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
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Rally Finland has become the latest major motorsport event to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, further delaying the resumption of the 2020 World Rally Championship season. Finland was due to host the next round of the WRC on 6-9 August, but organiser AKK Sport announced on Wednesday that the event has now been
Honda has rubbished allegations by Ducati test rider Michele Pirro that it was responsible for the ban on wildcard entries in MotoGP this season. As part of its efforts to reduce the cost of competition amid the coronavirus crisis, the Grand Prix Commission has prohibited MotoGP manufacturers from fielding wildcards in 2020, although it has
Alfa Romeo Formula 1 team manager Beat Zehnder has revealed the first plans to bring Kimi Raikkonen back to the Sauber-run team were formulated as early as 2017. Raikkonen made his F1 debut with Sauber back in 2001, but returned to the Swiss-based team – now under the Alfa Romeo brand – last year following
5:28 AM ET Formula One has confirmed it will not go ahead with plans to include reverse-grid qualifying races at select grands prix this year, but says it is still open to experimentation with weekend formats. 1 Related F1’s newly-released European schedule features consecutive races at the same circuit in Austria and Great Britain and
Formula 1 is unlikely to finalise the remainder of the 2020 calendar until the end of June at the earliest as it looks to avoid rushing decisions on rescheduled races. After seeing the opening 10 races of the year called off due to the COVID-19 pandemic, F1 confirmed the first eight-race leg of the 2020
5:34 PM ET A driver testing positive for coronavirus would not automatically see a race cancelled when Formula One gets back under way next month, the sport’s CEO Chase Carey has said. 1 Related On Tuesday, Formula One announced plans to kick off its new season on July 5 in Austria as the start of
Craig Breen says his confidence is “higher than normal” ahead of his planned return to Hyundai’s World Rally Championship line-up for Rally Finland. Last month, the Irishman was named in the South Korean manufacturer’s three-car team for Rally Finland, alongside Ott Tanak and Thierry Neuville. Running from 6-9 August, the Jyvaskyla meeting is due to
The Aprilia MotoGP squad will resume testing for the first time since the coronavirus-forced shutdown took hold in March at Misano next weekend. The outbreak of coronavirus has forced MotoGP to go on hiatus since the aborted premier class opener in Qatar at the beginning of March, with only the Moto2 and Moto3 classes having
Carlin will enter just one car for this weekend’s 2020 IndyCar Series opener at Texas, as the #31 originally to be driven by Felipe Nasr has been withdrawn. The British team has cited the COVID-19 pandemic behind the economic reasons for scaling back to one entry for Conor Daly, but underlined its plan to complete
Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey says teams pulling out because of ill personnel, or even a driver getting infected with coronavirus, will not stop races from going ahead when the season resumes. F1 has announced its plan for the 2020 season to get underway at the Austrian Grand Prix on 5 July, with an eight-event
May 31, 2020 A Formula One proposal for an experimental reverse-grid qualifying race when Austria hosts two grands prix in July looks unlikely to be accepted due to opposition from champions Mercedes. Spielberg’s Red Bull Ring is due to start the season on July 5 with a second race there, also without spectators, a week
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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
Danilo Petrucci has confirmed that he will no longer be a Ducati MotoGP rider as of next season, following Jack Miller’s promotion to the factory team. Miller was given the nod for a 2021 Ducati factory seat last week, and while his teammate’s identity remains unconfirmed, it appears highly likely that Andrea Dovizioso will stay
The proposal to run 30-minute reversed grid Formula 1 qualifying races on the second weekend of double-header events has stalled and looks unlikely to progress any further. The subject was discussed in last Friday’s online meeting of team principals and F1 and FIA bosses. Although there was clear support from a majority of teams, including
5:09 AM ET Formula One has announced the first eight dates of its rescheduled calendar as the sport aims to return to racing on July 5 in Austria. 1 Related The first ten races of the original 2020 calendar were either cancelled or postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, forcing F1 to reschedule as many
Valentino Rossi admits being in a coronavirus lockdown for the past two months has given him a more relaxed perspective on retirement as he deliberates his MotoGP future beyond 2020. The 41-year-old nine-times grand prix motorcycle world champion has lost his place at the works Yamaha squad for 2021 to last year’s rookie sensation Fabio
Scott Dixon says he wishes the IndyCar Series hadn’t been so radical with the regulation of tyre usage ahead of this weekend’s 2020 opener at Texas Motor Speedway. IndyCar officials have introduced a 35-lap limit for tyres this Saturday’s Genesys 300, to mitigate the fact that Firestone will be bringing the same compound and construction
As Autosport launches the latest episode in its Race of My Life podcast series, we take a look back at David Couthard’s choice for the race of his life – the 2000 French Grand Prix Race: 2000 French GP, Magny-Cours Car: McLaren MP4-15 Although I won grands prix at Silverstone, Monaco and Spa, the reason
4:42 PM ET Reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton has called out the “white dominated” world of Formula One for its silence amid the ongoing protests around the death of George Floyd. Floyd, who is black, died in police custody in Minnesota after a white police officer kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes.
The World Rally Championship has pledged to wait until the last minute before cancelling any of its remaining rallies and remains confident of hosting at least four more events before the end of the year. The WRC was able to complete its opening three rounds in Monaco, Sweden and Mexico before the worsening coronavirus pandemic
Ducati will bring in a fresh perspective to its 2021 MotoGP line-up after it signed Jack Miller on a one-year deal last week. Miller has been part of the Ducati stable since 2018 and has proven to be a valuable asset for the Italian marque in the development of the Desmosedici, upon which last year
Monza has extended its deal to host the Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix, according to the mayor of Monza, to see its contract include the 2025 season. During the build-u to last year’s race F1 confirmed a new five-year contract with organiser Automobile Club d’Italia that covered the 2020-24 seasons. The timing of the new
6:03 AM ET Formula One is set to host two races behind closed doors at Silverstone this summer after the British government gave assurances that F1’s travelling staff would be able to gain exemptions from U.K. quarantine rules. 1 Related F1 will need to submit plans of the measures it will take to combat the
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MotoGP has announced that the 2020 Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi has been cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, with all overseas races on hold until mid-November. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced MotoGP to go on hiatus since the beginning of March, when it was only able to run the Moto2 and Moto3 races in
One of the last Toyota Formula 1 cars is one of the star items in a COVID-19 online charity auction that has been put together by the FIA. Teams and drivers have provided some impressive lots for the #RaceAgainstCovid auction, which will be organised by RM Sotheby’s and held in aid of International Federation of