One-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski favours the current policy of abandoning qualifying and practice for midweek races – regardless of the COVID-19 pandemic that necessitated the condensed format. Team Penske’s Keselowski, who won Sunday’s Coca-Cola 600, was drawn on pole for the first race following NASCAR’s return at Darlington with the new random
Month: May 2020
Having won the first five races of 1992 on the bounce, Nigel Mansell went to Monaco hoping to secure a sixth. But ill fortune left him having to contend with reigning champion Ayrton Senna for an infamous duel around the Monte Carlo streets… The streets of Monte Carlo are well-known in Formula 1 circles as
5:11 AM ET Audi sacked German driver Daniel Abt from their Formula E team because he “made a conscious decision to go against the rules” in an esports competition, the German carmaker said on Wednesday. Abt, who announced on Tuesday he had lost his seat, was punished for getting a professional gamer to compete for
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Mount Panorama served up an epic opening round to this year’s Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli campaign. Re-live the best bits, including Matt Campbell’s last-gasp pass that handed Porsche its first Bathurst 12 Hour victory, right here.
Scott Redding says the Aprilia MotoGP team was like an “empty void” in 2018, two years on from his disastrous final premier-class campaign with the Italian manufacturer. The 27-year-old Briton replaced fellow countryman Sam Lowes at the Team Gresini-run Aprilia squad in 2018, having previously raced both Honda and Ducati machinery in his first four
A Formula 1 car is a complex piece of machinery with teams funnelling hundreds of millions of dollars into producing the most advanced car on the grid. In this quest for speed an F1 team’s factory never stands still, working year-round to improve every part of the car from the front wing to the diffuser,
5:01 PM ET Gabriel Tan Haas F1 Team’s Romain Grosjean admits he will miss Sebastian Vettel if 2020 proves to be the driver’s final year in Formula 1 since he believes it might be tough to settle for anything else after driving for Ferrari. Vettel, a four-time world champion, will leave Ferrari once his contract
In the most recent Formula 1 classic race, a grand prix which only sparked to life late on, the 2019 Brazilian Grand Prix gave Carlos Sainz Jr his moment in the sun which he celebrated in the darkness of a post-race podium and led Ferrari to come knocking There is a habit for memories in
May 28, 2020 Mercedes’ parent company, Daimler, has denied it is planning to quit Formula One after a speculative report in Germany claimed a plan had been hatched to sell the team to Aston Martin owner Lawrence Stroll next year. 1 Related The report in Auto Bild and on F1insider.com claimed Mercedes team boss Toto
For many fans, Group B was the golden era of the World Rally Championship, but it came at a high price. DAVID EVANS looked back at the rise and demise of the WRC’s most spectacular machines in the 18 August 2016 issue of Autosport magazine Rally cars go around corners far faster today than they
Aleix Espargaro has revealed he is “really close” to finalising a new Aprilia MotoGP deal for 2021 and beyond, admitting that this will likely be his last contract before retirement. Espargaro has often been critical of the Gresini-run Aprilia squad since coming on board in 2017, having achieved only a best finish of sixth in
Fifty years on from the first of Al Unser’s record-matching four Indianapolis 500 triumphs, Autosport’s IndyCar correspondent DAVID MALSHER-LOPEZ recalls the career of an Indy hero No fan of the Indianapolis 500 needs telling that last weekend was a weird one. For media folks – who are merely fans paid to write about it –
Silverstone’s hopes of hosting Formula 1 races this year have taken a further boost after the UK government declared the resumption of sport behind closed doors from Monday 1 June. The 2020 F1 season has been on hiatus since March’s aborted Australian Grand Prix due to the coronavirus pandemic, with the subsequent races through June
11:07 AM ET Austria’s health ministry announced on Saturday that two Formula One motor races can go ahead on July 5 and 12 without spectators. The races are due to be held in the village of Spielberg, about 200 kilometres southwest of the capital Vienna. 2 Related F1 organizers earlier this year announced plans to
Daniel Ricciardo looked set for his first win of 2016… until this pit stop error cost him his chance of victory. Revisit the most dramatic moments of the 2016 F1 season. For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Like F1® on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Formula1/ Follow F1® on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/F1 Follow F1® on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/F1
