Rins was expected to be a major player in the championship in 2021 having finished third in the 2020 standings on his GSX-RR. But so far Rins has scored just 23 points from the first six races, having crashed out of victory contention in Portugal, slid out of a strong top six result in Spain
9:51 AM ET The Aston Martin Formula One team announced on Tuesday a partnership with the Racing Pride movement and said it will work through June to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ diversity in the male-dominated sport. Racing Pride was founded in 2019 to create visibility for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in motorsport
Ahead of the Monaco Grand Prix Norris texted Sainz saying the Spaniard had a good chance to win the race, based on Ferrari’s excellent low-speed corner performance. Ferrari did perform strongly in the principality, with Charles Leclerc scoring pole and Sainz taking second – his first podium for the Scuderia. McLaren managed to mitigate the points loss
O’Ward started the race in 12th and quickly worked his way into the leading pack, leading 17 laps and running inside the top three places for the majority of the 200-lap race. However, the winner of IndyCar’s second Texas race slipped to fourth on the final lap after 2019 Indy 500 victor Simon Pagenaud’s Team
Tsunoda moved into F1 for 2021 after finishing third in last year’s F2 championship, and starred on debut with a charge through to ninth place in Bahrain. But the Japanese driver has failed to score any points since then, with a notable low point coming at Imola when he crashed out of qualifying and then
Brown and his partner in the reigning World Endurance Championship LMP2 title-winning squad, Richard Dean, will share a McLaren 570S in the Dutch round of the GT4 European Series on 19/20 June. It will be the first time that Brown has raced a contemporary McLaren since a partial campaign in the British GT Championship in
The Frenchman qualified on pole for the 23-lap Mugello race and fended off early resistance from Pramac’s Johann Zarco following a lap-two crash for leader Francesco Bagnaia to go on to dominant for his third win of the year. This came in spite of the sizable top speed disadvantage Yamaha is carrying in 2021, but
7:15 AM ET Team owner and 2009 Formula One world champion Jenson Button expects the new Extreme E off-road racing series for electric SUVs to see an influx of manufacturers in the next year or two. Button’s JBXE team is partnered by Lotus Engineering, a subsidiary of the British sportscar maker, in a series that
Marque founder Jim Glickenhaus made the comment after the conclusion of a successful 30-hour endurance simulation for his new 007 LMH at Aragon last weekend. The Pipo Motors-powered machine completed approaching 5000km over the course of the test on Friday and Saturday and was delayed by only one significant problem. “The car ran great, like
It’s a curious historical anomaly that of the many international superstars that have made their mark on Indycar racing, German drivers have made a negligible impression. If we discount German-born Dominic Dobson’s third place at Michigan in 1994, Timo Glock is the only driver to emerge through the German motorsport ladder to score a podium
Following comments from Lewis Hamilton about Red Bull’s “bendy wing” over the Spanish Grand Prix weekend, a saga emerged surrounding the flexibility of the rear wings run by a number of teams. The FIA wrote to teams announcing it would be clamping down on rear wing designs from the French Grand Prix onwards, sparking a
Tributes flooded in on social media on Sunday following the announcement, while the paddock observed a minute of silence ahead of the MotoGP race in Dupasquier’s honour. The decision to continue racing courted a strong response from some riders, with Francesco Bagnaia feeling it was incorrect to race, while Danilo Petrucci said he felt “dirty”
May 30, 2021 Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy — Swiss motorcycle rider Jason Dupasquier has died following a crash during Moto3 qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix, the Careggi Hospital in Florence announced Sunday. He was 19. “Despite the best efforts of circuit medical staff and all those subsequently attending to the Swiss rider, the hospital
Hawkins has been drafted in to pilot one of the team’s four Ford Focus ST cars after Neate elected to sit out the second round of the championship at the Norfolk circuit (12-13 June) due to personal reasons. The decision comes after Neate was at the centre of a dramatic opening round at Thruxton that
Daly and team-mate Rinus Veekay led a total of 72 laps at the 2021 Indy 500, the highest of any team, but after late mishaps, their team boss Ed Carpenter was the highest-finishing ECR driver in fifth. VeeKay started his second Indy 500 on the front row and the winner of IMS’s road course race,
