Petronas SRT Yamaha rider Fabio Quartararo led the way in second MotoGP practice of the Catalan Grand Prix weekend, beating Andrea Dovizioso by 0.281 seconds. The French rookie, who underwent arm pump surgery in the lead-up to the Barcelona round, beat Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso with a 1m40.079s at the chequered flag to end up as
Citroen will consider pulling Sebastien Ogier out of Saturday’s Rally Italy stages if the French firm feels there is nothing to gain from the C3 WRC running first on the road. Ogier retired from Rally Italy after breaking a steering arm on the final stage of Friday’s morning loop. Returning under Rally 2 regulations would
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen says there is too much self-interest from teams in Formula 1 and there needs to be “one person in charge” to sort the rules out properly. F1 has agreed to delay the publication of the 2021 rules this week and continues efforts to try to reach consensus over plans for the
Toyota’s Jari-Matti Latvala leads Rally Italy by 2.8 seconds over team-mate Ott Tanak, as World Rally Championship leader Sebastien Ogier retired with broken suspension. Ogier headed into Friday as rally leader courtesy of his stage win on Thursday’s superspecial stage, but fell to ninth as he fought against the conditions as the opening car on
Haas team principal Gunther Steiner says “there must be an end” to the team’s misfortunes in the 2019 Formula 1 season. Despite often having the fourth-fastest car this year, Haas is currently only eighth in the constructors’ championship. Its difficult Canadian Grand Prix was the fourth time in this season’s seven races that it has
Formula 1 teams and series chiefs have agreed to delay the presentation of the 2021 regulations until October, following a summit meeting on Thursday joined by world champion Lewis Hamilton. As reported by Autosport earlier this week, the FIA had invited teams to a get together at its headquarters to try to break the deadlock
Johann Zarco says KTM MotoGP test rider Dani Pedrosa’s feedback will validate whether his comments about the RC16 so far this season “are wrong or not”. Pedrosa, who retired from racing at the end of last year, stepped over to KTM from Honda as its official test rider, and resumed his duties following a five-month
Sebastien Ogier established an early 0.1-second lead on the World Rally Championship’s Rally Italy over Citroen team-mate Esapekka Lappi after the opening superspecial on Thursday night. Ogier raced championship rival Ott Tanak on the Ittiri Arena Show stage, and beat the Toyota driver by a mere 0.3s in what was the final heat. Lappi was
Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi says his recent visit to the “forbidden” Cavallara motocross venue was a way of keeping focus after the “shock” of the Italian Grand Prix. Rossi had endured a disastrous weekend at Mugello, failing to make Q2 and having his race compromised by a clash with Suzuki’s Joan Mir, before ultimately
Veteran engineer John Gentry has worked in almost every conceivable branch of motorsport – from Formula 1 to grand prix motorcycling, sportscars and touring car racing. In a special edition of the Autosport podcast, Gentry, who has worked with the likes of Chris Amon, Gilles Villeneuve, Derek Warwick, Elio de Angelis, Kevin Schwantz, Rickard Rydell,
Hyundai Motorsport director Andrea Adamo is happy to talk to Sebastien Ogier about the Frenchman’s allegations of ‘mean tactics’ at the last World Rally Championship round in Portugal. Ogier accused Adamo of instigating tactics which would impact on another competitor – with potential safety implications – on the stages of Rally Portugal. Ogier has no
Citroen team principal Pierre Budar is pushing the FIA to consider a change of regulations around testing in the World Rally Championship. The FIA reduced the number of test days available to each factory team from 55 to 42 at the start of the season. That change, allied to the relaxing of regulations on running
McLaren Formula 1 team boss Andreas Seidl says the FIA must stick to the principles of the 2021 regulations even if a delay in their publication allows time for changes. The rules were due to be ratified by the World Motor Sport Council on Friday, but the FIA and the F1 organisation have asked the
We go behind the scenes at the Montreal Shell Track Lab to find out what it’s really like to be part of the team that helps to power Scuderia Ferrari How long have you been working as part of the Shell Track Lab team? Since last summer. I’m very proud and honoured to be part
Carlos Sainz Jr and George Russell are proving to be the underdog stars of Autosport readers’ driver ratings after one third of the 2019 Formula 1 season. The McLaren driver and Williams’s rookie are currently fourth and fifth in the season-long aggregated ranking generated through Autosport readers’ votes in the driver ratings feature that runs
