Felix Rosenqvist doesn’t blame James Hinchcliffe for the final-stint shunt that cost him a shot at victory in the IndyCar season-opener at Texas Motor Speedway. The IndyCar sophomore had closed up on Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon throughout the penultimate stint after disposing of Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden and Simon Pagenaud, on what was a
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Called into replace an injured Casey Stoner for two rounds in 2012, Jonathan Rea made a splash, but never dived full-time into MotoGP. Achieving legendary status in World Superbikes in the years since, what Rea did on the factory Honda more than warranted a permanent stay in MotoGP… Many riders have made the World Superbike/MotoGP
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff thinks it’s positive for his team and Formula 1 that Lewis Hamilton has been so vocal in taking a stand against racism. Hamilton has posted some strong messages on social media in recent days saying he has been overcome by “rage” about the events in America following the murder of George
3:22 PM ET Williams driver George Russell completed a hat trick of esports wins on Sunday to knock Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc off the top of Formula One’s virtual Grand Prix standings with one race remaining. 1 Related The Briton, who failed to score a point on the real racetrack last year in an uncompetitive car
Check out the sights and sounds from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at the 2016 IMSA WeatherTech Northeast Grand Prix.
The 2019 season will see SRO Motorsports Group unite the sprint-format championships formerly known as the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup, Blancpain GT Series Asia and Pirelli World Challenge GT to form a new global initiative: the Blancpain GT World Challenge. This exciting international endeavour will present GT3 manufacturers, partners and teams with the
Outgoing factory Ducati MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci says he would “like to go to KTM” in 2021, which is set to lose Pol Espargaro to Honda next year. As reported by Autosport on Thursday, 2013 Moto2 world champion Espargaro has agreed a deal to join Marc Marquez at the works Honda squad for 2021. Petrucci
Defending IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden says he felt “like we won the race with how bad we were”, after the Penske driver finished third in the Texas season-opener. The polesitter led 41 of the race’s 200 laps, but consistently fought with tire problems that left him easy prey for the dominant Chip Ganassi car of
Heikki Kovalainen says a bet Lewis Hamilton won in 2009, in which he was the first to go flat through Eau Rouge out of the pits, proved his class. Reflecting on his time as Hamilton’s team-mate at McLaren in 2008 and 2009, Kovalainen says that he found himself always having to “stretch” to try to
8:39 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — Takuma Sato missed the delayed season-opening IndyCar race after his team wasn’t able to get the car repaired in time for the green flag Saturday night after a crash in qualifying. Sato got high into Turn 1 on the high-banked Texas Motor Speedway on the start
Scott Dixon won the opening race of the delayed 2020 IndyCar Series season at the Texas Motor Speedway as Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate Felix Rosenqvist crashed out late on. Dixon was leading a comfortable one-two for Chip Ganassi with Rosenqvist set for his first-ever podium finish in an oval race, before the Swede hit trouble
Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff accepts revised aerodynamic testing restrictions for 2022 as the first form of success handicapping, contrasting it with the “baseball bat” approach of reversed grids. The Aerodynamic Testing Restrictions (ATR) regulations have been adjusted with a sliding scale that gives less windtunnel time and CFD usage to the teams at
10:43 PM ET Associated Press FORT WORTH, Texas — IndyCar packed every bit of its delayed season-opening event into one long, hot day in Texas without any fans in the stands. Scott Dixon was the fastest for most of it at a place he knows well. Dixon, a five-time IndyCar champion, took the checkered flag
When reigning Indy Lights champion Oliver Askew secured his step up to IndyCar with Arrow McLaren SP, he never expected to wait until the middle of 2020 to make his debut. But as he and the rest of the grid get ready for action in Texas this weekend, it will test how good his extra
Williams says the arrival of Simon Roberts as its new managing director of its F1 operations completes its planned major technical signings for the short term as it bids to move up the grid. Roberts, who earned his reputation during a lengthy career at McLaren, has been drafted in to help bolster Williams in its
8:17 AM ET Six-time Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton says the ongoing protests around the death of George Floyd have brought back “vivid memories” of the racism he has faced through his life. 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
Shot 100% on the HD HERO4® camera from http://GoPro.com. Watch Weston Peick during his first laps of Moto 2 at the first round of the 2015 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship in Sacramento, California.
The Ferrari pair tackle tough questions! Has Sebastian Vettel ever peed in his car? Does Kimi sing in the shower? Find out in the latest edition of Grill the Grid… For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Like F1® on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Formula1/ Follow F1® on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/F1 Follow F1® on Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/F1 #F1
One last look back at what was a great weekend. Merci Circuit Paul Ricard we will be back!
Outgoing World Rally Championship chief Oliver Ciesla believes his series must return to key markets in the United States and China if it is to attract more manufacturer participation in the future. The WRC has been absent from the world’s two biggest car markets this millennium, after a planned event near Beijing in 2016 was
Newly-promoted factory Ducati rider Jack Miller “looked like he was in his first or second year” of MotoGP when he first joined the Pramac squad in 2018, according to team boss Francesco Guidotti. Last week, Ducati announced it would be promoting Miller to its works line-up in 2021 off the back of an impressive 2019
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
In a bonkers 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Lance Stroll made Formula 1 history in his charge to the podium which became part of a true modern classic The 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Prix was the race that really put the Baku City Circuit, in all its glory and craziness, on the map in Formula 1. Daniel
8:29 AM ET Some of the European circuits due to host races without spectators on Formula One’s initial 2020 calendar have been given one-year contract extensions to compensate for lost revenues. Organisers of the Hungarian, Italian and Belgian Grands Prix, which stand to lose out on tickets sales, revealed new deals. Formula One, whose season
The Hungarian Grand Prix will remain on the Formula 1 calendar until 2027 after promoters agreed a one-year extension to the current contract. Hungary will host the third round of the 2020 F1 season as part of the rescheduled calendar following the COVID-19 pandemic, taking place on 19 July. As part of talks to get
7:00 AM ET For NASCAR, the previews are over. Now, it gets real. What the 2020 Cup series does — or perhaps what is done to it — over the next week likely will be what ultimately shapes the story of this, the strangest of seasons. And it won’t be merely the story of stock
In the first of a series of articles focusing on Brits who went in search of the American Dream, Martin Plowman recalls how help from an IndyCar legend and friend paved the way for an enlightening but short-lived career in the States Martin Plowman is no stranger to success in the world of GT racing
With Pol Espargaro and Marc Marquez set to become Honda MotoGP team-mates in 2021, a clash dating back eight years hints towards simmering tensions coming to a boil next year As reported by Autosport on Thursday night, Pol Espargaro is set to leave KTM at the end of the year after agreeing a deal –
Join Stuart Codling for the eighth Autosport Formula 1 Pub Quiz, which features a special guest in Formula 2 racer Jack Aitken. To play along, get your pens and paper at the ready and don’t forget to write your answers in the comments too! There will be five rounds of 10 questions, ranging from simple
12:43 PM ET NASCAR’s biggest name addressed on Friday his feelings, failings and ongoing education on George Floyd and the protests that have taken place around the world in the days since Floyd’s death on May 25. Jimmie Johnson spoke with the motorsports media via conference call. The seven-time Cup Series champion confessed that perhaps