The NASCAR Cup Series believes it is receiving less “negativity” over its new-for-2019 aero package now it has been raced on almost every type of circuit. The arrival of the aero package was most notably criticised by Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch, who believed the changes would take away the driver skill and later said
The Williams Formula 1 team has a major upgrade planned it hopes will bring “significant performance” to its car over the middle part of the 2019 season. Williams has started the season at the back of the pack after various setbacks for its new challenger, including a late start to testing and modifications to ensure
Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville has called on the FIA to give the World Rally Championship a permanent rally officiator, along the lines of Formula 1’s race director role. Neuville has requested the change following the decision to give him a notional time on the second stage of Rally Chile. In that event, Neuville’s SS2 El
Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes’ first Formula 1 engine upgrade of the season is among the improvements he expects to see for the next race in Canada. Mercedes has dominated the start of the 2019 season, winning all six races and scoring two podium finishes at every grand prix. Hamilton won the previous race in Monaco
Mercedes remains unbeaten six races into the 2019 Formula 1 season, but is the only engine manufacturer yet to have introduced an upgraded specification. Lewis Hamilton has claimed four of Mercedes’ six victories – which also includes five one-two finishes – and the world championship is expecting to get his hands on a more potent
Pramac Ducati rider Jack Miller says Marc Marquez’s “mistake management” is a major asset in the reigning MotoGP champion’s armoury. Marquez has emerged as the early favourite for the 2019 premier-class riders’ title, and leads the standings after winning three of the first five races. Miller battled with Marquez for the lead in the early
We’ve teamed up with the British GT Championship to offer you a once-in-a-lifetime experience at its most prestigious event – the Silverstone 500 – on June 9! One lucky winner will take a pre-race ride in the McLaren safety car, wave the chequered flag as the winners cross the line, and present the event’s historic
Williams Formula 1 driver Robert Kubica believes he silenced any sceptics who thought he “would not even be able to turn the steering wheel” in the Monaco Grand Prix. Kubica was absent from the F1 grid for more than eight years after his right arm was almost severed in a rallying crash in early 2011,
Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff believes falling behind in the 2019 Formula 1 world championship battle will “annoy the hell out of” Valtteri Bottas and prompt a fightback. Bottas led the standings after beating team-mate Lewis Hamilton in Azerbaijan at the end of last month. But defeat in Spain and then only finishing fourth in
Sebastian Vettel thinks Ferrari’s Formula 1 car is not as bad as it looks, despite Mercedes taking its sixth straight victory at the start of 2019 at Monaco last weekend. Vettel finished runner-up to Lewis Hamilton, but only after a penalty was applied to Max Verstappen’s race time, following a pitlane incident with Valtteri Bottas
The Pramac MotoGP team has been in contact with Moto2 frontrunner Alex Marquez, as it faces a conundrum over the specifications of the Ducati bikes it will run in 2020. The Italian satellite outfit currently runs a factory-specification Desmosedici GP19 for Jack Miller and a year-old GP18 for rookie Francesco Bagnaia in the premier class.
From a needless FP3 crash in 2018 to a patient challenge for victory this year, the two most recent Monaco Grands Prix typify just how much Max Verstappen has matured. The Monte Carlo race was the nadir of Verstappen’s 2018 campaign, as a crash in final practice – amid a run of high-profile incidents at
McLaren CEO Zak Brown says that the company’s future involvement in the Indianapolis 500 is not tied to a decision by Fernando Alonso to continue with the team. Alonso failed to qualify for this year’s race after facing a catalogue of problems and McLaren is reviewing how and if it will tackle the race in
The Monaco Grand Prix was yet another difficult weekend for Ferrari and, even before Charles Leclerc’s qualifying and race disasters, a chasmic Formula 1 performance deficit to Mercedes remained obvious. Ferrari has openly admitted it is working to address its problem but, as Scott Mitchell and Edd Straw discuss in our latest video, identifying whether
Williams Formula 1 driver George Russell says he thought he was in the fight for sixth place at one stage during Sunday’s Monaco Grand Prix. Russell outqualified Robert Kubica, taking the penultimate slot on the grid, but fell behind his team-mate on the first lap. He then pitted for hard tyres – which meant he
