A charging drive earned Steve Simpson the season-opening Tin Tops victory in the Peugeot 206 RC he shared with father Colin for the Classic Sports Car Club event at Oulton Park. The pair qualified second but were promoted to pole by gearbox failure on the Honda Integra of Nigel Ainge and Danny Cassar. Simpson Sr
Month: April 2021
3:56 PM ET Associated Press NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace is partnering with Novant Health to address the hesitancy to get vaccinated for COVID-19. Wallace, the only Black driver in NASCAR, received his COVID vaccine on Tuesday at his race team’s shop in North Carolina. He says it’s important to learn about the vaccine and for
On paper, the result of the season opener in Bahrain may have done little to suggest Mercedes’ Formula 1 domination could be nearing an end in 2021. But amid the disappointment felt on the Red Bull pit wall in the aftermath of Max Verstappen’s defeat to Lewis Hamilton, there was an underlying optimism that this
The 45-year-old will make his single-seater debut this season after almost two decades at the top level of stock car racing, contesting the 13 road and street course races on the IndyCar schedule with reigning champion squad Chip Ganassi Racing. Johnson will join six-time series champion Scott Dixon, ex-Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson and second-year
Dovizioso is taking a sabbatical in 2021 after losing his place at Ducati at the end of last season following eight years with the Italian marque. He was offered a race seat with Aprilia for 2021 as well as several test rider roles – including the Yamaha gig that went to Cal Crutchlow – but
Renault rebranded its works F1 team under the Alpine brand for 2021 as part of the ‘Renaulution’ within the company that was instigated by new CEO Luca de Meo following his takeover last summer. But Renault is not currently supplying any other F1 teams with power units after its customer McLaren contract ended last year,
The theme for this year’s event is ‘The Maestros – Motorsport’s Great All-Rounders’ and Team Penske’s success across a diverse range of categories – including IndyCar, NASCAR and in sportscars – will be celebrated. A number of key cars from the squad’s history are due to form part of the celebration alongside the man himself.
Every year, the Belgian Grand Prix provides racing fans with the ultimate motorsport spectacle. Both drivers and fans alike will mark the date on their calendar as Formula 1 returns from the summer break in style. It’s an event that F1’s hardcore fans will endeavour to make at least once. The chance to see the
On paper a ninth place finish for rookie Yuki Tsunoda represented a solid if unspectacular start to the season for the Italian team. However, it was the pace that the AT02 showed on Saturday that really caught the attention of rivals. Tsunoda sailed through Q1 in second after a lap that McLaren boss Andreas Seidl
Cobb, 47, who has made a combined 247 starts across the Xfinity and Truck series, will compete in RWR’s #15 Chevrolet in the GEICO 500 on the 25 April. She will become just the second female driver in NASCAR history who has competed in all three of NASCAR’s national series, after Shawna Robinson was the
Following an action-packed opener in Bahrain, the F1 paddock has returned to Europe to get the campaign rolling again by heading back to Imola – which made its return to the F1 calendar last year for the first time since 2006. Lewis Hamilton leads the early F1 world drivers’ championship standings thanks to his dramatic
James has played an instrumental role in creating and implementing many of the technical systems and processes that have helped make F1 such a global hit – including the establishment of its state-of-the-art broadcast centre. As well as helping ensure the series remained at the cutting edge of technology and never missed a beat during
MotoGP returns to Europe after its Qatar residency – as the Losail International Circuit hosted both pre-season testing and the opening two rounds – after the start of the season was reshuffled amid COVID-19 pandemic issues. Instead of heading to the United States and Argentina after the Qatar season-opener, the MotoGP paddock descends on Portimao
7:21 AM ET Formula One has altered the timings of this weekend’s practice and qualifying sessions at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix out of respect to the funeral service of Prince Philip, which will take place in the U.K. on Saturday afternoon. A minute of silence will also be held ahead of Saturday’s qualifying session
For the first time in the turbo hybrid era, a team other than Mercedes has started a campaign with the fastest package – as Verstappen’s Red Bull squad led the way in the Bahrain season opener last month. Verstappen took pole for the event, but lost victory to Lewis Hamilton after Mercedes’ aggressive strategy calls
