Felix Rosenqvist grabbed his first IndyCar pole by edging five-time champion Ganassi team-mate Scott Dixon in a very cold Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course qualifying. Rosenqvist’s decisive lap was 0.0194 seconds faster than Dixon’s, earning the rookie pole with a 1m08.278s. The surprise of the 53 degrees fahrenheit session was part-time competitor Jack Harvey, who
Month: May 2019
World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville was given the green light to start a stage too early, forcing Rally Chile organisers to red flag the Belgian’s SS2 attempt on Friday. FIA rally director Yves Matton declined to comment on the situation, telling Autosport he wanted to wait for WRC safety delegate Michele Mouton’s comments first.
Sergio Perez says “everything looks bad” after struggling to optimise Racing Point’s Formula 1 update package in Spanish Grand Prix practice, which he finished faster only than the Williams drivers. Perez’s struggles – the Mexican finished 17th in FP1 – compounded a challenging day for Racing Point, as Lance Stroll’s crash in first practice meant
More new Formula 1 technical developments emerged in the Barcelona pitlane at the Spanish Grand Prix on Friday, with big updates from Red Bull and McLaren catching the eye. Red Bull decided to run its new and previous packages back-to-back, with Max Verstappen trialling a number of new parts including a more complex bargeboard as
Colton Herta went fastest for Harding Steinbrenner Racing-Honda in second free practice for the IndyCar Grand Prix on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course. Herta was 0.378 seconds clear of the field on the primary tyres and was also comfortably quickest on Firestone’s alternate compound. Ultimately, he was 0.2078sec faster than Chip Ganassi Racing’s Felix
Toyota’s Ott Tanak leads the way after the opening three stages of the World Rally Championship’s inaugural Rally Chile, while third-placed Thierry Neuville was affected by a red flag. The trio are separated by just 6.6 seconds overall after the first morning of the new rally, and moved well clear of the rest on the
Valtteri Bottas topped the second Formula 1 free practice session for the Spanish Grand Prix, outpacing Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton by 0.049 seconds. Bottas, who also set the pace in the morning session, was fastest in the early stages when using medium-compound Pirellis, seven-tenths faster than Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel. Vettel and team-mate Charles Leclerc
An unusual incident during Thursday’s shakedown test for the World Rally Championship’s inaugural Rally Chile left a policeman in hospital overnight after crashing his motorbike on the stage. The organisers of the Concepcion-based event have explained the incident to Autosport, stating the police officer responded to what he thought was an accident for a competitor
Andrea Dovizioso has warned that finishing fourth in tracks like Jerez, which don’t suit Ducati’s bike, will not be enough to topple Marc Marquez in the 2019 MotoGP title fight. Dovizioso’s fourth-place finish at the Spanish Grand Prix extended his streak of no MotoGP podiums at Jerez to 12 consecutive years. Honda rider Marquez has
Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey says it could take another year to address all the bugs in the F1 TV ‘over the top’ streaming service. He called problems that stuck F1 TV during the recent Azerbaijan Grand Prix weekend “unexpected”. OTT is regarded by Liberty Media as a significant future source of revenue, as it
Sebastian Vettel says it is a “shock” the Brazilian Grand Prix could move to Rio de Janeiro in 2020, while Nico Hulkenberg would “drop a tear” over losing Interlagos. Controversial Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed the race will move from the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo, which has hosted the grand prix since 1990,
Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Andreas Mikkelsen continued his promising form from Argentina into Thursday’s shakedown for Rally Chile, posting the fastest time in his i20 Coupe WRC. The Norwegian was a second per mile faster than anybody through the four-mile stage south of the new rally’s host city of Concepcion. Benched for the Tour
Renault will introduce an upgraded Formula 1 engine for this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix in a bid to boost both performance and reliability. Although the new internal combustion engine is not being tagged as an official ‘spec 2’, it is understood the changes have been deemed promising enough to elect to race it now. In
The route for the inaugural Rally Chile has drawn universal praise from the drivers in the World Rally Championship. The crews completed their pre-event recce on Wednesday and said that the organisers had done a good job in finding the right roads. Championship leader Thierry Neuville said: “We have discovered some interesting stages which are
IndyCar rookie Patricio O’Ward has been added to Red Bull’s junior driver scheme. Indy Lights champion O’Ward joined Carlin for the 2019 IndyCar campaign shortly after parting ways with previous squad Harding-Steinbrenner Racing on the eve of the season, when it became clear the team could not offer him a full-year drive. The 20-year-old Mexican
