Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan’s Sebastien Bourdais topped the timesheets on Friday ahead of IndyCar’s race at Portland. Bourdais, who was the last Indycar driver to win at Portland back in 2007, set a best time of 57.398 seconds to hold off Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon by just 0.0246s in the opening practice session.
Month: August 2018
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari has stepped back from open threats to quit Formula 1, with its new CEO Louis Camilleri confident a deal to extend the team’s commitment beyond 2020 can be reached. Camilleri has taken over at Ferrari from Sergio Marchionne, who died last
Carlos Sainz Jr hopes Formula 1 eventually drops its “dangerous” DRS after it caused Marcus Ericsson to suffer an Italian Grand Prix practice crash his rivals called “crazy” and “scary”. The DRS flap on Ericsson’s Sauber did not reattach under braking for the first chicane at Monza in FP2, which meant he lost control of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tito Rabat has been transferred from hospital in the UK to Barcelona, where it will be decided if he requires further surgery after his horror Silverstone MotoGP crash last weekend. Avintia Ducati rider Rabat suffered a triple fracture to his right leg
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports IndyCar driver Robert Wickens has been transferred to a hospital in Indianapolis, with further surgeries expected as he continues his recovery. Wickens is now set to undergo an operation on his “lower extremities” after breaking his right arm, both
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari considers the issue of the legality of its 2018 Formula 1 car to be “completely closed” following the checks conducted by the FIA earlier this season. During the Monaco Grand Prix weekend in May, the FIA said it had completed a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota World Rally Championship driver Ott Tanak says he is still not fully comfortable with his Yaris despite taking convincing wins on the two most-recent rallies. Back-to-back wins in Finland and Germany have brought the Estonian back into contention for the 2018
Double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso will sample a 2018-spec Indycar for the first time next week in a private test, McLaren has confirmed. As revealed by Autosport, McLaren and IndyCar are currently working together on a plan for the F1 team to join the American series next year with Alonso. Following Alonso’s announcement
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Matt Kenseth says he never had “grand illusions” about winning races in the 2018 NASCAR Cup series and is unsure if he can secure any top 10 finishes this year. Kenseth returned from a NASCAR hiatus to rejoin Roush Fenway Racing in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar Championship leader Scott Dixon topped the timesheets as IndyCar began its return to Portland, coming out on top ahead of Penske drivers Will Power and Josef Newgarden. After five hours of testing, Dixon’s fastest time was 58.3593 seconds, meaning he completed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean will both use the Haas Formula 1 team’s updated floor at the Italian Grand Prix after initial tests in Belgium proved inconclusive. The revised design ran on both cars during Friday practice at Spa, but Haas struggled
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso has received a replacement Formula 1 chassis following his Spa crash, meaning McLaren has been left without spares for some of its latest specification parts at Monza. It is yet to be determined if Alonso’s Renault engine survived the first-lap
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow admits he is pessimistic about the future of British talent in MotoGP, and can picture a grid devoid of riders from the UK after he stops racing. LCR Honda rider Crutchlow recently secured a one-year extension to his factory contract
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas Formula 1 boss Gunther Steiner has stressed that Ferrari does not dictate the team’s driver choice, as it finalises its 2019 line-up. Steiner emphasised that the team was even free to take a driver like Esteban Ocon – who is tied
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Felix Rosenqvist says his Formula E future is “complicated” amid speculation he could join the Chip Ganassi Racing IndyCar squad for 2019. The Mahindra Formula E driver put himself on Ganassi’s shortlist after impressing the IndyCar team during a series of successful
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Juncos Racing expects to expand to become a two-car team in IndyCar next season, although it expects to again have a rotating cast of drivers to help financially. The team last ran two cars in the 2017 Indianapolis 500 after a strong
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel had a small crash during the F1 Live event in Milan, which took place ahead of this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix. Both Vettel and his Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen drove an SF71H car as part of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz Sr will enter the 2019 Dakar to defend his title after signing with the X-raid Mini squad alongside Stephane Peterhansel and Cyril Despres, Autosport has learned. Sainz made clear it after winning his second Dakar last January that if he
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The halo passed its first test in Formula 1 last weekend when Charles Leclerc was hit by the McLaren of Fernando Alonso at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix. Alonso was launched over the top of Leclerc’s Sauber after he was
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin will remain committed to GT racing even if it enters either the new hypercar concept class in the World Endurance Championship or the DTM. David King, president of Aston Martin Racing, is insistent that the British marque will “always race
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Munoz is due to make his first non-oval IndyCar start of 2018 at Portland this weekend in place of the injured Robert Wickens at Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Autosport understands. Munoz, who lost his full-time ride with AJ Foyt Racing at the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dorna boss Carmelo Ezpeleta has suggested Silverstone must be prepared to resurface its track again to safeguard its MotoGP agreement. The cancellation of last weekend’s race was blamed on the track’s new surface by MotoGP race direction, as it failed to drain
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault Sport Formula 1 boss Cyril Abiteboul says Esteban Ocon’s ties to Mercedes worked against him when the team made its final call on drivers for 2019. Ocon had been expected to be named as Nico Hulkenberg’s team-mate, but that plan was
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Volkswagen Motorsport has defended the strength of its Polo R5 following the release of shocking pictures of the car at a recent test. The pictures of the R5, circulating on social media, shows the complete rear axle of the Polo having broken
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault believes its upgraded Formula 1 engine should be worth 0.3 seconds around Monza, but it still does not plan to use the new specification at this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix. As first reported by Autosport, the French manufacturer has reliability fears
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 teams have approved a plan to introduce rear wing rain lights in 2019 to help the cars stand out more clearly in low visibility conditions, Autosport has learned. At the post-Spanish Grand Prix test earlier this year, Lewis Hamilton trialled
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The “spontaneous” nature of the riders’ meeting in which it was ultimately decided to abandon last weekend’s MotoGP race at Silverstone has been criticised by Ducati. A combination of persistent rain on Sunday and Silverstone’s new track surface failing to properly drain
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Rossi says his “astronomical” fuel-saving three-stop strategy at Gateway was frustrating, but is the sort of aggressive tactic he will need to win the 2018 IndyCar title. Rossi was the only driver to complete a three-stop strategy in last Saturday night’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari has already run at Monza this year after using a filming day that gave Charles Leclerc his first on-track experience of its 2018 Formula 1 car. It has emerged in the build-up to this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix that Ferrari completed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Silverstone has launched an independent track investigation and defended its new surface following the cancellation of the MotoGP races last weekend. After several delays and timetable changes caused by heavy rain, the MotoGP race was cancelled at 4pm on Sunday. Several key
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