| Saturday, August 30th 2014, 13:57 GMT |
Marc Marquez stayed clear of Andrea Dovizioso and Jorge Lorenzo to notch up his 10th pole on the 2014 MotoGP season at Silverstone
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| By Marcus Simmons | Saturday, August 30th 2014, 14:30 GMT |
Martin Cao grabbed honours in British Formula 3 Championship qualifying at Brands Hatch on the very last lap of the session
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, August 30th 2014, 15:33 GMT |
Former French Grand Prix promoter Philippe Gurdjian, who also played an instrumental role in helping put Malaysian and Abu Dhabi on the Formula 1 calendar, has died aged 69.
The Frenchman, who competed several times at Le Mans in the 1970s and 1980s, first shot to prominence as the promoter of his home F1 GP.
He oversaw the race at Paul Ricard from 1985 and then in 1991 led the transfer of the event to Magny-Cours.
Gurdjian's success with the French GP led to him becoming one of Bernie Ecclestone's most trusted men, and he helped organise the Spanish GP for a while.
He was also called upon to ensure that efforts to bring the Malaysian and Abu Dhabi GPs on to the calendar were successful - and both have become established.
Gurdjian's biggest legacy will be helping to engineer the transformation of the Ricard circuit into a modern testing facility - although he never did see it secure an F1 race again.
It became a contender to host a Mediterranean GP back in 2006, and Gurdjian once famously suggested that an F1 race could even take place there exclusively for corporate guests, without any paying spectators.
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier, who became a friend of Gurdjian, was one of the first to pay tribute to him.
"On behalf of all at McLaren, I want to say how very sorry we all are to hear the sad news that Philippe Gurdjian has passed away," he said.
"As the French Grand Prix promoter for many years, when the race was at Magny-Cours, and latterly as the 'father' of the brilliantly revamped Paul Ricard circuit, he was a very important and highly influential figure in the story of motorsport in France.
"He was also a friend of mine, and a lovely man - wise, intelligent, friendly and amusing. I'll miss him.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with his family and many friends today."
| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, August 29th 2014, 13:32 GMT |
Nico Rosberg has publicly apologised to Lewis Hamilton, his Mercedes team and Formula 1 fans for his part in the collision with his team-mate at the Belgian Grand Prix
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, August 29th 2014, 14:02 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton insists that it is still possible for him to continue working with Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate Nico Rosberg, despite the fallout from their Belgian Grand Prix crash
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| Friday, August 29th 2014, 14:07 GMT |
Marc Marquez remained a class apart in the second MotoGP practice session at Silverstone ahead of the British Grand Prix
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| By Aleksander Kabanovsky | Thursday, August 28th 2014, 15:07 GMT |
Lada boss Victor Shapovalov believes the company's 2015 Vesta World Touring Car Championship racer can provide "a huge step forward" for the Russian manufacturer over its outgoing Granta model.
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| By David Evans | Thursday, August 28th 2014, 14:29 GMT |
Mikko Hirvonen says he's still got what it takes to win in the World Rally Championship despite struggling for pace at last week's Rally Germany
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, August 28th 2014, 15:22 GMT |
New Toro Rosso Formula 1 recruit Max Verstappen believes his driving style is most reminiscent of double world champion Fernando Alonso among the current crop of drivers.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Wednesday, August 27th 2014, 15:09 GMT |
Outgoing IndyCar champion Scott Dixon believes that internal distractions over the winter played a role in his Chip Ganassi team's slow start to the 2014 IndyCar season
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| Wednesday, August 27th 2014, 14:25 GMT |
Jorge Lorenzo reckons Marc Marquez will surpass Valentino Rossi's statistics and become the greatest MotoGP rider of all time
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, August 27th 2014, 15:56 GMT |
McLaren thinks a major update programme that kicks off at the Singapore Grand Prix could lift it on terms with Red Bull by the end of the 2014 Formula 1 season.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Tuesday, August 26th 2014, 15:29 GMT |
JR Hildebrand is in the frame to join Josef Newgarden at the newly-merged CFH Racing team in next year's IndyCar season
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| By Gary Watkins | Tuesday, August 26th 2014, 12:34 GMT |
Tomas Enge has paid tribute to the strength of his Reiter Lamborghini after walking away from a multiple roll at the Slovakia Ring Blancpain Sprint Series event last weekend
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, August 26th 2014, 14:11 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen believes the Ferrari Formula 1 team is becoming stronger as the 2014 season wears on, after recording his best result of the campaign at the Belgian Grand Prix
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| Monday, August 25th 2014, 15:34 GMT |
Felipe Nasr has further stoked his increasingly bitter GP2 title rivalry with Jolyon Palmer by saying he was pleased to win at Spa 'without pushing people off'.
