New Ferrari Formula 1 test driver Callum Ilott will race for the Italian manufacturer in this year’s GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup with the Iron Lynx squad. The Briton will be part of a two-car factory attack on the five-round endurance leg of the GTWCE in 2021 by Iron Lynx as Ferrari defends the
Month: February 2021
The Pramac Ducati MotoGP squad has pulled the covers off of its 2021 livery, which will be raced by its all-new line-up of Johann Zarco and Jorge Martin. This will be Pramac’s 19th season in the premier class as a standalone team (it did race in 2004, but in conjunction with the Pons team) and
Ferrari has revised its chassis department ahead of the new Formula 1 season following a difficult campaign last year. After a challenging 2020, where the Italian squad was hampered by a down-on-power engine and a car that was too draggy, it has finalised an overhaul of the way it operates. It will maintain a reporting
Hyundai boss Andrea Adamo admits nothing less than a win will do for the World Rally Championship team on this weekend’s Arctic Rally Finland. The squad already finds itself twenty-two points adrift of Toyota in the manufacturers’ championship after last month’s opening Monte Carlo Rally which Sebastien Ogier won for a record eighth occasion. Adamo
AlphaTauri has unveiled the new nose design it will use in the 2021 Formula 1 season as it shakes down its AT02 car at Imola. The team spent its two allotted development tokens, which apply largely to structural areas of the car to reduce costs, on redefining the nose crash structure. The AT02 launched on
7:11 AM ET Formula One rookie Mick Schumacher hopes he will have the chance to do more promotional runs with his father’s famous cars in 2021. Schumacher is the son of seven-time world champion Michael. He drove his father’s 2004 Ferrari before last year’s Tuscan Grand Prix at Mugello, as part of the celebrations around
Sergio Perez feels that Red Bull’s new RB16B Formula 1 car has “good potential” after saying its improved grip was noticeable at a filming day on Wednesday. The Mexican had already spent a day at Silverstone testing a 2019 Red Bull RB15 car, before getting a first outing in the team’s new 2021 challenger. Speaking
Rinus VeeKay put Ed Carpenter Racing on top in the 12-car IndyCar test at Barber Motorsports Park, while Romain Grosjean finished his first IndyCar test within one second of top spot. Dutchman VeeKay, who earned rookie of the year laurels in 2020, lapped the 2.38-mile course in 66.518s to go 0.115sec faster than Sebastien Bourdais
The man tasked with overseeing work on M-Sport’s new Rally1 car believes it will be an immediate title contender in the 2022 World Rally Championship. As part of the ongoing process in developing a car for WRC’s rules overhaul, a workshop team dedicated to the project, and a separate test programme, have been created, while
League One English football club MK Dons will sport a special one-off shirt this weekend in its fixture against Oxford United celebrating Joan Mir’s 2020 MotoGP world championship victory. Mir ended a 20-year title drought for Suzuki last year when he won the 2020 MotoGP crown with a race to spare, having amassed one grand
12:23 PM ET Ferrari will return to racing in the main category of the Le Mans 24 Hours from 2023 onwards. The Italian manufacturer announced Wednesday it is building a hypercar to enter sports car racing’s main series, the World Endurance Championship. Ferrari has not competed in the premier class of the Le Mans 24
Daniel Ricciardo says he is less ‘scared’ of sprint races ruining Formula 1 like reserve grids would do, as long as they don’t end up devaluing victories. F1 teams are currently evaluating the details about how to implement some sprint race experiments at select events in 2021, to see if they should be introduced as
Ex-Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean says he “used to be an asshole as a team-mate”, but has told new IndyCar stablemate Ed Jones he’d “like us to be friendly”. The Frenchman, who will race all 13 of the 2021 IndyCar Series’ road and street courses for Dale Coyne Racing, completed his first test in the
Six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez insists he “never thought I will not race again” during his injury layoff in 2020 after breaking his arm at the Spanish Grand Prix. Marquez broke the humerus in his right arm in a crash in the latter stages of the opening round of the 2020 season and wouldn’t
4:58 AM ET Silverstone is hopeful it will be able to welcome 140,000 fans to the British Grand Prix in July. The July 18 event is set to take place four weeks after the proposed dates the UK government will end Covid-19 restrictions in England. To fill gaps in the schedule caused by the pandemic,
