How good Mick Schumacher really is, is difficult to assess because of the considerable gap the Haas team has with the other teams. The German has consistently beaten his teammate Nikita Mazepin, but even that says very little so far. It is a learning year for the talented son of the legendary Michael Schumacher. Speaking…
This year’s Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix, due to be held in October, has been cancelled amid rising Covid-19 case numbers in the country. It is the fifth race to be cancelled this season in Formula 1 and the second year in a row that the Japanese Grand Prix has been axed. “The decision has…
Spa Francorchamps CEO and her lesbian mistress were shot to death after her hubby found the pair together in bed. Cops say he then turned the gun on himself. According to authorities, Belgian Formula 1 auto racing chief Nathalie Maillet, 61, was found dead alongside Ann Lawrence Durviaux, 53, in her mansion in Gouvy, Belgium,…
Mercedes’ Nyck de Vries has won the 2021 Formula E championship in a dramatic finale in Berlin, while Norman Nato claimed his maiden victory. De Vries went into the final leading the championship but had a lot of work to do from 13th on the grid. Mitch Evans looked set to be the favourite given…
Nathalie Maillet, Chief Executive Officer of the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium, has been murdered in her Gouvy, Luxembourg home by her husband, RTL reports. Maillet was expected to show up to the Ypres Rally event of the World Rally Championship on Sunday, August 15. When she didn’t arrive, authorities began looking for her. They…
William Byron led the way in the final round of NASCAR Cup Series group qualifying at Indianapolis to earn the pole for the series’ inaugural event on the road course. Byron’s Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet clocked in at 100.044 mph (1m27.765s) Sunday morning. He was the only driver to break the 100-mph mark. Earlier this week,…
KTM’s Brad Binder has pulled off victory in the Austrian MotoGP by staying on slicks when rain fell in the final laps at the Red Bull Ring. Binder inherited the lead when he gambled on staying out as the five ahead of him pitted for their wet weather bikes with just three laps remaining. Francesco…
Mercedes is preparing to leave Formula E at the end of the 2022 season after the conclusion of the latest internal talks by Daimler board members over whether to commit to a Gen3 programme. The Race understands that the final decision, which is likely to be made public next month, is set to confirm that…
Jorge Martin has backed up his maiden MotoGP pole with another at the Red Bull Ring just a week later, in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix. Martin had put his Pramac Ducati in first position on the grid for the Michelin Grand Prix of Styria, which he went on to win, and will start…
Ferrari F1 officials are apparently no hurry to speed up Mick Schumacher’s learning curve by moving him to a different team. Italian media is reporting that the Formula 1 constructor is in talks with the Haas F1 Team about keeping Mick Schumacher at the American team for 2022. There have been rumors suggesting the 22-year-old…
Lucas di Grassi has taken the win in the first of Formula E’s Berlin finale races, putting himself firmly back in contention for the championship. Jean-Éric Vergne had taken pole, beating DS Techeetah team mate Antonio Felix da Costa in a Super Pole session where the reigning team and driver champions looked almost as unbeatable…
Organisers of the Dutch Grand Prix have confirmed Formula 1’s race at Zandvoort will go ahead as planned, albeit with a slightly reduced crowd. F1 was meant to return to the Netherlands for the first time since 1985 in 2020, but it had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The good news for…
Valtteri Bottas has maintained Toto Wolff’s suggestions that both of Mercedes’ Formula E drivers deserve F1 seats are “not really my concern”. The Finn is out of contract with Mercedes at the end of the current season with Williams driver George Russell heavily linked with a move to the Silver Arrows as his replacement. Mercedes…
Halfway through the 2021 MotoGP season, it’s an open secret that things are bad inside the works Yamaha camp – or at least on one side of the team’s pit box. Maverick Vinales, already set to leave at the end of the year after breaking his contract, seems desperately unhappy, and it’s being reflected in…
After finishing last in two of the last three races, Vińales has now been benched by his team for “irregular operation of the motorcycle” Maverick Viñales has been suspended by the Yamaha MotoGP team for this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring after he “possibly posed a danger to other riders” in…
With just three points on the board, Fred Vasseur feels while Alfa Romeo have taken a step forward in “pure performance”, they’ve “failed” when it comes to points. Alfa Romeo headed in the summer break on the back of a points-scoring race at the Hungarian Grand Prix with Kimi Raikkonen bringing his C41 home in…
