7:22 AM ET Williams driver George Russell has replaced Romain Grosjean as the director of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA). Grosjean’s departure to IndyCar this year opened up a vacancy. Russell, 23, will work alongside fellow director Sebastian Vettel and chairman Alexander Wurz. The GPDA represents the interests of all 20 F1 drivers. Russell,
Last year, F1 drivers were given a platform to display their anti-racism stance with a special time set apart during the moments on the grid before the start. But the gesture of taking a knee divided opinion among drivers, with not all opting for it. While Lewis Hamilton led the charge, six of the 20
The FIA Formula 3 graduate has been heavily linked to a promotion to the Dutch squad’s F2 programme, with an appearance at the pre-season test only serving to strengthen speculation. MP Motorsport has today confirmed via social media that Verschoor will indeed join the team for the F2 season opener, although Autosport/Motorsport.com understands the deal
Honda announced on Monday Marquez would not make his long-awaited MotoGP return from injury in this weekend’s season-opening Qatar GP having been advised against doing so by his doctors. Marquez then confirmed his absence would extend to the Doha GP also, with the Spaniard set for another check-up by doctors on 12 April ahead of
10:00 AM ET Mick Schumacher is unbelievably calm for someone carrying such a weight of expectation. You might even say unreasonably calm. He is set to make his Formula One debut with American team Haas this year, aged 21, but it feels like people have been expecting big things of him for a long time.
Demaison arrives at Williams after a decade-long spell at Volkswagen Motorsport, where he helped develop the ground-breaking I.D.R electric car that achieved multiple records at Pikes Peak and the Nurburgring. He was also responsible for the WRC Polo C car that won the rally titles from 2013 and 2016. During that time he forged a
Current WRC cars are petrol powered, with electrification being added into the mix next season. Under the new rules that come into effect from 2022 and last for an initial three-season spell, Rally1 cars will combine an internal combustion engine (ICE) and a 134bhp electric motor supplied by Compact Dynamics. The cars – which are
Officially named John Crichton-Stuart, but known to friends as Johnny Bute, he took on the surname he became known by to race fans worldwide in order to keep his background as low profile as possible. A statement from his family said that he was “devoted husband, father, brother, uncle, son and grandfather and loved by
2021 is a case of evolution rather than revolution, with most of the teams only making small tweaks to their cars. Nevertheless, Sam Collins takes a look at the aero developments up and down the grid at pre-season testing in Bahrain. The full episode of Tech Talk is available now for F1 TV subscribers: http://f1.com/2021Test-TTDay1
The reigning FIA Formula 3 champion is making the step up F2 this year with champion outfit Prema Racing and is among a group of young drivers expected to impress. Already a rising star in the junior ranks, Piastri was snapped up by the Renault Sport, now Alpine Academy, in 2020, resulting in a F1
Marquez has been out of action since last July when he broke his right arm in a heavy fall during the opening Spanish Grand Prix. He will undergo a further medical check-up on 12 April according to Honda, which also rules him out of the Doha GP in Qatar next weekend. HRC is yet to
5:18 PM ET Associated Press A fully vaccinated Roger Penske is hard at work at Indianapolis Motor Speedway preparing for a full season of racing that will include spectators at his showcase event. There will be fans at this year’s Indianapolis 500, Penske said Monday, but how many remains a moving target based on COVID-19
GP Racing editor Ben Anderson and columnist Mark Gallagher join host Stuart Codling to debate whether Red Bull’s punchy performance during the Bahrain test is all that it seems. Is Mercedes really on the back foot? What version of Valtteri Bottas are we on? Can new Red Bull recruit Sergio Perez succeed where Max Verstappen’s
Johnny Dumfries had impeccable credentials when he was signed up to be Ayrton Senna’s team-mate at Lotus for 1986. He was a British Formula 3 Champion, and a dominant one at that. He’d been test driver for Ferrari. And he’d raced in Formula 3000. That wasn’t the CV of a driver who was going to
11:29 AM ET Ugo Ugochukwu, a 13-year-old go-karting star from the U.S.A., has signed a long-term deal with McLaren to develop his career through the junior categories of motorsport. 1 Related Ugochukwu started karting in New York State in 2013 and last year won the 2020 FIA OKJ European karting championship. The deal gives McLaren
The Dutchman is coming out of an encouraging pre-season testing run for Red Bull, with its new RB16B having proven to be both quick and consistent. His team’s form was in contrast to Mercedes, which had a more troubled run in Bahrain as Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas battled with a poor balance on the
The all-electric off-road SUV racing championship has already announced rights packages with Sky Sports, BT Sport and online BBC platforms. The headline partnership with Sky Sports is initially for one year only and placed Extreme E coverage behind a TV paywall subscription service, but now the first three seasons of the nascent electric series will
The three-time MotoGP race winner will once again race on the older ‘A-spec’ version of Yamaha’s MotoGP challenger in 2021, despite ending last season as its top rider in second in the championship. The bike Morbidelli rode last year was essentially a slightly modified 2019 M1, but Yamaha brought upgrades to the bike for Qatar
Williams regular Russell was drafted in by parent team Mercedes for the second race in Bahrain last December when a positive test for COVID-19 ruled out Lewis Hamilton. Russell qualified second and dominated the majority of the race on the Bahrain International Circuit’s outer loop, only for a tyre mix-up by Mercedes and a late puncture to deny
Take a lap around Sebring International Raceway with Frankie Montecalvo in the No. 12 Vasser Sullivan Lexus RC F GT3.
