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Unbelievable scenes in the Citroën DS3 Cup Denmark at FDM Jyllandsringen. Suddenly, it starts raining heavily and half the field crashes hard, as they're on slicks and aquaplain off the track.
*Eurobeat intensifies*
What a save by Felice Jelmini through Acque Minerali and he still won the Clio Cup race, after re-taking the lead from Nicolas Milan!
Aaro Vainio and
@afelixdacosta
tandem drafting in the GP3 Series at Autodromo Nazionale Monza in 2012 is still one of the best moments in modern open wheel racing ever.
Commentary by
@wbuxtonofficial
.
Crashing like this behind the Safety Car is almost impressive. Marco De Toffol was okay, stepping out of his Tatuus Formula Renault 2.0 under his own power.
Alexandre Areia crashed over the barriers and flipped into the grandstands during practice for Porsche Sprint Challenge Iberica at Autódromo do Algarve today. They're a support series of FIA World Endurance Championship in Portimão this weekend. This is an FIA Grade 1 circuit.
I'm really curious to see, if they manage to complete construction of the Jeddah circuit ahead of the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix. F1 will be there in four weeks. These images are from (less than) a week ago.
📸 F1 / FOM
Update on the IndyCar race at Pocono: still under Red Flag conditions for catchfence repairs on Lap 9, after a big crash for Robert Wickens. News is that the Schmidt-Peterson driver is awake and alert and has been transported to hospital.
#IndyCar
#ABCSupply500
Involved: Cheang (96), Ip (86), Lam (35), Lam (72), Da Costa Pereira (46), Lin (32), Jin (88), Li (8), Lam (10), Lei (2), Chan (83), Alves Dias (11), Lui (7) and Valente (20). That's the end of the Melco Macau Touring Car Cup.
#MacauGP
The Wynn Macau Guia Race - TCR Asia Challenge ends with a massive accident for Sze Ho Lo at Mandarin. He is conscious and has been taken to hospital for further checks. Lo was hit by Ryan Wong, Ruo Han Huang and Chi On Cheong.
#MacauGP
Amazing job keeping it out of the barriers,
@MarkusPommer
. I don't think I've ever seen anyone pull a clean 360 through Mandarin before.
#FIAGTWorldCup
#MacauGP
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The 24 Hours of Le Mans did the traditional start, where drivers had to run to their cars, for the last time in 1969, but since then there have been races that still did the Le Mans start. Example: 2015 Highlands 101, the Australian GT season finale.
🎥 Highlands Motorsport Park
Word is the Dacia Logan project is over. The car is reportedly beyond repair after a crash in the Stefan Bellof-S last night. Dinamic GT Porsche driver Laurin Heinrich received a €3,000 fine for causing the collision.
📸 Gruppe C |
#24hNBR
Qualifying for the 12 Hours of Sebring ends in disaster for the No. 48 Ally Cadillac. Jimmie Johnson spun in Turn 16 before crashing hard in Sunset Bend not even half a minute later. It was Pipo Derani meanwhile who took Pole position.
#IMSA
#Sebring12
A forgotten, but absolutely crazy finish.
In the NASCAR Canadian Tire race on the streets of Trois-Rivières in 2007, Kerry Micks and Andrew Ranger were separated by 0.012 seconds, as they crashed going across the line. This came two weeks after their heated battle in Montreal.
The Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine has the following statement: MP Motorsport driver Dilano van 't Hoff has sadly passed away.
#GTWorldChEu
#IGTC
#Spa24h
I'm biased, but I can't stand F1 will be getting priority. I know I'm in the minority, but IMO the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa is a much more significant event than the Belgian GP and there's many good reasons the
#Spa24h
is always held in the last weekend of July.
#GTWorldChEu
Robert Mau, five laps down in the LMP3 class and having caused this neutralisation, crashes into the back of the third-placed GTP Porsche of
@danecameron19
... whilst under the Safety Car... Brilliant.
#IMSA
#Sebring12
.
@TrevorHudd50
, side-by-side with Tanner Gray, crosses the line in first and takes his maiden K&N Pro Series West victory. He crashes in Turn 1 with a flat tire. 🏁
#NASCAR
#ENEOSNapaAuto150
🎥 Courtesy of FansChoice TV / NASCAR
The number of big crashes in sportscar racing at Yas Marina Circuit, in which armco barriers were damaged or even destroyed, in just the last two months is alarming. Are the barriers too close to the track? Should there be something different than armco at Turns 1, 4, 6 and 9-10?
We're all grateful for all the work the FIA has put in to make these cars safer and safer the last couple of decades. I'm still in shock that Romain made it out alive.
📸 Andy Hone
The 2024 Maserati MC20 GT2 has been revealed in the
#Spa24h
paddock. Andrea Bertolini will do a demo lap in the brand-new Nettuno V6-powered machine ahead of the big race tomorrow.
#GT2Europe
Audi Sport will no longer sell GT2-, GT3- and GT4-spec R8 LMSs after March 2024 due to the end of production of the R8 road car and the start of their F1 program. Factory-supported efforts are set to cease and 14 works drivers will have to leave the manufacturer.
📸 Audi Sport
The start of the first Renault Clio Cup Europe race at Magny-Cours is delayed, because there aren't enough white painted grid slots for the 38-car grid, causing confusion at the back about who has to start where.
Hershel McGriff will be inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2023. He made his first start in the 1950 Southern 500 at Darlington at 22 years, 8 months and 21 days. He made his last start in the 2018 Port of Tucson Twin 100s at 90 years, 4 months and 21 days.
📸 ISC / NASCAR
One. In. A million. Chance.
