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Aston Martin Vantage GTE The DBR9 was retired by Aston Martin Racing in 2008 and last raced internationally in 2011, but it hadn’t given up racing, and in 2012 it was back on track with a new competitor, the V8 Vantage GTE. The GTE was a development of the GT2 …

Nine-time World Rally Champion Sebastien Loeb will be giving a select group of racing enthusiasts in Bahrain the experience of a lifetime today…a ride in the Prodrive Hunter, driven by the champion himself! The most successful driver in the history of the World Rally Championship (WRC), the 47-year-old Frenchman has …

Saudi racing driver Aseel Al Hamad. Mohammad Yusuf, Feature Writer Ferrari World Abu Dhabi invites all car enthusiasts to take a journey through time by highlighting the history of female racing drivers and inspiring women at the Il Rosso & Il Rosa “Women and Ferraris” exhibition. — the untold story”. …

Photo: ORS ***Jules Gounon, Raffaele Marciello and Timur Boguslavskiy delivered the first race win in Mercedes-AMG’s Pirelli-powered Intercontinental GT Challenge in three years and five months, or 1,259 days. AMG’s last victory came at the 2018 Suzuka 10 Hours when Marciello, Tristan Vautier and Daniel Juncadella won with GruppeM Racing. …

Fasten your seatbelts Moto GP fans, as the brand new season is just around the corner, ready to keep you entertained. Fabio Quartararo became the first Frenchman to win a Moto GP title during last season’s unforgettable campaign. 1 JOIN SUN VEGAS: GET A FREE £10 BONUS WITH 100 GAMES …

Winter isn’t the best time for motorsport fans, but now that we’re well into the new year, we can all start looking forward to the start of the season. For MotoGP fans, it’s March 6 at the Losail International Circuit in Qatar. With the action taking place in the spotlight, …

Rossi, the nine-time world grand prix motorcycle champion, was now due to make his regular appearance at the Gulf 12 Hours in Abu Dhabi with the Kessel Racing team behind the wheel of a Ferrari 488 GT3. Category winner and overall podium in previous events, Rossi had to share a …

Photo: Toyota Gazoo Racing Jose Maria Lopez has been named in Action Express Racing’s # 48 Cadillac DPi-VR for the Rolex 24 at Daytona, where he will team up with his fellow FIA endurance world champion, Kamui Kobayashi. Lopez and Kobayashi, who won the WEC and the 24 Hours of …

The 2021 season has been one of the major achievements of the Formula 1 division of McLaren Racing. Looking back to 2017, the team struggled with performance issues and an unreliable car, finishing ninth in the Manufacturers’ Championship. Fast forward to this year, the team finished fourth after a close …

MotoGP’s 2021 season has been Alex Rins’ worst since his rookie campaign in 2017, a season in which driving at the limit of his Suzuki GSX-RR machine resulted in several crashes. Rins suffered seven alarming falls in running situations, one of the highest of any runner. It also included four …

Published on: 11/21/2021 – 2:14 PMAmended: 11/21/2021 – 2:12 PM Paris (AFP) – Sébastien Ogier is heading towards semi-retirement after winning an eighth World Rally Championship title in nine years but never really escaping the shadow of his former mentor Sébastien Loeb. Ogier, 37, won the title on Sunday at …

Tony Dron dominated the cohort of young aspiring automotive journalists of the mid-1960s, both physically and in his skill at the wheel of a racing car and at the typewriter. Tony passed away earlier this week at the age of 75 and had suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease for …

The Italian competed in his last MotoGP race last weekend at the Valencia Grand Prix and will move on to a Dakar rally campaign in 2022, with KTM losing their Tech 3 race. It marks the end of a 10-year period in MotoGP in which Petrucci came from the bottom …

Marc Marquez’s victory in the second round of Misano can almost certainly be taken as a surprise. It was actually his first success on a circuit with mostly right turns, which hadn’t happened for 735 days, that is, since the 2019 Japanese GP at Motegi. This is a fact brought …

The MotoGP 2022 calendar starts in March and ends in November with 21 rounds announced on the provisional calendar. The season kicks off at its usual location in Qatar under the lights from March 6-8, but quickly mixes things up with the first of two new venues two weeks later. …

