Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP boss Lin Jarvis “fully expects” Valentino Rossi to sign a new contract to stay with Yamaha in MotoGP beyond this season. Rossi is yet to extend his existing deal, which will ends this year, and his plan is to
Month: February 2018
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Red Bull NASCAR Cup series team BK Racing has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy ahead of the 2018 Daytona 500. The chartered team completed the full Cup season in 2017 but had a rotating door of seven drivers across the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ryan Blaney and Chase Elliott took victories in the NASCAR Cup’s Daytona Duel races, securing second row starts for Sunday’s Daytona 500. In the first duel Team Penske replicated its dominant form from last Sunday’s Clash race, running 1-2-3 with Blaney
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Kubica will drive in three Formula 1 first practice sessions this year, including Spain and Austria, as part of his reserve and development role with Williams. The Pole had pushed for a race seat alongside Lance Stroll but lost out
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe says his team is targeting a “step change” in performance against Formula 1’s biggest squad with its 2018 car the FW41. Images of Williams’s 2018 F1 challenger, the first designed under the complete influence of ex-Mercedes
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota World Rally Championship driver Ott Tanak leads Rally Sweden ahead of the first full day of competition after winning the Karlstad superspecial stage on Thursday evening. Tanak, who was runner-up on the season opener in Monte Carlo last month, set
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mads Ostberg was stunned by his Rally Sweden shakedown pace on his return to the World Rally Championship with Citroen. Ostberg was 0.3 seconds shy of Thierry Neuville’s benchmark on the 4.26-mile stage, but a second up on team-mate Kris Meeke.
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup series’ decision to make data from all teams more easily available to rival outfits is “absurd”, according to Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kurt Busch. NASCAR released key information such as throttle, steering and braking traces, as well as rpm data,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hendrick Motorsports owner Rick Hendrick says he has been “tearing down the walls” to restructure his NASCAR Cup series team, but that the playoffs will show if it has worked. Having split his team into effectively two operations running two cars
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Herve Poncharal says he will try “120%” to convince Tech 3’s partners to take Jonas Folger back for the 2019 MotoGP season, if the German is able to return. Folger was diagnosed with Gilbert’s syndrome last year and missed the final
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren executive director Zak Brown says his team is on course to add more sponsors to its new-look car before the start of the new Formula 1 season. Having recently confirmed a major new partnership with computer company Dell, Brown expects
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ed Carpenter Racing hopes IndyCar gives Danica Patrick similar testing dispensation to Fernando Alonso ahead of her return to the series for her career finale in the 2018 Indianapolis 500. Patrick, who last raced in IndyCar in 2011, revealed on Wednesday
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danica Patrick has revealed that the sign-off to her racing career in the 2018 Indianapolis 500 will be with Ed Carpenter Racing. Representatives from Chip Ganassi Racing, Schmidt Peterson Motorsport, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing and Dreyer & Reinbold Racing confirmed to
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas has become the first team to reveal images of its 2018 Formula 1 car, with renderings of the VF-18 released on Wednesday. The Ferrari powered car is an evolution of last year’s VF-17, with the most visible differences being the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Safari Rally’s hopes of a World Rally Championship return have been given a £1.8million boost from the Kenyan government. A bid to get Nairobi back on the WRC calendar by 2020 has been supported by Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo is likely to have to accept a pay cut if he wishes to remain at Ducati in 2019, sporting director Paolo Ciabatti says. Although Ducati has made it clear its intention is to keep both riders
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sauber can emulate Force India’s Formula 1 giantkilling now it has more Ferrari support, but needs three-to-five years to get there reckons team principal Frederic Vasseur. While Force India has held fourth in F1’s constructors’ championship for the past two seasons
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren’s behind-the-scenes Amazon documentary would have fallen flat if the Formula 1 team had censored some of its more controversial moments, reckons executive director Zak Brown. Amazon’s four-part Grand Prix Driver series, which was released last week, follows the McLaren team’s
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar is hoping to test the windscreen cockpit protection system early in the 2018 season on a street course as it evaluates introducing it for the following year. The series conducted its first on-track test of the screen during last week’s
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo is confident Red Bull has got itself where it needs to be to fight with Formula 1 favourites Mercedes and Ferrari regularly this season. After the Milton Keynes-based outfit made good progress with its car throughout last season after
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Gene Haas has moved to clarify his Formula 1 team’s position on signing an American driver in the future following comments made by team principal Gunther Steiner. Steiner told Autosport Haas wanted to place an American driver in one of its
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Japanese Super GT organisers have moved its Autopolis round to avoid a clash with the World Endurance Championship’s Fuji race, which was shifted to accommodate Fernando Alonso. The WEC moved its Japanese race so Formula 1 star Alonso could race with
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The latest edition of The Autosport Podcast tackles the controversial question of whether the introduction of the halo will ruin Formula 1 With the first of the 2018 F1 cars launching this week, fan criticism is expected to ramp up over
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM rider Pol Espargaro will not take part in this week’s Thailand MotoGP test following his high-speed crash during the opening test of the year at Sepang. Espargaro sat out the third day of running in Malaysia last month following his
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda’s Dani Pedrosa says he has been trying over the winter to replicate the cold and wet conditions he struggled with in MotoGP last season. Pedrosa’s small stature has often resulted in him struggling to generate tyre temperature in wet or
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ken Block could return to the World Rally Championship this season, with Ford Performance evaluating giving the American its backing for select outings. Block’s Ford-supported Hoonigan Racing Division team pulled out of World Rallycross at the end of last season, and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull has announced it will reveal its new Formula 1 car for the 2018 season next Monday. In a tweet from its official account, Red Bull said that the RB14 would be revealed on February 19 – although no further
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Many Formula 1 fans have been vocal in their disapproval of the halo ahead of its introduction for this season, while IndyCar continues to pursue an alternative solution. IndyCar’s aeroscreen made its on-track debut last week at Phoenix, with four-time champion
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso will begin McLaren’s Formula 1 pre-season testing programme when he drives the MCL33 on day one at Barcelona. The Spaniard, who was limited to just 29 laps on day one last year because of an oil leak, will be
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai has revealed the “most important” upgrades yet for its i20 R5 car as it bids to threaten the established category leaders. Skoda’s Fabia R5 and M-Sport’s Ford Fiesta R5 have long dominated the World Rally Championship’s second tier, while Citroen,