Mercedes did not know if Canadian Grand Prix winner Lewis Hamilton would even start the race because his Formula 1 car was in “a million bits” on Sunday morning. Hamilton claimed his fifth victory in seven grands prix this season after a race-long battle with Sebastian Vettel, who won on the road but was dropped
Month: June 2019
Haas Formula 1 team boss Gunther Steiner says an unsuccessful race set-up gamble triggered the radio rant from Kevin Magnussen that forced the Haas boss to intervene. Magnussen started from the pitlane after his huge crash in Q2 led Haas to switch to the spare chassis and a new gearbox, obliging the crew to work
Hyundai World Rally team boss Andrea Adamo wants to apologise to Sebastien Loeb for letting him down on Rally Portugal, feeling the nine-time champion’s time was wasted. Portugal was Loeb’s penultimate outing in his current part-time Hyundai deal, but fuel problems on stage three wrecked his weekend. Dani Sordo ran into similar issues. Is Loeb’s
KTM MotoGP test rider Dani Pedrosa will make his racing comeback at the Goodwood Revival’s Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy races on a 500cc Paton. The 31-time premier class race winner retired from racing at the end of last season, leaving Honda to take up his role with KTM. Pedrosa will pilot a 4-stroke 500cc twin-cylinder
Renault Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo said he enjoyed “making life difficult” for Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas in the Canadian Grand Prix. Bottas had only qualified sixth after a spin on his first Q3 run in Montreal, while Ricciardo secured the best grid spot of his Renault career so far in fourth. In the race the
The Ferrari Formula 1 team says it has notified the FIA that it intends to appeal the penalty that cost Sebastian Vettel victory in the Canadian Grand Prix. Vettel was given a five-second time penalty, as the stewards judged he had rejoined the track in an unsafe manner and forced Lewis Hamilton to take evasive
The NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan has been postponed until Monday following persistent light rain that left cars unable to complete more than a handful of formation laps. The race, which was due to begin at 2pm local time on Sunday, has been pushed back to 5pm on Monday. NASCAR attempted to begin it
M-Sport Ford World Rally Championship driver Teemu Suninen has switched co-driver, with Jarmo Lehtinen returning to rallying’s top flight to join his Finnish compatriot. Suninen said the switch had come as he sought a more experienced co-driver for the rest of the season, starting with Rally Italy next weekend. Lehtinen, who has 169 WRC starts
Valtteri Bottas says setbacks like his performance in the final Canadian Grand Prix qualifying session hurt more now he is in a Formula 1 title fight with team-mate Lewis Hamilton. Bottas spun on his first Q3 run, then had a poor lap on his second, and will start Sunday’s race sixth. Like Mercedes stablemate Hamilton
Toto Wolff believes Pirelli has been targeted by opportunistic lobbying to bring back its 2018 tyres in a bid end Mercedes’ dominant start to the Formula 1 season. During the Canadian Grand Prix weekend criticism from Mercedes’ rivals Ferrari and Red Bull has emerged over the thinner-treaded tyres introduced full-time for this season and the
Josef Newgarden jumped to the front with an inspired Penske strategy call and then fended off Alexander Rossi to win the Texas Motor Speedway IndyCar race. Championship leader Newgarden had spent the first half of the race mostly in the lower part of the top 10, but pitted to top up with fuel during the
Haas Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen will start the Canadian Grand Prix from the pitlane as a consequence of his heavy crash in Montreal qualifying. Losing control of his car at the final chicane at the end of Q2, Magnussen brushed the wall on the exit before hurtling towards the pitwall on the opposite side
Greg Biffle took victory in his first NASCAR start since the end of the 2016 Cup season by triumphing in Friday night’s Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway. The 49-year-old 2005 Cup Series runner-up was making what has so far been billed as a one-off return to top-level racing with Kyle Busch’s Truck team.
