The AlphaTauri driver finally got some relief when Ricciardo stopped with an engine issue in the closing laps, triggering the safety car period under which the race ended. Gasly had a difficult start to the Monza weekend as he didn’t feel well on Thursday. He bounced back to qualify ninth, before gaining four grid spots
There was a sigh of relief throughout the British GT paddock and from organiser SRO shortly before qualifying at Brands Hatch for the championship’s latest round. After waiting just short of seven weeks, the UK’s National Court finally announced a decision regarding Fox Motorsport’s and Paddock Motorsport’s appeal from the previous meeting at Spa all
4:31 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — NASCAR released its 2023 schedule on Wednesday that includes previously announced races at the new downtown Chicago street course and a return to North Wilkesboro in North Carolina along with only one notable date shift. The Cup Series schedule is largely unchanged from the 2022 version, with
When Sebastian Vettel hangs up his helmet and retires from Formula 1 at the end of the year, few circuits will hold fonder memories for him than Monza. Vettel’s farewell to the Tifosi, the adoring fans who once heralded him as their star, and still keep him close to their hearts, was the only highlight
When Mercedes’ Formula E champion de Vries rocked up in the Monza paddock on Friday no one could have predicted the rollercoaster weekend that would lie ahead of him. As part of his Mercedes duties, de Vries was made available to its partner teams for a reserve role and took the wheel of Sebastian Vettel’s
Palou found himself in the eye of the storm when it was announced in July that he would be leaving Ganassi for McLaren Racing after the 2022 season. The statement landed shortly after Ganassi had announced it had taken up the 2021 IndyCar champion’s option for another year, triggering a legal tug of war between
12:49 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — — Tony Stewart will return to the Fox broadcast booth for the elimination rounds Sunday of the NHRA Nationals at Maple Grove Raceway. The NASCAR Hall of Famer and first-year NHRA team owner will be in the booth for the second consecutive race and the NHRA’s playoff opener, which
Hamilton says that the Red Bull RB18 is currently “almost unbeatable”, and suggests that Max Verstappen’s true potential is unclear as the Dutchman is often “chilled” at the front and not being pushed. He also conceded that Mercedes doesn’t have any upgrades coming that will improve the situation, with the focus having turned to next
The end-of-season event will again take place on a circuit of snow and ice laid out on the frozen Baltic Sea, with the date for ROC’s second visit to Sweden set at 28 and 29 January. Last winter ROC headed to the seaside resort of Pite Havsbad for the first time, with World Rally Championship
As part of Honda’s attempts to dig itself out of the dearth it is currently experiencing in MotoGP, having gone throughout 2022 without a victory so far and failing to come close to the title in the last three seasons, the Japanese brand is overhauling its line-up for 2023. At LCR, Alex Rins has signed
7:05 AM ET Alex Albon has been released from hospital and returned home after he suffered respiratory failure following complications from an appendectomy on Saturday. Albon missed last weekend’s Italian Grand Prix after falling ill with appendicitis. Following surgery on Saturday, the Thai driver experienced “unexpected post-operative anaesthetic complications”, including respiratory failure, and was sent
However, against the backdrop of the cost cap and the arrival of a regulation set that’s delivered a vastly different car, there was a sense that teams might have to redraw their battle plans for 2022. In the end, there was a split approach for how teams opted to attack the Italian Grand Prix –
Top Performer – Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe It had been almost a year since Thierry Neuville and co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe last tasted victory, on Rally Spain October last year to be precise. So climbing the top step of the podium in Greece last weekend was described as a “relief”. Neuville has been knocking on
8:15 AM ET Lewis Hamilton fears he might have the first winless season of his Formula One career because he thinks Max Verstappen and Red Bull are “almost unbeatable”. Seven-time world champion Hamilton has won at least one race in every season stretching back to his rookie year, 2007. Mercedes has crept closer to the
