Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Thierry Neuville wants to contest a 24-hour event in a GT3 car, after making a winning circuit racing debut in TCR Germany last weekend. Neuville took pole position, fastest lap, a race win and led every lap at the Nurburgring, in a Hyundai i30 N TCR reserved for guest drivers.
Month: August 2019
NASCAR Cup Series leader Kyle Busch feels his part of the Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota team is “getting our ass kicked right now” by his team-mates. Though Busch retains the points lead as the series approaches its playoffs phase, he has not won a race since the early June Pocono round and has had largely
The Honda MotoGP team has confirmed Jorge Lorenzo will make his return to action at this weekend’s British Grand Prix, having been absent through injury since June. The triple MotoGP world champion suffered a fracture to his T6 and T8 vertebrae in a fast crash during first practice for the Dutch TT two months ago,
Bradley Smith labelled Finland’s KymiRing “very different to anything we’ve seen before”, as all six MotoGP manufacturers’ test riders sampled the new track for the first time on Monday. In preparation for Finland’s return to the MotoGP calendar for the first time since 1982 next season, the factory teams’ official test riders have been given
Toyota’s Ott Tanak says it will be a “big challenge” to repeat last year’s Rally Germany victory, which was “one of the most difficult” in his World Rally Championship career. Rally Finland winner last time out, Tanak is chasing a third successive win in Germany this weekend, a feat last achieved by Sebastien Loeb in
The Suzuki MotoGP team has announced Joan Mir will miss this weekend’s British Grand Prix as he continues to recover from chest and lung injuries sustain in a recent crash. The 2017 Moto3 world champion and premier class rookie suffered a high-speed tumble at the first corner at Brno during the post-race test, and had
Fernando Alonso and Toyota Gazoo Racing have unveiled the first stages of the preparation programe for the two-time Formula 1 world champion’s planned Dakar Rally debut in 2020. Alonso sampled Toyota’s Hilux car in the Kalahari Desert back in March, and will now embark on a much more extensive rally raid training programme with the
World Rally Championship event winner Hayden Paddon’s team is developing a world-leading all-electric Hyundai Kona EV rally car. The car is in the design stage now and is expected to be testing for the first time in April 2020. The aim is for the Kona EV to be the first rally car capable of completing
Reigning IndyCar champion Scott Dixon, race winner Will Power and Indianapolis 500 victor Simon Pagenaud have defended the Pocono tri-oval after an airborne crash for the second successive year. Takuma Sato was accused by Alexander Rossi of moving down into him, in an incident which also collected Ryan Hunter-Reay, James Hinchcliffe and Felix Rosenqvist, the
NASCAR Cup Series team owners would be “idiots” not to sign Matt DiBenedetto, according to Bristol winner Denny Hamlin – one of several frontrunners backing the axed Leavine Family racer. DiBenedetto had previously talked of his “fight” to keep his seat at the single-car team Leavine team, which has been boosted by a tie-up with
Andrea Dovizioso believes the manner of his victory over Marc Marquez in the last MotoGP race in Austria will rejuvenate himself and Ducati in the final part of the season. Dovizioso had struggled to run with Marquez for much of the season since winning the Qatar opener, and admitted in the lead-up to the Red
IndyCar title contender Alexander Rossi slammed fellow Indianapolis 500 winner Takuma Sato for causing a five-car crash at Pocono a year on from Robert Wickens’ devastating accident at the track. Rossi, after a poor start from the front row, was drafted down to Turn 2 by Andretti Autosport team-mate Ryan Hunter-Reay on the inside and
Will Power secured his first victory of the IndyCar season for Team Penske, as the race at Pocano was abandoned for weather and featured a huge crash at the start. Power moved up to third before the race was red flagged on the opening lap after an incident which involved five of the cars in
Chris Ingram has missed out on the ERC1 Junior title by only 0.3s on the Barum Rally, despite taking the lead of the European Rally Championship outright. Ingram was locked in an intense battle with fellow Skoda Fabia R5 driver Filip Mares, the pair swapping places several times throughout the rally while battling for class
Collapsed landing gear caused the plane carrying ex-NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt Jr and his family to crash off the runway before bursting into flames, says the National Transportation Safety Board. Earnhardt’s jet caught fire and burned out within minutes during the incident at Elizabethon Municipal Airport in Tennessee. The plane had careered off the end
