The man tasked with overseeing work on M-Sport’s new Rally1 car believes it will be an immediate title contender in the 2022 World Rally Championship. As part of the ongoing process in developing a car for WRC’s rules overhaul, a workshop team dedicated to the project, and a separate test programme, have been created, while
League One English football club MK Dons will sport a special one-off shirt this weekend in its fixture against Oxford United celebrating Joan Mir’s 2020 MotoGP world championship victory. Mir ended a 20-year title drought for Suzuki last year when he won the 2020 MotoGP crown with a race to spare, having amassed one grand
12:23 PM ET Ferrari will return to racing in the main category of the Le Mans 24 Hours from 2023 onwards. The Italian manufacturer announced Wednesday it is building a hypercar to enter sports car racing’s main series, the World Endurance Championship. Ferrari has not competed in the premier class of the Le Mans 24
Daniel Ricciardo says he is less ‘scared’ of sprint races ruining Formula 1 like reserve grids would do, as long as they don’t end up devaluing victories. F1 teams are currently evaluating the details about how to implement some sprint race experiments at select events in 2021, to see if they should be introduced as
Ex-Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean says he “used to be an asshole as a team-mate”, but has told new IndyCar stablemate Ed Jones he’d “like us to be friendly”. The Frenchman, who will race all 13 of the 2021 IndyCar Series’ road and street courses for Dale Coyne Racing, completed his first test in the
Six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez insists he “never thought I will not race again” during his injury layoff in 2020 after breaking his arm at the Spanish Grand Prix. Marquez broke the humerus in his right arm in a crash in the latter stages of the opening round of the 2020 season and wouldn’t
4:58 AM ET Silverstone is hopeful it will be able to welcome 140,000 fans to the British Grand Prix in July. The July 18 event is set to take place four weeks after the proposed dates the UK government will end Covid-19 restrictions in England. To fill gaps in the schedule caused by the pandemic,
The 2021 Formula 1 team launch season is well underway with Red Bull becoming the latest squad to reveal its new challenger, the RB16B. The Milton Keynes-based outfit became the fourth team to unveil its new car after McLaren kicked off events at the start of last week, followed by AlphaTauri last Friday and Alfa
Rising French talent Adrien Fourmaux will step up to the World Rally Championship’s top division at April’s Rally Croatia with M-Sport. Confirmation of the drive in a Ford Fiesta WRC car coincides with the news that Red Bull has finalised terms to support the 25-year-old going forward. Last month, M-Sport said Fourmaux would be handed
3:18 PM ET Ahead of the new Formula One season, teams will reveal their new car designs for the new season. This year will not feature radical changes to the majority of cars. There is a radical rule change next year, which F1 hopes will help reset the competitive order. Teams can test their new
Sergio Perez called it “a dream come true” to drive a Red Bull Formula 1 car for the first time after completing his first outing for the team at Silverstone. Following his winter switch from Racing Point, Sakhir Grand Prix winner Perez hit the track for the first time in a Red Bull car on
Ex-Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean says he’s “really happy” with his first morning testing an IndyCar, despite spinning off and feeling soreness in his arms and recovering burnt left hand. The 34-year-old is part of a 12-car test at Barber Motorsports Park, teaming up with the Dale Coyne Racing squad for the first time. He
Tributes to double 125cc world champion and veteran team boss Fausto Gresini have flooded in from the MotoGP paddock following his death on Tuesday. Gresini was taken ill with COVID-19 just before Christmas and was hospitalised on 27 December in Imola, before being transferred to a specialist COVID care ward in Bologna. On Tuesday, the
Sebastien Ogier says Toyota Gazoo Racing team-mate Kalle Rovanpera can make World Rally Championship history and become the series’ youngest-ever winner in this week’s Arctic Rally Finland. The snow-based event is a new addition to the WRC calendar and replaces Rally Sweden, which was cancelled in December due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Rovanpera, whose father
8:45 AM ET Associated Press BOLOGNA, Italy — Fausto Gresini, a former motorcycling world champion and team owner, died Tuesday from complications linked to the coronavirus. He was 60. Gresini Racing said he died in the hospital in Bologna, exactly a month after his 60th birthday. It also posted the news on its official Twitter
