The Avintia MotoGP team has announced it has retained Tito Rabat for the next two seasons, ending speculation that the 2014 Moto2 champion could make a World Superbike switch. Rabat joined the Avintia team last season, but had his season cut short by a horror leg injury sustained in a crash during a wet practice
Month: July 2019
Craig Breen could get further outings with the Hyundai World Rally Championship team in Turkey and Britain, Autosport understands. The former Citroen driver has been called up by Hyundai for this week’s Rally Finland, which will be his first WRC start since the end of 2018. Sources in the team have admitted Breen’s deal could
Hyundai Motorsport director Andrea Adamo says his World Rally Championship team has done all it can to try to improve its Rally Finland form for this week’s event. WRC manufacturers’ championship leader Hyundai arrives at the Jyvaskyla-based event with significant upgrades to its i20 Coupe WRC. The team would not be drawn on the specifics
The R-Motorsport Aston Martin team will contest November’s Kyalami round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge ahead of a potential full-series entry in 2020. The Swiss DTM entrant has revealed that it will field two Aston Martin Vantage GT3s in the IGTC finale in South Africa on November 23 after the climax of its twin programmes
The form of privateer MotoGP rookie Fabio Quartararo has acted as “stimulation” for team-mates Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales, believes factory Yamaha team boss Lin Jarvis. Quartararo, 20, has scored three pole positions and two podium finishes at Barcelona and Assen respectively in his first nine MotoGP races with the Petroinas SRT Yamaha team. Why
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Erik Jones says he will “sleep a lot easier” after his second place at Pocono boosted his chances of qualifying for the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs. Jones is yet to score a victory that would guarantee a place in the playoff, with just six regular-season races remaining in 2019. The 16 drivers
Ryan Hunter-Reay says he was “baffled” by IndyCar points’ leader Josef Newgarden’s late attempt to steal a podium at Mid-Ohio. Hunter-Reay ended an 11-race streak without a podium to seal third behind the duelling Chip Ganassi Racing-run cars of Scott Dixon and Felix Rosenqvist, but a last lap clash threatened to ruin his race. At
Scott Dixon says that the Mid-Ohio IndyCar race proves that the championship has “the best racing in the world” after he beat team-mate Felix Rosenqvist. Dixon ran one less pitstop than Rosenqvist and managed to hold off his late-charging Chip Ganassi Racing team-mate, despite the pair touching wheels while fighting for the win. “You know,
NASCAR has unveiled the first details of its maiden double-header weekend at Pocono and suggested that the two races will be a distance of 350 miles each. Pocono is hosting a double-header of two races across June 27-28 instead of the usual two separate races on different summer weekends. The track has recently undergone a
Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson will get a new crew chief starting at this weekend’s Cup series race at Watkins Glen. After Johnson, who is without a win in 2019, finished 15th on Sunday’s Pocono race his Hendrick Motorsports team decided to make a change, with Cliff Daniels becoming his crew chief. Daniels was
Hayden Paddon says he was powerless to stop the testing crash that ruined his planned World Rally Championship return in Finland this week. The New Zealander hit a rock and went off the road in an M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC on Monday. This video shows the moment of impact with the rock – which tore
Felix Rosenqvist says racing his IndyCar team-mate Scott Dixon is like “playing with fire” and he would have been more aggressive against a non-Chip Ganassi Racing-run car at Mid-Ohio. The Chip Ganassi team-mates fought for victory as Rosenqvist closed in rapidly during the closing stages as he had better tyre life than Dixon. Most drivers
A crash in sixth gear while testing has ruled Hayden Paddon out of his return to the World Rally Championship with M-Sport on Rally Finland. The Kiwi was halfway through his pre-event test in the Ford Fiesta WRC when he hit a rock in a blind corner, sending him off the road at high speed.
