Imperiale Racing duo Vito Postiglione and Kikki Galbiati closed to within just five points of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo points lead following a pair of dominant victories at the Nurburgring. The Bonaldi Motorsport crew of Danny Kroes and Sergei Afanasiev continue to lead the championship ahead of the final two rounds at Jerez next month,
James Hinchcliffe will stay on with what will become McLaren Racing SP into the 2020 IndyCar Series season. McLaren’s new partnership with what is currently Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsport means a switch from Honda to Chevrolet engines. Hinchcliffe, an SPM driver since 2015, has long-standing ties with Honda and well-placed sources had suggested American Honda
Denny Hamlin was disqualified from NASCAR Xfinity Series victory at Darlington in the highest-level use of the category’s new approach to rules infractions so far. NASCAR has historically dealt with technical infringements via fines, points deductions and personnel suspensions because it was reluctant to confuse the picture for fans by changing race winners retrospectively. But
Harding Steinbrenner Racing’s Colton Herta secured the second pole position of his rookie IndyCar season in qualifying at Portland, nudging out Will Power with the last lap of the session. Herta, who also took pole at Road America, initially completed a series of laps on the slower, black-walled Firestone tyres in the early stages of
FFF Racing’s Andrea Caldarelli and Marco Mapelli moved into the lead of the Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe after leading a Lamborghini one-two in the first race at the Nurburgring. The #563 Huracan GT3 started sixth on the grid but made inroads into the advantage of the leading Lamborghini of Mirko Bortolotti and Christian Engelhart
Grasser Racing’s Mirko Bortolotti claimed pole position for the opening Blancpain GT World Challenge Europe race at the Nurburgring. Bortolotti set a best time of 1m54.926s to put his #63 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 just six hundredths of a second clear of the championship-leading Black Falcon Mercedes of Luca Stolz. The similar Lamborghini of Marco Mapelli
Sebastien Bourdais topped the second practice at IndyCar’s Portland round moments before crashing, while Colton Herta set the quickest lap across the two sessions. Bourdais’ Dale Coyne Racing-run car had just edged prior pacesetter Will Power of Penske by 0.0289s when he locked up going into the final corner and hit the tyre wall. But
Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson is on the cusp of missing the playoffs title shootout for the first time in his career, with just two races until the cut-off. After the upcoming Darlington and Indianapolis races over the next two weekends, the Cup points will be reset to create a 16-driver championship fight field
Fabio Quartararo was once again fastest at the Misano MotoGP test, after topping Friday’s running by 0.476s over Ducati’s Danilo Petrucci. The rookie edged out Petronas SRT team-mate Franco Morbidelli in Thursday’s afternoon session at the San Marino Grand Prix venue by just 0.023s. Quartararo was passed fit to ride just days after his heavy
M-Sport Ford’s Elfyn Evans will miss a third round of the World Rally Championship due to his back injury, and not return until his home event in Britain in October. Evans sustained the injury in a bad landing from a jump when contesting the non-championship Rally Estonia in July. He has already missed the Finnish
Fresh from suffering a mild concussion in a crash at the British Grand Prix, Fabio Quartararo topped the first day of MotoGP testing at Misano by 0.023 seconds. Quartararo highsided exiting the first corner at the start of last Sunday’s Silverstone race, with Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso launching over the top of the rookie’s stricken Petronas
The Hyundai World Rally Championship team has to stop relying on its rivals to falter, says team boss Andrea Adamo as he hit out at a “wasted” Rally Germany opportunity. Dani Sordo was comfortably in the fight for a podium on last weekend’s event before a gearbox issue halted his progress on the Friday, forcing
Malcolm Wilson has not given up on re-signing Ott Tanak from Toyota, but says Ford’s involvement will be key to bringing the World Rally Championship leader back to M-Sport. Tanak has recently looked likely to re-sign with Toyota following the end of his current contract with the team in 2019. But Wilson met with Tanak
Enzo Ide, the 2016 Blancpain GT Sprint champion, is in an artificial coma in Bruges following an accident at home, but his condition is reported to be stable. Ide, who won his title in a WRT Audi R8 LMS GT3, was found at home by his wife in a confused state on August 13 and
MotoGP has officially announced its 2020 calendar, including the return of the Finnish Grand Prix. As Autosport revealed last weekend, the planned schedule also includes the Thai round moving from late in the season to near the start. The draft calendar released on Wednesday notes that the Finland round is “subject to FIM homologation” of
