Lewis Hamilton says boring Formula 1 races are not the drivers’ fault and instead the blame lies at the rulemakers for a “constant cycle” of making bad decisions. Hamilton dominated Sunday’s French Grand Prix, winning by 18 seconds after a straightforward race with little action to earn his sixth victory in eight races maintained Mercedes’
Month: June 2019
Audi Team Phoenix secured its fifth win in the Nurburgring 24 Hours after the leading #911 Manthey Porsche was hit with a hefty penalty in the final hours of the race. Dries Vanthoor brought the #4 Team Phoenix Audi R8 LMS to the finish after keeping a furious Kevin Estre in the #911 Manthey Racing
Romain Grosjean believes the Haas Formula 1 team needs to “stop blaming the tyres and start blaming ourselves” after its struggles in French Grand Prix qualifying. The American outfit has been one of the hardest hit by this year’s specification of tyres, which are harder to get into their optimum working range, and regularly found
Chris van der Drift and Evan Chen made amends for disqualification in the opening race to claim their third Super Trofeo Asia victory of the season at Suzuka. The Gama Racing pairing were stripped of their on-the-road win on Saturday after failing ride height checks, handing VSR duo Alex Au and Yuki Nemoto victory. But
Colton Herta claimed his first IndyCar pole position at Road America, beating Alexander Rossi to the top spot as the pair traded places at the top of the timesheets. Herta, who is now IndyCar’s youngest polesitter, set a lap time of 1m42.992s, which was less than two tenths of a second faster than Rossi. Herta
Red Bull Racing’s Pierre Gasly says he made the wrong set-up choice in qualifying for the French Grand Prix, leaving him struggling for pace and ninth on the grid. Red Bull added downforce to Gasly’s car after FP3, but in Q1 the Frenchman found he had lost performance. Gasly will now start the race on
The McLaren Formula 1 team is to build an all-new windtunnel at its Woking factory. Although McLaren has made significant progress in 2019 its car still lacks fundamental downforce and, after new team principal Andreas Seidl analysed what improvements need to be made, McLaren’s board has signed off the construction of a new windtunnel. The
Ferrari’s attempt to have the decision that cost Sebastian Vettel Canadian Grand Prix victory reviewed failed on Friday at Paul Ricard, despite the Formula 1 team presenting new evidence. The outfit felt it had “pretty overwhelming” evidence to show but, in rejecting a review, FIA stewards deemed the material presented featured “no significant and relevant
Alexander Rossi produced a strong lap on soft tyres to beat Penske drivers Will Power and Josef Newgarden to top spot in practice for IndyCar’s Road America race. Rossi was the first driver of the weekend to set a 140mph-average lap, recording a 1m43.1206s lap of the 4.014-mile track in second practice in his Honda-powered
Mercedes Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton says he was surprised he caught his “serious moment” in French Grand Prix second practice immediately before his incident with Max Verstappen. Hamilton went wide at Turn 3 and sideways over the kerb, taking out a plastic bollard, but regained control of the car as he slid into the
Mercedes’ Maro Engel secured pole position for the Nurburgring 24 Hours in an enthralling qualifying shootout session on Friday evening. Engel, who is spearheading the Black Falcon Mercedes outfit’s assault on the Nordschleife, topped the session with a 8m10.910s on his second flying lap and was marginally quicker than Maximilian Gotz – who sealed an
Sebastian Vettel says the updates the Ferrari Formula 1 team brought to Paul Ricard for the French Grand Prix did not perform as expected in Friday practice. The Italian outfit introduced new wings and brake duct updates as part of a package that it hoped would address the weaknesses of its current car. Although some
Formula 1 drivers will switch teams during the career mode of the championship’s official game for the first time in this year’s F1 2019 release. Contractual restrictions within F1 have always prevented game developers from being able to allow the official drivers to change teams, for example prohibiting a move such as Lewis Hamilton leaving
Johann Zarco says his new manager Jean-Michel Bayle has stopped the KTM MotoGP rider from ‘destroying’ himself, amid a tough 2019 campaign aboard the RC16. Zarco split with previous manager Laurent Fellon in the winter, and began working with former 500cc rider Bayle following his verbal tirade against the RC16 at Jerez – which prompted
Sebastian Vettel coyly avoided questions about his Canadian Grand Prix penalty and his Ferrari Formula 1 team’s Friday hearing in France, as he reiterated his belief he did nothing wrong. Ferrari has been summoned to the stewards tomorrow at Paul Ricard to discuss its request for a review of the incident where Vettel ran across
