Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The return of the iconic Safari Rally to the World Rally Championship has taken another step closer, with a 2020 calendar slot the target. FIA president and former WRC co-driver Jean Todt has long pushed for the Kenyan event to return to
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Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The return of the iconic Safari Rally to the World Rally Championship has taken another step closer, with a 2020 calendar slot the target. FIA president and former WRC co-driver Jean Todt has long pushed for the Kenyan event to return to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Le Mans 24 Hours class winners Laurens Vanthoor and Kevin Estre will again team up in a factory Porsche at the new Suzuka Intercontinental GT Challenge round in August. The two Porsche works drivers, who took GTE Pro honours at Le Mans
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull title sponsor Aston Martin says the Formula 1 team’s switch to Honda engines for the 2019 season has caused no concerns about brand confusion. Red Bull’s current Renault engines have been branded TAG Heuer since 2016 to avoid the team
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas have hinted at a further delay for Mercedes’ new Formula 1 engine specification, with no confirmation of its French Grand Prix use yet. Mercedes had planned to introduce the new spec across all six of its cars
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The MotoGP grid is likely to lose two of its 24 bikes next year, Autosport understands. The premier-class is currently populated by 12 two-bike teams, all of which are guaranteed places on the grid by the set of agreements and regulations that
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup series will not use the aero package that debuted in the All-Star race at Charlotte before the 2019 season. NASCAR had said it was pleased with how the aero package performed at Charlotte, producing 38 green flag passes for
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sidelined MotoGP rider Jonas Folger has made his first outing on grand prix machinery since he stopped racing last year in a test with the Kalex Moto2 team. Folger’s rookie season in the premier class in 2017 included a second-place finish in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean will take part in French Grand Prix practice with the Ferrari Formula 1 engine that caused his smoky exit from qualifying in Canada. Grosjean had new Ferrari engine components fitted for the race in Montreal, which activated the final free
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New factory Ducati MotoGP signing Danilo Petrucci says he turned down a 2020 option in his deal with the works outfit. Ducati has called up Pramac rider Petrucci as replacement for the Honda-bound Jorge Lorenzo for next year, but confirmed the Italian
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The fate of the 2019 Dakar Rally appears to be hanging in the balance, with sole host country Peru reportedly threatening to pull out over financial concerns. Last month, Dakar organiser ASO announced a 2019 route taking place entirely inside Peru following
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren has dismissed criticism from Martin Whitmarsh as “ill-judged and ill-informed” after the Formula 1 team’s former boss suggested it needed to axe senior personnel to revive its fortunes. Last weekend Whitmarsh, who worked for McLaren from 1989 to 2014 and rose
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s last visit to Paul Ricard produced an all-time classic giantkilling performance, as Ivan Capelli came within three laps of a shock victory for the tiny Leyton House team. In the end, the race got away from him thanks to fuel
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Gunther Steiner says Haas’s Formula 1 rivals cannot believe how unlucky the team has been so far in 2018. Despite its Ferrari-powered car showing promise, Haas is only eighth in the constructors’ championship after an incident-packed start to the campaign. It has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Bourdais says IndyCar’s 2018 universal aerokit is not to blame for the “over the top difficult” racing on ovals this season. While IndyCar’s race at Phoenix – where racing has often been dull – was entertaining, the Indianapolis 500 did not
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Jorge Lorenzo says he has “nothing to lose” in chasing after MotoGP’s runaway championship leader Marc Marquez, who Lorenzo says will be under “a little bit of pressure”. Lorenzo recovered from an abysmal start to his 2018 season with back-to-back
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mads Ostberg will take Kris Meeke’s vacant seat in the Citroen World Rally Championship line-up for the rest of the 2018 season. Meeke was dropped by Citroen ahead of the last WRC round in Italy following recent crashes. Ostberg is well known
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s decision to switch to Honda engines in Formula 1 next season is just reward for the Japanese manufacturer’s perseverance on a sometimes tortured path. Honda returned to grand prix racing in 2015 with McLaren, a disappointing reunion that promised so
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says that the decision to switch from Renault to Honda power for the 2019 Formula 1 season was a “pretty clear cut” technical choice. Its sister team Toro Rosso moved to Honda engines this year, allowing
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales tried to emulate Tech3 privateer Johann Zarco’s seating position in the Barcelona MotoGP test, but said it only made the 2018 bike more difficult. Zarco has used a 2016-specification YZR-M1 to great effect since his debut in the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The dissolution of the Red Bull-Renault Formula 1 partnership risks leaving an ultra-successful grand prix racing combination with a corrupted legacy. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner could be referring to any number of achievements when, in his team’s announcement of its
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz Sr is in talks with both the Toyota and X-raid Mini teams about a 2019 Dakar deal following Peugeot’s withdrawal from cross-country rallying. Sainz, 56, secured his second Dakar triumph in January in Peugeot’s swansong outing in the event, beating
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says the solutions trialled in the Barcelona MotoGP test to fix Yamaha’s long-standing acceleration problems did not work, leaving him with “the same bike” for two more months. While Rossi is on a run of three consecutive podium finishes, he
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull has decided to switch to Honda Formula 1 engines next year, high level sources have revealed, with confirmation of the move likely ahead of this weekend’s French Grand Prix. Although the Milton Keynes-based team had been expected to wait until
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez topped the post-Catalan Grand Prix test day at Barcelona. Marquez overhauled Suzuki’s Andrea Iannone with four minutes left on the clock in the eight-hour session, posting a 1m38.916s – a lap time that would have been good
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe is adamant his Formula 1 team has not given up on improving its 2018 car despite already commencing early work on the ’19 package. The team’s terrible season continued with a difficult Canadian Grand Prix in which
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow says he expects “horseshit” claims that Honda is backing him over its MotoGP factory rider Dani Pedrosa, now that the Spaniard is officially on his way out. Pedrosa will be replaced by three-time champion Jorge Lorenzo in 2019, and his
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s 2019 aerodynamic regulation change comes at a “perfect moment” for Sauber, says team principal Frederic Vasseur. Sauber is currently rebuilding its engineering team under new technical director Simone Resta. Long-time Ferrari man Resta left his role as head of vehicle
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso’s three crashes in the past four MotoGP races are “not normal” for the reliable Ducati rider, according to championship leader Marc Marquez. Dovizioso crashed out while chasing after Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo in last weekend’s Catalan Grand Prix, and is
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales says his Barcelona MotoGP race was “in the trash” after one lap, as the Yamaha rider’s start woes continue. Despite Vinales vowing to try a new formation lap procedure that involved putting more temperature into his tyres for Sunday’s race,
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