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, August 25th 2014, 15:50 GMT |
Williams Formula 1 driver Felipe Massa believes a case could be made for penalising Nico Rosberg for his Belgian Grand Prix collision with Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton.
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Monday, August 25th 2014, 15:58 GMT |
Ex-Formula 1 driver Heikki Kovalainen is set to test a DTM car for BMW on Thursday
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| By Jonathan Noble and Matt Beer | Sunday, August 24th 2014, 14:27 GMT |
Nico Rosberg is adamant that his collision with Mercedes Formula 1 team-mate and world championship rival Lewis Hamilton will not wreck their relationship for the rest of the 2014 season
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| By Jonathan Noble and Pablo Elizalde | Sunday, August 24th 2014, 14:34 GMT |
Daniel Ricciardo says his Belgian Grand Prix victory is a promising sign that his Red Bull Formula 1 team may be strong again in Italy
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| Sunday, August 24th 2014, 15:21 GMT |
Kevin Magnussen has been handed a 20-second post-race penalty following an incident with Fernando Alonso during the Belgian Grand Prix
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| By Charles Bradley | Saturday, August 23rd 2014, 15:29 GMT |
Ferrari Formula 1 protege Raffaele Marciello scored his first GP2 Series victory by defeating McLaren junior Stoffel Vandoorne in a thrilling wet-weather duel at Spa-Francorchamps
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| By Ben Anderson and Pablo Elizalde | Saturday, August 23rd 2014, 15:38 GMT |
Fernando Alonso admits he has been surprised by how strong his Ferrari Formula 1 team has been during the Belgian Grand Prix so far
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| By Gary Watkins | Saturday, August 23rd 2014, 15:51 GMT |
WRT Audi drivers Laurens Vanthoor and Cesar Ramos triumphed in an incident-packed and twice red-flagged Blancpain Sprint Series qualifying race
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| By Dieter Rencken and Pablo Elizalde | Friday, August 22nd 2014, 14:50 GMT |
Former world champion Jacques Villeneuve believes the Super Licence system is flawed when a 17-year-old such as Max Verstappen can race in Formula 1
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| Friday, August 22nd 2014, 14:43 GMT |
Stoffel Vandoorne laimed pole for Saturday's GP2 feature race at Spa-Francorchamps, deposing Jolyon Palmer from the top, despite the Briton leading for most of the session.
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| By Jonathan Noble and Andrew van Leeuwen | Friday, August 22nd 2014, 15:48 GMT |
Pastor Maldonado says he was unlucky to crash out of the second Formula 1 practice session at Spa, while also admitting that the crash was not due to a mechanical failure.
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| By Matt Beer | Thursday, August 21st 2014, 15:13 GMT |
Max Chilton says he relinquished his Marussia Formula 1 race seat to Alexander Rossi for the Belgian Grand Prix voluntarily due to financial issues on the team's side.
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| Thursday, August 21st 2014, 15:24 GMT |
Trident has changed its entire GP3 Series driver line-up ahead of this weekend's round at Spa-Francorchamps
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| By David Evans | Wednesday, August 20th 2014, 15:11 GMT |
Marcus Gronholm says there is no chance he will compete again in the World Rally Championship despite his recent appointment as Volkswagen's test driver
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| Wednesday, August 20th 2014, 14:09 GMT |
FIA technical delegate Charlie Whiting says the Sochi Autodrom is ready to host the Russian Formula 1 Grand Prix later this year
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, August 20th 2014, 15:51 GMT |
Toro Rosso technical director James Key believes his former team Sauber has "all the fundamentals" necessary to bounce back from its difficult start to the 2014 Formula 1 season.
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| Tuesday, August 19th 2014, 14:57 GMT |
Former Auto GP champion Kevin Ceccon has joined the Jenzer Motorsport GP3 team for the remainder of the season, starting with this weekend's races at Spa
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| Tuesday, August 19th 2014, 12:42 GMT |
Ducati MotoGP project boss Gigi Dall'Igna insists he is not concerned about the team's 2015 bike hitting the track much later than those of its rivals
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| By Ben Anderson and Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, August 19th 2014, 14:04 GMT |
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone needs educating about the benefits of social media if the sport is to make the popularity strides it desires, says Force India's Vijay Mallya
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| By Kevin Turner | Monday, August 18th 2014, 11:57 GMT |
Nicolas Hamilton, younger brother of Mercedes Formula 1 star Lewis, is targeting a British Touring Car Championship campaign for 2015
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| By Kevin Turner | Monday, August 18th 2014, 14:32 GMT |
The British Touring Car Championship will revert to the Oulton Park Island circuit for its 2015 calendar, which has been confirmed
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| By Gary Watkins | Monday, August 18th 2014, 15:10 GMT |
A third entry from the HTP Mercedes squad will help boost the Blancpain Sprint Series grid to a season's high at the Slovakia Ring next weekend.
