Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The rise of active suspension and the role it could play in helping modern Formula 1 are explored by a Motorsport Show interview with legendary McLaren designer Neil Oatley. F1 teams tabled some suggestions to reintroduce active ride to grand prix racing
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Legendary former McLaren Formula 1 designer John Barnard doubts the team could survive the major changes he thinks are required for it to return to the front. Barnard’s spell at McLaren from 1980 led to major success, as he turned around the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP 2019 debutant Joan Mir says he picked Suzuki over Honda because it wanted him more. Honda agreed a pre-contract with the 20-year-old Moto2 rookie, but instead he will step up to MotoGP with Suzuki – which has only won one race
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charles Leclerc has closed right onto Sebastian Vettel’s tail in the battle to lead Autosport readers’ 2018 Formula 1 driver ratings table after the French Grand Prix. Alhough Vettel fought back from 17th to finish fifth following his first-lap clash with Valtteri
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pietro Fittipaldi says he is on target for his IndyCar return at Mid-Ohio next month after testing a kart for the first time since his leg-breaking World Endurance Championship accident. Fittipaldi, who has been rehabilitating with renowned orthopaedic surgeons Doctors Terry Trammell
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota World Rally Championship team principal Tommi Makinen is ready to make a Yaris WRC available for Ferrari Formula 1 driver Kimi Raikkonen to test. Raikkonen’s F1 future is uncertain as Ferrari leans towards replacing him with Charles Leclerc for 2019. Though
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia’s new recruit Andrea Iannone says he signed a “very special contract” with his new employer, with options that go beyond the standard two-year MotoGP factory contract cycle. Iannone, who currently rides for Suzuki, will replace Scott Redding at the Italian works
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India believes it can no longer “realistically” hope to catch Renault in the Formula 1 constructors’ standings, after suffering its first double retirement in almost two years in France. Renault scored points with both of its cars for the third successive
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo’s campaign to get back into the MotoGP 2018 title fight will be hampered by his “bad days” being worse than his rivals’, according to LCR Honda’s Cal Crutchlow. Lorenzo has made a recent breakthrough with his Ducati Desmosedici GP18 bike,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ross Brawn says Formula 1’s 2019 aerodynamic regulations have finally been fully agreed by teams, and are set to be signed-off at the next Strategy Group meeting on July 4. Although the concept of simplified wings [pictured] and brake ducts to aid
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The French Grand Prix organiser wants a significant crowd increase for 2019 because it believes every Formula 1 fan caught in traffic chaos over the weekend still attended the race. Paul Ricard hosted France’s first F1 race in 10 years on Sunday,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar points leader Scott Dixon believes a change to the front wing of Dallara’s aerokit would help improve racing on road courses. Despite IndyCar’s switch from downforce-heavy manufacturer aerokits to the spec package for 2018, Dixon pointed out that this year’s cars
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA is set to release the definitive 2021 Formula 1 engine regulations to manufacturers this week. While the basic concepts were announced jointly by the FIA and F1 last October, refining the detail in conjunction with the four current suppliers and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. AJ Allmendinger said he “let everybody down” with the mistake that took him out of the Sonoma NASCAR Cup race just after his first stage win of 2018. The road courses are traditionally former single-seater driver Allmendinger and his small JTG Daugherty
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Pedrosa says that he was “more or less” convinced two years ago that he would leave Honda’s MotoGP team at the end of the 2018 season. Pedrosa has raced Honda bikes during his entire grand prix racing career, and has been
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff has admitted Sergio Perez’s engine problem in the French Grand Prix left him worried about the fate of his drivers and other customers. Lewis Hamilton earned a comfortable victory for Mercedes at Paul Ricard, where
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The IndyCar Series has reached agreement to keep Road America on its calendar at least through 2021. The championship’s arrival at the famous 4.014-mile Elkhart Lake track in 2016 was the first top-level American single-seater event there since Champ Car’s final season
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault will finally introduce its long-awaited new Formula 1 MGU-K, originally planned for 2017, at the Austrian Grand Prix, but customers McLaren and Red Bull might not use it. The new part was postponed from the start of last season due to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Martin Truex Jr won the NASCAR Cup race at Sonoma, becoming the first repeat winner at the road course for a decade. The reigning champion started the race on the front row of the grid, and first took the lead at the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Defending IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden led all but one lap at Road America to secure a dominant victory. Newgarden ended the race in a three-way fight between himself, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Scott Dixon after the final round of a conventional three-stop strategy
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly have both been reprimanded for their accident on the opening lap of Formula 1’s French Grand Prix. Toro Rosso driver Gasly looked to challenge down the inside of Ocon at the Turn 3 right-hander but lost the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso felt his McLaren Formula 1 team got “overexcited” on the radio during a French Grand Prix in which he was on course to finish last. Alonso ultimately pitted from the back of the field on the final lap with a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alex Riberas and Chris Mies dominated the Blancpain Sprint Cup race at Misano in their WRT Audi by their second win from two races as Audi swept the top four positions. Mies, who started third, quickly dispatched the #82 Grasser Lamborghini of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault marked the lifting of Saudi Arabia’s women driving ban by inviting Aseel Al-Hamad to drive a Lotus Formula 1 car at Paul Ricard ahead of the French Grand Prix. As part of a pre-race ‘passion parade’ that featured several cars from
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Josef Newgarden and Will Power defeated Andretti Autosport in a head-to-head shootout for a Penske one-two in qualifying for IndyCar’s Road America race. Alexander Rossi, who enters the weekend second in the championship standings, led team-mate Ryan Hunter-Reay after the first of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 drivers and teams have expressed concerns about the Paul Ricard pitlane ahead of a potentially wet French Grand Prix. The pit exit and entry were discussed at length in Friday evening’s drivers’ briefing, although there was no scope to make
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship points leader Thierry Neuville dominated the Ypres Rally, winning 15 of the 23 stages. Neuville made a one-off appearance at the classic Belgian rally for the second consecutive year in a Hyundai i20 R5, with a special charity livery.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. WRT Audi drivers Christopher Mies and Alex Riberas took victory for the first time in the 2018 Blancpain GT Sprint Cup season in Misano’s Saturday evening opener. Mies in the #1 Audi held off the #88 ASP Mercedes of Raffaele Marciello and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean has “no explanation” for the spin that sent him into the barriers during French Grand Prix qualifying. Grosjean lost control of his car during Q3 at the Turn 3/4 complex, spinning and ending up hitting the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Force India Formula 1 team has been fined after Sergio Perez lost a wheel during practice for the French Grand Prix. A €15,000 fine, and additional €85,000 penalty that is suspended for 12 months, was dished out by FIA stewards following