12:52 PM ET Associated Press McLaren cares so much about appearance that the team missed track time before its bungled 2019 Indianapolis 500 attempt because the car’s paint scheme didn’t precisely match its signature papaya orange shade. And yet despite such particular tastes, McLaren has opened its design process to outsiders. The team collaborated with
Month: May 2021
Despite being labelled as the leader of the Borgo Panigale brand’s new project after the Andrea Dovizioso era, Miller was only offered the option of signing for a single year, instead of the two offered to his team-mate Francesco Bagnaia. After a difficult start to the 2021 world championship in which he failed to live
The latest edition of the official F1 video game will be released by Codemasters – its first since being acquired by Electronic Arts – on 16 July, featuring an all-new story mode and three new tracks. The initial announcement last month revealed the game would feature icon drivers as part of its MyTeam mode, made
Sunday’s 27-lap Le Mans race was the first flag-to-flag grand prix in MotoGP since 2017, with rain a few laps in forcing the field to switch to their wet bikes. Zarco struggled in the early stages on slicks in wet conditions, dropping from fifth on the grid to 10th on the opening lap having been
5:23 AM ET The Turkish Grand Prix will not take place on June 13 due to the worsening COVID-19 situation in the country, with Austria getting a second 2021 F1 race instead. The news follows travel restrictions being imposed on Turkey by the UK, where seven of F1’s 10 teams are based. As with the
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Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson won 11 times at Dover International Speedway in the #48 car, and having handed the car over to Bowman when he stepped away from NASCAR racing at the end of the 2020 season Bowman put on a fitting tribute. Bowman, who grabbed control of the race during a round
McLaren has not revealed any details about what is being announced but it will premiere a short video live on Sunday, May 16 at 17:00 GMT / 18:00 GMT. The Woking-based outfit teased the announcement on Twitter with the caption ‘Bold is back’ and the #MonacoGP hashtag, along with a close-up shot of Daniel Ricciardo
As part of a one-off arrangement with its fuel sponsor, Daniel Ricciardo and Lando Norris’s MCL35Ms will feature a full-on matte Gulf livery for the first time in F1 history. The rebranding, which will include drivers’ overalls, retro helmets and team kit, comes in the wake of a renewed tie-up between Gulf Oil and McLaren last year.
Honda’s Espargaro had a big moment exiting the Chemin aux Boeufs chicane on the opening lap of Sunday’s 27-lap Le Mans race which cost him drive and forced Morbidelli to move up his inside into the next corner. But Espargaro braked hard into the following turn trying to pass the other Petronas SRT Yamaha of
7:19 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — John Force won yet again at age 72, topping the Funny Car field Sunday in the NGK NTK NHRA Four-Wide Nationals for his 152nd event victory, extending his record. Force beat J.R. Todd, Cruz Pedregon and Alexis DeJoria in the final with a 3.916-second run at 328.78
Di Grassi, 36, currently lies 19th in the Formula E drivers’ standings while team-mate Rene Rast sits in eighth off the back of four top-six finishes. This comes as Robin Frijns in the Envision Virgin Racing machine, which uses a customer Audi powertrain, tops the championship with his rookie stablemate Nick Cassidy in 17th. Asked
Hamilton is locked in a thrilling duel with Max Verstappen for this year’s F1 title, and has won three of the first four races so far this season. But the tight fight with his Red Bull rival has forced Hamilton to push to the max, and that has cast a fresh light on the contribution he makes
The Honda rider ran in the podium battle at the start of the 27-lap flag-to-flag contest at Le Mans – just the third race of his MotoGP comeback – and managed to steal the lead from Fabio Quartararo during the pitstops at the end of lap five. Marquez quickly put two seconds between himself and
The Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet driver led 33 of the race’s 85 laps, carving through from seventh on the grid to beat polesitter and early race pace-setter Romain Grosjean and dominate the final stint. VeeKay’s triumph means he’s the first driver since the Road To Indy was formalised in 2010 to win in all three junior
1:06 PM ET McLaren will race with a one-off livery in the colours of the Gulf Oil company at next weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix. Gulf’s iconic blue and orange colour scheme has featured on a number of racing cars in the past — including the McLaren F1 GTR that finished second at the 1997 Le
