As the 2020 Formula 1 season enters its second triple-header, there were talking points galore from the Silverstone paddock ahead of the British Grand Prix. After Sergio Perez was tested positive for COVID-19, Racing Point was racing time to get former charge Nico Hulkenberg into the car for first practice. In the meantime, sweltering conditions
Month: July 2020
2:40 PM ET SILVERSTONE, Great Britain — In theory, the Silverstone circuit should be the perfect circuit for this year’s Mercedes. Fast, flowing corners and long straights play to the emerging strengths of the W11, meaning, on paper at least, Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas should be in a race of their own on Sunday.
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The World Rally Championship’s new managing director says the flexibility of Rally Turkey organisers in changing dates should help allow at least one extra round to join this season’s calendar. Originally due to run from 25-27 September, the Marmaris-based event has been brought forward by a week by the Turkish Automobile Sports Federation (TOSFED), paving
MotoGP has cancelled the remaining flyaway races in Argentina, Thailand and Malaysia for 2020, but is set to add Portugal to the calendar as the 14th race. The original 2020 season was set to be the longest in MotoGP’s history, with 20 rounds beginning in Qatar and ending in Valencia, with stops off in the
Racing Point Formula 1 boss Otmar Szafnauer says that the team has no issue with Sergio Perez’s trip to Mexico between the Hungarian and British grands prix. After testing positive for Covid-19 on Thursday, Perez confirmed that he returned to his home country last week, in part because he wanted to see his mother, who
5:58 AM ET Nico Hulkenberg will make his return to Formula One at the British Grand Prix for former team Racing Point in place of Sergio Perez. Perez was forced to pull out of the race after testing positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. F1 has a strict track and trace procedure in place and the
The FIA has confirmed that Racing Point Formula 1 driver Sergio Perez has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead of this weekend’s British Grand Prix. Perez was not present at Silverstone on Thursday after his latest COVID-19 test result proved inconclusive, meaning he required a re-test. In a statement issued by the FIA on Thursday evening,
1:29 PM ET Lewis Hamilton and Romain Grosjean spoke for 45 minutes after the Hungarian Grand Prix to clear up a misunderstanding over Formula One’s ongoing anti-racism push. Following the race in Budapest, Hamilton said that Grosjean, one of two directors of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association (GPDA), was of the opinion F1 did not
Nico Hulkenberg is in the frame to make a shock Formula 1 return this weekend at Silverstone with Racing Point following Sergio Perez’s positive test for COVID-19. The FIA confirmed on Thursday evening that Perez had tested positive for COVID-19 following multiple tests, ruling him out of the grand prix weekend while he goes into
1:55 PM ET SILVERSTONE, Great Britain — Lewis Hamilton expects to stay in Formula One for at least three more years, revealing he is motivated to remain in the sport by its lack of diversity and his desire to prove he deserves a space on the grid. 2 Related The six-time world champion is out
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KTM’s Brad Binder accepts that he is going to make “a hell of a lot more mistakes” in his rookie MotoGP campaign, after two promising but difficult Jerez races. The South African showed impressive pace across the Spanish and Andalusian Grand Prix weekends, lapping quicker than most of the podium contenders during both races. However,
Romain Grosjean says he had a 45-minute phone call with Lewis Hamilton after the Hungarian Grand Prix to clear the air over a misunderstanding about Formula 1’s anti-racism push. Hamilton was left annoyed at comments made by Grosjean, who suggested that drivers did not need to continue taking the knee at every race following a
10:23 AM ET Sergio Perez is self-isolating away from the Silverstone circuit following an inconclusive COVID-19 test ahead of Sunday’s British Grand Prix. Perez missed his scheduled Thursday press conference appearance due to the test. He is in isolation until he is able to be re-tested. No Formula One driver has tested positive since the
