Unser famously won the Indy 500 in 1968, 1975 and 1981, marking him and Rick Mears as the only drivers to win the event in three different decades. He also made one Formula 1 start for BRM in the 1968 US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, when he retired with a blown engine. The charismatic
Month: May 2021
Seven-time grand prix winner Ricciardo joined McLaren on a three-year deal for 2021, but has struggled to match teammate Lando Norris’s form through the early part of the season. Ricciardo was left downbeat after being eliminated in Q1 last weekend in Portugal, but recovered to finish the race in ninth place. The Australian is yet
The Next Gen car (aka Gen-7) is being readied to be introduced for the 2022 Cup Series season, having been postponed from 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Its primary aims are to lower costs for teams and prove more attractive to OEMs (road car manufacturers) to join Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota in NASCAR
The six-time MotoGP world champion rode to eighth in last Sunday’s Jerez race, the second of his comeback from a nine-month injury layoff. Though he is still not at his physical peak yet, he admitted his condition was better on the bike than it was in Portugal, and this allowed him for the first time
The Canadian star, recovering from a spinal injury following his IndyCar crash at Pocono in 2018, returned to the cockpit to test an adapted Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai Veloster TCR car at Mid-Ohio. Wickens, a winner in Formula BMW, Formula Atlantic, GP3, Formula 3, A1GP, Formula 2 and a champion in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series
Brown’s main argument was his frustration regarding the current decision-making process in F1 – and specifically the way some teams are obliged to follow the lead of their power unit supplier or commercial partner, and how that can potentially skew the voting. It’s been a contentious issue for decades. Of course, no team is going
Along with Chevrolet and Ford, Toyota revealed its 2022 Next Gen Cup Series car – now called the TRD Camry – on Wednesday. It features a standardised chassis, which means teams will no longer fabricate their own cars from scratch – or buy them from others via technical alliances – but purchase the tubular frame
Rins crashed out of second while fighting Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo for the win in last month’s Portuguese Grand Prix, before tumbling out of the lead group on lap three of last Sunday’s Spanish GP at Jerez. As a result, Rins’ title hopes have taken an early knock as he slips 43 points off the championship
The Andretti Autosport team will run Wilson in a sixth entry for the 105th running of the Indy 500, which will be the second time that Michael Andretti has run the younger brother of the much-loved seven-time IndyCar race winner Justin Wilson, who died following an accident at Pocono in 2015. Asked whether joining a
While Lewis Hamilton managed to beat title rival Max Verstappen to victory in Portugal last weekend, the low-grip track surface and tricky tyre characteristics meant it was hard to judge properly whether Red Bull or Mercedes had the fastest car. Mercedes, which has won two races so far this season, is heading to this weekend’s
Ex-F1 racer Alesi’s Ferrari 312B3 and the Lotus 77 of three-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Werner were battling for the lead of the Monaco Historic GP race for 1973-76 F1 cars when they collided. Leader Alesi was sent into the barriers on the start/finish straight and out of the race. Werner, who had taken
Mir became the first world champion to begin his title defence season without a podium since Nicky Hayden in 2007 when he was cruelly robbed of second on the run to the line in the Qatar Grand Prix by Johann Zarco and Francesco Bagnaia. The Suzuki rider finally made it to the rostrum in third
The airwaves were a hive of action in Portimao, as our 2021 season continued to rev up! For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Follow F1®: http://www.instagram.com/F1 https://www.facebook.com/Formula1/ Tweets by F1 https://www.twitch.tv/formula1 @f1 #F1
3:17 AM ET Romain Grosjean will drive a Formula One car for the first time since his dramatic accident at last year’s Bahrain Grand Prix after world champions Mercedes organised a one-off test for the French driver. Grosjean will drive the 2019 title-winning Mercedes W10 in a private test day at Paul Ricard on June
The debacle that was this year’s Indianapolis 500 didn’t really come into proper focus until the day after the race. After all, charges of inept officiating and stories of confusion and controversy have become part of the curious folklore of the Indy 500 and when everyone went to bed on Sunday night it seemed that
Following a bright start to the 2021 campaign, which has included a podium finish at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Norris is currently sitting in third place in the drivers’ standings behind Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. But while McLaren does not appear to have a car that is capable of regularly beating the pace-setting
Forty years since his retirement from Indycar racing, his stats put him in the pantheon. He raced in an era when reliability could not be taken for granted, so the fact that he amassed 35 wins – still eighth in the all-time list – is impressive enough. Yet it’s his 49 pole positions (fifth best
Despite finishing as top Yamaha rider in 2020 and second overall in the championship, Morbidelli remains on the 2019 ‘A-spec’ M1 he rode last season and has struggled. Morbidelli was able to get into podium contention in Portugal and claimed third in last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, but hasn’t hid his displeasure at not having
12:25 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Stefan Wilson will return to the Indianapolis 500 with Andretti Autosport and complete the team’s six-car lineup for this year’s race. Wilson will drive the No. 25 Honda with sponsorship from LOHLA SPORT, a women’s golf lifestyle brand. He will be attempting to qualify for his third Indy
Sponsored by new women’s golf lifestyle brand Lohla Sport, Wilson will join not only the team’s four full-timers, but also last year’s polesitter Marco Andretti. Wilson, the brother of the late Justin Wilson, made his debut in the race with KVSH Racing in 2016 – retiring after 119 laps with electrical trouble. The British driver
Red Bull has been left annoyed that penalties have cost Verstappen a race win, a pole position and a fastest lap point so far this season. The team’s motorsport advisor Helmut Marko suggested after the Portuguese Grand Prix, when a wide moment for Verstappen saw his fastest lap time deleted, that F1 needs to change
Most of the day’s quickest times were set in the two-hour afternoon session, with all but three drivers able to improve on Philip Ellis’ morning benchmark of 1m45.816s. Arjun Maini, Gotz and two-time DTM champion Marco Wittmann all managed to overhaul Ellis in the first hour of running after the mid-day break, before Formula E
Having qualified on pole, the Frenchman was leading the Jerez race comfortably when suddenly his pace began to fade around the halfway point. After losing the lead to Ducati’s Jack Miller, who went on to win, Quartararo tumbled out of the points altogether and dropped to an eventual 13th place at the finish. Quartararo, who
5:29 PM ET Red Bull’s Max Verstappen completed an unwanted ‘track limits’ triple when he was stripped of a fastest lap bonus point at the Portuguese Grand Prix on Sunday. The deletion for going too far off the track came a day after the Dutch 23-year-old missed out on pole position when he also ran
The grip additive known as PJ1 has been applied to the Texas Motor Speedway for its NASCAR Cup races, with the intent of allowing cars to take different lines around the oval course thanks to the improved traction higher up the banking. Given it has been designed to work with the NASCAR tyres supplied by
The Silverstone team gave the latest set of new parts to Stroll first as it tries to accelerate the development of the difficult AMR21. After an encouraging qualifying session, Vettel had a frustrating Sunday in Portugal. He made Q3 for the first time since the British GP last year, eventually taking 10th on the grid,
F1 introduced all-new financial regulations for the 2021 season to enforce a new budget cap of $145 million per year for each team. Within the financial regulations, F1 lawmakers are permitted to sanction teams for breaches via financial penalties, minor sporting penalties, material sporting penalties or enhanced monitoring. Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff said on
Nakagami was comfortably the top Honda rider throughout the Jerez weekend, his form boosted by a switch to an older chassis giving him more rear grip. The Japanese rider qualified fifth and fought his way through to fourth in the latter stages of the Jerez race, piling pressure on Petronas SRT’s Franco Morbidelli in third
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