Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel has promised Ferrari has “a lot of potential to unleash” when the Formula 1 season resumes after the summer break. The four-time world champion trails Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton by 24 points after last weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix, while Ferrari has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three-time Formula 1 world champion Niki Lauda has undergone lung transplant surgery in Austria on Thursday. The 69-year-old is a non-executive chairman of the Mercedes Formula 1 team, and owns a percentage of the team. He was reportedly taken ill while on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leading MotoGP riders believe the championship should have a longer summer break than this year’s three-week hiatus. The MotoGP season has traditionally featured a break of at least four weeks between the Sachsenring race in July and the Brno race in August,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tensions between Ducati factory riders Jorge Lorenzo and Andrea Dovizioso have flared up once more ahead of MotoGP’s return from its season’s summer break. Lorenzo, who joined the team last year and will leave for Honda in 2019, had accused team-mate Dovizioso
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A top three finish at Pocono in the NASCAR Cup series proves that Hendrick Motorsports is recovering from the slump it has endured in 2018, says driver Alex Bowman. Bowman finished third at Pocono after the race was sent into overtime following
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren Formula 1 reserve Lando Norris says making his grand prix debut with a different team is an option for 2019 but delaying his graduation may still be best. Norris said at the start of 2018 he would be happy to have
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar will introduce new guidelines to determine whether a driver is eligible to race in the series in its own version of Formula 1’s superlicence requirements for 2019. It is understood that IndyCar’s resurgence – attracting four additional teams for the current
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM test rider Mika Kallio will miss his next planned MotoGP wildcard appearance in Austria after undergoing surgery on his knee. Kallio was taken to hospital after a heavy crash during practice for the last month’s German Grand Prix, and was diagnosed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes’ priority is to improve in Formula 1 qualifying because of the gains Ferrari has made in recent races. Hamilton is equal with Sebastian Vettel on five poles from 12 races, with Valtteri Bottas’s Austria pole giving Mercedes a
Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. A British energy drink company that was rejected by Force India earlier this year still claims it can buy the Formula 1 team that was placed in administration last week. The company, Rich Energy, has claimed to be negotiating with Force India throughout
Mercedes Formula 1 junior George Russell ended the post-Hungarian Grand Prix test with the fastest time and a new unofficial circuit lap record. Russell’s first day at the Hungaroring was compromised by a gearbox problem but he hit back with a 103-lap Wednesday and beat Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen to top spot. Raikkonen led the way
Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr believes NASCAR Cup media and fans need a “reality check” about his struggles in 2018 because finishing second in the Daytona 500 skewed perceptions of him. Wallace managed to avoid a series of multi-car collisions to finish runner-up in his first race as a full-time Cup driver after Austin Dillon and
Citroen has opened talks with five-time World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier as it attempts to sign the Frenchman for 2019. The manufacturer wants to bring Ogier back into its fold seven years after it let him go following an acrimonious season alongside Sebastien Loeb. Ogier’s current agreement with the M-Sport Ford team comes to an
A Fiesta rally car has completed a zip wire stunt to showcase a new stage on this year’s World Rally Championship Rally GB route in collaboration with event backer Dayinsure. The ‘#Skydriver’ video stunt features a rally car at Zip World in Llechwedd Slate Caverns, the home for the Slate Mountain stage in that will
Hyundai’s World Rally Championship points leader Thierry Neuville says he would “love” to have had the support rival Sebastien Ogier received from his team-mates on last weekend’s Rally Finland. The M-Sport Ford team shuffled first Elfyn Evans then Teemu Suninen to move Ogier up the order to fifth, four places ahead of Neuville, who lost
Mazda will end its support of the Road to Indy programme at the end of 2018 after nine years, affecting the Indy Lights, Pro Mazda and USF2000 IndyCar feeder categories. Launched in 2011, the programme provided scholarships for the champion of each category, with recent Indy Lights champions such as Spencer Pigot, Ed Jones and
Daniel Ricciardo has set a new deadline for confirming his contract extension with the Red Bull Formula 1 team after initially expecting to sign before the summer break. Ricciardo had said he hoped to have his future sorted before the four-week break, while Red Bull intimated a deal was close back at the end of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Antonio Giovinazzi lapped more than half a second quicker than Sebastian Vettel’s official circuit record as he used hypersoft tyres to comfortably top day one of Formula 1’s Hungaroring test. The Italian registered an impressive day behind the wheel of the SF71H
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda MotoGP boss Alberto Puig says he cannot be sure how long it will take Jorge Lorenzo to adapt next season when he moves to the team from Ducati. Lorenzo will join Honda after two seasons at Ducati, with which he registered
Stoffel Vandoorne says his performance in the Hungarian Grand Prix is “a good sign that everything is back to normal” after a miserable recent run of form in Formula 1. Vandoorne has endured a difficult second season in F1 so far, scoring just eight points to McLaren team-mate Fernando Alonso’s 44 and failing to escape
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen’s Mads Ostberg says second place on Rally Finland is key to his hopes of a full-time World Rally Championship return for 2019. Ostberg was the only challenger to eventual winner Ott Tanak last weekend, swapping the lead several times on Friday
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Michael Shank Racing is planning to undertake a 10-race IndyCar programme in 2019 as a continuation of its partnership with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, ahead of an intended future full-time expansion. The sportscar outfit signed a deal to run Jack Harvey for six
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup series has explained how 13 cars failed post-qualifying inspection at Pocono last weekend, with championship contenders Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick two of the drivers penalised. NASCAR has introduced a much more thorough inspection process system for 2018, using
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pramac MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci has revealed he has been trying to emulate Ducati stablemate Jorge Lorenzo’s race starts. Lorenzo has been one of the strongest starters in MotoGP this year, consistently featuring at the sharp end in the opening stages of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams, Force India and Red Bull provided a first on-track glimpse at Formula 1’s 2019 front wing regulations on the opening morning of the two-day test in Hungary. The two teams had publicly declared their intent to run experimental front wings at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 sporting boss Ross Brawn says the commercial rights holder will do “all in its power” to ensure Force India survives after going into administration. The move into administration, triggered by its driver Sergio Perez, has been done to shore up
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams is preparing to trial an experimental version of Formula 1’s new 2019 front wings this week in Hungary. F1 is introducing new front wing rules for next season in a bid to improve overtaking. The wing will need to be 200mm
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver Robert Wickens says he was frustrated by the “comical” blue flag situation he encountered while trying to lap slower cars during IndyCar’s Mid-Ohio race. Wickens was on a three-stop strategy compared to race winner Alexander Rossi’s two-stop option,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier says his M-Sport Ford team needs to find more pace from its Fiesta WRC to have a chance of back-to-back World Rally Championship titles. Ogier could only finish fifth on Rally Finland last weekend, helped by team orders applied to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar title contender Alexander Rossi says he and Andretti team manager Rob Edwards decided his winning strategy at Mid-Ohio in the opening laps of the race. Polesitter Rossi was the only driver to make a two-stop strategy work, despite the likes of