NASCAR driver Taylor Gray is expected to make a full recovery after he was involved in a car crash Wednesday night, his David Gilliland Racing team said. The 16-year-old ARCA driver underwent surgery Thursday at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. for a fractured L4 vertebra, a part of the spine located in…
F1’s governing body spent three hours disassembling Valtteri Bottas’ new Mercedes car after the Bahrain season opener. Just prior to the opening race of 2021, we reported that the FIA had decided to randomly seize one full car after every race weekend this year for “disassembly” and “deeper checks”. “The FIA wants to make it…
Silverstone wants to try to allow fans back in during the 2021 Grand Prix, scheduled for July 18. This is according to a letter sent to sufferers of the major political parties. The letter has been signed by several organisations including the Football Association, Premier League and England and Wales Cricket Board. In it, they…
Nico Hulkenberg has been signed as the newly rebranded Aston Martin F1 Team’s reserve and development driver, the constructor announced on Wednesday. Hulkenberg raced in three grand prix with Racing Point last season after Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll both tested positive for COVID-19 (at different points of the campaign.) Despite impressing many in the…
Red Bull Racing is rumoured to be looking to raise the bar even higher when it comes to technical upgrades. In Imola, the team is expected to bring a solution to make the new Pirelli tyres easier to drive with. Red Bull knows it’s necessary to be on top of things all the time to…
Former Aston Martin factory driver Alex Lynn will team up with Paul di Resta for the rescheduled Le Mans 24 Hours in August at the United Autosports LMP2 squad. The 27-year-old Briton, who is racing with Mahindra in Formula E this season, will drive one of three Oreca 07 LMP2 prototypes entered for the double-points…
Ducati Lenovo team rider Jack Miller underwent surgery on his right forearm this evening to relieve ‘arm pump’ (compartment syndrome), which cause him problems during the last two Grands Prix held in Qatar. Having returned from Doha yesterday, the Australian rider went to the Dexeus University Hospital in Barcelona on Tuesday evening , where he…
The former Mercedes teammates have renewed their rivalry by becoming owners of new Extreme E teams. Rosberg’s car won the first race last weekend in Saudi Arabia. Nico Rosberg has revealed that Lewis Hamilton has not called to congratulate him on his maiden Extreme E victory. The two F1 greats have both entered teams into…
Formula One is poised to trial sprint races at three rounds of the 2021 calendar, after all ten teams agreed a financial package for the proposal with Liberty Media. As per the deal, Liberty Media will pay each team a one-off payment of $500,000 to cover their costs of competing in the three trial sprint…
Formula 1 is closing in on a $30 million per team annual budget cap to specifically limit spending on drivers. According to Italy’s La Gazzetta dello Sport and other specialist publications, the FIA and Liberty Media are poised to circulate the proposal among F1 teams. “According to rumours,” wrote correspondent Luigi Perna, “they have come…
Romain Grosjean’s wish of having one final outing in a Formula 1 car looks to be happening with news that he has undergone a seat fitting with a mystery F1 team. The Frenchman was involved in a terrifying crash during the Bahrain Grand Prix, just weeks before he was told he wouldn’t have a seat…
Avintia rookie Enea Bastianini admits he was unable to advance on 11th in the final laps of the MotoGP Doha Grand Prix as “my hair got in my eyes”. Bastianini emerged from the Qatar GP as top rookie in 10th on his two-year-old Ducati and put in another impressive display in last Sunday’s Doha race….
Renault needed change at the very top as the F1 team transitioned to its new identity as Alpine for 2021. That is the explanation of Renault CEO Luca de Meo, as he responded to rumours that Cyril Abiteboul was ousted as team boss due to the team’s poor performance. However, RTL quotes de Meo as…
Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko believes Sebastian Vettel should have taken a year off from Formula 1 in 2021 instead of joining Aston Martin. After being dropped by Ferrari last year, four-time F1 world champion Vettel explored a number of options before ultimately signing with the rebranded Aston Martin squad for 2021. Vettel endured a…
Suzuki’s Joan Mir says Jack Miller ‘intentionally’ hit him on the pit straight at close to 200km/h in the MotoGP Doha Grand Prix, saying the Ducati rider showed “no respect”. Mir put an aggressive overtake on Miller at Turn 10 on lap 13 of Sunday’s MotoGP race, which resulted in the pair touching as they…
Jorge Martin has dedicated his maiden MotoGP podium in the Doha Grand Prix to the late Fausto Gresini, having raced for the Italian in Moto3. Two-time 125cc world champion and veteran team boss Gresini tragically died after losing his battle with COVID-19 in February. Martin raced for Gresini’s Moto3 squad from 2017-2018, the Spaniard winning…
