Silverstone will retain its place on the MotoGP calendar after signing a fresh three-year deal to be the home of the British motorcycle grand prix. The Northamptonshire track’s place on next year’s schedule had been thrown into doubt when a draft calendar had been released with a ‘TBA’ next to the British round in September.
Month: November 2017
Jorge Lorenzo has ruled out backing up other riders in a bid to help Ducati team-mate Andrea Dovizioso beat Marc Marquez to the MotoGP title in Sunday’s Valencia showdown. Dovizioso has to win the race and hope Marquez finishes outside the top 11 to win the title, but the Italian’s hopes took a dent during
Marc Marquez will start the title-deciding MotoGP season finale at Valencia from pole position despite a late crash in qualifying, while championship rival Andrea Dovizioso was only ninth. Honda man Marquez, who only needs a top-11 finish on Sunday to guarantee his fourth premier class title, set the early pace with a 1m30.424s, before improving
NASCAR Cup playoff leader Martin Truex Jr’s recent defeats show his title favourite status is slipping, reckons Kyle Busch. Furniture Row Toyota driver Truex has won seven races in 2017, two more than second-best Busch, and quickly assumed a commanding position in this season’s new playoff points system. Truex was able to secure his place
Formula 1 teams are facing a fresh headache with their 2018 car designs after McLaren failed to back a proposal to retain the fin on the engine cover. One of the items discussed in this week’s F1 Strategy Group was a change to the regulations to retain a big engine fin, which could be used
McLaren thinks a significant programme alongside Formula 1 would be a “huge distraction” for Fernando Alonso amid speculation of a Toyota World Endurance Championship and Le Mans 24 Hours deal. Alonso is tipped to join Toyota for next week’s WEC rookie test at Bahrain, as discussions continue over a potential assault with the Japanese manufacturer
Lewis Hamilton pipped Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Valtteri Bottas to the fastest time in second practice for the Brazilian Grand Prix. The four-time world champion clocked a 1m09.515s on the super-soft Pirelli tyres to finish 0.048 seconds clear of Bottas at Interlagos. Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo offered the greatest threat to Mercedes, finishing 0.228s adrift
Championship favourite Marc Marquez says he was baffled by his crash at the end of second practice for MotoGP’s season-closing Valencia Grand Prix. The Honda rider fell at Turn 2 at the end of the afternoon session – his 26th crash of the season – and ended up fifth-fastest, two places behind title rival Andrea
KTM rider Pol Espargaro will start this weekend’s MotoGP season finale at Valencia from the pitlane as punishment for exceeding his engine allocation. MotoGP rules dictate each rider can only use a maximum of seven engines per season, although KTM and Aprilia are permitted to use nine as part of a package of technical concessions.
Ducati’s Jorge Lorenzo was fastest in the second practice session for MotoGP’s Valencia season finale, which ended with title favourite Marc Marquez crashing. Honda rider Marquez, who was vying with Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa to top the opening day of practice, fell at Turn 2 just as the chequered flag fell. Marquez was OK, having
Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton admits he lost focus last time he clinched a title early, so he is determined to win the 2017 season’s remaining grands prix. In 2015 Hamilton secured the championship at the United States GP in October, and was then defeated by Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg in the season’s last
Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey insists Liberty Media has no wish to turn grand prix racing ‘into NASCAR’, as he responded to Ferrari’s criticism of the 2021 engine proposals. Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne last week complained about the increased focus on standardisation in the planned rules, claiming his team could pull out of F1 and
Marc Marquez says “nobody will remember” if he claims the 2017 MotoGP world championship with fewer race wins than title rival Andrea Dovizioso. Honda rider Marquez comes to the final race of the season at Valencia this weekend with a comfortable 21-point advantage, meaning a finish anywhere inside the top 11 would be good enough
Toro Rosso Formula 1 drivers Brendon Hartley and Pierre Gasly will likely take grid penalties for the Brazilian Grand Prix, with Gasly calling his recent sequence “difficult to accept”. Although a final decision will be taken by the team on Friday morning, both drivers are bracing themselves for the worst – and could find themselves
Andrea Dovizioso says Marc Marquez’s “struggles to restrain himself” in races gives him hope he can still secure the 2017 MotoGP crown in Valencia this weekend. Ducati rider Dovizioso is 21 points adrift of Marquez in the standings, which means he must win and hope that Marquez does not finish inside the top 11. While
Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson has been left bemused by his “weird” form in the final part of 2017, which leaves him on the brink of playoff elimination. Seven-time Cup champion Johnson took three victories this year on the way to the final eight of the playoffs. But the Hendrick Chevrolet driver has struggled
The health problem that sidelined MotoGP rookie Jonas Folger from the final races of 2017 and led to his body ‘shutting down’ has now been diagnosed. Folger has been out of action since what was initially presumed to be a case of mononucleosis ruled him out of the MotoGP race weekend at Motegi. The 24-year-old
Bentley has unveiled a new Continental GT3 that will begin racing next season. The car has been developed by M-Sport, which was responsible for the original Continental GT3 first raced at the end of 2013, in conjunction with Bentley Motorsport at company headquarters in Crewe. It is based on the all-new Continental road car, which
Citroen team principal Yves Matton has told Craig Breen and Stephane Lefebvre he wants faster times and more risks from them on the 2017 World Rally Championship finale in Australia. Breen has led Citroen’s charge for much of the season, and is just six points behind team leader Kris Meeke in ninth in the WRC
Ed Jones says his surprise Chip Ganassi Racing switch was due to delays in re-signing with Dale Coyne Racing for the 2018 IndyCar season without his Indy Lights scholarship funds. Jones had been expected to undertake a second season with Coyne after a successful first year in which he became the unexpected team leader, following
Carlos Sainz Jr has admitted he did not expect “to be so competitive” with Renault after switching Formula 1 teams in the final third of the season. The Spaniard replaced Jolyon Palmer from the United States Grand Prix and immediately outqualified Nico Hulkenberg, who had not been beaten by Palmer in qualifying all year, then
Citroen’s new C3 R5 for the World Rally Championship’s WRC2 class and the European Rally Championship will make its public debut at the Rallye du Var in late November. French champion Yoann Bonato will drive the car, which has completed more than 2500 miles of testing on gravel and asphalt since the start of September.
Aric Almirola has been confirmed as Danica Patrick’s replacement at Stewart-Haas Racing in the #10 Ford Fusion for the 2018 NASCAR Cup series, as predicted by Autosport. Almirola has spent six seasons with Richard Petty Motorsports and won one race, but missed seven rounds in 2017 after a sizable crash at Kansas in May. He
Red Bull’s ability to turn its fortunes around over the course of the 2017 Formula 1 season was the main reason Max Verstappen signed a contract extension with the team. Windtunnel correlation problems meant the team started the season off the pace with its RB13, after a strong end to last year and the change
Ferrari has questioned Formula 1’s future direction after Liberty Media’s revealed its plans with new engine proposals for the 2021 season. The team has threatened to quit in the past, but is committed to the championship until the end of 2020 under bilateral agreements. That has led to the return of the old debate over
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports has signed leading IndyCar race engineer Todd Malloy to be the team’s new technical director in its first year as an enhanced Honda partner for 2018. SPM had identified its reliance on James Hinchliffe as a weakness, targeting and signing Mercedes DTM driver Robert Wickens for the second car, two months after
The Charlotte Motor Speedway infield road course faces a potential track revision ahead of its NASCAR debut next autumn, following discussions between series organisers and tyre supplier Goodyear. Concerns were raised following a tyre test last month, where Cup regulars Martin Truex Jr, Jamie McMurray and Kurt Busch drove the track for the first time.
Casey Stoner believes he would have been able to beat Marc Marquez had he not chosen to retire from MotoGP before the Spaniard stepped up to the top class. Two-time world champion Stoner decided to hang up his helmet at the end of the 2012 season, aged just 27, with Marquez taking his place in
The Mercedes Formula 1 team will use the final two grands prix of 2017 to trial “new and interesting” concepts for next season. Mercedes has wrapped up its fourth consecutive constructors’ and drivers’ championship double early, despite an intense battle with Ferrari and Sebastian Vettel for the respective honours. This weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix and
Rally GB winner Elfyn Evans has urged World Rally champion team-mate Sebastien Ogier to stick with M-Sport for the 2018 season. Evans is set to move back into M-Sport’s ‘works’ squad next year from its DMACK-branded entry but the rest of the team’s line-up is unclear. Ott Tanak has already committed to leaving M-Sport for
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