Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari started 2019’s Formula 1 pre-season testing period at the top of the timesheets at Barcelona, but there was far more about its performance that was impressive than just laptime. After Sebastian Vettel led the way for the team so
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams’s lengthening delay in getting its new Formula 1 car on track at Barcelona has fuelled paddock speculation that technical chief Paddy Lowe’s long-term future may be in the balance. After initially scrapping plans for a shakedown of its FW42
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Joey Logano had a post-race dispute with fellow Ford driver Michael McDowell over what he felt was a lack of cooperation in the Daytona 500. Penske driver Logano and Front Row Motorsports racer McDowell were the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA is planning to monitor fuel usage by Formula 1 teams more closely this year by introducing a series of physical checks. The new procedures suggest that the governing body could have been alerted to possible grey areas concerning
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marcus Gronholm has called time on his World Rally Championship career after a disappointing Rally Sweden outing last weekend. The two-time world champion retired from full-time driving at the end of 2007 but has made three additional WRC appearances since
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Denny Hamlin held his nerve through a messy final part of the Daytona 500 to win the NASCAR Cup Series’ premier event for the second time. The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver had declared his determination to win the event
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 2019 Formula 1 aerodynamic rules changes should not be judged until several grands prix into the season, insists McLaren’s Carlos Sainz Jr. The new regulations are intended to allow cars to follow each other more easily and increase the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 2019 Formula 1 season effectively gets under way on Monday morning as winter testing begins at Barcelona – meaning we’re about to get our first hints of the storylines ahead. Autosport’s Grand Prix Editor Edd Straw and F1 Reporter
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brad Binder has revealed he was promised a MotoGP test by KTM after his first Moto2 victory last year, and is still waiting for it to be honoured. Binder won the 2016 Moto3 title with the Ajo KTM squad in
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s American motorsport chief has dropped a strong hint that two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso wants to contest a NASCAR Cup Series road course race. Alonso drove Jimmie Johnson’s NASCAR Hendrick Motorsports Chevrolet at Bahrain’s Sakhir circuit last
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thirty-six of the 42 Daytona 500 entrants knew their starting spots were guaranteed via NASCAR’s charter system. The other six had to fight their way in. And when the 2019 Cup Series season opener starts on Sunday, sometime Penske protege
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New Renault Formula 1 driver Daniel Ricciardo says the “risk of failure” would have been greater if he stayed with Red Bull and its new engine partner Honda for 2019. Ricciardo’s shock Red Bull departure was the one of the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak leads the World Rally Championship standings for the first time in his career after winning Rally Sweden, scoring maximum points with victory on the powerstage too. The Toyota driver had established an unassailable lead on Saturday thanks to
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Single-file racing in NASCAR’s Daytona week so far has led to concerns about the spectacle in Sunday’s Cup Series season-opening 500. Last weekend’s non-championship Clash race, Thursday night’s Duel qualifying races and Saturday’s Xfinity Series opener were all characterised by
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak remains in the Rally Sweden lead with one stage remaining, while Andreas Mikkelsen lost ground and Esapekka Lappi took charge of the second place battle. Mikkelsen and Lappi headed to the first running of the Likenas stage tied
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andreas Mikkelsen and Esapekka Lappi are tied for second place on Rally Sweden behind Ott Tanak with three stages remaining, with Thierry Neuville only 2.3 seconds behind them in fourth. Runaway leader Tanak managed his gap across Saturday’s final two
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Front Row Motorsports Ford driver Michael McDowell set the pace in the final practice session for the NASCAR Cup season-opening Daytona 500 on Saturday. McDowell set his top average speed of 191.440mph early in the 50-minute session with a 47.012-second
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo has admitted the Red Bull Formula 1 team’s handling of his Azerbaijan Grand Prix collision with Max Verstappen played a part in his decision to leave for Renault. Ricciardo and his then-team-mate’s intense on-track battle in Baku last
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel says not to expect anything other than him staying at Ferrari beyond 2019, amid suggestions that facing new Formula 1 team-mate Charles Leclerc could influence his future. Vettel’s long-time Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen has been replaced by highly-rated
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak has extended his Rally Sweden lead to nearly a minute, while a three-way fight for second place has developed between Andreas Mikkelsen, Esapekka Lappi and Thierry Neuville. Following main rival Teemu Suninen’s off into a snowbank in the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dale Earnhardt’s grandson Jeffrey has been on the NASCAR scene for a decade, but regards his 2019 Joe Gibbs Racing deal as “only the beginning” of his racing career. The 29-year-old has amassed more than 150 starts across NASCAR’s three
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says losing MotoGP titles he feels he “deserved” to win are helping to keep him motivated as he turns 40 years old. Yamaha rider Rossi, who celebrates his 40th birthday on Saturday, is still chasing an elusive 10th
NASCAR Cup Series team owner Joe Gibbs said he is determined not to let his late son and team co-founder JD down as the squad begins the 2019 season without him. JD, Joe Gibbs’ eldest son, died in January aged 49, due to complications following a long battle with a degenerative neurological disease. A memorial
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo has made his on-track debut with the Renault Formula 1 team as its RS19 hit the circuit at Barcelona for a shakedown after all. Renault had admitted delays to its build schedule meant it might have to cancel
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak now leads the World Rally Championship’s Rally Sweden by over half a minute, after his main rival for victory Teemu Suninen went off into a snowbank. Toyota driver Tanak took the lead from Suninen by going 3.8 seconds
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Paul Menard was fastest in Friday’s practice sessions for the NASCAR Cup season-opening Daytona 500, with the second session ending up being a showcase for the new Ford Mustang. Wood Brothers driver Menard led the way with a time off
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rally Sweden leader Teemu Suninen will have the full backing of the M-Sport team to risk everything in his pursuit of a maiden World Rally Championship win this weekend. Suninen starts day two with a two-second advantage over Toyota man
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier will resume Rally Sweden on Saturday after his crash, but the World Rally Championship leader feels he has “nothing to play for” as he rejoins in 46th position. Ogier’s Citroen C3 WRC was not damaged when he went
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jimmie Johnson has apologised to Kyle Busch after being involved in his second controversial collision of NASCAR’s Daytona 500 build-up. Johnson tapped Busch into a spin during Thursday night’s first Duel qualifying race, causing damage that meant the Joe Gibbs
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Teemu Suninen leads a World Rally Championship event for the first time on Rally Sweden, while nearest rival Jari-Matti Latvala and points leader Sebastien Ogier have both crashed. Both M-Sport’s Suninen and Toyota driver Latvala had risen quickly through the