Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says Yamaha must strive to keep progressing throughout 2019 after its strong start to MotoGP pre-season testing. Yamaha carried the strong form it showed in the first test of 2019 at Sepang into the opening day of running
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Albon is “exceeding expectations” and “ticked all the boxes” in Formula 1’s first pre-season test at Barcelona last week, says Toro Rosso’s deputy technical director Jody Egginton. Albon, who finished third in F2 last season, had not driven an
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo admits he remains “very far” from feeling comfortable on Honda’s MotoGP bike after concluding the first day of Qatar pre-season testing down in 21st place. Lorenzo was making his first outing since last November as the final winter
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales kicked off the final pre-season MotoGP test in Qatar on top as Marc Marquez suffered his first crash since his shoulder operation. Reigning champion Marquez’s fall occurred at the final corner, but his crash was a
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nico Hulkenberg believes the 2019 Formula 1 rear wing is like a “parachute” – and the extra drag means that it is harder to compare Renault’s latest engine with last season’s. For 2019, the FIA has mandated a larger rear
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Mexican Grand Prix’s future is “not looking good” and it could be out of Formula 1 for decades if it loses its calendar slot, fears Sergio Perez. The current contract for the Mexico City race ends this season, and
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Blancpain GT Series Mercedes seat alongside reigning champion Raffaele Marciello has been filled by Vincent Abril, whose departure from Bentley was announced this week. Abril, who had been due to be part of the factory Bentley line-up in 2019,
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso technical director Jody Egginton has hailed Honda’s first week of 2019 Formula 1 pre-season testing as “fantastic”. Honda’s first week supplying two teams in the V6 turbo-hybrid era was very productive, as its new team Red Bull and
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM CEO Stefan Pierer believes the money it would take to sign five-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez is better spent developing its RC16 premier-class bike. Honda rider Marquez has been long linked with a potential future KTM switch due to
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 technical chiefs are now predicting that the 2019 cars will be faster than last year, despite the rule changes having originally been expected to slow them down. F1’s aerodynamic regulations have been altered for this season with the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three McLaren Formula 1 team members have been given medical treatment after a fire occurred in the squad’s garage at the Barcelona circuit. Along with Racing Point and Williams, McLaren had been running its new MCL34 machine as part of
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso has agreed to release James Key to take up his new position of McLaren technical director just after the start of the 2019 Formula 1 season. Key will officially leave Toro Rosso on March 23 and begin working
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia became the sixth and final MotoGP manufacturer to reveal its livery for the 2019 season on Friday. It displayed its new colours in Qatar ahead of the second and final pre-season test at the Losail track, which commences on
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nissan refugees Lucas Ordonez and Alex Buncombe will join Bentley’s expanded assault on this year’s Spa 24 Hours Blancpain GT Series blue riband event. Ordonez and Buncombe, who were released by Nissan after the end of its BGTS programme under
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull expects a “far more mature” Max Verstappen to show greater “patience” in Formula 1 this season, according to its motorsport advisor Helmut Marko. Verstappen was involved in various incidents in a scrappy start to last season but a
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli has revealed its first estimation of the performance gap between the five different compounds of tyres it is running in 2019. Although the company admits it can be more definitive about the lap time delta
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Indonesia has signed a three-year deal to host a MotoGP street race starting from 2021. Plans to construct an all-new venue in the Mandalika area of the island of Lombok, with the aim of hosting MotoGP, were originally reported by
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Kubica admits that the Williams Formula 1 team is testing its new FW42 car in a “compromised” condition this week at Barcelona. Williams’s 2019 car missed the first two days of running altogether due to delays with the production
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mads Ostberg admitted he felt afraid and uncomfortable on his Citroen C3 R5 debut at Rally Sweden last week. With Citroen having slimmed its World Rally Championship factory line-up down to two cars, Ostberg has moved down to the WRC’s
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rally Sweden looks set to ignore the advice of the FIA and World Rally Championship drivers and continue to run its historic category between first and second runnings of stages. The WRC drivers have long complained that the different lines
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas team boss Gunther Steiner says his team must fix the “little gremlins” having suffered electrical trouble three times during the third day of Formula 1 testing at Barcelona. After an electrical problem forced the VF-19 to stop on track
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso-Honda driver Daniil Kvyat says his late table-topping lap on the third day of Barcelona Formula 1 testing was not “balls out”. Kvyat demoted Alfa Romeo driver Kimi Raikkonen from the top spot with just over 10 minutes to
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup racer Aric Almirola said his Daytona 500 crash was unnervingly reminiscent of the 2017 Kansas accident that left him with back injuries. Almirola missed two months of the 2017 season having fractured his T5 vertebra when his Richard
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams’s delayed 2019 Formula 1 car has run for the first time in pre-season testing at Barcelona. With the build of the new FW42 having run late, the car only arrived at the track in the early hours of Wednesday
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 21-car ‘Big One’ pile-up that caused the 2019 Daytona 500’s first red flag turned the “most amazing” day for star NASCAR underdog Matt DiBenedetto into the “most heartbreaking”. In his first race for the Leavine Family Racing Toyota team,
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 rookie Alexander Albon says he was “reassured” after spinning on his out-lap in pre-season testing by the knowledge Kimi Raikkonen had done the same the day before. Toro Rosso driver Albon arrived at Barcelona with no experience of
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen was forced to stop running early in Barcelona Formula 1 testing on Tuesday because an issue with the headrest of his Haas made him uncomfortable. Magnussen, who was driving with his head tilted further forward than would normally
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar has revealed plans to introduce a new cockpit protection device from this year’s Indianapolis 500, after declaring “work remains” before it can implement its windscreen solution. All cars taking part in an open test at Indianapolis in April will
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tyre supplier Pirelli believes a better track surface is behind the impressive lap times 2019 Formula 1 cars have managed in Barcelona testing rather than any failure of new rules. New aero regulations designed to make following easier were expected
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai has dropped Andreas Mikkelsen from its Tour of Corsica World Rally Championship line-up, leaving him on the sidelines in favour of Thierry Neuville, Sebastien Loeb and Dani Sordo. Mikkelsen had expected, and some sources have reported he was contracted,