In dominating fashion, Kyle Larson won NASCAR‘s longest race Sunday night and in the process gave team owner Rick Hendrick a record 269th victory, most in NASCAR Cup Series history. Larson‘s win in the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway was the eighth of his career and his second of the season, guaranteeing the driver…
Dr Helmut Marko has ruled out a return to Red Bull’s Formula 1 camp for Daniil Kvyat. “Definitely not,” said the 79-year-old Austrian, when asked if the Russian and former Red Bull Racing and Alpha Tauri driver has a chance of a Red Bull comeback. “We are focused on working with our current drivers, but…
Ex driver turned commentator Marc Duez from Walloon TV station RTBF in Belgium loses his job with the broadcaster after making several of what many might describe as misogynistic comments during the Formula 1 race in Monte Carlo targetted at Serena Williams. Tennis superstar Serena Williams was invited to the Monaco Grand Prix as Aston…
Red Bull expect to poach 50 Mercedes staff for their new power-unit division including their former engine boss Andy Cowell, according to a report. With Honda set to pull out of Formula 1 at the end of 2021, Red Bull Powertrains has been born to take over the work of the Japanese manufacturer and ensure…
Factory yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo won the Italian MotoGP race making it his third MotoGP win of 2021 at Mugello as title rival Francesco Bagnaia crashed out early on. Quartararo utilised the new front start device fitted to his M1 for this weekend to limit the damage to the rapid-starting Ducati’s from pole as he…
Six-time World Superbike Champion Jonathan Rea has won the Superpole Race at Estoril ahead of Toprak Razgatlioglu and Scott Redding. Kawasaki rider Rea took the lead on hap five after a battle with Yamaha’s Razgatlioglu and Ducati’s Redding. Rea extends his championship lead to 13 points over Redding. He dedicated his victory to Moto3 rider…
Nine-time world champion Valentino Rossi is moving closer to announcing that 2021 will be his final year racing in the series. A disappointing start to the year as a Petronas Yamaha satellite rider has started to tip the balance towards the 42-year-old calling it quits after 25 years of grand prix racing. Rossi has been…
Swiss Moto3 rider Jason Dupasquier has died as a result of injuries sustained in an accident during qualifying on Saturday, MotoGP has announced. The 19-year-old was hit by another bike after falling from his own and slid down the track at Mugello in Italy. MotoGP said on its official website: “Following a serious incident in…
Fabio Quartararo flew to a fourth MotoGP pole of 2021 with a blistering lap record in qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello ahead of title rival Francesco Bagnaia. The Frenchman elected to head out on track focussing only on his own lap and not searching for a tow down the long Mugello front…
Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez says he apologised to rival Maverick Vinales for his “not completely fair” tactic during the first segment of Mugello qualifying. Marquez stuck to the back of Vinales for most of Q1, specifically waiting for the Yamaha rider to come out onto the track on his second run and even following…
McLaren came with a pleasant surprise just before the Monaco GP. They would drive this race with the iconic livery of sponsor Gulf. Although the majority of the fans were very positive about this, they will probably have to settle for the standard orange livery of McLaren for the rest of the season. Andreas Seidl…
Francesco Bagnaia broke the lap record at Ducati’s home circuit to compete a frantic end to FP3 ahead of qualifying for the Italian MotoGP Grand Prix at Mugello. Fastest on Friday, Francesco Bagnaia continued his pace into FP3 to top the session with a new record aboard the Ducati at their home track in the…
Jonathan Rea made it two pole positions from two events in the 2021 World Superbike season so far as he beat Scott Redding to the top spot in qualifying at Estoril. Kawasaki man Rea led the opening runs on a 1m36.635s in the 15-minute Superpole session, but it was ex-MotoGP racer Redding that was first…
Many Grands Prix will still be held behind closed doors in 2021, but in Austria Red Bull Racing advisor Helmut Marko has come up with a clever trick. This allows no less than 39,000 fans to be present at the Red Bull Ring. “The grandstands will have their own entrances and exits,” Marko explained at…
Max Verstappen is bracing for a strong reaction from his Mercedes rivals next week in Baku in the wake of the Brackley squad’s Monaco setback. Verstappen clinched a dominant win in the Principality that allowed him to overhaul Lewis Hamilton in the Drivers’ standings while Red Bull also moved ahead of Mercedes in the Constructors’…
The wing war between Mercedes and Red Bull is continuing to heat up as we head towards round six at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix. The battle between the two title rivals is happening not just on the track, but off it as well, with the front wing of the Mercedes W12 and the rear wing…
