Robson worked at McLaren during Hamilton’s time as a junior driver with the team – where he would go on to make his F1 debut in 2007 and win his first world title a year later. When discussing Hamilton’s achievement of sealing 100 career F1 pole positions at last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, Robson explained
The Suzuki rider had made good progress from 14th on the grid and had made his way into the top nine when he slid out of the race at the end of the fifth lap as the rain intensified. Having failed to bring his damaged bike back to pitlane, Mir was unable to switch to his
The 20-year-old series sophomore drove to a five second victory over rookie polesitter Romain Grosjean on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s roadcourse, where last July he scored his first top five, and last October he scored his first pole and first podium finish. VeeKay, who was accompanied for the result by his parents, said the result felt “surreal”
5:24 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Rinus VeeKay continued IndyCar’s youth movement Saturday by scoring his first career victory with a win on the road course at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Dutchman became the third first-time winner through five races this season — the most at this point in the season since 2013. The
The six-time world champion was on course to claim a sensational pole for the first time since 2019, having gone top in the closing moments of a chaotic qualifying session just as rain began to fall. But the returning Spaniard – who sat out the entirety of last year and missed the first two races
The Baku City Circuit will stage its fifth F1 race next month as Azerbaijan returns to the calendar following its COVID-enforced cancellation last year. It will mark a return to the race’s favoured June date slot, having been staged in April in both 2018 and 2019 prior to the start of summer in Baku. F1 announced last month
Quartararo snatched his third-straight pole of the 2021 season by 0.081 seconds with a last-gasp effort at the end of Q2 on Saturday to lead Yamaha team-mate Maverick Vinales. But the day started off in difficult fashion for Yamaha, with Quartararo struggling down in 19th in the drying conditions of FP3. The Frenchman struggled to ninth
Ed Carpenter Racing driver VeeKay passed former Haas Formula 1 racer Grosjean when the Frenchman’s Dale Coyne Racing with RWR machine was on its out-lap following a pitstop at half-distance. VeeKay, who had started on primary compound Firestones, had stopped six laps earlier and his softer compound red-walled tyres were fully up to temperature as
9:30 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — John and Brittany Force swept the nitro classes Saturday in qualifying for the NGK NTK NHRA Four-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway. The 72-year-old John Force topped the Funny Car lineup with a 3.902-second pass at 330.55 mph. Daughter Brittany Force took the No. 1 spot in Top
The Suzuki rider was denied direct entry to Q2 after a crash late on in Friday’s FP2, with wet conditions in FP3 ensuring there would be no lap time improvements on the combined order. Both Mir and team-mate Alex Rins set strong pace in the opening stages of Q1 in wet conditions, but were caught
For years, teams have followed established routines through FP1, FP2 and FP3 as they prepare both for Saturday qualifying and the Sunday race that follows. The usual rhythm is broken only when bad weather wipes out sessions. A unique planned break with tradition came at Imola last year, when transport issues meant that there was
Home hero Quartararo took his third pole in a row by the narrowest of margins in a chaotic qualifying session held in damp but drying conditions, the Yamaha factory rider pipping team-mate Maverick Vinales by just 0.081s. Showing no signs of ill-effects after an operation to treat arm pump issues that cost him victory in
The Ed Carpenter Racing driver pounced on IndyCar rookie Grosjean on the 45th lap with warmer, softer tyres, relegating the ex-Formula 1 driver to second place. Having unleashed his latent pace on the opening stint to rise from his starting berth of seventh, VeeKay had cycled out in a net fourth after the first round
9:34 AM ET ESPN News Services The IndyCar race in Toronto has been canceled for the second consecutive year because of the coronavirus pandemic. The event was scheduled for July 9-11 but can’t take place because of restrictions in Canada. The race has been on the IndyCar schedule since 1986, and Penske Entertainment Corp. president
The Italian made his first Q2 appearance since the start of the 2021 season at Le Mans, with both he and team-mate Franco Morbidelli gambling on slicks straight away in Q2 as the track continued to dry. Rossi’s second lap was set to put him onto provisional pole, but he was almost flicked from his
