Maverick Vinales concluded MotoGP pre-season testing in Qatar fastest of all, while Honda appears to have hit a crisis point after Marc Marquez reverted to testing a 2019 bike. Honda’s troubles this pre-season have been well-documented, with both LCR’s Cal Cructhlow and world champion Marquez – who is also riding below fitness – critical of
NASCAR Cup driver Ryan Newman continues to receive treatment for a head injury after his dramatic Daytona 500 accident, but is determined to get back to racing when fit again. Newman, the 2008 Daytona 500 winner and 2014 Cup Series runner-up, was leading the rain-delayed race in the closing stages when his Roush Fenway Racing
Joey Logano won the second round of the 2020 NASCAR Cup season at Las Vegas as a last-lap incident denied Matt DiBenedetto the opportunity to snatch the victory. A caution was brought out just six laps before the chequered flag when Ross Chastain, filling in for Ryan Newman, spun the #6 Roush Fenway Ford. All
MotoGP champion Marc Marquez says he is worried about the Honda bike’s performance in the Qatar pre-season test ahead of the 2020 season opener at the same venue. Though Marquez has not won at the Losail circuit since 2014, he has finished in the top five in every Qatar race since. After LCR rider Cal
Pramac rider Jack Miller has revealed he has been using Ducati’s new ride height adjustment device since last year’s MotoGP Thailand Grand Prix in October. Ducati introduced a holeshot device to its bike last year – though Miller had been racing it since the 2018 Motegi race – which allows the rider to lower the
Fabio Quartararo put Yamaha on top of the timesheets on day two of the Qatar MotoGP pre-season test, as the injured Marc Marquez destroyed his Honda in a heavy crash. Petronas SRT rider Quartararo, who topped the Sepang test outright after leading all three days in Malaysia, was an early pacesetter on Sunday at Losail
Valentino Rossi believes he needs to find “two or three tenths” to be able to battle for victory on the 2020 Yamaha following day one of the Qatar MotoGP test. The latest version of the YZR-M1 has proven to be a strong package, with Petronas SRT’s Fabio Quartararo topping the Sepang test outright on it,
LCR Honda rider Cal Cructhlow admits he is having to ride the 2020 Honda MotoGP bike like an “amateur” and feels worse on it in Qatar than in Malaysia. Crutchlow said at the Sepang pre-season test two weeks ago that the new-spec RC213V is worse at turning than its predecessor, which he was very vocal
MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez admits the nature of the Qatar circuit means he is struggling with his injured right shoulder more than he was at the Sepang test. The Honda rider underwent surgery on a partially dislocated right shoulder – which he sustained in a heavy crash at the Malaysian Grand Prix last year
Aleix Espargaro has branded comments Aprilia MotoGP team-mate Andrea Iannone made about the level of input he had in the bike’s development “super disrespectful”. Aprilia has radically overhauled its RS-GP for the 2020 season, which made a largely successful track debut at the Sepang pre-season test two weeks ago following a difficult campaign for the
Alex Rins led a Suzuki 1-2 on the first day of the final MotoGP pre-season test in Qatar, while Honda rookie Alex Marquez crashed twice during the session. Just three more days of testing stand between now and the first race of the season in Qatar in a fortnight, with riders taking to the Losail
Ryan Newman’s NASCAR Cup rivals say they are relieved by his recovery from last weekend’s Daytona 500 crash, which they say offered a warning about the dangers of the series. Newman suffered what was initially described as “serious but non-life threatening” injuries when his car turned into the wall, went airborne and was hit by
Andrea Iannone now looks unlikely to contest the first round of the 2020 MotoGP season in Qatar next month, as his doping case is still yet to be resolved. Iannone is currently under suspension from MotoGP governing body the FIM after failing a World Anti-Doping Agency drug test during last year’s Malaysian Grand Prix. A
Two-time IRL race-winner Robbie Buhl is part of a new IndyCar Series team, Citrone/Buhl Autosport, that aims to contest this year’s Grand Prix of Indianapolis and the Indianapolis 500. The team is a partnership between former Dreyer & Reinbold Racing co-owner Buhl, who beat the likes of Adrian Fernandez and Bryan Herta to the 1992
The Aprilia Racing Gresini team has become the final MotoGP manufacturer to unveil the colours its bikes will sport during the 2020 season ahead of the final pre-season Qatar test. This season will be Aprilia’s sixth since it returned to MotoGP in 2015 with a works effort in conjunction with Fausto Gresini’s satellite team. Aprilia
