| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, July 31st 2014, 14:41 GMT |
Ferrari has confirmed a restructuring of its Formula 1 engine department amid its disappointing 2014 campaign
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| By David Evans | Thursday, July 31st 2014, 12:54 GMT |
Toyota's potential return to the World Rally Championship has taken a further step forward with the news that a GT86 WRC has been built
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, July 31st 2014, 14:59 GMT |
The Williams Formula 1 team's downturn in competitiveness in the Hungarian Grand Prix should be taken as a one-off, says the Grove squad's performance chief Rob Smedley
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| By David Evans | Wednesday, July 30th 2014, 14:20 GMT |
Citroen drivers Kris Meeke and Mads Ostberg will have the next three rounds of the World Rally Championship to stake their claim on a DS3 WRC for next season
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, July 30th 2014, 15:13 GMT |
Niki Lauda insists that Formula 1 does not need former team boss Flavio Briatore to help find ways to make itself more popular
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| Wednesday, July 30th 2014, 15:45 GMT |
The second round of the inaugural Formula E season has been postponed by five weeks, with the race in Putrajaya in Malaysia now taking place on November 22
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, July 29th 2014, 15:20 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen reckons his performance in the Hungarian Grand Prix shows there is "light at the end of the tunnel" following his difficult start to his Formula 1 season
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| By David Evans | Tuesday, July 29th 2014, 10:13 GMT |
Toyota's Yaris WRC will make its first test on asphalt next month, but no firm commitment about a World Rally Championship entry is expected before the end of the year
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, July 29th 2014, 11:25 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton did the right thing in ignoring team orders from Mercedes at the Hungarian Grand Prix, says rival Formula 1 team boss Christian Horner
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| By Gary Watkins | Monday, July 28th 2014, 13:49 GMT |
A 'World Cup' for GT3 cars organised along national lines has been put forward by Blancpain Endurance Series boss Stephane Ratel
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, July 28th 2014, 15:43 GMT |
A lack of speed in cool conditions rather than strategic errors were to blame for Williams not doing better in the Hungarian Grand Prix, according to performance chief Rob Smedley
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| By Kevin Turner | Monday, July 28th 2014, 15:57 GMT |
British Touring Car Championship frontrunner Jason Plato believes he can still win the 2014 title despite currently lying 49 points behind leader Colin Turkington
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| By Jonathan Noble and Glenn Freeman | Sunday, July 27th 2014, 14:57 GMT |
Hungarian Grand Prix winner Daniel Ricciardo has revealed that he feared he was going to retire from the race when he suffered engine problems out on track
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| By Gary Watkins | Sunday, July 27th 2014, 14:53 GMT |
Audi claimed its third Spa 24 Hours victory in four years courtesy of the Belgian WRT team and its all-star line-up of Rene Rast, Markus Winkelhock and Laurens Vanthoor
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| By Jonathan Noble and Scott Mitchell | Sunday, July 27th 2014, 15:05 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton has revealed he was "very, very shocked" his Mercedes Formula 1 team ordered him to move aside for team-mate and title rival Nico Rosberg during the Hungarian Grand Prix
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| By Gary Watkins | Saturday, July 26th 2014, 15:44 GMT |
The 1000km event in next year's Blancpain Endurance Series will switch from the Nurburgring to Paul Ricard
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| By Charles Bradley | Saturday, July 26th 2014, 15:21 GMT |
Arthur Pic scored his maiden GP2 victory at the Hungaroring on Saturday after a perfectly-timed safety car played into the hands of Campos Racing's pit strategy
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, July 26th 2014, 15:41 GMT |
Kevin Magnussen is set to start from the pitlane for the Hungarian Grand Prix because he will need a new chassis and gearbox following his qualifying accident
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| By Glenn Freeman and Ben Anderson | Friday, July 25th 2014, 14:36 GMT |
The Mercedes and Red Bull Formula 1 teams were surprised by the championship-dominating outfit's advantage over the rest of the field in practice for the Hungarian Grand Prix on Friday
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| By Charles Bradley | Friday, July 25th 2014, 14:42 GMT |
Williams F1 protege Felipe Nasr set his first-ever GP2 pole position for Carlin at the Hungaroring on Friday afternoon, closing the gap to series leader Jolyon Palmer by four points in the process
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| By Ben Anderson and Pablo Elizalde | Friday, July 25th 2014, 14:58 GMT |
Valtteri Bottas and Felipe Massa are expecting a less competitive weekend for the Williams Formula 1 team in this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, July 24th 2014, 15:46 GMT |
Max Chilton is hoping a change of chassis for this weekend's Hungarian Grand Prix will result in a step forward in pace
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| By Glenn Freeman | Thursday, July 24th 2014, 15:17 GMT |
The DTM has dropped its Chinese round from this year's calendar, replacing it with a race at Zandvoort on the same late-September date.
