To flesh out the 2020 Formula One season, The Powers That Be fleshed out empty weekends with tracks that have either never appeared in F1 before or haven’t been part of the calendar for years. Some have been fun, some have been boring—but whatever else happens, we need to keep Portimao on the calendar. And, […]
Yamaha rider Franco Morbidelli had just about everything go his way at Sunday morning’s Tereul Grand Prix in Aragon, finishing two seconds ahead of his closest competition. It’s his second win of the 2020 season and a provides a s=olid improvement for his championship hopes.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Yamaha rider Franco Morbidelli had just about everything go his way at Sunday morning’s Tereul Grand Prix in Aragon, finishing two seconds ahead of his closest competition. It’s his second win of the 2020 season and a provides a s=olid improvement for his championship hopes.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Three-time Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin will finally have his shot at an IndyCar Series debut. Originally scheduled to compete in the Indianapolis Grand Prix in May, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the New Zealander to put his open-wheel plans on hold. But today at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, he’ll be…Read more… Continue Reading at […]
Three-time Supercars champion Scott McLaughlin will finally have his shot at an IndyCar Series debut. Originally scheduled to compete in the Indianapolis Grand Prix in May, the COVID-19 pandemic forced the New Zealander to put his open-wheel plans on hold. But today at the Grand Prix of St. Petersburg, he’ll be…Read more… Continue Reading at […]
Carbon fiber changed the motorsport game when Formula One teams started using it to fabricate cars in the 1970s. A bunch of carbon atoms weaved together, carbon fiber is stiff, strong, and light—the perfect material from which to build competitive, aerodynamically-sensitive machines. But in an ecologically-conscious…Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Tomorrow’s Grand Prix of St. Petersburg marks the IndyCar Series’ final event and the one that will decide the championship contender. But at the end of a messy qualifying session came a little bit of the familiar: Will Power took pole position for the last race of the year.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Tomorrow’s Grand Prix of St. Petersburg marks the IndyCar Series’ final event and the one that will decide the championship contender. But at the end of a messy qualifying session came a little bit of the familiar: Will Power took pole position for the last race of the year.Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
The Indy Lights series is the top run of the Road to Indy feeder series ladder that brings talent into the IndyCar series. And while the series took a break in 2020 as a result of COVID-19 and economic uncertainties, its return in 2021 will be marred by one big omission: the annual Freedom 100 […]
Formula One has used hybrid engines since the 2014 season, and the technology is supposed to play a key role in the reduction of the series’ carbon emissions in the near future. But with Honda leaving as an engine supplier, Mercedes boss Toto Wolff is skeptical that the series is actually promoting the hybrid power…Read […]
Local authorities in New South Wales have advised everyone who attended last weekend’s Bathurst 1000 to be wary of COVID-19 symptoms after the virus was detected in a sewage sample taken from wastewater. Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
Just before Saturday’s qualifying session at the Eifel Grand Prix, Racing Point driver Lance Stroll withdrew from the event, citing a mysterious illness that he noted at the time was not COVID-19. Now, two weeks later, the Canadian driver has admitted that, despite a negative test before the race weekend, he had…Read more… Continue Reading […]
For the first time since 2004, a Japanese rider has taken a MotoGP pole position. Honda rider Takaaki Nakagami secured pole position at the Teurel Grand Prix in Aragon with a flying 1m 46.882s lap—just six hundredths ahead of Franco Morbidelli, his closest competition. It’s a great way to celebrate the fact that…Read more… Continue […]
After a half hour delay due to a broken drain cover, Formula One qualifying kicked off in cool temperatures at Portimao for the 2020 Portuguese Grand Prix. And despite his teammate’s dominance of every other session, Lewis Hamilton pulled out a quick lap where it mattered most, securing his 97th career pole position…Read more… Continue […]
With former F1 driver Vitaly Petrov announced as this weekend’s Formula One race steward, many people are speaking out. Both Lewis Hamilton and LGBTQ+ group Racing Pride have protested the decision, citing Petrov’s recent criticisms of the Black Lives Matter movement, the LGBTQ+ community, and F1's We Race As One…Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
The NTT IndyCar Series championship is coming to a close on Sunday, and the battle for the Astor Cup has come down to the very last race. Right now, there are 19,872 different outcomes for championship contenders Josef Newgarden and Scott Dixon to score points—and only one percent of those outcomes will secure…Read more… Continue […]
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Mercedes is blew its electric sports car lead, but Mercedes is still Mercedes, meaning that even if Porsche is out here with the Taycan and Tesla is out here with the Model S Mercedes still has the financial might to catch up. In interviews this week, its executives say that that’s exactly what they’re trying […]
If you’re the sort of person that savors the feeling of telling someone how much horsepower your car has and then seeing that wonderful look of amazement and disbelief, then boy are you in luck. See, there’s two ways to do that: either spend an absurd amount of money for something with 700+ horsepower, or […]
Welcome to the Jalopnik Weekend Motorsports Roundup, where we let you know what’s going on in the world of racing, where you can see it, and where you can talk about it all in one convenient place. Where else would you want to spend your weekend? Read more… Continue Reading at https://jalopnik.com
