In a strange start to the 2016 IndyCar season the pole sitter for the first event of the year was forced to miss the race due to injury.
In a strange start to the 2016 IndyCar season the pole sitter for the first event of the year was forced to miss the race due to injury.
Heavy rain and a quirk of the rules combined to produce a shock result in the opening V8 Supercars race weekend at the former Australian Grand Prix home.
While much of the motor racing world remains in hibernation, the second round of the 36-race NASCAR championship took place yesterday at Atlanta.
Lewis Hamilton was in Jeff Gordon’s corner for the NASCAR finale at Homestead-Miami while other F1 drivers got their hands on some silverware.
Max Verstappen and Nico Rosberg took their second Driver of the Weekend poll victories in the last two race weekends.
The Japanese Super Formula championship was decided after a pair of dramatic races at a wet Suzuka, while Formula E and V8 Supercars supplied more action.
The WTCC and Euroformula Open drivers’ titles were clinched last weekend while tempers flared in NASCAR as the title rivals collided.
Crashes and controversies were a theme last weekend as many championships head into the latter stages of the season.
Sergio Perez became the ninth different Driver of the Weekend winner in 2015 after taking Force India’s first podium finish of the year.
Mercedes executive director Toto Wolff was present at the Hockenheimring to see the team’s junior driver Pascal Wehrlein become the youngest ever DTM champion.
Max Verstappen took his first Driver of the Weekend win in Japan and was runner-up in Singapore.
A rain-hit Petit Le Mans produced a surprise winner, the WRC’s French round was virtually flooded and four drivers were cut from the NASCAR title fight.
Both the Formula Renault 3.5 and European Formula Three titles were decided with one round to spare.
There were farcical scenes in Japan’s Super GT series as part of the field got stuck in the pits during a Safety Car period. Meanwhile in Brazil Nelson Piquet’s son survived a huge crash.
There’s only one word to describe Lewis Hamilton’s result at Monza: Perfection. Yet he mustered less than half of the votes in Driver of the Weekend.
The World Rally Championship was decided with three races to go while Formula Renault 3.5 delivered a wet-weather thriller at the Nurburgring.
Formula Renault 3.5 championship contenders Oliver Rowland and Mathieu Vaxiviere went wheel-to-wheel in both of last weekend’s races at Silverstone.
More than half of F1 Fanatic readers voted Romain Grosjean the Belgian Grand Prix Driver of the Weekend after he took his first podium finish of the season.
The IndyCar title battle hung in the balance until the last lap of the season, but proceedings were overshadowed by Justin Wilson’s death six days earlier.
F1 is back this weekend but what’s going on elsewhere in the racing world? Weekend Racing Wrap brings you up-to-date on the season so far.