Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Andreas Mikkelsen says the manufacturer’s i20 reminds him of Volkswagen’s all-conquering Polo. Sebastien Ogier dominated the WRC with VW from 2013 until its shock exit at the end of the ’16 season, which left Ogier and
Month: January 2018
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull has “softened” and got “calmer” with its Formula 1 junior programme in recent years, reckons its long-time driver Mark Webber. Though Webber’s junior career was not Red Bull supported, he joined its F1 team from Williams in 2007 and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport has announced that Teemu Suninen will drive its third Ford Fiesta for the majority of the 2018 World Rally Championship. Alongside his WRC2 campaign last year, Suninen contested Poland and Finland in an extra M-Sport WRC car and finished in
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A return to tyre competition in Formula 1 would push up costs and spread the field out, according to Pirelli racing manager Mario Isola. Pirelli has been F1’s sole tyre supplier since it returned to the championship in 2011 and has
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alberto Puig has been named the new team manager of the works Honda MotoGP programme. As predicted by Autosport, Puig, 50, takes over the role from Livio Suppo, who announced his departure from Honda last November. Puig (pictured above left) will
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda has revealed how 2009 Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button will fit into its line-up for his first full season in Japan’s Super GT series. After a debut outing in Super GT’s showpiece Suzuka 1000km race last year, Button set
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Peugeot driver Carlos Sainz won the Arequipa – La Paz stage of the 2018 Dakar Rally, as the marathon held its final test before the mid-event rest day. Sainz beat team-mate and rally leader Stephane Peterhansel by four minutes and six
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cosworth admits it is “unlikely” to return to Formula 1 as an independent engine supplier, and needs external backing to come back for the new post-2020 engine regulations. The British company is involved in the discussions for reshaping the engine rules
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jaguar has taken the wraps off its first GT car developed in-house for more than 50 years. The new GT4 car, based on the V8-engined F-type, was unveiled at Autosport International on Thursday as part of a British GT Championship programme
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak says moving from M-Sport Ford to Toyota for the 2018 World Rally Championship was his “best option” to become champion. Tanak finished third in the drivers’ championship last year – driving alongside five-time champion Sebastien Ogier at M-Sport –
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen will bring Mads Ostberg back into its World Rally Championship team for the second round in Sweden next month. Ostberg was part of Citroen’s factory line-up in the 2014 and ’15 seasons but has spent the last two years in
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ford will take its support of M-Sport’s World Rally Championship programme “up another level” in 2018, says its new motorsport chief. Malcolm Wilson’s M-Sport continued to run Ford’s WRC programme independently after the firm ended its full factory effort at the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren boss Zak Brown has compared Honda’s recent struggles in Formula 1 to the difficulties Jaguar faced during its failed F1 programme in the early 2000s. McLaren has split with Honda for the 2018 F1 season, after three disappointing years of
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergio Perez says the pressure will be on his Force India team-mate Esteban Ocon in 2018 given the way he impressed in his first full Formula 1 campaign. Ocon, who joined Force India with just nine races of experience with Manor
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb has explained the incident that ended what he believes will be his last ever Dakar Rally and left co-driver Daniel Elena injured. Before the start of his third Dakar Rally, Loeb had hailed it as a ‘now or never’
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport boss Malcolm Wilson and 2017 Rally GB winner Elfyn Evans are the guests on the first edition of The Autosport Podcast of this year. The duo join David Evans and Edd Straw both to look back at their successes, and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb retired from the 2018 Dakar Rally on day five, as his Peugeot team-mate Stephane Peterhansel went fastest and stretched his lead. Nine-time World Rally champion Loeb, first on the road after recording his 10th Dakar stage win on Tuesday,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniil Kvyat will remain involved in Formula 1 as a Ferrari development driver in 2018. Kvyat had been looking to retain links with F1 after being dropped by Toro Rosso before the end of last season following some disappointing performances. He
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault will focus on strict quality control of parts for its 2018 Formula 1 engine, as it bids to fix the unreliability that blighted its ’17 season. Renault-powered teams collected 320 engine-related grid penalties in 2017, with Red Bull boss Christian
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota drivers Nasser Al-Attiyah and Giniel de Villiers have blamed a regulation prohibiting them for using an on-board tyre inflation/deflation system for their drop down the Dakar Rally order. Both of the Hilux drivers struggled through the soft sand on Tuesday’s
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe says the team is wary of the threat McLaren will pose in 2018 after ditching Honda for Renault power in Formula 1. Though Williams finished fifth in the constructors’ championship for the second successive year, 26
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 made its testing debut ahead of the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series at Texas Motor Speedway on Tuesday. Chase Elliott, who has moved to the #9 car once driven by his father Bill at Hendrick Motorsports, drove
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb held off Peugeot team-mate Carlos Sainz to win his first stage of the 2018 Dakar Rally, as Stephane Peterhansel held on to lead overall after the fourth stage. Nine-time World Rally champion Loeb was fourth heading into Tuesday and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India is working on plans to bring its Formula 1 operation under one roof, following the most successful season in its history. The team finished fourth in the constructors’ championship for the second successive year in 2017, scoring a best-ever
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen World Rally Championship team principal Yves Matton is in discussion with the FIA to replace Jarmo Mahonen as head of the governing body’s rally department. Matton has declined to comment on speculation he will leave Citroen but sources at the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha team boss Lin Jarvis says MotoGP’s six manufacturers must take action to ensure that a spending war does not break out between them in future. All 12 of the factory riders in the premier class will be out of contract
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports says it will not run Juan Pablo Montoya or Danica Patrick at the 2018 Indianapolis 500, but confirmed it will still field a third car. SPM had signed a deal with Tristan Gommendy and ex-Formula 1 team owner
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toto Wolff says Pascal Wehrlein will stay within the Mercedes family despite appearing set to drop off the Formula 1 grid for 2018. Long-time Mercedes protege Wehrlein lost his Sauber seat to Formula 2 champion Charles Leclerc and is not in
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen says he felt “negative pressure” during his early years in Formula 1 with McLaren and Renault, and that joining Haas has helped rebuild his confidence. Magnussen began his F1 career with a podium finish for McLaren on his debut
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. X-raid Mini driver Nani Roma has sustained head and neck injuries in a crash at the end of the third stage of the 2018 Dakar Rally. Roma, a two-time Dakar champion, rolled his Mini John Cooper Works Rally car one kilometre
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