In what had become a flashpoint of controversy for Supercars, the category has finally nominated its preference for a stick shift on its next-generation cars, maintaining the same mechanical system matched to the same six-speed Xtrac transaxle used in the current cars. The decision has been made based on the feedback from fans and drivers,
Saturday’s action – aside from the three-day shakedown for test riders and rookies – marked the first MotoGP running since the two-day end-of-season test at Jerez last November. There we got a glimpse at what manufacturers had been working on behind the scenes for 2022, and it raised the question: what would become 2022’s tech
F1 trialled a new sprint race weekend format at three events in 2021, staging a 100km race on Saturday to set the grid for the grand prix on Sunday. Plans were being formulated by F1 to expand sprints to six events in 2022 and revise elements of the format, such as points payout and the
1:22 PM ET Associated Press The father-son tandem of Petter and Oliver Solberg beat the surprisingly competitive American team of Colton Herta and Jimmie Johnson on the the frozen Baltic Sea to win the Race of Champions Nations Cup. Team Norway was led Saturday by 47-year-old Petter Solberg, the 2003 World Rally champion and two-time
Launching a new series is rarely easy. And it has become a whole lot harder over the past two years as myriad uncertainties arising from the coronavirus pandemic and Brexit have meant persuading people to invest in something new has been even more tricky. Over the next few pages, we take a look at those
Oliveira and team-mate Brad Binder scored a victory apiece in 2021, but found the season largely difficult as their RC16 MotoGP bike didn’t evolve as much as some of KTM’s competitors. KTM made a low-key start to the 2022 season on the opening day of testing in Malaysia, with Tech3 rookie Raul Fernandez the marque’s
The FIA has been undertaking a full investigation into the decisions taken by race director Michael Masi and race control in the closing stages of December’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which ended in a last-lap pass by Max Verstappen on Lewis Hamilton to clinch the title. Masi failed to enforce at least two articles of
Our AI Cyber Security partner Darktrace protects us from email phishing attacks on a weekly basis, but can Lando and Daniel spot the fact or phish coming from each other?! Find out more about Darktrace and McLaren: https://www.mclaren.com/racing/partners/darktrace/ Visit Darktrace’s official website: http://mclrn.co/DarktraceWebsite/ Join McLaren Plus, our fan engagement programme which brings McLaren fans closer
Ladies and gentlemen: your IGTC title contenders! 37pts Ledogar / Pier Guidi -0pts Nielsen -2pts Niederhauser / Winkelhock -2pts Haase -15pts Boguslavskiy #IGTC | #Kyalami9H 🇿🇦 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
The Award, which aims to find and boost rising British single-seater racers, began in 1989. David Coulthard was the inaugural winner and was followed by a host of future stars, including 2009 F1 world champion Jenson Button, current F1 drivers George Russell and Lando Norris, triple Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti, and 2014 World Endurance
A top speed deficit has been Yamaha’s Achilles heel for some time in MotoGP, with that problem persisting with the first prototype of the 2022 M1 at the two-day Jerez test in November. Back then, Quartararo said the bike hadn’t evolved much from its 2021 counterpart – and once again said after ending the first
On the back of a solid first two seasons in the series, where Norris had at times doubted himself, the Briton delivered a stellar 2021 campaign as he grabbed a maiden pole position and came close to victory at the Russian Grand Prix. The way that he was able to overshadow well-respected team-mate Daniel Ricciardo was proof
5:57 AM ET Haas has become the first Formula One team to release images of its 2022 car ahead of the upcoming season. Built to the sport’s new technical regulations, the Haas VF22 is a dramatic departure from last year’s car with all new design concepts mandated by F1 and the FIA to improve wheel-to-wheel
The German manufacturer has confirmed a widely expected move in the wake of the IMSA debut of the new M4 GT3 with a two-car GTD Pro entry in last weekend’s Daytona 24 Hours season-opener. BMW announced that RLL would be running two M4s in the new GTD Pro class back in November and subsequently revealed
Fabio Quartararo ended a six-year wait for Yamaha last season when he became France’s first MotoGP world champion having amassed five wins and wrapping up the title with two rounds to spare. But the Frenchman went into the winter break unhappy with an apparent lack of significant improvement with his YZR-M1 package at November’s Jerez
