Yamaha sent engines used by Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales at the MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix back to Japan for inspection following reliability concerns. Yamaha began the delayed 2020 season in perfect fashion, securing a 1-2 in the Jerez race courtesy of Petronas SRT’s Fabio Quartararo and works team rider Vinales. However, the Spanish GP
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McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris says he is happy to see friend and rival George Russell make an impact with a much-improved Williams team. Russell was 12th in the wet qualifying session for the Styrian GP at the Red Bull Ring, and then repeated that outcome in a dry session in Hungary last weekend.
4:29 AM ET The Lando Norris of 2020 is a world away from the Lando Norris who first appeared in a Formula One paddock a few years ago. When a teenage Norris was being billed as McLaren’s next big thing in 2017 and 2018, he was in the paddock in in a testing capacity ahead
Alex Marquez says being the only Repsol Honda MotoGP rider in this weekend’s Andalusian Grand Prix in the absence of his injured brother “changes nothing” for him. The reigning Moto2 champion will be the sole representative in Honda’s works outfit in the second Jerez race with Marc Marquez forced out after breaking his arm in
The Mercedes Formula 1 team was unable to calm Lewis Hamilton’s pre-race fears about his engine stalling in Hungary due to the same radio restrictions that led to Haas’ penalties. When Hamilton completed his formation lap and arrived on pole position to start the Hungarian GP he told the team, “the engine keeps sounding like
8:38 AM ET Lewis Hamilton leads the Formula One world championship after three races and Mercedes team mate Valtteri Bottas already looks like the only man who can deny the Briton a record-equalling seventh title. That at least is the view of Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc, whose own hopes of building on last
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Marc Marquez is exploring the option to return to MotoGP action this weekend despite undergoing surgery on Tuesday after breaking his right arm in a violent Spanish Grand Prix crash. In last weekend’s MotoGP season opener Marquez was recovering from an early off-track moment before violently crashing and breaking his right humerus, which was impacted
NASCAR has decided to keep its “show up and race” schedule for the remainder of the 2020 season in its three national series. Ever since NASCAR resumed running races in May following a two-month hiatus during the COVID-19 pandemic, it has run its race weekends without any practices and without qualifying except for the Coca-Cola
The Spanish Grand Prix is still set to go ahead as planned on 16 August despite a reintroduction of restrictions in Catalonia following a spike in COVID-19 cases. The Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya is set to host the Spanish Grand Prix next month following back-to-back races at Silverstone, forming the third leg of a triple-header. But
1:07 PM ET Ferrari announced a restructuring of their Formula One technical department on Wednesday after struggling in the first three races of a season so far dominated by Mercedes. 1 Related The sport’s oldest, most glamorous and successful team – last year’s runners-up – are fifth in the championship with Sebastian Vettel and Charles
Cal Crutchlow and Alex Rins will both attempt to return to MotoGP action in this weekend’s Andalusian Grand Prix, after missing the Jerez season opener due to injuries. LCR Honda man Crutchlow was taken to Barcelona to undergo surgery on the right scaphoid he fractured in a crash at Turn 8 during morning warm-up last
Racing Point team boss Otmar Szafnauer thinks other teams made a mistake in not adopting its philosophy of copying the best car on the Formula 1 grid. The Silverstone-based team has caused a stir over the opening three races of the campaign, with Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll having shown some impressive speed in the
2:44 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Attendance will be limited to 25% capacity for the Indianapolis 500 and spectators will be required to wear face coverings at “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” Indianapolis Motor Speedway can hold approximately 350,000 fans in the grandstands, suites and infield, but officials said last month only 50% capacity
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has announced that attendance for the 104th edition of the Indianapolis 500 will be approximately 25 percent of capacity, with face coverings for all attendees. Ticket sales will not be permitted after 24 July, further limiting the number of people who will attend. IMS has prepared a detailed plan that provides
Reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez has undergone a successful operation on the right arm he broke in a violent Spanish Grand Prix crash on Sunday. The Honda rider was recovering from an earlier off at Jerez when he was flung from his machine at the Turn 3 left-hander on lap 22, with Marquez landing
Lando Norris says teams must do everything they can to help protect engineers and mechanics from the brutal impact of Formula 1’s compressed schedule this year. The young Briton, who was spotted helping his team strip down his car after the Hungarian Grand Prix, insists it is not drivers who face the most difficult stress
8:36 PM ET Associated Press DENVER — A judge decided against sanctioning a Colorado drag racing track Tuesday for violating social distancing rules during a July 4 event but said the track must abide by public health orders to stem the spread of the coronavirus, even if those orders are constantly changing. The case involving
The Styrian Grand Prix and an intense last lap produces plenty of radio chatter all weekend… 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 #AustrianGP
The boys are back in (London) town for the premiere of Netflix’s Drive to Survive Season 2. Let’s hope they behave… Don’t forget, you too can catch Season 2 of Drive to Survive on Netflix from Friday 28 February. Subscribe and be the first to watch exclusive content from the Official McLaren YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Official…
Feast your eyes on Team Parker Racing’s new #1 Bentley Motors Continental GT3, which Rick Parfitt Jnr – Race Driver and Ryan Ratcliffe Racing unveiled outside a snow-swept Morton’s in London on Wednesday night.
Valentino Rossi admits his low-key MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix weekend was down to him being unable to “make the tyres work properly” on his Yamaha. Rossi qualified almost a second off the pace of Yamaha stablemate Fabio Quartararo at Jerez in 10th, and was circulating 14s adrift of the Petronas SRT rider in the race
Romain Grosjean has apologised to Haas for speaking out of turn in suggesting that the future of his Formula 1 team was in doubt. The Frenchman’s contract runs out at the end of this year and he suggested ahead of this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix that an “elephant in the room” over his future was
8:31 AM ET Associated Press SIENA, Italy — Alex Zanardi, the Italian auto racing champion-turned-Paralympic gold medalist, was transferred to a neurological rehabilitation center Tuesday, a month after he was seriously injured in a handbike crash. The Siena hospital that had been treating Zanardi since the June 19 crash announced that the athlete had been
Jack Miller says he lost a potential podium finish in the MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix because of “numbness” he suffered in his hand in the second half of the race. Miller, who will step up to a factory Ducati ride next season, spent the first 19 laps of the 25-lap Jerez race inside the top
Mercedes Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has accused Mario Andretti of “ignorance” over his comments about racism in motor racing. Andretti told Chilean newspaper El Mercurio last week that he did not like politics and sport getting mixed up in the way that they have in recent months. He said he also not happy
5:40 AM ET Red Bull see plenty of untapped potential in Alex Albon and are happy with the British-born Thai driver, according to team boss Christian Horner. Williams driver George Russell defended his friend and rival at the weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix, saying he was “being made to look like an idiot and he’s absolutely
Having waited four months for the 2020 MotoGP season to start, the action continues at a frantic pace with the second round of the Jerez double-header, the Andalucia Grand Prix. In a drastically reshuffled campaign, Jerez will host the first-ever Andalucia GP, which acts as the second part of the back to back races at
Formula 1 race director Michael Masi says he investigated a possible jumped start by Valtteri Bottas in the Hungarian Grand Prix, but confirmed the Mercedes driver was within FIA tolerances. Bottas edged forward at the start before stopping and going again when distracted by a light on his dashboard, co-incidentally leading Vettel to tell his
5:30 PM ET Gabriel Tan Maverick Vinales will welcome Fabio Quartararo next season when the two line up together on the MotoGP for Monster Energy Yamaha. Following a delay due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 MotoGP season got underway last weekend and it was Petronas Yamaha SRT’s Quartararo who got off to a fast