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Gaming

Win a ROKiT iO Pro 3D smartphone

The Race All-Star Series partner ROKiT Phones is giving away a ROKiT iO Pro 3D smartphone during The Race All-Star Cup – Fully Charged by ROKiT Phones

Gaming

The pressure cooker awaiting World’s Fastest Gamer finalists

World’s Fastest Gamer 3 mobile qualifying gets underway today. The Race gets the inside story of what the process is like from two of the judges

Gaming

NASCAR champion Busch joins IndyCar iRacing grid

Double NASCAR champion Kyle Busch will make his IndyCar debut when he competes in this weekend’s iRacing Challenge event using the Motegi oval

Formula 1

Verstappen wins Redline legends opener

Max Verstappen, who won Team Redline’s original six round long iRacing championship, won the first race in the opening round of its motorsport legends themed follow-up series

Formula 1

Mercedes completes production of 10,000 breathing devices

The Mercedes Formula 1 engine division has completed an order of 10,000 breathing aids, with over 20,000 F1-assisted medical devices to help treat coronavirus patients being produced in total

Formula 1

Belgian GP date threatened by events ban

Formula 1’s Belgian Grand Prix’s scheduled date of August 30 appears unlikely to be maintained after the national government extended a ban on major events to the end of August

Formula 1

Video: Where did it all go wrong for Williams and BMW?

In this video we look at the key reasons BMW Williams couldn’t make the step from decent frontrunner to F1 championship-winning force

Formula 1

McLaren can’t rely on budget cap to catch top three

McLaren Formula 1 team principal Andreas Seidl insists the team cannot rely only on budget cap reductions and the eventual introduction of the new technical regulations in its aim of returning to race-winning, championship-contending form

Formula 1

F1 needs ‘public acceptance’ for races to be held – Seidl

Formula 1 will need to consider “public acceptance” of grands prix taking place before its 2020 season can begin, according to McLaren team boss Andreas Seidl

Formula 1

Verstappen scores podium hat-trick on Supercars online debut

Red Bull Racing Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen scored a hat-trick of second-place finishes on his debut outing in the Australian Supercars championship’s online series

Formula 1

Ricciardo reveals five most underrated F1 rivals

Daniel Ricciardo has revealed a list of five Formula 1 rivals he believes are the most underrated, including 2009 world champion Jenson Button and the late Jules Bianchi

Formula 1

Can Liberty afford to keep F1 in business through pandemic?

The coronavirus pandemic has ramifications for all businesses across the world – so how can Formula 1 safeguard itself against financial disaster?

Gaming

Podcast: What is an F1 simulator experience really like?

World’s Fastest Gamer Rudy van Buren and winner of last weekend’s second The Race Legends Trophy race Emanuele Pirro join Claire Cottingham and Jack Nicholls on The Race esports podcast this week

NASCAR

Ganassi officially fires Larson after iRacing controversy

Chip Ganassi Racing has fired its NASCAR Cup Series driver Kyle Larson, following the six-time race winner’s racial slur during an iRacing event last weekend

MotoGP

MotoGP’s plan to avoid collapse during lockdown

Like all championships, MotoGP has been thrown into unknown territory by the coronavirus pandemic – but it does have a plan to emerge unscathed

Formula 1

The format experiments F1 should try when it resumes

Following McLaren boss Zak Brown’s suggestion that Formula 1 should use its truncated 2020 season to trial new formats, here are our writers’ ideas for the experiments it should attempt

Formula E

The huge tech challenges in creating Formula E’s new car

The process of creating Formula E’s Gen3 car for 2022 is beginning, and it’s going to be by far the most advanced and complicated design in the championship yet

Gaming

McDonalds among sponsors dropping Larson

A number of sponsors including McDonalds have dropped NASCAR Cup Series racer Kyle Larson following his use of a racist slur during an iRacing contest last weekend

Formula 1

French GP postponement now imminent

The French Grand Prix is the latest Formula 1 race set to be postponed or cancelled, after the country extended a ban on events until mid-July

NASCAR

Larson suspended by NASCAR, Ganassi over iRacing controversy

NASCAR Cup Series frontrunner Kyle Larson has been suspended by his employer Chip Ganassi Racing without pay, after Larson apparently used a racist slur in an iRacing event on Sunday.

