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
11:51 AM ET MONTE CARLO — Grand Prix cars have raced around the streets of Monaco since 1929. In that time the cars, Monaco itself and the rest of the world have changed dramatically, yet somehow the tradition of racing the fastest automobiles on the planet around one of the tightest circuits anywhere in the
After the thrill of seeing the 2008 Indy 500 winner nail a record-breaking lap to take his fifth pole position for the championship’s most famous event, it’s time for the main business to begin. If that sounds like it’s trivialising the efforts of all the teams last week, it isn’t: the thing is, it’s almost
As revealed by Autosport, F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali announced the plan to the teams in a meeting in Barcelona on Saturday. While improving the championship’s sustainability credentials is ostensibly the driving force behind the move, streamlining the schedule will also reduce costs for the F1 organisation itself and the 10 teams at a time when
The Italian manufacturer will hold a press conference at Mugello on Thursday at 1:30pm local time on the eve of the Italian Grand Prix to confirm the news. Aprilia and Espargaro have been locked in talks for some time over a renewal, with the Spaniard admitting following his historic maiden win at the Argentina Grand
However there are aspects of the 2022 cars that add an extra layer of complexity to this year’s event, and which will put a little extra pressure on everyone. “I think it’s going to be interesting to see how it is,” said Pierre Gasly when asked about this weekend by Autosport. “Because even on smooth
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The Envision Formula E driver, who made his DTM debut with the AF Corse-run Red Bull Ferrari team at last year’s Norisring round in place of Alex Albon, was brought into the lineup full-time this year but had to miss the Portimao opener due to a clash with the Monaco E-Prix. In his place, rally
The A522’s latest upgrade package looked promising on Friday in Barcelona but the team had a troubled qualifying session, with Ocon earning only 12th and Fernando Alonso down in 17th after a radio miscommunication compromised his final Q1 run. In the race, Ocon put in an impressive charge to seventh, while Alonso climbed through the
6:47 AM ET The Monaco Grand Prix has long been considered to be the jewel in the crown of F1. Since 1955 it has been a mainstay on the schedule and only failed to take place in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The circuit includes some of the most famous parts of any F1
Under the programme, dubbed ‘Project 91,’ Trackhouse Racing will enter the #91 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 at least once during the remainder of this Cup season with plans to expand it in the future. The first international driver to participate in the program will be announced with the next few days. Previous international drivers in the
Tyre issues became a talking point after a particularly brutal Friday as the new-for-2022 Rally1 cars contested a gravel rally for the first time. Pirelli debuted a new hard and soft gravel tyre at the event, which featured reinforced structures and a design optimised for the increased torque and the heavier Rally1 cars, which weigh
The Spanish driver has been so far unable to extract as much from the new ground effect F1-75 chassis as teammate Charles Leclerc, and endured another frustrating outing in Spain last week when he dropped down the order with a spin. Having had a run of incidents in Australia, Imola, and Miami, Sainz is aware