Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas admits Mercedes was unable to match Toro Rosso driver Pierre Gasly’s marathon opening stint on the hypersoft tyres at Monaco, where it struggled with Pirelli’s softest rubber. Gasly completed 37-laps on the hypersofts, which helped him secure a seventh place
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon says he is unsure what IndyCar can do to alter its new-for-2018 car in order to improve racing at the Indianapolis 500. The majority of this year’s race was run single-file with drivers holding gaps of around
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota has moved to quash suggestions that Ferrari Formula 1 driver Kimi Raikkonen could return to the World Rally Championship with the squad next year. Raikkonen competed in the WRC for two years in 2010 and ’11 after he was dropped by
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske team president Tim Cindric says Helio Castroneves will return to the Indianapolis 500 in 2019 with the team. Castroneves moved from IndyCar to Penske’s new-for-2018 IMSA SportsCar Championship programme with Acura for the current season. He competed in both the Indianapolis
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari’s long-serving chief designer Simone Resta will leave the Formula 1 team at the end of this month to join Sauber as its technical director. Resta’s official job title at Maranello was head of vehicle project coordination, but he has fulfilled the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Triple World Superbike champion Jonathan Rea has confirmed he is “evaluating” offers to move to MotoGP next season with a factory team. Rea has been racing in WSBK full-time since 2009, and has won a record-equalling 59 races on his way to
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch dominated the NASCAR Cup race at Charlotte to pick up his fourth series win of the season. Starting from pole position, Busch led 377 of the race’s 400 laps to take his first victory at Charlotte, the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power says he started screaming on the last lap of the 2018 Indianapolis 500 because he knew he was going to win the race. Power’s first Indy 500 victory came after he saw off the challenge of Ed Carpenter following a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Indianapolis 500 runner-up Ed Carpenter says he is kicking himself for not attacking race winner Will Power on an earlier restart when he had the chance. Carpenter scored his best Indy 500 finish, beating his fifth position in 2008, having started the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danica Patrick says she does not understand what caused her to crash out of the 2018 Indianapolis 500, her final career race. Patrick’s planned 2018 swansong began in the NASCAR Cup series season-opening Daytona 500 with Premium Motorsports where she was collected
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Will Power took Penske’s 17th Indianapolis 500 victory after a six-lap dash following Tony Kanaan’s late crash caused the seventh caution in an attrition-filled race. Power made his final stop on lap 171 of 200 running a conventional five-stop strategy like most
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stoffel Vandoorne believes McLaren sacrificed his Monaco Grand Prix chances in favour of Formula 1 team-mate Fernando Alonso. The Belgian was lapping just outside the top 10 in the early stages after starting on the ultrasoft tyres, running close behind Renault’s Nico
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 stewards have decided to take no further action after investigating the crash between Charles Leclerc and Brendon Hartley towards the end of the Monaco Grand Prix. Leclerc slammed into the back of Hartley’s Toro Rosso when his Sauber suffered a
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aleix Espargaro wants Aprilia to retain his struggling MotoGP team-mate Scott Redding for 2019. Redding joined Aprilia this year in place of Sam Lowes, who was dropped after just one season amid a lack of results. So far Redding has been having
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda believes it no longer has the edge at the Indianapolis 500 given how Chevrolet has improved its IndyCar engine. Only two Honda-powered entries – Dale Coyne Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais and Ganassi’s Scott Dixon – made it into last weekend’s ‘Fast Nine’
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen’s repeat of his 2016 Monaco Grand Prix qualifying crash this weekend proves the Red Bull Formula 1 driver is not learning from his mistakes, according to Sergio Perez. Verstappen ended up in the barriers on the exit of the Swimming
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The high-speed chess game era of the Indianapolis 500 looks set to be ended by the 2018 Indycar, with its subtle differences set to put greater emphasis on driver skill. In 2017 the manufacturer aerokits were frozen ahead of the following year’s
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen admitted the Monaco Grand Prix weekend was looking “very easy” for the Red Bull Formula 1 team before the practice crash that left him last on the grid. While his team-mate Daniel Ricciardo went fastest in every session before taking
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton say they knew from the outset that the Red Bull Formula 1 team was going to beat Ferrari and Mercedes to Monaco Grand Prix pole. Daniel Ricciardo was quickest in practice sessions leading up to qualifying and
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Three-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves says that “amazing talent” Danica Patrick does not get enough respect, ahead of her final career race this weekend. Patrick will complete her motorsport farewell with the Indy 500, driving for Ed Carpenter Racing, after finishing
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Triple MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo could end up on a satellite Yamaha bike next year, as opportunities for him to secure a factory team spot decrease. Lorenzo, who secured all 44 of his MotoGP wins and his titles as a works
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren insists it has never discussed giving Nicholas Latifi a Formula 1 role after announcing the Formula 2 racer’s father as a new shareholder last week. Canadian Michael Latifi became the McLaren Group’s first new shareholder since the departure of Ron Dennis
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s recent decision to revise its aerodynamic rules for 2019, ahead of a major overhaul in 2021, is all about trying to improve the quality of racing in the short-term. Processional races at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix, on the tight
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. AJ Foyt Racing’s Tony Kanaan set the pace on Carb Day, IndyCar’s final practice session ahead of the 2018 Indianapolis 500. Foyt had impressed in qualifying for the race with Kanaan and rookie team-mate Matheus Leist taking 10th and 11th. In the
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Josef Newgarden says that James Hinchcliffe’s bumping from the 2018 Indianapolis 500 is a “great” and “sad” story for IndyCar. Schmidt Peterson Motorsports’s Hinchcliffe dramatically failed to qualify for the Indy 500 after a troubled late second run and he ran
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Ferrari Formula 1 team’s mirrors have garnered an unusual amount of interest in recent weeks, and it revealed its latest design in Monaco earlier this week. Ferrari has tweaked the design of its halo mirrors, which first appeared in Spain, following
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Penske’s Helio Castroneves believes Indianapolis 500 pole lap speeds could exceed 235mph when the IndyCar series introduces its new engine that is predicted to produce more than 900bhp. Castroneves qualified sixth fastest for Sunday’s Indianapolis 500 with a four-lap average speed of
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. This weekend’s Indianapolis 500 looks set to be the most unpredictable race in recent memory and Autosport has picked the drivers most likely to win the 102nd event. The ‘Fast Nine’, which sets the front three rows of the grid, was dominated
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen World Rally team principal Pierre Budar felt Kris Meeke was out of control and left him with no option but to dismiss the Northern Irishman. Explaining his decision to terminate Meeke and co-driver Paul Nagle’s contracts with immediate effect, Budar told
Get unlimited access You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Le Mans 24 Hours winner Guy Smith expects to continue racing after stepping down from the factory M-Sport Bentley team. The 43-year-old Briton, who won Le Mans with Bentley in 2003, told Autosport in the wake of his last outing with the