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2:03 AM ET Laine Clark As the maligned Fabian Coulthard’s Ford team sweats on their fate, Supercars great Garth Tander is adamant their safety car controversy influenced the Bathurst 1000’s result and wants officials to throw the book at them. Coulthard’s outfit faces a possible fine or loss of championship points after stewards ordered his

12:38 PM ET Formula One champion Lewis Hamilton sent his fans a burst of positive energy on Friday after he started the week by saying he felt like “giving up on everything” because the world was in such a mess. The 34-year-old Mercedes driver is on the brink of winning his sixth championship, possibly in

7:37 AM ET Officials investigating Supercars driver Fabian Coulthard’s controversial Bathurst 1000 safety car tactics will release their decision this weekend. The Confederation of Australian Motor Sport (CAMS) said a hearing would be held on Saturday. It will release the outcome on Sunday, seven days after reigning Supercars champion – and Coulthard’s Ford teammate –

12:48 AM ET Laine Clark A move to the United States is back on the cards for Scott McLaughlin after the Supercars star impressed American motorsport giant Roger Penske with his stunning maiden Bathurst 1000 victory. And the Ford gun admitted he didn’t care what category Penske had in mind for him in the US,

3:16 PM ET Red Bull’s Max Verstappen is the quickest driver to ever race in Formula One, says F1’s 2009 world champion Jenson Button. “I think he is the fastest driver that has ever driven an F1 car. I really do,” Button told talkSPORT radio when asked about the Dutchman. “I think he is unbelievably

12:48 AM ET Laine Clark Officials will further investigate Supercars driver Fabian Coulthard’s “disgraceful” Bathurst 1000 safety car tactics after sensationally charging his Ford outfit with breaching team orders regulations. Coulthard was initially slapped with a drive-through penalty after he dramatically slowed down and held up the field behind his Ford teammate Scott McLaughlin, who

7:03 AM ET SUZUKA, Japan — Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff arrived at his post-race media session holding a red hat. He placed it on the table in front of him, glanced down at it and let a smile spread across his face. The same hat has been hanging in the entrance to the team’s

8:38 AM ET Mercedes secured a sixth consecutive sweep of the drivers’ and constructors’ championship at the Japanese Grand Prix. The Suzuka event saw a Tyhoon-enforced revamp to the weekend format and a race which brought stewarding decisions under the microscope again. Our F1 team, Laurence Edmondson, Nate Saunders, Maurice Hamilton and Kate Walker, discuss

2:30 AM ET Formula One and the Hard Rock Stadium, home of the Miami Dolphins, have reached an agreement in principle to host a grand prix. F1 and Miami came to a 10-year agreement to host a race around the Biscayne Bar and Bayfront Park area, originally slated to start in 2019. However, this plan

9:59 PM ET Even though we had to wait until Monday, I hope that was the Talladega race you were looking for. Photo finish. Check. Wild wrecks. Check. Playoff-altering results. Check. I didn’t mean to play spoiler, but if you read last week’s column (and I’m just assuming you did for my own self-confidence), I

12:38 PM ET Lewis Hamilton has said the he feels like “giving up” with his fight to raise awareness for climate change and has called for more people to become vegan. Hamilton, who inched closer to a sixth world championship with third place at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday, took to social media on

12:10 AM ET Murray Wenzel Simona De Silvestro’s Supercars career is up in the air after Kelly Racing announced a scale back and manufacturer switch for the 2020 season. Team boss Todd Kelly confirmed on Tuesday the four-car Nissan set-up in this year’s Supercars campaign would become a two-car team fielding Ford Mustangs. The drivers

5:41 PM ET Associated Press TALLADEGA, Ala. — Ryan Blaney beat Ryan Newman in a door-to-door race to the finish line to win Monday at Talladega Superspeedway and advance to the third round of NASCAR’s playoffs. Blaney’s first win of the season came as he was desperately trying to remain in title contention. The playoff

9:26 AM ET Lewis Hamilton inched closer to a sixth world championship with third place at the Japanese Grand Prix — he can wrap it up in Mexico City on Oct. 27.# Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas, who is now the only other driver with a mathematical chance of clinching the title, won that race to

5:38 PM ET Associated Press TALLADEGA, Ala. — William Byron and his fellow playoff contenders are getting an extra day of suspense at Talladega Superspeedway. NASCAR postponed the final two race stages until Monday after rain forced a halt moments after Byron won the first stage Sunday. It’s the middle race of Round 2 in

