Carlos Sainz Jr believes he and the McLaren Formula 1 team are now more than just ‘best of the rest’ in the 2019 season. Sainz is now sixth in the drivers’ championship, helped by Pierre Gasly and Alex Albon – his closest pursuers – splitting their seasons between frontrunner Red Bull and midfield Toro Rosso.
7:17 AM ET Inaugural champion Jamie Chadwick will return for a second season of the all-female W Series in 2020, with six newcomers featuring on a list of 18 drivers published by organisers Monday. The new entrants for season two include British racer Abbie Eaton, who has been a test driver for Amazon’s ‘The Grand
Recently-crowned six-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez scored his 10th pole position of the 2019 season by topping qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix. In the closing stages of Q2 on a damp-but-drying track, Honda rider Marquez posted a best time of 1m45.763s to take pole by 0.132 seconds and beat Petronas SRT Yamaha duo Franco
McLaren believes the decision to make concept changes to its 2020 Formula 1 car will not risk throwing away the progress it has made during the current campaign. The team is on course to end the 2019 season as the fourth-best team after it finished sixth in 2018. Part of its progress has come from
Troy Lee Design’s team mechanic, Colter Ahrens, takes us through a race week during the 2016 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship. Shot 100% by Jarred Browne on the HERO4® camera from http://GoPro.com.
Four-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Champion Jeff Gordon interviews two-time F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso ahead of the 56th Rolex 24 At Daytona. Watch the race live on Saturday, January 27 at 2 p.m. ET on FOX!
We took some of the most interesting bits of team radio and commentary from the 2018 F1 season, and got animator Nick Murray Willis to put his unique spin on them. Here’s what we came up with… For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Like F1® on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Formula1/ Follow F1® on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/F1 Follow F1®
When you hear the name James Hunt, you don’t invariably think of secret agents, dangerous Alpine skiing adventures, and Formula 1 cars equipped with ejector seats, right? Well, you might do after watching this special episode of McLaren’s TOONED animation series. We’ve once again teamed up Oscar-winning visual effects house Framestore to create an appropriately
Andy Soucek of Bentley Team M-Sport takes us round the Sepang circuit in the Bentley Continental GT V8 S
9:20 AM ET Red Bull has cut Mexican driver Patricio O’Ward from its driver programme, just six months after he was signed up. O’Ward impressed on his IndyCar debut at Sonoma in the 2018 finale and ran for Carlin at the start of the current campaign. In May, Red Bull signed him to its programme
Aprilia racing department CEO Massimo Rivola has admitted his “anger” at the MotoGP team’s recent reliability woes, following a Japanese Grand Prix outing compromised by engine problems. The outfit revealed that riders Aleix Espargaro and Andrea Iannone both encountered issues with their engines in the Motegi race, despite running new units. Espargaro, who had qualified
Formula 1’s strict rules mean that livery variety is increasingly rare in the modern era. But there have been times in F1 history in which a team has been able to run a one-off or rare livery thanks to the likes of sponsor agreements, a consensus from all teams to allow a different design or
10:03 AM ET Nicholas Latifi, a leading candidate to replace Polish driver Robert Kubica at Williams next season, will take part in first practice sessions at the next three Formula One grands prix. The team said in a statement on Monday that the reserve driver would take Kubica’s car for first practice in Mexico this
Franco Morbidelli says he signalled to Jack Miller in the early stages of MotoGP’s Japanese Grand Prix to show that he was “pi**ed off” with the Pramac Ducati rider. Petronas Yamaha rider Morbidelli and Miller spent the early laps of the Motegi race battling over third place behind Marc Marquez and Fabio Quartararo, almost making
Pascal Wehrlein says he is open to the possibility of a Formula 1 return with the Campos Racing-linked entity that recently stated it is targeting a 2021 grid spot. Wehrlein, who is now a Mahindra Racing driver in Formula E, last raced in F1 in 2017 after spending two seasons competing for Manor and Sauber
2:01 AM ET Laine Clark Some of Supercars’ biggest names have slammed DJR Team Penske, with Craig Lowndes saying the Ford outfit’s safety car controversy will forever overshadow the 2019 Bathurst 1000 result. While the focus was supposed to be on this weekend’s next enduro the Gold Coast 600, rival drivers were still shaking their
Shot 100% on the HD HERO4® camera from http://GoPro.com. Watch Ken Roczen during his first laps of Moto 2 at the eighth round of the 2015 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship in Millville, Minnesota
Take a lap around Watkins Glen International with Tommy Milner in the No. 4 Corvette Racing Corvette C7.R.
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On May 22 1966, Bruce McLaren started a Grand Prix in a chassis bearing his own name for the very first time. The McLaren name would go on to become one of Formula 1 racing’s most enduring and competitive marques so far. In 2016, 50 years later, McLaren once again heads to Monte-Carlo – the
This year’s Total 24 Hours of Spa now belongs to the history books. Thank you all for being a part of it.
Marc Marquez cruised to his 10th MotoGP wins of the season ahead of Fabio Quartararo to secure Honda the manufacturers’ world championship at the Japanese Grand Prix. Marquez, who wrapped up his sixth premier-class title last time out in Thailand, led every lap of the Japanese Grand Prix from pole, albeit briefly losing the lead
Denny Hamlin secured victory in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas for Joe Gibbs Racing as Chase Elliott edged Brad Keselowski out for the final playoff spot in overtime. With 10 laps of the scheduled 267 to run, Hendrick Motorsports’ Elliott was three points below the cutoff line for the ’round of eight’ stage
Lewis Hamilton wants less drag and more power from the 2020 Mercedes Formula 1 car, admitting “it’s not been a great year” for engine development by his team. Engine superiority was a cornerstone of the start of Mercedes’ dominant run in the current F1 era, but its advantage has steadily been eroded and Ferrari is
7:42 PM ET Associated Press ENNIS, Texas — Billy Torrence won the AAA Texas NHRA FallNationals at his home track Sunday for his second Top Fuel victory of the playoffs. Torrence had a 3.775-second run at 319.67 mph to beat first-time finalist Jordan Vandergriff at Texas Motorplex. Torrence has four victories this year and five
Former MotoGP rider Scott Redding has become British Superbike champion on his first attempt, sealing the 2019 crown in the Brands Hatch triple-header finale. Redding joined the Paul Bird Motorsport Ducati BSB team this season after losing his place in the MotoGP field following a five-year stint in which he scored two podium finishes. His
NASCAR Xfinity Series title contenders Cole Custer and Tyler Reddick ended up in a scuffle after Saturday’s race at Kansas Speedway. Reigning champion Reddick – who has already secured a Richard Childress Racing Cup Series seat for 2020 – and Custer made slight contact after a late-race restart, sending Stewart-Haas racer Custer into the outside
Jean Alesi’s Formula 1 career was one of unfulfilled promise – the talent some expected to challenge Ayrton Senna ultimately winning just one grand prix. How different could that have been had Alesi ended up at the ultimately dominant Williams team in the early 1990s rather than at the troubled Ferrari? While still making his
Andrea Dovizioso said he was “taking too many risks” and “braking like a stupid rider” when he was chasing Fabio Quartararo late in MotoGP’s Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi. Dovizioso was four seconds down on second-placed Quartararo after he had passed the other Petronas SRT Yamaha of Franco Morbidelli for third shortly following the halfway
While Formula 1 quickly ruled out last weekend’s truncated two-day Japanese Grand Prix schedule being adopted permanently, it was clear many drivers would be keen for such a timetable revamp. The arrival of super typhoon Hagibis led to F1 calling off Saturday running at Suzuka early on the Friday – which made the opening day’s