Honda will enter a factory NSX in the FIA GT World Cup in Macau next month. The Japanese manufacturer has decided to take part in the blue-riband GT3 race on November 18-19 after launching customer sales of the NSX racer in July. It will be the first race for the twin-turbo V6-powered GT3 contender with
Month: October 2017
Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville has all but conceded this year’s World Rally Championship to rival Sebastien Ogier after retiring from Rally Catalunya last weekend. A run of six-straight podium finishes, which included three victories, hoisted Neuville into a mid-season share of the lead with Ogier. But the Belgian damaged his transmission and suspension on August’s
Mid-season driver changes for Toro Rosso and Renault can boost the Haas Formula 1 team’s chances of a strong constructors’ championship finish, says its team principal Gunther Steiner. Haas is locked in a tight battle for fifth in the standings, with Renault one point behind, Toro Rosso nine clear and Williams a further 14 ahead
Red Bull thinks that the combination of Suzuka’s layout and the 2017-spec Formula 1 cars exposed its lack of a ‘magic’ engine mode from Renault more than usual. The Milton Keynes-based team was surprised to be one second off the pace of Mercedes in the fight for grid positions, before Max Verstappen went on to
Tony Kanaan says both he and his new AJ Foyt Racing team needed a change in order to win IndyCar races in 2018. The 2004 IndyCar champion has not won a race since ’14, his first year with Chip Ganassi Racing. His four-year spell with the team came to an end this season when Ganassi
Two-time Macau Formula 3 Grand Prix winner Felix Rosenqvist is set to return to the Chinese venue next month in an attempt to win the FIA GT World Cup. The Formula E and Japanese Super Formula frontrunner, who took back-to-back F3 wins at Macau in 2014 and ’15, is understood to be on a World
The latest edition of The Autosport Podcast looks back at the Japanese Grand Prix, where Lewis Hamilton moved to the brink of a fourth Formula 1 title. Edd Straw is joined by Scott Mitchell and podcast returnee Andrew van de Burgt to discuss Ferrari’s latest failure, and the end of Sebastian Vettel’s realistic world championship
Ducati’s MotoGP title contender Andrea Dovizioso believes people are “freaking out” about his strong form this season because they had previously underestimated him. Dovizioso has taken four victories in 2017 and lies second in the standings, 16 points behind main title rival Marc Marquez with four races left this season. His tally of wins for
Red Bull is determined to extend its contracts with both Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen until the end of 2020, amid ongoing speculation about their future in Formula 1. F1 teams are bracing themselves for a potentially big shake up in the driver market at the end of next year, with a number of top
Toro Rosso team principal Franz Tost insists it is too early to assume that Pierre Gasly and Daniil Kvyat will form the team’s Formula 1 line-up in 2018. Gasly made his grand prix debut with the team in Malaysia, standing in for Kvyat, and the Faenza squad announced over the Japanese GP weekend that the
NASCAR Cup Series playoff contenders Kevin Harvick and Kyle Larson believe points leader Martin Truex Jr is no longer unbeatable following their battles with him at Charlotte. Truex won Sunday’s race at Charlotte having started 17th on the grid, but Harvick ran second for much of the race until he was demoted to third by
Yamaha MotoGP team boss Lin Jarvis does not expect contract extension talks with Valentino Rossi to begin until several races into the 2018 campaign. Rossi’s current contract runs out at the end of next season. The Italian’s current deal was signed on the eve of the 2016 season and was announced during the Qatar weekend,
Martin Truex Jr booked a place in the last eight of the playoffs with his sixth victory of the season in the NASCAR Cup race at Charlotte, secured in overtime. The Furniture Row Racing driver led 91 of 334 laps through the race despite starting 17th. He had climbed all the way to fourth by
Romain Grosjean sparked a debate in the Japanese Grand Prix Formula 1 drivers’ briefing by querying Lewis Hamilton taking his seatbelts off while celebrating race wins, it has emerged. Hamilton clearly undid his belts to celebrate winning the Singapore Grand Prix, and admitted he had done so on numerous occasions beforehand. In a video of
Honda says its priority is for Pierre Gasly to race in the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix, even if that means it will sacrifice the chance to win the Super Formula title. Gasly, the 2016 GP2 champion, replaced Daniil Kvyat at Toro Rosso for Malaysia and Japan but says it remains unclear if he
