Bubba Wallace will sport a “Black Lives Matter” paint scheme in Wednesday night’s NASCAR Cup race at Martinsville Speedway in support of the campaign against racial injustice. Wallace is the only full-time black driver in NASCAR’s premier Cup Series and has taken a far more vocal stance in recent weeks on racial injustice and the
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Lewis Hamilton reported feeling no rustiness upon his return to Formula 1 test action with Mercedes on Wednesday, saying it “didn’t feel like I’ve ever left the water”. After seeing team-mate Valtteri Bottas complete running with the 2018 championship-winning Mercedes W09 car on Tuesday at Silverstone, Hamilton enjoyed his first F1 run-out since the end
8:21 PM ET The stars and bars have been banned from NASCAR racetracks. Finally. On Wednesday afternoon, three days after the Cup Series showed a unified front against racism at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and only a few hours before Bubba Wallace’s No. 43 Chevy hit the track at Martinsville Speedway adorned with an image of
Retired MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner has suggested that Marc Marquez “squeezed” him out of his test role with Honda in 2015 as he “didn’t want me around”. Stoner made his MotoGP debut in 2006 with LCR Honda, before moving to Ducati where he won the Italian marque’s only premier class title to date in
NASCAR has banned the display of the Confederate flag at all race tracks and properties, effective immediately, due to its racist symbolism. The flag – historically the emblem of the Confederate South, who opposed the abolition of slavery, during the American Civil War in the 19th Century – was already banned from being displayed in
Valtteri Bottas says he has been told by Mercedes it is not considering signing Sebastian Vettel for the 2021 Formula 1 season. Ferrari announced last month that four-time world champion Vettel would be leaving the team at the end of the year, replacing the German driver with McLaren’s Carlos Sainz Jr. It has left Vettel
11:38 AM ET Reigning Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton completed his first laps of a Formula One car since February on Tuesday at a private Mercedes test at UK circuit Silverstone. 1 Related Mercedes booked a two-day test to gain an experience of the safety procedures for the behind-closed-doors races that will start the 2020
MotoGP has announced it will not race at Mugello in a revised 2020 season, with the news coming amid rumours the circuit could host a Formula 1 round this year. The outbreak of COVID-19 forced MotoGP to cancel the Qatar Grand Prix back at the start of March, with the subsequent 10 events scheduled to
In the latest of Autosport’s My Job in F1 series, Haas chief mechanic Matt Scott explains why his role involves less hands-on work than one might expect, and the importance of good motivation When the checkered flag falls at the end of a grand prix, for most people in the Formula 1 paddock it means
Mercedes ended Formula 1’s coronavirus-enforced hiatus, running a two-year-old W09 car at Silverstone for Valtteri Bottas in anticipation of the expected Austrian Grand Prix next month. The stated object of the two-day test is to trial new COVID-19 protocols for the start of the World Championship in Austria next month, but the track running also
8:54 PM ET Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. — The administration of North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper has ordered the closure of a small stock-car track that’s allowed large crowds to gather repeatedly for weekend races, declaring it an “imminent hazard” for the spread of COVID-19. The order signed by Cooper’s health secretary says Ace Speedway
The World Anti-Doping Agency wants Aprilia MotoGP rider Andrea Iannone’s competition ban extended from 18 months to four years, as the appeals process begins. Iannone tested positive for a banned steroid he’d ingested through contaminated meat during last year’s Malaysian Grand Prix weekend. Though his defence was upheld by judges in the FIM hearing back
Valtteri Bottas says Mercedes learned plenty from its first test running under Formula 1’s new closed-event protocols at Silverstone on Tuesday, calling the day “very helpful”. In order to step up preparations for the delayed start to the new F1 season on 5 July in Austria, Mercedes is completing two days of private test running
11:38 AM ET Valtteri Bottas completed the first laps of a Formula One car since preseason testing in a Mercedes test at Silverstone on Tuesday. In the first of two days allocated to the reigning world champions, Bottas took the team’s 2018 title-winning car (decked out in the 2020 livery) around the circuit set to
Fresh doubts have been cast over the viability of this season’s World Rally Championship following confirmation Wales Rally GB won’t take place for the first time in over 40 years. The Deeside-based event has become the third round in less than a week to be cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic. Last Wednesday Rally Finland
