Circuit of the Americas

With Laguna Seca returning to an Indy car racing schedule for the first time since Champ Car held a round at the 11-turn, 2.238-mile track in 2004, the NTT IndyCar Series teams were granted an open test there in February, just before heading to Circuit of The Americas for Spring Training.However, with the ambient temperature on the Monterey peninsula barely creeping past the 55degF mark in the ...

The teenager who won at Circuit of The Americas and took pole at Road America set a 57.429sec around Portland's 1.964-mile track, setting an average speed of 123.115mph to eclipse Andretti Autosport-Honda's Rossi by 0.1245sec.Dixon was a further 0.24sec adrift in the Chip Ganassi Racing-Honda, just five hundredths ahead of Newgarden of Team Penske-Chevrolet, who was the sole Bowtie ...

COTA boss, Bobby Epstein believes American F1 fans deserve better than a race in a parking lot, insisting that the sport must build on what his track has created. ...

Sport newsWill Graham started in the co-driver's seat alongside his father, securing the Irish Tarmac Historic Championship title in 2015 in a Ford Escort Mk2. In 2016 he switched seats and contested the British Rally Championship behind the wheel of a Ford Fiesta R2. In 2017 he had to concentrate on his university studies but returned to the BRC in 2018.In 2019 Graham has returned to historic rallying with one of the most eye-catching cars on the stages. We caught up with him at the Lammi ... ...

Rossi started the year with two podiums, but is yet to return to the rostrum while works teammate Maverick Vinales won at Assen and Petronas SRT's Fabio Quartararo has scored three podium finishes.Rossi previously noted that Yamaha had been working harder over the summer break, and a brace of top-four finishes - as well as a first front row start since the Austin race in last weekend's ...

The FIM have issued a provisional calendar for the 2020 MotoGP season, which sees the series expand to 20 races, and lays the basis for expansion to 22 races. The biggest changes are the addition of the Kymiring in Finland in July, and the moving of the Thailand round of MotoGP in Buriram from October to 22nd March. The racing season kicks off as ever in Qatar, the MotoGP race being moved to the first week of March. From Qatar, the series heads east to Thailand, the MotoGP race taking the slot of the WorldSBK race at Buriram. Attendance for the WorldSBK round had fallen since MotoGP went to Thailand, and so the WorldSBK round is being dropped, with another overseas round to be held in its place. From Thailand, the paddock heads east once again to cross the International Date Line and head to Austin, the US round moving up to become the third race of the year, ahead of Argentina. The Argentina Grand Prix takes place two weeks after Austin. After the overseas rounds, the MotoGP circus ... ...

The final round of the GH Husqvarna sponsored Eastern Enduro championships took place on Sunday at Butley, in Suffolk, hosted by the Woodbridge club. Held in very hot conditions, with the temperature exceeding over 30 degrees, the riders faced a tough day on the almost eight mile lap, with course supremo, Wilf Harvey, setting out an interesting and testing lap. 2018 champion, Luke Parker, won the first special test, beating Isle of Man visitor, Jed Etchells by a second. Etchells went on to win the next two tests, and with no time penalties, took the overall win by eight seconds at the end of a gruelling day. Ben Cole on his GH Husqvarna narrowly took second place, just half a second ahead of Parker, with Eastern Motocross champion, Shaun Southgate, claiming fourth place. With the Thetford round now cancelled, Parker retains his title for the second year running, with Cole runner up, and former champion, Jason Morland, finishing third in the six round series. The star of the day was ... ...

A race-long battle between Marquez and Rins was resolved by just 0.013 seconds in favour of the latter after he undercut the Honda rider coming through the fast right-hander of Woodcote for the 20th and final time.It marks Rins' second victory of his MotoGP career - his first having come at Austin earlier this year - and a second win in three attempts for Suzuki, following Maverick Vinales' ...