Marcus Ericsson has admitted his Formula 1 experience will raise the pressure on him considerably when he joins the IndyCar Series with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports for 2019. After five years on the F1 grid, Ericsson will become James Hinchcliffe’s full-time team-mate at SPM next year while retaining a test driver role with current employer Sauber.
Month: October 2018
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Australian Grand Prix proves Yamaha’s MotoGP chassis still has “scary” potential, says Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso. Yamaha was on a record 25-race winless streak in MotoGP before Maverick Vinales’s triumph at Phillip Island last weekend. Dovizioso finished third behind the Suzuki of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton believes his Italian Grand Prix victory in September was the biggest mental blow Mercedes’ rival Ferrari experienced during the Formula 1 season. Ferrari headed to its home race on the back of an important win in Belgium, and locked out
Brendon Hartley says he has become more outspoken in Formula 1 because he has realised he needs to defend himself. The Toro Rosso driver’s future is uncertain given Red Bull has re-signed Daniil Kvyat to its junior team for next season and is keen on Alexander Albon for the second seat. Hartley has insisted he
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport will attempt to convince Sebastien Loeb to be part of its 2019 World Rally Championship team. Nine-time WRC champion Loeb’s future remains unclear after Peugeot’s decision to close his main programme in World Rallycross, although he has secured a deal to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas believes improving in qualifying is key to turning around Lewis Hamilton’s superiority in the Mercedes Formula 1 team. Though Bottas has secured a contract extension for 2019, he has been overshadowed by Hamilton through his time at Mercedes so far
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb will contest the 2019 Dakar Rally in a Red Bull-backed private Peugeot. Loeb was part of Peugeot’s factory assault on the Dakar for the past three years, and led on every occasion. But crashes and mechanical
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says his focus cannot slip after winning a fifth Formula 1 title because he has “no idea” why he has struggled in the last two grands prix. Hamilton won four races in a row to put himself on the brink
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing says it was impressed by IndyCar signing Felix Rosenqvist’s pace compared to championship-winning team-mate Scott Dixon on his first test using IndyCar’s universal aerokit at Barber. Rosenqvist, who was announced as Ganassi’s second 2019 driver last month, had driven
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pierre Gasly believes rules over how aggressively Formula 1 drivers can race each other are “quite weird” and “a grey area” after an incident with Esteban Ocon in Mexico. Toro Rosso driver Gasly tried to pass the Racing Point Force India around
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen has reopened the door to running a third car in the 2019 World Rally Championship, meaning Sebastien Loeb or Craig Breen could remain in its line-up. When Citroen announced Sebastien Ogier and Esapekka Lappi as its WRC line-up, it suggested there
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Iannone says he will “never understand” why Suzuki has decided to let him go at the end of the 2018 MotoGP season. Former Ducati rider Iannone suffered a torrid first campaign with Suzuki last year, mainly due to a wrong engine
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Rossi and Tony Kanaan were among three drivers to take part in IndyCar’s first test at the Austin circuit that will join the series’ schedule from 2019. Andretti-Autosport driver Rossi and AJ Foyt’s Kanaan were joined by an unnamed Carlin driver
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three of Aston Martin’s top customer teams will race the British manufacturer’s new GT3 contender in December’s Gulf 12 Hours. The R-Motorsport, TF Sport and Beechdean squads will each take early delivery of one of the new-generation Vantage GT3s they intend to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sauber Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson will switch to IndyCar in 2019, driving for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports as full-time team-mate to James Hinchcliffe. Ericsson has raced with Sauber for the past four seasons, and will have made 97 F1 starts when he
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 cars’ floors are the latest area where teams have been exploring unique technical concepts. Ferrari first raised some eyebrows at the United States Grand Prix when it fitted a series of fins to the floor’s outside edge. These fins, and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has invited IndyCar boss Mark Miles to the Gold Coast to discuss bringing the series back to Surfers Paradise. According to the Gold Coast Bulletin newspaper, Palaszczuk has extended the invite to Miles as part of an ambitious
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s 2019 signing Kris Meeke says returning to the World Rally Championship service park in Spain last weekend made him realise he had not been enjoying the WRC in recent years. Meeke had avoided the championship since being dropped by Citroen following
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki’s Alex Rins says he was “angry” during MotoGP’s Phillip Island race at eventual winner Maverick Vinales, and believes his chances were “over” after a hit from the Yamaha rider. Rins was part of the leading pack in the early stages of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff insists that his team’s decision to race without its cooling rear wheel rims did not contribute to its W09 behaving like “an F3 car” in the Mexican Grand Prix. Both Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas struggled with their
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joey Logano says the collision with Martin Truex Jr that secured his Martinsville Cup race victory was a “classic” NASCAR move. Truex was furious over the final-corner clash, having taken the lead from Logano after a long battle only to end up
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen has admitted he was guilty of overdriving earlier this season and believes backing off has made him a faster Formula 1 driver. The Mexican Grand Prix winner was involved in a succession of incidents at the start of the year,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales’ MotoGP triumph at Phillip Island ended a long winless run for Yamaha, but also highlighted the crucial decisions the manufacturer faces that could define its short-term future. In the Motegi race a little more than a week ago, Vinales crossed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb says his Rally Spain victory has made a 2019 World Rally Championship programme more tempting. Nine-time WRC champion Loeb made a comeback with a three-event programme for Citroen this year and took a shock triumph in Catalunya on the last
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Martin Truex Jr has vowed to prevent Joey Logano from winning the 2018 NASCAR Cup title after their last-corner collision while fighting for Martinsville race victory. Truex had taken the lead from Logano on the penultimate lap following a long side-by-side battle,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says his MotoGP team-mate Maverick Vinales’ victory in Sunday’s Phillip Island race “doesn’t change much” for Yamaha. Vinales ended Yamaha’s 25-race wait for a win on Sunday with a commanding performance at Phillip Island on a track that was expected
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aleix Espargaro says debris from Johann Zarco’s crash in last weekend’s Phillip Island MotoGP race struck his left hand, moving the titanium plate he had fitted after his 2017 accident. Zarco suffered a heavy crash at Turn 1 on the fifth lap
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Sordo will be confirmed as a Hyundai driver for another part-time programme in next year’s World Rally Championship this week. The Spaniard’s deal has been expected for some time, and Autosport understands it was only held up by the absence of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull Formula 1 boss Christian Horner has credited Renault with getting its sums right for the high altitude in Mexico and helping Max Verstappen to a dominant victory. Horner stressed that the unique conditions in Mexico put Renault on a par
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Audi took the race win and manufacturers’ title in the Intercontinental GT Challenge deciding California 8 Hours, but third was enough to give Mercedes’ Tristan Vautier the drivers’ championship. Christopher Mies, Christopher Haase and Kelvin van der Linde drove the Land Audi
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