Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. New Ed Carpenter Racing driver Jordan King says he needed reassurance from former GP2 team-mate Alexander Rossi about switching to IndyCar for 2018. The pair were GP2 team-mates at Racing Engineering in 2015, before Rossi made his switch to IndyCar full-time
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kimi Raikkonen’s race engineer David Greenwood has left Ferrari ahead of the 2018 Formula 1 season. Greenwood joined Ferrari for 2015, having held the role of chief engineer at Marussia, and has spent the last three seasons working with Raikkonen. He
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cyril Despres moved into the 2018 Dakar Rally lead by leading an all-Peugeot top three on the second stage. After Saturday’s 19-mile opener, the second timed stage – a 166-mile loop that started and concluded near small Peruvian town Pisco –
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso driver Pierre Gasly says his Formula 1 break should encourage young drivers by showing it is not “all about money”. The 21-year-old Frenchman gets his first full F1 campaign with Red Bull’s junior outfit Toro Rosso this year. He
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Danica Patrick admits it is taking longer than she would like to find drives for her planned career finale in the 2018 Daytona 500 and the Indianapolis 500. Patrick announced her retirement from full-time racing at NASCAR’s Homestead finale in November
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati is prepared for a “difficult negotiation” to retain Andrea Dovizioso for the 2019 MotoGP season, according to the team’s sporting director Paolo Ciabatti. Dovizioso enjoyed a breakthrough campaign with Ducati in 2017, winning six grands prix and taking the championship
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb has described his start to the 2018 Dakar Rally as “terrible” after brake problems left the Peugeot driver down in 29th place overall. The nine-time World Rally champion lost his brakes in the first two miles of the short
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes had to do more analysis than ever before to understand its “diva” 2017 Formula 1 car, and admits it was “pretty confused” amid early defeats to Ferrari. Though Mercedes ultimately claimed a fourth consecutive F1 championship double, it trailed Ferrari
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two-time Dakar Rally winner Nasser Al-Attiyah topped the opening Lima-Pisco stage of the 2018 event, as Sebastien Loeb struggled with an early brake problem. Al-Attiyah completed the timed section of the stage in 21m51s in his four-wheel-drive Toyota Hilux car, and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota can beat Peugeot to 2018 Dakar Rally victory if it keeps up during the opening stages in Peru, reckons Toyota Gazoo Racing team principal Glyn Hall. The South Africa-based team is fielding the latest version of its four-wheel drive Toyota
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Aleix Espargaro says Aprilia may need to adjust its expectations for the 2018 MotoGP season after a turbulent campaign last year. In his first season with Aprilia, Espargaro finished 15th place in the championship standings, with a best result of sixth
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Haas Formula 1 team is open to a future rebranding, but has nothing on the horizon in the manner of fellow Ferrari customer Sauber’s new Alfa Romeo deal. Ferrari president Sergio Marchionne had long mooted both bringing the Alfa name
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Peugeot Sport director Bruno Famin says Dakar Rally rule changes banning maps in the cars are “unsportsmanlike” and a ploy to derail the pre-event favourite. Drivers were previously only prohibited from carrying ‘photographic satellite maps’, but are now banned from having
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner believes Pirelli’s revised range of Formula 1 tyres for 2018 will prevent the “worst scenario” of one-stop grands prix. Pirelli’s decision to expand from five to seven compounds for 2018 has generated adverse reaction from
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kris Meeke says his Citroen team is wrong to drop Craig Breen for the three World Rally Championship rounds Sebastien Loeb will contest in 2018. Nine-time WRC champion Loeb, who tested twice with Citroen last season, returns to drive the factory
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Retired Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa says his former team Williams’s 2018 challenger looks “more aggressive” than its predecessor. Massa raced for Williams for the past four years, taking podiums in 2014 and ’15 before the team’s form declined and it
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Suzuki’s rival MotoGP manufacturers have expressed their support of the rule that will allow the squad to regain its technical concessions for 2018. After a difficult 2017 season in which it failed to score a single podium, Suzuki once again has
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-GP2 racer and single-seater journeyman Rene Binder will make his IndyCar debut in 2018 with Juncos Racing in a four-race deal. Binder, who won the last ever Formula V8 3.5 race in Bahrain last year, had targeted a move to IndyCar
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo says his Red Bull Formula 1 team-mate Max Verstappen has “matured a lot” over the past year and now has more respect for his rivals. Ricciardo finished 32 points clear of Verstappen in the drivers’ standings in 2017, but
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Daniel Ricciardo says his Red Bull Formula 1 team-mate Max Verstappen has “matured a lot” over the past year and now has more respect for his rivals. Ricciardo finished 32 points clear of Verstappen in the drivers’ standings in 2017, but
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India has named Nicholas Latifi as its reserve and test driver for the 2018 Formula 1 season. The 22-year-old will take part in young driver test sessions and “a number of Friday practice sessions” as part of the role. Latifi
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 has reported an increase in its television and digital audience and significant social media growth during 2017 compared to the previous season. F1 said the cumulative audience, which is the aggregate of the average audience of all F1 programming
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Yamaha would choose Valentino Rossi’s Team VR46 operation over Tech3 as its sole MotoGP satellite squad if given the option in future, claims Herve Poncharal. Rossi, who turns 39 in February and is out of contract after this season, has been
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Two-time MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner will return to action when he tests for Ducati at the Sepang circuit later this month. The Australian, who last rode the Italian manufacturer’s bike at Valencia in September last year, will join fellow test
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergio Perez and Esteban Ocon have matured enough to be allowed to race each other again in Formula 1, according to Force India’s chief operating officer Otmar Szafnauer. Perez and Ocon were under team orders not to fight each other on
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 2 driver Jordan King will join Ed Carpenter Racing for the road and street course races in the 2018 IndyCar Series. Sometime Manor Formula 1 test driver King, who spent 2017 in F2 with MP Motorsport, will race in 11
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Nurburgring is in discussions with Formula 1 bosses regarding a return to the calendar in 2019. Ongoing financial challenges and a change of ownership has prevented the circuit from hosting F1 grands prix since 2013. But when Mirco Markfort took
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari’s final step back to becoming a Formula 1 world champion again will be the hardest, admits Sebastian Vettel. Though Ferrari made a huge improvement in 2017 to go from a winless ’16 F1 season to challenging Mercedes for the title,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Mercedes Formula 1 team says its engine will always be pushed to the limit of reliability, even as rules on power unit use become more restrictive in 2018. Mercedes produced the most reliable engine in F1 in 2017, with world
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Four-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez will need to adopt a lower risk riding style in future or could eventually suffer a bad injury, says grand prix motorcycling legend Kevin Schwantz. Marquez suffered 27 crashes in 2017, more than any other rider