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
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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
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
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,