Russell missed most of second practice on Friday afternoon after a transmission problem developed early in the one-hour session. But he was already running the gearbox he had been set use in Sunday’s race at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, after his usual high-mileage ‘practice’ gearbox had developed its own problem during FP1 and had been
1:34 PM ET Formula One announced on Saturday that the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai, which will be absent from the calendar for the third year in a row in 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, had extended its contract until 2025. The race was first held in 2004 and China is seen as an
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At IMSA’s annual “State of the Series” at Road America on Friday, IMSA unveiled the 2020 schedule for the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
“And a partridge in a pear treeeeeee.” Watch Carlos and Lando take on the Huski Chocolate & McLaren Christmas challenge – and yes, it’s as messy as you would expect. Enter Huski Chocolate’s McLaren giftmas giveaway: https://www.instagram.com/p/CIdlaH1BYgn/ Join McLaren Plus, our fan engagement programme which brings McLaren fans closer to the team with the most
The 2019 season will see SRO Motorsports Group unite the sprint-format championships formerly known as the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup, Blancpain GT Series Asia and Pirelli World Challenge GT to form a new global initiative: the Blancpain GT World Challenge. This exciting international endeavour will present GT3 manufacturers, partners and teams with the
Mercedes stunned Red Bull by clinching a 1-2 in qualifying at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez on Saturday as Bottas secured his third pole of the season. Red Bull was expected to hold the upper hand in qualifying, after beating Mercedes by over half a second in final practice, only for Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez
Not since his final Moto3 race in Valencia back in 2017 has Mir actually qualified on the front row for a grand prix – though did start third at last year’s Styrian GP after a penalty for Johann Zarco promoted him from fourth. Enjoying a strong weekend in Portugal so far, Mir carried this into
After the first qualifying segment at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez had been suspended following Lance Stroll’s heavy crash at the Peraltada midway through Q1, the remaining cars began to queue at the end of the pitlane when the near half-hour stoppage was about to end. The queue featured the two Haas cars stopped in the
MEXICO CITY — Throw away the Formula One formbook, it’s not worth anything this year. Just as it looked as though Max Verstappen was clearing a path towards his first world title, Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes hit back in qualifying for the Mexican Grand Prix. You would have struggled to find anyone in the F1
Porsche had lodged a protest after the title-deciding round of the WEC season in Bahrain, where its driver Michael Christensen was pitched into a spin by the chasing Ferrari of Pier Guidi with less than 15 minutes to go in the race. Pier Guidi was initially instructed to hand back the lead to Christensen, but
The Ducati rider claimed his fifth consecutive pole position with another flawless qualifying performance to take top spot by 0.104s from team-mate Jack Miller. For a second straight round it was a tricky qualifying for world champion Fabio Quartararo, who could only manage seventh place on the factory Yamaha after a set-up change failed to
Mercedes stunned Red Bull with a qualifying turnaround to secure a front row lockout, with Bottas sealing his 19th career pole position in F1 ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Red Bull struggled with rear wing issues, with the team having to patch cracks with tape ahead of qualifying, before both Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez
6:56 PM ET Christian Horner said Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez’s hopes of pole position were thwarted by Yuki Tsunoda’s mistake at the end of qualifying. Tsunoda, who drives for Red Bull junior team AlphaTauri, ran wide through the middle sector of the Mexico City circuit and drove slowly along a run-off area which runs
Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Brendon Hartley head the field in the #8 GR010 Hybrid, having been let through by the sister #7 car driven by Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez at the beginning of the second hour. However, second place should still be enough for the #7 crew to defend its
Despite clear skies bathed in bright sunshine, conditions were cold for the third 45-minute session of the Algarve weekend. This meant lap time improvements on the combined order were few and far between for most of FP3. Suzuki’s Joan Mir was the first major improver on the combined order, the 2020 world champion moving up
Red Bull is chasing its first F1 title since 2013, and the driver’s championship is currently led by Max Verstappen, who sits 12 points clear of Mercedes rival Lewis Hamilton at the top of the standings. In the constructors’ race, Mercedes enjoys a 23-point advantage over Red Bull, but saw its lead shrink at the
7:08 PM ET Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has poked fun at Mercedes boss Toto Wolff, saying the Austrian would make a good pantomime villain. Red Bull’s Max Verstappen and Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton are engaged in one of F1’s all-time great title fights this year. Tensions have been high between both drivers and both
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Ahead of the 56th running of the Rolex 24 At Daytona, four-time Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon sat down with Fernando Alonso to discuss with the two-time Formula 1 champion his goals and his mindset ahead of the iconic race.
As McLaren Reserve Driver and Formula 2 championship leader, rising star, Lando Norris faces complex gadgetry every day. Just one of these gadgets is the multi-buttoned Formula 1 steering wheel. Watch as Lando explains what each and every one of those buttons do. Subscribe and be the first to watch exclusive content from the Official
BMW’s Augusto Farfus and Nick Catsburg are the 2020 Intercontinental GT Challenge Powered by Pirelli Drivers’ champions after winning the Kyalami 9 Hour along with Walkenhorst Motorsport co-driver and home favourite Sheldon van der Linde. Audi Sport Team WRT’s Frederic Vervisch, Mirko Bortolotti and Charles Weerts came home second ahead of Matt Campbell, Patrick Pilet
The F1 world championship leader produced a 1m17.301s to top FP2 by an impressive 0.424s from Valtteri Bottas, who had been fastest in the first practice session, with Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton slotting into third place. That meant home hero Sergio Perez had to settle for fourth place in FP2, but did recover from a
The factory Yamaha rider celebrated clinching the 2021 riders’ world title by topping both Friday practice sessions at Portimao – a circuit he won at back in April – edging Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia by 0.132s at the end of FP2. Jack Miller on the sister factory Ducati claimed third place in both Friday practice sessions,
China was the first race to fall foul of the coronavirus pandemic back in 2020, and it failed to make it back on to either last year’s or this year’s schedule. With international travel restrictions still quite tight as the country bids to keep control on the impact of COVID-19, F1 has decided to again
7:25 PM ET Red Bull boss Christian Horner emphasised on Friday that team orders were a part of Formula One and refused to rule out telling Mexican Sergio Perez to give up a home victory this weekend. No Mexican driver has ever won a home grand prix but Perez has a winning car and has
Ratel’s eponymous organisation will work with the Asian arm of the ACO-owned Le Mans Endurance Management organisation to run the ALMS from the end of next year as part of a wide-reaching agreement. The ALMS and the Stephane Ratel Organisation’s GT World Challenge Asia will combine in the same as the GTWC Europe Endurance Sprint
Verstappen currently leads the F1 drivers’ championship by 12 points over Hamilton as he goes in search of Red Bull’s first title since 2013. Verstappen and Mercedes rival Hamilton have collided twice on-track this year, crashing together at Silverstone and at Monza amid one of the most intense title fights F1 has seen in the
Suzuki’s Joan Mir set the early pace in FP2 with a 1m41.495s, with LCR’s Takaaki Nakagami edging ahead of him with a 1m40.985s just over six minutes into the session. Moments later Nakagami’s team-mate Alex Marquez moved to the top of the order with a 1m40.862s, which put him ninth on the combined times which
Truex has won four races this season – second-most among the title contenders – and won the spring race at Phoenix Raceway, the venue of Sunday’s title race. Yet Truex seems to have flown under the radar because three of his victories came early in the season. While he had to fight and claw for