Kalle Rovanpera feels he could be ready for a full-time World Rally Championship seat by 2020, and Skoda would release him from his contract if he secures one. There is strong speculation that Rovanpera’s manager Timo Jouhki already has the 18-year-old’s future tied down in a long-term agreement with another of his former drivers –
Kimi Raikkonen reckons Sauber has all it needs to build a “great” Formula 1 car in 2019, after completing his first test on his return to the team. After a five-year second stint with Ferrari, Raikkonen is returning to the Sauber outfit where he made his F1 debut in 2001 on a multi-year deal. He
Nico Hulkenberg thinks he may have to “find another gear” in order to beat Daniel Ricciardo at the Renault Formula 1 team next season. The German ended the season with more ‘Class B’ victories than any other midfield runner and was the highest-placed driver behind the Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull contenders in the overall
11:10 PM ET Ed Jackson Supercars star David Reynolds will spearhead Erebus Motorsport’s return to the Bathurst 12-hour endurance race in 2019. Reynolds will join Luke Youlden and amateur driver Yasser Shahin to contest the Pro-Am class in a Mercedes AMG GT3 in the February race at Mount Panorama. Reynolds and Youlden paired up to
Troy Lee Design’s team mechanic, Colter Ahrens, takes us through a race week during the 2016 Lucas Oil Pro Motocross Championship. Shot 100% by Jarred Browne on the HERO4® camera from http://GoPro.com.
Take a lap around Road Atlanta with Robin Liddell in the No. 6 Stevenson Motorsports Audi R8 LMS GT3.
The FIA has provided more detail of the new structure for the World Rally Championship’s support series. The WRC 2 Pro Championship, aimed at the increasing number of R5 manufacturers, will allow drivers to take scores from eight rounds. The conventional WRC 2 Championship is for privateers and will have no minimum number of events.
Red Bull will need to instil a bit of “discipline” into Pierre Gasly for his 2019 Formula 1 promotion, according to Helmut Marko. Gasly will step up to the Red Bull senior team after one full season with its junior outfit Toro Rosso, having been picked to replace Renault-bound Daniel Ricciardo. The 22-year-old had to
9:51 AM ET Canadian Formula 2 driver Nicholas Latifi will join Williams as a reserve driver in 2019. Latifi joins the team from Force India, where he held the role of test and reserve driver this year. In his new role with Williams he will take part in six Friday practice sessions, one pre-season test
Hyundai will begin the 2019 World Rally Championship season with an unchanged line-up, despite speculation that Sebastien Loeb has signed for the squad. Thierry Neuville, Andreas Mikkelsen and Dani Sordo will drive a trio of i20 Coupe WRCs at round one in Monte Carlo, but a decision about who replaces Sordo for Rally Sweden could
KTM rider Pol Espargaro believes the addition of Tech3 to the manufacturer’s MotoGP stable will allow it to “double or triple” its development rate. After making its full-time MotoGP debut last year KTM has been largely fought for the lower reaches of the top 15. It scored just five points more in 2018 compared to
The new-look Steinbrenner Harding Racing IndyCar team will run with Honda engines in the 2019 season. Harding had been considering its options after running with Chevrolet engines in its first full IndyCar campaign this year. But its rebirth as Steinbrenner and growing affiliation with the Andretti Autosport squad, which loaned the team staff and technical
Stoffel Vandoorne believes “no-one really noticed” his strongest races in Formula 1 and that there was “nothing more I could have done” amid McLaren’s woes. Vandoorne joined McLaren at the beginning of 2017 as a replacement for Jenson Button, following an impressive junior single-seater career in which he dominated the ’15 GP2 championship and then
7:18 AM ET Renault boss Cyril Abiteboul says there is no reason why his team should still be lagging behind Mercedes and Ferrari in terms of engine power next year. Renault has struggled to match the power output of its rivals since the start of turbo-hybrid era in 2014 and customer team Red Bull, which
The FIA has formally approved the 2019 Formula 1 calendar, with no changes made to the version released in October. The 21-round schedule will begin in Australia on March 17 and conclude with the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix on December 1. F1 will host its 1000th world championship race in the third round of the
2:38 AM ET Ed Jackson England’s Abbie Eaton has successfully taken the first steps on her path to becoming a Supercars driver. The 26-year-old got behind the wheel of a Walkinshaw Andretti United Holden at Winton Motor Raceway in Victoria on Tuesday for a driver evaluation day. It’s the first time Eaton has driven a
Here, in a gripping YouTube video created for the Official Vodafone McLaren Mercedes YouTube channel, the exciting precision work that Lawrence Manning carries out almost takes one’s breath away. As one of fourteen airbrush artists at the McLaren Technology Centre, in Woking, Surrey, Lawrence customises the cars that race on the track. Speaking frankly to
100% on the HERO4® camera from http://GoPro.com. Watch Ken Roczen’s Main Event at the seventh round of the 2015 Monster Energy Supercross from Arlington, TX For full event results visit: http://www.supercrosslive.com
Take a lap around Watkins Glen International with Cooper MacNeil in the No. 22 Alex Job Racing WeatherTech Porsche 911 GT3 R.
