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By Abhishek Takle MANAMA (Reuters) – Seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton has put a positive spin on his Mercedes team’s disappointing performance in Saturday’s qualifying for the season-opening Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix. The Briton will start Sunday’s race from the third row of the grid in fifth position after …

Formula One F1 – Pre-Season Testing – Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Barcelona, ​​Spain – February 23, 2022 McLaren’s Lando Norris during testing REUTERS/Albert Gea Join now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Feb 23 (Reuters) – Briton Lando Norris set the tone for McLaren on Formula 1’s first day of …

(Reuters) – French manufacturer Alpine unveiled its 2022 Formula One challenger in Paris on Monday, becoming the ninth team to unveil its car for the upcoming season ahead of the first winter test later this week. The Renault-owned team’s new A522 has been designed to the sport’s radical new rules, …

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 …

Lewis Hamilton will stop kneeling at the front of the grid after Formula 1 bosses revealed they were scrapping the gesture. Hamilton – and a number of his fellow drivers – have taken a knee before every race for the past two seasons in a show of solidarity against racism. …

Precisely one week after finishing second overall in the Dakar Rally, Sebastien Loeb was in the wintry French Alps and had the opportunity to demonstrate that he had recovered from his Saudi efforts. The fence that separated him from the waiting media was almost as tall as he was. He …

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 …

Dakar opens FIA World Rally Raid Championship with battle of giants in Saudi Arabia 2022 marks an exciting new chapter for off-road rallying, as the discipline becomes the seventh World Championship under the governance of the FIA. A total of 52 crews representing six manufacturers have already registered for the …

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 …

Once behind the wheel of an F1 car, Fernando Alonso is one of the deadliest forces on the grid. The 41-year-old rider currently rides for the Alpine team alongside French rider Esteban Ocon. He recently landed his 98th career podium at the 2021 Qatar GP. However, when the F1 ace …

Achieving a total of 24 podiums, including six victories, thanks to his time in the Moto2 and Moto3 Worlds, Marco Bezzecchi made the jump to MotoGP while performing tests with his VR46 Racing Team motorcycle. Like Remy Gardner, Bezzecchi is among next year’s Championship rookies. But… what path did he …

Fernando Alonso of Alpine has said he will undergo surgery in January to remove titanium plates from his jaw that were installed after a traffic accident earlier this year. The two-time world champion fractured his jaw in a collision with a car while cycling on a road near his home …

A crazy Formula 1 season ended in Abu Dhabi on Sunday, and the world is still digesting everything that happened, both on the track and at race control at the Yas Marina circuit. As the dust of the drama settles, we take a look at some of the things we …

With an increasingly distant stint in MotoGP, WorldSBK legend Jonathan Rea feels satisfied that he never had the opportunity to make it to the Grand Prix paddock. Rea, who finished runner-up to Toprak Razgatlioglu in the 2021 WorldSBK championship – another rider who has been highly touted for a MotoGP …

LONDON (Reuters) – UK Housing Minister Michael Gove and Grenfell Tower fire survivors called on Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes Formula 1 team to reconsider sponsorship deal with a company linked to the London disaster in 2017. Defending champions Mercedes this week announced a partnership with Kingspan, an Irish company that produces …

Rossi vs Lorenzo, Doohan vs Criville and more – check out some classic teammate battles for the world championship In motorsport, it is said that your first rival is your teammate. Same team, same equipment, equal playing field. So we thought it would be good to take a little trip …

The seasoned Argentinian will join nine-time world rally champion Sébastien Loeb and two-time Dakar winner Nani Roma to drive the BRX Hunter T1 + at the event in Saudi Arabia from January 1 to 14. Last weekend, organizers unveiled the route for next year’s rally, which will see competitors cover …

THEY really saved the best for last! Yamaha R1 GYTR VR46 Tribute unveiled live at EICMA. The bike includes a host of track goodies and a paint scheme inspired by the nine-time world champion. Tribute to the Yamaha R1 GYTR VR46 Having made his debut 26 years ago, Rossi has …

