Senior government and tourism bosses in Northern Ireland are considering “in detail” a fresh business case for moving the UK World Rally Championship round across the Irish Sea in 2021. Having refused to entertain the idea for many months on the grounds it did not represent good value for money in the current climate, the
Felix Rosenqvist is set to leave Chip Ganassi Racing at the end of the IndyCar season to partner Pato O’Ward in the Arrow McLaren SP team in 2021. Multiple sources have confirmed to Autosport that the Swedish driver will next week end his time at Ganassi, where he made his race debut with the team
The 2009 champion and 15-times grand prix winner will drive a McLaren 720S GT3 entered by the Jenson Team Rocket RJN outfit he co-owns with RJN boss Bob Neville and lifelong friend Chris Buncombe, who will share the car with GT3 rookie Button. Since concluding his F1 career with McLaren at the 2017 Monaco GP,
One-time Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button will make a one-off British GT appearance in the championship’s final round at Silverstone next month. The 2009 champion and 15-times grand prix winner will drive a McLaren 720S GT3 entered by the Jenson Team Rocket RJN outfit he co-owns with RJN boss Bob Neville and lifelong friend
Pato O’Ward will remain with the Arrow McLaren SP team for the 2021 IndyCar season, having shown “incredible form this year” according to team co-owner Sam Schmidt. The 2018 Indy Lights champion has been one of the stars of IndyCar this year despite it being his first full season in the top tier of American
Three-time Indy 500 winner Helio Castroneves is aiming to announce his 2021 plans in the next four weeks, with a return to IndyCar “the ideal” option. Castroneves, who is currently focusing on his IMSA title challenge with Acura Team Penske alongside Ricky Taylor, has been speaking with several IndyCar teams about returning full-time to the
KTM’s Brad Binder says the amount of grip on offer from Michelin’s MotoGP tyres was “insane” after finishing his first race in the rain at the French Grand Prix 12th. Rookie Binder, along with the likes of Alex Marquez, Iker Lecuona, Fabio Quartararo, Joan Mir, Francesco Bagnaia and Miguel Oliveira had very limited wet MotoGP
Petronas SRT’s Franco Morbidelli says his MotoGP French Grand Prix took a “whirl downwards” after his “strange” qualifying and ended up crashing out on lap 17. Morbidelli was fighting for pole position in the early stages of Saturday’s Q2, but a “strange” inability to improve his lap time in his second run on fresh tyres
A “heartbroken” Bradley Smith says the electronics on his Aprilia MotoGP bike “let me down” and led to his crash out of the top 10 in the French Grand Prix. Smith topped the wet FP1 session at Le Mans on Friday and stormed through from 19th on the grid to run seventh by the fourth
Sebastien Ogier believes the decision to extend this year’s World Rally Championship season with the late addition of December’s Rally Monza is “great news” for fans. Monza becomes the third entirely new event to join rallying’s top flight after Rally Estonia – the home round of defending World Rally champions Ott Tanak and Martin Jarveoja
Oliver Askew will not be retained by Arrow McLaren SP for 2021, but may still race for the team in the IndyCar finale at St. Petersburg. Reigning Indy Lights champion Askew had scored a podium at Iowa Speedway and was leading the rookie standings up until the August Indianapolis 500 when he suffered a heavy
Maverick Vinales comes away from finishing a distant 10th in the MotoGP French Grand Prix “more positive” and feels he only needed a stronger qualifying for a different result. Sunday’s Le Mans race was a bruising one for Yamaha, with the top M1 Fabio Quartararo in ninth, with Vinales trailing him 10th while both Valentino
Jack Miller says his MotoGP French Grand Prix retirement was the result of having to switch to his second bike for the wet race which already had an engine issue. After qualifiying second, the Pramac rider led briefly on the opening lap of Sunday’s Le Mans race and remained in the lead battle up until
Valentino Rossi “didn’t understand” why he crashed on the opening lap of the MotoGP French Grand Prix and called his third-successive non-finish a “great shame”. The Yamaha rider started from 10th and was in the middle of the pack on the run up to the Dunlop chicane on the opening lap of Sunday’s Le Mans
World Rally Championship leader Elfyn Evans has said a top-five performance in last weekend’s Rally Italy was what he expected to come away with because of his road opening responsibilities. Evans finished fourth on the antepenultimate round of the championship to retain top spot in the WRC drivers’ standings despite his lead over Toyota team-mate
