Friday and resulted within the software being disabled on Saturday were reactivated on Sunday and have worked successfully several times.

A serious problem occurred before the beginning of the race when Scott Dixon’s No. 9 Chip Ganassi Racing Honda stalled during warm-up laps at Turn 5, sending the motive force into the wall.

The suspected issue was an ESS discharge, but IndyCar openly admitted it was still investigating the incident. Dixon was capable of return, albeit 22 laps behind, and ultimately accomplished 40 laps before retiring with what was described as a mechanical issue.

Dixon told NBC: “Something immediately started discharging the capacitors at an excessive rate, some kind of failure of the hybrid power cell.”

Dixon's incident ended his quest for a seventh championship; he was second within the standings before the weekend, just 32 points behind leader and teammate Alex Palou, but ultimately dropped to fourth, 71 points behind.

But Dixon proved to be the exception on a day that featured 80 laps of the two.258-mile, 13-turn course.

“It was a great effort by many, many people,” Frye told Motorsport.com. “Obviously, big shout out to Chevrolet and Honda for stepping up about 18 months ago.

“To have 27 cars running at the tip was an enormous achievement. When the drivers used all of it weekend, it was incredible. We had the No. 6 automobile (of Arrow McLaren rookie Nolan Siegel) start, back up and go (using the hybrid self-starter in warm-up), it was incredible.

“What’s really cool about this is that there’s still a ton of potential that we haven’t tapped into yet, but it’s a really, really good first weekend.”

Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing Honda

Scott Dixon, Chip Ganassi Racing Honda

Photo: Josh Tons / Motorsports images

Frye also shared the nerves that quickly built up within the wake of Dixon’s issues.

“Yeah, for sure, because you don’t know,” Frye said. “This thing was really flawless this weekend, we got this thing sorted out with the launch function and naturally it worked, which was great.

“Our race teams are amazing… We’ve done around 31,000 miles of testing on this technique so the teams have been an enormous a part of it, as they at all times are, and it’s been an enormous effort from the entire paddock.

“But yeah, when something like that happens right away, you don’t know what happened, so you’re on tenterhooks for the rest of the event, but they were obviously able to sort it out and get back in the game.”

Frye emphasized that that is the primary day of a brand new era for North America’s premier racing automobile championship.

“I think as we go along, things will just get better and better,” he said. “It’s a process.

“Today we simply ticked all the boxes in the first weekend and I am proud of everyone’s efforts and optimistic about the future.”

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