9:47 AM ET Red Bull reserve driver Alex Albon will race at select rounds of the DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) championship this year. 1 Related The 24-year-old was replaced by Sergio Perez at Red Bull’s Formula One team for 2021, but remains contracted to the energy drinks brand as a reserve driver. Alongside his duties
Month: January 2021
Aston Martin is set to launch its new Formula 1 livery and car at an event in February ahead of its works return to the grid for 2021. The team formerly known as Racing Point has been rebranded as Aston Martin for the coming season following owner Lawrence Stroll’s investment in the British car brand
Audi’s Class One-spec DTM engine could find its way into the manufacturer’s upcoming ‘electric’ Dakar Rally challenger in 2022, Autosport has learned. Audi is believed to have invested upwards of 10 million euros to build a two-litre, turbocharged petrol engine for the DTM’s move to full Class One regulations in 2019. While the new engine
Gresini MotoGP team boss Fausto Gresini’s condition remains serious but stable after he was hospitalised in late December following a positive COVID-19 test. Gresini tested positive for the virus just before Christmas and was hospitalised in Imola on 27 December. The veteran MotoGP team boss’ condition deteriorated, which necessitated him being transferred to a specialist
The selection process behind Autosport’s top 50 drivers of 2020 is discussed in the latest edition of the Autosport Podcast. Autosport has polled its correspondents to put together a list of the 50 best drivers each year since 2002, with Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton coming out on top for a third year in
Defending Dakar Rally winner Carlos Sainz edged out Stephane Peterhansel in the 2021 event’s opening stage to establish an early 1-2 for the X-raid Mini team in Saudi Arabia. The lead in the cars category changed hands several times during the 277km stage from Jeddah to Bisha, as overnight leader Nasser Al-Attiyah – who topped
Sebastian Vettel’s failure to deliver on his targets at the Ferrari Formula 1 team was triggered by ‘insecurity ‘resulting from his 2018 German Grand Prix crash, according to Helmut Marko. Four-time world champion Vettel had hoped to add more title success at Ferrari after joining the team in 2015, but fell short of that target
Rally legend Carlos Sainz says there is “double the pressure” on competitors in the 2021 Dakar Rally due to the uncertainty caused by the coronavirus pandemic. This year’s edition of the rally-raid kicked off with the Prologue in Saudi Arabia on Saturday amid renewed restrictions around the world following the emergence of a new strain
Ferrari looks set to expand Jock Clear’s role as a Formula 1 driver coach to include its other juniors, including Haas rookie Mick Schumacher. The British engineer, who is best known for his supporting role in Jacques Villeneuve’s 1997 world title with Williams, has played a senior trackside engineering role at Ferrari since he joined
McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown feels “very proud” of Lando Norris’s work to open up about mental health in Formula 1, praising his authentic and honest approach. Norris built on an impressive rookie season in 2019 by almost doubling his points tally this year, as well as scoring his maiden F1 podium at the Austrian
Williams thinks there is a chance that the new floor rules for 2021 could help it make further progress up the Formula 1 grid. As part of a number of regulation tweaks coming for this year aimed at cutting downforce to help lessen the stress put on tyres, teams will have to deal with tighter
Toyota has welcomed the imposition of a speed limit for this year’s Dakar Rally, believing it should prevent rival squad X-raid Mini from “running away” on the event’s faster stages. Revised FIA Cross Country regulations for 2021 restrict competitors in the T1 (which includes Toyota, X-raid and Prodrive’s new BRX1 contender) and T2 classes to
Andrea Dovizioso has named ex-Honda team-mate Casey Stoner as the “most talented by far” rival he faced in MotoGP. Fifteen-time MotoGP race winner Dovizioso will take a sabbatical from MotoGP in 2021 after quitting Ducati, with whom he had raced with since 2013. Dovizioso partnered double MotoGP world champion Stoner at the works Honda squad
The laws of language supposedly dictate that the car is a woman. But, even in the modern age, SARA ESPOSITO argues the world of Formula 1 continues to act in a way that betrays half the world’s population “L’automobile è femmina”, “the car is a woman”. That’s what Gabriele D’Annunzio, Italian writer and poet, wrote
Red Bull says George Russell’s close ties to Mercedes meant he was never on its radar as a replacement for Alex Albon for the 2021 Formula 1 season. With Red Bull having been open that it would look outside its current pool of drivers if Albon did not deliver what it wanted, Sergio Perez ultimately
Rally legend Carlos Sainz believes the fight for overall honours in the 2021 Dakar Rally will be between Toyota and X-raid Mini. The Dakar has proved to be a two-horse race between Toyota and X-raid since Peugeot pulled the plug on its factory programme after three successive wins between 2016-18, with the two marques sharing
Gresini MotoGP boss Fausto Gresini’s condition has shown signs of “slightly improving” in hospital having been placed into a medically induced coma due to COVID-19 The veteran MotoGP team boss was admitted to hospital on 27 December in Imola, Italy, after testing positive for COVID-19 just before Christmas. He was subsequently transferred to a hospital
The Formula 1 season finale in Abu Dhabi may have been a dead-rubber in the title fight, but the battle for third in the constructors’ remained a major storyline. McLaren was able to clinch third after overturning a 10-point deficit to Racing Point in the final race as Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz Jr. finished
Dakar Rally organisers ASO explains how it managed to work within the strict confines of host country Saudi Arabia’s coronavirus measures to ensure the running of the 2021 event. The closure of land, sea and air borders of Saudi Arabia just 13 days before the start of the second Dakar in the Arabian Peninsula set
Tech3 MotoGP team boss Herve Poncharal admits he got “a little bit angry” when rumours of Andrea Dovizioso replacing Iker Lecuona for 2021 emerged during the 2020 season. Lecuona was drafted in to take the place intended for Brad Binder at Tech3 in 2020 when KTM opted to move the South African into its factory
FIA president Jean Todt believes Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes’ Formula 1 dominance has exceeded that of Michael Schumacher and Ferrari when Todt was at the helm of the Italian team. Todt was Ferrari’s team boss when Michael Schumacher took five of his seven world titles with the team between 2000 and 2004 and the Scuderia
Former racer Aldo Andretti, the twin brother of 1978 Formula 1 world champion Mario and father of the late racing all-rounder John, has died at the age of 80. Aldo Andretti was an intrinsic part of his brother’s early ventures into motorsport after their family moved from Montona, Italy (now Motovun, Croatia) to America in
Formula 1 drivers give everything to finish as high up as they can in the official world championship standings, but there’s one points table they would rather not top. Since 2014, F1 has had a penalty points systems in place where any breaches of the rules means a drivers’ superlicence is given endorsements. If any
MotoGP is working with the Malaysian government to allow the paddock to go to the first pre-season test without having to serve a minimum quarantine period. Travel restrictions remain in place worldwide heading into 2021 owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, with countries tightening their borders in the wake of the spread of a new variant
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