KTM MotoGP rider Pol Espargaro says the Andalusian Grand Prix at Jerez was “the toughest race of my life”, having felt like the heat was “beating me” at one stage. Temperatures for Sunday’s second round of the 2020 campaign touched a miserable 40 degrees Celsius, with the 60 degree track temperature making circuit conditions tricky
Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson has impressed Chip Ganassi team boss Mike Hull and five-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon after completing a test on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s road course. Johnson, whose last open-wheel action was testing a McLaren Formula 1 car in a car swap with Fernando Alonso at Bahrain, was supposed to try
The promoters of the Italian Grand Prix at Monza have confirmed the race will take place behind closed doors with no fans permitted to attend. After being forced to call off the opening 10 races of the season due to the COVID-19 pandemic, F1 managed to get the 2020 campaign underway earlier this month in
4:05 PM ET Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — IndyCar driver Conor Daly will have a new lead engineer for next month’s rescheduled Indianapolis 500: NASCAR Cup-winning crew chief Cole Pearn. Ed Carpenter‘s team made the announcement Wednesday. Pearn was considered one of the top crew chiefs in NASCAR before announcing a surprise resignation in December so
Silverstone’s Stuart Pringle says he would be “very disappointed” if the venue lost MotoGP after 2021, as he believes “one of the best circuits on their calendar just got better”. Silverstone was the first home for grand prix motorcycle racing on the British mainland when the Isle of Man TT lost its world championship status
Conor Daly’s Ed Carpenter Racing Indy 500 entry will be overseen by renowned crew chief Cole Pearn, who took Martin Truex Jr to the 2017 NASCAR Cup title. Pearn became crew chief for Truex in 2015 before going on to take the title two seasons later, while last year they earned seven wins – more
McLaren Formula 1 chief Andreas Seidl is eager for the regulations to be tightened to limit the extent to which teams can copy other cars. The FIA is currently reviewing a protest from Renault over the legality over Racing Point’s RP20 car, which was based on the design of the 2019 title-winning Mercedes W10. Racing
4:43 PM ET Lewis Hamilton has spoken for the first time about his musical collaboration with Christina Aguilera in 2018 and revealed he plans to release his own music in the near future. A look ahead to the first of two races at Silverstone, following a week which saw F1 confirm it will not race
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Petronas SRT boss Razlan Razali says Valentino Rossi’s podium in the MotoGP Andalusian Grand Prix removed “doubts” he had over the Italian for 2021 after his poor Spanish GP weekend. Nine-times grand prix world champion Rossi will join the satellite Yamaha squad with full factory support in 2021, though the deal is yet to be
Ahead of this weekend’s British Grand Prix, Autosport runs down the top 10 most statistically successful British Formula 1 drivers of the past 70 years Ranking the best British drivers in Formula 1 history is no easy task as it’s an argument that can generate hours of debate, but statistically the top 10 can be
9:51 AM ET Three races of F1’s unprecedented 2020 season down and the top of the championship looks pretty familiar, but the standings never tell the whole story of a season as it is happening. A look ahead to the first of two races at Silverstone, following a week which saw F1 confirm it will
Fabio Quartararo’s Andalusian Grand Prix victory was partly made possible by a preparation technique Michelin advised all MotoGP teams to do, but only the Yamaha and Suzuki riders acted upon. Autosport has learned that MotoGP tyre supplier Michelin sent an email to all teams during the second round of the 2020 campaign recommending them to
Red Bull has shuffled its Formula 1 technical team, with the experienced Simon Rennie returning to trackside action from this weekend’s British Grand Prix as Alex Albon’s new race engineer. Rennie is best known for working with Mark Webber in his final 2013 campaign and with Daniel Ricciardo between 2014 and 2018 as the Australian
7:59 PM ET Associated Press Jimmie Johnson finally fulfilled his childhood dream of driving an Indy car with a test session Tuesday. When the seven-time NASCAR champion finished turning laps, he was sold on figuring out how to race next year in the IndyCar Series. “It only lit the fire more. I want to do
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