Dr. Rose Mattioli, co-founder of Pocono Raceway and matriarch of the Mattioli family that still owns and operates the track, died on Monday at the age of 92. Together with her late husband Dr. Joseph ‘Doc’ Mattioli, who died aged 86 in 2012, Rose co-founded the 2.5-mile oval known as ‘the Tricky Triangle’ in 1968.
Month: June 2020
The Arrow McLaren SP IndyCar Series team has revealed the colours of Fernando Alonso’s challenger for the delayed 2020 Indianapolis 500 in August. The two-time Formula 1 world champion and double 24 Hours of Le Mans winner will be making his third attempt at the Indy 500, as he continues his bid to become only
Jorge Lorenzo has rubbished rumours linking him with a return to Ducati in 2021, but admits he feels he’s still “capable” of winning the MotoGP title with the “right tools”. Three-time premier class world champion Lorenzo retired from racing at the end of the 2019 campaign following a miserable debut season on the factory Honda,
Jimmie Johnson will get his first test in an IndyCar next week when he drives a Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda around the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course. The test comes as the IndyCar Series prepares for the second round of its 2020 season, the GMR Grand Prix of Indianapolis to be held this weekend on the
Jorge Lorenzo arrived at Valencia in 2013 as the outsider for that year’s MotoGP world title. Ultimately coming up short against Marc Marquez, the way the Yamaha star rode that race was a work of art, Oriol Puigdemont remembers The final round of the 2013 season at Valencia saw Marc Marquez crowned as the youngest
Four-time British GT champion Jonny Adam says he has “still got the hunger” to win a record-breaking fifth title next year after his planned entry this season was withdrawn. Aston Martin factory driver Adam, who claimed his fourth crown with as many different amateur co-drivers last year alongside Graham Davidson, was set to return in
Andrea Dovizioso will line up on the grid for the 2020 MotoGP season-opener at Jerez after undergoing successful surgery on a left collarbone break on Sunday. The Ducati rider was taking part in the Emilia Romagna regional motocross championship event on Sunday in Faenza in Italy when he crashed heavily onto his left side. Dovizioso
On this day in 2013, Valentino Rossi clambered onto the top step of the Assen podium to celebrate his first win in over two years. Truly banishing the demons of his Ducati nadir, it would be the catalyst for much more in the ensuing years Following four fallow years with a new frontman in Blaze
The withdrawal of TF Sport and multiple champion Jonny Adam from British GT improves the prospects of its rivals, but underscores that the championship hasn’t got away from COVID-19 completely unscathed Imagine if Mercedes took a year out of Formula 1 on the eve of the season and Lewis Hamilton was unable to defend his
Defending British GT championship-winning outfit TF Sport has been forced to withdraw both its GT3 Aston Martin Vantages due to factors resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. Four-time series champion Jonny Adam was due to share with 2014 runner-up Ahmad al-Harthy in one car, while Adam’s co-champion last year Graham Davidson was due to share another
Denny Hamlin claimed his sixth Pocono victory in a rain-delated second NASCAR Cup race of the weekend, beating Kevin Harvick by over three seconds. In a reverse of race one, Kevin Harvick was chasing after Hamlin in the closing stages of the 140 lap race, but couldn’t close the gap to the Toyota driver and
Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso has broken his left collarbone in a motocross crash on Sunday in Italy and will undergo surgery this evening. Dovizioso was taking part in a motocross race in the Emilia Romagna regional championship in Italy on Sunday when he crashed and landed on heavily on his left shoulder, according to
Kevin Harvick claimed his first ever Pocono victory in the first of two NASCAR Cup races at the Pennsylvania circuit this weekend. The Stewart-Haas Racing driver started from ninth on the grid but dropped backwards in the first half of the race as the field ran a variety of strategies. Harvick had relatively fresh tyres
The latest MotoGP rider market moves have been completed, with Danilo Petrucci joining KTM as expected, but rather unexpectedly being placed at Tech3 for 2021. Confirming his Ducati exit at the end of this year earlier this month, Petrucci visited the KTM factory in Austria last week, where meeting were said to have been “positive”.
