| By David Evans | Wednesday, October 30th 2013, 17:09 GMT |
Malcolm Wilson says he is ready to return Mikko Hirvonen to winning ways if the Finn chose to join M-Sport for next season's World Rally Championship
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| Wednesday, October 30th 2013, 15:01 GMT |
Simon Trummer will stay with Rapax for a third GP2 campaign in 2014.
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| By Edd Straw | Wednesday, October 30th 2013, 17:25 GMT |
Adrian Newey insists he is committed to winning more Formula 1 world championships with Red Bull after the team racked up its fourth consecutive title double
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| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, October 29th 2013, 15:26 GMT |
Red Bull chiefs believe that Sebastian Vettel will not be tempted by racing for another team in Formula 1 as long as they provide him with a good car.
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| Tuesday, October 29th 2013, 15:39 GMT |
Jorge Lorenzo believes he is the form man heading into MotoGP's 2013 title-decider at Valencia.
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| By Peter Mills | Tuesday, October 29th 2013, 20:38 GMT |
Tamas Pal Kiss has topped the second and final day of Auto GP testing at Jerez, the last official on-track activity for the category in 2013.
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| By Pablo Elizalde | Monday, October 28th 2013, 17:18 GMT |
Lotus boss Eric Boullier has apologised for the radio exchange between Kimi Raikkonen and Alan Permane during the Indian Grand Prix
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, October 28th 2013, 16:35 GMT |
Lotus believes that Pirelli was too cautious with its recommended maximum stint lengths ahead of the Indian Grand Prix.
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| By Peter Mills | Monday, October 28th 2013, 19:34 GMT |
Meindert van Buuren topped the first day of Auto GP's post-season test at Jerez on Monday for Super Nova
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| By Jonathan Noble | Sunday, October 27th 2013, 15:02 GMT |
Red Bull was genuinely concerned Sebastian Vettel's 2013 Formula 1 title celebrations were going to be dampened by a car failure in the Indian Grand Prix
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| Sunday, October 27th 2013, 21:38 GMT |
Jeff Gordon scored his first NASCAR Sprint Cup race win of 2013 at Martinsville, as title rivals Matt Kenseth and Jimmie Johnson drew level in the standings
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| By Jamie O'Leary | Saturday, October 26th 2013, 16:12 GMT |
Jari-Matti Latvala led Dani Sordo by just 1.6 seconds at the end of a second day of the Rally of Spain that remained remarkably free of tactical driving
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| By Jamie O'Leary | Saturday, October 26th 2013, 18:14 GMT |
Red Bull junior drivers Carlos Sainz Jr and Antonio Felix da Costa sealed qualification for the Macau Grand Prix with a clean sweep of Snetterton's F3 Cup race on Saturday
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| By David Evans | Saturday, October 26th 2013, 18:29 GMT |
Jari-Matti Latvala says his chances of winning Rally of Spain depend solely on the weather conditions
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| Friday, October 25th 2013, 21:02 GMT |
Denny Hamlin will start the NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Martinsville from pole position after topping qualifying on Friday
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| By Jamie O'Leary | Friday, October 25th 2013, 21:37 GMT |
New World Rally champion Sebastien Ogier topped every stage of the opening night of the Rally of Spain to open up an 8.8-second lead over Jari-Matti Latvala
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| Saturday, October 26th 2013, 02:30 GMT |
Bad weather continued to prevent MotoGP's attempts to get the Japanese Grand Prix weekend underway on Saturday morning as torrential rain forced the cancellation of the practice sessions
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, October 24th 2013, 14:31 GMT |
Daniil Kvyat might have been better off turning down the 2014 Toro Rosso Formula 1 seat, reckons Jenson Button.
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| Thursday, October 24th 2013, 20:14 GMT |
Four-time Formula 1 world champion Alain Prost will enter a team in Formula E in partnership with leading French outfit DAMS
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| Friday, October 25th 2013, 01:57 GMT |
MotoGP practice at Motegi has been delayed indefinitely due to fog
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| By David Evans | Wednesday, October 23rd 2013, 15:48 GMT |
Rally GB chief Andrew Coe says a 100 per cent increase in entries for the event has vindicated the decision to move Britain's World Rally Championship round north
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| By Gary Watkins | Wednesday, October 23rd 2013, 15:41 GMT |
British race engine specialists Zytek and Judd are developing powerplants for the 2014 energy-based LMP1 formula
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| Wednesday, October 23rd 2013, 15:58 GMT |
Lotus driver Marlon Stockinger set the pace on an interrupted second day of Formula Renault 3.5 winter testing at Barcelona
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| By Jamie O'Leary | Tuesday, October 22nd 2013, 13:48 GMT |
European Formula 3 Championship squad Van Amersfoort Racing will test American teenager Gustavo Menezes at Spielberg this week as it looks towards its 2014 line-up.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Tuesday, October 22nd 2013, 16:10 GMT |
Todd Parrott has split from Richard Petty Motorsports following his suspension for violating NASCAR's substance abuse policy.
