On Monday morning Yamaha announced that it would be parting ways with Vinales at the end of this season, breaking contract one year earlier than planned following a deterioration in the relationship between both parties. Nine-time grand prix motorcycle world champion Rossi doesn’t have a contract with Yamaha for 2022 and admitted last Thursday that
Month: June 2021
The Spaniard was locked in a tight fight with McLaren’s Lando Norris for fifth place in the Red Bull Ring race, but their battle was interrupted when Sainz got held up when he was lapped by Hamilton. Having been forced to let the second placed-Mercedes through after a switch to hard tyres, Sainz quickly found
At one point in the race, Busch was dejected and ready to call it a day but he and his #18 Joe Gibbs Racing persevered, emplyoing a fuel-mileage strategy that ultimately provided him his second win of the 2021 season. “Yeah, stuck in fourth gear. About out of gas. Just saving, just riding, playing the
10:26 PM ET Associated Press NORWALK, Ohio — Cruz Pedregon raced to his first Funny Car victory in more than three years Sunday, beating points leader Bob Tasca III in the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. The 57-year-old Pedregon edged Tasca in the final with a 3.958-second run at 324.75 mph in a Dodge Charger
Verstappen led every lap at the Red Bull Ring to score his fourth win of the year and record back-to-back victories for the first time in his F1 career. Verstappen crossed the line 35 seconds clear of title rival Lewis Hamilton in second place, having led by more than 17 seconds prior to Hamilton’s late
Rins and Zarco were battling for fifth on the second lap of Sunday’s Dutch TT at Assen when the Pramac rider made an aggressive move up the inside of the Mandeven right-hander. The Suzuki rider was nudged slightly by Zarco and had to run into the gravel, dropping from fourth to last – with Rins
Bottas qualified second at the Red Bull Ring on Saturday but dropped back to fifth on the grid due to a penalty for spinning in the pits in Friday practice. Bottas moved up to fourth on lap 11 by passing McLaren’s Lando Norris, and began to catch Perez for third towards the end of the
Morgan was a multiple race winner with Ciceley’s Mercedes A-Class, which was pensioned off after the end of last season, and made the most of being drawn on pole in the random reversed-grid draw. Second place was initially held by Jack Goff, who started Team Hard’s new-for-2021 Cupra Leon on the front row, after a
The Yamaha rider is reportedly close to make a shock exit from Yamaha at the end of the season despite having a contract for 2022 and moving to Aprilia next year. Vinales rubbished the Aprilia links on Sunday after finishing 2.7s behind race-winning team-mate Fabio Quartararo in the Dutch TT, but admitted quitting Yamaha is
Verstappen was in dominant form at the Red Bull Ring earlier, leading comfortably from pole position and grabbing a victory that extended his lead at the head of F1’s points standings. As the Dutchman celebrated his victory across the line at the circuit, however, he slowed right by his Red Bull crew on the pitwall
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Round 7 of the Formula 1 season saw Lando and Daniel pull off some stunning overtakes to secure a solid points haul for the team, a performance our friend and supporter Mansour Ojjeh – whose name was carried on the MCL35M over the weekend – would have been proud of. #SendIt Join McLaren Plus, our
The rookie looks set to join team-mate Remy Gardner at Tech3 in MotoGP next year and brushed off his crash out of the German GP with an emphatic victory at Assen. Aron Canet grabbed the lead off the line on his Aspar Kalex, while Sam Lowes and Remy Gardner traded second spot at the Dulkersloot
The nine-time MotoGP race winner has a contract with Yamaha that runs to the end of the 2022 season, but the relationship between Vinales and Yamaha has soured in recent weeks. The Dutch Grand Prix poleman suffered his worst ever weekend as a MotoGP rider last time out in Germany, where he qualified 21st and
The Frenchman had started the 2021 campaign strongly, with a run of Q3 performances in Imola, Portugal and Spain – with a top five place in the latter. However, he failed to make it out of Q2 in Monaco, Baku and France, and in Styria this weekend he had his worst qualifying performance of the
