Johann Zarco says his “main target right now” is to establish a “base” of top 10 finishes in the early part of his first MotoGP season on the Avintia Ducati. After quitting KTM midway through last year – and then being dropped outright after the Misano round – Zarco was thrown a lifeline by Ducati
Month: February 2020
George Russell has played down suggestions that his Williams Formula 1 team will be able to rejoin the midfield runners in 2020, despite an encouraging performance in Barcelona pre-season testing. Williams scored just one point last season and its drivers rarely escaped elimination in the first segment of qualifying. Although troubled by several engine-related issues
BARCELONA, Spain — It’s always risky to ready too much into preseason testing time, but after crunching the numbers it is possible to rank the grid based on the information we have. It’s not necessarily the order that will line up on the grid in Melbourne (Albert Park is a very different type of track
Mercedes will head to the Formula 1 season-opener in Australia as the favourite after leading pre-season testing – although question marks remain over its engine reliability. Testing rarely shows the complete picture, seen most starkly in 2019 when Ferrari’s impressive performance in Barcelona was followed by an underwhelming start to the season. Yet a look
4:50 AM ET Formula One’s governing body, the FIA, has concluded an investigation into the way Ferrari was operating its power unit and reached a settlement with the team. The FIA offered no further details about the findings of the investigation and said the subsequent agreement with Ferrari would remain private between the team and
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The FIA has reached a private “settlement” with Ferrari over its 2019 Formula 1 engine, after concluding an investigation into the team’s power unit. Ferrari was at the centre of intrigue last year amid suspicions it had found a way of getting around fuel-flow sensor restrictions to provide a power boost. A number of teams
8:10 PM ET Ed Jackson After racing in just one event, Supercars star James Courtney has walked out on his new team. After nine years with Walkinshaw Andretti United, Courtney announced last year he was joining Team Sydney for the 2020 championship. The new team has had a rocky start to life despite having the
Valtteri Bottas completed the final session of Formula 1 pre-season testing at the top of the timesheets, ending the day with a 1m16.196s to beat Daniel Ricciardo’s morning benchmark. Having fitted the C5 tyres midway through the afternoon’s incident-free running, Bottas leapfrogged Ricciardo with a time just 0.05 seconds faster than the Renault driver’s best
12:22 PM ET BARCELONA, Spain – Mercedes recovered from its difficult Thursday to go quickest on the final day of preseason, but a late Max Verstappen lap meant Red Bull finished just 0.073s behind the world champions. Mercedes suffered its worst session of testing on the penultimate day, with an engine issue forcing its car
Ferrari is hoping to conclude contract talks with Sebastian Vettel swiftly to keep the four-time Formula 1 world champion beyond the end of this year. Ferrari is yet to agree a new deal with Vettel, but said at the launch of its 2020 F1 car that he is its first choice to line-up alongside Charles
9:08 AM ET The Zandvoort circuit set to host the Dutch Grand Prix has released images of the banked corners it hopes will become an iconic feature of the new race. Banked corners are commonplace in oval racing but are rarely used on modern F1 circuits. Zandvoort has already revealed its two banked corners will
Sebastian Vettel says Ferrari’s new Formula 1 car is “a bit draggy”, causing it to trail its rivals for straightline speed through pre-season testing. Vettel completed his final extended run in the 2020 Ferrari car on Thursday before the start of the season, racking up 144 laps as he set the fastest time of the
The coronavirus epidemic is giving Formula One teams a logistical headache as they prepare for a new season and the run of long-haul races scheduled to start in Australia on March 15. The Chinese Grand Prix on April 19 has been called off but the first three races involve the teams traveling from Europe to
Marc Marquez says his younger brother and works Honda MotoGP team-mate Alex must “earn” a contract renewal, and that he will not “impose” his preference on the Japanese manufacturer. Reigning Moto2 champion Alex was brought in to replace the retiring Jorge Lorenzo at the factory Honda outfit for 2020, joining his elder brother for his
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing will partner with Citrone/Buhl Autosport to give Spencer Pigot IndyCar lifeline entries in the Indianapolis road race and the Indianapolis 500. The new team, a partnership formed between sometime Indycar driver Robbie Buhl, his brother and business partner Tom, Robert Citrone – the founder of Discovery Capital Management and the largest
Sebastian Vettel remained fastest for Ferrari at the end of the penultimate day of 2020 pre-season Formula 1 testing, while Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton suffered a reliability setback on Thursday afternoon. Vettel’s 1m16.841s on C5s from the morning went unbeaten during the four-hour second session, although AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly put in a lap on the same
11:59 AM ET BARCELONA, Spain – An engine issue curtailed Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes’ running on the penultimate day of Formula One’s preseason tests, while Sebastian Vettel went quickest in the Ferrari. With reigning champion Hamilton at the wheel in the afternoon session, Mercedes was uncharacteristically slow to emerge from the garage as work took
Ferrari team principal Mattia Binotto has dismissed suggestions from Mercedes that it was running its Formula 1 engine at a different level to its customer teams in testing last week. After a low-key first week of running from Ferrari at Barcelona, Mercedes hinted in a press release that it did not believe its rival had
8:56 AM ET Vietnam Grand Prix organisers have insisted the country’s debut Formula One race will go ahead as planned despite the ongoing spread of coronavirus. Hanoi will host Vietnam’s first grand prix on April 5, two weeks before the Chinese Grand Prix was supposed to take place — the Shanghai event has been postponed
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Sergio Perez says Racing Point’s 2020 Formula 1 car is the best he has had in his career. Racing Point has ended each of the four days of pre-season testing so far in the top four with its RP20, which has been inspired by Mercedes’ title-winning 2019 W11 car. The early indications are that Racing
3:36 PM ET BARCELONA, Spain — With just two days of preseason testing left to run, Ferrari is convinced it is lagging behind its rivals. It’s not yet clear by how much, but the message from Maranello is clear: Mercedes is still the team to beat. A quick glance at the lap times from testing
The GPX Racing Porsche squad that won last year’s Spa 24 Hours will mount a full assault on the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup with factory backing. The Dubai entrant will field a pair of Porsche 911 GT3-Rs in the five-round series that incorporates the Spa enduro with a line-up boasting five factory drivers.
Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey has insisted that the Vietnam GP is going ahead as planned – although he acknowledged that the coronavirus situation is “fluid” as more countries are impacted. Since the postponement of the Shanghai race, there has been a focus on the impact of the virus on the inaugural Hanoi event, given
12:23 PM ET BARCELONA, Spain — Robert Kubica does not have a full-time race seat in Formula One in 2020, but the Polish driver topped the fourth day of its preseason tests for Alfa Romeo. Kubica is Alfa Romeo’s reserve driver this year and has been given two stints in the car over preseason. He
A contingency plan has been drawn up should the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup opener at Monza in April be cancelled as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. The plan has been put in place by series organiser the Stephane Ratel Organisation following a concentration of coronavirus cases in Lombardy, the province in which
McLaren CEO Zak Brown has admitted that Fernando Alonso’s return with Arrow McLaren SP for this year’s Indianapolis 500 came about after his negotiations with Andretti Autosport broke down. Two-time Formula 1 world champion Alonso, who made his highly impressive Indy 500 debut with a McLaren-backed Andretti Autosport entry in 2017, failed to qualify for
Ferrari has restricted all non-critical business travel and is limiting access to its factory in response to the developing coronavirus situation in Italy. The Formula 1 team’s Maranello factory is in the region that is affected by Europe’s largest outbreak of the virus, with more than 300 cases and 11 deaths recorded in Italy. While
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