Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 rider Johann Zarco says he felt no “negative things” riding Yamaha’s much-maligned 2017 bike for the first time in the Valencia post-season test. Zarco used a 2016-spec bike to great effect in his rookie premier class campaign this year and
Month: November 2017
Valentino Rossi hopes he will get another opportunity to trial Yamaha’s prototype 2018 MotoGP engine in the Valencia test, having suffered a huge crash after using it for just two laps. Rossi went off at the Turn 10 right-hander two hours into the first day of post-season testing, with the high-speed shunt leaving his bike
Maverick Vinales was quickest on the opening day of MotoGP post-season testing at Valencia with a 2016-spec Yamaha, as his team-mate Valentino Rossi suffered a big crash early on. While 2017 champion Marc Marquez led for the majority of the day, first Johann Zarco and then Vinales demoted the Honda rider as the final hour
Ferrari has pushed on with developments of its 2017 Formula 1 car in recent races, with changes to the floor and front wing phased in. In this latest animation produced by Motorsport.tv, we explain the changes and how the Ferrari SF70H has improved. The modifications include changes to the front wing endplate detail, designed to
With the championship already decided there was a certain sense of ‘nothing to lose’ about the decision-making running through the penultimate race of the Formula 1 season in Brazil. The combination of the tyre choices and the conditions at Interlagos meant that this looked like it could be a race with few strategic variations and
Ducati MotoGP programme general manager Gigi Dall’Igna says telling Jorge Lorenzo to give up his position to Andrea Dovizioso during the Valencia finale was the team’s “misunderstanding”. Lorenzo was running ahead of title-chasing team-mate Dovizioso in fourth during the Valencia decider and was given the coded message ‘Suggested Mapping 8’ but declined to move aside.
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Moto2 frontrunner Alex Marquez will test the Marc VDS Honda MotoGP bike at Jerez later this month, the team has confirmed. Marquez, brother of four-time premier class champion Marc, is slated to ride the MotoGP bike for a day and a
Esapekka Lappi is hoping for a cleaner first full season in the World Rally Championship in 2018, the Toyota driver admitting he has made too many mistakes this year. The reigning WRC2 champion stepped up with Toyota from the sixth round in Portugal, and won Rally Finland. But he crashed in Germany and Spain, and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Newly-crowned MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has revealed that he suffered hair loss and stress early in the 2017 season. In the first six races of the year, Marquez crashed out twice and took only two podiums – leaving him 37 points
Formula 1 switching to three engines per season in 2018 “sucks”, says world champion Lewis Hamilton. Next year the power unit limit drops from four to three for the full 21 grand prix season, with some elements – the MGU-K, control electronics and energy store – restricted to two per year. Hamilton said he has
Penske’s Brad Keselowski says scraping through to the 2017 NASCAR Cup championship shootout with a 16th-place finish at Phoenix feels “like Christmas”. Keselowski went into Phoenix with a 19-point cushion over Denny Hamlin in their fight for the fourth spot in the Homestead showdown against Martin Truex Jr, Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick. But Keselowski
Rally GB winner Elfyn Evans says he will need a monsoon to have a hope of taking another victory on this week’s World Rally Championship finale in Australia. The last time a British driver won back-to-back WRC rounds was 15 years ago, when Colin McRae triumphed on the Acropolis and Safari rallies for Ford. Asked
Honda has announced the team principal of its works MotoGP squad, Livio Suppo, is leaving the company. Suppo will depart MotoGP entirely in order to “pursue new challenges” according to Honda. “I thought at the end of the day it was the right decision to leave now,” Suppo said in a Valencia press conference on
Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli and McLaren have decided to cancel their planned Interlagos test due to safety concerns at the Brazilian Grand Prix venue. The two-day test, aimed at completing Pirelli’s evaluation work on its 2018 tyres, was scheduled to take place on Tuesday and Wednesday with McLaren drivers Stoffel Vandoorne and Lando Norris.