Lance Stroll will revert to his previous-specification Mercedes Formula 1 engine ahead of qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix after his fiery failure in final practice. The Racing Point driver was completing his installation lap on Saturday morning in Montreal when a burst of flames emerged from the rear of his car as he approached
Sebastian Vettel believes there is still “a reasonable gap” to Mercedes in Canada despite his Ferrari Formula 1 team-mate Charles Leclerc topping Friday practice in Montreal. Leclerc led a Ferrari one-two after the first two practice sessions for the Canadian Grand Prix, with Valtteri Bottas heading Mercedes’ charge in third place, 0.134 seconds off the
Takuma Sato claimed his second pole position of the 2019 IndyCar Series season in qualifying at Texas Motor Speedway. The Rahal Letterman Lanigan driver, who won from pole at Barber Motorsports Park two months ago, produced a two-lap average of 220.250mph. Thursday practice pacesetter and reigning champion Scott Dixon’s first lap put him on course
Mercedes Formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton has described his Canadian Grand Prix practice crash as an “innocent mistake”, that left him feeling like he was “in the headmaster’s office”. Hamilton, who had set the pace in the opening Friday practice ahead of team-mate Valtteri Bottas, lost control on the exit of the Turn 8/9 chicane
Mercedes boss Toto Wolff has confirmed his team will take part in the next series of Netflix’s Formula 1 documentary, despite admitting he initially “didn’t like” the inaugural show. The ‘Formula 1: Drive to Survive’ show attracted good reviews from fans when it was released earlier this year as it offered behind-the-scenes glimpses of life
M-Sport has revealed the successor to its best-selling Ford Fiesta R5 rally car. The new car is a ground-up overhaul of the original Fiesta which, launched in 2013, was the world’s first R5 car to break cover. Since then, the Cumbrian-built machine has become the world’s best-selling car in the category with close to 300
Volkswagen Motorsport is confident it has found the cause of the fires that have hit its Polo GTI R5 cars recently. Three Polos caught fire last weekend; two on the Rally Portugal round of the World Rally championship – although Volkswagen said a fire that affected Ole Christian Veiby’s car there was unrelated – and
Former MotoGP racer Jonas Folger will make his first race start in almost two years in next weekend’s Barcelona Moto2 race. Folger’s maiden MotoGP campaign with the Tech3 Yamaha squad in 2017 yielded a podium at the Sachsenring, but was cut short when he contracted the Epstein-Barr virus, which forced him to skip the final
Sebastian Vettel says Ferrari needs to turn around its form before the summer break to have any chance of getting back into the Formula 1 title battle. Vettel is 55 points behind championship leader Lewis Hamilton after six races, while Ferrari trails Mercedes by 118 points in the constructors’ contest. Mercedes has won all six
The FIA will strongly reinforce instructions to marshals that they must not go on track without the permission of race control, following Sergio Perez’s near-miss at the Monaco Grand Prix. Racing Point Formula 1 driver Perez was lucky to avoid hitting two marshals who ran across the track in front of him in the Monte
Multiple Formula 1 teams have redefined their rear wing designs ahead of the Canadian Grand Prix in a quest to find more straightline performance at the Montreal circuit. Ferrari, Toro Rosso and Racing Point are just some of the teams to bring new rear wings to Canada, tailoring their aerodynamics to the demands of the
Citroen’s Sebastien Ogier fired strong accusations at Hyundai World Rally Championship team principal Andrea Adamo in the immediate aftermath of last weekend’s Rally Portugal. The six-time world champion accepted Hyundai ordering Dani Sordo and Sebastian Loeb to check in late to stages on Saturday and Sunday in order to give team leader Thierry Neuville a
Nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb will contest a pair of upcoming national rallies in a Hyundai i20 Coupe WRC, starting with next week’s Rallye Vosges French Rally Championship round. Vosges was the basis of France’s WRC round for five years, with Loeb celebrating a memorable seventh title on his home roads in the Alsace
The Canadian Grand Prix often serves up a thrilling race, but will Mercedes bring a new specification engine to retain its stranglehold on Formula 1 in 2019? In this video, Julia Piquet explains three things to look out for this weekend as the F1 grid heads to North America and the city of Montreal. Ferrari
Ferrari dominated the 2004 Formula 1 season with its F2004, crushing its rivals by winning 15 of that year’s 18 races and sealing both world championships early. Such dominance seemed inevitable by the time the season was in full swing, but the F2004’s leap in performance compared to its predecessor was so big that Ferrari
The introduction of hybrid power to NASCAR is “a matter of when, not if” according to Ford Performance’s motorsport boss Mark Rushbrook. The series looks to develop a next-generation powertrain from the 2022 season, with plans to introduce a new-specification of car – labelled the Gen-7 – for the 2021 season. The Gen-7 will feature
Daniel Ricciardo says there is “some substance” to the Renault Formula 1 team’s optimism that it can make a big step forward with its French Grand Prix update. Renault has had a difficult start to 2019, which has been impacted by early season reliability concerns forcing it to hold back on engine performance. But a
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