Month: April 2020

Join Stuart Codling for the third 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
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1:04 PM ET American driver Juan Manuel Correa, who suffered serious leg injuries in an F2 crash ahead of last year’s Belgian Grand Prix, will make his debut in Formula One’s esports series this weekend. McLaren’s Carlos Sainz will also take part for the first time alongside real-life F1 teammate Lando Norris, who has been
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4:01 PM ET Laine Clark Supercars CEO Sean Seamer has refused to be distracted by naming rights sponsor Virgin Australia’s dire financial plight, saying his focus is finalising a return date for racing by the end of April. The coronavirus outbreak ensured the 2020 series was halted in March after just one completed round with
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Sponsorship has been a major part of Formula 1 since the spring of 1968, when F1 teams were given the right to display sponsor logos on their liveries. Since then we’ve seen many sponsorship deals throughout the decades, with a number of different companies all willing to pump money into teams for exposure and expertise
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9:01 AM ET McLaren’s transition from Renault engines to Mercedes next year will be closely monitored by the FIA to ensure the team does not gain an advantage from revising its chassis design. McLaren will use Mercedes engines from 2021 onwards and had originally planned for the new deal to coincide with Formula One’s major
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6:37 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo will take a pay cut to help Renault through the coronavirus pandemic but talks about his future are already complicated, according to his Formula One team boss Cyril Abiteboul. The Australian is one of the sport’s highest paid drivers, earning as much as $25 million a year according to media
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8:09 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo thinks the late Jules Bianchi would have been at a similar level to Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc right now. Bianchi died in 2015 from injuries he suffered at the previous year’s Japanese Grand Prix. The Frenchman, who was Leclerc’s godfather, seemed set for a move to Ferrari after an impressive campaign
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Aleix Espargaro has revealed a deal to join Ducati for the 2015 MotoGP season was “practically done”, before it ultimately retained Andrea Dovizioso. Espargaro made his full-time MotoGP debut in 2010 with Pramac Ducati, before returning in 2012 with the Aspar team on its Aprilia CRT machine in 2012. He moved to the Forward Racing
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5:50 AM ET Formula One legend Stirling Moss has died aged 90, his wife confirmed on Sunday. Despite never winning a world championship Moss is widely regarded as one of the best racing drivers of all time. Between 1951 and 1961 the British driver won 16 F1 races and was F1 championship runner-up on four
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