The reigning IndyCar champion and 2008 Indy 500 winner produced a stunning run in the pole position shootout last Sunday to produce an average of 231.685mph over his four laps to edge out Andretti Autosport’s Herta by only 0.03mph. Rinus VeeKay and Ed Carpenter both put in eye-catching qualifying performances to grab third and fourth
3:45 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Jimmie Johnson was inside a sauna at 120 degrees and climbing as part of an hourlong sweat session preparing him to race on hot summer days. It’s part of a fitness program that calls for mental exercises to be completed while roasting inside the sweat bath, but Johnson
Elliott’s spotter, Eddie D’Hondt, was arrested on 12 May in Catawba County, North Carolina, after he was served a warrant and charged with two misdemeanour offences: battery of an unborn child and assault of a female. It remains unclear at this time whether the cases connected to the original arrest of D’Hondt, 62, are still
Verstappen led from lights to flag in Monaco to secure his second win of the season and move into the lead of the F1 drivers’ championship for the first time, capitalising on a bad weekend for Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes. After fending off Valtteri Bottas at the first corner, Verstappen rarely looked at risk of
Roger Ward – 1959, 1962 F1 starts: 12 (1951 – 1960, 1963) F1 championships: 0 Indy 500 starts: 15 (1951 – 1964, 1966) Indy 500 wins: 2 (1959, 1962) The Indy 500 was an official world championship race between 1950 and 1960, meaning that teams and drivers who only competed in the 500 also appear
Jack Miller secured back-to-back MotoGP wins in a stunning charge at the French GP at Le Mans, coming back from two long-lap penalties for speeding in the pitlane, in a chaotic flag-to-flag race. Miller, who had the option of a second year on his factory Ducati contract taken up by the Italian manufacturer earlier this
11:05 AM ET Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes cannot afford to have another race weekend like Monaco if he is to mount a successful title challenge against Red Bull’s Max Verstappen this year. 1 Related Hamilton lost the lead of the championship for the first time in 2021 last weekend after he finished seventh and Verstappen
A qualifying session to remember! Enjoy all the best bits from a thrilling afternoon around the world-famous streets of the Principality. For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Follow F1®: http://www.instagram.com/F1 https://www.facebook.com/Formula1/ Tweets by F1 https://www.twitch.tv/formula1 @f1 #F1 #MonacoGP
26 GT cars and a lot of walking backwards… join us for a wander down the Brands Hatch pitlane ahead of 2021’s season opener. Watch the race live at https://youtu.be/3SqYJcqy7xw from 13:00 BST on Sunday. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader in GT racing. Join us for
This will affect where motorsport fans can attend races this season, with some countries completely off-bounds to visitors because of travel restrictions. Fans have already attended the Spanish Grand Prix and Monaco Grand Prix, and Portugal was added to the green list just one week after the race in Portimao. The traffic lights will be
On the first lap, Schumacher went down the inside of the Russian at the hairpin. The two drivers went round the corner side-by-side before the German emerged in front. Later, Schumacher had a fuel pressure issue that slowed him and obliged him to let Mazepin pass. They pair eventually finished 17th and 18th in a race of unusually low attrition.
