Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff has indicated the manufacturer is open to forging closer technical links with its customer Formula 1 teams in the same manner that Ferrari works with Haas. Mercedes currently supplies its gearbox and complete hydraulic systems to Force
Month: May 2018
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danica Patrick says she missed being “relevant” in IndyCar because her name was not mooted as a race winner after she moved into the NASCAR Cup series. The one-time IndyCar race winner will end her career after the 2018 Indianapolis 500 as
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Johann Zarco has been confirmed as KTM’s second factory MotoGP rider for the 2019 season, leaving no place for incumbent Bradley Smith in the Austrian marque’s works line-up. Tech3 Yamaha rider Zarco has long been a target of KTM, and is understood
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tony Kanaan put AJ Foyt Racing at the top of the times during manufacturer testing at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, but the strong winds led to IndyCar teams packing up early. Chevrolet-powered Kanaan lapped the iconic 2.5-mile oval at an average of 226.680mph
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen says he has apologised to Pierre Gasly “many times” over their Azerbaijan Formula 1 clash, while clarifying remarks suggesting he is willing to “die” in a racing car. Gasly accused Magnussen of being the “most dangerous” racer he had competed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s hesitance to act before its Formula 1 drivers crashed in Azerbaijan suggests the team supports Max Verstappen over Daniel Ricciardo, according to guests on Motorsport Show. The team-mates were eliminated from the Baku race in spectacular fashion when Ricciardo rear-ended
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Xfinity driver Spencer Gallagher has been indefinitely banned from NASCAR competition for violating its substance abuse policy days after earning his first series win at Talladega last weekend. Gallagher had been competing in NASCAR’s Dash4Cash, a four-race competition for eligible Xfinity season
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi has backed his former MotoGP team-mate Jorge Lorenzo to recover from a poor start to his second season at Ducati at the next race at Jerez. After the first three rounds of the 2018 campaign Lorenzo lies 16th in the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danica Patrick admitted she wasn’t sure she would complete her veteran refresher test for the 2018 Indianapolis 500 after mechanical problems hindered her return to an IndyCar cockpit. Patrick will compete in the final race of her career at the Indianapolis 500,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sauber’s technical director Jorg Zander has left the Formula 1 team with immediate effect. It comes just weeks after the Swiss team hired a new head of aerodynamics and is in the process of an internal restructure as it bids to move
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pol Espargaro has renewed his deal with KTM in MotoGP until the end of 2020. The former Moto2 champion joined the Austrian manufacturer on an initial two-year deal back in 2017, after having spent three years with the Tech3 Yamaha squad. He
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota team principal Tommi Makinen has ruled out making Ott Tanak a clear number one and imposing team orders in his World Rally Championship squad. Tanak’s dominant first WRC win for Toyota on Rally Argentina last weekend closed to him to within
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Wickens completed his “tricky” rookie orientation programme for the 2018 Indianapolis 500 in team-mate James Hinchcliffe’s Indycar after a failure caused a “scramble” to catch up. As a full-time rookie, Wickens was required to complete three phases of short runs at
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’s Robert Wickens and the returning Danica Patrick endured eventful programmes in preparation for the 2018 Indianapolis 500, as all drivers completed their rookie and refresher requirements. Wickens had to compete against the clock in order to pass the rookie orientation programme after he sailed through the first phase, requiring 10 laps at
Formula 1 sporting chief Ross Brawn believes Daniel Ricciardo was “a passenger” in his accident with Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen because of the aerodynamic rules currently in place. Ricciardo ran into the back of Verstappen under braking for the first corner in Baku, with Red Bull scorning both drivers for their roles in the
More than two decades have passed since Ayrton Senna’s death in the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, but he remains one of the most famous Formula 1 drivers of all time. Senna’s 10-year F1 career was action packed, winning championships, setting records, and being part of rivalries that took the pinnacle of the sport to
StarCom Racing will run two cars at this weekend’s Dover NASCAR Cup Series race, with 59-year-old team manager and 1990 Daytona 500 winner Derrike Cope returning to driving duties. Cope competed in selected races in 2017 as StarCom prepared for its first full year but stepped back from the driving role when Jeffrey Earnhardt was
Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Pirelli has unveiled Formula 1 teams’ tyres selections for the 2018 Spanish Grand Prix, with Williams on a vastly more aggressive strategy than any of the other outfits. F1’s tyre supplier has opted to go a step softer with its picks for the
MotoGP points leader Andrea Dovizioso says the recent Austin race confirmed Ducati’s negative aspects remain “too big”. After winning the Qatar season opener, Dovizioso has had two low-key rounds, finishing sixth in Argentina and then fifth at the Circuit of the Americas. Dovizioso complained about the Austin track not suiting his bike during the weekend,
Josef Newgarden believes IndyCar’s windscreen needs “small improvements” after he completed a short test with it at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Monday. Following Scott Dixon’s successful maiden test of the windscreen at Phoenix, Penske’s reigning champion Newgarden ran the windscreen in its second-ever outing following the end of Monday’s Indy test. The windscreen has had
The F1 Commission has voted through last-minute changes to the 2019 Formula 1 aerodynamic package to aid overtaking, despite opposition from several teams. A proposal to change front wing endplates to help cars follow each other, along with a bigger rear wing flap and therefore a stronger DRS effect, has been passed. An extra package
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