The Sepang Racing Team made its grand prix debut in 2015 in the Moto3 class before expanding to the Moto2 class. In 2019 it stepped up to MotoGP as Yamaha’s new satellite partner with backing from Petronas, bringing up Fabio Quartararo from Moto2 and signing 2017 Moto2 world champion Franco Morbidelli. The squad was a

On Thursday ahead of this weekend’s 11th round of the 2021 season, Yamaha announced it had suspended Vinales and withdrawn him from the Austrian GP for “irregular operation” of his M1 in the Styrian GP. Autosport understands that Vinales was deliberately trying to blow up his bike’s engine in the Styrian GP by over-revving it.

On Thursday ahead of this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix, Yamaha announced it had suspended Vinales and withdrawn him from the 11th round of the championship. It stated in its press release that Vinales was suspended for “unexplained irregular operation of the motorcycle” in last weekend’s Styrian GP which could have seriously damaged his engine. Autosport

Real life driver names, Murray Walker’s iconic commentary, plus sophisticated (for the time) track mapping and car models, all helped ensure the game became a best-selling classic. “It was huge and was something I really enjoyed playing as a kid,” smiles the Australian. Despite the graphics, modelling and handling all moving on tremendously over the

The entry as the 10th team in the all-electric SUV off-road racing series was announced in June. McLaren joins Cupra and GMC as the third manufacturer involved – while Lotus Engineering has a technical partnership with Jenson Button’s JBXE outfit. Championship co-founder Alejandro Agag has maintained the series will be capped at 12 teams, chiefly

In the closing stages of the Catalan Grand Prix in June, Yamaha rider Quartararo’s leather race suit came completely unzipped and he was forced to discard his chest protector. He continued to the chequered flag despite the issue and was later handed a three-second penalty, which dropped him to sixth, having already been demoted from

LMH has been introduced as a replacement for the LMP1 category, in a bid to reduce costs at the top end of endurance racing and increase its appeal to automotive manufacturers, after the likes of Audi and Porsche withdrew to leave Toyota as the only OEM remaining. Toyota introduced its GR010 HYBRID for the start

That includes the unique challenge provided by temporary street circuits like Copenhagen’s Bellahoj Park, which the new-for-2021 all-electric touring car series visited for the first time last weekend. Ekstrom won Pure ETCR’s previous round in Spain and set the fastest time in the Time Trials used to determine the grids for the Danish weekend’s SuperFinals.

Red Bull’s sister team has impressed in F1’s 2021 season with a fast car, which allowed Pierre Gasly to qualify on the front three rows eight times out of 11 races and grab a podium in Baku. Rookie Yuki Tsunoda also showed flashes of promise but has generally struggled to match his more experienced teammate

Although there are homologation limits in place for engine manufacturers, which restrict them to just one update from last year, it has emerged that Ferrari has so far not unleashed all the changes it wanted to make with its 2021 power unit. While other car makers introduced all their new components at the start of

On a weekend that started with the bombshell announcement that Valentino Rossi will be retiring at the end of the 2021 season, it ended with Martin – a rookie of just six MotoGP starts – taking to the top step of the podium. Martin missed four races in 2021 due to a wrist injury he

Teams are allowed to use eight exhausts during the season before they face grid penalties, and Alpine has already gone through seven for Esteban Ocon and five for team-mate Fernando Alonso. No other team has used more than four in the first 11 grands prix of the planned 23-race season. Alpine’s executive director Marcin Budkowski has explained

Nasr made light work of treacherous wet conditions in qualifying to claim his first pole of the season, and immediately stamped his authority on the two-hour-and-40-minute race. A strategic ploy by the Meyer Shank Racing Acura team saw Olivier Pla and Dane Cameron out in front for much of the second half of the race,

Coyne lost his previous star rookie, Alex Palou, to Chip Ganassi Racing at the end of last year and the Spaniard is now leading the 2021 IndyCar Series championship standings. His replacement at Dale Coyne Racing with RWR, Romain Grosjean, is competing in all road and street courses – and will make his oval debut

Having claimed pole position, two-time champion Wittmann led from start to finish to become the fifth different driver to win a race in the first six contests of the year. In similar fashion to Saturday’s opening encounter, the safety car was deployed after the opening lap to recover the stranded Mercedes of Vincent Abril, who