If there were any doubts Fernando Alonso has still got it, they were quickly erase with his mega effort during the second day of testing in Bahrain. Second-fastest in the morning session, he got his first outing in his Alpine A521! For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Follow F1®: http://www.instagram.com/F1 https://www.facebook.com/Formula1/ Tweets by F1 https://www.twitch.tv/formula1
Larson took both stage victories and led a race-high 269 of 325 laps but a 56-lap run on the same set of tyres took them beyond their limits, opening the door to the rapidly chasing Blaney. With eight laps remaining and as Larson and Blaney both approached the lapped car of Joey Logano, Blaney dove
This year, the entirety of pre-season testing was compressed into three days at the Bahrain International Circuit to help minimise costs and ensure that cargo could be shipped to the same venue as the opening round, following the postponement of the Australian Grand Prix. The complete overhaul in F1’s regulations for next season, in which
Like with the final Moto3 pre-season test, Moto2’s final three-days of running ahead of the season had to be moved to Qatar this weekend due to the COVID-19 pandemic having originally been scheduled to take place at Jerez in Spain. After the first day of running on Friday, Ajo KTM’s new signing Remy Gardner –
Fabio Quartararo believes Yamaha will be better able to “prepare something” with its MotoGP bike when it encounters difficult moments this season unlike in 2020. The factory Yamaha rider managed to win three races last year when he rode for Petronas SRT and led the championship up until the Aragon Grand Prix, when a sharp
After a 2020 campaign where Alfa Romeo duo Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi struggled at times to make much of an impression in the midfield battle, the Swiss outfit was left more encouraged by its run in Bahrain. The new C41 showed signs of being a step forward over its predecessor, and on the final day of
The blue, white and gold branding of Rothmans had become a motorsport staple of the 1980s and ’90s, having emblazoned Porsche’s 956 prototypes, the Prodrive-run Subaru World Rally Championship team and Honda’s 500cc grand prix bikes across the years. Then assuming title sponsorship of Williams’ Formula 1 team at its peak, it enjoyed four successful
11:54 PM ET Associated Press SEBRING, Fla. — Sebastien Bourdais grabbed the lead on a restart with 19 minutes remaining in the Twelve Hours of Sebring, then held off a furious challenge from the defending winner Saturday night to give JDC-Miller Motorsports the victory in the IMSA sports car endurance event. Bourdais was missing the
Three days, a sandstorm and 328 laps later, the team completed pre-season testing in Bahrain. Up next? The 2021 season opener. #SendIt Join McLaren Plus, our fan engagement programme which brings McLaren fans closer to the team with the most inclusive, rewarding and open-to-all fan programmes in F1 & esports: https://www.mclaren.com/racing/mclaren+/ Subscribe and be the
The four-time world champion has just signed a deal to become an ambassador for Austrian water treatment company BWT, which is pushing a number of sustainability projects. It wants to cut back on single-use plastic bottles around the world by expanding the use of water treatment facilities so more clean tap water is available. Vettel’s