Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Gary Anderson explains why Formula 1 teams made a mistake by not running more at Barcelona on Wednesday in the latest edition of The Autosport Podcast. With just 17 laps completed during a snow and rain-hit third day of the first
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Ferrari says there was “no point” in trying to do any running on the snow and rain-affected third day of Formula 1 testing at Barcelona. Only five teams ventured out onto the track at all on Thursday, in a session that was delayed by three hours due to snow. Even once the snow cleared the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick says his NASCAR Cup dominance at Atlanta was down to greater experience of an older track that caused the series’ younger talent to struggle. Only nine drivers were in the leading pack on the final lap at Atlanta and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas says he will not ‘waste energy’ on playing mind games with Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Lewis Hamilton in 2018. Nico Rosberg has admitted that he adopted a strategy of trying to get under Hamilton’s skin when they were Mercedes
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA president Jean Todt renewed his push to get the Safari Rally back on the World Rally Championship calendar with government talks this week. Todt talked of his determination to use the Kenyan event as a launchpad to promote road safety
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Grasser Lamborghini squad will defend its Blancpain GT Series drivers’ titles with unchanged line-ups in 2018. Factory drivers Mirko Bortolotti, Andrea Caldarelli and Christian Engelhart will bid to retain their BGTS Endurance Cup crown in the lead Grasser Racing Team
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The latest edition of The Autosport Podcast cuts through the cold of Barcelona to decipher the stories behind the times at the Barcelona Formula 1 test. Technical expert Gary Anderson joins Lawrence Barretto and Edd Straw to explain why the conditions
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says he chose to “sacrifice” driving on day two of Formula 1 pre-season testing as avoiding a driver change saved Mercedes about an hour of running time. Bitterly cold weather at Barcelona has reduced the amount of running F1
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault Formula 1 boss Cyril Abiteboul says he will give Red Bull a May deadline for a decision over its 2019 engine supply, respecting the FIA regulation on the subject. Red Bull’s current contract with Renault only covers the 2018 season,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar’s president of competition and operations Jay Frye says a new engine formula with a significant power increase could be introduced as soon as 2020. The current 2.2-litre turbocharged engine, which produces from 550-700bhp depending on the boost used at each
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. British Touring Car Championship race-winner Aron Taylor-Smith will contest this year’s Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup with Team Parker Racing. Taylor-Smith will share a Team Parker Bentley Continental GT3s with Briton Josh Caygill for the full season in the silver cup
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Gary Anderson reviews the opening day of the first Barcelona Formula 1 test of 2018 in the latest edition of The Autosport Podcast. Recorded after a long day at the circuit, during which Anderson was able to watch trackside and speak
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 teams have held talks about extending the first pre-season test by an extra day as bad weather is predicted at Barcelona for the middle of the week. Cool temperatures and rain on Monday afternoon meant limited running in the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup Series says it will review a run of failures caused by the new-for-2018 pitguns that the series had implemented to save costs. NASCAR decided to prevent teams from continuing a development war by introducing pitguns manufactured by Paoli,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India technical director Andrew Green says Formula 1’s halo created “huge” extra costs for his team, because it meant last year’s chassis could not be carried over to 2018. Force India usually tries to minimise expense through a set of
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez has completed a new deal to remain at the factory Honda team for a further two seasons. Despite some interest from rival manufacturers, Marquez had made it clear his preference was to remain with Honda –
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick dominated a rain-delayed NASCAR Cup race at Atlanta Motor Speedway for Stewart-Haas Racing, despite dropping to 19th early on after a troubled pitstop. Harvick was a step ahead of his rivals on track throughout the race, taking a clear
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Technical expert Gary Anderson evaluates the latest 2018 Formula 1 cars to be released by Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren in the latest edition of The Autosport Podcast. With Ferrari and Mercedes continuing to diverge on car concept, the question of which
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault will not unleash the full potential of its Formula 1 engine for the 2018 season’s early grands prix because it wants to take a zero risk approach to reliability. With Renault well aware that the three-engine limit means any early
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergey Sirotkin says Robert Kubica understands Formula 1 is “every man for himself” and they will have a good relationship at Williams in 2018. Kubica appeared to be on the brink of a Williams race seat – almost seven years after
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A new endurance race at Monza planned for early next month has been cancelled. A shortfall in entries has resulted in a race dubbed the Targa 6H Monza being shelved by organiser Driving Force Events, which runs the the Gulf 12
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Four-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon believes Chevrolet will be hurt more than Honda by the switch to a universal aerokit for the 2018 season. Dixon was the best-placed Honda driver in 2017 in the first year of Ganassi’s switch from Chevrolet
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nasser Al-Attiyah is expected to drive a Toyota Yaris on selected rounds of this year’s World Rally Championship, starting with Rally Argentina in April. Al-Attiyah, who finished second on last month’s Dakar Rally in a Toyota Hilux, is closing on a
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren driver Fernando Alonso says “there should not be any debate” about the halo cockpit protection device introduced for the 2018 Formula 1 season. The halo, which was pushed through by the FIA on safety grounds, has been widely criticised, with
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick says Darrell Wallace Jr has the potential to be a NASCAR Cup series “megastar” and that his Daytona 500 performance compared to Danica Patrick proves it. Wallace finished second at the Daytona 500 after making contact with Denny Hamlin
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault says it has yet to show what its 2018 Formula 1 car really looks like, explaining that images released this week were primarily aimed at showing off its new livery. The French manufacturer prompted intrigue after renderings of its new
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso has told McLaren Formula 1 fans that “good times are coming” after he drove the MCL33 for the first time at the Navarra circuit in Spain. McLaren’s 2018 challenger was revealed online early on Friday before it took to
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean says the Haas Formula 1 team aims to be “within a second” of the pacesetting car in next week’s opening pre-season test at Barcelona. The American outfit, which is preparing for its third season in grand prix racing, was
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Qualifying stages could return to the World Rally Championship amid renewed calls for an overhaul of the running order regulations following the Rally Sweden controversy. Sebastien Ogier finished 10th in Sweden after being forced to sweep loose snow from the road
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia has been forced to delay the introduction of its latest specification MotoGP engine until the opening round of the season in Qatar. The Italian manufacturer was scheduled to bring its latest engine to the final pre-season test at the Losail
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