Mercedes-AMG driver Maro Engel took pole position for the Nurburgring 24 Hours in dominant fashion under difficult mixed conditions on Friday evening. The 35-year-old German, who is teamed with Adam Christodoulou, Manuel Metzger and Luca Stolz, first had to qualify for the second session due to the event’s all-new MotoGP-inspired two-part Top Qualifying session. This
Month: September 2020
The visor tearoff from Fabio Quartararo’s helmet which ended Jack Miller’s Emilia Romagna MotoGP race has been put up for auction to raise money for charity. Miller’s Ducati sucked in the discarded tearoff on the main straight at Misano on the second lap of last Sunday’s grand prix. The piece of plastic ended up chocking
9:00 AM ET ESPN Betting Insiders Kevin Harvick picked up his ninth victory of the season last week at Bristol, Tennessee, and now the second round of NASCAR’s playoffs begins with the South Point 400 in Las Vegas on Sunday (7 p.m. ET). Who will take the checkered flag? Senior writer Ryan McGee and editor
James Hinchcliffe will join Andretti Autosport for the final three races of the 2020 IndyCar season following Zach Veach’s split from the team. Hinchcliffe, a six-time IndyCar race winner, has slotted into the sixth entry for Michael Andretti’s team on three occasions so far this year, but now takes over the #26 car from Veach
After both of Friday’s free practice sessions for the Russian Grand Prix it was Mercedes who once again came out on top – but not without a few problems. Valtteri Bottas set the pace in both sessions, but he and team-mate Lewis Hamilton made errors during their running as they struggled for grip on the
Audi driver Robin Frijns has been forced to withdraw from this weekend’s Nurburgring 24 Hours due to what the German manufacturer has called a ‘flu-like infection’. DTM and Formula E regular Frijns was due to contest the German endurance classic for the Car Collection Motorsport team, sharing the #3 Audi R8 LMS with Mirko Bortolotti,
A member of Honda working for the LCR MotoGP team has tested positive for COVID-19 and has been immediately isolated, as are those who were in direct contact. LCR confirmed on its social media channels that someone from Honda has tested positive for the virus, while the three with Category 1 contact have been isolated
1:24 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — James Hinchcliffe will return to Andretti Autosport for the final three races of the season to fill the seat left vacant this week by Zach Veach. Andretti Autosport on Friday said Hinchcliffe will drive the No. 26 at next week’s doubleheader at Indianapolis and the October season finale
Valtteri Bottas topped second practice at Formula 1’s 2020 Russian Grand Prix ahead of Lewis Hamilton, while Renault’s strong start to the Sochi weekend continued as Red Bull struggled. Both Mercedes drivers lost time on their final runs on the soft tyres, with Hamilton having to abandon his lap after going off and nearly hitting
Toyota World Endurance Championship racer Kamui Kobayashi will return to the Spa 24 Hours next month driving a Ferrari 488 GT3 for the HubAuto Corsa team. Kobayashi, who took his third pole in four years at the Le Mans 24 Hours last weekend, will team up with 2018 Spa 24 winner Tom Blomqvist and Marcos
Ducati boss Paolo Ciabatti says the Italian marque has delayed its 2021 rider announcements to “leave the stage” clear for Valentino Rossi and Petronas SRT to confirm their deal. Ducati had been expected to confirm the make-up of its 2021 line-ups this weekend, with Francesco Bagnaia set to join Jack Miller at the factory squad,
12:23 PM ET Lewis Hamilton said there are more important things going on in the world than the fact he could equal Michael Schumacher’s career win record at this weekend’s Russian Grand Prix. Hamilton has been on course to match and surpass Schumacher’s 91 wins all season, while he also looks likely to equal the
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Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen could be set to make their mark in the Formula 1 history books at the Eifel Grand Prix, and you can book now with Motorsport Tickets, and witness it live in two weeks’ time. With tickets limited to just 20,000 seats this is going to be a sell-out. The 2020
Honda’s Alex Marquez says his struggles in extracting lap time from the RC213V on fresh soft tyres in qualifying is because he trying to gain time “in Moto2 style”. After winning the 2014 Moto3 title, Marquez stepped up to Moto2 with Marc VDS where he spent five seasons – two more than fellow MotoGP rookies
6:07 PM ET Associated Press IndyCar rookie Oliver Askew will not compete in next week’s doubleheader at Indianapolis because of concussion-like symptoms that date to his crash in the Indianapolis 500 last month. Arrow McLaren SP will use Helio Castroneves in the No. 7 Chevrolet at Indianapolis. Askew told The Associated Press on Thursday he
