Fernando Alonso has admitted he might feel “desperate” to come back to Formula 1 by early 2019. Since announcing he will not be on the F1 grid next season, Alonso has maintained that a future return was possible in the right circumstances. The McLaren driver reiterated that ahead of making his final planned F1 appearance
An engineering student will begin a work experience placement at Renault’s Enstone Formula 1 factory in January after winning the final round of this year’s Infiniti Engineering Academy. Fahim Choudhary, 23, is currently studying Engineering Project Management at Lancaster University in the UK and was unveiled as the winner of the Middle East finals –
6:16 AM ET Laine Clark Jamie Whincup says he will do whatever he can to help teammate Shane van Gisbergen win the Supercars championship this weekend. And he has not ruled out using controversial team orders. Ford fans were livid when Whincup, who is out of title contention, appeared to dramatically slow down at the
2:35 AM ET ABU DHABI — McLaren will mark Fernando Alonso’s final race in Formula One by running a special colour scheme in his honour. The Abu Dhabi Grand Prix will be Alonso’s 314th and final race weekend in this current stint before he leaves to pursue opportunities in other series. Although he has not
3:17 AM ET Fernando Alonso is leaving Formula One after Sunday’s season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix but McLaren say they will not hesitate to seek his services again if needed. Fernando Alonso is leaving F1 with just two world titles to his name and he only has himself to blame. Ahead of his final grand
3:38 AM ET ABU DHABI — Carlos Sainz will sample McLaren machinery for the first time at the Yas Marina circuit next weekend. Sainz is moving from Renault to McLaren for 2019 and will contest his final race for the former at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The season-ending race is followed by two days
4:03 AM ET ABU DHABI — Robert Kubica will race for Williams for the 2019 Formula One season, completing his remarkable return to single-seater racing. Williams confirmed the news on Thursday, meaning Kubica will be back on an F1 grid for the first time since 2010. The Polish driver’s career had been cut short due
5:44 AM ET ABU DHABI — Sergey Sirotkin’s Russian backers say they did not want the 2019 race seat Williams has given to Robert Kubica as they were “unpleasantly surprised” with the team’s performance level this season. Williams confirmed Kubica to its second race seat on Thursday, meaning the Polish driver will compete alongside British
6:03 AM ET ABU DHABI — Robert Kubica says his return to Formula One after eight years away from the sport is proof that “nothing is impossible”. The Pole partially severed his right arm in a rallying accident ahead of the start of the 2011 Formula One season, forcing him out of F1 midway through
Georgian team ArtLine’s Sergej Afanasiev and Shota won the Pro-Am class in the final race of the first day of the Lamborghini World Finals at Vallelunga. In the setting sun, they took the win ahead of Loris Spinelli and JC Perez (P1 Motorsport) and VS Racing duo Takashi Kasai and August MacBeth. There was drama
Schnitzer BMW driver Augusto Farfus won the FIA GT World Cup qualification race to bag pole position for Sunday’s main event. Farfus captured the lead at the start of Saturday’s race, getting a run on Raffaele Marciello immediately on the rolling getaway and driving around the outside of the polesitter through the grandstand kink. The
Manuel Lauck and Damon Ockey set the pace in the two Saturday morning qualifying sessions for the Lamborghini World Finals at Vallelunga. In the first of the two 20-minute shootouts, Dorr Motorsport’s Lauck topped the timings. His quickest effort of 1m32.861s was 0.150s faster than Raffaele Giannoni’s lap. The session had a brief pause for
Giacomo Altoe will start on pole position for race one of the Super Trofeo Pro class category of the Lamborghini World Finals at Vallelunga. The Huracan driver set a 1m30.834s lap, 0.171s quicker than Clazzio Racing’s Kei Cozzolino. Richard Muscat was third for Leipert Motorsport ahead of Kikko Galbiati and his team-mate Frederik Schandorff. British
Jari-Matti Latvala leads Rally Australia after his Toyota team-mate Ott Tanak went off the road on Sunday morning, while Sebastien Ogier remains favourite for the World Rally Championship title. Latvala set a stunning pace on the first stage of the morning, SS19 Coramba, as he attempted to fend off a potential charge from Kiwi Hyundai
Yamaha rider Maverick Vinales ended MotoGP’s post-season test at Valencia on top, eclipsing Andrea Dovizioso and Marc Marquez in the final hour of the second day. Vinales, who set the pace on the opening day, had a rare crash in the middle of Wednesday’s running but went on to set the best time of the
New Aprilia MotoGP recruit Andrea Iannone said he expected the RS-GP bike to be “worse”, but has still identified areas to make improvements. Iannone joins Aprilia from Suzuki for 2019 and made his debut with the Italian manufacturer in the two-day post-season test at Valencia this week. He was 19th on day one after completing
American Ryan Hardwick came from third on the grid to take a superb victory in the first Lamborghini World Finals race for the Super Trofeo AM category at Vallelunga on Saturday afternoon. It was a hard-fought win for the Dream Racing driver who passed Dorr’s Florian Scholze in the closing stages to secure the victory.
Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville is officially out of the running for the World Rally Championship drivers’ title, after crashing out of the first stage of the final loop. The Belgian driver – in pursuit of his first WRC title having led the points for most of the year – clipped a bank and a tree
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Take a lap around Canadian Tire Motorsport Park with Bryan Sellers in the No. 17 Falken Tire Porsche 911 RSR.
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Tooned continues! 2013 marks McLaren’s 50 anniversary, and series two takes a look back at the team’s long and successful history. The third installment moves the story along a decade to the early 1970’s – the era of our first World Championship winner – Emerson Fittipladi. The man, the mouse… or the wolf? The old
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,
Robert Kubica has agreed a deal to race for Williams in the 2019 Formula 1 season, Autosport understands. An announcement is expected early in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend. Williams’s decision to bring Kubica into its race team means he will make an incredible return to the F1 grid eight years after the rallying
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,
In association with Mahle By the end of another gruelling, 21-round Formula 1 world tour, from Melbourne to Abu Dhabi, with five continents and both double- and triple-headers swept up along the way, the entire F1 circus is broken. Beaten, exhausted… tired and emotional – and that’s just the participants. So consider the strains endured
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,
A British Grand Prix on a street circuit would be “inappropriate”, according to Motorsport UK chairman David Richards – who insists Silverstone is the only viable venue for the event. Prodrive boss and 1981 World Rally champion co-driver Richards has been the chairman of the UK motorsport governing body since January this year, and says
Fernando Alonso is promising to add “many more” races to his schedule in 2019 after he leaves Formula 1 and may include “a couple of iconic places”. The two-time world champion wants to expand his programme beyond his existing commitments after he drops out of F1 in what is officially being billed as a sabbatical
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