Matt Beer

MotoGP

Podcast: Assessing the fallout from the MotoGP season opener

Simon Patterson and Toby Moody round up all the fallout from MotoGP’s season-opening race at Jerez in the latest episode of our podcast

Formula 1

Bottas must raise his game to save the 2020 season

W Series driver Alice Powell is back with another post-grand prix column – and a warning for what the 2020 Formula 1 season might become if no-one raises their game to match a dominant Lewis Hamilton

Formula 1

Vettel: Racing Point/Aston project ‘sounds exciting’

Sebastian Vettel says the Racing Point/Aston Martin Formula 1 project “sounds exciting” but he is trying to look beyond first impressions as he weighs up his future

Formula 1

Ferrari’s Hungarian GP verdict reveals a bleak picture

The Hungarian Grand Prix had initially looked promising for Ferrari but those hopes quickly came unravelled on race day, revealing the true extent of a situation the Formula 1 team “cannot be happy at all” with

Formula 1

Podcast: Heroics and wasted chances in the Hungarian GP

How did Max Verstappen get second in an off-the-pace car he’d crashed pre-race? Should Racing Point be disappointed? Are there any positives for Ferrari? Our F1 experts debate all those questions and more

Formula 1

How a steering wheel light tricked Bottas at the start

Mercedes Formula 1 driver Valtteri Bottas says the distraction of a steering wheel light was behind his compromised start to the Hungarian Grand Prix

Formula 1

Renault protests Racing Point again at the Hungarian GP

The Racing Point Formula 1 cars have been protested again by Renault following the 2020 Hungarian Grand Prix

Formula 1

Verstappen repair ‘would usually take 90 minutes’

Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Christian Horner said the last-minute repair job that allowed Max Verstappen to take part in the Hungarian Grand Prix following his pre-race crash “would usually take an hour and a half”

Formula 1

Haas summoned to stewards over alleged driver aids breach

The Haas Formula 1 team has been summoned to the Hungarian Grand Prix stewards over an alleged breach of the rules precluding driver aids during the formation lap

Formula 1

The Hungarian Grand Prix as it happened

Catch up on all the action of the 2020 Formula 1 Hungarian Grand Prix, as it happened with our lap-by-lap review

Formula 1

Can Mercedes make 2020 a clean sweep? Our verdict

After another peerless performance from Mercedes at the Hungarian Grand Prix, our writers ask if a clean-sweep of races in the 2020 Formula 1 season is possible

Formula 1

Hamilton wins, Verstappen second despite pre-race crash

Lewis Hamilton dominated a wet/dry Hungarian Grand Prix and deposed Valtteri Bottas from the Formula 1 world championship lead as the other Mercedes was unable to deprive Max Verstappen’s Red Bull of second

Formula 1

Verstappen crashes before Hungary start but will make the race

Max Verstappen crashed on a reconnaissance lap ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix, damaging the front-left of his Red Bull, but his team managed to complete repairs in time for the start

Formula 1

Hungarian GP Q&A with F1 writer Scott Mitchell

The Race Formula 1 writer Scott Mitchell will be holding another live reader Q&A tonight following the Hungarian Grand Prix

Formula 1

Wolff explains engine ‘bullshit’ and Mercedes’ ‘ironic’ gains

Toto Wolff believes Mercedes has been pushed to “ironic” engine gains and says it is “complete bullshit” a legal design would be impacted by technical directives, as Ferrari has claimed

Formula 1

Gasly gets new engine after Hungary qualifying problems

AlphaTauri driver Pierre Gasly will take a new Honda engine for the Hungarian Grand Prix after the problems that prevented him from running in Q3

GT

Watch the Super GT season-opener live on The Race

The 2020 Super GT season begins on Sunday morning UK time, and you can watch it live and for free on The Race and our YouTube channel

Formula 1

Hamilton reveals gains as Red Bull slump surprises Mercedes

Lewis Hamilton has pointed to the gains made by Mercedes in high-speed corners as a big step since 2019 after outpacing Max Verstappen by 1.4s at a circuit where he admitted he expected Red Bull to be a bigger threat

Formula 1

How worried should Red Bull be? Our verdict

The Hungarian Grand Prix weekend has so far been a disappointing one for Red Bull – compounded by a poor qualifying session on Saturday. Our experts give their verdicts on just how worried the team should be

MotoGP

Quartararo snatches Jerez MotoGP pole from Vinales

Fabio Quartararo beat his own record time around Jerez to win a thrilling qualifying fight with Maverick Vinales and Marc Marquez at MotoGP’s season-opening Spanish Grand Prix

Formula 1

What storylines to watch in Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying

