The Turns 10/11 sequence has been significantly altered ahead of this year’s Spanish Grand Prix, a move made to improve safety that has been carried out in conjunction with the FIA and FIM. Turn 10, at the end of the track’s back straight, has returned to a similar layout to its original design – a
From the first four races so far in 2021, Rossi has scored just four points with a best result of 12th in the opening Qatar Grand Prix – and even that came after he slid down the order from a strong fourth in qualifying. Rossi registered his worst-ever qualifying result of his career with 21st
9:27 AM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The car will definitely not be the star this summer in the Superstar Racing Experience, which has been formatted for drivers to showcase their skills using what series co-founder Ray Evernham calls “old-school tools.” The good old steering wheel, gas pedal and brake pedal. “With this format,
Red Bull-backed Liam Lawson set the early pace on Day 3 of the Lausitzring test after the track dried out enough for slick tyre running, leading the timesheets with a 1m43.740s lap in the #30 Ferrari 488 GT3. Haupt Racing Team’s Gotz then managed to shave three tenths out of Lawson’s benchmark to go quickest,
At the yearly Laureus World Sport Awards, dubbed the Oscars of sport, Hamilton was the first recipient of the new Athlete Advocate of the Year Award, which recognises the Mercedes driver’s ongoing efforts to support racial justice and promote diversity. During the 2020 Formula 1 season, in the wake of the George Floyd murder and
The MotoGP sophomore has only finished one race so far in 2021 having suffered crashes in the Qatar double-header and in last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez. It’s left him 18th in the standings on just eight points, with the younger Marquez brother struggling to find a set-up to suit the 2021 RC213V. Having
In Saturday evening’s race, Sebastien Bourdais was running seventh when he braked in reaction to Colton Herta slowing in front of him, heading for the pitlane. Immediately behind Bourdais, Team Penske’s Josef Newgarden was caught by surprise and tapped the #14 car into a spin that sent the 37-time race-winner hard into the barrier on
10:31 AM ET Valtteri Bottas shot down media speculation on Thursday that he could be replaced as Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes teammate midway through the season and said such talk was just part of being in Formula One. 1 Related The Finn is out of contract at the end of the year and already 37 points
Verstappen and Hamilton are currently separated by eight points in the drivers’ championship heading into this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, after Hamilton beat Verstappen home in the last race in Portugal. That event featured the two championship leaders each passing the other – Verstappen getting by at the early safety car restart before Hamilton moved
The British Racing & Sports Car Club category was launched in the middle of last year and features bespoke track-focused examples of the Citroen C1, Peugeot 107 and Toyota Aygo. Special conversion kits – including a remapped ECU and adjustable suspension – can be purchased, or drivers can buy ready-to-race cars. Unlike other series for C1s
After finishing second in Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez, Bagnaia now leads the championship by two points from Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo – who slipped to 13th in the race due to an arm-pump issue. Bagnaia’s points tally of 66 so far in 2021 is 19 more than the 47 he managed throughout last season
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The #00 Notlad Racing by RS1 Aston Martin suffers a heavy rollover crash near the Turns 3-4-5 complex during Round 3 of the 2021 Pirelli GT4 America season from Circuit of the Americas. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader in GT racing. Join us for live and
Unser famously won the Indy 500 in 1968, 1975 and 1981, marking him and Rick Mears as the only drivers to win the event in three different decades. He also made one Formula 1 start for BRM in the 1968 US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, when he retired with a blown engine. The charismatic
Seven-time grand prix winner Ricciardo joined McLaren on a three-year deal for 2021, but has struggled to match teammate Lando Norris’s form through the early part of the season. Ricciardo was left downbeat after being eliminated in Q1 last weekend in Portugal, but recovered to finish the race in ninth place. The Australian is yet
The Next Gen car (aka Gen-7) is being readied to be introduced for the 2022 Cup Series season, having been postponed from 2021 due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Its primary aims are to lower costs for teams and prove more attractive to OEMs (road car manufacturers) to join Chevrolet, Ford and Toyota in NASCAR
The six-time MotoGP world champion rode to eighth in last Sunday’s Jerez race, the second of his comeback from a nine-month injury layoff. Though he is still not at his physical peak yet, he admitted his condition was better on the bike than it was in Portugal, and this allowed him for the first time
The Canadian star, recovering from a spinal injury following his IndyCar crash at Pocono in 2018, returned to the cockpit to test an adapted Bryan Herta Autosport Hyundai Veloster TCR car at Mid-Ohio. Wickens, a winner in Formula BMW, Formula Atlantic, GP3, Formula 3, A1GP, Formula 2 and a champion in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series
Brown’s main argument was his frustration regarding the current decision-making process in F1 – and specifically the way some teams are obliged to follow the lead of their power unit supplier or commercial partner, and how that can potentially skew the voting. It’s been a contentious issue for decades. Of course, no team is going
Along with Chevrolet and Ford, Toyota revealed its 2022 Next Gen Cup Series car – now called the TRD Camry – on Wednesday. It features a standardised chassis, which means teams will no longer fabricate their own cars from scratch – or buy them from others via technical alliances – but purchase the tubular frame
Rins crashed out of second while fighting Yamaha’s Fabio Quartararo for the win in last month’s Portuguese Grand Prix, before tumbling out of the lead group on lap three of last Sunday’s Spanish GP at Jerez. As a result, Rins’ title hopes have taken an early knock as he slips 43 points off the championship
The Andretti Autosport team will run Wilson in a sixth entry for the 105th running of the Indy 500, which will be the second time that Michael Andretti has run the younger brother of the much-loved seven-time IndyCar race winner Justin Wilson, who died following an accident at Pocono in 2015. Asked whether joining a
While Lewis Hamilton managed to beat title rival Max Verstappen to victory in Portugal last weekend, the low-grip track surface and tricky tyre characteristics meant it was hard to judge properly whether Red Bull or Mercedes had the fastest car. Mercedes, which has won two races so far this season, is heading to this weekend’s
Ex-F1 racer Alesi’s Ferrari 312B3 and the Lotus 77 of three-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Werner were battling for the lead of the Monaco Historic GP race for 1973-76 F1 cars when they collided. Leader Alesi was sent into the barriers on the start/finish straight and out of the race. Werner, who had taken
Mir became the first world champion to begin his title defence season without a podium since Nicky Hayden in 2007 when he was cruelly robbed of second on the run to the line in the Qatar Grand Prix by Johann Zarco and Francesco Bagnaia. The Suzuki rider finally made it to the rostrum in third
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3:17 AM ET Romain Grosjean will drive a Formula One car for the first time since his dramatic accident at last year’s Bahrain Grand Prix after world champions Mercedes organised a one-off test for the French driver. Grosjean will drive the 2019 title-winning Mercedes W10 in a private test day at Paul Ricard on June
The debacle that was this year’s Indianapolis 500 didn’t really come into proper focus until the day after the race. After all, charges of inept officiating and stories of confusion and controversy have become part of the curious folklore of the Indy 500 and when everyone went to bed on Sunday night it seemed that
Following a bright start to the 2021 campaign, which has included a podium finish at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Norris is currently sitting in third place in the drivers’ standings behind Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. But while McLaren does not appear to have a car that is capable of regularly beating the pace-setting
Forty years since his retirement from Indycar racing, his stats put him in the pantheon. He raced in an era when reliability could not be taken for granted, so the fact that he amassed 35 wins – still eighth in the all-time list – is impressive enough. Yet it’s his 49 pole positions (fifth best