Valentin Khorounzhiy

Formula 1

Verstappen dominates round two of Redline’s pro driver series

Max Verstappen cruised to a pair of race wins in the second round of Team Redline’s ‘Real Racers Never Quit’ series, this time held at Barcelona in GTE machinery

MotoGP

Why MotoGP’s pre-season favourite is no longer ‘angry’

Eager to move beyond his moniker of MotoGP’s winter testing champion, Maverick Vinales aims to head into the 2020 season with a different mindset

MotoGP

Podcast: Rossi’s future amid MotoGP delays

Valentino Rossi’s post-2020 plans were already unclear before the current MotoGP season was delayed by COVID-19. But will the unusual situation impact the timing of his decision?

Formula 1

Why F1’s first Virtual GP had the perfect winner

Guanyu Zhou was the ideal winner for F1’s first-ever virtual grand prix as, much like online racing itself, he could prove very important to the series in the future

Formula 1

How F1 should tackle the McLaren-Mercedes problem

The 2021 delay has created a sudden complication to McLaren’s impending engine switch, but F1 can still ensure the team isn’t hindered unduly

Gaming

Wins for Hoyer and Siebel in rFactor2 GT Challenge

Michi Hoyer and Alex Siebel shared the spoils in the second round of the rFactor2 GT Challenge

Formula 1

Verstappen wins, collides with Norris in Redline pro driver event

Red Bull Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen won the first race of Team Redline’s ‘Real Racers Never Quit’ online series, before clashing with Lando Norris in race two

Formula 1

F1 targeting summer start for ’15-18 race’ season

Formula 1 chairman Chase Carey expects the 2020 grand prix season to start “at some point this summer”, with a reduced calendar of 15-18 races

Gaming

The pro racer determined to take on the Esports elite

The top finisher in the second All-Star Esports Battle, Dani Juncadella once “couldn’t believe” the gap between himself and the pro sim races – but is now fully intent on taking the fight to them

Gaming

The most authentic Esports race deserved a bigger audience

Those who caught Sunday’s eNASCAR race could have been forgiven for thinking it was the real thing – and other Esports events could learn from its authenticity

Formula 1

Why F1 should embrace its silly side in desperate times

F1’s inaugural Virtual GP couldn’t have passed for a serious Esports event, and so instead found its niche as a bit of light entertainment – aided by a star appearance from McLaren’s Lando Norris

Formula 1

Hulkenberg signs up for second All-Star Esports Battle

Ex-Formula 1 driver Nico Hulkenberg will contest the second edition of The Race’s All-Star Esports Battle this Saturday. Hulkenberg joins a packed event entry list of top motorsport names that include Max Verstappen, Juan Pablo Montoya and Formula E championship leader Antonio Felix da Costa. A cham

Formula E

What each Formula E team is up to amid the coronavirus break

The Race has spoken to every team on the Formula E grid and collated their current operational status and how they are dealing with the coronavirus crisis

Formula 1

Why Vettel faces soul-searching over his F1 future

The 2020 season was set to be pivotal to Sebastian Vettel’s Formula 1 career, so how much will this delay affect his morale and drive to make a point at Ferrari? Mark Hughes writes on the soul-searching the four-time world champion should do in the gap

Formula 1

F1 to run online races with ‘current F1 drivers’

Formula 1 will run virtual versions of its postponed grands prix with “a number of current drivers” taking part, starting with a 50%-distance Bahrain race on Sunday

Formula 1

How F1 saved itself in an era-defining week

In what may have been the most seismic week in F1 history, the series went from shame to salvation by taking decisive action in light of COVID-19

Formula 1

Podcast: The huge consequences of F1’s major rules delay

The wide-reaching implications of the postponement of the 2021 Formula 1 regulations to the following season are discussed in the latest episode of The Race F1 Podcast

Formula 1

Monaco GP will not be held in 2020

The Monaco Grand Prix will not be part of the Formula 1 season for the first time since 1954 after organisers opted to cancel the race completely.

Gaming

WRC 9 gets September release date, next-gen versions

Kylotonn, the developer of the licensed World Rally Championship games, has announced that WRC 9 will be released in September

Formula 1

F1 teams agree to delay new rules package to 2022

Formula 1, its teams and its governing body FIA have agreed to delay the introduction of the planned technical rules overhaul to 2022 to combat the financial loss of a reduced calendar this season

Gaming

Who is the Esports All-Star that upstaged pro racers?

Prevailing over the likes of Max Verstappen and Felix Rosenqvist in the All-Star Esports Battle is just the latest note on rFactor 2 ace Jernej Simoncic’s curious CV

Formula 1

Ferrari adds eROC champion to F1 Esports roster

The inaugural eROC champion Enzo Bonito has joined Ferrari’s Esports team for the 2020 Formula 1 Esports Series

Formula 1

Gary Anderson: F1 must delay 2021 rules and freeze upgrades

To offset the financial damage done to F1 teams by coronavirus, the championship needs to pair a proposed delay to its next-gen ‘2021’ car with a development freeze

Formula 1

The teams that F1’s hiatus hits hardest

While none of F1 welcomes the coronavirus-induced 2020 cancellations, certain teams will be particularly peeved about missing out on early-season opportunities

Gaming

Rosenqvist ‘got 15 messages’ for sim racing help from fellow pros

IndyCar driver Felix Rosenqvist says he received “15 messages” to advise real-life drivers on how to get set up for sim racing, as he impressed in The Race’s All-Star Esports Battle.

Formula 1

Why F1 double-headers would be a slippery slope

Two-race F1 weekends may end up a necessary evil amid the coronavirus disruptions of 2020 – but the championship shouldn’t see the idea as anything beyond an emergency measure.

Formula E

Can Formula E survive the coronavirus crisis?

Formula E is better-placed now to cope with a crisis than it was at its inception – but COVID-19 could still have long-lasting implications for the series

Gaming

Penalties halt Verstappen charge as Tormala takes GT Pro win

Red Bull Esports driver Joni Tormala won the second round of the GT Pro Series on rFactor 2 held at the Nurburgring GP circuit, as Formula 1’s Max Verstappen was stymied by a pair of penalties

Formula 1

Six things we learned from racing’s surprise saviours

As real-life motorsport had its bumper weekend devastated by the coronavirus, Esports was there to pick up the slack. But what does its sudden appearance in the spotlight tell us about the future?

MotoGP

MotoGP season could end in January 2021 – FIM

FIM President Jorge Viegas says it would not be “taboo” for MotoGP to consider ending its 2020 season in January 2021 due to the current coronavirus-caused disruptions

Formula 1

What we missed out on most in Melbourne

The postponement of the Australian Grand Prix has left curious Formula 1 fans painfully short of answers to these pressing questions about the state of play in the championship in 2020

Formula 1

Video: 10 career moves F1 drivers never recovered from

From Eddie Irvine’s Jaguar move to Jacques Villeneuve’s BAR deal, our video looks back at 10 career moves F1 drivers never bounced back from