Red Bull’s Sergio Perez said he felt like ‘the stupidest guy on earth’ last year when he became the first Formula 1 driver to catch COVID-19. Driving for Racing Point at the time, Perez caught COVID-19 after a trip home to Mexico to visit his mother who had been in hospital. It meant he missed
Month: January 2021
1:20 PM ET New signing Sergio Perez said he felt “like a dog finding a new family” at Red Bull and promised on Wednesday to help push performance and over-deliver as Max Verstappen‘s Formula One team mate. Speaking in a team interview during a factory visit, the Mexican said he was adjusting to his surroundings
Sergio Perez says he is already working with Red Bull on a number of ideas that he thinks can help the Formula 1 team make a step forward in 2021. The Mexican has been signed as team-mate to Max Verstappen for this year after an impressive campaign for Racing Point last season, replacing Alexander Albon
Ducati will remain in MotoGP until at least 2026 after signing a new agreement with organisers Dorna Sports. The new deal covers the 2022 to 2026 MotoGP world championship seasons, with the Italian manufacturer becoming the second marque to confirm its long-term motorcycle grand prix racing plans after KTM reconfirmed its place in MotoGP until
NASCAR Xfinity champion Austin Cindric will aim to make his Cup series debut next month at the Daytona 500. Team Penske has announced Cindric will attempt to make the season-opener in the #33 Ford, with Miles Stanley, a race engineer for Penske’s #12 and #22 Cup teams, serving as crew chief. 22-year-old Cindric is planning
Toyota World Rally Championship driver Sebastien Ogier says “the most important thing” in his swansong campaign is that the series can stage a more representative season amid continued COVID restrictions. The Frenchman defeated team-mate Elfyn Evans to claim his seventh world title in 2020, but after a flurry of events were cancelled due to the
1:48 PM ET Formula One is still aiming for a record 23 grands prix this year but could have fewer in future with some held in rotation, the sport’s new chief executive Stefano Domenicali said on Wednesday. The Italian, a former Ferrari team boss and most recently CEO of supercar maker Lamborghini, told Sky Sports
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Stefano Domenicali says Formula 1 is taking a “flexible approach” towards its 2021 calendar amid the ongoing pandemic and revealed alternative races are on standby if changes are required. After 13 of its planned grands prix were cancelled last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, F1 announced a 23-race calendar for 2021 that followed its
Marc Marquez’s crew chief Santi Hernandez says Stefan Bradl “would make much more sense” to stand-in for the injured six-time MotoGP world champion again in 2021 than Andrea Dovizioso. Marquez has been absent since breaking his right arm in last year’s Spanish Grand Prix and has since undergone three operations to correct the injury –
7:30 AM ET Michael A. Fletcher THROUGH PERSONAL TRAGEDY, a 36-year Senate career and two terms as vice president, Joe Biden has viewed athletes and athletic competition as sources of virtue, uplift and common ground. He credits sports with instilling the confidence to overcome his stutter and, at times, delivering his own family a sense
Alexander Rossi finished on top after a second day of IndyCar testing on Sebring’s short course, while he also got behind the wheel of a prototype Acura machine. The 2016 Indy 500 winner lapped the 1.7-mile track in 52.272s and completed 105 laps, finishing Tuesday’s running 0.106 seconds faster than Andretti Autosport team-mate Colton Herta,
Alfa Romeo Racing has become the first Formula 1 team to formally announce the launch date for its 2021 car, confirming plans for a launch event in Warsaw next month. Alfa Romeo will unveil its new car – named the C41 – on 22 February at an event in the capital of Poland, which is
Max Verstappen’s victory in last year’s Formula 1 finale in Abu Dhabi lifted hopes within Red Bull that it finally had a car for a full-on title challenge in 2021. With F1’s chassis regulations pretty much frozen for this year, and the worst of the RB16’s vices having been ironed out, there was good reason
Jamie McMurray will make a return to NASCAR Cup competition, and will race in February’s Daytona 500 for the Spire Motorsports team. McMurray, who stopped competing on a full-time basis in the NASCAR Cup following the 2018 season, will drive the #77 Chevrolet run by Spire Motorsports in partnership with Chip Ganassi Racing. The effort
