Matt Beer

Gaming

All-Star champion Jajovski joins Grosjean’s esports team

Erhan Jajovski, The Race All-Star Cup champion, has joined Romain Grosjean’s newly launched R8G Esports team

Formula 1

Brawn: F1 budget cap will be cut to $145m

Formula 1’s new cost cap will be cut from $175million to $145m, according to motorsport director Ross Brawn

Formula 1

F1 will look to split teams into paddock ‘bubbles’

Formula 1 managing director of motorsports boss Ross Brawn has revealed teams will not be allowed to mingle as part of plans to create a “biosphere” at races when the season finally starts

Formula 1

How to solve the naming problem posed by same-track F1 races

Formula 1 might have bigger problems to solve right now than what to call multiple grands prix at the same location – but it’s still a fascinating conundrum to consider

Formula 1

Albon wins Virtual Dutch GP after fraught Leclerc battle

Alex Albon won Formula 1’s Virtual Dutch Grand Prix, held on the Interlagos circuit, after an epic battle with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc – the pair swapping the lead 26 times

Formula 1

How Prost ensured Lauda’s final F1 win was a Zandvoort classic

The first grand prix at Zandvoort since 1985 should have happened today. Edd Straw revisits the last Dutch Grand Prix – won in style in 1985 by Niki Lauda – as part of our F1 Revisited series

Gaming

Viñales becomes third MotoGP esport winner in three races

Maverick Viñales has taken victory in MotoGP’s third virtual Grand Prix at the Circuito Jerez, becoming the third different winner in as many races

Gaming

Why stupid behaviour is undermining racing’s only alternative

The behaviour in Saturday’s IndyCar iRacing Challenge at Indianapolis didn’t just have an impact on one virtual race – it could damage the reputation of a community who have worked hard to earn respect, says Jack Benyon

Gaming

Norris, Brown react to Pagenaud’s ‘take out Lando’ comment

Lando Norris and his McLaren Formula 1 team boss Zak Brown have reacted to the stream where reigning Indianapolis 500 winner Simon Pagenaud says “let’s take out Lando”, while Red Bull’s Max Verstappen also appeared to have his say

Gaming

iRacing VP labels IndyCar ending a ‘mockery’

The Executive Vice President of iRacing.com, Steve Myers, says the IndyCar finish where multiple drivers were taken out and an online feud between Simon Pagenaud and Lando Norris was ignited made a “mockery” of a “great opportunity for the series and iRacing”

Formula 1

Video: Every current F1 team’s worst car

Formula 1 teams like celebrating their great cars from the past, but what about the worst? The Race’s latest video looks back

Formula 1

Fall-outs and Ferrari can’t tempt Hamilton from Mercedes

Rumours of Lewis Hamilton departing Mercedes for Ferrari swirl the Formula 1 paddock with regularity, but the love story between the six-time world champion and perhaps the most successful team in history will take some breaking up

Formula 1

14 circuits F1 should – and could – bring back

On the weekend Zandvoort was poised to make its return to the F1 calendar, we look at other tracks that would warrant a comeback grand prix

Gaming

Bentley joins the grid for second All-Star series

Bentley is the latest manufacturer to join the grid for the new season of The Race All-Star Series Powered by ROKiT Phones.

Gaming

Aston Martin reveals livery for All-Star series debut

Aston Martin has revealed its livery for its esports debut on Saturday with The Race All-Star Series Powered by ROKiT Phones

Formula 1

F1 wants to create ‘biosphere’ at first races

The likelihood of the Formula 1 season starting with an Austrian Grand Prix double-header is rooted in the championship’s desire to create a “biosphere” at early grands prix

Formula 1

Hungarian GP set to be held without fans

Formula 1’s Hungarian Grand Prix will “only be possible” without spectators following a government ban on major events that stretches to mid-August

Formula 1

The top 10 pro drivers in April’s esports races

As esports continues to dominate the motorsport headlines amid the coronavirus pandemic, we present our ranking of the best real-life stars turned simracers for April

Formula 1

F1’s numbers game: The biggest loser

No number has raced in as many grands prix without winning, but despite its penchant for mediocrity 29 did flirt with glory with an unlikely team

NASCAR

NASCAR announces mid-May return to racing

NASCAR will resume real-world racing as soon as May 17, albeit without fans in attendance

Formula 1

Steiner’s F-Word column: F1 teams are good at the impossible

In his latest column for The Race, Guenther Steiner talks about the role of Formula 1 in the current global situation and what it can do to survive after the crisis

Gaming

Sim stars: The man to beat in Porsche’s iRacing league

In the spotlight this week is Porsche Esports Supercup champion Josh Rogers as the new season gets underway this weekend

Gaming

Details for the new All-Star Series season revealed

Top automotive brands including BMW and Aston Martin will be among the manufacturers entering teams in the new season of The Race All-Star Series powered by ROKiT Phones

Gaming

Solberg and more sports stars join Virtual GP grid

World Rally and World Rallycross champion Petter Solberg will join five confirmed Formula 1 drivers and other sports stars in F1’s Virtual Grand Prix this weekend.

Formula 1

6 things Racing Point must do to hit victory target

Racing Point has set an ambitious timeline for being in contention for victories, but what are the key steps in achieving that?

Formula 1

How a short F1 season changes the game

How long does the 2020 Formula 1 season need to be for the champion to feel credible? Or would winning a shortened championship actually be a greater achievement?

Touring Car

DTM can’t survive Audi exit without radical change

Following the news that Audi will quit the DTM, long-time driver Mattias Ekstrom talks The Race through the series’ downward spiral and the only way he sees it surviving

Formula 1

Gary Anderson podcast: Can F1’s season restart plan work?

Gary Anderson gives his verdict on Formula 1’s recently-revealed hopes to start the 2020 season with July’s Austrian Grand Prix in the latest edition of his podcast

Gaming

Inside the ultimate gamer-to-racer challenge

World’s Fastest Gamer winner James Baldwin talks The Race through every step of his journey to victory and a Jenson Team Rocket RJN McLaren GT drive

Formula 1

The innovation that makes Mercedes as proud as DAS

Mercedes’ adventurous rear suspension layout change on its 2020 Formula 1 car is as creative as its dual-axis steering system, says technical director James Allison

MotoGP

MotoGP announces first 2020 race cancellations

MotoGP organiser Dorna has confirmed that at least three planned 2020 grands prix will not happen at all, with the German, Dutch and Finnish rounds all called off

Formula 1

The ex-F1 racer in awe at his esports opposition

Long-time Formula 1 racer Vitantonio Liuzzi is loving his esports baptism in The Race Legends Trophy and SRO E-Sports, but it’s not been easy

MotoGP

Why Crutchlow wants retirement talk to stop

Many expect 2020 to be Cal Crutchlow’s final MotoGP season, but that’s not how he’s thinking – as he tells The Race in an exclusive interview about his future and life in lockdown

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