Graham Rahal says IndyCar rival Sebastien Bourdais’ driving was dangerous ahead of their Indianapolis 500 collision that led to a multi-car accident and a red flag. Rahal was trying to overtake Bourdais on the inside when they tangled in the closing stages. “I just got a killer run, and I was lifting to just manage
Kevin Magnussen was so frustrated with his disappointing Monaco GP that he was hoped the “engine would blow up”, but does not blame his Haas Formula 1 team. Magnussen started fifth and best of the midfield teams in Monaco, but lost a place to Daniel Ricciardo at the start. Like Ricciardo, Magnussen then fell down
NASCAR All-Star race winner Kyle Larson admitted he was completely at fault for the biggest crash of the 600-mile Cup championship round at Charlotte. Ganassi driver Larson’s victory in the previous weekend’s non-points race had turned around a previously miserable 2019 season. He was among the frontrunners late in Sunday night’s main event when he
Defending European Rally champion Alexey Lukyanuk has been handed 10 days of community service as punishment for two speeding offences on last weekend’s Rally Liepaja. Both incidents were captured via the GPS safety system fitted to all rally cars in the ERC. Lukyanuk’s Citroen C3 R5 was found doing 124.9km/h (78mph) in a 50km/h (31mph)
Ducati’s sporting director Paolo Ciabatti says the team’s early worries over Danilo Petrucci have now been eased, as it nears decision time for its 2020 MotoGP line-up. Unlike team-mate Andrea Dovizioso, works team newcomer Petrucci has a contract that runs out at the end of the year. His former Pramac Ducati team-mate Jack Miller is
IndyCar team owner Roger Penske has dismissed suggestions that his Indianapolis 500 winner Simon Pagenaud could lose his seat for 2020. Pagenaud won the IndyCar title in his second year with Penske in 2016, but went winless last season – leading to speculation that he might be dropped for his Indy 500 sparring partner Alexander
Alexander Rossi felt the main reason for his Indianapolis 500 defeat was a Honda straightline-speed deficit, and he was also fuming over pitstop delays and backmarker Oriol Servia’s driving. Rossi charged into contention in the second half of the race, and was achieving better fuel mileage in his Honda-powered Andretti Autosport car than eventual winner
Lewis Hamilton had to fend off attacks from Max Verstappen amid major tyre worries to take his third victory in Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix. Winning under big pressure in Monte Carlo earned comparisons to Ayrton Senna resisting Nigel Mansell in a similar manner in 1992, but in the post-race Autosport podcast Scott Mitchell and
Joe Gibbs Racing’s Martin Truex Jr survived an early impact with the wall to claim victory in the 600-mile NASCAR Cup series race at Charlotte. With just 10 laps of the scheduled 400 left to run, Brad Keselowski spun his Penske Ford into the pitlane with a flat tyre, which brought out the 17th caution
Penske’s Simon Pagenaud won a ferocious late fight with Alexander Rossi to claim his first victory in the Indianapolis 500. Poleman Pagenaud had controlled most of the first half of the race, but Andretti Autosport driver Rossi’s car came on stronger after the third round of pitstops and began to rapidly advance towards the front.
Kevin Magnussen has been given a post-race penalty by the Monaco Grand Prix Formula 1 stewards for jumping the chicane while battling Sergio Perez. Magnussen joins Max Verstappen, Romain Grosjean and Lance Stroll in receiving penalties that shuffled the on the road finishing order. Haas driver Magnussen was holding off Perez when the Mexican launched
Oliver Solberg, the son of 2003 World Rally champion Petter, has won the European Rally Championship’s Rally Liepaja on his debut in the category’s top class. The 17-year-old beat reigning ERC champion Alexey Lukyanuk by 22.7 seconds after winning 10 of the 13 stages in Latvia. The result made Solberg the youngest rally winner in
Lewis Hamilton survived late contact with Max Verstappen to win Formula 1’s Monaco Grand Prix, as an incident in the pitlane with Valtteri Bottas ultimately cost Verstappen second place. Hamilton resisted more than 60 laps of pressure from Verstappen to hold on to victory despite having to manage softer tyres than his pursuers. As Verstappen
Marco Andretti says being “less fixated” on lap times leaves him well-placed to end his family’s Indianapolis 500 drought in the 2019 race. Andretti is driving a dayglo-orange Andretti-Herta Autosport Dallara-Honda as he marks the 50th anniversary of his grandfather Mario’s Indy 500 win in the STP-liveried Hawk. Mario made 29 Indy 500 starts, his
Lexus took a 1-2-3 finish in the Suzuka SUPER GT race, as reigning champions Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto finished a lap down after incurring a puncture. Yamamoto had started the race from seventh on the grid in the Kunimitsu Honda, and took little time to overtake Hideki Mutoh, barging past the Mugen Honda driver