5:31 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo has not delivered the results hoped for in Formula One, McLaren boss Zack Brown said on Friday after announcing that their IndyCar team had extended their agreement with Pato O’Ward who is eyeing a Formula One seat. McLaren took care of a bit of business ahead of Sunday’s Indy 500
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Following his win at Barber Motorsports Park earlier this month, O’Ward hinted a new deal was imminent and this was confirmed by McLaren CEO Zak Brown mere days later. Prior to Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, which O’Ward will start from seventh position, the team confirmed that the 23-year-old Mexican would indeed be staying on. “I am incredibly
Bottas suffered a Ferrari MGU-K failure on his very first lap in FP1, before he had set a time. He managed to the car back to the pits, but the MGU-K issue meant that he broke the speed limit by 21.9km/h as he came in, earning himself a €1000 fine. He was forced to sit
On Friday at the Italian Grand Prix, Aprilia announced it had reached a deal with RNF for it to become the Italian manufacturers’ satellite squad from 2023 on an initial two-year deal. RNF currently fields Dovizioso and Darryn Binder on Yamaha machinery, but neither is contracted beyond the end of 2022. Dovizioso has endured a
The Ferrari driver bounced back from the disappointment of last weekend’s Spanish GP where he retired from a healthy lead due to a MGU-H and turbo failure by leading both FP1 and FP2, edging the second session by just 0.044s from team-mate Carlos Sainz. Sergio Perez led Red Bull’s charge with third place in the
The 2021 Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America season rolls onto VIRginia International Raceway.
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8:00 AM ET Jimmie Johnson will start on the outside of Row 4 for Sunday’s Indianapolis 500, and he’d like nothing more than to win the Greatest Spectacle in Racing on his first try. AP Photo/Darron Cummings INDIANAPOLIS — We all have two bucket lists. There’s the one everyone talks about, that rundown of experiences we
The 2015 ADAC GT Masters champion and son of three-times Le Mans 24 Hours winner Klaus, set an unbeatable time of 8m09.469s with the only sub 8m10s lap of the decisive session. Ludwig also posted an 8m10.406s effort that would have been good enough for pole in the car he shares with Bjorn Grossmann, Simon
Shell’s new fuel will consist of a blend of second-generation ethanol derived from sugarcane waste and other biofuels. Currently, the fuel used by IndyCar is a variation of E85, which contains 85% ethanol and 15% high-octane racing fuel. The new renewable fuel offers at least a 60% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to the
The 22-year-old had just completed his 43rd lap of the 90-minute session when his car twitched at Turn 1, the back end stepping out and sending him into the outside wall. In the impact with the SAFER barrier, firstly with the rear-right corner before the right-front corner connected, the car’s nose elevated and the air
Celebrating his new two-year deal with Aprilia, which was announced on Thursday, Espargaro guided his RS-GP – which in FP2 was powered by a new engine – to top spot with a 1m45.891s. He was shadowed by the factory Ducati of Francesco Bagnaia on a 1m45.940s, who led an onslaught of Ducatis consisting of team-mate
Ricciardo’s rough start to the 2022 season appeared to continue on Friday when he lost the car on his first flying lap in FP2, tagging the swimming pool barriers and veering straight on into the Tecpro wall. The sizeable damage to his car meant the Australian had to sit out the remainder of the session,
1:07 PM ET MONTE CARLO — Lewis Hamilton said he’s never experienced anything as bad as trying to drive his bouncing Mercedes around the bumpy Monte Carlo circuit on Friday. Mercedes appeared to have solved the worst of its car’s bouncing issues at the last race, the Spanish Grand Prix, but the nature of the
“I never felt I won anything before I had actually won it, except one time,” says 1999 Indianapolis 500 winner Kenny Brack, “and that was when I made the comeback to Indy in 2005.” Brack had broken both ankles, a leg, his sternum and back in the 2003 Indy Racing League crash at Texas that
At the start of his tenure, new F1 race director Niels Wittich moved to reinforce elements of the FIA’s International Sporting Code, including the ban on wearing jewellery in the car and regulations pertaining to correct fireproof underwear. A reminder on the issue was given in Australia before specific checks were incorporated into the scrutineering
