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For the third time in his career, Lewis Hamilton will start on pole position at his home Grand Prix. A fairly straightforward qualifying session from Silverstone saw the Briton beat team mate Nico Rosberg by just over a tenth of a second to claim his 8th pole of the season as Lewis looks to end Nico’s good luck streak. Behind the usual all Mercedes front row, Williams put in an excellent performance to claim third and fourth on the grid. Felipe Massa edged out team mate Valtteri Bottas by mereRead More

In wake of Wednesday’s Strategy Group meeting at Biggin Hill, McLaren-Honda have been granted an additional power unit without penalty for the remainder of the 2015 Formula One season. To help level the playing field, the FIA said an extra power unit is allowed for any new manufacturer entering the sport. Although McLaren is a longtime team in F1, the rules will apply for Honda, who entered the sport in 2015 as the Woking-based team’s power unit supplier. The FIA said the following in a recent statement: “Following the AustrianRead More

Following a drivers press conference at Silverstone on Thursday, Ferrari driver and former F1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen touched on rumors that surround him and the team. The previous two races for Raikkonen have been underwhelming. The Finn qualified third in the Canadian Grand Prix, but a mid-race spin at the hairpin corner for the second consecutive year caused him to finish fourth, missing out on a likely podium. In Austria Raikkonen failed to make it out of Q1 while teammate Sebastian Vettel qualified third. Then disaster struck during theRead More

IndyCar has announced the following post race penalties from last Saturday’s MavTV 500 at Auto Club Speedway. Will Power has been fined $25,000 and been placed on probation for the rest of the season for pushing a safety worker after he climbed from his wrecked #1 Verizon Wireless Chevrolet. Tristan Vautier was fined $10,000 for contact with left front tire changer Owen Trower during his first pitstop. He has also been placed on probation for the remainder of the season. Race winner Graham Rahal has been fined $5,000 and hasRead More

With a record 83 lead changes over the course of 500 miles, yesterday’s MavTV 500 was  one of the wildest IndyCar races in recent memory and arguably one of the best races of the season. The race has pushed IndyCar well into cyberspace with the race being one of the highest trending topics on Twitter and whether fans and the pundits love it or hate it, people are talking about it. Leading into the race weekend, some drivers (notably Juan Pablo Montoya) expressed concerns on Friday in criticism of theRead More

Adam Tate, Josh Farmer and Joey Barnes of Tribute Racing dish out the goods after a historic and controversial MAVTV 500 IndyCar race at Auto Club Speedway. The boys go in depth on the new aero kit package at Fontana, as well as the leading stories from the weekend. Was it tight racing or was it ‘pack’ racing? Click below for all this and more as we take you “In the Gravel Trap!” In the Gravel Trap: MAVTV 500 Post Race Show 06/27 by Tribute Racing Image: Chris Jones viaRead More

FONTANA, Calif. (June 27, 2015) – An Indy car record 80 lead changes among 14 drivers culminated in a dramatic victory for American Graham Rahal in the MAVTV 500 at Auto Club Speedway. The victory was the second of Rahal’s career and ended a 124-race winless drought dating to 2008 in St. Petersburg – the longest gap between race wins for a driver in Indy car history. The 80 lead changes during the 250-lap event surpassed the previous Indy car record of 73 set at Auto Club Speedway in NovemberRead More

Simon Pagenaud captured his first pole in nearly a year and his first pole on an oval during qualifying for Saturday’s MavTV 500. The Frenchman logged the fastest lap of the day at a 219.112 mph average time and backed it up on his second lap with a 218.792 average to complete a 218.952 pole winning average. “Thanks to my crew for the preparations and it’s exciting to get a superspeedway pole,” said Pagenaud. “Qualifying is one thing. It’s a reward for performance. We have a 500-mile race and hopefullyRead More

he superspeedway aerodynamic configuration for the MAVTV 500 on June 27 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., will remain as written in the Verizon IndyCar Series rulebook. The rear wing mainplane angle must be set between 0 degrees and -10.5 degrees for the 250-lap race on the 2-mile, D-shaped oval with 14 degrees of banking in the turns. It was -6 degrees to -10.5 degrees for the race June 6 on the 1.5-mile, high-banked Texas Motor Speedway oval. Six degrees more rear wing, even without a wicker that isRead More

Mazda, famous for going their own way in the world of motorsports is about to take a step back in line with more conventional thinking. Their long running SkyActiv clean diesel running prototypes in the Tudor United Sports Car Championship are set for an engine change to AER turbocharged gasoline powered units before the season’s end. To Mazda Motorsports and Speed Source’s credit, running with a production based diesel in an LMP2 derived car on a fraction of the budget a team like LMP1 diesel runner Audi has was aRead More