1:07 PM ET Associated Press Colton Herta has signed a four-year contract extension with Andretti Autosport that ties the American racer to the IndyCar team through 2027 and indicates Herta has put a pause on his Formula One ambitions. The extension announced Tuesday is significant because it shuts out the biggest teams in IndyCar from
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With Max Verstappen having already secured his second drivers’ crown at Suzuka, the Milton Keynes team finally won the constructors’ version in Austin, ending an eight-year run by Mercedes since the new power unit rules were introduced in 2014. The success came just a day after the team was rocked by news of the death
These will be the last opportunities for any teams to run rookies this year, as Brazil is a sprint race and thus FP1 is followed by qualifying in the afternoon. It is understood than any formal confirmation of Doohan’s outings had been delayed by complications over formally finalising Oscar Piastri’s exit from the team. The
The 2020 world champion was running inside the top six in the early stages of the 20-lap race at Sepang before he started to drop off the pace. With three laps to go, Mir ran off track at Turn 1 and dropped out of the top 10 to 19th, which he later explained was down
2:17 PM ET Marty Smith Close ESPN ESPN NASCAR lead reporter Former NASCAR.com senior writer 15 years covering NASCAR Ryan McGee Close ESPN Senior Writer Senior writer for ESPN The Magazine and ESPN.com 2-time Sports Emmy winner 2010, 2014 NMPA Writer of the Year A week after being in the middle of an incident with
Hamilton addressed the subject of encouraging female racing drivers in Austin on Thursday, suggesting that the F1 organisation could do more to save the W Series, which is currently on hold due to financial issues. He noted: “With the organisation, with F1 and Liberty doing so well, it was not a lot for them to
Championship battles until the drop of the checkered flag. Relive the adrenaline rush with our TC America Powered by AWS cinematic highlights. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader in GT racing. Join us for live and uninterrupted coverage of major events, as well as behind-the-scenes access, special
Herta’s current contract was due to take him through to the end of the 2023 season but, knowing that the contracts of several other drivers are coming up for renewal in the same period, team owner Michael Andretti has taken Herta off the market early. The Californian had been in the frame for an AlphaTauri
The official European NASCAR series will feature six grand prix weekends for a total of 24 total championship races. The series will also hold two All-Star non-points events this season. The 2023 season will unofficially kick off 4-5 March in Finland, in the breath-taking scenery of frozen lakes, where for the first time in history
Morbidelli was involved in a last-lap clash with Aprilia’s Espargaro at the penultimate corner of last Sunday’s race at Sepang. The Yamaha rider finished 10th, but was handed a three-second time penalty, which dropped him back behind Espargaro to 11th. This was the second penalty Morbidelli received at Sepang, having been hit with a three-place
There had been plenty of speculation regarding Audi Sport in 2022, with many citing the impending end of the R8 supercar’s production as an indication that its customer division would be wound up in the coming years. The rumours came against the backdrop of other changes in Audi’s motorsport portfolio, with the under-development LMDh project
The Alpine driver was handed a 30-second penalty after the Austin race when the FIA stewards deemed his car had been running in an unsafe condition during the event following a protest from rival squad Haas. Alonso was involved in a scary accident with Aston Martin rival Lance Stroll early on, the Alpine going airborne
The Circuit of The Americas welcomed a three-day crowd of 440,000 for the United States Grand Prix, making it a new race weekend record for F1. COTA built a number of new grandstands to accommodate an extra 40,000 fans compared to the race in 2021, as well as increasing its transit options to help people
They say time heals all wounds, but the day Marco Simoncelli’s young life was tragically cut short in a horrible accident during the Malaysian Grand Prix in 2011 is a scar that still stings MotoGP a decade on. Motorsport is often subject to ‘what-if’ scenarios, and one many MotoGP fans often ponder is: what would
