The former CFO of the Boston Grand Prix organisation which was trying to bring an IndyCar race to the citys Seaport district, Casey was indicted in September 2020 for channelling funds for his own personal gain and laundering the proceeds of the scheme, which he failed to report as income. According to WCVB5.com, the website of Boston newsmagazine Chronicle, Casey has pleaded guilty to 23 ... Keep reading
Shedden, who has won twice this season but is out of the championship picture, was one of a raft of late improvers in the faster second session to lead the way in his Team Dynamics Honda Civic Type R, which arrives in Kent on 21kg of success ballast. That was enough for Shedden to head the unballasted Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N of Chris Smiley by a mere 0.021 seconds, the Northern ... Keep reading
The German's participation in the rookie test is being billed as a chance to sample an IndyCar, with a view to seeing if he would like to one day pursue a race programme. There is a clear opportunity on the horizon for 2022, with the team evaluating a programme to run a third car alongside regulars Pato OWard and Felix Rosenqvist. If the test is successful and, it makes sense commercially ... Keep reading
World champion has limited communication with Dutchman Verstappen leads title race by six points going into US Grand Prix They could hardly be closer at the top of the Formula One standings, but as Lewis Hamilton prepares for a race he always describes in the warmest terms, the Mercedes driver implied that relations with his title rival are on the cool side. The championship battle between Hamilton and Max Verstappen is t
And while Proctors front-row-qualifying BTC Racing team-mate Josh Cook has the slenderest of chances of the crown, Ash Sutton topped the realistic title contenders in sixth place on the grid. Cook, who is carrying 39kg of success ballast on his Civic Type R, entered the weekend 66 points adrift of championship leader Sutton, with only 67 on the table. He was fastest at the mid-point of ... Keep reading
After this years run of 22 events, the calendar has been extended by one event in 2022, with the 23-race schedule ratified by the World Motor Sport Council earlier this month. However, there will be more races outside Europe, with a new race in Miami added and several races that were skipped for the past two seasons returning including the Australian, Canadian, Japanese and Singapore Grands ... Keep reading
Nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb and Dakar Rally exponent Cristina Gutierrez combined to set a total time of 11m53.421s, which hoisted them clear by 10s at the top. The seventh of the nine teams to take to the 4.37-mile course, with Loeb opting to start, X44 demoted the rapid Chip Ganassi Racing of Sara Price and Kyle Leduc before both teams were penalised. Price copped a 5s ... Keep reading
Haas became the first American team to compete in F1 since 1986 when it joined the grid in 2016 after NASCAR team co-owner Gene Haas established a new start-up squad. But Haas could be joined by another American racing marque in the near future as Andretti Autosport closes on a majority stake in Sauber, which runs the Alfa Romeo F1 team. Andretti has been interested in F1 involvement ... Keep reading
McLaren driver Ricciardo looked up to Earnhardt when he was a kid, adopting the famous #3 as his own racing number when he made it to Formula 1. Ricciardo was promised by McLaren boss Zak Brown that he could drive Earnhardt's 1984 Chevrolet Monte Carlo from his private collection when he scored his first podium for the team. By winning the Italian Grand Prix at Monza last month, Ricciardo ... Keep reading
On Friday the FIM and Dorna Sports announced a new set of regulations for its junior series to increase the minimum age limits and cap grid sizes in a bid to improve safety in the wake of three teenage deaths in FIM-sanctioned events this year. One of the most significant changes is the raising of the minimum age limit in Moto3 and Moto2 from 2023 onwards to 18 from 16. Rossi who started ... Keep reading
The Frenchman has been confirmed as a participant in the official World Endurance Championship rookie test on 7 November, the day after the series finale at the Bahrain International Circuit, at the wheel of a Toyota GR010 HYBRID. He has already undertaken a simulator test at Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe headquarters in Cologne in preparation for the test, having sampled its predecessor, the ... Keep reading
The Toyota GR010 Hybrid and the Alpine A480-Gibson grandfathered LMP1 car will both run at the minimum weights at which they started the 2021 season when they line up for the Bahrain 6 Hours on 30 October. This reflects the absence of the Glickenhaus 007 LMH-Pipo, which is not racing in the six-hour event and then the eight-hour race that concludes the 2021 WEC on 6 November. The Toyota will ... Keep reading
