TOKYO, Jan 23, 2023 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – With the support of Fujitsu, the operators of the legendary Nurburgring are showing how history, the present and the future can be optimally combined – for greater safety using advanced AI technology. Especially on the one of the world’s most challenging race tracks: the Nordschleife. […]
TOKYO, Dec 12, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – ROOKIE Racing Co., Ltd. (ROOKIE Racing) and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced their competition in the IDEMITSU 1500 SUPER ENDURANCE 2022 (Thailand 25H Endurance Race) at the Chang International Circuit in Thailand from December 17 to 18, 2022, with the ORC ROOKIE GR Corolla H2 […]
(JIN DING / CHINA DAILY) NASA has delayed the launch of the Artemis I new moon program until at least Sept 19 after cancelling a planned launch on Saturday. The decision on Saturday was the second time in a week that the launch was scrapped. The first time it was cancelled was on Aug 29 […]
TOKYO, Sep 5, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing’s GR010 HYBRID Hypercar will make its home debut when the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) returns to Japan for the 6 Hours of Fuji after a three-year absence. The penultimate round of the 2022 WEC season sees the series return to Fuji […]
TOKYO, Jun 23, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (TGR) will compete in Rounds 4 and 6 of the N?rburgring Endurance Series (NLS(1)). Although TGR has decided not to participate in this year?s 24 Hours of N?rburgring Endurance Race(2), it will refine people and cars, and continue its pursuit of making […]
TOKYO, Jun 2, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing puts its long unbeaten run on the line when it aims for a fifth consecutive Le Mans 24 Hours victory in the 90th running of the legendary French endurance race on 11-12 June. Since winning the team’s first Le Mans crown in […]
Toyota City, Japan, May 20, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – ROOKIE Racing, Inc., TOM’S SPIRIT Co., Ltd., and TOYOTA GAZOO Racing have announced their team setups for the ENEOS Super Taikyu Series 2022 Powered by Hankook Round 2 NAPAC Fuji SUPER TEC 24 Hours Race (Fuji 24 Hours Race) to be held from […]
TOKYO, Apr 28, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing aims to get back to winning ways when it makes the short journey to Belgium next week for the second round of the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. The World Champions endured a difficult start to […]
Transgender cyclist Emily Bridges said on Friday she felt “harassed and demonised” after being barred from a women’s race this weekend. Bridges had been due to compete in the women’s event at the British National Omnium Championships in Derby on Saturday in a field including five-time Olympic champion Laura Kenny. The 21-year-old had been allowed […]
Charles Leclerc of Ferrari won a dramatic Formula One season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday after reigning champion Max Verstappen was forced out with an electrical issue two laps before the end. Carlos Sainz made it a Ferrari one-two while Lewis Hamilton snatched third place for Mercedes after Sergio Perez added to Red Bull’s disastrous […]
Charles Leclerc heralded a return to form for Italian team Ferrari by seizing a stunning pole position on Saturday for the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix. The Monegasque lit up the timing screens with a lap of one minute 30.558 seconds to beat world champion Max Verstappen by 0.123 seconds. Spaniard Carlos Sainz missed out […]
Formula One says it is “impossible” to hold a race in Russia later this year following Russia’s attack on Ukraine. F1 had scheduled a race in Sochi on September 25. “We are watching the developments in Ukraine with sadness and shock and hope for a swift and peaceful resolution to the present situation,” F1 said […]
Michael Masi has been removed as Formula One race director over his management of the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last year which led to Max Verstappen being controversially crowned world champion. Masi was heavily criticised for the sequence of events that led to Verstappen passing Lewis Hamilton to deprive the Briton of a record […]
HIROSHIMA, Japan, Feb 16, 2022 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Mazda Motor Corporation will compete in the endurance race series called Super Taikyu Series 2022, with two vehicles, Mazda2 Bio concept and Mazda Roadster (Mazda MX-5). By participating in the race with a vehicle that runs on next-generation biodiesel fuel, Mazda wants to conduct […]
Iivo Niskanen put on a brilliant display of skiing to win gold for Finland in the men’s 15km classic race at the Beijing Games on Friday, adding the title to the 50km Olympic classic gold he won at Pyeongchang in 2018. Skiathlon champion Alexander Bolshunov, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, took the silver after his […]
