Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz Sr has admitted the 2018 Dakar Rally could mark the end of his professional career, but insists he will not think about the future until after the event. Sainz’s Peugeot team will end its cross-country rallying programme after next
Month: December 2017
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kiefer Racing’s deal to run KTM bikes in next year’s Moto2 season has fallen through after the pull-out of an investor, rider Dominique Aegerter has revealed. Following the sudden death of team co-founder Stefan Kiefer during the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow was left baffled after MotoGP chose to keep the British Grand Prix at Silverstone instead of returning it to Donington Park. Silverstone replaced Donington as the British Grand Prix host venue for 2010, but Donington was
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull could be the favourite for the 2018 Formula 1 world championship if it can avoid another slow start to the season, says Daniel Ricciardo. The overhaul of the technical regulations for 2017 was expected to favour Red Bull but
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Supercars aces Craig Lowndes and Shane van Gisbergen will drive a factory-backed McLaren at the Bathurst 12 Hour GT race next year. Reigning winner Lowndes will switch from the 2017 race-winning Maranello Motorsport squad to the factory-backed YNA Autosports McLaren outfit.
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has changed Formula 1 superlicence rules for 2018, to make it tougher for drivers to participate in grand prix free practice sessions. Previously, drivers only had to complete 300km (186 miles) in a “representative Formula 1 car” over two
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez says the only reason he can imagine leaving Honda is if he needed a change to restore his motivation. Marquez has spent his entire premier class career up to now with Honda, winning four MotoGP titles
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Four-time NASCAR Cup champion Jeff Gordon says Chase Elliott’s winless streak reminds him of Jimmie Johnson’s breakthrough first championship success. Elliott joined the series full-time in 2016 after five races in ’15 and has since finished second seven times in his
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Scuderia Toro Rosso F1 boss Franz Tost is not resigned to a season of grid penalties with Honda next year, despite even tighter restrictions on power element use. In 2018 drivers will only be allowed three combustion engines, turbos, and MGU-Hs,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb will return to the World Rally Championship in 2018 for a three-round programme with Citroen. The 43-year-old nine-time champion tested a C3 WRC on asphalt and gravel this year and will make his comeback on Rally Mexico next March
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Renault Formula 1 team has quantified how much lap time it gained from developing an all-new engine for the 2017 season. Renault substantially overhauled its F1 engine for this year, having decided the previous specification had run out of development
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Belgian WRT squad will represent the Audi factory when it makes its debut in the Bathurst 12 Hours in February next year. The team’s pair of R8 LMS GT3 cars will be entered under the Audi Sport Team WRT banner
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff believes his team’s double Formula 1 world championship win in 2017 was just as impressive as its first triumph in 2014. Mercedes won the double at the start of the V6 hybrid turbo era in 2014
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams driver Lance Stroll has pinpointed his performance in qualifying as an area he needs to work on ahead of the 2018 Formula 1 season. Stroll had some strong races in his rookie year, including a podium in the Azerbaijan Grand
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia MotoGP boss Romano Albesiano admits the Italian marque’s 2017 points tally should leave it feeling “depressed”. Aprilia enjoyed a strong start to its third season back in MotoGP, with Aleix Espargaro – who joined from Suzuki – taking the heavily
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske is “taking big swings” with set-up as it works to understand IndyCar’s new 2018 aerokit, says ’14 champion Will Power. Power and team-mates Simon Pagenaud and Josef Newgarden tested at Sebring across Tuesday and Wednesday last week. “Honestly, we’re just
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The latest edition of The Autosport Podcast focuses on our top 50 drivers of 2017, answering reader questions such as why Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton is number one. As well as explaining the methodology behind the list, and some
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne has warned people who think he is “bluffing” about potentially pulling his team out of Formula 1 that they are “playing with fire”. Marchionne has made it clear that he is prepared to withdraw Ferrari from F1
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Munoz will return to Andretti Autosport, the squad for which he has twice finished second in the Indianapolis 500, to drive a sixth car in the 2018 race. While racing for Andretti in Indy Lights in 2013, Munoz qualified and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dries Vanthoor has emulated his brother Laurens by becoming an Audi factory driver. The 19-year-old Belgian, who has raced Audi GT3 machinery for the past two years, has been named as one of two newcomers on the German manufacturer’s GT driver
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari will launch its 2018 Formula 1 car on February 22, four days before pre-season testing starts at Barcelona. The Italian team enjoyed a resurgence in fortunes this year, bouncing back from a disappointing, winless 2016 campaign to take five grand
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales says he thought being Yamaha MotoGP team-mate to multiple champion Valentino Rossi would be harder than it proved to be. Vinales switched to Yamaha for the 2017 season after two years with Suzuki and rapidly established himself as pre-season
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes is close to to producing a Formula 1 engine that can deliver a power output of 1000bhp, according to its engine boss Andy Cowell. Mercedes has dominated F1’s V6 turbo hybrid era, clinching four successive double world championships. Power unit
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Graham Rahal says his Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team had to expand to two cars for the 2018 IndyCar season because of the challenge posed by the new aerokit. Rahal was the team’s sole driver for the last five seasons, winning
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former 250cc racer Alex Debon has joined the coaching team of Ducati MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo for 2018.
Triple MotoGP champion Lorenzo endured a difficult first season with Ducati in 2017, finishing a lowly seventh in the championship and scoring
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The ways in which the Formula 1 halo will be developed by teams for aerodynamic reasons in 2018 are revealed in the latest video from Motorsport.tv’s The Flying Lap. Technical analyst Craig Scarborough interviews grand prix winning aerodynamicist Willem Toet, who
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull boss Christian Horner says Max Verstappen’s capacity to cope with difficult moments was the most impressive aspect of the Dutch driver’s 2017 Formula 1 season. Verstappen endured a run of poor reliability that cost him several potential podium finishes
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault Formula 1 advisor Alain Prost says that the French marque’s deal to supply McLaren engines in 2018 will create “positive pressure” on the works team. Some observers have questioned why Renault would want to supply its power unit to another
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales admits he was too easily swayed by the opinions of others within the Yamaha MotoGP squad and that he should have been “stricter” with his team this year. Pre-season favourite Vinales raced into an early championship lead with three
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen says he still has the hunger to win again in Formula 1 as he starts to prepare for his 16th season. The 2007 F1 world champion has not won a race since the 2013 Australian Grand Prix,