We ended the F1 season with a tricky and dramatic race. P7 – and a slow puncture – for Lando and P12 for Daniel didn’t entirely live up to a year in which we’ve enjoyed some incredible highs. In 2021 we scored most points since 2012, secured five podiums, and achieved our first win in
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Earlier this year it was announced that reigning MotoGP constructors’ champions Ducati would take over the sole supply of motorcycles for the MotoE World Cup from the 2023 season. MotoE made its debut on the MotoGP support bill in 2019 and has been supplied by Italian firm Energica, though next year will be its last.
Sulayem won last week’s FIA presidential election when he beat rival candidate Graham Stoker to the most powerful position in motorsport. One of the early decisions during his campaign was to propose Fabiana Ecclestone as the candidate for vice-president for sport in South America. The move was the first time in the FIA’s 117-year history
Patterson, 18, claimed a podium during a limited programme in the GB3 Championship this season, before making an eye-opening one-off debut in the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine at Spa, where he finished seventh from a 33-car field. The former international karting star and Sauber Academy driver competed in Formula 4 in 2020, in
Stoner retired from MotoGP at the end of the 2012 season having won two world titles: one for Ducati in 2007 and one for Honda in 2011. Following the conclusion of his MotoGP racing career, Stoner held test rider roles with Honda and Ducati up to 2018, while also briefly racing in the Super2 class
The 2018 Indy Lights title rivals won five IndyCar races between them last season, with the former remaining in title contention until the final round at Long Beach where his Arrow McLaren SP entry was an early retirement. The pair will team up with Herta’s 2022 Andretti Autosport IndyCar team-mate Devlin DeFrancesco and sportscar stalwart
The Enstone-based squad achieved its target of fifth place in the constructors’ championship this year with a double points scoring finish at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. But it comes ahead of a winter where CEO Laurent Rossi has hinted at needing to make some changes to its structure in a bid to help move
10:57 AM ET Paralympic champion and former racing driver Alex Zanardi has left hospital following injuries sustained in a handbike accident 18 months ago. Former F1 driver and Champ Car champion Zanardi suffered a severe head injury in a collision with a truck during the Obiettivo Tricolore handbike race in June 2020. Since then he
DTM racer and future Audi LMDh driver Muller will make his IMSA debut when he tackles the 2022 season opener at Daytona on 29-30 January. He will share High Class’s solo ORECA 07-Gibson entry with the team’s full-season drivers Dennis Andersen and Anders Fjordbach, as well as fellow Swiss driver Fabio Scherer. The team announced
Amid an increased scrutiny over the governing body’s actions in the wake of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix safety car controversy, the FIA has found itself having to defend its corner over what happened at the weekend. And Mercedes in particular has been especially outspoken in believing that what took place through the decisions of
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At the start, Erhan Jajovski for R8G Esports started on the LMP pole position, after a track limits violation pushed Marcell Csincsik for GPX Rebellion Esports down to second. It was a lead that Jajovski held on to all through the first half of the race, completing his maximum seat time in one session. GPX
Traditionally, the sporting director has been the sole point of audio contact between the pit wall and race control should the need for communication arise during races. This year F1 and the FIA agreed to broadcast selected conversations between the teams and Michael Masi for the first time in order to give fans extra insight.
Fourth place for 2016 Formula 1 champion Nico Rosberg’s crew in the Dorset finale meant it drew in the standings with Lewis Hamilton’s X44 as they both ended up with 155 points. But having won the maiden Saudi Arabia event, then again in Senegal and in Sardinia, RXR took hold of the crown over X44,
The comparative times may have been meaningless given that mule cars of varying vintages were in use, but the Pirelli 18-inch tyre test was a key session for teams and drivers as they prepare for the new era in 2022. All the teams taking part had already sampled the new tyres when they participated in
The 2022 draft calendar was unveiled with a TBC slot at the end of July, which was always expected to be filled by the The Bend. That’s now been confirmed, South Australia now officially set to host at least one Supercars event next season. The event will run to the SuperSprint format. “The Bend is
The manner in which F1 race director Michael Masi handled the late race safety car at the Yas Marina circuit last weekend has triggered a backlash for grand prix racing, and tarnished the image of both the sport and the FIA. While motor racing’s governing body is clear that lessons can be learned from what
Nasr and Cameron were confirmed as Porsche factory drivers beginning next year on Saturday evening when Porsche unveiled its motorsport programmes for 2022. They will be “involved intensively in further development of Porsche’s LMDh prototype”, according to a statement from the German manufacturer. Both Nasr and Cameron had been closely linked since the summer with
They naturally saw the process as the last chance for the outcome of the 2021 world championship to be turned around, after the late call by race direction to allow the cars splitting Hamilton and Max Verstappen to unlap themselves under the safety car on the penultimate tour. As such there’s a widespread feeling on
The Australian FIA F3 graduate continued to impress in F2 machinery, clocking a 1m36.110s to emerge fastest after six hours of running in much cooler conditions compared to the previous two days of the test. Doohan, driving for Virtuosi Racing, was 0.029s faster than MP Motorsport’s Drugovich. The pair set their personal best times in
Vinales joined Yamaha back in 2017 having spent his first two years in MotoGP with Suzuki, but struggled with inconsistent form for the duration of his stay with the team – winning just eight times between 2017 and 2021. The Spaniard won the opening round of the 2021 campaign in Qatar in convincing fashion, but
Sainz replaced Sebastian Vettel at Ferrari on a two-year deal for this season, and enjoyed his strongest F1 campaign to date, scoring four podiums en route to fifth place in the drivers’ championship. Sainz managed to outscore Charles Leclerc in their first year as team-mates, helping Ferrari to secure third place in the constructors’ championship
It takes a fair bit to surprise Mark Dutton, your typical been there, done that kind of guy. He’s worked at Triple Eight since before it was even Triple Eight. Having engineered Jamie Whincup to five of his seven titles and overseen the other two (as well as two, now, for Shane van Gisbergen) as
The two drivers have dominated the rankings over recent years, finishing as the top two every year since 2016. But this is the first time that Verstappen has emerged ahead. In what has become a long-standing tradition created by Autosport, each of the F1 team bosses were asked to pick their top 10 drivers of
Three teams, one Endurance title: JMX Phantom, Full Pace Racing and Legion of Racers go head-to-head at Japan’s legendary GP circuit. GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader in GT racing.
Looking at the average grid size of a series is a crude way of measuring its success. There are many other factors that truly determine how well a category is doing, but the number of cars on the grid is certainly most quantifiable. And that’s why Autosport has run this feature at the end of
Hamilton was left upset by the way that a late race safety car restart call in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix cost him the world championship title on the final lap in Abu Dhabi last weekend. His Mercedes team has said that the Briton has been left ‘disillusioned’ by the way things were handled, and
5:59 AM ET Red Bull’s Max Verstappen collected his Formula One world champion’s trophy at a gala awards ceremony on Thursday and looked forward to fighting seven times title-holder Lewis Hamilton again next season. His Mercedes rival, beaten this year on the last lap of the last race, did not attend the event at the