| By Ben Anderson | Friday, May 30th 2014, 14:16 GMT |
Simona de Silvestro says she has encountered no gender discrimination in motorsport during her rise to a Formula 1 role with Sauber.
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| By David Evans | Friday, May 30th 2014, 13:57 GMT |
Despite a troubled start to his Hyundai career, Dani Sordo says he wants to remain with the Korean firm for next year's World Rally Championship
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| By Glenn Freeman | Friday, May 30th 2014, 14:28 GMT |
Formula Renault 3.5 championship leader Carlos Sainz Jr set the pace during free practice at Spa on Friday
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| Thursday, May 29th 2014, 13:51 GMT |
Franck Montagny will race in the inaugural Formula E series with the Andretti Autosport team, the American squad announced on Thursday
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, May 29th 2014, 12:00 GMT |
Fernando Alonso says the Mercedes and Red Bull Formula 1 teams "deserve" the dominant success they have enjoyed in recent seasons.
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, May 29th 2014, 14:38 GMT |
Kevin Magnussen is struggling to deal with the fact McLaren's Formula 1 car is not capable of winning races, suffering from Eric Boullier calls "rookie syndrome".
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, May 28th 2014, 14:53 GMT |
Eric Boullier agrees that McLaren needs to "rethink" its approach to become successful again in Formula 1, following recent criticism of the Woking team by its former driver Alain Prost
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, May 28th 2014, 12:58 GMT |
Nico Hulkenberg says Force India still has work to do to improve the rear-end grip of its Formula 1 car, despite his fifth place finish at the Monaco Grand Prix
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| Wednesday, May 28th 2014, 14:40 GMT |
Ed Jones will miss the next three rounds of the Formula 3 European Championship as he continues to recovery from an injury he sustained during the Pau Grand Prix earlier this month
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, May 27th 2014, 12:33 GMT |
McLaren believes it has turned the corner on its season at the Monaco Grand Prix, as it knuckles down for a major development push with its 2014 car
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, May 27th 2014, 14:12 GMT |
Jenson Button has warned Nico Rosberg to expect his Formula 1 team-mate Lewis Hamilton to come back even stronger after the controversial Monaco Grand Prix weekend.
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| By Gerhard Kuntschik and Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, May 27th 2014, 15:16 GMT |
Sebastian Vettel insists Red Bull is still a Formula 1 title contender, with a major engine upgrade planned for the Austrian Grand Prix set to boost his ambitions.
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, May 26th 2014, 15:40 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen says he is still not fully comfortable with Ferrari's current Formula 1 car, after his troubled start to the season continued at the Monaco Grand Prix.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Monday, May 26th 2014, 15:12 GMT |
Michael Andretti says that he is open to working with Kurt Busch again in the future following the NASCAR star's outstanding performance in the Indianapolis 500.
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| By Gary Watkins | Monday, May 26th 2014, 15:50 GMT |
Two-time Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso will give the start at next month's Le Mans 24 Hours.
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| By Marcus Simmons | Sunday, May 25th 2014, 14:17 GMT |
Marvin Kirchhofer showed his class with a dominant win in the final British Formula 3 Championship race of the Silverstone weekend
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| By Jonathan Noble and Matt Beer | Sunday, May 25th 2014, 15:07 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton said driving with one eye closed for part of the Monaco Grand Prix was "virtually impossible" after dirt got underneath his visor
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| By Jonathan Noble and Matt Beer | Sunday, May 25th 2014, 15:07 GMT |
Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton remain divided over whether they can reconcile intra-team relations at the Mercedes Formula 1 squad after the Monaco Grand Prix
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| By Hal Ridge | Saturday, May 24th 2014, 15:37 GMT |
Andreas Bakkerud leads after day one of the AUTOSPORT World RX of Great Britain at Lydden Hill, round two of the World Rallycross Championship
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| By Ben Anderson and Kevin Turner | Saturday, May 24th 2014, 15:32 GMT |
Sebastian Vettel was hampered in Monaco Grand Prix qualifying by a problem with his Red Bull's ERS
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, May 24th 2014, 15:39 GMT |
Jeff Gordon was forced to miss most of Saturday's NASCAR Sprint Cup practice at Charlotte due to back spasms
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| By Ben Anderson | Friday, May 23rd 2014, 13:56 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen is suffering the same issues with Ferrari's 2014 Formula 1 car as team-mate Fernando Alonso, according to the team's technical director James Allison
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, May 23rd 2014, 15:25 GMT |
Jenson Button says progress not points is the key thing he wants at the Monaco Grand Prix.
