Our newest and now updated Circuit Graphic for the upcoming Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix at the Barcelona-Catalunya Circuit.

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Oliver Solberg will be back in a WRC car for the Rally Italia Sardegna from 3-6 june.

Solberg has had one outing in a WRC car last time out in a Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC in the Arctic Rally Finland when he drove for Hyundai 2C Competition, he finished seventh equalling his best result in the WRC. Solberg finished also seventh in the 2020 Rally Monza but that was in a Skoda Fabia Rally 2 Evo.

Solberg has had 9 WRC starts under his belt but has finished only 6 of them.

In 2020 he won the WRC2 class in the Rally Estonia in a Volkswagen Polo GTI R5, he finished 17th in last years championship and is 12th at the moment of writing.

Bobby Unser from Colorado Springs, USA has passed away on may the 2nd, he was 87 years old.

Unser had a remarkable big career in motorsports, he won the Indy 500 three times: 1968, 1975 and 1981. He's the only man to win the Indy 500 three times in 3 different decades.

He was a big talent in open wheel racing in the United States, winning the USAC National Championship twice (1968 & 1974) with 24 victories and 37 pole positions.

Unser had some outing in the NASCAR Cup too, 4 starts from 1969 - 1973 with twice a fourth place as a best result.

In his final years of competitive racing he raced in sportscars with an outing in the Daytona 24 Hours and the FIA Sportscars. 

We send our condolences to the Unser family and his friends.

On this day in 2019, Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) set the fastest lap of the 2019 Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix.

This was for Ferrari their 250th fastest lap in Formula 1, they have a total of 254 fastest laps in Formula 1 and are leading the all-time rankings with McLaren in second place with 157 fastest laps.

Next weekend we will have plenty to do and to watch in the world of Motorsports!

The main course will be the Formula 1 Portuguese Grand Prix at Algarve while in Spain MotoGP will be wheeling for the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez!

Another series will kick of their season: The World Endurance Championship (WEC) will have their first race with Hypercars in Belgium at Spa-Francorchamps for the 6 Hours of Spa!

In the United States, IndyCar will have a doubleheader at Texas Motor Speedway (A race on saturday and a race on sunday) while the NASCAR Cup will race on sunday at Kansas Speedway

Discover all info, entrylists and results and more in our Results section HERE

Two drivers will make their debut in Super Formula at Suzuka this weekend!

The first one is Giuliano Alesi (son of former F1 driver Jean Alesi), Alesi 'Jr' has raced this year in Super Formula Lights and Super GT in Japan! He's currently fourth in the Super Formula Lights championship after finishing twice on the podium in 2 of the 3 races on the first round at Fuji,  in the other race he finished sixth.

The second driver debuting in Super Formula will be Yves Baltas, Baltas in a 19y old american who raced in the British Formula 4 championship and Formula Renault Euro but in total he has started 12 races (6 races in each series) with a best result of a 6th place at Doningtin in a race for the British F4 series.

Follow the results of the next Super Formula round at Suzuka HERE

TIME WARP:

Haas F1 in the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix qualifying were 2.107s and 1.45s slower than the fastest Q1 time.

In 1997 the slowest Minardi was 5.425s off the quickest time!

The two Haas cars would have qualified in 8th and 12th in 1997 with the same gap to first as it had in 2021.

Just to emphasise how close the current Formula 1 grids are. We might dunk on Haas for being the slowest, but it isn’t doing too badly in reality!

Where Haas would have qualified in:

1993 - 3rd and 5th 

1994 - 7th and 11th

[By our special contributor Laura Leslie]

Fabio Quartararo won the MotoGP Grande Prémio 888 De Portugal after he had started for the 11th time from pole position, it was Quartararo 5th win in MotoGP. Five wins in MotoGP brings him in 32nd place of the all-time list. Most wins all-time has Valentino Rossi with 89. Next to a win, a pole position this was also his 12th podium in MotoGP but that's still very far away from the 199 podiums that Valentino Rossi has achieved in his career (so far).

