Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales believes MotoAmerica champion Cameron Beaubier “will do really good” when he makes his Moto2 debut in 2021. Beaubier is arguably America’s leading light in motorcycle racing, having won the MotoAmerica Superbike Championship five times – securing this year’s crown with a round to spare aboard his Attack Performance Yamaha R1.
Month: October 2020
Takaaki Nakagami has confirmed he will have a factory Honda bike next year having renewed his MotoGP contract with HRC to remain with LCR for two more years. Honda announced earlier on Thursday Moto2 race winner Nakagami had signed a new multi-year contract with the Japanese marque to remain with LCR, though the release made
Both IndyCar title contenders Josef Newgarden and Scott Dixon head into the finale uncertain of how strong their cars are on a street course given the lack of 2020 running. With the COVID-19 pandemic-caused cancellations of Long Beach, Detroit and Toronto, while St. Petersburg has been shifted from season-opener to season-closer, this weekend the IndyCar
Takaaki Nakagami will remain in MotoGP in 2021 with LCR having signed a multi-year extension with Honda. Nakagami stepped up to the premier class from Moto2 in 2018 with LCR, though is contracted directly to HRC. Riding year-old RC213V machinery this year, Nakagami currently sits fifth in the standings and just 29 points off championship
Michael Andretti says he’s confident of Andretti Autosport maintaining a five-car programme in IndyCar next year and returning to the restarted Indy Lights series with four cars. Andretti’s multiple championship-winning and Indy 500-winning team has been the subject of much speculation during silly season, with rumours of the team cutting back from five cars to
MotoGP completes its latest triple-header with a second consecutive race at Aragon, the first-ever Teruel Grand Prix. Following yet another dramatic MotoGP race in the most unpredictable of seasons, Alex Rins became the eighth different winner across the opening ten races in the first Aragon encounter, while Suzuki team-mate Joan Mir claimed the riders’ world
Honda has confirmed reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez’s recovery from a broken arm is “proceeding as planned” amid reports he may need a third surgery. Marquez broken his right arm in a heavy crash during the season-opening Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez back in July. He tried to stage a comeback the following week
Erik Jones has signed for Richard Petty Motorsports to replace Bubba Wallace in the famed #43 car for the 2021 NASCAR Cup Series. Jones has signed a multi-year driver agreement with the team, to drive the number made famous by NASCAR Hall of Famer Richard Petty. “It is an incredible honour to have Richard Petty
Double MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner says it’s “sad” for him to see Valentino Rossi celebrating a top five or a podium “like a victory”. Rossi will continue his MotoGP career into 2021 after signing a new deal with Yamaha to join Petronas SRT with full factory support. The nine-time grand prix motorcycle world champion
The first examples of Hyundai Motorsport’s newly-unveiled World Rally Championship support series challenger are set to be delivered to customers next summer once an “extensive testing” programme has been completed. The Alzenau-based squad claims the new Rally2 car will continue the success enjoyed by its R5 predecessor, with key development work to be overseen by
Oliver Askew has been given clearance by the IndyCar medical team to return to action for this weekend’s season finale in St. Petersburg with Arrow McLaren SP. The reigning Indy Lights champion was forced to miss the Harvest Grand Prix two weeks ago after complaining of balance issues at the end of the second Mid-Ohio
Pol Espargaro says the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix was “painful for KTM” after no RC16 rider made it into the top 10 for only the second time this season. Espargaro qualified 12th and couldn’t make any inroads on that position in the race, finishing behind team-mate Brad Binder. The Spaniard says everything “started to bend”
Reigning MotoAmerica Superbike champion Cameron Beaubier will return to the grand prix paddock in 2021 after signing a deal to join the American Racing Team in Moto2. Beaubier contested the 2009 125cc world championship with the Red Bull KTM squad, partnering future six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez in his second season in the class.
