12:58 PM ET Juan Pablo Montoya will rejoin Arrow McLaren in a bid to complete an Indianapolis 500 hat-trick of wins, the IndyCar team said on Tuesday. Montoya, winner at the Brickyard in 2000 and 2015, drove for Arrow McLaren at last year’s Indy 500, finishing ninth. 1 Related “Juan Pablo is an institution in
Month: January 2022
The Monegasque driver took two wins in his rookie season in 2021 at Monza and Zandvoort, as well as pole and P2 in Budapest, finishing 10th in the standings with 79 points. Leclerc said: “I am extremely happy to continue the work we started with PREMA Racing in the 2021 FIA Formula 3 Championship. PLUS:
Ferrari Driver Academy member and 2020 Formula 2 champion Schumacher graduated to F1 last year with the backmarker Haas team. Haas opted against developing its car for 2021 so it could focus all its resources on the new technical regulations for 2022, resigning it to the back of the grid and a season without points. But
The Italian manufacturer will end its lengthy hiatus from single-seater racing to join Formula E next year, in partnership with a yet-to-be-announced team akin to fellow Stellantis brand DS and its deal with Techeetah. Having become part of the Stellantis automotive group at the start of 2021, following a merger between Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and
The 2013 Moto2 world champion switched from KTM to the factory Honda squad last season, ending a largely difficult campaign with one podium and pole position to his credit. Despite missing four races through injury and crashing out of four others, Marquez won three times and was comfortably top Honda rider in seventh in the
NASCAR has made a revolutionary change to its premier stock car class this season, with teams no longer fabricating their own cars from scratch but assembling them from a common supply chain to dramatically cut costs. In the video (above) NASCAR’s managing director of vehicle systems Brandon Thomas explains how the chassis has been broken
Before the summer break, Ocon triumphed in Budapest after a chaotic wet-weather start had propelled him into the lead, and the Frenchman held firm to take his maiden grand prix win and the Enstone team’s first victory since 2013. While Ocon’s win was an important milestone for Alpine in its quest to become a regular
Almirola, 37, will complete the 2022 season driving the No. 10 Ford for Stewart-Haas Racing with longtime sponsor Smithfield Foods and then step away following the No. 6 season finale at Phoenix. “I truly enjoy driving race cars and I’m excited to race my heart out in 2022 for Smithfield and Stewart-Haas Racing,” Almirola said.
Following a difficult 2020 that saw Alfa Romeo struggle with its underperforming Ferrari power unit, the team appeared to take a step towards the other midfield teams last year, improving its points tally from 8 to 13 with drivers Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi. But the team would drop from eighth to ninth place in
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Last season most F1 teams halted any development push on their 2021 cars early in a bid to get ahead of the game for this year’s all-new technical regulations. While 2021 was an outlier in that regard, Mekies believes the sport’s budget cap will still limit in-season developments compared to pre-2020 levels, as the financial
The Qatari driver had been the most vocal critic of Dakar’s regulations in the past, particularly complaining about the apparent performance gulf between two-wheel drive buggies and 4×4 cars such as the Toyota Hilux. After his defeat to X-raid Mini’s Stephane Peterhansel in last year’s event, he made it clear that he was “not interested”
Following his test of a Formula 1 McLaren in the autumn of 2018, Jimmie Johnson wasn’t reticent regarding his post-NASCAR career. No plans were in place but he said he wanted to try out IndyCars – on road courses specifically – and he wanted to return to sports-prototypes, where he had impressed in occasional forays
Two-time world champion Alonso returned to F1 last year after spending two seasons out of the series to explore other racing disciplines. After leaving F1 at the end of 2018 following a four-season stint with McLaren, Alonso raced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Indianapolis 500 and the Dakar Rally. Alonso enjoyed a successful comeback season with Alpine
Having dropped to third in the general classification after two navigational errors on Friday, Loeb re-established himself as Al-Attiyah’s closest competitor with a commanding stage victory as the rally resumed with a 402km test from Riyadh to Al Dawadimi. The Prodrive/Bahrain team driver locked horns with Audi’s Carlos Sainz at the beginning of Stage 7,
