Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden says the rookie class will struggle at this weekend’s Texas Motor Speedway season-opener and throughout the season, due to the lack of seat time. This year’s IndyCar rookies took part in a test at Texas Motor Speedway two days after the Spring Training session at Circuit of The Americas in
Month: June 2020
NASCAR Cup racer Bubba Wallace has called on his peers to join him in condemning racial injustice, saying “the silence from the top drivers in our sport is beyond frustrating”. Wallace made a one-hour guest appearance on the Dale Jr. Download show on NBCSN this week, where hosts Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Mike Davis discussed
The FIA has moved to further clamp down on engine tricks in Formula 1, as teams begin gearing up for the resumption of racing. Amid a renewed focus on engine behaviour in the wake of the controversy over Ferrari’s powerunit last season, motor racing’s governing body has moved to close down potential grey areas in
10:26 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis Motor Speedway will host the IndyCar-NASCAR doubleheader on the July 4 weekend without fans. Track officials had been optimistic IMS could be the first major sporting venue to have fans back in the stands this summer. Instead, the stands will be empty much like the rest of
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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
Rally New Zealand has become the fourth World Rally Championship round to get the axe as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. It was widely expected the Auckland-based event, scheduled for 3-6 September, would prove impossible with the New Zealand government having closed the country’s borders to shield itself from the worst of the coronavirus
KTM insists the MotoGP engine freeze introduced to control costs in the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic will not affect its progress. The Austrian marque became the first to resume testing this week since the COVID-19 crisis placed the 2020 campaign on hold, as it undertook two days of running at the Red Bull
Mercedes Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff has laughed off rumours of a rift with Daimler chief Ola Kallenius, as he reiterated his intention to remain at the championship-winning outfit. Speaking to selected media in a video conference, Wolff opened up about his future thoughts in the wake of long-running speculation about what he will
7:16 AM ET In the latest episode of the ESPN F1 Podcast, Alexis Nunes is joined by F1 journalists Laurence Edmondson and Nate Saunders to look back at the most explosive F1 rivalry of recent years. Listen to full-length podcast by clicking here Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg were teammates at Mercedes between 2013 and
MotoGP has outlined its plans to ensure paddock safety from coronavirus upon its hoped return to action on 19 July with the first of two races at Jerez. The outbreak of COVID-19 has put the MotoGP season on hold since its aborted effort to stage the Qatar Grand Prix back in March, with Moto2 and
As Autosport launches the latest episode in its Race of My Life podcast series, we take a look back at Sir Jackie Stewart’s choice for the race of his life – the 1973 Italian Grand Prix, and the day he won his third and final F1 title Race: 1973 Italian Grand Prix, Monza Car: Tyrrell
11:10 AM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The NHRA drag racing season will resume in July with back-to-back events at Lucas Oil Raceway in Indianapolis with a limited number of spectators. The events will be run July 11-12 and July 18-19, and admission offers will be extended to NHRA members and 2020 U.S. Nationals
Ducati has signed Moto2 frontrunner Jorge Martin to replace works team-bound Jack Miller at the Pramac MotoGP squad for 2021, Autosport has learned. Ducati announced last week that it had signed Miller to its works outfit for 2021, with Danilo Petrucci confirming he’d be leaving the marque at the end of the year. Current KTM
IndyCar president Jay Frye admits the coronavirus pandemic may delay the introduction of a new chassis and hybrid motors, and will outline the latest plans in the next 30 days. Last August, IndyCar revealed the next-generation engines would incorporate hybrid units – although didn’t specify what size the engines would be – and stated the
The 1999 Formula 1 season finished with Ferrari fielding a previously unlikely championship contender. But the first race of that campaign showed that Eddie Irvine could succeed out of Michael Schumacher’s shadow When Ferrari, albeit reluctantly, put its weight behind Eddie Irvine in Formula 1’s 1999 title hunt, it did so against all convention. Sure,
12:19 PM ET Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has refused to rule out signing Sebastian Vettel for next year, but says his priority remains with keeping the drivers he currently has at the team. 1 Related Vettel, a four-time world champion, recently announced he would leave Ferrari at the end of the year, putting himself
Watch Ken Roczen’s 450 Main Event Highlights from round 11 of the 2020 Monster Energy Supercross Series in Salt Lake City, Utah. Shot 100% on the HERO8BLACK® camera from http://GoPro.com For full event results visit: http://www.supercrosslive.com #gopro #moto #supercross
The FS2 broadcast which includes highlights from Round 3 and Round 4 race of the IMSA Prototype Challenge presented by Mazda championship at Barber Motorsports Park, April 22-23.
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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
Rally Finland has become the latest major motorsport event to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, further delaying the resumption of the 2020 World Rally Championship season. Finland was due to host the next round of the WRC on 6-9 August, but organiser AKK Sport announced on Wednesday that the event has now been
Honda has rubbished allegations by Ducati test rider Michele Pirro that it was responsible for the ban on wildcard entries in MotoGP this season. As part of its efforts to reduce the cost of competition amid the coronavirus crisis, the Grand Prix Commission has prohibited MotoGP manufacturers from fielding wildcards in 2020, although it has
Alfa Romeo Formula 1 team manager Beat Zehnder has revealed the first plans to bring Kimi Raikkonen back to the Sauber-run team were formulated as early as 2017. Raikkonen made his F1 debut with Sauber back in 2001, but returned to the Swiss-based team – now under the Alfa Romeo brand – last year following
5:28 AM ET Formula One has confirmed it will not go ahead with plans to include reverse-grid qualifying races at select grands prix this year, but says it is still open to experimentation with weekend formats. 1 Related F1’s newly-released European schedule features consecutive races at the same circuit in Austria and Great Britain and
Formula 1 is unlikely to finalise the remainder of the 2020 calendar until the end of June at the earliest as it looks to avoid rushing decisions on rescheduled races. After seeing the opening 10 races of the year called off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, F1 confirmed the first eight-race leg of the 2020
5:34 PM ET A driver testing positive for coronavirus would not automatically see a race cancelled when Formula One gets back under way next month, the sport’s CEO Chase Carey has said. 1 Related On Tuesday, Formula One announced plans to kick off its new season on July 5 in Austria as the start of
Craig Breen says his confidence is “higher than normal” ahead of his planned return to Hyundai’s World Rally Championship line-up for Rally Finland. Last month, the Irishman was named in the South Korean manufacturer’s three-car team for Rally Finland, alongside Ott Tanak and Thierry Neuville. Running from 6-9 August, the Jyvaskyla meeting is due to
The Aprilia MotoGP squad will resume testing for the first time since the coronavirus-forced shutdown took hold in March at Misano next weekend. The outbreak of coronavirus has forced MotoGP to go on hiatus since the aborted premier class opener in Qatar at the beginning of March, with only the Moto2 and Moto3 classes having
Carlin will enter just one car for this weekend’s 2020 IndyCar Series opener at Texas, as the #31 originally to be driven by Felipe Nasr has been withdrawn. The British team has cited the COVID-19 pandemic behind the economic reasons for scaling back to one entry for Conor Daly, but underlined its plan to complete