W Series driver Jamie Chadwick has landed an Aston Martin factory contract and will contest this year’s Nurburgring 24 Hours with the British manufacturer. The 20-year-old, who won the GT4 class in the 2015 British GT Championship for the marque, has been made an Aston Martin Racing junior and will undertake multiple rounds of the
Month: April 2019
Formula 1 is holding exploratory talks with government officials from six Chinese cities over the prospect of adding a street race to the calendar. F1 owner Liberty Media has ambitions to add another F1 race in China to complement the current race at Shanghai. Speaking at last weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix, commercial chief Sean Bratches
Sebastian Vettel believes his Ferrari Formula 1 team has been a victim of “poor journalism” and is unhappy with how comments about team orders have been used by the media. Under new team principal Mattia Binotto, Ferrari has attempted to set a clear policy on team orders after suffering from indecision in recent seasons. Binotto
Christian Horner believes his Red Bull team made a step forward in understanding its chassis in Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix, but that top speed is now its main weakness. Red Bull struggled to find a good balance in its car in both Australia and Bahrain before a breakthrough in the post-Bahrain Grand Prix test
Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso says his rival Marc Marquez’s crash at Austin shows the Spaniard “doesn’t have everything under control”. Marquez made a near-perfect start to the 2019 season by taking second in Qatar and dominating in Argentina, and was leading at Austin, where had never previously been beaten. But Marquez crashed out of
Ferrari’s Chinese Grand Prix team orders failed to stop Mercedes claiming a third-straight one-two finish, and sparked debate about how it is handling new recruit Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel. Two weeks after Leclerc was robbed of Bahrain GP victory, in China he was ordered to let Vettel past early on. That forced Ferrari to
Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales has explained why he initially served the wrong penalty for a jump start during the Austin MotoGP race. Vinales was given a ridethrough penalty for jumping the start at the Circuit of the Americas, but he first took the new Long Lap Penalty – where a rider goes through a marked
Valtteri Bottas admitted he felt doomed to defeat when Mercedes ‘double stacked’ its Formula 1 cars in the Chinese Grand Prix pitstops, but now accepts it was the best call. Mercedes opted to give both drivers a second pitstop with 20 laps to go at Shanghai after Max Verstappen and Sebastian Vettel had pitted over
IndyCar stewards have set a confusing precedent with their decision to penalise Graham Rahal for blocking Scott Dixon in Long Beach, says Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing president Piers Phillips. Rahal beat Dixon to third on the road in Sunday’s race but was demoted to fourth post-race because IndyCar race control – run by Kyle Novak,
The Dakar Rally has confirmed that the 2020 edition will take place in Saudi Arabia, as previously reported by Autosport. Event organiser ASO confirmed the move on Monday and officially marking the end of the rally’s South American era, which began in 2009 after a move away from Africa. The agreement with the Saudi authorities
Cal Crutchlow says his crash while fighting Valentino Rossi for a podium in MotoGP’s Americas Grand Prix was a “big missed opportunity, and we need to limit them”. Crutchlow qualified third for Sunday’s race at the Circuit of the Americas, and held that position in the early laps behind Marc Marquez and Rossi, shadowing the
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Martin Truex Jr said his final stint on the way to a NASCAR Cup Series victory at Richmond was “like driving in the snow”. Truex took his first short course win at the 81st attempt over Penske’s Joey Logano and Stewart-Haas Racing’s Clint Bowyer to record his maiden victory for JGR. The
Ferrari chief Mattia Binotto has admitted it was “difficult” to order Charles Leclerc to move aside for his Formula 1 team-mate Sebastian Vettel during the Chinese Grand Prix. Leclerc passed Vettel at the start but appeared to be struggling slightly more with his tyres than his four-time world champion team-mate, who he was eventually told
McLaren joining the IndyCar field full-time is still a case of ‘when not if’, but timing depends on the team’s Formula 1 form says its CEO Zak Brown. A McLaren IndyCar project has been mooted since its Indianapolis 500 campaign with Fernando Alonso and Andretti Autosport in 2017. Though a potential full 2019 programme did
