Maverick Vinales says he was not going to settle for second place in MotoGP’s Australian Grand Prix and that he would have rather crashed, which he ended up doing. Yamaha rider Vinales led the majority of the race, but eventual winner Marc Marquez was right behind him all along and the Honda man passed him
Martin Truex Jr became the first NASCAR Cup Series driver to book his place in the title-deciding final race by dominating at Martinsville for Joe Gibbs Racing. Truex, who led a crushing 464 laps out of 500, moved into the lead of the race at the 0.5-mile circuit after quick work from the JGR crew
McLaren has escaped an unsafe release penalty following the Formula 1 Mexican Grand Prix, the FIA ruling it was “not possible to determine” whether the team had broken the regulations. Lando Norris was forced to bring his McLaren MCL34 to a halt at the pitlane exit during the race after making his sole pitstop, with
12:34 PM ET Laine Clark It looked like a changing of the guard but Holden’s Red Bull Racing are not getting ahead of themselves despite dominating the Supercars’ Gold Coast 600. In a dream weekend, RBR claimed a one-two finish in both 300km races on the tourist strip in what appeared to be a huge
Frederik Schandorff clinched the Lamborghini Super Trofeo World Final title in dramatic fashion at Jerez after finishing tied on points with Sandy Mitchell and Andrea Amici. The Dane, who shared the #31 Target Racing machine with Jonathan Cecotto, won Saturday’s opener ahead of Mitchell and Amici’s Prestige Performance/Wayne Taylor Racing Huracan, with the places reversed
Toyota’s Ott Tanak has won the 2019 World Rally Championship with one round to spare as he took second place at Rally Spain, where Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville secured victory. Neuville tried hard to deny Tanak’s coronation with a perfectly controlled performance. He hit the front on Saturday when the action switched from gravel to asphalt
Valentino Rossi could only manage eighth in the MotoGP Australian Grand Prix having led early on because Yamaha’s speed deficit meant he was “the slowest on the straight”. Rossi took the lead at the start of what was his 400th grand prix appearance from fourth on the grid, but could only keep first place for
Ross Brawn says that the failure of teams to agree to reversed-grid experiments next year demonstrates a ‘classic problem’ of too much self-interest in Formula 1. The idea to hold three reversed-grid qualifying races in 2020 was aimed at delivering an answer on whether or not the format was something that could be kept for
12:32 AM ET Laine Clark For the first time in 11 years, Craig Lowndes has savoured a Supercars victory with Jamie Whincup. Now Lowndes is hungry to make up for lost time in the Gold Coast 600’s finale on Sunday. Seven-time Bathurst champion Lowndes celebrated his first win since announcing his retirement from full-time driving
Thierry Neuville is on the brink of his third World Rally Championship victory of the year on Rally of Spain as Hyundai team-mate Dani Sordo resisted Ott Tanak’s advances. But third place for Tanak would be enough for him to claim his first WRC title, provided he either beats or is just one place behind
Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez was victorious in the Australian Grand Prix as long-time race leader Maverick Vinales crashed out on the final lap. Both Marquez and Vinales started from the front row but had slow getaways, meaning Valentino Rossi – making his 400th MotoGP start – held the lead, with Cal Crutchlow and Andrea
Lewis Hamilton says he was messaging Peter Bonnington for set-up advice before Mexican Grand Prix qualifying but has hailed the performance of his regular Formula 1 race engineer’s replacements. Bonnington has engineered Hamilton to all four of his drivers’ titles with Mercedes and the pair are on the brink of a fifth together this year,
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In this episode of Tooned, Jenson Button, Sergio Perez, and Professor M (voiced by Alexander Armstrong), are gathered at the McLaren Technology Centre to celebrate our 50th anniversary when a mystery guest arrives….. Line up on the grid for the first episode in the new series of Tooned! Inspired by McLaren50, Tooned takes a look
7:53 PM ET MEXICO CITY — After viewing the evidence on Saturday evening, the stewards decided there was little doubt Max Verstappen had contravened yellow flag rules on his pole position lap at the Mexican Grand Prix. Based on telemetry, video and audio evidence — as well as testimony from Verstappen himself — they stated
Following a steward’s review, Louis Prette won the Ferrari Challenge Europe championship in Mugello, despite a 25-second penalty that relegated him from second to 27th in the final race. Prette had a 13-point advantage over title rival and pole-sitter Niccolo Schiro heading into the final race, and looked to have secured the championship with second,
Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville has resumed the lead of World Rally Championship Rally of Spain from team-mate Sebastien Loeb as Toyota’s Kris Meeke crashed out of a podium place. After Friday’s six gravel stages, the action switched to Tarmac, and Meeke immediately dethroned Dani Sordo of third place on the opening Savalla test with a second-quickest
Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales put on a dominant display in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix to claim pole by a more than half a second from Fabio Quartararo. Vinales built on the pace he showed earlier in the weekend, breaking into the 1m28s barrier on his first run in Q2, which put him
Mercedes Formula 1 driver Valtteri Bottas says he initially felt pain in his right knee following the “nasty” second impact in his Mexican Grand Prix qualifying crash. Bottas crashed at the final corner on his last run in Q3 after running wide and sliding into the concrete wall, where he sustained relatively little damage until
12:11 AM ET Laine Clark Retirement may be on the horizon for Jamie Whincup after the seven-time Supercars series champion admitted he was not sure what the future held when his current Holden contract ran out at the end of 2020. The four-time Bathurst champion had already sparked rumours that he was about to pull
Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville heads Rally Spain by 21.5-seconds as World Rally Championship champion-elect Ott Tanak surged onto the podium in place of Sebastien Loeb on Saturday afternoon. The running began with Neuville, Loeb and Sordo preserving a Hyundai 1-2-3, with Toyota’s Tanak 9.8s behind Sordo. But Tanak won the first pass of El Montmell that
MotoGP riders have offered differing views on Australian Grand Prix qualifying being moved to Sunday morning, after high winds forced Saturday’s action to be abandoned. After a high-speed crash for Tech3’s Miguel Oliveira during FP4, caused by a sudden gust of wind into the first corner, a safety commission meeting was called during the red-flag
Charles Leclerc emerged on top of a late shootout on a drying track to head a Ferrari 1-2 in final practice for Formula 1’s Mexican Grand Prix. Leclerc edged team-mate Sebastian Vettel by 0.027s as Valtteri Bottas lapped just over a tenth of a second off the pace in the lead Mercedes. The session started
2:08 AM ET Laine Clark A nasty qualifying crash has not only ended Ford star Chaz Mostert’s weekend at the Gold Coast 600 but also his slim Supercars title hopes. Mostert’s stint on the tourist strip was over before it could really begin after the title contender clipped the inside wall at turn 11 on
Dani Sordo leads Thierry Neuville in a Hyundai 1-2 on the first morning of Rally Spain, as defending World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier’s 2019 title hopes took a battering. Ogier made the best possible start by winning the opening Gandesa stage, pulling a slender 0.7-second advantage over Sordo and a further 0.3s over Neuville. But
LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow says conditions on Saturday during MotoGP Australian Grand Prix practice were not “rideable”, and is “glad” qualifying was abandoned. High winds wreaked havoc with Saturday’s MotoGP schedule, with only 12 riders taking to the track in a red-flagged FP3, before the day was abandoned altogether during FP4 as conditions failed
Renault Formula 1 team boss Cyril Abiteboul says increasingly complex regulations could lead to a “wild west” where teams protest each other based on speculation. Abiteboul says there should be a code of conduct to stop that happening, especially now that a third set of regulations – financial – will join technical and sporting from