Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull has decided to switch to Honda Formula 1 engines next year, high level sources have revealed, with confirmation of the move likely ahead of this weekend’s French Grand Prix. Although the Milton Keynes-based team had been expected to wait until
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP championship leader Marc Marquez topped the post-Catalan Grand Prix test day at Barcelona. Marquez overhauled Suzuki’s Andrea Iannone with four minutes left on the clock in the eight-hour session, posting a 1m38.916s – a lap time that would have been good
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe is adamant his Formula 1 team has not given up on improving its 2018 car despite already commencing early work on the ’19 package. The team’s terrible season continued with a difficult Canadian Grand Prix in which
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow says he expects “horseshit” claims that Honda is backing him over its MotoGP factory rider Dani Pedrosa, now that the Spaniard is officially on his way out. Pedrosa will be replaced by three-time champion Jorge Lorenzo in 2019, and his
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s 2019 aerodynamic regulation change comes at a “perfect moment” for Sauber, says team principal Frederic Vasseur. Sauber is currently rebuilding its engineering team under new technical director Simone Resta. Long-time Ferrari man Resta left his role as head of vehicle
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso’s three crashes in the past four MotoGP races are “not normal” for the reliable Ducati rider, according to championship leader Marc Marquez. Dovizioso crashed out while chasing after Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo in last weekend’s Catalan Grand Prix, and is
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales says his Barcelona MotoGP race was “in the trash” after one lap, as the Yamaha rider’s start woes continue. Despite Vinales vowing to try a new formation lap procedure that involved putting more temperature into his tyres for Sunday’s race,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leading IndyCar drivers believe that the series must be careful in how it opens the 2018 car up to development, fearing a cost rise that would “kill” smaller teams. Autosport revealed earlier this month that IndyCar is evaluating opening development ‘boxes’ to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati MotoGP rider Andrea Dovizioso says his Catalan Grand Prix crash was down to “pushing too much” to stay in contention for victory. Dovizioso was running a little over a second behind the race-leading duo of team-mate Jorge Lorenzo and championship leader
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati MotoGP team manager Davide Tardozzi says the squad “always knew” Honda-bound Jorge Lorenzo would eventually start winning races for his current team. Lorenzo had a tough first year with Ducati and, after a poor start to the 2018 season, eventually signed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Jorge Lorenzo scored his second consecutive MotoGP win, converting pole position at Barcelona into a dominant triumph after a short battle with Marc Marquez. Lorenzo led every lap but the first in an attritional race, with not enough classified finishers
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Valentino Rossi says the front tyre selection available at the Catalan Grand Prix in “not right”, having been on the losing side of a post-Barcelona test vote last month. MotoGP held an in-season test at the Catalan Grand Prix
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Charles Leclerc has admitted that the step he had to make from winning Formula 2 to racing in Formula 1 was bigger than he expected. The Sauber rookie had a tricky first three races of the 2018 season but turned that around
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Renault Formula 1 team is nearly ahead of its target having trebled its points haul from the first seven races of 2017 and almost matched that season’s total already. Renault now has 56 points after Nico Hulkenberg and Carlos Sainz Jr
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP rider Maverick Vinales says he will make an extra effort to warm up his tyres so as to avoid his customary early-race struggles in Sunday’s Catalan Grand Prix. Vinales qualified fourth in Barcelona, and harbours high hopes for the race,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Catalan Grand Prix poleman Jorge Lorenzo says he feels “probably even better” in Barcelona than he did in Mugello, where he took his first MotoGP victory with Ducati. Lorenzo, who has never started a Barcelona MotoGP race outside the front row, has
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow says reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez’s crash-saving manoeuvres are making his fellow Honda riders “look like idiots”. LCR rider Crutchlow, who has revealed he is riding with a broken sacrum, fell off his bike at the fast Turn 13 right-hander
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo claimed his first MotoGP pole position for Ducati in qualifying for the Catalan Grand Prix in Barcelona. Lorenzo, who had recorded his first win with Ducati last time out at Mugello, beat the resurgent Marc Marquez by 0.066s late on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s choice between sticking with current Formula 1 engine supplier Renault and becoming Honda’s works team will have a huge impact on the coming seasons. The multiple championship-winning squad will make its decision imminently, with an announcement expected by next month’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has worked out how the software governing Formula 1’s virtual safety car can be manipulated and will fix it to stop drivers cheating the system. When a VSC period is activated, an ECU map gives drivers a delta laptime that
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 teams’ designers will “forget about overtaking” when they get to work on the changes being enforced for 2019, Haas team boss Gunther Steiner has warned. Last-minute changes were pushed through at the end of April to alter the design of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The future of the Belgian Grand Prix has been secured by the local government, which has signed a new three-year extension with Formula 1’s owners Liberty Media. Belgian business newspaper L’Echo reports that the deal was signed this week, between Spa-Francorchamps’ local
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi has warned that Jorge Lorenzo should not be counted out of the 2018 MotoGP title fight yet. Lorenzo had a disastrous start to 2018, failing to finish in the top 10 in the first four races, but turned his campaign
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez has admitted that he “didn’t feel comfortable” on the opening day of track action at the Catalan Grand Prix. MotoGP points leader Marquez was fourth in first practice at Barcelona on Friday but classified only 12th in the afternoon session,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP has signed a preliminary agreement to add a Rio de Janeiro-based Brazilian Grand Prix to its schedule from 2021. The deal, struck between championship organisers Dorna and race promoter Rio Motorsports, would see the grand prix take place at a new
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel has taken the lead in Autosport’s readers’ Formula 1 driver ratings following his victory in the Canadian Grand Prix. The Ferrari driver moves ahead of Fernando Alonso in our season-long average scores, after registering the highest rating among Autosport Plus
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A new exhibition featuring 12 Formula 1 cars raced by Michael Schumacher has been unveiled in Germany. The career of the seven-time Formula 1 world champion, who continues to recuperate from a head injury sustained in a skiing accident in December 2013,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier has hinted that he will either stay with M-Sport Ford for 2019 or retire from the World Rally Championship, rather than move to a rival team. Kris Meeke’s departure from Citroen has kick-started the WRC driver market earlier than usual,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pierre Gasly says he pushed “everyone” at Toro Rosso and Honda to avoid having to take a new Formula 1 engine and subsequent grid penalty for his home grand prix. Gasly suffered a problem with his upgraded Honda engine in Canadian GP
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pirelli has announced that the hypersoft tyre will now be in play at the Russian GP, having already confirmed that it will return for Singapore. The hypersoft will be joined in Sochi by the ultrasoft and soft, with the supersoft missing from