Chip Ganassi Racing has brought in veteran driver Matt Kenseth to complete the remainder of the 2020 NASCAR Cup season in place of Kyle Larson. Larson was suspended from NASCAR competition indefinitely and fired from Chip Ganassi Racing earlier this month after using a racial slur during an iRacing stream. Kenseth will now occupy the
Month: April 2020
Catalunya is open to hosting the Formula 1 Spanish Grand Prix in the summer, and says there are no restrictions on when the circuit can be used. The race was postponed from its original 10 May slot last month, at the same time that the Dutch and Monaco events were called off, due to the
5:00 AM ET The British Grand Prix has notified fans who purchased tickets for this year’s event that any race held in 2020 will be without spectators. The coronavirus pandemic has delayed the start of the F1 season, with the opening 10 races either postponed or cancelled. The British GP at Silverstone of July 19
Toni Elias says Valentino Rossi still hasn’t forgiven him for inflicting defeat on the Italian in the 2006 Portuguese Grand Prix, which ultimately cost Rossi that year’s MotoGP title. Estoril played host to the closest finish of the MotoGP era in 2006, as Gresini Honda rider Elias pipped Yamaha man Rossi to the finish by
Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey has laid out what the 2020 calendar may look like with 15-to-18 races amid growing confidence of starting the season this summer. The first 10 races of the 2020 season have been called off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the French Grand Prix becoming the latest race to be
Lewis Hamilton’s lack of unsporting moments on the race track is “unprecedented” and sets him apart from other great Formula One champions of the past, according to Mercedes technical boss James Allison. Hamilton is one championship away from matching Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of seven, while he is also eight wins away from surpassing the
Alex Rins has revealed he began talks about remaining with Suzuki in MotoGP for 2021 during last year’s Argentine Grand Prix weekend. The double MotoGP race winner announced last Sunday that he has signed a new two-year deal to remain with Suzuki beginning next season, with team boss Davide Brivio admitting to Autosport beforehand that
Honda’s first Formula 1 foray promised much, but despite winning in its first full season, it wasn’t as a regular front-runner. Here’s how it planned to improve, as told to Autosport’s DAVID PHIPPS – under a willow tree – in our 9 February 1968 issue Honda came into Formula 1 racing at the 1964 German
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Despite every hackneyed cliché, natural talent doesn’t exist. Sadly, there is no gene for the perfect Scandinavian flick or negotiating Eau Rouge flat out. These are skills that take countless hours to develop and are possessed by the rarest of breeds. Yet, relentless hard work alone isn’t enough to succeed, either. Raising a champion requires
MotoGP promoter Dorna Sports says it is “optimistic” the delayed 2020 season can begin in July, with races without spectators the most likely course of action this year. The coronavirus pandemic has forced the first 11 round of the 2020 season to be cancelled or postponed, with the only action so far coming in the
Ryan Newman, who suffered a head injury in a horror crash in the season-opening Daytona 500, expects to return to action when the NASCAR season resumes. Newman suffered an unspecified closed head injury in a violent last-lap wreck in the Daytona 500 in February. He was transported by ambulance to Halifax Medical Center in Daytona
Motorsport Heroes, the feature-length documentary available to watch on Motorsport.tv, follows the incredible racing careers of five icons of the sport. In this preview clip of the film, seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher discusses his call to drive for Benetton for the rest of the 1991 season following his debut with Jordan at
Andrea Dovizioso admits he didn’t expect reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez to commit to Honda for four more years, and thought he would have switched manufacturer. Honda shocked the paddock when it announced in February that it had locked down Marquez for four more seasons, in a deal that is rumoured to be worth
Sebastian Vettel admits that he and Ferrari may have to make a decision about their new contract before the 2020 Formula 1 season starts. The four-time world champion’s current deal with Ferrari runs out at the end of this year, and all indications were pointing towards an extension being sorted in the early stages of
5:26 PM ET Associated Press Formula One driver Lando Norris embarrassed the field in his IndyCar iRacing debut by dominating Saturday’s race at virtual Circuit of the Americas in Texas. Norris was poised to begin his second F1 season with McLaren in March when a team member tested positive for the new coronavirus at the
Yamaha’s Valentino Rossi says he will now have to take a decision on his MotoGP future before completing any races in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic has delayed the season. The seven-time MotoGP world champion is out of contract at the end of the year and has already lost his place at the works Yamaha
Interlagos has often produced spectacular Formula 1 races and intense title battles, but perhaps none were more remarkable or unpredictable than the 2012 season finale. Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso had gone in to the Brazilian Grand Prix battling for the world title, with Vettel defending a comfortable cushion at the head of the standings.
6:44 PM ET ESPN News Services Instead of opening the month of May at a virtual “dream track” not currently on the IndyCar schedule for what is supposed to be the series’ iRacing finale, IndyCar announced Saturday that it will compete next weekend at virtual Indianapolis Motor Speedway in a 175-mile event for a 33-driver
Yamaha MotoGP riders Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales have praised frontline healthcare workers battling coronavirus worldwide, branding them “heroes”. The COVID-19 pandemic has infected more than 2.5million people worldwide and killed over 170,000, with much of the world locked-down as governments impose strict measures to help quell the spread of the deadly disease. The lockdowns
Bubba Wallace has decided not to participate in this weekend’s eNASCAR Pro Invitational event as long stints of sim racing leave him feeling “burnt out”. Wallace, who lost a real-world sponsor after abruptly quitting the Bristol eNASCAR race earlier this month, a posted a series of messages on his Twitter account in which he said
Ricardo ‘Richard’ Divila, perhaps best known as the designer of the early Copersucar Fittipaldi Formula 1 cars, has died at the age of 74 after a short illness. Although he always remained famous for his Fittipaldi connections, Divila was involved with an extraordinary diverse range of motorsport categories and teams in an engineering and design
8:45 AM ET Ferrari has warned Formula One against making knee-jerk changes to its financial regulations as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The global outbreak has resulted in the 2020 F1 season being put on hold, with no certainty over when racing will resume. The hiatus will be financially damaging for the sport and
Jack Miller says his famous ‘shoey’ celebration after winning the 2016 MotoGP Dutch TT was a “dig” at Honda for fining him over a similar act at a party. Miller was signed directly to Honda on a three-year deal to join the satellite LCR squad in MotoGP for 2015, after finishing as runner-up in the
McLaren driver Carlos Sainz Jr says the 2020 Formula 1 season being cancelled because of the coronavirus crisis would be a “hard blow that would be difficult to accept”. The first nine races of the season have already been cancelled or postponed, with the French and Belgian events also in doubt as a result of
Apr 23, 2020 If you want to know the real Charles Leclerc, he recommends watching his Twitch feed while he is racing online with his friends. It might sound like a sales pitch for his latest social media account, but anyone who has watched him gaming (a number already in the millions) will have seen
MotoGP 20 marks Milestone’s most ambitious instalment in the franchise so far, with an April release date, a revamped career mode and the return of historic bikes. This unprecedented early release date – just days after the fourth round of the real-life MotoGP season was supposed to take place prior to its cancellation – immediately
Join Stuart Codling for the fourth Autosport Formula 1 Pub Quiz! To play along, get your pens and paper at the ready and don’t forget to write your answers in the comments too! There will be five rounds of 10 questions, ranging from simple to super hard (those should be the new tyre compounds!), designed
7:30 AM ET McLaren boss Zak Brown has accused Ferrari of being in denial about the existential threat Formula One faces from coronavirus as arguments heat up over how much teams should be allowed to spend. F1 is introducing a budget cap next year, with teams discussing lowering it from the original $175 million to
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