Carlos Sainz Jr says the “super quick” Renault Formula 1 team is too fast “for comfort” at the Belgian Grand Prix, as he reckoned Daniel Ricciardo’s practice pace was genuine. With Ricciardo having set the second fastest time in the second free practice session, despite a late hydraulic issue, Sainz believes that the Spa-Francorchamps circuit
Month: August 2020
9:45 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders After a double-dip of racing that saw Denny Hamlin and Kevin Harvick come away with victories last weekend in Dover, the NASCAR Cup Series heads back to Daytona for the Coke Zero Sugar 400 on Saturday (7:30 p.m. ET). It’s the final race before the playoffs. Who will take
Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and four-time IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti will return to the cockpit this weekend at Gateway to drive Honda’s two-seat IndyCar at the start of the race. Franchitti was forced to end his 17-season Indycar career at least a year before he had intended after a huge accident at Houston in September
The FIA has finalised a package of Formula 1 aero regulation changes for 2021, creating an overall downforce cut of around 10%. Around half of that figure had already been accounted for by a change to the floor rules agreed earlier this year. However the British GPs prompted the FIA and F1 to make further
2:29 PM ET It’s the seventh race of the season and by now we should know better than to get excited by Friday practice times. Engine modes, fuel loads and differing run plans can all conspire to paint a misleading picture on practice day, but in 2020 there’s always a degree of intrigue when a
LCR MotoGP rider Cal Crutchlow admits “hesitantly” that he doesn’t believe Honda is working as closely with him in the 2020 season as it used to. Crutchlow joined the Honda stable in 2015 with LCR and has been contracted directly to Honda since 2018, with the Briton winning three grands prix in his time with
The pole position time for the Sakhir Grand Prix in December is set to smash a Formula 1 record that has stood for 46 years. On Friday afternoon, F1 confirmed its second race to be held in Bahrain will be run on the ‘oval’ layout of the circuit. F1 has estimated that qualifying times for
6:35 AM ET Formula One has confirmed the second of this season’s two races in Bahrain will be held on an alternative layout and as a night race. The sport announced this week that Bahrain would host two events this year, one on November 29 and one on December 6, ahead of the season finale
Formula 1 returns to action after a brief pause following the Spanish Grand Prix for the next triple-header, beginning in Belgium. After a dominant victory last time out at Catalunya, Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton leads team-mate Valtteri Bottas in the championship by 37 points ahead of this weekend’s Belgian GP at the iconic Spa. Thursday
1:38 PM ET Lando Norris joked that winning on the popular game Fall Guys is “nearly” as good as winning a trophy in Formula One. The game, a fun take on the battle royale genre, has become a phenomenon in recent weeks, holding the No. 1 spot on Twitch for most of August. Contestants are
Leading riders have called for greater consistency from MotoGP stewards following numerous incidents across the Austrian and Styrian Grand Prix weekends. Opinion was split on the pitlane start penalty awarded to Johann Zarco for the Styrian GP after his horror collision with Franco Morbidelli in the Austrian GP the week before. In the Styrian GP,
Lewis Hamilton says nobody but the drivers are “pushing Pirelli” about making better Formula 1 tyres, with Romain Grosjean revealing the GPDA recently discussed the issue with the manufacturer. After his dominant win last time out in Spain, Hamilton called on Pirelli to develop a stronger tyre construction for 2022 that would avoid the tyre
1:14 PM ET One year on from the death of Anthoine Hubert at Spa-Francorchamps, Formula One drivers Pierre Gasly and Charles Leclerc have paid tribute to their friend ahead of this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix. On Thursday, Gasly was among members of the F1 paddock who laid flowers at the corner where Hubert suffered fatal
Porsche works driver Simona de Silvestro will make her debut in the GT World Challenge Endurance Cup in next weekend’s Nurburgring round with the ROWE Racing team. De Silvestro was added to Porsche’s roster of factory drivers late last year when she took up a development role for the Weissach marque’s Formula E team, marking
Franco Morbidelli admits he was “a little bit shy” early in the MotoGP Styrian Grand Prix at Turn 2 a week after his horror Austrian GP accident with Johann Zarco. Morbidelli escaped a near-200mph collision with Zarco at the fast Turn 2 kink without serious injury during the first Red Bull Ring race and was
The FIA has toughened up on its policing of track limits for the Belgian Grand Prix, with drivers now warned that they must not run wide at three corners. While the kerb on the apex of Raidillon has long been a focus of the FIA, with drivers pushing the limits in cutting the corner to
5:53 AM ET Lewis Hamilton plans to open a museum showcasing his Formula One trophies and race cars when he retires from racing. 1 Related Hamilton is three wins away from matching Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of 91 grand prix victories. If he claims the title this year, he will match Schumacher’s seven world championships.
