Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb made a low-key World Rally Championship return with the 10th fastest time on Rally Mexico’s shakedown stage on Thursday, as Citroen team-mate Kris Meeke set the pace. Loeb, who will contest his first gravel WRC event for five years
Month: March 2018
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Renault Formula 1 team has rubbished talk the legality of its blown rear wing could be questioned, because it has no doubts the aggressive concept complies with rules. The manufacturer’s RS18 and the way its exhaust is angled to direct
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says Red Bull could pose a “real challenge” to four-time reigning champion outfit Mercedes this season. Mercedes technical director James Allison said there was “no doubt” Red Bull had emerged as a title threat after
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen says he does not consider McLaren and Renault as major rivals for Red Bull in 2018, amid growing optimism about the pace of his RB14 Formula 1 car. Red Bull has had a strong pre-season testing programme so far,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. AJ Foyt Racing is relying on 2004 IndyCar champion Tony Kanaan to bring out the best in it, according to team president Larry Foyt. Kanaan left Ganassi to join Foyt at the end of 2017 for a chance to be the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen’s hopes of a home win on next month’s Tour of Corsica have been improved with news that the C3 WRC will undergo further advances to its geometry. Across all surfaces, the lack of grip and stability at the rear of
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia has unveiled the 2018 livery for its MotoGP bike, which will be ridden by Aleix Espargaro and Scott Redding. The new paint scheme features slightly more red compared to the 2017 version. Aprilia is going into its fourth season in
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing driver Kevin Harvick has lost his NASCAR Cup series points lead after he was penalised following his win at Las Vegas. Harvick led 214 of 267 laps at Las Vegas to make it two dominant wins back-to-back, following his
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean believes some Formula 1 restarts in 2018 could descend into chaos if drivers have to stick with old tyres after a red flag. F1 races this year may feature standing starts after red-flag periods, with the cars being led
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso says he “doesn’t need” the final day of Formula 1 testing at Barcelona, despite McLaren’s lack of running so far this week. Team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne managed only 38 laps on the first day of the second and final pre-season
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup series champion Martin Truex Jr says he is unsure why he has lost his advantage relative to other teams in 2018. Truex’s best result of the year so far came at Las Vegas with fourth after finishing fifth at
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Vitaly Petrov will contest the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup with SMP Racing alongside his World Endurance Championship LMP1 campaign with the Russian entrant. The GT rookie, who has raced in LMP2 in recent seasons, will drive a
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren insists the various reliability problems that have struck its Formula 1 car during the second week of pre-season testing are unrelated and not indicative of a flawed design concept. The new MCL33 caused two red flags during Tuesday’s running at
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb says he is completely in the dark about what to expect from his World Rally Championship return with Citroen at this week’s Rally Mexico. The nine-time champion retired from full-time WRC competition at the end of 2012, but won
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Iannone believes Suzuki “can’t hide” its race pace deficit relative to its MotoGP rivals, admitting he “suffered too much” on long runs despite his rapid Qatar test times. Iannone was third on the opening day of running at Losail, and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning British GT champion Seb Morris will drive a Team Parker racing Bentley in its return to the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. Morris competed for the team during his British GT3 title-winning season last year, before he then featured on
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA conducted a test of Formula 1’s new standing restart procedure at the end of Tuesday’s Barcelona running, with Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull, Haas and Williams choosing to participate. This year, races will feature standing starts after safety car periods,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren is set to modify the internal cooling of its Formula 1 car after suffering minor bodywork burning problems during testing. The McLaren MCL33 is running with three additional cooling slots towards the rear of the engine cover at this test
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A partnership between Dale Coyne Racing and Thom Burns Racing has created an opportunity for Conor Daly to enter the Indianapolis 500 with sponsorship from the United States Air Force. Daly, who was left without a full-time ride after being let
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick and three-time NASCAR Cup series champion Darrell Waltrip have each pledged $5000 to help get Matt DiBenedetto on the grid at Phoenix after a sponsor exit. DiBenedetto took to Twitter in a short video to reveal he
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Elfyn Evans starts this week’s Rally Mexico searching for a win to turn around what he admits has been a “rubbish” beginning to the 2018 World Rally Championship. Back in the main M-Sport Ford team this year after winning Rally GB
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 2018 IndyCar season will be the culmination of two years spent trying to make a better-looking and better-performing product, and so far the signs are promising with the most harmonious off-season in recent memory. In February’s open test at Sonoma,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. GP3 racer Tatiana Calderon could test a Formula 1 car for the first time this year as part of an expanded role with the Sauber team. Calderon, 24, was named Sauber development driver last year, although her role was restricted to
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Giancarlo Fisichella will return to the scene of one of his three Formula 1 grand prix wins with a drive in the Australian GP GT support races in Melbourne. The 2005 Albert Park F1 winner has secured a one-off drive with
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The halo represents not just a structural challenge to the teams to incorporate it onto their cars, but it has opened up new aero development paths too. As part of the rule package that has come with the mandatory use of
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden says Penske already has a “strong foundation” with the series’ new 2018 car package. Penske dominated the manufacturer aerokit era with two titles in the last three years, missing out in 2015 after Will Power and Juan
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Claire Williams has denied suggestions that her team played a role in persuading the FIA to clamp down on Formula 1 customer engine parity this season. In the wake of a technical directive issued by Charlie Whiting in January, Red Bull
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP privateer outfit Tech3 will link up with KTM from the 2019 season onwards, following its decision to split with long-time partner Yamaha. The French team has fielded Yamaha bikes in grand prix motorcycle racing’s premier class since 2001, but announced
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s move to ban monkey seats and change the rules regarding exhausts for 2018 was meant to close off potential benefits from blowing wings with exhaust gases. However, the latest car designs and concepts that emerged in pre-season testing last
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick says his latest victory at Las Vegas “answered a lot of questions” about his NASCAR Cup title hopes for this year. Harvick’s victory at Las Vegas made it two wins in a row for the 2014 Cup