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Audi has announced its return to the 2024 Dakar Rally season with an improved RS Q e-tron — a result of a disappointing 2023 season for the German automaker. After analyzing the EV off-roader's weak points, Audi Team Sport has revealed the improvements to make the racer more competitive for next year's contest.
Attendees at last weekend's first-ever Las Vegas Grand Prix are still decompressing after all the late-night festivities and the spectacle of 200-plus-mile-per-hour F1 cars racing down the Strip. I was there from start to finish, documenting the results along the way. Now that I'm safe and sound in my quiet home more than 2,000 miles away, I can put my stream-of-consciousness thoughts down on pen and virtual paper.
As much as I wanted to attend the Las Vegas Grand Prix in person, I'm watching at home. It's only a four-hour drive from me, but I've been spoiled. I grew up going to racetracks with a pit pass because my dad was a prominent race-car builder. Later, I did volunteer stints with the CART Safety Team and even had my own pickup truck loaded with kitty litter, brooms, and backpack blowers. I drove out onto tracks while cars were circulating under yellow, cleaned up after Nigel Mansell hit the wall in Phoenix, and picked up chunks of car after Jacques Villeneuve speared through the middle of Hiro Matsushita's car at the same track.
All right, it's nearly 3:00 a.m. on Saturday morning, and our bones are still vibrating from a mix of Formula 1 qualifying laps happening mere feet below our viewing spot and the sharp elbows of the fashion models taking selfies next to us during qualifying... but with fingers crossed and rabbit limbs stroked, it seems that the F1 race in Vegas might work out better than expected.
While it isn't a surprise that the first-everFormula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix was a fiasco, I'm not sure anyone expected it to be as messy as it was. The drama began during the week leading up to the race before drivers even donned helmets for practice sessions and then continued to ramp up until the final car crossed the finish line. But should we have expected anything else when a sport as big as F1 comes to Sin City?
LAS VEGAS — The troubled Las Vegas Formula One Grand Prix has been hit with a class action lawsuit on behalf of the 35,000 people who bought tickets for Thursday’s practice session which was cancelled when Carlos Sainz's Ferrari was damaged by a loose drain cover.
Charles Leclerc has secured yet another pole position this season, but the big question is whether the Monegasque can turn it into a win. Leclerc hasn't stood on the top step for a while, as Carlos Sainz remains the only driver to grab a victory from Red Bull's hands.
LAS VEGAS — Considering the drama and intrigue that has surrounded the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix up to this point, the fact that qualifying for the first Formula 1 race in Sin City since 1982 went off without incident is noteworthy. After the time allotted for qualifying came to an end, the Ferrari pair of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz crossed the line in first and second place. But due to the 10-position penalty assessed after Sainz was forced to a halt after hitting a water drain cover that was dislodged during the first practice session the previous evening, he will start in the 12th position. Just 0.044 seconds separated the two Ferrari drivers.