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| By Edd Straw | Thursday, July 24th 2014, 15:41 GMT |
Alexander Rossi has joined the Marussia Formula 1 team as reserve driver for the rest of the 2014 season.
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, July 23rd 2014, 12:06 GMT |
Fernando Alonso is yet to be convinced by the Ferrari Formula 1 team's plans to improve its current poor form in 2015
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, July 23rd 2014, 12:58 GMT |
Mercedes Formula 1 bosses Toto Wolff and Paddy Lowe were injured during a team-building event in Austria on Tuesday
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, July 23rd 2014, 14:55 GMT |
Red Bull says there is no point in it stopping development of this year's Formula 1 car in favour of focusing on its 2015 design.
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| By Peter Mills | Tuesday, July 22nd 2014, 14:02 GMT |
The proposed TC3 International touring car series is expected to hold its Formula 1 support races at long haul grands prix in 2015
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| Tuesday, July 22nd 2014, 14:32 GMT |
Former Formula 1 driver Jerome d'Ambrosio has completed Dragon Racing's line-up for the inaugural Formula E season
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, July 22nd 2014, 15:16 GMT |
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier says Felipe Massa was wrong to blame Kevin Magnussen for their German Grand Prix collision, because the FIA's report proves the Dane was totally innocent
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| By Hal Ridge | Monday, July 21st 2014, 15:02 GMT |
Hyundai World Rally Championship driver Thierry Neuville plans to contest a round of the World Rallycross Championship, potentially before the end of the 2014 season
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, July 21st 2014, 14:26 GMT |
Red Bull insists that it cannot ignore Williams as a threat in the Formula 1 constructors' championship, now that its Grove-based rival has hit a decent run of form.
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| Monday, July 21st 2014, 15:20 GMT |
Formula E has unveiled the track layout it will use for the fourth round of its inaugural season in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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| Sunday, July 20th 2014, 15:28 GMT |
Jean-Eric Vergne has been handed a five-second penalty for exceeding track limits during his battle with Romain Grosjean in the German Grand Prix
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| By Ben Anderson and Matt Beer | Sunday, July 20th 2014, 15:51 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen says damage from his incidents with Lewis Hamilton, Fernando Alonso and Sebastian Vettel was the main reason for his failure to score in the German Grand Prix.
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| By Ben Anderson | Saturday, July 19th 2014, 15:39 GMT |
The Ferrari Formula 1 team is banking on cooler temperatures in order to improve its form in the German Grand Prix, according to Fernando Alonso.
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| By Charles Bradley | Saturday, July 19th 2014, 15:26 GMT |
Mitch Evans won the Hockenheim GP2 Series feature race, the 200th in the championship's history, with an amazing drive from 15th on the grid in his Russian Time machine
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, July 19th 2014, 15:47 GMT |
Sebastien Bourdais capitalised on an aggressive strategy by KV Racing Technology to secure pole position for the first race of this weekend's IndyCar double-header in Toronto
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, July 18th 2014, 14:42 GMT |
Mercedes Formula 1 duo Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg have admitted that losing their FRIC suspension system had made life harder for them.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, July 18th 2014, 15:03 GMT |
Josef Newgarden opened this week's IndyCar double-header in Toronto by going fastest in Friday's opening practice session.
