Formula 1 tests are always a peak time of interest and intrigue, and they’ve also featured some unexpected driver and team link-ups over the years. Those often tantalising partnerships have not always led to a permanent deal for a variety of reasons – and some of them were maybe never as ‘real’ as they seemed.
Month: October 2019
7:37 AM ET Officials investigating Supercars driver Fabian Coulthard’s controversial Bathurst 1000 safety car tactics will release their decision this weekend. The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) said a hearing would be held on Saturday. It will release the outcome on Sunday, seven days after reigning Supercars champion – and Coulthard’s Ford teammate –
Citroen has entered a third C3 WRC to be driven by Mads Ostberg for next month’s season-closing Rally Australia to potentially boost Sebastien Ogier’s World Rally Championship title hopes. After missing out on a Citroen seat to Ogier and Lappi in 2019, Ostberg has stepped back to help the team develop its new R5 car.
Johann Zarco’s dramatic 2019 MotoGP season took another twist this week, as LCR Honda announced he would be joining the team for the final three races of the year. That deal, revealed by Autosport last week, arose after LCR announced its regular rider Takaaki Nakagami will be undergoing an operation on a shoulder injury after
The McLaren Formula 1 team’s sponsorship deal with Brazilian oil company Petrobras looks set to be brought to an official end within a matter of days, Autosport has learned. Petrobras, which is 64% owned by the Brazilian government through direct and indirect means, announced last year that it would be tying up with McLaren from
12:48 AM ET Laine Clark A move to the United States is back on the cards for Scott McLaughlin after the Supercars star impressed American motorsport giant Roger Penske with his stunning maiden Bathurst 1000 victory. And the Ford gun admitted he didn’t care what category Penske had in mind for him in the US,
100% on the HERO4® camera from http://GoPro.com. Watch Tim Tremblay beat Tucker Hibbert to take the Win at the final race of Mount Pleasant Snocross in Michigan.
Take a lap around VIRginia International Raceway with Zacharie Robichon in the No. 9 Pfaff Motorsports Porsche 911 GT3 R.
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We sat Carlos and Lando down to answer some of the internet’s most burning questions, in the 1,567th edition of the McLaren Challenge. Subscribe and be the first to watch exclusive content from the Official McLaren YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialMcLarenVids/videos App Store | https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mclaren/id919450918 Google Play | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mclaren.mobile McLaren Website | https://www.mclaren.com/racing/ Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/McLaren.Racing Twitter
Encouraged by the success of the Blancpain Endurance Series, world-renowned Swiss watch manufacture Blancpain and the SRO Motorsports Group decide at the end of 2013 to extend their partnership to the Sprint series, previously promoted as the FIA GT Series, offering teams and drivers the opportunity to compete for an overall Blancpain GT Series title,
Maverick Vinales set the pace in the opening practice for MotoGP’s Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi, leading Yamaha stablemate Fabio Quartararo by a quarter of a second. Factory Yamaha man Vinales posted a lap of 1m45.572s at the very end of the 45-minute Friday morning session to lead Petronas SRT rider Quartararo by 0.258 seconds,
Ayrton Senna will be honoured by an official Formula 1 fan festival in his home town of Sao Paulo in early November, a week before the Brazilian Grand Prix. The festival will include demonstration runs, and Senna’s countrymen Emerson Fittipaldi and Felipe Massa will both drive examples of his old F1 cars on the streets
3:16 PM ET Red Bull’s Max Verstappen is the quickest driver to ever race in Formula One, says F1’s 2009 world champion Jenson Button. “I think he is the fastest driver that has ever driven an F1 car. I really do,” Button told talkSPORT radio when asked about the Dutchman. “I think he is unbelievably
Autosport is saddened to report the passing of former Mitsubishi Ralliart team principal and London to Sydney Marathon winner Andrew Cowan. Cowan retired from the Mitsubishi World Rally Championship team at the end of the 2005 season, having directed the Japanese manufacturer’s dominance of Group A rallying in the late ’90s. It was under Cowan’s