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| By Marcus Simmons | Friday, May 23rd 2014, 15:48 GMT |
British Formula 3 Championship leader Martin Cao put the highly fancied interlopers in their place by taking a spectacular double pole position for this weekend's races at Silverstone.
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| By Jonathan Noble and Ben Anderson | Thursday, May 22nd 2014, 14:24 GMT |
Daniel Ricciardo senses that his Red Bull Formula 1 team has a real opportunity to challenge Mercedes for victory in the Monaco Grand Prix following the first day of practice.
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| By David Evans | Thursday, May 22nd 2014, 14:13 GMT |
WRC Commission president Carlos Barbosa has reaffirmed the FIA's commitment to launching 2017 technical regulations before the end of this year
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| By Charles Bradley | Thursday, May 22nd 2014, 15:15 GMT |
Jolyon Palmer will start from pole position in Friday's Monaco GP2 feature race for the DAMS squad after setting the fastest time in the quickest of the qualifying sessions
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| Wednesday, May 21st 2014, 15:39 GMT |
Andretti Autosport will partner with ex-Formula 1 firm Wirth Research for its Formula E programme
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| By Jonathan Noble and Matt Beer | Wednesday, May 21st 2014, 14:10 GMT |
Adrian Sutil says Sauber's Spanish Grand Prix upgrades 'didn't work' and the car remains extremely difficult to drive.
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| Wednesday, May 21st 2014, 15:53 GMT |
Monaco Grand Prix: Wednesday press conference
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| By Marcus Simmons | Tuesday, May 20th 2014, 13:50 GMT |
Gerhard Berger has admitted that he is willing to stand down as president of the FIA Single Seater Commission when the time is right
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| By Scott Mitchell | Tuesday, May 20th 2014, 14:44 GMT |
British Aston Martin team Leonard Motorsport will make its Blancpain Endurance Series debut at Silverstone this weekend with British GT frontrunner Jonny Adam.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, May 20th 2014, 15:43 GMT |
Renault fears that some of its Formula 1 drivers are on course to face grid penalties later this year because of early season reliability niggles.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, May 19th 2014, 13:51 GMT |
Renault has rubbished talk that Mercedes' current advantage in Formula 1 is down to its use of a radical split concept on its turbo engine
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| By David Evans | Monday, May 19th 2014, 14:14 GMT |
Leading World Rally Championship drivers have called for more input into the debate over the future format of events
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, May 19th 2014, 15:25 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton insists that just beating Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Nico Rosberg to grand prix wins is not good enough, because he thinks he should be well clear of him
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| By Jonathan Noble | Sunday, May 18th 2014, 13:27 GMT |
Red Bull boss Christian Horner has played down talk he could lose technical boss Adrian Newey to Ferrari, insisting the design genius has 'paternal feelings' for his current team
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Sunday, May 18th 2014, 13:14 GMT |
Mercedes' Christian Vietoris came from the back of the field to take an incredible maiden DTM win in wet conditions at Oschersleben
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| By Gary Watkins | Sunday, May 18th 2014, 15:24 GMT |
The Grasser Lamborghini driven by Jeroen Bleekemolen and Hari Proczyk dominated the main event of the Brands Hatch round of the Blancpain Sprint Series
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| Saturday, May 17th 2014, 13:01 GMT |
Marc Marquez took his fifth consecutive MotoGP pole position in dominant fashion at Le Mans
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| By Gary Watkins | Saturday, May 17th 2014, 13:53 GMT |
The Farnbacher Racing Porsche due to be driven by Nick Tandy in this weekend's Blancpain Sprint Series round at Brands Hatch has been withdrawn after sustaining serious damage in practice
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Saturday, May 17th 2014, 14:15 GMT |
Miguel Molina will start the second DTM race of the season at Oschersleben from pole position
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| Friday, May 16th 2014, 12:59 GMT |
Marc Marquez remained on top in second MotoGP practice at Le Mans, but only by 0.007 seconds over surprise challenger Andrea Iannone.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, May 16th 2014, 12:36 GMT |
Formula 1 teams believe that fuel has now become a key part of the sport's technology development fight.
