In the last few days, Ferrari declared in an earnings call that it is keeping an eye on the opportunities that could be open to it in the NFT marketplace. Ferrari CEO Benedetto Vigna said: “For sure, the digital technologies, the Web 3.0 technologies that are using the blockchain and the NFT is an area
10:00 AM ET A new racing team owned by former Olympic gold medal winner and transgender activist Caitlyn Jenner will compete in the 2022 W Series, the all-female motor racing championship said on Tuesday. American Jenner, a former professional racing driver, will be the team principal overseeing the day-to-day running of the Jenner Racing team.
Audi Sport and Ferrari go head-to-head for the Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli manufacturers’ title this weekend (February 3-5) when the globetrotting GT3 series makes its final stop of the season at the Joburg Kyalami 9 Hour. What’s more, five crews – headed by Ferrari’s Come Ledogar, Nicklas Nielsen and Alessandro Pier Guidi –
McLaren says the model, which features the team’s 2021 papaya orange and blue livery but also shows off some 2022 styling cues, was “designed by LEGO Group design experts with support from the McLaren F1 race team.” The 65cm long model includes a modelled V6 cylinder engine with moving pistons, steering activated from the cockpit,
Marquez spent much of his return to MotoGP last year struggling for power in his right shoulder after badly breaking his right arm in the 2020 Spanish Grand Prix, which ruled him out of the rest of that campaign. PLUS: The Marquez risk Honda has taken with its 2022 MotoGP bike Despite his issues, Marquez still
Following the introduction of F1’s budget cap last year, Ferrari opted to redeploy a number of staff members to work with its customer Haas squad as it looks to divert resources. This included the opening of a ‘Haas hub’ in Maranello, out of which the new Haas VF-22 car was designed by a team led
The reigning world champion squad has selected three young Japanese rally talents in Hikaru Kogure (20), Nao Otake (21) and Yuki Yamamoto (24) to join the initiative which aims to promote a young Japanese driver to its WRC team. Toyota began the programme in 2015, with it biggest success story being Katsuta, who has since
Bagnaia has been a Ducati rider for his entire MotoGP career, making his debut with the marque at the Pramac squad in 2019 and remaining there for 2020, before being promoted to the factory squad last season. After two difficult years with Pramac, in which he scored just one podium, 2021 proved to be a
In the first competitive race for NASCAR’s Next Generation car in the Cup Series, the most revolutionary iteration of stock car in the sport’s history, Logano and Busch and battled up front virtually the entire 150-lap event. Penske driver Logano finally grabbed the lead on lap 116 right before a caution was displayed for an accident
As Haas technical director Simone Resta said on Friday after the reveal of his team’s VF-22 images: “So far everyone has been playing with models, whether it is a wind tunnel scale model or whether it is virtual model, simulator, simulation etc. It’s all in the virtual world. There’s nothing on track. “The only thing
The FIA is currently undertaking a full investigation into the decisions made at the end of the season finale in Abu Dhabi, where the last-lap restart ended up deciding the world championship as Max Verstappen overtook Lewis Hamilton. Race director Michael Masi failed to implement at least two articles of the sporting regulations, sparking an
Mir’s 2020 title defence was a difficult affair last year, as a lack of development with the GSX-RR meant he could only come up with third in the standings and just six podiums. The reaction so far to its 2022 bike has been much more positive from both Mir and team-mate Alex Rins, with the
The non-points event was held at a track other than Daytona for the first time since its inception in 1981 on a made-from-scratch quarter-mile asphalt oval built inside the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Penske Ford driver Logano held off Kyle Busch’s Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota to win the 150-lap race, which opened the 2022 season
Although the VF-22 may be different when it appears at the first test, the early snapshot was enough to provide some insight into how teams have approached things in a different way to the FOM show cars we saw last year. As F1 now builds up for a run of launches this week, including Red
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The team has now confirmed that three-time BTCC champion Gordon Shedden will remain on board for a second successive season following his series return in 2021 to partner Dan Rowbottom, who is entering the second campaign of his two-year deal. Shedden, who won all three of his BTCC crowns with Dynamics, took until October last
Quartararo spent much of the latter part of last year highlighting a need for Yamaha to improve its engine, having regularly occupied the bottom of the speed charts. The reigning world champion expressed disappointment at November’s Jerez test when Yamaha’s latest 2022-spec bike proved to be of little improvement over its predecessor. And at the
Norris took his first F1 pole position in 2021 and finished sixth in the drivers’ championship, ahead of highly rated team-mate Daniel Ricciardo. PLUS: The steps Norris took to reach a new level in F1 2021 Autosport readers have voted Norris the best British driver of last season, ahead of fellow F1 rising star George
The Briton, who turned 17 on the day of the Awards, will receive £200,000, a test in an Aston Martin Cognizant Formula 1 car, full British Racing Drivers’ Club membership and an Arai helmet as his prize. O’Sullivan beat fellow finalists Ollie Bearman, Jonny Edgar and Louis Foster to become the 32nd winner of the
The 2022 Honda is a radical evolution from its predecessor as it seeks to create a bike with better rear traction. This has seemingly made the bike more rear-biased, with Marquez admitting on Saturday after two crashes that he doesn’t understand the front end of the new bike right now and is having to “sacrifice”
Verstappen ended Lewis Hamilton’s domination of F1 by snatching the crown in the dramatic Abu Dhabi Grand Prix finale. The Red Bull star took 10 wins and 10 pole positions on his way to his first F1 title. Autosport readers have voted Verstappen the best racing driver of 2021, ahead of main rival Hamilton, IndyCar
The 28-year-old secured his third British Touring Car title in 2021, scoring five wins with his BMR-run Laser Tools Racing Infiniti Q50. Autosport readers have voted Sutton the best National driver of the season, ahead of his BTCC rival Josh Cook, British GT pacesetter Dennis Lind and Porsche Carrera Cup champion Dan Cammish. Sutton’s victory
The double MotoGP podium finisher has moved from the now-defunct Avintia squad to Gresini Racing, and has had a machinery upgrade from Ducati – taking over the GP21 Francesco Bagnaia, Jack Miller and Jorge Martin took to seven race wins last year. The impressive sophomore ended the Sepang test fastest of all after posting a
Manufacturers have had to adjust their PUs to suit the different cornering characteristics of the 2022 cars, as well as having to deal with the change from E5 to E10 fuel. In essence, the 2022 aerodynamic package means that this season drivers will be tackling corners in a different manner to previous years, and the
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The 2019 season will see SRO Motorsports Group unite the sprint-format championships formerly known as the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup, Blancpain GT Series Asia and Pirelli World Challenge GT to form a new global initiative: the Blancpain GT World Challenge. This exciting international endeavour will present GT3 manufacturers, partners and teams with the
Horner agreed to participate in the event as part of his sentence after he made controversial comments to the media following Max Verstappen’s grid penalty at last November’s Qatar GP. Verstappen received a five-place grid penalty and two superlicence penalty points for failing to respect double yellow flags in qualifying after Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri stopped
The Frenchman was seventh-fastest overall at the end of the two-day test at the Sepang International Circuit, with Quartararo just under two tenths off the pace set by Gresini’s Enea Bastianini on Sunday. Quartararo conceded on Saturday that Yamaha hadn’t taken much of a step forward with its bike from November’s Jerez test and had
Verstappen ended Mercedes’ title dominance of F1’s turbo hybrid era last year, when he clinched the drivers’ title after a last-lap overtaking move on Lewis Hamilton at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. It marked the culmination of many years of conviction from Red Bull about Verstappen’s talent, as it was convinced from early on that he had the