McLaren finished third in last year’s constructors’ championship and the Woking outfit is tipped to confirm its status as best of the rest behind Red Bull and Mercedes in 2021. While McLaren drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Norris qualified sixth and seventh respectively in Bahrain, behind a Ferrari and an AlphaTauri, Norris worked his way up
Month: April 2021
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2021 season began with back-to-back races at the Losail International Circuit, where Ducati had won on MotoGP’s previous Qatar visits in 2019 and 2018. Having topped pre-season testing outright with new factory signing Jack Miller, while it stormed to pole in both the Qatar and Doha GPs with factory
7:36 AM ET Mike Elliott will take over from James Allison from July 1 as technical director of Formula One champions Mercedes, the team announced on Friday. Allison will stand back from day-to-day management of technical operations and take on the newly created role of chief technical officer, working closely with the factories at Brackley
As part of a push by the FIA to slow cars down for this year, a number of changes were made to the regulations to cut downforce. A section of floor has been removed ahead of the rear wheels, plus new restrictions have been imposed on brake ducts and diffuser dimensions. With downforce cut by
Allison, who joined the team at the start of 2017, is to become Mercedes’ chief technical officer from 1 July, and will take charge of longer term strategic planning. His change of position has opened the door for current technology director Mike Elliott to step up into the technical director role. Elliott, who has previously
MotoGP signed a three-year deal to host a race in Indonesia back in 2019, with the inaugural event at the purpose-built street track on the island of Lombok expected to be in 2021 before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. The circuit did appear on a draft 2021 calendar as a reserve circuit, but was removed following
10:09 AM ET Nico Hulkenberg will be reserve driver for both Aston Martin and Mercedes during the 2021 Formula One season. Hulkenberg impressed as F1’s “super-sub” in 2020, deputising for Racing Point at three different events — doing so twice for Sergio Perez, once for Lance Stroll after positive COVID-19 tests. He failed to land
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Gasly and AlphaTauri starred in qualifying for F1’s season opener, with the Frenchman starting fifth behind Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc and ahead of McLaren drivers Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris. Gasly’s rookie team-mate Yuki Tsunoda also showed flashes of speed but missed out on a Q3 spot. AlphaTauri’s qualifying pace has given Gasly confidence that the
Ahead of its switch from Class One to GT3 machinery, the DTM held a two-day test at the former German Grand Prix venue from 7-8 April, with the data from the running to be used to finalise the BoP for the new season. After the pitlane was opened at 9am local time, 2017 Audi TT
Rossi endured a bruising brace of races at Losail to start the season, the nine-time grand prix world champion emerging from the Qatar Grand Prix 12th having qualified fourth – and came away from the Doha round without points in 16th having registered his worst ever qualifying result of 21st. This came on a backdrop
10:22 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — JR Hildebrand has a new team and an old-fashioned look for this year’s Indianapolis 500. On Thursday, A.J. Foyt Racing announced it had hired the California native to drive the No. 1 ABC Supply Chevrolet as the team’s fourth driver in IndyCar’s biggest race. The candy apple red
The car, which will be sponsored by long term Foyt partner ABC Supply, will also carry the #1 that Foyt’s Bowes Seal Fast Trevis-Offenhauser ran when he defeated Eddie Sachs at the Speedway in May 1961. Foyt would win Indy again in 1964 – the last Indy victory for a front-engined roadster – 1967 and
In an exclusive interview with Autosport, Verstappen discussed his rivalry with the seven-time world champion, which has taken on a new dimension at the start of the 2021 season as the Dutchman’s Red Bull team has begun a campaign with the fastest car for the first time in the turbo hybrid era. This led to
Starting his fifth lap of the famed 2.5-mile oval, the front-left wheel of the #21 ECR machine went down below the white line negotiating Turn 1 and the rear continued to swing around, but it went through only one 360-degree spin before striking the outside SAFER barrier on the exit of Turn 1 with its
Zarco and Morbidelli collided at 200mph through the Turn 2 kink at the Austrian venue in the first of two Red Bull Races last year, with their errant motorcycles narrowly missing Yamaha duo Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales up at Turn 3. ANALYSIS: The difficulties in making the Red Bull Ring safer for MotoGP Zarco
11:56 AM ET Sebastian Vettel has revealed he completed an internship on organic farming during lockdown in 2020. Vettel is the only one of F1’s 20 drivers without a social media account and managed to keep a low profile through lockdown ahead of the delayed 2020 season start. The four-time F1 champion, who is racing
Verstappen was engaged in a close battle with Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton throughout the F1 season-opener in Bahrain that was settled in the final stages. Verstappen overtook Hamilton with four laps to go around the outside of Turn 4, but was forced to hand back the position after officials ruled that he made the overtake
Alonso’s return to F1 has teed up the thrilling prospect of a tough battle between the Spaniard and his young French team-mate Ocon, who is in the final season of a two-year contract at the outfit. With Alonso having a history of being ruthless in dealing with his team-mates in the past, Alpine is well
Vinales backed up his Qatar GP victory with a fifth-place finish in the Doha race having had to recover from 11th in the opening stages due to a poor start. He had similarly strong pace to that of race-winning team-mate Fabio Quartararo as he carved through the pack, but a mistake fighting with Pramac’s Jorge
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Verstappen and Mercedes rival Hamilton were engaged in a race-long battle for the win in F1’s season-opener, which was ultimately settled in the dying moments of the race. Verstappen caught Hamilton in the final stint and overtook him with four laps to go, but completed the move off-track and was forced to hand back the
The series will stay on at the Glen after the Sahlen’s Six Hours race on 27 June, to run a 2hr40min event on Friday, 2 July. The new race will feature all five classes (DPi, LMP2, LMP3, GTLM and GTD), while only the GTD race will count towards the eight-race Sprint Cup point standings. The
The Frenchman was worried about the overtaking potential of the 2021 Yamaha after pre-season testing, but carved his way through from ninth after the early laps to claim victory by 1.4 seconds and end a podium drought dating back to last September’s Catalan GP. Quartararo headed an historic French 1-2 in Doha, with Pramac’s Johann
After a rough patch, McLaren worked its way back up the grid under team boss Seidl and technical director James Key. Drivers Lando Norris and Carlos Sainz proved to be a competitive pairing, ultimately handing McLaren third place in the 2020 championship. With Sainz leaving McLaren to join Ferrari, the Woking team moved quickly to
Five manufacturers will be represented in the DTM this year, with Mercedes by far having the most cars on the grid. On the drivers front, three former DTM champions and an experienced cast of series regulars will be joined by several rookies from the GT3 arena. Here’s the full list of 2021 DTM entries: Audi
Bagnaia made a shocking start from sixth on the grid after his holeshot device didn’t work, dropping down to 11th by the end of the first lap of last Sunday’s second Qatar outing. He was able to charge forward again back into the podium places by lap 13, but ran wide at the first corner
If you’re a regular viewer of Sky Sports and Channel 4’s F1 coverage, you’ll no doubt have heard the pundits and commentators talk about high downforce and power tracks. Although these aren’t official terms, they help describe the different characteristics of each new circuit and explain why teams don’t simply qualify in the same order
It wasn’t so long ago that Formula 1 found it was having to work hard to defend itself from the critics. Rampant costs were out of control. The screaming V8 engines made it an obvious target for those who felt it was just a gas guzzling waste of resources, and sponsors did not seem interested in a