NASCAR Cup Series points leader Martin Truex Jr said his spin on the way to a second victory in a row at Richmond “added some drama” to the race. Joe Gibbs Racing driver Truex was tagged by Ricky Stenhouse, but managed to avoid the wall and only fell from the lead to third, and a
Freshly-crowned double IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden says he was “dreading” the “chaotic” double points finale at Laguna Seca, which the Penske driver “hated”. Newgarden finished eighth with his closest title rival Alexander Rossi in sixth place, and it was enough to give the former a second title following his 2017 success. The Penske driver added
Maverick Vinales says the Yamaha’s deficit in power relative to the Ducatis meant he “had no chance” to defend a MotoGP Aragon Grand Prix podium late on. Vinales made his way up to second ahead of Pramac Ducati’s Jack Miller in the early stages of the 23-lap race, and at one stage was able to
Honda has announced Alvaro Bautista will join its factory World Superbike squad in 2020, ending speculation of a shock return to MotoGP with KTM for the current Ducati WSBK rider. Bautista, a MotoGP regular between 2010 and ’18, has so far won 15 races in his maiden WSBK campaign with Ducati and took 11 victories
Colton Herta fended off Will Power to win the IndyCar season finale at Laguna Seca as Josef Newgarden secured his second series title. Newgarden went into the first top-line US single-seater race at the California circuit since 2004 with a comfortable 41-point advantage in the championship table, and his eighth place finish was enough to
Valentino Rossi does not understand his “bad” pace in MotoGP’s Aragon Grand Prix, which left him 23.6 seconds from the win in eighth place. The Yamaha rider opted for the same hard rear, medium front tyre combination as works team-mate Maverick Vinales and the Petronas SRT M1 of Fabio Quartararo. While they finished fourth and
Marc Marquez put one hand on a sixth MotoGP world championship by securing a dominant victory at the Aragon Grand Prix from pole position. The Honda rider, making his 200th grand prix start, nailed his launch off the line and was already a second clear of the field by the end of the first lap,
B-Max pair Frederic Makowiecki and Kohei Hirate delivered Nissan’s first 2019 SUPER GT win in a rain-hit race at Sugo as early leaders Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto finished eighth. As the race got under way after three laps behind the safety car, front-row starter Button immediately sprinted past polesitter Koudai Tsukakoshi into Turn 1,
Felix Rosenqvist has slammed IndyCar race officials as “maybe having something against me” after his two fastest qualifying times were deleted at the Laguna Seca finale. Rosenqvist ran wide and spun on the exit of Turn 6, the left-hander leading onto the climb towards the Corkscrew, early in the second part of Laguna qualifying on
Joe Gibbs Racing driver Erik Jones has become the first person to be disqualified from a NASCAR Cup race under the series’ new crackdown on rules infringements. Jones – who finished 36th last weekend in the playoff opener at Las Vegas – was originally credited with a fourth-place finish on Saturday night at Richmond, part
Martin Truex Jr survived a spin to win the 2019 NASCAR Cup season’s second race at Richmond, taking his second victory in a row and his sixth this year. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver, who also won the track’s April Cup round, was tagged by Ricky Stenhouse Jr in the final stage and sent spinning,
Colton Herta claimed the third pole of his rookie IndyCar campaign by beating championship contenders Scott Dixon and Alexander Rossi in qualifying at the 2019 season finale at Laguna Seca. Herta, the son of two-time Laguna Seca winner Bryan Herta, who won two Champ Car races at the track in 1998 and ’99, set a
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.
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