The DragonSpeed team looks set to miss this weekend’s Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio as the team has encountered an issue with visas. The squad’s original schedule for its inaugural season in the series – with IndyCar rookie Ben Hanley its sole driver – included St Petersburg, Barber Motorsports Park, the Indianapolis 500, Mid-Ohio and
Month: July 2019
The DragonSpeed team looks set to miss this weekend’s Honda Indy 200 at Mid-Ohio as the team has encountered an issue with visas. The squad’s original schedule for its inaugural season in the series – with IndyCar rookie Ben Hanley its sole driver – included St. Petersburg, Barber Motorsports Park, the Indianapolis 500, Mid-Ohio and
Andrea Dovizioso believes Ducati’s MotoGP rivals have made more progress with their bikes in 2019 than his manufacturer has. Dovizioso, who scored four wins on his way to second place in the standings in 2018, sits 58 points behind Honda’s points leader Marc Marquez at the midpoint of the ’19 campaign. The Ducati rider took
Honda MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo will miss the next two races in the Czech Republic and Austria after the back injury he sustained in the Netherlands failed to heal sufficiently. Lorenzo suffered a fracture to his back in a crash during the first practice session for the Dutch TT weekend, which ruled him out of
Petter and Oliver Solberg will enter October’s Wales Rally GB as a two-car team to start one World Rally Championship career and bring another to a close. The Llandudno-based event is part of Petter’s farewell tour, having announced his retirement from top level motorsport in April, and he believes it is the perfect place to
Strakka Racing GT driver Nick Leventis has been banned from motorsport for four years by the FIA for an anti-doping violation, but has confirmed that he has “retired from motorsport”. Following the California 8 Hours in 2018, where Leventis had scored eighth overall in a Strakka Mercedes-AMG GT3 at Laguna Seca (pictured below), Leventis tested
Sometime IndyCar driver RC Enerson will make his return to the series at Mid-Ohio round, competing for Carlin in a race that was originally part of Patricio O’Ward’s deal. Enerson made three IndyCar outings with Dale Coyne Racing in 2016 and took a best finish of ninth at Watkins Glen and has since competed in
Hyundai and M-Sport Ford are trying to prise Ott Tanak away from Toyota, and the Estonian could be tempted away despite leading the World Rally Championship points’ standings. The 31-year-old has won three rallies so far this year in his Yaris WRC, but the occasional fragility of the car has fuelled rumours that he could
Schmidt Peterson Motorsport’s driver James Hinchcliffe says it is “kind of shocking” that it took him 12 IndyCar races to secure a podium in 2019, after finishing third at Iowa. The 2018 Iowa winner started fifth and remained in contention throughout the race and prevailed in a battle with Dale Coyne Racing’s Santino Ferrucci, pictured
Honda MotoGP test rider Stefan Bradl says Jorge Lorenzo can take the development of the RC213V in a “new direction” when Lorenzo returns from injury. Bradl was speaking while filling in for the injured Lorenzo at the Honda factory squad earlier this month at the Sachsenring, where he finished 10th – matching the result he
Toyota driver Denny Hamlin said he wouldn’t “completely screw” eventual winner and Ford driver Kevin Harvick in their fight for the New Hampshire NASCAR Cup Series race. Harvick and Hamlin emerged as the contenders for victory at Loudon, after a late caution neutralised the field. In the closing laps the pair touched, including on the
Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon said the behaviour of his Indycar through the Iowa weekend was bizarre as he fought back from two laps down to finish second in the race. Dixon qualified in eighth but struggled through most of the race and almost went two laps down before his team put him on an
MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez believes Yamaha riders Maverick Vinales and Fabio Quartararo will be his main competition in the second half of 2019, rather than the Ducati line-up. Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso has been Marquez’s main title rival since 2017, and Dovizioso is second in the standings after nine races in ’19, 58 points behind
Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick survived a final lap battle at New Hampshire with Denny Hamlin to clinch his first victory of the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Hamlin was leading throughout a large portion of the final stage before Kyle Larson hit the wall at Turn 1 and triggered a caution with
Four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel doubts the need for city-centre races like a London grand prix and is happier staying at Silverstone than Formula 1 trying “something fancy”. The British Grand Prix’s future has been secured to 2024 after circuit bosses struck a new deal with F1 ahead of the 2019 edition of the race.
