Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari has become the eighth manufacturer to sign up for the Suzuka 10 Hours round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge in August with a factory-supported entry. The Taiwanese HubAuto team has entered a second Ferrari 488 GT3 for works drivers Davide Rigon
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Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes has postponed the introduction of its new Formula 1 engine, after a last minute quality issue emerged on the eve of the Canadian Grand Prix.
Mercedes had intended for its works team and customer outfits Force India and Williams to run
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lando Norris insists an approach from Toro Rosso to join its Formula 1 line-up will not distract him from his Formula 2 efforts or his role as McLaren’s reserve driver. It emerged on Wednesday that McLaren, which looks after Norris’s career, rejected
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Recently axed Marc VDS MotoGP team boss Michael Bartholemy has been “entirely vindicated” of any wrongdoing by the Belgian squad’s owner Marc van der Straten. A statement issued by Marc VDS drew a line under the feud that had developed between Bartholemy
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen will miss the axed Kris Meeke’s experience when it comes to set-up and development of its C3 World Rally car, according to Craig Breen. Breen will be joined on Rally Italy by Mads Ostberg, and Citroen is considering keeping the duo
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The race weekend schedule and first official test venue for the inaugural MotoE World Cup that will support MotoGP next season have been confirmed. In a meeting held by MotoE teams at Mugello, it was agreed that races will take place on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso has described MotoGP points leader Marc Marquez’s crash in the Italian Grand Prix as being “like gold” for his own title ambitions. Successive non-finishes at Jerez and Le Mans had left Ducati rider Dovizioso trailing Marquez by 49 points
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda has revealed its Formula 1 engine upgrade for the Canadian Grand Prix is centred around improvements to its internal combustion engine. The Japanese manufacturer has been expected to give partner Toro Rosso an update for the power-sensitive race, which Autosport reported
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati has announced that Danilo Petrucci will step up to its factory MotoGP team in 2019 as the replacement for Honda-bound Jorge Lorenzo. Petrucci has raced for the satellite Pramac team since the 2015 season and he has campaigned a works-spec Ducati
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Le Mans-winning race engineer Leena Gade is in talks about potentially joining the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing IndyCar team after her abrupt exit from Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Autosport has learned. Gade left SPM shortly after James Hinchcliffe failed to qualify for the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 has completed its line-up for its first MotoGP season with KTM bikes in 2019 by re-signing Malaysian rookie Hafizh Syahrin. The French outfit will end a long-standing partnership with Yamaha in favour of a deal to run factory-specification KTM RC16 bikes
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda has announced Jorge Lorenzo will join Marc Marquez on a two-year deal in its factory MotoGP line-up. As previously reported by Autosport, Honda has settled on three-time champion Lorenzo as its replacement for Dani Pedrosa, who will leave the team after
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati has picked Danilo Petrucci as Honda-bound Jorge Lorenzo’s replacement at its factory MotoGP squad for the 2019 season, Autosport has learned. It emerged earlier on Tuesday that Honda will drop Dani Pedrosa at the end of 2018 after 13 seasons, with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andreas Mikkelsen admits that he has had a “nightmare” start to his first full World Rally Championship season with Hyundai, but believes he can put it behind him in Italy. Mikkelsen has struggled to find confidence and grip from his Hyundai i20
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR could place further limits on Cup drivers competing in the feeder Xfinity and Trucks series in order to find the “right balance” between promoting young talent and encouraging veterans. Cup drivers have won seven of the 12 Xfinity races so far
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Rossi is “kicking himself” over the mistake that cost him the lead of the second Detroit race, admitting he should have considered the bigger picture of IndyCar’s title race. Andretti driver Rossi started the double-header weekend just two points behind series
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Jorge Lorenzo has reached an agreement to join fellow MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez at Honda next year, Autosport can reveal. The Japanese manufacturer is poised to announce a two-year-deal with Lorenzo shortly, having confirmed earlier on Tuesday that it
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams will run its respective Formula 1 reserve and young drivers Robert Kubica and Oliver Rowland at the two-day in-season test at the Hungaroring. Kubica was in contention for a Williams 2018 race seat during the off-season but was eventually given a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Four-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez drove a Formula 1 car for the first time at the Red Bull Ring on Tuesday. The Honda factory rider completed 43 laps behind the wheel of a 2012 Red Bull in Toro Rosso colours at a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda has begun talks with three-time MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo as a potential replacement for the outgoing Dani Pedrosa for 2019, Autosport has learned. The team announced on Tuesday that it would part ways with Pedrosa, who has raced for the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Honda MotoGP team has confirmed it will part ways with Dani Pedrosa at the end of the 2018 season. The news, which was reported by Autosport earlier on Tuesday, has now officially been communicated and means Honda will now focus on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 Yamaha rider Johann Zarco has put his struggles in MotoGP’s Italian Grand Prix down to a lack of rear grip and the resulting poor feeling this gave. Despite crashing out of his home race at Le Mans last month, Zarco came
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 teams face having to split development programmes because rule tweaks, including those to help overtaking, for 2019 will have such a large impact on designs. Following a lack of overtaking at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, F1 chiefs and the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s Adrian Newey has revealed Daniel Ricciardo will have to take grid penalties at Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix after the Australian suffered an MGU-K failure in Monaco. Ricciardo won last month’s Monaco Grand Prix despite the problem, but while some
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ed Carpenter Racing’s Spencer Pigot says IndyCar debutant and Haas Formula 1 junior Santino Ferrucci caused a “silly” crash at Detroit that did not show respect for full-time drivers. Ferrucci drove the #19 Dale Coyne Racing-run car in Detroit after Pietro Fittipaldi’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales has urged Yamaha to live up to its promise of providing him a winning MotoGP bike after his low-key run to eighth in Sunday’s Italian Grand Prix. Vinales, who has now gone more than a year since his last victory,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen plans to speak to five-time World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier about a potential deal to return to the manufacturer for the first time in seven years. Ogier was a Citroen protege but left at the end of 2011 as tensions between
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brendon Hartley says he needs to remind himself why he enjoys racing in Formula 1 sometimes, but believes the experience is similar to being in LMP1 with Porsche. Hartley won the Le Mans 24 Hours and two World Endurance Championship drivers’ titles
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pramac Ducati rider Danilo Petrucci believes Honda rival Marc Marquez should have been penalised for their run-in on the opening lap of the Mugello MotoGP race. After making a lightning start but running wide at the first corner, Marquez lunged aggressively down
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch says he was baffled by his pace after a “frustrating” strategy call that cost him a potential NASCAR Cup series win at Pocono. Busch was leading with 31 laps remaining, ahead of championship rivals Martin Truex Jr