The current MotoGP season may only be four races old, but Suzuki riders Joan Mir and Alex Rins got their second outing on the prototype 2022 GSX-RR engine during Monday’s Jerez test. Suzuki – like Yamaha, Ducati and Honda – has had its engine design frozen since the start of 2020 due to an emergency…
Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo has undergone surgery for the arm pump that sabotaged his Spanish Grand Prix and cost him the MotoGP championship lead on Sunday. It means that next week’s French Grand Prix will mark the second time in three years that he will prepare for his home race in an operating theatre, after…
There was no rest for PETRONAS Yamaha Sepang Racing Team, as they took part in a productive one-day test at Jerez on Monday, just one day after the SpanishGP ended. The day concluded with Franco Morbidelli ninth and Valentino Rossi 12th on the final timesheets. Team-mate Rossi also began his Jerez test once the red…
After being unexpectedly and swiftly removed as Renault [aka Alpine] in January, F1 team principal, Cyril Abiteboul has reemerged with an advisory role for Mecachrome Motorsport activities.Abiteboul led Renault‘s Formula 1 effort from 2014 to 2020 and looked set to lead the French team’s new Alpine era until the call, ending his duties with the…
Christian Horner has a radical way of taking sprint qualifying even further – floating the notion of unpopular ‘reverse grids’ and more points. Sprint qualifying is set to make its Formula 1 debut at the British Grand Prix in July via the format of a shorter race on Saturday, the result of which will set…
Ex-Formula 1 racer and Peugeot LMH signing di Resta will join Phil Hanson and Fabio Scherer at the wheel of the #22 Oreca 07-Gibson for the Portuguese race, as Albuquerque contests the clashing Detroit round of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship for Wayne Taylor Racing. United announced the news a day on from its crushing…
FIA race director Michael Masi has explained the reasoning for Nikita Mazepin’s penalty during the Portuguese Grand Prix. The Haas driver was handed a five-second time penalty for impeding then-race leader Sergio Perez at turn three by swinging across the apex and almost causing a collision. Mazepin’s team principal Guenther Steiner offered his own explanation…
Max Verstappen lost the fastest lap point for the Portuguese GP because he gained an advantage – a point – by running wide at Turn 14. Running five seconds behind race leader Lewis Hamilton in the closing laps at the Algarve circuit, Verstappen and Red Bull conceded defeat and, with the bigger picture in mind,…
Red Bull driver programme chief Helmut Marko wants track limits addressed after both of his drivers were impacted at Portimao. Max Verstappen set the fastest time during the shootout for pole at the Portuguese Grand Prix but due to breaching track limits, that time was wiped which meant he instead lined up P3 behind both…
Former stock car driver Eric McClure has died at age 42, NASCAR announced on Sunday. The Washington County, Virginia, Sheriff’s Department confirmed McClure’s death to CNN. Emergency personnel were called to McClure’s home Sunday morning where they found his body. His body was sent to Virginia Department of Forensic Science in Roanoke for an autopsy,…
Kyle Busch completed the weekend double at Kansas Speedway, adding to his NASCAR Camping World Truck Series win from Saturday with a win in the Buschy McBusch Race 400 NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday. The win on Busch’s 36th birthday was Busch’s first Cup Series victory of the 2021 season, 11 races into the…
Max Verstappen was bewildered by the steward’s decision to delete his fastest lap of the race which cost him one point in the championship. Verstappen pitted with two laps for the soft tyres before setting the quickest lap of the Grand Prix on the last lap but he went wide at Turn 14 which is…
Despite starting second on the grid and being passed by Max Verstappen in the early stages of the race, Lewis Hamilton delivered a stern message to his title rival to claim the Portuguese Grand Prix. The Brit drove relatively undisturbed after getting past his Red Bull rival and teammate Valtteri Bottas, with his biggest troubles…
Kimi Raikkonen’s Portuguese Grand Prix lasted just one lap after he collided with his team mate on the main straight at Portimao. The Finn, who had started the race 15th on the grid, was running behind Antonio Giovinazzi when he appeared to misjudge the effect of the tow from his team mate’s Alfa Romeo car,…
Kyle Busch didn’t wait until Sunday’s NASCAR Cup race to celebrate his 36th birthday at Kansas Speedway. Busch got an early start on birthday festivities by winning the NASCAR Camping World Trucks Series Wise Power 200 on Saturday night, overtaking fellow Cup regular Ross Chastain in a double-overtime finish. Busch, a two-time NASCAR Cup champion…
Jack Miller took his first MotoGP victory since Assen 2016 in dramatic fashion as after Fabio Quartararo suffered a mid race issue that saw him lose a certain third victory of 2021. Miller started the race from third on the grid and was able to use Ducati’s front and rear start device to full effect…
