Alex Bowman will lead the field to green in this weekend’s NASCAR Cup season-opening Daytona 500. Here’s how and when you can watch the race. Hendrick Motorsports driver Bowman, who has moved across to the #48 Chevrolet Camaro to replace seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson, claimed his second pole for the event in qualifying on Wednesday
Hyundai is still awaiting “the green light” to develop its 2022 World Rally Championship challenger, with the Korean marque’s board yet to confirm whether it will compete next year. While Toyota and M-Sport are inching closer to running their Rally1 test mules in the open for the first time, work on Hyundai’s new challenger has
5:30 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo has revealed his 2021 race helmet design, featuring a pro-equality message of “all good, all ways” on the top. Since leaving the Red Bull programme at the end of 2018 Ricciardo has not had to carry the company’s branding on his race helmet and has been able to have total
When McLaren pulls the covers off its new MCL35M at its Woking factory this evening, the expectation is of it being Formula 1’s most different car of 2021. With teams forced to carry over their chassis from last season to this one, as part of cost-saving measures introduced in response to the coronavirus pandemic, the
Michael McDowell scored his first NASCAR Cup Series win in the heavily-delayed Daytona 500, after a fiery final-lap crash eliminated the leading Penske duo of Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski. On lap 170 of 200, the Ford Mustang runners, including both remaining Penske drivers and the Front Row Motorsports entry of McDowell pitted for the
11:54 PM ET A crash and a rain delay can certainly make anyone a little hungry. At the Daytona 500, several drivers took matters into their own hand. Just 15 laps into Sunday’s race, Aric Almirola turned into Alex Bowman causing a 16-car pileup. Shortly after, the race was stopped due to lightning. Then came
The decision to introduce one-shot qualifying to Formula 1 in 2003 proved controversial and was prone to being exploited but, as STUART CODLING argues, the initial idea behind it was sound While the form of the racing has resisted change throughout the seven-decade span of the Formula 1 world championship, qualifying has been tormented with
New Tech3 MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci says he was “the first one to see and believe in KTM” and the progress it had made after the 2019 season. The factory Ducati outcast has joined Tech3 for 2021 after signing directly with KTM, and will ride as a factory-supported rider at Herve Poncharal’s squad. The double
23XI Racing co-owner Michael Jordan says driver Bubba Wallace has the talent to “learn how to win” in the NASCAR Cup Series this year. The team set up by basketball legend Jordan and Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin has debuted in Sunday’s Daytona 500, which hit pause after 15 laps following a 16-car pileup
Guanyu Zhou represents China’s only chance of having a Formula 1 driver in the next 15-20 years, according to Alpine academy director Mia Sharizman. Zhou has been part of the French team’s academy since 2019, joining under its previous Renault guise, and served as the squad’s F1 test driver last year. Zhou scored his maiden
Suzuki’s Alex Rins believes the stability in the technical regulations for the 2021 MotoGP season means the quantity of rivalries on-track “will be so high”. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MotoGP has implemented a freeze on engine development for 2021, with all but KTM (as it lost concessions in 2020) and Aprilia (because it still
Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher have both won seven Formula 1 world championships, but only one man has conquered NASCAR’s Daytona 500 seven times – Richard Petty. Four decades on, TOM HOWARD revisits The King’s record-setting final win in 1981 The 2021 NASCAR Cup season gets underway this weekend, with Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny
Ott Tanak says there is “a big job” to be completed before he is in a position to win the World Rally Championship’s Arctic Rally Finland in a fortnight’s time. Tanak warmed-up for the next round of the WRC by taking part in yesterday’s Otepaa Winter Rally, dominating the competition by going fastest on every
7:00 AM ET DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — You don’t have to watch golf every weekend to love The Masters. You don’t have to be an odds enthusiast who lives at the betting window to love the Kentucky Derby. And you sure don’t have to be an auto racing fan to appreciate the Daytona 500, NASCAR’s
After months of back-and-forth between Formula 1 teams, an agreement was reached last week to introduce an engine development freeze from 2022. Ever since Honda announced at the start of October that it would be ending its involvement in F1 after 2021, Red Bull had been pushing hard to get an engine freeze implemented. The