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| By Marcus Simmons | Friday, May 16th 2014, 14:00 GMT |
GP3 racer Marvin Kirchhofer is to contest next week's British Formula 3 round at Silverstone.
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| Thursday, May 15th 2014, 14:31 GMT |
The 10 Formula E teams received their first cars on schedule on Thursday, as the series opened its new headquarters at Donington Park
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, May 15th 2014, 14:09 GMT |
Red Bull says that Daniel Ricciardo has already done enough to leave no doubts that he will be kept on for the 2015 Formula 1 world championship season
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| Thursday, May 15th 2014, 15:53 GMT |
Valentino Rossi wants to stay on in MotoGP beyond the 2014 season and plans to ask Yamaha for a two-year contract extension
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| Wednesday, May 14th 2014, 13:56 GMT |
Danica Patrick has been urged to stop over-thinking NASCAR Sprint Cup races by her Stewart-Haas team-mates, as she took a career-best result at Kansas.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, May 14th 2014, 13:44 GMT |
FIA president Jean Todt thinks Formula 1's noise critics will be silent soon, irrespective of whether Wednesday's test of a new louder exhaust is judged to have been successful
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, May 14th 2014, 15:47 GMT |
Fernando Alonso says Mercedes is "racing in a different category" compared to the other teams in Formula 1 right now
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| By Kevin Turner | Tuesday, May 13th 2014, 14:29 GMT |
British Touring Car racer Ollie Jackson has hit out at Thruxton circuit after the crashes that took place there earlier this month.
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| Tuesday, May 13th 2014, 14:35 GMT |
Jailed German banker Gerhard Gribkowsky told a court on Tuesday that he was bribed by Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone over the sale of the sport
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| By Gary Watkins | Tuesday, May 13th 2014, 15:44 GMT |
GP2 race winner Nathanael Berthon will contest the Le Mans 24 Hours with the Anglo-Irish Murphy Prototypes LMP2 squad next month.
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| By Kevin Turner | Monday, May 12th 2014, 14:28 GMT |
British Touring Car racers Simon Belcher and Ollie Jackson are expecting to make it the Oulton Park round next month, despite their big accidents at Thruxton.
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| By Marcus Simmons | Monday, May 12th 2014, 14:17 GMT |
Formula 3 aces Felix Rosenqvist and Max Verstappen have expressed their anger at Esteban Ocon in the wake of Pau clashes with the European championship leader
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| By Gary Watkins | Monday, May 12th 2014, 14:48 GMT |
Top touring car squad Triple Eight Engineering will make its international sportscar debut in this month's Silverstone round of the Blancpain Endurance Series
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Sunday, May 11th 2014, 14:51 GMT |
Sebastian Vettel says he enjoyed charging through the field as he went from 15th on the grid to fourth by the end of the Spanish Grand Prix
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| By Peter Mills | Sunday, May 11th 2014, 15:48 GMT |
The second race of the World Touring Car Championship at the Slovakia-Ring has been cancelled due to persistent rain which has been judged to have made track conditions unsafe
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| By Ben Anderson and Matt Beer | Sunday, May 11th 2014, 15:54 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen says he wanted to clarify the thinking behind Ferrari's strategy after losing out to team-mate Fernando Alonso in the Spanish Grand Prix.
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| Saturday, May 10th 2014, 15:27 GMT |
Johnny Cecotto made the most of an eventful GP2 feature race to take a superb victory from 16th on the grid at Barcelona
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| By Ben Anderson & Matt Beer | Saturday, May 10th 2014, 15:42 GMT |
Sebastian Vettel said he was hoping to attempt a Spanish Grand Prix qualifying lap without second gear before his Red Bull came to a complete halt during Q3 at Barcelona
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, May 10th 2014, 15:52 GMT |
McLaren is considering testing with a Honda-powered car during Formula 1's final post-race test in Abu Dhabi in November
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, May 9th 2014, 15:15 GMT |
Simon Pagenaud has gone fastest in a wet third IndyCar practice session on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course
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| Friday, May 9th 2014, 14:43 GMT |
Stephane Richelmi claimed pole position for Saturday's main race in the second round of the GP2 Series in Spain, ahead of DAMS team-mate Jolyon Palmer.