The rescheduled Indianapolis 500 will be run with fans in attendance at IndyCar’s iconic event, but only at 50% of the Motor Speedway’s 230,000 capacity. The coronavirus pandemic forced the Indy 500 – as well as the preceding Grand Prix of Indianapolis – to be delayed from its May slot to 23 August, with the
IndyCar will allow fans into an event for the first time in the 2020 season at next month’s double-header round at Road America. The REV Group Grand Prix will feature a race on Saturday 11 July and Sunday 12 July, and “under the guidance of public health officials, medical experts and local, state and federal
Tech3 MotoGP boss Herve Poncharal says Danilo Petrucci joining his team in 2021 as a factory rider proves KTM sees it as an equal rather than simply a customer outfit. On Thursday KTM announced its full line-up for its works squad and satellite Tech3 team, with Petrucci moving to the latter alongside rookie Iker Lecuona
Bradley Smith has used the MotoGP Misano test to alter his physical and mental preparation “from tester to rider” for Aprilia ahead of filling in for the suspended Andrea Iannone. One-time MotoGP race-winner Iannone is currently battling an 18-month ban for a doping violation after an illegal steroid was found in his system following a
NASCAR has concluded its investigation into the noose that was found in Bubba Wallace’s garage at Talladega Superspeedway last weekend. The FBI launched a hate crime investigation after the noose was found in the garage of the only African-American NASCAR driver. Wallace had been instrumental in lobbying NASCAR to ban the Confederate flag – historically
Ryan Blaney is hopeful a breakthrough win at Talladega can “open the floodgates” to further triumphs as he continues to emerge as a NASCAR Cup Series title contender. The Team Penske driver made it consecutive wins at Talladega’s superspeedway on Monday, to break his victory drought despite being one of the most consistent performers this
KTM has officially announced that Danilo Petrucci has signed for the Austrian marque to join Tech3 for 2021, with Miguel Oliveira promoted to the factory team. Petrucci confirmed earlier this month that he would be leaving Ducati at the end of this season, and was reported by Italian press to have visited KTM with his
NASCAR president Steve Phelps says the organisation “would do the same thing” if evidence was presented that suggested a hate crime might have been committed within its environment. Speaking to media following the news that the FBI had learned that the noose discovered in the Talladega garage stall of Bubba Wallace, the only African American
An FBI investigation into the noose found in the garage stall of NASCAR Cup driver Bubba Wallace at Talladega has concluded that no hate crime had been committed. The pull down rope on Bubba Wallace’s garage stall door, fashioned in a way that resembles a noose, led NASCAR to investigate the incident and involve the
Aprilia has confirmed to Autosport that test rider Bradley Smith will replace Andrea Iannone for as long as he is under suspension for a doping violation. One-time MotoGP race winner Iannone was hit with an 18-month ban earlier this year after an illegal steroid was found in his system following a drugs test during last
Sage Karam will race in next week’s Grand Prix of Indianapolis driving for Dreyer & Reinbold Racing in the team’s first non Indianapolis 500 appearance since 2013. Karam, the 2013 Indy Lights champion, has raced for Dennis Reinbold’s outfit in five of the last six Indy 500s, and the squad also assisted Chip Ganassi Racing
The MotoGP rider market for 2021 continues to shake up as Danilo Petrucci is now set to join KTM in place of Honda-bound Pol Espargaro. Petrucci confirmed earlier this month that he will be leaving Ducati at the end of the year as former Pramac team-mate Jack Miller moves up to the works Ducati squad
Organisers of Rally New Zealand fear it could be “cast into the wilderness” after it failed to appear on the draft calendar of events for next year’s World Rally Championship. Last Friday, the World Motor Sport Council named the nine locations that have contracts to stage a round of the series in 2021, including Monte
Scott Redding had a hard time with the “professional aspects” of MotoGP and is more suited to a career in World Superbikes, believes his former team boss Francesco Guidotti. Redding raced in MotoGP from 2014 to ’18, riding for Honda, Ducati and Aprilia in that time, before switching to British Superbikes last year and winning
Bubba Wallace is certain NASCAR “is changing” as he reflected on the racial incident when a noose was found in his garage, as he claimed 14th place at Talladega Superspeedway to take a career-best finish. All eyes were on Wallace after a noose was found in his garage stall Sunday, which has led to an
Ryan Blaney has scored a first NASCAR Cup Series win of the season for Team Penske in the rescheduled Talladega race, pipping Ricky Stenhouse Jr in overtime at the superspeedway. With the race taking place to a backdrop of an FBI investigation after a noose was found in Bubba Wallace’s garage on Sunday in a
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