Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow believes the retiring Dani Pedrosa would not make a good test rider for the Honda MotoGP squad. Pedrosa will bring his 13-year MotoGP career to an end later this year, but has received offers to become a test rider in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Wickens broke both his legs and his right arm, as well as injuring his spine and bruising his lung in his IndyCar shunt at Pocono on Sunday. The Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver collided with Ryan Hunter-Reay on lap six of the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi took a dominant win in the crash-delayed IndyCar race at Pocono, leading almost all of the 500-mile distance ahead of Penske’s Will Power. The event was halted for two hours by a violent crash that resulted in Robert
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Wickens has been airlifted to hospital after a vicious crash in the opening laps of the Pocono IndyCar race. IndyCar officials reported that Wickens was awake and alert, but no further details of his condition were released. The race was red-flagged
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar has reached a new multi-year agreement to continue racing at Texas Motor Speedway, despite the series being in talks with nearby United States Grand Prix Formula 1 venue Austin. TMS president Eddie Gossage had a non-compete ‘radius clause’ in the track’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes and its Formula 1 fuel and lubricants supplier Petronas have been discussing how they can work together in other areas of motorsport using alternative fuels. The two companies have worked together in F1 since 2010, with Petronas becoming more prominently involved
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia MotoGP boss Romano Albesiano believes the team is still “suffering the consequences” of signing rookie Sam Lowes for 2017. Lowes graduated from Moto2 to join Aprilia’s fledgling MotoGP project last year, but his two-year deal was terminated early amid a string
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nico Hulkenberg says he takes some pride in having “survived” for nearly a decade in Formula 1 despite the ever-growing threat posed by pay drivers. The highly-rated Hulkenberg, who once came close to a Ferrari seat, has yet to take a podium
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak clinched a second straight dominant rally win in Germany, as Sebastien Ogier dropped just two points to World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville. It had looked like Germany would be a huge blow to Ogier’s title defence when he fell
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Kubica says his Formula 1 testing role with Williams has been a “good surprise” as he expected to find it more difficult to have to watch others race. The 33-year-old has driven on five test days for Williams this year, as
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak continues to lead Rally Germany, but Thierry Neuville’s World Rally Championship title bid has been boosted by Dani Sordo and Jari-Matti Latvala both hitting trouble early on Sunday. Hyundai driver Sordo began the final day just 0.8 seconds ahead of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Martin Truex Jr believes he was “too nice” in Saturday night’s Bristol race, where he was taken out by Kyle Busch in the closing stages. Though Truex was involved in a multi-car pile-up – started by Busch spinning
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power said equalling AJ Foyt for the second-highest pole tally in Indycar history was an achievement he had never expected. Penske driver Power’s third pole of the 2018 IndyCar Series season at Pocono on Saturday elevated him to joint second with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing driver Kurt Busch secured his first win since the 2017 season-opener by snatching victory in during a dramatic NASCAR Cup Series race at Bristol. Having finished seventh and ninth in the first two stages, Busch first took the lead with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Team Penske’s Will Power took a crushing pole position for the 500-mile IndyCar race at Pocono Raceway, while points leader Scott Dixon of Ganassi only managed 13th. The result draws Power level with AJ Foyt on 53 poles, second in the all-time
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota driver Ott Tanak takes a 44-second lead over the battling Dani Sordo and Jari-Matti Latvala into Rally Germany’s final day, while Sebastien Ogier is flying on a comeback drive. World Rally champion Ogier was Tanak’s nearest rival until he had to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso will “definitely” make a Formula 1 comeback if McLaren returns to the front in grand prix racing soon, former team-mate Jenson Button believes. Alonso, who rejoined McLaren for a second stint in 2014 but has been unable to add to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport Ford team principal Malcolm Wilson says Sebastien Ogier’s response to his Rally Germany puncture sends a clear message that the World Rally Championship title fight is far from over. Ogier lost second place when he suffered a puncture on the second
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier plunged from second to ninth on Rally Germany with a puncture on Saturday afternoon’s Panzerplatte stage. Ogier had looked set to make inroads into WRC title rival Thierry Neuville’s 21-point lead as he ran second to Ott
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean insists his decision to join Haas was never taken with a potential Formula 1 future at Ferrari in mind. Haas’s close ties with Ferrari, through a deal to take engines and as many chassis parts as permitted by F1’s rules,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak maintained his Rally Germany cushion over Sebastien Ogier on Saturday morning, as World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville fell to fourth. Though Ogier trimmed Toyota driver Tanak’s advantage to 10.6 seconds on the short version of the Panzerplatte military range
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr is uncertain about his future at Furniture Row Racing given the team’s sponsorship difficulty. Furniture Row announced recently that it had lost sponsor 5-hour Energy for 2019. The current season is the first in Furniture
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 may need to ‘standardise’ some elements of its hybrid engine regulations to maintain “confidence” in rule enforcement, reckons Renault team boss Cyril Abiteboul. The 2018 F1 season has featured ongoing speculation about Ferrari’s hybrid system, which the FIA has passed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas Formula 1 development driver Santino Ferrucci will return to IndyCar for the two final races of 2018 after his controversial exit from Formula 2. Dale Coyne Racing is expanding to a three-car line-up to field Ferrucci alongside Sebastien Bourdais and Pietro
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Ott Tanak swept the three stages of Rally Germany’s Friday afternoon loop as World Rally Championship title contenders Sebastien Ogier and Thierry Neuville fell away from his lead. Tanak won every one of the three stages run in the afternoon to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Raffaele Marciello will contest this month’s Suzuka Intercontinental GT Challenge round with the GruppeM Mercedes squad. The 2013 Formula 3 Euro Series title winner, who is racing for GruppeM in the Blancpain GT Series Asia this year, will drive the team’s solo
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes DTM boss Ulrich Fritz is not surprised Robert Wickens has established himself as an IndyCar frontrunner in 2018, because the touring car series prepared him well for the switch. Wickens was released from his Mercedes DTM contract a year early to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM motorsport boss Pit Beirer says rider Pol Espargaro is “not using his full potential” in MotoGP and needs to approach races differently. Espargaro broke his collarbone when he crashed out of the warm-up session ahead of the Czech Grand Prix, admitting
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen is trying to win a Formula 1 Class B title he has created in his mind this season. The Haas driver is eighth in the 2018 standings on 45 points, just seven behind Renault’s Nico Hulkenberg. Sixth-placed Max Verstappen has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault will introduce a new floor and other aerodynamic parts for the Belgian Grand Prix as it tries to maintain its place at the head of Formula 1’s midfield battle. In the close fight behind the top three teams, the French manufacturer