Randle, who spent the past year battling testicular cancer, has long been expected to make a number of wildcard starts this season as part of a multi-year deal he inked with the Ford squad last season. It’s now been confirmed that he’ll take part in three sprint rounds in a Tickford Mustang carrying backing from…
Englishman Carchedi has worked with Mir since the Spaniard’s debut in MotoGP in 2019, with the pair winning the world championship last season. Mir will be without his right-hand man for this weekend’s third round of the 2021 season in Portugal after Carchedi failed a pre-travel COVID test. Carchedi has gone into isolation in Andorra…
In recent seasons, Red Bull has selected contra-tyre strategy approaches in the middle phase of qualifying to try and gain an upper hand in race strategy versus Mercedes during the Black Arrows’ years of dominance. This approach helped Red Bull beat Mercedes in 2020’s 70th Anniversary Grand Prix – where Max Verstappen used tyres that…
Fleck case ‘a reminder the virus is still here’Venue: Estadio Algarve, Portugal Date: Wednesday, 2 June Kick-off: 19:45 BSTCoverage: Listen live on Radio Scotland & online; text commentary on BBC Sport website & appFor a generation, Scotland’s only function in the weeks before a major championship was to be target practice for other nations. Like…
Scotland and Manchester City winger Liam Smith, 17, is next to take on our Euros edition of the MOTDx Football Wonderkids Challenge. Can he beat Ethan McLeod, representing England, who scored 16? WATCH MORE: Wolves’ U18 Ethan McLeod hits the crossbar Keep a look out for more players taking part this week and next.
Ex-England captain Gary Lineker tells Alan Shearer and Micah Richards why he loved taking part in penalty shootouts as the ultimate test of “bottle” in the Match of the Day Top 10 podcast. Listen to the Match of the Day Top 10 podcast exclusively on BBC Sounds and watch it now on BBC iPlayer.
Everton will consider Rangers manager Steven Gerrard and his former Liverpool boss Rafael Benitez as possible successors to Carlo Ancelotti. (Athletic, subscription required)external-link Everton are also lining up former Wolves boss Nuno Espirito Santo as their new manager. (Talksport)external-link However, Nuno is the favourite to take over at Crystal Palace after three days of talks…
McLaren was able to retain its position as the midfield leader from 2020 during the opening race weekend in Bahrain last month as Norris finished fourth, only trailing Mercedes and Red Bull cars. But Friday’s practice running at Imola saw Ferrari take a big step forward compared to its showing in Bahrain as Charles Leclerc…
Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas spent much of pre-season testing and the opening race weekend in Bahrain battling to get to grips with the new Mercedes W12, which struggled with an unstable rear-end after changes to the car floor design regulations. Hamilton narrowly beat Red Bull rival Max Verstappen to victory in Bahrain, but was…
The Silverstone-based team thinks that the changes made to the regulations for this season to cut downforce have unfairly penalised teams that run low rake cars. It, along with Mercedes, believes that the cuts to the floor, diffuser and brake ducts have cost the low rake teams one second per lap of performance compared to…