Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing driver Graham Rahal has explained his crash with Simon Pagenaud at the start of IndyCar’s Long Beach race and has accepted blame for it. Their collision came approaching the first corner, when Rahal hit the rear of Pagenaud’s car on the long run into the tight Turn 1 left-hander as they
A “disappointed” Jos Verstappen says his son Max needs to think more in the heat of Formula 1 battle after his clash with Sebastian Vettel in the Chinese Grand Prix. Speaking on Dutch TV channel Ziggo’s Peptalk show, Verstappen Sr admitted that Max’s move that led to Vettel’s spin, and earned the Red Bull driver
Kyle Busch won a rain-delayed NASCAR Cup race at Bristol after a late pass of long-time leader Kyle Larson. The race was split across two days after rain caused an overnight postponement after 204 of the 500 laps had been completed. Larson was the overnight leader after the first day’s running and led much of
Tuesday’s Wales Rally GB launch has been cancelled after the FIA refused to sign off on this year’s route. The organisers of Britain’s World Rally Championship round will now have to rethink the final day of the October event after the governing body declined a planned powerstage using the all-asphalt Great Orme test, which had
Potential aerodynamic changes to improve overtaking in 2019 will be a key topic debated at Tuesday’s Formula 1 Strategy Group meeting in Paris, with deadlines looming and some teams resistant. Following the lack of passing in the Australian Grand Prix, a Bahrain meeting involving the FIA, F1’s chief technical officer Pat Symonds and team technical
Ken Block will make his first World Rally Championship appearance in four years when he contests this year’s Rally Catalunya. The 50-year-old will tackle the Spanish event on October 25-28 at the wheel of a M-Sport Ford Fiesta entered under his Hoonigan Racing Division banner alongside regular co-driver Alex Gelsomino. It will mark his first
Sebastien Bourdais says IndyCar race control’s decisions forced him to race “idiots” at the rear of the field at Long Beach, ruining his weekend. The Dale Coyne Racing driver started ninth but had briefly moved into the lead by lap 56 of 85 before his team-mate Zachary Claman de Melo crashed at Turn 8 and
Suzuki now has a bike capable of “winning” in MotoGP according to Alex Rins, who scored the manufacturer’s first podium finish since 2016 in Argentina. Rins finished third at Termas de Rio Hondo earlier this month, which marked his best finish to date in the premier class, after a race-long battle with Cal Crutchlow, Johann
Fernando Alonso says Daniel Ricciardo’s Chinese Grand Prix victory for fellow Renault Formula 1 customer Red Bull is “good motivation” for a McLaren team that must do a better job. While Ricciardo won the Shanghai F1 race, Alonso finished 30 seconds behind in seventh having qualified 13th. He conceded Sunday’s result leaves McLaren with no
IndyCar’s 2018 champion will have to beat Andretti’s Alexander Rossi to win the title because he is now the field’s “standout” driver, says Will Power. Rossi took his first win of the 2018 season by dominating on the streets of Long Beach on Sunday after Power was unable to get close enough to challenge in
Alexander Rossi dominated from pole position at Long Beach to take his first IndyCar victory of the season and the championship lead. The Andretti Autosport driver survived a quartet of caution periods, the last of which set up a nine-lap showdown with Penske driver Will Power. Power had twice the amount of push-to-pass available than
NASCAR’s seventh Cup Series race of 2018, at Bristol Motor Speedway, has been postponed until Monday, following a third red flag for rain midway through stage two of three. Heavy rain had already been forecast for Sunday afternoon, forcing NASCAR to push their race start time one hour forward. However, after two earlier red flags
Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton feared he would be caught up in the crash between the Red Bull of Max Verstappen and Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel during the Chinese Grand Prix. Along with Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, Hamilton sneaked past the cars of Vettel and Verstappen who tangled with 14 laps left in the race, as Verstappen attempted to
Sebastian Vettel has questioned the timing of the Formula 1 safety car period that compromised his race in China. FIA race director Charlie Whiting called for the safety car after a collision between Toro Rosso drivers Brendon Hartley and Pierre Gasly left debris on the track, opting not to go for a virtual safety car
Fernando Alonso admitted his battle with Sebastian Vettel in the Chinese Grand Prix was “not fair” because the Formula 1 world championship leader’s Ferrari was damaged. McLaren driver Alonso was able to erase a six-second gap to Vettel in the closing stages of the race and pass the German down the inside of Turn 1
