Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Michelin has outlined two key factors in Formula 1’s new tyre tender that may deter it from applying to make a return to grand prix racing. The French company is evaluating the FIA’s recently published offer for tyre manufacturers to become F1’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP and Silverstone have just signed a contract which will keep the British Grand Prix at Silverstone for the next three years. This year’s race is being held over the August Bank Holiday weekend, and if you needed a better reason than
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two hours of early preview gameplay demonstrated that F1 2018 has taken the finest elements of its predecessor and overhauled the multiplayer experience to become the best Formula 1 game yet. Most gamers won’t even notice swathes of the changes Codemasters has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Ott Tanak holds a slender Rally Finland lead after setting the quickest time on the opening superspecial stage on the streets of Jyvaskyla. The Estonian won the Harju test by just 0.7 seconds, continuing his strong vein of form after winning
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren has changed Stoffel Vandoorne’s chassis ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix, but the team is yet to figure out the problem that wrecked his two previous Formula 1 weekends. Vandoorne struggled badly in the Silverstone and Hockenheim events, lapping substantially slower
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport has agreed for World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier to switch to the same dampers he used at Volkswagen for his Ford on this week’s Rally Finland. In addition to the significant aerodynamic revisions at the rear of his car, Ogier will
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville’s hopes of a maiden Rally Finland victory have been put on ice this week as the World Rally Championship leader focuses his efforts on extending his points lead. Neuville starts the event 27 points clear of nearest rival Sebastien Ogier
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow believes his LCR Honda MotoGP team-mate Takaaki Nakagami is doing a better job than he did in his own rookie season. Nakagami graduated from Moto2 this year and enjoyed a strong start to the season with four consecutive points finishes.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Citroen World Rally team believes it can take the pace it showed in a surprise one-two result on the Rally Finland shakedown into the event. Mads Ostberg topped the timesheets for Thursday morning’s 2.64-mile Versala stage, more than a second clear
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Richard Childress Racing wanted the Chevrolet NASCAR Cup Series teams to form an alliance early in the season to get on top of the 2018 Camaro during its struggles. RCR is the only team to have won a race with the new
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso technical director James Key is set to move to the McLaren Formula 1 team in the same role. Although there has been no confirmation from McLaren, Autosport understands that the deal has been done. It is not yet clear when
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Darrell ‘Bubba’ Wallace Jr is likely to remain at Richard Petty Motorsports for the 2019 NASCAR Cup series, with the two parties in discussion over a contract extension. Wallace secured the full-time seat with RPM for 2018 after a four-race cameo as
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Formula 1 title battle turnaround in the German Grand Prix could make Lewis Hamilton “unbeatable” just as last year’s Singapore events did, reckons 1997 world champion Jacques Villeneuve. Last weekend’s race looked set to substantially bolster Sebastian Vettel’s world championship advantage,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas Formula 1 boss Gunther Steiner says his team “got away” with a conservative strategy in last weekend’s German Grand Prix, as his drivers both made three pitstops. Kevin Magnussen and Romain Grosjean looked on course to finish sixth and eighth respectively
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier expects Toyota to set the Rally Finland pace again this season, and will focus on his title battle with Thierry Neuville. Toyota dominated last year’s Finnish WRC round, with Esapekka Lappi taking victory, and M-Sport Ford driver
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso says his main concern now is not MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez but just getting back on terms with the resurgent Yamahas of Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales. Last year Dovizioso was Marquez’s main title rival and brought Ducati back
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aric Almirola believes he must win a race in the NASCAR Cup series this season to prove that Stewart-Haas Racing made the right decision to sign him for 2018. Almirola lost the chance to fight for victory in his best performance of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault’s decision not to provide all possible new power unit elements for Daniel Ricciardo at the German Grand Prix has prompted frustration at the Red Bull Formula 1 team. Red Bull picked Hockenheim for tactical penalties for Ricciardo as it knew they
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 Yamaha MotoGP rider Johann Zarco says he “doesn’t want to know” what improvements the factory Yamaha riders have made since the start of the year. Although Yamaha is enduring its worst winless streak of the MotoGP era, works pair Valentino Rossi
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 officials will visit Assen to inspect its track in the next few weeks, following the latest rounds of talks about the Dutch Grand Prix returning to the calendar. Lee van Dam, CEO of the Dutch GP foundation that is tasked
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 and Facebook will combine to release a documentary series based on the inaugural F1 Esports Series Pro Draft that took place earlier this year. The documentary will release in four episodes broadcast on Facebook and “select” TV broadcasters and the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Conor Daly will continue in the #88 Harding Racing car for IndyCar’s Mid-Ohio weekend, extending regular driver Gabby Chaves’s spell on the sidelines. Daly lost his full-time IndyCar seat with AJ Foyt Racing at the end of 2017 and made an Indianapolis
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kyle Larson says he does not want the NASCAR Cup series to race on a dirt track, after Tony Stewart mooted an Eldora race. Stewart has overseen the emergence of the Eldora Speedway’s dirt track race, culminating in a highly popular Trucks
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Suzuki MotoGP team wants to lose its concessions “as soon as possible”, according to team boss Davide Brivio. After a 2017 season in which it failed to score a podium finish, Suzuki was given back the technical concessions it lost after
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hendrick Motorsports driver Chase Elliott hopes a first NASCAR Cup series stage win of 2018 in a dismal season for his team and Chevrolet was not down to “dumb luck”. Chevrolet has won just one race this year, coming at the restrictor-plate
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup champion Martin Truex Jr’s Furniture Row Racing outfit is in a “tough spot” because his primary sponsor will exit at the end of the 2018 season. Energy drinks company 5-Hour Energy served as the primary sponsor for 14 races
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Managing the relationship between 2019 Honda MotoGP team-mates Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo is likely to be a “challenge”, admits team principal Alberto Puig. Lorenzo will move across from Ducati to replace Dani Pedrosa at the works Honda team next season, giving
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 has delayed the first Miami Grand Prix to 2020, with next year’s calendar expected to feature just 20 races, due to Germany dropping out. Paddock sources have been suggesting for weeks that it was becoming increasingly difficult to ensure that
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting says there was no exact precedent for the pit entry offence committed by Lewis Hamilton in the German Grand Prix. Winner Hamilton escaped with a reprimand after changing his mind, abandoning the pit entry and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India admits it is losing out in Formula 1’s midfield development race due to financial pressures. Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon scored with seventh and eighth in last weekend’s German Grand Prix, moving the team ahead of Haas into fifth place