Denny Hamlin says that NASCAR Cup Series leader Martin Truex Jr’s dominance is because his smaller team is maximising its alliance with Hamlin’s own Joe Gibbs squad. The Gibbs team has a technical partnership with Furniture Row, supplying it with a pitcrew to run Truex and team-mate Erik Jones’s cars, but it had to be
Month: October 2017
Renault insists it is not afraid of being beaten by McLaren in Formula 1 next year, in the wake of its new engine supply deal. After McLaren finally lost faith in Honda after three years of difficulties, an agreement was reached for it and Toro Rosso to swap engine partners for 2018. Renault F1 managing
James Hinchcliffe will continue with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports next season, having signed a new multi-year extension to partner new driver Robert Wickens. Hinchcliffe had been expected to remain at the team for 2018, with SPM enhancing its relationship with Honda ahead of the new season. He says that the team’s new status with Honda in
Valentino Rossi has tipped Kohta Nozane to become Japan’s next MotoGP star following the Yamaha test rider’s premier class debut last weekend at Motegi. Nozane, a regular in the FIM Endurance World Championship and All-Japan Superbike series, was drafted in at short notice to deputise for an unwell Jonas Folger at Tech 3 Yamaha for
Robert Wickens will leave the Mercedes DTM team to race for Schmidt Peterson Motorsport in IndyCar for the 2018 season. Wickens had been looking to move to IndyCar after Mercedes confirmed it would quit the DTM at the end of 2018. He had been on the radar for Schmidt Peterson for some time, having undertaken
Toyota has announced Ott Tanak will join its driver line-up in the World Rally Championship next season. Current M-Sport driver Tanak will join Jari-Matti Latvala and Esapekka Lappi in 2018, leaving Juho Hanninen out in the cold. Hanninen is also expected to miss the final round of this year’s series in Australia, with his co-driver
Formula E frontrunner Felix Rosenqvist’s return to Macau to compete in the FIA GT World Cup for the first time has been confirmed by the Scuderia Corsa Ferrari team. The US team, winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours GTE Am class in 2016, will field a Ferrari 488 GT3 in the event on November
Formula 3 European champion Lando Norris says he would be ready to become McLaren’s Formula 1 reserve driver for 2018. McLaren racing director Eric Boullier recently suggested Norris was under consideration for the role. He made his F1 testing debut with McLaren this year, having won the 2016 McLaren Autosport BRDC Award. “It’d be really
Robert Kubica has completed the second of two tests in a 2014-spec Williams as the Formula 1 outfit assesses the possibility of him returning to the grid in 2018. The 32-year-old Pole did a full day of running at the Hungaroring on Tuesday, six days after his one-day test at Silverstone in the same car.
The Williams Formula 1 team has been focused mainly on developing its 2018 car for the past month, according to chief technical officer Paddy Lowe. Williams has been consistently out-developed by rivals since a strong first year under the V6 engine rules in 2014, and the team has decided to make “substantial changes” to its
World Rally Championship teams have been busy completing their pre-event testing for Rally GB, with three manufacturers taking to Welsh roads of late for the task. Hyundai and M-Sport took to the Welsh forests last week in a similar area, while Toyota is completing its own running in Wales this week, and Citroen focuses its
Jorge Lorenzo says he would not give up a first win for Ducati to help team-mate Andrea Dovizioso’s MotoGP title charge until the final race. Lorenzo stated earlier in the season that he was open to obeying team orders to help Dovizioso if and when the time came. Dovizioso is now just 11 points behind
Andrea Dovizioso says he and Ducati find themselves in a “strange situation” that is making them more “relaxed” about their MotoGP title showdown with Marc Marquez. Dovizioso came out on top in an epic wet-weather battle against Marquez last weekend at Motegi to close the gap in the championship to 11 points with three races
IndyCar has explained its decision to replace Watkins Glen with Portland on its 2018 calendar, and has left the door open for the outgoing venue to return in the future. Watkins Glen returned to the IndyCar schedule in 2016 after a street race in Boston collapsed, but it suffered low attendance in its two-year spell
Kimi Raikkonen believes Ferrari can win any of the 2017 Formula 1 season’s remaining four grands prix if it can eliminate mistakes and get on top of its reliability problems. Ferrari’s championship aspirations have imploded in the last three races, with the team now trailing Mercedes by 145 points while Sebastian Vettel is 59 behind
Penske’s Brad Keselowski says it felt like only eight cars completed NASCAR Cup’s race at Talladega, with the race winner one of only four drivers in playoff contention to finish. The Ford driver won an attrition-filled race that had 11 cautions and three stoppages, with only 14 of 40 cars running to the flag. The
Pirelli will turn its ultra-soft tyres pink for the United States Grand Prix as part of Formula 1’s push to help breast cancer awareness. With F1 planning a host of initiatives this weekend in Austin as a sign of support for the Susan G Komen breast cancer charity, tyre supplier Pirelli has joined in to
The latest Autosport Podcast looks back at the last 20 years of Formula 1 and motorsport as a whole – including discussions of names such as Michael Schumacher and Jenson Button. To mark former Autosport Media UK Editor-in-Chief Damien Smith’s move into a new career, he joined Edd Straw to reflect on the characters and
Michael Andretti says he hopes his IndyCar outfit will be able to partner with the McLaren Formula 1 team for a second attempt at the Indianapolis 500 in 2018.
