Motor Hours

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorJun 27, 2024, 11:15 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions SPIELBERG, Austria — After months of speculation over his future, Max Verstappen has confirmed he will remain at Red Bull in 2025, ruling out a switch to rivals Mercedes. Verstappen has a

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorJun 27, 2024, 04:34 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Pierre Gasly is extending his contract at Alpine beyond 2025. Kym Illman/Getty Images Alpine has confirmed Pierre Gasly will remain at the team long-term after agreeing an extension to his contract. Gasly will

Austin Lindberg, Senior EditorJun 26, 2024, 02:25 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Pecco Bagnaia is the two-time defending MotoGP world champion, and looking to make it three straight in 2024. MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images Pecco Bagnaia isn’t the type of character to demand your attention, but he deserves it. He certainly deserves a bit more

Jun 26, 2024, 06:08 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Red Bull believe the battle between Max Verstappen and Lando Norris will be tight at the Austrian Grand Prix. Lars Baron/Getty Images Red Bull will be wary of McLaren’s Lando Norris at a home Austrian Grand Prix that Max Verstappen has dominated in the past but this

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorJun 24, 2024, 02:10 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Formula One races are being decided by increasingly small margins this season. The performance between the top few cars has been so close that single factors — such as race starts, safety

Jun 23, 2024, 03:34 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Lewis Hamilton enjoyed a return to the Formula One podium with Mercedes on Sunday but said his best result of the season and the team’s improvement did not make him regret his move to Ferrari next year. The seven-time world champion finished third at Barcelona’s Circuit

Open Extended Reactions Mick Schumacher will do a Formula One test with Alpine next week as the French team continues to mull over its 2025 driver lineup. Schumacher, son of seven-time world champion Michael, raced for Haas in 2021 and 2022 and is now a reserve driver for the Mercedes team. The German driver is

Associated Press Jun 25, 2024, 12:06 AM ET RICHMOND, Va. — NHRA great John Force remained hospitalized in intensive care Monday, one day after a fiery, 300 mph crash in the Virginia Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park. John Force Racing said in a statement Monday night that the 75-year-old Force was still in a Virginia

Jun 23, 2024, 04:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions McLaren had a quick car in Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix, the quickest according to some rivals, but Max Verstappen once again made the difference, Red Bull boss Christian Horner said. Triple Formula One world champion Verstappen took his seventh win in 10 races from second on

Open Extended Reactions Alpine have entered the race to sign Carlos Sainz for 2025, sources have confirmed to ESPN. Ahead of his home Spanish Grand Prix there were reports Sainz and Williams were about to confirm a deal, but that never materialised. Sainz had been weighing up the prospect of driving for Williams or Audi,

Associated Press Jun 23, 2024, 09:01 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTEREY, Calif. — Two-time IndyCar champion Álex Palou reclaimed the lead in the points standings by winning from the pole Sunday at Laguna Seca Raceway. Palou, now a two-time winner on the permanent road course, has finished on the podium in all four of

Associated Press Jun 23, 2024, 07:59 PM ET Open Extended Reactions NORTH DINWIDDIE, Va. — NHRA great John Force was alert before being taken to a medical facility after a fiery crash Sunday in the Virginia Nationals at Virginia Motorsports Park. During the first round of Funny Car eliminations, the engine exploded in the 75-year-old

BARCELONA, Spain — McLaren went from evacuating its hospitality unit to celebrating pole position on Saturday courtesy on Lando Norris, who made it happen with what he described as the best lap of his life. Norris pipped Red Bull’s Max Verstappen to pole by just 0.02 seconds, his first since the 2021 Russian Grand Prix.

Associated Press Jun 22, 2024, 07:05 PM ET Open Extended Reactions MONTEREY, Calif. — Two-time IndyCar champion Álex Palou continued his mastery of Laguna Seca Raceway by winning the pole Saturday in a qualifying session dominated by Honda drivers. It was the second pole of the season for the Chip Ganassi Racing driver who has

Associated Press Jun 22, 2024, 07:11 PM ET Open Extended Reactions LOUDON, N.H. — Christopher Bell used a three-wide, last-lap pass on Saturday to drive away and win the NASCAR Xfinity Series race for the fourth straight time at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The 29-year-old Bell needed three extra laps on the 1.058-mile track but

