It’s a big year for TAG Heuer – the storied Swiss watchmaker has turned 160 – so it’s no surprise that it has put the Carrera centre stage. While its portfolio includes a number of spot-it-across-the-room pieces, the Monaco in particular, the Carrera stands apart. In a sense, its heritage […]
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Lewis Hamilton is officially joining the club of successful Formula 1 racers turned team owners. However, unlike Bruce McLaren, Alain Prost, Jackie Stewart and other famous names that came before him; Hamilton’s chosen to put his millions not in F1, but in the newly-founded Extreme E. The electric off-road racing […]
Ferrari has withdrawn its appeal against Racing Point’s Formula 1 brake duct copying case verdict, becoming the final team to drop its opposition to the penalty levied by the FIA. Having originally submitted a notification to appeal the decision made against Racing Point’s brake ducts, Ferrari’s withdrawal from the appeals […]
Racing Point claimed it received a set of 2019 Mercedes rear brake ducts as spares for its RP20 car for pre-season testing. How is it possible for the 2019 Mercedes brake ducts to be used on the RP20 car if the brake ducts Racing Point claimed to have designed itself […]
Ferrari has indicated that it will withdraw its appeal against the Racing Point copying case decision if the FIA produces definitive Formula 1 regulations against car copying for 2021. Last month Racing Point was handed a 15-point penalty and a €200,000 fine for using a brake duct design copied from […]
Sergio Perez says Racing Point must grab podiums when Red Bull slips up if it is to earn third place in the Formula 1 constructors’ championship. Racing Point currently sits in fourth place, two points behind McLaren and five clear of Ferrari following its 15-point deduction in the constructors’ standings, […]
MADISON, Ill. — Josef Newgarden raced to his second IndyCar victory of the season Sunday, holding off rookie Pato O’Ward before the event at World Wide Technology Raceway finished under caution — one week after Takuma Sato won the Indianapolis 500 in the same fashion. In the second of two […]
Renault is calling for Racing Point to lose all points scored in races where its brake ducts were protested as the Formula 1 controversy prepares to go to court. Racing Point was docked 15 constructors’ championship points and fined €400,000 after it was deemed to have breached the sporting regulations […]
First it was Jamie Caroline. Then it was Zane Maloney. And now Luke Browning can add his name to the very short list of British Formula 4 drivers to have won all three races in a weekend. Considering the partially reversed-grid middle race makes perfection so hard to achieve, it […]
The upcoming clampdown from the FIA on car copying in Formula 1 will have “zero impact” on Racing Point’s business model, according to Otmar Szafnauer. The FIA has confirmed will be tweaking the regulations from 2021 to clamp down on car copying, preventing teams from reverse engineering other designs through […]
The actions Mercedes took in supplying brake duct parts and designs to Racing Point looks increasingly likely to come under the spotlight when the matter goes to an FIA appeal. With five teams having appealed the ruling that meant Racing Point lost 15 constructors’ championship points and received a €400,000 […]
Denny Hamlin led a 1-2-3 finish for Joe Gibbs Racing in the first race of the Dover NASCAR Cup Series double-header. Hamlin had little competition as he took the first two stage victories, but fell back to fourth for the start of the final stage. Team-mate Martin Truex Jnr picked […]
“Our car is one of their cars, basically, so we can go to the track and be competitive week in, week out,” says Harvey. “Everybody shares data, so there’s lots of information to draw on and look at. Sometimes it’s so hard, because there’s just so much information to look […]
The two categories may seem poles apart but, for Mercedes AMG HPP engineer and Caterham 310R racer James Wingfield, the same approach can be applied to both, as STEPHEN LICKORISH discovers On the surface, Formula 1 and Caterham racing don’t have too much in common. But for one Caterham 310R […]
CLOSE Join motor sports insider Nathan Brown as he recaps the final day of qualifying for the Indianapolis 500. Indianapolis Star In so many ways, Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 will sound different. No roar of the crowd that the 33 drivers can hear while going more than 100 mph during their […]
Sergio Perez and Lance Stroll feel the protests lodged by Racing Point’s Formula 1 rivals take credit away from the team’s “incredible job” in producing its 2020 car. Racing Point was hit with a 15-point constructors’ championship penalty and a €400,000 fine after it was deemed to have copied the […]
Two new winners claimed GT3 spoils on a gloomy day at Donington Park, as British GT introduced a new format of a two-hour race followed by a one-hour sprint. Michael Igoe and new co-driver Andrea Caldarelli took the 37.5 points on offer in the first race in WPI Motorsport’s Lamborghini, […]
Vauxhall team Power Maxed Racing is to return to the British Touring Car Championship for this weekend’s Oulton Park round with racer-engineer Mike Bushell. PMR, the official Vauxhall squad in the BTCC, decided last month to take a sabbatical from the coronavirus-delayed 2020 season for commercial reasons, although the team’s […]
“Mahindra Racing stands for with his (Sims’) personal principles in the areas of electrification and sustainability. I’m enthused about what Season 7 will bring,” Mahindra Racing Team Principal Dilbagh Gill. Alexander Sims with Mahindra Racing CEO & Team Principal Dilbagh Gill Mahindra Racing today announced getting on board Formula E […]
An all-new environmentally friendly hydrogen-powered racing series has been unveiled ahead of a projected launch in 2023, featuring “zero-emission” cars and a “revolutionary braking system”. The HYRAZE League will use “environmentally-produced” hydrogen as fuel for its 800bhp fleet of cars, using two hydrogen fuel cells to power four electric motors. […]