Formula E Esports Podcast: The ‘double-duty’ pros starring in simraces This week’s The Race Esports Podcast has real-life flavour, with Formula E frontrunner Maximilian Guenther and IndyCar driver Sage Karam discussing their simracing successes across multiple series
Formula 1 F1 extends shutdown to weeks before planned season start The shutdown for Formula 1 teams and engine manufacturers has been extended into June, just weeks before the mooted start of the 2020 season
Formula 1 Steiner couldn’t be Haas-like boss at big corporate team Guenther Steiner says he could not be the team boss he is at Haas in a “big, corporate” Formula 1 operation, because he would not be afforded the same “freedom”
Formula 1 Why I hated: The 1998 F1 season Formula 1 went from wide-open competition and wide, imposing cars in 1997 to a two-horse race in stunted machines on grooved tyres in 1998, leaving Matt Beer underwhelmed
Touring Car Audi to pull out of the DTM at the end of 2020 Audi has announced it will pull out of the German touring car series DTM at the conclusion of the 2020 season, focusing on Formula E and its customer racing programmes
Gaming The 2020 motorsport esports schedule With the real-world motorsport calendar looking empty until May at the very earliest, we’re compiling a constantly updated list of when and where the top-level simraces are happening
Gaming How Jajovski achieved All-Star dominance The Race All-Star Cup champion Erhan Jajovski takes us through his championship winning campaign, after claiming the grand prize of a Formula 1 simulator chance last weekend
MotoGP Marquez moots MotoGP ‘contract freeze’ – but would it work? Reigning MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez has waded into the discussion about freezing the series’ rider contracts for 2020, admitting that he’s not opposed to the idea of continuing this year’s deals to 2021
Formula E New Italian team eyes Formula E programme A new Formula E team known as Scuderia-E and owned by Fisker Automotive co-founder and investor Gianfranco Pizzuto is eying entry into the 2022 Formula E Championship
Gaming Estoril win boosts Simoncic’s FSR World Championship lead Jernej Simoncic became the first driver to win two races this season in the Formula SimRacing World Championship with a lights to flag victory at Estoril
Formula 1 French Grand Prix officially cancelled for 2020 The French Grand Prix has been cancelled, guaranteeing at least half of the Formula 1 races scheduled for 2020 have now been affected by the COVID-19 crisis
Formula 1 Silverstone rules out fans attending its 2020 F1 race This year’s British Grand Prix will be held without spectators if it goes ahead, with a behind-closed-doors Formula 1 race at Silverstone still possible
Formula 1 The Race F1 Podcast: McLaren’s interrupted revival McLaren’s revival was one of the big talking points of the 2019 Formula 1 season, with hopes high for another step in 2020. Our F1 podcast goes in depth on the team’s progress, and how the emergency moves amid the coronavirus crisis might affect it
Formula 1 Six hurdles to overcome for ‘closed-doors’ racing As moves towards motorsport beginning again without fans present accelerate, we explore the many challenges facing that process
NASCAR Newman set for return after crash that bruised his brain Ryan Newman says he is healthy and ready to return to on-track action when NASCAR resumes, following his traumatic crash at the Daytona 500 which caused bruising to his brain
Formula 1 F1’s numbers game: The stunning anomalies of 22 Many world champions tried and failed to write #22 into the history books. From a blaze of ignominy and failure came extraordinary success – two years in a row
Gaming BS+Competition wins Nurburgring 24H as Redline cars crash BS+COMPETITION won the 2020 24 Hours Nurburgring iRacing event, beating the MAHLE Racing Team by only 27 seconds at the end
Formula 1 ‘Unblemished’ Hamilton shuns ‘ugly’ tactics – Allison Mercedes technical director James Allison says Lewis Hamilton’s aversion to “ugly” tactics means he has an “utterly unblemished record” that’s unprecedented amongst Formula 1’s most successful drivers
Gaming Norris would ‘love’ to defend debut iRacing IndyCar win McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris says he would “love” to defend his debut IndyCar iRacing Challenge victory with a return on the Indianapolis oval series finale next week
MotoGP Rossi admits he’s likely to stay in MotoGP into 2021 Valentino Rossi reckons it’s unlikely 2020 will be his last in MotoGP, but what are his realistic 2021 options?
