Sebastian Vettel thinks Ferrari’s Formula 1 car is not as bad as it looks, despite Mercedes taking its sixth straight victory at the start of 2019 at Monaco last weekend. Vettel finished runner-up to Lewis Hamilton, but only after a penalty was applied to Max Verstappen’s race time, following a pitlane incident with Valtteri Bottas
Month: May 2019
The Pramac MotoGP team has been in contact with Moto2 frontrunner Alex Marquez, as it faces a conundrum over the specifications of the Ducati bikes it will run in 2020. The Italian satellite outfit currently runs a factory-specification Desmosedici GP19 for Jack Miller and a year-old GP18 for rookie Francesco Bagnaia in the premier class.
From a needless FP3 crash in 2018 to a patient challenge for victory this year, the two most recent Monaco Grands Prix typify just how much Max Verstappen has matured. The Monte Carlo race was the nadir of Verstappen’s 2018 campaign, as a crash in final practice – amid a run of high-profile incidents at
McLaren CEO Zak Brown says that the company’s future involvement in the Indianapolis 500 is not tied to a decision by Fernando Alonso to continue with the team. Alonso failed to qualify for this year’s race after facing a catalogue of problems and McLaren is reviewing how and if it will tackle the race in
The Monaco Grand Prix was yet another difficult weekend for Ferrari and, even before Charles Leclerc’s qualifying and race disasters, a chasmic Formula 1 performance deficit to Mercedes remained obvious. Ferrari has openly admitted it is working to address its problem but, as Scott Mitchell and Edd Straw discuss in our latest video, identifying whether
Williams Formula 1 driver George Russell says he thought he was in the fight for sixth place at one stage during Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix. Russell outqualified Robert Kubica, taking the penultimate slot on the grid, but fell behind his team-mate on the first lap. He then pitted for hard tyres – which meant he
Graham Rahal says IndyCar rival Sebastien Bourdais’ driving was dangerous ahead of their Indianapolis 500 collision that led to a multi-car accident and a red flag. Rahal was trying to overtake Bourdais on the inside when they tangled in the closing stages. “I just got a killer run, and I was lifting to just manage
Kevin Magnussen was so frustrated with his disappointing Monaco GP that he was hoped the “engine would blow up”, but does not blame his Haas Formula 1 team. Magnussen started fifth and best of the midfield teams in Monaco, but lost a place to Daniel Ricciardo at the start. Like Ricciardo, Magnussen then fell down
NASCAR All-Star race winner Kyle Larson admitted he was completely at fault for the biggest crash of the 600-mile Cup championship round at Charlotte. Ganassi driver Larson’s victory in the previous weekend’s non-points race had turned around a previously miserable 2019 season. He was among the frontrunners late in Sunday night’s main event when he
Defending European Rally champion Alexey Lukyanuk has been handed 10 days of community service as punishment for two speeding offences on last weekend’s Rally Liepaja. Both incidents were captured via the GPS safety system fitted to all rally cars in the ERC. Lukyanuk’s Citroen C3 R5 was found doing 124.9km/h (78mph) in a 50km/h (31mph)
Ducati’s sporting director Paolo Ciabatti says the team’s early worries over Danilo Petrucci have now been eased, as it nears decision time for its 2020 MotoGP line-up. Unlike team-mate Andrea Dovizioso, works team newcomer Petrucci has a contract that runs out at the end of the year. His former Pramac Ducati team-mate Jack Miller is
IndyCar team owner Roger Penske has dismissed suggestions that his Indianapolis 500 winner Simon Pagenaud could lose his seat for 2020. Pagenaud won the IndyCar title in his second year with Penske in 2016, but went winless last season – leading to speculation that he might be dropped for his Indy 500 sparring partner Alexander
Alexander Rossi felt the main reason for his Indianapolis 500 defeat was a Honda straightline-speed deficit, and he was also fuming over pitstop delays and backmarker Oriol Servia’s driving. Rossi charged into contention in the second half of the race, and was achieving better fuel mileage in his Honda-powered Andretti Autosport car than eventual winner
Lewis Hamilton had to fend off attacks from Max Verstappen amid major tyre worries to take his third victory in Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix. Winning under big pressure in Monte Carlo earned comparisons to Ayrton Senna resisting Nigel Mansell in a similar manner in 1992, but in the post-race Autosport podcast Scott Mitchell and
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Martin Truex Jr survived an early impact with the wall to claim victory in the 600-mile NASCAR Cup series race at Charlotte. With just 10 laps of the scheduled 400 left to run, Brad Keselowski spun his Penske Ford into the pitlane with a flat tyre, which brought out the 17th caution
Penske’s Simon Pagenaud won a ferocious late fight with Alexander Rossi to claim his first victory in the Indianapolis 500. Poleman Pagenaud had controlled most of the first half of the race, but Andretti Autosport driver Rossi’s car came on stronger after the third round of pitstops and began to rapidly advance towards the front.