Larson had worked furiously late in the race to get around Bowman, who had grabbed the lead on a restart on Lap 112 of 130. Larson finally got in front of Bowman with four laps remaining and appeared to be on his way to his fifth win of the 2021 season when he suddenly slowed
8:56 PM ET Associated Press NORWALK, Ohio — Steve Torrence took the No. 1 spot in Top Fuel qualifying Saturday in the Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals. Torrence, the three-time defending series champion and current points leader, had a 3.705-second run at 324.83 mph on Friday and also made the quickest passes during Saturday’s final
The Acuras were a cut above its rivals, and it was Taylor who delivered a 1m30.022s lap around the 3.4-mile Watkins Glen circuit to claim pole position, beating Dane Cameron’s best effort in the MSR car by 0.119 seconds, and although Cameron tried to respond, he could never put all three sectors together as the
Vinales will start from pole for the first time in 2021 after denying Quartararo by 0.071 seconds in a tight fight between the pair in qualifying at Assen on Saturday. Quartararo appears to have the strongest race pace of the grid and comes into Sunday’s race 22 points clear in the championship standings, while his
The Red Bull driver has secured his second consecutive F1 pole position, and the sixth of his career, after converting his promising practice pace to see off Mercedes duo Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton. Despite qualifying in second place, Bottas will start the Styrian GP from fifth on the grid due to a three-pace grid
6:47 PM ET Associated Press LONG POND, Pa. — Alex Bowman made it six straight wins for Hendrick Motorsports, when teammate Kyle Larson’s Chevrolet blew a tire on the final lap, and he took the checkered flag Saturday at Pocono Raceway for his third Cup win of the season. Larson had won three straight Cup
Turkington lies third in the points, so is carrying 57kg on his West Surrey Racing-run BMW 330i M Sport. While his best lap was good only for the seventh row of the grid, he completed six fliers all in the mid-48s bracket. “It was probably what I expected,” said Turkington. “The car was the best
Having dominating free practice, Vinales bounced back from his nightmare German GP showing where he finished a career-worst 19th place to take his first pole of the 2021 season, beating factory Yamaha team-mate Quartararo by 0.071 seconds. After progressing through Q1, Francesco Bagnaia powered his Ducati to third place in Q2 with an eye-catching late
Max Verstappen scored Red Bull’s fourth win of the season in France last Sunday after passing Lewis Hamilton on the penultimate lap, ending Mercedes’ dominant recent record at the circuit. Hamilton made note of Red Bull’s straight-line speed throughout the Paul Ricard race weekend, while Mercedes F1 boss Wolff said after the race that the
12:31 PM ET Associated Press SPIELBERG, Austria — Alice Powell won an eventful season-opening race of the W Series on Saturday. The British driver, who was also fastest in Friday’s practice and qualifying, led from start to finish in the race full of collisions and spins on the track of Formula One’s Styrian Grand Prix.
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W Series is making its debut on the Formula 1 bill at the Red Bull Ring this weekend and you might think that this is the first time an all-female line-up has graced the same asphalt as a Grand Prix. But, as we’re not even through the first paragraph of an article about women-only GP
Fernandez stepped up to the intermediate class with Aki Ajo’s squad for 2021 and has taken the Moto2 championship by storm, winning twice in the first eight races of the campaign. His current Ajo Moto2 team-mate Remy Gardner was announced as a Tech3 MotoGP rider for 2022 earlier this month, with Fernandez linked to the
The world champion ended the session with a 0.204s advantage over his title rival, but Verstappen’s final laps were disrupted by traffic and he had a fractionally faster personal best deleted for running too wide at the final corner on his last go. Most of the pack remained in the pits when the one-hour session
The three-time MotoGP race winner aggravated a pre-existing injury in his knee during a training incident on Tuesday. The injury proved severe enough this time to rule him out of this weekend’s Dutch Grand Prix at Assen, marking his first race absence since the 2018 German GP. Morbidelli underwent a one-hour operation on his meniscus
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