McLaren raced without its own nominated reserve driver last season after agreeing to call on Mercedes’ back-ups if needed, with the agreement to remain in place this year should circumstances arise where a stand-in driver is required. Mercedes currently has Formula E drivers Stoffel Vandoorne and Nyck de Vries already locked in as its official
Vinales continued evaluating the 2021 chassis on Thursday, riding three different specs of Yamaha on his way to the top of the timesheets with a 1m53.244s. The eight-time race winner spent the first test focusing on his own riding style and was “surprised” at how good his long run pace was on the 2020 bike.
8:44 AM ET Fernando Alonso says his Formula One return will not be affected by the broken jaw he suffered earlier this year. Alonso’s preparations hit a setback last month when he was knocked off his bike in Switzerland. He suffered a fractured upper jaw and underwent surgery to have two titanium plates fitted to
Aston Martin was perhaps the most open of all Formula 1 teams when it came to the launch of its latest challenger. But as the new AMR21 rolled out on to the track in Bahrain for the start of pre-season testing, it was clear to see that the team was already ringing the changes, with
The world champion outfit had launched its W12 earlier this month but been open that it was not fitted with a real version of the floor that it would be running in 2021. With F1’s aero rules having changed this year in a bid to cut back on downforce, teams have been forced to rework
The entire MotoGP paddock will be effectively locked down in Qatar until the beginning of April following the Doha Grand Prix, with pre-season testing currently underway. The 2021 season will begin on 28 March with the Qatar GP, while a second round has been added following the postponement of the US and Argentine GPs as a
2:13 AM ET Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Nate Saunders Close F1 Associate Editor • Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes • History graduate from Reading University• Joined ESPNF1 in February 2014 This page will be updated during the day with news and developments from the
The seven-time NASCAR Cup champion has tested at Barber Motorsports Park, Sebring and Laguna Seca, and has found that aside from trying to exploit his Chip Ganassi Racing Honda’s aerodynamic grip, he’s also been too “gentle” on his tyres on out-laps. He described an IndyCar as “a monster”, and has added Formula 3 outings to
A report from the Financial Times in December claimed that F1 was in “advanced” talks with Amazon over streaming races in 2021, building on an existing partnership with Amazon Web Services. Amazon has been expanding its live sport offerings in recent years, picking up rights across Premier League football, tennis and the NFL. Speaking to
The six-time MotoGP podium finisher admitted last weekend that he was finding the Honda “stressful” as he hadn’t had a crash yet to understand the limits of the bike. That first tumble came on the penultimate day of testing when he slid off at Turn 1 on the third lap of his first run. Unscathed by
Sainz will make his first public appearance in a Ferrari F1 car later this week when pre-season testing gets underway at the Bahrain International Circuit. But with just three days of testing this year before the first race of the season in Bahrain, drivers changing teams have been left with a limited window in which
1:50 PM ET Alfa Romeo’s F1 boss Frederic Vasseur will miss the three days of preseason testing in Bahrain after testing positive for COVID-19. Vasseur tested positive and immediately entered self-isolation in France. Two days later he had a test and returned a negative result and is displaying no symptoms. However, he will not travel
As to be expected following a season like no other in 2020, the break before the 2021 campaign also had many unique elements. Drivers had their preparations impacted by growing travel restrictions around the world, while three – Lando Norris, Charles Leclerc and Pierre Gasly – also had to battle off a bout of COVID-19
Gerhard Berger planned a Lamborghini all-star team comprising ex-Formula 1 stars Nico Hulkenberg and Jacques Villeneuve for the 2021 DTM season but failed to strike a deal, Autosport has learned. Following the news of the DTM’s switch to GT3 cars, ITR boss Berger had been working hard over the winter to secure a driver line-up
