The World Rally Championship’s new managing director says the flexibility of Rally Turkey organisers in changing dates should help allow at least one extra round to join this season’s calendar. Originally due to run from 25-27 September, the Marmaris-based event has been brought forward by a week by the Turkish Automobile Sports Federation (TOSFED), paving
Month: July 2020
MotoGP has cancelled the remaining flyaway races in Argentina, Thailand and Malaysia for 2020, but is set to add Portugal to the calendar as the 14th race. The original 2020 season was set to be the longest in MotoGP’s history, with 20 rounds beginning in Qatar and ending in Valencia, with stops off in the
McLaren 720S GT3 outfit 2 Seas Motorsport has announced its drivers for the 2020 British GT season, completing a reduced 21-car grid for this weekend’s season opener at Oulton Park. The Bahrani-backed squad has signed 2018 GT4 champion Jack Mitchell and Jordan Witt to drive its second car, entered in the Silver Cup, joining the
KTM’s Brad Binder accepts that he is going to make “a hell of a lot more mistakes” in his rookie MotoGP campaign, after two promising but difficult Jerez races. The South African showed impressive pace across the Spanish and Andalusian Grand Prix weekends, lapping quicker than most of the podium contenders during both races. However,
Conor Daly’s Ed Carpenter Racing Indy 500 entry will be overseen by renowned crew chief Cole Pearn, who took Martin Truex Jr to the 2017 NASCAR Cup title. Pearn became crew chief for Truex in 2015 before going on to take the title two seasons later, while last year they earned seven wins – more
Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson has impressed Chip Ganassi team boss Mike Hull and five-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon after completing a test on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course. Johnson, whose last open-wheel action was testing a McLaren Formula 1 car in a car swap with Fernando Alonso at Bahrain, was supposed to try
Petronas SRT boss Razlan Razali says Valentino Rossi’s podium in the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix removed “doubts” he had over the Italian for 2021 after his poor Spanish GP weekend. Nine-time grand prix world champion Rossi will join the satellite Yamaha squad with full factory support in 2021, though the deal is yet to be
Silverstone’s Stuart Pringle says he would be “very disappointed” if the venue lost MotoGP after 2021, as he believes “one of the best circuits on their calendar just got better”. Silverstone was the first home for grand prix motorcycle racing on the British mainland when the Isle of Man TT lost its world championship status
Valentino Rossi has reacted to the “disaster” post-race for his VR46 Moto2 and Moto3 riders in the Andalusian Grand Prix, which included an embarrassing collision and a prosecco-related podium injury. Seven-time MotoGP world champion Rossi’s VR46 Academy enjoyed a strong Andalusian GP weekend, with Rossi’s half-brother Luca Marini and team-mate Marco Bezzecchi finishing second and
Jack Miller is now taking his title tilt “race by race” again after a “nothing” crash in the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix a day after declaring himself a championship combatant. The Pramac Ducati rider said on Saturday at the second Jerez round that reigning world champion Marc Marquez’s absence through injury made him change his
Marcus Ericsson says his Chip Ganassi Racing team had “question marks” about him after his inconsistent rookie IndyCar season last year, but believes he has “taken big steps” in 2020. The Swedish driver made the switch to US open-wheel racing after five seasons in Formula 1 with the Caterham, Sauber and Alfa Romeo squads, scoring
Fabio Quartararo’s Andalusian Grand Prix victory was partly made possible by a preparation technique Michelin advised all MotoGP teams to do, but only the Yamaha and Suzuki riders acted upon. Autosport has learned that MotoGP tyre supplier Michelin sent an email to all teams during the second round of the 2020 campaign recommending them to
KTM MotoGP rider Pol Espargaro says the Andalusian Grand Prix at Jerez was “the toughest race of my life”, having felt like the heat was “beating me” at one stage. Temperatures for Sunday’s second round of the 2020 campaign touched a miserable 40 degrees Celsius, with the 60 degree track temperature making circuit conditions tricky
The IndyCar Series will not compete at either Portland or Laguna Seca in 2020, and will run double-headers at Mid-Ohio, Gateway and the Indianapolis road course in their place. As revealed yesterday, the Grand Prix of Portland has fallen victim to Oregon’s increasing crowd-gathering restrictions in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, while the surging number
Alex Marquez says Honda is giving him “the confidence a rookie needs” as he continues his adaptation in MotoGP with the reigning world championship-winning team. Reigning Moto2 champion Marquez rose from 21st in qualifying following a crash to end the second Jerez race in eighth spot, just 19 seconds from the victory, which represents an