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| Sunday, August 17th 2014, 15:21 GMT |
Marc Marquez said being beaten for the first time in the 2014 MotoGP season at Brno came as a relief
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| By Richard Asher | Sunday, August 17th 2014, 14:25 GMT |
Lucas Auer won race three of the European Formula 3 Championship weekend at the Nürburgring for Mucke Motorsport, just managing to hold off a frustrated Tom Blomqvist
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| By Richard Asher | Sunday, August 17th 2014, 15:31 GMT |
Tamas Pal Kiss won the second Auto GP race at the Nurburgring, but could not stop Kimiya Sato wrapping up the championship with one event still to come
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| Saturday, August 16th 2014, 13:07 GMT |
Marc Marquez resisted a strong challenge from the Ducatis of Andrea Dovizioso and Andrea Iannone in Brno MotoGP qualifying, as Yamaha had a disastrous session
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Saturday, August 16th 2014, 12:46 GMT |
Marco Wittmann took his third pole position of the 2014 DTM season in comfortable fashion at the Nurburgring
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| By Marcus Simmons | Saturday, August 16th 2014, 14:32 GMT |
Martin Cao finally scored his first British Formula 3 Championship win at Thruxton to move back into the series lead after a race-long battle with Matt Rao
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| By Edd Straw | Friday, August 15th 2014, 14:11 GMT |
Felipe Massa and Valtteri Bottas have been "instrumental" to the Williams squad's Formula 1 revival, according to deputy team principal Claire Williams.
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| By Richard Asher | Friday, August 15th 2014, 15:40 GMT |
Markus Pommer used all his local knowledge to claim pole position in another wet session at the Nurburgring.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, August 15th 2014, 15:53 GMT |
Reigning IndyCar champion Scott Dixon will test the new Dallara IL-15 Indy Lights car next month to assist in developing the chassis ahead of its race debut next year.
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| Thursday, August 14th 2014, 13:22 GMT |
Sauber-affiliated former IndyCar racer Simona de Silvestro believes the timing is right for her to make the step into Formula 1 next year
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, August 14th 2014, 11:55 GMT |
Toro Rosso boss Franz Tost says Jean-Eric Vergne needs a big result in Formula 1 to validate the progress he has made this season.
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| By Gary Watkins | Thursday, August 14th 2014, 13:32 GMT |
Martino Finotto, who has died at the age of 80 after a long battle with cancer, made his mark in our sport as a driver, a team owner and engine constructor.
The high point of the wealthy Italian's 20-year racing career came with victory in the 1979 European Touring Car Championship aboard a self-run BMW 3.0CSL entered under the Jolly Club banner. He claimed the title with long-time co-driver and business partner Carlo Facetti after winning five of the final six rounds.
Finotto, who won a total of 12 ETC races in 1977-79, had already contested the blue-riband 24-hour enduros at Le Mans and Daytona and turned his attention to sportscar racing after winning the touring car crown.
He raced a privateer Group 5 Lancia Beta Montecarlo in the 1980 World Championship for Makes and ran a Ferrari 308 GTB turbo, which was reputed to have 1000bhp in qualifying trim, alongside the Lancia the following season.
The Ferrari was developed by Finotto and Facetti's CARMA operation - the name of which was derived from the opening letters of their christian names - and this tiny organisation subsequently built a bespoke four-cylinder turbocharged engine for the new Group C Junior category for 1983.
Badged a Giannini after the Fiat special tuner because CARMA needed a manufacturer for homologation purposes, this engine claimed back-to-back World Endurance Championship titles in the secondary Group C category in 1983-84 together with Italian racing car constructor Alba.
Finotto took a total of four class victories in the first season sharing with Facetti.
Almo Coppelli, who drove for the CARMA Alba set-up in the second of those seasons and subsequently raced with Finotto in the US IMSA series, remembers a man who was at once passionate for motorsport and a hard taskmaster.
"Martino was driven by his passion, but he always gave me a hard time," says Coppelli.
"He and Facetti were old-school guys and really tough with me, but I learnt a lot - racing with them was part of my schooling.
