7:44 AM ET Taking the Schumacher surname back into Formula One this season will be more a source of pride than pressure, Michael’s son Mick said on Thursday. The 21-year-old German, whose father won seven world championships including five with Ferrari, makes his F1 race debut with Haas in Bahrain on March 28. “I’m very
Month: March 2021
Vettel finished 13th in the points last year, his worst position since his rookie BMW/Toro Rosso part-season in 2007. His tally of 33 points last year was barely one third of that team-mate Charles Leclerc scored, and Vettel admitted he considered retirement before signing with Aston Martin for 2021. But Szafnauer believes he can create
MIAMI, FL — March 3, 2021 — Motorsport Games (NASDAQ: MSGM) a leading racing game developer, publisher, and esports ecosystem provider of official motorsport racing series throughout the world, announced today that it has entered a binding term sheet to acquire Studio397 BV, the company behind the industry-leading rFactor 2 racing simulation platform, from Luminis International
10:32 AM ET Tom Brady will be cheering for Aston Martin in Formula One this year. Brady appeared at the British manufacturer’s launch event for its new car, the AMR21. Aston Martin is back in F1 for the first time since 1960, having been rebranded from its former guise, Racing Point. Lance Stroll and Sebastian
The Silverstone-based team is embarking on an all-new era under the moniker of the famous British sportscar manufacturer, and has laid down lofty ambitions for what it wants to achieve in grand prix racing. Speaking as the covers came off the green, black and pink AMR21, team principal Otmar Szafnauer said that the ambitions for
The trio took part in a Goodyear tyre test on Tuesday to shakedown the tyre selection for NASCAR’s debut at the 20-turn, 3.41-mile road course. All three NASCAR national series – Cup, Xfinity and Trucks – will compete on the course in Austin, Texas, for the first time on 21-23 May. Each driver described the
Last year, the French car manufacturer elected to delay the introduction of a new engine to 2022 as a consequence of the coronavirus pandemic. It means it is using just an upgraded engine for this season, but that has given it extra time to evaluate wider scale changes for next season. One of the ideas
The nine-time grand prix world champion has been moved out of Yamaha’s works squad and placed into the satellite Sepang Racing Team on a factory contract. With his current deal only for the 2021 season, Rossi’s MotoGP future beyond this year is uncertain – with SRT boss Razlan Razali revealing this week that the Italian
11:58 AM ET Sebastian Vettel is ready to move on from the disappointment of last season now that he has joined the rebranded Aston Martin team for 2021. 1 Related Vettel finished 13th out of 20 drivers in last year’s championship standings, scoring at third of the points of his Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc. It
The green and black livery– with those streaks of pink – is certain to stand out when battle commences in Bahrain later this month. But equally, the unveiling marked the end of a long journey that Aston Martin has made in coming up with the exact colours that will carry the British sportscar manufacturer’s return
F1 is currently establishing details for the running of sprint races at three grands prix in 2021, staged on Saturdays to set the grid for the Sunday race. The proposal to hold sprint races in Canada, Italy and Brazil received “broad support” from teams at the latest F1 Commission meeting, but requires further details to
6:01 AM ET Fernando Alonso is fit and ‘fully operational’ after jaw surgery and will be fine for Formula One’s pre-season testing in Bahrain, his Alpine team boss said on Tuesday. The double world champion fractured his jaw in a collision with a car while cycling on a road near his home in Switzerland last
Davide Brivio says it was “not easy” to leave Suzuki’s MotoGP title-winning squad to become Alpine’s Formula 1 racing director, but thought he would regret not making the move. As part of the overhaul of the Renault works F1 squad and rebranding as Alpine for 2021, the team announced a new leadership structure in January,
10:18 AM ET Alpine has revealed the car Fernando Alonso will drive on his return to Formula One in 2021. The rebranded Renault team will welcome back the two-time world champion as teammate of Esteban Ocon. Alonso has been out of F1 since leaving at the conclusion of the 2018 season. Former Red Bull and
The 2019 season will see SRO Motorsports Group unite the sprint-format championships formerly known as the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup, Blancpain GT Series Asia and Pirelli World Challenge GT to form a new global initiative: the Blancpain GT World Challenge. This exciting international endeavour will present GT3 manufacturers, partners and teams with the
