The Monaco Grand Prix has traditionally been a happy hunting ground for the Red Bull Formula 1 team, but has it already been consigned to playing second fiddle this weekend? The low-speed nature of the street circuit means engine performance is less of a differentiator, and also places a heavy emphasis on chassis performance –
Month: May 2019
Kevin Harvick said his Stewart-Haas Racing team “shot both of our feet off” with poor pit work in NASCAR’s All-Star race. Harvick finished second to Kyle Larson in the non-championship race for a $1million prize, but had to come back through the field after a slow pitstop and then an additional stop to sort a
McLaren’s 2019 IndyCar return has gone from a planned full-season with proven champions targeted as Fernando Alonso’s team-mates, to failing to qualify for a one-off Indianapolis 500 appearance. This is the timeline of how the project unravelled. September 2018 Alonso makes his first IndyCar outing since the 2017 Indy 500 as he tests an unbranded
Pramac Ducati MotoGP rider Jack Miller says he fell out of the French Grand Prix podium positions because he “got carried away” racing Marc Marquez and damaged his tyres. Miller started on the front row in third place after Saturday’s wet/dry qualifying at Le Mans and twice managed to pass reigning champion Marquez’s Honda in
Fernando Alonso says he did everything he possibly could to qualify for the Indianapolis 500, but the McLaren IndyCar entry was simply never fast enough. The double Formula 1 world champion and his team, which was running largely independently bar an alliance with Carlin, ended up among the six entrants fighting for the final three
McLaren has ruled out getting Fernando Alonso into the Indianapolis 500 by buying a rival IndyCar team’s entry, following its shock failure to qualify for the race. A troubled practice and qualifying week for the team, which was running independently for Alonso’s second Indy 500 bid bar an alliance with Carlin, culminated in its double
Simon Pagenaud gave Penske its first Indianapolis 500 pole for seven years in qualifying for the 2019 edition of IndyCar’s premier race. The ‘Fast Nine’ pole shootout ran straight after the shock events of the last row-setting session in which Fernando Alonso and McLaren were bumped out of the field by Kyle Kaiser and the
Fernando Alonso and McLaren failed to qualify for the Indianapolis 500, as they were bumped out of the field by Kyle Kaiser and the cash-strapped Juncos Racing team. A fraught week of practice and qualifying meant Alonso ended up one of six drivers fighting for the three spaces on the back row of the grid.
The six drivers fighting to get onto the Indianapolis 500 grid got only 20 minutes of practice on Sunday morning before rain, and Fernando Alonso had a major set-up issue. Alonso and McLaren were only 31st fastest in Saturday’s first qualifying session, leaving them up against Max Chilton and Patricio O’Ward from the affiliated Carlin
Lewis Hamilton says it is “very difficult” to see himself leaving Mercedes despite discussing the appeal of a Ferrari move with his Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff last year. When Hamilton was negotiating with Mercedes to stay with the team beyond 2018, Wolff said they talked about Ferrari’s appeal because “probably it’s in every
Andrea Dovizioso says he had no qualms about his Ducati MotoGP team allowing Danilo Petrucci to fight him at Le Mans instead of deploying team orders like “in Formula 1”. Dovizioso was running second behind eventual race winner Marc Marquez in the late stages of the French Grand Prix, but came under pressure from team-mate
Danilo Petrucci was “very, very scared” of hitting his Ducati MotoGP team-mate Andrea Dovizioso while attacking him for second in the French Grand Prix at Le Mans. Dovizioso had to defend from Petrucci in the late stages of the race, with the latter making a couple of attempts to pass and even briefly edging ahead
Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez eased to his third victory of the campaign at Le Mans, extending his lead in the championship. Marquez, who had lined up on pole, fought off the Ducatis of Danilo Petrucci and Jack Miller early on before assuming full control of the race and cruising to his second successive Le
Formula 1 must have a German Grand Prix if Mick Schumacher follows in the footsteps of his seven-time world champion father Michael, according to Hockenheim circuit chiefs. The German GP’s future remains under threat as it continues to negotiate an extension to the one-year reprieve it earned for 2019. Hockenheim is seeking a multi-year agreement
As Mercedes Formula 1 team-mates Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas’s title battle develops, there has been a special focus on how they get off the line differently. More than once this season they have swapped places as grands prix begin, with each of them winning and losing on the run to the first corner. Bottas
