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Rally Driver Gets Huge Penalty for Illegal Drift

We usually leave rally coverage to our sister sites, Motorsport and Autosport, but this story was too intriguing to pass up. What started as a five-second drift ended in a five-minute penalty for Oliver Solberg. While returning to parc fermé at the 2025 Monte Carlo Rally, the Toyota GR Yaris…

Motor1 · Jan 27, 2025

Solberg handed penalty for drifting on Monaco GP circuit during WRC opener

Oliver Solberg has been issued a five-minute penalty for "exhibition driving" at the Monaco Grand Prix circuit’s Fairmont Hairpin on his way to parc ferme at the Monte Carlo Rally.

Autosport · Jan 26, 2025

The mental metamorphosis that helped Martin secure his first MotoGP title

As Jorge Martin stood in parc ferme at the Barcelona circuit wearing the Terminator overalls that commemorated his first MotoGP championship title, a figure watched him from afar, diluted in the people who crowded the pitlane, standing next to Jorge Lorenzo.

Motorsport · Nov 18, 2024

F1 Driver of the Day: Which driver has won the most times?

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Autosport · Jun 28, 2024

FIA admonishes F1 Canadian GP promoter over track invasion

On the cooldown lap after the finish a significant number of spectators made it onto the course before all cars had made it back to parc ferme.

Autosport · Jun 10, 2024

F1 teams downplay risks of ‘sprint cars’ with new parc ferme rules

The Shanghai round was the first event where F1’s latest sprint format has been deployed, with the parc ferme restrictions on car adjustments relaxed between the two Saturday sessions.

Motorsport · Apr 28, 2024

F1 teams pushing to relax parc ferme rules but must still limit engineer 'fantasies'

Parc ferme was introduced to limit how much teams could alter their set-up between sessions to effectively deter bespoke cars for qualifying and the races as part of money-saving measures.

Motorsport · Nov 4, 2023

F1 teams pushing to relax parc ferme rules but must limit engineer 'fantasies'

Parc ferme was introduced to limit how much teams could alter their set-up between sessions to effectively deter bespoke cars for qualifying and the races as part of money-saving measures.

Autosport · Nov 4, 2023

Why F1 team bosses want changes to sprint format they created

F1 team principals had varying opinions on how the Baku weekend played out, in some cases perhaps influenced by how their own teams had fared.

Autosport · May 2, 2023

Leclerc, Verstappen and Hamilton cleared over Austria F1 parc ferme breach

Charles Leclerc, Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton have each received a suspended €10,000 fine for a Formula 1 parc ferme rules breach after the Austrian Grand Prix.

Autosport · Jul 10, 2022