NASCAR has adjusted the practice and qualifying procedures for all three national series going into the 2025 season.Teams will now have additional practice time while reverting to only one round of qualifying with the drivers’ starting positions based on their qualifying speeds. However, there will be exceptions to this at...

NASCAR Cup Series teams will continue to qualify in two groups this season, but an adjustment has been made for where drivers starting 11th through 40th will line up.The drivers who are in Group A who don’t advance to the final round of qualifying will start on the outside row....

A number of senior drivers have suggested single-lap qualifying could be re-introduced to solve the issue of traffic and impeding on short grand prix circuits.The Canadian Grand Prix saw multiple investigations into impeding, with Carlos Sainz given a grid penalty for getting in Pierre Gasly’s way towards the end of...

For the fastest drivers during this weekend’s two-day qualifying event for the Indianapolis 500, a new wrinkle will require multiple runs on the ragged edge to vie for pole position.With no bumping to look forward to on Sunday, the former Fast Nine session has been split into an expanded group...

With new twists added to its qualifying procedure this weekend as 33 drivers attempt to earn a spot in the Indianapolis 500, a new cadence will be seen on Sunday as the Firestone Fast Nine has been split into a two-round knockout affair with the Fast 12 followed by the...

As entries for the next IndyCar season continue to come into focus, series president Jay Frye and his competition team have started to refine some of the changes that might be coming in 2022.As RACER previously wrote, an anticipated rise in full-time entries has forced IndyCar to consider making modifications...

Formula 1’s director of motorsports Ross Brawn says any changes to the qualifying format in 2020 would only be experimental to see how race weekends can be made less predictable.The sport is investigating ways of changing the race weekend format ahead of new technical regulations being introduced in 2021, and...