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24 Heures Motos First Qualifying flash: Canepa and Haneka pace helps YART top provisional EWC order

Niccolò Canepa’s rapid lap of 1m35.500s among the Red classified riders helped YART – Yamaha Official Team EWC secure the provisional pole position for the 24 Heues Motos, round one of the 2022 FIM Endurance World Championship. New rules for 2022 mean qualifying results are based on the average time of the fastest two riders – rather than three previously – with the results of the fourth rider not taken into account. Ad/> With Canepa’s team-mate, Karel Hanika, the quickest of the Blue riders in a time of 1m35.873s, YART registered an unofficial average of 1m35.686s.

Ukraine's World Cup qualifying bid to resume in June against Scotland

Ukraine's bid to qualify for the Word Cup will resume on June 1 against Scotland after its playoff semifinal in Glasgow was postponed in March due to the country being invaded by Russia.

Northern Ireland 0-5 England: Women’s World Cup qualifying – live!

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Fernando Alonso's Australian Grand Prix qualifying crash blamed on £1.50 oil part

Fernando Alonso's qualifying accident was caused by a part that cost the team just £1.50, according to team principal Otmar Szafnauer. The Alpine boss confirmed the failure was down to a faulty o-ring for an oil seal.

World Championship snooker 2022: Crucible qualifying is cut-throat scene of broken dreams, but who misses out?

On the same weekend the 174th Grand National was run over the arduous fences of Aintree, there were plenty of early fallers in snooker's perilous World Championship qualifiers at the English Institute of Sport in Sheffield. The final round of qualifiers – when 16 players join the 16 top seeds in Thursday morning's draw (11am BST LIVE on Eurosport) for the first round of the sport's main event – has been dubbed 'Judgement Day', but it is actually held over two days, Tuesday 12 April and Wednesday 13 April this week, to determine who will appear at the city's nearby Crucible Theatre.

MotoGP riders slam “embarrassing” traffic in COTA qualifying

The problem of riders backing off and waiting for faster competitors to come by, before latching onto the back of them and taking profit of the slipstream, has been a constant problem in Moto3 and prompted the introduction of harsh sanctions to combat this.

“Scared” Marquez “didn’t believe in myself” in COTA MotoGP qualifying

The Honda rider is a seven-time polesitter and seven-time race winner at the Circuit of the Americas and was expected to have a strong return to action this weekend having missed the Argentine round with vision problems he suffered as a result of a violent crash in Indonesia.

Alonso to race with injured thumbs after Australian GP qualifying crash

The Alpine driver says the impact left him with sore thumbs, but he insists he will be OK for the race.

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24 Heures Motos First Qualifying flash: Canepa and Haneka pace helps YART top provisional EWC order

Ukraine's World Cup qualifying bid to resume in June against Scotland

Northern Ireland 0-5 England: Women’s World Cup qualifying – live!

Fernando Alonso's Australian Grand Prix qualifying crash blamed on £1.50 oil part

World Championship snooker 2022: Crucible qualifying is cut-throat scene of broken dreams, but who misses out?

MotoGP riders slam “embarrassing” traffic in COTA qualifying

“Scared” Marquez “didn’t believe in myself” in COTA MotoGP qualifying

Alonso to race with injured thumbs after Australian GP qualifying crash