Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The pole-winning factory WRT Audi has lost pole position for this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours for a technical infringement. The two laps good enough for pole set by Dries Vanthoor in the top-20 ‘superpole’ session yesterday evening have been wiped out because
Month: July 2018
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak took charge of Rally Finland with a clean sweep of Saturday morning stage wins for the Toyota World Rally team. On Friday Tanak had amazed rivals by emerging with a 5.4-second lead over Mads Ostberg’s Citroen despite his third place
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The joint administrators of the Force India Formula 1 team say they are working on “an urgent basis” to secure its future and the best outcome for creditors. The team went into administration on Friday evening, but can continue to operate normally
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ryan Hunter-Reay set the pace in IndyCar Friday practice at Mid-Ohio in his Andretti Autosport Dallara-Honda. Hunter-Reay’s 1m05.1950s in the afternoon session on the ‘red’ soft-compound tyres was only one second off Will Power’s 2017 pole time with the high-downforce manufacturer aerokits.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A new category for high-powered supercars that revives the GT2 name has been announced by the Stephane Ratel Organisation. The idea is for the new breed of car to become the basis of the amateur classes as a complement to GT3 in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer says fresh investment in the Formula 1 team is “imminent” amid financial difficulties that have included facing a winding-up petition. The podium-finishing team has battled financial difficulties for some time but this season it faced
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota World Rally Championship driver Ott Tanak edged his lead over Mads Ostberg up to 5.8 seconds by the end of the first full day of Rally Finland. Tanak and Citroen’s Ostberg spent Friday embroiled in a huge battle for first position,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Local driver Dries Vanthoor took pole position for this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours Blancpain GT round for the WRT Audi team. The 20-year-old Belgian topped the ‘superpole’ session for the fastest 20 cars from Thursday’s aggregate qualifying in the factory Audi R8
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko is adamant the McLaren Formula 1 team will not be able to employ Toro Rosso technical director James Key until his contract runs out. McLaren announced on Thursday that Key would become its new technical chief,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 venue Kyalami will join the Intercontinental GT Challenge in 2019 with the revival of the South African track’s historic nine-hour sportscar fixture. The event will put Africa on the IGTC calendar for the first time, joining the Spa 24 Hours,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai will enter its factory World Rally Championship driver Dani Sordo on the Czech round of the European Rally Championship in Zlin next month. Sordo’s outing is designed to showcase Hyundai’s new R5-spec i20 in the ERC, where Skoda and Ford remain
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Six-time Formula 1 grand prix winner Riccardo Patrese was motivated to make a comeback in this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours to “put some adrenalin back” in his life. The 64-year-old Italian explained that his appearance in the blue riband Blancpain GT Series
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Ott Tanak holds a narrow Rally Finland lead over the resurgent Citroen of Mads Ostberg, while World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville is only 10th after making a mistake. Before the weekend, Neuville had insisted that his focus was on protecting
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Michelin has outlined two key factors in Formula 1’s new tyre tender that may deter it from applying to make a return to grand prix racing. The French company is evaluating the FIA’s recently published offer for tyre manufacturers to become F1’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP and Silverstone have just signed a contract which will keep the British Grand Prix at Silverstone for the next three years. This year’s race is being held over the August Bank Holiday weekend, and if you needed a better reason than
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two hours of early preview gameplay demonstrated that F1 2018 has taken the finest elements of its predecessor and overhauled the multiplayer experience to become the best Formula 1 game yet. Most gamers won’t even notice swathes of the changes Codemasters has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Ott Tanak holds a slender Rally Finland lead after setting the quickest time on the opening superspecial stage on the streets of Jyvaskyla. The Estonian won the Harju test by just 0.7 seconds, continuing his strong vein of form after winning
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren has changed Stoffel Vandoorne’s chassis ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix, but the team is yet to figure out the problem that wrecked his two previous Formula 1 weekends. Vandoorne struggled badly in the Silverstone and Hockenheim events, lapping substantially slower
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport has agreed for World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier to switch to the same dampers he used at Volkswagen for his Ford on this week’s Rally Finland. In addition to the significant aerodynamic revisions at the rear of his car, Ogier will
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville’s hopes of a maiden Rally Finland victory have been put on ice this week as the World Rally Championship leader focuses his efforts on extending his points lead. Neuville starts the event 27 points clear of nearest rival Sebastien Ogier
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow believes his LCR Honda MotoGP team-mate Takaaki Nakagami is doing a better job than he did in his own rookie season. Nakagami graduated from Moto2 this year and enjoyed a strong start to the season with four consecutive points finishes.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Citroen World Rally team believes it can take the pace it showed in a surprise one-two result on the Rally Finland shakedown into the event. Mads Ostberg topped the timesheets for Thursday morning’s 2.64-mile Versala stage, more than a second clear
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Richard Childress Racing wanted the Chevrolet NASCAR Cup Series teams to form an alliance early in the season to get on top of the 2018 Camaro during its struggles. RCR is the only team to have won a race with the new
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso technical director James Key is set to move to the McLaren Formula 1 team in the same role. Although there has been no confirmation from McLaren, Autosport understands that the deal has been done. It is not yet clear when
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr is likely to remain at Richard Petty Motorsports for the 2019 NASCAR Cup series, with the two parties in discussion over a contract extension. Wallace secured the full-time seat with RPM for 2018 after a four-race cameo as
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Formula 1 title battle turnaround in the German Grand Prix could make Lewis Hamilton “unbeatable” just as last year’s Singapore events did, reckons 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve. Last weekend’s race looked set to substantially bolster Sebastian Vettel’s world championship advantage,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas Formula 1 boss Gunther Steiner says his team “got away” with a conservative strategy in last weekend’s German Grand Prix, as his drivers both made three pitstops. Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean looked on course to finish sixth and eighth respectively
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier expects Toyota to set the Rally Finland pace again this season, and will focus on his title battle with Thierry Neuville. Toyota dominated last year’s Finnish WRC round, with Esapekka Lappi taking victory, and M-Sport Ford driver
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso says his main concern now is not MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez but just getting back on terms with the resurgent Yamahas of Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales. Last year Dovizioso was Marquez’s main title rival and brought Ducati back
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aric Almirola believes he must win a race in the NASCAR Cup series this season to prove that Stewart-Haas Racing made the right decision to sign him for 2018. Almirola lost the chance to fight for victory in his best performance of
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