The 2019 SUPER GT season is being broadcast live and for free by Motorsport.tv, and you can watch this weekend’s Sugo round live on Autosport. Honda was considered the firm favourite heading into the penultimate round of the season, and lived up to the expectation by locking out the front row in Saturday’s qualifying session.
Month: September 2019
Andretti Autosport will join forces with Harding Steinbrenner Racing via a partnership that means the former will field a fifth entry in the 2020 IndyCar season for Colton Herta. Herta became the youngest ever IndyCar winner with victory at Austin back in March, and he also scored poles at Road America and Portland. The #88
Jorge Lorenzo has dismissed the idea of quitting Honda’s MotoGP team a year early in the same way Johann Zarco has done with KTM, despite saying he is “not happy”. Zarco requested his two-year KTM deal be terminated early last month as he failed to find any form on the RC16, with the Austrian team
Aleix Espargaro says he “almost crashed three times” chasing Aragon Grand Prix polesitter Marc Marquez on his way to taking Aprilia’s first MotoGP qualifying top five spot in two years. Espargaro tucked in behind Marquez – who has been dominant at the Aragon round so far – for his final flying lap, and produced a
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing has announced it will retain 2017 Indianapolis 500 winner and former Formula 1 driver Takuma Sato for the ’20 IndyCar season. Sato rejoined RLLR at the start of 2018 after five seasons racing for the A J Foyt and Andretti squads, and has since has taken three victories. He is currently
KTM MotoGP rider Pol Espargaro will not take part in this weekend’s Aragon Grand Prix after fracturing his left wrist in a practice crash. Espargaro suffered a crash at Turn 9 during Saturday afternoon’s fourth practice session, and skipped the subsequent qualifying session after being taken to the medical centre. Later it was confirmed the
Honda’s Marc Marquez took pole position for the MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix by 0.327 seconds, despite intense pressure from Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo in the closing stages. Marquez was over a second clear of the field after Friday’s practices, and duly delivered on his status as favourite for his ninth pole of the year ahead
Valentino Rossi says the Yamaha MotoGP bike’s acceleration deficit is no longer as “embarrassing” as it was during last year’s Aragon Grand Prix. In 2018, the Motorland circuit was the scene of one of Yamaha’s worst performances in recent years, as Rossi and team-mate Maverick Vinales laboured to eighth and 10th places respectively – behind
MotoGP has issued an updated set of track limits guidelines in the wake of the controversial finish to last weekend’s Moto2 race at Misano. The new regulations are designed to avoid a repeat of the situation in the intermediate class last weekend, when Augusto Fernandez passed Fabio Di Giannantonio on the last lap after running
KTM boss Pit Beirer says Johann Zarco’s negative attitude following an “outstanding” Misano weekend made the team ‘lose hope’ in his situation improving, leading to his immediate ousting. Zarco had requested to be released from his two-year contract with KTM a year early, but both he and the team intended for him to see out
Suzuki’s Alex Rins topped a damp third MotoGP practice for the Aragon Grand Prix, having been one of only three riders to use slick tyres during the session. The track was drying out slowly from morning rain at the start of the session, and wet tyres were the preference for almost the entirety of FP3.
Koudai Tsukakoshi and Bertrand Baguette dominated SUPER GT qualifying at Sugo, as reigning champions Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto secured their first front-row start of 2019. Having topped the sole practice on Saturday morning for the penultimate round of the season, Honda squad Real Racing lowered the previous lap record by over half a second
Ryan Hunter-Reay put his Andretti Autosport Dallara-Honda on top in second practice for the IndyCar season finale at Laguna Seca. All but two entries ran the softer red-sidewalled Firestone tyre compound to set their best times, and it was Andretti Autosport driver Hunter-Reay who clipped 0.02 seconds from Felix Rosenqvist’s Chip Ganassi Racing entry to
Colton Herta led fellow IndyCar rookies Felix Rosenqvist and Santino Ferrucci in opening practice for the Laguna Seca finale, despite all three going off and Herta causing a red flag. Herta’s 1m10.734s lap in his Harding Steinbrenner Racing Dallara-Honda pipped Rookie of the Year points leader Rosenqvist of Chip Ganassi Racing by just 0.0719 seconds.