Kevin Magnussen has been given a post-race penalty by the Monaco Grand Prix Formula 1 stewards for jumping the chicane while battling Sergio Perez. Magnussen joins Max Verstappen, Romain Grosjean and Lance Stroll in receiving penalties that shuffled the on the road finishing order. Haas driver Magnussen was holding off Perez when the Mexican launched
Oliver Solberg, the son of 2003 World Rally champion Petter, has won the European Rally Championship’s Rally Liepaja on his debut in the category’s top class. The 17-year-old beat reigning ERC champion Alexey Lukyanuk by 22.7 seconds after winning 10 of the 13 stages in Latvia. The result made Solberg the youngest rally winner in
Lewis Hamilton survived late contact with Max Verstappen to win Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix, as an incident in the pitlane with Valtteri Bottas ultimately cost Verstappen second place. Hamilton resisted more than 60 laps of pressure from Verstappen to hold on to victory despite having to manage softer tyres than his pursuers. As Verstappen
Marco Andretti says being “less fixated” on lap times leaves him well-placed to end his family’s Indianapolis 500 drought in the 2019 race. Andretti is driving a dayglo-orange Andretti-Herta Autosport Dallara-Honda as he marks the 50th anniversary of his grandfather Mario’s Indy 500 win in the STP-liveried Hawk. Mario made 29 Indy 500 starts, his
Lexus took a 1-2-3 finish in the Suzuka SUPER GT race, as reigning champions Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto finished a lap down after incurring a puncture. Yamamoto had started the race from seventh on the grid in the Kunimitsu Honda, and took little time to overtake Hideki Mutoh, barging past the Mugen Honda driver
The Monaco Grand Prix will be “a great pain” for the Racing Point Formula 1 team without rain, says Sergio Perez. Both Racing Point drivers have been short of pace throughout the weekend in Monte Carlo, resulting in Perez and Lance Stroll exiting qualifying in Q1. They ended up 17th and 18th on the timesheets
Ferrari has admitted it made a mistake and took a risk that was “not worthwhile”, after Charles Leclerc was a shock early elimination from Formula 1 qualifying in Monaco. Leclerc will start his home race from 15th on the grid after being knocked out in Q1 when Ferrari failed to send him back out for
Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes does not “take many risks” like the one that knocked Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc out of the first part of qualifying for Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix. Leclerc was knocked out of Q1 by several late improvements and was unable to respond because Ferrari kept him in the pits in the closing
Le Mans 24 Hours winner Kazuki Nakajima and team-mate Yuhi Sekiguchi claimed pole position for SUPER GT’s annual Suzuka round, as reigning champions Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto qualified seventh. Fresh from his against the odds Super Formula win at Autopolis last weekend, Sekiguchi clocked a time of 1m45.775s in the dying minutes of the
Kyle Kaiser and Juncos Racing went from their Indianapolis 500 entry being in jeopardy to knocking Fernando Alonso and McLaren out of the race. David Malsher joins Julia Piquet at Indy to recount the full story of the underdog combination that began practice week reeling from sponsor pullouts then recovered from a crash to pull
Formula 1 has called off its expected switch to standard gearbox cassettes in 2021, following a World Motor Sport Council vote to retain freedom of gearbox supply in the championship. F1 issued an invitation to tender for a single supplier for gearbox cassettes in February for its next technical regulations cycle from 2021-24. It was
After a difficult start to the 2019 Formula 1 season, Renault has revealed details about its struggles so far this term. The team was expected to not only consolidate its fourth place in the constructors’ championship, but bridge the gap to F1’s ‘big three’ teams in 2019. Yet it currently lies eighth in the standings,
AJ Foyt Racing driver Tony Kanaan led the last on-track session before the 2019 Indianapolis 500 as IndyCar teams made final tweaks and preparations on ‘Carb Day’. Following morning rain, the traditional Friday session was delayed 15 minutes and shortened to 80 minutes. Pacesetting 2013 Indy 500 winner Kanaan was delighted not so much with
Kimi Raikkonen is certain he would not still be racing in Formula 1 had he not taken two years out to compete in rallying. The Alfa Romeo driver is contesting his 300th grand prix weekend in Monaco, although it will only be his 297th start. He did not take the start of the 2001 Belgian
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