Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR says it must “change the culture” of its teams attempting to run illegal cars in Cup Series races as it is getting into “borderline ridiculous territory” with post-race penalties. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick was hit with an L1 penalty on Wednesday
Month: November 2018
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Defending NASCAR Cup series champion Martin Truex Jr’s move to Joe Gibbs Racing for the 2019 season has been confirmed. Truex’s title defence has been overshadowed by his Furniture Row Racing squad losing a key sponsor that put the team’s future in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s commercial managing director Sean Bratches has hinted the British Grand Prix could move away from Silverstone to preserve the future of the race. Last year Silverstone bosses activated a break clause in the race’s contract, agreed under F1’s previous ownership,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marcus Ericsson has admitted it “hurts a bit” to be losing his Sauber Formula 1 drive just as the team is moving forward. Ericsson has driven for Sauber since 2014, scoring 18 points in that period, but will be relegated to a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick’s guaranteed place in the NASCAR Cup Series championship shootout at Homestead has been lost due to a L1 penalty incurred at Texas Motor Speedway. On Wednesday NASCAR announced that Harvick and his #4 SHR team have been hit
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki MotoGP team boss Davide Brivio says Andrea Iannone was dropped for 2019 for “business reasons” after the Italian recently spoke out against his dismissal. After finishing second at Phillip Island two weeks ago, Iannone emphasised what he felt was his personal
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup title contender Kevin Harvick says seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson’s struggles are a “reality check” reminding him to make the most of his 2018 season. Harvick was initially the leading driver of NASCAR’s ‘Big Three’ during the regular season alongside 2017
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso will return to Honda’s upgraded Formula 1 engine for the Brazilian Grand Prix because the high-altitude challenge of Interlagos is not as extreme as at Mexico City. Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley used an older specification of Honda engine for
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tito Rabat has ridden a motorcycle for the first time since his leg-breaking Silverstone crash ahead of a planned MotoGP comeback in next weekend’s Valencia season finale. Rabat has been out of action since he sustained a triple fracture of his right
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. George Russell tried to land a 2018 Williams Formula 1 drive and made a PowerPoint presentation to aid his bid, the team’s chief technical officer Paddy Lowe has revealed. Russell has been confirmed at Williams for 2019 after impressing the team with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Aric Almirola suggests he will go out of his way to hinder Joey Logano’s NASCAR Cup title hopes at Homestead if he fails to reach the ‘championship four’. Almirola started Sunday’s Texas race from the rear of the field after
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Racing Point Force India’s Otmar Szafnauer says Sauber has “outdeveloped” Formula 1’s top teams with the leap it has made from its 2017 car to the current C37 challenger. Sauber propped up the constructors’ standings last year, scoring just five points to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. James Hinchcliffe says he is glad Schmidt Peterson Motorsports did not buy him a seat in the 2018 Indianapolis 500 after he failed to qualify. Bumping returned to the Indy 500 in 2018 after a surge of interest pushed entries beyond the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Newly-crowned Moto2 champion Francesco Bagnaia has revealed he passed up a “possibility” to graduate to MotoGP in 2018 to try to win the intermediate category instead. Bagnaia, who is part of Valentino Rossi’s academy, ended the 2017 Moto2 season as top rookie
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 chiefs have been urged to do more to clamp down on oil burn, even though new rules have done much to discourage teams from exploiting it. With F1’s turbo hybrid rules having imposed strict limits on fuel flow and quantity
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati will hold a clear-the-air meeting with its MotoGP riders Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso after the feed that broke out between them during the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend. The war of words began when Dovizioso passed comment on Lorenzo being forced
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari boss Maurizio Arrivabene says his team needs to overcome a fear of winning if it is to finally beat Mercedes in Formula 1. Ferrari’s title hopes have been derailed by late-season problems again this year, and Arrivabene said the team has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Volkswagen has hinted it could field a factory Polo GTI R5 on more WRC2 events or European Rally Championship rounds in 2019. VW was initially adamant it would only enter “one or two rallies in key markets” with its own works team
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Five-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton fears young drivers risk compromising their education too much and intends to talk with FIA president Jean Todt on the matter. Hamilton wants to help aspiring racing drivers who are taken out of school in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales says it was “impossible” for him to match the pace of Yamaha team-mate Valentino Rossi and Marc Marquez in MotoGP’s Malaysia race. Rossi led the majority of the Sepang race on Sunday, but was being caught by Marc Marquez when
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR has admitted it was wrong to place Jimmie Johnson at the rear of the field for Sunday’s Cup race at Texas. Johnson qualified his Hendrick Motorsport Chevrolet 23rd, but shortly before the start of the race NASCAR announced the #48 had
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kimi Raikkonen believes tougher stewarding on bigger incidents would eliminate “stupidity” from Formula 1 drivers. The FIA is constantly adapting its stewarding process to try to improve how it polices bad driving, ranging from appointing former racing drivers to its panel of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati failed to properly manage its riders during the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend, and the Italian manufacturer’s bosses must make sure the team’s priorities are clear. Jorge Lorenzo missed his fourth consecutive race after pushing the limits on Friday, just nine days
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Current KTM MotoGP rider Bradley Smith has sealed a move to the all-electric MotoE support category for the 2019 season. Smith, who will be replaced by Johann Zarco in KTM’s line-up after next weekend’s Valencia season finale, will combine his MotoE duties
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick secured his place in the NASCAR Cup title decider, prevailing in a late race duel with Ryan Blaney at Texas. After having swept the first two stages, Harvick had built a comfortable four-second lead over Blaney entering the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maurizio Arrivabene has hit out at “false rumours” concerning the future of Ferrari Formula 1 technical director Mattia Binotto, saying they are designed to “create instability” at the team. After Ferrari’s latest failure to beat Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes to the F1
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz Jr says it was important for him to finish the 2018 season strongly with Renault, once it was confirmed that he would be moving to McLaren next season. The Spaniard found out over the summer that he was being replaced
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso admits he isn’t totally certain of the cause for his “really bad race” in the Malaysian Grand Prix. Barring his crash in Japan two weeks ago, Dovizioso has consistently finished on the podium since August’s Czech GP,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Newly-crowned five-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton has targeted at least getting “close” to Michael Schumacher’s all-time records over the remainder of his career. Hamilton moved level with Juan Manuel Fangio on five titles with his latest championship victory last Sunday
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Malaysian Grand Prix winner Marc Marquez said he “didn’t have anything more” in his fight with Valentino Rossi before the Yamaha rider crashed out late on at Sepang. Starting seventh after being handed a six-place grid drop for impeding Andrea Iannone in