It’s a constantly evolving list, impacted by the coming and going of senior executives, and by the relative importance of manufacturers and teams. Former FIA president Jean Todt and ex-F1 CEO Chase Carey were on the last list we compiled in 2019, and both have now gone. Some names have worked their way up through
7:31 AM ET “The Colosseum. Oh, you should see the Colosseum, Spaniard. Fifty-thousand Romans. Watching every movement of your sword. Willing you to make that killer blow. The silence before you strike. And the noise afterwards. It rises. It rises up like … like a storm. As if you were the thunder god himself.” —
The car will then go on an extensive testing programme, ahead of its debut in the 2023 World Endurance Championship – which will herald its return to the top class at the Le Mans 24 Hours, a race it has won overall on nine occasions, the last coming in 1965. It is dovetailing development of
Earlier this week, Stoner – the 2007 and 2011 MotoGP world champion – told the Gypsy Tales podcast that he battled with anxiety through his racing career, which was only recently officially diagnosed. Stoner revealed that for much of his racing career, the more successful he was during a weekend, “the more I wanted to
Ex-Formula 1 driver Chilton switched to the US open-wheel scene in 2015 with the Carlin team, he and the squad entering the Indy Lights series together. Despite missing three races, Chilton finished fifth in the championship, partly thanks to victory at Iowa Speedway. He also took three pole positions. The following year, Chilton graduated to
The Haas VF-22 car is the first produced by the American team out of its new design office in Maranello, and offers a sign of what the new cars will look like this year following the overhaul of the technical regulations. On the podcast today, Grand Prix editor Alex Kalinauckas is joined by F1 reporter
11:15 AM ET Haas team boss Guenther Steiner expressed doubt about whether Formula One’s plan to host six sprint races in 2022 would go ahead, with the top teams demanding an increase in the sport’s cost cap. Formula One trialled the sprint-race format at three events last year, with qualifying brought forward a day to
Watch Tim Gajser Moto 2 from Round 12 of the 2020 FIM World Motocross championship in Arroyomolinos, Spain! Shot 100% on the HERO8® camera from http://GoPro.com. Check out more from MXGP at http://www.mxgp-tv.com
Catch up with the race highlights from an action-packed 2021 Circuit Paul Ricard 1000km. The 22 Porsche from GPX Racing took the top spot on the podium in the Main Race, courtesy of Matt Campbell, Earl Bamber and Mathieu Jaminet. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader in
The Haas VF-22 car is the first produced by the American team out of its new design office in Maranello, and offers a sign of what the new cars will look like this year following the overhaul of the technical regulations. Haas has retained the white, red and blue livery design it adopted last year
The Japanese marque enters its eighth season since it returned to MotoGP full-time and continues with the same line-up it has done since 2019. The 2021 season was a difficult one for Suzuki, with the marque failing to win a race for the first time since 2018. Mir ended the season third in the standings
Haas will be the first team to present its 2022 colours at 11am GMT when it drops a series of renders featuring its livery for the new season, starting a busy three-week period leading up to the start of winter testing in Barcelona. Launch season in 2021 was a strange affair given the continued impact
The grandson of two-time F1 world champion Emerson will undertake the six-round series at the wheel of the Polish team’s ORECA-Gibson 07 alongside Fabio Scherer and David Heinemeier Hansson. Fittipaldi had been due to contest the ELMS last year with the G-Drive Racing squad, but opted out of the programme after the opening round to
The rebranded RNF team caused a stir when it announced it would be bringing Binder – younger brother of double MotoGP race winner Brad – directly from Petronas SRT in Moto3 to its MotoGP squad this season. Binder spent seven seasons in Moto3 and only scored one race win, while his MotoGP promotion was heavily
With the Enstone-based squad looking to make changes to help fast track its progress up the grid, its CEO Laurent Rossi has been evaluating tweaks to the organisation ahead of the 2022 campaign. While there has yet to be confirmation about a potential team principal, with Otmar Szafnauer having been strongly linked, the team has