| Monday, September 29th 2014, 14:44 GMT |
Simon Pagenaud will join Will Power, Helio Castroneves and Juan Pablo Montoya at Penske in a four-car 2015 IndyCar Series line-up.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, September 29th 2014, 15:55 GMT |
Caterham believes a new front wing that it will bring to the Japanese Grand Prix should lift it clear of main Formula 1 rival Marussia
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| By Gary Watkins | Monday, September 29th 2014, 15:31 GMT |
GT rookie Daniel Lloyd has secured a late deal to make his US sportscar debut in the Petit Le Mans United SportsCar Championship enduro at Road Atlanta this weekend
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| Sunday, September 28th 2014, 15:28 GMT |
Championship leader Marc Marquez admitted he should have pitted earlier to swap bikes during Aragon's MotoGP race
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| Sunday, September 28th 2014, 15:14 GMT |
Valentino Rossi has suffered a concussion as a result of his big accident during the MotoGP race at Aragon
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| By Hal Ridge | Sunday, September 28th 2014, 15:39 GMT |
Timmy Hansen claimed victory in the tenth round of the World Rallycross championship at Franciacorta, while Petter Solberg finished third and was crowned champion
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Saturday, September 27th 2014, 13:56 GMT |
Mike Rockenfeller will start Sunday's DTM race from pole position after winning out in a lap record-breaking qualifying session at Zandvoort.
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| By Hal Ridge | Saturday, September 27th 2014, 15:29 GMT |
Swede Johan Kristoffersson heads the order after two heats of round 10 of the World Rallycross Championship in Italy.
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| By Kevin Turner | Saturday, September 27th 2014, 15:53 GMT |
Jason Plato took pole position for the penultimate round of the British Touring Car Championship at Silverstone.
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| By Gary Watkins | Friday, September 26th 2014, 15:32 GMT |
Portuguese Miguel Faisca will become the sixth Nissan GT Academy winner to race an LMP2 prototype when he makes his European Le Mans Series debut at Estoril next month.
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| By Glenn Freeman | Friday, September 26th 2014, 14:33 GMT |
Lotus driver Marlon Stockinger set the pace in both Formula Renault free practice sessions at Paul Ricard on Friday.
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| By Peter Mills | Friday, September 26th 2014, 15:48 GMT |
Pepe Oriola will return to the World Touring Car Championship for the final round of the season at Macau.
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| By Gary Watkins | Thursday, September 25th 2014, 15:37 GMT |
A limit on testing for next season will be the first of a wave of cost-cutting measures to be introduced for the LMP1 category in the World Endurance Championship
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| Thursday, September 25th 2014, 15:09 GMT |
Indianapolis 500 winner and 2012 IndyCar champion Ryan Hunter-Reay will contest the Race of Champions again this season
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, September 25th 2014, 15:56 GMT |
A broken seal on a radiator that channelled hot air into his cockpit caused McLaren Formula 1 driver Kevin Magnussen's problems at the Singapore Grand Prix, AUTOSPORT has learned
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| By David Evans | Wednesday, September 24th 2014, 09:59 GMT |
Nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb will return to rallying in November to contest Rallye du Var in a Citroen DS3 WRC with wife Severine
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| Wednesday, September 24th 2014, 11:56 GMT |
Red Bull junior team boss Helmut Marko has likened the abilities of new Toro Rosso Formula 1 signing Max Verstappen to those of the late Ayrton Senna
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, September 24th 2014, 15:20 GMT |
Red Bull has no doubt that the performance gap to Mercedes is closing, but doubts it will overcome Formula 1's dominant benchmark team before 2014 is over
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| By Gary Watkins | Tuesday, September 23rd 2014, 11:32 GMT |
Toyota has no plans to expand its assault on the Le Mans 24 Hours next year from two to three cars.
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| Tuesday, September 23rd 2014, 13:13 GMT |
American Nicky Hayden will return to MotoGP action this weekend at Aragon after missing the last four races of the championship
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| By Ben Anderson and Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, September 23rd 2014, 15:03 GMT |
Performance chief Rob Smedley reckons the way the Williams Formula 1 team operated in the Singapore Grand Prix is the best he's seen since he joined the squad.
