Extreme E has incorporated a ‘Grid Play’ element that allows the public to vote for the team they want to start the last race on pole. For the squads that do not progress to the final, they can pass on their percentage of the vote to one of the three teams that has qualified. Lewis

Morbidelli had endured a tricky week in Qatar, after a holeshot device issue meant he finished the first round of 2021 without points in 18th, while on Friday he was forced to unseal a third engine from his allocation following several issues in FP1. Even without his issues in the first Qatar race, Morbidelli hasn’t

Quartararo was trailing Miller in the closing stages of Q2 on Saturday evening when the Ducati rider had a massive moment at Turn 3 that wasn’t caught on the TV cameras. The Yamaha rider says it was much more aggressive than the big moment Miller had during FP2 on Friday, but the Australian still managed

Three high-profile technical failures occurred during the Friday shakedown ahead of the Desert X-Prix in the AlUla region of Saudi Arabia. First on the course, Chip Ganassi Racing driver Sara Price was hit by a terminal 12V battery fault. Jenson Button had problems with the motor and invertor aboard his JBXE-entered Odyssey 21 and Carlos

Norris was narrowly outqualified by Ricciardo on Saturday, before passing the Australian on his way from seventh to fourth during one of his strongest races so far. Norris’ performance drew praise from McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl, who saw evidence across the Bahrain weekend that Norris “made the next step” as a driver. “It’s something

After a disappointing showing in the Qatar GP, Jack Miller has replicated his place in the second practice times from seven days ago by going fastest on Friday, leading a Ducati 1-2-3 ahead of factory team-mate Francesco Bagnaia and Pramac’s Johann Zarco. Fabio Quartararo was the closest contender against the Ducati domination with fourth place

The Japanese manufacturer introduced a new engine for this year ahead of its departure from F1 at the end of the season, before Red Bull takes over its development from 2022. The new engine is smaller and more powerful, and both Red Bull and AlphaTauri have taken a step forward judging by their performances in

Vinales qualified second for last weekend’s season-opener at Losail, but dropped to sixth at the end of the first lap after four Ducatis and Yamaha team-mate Fabio Quartararo jumped him. Race starts were a prominent feature of Vinales’ Qatar test and practice programme, and though his launch wasn’t bad it simply wasn’t enough to counteract

Power from the one-make 4.2-litre normally-aspirated Gibson V8 has been reduced by 20kW or 25bhp in addition to the 30kW or 40bhp originally planned. That means the Gibson engine will push about approximately 535bhp (400kW) in 2021 compared with more than 600bhp (450kW) since the introduction of the current P2 formula in 2017. The minimum

Andretti Autosport-Honda’s 2016 Indy 500 winner was one of four drivers who performed a simulation of a hybrid system last Friday at the legendary 2.5-mile oval, with the drivers running regular race boost (1.3-bar) with brief squirts of extra power (1.5-bar) to represent the expected power delivery of a KERS system discharging stored energy. IndyCar

London, 31 March 2021: Motorsport Images has been selected as the official photography agency by Extreme E, the exciting new motorsport discipline taking place in some of the harshest climates on Earth to highlight the impact of climate change. Motorsport Network’s assignment and licensing business that has over 26 million images in its licensing collection,

Norris started the 2021 F1 season opener in seventh, one spot behind his new McLaren team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, but drove a measured race to finish fourth which included bold overtakes on Ricciardo and Pierre Gasly. Starting his third season as a Formula 1 driver, team boss Seidl believes Norris has put the lessons he learned

Pastrana, whose list of achievements includes 11 X Games gold medals and four Rally America titles, is also the co-creator of the Nitro Circus action sports franchise, Nitro World Games and the upcoming Nitro Rallycross Series. Pastrana will return for his ninth ROC appearance at the event’s first-ever edition on snow and ice, which is

The decision will also protect jobs at M-Sport’s new state-of-the-art facilities at Cockermouth in the UK and ensures that its working ties with Ford’s competition arm, Ford Performance, are strengthened. Since joining forces in 1997, the two brands have been a constant in the series and have gone on to claim over 60 wins, 262

The F1 feeder series has made significant changes to its format for 2021 highlighted by a move to three races – two sprint events on Saturday, followed by a longer feature race on Sunday prior to the Formula 1 race. Forming the grids for the races involves an unconventional system, as Friday’s qualifying session sets

