Marc Marquez watched his start from MotoGP’s 2015 Italian Grand Prix to inspire his launch from 11th to second on the opening lap of this year’s Malaysian race. The Honda rider crashed heavily while trying to follow eventual poleman Fabio Quartararo in Saturday’s qualifying session at Sepang and ended up 11th on the grid, which
Month: November 2019
Maverick Vinales led every lap of MotoGP’s Malaysian Grand Prix to take a dominant win ahead of Marc Marquez and Andrea Dovizioso. The victory was as straightforward as they come for Vinales, the Yamaha rider taking the lead on the opening lap and never looking back. His final margin was three seconds over Marquez, as
Team LeMans Lexus duo Kenta Yamashita and Kazuya Oshima won the 2019 SUPER GT title by finishing second behind championship rivals Nick Cassidy and Ryo Hirakawa in the Motegi season finale. While Hirakawa and Cassidy were able to recover from fourth on the grid to take their first victory of the 2019 season in the
Alex Marquez sealed the 2019 Moto2 world championship by finishing second to Brad Binder and beating his other main rival Tom Luthi in the Malaysian Grand Prix. The Marc VDS rider held his nerve in a tense battle with Binder and Luthi to keep his points gap above the required 24 to add to his
Kurt Busch has secured a new multi-year deal with the Chip Ganassi Racing NASCAR Cup Series team. The 2004 champion’s move to Ganassi for this season was initially just a one-year contract following his split with Stewart-Haas Racing. The 41-year-old then took Ganassi’s first win of 2019 at Kentucky Speedway in July and made it
Andrea Dovizioso says Marc Marquez’s shadowing of MotoGP Malaysian Grand Prix poleman Fabio Quartararo prior to his qualifying crash was “very aggressive”, but praised the Honda rider’s relentlessness. Marquez followed Petronas SRT rider Quartararo on their first run in Q2 and tried to do the same in the latter stages of the session. The Honda
Jenson Button finishes his two-year SUPER GT stint in the 2019 finale at Motegi on Sunday, and you can watch the race live on Autosport from 4.20am UK time. But while Button’s rookie campaign alongside Naoki Yamamoto last year resulted in a championship win at the first attempt, this time the pair are out of
Indonesian rider Afridza Munandar has died from injuries sustained in a crash in the Asia Talent Cup race on the support bill at MotoGP’s Malaysian Grand Prix. The opening race of the 2019 ATC finale at Sepang got under way after MotoGP qualifying earlier on Saturday. On the opening lap, at Turn 10, Munandar was
Marc Marquez says his massive crash in Malaysian Grand Prix MotoGP qualifying was the result of him trying to “copy” eventual poleman Fabio Quartararo’s Turn 2 approach. Quartararo set new lap records in both of Friday’s practice sessions and was already targeted by Marquez in the early stages of Q2 to be used as a
Fabio Quartararo will start MotoGP’s Malaysian Grand Prix from pole position for Petronas SRT Yamaha, while Marc Marquez crashed heavily. Rookie Quartararo put in a blinding 1m58.303s right at the flag to grab pole from fellow Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales. The lap is the fastest ever set on a MotoGP race weekend at the Sepang
Lexus locked out the front row for this weekend’s SUPER GT title decider at Motegi, as Kenta Yamashita put the points-leading Team LeMans LC500 second behind Yuhi Sekiguchi’s TOM’S entry. Sekiguchi posted a 1m35.964s in the #36 TOM’S Lexus he shares with Kazuki Nakajima in the dying moments of the pole shootout to take his
Franco Morbidelli edged Petronas SRT Yamaha team-mate Fabio Quartararo by two-tenths in the third practice session for MotoGP’s Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang. Morbidelli jumped into the top spot with nine of the 45 minutes to go, his initial benchmark a 1m59.074s. He then improved to a 1m58.761s during a frantic final run, enough to
Arrow McLaren SP’s Sam Schmidt says dropping James Hinchcliffe from the team’s IndyCar line-up in favour of Oliver Askew and Patricio O’Ward for 2020 was a “gut-wrenching” decision. Schmidt Peterson Motorsport has been renamed Arrow McLaren SP ahead of next season, with the addition of the famous Formula 1 team’s backing and a switch from
Arrow McLaren SP’s Sam Schmidt says dropping James Hinchcliffe from the team’s IndyCar line-up in favour of Oliver Askew and Patricio O’Ward for 2020 was a “gut-wrenching” decision. Schmidt Peterson Motorsport has been renamed Arrow McLaren SP ahead of next season, with the addition of the famous Formula 1 team’s backing and a switch from
Honda is interested in joining NASCAR if budgets make sense, but a switch to the championship would likely mean the end of its IndyCar and IMSA programmes. In America, Honda currently supplies engines for IndyCar and runs a dual programme – via its luxury and performance brand Acura – in the IMSA SportsCar Series. Toyota
Fabio Quartararo believes he and his Petronas SRT MotoGP team “deserve” the factory-spec Yamaha he will ride in the 2020 season. Earlier on Friday at the Malaysian Grand Prix, it was confirmed that Quartararo would join team-mate Franco Morbidelli in having machine parity with works Yamaha riders Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales next season. In
Tech3 MotoGP rider Miguel Oliveira faces a dilemma over whether to have surgery on his shoulder or not, after it forced him to pull out of the Malaysian Grand Prix. Oliveira suffered some tendon damage in his shoulder when he was wiped out by Johann Zarco during the British Grand Prix at Silverstone in August
Hyundai will take Craig Breen to Rally Australia in place of Andreas Mikkelsen for the final round of the 2019 World Rally Championship. The Australian round is key for Hyundai as it chases a maiden WRC manufacturers’ title, and the German-based team will arrive 18 points clear of Toyota. Mikkelsen, who won the Coffs Harbour-based
Fabio Quartararo set the fastest-ever MotoGP lap of the Sepang circuit with a 1m59.027s in FP1 for the Malaysian Grand Prix to lead a Petronas SRT 1-2. The Frenchman won out of an SRT Yamaha shootout in the closing stages of the 45-minute session, pipping team-mate Franco Morbidelli by 0.083s to head a 1-2 to
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