For all the clamour over Mercedes dominance of Formula 1 in recent years, it has never quite managed a 100% win record. But back in 1998, it did just that in the FIA GT championship. Between title-winning team-mates Klaus Ludwig/Ricardo Zonta and Bernd Schneider/Mark Webber, the CLK GTR and newer CLK LM model won all
Robson worked at McLaren during Hamilton’s time as a junior driver with the team – where he would go on to make his F1 debut in 2007 and win his first world title a year later. When discussing Hamilton’s achievement of sealing 100 career F1 pole positions at last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, Robson explained
The Suzuki rider had made good progress from 14th on the grid and had made his way into the top nine when he slid out of the race at the end of the fifth lap as the rain intensified. Having failed to bring his damaged bike back to pitlane, Mir was unable to switch to his
The 20-year-old series sophomore drove to a five second victory over rookie polesitter Romain Grosjean on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s roadcourse, where last July he scored his first top five, and last October he scored his first pole and first podium finish. VeeKay, who was accompanied for the result by his parents, said the result felt “surreal”
5:24 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Rinus VeeKay continued IndyCar’s youth movement Saturday by scoring his first career victory with a win on the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Dutchman became the third first-time winner through five races this season — the most at this point in the season since 2013. The
The six-time world champion was on course to claim a sensational pole for the first time since 2019, having gone top in the closing moments of a chaotic qualifying session just as rain began to fall. But the returning Spaniard – who sat out the entirety of last year and missed the first two races
The Baku City Circuit will stage its fifth F1 race next month as Azerbaijan returns to the calendar following its COVID-enforced cancellation last year. It will mark a return to the race’s favoured June date slot, having been staged in April in both 2018 and 2019 prior to the start of summer in Baku. F1 announced last month
Quartararo snatched his third-straight pole of the 2021 season by 0.081 seconds with a last-gasp effort at the end of Q2 on Saturday to lead Yamaha team-mate Maverick Vinales. But the day started off in difficult fashion for Yamaha, with Quartararo struggling down in 19th in the drying conditions of FP3. The Frenchman struggled to ninth
Ed Carpenter Racing driver VeeKay passed former Haas Formula 1 racer Grosjean when the Frenchman’s Dale Coyne Racing with RWR machine was on its out-lap following a pitstop at half-distance. VeeKay, who had started on primary compound Firestones, had stopped six laps earlier and his softer compound red-walled tyres were fully up to temperature as
9:30 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — John and Brittany Force swept the nitro classes Saturday in qualifying for the NGK NTK NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway. The 72-year-old John Force topped the Funny Car lineup with a 3.902-second pass at 330.55 mph. Daughter Brittany Force took the No. 1 spot in Top
The Suzuki rider was denied direct entry to Q2 after a crash late on in Friday’s FP2, with wet conditions in FP3 ensuring there would be no lap time improvements on the combined order. Both Mir and team-mate Alex Rins set strong pace in the opening stages of Q1 in wet conditions, but were caught
For years, teams have followed established routines through FP1, FP2 and FP3 as they prepare both for Saturday qualifying and the Sunday race that follows. The usual rhythm is broken only when bad weather wipes out sessions. A unique planned break with tradition came at Imola last year, when transport issues meant that there was
Home hero Quartararo took his third pole in a row by the narrowest of margins in a chaotic qualifying session held in damp but drying conditions, the Yamaha factory rider pipping team-mate Maverick Vinales by just 0.081s. Showing no signs of ill-effects after an operation to treat arm pump issues that cost him victory in
The Ed Carpenter Racing driver pounced on IndyCar rookie Grosjean on the 45th lap with warmer, softer tyres, relegating the ex-Formula 1 driver to second place. Having unleashed his latent pace on the opening stint to rise from his starting berth of seventh, VeeKay had cycled out in a net fourth after the first round
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