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[motorsport] Rovanpera’s WRC Rally Estonia pace a “big surprise” for Toyota
The reigning world champion made light work of sweeping the fast gravel stages to end Friday with a 3.0s lead over Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville heading into Saturday’s nine stages.Rovanpera’s surge to the rally lead included two stages wins in the afternoon despite facing the disadvantage of facing the rutted roads first. The 22-year-old’s stage winning performances provided another reminder ...Keep readingView the full article
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[motorsport] M-Sport: Tanak’s WRC Estonia drive “probably his best” for team
Tanak has largely dominated the times to claim six of the event’s eight stages to date, winning five of Friday’s seven tests including a clean sweep of the morning loop.The performance would have translated into a rally lead had the 2019 world champion avoided a five-minute penalty for an engine change on Thursday before the rally begun.Tanak’s stirring effort in difficult circumstances has ...Keep readingView the full article
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[motorsport] WRC Estonia: Rovanpera strikes to overhaul Neuville
The Toyota driver appeared to make light work of opening the roads to end the day with a slender 3.0s lead over Neuville. Neuville assumed the rally lead on stage two and held the advantage until stage six when Rovanpera managed to overhaul the Belgian after claiming his second stage win of the event.However, M-Sport’s Ott Tanak delivered the drive of the day to win five of the seven stages to ...Keep readingView the full article
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[motorsport] Lappi avoids penalty after WRC Rally Estonia startline confusion
The Hyundai driver was reported to have started stage three late which left the Finn potentially facing a time penalty.However, Lappi has since explained that he started the stage on time but was briefly delayed due to a miscommunication with the startline marshals.Lappi headed to the stage start having lost hybrid power following a heavy landing in the day's opening test and was initially told he ...Keep readingView the full article
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[motorsport] WRC Estonia: Neuville leads as a fired up Tanak dominates the times
Hyundai driver Neuville produced head-turning speed on the fast gravel roads to leap into a 6.8s-lead over championship leader Kalle Rovanpera, having started the day sitting fourth overall.Rovanpera produced an impressive damage limitation drive considering the Toyota driver had to open the loose gravel stages.However, it was a determined Tanak, hit by a five-minute engine change penalty ...Keep readingView the full article
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[motorsport] WRC Estonia: Tanak wins opening stage, Evans and Lappi share lead
The 2019 world champion kicked off the 21-stage event by winning the opening 3.3km Tartu Vald test but is sitting last in the overall standings after being hit with a five-minute penalty following an enforced engine change after shakedown.Facing an uphill struggle to score championship points, Tanak highlighted what could have been by winning the spectator stage by 0.6s from Toyota’s Elfyn Evans ...Keep readingView the full article
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[motorsport] Rovanpera: Tanak's "harsh" engine penalty a "shame" for WRC Estonia fight
Toyota's championship leader Rovanpera and M-Sport rival Tanak headed into the event as the overwhelming favourites to challenge for the win on Estonia’s fast gravel roads.However, an enforced engine change on Tanak’s Ford Puma due to a significant failure following Thursday’s shakedown has effectively put the Estonian out of the victory hunt on home soil before the rally has begun.WRC ...Keep readingView the full article
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[motorsport] WRC engine update to put Toyota on par with Hyundai
Toyota will debut its new engine update at this weekend’s Rally Estonia after the reigning world champions elected to use one of its homologation jokers to make the change.It has been widely considered that Hyundai has held a top-end speed advantage over Toyota since the introduction of the Rally1 regulations last year.The deficit between the teams was at its most prominent in high-speed ...Keep readingView the full article
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[motorsport] Hyundai confident it will avoid prop shaft issues at WRC Rally Estonia
Lappi suffered three failures related to the i20 N Rally1’s prop shaft that ultimately curtailed a realistic shot at a podium, while shining a spotlight on the team’s reliability concerns.Hyundai is aware that it will need to re-design the component in the future to fully fix the problem, but containment measures are in place for this weekend’s fast gravel round in Estonia.Abiteboul says a ...Keep readingView the full article
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[motorsport] Engine change dashes Tanak’s WRC Estonia victory hopes
Tanak reported an engine issue with his Ford Puma after clocking the fastest time following the first pass of the 4.08km shakedown stage on Thursday morning.The 2019 world champion was forced to be towed back to the service park to all his M-Sport team to investigate the problem.M-Sport declared the problem to be a "fairly significant" issue which prompted the British squad to change the ...Keep readingView the full article
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[autosport] Shane van Gisbergen to return to NASCAR at Indianapolis
Van Gisbergen made his NASCAR Cup debut at Chicago earlier this month on the streets of Chicago. After starting third, he was able to win on debut after a dramatic late-race charge to the front.No driver had managed to accomplish the feat at the top level of NASCAR in over 60 years.Just over a month after his Chicago triumph, van Gisbergen will again drive the Project91 entry for Trackhouse ...Keep readingView the full article
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[autosport] Supercars title challenger Kostecki to make NASCAR Cup debut
