Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Richard Petty Motorsports driver Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr admitted he was “scared” during the ‘hardest crash of his career’ in the NASCAR Cup series race at Pocono on Sunday. Wallace was unhurt in the crash, which was caused by a brake failure
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kimi Raikkonen does not feel his Hungarian Grand Prix podium was “a very happy finish” or a “very good” Formula 1 race. The Ferrari driver was third at the Hungaroring, one place behind team-mate Sebastian Vettel as Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton took a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch overcame a 28th-place start and overtime to seal Pocono NASCAR Cup Series race victory, ahead of team-mate Daniel Suarez in a career-best second. Busch had a two second lead over first-time polesitter Suarez heading into the closing
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Rossi executed a perfect two-stop race to take his second IndyCar victory of the season at Mid-Ohio, with the Andretti Autosport driver being the sole exponent of the strategy. From pole position, Rossi led comfortably throughout the opening stint from Penske’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toto Wolff has clarified his reference to Valtteri Bottas being Lewis Hamilton’s “wingman” in Formula 1’s Hungarian Grand Prix, insisting Mercedes does not favour one driver over the other. Mercedes team boss Wolff called Bottas a “sensational wingman” for fending off the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel says he does not blame Valtteri Bottas for locking up and hitting his Ferrari Formula 1 car after being passed for second place in the Hungarian Grand Prix. Vettel had overtaken Bottas exiting the first corner with five laps to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Walkenhorst BMW driven by Philipp Eng, Tom Blomqvist and Christian Krognes came out on top in a tight late-race battle to win the Spa 24 Hours. The Nurburgring-Nordschleife specialist, which was fielding a pro class car in the Blancpain GT Series
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak completed a dominant Rally Finland victory for Toyota with a calm run to the finish, while Thierry Neuville limited the damage to his World Rally Championship lead. After a spectacular lead battle with the resurgent Citroen of Mads Ostberg through
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The factory Sainteloc Audi driven by Markus Winkelhock, Christopher Haase and Frederic Vervisch leads the Spa 24 Hours at three-quarters distance. Vervisch ducked into the pits in the French team’s R8 LMS as the blue-riband round of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lance Stroll’s crash in Formula 1’s Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying has cost him the use of Williams’s upgraded front wing. The Canadian made it into Q2 in the wet but lost the rear of the car after running wide onto the exit
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak is two stages away from his second World Rally Championship victory this year on Rally Finland, while his Toyota team-mate Esapekka Lappi crashed out on Sunday’s first stage. With a healthy lead already in place overnight Tanak slowed his pace
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Audi leads the Spa 24 Hours after six hours despite its R8 LMS receiving a Balance of Performance hit ahead of the race. The Land Motorsport Audi driven by brothers Kelvin and Sheldon van der Linde and Jeffrey Schmidt held a lead
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andretti Autosport driver Alexander Rossi claimed his third IndyCar pole position of the season in a disrupted session at Mid-Ohio. Rossi only completed a single flying lap in the fast six using the red Firestone tyres, but a time of 1m04.6802-seconds was
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren Formula 1 boss Zak Brown says the team has “a plan” as it works to finalise its hiring of James Key from Toro Rosso as technical director. On Friday Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko indicated his frustration that negotiations between
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergio Perez is ‘heartbroken’ at taking legal action against Force India and its owner Vijay Mallya, but says it was necessary to save the Formula 1 team from going bust. Force India went into administration on Friday, following legal action led by
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota World Rally Championship driver Ott Tanak will take a lead of nearly 40 seconds into the final day of Rally Finland. A controlled run through the Saturday afternoon stages meant he extended his advantage to 39.9s despite a minor power steering
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Richard Petty Motorsports has extended the contract of NASCAR Cup series driver Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr in a “multi-year agreement”. NASCAR legend Richard Petty and Wallace had confirmed last week that negotiations over a new contract were progressing. Wallace is currently undertaking
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The pole-winning factory WRT Audi has lost pole position for this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours for a technical infringement. The two laps good enough for pole set by Dries Vanthoor in the top-20 ‘superpole’ session yesterday evening have been wiped out because
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak took charge of Rally Finland with a clean sweep of Saturday morning stage wins for the Toyota World Rally team. On Friday Tanak had amazed rivals by emerging with a 5.4-second lead over Mads Ostberg’s Citroen despite his third place
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The joint administrators of the Force India Formula 1 team say they are working on “an urgent basis” to secure its future and the best outcome for creditors. The team went into administration on Friday evening, but can continue to operate normally
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ryan Hunter-Reay set the pace in IndyCar Friday practice at Mid-Ohio in his Andretti Autosport Dallara-Honda. Hunter-Reay’s 1m05.1950s in the afternoon session on the ‘red’ soft-compound tyres was only one second off Will Power’s 2017 pole time with the high-downforce manufacturer aerokits.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A new category for high-powered supercars that revives the GT2 name has been announced by the Stephane Ratel Organisation. The idea is for the new breed of car to become the basis of the amateur classes as a complement to GT3 in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer says fresh investment in the Formula 1 team is “imminent” amid financial difficulties that have included facing a winding-up petition. The podium-finishing team has battled financial difficulties for some time but this season it faced
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota World Rally Championship driver Ott Tanak edged his lead over Mads Ostberg up to 5.8 seconds by the end of the first full day of Rally Finland. Tanak and Citroen’s Ostberg spent Friday embroiled in a huge battle for first position,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Local driver Dries Vanthoor took pole position for this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours Blancpain GT round for the WRT Audi team. The 20-year-old Belgian topped the ‘superpole’ session for the fastest 20 cars from Thursday’s aggregate qualifying in the factory Audi R8
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko is adamant the McLaren Formula 1 team will not be able to employ Toro Rosso technical director James Key until his contract runs out. McLaren announced on Thursday that Key would become its new technical chief,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 venue Kyalami will join the Intercontinental GT Challenge in 2019 with the revival of the South African track’s historic nine-hour sportscar fixture. The event will put Africa on the IGTC calendar for the first time, joining the Spa 24 Hours,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai will enter its factory World Rally Championship driver Dani Sordo on the Czech round of the European Rally Championship in Zlin next month. Sordo’s outing is designed to showcase Hyundai’s new R5-spec i20 in the ERC, where Skoda and Ford remain
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Six-time Formula 1 grand prix winner Riccardo Patrese was motivated to make a comeback in this weekend’s Spa 24 Hours to “put some adrenalin back” in his life. The 64-year-old Italian explained that his appearance in the blue riband Blancpain GT Series
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Ott Tanak holds a narrow Rally Finland lead over the resurgent Citroen of Mads Ostberg, while World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville is only 10th after making a mistake. Before the weekend, Neuville had insisted that his focus was on protecting