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
Toyota World Rally Championship team principal Tommi Makinen has repeated his call for the return of run-flat style mousse inserts for WRC tyres at Rally Turkey. Tyre mousse is a ring of foam put inside a tyre before it is fitted to a rim, allowing the tyre to stay at least partially inflated even after
Gus Greensmith rebounded from rolling and changing a tyre in a ditch to give the Ford Fiesta R5 Mk II a maiden World Rally Championship class win in Turkey. Greensmith, who had completed much of the development work on the British team’s second R5 car, was comfortably in control of the WRC’s main support category
Cal Crutchlow has dubbed fellow Honda MotoGP rider Marc Marquez’s victory in the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano a “miracle”, given their bike’s shortcomings. While Marquez saw off the challenge from the ascendant Yamahas to bag his seventh win of the season, Crutchlow scarcely troubled the top 10 through the weekend before crashing out
Rally Turkey winner Sebastien Ogier has urged his Citroen Racing team to push for further developments and not be distracted by its first World Rally Championship one-two in four years. The C3 WRC led for 15 out of 17 stages on the rough roads around Marmaris last weekend, with Ogier leading home team-mate Esapekka Lappi
Andrea Dovizioso says there is no point in being “p***** off” about the failings of his Ducati after a disappointing run to sixth at the MotoGP San Marino Grand Prix. Having recovered from his violent first-corner crash last time out at Silverstone, Dovizioso qualified sixth and finished in the same position at Misano, a little
Kyle Busch has blasted “pathetic” backmarkers after the Las Vegas NASCAR Cup Series race, following an incident with Garrett Smithley which led to a 19th place finish. Busch’s race started badly when he hit the wall at the exit of Turn 2 early on, forcing an out of sync pitstop and causing him to plummet
Two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso’s Dakar Rally preparation began with a roll during his first competitive rally-raid event with Toyota in South Africa last weekend, finishing 16th overall. Alongside new navigator Marc Coma, Alonso endured a turbulent start to his off-road career in the two-day Lichtenburg 400, a round of the South African Cross
Cal Crutchlow was among a number of MotoGP riders left baffled by the cause of their crashes during the San Marino Grand Prix. LCR rider Crutchlow, as well as his team-mate Takaaki Nakagami, Pramac’s Francesco Bagnaia, Suzuki rider Alex Rins and Ducati wildcard Michele Pirro all crashed out of the 27-lap Misano race. The low-grip
Maverick Vinales says he pace drop-off early in the MotoGP San Marino Grand Prix was a result of getting “disturbed a lot” by several front-end moments on his Yamaha. Vinales eased to pole position and looked the strongest on race pace, but dropped to over 2.5 seconds adrift of Petronas SRT’s Fabio Quartararo and eventual
M-Sport Ford World Rally Championship driver Elfyn Evans will be back in a rally car for the first time in more than two months this week, following a back injury. The Welshman has spent the last 10 weeks on the sidelines following the injury sustained at July’s Rally Estonia – a non-WRC event used as
Honda MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo admits his pace in the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano, his second race back from injury, was “worse than I expected”. Lorenzo finished 14th, 47 seconds behind race-winning team-mate Marc Marquez, as he continues to recover from the back injury he sustained in a practice crash at Assen in
Martin Truex Jr secured his spot in the next stage of the NASCAR Cup Series playoffs by winning the first race of the post-season at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. The Joe Gibbs Toyota driver came to the fore in the second stage of the 267-lap race and was consistently the fastest car on track as
Precision Performance Motorsport’s Brandon Gdovic moved to within just six points of the lead of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America championship after a double win at Laguna Seca. Gdovic, who shared the #46 Huracan with IndyCar Series regular Conor Daly, got the better of the championship-leading Change Racing pairing of Richard Antinucci and Corey
Valentino Rossi says he is seeking a “solution” to his current acceleration deficit to fellow Yamaha MotoGP riders Maverick Vinales and Fabio Quartararo. Yamaha put four bikes in the top five in the San Marino Grand Prix at Misano, but while Quartararo fought Marc Marquez for victory and Vinales was a close third behind the
Fabio Quartararo has hailed his battle with Marc Marquez at the MotoGP San Marino Grand Prix as the “best moment of my life”, despite it denying him a maiden victory. The Petronas SRT Yamaha rider grabbed the lead from works Yamaha counterpart Maverick Vinales on the run to the fast Curvone right kink on lap
Marc Marquez says the spat between himself and Valentino Rossi in MotoGP qualifying gave him “extra motivation” to win MotoGP’s Misano race, even though their altercation was not “necessary”. The Honda rider and Rossi tripped each other up in a controversial moment at the end of Q2 on Saturday when both were pushing for a
Sebastien Ogier secured his third World Rally Championship win of 2019 on Rally Turkey, beating Citroen team-mate Esapekka Lappi by almost 20 seconds. Ogier took the rally lead from Lappi at the end of Saturday after the Finn made a small mistake and overshot a corner, and continued to pull out time over his team-mate
Pol Espargaro has credited KTM’s “new ideas” following the Misano test for helping him to an “unbelievable” second place in MotoGP San Marino Grand Prix qualifying. Aided by a tow from Fabio Quartararo in the first half of the lap, Espargaro bagged KTM’s first-ever front row MotoGP start in the dry, lapping three tenths slower