Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new front wing concept Renault introduced at Formula 1’s German Grand Prix was subject to further alterations in Hungary, as the team continues to develop its 2018 car. The wing, which only Nico Hulkenberg raced in Germany, features a multi-element endplate
Month: August 2018
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Force India Formula 1 reserve driver Alfonso Celis Jr will make his second IndyCar outing of the season at Portland later this month. The Mexican, who made his debut in the series at Road America in June, will rejoin Juncos Racing
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. There could be as many as five or six new GT2 supercars ready to race by the second half of next year, according to class instigator Stephane Ratel. Ratel, who announced plans for the new class that is aimed at amateur drivers
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Pedrosa set the pace in the second MotoGP practice session at Brno, as a mixed up order left a handful of frontrunners in danger of missing the cut-off for Q2. Pedrosa’s Honda team-mate Marc Marquez was fastest early on, narrowly eclipsing
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams Formula 1 young driver Oliver Rowland will return to the factory-backed Strakka Mercedes team for the Suzuka round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge later this month. The 25-year-old will drive one of two pro class Mercedes-AMG GT3s entered by the German
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Bentley factory driver Andy Meyrick is returning home to recover from the injuries he sustained in last weekend’s Spa 24 Hours. The 32-year-old Briton is travelling back to the UK on Friday after spending six days in intensive care in a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sportscar driver Katherine Legge will make her debut in NASCAR’s second tier Xfinity series at Mid-Ohio later this month. Former Champ Car/IndyCar and DTM and racer Legge, who will also contest the road course race at Road America on August 25, will
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel has promised Ferrari has “a lot of potential to unleash” when the Formula 1 season resumes after the summer break. The four-time world champion trails Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton by 24 points after last weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix, while Ferrari has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda has undergone lung transplant surgery in Austria on Thursday. The 69-year-old is a non-executive chairman of the Mercedes Formula 1 team, and owns a percentage of the team. He was reportedly taken ill while on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leading MotoGP riders believe the championship should have a longer summer break than this year’s three-week hiatus. The MotoGP season has traditionally featured a break of at least four weeks between the Sachsenring race in July and the Brno race in August,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tensions between Ducati factory riders Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso have flared up once more ahead of MotoGP’s return from its season’s summer break. Lorenzo, who joined the team last year and will leave for Honda in 2019, had accused team-mate Dovizioso
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A top three finish at Pocono in the NASCAR Cup series proves that Hendrick Motorsports is recovering from the slump it has endured in 2018, says driver Alex Bowman. Bowman finished third at Pocono after the race was sent into overtime following
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren Formula 1 reserve Lando Norris says making his grand prix debut with a different team is an option for 2019 but delaying his graduation may still be best. Norris said at the start of 2018 he would be happy to have
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar will introduce new guidelines to determine whether a driver is eligible to race in the series in its own version of Formula 1’s superlicence requirements for 2019. It is understood that IndyCar’s resurgence – attracting four additional teams for the current
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM test rider Mika Kallio will miss his next planned MotoGP wildcard appearance in Austria after undergoing surgery on his knee. Kallio was taken to hospital after a heavy crash during practice for the last month’s German Grand Prix, and was diagnosed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes’ priority is to improve in Formula 1 qualifying because of the gains Ferrari has made in recent races. Hamilton is equal with Sebastian Vettel on five poles from 12 races, with Valtteri Bottas’s Austria pole giving Mercedes a
Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. A British energy drink company that was rejected by Force India earlier this year still claims it can buy the Formula 1 team that was placed in administration last week. The company, Rich Energy, has claimed to be negotiating with Force India throughout
Mercedes Formula 1 junior George Russell ended the post-Hungarian Grand Prix test with the fastest time and a new unofficial circuit lap record. Russell’s first day at the Hungaroring was compromised by a gearbox problem but he hit back with a 103-lap Wednesday and beat Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen to top spot. Raikkonen led the way
Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr believes NASCAR Cup media and fans need a “reality check” about his struggles in 2018 because finishing second in the Daytona 500 skewed perceptions of him. Wallace managed to avoid a series of multi-car collisions to finish runner-up in his first race as a full-time Cup driver after Austin Dillon and
Citroen has opened talks with five-time World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier as it attempts to sign the Frenchman for 2019. The manufacturer wants to bring Ogier back into its fold seven years after it let him go following an acrimonious season alongside Sebastien Loeb. Ogier’s current agreement with the M-Sport Ford team comes to an
A Fiesta rally car has completed a zip wire stunt to showcase a new stage on this year’s World Rally Championship Rally GB route in collaboration with event backer Dayinsure. The ‘#Skydriver’ video stunt features a rally car at Zip World in Llechwedd Slate Caverns, the home for the Slate Mountain stage in that will
Hyundai’s World Rally Championship points leader Thierry Neuville says he would “love” to have had the support rival Sebastien Ogier received from his team-mates on last weekend’s Rally Finland. The M-Sport Ford team shuffled first Elfyn Evans then Teemu Suninen to move Ogier up the order to fifth, four places ahead of Neuville, who lost
Mazda will end its support of the Road to Indy programme at the end of 2018 after nine years, affecting the Indy Lights, Pro Mazda and USF2000 IndyCar feeder categories. Launched in 2011, the programme provided scholarships for the champion of each category, with recent Indy Lights champions such as Spencer Pigot, Ed Jones and
Daniel Ricciardo has set a new deadline for confirming his contract extension with the Red Bull Formula 1 team after initially expecting to sign before the summer break. Ricciardo had said he hoped to have his future sorted before the four-week break, while Red Bull intimated a deal was close back at the end of
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