Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM race riders Johann Zarco and Pol Espargaro will take part in the MotoGP pre-season shakedown in Sepang, as new tester Dani Pedrosa misses out due to his recent surgery. Pedrosa wrapped up his grand prix racing career last year
Lewis Hamilton’s career does not give Britain’s new Formula 1 rookies an unrealistic benchmark because there is an element of luck involved, reckons three-time world champion Sir Jackie Stewart. Hamilton made his F1 debut in 2007 with McLaren after spending his junior career backed by the British company and won his first world title the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Four-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Jeff Gordon says he is interested in one day taking over the running of Hendrick Motorsports from owner Rick Hendrick when he retires. Gordon called time on a NASCAR driving career that included 93 Cup
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Paul Tracy says his racing return at this weekend’s Bathurst 12 Hour “happened by accident” and achieves a “bucket list” goal. The 2003 Champ Car champion is subbing for the injured Boris Said in one of the V8-powered MARC entries,
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 is having a major rethink of its trackside television camera strategy for 2019 in order to better translate the speed of the cars to the screen. The championship’s head of TV and media Dean Locke explained that F1
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 fans are waiting for new-look cars to emerge next month, with an aerodynamic rules revamp forcing teams to produce very different front and rear wings. The push to get rid of the outwash effect of previous wing designs,
Franco Morbidelli believes riding a similar specification of Yamaha in the 2019 MotoGP season as his mentor Valentino Rossi will be beneficial for both riders. Morbidelli, the 2017 Moto2 champion and last year’s top MotoGP rookie with the Marc VDS team, has joined the newly-formed Petronas SRT team for this season. He will ride the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Franco Morbidelli believes riding a similar specification of Yamaha in the 2019 MotoGP season as his mentor Valentino Rossi will be beneficial for both riders. Morbidelli, the 2017 Moto2 champion and last year’s top MotoGP rookie with the Marc VDS
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-MotoGP team boss and rally driver Paul Bird has received an eight-year competition ban after he was found guilty of evading a drugs test by the UK Anti Doping Panel. Bird is a regular frontrunner in the BTRDA Rally Series,
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Conor Daly has joined Andretti Autosport for the 2019 Indianapolis 500, as the IndyCar team expands to five entries. Daly took part in last year’s Indy 500 for Dale Coyne Racing, only narrowly making the race after James Hinchcliffe and
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Le Mans 24 Hours-winning Team Goh squad will make a return to motorsport this season with McLaren after a 10-year absence. Longtime Japanese sportscar entrant Kazumichi Goh, who won Le Mans with Audi in 2004, pictured below, is reviving
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The World Rally Championship will have electric or hybrid regulations in place from the 2022 season. WRC chiefs have been discussing the adoption of alternative energy sources since early last year. FIA president Jean Todt admitted he was frustrated at
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup series will head to Las Vegas on Thursday for a crucial test described as the “best true indicator” of how the 2019 aerodynamic package will impact racing. NASCAR announced last year that two different aerodynamic packages –
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Craig Breen will compete in the opening round of the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship during his World Rally Championship hiatus, contesting the event in an M-Sport-built Ford Fiesta R5. Breen missed out on a WRC seat this season after two
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Toro Rosso driver Brendon Hartley has claimed that a plan to oust him from his Formula 1 seat was “in motion” as early as last year’s Monaco Grand Prix. Hartley’s rookie full-season campaign in F1 was dogged by speculation he
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Next year’s Monte Carlo Rally is likely to start at Monaco’s Casino Square following complaints about the principality’s absence from the early part of the 2019 World Rally Championship opener. Last weekend’s event began with a ceremonial start in Gap
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes’ new Formula 1 car will run for the first time on February 13 ahead of the start of official testing for the 2019 season. The new W10, the 10th contemporary Formula 1 car built by the German manufacturer, will
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari and Honda have signed up for the Intercontinental GT Challenge ahead of this weekend’s series-opening Bathurst 12 Hour, bringing the number of manufacturers registered for the series to eight. Honda and Ferrari will now be able to score drivers’
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Mexican Grand Prix promoter has distanced itself from a statement made by the Formula One Promoters’ Association that criticised Formula 1 owner Liberty Media. The FOPA statement was issued after a meeting on Monday that was said to involve
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 will launch its 2019 season with an event in downtown Melbourne on March 13, the Wednesday before the Australian Grand Prix weekend begins. The announcement follows the Formula One Promoters’ Association taking the step of releasing a statement
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo says he will face “the same situation” against Marc Marquez at Honda as he did when he partnered Valentino Rossi at Yamaha as a MotoGP rookie. Lorenzo has left Ducati to replace Dani Pedrosa at Honda, which helped
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship outfit M-Sport says it was impressed by Mercedes Formula 1 driver Valtteri Bottas’s technique on his rallying debut in Finland. Bottas contested last weekend’s Arctic Lapland Rally in an M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC in association with the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New Toyota World Rally Championship driver Kris Meeke says the manufacturer’s Yaris is the best car he has ever driven and gave him “no stress” on the Monte Carlo Rally. Meeke finished the 2019 season opener in sixth, five and
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The promoter of the Russian Grand Prix has defended Liberty Media’s running of Formula 1 and says criticism aimed at the championship’s owners by rival race chiefs is “toothless”. A statement issued by the 16 members of the Formula One
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 star Valtteri Bottas made his rallying debut last weekend in Finland, and has promised he will come back for more. Driving an M-Sport Ford Fiesta WRC entered in association with the Finnish governing body’s Flying Finn project
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jenson Button believes new Ferrari signing Charles Leclerc could force Sebastian Vettel into a “tough decision” over his Formula 1 future. Leclerc has replaced Kimi Raikkonen at Ferrari for the 2019 campaign after just one year with Sauber, while Vettel
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nikita Mazepin will dovetail his rookie Formula 2 campaign with a private testing programme in a 2017 Mercedes Formula 1 car. The GP3 race winner and 2018 runner-up will complete 12 days of testing this year in a Mercedes W08.
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Monte Carlo Rally runner-up Thierry Neuville says he is worried about the “dangerous” pace Toyota showed on last weekend’s World Rally Championship season opener. Hyundai driver Neuville finished runner-up to the Citroen C3 of Sebastien Ogier, but Ott Tanak had
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen World Rally Championship driver Sebastien Ogier says his “relief was incredible” after he overcame a throttle-pedal issue to win the Monte Carlo Rally. Ogier defeated Thierry Neuville in a final-stage showdown to win the opening round of the 2019
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda’s progress in Formula 1 will be slowed by the increased need for reliability that will be demanded now it has teamed up with Red Bull, reckons Renault. Although Red Bull hopes that Honda can continue the rate of progress