Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar is considering an overhaul of the qualifying points system at the Indianapolis 500. At present all 33 Indy 500 qualifiers earn points, starting with 42 for the polesitter. That compares to the usual single point for pole at other races.
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Pascal Wehrlein has delivered “exceptional” performances and deserves a place in Formula 1, according to Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff. Mercedes protege Wehrlein is unlikely to be on the F1 grid next year after losing his Sauber seat to Formula 2
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Seventeen-year-old Kalle Rovanpera has been confirmed as the youngest factory driver in the World Rally Championship and will drive for Skoda in WRC2 in 2018. Skoda’s squad will be one of the youngest teams around next season with Ole Christian Veiby
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Leading British single-seater outfit Carlin has announced it will join IndyCar in 2018. Carlin has signed its former GP2 driver Max Chilton to partner his ex-Ganassi team-mate Charlie Kimball in its two-car line-up, while Chevrolet will be its engine supplier. The
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Former Honda Formula 1 chief Yusuke Hasegawa says it is a relief his firm’s troubled partnership with McLaren is over. McLaren grew increasingly frustrated this season as Honda struggled with performance and reliability in the third year of their deal. The
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Brendon Hartley admits he “crumbled” when he had his first shot at Formula 1 with Red Bull. Hartley, who made his grand prix debut this year and will race for Toro Rosso full-time next season, was
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. MotoGP promoter Dorna has revealed the supplier for the all-electric support class that will commence in 2019 and be known as the FIM Moto-e World Cup. Italian manufacturer Energica will be the supplier to the new championship, which is set to
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kurt Busch and Stewart-Haas Racing have agreed a one-year deal to keep the 2017 Daytona 500 winner on board for the ’18 NASCAR Cup season, Autosport has learned. In August SHR informed Busch it would not pick up the option on
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergey Sirotkin has emerged as the favourite to drive for Williams in 2018, with Robert Kubica no longer in the frame, Autosport has learned. Williams has spent the last week evaluating data gathering from the Abu Dhabi Pirelli test at Yas
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Axed Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Daniil Kvyat put himself under “unnecessary pressure” by taking too many risks during grand prix starts, according to team boss Franz Tost. Kvyat was demoted from the main Red Bull team to Toro Rosso last
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1’s tyre supplier Pirelli has announced the compounds that will be available for opening three grands prix of the 2018 season. From next year, Pirelli will choose from an expanded range of seven dry compounds, having added the hyper-soft and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Williams chief technical officer Paddy Lowe has conceded Force India outdeveloped his team after losing out in the battle for fourth in the 2017 Formula 1 constructors’ championship. Last year, Williams was ahead of Force India in fourth until September’s Italian
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Chip Ganassi driver Scott Dixon pinpoints the introduction of unified aerokits to IndyCar in 2018 as the biggest dynamic shift by the series in over five years. The new-for-2018 aerokit will be standard across Honda and Chevrolet teams next year, bringing
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. KTM MotoGP motorsport director Pit Beirer says dropping Bradley Smith for the 2018 season due to his poor results this year would have been “not fair”. Smith’s consistent failure to match team-mate Pol Espargaro during the season had generated speculation that
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel says those who moan about a lack of overtaking should calm down and accept that some Formula 1 grands prix will be boring. This week, Pirelli released data that showed the 2017 campaign was the worst for overtaking
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Porsche will mount its first full-season factory campaign in the history of the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup next year. The factory Manthey Racing squad will run a solo Porsche 911 GT-R in the BGTS enduros as part of an increased
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Nigel Mansell and the Williams FW14B delivered one of the most dominant seasons in Formula 1 history in 1992. Mansell won nine out of 16 grands prix, clinching the drivers’ title with five races to spare, while Williams also dominated the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says he expects to continue racing in Formula 1 until at least the end of 2020. The Mercedes driver fended off a stern challenging from Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel to clinch his fourth F1 world title with two races to
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Oliver Rowland’s management says it is in talks with Williams regarding a race seat for 2018, but the Formula 1 outfit denies that is the case. Williams is currently assessing its options for the second seat alongside Lance Stroll in 2018,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Michael Shank Racing and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports have confirmed a partnership that will run one-time British Formula 3 champion Jack Harvey in a partial 2018 IndyCar season. Harvey drove for SPM in the last two races of 2017 as the team
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Michael Shank Racing and Schmidt Peterson Motorsports have confirmed a partnership that will run former British Formula 3 champion Jack Harvey in four 2018 IndyCar races. Harvey drove for SPM in the last two races of 2017 as the team rotated
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton says he vowed after the Hungarian Grand Prix never to let Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas get ahead of him again. Hamilton was outqualified by Bottas at the Hungaroring, but was allowed to overtake in the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Richard Petty Motorsports will switch to Chevrolet from Ford for the 2018 NASCAR Cup Series and has announced a partnership with Richard Childress Racing. Chevrolet is introducing a new version of the Camaro next season after Toyota introduced its Camry this
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Cal Crutchlow claims he has “exactly the same speed” as 2017 MotoGP runner-up Andrea Dovizioso, and says he would have been “really close” to the Italian had they remained team-mates. Crutchlow spent two seasons alongside Dovizioso, first at the Tech3 Yamaha
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jean Todt has been re-elected as president of the FIA for a third and final term at the organisation’s General Assembly in Paris. The Frenchman, who first took up the role in 2009, stood unopposed and will now govern until the
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Volkswagen’s Polo GTi R5 World Rally Championship WRC2 car has been seen testing in public for the first time, with the German machine running in Wales through this week. The world’s latest R5 car, launched in Spain on Monday, was given
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull boss Christian Horner believes teams may go through two more years of falling prize money before an upswing in commercial benefit from Formula 1’s new owners Liberty Media. Liberty’s recent revelation that the prize money pot for teams had
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. A French teenager known as TX3_NEXL won the second season of the World Rally Championship eSports Grand Final, despite using a simple PS4 controller setup instead of a wheel configuration. The 18-year-old, who was narrowly denied a spot in the grand
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar team Schmidt Peterson Motorsports has cancelled its Indianapolis 500 partnership with ex-Formula 1 team co-owner Didier Calmels and former Champ Car driver Tristan Gommendy. Gommendy had been confirmed for a first attempt at the Indy 500 back in September after
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. IndyCar’s tyre supplier Firestone is set to ensure a greater difference between its two compounds and increase degradation for 2018. Firestone brought the gap between the black and red compound tyres closer for 2017 and the change led to races in