Tim Wellens wins Stage 15 as Team UAE continues to dominate Tour de France
Tadej Pogacar held on to the overall lead with a 4-minute, 13-second advantage on Jonas Vingegaard, who had to fight to catch up after being caught behind an early mass fall.
Wellens had been part of an early break which only really got away once the fall sent a shockwave though the race.
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Japan Times
3 hours ago
- Japan Times
McLaren must also deal with disappointment amid runaway success
McLaren boss Zak Brown is preparing to deal with disappointment at the end of the Formula 1 season, even as the team enjoys one of its most dominant years and a 200th grand prix win at the weekend. As the title battle between Oscar Piastri and teammate Lando Norris heats up, the McLaren pair separated by just nine points after Sunday's Hungarian Grand Prix, the American conceded he was also thinking about how to handle the aftermath. Red Bull's reigning champion Max Verstappen, the McLaren drivers' closest rival, is now 97 points off the pace and told reporters at the weekend that he may not win again this year given his car's issues. Even before the weekend, both Piastri and Norris cast caution aside and called it a two-horse race. One of them will surely end the year celebrating a dream come true. The other will rue what might have been, with a new engine era next season shaking everything up again and chances potentially disappearing. Losing always hurts, doubly so when it is to a teammate with the same car, and Brown said McLaren would have to deal with the situation sensitively when — although he still insisted on saying if — the time came. "Eventually ... we'll just sit down and actually have a conversation and go 'right, one of you is going to win and it's going to be the best day of your life. One of you is going to lose. How do you want us to handle that?'" he told a select group of reporters. "We'll actually sit down and go 'Right, you want us to jump up and down and celebrate? This guy won.' So we're fully aware and sensitive to 'how do you celebrate that situation?'" Australian Piastri has won six races to Norris's five but the Briton has momentum going into the August break, with three wins from his last four starts. The pair have had seven one-two finishes from 14 races, including the last four, and have left rivals trailing. McLaren is so far ahead in the constructors' standings — 299 points over Ferrari — that the crown is a given. Much has been made of the potential for a falling out between friends, and for clashes on track given what is at stake, but Brown was sanguine and said the relationship was only growing stronger. When Norris ran into the back of Piastri as he challenged for the lead in Canada in June, the Briton defused the situation by immediately taking responsibility. Piastri locked up behind Norris in Hungary on Sunday, in what could have been a repeat of that Montreal accident, but no contact was made. Brown said there was no 'elephant in the room' at McLaren, with the drivers having complete transparency on strategy and how the team go about racing, and he expected more close calls in future. "There's competitiveness brewing ... as the championship builds, I'm sure that tension will grow," said the boss. "We're fully anticipating them 'swapping paint' again at some point, I'm very confident it won't be deliberate, which is where you then get into the problems. "They will have racing incidents in their further time here at McLaren, we know that and they know that, so we're not afraid of that. "I'm positive they're never going to run each other off the track, and that's where you get into bad blood. So they're free to race ... there are rules around our racing, which is respect your teammate, they know that."
Japan Times
a day ago
- Japan Times
Lando Norris enjoying battle with Oscar Piastri after winning Hungarian GP
Lando Norris said he was looking forward to "more of the same" thrilling wheel-to-wheel duels with teammate Oscar Piastri after leading a McLaren 1-2 in the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday. The 25-year-old Briton, who trimmed Piastri's lead in the title race to nine points, finished the race just 0.698 seconds ahead as they crossed the line to secure the team's 200th victory in Formula One and record 13th in Hungary. "I'm dead!" said Norris, who had switched to a one-stop strategy after a poor opening lap and then battled to resist Piastri's attacks in the closing laps. "It was tough, we weren't really planning on a one-stop at the beginning, but after the first lap it was kind of our only option to get back into things. "It was tough in the final stint, with Oscar catching. I was pushing flat out, you know, so my voice has gone a little bit!" Piastri stayed with his two-stop strategy and had a tire advantage, but on the tight and technical Hungaroring track he found it impossible to pass his teammate. "I didn't think it would probably get us to win," Norris said. "I thought it would get us into second, but I knew if I had some clean air, and I could push, I could maybe make things work and that's what we did. "It's always a bit of a gamble with these things, but it also requires no mistakes, good laps, good strategy — all these things — and that's what we had today so I'm very happy." He said his win, which moved him within reach of overhauling Piastri when the season resumes after F1's August break, had been fun, but was not in any way decisive. "We're so tightly fought, it's hard to say that momentum is on anyone's side, but we're fighting hard, both of us, and it's fun. It's tough, but fun racing with Oscar. "And it's great for us as a team, another 1-2 and our 200th win in Formula One. "Credit to Oscar, he put up a good charge, and I just about held on, so I look forward to many more of these." Piastri, was within a second of his teammate. "I pushed as hard as I could," he said. "I saw Lando going for a one (stop) so I knew I was going to have to overtake on track, which is easier said then done around here. "I tried a few things, but it was a gamble either way and, unfortunately, we were just on the other side of it. Piastri questioned his team's decision to try to 'undercut' pole^sitter and early leader Charles Leclerc of Ferrari in the early stages of the race. "I'm not sure that was the right call in the end," he said. That call ensured Piastri would be on a two-stop strategy while Norris kept his options open — and as Leclerc fell away from leading, Mercedes' George Russell stormed through to finish third ahead of him in a frustrating fourth-place finish for Ferrari. The outcome was McLaren's fourth consecutive 1-2 and Norris's fifth win this year and ninth of his career. McLaren now leads Ferrari by 299 points in the constructors' championship ahead of the final 10 races of the season starting at the Dutch Grand Prix on Aug. 31.
