On track, the IndyCar Series offers the most competitive open-wheel racing on the planet, including one of its greatest races in the Indy 500. Off track, it’s an absolute basket case and its appetite for self-harm has reached a new level.The storm that blew up around Team Penske last week is just the latest in a string of dysfunctional mishaps to roll your eyes at. While exploiting grey areas in ...Keep reading
In January, grand prix racing’s commercial rights holder, Formula One Management, rejected the America squad’s bid to join the F1 grid next season, despite the championship’s regulator, the FIA, approving its technical capabilities last October.A statement from FOM read: “Our assessment process has established that the presence of an 11th team would not, on its own, provide value to the ...Keep reading
Senna's life has been extensively celebrated this week on the 30th anniversary of the three-time world champion's fatal accident at the San Marino Grand Prix on 1 May 1994.The Imola circuit is next up on the F1 calendar after the Miami Grand Prix and will inevitably be the scene of more tributes to the late Brazilian.Four-time world champion Vettel, who owns Senna's 1993 McLaren MP4/8, has ...Keep reading
The unique situation of over half the grid being out of contract for 2025, including some of F1's leading drivers, has led to one of the most highly anticipated silly seasons in history.The sheer number of seats up for grabs ahead of a crunch regulations change in 2026 was always going to lead to an early start to the merry-go-round, but Lewis Hamilton's shock decision to leave Mercedes for ...Keep reading
"I'm not going to celebrate like some people that it's 20 years on," says Alain Prost of the anniversary of Ayrton Senna's death at Imola on May 1 1994. "I can answer these questions about him, no problem - he was an exceptional guy - but I just don't see it the same way as the other guys do."To understand why, you have to appreciate the background of their shared history: Prost and Senna fought ...Keep reading
Last weekend Bagnaia produced one of his best MotoGP race wins to date as he held off Marquez late on in a spectacular battle to take Spanish Grand Prix victory.While Bagnaia has charged to back-to-back MotoGP world titles in 2022 and 2023, having stepped up to the factory Ducati squad in 2021, Marquez had suffered from a series of career-threatening injuries, the decline of Honda’s ...Keep reading
With May also being Military Appreciation Month, ABC Supply and AJ Foyt Racing have come together for a goal to raise $4 million to support Homes For Our Troops (HFOT). ABC Supply will match the first $1 million in donations made to Homes For Our Troops through May 31. Donations can be made at hfotusa.org/donate.“We are grateful and honored that ABC Supply has chosen to spotlight Homes For Our ...Keep reading
Ferrari revealed last week that its Miami livery would feature two tints of blue to commemorate the 70th anniversary of its entry into the American market.In a limited tweak to its traditional red livery, the so-called Azzurro La Plata and Azzurro Dino hues have been applied on the wings, engine cover, halo, rear-views mirrors, as well as on the wheel rims of the SF-24 driven by Charles Leclerc ...Keep reading
During the three decades since the sickening image of the blue-and-white Williams striking the Tamburello wall was broadcast to a global audience of millions, Ayrton Senna has been transformed.On May 1 1994 he was already a racing superstar, regarded justifiably by many as the greatest of his generation, but since then the name Senna has grown into so much more. It's a global brand, a name on ...Keep reading
The narrow barriers around the city-centre circuit, coupled with extreme climate that pushes the drivers to the limit of exhaustion, make it one of the toughest races of all and there has been plenty of action under lights over the years. As F1 prepares to return for this year’s race, here is a rundown of the biggest moments of the last 14 years and where they happened. Start line: Hulkenberg ...Keep reading
After days of mounting reports, Red Bull finally confirmed on May 1st that Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey, their legendary chief designer and technical guru, will leave the team in the first quarter of 2025, after 19 years with the team. Adrian will be taking a step back from his role within the F1 team until then to develop their RB17 Hypercar instead. Joining Bryn Lucas is Autosport’s Editor Haydn Cobb, to discuss the timelines that led to Newey’s announced departure as well as his exit plan with the team... Читать дальше...
