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Photo Credit: Steve Etherington for Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd. untitled While a 1-2 qualifying lock out by the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team was a common occurrence during previous Formula 1 seasons, this team accomplishment is a rarer sight in this current year of racing. Qualifying at the Hungaroring for the 36 th Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix race weekend has resulted in just the second instance where Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas were able to place their machine on the front row together in 2021. On a very hot 4.381-kilometer (2.722-mile) course where track temperatures were recorded as high as 54 degrees Celsius (129.2 degrees Fahrenheit) on Saturday prior to the session, latest battle between Mercedes-AMG and Red Bull Racing transpired for the prime starting position. On this weekend, Lewis Hamilton charged in the early stage of Q3 to take his 101 st career Formula 1 pole for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Lapping the Hungaroring in 1 minute and 15.419 secon...

Photo Credit: Chris Jones For three decades, Indy-style car racing has been an ingredient of summertime in Toronto (well, somewhat less last year since the race was positioned in June to accommodate the 2015 Pan-Am Games but the race was still held in reasonably warm temperatures). The 30th edition of the Toronto street race within Exhibition Place arrived with sensational momentum as current IndyCar stars including Canadian and 2016 Indy 500 pole sitter James Hinchcliffe prepared for the Verizon IndyCar Series’ only stop outside of the United States for 2016. Serving as the main event for the 2016 Honda Indy Toronto, the Verizon IndyCar Series 85-lap race on Sunday was set by the outcome of Saturday afternoon qualifying. Contending on a refreshed street course design for 2016 created as a result of construction within the event grounds, the pit road was most notably shifted from the right side of the track to the left side. The pit road location movement has also prepared to ...

Photo Credit: 304945 Matt Sullivan/Getty Images Earlier this year at the Daytona International Speedway, NASCAR's Speedweeks opened on a controversial note. For the 2015 Daytona 500, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series adopted a multi-car group qualifying style that had debuted last season for most races. Designed to provide a more dramatic and faster-moving method departing from the single-car qualifying fashion used for decades, the new method for deciding the pole position as well as the positions for the Budweiser Duel 150 races definitely caused buzz. Unfortunately, much of the reaction after the qualifying concluded was not favourable. A Daytona 500 pole qualifying consisting of two groups of cars, it was a bizarre spectacle to watch as some vehicles drove through the infield grass to immediately to placed with a drifting partner and competitors waiting for the last possible moment to set a fast lap. This...