There has been much discussion about whether IndyCar’s latest aero changes have allowed the racing to improve at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the 105th running of the Indy 500. Throughout last week’s practice sessions with cars in race trim, it was apparent that the top three in any cluster of cars could swap back
Month: May 2021
Bernoldi is perhaps best remembered these days as the man Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz favoured when Peter Sauber decided instead to take a punt on Kimi Raikkonen. Mateschitz subsequently bought his man a seat at Arrows, and the Brazilian duly made his Grand Prix debut in Australia in 2001 on the very same day as
The nine-time world champion returns home to Mugello following its coronavirus-forced 2020 cancellation in the throes of his worst-ever grand prix season, having scored just nine points from the first five races. A seven-time winner at Mugello in MotoGP, Rossi also holds seven premier class wins at next week’s Catalan GP venue Barcelona and eight
5:50 PM ET Associated Press With a reduced-capacity sellout crowd of 135,000 fans expected for Sunday’s race, the Indianapolis 500 is set to become the largest sporting event since the coronavirus pandemic began in early 2020. Indianapolis Motor Speedway worked with the Marion County Public Health Department to determine that 40% of venue capacity will
Speaking exclusively on Autosport’s Indy 500 Preview podcast (below), Power revealed that he earned just under 50% of the $2,525,454 prize that was awarded to the winning car in 2018, which was then split among the team members per their contracts and win bonus agreements. He quipped that he’d be willing to give it all
The son of Michael Andretti and grandson of Mario Andretti took the decision this year to give up running full-time in IndyCar, to explore other opportunities, including competing in Tony Stewart’s new SRX series. Asked if, should he find his way victory circle on Sunday, he would “drop the mic” and declare that’s it, Andretti
The team released a short video clip showing a mechanic working on the car in the Brackley factory on Tuesday morning, shortly after the transporters returned. The wheel became stuck after Bottas pitted during the race and the nut was stripped by the airgun, making it impossible to remove. Rather than work further on the
The M1 was one of the slowest bikes in terms of top speed in 2020, with that fact remaining in 2021 owing to a freeze on engine development in the winter as a result of COVID cost-saving measures. Ducati has been the conquering force at Mugello for the last three Italian GPs, with the latest
7:03 AM ET Alyssa RoenigkESPN Close Alyssa Roenigk is a senior writer for ESPN whose assignments have taken her to six continents and caused her to commit countless acts of recklessness. (Follow @alyroe on Twitter). At the Indianapolis 500 on Sunday, all eyes will be on Paretta Autosport. Because for the first time in motorsport
The introduction of a night stage is one of the standout changes announced by organisers of the event. Measuring 19.75km, the second pass over Friday’s closing ‘Oittila’ test gets underway just after 7pm. Shorter daylight hours is a consequence of the gravel rally being pushed back to a new slot in early October. That decision
Our long-awaited return to Monaco was as dramatic as we could have asked for, and emotions were certainly running high! Enjoy the best of the airwaves in the principality here. 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 #MonacoGP
Michael Igoe and Phil Keen began their Intelligent Money British GT Championship challenge in fine style by securing a dominant win for WPI Motorsport and Lamborghini in Sunday’s two-hour season opener at Brands Hatch where Gus Burton and Will Burns headed a Century BMW one-two in the GT4 class. GT World is the official YouTube
McLaren joined forces with what was previously the Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team toward the end of 2019 to form Arrow McLaren SP, and Brown has long been a huge fan of Indy car racing. Now he says the product is as competitive as ever it has been, but believes it’s possible to enlighten viewers
An exclusive and extraordinarily frank interview with Bottas is the cover feature of this month’s GP Racing magazine. In the latest edition of the Flat Chat podcast, GP Racing editor Ben Anderson and columnist Mark Gallagher join host Stuart Codling to debate where Bottas’s career goes from here. Is it time for him to reconcile
4:59 AM ET British barrister Graham Stoker announced on Tuesday his candidacy to succeed Jean Todt as head of Formula One’s governing body, the FIA, with Denmark’s record nine times Le Mans 24 Hours winner Tom Kristensen in his leadership team. 1 Related International Automobile Federation President Todt, in office since 2009, is standing down
