Defeated 2018 NASCAR Cup Series title contender Kevin Harvick says his Stewart-Haas Racing Ford was a “daytime” racecar that prevented him challenging for the championship late on at Homestead. Harvick and SHR started the weekend on a run of difficult form, qualifying just 12th on the grid with a car the 2014 Cup champion described
New NASCAR Cup Series champion Joey Logano says he proved at Homestead that he was right to consider himself title favourite. The Penske Ford driver had proclaimed himself the championship favourite after making the final four following a last-lap clash at Martinsville with Martin Truex Jr. Fellow title contenders Truex and Kyle Busch both dismissed
Last year’s NASCAR Cup Series champion Martin Truex Jr says the now-closing Furniture Row Racing team made him a “superstar”. Truex narrowly missed out on back-to-back titles in a 15-lap shootout following a late caution at this year’s Homestead decider, with Penske’s Joey Logano sweeping past to take his first crown. Logano’s victory denied Truex
Leading Formula 1 personnel have warned that rule changes designed to improve overtaking next season may be limited in their impact. Simplified front and rear wing regulations will be introduced for 2019 with the aim of improving on-track action by reducing front wing sensitivity in turbulent air and minimising the difficulty of following another car
Dan Ticktum’s dominant victory in Formula 3’s Macau Grand Prix has finally put him on the verge of the superlicence required to race in Formula 1, the FIA has confirmed. Having been unable to even test for the Red Bull F1 team earlier this year because he did not have enough licence points, the McLaren
Charles Leclerc claims Sauber’s impressive progress in the final part of the Formula 1 season is due to set-up work, not upgrades, because it stopped developing its 2018 car early. Sauber started the year fighting Williams at the back of the grid but, unlike its rival from those opening races, has progressed into a regular
The Haas Formula 1 team believes it has reaped the benefits from its first real year of car development. Haas entered F1 in 2016 and turned heads by scoring points on its debut, but after finishing in the top 10 in three of the first four grands prix it only managed the feat once in
Nissan and Renault chairman Carlos Ghosn, a key supporter of Renault’s Formula 1 programme, is set to be sacked amid allegations of financial impropriety. Ghosn, who leads the alliance of Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi, has been arrested in Japan and accused of under reporting his income. The 64-year-old has long been regarded as one of
Ferrari must be “ready” to manage its “brave” decision to promote Charles Leclerc to a race seat next season, according to the Formula 1 team’s leading engineer Jock Clear. Leclerc will become the second-youngest driver in Ferrari’s famous F1 history when he replaces 2007 world champion Kimi Raikkonen next season. The 21-year-old Sauber driver only
Louis Deletraz says Haas “sees his potential” after handing him his first test in a current Formula 1 car at the 2018 Pirelli tyre test following the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The 21-year-old Swiss is competing in Formula 2 this year with the Charouz Racing System team and he lies 11th in the standings in
Mercedes Formula 1 team boss Toto Wolff has pledged the manufacturer will “really go for broke” in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix now both titles have been secured. The Anglo-German team has already wrapped up its fifth consecutive drivers’ and constructors’ championship double but struggled to get on top of Red Bull and Ferrari in
Daniel Ricciardo believes his aggressive moves during his debut season with Red Bull in 2014 “changed the level of overtaking” in Formula 1. Ricciardo is preparing for his final race with Red Bull as this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix marks his 100th and last event for the team before switching to Renault for 2019.