The 2021 Formula 1 team launch season is well underway with Red Bull becoming the latest squad to reveal its new challenger, the RB16B. The Milton Keynes-based outfit became the fourth team to unveil its new car after McLaren kicked off events at the start of last week, followed by AlphaTauri last Friday and Alfa
Rising French talent Adrien Fourmaux will step up to the World Rally Championship’s top division at April’s Rally Croatia with M-Sport. Confirmation of the drive in a Ford Fiesta WRC car coincides with the news that Red Bull has finalised terms to support the 25-year-old going forward. Last month, M-Sport said Fourmaux would be handed
3:18 PM ET Ahead of the new Formula One season, teams will reveal their new car designs for the new season. This year will not feature radical changes to the majority of cars. There is a radical rule change next year, which F1 hopes will help reset the competitive order. Teams can test their new
Sergio Perez called it “a dream come true” to drive a Red Bull Formula 1 car for the first time after completing his first outing for the team at Silverstone. Following his winter switch from Racing Point, Sakhir Grand Prix winner Perez hit the track for the first time in a Red Bull car on
Ex-Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean says he’s “really happy” with his first morning testing an IndyCar, despite spinning off and feeling soreness in his arms and recovering burnt left hand. The 34-year-old is part of a 12-car test at Barber Motorsports Park, teaming up with the Dale Coyne Racing squad for the first time. He
Tributes to double 125cc world champion and veteran team boss Fausto Gresini have flooded in from the MotoGP paddock following his death on Tuesday. Gresini was taken ill with COVID-19 just before Christmas and was hospitalised on 27 December in Imola, before being transferred to a specialist COVID care ward in Bologna. On Tuesday, the
Sebastien Ogier says Toyota Gazoo Racing team-mate Kalle Rovanpera can make World Rally Championship history and become the series’ youngest-ever winner in this week’s Arctic Rally Finland. The snow-based event is a new addition to the WRC calendar and replaces Rally Sweden, which was cancelled in December due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rovanpera, whose father
8:45 AM ET Associated Press BOLOGNA, Italy — Fausto Gresini, a former motorcycling world champion and team owner, died Tuesday from complications linked to the coronavirus. He was 60. Gresini Racing said he died in the hospital in Bologna, exactly a month after his 60th birthday. It also posted the news on its official Twitter
Red Bull has revealed the first images of its 2021 Formula 1 car, the RB16B. The Milton Keynes-based outfit showed off the Honda-powered challenger on Tuesday morning, becoming the fourth team to unveil its new car. The RB16B is an evolution of the 2020 RB16, with team boss Christian Horner explaining at the end of
Double 125cc world champion and veteran MotoGP team boss Fausto Gresini has died at the age of 60 in hospital in Italy after a two-month battle with COVID-19. The Italian was taken ill with the virus just before Christmas and was hospitalised on 27 December in Imola. As his condition worsened, he was transferred to
6:28 AM ET Alfa Romeo has unveiled its car for the 2021 Formula One season. 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen will partner Italy’s Antonio Giovinazzi at the team for a third season. Alfa Romeo, known as Sauber until 2019, launched the new car, dubbed the C41, in Poland with title sponsor PKN Orlen. Alfa is
Alfa Romeo has opted to spend its two Formula 1 development tokens for 2021 on designing a new nose and other parts around the front-end of the C41 car. Alfa Romeo unveiled its updated model for the 2021 season at an event in Warsaw on Monday, ahead of its on-track debut in Barcelona on Friday
Christopher Bell hunted down leader Joey Logano in the closing laps of the NASCAR Cup Series race on the Daytona road course to record his maiden at the 38th attempt. A caution for a brief rain shower with 17 laps of the scheduled 70 around the 3.6-mile circuit closed the field up, with the leaders
The MCL35M has reached an important milestone in its development, as we fire up our new engine for the first time ahead of the 2021 Formula 1 season. Join McLaren Plus, our fan engagement programme which brings McLaren fans closer to the team with the most inclusive, rewarding and open-to-all fan programmes in F1 &
The factory Honda MotoGP team has unwrapped its 2021 challenger at an event with new rider Pol Espargaro and six-time world champion Marc Marquez. HRC’s 2021 factory launch event signalled Marquez’s first public appearance in Repsol colours since aborting his comeback from a broken arm during last July’s Andalusian Grand Prix. Marquez will be joined
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