Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Andreas Mikkelsen is hoping Hyundai’s latest engine update will be enough to turn his fortunes around this season. The Norwegian, who came close to scoring his maiden win in an i20 Coupe WRC at last year’s season-closing Rally Australia, has struggled to replicate that form in 2018, with just one
Month: April 2018
Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville leads Rally Argentina overnight following Thursday evening’s Villa Carlos Paz superspecial. Neuville’s time of 1m54.4s around the 1.1-mile mostly asphalt stage put him three tenths of a second clear of Ott Tanak’s Toyota in second place. For much of the evening the lead changed hands with every new car through the flying
Jari-Matti Latvala has ditched his World Rally Championship title challenge and will now focus on winning individual events in 2018. The Toyota driver made a good start to his new plan with the fastest time in Thursday’s shakedown stage for this weekend’s Rally Argentina. It is now 15 rallies since the Latvala’s last victory (Rally
McLaren is set for a major revamp of its technical operations on the back of its disappointing start to the 2018 Formula 1 season, with chassis chief Tim Goss understood to have already left his position. Although the Woking-based team has declined to confirm the departure of chief technical officer (chassis) Goss, it is understood
Lewis Hamilton says the Mercedes Formula 1 team has diagnosed its tyre management problem and will trial a first fix in Azerbaijan Grand Prix practice. But he admits there could be “five or 10” possible solutions to the issue. This year Mercedes has struggled with tyre management relative to main rivals Ferrari and Red Bull,
Honda MotoGP team principal Alberto Puig says the Japanese manufacturer needs more time to weigh up its 2019 rider options, as it considers whether to offer Dani Pedrosa a contract extension. Pedrosa has raced for the works Honda squad since his premier class debut in 2006, and has won at least won race per season
Volkswagen’s Polo GTI R5 – the car with which it will return to the World Rally Championship in WRC2 – will not make its debut until Rally Spain in October. Autosport understands VW’s first R5 car was originally scheduled for a home WRC debut at Rally Germany, but the homologation date was put back as
Williams’s push to give its Formula 1 car more downforce has eliminated its previous straightline advantage without gaining enough cornering speed, say its drivers. The British F1 team adopted a more aggressive design philosophy for 2018 but has zero points after the first three races of the season. Williams had the slowest top speed of
Citroen driver Craig Breen says his attempts to avoid paying attention to the Tour of Corsica during his two-month World Rally Championship absence lasted “15 minutes”. This weekend in Argentina, Breen will compete in Citroen’s C3 WRC for the first time since finishing second on February’s Rally Sweden. He stepped down to make way for
IndyCar has had almost 1,000 on-track passes after four races of the 2018 season in a 110% increase on last year, according to figures released by the series. One of the new car package’s primary goals was to improve racing by moving downforce under the Dallara IR-12 chassis, and reducing the number of aerodynamic appendages
Mercedes protege George Russell is set to test for two Formula 1 teams this season alongside his Formula 2 championship challenge. The reigning GP3 champion, who made his grand prix weekend debut with the Force India team last year, is sharing Mercedes’ F1 reserve driver responsibilities with Pascal Wehrlein in 2018. Force India announced Nicholas
One-time NASCAR Cup champion Matt Kenseth will return to the Cup series with Roush Fenway Racing, sharing the #6 car with Trevor Bayne for the remainder of the 2018 season. Kenseth won his only top-tier title in 2003 driving for the team when it was known as Roush Racing and left RFR after 13 seasons
The IndyCar series will test the windscreen cockpit protection system for a second time later this month after the planned test session on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval. Penske’s Josef Newgarden will take over driving duties from Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon on April 30 in what the reigning champion described as an “evolution” of
Rally GB organisers have found agreement with the FIA on the route for Britain’s round of the World Rally Championship in October. The governing body was unhappy at the proposed use of a combined Great Orme and Llandudno all-asphalt stage for the final points-paying, live television powerstage on Sunday October 7. The FIA’s stance was
Lando Norris believes it “would be nice” to give McLaren a driver selection headache for 2019 but thinks Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne is currently a better Formula 1 pairing. Formula 2 championship leader Norris was named McLaren’s 2018 reserve driver after making his test debut for the team last year. He could emulate Charles
