Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Award finalist Enaam Ahmed will make his sportscar debut with the R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad at next month’s Intercontinental GT Challenge finale at Kyalami. Ahmed will drive one of two cars confirmed by the Swiss entrant for the Kyalami 9 Hours on November 23. The Japanese Formula 3 race winner Ahmed
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Max Verstappen’s father Jos has urged Red Bull to make changes at the team to avoid another “lost year” in 2020. On the back of a frustrating second half to this season, the former grand prix driver has hinted at impatience from himself and his son about the lack of progress being made. In an
9:03 AM ET Ferrari should have been celebrating a fourth straight victory after the Russian Grand Prix. The Italian team not only handed victory to Mercedes on a silver platter, but it spent the evening of the race explaining and defending its controversial and clumsily-executed team orders between Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc. Our F1
The Wales Rally GB organiser says there is “nothing forecast that would concern us in the special stages” for this weekend’s World Rally Championship event, despite uncertainty over Hurricane Lorenzo. The hurricane is approaching the UK from the south-east, and a weekend of heavy rain and flood warnings remain in place on Tuesday, causing uncertainty
Haas Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean has suggested his fellow drivers should be “more gentlemanly” on the first lap of races after he was pitched into the barriers in Russia. Grosjean was hit by Antonio Giovinazzi when the Alfa Romeo driver found himself with nowhere to go and Daniel Ricciardo to his right. Giovinazzi was
NASCAR officials will speak to Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr over his confrontation with Alex Bowman where Wallace threw water over his rival after the Charlotte Roval Cup race. Bowman was receiving medical assistance next to his car when Wallace came over and threw water from his drinks bottle at the Hendrick Motorsports driver. The pair
9:30 AM ET Nate Saunders Close F1 Associate Editor • Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes • History graduate from Reading University• Joined ESPNF1 in February 2014 Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Sebastian Vettel’s Russian Grand Prix ended with a power failure midway through the race,
Ferrari became embroiled in a team orders controversy in Formula 1’s Russian Grand Prix after Sebastian Vettel failed to let Charles Leclerc past when asked by his team. Vettel gained the lead at the start with the benefit of a tow from team-mate Leclerc but did not hand the position back during a series of
Five IMSA series head to Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin this weekend. “America’s National Park of Speed” will host the flagship IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race on Sunday, August 4 with the NBCSN broadcast at 6 p.m. ET. Live, flag-to-flag streaming will be available on the NBC Sports App and NBCSports.com starting at 2:35
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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
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6:31 AM ET Victory at the Russian Grand Prix moved Lewis Hamilton even closer to a sixth title, one which would place him outright second on the all-time list behind Michael Schumacher. The British driver is 73 points clear of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas with 130 to play for in the final five races. Each
Craig Breen’s chances of driving a Hyundai World Rally Championship car on the season-closing Rally Australia rest on a good performance from his rival team-mate Dani Sordo on Rally Spain. Sordo, who misses this week’s Wales Rally GB, sits 10th in the driver’s standings – but he is only 22 points off fourth place. A
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
Andrea Dovizioso admits his current MotoGP championship situation would not be different had he not crashed at Silverstone and Catalunya, as Ducati hasn’t been “close” to Marc Marquez this year. Despite a strong recovery ride to second, Dovizioso could offer no challenge to a dominant Marquez in last weekend’s Aragon Grand Prix, as the Spaniard
Mercedes Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton says he was trying to “do qualifying laps every lap” to keep pace with Ferrari in the first phase of the Russian Grand Prix. The championship leader trailed Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc during the opening stint at Sochi as Ferrari cemented its qualifying advantage and Mercedes committed to
8:39 AM ET Sebastian Vettel made his feelings about modern-day Formula One clear after his car ground to a halt midway through the Russian Grand Prix. The four-time world champion, whose Ferrari had suffered a failure of the complex MGU-K system, opened his radio channel to say simply: “Bring back the f—ing V12s!” It was
Nico Hulkenberg says his Russian Grand Prix result feels “bitter” and was not what he and the pace of his Renault RS19 car deserved. Hulkenberg had the edge over team-mate Daniel Ricciardo all throughout the Formula 1 weekend at the Sochi Autodrom, and duly put himself sixth on the grid for the race as he
Controversial rider Romano Fenati will join Max Biaggi’s squad for his eighth season in Moto3 and his second since his ban from competing was lifted at the end of 2018. Fenati was ousted from the world championship last year when he grabbed the brake lever of Forward Racing’s Stefano Manzi in a controversial incident during
7:47 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Ill. — Shawn Langdon beat Kalitta Motorsports teammate J.R. Todd in the Funny Car final Sunday at the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at World Wide Technology Raceway. Langdon, a former Top Fuel season champion, is the second driver in NHRA history to win in both nitro classes at
Sebastian Vettel feels he stuck to the Ferrari Formula 1 team’s pre-Russian Grand Prix agreement, despite failing to adhere to an order to hand Charles Leclerc the lead. Vettel started third, but overtook Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton off the line then drafted past polesitter Leclerc on the approach to the first braking zone at Turn 2.
Chase Elliott crashed and then won an action-packed NASCAR Cup race at the Charlotte Roval as playoff positions for the round of 12 were decided. The Hendrick Motorsports driver led home team-mate Alex Bowman, who secured his place in the next round of the post-season with the result. It was very nearly a different story
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Encouraged by the success of the Blancpain Endurance Series, world-renowned Swiss watch manufacture Blancpain and the SRO Motorsports Group decide at the end of 2013 to extend their partnership to the Sprint series, previously promoted as the FIA GT Series, offering teams and drivers the opportunity to compete for an overall Blancpain GT Series title,
12:03 PM ET Kevin Magnussen and Haas team boss Guenther Steiner have hit out at the Russian Grand Prix race stewards for a “B.S.” penalty which nearly cost the Dane a top-ten finish in Sochi. Magnussen was holding off Sergio Perez for seventh when he ran wide at Turn 2. Ahead of the race it
FFF Racing Lamborghini’s Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli took an unlikely sweep of Blancpain GT Series titles by winning a tense Barcelona season finale, pipping SMP Racing by one point. Caldarelli and Mapelli – joined in the #563 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 by Albert Costa, with regular co-driver Dennis Lind out with illness – took their
Ferrari Formula 1 team boss Mattia Binotto insists that the Russian Grand Prix was running to plan before Sebastian Vettel’s MGU-K failure prompted the appearance of the virtual safety car. At the start, Ferrari’s tactic had been to allow Vettel to get a tow into the first corner from polesitter Charles Leclerc, while ensuring front-row
11:13 AM ET Mercedes has dismissed four employees and disciplined three others at its Formula One headquarters for racist abuse to another employee. The employees were dismissed from the team’s UK base at Brackley on Aug. 2 following an investigation into a complaint. Mercedes found the staff members in breach of its diversity and equality
McLaren believes it can eventually fight Mercedes with the same engine in Formula 1 but it is “definitely not” a realistic target for 2021. The former works partnership will be reunited as a standard customer relationship after McLaren’s Renault deal ends next season. McLaren’s initial move away from Mercedes in 2015, to Honda, was sparked