Aprilia has announced it has secured the services of Aleix Espargaro for at least two more years, beginning with the 2021 MotoGP season. The elder Espargaro brother joined the Italian manufacturer in 2017 after losing his Suzuki ride to Andrea Iannone, and scored Aprilia’s joint-best ever result of sixth on his debut on the RS-GP
OPINION: Lewis Hamilton’s willingness to speak his mind has long been a credit to his character. In response to his calls for racial equality – and the part he is playing in the Black Lives Matter movement – his leadership deserves our full support at and away from Formula 1 races Eighty-four times Lewis Hamilton
4:58 AM ET Formula One motorsport boss Ross Brawn is confident the new rules laid out for the sport over the next few years will help the Williams team attract a new buyer. The ESPN F1 Podcast team looks back on one of Formula One’s most intense rivalry, with behind-the-scenes stories and analysis of the
Mercedes Formula 1 technical director James Allison doesn’t believe the FIA thought the team could make its Dual-Axis Steering (DAS) device legal after the concept was initially rejected. Mercedes created a stir at Barcelona testing earlier this year when onboard TV images showed the drivers moving the W11’s steering wheel back and forth, and the
Fabio Quartararo doubts Petronas SRT is any less professional than the works Yamaha outfit he will join in 2021, which should sway Valentino Rossi’s decision to extend his MotoGP career. Last year’s breakout star Quartararo will replace nine-time grand prix motorcycle world champion Rossi at the factory Yamaha squad next year, following a debut 2019
Formula 1 has an action plan to address a lack of diversity in the sport starting at a grassroots level, according to managing director Ross Brawn. Amid worldwide protests against racial injustice following the murder of George Floyd, reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton criticised his F1 peers for “staying silent” and that he stood alone
Encouraged by the success of the Blancpain Endurance Series, world-renowned Swiss watch manufacture Blancpain and the SRO Motorsports Group decide at the end of 2013 to extend their partnership to the Sprint series, previously promoted as the FIA GT Series, offering teams and drivers the opportunity to compete for an overall Blancpain GT Series title,
After the bombshell report from Autosport last week that Pol Espargaro is set to join Honda in 2021, KTM faces an uncertain MotoGP future. Just as it looked to be heading towards the front of the MotoGP field, KTM has been dealt a blow by the impending loss of its spearhead, as well as the
With IndyCar roaring back into action at Texas Motor Speedway this weekend, David Malsher-Lopez looks ahead to what is currently set to be a 14-race season, analyses Alexander Rossi’s chances of winning his first IndyCar title and checks out his competition So there will be no Dallas Fort Worth faithful in the Texas Motor Speedway
As Autosport launches the latest podcast in its Race of My Life series, we look back at the race five-time Formula 1 world champion Juan Manuel Fangio chose as his greatest – the 1957 German Grand Prix 1957 German Grand Prix, Nurburgring Car: Maserati 250F In my life there have been so many great races,
6:11 AM ET Reigning Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton has called on governments across the world to copy the example of the protesters who tore down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol at the weekend. The ESPN F1 Podcast team looks back on one of Formula One’s most intense rivalry, with behind-the-scenes
Reigning IndyCar Series champion Josef Newgarden has claimed pole position for the first race of the delayed 2020 season at Texas Motor Speedway. After the COVID-19 pandemic postponements to the new IndyCar campaign, action belatedly begins in Texas this weekend with Team Penske’s Newgarden edging five-time champion Scott Dixon with his two-lap average speed of
Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick eased to his second victory of the NASCAR Cup Series season at Atlanta after dominating the final stage of the race. Harvick’s #4 Ford Mustang re-started the final segment of the 325-lap race in third position, but quickly passed Joe Gibbs Racing duo Kyle Busch and Martin Truex Jr to assume
What have BTCC Volvos, badly funded F1 cars, Audi LMP1 machines and the Olympics got in common? All have featured in the chequered career of Graham Taylor “OK, this sounds a bit madcap…” That was Graham Taylor’s original response when, in 2005, he heard about the Super Aguri Formula 1 plan. Already a title-winning engineer
Jun 4, 2020 Motor racing’s all-female W Series canceled its 2020 season on Thursday due to the coronavirus pandemic but promised to return next year with at least two support races on the Formula One calendar. The series, which started last year, had been due to award points toward a Formula One superlicence for the