Aleix Espargaro says “it’s not easy to be positive” as he “can’t go faster” than he currently is on the Aprilia following his 13th at the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix. Espargaro has finished inside the top seven at Aragon since he joined Aprilia in 2017, but could only manage 13th last Sunday and 14.5 seconds
Sebastien Ogier is confident a change in fortunes in this season’s World Rally Championship will allow him to reel in Toyota team-mate and current leader of the competition, Elfyn Evans. With two rounds remaining – the Ypres and Monza rallies – Ogier is still in the hunt for a seventh WRC drivers’ crown after trimming
NASCAR has announced suspended driver Kyle Larson will be able to return to competition from 2021. In a statement released on Monday, NASCAR said Larson will be cleared to return to all NASCAR racing activities from 1 January 2021 after being banned for using a racial slur during a virtual racing event run in the
NASCAR Xfinity Series points leader Chase Briscoe will move up to the Cup Series next season at Stewart-Haas Racing to replace the outgoing Clint Bowyer, Autosport has learned. 25-year-old Briscoe will drive the No. 14 Ford from the 2021 season and replace Bowyer, who earlier this month announced he is retiring at the end of
Alex Rins became MotoGP’s eighth different winner in a manic 2020 season, while Suzuki team-mate Joan Mir took the championship lead at the Aragon Grand Prix. Rins came from 10th on the grid to prevail in a tense battle with Honda rookie Alex Marquez in the 23-lap Aragon race to claim Suzuki’s first win of
LCR’s Cal Crutchlow says a slipping clutch on the warm-up lap of the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix almost forced him into starting from the pitlane on his spare Honda. Crutchlow qualified on the front row for the first time since the 2019 US GP last Sunday at Aragon in third, but was swamped off the
Jack Miller says his ninth in the Aragon Grand Prix didn’t impact his MotoGP title hopes as he “already gave up that ghost” at Le Mans. The Pramac Ducati rider struggled in the opening stages of Sunday’s race for rear grip on his medium rear, but was anticipating to come on strong as the frontrunners
The opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge is generally held on the first weekend of February, Mount Panorama hosting GT teams and drivers from around the world. However, with Australia’s border shut for the foreseeable future due to the pandemic, event owner Supercars has decided to call off next year’s event, with an eye
Australia’s closed borders due to the COVID-19 pandemic have forced event organisers to cancel the 2021 Bathurst 12 Hour. The opening round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge is generally held on the first weekend of February, Mount Panorama hosting GT teams and drivers from around the world. However, with Australia’s border shut for the foreseeable
Team Penske’s Joey Logano became the first NASCAR Cup Series driver to secure a place in the championship-deciding race with victory at Kansas, fending off late pressure from Kevin Harvick. A caution period for a Tyler Reddick wall-strike on Lap 221 of 267 around the 1.5-mile circuit brought the field to the pits for fresh
Joan Mir says he cares less about the MotoGP title currently than “probably other riders” and won’t change his race-by-race approach despite leading the standings after the Aragon Grand Prix. The Suzuki rider leads the championship for the first time in 2020 by six points after finishing third on Sunday at Aragon, while erstwhile standings
Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso says it will be “very hard to fight” with Suzuki for the MotoGP title following its second double podium in three races at the Aragon Grand Prix. Alex Rins won Sunday’s Aragon race from 10th on the grid, while Joan Mir took over the lead of the championship by six points after
Sam Lowes won his second successive Moto2 race in a dramatic Aragon Grand Prix as crashes for Luca Marini and Marco Bezzecchi blew the title fight wide open. Marc VDS’ Lowes took his first win in four years last week at Le Mans following a late crash for long-time leader Jake Dixon, and once again
Joan Mir is expecting a “great fight” with the Yamahas ahead of him in Sunday’s MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix as the Suzuki rider starts from sixth. Qualifying has been Suzuki’s biggest weakness in 2020, with championship contender Mir only twice qualifying on the front two rows prior to Aragon. However, the Spanish sophomore managed sixth
Aragon Grand Prix poleman Fabio Quartararo says his “strange” MotoGP FP3 crash wasn’t a result of him unnecessarily pushing in the cold conditions and insists he “did nothing wrong”. Quartararo’s Saturday almost ended in disaster when he crashed heavily at Turn 14 during the morning practice session. Having been stretchered off track, the Petronas SRT
Aprilia CEO Massimo Rivola says Andrea Iannone’s doping ban decision not arriving for potentially another month does “damage” the MotoGP team, but maintains that its case is concrete. Iannone’s hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to overturn the 18-month doping ban handed to him back in April occurred on Thursday, with proceedings
The next generation of World Rally Car will adopt a bespoke 100kW plug-in hybrid system after the final ‘Rally1’ technical regulations were agreed by the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council. As well as giving crews a power boost on the stages, the technology is set to be used on road sections – as outlined by
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