Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault Formula 1 managing Cyril Abiteboul insists that Carlos Ghosn’s departure as the road car company’s chief does not pose an immediate threat to his team’s future. Ghosn, who was Renault’s CEO and chairman and a key figure in bringing it back
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati MotoGP test rider Michele Pirro will skip next week’s Jerez post-season test as he undergoes surgery on his injured shoulder. Pirro joined factory Ducati pair Andrea Dovizioso and Danilo Petrucci for this week’s Valencia test, but only completed a limited number
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson has admitted 2018 was the “most difficult” season of his top-level career. This year is the first Johnson failed to win a race since joining the Cup field full-time in 2002, and he was eliminated from
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says he is not fully convinced by the new types of engine Yamaha brought to MotoGP’s post-season test at Valencia, as his pace was “not fantastic” with either unit. Yamaha brought two different types of engine to this week’s post-season
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Brendon Hartley says his Toro Rosso team-mate Pierre Gasly’s “nice speech” about team orders after the Brazilian Grand Prix rang hollow after he benefitted from them several times in 2018. When running behind the 11th-placed Gasly, Hartley requested that the team swap
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Haas Formula 1 team has protested Racing Point Force India ahead of this weekend’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Haas and Force India have both been summoned to report to the stewards on Friday morning ahead of first practice at Yas
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen insists he has “no regrets” over what he feels was a “normal” response of shoving Formula 1 rival Esteban Ocon after their Brazilian Grand Prix clash. Verstappen will have to carry out two days of ‘public service’ for the FIA
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hayden Paddon is eager to confirm an extension to his current Hyundai World Rally Championship deal into 2019 as soon as possible. The Kiwi told Autosport he is mystified by media reports that he could switch his focus from the WRC to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New Aprilia MotoGP recruit Andrea Iannone said he expected the RS-GP bike to be “worse”, but has still identified areas to make improvements. Iannone joins Aprilia from Suzuki for 2019 and made his debut with the Italian manufacturer in the two-day post-season
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New Williams Formula 1 signing George Russell has explained some of the details he put in the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation he made in a bid to impress the team. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe revealed earlier this month that Formula 2 points
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales ended MotoGP’s post-season test at Valencia on top, eclipsing Andrea Dovizioso and Marc Marquez in the final hour of the second day. Vinales, who set the pace on the opening day, had a rare crash in the middle
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar-bound Marcus Ericsson says his target at the end of the 2018 Formula 1 season has been to show what his Sauber team will be “missing” next year, when he will be replaced. Sauber has signed Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi for
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 15-year-old who took a Moto3 win on his series debut last weekend has been tipped as a certain future MotoGP star by top riders. Turkish rider Can Oncu won the 2018 title in the Red Bull Rookies Cup junior series that
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. There is growing disquiet among World Rally Championship teams about Rally Australia remaining “in the middle of nowhere” in Coffs Harbour. The manufacturers felt the New South Wales venue was too small to host last week’s three-way title decider, prompting renewed calls
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Petronas Sepang Racing Team rider Franco Morbidelli felt like he was “riding on butter” in his first test outing with the Yamaha MotoGP bike. Last year’s Moto2 champion Morbidelli, who finished as the top rookie in the premier class aboard a Marc
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso is promising to add “many more” races to his schedule in 2019 after he leaves Formula 1 and may include “a couple of iconic places”. The two-time world champion wants to expand his programme beyond his existing commitments after he
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Injured IndyCar driver Robert Wickens’s latest social media update on his recovery shows him progressing with gait training – the process of learning to walk again. The Canadian, who suffered a spinal cord injury in a 200mph-plus shunt at Pocono Raceway in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Santino Ferrucci will contest the full 2019 IndyCar Series season as team-mate to Sebastien Bourdais at Dale Coyne Racing. The 20-year-old former Formula 2 racer made four starts with Coyne this season, and was unlucky not to score a top 10 finish
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM’s new MotoGP signing Johann Zarco admitted he was left with mixed feelings after being “a bit slow” in his first run with the RC16 bike in Valencia testing. Zarco, who has been a regular frontrunner in the premier class in his
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier will begin testing his Citroen C3 WRC for the 2019 World Rally Championship in Portugal next week. The 2018 world champion confirmed he will drive the C3 for four days before the end of the year, with the first two
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati’s new factory MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci said his first day testing with the team in Valencia was “very emotional” and felt like “the first day at school”. Petrucci, who spent four years at Ducati’s satellite team Pramac, is replacing Jorge Lorenzo
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales was fastest on the rain-shortened opening day of the MotoGP post-season test in Valencia, while Jorge Lorenzo finished 18th on his Honda debut. The track was wet when the session began and riders remained in the pits for the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo believes his aggressive moves during his debut season with Red Bull in 2014 “changed the level of overtaking” in Formula 1. Ricciardo is preparing for his final race with Red Bull as this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix marks his
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Last year’s NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr says the now-closing Furniture Row Racing team made him a “superstar”. Truex narrowly missed out on back-to-back titles in a 15-lap shootout following a late caution at this year’s Homestead decider, with Penske’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP riders Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales believe they were on course for a one-two finish in the Valencia Grand Prix, before Vinales crashed and the race was stopped. Pace in the wet was an obvious weakness of the 2017-specification YZR-M1,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has come under pressure to introduce ‘virtual chicanes’ in the World Rally Championship following the Rally Australia tractor incident. Last Friday Hyundai driver Andreas Mikkelsen was forced to overtake a tractor travelling down the Sherwood stage, and crashed shortly afterwards.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff has pledged the manufacturer will “really go for broke” in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix now both titles have been secured. The Anglo-German team has already wrapped up its fifth consecutive drivers’ and constructors’ championship
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Louis Deletraz says Haas “sees his potential” after handing him his first test in a current Formula 1 car at the 2018 Pirelli tyre test following the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The 21-year-old Swiss is competing in Formula 2 this year with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Last weekend at Valencia, MotoGP bade farewell to Dani Pedrosa, a rider once considered to be the only one able to dethrone Valentino Rossi, and the greatest to never win a premier class title. Pedrosa made his world championship debut in 2001
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP champion Marc Marquez and his new Honda team-mate Jorge Lorenzo have both confirmed that they will not be fully fit in time for the Valencia post-season test. Marquez crashed in both qualifying and the race during the Valencia season finale, walking