Helio Castroneves will stand in for Oliver Askew at Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet in next week’s Indianapolis road course double-header after the IndyCar rookie was declared not fit to drive. According to a team statement, following the NTT IndyCar Series race at Mid-Ohio, Askew reported a balance and coordination issue, which triggered an examination from the
Formula 1’s Russian Grand Prix at Sochi will take place this weekend, with 2020’s season now heading into its 10th round. Six-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton is on the precipice of matching Michael Schumacher’s all-time record of wins, and could score his 91st victory to equal the seven-time title winner. Meanwhile, departing Racing Point driver
Aleix Espargaro says Andrea Iannone’s visit to the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix was “very good news for Aprilia” and encountered a “different” MotoGP race winner. Iannone is currently serving an 18-month doping ban after testing positive for a steroid during last year’s Malaysian Grand Prix. The Italian is currently awaiting a hearing with the Court
2:01 PM ET Associated Press MILAN — Italian racing driver turned Paralympic gold medalist Alex Zanardi has started responding to treatment with signs of interaction, more than three months after he was seriously injured in a handbike crash. Zanardi has spent most of that time in intensive care after crashing into an oncoming truck during
Romain Grosjean says he has “options elsewhere” for 2021 if he were to lose his Haas Formula 1 seat, citing interest in Formula E and the World Endurance Championship. Haas is currently weighing up its driver options for 2021 as both Grosjean and team-mate Kevin Magnussen near the end of their existing contracts. The team
The Bathurst 12 Hour is unlikely to happen as an international GT race next year, according to Supercars boss Sean Seamer. The Supercars-run event has staged the opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge in recent years, with teams representing manufacturers participating in the SRO-organised series flocking to Mount Panorama from around the world. This
5:44 AM ET Lewis Hamilton’s former McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh is among the 14 experts who will make up the Hamilton Commission, a research project set up by the six-time Formula One champion to identify the barriers for Black people participating in motor sport. Hamilton and the Royal Academy of Engineering launched the Hamilton
Zach Veach has relinquished his Andretti Autosport IndyCar with immediate effect, on learning he will not be returning to the team in 2021. Andretti confirmed the news that Veach would miss the final three races of the 2020 NTT IndyCar Series season, adding that “a replacement driver for the No. 26 will be named in
McLaren CEO Zak Brown says he was ‘surprised’ Racing Point owner Lawrence Stroll withdrew his Formula 1 brake duct ruling appeal just weeks after vowing to clear his name. Racing Point was docked 15 constructors’ championship points and fined 400,000 Euros after being found guilty by the FIA of having used Mercedes-designed brake ducts. That
MotoGP completes its current triple-header at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya with the Catalunya Grand Prix. With a sixth different winner from the opening seven races, as Maverick Vinales claimed victory at last weekend’s Emilia Romagna GP, the most unpredictable season in MotoGP history has continued as the paddock heads to Barcelona for the rescheduled Catalunya GP.
6:44 PM ET Associated Press A pilot’s inability to maintain proper airspeed and the flight crew’s decision to continue an unstable approach and landing likely caused the crash of a small plane carrying race car driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his family in 2019, according to a National Transportation Safety Board report released Wednesday. The
The greatest Indycar is the focus of the fifth episode of the Autosport 70 mini-series podcast, which celebrates our 70th birthday. The first issue of Autosport magazine appeared on 25 August 1950 and as part of our celebrations we have taken on the task of picking out the greatest competition cars from each of the
Formula 1 team bosses have backed the idea of a rotating calendar in the future, so the schedule gets injected with fresh events each year. The 2020 schedule features a number of one-off events in light of the coronavirus pandemic in order to boost calendar numbers, with the likes of Mugello, Algarve and Imola all
Petronas SRT’s Fabio Quartararo admits it’s “difficult to win a race” in MotoGP on the Yamaha if he is not leading, due to the bike’s lack of power. The Yamaha has won four times this season in the hands of Quartararo at the Jerez double-header, his team-mate Franco Morbidelli in the San Marino Grand Prix,
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