Yamaha announced on Friday that it had parted ways with Vinales with immediate effect for the remainder of the 2021 MotoGP season following his suspension by the team last week. Vinales was found to be trying to deliberately damage his YZR-M1’s engine during the final laps of the Styrian Grand Prix, and was subsequently withdrawn
The French manufacturer, part of the Renault group, has revealed that it is actively evaluating developing a Le Mans Hypercar or an LMDh prototype for the 2023 or 2024 season. Alonso, who resumed his F1 career with the marque this year after twice winning the Le Mans 24 Hours with Toyota, would be an obvious
Nicolas Lapierre got within three tenths of Kazuki Nakajima’s time-topping Toyota during the fourth period of free practice that followed the Hyperpole qualifying session. Nakajima set the pace from the beginning of Thursday evening’s night session in the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID, ending up on a 3m27.994s. Lapierre posted an improvement with 40 minutes to
The Belgian, who is part of Audi’s factory GT3 roster, explained that he got the maximum out of his Porsche 911 RSR-19 on the way to beating Ferrari driver Daniel Serra to the top spot in Thursday evening’s Hyperpole session by nearly two tenths of a second. “Normally I would always say I could go
Hy-Vee, a grocery chain with sponsorship links to Rahal Letterman Lanigan, has announced a new multi-year agreement that returns the banked, rough and challenging D-shaped oval to the calendar. Iowa Speedway, which has held 15 IndyCar races since it opened in 2006, will host the Hy-VeeDeals.com 250 on Saturday, 23 July, while the Hy-Vee Salute
The Le Mans 24 Hours is widely considered, and rightly so, to be a bucket list event that racers all over the world aspire to enter. But for every driver that gets to thrash around its 8.46 miles of hallowed tarmac in the dead of night, there are many more who miss the boat. For
The invitational races on the 3.8-mile street Guia Circuit have traditionally attracted healthy entries from aspiring Formula 1 drivers seeking to win the prestigious Macau Grand Prix, and from GT manufacturers fielding works-supported GT3 cars. The final round of the WTCR championship is also traditionally held in Macau. However, with all international arrivals required to
The climbing number of COVID-19 cases in both Oregon and California, and the states’ anticipated reaction to that, caused many in the IndyCar paddock to wonder if the races at Portland International Raceway (12 September), Laguna Seca (19 September) and the streets of Long Beach (26 September) might again come under threat. All three venues
The Dane, a veteran of 119 grands prix, will make his Le Mans 24 Hours debut this weekend when he races in LMP2 alongside his dad, Jan, in an ORECA-Gibson 07 from Danish entrant High Class Racing. The 28-year-old has also already committed to a World Endurance Championship campaign next year with Peugeot. With the
The two-hour FP2 session was run in darkness throughout, with all drivers required to complete at least five laps at night ahead of Saturday’s race. Jose Maria Lopez set the early pace in the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID he shares with Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi with a time of 3m29.810s, while Kazuki Nakajima worked
Kobayashi set the session’s benchmark time of 3m26.279s aboard his Toyota GR010 HYBRID in the first half of Wednesday night’s one-hour qualifying, going over a second quicker than team-mate Brendon Hartley in the sister #8 car that currently leads the World Endurance Championship points standings. In the second half of the session, Alpine driver Matthieu
In response to the increased quantity of cases, NASCAR reintroduced a policy to require all team personnel and media wear a face mask in enclosed areas of the track at all times, regardless of vaccination status. This week, NASCAR has announced several additional changes – effective with this weekend’s races at World Wide Technology Raceway
For with it well entrenched in that ultra-close midfield pack, any small pace advantage that rivals gained as they pushed on with their current cars risked shuffling the Hinwil-based operation down the order. Sure enough, with most of the grid bringing at least some major developments early in the campaign, it’s been perhaps a tougher
Autosport has learned that Ray Mallock Limited is working on a Continental development car for Bentley built to the eGT regulations, which were released to interested parties by the FIA as early as last December. The Bentley test car exploits a route into eGT allowing a manufacturer to take an existing GT3 contender and fit
Pierson, who lies fourth in the 2021 USF2000 Championship on the Road to Indy ladder, is on course to beat the record set by fellow American Matt McMurry in 2014 should he make the grid in one of United’s LMP2 ORECA-Gibson 07s at Le Mans on June 11/12 2022. He will be 16 and 117