You’re visiting Miami for Formula 1's Miami Grand Prix—congratulations! You probably know by now that, unlike in Vegas, the race doesn’t take place in the center of the city proper. The track weaving through Hard Rock Stadium’s parking lot—a.k.a., the Miami International Autodrome—is actually located in Miami Gardens, about 17 miles north of Miami. Depending on traffic (more on that in ...Keep reading
"Ayrton Senna is joining Williams..." I have to say that even though I was the team manager at the time, I had a certain feeling of trepidation when I heard this news. It was pretty daunting, because he was Ayrton Senna... he was coming with a little bit of a reputation.I suppose we thought he might be difficult to work with - all of the top drivers were demanding, but it was something we'd got ...Keep reading
Both Zarco and team-mate Takaaki Nakagami got to run the overhauled version of the RC213V at Jerez on Monday, after HRC test rider Stefan Bradl raced with the same bike in Spain last weekend.However, the initial impressions of the upgraded Honda challenger were poor across the board, with Zarco saying the bike had failed to deliver a step forward in performance.“We did a few runs on it and we ...Keep reading
For many, Ayrton Senna is the greatest Formula 1 driver of all time, and the passing of years since his death - at the peak of his powers aged 34 in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix - has only strengthened that conviction.To mark the 25th anniversary in 2019, Motorsport.com decided to pick out and rank the three-time world champion's 10 finest race performances.Senna made 161 F1 starts and took 41 ...Keep reading
Following intense speculation about the future of the squad’s chief technical officer amid the controversy surrounding team principal Christian Horner, the Milton Keynes-based team announced on Tuesday that Newey would be departing.In a statement, Red Bull said that Newey’s time at the outfit would end in the first quarter of next year and he would attend “specific races” throughout 2024 ...Keep reading
As revealed by Motorsport.com over the Chinese Grand Prix weekend, teams discussed last week a tweak to the regulations to clear up an aspect of the regulations that had caused unease.Previously, jump starts were judged entirely on whether the FIA-supplied sensors fitted to cars had picked up movement before the start signal was given.However, there had been some occasions when cars had appeared ...Keep reading
A fortnight on from his maiden victory with Aprilia in the Americas GP, Vinales could muster only a ninth-place finish at Jerez, over 11s off race winner Francesco Bagnaia on the factory Ducati.He and Aprilia team-mate Aleix Espargaro were also the slowest of the Q2 runners in qualifying, ending up more than two seconds slower than the pace set by Gresini Ducati rider Marc Marquez in 11th and 12th ...Keep reading
In court papers that have been lodged in Mecklenburg, North Carolina, Steiner has claimed that his former Haas team has not paid him for commissions that he was owed over several years, which was in violation of an employment agreement he had.Furthermore, he claims that the outfit, which he left at the end of last year after his contract was not renewed, continues to sell merchandise that features ...Keep reading
30 years on from the tragic death of Ayrton Senna, we take a look back at the legendary driver's life, both on and off the track, with photography throughout his career. Stay tuned to Autosport's YouTube and Podcast platforms for the first episode of the James Allen on F1 podcast, where the first episode includes interviews with Manish Pandey, the writer of 2010's Senna film, as well as Bianca Senna, Ayrton's niece and CEO of Senna Brand US. FOLLOW us online: Website: https://www.autosport.com/ Facebook... Читать дальше...
But one of the lesser-known aspects of what happened on May 1, 1994, was the sense of helplessness unfolding for those inside the safety car which led the Formula 1 field early on.Faced with an underpowered Opel Vectra that was ultimately not fast enough to be running in front of F1 machinery, safety car driver Max Angelelli and former F1 race director Charlie Whiting, who was sat alongside him ...Keep reading
F1 makes its third visit to the Miami this weekend, as it continues to build on the success of the inaugural event in 2022.Red Bull's Max Verstappen won the last two editions of the Miami GP and is once again the favourite for victory, with the RB20 proving to be near-unbeatable in 2024.2024 Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix session timings in different ...Keep reading