Practice for the Hungarian Grand Prix is over and now the real challenge begins as teams head into qualifying. Scott Mitchell and Edd Straw round up the biggest storylines to keep an eye on in the battle to set the grid

MotoGP

Quartararo tops MotoGP Jerez third practice

Petronas Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo topped the third practice session for MotoGP’s opening race of 2020 at Jerez

Formula 1

The rule change at the heart of the Racing Point/Renault row

Renault’s protest against Racing Point’s brake ducts hinges on the stewards’ interpretation of the process a team must follow to prove its designs are its own, even if heavily based on a part used by another team

Formula 1

Mercedes’ advantage may not be as enormous as it looks

Mercedes appeared to have a gigantic cushion over its rivals in Hungarian Grand Prix practice, but there were reasons to suspect this was an even more confusing Friday than usual

Formula 1

Why Mercedes is not implicated in Renault vs Racing Point

Mercedes is not implicated in the Racing Point/Renault protest because there is no indication it supplied information relating to components in 2020, says the FIA

Formula 1

Racing Point: No intention not to honour Perez/Stroll deals

Racing Point team principal Otmar Szafnauer has said the outfit has no intention not to honour its current drivers’ contracts, yet declined to confirm the line-up would remain unchanged amid links to Sebastian Vettel

Formula 1

F1 records first positive COVID-19 tests in Hungary

Formula 1’s third round of post-restart testing for COVID-19 has yielded two positive results, the championship and its governing body FIA have announced

MotoGP

Morbidelli leads Petronas Yamaha 1-2 in second practice

Petronas SRT Yamaha repeated its 1-2 from last year’s Jerez MotoGP qualifying session in second practice at this year’s opener, but the sweltering tempeatures meant the times still don’t get Franco Morbidelli and Fabio Quartararo straight into Q2. Quartararo – who was parked for 20 minutes of the mo

MotoGP

Marquez beats Vinales in ultra-close first practice of 2020

Marc Marquez was narrowly fastest as the 2020 MotoGP season belatedly began with opening practice for the first of the two back-to-back Jerez races

Formula 1

Cagey Thursday shows reality of Vettel/Aston ‘rumours’

The efforts of Sebastian Vettel, Lance Stroll and Sergio Perez to play down the Vettel/Aston Martin rumours only served to increase the speculation

Formula 1

Norris explains root of Austria physical pain

McLaren driver Lando Norris says the pain he felt while contesting the Styrian Grand Prix last weekend was a consequence of the long hiatus in Formula 1 track action

Formula 1

Perez approached by another team amid Vettel Aston rumours

Sergio Perez says he’s been getting other offers as rumours of a 2021 Sebastian Vettel/Aston Martin deal intensify, but is adamant he expects to stay at his current team given his contract

Formula 1

Renault faces first real test after circuit it was scared of

The Renault Formula 1 team faces a “curious” test of its ambitions at this weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix after clearing a double-header at the Red Bull Ring, a circuit it was “the most scared of”

GT

Watch Super GT exclusively live on The Race all season

The Race YouTube channel will broadcast the full 2020 Super GT season live – the only place outside Japan where the spectacular sportscar series can be watched

Formula E

ABB to supply fast-charging tech for Formula E Gen3

ABB, the title partner of the Formula E Championship, will supply the technology and infrastructure for the fast charging which will be part of the Gen 3 landscape of the series

Formula 1

Hamilton’s ‘spice it up’ call will be music to Brawn’s ears

Lewis Hamilton’s call for Formula 1 to look at ways to “spice it up” in its Silverstone double-header will go down well with Ross Brawn, but this isn’t just about reviving the reversed-grids argument

MotoGP

Podcast: MotoGP season preview take two + rider market latest

MotoGP’s 2020 season is finally here, and The Race MotoGP podcast is having a second crack at previewing the campaign

Formula E

Bird: Jaguar opportunity ‘not to be missed’

New Jaguar driver Sam Bird says that his switch to the British based manufacturer was “not to be missed” as he hopes to lay out his aims to achieve more future Formula E success

Formula 1

Video: Why Ferrari’s crisis runs much deeper than drivers colliding

In our latest video, we look at Ferrari’s disastrous start to the 2020 Formula 1 season and assess just how bad things are – with its problems rooted far deeper than just its drivers colliding on the first lap at the Styrian Grand Prix

Formula 1

The verdict that sets a concerning precedent for F1

Lance Stroll’s late move on Daniel Ricciardo wasn’t penalised by the Styrian Grand Prix stewards – and that decision represents a concerning position for Formula 1 to take, says Scott Mitchell