Spanish rider Luis Salom has died following an accident in second practice for the Moto2 round at Barcelona.Salom crashed at Turn 12 midway through the session on Friday afternoon, with two medical cars, two ambulances and the medical helicopter sent to the scene.The 24-year-old was transferred to road to Hospital...

The MotoGP field will not expand to 24 bikes in 2017, due to a "reluctance" from manufacturers to supply additional machinery.In addition to KTM's two new entries, an expression of interest process for a potential 24th entrant was launched in March. Five teams signalled initial interest, with three of those...

Seven-time MotoGP champion Valentino Rossi has dismissed the notion that his VR46 team could join him in the premier class next year.The Italian started VR46 in 2014 in Moto3, coinciding with the establishment of his own riders academy, the outfit fielding Romano Fenati, Nicolo Bulega and Andrea Migno in the...

The Tech 1 and Pons teams have pulled out of the Formula V8 3.5 series less than a month before the start of the season.French squad Tech 1, twice a teams' champion and a regular race winner during the championship's Formula Renault 3.5 era, will be replaced by Durango, which...

Aurelien Panis will switch to Arden Motorsport from Tech 1 Racing for his second season in, the renamed Formula V8 3.5 series.The 21-year-old son of 1996 Monaco Grand Prix winner Olivier Panis completes Arden's driver pairing alongside last year's double victor Egor Orudzhev, who continues with the Banbury, UK-based team....

Dutch racer Beitske Visser will remain in the rebranded Formula V8 3.5 championship for a third season, switching from AVF to Pons Racing as one of three additions to the grid. Visser is joined at Pons by GP3 graduate Alex Bosak, who is signed to race for the team for...

Formula Renault 2.0 graduates Matevos Isaakyan and Ben Barnicoat topped a session each as Aragon's three-day Formula 3.5 V8 test began on Wednesday.Renault Sport Technologies' traditional rookie test took place as planned despite its works backing of the championship ending this season, with 10 drivers invited on the basis of...

The new Spirit of Race outfit ended its maiden test in the rebranded Formula 3.5 V8 series on top, with Lotus F1 junior Matthieu Vaxiviere.The French driver, runner-up to Oliver Rowland in the 2015 series, set his time of 1m27.331s in the morning session of the second day at Jerez....

Pons Racing's Yu Kanamaru led the way on the first day of testing for the rebranded Formula 3.5 V8 series at Jerez.The Japanese racer contested the final three rounds of the 2015 series - which marked the end of Renault's involvement - and led the opening day under RPM Racing's...

Draco has parted company with both Bruno Bonafacio and Pietro Fantin ahead of the penultimate Formula Renault 3.5 round at the Le Mans Bugatti circuit this weekend. The Italian-based team will field a single entry for Brazilian GP2 racer Andre Negrao, the son of Draco's owner Guto Negrao."I am here...