The Duke of Edinburgh died at the age of 99 last Friday, with the British Royal funeral taking place at St George’s Chapel at Windsor on 3pm this Saturday. In line with multiple other sports, F1 and the FIA has confirmed the Emilia Romagna GP schedule will be altered “out of respect” to avoid running
The Italian manufacturer is the only one of the six present on the current MotoGP grid who supplies bikes to two satellite squads on top of its factory effort. Long-time partner Pramac receives full factory support from Ducati, with both current championship leader Johann Zarco and Jorge Martin running identical machinery to works team duo
The former March, Brabham, Shadow and ATS Formula 1 racer will make his first racing appearance since 2017 at the wheel of a KTM X-Bow GT2, specially developed for the am-focused series created for high powered machines not as reliant on downforce as GT3 cars by prolific GT racing promoter SRO. PLUS: The high-power solution
The Sprint Cup season is complete. The test days have been run. It’s just about time to head to the Ardennes for the biggest GT3 race on the planet. Which raises one very important question: who is the favourite to take victory at the Total 24 Hours of Spa? GT World is the official YouTube
F1 is bracing itself for a rules revolution in 2022, with the sport switching to all-new ground effect cars that it hopes will improve the racing. The extent of the changes for next season means teams cannot afford to fall behind in early development. That is because the biggest performance steps will be found during
Brown originally joined McLaren in 2016 before becoming CEO in 2018. A year later, he appointed Seidl as team principal, with the pair having divided responsibilities that play to their strengths. With a number of F1 teams adopting similar structures of having roles spread across a number of senior figures rather than one overall chief,
Zarco registered just one top 10 result in his stint with KTM as a factory rider in 2019, which ended after the Misano round when the marque elected to drop him with immediate effect after he’d already announced the termination of his two-year contract following the Austrian Grand Prix. A three-race run with LCR and
Due to persistent rain showers and thunderstorms, Saturday night’s Cup race was stopped after 42 laps and has been postponed until 4pm local time on Sunday. When the Cup race was halted, Denny Hamlin was the leader followed by Joey Logano, Ryan Blaney, Martin Truex Jr and Chase Elliott. The latest schedule changes have meant
But, have we seen enough evidence from just the first race to judge who’s on the right track and who’ll have to think again? On one side, we have the conventional thinkers who have taken the new rules at complete face value when it comes to dealing with the lost floor section. Ferrari, Alfa Romeo,
The US entrant appeared on the initial entry list for the Spa 6 Hours on May 1 published last month, but marque founder Jim Glickenhaus stressed that he had not committed to taking part with his pair of Pipo-engined 007LMHs. Now, he has confirmed that Glickenhaus Racing will miss the Belgian series opener and instead
The Honda star hasn’t been on his RC213V since his aborted comeback at the Andalusian GP last July just days after surgery on the right arm he broke in the Spanish GP, with Friday’s FP1 session at Algarve marking the first time he’ll have ridden a MotoGP bike in 265 days. No one is sure
The bid on the Time Attack 1 class for production-based machinery at the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb on 27 June will be made under the Bentley Motorsport banner by 2015 event winner Rhys Millen, son of former course record holder Rod. Renewable biofuel will power the Continental in line with Bentley’s Beyond100 strategy, under which
Only 42 of 500 laps were completed on Saturday night before the remainder of the postponed Cup race was run on Sunday afternoon. But a late-race red flag for a multiple-car wreck pushed the race into the night and it was then that Truex’s Toyota came to life. Truex caught his Joe Gibbs Racing team-mate
The French car manufacturer endured a tough season opener in Bahrain, with neither Fernando Alonso nor Esteban Ocon managing to finish in the points. Alonso’s hopes were wrecked in the race by overheating brakes, triggered by a sandwich wrapper getting caught in the car, while Ocon was left on the backfoot by poorly timed yellow
WTCR Hyundai teams BRC Hyundai N Lukoil Squadra Corse and Engstler Hyundai N Liqui Moly Racing Team will each debut two Elantras in this year’s eight-round championship. Touring car legend Gabriele Tarquini, a winner of BTCC, ETCC, WTCC and WTCR titles, will pilot an Elantra for the BRC squad alongside 36-year-old former WTCR champion Norbert
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