Kajetan Kajetanowicz secured a record breaking third consecutive European Rally Championship title despite retiring just after a helicopter crash caused the cancellation of SS11 of Rally Latvia. The Ford Fiesta R5 driver entered the gravel-based event as the favourite with a 24-point lead, although Portuguese frontrunner Bruno Magalhaes still had a chance to take the
Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle completed a brilliant victory on Rally Catalunya, while Sebastien Ogier extended his World Rally Championship lead after Thierry Neuville retired. Meeke has struggled all season with an ill-performing C3 WRC and a number of driver errors – leading to him being dropped for Rally Poland – but the Dungannon driver
A stage of the final European Rally Championship round in Latvia has been cancelled following a helicopter crash. ERC officials confirmed that the 11th stage will not run and that cars have been re-routed to SS12, which will now start 10 minutes late. A statement from the rally organisers said: “There has been a civil
Pierre Gasly says he hasn’t been told if he will race for Toro Rosso in the United States Grand Prix, despite the Formula 1 team announcing he would. On Saturday night Toro Rosso said Daniil Kvyat would be recalled for Austin, replacing the Renault-bound Carlos Sainz Jr, alongside Gasly. It would mean Gasly missing the
Citroen’s Kris Meeke closed in on Rally Spain victory over the three stage Sunday morning loop, as Thierry Neuville’s title challenge unravelled further with retirement. Meeke was quickest through all three of the stages, most impressively on the second stage of the loop SS15 Riudecanyes. At the infamous Coll de la Teixeta roundabout where drivers
Kris Meeke leads Rally Catalunya overnight, as a double Hyundai crash harmed its World Rally Championship manufacturers’ bid and left a pair of M-Sport Ford Fiestas on the podium. In SS12 both Dani Sordo, second overall, and Andreas Mikkelsen, sixth, crashed their Hyundais out of the event by hitting the same rock. Sordo had remained
The FIA has been urged by McLaren to get tougher in stopping teams from burning oil in Formula 1 next year, amid suspicions some are still gaining from the practice. Although motor racing’s governing body has begun a clampdown on the activity, with teams restricted on the amount that can be burned, there remain big
Mercedes believes that cooler temperatures in Japan, allied to changes made to its car ahead of the Formula 1 weekend, were key to it recovering from its Malaysia “disaster”. Just a week on from the German car manufacturer chasing answers for its lack of pace at Sepang, Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas led the way
Kris Meeke rocketed into the lead on Rally Spain’s Saturday morning loop, as World Rally Championship contender Thierry Neuville crashed on the road section before stage nine. Meeke started the day in third after Friday’s gravel stages but a push on SS7 El Montmell, a stage he and co-driver Paul Nagle identified as one to
Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position for Formula 1’s Japanese Grand Prix with a dominant qualifying performance, leading a Mercedes one-two, while title rival Sebastian Vettel was third-fastest. Hamilton was quickest in all phases of the session, as he claimed his first pole at the Suzuka and smashed Michael Schumacher’s qualifying lap record from 2006. The
Ferrari’s Formula 1 turbocharger problems ruined Sebastian Vettel’s qualifying and prevented Kimi Raikkonen from starting last weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix. In this latest video from weekly programme The Flying Lap, Craig Scarborough explains the cause of the turbo problems that had such a big impact on the Sepang weekend. Ferrari also introduced an upgrade package
Andreas Mikkelsen completed a fine first day as a Hyundai World Rally Championship driver by completing Friday’s Rally Catalunya gravel stages at the top of the times. Mikkelsen lost the lead briefly after the opening test of the afternoon – when he slipped 0.3 seconds behind the privateer Ford Focus of Mads Ostberg – but
NASCAR chairman Brian France says the Cup’s stages format introduced for 2017 has brought out the best in the series. At the beginning of the year NASCAR controversially revamped its races by deciding to split them into three segments, with the top 10 in each stage on the road scoring championship and playoff points. The
Formula 1 bosses are in talks with officials in Vietnam about holding a race in the future. Earlier this year, former F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone said he could have done a deal with Vietnam but turned the chance down as he felt there were enough races in Asia. But F1 commercial chief Sean Bratches has
Honda test rider Hiroshi Aoyama will stand in for the injured Jack Miller at the forthcoming MotoGP round at Motegi. Miller broke his leg in a training accident in Andorra last Friday and has been forced to sit out next weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix. Aoyama, 35, has now been announced as Miller’s replacement at the
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