Bottas topped both Friday practice sessions at Imola for Mercedes ahead of his team-mate Hamilton, as main Formula 1 world titles Red Bull struggled at the Italian circuit. In the first session Sergio Perez clashed with Esteban Ocon in a session hit by technical issues that impacted both TV coverage, radio and data communications, with
Month: April 2021
Marquez made his long-awaited comeback on Friday at the Algarve International Circuit, having sat out the 2020 season after breaking his right arm badly in the season-opening Spanish GP at Jerez. Third-fastest on a drying track in FP1, Marquez bagged himself a provisional Q2 place after ending FP2 sixth quickest with a lap just 0.473s
Quartararo ended Friday’s running at the Algarve International Circuit second overall, 0.340 seconds off Francesco Bagnaia’s FP2-topping lap on the Ducati. The Portimao venue was one of the weakest tracks for the 2020 Yamaha factory riders, but Quartararo attributes much of his struggles last year – when he slumped to 14th in the race, which
6:35 PM ET Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Bubba Wallace says get the shot, like he did. Brad Keselowski says he hasn’t decided yet whether to get vaccinated against COVID-19 while Austin Dillon and reigning NASCAR Cup Series champion Chase Elliott say it’s a personal choice and no one else’s business, though Dillon’s Richard Childress
McLaren was able to retain its position as the midfield leader from 2020 during the opening race weekend in Bahrain last month as Norris finished fourth, only trailing Mercedes and Red Bull cars. But Friday’s practice running at Imola saw Ferrari take a big step forward compared to its showing in Bahrain as Charles Leclerc
Rossi, who battled for the 2018 and 2019 IndyCar titles, slumped to ninth in the points table last season, as Andretti Autosport struggled for race day performance in the first two-thirds of the season, and then saw pitstop issues hamper them on strong days such as the Indianapolis 500. Ahead of Sunday’s season-opener at Barber
In Marquez’s absence in 2020 through injury, Mir and Suzuki ended his domination of the world championship – though Mir had the legitimacy of his title repeatedly questioned because he won it without Marquez present. These were claims both riders dismissed. Marquez returned to action after a nine-month layoff on Friday at the Algarve International
IndyCar has used its current 2.2-litre twin-turbo V6 engines since 2012, with manufacturers Chevrolet and Honda finding ever-smaller areas in which to improve and gain an edge. IndyCar president Jay Frye said recently that he expects the series to be “pushing” 900 bhp on road and street courses by 2025 with the new engines, with
The 20-year-old son of retired NASCAR ace Jeff Burton won four times in his first full season in the second-tier Xfinity Series last year with Joe Gibbs Racing, placing eighth in the standings, and currently lies third in the Xfinity points. He will become the fourth member of the Burton racing family to compete at
Just three weeks on from Mazepin’s first-lap exit at the Bahrain GP, the young Russian endured a difficult first practice at Imola as he spun on his installation lap and then crashed at the end of FP1. Having had a run of incidents throughout the F1 season opening weekend, Mazepin’s error-strewn start to his grand
The tifosi may be absent this weekend, but watching on their TVs at home, the team’s devoted fans have some cause for optimism after enduring a painful 2020 season. In Sakhir, Charles Leclerc pulled out a superb lap to qualify fourth, an outcome that few expected prior to the session. He wasn’t able to sustain
Veteran MotoGP team boss Gresini sadly died in February following a two-month battle with COVID-19. The Italian – who was 125cc motorcycle grand prix world champion in 1985 and 1987 – was a highly respected figure in the world of motorsport, with MotoGP observing a moment of silence during the Qatar Grand Prix weekend in
12:57 PM ET Formula One champions Mercedes are chasing rather than being chased now that Red Bull have a faster car, according to Valtteri Bottas. 1 Related Although the Finn’s seven-times champion team mate Lewis Hamilton won last month’s Bahrain season opener, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen was quickest in every practice session and started on
Despite Lewis Hamilton’s victory in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix, Mercedes thinks it is behind rival Red Bull in pace terms, and knows it needs to make improvements to its W12 in order to continue its unbeaten run of titles in the turbo hybrid era. Balance issues, and a particularly tricky rear end hampered both
Marquez has been out of action since his aborted comeback attempt at the Andalusian GP last July just days after the first operation he had on the broken right arm he damaged in the Spanish GP. Undergoing two further operations having missed the rest of the 2020 season and the opening two rounds of 2021
