Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales says the set-up changes he made on Saturday in Qatar rendered the whole of MotoGP pre-season testing “useless”. Vinales – who won in Qatar a year ago on his Yamaha race debut – continued to struggle for
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault’s innovative developments to offset the aerodynamic impact of the halo on its new Formula 1 car are discussed in this clip from Motorsport.tv’s weekly show The Flying Lap. Craig Scarborough and Peter Windsor talk about how the Enstone F1 team
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Johann Zarco has played down his chances of winning the Qatar MotoGP season opener despite taking pole position with a record lap in qualifying. The Tech3 Yamaha rider beat Jorge Lorenzo’s lap record from 2008 at the end of a thrilling
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati rider Andrea Dovizioso is a clear favourite for the MotoGP opener in Qatar despite qualifying fifth, according to his rivals. Dovizioso, who has finished second in Qatar for three years straight, topped first and second practice and the shorter FP4
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 Yamaha’s Johann Zarco took pole position for the opening round of the 2018 MotoGP season at Qatar, establishing a new lap record by almost a quarter of a second. Zarco’s best laptime of 1m53.680s beat Jorge Lorenzo’s existing record set
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes protege Esteban Ocon says he is aware he needs to “confirm” his ability to his bosses in his second full Formula 1 season with Force India. Ocon made his grand prix debut in the middle of the 2016 season with
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR has provided a new set of tyres to the 24 cars that participated in Friday’s Cup series qualifying at Fontana after a third of the field missed the session. Of the 37 cars entered for this weekend’s event, 13 –
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 Yamaha rider Johann Zarco set the pace in a largely meaningless third practice session for the MotoGP season opener in Qatar, while Valentino Rossi crashed. Lap times in the daytime session were well off the pace of those set on
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Williams Formula 1 team is trying to retain the benefits of a design it utilised for its shark fin last year despite rules no longer allowing the full-length fins. In a clip from the latest episode of Motorsport.tv’s weekly programme
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The best sign of the Haas Formula 1 team’s impressive pre-season is reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton labelling the American team a “shock”. Kevin Magnussen was sixth fastest in pre-season testing despite only using supersoft tyres, as those ahead of him
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jimmie Johnson insists he is “not done” in the NASCAR Cup series after the announcement his long-time primary sponsor Lowe’s will end its backing of his Hendrick Motorsports car. Lowe’s announced on Wednesday it would pull its sponsorship of Johnson’s #48
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales says his Yamaha had “trouble in all areas” during the first day of MotoGP practice in Qatar, and that his bike’s problems have not changed since testing. Vinales, who won on his Yamaha debut in Qatar last year, was
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A revised schedule for the MotoGP season opener in Qatar means the two practice sessions that are held in daylight hours are being “wasted”, according to Cal Crutchlow. The schedule at the Losail circuit was changed for 2018 to bring it
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes factory drivers Maximilian Buhk and Maximilian Gotz will contest this year’s Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup with the Strakka Racing squad. Buhk and Gotz will be joined by Alvaro Parente, who raced a Strakka McLaren in last year’s BGTS Sprint
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA is struggling to find a new Formula 1 deputy race director to replace Laurent Mekies in time for the Australian Grand Prix next weekend. Mekies has been stood down from F1 duties following the announcement he will join Ferrari,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso set the pace in the opening practice session of the 2018 MotoGP season in Qatar, beating Valentino Rossi by just 0.061 seconds. Continuing his impressive form from the third and final pre-season test at the Losail circuit, Dovizioso
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The halo device on McLaren’s Formula 1 car will be sponsored by a flip-flop manufacturer in the 2018 season-opening Australian Grand Prix. McLaren has announced a new partnership with Gandys, a British lifestyle brand founded by brothers Rob and Paul Forkan
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault will not just fund its Formula 1 team until it matches Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull because their resources are in “another league”, says chief technical officer Bob Bell. Since purchasing Lotus at the end of 2015, Renault has been
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Seven-time Indycar champion and the first four-time Indy 500 champion AJ Foyt has survived yet another attack by Africanised “killer” bees while working on his West Texas ranch. In a press release titled AJ Foyt vs Killer Bees: Foyt 2 –
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two-time Daytona 500 winner Dale Earnhardt Jr says the influence Kevin Harvick has at Stewart-Haas Racing has been key to dominating the 2018 NASCAR Cup series season so far. Speaking on NBCSN’s NASCAR America show, Earnhardt says that Harvick’s ability to
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP boss Lin Jarvis has revealed Johann Zarco could be offered a factory-spec bike by the Japanese manufacturer for 2019. Tech3 Yamaha rider Zarco has been linked to several rival factories, namely KTM and Suzuki, off the back of a
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Graham Rahal says IndyCar testing at Sebring “fooled” the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team and that he does not know where the team stands despite finishing the season opener second. Rahal finished runner-up at St Petersburg despite starting last on the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes avoided Pirelli’s new hypersoft tyre in Formula 1 testing because it will just be a compound to “survive” on this season, according to team principal Toto Wolff. Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas ended the two weeks at Barcelona more than
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi says part of the reason he chose to remain in MotoGP for two more years is his desire to avoid having to make a Michael Schumacher-style comeback. Yamaha announced on Thursday that 39-year-old Rossi is to remain with its
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship team M-Sport has started working on an electric rally car. The reigning champion team says the all-new car – which will likely be based on a Ford Fiesta R5 chassis – is being aimed at domestic, single-day events
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren has accused Ferrari and the FIA of breaking a gentleman’s agreement after the Italian Formula 1 team announced it had signed FIA safety and deputy race director Laurent Mekies. Mekies will serve a three-month notice period before leaving his current
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi will remain in MotoGP until at least the end of 2020 after signing a two-year contract extension with the factory Yamaha team. Although the Italian’s existing contract was due to expire at the end of 2018, he has been
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chase Elliott has been hit with a 25-point penalty after finishing third at Phoenix, while his Hendrick Motorsports team was one of six NASCAR Cup teams to be penalised. Elliott, whose Hendrick team has struggled to get to grips with the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes protege Esteban Ocon would “sign straight away” for a chance to fight Max Verstappen for the Formula 1 title, a battle that would revive a “very intense” karting rivalry. Force India F1 driver Ocon was beaten to the 2011 Euro
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Seven-time NASCAR Cup series champion Jimmie Johnson will lose his career-long primary sponsor at the end of 2018 ending a spell of 17 years with his backer Lowe’s. Johnson is currently in the midst of the most difficult spell of his