Eight cars have been put to the back of the grid for Saturday night’s Richmond NASCAR Cup Series race after failing technical inspection, including four of the top 10 qualifiers. This weekend featured a condensed two-day schedule, which meant cars did not go through inspection prior to Friday night’s qualifying session. Instead, all of the
Month: April 2019
MotoGP has been forced to cancel all of Saturday’s remaining practice sessions at Austin due to the threat of lightning in the area. Promoter Dorna announced earlier on Saturday that all free practice sessions would be reduced to a 20-minute duration, starting with third Moto3 practice that was due to start at 5pm UK time
In a perfect four-wheel drift, Charles Leclerc slides his kart at speed around a tight hairpin bend. With his fingertips, the Ferrari driver beautifully balances his steering with throttle inputs. Everything seems ordinary until you look at the surface he’s driving on. It’s a sheet of ice. Wearing his now familiar scarlet Ferrari overalls, the
Alfa Romeo driver Kimi Raikkonen suspects that Formula 1 becoming “more of a hobby” for him is what has made it “more fun again”. The 2007 world champion has joined Alfa, which is run by the Sauber organisation that gave the Finn his F1 debut back in 2001, after Ferrari opted to replace him with
Toto Wolff says the changes Mercedes had to make to its new front wing before practice for Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix did have an aerodynamic impact on its car. Mercedes brought a modified front wing to Shanghai, featuring a different cut endplate to produce a curved trailing edge. The aim of this was to
Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso says a wrong tyre choice caused his poor Friday at Austin, which has left him facing Q1 at MotoGP’s Grand Prix of the Americas. Dovizioso was edged out of the overall top 10 by 0.084 seconds in practice two and as practice three is widely expected to be wet, the Italian
Marc Marquez says he could feel a difference with Honda’s new Ducati-style winglet in MotoGP practice at Austin, but stressed the new device has negatives as well as positives. Following the controversy surrounding the Ducati appendage that was protested in Qatar but finally declared legal, Honda introduced its own version of the piece during Friday’s
Chip Ganassi Racing’s five-time and reigning champion Scott Dixon led Friday afternoon IndyCar practice in Long Beach, beating morning pacesetter Ryan Hunter-Reay by 0.0494 seconds. Andretti Autosport driver Hunter-Reay had led Dixon by 0.1704s as he topped the opening session and went fastest again on the harder tyres in the first 20 minutes of practice
Aprilia MotoGP rider Aleix Espargaro described the Austin circuit as “super-dangerous” following Friday’s two practice sessions, as the track’s bumps caused more controversy. The degrading asphalt at the Texan track has been a discussion point during MotoGP’s previous visits, with attempts to smooth the notoriously bumpy surface with diamond-grinder trucks ahead of last year’s Grand
Charles Leclerc believes Ferrari will be very competitive at this weekend’s Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix. Leclerc’s hopes for a maiden GP win were dashed a fortnight ago in Bahrain, when an electrical problem caused him to lose the lead, but he hopes victory will be his in Shanghai. Speaking at a PR event organised
Marc Marquez unsurprisingly set the pace in opening MotoGP practice at Austin – a track where he is unbeaten – but he was pushed hard by Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales. Honda rider Marquez was consistently the fastest rider as the track rubbered-in. He worked down to 2m06.252s four laps into his first run. Vinales suffered a
Mercedes was asked to modify its new front wing for the Formula 1 Chinese Grand Prix following an FIA technical directive. The team’s new wing was seen for the first time on Thursday, featuring a reworked, shorter endplate. This endplate exposed the profile of the uppermost element, aiming to strengthen the outwash effect produced by
The Haas Formula 1 team is confident an overnight fix ahead of Chinese Grand Prix qualifying will address the front wing failures it has suffered on two consecutive Fridays. Romain Grosjean had a failure in FP1 in Bahrain the team originally believed to be one-off, but the Frenchman suffered a similar breakage during second practice
Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel was fastest in the opening practice session for Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix, outpacing the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton by 0.207s. Having established clear superiority in straightline speed at the preceding race in Bahrain, Ferrari was expected to build on that advantage on the long straights of the Shanghai International Circuit. It
Sebastian Vettel says it is a good thing that Ferrari Formula 1 team-mate Charles Leclerc is capable of being on top form when the four-time world champion is not. Ferrari’s ostensible lead driver Vettel had a tricky previous race in Bahrain, where he was re-passed by poleman Leclerc early on and had a spin battling
