Lance Stroll has had 10 seconds added to his Austrian Grand Prix race time and received three penalty points for failing to obey blue flags as Sergio Perez lapped him. The time penalty meant that Stroll traded 13th place with his Williams team-mate Sergey Sirotkin, who had been behind him on the road. Stroll made
The Mercedes Formula 1 team has explained how it failed to bring Lewis Hamilton in under the Austrian Grand Prix virtual safety car on its “most painful day”. The team admitted to a wrong strategy call after Valtteri Bottas retired from the race and triggered the VSC, which meant all the frontrunners except leader Hamilton
Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi put his failure to score a podium finish in the Dutch TT at Assen down to an over-aggressive move by MotoGP rival Andrea Dovizioso. Rossi was in the thick of the lead group until the start of the penultimate lap. He
MotoGP points leader Marc Marquez said his moment with Maverick Vinales, when they both ran wide and were close to touching the gravel, was the scariest in a “wild” Dutch TT. Marquez and Vinales were part of a thrilling multi-bike fight for the win throughout the entire Dutch TT. The Honda rider, who ended up
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez claimed his fourth victory of the MotoGP season in an epic Dutch TT at Assen, making a late break from a frenetic six-way scrap. Honda rider Marquez’s winning margin of 2.269 seconds did not do justice to how close the
Formula 1’s midfield teams were shocked by how fast Haas was in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix, where Romain Grosjean split the Red Bulls. Grosjean will start Sunday’s race at the Red Bull Ring from sixth having beaten Daniel Ricciardo to a third-row spot and lapped just 0.052s slower than Max Verstappen. Kevin Magnussen
Pol Espargaro says KTM has “hit a wall” with its current specification of MotoGP bike and won’t make progress until its 2019 prototype is used regularly. The Austrian manufacturer suffered a dismal qualifying for the Dutch TT at Assen, with Bradley Smith and Espargaro ending up 20th and 21st respectively. It has been a tough
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India Formula 1 drivers Esteban Ocon and Sergio Perez believe the delay to an upgrade package planned for the Austrian Grand Prix caused their qualifying struggle. Ocon missed Q3 in 11th place, while Perez was caught in traffic in Q1 and
Charles Leclerc has revealed his Austrian Grand Prix gearbox change penalty was triggered by a suspension failure on his Sauber Formula 1 car. Leclerc had looked set for another strong showing in qualifying at the Red Bull Ring, but his Sauber stopped on track on an out-lap at the end of final practice. Sauber discovered
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Johann Zarco says the Dutch TT is the first MotoGP round where he has been able to overcome the “stress” of crashing out of his home grand prix last month. The Tech3 Yamaha rider started the Le Mans race on pole and
Jorge Lorenzo thought a laptime deletion in Assen MotoGP qualifying explained his fall from provisional pole position to 10th on the grid, with his rivals’ pack-riding ultimately making the difference. Ducati’s Lorenzo briefly went quickest in the closing stages of the pole position shootout for the Dutch TT, although he was soon edged by Andrea
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas claimed his first pole position of the 2018 Formula 1 season in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix. Bottas, whose previous pole position came in last year’s season finale in Abu Dhabi, hit the front in the Q3
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc VDS Honda MotoGP rider Franco Morbidelli has been ruled out of this weekend’s Dutch TT at Assen after injuring his hand in a practice crash. Morbidelli was taken to the medical centre following a high-speed off during Saturday morning’s third practice
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Poor track-limit policing and inconsistent kerb designs during the Formula 1 season encourage drivers to take the liberties causing problems in Austrian Grand Prix practice, argues Sergio Perez. The high yellow kerbs in the final section of the Red Bull Ring were
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas both praised the Mercedes Formula 1 car’s latest upgrade package for the W09 after topping the Austrian Grand Prix Friday practice times. Mercedes has brought its biggest set of updates of 2018 so far to the Red
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia MotoGP rider Scott Redding is weighing up an offer to stay on in a test role next year. Redding will lose his race seat to Andrea Iannone next year and has no obvious opportunities to continue in MotoGP full-time. Asked by
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sauber team boss Frederic Vasseur says there has been no discussion with Ferrari over Charles Leclerc taking Kimi Raikkonen’s seat during the current Formula 1 season. Ferrari is understood to be leaning towards replacing Raikkonen with Leclerc for 2019. Rumours emerged in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales set the pace in the Friday afternoon MotoGP practice session at Assen, followed by Italian trio Andrea Iannone, Danilo Petrucci and Valentino Rossi. It took Marc Marquez five minutes to beat his own morning benchmark with a 1m34.041s, which
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Volkswagen Motorsport team principal Sven Smeets believes the manufacturer’s Pikes Peak success has showed the World Rally Championship “what’s possible” with electric rally cars. Romain Dumas won last Sunday’s hillclimb in the manufacturer’s electric I.D. R car and set a new record
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR’s decision to postpone its new aero rules to 2019 is “about money” and is the right call, says Kevin Harvick. Following extensive discussions among tracks, teams, manufacturers and engine builders, NASCAR announced last week that the revised aero package experimented with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez led the way in first practice for the Dutch TT at Assen, beating Maverick Vinales by less than two tenths of a second. Marquez spent the early part of Friday morning’s 45-minute session trading the fastest time
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Peruvian government has announced the country will host the Dakar Rally after all in 2019, ending doubt about next year’s running of the event. In May, Dakar Rally organiser ASO announced a route that would take place only in Peru after
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton hopes the major update package Mercedes has introduced for the Austrian Grand Prix will “frighten” main rivals Ferrari and Red Bull. Although Mercedes has officially said little about the updates for this weekend’s race, the changes to the W09 include
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP veteran Alvaro Bautista admits his future in grand prix motorcycling’s top tier is likely to hinge on whether Dani Pedrosa joins the mooted new satellite Yamaha outfit. Pedrosa is widely expected to be part of a new Petronas-backed, Sepang-owned operation next
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leading drivers have warned Formula 1 chiefs against allowing the championship to become like “Mario Kart” after a third DRS zone was added to the Austrian Grand Prix circuit. In a bid to improve overtaking in this weekend’s Red Bull Ring race,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP champions Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo hope efforts to bring Formula 1 to Assen do not succeed due to the potential impact on the track surface and layout. The circuit, which hosts one of MotoGP’s marquee races in the Dutch TT,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Multiple Formula 1 race winner Rubens Barrichello will contest next month’s Spa 24 Hours with the factory-supported Strakka Mercedes team. Barrichello, who continues to race full-time in the Brazilian Stock Car Championship, will drive a pro class Mercedes-AMG GT3 for Strakka Racing
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes has unleashed the biggest update of the season so far for its Formula 1 car at the Austrian Grand Prix, as it bids to pull clear of Ferrari and Red Bull. Just a week after Mercedes introduced an engine upgrade in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The uneventful Cup race at Sonoma last weekend is a sign NASCAR drivers are getting better at road courses, reckons reigning champion Martin Truex Jr. NASCAR road course races have often been bruising and chaotic affairs, but the only caution period at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi protege Franco Morbidelli could emulate Johann Zarco’s MotoGP form should his mooted switch to a Yamaha bike for 2019 come to fruition, says Pramac Ducati rider Jack Miller. Morbidelli, who graduated to MotoGP this year with Miller’s former Marc VDS