2:18 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Chip Ganassi has sold his NASCAR team to Justin Marks, owner of Trackhouse Racing, and will pull out of the nation’s top stock car series at the end of this season. Ganassi fields two cars in the Cup Series but will transfer his North Carolina race shop
Month: June 2021
The NASCAR Hall of Fame driver has long held an equity stake in Hendrick Motorsports and, when free of broadcasting duties with Fox Sports after the first half of each NASCAR season since retiring, Gordon would turn his attention to working with HMS. Gordon will formalise his role at Hendrick on 1 January, becoming its
As the relationship between Vinales and Yamaha soured beyond repair in recent months, his worst ever weekend as a MotoGP rider in Germany set into motion events which on Monday led to both parties – upon Vinales’ request – agreeing to part ways at the end of 2021 one year into his two-year contract. In
The eight-part series called Lucky! will be produced by Pandey’s company Jiva Maya after completing extensive filming with Ecclestone at his home in Switzerland through lockdown. Ecclestone, 90, started out as a racing driver before becoming a team owner and ultimately going on to be F1’s ringmaster for over four decades, overseeing its evolution into
As the final leg of an F1 triple-header, the Austrian GP completes a back-to-back Red Bull Ring event created as part of the reshuffled F1 calendar for a second consecutive year due to the COVID-19-enforced changes. Max Verstappen took a commanding victory in the opening race in Austria, leading every lap on his way to
Rosenqvist had to miss the second race in the Detroit Grand Prix weekend as well as the Road America round held the following week, due to a huge wall-moving shunt in the opening round in Motown. Although the Swede, in his third year of IndyCar racing, did not break any bones, he did stay in
The American was drafted in by Petronas SRT for the Dutch Grand Prix to replace the injured Franco Morbidelli, who was ruled out of the Assen weekend after aggravating an existing knee injury in training. Gerloff got his first taste of MotoGP machinery last year in practice for the European GP when he was brought
The 10-round season has been delayed from its usual pre-COVID late-March or early-April start in order to allow teams to get to grips with the new Cosworth-developed hybrid systems, with the Donington opener scheduled for 23-24 April. The calendar, released by BTCC organiser TOCA, follows its traditional format, with no changes to venues. After Donington,
Last week it was announced the Russian Grand Prix would switch in 2023 from Sochi to the Igora Drive venue near St. Petersburg, on a Hermann Tilke-designed circuit. The newly built track is part of the Igora ski resort some 50km north of St Petersburg towards the Finnish border, nestled in between the Gulf of
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Espargaro finished Sunday’s 26-lap Assen race eighth after narrowly missing out on seventh in a battle with Honda’s Marc Marquez. The Aprilia rider showed strong pace throughout practice and was just under five seconds from the final step of the podium, but “a big limitation” with his bike’s engine meant he could do nothing when
It is understood that T3 Motorsport is planning to field an additional car for Lamborghini junior Maximilian Paul alongside its full season entries for Esteban Muth and Esmee Hawkey. This comes amid the backdrop of T3 receiving the delivery of its third GT3-spec Huracan, with the German outfit having switched from Bentley and Audi machinery
F1 announced last week that the Russian Grand Prix would be leaving Sochi following the 2022 race and move to the Igora Drive track on the outskirts of St Petersburg from 2023. Despite the change in location, the race will continue to be run by race promoter Rosgonki, which has the contract to hold the
Some of the drivers involved were sceptical of the size of the Andretti/Meyer Shank team force at the Indianapolis 500, comprising five full-timers – Ryan Hunter-Reay, Alexander Rossi, Colton Herta, James Hinchcliffe and Harvey – along with part-timer Helio Castroneves and Indy 500 one-offs Marco Andretti and Stefan Wilson. Harvey admits that was a cumbersome situation
Marquez had a huge highside during second practice at Assen last Friday and hurt his right ankle after a heavy impact with the ground. The crash was blamed on the Honda’s electronics, with Marquez admitting he was “angry” with how the crash happened and lost confidence in the bike as a result. But Honda reacted