Quartararo leads the 2021 championship now with 15 points more than Francesco Bagnaia who finished 2nd in the Portuguese GP. P2 was Bagnaia's third podium in MotoGP, he has had two 2nd place and a 3rd place.

Joan Mir finished in third only 0.138s behind Bagnaia, it was Mir's 8th podium. Mir seems to do generally good in Portugal as from the 8 podiums he has achieved 3 in Portugal. (One P3 at Algarve and two P3 at Motorland Aragon).

Enea Bastianini was at the chequered flag P9, this is his best career finish in MotoGP so far!

Luca Marini and Lorenzo Savadori popped up as the riders with milestones in this Grand Prix, as for the first time in their MotoGP they scored championship points!

Although he didn't finish the race, Alex Rins set the fastest lap, it was his 5th of his career. Rins has no set at least 1 fastest lap of a race every year since 2018. 

MORE HERE

The Formula 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix was won by Max Verstappen (Red Bull-Honda), this was Verstappen 11th win in Formula 1. Eleven is the same number of wins Rubens Barrichello, Felipe Massa and Jacques Villeneuve achieved in their career! Together with those 3 former F1 drivers he's in the all-time list now 27th. This was Verstappen's 44th podium finish.

Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) stood for the 167th time on the podium, for Lando Norris (McLaren-Mercedes) this was his 2nd podium. Two podium finishes is the same amount of current active drivers Carlos Sainz Jr. (Ferrari) and Pierre Gasly (Alpha Tauri-Honda)! 

The only 'Milestone' from the Grand Prix is Sergio Perez (Red Bull-Honda) first front row start from P2.

Only 2 drivers improved or equalled their best race result: Mick Schumacher (Haas) P16 (Same as in the Bahrain Grand Prix) and Nikita Mazepin (Haas) finished for the first time a race in P17! 

Fabio Quartararo will start for the 11th time in MotoGP from pole position in the 2021 Portuguese Grand Prix.

Quartararo has now one less pole position then Maverick Viñales and Johnny Cecotto (12), the rider with the most pole positions is Marc Marquez with 62.

MORE HERE

Sergio Perez (Red Bull-Honda) will start for the first time in his Formula 1 career from the Front Row!

Perez finished second is close fought out qualifying session for the F1 Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix, he was beaten by only 0.035s by Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) but was a fraction (0.052s) faster than teammate Max Verstappen!

MORE HERE

Exactly 8 years ago Gerino Gerini died at the age of 84 years.

Gerini was from Rome in Italy and race in 1956 and 1958 in Formula 1. 

His best result was a 4th place in the 1956 Argentine Grand Prix with Maserati.

His best qualifying performance was a 15th place for the 1958 French Grand Prix, he finished 9th in the race.

In the two years he raced in Formula 1, he started in 6 races but couldn't qualify for one and his best season was the 1956 one with 25th place in the World Championship.

MORE HERE

One of the Rookies this weekend in the 2021 Indy Lights Championship is Alex Peroni!

Peroni is a 21y Australian from Tasmania and has race in the previous 6 years in Europe from Italian Formula 4, Formula Renault Euro and FIA Formula 3.

His best season so far is the 2018 Formula Renault Euro championship with MP Motorsport when he finished 9th in the standings with a win, two podiums and one pole position behind his name.

He will race in the Indy Lights championship for Carlin.

Peroni is also known for his spectacular shunt in Monza in a race for the FIA Formula 3 Championship in 2019, see YouTube clip.  

A Stat Preview of the F1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix or Imola Grand Prix by our special contributor Laura Leslie:

“Team Brackley is the only current team to score a podium at Imola in three separate guises of itself - Tyrrell (Alboreto in 1984), BAR (Button in 2004) and Mercedes (Hamilton and Bottas in 2020)”

Discover more of our stat previews on our Twitter HERE

On this day two years ago the 2019 Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix took place, the race was won by Lewis Hamilton in his Mercedes. It marked Hamilton's 75th F1 win of his career!

Another Milestone of that race was Pierre Gasly's first Fastest Lap of a Grand Prix, he drove back then for Red Bull/Honda.