"Facetti did everything in the team: he was the driver, the manager and the engineer. Finotto paid the bills, but we was a decent driver who was never far off the pace."
Finotto continued racing at the wheel of Albas for much of the 1980s before driving for other marques in the IMSA Camel Lights category through into the early 1990s.
He competed at Le Mans on six occasions without breaking into the top 10, but had a best finishes at Daytona of second in 1977 driving a Porsche 935 and a fifth in 1981 at the wheel of his Lancia.
Finotto, who made his fortune in the chemical industry, started racing in 1972 and briefly flirted with Formula 1.
He bought a pair of Brabham BT42s, but decided against racing them after a solitary test at Monza at the end of 1973.
Instead they were fielded by ex-Formula 3 star Jurg Dubler under the Scuderia Finotto banner for a number of drivers through the '74 season, though two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Gerard Larrousse's start at the Belgian Grand Prix at Nivelles was the only time the team made it onto the grid.
Finotto continued to race into the 1990s, making his last sportscar appearance at the 1995 Sebring 12 Hours.
| Wednesday, August 13th 2014, 14:36 GMT |
NASCAR has issued Kevin Harvick's crew chief Rodney Childers with a $25,000 penalty following a bizarre unapproved weight incident at Watkins Glen last weekend.
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| Wednesday, August 13th 2014, 14:38 GMT |
Briton Bradley Smith will remain with the Tech 3 team in 2015 after extending his deal with the MotoGP squad
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| By Edd Straw | Wednesday, August 13th 2014, 15:45 GMT |
Daniel Ricciardo's performance during the first half of the Formula 1 season have exceeded all expectations, according to Red Bull team principal Christian Horner.
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, August 12th 2014, 14:25 GMT |
The Mercedes Formula 1 team reckons the lack of mistakes made by Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg as they've fought each other for the 2014 world championship is "incredible"
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| By Gary Watkins | Tuesday, August 12th 2014, 14:59 GMT |
Millennium Racing is still aiming to compete in the second half of this season's World Endurance Championship, despite its absence from the entry list for next month's Austin round
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| Tuesday, August 12th 2014, 15:09 GMT |
Formula 3 European championship frontrunner Max Verstappen has joined the Red Bull Junior Team with immediate effect
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| By Edd Straw | Monday, August 11th 2014, 13:27 GMT |
The Red Bull Formula 1 team does not need to appoint a technical director to work under Adrian Newey, according to team principal Christian Horner.
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| Monday, August 11th 2014, 11:33 GMT |
The 8Star Motorsports sportscar team is planning to move into single-seaters for the first time with an attack on next year's revamped Indy Lights Series.
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| Monday, August 11th 2014, 15:48 GMT |
Two-time World Rally champion Marcus Gronholm has joined Volkswagen as a test driver to help develop the German manufacturer's Polo WRC.
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| Sunday, August 10th 2014, 08:26 GMT |
NASCAR Sprint Cup frontrunner and team owner Tony Stewart was involved in a fatal incident during a sprint car race at Canandaigua Motorsports Park on Saturday night.
The three-time Cup champion collided with 20-year-old Kevin Ward Jr, who exited his car and walked down the track gesticulating at Stewart during the subsequent yellow.
Ward was then struck by Stewart's car, sustaining fatal injuries.
A statement from the County of Ontario Sheriff's office described the incident:
"The driver of the car that spun exited the racecar and walked down the track onto the racing surface.
"Two racecars travelling in tandem approached as the driver continued down the track, gesturing to the two approaching cars.
"The first car swerved to avoid the driver out on the track.
"The second car, operated by Tony Stewart, struck the driver.
"The driver was treated by on-track medical staff and transported to FF Thompson Hospital, where he was pronounced deceased at 11.15pm.
"At this point, Mr Stewart has co-operated with the investigation, which is ongoing."
A statement from Stewart's Stewart-Haas team said:
"A tragic accident took place last night during a sprint car race in which Tony Stewart was participating. Tony was unhurt, but a fellow competitor lost his life.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends. We're still attempting to sort through all the details and we appreciate your understanding during this difficult time."
Stewart is among several NASCAR drivers who regularly compete in short oval events alongside their stock car campaigns.
His 2013 Cup season was cut short when he suffered a broken leg during a sprint car race at Southern Iowa Speedway last August.
