Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen’s Mads Ostberg extended his Rally Australia lead to 6.8 seconds at the end of Friday’s running as Sebastien Ogier boosted his hopes of a sixth World Rally Championship title. Ostberg held a 6.2s cushion going into the final two superspecials run
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship driver Andreas Mikkelsen says he is “angry” and “disappointed” after an incident in the middle of a live stage with a tractor “destroyed” his Rally Australia. The Hyundai driver came across a tractor during his first pass on the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mads Ostberg continues to lead the World Rally Championship’s Rally Australia after Friday’s afternoon loop, while a puncture has damaged Thierry Neuville’s title hopes. Citroen driver Ostberg continued to benefit from running last in the order, emerging from the repeat of this
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo is certain of being on the grid for his final race as a Ducati MotoGP rider in Valencia, having missed the four previous grands prix due to injury. Lorenzo injured his foot in a major highside crash at the start
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tatiana Calderon will be back behind the wheel of a Formula 1 car when she tests for Sauber at the Fiorano circuit this weekend. Calderon, the Swiss squad’s test driver, will run in a V8-powered Sauber C32 – the team’s 2013 F1
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Scott Redding says he won’t miss the “atmosphere” and “the general attitude” of MotoGP after he departs for a move into British Superbikes. Redding has been part of the grand prix racing paddock since 2008, and has spent the past five campaigns
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. This weekend, the 2018 NASCAR Cup series champion will be decided at Homestead from four contenders, but an earlier race may have hinted at who the title winner will be. Chicago is the only other Cup race to use the exact same
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull junior Dan Ticktum could step down to a lower-level junior series this winter in a bid to end his “annoying” quest for a Formula 1 superlicence. After a year where he was unable to test for Red Bull because he
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Furniture Row Racing team owner Barney Visser says he has no second thoughts about closing his NASCAR Cup series championship-winning team at the end of 2018. The team that supported Martin Truex Jr’s 2017 championship victory will close its doors at the
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Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Force India Formula 1 deputy team principal Bob Fernley has been named president of McLaren’s IndyCar programme. McLaren announced during the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend that Fernando Alonso would return to the Indianapolis 500 in 2019 with McLaren under a new
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati MotoGP sporting director Paolo Ciabatti says the onus is on Danilo Petrucci to prove he deserves his promotion to the factory team as Jorge Lorenzo’s 2019 replacement. Pramac rider Petrucci was chosen to partner Andrea Dovizioso in Ducati’s works team for
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Hyundai World Rally Championship team has brought forward its 2019-spec engine for this weekend’s Rally Australia in a bid to help Thierry Neuville’s title chase. Neuville’s i20 Coupe WRC will feature a new cylinder head originally scheduled for delivery at the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport’s Sebastien Ogier says he can be a “little more relaxed” in this weekend’s World Rally Championship title decider in Australia because a sixth title “won’t change my life so much”. Ogier heads into the the final rally of 2018 with a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kyle Busch says the NASCAR Cup series’ final four championship contenders at Homestead this weekend are the “best of the best”. Busch will be joined by fellow ‘Big Three’ drivers Martin Truex Jr and Kevin Harvick, with the trio dominating the regular
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jordan King will compete in the 2019 Indianapolis 500 with IndyCar team Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. King made his IndyCar debut with Ed Carpenter Racing in 2018, driving on the road and street courses in a shared ride with team boss Ed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Sauber Formula 1 team has partnered with junior single-seater outfit Charouz Racing System to form a young driver development programme. Sauber has not previously had a defined junior operation but has established close ties to Ferrari. It handed Ferrari-bound Charles Leclerc
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Porsche’s former World Endurance Championship LMP1 team boss Andreas Seidl is set to move into Formula 1 in a senior role at a team. Although his departure from Porsche has not been confirmed and it is not yet known which F1 team
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. David Pearson’s most famous NASCAR moment will always be the 1976 Daytona 500, crawling across the line to victory after an infamous clash with Richard Petty. Coming in NASCAR’s heyday, when the charismatic Petty highlighted a generation of drivers that captured America’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The nascent all-electric MotoE championship has unveiled a complete 18-rider grid for its inaugural campaign next year. Participating teams had already individually revealed 14 participants, and the official series announcement revealed the four remaining riders for the five-round schedule. Former MotoGP rider
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo says he feels like he is taking “uppercuts” with the number of problems he has had in the final part of the 2018 Formula 1 season. The Red Bull driver has endured a troubled end to his final campaign with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Martin Truex Jr says he enters the 2018 title decider at Homestead this weekend under little pressure because Furniture Row has been less competitive this year. Truex is up against Kevin Harvick, Kyle Busch and Joey Logano in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar chiefs are beginning formal talks about bringing Surfers Paradise back onto the calendar, possibly as soon as 2020. Discussions have been triggered by a meeting between 2014 IndyCar champion and ’18 Indianapolis 500 winner Will Power and Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting has hit back at complaints over the FIA’s weighing procedure after Sebastian Vettel was punished for “destroying” the weighbridge at Interlagos last weekend. Vettel was given a reprimand and fined €25,000 for failing to obey the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb has tutored Petter Solberg’s son, Oliver, in a two-day asphalt test in France. Petter Solberg, who competed against Loeb throughout his WRC and World Rallycross career, asked his rival if he would offer his 17-year-old son
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow has targeted being fit for MotoGP’s February 2019 tests, having admitted he originally hoped to race this weekend despite his injury needing a 12-month recovery period for civilians. The LCR Honda rider broke his right ankle in a crash in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pirelli has released the tyre selections of the Formula 1 teams for the 2018 season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, with the choices dominated by the hypersoft tyre. Ferrari has gone slightly more conservative than its rivals, opting for three sets of the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati has announced that two-time MotoGP champion Casey Stoner will not continue in his test rider role beyond the end of 2018. Autosport reported in August that Stoner had decided to end his association with Ducati, with which he had won his
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport is willing to sacrifice the chance to lift back-to-back World Rally Championship manufacturers’ championship titles in favour of aiding Sebastien Ogier’s chase of a sixth drivers’ crown. Ogier leads the WRC heading into this weekend’s Rally Australia by three points over
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former MotoGP rider Alex de Angelis will return to grand prix racing next season with the Pramac Racing MotoE team. De Angelis is a veteran of 61 premier class starts, and had one outing with Pramac in 2013 when Andrea Iannone was