Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting believes Romain Grosjean committed “one of the worst cases” of ignoring blue flags he has seen in a long time at the Singapore Grand Prix. Grosjean received a five-second penalty and two licence penalty points for
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India Formula 1 team-mates Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon will again be banned from racing each other following their Singapore Grand Prix contact. They had previously been ordered not to battle in 2017 following a string of incidents. In Singapore the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Ferrari protege Raffaele Marciello and Michael Meadows snatched the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup championship victory with a win in the second Nurburgring race. The victorious #88 ASP Mercedes started the race in second and spent much of the afternoon behind
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton swept to a virtually unchallenged win in the 2018 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix as another Ferrari tactical blunder cost Sebastian Vettel the chance of victory. Vettel had to settle for third place behind Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. Hamilton and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Ott Tanak completed a hat-trick of World Rally Championship event wins on Rally Turkey, capitalising on the retirement of title rivals Sebastien Ogier of M-Sport and Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville. Many of the top World Rally Championship cars retired in one of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar title favourite Scott Dixon says a “huge” driver error prevented him from sealing pole for the championship-deciding season finale at Sonoma. Dixon lost out to Andretti’s Ryan Hunter-Reay for pole position by just one tenth of a second. It means Dixon’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso’s 2019 IndyCar plans have hit an engine-supply impasse, with Honda no longer an option for a potential McLaren entry. Despite repeated public assurances that Alonso’s acrimonious history with Honda during F1 return with McLaren would
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver and 2009 world champion Jenson Button earned a maiden Super GT victory at Sugo to take the lead of the championship, alongside co-driver Naoki Yamamoto. Yamamoto started the race from pole position in the Team Kunimitsu Honda NSX-GT, and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar championship leader Scott Dixon was pipped to pole position for the final race of the season at Sonoma by Ryan Hunter-Reay. The Andretti driver jumped Dixon right at the end of the session, denying the Chip Ganassi Racing man the chance
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ryan Newman will leave Richard Childress Racing at the end of the 2018 NASCAR Cup series season, the team with which he almost won the championship for four years ago. Newman finished second to eventual champion Kevin Harvick at the series finale
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Christopher Mies and Alex Riberas have been awarded the win of the opening Nurburgring Blancpain GT Sprint Cup race after a 30-second post-race penalty was applied to the original victor. The post-race call is enough to lift the Audi pairing of Mies
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergey Sirotkin says driving his Williams in qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix felt like a battle for ‘survival’ in its worst qualifying performance of 2018. Sirotkin and team-mate Lance Stroll qualified on the back row but ended up 1.399 seconds adrift
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen says he cannot explain why he was a second slower than Haas Formula 1 team-mate Romain Grosjean during qualifying for the Singapore Grand Prix. Magnussen was eliminated during Q1, in which Grosjean set the fourth quickest time, and was a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota World Rally Championship team-mates Ott Tanak and Jari-Matti Latvala will hold station in first and second place for Sunday’s final leg of Rally Turkey. The two Yaris WRC drivers are a minute clear of Hyundai’s Hayden Paddon in third and with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak took the Rally Turkey lead and neared a World Rally Championship win hat-trick on Saturday afternoon, boosting his title hopes as Sebastien Ogier joined Thierry Neuville in retirement. Tanak referred to his Toyota as “undriveable” on the afternoon’s opening Yesilbelde
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position for Formula 1’s Singapore Grand Prix with what Mercedes described as an “epic” lap. The F1 world championship leader – whose Mercedes team had been expected to trail Ferrari in Singapore – set a best time of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lamborghini drivers Mirko Bortolotti and Christian Engelhart have taken their third Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup victory of 2018 in the opening Nurburgring race of the weekend. The #63 Huracan GT3 of started on pole and make a clean getaway to remain
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier has crashed out of Rally Turkey leg two, losing a perfect chance to capitalise on World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville’s earlier retirement. Ogier had started the Yesilbelde stage fourth and 46.1 seconds off the lead he had lost when
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier had admitted he came close to giving up on his efforts to keep his M-Sport Ford in Rally Turkey. Ogier’s Fiesta suffered front-right damage in a heavy landing on Saturday’s second stage, just after taking the lead
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andreas Mikkelsen leads Rally Turkey again, with World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier down to fourth after a penalty and points leader Thierry Neuville out. Neuville was the first casualty of a highly-dramatic morning, having to retire from the rally lead after breaking
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 2018 World Rally Championship title battle took another dramatic twist on Saturday morning in Turkey as Sebastien Ogier hit trouble just one stage after title rival Thierry Neuville’s retirement. Ogier had moved into a 25-second rally lead when Neuville sustained broken
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Formula 1 driver Jenson Button claimed his first pole position in Super GT after team-mate Naoki Yamamoto set the fastest lap in Saturday’s qualifying session at Sugo. It was the sister ARTA-run Honda of Tomoki Nojiri and Takuya Izawa that led
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville’s title bid has received a huge blow with a suspension breakage while first on Rally Turkey on Saturday morning. His problem has launched his championship rival Sebastien Ogier into the lead, and gives the M-Sport Ford
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden bounced back to top second practice for the season finale at Sonoma despite suffering from food poisoning. Newgarden’s best time of 1m17.8156 seconds was the fastest time of the session in his only practice of the day,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says his near-miss with Formula 1 title rival Sebastian Vettel in second practice for the Singapore Grand Prix was the result of a “rookie error” on his part. Hamilton tried to clear Vettel on approach to the Turn 14 right-hander
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Superbike racer and Moto2 race winner Jordi Torres will make his MotoGP debut next weekend at Aragon in place of the injured Tito Rabat, replacing controversial stand-in Christophe Ponsson. Torres, 30, currently races for the MV Agusta team in WSBK and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIM has announced that former MotoGP rider Anthony West has been provisionally suspended for a possible doping violation. The 37-year-old Australian, who rides a Kawasaki ZC-6R for his own team EAB Antwest Racing in the World Superbike-supporting World Supersport championship, failed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel says Ferrari made some changes that didn’t work for the second Formula 1 free practice session in Singapore, during which he hit the wall and curtailed his running. Vettel ended the session ninth fastest after brushing the wall on the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dale Earnhardt Jr says he has an “itch to scratch” in his return to NASCAR competition for the first time since retiring at the end of the 2017 Cup season. Earnhardt had previously said retirement felt “weird” and was not a “comfortable
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship title rivals Thierry Neuville and Sebastien Ogier are split by just 0.3 seconds in the Rally Turkey lead battle after a highly dramatic Friday afternoon. A surge in pace from the championship’s top two coupled with chaos elsewhere in