Schumacher lost control of his Haas F1 car while coming through the Swimming Pool chicane on Lap 26 of the race, snapping to the right-hand side of the track. His car glanced the armco before then going into the tecpro barrier at the exit of the corner. The accident saw the rear-end and gearbox of
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7:00 PM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Richard Petty once said, “I can’t recall so much about the 200 races that I won, but I can tell you every single little detail about the 1,000 races that I lost. That’s how all us racers are. It’s sick, isn’t it?” The King wasn’t driving in the 106th running
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Kelvin van der Linde drove home the win for the Meuspath-based squad after 159 laps, equalling the race’s distance record. As ever, the race was not without drama with several contenders disappearing from the frontline before nightfall. After surviving the night, the Phoenix Audi still had two opponents to defeat, the two GetSpeed Mercedes-AMG GT3s,
How has the prize fund for the Indy 500 evolved? Since its first running in 1911, the winner’s take-home cheque has ballooned from the $14,250 that Ray Harroun received that year. Over time, some serious financial barriers were broken, notably in 1957 when Sam Hanks took home $103k, Danny Sullivan’s famous spin-and-win in 1985 was
Rain in the build-up to the planned start time of 3pm for the Monaco Grand Prix led to the start procedure being suspended just minutes away from the intended start of the formation lap. The formation lap was initially rescheduled for 3:09pm local time in Monaco, but the start was then delayed again by the
The six-time MotoGP world champion announced on Saturday at Mugello that he will sit out racing for the foreseeable future – possibly for the rest of 2022 – to have a fourth operation in America on the right arm he badly broke in 2020. Marquez had confirmation of the surgery on Friday between practice sessions
Perez scored his third F1 victory on Sunday in Monaco ahead of Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, while Verstappen completed the podium in third place after rain and two red flags shook up proceedings in Monaco. But Ferrari lodged a post-race protest against both Red Bull cars for allegedly crossing the yellow line at pit exit, resulting
1:57 PM ET Associated Press MADRID — Six-time MotoGP champion Marc Márquez has opted to undergo a fourth surgery on his right arm and will be off the track for an unspecified period of time. Márquez has been the top rider in MotoGP for the past decade after winning world titles in its top category
The famous event was first run in 1911, so picking out the best editions was a tough task. Among those to miss out are Takuma Sato’s storming drive to victory in 2017 – a year when Honda engines had a considerable engine advantage over Chevrolet – Jacques Villeneuve profiting from Scott Goodyear passing the pace
The odds are heavily stacked in his favour for Sunday given the difficulty in overtaking around the streets – yet this is a result that goes far beyond the academic result. Leclerc grew up in Monaco, and now finds himself racing around the streets which he would navigate on the bus to school every day
On Saturday after qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix, Honda announced that Marquez would be travelling to Rochester, Minnesota to have a fourth operation on the right arm he badly broke back in 2020. Marquez has suffered with the arm ever since he returned to action last April, with his problems only heightened by a
Sainz collided with Sergio Perez’s Red Bull car at Portier in the closing stages of Q3 in Monaco after the Mexican had hit the wall on the outside of the corner. Sainz came around the corner unsighted of Perez, causing him to crash into the stricken Red Bull and sustain damage to his Ferrari F1-75.
5:01 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Colton Herta was cleared to drive in the Indianapolis 500 on Saturday, a day after flipping end over end in a harrowing crash. The Andretti Autosport driver walked out of the infield care center uninjured but required further evaluation before getting the green light to race Sunday. Andretti
America’s biggest race has largely been won by homegrown talents, or at least competitors from the regular IndyCar series, but Formula 1 does have its place in Indy 500 history. In particular, an F1 invasion in the 1960s changed American single-seater racing forever. In this episode of “Short View Back to the Past”, Autosport chief
Gasly had placed inside the top 10 in all three practice sessions in Monaco, ending Saturday’s FP3 session fifth-fastest, but was eliminated in 17th place at the end of Q1. A red flag with two minutes remaining in the session prompted a late flurry of lap times, but Gasly was sent out at the back
The Italian has had a largely under-the-radar start to his MotoGP career on his 2021-spec Gresini Ducati, taking a best of 13th last time out at Le Mans, while 11th in Indonesia was his best qualifying performance. Di Giannantonio used the iffy conditions in Q1 at Mugello to top the session and progress to Q2,
Norris said that if he had been feeling 100% fit and had not made mistakes on his lap, he might have qualified even higher. Speaking at length for the first time about his recent illness, Norris made it clear just how tough the Spanish GP weekend was for him as he battled to an eighth-place
Check out the sights and sounds from the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America series at VIRginia International Raceway.
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4:00 PM ET Formula One. IndyCar. NASCAR. Breakfast in Monaco. Lunch at Indianapolis. Dinner in Charlotte. Mimosas. Bloody Marys. Beer. This is racing’s highest of holy days, and it’s not even close. A motorsports harmonic convergence that doesn’t happen every year but does more often than it does not. Thank the horsepower heavens. That perfect
The 36-year-old Andretti Autosport driver, who scored 10 podium finishes in F1 before switching to IndyCar for the 2021 season, will be making only his third oval start in the Indy 500. He made his oval debut at Gateway’s 1.25-mile World Wide Technology Raceway last year, finishing 14th, and retired due to mechanical dramas at
After a speeding violation forced the car he shared with Kevin Estre, Fred Makowiecki and Michael Christensen to start from the back of the GT3 field, Vanthoor was fighting over third place with his younger brother Dries Vanthoor’s Phoenix Audi. The pair duelled on the long Dottinger Hohe straight and continued to run side-by-side approaching
Qualifying was run under spots of rain as thunder rumbled around the Mugello circuit on Saturday afternoon, with Q1 initially beginning on wet tyres before a switch to slicks despite marshals still waving rain flags. The Q2 pole shootout session was ultimately completed on slick tyres, with Gresini rookie Fabio Di Giannantonio using his knowledge
The Ferrari driver headed Q3 before the late red flag for Sergio Perez’s crash at Portier which led to Carlos Sainz running into the stricken Red Bull driver having been the first car on the scene before the red flag was shown. With the majority of the Q3 contenders unable to complete their final qualifying
8:00 AM ET INDIANAPOLIS — Welcome to our annual ESPN.com Motorsports public service, when we give you the information you need to arm yourself as an expert on the Indianapolis 500, the Greatest Spectacle in Racing held at the Racing Capital of the World for the 106th time this Sunday afternoon in Speedway, Indiana. We
The 24th Indy 500, held in 1936, was the first to feature the Borg-Warner Trophy as the award for the winner, and the first time the winner was given the official pace car. But it’s what winner Louis Meyer did immediately after the race that initiated the most unusual of traditions. Meyer, born in Manhattan and
Teams are currently in talks with the FIA and F1 about increasing the budget cap due to the pressures of inflation and rising freight costs resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. Ferrari F1 boss Mattia Binotto admitted on Saturday in Monaco his team would exceed the budget cap this year, while Red Bull’s
Rossi retired from MotoGP at the end of the 2021 season having first competed in the grand prix world championship in 1996. OPINION: The MotoGP tribute that does a disservice to a legend In a career spanning 26 seasons, Rossi won nine world titles across the 125cc, 250cc and MotoGP classes – seven of which coming
A dramatic rise in inflation and freight costs this year has put team budgets under pressure, and a number of squads are concerned that they are going to be unable to stay below F1’s $140 million limit for 2022. Red Bull team boss Christian Horner suggested that the scale of the problem was serious enough
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