Fernando Alonso is “completely fit” and will be ready to drive in Formula 1 pre-season testing next week after recovering from a cycling accident, according to Alpine’s CEO. Two-time world champion Alonso is set to make his F1 comeback this year with Alpine, having not made a grand prix start since his final appearance for
Hyundai boss Andrea Adamo has congratulated the manner in which his team bounced back from its round one World Rally Championship disappointment to win last weekend’s Arctic Rally. Adamo demanded better from his colleagues in Finland after the defence of their manufacturers’ title kicked off in poor fashion at January’s Rallye Monte-Carlo, which the Italian
10:40 AM ET Lewis Hamilton insists his future in Formula One will not rest on securing an eighth title this year, saying championship success is no longer his key motivation. 1 Related The seven-time world champion chose to commit to a single-year contract with his Mercedes team for 2021, meaning his future in F1 beyond
Mercedes has no intention of “flirting” with other drivers over potential future race seats until it knows what is happening with its current Formula 1 line-up. With both Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas only signing one-year contract extensions with the team, the German manufacturer could find itself exposed for 2022 if either of them move
Ex-Formula 1 racer Romain Grosjean says he’s made “good progress” in becoming accustomed to the driving style necessary for IndyCar, after a solid day of testing at Laguna Seca. Over the course of 106 laps, Dale Coyne Racing’s Grosjean ran five sets of tyres, with the team having the rookie practice going fast while fuel
MotoGP 2020 runner-up Franco Morbidelli says “nothing will change” between himself and Valentino Rossi as Petronas SRT team-mates as “nothing is as big as friendship”. Morbidelli’s mentor and nine-time grand prix world champion Rossi will continue his MotoGP career into a 26th season in 2021 with SRT after losing his factory Yamaha place to Fabio
5:46 AM ET Mercedes has launched the car Lewis Hamilton will attempt to defend his Formula One world title with this year. The first images of the new W12 were released by Mercedes on Tuesday morning ahead of a launch event streamed live from the team’s new race bays at its factory in Brackley. The
Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto is hopeful Formula 1 can finalise the details for its sprint race plan in 2021, calling the proposal “promising”. F1 is planning to stage sprint races on the Saturday of three grands prix in 2021, identifying Canada, Italy and Brazil as the trial events. The proposal would see a 100km
Ott Tanak has extended his lead in the Arctic Rally, round 2 of the World Rally Championship, after claiming two wins out of the three stages on the morning loop. The Estonian, driving Hyundai’s i20 WRC car, now holds a 23.6-second advantage over the Toyota of Kalle Rovanpera, who has passed the Hyundai of Craig
Petronas SRT team principal Razlan Razali admits his squad appeared “more upset” at losing the 2020 MotoGP title than Yamaha was, but stresses this situation has been “addressed”. Fabio Quartararo was Yamaha’s leading rider for much of the 2020 season, with his three victories keeping him in the lead of the championship until the Aragon
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Haas boss Gunther Steiner says the team has abandoned development of its 2021 Formula 1 car in a move it says carries some “risk” of dropping it down the order. The American-owned team has made an early call on how to use its restricted aero testing resources, switching its focus fully to its 2022 car
Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville says he is sure the language barrier that surfaced with co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe at Arctic Rally Finland can be resolved before the Croatian World Rally Championship round. Wydaeghe’s pronunciation of instructions at the snow event were hampered by intercom issues on Saturday morning’s opening loop of stages, with this leading Neuville to
Petronas SRT team director Johan Stigefelt doesn’t believe nine-time grand prix world champion Valentino Rossi will have less pressure on him as a satellite MotoGP rider in 2021. For the first time in his career, Rossi will not race a Yamaha in its factory colours after agreeing a one-year deal with SRT for 2021, but
12:23 PM ET Formula One rookie Nikita Mazepin believes he has done enough to move on from the controversy surrounding his name and, in his first interview since the incident in December, insisted he has learned from what happened. 1 Related Haas driver Mazepin, 21, posted a video to his Instagram on Dec. 9 which