After finishing last in the constructors’ championship for three years in a row, Williams rose to eighth place in the 2021 standings as the team enjoyed its most successful season since 2017. Williams ended a points drought dating back to Germany 2019 by finishing seventh and eighth in Hungary, capitalising on a race of attrition
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GCK Motorsport expressed its intention to develop a hydrogen-powered rally-raid car back in November 2020, but it was only this Saturday that the French company unveiled the first version of the GCK e-Blast H2 in the Riyadh bivouac. Before the new car makes its expected Dakar debut in 2024, GCK will continue to compete with
The Toyota driver ran over Chilean rider Cesar Zumaran on the second stage of the rally-raid on Monday, earning himself a five-minute time penalty for the collision. This was followed by a second accident the same day, where the South African was unable to avoid the crashed bike of Mohamedsaid Aoulad Ali after coming down
Russell has stepped up to a full-time Mercedes F1 seat for the coming season after spending the last three years racing for the customer Williams squad. Russell’s performances at Williams won him widespread acclaim throughout the F1 paddock, and convinced Mercedes to partner him with Lewis Hamilton five years after joining its junior programme. PLUS: How
New Year’s resolutions. Yep, it’s that time of year again when many are setting goals for the next 12 months – some of which inevitably fall by the wayside as the realities of life make them difficult to stick to. Two years ago, Autosport (9 January, 2020) set five resolutions for the world of club
Piastri took a convincing F2 title in 2021 as a rookie, his third straight title in three years after previously conquering FIA F3 and the Formula Renault Eurocup. But despite being tipped as one of the hottest talents to come through the ranks in recent years, the 20-year-old Australian will spend the 2022 season without
The British squad made a one-off entry in last year’s season-ending Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta, in which Brendan Iribe, Frederik Schandorff and Ben Barnicoat were classified 12th in class after Iribe was caught up in a multi-car restart crash. American driver Iribe, a team regular since 2020, will share full-season driving duties with
Norris spent two seasons racing alongside Sainz at McLaren prior to the Spaniard’s switch to Ferrari for 2021, where he partnered Charles Leclerc. Sainz enjoyed his most successful season in F1 to date last year, scoring four podium finishes en route to fifth in the drivers’ championship ahead of Norris and Leclerc in sixth and
On Friday, Jean-Yves Le Drian said the possibility of cancelling the rally was “still on the table” after an assistance car belonging to French team Sodicars Racing exploded outside in Jeddah on 30 December. Driver Philippe Boutron suffered a “very serious leg injury” as a result of the explosion, while the five other people in
Perez joined Red Bull from Racing Point for 2021, becoming Max Verstappen’s fourth team-mate in as many seasons. The Mexican driver initially struggled to get to grips with the Red Bull RB16B car, which is known for requiring a very aggressive driving style, but he scored his second F1 win in Azerbaijan. Perez finished the
Last year F1 enjoyed its most intense title finale since 2016, and its first true inter-team battle in a decade when Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton fought over the drivers’ championship until a gripping season finale in Abu Dhabi – which went Verstappen’s way in dramatic circumstances. The Verstappen-Hamilton duel reinvigorated
The Red Bull driver had been cool, seemingly bulletproof throughout the season. He brushed off the low moments and never appeared overly obsessed with viewing the world championship as some monumental life achievement. “It’s not really going to change my life,” he had said back in October. To him, it was always simple: he and
8:10 AM ET New year, new rules, new look. After one of the most exciting seasons in its history, Formula One is due to make one of the biggest regulatory shake ups for decades. Why change the regulations? The overhaul of Formula One’s technical regulations for 2022 is so extensive that it’s easier to list
Take a lap around Sebring International Raceway with Robby Foley in the No. 96 Turner Motorsport BMW M6 GT3.