The Cup series is racing at Watkins Glen this weekend, with Stewart having secured 13th in Saturday's qualifying session before travelling to the sprint car event that evening.
| Saturday, August 9th 2014, 22:55 GMT |
Ryan Dalziel snatched pole from Richard Westbrook with a final-lap effort in United SportsCar qualifying at Road America
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| Sunday, August 10th 2014, 14:30 GMT |
Tony Stewart has withdrawn from the Watkins Glen NASCAR Sprint Cup race following his involvement in a fatal sprint car incident on Saturday night.
Kevin Ward Jr died after he was struck by Stewart's car during an event at Canandaigua Motorsports Park.
The two drivers had collided on the previous lap, and 20-year-old Ward was on the track gesticulating at Stewart during the subsequent yellow when he was hit.
Despite initially indicating on Sunday morning that Stewart would race as planned in the day's Cup round, Stewart-Haas Racing vice president of competition Greg Zipadelli announced three hours before the start that the three-time series champion was pulling out of the race. Regan Smith will replace him.
"We were talking last night and through the night, and we gave Tony some time to sleep it," said Zipadelli.
"This morning he feels strongly that this is the right thing to do.
"We at Stewart-Haas Racing strongly support it and agree with it.
"It's a difficult time for all parties. There's not a lot we can do. The only thing we can do is what we feel is right."
Smith is currently second in the Nationwide Series and will be making his first Cup appearance of 2014.
The County of Ontario Sheriff's office said Stewart was co-operating fully with its investigation into Ward's death.
In an official statement, NASCAR backed Stewart's decision to miss the race.
"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family, friends, and fellow competitors of Kevin Ward Jr," it said.
"We support Tony Stewart's decision to miss today's race and we will continue to respect the process and timeline of the local authorities and will continue to monitor this situation moving forward."
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| Saturday, August 9th 2014, 08:12 GMT |
Colin Edwards could contest just two more events in the second half of his MotoGP farewell season
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| Saturday, August 9th 2014, 08:35 GMT |
Corvette Racing will field a car in the US World Endurance Championship round at Austin's Circuit of the Americas next month
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| Saturday, August 9th 2014, 15:01 GMT |
Stefan Bradl set a new weekend benchmark to take control of Saturday morning MotoGP practice at Indianapolis
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| Friday, August 8th 2014, 15:02 GMT |
Valentino Rossi led the way as the MotoGP field acclimatised to the revised Indianapolis road course in Friday morning practice
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| By Gary Watkins | Friday, August 8th 2014, 14:47 GMT |
Former Le Mans 24 Hours winner Andy Wallace will return to the wheel of a Bentley, if a British team's plan to purchase a Continental GT3 through crowd-funding comes together
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| By Jonathan Noble and Ben Anderson | Friday, August 8th 2014, 15:50 GMT |
Double grand prix winner Daniel Ricciardo reckons Red Bull stablemate Carlos Sainz Jr would benefit from making his Formula 1 debut with a backmarker team
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| Thursday, August 7th 2014, 14:07 GMT |
IndyCar race winner James Hinchcliffe will join Starworks Motorsport for its return to the United SportsCar Championship's Prototype class at Road America this weekend
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| By Edd Straw | Thursday, August 7th 2014, 12:29 GMT |
Romain Grosjean has stressed that his "love" for the Lotus Formula 1 team alone won't be enough to keep him at the team next year
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| Thursday, August 7th 2014, 15:23 GMT |
Jorge Lorenzo has completed a new two-year deal with Yamaha MotoGP team
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| By Edd Straw | Wednesday, August 6th 2014, 14:25 GMT |
Williams can aim to re-emerge as a world championship-winning force without a works engine deal, according to performance chief Rob Smedley
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| By David Evans | Wednesday, August 6th 2014, 14:42 GMT |
M-Sport World Rally Championhship team boss Malcolm Wilson admitted he was "really disappointed" with lead driver Mikko Hirvonen after Rally Finland
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| By Jonathan Noble and Matt Beer | Wednesday, August 6th 2014, 15:27 GMT |
Alexander Rossi believes swiftly securing a Marussia Formula 1 test deal after his split with Caterham was "critical" for his career
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| Tuesday, August 5th 2014, 11:55 GMT |
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has agreed a $100million settlement to end his bribery case in Munich
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| Tuesday, August 5th 2014, 09:48 GMT |
Honda Performance Development expects to have six of its new ARX-04b LMP2 coupes racing in customer hands next season
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, August 5th 2014, 15:48 GMT |
Sauber boss Monisha Kaltenborn says it will be "unacceptable" for her Formula 1 team to finish 10th in this season's constructors' championship
