Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso’s STR13 Formula 1 car has become a sort of mobile laboratory for Red Bull and Honda in the final part of the 2018 season. On the engine front, Honda has not been shy about using Toro Rosso’s car as a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dorna Sports has awarded exclusive Spanish broadcasting rights for MotoGP to online-only streaming service DAZN for the 2019 season. The move is a significant step away from traditional television for MotoGP given that Spain is one of its biggest markets, hosting four
David Pearson, a three-time top-level NASCAR champion whose rivalry with Richard Petty was pivotal in the category’s rise, has died at the age of 83. Pearson competed in 574 races in what is now the Cup Series between 1960 and 1986, and won 105 of them – race win statistics second only to Petty in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick said he tried to find a “safe spot” in the Phoenix NASCAR Cup race while attempting to salvage his championship bid in a damaged car. Harvick lost his guaranteed place in the four-way title shootout when his win at Texas
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 sporting boss Ross Brawn says Max Verstappen showed he is not capable of keeping his emotions in check in his post-race confrontation with Esteban Ocon in Brazil. Verstappen was ordered to carry out two days of “public service” with the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton escaped an investigation into his near-miss with Sergey Sirotkin in Brazilian Grand Prix qualifying because it was viewed as an unfortunate misunderstanding by Formula 1 race officials. The eventual polesitter and the Williams rookie narrowly avoided a huge crash when
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota World Rally Championship team boss Tommi Makinen is putting together a “massive programme” of development for rising Japanese star Takamoto Katsuta. The 25-year-old has been selected ahead of Hiroki Arai, son of Japan’s most famous rally driver Toshi Arai, and will
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso has labelled outgoing Ducati MotoGP team-mate Jorge Lorenzo “a strange person” following their latest war of words. Lorenzo will join Marc Marquez at Honda in 2019, following an up-and-down two-season tenure alongside Dovizioso at the factory Ducati team that has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kurt Busch and Chase Elliott say they only have themselves to blame for being eliminated from NASCAR Cup Series title contention at Phoenix. Busch went into the cut-off race fifth in the standings, just three points behind Stewart-Haas team-mate Kevin Harvick, while
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 2019 Indy Lights champion will receive an increased financial prize for winning the series, despite Mazda’s withdrawal from the Road to Indy scheme at the end of this year. Mazda announced earlier this year it will end its $5million annual backing
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Plans to have a World Rally Championship stage on the streets of Liverpool moved a step closer last month when a council official visited Rally Spain. Britain’s round of the WRC will remain in Wales next year, marking the 20th consecutive year
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jenson Button’s “dedication and devotion” to his successful Super GT title challenge this year has been praised by his team boss Kunimitsu Takahashi. Button and his Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT co-driver Naoki Yamamoto won the GT500 championship in a tense season finale
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting says Esteban Ocon was not wrong to try to unlap himself in the Brazilian Grand Prix but fighting Max Verstappen was “wholly unacceptable”. Verstappen was taken out of the lead of the race after Ocon,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP race winner and sometime title contender Sete Gibernau will come out of retirement in 2019 to race in the new MotoE series. Gibernau, 45, is latest rider to sign up to participate in the new five-round all-electric MotoGP support series and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kyle Busch secured his spot in the NASCAR Cup Series championship decider at Homestead next weekend by winning at Phoenix. The Joe Gibbs Racing Toyota driver didn’t need to win the race after a crash in Stage 3 took out a number
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel’s Brazilian Grand Prix was compromised by a sensor problem that forced him to run different settings and made his Ferrari Formula 1 car difficult to drive. Vettel started on the front row of the grid at Interlagos but was passed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren Formula 1 drivers Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne have both received points on their licences for ignoring blue flags while being lapped during the Brazilian Grand Prix. The pair were also given five-second time penalties – Alonso’s was awarded during the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The McLaren Formula 1 team’s 2019 Indianapolis 500 effort will be a “separate team”, rather than an affiliation similar fashion to its partnership with Andretti Autosport in ’17. McLaren’s first attempt on the Indy 500 with Fernando Alonso came in an Andretti-run
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jenson Button feels winning the Super GT title in his debut season is “just as big” an achievement as his Formula 1 championship success in 2009. Button and Kunimitsu Honda team-mate Naoki Yamamoto clinched the 2018 GT500 title by finishing third in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff has declared Ferrari the favourite to win the 2018 Brazilian Grand Prix after the Italian team staked everything on a risky strategy in qualifying. Ferrari changed both Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen on to Pirelli’s soft
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One-time Formula 1 champion Jenson Button resisted a determined drive from Ryo Hirakawa late on to seal the Super GT title for himself and team-mate Naoki Yamamoto. Kunimitsu Racing pair Button and Yamamoto had to finish ahead of the #1 TOM’S Lexus
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen is now just one reprimand away from a Formula 1 grid penalty, after being found guilty of driving too slowly on an in-lap in Brazilian Grand Prix qualifying. The Haas driver was found to have not kept below the maximum
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso will return to the Indianapolis 500 with McLaren in 2019 as he bids to complete motorsport’s unofficial Triple Crown. The two-time F1 world champion will step away from McLaren’s grand prix team at the end of this season, but beyond
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton says Sergey Sirotkin acted in a “disrespectful” manner by passing him on an out-lap as the pair nearly came to blows in Brazilian Grand Prix qualifying. Most teams were in a rush to log flying laps at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World champion Lewis Hamilton says he is not in favour of the Formula 1 calendar expanding beyond the current level of 21 races. With Vietnam joining the calendar in 2020, and F1 bosses looking to finalise deals with Miami and possibly Zandvoort,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nick Cassidy says it would be “natural” for Honda to use team orders in support of Jenson Button and Naoki Yamamoto’s Super GT title bid in the finale at Motegi. Button and Yamamoto’s chances of winning the 2018 GT500 championship title received
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Joey Logano says he is the favourite for the 2018 NASCAR Cup series title. Logano has his place in the final four confirmed ahead of the Phoenix decider, with regular season pacesetters Martin Truex Jr, Kevin Harvick and Kyle Busch yet
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Super GT series will hold its first-ever night race when it returns to Malaysia’s Sepang International Circuit in 2020. The circuit has agreed a deal to host the night race, using the former Formula 1 venue’s newly installed floodlights, and will
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jenson Button and Super GT team-mate Naoki Yamamoto will start Sunday’s title decider at Motegi second on the grid, after narrowly losing out on pole to the #8 ARTA Honda. Button had topped the first segment of qualifying in the #100 Team
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Delegates from the Formula 1 Group, the FIA and Pirelli attended an extraordinary meeting of the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association at Interlagos to discuss the future of F1. The gathering had been widely expected to focus on the drivers’ misgivings about the