Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The start time of MotoGP’s 2019 season-opening Qatar Grand Prix could be changed after riders voiced safety concerns in testing. Carmelo Ezpeleta, head of MotoGP promoter Dorna, has revealed the race will potentially start an hour earlier than the currently-planned
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rally Sweden’s defiance at FIA recommendations not to run historic cars in the middle of its World Rally Championship round could jeopardise the event’s future in the series. In an effort to balance its books, the second round of the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren set the pace on the opening day of the second Formula 1 pre-season test, but all the action that really mattered went on behind Lando Norris on the timing screens. After banking as many laps as possible in week
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes’ oil pressure problem in Barcelona Formula 1 testing hampered the team’s chance to fully evaluate its new aerodynamic package. F1’s champion squad arrived at the final week of pre-season running with substantial revisions to its W10 design. Lewis Hamilton
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso says it’s “impossible” to draw any meaningful conclusions from the Qatar MotoGP test, as every bike appeared strong in the “strange” conditions. While Ducati concluded the previous winter test in Sepang by locking out the top four positions,
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-McLaren Formula 1 chief Eric Boullier says aiming for “something different” pushed him towards his new French Grand Prix role, because he was not “desperate” to stay in the paddock. Boullier returned to the F1 paddock on Tuesday at the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso will run the number 66 on his return to the Indianapolis 500 with McLaren this year. Alonso – who returns to complete the Indy 500 as the final part of his bid for the ‘Triple Crown’ of motorsport
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin factory driver Alex Lynn will join an expanded Blancpain GT Series campaign by the R-Motorsport squad in 2019. The former Williams Formula 1 development driver will contest the five BGTS Endurance rounds in one of the two new
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez claims he is now in a position to fight for the podium in 2019’s MotoGP season-opening Qatar Grand Prix after a slow start to the final pre-season test at Losail. The reigning world champion declared Honda was lagging
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. How big is Ferrari’s advantage? Is Mercedes really in trouble? Is Red Bull-Honda right to be so confident? Week two of Formula 1 pre-season testing begins with many unanswered questions. On the eve of the final winter test beginning at
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Martin Truex Jr blamed backmarkers for his narrow defeat in the Atlanta NASCAR Cup Series race. In his second event with Joe Gibbs Racing, 2017 Cup champion Truex appeared to have the fastest car late in the race but fell
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales concluded 2019 MotoGP pre-season testing by setting the fastest time of the week in Qatar, leading a Yamaha one-two ahead of satellite rider Fabio Quartararo. Vinales, who began the Qatar test by topping Saturday’s opening day of running
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Racing Point Formula 1 technical director Andrew Green says the investment from its new owners has made a big difference – joking that it can finally afford an IT upgrade. The former Force India team is already planning to increase
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport has proved to itself and its World Rally Championship opposition that it is still a team to be feared, says boss Rich Millener. After a fraught winter in which the team’s participation in the 2019 WRC was in doubt,
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Atlanta NASCAR Cup race winner Brad Keselowski admitted that the illness he suffered during the weekend had made him question whether he would be fit enough to compete. Penske called up its Xfinity Series driver Austin Cindric as a substitute
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three-time European Rally champion Kajetan Kajetanowicz is set to contest his first full season in the World Rally Championship’s WRC2 class in 2019, switching from Ford to Volkswagen machinery. Following a hat-trick of ERC titles between 2015 and ’17, Kajetanowicz
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR rider Cal Crutchlow admits he is “not even close” to being ready for the 2019 MotoGP season opener in Qatar with just one day of pre-season testing to go. Crutchlow concluded the penultimate day of pre-season running at Losail
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo has admitted that his first MotoGP races with Honda are likely to be “difficult”, despite making improvements on the second day of testing in Qatar. Lorenzo was only 21st on the opening day of the Losail test, the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas feels he has not “achieved anything” in Formula 1 yet, as he targets a championship challenge for 2019. Bottas scored nine grand prix podiums for his first F1 outfit Williams, establishing himself as the team’s lead
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The organisation behind McLaren’s first two generations of GT3 contender will run Aston Martins in 2019 following its split from its former partner. The company formerly known as CRS, which developed the MP4-12C and 650S GT3 racers as McLaren GT,
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi admits he is “worried” by the top speed deficit Yamaha faces compared to its MotoGP rivals after a subdued second day of Qatar pre-season testing. On the penultimate day of 2019 pre-season running, Rossi ended up down in
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brad Keselowski overcame illness to win the NASCAR Cup race at Atlanta, claiming a first regular season victory for Ford’s new Mustang. The Penske driver, who sat out much of practice, held off a charging Martin Truex Jr in the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP is set to add the ‘long lap penalty’ to the list of punishments available to stewards for the start of the 2019 season. The new initiative requires penalised riders to ride through a specially-marked area off-track, and was trialled
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki’s Alex Rins narrowly beat Maverick Vinales to the fastest time on the second day of MotoGP’s pre-season test in Qatar. As was the case on day one, factory Ducati duo Danilo Petrucci and Andrea Dovizioso spent the most time
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sometime GP2 racer and Racing Point Formula 1 test and simulator driver Nick Yelloly has been named a BMW factory driver for the 2019 season. Yelloly, 28, made two race appearances for BMW last year in the Blancpain GT Series
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso and Valentino Rossi have both voiced their approval of the in-race penalty system being trialled at MotoGP’s Qatar pre-season test. Race direction held a special meeting with riders to explain the new system shortly before the start of
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo thinks Renault’s Formula 1 progress will be boosted by the fact he and team-mate Nico Hulkenberg are on the “same page” with what they want from their car. Ricciardo has switched to Renault for 2019 after a five-year
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Junior World Rally Championship opener in Sweden last weekend could have been cancelled but for an overnight effort by M-Sport Poland to rectify a technical problem. M-Sport Poland, which prepares the cars for the full JWRC field, discovered an
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez believes Ducati and Yamaha are both “far” ahead of Honda after the opening day of MotoGP pre-season testing in Qatar. Honda had a quiet start to the Qatar test, with Marquez and factory team-mate Jorge Lorenzo 10th and
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton mixed up his training regime over the winter to bulk up under Formula 1’s new driver weight rules, and says he is in his best condition ever. The five-time world champion pledged to become a “different athlete” last