Andretti Autosport’s Alexander Rossi continued his strong start to 2018, taking pole position for the third race of the IndyCar season at Long Beach by over three-tenths. Practice pacesetter Rossi claimed his second-ever pole in the series with a 1m06.5528s on his one and only run in the final qualifying session, putting a Honda-powered car
Pirelli designed its 2018 Formula 1 tyres to encourage strategic variation and its compound choices for the Chinese Grand Prix have created two key consequences that will decide this race. First, it has split strategies throughout the grid because of the severity of the step between each tyre. Carlos Sainz Jr says those starting on
Sauber’s Marcus Ericsson says a mix up with the team led to his grid penalty for Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix for ignoring double waved yellow flags. The 27-year-old was on his second run during the first stage of qualifying when team-mate Charles Leclerc spun exiting the final corner. Ericsson came through the corner shortly
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier has admitted the team might not have been ambitious enough with the performance targets for its 2018 Formula 1 car. Though McLaren has scored points in its first two races since switching from Honda to Renault power, it continued a run of midfield qualifying results when Fernando Alonso and Stoffel
Sebastian Vettel set the fastest time in final practice for Formula 1’s Chinese Grand Prix as Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo suffered a spectacular Renault engine failure. Vettel headed a one-two for Ferrari after jumping team-mate Kimi Raikkonen in the final third of the session, but his former F1 team will head into qualifying with serious
James Davison has become the 35th driver to be announced for the 2018 Indianapolis 500, having signed a deal in partnership with AJ Foyt Racing. Davison subbed in for the injured Dale Coyne Racing’s Sebastien Bourdais at last year’s Indy 500, with that drive gaining the attention of Jonathan Byrd Racing. Byrd has now backed
Kyle Busch says the NASCAR Cup series has to “stop this spec game” as he believes efforts to reduce costs have not helped level the playing field. NASCAR opted to introduce mandatory spec, Formula 1-style, pitguns for 2018 in a bid to save costs in an area where teams could find advantages with more expensive
All-six Aston Martin World Endurance Championship drivers will race for the British manufacturer in the Nurburgring 24 Hours next month. AMR will be making its first bid for outright honours with a GT3 car in the Nordschleife enduro in two years. The Prodrive-run AMR squad will field a sole V12 Vantage GT3 in the SP9
Marc Marquez should be placed on probation for his riding in last weekend’s Argentina MotoGP race, according to Kevin Schwantz. Reigning champion Marquez was criticised for his riding at Termas de Rio Hondo, where he attracted the attention of the stewards for colliding with both Aleix Espargaro and Valentino Rossi – causing the latter to
Formula 1 engine ‘party modes’ have become a big topic at the start of the 2018 season, with debate increasing over whether manufacturers should be allowed such settings. In this clip from Motorsport Show, Peter Windsor and Craig Scarborough explore what the term really means, and why teams cannot just push their engines to full
IndyCar rookie Robert Wickens believes his Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team has carried him through the early races of the 2018 season. Wickens, who has moved from the DTM to IndyCar, impressed on his series debut at St Petersburg and came within a lap of winning the race until contact with Alexander Rossi. He then led
The NASCAR Cup series is too easily blamed for its pitgun problems even though it has levelled the playing field on pitroad, according to Front Row Motorsports driver David Ragan. NASCAR opted to introduce new Formula 1-style pitguns for 2018 in an attempt to end a costly development battle between the Cup’s larger outfits as
Daniel Ricciardo says he is not happy with his Red Bull in qualifying trim after the first day of Formula 1 practice ahead of the Chinese Grand Prix. The Australian ended the afternoon session down in ninth position, one second off the pace, which he put down to not being able to find time when
Lewis Hamilton says Red Bull is not operating at the same level as Ferrari and Mercedes, adding that the team has not lived up to its pre-season testing form. Red Bull came into the 2018 season with high hopes after finishing last year strongly, but it is yet to offer a serious threat to the
JR Hildebrand has been announced as the second Dreyer & Reinbold Racing entry for the 2018 Indianapolis 500. Hildebrand has been without an IndyCar seat since he was dropped by Ed Carpenter Racing at the end of 2017. He now returns to the team he began his IndyCar career with, when he contested two races