Toro Rosso technical director Jody Egginton says the team has been impressed by the ‘methodical’ approach of Alex Albon after his Formula 1 race debut at the Australian Grand Prix. Albon, who had not driven an F1 car until last month’s shakedown just before pre-season testing, qualified 13th and finished 14th at the Albert Park
Month: March 2019
Cosworth co-owner Kevin Kalkhoven has dismissed rumours that his company will build an engine on behalf of a third manufacturer for the 2021 IndyCar regulations. May has been set as the deadline for a third manufacturer to confirm its intentions, and rumours escalated that Cosworth could build an engine on behalf of another marque. Cosworth’s
Kyle Busch’s milestone 200th NASCAR win has been a major talking point, but it’s overlooking the remarkable possibility that he is just getting started. Busch earned his 53rd win in the Cup series at Fontana and, combined with his 53 Truck Series and 94 Xfinity Series victories, his total is 200 wins across the three
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff believes the FIA will find it “impossible” to replace Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting with a single person. Whiting died on the Thursday before the F1 season opener and the FIA reacted with emergency measures, moving Michael Masi into the race director role for the Australian Grand Prix. The FIA
Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez says Honda was “obsessed” with gaining more straightline speed in the off-season, in order to outdo rivals such as Ducati. In the Qatar Grand Prix season opener, Marquez reached a top speed of 218.7mph – narrowly surpassing the track record established by Ducati rider Andrea Iannone in 2016. In addition,
Charles Leclerc established a “good starting point” on his Ferrari Formula 1 debut and is already pushing its engineers “hard”, according to his new team boss Mattia Binotto. Leclerc was signed to replace Kimi Raikkonen at Ferrari for 2019 after just one year in F1 with Sauber. He finished fifth, just behind four-time world champion
Team owner Roger Penske says he has told NASCAR CEO Jim France “let’s make the decision and go” with revolutionary plans for the Cup series’ next generation of machinery. NASCAR has earmarked the 2021 season to introduce its seventh-generation car, with the target of cutting costs and attracting new manufacturers, while potentially adjusting its schedule
Robert Kubica insists he has no regrets about returning to Formula 1 despite the competitive struggles Williams is facing. Williams has endured a tough start to the 2019 season, which started with its FW42 arriving late to pre-season testing. Its technical chief Paddy Lowe has decided to take a leave of absence, and the car
Kyle Busch sealed his 200th NASCAR win at Fontana. It’s a record that puts him level with Richard Petty, technically, but a debate rages about whether both records are equal. All 200 of Petty’s wins are considered ‘Cup’ wins, while Busch only has 53 in the premier division – with 94 in the second-tier Xfinity
Carlos Sainz Jr believes he suffered every piece of bad luck he could have done on his McLaren Formula 1 team debut in the Australian Grand Prix. The Renault convert started only 18th after encountering Robert Kubica’s puncture-hobbled Williams on his final Q1 lap, and then became the race’s first retirement with an MGU-K failure
Ex-Citroen and Ford World Rally Championship driver Mikko Hirvonen says he has “never had so much fun in a rally car” after contesting the West Cork Rally in Ireland. Hirvonen won the national section – for non-homologated cars – of last weekend’s rally, which was won outright by another ex-works Citroen driver, Craig Breen, who
Daniel Ricciardo has hinted he will take a different approach to the Australian Grand Prix build-up in 2020 after being left “drained” ahead of his Renault Formula 1 team debut. Ricciardo only qualified 12th for his first race with his new team, then ripped his front wing off when he took to the grass off
Ferrari’s deficit to Mercedes was a big surprise during the Australian Grand Prix weekend, particularly given the Scuderia ended Formula 1’s fortnight of pre-season testing as the clear early favourite. Four-time F1 champion Sebastian Vettel qualified third in Melbourne but was more than seven tenths slower than Mercedes’ polesitter Lewis Hamilton, and dropped to fourth
Honda has been “relaxed” by scoring its first Formula 1 podium in 11 years at the first attempt with Red Bull, but still sees a “clear” performance gap to reduce. The Japanese manufacturer rejoined the F1 grid in 2015 but failed to score a top-three finish across three seasons with McLaren and then spent last
Maverick Vinales says he needs to adapt his riding style during MotoGP races as his preferred one is heavily compromised while riding in traffic. Vinales took pole position the opening round of the season in Qatar by two tenths of a second, but finished the race a lowly seventh after he was unable to recover
Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano believes his Penske team has “work to do” after Joe Gibbs Racing and Kyle Busch “blew our doors off” at Fontana. Logano has one win and two podiums in five starts this season, and sits second to Busch in the Cup standings. Busch dominated the majority of Sunday’s Fontana
Oliver Solberg – son of 2003 World Rally champion Petter – had a successful debut with Subaru Motorsports USA taking second in the 100 Acre Wood Rally. The 17-year-old was competing Stateside for the first time, contesting his first gravel rally in a four-wheel-drive car in a Subaru WRX STI. He is set to do
Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Christian Horner insisted new signing Pierre Gasly must be ‘given time’ after his disappointing Australian Grand Prix. Gasly was eliminated from Melbourne qualifying in Q1 when Red Bull was caught out by track evolution, and could only recover to 11th in the race. He spent most of the race
Kyle Busch took his 200th NASCAR win by producing a dominant display in the Cup Series race at Fontana. The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver won all three stages and led 134 laps out of 200 to claim his 53rd premier series victory. It wasn’t a completely drama-free race for the 2015 Cup series champion
Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff says his drivers ‘ignored’ pre-race instructions to not chase the new bonus point for fastest lap in the Australian Grand Prix. But he admitted that in the end he was happy that the victorious Valtteri Bottas earned the extra point awarded under the rule change for 2019. Wolff
Robert Kubica says a pre-race grid panic, plus a mirror falling off his Williams early in the Australian Grand Prix, added to the dramas of his Formula 1 return. Any hope of a good result in Kubica’s first F1 race since the 2010 Abu Dhabi GP was dashed at the first corner when a collision
Formula 1 championship leader Valtteri Bottas has dedicated his Australian Grand Prix victory to long-serving FIA race director Charlie Whiting, who died ahead of the season-opening weekend. Whiting was at the Melbourne circuit on Wednesday but passed away overnight after suffering a pulmonary embolism. Bottas ended an answer in the post-race press conference to ensure
Honda has made a “huge step forward” and made Red Bull look a “very different” prospect in terms of straightline speed, according to Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff. Max Verstappen split the Ferrari drivers in the first qualifying session for Red Bull-Honda’s new partnership, and will start the season-opening Australian Grand Prix from
Michael Masi may be low-profile, but do not assume he is in at the deep end replacing Charlie Whiting as Formula 1’s race director at the Australian Grand Prix. Even beyond the shock of Whiting’s death, Masi’s appointment as stand-in may seem out of the blue, but it is not for those working inside in
Honda will enter a factory car in the remaining races of this year’s Intercontinental GT Challenge season. The JAS Motorsport squad, which played a key role in development of the Japanese manufacturer’s NSX GT3, will field a solo Evo version of the car in the remaining four IGTC events under the Honda Racing banner. The
NASCAR plans to adjust Cup Series qualifying following the farcical scenes at Fontana on Friday when none of the cars in the pole shootout set a flying lap in time. The 2019 aerodynamic rule changes have encouraged drivers to try to draft with each other in qualifying to get the best lap times on longer
Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko says the Formula 1 team owes Pierre Gasly an apology for the “stupid mistake” that compromised his Australian Grand Prix qualifying. Gasly endured a nightmare first qualifying session for his new team and will start only 17th on the grid after being eliminated in the opening segment. Red Bull
The cause of the fire that destroyed the entire fleet of electric motorcycles for the inaugural MotoE season at Jerez has been revealed by the series. MotoE lost all 18 bikes it had prepared for the 2019 season after the temporary building they were stored inside burnt down in the Jerez paddock on Wednesday evening.
Which Formula 1 team has the best-looking livery on the 2019 grid? We asked a panel of our Motorsport Network journalists to rank each car from best to worst based on its colour scheme, and we combined the results to give us a full rundown from 10th to first. There’s more to beauty than a
Which Formula 1 team has the best-looking livery on the 2019 grid? We asked a panel of our Motorsport Network journalists to rank each car from best to worst based on its colour scheme, and we combined the results to give us a full rundown from 10th to first. There’s more to beauty than a
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