Jimmie Johnson will not retire from racing when he leaves the NASCAR Cup Series at the end of the 2020 season, although he has ruled out an IndyCar switch. The seven-time Cup Series champion, who has 83 wins to his name, announced on Wednesday he will leave the #48 Hendrick Motorsports squad at the end
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Pramac Ducati rider Jack Miller wants MotoGP to get rid of post-season testing and instead have manufacturers make more use of test riders. The series will lose the traditional post-Valencia GP test from next year onwards as part of a wider reduction in testing, and will instead head to Jerez the week after the final
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner thinks Honda’s latest victory at the Brazilian Grand Prix was important for helping convince the manufacturer to remain in Formula 1. Max Verstappen triumphed ahead of Toro Rosso’s Pierre Gasly at Interlagos last weekend to deliver Honda its first-1-2 finish in F1 since the 1991 Japanese GP, scored by
6:48 AM ET The Zandvoort circuit set to host the Dutch Grand Prix in 2020 will feature a section with a banked corner twice as steep as the turns at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Zandvoort, located to the west of Amsterdam, is undergoing a revamp ahead of its return to the calendar. It last hosted
Shot 100% on the HD HERO4® camera from http://GoPro.com. Watch Ken Roczen during his first laps of Moto 2 at the fourth round of the 2015 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship in Blountville, Tennessee.
With the news that Daniel Ricciardo is moving to Renault for the 2019 F1 Season, we take a look back at the seven wins the Australian has taken with Red Bull so far… 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
Check out the sights and sounds from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at the 2018 Motul Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta.
Formula 1 has been dodging the showers all season but sooner or later, we were going to have a wet grand prix and Hockenheim duly obliged. McLaren had its best finish of the year with P5 for Carlos, but an unfortunate DNF for Lando. #FearlesslyForward Subscribe and be the first to watch exclusive content from
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Citroen team principal Pierre Budar has defended the manufacturer’s record in this year’s World Rally Championship following the announcement that it will walk away from the series. CEO Linda Jackson said in the statement confirming Citroen’s exit that Sebastien Ogier’s decision to leave the squad was the reason for its WRC withdrawal. Asked by Autosport
LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow admits the 2020 prototype RC213V he tested in the post-Valencia MotoGP test is no easier to ride currently than its much-criticised predecessor. Crutchlow was very vocal about the ’19 RC213V’s difficulty in turning all through this year, with the LCR rider only managing three podiums in 19 races having won a
Zandvoort has revealed the Formula 1 banking at its final corner will be akin to an American oval, and is set to be twice as steep as turns at Indianapolis. Ahead of its return to the F1 calendar for 2020, Zandvoort is undergoing a revamp to bring it up to current grand prix circuit standards.
11:16 PM ET Eamonn Tiernan Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin’s racing rivals say his 2019 title will be “forever tainted” and compared the Kiwi to disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong. Ford star McLaughlin was fiercely sledged on social media by Holden duo Scott Pye and Nick Percat on the eve of the season-ending Newcastle 500. Pye landed
Pol Espargaro was “shocked” when he was able to match Marc Marquez’s top time after just three laps with KTM’s new chassis in MotoGP’s post-season test in Valencia. Espargaro tried a radical new KTM chassis on Tuesday, which he ended the opening day in eighth with, and had another specification at his disposal for Wednesday.
Citroen’s exit from the World Rally Championship was not exactly unexpected, but Wednesday’s announcement confirming that was nevertheless a bombshell. What was a surprise, too, was the wording of the statement confirming it’s departure that blamed six-time world champion Sebastien Ogier, whose decision to leave left it with no alternative but to withdraw with immediate
Racing Point’s disappointing season is not “surprising” to team boss Otmar Szafnauer given the “turmoil” the team was in while its 2019 Formula 1 car was being created. When Force India went into administration in the summer of 2018, Racing Point was born after a consortium led by Lawrence Stroll bought the Silverstone squad’s assets.
11:00 AM ET Red Bull holds the world record for the fastest pit-stop in a Formula One race — it can now boast the first pit-stop performed in zero gravity conditions. The former world champions took its 2005 F1 car to an altitude of 33,000 feet on board an Ilyushin Il-76 MDK cosmonaut training plane,
The 2019 Aston Martin Racing Driver Academy has been won by newly crowned British GT4 champion Tom Canning. Canning came out top of the field of 23 drivers aged between 17 and 25 racing Aston GT3 or GT4 machinery during 2020 who were part of the initiative. The 17-year-old was chosen by a panel of
Andrea Iannone says his RS-GP caught fire during the MotoGP Valencia test because Aprilia was trying an “extreme” gearbox solution to find more power. Iannone caused a red flag a couple of hours into Wednesday’s running at the Valencia test when his Aprilia burst into flames on the main straight on the run into Turn
Esapekka Lappi says he was ‘shocked’ at Citroen’s World Rally Championship withdrawal, and that M-Sport is his only hope for a seat in 2020. Lappi left Toyota to join Citroen alongside Sebastien Ogier for the 2019 season, but has struggled to master the squad’s C3 and took 10th in the championship with equal best finishes
Formula 1 teams will be required to run a second fuel-flow sensor next season as the FIA escalates its efforts to prevent the rules being exploited for performance gains. The governing body investigated a trio of fuel systems after the Brazilian Grand Prix, one believed to be from a Ferrari, another from a Ferrari customer
5:01 PM ET Ed Jackson Supercars has announced the winner of its feeder championship in 2020 will receive a $400,000 scholarship. The Super2 Series is the breeding ground of up-and-coming drivers, with two-time Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin among those to graduate from the series to the top level. Supercars chief operating officer Shane Howard said
Go onboard with Adam Cianciarulo as he makes his 450 debut in Main Event #1 at the 2019 Monster Energy Cup from Las Vegas, Nevada. Shot 100% on the HERO8Black® camera from http://GoPro.com For full event results visit: http://www.supercrosslive.com
The most famous event on the calendar has been the venue for hundreds of wild rides and crazy incidents – here’s a look at just five crazy moments in Monaco. 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
Take a lap around Canadian Tire Motorsport Park with Bryan Sellers in the No. 17 Falken Tire Porsche 911 RSR.
Watch as 18-year-old Lando Norris spends his first day as a newly-announced 2019 McLaren F1 driver. Subscribe and be the first to watch exclusive content from the Official McLaren YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialMcLarenVids McLaren Website | http://www.mclaren.com/formula1/ App Store | http://mclrn.co/iOS Play Store | http://mclrn.co/Android Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/McLaren.Racing Twitter | https://twitter.com/McLarenF1 Google+ | https://plus.google.com/+McLaren Instagram |
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
Aleix Espargaro says Aprilia not having a prototype 2020 MotoGP bike to test in this week’s two-day post-Valencia Grand Prix test is “not at all” acceptable for a “big factory”. Yamaha, Honda, KTM, Suzuki and Ducati are expected to roll out their ’20 bikes on Tuesday and at the two-day test at Jerez next week
Citroen Racing has announced it will depart the World Rally Championship with immediate effect – stating Sebastien Ogier’s decision to move to Toyota left it with no alternative. The firm announced its decision on Wednesday, confirming mounting speculation of a withdrawal. Ogier and team-mate Esapekka Lappi had a year left to run on their contracts,
Rubens Barrichello, Formula 1’s most experienced driver, looks back on his ongoing racing career in the latest edition of The Autosport Podcast. The Brazilian explains what it was like to go up against Michael Schumacher at Ferrari and recounts some of his great victories. He also discusses the races that got away, including what should