8:58 AM ET Romain Grosjean will compete in a select number of IndyCar races this season for Dale Coyne Racing. Grosjean made the announcement just over two months after his miraculous escape from a burning wreckage at the Bahrain Grand Prix. The French driver, who has explained in detail how he thought he was going
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Romain Grosjean’s remarkable escape from the flaming wreck of his Haas in Bahrain marked his final act in Formula 1, but his single-seater career is by no means finished. As he told DAVID MALSHER-LOPEZ, IndyCar holds an appeal that F1 could not satisfy “I heard it’s a different atmosphere in IndyCar, and that’s going to
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Plans to build a Formula 1 circuit in a forest on the outskirts of Rio have formally been abandoned, a local Brazilian government official has confirmed. Former F1 CEO Chase Carey was keen to move Brazil’s grand prix away from Interlagos, and a deal to run the race in Rio was formally agreed last September.
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7:01 AM ET Rio de Janeiro’s new mayor has scrapped previous plans, criticised by seven times world champion Lewis Hamilton and environmentalists, to build a new Formula One circuit in the city. 1 Related Rio’s Environment Secretary Eduardo Cavaliere said on Twitter on Monday that Mayor Eduardo Paes, who took office last month, had instructed
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Three-time Daytona 500 winner Denny Hamlin will continue his involvement with the Joe Gibbs Racing team and sponsor FedEx after agreeing a new multi-year deal. Hamlin has spent the entirety of his NASCAR Cup Series career with JGR, dating back to when he made his debut in 2005 and his relationship with FedEx going even
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4:50 PM ET Associated Press Wayne Taylor Racing won its record-tying third consecutive Rolex 24 at Daytona, using a new car and a new lineup to beat some of the best racers in the world. Filipe Albuquerque held off Kamui Kobayashi and Renger van der Zande — both part of WTR’s winning teams the past
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BT Sport has agreed a fresh three-year deal with Dorna Sports to continue exclusively broadcasting the MotoGP world championship in the UK through to 2024. The subscription-based broadcaster took over from BBC as the UK’s live MotoGP broadcaster in 2014, moving the coverage away from free-to-air. Since then BT has aired exclusive live coverage of
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3:32 AM ET AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly said on Sunday he had tested positive for COVID-19, meaning six of Formula One’s 20 race drivers have now contracted the virus. The 24-year-old Frenchman, who recently posted pictures on Instagram of training in Dubai, made the announcement on Twitter. “I wanted to let you know that I tested
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Pierre Gasly became the sixth F1 driver to contract COVID-19 while in a training camp in Dubai. His movements, and those of his fellow drivers, have courted controversy – but also raises questions about F1 drivers’ susceptibility to the virus. LUKE SMITH investigates the reasons why News that Pierre Gasly had tested positive for COVID-19
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3:47 AM ET Brazilian Enzo Fittipaldi, grandson of double Formula One world champion Emerson, won the first virtual grand prix of the year for Haas on Sunday after a scrap with Arthur Leclerc, younger brother of Ferrari driver Charles. 1 Related The 19-year-old won the 36 lap race around a video version of Austria’s Red
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5:13 PM ET Associated Press Antonio Garcia tested positive for COVID-19 at some point during the Rolex 24 at Daytona and was pulled from the winning Corvette Racing team before the endurance event concluded. General Motors did not announce the Spaniard had tested positive until after the race ended Sunday at Daytona International Speedway. “As
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