Denny Hamlin believes he and his Toyota-powered Joe Gibbs Racing team “can win anywhere” after a third victory in 2019 at Pocono in the NASCAR Cup Series last weekend. Hamlin scored his first two NASCAR Cup wins at the Pennsylvania track in 2005-’06, and Sunday’s triumph was his fifth at the circuit after he stretched
Valentino Rossi has gone more than two years without a victory, and the nine-time world champion’s opening half of the 2019 campaign has been his worst in the MotoGP era. Difficulties finding a comfortable feeling with the 2019 Yamaha have led to a run of results devoid of any podiums since the third round and
Denny Hamlin prevailed despite fuel worries in a tense overtime period to lead home a Joe Gibbs Racing 1-2-3 in the NASCAR Cup race at Pocono. Hamlin and his team-mates Erik Jones and Martin Truex Jr were leading the race with a handful of laps of the scheduled 160 to run, while deploying the lift
Scott Dixon used an alternative strategy to claim his second victory of the 2019 IndyCar season, leading a Ganassi one-two ahead of Felix Rosenqvist at Mid-Ohio. Dixon was one of only two drivers – the other was polesitter Will Power – to utilise a two-stop strategy during the 90-lap contest, while most of his competitors
Porsche secured its first victory in the Spa 24 Hours since 2010 thanks to the GPX Racing squad at the end of a disrupted, rain-affected race. Kevin Estre, Michael Christensen, Richard Lietz took honours in the Gulf-liveried #20 Porsche 911 GT3-R, leading a one-two for the Weissach marque ahead of the #998 ROWE Racing car
The Grasser Lamborghini squad led the Spa 24 Hours when the race was red-flagged shortly after the 13-hour mark as the weather conditions deteriorated. Heavy rain resulted in the stoppage at approximately 5:40am local time after a lengthy full-course yellow virtual safety car period, with Christian Engelhart out front in the #63 Lamborghini Huracan GT3
The Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup points-leading SMP Racing Ferrari held a narrow advantage in the Spa 24 Hours after six hours. SMP trio Mikhail Aleshin, Davide Rigon and Miguel Molina had cycled into the lead in the #72 Ferrari 488 GT3 at the one-quarter mark at Spa, with Aleshin staying out on slick tyres
Penske’s Will Power stormed to pole position at Mid-Ohio with a late flying lap that proved nearly four tenths quicker than Andretti Autosport IndyCar rival Alexander Rossi’s best effort. Rossi looked set to secure the top spot in the closing seconds of the Fast Six session, having shaved two tenths from his prior session-leading benchmark,
Alexander Rossi has signed a new “multi-year” deal with Andretti Autosport, after months of speculation that he could move to another IndyCar team such as Penske. The announcement also coincided with team boss Michael Andretti confirming that his outfit will continue with Honda engines and Rossi is seen as a key driver for the manufacturer.
Bonaldi Motorsport’s Danny Kroes and Sergey Afanasiev moved into the lead of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe standings after claiming a win and second place at Spa. Having taken over from Afanasiev following the mandatory pitstop, Kroes made two decisive overtakes at Les Combes on team-mate and race one winner Jack Bartholomew and the polesitting
Bentley has hit out at the Balance of Performance for this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours after none of its four factory cars qualified in the top 20. Bentley motorsport boss Brian Gush questioned a 20kg swing in minimum weight for this weekend’s blue-riband round of the Blancpain GT Series between the marque’s Continental GT3, the
Colton Herta topped IndyCar practice at Mid-Ohio for Harding Steinbrenner Racing, while championship leader Josef Newgarden crashed. In the second session, Newgarden was lying 11th fastest when he headed out on Firestone red tyres, but when he dropped a wheel off the curb exiting Turn 9, the car spun through 180-degrees and went backwards the
Black Falcon Mercedes driver Maro Engel secured pole for the Spa 24 Hours after edging out Porsche driver Laurens Vanthoor by just 0.017 seconds in Friday’s superpole session. As Black Falcon’s #4 Mercedes AMG-GT3 had topped Thursday night’s first qualifying session, Engel was the 20th and final driver to head out and set his two
Indianapolis will host the American round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge in 2020. The eight-hour event is moving to the 2.61-mile road course at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, used for Formula 1’s United States Grand Prix in 2000-07 and an IndyCar round since 2014, from Laguna Seca. The event will take place on October 4
With pretty much all factory MotoGP contracts through to the end of 2020 secured last year, it was initially expected this year’s ‘silly season’ would be a tame affair. Until recently, it seemed all there would be to talk about would be a few midfield names potentially making team moves and a handful of Moto2
The Black Falcon Mercedes squad topped the times in first qualifying for the Spa 24 Hours ahead of the superpole session that determines the first 20 places on the grid. Factory drivers Maro Engel, Yelmer Buurman and Luca Stolz claimed the provisional pole for the blue-riband Blancpain GT Series round in the aggregate session on
Yamaha MotoGP boss team boss Lin Jarvis says he expects no “conflict” with Valentino Rossi over the timing of Italian legend’s eventual retirement. Rossi is under contract at Yamaha until the end of 2020, but has gone more than two years without winning a race and has suffered a poor run of recent form. The
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