It’s a curious historical anomaly that of the many international superstars that have made their mark on Indycar racing, German drivers have made a negligible impression. If we discount German-born Dominic Dobson’s third place at Michigan in 1994, Timo Glock is the only driver to emerge through the German motorsport ladder to score a podium
Month: May 2021
Hawkins has been drafted in to pilot one of the team’s four Ford Focus ST cars after Neate elected to sit out the second round of the championship at the Norfolk circuit (12-13 June) due to personal reasons. The decision comes after Neate was at the centre of a dramatic opening round at Thruxton that
KTM’s Miguel Oliveira headed Mir for second place at the chequered flag in Sunday’s 23-lap Mugello race, but was subsequently demoted to third for narrowly exceeding track limits on the run into the Casanova right-hander on the final lap. MotoGP’s current rules stipulate that a rider will be automatically demoted a place should they exceed
After the COVID-19 pandemic prevented the Netherlands from hosting its first grand prix since 1985 last year, F1 will make its long-awaited return to Zandvoort on 5 September. The majority of F1 races took place behind closed doors last year, but fans have steadily been returning at events so far this season, including the last
2:15 PM ET ESPN News Services Scott Dixon‘s perfect Indianapolis 500 fell apart when the six-time IndyCar Series champion ran out of gas before his first pit stop Sunday. The pole sitter was on track for a regularly scheduled stop when Stefan Wilson crashed as he entered pit road to bring out a caution 33
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Palou led 35 laps and looked immensely strong throughout, able to pass cars on the inside or outside whenever he needed to. He and Castroneves’s Meyer Shank Racing-Honda reduced the ‘net’ lead battle (behind two off-strategy cars) to a duel over the closing laps, swapping positions back and forth. However, after passing
WPI Motorsport, Michael Igoe and Andrea Caldarelli claimed their maiden Intelligent Money British GT Championship victories in this morning’s rain-drenched endurance race at Donington, while TF Sport’s Patrick Kibble and Connor O’Brien scored a second GT4 win in three races. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader in
That’s the hope of many in the sport, and the plan has the tentative support of a majority of team bosses. It was discussed at a meeting of the F1 Commission late last year, and in an exploratory vote, eight of out 10 teams backed the basic principle. The vote was on a “statement of
Autosport understands that the parties involved are working through the final details of the deals, with announcements set to come in the following days. Once the alliances have been made official, Ducati will be poised to grow its margin as the best-represented manufacturer on the MotoGP grid. It has run eight bikes before, with three
Following his exit from Racing Point at the end of last year, one-time grand prix winner Perez linked up with Red Bull for 2021, replacing Alexander Albon on a one-year deal. Perez is yet to score a podium for Red Bull and has picked up less than half as many points as team-mate Max Verstappen,
3:25 PM ET ESPN News Services Written off as too old to race full time, too old for a fourth Indianapolis 500 win, Helio Castroneves at long last joined that exclusive club in a popular victory for the old guys. Then Spider-Man scaled the Indianapolis Motor Speedway fence for his trademark victory celebration at the
Castroneves, driving for Meyer Shank in a part-time entry, swept past Chip Ganassi Racing’s Palou on the penultimate lap to claim his fourth Indy 500 victory – joining the likes of AJ Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears on the joint-most wins at the Brickyard. A thrilling three-driver battle for the lead between Castroneves, Palou
At 46 years and 20 days old, the Brazilian cemented a place in Indy 500 history by becoming the fourth-oldest driver to conquer the Indianapolis Motor Speedway after Al Unser in 1987, Bobby Unser in 1981 and Emerson Fittipaldi in 1993. The Meyer Shank Racing driver beat Chip Ganassi Racing’s youngest driver, 24-year-old Alex Palou, in
Bastianini smacked into the back of his Ducati stablemate Zarco as they warmed up their brakes on the way to their grid slots just before the start of Sunday’s 23-lap Mugello race. The Avintia rider was unable to take the start as a result, while Zarco had to complete the race with some cosmetic damage
A lowly seventh place for Lewis Hamilton was accompanied by urgent questioning of his strategy from the world champion, who lost two places to Sebastian Vettel and Sergio Perez over the pitstop sequence. Then there was the very public embarrassment of the crew struggling to remove the right-front wheel from the car of Valtteri Bottas,
7:08 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — On Saturday morning, roughly 24 hours before the start of the 2021 Indianapolis 500, an impromptu meeting of Indy’s most exclusive club took place as the drivers meeting of this year’s 33 competitors was being adjourned. A.J. Foyt, Al Unser and Rick Mears, the only four-time winners over 104 years
Not since the days when AJ Foyt was the ultimate American racing hero has one driver done so well in so many categories. Tony Stewart is a throwback to the old days of motorsport in the United States, when a true racer was not afraid to climb into any type of car and take on
The reduced dust clouds compared to an inaugural event in Saudi Arabia in April enabled a four-car finale for the first time on the four-mile beach course close to Lac Rose. But that showdown was soon cut to just two entries after early crashes for the X44 team owned by Hamilton and fellow Formula 1
The Swiss 19-year-old Dupasquier tragically died from injuries sustained in a horror qualifying crash on Saturday at Mugello, with the FIM announcing his passing just before Sunday’s Moto2 race. A moment of silence was held on the grid ahead of the MotoGP race, but track action in Moto2 and MotoGP carried on as normal. Bagnaia,
Hamilton was raised on a council estate in Stevenage, with his father holding down multiple jobs to fund his early karting career that helped pave the way for his success in F1. The seven-time F1 world champion said in an interview with Spanish publication AS that F1 “has become a billionaire boys’ club”, adding: “If
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