The fastest 10 qualifiers battle for pole during a deciding 15-minute session at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Feat. Intercontinental GT Challenge and GT World Challenge America. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader in GT racing. Join us for live and uninterrupted coverage of major events, as well as
Month: October 2020
Will Power took pole at the Indianapolis road course for the second Harvest Grand Prix race, while championship contenders Josef Newgarden and Scott Dixon will start ninth and 15th respectively. In the first qualifying group, Alex Palou of Dale Coyne Racing with Team Goh used two fresh sets of red tyres to set a 1m09.2s
Sebastian Vettel would relish the opportunity to race his Formula 1 rivals in a saloon car race, but fears the times of drivers trying out different cars are “gone”. F1 will return to the Nurburgring for the Eifel Grand Prix next weekend, but has no single-seater support races currently scheduled, with F2 not returning until
10:35 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Ill. — Tony Schumacher powered to his first No. 1 qualifier since 2018, breaking the track speed record Saturday in the Mopar Express Lane NHRA Midwest Nationals at World Wide Technology Raceway. Schumacher, the eight-time Top Fuel season champion who returned to racing in July after not competing last
Will Power converted pole into victory at IndyCar’s Harvest Grand Prix at Indianapolis despite intense pressure from Colton Herta, as Josef Newgarden trimmed Scott Dixon’s points lead. Penske driver Power made a strong start to maintain the lead as Herta locked up at Turn 1 – but maintained second ahead of Andretti Autosport stablemate Alexander
The 1964 Formula 1 season was one of the closest in world championship history. Remarkably, Autosport decided to rank the drivers before the three-way fight for the title concluded at the season finale, in the 23 October 1964 issue of the magazine My colleagues and I had no difficulty in selecting the leading Autosport starred
5:14 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Will Power won the pole, then led every lap of Saturday’s Harvest GP on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course and held off hard-charging Colton Herta by 0.839 seconds. The Australian driver earned his fourth win for Team Penske on the 14-turn, 2.439-mile course. He’s won two of
IndyCar has pushed back the introduction of its hybrid power unit formula to 2023 in an effort to spread out costs for teams and manufacturers in an uncertain economy. The hybrid formula is part of a multi-year contract extension IndyCar has reached with Honda and Chevrolet, which promises a continuation of manufacturer competition and also
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner thinks it is “interesting” to consider what Formula E champion Antonio Felix da Costa could have achieved in Formula 1. Da Costa rose through the junior motorsport ranks as a member of Red Bull’s young driver academy, and completed F1 test running with Force India and Red Bull between
Pol Espargaro says he is “really convinced” he can replicate his KTM podium success on the Honda in 2021 amid questions asking if he is regretting his next MotoGP move. As first revealed by Autosport earlier this year, Espargaro will join Marc Marquez at the factory Honda squad next season, with Alex Marquez being moved
1:15 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — From the moment Helio Castroneves first arrived at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2001, he followed the same route through Gasoline Alley. He’d leave the orange-striped motorhome, sign autographs and pose for photos with fans until he reached the Team Penske garages. Then he’d duck inside one of the
For any sports team, there are good days and bad. Occasionally, there are outliers at the extremes of that bell curve: the very, very good or… the 2020 Russian Grand Prix. This was our first non-scoring race of the season, and a first since last year’s Mexican Grand Prix. #WeRaceAsOne Subscribe and be the first
It’s been a long wait but British GT is finally back! Watch the opening race of this year’s Intelligent Money British GT Championship live from Oulton Park in the company of Kelvin Fletcher, Andy McEwan and Joe Osborne. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader in GT racing.