Top Performer – Thierry Neuville Reaching the finish of the Safari Rally was an achievement in its own right, such was the challenge Kenya threw at the crews brave enough to tackle it. In the end only five WRC drivers completed the full distance such was the difficulty of the new shortened but just as
Pierre Gasly has been one of the standout performers of the 2021 F1 season, qualifying in the top six on six occasions and only missing the Q3 shootout once. The pace of the AlphaTauri AT21 has helped the Frenchman hold eighth in the drivers’ championship after the Styrian Grand Prix, partly thanks to a shock
Autosport reported on Sunday morning that Vinales was considering quitting Yamaha at the end of the season and take up a ride with Aprilia for 2022 as the relationship between the Spaniard and his team had hit rock bottom. Vinales was signed by Yamaha in 2017 to replace Ducati-bound Jorge Lorenzo and won three of his first five
The Australian was running eighth in a tight group battling for the final two podium slots when he crashed on lap 15 of 26 at the Strubben hairpin. Miller says he was braking harder at that point in anticipation of Suzuki’s Joan Mir and LCR Honda’s Takaaki Nakagami coming to blows and tucked the front
Mercedes driver Bottas spun his car while exiting the team’s pitbox in second practice at the Red Bull Ring last Friday, having attempted to pull away in second gear to reduce wheelspin. Bottas avoided hitting anything or anyone when spinning, and was assisted by nearby mechanics from McLaren to turn the car around and manage
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The six-time world champion crashed in qualifying on Saturday and was forced to start from 20th on the grid for Sunday’s 26-lap Dutch TT. One of only three riders to go for the soft rear, Marquez had leaped up to 12th after the first lap and would go on to finish seventh, narrowly pipping Aprilia’s
Porsche’s new recruit Wehrlein was the first to cross the line at the Mexican venue after a controlled display from pole position, leading the Audi of 2016-17 champion Lucas di Grassi. But shortly after the chequered flag was waved, both Porsches along with the Nissans of Sebastien Buemi and Oliver Rowland were excluded from the
The first race of Formula 1’s Austria double-header may not have quite hit the heights of last year’s thriller, but it offered up a very different result. It was a weekend that saw Mercedes soundly beaten – perhaps in the most comprehensive fashion since the start of the V6 hybrid era – by Max Verstappen
Mir’s difficulties in qualifying on the Suzuki in 2021 continued at Assen, with the Suzuki rider once again forced to fight his way through from the fourth row of the grid in 10th. With the Suzuki lacking the rear ride height device of its rivals, Mir had to make aggressive moves as he worked his
Any film that needed to cover ground as wide as Adolf Hitler being at his parents’ wedding, punch-ups at fascist rallies, Formula 1 controversies, the dishing out of $100 million fines and a News of the World sex orgy expose, couldn’t really be anything else. Yet Mosley: It’s Complicated, which is released in cinemas next month,
But with Red Bull having been spotted unloading from the back of vans a bunch of new parts at the Red Bull Ring, Mercedes says it has already stopped work on developing its 2021 F1 challenger. While Mercedes is convinced that its approach is best for the long term with a view to next year’s
At one point in the race, Busch was dejected and ready to call it a day but he and his #18 Joe Gibbs Racing persevered, emplyoing a fuel-mileage strategy that ultimately provided him his second win of the 2021 season. “Yeah, stuck in fourth gear. About out of gas. Just saving, just riding, playing the
On Monday morning Yamaha announced that it would be parting ways with Vinales at the end of this season, breaking contract one year earlier than planned following a deterioration in the relationship between both parties. Nine-time grand prix motorcycle world champion Rossi doesn’t have a contract with Yamaha for 2022 and admitted last Thursday that
Mercedes revealed after its defeat in the Styrian Grand Prix that it has turned off development work on its 2021 car so it can throw all its resources on to its 2022 challenger. With Lewis Hamilton having urged his team after the race on Sunday to try to bring some upgrades to the car, the
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