Marc Marquez watched his start from MotoGP’s 2015 Italian Grand Prix to inspire his launch from 11th to second on the opening lap of this year’s Malaysian race. The Honda rider crashed heavily while trying to follow eventual poleman Fabio Quartararo in Saturday’s qualifying session at Sepang and ended up 11th on the grid, which
Kevin Harvick overcame a mid-race penalty to lead home a Stewart-Haas 1-2-3 in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Texas, booking himself a spot in the championship decider. Harvick was slapped with the penalty for loose equipment on pitroad following a stop just after half-distance in the 334-lap race. That dropped him into the midfield
Valtteri Bottas says it “feels good” to deny team-mate Lewis Hamilton the chance to win the Formula 1 title with victory in the United States Grand Prix. Poleman Bottas passed Hamilton on track with five laps remaining at Austin after falling behind because he committed to a two-stop strategy while Mercedes kept Hamilton on a
AUSTIN, Texas — On Saturday night at Circuit of the Americas outside of Austin, Texas, Lewis Hamilton found himself stuck in those awkward early-evening hours between a frustratingly disappointing United States Grand Prix qualifying effort (fifth) and the exhilaration of knowing that in less than 24 hours he would likely be celebrating his sixth Formula
Malaysian Grand Prix poleman Fabio Quartararo says a “total disaster” of a first lap put him on the back foot for the rest of the Sepang MotoGP race. The Petronas SRT rider was expected to challenge for his first race win at Sepang, having set lap records in practice and taken a convincing pole position.
Tension between NASCAR Cup title rivals Joey Logano and Denny Hamlin over their Martinsville pitlane scuffle lingers going into this weekend’s Texas Motor Speedway race. Logano confronted Hamlin in the pitlane after being knocked into a spin during last weekend’s race, and shoved the Joe Gibbs Racing driver as he walked away – which triggered
The FIA is considering a change for 2020 to the missed weighbridge regulation that forced Sergio Perez to start from the pitlane in the Formula 1 race at Austin. Perez missed the red light at the end of FP2, but was given the instruction to visit the weighbridge by his engineer over the radio. The
8:53 PM ET Nate Saunders Close F1 Associate Editor • Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes • History graduate from Reading University• Joined ESPNF1 in February 2014 Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 AUSTIN — Securing the championship at the U.S. Grand Prix might be a cakewalk
Team LeMans Lexus duo Kenta Yamashita and Kazuya Oshima won the 2019 SUPER GT title by finishing second behind championship rivals Nick Cassidy and Ryo Hirakawa in the Motegi season finale. While Hirakawa and Cassidy were able to recover from fourth on the grid to take their first victory of the 2019 season in the
Suzuki rider Joan Mir criticised MotoGP race direction for penalising him for his Malaysian Grand Prix clash with Johann Zarco – saying Zarco apologised to him for it. Zarco and Mir were running right behind Jack Miller in ninth and 10th beginning the final quarter of the race when they collided at the long Turn
Three-time NASCAR Cup champion Tony Stewart has slammed the decision to hold Formula 1 and NASCAR events in Texas on the same day as “asinine”. This weekend’s United States Grand Prix at Austin is clashing with NASCAR’s event at Texas Motor Speedway 200 miles away – forcing motor racing fans to choose which event they
Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff both believe Ferrari has lost straightline performance at Austin, but stopped short of attributing that to the FIA’s fuel-flow directive. The governing body has issued a technical directive in response to an enquiry from Red Bull Racing that explored possible loopholes in the measurement of
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At IMSA’s annual “State of the Series” at Road America on Friday, IMSA unveiled the 2020 schedule for the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
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Murray Walker and James Hunt shared the BBC’s F1 commentary box for 13 years. In this one off interview, Murray Walker gives us his take on James, the McLaren world champion and renowned Formula One hell raiser!
