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Cristina Gutierrez: “My challenge is to be in the top five and win the stage”

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1 month ago

December 17, 2025

Kyle

Cristina Gutierrez: “My challenge is to be in the top five and win the stage”

Christina Gutierrezthe project will secure drivers to compete in the premier car category of the next Dakar. Dacia Talks Madrid has ambitious goals for this Test, which will be its 10th adventure. “My challenge is to fight to be in the top five of the classification and win a stage. It will be difficult because there are only 20 riders who can win, but considering my results in Morocco and Portugal, I think I can aim to be in the top five. If I didn’t think I had the ability, I wouldn’t have said that.

The Burgos native will be driving a Dacia for the second year as one of the Sandriders team’s drivers. Sebastien Loeb, Nasser Al-Attiyah and a new sign Lucas Moraes. Gutierrez After the brand’s first experience in Saudi Arabia (which it failed to complete last year), “the car is lighter, we have more air intakes, and we strengthened some parts that were previously weak and fragile. It works better on almost any terrain, dunes, mud, stones, making it a more reliable and more versatile car. The goal is not to be the best in just one aspect, but to be the best in everything,” he explains. Christina.

Gutierrez At this year’s Dakar, he predicts, “There will be more stones than sand, so there will be more punctures than in previous years.Moreover, stones will put a greater strain on the cars and the drivers.There will continue to be rattling noises…”

The driver, who was the first Spanish woman to complete the Dakar in a car in 2017 and won the Challenger category at the 2024 Dakar, asserts that this year, “I have prepared more physically than in previous years. I think I am better.” The last edition was left out very early in the contest and the Burgos dentist dedicated himself to helping his teammates, but dacia sandriders To achieve the best possible classification, he explains, “It’s not just the time in the car, but what you learn outside the car, talking to engineers and mechanics, understanding what happened are all very important,” and assures that being in a team like Dacia means “the car adapts to each driver.” Christina Gutierrez joins us Pablo MorenoAlready on his last day before leaving for Saudi Arabia, he declares in his suitcase: “There will be no shortage of avocados. The stages are long, so avocados will help you get the energy you need for the race.”

Source: Mundo Deportivo

Kyle

I am a writer at Sportish, where I mainly cover sports news. I’ve also written for The Guardian and ESPN Brasil, and my work has been featured on NBC Sports, SI.com and more. Before working in journalism, I was an athlete: I played football for Colgate University and competed in the US Open Cross Country Championships.

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Formula 1. Presentation of the first Audi car. Watch LIVE online

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10 hours ago

January 19, 2026

Ruth

Formula 1. Presentation of the first Audi car. Watch LIVE online

One of the two new teams on the Formula 1 grid is preparing to introduce its car for the 2026 season. The Audi team will officially reveal the new car at a special event in Berlin on Tuesday, January 20.

Audi has fully taken over Sauber’s project ahead of the 2026 season and will start its first Formula 1 championship as a factory team and power unit manufacturer. The team has also retained a significant portion of its 2025 Sauber structure, including team boss Jonathan Whitley and drivers Gabriel Bortoleto and Nico Hulkenberg.

This will make Audi the fourth team to submit designs for its 2026 car, after Red Bull, Racing Bulls and Haas. The presentation will take place in the German capital in the format of a full-fledged seasonal launch.

Following the main event, a separate event will be held in Berlin on Wednesday, January 21 for selected fans and media to take a closer look at the new car and its livery.

The presentation will start on January 20 at 20:00 Kyiv time. During the event, the team will reveal the car’s full design for the 2026 season.

Let’s remember that Audi had previously put the 2026 car on the track during promotional races at the Barcelona-Catalonia circuit in early January, but only a limited number of images were released at that time.

Formula 1. Presentation of the first Audi car. Watch LIVE online

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Source: Sport UA

Ruth

Ruth Waterhouse is an author and sports journalist who writes for Sportish. She is known for her coverage of various sports events and her insightful analysis of sports-related news. With a passion for sports and a keen eye for detail, she has become a respected voice in the sports community.

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Audi will pay 1 million 250 thousand Euros to the driver for winning the Formula 1 race

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10 hours ago

January 19, 2026

Ruth

Audi will pay 1 million 250 thousand Euros to the driver for winning the Formula 1 race

Formula 1 driver Nico Hulkenberg can count on a multimillion-dollar bonus in his first season with Audi if he can repeat the results in the 2025 season.

Last season, the German pilot reached the Formula 1 podium after 250 races for the first time in his career and finished the British Grand Prix in third place. At Silverstone, Hulkenberg was ahead of seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton and scored 15 points in one go.

Hulkenberg scored 51 points at the end of the 2025 season.

On the eve of Audi’s first season, specialized media reported that the 38-year-old pilot signed a contract providing a bonus of 50 thousand euros for each point earned in the 2026 season.

Given the large-scale changes in Formula 1, even the pilots themselves cannot yet predict the balance of power in the peloton. However, if Hulkenberg scores 51 points again, the bonus can reach 2 million 550 thousand euros in addition to his base salary at Audi.

If Nico manages to win the race and score the maximum 25 points, this will immediately earn him a bonus of 1,250,000 euros.

The team will present the appearance of its first car today at 20:00 Kyiv time.

Source: Sport UA

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F1 pilot’s brother became Ukrainian pilot’s rival in Formula 4

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15 hours ago

January 19, 2026

Ruth

F1 pilot’s brother became Ukrainian pilot’s rival in Formula 4

Thomas Berman, the younger brother of Haas Formula 1 team driver Oliver Berman, will officially take part in Italian Formula 4 and Euro 4 in the 2026 season.

Thomas will represent the VAR team colours.

The 16-year-old Briton spent last year in British Formula 4, where he scored one win and finished eighth in the final season standings.

But the ones that are considered the most prestigious and promising are the Italian and European Formula 4 championships. They are often chosen by young pilots for further career advancement. In addition, Thomas’ older brother Oliver Berman also competed in these series and became the Italian Formula 4 champion in 2021 with 11 wins.

Let us also remind you that Ukrainian Alexander Bondarev will compete in the same championships with the Prima Racing team in the 2026 season. The Ukrainian pilot does not hide his ambitions and has repeatedly expressed his intention to fight for the championship title.

Bondarev now participates in Middle East Formula 4 in preparation for the European leg of the season. After the first stage, he took first place in the general rankings and became the leader in the rankings.

Thomas Berman will compete in the Formula Winter Series as part of his preparations.

The competition between the current “four” promises to be extremely high, and the appearance of the younger brother of the Formula 1 pilot will only increase interest in the series.