Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP has issued a 19-round provisional calendar for the 2019 season that features no changes of venue compared to this year’s schedule. Efforts by series promoter Dorna to add a 20th race to the calendar in Mexico were abandoned, largely due to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes says it does not know why Ferrari’s straightline speed advantage disappeared during Formula 1’s Italian Grand Prix weekend. Ferrari has a slight power advantage currently, and its performance has been further boosted by an energy deployment characteristic that allows it to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden and his Penske team-mate Will Power admit their 2018 title hopes are all but over after troubled Portland races. Power and Newgarden locked out the front row but ended the day classified 21st and 10th respectively, and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Avintia Ducati MotoGP rider Tito Rabat has described the Silverstone crash in which he was hit by Franco Morbidelli’s bike, saying his leg “twisted like an S” in the impact. Rabat was one of several riders to crash at Stowe corner in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kyle Larson admitted that his last-gasp defeat in the NASCAR Cup Series’ Southern 500 at Darlington “stings” particularly badly in a year of near-misses. The Ganassi driver again came agonisingly close to his first Cup race win of 2018 in Sunday night’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Despite the complexity of Formula 1’s rulebook, and the intense battle between teams, it is quite rare for post-race protests to take place these days. That is why there was surprise after the Italian Grand Prix when Renault protested the Haas car
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota will be forced to revert to its older-specification World Rally Championship engine for Rally Turkey later this month. Homologation regulations stipulate the team must take a backwards step with the engines in the Yaris WRCs of Ott Tanak, Jari-Matti Latvala and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pierre Gasly has criticised Fernando Alonso after their clash in the Italian Grand Prix, claiming that the Spaniard has become “even more aggressive” since announcing his Formula 1 exit. Alonso drew the ire of Kevin Magnussen earlier in the weekend by trying
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar championship leader Scott Dixon admitted he thought his race was over when he was embroiled in the dramatic first-lap crash at Portland. The Ganassi driver ultimately extended his series lead to 29 points heading into the Sonoma finale by recovering to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Brad Keselowski snatched his first victory of the 2018 NASCAR Cup series season, vaulting ahead of long-time race leader Kyle Larson late on at Darlington. Winning the opening two stages and controlling the majority of the final stage, Chip Ganassi Racing’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon survived a wild race at Portland to extend his points lead into the final IndyCar weekend of the season, as Takuma Sato took victory. The race lasted just three corners before a huge crash triggered by Zach
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean was disqualified from the Italian Grand Prix because Haas knowingly used a floor design on its Formula 1 car already deemed illegal by the FIA’s technical department. The FIA stewards deemed Grosjean’s floor contravened Article 3.7.1.d of the technical regulations
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean’s Haas has been disqualified from the Italian Grand Prix after his Formula 1 car was found not to be in compliance with the regulations. Following a protest lodged by Renault against Grosjean’s Haas immediately after F1’s race at Monza, the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. ASP Mercedes’ Raffaele Marciello and Michael Meadows took a commanding victory in a rain-affected Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup race at the Hungaroring. The duo converted pole position into Mercedes’ first sprint win of 2018 to draw level on points with the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The McLaren Formula 1 team will make a decision on its potential 2019 IndyCar project during September, says CEO Zak Brown. McLaren confirmed on Friday that double F1 world champion Fernando Alonso will sample a 2018 IndyCar package for the first time
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas says it would have no qualms about being the only Formula 1 team to block Force India getting full prize money. The ‘new’ Force India entry is trying to get unanimous support for earning extra ‘Column 1’ prize money immediately –
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dale Coyne Racing says it cannot judge Haas Formula 1 junior Santino Ferrucci on his past behaviour and he could be in consideration for a 2019 IndyCar programme. Ferrucci has been retained by Haas but lost his Formula 2 drive with Trident
Penske sealed a one-two for IndyCar’s Portland race with Will Power and Josef Newgarden leading qualifying ahead of title contender Alexander Rossi. Rossi had led after the first flying laps of the ‘Fast Six’ final phase, before Power surged to the front in the final seconds with a new fastest lap at Portland, completed in
Valtteri Bottas believes he effectively matched Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Lewis Hamilton at the end of Italian Grand Prix qualifying and only lost time because he had no tow. Bottas has trailed Hamilton all weekend and on his final run in Q3 he lapped 0.35s slower than the Briton, who will start one place ahead
Toto Wolff has questioned the future of Mercedes’ young driver programme amid difficulties in trying to find places in Formula 1 for his junior drivers. The manufacturer’s three young drivers – Esteban Ocon, George Russell and Pascal Wehrlein – could all be on the F1 sidelines in 2019, and Wolff has expressed some frustration at
Lamborghini duo Christian Engelhart and Mirko Bortolotti dominated the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup opener at the Hungaroring, beating pre-race favourite Mercedes. Engelhart launched his Grasser Racing Lamborghini Huracan GT3 into the lead just seconds into the race despite starting fifth on the grid. Heavy storm prior to the race left the track damp, and
Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso says his IndyCar test taking place shortly after announcing he will leave Formula 1 is “coincidence” and will not influence his decision to race in IndyCar next year. Autosport reported earlier this month that Alonso would likely test a 2018 Indycar
Christian Horner says Renault’s new ‘Spec C’ Formula 1 engine has delivered as predicted and will run in both Red Bulls for the rest of the Italian Grand Prix. Daniel Ricciardo took a complete set of new power unit elements on Friday, earning himself a demotion to the back row of the grid. After a
Dale Coyne Racing with Vasser-Sullivan’s Sebastien Bourdais topped the timesheets on Friday ahead of IndyCar’s race at Portland. Bourdais, who was the last Indycar driver to win at Portland back in 2007, set a best time of 57.398 seconds to hold off Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon by just 0.0246s in the opening practice session.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari has stepped back from open threats to quit Formula 1, with its new CEO Louis Camilleri confident a deal to extend the team’s commitment beyond 2020 can be reached. Camilleri has taken over at Ferrari from Sergio Marchionne, who died last
Carlos Sainz Jr hopes Formula 1 eventually drops its “dangerous” DRS after it caused Marcus Ericsson to suffer an Italian Grand Prix practice crash his rivals called “crazy” and “scary”. The DRS flap on Ericsson’s Sauber did not reattach under braking for the first chicane at Monza in FP2, which meant he lost control of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tito Rabat has been transferred from hospital in the UK to Barcelona, where it will be decided if he requires further surgery after his horror Silverstone MotoGP crash last weekend. Avintia Ducati rider Rabat suffered a triple fracture to his right leg
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports IndyCar driver Robert Wickens has been transferred to a hospital in Indianapolis, with further surgeries expected as he continues his recovery. Wickens is now set to undergo an operation on his “lower extremities” after breaking his right arm, both
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari considers the issue of the legality of its 2018 Formula 1 car to be “completely closed” following the checks conducted by the FIA earlier this season. During the Monaco Grand Prix weekend in May, the FIA said it had completed a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota World Rally Championship driver Ott Tanak says he is still not fully comfortable with his Yaris despite taking convincing wins on the two most-recent rallies. Back-to-back wins in Finland and Germany have brought the Estonian back into contention for the 2018