James Baldwin and Michael O’Brien have claimed Jenson Team Rocket RJN’s second pole position in as many Intelligent Money British GT rounds after beating Barwell Motorsport’s Sandy Mitchell and Rob Collard by just 0.085s at Brands Hatch. Baldwin, The World’s Fastest Gamer, once again excelled in the first session to give O’Brien a two-tenth head-start
Month: August 2020
Several MotoGP manufacturers are not happy that KTM will be permitted to develop its engines ahead of the 2021 season, with fears it is working on a “super engine”. KTM and Aprilia are permitted by the regulations to be exempt from the engine development freeze imposed on non-concession manufacturers Honda, Yamaha, Ducati and Suzuki. However,
Ed Carpenter Racing rookie Rinus VeeKay hailed Sunday’s IndyCar race at Gateway as “one of the best races I have ever driven” en route to a hard-fought fourth place finish. VeeKay, who leads the rookie standings, climbed from 14th to sixth in Saturday’s race one, at a track in which he had won in Pro
While the on-track Formula 1 action at Spa-Francorchamps was a surprisingly tepid affair, there were still plenty of key talking points throughout the Belgian Grand Prix weekend. LUKE SMITH discusses the most salient topics In a Formula 1 season that has been anything but normal, there was a welcome sense of routine brought by the
6:37 AM ET Red Bull boss Christian Horner says Ferrari’s dramatic drop down the order has left him feeling bitter about the races the Italian team won with its controversial engine in 2019. Rivals suspected Ferrari’s engine was illegal last year and after preseason testing this year the FIA confirmed it had reached a private
William Byron clinched his first NASCAR Cup victory at Daytona as a late race crash denied seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson a place in the playoffs. Byron, Johnson and Matt DiBenedetto, the three drivers on the bubble in the fight to get into the Round of 16 as the field arrived at Daytona, all managed
Daniel Ricciardo says his Renault Formula 1 boss Cyril Abiteboul should now be ‘pretty nervous’ about losing a bet they have on getting tattoos. The pair have agreed to get matching tattoos if Ricciardo finishes on the podium for Renault before he leaves the team at the end of this year. Having delivered a strong
4:56 PM ET Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Nate Saunders Close F1 Associate Editor • Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes • History graduate from Reading University• Joined ESPNF1 in February 2014 Lewis Hamilton took his sixth victory of the season, but it was a race
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Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden recorded his second victory of season for Team Penske under caution in the second race of the double-header at Gateway. Newgarden gained the lead from team-mate Will Power through the third and final pitstop cycle on lap 152 after the Australian was briefly held up by backmarker Ed Carpenter on
First-time NASCAR Cup Series winner William Byron has credited a ploy “to be aggressive” with helping him qualify for the playoffs in the regular season final round at Daytona. The Hendrick Motorsport driver cleared Denny Hamlin following a push from Clint Bowyer in a green-white-chequered finish and fended off a side-draft from Martin Truex Jr
Ferrari was left “disappointed and angry” by its display in Sunday’s Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix after failing to score any points, according to team principal Mattia Binotto. After slumping to its worst qualifying result of the season so far on Saturday, Ferrari’s struggles continued into the race at Spa as both Charles Leclerc and
6:48 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Ill. — Josef Newgarden raced to his second IndyCar victory of the season Sunday, holding off rookie Pato O’Ward before a late caution ended the race at World Wide Technology Raceway under the yellow flag. It’s the second IndyCar race to finish under caution in eight days. Takuma Sato
Scott Dixon admitted that reaching a half-century of US open-wheel victories was something he ‘never thought possible’ after beating Takuma Sato in the first of IndyCar’s two races at Gateway. The five-time series champion won his first CART race at Nazareth in 2001 for Bruce McCaw’s PacWest Racing team on only his third start after
Seven-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson said he “did all we could” after missing out on the playoffs in his final full-time season. With the final places in the playoffs still to be decided heading into Saturday’s final regular season round at Daytona, Johnson finished fifth in both of the opening two stages, but
Lewis Hamilton felt “a little bit nervous” he would suffer a repeat of his Silverstone tyre failure in the closing stages of his Formula 1 Belgian Grand Prix victory. Hamilton dominated proceedings at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on Sunday to record his fifth victory of the 2020 season, extending his lead in the Formula 1