Japan Times
2 days ago
- Japan Times
Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh underline dominance on final day of worlds
Leon Marchand and Summer McIntosh sealed their golden swimming world championships with dominant victories on Sunday's final day as the United States signed off with a relay record. Eight days of competition in Singapore wrapped up with French superstar Marchand and 18-year-old Canadian sensation McIntosh underlining their supremacy. Marchand, who won four individual golds and was the face of his home Paris Olympics a year ago, added the 400-meter individual medley crown to his 200 medley title this week. The 23-year-old arrived in Singapore with a lighter program in an effort to smash Ryan Lochte's 200 IM world record from 2011 — and he did just that. Marchand on Sunday cruised to victory in the 400 IM, powering to the wall in 4 minutes, 04.73 seconds, more than three seconds ahead of Tomoyuki Matsushita (4:08.32), with Russian Ilia Borodin, competing as a neutral athlete, third at 4:09.16. Russian swimmers are competing as neutrals because of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. "It's not perfect because it's never perfect, but it's more than I expected, especially the world record in the 200-meter medley," Marchand said. "It shows that I still have a passion for swimming, that I love it." Not to be outdone, McIntosh was similarly emphatic in winning the women's 400 for her fourth gold in Singapore, to go with triumphs in the 200 medley, 200 butterfly and 400 freestyle. The world record holder led from start to finish to romp to victory in a world championships-record 4:25.78, with Australia's Jenna Forrester and Mio Narita sharing silver (4:33.26). McIntosh's only defeat of the championships came on Saturday when she finished third in the 800 freestyle, with American Katie Ledecky reigning over that event once more to underline her enduring quality at age 28. "Overall happy with my meet but always wanting more," McIntosh said. "Even if I were to get five golds, I would still want more, that's just my mentality." The U.S. team battled acute gastroenteritis all week and faced flak from Olympic greats Michael Phelps and Lochte. But they silenced the doubters by breaking their own world record in winning the women's 4x100 medley relay. The Americans were victorious in 3:49.34, beating their previous record of 3:49.63 from Paris a year ago. They also set a mixed 4x100 freestyle world record on Saturday. The U.S. ended a turbulent week on top of the pile with nine golds, ahead of Australia with eight and France and Canada on four — with all four Canadian golds coming from McIntosh. American three-time Olympic gold medalist Bobby Finke called the criticism "weak" and "stupid." "Someone wants to say our swimmers are entitled, that's just the dumbest thing I've personally ever heard," world record holder Finke said after winning bronze in the 1,500 freestyle. China's 12-year-old schoolgirl Yu Zidi — whose presence at the championships at such a young age has ignited debate — was just out of the medals in fourth in the 400-meter medley. Yu was fourth in all three of her individual events and looks set to become a superstar at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. She goes home with a relay bronze from earlier in the week, and with it a slice of history as the youngest medalist ever. Australia's Meg Harris beamed from ear to ear after joining compatriot Cam McEvoy as a 50 freestyle champion. A day after McEvoy won the men's sprint, Paris Olympic silver medalist Harris powered home in 24.02 seconds to beat Chinese pair Wu Qingfeng (24.26) and Cheng Yujie (24.28). Harris, 23, said becoming an individual world champion was "the dream I have been dreaming of the whole time." Tunisia's Ahmed Jaouadi added the 1,500 freestyle world title to his 800 crown. Jaouadi grabbed gold in 14 minutes, 34.41 seconds, ahead of Germany's Sven Schwarz (14:35.69) and Finke (14:36.60). There was a Russian victory in the men's 50 backstroke, with Kliment Kolesnikov dominating for gold in a championships-record 23.68 seconds. The Russians won the men's 4x100 medley relay over France and the United States. Lithuania's Ruta Meilutyte sealed a career fourth women's 50 breaststroke world crown.