Gaming Leclerc to represent Ferrari in SRO E-Sport GT Series Formula 1 race winner Charles Leclerc is one of the seven drivers who will race for Ferrari in the SRO E-Sport GT Series
Gaming IndyCar iRacing Challenge to contest Indianapolis oval The final round of the IndyCar iRacing Challenge will be held on the Indianapolis oval, the home of the Indy 500. The iRacing Challenge was introduced as a six-event series to plug the gap of the lack of real-life racing due to the coronavirus outbreak. IndyCar’s revised calendar is due to get going
Gaming Norris survives spin and pop-up window for IndyCar win McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris overcame a costly spin and a pop-up window on his computer screen to storm back to victory in a stunning IndyCar iRacing Challenge debut at the Circuit of the Americas, in a team 1-2
Gaming Jajovski takes grand prize in The Race All-Star Cup Erhan Jajovski completed a trio of race wins and won the drivers’ championship, while Max Guenther was the highest-scoring real-world driver in The Race All-Star Cup – Fully Charged by ROKiT Phones
Gaming Solberg wins Nurburgring reverse-grid Legends race World Rally and World Rallycross champion Petter Solberg became the seventh different race winner in The Race Legends Trophy in the reverse-grid race at the Nurburgring
Gaming Four-time champion Gordon to make NASCAR iRacing debut Four-time Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon will make his iRacing debut in the NASCAR Pro Invitational Series at Talladega on Sunday
Gaming Epps, Vandoorne and Jajovski win All-Star qualifying heats Mike Epps, Stoffel Vandoorne and Erhan Jajovski won the three qualifying heats in the title decider for The Race All-Star Cup – Fully Charged by ROKiT Phones
Gaming Button claims his second Legends Trophy victory Formula 1 2009 world champion Jenson Button claimed his second win in the Legends Trophy contest as part of the The Race All-Star Battle – Fully Charged by ROKiT Phones
Formula E Guenther wins Formula E Hong Kong Race at Home challenge Maximilian Guenther took his second consecutive Formula E Race at Home Challenge win at Hong Kong, claiming the first maximum points available in the event which is being run in aid of UNICEF
Gaming Watch The Race All-Star Cup Series in full Watch The Race All-Star Cup Series on The Race and The Race’s YouTube channel, as well as the Legends Trophy
Formula 1 Former Fittipaldi F1 designer Ricardo Divila passes away aged 74 Experienced motorsport engineer Ricardo ‘Richard’ Divila, who designed the first Fittipaldi F1 cars, has died after a short illness at the age of 74
Formula 1 Leclerc: Reversing F1 tracks a ‘very cool’ idea Charles Leclerc says a Formula 1 race on a reversed track layout would be “very cool” and make relearning the circuit “completely from scratch” a fun challenge
Gaming Who’s who in The Race Legends Trophy this week? We run down the full list of Formula 1, IndyCar, rallying, sportscar and touring car heroes competing in The Race Legends Trophy this week
Gaming The different ambition behind Grosjean’s esports foray Romain Grosjean’s newly launched team, R8G esports, will contest its first race on Saturday in iRacing’s 24 Hours Nurburgring special event
Formula E Di Grassi on the ‘perfect storm’ threatening motorsport Lucas di Grassi describes the “perfect storm” that could threaten the very future of Formula E and Formula 1
Formula 1 Leclerc: Bianchi would have achieved more than me Charles Leclerc believes his mentor and fellow former Ferrari Academy driver Jules Bianchi would have “shown probably even more than what I do” in Formula 1 had he lived
Gaming Norris the ‘guy to chase’ on IndyCar debut McLaren Formula 1 driver Lando Norris is “P1” and “the guy to chase” on his IndyCar iRacing Challenge debut at the Circuit of the Americas, according to one of the series’ race winners
Formula 1 The cards Ferrari holds to navigate F1’s current crisis Ferrari has always held more political power than any other team in Formula 1 – but is that all about to change?
Formula 1 Why Grosjean hasn’t joined the F1 Esports party Haas F1 driver Romain Grosjean is one of the latest to dip his toes into esports, launching his own team, but he tells The Race why he is yet to make an official F1 appearance
MotoGP Assen and Sachsenring MotoGP races unlikely in 2020 The Dutch and German rounds of the 2020 MotoGP championship look set to become the latest to be postponed or cancelled, after far-reaching bans on large events were put in place by the respective governments