Vettel made an inauspicious start to life as an Aston Martin driver in Bahrain last weekend, the German classified 15th after being penalised for a late-race collision with Esteban Ocon’s Alpine. That was after he started the race from the back of the field, a Q1 exit compounded by a five-place grid penalty for a

The Japanese driver already had a debut point for 10th place in his pocket, but he showed that he already means business by stealing ninth place from Stroll at the start of the final lap. Tsunoda had been frustrated in qualifying, starting only 13th after struggling on the medium tyres in Q2, while his team

Red Bull and Honda protege Tsunoda was promoted to AlphaTauri at the expense of Daniil Kvyat after a sole season in Formula 2 and immediately impressed by scoring points on his F1 debut in Bahrain. Tsunoda only started 13th on the grid after struggling to put a good lap together in Q2, but then produced

After missing out on Q3 with the medium tyres, Perez was due to start 11th but triggered an aborted start when his RB16B shut off and coasted to a halt before the final corner. With no power, the Mexican couldn’t communicate with his team, but despite his relative unfamiliarity with the car and the Honda

The Spaniard was in the mix for a top ten finish at the F1 season opener as he battled with McLaren, Aston Martin and Ferrari rivals over the early stages of the Sakhir race. But just when it looked like he was on course to deliver points in his first race for Alpine, despite some

Track limits played a pivotal role in the outcome of Formula 1’s entertaining 2021 season opener, as with four laps to go Red Bull’s Max Verstappen overtook erstwhile leader Lewis Hamilton at Turn 4 but had to hand the position back to the defending world champion after leaving the track. In qualifying track limit transgressions

Mercedes and Red Bull deployed differing tyre strategies, with Verstappen’s offset rubber life advantage in the final stint meaning he was chasing Hamilton after leading the early stages from pole. With four laps to go, Verstappen attacked Hamilton around the outside of Turn 4, which has been heavily policed for track limits by the FIA,

In a stunning show of speed in qualifying, Bagnaia destroyed the lap record at the Losail International Circuit with a 1m52.772s to take his first premier class pole position, beating a trio of Yamaha riders in the process.  Fabio Quartararo led the charge for Yamaha to take second place ahead of team-mate Maverick Vinales, with

The ART Grand Prix driver initially finished second on the road behind race winner Oscar Piastri, although stewards had earlier issued a 10-second time penalty to Lundgaard for contact with Lirim Zendeli that ultimately ended his race. Lundgaard pulled up in the parc ferme to appear on the podium before the timing screen updated the

During an extremely tight first qualifying phase, Vettel needed a second flyer to claim a spot in Q2. Vettel’s final attempt was thwarted by two yellow flags however, which meant the four-time world champion couldn’t improve his personal best and languished down in 18th place. First Vettel had to slow down in Turn 1 for

The Suzuki rider admitted after pre-season testing that he started the season only “70%” ready having lost a vital day of work on the 2021 GSX-RR chassis to poor weather conditions (with Mir confirming on Friday he is using the 2020 frame). Mir began the day fifth fastest, but faded to outside of the Q2

With an engine development freeze carrying over into the start of 2021 for all but Aprilia and KTM, Yamaha’s power deficit to its rivals – and Ducati in particular – remains substantial. This is accentuated in Qatar owing to Losail’s one kilometre long main straight, with the fastest Ducati clocking 354km/h during Friday practice, while

With growing indications that the lower-rake cars have come off worst with F1’s 2021 rule changes, it appears that those affected have been hard at work trying to mitigate the damage. While Mercedes has been the focus of the impact on the low rake cars, Aston Martin too appears to have suffered a step back

The 34-year-old Scot’s nomadic but brief BTCC career peaked in 2020 when, for the first time, he entered the final round still in mathematical title contention with the Motorbase Performance Ford Focus team. But with long-time Speedworks star Tom Ingram jumping ship to the Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai squad, Butcher has been lined up as his

The current 2.2-litre twin-turbo V6s used in the IndyCar Series will be replaced in 2023 with 2.4-litre V6 units, still using twin turbos but also with a hybrid unit. To simulate the effects of the 100hp boost that IndyCar is striving for from the hybrid unit on ovals as well as road and street courses,