Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two of Ducati’s satellite MotoGP teams, Angel Nieto and Avintia, have expressed interest in taking over Yamaha’s supply of customer bikes from Tech3 for the 2019 season. On Thursday, it was announced that the 18-year relationship between Yamaha and its sole
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has moved to remove doubts about Formula 1 customer teams having engine performance parity with their works counterparts. A new instruction has been issued insisting that all engines from a manufacturer are capable of being operated in the same
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren’s Renault-powered 2018 Formula 1 car has run on track for the first time ahead of pre-season testing. The McLaren MCL33 was revealed online early on Friday morning and the team is using one of its filming days to shake the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes revealed its new W09 Formula 1 car on Thursday as it bids to secure a fifth-consecutive sweep of the drivers’ and constructors’ titles in 2018. In this video, James Allen is joined at Silverstone by Autosport Grand Prix Editor Ben
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Renault Formula 1 driver Jolyon Palmer will be part of the BBC’s Formula 1 radio coverage this season. Palmer will join Jennie Gow and Jack Nicholls in the BBC 5 Live F1 commentary team for the 2018 campaign, and feature on
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes’ 2018 W09 Formula 1 car features design changes to resolve its predecessor’s ‘diva’ behaviour and to make it work for both him and team-mate Valtteri Bottas. The F1 world champion said both drivers had significant input in
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP privateer team Tech3 has announced it will end an 18-year partnership with Yamaha at the conclusion of the 2018 season. Herve Poncharal’s team, which has run Yamahas since its premier-class debut in 2001, made clear it has secured a new
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota says attempting to follow up its dominant second manufacturers’ title means that the 2018 NASCAR Cup series season will be its “biggest challenge”. The manufacturer introduced a brand new Camry for 2017, a year earlier than its rivals expected, and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso has revealed the first image of the Honda-powered car with which it will compete in the 2018 Formula 1 season. The STR13, which was set to be revealed to the public next Monday on the first morning of pre-season
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Italian rising star Francesco Bagnaia will graduate to MotoGP as a factory-contracted Ducati rider in 2019, joining satellite team Pramac. The 21-year-old, who is part of seven-time premier class champion Valentino Rossi’s VR46 Riders Academy, emerged as a favoured option for
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Kubica says he was “almost convinced” he would be on the Formula 1 grid at next month’s season-opening Australian Grand Prix. The Pole had pushed for a race seat at Williams alongside Lance Stroll but lost out to rookie Sergey
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India will join Toro Rosso in unveiling its 2018 Formula 1 car in the Barcelona pitlane next Monday morning immediately prior to the start of testing, Autosport has learned. The team will use all four of its drivers at the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. BT Sport has signed a three-year extension to continue to hold exclusive rights to show live TV coverage of MotoGP in the UK until the end of 2021. The subscription-only channel took over the rights from the BBC at the start
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hafiz Syahrin has been signed as a full-time Tech3 MotoGP rider for the 2018 season following his test debut for the satellite Yamaha outfit in Thailand. The 23-year-old will become the first premier class rider from Malaysia after being selected to
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault believes that only a “fresh approach” will produce the reliability steps it needs to move forward in the 2018 Formula 1 season. Although Renault was encouraged by its improved speed last year, when it often proved to be fourth-quickest, it
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jimmie Johnson says the Daytona 500’s two big crashes cannot be fully blamed on the NASCAR Cup series’ young drivers because the veterans push the limits more often. Seven-time champion Johnson crashed his third car of the Daytona week in Sunday’s
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault has appointed Jack Aitken to the role of third and reserve driver for the 2018 Formula 1 campaign. Aitken, a member of the Renault Sport Academy, completed his second year in GP3 last season. He finished second overall, behind ART
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Alex Rins says Suzuki’s 2018 specification MotoGP bike is already “100 times better” than last year’s GSX-RR. Suzuki endured a torrid 2017 campaign, losing ground to MotoGP’s leading manufacturers and failing to score a single podium with its all-new line-up of
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull says its plans for Formula 1 pre-season testing remain on course, despite Daniel Ricciardo slightly damaging its new RB14 in a filming day crash at Silverstone on Monday. Ricciardo was giving the team’s striking-looking 2018 design its first run
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The factory Honda MotoGP team has unveiled a revised livery ahead of the start of the 2018 season. Honda took the covers off its new design on Tuesday at a launch event in Jakarta, where works riders Marc Marquez and Dani
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Firestone will evaluate new street course tyres at Sebring next week that could be introduced in the IndyCar series as soon as July’s Toronto race. Based on feedback from drivers over several seasons, Firestone has sought to increase the gap in
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The McLaren Formula 1 team has given its strongest indication yet that it will return to a more traditional orange livery in 2018 with a teaser video released on Monday. A fictional night security guard enters the team’s Woking factory to
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams has named the McLaren Formula 1 team’s former head of aerodynamics Doug McKiernan as its chief engineer, a role the team describes as a “new project-focused position”. McKiernan will report to chief technical officer Paddy Lowe, with whom he previously
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship drivers and teams want changes to how national events share WRC bills after a controversial Rally Sweden that ended with Sebastien Ogier and M-Sport taking deliberate penalties. Rally Sweden Historic followed the modern cars onto the stages and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Marc Marquez has indicated that Honda has settled on continuing with its latest-spec MotoGP engine despite worries the new unit is overly “aggressive”. Though Marquez and team-mate Dani Pedrosa set the pace on the second and third days of last week’s
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Craig Breen admitted he is “gutted” that he will give way to Sebastien Loeb in the Citroen World Rally Championship team for two events straight after his WRC career-best result. Breen finished second to Thierry Neuville in Sweden last weekend but
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Darrell Wallace Jr chewed gum and sung to himself in the final laps of his first NASCAR Cup Series Daytona 500 to keep calm enough for a career-best second place. Starting his first full Cup season with Richard Petty Motorsports, Wallace
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo has given Red Bull’s new 2018 Formula 1 car its first shakedown run, during a filming day at Silverstone on Monday. Despite bad weather at the British track, Ricciardo was able to help his team become the first to
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi admits Yamaha is “relying on fate” for the opening rounds of the 2018 MotoGP season, as a potential fix for the team’s acceleration issue could be “months” away. Rossi conceded after the opening day of last week’s Thailand test
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daytona 500 victor Austin Dillon’s race-winning move that forced Aric Almirola to crash on the last lap was a fair move, according to the “devastated” Stewart-Haas Racing driver. Almirola had worked his way into the top 10 going into the final