Alexander Rossi put on a masterclass to win IndyCar’s Long Beach Grand Prix for the second consecutive year and claim Andretti Autosport’s 200th win across all categories. Poleman Rossi led from the outset, with his only true challenges for the lead coming from Scott Dixon both at the start of the race and on the
Marc Marquez says the crash that brought his MotoGP win streak at Austin to an abrupt end was “hard to understand” because he was not pushing to the limit. The Honda rider, unbeaten in his previous six premier class appearances at the Circuit of the Americas, appeared well positioned to make it seven wins there
Valentino Rossi admitted Alex Rins was simply better than him in their battle for victory in MotoGP’s Grand Prix of the Americas at Austin. Rossi inherited the lead when Marc Marquez crashed out while holding a comfortable advantage just before half-distance. Seven-time MotoGP champion Rossi then seemed well-placed for a first race win since Assen
Suzuki rider Alex Rins beat Valentino Rossi to score his first MotoGP win, after Marc Marquez’s unbeaten Austin run ended with a crash while holding a healthy lead. Honda rider Marquez converted pole into an early lead, and looked well on course for a seventh consecutive win at the Circuit of the Americas as he
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Daniil Kvyat believes the Chinese Grand Prix Formula 1 stewards accepted they were too harsh with his punishment for colliding with McLaren drivers Carlos Sainz Jr and Lando Norris. Toro Rosso racer Kvyat was given a drivethrough penalty and two penalty points on his licence for the opening lap incident at Shanghai. Both Kvyat and
Johann Zarco says he faces a wait for KTM to be able to help him out of his current slump after qualifying 19th for Sunday’s Austin MotoGP race. Zarco and KTM team-mate Pol Espargaro had contrasting days at Austin on Saturday, as Espargaro secured the manufacturer’s best-ever qualifying grid slot in fifth, a full 14
Nico Hulkenberg’s retirement from Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix was caused by an issue related to Renault’s new specification MGU-K. Renault was forced to produce a new spec MGU-K after McLaren’s Carlos Sainz Jr suffered a failure in the Australian GP. The Spaniard had the new unit for Bahrain, but the works team stuck with
MotoGP champion Marc Marquez admitted that his wild high-speed moments over the Austin circuit’s bumps on Saturday put pressure on his long-standing shoulder injury. Marquez had surgery on the problem in December and was adamant it would compromise his fitness in the early part of this season – although that has not stopped him finishing
Alex Albon was pleased to be named Formula 1’s ‘driver of the day’ for his Chinese Grand Prix charge from the pitlane, because he was “maybe worst driver” of Saturday. The F1 rookie crashed his Toro Rosso in final practice and missed qualifying because his team had to change his survival cell, consigning him to
Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto’s Super GT title defence got off to a bad start with their car being hit by another Honda while leading the rain-truncated Okayama opener. Nissan had dominated Saturday’s qualifying with a new lap record, but the wet conditions that prevailed on Sunday played into the hands of the Honda runners.
Martin Truex Jr prevailed in a late-race shootout with Joey Logano and Clint Bowyer to finally take his first short track win in the NASCAR Cup Series at Richmond. The result was also a first win for 2017 champion Truex since he joined Joe Gibbs Racing at the end of last season following the closure
Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso fears his lowly grid position will be extremely hard to recover from in the Grand Prix of the Americas at Austin. Dovizioso was forced to take part in the first part of qualifying due to missing the top 10 cut on Friday, and then rain forcing the cancellation of practice
Jorge Lorenzo says the chain issues that compromised his qualifying at Austin are “clearly a problem” for the Honda MotoGP squad. After a tough Friday practice at the Circuit of the Americas, Lorenzo was forced to go through the first segment of qualifying – which he topped. Shortly setting his first flying lap in Q2,
Alexander Rossi took pole position for IndyCar’s Long Beach Grand Prix for the second consecutive season, usurping Scott Dixon from the top of the timesheets late on. Andretti Autosport driver Rossi, who won the race from pole last year, posted a time of 1m06.4811s on his third and final lap in the pole shootout, beating
Marc Marquez took his seventh consecutive pole position at Austin in qualifying for MotoGP’s Grand Prix of the Americas, while Andrea Dovizioso ended up down in 13th. On a practically dry circuit following the thunderstorms that curtailed third practice earlier in the day, Honda man Marquez logged a 2m03.787s at the start of the 15-minute