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, September 22nd 2014, 12:53 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen says the Ferrari Formula 1 team is being compromised by its car's weakness in the slipstream of rivals
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, September 22nd 2014, 11:37 GMT |
Felipe Massa says he drove "like a grandmother" in order to keep his Williams Formula 1 car's tyres alive long enough to finish fifth in the Singapore Grand Prix
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, September 22nd 2014, 14:55 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton insists he takes no relief from snatching the Formula 1 world championship lead from Nico Rosberg with his victory in the Singapore Grand Prix.
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| By Hal Ridge | Sunday, September 21st 2014, 15:11 GMT |
Petter Solberg claimed his third straight World Rallycross Championship victory in an ultra-close finish with DTM star Mattias Ekstrom at the Estering in Germany
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| By Jonathan Noble and Matt Beer | Sunday, September 21st 2014, 15:08 GMT |
Sebastian Vettel declared himself surprised by Lewis Hamilton's assertive choice of passing move in their Singapore Grand Prix victory battle
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| By Jonathan Noble and Matt Beer | Sunday, September 21st 2014, 15:46 GMT |
Kevin Magnussen required medical attention for burns following the Singapore Grand Prix due to an unexplained heat build-up in his McLaren Formula 1 car's cockpit.
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| By Jonathan Noble and Pablo Elizalde | Saturday, September 20th 2014, 14:47 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton admitted he was very surprised to see Mercedes' Formula 1 rivals so close in the fight for Singapore Grand Prix pole position
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| Saturday, September 20th 2014, 15:26 GMT |
Kajetan Kajetanowicz completed the opening leg of the European Rally Championship's return to Cyprus with a 3.8-second lead, while Craig Breen endured a day full of frustration
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| By Hal Ridge | Saturday, September 20th 2014, 15:54 GMT |
World Rallycross Championship leader Petter Solberg holds the overnight top spot at the Estering in Germany, despite not being fastest in either heat
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| By Gary Watkins | Friday, September 19th 2014, 13:59 GMT |
Nissan's all-new 2015 World Endurance Championship LMP1 contender is scheduled to run for the first time in the first week of November
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| By Edd Straw | Friday, September 19th 2014, 15:06 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton ended the opening day of practice for the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix on top of the timesheets in his Mercedes
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| By Scott Mitchell | Friday, September 19th 2014, 15:53 GMT |
British Touring Car Championship race winner Luke Hines will return to the series after a nine-year absence in place of the suspended Glynn Geddie at United Autosports
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, September 18th 2014, 14:37 GMT |
Daniel Ricciardo says Red Bull's refusal to bring in team orders to help his Formula 1 title challenge has fired him up even more to beat team-mate Sebastian Vettel
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, September 18th 2014, 15:41 GMT |
Kevin Magnussen says he will not alter his approach to racing in Formula 1, despite the penalty he received for forcing Valtteri Bottas off-track at the Italian Grand Prix
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, September 18th 2014, 15:47 GMT |
Fernando Alonso says rumours suggesting Formula 1 rival Sebastian Vettel will swap his Red Bull seat with Alonso's own Ferrari berth next season are damaging to the Scuderia.
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| Wednesday, September 17th 2014, 15:01 GMT |
Le Mans legend Tom Kristensen and Lotus Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean are the first two drivers to announce their participation in this year's Race of Champions in Barbados
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, September 17th 2014, 14:31 GMT |
Valtteri Bottas says the Williams Formula 1 team is focused on beating Ferrari to third place in this year's constructors' championship rather than trying to catch Red Bull for second
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| Wednesday, September 17th 2014, 15:27 GMT |
Jack Miller will jump from Moto3 to MotoGP in 2015 after signing a three-year contract with Honda
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| By Edd Straw | Tuesday, September 16th 2014, 13:56 GMT |
The Lotus Formula 1 team claims it will post dramatically reduced losses when its accounts are published in the coming weeks.
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| By Gary Watkins | Tuesday, September 16th 2014, 15:06 GMT |
The decision on the proposed Battersea Park round of the inaugural Formula E Championship is set to be made by the local council at the end of next month.
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| By Grigory Golyshev | Tuesday, September 16th 2014, 15:15 GMT |
AUTOSPORT's long-time Russian correspondent Grigory Golyshev made the long trip south for the maiden race meeting at the country's grand prix venue. This is what he found...