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| By Matt Beer | Friday, May 9th 2014, 15:19 GMT |
Jenson Button has warned not to take his second place for McLaren in opening Spanish Grand Prix practice too seriously as he believes it was an anomalous result.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Thursday, May 8th 2014, 15:07 GMT |
Sebastien Bourdais opened IndyCar's inaugural visit to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course by going fastest in the first practice session
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| By Edd Straw | Thursday, May 8th 2014, 14:32 GMT |
Felipe Massa has more faith in his team's ability to improve the performance of its Formula 1 car with Williams than he did when at Ferrari
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| Thursday, May 8th 2014, 14:50 GMT |
Formula Renault 3.5 racer Beitske Visser and European F3 Open graduate Nelson Mason have filled the final vacancies in the GP3 field for this weekend's Barcelona season-opener.
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| Wednesday, May 7th 2014, 14:42 GMT |
Formula 1 world champion Sebastian Vettel will get a new chassis for the Spanish Grand Prix, but Red Bull says it was long-scheduled rather than a reaction to recent form
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| By Gary Watkins | Wednesday, May 7th 2014, 14:28 GMT |
Silverstone's future as the home of the British Grand Prix is safe despite a breakdown in negotiations to sell the circuit.
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, May 7th 2014, 15:31 GMT |
Valtteri Bottas says Williams is in the best shape he has known since joining the team as a Formula 1 reserve in 2010
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, May 6th 2014, 12:37 GMT |
Jenson Button thinks that McLaren must get a better understanding of its 2014 Formula 1 car to make progress, rather than just rely on future updates to improve performance
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| By Gary Watkins | Tuesday, May 6th 2014, 14:38 GMT |
Allowing all-professional driver line-ups in LMP2 in the World Endurance Championship is one of the options under consideration for next season as part of a review of the category
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, May 6th 2014, 15:22 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton says he is focused on doing better at circuits on which he has generally been weaker than Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Nico Rosberg
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| By Scott Mitchell | Monday, May 5th 2014, 10:54 GMT |
Sam MacLeod claimed a comfortable victory in the second British Formula 3 race at Rockingham to make it two wins from starts in the championship.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, May 5th 2014, 11:24 GMT |
Formula 1 teams should waste no time in implementing changes to make cars more spectacular, claims former driver Derek Warwick.
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| By Kevin Turner | Monday, May 5th 2014, 14:04 GMT |
Two British Touring Car drivers are in doubt for the next round at Oulton Park after heavy Thruxton accidents
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| By Peter Mills | Sunday, May 4th 2014, 13:34 GMT |
Gianni Morbidelli became the first man to win a 2014 World Touring Car Championship round in anything other than a Citroen as he took Hungaroring victory in his Munnich Chevrolet
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| By Kevin Turner | Sunday, May 4th 2014, 14:10 GMT |
Gordon Shedden won the second British Touring Car race at Thruxton after a hard-fought duel with Andrew Jordan.
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| By Marcus Simmons | Sunday, May 4th 2014, 14:17 GMT |
Max Verstappen led all the way to take his first win in the Formula 3 European Championship in the final race of the weekend at Hockenheim.
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Saturday, May 3rd 2014, 14:49 GMT |
Max Verstappen will start from pole position for races two and three of the Hockenheim European Formula 3 event after an engine penalty for Tom Blomqvist
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Saturday, May 3rd 2014, 15:26 GMT |
Adrien Tambay secured the first pole position for the 2014 DTM season at Hockenheim
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| By Kevin Turner | Saturday, May 3rd 2014, 15:46 GMT |
Andrew Jordan qualified on pole at Thruxton for the third consecutive year in the British Touring Car Championship
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| By Gary Watkins | Friday, May 2nd 2014, 14:47 GMT |
Porsche topped the times in final free practice for Saturday's Spa round of the World Endurance Championship with Marc Lieb at the wheel of the #14 919 Hybrid.
