Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aric Almirola secured his place in the next round of the NASCAR Cup series playoffs with victory in overtime at Talladega, as his Stewart-Haas Racing team dominated the event. SHR locked out the top four positions for a majority of the 193-lap
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Double Formula 1 world champion Mika Hakkinen says he would want to be able to “kick some butt” if he returned to racing, having thought “quite a lot” about the prospect. Hakkinen left F1 after the 2001 season on a sabbatical that
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso says every race since he decided he would leave Formula 1 at the end of the season has been “a celebration” for him. The McLaren driver will walk away from F1 for 2019 after a topflight career that started with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso team boss Franz Tost says he would “absolutely refuse to go below 20 races” on the Formula 1 calendar. F1 is considering new races in Miami and Vietnam, despite concerns over the size of a calendar that already comprises 21
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. “How would you like to do a lap with George?” said the man from Mercedes. Given that the George in question was Formula 2 star Russell, and we were at Suzuka, saying no was not an option. I’ve been going to the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Felipe Massa says Formula 1’s old V8 engines lack the power and ‘aggression’ of the current turbo hybrid power units, after driving some of his former Ferrari cars last weekend. The Brazilian was invited to the Japanese Grand Prix to take part
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says Formula 1 should consider a ‘super weekend’ shake-up of formats during the year to stop the series becoming too predictable. While F1’s current focus has been on changes to qualifying to mix up the grid, the world championship leader
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has announced a 14-round World Rally Championship calendar for the 2019 season. The schedule was confirmed at Friday’s meeting of the World Motor Sport Council, which took place in Paris. As revealed by Autosport, Japan has lost the slot it
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s 2019 calendar and a host of technical and sporting rule changes were formally approved by the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council on Friday. Following the WMSC meeting in Paris, no changes have been made to the 21-round 2019 schedule from
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tour of Corsica organisers have confirmed their event will form part of next year’s World Rally Championship after all. The event’s official communication talked of a decision from Friday’s World Motor Sport Council meeting in Paris. The FIA’s official announcement still has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson says his shock split with crew chief Chad Knaus happened because poor recent performances meant the Hendrick team had to try “something different”. Johnson and Knaus’s relationship dates back to Johnson’s first full season at Hendrick
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 boss Toto Wolff says his team is continuing to tighten its radio communications after incidents this season, and is trying to stay out of strategy discussions himself. Wolff admitted after the Russian Grand Prix that he had distracted chief
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 2 title favourite and Mercedes protege George Russell has secured a Williams Formula 1 drive for the 2019 season. The 20-year-old has signed a “multi-year agreement” with the British team but will also maintain his link to Mercedes, for which Russell
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rally Japan’s return to the World Rally Championship is expected to be abandoned at Friday’s meeting of the FIA World Motor Sport Council, Autosport understands. The Honshu-based event, which is scheduled to run its candidate rally next month, was dropped to reduce
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen says his Formula 1 employer Red Bull forbade him from trying out a MotoGP bike on the grounds that it would be “too dangerous”. The 21-year-old Dutchman, who has four grand prix wins to his name and is contracted with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has told the Formula 1 field that if drivers make two separate defensive moves in the same direction in the future they risk being penalised. In the wake of Sebastian Vettel’s double block of Lewis Hamilton as they battled for
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez has revealed one of his targets is to make his riding style more “smooth” like his chief MotoGP rival Andrea Dovizioso. Last weekend’s Thailand Grand Prix was the fourth time in 14 months that Marquez and Dovizioso had engaged in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault thinks it has become “collateral damage” in a Formula 1 engine arms race between Mercedes and Ferrari. The 2018 season began strongly for Renault and it appeared to have established itself as the leading team behind the top three outfits before
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Seven-time NASCAR Cup champion Jimmie Johnson will part with his crew chief Chad Knaus at the end of the 2018 season. Johnson and Knaus are the longest-running driver/crew chief pairing in the series, having been together since Johnson joined Hendrick Motorsports full-time
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leavine Family Racing has announced Matt DiBenedetto as Kasey Kahne’s full-time NASCAR Cup Series replacement for the 2019 season. Eighteen-time Cup race-winner Kahne moved to the small LFR team for this season after losing his Hendrick Motorsports seat, but decided to retire
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The driver involved in 2006 MotoGP world champion Nicky Hayden’s fatal cycling collision last year has been given a one-year suspended prison sentence. The 31-year-old driver, who was not named throughout the trial, was liable to a one- or two-year jail sentence
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Llandudno has been tipped to host Britain’s World Rally Championship round next season, following the success of the Rally GB town-centre stage that closed last weekend’s event. As well as considering moving the service park and headquarters out of Deeside, Rally GB
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo admits he is “grateful” to MotoGP rival Marc Marquez for not standing in the way of his 2019 switch to Honda. Ducati rider Lorenzo shocked the MotoGP paddock in June when it was announced that he would pair up with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull believes its future Formula 1 relationship with Honda could become “massive” in Japan, based on the reaction to Toro Rosso at Suzuka last weekend. Toro Rosso’s livery was much in evidence among local fans at F1’s Japanese round, despite the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Who is your Formula 1 driver of the year? Which overtake has set your pulses racing the most during this season of F1 racing? Which team has the best car? Once again, F1 Racing magazine is conducting an online vote to decide
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aleix Espargaro says he cannot tolerate another MotoGP season as bad as Aprilia’s 2018 campaign. After the boost of his surprise run to sixth at Aragon last month, Espargaro ended up 13th in last weekend’s Buriram race and crossed the line 21
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel says Ferrari’s aim for the final races of the 2018 Formula 1 season is now to prove it is better than recent disastrous grands prix suggested. Ferrari appeared to hold the edge in the championship battle at mid-season, but its
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kris Meeke has completed a deal to make a sensational return to the World Rally Championship with Toyota for the 2019 season. Toyota is set to announce next week that the ex-Citroen driver will partner Ott Tanak and Jari-Matti Latvala, as mooted
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toto Wolff believes Valtteri Bottas has suffered a “mental setback” as Mercedes has focussed its efforts on winning the Formula 1 drivers’ world championship with Lewis Hamilton. Bottas struggled to match Hamilton’s pace in the Japanese Grand Prix, one week after a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville says the battle for the 2018 title will go “all the way” to the end of the final round of the season Australia. Hyundai driver Neuville started last weekend’s Rally GB with a 13-point advantage over