Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel says a loose screw in his Ferrari Formula 1 car’s cockpit prompted the cheeky joke he made to his team during the second Brazilian Grand Prix practice session. In a radio message broadcast on F1’s coverage of FP2 at Interlagos,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari-bound Charles Leclerc hopes the Toro Rosso Formula 1 team will sign Alexander Albon for 2019. Albon is second in Formula 2 at the moment and sits between two confirmed 2019 F1 drivers in the standings, behind George Russell (Williams) and ahead
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin has taken orders for 20 of its new Vantage GT3 racers for next season. Deliveries of the car developed from the GTE Pro Vantage racing in the 2018/19 World Endurance Championship are about to start ahead of its homologation in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Black Falcon Mercedes drivers Maro Engel, Yelmer Buurman and Luca Stolz have been crowned Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup champions after a court ruling. They have been awarded the crown after the penalty for a technical infringement in September’s Barcelona series finale
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniil Kvyat will be reunited with the Toro Rosso Formula 1 team in the post-season Pirelli tyre test in Abu Dhabi. Kvyat has been re-signed by Red Bull to drive for its junior team next season, after being dropped in late-2017. The
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Grand Prix Drivers’ Association plans to discuss concerns about tyres and the state of racing in a meeting in Brazil on Friday, amid mounting frustrations with Formula 1. An increased reliance on tyre management, plus an ever-widening gulf between the top
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Mayor of Rio de Janeiro has announced there will be an IndyCar race in the city in 2020, but series officials have denied any such deal has been done. Mayor Marcelo Crivella said that he had received representatives from the IndyCar
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Injured Avintia Ducati rider Tito Rabat has ruled out contesting the MotoGP season finale in Valencia to instead focus on being fit for post-season testing. Rabat, who has been on the sidelines since suffering a triple fracture of his right leg in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville insists he still has the edge in the 2018 World Rally Championship fight, despite Sebastien Ogier deposing him from the series lead heading into the decider. Hyundai driver Neuville relinquished his grip on the WRC’s top spot – a position
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The latest edition of The Autosport Podcast marks this month’s 50th anniversary of Graham Hill’s second Formula 1 world championship victory in 1968. For all his success, Graham Hill is often left out of discussions about grand prix racing’s greatest drivers. So
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales will adopt a ‘smarter’ approach to MotoGP winter testing at Valencia this year following Yamaha’s poor 2018 season. Vinales’ Australian Grand Prix victory is the team’s only win of a campaign in which he and team-mate Valentino Rossi have regularly
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR says it must “change the culture” of its teams attempting to run illegal cars in Cup Series races as it is getting into “borderline ridiculous territory” with post-race penalties. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick was hit with an L1 penalty on Wednesday
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Defending NASCAR Cup series champion Martin Truex Jr’s move to Joe Gibbs Racing for the 2019 season has been confirmed. Truex’s title defence has been overshadowed by his Furniture Row Racing squad losing a key sponsor that put the team’s future in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s commercial managing director Sean Bratches has hinted the British Grand Prix could move away from Silverstone to preserve the future of the race. Last year Silverstone bosses activated a break clause in the race’s contract, agreed under F1’s previous ownership,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marcus Ericsson has admitted it “hurts a bit” to be losing his Sauber Formula 1 drive just as the team is moving forward. Ericsson has driven for Sauber since 2014, scoring 18 points in that period, but will be relegated to a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick’s guaranteed place in the NASCAR Cup Series championship shootout at Homestead has been lost due to a L1 penalty incurred at Texas Motor Speedway. On Wednesday NASCAR announced that Harvick and his #4 SHR team have been hit
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki MotoGP team boss Davide Brivio says Andrea Iannone was dropped for 2019 for “business reasons” after the Italian recently spoke out against his dismissal. After finishing second at Phillip Island two weeks ago, Iannone emphasised what he felt was his personal
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup title contender Kevin Harvick says seven-time champion Jimmie Johnson’s struggles are a “reality check” reminding him to make the most of his 2018 season. Harvick was initially the leading driver of NASCAR’s ‘Big Three’ during the regular season alongside 2017
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso will return to Honda’s upgraded Formula 1 engine for the Brazilian Grand Prix because the high-altitude challenge of Interlagos is not as extreme as at Mexico City. Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley used an older specification of Honda engine for
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tito Rabat has ridden a motorcycle for the first time since his leg-breaking Silverstone crash ahead of a planned MotoGP comeback in next weekend’s Valencia season finale. Rabat has been out of action since he sustained a triple fracture of his right
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. George Russell tried to land a 2018 Williams Formula 1 drive and made a PowerPoint presentation to aid his bid, the team’s chief technical officer Paddy Lowe has revealed. Russell has been confirmed at Williams for 2019 after impressing the team with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Aric Almirola suggests he will go out of his way to hinder Joey Logano’s NASCAR Cup title hopes at Homestead if he fails to reach the ‘championship four’. Almirola started Sunday’s Texas race from the rear of the field after
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Racing Point Force India’s Otmar Szafnauer says Sauber has “outdeveloped” Formula 1’s top teams with the leap it has made from its 2017 car to the current C37 challenger. Sauber propped up the constructors’ standings last year, scoring just five points to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. James Hinchcliffe says he is glad Schmidt Peterson Motorsports did not buy him a seat in the 2018 Indianapolis 500 after he failed to qualify. Bumping returned to the Indy 500 in 2018 after a surge of interest pushed entries beyond the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Newly-crowned Moto2 champion Francesco Bagnaia has revealed he passed up a “possibility” to graduate to MotoGP in 2018 to try to win the intermediate category instead. Bagnaia, who is part of Valentino Rossi’s academy, ended the 2017 Moto2 season as top rookie
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 chiefs have been urged to do more to clamp down on oil burn, even though new rules have done much to discourage teams from exploiting it. With F1’s turbo hybrid rules having imposed strict limits on fuel flow and quantity
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati will hold a clear-the-air meeting with its MotoGP riders Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso after the feed that broke out between them during the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend. The war of words began when Dovizioso passed comment on Lorenzo being forced
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari boss Maurizio Arrivabene says his team needs to overcome a fear of winning if it is to finally beat Mercedes in Formula 1. Ferrari’s title hopes have been derailed by late-season problems again this year, and Arrivabene said the team has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Volkswagen has hinted it could field a factory Polo GTI R5 on more WRC2 events or European Rally Championship rounds in 2019. VW was initially adamant it would only enter “one or two rallies in key markets” with its own works team
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Five-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton fears young drivers risk compromising their education too much and intends to talk with FIA president Jean Todt on the matter. Hamilton wants to help aspiring racing drivers who are taken out of school in