10:33 AM ET Formula One has confirmed Max Verstappen won its Austrian Grand Prix driver of the day vote, saying a technical error resulted in Williams’ Robert Kubica initially being given that award. During the wait for the winner of the race to be confirmed, it was noted that Kubica, who finished three laps down
Month: July 2019
World Endurance Championship GTE Pro title winners Kevin Estre and Michael Christensen will race together in this month’s Spa 24 Hours. The Porsche factory pairing, who sealed the WEC GTE crown at the Le Mans 24 Hours last month, will race one of the German manufacturer’s 911 GT3-Rs for the Dubai-based GPX Racing team in
Honda test rider Stefan Bradl will replace the injured Jorge Lorenzo at MotoGP’s Sachsenring round. Bradl has made three wildcard appearances on Honda’s RC213V bike since the start of his current role with the manufacturer and also raced for satellite outfits LCR and Marc VDS as a stand-in last year. He will now contest his
Red Bull’s victory in the Austrian Grand Prix could be decisive in determining Honda’s Formula 1 future, amid ongoing high-level talks over whether the manufacturer will continue beyond 2020. Max Verstappen’s triumph at the Red Bull Ring ended a Honda victory drought that stretches back to 2006, and is its first win since it returned
8:35 AM ET Romain Grosjean offered a bleak assessment of Haas’ Austrian Grand Prix, saying his lack of grip was so bad that it felt like a wet race. Haas looked strong on Saturday, with Kevin Magnussen qualifying fifth (he started 10th after a penalty) and Grosjean settling for 11th on the grid, but both
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It’s Spain vs Britain in Austria as Carlos and Lando attempt to rate snacks from each other’s home country. Watch as Carlos eats a Jaffa Cake for the first time, and Lando… gets a little distracted by a glass of milk. Subscribe and be the first to watch exclusive content from the Official McLaren YouTube
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
The 2019 SUPER GT season is being broadcast live and for free by Motorsport.tv, and you can watch this weekend’s Buriram race live on Autosport too. Lexus locked out the front row of the grid in Thailand after Team LeMans’s new recruit Kenta Yamashita broke the lap record in a closely-fought qualifying session. Nissan topped
Dutch TT podium finisher Fabio Quartararo did not think he would finish the race, as he woke “from the pain” in his arm the night before the Assen MotoGP event. Quartararo underwent arm-pump surgery on his right arm prior to the Barcelona race to be fit for the physical Assen circuit, but says his arm
Lando Norris says he could take more risks than Formula 1 title challenger Lewis Hamilton when he went around the outside at the first corner of the Austrian Grand Prix. After lining up fifth on the grid, Norris moved up one place at the start after Max Verstappen nearly stalled, and then he muscled his
11:50 AM ET SPIELBERG, Austria — If the French Grand Prix was a showcase of everything that’s wrong with modern F1, the Austrian Grand Prix proved there is still plenty right with the sport. Despite having the same cars, the same drivers and the same rules, all the ingredients were there: wheel-to-wheel racing, a surprise
Toyota World Endurance Championship driver Jose Maria Lopez will make his Spa 24 Hours debut in an Audi later this month. Lopez, who is also racing in Formula E with the Dragon team in 2018/19, will race an Audi R8 LMS for the Land Motorsport squad in the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup double-points round
Maverick Vinales admitted that “a lot of pressure went out” after he crossed the finish line first in MotoGP’s Dutch TT and scored Yamaha’s first win of 2019. Vinales emerged victorious in a three-way fight, which included Marc Marquez and Fabio Quartararo, to win at Assen for his sixth career MotoGP top-class win and his
Max Verstappen suspects “a few doubts are going away” after Red Bull claimed its first Formula 1 win with a Honda engine in the Austrian Grand Prix. Verstappen qualified third-fastest at the Red Bull Ring and started second, but dropped to eighth on the opening lap after his anti-stall kicked in as the race began.
12:29 PM ET Red Bull’s Christian Horner said Max Verstappen’s victory at the Austrian Grand Prix was exactly what Formula One needed after recent criticism, adding that to have had the result changed due to a penalty would have been “incomprehensible”. Verstappen claimed a thrilling win on track, passing Sebastian Vettel, Valtteri Bottas and then
Jenson Button says the “terrible” crash that ended his SUPER GT race in Thailand was a racing incident, with the 2009 Formula 1 champion now 24-points adrift in the championship. Kunimitsu Honda driver Button collided side-on with Daisuke Nakajima heading into Turn 7, pitching his former team-mate’s NSX-GT into a spin and immediately out of
Danilo Petrucci feels his decision not to make a “risky” move on Ducati MotoGP team-mate Andrea Dovizioso in the Dutch TT ultimately cost him a position to Franco Morbidelli. Petrucci and Dovizioso were fighting for fourth during the race alongside Joan Mir, but their battle allowed Morbidelli to close in. Both started the final lap
Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff says it was “painful” to see Valtteri Bottas’s and Lewis Hamilton’s cars handicapped by cooling issues in the Austrian Grand Prix. Both cars ran Mercedes’ most extreme cooling set-up available in Austria, but were still forced to run at restricted power. Bottas and Hamilton, who finished third and
7:27 AM ET SPIELBERG, Austria — F1 race director Michael Masi said it would be unfair to make any comparisons between Max Verstappen’s race-winning move on Charles Leclerc in Austria and the incident that cost Sebastian Vettel victory at the Canadian Grand Prix earlier this month. 2 Related After a lengthy stewards’ investigation, FIA stewards
Audi’s Charles Weerts and Dries Vanthoor made amends for their race one retirement by taking their first Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe win of 2019 in race two at Misano. The pair qualified second on the grid and Vanthoor held that position behind the leading Akka ASP Mercedes AMG GT3 of Raffaele Marciello in the
Suzuki’s Alex Rins is “convinced” he could have fought for MotoGP Dutch TT victory if not for the “strange” crash he had at Turn 9 while leading on the third lap. Rins jumped to the front off the line and led a Suzuki one-two from team-mate Joan Mir, before losing the front under braking for
Hendrick Motorsports driver Alex Bowman beat Chip Ganassi Racing’s Kyle Larson in a late-race duel to clinch his maiden NASCAR Cup Series victory at Chicagoland. In his 134th Cup start, Bowman emerged as a contender for victory during a second stage in which he climbed from the periphery of the top 10 to battle with
Ferrari will not appeal the outcome of the Formula 1 stewards’ investigation into Max Verstappen’s Austrian Grand Prix-winning move, despite believing the “wrong decision” was made. Red Bull driver Verstappen made contact with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc while overtaking him for the lead at Turn 3 on the 69th lap of the 71-lap event, and went
2:29 PM ET Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Nate Saunders Close F1 Associate Editor • Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes • History graduate from Reading University• Joined ESPNF1 in February 2014 SPIELBERG, Austria — It took a few hours to be confirmed as valid, but