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Monday, August 4th 2014, 13:01 GMT |
Mercedes' DTM programme has been given a significant staffing boost with the signing of Michael Wilson from the brand's Formula 1 outfit
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| By Gary Watkins | Monday, August 4th 2014, 13:33 GMT |
Mike Smith, who has died from complications following heart surgery at the age of 59, was a driver whose talents were always overlooked as a result of his TV fame
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| By Edd Straw | Monday, August 4th 2014, 14:14 GMT |
Lotus will be able to fight for points more regularly when Formula 1 returns following the August break, according to Pastor Maldonado
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| By Kevin Turner | Sunday, August 3rd 2014, 14:24 GMT |
Jason Plato took his second win of the day in the second British Touring Car encounter at Snetterton after a great tussle with Colin Turkington
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| By Marcus Simmons | Sunday, August 3rd 2014, 14:43 GMT |
Antonio Giovinazzi made up for his disappointment earlier in the day to finally claim his first Formula 3 European Championship win at the Red Bull Ring
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| By Kevin Turner | Sunday, August 3rd 2014, 15:41 GMT |
Reigning British Touring Car champion Andrew Jordan will not contest the final race at Snetterton on medical grounds
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, August 2nd 2014, 15:22 GMT |
Jack Harvey leads an all-Schmidt front row after securing the first Indy Lights pole position of his career at Mid-Ohio on Saturday
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| Saturday, August 2nd 2014, 15:12 GMT |
Citroen's Jose Maria Lopez and Yvan Muller set the pace in World Touring Car Championship practice at the Termas de Rio Hondo track in Argentina on Saturday
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, August 2nd 2014, 15:42 GMT |
Juan Pablo Montoya is open to the idea of attempting the Indianapolis 500/Charlotte 600 IndyCar/NASCAR double next year if team owner Roger Penske gives him the opportunity
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| By Edd Straw | Friday, August 1st 2014, 13:29 GMT |
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has hailed Daniil Kvyat's Formula 1 rookie season as "sensational".
Kvyat was promoted from racing in GP3 and European F3 in 2013, with some question whether he was ready to make the step up.
But the 20-year-old - who won the GP3 title last year - scored points in his first two grands prix and has often been in the top 10 during his maiden season.
Horner believes Kvyat's form is testament to the strength of the Red Bull junior scheme.
"He has been sensational and has been the rookie of the season so far," Horner told AUTOSPORT.
"His raw pace and speed, considering the jump he has made from GP3, is hugely impressive.
"He had little pre-season testing and Jean-Eric [Vergne] is a very quick driver, so the benchmark he's up against is good as well.
"And we have got some great talent coming on beneath that with Carlos Sainz Jr, Pierre Gasly and Alex Lynn, so there is some very positive talent on the junior programme."
The Red Bull junior programme has been criticised in some quarters for its ruthlessness.
Sebastian Buemi, Jaime Alguersuari, Christian Klien and Vitantonio Liuzzi have all been axed from Red Bull's F1 programmes in the past.
But Horner believes the success of Sebastian Vettel and Daniel Ricciardo in his team shows how effective the scheme is.
"Both of our race drivers have come through the junior team and they are both there on merit," said Horner.
"The junior programme can be perceived as tough at times, but F1 is not a soft business and you get found out in the end.
"The great thing about the Red Bull programme is that if the guys are seriously talented, they find their way and they are supported."
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On the face of it, Christian Horner talking up a Red Bull junior should be no surprise, but the glowing praise he has heaped on Daniil Kvyat is merited.
The Russian had to take a giant leap to move from F3/GP3-level into F1 and with Toro Rosso's troubled pre-season testing offering relatively little time for him to hone his skills, it was in at the deep end.
His results, four top 10 finishes and five Q3 appearances, would have been even better but for the Italian team's reliability record.
Kvyat has also shown well relative to Jean-Eric Vergne, who is also having a good season after improving his mental approach.
But what is really impressive about Kvyat is his mature attitude. He speaks like someone who has been knocking around in F1 for five years and, crucially, is always focused on areas where he can improve rather than talking up his own performances.
That allows him to improve consistently and learn from when things have gone wrong.
It also justifies Helmut Marko's claim last year that it was the constructive way Kvyat responded to things going badly that earned him the nod over other candidates from the Red Bull stable.
It's still early days for Kvyat, but Horner has rightly recognised him as a driver who has the potential to race for his team in the future.
| By Marcus Simmons | Friday, August 1st 2014, 13:46 GMT |
Antonio Giovinazzi topped both free practice sessions for this weekend's Formula 3 European Championship round at the Red Bull Ring.