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, September 15th 2014, 13:40 GMT |
Outgoing Toro Rosso Formula 1 driver Jean-Eric Vergne has hinted he would consider racing in other disciplines if he fails to secure an alternative drive on the 2015 F1 grid.
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| Monday, September 15th 2014, 15:40 GMT |
Mike di Meglio underwent successful surgery on Monday following the injury he suffered during Sunday's MotoGP race at Misano.
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| By Gary Watkins | Monday, September 15th 2014, 15:43 GMT |
Former Audi factory driver Alexandre Premat will return to the ART Grand Prix McLaren team for this weekend's Nurburgring Blancpain Endurance Series finale.
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Sunday, September 14th 2014, 13:03 GMT |
Pascal Wehrlein took his maiden DTM race win in mixed conditions at the Lausitzring, as Marco Wittmann cruised to the 2014 title with two races to spare
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| Sunday, September 14th 2014, 14:51 GMT |
Phil Keen and Jon Minshaw won the final round of the British GT Championship at Donington Park after a dramatic two-hour showdown in which the title was decided in favour of Marco Attard
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| By Stephen Lickorish | Sunday, September 14th 2014, 15:55 GMT |
Matt Rao took his second win of the weekend at Donington Park but it was not enough to stop Martin Cao claiming the British Formula 3 crown
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| Saturday, September 13th 2014, 15:00 GMT |
Nicolas Prost has been given a 10-place grid penalty for the next round of the Formula E Championship his part in the accident that sent Nick Heidfeld flying into the barriers at the final corner of today's series opener in Beijing.
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Saturday, September 13th 2014, 13:08 GMT |
Fog has forced the DTM to heavily alter its planned Saturday schedule at the Lausitzring
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| By Stephen Lickorish | Saturday, September 13th 2014, 14:39 GMT |
A fluffed start for Matt Rao enabled Martin Cao claim victory in the opening British Formula 3 race at Donington Park, which boosted his chances of claiming the championship
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| By Glenn Freeman | Friday, September 12th 2014, 14:00 GMT |
Formula Renault 3.5 championship leader Carlos Sainz Jr marked the championship's return from a two-month summer break by topping both free practice sessions at the Hungaroring on Friday.
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| Friday, September 12th 2014, 14:20 GMT |
The grid for the inaugural Formula E race in Beijing has been completed, with Charles Pic filling the final remaining seat at Andretti Autosport.
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| By Ben Anderson | Friday, September 12th 2014, 14:28 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen feels Ferrari will have to improve the Energy Recovery System on its car if it is to close the gap to its quicker Formula 1 rivals.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Thursday, September 11th 2014, 15:22 GMT |
Chevrolet is emerging as the most likely candidate to partner the newly-merged CFH Racing IndyCar team, with a final decision expected in the coming days
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| By Peter Mills | Thursday, September 11th 2014, 15:42 GMT |
Honda has entered its World Touring Car Championship Civic test car in this weekend's eighth round of the VLN Nurburgring Nordschleife long distance series
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| Thursday, September 11th 2014, 15:46 GMT |
Pirelli has announced its Formula 1 tyre compound choices for next month's Japanese and Russian Grands Prix
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, September 10th 2014, 13:47 GMT |
Sauber test driver Sergey Sirotkin will make his Formula 1 free practice debut at home in next month's inaugural Russian Grand Prix, the team has confirmed to AUTOSPORT
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, September 10th 2014, 13:37 GMT |
Formula 1 teams have again rejected the idea of bringing customer cars back to grand prix racing
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, September 10th 2014, 15:46 GMT |
Formula 1 teams need to change as much as the sport to ensure grand prix racing remains popular, believes McLaren chief Ron Dennis
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| Tuesday, September 9th 2014, 14:59 GMT |
Red Bull junior Pierre Gasly has said he was not to blame for the crash on his GP2 debut at Monza that earned him a penalty for the next round
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| Tuesday, September 9th 2014, 14:50 GMT |
Remy Gardner, the son of 1987 500cc world champion Wayne Gardner, will make his grand prix racing debut at Misano this weekend after receiving a late call-up in Moto3
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| By Hal Ridge | Tuesday, September 9th 2014, 15:41 GMT |
Two-time Junior World Rally champion PG Andersson will make his World Rallycross debut at round nine of the championship in Germany next week
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| By Marcus Simmons | Monday, September 8th 2014, 14:35 GMT |