Championship leader Josef Newgarden won the heavily delayed IndyCar Iowa 300, beating a hard-charging Scott Dixon in what was a dominant display by Team Penske. The race was delayed by almost five hours due to storms in the area, but when the race got underway Newgarden and Will Power almost immediately got past their polesitting
McLaren says addressing its weakness in slow speed corners is a ‘high priority’, in a bid to assert itself at the top of the Formula 1 midfield. The team has made good progress with its new MCL34, but it has been aware since the start of the campaign that it is lacking in slow-speed corners
Mercedes Formula 1 driver Valtteri Bottas has raised speculation that he will compete in a rally again in the near future after testing a Toyota Yaris WRC on Friday. Bottas made his competitive rally debut aboard a Ford Fiesta WRC in January’s Arctic Lapland Rally – finishing fifth overall in the snow-based event – and
Aston Martin will not “muscle in” on Honda’s Formula 1 engine supply deal with Red Bull but will “stand ready” to up its involvement should the Japanese manufacturer withdraw. The British company has had a title sponsorship deal with Red Bull since last year, expanding a pre-existing relationship that included an alliance with Red Bull
Simon Pagenaud claimed his second consecutive IndyCar pole position, as Penske dominated qualifying at Iowa Speedway. Pagenaud set a two-lap average speed of 180.073mph – the only driver to crack the 180mph mark – and a cumulative time of 35.745 seconds, beating team-mate Will Power by 0.5mph and 0.4s. Josef Newgarden, who was the last
Formula 1 has established a ‘rule breaking’ group using its top aerodynamic engineering staff to try and expose potential loopholes that could stop the 2021 regulations successfully improving racing. With F1 and the FIA now in discussions with teams about finalising the details of the new rules, there is a determination to ensure that the
Haas Formula 1 boss Gunther Steiner says he must come up with a “solution” to his clashing drivers because team instructions are not getting through to them. Romain Grosjean and Kevin Magnussen hit each other on the opening lap of the British Grand Prix, an incident that caused both to eventually retire and ruined Haas’s
Last year’s Iowa winner James Hinchcliffe says low sun in this weekend’s IndyCar race at the oval could prove “dangerous”, and that he is “disappointed” with the start time. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver Hinchcliffe – who is chasing a third win at the 0.894-mile oval – said the race will be more like dusk with
Formula 1 looks set to abandon high degradation tyres from 2021, as its bosses now admit it was “not the way” for the championship to go. The FIA and F1 owner Liberty Media are working on a revamp of the rules for 2021 that they hope will make the racing better and boost F1’s popularity.
Ferrari must see Red Bull’s upturn in form as a “further boost” to improve, says its Formula 1 team principal Mattia Binotto. After starting the season expecting to fight Mercedes for the title, Ferrari has failed to win a race this year whereas Red Bull claimed its first victory with Honda in Austria. Red Bull
The F1 organisation has extended Melbourne’s deal to host the Australian Grand Prix by a further two years, taking the race into the 2025 season. After a decade in Adelaide the event moved to the Victorian capital in March 1996, and it has been a regular fixture on the calendar ever since. It has been
The legal case between Russian chemical company Uralkali and the Force India Formula 1 administrators is set to go to trial in late 2020. Last summer Uralkali, led by Dmitry Mazepin, was one of the failed bidders that attempted to buy the struggling Force India team from administrators FRP Advisory LLP. It believes it made
Honda believes there is no “easy answer” to whether it and Red Bull have closed in on Mercedes and Ferrari as much as the last two Formula 1 races suggest. Max Verstappen won last month’s Austrian Grand Prix to give the Red Bull-Honda partnership its first victory, and should have finished on the podium in
Ott Tanak is at the centre of the World Rally Championship silly season for 2020, with the possibility of him moving away from Toyota despite currently leading the standings. Rallies editor David Evans joins Edd Straw in the latest episode of The Autosport Podcast to discuss both Tanak’s title hopes and how likely he is
Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc says his battle with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen at Silverstone was “the most fun race since I started in F1”. During the course of the race, Leclerc and Verstappen sparred on track – and went side-by-side in the pitlane – in the wake of the controversial the pair had in Austria
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