Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One young engineering student was handed a once in a lifetime’s opportunity to kickstart his Formula 1 career during the Canadian Grand Prix weekend. In the pitlane in front of the Renault garage, Carlos Sainz Jr revealed that student Chase Pelletier, 22,
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen remains 100% committed to the World Rally Championship despite its decision to drop lead driver Kris Meeke and rumours of a 2019 exit. Meeke lost his Citroen seat after he crashed heavily on last month’s Rally of Portugal. Prior to the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Ogier took a largely symbolic World Rally Championship stage win on Rally Italy’s opening superspecial, 0.1 seconds ahead of Andreas Mikkelsen in his M-Sport Ford Fiesta. Thursday evening’s Ittiri Arena Show was a short 1.2-mile test, with drivers already focused on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jacques Villeneuve will drive his father’s 1978 Ferrari Formula 1 car at the head of the Canadian Grand Prix drivers’ parade to commemorate 40 years since Gilles’ maiden victory. The Ferrari 312 T3, which the 1997 world champion has driven once before
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jari-Matti Latvala stopped to clear stones from the Rally Italy stages himself during this week’s recce, having retired from the last two World Rally Championship gravel rounds after hitting rocks. Latvala, who set the pace on Thursday’s shakedown in Sardinia, damaged the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 drivers and teams will have to be on the starting grid for 10 minutes longer from this weekend’s Canadian Grand Prix, following a change of procedure. Drivers often only appear on the grid a few minutes before they are forced
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi believes it is “wrong” that MotoGP contracts are being determined so early in the 2018 season. Just six rounds into the current season, the make-up of the grid for the 2019 campaign is almost set after one of the most
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari has become the eighth manufacturer to sign up for the Suzuka 10 Hours round of the Intercontinental GT Challenge in August with a factory-supported entry. The Taiwanese HubAuto team has entered a second Ferrari 488 GT3 for works drivers Davide Rigon
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes has postponed the introduction of its new Formula 1 engine, after a last minute quality issue emerged on the eve of the Canadian Grand Prix.
Mercedes had intended for its works team and customer outfits Force India and Williams to run
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lando Norris insists an approach from Toro Rosso to join its Formula 1 line-up will not distract him from his Formula 2 efforts or his role as McLaren’s reserve driver. It emerged on Wednesday that McLaren, which looks after Norris’s career, rejected
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Recently axed Marc VDS MotoGP team boss Michael Bartholemy has been “entirely vindicated” of any wrongdoing by the Belgian squad’s owner Marc van der Straten. A statement issued by Marc VDS drew a line under the feud that had developed between Bartholemy
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen will miss the axed Kris Meeke’s experience when it comes to set-up and development of its C3 World Rally car, according to Craig Breen. Breen will be joined on Rally Italy by Mads Ostberg, and Citroen is considering keeping the duo
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The race weekend schedule and first official test venue for the inaugural MotoE World Cup that will support MotoGP next season have been confirmed. In a meeting held by MotoE teams at Mugello, it was agreed that races will take place on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso has described MotoGP points leader Marc Marquez’s crash in the Italian Grand Prix as being “like gold” for his own title ambitions. Successive non-finishes at Jerez and Le Mans had left Ducati rider Dovizioso trailing Marquez by 49 points
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda has revealed its Formula 1 engine upgrade for the Canadian Grand Prix is centred around improvements to its internal combustion engine. The Japanese manufacturer has been expected to give partner Toro Rosso an update for the power-sensitive race, which Autosport reported
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati has announced that Danilo Petrucci will step up to its factory MotoGP team in 2019 as the replacement for Honda-bound Jorge Lorenzo. Petrucci has raced for the satellite Pramac team since the 2015 season and he has campaigned a works-spec Ducati
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Le Mans-winning race engineer Leena Gade is in talks about potentially joining the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing IndyCar team after her abrupt exit from Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, Autosport has learned. Gade left SPM shortly after James Hinchcliffe failed to qualify for the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 has completed its line-up for its first MotoGP season with KTM bikes in 2019 by re-signing Malaysian rookie Hafizh Syahrin. The French outfit will end a long-standing partnership with Yamaha in favour of a deal to run factory-specification KTM RC16 bikes
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda has announced Jorge Lorenzo will join Marc Marquez on a two-year deal in its factory MotoGP line-up. As previously reported by Autosport, Honda has settled on three-time champion Lorenzo as its replacement for Dani Pedrosa, who will leave the team after
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati has picked Danilo Petrucci as Honda-bound Jorge Lorenzo’s replacement at its factory MotoGP squad for the 2019 season, Autosport has learned. It emerged earlier on Tuesday that Honda will drop Dani Pedrosa at the end of 2018 after 13 seasons, with
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andreas Mikkelsen admits that he has had a “nightmare” start to his first full World Rally Championship season with Hyundai, but believes he can put it behind him in Italy. Mikkelsen has struggled to find confidence and grip from his Hyundai i20
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR could place further limits on Cup drivers competing in the feeder Xfinity and Trucks series in order to find the “right balance” between promoting young talent and encouraging veterans. Cup drivers have won seven of the 12 Xfinity races so far
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alexander Rossi is “kicking himself” over the mistake that cost him the lead of the second Detroit race, admitting he should have considered the bigger picture of IndyCar’s title race. Andretti driver Rossi started the double-header weekend just two points behind series
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Jorge Lorenzo has reached an agreement to join fellow MotoGP world champion Marc Marquez at Honda next year, Autosport can reveal. The Japanese manufacturer is poised to announce a two-year-deal with Lorenzo shortly, having confirmed earlier on Tuesday that it
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams will run its respective Formula 1 reserve and young drivers Robert Kubica and Oliver Rowland at the two-day in-season test at the Hungaroring. Kubica was in contention for a Williams 2018 race seat during the off-season but was eventually given a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Four-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez drove a Formula 1 car for the first time at the Red Bull Ring on Tuesday. The Honda factory rider completed 43 laps behind the wheel of a 2012 Red Bull in Toro Rosso colours at a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda has begun talks with three-time MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo as a potential replacement for the outgoing Dani Pedrosa for 2019, Autosport has learned. The team announced on Tuesday that it would part ways with Pedrosa, who has raced for the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Honda MotoGP team has confirmed it will part ways with Dani Pedrosa at the end of the 2018 season. The news, which was reported by Autosport earlier on Tuesday, has now officially been communicated and means Honda will now focus on
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 Yamaha rider Johann Zarco has put his struggles in MotoGP’s Italian Grand Prix down to a lack of rear grip and the resulting poor feeling this gave. Despite crashing out of his home race at Le Mans last month, Zarco came
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 teams face having to split development programmes because rule tweaks, including those to help overtaking, for 2019 will have such a large impact on designs. Following a lack of overtaking at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, F1 chiefs and the