Antonelli Motorsport’s Giacomo Altoe and Daniel Zampieri dominated the final race of the Lamborghini World Finals to claim the Super Trofeo world championship honours. They took advantage of a troubled start for their nearest rivals to secure victory by nearly 20 seconds from Bonaldi’s James Pull and Kelvin Snoeks. After leading yesterday’s race but falling
Sebastien Ogier will begin testing his Citroen C3 WRC for the 2019 World Rally Championship in Portugal next week. The 2018 world champion confirmed he will drive the C3 for four days before the end of the year, with the first two coming through development running in the Algarve. “I have two days on gravel
Valentino Rossi called crashing while fighting for victory in two MotoGP races in a row a “sh*t emotion”. Despite starting the Valencia Grand Prix only 16th, Rossi scythed his way through the field early on and was part of a three-bike fight for victory with Andrea Dovizioso and Alex Rins in the second part of
MotoGP champion Marc Marquez and his new Honda team-mate Jorge Lorenzo have both confirmed that they will not be fully fit in time for the Valencia post-season test. Marquez crashed in both qualifying and the race during the Valencia season finale, walking away from both accidents with pain in his left shoulder ahead of an
In association with Last weekend at Valencia, MotoGP bade farewell to Dani Pedrosa, a rider once considered to be the only one able to dethrone Valentino Rossi, and the greatest to never win a premier class title. Pedrosa made his world championship debut in 2001 in the 125cc class after competing in the Movistar Activa
Yamaha MotoGP riders Valentino Rossi and Maverick Vinales believe they were on course for a one-two finish in the Valencia Grand Prix, before Vinales crashed and the race was stopped. Pace in the wet was an obvious weakness of the 2017-specification YZR-M1, but Yamaha made strides in that aspect this year – which enabled Rossi
Yamaha’s Maverick Vinales was fastest on the rain-shortened opening day of the MotoGP post-season test in Valencia, while Jorge Lorenzo finished 18th on his Honda debut. The track was wet when the session began and riders remained in the pits for the first 90 minutes of the seven-hour session. Johann Zarco was the first rider
Ducati’s new factory MotoGP rider Danilo Petrucci said his first day testing with the team in Valencia was “very emotional” and felt like “the first day at school”. Petrucci, who spent four years at Ducati’s satellite team Pramac, is replacing Jorge Lorenzo at the works outfit in 2019. The Italian made his first appearance with
KTM’s new MotoGP signing Johann Zarco admitted he was left with mixed feelings after being “a bit slow” in his first run with the RC16 bike in Valencia testing. Zarco, who has been a regular frontrunner in the premier class in his two years on a 2016-spec Tech3-run Yamaha, made his debut on a KTM
7:31 AM ET Formula One CEO Chase Carey is still committed to a 25-race calendar in future and has warned events with “unattractive” deals signed under the previous regime that their places on it are at risk. Liberty took control of F1 at the beginning of 2017 and has sought out new venues to host
8:10 AM ET Maurice Hamilton Close • Veteran F1 journalist, covering the sport since 1977• Motor racing correspondent for the Observer for 20 years• Has written several books and covered F1 for BBC Radio 5 Live At a time when the subject of one driver coming into physical contract with another is in the news, it is coincidentally
8:55 AM ET German teenager Sophia Floersch has suffered a spinal fracture in a terrifying 270km/h crash at the Formula 3 street race at Macau. Floersch, 17, was sent hurtling into the barriers lining the edge of the race track when her car vaulted over another car. Videos from the grandstands do not show the
11:14 AM ET Associated Press CHESTE, Spain — Andrea Dovizioso of Ducati took advantage of a difficult wet track to win the season-ending Valencia MotoGP on Sunday. Poor conditions forced the race to be interrupted near its halfway point with Alex Rins in the lead on a Suzuki, but Dovizioso took control after the restart
6:35 AM ET Tatiana Calderon has completed her second test for the Sauber F1 team. Over two days, the Colombian driver accumulated 590 kilometres of Ferrari’s test circuit Fiorano, in northern Italy, to follow on from her appearance at a filming day at Mexico City’s F1 circuit in October. On that occasion she was limited
9:21 AM ET Toto Wolff believes Red Bull’s Max Verstappen is an “unbelievable talent” but says the Dutchman still has some flaws he needs to address before he can be Formula One champion. Understandable but not justifiable — that was the view of Formula One’s motorsport managing director, Ross Brawn, after watching the altercation between
12:06 PM ET Teenage Formula 3 racer Sophia Floersch has come through surgery without complications following the horrifying high-speed crash which left her with a fractured spine at the weekend. Early on in Sunday’s race Floersch, 17, hit a rival car on the flat-out run down to Lisboa corner. That caused her to lose control
6:57 AM ET This time next week, Fernando Alonso will no longer be a Formula One driver. For many in the sport there is a great deal of frustration in that fact, fuelled by an overwhelming sense of ‘what if?’ What if Alonso found his way back into a competitive car? Would he then be
7:31 AM ET Formula One is hoping to bring back the Dutch Grand Prix and build on the wave of popularity surrounding Red Bull’s Max Verstappen. “We are very interested in racing in Holland,” Sean Bratches, the sport’s commercial managing director, told Reuters when asked about a possible return to the Zandvoort circuit that hosted