Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup champion Kurt Busch will leave Stewart-Haas Racing at the end of the season to join Chip Ganassi Racing, Autosport has learned. Multiple sources have suggested 2004 champion Busch will drive Ganassi’s #1 Chevrolet Camaro, replacing veteran Jamie McMurray – who
Month: August 2018
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Experience is a priority for McLaren’s 2019 Formula 1 driver line-up because it needs a better car to “take a risk with two younger drivers”, according to CEO Zak Brown. Fernando Alonso is yet to confirm whether he wants to stay in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says this weekend’s Austrian Grand Prix will be the hardest of the MotoGP season for Yamaha, owing to the circuit’s layout. Rossi was only 11th fastest in Friday’s first practice session at the Red Bull Ring, a second off the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alejandro Agag says Formula 1 would need Formula E’s permission if it wanted to go fully electric in the next decade. F1 sporting boss Ross Brawn has claimed that there is “nothing to stop” the championship switching to fully electric power in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The KTM MotoGP team admits it will “have a problem” replacing Pol Espargaro for the British Grand Prix should he not recover from injury in time. Espargaro suffered a collarbone fracture in a warm-up crash at Brno, the incident initially leaving him
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP points leader Marc Marquez led Aprilia rider Scott Redding in a wet second practice session in Austria. orrential rain hit the track a few minutes before the start of FP2, which led to the session being delayed by 15 minutes. It
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Felipe Massa says he was upset to hear ex-Williams Formula 1 team-mate Lance Stroll did not feel he received guidance from him last year. Williams asked Massa to extend his F1 career by one more season so it could field the experienced
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault driver Carlos Sainz Jr believes his 2018 Formula 1 campaign has been “weird”, with results not matching the progress he thinks he has made. Sainz has had a solid opening half to the 2018 season, scoring in eight of the 12
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren wants Stoffel Vandoorne to beat Formula 1 team-mate Fernando Alonso more often as it weighs up whether to keep the Belgian for 2019. The 2015 GP2 champion and 2013 Formula Renault 3.5 runner-up has struggled to make an impact in F1
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull driver Max Verstappen believes it would be wrong to interpret Honda’s high rate of Formula 1 engine changes this season as poor reliability. Toro Rosso pair Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley have used more engine elements than any other driver
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales says the decision to dispense with crew chief Ramon Forcada at the end of the 2018 season was not made solely by him. Vinales was at the centre of controversy in Brno last weekend as he announced
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo believes Ducati would need to make an “impossible” gain of “two or three tenths” for its riders to challenge Marc Marquez for the 2018 MotoGP title. Lorenzo followed team-mate Andrea Dovizioso home in a Ducati 1-2 at Brno, and the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ford has revealed the Mustang challenger that it will enter into the 2019 NASCAR Cup series. The Blue Oval announced earlier this year that the Mustang would replace the Fusion at the end of 2018, and it has previously raced its most
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ford cannot accept “reduced performance” from its 2019 NASCAR Cup series Mustang challenger after Toyota and Chevrolet experienced slow starts with new cars in the last two years. Watch the Mustang’s unveiling Chevrolet made the perfect start with its new Camaro by
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas team boss Gunther Steiner says Mercedes’ customers cannot complain about Ferrari’s engine gains given the power advantage they have enjoyed in recent years. While Mercedes dominated the first few years of F1’s V6 turbo-hybrid era that began in 2014, Ferrari has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia rider Aleix Espargaro believes MotoGP’s “super stressful” current calendar is unsustainable, as he predicts riders won’t be able to emulate Valentino Rossi in stretching their careers to their 40s. The yearly premier-class schedule had been made up of between 16 and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull Formula 1 team boss Christian Horner says it wouldn’t be “the healthiest thing” for his outfit to pursue Fernando Alonso as the replacement for Renault-bound Daniel Ricciardo. Ricciardo, who has been part of Red Bull’s main F1 team since 2014,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey says that his organisation is “not afraid of risk” when it comes to taking a stake in the promotion of future grands prix. The Miami GP – now postponed to 2020 – will run on a risk-sharing
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Indianapolis 500 winner and Penske driver Will Power says he needs IndyCar points leader Scott Dixon to have a downturn in form if he is to win the championship. Power’s 2018 season has been blighted by misfortune, as he crashed out at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey believes the championship will finalise its 2021 regulations and commercial package “in the coming months” once the “right compromises” are found. The 2021 engine regulations, which have already been delayed after the four manufacturers rejected what was
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati will not prevent Jorge Lorenzo from testing for Honda in the official sessions that follow the MotoGP season finale in November, Autosport has learned. Lorenzo’s Ducati contract does not expire until December 31 this year, but he will be permitted to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari reserve Antonio Giovinazzi says it has been “really hard” not racing in 2018 and hopes he can prove “I’m not a simulator driver” by graduating to Formula 1. Giovinazzi finished a close second to Toro Rosso F1 racer Pierre Gasly in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha needs to adopt a more aggressive approach with its electronics in a bid to catch up with MotoGP rivals Honda and Ducati, says Valentino Rossi. Seven-time premier class champion Rossi identified electronics as a weakness of the 2018 Yamaha in pre-season
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM is targeting Dani Pedrosa for a MotoGP test role in 2019, Autosport understands. Pedrosa announced last month that the 2018 season will be his last in grand prix motorcycle racing and Jorge Lorenzo has been signed to replace him at the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Audi will field a trio of factory entries in the Suzuka round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge later this month. The Belgian WRT team will enter two Audi R8 LMS GT3 cars in the new Suzuka 10 Hours race on August 26
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India’s new ownership will allow it to press on with crucial upgrades that could be ready in time for the first race after Formula 1’s summer break. A consortium led by Lawrence Stroll, father of current Williams driver Lance, has agreed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer says the rescued Formula 1 team feared it would suffer the same demise as Caterham and Manor after falling into administration. The Silverstone-based Force India team’s salvation was revealed on Tuesday (link) after its administrators
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The administrators for the Force India Formula 1 team have accepted a bid led by Lawrence Stroll. Force India has been in administration since the Friday before the Hungarian Grand Prix in a bid to protect it against the threat of a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One-time NASCAR Cup champion Bill Elliott says that his Xfinity race at Road America later in August will be his last in NASCAR. The 62-year-old announced his plans for a one-off NASCAR return with Xfinity outfit GMS Racing – the team his
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez says some of the Honda parts he sampled in Monday’s Brno MotoGP test helped “solve problems” he has experienced in recent races. The factory Honda rider topped the timesheets at the Czech circuit, a day after finishing third behind Ducati
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