The Frenchman qualified on pole for the 23-lap Mugello race and fended off early resistance from Pramac’s Johann Zarco following a lap-two crash for leader Francesco Bagnaia to go on to dominant for his third win of the year. This came in spite of the sizable top speed disadvantage Yamaha is carrying in 2021, but
Month: June 2021
Alonso has so far struggled on his F1 comeback after two years out, having been out-qualified by Alpine team-mate Esteban Ocon in the past four races. Ocon raked in 12 of Alpine’s 17 points, with just five points scored by the double world champion. The Spaniard believes the nature of the 2021 F1 calendar has
Assuming there are no withdrawals between now and the Italian race scheduled for 18 July, it will mark the second-largest grid the series has ever assembled outside of the Le Mans 24 Hours – only falling short of the 2012 Spa 6 Hours, which featured a massive 42 cars. It also signifies a four-car increase
Rins was expected to be a major player in the championship in 2021 having finished third in the 2020 standings on his GSX-RR. But so far Rins has scored just 23 points from the first six races, having crashed out of victory contention in Portugal, slid out of a strong top six result in Spain
The machine learning tools made available through F1’s collaboration with AWS were instrumental in its approached to the impending rule changes for 2022. But there is a push to make this reach even further, reaching beyond the fancy graphics you see through races. “Something we are exploring within F1 and across the F1/AWS partnership is
9:51 AM ET The Aston Martin Formula One team announced on Tuesday a partnership with the Racing Pride movement and said it will work through June to raise awareness of LGBTQ+ diversity in the male-dominated sport. Racing Pride was founded in 2019 to create visibility for the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in motorsport
Rahal worked his way to the front from 18th at the start thanks to some impressive fuel saving, which allowed him to get a taste of the race lead on two occasions. But pitting from the lead on lap 118, Rahal left the pits without his left rear tyre properly attached to his car. Rahal
Team Honda Racing has scored its second Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli pole position after topping the Kyalami 9 Hour Pole Shootout earlier today. Mario Farnbacher beat local stars Jordan Pepper (Bentley) and Sheldon van der Linde (BMW) to top spot by setting a new GT3 qualifying lap record. #IntGTC #Kyalami9H GT World is
Brown and his partner in the reigning World Endurance Championship LMP2 title-winning squad, Richard Dean, will share a McLaren 570S in the Dutch round of the GT4 European Series on 19/20 June. It will be the first time that Brown has raced a contemporary McLaren since a partial campaign in the British GT Championship in
The Danish duo will race in the blue riband round of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup on 31 July 31-1 August along with fellow works driver Ross Gunn at the wheel of an Aston Martin Vantage GT3 fielded under the Garage 59 banner. The Belgian enduro will be Thiim and Sorensen’s first race
Binder has spent much of his road racing career with KTM, coming through the Red Bull Rookies Cup into Moto3 in 2012 before joining KTM’s main Ajo Motorsport squad in 2016. The South African dominated the season to win the Moto3 crown before spending three seasons in Moto2 with the Ajo KTM squad – finishing
Bottas has endured a difficult start to the 2021 season, retiring from two of the five races so far to leave him fourth in the drivers’ championship, 58 points off leader Max Verstappen. Bottas was on course to finish second in Monaco two weeks ago, only for a pit stop issue to force him to
4:49 AM ET Red Bull will not discuss a 2022 contract with Sergio Perez or any other driver until Formula One’s summer break at the earliest. Perez replaced Alex Albon on a one-year deal this season but has been slow getting up to speed. He has less than half the points of Red Bull teammate
O’Ward started the race in 12th and quickly worked his way into the leading pack, leading 17 laps and running inside the top three places for the majority of the 200-lap race. However, the winner of IndyCar’s second Texas race slipped to fourth on the final lap after 2019 Indy 500 victor Simon Pagenaud’s Team
Daly and team-mate Rinus Veekay led a total of 72 laps at the 2021 Indy 500, the highest of any team, but after late mishaps, their team boss Ed Carpenter was the highest-finishing ECR driver in fifth. VeeKay started his second Indy 500 on the front row and the winner of IMS’s road course race,
Tributes flooded in on social media on Sunday following the announcement, while the paddock observed a minute of silence ahead of the MotoGP race in Dupasquier’s honour. The decision to continue racing courted a strong response from some riders, with Francesco Bagnaia feeling it was incorrect to race, while Danilo Petrucci said he felt “dirty”
Following comments from Lewis Hamilton about Red Bull’s “bendy wing” over the Spanish Grand Prix weekend, a saga emerged surrounding the flexibility of the rear wings run by a number of teams. The FIA wrote to teams announcing it would be clamping down on rear wing designs from the French Grand Prix onwards, sparking a
May 30, 2021 Associated Press FLORENCE, Italy — Swiss motorcycle rider Jason Dupasquier has died following a crash during Moto3 qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix, the Careggi Hospital in Florence announced Sunday. He was 19. “Despite the best efforts of circuit medical staff and all those subsequently attending to the Swiss rider, the hospital