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| By Charles Bradley | Friday, July 18th 2014, 14:49 GMT |
Series leader Jolyon Palmer will start the 200th race in GP2's history from pole position after topping qualifying at Hockenheim for the DAMS team
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| By Glenn Freeman | Thursday, July 17th 2014, 15:32 GMT |
Renault believes there is a "90 per cent" chance that its World Series by Renault package will return to the UK with a round at Silverstone in 2015
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| By Ben Anderson and Matt Beer | Thursday, July 17th 2014, 14:03 GMT |
Kamui Kobayashi says he has to believe that the Caterham Formula 1 team's restructuring will pay off, after the squad's new owners announced staff cuts and a management reshuffle.
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| By Edd Straw and Matt Beer | Thursday, July 17th 2014, 14:54 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton says Nico Rosberg's new deal with the Mercedes Formula 1 team does not put him under any pressure to tie down his own longer-term future.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, July 16th 2014, 14:18 GMT |
Mercedes is bracing itself for some more 'hard' times in trying to manage Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg now that there is little separating them in the Formula 1 title battle.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Wednesday, July 16th 2014, 15:40 GMT |
Tony Kanaan says that he now feels fully integrated with Chip Ganassi Racing and is confident that the team is on the verge of a turnaround after a disappointing start to the season
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, July 16th 2014, 15:51 GMT |
Formula 1 chiefs are pushing to change the penalty system for unsafe releases from pitstops, AUTOSPORT can reveal, after complaints from drivers that it is unfair.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, July 15th 2014, 12:51 GMT |
Formula 1 teams have failed to agree unanimously to delay a ban on FRIC suspension until the end of the season, AUTOSPORT can reveal
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| By Marcus Simmons | Tuesday, July 15th 2014, 14:09 GMT |
British teams Fortec Motorsport and Double R Racing are both set to change their driver line-ups for the next round of the Formula 3 European Championship at the Red Bull Ring
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, July 15th 2014, 14:58 GMT |
The Williams Formula 1 team must work hard to maintain its recent form because the strength of the midfield pack means it could easily slip back, according to performance chief Rob Smedley
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, July 14th 2014, 15:33 GMT |
Renault admits it will still be paying the price next year for having started its Formula 1 V6 turbo project so late.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Monday, July 14th 2014, 13:23 GMT |
Ed Carpenter took responsibility for the accident that eliminated Juan Pablo Montoya from Saturday night's IndyCar race at Iowa, although he insisted that the clash was unintentional.
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| By Glenn Freeman | Monday, July 14th 2014, 15:47 GMT |
Renault has given its long-term support to its 'World Series' racing package, securing the future of its headlining Formula Renault 3.5 category for multiple years.
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| By Marcus Simmons | Sunday, July 13th 2014, 14:25 GMT |
Esteban Ocon completed a Moscow Raceway hat-trick in the Formula 3 European Championship, but only after a thrilling last-lap battle with Max Verstappen
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Sunday, July 13th 2014, 13:14 GMT |
Maxime Martin converted his maiden DTM pole position into his first series win at Moscow Raceway
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| By Hal Ridge | Sunday, July 13th 2014, 14:29 GMT |
Toomas Heikkinen became the sixth consecutive different winner in the World Rallycross Championship this season, coming out on top of a dramatic final at Mettet in Belgium
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| Saturday, July 12th 2014, 14:46 GMT |
European Formula 3 championship leader Esteban Ocon qualified on pole for races two and three in the second qualifying session at Moscow Raceway
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| Saturday, July 12th 2014, 15:18 GMT |
The DeltaWing team will miss the United SportsCar Championship event in Motorsport Park, Canada this weekend after a fire in Friday practice
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| By Hal Ridge | Saturday, July 12th 2014, 15:34 GMT |
Anton Marklund heads the order at the end of day one at Mettet in Belgium, round six of the World Rallycross Championship
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, July 11th 2014, 15:35 GMT |
Lightning strikes in the area surrounding Iowa Speedway forced the cancellation of today's opening IndyCar practice session on the 7/8th mile oval.
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| By Gary Watkins | Friday, July 11th 2014, 14:50 GMT |
The British Ram Racing Ferrari team has withdrawn from the remainder of this year's World Endurance Championship.
