The 2019 season will see SRO Motorsports Group unite the sprint-format championships formerly known as the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup, Blancpain GT Series Asia and Pirelli World Challenge GT to form a new global initiative: the Blancpain GT World Challenge. This exciting international endeavour will present GT3 manufacturers, partners and teams with the
7:59 AM ET Jake Michaels Close ESPN Associate Editor Jake Michaels is a Melbourne-based multi-sport journalist who covers everything from AFL to Formula 1. He joined ESPN in June, 2013. Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 SINGAPORE — Sebastian Vettel finally has something to smile about
Maverick Vinales says the Yamaha’s deficit in power relative to the Ducatis meant he “had no chance” to defend a MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix podium late on. Vinales made his way up to second ahead of Pramac Ducati’s Jack Miller in the early stages of the 23-lap race, and at one stage was able to
Formula 1’s managing director of motorsports Ross Brawn has responded to comments about potential changes to grand prix weekend formats for 2020 by stressing any adjustments will be experimental. F1 owner Liberty Media remains in discussions with teams and the FIA about trialling reversed-grid qualifying races at select events for 2020 to improve the spectacle.
8:15 AM ET SINGAPORE — Ferrari has secured pole position and victory at all three races since Formula One returned from its summer break. If the world championship had been zeroed ahead of the Belgian Grand Prix at the start of this month, Ferrari would lead Mercedes by 20 points in the constructors’ standings and
Aleix Espargaro warns his strong MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix weekend is not the “reality” of Aprilia’s true pace and admits the manufacturer is still “suffering”. Espargaro put his RS-GP fifth on the grid having held a front-row spot briefly in qualifying and was only narrowly pipped to sixth by LCR’s Cal Crutchlow late on in
Freshly-crowned double IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden says he was “dreading” the “chaotic” double points finale at Laguna Seca, which the Penske driver “hated”. Newgarden finished eighth with his closest title rival Alexander Rossi in sixth place, and it was enough to give the former a second title following his 2017 success. The Penske driver added
NASCAR Cup Series points leader Martin Truex Jr said his spin on the way to a second victory in a row at Richmond “added some drama” to the race. Joe Gibbs Racing driver Truex was tagged by Ricky Stenhouse, but managed to avoid the wall and only fell from the lead to third, and a
Lewis Hamilton says every member of the Mercedes Formula 1 team should be “feeling the pain” of its defeat in the Singapore Grand Prix. Mercedes holds a 133-point advantage over Ferrari in the constructors’ championship, but its rival has won three races in a row and Hamilton’s championship lead is now 96 over nearest non-Mercedes
5:29 AM ET Mercedes shares Lewis Hamilton’s opinion that the reigning world champion would have easily won the Singapore Grand Prix with a different strategy. Hamilton finished fourth at Marina Bay but had looked like a contender for the victory early on. The result hinged on Ferrari’s decision to pit Sebastian Vettel earlier than expected
Honda has announced Alvaro Bautista will join its factory World Superbike squad in 2020, ending speculation of a shock return to MotoGP with KTM for the current Ducati WSBK rider. Bautista, a MotoGP regular between 2010 and ’18, has so far won 15 races in his maiden WSBK campaign with Ducati and took 11 victories
Alexander Rossi says qualifying for this weekend’s IndyCar double-points season finale will be “critical” as overtaking at the series’ return to Laguna Seca is expected to be tough. Laguna Seca returns for the first time since 2004, and while the current generation of Indycar allows for closer racing than its predecessor, overtaking is expected to
Charles Leclerc will seek more information from his Ferrari Formula 1 team in future races and understood his “very frustrating” Singapore Grand Prix defeat “a lot more” afterwards. Leclerc lost a third straight F1 win after Ferrari pitted team-mate Sebastian Vettel first in the Singapore GP, to try to get Vettel ahead of Mercedes’ Lewis