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| By Pablo Elizalde | Tuesday, October 22nd 2013, 20:07 GMT |
Carlos Sainz set the pace in the opening day of Formula Renault 3.5 testing at Barcelona on Tuesday.
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| By Matt Beer | Monday, October 21st 2013, 19:51 GMT |
Toro Rosso team boss Franz Tost is confident that Daniil Kvyat will be a successful Formula 1 driver despite his lack of experience
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| By Edd Straw | Monday, October 21st 2013, 20:23 GMT |
The revelation that Daniil Kvyat will race for Scuderia Toro Rosso next year came as a shock to most, but unexpected as it was it would be wrong to say it came entirely from nowhere such is the progress he has made this year.
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| By Gary Watkins | Sunday, October 20th 2013, 12:40 GMT |
Toyota has reversed its decision to run only one car at the next round of the World Endurance Championship at the Shanghai circuit
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| By Jamie O'Leary | Sunday, October 20th 2013, 13:38 GMT |
Timo Glock took his maiden DTM victory in a sensational season finale held on a wet, but drying track at Hockenheim
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| Sunday, October 20th 2013, 21:26 GMT |
Jamie McMurray took his first NASCAR Sprint Cup victory in three years as he led the final 16 laps in a tense finish at Talladega
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| Sunday, October 20th 2013, 03:11 GMT |
The Phillip Island MotoGP race has been cut to just 19 laps after further tyre issues
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| By Gary Watkins | Sunday, October 20th 2013, 03:31 GMT |
The Fuji round of the World Endurance Championship has been suspended after just eight laps behind the safety car
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| Sunday, October 20th 2013, 03:47 GMT |
Pol Espargaro is poised to seal the Moto2 title in the next round at Motegi after winning in Phillip Island while championship rival Scott Redding was undergoing surgery
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, October 18th 2013, 23:03 GMT |
Will Power took pole position for Saturday's IndyCar season finale at Fontana, inadvertently taking a point from Penske team-mate and championship contender Helio Castroneves in the process
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, October 18th 2013, 23:09 GMT |
Zach Veach topped the times in Indy Lights qualifying at Fontana to secure the first pole position of his career
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| Saturday, October 19th 2013, 00:46 GMT |
Dani Pedrosa edged out Honda team-mate Marc Marquez to set the Saturday morning MotoGP practice pace at Phillip Island
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| By Marcus Simmons | Thursday, October 17th 2013, 16:57 GMT |
GP2 ace Stefano Coletti will make his Formula 3 return with Ma-Con in this weekend's Formula 3 European Championship round at Hockenheim, AUTOSPORT understands
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, October 18th 2013, 00:30 GMT |
A condensed schedule, an event on the Indianapolis road course, and the absence of Brazil are the main features of the 2014 IndyCar calendar
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| Friday, October 18th 2013, 00:43 GMT |
Jorge Lorenzo edged Marc Marquez as the two 2013 MotoGP title contenders set a blazing pace in first practice at Phillip Island
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| By Peter Mills | Wednesday, October 16th 2013, 16:24 GMT |
Ex-Formula 1 driver Narain Karthikeyan is aiming for an IndyCar test this winter in a fresh bid to secure a seat in the series in 2014
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, October 16th 2013, 16:00 GMT |
Red Bull says it does not feel a shred of disappointment over not wrapping up the 2013 Formula 1 world championship at its first opportunity in the Japanese Grand Prix
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| Wednesday, October 16th 2013, 22:16 GMT |
IndyCar title rivals Scott Dixon and Helio Castroneves will both take 10-place grid penalties for engine changes in this weekend's Fontana decider
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| By Kevin Turner | Tuesday, October 15th 2013, 16:20 GMT |
Rotek Racing has canned its World Touring Car Championship programme and will instead run a British Touring Car operation next season with two Audis
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| By Mark Glendenning | Tuesday, October 15th 2013, 17:05 GMT |
NASCAR has unveiled an almost unchanged schedule for its 2014 Sprint Cup season, with only a handful of minor tweaks to the dates that form the current calendar
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| By Marcus Simmons | Tuesday, October 15th 2013, 18:07 GMT |
Lotus Formula 1 team protege Esteban Ocon is to step up to Formula 3 for next month's Macau Grand Prix
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| By Sam Tremayne | Monday, October 14th 2013, 15:37 GMT |