The one-time MotoGP race winner has had a difficult pre-season so far, ending the first test 1.5 seconds off the pace in 16th following two crashes on the last day, and was 20th on the opening day of the second outing on Wednesday after another tumble. Branding his Wednesday “a bit of a shocking day”,
8:31 AM ET Niamh Lewis This article is part of ESPN’s coverage of Women’s History Month. Twelve years ago Chloe Targett-Adams joined Formula One as a corporate lawyer, and is now the sport’s director of global race promotions. When she walked into the office for the first time, she more women being present than anywhere
Mazepin will make his F1 debut later this month with Haas after graduating from F2, where he finished fifth in last year’s championship. The Russian driver ended last season on 11 penalty points after a string of incidents, leaving him just one shy of the threshold to trigger a one-race ban. Mazepin’s penalty points record
Sportscar and touring car racing were Greene’s specialism: he worked for Alan Mann Racing, Broadspeed, Gordon Spice Racing, Rondeau, Nissan and Richard Lloyd Racing to name but a few of his employers. He won the British Touring Car Championship with Alan Mann in 1967 and 1968, overseeing the Ford Falcons, Lotus Cortinas and Escort twin-cams
Generally the last to hit the track in the opening test, Suzuki were among the first out on Wednesday afternoon, with Alex Rins topping the opening hour with a 1m55.791s. By the end of hour two, Aleix Espargaro had guided his Aprilia to top spot with a 1m55.049s, with his Honda-mounted brother Pol just 0.016s
Check out the sights and sounds from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Sebring International Raceway.
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With the arrival of Scott McLaughlin from Supercars, Jimmie Johnson from NASCAR and Romain Grosjean from Formula 1, Rahal says that he believes every driver in the IndyCar Series has the potential to win. This makes it very different from his debut year at the top level, driving for Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing in Champ Car, the
The Haas Formula 1 team has fired up the customer Ferrari power unit its VF-21 car for the first time, prior to this week’s official pre-season test in Bahrain. Typically teams will run the engines in their new cars in their factories at the first possible opportunity, in order to check their systems ahead of
Quartararo dipped underneath the old outright lap record at the Qatar Grand Prix venue on Wednesday, ending the day 0.080 seconds behind Ducati’s Jack Miller in second. But despite also showing strong long run pace on his Yamaha, Quartararo was some 12km/h down through the speed trap relative to Ducati and admits he doesn’t “feel
By the time the Qatar Grand Prix rolls around, Espargaro will have had just five days of riding on the Honda this winter having spent the last four years on the KTM. After a solid opening test at Losail last weekend, Espargaro was just seven tenths off Miller’s record pace of 1m53.183s on the first
12:27 PM ET Most Ferrari Formula One team members have taken up Bahrain’s offer of COVID-19 vaccinations ahead of testing and this month’s season-opener, despite the sport’s stated reluctance to jump any queues. 1 Related The Gazzetta dello Sport newspaper reported on Wednesday that 90% of Ferrari staff travelling to Bahrain had accepted the offer
The 2014 IndyCar champion and 2018 Indy 500 winner finished fifth in last year’s championship after two wins, five poles, a string of misfortunes and a couple of driving errors. Now as he approaches contract renewal time, Power says talk about his future won’t affect his style or approach to the season his 13th with
Formula 1 roars back into action for 2021 with pre-season testing taking place across three days in Bahrain on 12-14 March. Here’s how to watch testing and what to look out for. While most teams have already completed a shakedown with their new cars, limited to 100km, Bahrain will mark the first opportunity to give
The Swiss driver, sporting a special tribute livery of his car to Campos Racing’s recently deceased founder Adrian Campos, clocked a 1m44.095s time, which proved enough to end the session fastest. Boschung emerged at the top of the timesheets at the end of the first hour having posted a 1m47.100s, before going on to lower
The first brothers to do this at the top level were Juan Carlos Salatino and Eduardo Salatino at the Argentine 500cc Grand Prix in 1962, with the siblings finishing second and third behind winner Benedicto Caldarella. The only other time this feat has been achieved was at the City of Imola Grand Prix in 1997,