Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez was happy to have “saved” his qualifying in Valencia by placing fifth as the MotoGP champion overcame lingering shoulder pain from a mid-session crash. Marquez, who earlier identified his left shoulder as a “weak point” and is set to have
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Clazzio Racing’s Kei Cozzolino and Afiq Yazid inherited victory in a chaotic race in the Super Trofeo Pro class at the Lamborghini World Finals on Saturday afternoon. The pair took the win at Vallelunga after their nearest rivals were struck with penalties.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales fought through Q1 to take pole position in a scintillating final qualifying session of the 2018 season in Valencia. Vinales had come close to dropping out in the first segment, but would instead prevail in an close
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. American Ryan Hardwick came from third on the grid to take a superb victory in the first Lamborghini World Finals race for the Super Trofeo AM category at Vallelunga on Saturday afternoon. It was a hard-fought win for the Dream Racing driver
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Signing Pietro Fittipaldi will help the Haas Formula 1 team address a weakness with its simulator use, reckons the team’s race driver Romain Grosjean. Fittipaldi, grandson of two-time world champion Emerson, has been named Haas’s 2019 reserve driver next year and will
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Giacomo Altoe will start on pole position for race one of the Super Trofeo Pro class category of the Lamborghini World Finals at Vallelunga. The Huracan driver set a 1m30.834s lap, 0.171s quicker than Clazzio Racing’s Kei Cozzolino. Richard Muscat was third
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda is weighing up giving Japanese driver Naoki Yamamoto a free practice run in Formula 1 next season after his 2018 Super GT and Super Formula title success. Yamamoto became first driver since Richard Lyons in 2004 to achieve titles in both
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota has told Jari-Matti Latvala to play rear-gunner for Ott Tanak on the final day of Rally Australia to reduce pressure on the leader and World Rally Championship title contender. He and Tanak were instructed not to concentrate on each other’s times
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Manuel Lauck and Damon Ockey set the pace in the two Saturday morning qualifying sessions for the Lamborghini World Finals at Vallelunga. In the first of the two 20-minute shootouts, Dorr Motorsport’s Lauck topped the timings. His quickest effort of 1m32.861s was
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes has not raced with its controversial wheel spacer design for the past few Formula 1 races, but it has not stopped developing the idea as the latest updates used in Brazil show. The spacer works in conjunction with the rear wheel
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rain on Rally Australia’s Coffs Harbour superspecial stage has helped Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Hayden Paddon close in on Jari-Matti Latvala for second behind leader Ott Tanak. Leading Toyota contenders Tanak and Latvala went into the pair of runs through the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schnitzer BMW driver Augusto Farfus won the FIA GT World Cup qualification race to bag pole position for Sunday’s main event. Farfus captured the lead at the start of Saturday’s race, getting a run on Raffaele Marciello immediately on the rolling getaway
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak leads Rally Australia following Saturday afternoon’s loop, while Sebastien Ogier will go into the final day of the World Rally Championship season in control of the title fight. Toyota did not need to enforce any team orders between morning leader
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver Denny Hamlin took pole for Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series title decider at Homestead, with Kyle Busch the highest-placed of the four title contenders in second. Hamlin – who won this event in 2013 but is winless so
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Jari-Matti Latvala claimed the lead of Rally Australia on the Saturday morning loop, while his team-mate Ott Tanak boosted Toyota’s World Rally Championship manufacturer title chances by taking second. Latvala and Tanak – who topped three stages in the four-stage loop
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP champion Marc Marquez says he would prefer Honda to keep its current test rider Stefan Bradl, rather than pursue Casey Stoner following his exit from Ducati. Stoner, who won MotoGP titles for both Ducati and Honda prior to his retirement from
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo says his injuries felt “worse than expected” in Friday practice ahead of his final MotoGP race with Ducati at Valencia. Lorenzo fractured his left wrist in a big shunt in Thailand practice last month and has spent the four grands
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Controversial grand prix rider Romano Fenati will be “starting from zero” when he reunites with the Marinelli Snipers team for a return to Moto3 in 2019. Fenati, once a protege of MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi, made headlines when he attempted to grab
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Indy Lights champion Patricio O’Ward believes if he and Harding Racing can “put everything together” then he can be challenging for wins in his first IndyCar season. The 19-year-old Mexican caused a sensation when he made the ‘Fast Six’ pole shootout in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Georgian team ArtLine’s Sergej Afanasiev and Shota won the Pro-Am class in the final race of the first day of the Lamborghini World Finals at Vallelunga. In the setting sun, they took the win ahead of Loris Spinelli and JC Perez (P1
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Triple Eight will return to the Bathurst 12 Hour in 2019 to with a GT3 Mercedes for its current Supercars drivers Craig Lowndes, Jamie Whincup and Shane van Gisbergen. The team suggested the line-up will be “arguably the most formidable trio ever
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton predicts Mercedes will enjoy “a great knock-on effect” for 2019 from clinching its fifth consecutive Formula 1 title double in the face of increased competition from Ferrari. Hamilton’s Brazilian Grand Prix victory last weekend, coupled with Valtteri Bottas finishing fifth,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Manuel Lauck and Florian Scholze stayed out of trouble to triumph in the second Super Trofeo Europe AM & Lamborghini Cup race at Vallelunga in the World Finals. Their nearest competitors tripped over themselves, paving the way for the Dorr Motorsport team
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault’s chassis technical director Nick Chester says the French manufacturer is making “strong progress” with its 2019 Formula 1 challenger. Next season will be Renault’s fourth since returning to the F1 grid as a works team and it has signed Daniel Ricciardo
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Trent Hindman and Jonathan Cecotto won a thrilling battle in the final round of the Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America series at Vallelunga. The win was in the balance until the very last corner of the race thanks to a time penalty
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kyle Busch says non-contenders for the NASCAR Cup title should give the ‘Final Four’ who can win the crown “that extra quarter-inch” of racing room this weekend. Speaking on the media day ahead of the championship decider, Busch said he expects those
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Zampieri and Giacomo Altoe triumphed in the Super Trofeo Europe Pro & Pro-Am race, the third of Friday’s six-race extravaganza in the Lamborghini World Finals at Vallelunga. Their Antonelli Motorsport-run Huracan Super Trofeo Evo led from pole and dominated the 50-minute
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 boss Chase Carey says he will drop races that have “unattractive” agreements with the championship, and replace them with deals negotiated by the new management. The only new race confirmed on Carey’s watch is Vietnam, which is scheduled for 2020.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Florian Scholze and Manuel Lauck of Dorr Motorsport won the second race of the Lamborghini World Finals weekend in a thrilling finish at the line. The second placed Lamborghini of Raffaele Giannoni had been closing in on Scholze over the final few
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari’s engineering chief Jock Clear believes the team has had its “strongest season for 10 years” in Formula 1 during 2018. Although Ferrari emerged as a major threat to Mercedes in the fight for the Formula 1 championship this year, late season