Racing driver Romain Grosjean, who survived a fiery crash during a Formula One race last November, will compete in the 2021 IndyCar season with Dale Coyne Racing. The Frenchman was engulfed in flames for nearly half a minute after his Haas F1 car came into contact with another vehicle and crashed into a barrier at…
The Renault group CEO Luca de Meo has been making some interesting changes since his arrival in F1. Their team has now been renamed as ‘Alpine F1’ and a few key personnel have also come in to help elevate the French outfit’s results. But a further step that Renault are reportedly considering is pursuing a…
The 2021 MOTUL FIM Superbike World Championship continues to edge closer to kicking off as more and more riders begin to take to tracks on their own motorcycles to get back up to speed. The British rider, runner-up in his rookie season in 2020, took to the Cartagena circuit in Murcia, Spain, aboard a stock…
The Mercedes AMG Petronas Formula One Team has announced that their 2021 car, the W12 will be unveiled on the 2nd of March, two weeks before the official pre-season testing gets underway at Bahrain. Mercedes is poised to stretch its winning record in 2021 after having dominated the sport’s hybrid era since the introduction of…
Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes have reportedly had a breakthrough in contract negotiations with an ‘agreement’ already in place. Hamilton’s future in F1 has dominated headlines in the offseason on whether or not he will stay at Mercedes. Talks over a new contract were put on hold until after the final race of last season in…
Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas is entering a potentially career-defining season in Formula 1. The Finn’s seat at Mercedes is under serious threat for the future with George Russell seemingly a shoo-in for the Silver Arrows from 2022 onwards given his impressive form for Williams plus his stand-in heroics in Sakhir last year. So after finishing…
Any chance we get to see the Mercedes-AMG Project ONE is a chance we’ll take and the brand has just released its latest clip. The short, 43-second-long video shows the ONE on track in its now-familiar silver and red camouflaged livery. We last saw the car looking like this when Sir Lewis Hamilton drove it…
Albon is set to share the AF Corse-prepared AlphaTauri car with New Zealander Nick Cassidy for the 2021 DTM season, dovetailing outings with his Formula 1 commitments with Red Bull – while alongside the pair, another New Zealander, former F3 competitor Liam Lawson, will drive a second 488, in Red Bull colours, as the Austrian…
Beard Motorsports team owner and former NASCAR driver Mark Beard Sr. has died at the age of 72. On Monday, the team announced his passing but added that they will press on with their plans of running the Daytona 500 in two weeks, fielding the #62 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE for Cup Series newcomer Noah…
Haas is currently unable to fire up its Formula 1 engines in preparation for the 2021 season that begins with testing and the opening race in Bahrain next month. Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport reports that the small American team, which will field rookie Mick Schumacher this year, has received its customer engines for the…
Tito Rabat will ride a ‘99% factory’ Ducati Panigale V4 R for the 2021 WorldSBK season after becoming the latest to make the switch from MotoGP. Tito Rabat says he will be rewarded with the ‘top material’ from Ducati if he proves competitive during his maiden WorldSBK Championship season in 2021. The 2014 Moto2 World…
Sebastian Vettel should be back to his “usual longer hair” by the start of the season in Bahrain. That is the news from the German newspaper Bild, referring to the F1 world’s shock and amusement at recent footage of the quadruple world champion’s newly half-bald head. Correspondents Jens Nagler and Silja Rulle claim that when…
Formula 1 boss Stefano Domenicali has revealed the sport is in talks with a new manufacturer interested in joining the grid. Former Ferrari team principal Domenicali took over at the helm of F1 from Chase Carey at the turn of the year after the American stepped aside following four years in charge. With Honda leaving…