During the Trans-Am race at the 2001 Grand Prix of Houston, Mike Davis ripped a blue flag out of the hands of one of the marshals. Andre Toennis then passed Davis, picking up the blue flag cleanly without contact.
It's crazy that ten-time Formula One Grand Prix podium finisher Romain Grosjean, seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson and three-time Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin are the three rookies in the IndyCar Series this season.
Race 2 of the Fanatec GT World Challenge Asia powered by AWS at Fuji Speedway was another thriller. Akira Iida, in the Race 1 winning Bingo Callaway Corvette, suffered a huge crash after contact with the Am leading Spirit of FFF Lamborghini of Hiroshi Hamaguchi.
#GTWorldChAsia
I wonder if Sebastian Vettel is actually contemplating racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship. 118 laps around Motorland Aragón, almost two Formula One Grands Prix race distances, is not a shakedown for a bit of a laugh. That's a serious test.
📸 Porsche AG |
#WEC
Fernando Alonso: gets a drive-through converted to a 20-second time penalty despite not making contact with anybody else
Nikola Tsolov: gets a three-place grid penalty for deliberately crashing into another driver in practice
How does this make sense in the same
#AusGP
weekend?
The 1000 Miles of Sebring FIA WEC season opener is Red Flagged. Pechito López crashed after contact with Julien Andlauer. He had front end damage, tried to turn in at Bishop and went straight on into the barriers. The No. 7 Toyota lands upside down. López is out of the car.
Ya Qi Zhang survived this horrific looking accident in Warm Up of the Sands China Macau GT Cup with three broken ribs, a collapsed lung and other chest injuries. It's amazing that Zhang didn't suffer any leg or back injuries and it shows the safety of the Audi R8 LMS.
#MacauGP
Audi will contest the ADAC TotalEnergies 24h Nürburgring with four expressive liveries to reflect their history.
No. 1 Scherer PHX:
- Livery: 1988 and 1989 IMSA GTO and Trans-Am
- Drivers: Mattia Drudi, Ricardo Feller, Dennis Lind and Frédéric Vervisch
📸 Audi Sport |
#24hNBR
I wonder what the first thought of Ferrari, Red Bull and Verstappen fans who do not watch GT3 racing on a regular basis, is when they see this car.
📸 Jules Benichou |
#GTWorldChEu
Timothé Buret had a wiggle over the bumps in Turn 1 similar to Felipe Nasr. Thank goodness, the Frenchman is out of the car and seems to be okay. The No. 8 Tower Oreca crashed out hard and flipped.
#IMSA
#Sebring12
How not to recover a race car from a deep gravel trap. This happened today in Buenos Aires after marshals had already flipped an F1 MA car in an attempt to drag it it away from the track. Yikes.
The Highlands 6 Hour, celebrating the 10-year anniversary of Highlands Motorsport Park, is underway with the traditional epic Le Mans-style start.
#Highlands6Hour
.
@SelinRollan
wins Race 1 of the Idemitsu Mazda MX-5 Cup at Sebring by 0.001 seconds over Michael Carter and 0.013 seconds over
@GreshamWagner
in a three-wide fight to the line.
Frikadelli Racing Team and Ferrari win the ADAC TotalEnergies 24h-Rennen at the Nürburgring for the first time with Earl Bamber, Nicky Catsburg, Felipe Fernández Laser and David Pittard! It's a new distance record with 162 laps in the brand-new 296 GT3!
📸 Gruppe C |
#24hNBR
.
@RFrijns
in the No. 15 Phoenix Audi threads the needle between
@Axciljefferies
, whose Konrad Lamborghini has broken left rear suspension, and the No. 167 Giti Tire BMW of Niklas Kry.
#24hNBR
The FIA WTCR is finished. Andy Priaulx was the first World Touring Car Champion in 2005 and Mikel Azcona is the final World Touring Car Cup title winner in 2022. Tom Coronel was the only driver to enter all 190 rounds in all 18 seasons, scoring 32 podiums of which 6 wins.
According to RACER's Robin Miller, NASCAR Xfinity is testing on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course in two months. I'd support a roval race at Indy, as long as they do not use that chicane section in oval Turn 1. However, I'd still prefer them going to Lucas Oil Raceway.
The crashed car of Costa Toparis rolls backwards onto the race track, while marshals are there over the armco barriers. They had a full lap, one and a half minutes, to respond with a Safety Car or Red Flags. Was Race Control of GB3 at Oulton Park asleep? Ridiculous.
The No. 3 Mercedes-AMG Team GetSpeed car of
@MaroEngel
and the No. 115 KGL AMC St. Vith Porsche Cayman of Philippe Broodcooren make heavy contact going through Stefan Bellof-S!
#24hNBR
The second day of the 70th Macau Grand Prix has come to a close. We will do it all over again from Thursday through Sunday with the Motorcycle GP, China Touring Car Championship, 70th Anniversary Challenge, TCR World Tour, FIA GT World Cup and FIA F3 World Cup.
#MacauGP
Romain Grosjean's Haas VF-20 was split in half with the front end penetrating the armco barriers and going up in flames. It's a miracle he is alive. An absolute miracle.
What a finish.
@DanTicktum
made it four-wide for third place and then took the win, when both Habsburg and Sette Câmara threw it away in the final corner.
#FIAF3WorldCup
#MacauGP
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And just two minutes after the pass for the lead, the Full Course Yellow is out. A big crash for the No. 95 Turner Motorsport BMW coming out of the second to last corner. The race will end behind the Safety Car.
#IMSA
#Sahlens6HRS