Formula 3 European Championship leader Esteban Ocon is to make his Formula Renault 3.5 race debut at the Hungaroring this weekend.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, September 8th 2014, 14:14 GMT |
Red Bull has ruled out bringing in team orders to try to help Daniel Ricciardo win the Formula 1 world championship this year
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, September 8th 2014, 15:49 GMT |
Valtteri Bottas admitted he might have lost his best chance to beat Mercedes in the 2014 Formula 1 season when a bad start consigned him to fourth in the Italian Grand Prix
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| By Hal Ridge | Sunday, September 7th 2014, 15:09 GMT |
World Rallycross Championship leader Petter Solberg was unstoppable when it mattered most in round eight at Loheac in France
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| By Jack Nicholls | Sunday, September 7th 2014, 15:27 GMT |
Max Buhk and Max Gotz extended their advantage at the top of the Blancpain Sprint Series championship by winning the main Algarve race, amid controversy in the battle for second
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| Sunday, September 7th 2014, 15:46 GMT |
Esteban Gutierrez has been handed a 20-second penalty following his incident with Formula 1 rival Romain Grosjean during the Italian Grand Prix
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| Saturday, September 6th 2014, 15:39 GMT |
Italian Grand Prix post-qualifying press conference with Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and Valtteri Bottas
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| By Pablo Elizalde | Saturday, September 6th 2014, 15:47 GMT |
McLaren drivers Kevin Magnussen and Jenson Button admitted they were surprised by their Formula 1 team's performance during qualifying for the Italian Grand Prix
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| By Hal Ridge | Saturday, September 6th 2014, 15:54 GMT |
Factory Peugeot driver Timmy Hansen won both of the first two heats at Loheac's French round of the World Rallycross Championship to head the order after day one
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| By Charles Bradley | Friday, September 5th 2014, 14:32 GMT |
Stoffel Vandoorne scored his second GP2 pole position on the trot for ART Grand Prix at Monza on Friday afternoon
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| By Ben Anderson and Matt Beer | Friday, September 5th 2014, 14:38 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton says he will learn from Mercedes team-mate and Formula 1 title rival Nico Rosberg's Monza Friday findings after losing Italian Grand Prix practice time to electronics issues
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| Friday, September 5th 2014, 15:49 GMT |
Leon Camier will get a further MotoGP outing with Aspar at Misano next weekend, with Nicky Hayden delaying his return until the following event at Aragon
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, September 4th 2014, 14:07 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton says the FIA's decision not to punish Nico Rosberg for their Belgian Grand Prix clash leaves him unsure how hard Formula 1 drivers can now race each other
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| By Gary Watkins | Thursday, September 4th 2014, 14:40 GMT |
British amateur driver Marcus Mahy is returning home to the UK more than a month after sustaining life-threatening injuries during the Spa 24 Hours in July.
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| By Ben Anderson | Thursday, September 4th 2014, 14:19 GMT |
Kamui Kobayashi says he is unhappy with the way the Caterham Formula 1 team has swapped his seat between drivers recently
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| Wednesday, September 3rd 2014, 15:10 GMT |
Ferrari has announced that it will be engine supplier for Gene Haas' new American Formula 1 team when it joins the world championship field in 2016
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| By Gary Watkins | Wednesday, September 3rd 2014, 13:52 GMT |
BMW is working on a replacement for its Z4 GT3 racer based around the M6 coupe that could become the basis of its next contender in the United SportsCar Championship
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| By Gary Watkins | Wednesday, September 3rd 2014, 15:50 GMT |
Maximilian Buhk will return to the Blancpain Sprint Series at the Algarve circuit this weekend after the case against him by the German sporting authority was dropped
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| By Richard Young | Tuesday, September 2nd 2014, 14:38 GMT |
John Crossle, who passed away last Sunday after a long illness, aged 82, left an indelible mark on motor racing in his native Northern Ireland and further afield.
Though he and his cars would achieve greatest prominence following the invention of Formula Ford, Crossle started in motorsport in the 1950s with a Ford-powered special that he successfully built and raced himself.
The unassuming Holywood man was soon asked for replicas, and he founded his Crossle Car Company in 1957.
His first efforts were front-engined 1172cc cars to comply with a local formula, before rear-engined examples appeared.
Throughout the 1960s the Crossle operation grew, with the production of the 5S, 7S and 9S sportscars.