The 2019 season will see SRO Motorsports Group unite the sprint-format championships formerly known as the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup, Blancpain GT Series Asia and Pirelli World Challenge GT to form a new global initiative: the Blancpain GT World Challenge. This exciting international endeavour will present GT3 manufacturers, partners and teams with the
McLaren boss Zak Brown is expecting 2021 signing Daniel Ricciardo to provide a benchmark that will help Lando Norris develop as a Formula 1 driver. Ricciardo will join McLaren for the 2021 season as part of the driver shuffle sparked by Sebastian Vettel’s split with Ferrari, with the German’s spot to be filled by current
May 29, 2020 Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — The MotoGP races in Britain and Australia are the latest to be canceled on the international motorcycle racing circuit because of the coronavirus pandemic. Organizers on Friday said the COVID-19 pandemic “and resulting calendar changes have obliged the cancellation of both events.” The British Grand Prix had
As Autosport launches the latest episode in its Race of My Life podcast series, we take a look back at Roger Penske’s choice as the race of his life – the 1994 Indianapolis 500 Race: 1994 Indianapolis 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway Car: Penske PC23 (Driven by Al Unser Jr) It was a race when Penske’s
5:28 AM ET Renault says it plans to stay in Formula One despite the French car manufacturer undergoing a major restructuring process that will see 15,000 layoffs worldwide. 1 Related The team’s future in F1 has become a source of speculation for several months after it failed to meet its on-track goals last year as
Formula 1’s decision to lower its cost-cap to $145m per season from 2021 was widely celebrated on Wednesday, but the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was underlined on Friday as Williams revealed it would be open to selling its team. ADAM COOPER delves into the situation facing one of F1’s fiercely independent teams Friday
7:45 AM ET Williams are prepared to end decades of family control and sell the struggling Formula One team to secure its future after tough times on and off the track, deputy principal Claire Williams said on Friday. The announcement is a major shift for a proudly British company co-founded by Frank Williams, Claire’s father,
Quiz time for the Ferrari duo as they team up to take on the Grill The Grid challenge… For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Like F1® on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Formula1/ Follow F1® on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/F1 Follow F1® on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/F1
The 2019 season will see SRO Motorsports Group unite the sprint-format championships formerly known as the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup, Blancpain GT Series Asia and Pirelli World Challenge GT to form a new global initiative: the Blancpain GT World Challenge. This exciting international endeavour will present GT3 manufacturers, partners and teams with the
The British and Australian MotoGP races have been called off for this season, bringing the total number of race cancellations in 2020 up to five. The British MotoGP at Silverstone had been scheduled for 30 August, while the Australian MotoGP at Phillip Island was in the initial race calendar for 25 October. But with the
Hendrick Motorsports’ Chase Elliott overtook an ailing Kevin Harvick late on to claim his first victory of the season in the rescheduled NASCAR Cup Series second race at Charlotte. After Tropical Storm Bertha had battered Charlotte on Wednesday which led to the initial postponement, Team Penske’s Joey Logano emerged as the early front-runner when the
Williams is considering a partial or even full sale of its Formula 1 team as part of a new strategic direction aimed at securing its future. On the back of increased financial pressures caused by the coronavirus pandemic, the Grove-based outfit communicated on Friday that it has appointed joint financial advisers to assist in its
4:35 AM ET ESPN and Reuters Williams is considering a sale of its once-dominant but now struggling Formula One team as part of a new strategic direction, Williams Grand Prix Holdings (WGPH) said on Friday. The company published annual results showing WGPH’s Formula One revenue slid to £95.4 million ($117.6 million) in 2019, down from
KTM broke the silence of the coronavirus-forced shutdown on MotoGP by completing a two-day private test at Austrian Grand Prix venue the Red Bull Ring this week. MotoGP has been on enforced shutdown since the beginning of March, after the COVID-19 crisis forced the opening race in Qatar to be cancelled and subsequent 10 events
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