Valentino Rossi admits the forced hiatus for MotoGP due to the coronavirus pandemic has “messed up the plan” he had for deciding his future beyond the 2020 season. The 41-year-old nine-time grand prix motorcycle world champion did not commit to a contract extension with Yamaha at the start of the year as he wanted to
Month: March 2020
While managing to successfully defend a Formula 1 world title is an incredibly difficult task, Lewis Hamilton has managed that feat in the past two seasons. However, more often than not in F1’s history, a driver has failed to defend their title – and, on some occasions, has missed the mark spectacularly through various circumstances.
1:38 PM ET Associated Press Seven-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson has joined the field for IndyCar’s inaugural online race as he contemplates driving in that series following his retirement from full-time stock car racing. IndyCar has followed NASCAR, IMSA and Formula One in setting up a virtual racing series to give fans content during the
Honda team manager Alberto Puig has hit back at claims by Ducati boss Gigi Dall’Igna that the delayed start to the season will benefit HRC and Marc Marquez. The start of the 2020 MotoGP season will be pushed back even further following the cancellation of the Jerez round, meaning that the French Grand Prix stands
With the break in Formula 1 and other motorsports, numerous categories are filling up the gap with their own Esports events. Last weekend played host to two big Esports events in the world of motorsport – but can it ever replace the real thing, or should we always think of Esports as complimentary to ‘real’
2:09 PM ET Formula One’s seven UK-based teams have joined forces to manufacture the medical devices needed to help treat coronavirus patients in the UK. Collectively known as ‘Project Pitlane’, the seven teams — Haas, McLaren, Mercedes, Racing Point, Red Bull, Renault and Williams — are working with F1 to coordinate a response to the
Honda team manager Alberto Puig has hit back at claims by Ducati boss Gigi Dall’Igna that the delayed start to the season will benefit HRC and Marc Marquez. The start of the 2020 MotoGP season will be pushed back even further following the cancellation of the Jerez round, meaning that the French Grand Prix stands
IndyCar CEO Mark Miles is hopeful that the double-header weekend in Detroit can happen as scheduled on May 29-31 despite the current acceleration of coronavirus cases in the US. Miles says that, with eight weeks to go until the event, he remains “optimistic” it will go ahead. He said: “We’re talking to all our promoters
AlphaTauri boss Franz Tost says that the coronavirus pandemic has saved Formula 1 teams money in 2020, as they no longer have to conduct “double development” programmes for 2021. In response to the outbreak of coronavirus, which has paused the F1 calendar until late June at the earliest, the brand new rules primed for 2021
4:30 AM ET Ed Jackson This year’s Supercars championship could run into January if that’s what it takes to crown a winner. The series is suspended due to the coronavirus outbreak with only the season-opening Adelaide 500 completed. Supercars chief executive Sean Seamer is however still confident there is enough space in the back end
Ferrari wasted a year “going nowhere” with Kimi Raikkonen in 2018 and should have promoted Charles Leclerc earlier, reckons former Formula 1 title winning team boss Flavio Briatore. Leclerc was promoted to Ferrari for his sophomore campaign last year, and won two races on his way to beating his vastly experience four-time world champion team-mate
3:20 AM ET Oliver Caffrey Instead of living out his IndyCar dream, two-time defending Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin will be racing online in May. The Ford flyer was due to make his American debut in Indianapolis on May 9 for Team Penske. But the coronavirus pandemic has affected another world sports event, with the IndyCar
The 2020 MotoGP season is currently on an enforced hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the first five races now pushed out of their original slots. MotoGP promoters Dorna Sports and governing body the FIM have been proactive during this time, with a provisional calendar already published, while various plans have been mooted on
The 2020 edition of the Indianapolis 500 will now be postponed to August 23, as IndyCar continues to push back events amid the ensuing coronavirus pandemic. IndyCar’s blue-riband event will move from its original date of May 24, while the Grand Prix of Indianapolis – which takes place on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course
