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
The Kiwi has enjoyed success in Europe in the past, particularly during his time as a factory McLaren GT driver. He won the 2016 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup with Rob Bell and Come Ledogar for Garage 59, thanks to race victories at Monza and Paul Ricard. That same season he finished third in the
In the wake of the controversy over the safety car restart at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix that has left Hamilton disillusioned with the sport, he and his team boss Toto Wolff elected to miss the FIA end-of-season gathering in Paris on Thursday night. Hamilton’s absence, as runner-up in the drivers’ championship, appears to be
Quartararo became Yamaha’s first world champion since Jorge Lorenzo in 2015 when he stormed to France’s maiden premier class title with two rounds to spare in 2021. The Frenchman won five races across the 2021 campaign, his first with the factory Yamaha squad having been signed to replace MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi. Not only popular
Sulayem’s arrival at the helm of the FIA comes just days after F1 has found its image tarnished in the wake of the safety car restart that decided the world championship battle between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen. The FIA World Motor Sport Council has already announced plans for a probe into the events of
7:48 AM ET Mohammed Ben Sulayem of the United Arab Emirates has been elected successor to Jean Todt as the first non-European president of motorsport’s world governing body, the International Automobile Federation (FIA) said on Friday. The 60-year-old Dubai-born former rally driver was standing against British lawyer Graham Stoker, who has been Todt’s deputy president
Team 75 Motorsport will shift over from ADAC GT Masters to run a solo Porsche 911 GT3-R under the KUS Team Bernhard banner in the nine-weekend DTM in 2022. The car will be raced by Porsche factory driver Thomas Preining, who co-drove with Christian Engelhart in one of the two cars the team entered in
The Dutchman picked up his maiden F1 championship trophy at the FIA’s prize-giving gala in Paris on Thursday night, which came just days after his last-lap victory in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Verstappen’s current contract runs until the end of 2023, and he has said several times since his success at the weekend that
6:42 AM ET PARIS, France — Lewis Hamilton and his Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff will not attend the FIA’s prize giving ceremony in Paris on Thursday evening, Wolff confirmed. The decision not to attend comes in the wake of Mercedes’ decision not to appeal the result of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, which saw
Watch Adam Cianciarulo’s Main Event win from round 9 of the 2019 Monster Energy Supercross Series in Atlanta, Georgia. Shot 100% on the HERO7BLACK® camera from http://GoPro.com For full event results visit: http://www.supercrosslive.com
Catch up on the best bits from the first race of the weekend at Zandvoort which saw a dominant performance from the Lamborghini-sporting Emil Frey Racing team and an outstanding partnership between Ricardo Feller and Alex Fontana! GT World is the official YouTube channel for SRO Motorsports Group, the global leader in GT racing. Join
Driving for Prema Racing, this year’s two-time F2 race winner clocked a 1m35.435s effort in the afternoon’s three hour session, which would stand as the fastest time of the day. The time was 0.358s slower than the pole time set by Oscar Piastri in last weekend’s F2 qualifying session albeit Daruvala’s lap was set on
In the wake of the Hamilton’s defeat to Max Verstappen in Abu Dhabi, the result of the FIA’s safety car restart call which allowed Verstappen to make a final lap pass in their winner-takes-all showdown for the drivers’ championship, the Mercedes driver and his boss declined to take part in the annual prize-giving event. Hamilton’s
8:16 AM ET Toto Wolff suggested he is unsure whether Lewis Hamilton will continue racing in Formula One as the seven-time champion is “disillusioned” with how he lost this year’s title at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Hamilton was denied a record eighth championship on the final lap of the race amid a controversial finish
The Australian struggled for most of this year to get on terms with team-mate Lando Norris, especially over one lap in qualifying, which in turn made his life harder in races. While his form improved and victory in the Italian Grand Prix was an obvious high, Ricciardo finished the season in eighth place on 115
Lecuona was drafted in to replace Brad Binder at Tech3 for 2020 when the South African was promoted to replace Johann Zarco at the factory KTM squad. But Lecuona – then 19 – had only made his circuit racing debut in 2015 after a formative career in supermotard, and by the start of the 2020
It is the second time this year that the Monegasque has tested positive, having also contracted the virus in January after coming into close contact with another case. According to a team statement posted on Twitter, Leclerc is suffering from mild symptoms but “feeling fine” and will self-isolate at home. The team tweeted: “Scuderia Ferrari
8:24 AM ET Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff says he has no desire to talk to the FIA’s race director Michael Masi, saying his values and sense of integrity are not “compatible” with the decisions taken by Masi at the title deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Masi’s role in Max Verstappen’s championship victory over Mercedes
The former Lamborghini factory driver will join an all-Pro lineup as the German-based squad steps up from International GT Open with two McLaren 720S GT3s. Lind will join team regular Christian Klien and 2015 Blancpain Sprint champion Vincent Abril, who took a best finish of fourth in the DTM this year. Team owner Patryk Krupinski
If Sebastien Buemi had enjoyed the kind of season that had been the norm for him in Formula E, he would be much higher in this list. Yet, despite a disastrous FE campaign with Nissan e.dams, his sportscar form keeps him in such an elevated position. The Swiss failed to record a podium in FE