Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Newly-crowned NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr has admitted he was not a good enough driver to win the title before joining Furniture Row Racing in 2014. Though he was a double champion in what is now the Xfinity Series,
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Jean Todt will be unchallenged in next month’s FIA presidential election, meaning he is now guaranteed to stay on board for a third term in the role. The Frenchman announced back in May that he intended to stand for another four-year
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Staying with Honda will “always be” four-time MotoGP champion Marc Marquez’s preferred choice over switching to a rival manufacturer, according to his manager Emilio Alzamora. Marquez secured his fourth premier class title in five years this season, and has only competed
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen says it could not match Sebastien Ogier’s other offers for the 2018 World Rally Championship season. Five-time WRC champion Ogier was originally a Citroen protege but left the team at the end of the 2011 season amid a fractious relationship
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Force India’s COO Otmar Szafnauer has questioned the push Formula 1 engine standardisation in 2021 by warning against ideas to “dumb down” the power unit. The proposed rules package is aimed at bringing engines closer together, by introducing standard parts and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. X-raid has unveiled an all-new Mini John Cooper Works Buggy that will contest the 2018 Dakar Rally alongside its regular four-wheel-drive machine. Three of the buggies will be entered in the January 6-20 event across Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. Former World
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren will make a 25-year-old Dutch karting champion an official simulator driver after he won the first edition of the Formula 1 team’s World’s Fastest Gamer eSports competition. Rudy van Buren beat his compatriot Freek Schothorst in the final round of
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Rally Australia is under pressure to shift away from its Coffs Harbour base and from its position as the final round on the World Rally Championship calendar. Despite improved spectator numbers for the New South Wales event, the teams and WRC
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sauber is poised to reveal its 2018 line-up at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, as rumours swirl it could bring the Alfa Romeo name back to Formula 1 with Ferrari. With Sauber keen to forge closer ties with Ferrari, it has
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Scott Redding says he expected Aprilia’s MotoGP bike to be “easier to ride” than the Ducati he has switched from and finds it “very demanding”. Former Pramac Ducati rider Redding is replacing Sam Lowes at Aprilia for 2018. Redding ended last
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb’s return to the World Rally Championship now looks likely to begin with Rally Mexico 2018. The nine-time WRC champion has been linked to a part-time programme in the series since testing a Citroen C3 WRC on asphalt and gravel
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren is developing a new GT3 racer based on its latest 720S sportscar in-house for 2019. The 720S GT3 built by McLaren Motorsport will replace the 650S developed by the CRS organisation that traded under the McLaren GT name. McLaren Automotive
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Kevin Magnussen says that his reputation as a ‘bad boy’ among Formula 1 drivers has become a joke within the Haas team. Magnussen’s aggressive tactics on track have caused controversy at times this year, and he famously told Nico Hulkenberg to
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The FIA has returned Manor Racing’s entry fee for the 2017 Formula 1 season as a “gesture of goodwill” towards the debts of the now defunct outfit. Manor paid the fee of $522,322 (£394,741), which including the additional $6,194 (£4,681) for
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch says Joey Logano’s repeated blocking ruined his chances of a second NASCAR Cup Series title at the Homestead season finale. Busch was eventual winner Martin Truex Jr’s biggest championship threat in the closing laps, despite an
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The Garage 59 McLaren factory squad that won the Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup in 2016 will return to the championship next year. Garage 59, which is run by the independent McLaren GT operation that has developed the British marque’s GT3
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Christian Horner hopes engine supplier Renault does not have a “Scrapheap Challenge” task on its hands in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. With the 2017 F1 season nearing its end, and Renault’s factory focus on
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. The new fairing Yamaha introduced in the Valencia MotoGP test shows banning winglets last year was “a farce” designed to hamper Ducati, says Andrea Dovizioso. MotoGP banned aerodynamic winglets, which had been pioneered by Ducati, at the end of 2016 on
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toyota-bound M-Sport driver Ott Tanak has admitted focusing too much on getting his first World Rally Championship event win cost him a 2017 title shot. Tanak has promised to adopt a fresh approach when he joins Toyota in 2018. He feels
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Michael Shank Racing could run a part-time 2018 IndyCar season in partnership with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports and fielding 2012 British Formula 3 champion Jack Harvey. Harvey made his IndyCar debut in 2017 at the Indianapolis 500 with a Shank co-entry run
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. With Lando Norris confirmed as McLaren’s 2018 Formula 1 reserve driver and George Russell potentially in line for a similar role with Force India, Britain’s future F1 prospects look good. Norris’s new role came after he won the European Formula 3
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. One-time NASCAR Cup Series champion Brad Keselowski says Toyota’s dominance in the 2017 season was “like Formula 1”. Toyota made a surprise introduction of a new Camry for this season with an eye to improving aerodynamic performance, while Ford made small
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. FIA GT World Cup winner Edoardo Mortara says his Macau race start strategy was “pretty stupid” after running into a barrier while trying to sprint away from Augusto Farfus. The Mercedes driver started Sunday’s race from pole having won the qualifying
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Martin Truex Jr became the 2017 NASCAR Cup champion by fending off Kyle Busch to win a tense finale at Homestead. Furniture Row Toyota driver Truex took control of the first part of the race’s final stint and initially built a
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Zandvoort could realistically host a Formula 1 race from 2020, according to one of the Dutch circuit’s co-owners. A feasibility study into the former Dutch Grand Prix venue hosting F1 again was completed last week on behalf of the track and
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Lewis Hamilton says his Brazilian Grand Prix charge has underlined to him that ‘flawed’ Formula 1 regulations are hampering overtaking. Hamilton started from the pitlane and finished fourth at Interlagos, making 10 passing moves along the way. But he believes that
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Honda feels its Formula 1 engine is approaching a “decent level” after an “encouraging performance” in the Brazilian Grand Prix, where Fernando Alonso criticised the manufacturer again. McLaren-Honda driver Alonso qualified an impressive seventh and finished eighth to score points in
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Edoardo Mortara claimed his fourth GT victory in Macau in a fascinating FIA GT World Cup race. The Mercedes driver started on pole after winning the qualifying race on Saturday and was never headed as he beat the charging pair of
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thierry Neuville won the final round of the 2017 World Rally Championship as his closest challenger, Jari-Matti Latvala, crashed out of second place on Rally Australia’s Power Stage. Neuville beat Ott Tanak, who jumped into second place after Latvala’s error, by
Upgrade for free today You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. William Byron claimed the NASCAR Xfinity championship in his rookie season by holding off JR Motorsports team-mate Elliott Sadler for a third place finish at Homestead. Teenager Byron, who will replace Kasey Kahne at Hendrick Motorsports in the Cup series next