The Avintia MotoGP team has announced it has retained Tito Rabat for the next two seasons, ending speculation that the 2014 Moto2 champion could make a World Superbike switch. Rabat joined the Avintia team last season, but had his season cut short by a horror leg injury sustained in a crash during a wet practice
Month: July 2019
Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says the manufacturer will not intervene to try to keep the German Grand Prix on the calendar for 2020. This year’s race was saved after an informal meeting between F1 bosses Chase Carey and Sean Bratches and Mercedes’ management last season led to an influx of funding and title
6:32 AM ET Mercedes has given details on why one of Lewis Hamilton‘s pit stops took over 50 seconds to complete at the German Grand Prix last weekend. After qualifying first and third, the world champions had a disastrous home race at Hockenheim with Hamilton finishing ninth and Valtteri Bottas crashing out from fourth. The
Craig Breen could get further outings with the Hyundai World Rally Championship team in Turkey and Britain, Autosport understands. The former Citroen driver has been called up by Hyundai for this week’s Rally Finland, which will be his first WRC start since the end of 2018. Sources in the team have admitted Breen’s deal could
Max Verstappen surged into the lead of Autosport readers’ 2019 Formula 1 driver ratings after his German Grand Prix victory. The Red Bull driver is now on an average of 8.47 out of 10 in the ratings, decided by Autosport Plus subscribers’ votes after every grand prix. The 9.0 average Verstappen received from your votes
8:32 AM ET Ahead of each race in 2019, ESPN is ranking every driver on the grid in our Formula One Power Rankings. In compiling these standings, we have taken out the car factor and focused solely on the drivers and how each has been performing. This is not a prediction for how the race
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
Longtime Ferrari man Alessandro Cinelli has been hired as the new head of aerodynamics at the Alfa Romeo Formula 1 team. The 44-year-old replaces Jan Monchaux, who was recently promoted to the role of technical director as Simone Resta is leaving this week to return to Ferrari. Cinelli, pictured below, will start work at Sauber
6:26 AM ET Laurence Edmonson A previously unheard radio message during the German Grand Prix has revealed Lewis Hamilton wanted to retire his car after spinning at Turn 1 late in the race. Hamilton’s car was carrying damage after a collision with the barrier on lap 29 — the same incident that cost him the
The R-Motorsport Aston Martin team will contest November’s Kyalami round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge ahead of a potential full-series entry in 2020. The Swiss DTM entrant has revealed that it will field two Aston Martin Vantage GT3s in the IGTC finale in South Africa on November 23 after the climax of its twin programmes
Hyundai Motorsport director Andrea Adamo says his World Rally Championship team has done all it can to try to improve its Rally Finland form for this week’s event. WRC manufacturers’ championship leader Hyundai arrives at the Jyvaskyla-based event with significant upgrades to its i20 Coupe WRC. The team would not be drawn on the specifics
The form of privateer MotoGP rookie Fabio Quartararo has acted as “stimulation” for team-mates Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales, believes factory Yamaha team boss Lin Jarvis. Quartararo, 20, has scored three pole positions and two podium finishes at Barcelona and Assen respectively in his first nine MotoGP races with the Petroinas SRT Yamaha team. Why
Scott Dixon says that the Mid-Ohio IndyCar race proves that the championship has “the best racing in the world” after he beat team-mate Felix Rosenqvist. Dixon ran one less pitstop than Rosenqvist and managed to hold off his late-charging Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate, despite the pair touching wheels while fighting for the win. “You know,
NASCAR has unveiled the first details of its maiden double-header weekend at Pocono and suggested that the two races will be a distance of 350 miles each. Pocono is hosting a double-header across June 27-28 instead of the usual two separate races on different summer weekends. The track has recently undergone a $178m (£146m) renovation
The German Grand Prix marked a first for Formula 1 last weekend, as the race had a standing restart following those early safety car formation laps. It is over a year since the rules were changed to allow the option for a standing restart when conditions meant a GP began with safety car laps or
6:50 AM ET The Mercedes F1 team has appointed a new non-executive chairman, a position previously held by Niki Lauda who died in May, and a new non-executive director to replace Ola Kallenius, who became chairman of parent company Daimler earlier this year. Markus Schafer, head of Damiler’s Group Research and Mercedes-Benz Cars Development, has
Ryan Hunter-Reay says he was “baffled” by IndyCar points’ leader Josef Newgarden’s late attempt to steal a podium at Mid-Ohio. Hunter-Reay ended an 11-race streak without a podium to seal third behind the duelling Chip Ganassi Racing-run cars of Scott Dixon and Felix Rosenqvist, but a last lap clash threatened to ruin his race. At
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Erik Jones says he will “sleep a lot easier” after his second place at Pocono boosted his chances of qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Jones is yet to score a victory that would guarantee a place in the playoff, with just six regular-season races remaining in 2019. The 16 drivers
The Red Bull Formula 1 team thinks Max Verstappen and Pierre Gasly’s poor German Grand Prix starts were caused by a software mapping issue it needs to sort with Honda. Verstappen and Gasly both dropped down the order during the wet standing start at Hockenheim after suffering excessive wheelspin when they tried to get going.
8:23 AM ET A thrilling German Grand Prix saw Red Bull take their second win of the season, Ferrari finish second with the fastest car and Toro Rosso make a surprise trip to the podium. From Mercedes’ fancy dress to Max Verstappen’s victory, ESPN’s F1 writers Kate Walker and Maurice Hamilton join editors Laurence Edmondson
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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
Red Bull has silenced talk that Pierre Gasly’s future at the team is again in doubt and insisted he will see out the 2019 Formula 1 season. Another difficult weekend for Gasly at the German Grand Prix, which included a crash in practice and a race-ending clash with Alex Albon, has fuelled further speculation about
9:43 AM ET HOCKENHEIM, Germany — Sebastian Vettel is confident his thrilling drive from last to second position at the German Grand Prix can help trigger a turnaround in Ferrari‘s season. Ferrari had looked set for another bitter disappointment on Saturday when Vettel’s engine hit trouble ahead of qualifying, before teammate Charles Leclerc was ruled
Hayden Paddon says he was powerless to stop the testing crash that ruined his planned World Rally Championship return in Finland this week. The New Zealander hit a rock and went off the road in an M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC on Monday. This video shows the moment of impact with the rock – which tore
Felix Rosenqvist says racing his IndyCar team-mate Scott Dixon is like “playing with fire” and he would have been more aggressive against a non-Chip Ganassi Racing-run car at Mid-Ohio. The Chip Ganassi team-mates fought for victory as Rosenqvist closed in rapidly during the closing stages as he had better tyre life than Dixon. Most drivers
Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson will get a new crew chief starting at this weekend’s Cup series race at Watkins Glen. After Johnson, who is without a win in 2019, finished 15th on Sunday’s Pocono race his Hendrick Motorsports team decided to make a change, with Cliff Daniels becoming his crew chief. Daniels was
Formula 1 motorsport director Ross Brawn says the last three races have been the best possible response to “surprisingly vitriolic” criticism that followed a dull race in France last month. Brawn says the run of exciting races in Austria, Britain and Germany provided a reminder that F1 is still “the greatest motorsport series in the
11:27 AM ET HOCKENHEIM, Germany — The German Grand Prix was one of the most exciting Formula One races in recent memory, not least because five drivers had a genuine shot at victory. Below, we look at the fine margins that made the difference and how Max Verstappen ultimately came out on top. Lewis Hamilton
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