‘Shut that door!’ – Mercedes races with door wide open. Driver goes ballistic on door of BMW in pit lane. The Official YouTube channel of the FIA GT Championship and Blancpain Endurance Series Watch live races, exclusive driver interviews and all behind the scenes action from the world’s best GT sprint Series’. The Blancpain Endurance
10:40 PM ET Associated Press LAS VEGAS — Jack Beckman made the quickest Funny Car run in The Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway history Saturday night to take the No. 1 qualifying spot in the Dodge NHRA Nationals. Beckman had a pass of 3.835 seconds at 331.94 mph during the final session in a
Marc Marquez says his massive crash in Malaysian Grand Prix MotoGP qualifying was the result of him trying to “copy” eventual poleman Fabio Quartararo’s Turn 2 approach. Quartararo set new lap records in both of Friday’s practice sessions and was already targeted by Marquez in the early stages of Q2 to be used as a
Kurt Busch has secured a new multi-year deal with the Chip Ganassi Racing NASCAR Cup Series team. The 2004 champion’s move to Ganassi for this season was initially just a one-year contract following his split with Stewart-Haas Racing. The 41-year-old then took Ganassi’s first win of 2019 at Kentucky Speedway in July and made it
Ferrari Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel says he regrets being so conservative on his first United States Grand Prix Q3 run after losing pole to Valtteri Bottas by 0.012 seconds. Vettel finished the first Q3 attempts just behind his Mercedes rival, but was confident of doing better on the final run because he had taken
4:00 PM ET AUSTIN — The owner of the Circuit of the Americas (COTA), home to this weekend’s U.S. Grand Prix, believes F1 risks diluting its product as it pushes ahead with a race “around the parking lot” surrounding Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium. 1 Related The U.S. GP in Austin has become one of the
Jenson Button finishes his two-year SUPER GT stint in the 2019 finale at Motegi on Sunday, and you can watch the race live on Autosport from 4.20am UK time. But while Button’s rookie campaign alongside Naoki Yamamoto last year resulted in a championship win at the first attempt, this time the pair are out of
Andrea Dovizioso says Marc Marquez’s shadowing of MotoGP Malaysian Grand Prix poleman Fabio Quartararo prior to his qualifying crash was “very aggressive”, but praised the Honda rider’s relentlessness. Marquez followed Petronas SRT rider Quartararo on their first run in Q2 and tried to do the same in the latter stages of the session. The Honda
Max Verstappen topped final practice for Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix, as Lando Norris posted a surprise third-best time for McLaren and Charles Leclerc stopped with a problem. Red Bull driver Verstappen bested Sebastian Vettel by 0.218 seconds in Saturday morning’s session at Austin, but Vettel ended up the only Ferrari driver to set
9:14 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Lewis Hamilton needs just four points to make certain he secures his sixth world championship on Sunday, but after Friday practice at the Circuit of the Americas he will have his sights set way higher than the eighth place finish he needs to secure those points. Winning on U.S.
Lexus locked out the front row for this weekend’s SUPER GT title decider at Motegi, as Kenta Yamashita put the points-leading Team LeMans LC500 second behind Yuhi Sekiguchi’s TOM’S entry. Sekiguchi posted a 1m35.964s in the #36 TOM’S Lexus he shares with Kazuki Nakajima in the dying moments of the pole shootout to take his
Indonesian rider Afridza Munandar has died from injuries sustained in a crash in the Asia Talent Cup race on the support bill at MotoGP’s Malaysian Grand Prix. The opening race of the 2019 ATC finale at Sepang got under way after MotoGP qualifying earlier on Saturday. On the opening lap, at Turn 10, Munandar was
The bumpy Austin track has been defended by several Formula 1 drivers at the United States Grand Prix, including Daniel Ricciardo saying “perfect” circuits feel like driving in video games. World champion Lewis Hamilton said he was left with a “massive headache” after Friday’s opening practice session at the Circuit of the Americas, as others
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