The one-off 8F and 10F single-seaters with 4.7-litre Ford power held lap records at Kirkistown and Bishopscourt and the 12F won the 1968 SCCA Formula B run-offs in the hands of Roger Barr, establishing the marque's reputation in North America.
When Formula Ford was created, Crossle was quick to respond and his 16F proved immediately successful, a high point being Gerry Birrell's 1969 Euroseries title.
Further victories followed and the company scored a coup when Skip Barber equipped his US race schools with 30F and later 32F chassis.
Crossles gave several future F1 drivers their first single seater-experience, including Nigel Mansell, Eddie Irvine and John Watson.
There were other successes with F2 machinery, but Formula Ford remained the mainstay of Crossle production through the 1970s and '80s, joined by FF2000 - with the 31F winning the British championship in 1975 - and Super Vee variants.
Latterly, John's interests turned towards sporting trials and the Honda-powered 80T, before Crossle customer Arnie Black took control of the company in 2002 and began producing an updated version of the 9S.
Black passed the baton to Paul McMorran in 2012, but Crossle - who also served as a member of Kirkistown's 500 Motor Racing Club council - remained involved, while also devoting time to his collection of vintage agricultural machinery.
| Tuesday, September 2nd 2014, 15:15 GMT |
The 2014 Race of Champions will be held in Barbados at the recently renovated Bushy Park circuit, event organisers have announced.
The venue, which proved popular in a fan vote to help determine the location of this year's event, will be modified to incorporate the traditional head-to-head circuit layout for the RoC.
It means this year's event will be the first since 2003 not to be held inside a major sports stadium, with arenas such as the Stade de France, Wembley and Beijing's 'Bird's Nest' Olympic stadium hosting the RoC in recent years.
RoC organiser Fredrik Johnsson said: "The Bushy Park circuit was one of the most popular venues in our vote and we are very excited to be heading to Barbados for another festival of motorsport and entertainment.
"This marks a break from our last 10 years of stadium events but this is a throwback to our long-time home at Gran Canaria, which hosted RoC from 1992 to 2003.
"We will certainly return to stadium events in the future but for 2014 we will take advantage of the available space to build a truly spectacular parallel track at Bushy Park.
"We now look forward to seeing a packed house for a guaranteed weekend of thrills in December."
This year's Race of Champions will take place on December 13-14. Last year's event was cancelled due to political unrest in host country Thailand.
| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, September 2nd 2014, 15:23 GMT |
Gene Haas has changed the name of his planned Formula 1 team, as work continues to get the American outfit on to the grid in 2016.
The American had originally called his team Haas Formula, but in a bid to make the most of the promotional benefits of its grand prix entry it will now become known as Haas F1 Team.
Speaking about the change, Haas said: "Haas F1 Team automatically conveys our place among the pinnacle of motorsports.
"When you hear 'F1' you know exactly what it is - a global racing series that showcases the latest technology and attracts the best talent in engineering and design."
Haas has also launched its official website (www.HaasF1Team.com) and Facebook page.
| Monday, September 1st 2014, 13:39 GMT |
Honda is open to supplying customer teams in Formula 1 from 2016, after confirming its partnership with McLaren is exclusive for just one season.
The Japanese manufacturer is returning to F1 for the first time since 2008, having been attracted back thanks to the introduction of the new turbo V6 engines.
Honda's deal with McLaren has guaranteed the Woking-based team exclusivity of the power units for the first season, and its motorsport chief Yasuhisa Arai has clarified plans for 2016 and beyond.
"In 2015 we don't have the plan to supply any team other than McLaren," he said in an interview with the official F1 website.
"In 2016 or after, if some teams or partners ask us to supply them too, we will take a look at that situation.
"But even in 2016, McLaren will be our main partner in F1.
"And even if we supply other teams from 2016 onwards our main focus will always be to win - to make the engine better through more data - and not necessarily to look at a return on investment. If you win that comes automatically."
Arai is adamant that Honda's development plans for next year are on course, and that he fully expects it to be winning races from the off.
"Formula 1 is a very important part of our strategy - and winning is very important for Honda," he said.
"We want to raise the awareness of our brand and I trust - I am a firm believer - that we will win races next year."
