Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlos Munoz will return to Andretti Autosport, the squad for which he has twice finished second in the Indianapolis 500, to drive a sixth car in the 2018 race. While racing for Andretti in Indy Lights in 2013, Munoz qualified and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Dries Vanthoor has emulated his brother Laurens by becoming an Audi factory driver. The 19-year-old Belgian, who has raced Audi GT3 machinery for the past two years, has been named as one of two newcomers on the German manufacturer’s GT driver
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari will launch its 2018 Formula 1 car on February 22, four days before pre-season testing starts at Barcelona. The Italian team enjoyed a resurgence in fortunes this year, bouncing back from a disappointing, winless 2016 campaign to take five grand
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales says he thought being Yamaha MotoGP team-mate to multiple champion Valentino Rossi would be harder than it proved to be. Vinales switched to Yamaha for the 2017 season after two years with Suzuki and rapidly established himself as pre-season
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mercedes is close to to producing a Formula 1 engine that can deliver a power output of 1000bhp, according to its engine boss Andy Cowell. Mercedes has dominated F1’s V6 turbo hybrid era, clinching four successive double world championships. Power unit
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Graham Rahal says his Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing team had to expand to two cars for the 2018 IndyCar season because of the challenge posed by the new aerokit. Rahal was the team’s sole driver for the last five seasons, winning
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former 250cc racer Alex Debon has joined the coaching team of Ducati MotoGP rider Jorge Lorenzo for 2018.
Triple MotoGP champion Lorenzo endured a difficult first season with Ducati in 2017, finishing a lowly seventh in the championship and scoring
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The ways in which the Formula 1 halo will be developed by teams for aerodynamic reasons in 2018 are revealed in the latest video from Motorsport.tv’s The Flying Lap. Technical analyst Craig Scarborough interviews grand prix winning aerodynamicist Willem Toet, who
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull boss Christian Horner says Max Verstappen’s capacity to cope with difficult moments was the most impressive aspect of the Dutch driver’s 2017 Formula 1 season. Verstappen endured a run of poor reliability that cost him several potential podium finishes
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault Formula 1 advisor Alain Prost says that the French marque’s deal to supply McLaren engines in 2018 will create “positive pressure” on the works team. Some observers have questioned why Renault would want to supply its power unit to another
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales admits he was too easily swayed by the opinions of others within the Yamaha MotoGP squad and that he should have been “stricter” with his team this year. Pre-season favourite Vinales raced into an early championship lead with three
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari driver Kimi Raikkonen says he still has the hunger to win again in Formula 1 as he starts to prepare for his 16th season. The 2007 F1 world champion has not won a race since the 2013 Australian Grand Prix,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull Formula 1 advisor Helmut Marko says Daniil Kvyat was more naturally talented than new Toro Rosso drivers Brendon Hartley and Pierre Gasly but “lost his speed”. Kvyat was dropped from the Red Bull driver programme and Toro Rosso before
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams will wait until January to make an announcement on the identity of Lance Stroll’s team-mate for the 2018 Formula 1 season, Autosport has learned. Sergey Sirotkin is the favourite to get the drive, having fended off competition from Robert Kubica,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Esteban Ocon says he made a “massive improvement” over the course of the 2017 Formula 1 season as he pushed experienced Force India team-mate Sergio Perez close. Ocon scored points in 18 of the 20 grands prix and finished just one
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Bentley has announced Spa 24 Hours winner Jules Gounon as the replacement for Oliver Jarvis in the team’s Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup and Intercontinental GT Challenge line-ups for 2018. The son of nine-time grand prix starter Jean-Marc, Gounon partnered Markus
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Robert Wickens says having minimal experience of IndyCar before the new universal aerokit will help him quickly adapt in 2018, following his first test of the new package. Wickens ended his DTM career after Mercedes’ decision to quit the championship at
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Herve Poncharal has admitted that his satellite MotoGP outfit Tech3 beating the factory Yamahas on several occasions this season created some “uncomfortable” situations. Works riders Maverick Vinales and Valentino Rossi both endured a frustrating 2017 campaign, while rookie Johann Zarco shone
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Mads Ostberg says he would be prepared to step down to the World Rally Championship’s WRC2 class next year in order to get his career back on track. The former Citroen and M-Sport factory driver started the 2017 season late and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa says his former team Williams is on a ‘financial path’ with the decision over its 2018 driver line-up. Massa announced his retirement for the second year in a row towards the end of the 2017 season,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault must avoid putting itself in situations where so much is at stake in the final race of the season in future, claims its Formula 1 managing director Cyril Abiteboul. The French manufacturer moved ahead of Toro Rosso to claim sixth
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso technical director James Key says the switch from Renault to Honda Formula 1 engines for 2018 is not straightforward because of the way the two power units are designed. The different locations of the turbo compressors mean that fitting
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Felipe Massa would have won Formula 1’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix if a failure on the damper system had not locked his Williams car’s rear suspension solid, according to Paddy Lowe. Massa was running third in June’s race, having started ninth, when
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Eric Boullier admits he was concerned staff would leave McLaren when it became clear in pre-season Formula 1 testing that Honda would struggle for third successive year. Honda had revamped its engine design over the winter, but a problem with the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leading female racing drivers have called the appointment of former Lotus Formula 1 development driver Carmen Jorda to the FIA’s Women in Motorsport Commission “incredibly disheartening” and “a backwards step”. Jorda had recently attracted controversy with comments to the effect that
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India goes into next season with greater understanding of its new car than ever before thanks to work done during the 2017 Formula 1 season. Technical director Andrew Green, in an interview with Motorsport.tv’s The Flying Lap, said the same
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Carlin team boss Trevor Carlin says the team’s new IndyCar programme means it can offer drivers a clear career ladder from 2018 onwards. The British team announced on Tuesday that it would step up to IndyCar from 2018. That move marks
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP race winner and three-time World Superbike champion Troy Bayliss will return to full-time competition at the age of 48 in the 2018 Australian Superbike Championship. Bayliss will ride a Ducati 1299 Panigale R Final Edition for the DesmoSport squad he
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ex-Formula 1 driver Timo Glock will make a second attempt at the Bathurst 12 Hour GT race with BMW in 2018. DTM frontrunner Glock and 2016 Spa 24 Hours winner Philipp Eng will join four-time Bathurst 1000 winner Steve Richards in
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One-time NASCAR Cup champion and 2017 Daytona 500 winner Kurt Busch has confirmed his renewal with Stewart-Haas Racing for the 2018 season, as predicted by Autosport. Busch has driven SHR’s #41 car since 2014 and has qualified for the end of