These will be the last opportunities for any teams to run rookies this year, as Brazil is a sprint race and thus FP1 is followed by qualifying in the afternoon. It is understood than any formal confirmation of Doohan’s outings has been delayed by complications over formally finalising Oscar Piastri’s exit from the team. The
The team was named recently by the FIA alongside Red Bull Racing and Williams as having failed to fully comply with the 2021 financial regulations. However while Red Bull was deemed to have overspent and made procedural errors, Aston Martin and Williams were only guilty of the latter. The Williams case, involving the late submission
Espargaro came to Sepang 27 points behind championship leader Francesco Bagnaia and needed to lose no more than three points to the Ducati rider to keep his title hopes alive going to Valencia. But the Aprilia rider endured a tough Malaysian GP, taking the chequered flag in 11th and 21.5 seconds off of race winner
6:27 PM ET Fernando Alonso believes Formula One and the FIA’s race regulations are set for a crucial moment after his Alpine team appealed the penalty which knocked him out of the points at the U.S. Grand Prix. Alonso finished seventh in Austin, Texas, despite being sent airborne at one stage in a 200 mph
The Formula 1 constructors’ championship battle always plays second fiddle to the fight for the drivers’ crown. Not helping the end-of-2022 show, Red Bull was all but certain to land its first teams’ trophy since 2013 heading into the United States Grand Prix in Austin last weekend. Nevertheless, during an event where the death of
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The former Sauber and Manor Formula 1 racer took part in a multi-day endurance test with the Porsche Penske Motorsport team at Sebring, Autosport has learned. News of the try-out comes at a time when it appears that Porsche still has a vacant seat in its planned 10-driver line-up across the Penske-run factory team’s twin
The six-time MotoGP world champion qualified on the front row for Sunday’s race at Sepang, but admitted at the time that he had no idea how he achieved this as he spent the weekend “fighting against the bike”. Anticipating a difficult race, Marquez slid out of the podium battle early on and ended up 14.3
7:07 AM ET Associated Press NASCAR Hall of Famer Tony Stewart will make his drag racing debut this weekend at the NHRA Nevada Nationals at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. Stewart will compete for McPhillips Racing in a Top Alcohol dragster — the equivalent of NASCAR’s second-tier Xfinity Series. “I’m excited and nervous at the same
As the Silverstone squad enjoyed a surprise upturn in form at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas, Vettel and teammate Lance Stroll were competing for the best of the rest spot in the early stages of Sunday’s United States Grand Prix. But as Stroll took himself out of the race by colliding with Alpine’s Fernando Alonso,
The eight-time and outgoing world champion sealed his first WRC victory since securing the 2021 title at Rally Monza last November with a faultless drive on Spain’s asphalt roads. After securing the rally lead last Friday, the 38-year-old reeled off eight stage wins to take a relatively comfortable victory by 16.4s from Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville,
Bagnaia needed to outscore Quartararo by 11 points to secure the world championship at Sepang, but Quartararo recovered from 12th to third to keep the door ajar to set up just the fifth season finale title decider in the MotoGP era. Poleman Jorge Martin converted pole to the holeshot on his Pramac Ducati, while Bagnaia
10:15 PM ET AUSTIN, Texas — Fernando Alonso has been relegated from seventh to 15th at the U.S. Grand Prix following a protest from rival team Haas. Alonso turned in a memorable performance in Austin after being sent airborne in a collision with Lance Stroll on lap 22, which left his car damaged. He recovered
Alonso recovered from his car going airborne in a crash with Lance Stroll to finish seventh at the Circuit of The Americas on Sunday. But the Spaniard was hit with a 30-second post-race penalty that dropped him to 15th after Haas lodged a protest, claiming the Alpine car was unsafe due to its moving right-hand
Stroll and Alonso were involved in a huge crash on the back straight on lap 22 of the race that briefly sent Alonso’s Alpine car airborne. As Alonso moved to the left to pass Stroll, the Aston Martin driver shifted across to defend, only for their wheels to make contact. It sent Stroll spinning into
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