The COVID-19 pandemic has forced MotoGP to radically change its 2020 and 2021 schedules, with the current campaign featuring 18 races instead of the 20 initially planned – the majority taking place in Europe. But MotoGP has finalized a normal schedule for the 2022 campaign, which will feature a record …

Singapore, September 30, 2021 – (Antara / ACN Newswire) – Motul pioneered the lubricants industry in 1971 with the launch of the world’s first fully synthetic ester-based lubricant, 300V. This new grade of lubricant ushered in a paradigm shift in what could be achieved with advanced technology in engine oils. …

Porsche was already a household name by the time the 959 was released in 1986, but the event forever changed not only the brand, but the automotive world as well. The car reflected the best of technological advancements made during the 1980s and is arguably Porsche’s first supercar, with enough …

Motul will showcase its new 300V range of oils on the track at the Long Beach Motorsport event, marking the occasion with a special digital livery for the all-new Acura NSX Type S. Motul USA: Cypress, Calif. (Sep 23, 2021) – Motul, the French oil company founded in 1853, will …

Following the emergence of COVID-19, MotoGP has adjusted the 2020 calendar to 13 rounds played on European circuits. Fans rejoiced when international venues returned to the tentative 2021 schedule. However, the celebrations were shortlived. In May 2021, officials at Dorna Sports canceled the Finnish Grand Prix before the Japanese Grand …

Motorsport Ireland driver Callum Devine won Cork 20 as tarmac rallies resumed for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic Northern Irishman Colin Turkington maintains his British Touring Car Championship title hopes by winning the third race at Croft. The BMW driver is 35 points behind leader Ash Sutton with …

Practice for every class at the Goodwood Revival begins today, and you can get a glimpse of all the vintage machines during the live stream here. There will be Martin Brundle riding his Mini ready to do battle with a host of other Le Mans winners including André Lotterer, David …

TotalEnergies is set to launch the first 100% renewable motor racing fuel that is it’s the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) that will cut carbon emissions from racing vehicles by 65percent. TotalEnergies announced that it will made by bioethanol, which is made of wine residues that are derived from the …

– Motul-powered teams win P1 and P2 in the dominant display of performance– MotoGP rookie Jorge Martin gives Pramac Racing his first victory after 20 years– Joan Mir of the Suzuki team got the best second place of the season After a long summer break, the MotoGP paddock came back …

Saturday August 7, 2021, 6:00 a.m.Press Release: ACN Newswire – The 10th MotoGP round starts at the Red Bull Ring after a 5-week break – Motul-backed teams looking to fight for victory in the second half of the season – An exciting race on the program with thunderstorms scheduled for …

The 42-year-old Italian, who races with number 46 and is a nine-time world champion with seven premier league titles, told a press conference at the Styrian Grand Prix in Austria that 2021 would be his last season. “I decided to quit at the end of the season,” Rossi said at …

MotoGP is considered the pinnacle of motorcycle racing, featuring the best riders and manufacturers of 2-wheel motorsport. After completing 9 rounds, the competition enters the second half of the season where the championship fight is guaranteed to become more exciting. MotoGP is finally back after a 5-week summer break, with …

Published on: 07/22/2021 – 5:40 PMAmended: 07/22/2021 – 5:38 PM Paris (AFP) Jean-Pierre Jaussaud, two-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, has died at the age of 84, race organizers, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest (ACO) announced on Thursday. Jaussaud won his first Le Mans in an Alpine …

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Jenson Button names his six best moments in motorsport history as part of the new Readly … [+] collaboration with Motor Sport magazine. Absolutely Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button has revealed his six best moments in motor racing history, via a new collaboration with Motor Sport magazine and Readly. …

John Sprinzel, who died at the age of 90, was a British international sedan, touring car and rally racer who won the British Rally Championship (BRC) in 1959 and became a racing car modifier at success, a motorsport entrepreneur, an author, a rally organizer. and world championship level windsurfer. After …

For any auto fan, motorsport is probably our go-to choice when it comes to live sports. It is quite naturally as car enthusiasts that we turn to the sport that features these cars. And there are so many categories of races to watch. There is of course Formula 1, the …

