Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota will bring back the legendary Supra name to Super GT next year after revealing a concept version of the racecar at the Tokyo Auto Salon on Friday. The Japanese manufacturer first used the Supra in Super GT’s forerunner the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One-time Formula 1 world champion Jenson Button will remain in Super GT in 2019 to defend his drivers’ crown, Honda officially confirmed at the Tokyo Auto Salon on Friday. Button will again pair up with established Japanese racing star Naoki
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dakar Rally 2019 leader Nasser Al-Attiyah extended his advantage over the chasing pack by topping the event’s fourth stage, running from Arequipa to Tacna. The Toyota driver was quickest over the 252-mile timed special, the longest of the rally so
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 has created “the world’s first overtaking simulation” in a bid to design circuits that feature more entertaining racing, according to Pat Symonds. F1 bosses have commissioned a series of working groups evaluating several ways to improve the quality
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver-turned-pundit Martin Brundle believes “things weren’t right” at Ferrari last season, in the wake of the removal of Maurizio Arrivabene as team principal. Vettel and Ferrari fought for the 2018 world championship but were defeated again by Lewis
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi believes his protege Franco Morbidelli will be a “problem” for him in 2019 on a factory-supported satellite Yamaha. Now set for his sophomore MotoGP season with the newly-formed Petronas SRT Yamaha team, Morbidelli will ride an
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Esapekka Lappi says he has seen enough potential in his new Citroen C3 WRC to know it can be the fastest car in this year’s World Rally Championship. The 27-year-old, who will make his debut with Citroen on the Monte
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar says it could race at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast of Australia in February 2020. Late last year, Mark Miles – president and CEO of Hulman & Company, the organisation that owns IndyCar – said initial talks with
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Defending Dakar Rally champion Carlos Sainz Sr called the roadbook of the 2019 edition “a disaster” after his costly accident on the third stage. Sainz, who was sixth heading into Wednesday’s 331km test but trailed the marathon leader by less
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The M-Sport Ford World Rally Championship outfit has revealed its new livery for the 2019 season. M-Sport cars carried Red Bull liveries for the past two seasons after the squad signed and subsequently retained Sebastien Ogier for the 2017 and
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mario Andretti’s 1969 victory in the Indianapolis 500 will be celebrated with a special logo and a display of some of his most famous cars in the IMS Hall of Fame Museum. Andretti earned the Rookie of the Year title
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stephane Peterhansel secured his first stage win of the 2019 Dakar Rally, while the hopes of his X-raid Mini team-mate Carlos Sainz were practically ended on the event’s third stage. As he recovered from dropping 20 minutes on Tuesday after
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz Jr is hopeful McLaren will “remember” how to win again because he has “a lot of trust” in Formula 1’s second-most successful team. McLaren has won 182 races and sits only behind Ferrari (235 victories) in the all-time
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New KTM MotoGP test rider Dani Pedrosa has announced he will have surgery on his right shoulder, and that it will force him to skip some planned 2019 testing commitments. Pedrosa opted to call time on his grand prix racing
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. British driver Gus Greensmith could contest as many as 13 rounds of this year’s World Rally Championship, with at least one of those coming in a Ford Fiesta WRC. The 22-year-old will spearhead M-Sport’s WRC2 Pro assault with 10 rounds
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Force India driver Esteban Ocon has tipped the new-look Formula 1 team to close the “massive gap” Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull enjoy over the midfield. Ocon helped Force India to fourth place in the constructors’ championship in 2017 as
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 boss Herve Poncharal reckons his former rider Johann Zarco can help KTM become a top MotoGP team, drawing parallels with the rise of Andrea Dovizioso and Ducati. Zarco has joined the factory KTM team for the 2019 season after
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thirteen-time Dakar Rally winner Stephane Peterhansel says electrical problems led to the “rookie error” that cost him the best part of 20 minutes on the second stage in Peru. Peterhansel was left stranded on a dune after being distracted by
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault should be “scared” of Formula 1 rival Haas in the future, reckons Romain Grosjean, after their season-long battle in 2018. The French squad beat Haas to fourth place in the standings by 29 points, in a battle that also
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 bosses should slash downforce levels by a “minimum of 40-50%” to improve the spectacle of grand prix racing, reckons Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost. F1 cars will have simplified front wings and bargeboards, along with other small changes,
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dakar Rally frontrunner Nasser Al-Attiyah says he has spoken with two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso about the possibility of testing his Toyota Hilux in Qatar in February. Alonso, who is currently preparing for a second Daytona 24 Hours
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. European Rally Championship regular Catie Munnings hopes to make her World Rally Championship debut in 2019 after becoming the first female motorsport driver to be signed by Red Bull UK. Munnings has competed in the ERC for the last three
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb set the pace through the second stage of the 2019 Dakar Rally in Peru, as Toyota’s Giniel de Villiers took the overall lead. Loeb, contesting the rally in a PH Sport-run 2017-spec Peugeot 3008
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull believes it will be able to deploy a Formula 1 engine ‘party mode’ for the first time thanks to its new-for-2019 partner Honda. After spending all-but-two of its 14 seasons with Renault power, Red Bull has switched to
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three-time 500cc champion Wayne Rainey believes Marc Marquez will be under more pressure in the Honda MotoGP camp next year than newcomer Jorge Lorenzo. Three-time premier class champion Lorenzo has joined Marquez at Honda after two mixed campaigns at Ducati,
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Mercedes protege Pascal Wehrlein will work with the Ferrari Formula 1 team this season in a development role. Wehrlein, who spent two years racing in F1 in 2016 and ’17 with Manor and Sauber, split with long-time backer Mercedes
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams and McLaren’s struggles last season were proof that Formula 1 shows “no mercy” for teams that get things wrong, says its sporting chief Ross Brawn. Despite the two British outfits being among the most successful in F1 history, a
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota Gazoo Racing South Africa driver Nasser Al-Attiyah topped the opening stage of the 2019 Dakar Rally in Peru. The Qatari completed the dune-populated 52-mile timed stage near Pisco, which came after a lengthy road section that started at Peruvian
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maurizio Arrivabene’s departure as Ferrari team principal has been confirmed by the Formula 1 team, which has named Mattia Binotto as his successor. As reported by Autosport, Ferrari has brought an end to a long-running saga over the leadership of
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault signing Daniel Ricciardo for the 2019 Formula 1 season made its staff as upbeat as they were during the title-winning Fernando Alonso era, says Cyril Abiteboul. Ricciardo’s switch from Red Bull to Renault was one of F1’s biggest shocks