Fabio Quartararo is set to replace Valentino Rossi at the factory Yamaha MotoGP team in 2021, Autosport has learned. Quartararo, who was the standout MotoGP rookie in 2019, will partner Maverick Vinales, who recently agreed an extended deal to remain at Yamaha until 2022. An announcement regarding Quartararo’s graduation from the satellite Petronas SRT Yamaha
Month: January 2020
Fernando Alonso feels certain “lies” have been spread about his Formula 1 career, including his 2012 title defeat, where images of him post-race in Brazil painted him as “in shock”. In that race at Interlagos, Alonso lost the world title to Sebastian Vettel in a final-race decider that was turned on its head on the
10:41 AM ET Six times Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton says he is yet to start talks with Mercedes to extend his contract beyond this year, despite media reports they had stalled already over wage demands. The 35-year-old Briton denied the speculation in a post, subsequently deleted, on Instagram. “FYI (Team principal) Toto (Wolff)
Shane van Gisbergen and Anton De Pasquale put Triple Eight first and second as Friday practice came to a close at the Bathurst 12 Hour. The two Supercars regulars staged a late shootout in the final hour-long session of the day, trading fastest times in the closing minutes. It was van Gisbergen in the all-Pro
Aprilia Racing CEO Massimo Rivola has admitted that a long doping ban for Andrea Iannone would likely spell the end of the manufacturer’s relationship with the Italian MotoGP rider. Iannone, 30, was provisionally suspended by motorcycling’s governing body the FIM after a urine sample taken during the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend tested positive for an
The Williams team will unveil its latest Formula 1 car, the FW43, in a “digital-only launch” in the lead-up to the start of pre-season testing. The Grove-based team will release images of the FW43 at 8am GMT on February 17, two days before testing kicks off in Barcelona. Williams will thus share the date with
5:28 AM ET Canadian billionaire Lawrence Stroll has agreed to buy up to 20% of Aston Martin and rename his Racing Point Formula One team after the 107-year-old company. A decline in sales of Aston Martin’s luxury sports cars since it floated on the London Stock Exchange in October 2018 has put the company’s shares
Encouraged by the success of the Blancpain Endurance Series, world-renowned Swiss watch manufacture Blancpain and the SRO Motorsports Group decide at the end of 2013 to extend their partnership to the Sprint series, previously promoted as the FIA GT Series, offering teams and drivers the opportunity to compete for an overall Blancpain GT Series title,
Reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez has ridden a motorcycle for the first time since surgery on a right-shoulder injury to evaluate his fitness ahead of next month’s Sepang test. Marquez partially dislocated the shoulder in a heavy crash during qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix, before aggravating it further in a tumble during testing
Former IndyCar and NASCAR racer John Andretti has died at the age of 56 after a long battle with colon cancer. Andretti revealed three years ago that he was battling stage four colon cancer, and while a strong course of chemotherapy that year led to him being given the all-clear, it returned in Spring 2018.