In a precarious economic climate where the need to control escalating costs is paramount, Formula 1’s key stakeholders approved a power unit development freeze from 2022 back in February. But it’s a move that the MotoGP factories are not even contemplating, and for a variety of reasons. Pressure from F1’s promoters and rule makers –
3:00 PM ET ESPN News Services Will Power made the most of his second chance to make the Indianapolis 500, putting his Team Penske car into the field Sunday despite hitting the wall on his qualifying attempt. Power, who won the Indy 500 in 2018, brushed the wall with his right rear wheel in Turn
But that shouldn’t divert attention from the huge impact he made on motorsport over the decades. Mosley helped Bernie Ecclestone to build Formula 1 into the commercial giant that we know today, and as FIA president he reformed and modernised the organisation and relentlessly pursued safety improvements throughout the sport. He also pushed to improve
The explosive nature of their rivalry caused great tensions within Mercedes as they fought for wins and titles in what was effectively an intra-team contest on the majority of weekends for three seasons. It occasionally spilled over on-track, notably with three on-track collisions – Belgium 2014, Spain 2016 and Austria 2016 – but there were
Ferrucci suffered a 225mph shunt at Turn 2 on Thursday, bad enough to send him to hospital, return to the track with a limp and a knee brace. It left his mechanics and teammates Takuma Sato and Graham Rahal to work through much of the night and wee small hours of the morning to get
The Italian marque signed Bagnaia to a two-year deal with its works squad beginning in 2021, but Miller only had a firm one-season contract with an option for a second. Miller – who has been part of the Ducati family since 2018 when he joined Pramac – came under pressure at the start of 2021
4:36 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Takuma Sato will receive an overdue celebration this weekend for winning last year’s Indianapolis 500 in front of empty grandstands. Indianapolis Motor Speedway was empty aside from essential personnel last August when Sato won his second Indianapolis 500. The pandemic had prevented a crowd and it denied Sato
Excessive dust for the maiden round of the all-electric SUV off-road racing series in AlUla, Saudi Arabia in April led to qualifying heats being replaced with one-car time trials. The grids for the Sunday races were also capped as three entries, rather than the planned four cars, with the poor visibility contributing to all overtakes
Leclerc scored pole position in Monaco on Saturday after topping qualifying, but a crash at the exit of Swimming Pool by the Ferrari driver prevented any drivers from improving on their final runs in Q3. A rule applied in American series such as IndyCar and IMSA sees any driver causing a red flag in qualifying
Dixon, a three-time Indy 500 pole-winner – the last time in 2017 – set a four-lap average of 231.828mph to top Saturday qualifying in his Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda. He also saw his three teammates Tony Kanaan, Alex Palou and Marcus Ericsson earn their way into today’s Fast Nine shootout for pole in the 105th running of the
Double Moto2 world champion Zarco signed directly to Ducati last year to join the Avintia satellite squad – a move Ducati worked hard to convince him to make, after the French rider dismissed the squad as “not a top team”. The relationship between Zarco and Ducati has blossomed since, with the marque promoting him to
8:31 AM ET Formula One is willing to alter the circuit layout at the Monaco Grand Prix if there is a chance it will improve racing. Sunday’s race in Monaco featured just one overtake in 78 laps when Mick Schumacher barged past Haas teammate Nikita Mazepin at the Fairmont Hairpin on the opening lap. All
F1’s most famous race returned with emotion from lights out to the chequered flag; check out highlights from Monaco! For more F1® videos, visit http://www.Formula1.com Follow F1®: http://www.instagram.com/F1 https://www.facebook.com/Formula1/ Tweets by F1 https://www.twitch.tv/formula1 @f1 #F1 #MonacoGP
Michael Igoe and Phil Keen began their Intelligent Money British GT Championship challenge in fine style by securing a dominant win for WPI Motorsport and Lamborghini in today’s two-hour season opener at Brands Hatch where Gus Burton and Will Burns headed a Century BMW one-two in the GT4 class. GT World is the official YouTube
But with a tight battle on its hands against Red Bull, which excels at such venues, the world champion team pulled out the stops with a suspension revamp aimed to cure its Achilles’ Heel. Whether the changes helped or not we will never know, as Valtteri Bottas was able to extract more from his car
The Woking-based outfit was bracing itself for a tough time around the streets of Monte Carlo, but in the end its MCL35M was actually closer to Red Bull and Mercedes than at other tracks. Team principal Andreas Seidl was delighted with how things had panned out, with Norris finishing third, as McLaren continues to stake
On the back of regular success in kart racing in his native Brazil, Ribeiro graduated to Formula Ford before heading to Europe to compete in the 1990 Formula Opel championship. He then moved to race in British Formula 3 for Paul Stewart Racing for six races, finishing seventh in the Zandvoort F3 Masters invitational race.
7:08 PM ET Associated Press BAYTOWN, Texas — Texas-based Steve Torrence beat Doug Kalitta in the Top Fuel final on Monday at the rain-delayed Mopar Express Lane NHRA SpringNationals at Houston Raceway Park. Torrence needed just a 4.00 to earn career win No. 43 after Kalitta’s Mobil 1/TRD dragster smoked the tires early. Torrence has
After a year away due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Monaco made a welcome return to the Formula 1 calendar with a toned-down version of its usual festivities. The on-track spectacle met expectations as the race little offered in the way of major drama or exciting moments. But it could prove to be an important moment
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