The six-time MotoGP world champion badly broke his right arm in a crash during last year’s Spanish Grand Prix, which ruled him out of the 2020 season and led to a nine-month injury lay-off as he recovered from three operations. In his absence, Honda endured its first winless season since it returned to MotoGP full-time
Month: August 2021
For most of the session, Newgarden led with a 177.562mph lap but as two-lap qualifying simulations got underway, McLaughlin edged ahead with a 177.669mph effort. Then Newgarden delivered a 178.600 mph, just 25.1959sec around the 1.25-mile WWT Raceway, before going still faster with a 178.774mph. With this 90-minute session being the only practice before qualifying
It might seem opportunistic and short-sighted to write this piece off the back of Esteban Ocon’s shock win at the Hungarian Grand Prix, but in fact it would have been valid regardless of recent events in Budapest. If anything, Ocon’s maiden win and Alonso’s tenacious, defensive masterclass just underline that Alpine has a driver line-up
The gentleman racer, the enthusiastic amateur, the rich hobbyist, they all have their place in international sportscar racing. And always have. Whisky heir Rob Walker, the future Formula 1 entrant, drove at least a couple of stints at the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1939 wearing a pinstripe suit on Saturday evening. It was that
After he tried to deliberately damage his M1’s engine during the final laps of the Styrian GP at Red Bull Ring, Yamaha suspended Vinales and withdrew his entry from the following Austrian GP. Vinales later apologised publicly to Yamaha, blaming his actions on mounting frustration at his situation during the race and at Yamaha in
With F1 teams preparing for a rules revolution next year, a number of outfits – including Mercedes – elected to freeze their current designs early in the campaign to focus more on their new cars. But Red Bull has bucked the trend and been aggressive in bringing a series of upgrades to its RB16B in its
Montoya, whose father races for DragonSpeed in the 2021 World Endurance Championship, including this weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours, will get behind the wheel of the American outfit’s Oreca-Gibson LMP2 car at the traditional end-of-year rookie test, which takes place on Sunday November 7 following the Bahrain season finale. Montoya’s surprise call-up happened in person
On Friday morning Yamaha announced it has parted ways with Vinales with immediate effect, following his suspension from the Austrian GP by the team after he was found to deliberately try to damage his bike’s engine during the Styrian GP. As first reported by Autosport on Wednesday, Vinales was always set to miss the British
Team boss Zak Brown said earlier this month that the Woking-based outfit will have no excuses not to be in a position to fight for the titles by 2024, once all its infrastructures – including its new windtunnel – are in place and functioning at full capacity. “What I will say is we will have
7:07 PM ET Associated Press BRAINERD, Minn. — Bob Tasca III topped Funny Car qualifying Friday in the Lucas Oil NHRA Nationals at Brainerd International Raceway. Tasca had a 3.941-second run at 326.63 mph in a Ford Mustang. “We came in here trying to run low 3.90s and the speed is good, and we knew
Japan is set to host the championship’s final round from 11-14 November although the rising number of COVID-19 cases has resulted in confirmation this week that October’s Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix will be cancelled for a second consecutive year. MotoGP has already scrubbed its Japanese GP from its calendar earlier this year before this
Yamaha announced on Friday that it had parted ways with Vinales with immediate effect for the remainder of the 2021 MotoGP season following his suspension by the team last week. Vinales was found to be trying to deliberately damage his YZR-M1’s engine during the final laps of the Styrian Grand Prix, and was subsequently withdrawn
Under current regulations aimed at reducing costs, F1 teams are allowed a base of 40 runs in their windtunnels, compared to 65 in previous seasons. But windtunnel use is also defined by on-track results, with the teams doing worst getting extra runs based on their finishing position in the constructors’ championship the previous year. As
Who’s most likely to get arrested for being too drunk? Who’s most likely to be late to their own wedding? Lando and Daniel debate the all-important questions… Join McLaren Plus, our fan engagement programme which brings McLaren fans closer to the team with the most inclusive, rewarding and open-to-all fan programmes in F1 & esports:
That Red Bull is on a roll at the moment is obvious – we can measure its advantage not just in terms of lap times and race results, but also in the quantity of innuendo directed at it by rivals. Mercedes might have landed a couple of blows by lobbying for new wing flexibility tests