Chase Elliott scored his third NASCAR Cup Series win of the season at the Charlotte Roval, as reigning champion Kyle Busch was eliminated from the Playoffs. For the first time ever in the Cup Series, and the first race to be run in the wet since 1956, the 109-lap encounter around the 2.28-mile combination of
Dani Sordo will hold on to his Rally Italy win despite his Hyundai failing post-event scrutiny checks. An inspection of the Spaniard’s Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC showed the rear subframe to be underweight. The part in question was shown to total 9112g with the minimum permissible weight being 9136.5g. Checks were also carried out on
Joan Mir says “one bad race is allowed” this season after finishing 11th and ceding two more points to Fabio Quartararo in the standings in the MotoGP French Grand Prix. The Suzuki rider struggled to 14th in qualifying having been unable to get temperature in his tyres at a cold Le Mans, an issue which
Fabio Quartararo says his battle for ninth place on the last lap of the MotoGP French Grand Prix with title rival Joan Mir was “like a fight for victory”. Both Petronas SRT’s Quartararo and Suzuki rider Mir struggled in their first wet MotoGP race, with both riders dropping down the order early on and eventually
French Grand Prix winner Danilo Petrucci says losing his Ducati place before the 2020 MotoGP season “felt like in that moment nobody trusts me”. Petrucci has been ousted from Ducati for 2021 to make way for current Pramac rider Jack Miller, with the Italian heading to Tech3 KTM next year. Ducati’s decision was made before
Vanthoor and Weerts entered the weekend 6.5 points ahead of the Haupt Racing Team Mercedes partnership of Maro Engel and Luca Stolz, with a further 15 crews mathematically in contention for the title. Among them was the Emil Frey Racing pairing of Albert Costa and Giacomo Altoe, who closed to within 3.5 points after winning
Team WRT Audi’s Dries Vanthoor and Charles Weerts clinched the GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup title in the final round of the season at Barcelona. Vanthoor and Weerts entered the weekend 6.5 points ahead of the Haupt Racing Team Mercedes partnership of Maro Engel and Luca Stolz, with a further 15 crews mathematically in
Hyundai’s Dani Sordo claimed his third World Rally Championship victory and his second in a row on Rally Italy, finishing just 5.1 seconds ahead of team-mate Thierry Neuville. Cooler conditions greeted the runners on Sunday morning where a loop of just two stages awaited which was to be run twice through the day. Toyota’s six-time
Valentino Rossi protégé Celestino Vietti snatched victory in the Moto3 French Grand Prix to reignite his title hopes, while John McPhee’s challenge took a huge dent with another crash. VR46 rider Vietti was the only rider in the field to opt for the harder rear Dunlop tyre despite the exceptionally cool conditions, but grabbed the
Ducati’s Danilo Petrucci expects “10 riders can fight for the podium” in Sunday’s MotoGP French Grand Prix at Le Mans. Having had to come through Q1, Petrucci qualified his works Ducati on the front row at Le Mans for the first time since his Italian Grand Prix-winning weekend at Mugello last year. Having been a
Tech3’s Miguel Oliveira says Pramac rider Francesco Bagnaia “was acting childish” after the pair had a run-in on track during MotoGP qualifying for the French Grand Prix. Bagnaia came across a touring Oliveira on the run through the La Chapelle section at Turns 5 and 6 at Le Mans early in Q2 while on a
Dani Sordo has maintained his lead over Sebastien Ogier on a dramatic second day of Rally Italy, with World Rally Championship standings leader Elfyn Evans up to fourth place. After being forced to sweep the stages on Friday, the championship-leading Toyotas of Sebastien Ogier and Evans were released from their burden in Saturday’s road order
The boss of Motorsport UK is “grateful” Rally GB will return to the World Rally Championship next year despite total funding required for the event not being currently in place. Yesterday the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council rubber stamped the calendar for 2021 with Britain one of 12 countries listed alongside Monte Carlo, newcomer Croatia,
Avintia owner Raul Romero has denied speculation Valentino Rossi’s VR46 organisation will buy its MotoGP grid slots for 2021. Speculation has been around for sometime that current Moto2 points leader and half-brother of Rossi, Luca Marini, will step up to MotoGP next year, taking Tito Rabat’s place at Avintia despite the Spaniard having a contract
Clint Bowyer will retire from racing in the NASCAR Cup Series and switch to commentating with FOX Sports after his Stewart-Haas Racing contract expires at the end of the season. The 41-year-old has raced full-time at the Cup level since 2006, winning 10 times in 536 starts with Richard Childress Racing, Michael Waltrip Racing and
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