After the COVID-19 pandemic prevented the Netherlands from hosting its first grand prix since 1985 last year, F1 will make its long-awaited return to Zandvoort on 5 September. The majority of F1 races took place behind closed doors last year, but fans have steadily been returning at events so far this season, including the last
KTM’s Miguel Oliveira headed Mir for second place at the chequered flag in Sunday’s 23-lap Mugello race, but was subsequently demoted to third for narrowly exceeding track limits on the run into the Casanova right-hander on the final lap. MotoGP’s current rules stipulate that a rider will be automatically demoted a place should they exceed
2:15 PM ET ESPN News Services Scott Dixon‘s perfect Indianapolis 500 fell apart when the six-time IndyCar Series champion ran out of gas before his first pit stop Sunday. The pole sitter was on track for a regularly scheduled stop when Stefan Wilson crashed as he entered pit road to bring out a caution 33
Marquez endured a difficult weekend at Mugello as he battled pain in his right shoulder as he continues his comeback to MotoGP following a nine-month injury layoff. Starting from 11th, Marquez was running in 10th when he made contact with Binder at the Poggiosecco right-hander on the second lap of the race and crashed. Marquez
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Palou led 35 laps and looked immensely strong throughout, able to pass cars on the inside or outside whenever he needed to. He and Castroneves’s Meyer Shank Racing-Honda reduced the ‘net’ lead battle (behind two off-strategy cars) to a duel over the closing laps, swapping positions back and forth. However, after passing
That’s the hope of many in the sport, and the plan has the tentative support of a majority of team bosses. It was discussed at a meeting of the F1 Commission late last year, and in an exploratory vote, eight of out 10 teams backed the basic principle. The vote was on a “statement of
On Saturday at the Italian Grand Prix, 19-year-old Moto3 rider Dupasquier was involved in a horrible accident in Moto3 qualifying and sustained injuries which would ultimately prove fatal. At the time it happened, a replay of the accident was shown on the world feed coverage before live shots of his trackside medical assistance was continually
3:25 PM ET ESPN News Services Written off as too old to race full time, too old for a fourth Indianapolis 500 win, Helio Castroneves at long last joined that exclusive club in a popular victory for the old guys. Then Spider-Man scaled the Indianapolis Motor Speedway fence for his trademark victory celebration at the
Castroneves, driving for Meyer Shank in a part-time entry, swept past Chip Ganassi Racing’s Palou on the penultimate lap to claim his fourth Indy 500 victory – joining the likes of AJ Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears on the joint-most wins at the Brickyard. A thrilling three-driver battle for the lead between Castroneves, Palou
At 46 years and 20 days old, the Brazilian cemented a place in Indy 500 history by becoming the fourth-oldest driver to conquer the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after Al Unser in 1987, Bobby Unser in 1981 and Emerson Fittipaldi in 1993. The Meyer Shank Racing driver beat Chip Ganassi Racing’s youngest driver, 24-year-old Alex Palou, in
A lowly seventh place for Lewis Hamilton was accompanied by urgent questioning of his strategy from the world champion, who lost two places to Sebastian Vettel and Sergio Perez over the pitstop sequence. Then there was the very public embarrassment of the crew struggling to remove the right-front wheel from the car of Valtteri Bottas,
Bastianini smacked into the back of his Ducati stablemate Zarco as they warmed up their brakes on the way to their grid slots just before the start of Sunday’s 23-lap Mugello race. The Avintia rider was unable to take the start as a result, while Zarco had to complete the race with some cosmetic damage
7:08 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — On Saturday morning, roughly 24 hours before the start of the 2021 Indianapolis 500, an impromptu meeting of Indy’s most exclusive club took place as the drivers meeting of this year’s 33 competitors was being adjourned. A.J. Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears, the only four-time winners over 104 years
The American outfit has endured a troubled start to the fledgling championship after crashing out of qualifying and the last-chance race in Saudi Arabia. Its driver Kyle LeDuc, who earned five points for his weekend-fastest time through the designated ‘Super Sector’, then stopped in qualifying in Senegal after a tree caught a car reset loop
Not since the days when AJ Foyt was the ultimate American racing hero has one driver done so well in so many categories. Tony Stewart is a throwback to the old days of motorsport in the United States, when a true racer was not afraid to climb into any type of car and take on
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