Johann Zarco says he was asked by Marc Marquez’s mother ahead of Sunday’s Valencia MotoGP title decider to “take it easy” and not risk a collision with the eventual champion. Marquez and Zarco qualified first and second for the Valencia Grand Prix, in which Marquez only needed 11th place to beat Andrea Dovizioso to the
Sao Paulo’s mayor says the city government is responsible for public safety and believes the Formula 1 Brazilian Grand Prix venue’s sale will improve security after a spate of attacks. A car driven by Pirelli tyre fitters was targeted on Sunday evening, less than 48 hours after Mercedes F1 personnel escaped uninjured following a gunpoint
Yamaha MotoGP riders Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales both reverted to 2016 chassis for Sunday’s Valencia season finale. After Rossi and Vinales qualified only seventh and 13th respectively, the works Yamaha squad made a last-minute decision to switch to the same year-old bike specification Tech3 satellite rider Johann Zarco had used to take second on
Denny Hamlin has no doubt that the contact with Chase Elliott that ended his shot at the 2017 NASCAR Cup championship at Phoenix was retaliation for their Martinsville collision. Hamlin controversially tapped leader Elliott into a spin late in the Martinsville race a fortnight ago. At Phoenix on Sunday they were fighting for second behind
World Rally Championship drivers Thierry Neuville and Andreas Mikkelsen will share driving and co-driving duties in a Hyundai i20 WRC at the Monza Rally next month. Neuville and Mikkelsen will swap seats in a 2016-spec New Generation i20 between stages on the December 1-3 event. Both are well acquainted with the left-hand seat in a
Valtteri Bottas’s performance in the Brazilian Grand Prix was “embarrassing” and the level of a “number two” driver, says 1997 Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve. Bottas claimed his third pole of the season at Interlagos but was passed by Sebastian Vettel into the first corner and failed to reclaim the position. GP ANALYSIS: The
Brazilian Grand Prix organisers are likely to face further questions regarding security during the Formula 1 race weekend after another attack on Sunday night. Less than 48 hours after Mercedes F1 personnel escaped uninjured following a gunpoint robery outside the Interlagos track, and despite promises of a heightened police presence around the venue, a car
Matt Kenseth took his first NASCAR Cup victory of the year at Phoenix, as Brad Keselowski claimed the last spot in the 2017 playoff final four. It was in the pits that Kenseth threw himself into contention for the win, having emerged from the pitlane first following a caution for Trevor Bayne’s accident in the
Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton feels he was quickest “by a long way” in the Brazilian Grand Prix, as he fought his way through to fourth place from a pitlane start. Having crashed in the first segment of qualifying on Saturday, Hamilton started from the pits and scythed his way through the pack in the
Marc Marquez says the incident that nearly jeopardised his 2017 MotoGP title hopes in the season finale at Valencia was brought on by fears of a collision with Johann Zarco. Honda rider Marquez only needed to finish in the top 11 to make sure of his fourth premier-class title in five seasons. He appeared content
Defeated MotoGP title contender Andrea Dovizioso says he didn’t feel he was held up by Ducati team-mate Jorge Lorenzo in the Valencia season finale. In a race he had to win to stand any chance of beating Marc Marquez to the title, Dovizioso crashed out on lap 25 of 30, just a handful of corners
Marc Marquez sealed his fourth MotoGP title with after finishing third in the season finale at Valencia won by Dani Pedrosa, as Andrea Dovizioso’s championship hopes ended with a late crash. Dovizioso needed to win the race and hope polesitter Marquez couldn’t finish inside the top 11, and the Italian made quick progress from ninth
Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says Valterri Bottas’s Brazilian GP pole reflects the fact that the Finn is now getting more out of the W08 after his recent struggles. Bottas was carrying the hopes of the team after Lewis Hamilton crashed at the start of Q1, relegating the world champion to last on the
Nick Cassidy and Ryo Hirakawa clinched the 2017 Super GT championship after finishing second in the final round of the season at Motegi. The #37 TOM’S Lexus duo needed to finish in the top-two to claim the title, irrespective of how their rivals performed. They qualified third and dispatched the sister #6 Lexus of Team
Brazilian Grand Prix organisers have arranged for “heavy police reinforcements” around the Interlagos track following the armed robbery against Mercedes Formula 1 team members on Friday night. A minibus carrying Mercedes personnel was held up at gunpoint after leaving the track, as robbers stole valuables. Fortunately no-one was hurt. With members of Williams, and officials
Felipe Massa claims Carlos Sainz Jr admitted that he disrupted his first Q3 lap in Brazilian Grand Prix Formula 1 qualifying deliberately – but Sainz has denied that suggestion. Williams driver Massa – who will start his final home grand prix on Sunday – starred in Q1 and Q2 with fourth and seventh-fastest times respectively,
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