Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dale Coyne Racing’s Pietro Fittipaldi believes it is important to “live” the Indianapolis 500 experience after his World Endurance Championship crash ruled him out of the race in 2018. Fittipaldi is currently recovering from a complex fracture of his lower left leg
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP champion Marc Marquez will get his first taste of Formula 1 machinery when he takes part in a Red Bull-organised private test in Austria next month, Autosport has learned. Marquez’s Honda MotoGP team-mate Dani Pedrosa and nine-time motocross world champion Tony
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup series says it was pleased with the performance of the Charlotte All-Star race aero package, and that it will likely inform its 2019 rules package. NASCAR ran a revised aero package in the All-Star race based on a concept
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow has described the ordeal of his overnight hospital stay in Le Mans before his heroic comeback ride in MotoGP’s French Grand Prix. The LCR Honda rider escaped serious injury in a huge high-side crash during qualifying on Saturday, but was
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Indianapolis 500 polesitter Ed Carpenter says his 230mph opening qualifying lap that helped secure pole position ‘blew his mind’. Carpenter started his four-lap run with a 230mph opener, with Penske’s Simon Pagenaud getting closest to that benchmark with a first qualifying lap
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen team principal Pierre Budar believes the design of the manufacturer’s C3 World Rally Car saved the lives of Kris Meeke and Paul Nagle in their Rally Portugal crash. Meeke went off the road after turning in to a fifth-gear left-hander on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 convert Jenson Button says he “couldn’t have wished for more” from his maiden Super GT campaign after taking the championship lead last weekend. Button and Kunimitsu team-mate Naoki Yamamoto finished second at Suzuka, behind the sister Honda of Tomoki Nojiri
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi has admitted his podium in MotoGP’s French Grand Prix owed more to the Le Mans track layout than any major breakthrough for Yamaha. The seven-time premier class champion claimed his first top-three finish since the Qatar season opener on Sunday,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joan Mir has signed a pre-contract with Honda that, if activated, would promote him to a place in the firm’s works MotoGP team, Autosport has learned. Reigning Moto3 champion and current Marc VDS Moto2 rider Mir would replace Dani Pedrosa alongside Marc
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports has not ruled out James Hinchcliffe driving in another car after failing to qualify for the Indianapolis 500, although Hinchcliffe currently believes he “won’t start the race”. Hinchcliffe failed to qualify for the race after a late second run
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff admits he is “bloody worried” about his squad’s prospects in this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix after last season’s struggle. In 2017 Valtteri Bottas finished fourth in Monaco and Lewis Hamilton seventh, the eventual champion having
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ed Carpenter seized pole position for the 2018 Indianapolis 500 as the only driver to hit the 230mph mark in qualifying, denying Penske a front row lockout. ECR and Penske locked out seven of the ‘Fast Nine’ places, with Helio Castroneves and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new R-Motorsport Aston Martin team claimed a dominant first victory in the Silverstone round of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. The best of the Swiss entrant’s V12 Vantages shared by Matthieu Vaxiviere, Jake Dennis and Nicky Thiim led for the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danilo Petrucci believes Ducati will choose between him and his Pramac team-mate Jack Miller for the second spot in its MotoGP factory line-up next year. Ducati confirmed a two-year extension for its works team leader Andrea Dovizioso at Le Mans, and is
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Johann Zarco admits impatience in trying to pass Jorge Lorenzo for the lead of his home MotoGP race was what caused him to crash at Le Mans. Tech3 Yamaha rider Zarco beat Marc Marquez to score pole position for the French race
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danica Patrick is “relieved” to have exceeded her expectations in making the ‘Fast Nine’ for the Indianapolis 500 because she felt off the pace in her first day of testing. Ed Carpenter Racing’s Patrick narrowly made the top nine on the first
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso says mistakes like the one that caused him to crash out of the lead of MotoGP’s French Grand Prix are “unacceptable”. The Ducati rider, who was caught up in a clash with team-mate Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa in the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez extended his MotoGP points lead with victory in the French Grand Prix at Le Mans, helped by crashes for Andrea Dovizioso and Johann Zarco. Honda rider Marquez now has a healthy advantage of 36 points at the head of the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville took his first ever Rally Portugal victory and with it the World Rally Championship lead after his title rivals hit problems in a chaotic event. Neuville took control of the rally at the end of a frantic first full
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas believes he has eliminated the disappointing weekends that spoiled his first season with the Mercedes Formula 1 team in 2017. The Finn has been far more consistent this year, although he is yet to win a race, logging second places
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The latest Motorsport Show asks whether Formula 1 should use drivers more when discussing rule changes and planning circuit layouts. Lewis Hamilton recently suggested drivers should be consulted over track designs in the wake of the first layout emerging for the proposed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville is on the brink of Rally Portugal victory after consolidating his lead over Elfyn Evans on Sunday morning, with only the Fafe power stage now remaining. He started the day with a 39.8 second advantage over Evans and after
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver James Hinchcliffe says it is “devastating in every way possible” to be bumped out of the 2018 Indianapolis 500. A disrupted first qualifying for the Indy 500 had two rain delays and Hinchcliffe completed his first run on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Jenson Button moved into the lead of the Super GT standings with his second podium finish of the season at Suzuka. Front-row starter Button, like several other Honda drivers, struggled for tyre temperatures at the start of the race,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kris Meeke has apologised to his Citroen World Rally Championship team for the Rally Portugal crash that destroyed his C3. The Northern Irishman went off the road on a fifth-gear right hander on Saturday morning’s first run at the Amarante stage, one
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow has been declared fit to race in MotoGP’s French Grand Prix after being released from hospital following his heavy crash in qualifying. The British rider spent Saturday night in hospital in Le Mans, but was reported by his LCR Honda
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick scored his sixth win of 2018 in NASCAR’s non-championship All-Star race at Charlotte, edging out Daniel Suarez on a late restart to claim the event’s $1million prize. Stewart Haas Racing driver Harvick dominated the race’s first stage and surged to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske and Ed Carpenter Racing led a Chevrolet-dominated ‘Fast Nine’ Indianapolis 500 qualifying, while 2016 polesitter James Hinchcliffe was a high-profile victim of bumping and will not start the race. A disrupted morning of testing thanks to two rain delays put pressure
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow has escaped “major injury” after his huge highside crash during qualifying for MotoGP’s French Grand Prix, but a decision on whether he will race has yet to be made. The LCR Honda rider was thrown high into the air after
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville extended his overall Rally Portugal lead over M-Sport Ford driver Elfyn Evans across the World Rally Championship’s Saturday afternoon stages, ending the day 39.8s clear. Neuville started the loop with a 29.9s advantage over Evans, but the Welshman reduced