6:25 AM ET Formula One is planning big changes for the 2021 season, but one of the only tweaks planned for 2020 has split opinion in the paddock. With the prospect of one full year — featuring a record 22 races — to come before the overhaul F1 hopes brings the sport’s playing field closer
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Kris Meeke continues to lead Rally GB for Toyota, but is under heavy pressure from reigning World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier. Fastest times on both Elsi and Penmachno – the afternoon loop’s two full-length stages – launched Citroen driver Ogier forwards from the fifth place in which he had ended the morning. He is now
Denny Hamlin blasted rival Joey Logano after he felt he was held up unnecessarily by the lapped Penske driver during the NASCAR Cup race at Dover. Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver Hamlin dominated the first stage from pole and appeared well on his way to a stage-two win until Logano – who was 24 laps
Honda and six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez are already in advanced talks over a contract extension to the end of 2022. Marquez’s current deal with Honda – where he has spent his whole MotoGP career so far – expires at the end of next year, at the same time as every other works rider’s
Haas Formula 1 team principal Gunther Steiner admits he will need his “thinking hat” to tackle the likely substantial drop in constructors’ championship prize money following his squad’s 2019 slump. Having taken a breakthrough fifth in the teams’ standings last season, Haas has endured a painful campaign this year and is currently down in ninth.
2:01 AM ET Laine Clark Holden drivers are confident aerodynamic changes to their Commodores have closed the gap on Ford’s runaway Mustangs ahead of this weekend’s Supercars showpiece, the Bathurst 1000. But Holden star Shane van Gisbergen is not so sure. Van Gisbergen looked to have been one of the great beneficiaries of the Commodores’
Petronas Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo bagged the fourth pole of his rookie MotoGP campaign in Thailand, despite crashing on his final lap. Quartararo posted the fastest-ever MotoGP lap of Buriram, eclipsing Dani Pedrosa’s benchmark from 2018 pre-season testing, as he saw off fellow Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales and championship leader Marc Marquez – who also
World Rally Championship stewards decided against penalising Sebastien Ogier, Thierry Neuville and Andreas Mikkelsen for deviating from the prescribed Rally GB route because of how the stage was marked. Controversy had erupted in Wales on Friday when it was suggested the three drivers had not followed the correct route through a chicane after the finish
The McLaren Formula 1 team received plenty of mockery during its Honda years, and then when it switched to Renault but continued to flounder. But this year it’s regaining respectability and heading the midfield, and its recent announcement that it’s reuniting with Mercedes in 2021 was another statement of intent. Ben Anderson and Glenn Freeman
Take a lap around VIRginia International Raceway with Giancarlo Fisichella in the No. 62 Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE. Follow the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race live from VIRginia International Raceway on Sunday, August 27, at 1:30 p.m ET on FS1.
Shot 100% on the HD HERO® camera from http://GoPro.com. Take a ride with Chad Reed as he takes a full lap during Thursday’s Press Day at the last stop on the Lucas Oil AMA Motocross Series at Pala Raceway.
