Aprilia has named three riders for its 2021 MotoGP line-up, but only Aleix Espargaro remains confirmed while one of Lorenzo Savadori and Bradley Smith will be his teammate. Aprilia has been forced into finding a replacement for Andrea Iannone for 2021 when the one-time MotoGP race winner had his doping ban upped to four years…
Red Bull Racing test driver Sergio Sette Camara will make the transition to Formula E. From the 2021 season, starting in January, he will compete for the Dragon Racing team. Last season he raced six times for the team, replacing Brendon Hartley. Now Dragon Racing has announced on the FIA Formula E website that Camara…
Carlos Sainz has admitted that he’s concerned that the slashing of pre-season testing in 2021 will leave him at a big disadvantage to Charles Leclerc when he moves to Ferrari over the winter. Sainz will exit McLaren at the end of the season and move to Maranello, but new cost-cutting rules coming into effect mean…
Red Bull wants to know what F1 power unit they will be using for 2022 before the end of the month says Team Principal Christian Horner, with taking over the Honda intellectual property (IP) their preferred option. The four-time world champions and their sister team AlphaTauri were left in a dilemma when Honda announced last…
Formula One is planning to expand to 24 races in the near future, with some rotation of circuits, chief executive Chase Carey said on Thursday (Nov 19). The sport has pencilled in a record 23 for next year, dependent on developments in the Covid-19 pandemic which forced organisers to rewrite this season’s schedule and limit…
Jack Miller has paid tribute to his friend and rival Cal Crutchlow as the LCR Honda rider prepares to start his last MotoGP race as a full-time competitor in the Portuguese MotoGP at Portimao. A fitting location for Crutchlow to call time on racing before he settles into a new role as Yamaha test rider for 2021,…
Moto2 World Championship candidate Marco Bezzecchi has revealed he turned down the offer of moving into MotoGP for the 2021 season as a replacement for the suspended Andrea Iannone. The Italian racer who is one of four riders in contention for this year’s intermediate crown – emerged as a potential target for Aprilia once it…
Callum Ilott will return to the Alfa Romeo Formula 1 team when he takes part in the post-season test that follows next month’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Ilott had a test outing with the Hinwil-based squad in Barcelona in May last year, and recently took part in a Ferrari F1 test in a 2018-spec car…
Fabio Quartararo says it’s more important to improve himself than his Petronas SRT Yamaha in the MotoGP Portuguese Grand Prix after a difficult recent run of races. The SRT rider’s championship challenge has crumbled dramatically since his Catalan GP win at the end of September, with the Frenchman fully surrendering his hopes last week in…
Jonathan Rea says the 2021-spec Kawasaki World Superbike challenger has left him “really satisfied” after sampling the new machine in this week’s Jerez post-season test. Six-time series champion Rea set his fastest time using a qualifying tyre towards the end of the the two-day test using the revised ZX-10RR, which notably features an updated engine…
During the Turkish Grand Prix that was held last weekend, both Redbull drivers, Max Verstappen and Alexander Albon found themselves being stuck on the wet starting grid literally as the lights went out with the rest of the cars slipped past the two RB16s. However, the track was largely wet and slippery and the two…
NASCUP series driver Kyle Busch will be having a new crew chief come year 2021, this is a part of several crew chief line-up changes made by the Joe Gibbs Racing management. Back on Tuesday, Joe Gibbs made an official announcement that Adam Stephens who has served as Kyle Busch’s crew chief for the past…
Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto says Sebastian Vettel’s third place podium finish at the Turkish Grand prix held at the Istanbul park was a very important milestone in what has been a very disappointing season for the Ferrari team so far. Vettel was already off to a bad start with the team before the start of…
Haas announced earlier this season that it would feature an all-new line up next season, dropping both Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen. Team boss Guenther Steiner opened the door to an all-rookie line up, saying the team had discussed the pros and cons. “We discussed this, the risks, the opportunities with them,” he said earlier…
Williams will field Jack Aitken and Roy Nissany at the young driver test in Abu Dhabi next month, with Nissany also set for another FP1 appearance. Formula 1 will hold a Young Driver Test on the 15th December, after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with teams given the option of staying on to take part…
Aston Martin is set to share safety car duties with Mercedes at Formula 1 races from next year. Mercedes has exclusively provided the official F1 safety car since 1996, starting out originally with a Mercedes-AMG C36 and currently using a Mercedes-AMG GT R. While the German manufacturer has been fully committed up until now, discussions…