Toto Wolff is excited and spoiled for a fight as his Mercedes team fights to be Formula 1 champions for an unprecedented eighth consecutive year and Lewis Hamilton loves it. Wolff and Red Bull boss Christian Horner started the war of words and the Mercedes man was soaring in Brazil …

Danilo Petrucci has confirmed that he will take an important MotoGP step towards rally raid with the aim of participating in the Dakar Rally 2022 with KTM. The Italian, a two-time MotoGP race winner, will take part in his final first-class event in Valencia this weekend after being excluded from …

SBK world champion and MotoGP race winner Carlos Checa has announced that he will attempt to add another illustrious distinction to his repertoire when he starts the grueling Dakar Rally. The Spaniard is the latest in a line of top racers to give iconic but arduous rally-raid endurance a chance, …

Look at Quartararo’s results in 2021 – five wins and five more podiums, scoring points in every race – and his title win looks like the end of a fantastic campaign for the Yamaha rider. But take a step back and watch Quartararo’s path to the 2021 world title, it …

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 …

(Reuters) – Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen have traded the lead in the Formula 1 championship four times in six races and Sunday’s United States Grand Prix in Austin could bring another twist to history. Red Bull’s Verstappen leads Hamilton by six points after 16 of 22 races, but the …

India saw a car racing star once in a decade, in the 2000s it was Narayan Karthikeyan, then in the 2010s it was Karun Chandok, both reached the top of the race from Formula when they became Formula 1 drivers. Narayan Karthikeyan became and remains the only Indian to score …

THE TOP 49 of the coolest neighborhoods in the world have been unveiled. Kemp Town was ranked 26th in Time Out’s World’s Coolest Neighborhoods list. The Danish district of Nørrebro in Copenhagen tops the annual list of cultural and culinary hotspots from around the world. The list, which has been …

Two Australians will be on the grid for the first time in 13 years when Australian MotoGP returns to Phillip Island next year after a race date has been confirmed. Dates are set for the Australian round of the 2022 MotoGP season, which will feature two Australians on the grid …

Here is a summary of current sports news. Tennis-Tsitsipas anticipates fewer toilet breaks in Indian Wells Stefanos Tsitsipas, who came under scrutiny at the US Open for the timing and length of his mid-game bathroom breaks, said on Wednesday that the dry conditions in Indian Wells would mean less travel …

In what was arguably his best race since coming back from injury, Marc Marquez’s seventh MotoGP victory in COTA also saw Repsol Honda claim a stunning 450th podium in the premier class. MotoGP Crash Podcast – Click here to listen to Keith Huewen, Harry Benjamin and our own Pete McLaren …

AUSTIN (Texas): Marc Marquez reaffirmed his mastery of the Circuit of the Americas on Sunday by winning the MotoGP Grand Prix of the Americas for the seventh time. Marquez, starting third on the grid, took the lead at the start and led relentlessly to victory over French championship leader Fabio …

BT Sport has launched Innovate 21 – a new competition aimed at discovering the next big ideas in sports broadcasting. AriSports, the brainchild of Rassim and Djewed Hariz, won the competition with the creation of a digital prediction platform. After wowing judges Suzi Perry, Brian O’Driscoll and Robbie Savage, AriSports …

By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) – George Russell’s breathtaking form in qualifying and racing this season shows his Williams car isn’t as bad as it sounds, according to Formula One championship leader Max Verstappen. The Briton qualified third for the Russian Grand Prix on Sunday after also starting on the front …

This is understandable. Currently, Valentino Rossi’s biggest problem is not so much trying to be faster on the home circuit, but answering all the questions about his team’s future in MotoGP. He confirmed it, a little jokingly, by responding for the umpteenth time to the slogan of the season. “The …

Michael Schumacher does not need to be introduced. A multiple world champion racing driver, he reached the top of Formula 1 with seven world titles. Now Netflix offers an unprecedented look into the life and career of the driver. Fully supported by his family, Schumacher features rare interviews and previously …

McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris makes no bones of the fact that he is a bit of a self-doubter. Despite all he has achieved in his motor racing career, and especially amid what has been a stellar 2021 campaign, he is not one to let himself get carried away …

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 …

By Alan Baldwin LONDON (Reuters) – Max Verstappen’s British Grand Prix collision with Lewis Hamilton cost Red Bull $ 1.8 million with “massive ramifications” for a team operating under the Formula 1 budget cap, Director Christian Horner said on Friday. In a combative column on the Red Bull website, Horner …

By Alan Baldwin SILVERSTONE, England (Reuters) – Red Bull Formula One World Championship leader Max Verstappen crashed in the British Grand Prix on Sunday after colliding with title rival Mercedes Lewis Hamilton, during the first lap, the race then being interrupted. The Dutch driver stood alone after getting out of …

By Alan Baldwin SILVERSTONE, England (Reuters) -Max Verstappen took pole position at the British Grand Prix and made Formula One history by winning the sport’s first sprint race on Saturday to extend his lead over Lewis Hamilton to 33 points. Seven-time world champion Hamilton will start alongside his Dutch rival …

The year 2003 was immortalized for Ducati in MotoGP, Loris Capirossi securing the manufacturer’s very first victory in the premier class at the Catalan GP, ​​which the rider now remembers. “Barcelona in 2003 was an incredible moment. It was the first year for Ducati and that year the bike was …

Alex Marquez is the only Moto3 and Moto2 world champion rider, to have reached MotoGP as a champion in the intermediate category. But there is no meeting with the media where he does not have to talk about his brother, the eight-time world champion … and that irritates him deeply. …

(Reuters) – Chinese test driver Guanyu Zhou made his Formula 1 test debut with Renault-owned Alpine in Austria and thanked two-time world champion Fernando Alonso for his helpful advice and for lending him his car. The 22-year-old Shanghai-born driver, current Formula 2 championship leader, was 14th fastest in the morning …

Marquez had a huge highside in the second training session in Assen last Friday and injured his right ankle after a heavy impact with the ground. The crash was blamed on Honda’s electronics, Marquez admitting he was “angry” with the way the crash happened and lost confidence in the bike …

By Alan Baldwin (Reuters) – Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the Styrian Grand Prix on Sunday by a huge margin to take a worrying 18-point lead over Lewis Hamilton in the battle for the Formula 1 championship after eight races. Verstappen led from start to finish on the Austrian Red …

Formula One Haas boss Guenther Steiner has revealed that he only found out about Mick Schumacher’s seat issue after German rookie mother Corinna told him about it. Schumacher, son of the great and seven-time world champion Ferrari Michael, told reporters at the Styrian Grand Prix on Thursday that he had …

(Reuters) – Valteri Bottas lost three grid places at the Styrian Formula 1 Grand Prix for dangerous driving after losing control and spinning his Mercedes through the pit lane during practice on Friday. The stewards also awarded the Finn two penalty points for the incident in the second session of …

(Reuters) – Formula One rookie Mick Schumacher has been sitting askew in his car since the first race with Haas in March, the German revealed Thursday. The 22-year-old son of the great and seven-time Ferrari world champion Michael told reporters that the issue was not a major concern, however. “I …

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 …

After no scoring in the last two rounds, Marc Marquez started his first Catalan MotoGP at home since 2019 with only the 15th fastest lap in Friday practice. But the Repsol Honda rider, forced to change his riding style due to his healing of his right arm and shoulder, was …

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 …

Watch Sunday’s semi-finals and finals live on Sky Sports Action and Mix from 11am then 3pm Last update: 05/29/21 8:59 PM 2:39 Chip Ganassi driver Kyle Leduc was on track to help the team climb to the top of the qualifying standings in Senegal, but a power outage meant 3 …

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 …

Max Verstappen won the Monaco Grand Prix to take the lead in the Formula 1 World Championship standings after misfortune derailed poleman Charles Leclerc before the start. While world champion Lewis Hamilton was angry with his Mercedes team, Verstappen, who had gone forward after Leclerc’s Ferrari was excluded following a …

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 …

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 …

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 …