Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two-time DTM champion Marco Wittmann will make his Spa 24 Hours debut later this month. The 28-year-old German will contest the blue-riband Endurance Cup round of the Blancpain GT Series on July 28-29 with the factory-supported Rowe Racing BMW team. He will
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sonoma says its IndyCar exit is more for financial reasons than because nearby Laguna Seca is returning and taking its season finale slot. Track president Steve Page confirmed that Sonoma would not be seeking an alternative date for 2019. “We will definitely
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Miami GP could take a step closer to becoming a reality next week when a meeting of the City Commission votes on the proposed 20-year contract for the race. In an earlier vote the City Commission voted to authorise the City
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Laguna Seca will return to the IndyCar calendar in 2019, replacing Sonoma as the season finale for the next three seasons at least. The three-year agreement was approved on Tuesday by the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, which oversees operation of the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Bryan Herta has explained why Marco Andretti was forced to make a penultimate lap ‘splash and dash’ pitstop that prevented the IndyCar driver from taking fourth in Toronto. Andretti had to climb his way up the field after a mistake in qualifying
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe believes he faces the biggest challenge of his Formula 1 career in trying to return the team to competitiveness. After a lacklustre start to the campaign, Williams is last in the constructors’ championship and has struggled to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen is considering a significant set-up change to its C3 WRC ahead of next week’s Rally Finland. The French firm has been testing a new front geometry solution recently, but will take a final decision after Craig Breen, Mads Ostberg and Khalid
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen reckons the decision to hire an ex-Bridgestone tyre engineer over the winter has been “one of the biggest factors” in the improved performance of Haas in Formula 1. The American F1 team has shown greater consistency in 2018, challenging for
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez earned his ninth triumph in a row at the Sachsenring – a winning streak which makes him King of the Ring. The Sachsenring is a narrow and short track (in fact, the shortest on the MotoGP calendar), so grid position
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Karel Abraham has emerged as the favourite to take Xavier Simeon’s Avintia Ducati seat for the 2019 MotoGP season, Autosport has learned. With the first half of the 2018 MotoGP season coming to an end at the Sachsenring, only two rides, one
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso admits his strategy of deliberately dropping time in two corners during MotoGP’s German Grand Prix in order to save his tyres did not pay off. Dovizioso was seventh after the start of the Sachsenring race and never ran
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Riccardo Patrese will make a return to international motorsport in this month’s Spa 24 Hours at the age of 64. The winner of six grands prix will race a Honda NSX GT3 run by JAS Motorsport in the blue-riband
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha has confirmed that Monster Energy will become its new title sponsor in MotoGP from the 2019 season as part of a new multi-year agreement. As reported by Autosport on Saturday, Monster replaces outgoing sponsor Movistar, which has backed Yamaha’s factory machines
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Grand prix winner Mark Webber believes Formula 1 has already gone “too far” with fan access and that the series is in danger of “trivialising” drivers. F1 has often been criticised for being too closed off to fans. But, after his debut
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP’s German Grand Prix is set to remain at the Sachsenring in 2019 despite fears it would be replaced next season, Autosport has learned. Leading MotoGP riders were dismayed by reports the track was poised to lose its slot on the calendar
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Wickens and Simon Pagenaud say their “dogfight” for second place in IndyCar’s Toronto race was on the limit of acceptable battling. The pair’s fight began after Pagenaud’s Penske crew’s quicker pitstop allowed the 2016 IndyCar champion to jump Wickens for second
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pierre Gasly says Toro Rosso has not yet got the most out of Honda’s latest Formula 1 engine upgrade since it was introduced. The Japanese manufacturer introduced an improved V6 in Canada earlier this year, which played a key role in convincing
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM MotoGP rider Pol Espargaro declared himself “super-sorry” for causing the four-way crash on the opening lap of the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring. Espargaro crashed and took Suzuki’s Alex Rins with him at Turn 3, compromising the races of Rins’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel clings onto first place in Autosport readers’ Formula 1 driver ratings by the smallest of margins over his potential future team-mate Charles Leclerc. The top two performers of the season so far were separated by just 0.02 points after the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Josef Newgarden could not explain his crash while leading the IndyCar race in Toronto. Polesitter Newgarden led the field until the pace car was called on lap 30 of 85 after Andretti’s Ryan Hunter-Reay ran off track at Turn 3 and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Taming the Yamaha MotoGP bike’s “brutal” power delivery will be key to returning it to the front, according to Maverick Vinales. Yamaha’s works riders Valentino Rossi and Vinales finished second and third behind Marc Marquez in Sunday’s German Grand Prix but neither
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon extends his championship lead with a dominant victory on the streets of Toronto as his IndyCar title rivals all suffered calamities. Dixon inherited the race lead when pole-sitter Josef Newgarden hit the wall on the restart after
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez says he expected a sterner challenge from the works Ducatis in the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring. Marquez started the German Grand Prix from pole but gave up the lead to Ducati’s Jorge Lorenzo off the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jack Miller says Pol Espargaro acted “like an idiot” on the first lap of MotoGP’s German Grand Prix, while Suzuki believes the unpunished offence could cause “chaos” in future races. Espargaro clipped the back of Andrea Iannone’s Suzuki while running on the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danilo Petrucci says Ducati stablemate Jorge Lorenzo “was not so clever” in the contact between the two riders late in Turn 1 during the German Grand Prix. The two came to blows at the Turn 1 right-hander, where Lorenzo had adopted a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says he “studied everything” about former Tech 3 Yamaha MotoGP rider Jonas Folger’s runner-up finish in the 2017 German Grand Prix in order to finish second in ’18. Folger, who is absent from the grid this year due to illness,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota’s Ott Tanak beat Hayden Paddon of Hyundai and Craig Breen’s Citroen to win Rally Estonia, a World Rally Championship warm-up event for Rally Finland. The event features fast and flowing stages – akin to Finland – albeit rougher in nature, and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez kept alive his winning streak at the Sachsenring as he won MotoGP’s German Grand Prix in dominant fashion ahead of Valentino Rossi. The Spaniard won from pole position at the German venue to extend his championship lead to 46 points
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams has made improvements to its 2018 Formula 1 car that have been masked by other factors, according to the team’s race driver Sergey Sirotkin. The aggressive new design philosophy behind the Williams FW41 has not worked in practice and Sirotkin is
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia rider Aleix Espargaro will not take part in MotoGP’s German Grand Prix after suffering a major crash during the morning warm-up session. Espargaro was taken to the medical centre and subsequently to hospital in nearby Chemnitz after he hit the air-fence