France was one of the first nations to organize motor races of all kinds. The first race took place in 1894. The Grand Prix of France is an annual race that is part of the F1 world championship calendar. PUBLICITY The article continues under this ad It was also known …

The Motul-powered Toyota Gazoo Racing team returns to one of motorsport’s most famous circuits this weekend, as 125 touring cars of different classes compete on the arduous 25km track for the 49th edition of the ADAC 24 Hours of the Nürburgring. Rightly nicknamed The Green Hell, the perilous Nürburgring track …

– Toyota Gazoo Racing Team Thailand sticks to Motul lubricants to defend class victory at The Green Hell– Team looking to repeat last year’s success 1-2 in the SP3 class– Motul 300V is the engine oil of choice for delivering power and reliability in the most grueling endurance race of …

Marc Marquez will take part in the first consecutive MotoGP races this weekend since his return to Portimao. Catalonia will be Marquez’s second home GP of the season after Jerez last month. The Spaniard’s last two results were back-to-back withdrawals at Le Mans and Mugello. And while the Marquez we …

Bottom Line: Esteban Ocon says his new race engineering line is “what I have wanted for a long time” in Formula 1. In short Ocon reunited with Peckett and Barlow Following his strong start to the 2021 F1 season, Ocon credited his relationship with racing engineer Josh Peckett and performance …

Factory KTM riders Brad Binder and Miguel Oliveira had one of their best starts for a MotoGP race weekend in 2021, winning fifth and sixth places in FP2 at Mugello. Oliveira led most of the afternoon session with an average lap time of 1.46m which proved difficult to beat even …

For motorsport enthusiasts around the world, there are certain events that have a lasting allure and appeal that have helped them transcend popular culture and become legend: the Monaco Grand Prix, the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Paris-Dakar Rally and the Indianapolis 500. Traditionally held in May of each …

Rolex has always maintained a deep relationship with the world of sport, sharing many values ​​that motivate athletes in their perpetual quest for excellence. One of those long-standing ties is motorsport, hence its strong support for racing events such as Formula 1, the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship, the 24 Hours …

Jack Miller took back-to-back MotoGP victories in an incredible charge at the French GP at Le Mans, coming back from two long lap penalties for speeding in the pit lane, in a chaotic flag-to-flag race. Miller, who had the option of a second year on his Ducati factory contract taken …

26.05.2021 | MotoGP staff | MotoGP Photo: GeeBee Images After another stunner from Raul Fernandez, the Moto2 rookie is just one point behind veteran teammate Remy Gardner atop the Moto2 standings as the paddock heads to Mugello. But given his absence from the 2020 calendar, the Tuscan site is where …

“Sometimes the engineers tell you to use it less because there is a fuel economy issue, but it does so much to stabilize the bike. I’m almost always on the rear brake, in and out of bends. The only time I don’t use it is when I’m in fourth, fifth …

Still far from 100% fit, Marc Marquez is now facing the first consecutive MotoGP events since returning from a nine-month layoff due to complications from a fractured right arm. Marquez’s physical condition means his aggressive elbow rescue style has been put on the back burner, but the eight-time world champion …

LONDON (Reuters) – British lawyer Graham Stoker on Tuesday announced his candidacy to succeed Jean Todt at the head of Formula 1’s governing body, the FIA, with Denmark’s record nine-time winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Tom Kristensen in his management team. The president of the International Automobile …

Many people think of auto racing as driving sophisticated fast cars in a straight line or repeatedly around a track, but it is not. Many of the most famous motor racing events in the world involve extremely difficult conditions. Some of these races require extreme off-road machines to pass. RELATED: …

Singapore, May 21, 2021 – (ACN Newswire) – Motul and Suzuki have enjoyed a more than 30-year global partnership, and this tradition continues in Asia, as Motul partners with Suzuki Singapore to launch the all-new Suzuki Swift Sport, which includes mild hybrid technology and a full sports package designed to …

