The “long-term strategic partnership” means the British squad will be known as Aston Martin Aramco Cognizant Formula 1 Team from now on. The deal includes sponsorship rights, a licensing agreement, and joint research and development of sustainable fuels, advanced lubricants and non-metallic materials in vehicles, according to a team statement. Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco
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10:21 AM ET Alpine has announced a restructuring of its technical department following the departure of executive director Marcin Budkowski last month. Pat Fry has been promoted to Chief Technical Officer and will be in charge of all major decisions from a technical point of view while his former role as technical director will be
Shot 100% on the HD HERO4® camera from http://GoPro.com. Watch Ken Roczen during his first laps of Moto 2 at the fourth round of the 2015 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship in Blountville, Tennessee.
Check out the sights and sounds from the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at the 2018 Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Presented by Advance Auto Parts.
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The father of reigning F1 world champion Max Verstappen will pilot a Citroen C3 R5 Rally2 car prepared by DG Sport Competition at Rally of Haspengouw in Belgium on 26 February. Verstappen, who clocked up 106 starts during his F1 career with Benetton, Simtek, Footwork, Tyrrell, Stewart, Arrows and Minardi, has dabbled driving rally cars
The team tweeted a picture of Ricciardo stood atop the front-left wheel of the McLaren MCL35M at its Woking factory, noting he was “already up to mischief in the office” ahead of his second season in papaya. Ricciardo will be spending time getting up to speed ahead of the team’s car launch for 2022 next
Red Bull became the eighth team to confirm when it would unveil its new model ahead of the new season by posting a teaser on Twitter on Thursday. In a short video featuring defending world champion Max Verstappen, and including prominent coverage for sponsor TAG Heuer, Red Bull announced its new car would be unveiled
4:34 AM ET Red Bull has announced it will launch its new car, the RB18, on February 9. Max Verstappen won last year’s drivers’ championship with Red Bull and remains at the team alongside teammate Sergio Perez this year. Verstappen will defend his title with the No.1 on his car this season. 1 Related New
This year the WRC has undergone a regulations overhaul with the design and construction of all-new Rally1 hybrid machines powered by 100% sustainable fuel. It is the first move by the WRC to embrace a more environmentally-friendly future following in the footsteps of other motorsport disciplines, including the Dakar Rally, which welcomed its first all-electric
Chief of those is F1’s driver penalty points system – which world champion Max Verstappen in particular is going to have to be very mindful about during the forthcoming campaign. This time last year, four Britons were at the top of the table for earning the most penalty points over the campaign, but heading into 2022 a new pattern
1:15 PM ET Eric GomezMexico writer British driver Jamie Chadwick is a two-time champion of the all-female W Series circuit. Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images When Jamie Chadwick first sat behind the wheel of a Formula One car, the moment highlighted both the promise of progress and the historical stagnation of women in one of motorsports’
In 2021 Haas elected to run two debutants in Mick Schumacher and Nikita Mazepin, a strategy which AlphaTauri often employed in its Toro Rosso days. But as F1’s midfield teams squabble over mere one-hundredths of a second, and the discipline’s budget cap is poised to bring teams even closer together in the future, AlphaTauri chief
The coming 2022 campaign will be Pramac’s 19th in MotoGP, having made its debut in 2002. Last year was a banner season for the satellite Ducati squad, which registered its first-ever win in MotoGP when rookie Jorge Martin scored a maiden victory in the Styrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring. Pramac remains a
The most convincing, most complete driver we’ve seen in US open-wheel’s junior series over the past dozen years will begin his IndyCar career in 2022 with AJ Foyt Racing, the full-time team that has struggled most in recent seasons. It didn’t have to be that way. Except for Kyle Kirkwood, it did. There just weren’t
2022 marks the start of a new technical era for F1 following an overhaul of the regulations that has left teams working to different aerodynamic concepts compared to the previous generation of cars. The regulation change has the potential to shake up the pecking order, and is set to result in a high rate of
5:29 AM ET Alfa Romeo’s 2022 Formula One car will not be officially launched until after the opening test of the season, but it will still appear at the three-day session in Barcelona in an interim livery. On Wednesday, Alfa Romeo announced that its new car, the C42, will not launch until February 27, the
Huge field ready to wrap up 2021 U.S. races at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca ahead of World Final in Misano.
The son of former Minardi and Simtek Formula 1 driver Jean-Marc, Mercedes-AMG factory driver Gounon will replace Yelmer Buurman in the team’s Mercedes-AMG GT3. Gounon rose to prominence in 2017 when he notched victory at the Spa 24 Hours with Audi and claimed the ADAC GT Masters title the same year in a Callaway Corvette.
The team confirmed on Wednesday that its new car, named the C42, will be officially launched on 27 February – two days after the opening test comes to an end. According to Alfa Romeo, the C42 car will be unveiled in its full livery through a digital launch, with images and videos released to the
Verstappen has been nominated in the Sportsman of the Year category alongside the likes of NFL legend Tom Brady, swimmer Caeleb Dressel, footballer Robert Lewandowski, athletics star Eliud Kipchoge and controversial tennis champion Novak Djokovic. The Red Bull driver won the 2021 F1 world championship after beating Lewis Hamilton across a thrilling campaign that went
Rossi took the helm of the rebranded Alpine squad at the start of last season, and has set sights on it fighting at the front of the grid within the next five years. And, while he is well aware of the performance gap that exists to top squads like Mercedes and Red Bull, he believes
They will face off on 5-6 February on the ice and snow of Sweden’s Pite Havsbad – situated on the frozen Baltic Sea, just 60 miles from the Arctic Circle. Stars from Formula 1, NASCAR, IndyCar, WEC, WRC, W Series and World Rallycross will compete in two events, firstly the ROC Nations Cup (Saturday 5
The team has been rumoured to be in the works for years now and will finally attempt their first race later this month. Without a charter, they will have to race their way into the event with driver Kaz Grala. The Money Team Racing (TMTR) will field the No. 50 Pit Viper Chevrolet Camaro in the
How the position will be filled is part of the ongoing investigation into the Abu Dhabi GP controversy, an event that left Masi in the firing line from the sport’s insiders and from fans worldwide on social media. What transpired over the last couple of laps stirred up a wave of criticism that did a
Lynn was confident in the wake of last weekend’s IMSA SportsCar Championship season-opener that he and team-mates Earl Bamber, Kevin Magnussen and Marcus Ericsson would have been “able to fight for the win” but for the fuel pump issues that hit their Ganassi Daytona Prototype international in the 17th hour. “We’re all heartbroken at the
O’Ward enjoyed his first taste of F1 machinery at the end of last year in Abu Dhabi when he took part in the young driver test as a reward for scoring his maiden IndyCar win for the Arrow McLaren SP squad. The Mexican driver finished the year third in the IndyCar standings and was in
Ferrari tops all the major Formula 1 statistics, and by some margin. It has more race wins, more drivers’ titles and more constructors’ crowns than any other team. The legendary Italian squad’s tally of 15 drivers’ titles puts it three clear of second-best McLaren, while 39 drivers have won world championship grands prix for Ferrari.
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The scope for additional entries has been halved at a number of events, with only a single wildcard eligible for Tasmania, Perth, Sandown and Newcastle. Last year those events (bar Newcastle, which wasn’t on the schedule) all had two wildcard allocations. Other cuts for 2022 include SMP (from four down to two) and the Gold