Open Extended Reactions A fire broke out in a McLaren unit in Barcelona on Saturday morning. Getty BARCELONA, Spain — McLaren’s Formula One hospitality center at the Circuit de Catalunya has been evacuated after a fire broke out on Saturday morning. The fire, which started moments before the final practice session of the week got underway,

Open Extended Reactions Lewis Hamilton has called on British Grand Prix host Silverstone to make sure its rising ticket prices do not get more expensive for the average fan. Having welcomed 480,000 fans across the event in 2023, Silverstone has struggled to sell out this year’s event on July 7. In an interview with Autopsort,

BARCELONA, Spain — Mercedes have called upon police to investigate the source of an anonymous email accusing the F1 team of trying to deliberately sabotage Lewis Hamilton‘s car. The email, sent to the same list of F1 representatives that received a leak of messages purportedly linked to the Christian Horner sexual misconduct investigation earlier this

Alanis King, Racing columnistJun 21, 2024, 09:57 AM ET Open Extended Reactions In his first full season in NASCAR, Shane van Gisbergen has claimed two victories the Xfinity Series. Meg Oliphant/Getty Images Last summer, three-time Australian Supercars champion Shane van Gisbergen shocked the NASCAR world by winning his debut in the top-level Cup Series. It was

Open Extended Reactions Carlos Sainz‘s decision over his future continues to delay the rest of the movement in Formula One’s driver market. Sainz, set to be replaced at Ferrari by Lewis Hamilton next year, is weighing up offers from Williams and Audi, who are taking over the Sauber project in 2026. “Carlos is the cork

Jun 20, 2024, 12:41 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Daniel Ricciardo wants to earn his seat in Formula One with Red Bull-owned RB next season and has said his eighth place in Canada had helped. The Italy-based team have already confirmed Japan’s Yuki Tsunoda for 2025 but have yet to say who will take the

Jun 20, 2024, 07:45 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Mercedes’ recent performance breakthrough left the Formula One team wondering how they had been so “dumb” in not understanding the car’s problems sooner, according to the team’s technical director James Allison. George Russell took pole position in Canada on June 8 and finished third for the

Jun 19, 2024, 12:16 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Canada’s thrilling race livened up the 2024 season, and Formula One heads to Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya for race 10. Spain marks the start of the triple header, and a return to Europe with Austria and the British Grand Prix to follow. Formula One first came to

Associated Press Jun 18, 2024, 03:21 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Arrow McLaren made yet another driver change Tuesday when it signed 19-year-old Nolan Siegel to drive the remainder of the IndyCar season. He will be the third driver to race the No. 6 this year. Siegel will replace F2 champion Théo Pourchaire beginning this

Jun 18, 2024, 02:35 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Brad Pitt is set to star as an F1 driver making a comeback. Lisa O’Connor/Variety via Getty Images Brad Pitt’s as-yet unnamed Formula One movie will be released globally on June 25 next year, with a North American debut two days later, F1 and Apple Original Films

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorJun 17, 2024, 11:26 AM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Writing Formula One‘s rule book is a thankless task. On the one hand, you have the objectives of 10 warring teams, six image-conscious engine manufacturers and tens of millions of fans; and

Jun 16, 2024, 12:02 PM ET Open Extended Reactions Ferrari won the 24 Hours of Le Mans for the second year in a row on Sunday after a battle with Toyota to the finish of the 92nd edition of the endurance race. Almost out of fuel and on a wet track, Denmark’s Nicklas Nielsen took

Laurence Edmondson, F1 EditorJun 14, 2024, 12:51 PM ET Close • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Open Extended Reactions Andrea Kimi Antonelli is the leading candidate for Mercedes’ vacant seat in 2025. Getty The minimum age at which a driver can compete in Formula One has been lowered from 18 to 17,

Associated Press Jun 13, 2024, 09:26 AM ET Open Extended Reactions Fox Sports has acquired the rights to broadcast IndyCar starting in 2025, a move that gives the network two of the biggest races in the world with the Indianapolis 500 and NASCAR’s Daytona 500. Fox Sports already broadcasts the first half of the NASCAR

Marshall Pruett, Racing columnistJun 13, 2024, 09:35 AM ET Open Extended Reactions The Penske Porsche Motorsport entry, fore, is made up of a team split between North Carolina and Germany. James Moy Photography/Getty Images If the FIFA World Cup has a sporting relative in motor racing, it’s the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The annual mid-June