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Check out the highlights from today’s race at Sepang where Absolute Racing’s Porsche claimed victory. The 2019 season will see SRO Motorsports Group unite the sprint-format championships formerly known as the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup, Blancpain GT Series Asia and Pirelli World Challenge GT to form a new global initiative: the Blancpain GT World
5:57 PM ET Associated Press MONTEREY, Calif. — Josef Newgarden won his second championship in three years with a smooth drive in the IndyCar season finale, where he played it safe and watched rookie Colton Herta dominate the road course at Laguna Seca Raceway. Newgarden needed only to finish fourth or better to give Roger
Marc Marquez put one hand on a sixth MotoGP world championship by securing a dominant victory at the Aragon Grand Prix from pole position. The Honda rider, making his 200th grand prix start, nailed his launch off the line and was already a second clear of the field by the end of the first lap,
Colton Herta fended off Will Power to win the IndyCar season finale at Laguna Seca as Josef Newgarden secured his second series title. Newgarden went into the first top-line US single-seater race at the California circuit since 2004 with a comfortable 41-point advantage in the championship table, and his eighth place finish was enough to
Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff admitted the team did not feel good about asking Valtteri Bottas to back off to avoid undercutting Lewis Hamilton during the Singapore Grand Prix. Bottas had been pitted earlier than Hamilton as the team tried to find a way to get past the leading Ferraris while also battling with
11:52 AM ET Lewis Hamilton was left scratching his head at the Mercedes strategy call which saw him go from challenging for victory at the Singapore Grand Prix to finishing off the podium. In the opening stages Hamilton was pushing Charles Leclerc for the lead as the lead drivers waited to pull the trigger on
Valentino Rossi does not understand his “bad” pace in MotoGP’s Aragon Grand Prix, which left him 23.6 seconds from the win in eighth place. The Yamaha rider opted for the same hard rear, medium front tyre combination as works team-mate Maverick Vinales and the Petronas SRT M1 of Fabio Quartararo. While they finished fourth and
Andretti Autosport will join forces with Harding Steinbrenner Racing via a partnership that means the former will field a fifth entry in the 2020 IndyCar season for Colton Herta. Herta became the youngest ever IndyCar winner with victory at Austin back in March, and he also scored poles at Road America and Portland. The #88
Martin Truex Jr survived a spin to win the 2019 NASCAR Cup season’s second race at Richmond, taking his second victory in a row and his sixth this year. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver, who also won the track’s April Cup round, was tagged by Ricky Stenhouse Jr in the final stage and sent spinning,
Haas has revealed that a plastic sandwich bag lodged in Kevin Magnussen’s front wing was the cause of his pace drop off in Formula 1’s Singapore Grand Prix. Magnussen had looked on course for an eighth-place finish at the Marina Bay circuit but it all went wrong after the final safety car period when a
5:50 AM ET SINGAPORE — Under normal circumstances the Singapore Grand Prix would be a one-stop race, but there should be opportunities to use tyre strategy to make up positions. The performance of the soft tyre is good for about 10 laps, but will drop off rapidly once degradation takes hold. That means drivers willing
B-Max pair Frederic Makowiecki and Kohei Hirate delivered Nissan’s first 2019 SUPER GT win in a rain-hit race at Sugo as early leaders Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto finished eighth. As the race got under way after three laps behind the safety car, front-row starter Button immediately sprinted past polesitter Koudai Tsukakoshi into Turn 1,
KTM MotoGP rider Pol Espargaro will not take part in this weekend’s Aragon Grand Prix after fracturing his left wrist in a practice crash. Espargaro suffered a crash at Turn 9 during Saturday afternoon’s fourth practice session, and skipped the subsequent qualifying session after being taken to the medical centre. Later it was confirmed the
Felix Rosenqvist has slammed IndyCar race officials as “maybe having something against me” after his two fastest qualifying times were deleted at the Laguna Seca finale. Rosenqvist ran wide and spun on the exit of Turn 6, the left-hander leading onto the climb towards the Corkscrew, early in the second part of Laguna qualifying on