Following in the footsteps of fellow Supercars star Shane van Gisbergen, who won on his NASCAR debut in the Chicago street race earlier this month, Kostecki will join the NASCAR field on the Indianapolis road course on 13 August.The 25-year-old will link up with RCR team-mates Austin Dillon and two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch as part of an alliance of sorts between Kostecki's ...Keep readingView the full article
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Supercars title challenger Kostecki to make NASCAR Cup debut
Following in the footsteps of fellow Supercars star Shane van Gisbergen, who won on his NASCAR debut in the Chicago street race earlier this month, Kostecki will join the NASCAR field on the Indianapolis road course on 13 August. The 25-year-old will link up with RCR team-mates Austin Dillon and two-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Kyle Busch as part of an alliance of sorts between Kostecki's ...Keep readingView the full article
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[autosport] NASCAR Cup New Hampshire: Martin Truex Jr dominates delayed race
In the previous nine races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Truex had led 768 laps – including winning the pole last year – but had never finished better than third.In Monday’s rain-delayed race at the one-mile oval in Loudon, Truex and his #19 Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota were again dominant, leading 254 of 301 laps.With three restarts in the final 23 laps, Truex still had to work for the win.He ...Keep readingView the full article
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[autosport] Heavy rain forces NASCAR to postpone Loudon Cup race
NASCAR made the call Sunday morning hours before the scheduled start time to postpone the Crayon 301 until Monday. The race will be broadcast live on USA Network.A flash flood warning and tornado watches were in effect around the area of the track in Loudon, N.H., when the race was called at approximately 10:45 a.m. ET.Monday’s forecast calls for much better conditions – partly cloudy with a ...Keep readingView the full article
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[autosport] NASCAR Cup Atlanta: Byron comes back from lap down to win rain-shortened race
After contact with Corey LaJoie early in the second stage, Byron received damage to his #24 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet and fell a lap down.Thanks to some more cautions and quick repairs, Byron returned to the lead lap and stayed on the track between Stages 2 and 3 to move towards the front of the field.Two laps following the start of the final stage, Byron swept around A.J. Allmendinger to ...Keep readingView the full article
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[autosport] How van Gisbergen’s NASCAR triumph gave Supercars a new dimension
Shane van Gisbergen’s miracle NASCAR win completes the creation of a second dimension for Supercars. It is no longer just a destination category. It can be a pathway as well.The series has always enjoyed a healthy notoriety outside of Australia and New Zealand, largely thanks to the spectacle that is the Bathurst 1000. At least once a year, better-than-casual motorsport viewers around the globe ...Keep readingView the full article
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[autosport] NASCAR bosses hail "remarkable" success of Chicago street race
Both the second-tier Xfinity and Cup Series raced on the 2.2-mile, 12-turn course created through Grant Park in downtown Chicago, but the biggest hurdle faced by NASCAR ended up being battles with the weather.NASCAR newcomer Shane van Gisbergen took a dramatic victory in his Cup debut in Sunday’s race. The participation of the three-time Supercars champion came as part of Trackhouse Racing’s ...Keep readingView the full article
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NASCAR bosses hail "remarkable" success of Chicago street race
Both the second-tier Xfinity and Cup Series raced on the 2.2-mile, 12-turn course created through Grant Park in downtown Chicago, but the biggest hurdle faced by NASCAR ended up being battles with the weather. NASCAR newcomer Shane van Gisbergen took a dramatic victory in his Cup debut in Sunday’s race. The participation of the three-time Supercars champion came as part of Trackhouse ...Keep readingView the full article
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[autosport] Van Gisbergen free to make NASCAR move in 2024 - Whincup
The future of the three-time Supercars champion has been a hot topic for some time, based largely on his dissatisfaction with the new Gen3 cars.Speculation of a move to the US has now been turbocharged by van Gisbergen's NASCAR victory in Chicago last weekend as part of Trackhouse Racing's Project91 programme.As it stands, van Gisbergen is under contract with Triple Eight until the end of the 2024 ...Keep readingView the full article
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[autosport] NASCAR Cup Chicago: Van Gisbergen takes dramatic win on debut
With NASCAR celebrating its 75th anniversary, van Gisbergen stunned the motorsport world by winning the rain-delayed first street race in Cup series history.A late caution for a two-car crash sent the race into a two-lap overtime but van Gisbergen, who had grabbed the lead on the previous restart, had little trouble holding off Justin Haley by 1.259 seconds to claim the win.The Kiwi did a ...Keep readingView the full article
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[autosport] NASCAR Cup Chicago: Hamlin snags pole, van Gisbergen takes third
Three-time Australian Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen (Trackhouse Racing) had posted the fastest average speed as all 10 cars took to the track in the last minute of Saturday’s final round of qualifying.NASCAR debutant van Gisbergen actually improved on his speed, but so did the Toyotas of Reddick and his 23XI co-owner Hamlin. The three-time Daytona 500 winner's wicked fast lap of ...Keep readingView the full article
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NASCAR Cup Chicago: Hamlin snags pole, van Gisbergen takes third
Three-time Australian Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen (Trackhouse Racing) had posted the fastest average speed as all 10 cars took to the track in the last minute of Saturday’s final round of qualifying. NASCAR debutant van Gisbergen actually improved on his speed, but so did the Toyotas of Reddick and his 23XI co-owner Hamlin. The three-time Daytona 500 winner's wicked fast lap of ...Keep readingView the full article