NO PLANS FOR ABU DHABI TEST
McLaren had been looking at the possibility of giving the new Honda engine a first run in its car at the post-season Abu Dhabi test this year.
However, Arai says that there are no plans for it to hit the track until the first tests of next year.
"In the next couple of weeks we will run simulations and at the beginning of next year we will start to run on the track - very likely at Jerez," he said.
"That will very likely be the first time to show the whole car, the Honda engine and the McLaren chassis - the Honda McLaren.
"Right now there are no plans to collect data during the rest of 2014. Jerez will be the first time."
| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Monday, September 1st 2014, 13:18 GMT |
Gary Paffett wants a rethink of the DTM format and claims pit-window regulations are causing 'fabricated' races that invite penalties.
The current sporting regulations dictate that drivers must stop at least once during the race, and can only use the softer option tyre for 50 per cent of the distance.
Although this has produced some good races, 2005 champion Paffett argues that having a narrow pit-window and limited use of the softer tyre results in too many drivers pitting on the same lap, which prompts unsafe-release controversies.
"[At the Nurburgring] the option tyre was three seconds per lap quicker, so everybody was obviously going to use it for the maximum amount of time - so you have half the grid stopping one lap, and half the grid stopping two laps later," said Paffett.
"You don't want to pit on the same lap as another car, because you're going to lose time in the pitlane.
"But the problem is, you have to, or you'll lose seconds from being on the wrong tyre. They've forced us into this position with the rules.
"It's not dangerous for us, it's dangerous for our crews. That's who is in danger, real danger."
Paffett's suggestion is that the prime tyre should be abandoned, and the pit-window and mandatory stops abolished, with a single softer tyre and free strategy choice instead.
"What we don't want is fabricated races. That's what we've had for years," he said.
"If you just have the prime tyre, nobody will pit, because you could do the whole race.
"With the soft tyre, you could maybe do Norisring in one stop, and that's fair enough.
"At Zandvoort, you'd probably need to make two stops. But you need to have the choice. You've got to open the strategy.
"At the moment you can get rid of your strategists, because they don't have a job."
DTMDA TO PLAY A ROLE
Paffett believes the newly-formed DTM Drivers' Association, led by ex-racer Manuel Reuter, is the perfect opportunity to make a difference.
"Manuel has been invited to some more ITR meetings to look at the future, and look at next year, and we've been asked to come up with some ideas about how we feel the DTM should change," explained Paffett.
"We've still got work to do, but we're starting to get involved in the system, and I think we now have a bit of a voice and we can now be heard.
"It's not that we don't have good ideas, it's just that they've never had a way of hearing the ideas.
"We get to Hockenheim race one, and they go 'right, here's a new rule', and we say 'hang on, what about this' and they say 'oh yeah, we never thought about that'."
| By Ben Anderson | Monday, September 1st 2014, 15:11 GMT |
Felipe Massa has urged the Williams Formula 1 team to change its brake systems after struggling in wet qualifying at the recent Belgian Grand Prix.
Massa qualified a lowly ninth for the Spa event, on a track where Williams was expected to run at the front.
Massa was among a selection of drivers to suffer glazed brakes in the wet session, and he has called on his team to switch from its current Carbone Industrie-only set-up to allow its car to run Brembo pads and discs.
When asked whether he wanted to move to Brembo brakes, which the Brazilian used at his previous team Ferrari, Massa said: "Yes. It's not the first time we had [glazing] this year.
"Normally the brakes we used in the conditions like this, we had [glazing] a few times this year.
"It's not great to be honest, so it's something that we are still working on.
"It's impossible to warm up the [CI] brakes [in the wet]."
Williams performance chief Rob Smedley confirmed Williams was evaluating redesigning its car to accept both types of material, but said the FW36 was designed around using CI brakes, so any change would not be straightforward to make.
"You have to set out at the start of the year essentially with your mechanical fixing that fixes the brake disc to the car able to accept both," Smedley explained.
"If you haven't done that, then it's a very big change to make to the car. It's something you couldn't just do between sessions.
"We're going through the process now, but this team has been geared up to run with CI for many years now, so to change to another manufacturer is not wholly straightforward.
"With a certain amount of resource we have to consider where to put that resource the best. We can't put all of the company on to changing to Brembo material.
"We're considering the design and considering what to do for the future.
"For next year, that [a change to design of the mechanical fixing] will more than likely be the case."
