Ryan Blaney snatched victory in the Charlotte ‘roval’ NASCAR Cup Series race after leaders Martin Truex Jr and Jimmie Johnson collided at the final corner. Blaney had been running third while Truex and Johnson battled for position in a three-lap dash to the finish line after a late red flag. Truex held the lead and
Month: September 2018
The race-winning Black Falcon Mercedes has been disqualified from the Barcelona Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup finale. The #4 Mercedes-AMG GT3 in which Maro Engel, Luca Stolz and Yelmer Buurman claimed the BGTS Endurance Cup title has been exclude from the results for a breach of the sporting regulations. Black tape was found on the
Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Black Falcon Mercedes drivers Maro Engel, Yelmer Buurman and Luca Stolz claimed the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup title with a narrow victory in the Barcelona finale. Buurman crossed the line less than two seconds up on the Auto Sport Promotion Mercedes-AMG GT3
Toto Wolff took responsibility for Mercedes pitting Lewis Hamilton later than planned in the Russian GP, exposing him to Sebastian Vettel, as he had distracted chief strategist James Vowles. Valtteri Bottas had led the race and pitted on lap 12 of 53, but Mercedes did not bring Hamilton in on the following lap. But Ferrari
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault driver Carlos Sainz blamed Williams driver Sergey Sirotkin for the clash that ended his hopes of a good result in Formula 1’s Russian Grand Prix. Sainz and Sirotkin made contact on the opening lap of the Sochi race when the Russian
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda’s latest Formula 1 upgrade has moved it ahead of Renault in the engine pecking order, according to Toro Rosso team boss Franz Tost. The Japanese manufacturer introduced its second upgrade of the season in Russia on Friday, and although it has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Stephane Ratel Organisation will link its three continental sprint series into an 18-round global championship in 2019 under the Blancpain GT World Challenge banner. The series will be made up of the rounds of what are currently called the Blancpain GT
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup Series race at Sonoma in 2019 will be run on the circuit’s full 2.52-mile layout to celebrate the track’s 50th anniversary. NASCAR will now forgo ‘The Chute’ that bypasses Turns 4 to Turn 7 on the full circuit and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso believes the Russian Grand Prix’s Formula 2 support race was “the most fun part of the day” for fans after Formula 1 qualifying featured “nonsense” and “boring” segments. Alonso went into qualifying with a grid penalty because of engine component
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen has been punished for a yellow flag infringement during Russian Grand Prix Formula 1 qualifying, increasing his grid penalty for the weekend. The Red Bull driver was already last on the provisional starting grid for the Sochi race, having taken
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen claims Renault would “already be world champions” if Formula 1 boss Cyril Abiteboul was not “moaning about me all the time”. The Red Bull driver’s comments, made on Dutch television, continue a war of words with the Renault chief in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Richard Childress Racing has named Daniel Hemric to take over its No. 31 Chevrolet NASCAR Cup entry from the departing Ryan Newman next season. Hemric, who currently competes in the Xfinity Series for RCR and is a playoff contender, will step up
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Brendon Hartley says “everyone is quite excited about the step” Honda has made with its latest engine upgrade at the Russian Grand Prix. Honda has introduced an upgrade for the race at Sochi and while it has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing has signed Felix Rosenqvist for the 2019 IndyCar season, partnering him with reigning champion Scott Dixon. Rosenqvist’s Formula E future has been uncertain during the electric championship’s summer off-season and he was linked with a move to IndyCar with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen has revealed his new deal with the Haas Formula 1 team runs through to the end of the 2020 season. The 25-year-old Dane, who joined Haas from Renault before the start of the 2017 campaign, has been the outfit’s top
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar will hold its 2019 pre-season test at Austin next February, ahead of the venue’s first round on the series’ schedule the following month. The Formula 1 circuit, which will join the IndyCar schedule next year, will host the series’ two-day open
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The JTG Daugherty NASCAR Cup team has announced Ryan Preece as race-winner AJ Allmendinger’s replacement for the 2019 season. Preece was the 2013 champion in NASCAR’s Whelen Modified series, and has continued racing Late Models alongside a part-time Xfinity campaign with Joe
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danilo Petrucci says remarks made by Jorge Lorenzo in the Italian media concerning his promotion to a factory Ducati MotoGP seat in 2019 are upsetting. Petrucci will step up from his satellite Pramac Ducati ride to race for the factory team next
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport World Rally team managing director Malcolm Wilson says he will not be rushed into any decisions regarding his team’s WRC future following Sebastien Ogier’s departure for Citroen. The five-time world champion has spearheaded M-Sport’s assault on the WRC for the last
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen has announced Sebastien Ogier will return to the team to drive a C3 WRC in the 2019 World Rally Championship. The reigning WRC champion will depart M-Sport Ford following Rally Australia in November and begin testing with Citroen soon after. M-Sport
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Porsche has revived the type number and styling of its 935 silhouette racer of the 1970s with a new 911-based car aimed at club racing and track days. The born-again Porsche 935 mimics the look of the final factory iteration of the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Haas Formula 1 team has finally settled the “strange” insurance claim it pursued following Romain Grosjean’s bizarre crash in practice for last year’s Malaysian Grand Prix. Grosjean struck a dislodged drain cover at 170mph, which sent him spinning into the barriers
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Jorge Lorenzo will attempt to race in the Thailand MotoGP round, but only if he does not feel too much pain during practice. The Spaniard dislocated a toe and fractured the second metatarsal on his right foot in a heavy
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of NASCAR Truck regular and occasional Xfinity driver Jordan Anderson. A statement released on Thursday by the Rowan County Sheriff’s Office in North Carolina said a warrant had been issued for Anderson for possession
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India’s administrator FRP Advisory LLP has hit out at the Russian company Uralkali for taking legal action over its sale of the Formula 1 team. Uralkali is suing the administrator because it believes that the winning bid from the consortium led
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen says Red Bull had to use an older Renault Formula 1 engine for the Russian Grand Prix, because the spec C powerunit cannot run in upcoming high-altitude races. Red Bull has elected to move both Verstappen and team-mate Daniel Ricciardo
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Juan Pablo Montoya believes a full season in IndyCar is Fernando Alonso’s best chance of winning the Indianapolis 500 and completing his ‘triple crown’ bid. McLaren’s IndyCar ambitions remain “fluid”, with Autosport understanding that a decision is now more
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin’s new Vantage GT3 will make its official race debut in the VLN Endurance Series at the Nurburgring Nordschleife next weekend. The V8-powered car, which is derived from the manufacturer’s World Endurance Championship GTE model, replaces the V12 Vantage that has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The revised route for Britain’s 2018 World Rally Championship round Rally GB will “catch a few out”, reckons its co-ordinator. This year’s itinerary spends two days in north Wales, with the mid-Wales stages that have usually been spread across Friday and Saturday
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Bentley factory driver Andy Meyrick is ready to begin his comeback from the injuries sustained in the Spa 24 Hours in July that hospitalised him for five days. Meyrick, who raced for the M-Sport Bentley squad in 2013-15, has recovered from
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