Hamiltons 1m34.842s would have edged him ahead of Perez by 0.104s, but going beyond the accepted track limits at the penultimate corner on a qualifying simulation run mid-way through the second 60-minute session cost the world champion the top spot and left the Red Bull heading the times with a 1m34.946s. In sweltering conditions at the Circuit of the Americas, the pack initially emerged on ... Keep reading
IndyCar race-winner Herta has been touted as the next American to take the plunge and leave IndyCar behind for F1 amid reports his IndyCar team Andretti Autosport is nearing a takeover of the Alfa Romeo F1 squad. Herta's IndyCar rival Pato O'Ward believes the 21-year-old has everything to be successful in F1, while former IndyCar racer Danica Patrick also backed the idea for Herta to cross the ... Keep reading
The results of the F1 Global Survey commissioned by Motorsport Network in partnership with F1 and Nielsen Sports were released on Thursday ahead of the United States Grand Prix after responses from more than 167,000 fans in 187 different countries. The vote saw McLaren take top spot on the F1 grid, with 29.5% of fans naming it as their favourite team, almost doubling its result of 15.8% from ... Keep reading
The reigning champion set a 2m06.429s to lead the first session in Austin for Veloce Racing, with title rival Alice Powell finishing in seventh for Racing X. Chadwick and Powell head into the season finale joint on 109 points, with the latter leading with three wins, having won last time out at Zandvoort, to Chadwicks two. Pulling finished second for the PUMA team in just her third race ... Keep reading
Mercedes revealed on Friday in Austin that it had taken a third fresh engine for Bottas in four races, resigning the Finn to a five-place grid penalty. Mercedes customers Williams and Aston Martin have also been forced to take fresh engines for George Russell and Sebastian Vettel this weekend. Both will start the race from the back of the grid. It comes after Mercedes F1 boss Wolff revealed ... Keep reading
In wet conditions throughout Friday, the Australian rider dominated FP2 and went on to claim top spot with a 1m41.305s on his factory Ducati, almost a full second quicker than nearest challenger Johann Zarco on the Pramac Ducati. Zarco, who topped the wet FP1 session, edged out Aprilias Aleix Espargaro as Tech3 KTMs Iker Lecuona impressed in the tricky conditions with fourth place ... Keep reading
The nine-time World Rally champion and his Dakar Rally regular team-mate were by some way the class of the field on Saturday morning at the Teulada NATO base as they bolted to the top of the times with their combined run of 11m05.105s to lead by over 12 seconds. As occurred on Friday in practice, a high rate of attrition came to impact the nine teams. The points-leading Rosberg X Racing crew ... Keep reading
Having shown excellentstraightlinespeed in recent rounds, particularly at the Turkish Grand Prix, Mercedes came under fire from Red Bull team boss Christian Horner who suggested that the team was obviously optimising astraightlinedevice to SkyF1. Those claims were refuted by Mercedes boss Toto Wolff, who said that the teams performance on the ... Keep reading
Quartararo had to go through Q1 for just the second time in his MotoGP career on Saturday at Misano after failing to get into the top 10 at the end of a damp FP3. Beginning his final flying lap in Q1 13th, Quartararo could do no better than that position but was demoted to 15th owing to a yellow flag infringement on that tour. Quartararo can win the championship on Sunday if he outscored ... Keep reading
Mercedes revealed on Friday ahead of the United States Grand Prix that Valtteri Bottas would be taking a third grid penalty in four races after having a new engine fitted to his car, as the team manages an ongoing issue. Mercedes customer teams Aston Martin and Williams have also been forced into engine penalties for this weekend's race at the Circuit of the Americas, leaving Sebastian ... Keep reading
Red Bulls team principal on his spiky rivalry with Toto Wolff and why a Max Verstappen title win would be his biggest achievement Our determination means weve got a chance, a true chance, of delivering a world championship this year and were going to give it everything to achieve that, Christian Horner says as, in his role as the team principal of Red Bull, he looks ahead to the final six races of the grand prix season. T
After years where grand prix racing had struggled to make a breakthrough in the US, a sustained effort by Liberty Media to tap in to the market appears to be paying off. Helped by the success of the Netflix Drive to Survive series, the US will add a second race in Miami in 2022 and there are even suggestions of a third event in the longer term. For Hamilton, who spends a lot of his ... Keep reading
The 20-year-old American finished third in last years FIA Formula 3 championship, driving for Prema Racing, but was unable to move up to F2 for 2021 due to a lack of budget. That meant he returned to the third-tier series for this season, where he eventually finished seventh for Charouz Racing System with a single win at Sochi. Sargeant, who also made select sportscar racing ... Keep reading
