Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson will return to competition this weekend at the Kentucky Speedway after being cleared by his doctors after testing positive for COVID-19. Last week, Johnson announced he had received a positive test result for the strain of coronavirus responsible for the current global pandemic, but did not know at
Month: July 2020
In the latest in Autosport’s ‘My Favourite Race’ series, STEFAN MACKLEY remembers the day Michael Schumacher brought a 21-year barren spell for Ferrari to an end at the 2000 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix There has always been something magical about the Japanese Grand Prix, and perhaps more specifically the Suzuka circuit. With its fast,
4:18 AM ET Renault has confirmed Fernando Alonso is making a shock return to partner with Esteban Ocon at its Formula One team next year. Alonso, 38, will replace Daniel Ricciardo, who signed a deal earlier this year to move to McLaren for 2021. The two-year deal will see Alonso return to the team that
Former Williams Formula 1 driver Sergey Sirotkin will make his GT3 debut with SMP Racing in the endurance rounds of this year’s GT World Challenge Europe. Sirotkin will share a Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 in the Pro class with Ferrari works GT drivers Davide Rigon and Miguel Molina, who finished second in last year’s
The 2020 Formula 1 season-opener in Austria proved to be worth the wait as the Red Bull Ring threw up an eventful and chaotic finish. In a race that featured several teams struggling with issues on their cars and a number of drivers clashing, just 11 cars made it to the finish. It was the
9:11 AM ET Sebastian Vettel endured a nightmare start to the season in Austria on Sunday and Formula One’s motorsport managing director Ross Brawn suggested being dropped by Ferrari for 2021 had affected his concentration. Vettel, a four-times world champion with Red Bull, qualified only 11th at the Red Bull Ring and then tangled with
Robert Kubica will make his Formula 1 race weekend return with an opening practice outing for Alfa Romeo at this weekend’s Styrian Grand Prix. Kubica, who left Williams at the end of his comeback campaign in 2019, is Alfa’s reserve driver for the 2020 season. He will drive Antonio Giovinazzi’s C39 in the first practice
5:25 AM ET Two-time world champion Fernando Alonso is set to return to Formula One with Renault in 2021, with a deal expected to be announced on Wednesday. ESPN understands the Spaniard will replace McLaren-bound Daniel Ricciardo next year. The move will reunite Alonso with the Renault team he won championships with in 2005 and
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Two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso is set to make a sensational return to Renault, with a two-year deal expected to be announced as early as Wednesday. Alonso raced for Renault in 2003-06, winning the F1 world championship in the last two seasons, before returning to the team in 2008-09. While much has changed
11:07 AM ET The Austrian Grand Prix was as wild as any Formula One opener we’ve seen in recent seasons. F1 came back in spectacular style at the Austrian Grand Prix. We unpack it all: Valtteri Bottas’ impressive win, Lando Norris’ popular podium and another gut-wrenching Lewis Hamilton-Alexander Albon collision. Listen to the latest episode
The team in which 2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button is a partner will race in British GT this year after abandoning its planned GT World Challenge Europe campaign. Jenson Team Rocket RJN had switched its Honda NSX GT3 for a McLaren 720S GT3 after one season, but will now enter it in the
Autosport first picked out Lewis Hamilton’s 10 greatest Formula 1 victories after his 50th success at the 2016 United States Grand Prix. Remarkably, since then he has added another 34 wins, some of which have been among his best, so it seemed right to revisit the list as the 2020 season finally gets going. Michael
10:55 PM ET ESPN News Services Boxing promotions run by Floyd Mayweather, Bob Arum and Oscar De La Hoya, teams in MLS, NASCAR and Indycar were among a cavalcade of sports organizations that navigated a federal loan program designed to help small firms cope with the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Data released Monday
The R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad has withdrawn from this year’s GT World Challenge Europe and will instead focus on its 2021 campaigns. The race-winning team, whose Aston Martin Vantage GT3s are jointly run by the British Arden and Jota Sport operations, has opted to put its racing activities on hold as a result of the
The Ferrari Formula 1 team is now hoping to fast track some, if not all, of its major Hungarian Grand Prix update package to this weekend’s Styrian Grand Prix. The Italian outfit braced for last weekend’s F1 season opener in Austria aware that it was on the backfoot, with its car in the same specification
1:52 PM ET Ferrari hopes it can introduce some of the upgrades it intended to bring to the Hungarian Grand Prix at Formula One’s second race in Austria this weekend. Despite Charles Leclerc’s second-place finish, the opening race confirmed fears that Ferrari’s car is off the pace of Mercedes and Red Bull. Instead, it spent
Check out the sights and sounds from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at the 2016 Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida.
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The R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad has withdrawn from this year’s GT World Challenge Europe and will instead focus on its 2021 campaigns. The race-winning team, whose Aston Martin Vantage GT3s are jointly run by the British Arden and Jota Sport operations, has opted to put its racing activities on hold as a result of the
The first NASCAR-IndyCar doubleheader experiment at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was an obvious success by all available measures, but the absence of spectators means there can be no guarantees it will become commonplace, as JIM UTTER explains One of the benefits of the scheduling changes prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented NASCAR and IndyCar
Mercedes has rubbished any talk that it used Multi 21 tactics of cryptic team orders in the Austrian Grand Prix to call off the battle between its drivers. Valtteri Bottas had been leading the 2020 Formula 1 season opener from Lewis Hamilton when both faced critical gearbox issues that Mercedes feared could cause them to
12:18 PM ET Associated Press SIENA, Italy — Italian auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist Alex Zanardi underwent a five-hour surgery Monday to reconstruct his face after a crash on his handbike last month. It was the third major operation that Zanardi has had since he crashed into an oncoming truck near the Tuscan town of
Carmelo Ezpeleta, CEO of MotoGP promoters Dorna Sports, says his organisation will “help to find” a place on the 2021 grid for Britain’s only full-time premier class rider Cal Crutchlow. Last month Autosport revealed that KTM’s Pol Espargaro would be joining Marc Marquez at the factory Honda squad in 2021, with Alex Marquez set to
Kevin Harvick won the Brickyard 400 after a spectacular crash for Denny Hamlin in the closing stages of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Indianapolis. The race was red flagged early on after a multi-car pile up in the pitlane, which left one of Ryan Blaney’s Team Penske pit crew injured. Blaney’s rear tire changer,
Mattia Binotto believes it will be “very difficult” for Ferrari to rectify its straight-line speed disadvantage this season after losing 0.7 seconds per lap to Mercedes in Austria. Ferrari endured a disastrous qualifying at the Red Bull Ring on Saturday as Charles Leclerc qualified almost one second off the pace in seventh, one year on
3:21 PM ET Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff believes the decision to penalise Lewis Hamilton five seconds at the Austrian Grand Prix for a collision with Alex Albon was not justified. 1 Related The incident was key to deciding the result of the race, with Hamilton dropping from second to fourth as a result of
Lewis Hamilton says the safety car that triggered a round of pitstops in the Austrian GP spoiled the strategy gamble he’d planned to use to jump Valtteri Bottas. Hamilton knew that when stuck behind Mercedes team-mate Bottas during the Formula 1 opening race the only way to beat him was to run a different strategy.
3:22 PM ET What a race! The Austrian Grand Prix was the perfect way for F1 to return after the long hiatus caused by the coronavirus pandemic. What at one point looked like being a fairly routine fight for victory between the Mercedes drivers exploded into life in the second stint. It was unlike any
Relive all the action from the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh from Florida, the second race of the 2016 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season and Round 2 of the Tequila Patrón North American Endurance Cup.