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| By Glenn Freeman | Friday, July 11th 2014, 15:39 GMT |
Roberto Merhi led the way in Formula Renault 3.5 free practice at the Nurburgring, two weeks on from taking his maiden win in the category at Moscow Raceway.
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| By Craig Scarborough | Thursday, July 10th 2014, 14:30 GMT |
Analysis: What 18-inch wheels mean for F1
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, July 10th 2014, 15:57 GMT |
Daniel Ricciardo is certain his Red Bull Formula 1 team-mate Sebastian Vettel will soon rediscover his best form, after a difficult start to the season.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Thursday, July 10th 2014, 15:10 GMT |
IndyCar's competition boss Derrick Walker says that calls for a zero tolerance policy on cars that fail technical inspections are unrealistic.
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| By Edd Straw | Wednesday, July 9th 2014, 14:17 GMT |
Pirelli could provide 18-inch tyres to Formula 1 from the start of the 2016 season should the sport want them following its first test of the larger wheels.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Wednesday, July 9th 2014, 14:05 GMT |
KV Racing Technology IndyCar team co-owner Jimmy Vasser believes that the team was unable to get the best out of Simona de Silvestro during 2013 due to poor internal dynamics
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, July 9th 2014, 14:28 GMT |
Ferrari Formula 1 development driver Pedro de la Rosa says the planned reduction in testing for next season is bad for the sport.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, July 8th 2014, 13:06 GMT |
McLaren says just missing a British Grand Prix podium was still not good enough, as it faces up to the reality of its Formula 1 performance deficit
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, July 8th 2014, 12:28 GMT |
Red Bull is confident that engine supplier Renault's recent restructuring will help bring it back to the front of Formula 1
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| Tuesday, July 8th 2014, 15:28 GMT |
The Caterham Formula 1 team has added GP2 racer Nathanael Berthon to a "new" driver development programme
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| By Mark Glendenning | Monday, July 7th 2014, 14:09 GMT |
Nine of NASCAR's largest teams have formed an alliance with the aim of exploring common interests and collaborating on initiatives to promote the sport
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| By Mark Glendenning | Monday, July 7th 2014, 14:46 GMT |
Juan Pablo Montoya believes that he is emerging as a dark horse for this year's IndyCar championship following his win at Pocono on Sunday
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, July 7th 2014, 15:54 GMT |
The Williams Formula 1 team was taken aback by how competitive its car was in the British Grand Prix, according to its head of performance engineering Rob Smedley
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| By Ben Anderson | Sunday, July 6th 2014, 14:32 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton slashed the points gap to Nico Rosberg in the Formula 1 world championship by winning the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
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| By Hal Ridge | Sunday, July 6th 2014, 15:10 GMT |
DTM star Mattias Ekstrom took victory at his home round of the World Rallycross Championship at Holjes, in only the third event for his EKS RX team
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| By Jonathan Noble and Glenn Freeman | Sunday, July 6th 2014, 15:34 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton believes he is back on terms with Nico Rosberg in the Formula 1 title race following his victory in the British Grand Prix.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, July 5th 2014, 15:22 GMT |
Tony Kanaan opened this weekend's IndyCar round at Pocono by setting the pace in the opening practice session.
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| By Gary Watkins | Saturday, July 5th 2014, 15:27 GMT |
Max Verstappen snatched pole position for Sunday's Zandvoort Masters Formula 3 invitational event in the dying minutes of second qualifying
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| By Hal Ridge | Saturday, July 5th 2014, 15:35 GMT |
Double European Rallycross Champion Timur Timerzyanov heads the order after day one of the fifth round of the FIA World Rallycross Championship at Holjes, Sweden.
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| By Jonathan Noble and Pablo Elizalde | Friday, July 4th 2014, 15:24 GMT |
Daniel Ricciardo believes his Red Bull Formula 1 team is back to its best for the British Grand Prix after the problems it endured in Austria
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| By Charles Bradley | Friday, July 4th 2014, 15:41 GMT |
Ferrari protege Raffaele Marciello will start round nine of the GP2 Series at Silverstone from pole position after topping qualifying in his Racing Engineering car on Friday afternoon.
