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
Toyota LMP1 driver Jose Maria Lopez has dropped out of a planned appearance in the Spa 24 Hours with Audi. The Argentinian driver had been announced as part of the Land Motorsport’s line-up for the Belgian endurance classic, and was due to join Christopher Mies and Ricardo Feller in the team’s Audi R8 LMS in
Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff says Lewis Hamilton made “all the data look a little bit silly” when he took the fastest lap in the British Grand Prix. Hamilton had already been on his hard tyres for 31 laps when he decided to go for the extra point at the end of the
Alfa Romeo technical director Simone Resta will leave the team at the end of the month to rejoin his ex-Formula 1 employer Ferrari. Resta joined Alfa one year ago when it was entered in F1 as Sauber after establishing himself as an important part of Ferrari’s design team. Heading up Sauber/Alfa’s technical department gave Resta
Sage Karam and Conor Daly will return to the Carlin team for this weekend’s IndyCar race at Iowa. Karam made his return to competing on street courses for the first time in four years last weekend at Toronto and finished 21st, as he replaced Red Bull junior driver Patricio O’Ward who was contesting a Super
Elfyn Evans will miss next month’s World Rally Championship round Rally Finland after injuring his back at last week’s Rally Estonia, and will be replaced by Gus Greensmith. Evans finished the event in fourth place, but following physio work on his back, medical specialists have advised against tackling a rally of similar nature in a
Although Formula 1’s 2021 rules have not yet been finalised, the ideas are advanced enough for technical expert Giorgio Piola to imagine how the new generation of cars will look. Here, he offers more detail about the changes that will appear from 2021 as F1 bids to create a formula that allows cars to follow
William Storey is no longer associated with Rich Energy, UK government documents have confirmed – and in addition the company has been renamed Lightning Volt. Storey had been in dispute with shareholders of the company since last Wednesday, when he announced on Twitter that the sponsorship with the Haas F1 team has been terminated. Those
Three-time Toronto IndyCar winner Will Power says the crash that ended the Penske driver’s race last weekend on the penultimate lap was a “terrible mistake”. Power is behind both his Penske team-mates Josef Newgarden and Simon Pagenaud in the standings in fifth, and is yet to win a race while his team-mates have won three
The bump at Silverstone’s Brooklands corner that Daniel Ricciardo highlighted as something that could make MotoGP riders “pretty angry” was already known about before the Formula 1 weekend. Silverstone underwent a complete resurfacing this year after the previous asphalt laid in 2018 deteriorated substantially and a lack of drainage led to the cancellation of a