Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari is willing to prioritise Sebastian Vettel over his new Formula 1 team-mate Charles Leclerc if required in the early stages of the 2019 season. Vettel, who spearheaded Ferrari’s ultimately unsuccessful title challenges in the past two years, often enjoyed
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari says its decision to give its 2019 Formula 1 car a matte red paint finish was taken purely for performance reasons. The Italian outfit revealed a new darker matte livery at the launch of its SF90 at Maranello on
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo says he intends to end his premier-class motorcycle racing career at Honda. The 31-year-old, who has contested nine MotoGP campaigns with Yamaha and two with Ducati, appeared to be in danger of dropping off the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto says the outfit has tried to be as “extreme” as possible with its new SF90 Formula 1 car. The Maranello team launched its 2019 challenger on Friday morning and, although the car is an evolution
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak scored two stage wins on the World Rally Championship’s opening morning of Rally Sweden, the Toyota driver establishing a 5.5s lead over a tight battle for second place. Running third on the road, Tanak took wins on Hof-Finnskog
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin will return to Super GT for the first time in five years with a factory-supported Vantage GT3 in the GT300 class. The latest-generation Vantage will be driven by multiple GT300 race winner Tomonobu Fujii and ex-Nissan stalwart Joao
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick and Joey Logano shared the wins in the NASCAR Duel races at Daytona as Ford’s new-for-2019 Mustang swept the top three spots in both qualifying races. Harvick dominated the first race, leading 44 of the total 60 laps.
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren took the covers off its 2019 Formula 1 car on Thursday afternoon, and Autosport was on hand to take a closer look at the MCL34. The team finished sixth in the constructors’ championship in 2018, and will be bidding
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville posted the fastest time on Rally Sweden’s opening superspecial, edging out World Rally Championship rival Sebastien Ogier by 0.8 seconds. Neuville and Ogier were engaged in a final-stage battle for victory on the season-opening Monte Carlo Rally
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 fans were treated to a surprise on Thursday, as spy shots of Alfa Romeo’s 2019 Formula 1 car emerged three days before its scheduled launch date. The team, which has taken over Sauber’s name and entry for 2019,
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship drivers have expressed more concerns about warming temperatures affecting this weekend’s second round of the season in Sweden. The Torsby-based event gets underway in Karlstad on Thursday night, with no sign of the deep-freeze needed to combat
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jimmie Johnson and Paul Menard have discussed their race-deciding collision in last Sunday’s NASCAR Clash race at Daytona and agreed to put it behind them. Menard was leading the non-championship event when Johnson moved to the inside in an attempt
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki has emulated rival MotoGP manufacturer Honda in creating a designated motorsport department, the Suzuki Racing Company. SRC will be an independent division with its own budget, like theHonda Racing Corporation. Its creation is intended to give Suzuki’s MotoGP outfit
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 fans will have a rare chance to ask questions to Ross Brawn at a charity event in High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire on February 27. To be hosted by Steve Rider, ‘An Evening with Ross Brawn OBE’ will feature
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Oliver Solberg will contest six rounds of this year’s American Rally Association series with Subaru Motorsports USA in a deal that brings two of rallying’s biggest names back together. Solberg’s father Petter won his 2003 World Rally Championship title in
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andretti Autosport driver Alexander Rossi finally loosened the stranglehold that Colton Herta’s Harding Steinbrenner Dallara-Honda had over IndyCar’s ‘Spring Training’ test at Austin in the final session. With his last flyer of the day, 2016 Indianapolis 500 winner and ’18
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton hailed his debut run in the new Mercedes W10 Formula 1 car as a “great first date” and one of the best starts the team had ever made. Mercedes used up one of its filming days to let
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Colton Herta was fastest for the third straight session in IndyCar’s ‘Spring Training’ test at Austin on Wednesday morning. The Harding Steinbrenner Racing Dallara-Honda driver left it until 13 minutes to go in the two-hour session before turning up the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. While other Formula 1 teams revealed detail-free renders and modified 2018 cars, and are struggling to be ready for shakedowns, Mercedes’ 2019 design hit the track at Silverstone on Wednesday. In the words of legendary technical illustrator Giorgio Piola puts
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb says Marcus Gronholm’s comeback at Rally Sweden will be difficult. Loeb made a stunning return to the WRC in 2018 in a part-time programme for Citroen and won his first rally in the category
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso rookie Alexander Albon is getting his first on-track Formula 1 experience at a shakedown for the team’s 2019 contender, which is taking place at Misano on Wednesday. The Red Bull junior team revealed its STR14 in an online
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Colton Herta held onto the top spot in the solo Harding Steinbrenner Racing entry on day one of IndyCar’s ‘Spring Training’ test at Austin. Herta’s 1m46.6258s lap of the United States Grand Prix Formula 1 venue – which hosts IndyCar
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Williams Formula 1 team picked its new livery to reflect a more modern status, having initially considered reverting to its “traditional” navy and white colours for its 2019 car. Williams unveiled its new light blue-and-white look on Monday at
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Colton Herta put Harding Steinbrenner Racing on top in the opening two hours of IndyCar’s ‘Spring Training’ pre-season test at Austin, with his final lap of the session. The Indy Lights runner-up’s best lap of 1m48.7443s around the 3.427-mile course
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault has revealed the Formula 1 car it and new signing Daniel Ricciardo hope will bring it closer to the victory-monopolising trio of Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull. While the Renault that was on show at the team’s launch at
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andretti Autosport has announced a formal partnership with fellow IndyCar team Harding Steinbrenner Racing through its technology arm. Andretti supported Harding in its first full IndyCar season in 2018, providing at-track help in the season finale at Sonoma. But a
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull says it hopes its sponsorship of the Tech3 KTM MotoGP team will allow it to emulate its programme of bringing juniors into Formula 1 with Toro Rosso. Tech3 has picked up the energy drinks company as a title
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rally Sweden CEO Glen Olsson has scotched drivers’ fears about the roads at this week’s second round of the World Rally Championship in Torsby. Temperatures in Sweden have risen in recent days, causing some drivers to fear the warmer conditions
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar champion Scott Dixon believes his new Ganassi team-mate Felix Rosenqvist can cause as much of a stir in his rookie season as Robert Wickens did in 2018. DTM convert Wickens was sixth in the championship in his first IndyCar
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM has become the latest MotoGP manufacturer to launch its bike for the 2019 MotoGP season, along with the manufacturer’s new satellite team Tech3. The presentation for both squads took place at KTM’s Mattighofen headquarters in Austria on Tuesday. Tech3,