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| By Ben Anderson and Glenn Freeman | Friday, July 4th 2014, 15:50 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton says that he will not be able to gain much from Nico Rosberg's British Grand Prix free practice data following his own Mercedes stopping with an engine problem
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| By Gary Watkins and Scott Mitchell | Thursday, July 3rd 2014, 15:21 GMT |
Le Mans 24 Hours class winners Toni Vilander and Emmanuel Collard will join a bumper AF Corse Ferrari entry at the Spa British GT round.
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| Thursday, July 3rd 2014, 15:15 GMT |
GP2 team Hilmer Motorsport has hit back at its driver Facu Regalia's claims that he has quit the team due to its lack of competitiveness and reliability
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| By Jonathan Noble and Pablo Elizalde | Thursday, July 3rd 2014, 15:15 GMT |
Kamui Kobayashi says there is no reason to think he will not see out the 2014 Formula 1 season with Caterham despite the change of ownership
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| By Ben Anderson and Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, July 2nd 2014, 15:22 GMT |
Red Bull has ruled out switching to any of Renault's rival Formula 1 engine manufacturers because it believes its chances will be limited if it becomes a mere customer team
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| By Marcus Simmons | Wednesday, July 2nd 2014, 15:28 GMT |
Two of Formula 3's leading teams have given the thumbs-up to the FIA World Motor Sport Council's extension of the current chassis' life by two seasons.
The World Council announced last Friday that the current-generation cars, which were originally scheduled to compete from 2012-15, will go on until the end of 2017.
Carlin boss Trevor Carlin said: "I was quite shocked and pleasantly surprised when they said the cars can go on until 2017.
"Considering the money we spent this year [on the new-spec engines, gearboxes and electronics] it puts us back on an even keel."
Van Amersfoort Racing chief Frits van Amersfoort agreed, adding: "It's a good decision, because the teams need air to start breathing again."
AUTOSPORT has also uncovered more details surrounding the technical changes to the cars to be brought in next season.
Handbrakes (which are used as part of the starting system) will be banned, a rev limiter will be introduced for starts, and there will be a development freeze on dampers.
There will also be further tweaks to the sporting regulations surrounding engine changes, and a revision of the gear ratios allowed using information gained from the first season of racing with the new, larger-diameter 28mm air restrictor.
Carlin had mixed feelings about this: "It [the handbrake ban] won't save a penny because we've already got them, but it should be OK - at least we don't start races on the downhill slope at Spa anymore.
"I feel that someone will just come up with something that isn't a handbrake [and starts a new form of development].
"I think the rule is intended to save money on clutches - people are destroying them by poorly operating the handbrakes.
"And the good drivers will find a solution - I remember when Takuma Sato and Alan van der Merwe [Carlin's British F3 champions of 2001 and '03 respectively] could do 0-60 times of less than three seconds without a handbrake; some drivers now struggle to do that with one."
Van Amersfoort was more enthusiastic.
"I welcome the handbrake ban, but the rev limiter I don't know - we don't have a problem," he said.
"But it's very important that we keep this series under control technically, that no one is putting development into things that will bring us trouble.
"One of the most important things for this championship is that small teams and big teams can survive together - it's vital that we have this combination and that the big teams don't swallow the others up, otherwise it's unhealthy."
| Wednesday, July 2nd 2014, 15:37 GMT |
Red Bull Formula 1 reserve and BMW DTM racer Antonio Felix da Costa will drive for the Aguri team in the 2014/15 Formula E season.
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| By Edd Straw | Tuesday, July 1st 2014, 14:46 GMT |
AUTOSPORT's technical expert, Gary Anderson, has been awarded an honorary degree by the University of Ulster.
Anderson was made an honorary doctor of science in a graduation ceremony at the university's Coleraine Campus on Tuesday.
The doctorate is in recognition of his achievements in motorsport, which make him a role model for students graduating from the university.
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Although Anderson embarked on a long and distinguished career in motorsport without any formal qualifications, producing racewinning cars for both Jordan and Stewart, he is quick to stress the importance of education.
"When I was young, education was not very high on my to-do list and at Coleraine Secondary School, to be honest my aim was to leave there as soon as possible," Anderson told AUTOSPORT.