Honda has told Johann Zarco to have “no illusion” of replacing Jorge Lorenzo at its factory MotoGP team as he gears up for a three-race stint with LCR. Takaaki Nakagami will miss the last three races in Australia, Malaysia and Valencia to recover from a shoulder operation he is to have after this weekend’s Japanese
Gunther Steiner says Haas is resigned to a difficult end to the 2019 Formula 1 season and is now focused on preventing a repeat of its struggles next year. Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen – who spun in qualifying – again struggled to get their tyres to work at last weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix and
12:48 AM ET Laine Clark Officials will further investigate Supercars driver Fabian Coulthard’s “disgraceful” Bathurst 1000 safety car tactics after sensationally charging his Ford outfit with breaching team orders regulations. Coulthard was initially slapped with a drive-through penalty after he dramatically slowed down and held up the field behind his Ford teammate Scott McLaughlin, who
Eleven factory drivers from four manufacturers will battle it out in the GT World Cup at Macau next month. The works contingent from Mercedes, Audi, Porsche and BMW, which includes four former winners with eight wins in the event between them, is part of a 17-car entry for the GT3 shootout on the Macau Formula
LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow believes his new part-time MotoGP team-mate Johann Zarco will “do better than people expect” in his upcoming three-race stint. KTM outcast Zarco has been drafted in to replace Takaaki Nakagami on the year-old Honda RC213V at Phillip Island, Sepang and Valencia, with the Japanese rider ruled out due to a
Ricky Stenhouse Jr has secured a NASCAR Cup Series lifeline after signing a multi-year deal to drive for JTG Daugherty Racing, racing alongside team-mate Ryan Preece in 2020. Stenhouse, a two-time Cup race-winner, joins the team after ending a 10-year spell with Roush Fenway Racing. Roush had opted to replace Stenhouse with Chris Buescher (pictured
A number of Ferrari’s Formula 1 rivals have written to the FIA for clarity over the legality of design aspects they believe are behind the Italian team’s engine advantage. Autosport understands that Ferrari’s competitors are seeking clarification over whether they are clear to pursue similar concepts themselves or if the ideas fall foul of the
Watch Adam Cianciarulo’s Main Event Highlights from round 17 of the 2019 Monster Energy Supercross Series in Las Vegas, Nevada. Shot 100% on the HERO7BLACK® camera from http://GoPro.com For full event results visit: http://www.supercrosslive.com
Take a lap around VIRginia International Raceway with Bill Auberlen in the No. 25 BMW Tream RLL BMW M6.
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We know what you’re all wondering… does Lando finally overcome his fear of sushi? Watch to find out as Carlos and Lando take on the Japanese food taste test. Subscribe and be the first to watch exclusive content from the Official McLaren YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialMcLarenVids/videos App Store | https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/mclaren/id919450918 Google Play | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mclaren.mobile McLaren Website
7:03 AM ET SUZUKA, Japan — Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff arrived at his post-race media session holding a red hat. He placed it on the table in front of him, glanced down at it and let a smile spread across his face. The same hat has been hanging in the entrance to the team’s
Mercedes finally responded to Ferrari’s post-summer break Formula 1 supremacy at the Japanese Grand Prix with some major car updates. While Ferrari maintained its edge in qualifying, tardy starts from Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc handed the lead to Valtteri Bottas – whose dominant victory by 13.343 seconds demonstrated that the new parts have made
8:38 AM ET Mercedes secured a sixth consecutive sweep of the drivers’ and constructors’ championship at the Japanese Grand Prix. The Suzuka event saw a Tyhoon-enforced revamp to the weekend format and a race which brought stewarding decisions under the microscope again. Our F1 team, Laurence Edmondson, Nate Saunders, Maurice Hamilton and Kate Walker, discuss
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