The factory Ducati MotoGP will not run its controversial ‘Mission Winnow’ branding in next weekend’s French Grand Prix at Le Mans. The Italian manufacturer follows in the footsteps of the Ferrari Formula 1 team – with which it shares the same title sponsor, Philip Morris International – scrapping the branding for the season-opening Australian Grand
Valentino Rossi says Fabio Quartararo’s star showing during MotoGP’s Jerez weekend was down to the rookie, stating Quartararo “made the difference” compared to his fellow Yamaha riders. Frenchman Quartararo led a one-two for new Yamaha satellite team Petronas SRT in qualifying, and was running second in the race when he retired with a gearshift load
NASCAR has decided to alter the Cup Series aero package for three upcoming tracks after reviewing the performance of its new rules in 2019 so far. Originally, the year’s Pocono Raceway, Atlanta Motor Speedway, Darlington Raceway and Homestead-Miami Speedway events were slated for the use of the baseline new aero package plus a smaller tapered
The Brazilian Grand Prix will move next year to a new purpose-built circuit in Rio de Janeiro that could be named after Ayrton Senna, the country’s president has revealed. Amid uncertainty over the long-term future of the current Formula 1 event at Interlagos in Sao Paulo, Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro has said that a switch
After a clean sweep of Mercedes 1-2s in the opening four rounds of the Formula 1 season, Ferrari has brought forward its engine upgrade to the Spanish Grand Prix. Originally planned for the Canadian GP in two races’ time, as Edd Straw and Jake Boxall-Legge discuss in our latest video, introducing the package early is
Martin Truex Jr says attending to “little details” has been the key to turning around his first NASCAR Cup Series season with Joe Gibbs Racing. The 2017 champion joined JGR this winter when former team Furniture Row closed down. Though Truex achieved early second places at Atlanta and Phoenix, he led just 14 laps across
KTM CEO Stefan Pierer has labelled new MotoGP signing Johann Zarco’s performance so far in the 2019 season as “simply unacceptable”, and suggested his current struggles are “psychological” in nature. Zarco, who was aggressively courted by KTM after impressing right away on the Tech3-run satellite Yamaha on his arrival to MotoGP, has been unable to
World Rally Championship teams have warned that the FIA is now leaving it too late to finalise its plans for introducing hybrid technology to the series in 2022. FIA rally director Yves Matton has made clear there will be an electric element in the next WRC rules cycle, and intends to outline further details next
George Russell hopes his Formula 1 reputation will be lifted by what fellow rookies Alex Albon and Lando Norris are achieving, amid his current Williams struggles. Toro Rosso newcomer Albon and McLaren protege Norris have both starred in the opening stages of the 2019 season, and were the drivers Russell beat to last year’s Formula
Silverstone has secured a one-year extension to its current MotoGP deal, following the announcement that the circuit will be resurfaced again, keeping the race until at least 2021. Plans for the resurfacing were first confirmed back in March, coming as the consequence of the cancellation of the British motorcycle Grand Prix at the venue last
Ferrari will introduce its first engine upgrade of the Formula 1 season at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix, two races earlier than planned. The Italian team intended to wait until the Canadian Grand Prix, round seven of the season, to run its second-specification power unit for the first time. However, ahead of the weekend Ferrari
Audi sport chief Dieter Gass says differences in sporting regulations need to be ironed out before the manufacturer can commit to Japan’s Super GT Championship. Gass has identified the open-tyre rules in Japan and the testing restrictions in the DTM as potential obstacles for adding a Super GT programme with the RS5 DTM. That is
Britain’s round of the World Rally Championship, Wales Rally GB, will include a new Saturday night spectator stage up and down the Colwyn Bay promenade on the North Wales coast. The two-mile asphalt test will be completed following the mid-Wales forests on the run into final service in Llandudno on Saturday, day two. This Colwyn
Marc Marquez says the carbon-covered Honda bike he sampled in Monday’s post-Spanish Grand Prix felt “different” to his usual MotoGP machine. Fresh from winning the Jerez race on Sunday, Marquez tried the bike raced by HRC test rider Stefan Bradl, which features some carbon-coated chassis elements in a bid to save weight and gain flexibility.
Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales says his Jerez podium, which felt “like a victory”, was all down to a rare strong start. The Spanish GP marked the first race in 2019 – and only the third race since the start of last year – at which Vinales gained a position on the opening lap, the
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