Ayrton Senna’s qualifying lap during the 1988 Monaco Grand Prix is widely regarded as the best single lap in F1 history. On May 1st, 20 years to the day since Ayrton was killed in a fatal crash in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, the Official McLaren YouTube channel presents an epic portrayal of Senna’s
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6:15 PM ET Associated Press Kyle Larson pulled away late and won the playoff race at Dover International Speedway to snap a 75-race winless streak and earn an automatic berth in the next round. Larson had nine runner-up finshes in the No. 42 Chevrolet since his last win Sept. 9, 2017, in Richmond, keeping the
Honda rider Marc Marquez became MotoGP champion for the sixth time after defeating Fabio Quartararo in a scintillating battle for Thailand Grand Prix victory. Marquez, who has sealed the 2019 crown with four races to spare, is now just two premier-class titles short of Giacomo Agostini and one short of Valentino Rossi. He is officially
Rally GB’s Great Orme stage has been called off because rough weather conditions mean the team of divers required for safety reasons cannot get close enough to the stage. The 2.945-mile asphalt stage on the famous headland near Llandudno was due to conclude Sunday morning’s loop of the World Rally Championship round. Part of the
Chris van der Drift and Evan Chen moved to within two points of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Asia points lead after recording a fifth win of the year in Shanghai. The Gama Racing pair came into the weekend four points adrift of FFF Racing’s Juuso Puhakka and Takashi Kasai, a gap which stretched to seven
Five-time Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton says he has seen the data from simulations of how it will be easier for cars to follow in 2021 and it looks “great”. Hamilton has been a vocal critic of the process to establish F1’s new rules for 2021 and not held back in raising his concerns, which
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyle Larson ended a 75-race streak dating back to 2017 without a NASCAR Cup race victory by winning at Dover. Larson was the early challenger to Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin, who was celebrating his 500th Cup start. Polesitter Hamlin convincingly won the first stage and was dominating the early stages
4:16 AM ET THAILAND – Honda’s Marc Marquez sealed his sixth MotoGP title, and eighth world championship overall, after winning the Thai Grand Prix on Sunday. The Spaniard pipped pole sitter Fabio Quartararo at the final corner before the line after a long on-track battle, while Monster Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales finished in third. Marquez, 26,
FFF Racing’s Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli claimed the Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe title on countback after finishing tied on points with Black Falcon Mercedes at the Hungaroring. The Lamborghini duo beat the pairing of Maro Engel and Luca Stolz to the championship after recording two wins to Engel/Stolz’s one. Raffaele Marciello and Vincent
Fabio Quartararo says his last-corner MotoGP defeat to Marc Marquez in the Thailand Grand Prix was more “frustrating” than when he was beaten on the last lap at Misano. Petronas Yamaha SRT rider Quartararo led off the line from second on the grid, and was only overtaken by eventual race winner and newly-crowned six-time premier
Ott Tanak strengthened his World Rally Championship title bid with victory on Rally GB, scoring a maximum 30 points by topping the Brenig powerstage. Toyota team-mate Kris Meeke had led early on Friday morning, with Tanak starting on the back foot after a mistake on the rally-opening Oulton Park superspecial. A storming drive on the
McLaren wanted a Mercedes Formula 1 engine supply so it could give itself “nowhere to hide” as it bids to establish itself as a leading team again. During the Russian Grand Prix weekend McLaren and Mercedes announced they would reunite in 2021, once McLaren’s current Renault engine deal ends. It will mark the end of
KTM MotoGP rider Mika Kallio says he is “not happy at all” with his current form after having replaced Johann Zarco in the team’s full-time rider line-up. Having granted Zarco the request to leave the outfit after 2020, KTM then sidelined him in favour of tester Kallio ahead of the Aragon race, in order to
Thierry Neuville scored two Rally GB stage wins to take second place from World Rally Championship title rival Sebastien Ogier on Saturday afternoon, though Toyota’s Ott Tanak still leads. Tanak suffered a scare early on the Sweet Lamb stage when a compression ripped the rear bumper off his Toyota Yaris WRC, which caused additional noise
In a U-turn for the manufacturer, Honda has revealed a new front-engined layout for its 2019 SUPER GT car, as Toyota and Nissan also unveiled its cars for next season. The SUPER GT version of the NSX has always had the same mid-engined layout of its road-going sibling, with the series using weight adjustments to
Mattia Binotto has suggested the crucial recent car upgrades that transformed Ferrari into Formula 1’s form team were a result of bringing forward development work planned for 2020. Ferrari brought a major aerodynamic package including a new nose, floor and diffuser to the Singapore Grand Prix that appears to have eliminated its dependency on power-sensitive
Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr has hit out at NASCAR Cup Series rival Alex Bowman after throwing water over the Hendrick Motorsports driver following clashes in the Charlotte Roval race. The pair clashed twice in the race that set the Round of 12, including a first-lap coming together in which Bowman braked too late and hit