Fabio Quartararo hammered the opposition in Sunday’s MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix at Jerez to take command in the championship. Leading the standings by 50 points, the Petronas SRT rider made the most of the absence of the injured Marc Marquez in the second of back-to-back races at Jerez to make the mountain the Honda rider
Francesco Bagnaia says his strong Andalusian Grand Prix weekend has made him feel like a “fully-fledged MotoGP rider”, after a technical issue cost him a maiden podium. The Pramac rider was top Ducati runner in qualifying after securing his first front row start in third, and found himself in second spot after passing the struggling
Suzuki’s Joan Mir says his non-finish in the MotoGP’s first Jerez race meant he was “penalised” for the Andalusian Grand Prix as he had no data to fall back on. Mir crashed out on lap two of the season-opening Spanish GP, while team-mate Alex Rins was a non-starter after dislocating and fracturing his collarbone in
Maverick Vinales admits he “couldn’t breathe” when running behind his Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi in the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix owing to the massive heat. The riders had to battle a brutal 40 degrees Celsius heat in the second round of the 2020 season at Jerez, with that heat only intensifying when riding in the
The IndyCar Series Mid-Ohio round is set to become a double-header to effectively replace this year’s Grand Prix of Portland which has been cancelled. Teams were informed on Thursday of the decision to cancel the 2020 race at Portland International Raceway, and public confirmation is currently expected on Monday. Oregon’s state-wide crowd-gathering restrictions during the
Andalusian Grand Prix podium finisher Valentino Rossi admits his “not real” Spanish GP weekend made him “worried” about his decision to continue in MotoGP in 2021. Though pen is yet to be put to paper, nine-times grand prix world champion Rossi will join Petronas SRT Yamaha in place of factory team-bound Fabio Quartararo next season.
Tech3 rider Miguel Oliveira says he “disagrees” with factory KTM counterpart Brad Binder’s version of events which led to their Turn 1 crash at the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix. Oliveira qualified a career-best fifth and as top KTM rider for the second race at Jerez, but a burning clutch meant he got a poor launch
IndyCar president Jay Frye says he remains confident that a third engine manufacturer will join Chevrolet and Honda in the IndyCar Series, as speculation increases that it will be Ferrari. Ferrari Formula 1 team principal Mattia Binotto told SkySport Italia in mid-May that the company was evaluating the viability of an IndyCar project as F1
Audi claimed victory in the opening GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup round of the season at Imola courtesy of its Team WRT squad. In the hands of Matthieu Vaxiviere, Kelvin van der Linde and Mirko Bortolotti, the #31 Audi R8 took the lead in the second hour after a sensational stint from van der
Fabio Quartararo dominated a brutal MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix, with Maverick Vinales beating Valentino Rossi for the first all-Yamaha podium since 2014. The extreme heat caused a high rate of attrition through accidents and mechanical issues, though Petronas SRT’s Quartararo avoided all of that to ease to his second-successive win to seize command in the
Maurice Petty, an engine builder who propelled the Petty family dynasty to NASCAR success and younger brother of NASCAR legend Richard, has died aged 81. Maurice primarily served the Petty Enterprises organisation, founded by his father Lee, as an engine builder and crew chief, but he also had his own racing career from 1960 to
Pramac Ducati’s Jack Miller believes Marc Marquez’s injury and withdrawal from the Andalusian Grand Prix means he is now a contender for this year’s MotoGP title. Reigning world champion Marquez pulled out of the remainder of the second weekend of the MotoGP season having experience a loss of energy in the broken right arm he
Andrea Dovizioso says he doesn’t want to “copy” what the Pramac Ducati riders are doing with the GP20, despite Francesco Bagnaia qualifying third for the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix. Dovizioso failed to make it out of the first part of qualifying for the first time since the 2019 German GP, and will start Sunday’s second
Marc Marquez has withdrawn from the remainder of the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix due to the broken arm he recently had surgery on. The reigning world champion suffered a heavy accident in last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez and broke the humerus bone in his right arm as a result. He underwent surgery in
Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi says he feels “stronger than last week” after completing the opening day of practice for the Andalusian Grand Prix at Jerez second-fastest. Rossi endured a difficult start to the 2020 campaign at the Spanish track last weekend as he qualified 11th and retired after a dashboard alarm on his works
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