Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo reckons his qualifying record and points tally compared to Red Bull team-mate Max Verstappen in the 2018 Formula 1 season were distorted. Abysmal reliability meant Ricciardo slipped to a distant sixth in the championship, 79 points behind Verstappen, after winning
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai says Andreas Mikkelsen did not match the team’s or his own expectations during a tough 2018 World Rally Championship season. After a poor first full campaign with Hyundai, Mikkelsen was widely expected to have his programme of rallies reduced for 2019.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault says it is “sorry, but not sorry” to have ended its relationship with Red Bull after some rollercoaster years with the energy drinks backed team. Although the Red Bull-Renault partnership produced four consecutive Formula 1 title doubles between 2010 and 2013,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jonathan Rea didn’t make the most of his chance in MotoGP when he made two starts for the factory Honda team in 2012, believes fellow four-time World Superbike champion Carl Fogarty. Rea stood in for an unwell Casey Stoner at the Repsol
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA U-turn that caught Honda out ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix helped the Formula 1 engine manufacturer make an important breakthrough with the governing body in 2018. Honda had to abort a planned change to help its upgraded F1 engine
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Johann Zarco says Jorge Lorenzo’s eventual success on a Ducati gives him hope he can make a success of his KTM MotoGP move. Zarco had a low-key start to his KTM career in post-season testing after moving from the Tech3 Yamaha squad.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi says Kurt Busch’s arrival at his NASCAR Cup team could lead to the driver appearing in races such as the Indianapolis 500 and the Daytona 24 Hours. The new Ganassi recruit has previously competed in the Indy 500, finishing an
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren says a lack of communication and clarity of roles within the Formula 1 team were the key factors that triggered the problems that were exposed in 2018. McLaren hoped that switching from Honda to Renault engines for 2018 would put it
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Christian Horner believes that Red Bull produced the best Formula 1 chassis in 2018, which he says was demonstrated at races where outright power was a reduced factor. Red Bull scored four wins in 2018 and for the first time in F1’s
Most racing drivers start out with the intention of getting to Formula 1, but for many their time on the grand prix grid is just the precursor to greater success elsewhere in motorsport. Some even become so well-known for their triumphs in sportscars, touring cars or beyond that it’s easy to forget their F1 exploits
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda Formula 1 boss Masashi Yamamoto says the manufacturer’s “biggest change” in 2018 with Toro Rosso compared to its McLaren partnership was “much better communication”. The Japanese company returned to F1 in 2015 as sole engine supplier to McLaren, but a troubled
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport has committed to the 2019 World Rally Championship and will run three Ford Fiesta WRCs for at least the first two rounds of the season. Elfyn Evans and Teemu Suninen will stay on at the team for the full 14-round calendar,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Official attendance figures released by Formula 1 reveal the British Grand Prix had the highest attendance of any race during the 2018 season. The Silverstone race – which still does not have a deal in place beyond 2019 after circuit bosses activated
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has revealed the requirements Formula 1 teams will need to adhere to in order to produce unrestricted CFD simulations for the planned 2021 aerodynamics regulations. In December’s World Motor Sport Council meeting, the FIA announced that the limit on CFD
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez would still win races in MotoGP if he ever decided to leave Honda, says five-time champion Mick Doohan. Marquez racked up his fifth MotoGP title this year with three rounds to spare and sealed the ‘triple crown’ of riders’, constructors’
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz Jr was “really hurt” by the missed opportunities during his 2018 Formula 1 season before leaving Renault with a final flourish. Sainz snuck into the top 10 of the championship by securing his first best-of-the-rest ‘win’ of the year in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull must become a championship contender again with its Honda partnership, says ex-Ferrari boss-turned-Formula 1 head Ross Brawn. After sweeping four consecutive F1 title doubles from 2010-13, the V6 turbo-hybrid engines that arrived in ’14 reduced Red Bull to a bit-part
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault’s 2019 Formula 1 challenger will be launched at its Enstone factory the week before the start of pre-season testing. The French manufacturer has confirmed its “season launch” will take place at its UK base on February 12. Pre-season testing begins at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The historic Nashville Fairgrounds Speedway could return to NASCAR competition for the first time since 2000 after it signed a deal with Bristol’s track operator and its owner Speedway Motorsports. The Fairgrounds Speedway last hosted a NASCAR-sanctioned race in 2000 when the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren has spoken to Fernando Alonso about the possibility of him testing its 2019 Formula 1 car. Although Alonso has now left F1 and will continue his World Endurance Championship commitments, as well as return to the Indianapolis 500 in 2019, he
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Autosport’s annual ranking of the top 50 drivers of the year is always one of our most popular, and controversial, features of the year. This year’s edition has been no exception, and on the latest edition of The Autosport podcast we reveal
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia has officially announced that former Ferrari Formula 1 man Massimo Rivola will join its MotoGP project as racing department CEO from January 7 2019. The move, predicted by Autosport last month, is part of a range of changes Aprilia is making
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault has found “a lot of kilowatts” in the development of its 2019 Formula 1 engine, customer team McLaren has been told. While the French manufacturer failed to do enough last year to convince Red Bull to keep using its engines, the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The prospect of a London grand prix has been boosted by the city mayor believing it “should be possible” and Formula 1 targeting a grand prix on the capital’s outskirts. A grand prix in the English city has been little more than
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charles Leclerc will not be as “accommodating” towards Sebastian Vettel as Kimi Raikkonen was at Ferrari, reckons Formula 1’s sporting chief Ross Brawn. Leclerc, F1’s star rookie of 2018, will replace Raikkonen alongside Vettel next season and has been tipped to fight
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren Automotive will continue its driver development programme in 2019, and has announced its new line-up. Three new drivers have been selected for a scheme launched just over a year ago as McLaren started to build up its own GT racing department
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alex Rins say he is “not afraid” of the Suzuki MotoGP team repeating its infamous 2017 engine specification error, as it prepares to select its ’19 version. Suzuki’s 2017 campaign was derailed by Andrea Iannone making an incorrect selection of engine specification
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Japanese protege Takamoto Katsuta will contest the majority of the 2019 World Rally Championship season and make his competitive debut in a Yaris WRC next year. The 25-year-old’s career is supported by Toyota Gazoo’s Racing Rally Challenge Programme as part of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso driver Alexander Albon has picked #23 as his full-time Formula 1 race number, joking that he is taking “half” of MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi’s famous #46. Formula 2 race winner Albon is stepping up to F1 next year after being
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo believes the 2018 Formula 1 season was his toughest year mentally because he has never had to overcome so many “hurdles” before. The Australian won two of the first six races of 2018 but failed to finish on the podium