1:23 PM ET Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff has questioned the priorities of “certain members of the Ferrari team” after it registered its worse qualifying performance of the season at the Belgian Grand Prix. Ferrari qualified 13th and 14th at Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday, 1.7s off the pace of Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton on pole position. At
Will Power scored his 59th IndyCar Series pole position for the first of two races at Gateway, while Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato topped the times for Sunday’s second race. IndyCar opted to use the two-lap qualifying format first trialled at Iowa for the 1.25-mile Gateway oval, with the first lap setting the grid for
Daniel Ricciardo says Renault’s strong form at the Belgian Grand Prix is the result of his Formula 1 car feeling much “happier” in lower downforce trim. Just two weeks after Renault endured a tough time in Spain as both drivers failed to make it into Q3, Ricciardo qualified fourth at Spa-Francorchamps with team-mate Esteban Ocon
1:17 PM ET Laurence Edmondson Close F1 Editor • Joined ESPN in 2009• An FIA accredited F1 journalist since 2011 Nate Saunders Close F1 Associate Editor • Previously worked in rugby union and British Superbikes • History graduate from Reading University• Joined ESPNF1 in February 2014 The story at the front of the grid for the Belgian Grand Prix is
Scott Dixon fended off a late charge from Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato at Gateway to record his 50th IndyCar career win and extend his championship points lead. The five-time series champion’s Chip Ganassi machine had jumped long-term leader Patricio O’Ward (Arrow McLaren SP) in the final green-flag pit-stops on lap 162 of 200 to
Williams is hopeful it can fight the beleaguered Ferrari squad during Formula 1’s 2020 Belgian Grand Prix after George Russell finished just behind Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel in qualifying. The team’s head of vehicle performance, Dave Robson, said Williams was encouraged after Ferrari appeared to show poor form during the FP2 long runs on
6:08 PM ET Associated Press MADISON, Ill. — Scott Dixon and Takuma Sato repeated their 20-lap duel from the Indianapolis 500 a week ago, with Dixon reversing the finishing order Saturday by winning at World Wide Technology Raceway outside of St. Louis. Sato held off Dixon a week ago for his second Indy 500 victory
Max Verstappen does not think running out of energy at the end of his final qualifying lap cost him second place on the grid for Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix. Shortly after completing his lap, Verstappen was told on the team radio that he had missed out on beating Valtteri Bottas by just 0.015 seconds.
10:29 AM ET Lewis Hamilton dedicated pole position at the Belgian Grand Prix to actor Chadwick Boseman, who passed away at age 43 on Friday night. Hamilton, the only Black F1 driver in history, was in a league of his own at the Spa-Francorchamps circuit, finishing 0.5s clear of the next nearest car, Mercedes teammate
Carlos Sainz Jr says the “super quick” Renault Formula 1 team is too fast “for comfort” at the Belgian Grand Prix, as he reckoned Daniel Ricciardo’s practice pace was genuine. With Ricciardo having set the second fastest time in the second free practice session, despite a late hydraulic issue, Sainz believes that the Spa-Francorchamps circuit
6:35 AM ET Formula One has confirmed the second of this season’s two races in Bahrain will be held on an alternative layout and as a night race. The sport announced this week that Bahrain would host two events this year, one on November 29 and one on December 6, ahead of the season finale
Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and four-time IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti will return to the cockpit this weekend at Gateway to drive Honda’s two-seat IndyCar at the start of the race. Franchitti was forced to end his 17-season Indycar career at least a year before he had intended after a huge accident at Houston in September
The FIA has finalised a package of Formula 1 aero regulation changes for 2021, creating an overall downforce cut of around 10%. Around half of that figure had already been accounted for by a change to the floor rules agreed earlier this year. However the British GPs prompted the FIA and F1 to make further
2:29 PM ET It’s the seventh race of the season and by now we should know better than to get excited by Friday practice times. Engine modes, fuel loads and differing run plans can all conspire to paint a misleading picture on practice day, but in 2020 there’s always a degree of intrigue when a
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