Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three-time European Rally champion Kajetan Kajetanowicz is set to contest his first full season in the World Rally Championship’s WRC2 class in 2019, switching from Ford to Volkswagen machinery. Following a hat-trick of ERC titles between 2015 and ’17, Kajetanowicz
Month: February 2019
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR rider Cal Crutchlow admits he is “not even close” to being ready for the 2019 MotoGP season opener in Qatar with just one day of pre-season testing to go. Crutchlow concluded the penultimate day of pre-season running at Losail
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo has admitted that his first MotoGP races with Honda are likely to be “difficult”, despite making improvements on the second day of testing in Qatar. Lorenzo was only 21st on the opening day of the Losail test, the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas feels he has not “achieved anything” in Formula 1 yet, as he targets a championship challenge for 2019. Bottas scored nine grand prix podiums for his first F1 outfit Williams, establishing himself as the team’s lead
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The organisation behind McLaren’s first two generations of GT3 contender will run Aston Martins in 2019 following its split from its former partner. The company formerly known as CRS, which developed the MP4-12C and 650S GT3 racers as McLaren GT,
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi admits he is “worried” by the top speed deficit Yamaha faces compared to its MotoGP rivals after a subdued second day of Qatar pre-season testing. On the penultimate day of 2019 pre-season running, Rossi ended up down in
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brad Keselowski overcame illness to win the NASCAR Cup race at Atlanta, claiming a first regular season victory for Ford’s new Mustang. The Penske driver, who sat out much of practice, held off a charging Martin Truex Jr in the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP is set to add the ‘long lap penalty’ to the list of punishments available to stewards for the start of the 2019 season. The new initiative requires penalised riders to ride through a specially-marked area off-track, and was trialled
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki’s Alex Rins narrowly beat Maverick Vinales to the fastest time on the second day of MotoGP’s pre-season test in Qatar. As was the case on day one, factory Ducati duo Danilo Petrucci and Andrea Dovizioso spent the most time
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sometime GP2 racer and Racing Point Formula 1 test and simulator driver Nick Yelloly has been named a BMW factory driver for the 2019 season. Yelloly, 28, made two race appearances for BMW last year in the Blancpain GT Series
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso and Valentino Rossi have both voiced their approval of the in-race penalty system being trialled at MotoGP’s Qatar pre-season test. Race direction held a special meeting with riders to explain the new system shortly before the start of
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo thinks Renault’s Formula 1 progress will be boosted by the fact he and team-mate Nico Hulkenberg are on the “same page” with what they want from their car. Ricciardo has switched to Renault for 2019 after a five-year
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Junior World Rally Championship opener in Sweden last weekend could have been cancelled but for an overnight effort by M-Sport Poland to rectify a technical problem. M-Sport Poland, which prepares the cars for the full JWRC field, discovered an
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez believes Ducati and Yamaha are both “far” ahead of Honda after the opening day of MotoGP pre-season testing in Qatar. Honda had a quiet start to the Qatar test, with Marquez and factory team-mate Jorge Lorenzo 10th and
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton mixed up his training regime over the winter to bulk up under Formula 1’s new driver weight rules, and says he is in his best condition ever. The five-time world champion pledged to become a “different athlete” last
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says Yamaha must strive to keep progressing throughout 2019 after its strong start to MotoGP pre-season testing. Yamaha carried the strong form it showed in the first test of 2019 at Sepang into the opening day of running
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Albon is “exceeding expectations” and “ticked all the boxes” in Formula 1’s first pre-season test at Barcelona last week, says Toro Rosso’s deputy technical director Jody Egginton. Albon, who finished third in F2 last season, had not driven an
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo admits he remains “very far” from feeling comfortable on Honda’s MotoGP bike after concluding the first day of Qatar pre-season testing down in 21st place. Lorenzo was making his first outing since last November as the final winter
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales kicked off the final pre-season MotoGP test in Qatar on top as Marc Marquez suffered his first crash since his shoulder operation. Reigning champion Marquez’s fall occurred at the final corner, but his crash was a
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nico Hulkenberg believes the 2019 Formula 1 rear wing is like a “parachute” – and the extra drag means that it is harder to compare Renault’s latest engine with last season’s. For 2019, the FIA has mandated a larger rear
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Mexican Grand Prix’s future is “not looking good” and it could be out of Formula 1 for decades if it loses its calendar slot, fears Sergio Perez. The current contract for the Mexico City race ends this season, and
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Blancpain GT Series Mercedes seat alongside reigning champion Raffaele Marciello has been filled by Vincent Abril, whose departure from Bentley was announced this week. Abril, who had been due to be part of the factory Bentley line-up in 2019,
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso technical director Jody Egginton has hailed Honda’s first week of 2019 Formula 1 pre-season testing as “fantastic”. Honda’s first week supplying two teams in the V6 turbo-hybrid era was very productive, as its new team Red Bull and
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM CEO Stefan Pierer believes the money it would take to sign five-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez is better spent developing its RC16 premier-class bike. Honda rider Marquez has been long linked with a potential future KTM switch due to
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 technical chiefs are now predicting that the 2019 cars will be faster than last year, despite the rule changes having originally been expected to slow them down. F1’s aerodynamic regulations have been altered for this season with the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three McLaren Formula 1 team members have been given medical treatment after a fire occurred in the squad’s garage at the Barcelona circuit. Along with Racing Point and Williams, McLaren had been running its new MCL34 machine as part of
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso has agreed to release James Key to take up his new position of McLaren technical director just after the start of the 2019 Formula 1 season. Key will officially leave Toro Rosso on March 23 and begin working
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia became the sixth and final MotoGP manufacturer to reveal its livery for the 2019 season on Friday. It displayed its new colours in Qatar ahead of the second and final pre-season test at the Losail track, which commences on
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nissan refugees Lucas Ordonez and Alex Buncombe will join Bentley’s expanded assault on this year’s Spa 24 Hours Blancpain GT Series blue riband event. Ordonez and Buncombe, who were released by Nissan after the end of its BGTS programme under
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull expects a “far more mature” Max Verstappen to show greater “patience” in Formula 1 this season, according to its motorsport advisor Helmut Marko. Verstappen was involved in various incidents in a scrappy start to last season but a
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