Join Stuart Codling for the third Autosport Formula 1 Pub Quiz! 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 to super hard (those should be the new tyre compounds!), designed
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1:04 PM ET American driver Juan Manuel Correa, who suffered serious leg injuries in an F2 crash ahead of last year’s Belgian Grand Prix, will make his debut in Formula One’s esports series this weekend. McLaren’s Carlos Sainz will also take part for the first time alongside real-life F1 teammate Lando Norris, who has been
The start of the MotoGP season has been pushed back even further following the official postponement of the Sachsenring race in Germany. With the Italian and Catalan Grands Prix postponed earlier this month, the German GP – originally the ninth round – scheduled for 21 June, was left as the earliest possible starting point for
Sebastian Vettel is in talks with the Ferrari Formula 1 team about taking a pay cut as a result of the coronavirus crisis, but any decisions will be private. The four-time world champion is in the final year of his contract with Ferrari and has already been speaking to the outfit about extending his deal.
5:15 AM ET Formula One has discussed the possibility of starting the 2020 season with behind-closed-doors Austrian Grand Prix in July, according to the BBC. The first nine races of the F1 season have either been postponed or cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, while the French Grand Prix — slated to be held
Progress was made on a move towards a lower 2021 Formula 1 cost cap in a what was described as a “constructive” meeting, although no firm decisions have been taken. Following a similar event just before Easter, team principals met again via video conference with FIA president Jean Todt and F1 bosses Chase Carey and
4:01 PM ET Laine Clark Supercars CEO Sean Seamer has refused to be distracted by naming rights sponsor Virgin Australia’s dire financial plight, saying his focus is finalising a return date for racing by the end of April. The coronavirus outbreak ensured the 2020 series was halted in March after just one completed round with
In Motorsport Heroes, the full-length feature film by Manish Pandey now available on Motorsport.tv, four legends of our sport share their successes, failures, personal struggles and life-threatening accidents. One of those heroes is Michele Mouton, who talks about how her WRC career ended amid the tragedy of the 1986 Tour de Corse. Mouton, who is
MotoGP will continue to use 2020 bikes next season as part of cost-saving measures to mitigate the financial impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on the indefinitely postponed series. The 2020 season has had the first eight of its races either cancelled or postponed, with new government social distancing guidelines in Germany likely leading to
Sponsorship has been a major part of Formula 1 since the spring of 1968, when F1 teams were given the right to display sponsor logos on their liveries. Since then we’ve seen many sponsorship deals throughout the decades, with a number of different companies all willing to pump money into teams for exposure and expertise
9:01 AM ET McLaren’s transition from Renault engines to Mercedes next year will be closely monitored by the FIA to ensure the team does not gain an advantage from revising its chassis design. McLaren will use Mercedes engines from 2021 onwards and had originally planned for the new deal to coincide with Formula One’s major
The Italian automobile federation has warned Formula 1 it cannot ‘afford to make the mistake’ of cancelling its race at the last-minute, as happened with the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. In March, the Melbourne season opener was called off just hours before Friday practice began in the wake of a McLaren team member being tested
6:37 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo will take a pay cut to help Renault through the coronavirus pandemic but talks about his future are already complicated, according to his Formula One team boss Cyril Abiteboul. The Australian is one of the sport’s highest paid drivers, earning as much as $25 million a year according to media
The Spa 24 Hours blue riband round of the GT World Challenge Europe has been postponed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Race organiser the Stephane Ratel Organisation has announced that the GTWCE Endurance Cup race set for 25/26 July will be put back after the Belgian government announced today an extension of its
The uncertainty facing teams following the COVID-19 crisis is the “final wake-up call” for Formula 1 to become more sustainable, according to McLaren’s Andreas Seidl. F1 teams are currently in talks with the series bosses about actions to try and safeguard its future ahead of the anticipated economic impact the ongoing pandemic will have. Stakeholders
8:09 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo thinks the late Jules Bianchi would have been at a similar level to Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc right now. Bianchi died in 2015 from injuries he suffered at the previous year’s Japanese Grand Prix. The Frenchman, who was Leclerc’s godfather, seemed set for a move to Ferrari after an impressive campaign
Scot Elkins, Vice President, Competition and Technical Regulations, discusses key components that will debut in the 2014 TUDOR Championship.
Shot 100% on the HD HERO3+® camera from http://GoPro.com. Watch Ken Roczen during Lap 1 of Moto 1 at the tenth round of the 2014 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship.
All MotoGP manufacturers aside from Ducati have opposed the idea to scale back the number of bikes per rider to just one as a cost-saving measure, Autosport has learned. The coronavirus pandemic has hammered the MotoGP World Championship, with the cancellation and postponement of the first eight races meaning no team is producing any income
The choice of who to replace Kyle Larson at Chip Ganassi Racing this season seems an obvious one. But then again, maybe it’s not, as JIM UTTER explains. Ross Chastain is a clear favourite to take over the No. 42 Chevrolet once real racing resumes after CGR fired Kyle Larson on Tuesday for the use
Formula 1’s hopes of getting its 2020 season underway this summer without trouble have been dealt a blow after Belgium’s decision to ban all mass gatherings until 31 August. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the first nine grands prix of the 2020 Formula 1 season have already been either postponed or cancelled, with June’s French
11:31 AM ET McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl believes the financial impact of the coronavirus pandemic must act as a wake-up call for Formula One. The spread of Covid-19 has put Formula One on hold, with the possibility that the season will be abandoned if racing does not resume by October. Even a reduced calendar
Aleix Espargaro has revealed a deal to join Ducati for the 2015 MotoGP season was “practically done”, before it ultimately retained Andrea Dovizioso. Espargaro made his full-time MotoGP debut in 2010 with Pramac Ducati, before returning in 2012 with the Aspar team on its Aprilia CRT machine in 2012. He moved to the Forward Racing
Romain Grosjean says the Netflix Drive to Survive series helped showed Haas Formula 1 chief Gunther Steiner’s “surprising” leadership style that avoids any intra-team politics. The Haas team’s woes through the 2019 season were profiled in the second episode of the latest season of Drive to Survive as Grosjean and team-mate Kevin Magnussen struggled with
Jorge Lorenzo believes he may have secured a future with Ducati beyond 2018 had he not crashed out of a convincing lead of the 2017 MotoGP San Marino Grand Prix. Lorenzo spent nine years at Yamaha between 2008 and 2016, winning all three of his premier class world titles on the M1, before departing for
Formula 1 chiefs should “shake down” the sport’s financial model and slash the budget cap to $75 million amid the uncertainty caused by coronavirus, reckons FE boss Alejandro Agag. Ahead of talks later this week between F1, the FIA and teams about going further than a provisional plan to reduce the cost cap to $150
5:50 AM ET Formula One legend Stirling Moss has died aged 90, his wife confirmed on Sunday. Despite never winning a world championship Moss is widely regarded as one of the best racing drivers of all time. Between 1951 and 1961 the British driver won 16 F1 races and was F1 championship runner-up on four
Watch as Antonio Cairoli takes the lead at the FIM MX World Motocross 2013 in Qatar.
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