Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar boss Mark Miles described initial talks about the possibility of running a race on the Gold Coast as “encouraging” after a visit to Australia. Miles, CEO of Hulman & Company, which owns the series and Indianapolis Motor Speedway, and Stephen Starks,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi called crashing while fighting for victory in two MotoGP races in a row a “sh*t emotion”. Despite starting the Valencia Grand Prix only 16th, Rossi scythed his way through the field early on and was part of a three-bike fight
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano says he proved at Homestead that he was right to consider himself title favourite. The Penske Ford driver had proclaimed himself the championship favourite after making the final four following a last-lap clash at Martinsville
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nissan and Renault chairman Carlos Ghosn, a key supporter of Renault’s Formula 1 programme, is set to be sacked amid allegations of financial impropriety. Ghosn, who leads the alliance of Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi, has been arrested in Japan and accused of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Haas Formula 1 team believes it has reaped the benefits from its first real year of car development. Haas entered F1 in 2016 and turned heads by scoring points on its debut, but after finishing in the top 10 in three
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier has admitted there have been times he has questioned why he is leaving M-Sport Ford for Citroen in 2019 given his ’17/18 success. Ogier clinched a sixth WRC title in a row in Australia on Sunday, in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez said his bold tyre choice for the MotoGP season finale at Valencia was his “first big mistake” of the 2018 campaign. Marquez, who had sealed his fifth MotoGP title with three races to spare, had been on the podium on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Defeated 2018 NASCAR Cup Series title contender Kevin Harvick says his Stewart-Haas Racing Ford was a “daytime” racecar that prevented him challenging for the championship late on at Homestead. Harvick and SHR started the weekend on a run of difficult form, qualifying
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charles Leclerc claims Sauber’s impressive progress in the final part of the Formula 1 season is due to set-up work, not upgrades, because it stopped developing its 2018 car early. Sauber started the year fighting Williams at the back of the grid
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Both Moto2 and Moto3 will use a MotoGP-style two-part qualification system from the 2019 season. Since 2013, the premier class has divided qualifying into two separate sessions – Q1 and Q2 – and used practice times to determine which rider takes part
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Jari-Matti Latvala had resigned himself to 2018 being his first win-less World Rally Championship season as a factory driver, before his unexpected last-minute Rally Australia success. Latvala was expected to play the Toyota team game on the final day of the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joey Logano won the 2018 NASCAR Cup series title in a dramatic 15-lap shootout following a late caution at Homestead that pitched the final four contenders into a head-to-head battle. The Penske driver led more laps than any of his other final
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM rider Pol Espargaro has described his Valencia MotoGP podium charge as “unreal” after recovering from a “wild highside” crash in the first part of the race. Espargaro, who had his sights set on KTM’s best MotoGP finish after qualifying sixth, was
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pramac Ducati rider Jack Miller has expressed his frustration with how long it took MotoGP race direction to stop the wet race in Valencia, labelling the situation “a joke”. Miller was among the 11 riders to hit the ground in the first
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams needs to make changes in all areas of its organisation if it is going to recover from its disappointing 2018 Formula 1 campaign, says departing engineering chief Rob Smedley. Having taken third in the constuctors’ championship in 2014 and ’15, Williams
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Antonelli Motorsport’s Giacomo Altoe and Daniel Zampieri dominated the final race of the Lamborghini World Finals to claim the Super Trofeo world championship honours. They took advantage of a troubled start for their nearest rivals to secure victory by nearly 20 seconds
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso emerged victorious in a stop-start, attrition-heavy 2018 season MotoGP finale at a wet Circuit Ricardo Tormo in Valencia. Dovizioso passed long-time leader Alex Rins twice – once before the 40-minute red-flag stoppage and once after – en route
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. American Ryan Hardwick was crowned Lamborghini Super Trofeo AM class champion with a third-place finish in Sunday’s World Finals races at Vallelunga. The Dream Racing Motorsport racer started on the front row and ran second early on behind eventual race winner Damon
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier praised his M-Sport Ford World Rally Team after sealing a second World Rally Championship title in a row with the squad before he moves to Citroen next year. He and co-driver Julien Ingrassia – who has been alongside Ogier for
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff believes Max Verstappen will be a Formula 1 world champion once the “raw edges are off”. Wolff suggested that Verstappen’s clashes with Esteban Ocon on and off the track in last weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix indicated he
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Augusto Farfus converted pole position for the FIA GT World Cup race into victory in Macau, winning for BMW in Charly Lamm’s last race as Schnitzer team boss. Farfus led from start to finish, clinching victory by just under one second from
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota driver Jari-Matti Latvala won Rally Australia, while crashes for Thierry Neuville and Ott Tanak helped seal a sixth World Rally Championship title for M-Sport Ford’s Sebastien Ogier. Toyota driver Latvala went into the final loop of the season knowing that he’d
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport Ford driver Sebastien Ogier has won a sixth the World Rally Championship title, following Toyota driver Ott Tanak’s retirement from the Rally Australia season finale. Tanak pulled over with an apparent gearbox problem on the penultimate stage, but an impact warning
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville is officially out of the running for the World Rally Championship drivers’ title, after crashing out of the first stage of the final loop. The Belgian driver – in pursuit of his first WRC title having led the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tyler Reddick has won the 2018 NASCAR Xfinity series championship after victory at Homestead, driving for Dale Earnhardt Jr’s JR Motorsports team. Reddick, 22, left it late to surge to a comfortable victory in a race that didn’t have a single caution,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jari-Matti Latvala leads Rally Australia after his Toyota team-mate Ott Tanak went off the road on Sunday morning, while Sebastien Ogier remains favourite for the World Rally Championship title. Latvala set a stunning pace on the first stage of the morning, SS19
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Defending NASCAR Cup series champion Martin Truex Jr says it is “eye for an eye” if he finds Joey Logano in front of him during the title decider at Homestead. Truex and Logano clashed earlier in the playoffs at Martinsville when the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Denny Hamlin has forfeitted the coveted number one pitbox after winning pole for the NASCAR Cup Series finale at Homestead, handing it to his Joe Gibbs Racing team-mate Kyle Busch. Hamlin upstaged the final four championship contenders to earn pole for the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says he was “very uncomfortable” riding his Yamaha MotoGP bike in the dry at Valencia, as he struggled to a low-key 16th on the grid. Rossi missed out on an automatic Q2 spot after he only took 13th place in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lamborghini has unveiled a brand-new sports utility vehicle (SUV) that will form the basis of a new championship in 2020. The new SUV will be the first that will combine both racetrack and off-road events across a calendar based in Europe and