MORE HERE

Martin Truex Jr. won the 72nd Annual Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500, his 29th victory in 558 Cup Series races. This is his second victory and fifth top-10 finish in 2021 and it's his third victory and 14th top-10 finish in 32 races at Martinsville Speedway.

• Chase Elliott (second) posted his seventh top-10 finish in 13 races at Martinsville Speedway. It is his fourth top-10 finish in 2021.
• Denny Hamlin (third) posted his 22nd top-10 finish in 32 races at Martinsville Speedway.
• Anthony Alfredo (26th) was the highest finishing rookie.

MORE HERE

Josh Berry has won his first NASCAR Xfinity race of his career at Martinsville Speedway, he took the chequered flag of the Cook Out 250 after he had started from 29th position. The race had started on friday but was later halted because of bad weather conditions, the 2nd part of the race took place on sunday afternoon.

Berry is a 30 year old from Hendersonville, Tennessee and drives for JR Motorsports in a Chevrolet Camaro!

MORE HERE 

On This Day 28 years ago, the famous Formula 1 European Grand Prix took place at Donington Park, UK!

The race is remembered for Ayrton Senna's display of skills driving a Formula 1 car in difficult rainy conditions when he lapped almost all the field.

Some stats of race

• Margin of victory: 1'23.199s
• On the winner's lap: 2
• Leaders: 2 (Ayrton Senna 71 laps, Alain Prost 5 laps)
• Race distance covered: 1173 laps (61.7%), 4719 km
• Total distance covered: 3862 laps, 15537 km
• Top speed: 288.73 km/h (Prost)
• Pit stops: 64
• Overtakes: 30

Alain Prost (Williams-Renault) started from pole position, while Senna (McLaren-Ford) had only qualified 4th.

Story of the opening laps:

"At the green light, Prost and Hill accelerated away cleanly and forged into Redgate in commanding style, Senna's challenge momentarily blunted as Schumacher edged him up the kerb on the left, opening a gap through which Wendlinger was only too pleased to insert his Sauber to take a fleeting third place. But Ayrton's blue touch paper was well and truly alight and what followed was the most sensational opening lap in recent F1 history.

Momentarily wrong-footed by the Benetton, Senna dodged round the back of Schumacher to take fourth place as the two cars accelerated out of Redgate. He sliced past Wendlinger on the outside of the Craner Curves and forced his way round an admittedly obliging Hill as they climbed towards McLeans. Through Coppice, down the return straight and through the chicane onto the new loop, Senna was now gobbling up Prost's advantage and, as they braked for the Melbourne Hairpin, he slithered past on the inside to take the lead.

By the time he scrambled through the tight left-hander out onto the startline straight and slammed across the timing line he was 0.6 second ahead of his arch-rival, with Hill hanging on gamely in third. Remarkably, fourth place was now in the custody of Rubens Barrichello's Jordan, the 20-year-old Brazilian having capitalised on the misfortunes of others to head Alesi's Ferrari, Schumacher, Berger, Herbert and Patrese."

YouTube F1 Short Report

Source: AutoCourse

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Jean-Erc Vergne (DS Techeetah) won the first ePrix of the weekend on saturday in Rome! This was Vergne's 10th win in Formula E!

• During the race, the lead changed 5 times! Besides Vergne other race leaders were Stoffel Vandoorne, Nyck de Vries, Oliver Rowland and Lucas di Grassi!
• The margin of victory at the line was 0.461s but this was under caution because in the final laps Stoffel Vandoorne crashed out while avoiding a retiring Lucas di Grassi.
• 10 wins for Vergne who will be 31 years young in 15 days, brings him in on equal terms for total wins with Lucas di Grassi and Sam Bird. Only Vergne and di Grassi have won the Formula E championship before but Bird leads the championship after 3 rounds.
• With Vergne scoring a 24th podium in Formula he's 3rd in the all-time list of podium finishers, Lucas di Grassi is 1st (32) and Sébastien Buemi is 3rd (29 podiums).

Stoffel Vandoorne (Mercedes) will start for the 3rd time from pole position in Formula E.

In the Super Pole session for the 1st Rome ePrix of the weekend he was 0.167s faster than André Lotterer (Porsche).