Flypasts by an air display team have been common at the Italian Grand Prix for a number of years. But as part of F1’s push for a more sustainable and environmentally friendly future, it has banned the starting grid flypasts at races this year. However, on Sunday at Monza the Frecce Tricolori did two flypasts
Following grid penalties for various competitors, Norris started third on the grid, but his bid to run in clear air was nipped in the bud by a poor getaway off the line, which was down to an incorrect setting beyond his control. Norris then got stuck in the DRS train behind teammate Daniel Ricciardo and
Marquez has been out of racing action since the Italian GP in May, after which he decided to undergo complex surgery on the right arm he injured in the 2020 Spanish GP at Jerez. “As you can see, I’m smiling, which means I’ll be at the Aragon GP – racing, of course,” he said in
The 37-year-old will drive the #8 Chevrolet for team owner Richard Childress beginning in the 2023 season, bringing to an end a fruitful partnership with the JGR Toyota team that began in 2008. “This is probably one of the biggest decisions of my life, my career,” Busch said. “I’m thankful to Joe [Gibbs] for allowing
10:49 AM ET ESPN News Services CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Kyle Busch will move to Richard Childress Racing next season, ending a 15-year career with Joe Gibbs Racing because the team could not come to terms with NASCAR’s only active multiple Cup champion. Busch will drive the No. 8 Chevrolet for Childress in an announcement made
Mercedes reserve driver de Vries was called up by Williams shortly before the Italian Grand Prix’s FP3 session to replace Alex Albon, who was taken ill with appendicitis. The 2019 Formula 2 champion and 2020-21 Formula E title-winner immediately impressed by outqualifying Albon’s regular team-mate Nicholas Latifi and, after a barrage of gird penalties, he
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On the WEC’s first visit to Japan since 2019, Toyota’s pair of GR010 HYBRIDs were a cut above the opposition, finishing two laps ahead of the Alpine A480-Gibson shared by Lapierre, Andre Negrao and Matthieu Vaxiviere. Alpine’s grandfathered LMP1 car had taken a Balance of Performance hit, which led Negrao to conclude after Friday practice
Nakagami’s future had been thrown into doubt amid a difficult fifth season in the premier class aboard the troublesome 2022 iteration of the Honda RC213V. The Japanese rider lies 16th in the standings ahead of this weekend’s Aragon round with a pair of seventh-place finishes at Jerez and Le Mans standing as his best results
3:58 AM ET Nico Hulkenberg is a front-running candidate to replace Mick Schumacher at Haas next season, multiple sources have told ESPN. Hulkenberg last raced full-time in F1 with Renault in 2019 but has made a handful of substitute appearances for Racing Point and Aston Martin in the years since as a COVID-19 stand-in. Hulkenberg
Although drivers taking the chequered flag under caution meant Max Verstappen was unchallenged at the end, Horner believes that not having the cars racing to the line was bad for the championship. He says it went against a core principle that teams have long agreed on, that it is essential races do not end with
For the fifth race in a row, Max Verstappen and Red Bull walked off victorious. Unlike at his home race the weekend before, this time at Formula 1’s 2022 Italian Grand Prix the world champion did so with a chorus of boos rather than adoring cheers ringing out. But both those developments don’t tell the
Sep 10, 2022 Haas’ Kevin Magnussen and Mick Schumacher have joined the list of drivers with a grid penalty at the Italian Grand Prix, which now stands at nine. Magnussen and Schumacher will both drop 15 places from wherever they qualify after Haas made changes to the engine components in both cars. 1 Related Formula
De Vries was called in to replace Alex Albon at Williams for the remainder of the Monza weekend on Saturday when the latter was ruled out with appendicitis. The one-time Formula E champion qualified 13th – though started eighth due to grid penalties for others – and went on to finish his debut F1 race
The Finn faced a second opportunity to become the youngest ever world rally champion if he could outscore Hyundai’s Ott Tanak by 18 points in Greece last weekend. However, Rovanpera found himself more than minute adrift of the front runners on Friday, as the effects of cleaning the road were much greater than expected. Coupled
The Australian led the first stint of the race on the Firestone alternate tyres, but found his car’s handling was wayward on his first set of primaries, and the wing adjustment he called for at his next stop actually exaggerated the problem. Finally onto fresh primaries in the final stint, he was able to keep