Porsche locked out the top three places in the GTE Pro class on Sunday, with works driver Kevin Estre laying down the benchmark of 3m52.901s in the #92 car in the morning session – just 0.003s up on team-mate Gianmaria Bruni’s #91 RSR-19. The afternoon session was headed by WeatherTech’s Earl Bamber, whose 3m52.938s lap
Espargaro was one of a handful of riders – including eventual race-winner Brad Binder – who gambled on staying out on slicks when the rain intensified in the closing stages of last Sunday’s Red Bull Ring contest. The Aprilia rider found himself in second as he started lap 26 of 28, but tumbled back to
Stoker’s ‘Motor Sport for All’ paper has been overseen by nine-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner and FIA Drivers Commission president Tom Kristensen, who is the candidate for FIA deputy president for sport. It covers all areas of motorsport development from safety and education to diversity and access. Its objectives include: Prioritising safety in the
The 20-year-old Dane caused a huge stir in qualifying on Friday when he finished fourth, on a day when the top five was covered by just 0.05s. After being passed by Colton Herta on the opening lap, Lundgaard ran fifth, briefly assumed the lead as the first round of pitstops started, ran 10th in the
As rainfall intensified in the closing stages of last Sunday’s 28-lap Austrian GP, Binder was the only rider of the leading six to stay out on lap 25 as conditions worsened. This proved to be an inspired decision as he managed to keep his KTM upright to take a stunning victory on his team’s home
Albon, who scored two F1 podium finishes for Red Bull Racing last year before being replaced by Sergio Perez, is currently in DTM. He made a name for himself in the junior formulae, where he finished second only to current Ferrari ace Charles Leclerc in GP3, while in Formula 2 he was third in the
All-new car rules will be introduced in the sport in 2022, the goal being to have closer racing and increase overtaking through simpler aerodynamics revolving around ground effect. Although the DRS didn’t feature on the full-scale model of a 2022 car revealed last month at Silverstone, F1 bosses have decided to retain it at least
Denny Hamlin led the way entering the second, two-lap overtime but Chase Briscoe ran off course and cut the track and was immediately handed a penalty by NASCAR. Briscoe, however, continued racing on the track and battled Hamlin hard for the lead, hitting him in the right-rear corner and spinning him. Allmendinger, running third at
The Swiss-Italian entered the season finale second in the drivers’ table with a three-point deficit to Nyck de Vries, but Mortara and Evans were eliminated in a major early crash. Evans suffered a suspected driveshaft failure and lurched forward off the line but then sat prone, with cars parting around him to leave Mortara unsighted
Alpine, then called Renault, and McLaren were embroiled in a tense three-way fight for third in the 2020 constructors’ championship, a battle which also included Racing Point, now Aston Martin. While McLaren continued its upward trajectory in 2021 and now has to contend with a resurgent Ferrari for third place, Alpine and Aston Martin have
Power narrowly missed out on pole, before starting his Team Penske machine on the harder Firestone rubber in the race and staying within 3.5 seconds of the alternate-tyred polesitter Pato O’Ward. After O’Ward switched to the harder rubber and Power to the softer compound, the Penske driver swiftly closed in and snatched the lead at
Palou, who had qualified sixth, was compromised with an engine mapping issue from the drop of the green flag, but had picked his way forward once the team allowed him to use three of his engine map settings. He had just eased his way past one of his prime title rivals, Arrow McLaren SP’s Pato O’Ward
Team Penske driver Power, having opened the race on the hard tyre, was able to clear polesitter Pato O’Ward following the opening pit phase. With O’Ward then taking on the hard tyre, he posed little threat to the soft-shod Power, who opened up a seemingly unassailable lead over Colton Herta – the Andretti Autosport driver having
The Brazilian driver overhauled the front-row starting DS Techeetahs of Jean-Eric Vergne and Antonio Felix da Costa and then fended off Venturi driver Edoardo Mortara to claim his second win of the 2020-21 season. The result comes ahead of Audi’s departure from Formula E following Sunday’s finale at the same venue, having announced in December
The Northern Irishman whisked his Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N around 0.125 seconds clear of the BTC Racing Honda Civic Type R of Josh Cook. Cook’s team-mate, Senna Proctor, sat on top of the times for most of what was the only dry session at the Scottish circuit. But in the 39th minute of 40,
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