Six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez’s broken right arm, which ruled him out of the 2020 season, is now beginning to show signs of healing, according to Honda. Marquez broke his right humerus in a crash during the latter stages of last year’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez and immediately underwent surgery to have a
NASCAR president Steve Phelps says he would “surprised” if a new OEM opted to enter the top level of stock car racing without provision for an electric hybrid system. As automotive companies are increasingly distancing themselves from internal combustion engines in favour of hybrid or fully electric powertrains, NASCAR has found itself in a quandary
8:48 PM ET Associated Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Austin Cindric opened his Xfinity Series title defense with a Saturday night victory at Daytona International Speedway that could count as the biggest of his blossoming career. Cindric got a push to the lead at the start of two-lap overtime from AJ Allmendinger that gave him
The new Formula 1 season may still be six weeks away, but a number of key decisions were taken in the past few days that could shape the series’ future. Following months of discussions in the wake of Honda’s decision to quit F1, Red Bull finally got the green light for its proposed engine freeze
KTM and its satellite squad Tech3 have unveiled the liveries they will race in the 2021 MotoGP season at its official launch presentation. This season will mark KTM’s fifth in the premier class having made its debut back in 2017, and will be its third supplying machinery to Tech3. Last year proved to be a
Erik Jones and Martin Truex Jr are the latest NASCAR Cup drivers to be hit with a penalty before the Daytona 500, taking the number of drivers penalised to eight. Jones, who has switched to Richard Petty Motorsports for the 2021 campaign after being dropped by Joe Gibbs Racing, fell foul of the single engine
Esapekka Lappi says that he would be happy to perform test and development duties for a World Rally Championship manufacturer team as a means to earn a seat for 2022. The 2016 WRC2 champion is currently without a seat in the WRC following his departure from the M-Sport Ford squad in December. Following his title
Despite new aero rules aimed at slowing Formula 1 cars down, while also improving their ability to race closely, the 2019 Mercedes W10 continued the team’s turbo hybrid-era winning streak. Lewis Hamilton saw off the challenge of Ferrari and team-mate Valtteri Bottas to secure his sixth world championship title, as Mercedes comfortably continued its run
AJ Foyt Racing is now “pulling in the same direction” after a period of turbulence for the IndyCar outfit, according to team president Larry Foyt. The team owned by seven-time Indycar champion and four-time Indianapolis 500 winner AJ Foyt has managed just three top-five finishes in the past three seasons, having managed none at all
Tech3 team boss Herve Poncharal believes a satellite team can win the 2021 MotoGP world championship given the amount of factory support on offer now. Eight of 2020’s 14 grands prix were won by riders at satellite teams, with Fabio Quartararo and Petronas SRT team-mate Franco Morbidelli responsible for three each, while Tech3’s Miguel Oliveira
One-time Daytona 500 winner Derrike Cope says the NASCAR Cup regulars will “know I am there” in his final competition appearance on Sunday, 10 years after his last Daytona start. The 62-year-old, who famously won the Daytona 500 in 1990 after a puncture on the last lap denied Dale Earnhardt a maiden victory in the
Ott Tanak threw down the gauntlet to his World Rally Championship rivals by cruising to a 33.4 second victory on today’s Otepaa Winter Rally, a warmup for Arctic Rally Finland. Despite fresh snow making for “pretty demanding” conditions, the 2019 WRC champion set fastest times on all eight special stages in the Estonian event to
11:34 AM ET Formula One will put a stop to all engine development once the 2021 season has concluded. The development freeze will coincide with the overhaul to F1’s aerodynamic rules, which many hope will end Mercedes’ current dominance of the sport. Mercedes has won every championship stretching back to 2014 and the introduction of
OPINION: After the significant decision was agreed by Formula 1 teams to freeze engine development from 2022, focus will invariably turn to the next set of regulations. As JONATHAN NOBLE explains, F1 is prepared to learn from the mistakes of 2014 Formula 1 has made no secret of the fact that it did not get
Brad Binder says he “truly believes” KTM is now capable of fighting for the MotoGP world championship in 2021 after its breakout 2020 campaign. KTM scored three wins across its fourth year in the premier class last season, with Binder securing the Austrian marque’s first MotoGP win in just his third race at the Czech