Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Richard Childress Racing’s Austin Dillon took a surprise Daytona 500 win in an attrition-filled 2018 NASCAR Cup opener featuring two huge crashes and overtime. Dillon led just one lap en route to victory and overcame a three-car battle for the lead
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Gene Haas says Formula 1 teams have contacted his outfit with interest in purchasing Haas Automation equipment. Haas currently supplies rival NASCAR teams alongside his Stewart-Haas operation with his company’s equipment and hoped to use his F1 entry as a vehicle
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo says he reverted to Ducati’s 2017 MotoGP bike on the final day of testing at Buriram because he was struggling for confidence with the manufacturer’s ’18 challenger. Lorenzo finished no higher than 10th on the first two days at
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville took his first World Rally Championship victory of the season with a dominant performance on Rally Sweden, while Craig Breen took a career-best second. Both Neuville and Breen rebounded fantastically from their showings last year on the event, when
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dani Pedrosa concluded MotoGP’s Thailand pre-season test with the fastest time, edging out Johann Zarco in the dying stages of Sunday’s running. Tech 3 Yamaha rider Zarco became only the second rider of the test to breach the 1m30s barrier when
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo believes he needs to get better at driving through problems in the 2018 Formula 1 season rather than trying to perfect his set-ups. Though Ricciardo outscored team-mate Max Verstappen last year, the Dutchman had the stronger qualifying
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Thierry Neuville will carry a 22.7-second lead over Craig Breen into the final day of Rally Sweden after safely negotiating Saturday’s evening stages. Neuville extended his lead on Saturday afternoon’s loop, and bolstered that by another
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Factory rider Jorge Lorenzo says he still does not feel comfortable on Ducati’s GP18 bike after a difficult second day of testing in Thailand. The Spaniard was 10th on the second day of the Buriram pre-season test, 0.760 seconds off Honda’s
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales said a late session change on day two of Buriram MotoGP testing improved his Yamaha and helped solve issues with a bike that had previously been “too smooth”. One of Yamaha’s main issues throughout the 2017 MotoGP season was
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville added to his Rally Sweden lead on Saturday afternoon’s loop as he and nearest challenger Craig Breen opted for different tyre strategies. With gravel beginning to protrude from the icy roads on the second run through the Torntorp and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daytona 500 pole winner Alex Bowman’s strategy in the NASCAR Cup series’ Duel races was a “complete waste of time”, says Stewart-Haas Racing’s Kevin Harvick. After securing pole position in last weekend’s qualifying sessions, Bowman opted to drop from pole to
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valtteri Bottas says the halo on the new Mercedes Formula 1 car did not hinder him during a full race distance in the simulator. The Mercedes driver told the latest episode of Motorsport.tv’s The Flying Lap that he did not notice
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning MotoGP champion Marc Marquez made a late surge to the head of the times on the second day of testing in Thailand, beating factory Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa. Pedrosa sat at the top of the times for the bulk of
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville continues to lead Rally Sweden despite a spin on Saturday morning’s stages, while Craig Breen thrust himself into contention for a first World Rally Championship win. Neuville looked relatively comfortable until SS10 Hagfors, where he and then second-place man
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes is taking McLaren and Renault “seriously” as potential Formula 1 title rivals as well as Ferrari and Red Bull, says team boss Toto Wolff. Ferrari was Mercedes’ main rival on its way to a fourth straight F1 championship double last
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Whether the new Williams Formula 1 car can arrest the decline the famous team has gone through since its 2014 high is the subject of the latest edition of The Autosport Podcast. With a bold new concept and more aggressive aerodynamics,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nicholas Latifi will drive in Canadian Grand Prix first practice and at the first Formula 1 pre-season test as part of his Force India reserve and test driver role. The Montreal Friday running, which will be the first time the 22-year-old
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One fifth of the NASCAR Cup series grid for the 2018 Daytona 500 will start the race from the rear in their back-up cars. Eight drivers lost their primary cars in Thursday night’s Duel races, which took place to determine full
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renowned engine specialist Cosworth is interested in becoming an engine supplier in IndyCar and is in talks with the series over a move. IndyCar is actively trying to add a third manufacturer alongside Honda and Chevrolet, with the two existing companies
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville withstood attacks from Andreas Mikkelsen and Esapekka Lappi to maintain his Rally Sweden lead on Friday afternoon, and will start Saturday heading a Hyundai 1-2-3. Toyota driver Lappi had taken second from Mikkelsen on the afternoon’s Hof-Finnskog opener and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP has agreed to soak the track on the final day of Qatar pre-season testing next month to give riders the chance to sample the Losail circuit in the wet. The test will give the riders the chance to evaluate how
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Valentino Rossi has urged Yamaha to cure ‘worrying’ issues with its MotoGP electronics, and admits he is “not optimistic” for 2018’s opening grands prix if it cannot be resolved. The veteran Italian – who turned 39 on day one of the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Andrea Dovizioso says he is finding it “difficult” to make a choice on which Ducati MotoGP fairing to use after sampling a new version in testing in Thailand. Last year’s championship runner-up concluded the first day of running at the Buriram
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren has successfully fired up its new Renault-powered MCL33 for the first time at its Woking factory. Following a switch from Honda engines, McLaren had to play catch up late last year to accommodate the new concept of power unit in
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Gene Haas says his Formula 1 team was too far adrift of Ferrari last season and is targeting a one-second improvement in 2018. The American team’s form fluctuated dramatically in 2017 and it ultimately finished eighth in the constructors’ championship. Haas
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lexus will join the Blancpain GT Series full-time in 2018. A pair of Lexus RC F GT3s will be entered in both the Endurance and Sprint Cup segments of the BGTS by the Swiss Emil Frey team. The full BGTS programme
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. LCR Honda rider Cal Crutchlow edged out Suzuki’s Alex Rins to top the opening day of MotoGP’s second pre-season test of the year in Thailand. On MotoGP’s first-ever visit to the Buriram circuit – which will play host to the inaugural
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams deputy team principal Claire Williams insisted calling anyone in Formula 1 a “pay driver” is unfair, as she defended the team’s 2018 pairing Lance Stroll and Sergey Sirotkin. The decision to pick Formula 2 graduate Sirotkin over Robert Kubica as
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville leads Andreas Mikkelsen in a Hyundai World Rally team one-two after the first four stages of Rally Sweden. Overnight leader Ott Tanak had initially pulled away from the field by winning the morning’s opener Hof-Finnskog, establishing a 6.8-second cushion
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha MotoGP boss Lin Jarvis “fully expects” Valentino Rossi to sign a new contract to stay with Yamaha in MotoGP beyond this season. Rossi is yet to extend his existing deal, which will ends this year, and his plan is to