Miller ended pre-season testing in Qatar fastest of all with an unofficial lap record and came into the Qatar/Doha Grand Prix double-header as favourite to continue Ducati’s victory streak at the Losail circuit. However, a tyre issue in the first race and arm pump in the second meant he emerged from both rounds in ninth
2:15 PM ET Formula One says it is “continuing discussions” with the promoter of the Canadian Grand Prix over the running of this year’s race amid reports the event has been cancelled for a second year in a row. Radio-Canada reported on Thursday that the race, which is scheduled to go ahead on June 13,
Toronto is currently set to be the 11th round of the 2021 IndyCar Series season, on 9-11 July, but travel restrictions to Canada as the country tackles its third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic have cast doubt on a highly popular event, which was canceled last year, too. Not only does a temporary street course
The event, scheduled for the 12-13 June weekend after the Azerbaijan GP as the second part of a flyaway double-header, has been in doubt for some time. Turkey, which held a race at short notice in 2020 and is conveniently located on the freight route home from Azerbaijan, is waiting in reserve as a replacement.
Englishman Carchedi has worked with Mir since the Spaniard’s debut in MotoGP in 2019, with the pair winning the world championship last season. Mir will be without his right-hand man for this weekend’s third round of the 2021 season in Portugal after Carchedi failed a pre-travel COVID test. Carchedi has gone into isolation in Andorra
The six-time world champion will make his long-awaited return to racing this weekend in the Portuguese Grand Prix, following nine months on the sidelines with a broken right arm suffered in last July’s Spanish GP. In his absence, Honda failed to win a race for the first time ever since it returned to the premier
Aitken, who will contest both the Endurance and Sprint Cup legs of the series aboard a Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO, explained that there is “a lot to be learned by doing something a bit different”. The 25-year-old will make his GT racing debut in this weekend’s opening round of the Endurance Cup segment of the
1:46 PM ET Seven-times world champion Lewis Hamilton hailed Sebastian Vettel on Thursday as his favourite Formula One rival over the years. 1 Related Without mentioning former Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg, who beat the Briton to the 2016 title in a fierce and often bitter battle between the pair, Hamilton praised the ex-Ferrari driver.
The two-time Formula 1 world champion set out to complete the famous triple crown of motorsport which includes winning the Monaco Grand Prix, Le Mans 24 Hours and the Indianapolis 500. Having notched up success at Monaco (2006 and 2007), and Le Mans (2018 and 2019), he is now only missing victory on the famous
Formula 1 teams are no stranger to using cutting edge technology in their bid to find an advantage over rivals. In recent years, there has been a slow march forward in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) as teams increasingly lean on computers to make sense of the masses of data
The British manufacturer is working on a racing comeback in the GT4 category, in which it successfully competed with the Evora Cup GT4 customer car in the 2010s. A motorsport return is on the cards as part of a relaunch of Lotus under the ownership of Chinese car maker Geely, which took a controlling interest
The long-awaited competition debut of the new E-type Jaguar has been made at last. Two of the magnificent Coventry machines appeared in the main race of the day at the British Automobile Racing Club national meeting at Oulton Park. Their first appearance was an impressive one, both cars being in virtually standard trim and leading
At the 2009 Goodwood festival of speed the team will be running Ayrton Senna’s MP4/4, which last raced in 1988. The car is being prepared at the McLaren Technology Centre. As the mechanics re-acquaint themselves with an old friend.
YES WE ARE LIVE WITH REAL RACING FROM DOWN-UNDER. Grab your favourite seat and sit back from some legendary Bathurst GT3 Action! This livestreaming is geo-restricted. Viewers from Australia and New Zealand can watch on: Australia: 7mate and 7plus New Zealand: Sky Sports GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the
The Australian joined the Woking-based team at the start of this year, as he bids to help the outfit get back to winning ways. But beyond the F1 ambitions, McLaren’s involvement in IndyCar, plus CEO Zak Brown’s association with Supercars, has teed up a good chance of some running outside of grand prix cars. Brown
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