Formula 1 and the FIA have confirmed that eight cases of Covid-19 were detected in the latest round of testing on championship personnel. Between last Friday (October 9) and Thursday 1,506 tests were carried out on drivers, teams and personnel, with the time frame including three days of the Eifel Grand Prix weekend. Under the…
Formula 1’s 2021 season is still set to start in Australia despite the COVID-19 pandemic, while a new street race in Saudi Arabia is also likely to join the calendar. The 2020 season schedule had to be completely revised due to COVID, with the championship only officially starting in Austria in early July with back-to-back…
Ducati rider Scott Redding was fastest in both Friday practice sessions ahead of this weekend’s World Superbike title decider at Estoril.Redding, who has experience of the Portuguese track from his grand prix racing days, went over four tenths clear of the field in morning’s opening session with a benchmark time of 1m37.181s aboard his factory…
Maverick Vinales leads a Yamaha 1-2-3 lockout in a potentially crucial Aragon MotoGP FP2 as Ducati fumbles well outside the top ten. Maverick Vinales led an almost identical Yamaha 1-2-3 lockout in FP2 as the Iwata manufacturer sent a warning signal to its rivals by revelling in the blustery conditions at Motorland Aragon. Having prevailed…
Valentino Rossi became the first MotoGP rider to test positive for Covid-19 as he will be missing in this weekend’s Aragon MotoGP and most probably next week’s Teruel GP. This comes as MotoGP has been operating under very tight restrictions to tame the spread of Covid-19, however several cases from the paddock members have been…
Rumours have been going around that AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly is looking for a place in another team. Gasly would like to go to Renault and the team would very much likely listen to the Frenchman. This comes amidst the 2020 silly Formula 1 Season, there has been rumours that Gasly has been having several arguments…
Renault boss, Cyril Abiteboul has revealed that he is at least free to choose the size and location of the tattoo after a beer-fuelled bet with Daniel Ricciardo. This was after Daniel Ricciardo earned himself a podium finish by ranking third in the Eifel Grand Prix at the Nurburgring on Sunday. This was the first…
Daimler, the dominant Mercedes team’s carmaker parent, intends to slash the amount of money it spends on Formula 1. It emerged recently that Mercedes spent a staggering $430 million to win last year’s championships – with a $145 budget cap coming in for 2021. Daimler CEO Ola Kallenius has rejected rumours that Mercedes could be…
Factory Honda MotoGP outfit is set to hold talks on an agreement for a new two-year title sponsorship deal with Spanish oil magnate, Repsol as Racetrackmasters.com has learnt. Repsol became title sponsor to the works Honda outfit back in 1995, beginning one of the most enduring partnerships in MotoGP and yielding 15 riders’ world titles…
Nissan e.dams will be retaining the services of Sebastian Buemi and Oliver Rowland for the seventh Formula E 2021 Season, that will be the the first FE season to be conducted as FIA World Championship in 2021. Sebastian Buemi has been driving for Nissan e.dams since its debut in the 2014 Formula E Season while…
Japanese Formula 2 driver Yuki Tsunoda will be having his first test in the AlphaTauri AT01 at Imola on Wednesday 4th November. Tsunoda is a protege of Redbull and AlphaTauri’s power unit supplier Honda and is a potential candidate for a driver seat in AlphaTauri for the 2021 Formula 1 Season. The Japanese is hopeful…
Natalie Decker has been cleared to return to the NASCAR Truck Series after being declared fit to race, she will be set to make a return in NASCAR Truck Series at Texas Motor Speedway. Decker was set to complete the NASCAR Truck Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on Friday September 25th but was…
Brandon Jones, who is in the round 8 of the NASCAR Xfinity playoffs, will be returning to Joe Gibbs Racing for the 2021 NASCAR Xfinity series season as the team announced in a statement on Tuesday. The 23-year-old is experiencing his best NASCAR Xfinity Series season so far. This comes as a result of his…
Eric Granado joins the Estoril grid as teammate to Takumi Takahashi as the MIE Racing HONDA Team revert back to a two-rider squad. Brazilian Eric Granado will make his MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship debut with the MIE Racing HONDA Team at the Pirelli Estoril Round this weekend, joining Takumi Takahashi for the final event…
Shortened qualifying group sessions headline further cost-saving measures that will be introduced for the 2020-21 Formula E season following a meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council on Friday. After the 19 June session of the WMSC, a 25% cut in tyre allocation and a limitation for on-site team personnel attending each race meeting…
Valentino Rossi “didn’t understand” why he crashed on the opening lap of the MotoGP French Grand Prix and called his third-successive non-finish a “great shame”. The Yamaha rider started from 10th and was in the middle of the pack on the run up to the Dunlop chicane on the opening lap of Sunday’s Le Mans…