Jack Miller says Marc Marquez’s blistering 1m46.869s in MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix FP1 ‘f***ing hurt’, and believes the Honda rider has “another one in him”. Reigning world champion Marquez has won the past three races at Aragon, and kicked off this year’s event by topping FP1 by a whopping 1.6 seconds. He was fourth in
Marc Marquez admits he knew there was a “very big chance” he’d crash in MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix free practice, as he had to discover the hard front tyre’s limits. The Honda rider dominated Friday’s running with a lap of 1m46.869s set in FP1, which put him over a second clear of the field on
Maverick Vinales led Yamaha MotoGP team-mate Valentino Rossi in Aragon Grand Prix FP2, though Marquez held onto top spot on the combined times despite a small crash. Honda Marquez was dominant in FP1, leading Vinales by 1.6s, and continued to run the soft rear tyre at the start of second session in a bid to
One-time IndyCar champion Will Power says he “won’t play games” and influence the title fight between his Penske team-mates Josef Newgarden and Simon Pagenaud, as well as Andretti’s Alexander Rossi. Power, who finished second in testing at Laguna Seca on Thursday, says he will help Penske in the title fight, but only by taking the
Alexander Rossi says qualifying for this weekend’s IndyCar double-points season finale will be “critical” as overtaking at the series’ return to Laguna Seca is expected to be tough. Laguna Seca returns for the first time since 2004, and while the current generation of Indycar allows for closer racing than its predecessor, overtaking is expected to
MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez has warned race direction about the precedent set by the decision not to penalise Misano Moto2 race winner Augusto Fernandez. Fernandez beat local hero Fabio Di Giannantonio in a breathless late-race duel and his victory meant he closed to 28 points of Marquez’s brother Alex in the Moto2 title race.
Ousted KTM MotoGP rider Johann Zarco says it felt like his “heart was ripped out” by the Austrian manufacturer’s decision to drop him with immediate effect this week. The six-time MotoGP podium finisher was already on his way out of KTM, after he requested to have his two-year deal with the team terminated last month
Citroen is conducting a crucial pre-Rally GB test in Wales this week to decide whether it deploys suspension updates for the next World Rally Championship round. The team will not make a call on whether the new parts it has available for next month’s rally will be used in competition until the three-day test is
San Marino Grand Prix winner Marc Marquez says Fabio Quartararo proved at Misano he has the “potential” and the “talent” to fight for the MotoGP title in 2020. Quartararo came into MotoGP at the start of the year with the new Petronas SRT Yamaha team off the back of a largely difficult junior career in
Chip Ganassi Racing’s rookie star Felix Rosenqvist says the IndyCar Dallara-Honda is the most difficult car he has needed to master in his career. Despite not turning 28 until November, Rosenqvist has enjoyed a remarkably varied career since winning the Formula Renault Asia title back in 2007. His path since then has encompassed Formula Renault,
Martin Truex Jr says his Las Vegas NASCAR Cup win vindicates the direction his Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota squad has been working in, despite an extended run without victories. The current Cup Series points’ leader and 2017 champion hadn’t won on an oval since Charlotte in May, despite feeling like he has had the car
FIA president Jean Todt says the delay in delivery of the World Rally Championship calendar is a reflection of the series’ growing popularity. Present at last week’s Rally Turkey, the president of the sport’s governing body said the 2020 schedule of events would be announced in soon. FIA rally director Yves Matton admitted the October
Fabio Quartararo has made waves in his rookie premier class season with the Petronas SRT Yamaha team, scoring three pole positions and four podiums in his first 13 races in MotoGP. At Misano, he led for most of the 27-lap contest, resisting immense pressure from reigning world champion Marc Marquez up until the last tour.
Fabio Quartararo has made waves in his rookie premier class season with the Petronas SRT Yamaha team, scoring three pole positions and four podiums in his first 13 races in MotoGP. At Misano, he led for most of the 27-lap contest, resisting immense pressure from reigning world champion Marc Marquez up until the last tour.
Johann Zarco’s KTM deal was supposed to be a dream marriage of MotoGP’s rising star rider and team, but it has abruptly ended after 13 grands prix. He had come into MotoGP in 2017 as reigning double Moto2 world champion, and set tongues wagging on his debut on the Tech3 Yamaha in Qatar when he
KTM has dropped Johann Zarco from its MotoGP line-up effective immediately, replacing the Frenchman with test rider Mika Kallio for the rest of the 2019 season. Zarco, who joined the Austrian manufacturer on an initial two-year deal ahead of the current campaign, has struggled to adapt to its RC16 bike and was granted the request