Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari Driver Academy head Massimo Rivola is leaving the Italian Formula 1 team to join the Aprilia MotoGP squad. An Aprilia spokesperson confirmed Rivola’s move to Autosport, although it is not yet clear how Rivola will fit in with the Gresini-run operation’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The factory Skoda World Rally Championship WRC2 squad will scale down to a line-up of defending champion Jan Kopecky and rising star Kalle Rovanpera, with Pontus Tidemand exiting the team. Kopecky and Rovanpera will drive the Skoda Fabia R5 cars, with Skoda
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Rubens Barrichello’s son Eduardo will race in the 2019 Cooper Tyres USF2000 Championship. The young Barrichello, 17, will drive for Miller Vinatieri Motorsports two-car team alongside Jack William Miller, son of former Indy car driver Dr. Jack Miller. Barrichello’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brendon Hartley has spoken for the first time since he was dropped by the Toro Rosso Formula 1 team in favour of Alexander Albon for 2019. His exit was confirmed by the announcement of Albon on Monday and the Toro Rosso press
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia’s Aleix Espargaro has been ruled out of the final MotoGP test of 2018 at Jerez after being hospitalised with gastritis, and will be replaced by test rider Bradley Smith. Espargaro contested the first ’19 pre-season test in Valencia last week, and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pramac Ducati rider Jack Miller says he “can’t believe” his new 2019 Desmosedici is just two years removed from the bike he used in MotoGP this season. Miller rode a 2017-spec Ducati for his new team Pramac this past campaign, finishing 13th
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen says he will not be made to “look like an idiot” when he completes his two days of ‘public service’ for the FIA. Verstappen was given the punishment for his post-race altercation with Esteban Ocon
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. After agreeing a deal to sponsor Yamaha’s new satellite MotoGP team, Petronas is aiming to emulate the success it has enjoyed in Formula 1 with Mercedes. When given the opportunity, Petronas’ bosses didn’t hesitate and went for it in MotoGP. Entering the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso says he was “very far away” from finding a good lap in his NASCAR test run in Bahrain. While seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson impressed in a Formula 1 car during a swap on Monday organised by McLaren, Alonso
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda has paid tribute to outgoing Toro Rosso driver Brendon Hartley and declared its Formula 1 engine’s progress was “accelerated” by the ex-Porsche LMP1 star’s feedback. Hartley has been replaced at Toro Rosso after one full season in F1, having been handed
Suzuki rookie Joan Mir believes MotoGP bikes suit him much more than Moto2 machinery after his first tests. Mir, the 2017 Moto3 champion, was picked up by Suzuki after just a single season in Moto2 – in which he was sixth in the championship but did not win a race. Is Mir MotoGP’s new Marquez?
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson says he is interested in contesting IndyCar races but would prefer to try a road course rather than an oval. Johnson tried a Formula 1 car for the first time on Monday in a drive-swap event
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kimi Raikkonen has returned to the wheel of a Sauber Formula 1 car for the first time in 17 years. The Finn will race for the Swiss team in 2019 after ending his second spell with Ferrari this season. Raikkonen, reunited with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso-Honda has announced that Alexander Albon will be Daniil Kvyat’s 2019 team-mate, filling what was effectively the final vacancy on next year’s Formula 1 grid. The news means 19 of the 20 seats have been revealed, with the official announcement of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alvaro Bautista will rejoin Ducati’s factory MotoGP line-up for this week’s two-day Jerez test. Bautista has moved across to Ducati’s World Superbike project after losing his seat with the satellite Nieto Ducati team in MotoGP, getting his first experience of the marque’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier wants WRC rules changed to prevent ‘guest’ drivers – such as Citroen favourite Sebastien Loeb – getting advantageous positions. With day one WRC running orders set by championship positions, points leaders end up getting the worst of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aleix Espargaro says new Aprilia MotoGP team-mate Andrea Iannone will find it difficult not to become frustrated during his first season with the manufacturer. Iannone moves to Aprilia for 2019 after two up-and-down years at Suzuki and rode the RS-GP for the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Albon is expected to be announced as a 2019 Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver in the coming days, having completed extracting himself from his Nissan Formula E deal. Albon was a Formula 2 title contender this season, although he slipped from
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new McLaren 720S GT3 will make its race debut in next month’s Gulf 12 Hours enduro in Abu Dhabi. The first racing car developed by McLaren Automotive’s new in-house motorsport department will contest the event made up of two six-hour races
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA stewards at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix were “surprised” by Fernando Alonso’s repeated corner cutting in the closing stages, according to Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting. Alonso received three consecutive five-second time penalties for leaving the track and gaining
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA race director Charlie Whiting says Nico Hulkenberg’s halo did not compromise the Renault Formula 1 driver’s extraction following his first lap crash in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Hulkenberg’s came to rest upside down, leaning against the barrier at the outside
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jenson Button will join Sky Sports as a TV pundit for all 21 races of the 2019 Formula 1 season. Button worked for the broadcaster at this year’s British Grand Prix and will be a part of the channel’s presenting team full-time
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charles Leclerc will make his debut as an official Ferrari Formula 1 driver in next week’s Abu Dhabi test and believes it will be a “special” and “emotional” experience. Leclerc has tested for Ferrari before, including completing a run at Monza earlier
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen says Red Bull is looking into the tyre-temperature confusion that impacted his final run in qualifying for Formula 1’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Verstappen and his team disagreed on the temperature of his hypersoft Pirellis in the last moments of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former KTM MotoGP rider Bradley Smith says he was “positively surprised” by the behaviour of the MotoE bike when he sampled it for the first time in Jerez on Friday. Smith is one of a number of riders with premier class experience
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Haas Formula 1 team has submitted a notice of its intent to appeal the decision of the FIA stewards after its unsuccessful protest against Force India. The stewards dismissed the protest and asserted that Force India’s entry is legal and that
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A “surprising” gap between the hypersoft and the ultrasoft tyre at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix makes it unlikely the top teams will get through Q2 on the harder tyres, reckons Pirelli. The large speed advantage that Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The sausage kerb added to the exit of the penultimate corner of the Yas Marina Formula 1 circuit is being repaired after complaints following Friday practice. A long, 50mm high kerb was added between the final two corners ahead of this year’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rally fans are being offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join M-Sport’s end of season farewell party for World Rally champions Sebastien Ogier and Julien Ingrassia. The pair will leave M-Sport Ford at the end of this year, bound for Citroen in 2019.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren Automotive Ltd has won a court ruling against its former GT racing partner, CRS GT Ltd. The judgement handed down on Friday by the High Court of Justice, business and property court, rejected CRS’s claim that it had the rights to