Carlos Sainz Jr has bumped Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas from the top three in Autosport readers’ Formula 1 driver ratings after another impressive showing at the French Grand Prix. McLaren driver Sainz registered a second ‘Class B’ victory of the season by finishing sixth at Paul Ricard and was the only driver from the midfield group
Month: June 2019
Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales says Jorge Lorenzo avoiding punishment for his multi-rider crash in the Catalan Grand Prix will “open the window” for identical incidents to happen. Lorenzo tried to pass Vinales at the tight Turn 10 left-hander on the second lap of the Barcelona race, but tucked the front and collected the Yamaha
KTM MotoGP rider Johann Zarco says the similarities between his feedback and that of test rider Dani Pedrosa have come as a boost after “six months of suffering”. Beleaguered Tech3 Yamaha convert Zarco has found it difficult to get to grips with the KTM bike, and has been regularly outqualified and outraced by team-mate Pol
Stewart-Haas Racing’s winless 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season so far is due to choosing “the wrong direction to start the year”, says lead driver Kevin Harvick. While fellow Ford team Penske Racing has won five races already this year with reigning champion Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski, SHR has failed to register a single regular-season
IndyCar Series championship leader Josef Newgarden says Penske made important gains in testing this week in its bid to close the gap to Andretti Autosport on road courses. At Road America last weekend, Andretti’s Alexander Rossi outqualified Penske drivers Will Power and Newgarden, then led all but one lap on the way to winning by
Alex Albon will be hit with a grid penalty at the Austrian Grand Prix for taking Honda’s upgraded Formula 1 engine, which he did not use in France. Honda introduced its Spec 3 engine last weekend but split its use across the two Toro Rosso drivers to avoid that team suffering grid drops with both
Lewis Hamilton’s critics should recognise the opportunity they have to see “maybe the best driver that has ever existed” in Formula 1, reckons the Mercedes driver’s team boss Toto Wolff. The five-time world champion’s ultra-successful move to Mercedes has earned him a place among the best drivers in F1 history by various statistical measures. Hamilton
Formula 1 testing could return to Silverstone in 2020 – but only if the British Grand Prix stays on the calendar. Over the French GP weekend teams discussed possible venues for next year’s two in-season tests, which have to take place on the Tuesday and Wednesday after a race weekend. Bahrain GP track Sakhir is
Kalle Rovanpera will step up to a Toyota works seat next season, making him the youngest ever full-time factory driver in the World Rally Championship, Autosport has learned. The 18-year-old’s management will invoke a clause in his two-year Skoda deal to depart his current employer at the end of the year. Autosport’s sources have indicated
Former Bentley factory driver Andy Meyrick will return to the Spa 24 Hours next month, 12 months after breaking his back in the Blancpain GT Series blue-riband round. The Briton, who drove for the works M-Sport Bentley operation in 2013-15, will race for the Team Parker Racing squad with which he contested last year’s event.
The FIA is ready to roll out more bespoke bollard lanes in Formula 1 runoff areas this year in its push to clamp down harder on drivers abusing track limits. Amid a growing debate about how to deter drivers from cutting corners, the FIA trialled more extensive use of lanes that directed cars around bollards
Silverstone is focused on securing its place as the long-term home of MotoGP in the United Kingdom amid the uncertainty of the future of Formula 1’s British Grand Prix. This year’s F1 race at the track is the last one under the current deal, while its MotoGP contract has been recently extended to 2021. This
All four factory World Rally Championship teams will contest next month’s Rally Estonia, with Toyota’s Ott Tanak having been added to the entry. Tanak’s entry on his home country’s biggest motorsport event could only be confirmed once Juho Hanninen had safely completed Rally Italy because WRC points leader Tanak will use the Yaris Hanninen drove
Max Verstappen says it is “bullshit” to suggest Formula 1 cars are not challenging enough, and is baffled by Romain Grosjean’s claim that driving a kart is harder. Lewis Hamilton has suggested this season that the current generation of Formula 1 car is too easy to drive, while Grosjean revealed he was more tired driving
Ex-Formula 1 driver Alexander Rossi says his IndyCar future is “in God’s hands” amid speculation he could move from the Honda-backed Andretti Autosports squad to Chevrolet-powered Penske for 2020. Rossi won at Road America last weekend, and sits second in the championship with two wins and a further three podium finishes. The 27-year-old joined Andretti
