Romain Grosjean plans to wear the helmet design that his children originally designed for his final Formula 1 race when he tests an IndyCar for the first time. The Frenchman revealed the unique helmet over the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend in the wake of him being forced out of the event because of the
Month: February 2021
AlphaTauri has announced that it will launch its new AT02 challenger for the 2021 Formula 1 season on 19 February. The Faenza-based team, which was renamed last year after competing for many seasons as Toro Rosso, confirmed the date but no other details about the unveiling in a tweet on Thursday morning. On the back
5:52 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo has had a seat fitting with McLaren ahead of his first season with the British team. Ricciardo, a seven-time grand prix winner, has joined McLaren after two seasons at Renault. His teammate will be Lando Norris, who remains with the team for his third F1 season. McLaren shared photos of
The new era of Formula 1 featuring a budget cap and a revised governance structure will play towards McLaren’s “sweet spot”, according to Zak Brown. 2021 will be the first year in F1 history where team spending is regulated, limiting them to a $145 million cost cap in a bid to make the field more
Reports the 2021 MotoGP Thailand Grand Prix has been shelved by the local government were a “misunderstanding”, according to a spokesperson from the Buriram circuit. On Tuesday reports surfaced in the Bangkok Press that the local Thai government had taken the decision to postpone the beginning of its new MotoGP contract with Dorna Sports to
Grammy award-winning singer and songwriter Pitbull sees his new NASCAR team ownership role as a “higher calling” and an opportunity to “bring people together”. Armando Christian Perez, better known as the international star Pitbull, is co-owner along with Justin Marks of the new Trackhouse Racing team, which will field a full-time entry in the Cup
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Ex-Formula 1 star Romain Grosjean will switch to IndyCar this season, driving for the Honda-powered Dale Coyne Racing with Rick Ware Racing entry. Grosjean, who has 180 Formula 1 starts to his name, will race in all 13 road and street races on the 2021 IndyCar Series schedule, and will have his first test with
Romain Grosjean remains open to being a substitute Formula 1 driver if he is ever needed, but is clear he considers his full-time career in the category a ‘closed book’. The Frenchman has just signed to race in IndyCar with Dale Coyne for 2021, after feeling that the American series offered him the best chance
MotoGP will implement a protocol which will allow the paddock to enter Qatar in March without having to serve a mandatory quarantine period. The 2021 season is set to get underway on 28 March with the Qatar Grand Prix, before the Doha GP – a recent addition to the calendar – at the same Losail
Ryan Newman says he has no fear on his return to the Daytona 500 because he has no memory of his massive last-lap crash in last year’s race. The vicious accident which forced Newman to be extricated from his car and sidelined for three races with a closed head injury has been viewed by millions
8:58 AM ET Romain Grosjean will compete in a select number of IndyCar races this season for Dale Coyne Racing. Grosjean made the announcement just over two months after his miraculous escape from a burning wreckage at the Bahrain Grand Prix. The French driver, who has explained in detail how he thought he was going
Romain Grosjean’s remarkable escape from the flaming wreck of his Haas in Bahrain marked his final act in Formula 1, but his single-seater career is by no means finished. As he told DAVID MALSHER-LOPEZ, IndyCar holds an appeal that F1 could not satisfy “I heard it’s a different atmosphere in IndyCar, and that’s going to
Haas boss Gunther Steiner has revealed that the first idea for how to make his Formula 1 team’s business model work came from the championship’s current CEO Stefano Domenicali. While a host of new teams that have arrived in the sport in recent years have failed to succeed, Haas has been more successful and is
Andrea Dovizioso says he will not return to MotoGP in 2021 “at all costs”, but remains open to the possibility of acting as a replacement for Marc Marquez at Honda. After losing his factory Ducati seat and failing to secure a test rider option which also ensured a 2022 return to the MotoGP grid, Dovizioso
Plans to build a Formula 1 circuit in a forest on the outskirts of Rio have formally been abandoned, a local Brazilian government official has confirmed. Former F1 CEO Chase Carey was keen to move Brazil’s grand prix away from Interlagos, and a deal to run the race in Rio was formally agreed last September.
Thailand’s government has taken the decision to cancel the 2021 MotoGP race due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to reports in the country. Thailand was one of the first races to drop off the original 2020 calendar and never returned to the revised schedule as MotoGP promoters Dorna Sports opted to keep the series
Yuki Tsunoda may have expressed some regret about not embracing his love of motorsport earlier, but that hasn’t stopped him making up lost time on his way to Formula 1. The Japanese youngster is about to embark on his rookie F1 campaign with AlphaTauri after a pretty swift rise up the ranks. But what has
The 2021 Moto2 and Moto3 pre-season tests have been moved from Jerez to Qatar in mid-March in a bid to “create the safest and most efficient” pre-season programme. MotoGP promoters Dorna Sports, governing body the FIM and the International Race Teams’ Association (IRTA) have already been forced into calendar tweaks for the start of the
NASCAR’s 2021 season will begin with many of the same COVID-19 protocols in place as last year with no clear sign when they will change. Aside from some small modifications, NASCAR officials confirmed on Monday during a preview of the 2021 season that many of the same virus protocols remain in place from 2020. Much
7:01 AM ET Rio de Janeiro’s new mayor has scrapped previous plans, criticised by seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton and environmentalists, to build a new Formula One circuit in the city. 1 Related Rio’s Environment Secretary Eduardo Cavaliere said on Twitter on Monday that Mayor Eduardo Paes, who took office last month, had instructed
Mercedes has announced that it will launch its 2021 Formula 1 car on 2 March. The Brackley-based outfit, which is gunning for its eighth consecutive F1 title double this year, had already confirmed that the new challenger will be called the W12. In a Tweet that the outfit published on Tuesday morning, it revealed the
Brad Keselowski says his frustration level at not being able to win the Daytona 500 is “pretty extreme” after being involved in a spectacular series of wrecks in NASCAR’s biggest race. Keselowski is renowned as one of the sport’s most successful superspeedway racers, having won six points races at Daytona and Talledega since 2005, but
Pierre Gasly became the sixth F1 driver to contract COVID-19 while in a training camp in Dubai. His movements, and those of his fellow drivers, have courted controversy – but also raises questions about F1 drivers’ susceptibility to the virus. LUKE SMITH investigates the reasons why News that Pierre Gasly had tested positive for COVID-19
Three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin will continue his involvement with the Joe Gibbs Racing team and sponsor FedEx after agreeing a new multi-year deal. Hamlin has spent the entirety of his NASCAR Cup Series career with JGR, dating back to when he made his debut in 2005 and his relationship with FedEx going even
4:50 PM ET Associated Press Wayne Taylor Racing won its record-tying third consecutive Rolex 24 at Daytona, using a new car and a new lineup to beat some of the best racers in the world. Filipe Albuquerque held off Kamui Kobayashi and Renger van der Zande — both part of WTR’s winning teams the past
When Ferrari was unable to upgrade its power unit throughout last season, it was stuck with a major deficit all year. With an engine freeze rule in place for this season, Ferrari’s situation acts as a warning to the Formula 1 grid on getting this year’s engine right from the start, JONATHAN NOBLE explains Ferrari
BT Sport has agreed a fresh three-year deal with Dorna Sports to continue exclusively broadcasting the MotoGP world championship in the UK through to 2024. The subscription-based broadcaster took over from BBC as the UK’s live MotoGP broadcaster in 2014, moving the coverage away from free-to-air. Since then BT has aired exclusive live coverage of