Valentino Rossi says Yamaha is now delivering updates to improve its MotoGP bike that he has been requesting for “two and a half years”. Rossi started the year with two podiums, but has failed to return to the rostrum since then while works team-mate Maverick Vinales won at Assen and Petronas SRT’s Fabio Quartararo has
Jack Miller says he had to take the opening corners of MotoGP’s British Grand Prix as if he was on a “chopper”, after his Ducati’s holeshot device failed to disengage. Pramac rider Miller has been using the holeshot device – which lowers the bike to improve acceleration off the start – since last year’s Japanese
Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales says he was “in shock” at being able to maintain his pace late on in the British Grand Prix and close in on the leaders. Vinales secured his third podium finish in the last five races at the scene of his maiden MotoGP win in 2016, ending up just over
Ex-Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson admits his IndyCar future is uncertain now his Arrow Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team has joined forces with McLaren for 2020. The former Sauber driver switched to IndyCar for 2019 following the loss of his F1 drive and retained links to F1 by becoming Alfa Romeo’s third driver. Ericsson is 17th
Toyota World Rally Championship team principal Tommi Makinen has promised to investigate the brake issue that affected the final day of Ott Tanak’s Rally Germany victory last weekend. The Yaris WRC has come in for criticism over reliability, most notably when Tanak lost Rally Italy victory due to a steering problem and technical problems has
Suzuki rider Joan Mir will return to MotoGP action at this week’s two-day Misano test after missing the last two races through injury. Mir was forced onto the sidelines when he suffered a 300km/h (186mph) Turn 1 crash during post-race testing at Brno earlier this month, and was diagnosed with lung contusions. Having spent several
Penske’s Josef Newgarden has hit out at IndyCar rookie Santino Ferrucci for causing the championship contender to spin at the last corner of the Gateway race. Dale Coyne Racing’s Ferrucci had led 97 laps of the total 248 laps before he dropped to sixth due to an untimely caution but recovered to fourth at the
MotoGP teams will receive a draft 2020 calendar this week, which includes a change of date for the Thailand race, and the provisional slot for the returning Finnish Grand Prix. The Thai race, which made its debut on the calendar last season, was originally expected to be grouped with another of the Pacific end-of-season flyaways
Jorge Lorenzo feels he’s “out of danger” after making it through his “survival” MotoGP British Grand Prix return weekend, and is confident he can push harder in the next races. Lorenzo fractured his back in a crash during practice for the Dutch TT at the end of June, and had to miss that plus the
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing’s Takuma Sato says the support he has received since his involvement in a multi-car accident at Pocono has helped make his IndyCar Gateway victory more special. Sato came under fire from some quarters who believed he was the instigator of the five-car accident on the first lap of the last IndyCar
World Rally Championship leader Ott Tanak hopes Toyota’s 1-2-3 Rally Germany finish will help motivate his team to “push forward” after “tension” following Rally Italy earlier this season. Tanak dropped from the lead to fifth on the last stage in Sardinia, pictured below, – handing victory to Hyundai’s Dani Sordo – following a steering problem
MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez says he followed a British Grand Prix strategy that would minimise his possible points loss, rather than one that would help him win the race. Marquez started from pole at Silverstone and led 18 of the first 20 laps, but ultimately fell prey to a final-corner move from Alex Rins
Valentino Rossi was unable to capitalise on his second-place MotoGP British Grand Prix starting spot, after an early tyre issue resigned him to a distant fourth. The Yamaha rider ran with Honda’s Marc Marquez in the opening laps, but was quickly usurped by eventual race winner Alex Rins on the Suzuki and his Yamaha team-mate
Johann Zarco has been handed a three-place grid penalty for next month’s Misano MotoGP race after wiping out fellow KTM rider Miguel Oliveira during the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Zarco and Oliveira came to blows on the ninth lap of 20 during Sunday’s race while fighting over 12th position as Zarco attempted a move
British Grand Prix winner Alex Rins says he was nearly left to rue a “very big mistake” in the race, as he lost track of the number of laps during his fight with Marc Marquez. Rins bested championship leader Marquez in an exhilarating late-race duel at Silverstone that culminated in Rins’ last-gasp pass and yielded