PETROL and diesel cars are set to be banned from sale by 2030 under new Government plans to cut carbon emissions. PM Boris Johnson is expected to confirm the new target as soon as next week in a bid to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in the UK before 2050. 1 […]
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Formula 1 is set to revisit running reversed grid sprint races at select race weekends in the wake of Sunday’s dramatic Italian Grand Prix at Monza. AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly scored a shock victory after Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton received a penalty and the other usual frontrunners hit trouble. Gasly was joined […]
Ferrari is set to use a one-off Formula 1 livery to celebrate its 1,000th race at this weekend’s Tuscan Grand Prix. Ferrari will become the first F1 team to have raced in 1,000 rounds of the world championship on Sunday, and is set to honour the landmark with a retro […]
Juri Vips is set to make his FIA Formula 2 debut with the DAMS team in place of the injured Sean Gelael at Spa-Francorchamps next weekend. Gelael suffered a back injury, sustaining a broken D4 vertebra in an impact with a kerb on the last lap of the F2 feature […]
With the oval track portion of the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires season now in the books, both the Indy Pro 2000 Championship Presented by Cooper Tires and the Cooper Tires USF2000 Championship will return to road course action this week. The triple-header Cooper Tires Indy Grand Prix […]
Le Mans 24 Hours winner Nick Tandy is set to return to the wheel of a prototype at this year’s French enduro together with former LMP1 sparring partner Oliver Jarvis. Tandy, who won the race aboard a Porsche 919 Hybrid in 2015, and 2017 LMP2 class-winner Jarvis have been named […]
Le Mans 24 Hours winner Nick Tandy is set to return to the wheel of a prototype at this year’s French enduro together with former LMP1 sparring partner Oliver Jarvis. Tandy, who won the race aboard a Porsche 919 Hybrid in 2015, and 2017 LMP2 class-winner Jarvis have been named […]
One week after making a sensational, winning debut on the Road to Indy Presented by Cooper Tires, USAC Silver Crown star Kody Swanson will return to action with the Legacy Autosport team on Saturday, August 29, for the Indy Pro 2000 Oval Challenge of St. Louis Presented by Cooper Tires […]
The pole position time for the Sakhir Grand Prix in December is set to smash a Formula 1 record that has stood for 46 years. On Friday afternoon, F1 confirmed its second race to be held in Bahrain will be run on the ‘oval’ layout of the circuit. F1 has […]
In association with The Formula 2 March 722 that Swedish Formula 1 hero Ronnie Peterson raced in 1972 is set for a racing comeback at this weekend’s Oulton Park Gold Cup. The March that F1 ace Peterson raced during the 1972 F2 season, chassis 17, will return to racing in […]
The Indianapolis 500 has been stripped almost to the bone for the 104th running of “The Greatest Spectacle in Racing.” The iconic test of man and machine is too important to new owner Roger Penske to cancel in the year of the coronavirus pandemic. Its importance to the survival of […]
Avintia MotoGP team boss Ruben Xaus says Johann Zarco’s clash with Pol Espargaro at Brno set the precedent for the French rider’s punishment for his Austrian Grand Prix collision. Zarco was involved in a horror high-speed accident with Franco Morbidelli in last weekend’s Austrian GP, when the Avintia rider moved […]
McLaren is set to bring the iconic Gulf Oil brand back to Formula 1 as part of a new sponsorship deal. Images of a McLaren showcar on a photoshoot at a Gulf-branded petrol station began circulating on social media on Thursday. With Lando Norris and CEO Zak Brown taking centre […]
Formula 1 is set to confirm a 17-race 2020 world championship calendar, with the Turkish Grand Prix set for a return pending a new deal being agreed. Jerez had also been under consideration to plug the gap in November that F1 has been trying to fill, but the Spanish track […]
Fabio Quartararo claimed his second MotoGP pole of 2020 at the Andalusian Grand Prix after Maverick Vinales had his last lap cancelled, while Marc Marquez did not set a time. Reigning world champion Marquez completed 18 laps in FP3 and a further 10 in FP4, after Honda confirmed he would […]
Johann Zarco will undergo surgery on Wednesday after a fracture in his wrist was discovered on Monday following his horror MotoGP Austrian Grand Prix shunt. The Avintia Ducati rider was involved in a high-speed collision with Franco Morbidelli on lap nine of Sunday’s Austrian GP, after the Petronas SRT rider […]
Renault’s protests over Racing Point’s Formula 1 brake ducts are set to be heard next week, although the latter’s technical director Andrew Green says there’s no case to answer. The hearing is expected to take place at Silverstone in the gap between the two races, and will be held in […]
AlphaTauri Formula 1 driver Daniil Kvyat is set to receive a five-place grid penalty for Sunday’s British Grand Prix after taking a new gearbox for Saturday morning. The Russian driver ran a Friday gearbox at Silverstone today, so the change relates to a problem that was discovered after the race […]
INDIANAPOLIS — About an hour before he won the Fast Friday Lotto at the Brickyard, Graham Rahal laid out the stakes for scoring a decent Indy 500 starting position at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. © Walt Kuhn/IndyCar “If you have an early qualifying draw, you’re going to make the top nine,” […]
INDIANAPOLIS — About an hour before he won the Fast Friday Lotto at the Brickyard, Graham Rahal laid out the stakes for scoring a decent Indy 500 starting position at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. “If you have an early qualifying draw, you’re going to make the top nine,” Rahal said. “If […]