Within the round-up: Pirelli carried out its first check of the brand new tyres Components 1 will use for the 2026 season yesterday.
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First check for 2026 F1 tyres
Felipe Drugovich accomplished 670 kilometres of testing for Pirelli yesterday in a modified 2023-specification Aston Martin AMR23 on the Circuit de Catalunya in Spain.
This was the primary check for the brand new, smaller tyres F1 will race in 2026. Whereas the 18-inch wheel measurement will stay unchanged the brand new tyres have been lowered in width by 30mm on the rear and 25mm on the entrance.
Superlicence “would have been helpful a couple of years in the past” – Herta
IndyCar racer Colton Herta certified for a Components 1 superlicence by ending second within the championship final weekend, however admitted it has come too late after the FIA refused to contemplate granting an exemption for him to race within the collection two years in the past.
“It will have been helpful a couple of years in the past,” stated Herta. “It’s good to have one, I assume.”
The FIA affords 124 superlicence factors to IndyCar drivers per 12 months in comparison with 201 for Components 2 and 128 for Components 3. “I feel it’s disrespectful for IndyCar how underrepresented it’s,” Herta continued. “However these are all issues we all know and we’ve talked about within the final three years.”
Herta clinched second within the championship by scoring his first win on an oval. “It’s about time,” he stated. “I feel there’s been a number of instances the place I assumed we may have received or ought to have received, and quite a few of issues would have occurred to cease us from doing that. Fortunately in the present day we acquired all of it proper.”
Rosenqvist continues with Meyer Shank
Felix Rosenqvist has signed a brand new, multi-year deal to maintain him at IndyCar staff Meyer Shank past the tip of subsequent season. He joined the staff from McLaren this season and claimed pole place for the second spherical of the championship in Lengthy Seashore, and claimed a finest race end of fourth at Barber Motorsport Park.
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Antonio Pérez Garibay, papá de Checo Pérez hospitalizado de emergencia por un pre-infarto (El Heraldo – Spanish)
Sergio Perez’s father is reported to be recovering after collapsing on the household’s dwelling on Sunday.
Mercedes F1 junior Yuanpu Cui wins twice in Chinese language F4 cameo (Components Scout)
‘Racing resumed on lap 11, regardless of one driver crashing earlier than the restart, and when inexperienced flags waved there was one other incident which eradicated Peng Yang and meant the security automotive returned and led the sector to the chequered flag. Cui received, and a five-second penalty demoted Liu from fourth to seventh.’
Chadwick eager to tackle IndyCar in 2025 (Racer)
‘Her aspirations are to do one thing in IndyCar in 2025, however it’s a very crowded market in the intervening time. If she does come again to do Nxt once more, I feel she’d actually be a title favorite.’
COTA and Alpine added to official FIA WEC sport ‘Le Mans Final’ (WEC)
‘The Isotta Fraschini Tipo 6 Competizione – which contested the opening 5 races of the present WEC marketing campaign – is equally a brand new introduction in Le Mans Final’s second DLC, finishing the Hypercar grid, and is accompanied by an entire host of contemporary content material, updates, iconic liveries and dynamic gameplay characteristic, co-op mode.’
Browning: ‘Factors on F2 debut weekend will assist studying curve’ (Components 2)
‘I used to be a bit gutted to do the rolling begin, however I feel it will have been good to do one other race begin, however it’s okay. It was very calm.’
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