The Carlin-run Jagonya Ayam protege bounced back from a recent run of poor results to head championship leader Esteban Ocon by just under a tenth of a second in his Dallara-Volkswagen.
Lotus F1 junior Ocon can theoretically wrap up the championship this weekend in Austria, in the unlikely event of his outscoring closest rival Max Verstappen by 60 points across the three races, and the Frenchman was always towards the front in his Prema Powerteam Dallara-Mercedes.
Jake Dennis proved the strength of the Carlin package on this circuit, the Racing Steps-backed Brit going second in the opening 40-minute session and running Ocon very close in the second period.
So too did team-mates Jordan King and Tom Blomqvist, who ended the running fourth and sixth respectively.
Verstappen squeezed himself between the Carlin flotilla, the Dutchman going fifth quickest in his Van Amersfoort Racing Dallara-VW.
Prema also looks strong, with Dennis van de Laar and Antonio Fuoco backing up Ocon with seventh and eighth fastest times respectively.
Ed Jones made his Euro F3 return from injury - after warming up with a triple win last weekend at Spa in British F3 - to make it five Carlin runners in the top nine, while home hero Lucas Auer (although the Norisring is actually closer to his Kufstein home) rounded out the top 10 in his Mucke Motorsport Dallara-Merc.
Sandro Zeller parked his car early with a rough-sounding engine, while John Bryant-Meisner has started the weekend with a new Mercedes powerplant in his Fortec Motorsport car, and will take a trio of 10-place grid penalties as a result.
As predicted by AUTOSPORT, GP3 regular Alfonso Celis Jr is standing in for this round in the other Fortec car in place of Mitch Gilbert, who has quit the series.
Double R Racing is not at the Red Bull Ring as it was unable to find a replacement for Felipe Guimaraes.
Practice one: Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap 1. Antonio Giovinazzi Carlin Dallara-VW 1m25.843s 2. Jake Dennis Carlin Dallara-VW 1m25.867s +0.024s 3. Esteban Ocon Prema Dallara-Merc 1m25.870s +0.027s 4. Tom Blomqvist Carlin Dallara-VW 1m26.014s +0.171s 5. Antonio Fuoco Prema Dallara-Merc 1m26.074s +0.231s 6. Dennis van de Laar Prema Dallara-Merc 1m26.275s +0.432s 7. Jordan King Carlin Dallara-VW 1m26.278s +0.435s 8. Nicholas Latifi Prema Dallara-Merc 1m26.377s +0.534s 9. Lucas Auer Mucke Dallara-Merc 1m26.488s +0.645s 10. Felix Rosenqvist Mucke Dallara-Merc 1m26.488s +0.645s 11. Max Verstappen Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW 1m26.646s +0.803s 12. Gustavo Menezes Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW 1m26.809s +0.966s 13. Alexander Toril T-Sport Dallara-NBE 1m26.823s +0.980s 14. Ed Jones Carlin Dallara-VW 1m26.845s +1.002s 15. Felix Serralles West-Tec Dallara-Merc 1m26.934s +1.091s 16. Roy Nissany Mucke Dallara-Merc 1m27.044s +1.201s 17. Sandro Zeller Jo Zeller Dallara-Merc 1m27.051s +1.208s 18. Sean Gelael Carlin Dallara-VW 1m27.078s +1.235s 19. Hector Hurst West-Tec Dallara-Merc 1m27.150s +1.307s 20. Tatiana Calderon Jo Zeller Dallara-Merc 1m27.163s +1.320s 21. Spike Goddard T-Sport Dallara-NBE 1m27.182s +1.339s 22. Santino Ferrucci Eurointernational Dallara-Merc 1m27.315s +1.472s 23. Jules Szymkowiak Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW 1m27.379s +1.536s 24. Michele Beretta Eurointernational Dallara-Merc 1m27.407s +1.564s 25. John Bryant-Meisner Fortec Dallara-Merc 1m27.757s +1.914s 26. Alfonso Celis Jr Fortec Dallara-Merc 1m28.259s +2.416s Practice two: Pos Driver Team/Car Time Gap 1. Antonio Giovinazzi Carlin Dallara-VW 1m25.347s 2. Esteban Ocon Prema Dallara-Merc 1m25.441s +0.094s 3. Jake Dennis Carlin Dallara-VW 