Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown has admitted the team’s 2018 Formula 1 car has less downforce than last year’s machine. The team announced a reshuffle of its management on Wednesday, which included the resignation of racing director Eric Boullier – triggered by
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Spencer Gallagher will return to Xfinity series competition at Kentucky later this month having completed NASCAR’s rehabilitation programme for violating its substance abuse policy. Hendrick Motorsports Cup series driver Chase Elliott will continue to drive the #23 GMS Racing Chevrolet Camaro at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Malaysian grand prix motorcycle team SIC Racing has secured a place on the MotoGP grid for 2019, taking Ducati satellite outfit Angel Nieto Team’s place on the entry list. SIC Racing will field a pair of Yamahas in the premier class next
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe believes his team’s “humility and sportsmanship” is why critics are not willing to “tear us apart” for underperforming like they have McLaren. The two British teams are among F1’s most famous and have won 296 grands prix
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alex Rins feels his first MotoGP victory for Suzuki “will come soon” after he finished second in last weekend’s Dutch TT at Assen. Rins has had an up-and-down 2018 season but says he is gaining experience in each race, helped my recent
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Overshadowed by the dramatic NASCAR Cup Series race at Chicago was the debut of a new policy, one that may finally solve a lingering issue with inspections. NASCAR modernised and revised its inspection policy for 2018, using high-tech laser scanners to detect
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari will bring a new floor to the British Grand Prix in response to the major update package that Formula 1 rival Mercedes introduced in Austria. The new floor design is intended to improve the performance of the SF71H in high-speed corners,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jack Miller has clarified speculation that linked him with a Honda MotoGP ride for 2019, admitting he spoke to the factory squad but never received an offer. Miller’s name was floated during MotoGP’s rider market silly season, having first been considered for
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The World Rally Championship is considering implementing Formula 1-style group tests in an attempt to curb rising costs. The majority of the teams are lobbying the FIA to reduce the number of test days available in the WRC, which was raised from
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup series’ first road course playoff race on the Charlotte roval has been shortened by 100 kilometres, Autosport has learned. Charlotte’s October race had been billed as a 500km (310-mile) race, but NASCAR is expected to confirm a new race
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso says Ducati’s current biggest issue in MotoGP is maintaining tyre life, as he was “completely f**ked” at the end of last weekend’s Dutch TT. Tyre preservation was a key reason why Dovizioso came close to taking the title last season,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s Christian Horner thinks it is “unfair” that Mercedes strategist James Vowles felt he must confess to an error in the Austrian Grand Prix to keep Lewis Hamilton calm. Vowles made a rare appearance on Mercedes’s team radio during last weekend’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Pedrosa has announced he has reached a decision regarding his MotoGP future, and will reveal his choice in a press conference at the Sachsenring a week on Thursday. Although Pedrosa has been strongly linked to the new Petronas-backed satellite Yamaha team
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The disastrous turn of events that led to Mercedes converting a front-row lockout into zero points in Formula 1’s Austrian Grand Prix is the focus of the latest edition of The Autosport Podcast. The big question is how Mercedes came to leave
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Japan and Chile are now both set to join the 2019 World Rally Championship calendar, meaning a European event will lose its place. Chile’s chances of joining the calendar were boosted in April after it hosted a candidate event that WRC Promoter
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales believes he could still challenge runaway leader Marc Marquez for the 2018 MotoGP title if Yamaha can provide a “big” update after the summer break. Vinales scored only his second podium of 2018 at Assen last weekend, narrowly missing out
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko says Max Verstappen showed “champion’s quality” during his drive to victory in Formula 1’s Austrian Grand Prix. Marko praised the way Verstappen controlled the Red Bull Ring race from the front and saved his tyres, while
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP has announced a stricter set of regulations surrounding the use of aerodynamic fairings for the 2019 season. Since the ban on winglets at the end of the 2016 season, MotoGP manufacturers have experimented with more intricate bodywork in a bid to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alex Brundle has been stood-down from the Jota/Arden-run R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad ahead of this month’s Spa 24 Hours. The Briton has been replaced in the Swiss entrant’s two-car line-up of Aston Martin V12 Vantages by Austrian Dominik Baumann for the blue-riband
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rally Australia organisers have made significant changes to the event’s Coffs Harbour route ahead of the 2018 World Rally Championship season finale. Just eight of the 2017 route’s 24 competitive stages will remain unchanged, with new roads and reverse sections set to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Le Mans 24 Hours class winner KCMG has become the first team to enter the 2018 GT World Cup on the streets of Macau in November. The Hong Kong-based squad, which won the LMP2 division at Le Mans in 2015, will field
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas has admitted the misfortune dogging his 2018 Formula 1 season “feels like a bit of a bad joke” after the Austrian Grand Prix poleman retired from Sunday’s race. Bottas beat team-mate Lewis Hamilton in qualifying but dropped to fourth after
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow says group races like the multi-rider Assen MotoGP round are a “disaster” for Honda riders because the manufacturer’s bike overheats its front tyre and suffers under acceleration. The LCR rider was in the large lead group – which at one
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull believes Max Verstappen’s first-lap Austrian Grand Prix battle with Kimi Raikkonen could have been “a very different” story earlier in the Formula 1 season. Verstappen was squeezed by the Ferrari driver on the run to Turn 4 but retaliated a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Formula 1 season is set to start a week earlier next year, with the Australian Grand Prix announcing a provisional mid-March date for 2019. Having run on the fourth weekend of March for the past two years, Melbourne race organisers have
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Pedrosa’s current MotoGP struggles stem from a lack of motivation that is making it “impossible” for him to be fast on his Honda, according to team-mate Marc Marquez. Pedrosa, who will be replaced by Jorge Lorenzo at the factory Honda squad
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kyle Busch hit back at “whining” NASCAR Cup fans at Chicagoland as he received jeers for winning via last-lap contact with Kyle Larson. Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet driver Larson caught Busch’s leading Joe Gibbs Toyota in traffic in the closing stages and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo says it was “very lucky” neither he or Valentino Rossi crashed after the Yamaha rider rear-ended Lorenzo’s Ducati early on in Sunday’s Assen race. Lorenzo made a fantastic start from 10th to take the lead on the opening lap, which
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two-time World Endurance Championship title winner Timo Bernhard will contest this month’s Spa 24 Hours with his own team. The 37-year-old will has brought in two of his factory Porsche team-mates from the Le Mans 24 Hours last month, Earl Bamber and
NASCAR Cup series points leader Kyle Busch survived final lap contact with Kyle Larson at Chicagoland to take his fifth win of the season for Joe Gibbs Racing. Busch led Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr and Larson with 42 laps to go when racing resumed after the fifth caution. Chip Ganassi Racing man Larson quickly