Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New KTM MotoGP test rider Dani Pedrosa could miss be unavailable for three months as he recovers from successful surgery on his fractured collarbone. Shortly after his first experience aboard a KTM at Jerez in a private test just before
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danilo Petrucci smashed the unofficial MotoGP Sepang lap record on the final day of pre-season testing at the Malaysian circuit, heading a Ducati 1-2-3-4. The Italian’s 1m58.239s lap was almost six tenths better than the previous record, which was set
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas became the first team to unveil its 2019 Formula 1 car on Thursday, complete with an all-new livery thanks to its tie-up with drinks firm Rich Energy. The car Haas displayed at a launch event in London was based
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki has showed “incredible” long-run pace during 2019 MotoGP pre-season testing so far, reckons rider Alex Rins. Rins was runner-up on both days of the test so far, but said there should be more attention on the bike’s speed on
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams will reveal its new 2019 Formula 1 season livery – its first since Martini’s exit as title sponsor – on Monday afternoon. It is the last F1 team to announce plans for a pre-season launch event, announcing what it
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charlie Kimball will compete in just five IndyCar races with Carlin in 2019, including the Indianapolis 500. Kimball confirmed on social media that he will also race at Texas, Pocono, St Petersburg and Laguna Seca. The Florida-based arm of Carlin
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Aric Almirola says he would “return the favour” if he was to again fight Austin Dillon for victory in the 2019 NASCAR Cup Series season-opening Daytona 500. Dillon took one of two regular season wins for Chevrolet in
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi admits Yamaha MotoGP team-mate Maverick Vinales’ session-topping lap time on the second day of 2019 pre-season testing was “unattainable” for him. Vinales left it until the closing stages of Thursday’s running to become the first rider of the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez has conceded he is unlikely to be completely fit for the 2019 MotoGP season-opening Qatar Grand Prix having had to limit his test running due to pain. Despite having still not totally recovered from his shoulder operation in
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The boss of Haas Formula 1 team title sponsor Rich Energy says doubting the legitimacy of his company or its products is “like saying man never walked on the moon”. Haas unveiled its 2019 Formula 1 car on Thursday, complete
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales beat Alex Rins late on to top the second day of MotoGP’s 2019 pre-season testing at Sepang. Vinales overhauled Rins, who had dethroned long-time leader Andrea Dovizioso just a few minutes earlier, moments before the chequered flag
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Formula 1 driver Rio Haryanto will make his full-time racing return in the Blancpain GT World Challenge Asia series this year. Haryanto is set to contest all six rounds of the series’ 2019 schedule, which features current F1 tracks
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Haas Formula 1 team will unveil its new livery on Thursday, and you can see it first by following the event live on Autosport. Haas struck a title sponsorship deal with British energy drink company Rich Energy late last
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Firestone will continue as IndyCar’s exclusive tyre supplier until 2025, following a five-year partnership extension between the championship and the Firestone’s parent company Bridgestone Americas, Inc. Bridgestone has also announced plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Akron that
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull Formula 1 team boss Christian Horner believes Max Verstappen is the driver that Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel “fear the most”. Verstappen won two races and finished fourth in the championship in 2018, and has been tipped by
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP rookie Fabio Quartararo has been upgraded to a 2019-spec Yamaha for his debut premier class season with the newly-formed Petronas SRT outfit. The Petronas squad, which replaces Tech3 as Yamaha’s B-team in 2019, had originally planned to put Moto2
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says Yamaha’s choice of engine for the 2019 MotoGP season has been “more or less decided”, after the manufacturer brought just one specification to the Sepang test. Team boss Lin Jarvis had described the Sepang test as “crucial”
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA president Jean Todt has proposed more cross-border rallies as a way of easing the World Rally Championship’s calendar congestion. Established rounds are coming under threat from events like the Safari and Rally Japan, both of which are expected to
Dr Robert Hubbard, the engineer behind the HANS device that saved many lives across motorsport, has died. Hubbard, who was a professor of materials science and mechanics at Michigan State University until his retirement in 2006, conceived the HANS device in collaboration with his brother-in-law and IMSA SportsCar Championship racer Jim Downing. Although it took
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez says he could not keep up his benchmark pace in pre-season testing at Sepang because he is still recovering from surgery on his left shoulder. Marquez struggled with shoulder pain throughout his title-winning 2018 season
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez set the pace for Honda on the first day of 2019 pre-season testing at Sepang despite not being fully fit. Marquez, who is still recovering from surgery that was required to fix his troubled left
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull boss Christian Horner thinks Formula 1 owner Liberty Media would accept that rushing through aerodynamic rule changes for 2019 was a “mistake” if they do not improve overtaking. F1 teams have spent the winter working to a raft
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 CEO Chase Carey says it was “a little bit strange” grand prix promoters publicly criticised Liberty Media last week, a day before a meeting scheduled to discuss concerns. Liberty, F1’s owner, was criticised in a statement issued on
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales says his new crew chief Esteban Garcia will offer “more trust” than his predecessor Ramon Forcada. Vinales and Forcada worked together in 2017 and ’18 after Vinales replaced three-time champion Jorge Lorenzo at the works
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Williams test driver Susie Wolff is hopeful Tatiana Calderon will get a Formula 1 race chance in the future, but concedes the superlicence points system is an additional “stumbling block”. Calderon has spent the last three seasons in GP3, earning
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR is planning to launch a new Generation 7 Cup series car in 2021. Current manufacturers Toyota, Chevrolet and Ford have been in discussions with NASCAR to help inform the direction of the regulations, and the series has consulted manufacturers
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR has announced it will disqualify race winners who fail post-race technical inspections for the first time in nearly 60 years from the start of the 2019 season. In a move heralded as “unprecedented” but “necessary”, race winners from any
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Ferrari Formula 1 test driver Luciano Burti says he only survived his 111G accident in the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix thanks to safety improvements triggered by the death of Ayrton Senna. Burti crashed his Prost head on into the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-McLaren driver Stoffel Vandoorne says he is enjoying Formula E following his Formula 1 exit because of the difference in camaraderie between drivers and paddock “politics”. After graduating to F1 as a GP2 champion and Formula Renault 3.5 runner-up, Vandoorne
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha team boss Lin Jarvis says the MotoGP outfit does not need a “revolution” to get back to winning regularly in 2019. Yamaha revealed a dramatic new look for the upcoming campaign on Monday at a Jakarta launch event ahead