In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Week 2022, this May, ESPN highlights the stories of athletes, coaches and other sports figures who have experienced personal battles with mental health, and who want to use their platforms to openly discuss what happened next, and what helped them. These stories reflect a broad range of subjects and
Month: May 2022
The German manufacturer has revealed that it has the capacity to supply and service two of the LMDh hybrids developed in conjunction with Multimatic Motorsport for each series in 2023. Porsche is following up on the commitment to have privateers representing it in the WEC and IMSA alongside its factory entries, which was made in
Due to its location at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, F1’s newest racetrack – designed and overseen by UK firm Apex Circuit Design – has had to fit in with its environment. From the busy stadium usage side, the Miami Open tennis tournament required that a stretch from Turn 3 to Turn 5 was
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How can it already be May? Time seems to be flying by at the moment and almost two months of the national motorsport season have been completed. And it’s great to be able to say that after two years of coronavirus-induced delays (at this point in 2020, the season commencing was still months away, while
For the first time since 1984, F1 is hosting two grands prix in the USA – with Miami joining the calendar alongside Austin – and the buzz around the championship in the country has perhaps never been higher. The excitement is in stark contrast to years gone by when F1 was left struggling to find
12:06 PM ET As he watched his dad’s van pull back on to the Autostrada without him, Max Verstappen was struggling to digest what had happened. In all of his 11 years and 11 months on this earth, he’d never seen his dad as angry as he was at the go-kart track a couple of
Last year’s championship runner-up kick-started his season by recording a top five at Rally Croatia last month, following back-to-back retirements at Monte Carlo and Sweden. The Toyota driver admitted heading into Croatia that he could ill-afford another costly error after crashing out of a likely podium finish in Monte Carlo and Sweden. Following a measured
The veteran Spaniard is now just seven points adrift of Fabio Quartararo in second in the standings after claiming third in last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix after getting the better of Jack Miller and Marc Marquez late in the race. It marked the first back-to-back podium of his MotoGP career after his third in Portugal,
Tsunoda was brought into Red Bull’s second team amid plenty of expectation but struggled to adapt to F1 in the first half of 2021 which was marred by plenty of mistakes. But following a summer move to Italy to be closer to the team’s Faenza base, Tsunoda gradually started improving, culminating in a fourth place
3:45 AM ET Tony Brooks, the British ‘racing dentist’ who was Formula One’s last surviving grand prix winner from the 1950s and finished second in the 1959 world championship, has died aged 90. “I was saddened to hear the news that Tony Brooks has died,” Formula One chief executive Stefano Domenicali said in a statement.
Eight-time WRC champion Ogier revealed last week that Portugal will be the second event of his partial 2022 WRC campaign with Toyota. Ogier has elected to scale back his WRC commitments this year to allow a move into circuit racing courtesy of a LMP2 programme in the World Endurance Championship with Richard Mille Racing. His
Ducati has won twice in MotoGP so far in 2022, but with its 2021 bike courtesy of Gresini’s Enea Bastianini. The start to 2022 with its GP22 hasn’t been easy, but Bagnaia felt he made a breakthrough last time out in Portugal as he charged from last to eighth at Portimao. Smashing the lap record
With the new rule set still in its infancy, teams are still exploring how best to extract the most speed from the latest ground effect machinery. While a lot of time has been spent up and down on the grid on trying to resolve porpoising issues, some outfits have started getting a proper understanding of
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Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll both had major crashes over the Australian GP weekend, with the German hitting the barriers in both practice and the race. The team subsequently made it through Imola with no major dramas, with both drivers finishing in the points, helped by efforts to improve feedback from the AMR22’s steering wheel.
Rins has been one of the stars of the early 2022 season, having scored back-to-back podiums in Argentina and America, and rising from 23rd to fourth in Portugal to move to the top of the standings. The Suzuki rider missed out on getting into Q2 again at Jerez and from the off struggled to replicate
F1 is gearing up for the inaugural Miami Grand Prix this weekend with a race around the Miami Dolphins’ Hard Rock Stadium. The much-anticipated event joins Austin’s United States Grand Prix on the calendar, with a third American race to follow next year when F1 visits the iconic Strip in downtown Las Vegas. Seven-time world
10:30 AM ET It’s been hard to find Kevin Magnussen without a big smile on his face since he made his sensational return to Formula One in March. The story of his comeback has been well told now. He was preparing for a family holiday in Miami with wife Louise and baby daughter Laura, having
The Lamborghini Huracan EVO2 follows the 2019 evolution of a car that started racing back in 2016 and will come on stream one year after the sister Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II introduced this season. The EVO2 developed by Lamborghini Squadra Corse at company headquarters in Sant’Agata Bolognese incorporates a new aerodynamic concept, which
The Audi factory driver joined the works-supported Abt Sportsline team alongside Kelvin van der Linde and Ricardo Feller for the 2022 season, his first in the DTM since its switch to GT3 regulations for 2021. But Rast returned empty handed after “a difficult weekend” back in the series in Portugal, qualifying outside the top 10 for
On Monday evening Autosport revealed Suzuki is set to quit MotoGP at the end of the 2022 season in a shock decision made by the Japanese marque, which was communicated to the team during the post-race test at Jerez. Suzuki was expected to make an official announcement of its exit this morning, but so far
While F1’s new 2022 cars have proved easier to follow each other in battle, the reduced slipstream effect has put a greater emphasis on the benefits gained by the Drag Reduction System. The length of some DRS zones, like in Saudi Arabia, has also led to a situation where overtakes are virtually guaranteed for the
Howard, who won the 2013 and 2015 titles with his own Prodrive-operated Beechdean AMR Aston Martin team, has switched to the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup this year and taken a planned one-year British GT sabbatical. However Howard will step back into the series in the unfamiliar surroundings of the McLaren 720S GT3 –
The German manufacturer has suggested that it will be too soon in the programme with the new hybrid prototype to mount a four-car factory assault on the double-points round of the WEC. New Porsche Motorsport boss Thomas Laudenbach stressed that no decision had been made on bringing the branch of the new Porsche Penske Motorsport
It’s not been the start to 2022 anyone expected of Bagnaia on the GP22, as he struggled in the early races to find the same form he has last year. But steady progress in rediscovering his missing front-end feeling put him back to the front of the pack at Jerez, the Italian dominating for pole
Elliott powered past Ross Chastain on a restart with 53 of 400 laps remaining to grab the lead and kept Stenhouse at bay – having gone into the race leading the series standings for six consecutive weeks, while remaining the only Hendrick Motorsports driver without a win this season. The victory, the 11th of his
Boosted by the success of the Netflix Drive to Survive series, F1 has been eager to capitalise on the increased attention it enjoys in the US. The existing US Grand Prix in Austin has been joined on the F1 calendar by the inaugural Miami Grand Prix this weekend, with a third US race in Las
9:19 AM ET Volkswagen’s premium brands Audi and Porsche will join Formula One after convincing the German automaking group that the move will bring in more money than it will cost, VW chief executive Herbert Diess said on Monday. Discussions by the board of directors about the two brands’ plans had created some divisions, Diess
Ayrton Senna’s qualifying lap during the 1988 Monaco Grand Prix is widely regarded as the best single lap in F1 history. On May 1st, 20 years to the day since Ayrton was killed in a fatal crash in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, the Official McLaren YouTube channel presents an epic portrayal of Senna’s