Four-time Champ Car champion Sebastien Bourdais will contest a limited IndyCar schedule with AJ Foyt Racing in 2020, sharing a car with outgoing veteran Tony Kanaan and rookie Dalton Kellett. Bourdais, whose main campaign this year is in the IMSA SportsCar Championship with JDC-Miller Motorsports after he lost his IndyCar drive at Dale Coyne Racing,
Month: February 2020
Aprilia MotoGP rider Andrea Iannone’s doping case was heard by the International Disciplinary Court on Tuesday, but no verdict has yet been reached. Iannone tested positive for a steroid during the Sepang weekend of the 2019 MotoGP season, and a provisional suspension was announced the following month, on December 17. Iannone said the finding had
Rally Sweden officials are carrying out further inspections ahead of making a final decision on whether the World Rally Championship event will go ahead. A lack of snowfall and warmer than usual conditions in Sweden have meant the usual thick layer of snow has not formed on the surface of the stages. A decision on
Jorge Lorenzo turned his first laps on a Yamaha MotoGP bike since 2016 on Tuesday as the three-day shakedown session at Sepang came to an end. The three-time MotoGP champion, who was announced as a Yamaha tester last week, recorded 46 laps aboard the 2020-spec M1 bike, setting a best time of 2m05.506s. That left
The Repsol Honda team has unveiled the 2020 livery for its MotoGP bike, which will be campaigned by brothers Marc and Alex Marquez. In a season launch presentation taking place in Indonesian capital Jakarta where title sponsor Repsol is based, the Honda factory team showed off a pair of bikes sporting a largely identical colour
Ducati CEO Claudio Domenicali says it is not important for the MotoGP manufacturer to field an all-Italian line-up as the paddock prepares for a frenzied silly season. The majority of factory contracts are up for renewal at the end of this season, including those of Ducati’s all-Italian line-up Andrea Dovizioso and Danilo Petrucci. Speaking at
Arrow McLaren SP-Chevrolet co-owner Sam Schmidt says IndyCar ‘deserves and needs’ Fernando Alonso to contest the Indianapolis 500, after rumours suggested Honda rejected plans for Andretti Autosport to run Alonso. Andretti ran the two-time Formula 1 world champion’s entry with McLaren in the 2017 edition of the race, at which Alonso qualified fifth and was
Reigning World Rally champion Ott Tanak crashed spectacularly out of the Rally Monte Carlo, but can the Hyundai driver bounce back immediately on Rally Sweden? That’s the main focus of discussion on this edition of the Gravel Notes podcast, as David Evans believes the accident won’t slow the Estonian down, despite crashing so early into
Fabio Quartararo says Yamaha’s offer of a factory-spec bike in Petronas SRT colours for the 2020 MotoGP season “weighed heavily” on his decision to stay with the marque for 2021. Rookie sensation Quartararo was announced last week as a factory Yamaha rider for 2021 and ’22 alongside Maverick Vinales, replacing team stalwart Valentino Rossi. Before
Jules Gounon survived a late puncture to take a first Bathurst 12 Hour win for Bentley amid an ongoing threat of rain, alongside Maxime Soulet and Jordan Pepper. The #7 Continental was in the fight all afternoon, leading at both the race’s half and three-quarter marks during a see-sawing battle with the #999 GruppeM Mercedes.
Aprilia has revealed the first pictures of its 2020 MotoGP challenger ahead of the shakedown test at Sepang beginning on Sunday. The Italian manufacturer returned to MotoGP in 2015, though it wasn’t until the following year that it debuted its first new prototype machine, having run a glorified Superbike under Open class rules in its
The field for the 2020 Bathurst 12 Hour has been depleted by the spectacular series of crashes across Saturday’s action. Three Class A cars and an Invitational entry are set to be missing from the grid when the race kicks off on Sunday morning, off the back of a spate of crashes in both practice
The field for the 2020 Bathurst 12 Hour has been depleted by the spectacular series of crashes across Saturday’s action. Three Class A cars and an Invitational entry are set to be missing from the grid when the race kicks off on Sunday morning, off the back of a spate of crashes in both practice
Reigning Bathurst 12 Hour winner Matt Campbell put in a stunning Top 10 Shootout lap to secure pole in the #911 Absolute Porsche, while several big crashes rocked qualifying day. Both segments of qualifying were affected by significant crashes, with a frightening incident involving Sam Shahin and Tyler Everingham in the first session, followed by