Red Bull has revealed the first images of its 2021 Formula 1 car, the RB16B. The Milton Keynes-based outfit showed off the Honda-powered challenger on Tuesday morning, becoming the fourth team to unveil its new car. The RB16B is an evolution of the 2020 RB16, with team boss Christian Horner explaining at the end of
Double 125cc world champion and veteran MotoGP team boss Fausto Gresini has died at the age of 60 in hospital in Italy after a two-month battle with COVID-19. The Italian was taken ill with the virus just before Christmas and was hospitalised on 27 December in Imola. As his condition worsened, he was transferred to
6:28 AM ET Alfa Romeo has unveiled its car for the 2021 Formula One season. 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen will partner Italy’s Antonio Giovinazzi at the team for a third season. Alfa Romeo, known as Sauber until 2019, launched the new car, dubbed the C41, in Poland with title sponsor PKN Orlen. Alfa is
Alfa Romeo has opted to spend its two Formula 1 development tokens for 2021 on designing a new nose and other parts around the front-end of the C41 car. Alfa Romeo unveiled its updated model for the 2021 season at an event in Warsaw on Monday, ahead of its on-track debut in Barcelona on Friday
Christopher Bell hunted down leader Joey Logano in the closing laps of the NASCAR Cup Series race on the Daytona road course to record his maiden at the 38th attempt. A caution for a brief rain shower with 17 laps of the scheduled 70 around the 3.6-mile circuit closed the field up, with the leaders
The MCL35M has reached an important milestone in its development, as we fire up our new engine for the first time ahead of the 2021 Formula 1 season. 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 &
The factory Honda MotoGP team has unwrapped its 2021 challenger at an event with new rider Pol Espargaro and six-time world champion Marc Marquez. HRC’s 2021 factory launch event signalled Marquez’s first public appearance in Repsol colours since aborting his comeback from a broken arm during last July’s Andalusian Grand Prix. Marquez will be joined
To celebrate what would have been Niki Lauda’s 72nd birthday, legendary Formula One designer Gordon Murray has named his latest car design after the three-time world champion. Murray, who now runs Gordon Murray Automobiles (GMA), has set his sights on creating the ultimate driver’s car and the result is two-fold: the remarkable road-going T.50 and
Christian Horner says Red Bull has had to fix a correlation misalignment in its Formula 1 design and windtunnel work, which contributed its 2020 car problems. Red Bull’s RB16 machine had several spins during winter testing last year, a problem that continued when the pandemic-delayed season got underway. The team initially attributed the spins to
Penske team-mates Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano are split over the NASCAR Cup series’ increased road course intake, with the former believing the series must “reap what we sow.” In a radical shakeup for the 2021 campaign, there will be a record seven road course events on the 36-round Cup Series calendar, including visits to
Six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez admits he doesn’t know when he will make his return to racing from injury, and confirms he will not ride in the Qatar test. The Honda rider broke his right humerus in a crash during last July’s Spanish Grand Prix, and has been out of action since making an
9:51 AM ET Alex Albon is determined to return to Formula One in 2022 after he was replaced by Sergio Perez at Red Bull over the winter. 1 Related Albon raced for two years in F1, completing half a season with Red Bull’s junior team, Toro Rosso, before being promoted to the senior team midway
Alex Albon says there is no point ‘wallowing about’ over losing his Red Bull Formula 1 drive, because that will not help him win a race seat back. The Thai driver has been replaced by Sergio Perez for this season, after Red Bull felt that Albon had not delivered what it needed in its bid
Christopher Bell says he is not “overly shocked” at winning his first career NASCAR Cup race on a road course, although he believes to win at Daytona “is quite surprising”. Bell, who was promoted to the Joe Gibbs Racing squad for 2021 in place of Erik Jones, posted a maiden career win at the 38th
Technical regulations within Formula 1 seemingly get more and more restrictive as the years go on, much to the chagrin of many fans. But, as KEVIN TURNER argues, a wide-open rulebook would be detrimental to the series They should free-up the regulations. The only rule should be that the cars have to fit into a