Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The multi-bike collision in the MotoGP race at Jerez involved the “three cleanest riders” in the category, according to Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa. The crash occurred on exit of the right-hand Dry Sac corner towards the closing stages of the race,
Month: May 2018
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow claims Marc Marquez would not have won the Jerez MotoGP race so easily if the reigning champion had been using the same Honda bike as the LCR rider. The factory Honda team introduced a new carbon swingarm part at the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez believes he is still “missing something” with his Honda bike, despite having scored comfortable back-to-back wins in Austin and Jerez. On the back of a dominant win from pole at COTA, Marquez charged through from fifth to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda rider Marc Marquez dominated the MotoGP race at Jerez, as team-mate Dani Pedrosa and the Ducati works duo of Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo came together in a huge crash. With Marquez breaking away out front, Dovizioso and Lorenzo were battling
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas says the heartbreak of losing a near-certain first win of the 2018 Formula 1 season in Baku has only served to make him stronger. The Finn was leading in Baku with only three laps to go when he suffered a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez topped Sunday’s MotoGP warm-up at Jerez but both he and factory Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa crashed. The Spaniard moved into the lead when he set a time of 1m38.864s early in the session, and did not give up the position
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former MotoGP podium finisher Stefan Bradl will make his premier-class return in August’s Czech Republic Grand Prix, as a Repsol Honda wildcard entrant. Bradl, 28, has no regular racing programme this year, instead serving as a Honda MotoGP test rider, but is
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes believes working out how to give multiple drivers Formula 1 seats next season is a “good problem to have”, according to its motorsport boss Toto Wolff. Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas both need new deals beyond the end of this season
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 should make its technical terms easier for fans to understand so it does not risk boring them with complicated vocabulary, according to this week’s Motorsport Show panel. F1 has not been immune to the electrification of the automotive industry, with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia’s Scott Redding feels he was risking his life “for nothing” and was “wasting” his time during MotoGP’s qualifying at Jerez, after problems with traction relegated him to last place. Redding was 10th fastest in Friday’s first practice session, but dramatically slid
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow says he expects to be “rewarded” by Honda for his current form and hard work in his test role for the Japanese manufacturer. Crutchlow has featured regularly among the frontrunners in the 2018 season so far, winning in Argentina and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dale Coyne Racing hopes to have a 2018 Indianapolis 500 replacement for the injured Pietro Fittipaldi in place by the end of next week. Fittipaldi suffered a high-speed crash in qualifying for the World Endurance Championship season opener at Spa Francorchamps on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Guenther Steiner says Haas will probably have to change its R&D strategy to deal with the new-for-2019 front and rear wing Formula 1 rules that were passed last week. Haas is understood to be one of several teams that voted against the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A budget cap will not work in Formula 1, according to British Touring Car Championship supremo Alan Gow. In the latest episode of Motorsport.tv’s Motorsport Show, which looks back at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Gow suggests that technical regulations are the best
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Moto2 frontrunner Miguel Oliveira will step up to MotoGP with the Tech3 team in 2019, for what will be the French outfit’s first season running KTM bikes. Tech 3 will end its long-standing relationship with Yamaha at the end of the year,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 chiefs say the success of the NFL Draft is prompting them to think of ways to spice up grand prix racing’s off-season. With F1’s current calendar running from March to November, the series has suffered from a big fall interest
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The factory Yamaha MotoGP team has admitted it was not as competitive as it expected in Friday practice ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez. Jerez has traditionally been a happy hunting ground for Yamaha, but the works team endured a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The first images of the planned Miami Formula 1 track layout have been revealed, showing it using an area previously incorporated into IMSA, CART and Formula E circuits. Plans for the event, scheduled to start in October 2019, will be considered at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The prototype 2019 KTM MotoGP bike trialled in Spanish Grand Prix practice was so promising Pol Espargaro “almost couldn’t follow” it on the ’18 version. KTM gave the new bike its debut in a private test at Jerez last month, where Espargaro
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 should review the safety of mirrors on the current cars and consider adopting rear-facing cameras as an alternative, according to the Motorsport Show. In this clip from their review of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix, host Peter Windsor and technical pundit
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kurt Busch says he is not excited about the 2019 NASCAR Cup series schedule because he feels it needs to be “shaken up”. NASCAR announced its 2019 Cup calendar last month and it proved to be identical to ’18, except
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen’s disappointing Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend has cost him the top spot in Autosport readers’ Formula 1 driver ratings. The Haas driver topped the rankings based on average scores from the first three races of 2018, but his score of just
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak’s Rally Argentina-winning pace has left Toyota’s World Rally Championship rivals fearing being ’embarrassed’ by the Yaris, especially with engine upgrades due. Tanak dominated in Argentina last week, winning 10 of the first 12 full-length gravel stages to come from ninth
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A Suzuki satellite MotoGP team is now unlikely to materialise in time for the 2019 season, Autosport has learned, with Marc VDS looking set for a Yamaha deal instead. Earlier this year Suzuki team boss Davide Brivio was “optimistic” of an extra
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin will launch a new GT3 contender based on the World Endurance Championship Vantage GTE in the summer. The new car developed at the Prodrive-run Aston Martin Racing organisation will share the majority of its components with the second-generation Vantage WEC
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati riders Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso disagree over whether the team’s 2018 MotoGP bike is better than last year’s version. Championship leader Dovizioso has endured two difficult races after winning the season-opener in Qatar, and suggested after the last race at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Bradley Smith believes he could remain in the KTM MotoGP fold by landing one of Tech3 satellite seats for 2019. It was confirmed this week that Smith had lost his KTM factory seat, with team-mate Pol Espargaro signing a contract extension and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chase Carey insists Formula 1 will not turn its back on Europe, despite its push for new races in places like Miami. Plans for a second race in the United States moved forward this week when it emerged the city of Miami’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes claimed its first win of the 2018 Formula 1 season last weekend in Azerbaijan, where it brought a special rear wing to handle the Baku circuit’s unique demands. Straightline speed is essential on the 2.1km flat-out blast from Turn 16 to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship organisers are mounting a new push to get privateers back in the series’ top class via modified current-specification World Rally Cars. A proposal to replace the 2017-specification cars’ 36mm turbo restrictor with a 34mm version for non-factory entrants was