Michael Igoe and Phil Keen made a dream start to their British GT title assault with a comfortable victory at Brands Hatch. Their WPI Motorsport Lamborghini Huracan was never challenged once Igoe hit the front on lap six, leaving Keen with the relatively simple job of stroking home to a 9.6-second victory over four-time champion
Hamilton lost the lead of the F1 drivers’ championship for the first time this year after struggling to seventh place on Sunday in Monaco, dropping four points behind Red Bull rival Max Verstappen in the standings. Hamilton failed to feature with the frontrunners in either qualifying or the race, while an undercut strategy backfired and
The reigning IndyCar champion and 2008 Indy 500 winner produced a stunning run in the pole position shootout last Sunday to produce an average of 231.685mph over his four laps to edge out Andretti Autosport’s Herta by only 0.03mph. Rinus VeeKay and Ed Carpenter both put in eye-catching qualifying performances to grab third and fourth
3:45 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Jimmie Johnson was inside a sauna at 120 degrees and climbing as part of an hourlong sweat session preparing him to race on hot summer days. It’s part of a fitness program that calls for mental exercises to be completed while roasting inside the sweat bath, but Johnson
Elliott’s spotter, Eddie D’Hondt, was arrested on 12 May in Catawba County, North Carolina, after he was served a warrant and charged with two misdemeanour offences: battery of an unborn child and assault of a female. It remains unclear at this time whether the cases connected to the original arrest of D’Hondt, 62, are still
Verstappen led from lights to flag in Monaco to secure his second win of the season and move into the lead of the F1 drivers’ championship for the first time, capitalising on a bad weekend for Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes. After fending off Valtteri Bottas at the first corner, Verstappen rarely looked at risk of
Roger Ward – 1959, 1962 F1 starts: 12 (1951 – 1960, 1963) F1 championships: 0 Indy 500 starts: 15 (1951 – 1964, 1966) Indy 500 wins: 2 (1959, 1962) The Indy 500 was an official world championship race between 1950 and 1960, meaning that teams and drivers who only competed in the 500 also appear
Jack Miller secured back-to-back MotoGP wins in a stunning charge at the French GP at Le Mans, coming back from two long-lap penalties for speeding in the pitlane, in a chaotic flag-to-flag race. Miller, who had the option of a second year on his factory Ducati contract taken up by the Italian manufacturer earlier this
11:05 AM ET Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes cannot afford to have another race weekend like Monaco if he is to mount a successful title challenge against Red Bull’s Max Verstappen this year. 1 Related Hamilton lost the lead of the championship for the first time in 2021 last weekend after he finished seventh and Verstappen
A qualifying session to remember! Enjoy all the best bits from a thrilling afternoon around the world-famous streets of the Principality. 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 #MonacoGP
26 GT cars and a lot of walking backwards… join us for a wander down the Brands Hatch pitlane ahead of 2021’s season opener. Watch the race live at https://youtu.be/3SqYJcqy7xw from 13:00 BST on Sunday. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader in GT racing. Join us for
This will affect where motorsport fans can attend races this season, with some countries completely off-bounds to visitors because of travel restrictions. Fans have already attended the Spanish Grand Prix and Monaco Grand Prix, and Portugal was added to the green list just one week after the race in Portimao. The traffic lights will be
On the first lap, Schumacher went down the inside of the Russian at the hairpin. The two drivers went round the corner side-by-side before the German emerged in front. Later, Schumacher had a fuel pressure issue that slowed him and obliged him to let Mazepin pass. They pair eventually finished 17th and 18th in a race of unusually low attrition.
In a precarious economic climate where the need to control escalating costs is paramount, Formula 1’s key stakeholders approved a power unit development freeze from 2022 back in February. But it’s a move that the MotoGP factories are not even contemplating, and for a variety of reasons. Pressure from F1’s promoters and rule makers –
3:00 PM ET ESPN News Services Will Power made the most of his second chance to make the Indianapolis 500, putting his Team Penske car into the field Sunday despite hitting the wall on his qualifying attempt. Power, who won the Indy 500 in 2018, brushed the wall with his right rear wheel in Turn
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