10 Highlights From Last Weekend’s Spectacular Motorsport Action

F1 rookie Alexander Rossi found out the hard way that the Marina Bay Street Circuit doesn’t take any prisoners during a small mistake in his first practice session as a race driver for Manor.

Fortunately, he had a better time of it over the rest of the weekend, even maging to pull off this beautiful drift through the first couple of turns.

2. Caught on camera

Undoubtedly the most bizarre moment from the Singapore Grand Prix was the track invader casually walking along the track mid-way through the race. 27-year-old British national Yogvitam Pravin Dhokia was later arrested, and the whole thing was caught on CCTV. Reports say he could face six months in prison.

In motorsport, it doesn’t get much better than seeing the FIA WEC field charging towards Turn 1 of the stunning Circuit of the Americas at full speed (although an LMP1 lap at night is pretty damn cool too).

Endurance racing is far from boring and that was proven once again at the 6 Hours of COTA. We saw plenty of overtakes and incidents – including hefty crashes for the #31 Extreme Speed Motorsports car and the #2 Toyota.

After a late problem for the #18 car, the #17 Porsche 919 Hybrid took the lead, with Mark Webber, Brendon Hartley and Timo Bernhard scoring the overall win despite a one-minute stop/go penalty. The #26 G-Drive Racing machine won in LMP2, with the #91 Porsche and #72 Ferrari winning LMGTE Pro and LMGTE Am.

Kevin Harvick and Jimmie Johnson made contact during the Nascar Sprint Cup race at Chicagoland, causing the former to spin and crash…

The anger built up and Harvick shoved Johnson before they had to be separated. Denny Hamlin overcame a spin early on and moved to the lead at the final restart to take victory and advance to the second round of the Nascar Chase for the Sprint Cup.

Kyle Busch emerged victorious after some late battling with Matt Kenseth in the Nascar Xfinity race at Chicagoland, however, his car was found to be low on all four corners and it has to be investigated further.

Mason Mingus missed the pit lane during the Nascar Camping World Truck series race at Chicagoland Speedway and hit the grass hard, launching his car into the air. The race also saw a driver hit a pit crew member but fortunately no one was injured. John Hunter Nemechek was the race winner.

The FIA World Rallycross championship was at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya in Spain last weekend. Petter Solberg dominated the Supercar final to take the win, but behind there was some epic action.

The Blancpain Endurance Series finale took place at the Nurburgring and, with one last chance to impress, it was a dramatic race. The #58 McLaren of Kevin Estre, Rob Bell and Shane van Gisbergen won but it was Alex Buncombe, Katsumasa Chiyo and Wolfgang Reip’s #23 Nissan in third that took the title.