1m25.486s +0.139s 4. Jordan King Carlin Dallara-VW 1m25.526s +0.179s 5. Max Verstappen Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW 1m25.638s +0.291s 6. Tom Blomqvist Carlin Dallara-VW 1m25.837s +0.490s 7. Dennis van de Laar Prema Dallara-Merc 1m25.858s +0.511s 8. Antonio Fuoco Prema Dallara-Merc 1m25.877s +0.530s 9. Ed Jones Carlin Dallara-VW 1m25.962s +0.615s 10. Lucas Auer Mucke Dallara-Merc 1m25.983s +0.636s 11. Roy Nissany Mucke Dallara-Merc 1m26.051s +0.704s 12. Gustavo Menezes Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW 1m26.102s +0.755s 13. Felix Serralles West-Tec Dallara-Merc 1m26.112s +0.765s 14. Sean Gelael Carlin Dallara-VW 1m26.141s +0.794s 15. Felix Rosenqvist Mucke Dallara-Merc 1m26.147s +0.800s 16. Nicholas Latifi Prema Dallara-Merc 1m26.189s +0.842s 17. Tatiana Calderon Jo Zeller Dallara-Merc 1m26.313s +0.966s 18. Santino Ferrucci Eurointernational Dallara-Merc 1m26.421s +1.074s 19. Jules Szymkowiak Van Amersfoort Dallara-VW 1m26.459s +1.112s 20. Spike Goddard T-Sport Dallara-NBE 1m26.481s +1.134s 21. Alexander Toril T-Sport Dallara-NBE 1m26.610s +1.263s 22. Alfonso Celis Jr Fortec Dallara-Merc 1m26.943s +1.596s 23. Hector Hurst West-Tec Dallara-Merc 1m26.952s +1.605s 24. Michele Beretta Eurointernational Dallara-Merc 1m27.171s +1.824s 25. Sandro Zeller Jo Zeller Dallara-Merc 1m27.273s +1.926s 26. John Bryant-Meisner Fortec Dallara-Merc 1m27.457s +2.110s
| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, August 1st 2014, 15:07 GMT |
Ryan Hunter-Reay set the pace in the opening practice session for this weekend's IndyCar round at Mid-Ohio.
The Andretti Autosport driver waited until his final lap to post a fastest time of 1m06.5316s, beating Simon Pagenaud's previous benchmark by 0.1415 seconds.
Scott Dixon waited longer than any other driver to emerge from the pitlane, the reigning champion making his first appearance with around 10 minutes left on the clock, but that was still enough time for him to finish the morning third-fastest.
Mikhail Aleshin and Sebastien Bourdais rounded out the top five on a morning notable mostly for how little running most of the drivers completed. In a 45 minute session, only Bourdais and Graham Rahal registered 20 or more laps.
The limited running was likely a side-effect of the fact that Firestone has only allocated five sets of tyres to each car for the weekend instead of six, which was the previous norm for events that have three practice sessions.
Pos Driver Team/Engine Time Gap 1. Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti/Honda 1m06.5316s 2. Simon Pagenaud Schmidt/Honda 1m06.6731s +0.1415s 3. Scott Dixon Ganassi/Chevy 1m06.7140s +0.1824s 4. Mikhail Aleshin Schmidt/Honda 1m06.7280s +0.1964s 5. Sebastien Bourdais KV/Chevy 1m06.8192s +0.2876s 6. James Hinchcliffe Andretti/Honda 1m06.8669s +0.3353s 7. Marco Andretti Andretti/Honda 1m06.8675s +0.3359s 8. Juan Pablo Montoya Penske/Chevy 1m06.8686s +0.3370s 9. Ryan Briscoe Ganassi/Chevy 1m06.8962s +0.3646s 10. Carlos Huertas Coyne/Honda 1m06.8977s +0.3661s 11. Graham Rahal Rahal/Honda 1m07.0099s +0.4783s 12. Takuma Sato Foyt/Honda 1m07.0233s +0.4917s 13. Will Power Penske/Chevy 1m07.0248s +0.4932s 14. Josef Newgarden Fisher/Honda 1m07.0276s +0.4960s 15. Justin Wilson Coyne/Honda 1m07.0967s +0.5651s 16. Carlos Munoz Andretti/Honda 1m07.1100s +0.5784s 17. Charlie Kimball Ganassi/Chevy 1m07.1596s +0.6280s 18. Helio Castroneves Penske/Chevy 1m07.2238s +0.6922s 19. Sebastian Saavedra KV/Chevy 1m07.3629s +0.8313s 20. Tony Kanaan Ganassi/Chevy 1m07.3968s +0.8652s 21. Mike Conway Carpenter/Chevy 1m07.7806s +1.2490s 22. Jack Hawksworth Herta/Honda 1m08.0129s +1.4813s All drivers use Dallara chassis