KTM got just two top-five results in 2021 thanks to Portugal’s Brad Binder and Tech3’s Danilo Petrucci in last weekend’s flag-to-flag French GP, while Oliveira is yet to break through. the top 10. This is in stark contrast to KTM’s form at the start of last season, with Binder winning …

Last week’s MotoGP at Le Mans was the first time that free UK television had broadcast a race live in seven years. So how did it go? Well, the Grand Prix was certainly spectacular and a good representation of the sport for beginners, as the first flag-to-flag race since Brno …

05/14/2021 | Christina bulpett | MotoGP Image: GeeBee Images Gabriel Rodrigo de Gresini dominated Moto3 FP2 for the third consecutive Friday in 2021 as he familiarized himself with the difficult Le Mans circuit ahead of FrenchGP. The Argentine beat compatriot Honda, Darryn Binder and KTM’s Jaume Masia to win the …

Franco Morbidelli opens with a “ great gathering ” of emotions after his first MotoGP podium in 2021 in Jerez. The results of the Italian driver since the opening race in Qatar evolve in an upward spiral culminating with the third place of Andalusia behind Jack Miller and Francesco Bagnaia. …

Suzuki Team Press Office – May 12. Round five of the 2021 MotoGP â„¢ World Championship will see the series head to the classic Le Mans Bugatti track in northern France. Team Suzuki Ecstar are looking for a podium finish at the French Grand Prix this weekend, after a tricky …

The Ducati Lenovo team heads to Le Mans this weekend on the back of a perfect double for Jack Miller and Francesco Bagnaia in Jerez, also putting the Italian at the top of the world championship. Bagnaia is the only rider so far this season to have finished in the …

The MotoGP World Championship arrives in France for the fifth Grand Prix of the 2021 season, which takes place this weekend on the historic Bugatti circuit at Le Mans. The famous French track, on the calendar since 2000, has so far seen Ducati score nine podiums, including a victory last …

MERCURIAL FRENCH GRAND PRIX FIFTH STOP OF 2021 Round five of the 2021 MotoGP â„¢ World Championship will see the series head to the classic Le Mans Bugatti track in northern France. Team Suzuki Ecstar are looking for a podium finish at the French Grand Prix this weekend, after a …

Luck was not on Pirro and Dovizioso’s side as they met at Mugello for a day of private testing. The rain ruined their work schedule and it wasn’t until the morning that the two found a dry track that allowed them to do a few laps. We chatted with Michele …

Increased toYou speak The motorcycling series have not been available on free TV in the UK since 2013. Posted: May 11, 2021 By: Georgina Yeomans Getty Images ITV4 currently presents the highlights of the race on Monday after a GP BT Sport holds exclusive live rights until 2024 The MotoGP …

Valentino Rossi’s worst start to a MotoGP season across all categories in 25 years continued last time in Jerez, as rider Petronas Yamaha struggled to reach 17th place. Rossi had never competed in the first four races of a season without a top ten from his debut in the 125cc …

Free-to-air TV channel ITV will broadcast the fifth round of the 2021 MotoGP World Championship live this weekend with the French GP at Le Mans. Although Dorna has yet to confirm this, ITV’s own television programs show French MotoGP broadcast live on ITV4 – Sunday May 16 from 9.45 a.m. …

The MotoGP 2020 season had been called one of the craziest in history, with 9 different winners and constant upheaval, in short, a year where uncertainty was the dominant factor. Contributing to this unpredictability were on the one hand the new Michelin rear tire, on the other hand a calendar …

MotoGP coverage in the UK has been behind a paywall since the 2014 season, when BT Sport took over exclusive broadcast rights from the BBC. The BBC broadcast entire Grand Prix weekends on its Red Button and major channels from 2003 until the end of 2013, with the series enjoying …

Fabio Quartararo has undergone arm pump surgery after Jerez, while Aleix Espargaro is set to have the same operation after Round 5 of the 2021 MotoGP season at Le Mans in about a week. It’s something that affected many runners and Sunday’s race was perhaps the biggest indication of how …

The MotoGP runner-up has only completed one race so far in 2021 after suffering crashes in the Qatar double-header and last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez. That left him 18th in the standings with just eight points, with younger brother Marquez struggling to find a suitable setup for the …