Daniel Ricciardo says Renault’s recent run of form has ‘ignited a pretty nice fire’ inside the team, which he says reminds him of qualities that make Red Bull so strong. The Australian has helped lift Renault to fifth in the constructors’ championship with a season-best result sixth last time out in Canada, ahead of the
Ferrari has been summoned to a hearing at Paul Ricard on Friday, for an inquiry into the Formula 1 team’s request to review Sebastian Vettel’s controversial Canadian Grand Prix penalty. Team representatives will need to meet with the stewards from the previous race in Montreal following Ferrari’s request to review the the decision to hand
Jack Miller says Jorge Lorenzo has been “out of control” on warm-up laps this season, as several MotoGP riders raise concerns over the Honda rider’s antics before race starts. Lorenzo grabbed headlines at the Catalan Grand Prix where he crashed at Turn 10 on lap two and brought down the Yamaha’s of Maverick Vinales and
The MotoE World Cup has held its first test, including a simulated qualifying and race at Valencia, since the entire electric bike series paddock was destroyed by fire in March. The inaugural all-electric MotoE World Cup was due to have its first round at this year’s Spanish Grand Prix in May, but a paddock fire
Formula 1 will descend on the French Riviera on the 21-23 June for the eighth round of the world championship. After a break of 10 years, the French Grand Prix returned to the calendar in 2018 with the action taking place at the famous Circuit Paul Ricard. The track was built in 1970 and regularly
MSV chief executive Jonathan Palmer has explained how the World Rally Championship will use the Oulton Park circuit for Rally GB’s first return to a race circuit in 20 years. Oulton is the opening stage on the October 3-6 event and comes after the crews leave a ceremonial start outside the Cunard Building on Liverpool’s
The Ferrari Formula 1 and Ducati MotoGP teams could run without Mission Winnow branding for the remainder of the season, Autosport has learned. Both outfits are sponsored by the initiative of title partner Philip Morris, which is part of a move to a non-tobacco future for the company as it moves to electronic cigarettes. But
LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow has questioned the conclusions MotoGP tyre supplier Michelin reached regarding a hole “the size of a mobile phone” in his rear tyre in Mugello. Crutchlow finished a distant eighth at Mugello, and felt he had been hampered by damage to his medium rear tyre, which was then checked by Michelin
Honda will introduce its second upgrade of the Formula 1 season at the French Grand Prix, where three cars will benefit from its latest specification engine. The Japanese manufacturer will give the Red Bulls of Max Verstappen and Pierre Gasly, plus Daniil Kvyat’s Toro Rosso, a fresh engine upgraded mainly around the combustion engine and
Aprilia MotoGP test rider Bradley Smith says he was in “sheer panic” when he realised he was going to wipe out his team-mate Aleix Espargaro in the Catalan Grand Prix. Smith was making the third of his five schedule wildcard appearances in 2019 at Barcelona when he crashed into Espargaro at Turn 10 on the
NASCAR Truck Series title contender Johnny Sauter has been suspended for one race after crashing into Austin Hill in Sunday’s race at Iowa Speedway. NASCAR announced on Tuesday that Sauter would be suspended from this weekend’s race at Gateway, the 11th round of the 2019 season. Despite missing the race, Sauter will remain eligible for
Alex Rins believes had he not gotten stuck behind Ducati’s Danilo Petrucci in the MotoGP Catalan Grand Prix, he could have mounted a challenge for his second victory of 2019. The Suzuki rider ran in the battle for second with Petrucci for much of the 24-lap contest, but was unable to keep the Ducati behind
Formula 1 boss Chase Carey is confident of finding “tricks” to ensure that the proposed 2021 cost cap can be policed effectively. A new set of financial regulations will be implemented from 2021, including a maximum spend of $175m, which excludes areas such as driver and top management salaries, as well as marketing expenditure. Only
Rally Italy winner Dani Sordo says he remains in the dark about when he will next contest a World Rally Championship round with Hyundai. Sordo took a sensational second career victory in Sardinia last weekend when Ott Tanak’s Toyota had a steering problem on the final stage while leading. Hyundai is rotating its line-up in
The McLaren Formula 1 team has now confirmed that overheating brakes set in motion a chain of events that led to Lando Norris’s unusual Canadian Grand Prix suspension breakage. Norris retired in Montreal when his right rear suspension collapsed as he crossed the line at the end of his eighth lap. He stopped just past
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