Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli has revealed its first estimation of the performance gap between the five different compounds of tyres it is running in 2019. Although the company admits it can be more definitive about the lap time delta
Month: February 2019
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Indonesia has signed a three-year deal to host a MotoGP street race starting from 2021. Plans to construct an all-new venue in the Mandalika area of the island of Lombok, with the aim of hosting MotoGP, were originally reported by
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Kubica admits that the Williams Formula 1 team is testing its new FW42 car in a “compromised” condition this week at Barcelona. Williams’s 2019 car missed the first two days of running altogether due to delays with the production
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mads Ostberg admitted he felt afraid and uncomfortable on his Citroen C3 R5 debut at Rally Sweden last week. With Citroen having slimmed its World Rally Championship factory line-up down to two cars, Ostberg has moved down to the WRC’s
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rally Sweden looks set to ignore the advice of the FIA and World Rally Championship drivers and continue to run its historic category between first and second runnings of stages. The WRC drivers have long complained that the different lines
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas team boss Gunther Steiner says his team must fix the “little gremlins” having suffered electrical trouble three times during the third day of Formula 1 testing at Barcelona. After an electrical problem forced the VF-19 to stop on track
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso-Honda driver Daniil Kvyat says his late table-topping lap on the third day of Barcelona Formula 1 testing was not “balls out”. Kvyat demoted Alfa Romeo driver Kimi Raikkonen from the top spot with just over 10 minutes to
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup racer Aric Almirola said his Daytona 500 crash was unnervingly reminiscent of the 2017 Kansas accident that left him with back injuries. Almirola missed two months of the 2017 season having fractured his T5 vertebra when his Richard
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams’s delayed 2019 Formula 1 car has run for the first time in pre-season testing at Barcelona. With the build of the new FW42 having run late, the car only arrived at the track in the early hours of Wednesday
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 21-car ‘Big One’ pile-up that caused the 2019 Daytona 500’s first red flag turned the “most amazing” day for star NASCAR underdog Matt DiBenedetto into the “most heartbreaking”. In his first race for the Leavine Family Racing Toyota team,
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 rookie Alexander Albon says he was “reassured” after spinning on his out-lap in pre-season testing by the knowledge Kimi Raikkonen had done the same the day before. Toro Rosso driver Albon arrived at Barcelona with no experience of
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen was forced to stop running early in Barcelona Formula 1 testing on Tuesday because an issue with the headrest of his Haas made him uncomfortable. Magnussen, who was driving with his head tilted further forward than would normally
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar has revealed plans to introduce a new cockpit protection device from this year’s Indianapolis 500, after declaring “work remains” before it can implement its windscreen solution. All cars taking part in an open test at Indianapolis in April will
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tyre supplier Pirelli believes a better track surface is behind the impressive lap times 2019 Formula 1 cars have managed in Barcelona testing rather than any failure of new rules. New aero regulations designed to make following easier were expected
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai has dropped Andreas Mikkelsen from its Tour of Corsica World Rally Championship line-up, leaving him on the sidelines in favour of Thierry Neuville, Sebastien Loeb and Dani Sordo. Mikkelsen had expected, and some sources have reported he was contracted,
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari started 2019’s Formula 1 pre-season testing period at the top of the timesheets at Barcelona, but there was far more about its performance that was impressive than just laptime. After Sebastian Vettel led the way for the team so
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams’s lengthening delay in getting its new Formula 1 car on track at Barcelona has fuelled paddock speculation that technical chief Paddy Lowe’s long-term future may be in the balance. After initially scrapping plans for a shakedown of its FW42
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano had a post-race dispute with fellow Ford driver Michael McDowell over what he felt was a lack of cooperation in the Daytona 500. Penske driver Logano and Front Row Motorsports racer McDowell were the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA is planning to monitor fuel usage by Formula 1 teams more closely this year by introducing a series of physical checks. The new procedures suggest that the governing body could have been alerted to possible grey areas concerning
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marcus Gronholm has called time on his World Rally Championship career after a disappointing Rally Sweden outing last weekend. The two-time world champion retired from full-time driving at the end of 2007 but has made three additional WRC appearances since
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Denny Hamlin held his nerve through a messy final part of the Daytona 500 to win the NASCAR Cup Series’ premier event for the second time. The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver had declared his determination to win the event
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 2019 Formula 1 aerodynamic rules changes should not be judged until several grands prix into the season, insists McLaren’s Carlos Sainz Jr. The new regulations are intended to allow cars to follow each other more easily and increase the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 2019 Formula 1 season effectively gets under way on Monday morning as winter testing begins at Barcelona – meaning we’re about to get our first hints of the storylines ahead. Autosport’s Grand Prix Editor Edd Straw and F1 Reporter
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brad Binder has revealed he was promised a MotoGP test by KTM after his first Moto2 victory last year, and is still waiting for it to be honoured. Binder won the 2016 Moto3 title with the Ajo KTM squad in
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s American motorsport chief has dropped a strong hint that two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso wants to contest a NASCAR Cup Series road course race. Alonso drove Jimmie Johnson’s NASCAR Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet at Bahrain’s Sakhir circuit last
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thirty-six of the 42 Daytona 500 entrants knew their starting spots were guaranteed via NASCAR’s charter system. The other six had to fight their way in. And when the 2019 Cup Series season opener starts on Sunday, sometime Penske protege
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New Renault Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo says the “risk of failure” would have been greater if he stayed with Red Bull and its new engine partner Honda for 2019. Ricciardo’s shock Red Bull departure was the one of the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak leads the World Rally Championship standings for the first time in his career after winning Rally Sweden, scoring maximum points with victory on the powerstage too. The Toyota driver had established an unassailable lead on Saturday thanks to
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Single-file racing in NASCAR’s Daytona week so far has led to concerns about the spectacle in Sunday’s Cup Series season-opening 500. Last weekend’s non-championship Clash race, Thursday night’s Duel qualifying races and Saturday’s Xfinity Series opener were all characterised by
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak remains in the Rally Sweden lead with one stage remaining, while Andreas Mikkelsen lost ground and Esapekka Lappi took charge of the second place battle. Mikkelsen and Lappi headed to the first running of the Likenas stage tied
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