Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Force India Formula 1 reserve driver Alfonso Celis Jr will make his IndyCar debut with Juncos Racing at Road America next month. Celis switched to the Indy Lights series for 2018 after leaving the now-defunct Formula V8 3.5 championship. He was
Month: May 2018
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Indy Lights graduate Zachary Claman de Melo will replace the injured Pietro Fittipaldi at this weekend’s IndyCar race on the Indianapolis road course. De Melo and Fittipaldi had been due to split driving duties of the #19 car this season, with the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Scott Redding believes his “time is running out” to prove he should retain his Aprilia MotoGP seat, four races into his stint with the manufacturer. Redding replaced Sam Lowes at Aprilia for 2018, after the team decided to terminate Lowes’ two-year deal
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning three-time European Rally champion Kajetan Kajetanowicz will move into the World Rally Championship’s WRC2 class for the rest of 2018. Kajetanowicz has targeted a WRC2 move since wrapping up his third straight ERC title last year, but an uncertain sponsorship situation
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR has issued substantial penalties to multiple teams following last weekend’s Cup race at Dover. The crews of both runner-up Clint Bowyer (Stewart-Haas Racing) and Joe Gibbs Racing’s third-place finisher Daniel Suarez have been handed penalties for issues with the rear window
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aleix Espargaro says he has been promised a “revolution” by his Aprilia team after suffering an “unacceptable” spate of mechanical failures in the opening races of the MotoGP season. Espargaro ran out of fuel on the final lap of the Qatar Grand
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Plans for a Formula 1 grand prix in Miami should take a crucial step forward on Thursday with a city commission vote looking like a formality. A resolution supporting the race, sponsored by Miami mayor Francis Suarez and three of the five
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Force India Formula 1 team remains cautious about its upgrade package for this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. After a difficult start to the 2018 F1 season, Force India bounced back with a third place for Sergio Perez last time out in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Last year’s Rally GB winner Elfyn Evans feels the revamped route for Wales’ 2018 World Rally Championship round is a missed opportunity. The Welshman was critical of the organisers of the Deeside-based event for using what he feels are the wrong roads.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 will introduce new data into the halo television graphic that made its debut over the Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend and experiment more with what information fans are given. The aesthetics of the new-for-2018 controversial driver protection device have irritated some
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso believes Ducati team-mate Jorge Lorenzo tried to block him at all costs during MotoGP’s Jerez race, which ultimately cost the Italian a chance to fight for the win. Lorenzo and Dovizioso were running second and third in the middle stages
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pietro Fittipaldi will leave hospital in Belgium this week to head to Indianapolis to be treated by IndyCar’s leading doctors, as he targets a late-July comeback at Mid-Ohio. Fittipaldi suffered a compound fracture of the left leg and a broken right ankle
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. This week’s Motorsport Show explores how the Spanish Grand Prix offers the perfect opportunity to examine the different styles between Formula 1 drivers. In his track guide, host Peter Windsor declares that the top drivers are “really on it” through the sweeps
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Swedish outfit Mpart has started developing an electric Mitsubishi rally car built around R5 regulations, a prototype version of which the team hopes will be running in the autumn. The Mirage R5e is expected to be powered by two electric motors –
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso driver Pierre Gasly says Honda’s Formula 1 engine is not solely to blame for the team’s lack of performance in the previous two grands prix. The outfit starred at the second round of the season, where Gasly scoring a sensational
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda rider Dani Pedrosa has called for “more respect” from MotoGP’s race direction in the wake of his collision with Jorge Lorenzo in the Spanish Grand Prix. Lorenzo was forced wide by Ducati team-mate Andrea Dovizioso at Jerez’s Turn 6 right-hander in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has dismissed the Williams Formula 1 team’s request for a review into several Azerbaijan Grand Prix incidents and issued a 10-point response outlining its reasons why. Williams asked the FIA to examine the Baku incident that earned Sergey Sirotkin a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales was left with “very negative feelings” after the Jerez MotoGP race, having had to push “110%” just to secure a muted seventh-place finish. Vinales’s optimism from a strong showing in the previous round at Austin was dashed once
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Katherine Legge is chasing a single-seater return as the injured Pietro Fittipaldi’s stand-in at the Dale Coyne Racing IndyCar team for the Indianapolis 500 and Texas. Fittipaldi has been sidelined for around two months with leg injuries sustained in a qualifying crash
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The group that owns the NASCAR Cup series has declined to comment on the potential sale of the sanctioning body. A report from Reuters on Monday indicated that NASCAR’s ownership group is exploring options that include a sale, with sources suggesting the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams has requested a review of several Formula 1 Azerbaijan Grand Prix decisions, including Sergrey Sirotkin’s grid penalty, and questioned Fernando Alonso’s recovery of his damaged McLaren to the pits. Sirotkin was given a three-place grid penalty for a collision with Force
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault junior Jack Aitken will make his debut in a contemporary Formula 1 car when he drives for the outfit in the post-Spanish Grand Prix test at Barcelona. Aitken is a member of the Renault Sport Academy and was promoted to the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 Yamaha rider Johann Zarco topped MotoGP’s post-Spanish Grand Prix test at Jerez with a time less than a tenth away from Cal Crutchlow’s lap record. As well as Zarco, all Honda and KTM riders, the works Yamahas, Pramac Ducati’s Jack Miller,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Azerbaijan Grand Prix star performer Charles Leclerc has urged his Sauber Formula 1 team to investigate its 2018 car’s relative lack of performance in low-fuel trim. Leclerc’s breakout sixth-place finish in Baku took Sauber to 10 points from the first four races,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Clint Bowyer says he knew he was in trouble defending the lead of the NASCAR Cup series race at Dover from Kevin Harvick following a late restart. Bowyer had climbed into the lead after a woeful start, which included a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi is worried Yamaha will “need another season” to recover its MotoGP form if it fails to find a quick solution to its electronics issues. Rossi and team-mate Maverick Vinales suffered with a lack of grip in the sweltering conditions all
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Marc VDS team has moved to dismiss speculation about its MotoGP future. The Belgian outfit was reported to be facing an uncertain future amid a growing dispute between team owner Marc van der Straten and team manager Michael Bartholemy. But, in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick dominated a rain-interrupted NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Dover to take his fourth win of the season for Ford. Harvick led almost exactly half of the race’s 400 laps and took both stage wins, with only Penske’s Brad
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. WRT’s Stuart Leonard and Frederic Vervisch converted pole into Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup victory at Brands Hatch in their Audi R8 LMS, the fourth different winners in as many races. Despite missing the first two races of the season at Zolder,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso blames both Dani Pedrosa and Jorge Lorenzo for the crash that led to the trio retiring from MotoGP race at Jerez, with emphasis on the Honda rider’s actions. In the closing stages, Lorenzo was keeping Dovizioso and Pedrosa at bay