MotoGP will lose a manufacturer at the end of the 2022 season after Suzuki made the shock announcement it would be quitting the series. In the day after Autosport first broke the story, MotoGP owners Dorna Sports issued a statement saying it had high levels of interest from independent teams and factories about coming to
The four-time Formula 1 world champion had his bag stolen through a car window outside his hotel in Spain but soon after hopped on a scooter to chase it down. Aston Martin driver Vettel did this by tracking his headphones, only to find they had been cast aside so that the thief could make their
2:10 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Roger Penske signed a five-year contract extension with Shell-Pennzoil on Thurdsay that covers Team Penske, IndyCar, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and most of Penske’s portfolio. Team Penske and Shell-Pennzoil have won 96 races together, including Joey Logano‘s recent NASCAR victory at Darlington Raceway. The new deal has multiple layers
Raikkonen will join up with Trackhouse Racing for the road course race at Watkins Glen on 21 August, driving a Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 alongside team-mates Daniel Suarez and Ross Chastain. It will mark Raikkonen’s first outing in a motorsport event since he called time on his 20-year F1 career last December with his final appearance
Power and his Team Penske Chevrolet team-mates Josef Newgarden and Scott McLaughlin will roll off 11th, 14th and 26th on Sunday, which means all are starting from the middle of their respective rows on the 11-rows-of-three grid. Power will have feisty former winner Takuma Sato to his left and Indy 500 rookie Jimmie Johnson to
The relatively shallow 8.7 degrees of banking means the long, fast left-hander can’t quite be taken flat-out and was billed in the lead up to the event as “hardcore” by Winward Mercedes driver Lucas Auer. “I think everybody is shitting his pants a little bit when you go there,” he admitted. “Last week when we
The eighth round of the 2022 season sees MotoGP head to Italy for the first of two races in the country this year, with the series returning in September to Misano. It also marks the first race at Mugello to be held with a full attendance allowed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Reigning
The wholesale changes to F1’s technical rules for the 2022 season returned the championship to a ground-effect-led aerodynamic formula, which means the machines are more prone to understeer and that has led the sensation of driving becoming more cumbersome in slow corners. The rule changes to make slightly wider and larger front wings means the
6:17 PM ET Associated Press Seven-time NASCAR champion and Indy 500 rookie Jimmie Johnson hasn’t ruled out returning to the Cup Series, and he might even have an idea of his next race. Johnson said Thursday he’s open to driving the “Memorial Day Double” — competing in the Indy 500 and then the Coca-Cola 600
As Kimi Raikkonen walked out of the paddock on Sunday night in Abu Dhabi, it was very clear that he was done with Formula 1. On Friday, Raikkonen had sat down with Autosport for what was meant to be a quick interview. It overran by around 10 minutes, to the surprise of his Alfa Romeo
McLaughlin, like team-mate Josef Newgarden, pulled his time to try and improve and join team-mate Will Power in the Top 12 segment after setting the 15th-fastest time with his first qualifying run on Saturday, held in the heat of the day. But in dense, muggy air that followed a rainstorm, his car had too much
When former IndyCar racer Sarah Fisher pulls off in the Corvette pace car and Whiplash actor Miles Teller waves the green flag to start the race, the field of 33 will have a single goal in mind – glugging the milk in victory lane and kissing the bricks with their victorious crew after 200 laps
The satellite Ducati squad in recent years has traditionally run a special one-off livery at Mugello to mark its collaboration with Italian supercar company Lamborghini. While Pramac will continue its trend of special Mugello liveries this weekend, it will not run the black and yellow Lamborghini colours. Instead, to mark the arrival of new sponsor
Leclerc looked to be on course to win last Sunday in Spain after opening up a 16-second lead over the Red Bulls before being sidelined by failures on the turbocharger and MGU-H on his Ferrari power unit. The setback saw Leclerc lose the lead of the F1 drivers’ championship for the first time this season
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