Mercedes filed two protests with the FIA stewards at the Yas Marina Circuit over the race restart after Max Verstappen passed Lewis Hamilton on the final lap of the race to win the world championship. The stewards dismissed both protests, including one of the resumption of the race with one lap remaining, but Mercedes has
Mercedes filed two protests with the FIA stewards at the Yas Marina Circuit over the race restart after Max Verstappen passed Lewis Hamilton on the final lap of the race to win the world championship. The stewards dismissed both protests, including one of the resumption of the race with one lap remaining, but Mercedes has
1:41 PM ET It quickly became clear at the start of the year that Mercedes would not have an easy ride to the title in 2021. After seven years of facing no serious competition for either the drivers’ or the constructors’ title, the reigning world champions were suddenly on the back foot. Red Bull emerged
Bottas qualified sixth for the 2021 season finale at Yas Marina, lapping over nine-tenths of a second off pole-sitter Verstappen of Red Bull, who will start side-by-side with Hamilton on the front row of the grid. Hamilton and Verstappen are tied on points going into the final race, while Mercedes leads Red Bull by 28
Ahead of Sunday’s race, Leclerc lies in fifth place on 158 points, ahead of Lando Norris on 154 and Sainz on 149.5. Norris gave himself a good shot at jumping Leclerc by qualifying third at Yas Marina, while Sainz will start fifth, and Leclerc seventh. Although he has a two-place advantage on his teammate, Sainz
4:06 AM ET ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Haas driver Nikita Mazepin will miss the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi after testing positive for COVID-19. Mazepin, who was due to start from last place on the grid, is asymptomatic but the timing of the positive test result means he will not
The unsighted Fittipaldi hit Sauber Junior driver Theo Pourchaire, who had stalled his ART car near the front of the grid in Saudi Arabia, which resulted in a 72G impact. Both drivers were extricated by medical crews and transferred by ambulance and helicopter to King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, where Pourchaire was given the all-clear and
The Briton will enter his fourth F1 title decider at Abu Dhabi in Sunday’s race at Yas Marina, following the 2010 event that ended with Sebastian Vettel’s first championship triumph in a four-way scrap against Fernando Alonso, Mark Webber and Hamilton, then in 2014 and 2016 Hamilton and Rosberg had to-the-wire title battles decided at
11:41 AM ET ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Max Verstappen’s pole position lap at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was “insane” and one of the best he’s had, said Red Bull boss Christian Horner. Verstappen put himself in the perfect position to win his first world championship on Sunday, out-qualifying title rival Lewis Hamilton
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If you thought Race 1 was exciting, wait until you see the drama that Race 2 brought! Charles Weerts and Dries Vanthoor secure the double for the weekend, followed by an incredible photo finish between West and Pierburg with the winner coming out on top by 1/1000th of a second! GT World is the official
The newly crowned eight-time world champion has teamed up with the Japanese marque for a two-day test, beginning today (Saturday) in France. Ogier was set to test the all-new Rally1 hybrid GR Yaris for the first time last month but the outing in France was abandoned and rescheduled after team-mate Elfyn Evans suffered a crash,
The Red Bull driver produced a stunning lap to take his 10th pole position of the season, beating title rival Lewis Hamilton by 0.371s who will join him on the front row for the finale. With both drives on equal points going into the title decider, the simple equation is whoever finishes in front between
1:20 PM ET ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton will start alongside each other on the front of the grid at the title-deciding Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Any other front row would not have seemed right ahead of Sunday’s winner-takes-all showdown, and given the performance of the two title rivals
The Australian scored his third consecutive single-seater title with two races to spare after finishing third in Saturday’s opening F2 sprint race at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The F2 title completes an impressive treble of championships following on from last year’s run to the FIA Formula 3 crown in his rookie year after winning
With Max Verstappen and Lewis Hamilton neck-and-neck on points ahead of this weekend’s Yas Marina event, there has been intense speculation about the risks of the championship being decided in a controversial incident. One week on from an ill-tempered Saudi Arabian Grand Prix, Masi reminded teams ahead of the weekend that the FIA’s own International
6:18 AM ET Australian Oscar Piastri won the Formula Two title in Abu Dhabi on Saturday, his third successive crown on the road to Formula One, but the Alpine Academy driver will have to wait to take the next big step. The 20-year-old Melbourne-born driver went from 10th to third for the Prema team in
Earlier this week Hyundai announced Adamo has stepped down from his role after six years at the helm, citing personal reasons for his departure. Adamo enjoyed a successful tenure at Hyundai, leading the marque to back-to-back WRC manufacturers’ titles in 2019 and 2020 on top of successes in the FIA WTCR series with Gabriele Tarquini
Defending F1 world champion Hamilton grabbed top spot in FP2 after title rival Max Verstappen was fastest in the first practice session at the revamped Yas Marina Circuit, with both drivers going into the season finale level on points for a winner takes all race. With tensions still high between the two title fighters and
7:42 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — Dale Coyne Racing and Vasser Sullivan Racing announced Friday they will end their IndyCar Series partnership. The two teams had worked together for the past four seasons. Coyne’s team issued a statement acknowledging Vasser Sullivan wanted to focus on its sports car entries, though the Vasser Sullivan team
After more than two hours of frenetic and fraught racing on the streets of Jeddah, Daniel had a very competitive finish in P5. Lando made a strong start but was unlucky with a red flag that cost him a lot of positions – eventually ending the race with a solitary point. 21 races down, one
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While their respective teams and drivers have gone wheel-to-wheel, Wolff and Horner have fired shots at each other throughout the season. Amid flexi-wing sagas, rights to review, accident reconstructions and threats to protest, it has fuelled what Horner called in the tense Qatar press conference “by far the most intense political title fight we’ve been
Rossi brought his illustrious MotoGP career to an end last month in his 432nd and final grand prix at the Valencia finale, calling time on a 26-season span which yielded nine world titles and 115 victories. The Italian had planned to spend the first half of 2020 evaluating his form to see whether he should
The Italian company has put an extra focus on kerbs since the Qatar GP, where four drivers suffered similar failures in the race. Pirelli later determined that the failures resulted from drivers consistently running over and back across kerbs during long stints in the race, which is why the problem hadn’t been apparent after practice.
12:00 PM ET Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff and his Red Bull rival Christian Horner put on a display of sportsmanship ahead of the Formula One title showdown at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, after months of trading bitter barbs. Facing the media with the constructors’ championship trophy between them, the pair shook hands
The series has successfully run 22 events this year after juggling the calendar to take account of race cancellations. An easing of restrictions in recent months, notably concerning UK red zones that impacted returning personnel, helped to smooth the path for the run of flyaway events at the end of the season. However, the emergence
IMS president Doug Boles stated on Friday that Unser had “died peacefully in his beloved Chama [New Mexico] home after a 17-year battle with Cancer.” As part of the Unser dynasty, “Big Al” was a fixture at the Indy 500 for three decades, his 27 starts the third highest number of appearances in history. He
Championship leader Verstappen started the race weekend on the right foot as he finished ahead of Mercedes duo Valtteri Bottas and Lewis Hamilton in FP1, lapping almost two-tenths of a second clear. Opening practice on Friday afternoon marked the first opportunity for drivers to sample the altered corners at Yas Marina, including the Turn 5
5:58 AM ET ESPN News Services Al Unser Sr., a four-time winner of the Indianapolis 500 and three-time champion in what is now the IndyCar Series, Thursday following a long illness. He was 82. Indianapolis Motor Speedway said early Friday that Unser died at his home in Chama, New Mexico, with his wife, Susan, by