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Jack Doohan (Instagram)
Jack Doohan: ‘As you may clearly see, the story circulating above is totally false. It was fabricated by (…) followers trying to painting me and my household in a damaging mild. They edited the unique content material to make it seem as if my father posted it, which is solely unfaithful. Please cease harassing my household. I did not assume I must get thus far.’
Mohammed Ben Sulayem (Instagram)
‘Nobody ought to ever be subjected to abuse – driver, fan, volunteer or official. Our sport should be part of collectively in rejection of this behaviour. I thank Yuki Tsunoda and Franco Colapinto for talking out this weekend towards this concern, and share my assist and that of the United Towards On-line Abuse marketing campaign.’
TEAM STATEMENT pic.twitter.com/MSt0Bq4jR6
— BWT Alpine Method One Staff (@AlpineF1Team) Might 19, 2025
Replace on Staff Penske technical violations (IndyCar)
‘Upon additional assessment final night time and early this morning, IndyCar will likely be shifting vehicles quantity two and 12 to the thirty second and thirty third beginning positions for this yr’s Indianapolis 500 introduced by Gainbridge. They’ll begin so as based mostly upon their qualifying instances from Saturday.’
IndyCar president Boles explains Penske qualifying illegalities (Racer)
‘Requested if the unlawful attenuators had been affixed to the Penske vehicles previous to Sunday, Boles stated, ‘All I can inform you is, it was discovered at the moment.”
Not so Penske Excellent: Indy 500 rocked by one other dishonest scandal by marquee crew (Related Press)
‘In racing you may generally have mechanics who make miscalculations and you’ll generally have manufacturing points that may all result in sincere errors. I don’t imagine that’s what occurred right here or final yr, which raises questions over the integrity of the decision-making inside that crew.’
I can’t say if the illegally blended attenuator was on the 2024 #Indy500 race-winning automobile when it crossed the end line, however it’s on the profitable automobile at the moment on show within the IMS Museum. pic.twitter.com/he5PQqr1Wx
Purple Bull didn’t earn Imola win, McLaren threw it away (The Telegraph)
‘I used to be shocked to see that pole-sitter Oscar Piastri was so timid on the first nook. He has usually been a sturdy and sensible operator in conditions like this, towards each Norris and Verstappen.’
WEC: Hydrogen on the coronary heart of fan actions at Spa-Francorchamps (FIA)
‘Hydrogen-powered racing vehicles such because the Alpine Alpenglow Hy6 and the Toyota Gazoo Racing Yaris H2 Idea had been additionally on show, with the previous of the 2 taking to the observe for demonstration runs.’
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Completely happy birthday!
Completely happy birthday to Ned Flanders, Rui Pinto, TheD4N1EL, Dirk and Andy!
On at the present time in motorsport
Michael Schumacher had a controversial weekend at Silverstone with Mercedes in 1991
50 at the moment: Ralph Firman, who contested a single season of Method 1 for Jordan in 2003. He additionally gained Japan’s Method Nippon, British F3 and the Macau Grand Prix.
25 years in the past at the moment David Coulthard put his McLaren on pole place for the European Grand Prix on the Nurburgring
35 years in the past at the moment Martin Brundle and Alain Ferte gained the Silverstone spherical of the World Sportscar Championship for Jaguar. Michael Schumacher was disqualified for driving with out his seat belts connected throughout qualifying, a cost he disputed, whereas his automobile was additionally disqualified for him receiving exterior help
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