The German ended the two-hour session held in dry conditions with a 1m59.887s lap, which put him seven tenths up on second-fastest Sebastien Buemi at the wheel of the best of the Le Mans-spec Toyota TS040 HYBRIDs.
Third fastest was the quickest of the Audi R18 e-tron quattros, Andre Lotterer ending up a further tenth back on a 2m00.738s
Stephane Sarrazin (Toyota), Lucas di Grassi (Audi) and Mark Webber (Porsche) filled out places four to six on the timesheets.
The additional Audi on the entry at Spa, which is running in low-downforce Le Mans configuration unlike its two sister cars, ended up seventh on 2m02.620s in the hands of Filipe Albuquerque.
Olivier Pla was fastest in the OAK Racing-run G-Drive Morgan-Nissan in the LMP2 division, his 2m08.673s bettering Kirill Ladygin's best in the SMP ORECA-Nissan 03 by four tenths.
Gianmaria Bruni held sway for Ferrari in GTE Pro with a 2m18.913s.
The time was only two tenths quicker than the GTE Am best set by Klaus Bachler in the Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR and six tenths up on team-mate Davide Rigon in the second-place Pro entry.
Qualifying for the Spa 6 Hours starts at 7:20pm local time on Friday evening.
Pos Cl Drivers Team/Car Time Cl gap 1. P1 Dumas/Jani/Lieb Porsche 1m59.887s 2. P1 Davidson/Lapierre/Buemi Toyota 2m00.638s +0.751s 3. P1 Fassler/Lotterer/Treluyer Audi 2m00.638s +0.851s 4. P1 Wurz/Sarrazin/Nakajima Toyota 2m01.292s +1.405s 5. P1 Di Grassi/Duval/Kristensen Audi 2m01.454s +1.567s 6. P1 Bernhard/Webber/Hartley Porsche 2m01.620s +1.733s 7. P1 Albuquerque/Bonanomi Audi 2m02.347s +2.460s 8. P2 Rusinov/Pla/Canal OAK Morgan-Nissan 2m08.673s 9. P2 Ladygin/Shaitar/Ladygin SMP ORECA-Nissan 2m09.100s +0.427s 10. P2 Dolan/Tincknell/Gene Jota Zytek-Nissan 2m09.552s +0.879s GT pacesetters: 14. GTE P Bruni/Vilander AF Ferrari 2m18.913s 15. GTE A Ried/Bachler/Al Qubaisi Proton Porsche 2m19.151s
| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Friday, May 2nd 2014, 13:16 GMT |
Antonio Giovinazzi led the way in practice for the second round of the Formula 3 European Championship at Hockenheim.
The Carlin driver topped both 40-minute sessions, with a best of 1m33.135s the benchmark time.
Lucas Auer was second fastest in his Mucke Motorsport entry, a late run on fresh rubber vaulting him into second place with a 1m33.337s.
That late lap knocked Max Verstappen down to third, the Dutch rookie having previously sat in second place.
The race winners from the Silverstone opener finished fifth, sixth and seventh, Prema's Esteban Ocon leading Tom Blomqvist (Carlin) and Antonio Fuoco (Prema).
Nicholas Latifi made it three Prema cars in the top 10 with the eighth fastest time, ahead of Carlin duo Jordan King and Ed Jones.
Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap 1. Antonio Giovinazzi Carlin Dallara-VW 1m33.135s 2. Lucas Auer Prema Dallara-Merc 1m33.337s +0.202s 3. Max Verstappen Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW 1m33.352s +0.217s 4. Esteban Ocon Prema Dallara-Merc 1m33.510s +0.375s 5. Tom Blomqvist Carlin Dallara-VW 1m33.599s +0.464s 6. Felix Rosenqvist Mucke Dallara-Merc 1m33.654s +0.519s 7. Antonio Fuoco Prema Dallara-Merc 1m33.686s +0.551s 8. Nicholas Latifi Prema Dallara-Merc 1m33.728s +0.593s 9. Jordan King Carlin Dallara-VW 1m33.747s +0.612s 10. Ed Jones Carlin Dallara-VW 1m33.752s +0.617s 11. John Bryant-Meisner Fortec Dallara-Merc 1m33.948s +0.813s 12. Jake Dennis Carlin Dallara-VW 1m33.963s +0.828s 13. Sean Gelael Carlin Dallara-VW 1m34.106s +0.971s 14. Riccardo Agostini Eurointernational Dallara-Merc 1m34.177s +1.042s 15. Dennis van de Laar Prema Dallara-Merc 1m34.221s +1.086s 16. Felipe Guimaraes Double R Dallara-Merc 1m34.223s +1.088s 17. Tatiana Calderon Jo Zeller Dallara-Merc 1m34.248s +1.113s 18. Gustavo Menezes Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW 1m34.345s +1.210s 19. Mitchell Gilbert Fortec Dallara-Merc 1m34.401s +1.266s 20. Alexander Toril T-Sport Dallara-NBE 1m34.413s +1.278s 21. Felix Serralles West-Tec Dallara-Merc 1m34.446s +1.311s 22. Spike Goddard T-Sport Dallara-NBE 1m34.514s +1.379s 23. Jules Szymkowiak Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW 1m34.527s +1.392s 24. Michele Beretta Eurointernational Dallara-Merc 1m34.819s +1.684s 25. Roy Nissany Mucke Dallara-Merc 1m34.864s +1.729s 26. Hector Hurst West-Tec Dallara-Merc 1m35.083s +1.948s 27. Sandro Zeller Jo Zeller Dallara-Merc 1m35.427s +2.292s
| Friday, May 2nd 2014, 15:30 GMT |
Nigel Stepney, the former Ferrari mechanic who was at the centre of the 2007 Formula 1 'spygate' scandal, has died.
The 56-year-old was involved in a road traffic accident in Kent in the early hours of Friday morning.
A statement from the Kent Police said that investigations were underway as to the cause of the incident.
PC Glen Braidwood of Kent Police's Serious Collision Investigation Unit said: "A silver VW caddy van, driven by a 56 year-old man from the Essex area, had stopped on the hard shoulder of the M20 Londonbound carriageway at Ashford.
"For reasons yet to be established, the man appears to have entered the carriageway and was then in collision with an articulated goods vehicle. He was pronounced deceased at the scene."
Stepney enjoyed a lengthy career in F1, working for Shadow, Lotus, Benetton and Ferrari.
Having left F1 in the wake of the 2007 spy affair between McLaren and Ferrari, Stepney most recently worked in sportscars - joining the JRM outfit in 2010.
James Rumsey, the owner of JRM, was one of the first to pay tribute to Stepney.
"Nigel was an intense and fierce competitor and always strived for excellence in our racing," he said.
"We certainly could not have achieved our level of success without his leadership and experience.
"Away from the track, he was a focused, driven and passionate member of the JRM Group, and a loving father to his family.
"The rest of the engineering and race team here at JRM learned an unimaginable amount from Nigel in the four short years he was with us and his death this morning has shocked everyone to the core.
"Today, the motorsport world has lost one of its greatest characters and competitors. He will be sorely missed and we send our sincere condolences to his family and the many friends he leaves behind."
| By David Evans | Thursday, May 1st 2014, 14:17 GMT |
Mads Ostberg says he has found more speed by tailoring his driving style to replicate nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb's handling of the Citroen.
Ostberg said his sideways style was not suited to the DS3 WRC, but setting the car up more like Loeb and driving it straighter - in the same way as the Frenchman - is already working in his favour.
"We have changed the suspension settings on the car," said Ostberg. "There are also some changes in the differential, but the main thing that I'm doing is to drive the car straighter - less sideways.
"This is the way the car was designed to go fastest, it's the way it was designed by Sebastien Loeb and it's working for me.
"At some tests I drive like old Mads and it's not as fast. OK, there's not much in it, but it is not as fast."
Ostberg has finished on the podium on two of his four Citroen outings and the Norwegian is pleased with the progress he is making.
"I see a big change from this time last year," he said. "And it's a positive change.
"I'm really pleased with what I've been able to do so far this season. This has been a fresh start for me with a new team and I'm now looking to make the maximum out of this opportunity.
"I feel ready to win rallies and I have felt like that for some time now.
