Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. AJ Foyt Racing team president Larry Foyt has confirmed that one-time Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan and IndyCar rookie Matheus Leist will remain with the team in 2019. It marks the first time that Foyt has kept its drivers for a second
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar will not return to Phoenix for the 2019 season, ending its three-year spell on the calendar. The oval returned to the series in 2016 after a 10-year hiatus but then provided two pedestrian races under the manufacturer aerokits. The racing improved
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Josef Newgarden topped both IndyCar free practice sessions at Elkhart Lake, as drivers got their first taste of the new-for-2018 aerokit at the famous Road America circuit. Newgarden’s Penske-Chevrolet clocked a 1m42.6279s – an average of 140.804mph – to claim top spot
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India will be investigated by the FIA stewards for potentially releasing a car in an unsafe condition after Sergio Perez lost a wheel in Formula 1 practice at Paul Ricard. Although no official summons has been issued as yet, the FIA
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 drivers asked the FIA to remove the chicane on Paul Ricard’s backstraight in order to improve racing at the French Grand Prix. Several drivers used Friday’s drivers’ briefing to suggest the current layout would not make for great racing on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo believes MotoGP rival Valentino Rossi had a “more complicated” bike in his time at Ducati and would have fared better on the current GP18. Lorenzo emulated Rossi’s 2011 move by switching from Yamaha to Ducati for ’17, and it looked
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marcus Ericsson will miss the second free practice session for the French Grand Prix thanks to damage to his Sauber Formula 1 car from his morning crash. The 27-year-old spun late in the first free practice session and hit the barrier at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The return of the iconic Safari Rally to the World Rally Championship has taken another step closer, with a 2020 calendar slot the target. FIA president and former WRC co-driver Jean Todt has long pushed for the Kenyan event to return to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The return of the iconic Safari Rally to the World Rally Championship has taken another step closer, with a 2020 calendar slot the target. FIA president and former WRC co-driver Jean Todt has long pushed for the Kenyan event to return to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Le Mans 24 Hours class winners Laurens Vanthoor and Kevin Estre will again team up in a factory Porsche at the new Suzuka Intercontinental GT Challenge round in August. The two Porsche works drivers, who took GTE Pro honours at Le Mans
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull title sponsor Aston Martin says the Formula 1 team’s switch to Honda engines for the 2019 season has caused no concerns about brand confusion. Red Bull’s current Renault engines have been branded TAG Heuer since 2016 to avoid the team
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas have hinted at a further delay for Mercedes’ new Formula 1 engine specification, with no confirmation of its French Grand Prix use yet. Mercedes had planned to introduce the new spec across all six of its cars
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The MotoGP grid is likely to lose two of its 24 bikes next year, Autosport understands. The premier-class is currently populated by 12 two-bike teams, all of which are guaranteed places on the grid by the set of agreements and regulations that
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The NASCAR Cup series will not use the aero package that debuted in the All-Star race at Charlotte before the 2019 season. NASCAR had said it was pleased with how the aero package performed at Charlotte, producing 38 green flag passes for
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sidelined MotoGP rider Jonas Folger has made his first outing on grand prix machinery since he stopped racing last year in a test with the Kalex Moto2 team. Folger’s rookie season in the premier class in 2017 included a second-place finish in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean will take part in French Grand Prix practice with the Ferrari Formula 1 engine that caused his smoky exit from qualifying in Canada. Grosjean had new Ferrari engine components fitted for the race in Montreal, which activated the final free
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New factory Ducati MotoGP signing Danilo Petrucci says he turned down a 2020 option in his deal with the works outfit. Ducati has called up Pramac rider Petrucci as replacement for the Honda-bound Jorge Lorenzo for next year, but confirmed the Italian
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The fate of the 2019 Dakar Rally appears to be hanging in the balance, with sole host country Peru reportedly threatening to pull out over financial concerns. Last month, Dakar organiser ASO announced a 2019 route taking place entirely inside Peru following
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren has dismissed criticism from Martin Whitmarsh as “ill-judged and ill-informed” after the Formula 1 team’s former boss suggested it needed to axe senior personnel to revive its fortunes. Last weekend Whitmarsh, who worked for McLaren from 1989 to 2014 and rose
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s last visit to Paul Ricard produced an all-time classic giantkilling performance, as Ivan Capelli came within three laps of a shock victory for the tiny Leyton House team. In the end, the race got away from him thanks to fuel
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Gunther Steiner says Haas’s Formula 1 rivals cannot believe how unlucky the team has been so far in 2018. Despite its Ferrari-powered car showing promise, Haas is only eighth in the constructors’ championship after an incident-packed start to the campaign. It has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Bourdais says IndyCar’s 2018 universal aerokit is not to blame for the “over the top difficult” racing on ovals this season. While IndyCar’s race at Phoenix – where racing has often been dull – was entertaining, the Indianapolis 500 did not
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Jorge Lorenzo says he has “nothing to lose” in chasing after MotoGP’s runaway championship leader Marc Marquez, who Lorenzo says will be under “a little bit of pressure”. Lorenzo recovered from an abysmal start to his 2018 season with back-to-back
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mads Ostberg will take Kris Meeke’s vacant seat in the Citroen World Rally Championship line-up for the rest of the 2018 season. Meeke was dropped by Citroen ahead of the last WRC round in Italy following recent crashes. Ostberg is well known
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s decision to switch to Honda engines in Formula 1 next season is just reward for the Japanese manufacturer’s perseverance on a sometimes tortured path. Honda returned to grand prix racing in 2015 with McLaren, a disappointing reunion that promised so
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says that the decision to switch from Renault to Honda power for the 2019 Formula 1 season was a “pretty clear cut” technical choice. Its sister team Toro Rosso moved to Honda engines this year, allowing
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales tried to emulate Tech3 privateer Johann Zarco’s seating position in the Barcelona MotoGP test, but said it only made the 2018 bike more difficult. Zarco has used a 2016-specification YZR-M1 to great effect since his debut in the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The dissolution of the Red Bull-Renault Formula 1 partnership risks leaving an ultra-successful grand prix racing combination with a corrupted legacy. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner could be referring to any number of achievements when, in his team’s announcement of its
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz Sr is in talks with both the Toyota and X-raid Mini teams about a 2019 Dakar deal following Peugeot’s withdrawal from cross-country rallying. Sainz, 56, secured his second Dakar triumph in January in Peugeot’s swansong outing in the event, beating
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says the solutions trialled in the Barcelona MotoGP test to fix Yamaha’s long-standing acceleration problems did not work, leaving him with “the same bike” for two more months. While Rossi is on a run of three consecutive podium finishes, he