Ryan Newman called Clint Bowyer “embarrassing” after a fight following NASCAR’s All-Star race at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Roush Fenway Ford driver Newman clashed with Stewart-Haas Racing’s Bowyer multiple times on the slowing-down lap, culminating in Bowyer making contact with the outside wall. Bowyer then approached Newman’s car in the pitlane and threw a series of
Fernando Alonso says failing to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 would be “what we deserve” if McLaren cannot find more speed in Sunday’s ‘Bump Day’ session. Double Formula 1 world champion Alonso fell 0.02mph short of guaranteeing a place on the grid for his IndyCar return during first qualifying on Saturday, his 227.224mph average from
Kyle Larson stormed from the back of the grid to win NASCAR’s non-championship All-Star race and earn and $1million, fending off late pressure from Kevin Harvick at Charlotte. The surprise result came amid a tough season for Ganassi driver Larson, who has not won a Cup championship round since September 2017. That meant he had
The first French Grand Prix in 10 years thrilled last year, so Motorsport Live delves into the stats to explain why a Formula 1 race at Paul Ricard is simply unmissable and considers the key action areas on the track What’s a Grand Prix without action? Overtakes, crashes, safety cars and a lack of retirements
Ed Carpenter Racing’s Spencer Pigot edged Penske’s trio of drivers to top Saturday’s qualifying session for the Indianapolis 500, as James Hinchcliffe and Fernando Alonso missed the cut. Under the Indy 500 qualifying format, all 36 entrants are permitted a four-lap run of the 2.5-mile circuit, and then had the opportunity to improve on their
Le Mans MotoGP pole-sitter Marc Marquez said that his qualifying crash was a consequence of his strategy, as he fell on the lap where he went all-in. Due to rain ramping up, track conditions during qualifying gradually got worse, meaning the early laps in the session proved decisive in the pole battle. Marquez recorded what
Aleix Espargaro says he “applauds” MotoGP rival Valentino Rossi for the bold strategy that allowed Rossi to advance from the first segment of qualifying at Le Mans. Rossi was the only rider among 12 Q1 participants to equip slick tyres for his first run, judging conditions perfectly to put himself out of reach in the
LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow says MotoGP riders would overwhelmingly back a change to the “stupid rule” that awards spots in Q2 on the basis of combined times from practice. The 10 riders who set the fastest laptimes across the three first practice sessions of a MotoGP weekend are awarded byes into the pole shoot-out,
KTM MotoGP rider Johann Zarco reckons he could have been in the mix for pole position at Le Mans if not for a strategy mistake in Q1. In mixed conditions, Zarco started the first part of qualifying on wet tyres but, like many of his rivals, he pitted for slicks when he saw Valentino Rossi’s
McLaren’s Fernando Alonso topped the final practice ahead of 2019 Indianapolis 500 qualifying, where just six cars took part in the session. Alonso, who admitted on Friday that he was worried about his prospects of qualifying for the 103rd running of the Indy 500 following the problems he has endured in the earlier practice sessions,
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says Pierre Gasly is “getting stronger” despite his low-key start to the 2019 Formula 1 season. Gasly’s promotion to Red Bull was earlier than planned, following Daniel Ricciardo’s switch to Renault, with the team vowing it would give the 23-year-old time to adapt. But Gasly has scored just 21
Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez secured pole position for the French Grand Prix at Le Mans, despite crashing his Honda immediately after his fastest lap. Marquez set his reference lap of 1m40.952s on wet tyres at the very start of Q2, when the damp track surface was at it best, just as the ever-present light
Thierry Neuville has completed his first test in a Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC six days after crashing out of Rally Chile. Neuville completed a planned single day of running in Sardinia as his pre-event test for next month’s Rally of Italy. The test ran on roads close to the route for the Alghero-based event throughout
Petrobras is seeking to end its partnership with the McLaren Formula 1 team at the request of Brazil’s national government, the country’s new president has claimed. McLaren announced a new technology tie-up with Petrobras at the start of 2018, to begin in ’19. As well as branding on McLaren’s F1 car, the Brazilian company is
Maverick Vinales set the pace in a wet third MotoGP practice at Le Mans, as championship protagonists Valentino Rossi and Alex Rins were among those consigned to a Q1 appearance. Rossi and Rins had been left outside of the combined classification top 10 on Friday, and light rain falling on the circuit ahead of Saturday
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