NASCAR should follow the IndyCar Series template and slash costs for its new-for-2021 Gen-7 platform, says team owner Roger Penske. Penske has teams within NASCAR, IndyCar and the IMSA SportsCar Championship, with the stock car series comfortably the most expensive of the three. IndyCar has kept its operating costs low by limiting the areas of
Max Verstappen says a mechanical set-up error was to blame for Red Bull’s disappointing performance in Formula 1’s Bahrain Grand Prix. The Dutchman, who said the issue came to light during the two-day test after the race weekend, added the wind had also played a factor. Verstappen qualified fifth, only sixth thousandths ahead of Haas’s
Pol Espargaro says the criticism levelled at him and most recently his new KTM MotoGP team-mate Johann Zarco by team boss Pit Beirer is done to “make us better”. Zarco, who made the move to KTM from Tech3 Yamaha, has endured a tough first two races aboard the RC16 bike, finishing 15th in Qatar and
A World Rally Championship round based on the French mainland could be the ‘biggest rally on earth’ according to WRC Promoter’s Oliver Ciesla. Calendar negotiations for next season began with a pivotal meeting last month, where FIA president Jean Todt and WRC Promoter managing director Oliver Ciesla discussed the 14 rallies which will make up
Formula 1 managing director of motorsport Ross Brawn says the championship’s 1000th grand prix is the “brightest symbol” of the “amazing history from which to move forward”. As F1 and its governing body the FIA continue to thrash out the plan for a major rules overhaul in 2021, the championship will celebrate its 1000th race
Ducati MotoGP satellite team Pramac will have Automobili Lamborghini as its title sponsor in the upcoming Grand Prix of the Americas amid uncertainty over its regular sponsor Alma. Alma is in an ongoing legal case involving its owner Luigi Scavone, who was arrested in March in connection with an investigation into large-scale tax evasion. Pramac
Ducati MotoGP satellite team Pramac will have Automobili Lamborghini as its title sponsor in the upcoming Grand Prix of the Americas amid uncertainty over its regular sponsor Alma. Alma is in an ongoing legal case involving its owner Luigi Scavone, who was arrested in March in connection with an investigation into large-scale tax evasion. Pramac
Haas team boss Gunther Steiner says Liberty Media’s approach to ensuring customer teams can survive is essential for Formula 1’s long-term future. Rival F1 teams have pushed for outfits such as Haas to make more of its own parts, and the American team’s closeness to Ferrari has led to friction with other squads. F1 sporting
Alexander Albon says his Toro Rosso team boss Franz Tost has told him to “just don’t care” about the external pressure that comes with racing in Formula 1. Albon stepped up to grand prix racing after finishing third in Formula 2 in 2018, having no previous F1 experience before making his debut with Toro Rosso
One-time World Rally champion Petter Solberg has announced his retirement from top-flight motorsport. Solberg will remain active in motorsport and will continue to compete on selected events – including a fan-friendly farewell tour for 2019 – but says he will not chase a fourth world championship. Solberg, who has been competing at the highest level
Racing Point Formula 1 team boss Otmar Szafnauer is confident that the FIA and the F1 organisation can agree plans for 2021 with the teams before the planned deadline in June. The FIA’s International Sporting Code specifies June as the cut-off for decisions on changes for 2021. The teams were given a briefing on the
Honda rider Marc Marquez says MotoGP rival Andrea Dovizioso can suffer less in the title fight in 2019, because Ducati’s Dovizioso is getting better results at his bogey tracks. Dovizioso opened his 2019 campaign with a narrow win over Marquez in Qatar, and followed that up with third place last time out in Argentina after
Formula 1 teams want more Pirelli tyres for qualifying, if a proposed move to a four-stage qualifying session is imposed for 2020. As revealed by Autosport last weekend, F1 teams pushed forward with the idea of a four-session knockout concept at the recent Strategy Group and F1 Commission meetings. Key to it getting ratification is
IndyCar president Jay Frye admits that delaying the introduction of the 2.4-litre engines in 2021 will be considered, if it will help entice another engine manufacturer. The current plan is for the IndyCar Series to replace its current 2.2-litre twin-turbo V6s with the new 2.4-liter engines for the 2021 season, and then race the next-generation
George Russell is at least 6kg heavier than last year thanks to Formula 1’s fairer driver weight rules for 2019, and believes “the next step” is a standard cockpit size. The Williams rookie is one of the tallest drivers on the F1 grid and has revealed that after weighing 66kg in his Formula 2 title-winning
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