Formula 1 race director Michael Masi says he is open to changing rejoining rules for 2020 in the wake of the incident between Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel in Canada. The controversy caused by Vettel’s five-second penalty at the Canadian Grand Prix for rejoining the track in an unsafe manner and pushing Hamilton off circuit
Hyundai has resolved its dilemma over who to put in its World Rally Cars in Finland – its traditional weak point – by bringing Craig Breen back to the WRC. DAVID EVANS explains the factors that made Hyundai turn to the former Citroen driver. It’s not often flood defences are needed in Jyvaskyla, but it
World Superbike rider Alvaro Bautista says the door back to MotoGP in 2020 “is more closed” now, as Ducati looks set to retain its current premier class line-up. Bautista moved to WSBK on Ducati’s all-new Panigale V4 R at the start of this season and currently leads the standings by 16 points having won 14
Williams Formula 1 chief technical officer Paddy Lowe’s departure has finally been confirmed after a leave of absence that began before the start of the 2019 season. Lowe has been on leave for “personal reasons” since March 5, with his last Williams appearance coming in pre-season testing at Barcelona. Williams has now announced that he
Craig Breen will return to the World Rally Championship to join Hyundai as its third driver for Rally Finland in August. The decision ends weeks of speculation about who would step in for the team’s resident drivers Sebastien Loeb and Dani Sordo, both of whom had made it clear they did not want to compete
Formula 1 sporting boss Ross Brawn says he cannot wait to work with Lewis Hamilton in shaping the championship’s future and says meetings are now scheduled to get driver input. After dominating a straightforward French Grand Prix last weekend, Hamilton was critical of F1’s rulemaking process and said the series is nowhere near where it
Formula 1 race director Michael Masi says he does not understand why Sergio Perez was so upset at his French Grand Prix penalty. Racing Point’s Perez was handed a five-second penalty at Paul Ricard for gaining places after cutting across the run-off areas at Turns 3 and 4 on the opening lap, and Perez said
Team owner Joe Gibbs says he was “sweating” over the prospect of having Martin Truex Jr and Kyle Busch in the same outfit for the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season. The closure of Furniture Row Racing at the end of 2018 led to Truex moving to Joe Gibbs Racing and linking up with Busch. The
Penske’s Will Power and Josef Newgarden are at a loss to explain how Alexander Rossi was able to take such a dominant IndyCar win for Andretti Autosport at Road America. Rossi took victory after leading all 55 laps and crossing the line ahead of Power by almost 30 seconds, with Newgarden completing the top three
Suzuki’s current strong MotoGP form is down to the manufacturer creating “countermeasures” during its torrid 2017 campaign that has helped improve the GSX-RR bike, says test rider Sylvain Guintoli. The 2017 bike proved largely uncompetitive and Suzuki believed the main problem was homologating the wrong specification of engine, with its then-rider Andrea Iannone said to
The FIA says the quick change of start lights at the French Grand Prix should not have caught Formula 1 drivers by surprise because it was within its permitted tolerances. Sebastian Vettel was among a handful of drivers to admit after the race he was “a bit surprised” by how quickly the lights went out,
The Charlotte Roval will redesign its backstretch chicane ahead of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series race in a bid to improve overtaking. The chicane is located after the NASCAR field turns through the oval circuit’s banking, before then heading onto the backstretch and into the Turns 11-12 complex. Previously, the original chicane layout proved difficult
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Martin Truex Jr clinched his fourth NASCAR Cup Series victory of the 2019 season, resisting late pressure from team-mate Kyle Busch at Sonoma. Busch made his final pitstop three laps later than Truex Jr, and carried a tyre advantage into the final 23 laps of the 90-lap race. Emerging eight seconds adrift
Alexander Rossi dominated IndyCar’s Road America race to take his second win of the season, ending a run of three second places from the last four races. The Andretti Autosport driver passed polesitter Colton Herta in the opening sequence of corners on the first lap and never looked back, leading all 55 laps and crossing
Daniel Ricciardo has dropped from seventh to 11th in the final Formula 1 French Grand Prix classification after receiving two five-second penalties for overtakes on the last lap. The Renault driver overtook McLaren’s Lando Norris at the chicane but locked up while doing so, which forced Norris to take evasive action and allowed Kimi Raikkonen
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