Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kurt Busch has confirmed that he will not return to Stewart-Haas Racing for the 2019 NASCAR Cup series season, ahead of an expected move to Chip Ganassi Racing. The 2004 Cup champion’s departure from SHR was first reported in August by Autosport.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso says this year’s post-season tests at Valencia and Jerez were the best he has experienced since joining the manufacturer. Championship runner-up Dovizioso concluded last week’s two days of Jerez running eighth fastest, 0.347 seconds off the pace
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jenson Button feels Naoki Yamamoto is talented enough to race in Formula 1 after winning the Super GT championship with him in 2018. The Kunimitsu Honda team-mates clinched the 2018 GT500 title at Motegi last month, defeating TOM’S Lexus pair Nick Cassidy
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton took part in a Superbike track day at Jerez on Saturday, suffering a small crash in the process. Hamilton was riding a Yamaha YZF-R1, the same bike used in the World Superbike championship by the works-backed
Daniel Suarez says he did not feel at home during his time competing with Joe Gibbs Racing in the NASCAR Cup Series. The 26-year-old Mexican lost his drive to 2017 champion Martin Truex Jr for next year, although he is understood to be in the running to land a seat with Stewart-Haas Racing. The 2016
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas thinks this has been his most disappointing season in Formula 1, and has been worse that his debut 2013 campaign for Williams when he finished in the points just once. Although Bottas started 2018 strongly and was a contender for
Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Three-time MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo will undergo his second surgery in just over a month on Monday to address discomfort in his right foot. Lorenzo was thrown off his Ducati in a violent highside crash a corner into the Aragon Grand Prix, dislocating
Sebastien Loeb will be left out in the cold next season after Citroen failed to secure funding to run a third C3 WRC in next year’s World Rally Championship. Citroen team principal Pierre Budar met with officials from the team’s Abu Dhabi backers at last weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, but the two parties failed
Fernando Alonso says his reunion with a V8 engine in his unplanned 2013 McLaren run in Bahrain was “very special” and Formula 1 is missing noisier cars. Alonso made a surprise return to the cockpit of an F1 car in Bahrain on Monday, just 17 hours on from his farewell in the Abu Dhabi Grand
Daniel Ricciardo said goodbye to the Red Bull Formula 1 team on Friday with his final official visit to the team’s factory in Milton Keynes. The Australian made the shock decision after the Hungarian Grand Prix to reject an offer to stay with Red Bull in favour of switching to Renault for 2019. Ricciardo moves
Sebastien Ogier says he can see potential with the Citroen C3 WRC after his first two days testing the car he will drive in next year’s World Rally Championship. The Frenchman, who has departed M-Sport after back-to-back drivers’ titles, drove the Citroen on a gravel development test in the Algarve area of southern Portugal. Thursday
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Force India name will disappear from Formula 1 next year with the team being renamed Racing Point F1. Following the takeover of the outfit by a consortium led by Lawrence Stroll, it retained its Force India moniker for its team and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR is “confident” that it can add a fourth manufacturer to the Cup field sometime after 2020, and has not ruled out finding a fifth. The top-level series currently has three manufacturers in Ford, Chevrolet and Toyota. It last had four manufacturers
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Racing Point Force India has finally confirmed Lance Stroll’s expected move to the team to partner Sergio Perez in the 2019 Formula 1 season. Stroll graduated to F1 with Williams in 2017 as the reigning European Formula 3 champion and continued with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales believes that Yamaha’s 2019 bike is good enough to make the team a title contender again based on his experience in winter testing. After topping both days of last week’s first pre-season test at Valencia, Vinales also figured strongly on
Carlos Sainz Jr says he has “a lot of information to analyse” after making his testing debut for the McLaren Formula 1 team earlier this week. Sainz was given permission to join McLaren early ahead of racing for the team in 2019, having concluded his Renault campaign in last week’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The
Valtteri Bottas has vowed to adopt a “drive like I stole it” attitude next year as he fights for his Mercedes future after a difficult 2018 Formula 1 season. Having ended this year without a win, Bottas has openly admitted that the season just gone has been his most disappointing in grand prix racing. With
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi has parted with rider coach Luca Cadalora following the 2018 campaign. Cadalora, a grand prix champion in 125cc and 250cc and a race winner in the then-premier 500cc class, joined Rossi’s crew ahead of the 2016 season.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR rider Takaaki Nakagami topped the final day of MotoGP testing of 2018 at Jerez, edging out Honda stablemate Marc Marquez by just 0.025 seconds. Nakagami, riding injured team-mate Cal Crutchlow’s old 2018-spec Honda, logged his fastest time of the day, a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 has witnessed a “new” Lewis Hamilton after winning the final two races of the season following his title success, says his Mercedes boss Toto Wolff. Hamilton notably lost the 2016 title to team-mate and rival Nico Rosberg after a lukewarm
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pirelli is hopeful it has addressed several key areas that impacted Formula 1 races negatively in 2018 after the teams gained experience with their ’19 tyre compounds this week. Abu Dhabi’s two-day tyre test was an opportunity for all 10 teams to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rally GB clerk of the course Iain Campbell says virtual chicanes can provide a safe, sensible and cost-effective solution to slowing World Rally Cars down in dangerous places. Campbell was one of many high-ranking officials to contact Autosport backing the use of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA race director Charlie Whiting says the kerb before the final corner in Abu Dhabi eliminated the need for “zero-tolerance” penalties that he believes “demean” Formula 1. While there was some controversy about the kerb’s height and the way it crumbled, drivers
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso says he is in “big pain” after crashing on day one of MotoGP’s post-season Jerez test and will need his discomfort to be “acceptable” to ride on Thursday. Dovizioso ended the penultimate day of 2018 running second-fastest behind new factory
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says the engine developments Yamaha brought to the Valencia and Jerez MotoGP post-season tests will not be good enough to elevate the manufacturer into contention for victories. Rossi was only 17th on the first day of the post-season Jerez test
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo admits that Red Bull’s surge of form in the latter part of 2018 was “confusing” as there was no obvious explanation for the improved pace of the RB14. Red Bull pinned its hopes on a good race in Mexico, because
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New factory Ducati MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci set the pace on the penultimate day of 2018 testing at Jerez ahead of team-mate Andrea Dovizioso. Petrucci leapt to the top of the timesheets at the start of the final hour of running, becoming
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville has warned his Hyundai World Rally Championship team that it has “no chance” of beating Ott Tanak and Toyota in 2019 without a step up in car development. As the runner-up in the 2018 drivers’ standings, Neuville has not restricted
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Racing Point Force India Formula 1 boss Otmar Szafnauer says mistakes in the last few races cost his team a shot at recovering to sixth place in the world championship. The Silverstone-based team lost the points it scored before its ownership change
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Multiple world champions Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel believe Max Verstappen is ready for a Formula 1 title challenge, if Red Bull and Honda provide a package capable of winning. Verstappen bounced back from an error-strewn first six races of the season,