"So it was a great honour to go back to my home town to receive this honorary degree from the University of Ulster.
"In the late 1960s/early 1970s, it was difficult to find work in Northern Ireland and I decided to move to England.
"From leaving school at 15 to starting work for Bernie Ecclestone at Brabham at 22 I had nine different jobs, from a building site dump truck driver to a mechanic on Massey Ferguson tractors
"I have experienced most things but as they say when you get involved in a job that you love you never work again. In a way that's what happened to me but I had to work hard.
"I questioned and listened to everything and in motorsport I had some great tutors, Bob Dance, Gordon Murray and Gordon Coppuck are three that I would like to mention.
"It was through people like this and my determination that I got the opportunities that I did.
"When I moved into the design side of things I was employing people to work for me with vastly higher qualifications than I had.
"I believe that combining education and experience and getting them to work together is a stronger combination than either individually."
As well as his time at Jordan and Stewart/Jaguar as technical director, Anderson has worked for Brabham, McLaren and Ensign in F1.
| Tuesday, July 1st 2014, 14:29 GMT |
The World Touring Car Championship has confirmed it will hold a third race in China this season at the Beijing Goldenport Motor Park circuit on October 5th.
The meeting, round nine on the WTCC calendar, replaces the American event at Sonoma, scheduled for September 14th.
Logistical difficulties have been blamed by organisers for the changes. Key among these was the cancellation of the September 17th departure of a ship carrying WTCC cars and equipment to Shanghai from Oakland harbour.
The next vessel, leaving on September 21, would not have arrived in Shanghai until October 9, thereby jeopardising the Shanghai race on October 12.
"We had to face a logistic challenge, and after consulting with the WTCC stake holders, we went through all possible scenarios, including date changes and air freight," said Eurosport COO Francois Ribeiro.
"But we came to the conclusion that keeping Sonoma on the schedule was unviable.
"The Chinese Touring Car Championship promoter, our partner in China, has quickly reacted to change its CTCC schedule and put together an alternative event at Beijing, the week before Shanghai."
Steve Page, Sonoma Raceway president said: "We are sorry to miss the terrific on-track action that the WTCC has brought to Sonoma the last two years, but wish the best to everyone involved with the series as they pursue this new schedule."
Prior to settling on Beijing, the Guandong circuit had been considered as a potential venue, as revealed by AUTOSPORT in May.
| By Gary Watkins | Tuesday, July 1st 2014, 15:06 GMT |
Former grand prix driver Jarno Trulli's new Formula E team will be run by successful single-seater squad Super Nova.
TrulliGP has signed up Super Nova, which won four Formula 3000 drivers' titles in the 1990s and early 2000s, to run its Spark-Renault SRT_01Es in the wake of the official announcement of the team last month.
Trulli, whose team-mate in the inaugural season of the Formula E Championship will be Michela Cerruti, told AUTOSPORT: "We have reached an agreement with [team bosses] David and John Sears at Super Nova and I am very pleased because I rate the team very highly.
"They are very serious people with a high level of experience, so we couldn't have found a better partner."
David Sears added: "We wanted to be involved with Formula E from the beginning, so we are very pleased and excited about this.
"Running a team commercially is incredibly difficult so this is exactly what we've needed since our sponsor went bust on us and we had to shut up shop in GP2."
Super Nova, which was also a frontrunner in GP2 before dropping out of the series ahead of the 2012 season, joins fellow stalwart British race team Carlin, which is running the Mahindra Racing entries, on the Formula E grid.
Norfolk-based Super Nova has raced in Auto GP since leaving GP2, winning the drivers' title in 2012-13.
Ex-Lotus motorsport director Claudio Berro, who formerly ran GT racing programmes for Maserati and Ferrari, is no longer involved with the team.
SUPER NOVA'S TITLES
1995 Formula 3000 Vincenzo Sospiri
1997 Formula 3000 Ricardo Zonta
1998 Formula 3000 Juan Pablo Montoya
2002 Formula 3000 Sebastien Bourdais
2006-07 A1GP Team Germany
2012 Auto GP Adrian Quaife-Hobbs
2013 Auto GP Vittorio Ghirelli