Andreas Mikkelsen is back in Hyundai’s World Rally Championship line-up for Sardinia this weekend, but his programme for the rest of the 2019 season remains uncertain. Hyundai went into the campaign intending to run Thierry Neuville and Andreas Mikkelsen at every round, with Dani Sordo and Sebastien Loeb alternating in the third car. But it
Valtteri Bottas says he cannot afford many weekends like the Canadian Grand Prix after getting “a bit of a wake-up call” in the Formula 1 title battle. Bottas has fallen to 29 points adrift of team-mate Lewis Hamilton, who took his fifth win from the first seven races of the season in controversial circumstances in
After a successful weekend entertaining and educating Formula 1 fans in Montreal, Shell House comes to an end. Here are the highlights from the Canadian Grand Prix event. It was been an exciting week in Montreal, with plenty of action both on and off the track. At Shell House, fans and special guests explored the
Jacques Villeneuve says Sebastian Vettel did nothing “dirty” to earn his penalty in Canada, opposed to Daniel Ricciardo’s defensive manoeuvre in the same Formula 1 race. Vettel was penalised five-seconds as he was deemed to have rejoined the track unsafely after a mistake sent him over the grass at Turn 3 as he battled Lewis
Toyota has played down speculation that ex-Formula 1 driver Fernando Alonso could make his World Rally Championship debut on Rally Spain later this year. Despite social media speculation in the last week, it has been suggested that a fourth Toyota Yaris WRC at Rally Spain will be used by Takamoto Katsuta rather than Alonso. The
Ferrari has admitted that it “forgot” to tell Charles Leclerc about the five-second penalty handed down to Sebastian Vettel in the Canadian Grand Prix. Vettel was given the punishment for not rejoining the track safely after he had made a mistake and cut across the first chicane, and forced Lewis Hamilton to slow to avoid
Team Penske’s Joey Logano survived a two-lap shootout to score a dominant win at Michigan and take the NASCAR Cup Series points’ lead with his second win of the season. With just four laps of the intended 200 to run in the race which was delayed 24-hours because of rain, Erik Jones’ #20 Joe Gibbs
Mercedes did not know if Canadian Grand Prix winner Lewis Hamilton would even start the race because his Formula 1 car was in “a million bits” on Sunday morning. Hamilton claimed his fifth victory in seven grands prix this season after a race-long battle with Sebastian Vettel, who won on the road but was dropped
Haas Formula 1 team boss Gunther Steiner says an unsuccessful race set-up gamble triggered the radio rant from Kevin Magnussen that forced the Haas boss to intervene. Magnussen started from the pitlane after his huge crash in Q2 led Haas to switch to the spare chassis and a new gearbox, obliging the crew to work
Hyundai World Rally team boss Andrea Adamo wants to apologise to Sebastien Loeb for letting him down on Rally Portugal, feeling the nine-time champion’s time was wasted. Portugal was Loeb’s penultimate outing in his current part-time Hyundai deal, but fuel problems on stage three wrecked his weekend. Dani Sordo ran into similar issues. Is Loeb’s
KTM MotoGP test rider Dani Pedrosa will make his racing comeback at the Goodwood Revival’s Barry Sheene Memorial Trophy races on a 500cc Paton. The 31-time premier class race winner retired from racing at the end of last season, leaving Honda to take up his role with KTM. Pedrosa will pilot a 4-stroke 500cc twin-cylinder
Renault Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo said he enjoyed “making life difficult” for Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas in the Canadian Grand Prix. Bottas had only qualified sixth after a spin on his first Q3 run in Montreal, while Ricciardo secured the best grid spot of his Renault career so far in fourth. In the race the
The Ferrari Formula 1 team says it has notified the FIA that it intends to appeal the penalty that cost Sebastian Vettel victory in the Canadian Grand Prix. Vettel was given a five-second time penalty, as the stewards judged he had rejoined the track in an unsafe manner and forced Lewis Hamilton to take evasive
The NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan has been postponed until Monday following persistent light rain that left cars unable to complete more than a handful of formation laps. The race, which was due to begin at 2pm local time on Sunday, has been pushed back to 5pm on Monday. NASCAR attempted to begin it
M-Sport Ford World Rally Championship driver Teemu Suninen has switched co-driver, with Jarmo Lehtinen returning to rallying’s top flight to join his Finnish compatriot. Suninen said the switch had come as he sought a more experienced co-driver for the rest of the season, starting with Rally Italy next weekend. Lehtinen, who has 169 WRC starts