Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso topped second practice for MotoGP’s British Grand Prix, leading local hero Cal Crutchlow by just five thousandths of a second. Although spots of rain fell in the closing stages of the preceding Moto3 session, the drizzle had abated
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi has ruled out expanding his IndyCar team back to a three or four-car line-up as its first year as a two-car outfit enabled him to “focus more”. Ganassi scaled back from four cars to two for 2018, releasing Max Chilton
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ford’s success in the 2018 NASCAR Cup series is the culmination of a four-year plan, says global director of Ford Performance Motorsports Mark Rushbrook. Kurt Busch’s victory at Bristol last weekend made it 11 wins from 24 races for Ford in 2018,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time in the opening practice session for the Belgian Grand Prix as Formula 1 returned from its 2018 summer break. Vettel edged Red Bull driver Max Verstappen to the quickest time in FP1 at Spa, with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. This weekend, the MotoGP enterprise heads to Silverstone, one of the fastest and most flowing venues on the grand prix motorcycle racing calendar, for the British Grand Prix Famous sweeping corners such as Copse, Stowe and Abbey provide some of the biggest
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso says he was offered Daniel Ricciardo’s vacant Red Bull Formula 1 seat for 2019, a claim the team has denied. Two-time world champion Alonso will stop racing in F1 at the end of the season, accusing it of being too
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new Racing Point Force India team has been granted an official Formula 1 entry by the FIA in place of Force India, starting from this weekend’s Belgian Grand Prix. As revealed by Autosport on Wednesday, the FIA and the owners of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alvaro Bautista will leave MotoGP after nine seasons, switching to World Superbikes with the factory Ducati team for 2019. With Yamaha’s new satellite team SIC Racing taking over Bautista’s current team Nieto Ducati’s MotoGP entries next year, the 33-year-old’s hopes of remaining
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s latest official computer game launches this week, with Codemasters again doing more than simply adding a lick of paint to the series for its annual release. While F1 continues to restrict the features of its own game in too many
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning champion Sebastien Ogier will only make one more deal to drive in the World Rally Championship before he retires from the series. Ogier is in the middle of negotiations for next season and wants to conclude those talks before the end
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP race winner Cal Crutchlow has extended his factory contract with Honda until the end of 2020. The 32-year-old has ridden for Honda satellite team LCR since 2015 and became a Honda-contracted rider last year, signing through to ’19. That involved Crutchlow
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren’s progress towards a 2019 IndyCar entry with double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso remains “a really fluid situation”, according to one of its potential partner teams. With under a month until the end of the 2018 IndyCar Series season, the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India could run under a new identity in Formula 1 this season if the FIA is satisfied that relevant legal issues have been properly addressed. It is understood that the team may be allowed by the FIA to run under its
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 2 frontrunner Alexander Albon believes he can fight for a Toro Rosso Formula 1 seat in 2019, but accepts he must convince sceptical Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko. Albon was dropped by the Marko-run Red Bull junior programme in 2012
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM MotoGP boss Pit Beirer says the Austrian manufacturer will cut back on the number of wildcard appearances for its test riders in the future. Test rider Mika Kallio entered four races in KTM’s first full season in MotoGP in 2017, and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jonathan Rea’s World Superbike dominance has created a “block” on MotoGP teams signing WSBK riders, reckons 2003 champion Neil Hodgson. Rea and Kawasaki have had a stranglehold on WSBK since 2015, with Rea winning the title for the past three seasons and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull team boss Christian Horner believes promoting Pierre Gasly is a result of the same philosophy that brought the likes of Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen into Formula 1. Gasly has been chosen to replace Daniel Ricciardo at Red Bull next
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. WRC Promoter has confirmed Rally Japan will return to the World Rally Championship next year, providing it is signed off by the FIA. Rally Japan organisers held a press conference overnight to provide further details about the country’s first WRC rally since
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Injured IndyCar driver Robert Wickens’ team boss Sam Schmidt has renewed calls for safety changes on ovals following the Pocono accident. Wickens sustained injuries to his spine, lower extremities and right arm when his car was launched into the catchfencing over Ryan
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports will not enter the car raced this year by Robert Wickens at the Gateway IndyCar round following the crash in which he sustained major injuries. Wickens suffered major injuries after a huge shunt at Pocono Raceway last weekend, and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 commercial boss Sean Bratches says Fernando Alonso was right to say the championship has become too predictable, but insists the situation will change. In explaining his decision to not race in F1 in 2019, Alonso declared the predictability, and a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Loris Baz will make his MotoGP return at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, standing in for the injured Pol Espargaro at KTM. Espargaro fractured his left collarbone in a Sunday warm-up crash at Brno earlier this month, and sat out the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Wickens has undergone spinal surgery and remains in a stable condition, according a joint IndyCar and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports update. Wickens was airlifted to Lehigh Valley Hospital near Allentown in Pennsylvania after his crash in last weekend’s race at Pocono and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula E champion Jean-Eric Vergne says returning to Formula 1 is a possibility for the 2019 season after being approached by a team. Vergne was dropped by Red Bull at the end of 2014 after three seasons racing for its junior team
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pierre Gasly says the shock of being told he would replace Daniel Ricciardo at the Red Bull Formula 1 team for 2019 left him ‘running around shouting’. Though Gasly was generally expected to be promoted from Toro Rosso once Ricciardo’s surprise Renault
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Wickens will undergo surgery on Monday evening for a spinal injury he suffered in his IndyCar Pocono crash. Wickens hit the rear of Andretti driver Ryan Hunter-Reay’s car in the early stages of the race, which sent him along the top
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull has confirmed it will promote Pierre Gasly to its senior Formula 1 team next season in place of Daniel Ricciardo. Gasly currently drives for Red Bull’s junior team Toro Rosso, where he made his F1 debut at the 2017 Malaysian
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren reserve driver Lando Norris will make his Formula 1 grand prix weekend debut appearance when he drives in the first free practice session at the 2018 Belgian Grand Prix. The 2017 Formula 3 European champion, who will replace Fernando Alonso in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lance Stroll believes that Formula 1 drivers make “easy targets” for blame, amid Williams’s poor run of form in 2018. Williams has finished in the top five of the constructors’ championship for the past four seasons but is enduring a painful performance
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Retiring NASCAR Cup driver Kasey Kahne says he turned down offers to continue in 2019 – including one from top team Stewart-Haas – because of his declining form and commitment. The 18-time Cup race-winner ended up at the small Leavine Family Racing