This is not your father’s Bristol anymore. Well, technically it is – in the autumn. But in the spring this year, and for the foreseeable future, the concrete-covered Bristol Motor Speedway is now a haven for dirt track racing thanks to the importation of 23,000 cubic yards of dirt to cover its surface. The high-banked
Power from the one-make 4.2-litre normally-aspirated Gibson V8 has been reduced by 20kW or 25bhp in addition to the 30kW or 40bhp originally planned. That means the Gibson engine will push about approximately 535bhp (400kW) in 2021 compared with more than 600bhp (450kW) since the introduction of the current P2 formula in 2017. The minimum
The LCR rider struggled for form on the RC213V in his rookie season in 2020, only cracking the top 12 on the grid twice across the campaign. The Honda is typically a difficult bike to extract the maximum from during a time attack, but Marquez feels he has made a step forward in this area
10:44 AM ET Lewis Hamilton said he realised last year the value of being diplomatic in his push for racial equality rather than “embarrassing people”. Seven-time world champion Hamilton has become outspoken on the issue of equality and knelt ahead of every Formula One race last season. Ahead of the season, Hamilton had called out
While Red Bull-Honda had a clear pace advantage over Mercedes in qualifying at Sakhir last weekend, in the race there was little to separate the two teams. That shift in form opened the door for Mercedes to use an aggressive strategy to help Lewis Hamilton get track position over Max Verstappen, with the Briton holding
Thursday’s test at Martinsville Speedway aims to determine whether rain tyres could be feasible at some short tracks in the future. Kyle Larson will pilot the #5 Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet and Chris Buescher will pilot the #17 Roush Fenway Racing Ford on a dampened track. NASCAR first used rain tyres in an official national series
Szafnauer has blamed the rule tweaks for the team’s loss of competitiveness since the end of last season, when as Racing Point it was a regular podium challenger and took victory in the Sakhir GP. Racing Point followed the Mercedes low-rake concept for its 2020 car and was committed to it for 2021 due to
The Italian was tagged as one of the favourites to fight for victory in last Sunday’s season-opener, but plummeted from seventh on the grid to 18th come the chequered flag. Sources close to the team confirmed to Autosport that Morbidelli’s issue stemmed from a faulty holeshot device. Morbidelli confirmed on Thursday ahead of the second
4:29 AM ET Formula One’s motorsport managing director Ross Brawn has hailed Yuki Tsunoda as the best rookie in years after the Japanese scored points on his debut in Bahrain last Sunday. The former Ferrari technical director who also ran the Honda, Brawn and Mercedes teams, said he had been impressed by the 20-year-old AlphaTauri
The 21-year-old, who won the Indy Lights title in 2018 and finished fourth in his rookie season in IndyCar last year, lapped the 1.44-mile speedway in 23.325s, an average speed of 222.25mph. That means the Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet driver has now led the last three group tests, lending credence to the theory that his blend
Hamilton has won 74 races since the start of 2014 and his Mercedes team 103 of the 138 in that period, which has led to suggestions from some observers that such a level of success is solely down to the Black Arrows squad’s car advantages. Such theories ignore the 22 wins Hamilton scored for McLaren before joining his
Pastrana, whose list of achievements includes 11 X Games gold medals and four Rally America titles, is also the co-creator of the Nitro Circus action sports franchise, Nitro World Games and the upcoming Nitro Rallycross Series. Pastrana will return for his ninth ROC appearance at the event’s first-ever edition on snow and ice, which is
Aprilia is one of only two manufacturers along with KTM who was allowed to start the 2021 MotoGP season with a new engine, with the marque’s RS-GP proving to be a step forward in all areas compared to its predecessor. Espargaro qualified eighth and was able to run in the front group to claim seventh
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In the Bahrain Grand Prix he struggled on the medium tyre in Q2 and started 11th, and then in the race he charged up to fifth after an engine issue on the formation lap obliged him to start from the pitlane. Red Bull motorsport boss Helmut Marko suggested the Mexican was losing out to team-mate
Andretti Autosport-Honda’s 2016 Indy 500 winner was one of four drivers who performed a simulation of a hybrid system last Friday at the legendary 2.5-mile oval, with the drivers running regular race boost (1.3-bar) with brief squirts of extra power (1.5-bar) to represent the expected power delivery of a KERS system discharging stored energy. IndyCar
Mir endured a tough weekend up to the race as the feeling he had on the GSX-RR last year had disappeared, saying he was “missing a lot” in qualifying. But the Suzuki rider was able to make a breakthrough with set-up ahead of the race and ghosted his way from 10th on the grid to
7:00 AM ET The 2021 Formula One season is officially underway. Please tell me you got up Sunday morning to watch the Bahrain GP on ESPN2! If not, you should have. I did — though to quote old Obi-Wan Kenobi, it was from a certain point of view. That POV was from behind the wheel
The Haas driver spun off exiting Turn 4 on the safety car restart early into the Bahrain Grand Prix, moments after fellow rookie and team-mate Nikita Mazepin suffered a similar spin on the opening lap at Turn 3 which ended the Russian’s race. The spin dropped the 2020 Formula 2 champion off the back of
Norris started the 2021 F1 season opener in seventh, one spot behind his new McLaren team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, but drove a measured race to finish fourth which included bold overtakes on Ricciardo and Pierre Gasly. Starting his third season as a Formula 1 driver, team boss Seidl believes Norris has put the lessons he learned
The Avintia Ducati rider has stepped up to MotoGP in 2021 having finished runner-up in the Moto2 standings last year, and races on the same grid as brother Rossi for the first time. Struggling with the change of grip in the race compared to the practice sessions, Marini ended up third out of the four
8:35 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo will get to drive Dale Earnhardt’s famous yellow and blue Wrangler NASCAR once he scores his first podium for McLaren. Earnhardt’s 1984 Wrangler Chevrolet, to be precise, which is part of McLaren CEO Zak Brown’s private car collection. Brown has made the offer to his new signing, who made his
Although Max Verstappen was beaten to victory in the F1 season opener by Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes, Red Bull thinks the pace it showed throughout the Sakhir event has put it in the frame for a title challenge. While Mercedes fears that Red Bull already has the edge in speed terms, the Milton Keynes-based team is
The cult of celebrity, however spurious, is everywhere in our society, on our TVs and social media feeds and even on traditional billboards. You’d think that motorsport would have renewed its complicated relationship with the glitterati by now, but no. The heights of household-name petrol-powered daredevilry were the 1970s. The chief exponent of the celebrity
The 42-year-old managed to qualify fourth on his SRT debut, but admitted on Saturday he didn’t feel he was strong enough to fight for a 200th MotoGP podium come the race. Rossi struggled all weekend to get endurance out of the soft rear tyre and quickly faded from fourth to 12th by the chequered flag
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Bottas finished a distant third behind winner Hamilton and Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, opting to take a third pitstop near the end of the race to claim the point for the fastest lap. But any chance for Bottas to win the opening round of the 2021 F1 season was lost after he was passed for
The F1 feeder series has made significant changes to its format for 2021 highlighted by a move to three races – two sprint events on Saturday, followed by a longer feature race on Sunday prior to the Formula 1 race. Forming the grids for the races involves an unconventional system, as Friday’s qualifying session sets
KTM struggled during testing with its new bike at the Losail circuit, with the nature of the track working against the characteristics of the RC16. Those woes continued into the Qatar GP, with Binder qualifying down in 19th and only able to salvage 14th in the race after experiencing front tyre wear in the latter