Gaming

How Earnhardt ended up on an IndyCar podium

NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt Jr taking a podium in an IndyCar race might be the most bizarre – and tantalising – outcome of motorsport’s coronavirus-enforced switch to the virtual world so far

Gaming

Sim star profiles: The iRacing ace who matched the F1 racers

Max Benecke is without a doubt one of the quickest on iRacing, which is astonishing given that five years ago he hadn’t even heard of it

Gaming

Brljak wins Indy FSR round as pursuers clash

Petar Brljak won the third World Championship round of the 2020 Formula SimRacing season, becoming the third different winner

Formula 1

Max Verstappen joins Supercars esports grid

Red Bull Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen will race in the next round of Supercars’ official esports stand-in championship Supercars All Stars Eseries

MotoGP

Ten race MotoGP season would be ‘like a dream’

Red Bull KTM Tech3 team boss and President of the International Race Teams Association Herve Poncharal has told The Race that he believes that completing ten races would be enough to allow MotoGP to decide the 2020 championship

Gaming

Larson controversy overshadows Monza Madness NASCAR event

A one-off NASCAR simracing event using the old Monza oval was won by esports regular Justin Botelho, but the race was overshadowed by controversy over Kyle Larson appearing to use a racist slur

Formula 1

How locked-down drivers are taking care of their minds

“Does the body rule the mind, or does the mind rule the body?” Apart from being a memorable lyric by seminal 1980s band The Smiths, it is a line that in the present climate could well become crucial for professional racing drivers throughout motorsport. Believe me when I tell you that several driver

Gaming

McLaughlin ready for IndyCar ‘whenever the call comes’

Supercars star Scott McLaughlin should be weeks away from his IndyCar debut, but instead faces uncertainty

Formula 1

What happened last time F1 used dropped scores?

Should Formula 1 bring back dropped points scores, it would mark the return to a system that was commonplace during the first 40 years of the world championship and changed the destiny of the drivers’ world championship twice

Formula 1

The Race Legends Trophy and All-Star Cup – full broadcast

It was a huge weekend for The Race All-Star Series as The Race All-Star Cup – Fully Charged by ROKiT Phones became a fully-fledged championship and the Legends Trophy added another Formula 1 world champion. You can watch all the action as it unfolded on the video below.

Formula 1

Who’s racing in The Race Legends Trophy this week?

The Race Legends Trophy has added a third Formula 1 world champion this week. Here’s a look at all the motorsport stars of the past slated to participate

Gaming

MotoGP’s big plans for its StayAtHomeGP esports stand-in

MotoGP plans to significantly increase its esports content in the coming weeks, as series promoter Dorna steps up its efforts to fill the void while the championship remains on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic

Formula 1

Good news stories from around the world of motorsport

We round-up all the feelgood, good news stories to emerge from around the world of motorsport during this time of global crisis

Formula 1

F1 urged to ‘experiment’ with formats when it resumes

Formula 1 should use the revised 2020 schedule to “experiment” with race weekend formats, reckons McLaren boss Zak Brown

Formula E

Formula E Gen3 plans under threat as tender deadline nears

The third rules set for the Formula E Championship – Gen3 – is set to become a key focus as the series looks at further future proofing itself for a post-COVID 19 world

Formula 1

Renault becomes latest F1 team to furlough staff

Renault has cut Formula 1 activities both at its Enstone chassis base in the United Kingdom and Viry-Chatillon engine headquarters in France in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, furloughing the “majority” of its staff

Formula 1

F1 drivers create virtual series as charity fundraiser

Six Formula 1 drivers including Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc have organised and will take part in a virtual championship to raise money for charity in response to the global health crisis

Gaming

The Race All-Star Series to be shown live on ESPN

The Race All-Star Series – Fully Charged by ROKiT Phones will be shown live on TV on ESPN, beginning with this Saturday’s edition

Gaming

Evans, Hansen lead new entries for The Race All-Star Cup

Jaguar Formula E driver Mitch Evans and World Rallycross frontrunner Kevin Hansen will make their The Race All-Star Cup – Fully Charged by ROKiT Phones debuts this weekend

Formula 1

Video: What F1 teams are arguing over without any racing

Formula 1 teams aren’t going to be competing on track again any time soon, but they are still busy behind the scenes and struggling to agree on crucial decisions