Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robin Frijns, Stuart Leonard, and Dries Vanthoor won the 2018 Bathurst 12 Hour, after the race was declared early due to a massive final-stint crash. Frijns led the field during a final hour economy test, building to a tense showdown in
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault intends to beat top Formula 1 teams Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull to the world championship with “85% of their capability and resources”, according to team boss Cyril Abiteboul. Renault is engaged in an ongoing redevelopment of its works F1
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hafizh Syahrin looks set for imminent confirmation as Jonas Folger’s substitute at Tech3 Yamaha for the 2018 MotoGP season, after the Malaysian rider was officially replaced on the Moto2 grid. Tech3 has been in a frantic search for a new rider
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The takeaway lessons from Sebastien Ogier’s victory in the 2018 World Rally Championship-opening Monte Carlo Rally are demonstrated in this clip from the latest episode of Motorsport.tv’s The Flying Lap. Autosport Rallies Editor David Evans joins host Peter Windsor to explain
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lance Stroll says he will not miss having Felipe Massa as a Formula 1 team-mate, as he received ‘no guidance whatsoever’ from him during their time together at Williams. After being drafted back in at late notice to replace Mercedes-bound Valtteri
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Seven grands prix in the 2018 MotoGP season are set to be shortened in distance, Autosport has learned. This decision has been taken following suggestions by some riders in the Safety Commission, where discussions over excessive race lengths had been taking
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Supercars star Chaz Mostert put Schnitzer BMW on pole for the Bathurst 12 Hour, the opening round of the 2018 Intercontinental GT Challenge. Mostert ran second to last in the top 10 shootout after being second fastest in the initial qualifying
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar will trial its first attempt at a cockpit protection system by fitting a windscreen to the 2018 car at the Phoenix open test next week. Chip Ganassi Racing’s Scott Dixon will test the device during the rookie oval testing day
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Petter Solberg is chasing a return to the World Rally Championship after testing Volkswagen’s Polo GTI R5 last week. The 2003 world champion completed almost 200 miles of running in northern Sweden, emerging from the Polo intending to contest a full
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jimmie Johnson says he “never worked so hard in my life to get such little return” as he did in the failed defence of his seventh NASCAR Cup series title. Johnson is the only Cup driver to have made the playoffs
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Last year’s WRC Trophy champion Jourdan Serderidis will step up to a Ford Fiesta WRC for two rounds of the 2018 World Rally Championship with M-Sport. The 54-year-old Greek privateer will pilot a Fiesta WRC at Rally Germany in August and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The 2018 Formula 1 car launches later this month are likely to further stoke the backlash against the halo. The FIA’s decision to make the cockpit protection system mandatory from this year led to an outcry promptly largely by the device’s
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Casey Stoner says he “expected more” from fellow MotoGP world champion Jorge Lorenzo in his debut season with Ducati last year. Lorenzo made a high-profile switch from Yamaha to Ducati for 2017, but he struggled to adapt to the Italian machine,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo says Max Verstappen is the only Formula 1 team-mate he has had so far that he feels can challenge him. They have been paired up at Red Bull since Verstappen was promoted from junior squad Toro Rosso
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes non-executive chairman Niki Lauda wants Formula 1 to reverse its decision to stop using grid girls at grands prix. F1 owner Liberty Media announced earlier this week that it was dropping the tradition of using grid girls because the concept
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes Formula 1 team principal Toto Wolff says that Lewis Hamilton’s contract renewal is “just a matter of time” ahead of his current deal expiring at the end of this season. Wolff said he had no worries that Hamilton would be
The FIA’s definitive 2018 Formula 1 entry list has formally confirmed the race numbers of this year‘s rookie drivers and new official names for four teams. Formula 2 champion Charles Leclerc has chosen #16 for his debut with Sauber, while Williams signing Sergey Sirotkin will run with #35 on his Williams. As expected Aston Martin
PSA Group CEO Carlos Tavares has rubbished suggestions that reducing Citroen’s budget will affect its chances of winning World Rally Championship titles. Sources close to the French team suggest budgets were slashed last year and Tavares insists he wants to see the money available being put to better use. Tavares, who has more than 35
Formula 1 race winner Rubens Barrichello is recovering well in hospital following a health scare last weekend. The Brazilian, who won races for Ferrari and Brawn in a career that spanned 322 grand prix starts, said he felt unwell on Saturday after suffering a severe headache. Speaking from his hospital bed in a message posted
Leading NASCAR Cup drivers say the new ‘Hawkeye’ technical inspection will level the playing field in 2018. The new system, which scans the car with lasers and compares information to computer-aided drawings provided by each of NASCAR’s manufacturers, was trialled at four races last year. Now designed to find illegalities in 90 seconds using 16
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 chiefs have announced there will be a shake-up of the weekend schedule this year, as predicted by Autosport last week, with many European races now starting at 3.10pm. As Liberty sets about its overhaul of grand prix racing, F1
Toyota driver Ott Tanak has revealed he effectively retired from the World Rally Championship when first dropped by M-Sport. Tanak was shown the door by Malcolm Wilson’s team after a turbulent 2012 season (pictured above) and has admitted he turned his back on the WRC at that point. “In 2013 I had no plans to
Tech3 Yamaha team principal Herve Poncharal admits he is “struggling” to find a sufficiently “exciting” replacement for the unwell Jonas Folger for the 2018 MotoGP season. The team drafted in former Aspar and Pramac Ducati rider Yonny Hernandez for the opening test of the year at Sepang, but the Colombian has a contract to race
Upgrade for free today You have 10 articles remaining to view this month. Matthieu Vaxiviere has been named as the latest addition to the R-Motorsport Aston Martin squad for this year’s Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup. The French driver, who won five races in Formula Renault 3.5 and its Formula V8 3.5 successor, switched from
McLaren chiefs have admitted keeping expectations under control will be one of their biggest challenges for the 2018 Formula 1 season. The switch to Renault power has lifted McLaren’s hopes after three years of frustration with Honda engines. But although the team has set sights on podium finishes and even victories, racing director Eric Boullier
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jorge Lorenzo reckons Ducati’s 2018 bike can still be significantly improved, despite the Spaniard topping the Sepang MotoGP pre-season test with a fastest ever lap of the Malaysian circuit. Lorenzo set an unofficial new lap record at the Malaysian circuit on
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kurt Busch says young talents in the NASCAR Cup series are getting a “free pass” to become superstars because their lack of success does not warrant such promotion. NASCAR’s increasing push to promote the personalities of young drivers in the face
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 chiefs have announced that the championship will end the tradition of using grid girls from the 2018 season. The move will apply to all support events at grands prix as well as F1, and comes as part of Liberty
A new behind-the-scenes Amazon documentary on McLaren has revealed there were genuine fears Fernando Alonso would quit during 2017 Formula 1 pre-season testing and that the team would ‘collapse’. The series ‘Grand Prix Driver’, which is narrated by Michael Douglas and produced by Manish Pandey, a BAFTA winner for his involvement in the Senna film,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Tech3 rider Johann Zarco will use the 2016 Yamaha chassis again at the next MotoGP test, having swapped back to it for the final day of this week’s Sepang running. As Yamaha’s satellite team, Tech3 traditionally runs the previous season’s chassis