Formula 1’s chief technical officer Pat Symonds says Ferrari proved its only focus is Sebastian Vettel winning the drivers’ championship with Kimi Raikkonen’s compromised China strategy. Raikkonen stayed out seven laps longer than Vettel before his first stop and consequently dropped back from an initial fourth place to sixth. Later incidents meant Raikkonen eventually ended
The striking looks and early success of IndyCar’s new car has been a talking point of the 2018 season, and this week’s Motorsport Show explores how the design was developed. IndyCar abandoned expensive, downforce-laden manufacturer aerokits after three years of costly development when Honda attempted to catch up to the leading Chevrolet designs. Not only
The Blancpain GT Series has hit back at claims from the Grasser Lamborghini team that it was unfairly penalised under the Balance of Performance rules at last weekend’s Monza race. The reigning BGTS champion team claimed in a post-race statement that an additional 15kg of ballast given to the Lamborghini Huracan GT3s ahead of qualifying
Andrea Iannone says he was close to “exploding with anger” before scoring his first MotoGP podium as a Suzuki rider in last weekend’s Austin race. The Italian finished third behind Marc Marquez and Maverick Vinales to register his first top-three finish since the 2016 season finale at Valencia, his last race for Ducati. Iannone has
Dale Coyne Racing and Sebastien Bourdais have become known for their strategic IndyCar gambles, but their latest attempt at Barber fell short against victorious Penske driver Josef Newgarden. Extreme conditions in Alabama forced the race to be postponed to Monday, with Penske’s Will Power notably critical of IndyCar’s failed attempt to restart the race on
MotoGP championship leader Andrea Dovizioso has rejected Ducati’s first contract extension offer, Autosport has learned. Dovizioso, who has been with Ducati since 2013 and finished runner-up to Honda’s Marc Marquez last year, has a contact that runs to the end of 2018 – and has been in negotiations over an extension. Team manager Davide Tardozzi
Nico Hulkenberg and Carlos Sainz have made Renault’s Formula 1 car development “much easier” by being “completely aligned” in their feedback, according to the team’s chief technical officer Bob Bell. The drivers are in their first full season as F1 team-mates, with Hulkenberg arriving from Force India ahead of the 2017 season and Sainz joining
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch hopes he is not “peaking too early” in the 2018 NASCAR Cup series regular season. Busch became the second driver after Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick to win three races in a row in 2018 after his victory at Richmond last weekend. A win is enough to guarantee one of 16
Haas believes its main Formula 1 rivals Renault and McLaren “are getting lucky” in the 2018 season so far. Though Haas has made an extremely competitive start to its third year in F1, it is only seventh in the constructors’ championship after the first three races. A potential double top-five finish in the Australian Grand
Maverick Vinales says Yamaha has made a big improvement on the weaknesses it carried into the start of the 2018 MotoGP season. Yamaha came into the campaign with Vinales’ team-mate Valentino Rossi urging it to invest more effort into finding a fix for the problems, and the team took its best result of the season
Josef Newgarden says he could not believe how long his IndyCar rivals stayed out on dry tyres in the rain in a “really risky” attempt to beat him at Barber. Newgarden dominated the dry running at Barber, building a lead of more than 25 seconds before his first of two planned stops. Dale Coyne Racing’s
The FIA is imposing a fresh clampdown on trick engine modes that help exhaust blowing of rear wings in Formula 1, following fresh intrigue about the matter. With Renault’s blown rear wing having been under the spotlight during pre-season, and suggestions that Ferrari had been working on this area too, which was potentially linked to
Jack Miller has revealed he tried to apologise to Jorge Lorenzo for his aggressive pass on the Ducati MotoGP rider at Austin, but the Spaniard “wasn’t having any of it”. Lorenzo endured a miserable race, sliding down the order and losing several places in the closing stages to drop to 11th at the finish. That
Penske’s Josef Newgarden won a tense delayed Barber IndyCar race after returning rain opened the door for Scott Dixon and Sebastien Bourdais to gamble on slicks on a wet track. Newgarden picked up where he left off on Sunday, initially cantering into a lead that grew to over 25 seconds before he made his first
Johann Zarco is set to join the KTM MotoGP team for the 2019 season, Autosport has learned. The Frenchman has been linked to a KTM move since last year, although Honda and Suzuki are both known to have also been interested in securing Zarco’s services for next season. It is understood the Tech3 Yamaha rider
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