Hendrick Motorsports now has the best cars in the NASCAR Cup Series field, despite having only won once in the 2019 season, reckons Penske’s Brad Keselowski. Powerhouse team Hendrick has endured two lean years, with its talismanic seven-time champion lead driver Jimmie Johnson having not taken a race win in a championship round since June
Month: May 2019
IndyCar will introduce an aeroscreen cockpit protection device developed in partnership with the Red Bull Formula 1 team’s Advanced Technologies arm for the 2020 season. The ballistic screen will be anchored by titanium framework, and is the second phase of IndyCar’s driver safety enhancement after the recent addition of the Advanced Frontal Protection device. The
The Hyundai World Rally Championship team faces a driver shortage for Rally Finland, with Dani Sordo and Sebastien Loeb reluctant to contest the event and concerns over Andreas Mikkelsen’s form. Hyundai began 2019 intending to field Thierry Neuville and Mikkelsen full-time, with Loeb and Sordo sharing the third entry. But it benched Mikkelsen for Corsica
Surprise MotoGP title contender Alex Rins believes the issues that held his Suzuki team back in last weekend’s French Grand Prix are largely specific to the Le Mans track. A 10th-place finish mirrored Rins’ French GP from the previous year, but also snapped an 11-race streak of top-six finishes. That meant the Austin winner fell
McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner Tom Gamble will race on the Le Mans 24 Hours undercard next month in an Aston Martin. The 17-year-old Briton, who won last year’s edition of what has now become the Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year Award, will contest the Road to Le Mans races open
Any future McLaren Indianapolis project will be under its own banner, but it will consider a “strategic alliance” with a leading IndyCar team says CEO Zak Brown. In 2017 Fernando Alonso drove a full Andretti Autosport entry with McLaren branding at Indy, but McLaren opted to go it alone in ’19 bar some technical support
The underfunded Juncos Racing IndyCar team that knocked McLaren and Fernando Alonso out of the Indianapolis 500 has secured multiple new sponsors leading up to the race. At the start of Indy 500 practice week, team owner Ricardo Juncos revealed that his two main sponsors for the team’s second IndyCar race of the season had
Renault Formula 1 boss Cyril Abiteboul has revealed that a conrod reliability issue handicapped the firm’s engines in the first part of the 2019 season, but has now been addressed. While it was well known that Renault had suffered some MGU-K issues this year, the fundamental problem with its V6 had hitherto been kept under
From reliability problems to track time lost because the spare car was the wrong shade of orange, McLaren’s Indianapolis 500 project with Fernando Alonso went off the rails fast. Motorsport.com’s US editor David Malsher tells the full story of the list of disasters that led to the incredible scenes of proven Formula 1 champions Alonso
The Mercedes Formula 1 team admits it has a tyre warm-up “concern” for Monaco Grand Prix qualifying, despite its imperious form in the two Thursday practice sessions. The champion team arrived in Monte Carlo as a strong favourite following its five successive one-two finishes and its pace advantage in low-speed corners in the last event
Debris caused the radiator leak that left Max Verstappen down in sixth place in second Formula 1 practice for the Monaco Grand Prix and cost Red Bull significant track time. Having been second fastest to Lewis Hamilton in the morning session, Verstappen completed just 17 laps in the afternoon – fewer than half of the
McLaren CEO Zak Brown says a “snowball effect” of mistakes led to its shock failure to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 with Fernando Alonso. Reports had hinted at a string of mistakes during the Indy build-up that included a missing steering wheel at the team’s first test at Texas Motor Speedway, delays caused by a
Carlos Sainz Jr says McLaren’s struggles in the part of the Barcelona Formula 1 track most relevant to Monaco were accentuated by a problem that only emerged in testing. McLaren had hoped that a major upgrade it introduced for the Spanish Grand Prix would put it at the forefront of the tight midfield pack, but
Fernando Alonso did not qualify for the 2019 Indianapolis 500. But 33 drivers ranging from rookies to past winners did and will contest IndyCar’s greatest race on Sunday. In the latest edition of the Autosport podcast, Tom Errington and Matt Beer join Edd Straw to look ahead to the Indy 500. As well as picking
Juho Hanninen will drive a fourth Toyota Yaris WRC on next month’s Rally Italy World Rally Championship round. Hanninen has not competed in the WRC since he was dropped from the Tommi Makinen Racing-run squad’s line-up at the end of 2017, after finishing ninth in the standings that year. But he has remained on Makinen’s