Vinales joined Yamaha for the 2017 season having made waves in his first two years in the premier class with Suzuki, in which he won his maiden MotoGP race at Silverstone in 2016. Signed as the future prospect who could fill the outgoing Jorge Lorenzo’s shoes and act as a safeguard to Yamaha’s future once
The Mexican has had a rollercoaster season for Red Bull so far. The highlight of his campaign was his victory in the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, but there have also been some frustrating times too. At the start of the season Perez said he was a fan of the way Marko was brutally honest with him
The Williams F1 reserve suffered fractures to his collarbone and vertebra in a violent multi-car accident in the opening laps of the GT World Challenge Europe blue ribband round, when his stricken Emil Frey Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo was hit by unsighted cars over the crest at Raidillon. Speaking for the first time at length since
Nicolas Lapierre got within three tenths of Kazuki Nakajima’s time-topping Toyota during the fourth period of free practice that followed the Hyperpole qualifying session. Nakajima set the pace from the beginning of Thursday evening’s night session in the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID, ending up on a 3m27.994s. Lapierre posted an improvement with 40 minutes to
The Dane, a veteran of 119 grands prix, will make his Le Mans 24 Hours debut this weekend when he races in LMP2 alongside his dad, Jan, in an ORECA-Gibson 07 from Danish entrant High Class Racing. The 28-year-old has also already committed to a World Endurance Championship campaign next year with Peugeot. With the
While multiple Formula 1 driver deals have been confirmed for 2022, a number of race seats still need to be officially filled. Here’s how next year’s grid is shaping up. Mercedes Mercedes is, arguably, the team with the most attention on its driver line-up. Rumours of Mercedes young driver George Russell getting the call up
Autosport has learned that Ray Mallock Limited is working on a Continental development car for Bentley built to the eGT regulations, which were released to interested parties by the FIA as early as last December. The Bentley test car exploits a route into eGT allowing a manufacturer to take an existing GT3 contender and fit
In the 30-minute session, featuring the fastest six cars from each class, Kobayashi drew first blood by setting a lap of 3m23.900s on his first attempt, over a second quicker than stablemate Hartley in the #8 Toyota. Olivier Pla was third fastest in the #708 Glickenhaus, a full 2.5 seconds in arrears but two seconds
Hy-Vee, a grocery chain with sponsorship links to Rahal Letterman Lanigan, has announced a new multi-year agreement that returns the banked, rough and challenging D-shaped oval to the calendar. Iowa Speedway, which has held 15 IndyCar races since it opened in 2006, will host the Hy-VeeDeals.com 250 on Saturday, 23 July, while the Hy-Vee Salute
Last season Racing Point caused a stir when it arrived in winter testing in Barcelona with a car that looked a lot like the Mercedes from 2019, the team it bought a gearbox, power unit and other unlisted parts from. Its midfield rivals were alarmed about the design of the RP20, with Alpine – then
11:39 AM ET ESPN News Services IndyCar will return next season to Iowa Speedway, a short oval track beloved by fans and drivers that had fallen off the schedule after 14 years. The track in Newton will host a doubleheader in July in a deal brokered between IndyCar Series owner Roger Penske, team owner Bobby
The opening round of the GT America powered by AWS championship-opening weekend at Sonoma Raceway, March 6, 2021. Follow all the action at gtamerica.us and across social channels Facebook: @srogtamerica Instagram: @gt_america Twitter: @gt_america_ Official Series Hashtag: #GTAmerica Event Hashtag: #GTSONOMA _____ GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader
The invitational races on the 3.8-mile street Guia Circuit have traditionally attracted healthy entries from aspiring Formula 1 drivers seeking to win the prestigious Macau Grand Prix, and from GT manufacturers fielding works-supported GT3 cars. The final round of the WTCR championship is also traditionally held in Macau. However, with all international arrivals required to
Despite the rollout of vaccines to combat COVID-19 in 2021, the MotoGP calendar has still been heavily affected by the pandemic owing to fresh outbreaks and changing travel restrictions. All but one flyaway race has already been cancelled for 2021, with the Japanese, Australian and Thailand races scrubbed from the calendar, as well as the
Yamaha announced on the Monday following the Dutch TT at Assen in June that it – upon request from Vinales – had agreed to part ways with the nine-time MotoGP race winner at the end of this season, one year earlier than his current contract was due to expire. Vinales joined Yamaha from Suzuki in
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