Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kasey Kahne will sit out the remainder of his final full-time season in the NASCAR Cup series due to his ongoing heat exhaustion problems. The 38-year-old announced on Tuesday that he has not been medically cleared to complete the season after a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli has unveiled teams’ tyre selections for the upcoming United States Grand Prix at Austin, for which McLaren has made another conservative choice. The team was left on the back foot last time out in Suzuka, having picked
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Clint Bowyer says he feels “sick” for ruining his Stewart-Haas Racing team-mate Aric Almriola’s chances of victory in the NASCAR Cup series race at Dover. Almirola had inherited the race lead on lap 320 of 404 when erstwhile race leader Kevin Harvick
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 Yamaha rider Johann Zarco says last weekend’s Thailand MotoGP race felt like his first “real race” for some time, after struggling for form in the preceding rounds. Zarco ended MotoGP’s first MotoGP race at Buriram fifth, less than three seconds behind
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa has defended his decision to speak out against IndyCar safety standards following Robert Wickens’s serious crash at Pocono in August. Wickens suffered severe injuries and is undergoing rehabilitation in Indianapolis after recently speaking publically for the first
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR will ban a key driver aid for the 2019 Cup series season by removing the driver-adjustable track bar that allows competitors to alter chassis set-up on track. The device was introduced for the 2015 Cup season so drivers could influence handling
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. While Ferrari’s Formula 1 world championship hopes may have been derailed by strategic and operational failures, on the technical front the team continues to push hard to close down Mercedes. The family of front end parts installed on the car in Russia,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier says he came close to “perfection” on the stage that sealed the Rally GB win that revitalised his World Rally Championship bid. With title rivals Ott Tanak and Thierry Neuville out and delayed respectively, Ogier put everything on the line
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull Formula 1 boss Christian Horner believes Sebastian Vettel’s move on Max Verstappen at Suzuka was “optimistic”. Vettel attempted to overtake Verstappen for third down the inside of Spoon Curve after an early safety-car restart, but ended up spinning after colliding
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton believes he and Mercedes can take credit for putting pressure on Ferrari in the two Formula 1 teams’ psychological “war” the for the 2018 title. Hamilton has won the last four grands prix to build a 67-point lead over Ferrari’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha must not think it has solved its MotoGP problems after its most competitive showing for many races in Thailand, warns Valentino Rossi. After an insipid showing in Aragon, where Rossi was eighth and factory team-mate Maverick Vinales trailed home in 10th,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota World Rally Championship driver Ott Tanak admits his retirement from Rally GB last weekend was the lowest point of his career. The Estonian held a commanding lead of the rally on Saturday afternoon and was poised to win his fourth WRC
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chase Elliott says his maiden oval NASCAR Cup series victory at Dover was “sweeter” because he lost a great chance to get a breakthrough at the same venue last year. The Hendrick Motorsports driver said he “gave away” victory at Dover last
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda’s Dani Pedrosa believes he had the pace to turn around his unhappy final MotoGP season with a Thailand Grand Prix win had he not crashed out. Pedrosa, who will retire at the end of 2018, is enduring his worst season in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Volkswagen has unveiled the livery its factory WRC2 car will run in when the firm makes its World Rally Championship return on Rally Spain later this month. The Polo GT1 R5 is intended as a customer car for categories such as the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. It appears that previous events mean Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales don’t trust the M1 improvements shown at Buriram, as the Yamaha bike is exactly the same as before. Leaving aside Jorge Lorenzo’s crash and his inability to race at the first
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel wants to speak to Max Verstappen in private, rather than get involved in a public war of words, about his defensive driving in Formula 1. The Ferrari driver felt that his Red Bull rival had been too aggressive in trying
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hendrick Motorsport’s Chase Elliot took victory in overtime at Dover to move into the third round of the NASCAR Cup playoffs. Running in the top 10 for the majority of the race but outside the leading pack, Elliot had moved up to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport’s Sebastien Ogier capitalised on trouble for his World Rally Championship rivals Ott Tanak and Thierry Neuville with a fifth Rally GB victory, fending off Toyota’s Jari-Matti Latvala. Latvala took the lead with a brilliant run through the second stage of Sunday
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales said his bike behaved like a “normal Yamaha” again after finishing a close third in the inaugural Thailand Grand Prix at Buriram. Yamaha has been unable to capitalise on its historical strength in high-speed corners in recent times and has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting has no doubts that Max Verstappen ‘clearly’ deserved a penalty for his first lap incident with Kimi Raikkonen in the Japanese Grand Prix. Verstappen felt it was a ‘bit stupid’ that he recieved a five-second penalty
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting has no doubts that Max Verstappen ‘clearly’ deserved a penalty for his first lap incident with Kimi Raikkonen in the Japanese Grand Prix. Verstappen felt it was a ‘bit stupid’ that he recieved a five-second penalty
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The final stage of Rally GB has been delayed while emergency services attend an incident unrelated to the running of the Great Orme Llandudno test. Originally scheduled to start at 12:18, the all-asphalt SS23 has been put back with a provisional start
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso said his last-lap defeat by Marc Marquez in MotoGP’s Thailand Grand Prix happened because he had not been able to judge his rival’s weak points. MotoGP’s first-ever race at Buriram was the fourth time in the last 14 months that
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Jari-Matti Latvala snatched a Rally GB lead of two tenths on the Sunday morning loop, demoting the M-Sport Ford of title hopeful Sebastien Ogier to second. Latvala – in search of a third Rally GB win – reduced his deficit from
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso says the penalty he was handed in the Japanese Grand Prix shows “how bad Formula 1 is” with its race stewarding. Alonso was given a five-second penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage after he was sent onto
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez took victory in MotoGP’s inaugural Thailand Grand Prix, passing chief rival Andrea Dovizioso on the final lap to take a step closer to the 2018 championship crown. In a reversal of their memorable Austrian GP duel from last year, Dovizioso
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jari-Matti Latvala says he needs to temper his enthusiasm as he bids to overhaul Sebastien Ogier on Rally GB and win a first World Rally Championship round since 2017. Latvala sits just four seconds behind Rally GB leader and former Volkswagen team-mate
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport Ford driver Sebastien Ogier holds a narrow Wales Rally GB lead overnight on Saturday, after title rival Ott Tanak’s Toyota retired from a long-term lead in the afternoon loop. Tanak pulled off during the second of four stages in the afternoon
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak has retired his Toyota Yaris from the lead of Rally GB on Saturday afternoon, allowing World Rally Championship title rival Sebastien Ogier to assume the top spot. Toyota driver Tanak had been leading the event by 41.9s from Ogier and