Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dale Coyne Racing has confirmed that the final seat on the 2018 IndyCar grid will be shared between Pietro Fittipaldi and Indy Lights graduate Zachary Claman de Melo. Fittipaldi announced on Tuesday he had secured a drive for seven of the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. This year’s Rally GB route is set for its biggest overhaul since the World Rally Championship round moved from Cardiff, with closed roads featuring for the first time. The event moved to Deeside in 2013 and has comprised stages in mid-
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes DTM returnee Pascal Wehrlein has explored the possibility of a Super Formula drive as he bids to earn a Formula 1 reprieve for 2019. Wehrlein was left without a place on the 2018 F1 grid after losing his Sauber drive
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One-time NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Busch says he cannot make a worse start to the 2018 season than he did in ’17. Busch began his 2017 campaign slowly, and his streak without a win reached a year before he finally took
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar teams are desperately seeking ways to stem tyre degradation with the new aerokits, says 2004 champion and ’13 Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan. The veteran Brazilian, who has moved to AJ Foyt Racing for 2018 after four years at Ganassi,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two-time MotoGP champion Casey Stoner says factory Yamaha riders Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales have to shoulder some blame for the manufacturer’s struggles in 2017. Vinales began the 2017 season with three wins from the first five races and led the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Last year’s intense Formula 1 title fight between Ferrari and Mercedes meant boundaries were being pushed and rules clarifications called on – and there are more in store for 2018. Oil burn was the main regulatory controversy of the 2017 F1
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula V8 3.5 champion Pietro Fittipaldi will join the IndyCar grid for 2018, having signed a part-time deal to race with Dale Coyne Racing. As predicted by Autosport, Fittipaldi will share the #19 seat in 2018 and contest seven races, having
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean believes getting fully on top of its aerodynamic development programme and not losing time with unsuccessful upgrades is crucial for Haas in the 2018 Formula 1 season. Haas has finished eighth in the constructors’ championship in its first two
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Martin Truex Jr’s NASCAR title with Furniture Row Racing gives small teams “a shot in the arm” towards overhauling the leading outfits in the next decade, says Front Row Motorsports. Martin Truex Jr dominated the 2017 NASCAR Cup season to take
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ed Carpenter Racing will give Jordan King his first IndyCar oval test at Phoenix on Sunday, as part of his bid to get a full-season seat for 2019. Formula 2 race-winner and former Manor Formula 1 development driver King will drive
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP promoter Dorna Sports has launched its new all-electric support class, the FIM MotoE World Cup. In a launch event in Rome on Tuesday morning, energy firm Enel was confirmed as the title sponsor for the series, and the racing version
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Mercedes Formula 1 team has secured a major new sponsorship deal with clothing brand Tommy Hilfiger, replacing previous partner Hugo Boss. Last November Hugo Boss announced it was calling time on its F1 sponsorship programme, having been involved with both
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ash Walsh has been released from hospital after undergoing minor surgery on his elbow following his monster Bathurst 12 Hour crash on Sunday evening. Having spun after tangling with a backmarker during the closing stages of the Intercontinental GT Challenge race,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Reigning IndyCar champion Josef Newgarden led a Penske/Chevrolet 1-2-3 in testing at Sonoma on Monday. Times for the 12-car session were unofficial and some teams were not gunning for one-lap pace in optimum conditions. Newgarden, who set his first pole position
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo should focus on beating Max Verstappen rather than worrying about which Formula 1 team he will drive for in 2019, says former Red Bull Racing driver Mark Webber. Ricciardo is currently at a career crossroad, with his current Red
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow says Honda’s new MotoGP bike has improved in areas the riders asked for. Crutchlow, who is riding a 2018-spec LCR Honda this season alongside full factory riders Marc Marquez and Dani Pedrosa, ended last week’s Sepang test third overall.
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One-time CART champion Jimmy Vasser will return to IndyCar having partnered with 2018 team Dale Coyne Racing. Vasser’s KV Racing business partner James Sullivan has also joined the team, with one of the team’s cars set to run under the Dale
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 bosses have decided to replace grid girls with children for the 2018 season. F1 announced it would drop grid girls last week, a decision that generated mixed opinions among fans and even team members. On Monday, F1 chiefs –
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Bathurst 12 Hour winner Robin Frijns says his WRT Audi R8 LMS would likely have run out of fuel had the race not been interrupted before the finish. Last weekend’s epic contest at Mount Panorama boiled down to a tense fuel
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lando Norris says the timing of his opportunity to make his Formula 1 debut with McLaren hinges on how long Fernando Alonso stays with the team. Norris, who will fulfil reserve driver duties for McLaren in F1 this year, won the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar’s windscreen cockpit protection system could be introduced by the end of 2018 depending on its test at Phoenix, according to the series’ president of competition and operations Jay Frye. The series unveiled its windscreen prototype last Friday and revealed plans
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Having to start from scratch on engine design for the 2021 Formula 1 regulations would be “frightening” for Renault. F1 chiefs floated initial plans for the next generation of regulations late last year and proposed that the 1.6-litre turbocharged hybrid concept
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Malaysian rookie Hafizh Syahrin has joined Tech3 Yamaha for the upcoming MotoGP pre-season test at Buriram, ahead of the team making a “final decision” on its 2018 line-up. Tech3 has found itself needing a late-notice replacement for Jonas Folger, who had
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula V8 3.5 champion Pietro Fittipaldi will test for the Dale Coyne Racing IndyCar team again in the coming week both at Sonoma on Monday and on the Phoenix oval. Phoenix is hosting IndyCar’s official ‘spring training’ pre-season test next Friday
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tom Luthi has admitted his longer-than-usual Moto2 career is making his 2018 MotoGP adaptation challenging. This season the 31-year-old is finally joining the premier class having raced in Moto2 since its inception in 2010 and in its predecessor 250cc for three
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff says he was ‘bothered’ by clashes between junior driver Esteban Ocon and his Force India Formula 1 team-mate Sergio Perez in 2017. Discord between Perez and Mercedes protege Ocon – who had moved to Force India
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Volkswagen plans to demonstrate its abandoned 2017 World Rally Car in full livery and Monte Carlo specification for fans in the future. The 2017 Polo R WRC for last year’s new rules package was one of the most eagerly awaited rally
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New winglets were trialled by Ducati, Honda and Yamaha in the recent Sepang MotoGP test as the teams built up the mileage on their 2018 bikes. In this clip from Motorsport.tv’s The Flying Lap, technical expert Craig Scarborough explains why a
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren is determined to avoid having a “peaky” 2018 Formula 1 design and is focusing on making its new car’s handling user-friendly for Fernando Alonso and Stoffel Vandoorne. Reigning champion Mercedes admitted its “diva” 2017 chassis was hard to get consistent