Jack Harvey hopes his breakthrough IndyCar podium on the Indianapolis road course boosts his chance of securing a first full season in the series in 2020. The 2014 and ’15 Indy Lights runner-up – and 2012 British Formula 3 champion – has a 10-round IndyCar programme with the Meyer Shank Racing and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
Month: May 2019
KTM CEO Stefan Pierer says his MotoGP team will never give up on its unique steel trellis frame concept, and has criticised Ducati for moving away from the design for 2012. The Austrian manufacturer is the only one on the MotoGP grid not use a conventional aluminium twin-spar chassis, and at the start of this
Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville is confident of rebounding from his huge Rally Chile crash immediately to fight for a World Rally Championship victory at the next round in Portugal. Neuville’s accident – which hospitalised he and co-driver Nicolas Gilsoul – cost him third on the event at the time and the WRC points’ lead. He
Lewis Hamilton became only the second Formula 1 winner to score 26 points as he added fastest lap to his Spanish Grand Prix race victory. But before the late safety car at Barcelona, he had resigned himself to missing out on it. Hamilton has downplayed the significance of chasing the new bonus point, especially because
MotoGP’s newest winner Alex Rins’s “strongest point” is that he is under no pressure, according to reigning champion Marc Marquez. Rins, who has posted 11 consecutive top-six finishes in MotoGP and claimed his maiden win earlier this year at Austin, sits second in the current riders’ standings – just one point behind Honda rider Marquez.
Clint Bowyer was involved in a post-race spat with Erik Jones after the Kansas Speedway NASCAR Cup Series round over a “dumb” move that Bowyer felt cost him second place. Stewart-Haas Ford driver Bowyer had a strong run at the leaders on the outside coming up to the final lap but was blocked by Jones’s
Daniel Ricciardo says Renault “underachieved” in Formula 1’s Spanish Grand Prix by failing to score any points. The Australian started 13th courtesy of a three-place grid penalty for reversing into Daniil Kvyat in the Azerbaijan GP, and spent the opening part of the Barcelona race in 12th, bottled up behind the McLaren of Carlos Sainz
Ganassi IndyCar duo Felix Rosenqvist and Scott Dixon were puzzled by grip and tyre problems hurting them in the Indianapolis road course race they had swept the front row for. Rookie Rosenqvist made a strong start from his first series pole and led the first 15 laps but fell to fourth following the second restart
An official documentary feature film about Michael Schumacher, which has been fully supported by the seven-time Formula 1 world champion’s family, is to be released later this year. Titled SCHUMACHER, the film is backed by a major production company and features interviews with Michael’s father Rolf, his wife Corinna, his children Gina and Mick, and
Ferrari Formula 1 boss Mattia Binotto believes team orders were deployed at “the right moment” in the Spanish Grand Prix and doubts there was reason to swap its drivers earlier. Sebastian Vettel flatspotted his right-front tyre with a lock-up at the start of the race, which dropped him back from the leading Mercedes drivers and
Toyota World Rally Championship driver Kris Meeke has lost his eighth place at Rally Chile after being hit with a one-minute penalty for removing his windscreen in a time control. Meeke rolled his Toyota Yaris WRC on Saturday’s first stage and was forced to remove the screen, fearing the glass would come into the car
Max Verstappen believes Red Bull’s car is “not really better in any corner than Mercedes” after his team’s Formula 1 rival’s fifth consecutive one-two in the Spanish Grand Prix. Verstappen scored his second podium of the season at Barcelona after overhauling both Ferraris, but could not challenge the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas.