Racing Point Formula 1 owner Lawrence Stroll is one of two bidders for a 20% stake in troubled sportscar brand Aston Martin, according to a report in the Financial Times. Stroll, who led a consortium that bought the beleaguered Force India team – which has since become Racing Point – in 2018, could be announced
3:48 PM ET John Andretti, who raced on the NASCAR, IndyCar and open-wheel circuits, has died after a long battle with cancer at the age of 56, it was announced Thursday. “With the heaviest of hearts we share that John Andretti has today lost his battle with cancer,” said a post by Andretti Autosport, which
Yamaha has dominated the MotoGP headlines this week, after it announced a new-look team for 2021 and the return of a familiar face as test rider this year. Maverick Vinales was the first major signing of the ‘silly season’ on Tuesday, as he extended his Yamaha stay by a further two years, while standout 2019
One-time IndyCar champion and 2013 Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan will contest a five-round programme with AJ Foyt Racing in 2020, which will be his last season in the series. Kanaan will drive Foyt’s #14 car at all five oval events, four of which he has won previously. A press release announcing the 2004 champion’s
The FIA says it will take “any action” to protect the motorsport community as questions grow about whether China’s coronavirus outbreak will force the Chinese Grand Prix to be cancelled. There have been 170 recorded deaths and 7700 cases of the infection confirmed since the outbreak, which has prompted a number of cities to go
11:07 AM ET Associated Press Tony Kanaan will close his wildly popular IndyCar career this season on a farewell tour of oval tracks and the Indianapolis 500. The “TK Farewell Tour” was announced Thursday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where Kanaan is one of the most revered drivers in speedway history. Fans adore the wide-smiled Brazilian,
Retired three-time MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo will return to Yamaha in 2020 after agreeing a deal to become its official test rider. Lorenzo won all three of his MotoGP titles with Yamaha, with which he made his debut in 2008 and remained for nine years until 2016, before departing for Ducati and then an
Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes have dismissed rumours over their relationship and the manufacturer’s future in Formula 1. A number of reports since the start of the year have suggested Mercedes’ driver line-up and future may not be secure. Stories in recent days have claimed that talks between Hamilton and Mercedes over a new contract had
4:48 AM ET Reuters and ESPN World champions Mercedes are not preparing to pull out of Formula One, Daimler Chief Executive Ola Kaellenius said on Wednesday. 1 Related Autocar and the racefans.net website reported Wednesday that the subject of whether Mercedes should leave the sport as a constructor would be discussed at the next board
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Valentino Rossi will make a decision about his MotoGP future during the 2020 season, after Yamaha announced he would be replaced at the works team by Fabio Quartararo for 2021. Autosport reported earlier on Wednesday that Quartararo was poised to step up to the main Yamaha squad after a standout rookie season at the satellite
Formula 1 has revealed the full weekend schedule for the 2020 Japanese Grand Prix, which will start an hour earlier than last year’s race. Details of the Suzuka race weekend’s timetable had not been confirmed when an otherwise full-season schedule was issued earlier this month. The race start time has been moved from 2.10pm to
The FIA will begin a global search for the next generation of World Rally champions later this year, when Rally Star is launched in the summer. In an attempt to make Rally Star as accessible as possible, drivers under the age of 24 or 25 (still to be defined) will be able to enter via
Valentino Rossi says his decision not to commit to extending his MotoGP career with Yamaha until later in the season was because he ‘needed answers’ on his own form. The nine-time grand prix motorcycle world champion has been phased out of the works Yamaha squad for 2021 by Fabio Quartararo, who was announced as Maverick
Pierre Gasly has what it takes to win a place back at Red Bull and become “great” again in Formula 1, according to the team’s motorsport advisor Helmut Marko. Gasly started the 2019 season at the senior Red Bull team, but was demoted to Toro Rosso after a disappointing first half of the campaign alongside
6:25 AM ET Fernando Alonso is targeting a return to Formula One next year and is confident he will win the championship given the right car. Alonso left the series at the end of 2018 after four seasons with McLaren failed to yield results. Since then, he has won the Le Mans 24 Hours twice,
Thierry Neuville has taken victory ahead of Toyota’s Sebastien Ogier in a thrilling end to the 2020 World Rally Championship season-opening Monte Carlo Rally. Neuville was in imperious form on Sunday, winning both stages in the first loop, and he maintained that as he won the 18.41km La Bollene Vesubie – Peira Cava test, 1.4
Fernando Alonso feels Lewis Hamilton has “weak points” in Formula 1 “that have not been stressed yet”, as the double world champion eyes a grand prix racing return in 2021. In an exclusive interview with F1 Racing magazine, Alonso – Hamilton’s team-mate at McLaren in 2007 – was asked to assess his former rival’s recent
Hyundai has added five World Rally Championship competitors to its Customer Racing Junior Driver squad for 2020. Ole Christian Veiby and Nikolay Gryazin are contesting the WRC 2 championship this season with manufacturer backing from Hyundai, and both of those drivers have been added to the junior programme. Veiby retired from last weekend’s Monte, while
Johann Zarco says Jorge Lorenzo’s ability to win on the Ducati is a ‘positive example’ for him ahead of his first MotoGP season on a Desmosedici in Avintia colours in 2020. Double Moto2 world champion Zarco signed a deal directly with Ducati to join the customer Avintia squad aboard a GP19 late last year, despite
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