Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 has released figures to outline a “significant increase” in audience figures across TV and digital platforms in 2018, the second year of Liberty Media’s ownership. Figures released by the championship state that 490.2m unique figures were registered during
Month: January 2019
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three Formula 1 teams and UK motorsport’s governing body have discussed collectively writing to British prime minister Theresa May amid mounting concerns over a possible no-deal Brexit. David Richards, the head of Britain’s racing authority Motorsport UK, has been lobbying
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jenson Button has vowed to take a “more aggressive” approach in his sophomore Super GT campaign, having admitted to being cautious in his first full season in the series. Formula 1 convert Button appeared to struggle in some races last
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Incoming Red Bull Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly says he is not going to the team in 2019 to be “second driver” to Max Verstappen. Red Bull junior Gasly made his full-time F1 debut in 2018 with Toro Rosso, having
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati has unveiled the livery it will use for the 2019 MotoGP season, featuring prominent ‘Mission Winnow’ branding. The Italian manufacturer took the wraps off its new colours, adorned on last year’s Desmosedici bike, at its launch event at the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team has revealed the look of ex-Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson’s Indycar for the 2019 season, along with the machines of James Hinchcliffe and Robert Wickens. The SPM cars will run under the traditional black and
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jerome Stoll will continue as president of Renault’s sporting division despite a replacement being announced by the French company last year. Renault said in November that executive vice-president of sales and marketing Thierry Koskas (pictured, right, with Stoll and Renault
Glen Wood, co-founder of historic NASCAR team Wood Brothers Racing, has died at the age of 93. Wood was a four-time race winner in NASCAR’s top division, but is best known for creating Wood Brothers Racing – the category’s longest-running team – with siblings Leonard and Delano. A social media announcement from the team read:
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nasser Al-Attiyah believes his 2019 Dakar Rally success will prompt Toyota to increase its backing of the Gazoo Racing South Africa team in the future. Al-Attiyah claimed his third Dakar triumph in his Toyota Hilux by 46 minutes over his
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda’s target for the start of the 2019 Formula 1 season is to establish itself ahead of Renault and then try to catch Mercedes and Ferrari during the year. The Japanese manufacturer has been the fourth-best in F1 since returning
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati is poised to become the first MotoGP team to formally launch its 2019 campaign later on Friday. The Italian manufacturer will reveal its 2019 livery using an old bike at its launch event at the Philip Morris R&D Cube
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo will not be fooled by 2019 Renault Formula 1 team-mate Nico Hulkenberg’s record without a podium because he believes the German is “not that level of driver”. Despite being widely regarded as one of the most impressive drivers
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning DTM champion and HWA Formula E driver Gary Paffett will be part of the Mercedes assault on this year’s Intercontinental GT Challenge. Paffett, who has previous experience of Merc GT3 machinery from the Spa 24 Hours in 2016 (below)
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. James Hinchcliffe says that Robert Wickens’ input into the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team from his rookie IndyCar season last year will remain relevant in 2019. Wickens enjoyed a standout first campaign in which he scored several podium finishes, before he
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nasser Al-Attiyah has claimed a milestone first Dakar Rally win for Toyota in the 2019 edition of the race. Al-Attiyah, who previously won the Dakar with Volkswagen in 2011 and Mini four years after that, switched to driving a Toyota
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A study is being undertaken to establish whether Finland could stage a Formula 1 race in the future, with the country’s new MotoGP circuit a possible venue. Finland is one of the most successful countries in F1 history, boasting four
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergio Perez believes his ex-Formula 1 team-mate Esteban Ocon’s year on the sidelines in 2019 can “definitely hurt him more than it can benefit him”. Ocon will work as Mercedes’ reserve driver after failing to land a race seat due
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams chief technical officer Paddy Lowe has admitted he “fell into the trap” of not accepting the extent of the Formula 1 team’s problems and how much change it needed. Lowe joined Williams at the start of 2017 after being
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stephane Peterhansel’s co-driver David Castera has been cleared of fractures to his spine after the crash that ended the X-raid Mini pair’s 2019 Dakar Rally on Wednesday. Peterhansel and Castera endured a heavy landing over a dune 16 miles onto
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Triple Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda has been released from hospital in Vienna, after being admitted earlier this year with a flu infection. The 1975, ’77 and ’84 world champion, who is a non-executive chairman of the Mercedes F1
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dakar Rally leader Nasser Al-Attiyah set the pace in the penultimate stage of the 2019 marathon, edging ever closer to a milestone first victory for Toyota. The Qatari bagged his third stage win of the event on a day which
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas Formula 1 team principal Gunther Steiner does not understand why Kevin Magnussen has been tagged with a “wild” reputation or why people think he fades away over a season. Magnussen was on the receiving end of criticism from several
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stephane Peterhansel has retired from the 2019 edition of the Dakar Rally after the 13-time champion crashed on the penultimate stage. Peterhansel, who entered Wednesday’s test in fourth place overall, had an incident shortly after the start of the 312km
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR Honda team boss Lucio Cecchinello has backed his rider Cal Crutchlow to fight for the MotoGP title in 2020. Crutchlow, who has been a fixture of the LCR Honda squad since 2015, enjoyed his strongest season to date with
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari president John Elkann has strongly refuted reports that the Formula 1 team faces further management upheaval and could even turn to former boss Stefano Domenicali for help. The recent promotion of technical chief Mattia Binotto to become new team
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver James Hinchcliffe set the fastest time at the end of almost nine hours of IndyCar testing on Tuesday on the Sebring short layout. Ahead of IndyCar’s open test at new-for-2019 venue Austin next month, five IndyCar
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb scored his fourth stage win of the 2019 Dakar Rally on Tuesday, as Nasser Al-Attiyah stretched his lead in the overall standings to 46 minutes. PH Sport Peugeot driver Loeb began the eighth stage of the event over
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mick Schumacher, the son of seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael, is close to confirming a deal to join Ferrari’s young driver programme. The 2018 European Formula 3 champion has courted the interest of F1’s biggest teams since clinching his
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Global information and communications company NTT will become the IndyCar series’ title sponsor from 2019, replacing Verizon. Although Verizon’s longstanding relationship with Team Penske has been extended as part of a multi-season agreement, its title sponsorship of IndyCar was a
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stephane Peterhansel was left ‘seeing stars’ and suffering whiplash after a nasty landing early on the seventh stage of the 2019 Dakar Rally. The Mini driver made good headway on leader Nasser Al-Attiyah by winning Monday’s stage, and moved back
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