Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Force India name will disappear from Formula 1 next year with the team being renamed Racing Point F1. Following the takeover of the outfit by a consortium led by Lawrence Stroll, it retained its Force India moniker for its team and
Month: November 2018
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR is “confident” that it can add a fourth manufacturer to the Cup field sometime after 2020, and has not ruled out finding a fifth. The top-level series currently has three manufacturers in Ford, Chevrolet and Toyota. It last had four manufacturers
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Racing Point Force India has finally confirmed Lance Stroll’s expected move to the team to partner Sergio Perez in the 2019 Formula 1 season. Stroll graduated to F1 with Williams in 2017 as the reigning European Formula 3 champion and continued with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales believes that Yamaha’s 2019 bike is good enough to make the team a title contender again based on his experience in winter testing. After topping both days of last week’s first pre-season test at Valencia, Vinales also figured strongly on
Carlos Sainz Jr says he has “a lot of information to analyse” after making his testing debut for the McLaren Formula 1 team earlier this week. Sainz was given permission to join McLaren early ahead of racing for the team in 2019, having concluded his Renault campaign in last week’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The
Valtteri Bottas has vowed to adopt a “drive like I stole it” attitude next year as he fights for his Mercedes future after a difficult 2018 Formula 1 season. Having ended this year without a win, Bottas has openly admitted that the season just gone has been his most disappointing in grand prix racing. With
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi has parted with rider coach Luca Cadalora following the 2018 campaign. Cadalora, a grand prix champion in 125cc and 250cc and a race winner in the then-premier 500cc class, joined Rossi’s crew ahead of the 2016 season.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR rider Takaaki Nakagami topped the final day of MotoGP testing of 2018 at Jerez, edging out Honda stablemate Marc Marquez by just 0.025 seconds. Nakagami, riding injured team-mate Cal Crutchlow’s old 2018-spec Honda, logged his fastest time of the day, a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 has witnessed a “new” Lewis Hamilton after winning the final two races of the season following his title success, says his Mercedes boss Toto Wolff. Hamilton notably lost the 2016 title to team-mate and rival Nico Rosberg after a lukewarm
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pirelli is hopeful it has addressed several key areas that impacted Formula 1 races negatively in 2018 after the teams gained experience with their ’19 tyre compounds this week. Abu Dhabi’s two-day tyre test was an opportunity for all 10 teams to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rally GB clerk of the course Iain Campbell says virtual chicanes can provide a safe, sensible and cost-effective solution to slowing World Rally Cars down in dangerous places. Campbell was one of many high-ranking officials to contact Autosport backing the use of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA race director Charlie Whiting says the kerb before the final corner in Abu Dhabi eliminated the need for “zero-tolerance” penalties that he believes “demean” Formula 1. While there was some controversy about the kerb’s height and the way it crumbled, drivers
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso says he is in “big pain” after crashing on day one of MotoGP’s post-season Jerez test and will need his discomfort to be “acceptable” to ride on Thursday. Dovizioso ended the penultimate day of 2018 running second-fastest behind new factory
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says the engine developments Yamaha brought to the Valencia and Jerez MotoGP post-season tests will not be good enough to elevate the manufacturer into contention for victories. Rossi was only 17th on the first day of the post-season Jerez test
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo admits that Red Bull’s surge of form in the latter part of 2018 was “confusing” as there was no obvious explanation for the improved pace of the RB14. Red Bull pinned its hopes on a good race in Mexico, because
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New factory Ducati MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci set the pace on the penultimate day of 2018 testing at Jerez ahead of team-mate Andrea Dovizioso. Petrucci leapt to the top of the timesheets at the start of the final hour of running, becoming
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville has warned his Hyundai World Rally Championship team that it has “no chance” of beating Ott Tanak and Toyota in 2019 without a step up in car development. As the runner-up in the 2018 drivers’ standings, Neuville has not restricted
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Racing Point Force India Formula 1 boss Otmar Szafnauer says mistakes in the last few races cost his team a shot at recovering to sixth place in the world championship. The Silverstone-based team lost the points it scored before its ownership change
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Multiple world champions Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel believe Max Verstappen is ready for a Formula 1 title challenge, if Red Bull and Honda provide a package capable of winning. Verstappen bounced back from an error-strewn first six races of the season,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari Driver Academy head Massimo Rivola is leaving the Italian Formula 1 team to join the Aprilia MotoGP squad. An Aprilia spokesperson confirmed Rivola’s move to Autosport, although it is not yet clear how Rivola will fit in with the Gresini-run operation’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The factory Skoda World Rally Championship WRC2 squad will scale down to a line-up of defending champion Jan Kopecky and rising star Kalle Rovanpera, with Pontus Tidemand exiting the team. Kopecky and Rovanpera will drive the Skoda Fabia R5 cars, with Skoda
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Rubens Barrichello’s son Eduardo will race in the 2019 Cooper Tyres USF2000 Championship. The young Barrichello, 17, will drive for Miller Vinatieri Motorsports two-car team alongside Jack William Miller, son of former Indy car driver Dr. Jack Miller. Barrichello’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brendon Hartley has spoken for the first time since he was dropped by the Toro Rosso Formula 1 team in favour of Alexander Albon for 2019. His exit was confirmed by the announcement of Albon on Monday and the Toro Rosso press
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro has been ruled out of the final MotoGP test of 2018 at Jerez after being hospitalised with gastritis, and will be replaced by test rider Bradley Smith. Espargaro contested the first ’19 pre-season test in Valencia last week, and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pramac Ducati rider Jack Miller says he “can’t believe” his new 2019 Desmosedici is just two years removed from the bike he used in MotoGP this season. Miller rode a 2017-spec Ducati for his new team Pramac this past campaign, finishing 13th
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen says he will not be made to “look like an idiot” when he completes his two days of ‘public service’ for the FIA. Verstappen was given the punishment for his post-race altercation with Esteban Ocon
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. After agreeing a deal to sponsor Yamaha’s new satellite MotoGP team, Petronas is aiming to emulate the success it has enjoyed in Formula 1 with Mercedes. When given the opportunity, Petronas’ bosses didn’t hesitate and went for it in MotoGP. Entering the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso says he was “very far away” from finding a good lap in his NASCAR test run in Bahrain. While seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson impressed in a Formula 1 car during a swap on Monday organised by McLaren, Alonso
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda has paid tribute to outgoing Toro Rosso driver Brendon Hartley and declared its Formula 1 engine’s progress was “accelerated” by the ex-Porsche LMP1 star’s feedback. Hartley has been replaced at Toro Rosso after one full season in F1, having been handed
Suzuki rookie Joan Mir believes MotoGP bikes suit him much more than Moto2 machinery after his first tests. Mir, the 2017 Moto3 champion, was picked up by Suzuki after just a single season in Moto2 – in which he was sixth in the championship but did not win a race. Is Mir MotoGP’s new Marquez?
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