The Thailand Grand Prix, which is due to be the second round of the 2020 MotoGP season, will go ahead despite uncertainty over the outbreak of the coronavirus. Originating from nearby China in the province of Wuhan, the novel coronavirus has killed 1,775 people and infected over 70,00 people worldwide. The outbreak has effectively shut
The LCR Honda MotoGP team has unveiled its main livery for Cal Crutchlow for the 2020 season. Crutchlow tooks the wraps of the a largely unchanged bike livery at BT’s studios in London on Thursday, though his bike will sport several revised liveries across the campaign. The Briton will once again ride a works Honda
The factory Honda MotoGP team has announced it has re-signed six-time world champion Marc Marquez for another four years until ‘at least’ 2024. The 27-year-old made his premier class debut in 2013 with Honda as reigning Moto2 champion, and has since gone onto win six MotoGP titles in seven years – the latest of which
Roush Fenway Racing has offered an update on injured NASCAR driver Ryan Newman, saying he is “fully alert and walking around” in hospital in Florida. Newman, 42, was injured in a last-lap wreck in Monday’s rain-delayed Daytona 500, when contact at the final corner tipped him hard into the barrier, which in turn sent him
James Hinchcliffe will return to Andretti Autosport to contest at least three IndyCar rounds this season, including the Indianapolis 500, after being dropped by Arrow McLaren SP last October. The 33-year-old Canadian, who won three times in as many seasons with the team between 2012 and 2014, will drive a sixth Andretti entry backed by
MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi insists he did not feel “disrespected” by Yamaha’s decision to replace him with Fabio Quartararo for the 2021 season. The seven-time MotoGP champion will make way for Quartararo in the Japanese marque’s factory roster next year, and is mulling the possibility of retirement after 2020 – although Yamaha has made it
NASCAR driver Ryan Newman’s Rousch Fenway Racing team says he is “awake and speaking” after suffering serious injuries in a horror crash during the Daytona 500. Newman, 42, was injured in a last-lap wreck in Monday’s race at Daytona International Speedway, which was delayed from its original Sunday slot due to poor weather. He was
KTM and its satellite squad Tech3 have unveiled the colours their RC16s will sport during the 2020 MotoGP season. The liveries were revealed in a digital launch event on Tuesday. While the works team will run an unchanged scheme in 2020, Tech3’s livery (pictured below) has been revised, with silver more prominent on the fairing
Maverick Vinales says it was “not easy” to commit to another early MotoGP contract renewal with Yamaha, as he had an “open mind” about going elsewhere. The 2013 Moto3 champion has long harboured championship ambitions in the top class, having won three of his first five races with Yamaha after joining from Suzuki in 2017,
Ryan Newman is in a “serious condition” in hospital following his final-lap accident at the NASCAR Cup season-opening Daytona 500, but his injuries are not life threatening. Newman, driving for Roush Fenway Racing, was dicing for the lead of the race in the second round of overtime with Ryan Blaney and Denny Hamlin, with his
Denny Hamlin became the fourth driver in NASCAR history to win back-to-back Daytona 500s with victory in overtime, though a frightening Ryan Newman crash overshadowed the season-opening Cup race’s finish. Hamlin, who joins Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough and Sterling Malin in defending the race, pipped Team Penske’s Ryan Blaney in a photo-finish after Newman’s crash.
Elfyn Evans will be allowed to push for the World Rally Championship title in 2020 following his first win for Toyota in Sweden. After beating reigning champion Ott Tanak to victory last weekend having led after every stage, Evans is now equal top of the championship standings with Tanak’s Hyundai team-mate Thierry Neuville, albeit Evans
The Daytona 500 has been suspended until Monday afternoon for only the second time in the history of the season-opening NASCAR Cup series race after rain in Florida. The race was originally scheduled to begin at 3.18pm local time, but the 40-strong field was held on pit-road for an hour as a light rain shower
Toyota’s Elfyn Evans claimed his second career World Rally Championship victory after coming through the final stage of a shortened Rally Sweden. Evans dominated the event from the opening stage on Friday morning, winning five of the nine stages, and beat defending world champion, Hyundai’s Ott Tanak, by 12.7 seconds. Kalle Rovanpera took a sensational
Double MotoGP race winner Alex Rins says Suzuki is “where I wanted to be” with its new bike after the first pre-season test of 2020 in Malaysia. Rins ended the Sepang test third overall with a lap just 0.101 seconds off the pace, while team-mate Joan Mir was a further 0.382s adrift in 11th on