In soaking wet conditions, Kevin Magnussen (Ganassi Cadillac) set the early pace at 2m09.774s, 0.4s faster than Ricky Taylor (Wayne Taylor Racing Acura) and Nasr. Nasr then jumped to the top of the times at 2m08.114s, following Taylor on track. He improved again to 2m07.919s, three quarters of a second faster than the car he

Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon spun on his out-lap at Turn 4 – where the track’s major bump had been ground down overnight – bringing out a red flag. Action resumed with 38 minutes to go, and Alexander Rossi was the first to duck below 1m17s, his fifth lap yielding a 1m16.9814s. Then Ganassi’s points leader Alex

O’Ward clipped the inside wall at Turn 3 on his eighth lap of the opening session, bouncing him into the outside wall, thereby breaking the front suspension on both sides of his car. Despite this, the Mexican 21-year-old who sits second in the championship was enthusiastic about the course that Tony Cotman’s NZR Consulting firm

Reports emerged last week in the Italian press that Rossi would be selling his VR46 organisation, including its grand prix race teams, for 150 million euros to Tanal Entertainment and Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Abdullah bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud. Tanal Entertainment is the company allegedly behind the VR46 MotoGP team’s title sponsorship deal with

Friday’s running for the Styrian GP was affected by rain in the afternoon session, though most riders felt the grip on offer was surprisingly high. But for a number of years riders have expressed concerns over the safety of the Red Bull Ring in wet conditions, particularly at Turns 1 and Turns 3 where a

The Australian has gone up against both Verstappen and Norris in the same cars, having previously raced at Red Bull alongside the Dutch driver between 2016 and 2018. And although he thinks it is too early in Norris’ career to judge how he stacks up against Verstappen, Ricciardo says that on track at least there

Rossi made his grand prix motorcycle racing debut back in 1996 in the 125cc class, and since then has written himself into the history books as arguably the greatest of all time – both on two wheels and perhaps across all of motorsport. Winning 115 grands prix across the 125cc, 250cc and MotoGP classes, Rossi

In addition the team has requested a separate process, a right of review, and says that it has “discovered significant new evidence” that was not available on Sunday night. The right of review is likely to take place ahead of any appeal hearing as it is possible that the original decision could be changed. It

Highest of the MX-5 battlers is Ben Short, who scooped another double victory in the 750 Motor Club’s Mk1 MX-5 Cup category at Cadwell Park to rise up from 22nd place to sixth on the winners’ table. Jack Brewer also claimed a brace of wins in the British Racing and Sports Car Club’s Mk1 championship

The 34-year-old Scot moved to the Speedworks Motorsport-run Toyota team to replace the team’s long-time favourite Tom Ingram for 2021. While Butcher was able to drive the Corolla onto the fringes of the fight at the front in the opening two rounds at Thruxton and Snetterton, he qualified a lowly 16th next time out at

Marshal Rob Foote was killed following an incident in the Pre-93 and Pre-03 Touring Car race at a British Automobile Racing Club event on Saturday. Simon Beament’s Ford Escort made contact with another car along the Brabham Straight, which sent his car veering to the left and it hit the barriers on the outside of

Six weeks have passed since the last MotoGP action at Assen, with plenty of talking points and racing to look forward to over the second half of the season. Maverick Vinales will face the MotoGP paddock for the first time since announcing his split with Yamaha at the end of this season, as speculation mounts

Formula 2 racer Ticktum first linked up with Williams’ academy in December 2019 as development driver, having exited Red Bull’s junior team midway through that year. But it emerged on Tuesday that the 22-year-old was released from Williams’ young driver academy last week, with Ticktum claiming it was because there was “no option for an

The Monegasque driver was collected by his out-of-control Aston Martin rival at the apex of the first corner, when Stroll braked too late and took to the grass in the damp conditions. The collision badly damaged Leclerc’s car and was enough to pitch him out of the grand prix at the second turn. However, as

On the rapidly drying Hungaroring track, world champion and pole position man Lewis Hamilton was the only driver who elected not to dive into the pits to change from intermediates to slicks. His Mercedes team had been worried that, with the team having the first box in the pitlane, coming in to swap tyres would