"But, if you look at the experience and results I have and put them in perspective, maybe Argentina [next week] is a place I go looking for a good result and then I think I have a bigger chance [to win] in Sardinia, Poland and Finland."
| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, May 1st 2014, 12:37 GMT |
Romain Grosjean has revealed that settings carried over from last year's Lotus Formula 1 car have held the team's new machine back in the early part of the 2014 season.
Lotus has suffered a disastrous start to 2014, after being in contention to finish third in the constructors' championship until the final race of last year.
Its twin tusk E22 was unreliable and off the pace across the first three races, but showed signs of improvement at the most recent grand prix in China, as Grosjean ran inside the top 10 before a gearbox problem forced him out after half-distance.
The Franco-Swiss driver revealed that Lotus only began refining the set-up on the E22 during Friday free practice in China, after previously heading down a blind alley with settings from last year's successful E21 design.
"We started a little bit on the back foot with baseline set-up, which wasn't the ideal for this year's regulations," Grosjean told AUTOSPORT.
"It was very difficult to drive and not very efficient.
"They [the rulemakers] changed tyres, aerodynamics and power unit and we kept the direction we had last year, which was very good with E21 but didn't quite work with the E22.
"We have ideas now on how to set up the car to make it easier to drive. We just have to keep working."
Lotus team owner Gerard Lopez revealed that Grosjean would have been even more competitive at Shanghai had he not encountered issues with the diffuser stalling and robbing the car of rear downforce.
'UNSTABLE AND UNPREDICTABLE'
Grosjean told AUTOSPORT he had not driven a more difficult car in his career than the pre-China E22.
"It was very unstable and unpredictable," he added.
"The front is less obvious on TV but it was both ends. We didn't even know which one was going to slide!
"It was down to last year's set-up not working for this year's regulations and the aero not working as we wanted. It's all linked.
"We had a big improvement in China, but it's not only one thing we changed; in the end it's a lot of things that make a good car."
With Lopez reckoning engine supplier Renault brought improvements to China worth two seconds per lap to Lotus, and more tweaks planned before next month's Spanish Grand Prix, Grosjean is hopeful he can return to the sort of form that carried him to six podiums last season.
"I'm sure there's more potential in the car than what we are seeing right now," he said.
"You never know. It goes quick in one direction and goes quick in the other [sometimes]. It's just work and getting things together.
"If we can move forward from there it would be nice to be back on the podium."
| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, May 1st 2014, 15:47 GMT |
Force India is revelling in beating ex-technical partner McLaren in this season's Formula 1 constructors' title race, according to deputy team principal Bob Fernley.
Vijay Mallya's squad led McLaren for the first half of last year's battle, until its competitiveness faded following Pirelli's decision to tweak its tyre compounds in the face of repeated blowouts.
Force India currently lies third in the 2014 constructors' championship, 11 points ahead of McLaren, which has failed to score in the last two races.
Fernley reckons it will be difficult for Force India to raise its level to that of frontrunner Mercedes, or Red Bull, but he is hopeful the Silverstone-based outfit can continue to fight Ferrari and remain ahead of McLaren across the rest of the campaign.
"Lotus are struggling at the minute and are not where they want to be and McLaren would be our next competitor and they're struggling too. I'm not in the slightest bit sad about that - may their problems not be too insignificant!" Fernley told AUTOSPORT.
"It would be hard for us to compete with Red Bull and Mercedes. It's not going to be easy for us to [continue to] compete with Ferrari, but for as long as we can, we will."
Nico Hulkenberg fought Ferrari's Fernando Alonso in each of the first two races and Fernley said this represented a "major step" for Force India, despite the fact Hulkenberg finished a distant sixth to Alonso's third in China.
"If you look at our historical results we tend to be a bit up and down, whereas now we're absolutely consistent across the circuits," Fernley added.
"If you look at Ferrari, they're probably the exact opposite to us: Bahrain was an Achilles' heel for them and in China they fit in much better.
"It's just the DNA of the designs in some cases.
"If you look at Australia and Malaysia, Nico and Fernando were battling all the way through, so you get that bit in the middle as well.
"We come out of this [early part of the season] feeling quite pleased."
