Double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso will sample a 2018-spec Indycar for the first time next week in a private test, McLaren has confirmed. As revealed by Autosport, McLaren and IndyCar are currently working together on a plan for the F1 team to join the American series next year with Alonso. Following Alonso’s announcement
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Matt Kenseth says he never had “grand illusions” about winning races in the 2018 NASCAR Cup series and is unsure if he can secure any top 10 finishes this year. Kenseth returned from a NASCAR hiatus to rejoin Roush Fenway Racing in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar Championship leader Scott Dixon topped the timesheets as IndyCar began its return to Portland, coming out on top ahead of Penske drivers Will Power and Josef Newgarden. After five hours of testing, Dixon’s fastest time was 58.3593 seconds, meaning he completed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean will both use the Haas Formula 1 team’s updated floor at the Italian Grand Prix after initial tests in Belgium proved inconclusive. The revised design ran on both cars during Friday practice at Spa, but Haas struggled
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso has received a replacement Formula 1 chassis following his Spa crash, meaning McLaren has been left without spares for some of its latest specification parts at Monza. It is yet to be determined if Alonso’s Renault engine survived the first-lap
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow admits he is pessimistic about the future of British talent in MotoGP, and can picture a grid devoid of riders from the UK after he stops racing. LCR Honda rider Crutchlow recently secured a one-year extension to his factory contract
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas Formula 1 boss Gunther Steiner has stressed that Ferrari does not dictate the team’s driver choice, as it finalises its 2019 line-up. Steiner emphasised that the team was even free to take a driver like Esteban Ocon – who is tied
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Felix Rosenqvist says his Formula E future is “complicated” amid speculation he could join the Chip Ganassi Racing IndyCar squad for 2019. The Mahindra Formula E driver put himself on Ganassi’s shortlist after impressing the IndyCar team during a series of successful
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Juncos Racing expects to expand to become a two-car team in IndyCar next season, although it expects to again have a rotating cast of drivers to help financially. The team last ran two cars in the 2017 Indianapolis 500 after a strong
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel had a small crash during the F1 Live event in Milan, which took place ahead of this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix. Both Vettel and his Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen drove an SF71H car as part of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz Sr will enter the 2019 Dakar to defend his title after signing with the X-raid Mini squad alongside Stephane Peterhansel and Cyril Despres, Autosport has learned. Sainz made clear it after winning his second Dakar last January that if he
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The halo passed its first test in Formula 1 last weekend when Charles Leclerc was hit by the McLaren of Fernando Alonso at the start of the Belgian Grand Prix. Alonso was launched over the top of Leclerc’s Sauber after he was
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin will remain committed to GT racing even if it enters either the new hypercar concept class in the World Endurance Championship or the DTM. David King, president of Aston Martin Racing, is insistent that the British marque will “always race
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Munoz is due to make his first non-oval IndyCar start of 2018 at Portland this weekend in place of the injured Robert Wickens at Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Autosport understands. Munoz, who lost his full-time ride with AJ Foyt Racing at the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dorna boss Carmelo Ezpeleta has suggested Silverstone must be prepared to resurface its track again to safeguard its MotoGP agreement. The cancellation of last weekend’s race was blamed on the track’s new surface by MotoGP race direction, as it failed to drain
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault Sport Formula 1 boss Cyril Abiteboul says Esteban Ocon’s ties to Mercedes worked against him when the team made its final call on drivers for 2019. Ocon had been expected to be named as Nico Hulkenberg’s team-mate, but that plan was
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Volkswagen Motorsport has defended the strength of its Polo R5 following the release of shocking pictures of the car at a recent test. The pictures of the R5, circulating on social media, shows the complete rear axle of the Polo having broken
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault believes its upgraded Formula 1 engine should be worth 0.3 seconds around Monza, but it still does not plan to use the new specification at this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix. As first reported by Autosport, the French manufacturer has reliability fears
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 teams have approved a plan to introduce rear wing rain lights in 2019 to help the cars stand out more clearly in low visibility conditions, Autosport has learned. At the post-Spanish Grand Prix test earlier this year, Lewis Hamilton trialled
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The “spontaneous” nature of the riders’ meeting in which it was ultimately decided to abandon last weekend’s MotoGP race at Silverstone has been criticised by Ducati. A combination of persistent rain on Sunday and Silverstone’s new track surface failing to properly drain
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Rossi says his “astronomical” fuel-saving three-stop strategy at Gateway was frustrating, but is the sort of aggressive tactic he will need to win the 2018 IndyCar title. Rossi was the only driver to complete a three-stop strategy in last Saturday night’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari has already run at Monza this year after using a filming day that gave Charles Leclerc his first on-track experience of its 2018 Formula 1 car. It has emerged in the build-up to this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix that Ferrari completed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Silverstone has launched an independent track investigation and defended its new surface following the cancellation of the MotoGP races last weekend. After several delays and timetable changes caused by heavy rain, the MotoGP race was cancelled at 4pm on Sunday. Several key
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The disastrous race cancellation at Silverstone must be used as an example to avoid MotoGP facing similar situations in the future, says ORIOL PUIGDEMONT The majority of us will agree that the postponement of the Qatar Grand Prix in 2009 due to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa has hit out at IndyCar’s safety following recent major incidents in both single-seater series. Massa was one of several drivers to speak positively on social media about F1’s introduction of the halo following its role in protecting
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA race director Charlie Whiting has elaborated why Nico Hulkenberg did not receive as harsh a penalty as Romain Grosjean was given after a similar incident at Spa six years ago. Grosjean was handed a one-race ban after triggering the crash at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIM Safety Officer Franco Uncini claims Silverstone’s new for 2018 track surface has deteriorated considerably since it was first laid after the cancellation of MotoGP’s British Grand Prix. Race director Mike Webb said the fresh asphalt was directly responsible for Sunday’s race
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo will have to take Italian Grand Prix grid penalties when he becomes the first driver to use Renault’s new ‘spec C’ Formula 1 engine. Ricciardo is out-of-sequence on engine usage following failures earlier in the season, and Red
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power insists he is still in the 2018 IndyCar title fight, despite trailing championship favourites Scott Dixon and Alexander Rossi with just two races remaining. The Penske driver won last weekend’s race at Gateway, moving past long-time race leader Dixon on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes believes “many deficits” it has with its Formula 1 car are behind Ferrari’s current performance advantage. On the back of Sebastian Vettel’s crucial victory in Belgium, on a track where Mercedes has traditionally been strong, Ferrari’s title hopes have been reinvigorated