Marc Marquez shrugged off his and Jorge Lorenzo's contact in MotoGP's race at Sepang, saying he was excited to be in such a ferocious scrap.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, October 14th 2013, 16:04 GMT |
Lotus does not believe there was anything it could have done differently to stop Sebastian Vettel from winning the Japanese Grand Prix
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| By Mark Glendenning | Monday, October 14th 2013, 16:32 GMT |
Brian Vickers will miss the remainder of the Sprint Cup season after a blood clot was detected in his right calf
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| By Kevin Turner | Sunday, October 13th 2013, 14:28 GMT |
Andrew Jordan is planning to attack in the British Touring Car Championship finale after a disastrous race two at Brands Hatch
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Sunday, October 13th 2013, 14:50 GMT |
Andrea Larini capped off a successful comeback to the Superstars International Series by winning the final race of the season at Vallelunga
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| By Kevin Turner | Sunday, October 13th 2013, 17:04 GMT |
Andrew Jordan clinched the 2013 British Touring Car crown in the Brands Hatch finale after a fine drive from the back of the field
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| By Marcus Simmons | Saturday, October 12th 2013, 16:07 GMT |
Ferrari protege Raffaele Marciello took the honours in the first race of the Formula 3 European Championship weekend at Vallelunga after fending off Alexander Sims
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| Sunday, October 13th 2013, 02:28 GMT |
Caterham has announced that it will field a Moto2 team in 2014 as it moves into motorcycle racing
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| Sunday, October 13th 2013, 03:07 GMT |
Reigning champion Brad Keselowski finally scored his first win of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season in a Charlotte Motor Speedway race transformed by a late caution
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| Saturday, October 12th 2013, 02:44 GMT |
Dani Pedrosa denied Yamaha a one-two as he snatched the top spot in the final seconds of third MotoGP practice at Sepang
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| By Matt Beer | Saturday, October 12th 2013, 03:03 GMT |
Mark Webber kept Red Bull ahead in final Japanese Grand Prix practice at Suzuka, as his team-mate Sebastian Vettel ran into mechanical problems
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, October 12th 2013, 03:53 GMT |
Red Bull's aerodynamics chief Peter Prodromou is closing in on a deal to join McLaren, but his potential new bosses may have to wait until 2015 to get him
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| By Sam Tremayne | Friday, October 11th 2013, 02:50 GMT |
Dani Pedrosa edged team-mate Marc Marquez to lead a Honda one-two in the opening MotoGP practice session at Sepang
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, October 11th 2013, 02:58 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen has no concerns that long-time Formula 1 engineering ally Mark Slade may not be following him to Ferrari next season
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, October 11th 2013, 03:44 GMT |
Jules Bianchi will miss Friday afternoon's second free practice session for the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix as the result of chassis damage caused in his morning accident
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, October 9th 2013, 16:33 GMT |
Romain Grosjean feels he is ready to lead Lotus in Formula 1 next season after another strong performance in the Korean Grand Prix
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| By Mark Glendenning | Wednesday, October 9th 2013, 18:42 GMT |
Penske has added a third car for AJ Allmendinger for next weekend's IndyCar finale at Fontana in the hope of providing additional reinforcement to Helio Castroneves' title bid
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| By Mark Glendenning | Wednesday, October 9th 2013, 20:32 GMT |
Alex Tagliani has been given the call-up by Ganassi to substitute for the injured Dario Franchitti at next week's IndyCar finale at Fontana
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| By Mark Glendenning | Tuesday, October 8th 2013, 16:06 GMT |
Honda insists that it is not in a rush to secure a 'marquee' IndyCar team to replace current flagship squad Ganassi when it switches camps to Chevrolet next year
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| By David Evans | Tuesday, October 8th 2013, 16:46 GMT |
World Rally Championship teams say slowing tactics will return on the next round in Spain.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Tuesday, October 8th 2013, 18:54 GMT |
Dario Franchitti will miss next weekend's IndyCar season finale at Fontana as the result of injuries he sustained in a last-lap crash in Houston on Sunday
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| Monday, October 7th 2013, 15:59 GMT |
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, October 7th 2013, 16:30 GMT |
Lotus boss Eric Boullier says he is happy that Romain Grosjean got upset at the team's decision not to impose team orders on Kimi Raikkonen in the Korean Grand Prix