Dave Ryding pulled off a massive shock on Saturday when he won Britain’s first World Cup race with victory in the men’s slalom in Kitzbuehel. Ryding clocked a combined total of 1min 41.26sec, finishing 0.38sec ahead of Norway’s Lucas Braathen, with his teammate Henrik Kristoffersen in third (+0.65). “This place is a special place for […]
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and his first Formula One title with a last lap overtake on Sunday to deny championship rival Lewis Hamilton a record eighth crown in a race full of controversy. Hamilton’s Mercedes team won the constructors’ title for an unprecedented eighth successive year but Verstappen, 24, […]
One of Hong Kong’s most popular mass sporting events took place on Sunday morning after a two-year suspension, although the event was limited in size because of the pandemic. Organisers of the New World Harbour Race switched the start and end points, and around 1,200 participants swam from Golden Bauhinia Square Public Pier in Wan […]
Max Verstappen landed the first big blow in his winner-takes-all title battle with Lewis Hamilton by seizing pole position for Formula One’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on Saturday. Mercedes’ seven-times world champion Hamilton will line up alongside on the front row, with Verstappen on the quicker soft tyres for the start and the Briton […]
Lewis Hamilton kept his hopes of an eighth world championship title alive with a thrilling victory in a dramatic and at times chaotic Saudi Arabian Grand Prix on Sunday. The result left the seven-time champion level on 369.5 points with title rival Max Verstappen ahead of the final race in Abu Dhabi next weekend. Hamilton […]
Home runners claimed double glory in the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon on Sunday, with victories in both the men’s and women’s races. In the men’s event, Wong Kai-lok came home ahead of Japan’s Masashi Shirotake by the narrowest of margins, with just four seconds separating the pair. The women’s race was more clear-cut, with […]
Hong Kong’s cross-harbour swimming race could make a comeback this year after it was cancelled due to the pandemic in 2020. The Hong Kong China Swimming Association said on Tuesday that it plans to stage the race on December 12, with the Covid-19 outbreak easing in recent months and the city’s vaccination rate reaching almost […]
Benson Kipruto and Diana Kipyogei completed a Kenyan clean sweep in the men’s and women’s races at the 125th Boston Marathon on Monday, timing late bursts to perfection to win their first major titles. Kipruto crossed the line in 2hr 9min 51sec after blazing away from the field at the 22-mile mark to win by […]
Lewis Hamilton dominated qualifying on Saturday for the Turkish Grand Prix but his Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas will start the race from pole position. Hamilton, the championship leader, set a new lap record three times in qualifying but because his team incurred a 10-place grid penalty by changing his engine ahead of the race he […]
British rider Lizzie Deignan won the first edition of the women’s Paris-Roubaix bike race on Saturday with a solo breakaway across the muddy, cobblestoned mining roads where many of her rivals suffered nasty falls. Deignan entered the Roubaix velodrome alone to win the race in 2hrs, 55mins and 3sec, raising her arms in triumph after […]
Toyota City, Japan, Sep 20, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced today that it will enter a vehicle equipped with a developmental hydrogen-powered engine at the five-hour-long Super Taikyu Series 2021 Powered by Hankook Round 5 Suzuka S-tai, which takes place from September 18 to 19, 2021. The hydrogen-powered […]
Dawid Tomala of Poland has won what might be the last 50-kilometre race walk at the Olympics. Tomala won in 3 hours, 50 minutes and 8 seconds in Sapporo for the gold medal. Jonathan Hilbert of Germany was second, 36 seconds behind Tomala in 3:50:44. Evan Dunfee of Canada was third in 3:50:59. The race […]
Toyota City, Japan, Aug 2, 2021 – (JCN Newswire via SEAPRWire.com) – Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) announced today that it will enter a vehicle equipped with a developmental hydrogen-powered engine at the five-hour-long Super Taikyu Race in Autopolis, which takes place from July 31 to August 1, 2021. The hydrogen engine is being developed as […]
Kristian Blummenfelt of Norway won the men’s triathlon Olympic title on Monday in a race disrupted by a bizarre false start. The 27-year-old Norwegian crossed the line in a time of 1 hour 45minutes 04seconds before raising the winning line tape above his head and then throwing himself to the ground in celebration still wrapped […]
Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz won Olympic gold in the men’s cycling road race on Saturday, timing to perfection a tactical, final descent after a tough 234-kilometre course worthy of a mountain stage of the Grand Tour. It was only Ecuador’s second-ever gold at the Olympics after that of Jefferson Perez in the 50km race walk in […]