NASCAR will have to “look outside the box” when it comes to rescheduling its 2020 calendar, believes Kevin Harvick. The 2020 NASCAR Cup season is on hold until at least May due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, with its recent races at Homstead and Atlanta ultimately scrapped after they were due to run behind closed
McLaren has confirmed that all of its Formula 1 team members who remained in Australia because of coronavirus concerns have now safely returned home. In the wake of a McLaren employee testing positive for coronavirus at the Australian Grand Prix, a further 16 team personnel were put in to quarantine for two weeks to ensure
1:26 PM ET Associated Press The Indianapolis 500 scheduled for May 24 has been postponed until August because of the coronavirus pandemic and won’t run on Memorial Day weekend for the first time since 1946. The race will instead be held Aug. 23. The Indianapolis 500 began in 1911 but did not run in 1917,
M-Sport World Rally Championship driver Esapekka Lappi admits he was “surprised” that six-time champion Sebastien Ogier elected to continue after losing the 2019 title to Ott Tanak. Ogier had rejoined the Citroen team last season after two years driving M-Sport’s Ford Fiesta WRC car, but Tanak’s breakthrough title ended Ogier’s streak of six titles in
The MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez due to run at the start of May has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, becoming the fifth race to be scrapped. The COVID-19 outbreak is now centred on Europe, with Formula 1 recently postponing its Dutch and Spanish GPs, while cancelling Monaco altogether. MotoGP had its
Haas has confirmed Pietro Fittipaldi and Louis Deletraz will serve as its official test and reserve drivers through the 2020 Formula 1 season. Fittipaldi and Deletraz both made their F1 test debuts with Haas at the end of 2018, and were affiliated to the team last year in support of race drivers Romain Grosjean and
9:04 AM ET Haas has confirmed Pietro Fittipaldi, grandson of former world champion and Indy 500 winner Emerson, and Louis Deletraz will stay with the Formula One team in test and reserve driver roles in 2020. Alexis Nunes, Nate Saunders and Laurence Edmondson discuss Lando Norris’ star turn in the virtual world of esports and
While No. 66 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing driver Joey Hand won at Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course in the 2010 GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series, it’s his infamous crash in 2006 that is remembered by most. In this Throwback Thursday, Hand revisits his magnificent incident yet expresses his excitement to return to the track.
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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,
With no motorsport for the foreseeable future, Formula 1 fans need to look elsewhere to feed their racing addiction over the coming months. Fortunately there are a plethora of motorsport books out there going back well over half a century covering the lives of the paddock’s brightest stars. From Virginia Williams’ insight into the fortunes
Daniel Ricciardo says the cancellation of the Monaco Grand Prix “hurt” as the reality of the delayed start to the Formula 1 season begins to set in. The opening eight races of the 2020 season have all been called off as a result of the ongoing coronavirus epidemic, with the events in Australia and Monaco
6:58 AM ET McLaren has confirmed it will still be switching to Mercedes engines for next season despite Formula One’s decision to delay the 2021 rule changes. Given the unprecedented circumstances of the coronavirus pandemic, F1 decided to delay the introduction of its new rules package for another year. The revamp was set to implement
Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso believes that a compressed schedule in the second half of 2020 owing to the global coronavirus pandemic will be “difficult for everyone”. The new season is currently due to begin at Jerez in early May following the cancellation of the Qatar Grand Prix for the premier class and the postponement
Charles Leclerc doubts Formula 1 team-mate Sebastian Vettel will be destabilised by his expiring Ferrari contract through 2020, expecting the German to be “very strong”. Leclerc managed to beat Vettel in their first season together at Ferrari in 2019, scoring his first two F1 victories in Belgium and Italy en route to fourth place in
9:23 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo admits the cancellation of this year’s Monaco Grand Prix was tough to process, especially after watching onboard footage from previous years. Alexis Nunes, Nate Saunders and Laurence Edmondson discuss Lando Norris’ star turn in the virtual world of esports and the significance of F1 pushing its real-life rules revolution back
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