Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kyle Busch believes Kevin Harvick’s New Hampshire NASCAR Cup race-winning pass with repeated contact was “fair game” and a consequence of his own forceful move on Kyle Larson at Chicagoland. Busch, who felt he had a “horrible” race on Sunday, moved into
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff says he would have asked Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas to hold station in the German Grand Prix irrespective of who was leading. He insists that they will still be allowed to race each other
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Harvick won the Nascar Cup series race at New Hampshire, making an aggressive late pass on title rival Kyle Busch to take his sixth win of the year. Harvick ran near the front for most of the race but led the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says he was “100% open” with Formula 1’s stewards when called to explain his controversial pit entry move during the German Grand Prix. Hamilton was summoned for cutting across the grass from the pit entry and back onto the track
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton’s victory in the German Grand Prix has been thrown into doubt with the Mercedes driver summoned to see the stewards over a potential breach of the rules for crossing the pit entry line. The world championship leader cut across the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport has confirmed it will run a revised rear aerodynamic set-up on its Ford Fiesta WRC at Rally Finland – but only for Sebastien Ogier. The new rear wing and bumper, crafted at Ford’s motorsport development centre in Charlotte earlier this season,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen says he took Hockenheim’s Turn 1 flat out on his final run in Q3 in Saturday, and reckons he became the first Formula 1 driver ever to do so. The Dutchman, who qualified fourth, said he also tried to take
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toto Wolff says Mercedes lost out to Ferrari by half a second just on the straights in Formula 1 qualifying at Hockenheim, which he described as “a severe warning”. Ferrari has shown impressive pace since its latest power unit upgrade was introduced
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso says his McLaren team needs to conduct a “deep investigation” into the “clear” lack of downforce affecting his Formula 1 team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne. Vandoorne, who is yet to outqualify Alonso in 2018, has been well off his team-mate’s pace in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia MotoGP rider Aleix Espargaro has left hospital following his heavy crash in the warm-up for last weekend’s German Grand Prix. Espargaro was forced to miss the Sachsenring race after hitting the fence at Turn 4, escaping fractures but “suffering a bad
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pierre Gasly says he was backed up by Formula 1 champions Lewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel when his British Grand Prix penalty came up in the drivers’ briefing at Hockenheim. Gasly was fuming after what he felt was a “completely ridiculous” sanction
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren driver Stoffel Vandoorne says he endured the “worst Friday of my career” in practice for Formula 1’s German Grand Prix. Following a very difficult British GP two weeks ago, Vandoorne continued to struggle with his car at Hockenheim. He was slowest
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergey Sirotkin says Williams’s new front wing is a “step in the right direction” as the team bids to add stability to its troublesome 2018 Formula 1 car. In an attempt to help cure the balance issues that have plagued the start
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ousted KTM MotoGP rider Bradley Smith says he will turn his focus on returning to the grid in 2020 with opportunities to race next year having all but dried up. Smith will be replaced at KTM next year by Johann Zarco, having
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske driver Brad Keselowski says he can “see the end of the tunnel” having now gone 24 races since his last victory in the NASCAR Cup series. Keselowski led laps during the race at Kentucky last weekend, using a two-tyre pitstop strategy
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo says Formula 1 drivers are going to have to be extra careful that their DRS shuts before Turn 1 at Hockenheim, given the crashes at Silverstone. Several drivers hit trouble during the British Grand Prix weekend because they did not
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says he “didn’t give any air” to an approach from a rival team after he and Mercedes agreed not to look at other options for 2019 and beyond. Mercedes announced on Thursday that Hamilton had agreed a contract extension, committing
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lance Stroll has been strongly linked with a move to Force India next season, with the Canadian admitting his Formula 1 future may not be with Williams. On the back of Williams’s struggles this season, Stroll has been evaluating his options in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Charlotte infield ‘roval’ will be as close as NASCAR comes to street racing, reckons former Champ Car driver AJ Allmendinger. Earlier this week Allmendinger was among over a dozen Cup drivers testing on the new road course again. “It’s definitely an
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Texas Motor Speedway is interested in moving its IndyCar round to the weekend after the Indianapolis 500 as part of discussions over a new contract with the series. This year’s Texas round was the last in its current contract with IndyCar. Venue
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier believes the “disadvantage” World Rally Championship title rival Thierry Neuville will inevitably face by running first on the road means he can still win the 2018 title. Ogier trails Hyundai driver Neuville by 27 points as the WRC prepares to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dale Coyne Racing’s Pietro Fittipaldi returned to the cockpit of an Indycar at Mid-Ohio on Tuesday and completed around 100 laps ahead of his comeback next weekend. Fittipaldi suffered a complex fracture of his lower left leg and a broken right ankle
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing co-owner and NASCAR legend Tony Stewart says pressure should be put on the series to eventually stage a Cup race at the Eldora Speedway dirt track. NASCAR has not raced on a dirt track since 1970 in North Carolina, but
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull thinks it “odd” that European Formula 3 title contender Dan Ticktum cannot run in one of its young driver test days because of Formula 1’s superlicence points criteria. Macau Grand Prix and McLaren Autosport BRDC Award winner Ticktum is in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi has suggested that Yamaha’s MotoGPs engineers have now taken to running away from him as a result of his constant demands for an acceleration breakthrough. The manufacturer enjoyed its best result of the season at the Sachsenring last weekend, scoring
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Morris Nunn, who ran his underdog Ensign Formula 1 team for a decade before finding huge success as an engineer in Indycar racing, has died at the age of 79. Known to everyone in the sport as ‘Mo,’ he ran some of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas says it is wary of pushing on with major team expansion while Formula 1’s 2021 rules are uncertain, even though it knows that stance could hurt it later. The team is chasing Renault for fourth place in the constructors’ championship, and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren’s IndyCar ambitions may have may have “missed the boat” for the 2019 season, says Carlin team boss Trevor Carlin. The Formula 1 team has hinted it is considering a two-car IndyCar team for next season, and has held discussions with engine
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Volkswagen Motorsport team principal Sven Smeets has urged World Rally Championship officials to take swift action to find an alternative energy solution for the series. Autosport understands the FIA is working through possible electric and hybrid options for the WRC, but so
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alvaro Bautista does not know what more he has to do to prove he deserves to stay in MotoGP amid growing signs he is set to exit the championship. Nieto Ducati rider Bautista scored his best result since the June 2017 Mugello