Sebastien Ogier believes his final World Rally Championship season could be the most open yet, with the defending champion tipping Toyota team-mate Kalle Rovanpera to be a dark horse. Ogier’s last full season in rallying’s top division will get underway at Rallye Monte-Carlo on Thursday afternoon where the Frenchman is targeting a record-breaking eighth victory
11:50 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — — Beth Paretta has a vision for her new IndyCar team. She wants to send the first female driver to victory lane at the Indianapolis 500 with the support of a predominantly female cast. And then Paretta hopes to turn it into a full-time pipeline for women in racing. On
Simona de Silvestro will return to the Indianapolis 500 this season driving with female-operated newcomers Paretta Autosport, along with support from Team Penske. The team, created by former SRT Motorsports director Beth Paretta, is part of Roger Penske’s 2020-initiated program “Race for Equality & Change” and will showcase women in motorsports. Paretta Autosport will “integrate
Lando Norris believes the Mercedes Formula 1 power unit package will be “much better” for McLaren in 2021 following its move away from Renault. McLaren announced in September 2019 that it would be switching to Mercedes power units, rekindling their famed partnership that yielded three world titles between 1995 and 2014. McLaren spent three seasons
Pol Espargaro reckons he will be “super nervous” ahead of his first test on the Honda MotoGP bike, calling it a moment he has always “been trying to imagine”. The 2013 Moto2 world champion joins the factory Honda squad for 2021 following a four-year stint with KTM from 2017-2020, during which time he scored six
Six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon led his Chip Ganassi Racing team-mates in the opening test of 2021 at Sebring International Raceway. The 40-year-old reigning champion, who has 50 IndyCar wins to his name, lapped the 1.7-mile course in 52.320 seconds, one-tenth faster than former Formula 1 star Marcus Ericsson who is about to embark on
Scuderia AlphaTauri boss Franz Tost says the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic “opened the eyes” of Formula 1 teams over the unsustainable financial nature of the series. Following initial plans to introduce a $175 million cost cap for the 2021 season, F1 teams agreed to reduce the figure to $145 million from this year after
Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff says key to George Russell’s progress is not improving his speed but in ironing out mistakes. Russell is a contender for a 2022 race seat at Mercedes, having boosted his chances of a drive at the team off the back of a strong showing at last year’s Sakhir
Share this article on Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Alpine finally confirmed on Sunday ex-Suzuki MotoGP boss Davide Brivio’s appointment to its Formula 1 team as racing director. News of Brivio’s departure from Suzuki – as first reported by Autosport – sent shockwaves around the MotoGP paddock, not least as it comes just months after he
Marco Andretti’s decision to withdraw from full-time IndyCar competition does not affect Bryan Herta’s commitment to the Andretti Autosport team, despite joint ownership of the #98 entry. Marco Andretti announced on Friday that he was going to pursue other opportunities within motorsport while remaining with his father Michael’s team for the Indy 500, possibly competing
The 2021 Formula 1 season will mark the 30th anniversary of Ayrton Senna’s third and final world title triumph, which came in the 1991 championship against stiff opposition from Williams. Autosport magazine has produced a special issue dedicated to the anniversary of the 1991 season – including explanations of Jaguar’s design revolution in the World
British sportscar racer Jann Mardenborough has lost his SUPER GT drive with Kondo Racing and been left without a seat in Nissan’s GT500 roster for 2021. The 29-year-old has been affiliated with the Japanese marque since he became the third winner of the Nissan-backed GT Academy gamer-to-racer competition in 2011, and was the last of
Lando Norris feels his more serious approach towards social media in 2020 led some fans to believe he was doing a better job in his second Formula 1 season. Norris caught attention throughout his junior career for his humorous and entertaining posts on social media, and continued the approach through his rookie F1 campaign in
Alpine has announced that former Suzuki MotoGP team manager Davide Brivio will join its Formula 1 squad this year. As first revealed by Autosport, Brivio has chosen to call time on a lengthy career in motorcycle racing to make the switch to F1. Brivio will become Alpine’s racing director, and will report directly to the
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