Controversial rider Romano Fenati will join Max Biaggi’s squad for his eighth season in Moto3 and his second since his ban from competing was lifted at the end of 2018. Fenati was ousted from the world championship last year when he grabbed the brake lever of Forward Racing’s Stefano Manzi in a controversial incident during
Month: September 2019
Ferrari became embroiled in a team orders controversy in Formula 1’s Russian Grand Prix after Sebastian Vettel failed to let Charles Leclerc past when asked by his team. Vettel gained the lead at the start with the benefit of a tow from team-mate Leclerc but did not hand the position back during a series of
6:31 AM ET Victory at the Russian Grand Prix moved Lewis Hamilton even closer to a sixth title, one which would place him outright second on the all-time list behind Michael Schumacher. The British driver is 73 points clear of Mercedes teammate Valtteri Bottas with 130 to play for in the final five races. Each
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Craig Breen’s chances of driving a Hyundai World Rally Championship car on the season-closing Rally Australia rest on a good performance from his rival team-mate Dani Sordo on Rally Spain. Sordo, who misses this week’s Wales Rally GB, sits 10th in the driver’s standings – but he is only 22 points off fourth place. A
Andrea Dovizioso admits his current MotoGP championship situation would not be different had he not crashed at Silverstone and Catalunya, as Ducati hasn’t been “close” to Marc Marquez this year. Despite a strong recovery ride to second, Dovizioso could offer no challenge to a dominant Marquez in last weekend’s Aragon Grand Prix, as the Spaniard
Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr has hit out at NASCAR Cup Series rival Alex Bowman after throwing water over the Hendrick Motorsports driver following clashes in the Charlotte Roval race. The pair clashed twice in the race that set the Round of 12, including a first-lap coming together in which Bowman braked too late and hit
Mercedes Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton says he was trying to “do qualifying laps every lap” to keep pace with Ferrari in the first phase of the Russian Grand Prix. The championship leader trailed Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc during the opening stint at Sochi as Ferrari cemented its qualifying advantage and Mercedes committed to
8:39 AM ET Sebastian Vettel made his feelings about modern-day Formula One clear after his car ground to a halt midway through the Russian Grand Prix. The four-time world champion, whose Ferrari had suffered a failure of the complex MGU-K system, opened his radio channel to say simply: “Bring back the f—ing V12s!” It was
Lewis Hamilton may have won the Russian Grand Prix, but that was overshadowed by controversy at the Ferrari Formula 1 team as its winning run ultimately came to an end. Sebastian Vettel spent the early part of the race leading his polesitting team-mate Charles Leclerc after defying a team order and, though the places were
7:47 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Ill. — Shawn Langdon beat Kalitta Motorsports teammate J.R. Todd in the Funny Car final Sunday at the AAA Insurance NHRA Midwest Nationals at World Wide Technology Raceway. Langdon, a former Top Fuel season champion, is the second driver in NHRA history to win in both nitro classes at
FFF Racing Lamborghini’s Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli took an unlikely sweep of Blancpain GT Series titles by winning a tense Barcelona season finale, pipping SMP Racing by one point. Caldarelli and Mapelli – joined in the #563 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 by Albert Costa, with regular co-driver Dennis Lind out with illness – took their
Chase Elliott crashed and then won an action-packed NASCAR Cup race at the Charlotte Roval as playoff positions for the round of 12 were decided. The Hendrick Motorsports driver led home team-mate Alex Bowman, who secured his place in the next round of the post-season with the result. It was very nearly a different story
Ferrari Formula 1 team boss Mattia Binotto insists that the Russian Grand Prix was running to plan before Sebastian Vettel’s MGU-K failure prompted the appearance of the virtual safety car. At the start, Ferrari’s tactic had been to allow Vettel to get a tow into the first corner from polesitter Charles Leclerc, while ensuring front-row
6:53 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — Chase Elliott overcame a costly mistake that nearly wrecked his race car to win a sloppy race on The Roval in scorching temperatures at Charlotte Motor Speedway. The Sunday showcase was the first elimination race in NASCAR’s playoffs and attention was focused on which four drivers would
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Charles Leclerc says he retains full faith in his Formula 1 team-mate Sebastian Vettel and stresses they “need to trust each other” following the controversy at Russian Grand Prix. Vettel, who qualified third behind polesitter Leclerc, had the benefit of the tow at the start and got past him with little resistance at Turn 2,
9:30 AM ET Sebastian Vettel’s Russian Grand Prix ended with a power failure mid-way through the race, but up until that point it had featured a series of defiant messages to Ferrari and an apparent refusal to follow team orders. Vettel had made a brilliant getaway in Sochi, jumping Lewis Hamilton and then using the
Lewis Hamilton says recent Formula 1 qualifying laps have felt worthy of pole position but his front-row start for the Russian Grand Prix is still “quite an achievement”. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc has taken all four poles since F1 returned from its summer break and Hamilton has been resigned to starting second in the last three
12:10 PM ET Charles Leclerc is on quite a run at the moment. The Monaco native looks unbeatable on Saturdays and claimed another pole position ahead of the Russian Grand Prix. Our round-up of all things good and bad in qualifying must start with the grid’s in-form driver. The new Baby Schumi? Early in Sebastian
Mercedes is adamant its revived McLaren engine supply is not the “start of a works deal” and does not mean its own all-conquering squad will leave Formula 1. McLaren’s current deal with Renault will expire at the end of 2020, after which the British team will return to its former partner Mercedes following seven seasons
6:29 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — AJ Allmendinger raced to his first NASCAR victory in five years Saturday in the Xfinity Series playoff race on The Roval at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Allmendinger has transitioned this season from full-time racing to the broadcast booth, but he agreed to drive a handful of Xfinity Series
Sebastian Vettel feels there is no pattern to his qualifying deficit to Charles Leclerc, after his Ferrari Formula 1 team-mate took his fourth pole in a row in Russia. Vettel trailed Leclerc by 0.425 seconds in the final part of qualifying at Sochi, and was bumped off the front row when Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton
4:18 AM ET American racing driver Juan Manuel Correa, who was injured in the F2 crash which killed Anthoine Hubert, has opted for reconstructive surgery on his right leg rather than amputation. Correa has been in hospital since the crash at Spa-Francorchamps on Aug. 30, where he collided head on with Hubert’s car after he
Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Daniil Kvyat says the rule that is preventing him from using a special helmet livery design at the Russian Grand Prix is “a joke”. Kvyat was told by the FIA that he cannot use a new white, red and blue helmet – in deference to the Russian flag – for
8:27 PM ET Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden turned exhibition laps Friday at Charlotte Motor Speedway in the first appearance of an open-wheel car at the track since three spectators were killed 20 years ago. Newgarden, who won his second title in three years last weekend, drove the Indy car that
Double champion Josef Newgarden will demo his Penske IndyCar at Charlotte this weekend, and the track and championship have held “high-level” talks about an IndyCar Roval round in the future. This weekend NASCAR will hold its second successive event at the Roval after the road-course style lay-out was used for the first time in 2018.
Ferrari believes its encouraging Russian Grand Prix practice pace has validated the performance of its latest Formula 1 aerodynamic package, and will not introduce any more major updates this season. The Italian team claimed a shock pole position and victory in Singapore last weekend having struggled at high-downforce tracks all season. After that result Ferrari
12:00 PM ET The Formula One paddock is a busy place that hosts a lot of serious business over a race weekend, so we try to bring you some of the news stories you might otherwise miss ahead of the Russian Grand Prix. Revolution! Local hero Daniil Kvyat wanted to wear a helmet featuring a
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