Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. World Rally Championship regular Mads Ostberg has confirmed he will contest this year’s WRC 2 Pro series – which supports the main WRC category – in a Citroen C3 R5. Ostberg contested eight world championship rounds with the Citroen factory
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Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Red Bull “found a way” to reinvigorate Adrian Newey’s Formula 1 motivation and has been helped in part by the team’s switch to Honda, says Helmut Marko. Newey is Red Bull’s chief technical officer but his direct F1 responsibility had
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. X-raid Mini driver Stephane Peterhansel headed the seventh stage of the 2019 Dakar Rally, reclaiming second place overall thanks to a technical issue for Sebastien Loeb. Loeb – already trailing Toyota’s Nasser Al Attiyah in the overall order – gave
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost says his team is willing to take more Formula 1 grid penalties in 2019 in order to help Red Bull now both use Honda engines. Last year Toro Rosso drivers Pierre Gasly and Brendon Hartley
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Stephane Peterhansel says his hopes of a 14th Dakar Rally victory are “slipping away” after losing more than 20 minutes on Sunday’s sixth stage. The X-raid Mini driver got stuck while turning around to help team-mate Nani Roma, a stoppage
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ducati has “three good candidates” to partner Andrea Dovizioso at its works MotoGP team in 2020, according to sporting director Paolo Ciabatti. Danilo Petrucci was promoted from satellite team Pramac to replace Jorge Lorenzo at the factory outfit this year
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Haas team principal Gunther Steiner reckons there would be no point in him staying in Formula 1 longer-term if his squad never had a chance of challenging the top three. The current grid features such a gulf of performance between
A fully paid drive in the NASCAR Whelen Euro Series is the prize for the winner of a new championship for 2019. The V6 Euro Pickup Series will use four-litre, 350bhp machines that were previously raced, with Ford Mondeo bodies, in the Benelux Racing League Series. The pickups will be centrally run by Total Motorsport.
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb’s long-time co-driver Daniel Elena says he is so incensed by the inaccurate roadbook on the 2019 Dakar Rally he would be prepared to quit the event. Nine-time World Rally Championship-winning duo Loeb and Elena lie fourth overall at
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 technical expert Pat Symonds reckons overtaking would “only have got worse” without simpler front wings for this season, but has warned fans not to expect a “transformational” change. This year’s rule changes will introduce simplified front wings and
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sebastien Loeb picked up his third stage win of the 2019 Dakar Rally as the event resumed on Sunday, while Nasser Al-Attiyah extended his advantage at the front. Toyota driver Al-Attiyah (pictured above) controlled the majority of the 193-mile Arequipa-San
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Max Verstappen’s progress has moved him clear of his ex-Formula 1 team-mate Daniel Ricciardo in both qualifying and race trim, according to Helmut Marko. Verstappen and Ricciardo were broadly equal in their time together at Red Bull from early 2016
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Autosport can reveal that over the last two months Toyota has been planning for the eventuality that two-time Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso will decide to contest the Dakar Rally. Alonso – who won the Le Mans 24 Hours with
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Sergio Perez says Racing Point’s promising Formula 1 future was one of the decisive factors in him ruling out a move to rival McLaren. The Mexican was one of several drivers on McLaren’s shortlist to replace for Stoffel Vandoorne for
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. M-Sport World Rally Championship team principal Richard Millener says there is “no reason” the team cannot continue to operate at the same level as in 2018 despite Sebastien Ogier’s departure. Millener has stepped up to the role of team principal
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. McLaren is confident that two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso’s departure will not leave it without a proper benchmark to gauge the competitiveness of its car. Alonso has elected to step away from F1 for 2019 in the wake
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Citroen team principal Pierre Budar has said his team ‘has to win’ the 2019 World Rally Championship after acquiring the services of six-time world champion Sebastien Ogier. Citroen has not won a WRC title since the full-time exit of Sebastien
2:46 PM ET Max Verstappen attended this weekend’s Formula E race in Morocco as part of the punishment handed down to him for an altercation with Esteban Ocon at last year’s Brazilian Grand Prix. The FIA said Verstappen was at the Marrakesh E-Prix — the second race of the all-electric series’ current season — “as
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Formula 1 technical expert Pat Symonds has warned it would be “all too easy” for rulemakers to slash downforce levels and fail to improve racing. As F1 evaluates ways to create a better spectacle following criticism that cars are too
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Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ott Tanak says he is now prepared for a World Rally Championship title tilt off the back of his form in his “rookie” year with Toyota in 2018. Tanak was brought into WRC by M-Sport, spending several years with the
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Renault’s Cyril Abiteboul believes Formula 1’s smaller outfits will be helped by the distraction of top teams needing to make redundancies after the planned 2021 budget cap is introduced. Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull currently have a clear advantage because
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Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. PH Sport Peugeot driver Sebastien Loeb dominated the gruelling fifth stage of the 2019 Dakar Rally, as leader Nasser Al-Attiyah pulled away from Stephane Peterhansel. Loeb completed 519 kilometres between Tacna and Arequipa in just under five hours to pick
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Retired 2003 Champ Car title winner Paul Tracy will make a return to racing next month, sharing a Ford Mustang run by MARC Cars at the Bathurst 12 Hour. Tracy, who is one of the most successful Indycar drivers of
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Ferrari made the “wrong decision” picking Mattia Binotto to replace Maurizio Arrivabene as its Formula 1 team principal, says former technical director Gary Anderson. Binotto took charge of Ferrari’s engine development after its dismal performance at the start of F1’s
6:28 PM ET Associated Press LIMA, Peru — Sebastien Loeb and former champion Sam Sunderland came back into contention halfway through the Dakar Rally by winning the fifth stage on Friday. Loeb drove the race’s longest stage from Tacna back north to Arequipa masterfully, pulling away about 200 kilometers into the 517-kilometer course to win
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Maverick Vinales says he has requested that Yamaha’s 2019 MotoGP bike is made smaller, because the existing M1 is too big for him. In his first two seasons as a Yamaha rider, Vinales has been riding a bike designed primarily
Get unlimited access for free You have only 5 articles remaining to view this month. Thirteen-time Dakar Rally winner Stephane Peterhansel says electrical problems led to the “rookie error” that cost him the best part of 20 minutes on the second stage in Peru. Peterhansel was left stranded on a dune after being distracted by