2:50 PM ET McLaren has confirmed it will use Chevrolet engines to power its Indianapolis 500 entry with Fernando Alonso next year. Fernando Alonso and Jimmie Johnson swapped rides for a day in Bahrain and quickly got the bug for each other’s vehicles. But will either man pursue it any further? Fernando Alonso is leaving
Shot 100% on the new HD HERO3® camera from http://GoPro.com. Watch Ryan Villopoto during Lap 1 of Moto 1 at the eighth round of the 2013 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship.
Ahead of the organization’s 50th anniversary in 2019, the International Motor Sports Association (IMSA) unveiled series schedules and new partnerships for the upcoming year that will set the stage for the future of sports car racing in North America.
The factory M-Sport Bentley squad will mount a four-car attack on next year’s Spa 24 Hours. Bentley has announced the expanded assault on the blue-riband round of the Blancpain GT Series in July as part of a reaffirmed commitment to the Endurance Cup segment of the BGTS and the Intercontinental GT Challenge in 2019. M-Sport
Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez underwent successful surgery on his left shoulder on Tuesday. The works Honda rider revealed back in October he would require surgery on his shoulder at the end of the season, having dislocated it on a number of occasions in 2018 – including after winning the title in Japan. The operation
Kurt Busch has completed his deal to join the Chip Ganassi Racing NASCAR Cup team for the 2019 season. The 2004 Cup champion confirmed on Sunday he would leave Stewart-Haas Racing, for which he has driven since 2014, and had previously been tipped to join Ganassi. He has now announced that move, which will involve
TAG Heuer will remain a partner of the the Red Bull Formula 1 team, despite its switch from Renault to Honda engines ending the need for alternative engine branding. Red Bull had agreed not to use Renault’s name for 2016 after political problems mounted and the British team initially served notice it did not want
10:06 AM ET Associated Press Fernando Alonso will be powered by Chevrolet for his second attempt to win the Indianapolis 500. Alonso is entering the race with McLaren, which had a 70 percent win rate from 1968 to 1970 when partnered with Chevrolet, including 23 consecutive victories. The IndyCar Series currently has only two engine
Toyota has announced its 2019 World Rally Championship signing Kris Meeke will be co-driven by Seb Marshall. Autosport reported in October that Meeke, who was axed by Citroen after May’s Rally Portugal, and co-driver Paul Nagle had split amicably ahead of Meeke’s 2019 WRC return with Toyota. Marshall, who has served as Hyundai driver Hayden
Dani Pedrosa will make his first MotoGP test outing for KTM later this month after obtaining permission from Honda, which still has the Spaniard under contract. As revealed by German publication Speedweek, Pedrosa will get his first taste of the RC16 at Jerez on December 18-19. The original plan was for the 33-year-old, who retired
Two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso’s 2019 McLaren Racing Indianapolis 500 entry will be powered by Chevrolet engines. McLaren announced its intention to return to the Brickyard during this year’s Brazilian Grand Prix weekend in November, but did not announce an engine supplier or the wider make up of its team. It has since hired
Kevin Magnussen says it is “a bit dull” to only be able to fight for best-of-the-rest honours in Formula 1, despite personally enjoying a strong 2018 season. Magnussen scored his career-best championship finish of ninth, with Haas also enjoying its most successful campaign to date to end the year fifth in the constructors’. Though Magnussen
6:14 AM ET Formula One will use artificial intelligence to better explain racing to fans during broadcasts of events in 2019, using some data not available to the teams themselves. F1 has entered into a partnership with Amazon Web Services to provide new graphics using its Sagemaker tool. Broadcasts used several new graphics in the
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,
The Racing Point name is not a permanent new title for the former Force India team and will change before the start of the 2019 Formula 1 season. The provisional entry list for the 2019 F1 World Championship lists the team and chassis name as Racing Point, but that is just a temporary measure as
4:28 PM ET Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A U.S. appeals court has upheld a nearly $1.3 billion award against a pro racecar driver convicted of deceiving consumers with his payday loan business. A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that information Scott Tucker’s companies provided consumers did
Following the F1 season finale, Fernando Alonso car swapped with seven-time NASCAR world champion Jimmie Johnson at the Bahrain International Circuit. Each driver jumped into the cockpit of their counterparts: Jimmie in a McLaren F1, and Fernando in a NASCAR. The two legendary world champions went head-to-head in the desert to get a glimpse of
Watch Ricky Renner on his 125 two-stroke as he attempts to qualify for the 2012 Daytona Supercross by Honda in Daytona, Florida.
Take a lap around Road America with Alessandro Balzan in the No. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 488 GT3. Follow the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race live from Road America on Sunday, August 6, at 2:30 p.m ET on FS1.
MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi has urged Lewis Hamilton to visit his motorbike training ranch in Italy following the five-time Formula 1 champion’s recent Jerez Superbike outing. Hamilton was out on track at Jerez on Saturday with Yamaha World Superbike racers Alex Lowes and Michael van der Mark on a plain-coloured YZR-M1 bike bearing his #44.
Kurt Busch has confirmed that he will not return to Stewart-Haas Racing for the 2019 NASCAR Cup series season, ahead of an expected move to Chip Ganassi Racing. The 2004 Cup champion’s departure from SHR was first reported in August by Autosport. Confirming his SHR exit on Twitter, Busch wrote: “I will miss everyone, especially
Haas Formula 1 boss Gunther Steiner says his team’s inexperience was to blame for its failure to beat Renault to fourth place in the constructors’ championship in 2018. The American team had been locked in a close fight with Renault for the best-of-the-rest spot behind the top three teams in the closing stages of the
10:19 AM ET Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas has admitted that his 2018 Formula One season was the most disappointing of his career. Bottas failed to score a victory all season while teammate Lewis Hamilton won the title with 11 wins from 21 races. Bottas came close to victories this year — not least in Russia
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Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso says this year’s post-season tests at Valencia and Jerez were the best he has experienced since joining the manufacturer. Championship runner-up Dovizioso concluded last week’s two days of Jerez running eighth fastest, 0.347 seconds off the pace set by LCR Honda rider Takaaki Nakagami. But as was the case in
Sergey Sirotkin believes it “looked quite obvious” he would get a second season with Williams in Formula 1 until the very end of 2018. Sirotkin made his grand prix debut with Williams this year but will not continue with the team for 2019 as it has signed Robert Kubica to partner George Russell. Sirotkin’s backer
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,
5:13 AM ET Lewis Hamilton has declared his new love for motorbike racing after completing a test day in Jerez with World Superbike riders Alex Lowes and Michael van der Mark on Sunday. Hamilton posted a series of photos of the test on Instagram as he took to the Spanish track on a Yamaha YZF-R1.
Reigning Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton took part in a Superbike track day at Jerez on Saturday, suffering a small crash in the process. Hamilton was riding a Yamaha YZF-R1, the same bike used in the World Superbike championship by the works-backed Crescent team this year. Italian outlet Gazzetta dello Sport reported the Mercedes F1