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Tech3 boss Herve Poncharal is “very happy” to have been able to give “underrated” Miguel Oliveira a chance to “show he’s a MotoGP rider” with his Styrian Grand Prix win. Oliveira snatched a maiden win for himself and the popular Tech3 outfit at the last corner of a thrilling Styrian Grand Prix last Sunday, capitalising
NASCAR has declared itself happy with the speed of the prototype Next Generation car now scheduled to be introduced for the 2022 Cup Series after resuming testing this week. The two-test on Monday and Tuesday at Dover International Speedway, with Stewart-Haas Racing driver Cole Custer behind the wheel, was the first held since March and
Outgoing Mercedes Formula 1 engine chief Andy Cowell remains undecided on his next move upon leaving the team at the end of the year. Cowell will leave Mercedes after 16 years with the company at the end of the season, having served as the managing director of Mercedes-AMG High Performance Powertrains (HPP) since 2013. Cowell
Valentino Rossi says he hopes to see his protege Francesco Bagnaia “dressed in red” for the 2021 MotoGP season as Ducati nears a decision on its future works team line-up. During the Styrian Grand Prix weekend, Ducati confirmed it had offered Pramac rider Bagnaia a new two-year deal to remain within the Italian marque’s ranks
Alexander Rossi says he “had a car to win” the Indianapolis 500 before a penalty for pit lane contact with Takuma Sato and a Turn 2 crash put him out. The Andretti Autosport driver, a winner of the 500 in 2016, was trading the lead with Ganassi’s Scott Dixon for much of the race and
Toto Wolff believes Formula 1 is set for the “biggest transition” in its history through the upcoming changes to the technical and financial structure of the series. F1 announced last Wednesday that the entire grid had met the early-sign deadline for the new Concorde Agreement, committing to the revised commercial terms that will last from
8:37 AM ET After the first six races of the 2020 season, there is really only one man in contention for the title: Lewis Hamilton. But that’s not to say he is the only driver performing near his maximum this year or that Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas is the only driver underperforming. So with another
Rally Germany has become the latest World Rally Championship round to be cancelled, while Rally Italy is moving three weeks earlier to avoid clashing with Formula 1’s Imola race. The Bostalsee-based Tarmac event in south-west Germany becomes the latest WRC casualty of the COVID-19 outbreak and joins Argentina, Portugal, Finland, Kenya, New Zealand, Wales Rally
Maverick Vinales ignored advice from MotoGP brake supplier Brembo to run a new system for the Styrian Grand Prix after Yamaha riders suffered numerous issues in the Austrian GP. The hard-braking nature of the Red Bull Ring caused numerous riders to suffer from overheating brakes during the Austrian GP weekend. Brembo brought new material for
Takuma Sato won his second Indianapolis 500 after a huge late accident for Spencer Pigot brought about an early end to the 104th running of the race. Sato, who also won in 2017 for Andretti Autosport, was leading with five laps of the scheduled 200 left to run, fighting through backmarker traffic while trying to
Each Formula 1 team will be allowed to have 10 extra personnel in the paddock from this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix. The change coincides with the return of the teams’ own hospitality buildings at Spa after they were obliged to use temporary facilities provided by the circuits, and a central catering provider, for the first
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