F1 teams are currently preparing for the major upcoming car design changes, which were scheduled to come into force for the start of the 2021 campaign before being postponed because of the economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. When Alonso announced his intention to return to F1 with what was then known as the Renault
Pole looked set to go to Marc Marquez as spots of rain appeared in the latter stages, but the top six changed right at the death as a number of riders found lap time improvements in the conditions. Meanwhile, Q1 claimed several big hitters including championship leader Francesco Bagnaia and Suzuki duo Joan Mir and
Rinus VeeKay, who took his first IndyCar pole position and scored his first podium at the same venue last October, sat at the top of the times for most of the session. The #21 Ed Carpenter Racing-Chevrolet turned a 1m10.0624s on its fifth lap of the 14-turn, 2.439-mile track with Josef Newgarden’s Team Penske-Chevrolet sitting
11:15 AM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — British driver Max Chilton will not race in Saturday’s Indy Grand Prix because he couldn’t travel to the United States from England. The team remains hopeful Chilton will drive in the Indianapolis 500 on May 30. Chilton started the first two races of the IndyCar season, finishing 20th
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After a start to the season that’s seen us bag a trio of top-five finishes, including a podium, coming home 6th and 8th in the Spanish GP might not sound like much. But, at a track where overtaking is notoriously difficult, it was a solid, if not spectacular, result for the team. #SendIt Join McLaren
The former Haas Formula 1 driver, who switched to IndyCar at the Dale Coyne Racing with RWR team over the off-season, beat double series champion Josef Newgarden (Team Penske) by just over a tenth to secure pole for the Grand Prix of Indianapolis. It marked his first pole since the start of his title-winning GP2
The July event at Silverstone is to be the first to feature a 100km sprint qualifying race on the Saturday, that will decide the grid for Sunday’s main event. The introduction of the sprint race means that the normal qualifying session that takes place on the Saturday is now moving to Friday – with there
Honda has had a tough start to the 2021 campaign, with none of its riders so far having made it to the podium in any of the opening four races. HRC put most of its riders through a busy testing schedule at the post-race test following the Spanish GP, having recently admitted it is facing
The 21-year-old second-generation racer has emerged as one of IndyCar’s brightest young talents since graduating from Indy Lights in 2019 and scored his fourth series victory with a dominant run from pole at St. Petersburg last month. The win for Herta, who finished third in the standings last year as the only Andretti Autosport driver
10:40 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — Brittany Force broke both ends of the zMAX Dragway track record Friday night to lead Top Fuel qualifying for the NGK NTK NHRA Four-Wide Nationals. Force powered to a 3.662-second pass at 333.08 mph to break the track speed and time marks. “I’m just pumped after a
The Dale Coyne Racing with RWR driver, who moved across to IndyCar for a road and street course-only campaign after 179 grand prix appearances, scored his first pole since the first round of the 2011 GP2 season at Istanbul Park with a scintillating 1m09.439s lap. It also marked the Coyne team’s first pole since 2018,
Having switched to IndyCar after his F1 career was abruptly ended by a fiery crash in last year’s Bahrain Grand Prix, the Frenchman had been due to get two outings with Mercedes in June as part of a special final run in F1 machinery. He was originally due to demo a Mercedes W10 over the French
There aren’t too many circuits around the world that conjure up as much passion and drama when you mention their names. For motorsport fans, these two little French words never fail to send chills down spines: Le Mans. Whether it’s the iconic 24 Hours of Le Mans car race, or MotoGP’s now traditional yearly stop
Double IndyCar champion Newgarden lapped the 2.439-mile road course circuit in 1m09.332s on Firestone’s softer compound tyres to duck underneath the 1m09.878s set by first practice pace-setter Alexander Rossi (Andretti Autosport). With higher track temperatures than in the morning session, times on the primary Firestone tires initially didn’t dip beneath 1m10.4s with Newgarden making the
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