Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi driver Scott Dixon pinpoints the introduction of unified aerokits to IndyCar in 2018 as the biggest dynamic shift by the series in over five years. The new-for-2018 aerokit will be standard across Honda and Chevrolet teams next year, bringing
Month: December 2017
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM MotoGP motorsport director Pit Beirer says dropping Bradley Smith for the 2018 season due to his poor results this year would have been “not fair”. Smith’s consistent failure to match team-mate Pol Espargaro during the season had generated speculation that
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel says those who moan about a lack of overtaking should calm down and accept that some Formula 1 grands prix will be boring. This week, Pirelli released data that showed the 2017 campaign was the worst for overtaking
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Porsche will mount its first full-season factory campaign in the history of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup next year. The factory Manthey Racing squad will run a solo Porsche 911 GT-R in the BGTS enduros as part of an increased
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nigel Mansell and the Williams FW14B delivered one of the most dominant seasons in Formula 1 history in 1992. Mansell won nine out of 16 grands prix, clinching the drivers’ title with five races to spare, while Williams also dominated the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says he expects to continue racing in Formula 1 until at least the end of 2020. The Mercedes driver fended off a stern challenging from Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel to clinch his fourth F1 world title with two races to
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Oliver Rowland’s management says it is in talks with Williams regarding a race seat for 2018, but the Formula 1 outfit denies that is the case. Williams is currently assessing its options for the second seat alongside Lance Stroll in 2018,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Michael Shank Racing and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports have confirmed a partnership that will run one-time British Formula 3 champion Jack Harvey in a partial 2018 IndyCar season. Harvey drove for SPM in the last two races of 2017 as the team
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Michael Shank Racing and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports have confirmed a partnership that will run former British Formula 3 champion Jack Harvey in four 2018 IndyCar races. Harvey drove for SPM in the last two races of 2017 as the team rotated
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says he vowed after the Hungarian Grand Prix never to let Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas get ahead of him again. Hamilton was outqualified by Bottas at the Hungaroring, but was allowed to overtake in the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Richard Petty Motorsports will switch to Chevrolet from Ford for the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series and has announced a partnership with Richard Childress Racing. Chevrolet is introducing a new version of the Camaro next season after Toyota introduced its Camry this
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow claims he has “exactly the same speed” as 2017 MotoGP runner-up Andrea Dovizioso, and says he would have been “really close” to the Italian had they remained team-mates. Crutchlow spent two seasons alongside Dovizioso, first at the Tech3 Yamaha
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jean Todt has been re-elected as president of the FIA for a third and final term at the organisation’s General Assembly in Paris. The Frenchman, who first took up the role in 2009, stood unopposed and will now govern until the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Volkswagen’s Polo GTi R5 World Rally Championship WRC2 car has been seen testing in public for the first time, with the German machine running in Wales through this week. The world’s latest R5 car, launched in Spain on Monday, was given
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull boss Christian Horner believes teams may go through two more years of falling prize money before an upswing in commercial benefit from Formula 1’s new owners Liberty Media. Liberty’s recent revelation that the prize money pot for teams had
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A French teenager known as TX3_NEXL won the second season of the World Rally Championship eSports Grand Final, despite using a simple PS4 controller setup instead of a wheel configuration. The 18-year-old, who was narrowly denied a spot in the grand
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar team Schmidt Peterson Motorsports has cancelled its Indianapolis 500 partnership with ex-Formula 1 team co-owner Didier Calmels and former Champ Car driver Tristan Gommendy. Gommendy had been confirmed for a first attempt at the Indy 500 back in September after
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar’s tyre supplier Firestone is set to ensure a greater difference between its two compounds and increase degradation for 2018. Firestone brought the gap between the black and red compound tyres closer for 2017 and the change led to races in
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel hopes being “a bit wiser” will help him improve as a driver and add to his tally of four Formula 1 world championships in the future. The Ferrari driver led the standings going into the summer break but ultimately
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andre Lotterer is aiming to add to his three Le Mans 24 Hours wins with another twice-around-the-clock victory on the Nurburgring-Nordschleife next year. Lotterer, who now races in Formula E with Techeetah, is hoping that he will line up with Porsche
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki MotoGP boss Davide Brivio admits it took his team most of 2017 to recover from mistakes that resulted from its change of riders last winter. Suzuki went into 2017 with an all-new line-up in Andrea Iannone and rookie Alex Rins,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marco Andretti and Alexander Rossi will swap places in Andretti Autosport’s IndyCar line-up for 2018, with Andretti moving to the Bryan Herta Autosport-entered car. The partnership between the two teams has been extended for a third year, and Andretti will switch
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver James Hinchcliffe says he is confused by his crash at Phoenix Raceway while testing IndyCar’s 2018 universal aerokit. Hinchcliffe and Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon were testing on Wednesday as part of Honda’s allocated running for manufacturers.
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Antonio Giovinazzi has been told by his Ferrari bosses he remains firmly in the frame for a future full-time Formula 1 seat, despite missing out on Sauber for 2018. Giovinazzi had been a contender for a drive at the rebranded Alfa
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton has comfortably come out on top in Autosport’s Formula 1 team principals’ top 10 drivers poll for 2017, with Esteban Ocon impressing at number five. In what has become an end-of-season tradition, Autosport asked all 10 F1 teams’ bosses
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 2017 eSports WRC Powered by Hyundai Grand Final will be live streamed by Motorsport.tv today, with the coverage also available on autosport.com. eSports WRC has run rounds in tandem with the 13 real-world World Rally Championship events, with each driver’s
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yusuke Hasegawa will leave his role as head of Honda’s Formula 1 project at the end of 2017 as part of a management structure overhaul. Hasegawa has faced growing pressure over the course of this season as Honda struggled with both
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The promoter of Formula 1’s Brazilian Grand Prix has been issued with a series of security recommendations in the wake of the problems surrounding this year’s race. At least three robbery attempts were reported during the Interlagos event and Pirelli cancelled
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s grid penalty system will be tweaked for next season in a bid to make things less confusing for fans, the FIA has announced. There has been growing unease about the extent of grid penalties this year, with F1 motorsport
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 2017 season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix was a good demonstration of why Formula 1 needs change, according to CEO Chase Carey. Valtteri Bottas led home Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton from start to finish at the Yas Marina circuit, which produced