M-Sport’s Polish branch has revealed an all-new Ford Fiesta R2 car, which will form the basis of next year’s Junior World Rally Championship. The new car, the first to be designed and built out of M-Sport’s Krakow facility and the first to be built to the latest R2 regulations, was unveiled by M-Sport Poland board
The now-defunct Furniture Row Racing team that ran Martin Truex Jr to the 2017 NASCAR Cup series title has had its charter bought ahead of the ’19 season. The charter, which guarantees entry and the right to prize money, has been bought by the Spire Sports + Entertainment company, which has clients in NASCAR including
The FIA has tweaked the way penalties will be applied to Formula 1 grids from 2019, in an attempt to encourage those who have penalties to take part in qualifying. For 2018, The FIA introduced a rule that put anyone with more than 15 places of power unit grid penalties to the back of the
5:47 AM ET Formula One’s commercial boss Sean Bratches remains hopeful a new deal can be struck with Silverstone over the future of the British Grand Prix, but says a race on the streets of London remains the ideal scenario. The future of the British Grand Prix has been uncertain ever since Silverstone activated a
Citroen team principal Pierre Budar has explained the reasons for the loss of Abu Dhabi funding that will limit the team to a two-car 2019 World Rally Championship line-up. Abu Dhabi has been one of the primary backers of Citroen’s WRC effort since 2013, in a deal that has involved Khalid Al-Qassimi contesting partial campaigns
MotoGP and its supporting categories will introduce a new rule on how to classify riders who finish a race separated from their bikes. The rule change was approved on Friday at a meeting of the Grand Prix commission, which is comprised of representatives from governing body FIM, promoter Dorna, as well as the manufacturers’ and
Ex-Sauber Formula 1 driver Marcus Ericsson has completed his first IndyCar test with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports at Sebring, covering “around 100-115” laps. Ericsson will compete in the 2019 IndyCar season alongside James Hinchcliffe, as Robert Wickens continues his recovery from his serious injuries suffered at Pocono earlier this year. The F1 convert’s first IndyCar experience
Romain Grosjean says he would not be able to forgive himself if he suffered a repeat of the woes that marred the first half of his 2018 Formula 1 campaign. Although the Frenchman’s season started off well with a strong showing in the Australian Grand Prix before pitstop trouble, he later endured a run of
4:15 AM ET Daniel Ricciardo admits the stressful process which led to him leaving Red Bull to join Renault for 2019 may have affected his preparation for some of the races leading up to the summer break. Ricciardo stunned the F1 community in August when he announced his decision to move to Renault, having spent
Encouraged by the success of the Blancpain Endurance Series, world-renowned Swiss watch manufacture Blancpain and the SRO Motorsports Group decide at the end of 2013 to extend their partnership to the Sprint series, previously promoted as the FIA GT Series, offering teams and drivers the opportunity to compete for an overall Blancpain GT Series title,
Pirelli has invited teams and drivers to help it decide which tyre compounds to make available for the start of the 2019 Formula 1 season as it seeks “expert” input. The Italian company has been criticised by various teams and drivers since F1 asked for Pirelli to start producing the high-degradation tyres. Having come under