The McLaren Formula 1 team’s much anticipated Barcelona update resulted in a notable step forward as the team finally had the car it had hoped to start the season with. McLaren worked on further revisions to its new front wing before last weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix, although in the end it elected not to race
Suzuki rider Andrea Iannone continued his strong Mugello MotoGP form by topping second practice for the Italian Grand Prix, which was interrupted by a major crash for Michele Pirro. The session was suspended with 29 minutes left on the clock when Ducati wildcard Pirro was launched off his bike on the downhill approach to the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Fernando Alonso has retained his place at the top of Autosport readers’ Formula 1 driver ratings following the Monaco Grand Prix. This year, for the first time, Autosport Plus members can cast their own driver ratings alongside our scores, and we are
Get unlimited access You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Scuderia Corsa is working towards a 2019 IndyCar full-season programme after its successful Indianapolis 500 outing with Oriol Servia. The team, which has won titles in the IMSA SportsCar Championship and taken class podiums at the Le Mans 24 Hours, partnered with Honda-powered
Keke Rosberg has revealed that he avoided Formula 1 during his son’s racing career because being a “recluse” was better than being asked questions about Nico. The 1982 world champion purposely retreated from F1 in 2010 and did not give a major interview until late-2016 in Abu Dhabi, after his son won the title. Nico
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A complaint has been made to police in Canada on behalf of Ferrari Formula 1 driver Kimi Raikkonen alleging he is the victim of extortion by a woman in Montreal. The complaint, filed by a Montreal legal firm working for Raikkonen, claims
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales claims the recent Barcelona test marked a major turning point for his Yamaha MotoGP crew, as he saw “the fire” that had been absent for “a long time”. Vinales won three of his first five races with Yamaha after joining
Jorge Lorenzo has admitted he is exploring options away from the factory Ducati team that will keep him on the MotoGP grid in 2019. The three-time premier class champion and Ducati appear increasingly likely to part ways after a troubled 18-month spell that has yet to yield a race win. Autosport reported last week that
Max Verstappen’s incident-packed start to the 2018 Formula 1 season is impossible to defend, following his latest blunder that proved so costly at the Monaco Grand Prix. With Verstappen throwing away a shot at pole position and consigning himself to a race-long fight through the field to secure two points after his crash at the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Iannone has confirmed he will depart the Suzuki MotoGP team at the end of the 2018 season. Iannone has endured a troubled time since he joined the Japanese manufacturer for the start of 2017, after he lost his factory Ducati seat
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb says he does not “have the motivation” to commit to more 2018 World Rally Championship outings with Citroen despite Kris Meeke’s exit from the team. Nine-time WRC champion Loeb has contested two WRC events for Citroen so far this year
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The latest Autosport video looks at why so many IndyCar veterans crashed out of the 2018 Indianapolis 500 and predicts who will star in this weekend’s Detroit double-header. Drivers including Danica Patrick, Helio Castroneves, Sebastien Bourdais and Tony Kanaan all crashed out
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Vijay Mallya has resigned as a director of Force India and handed the board role to his son Siddarth, but he remains the team principal of the Silverstone outfit. Mallya says he want to focus on his own legal issues, and doesn’t
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes has admitted it must find answers for its hypersoft tyre problems in Monaco before next week‘s Formula 1 race in Canada, where the compound will feature again. Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas struggled more than their main rivals on the new
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Did Daniel Ricciardo’s Monaco Grand Prix victory really eclipse one of Michael Schumacher’s classic Formula 1 drives in Spain 24 years ago? Autosport Grand Prix Editor Edd Straw’s Monaco GP analysis into Ricciardo’s victory despite suffering an MGU-K failure centred on the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aprilia has pledged to put more resources into its MotoGP project for the 2019 season, according to Aleix Espargaro. During 2017, Espargaro was vocal about the need for Aprilia to invest more if it was to prove it was serious about succeeding
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’s Robert Wickens says he found it hard to follow the various strategies at play during his first Indianapolis 500. SPM endured a torrid Month of May in which Wickens’s team-mate James Hinchcliffe failed to qualify for the Indy 500
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Brad Keselowski says that the NASCAR Cup series should incorporate hybrid power by adopting a Formula 1-style KERS system to improve racing and attract new manufacturers. NASCAR’s Gen-6 Cup cars use V8 engines, which Keselowski believes should be retained to avoid
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 2018 Indianapolis 500 was the latest test for IndyCar’s new car package and this week’s Motorsport Show discusses whether it helped or hurt the racing. The universal aerokit reduced downforce dramatically for 2018, causing drivers to lift off through the four
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Hyundai and Toyota World Rally Championship teams have both expressed interest in signing axed Citroen driver Kris Meeke. The Northern Irishman was dropped by Citroen last week for what the team described as an “excessively high number of crashes”, in the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stefan Wilson says he knew he was “screwed” while he led the final laps of the Indianapolis 500 due to a failed “win-or-bust” fuel gamble. Andretti driver Wilson was second under a caution on lap 192 of 200, between the similarly off-sequence
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Monaco was proof that Williams has cleared the worst part of its season, according to the Formula 1 team’s driver Sergey Sirotkin. The Russian rookie made it into the second part of qualifying for only the second time this season and started
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 boss Ross Brawn believes it’s naive to expect passing moves in Monaco, and he insists the race has to be judged differently from other events. World champions Fernando Alonso, Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen all commented on how boring the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toto Wolff has expressed his frustration at the FIA for revealing Mercedes Formula 1 technical director James Allison and engine man Lorenzo Sassi helped prompt an investigation into Ferrari’s ERS. The issue is sensitive for Mercedes in part because both Allison and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales says Tech3 rider Johann Zarco’s strong 2018 MotoGP season is “proof” the factory Yamaha team has gone in the wrong direction. Despite sitting second in the standings – 36 points behind Honda’s Marc Marquez – Vinales has endured a low-key
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power says his Indianapolis 500 win ended his “whole frustration” of feeling like he might go his whole career without the recognition earned from winning IndyCar’s biggest race. Power took his first Indy 500 victory after seeing off Ed Carpenter midway
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull Formula 1 team boss Christian Horner believes Max Verstappen would benefit from a modified approach after his latest costly error. Daniel Ricciardo claimed his and Red Bull’s second win of the season in Monaco last weekend, despite suffering an MGU-K
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo’s recent MotoGP woes have been exacerbated by an approach that “doesn’t work at Ducati”, according to his team-mate Andrea Dovizioso. Three-time champion Lorenzo switched to Ducati from Yamaha ahead of 2017, but has struggled to adapt to the Desmosedici bike.
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR must heed the stark differences between the Cup series’s Coca-Cola 600 and the prior All-Star event as it plots its post-2019 regulations overhaul. The non-championship All-Star race was the first opportunity in the Cup series to trial a new aero package
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Esteban Ocon had to overcome a brake-by-wire failure in the closing laps of the Monaco Grand Prix as he held off Pierre Gasly, Nico Hulkenberg and Max Verstappen to secure sixth place. Ocon crossed the line just 0.6s clear of countryman Gasly,