9:43 AM ET Tom Hamilton Close Senior Writer • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 YOKOHAMA, Japan — The Rugby

5:43 AM ET Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc has been relegated from sixth to seventh at the Japanese Grand Prix after being hit with two separate time penalties worth a combined 15 seconds. Leclerc visited the stewards after the race to explain his first-lap clash with Max Verstappen, which led to the Red Bull driver calling him

12:33 PM ET Laine Clark American motorsport great Roger Penske has revealed his Supercars star Scott McLaughlin asked about racing in the United States as a wildcard entry after two IndyCar drivers cut a deal to contest the Bathurst 1000. But he made it clear McLaughlin wasn’t going anywhere any time soon after re-signing his

12:34 PM ET Laine Clark A Bathurst lap record set by Ford gun Scott McLaughlin may never be broken according to Supercars star Chaz Mostert, who claims qualifying will be “boring” next year due to technical changes. Supercars series leader McLaughlin smashed his Mount Panorama lap record to claim pole position for Sunday’s Bathurst 1000,

12:22 AM ET Laine Clark Governing body Confederation of Australian Motorsport (CAMS) has announced it will be known as Motorsport Australia from next year. CAMS – which provides officials for the Supercars category – confirmed the news at Mount Panorama ahead of Sunday’s Bathurst 1000. CAMS president Andrew Papadopoulos said the name change would help

8:48 PM ET Laine Clark Former dual champion Will Davison has topped the timesheets in Saturday’s opening practice session for the Bathurst 1000 at Mount Panorama. Holden star Davison clocked two minutes, 4.75 seconds in the 30-minute session as the 26-strong field got in precious track time before Sunday’s Great Race. Provisional pole sitter Scott

7:29 AM ET SUZUKA, Japan — With Typhoon Hagibis disrupting Formula One’s usual race weekend schedule, Friday’s second practice at Suzuka could prove to be the most significant practice session of the season. With qualifying cancelled on Saturday — and still under threat in its rescheduled time on Sunday morning — the teams were told

12:14 AM ET Laine Clark They may have toasted IndyCar success but overseas stars James Hinchcliffe and Alex Rossi admitted their first taste of the Bathurst 1000 felt like “drinking out of a fire hose”. Hinchcliffe and Rossi arrived at Mount Panorama as Great Race dark horses after accepting a wildcard entry with Holden heavyweight

6:50 AM ET SUZUKA, Japan — Sebastian Vettel admits events at the Russian Grand Prix could have been handled better after he ignored team orders to let Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc past during the race. Although Mercedes ended up winning in Russia, Ferrari stole the headlines after a pre-race agreement between its drivers turned sour.

8:45 AM ET Tom Hamilton Close Senior Writer • Joined ESPN in 2011• Covered two Olympics, a pair of Rugby World Cups and two British & Irish Lions tours• Previously rugby editor, and became senior writer in 2018 Nate Saunders Close F1 Associate Editor • Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes • History graduate from Reading University• Joined ESPNF1

3:55 AM ET Laine Clark If there were any doubts that Mount Panorama does not discriminate, they were quickly dismissed at Bathurst 1000 practice on Thursday. There was more Bathurst heartbreak for 2017 champion David Reynolds after his co-driver Luke Youlden had a horror start to his 20th campaign on the mountain by hitting the

8:52 AM ET Ahead of each race in 2019, ESPN is ranking every driver on the grid in our Formula One Power Rankings. 1 Related In compiling these standings, we have taken out the car factor and focused solely on the drivers and how each has been performing. This is not a prediction for how

10:20 AM ET American driver Juan Manuel Correa has posted a video for the first time since he suffered serious leg injuries in the Formula 2 crash which killed Anthoine Hubert. Correa collided with Hubert’s car at high speed after the Frenchman had lost control at the top of the fearsome Raidillon corner at Belgium’s

2:45 AM ET Laine Clark The worst kept secret in Supercars is officially out after former series champion James Courtney was confirmed as the headline driver of a new two-car, Sydney-based Holden team for 2020. Supercars confirmed on Wednesday that Courtney would spearhead the first top flight Sydney-based team in 15 years. Speculation had been

7:01 PM ET Laine Clark Supercars great Mark Skaife says the lack of an endurance lead-up event this year will only boost Craig Lowndes’ chances of moving a step closer to Peter Brock’s legendary Bathurst 1000 record on Sunday. All eyes will be on Lowndes at Mount Panorama this week when the 45-year-old returns to