Vandoorne previous race starts from pole positions have ended in a win (Berlin 2020) and a DNF (Hong Kong 2019).

Yesterday's evening NASCAR Xfinity race, the Cook Out 250 was halted after stage 1 due to bad weather conditions.

The race is planned to continue on sunday 12pm ET.

Two active drivers have won at Imola:

1)Lewis Hamilton (2020) with Mercedes

2)Fernando Alonso (2005) with Renault.

FACT: Yuki Tsunoda (Alpha Tauri) was just 4 years old when Alonso won.

[By special contributor Laura Leslie]

On This Day in 1995, 26 years ago the Formula One Argentine Grand Prix took place.

The race was held on the Buenos Aires Circuit and was won by Damon Hill in his Williams-Renault! This was Damon Hill's 10th career win in F1!

For Mika Häkkinen (McLaren-Mercedes) this was his 50th Grand Prix start but it ended superfast as he was involved in a collision right after the start with 3 other drivers.

David Coulthard (Williams-Renault) started the race from pole position; this was Coulthard's first pole in his career and also his first front row start. Coulthard's race wasn't such a big highlight of his career as on lap 16 he had to retire the Williams FW17 with electrical issues. On the other hand his pole for the Williams team meant the had no started 75 times from pole position in F1.

SEE MORE HERE

Joey Logano will start from pole position for this weekend's NASCAR Cup Race at Martinsville!

Logano is second in the championship after winnings last race at Bristol.

The race is fully named as the "Blue-Emu Maximum Pain Relief 500" and will start this saturday april 10th at 7.30pm, you can follow up all results HERE

On This Day in 2007 Lewis Hamilton managed to set for the first time a fastest lap of a Grand Prix!

Op april 8, the 2007 Malaysian Grand Prix took place at the Sepang Circuit, the race was won by Fernando Alonso (McLaren-Mercedes) but it was teammate Lewis Hamilton that snatched fastest lap of the race on lap 22!

Felipe Massa (Ferrari) started from pole position but finished the race in P5.

Despite the racing season is in it's 3rd gear this weekend, it will be a little less busier then last one or certainly the next weekend!

On the agenda we've got a double header in Rome (Italy) with two Formula E races, the Rome ePrix that are round 3 & 4 of the 2020/2021 season! The Formula E series is the only World Championship that will be in action over the weekend of 10-11 april.

On the other side of the ocean the NASCAR Cup and Xfinity series will race at the Martinsville Speedway (USA)!

And finally in Japan at the Okayama circuit the first round of the 2021 Super GT series will take place.

You can follow up all info, results and stats on our results pages HERE

The 1985 Brazilian Grand Prix was held on this day 36 years ago it was the first round of the 1985 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season!

• Margin of victory: 3.259s
• On the winner's lap: 2
• Leaders: 3 (Prost-44 laps, Rosberg-9, Alboreto-8)
• Race distance covered: 1052 laps (69.0%), 5293 km
• Top speed: 227.915 km/h (Rosberg)
• Overtakes: 61

Did you know?

1)That René Arnoux who finished 4th for Ferrari was sacked after the race, the reason behind the sacking was never revealed. Stefan Johansson who finished 7th in the Grand Prix replaced Arnoux at the Scuderia for the rest of the year.

2)This race was also Nigel Mansell's first race of 7 seasons with the Williams team.

Next weekend the 2021 Formula 1 and MotoGP season will get underway but in recent weeks a championship that has been buzzing with news of makes to come back or entering the championship in the top clas is the World Endurance Championship. But before all that in two weeks time the 2021 WEC season will get underway that kicks of a new era for the endurance series 

1    4 April 2021    8 Hours of Portimao    Algarve International Circuit        
2    1 May 2021    Total 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps    Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps        
3    18 July 2021    6 Hours of Monza    Autodromo Nazionale Monza        
4    22 August 2021    24 Hours of Le Mans    Le Mans        
5    26 September 2021    6 Hours of Fuji    Fuji Speedway        
6    20 November 2021    6 Hours of Bahrain    Bahrain International Circuit