The Haas team's woes through the 2019 season were profiled in the second episode of the latest season of Drive to Survive as Grosjean and teammate Kevin Magnussen struggled with an unpredictable and difficult car.The pair collided on track at the British Grand Prix, sparking an aggressive rebuke to both drivers from Steiner that was picked up by Netflix's microphones and included in the ...Keep reading

The DTM is one of many championships to have been severely disrupted by the global COVID-19 outbreak. The first five weekends of the 10-round calendar have already been pushed back on a revised schedule revealed last week.Currently the season is set to start on July 12-14 with the classic Norisring weekend, the first meeting on the new calendar that is still holding on to its original summer ...Keep reading

Formula 1 came within two days of starting its 2020 season before the late cancellation of the Australian Grand Prix, and is now facing a long wait before racing can resume.The opening eight races of the year have now been called off, stretching from Australia to Azerbaijan, while doubts still remain over events in the early part of the summer.But how many races does F1 need to officially ...Keep reading

Honda shocked the paddock when it announced in February that it had locked down Marquez for four more seasons, in a deal rumoured to be worth in the region of €100million.Dovizioso, who is out of contract with Ducati at the end of this year, conceded his surprise at the announcement in a Q&A with Sky Italia.“I am very surprised by Marquez’s four-year [contract] period with ...Keep reading

Sutton spent the first half of the 30-minute race patiently parked behind pole-sitter O'Keeffe, as the pair swiftly gapped the remainder of the field.Right on the half-way mark the Brit made his move, sliding up the inside of O'Keeffe at Griffins Bend.Sutton couldn't shake the TCR Australia race winner, though, the pair running-nose-to-tail until the final corner.But despite the ...Keep reading

The Kelly Racing star will Renault DP World F1 Team for this weekend's second official Formula 1 Eseries race, an arrangement made through joint sponsor BP-Castrol.He'll take on five current Formula 1 drivers, with Charles Leclerc, Alex Albon, George Russell, Lando Norris and Nicholas Latifi all signed up.The race is effectively a replacement for what would have been the inaugural ...Keep reading

Leclerc and Albon will both be making their debuts in the official F1 Eseries, as will Williams driver George Russell.Lando Norris and Nicholas Latifi will return for a second appearance.That group of current F1 drivers will be joined by Johnny Herbert, off the back of his 13th place in the Bahrain race, as well as England cricketing superstar Ben Stokes.Supercars regular Andre ...Keep reading

MotoGP has yet to get a premier class race underway in 2020, after the season-opener in Qatar at the start of last month was cancelled a week prior to its scheduled date owing to stricter travel measures imposed by the Gulf country due to COVID-19.As the pandemic continued to worsen around the globe, the following rounds in Thailand, America, Argentina and Spain were all postponed by MotoGP ...Keep reading

With the first eight races of the new Formula 1 season having been postponed or cancelled, teams are facing increased financial pressures because of the lack of track action.While F1 responses like an early factory shutdown for all teams, plus a delay to the new 2021 rules, have helped, that is still not enough to see teams comfortably through.With businesses now buckling down to do what ...Keep reading

While 2019’s breakout star Charles Leclerc signed a long-term contract extension with Ferrari, keeping him in Maranello until the end of 2024, Vettel’s future at the team is less certain.The contract of the four-time world champion will run out at the end of 2020. Vettel, who joined Ferrari in 2015, has been in talks with the Scuderia over a new contract in recent weeks. Ferrari team ...Keep reading

Virtual Martinsville Speedway hosted the third and final race of the eNASCAR Heat Pro League preseason. Competitors from the PS4 and Xbox One divisions took part in twin 80-lap sprint races with the NASCAR Truck Series at the half-mile paperclip. It was their final opportunity to showcase their talents to teams ahead of the Season 2 draft.PS4The first race kicked off with Cody Giles out ...Keep reading

The category is currently deep in planning for a TV-only return, with a focus on reducing the manpower required to stage a round.Measures such as format changes (no pitstops), two-day race weekends and having race control and TV production crews off-site are all being considered to facilitate a speedy return once Australian mass-gathering restrictions are softened.Motorsport.com ...Keep reading

As already confirmed, the offical series is set to kick off with a double-header at Phillip Island and Monza on April 8.From there the 25 real-world Supercars drivers will tackle a mixed bag of tracks spread across the globe.A number of famous European circuits are included on the schedule, with visits to Silverstone, Barcelona, Spa-Francorchamps, the Nurburgring and Imola all on the ...Keep reading

The Supercars ace has made a number of TCR Australia appearances in an Audi over the last two seasons, and even took pole for the ill-fated Albert Park race that never went ahead.He's now set to race the same car in virtual form, Tander joining a 52-car field for tonight's ARG eSport Cup opener to be held on the Mount Panorama circuit.The entry features a number of big names across ARG's ...Keep reading

As per last weekend’s inaugural round, a virtual race at Watkins Glen, the regular IndyCar commentary team of Leigh Diffey, Paul Tracy and Townsend Bell will call the event, which will also stream on NBCSports.com and the NBC Sports App.While the Watkins Glen race was a throwback to when the NTT IndyCar Series most recently competed there (2017), this weekend’s race at Barber is a poignant ...Keep reading

Wednesday night’s 80-lap race (8 p.m. ET) is the last of three preseason showcase races involving 48 Xbox and PlayStation 4 drivers prior to the April 8 draft, in which the league’s 14 teams will determine who will represent them in the 2021 season. The race can be viewed HERE as well as the NASCAR Heat Twitch channel.In PS4 competition, Brandon Hanna (cheezuh) took the ...Keep reading

Verstappen dominated the opening race of the latest Real Racers Never Quit round, which featured over 40 real-life drivers racing GTE machinery around Interlagos.He took pole for race two, but his PC crashed as the cars formed up for the rolling start and he was booted from the session – unable to re-join and take the start. This left McLaren F1 driver Lando Norris to lead the field away at ...Keep reading

Following last week’s announcement of a revised 2020 NTT IndyCar Series schedule, there has been plenty speculation about when the season will actually start.As the coronavirus-related warnings from the USA’s director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Doctor Fauci, become increasingly dire, President Trump admits the outlook is grim, and even the slowest state ...Keep reading

Sir Jack Brabham will surely remain the only Formula 1 driver in history to win the World Championship in a car bearing his own name. Although known for his aggressive and vigorous driving style, that belied a deep mechanical understanding that made his machines some of the most sturdy and trustworthy in an era when open-wheel racecars were, as a whole, frighteningly fragile.Brabham’s ...Keep reading

The opening races of the 2001 season foreshadowed what would be an era of dominance for Michael Schumacher and Ferrari. After finally defeating McLaren's Mika Hakkinen in 2000 the German would go on to dominate the sport for another four seasons. Schumacher duly took pole in Sao Paulo, then the third race of the season, following two wins out of two in Australia and Malaysia. Main rival ...Keep reading