Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cosworth has spoken to several manufacturers regarding a potential IndyCar engine programme. The British engineering firm is currently investing heavily in a new American base after signing a long-term contract with the Fiat-Chrysler group as part of its expansion. “During a tour
Month: December 2018
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Five-time 500cc champion Mick Doohan believes Jorge Lorenzo will have “no excuses” not to beat to Marc Marquez at the factory Honda MotoGP team next season. After two up-and-down seasons at Ducati, three-time MotoGP champion Lorenzo has switched to Honda for the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marcus Ericsson believes he is leaving Formula 1 at the end of his strongest year in grand prix racing. The Swedish driver will switch to IndyCar next season after Sauber opted for an all-new line-up of Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi for
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The key technical differences between Mercedes and Ferrari and how they defined the 2018 Formula 1 title battle are scrutinised in our special analysis of their respective challengers. Mercedes clinched a fifth consecutive F1 title double this year but that success came
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. DragonSpeed has confirmed a part-time 2019 IndyCar programme with the intention of going full-time the following year. The World Endurance Championship LMP1 and LMP2 squad has confirmed its expected deal for its sportscar regular Ben Hanley to pilot the team’s single-car entry.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Racing Point Formula 1 team is set to reveal its new look at the Canadian International AutoShow next February. Racing Point, the successor to the Force India entry that fell into administration last summer, will officially present its new identity and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. By 2020, North America’s two largest stock car racing organisations will combine after NASCAR purchased ARCA earlier this year – a deal with the potential to make lasting changes to NASCAR. For casual observers, this move will do little in the short-term
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes initially did not fully understand the engine upgrade that it introduced for the second half of the 2018 Formula 1 season. The defining moment in the F1 title battle between Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel came following the summer break, when
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport will seek an extension to the FIA’s Friday deadline for entry to the 2019 World Rally Championship as it battles to save its future in the series. WRC manufacturers have to confirm their entries with the governing body by Friday afternoon
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Craft-Bamboo squad that ran factory cars for Porsche in major Asian GT events over the past three seasons is forging a new relationship with Mercedes for 2019. Craft-Bamboo Racing’s deal with Porsche has come to an end and it will now
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Pedrosa has hit out at Honda team boss Alberto Puig for suggesting he lacked the desire to become a MotoGP champion. Puig acted as Pedrosa’s manager until the end of the 2013 season before he moved into an advisory role with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes boss Toto Wolff says it was “shameful” that debris left on the track during the Azerbaijan Grand Prix ended up costing Valtteri Bottas a Formula 1 victory this year. Bottas had been leading in Baku with three laps to go when
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 world champion Jacques Villeneuve will return to racing full-time next year in the NASCAR Euro Series. Villeneuve, the 1997 champion with Williams, made four NASCAR Cup starts – the first two of which came a year after his final outings
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charles Leclerc says he found Formula 1 “intimidating” at first as he adapted to dealing with more people than he had been used to in his junior career. Leclerc did not score a point at any of the opening three rounds of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo expected to have a worse relationship with Max Verstappen as Formula 1 team-mates at Red Bull but thinks they will stay friends even with Ricciardo moving to Renault. Ricciardo and Verstappen spent almost three full seasons together following the young
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda MotoGP boss Alberto Puig says Yamaha rider Valentino Rossi is “having a hard time accepting” that he is no longer the premier class’ benchmark rider. Rossi has established himself as a MotoGP legend by winning seven titles, but has been unable
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Force India Formula 1 team missed out on a full upgrade during the 2018 season because of its budget problems. Financial problems at the squad came to a head in the middle of the year, and it had to go into
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso reckons his LMP1 and IndyCar exploits boosted him as a driver and helped him record a career first by trouncing Formula 1 team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne in qualifying. Alonso beat Vandoorne in every qualifying session in 2018 and was last outqualified
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes is turning to psychologists, well-being practices and medical support for its staff in its bid to remain at the top of Formula 1. Although Mercedes secured a fifth consecutive double of drivers’ and constructors’ championships in 2018, it faced its sternest
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams chief technical officer Paddy Lowe says outgoing head of vehicle performance Rob Smedley leaves the Formula 1 team on the best possible terms. Smedley’s departure was announced early last month, with the 45-year-old stressing he wants to focus on spending time
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano has given Ford’s new 2019 Mustang its first on-track appearance at Charlotte. Ford claimed its first title since 2004 when Logano triumphed in his Penske-run Ford Fusion – the oldest car on the grid by some margin.
The colourful money man behind the Onyx team’s Formula 1 entry in 1989, Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, has died at the age of 73. The Belgian, whose death has been announced by the media in his homeland, backed Onyx with his Moneytron investment company for its graduation to F1 from the Formula 3000 ranks with Stefan
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Monza is considering removing one of its chicanes and reprofiling the second Lesmo corner as part of a proposed €100million revamp to mark the Formula 1 circuit’s centenary in 2022. Ahead of discussions to secure the Italian Grand Prix’s future beyond next
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Monte Carlo Rally preparations were halted briefly when Jari-Matti Latvala crashed the team’s test Yaris World Rally Car on Thursday. The Finn hit an Armco barrier and damaged the car sufficiently to halt the test for the remainder of the day
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai’s decision to sign Sebastien Loeb has left Hayden Paddon “high and dry” for the 2019 season, forcing the Kiwi out of the World Rally Championship. The 2016 Rally Argentina winner had set his sights on remaining with Hyundai, but Loeb’s arrival
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari has announced that its 2019 Formula 1 car, codenamed internally 670, will be revealed on February 15. Team principal Maurizio Arrivabene revealed the news during the Autosprint award ceremony of Caschi d’oro, which was held on Thursday evening in Milan at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel says he does not expect there to be “anything wrong on-track” between himself and new Ferrari Formula 1 team-mate Charles Leclerc in 2019. Vettel’s four seasons at Ferrari have been spent alongside Kimi Raikkonen, with whom the four-time world champion
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia MotoGP rider Andrea Iannone believes the feedback he has provided the manufacturer in the 2018 post-season tests has “taken it a bit by surprise”. Ex-Suzuki rider Iannone made his Aprilia debut in post-season testing at Valencia and said he found the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai has announced Sebastien Loeb will contest six rounds of the 2019 World Rally Championship, sharing an i20 Coupe WRC with Dani Sordo. Autosport had revealed on Wednesday that Loeb had agreed to join Hyundai, and his two-year deal with the starts
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergey Sirotkin says his Formula 1 exit has hit him hard because his efforts with Williams “took so much as a human” and he will not benefit in 2019. The Russian made his grand prix debut with Williams this season but will