On Thursday evening, some bad news broke in Switzerland. Fernando Alonso was reportedly knocked off his bicycle. He is said to have broken his jaw in the collision. The full extent of his injuries are yet to be reported/confirmed. With pre-season just four weeks away, there’s doubt as to whether the Spaniard will be fit…
Fernando Alonso may be heading into surgery on Friday to repair a potentially broken jaw and teeth. Alpine has confirmed alarming reports that the 39-year-old Spaniard was struck by a car on Thursday whilst road cycling near his home in Switzerland. With the season opening Bahrain GP looming in March, the Enstone based team said…
Spanish Formula One driver Fernando Alonso is conscious and awaiting medical tests after being involved in a road accident while cycling in Switzerland, his Alpine team said in a statement on Thursday – after a media report suggested he may have suffered fractures. The 39-year-old double world champion is due to make his Formula One…
Kawasaki World Superbike rider Alex Lowes has injured his shoulder in a flat track training crash and will miss a test at Jerez this week as a result.Lowes will be remaining with Kawasaki for a second season in 2021 having joined from Yamaha last year, winning on his debut weekend in the second Phillip Island…
Red Bull will move forward with Honda engines past the 2021 season with word that an engine freeze will be introduced. Although not yet official, Racetrackmasters.com has learned that the motion will be passed after a meeting on Thursday involving the FIA, the F1 organisation and teams. The decision no doubt comes as a massive…
Haas has been forced to delay the fire-up of its 2021 car until next month in Bahrain due to COVID-19 travel restrictions in the UK. The US outfit was hoping to hear its 2021 contender roar into life this month at its factory in Banbury. However, UK travel restrictions and mandatory quarantine measures mean that…
Formula One driver Lando Norris said in a recent interview that he wants his new esports organization Quandrant to include teams for individual games, including one for Call of Duty in the CDL, sometime in the near future. After officially getting fully invested in the esports industry with the launch of his organization Quadrant a…
Formula One has confirmed that it would continue its #WeRaceAsOne initiative in 2021 with the sustainability, the diversity and inclusion and the community named as key pillars of the programme. Formula One launched a fantastic initiative in 2020 which ran under the name of We Race As One. The campaign was set to support the…
Formula One could award championship points for Saturday ‘sprint’ races this season under a proposal to be discussed by bosses on Thursday. The shorter races would set the starting grid for the main grand prix on Sunday if the Formula One commission votes in favour of the format. Qualifying for the sprint race would be…
The 2021 Spanish Grand Prix is set to be open to fans with the tickets having specific COVID-related guarantees. The race organisers are preparing to welcome fans to the Spanish Grand Prix, set to be Round 4 of the 2021 season with the race held on May 9. The 2020 staging of the Spanish Grand…
The full lineup of World Superbike protagonists has been unveiled and with two seats still up for grabs, the season to come promises to be one of the most spectacular yet. The 2021 Motul FIM Superbike World Championship will feature 24 riders across five different manufacturers, as the full entry-lists are revealed ahead of the…
Formula 1 CEO Stefano Domenicali says multiple venues in Africa have showing an interest in joining the World Championship schedule. Africa is the only inhabited continent not to currently host a grand prix with South Africa’s Kyalami last holding an event in 1993. Kyalami currently holds an FIA Grade 2 safety rating but the venue…
The Portuguese Grand Prix is set to be confirmed on the 2021 Formula 1 calendar in a meeting of the Formula 1 Commission on Thursday. Racetrackmasters has learned the current vacant May 2 slot on the calendar is set to be taken by Portimao, the circuit that last year held the first Portuguese Grand Prix…
Formula One teams will hold a vote on Thursday to determine whether sprint races should be introduced to grand prix weekends. F1 bosses have put forward the idea of a shorter race on Saturday, which would replace qualifying, and determine the grid for Sunday’s grand prix. The new format could be trialled at this season’s…
Haas team principal Guenther Steiner has warned the team’s new drivers that they will soon have a problem on their hands if they come together on the track. Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin will both make their debuts in F1 as part of the American squad’s 2021 line-up, and Steiner understands that both will be…
Kyle Busch led less than a lap of the 2021 Busch Clash NASCAR Cup Series exhibition race on the Daytona International Speedway road course Tuesday night, but he led when it counted. When a last-lap battle for the lead between Chase Elliott and Ryan Blaney got physical, sending Blaney into a spin, Busch took advantage…
