Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Mercedes Formula 1 team says it is doing “a lot of work” at its Brackley factory this week in a bid to help it match the race starts Ferrari is capable of. While the German manufacturer has taken pole position at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The latest Autosport podcast delves into the Mercedes Formula 1 squad’s British Grand Prix strategy and asks if it was wrong not to pit Valtteri Bottas under the safety car. With Bottas slipping from first to fourth in the closing laps on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power believes concerns over IndyCar’s 2018 machine on ovals are “normal” because drivers calling for higher downforce levels are trying to hide their weaknesses. Power took pole for last weekend’s short oval race at Iowa, more than a month after winning
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso is still investigating the front suspension failure that triggered Brendon Hartley’s huge Formula 1 accident at Silverstone and caused the New Zealander to miss qualifying. Hartley’s suspension failed at the end of the Wellington straight on his first run in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says it “feels like a lifetime” has passed since the factory Yamaha outfit last won a MotoGP race. Rossi and team-mate Maverick Vinales have repeatedly stated that Yamaha’s electronics remain the manufacturer’s weakness, and the Italian suggested after last month’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Brad Keselowski says he should have wrecked Hendrick Motorsports rookie William Byron in the NASCAR Cup series race at Daytona. Keselowski was caught up in a 20-car pile-up triggered by Ricky Stenhouse Jr in a dramatic attrition-filled race won by Erik
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Renault Formula 1 team says the “shock” of its Austria tyre problems led to the unusual strategy that propelled Nico Hulkenberg to sixth place in the British Grand Prix. Hulkenberg and team-mate Carlos Sainz Jr were the only drivers to start
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning triple World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea says the series needs a “star” from MotoGP to step over to boost its popularity. WSBK has struggled in recent years to attract large crowds to events, despite changes to race formats and the technical
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The International Speedway Corporation, owner of 12 NASCAR Cup series venues, has reported a 10% dip in attendance during 2018, which it blames on a lack of driver “star power”. The figure has been recorded from the six Cup races held at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nico Rosberg says it is obvious there was nothing deliberate about Kimi Raikkonen’s clash with Lewis Hamilton at the start of the British Grand Prix. While comments from Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes made in the heat of the moment after the Silverstone
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. James Hinchcliffe says the final laps of the Iowa IndyCar race were the “worst-case scenario” for his lead and forced him to make a “tough” strategy call to win. Josef Newgarden had built a lead approaching nine seconds in the race, but
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad has retained its victory in the Silverstone Blancpain GT Series round in May, where it raced under appeal. The win for Aston Martin V12 Vantage driven by Nicki Thiim, Jake Dennis and Matthieu Vaxiviere in the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says he has accepted an apology from Kimi Raikkonen for their first-lap clash in last weekend’s British Grand Prix and wants to “move on” from the incident. Hamilton was spun around by the Ferrari driver at Turn 3 at Silverstone,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three of the four World Rally Championship manufacturers will contest Rally Estonia as part of their preparations for Rally Finland at the end of the month. Toyota, Citroen and Hyundai will send cars for Ott Tanak, Craig Breen and Hayden Paddon respectively
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup series champion Martin Truex Jr says the number of wrecks in last weekend’s Daytona race was due to “desperation” and drivers ‘winging it’. Roush Fenway Racing’s Ricky Stenhouse Jr caused a 20-car pile-up after he spun Brad Keselowski into
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports driver James Hinchcliffe took his first IndyCar victory in over a year in baffling fashion at Iowa. Hinchcliffe made what appeared to be the decisive move for victory with 40 laps remaining of the 300, sweeping to the inside
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen says the Red Bull Formula 1 team’s straightline speed deficit was “tragic” and “like driving in a different series” in the British Grand Prix. Verstappen retired from the race late on with a brake-by-wire failure but had been embroiled in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pierre Gasly has lost the point he scored in the British Grand Prix after receiving a post-race penalty for a collision with Sergio Perez. Gasly beat Perez to 10th, securing his third points finish of the season, but only after late-race contact
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel passed Valtteri Bottas late on to win a thrilling British Grand Prix in which Lewis Hamilton charged back to second after being spun around on the opening lap. Mercedes used a safety car to get Bottas ahead of early race
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Erik Jones scored his maiden NASCAR Cup series victory in a chaotic Daytona race, in which more than half the field was eliminated in various accidents. Joe Gibbs Racing driver Jones narrowly edged out his former team-mate and reigning champion Martin Truex
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power took pole position for this weekend’s IndyCar race at Iowa, while Andretti’s Ryan Hunter-Reay managed to prevent a Penske one-two-three on the grid. Josef Newgarden made it a provisional Penske lockout after 19 drivers had set a two-lap average on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The high-speed spins suffered by both Williams Formula 1 drivers in British Grand Prix qualifying were caused by a fresh aerodynamic stall the team does not fully understand. Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin both lost control of their cars in qualifying at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen says it feels like Red Bull is missing 70-80 horsepower in Formula 1 at the moment, which is costing it one second per lap at Silverstone this weekend. Red Bull’s two cars qualified a distant fifth and sixth for the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo said a DRS problem added to his British Grand Prix qualifying frustrations, after he was unable to open his rear wing on his first lap in Q3. Silverstone’s high-speed nature, particularly with the latest generation of F1 cars, has played
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA will address the issue of track limits abuses by Formula 1 drivers at Silverstone’s Club Corner by adding an extra kerb on the outside of the corner overnight. On Friday, a number of F1 drivers were ran wide onto the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says allowing drivers to use DRS through Turn 1 at Silverstone is a “pointless exercise” and creates “an unnecessary kind of danger”. F1 has added an extra DRS zone to several circuits’ layouts in order to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel topped the second Formula 1 free practice session ahead of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, while Max Verstappen crashed his Red Bull early on. Vettel’s team-mate Kimi Raikkonen topped the early stages of the session with a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning NASCAR Cup champion manufacturer Toyota will stick with its Camry in the top-tier series, despite deciding to enter its Supra model into the feeder Xfinity championship for 2019. Following a Supra preview at the Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, there
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel fears the use of DRS through the fast opening corners at Silverstone could split the Formula 1 grid more at the British Grand Prix. The FIA has added a third DRS zone that is active from the start-finish straight through
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso has played down his involvement in the management changes at the McLaren Formula 1 team, insisting he was not consulted on what it would do after Eric Boullier’s resignation. The new role for his 2017 Indianapolis 500 advisor Gil de