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Denny Hamlin recovered from being two laps down to beat Leavine Family Racing’s Matt DiBenedetto in the NASCAR Cup race at Bristol. Hamlin had led the race in the opening stages before clipping Jimmie Johnson’s Chevrolet as the Hendrick Motorsports’ driver was collected when Austin Dillon suffered a puncture. While Hamlin’s
IndyCar championship leader Josef Newgarden will start tomorrow’s race at Pocono from pole position after rainfall led to the cancellation of qualifying at the tri-oval. The opening practice session was initially delayed after low cloud cover stopped the medical helicopter from getting to the circuit. Around an hour into the delay, IndyCar officials sent the
IndyCar race winner Colton Herta looks set to leave the Harding Steinbrenner team for the 2020 season, with Andretti Autosport and Arrow McLaren SP eager to sign the rookie. Herta scored a pole position at Road America and won at the Circuit of the Americas earlier in the season, and is considered one of the
Ex-Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve will race against Prince Carl Philip of Sweden in the Scandinavian Porsche Carrera Cup this weekend. Villeneuve, the 1997 F1 champion, made his Carrera Cup Scandinavia debut earlier this year in the opening round of the season and Knutstorp as a guest entry. He has been invited back to
Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Dani Sordo has suggested he will rent a car for Rally Spain if he is not picked by the works team for his home event. Sordo took a surprise second WRC victory earlier this year in Sardinia nearly six years after his first WRC win. But the fact that he
Danny Kent, the 2015 Moto3 world champion, has been handed a suspended jail sentence for a knife offence, and lost his ride in the British Superbike Championship as a result. Kent became Britain’s first grand prix motorcycle racing world champion since Barry Sheene’s second 500cc title win in 1977 when he won the 2015 Moto3
Valentino Rossi feels that “something moved” within the Yamaha MotoGP team during the summer break in its bid to close the gap to its rival manufacturers. Rossi had a torrid end to the first half of the 2019 campaign, as he retired from three races in succession and then finished only eighth at the Sachsenring.
Retired NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr and his family escaped a fiery plane crash on Thursday with only minor injuries. Earnhardt’s jet caught fire and burned out within minutes during the incident at Elizabethon Municipal Airport in Tennessee. According to Carter County Sheriff Dexter Lunceford, the Cessna Citation 680 owned by Earnhardt’s JRM Air ran
Pontus Tidemand will rejoin M-Sport Ford’s World Rally Championship line-up for Rally Turkey next month. The 2017 WRC2 champion contested the opening two rounds of the 2019 season in a third M-Sport-run Ford Fiesta WRC, finishing eighth on home soil in Sweden. The Turkey start, his first gravel outing of the year, should be in
Despite “fighting” for his place, Matt DiBenedetto has failed to secure a Leavine Family Racing NASCAR Cup Series drive next year in what he described as “devastating news”. DiBenedetto has impressed this season for LFR, after its technical affiliation with Joe Gibbs Racing has allowed it to score improved results. The NASCAR Cup Series underdog
Ducati MotoGP technical director Davide Barana says improving the bike’s key weakness of turning is a “long process” that is taking a lot of “trial and error”. Though Ducati has made steps forward in recent years, emerging as a title challenger again in the last three seasons, it is still thought to trail its rivals
After a surprise podium at the Red Bull Ring, Petronas SRT MotoGP rider Fabio Quartararo says he is “impatient” to go to tracks where the Yamaha stands a better chance of winning. Quartararo led the opening laps of the Austrian Grand Prix, but was overtaken by both Andrea Dovizioso’s Ducati and Marc Marquez’s Honda on
Aprilia MotoGP test rider Bradley Smith will return to the Moto2 class in place of the injured Khairul Idham Pawi at the Petronas SRT squad for next weekend’s Silverstone round. Pawi injured his hand in a crash at the Spanish Grand Prix in May, and has been replaced by the likes of Mattia Pasini and
Johann Zarco says staying in MotoGP in 2020 following his KTM departure remains the “first target”, but admits a return to the Moto2 class is “also an option”. KTM announced on Monday following its home race at the Austrian Grand Prix that Zarco would be leaving the team at the end of this season. Zarco
Leaving Honda for Chevrolet was a “big negative” in Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’ partnership with McLaren in IndyCar, but the deal was a “no-brainer”, according to team boss Sam Schmidt. Schmidt’s team will merge with McLaren for a full season of IndyCar next year under the Arrow McLaren Racing SP banner with Chevrolet power, in what