Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pierre Gasly has lost the point he scored in the British Grand Prix after receiving a post-race penalty for a collision with Sergio Perez. Gasly beat Perez to 10th, securing his third points finish of the season, but only after late-race contact
Month: July 2018
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel passed Valtteri Bottas late on to win a thrilling British Grand Prix in which Lewis Hamilton charged back to second after being spun around on the opening lap. Mercedes used a safety car to get Bottas ahead of early race
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Erik Jones scored his maiden NASCAR Cup series victory in a chaotic Daytona race, in which more than half the field was eliminated in various accidents. Joe Gibbs Racing driver Jones narrowly edged out his former team-mate and reigning champion Martin Truex
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power took pole position for this weekend’s IndyCar race at Iowa, while Andretti’s Ryan Hunter-Reay managed to prevent a Penske one-two-three on the grid. Josef Newgarden made it a provisional Penske lockout after 19 drivers had set a two-lap average on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The high-speed spins suffered by both Williams Formula 1 drivers in British Grand Prix qualifying were caused by a fresh aerodynamic stall the team does not fully understand. Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin both lost control of their cars in qualifying at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen says it feels like Red Bull is missing 70-80 horsepower in Formula 1 at the moment, which is costing it one second per lap at Silverstone this weekend. Red Bull’s two cars qualified a distant fifth and sixth for the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo said a DRS problem added to his British Grand Prix qualifying frustrations, after he was unable to open his rear wing on his first lap in Q3. Silverstone’s high-speed nature, particularly with the latest generation of F1 cars, has played
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA will address the issue of track limits abuses by Formula 1 drivers at Silverstone’s Club Corner by adding an extra kerb on the outside of the corner overnight. On Friday, a number of F1 drivers were ran wide onto the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says allowing drivers to use DRS through Turn 1 at Silverstone is a “pointless exercise” and creates “an unnecessary kind of danger”. F1 has added an extra DRS zone to several circuits’ layouts in order to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel topped the second Formula 1 free practice session ahead of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, while Max Verstappen crashed his Red Bull early on. Vettel’s team-mate Kimi Raikkonen topped the early stages of the session with a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup champion manufacturer Toyota will stick with its Camry in the top-tier series, despite deciding to enter its Supra model into the feeder Xfinity championship for 2019. Following a Supra preview at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, there
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel fears the use of DRS through the fast opening corners at Silverstone could split the Formula 1 grid more at the British Grand Prix. The FIA has added a third DRS zone that is active from the start-finish straight through
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso has played down his involvement in the management changes at the McLaren Formula 1 team, insisting he was not consulted on what it would do after Eric Boullier’s resignation. The new role for his 2017 Indianapolis 500 advisor Gil de
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has admitted the team’s 2018 Formula 1 car has less downforce than last year’s machine. The team announced a reshuffle of its management on Wednesday, which included the resignation of racing director Eric Boullier – triggered by
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Spencer Gallagher will return to Xfinity series competition at Kentucky later this month having completed NASCAR’s rehabilitation programme for violating its substance abuse policy. Hendrick Motorsports Cup series driver Chase Elliott will continue to drive the #23 GMS Racing Chevrolet Camaro at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Malaysian grand prix motorcycle team SIC Racing has secured a place on the MotoGP grid for 2019, taking Ducati satellite outfit Angel Nieto Team’s place on the entry list. SIC Racing will field a pair of Yamahas in the premier class next
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe believes his team’s “humility and sportsmanship” is why critics are not willing to “tear us apart” for underperforming like they have McLaren. The two British teams are among F1’s most famous and have won 296 grands prix
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alex Rins feels his first MotoGP victory for Suzuki “will come soon” after he finished second in last weekend’s Dutch TT at Assen. Rins has had an up-and-down 2018 season but says he is gaining experience in each race, helped my recent
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Overshadowed by the dramatic NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicago was the debut of a new policy, one that may finally solve a lingering issue with inspections. NASCAR modernised and revised its inspection policy for 2018, using high-tech laser scanners to detect
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari will bring a new floor to the British Grand Prix in response to the major update package that Formula 1 rival Mercedes introduced in Austria. The new floor design is intended to improve the performance of the SF71H in high-speed corners,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jack Miller has clarified speculation that linked him with a Honda MotoGP ride for 2019, admitting he spoke to the factory squad but never received an offer. Miller’s name was floated during MotoGP’s rider market silly season, having first been considered for
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The World Rally Championship is considering implementing Formula 1-style group tests in an attempt to curb rising costs. The majority of the teams are lobbying the FIA to reduce the number of test days available in the WRC, which was raised from
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup series’ first road course playoff race on the Charlotte roval has been shortened by 100 kilometres, Autosport has learned. Charlotte’s October race had been billed as a 500km (310-mile) race, but NASCAR is expected to confirm a new race
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso says Ducati’s current biggest issue in MotoGP is maintaining tyre life, as he was “completely f**ked” at the end of last weekend’s Dutch TT. Tyre preservation was a key reason why Dovizioso came close to taking the title last season,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s Christian Horner thinks it is “unfair” that Mercedes strategist James Vowles felt he must confess to an error in the Austrian Grand Prix to keep Lewis Hamilton calm. Vowles made a rare appearance on Mercedes’s team radio during last weekend’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Pedrosa has announced he has reached a decision regarding his MotoGP future, and will reveal his choice in a press conference at the Sachsenring a week on Thursday. Although Pedrosa has been strongly linked to the new Petronas-backed satellite Yamaha team
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The disastrous turn of events that led to Mercedes converting a front-row lockout into zero points in Formula 1’s Austrian Grand Prix is the focus of the latest edition of The Autosport Podcast. The big question is how Mercedes came to leave
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Japan and Chile are now both set to join the 2019 World Rally Championship calendar, meaning a European event will lose its place. Chile’s chances of joining the calendar were boosted in April after it hosted a candidate event that WRC Promoter
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales believes he could still challenge runaway leader Marc Marquez for the 2018 MotoGP title if Yamaha can provide a “big” update after the summer break. Vinales scored only his second podium of 2018 at Assen last weekend, narrowly missing out
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko says Max Verstappen showed “champion’s quality” during his drive to victory in Formula 1’s Austrian Grand Prix. Marko praised the way Verstappen controlled the Red Bull Ring race from the front and saved his tyres, while