Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Busch believes NASCAR’s push to boost younger drivers’ popularity is “stupid”. With the likes of Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr retiring in recent years, plus Danica Patrick only contesting this season’s Daytona 500 before
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. NASCAR Cup champion Kyle Busch believes NASCAR’s push to boost younger drivers’ popularity is “stupid”. With the likes of Jeff Gordon, Tony Stewart and Dale Earnhardt Jr retiring in recent years, plus Danica Patrick only contesting this season’s Daytona 500 before
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Romain Grosjean feels like he could race in Formula 1 until he turns 40. The 31-year-old has completed six full seasons in F1, following a short stint with Renault, and has a contract to continue with Haas for a third season
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz admits his cross-country rally stint with Peugeot would have ended with a “bad taste” if he failed to score a Dakar win for himself. Sainz, who won his first Dakar in 2010 with Volkswagen, joined Peugeot ahead of its
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The McLaren MP4/8A driven by Ayrton Senna to his final Monaco Grand Prix win in the 1993 Formula 1 season is to be auctioned by Bonhams in May. Senna used this car – chassis number six – to claim his sixth
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sauber team boss Frederic Vasseur is “scared” that a Formula 1 cost cap could leave it open to ridicule because of potential difficulties in policing it. Although Sauber would be one of the main beneficiaries of any move to cut the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new NASCAR ‘roval’ layout at Charlotte Motor Speedway has been altered with changes expected to make lap times 10-15 seconds quicker. The infield course will become the third non-oval on the NASCAR Cup schedule this year, and the first to
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pramac MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci says the 2018 season will be his last with the satellite Ducati team. The 27-year-old agreed a one-year extension to his contract last year despite being courted by Aprilia as it sought a replacement for Sam
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danica Patrick has secured a seat for her final NASCAR Cup race at the 2018 Daytona 500, leaving her with just an Indianapolis 500 ride to find. Patrick will drive for Premier Motorsports in its #7 Chevrolet and will be reunited
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A new six-hour endurance race will take place at Monza for the first time this March. The Targa 6H Monza on March 10 will be an all-comers race open to GT3 and GT4 machinery, TCR touring cars and Group CN prototypes.
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The WRT Audi team will slim down its attack on the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup this season in a bid to win an eighth title in the championship. The Belgian team, which has won three drivers’ and four teams’ titles
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault Formula 1 driver Carlos Sainz will make his rallying debut at this week’s World Rally Championship season-opener in Monte Carlo. The 23-year-old will drive one of the organisers’ Renault Megane R.S. course cars through the 8.5-mile Col de Braus powerstage
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault needs to look at options for using its customer teams to get its Academy drivers into Formula 1, says managing director Cyril Abiteboul. For 2018, Renault has seven up-and-coming drivers in its Sport Academy set-up, with ART Grand Prix Formula
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren and Renault will pose a “significant” threat to Force India in the 2018 Formula 1 constructors’ battle, according to the team’s deputy team principal Bob Fernley. Force India secured fourth in the constructors’ championship for the second successive year in
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. In our first ever MotoGP Mailbag, series correspondent ORIOL PUIGDEMONT answers the questions you’ve sent in over the past week How long can Valentino Rossi still carry on in MotoGP? I guess a lot depends on the quality of the 2018
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s team of specialists tasked with shaping the future direction of the championship are focusing on improving three areas of car performance – aerodynamics, engines and suspension. F1 is keen to boost its audience and increase engagement with fans, and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Hayden Paddon will contest five national rallies at home in New Zealand to stay sharp in gaps in his seven-round World Rally Championship programme with Hyundai. Paddon is sharing Hyundai’s third i20 Coupe WRC with Dani Sordo this season while Thierry
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas probably hurt itself in the 2017 Formula 1 season by switching focus to its ’18 car too early, team principal Gunther Steiner has admitted. At the championship’s halfway point, Haas sat seventh in the constructors’ standings – four points behind
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Formula 1 Strategy Group has at last come up with a sensible solution to the problem of a driver’s weight with a ballasted minimum weight of 80kg. This is something I have been advocating for years because it just isn’t
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dakar winner Carlos Sainz believes his son, Formula 1 racer Carlos Jr, took “revenge” on him this month for all the advice he has given him during his single-seater career. Sainz Sr has been a regular fixture at his son’s side
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki will reward three of its Superbike riders, including former MotoGP race winner Toni Elias, with a chance to test its GSX-RR in Sepang next week. Along with MotoAmerica champion Elias, Michael Dunlop and Josh Waters will also be present in
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 teams have agreed to push through bodywork changes for 2019 aimed at giving them better space for sponsorship logos. In recent seasons sponsorship considerations have become more of a factor in discussions about bodywork. At last week’s Strategy Group
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rally legend Carlos Sainz has scored his second Dakar victory in the 2018 edition of the event. Two-time World Rally champion Sainz had not finished any of the prior three Dakars he had contested as a Peugeot works driver, yet 2018
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams expects new Formula 1 signing Sergey Sirotkin to be with the team for “many years ahead” following the multi-year deal that landed him a race seat for 2018. Sirotkin beat several contenders – including grand prix winner and now-Williams reserve
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA is finalising plans for the introduction of a minimum F1 driver weight in 2019, ensuring heavier drivers are no longer penalised. A minimum of 80kg will be established for the driver and his seat, including specially marked ballast that
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pairing Valtteri Bottas alongside Lewis Hamilton has changed the way the Mercedes Formula 1 team thinks about internal rivalries between its drivers, according to team boss Toto Wolff. Mercedes had a difficult time managing the dynamic between Hamilton and 2016 F1
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Sainz has edged closer to his second Dakar Rally victory, but his Peugeot team is set to miss out on a one-two finish following a penultimate stage crash for Stephane Peterhansel. Peterhansel was 45 minutes behind Sainz and 20 clear
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar racer and ex-grand prix driver Sebastien Bourdais has hit back at claims by Haas Formula 1 team boss Gunther Steiner that there are no American drivers ready to compete in Formula 1. American team Haas joined the F1 grid in
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danica Patrick says she became so “sad and negative” about her racing career last year that she’s looking forward to her life beyond racing once she retires after the Indianapolis 500. Speaking in a two-hour interview on this week’s Joe Rogan
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Motorsport legend Sir Stirling Moss has announced that he is to retire from public life at the age of 88 following the serious illness he suffered in 2016. Moss – widely renowned as the best driver never to win the Formula