Niki Lauda famously produced two successful Formula 1 comebacks during his grand prix career. After his near-fatal crash at the 1976 German Grand Prix, Lauda, who died on Monday, returned to finish fourth at the Italian GP for Ferrari three races later and recovered to win the 1977 world title for his second triumph. He
McLaren did the right thing in taking Fernando Alonso’s shock failure to qualify for the Indianapolis 500 “on the chin”, reckons its Formula 1 driver Lando Norris. Alonso and McLaren entered this year’s Indy 500 hoping to be able to challenge for victory and take a win that would secure the two-time world champion the
Red Bull has ditched its nose scoop for the 2019 Monaco Grand Prix in favour of a more conventional Formula 1 design, along with small updates to the floor. The scoop first appeared on Red Bull’s RB13 in 2017, and appeared to be an attempt to satisfy the FIA’s regulations regarding the front crash structure,
Ex-Citroen World Rally Championship driver Craig Breen will contest this year’s Ypres Rally in Belgium, driving a new Volkswagen Polo R5 for the first time. Breen has contested the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship in a Ford Fiesta R5 and he currently leads the standings having won all four 2019 rounds. He has also competed in
Britain’s World Rally Championship round will start in England for the first time in 20 years, with Wales Rally GB flagged away from Liverpool into an opening Oulton Park stage. The confirmation of Liverpool as a start venue and Oulton Park as the opener are the highlights of the main revisions to the 2019 route.
A definitive layout has been revealed for the planned Rio de Janeiro circuit that wants to take over Formula 1’s Brazilian Grand Prix slot, but only once Interlagos’s deal expires. US consortium Rio Motorsports claims that on Monday it won a tender to build the new track. It says it has been awarded a 35-year
Fernando Alonso and McLaren’s shock failure to qualify for the 2019 Indianapolis 500 prompted immediate questions about what could have gone so badly wrong. While Alonso was a contender for victory on his first attempt at the great race in 2017 until his Honda engine failed, his second visit to Indianapolis could hardly have gone
A South African Grand Prix at Kyalami could rejoin the Formula 1 calendar amid interest from championship bosses and a desire from the redeveloped circuit to host F1 again. South Africa has not been part of the F1 calendar since 1993, the last of Kyalami’s 20 F1 races. Kyalami hosted the FIA Sportscar finale three
Hockenheim wants to host the German Grand Prix in 2020 and has funding in place, but the venue is reliant on Formula 1 to approve an extension within its contract. After last year’s race, Hockenheim signed a one-year deal for this season, helped by backing from Mercedes. However, the contract also includes an option for
Sebastien Loeb will replace beleaguered Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Andreas Mikkelsen on next week’s Rally Portugal. Hyundai announced its decision to bench the Norwegian in favour of nine-time WRC champion Loeb for the second time in four rallies on Tuesday. Mikkelsen, who was previous dropped for April’s Corsica round, is due to return to
Ferrari, McLaren, Mercedes and several Formula 1 and motorsport personalities are among those to have paid tribute to three-time world champion Niki Lauda, who died on Monday. Lauda won two of his titles with Ferrari before claiming his third with McLaren after coming out of retirement. More recently, he served as the Mercedes team’s non-executive
MotoGP rookie Fabio Quartararo has revealed that he turned his bike engine settings into qualifying mode during the French Grand Prix in a bid to recover from a poor start. Quartararo had been one of the quickest drivers in the build-up to the race, topping the first practice session and the warm-up before gambling on
Red Bull thinks its early 2019 Formula 1 performance has been hit by the aero rules overhaul and a change to tyres simultaneously hurting areas that were its strengths. Although the team is now making good progress with its car, and Max Verstappen is the Mercedes drivers’ closest challenger in the world championship, Red Bull
Former Force India deputy team principal Robert Fernley has left the McLaren IndyCar outfit in the wake of Fernando Alonso’s failure to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. Fernley was announced as president of the McLaren IndyCar project last November, some three months after he left his Force India role following the takeover of the Formula
Honda MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo feels being able to compete with the satellite LCR bikes at Le Mans demonstrated his progress, even if his result was not a major improvement. Lorenzo finished Sunday’s race 15 seconds behind race-winning team-mate Marc Marquez in 11th, which was one position better than his previous best result with Honda.
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