Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Pedrosa says he is considering “several options” as his future destination following his long-time relationship with Honda’s MotoGP outfit. Pedrosa will leave Honda after 13 years with the Japanese manufacturer in MotoGP, as he will be replaced by Jorge Lorenzo. “It
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Scott Redding says he found out he would not be retained by the Aprilia MotoGP team for 2019 on social media. Redding joined Aprilia on a one-year deal for 2018 and will not continue with the outfit past the end of his
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean has described Haas’s Canadian Grand Prix update package as the best one the team has produced during its time in Formula 1. The American squad brought a significant set of upgrades to Montreal, although an engine problem for Grosjean at
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jack Miller says he will continue with Pramac Ducati in the 2019 MotoGP season, replacing Danilo Petrucci as the “number one” rider for the team. With Jorge Lorenzo departing Ducati, Pramac duo Petrucci and Miller were in line to replace the Spaniard,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso has revealed that the state of Formula 1 will be a bigger factor in determining his future than the form of his McLaren team. The two-time F1 world champion retired from a second successive race in Canada last weekend as
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A World Rally Championship team is trying to muster support for a letter to FIA president Jean Todt outlining plans to boycott Rally Italy 2019 if it stays on Sardinia. The WRC teams met during last week’s Alghero-based event and Autosport understands
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar race-winner Sebastien Bourdais reckons double Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso had things “almost too easy” in his first Indianapolis 500 attempt last year. Alonso has made clear his desire to return to Indy in the future – and his McLaren
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aston Martin’s new GT3 car will make its race debut in this weekend’s one-make event for the British manufacturer’s cars on the Le Mans 24 Hours support bill. The 2019 Vantage GT3 that was announced last month will take part in the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes says it ran its Formula 1 engines as hard in the Canadian Grand Prix as it did at the start of their seven-race cycle at the Australian Grand Prix. Mercedes was the only manufacturer to have run the same engines in
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel’s third win of the Formula 1 season came on a track that many, including Mercedes, expected to better suit Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas. Hamilton’s run of three straight wins in Montreal came to an end though, despite Vettel starting
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jari-Matti Latvala believes Citroen acted incorrectly by sacking Kris Meeke halfway through the 2018 World Rally Championship and should have honoured his contract. Meeke, who had been hired to lead Citroen’s title challenge in its factory WRC return with the C3, was
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez believes his 2019 MotoGP team-mate Jorge Lorenzo will find it easier to adapt to the Honda bike from current team Ducati than his previous employer Yamaha. Lorenzo, who has a famously smooth riding style, struggled to get up to speed
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three DTM drivers will share one of Audi’s factory cars for the defence of its Spa 24 Hours crown next month. Reigning DTM champion Rene Rast, Nico Muller (both pictured above) and Robin Frijns will team up in a works R8 LMS
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 sporting boss Ross Brawn has apologised for the “grief” model Winnie Harlow received after waving the chequered flag early in the Canadian Grand Prix. Last Sunday Harlow became the latest VIP to be invited to wave the flag at the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. All three Joe Gibbs Racing car chiefs have been suspended by NASCAR for the next Cup round at Sonoma as a punishment for Michigan infractions. JGR Toyota drivers Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin and Erik Jones were all put to the back of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren Racing CEO Zak Brown says expansion into IndyCar in 2019 is “looking favourable”, although the company is still in the process of completing due diligence on the possibility. Brown attended IndyCar’s Detroit double header earlier this month along with McLaren racing
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The aerodynamic developments IndyCar will allow teams in 2019 will not be defined until August at the earliest. IndyCar is set to open up development ‘boxes’ for teams but it has yet to finalise what can and cannot be altered from the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko says Brendon Hartley’s huge first-lap crash in the Canadian Grand Prix will have no impact on the Toro Rosso driver’s Formula 1 future. Hartley was sent airborne and into the barriers after trying to pass Lance
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull will have a more conservative allocation of Pirelli’s softest-compound tyres than its Formula 1 rivals for the return of the French Grand Prix. Pirelli has made the ultrasoft, supersoft and soft tyres available for the Paul Ricard race, the first
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship events are building dangerous artificial jumps that should be outlawed, according to leading WRC drivers. Toyota’s Ott Tanak had to retire from third place on Rally Italy last week after an incident on what many felt was a badly
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota driver Kyle Busch brought a ‘knife to a gun fight’ against Ford and it did not matter “how sharp the knife” was in the Michigan NASCAR Cup Series race. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Busch was fourth last Sunday behind a Stewart-Haas Racing
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Motorcycle racer turned television presenter Guy Martin is to race against Jenson Button in the first Williams Formula 1 car Ayrton Senna tested, for a new Channel 4 show. Martin is to restore the Williams FW08C chassis in which Keke Rosberg won
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden accused officials of being “inconsistent” after the penalty that spoiled his Texas race. Polesitter Newgarden was struggling with the race-day set-up on his Penske Dallara-Chevrolet, suffering severe blisters on one set of tyres and a deflation on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has revealed further details of its new GT Nations Cup concept, which will be held for the first time at the end of this year in Bahrain. SRO boss Stephane Ratel announced plans for a ‘Cup of Nations’ for amateur
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Will Power says a breakdown in communication with his spotter was the cause of his crash with Dale Coyne Racing’s Zachary Claman de Melo in the Texas IndyCar race. Power had qualified third in a Penske 1-2-3 led by Josef Newgarden
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Pierre Gasly believes having the new specification of the Honda power unit allowed him to finish three places higher in the Canadian Grand Prix. Honda brought an upgraded engine to Montreal, with Gasly using it throughout practice
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Simon Pagenaud says that his late battle with Andretti’s Alexander Rossi over second place in the Texas IndyCar race gave him “grey hair”. Pagenaud became the lead Penske driver as the team struggled with tyre blistering in Saturday night’s race. The 2016
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville called his final-stage defeat of World Rally Championship rival Sebastien Ogier on Rally Italy a “precious” result and admitted it was hard to believe. A weekend-long battle between reigning champion Ogier and current points leader Neuville was only settled on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen’s return to form in the Canadian Grand Prix was characteristic of Lewis Hamilton trait of performing better when angry, reckons 2016 Formula 1 world champion Nico Rosberg. After a series of crashes in the opening phase of the season, Verstappen
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stewart-Haas Racing’s Clint Bowyer says the “gutsy” strategy to take two new tyres in the Michigan NASCAR Cup series race would have left him “in trouble” had rain not arrived. Bowyer started 12th but made his way into the top five on