The 2020 Intercontinental GT Challenge will remain at four rounds with the decision not to replace the cancelled Suzuka event. Series organiser the Stephane Ratel Organisation had revealed an intent to replace the Suzuka 10 Hours scheduled for 23 August with another round in Asia when its cancellation was confirmed in May. Now, it has
Month: July 2020
Ott Tanak says the resumption of the World Rally Championship in his Estonian homeland in September is the perfect opportunity to reignite his drivers’ title defence with new employer Hyundai. Having run as a successful promotional event last year, the East European country made the step up to the top flight earlier this month, striking
Honda MotoGP riders Marc and Alex Marquez will wear special helmet designs for next week’s Spanish Grand Prix to show solidarity to all those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The COVID-19 outbreak has infected more than 12 million people worldwide and killed some 548,000, with Spain one of the hardest-hit countries in Europe. Having caused
Round 10 of the 2020 eNASCAR Heat Pro League season in association with Motorsport Games took the drivers to Auto Club Speedway. Kyle Arnold led the way early in the first 45 lap race for Playstation 4 gamers, but both Josh Parker and Maxwell Castro would take a turn out front as the field stayed
Watkins Glen will drop off the NASCAR Cup Series schedule for the first time since 1985 and be replaced by the Daytona road course, the series’ latest schedule update reveals. The former Formula 1 venue in New York has been a staple of the calendar for over three decades, and was due to stage this
The GT World Challenge Europe remains “very healthy” despite the downturn in entries resulting from the coronavirus pandemic, according to series boss Stephane Ratel. The revised entry lists for the Endurance and Sprint Cup legs of the GTWCE are down by approximately 10 cars each on the figures released in March prior to the series
MotoGP will not have a grand prix in the United States this season due to coronavirus, after the Circuit of the Americas announced its next event will be in April. The COVID-19 pandemic has wrought havoc on the scheduled 2020 season, with all races through June on the original calendar either cancelled or postponed. Last
Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson will return to competition this weekend at the Kentucky Speedway after being cleared by his doctors after testing positive for COVID-19. Last week, Johnson announced he had received a positive test result for the strain of coronavirus responsible for the current global pandemic, but did not know at
Former Williams Formula 1 driver Sergey Sirotkin will make his GT3 debut with SMP Racing in the endurance rounds of this year’s GT World Challenge Europe. Sirotkin will share a Ferrari 488 GT3 Evo 2020 in the Pro class with Ferrari works GT drivers Davide Rigon and Miguel Molina, who finished second in last year’s
The first NASCAR-IndyCar double-header experiment at Indianapolis Motor Speedway was an obvious success by all available measures, but the absence of spectators means there can be no guarantees it will become commonplace, as JIM UTTER explains One of the benefits of the scheduling changes prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic was an unprecedented NASCAR and IndyCar
The R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad has withdrawn from this year’s GT World Challenge Europe and will instead focus on its 2021 campaigns. The race-winning team, whose Aston Martin Vantage GT3s are jointly run by the British Arden and Jota Sport operations, has opted to put its racing activities on hold as a result of the
The team in which 2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button is a partner will race in British GT this year after abandoning its planned GT World Challenge Europe campaign. Jenson Team Rocket RJN had switched its Honda NSX GT3 for a McLaren 720S GT3 after one season, but will now enter it in the
Carmelo Ezpeleta, CEO of MotoGP promoters Dorna Sports, says his organisation will “help to find” a place on the 2021 grid for Britain’s only full-time premier class rider Cal Crutchlow. Last month Autosport revealed that KTM’s Pol Espargaro would be joining Marc Marquez at the factory Honda squad in 2021, with Alex Marquez set to
Kevin Harvick won the Brickyard 400 after a spectacular crash for Denny Hamlin in the closing stages of the NASCAR Cup Series race at Indianapolis. The race was red flagged early on after a multi-car pile up in the pitlane, which left one of Ryan Blaney’s Team Penske pit crew injured. Blaney’s rear tire changer,
Grand Prix of Indy winner Scott Dixon says the timing of the race’s only full-course caution meshed ideally with Chip Ganassi Racing’s “aggressive” race strategy. The five-time IndyCar Series champion dominated the second half of Saturday’s race after making his second pitstop just before the yellows came out for an accident to Oliver Askew’s Arrow
Scott Dixon eased to his first win on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course after a caution period thwarted polesitter Will Power in the second IndyCar race of the season. Power dominated the opening stages of the Grand Prix of Indy until the Arrow McLaren SP of Oliver Askew slid backwards into the barriers at
Andrea Dovizioso’s manager admits his MotoGP rider is now considering taking a sabbatical in 2021 should contract negotiations with Ducati fully break down. Talks between Ducati and Dovizioso over a renewal beyond the 2020 season have been a protracted affair, with the Italian marque wanting to renegotiate the terms for the current campaign owing to
Former Hyundai World Rally Championship competitor Andreas Mikkelsen believes his new role as Pirelli’s tyre development driver will aid his attempts to secure a full-time seat in the series again. October’s Wales Rally GB was the last time Mikkelsen competed in the category, with his sixth-place finish bringing the curtain down on a turbulent two-year
Seven-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson has become the first NASCAR driver to confirm he has tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement, Hendrick Motorsports announced Johnson, 44, had tested positive on Friday afternoon, forcing him out of this weekend’s Brickyard 400 race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Johnson has not experienced any symptoms but was
Seven-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson has become the first NASCAR driver to confirm he has tested positive for COVID-19. In a statement, Hendrick Motorsports announced Johnson, 44, had tested positive on Friday afternoon, forcing him out of this weekend’s Brickyard 400 race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Johnson has not experienced any symptoms but was
Team Penske’s Will Power denied Jack Harvey a maiden IndyCar pole position on the Indianapolis road course, as last year’s winner Simon Pagenaud struggled to a lowly 20th position. Three-time winner of the Grand Prix of Indy Power earned his 58th career pole position in the second race of a belated IndyCar season, which is
MotoGP rookie Brad Binder insists he isn’t worried about KTM’s development in 2021 stalling owing to the lack of experience with the bike within its ranks next year. KTM will field two rookies in 2020 in Binder at the works team and Tech3’s Iker Lecuona, while Binder’s team-mate Miguel Oliveira faces a truncated sophomore season
Petronas SRT MotoGP rider Fabio Quartararo will face an FIM hearing during the Spanish Grand Prix weekend for allegedly breaching private testing rules. On Thursday morning, MotoGP governing body the FIM issued a statement noting it had received a complaint that a rider and team had breached private testing rules. Rules state private testing for
The World Rally Championship has revealed a revised calendar for the coronavirus-halted 2020 season, with the campaign now set to resume in Estonia in September. The 2020 season was put on hold by the COVID-19 pandemic after just three rounds and several ensuing rallies have since been cancelled, including Finland, New Zealand and Rally GB,
Updated FIA guidelines designed to allow future rounds of the World Rally Championship to be held safely in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic have been welcomed by team bosses. The list of measures set out in the 81-page ‘Return To Motor Sport’ paper are “sensible” according to M-Sport’s Richard Millener, while his counterpart at
Tech3 MotoGP team boss Herve Poncharal says it’s not “completely crazy” for the KTM satellite to be in contention for podium or top five finishes in the condensed 2020 season. The coronavirus pandemic has forced the 2020 MotoGP season to be shortened to 13 rounds, although spaces have been left for flyaway races in November