McLaren raced at this year’s Indy 500 for the first time since 1979, offering Fernando Alonso an attempt to complete the second leg of motorsport’s triple
Tech3 Yamaha has announced Australian veteran Broc Parkes will fill in for an unwell Jonas Folger in this weekend’s Phillip Island MotoGP race. After being struck down by a suspected mononucleosis, Folger was forced to miss last weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi, and was replaced by Yamaha tester Kohta Nozane. Tech3 said at the
Brad Keselowski booked his place in the final eight of the playoffs by winning on his 300th NASCAR Cup Series start at Talladega. Three late red-flags left Keselowski in the lead, and the #2 Penske Ford driver won the last three-lap shootout with the help of team-mate Joey Logano. Keselowski won the first stage on
Motegi MotoGP race winner Andrea Dovizioso says preparing a last-lap strategy was key in seeing off title rival Marc Marquez in a “tense” duel for victory. At the start of the final lap of the wet-weather event, the Ducati rider looked set to finish runner-up to Marquez – but a major moment at Turn 8
Jorge Lorenzo has slammed fellow MotoGP rider Johann Zarco for ‘PlayStation’-like riding after the duo’s clash in the Japanese Grand Prix. Ducati rider Lorenzo had taken the lead of the Motegi race on the opening lap, but began to fade soon after, rapidly losing positions. But his descent down the order was also assisted by
Renault Formula 1 boss Cyril Abiteboul has suggested the French marque could help Jolyon Palmer to secure a seat elsewhere in motorsport for next season. It was confirmed last Saturday that Palmer will not see out the season at Renault, as Carlos Sainz joins the Enstone-based team for the final four races of the year
Aston Martin has recruited staff with Formula 1 experience, including personnel from Ferrari, as it continues to evaluating entering the championship as an engine supplier. The British manufacturer will become Red Bull Racing’s title sponsor in 2018 as part of an enhanced relationship that has already yielded the Valkyrie hypercar. Aston is taking a close
Valentino Rossi says he was left with “pain everywhere” following a dramatic early crash during Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix at Motegi. The Yamaha rider was an early retirement in tricky conditions as he suffered a major highside at Turn 7 on the sixth lap while running in ninth place. Rossi had already crashed in Saturday’s
Sebastian Vettel says Kimi Raikkonen is the best team-mate he has ever had in Formula 1 because the Finn does not try to play political games. Vettel has not always got on well with team-mates, having famously clashed several times with Mark Webber at Red Bull. He and Raikkonen collided at the start of the
Marc Marquez has apologised to Andrea Dovizioso for reaching “the limit” with an aggressive pass during their stunning fight for victory in MotoGP’s Japanese Grand Prix. After passing early leader Danilo Petrucci, Marquez and Dovizioso engaged in a fierce fight for victory that ended with a final-lap showdown. The elbow-to-elbow racing started when Dovizioso made
Andrea Dovizioso closed the gap on MotoGP points leader Marc Marquez after coming out on top in an epic dice for glory in the wet at Motegi. The race turned into a two-way fight between this year’s title protagonists, a reprise of their pulsating Red Bull Ring duel earlier the year, which was also won
Valentino Rossi reckons he was fortunate to avoid further damaging his injured leg in his practice four crash ahead of this weekend’s Motegi MotoGP race. Rossi, who is still recovering from breaking his right leg in a training accident in early September, fell at the Turn 8 left-hander during FP4. The Italian was quickly able
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