A cut-and-shut car without a full-time engineer was hardly the ideal platform for a Le Mans winner four years out of single-seaters to make his Champ Car bow. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Guy Smith doesn’t recall his 2004 cameo fondly, as he tells MATT KEW Guy Smith and co-drivers Tom Kristensen and Rinaldo Capello had romped to
Formula 1 has reported 10 positive COVID-19 cases following testing at the Russian Grand Prix, but says it has no link to fans attending the race at Sochi. F1 has been conducting thorough screening for COVID-19 as part of its new protocols for holding races in 2020 following the outbreak of the pandemic that delayed
11:30 AM ET Honda’s decision to leave Formula One at the end of 2021 poses big questions for both Red Bull and the sport as a whole. First and foremost, two teams, Red Bull and Alpha Tauri, need to find a new engine supplier by this time next year. The sport has rules in place
Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden dominated the first race of the Harvest Grand Prix double-header on the Indianapolis road course, slashing Scott Dixon’s championship lead to 40 points. Newgarden, who started on the front-row alongside rookie polesitter Rinus VeeKay, ran in third place in the early stages as Ed Carpenter driver VeeKay and Harding Steinbrenner’s
Renault has indicated that it is willing to supply engines to Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri after Honda pulls out of Formula 1 at the end of 2021. Both teams are beginning the search for an alternative partner for 2022 after Honda announced on Friday that it will stop its F1 programme at the end
Honda technical manager Takeo Yokoyama says HRC is having to try “more than expected” to get the 2020 RC213V to work with the new Michelin MotoGP rear tyre construction. Michelin introduced a new rear tyre carcass for the 2020 season which offers better grip and durability in race situations. But it has had a profound
6:20 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Josef Newgarden doesn’t intend to just give up on his season title defense. And now, he’s got a chance to keep the crown another year. The two-time IndyCar champion pulled away from the rest of the field over the final 18 laps Friday, racing to his third win
Meyer Shank Racing has announced that Formula 1 majority shareholder Liberty Media has made a minority equity investment in the team. MSR became a full-time one-car IndyCar team this year after gradually building up its number of outings in the series, and switching partner teams from Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports (as it was then) to
Simon Roberts says new Williams Formula 1 team owner Dorilton Capital is “not hiding” and “in it for the long haul” to turn the backmarker’s fortunes around. New York-based investment fund Dorilton Capital completed a full takeover of the Williams company in August following a strategic review undertaken by the team that led to its
Franco Morbidelli says he is “looking forward to fighting” with his mentor Valentino Rossi next year when both become MotoGP team-mates at Petronas SRT. Nine-time grand prix motorcycle world champion Rossi signed a one-year deal last weekend with Yamaha to be a fully-supported works rider at SRT for 2021. He will join his VR46 Academy
The X-raid Mini team has retained Carlos Sainz and Stephane Peterhansel for the 2021 Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia. This will mark the duo’s third consecutive Dakar outing for Mini, both having joined the marque in 2019 following Peugeot’s withdrawal from the rally raid as a factory entrant. Sainz and Peterhansel will drive X-raid’s two
5:43 AM ET ESPN and Reuters Honda will leave Formula One to focus on zero-emission technology at the end of the 2021 season, leaving Red Bull and Alpha Tauri needing to find a new engine partner from that point onwards. The decision was made at the end of September and the company does not intend
Rinus VeeKay took his maiden IndyCar series pole position in qualifying for the first race of the Harvest Grand Prix double-header on the Indianapolis road course, just pipping Colton Herta. VeeKay, in his first season in the IndyCar series driving for Ed Carpenter Racing, was one of 13 drivers to run in the second group
Daniel Ricciardo is confident the Renault Formula 1 team can be competitive at every upcoming venue following a recent run of good results. Over the last four races, Ricciardo finished fourth at Spa, sixth at Monza, fifth at Mugello and then fourth again in last weekend’s Russian Grand Prix at Sochi despite a time penalty.
2:35 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Scott Dixon keeps finding ways to put the milestones in perspective. Sure, he knows a sweep of the Harvest GP doubleheader in Indianapolis would give him six wins this season, matching a career high. He’s also aware he needs two wins to tie Mario Andretti for second in
Honda Performance Development has announced British engineer David Salters will become its new president with Ted Klaus set to retire after 30 years with Honda. HPD, which leads all Honda and Acura high-performance racing programs in North America, hired Salters from Ferrari in 2015 as a chief engineer and engine technical leader. He has served
As Formula 1’s organisers fill the gaps of the 2020 calendar, the addition of Imola has thrilled fans across the world. But the fact tickets are now on sale for fans to witness the race from the stands is a huge bonus. Imola was a staple circuit on the calendar between 1981 to 2006, serving