Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The completion of Formula 1’s triple-header last weekend should kill off a “stupid” conspiracy theory that was surviving despite mounting evidence it was nonsense. When Pirelli announced it would make tyres with a 0.4mm thinner tread for the races in Spain, France
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup series champion and Furniture Row Racing driver Martin Truex Jr dominated at Kentucky for his fourth win of the 2018 season. Truex is one of three drivers to have won at least four races this year, with 2018 largely
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden took his third pole of the season for of this weekend’s race in Toronto. Newgarden set his best lap of the session, 59.4956 seconds, as he took the chequered flag, after starting the final qualifying session last
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Johann Zarco says his current MotoGP slump in form has made him “sad”, after he failed to advance from Q1 at the Sachsenring. Tech 3 Yamaha rider Zarco was forced into the first part of qualifying after only setting the 15th-fastest time
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez says he will prioritise his title prospects over ensuring he scores a ninth consecutive victory at the Sachsenring. Honda rider Marquez has never lost at the German Grand Prix venue since graduating to the premier class in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One-time NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Busch has blasted Ricky Stenhouse Jr for not apologising for last weekend’s Daytona crashes, with Stenhouse then accusing Busch of “running his mouth”. Stenhouse caused a 20-car pile-up at Daytona when he spun the blocked Penske car
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Monster Energy is to replace Movistar as the title sponsor of the Yamaha MotoGP team next season and could lead to a livery change, Autosport has learned. Spanish telecoms company Movistar has acted as the principal backer for Yamaha since 2014, but
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier is set to contest September’s Red Bull Ring DTM round in a Mercedes, Autosport has learned. Mercedes has previously hinted it will take advantage of rules allowing DTM manufacturers to run a one-off seventh car alongside its
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing driver and IndyCar championship leader Scott Dixon topped both Friday practice sessions ahead of the Toronto race. Dixon’s fastest time of 59.0751 seconds came in the second session, a period in which most teams used the softer Firestone red-walled
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow claims the Ducati has become the strongest MotoGP bike at turning after the three GP18s finished Friday’s running at the Sachsenring in the top four. Ducati has traditionally struggled at the German Grand Prix venue, with lead factory rider Andrea
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says his struggles in MotoGP practice at the Sachsenring are related to rear tyre spinning and a lack of traction. The Yamaha rider finished second practice down in 17th place overall, 0.899s down on pacesetter Jorge Lorenzo and 11 places
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 technical chiefs have been called to a special meeting with the FIA at the Hungarian Grand Prix to discuss potential changes to mirror rules to improve driver visibility. Drivers have regularly complained about poor rear view under the current regulations.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Codemasters has chosen six classic Formula 1 machines from the 1970s and ’80s to bring its total historic count to 20 cars for this year’s F1 2018 game. Earlier this year, Codemasters revealed Jenson Button’s 2009 title-winning Brawn GP-001 and the 2003
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi has denied reports linking him with a move for his Yamaha MotoGP team-mate Maverick Vinales’s crew chief Ramon Forcada. Amid tensions between Vinales and Forcada, Spanish media had suggested Rossi wanted to bring Forcada over to his side of the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 divers Nicola Larini and Alex Caffi will team up at the wheel of a new Bentley Continental GT3 for the remainder of this year’s Italian GT Championship. Larini and Caffi, who respectively started 49 and 56 grands prix, will drive
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jacques Villeneuve does not believe his former team Williams will improve during the 2018 Formula 1 season and fears it is “dead”. Williams has scored four points in 2018, all from Lance Stroll’s eighth place finish in Azerbaijan, as it has struggled
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. From Valentino Rossi to Marc Marquez, MotoGP riders always dream about emulating John Surtees – the only man to win world championships in both motorcycle racing and Formula 1. Surtees passed away when he was 83 years old on the day the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leading MotoGP riders believe it would be a “shame” and a “disappointment” to lose the Sachsenring from the 2019 calendar, with the German Grand Prix in danger of being replaced. German motorsport federation ADAC has a contract with Dorna to host the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Kubica believes his return to Formula 1 testing last year was misunderstood by people who considered him “something mega” and did not realise he was effectively a rookie again. Renault handed Kubica a test in a 2012 Lotus last year, which
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 engineering director Aldo Costa will step back and move into a consultancy role for 2019 as part of a shake-up of the team’s technical structure. Costa originally joined Mercedes in 2011 after a lengthy spell at Ferrari, which had
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports IndyCar driver James Hinchcliffe says his win at Iowa will not stop people talking about his failure to qualify for the 2018 Indianapolis 500. Hinchcliffe’s Indy 500 near-miss led to SPM parting ways with his race engineer Leena Gade
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A collection of ‘Starcards’ signed by 2018 Formula 1 drivers is being auctioned in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity. The Starcards initiative has been fundraising for Great Ormond Street for 16 years, with Sutton Images supporting it since 2004. The
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The M-Sport World Rally Championship team is analysing a revised aerodynamic set-up for its Ford Fiesta at this week’s Rally Finland pre-event test. Sebastien Ogier is on his second day of a two-day test, with team-mate Elfyn Evans already having reported his
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. United States Grand Prix promoter Bobby Epstein believes Formula 1’s proposed Miami street race risks diluting the American fanbase. With Miami poised to join the 2019 F1 calendar, Epstein is cautious about the impact of fans having to choose whether to go
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA Formula 1 race director Charlie Whiting believes there is nothing wrong with incorporating a corner into DRS zones and drivers just need to manage the system better. The FIA has been experimenting with DRS this year to make it a more
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Kubica has confirmed he signed a contract to race for Ferrari in Formula 1 before suffering the rallying crash that left him with severe injuries and interrupted his career. Kubica was competing on the Ronde di Andora rally prior to the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Endurance Championship LMP1 privateer team DragonSpeed is speaking to IndyCar on Wednesday as it plots a one-car entry for 2019. DragonSpeed intends to run its LMP1 driver Ben Hanley in IndyCar, began work on the potential programme last month and has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Erik Jones believes his first NASCAR Cup series win lifts the pressure he felt from replacing one-time champion Matt Kenseth for 2018. Jones took his first Cup win at the 57th attempt in his second full-time season at Daytona
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR and Charlotte Motor Speedway have been forced to alter the ‘roval’ road course’s backstretch chicane to prevent drivers from corner-cutting. Early in the development of the new layout, which includes most of the 1.5-mile oval track at Charlotte and its infield
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Harding Racing IndyCar team has replaced Gabby Chaves with Conor Daly for this weekend’s race at Toronto as it evaluates its 2019 driver line-up. Harding moved into IndyCar for the 2018 season having taken part in last year’s Indianapolis 500, and