MotoGP has cancelled the remaining flyaway races in Argentina, Thailand and Malaysia for 2020, but is set to add Portugal to the calendar as the 14th race. The original 2020 season was set to be the longest in MotoGP’s history, with 20 rounds beginning in Qatar and ending in Valencia, with stops off in the
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Max Verstappen set the pace in first practice for the British Grand Prix on Friday as Nico Hulkenberg made his on-track Formula 1 return with Racing Point. Verstappen was able to finish almost half a second clear of home favourite Lewis Hamilton to lead FP1 for Red Bull during a hot opening session at Silverstone
5:08 AM ET Sergio Perez insists he followed FIA protocols during a two-day trip home to Mexico he took before the positive COVID-19 test which has ruled him out of the British Grand Prix. Perez tested positive on Thursday, sidelining him for the fourth race of the year and leaving his participation in next week’s
The FIA has confirmed that Racing Point Formula 1 driver Sergio Perez has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of this weekend’s British Grand Prix. Perez was not present at Silverstone on Thursday after his latest COVID-19 test result proved inconclusive, meaning he required a re-test. In a statement issued by the FIA on Thursday evening,
1:29 PM ET Lewis Hamilton and Romain Grosjean spoke for 45 minutes after the Hungarian Grand Prix to clear up a misunderstanding over Formula One’s ongoing anti-racism push. Following the race in Budapest, Hamilton said that Grosjean, one of two directors of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA), was of the opinion F1 did not
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Nico Hulkenberg is in the frame to make a shock Formula 1 return this weekend at Silverstone with Racing Point following Sergio Perez’s positive test for COVID-19. The FIA confirmed on Thursday evening that Perez had tested positive for COVID-19 following multiple tests, ruling him out of the grand prix weekend while he goes into
10:23 AM ET Mexico’s Sergio Perez will miss the British Grand Prix after testing positive for COVID-19. Racing Point driver Perez missed his scheduled Thursday news conference appearance because of the inconclusive test. He remained in isolation until a retest came back positive, sidelining him for Sunday’s race at Silverstone. The status of the race
McLaren 720S GT3 outfit 2 Seas Motorsport has announced its drivers for the 2020 British GT season, completing a reduced 21-car grid for this weekend’s season opener at Oulton Park. The Bahrani-backed squad has signed 2018 GT4 champion Jack Mitchell and Jordan Witt to drive its second car, entered in the Silver Cup, joining the
KTM’s Brad Binder accepts that he is going to make “a hell of a lot more mistakes” in his rookie MotoGP campaign, after two promising but difficult Jerez races. The South African showed impressive pace across the Spanish and Andalusian Grand Prix weekends, lapping quicker than most of the podium contenders during both races. However,
The FIA has continued its recent clampdown on Formula 1 track limits offences with a focus on drivers running wide at Copse and Stowe at Silverstone for the British Grand Prix. In his pre-event notes for the British GP, FIA race director Michael Masi cautioned that any driver who goes behind the black and white
9:51 AM ET Three races of Formula One’s unprecedented 2020 season are down and the top of the championship looks pretty familiar, but the standings never tell the whole story of a season as it is happening. A look ahead to the first of two races at Silverstone, following a week which saw F1 confirm
KTM MotoGP rider Pol Espargaro says the Andalusian Grand Prix at Jerez was “the toughest race of my life”, having felt like the heat was “beating me” at one stage. Temperatures for Sunday’s second round of the 2020 campaign touched a miserable 40 degrees Celsius, with the 60 degree track temperature making circuit conditions tricky
Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson has impressed Chip Ganassi team boss Mike Hull and five-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon after completing a test on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course. Johnson, whose last open-wheel action was testing a McLaren Formula 1 car in a car swap with Fernando Alonso at Bahrain, was supposed to try
Ahead of this weekend’s British Grand Prix, Autosport runs down the top 10 most statistically successful Formula 1 drivers of the past 70 years Ranking the best British drivers in Formula 1 history is no easy task as it’s an argument that can generate hours of debate, but statistically the top 10 can be declared.
4:05 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — IndyCar driver Conor Daly will have a new lead engineer for next month’s rescheduled Indianapolis 500: NASCAR Cup-winning crew chief Cole Pearn. Ed Carpenter‘s team made the announcement Wednesday. Pearn was considered one of the top crew chiefs in NASCAR before announcing a surprise resignation in December so
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Silverstone’s Stuart Pringle says he would be “very disappointed” if the venue lost MotoGP after 2021, as he believes “one of the best circuits on their calendar just got better”. Silverstone was the first home for grand prix motorcycle racing on the British mainland when the Isle of Man TT lost its world championship status
Conor Daly’s Ed Carpenter Racing Indy 500 entry will be overseen by renowned crew chief Cole Pearn, who took Martin Truex Jr to the 2017 NASCAR Cup title. Pearn became crew chief for Truex in 2015 before going on to take the title two seasons later, while last year they earned seven wins – more
McLaren Formula 1 chief Andreas Seidl is eager for the regulations to be tightened to limit the extent to which teams can copy other cars. The FIA is currently reviewing a protest from Renault over the legality over Racing Point’s RP20 car, which was based on the design of the 2019 title-winning Mercedes W10. Racing
4:43 PM ET Lewis Hamilton has spoken for the first time about his musical collaboration with Christina Aguilera in 2018 and revealed he plans to release his own music in the near future. A look ahead to the first of two races at Silverstone, following a week which saw F1 confirm it will not race
Petronas SRT boss Razlan Razali says Valentino Rossi’s podium in the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix removed “doubts” he had over the Italian for 2021 after his poor Spanish GP weekend. Nine-time grand prix world champion Rossi will join the satellite Yamaha squad with full factory support in 2021, though the deal is yet to be
The promoters of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza have confirmed the race will take place behind closed doors with no fans permitted to attend. After being forced to call off the opening 10 races of the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, F1 managed to get the 2020 campaign underway earlier this month in
7:50 AM ET The Italian Grand Prix at Monza will take place without spectators on Sept. 6, race organisers confirmed Wednesday. 1 Related Formula One has started its season with a series of behind-closed-doors events, which will continue with two races at British circuit Silverstone over the next two weeks. A look ahead to the
Jack Miller is now taking his title tilt “race by race” again after a “nothing” crash in the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix a day after declaring himself a championship combatant. The Pramac Ducati rider said on Saturday at the second Jerez round that reigning world champion Marc Marquez’s absence through injury made him change his
Red Bull has shuffled its Formula 1 technical team, with the experienced Simon Rennie returning to trackside action from this weekend’s British Grand Prix as Alex Albon’s new race engineer. Rennie is best known for working with Mark Webber in his final 2013 campaign and with Daniel Ricciardo between 2014 and 2018 as the Australian
7:59 PM ET Associated Press Jimmie Johnson finally fulfilled his childhood dream of driving an Indy car with a test session Tuesday. When the seven-time NASCAR champion finished turning laps, he was sold on figuring out how to race next year in the IndyCar Series. “It only lit the fire more. I want to do
Sometimes, we don’t even need to wait for lights out for the action to begin in F1. Take a look at ten pre-race moments that brought out the shocked faces and carbon fibre. 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
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