After a two-week respite following the year’s most eventful, chaotic and downright insane race, Formula 1 drivers shift gears and head to Sochi, Russia for the 2020 Russian Grand Prix. The Tuscan GP was wild, resulting in eight drivers retiring, a few crashes, two red flags and three standing starts. It was the first race […]
The Daily Star’s FREE newsletter is spectacular! Sign up today for the best stories straight to your inbox Fabio Quartararo says he's taking tips from Lewis Hamilton as he eyes MotoGP glory. The French rider is a rising star in the premier class and is tipped for superstardom. Quartararo, like Hamilton, is sponsored by Petronas […]
Australian MotoGP great Casey Stoner has declared that this year’s shortened, Europe-based championship is not the real deal. The two-time world champ also said Honda star Marc Marquez’s absence through injury meant no one was out there setting the standard, resulting in three first-time winners in just five MotoGP races. Stoner’s comments come as riders […]
MotoGP star Cal Crutchlow has shared stomach-churning footage of surgery on his broken wrist. The British motorcycle racer suffered the injury during the first round of the 2020 season in Spain in July and still raced the next weekend in the Andalusian GP. Now he has posted a clip from operation on his wrist – […]
It could (read as: probably will) be another history-making weekend for Lewis Hamilton. The living legend has an opportunity not only to lengthen his driver’s points lead — he’s currently leading Red Bull’s Max Verstappen 157 to 110 — but to set the Italian GP record for most wins at Monza. Hamilton currently has five Italian […]
After a two-week respite, Formula 1 is shifting back into racing gear this Sunday. F1 drivers have already been through two triple-headers and are about to start a third this week in Belgium, and they’re doing it in style with the Belgian Grand Prix at the Spa-Francorchamps Circuit, one F1’s very best. The Formula 1 schedule that […]
Takuma Sato earned his second Indianapolis 500 championship Sunday, holding off Scott Dixon at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Sato passed Dixon after the last round of pit stops and held him off as Spencer Pigot crashed hard with five laps remaining. The race finished under caution. Sato also won the race in 2017. Dixon won in 2008. […]
The 104th running of the Indianapolis 500 will be unlike any other race in the event's long history. First it will take place in August, three months after its normal annual date on the calendar — the day before Memorial Day. Second it will be held without fans — a painful decision that Roger Penske, owner of […]
Something feels right about an Andretti being on the pole for the Indy 500. The 2020 running of the Greatest Spectacle in Racing (Sunday, 1 p.m. ET, NBC) will start that way for the first time since 1987. More than 33 years after his grandfather Mario won the pole for the Indianapolis 500, Marco Andretti […]
Seven-time MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi is happy to be alive after he was nearly struck by two stray bikes in a terrifying accident at the Austrian Grand Prix on Sunday. Drivers Franco Morbidelli and Johann Zarco collided at high speed, knocking both riders from their bikes and sending their vehicles hurtling across the track. Rossi […]