Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 2 driver Jordan King will join Ed Carpenter Racing for the road and street course races in the 2018 IndyCar Series. Sometime Manor Formula 1 test driver King, who spent 2017 in F2 with MP Motorsport, will race in 11
Month: January 2018
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Nurburgring is in discussions with Formula 1 bosses regarding a return to the calendar in 2019. Ongoing financial challenges and a change of ownership has prevented the circuit from hosting F1 grands prix since 2013. But when Mirco Markfort took
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari’s final step back to becoming a Formula 1 world champion again will be the hardest, admits Sebastian Vettel. Though Ferrari made a huge improvement in 2017 to go from a winless ’16 F1 season to challenging Mercedes for the title,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Mercedes Formula 1 team says its engine will always be pushed to the limit of reliability, even as rules on power unit use become more restrictive in 2018. Mercedes produced the most reliable engine in F1 in 2017, with world
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Four-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez will need to adopt a lower risk riding style in future or could eventually suffer a bad injury, says grand prix motorcycling legend Kevin Schwantz. Marquez suffered 27 crashes in 2017, more than any other rider
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marcus Ericsson says the “hype” surrounding his 2017 Sauber Formula 1 team-mate Pascal Wehrlein helped him, but that F1 still has not realised what he is really capable of. Though Wehrlein scored all five of Sauber’s 2017 points, the qualifying gap
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda’s outgoing Formula 1 project leader Yusuke Hasegawa believes the move to a three-engine limit in 2018 is “unreasonable”. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has said it is “barking mad” to be cutting back on power unit usage given some
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 newcomer Pierre Gasly feels “way too many people” are critical of modern grand prix racing. The 2017 season featured F1’s first multi-team title fight since the switch to V6 hybrid engines in 2014, but the new higher-downforce cars were
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar expects to hold talks with Dallara over the possibility of replacing its current Dallara IR12 car following the 2018 Indianapolis 500. The IR12 was introduced in 2012 amid complaints about its high costs, but the chassis is now expected to
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fans have been given the chance to design Valtteri Bottas’s crash helmet for the 2018 Formula 1 season. The Mercedes team said the winning design, which will be selected by Bottas personally, will be used for the “majority” of grands prix
Andrea Dovizioso says it will be difficult for Ducati to fix all its weaknesses in time for the 2018 MotoGP season, but he expects to fight for the title again. The Italian enjoyed a breakthrough 2017 campaign, winning six races and taking the championship fight with Marc Marquez down to the final race of the
Two-day rallies are an increasing possibility if the World Rally Championship’s expansion brings it back to a 16-round calendar. Chile and Japan are among countries interested in WRC dates, and series promoter Oliver Ciesla wants the calendar to grow from its current 13-round mark to 15/16. The WRC featured 16 rounds from 2004-07 but then
Mercedes will back Lewis Hamilton in the 2018 Formula 1 championship fight, according to his former title rival Felipe Massa. Hamilton clinched his fourth world championship last year, fending off Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel with Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas 58 points adrift. Mercedes operates a policy of letting its drivers race, but Massa, who was narrowly
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb fears the Dakar Rally’s route changes will count against him in what he admits will be his “last chance” to win the event due to Peugeot’s pull-out. Peugeot announced last year that the 2018 edition of the Dakar –
Esteban Ocon says Mercedes is happy with the progress he made during his first full year in Formula 1 with Force India. Ocon, who was voted number five in Autosport’s team principals’ top 10 drivers poll, finished eighth in the standings, one place and 13 points behind team-mate Sergio Perez. The Mercedes junior saw the
Marc VDS MotoGP team principal Michael Bartholemy has blamed a lack of support from Honda for his outfit losing Jack Miller for 2018. Miller moved up to the premier class on a factory Honda contract after coming close to winning the 2014 Moto3 title, and spent the past two years at Marc VDS, scoring an
Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Renault admits it “played with fire” by chasing extra performance from its 2017 Formula 1 engine through the season, at the expense of reliability. Red Bull won three races with Renault power in 2017, but all three Renault-engined F1 teams suffered persistent
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