RNW Staff

Zak Brown, McLaren’s CEO, has commented on the incident which cost Carlos Sainz from having a decent race in Bahrain. “Based on the onboard images, I would say that the turn was Carlos,” he told Motorsport-total.com. “It was a racing incident, but Carlos was driving far enough for him so that the turn was his, […]

Lando Norris believes a resurgent McLaren are finally “on the way up” in Formula 1 again after an impressive Bahrain GP. “It’s definitely on the way up,” Norris, 19, told Sky F1. “The steps we’ve taken from last year, to be two out of two times in Q3, to have opportunities to get into the […]

Carlos Sainz says his clash with Max Verstappen saved him from a “more dramatic” day in the Bahrain Grand Prix, as he believes a gearbox problem would have cost him a points finish anyway. “I’m trying to look at the positives,” said Sainz. “A good start, a good first lap, the cars in front weren’t […]

A seething Sebastian Vettel bemoaned his race performance at the Bahrain Grand Prix, after his spin following a battle with Lewis Hamilton cost him seven places and he would ultimately finish in fifth, three places down from his starting position on the grid. “[It was] Difficult. I think we all struggled at various points. I […]

Lewis Hamilton has won the Bahrain Grand Prix after Charles Leclerc was hit with engine trouble in the last handful of laps. The Monegasque driver held the lead for most of the race, despite being pipped off the line by teammate Sebastian Vettel. He then fell behind Valtteri Bottas but soon regrouped and overtook Bottas, […]

Grosjean qualified seventh, so will drop to 10th, coincidentally where Norris finished the session. After qualifying was finished, Norris offered an alternate view on the incident which was not initially picked up by TV cameras. “If you look at the end result, he did hold me up in the final corner. And for any driver […]

Romain Grosjean will drop three places on the grid in the Bahrain Grand Prix for an incident that McLaren’s Lando Norris said Sebastian Vettel was at least partly responsible for. “I don’t really know what to say, Vettel screwed him over, which isn’t a very nice thing to do in terms of us being racers; […]

Ferrari claimed California 8 Hours victory at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca earlier today (March 30) thanks to a commanding performance from HubAuto Corsa trio Nick Foster, Miguel Molina and Tim Slade.

Strakka Racing began its 2019 Intercontinental GT Challenge campaign today at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca for the California 8 Hours, fielding two Mercedes-AMG GT3 cars.

Following two consecutive victories in the California 8 Hours, Audi Sport customer racing achieved a fourth and a seventh position at Laguna Seca, USA, marking a successful debut of the 2019 generation of the Audi R8 LMS GT3 sports car in this series.

The new Porsche 911 GT3 R scored a place on the podium at its first outing in the Intercontinental GT Challenge. Works drivers Romain Dumas (France) and Sven Müller (Germany) as well as Porsche Young Professional Mathieu Jaminet (France) finished the eight-hour race at Laguna Seca (USA) in third place. Over long stretches, the trio driving the No. 911 vehicle of the American customer team Park Place Motorsports even looked on course for a win. The identical car fielded by the customer team Wright Motorsports had also led the race only to retire early with a technical defect.

The two BMW M6 GT3s finished in fifth and eighth positions in the “California 8 Hours”, the second of five races in the Intercontinental GT Challenge. Augusto Farfus (BRA), Martin Tomczyk (GER) and Chaz Mostert (AUS) from the BMW Team Schnitzer crossed the finishing line in Laguna Seca (USA) in fifth place after 326 laps. They had recorded the same result at the season-opener in Bathurst (AUS). The Walkenhorst Motorsport drivers Nick Catsburg (NED), Mikkel Jensen (DEN) and Christian Krognes (NOR) secured eighth place in Laguna Seca.