Ferrari claimed a first Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup victory in six years at Silverstone with the SMP Racing squad. The Russian entrant’s Ferrari 488 GT3 shared by Mikhail Aleshin, Miguel Molina and Davide Rigon came from 10th on the grid to score a 2.6-second victory over the best of the FFF Racing Team Lamborghinis
Ott Tanak wrapped up his second World Rally Championship victory of the season on Rally Chile, while new championship leader Sebastien Ogier successfully held Sebastien Loeb at bay for second. Toyota’s team leader Tanak moved into the lead of the rally on stage two and didn’t look back, extending his lead to over half a
Citroen’s Sebastien Ogier pulled off a stunning World Rally Championship stage win on Rally Chile to defend second place from Sebastien Loeb, as Ott Tanak heads for victory. Looking for his first WRC podium finish since joining Hyundai this season, nine-time champion Loeb had been on a charge and went 13 seconds faster than anyone
Lewis Hamilton moved into the Formula 1 points lead after beating team-mate Valtteri Bottas to win the Spanish Grand Prix, as Mercedes continued its perfect start to the season. Hamilton’s victory ahead of Bottas clinched Mercedes’ fifth one-two in a row and put Hamilton seven points clear of Bottas in the world championship. Max Verstappen
Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Sebastien Loeb has been given the green light to race his countryman Sebastien Ogier for second place during Sunday’s Rally Chile finale. When Loeb’s team-mate Thierry Neuville crashed out of the South American event on Saturday morning, there was an expectation that Loeb would be asked to hold station through
The Grasser Lamborghini squad claimed pole position for Sunday’s Silverstone round of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. Mirko Bortolotti, Christian Engelhart and Rolf Ineichen took the top spot in the three-part qualifying session with a 1m59.690s average aboard their Lamborghini Huracan GT3 Evo to follow up on their pole for the Monza series opener
Penske’s Brad Keselowski survived a thrilling overtime finish to take victory in the NASCAR Cup Series race at Kansas. After failing to finish in the top 10 in the first two stages of the race, Keselowski was propelled into contention late on in the final stage when a caution was issued with 28 of the
Over a quarter of the grid for the Kansas Speedway NASCAR Cup Series race failed technical inspection and will be put to the back of the field for the start. A total of 11 cars in the 40-strong entry lost their official starting position when the inspections were carried out shortly before the Saturday night
Penske’s Simon Pagenaud claimed his first IndyCar win since the 2017 season finale with a late pass on Scott Dixon in a rain-hit end to the Indianapolis road course race. Rain had been expected throughout the afternoon, with variable levels of drizzle making the track unpredictable all race. Eventual lead combatants Dixon and Pagenaud ran
Ott Tanak continues to lead his World Rally Championship rivals on Rally Chile, though his Toyota team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala retired from third and moved Sebastien Loeb into the podium places. Second-placed Sebastien Ogier gained 4.3s on Tanak over the afternoon loop by taking a different tyre strategy from the rest of the field. Ogier used
George Russell says the fact he qualified closer to the rest of the Formula 1 field than Williams has managed all season at the Spanish Grand Prix bodes well. In every other 2019 qualifying session so far, Williams has been at least one second behind the next slowest car. At Barcelona, Russell was just over
Photo credit: @World World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville has explained the accident that wrecked his Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC and ruled him out of Rally Chile. Neuville injured his left leg in the Saturday morning crash and arrived back in the service park on crutches, having been told to keep pressure off his left
Charles Leclerc said he was surprised by how much his Ferrari Formula 1 car was damaged when he ran wide in Spanish Grand Prix qualifying. A trip over the kerbs at the fast Campsa right-hander in Q2 sent debris flying from Leclerc’s car, and Ferrari made multiple attempts to get it fully fixed as qualifying
Hyundai initially feared World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville might have broken a leg in his high speed Rally Chile crash. The Belgian’s i20 Coupe WRC went off the road halfway through the Maria Las Cruces stage on Saturday morning, rolling six times. Neuville and co-driver Nicolas Gilsoul emerged from the car unaided, but team
Toyota’s Ott Tanak edged further ahead of reigning World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier on Rally Chile’s Saturday morning stages, while Thierry Neuville escaped unhurt from his massive crash. Though Tanak only won one stage from three on Saturday morning, the loop-ending Pelun test, he gained more than 10 seconds over Ogier in all, extending his
Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel hopes Ferrari’s “daring” race set-up for the Spanish Grand Prix will revive the team’s fortunes and admits he was surprised at Mercedes’ dominance in qualifying. The four-time champion qualified only third as title rivals Mercedes earned another front row lock out at Barcelona, and trailed polesitter Valtteri Bottas by 0.866
World Rally Championship points leader Thierry Neuville has suffered a dramatic accident on stage eight of Rally Chile, forcing the Hyundai driver to retire. Neuville won the opening stage on Saturday morning, Rio Lia, and had climbed from fourth to third at the expense of Jari-Matti Latvala. He was only 1.4 seconds behind reigning six-time
Toyota’s Ott Tanak has taken command of the World Rally Championship’s inaugural Rally Chile, extending his lead over Citroen rival Sebastien Ogier by dominating Friday afternoon’s two long stages. Tanak ended the opening day 22.4 seconds clear of second-placed Ogier, as well as 29.5 clear of points leader Thierry Neuville of Hyundai, extending his advantage
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