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| Monday, October 7th 2013, 17:15 GMT |
Dario Franchitti will remain in hospital in Houston for a few more days following his huge accident in Sunday's IndyCar race in the city
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| By Mark Glendenning | Sunday, October 6th 2013, 20:11 GMT |
Will Power won race two of IndyCar's Houston double-header although the finish was marred by a massive last-lap accident involving Dario Franchitti
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| Sunday, October 6th 2013, 22:05 GMT |
Kevin Harvick brought himself back into contention for the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup title with an ultimately dominant win at Kansas Speedway
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| By Mark Glendenning | Sunday, October 6th 2013, 22:24 GMT |
IndyCar medical staff have confirmed that Dario Franchitti sustained concussion and two fractures in his frightening final-lap crash during Sunday's IndyCar race in Houston
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, October 5th 2013, 19:25 GMT |
Sage Karam took a huge step towards securing the 2013 Indy Lights title after a lights-to-flag win on the streets of Houston
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| Saturday, October 5th 2013, 21:06 GMT |
American Le Mans Series LMP1 champions Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf took another win in their Pickett HPD at Virginia International Raceway, but only after a huge battle with Dyson
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, October 5th 2013, 22:29 GMT |
Scott Dixon blew the IndyCar Series title race back open with his victory in the first race of this weekend's double-header on Houston's Reliant Park street circuit
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, October 5th 2013, 02:40 GMT |
Pirelli has expressed its disappointment that a planned test with McLaren at Austin had to be called off after the FIA failed to give it approval
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| By Matt Beer | Saturday, October 5th 2013, 03:04 GMT |
Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull moved to the front in the final practice session before Korean Grand Prix qualifying
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, October 4th 2013, 01:41 GMT |
McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh thinks rival teams have been irrational in complaining that his outfit could have gained an advantage from a Pirelli test at Austin.
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| By Pablo Elizalde | Friday, October 4th 2013, 02:33 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton set the pace in opening practice for the Korean Grand Prix as Kimi Raikkonen suffered a big crash at the end of the session.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, October 4th 2013, 03:46 GMT |
Formula 1 team bosses think there are grounds to consider an increase to the minimum weight limit as early as next year, amid growing fears that heavier drivers are going to be penalised.
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| By Gary Watkins | Wednesday, October 2nd 2013, 16:44 GMT |
European Formula 3 Championship frontrunner Harry Tincknell impressed the Jota LMP2 team on his first test in a sportscar this week
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, October 3rd 2013, 01:20 GMT |
Jules Bianchi will remain with Marussia for a second season in 2014, the team announced on Thursday morning.
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| Thursday, October 3rd 2013, 03:40 GMT |
The FIA has made clear to teams that it has no intention of introducing a single fuel supplier for Formula 1, AUTOSPORT has learned.
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| By Glenn Freeman | Tuesday, October 1st 2013, 14:42 GMT |
Formula Renault 3.5 team Zeta Corse has apologised to its drivers after a troublesome event at Paul Ricard last weekend.
While the team scored points in both races with Will Buller, Red Bull racer Carlos Sainz Jr suffered a suspension failure at the end of the first race and failed to start race two due to throttle problems.
"We are very disappointed with the outcome of the Paul Ricard weekend and not only because we did not achieve the results we hoped for," said team boss Claudio Corradini.
"We suffered from many problems that culminated with Carlos being forced to sit out race two.
"Despite the fact that the technical issue that stopped Carlos was not something predictable by the team, it is true that the problems suffered by him in Q2 and race one could have been managed in a better way by our team.
"Therefore we want to apologise to Sainz and his partner Red Bull for a weekend that turned out to be very complicated."
Corradini said the team also owed Buller an apology, as he could have scored better results than his two eighth places if Zeta had done a better job.
"Our set-up choice for Buller was not perfect for race one either, so we also apologise to him and his sponsors," he said.
"Although we had prepared all the possible set-up combinations needed to be competitive, we probably exaggerated as some of the solutions turned out to be too risky.
"We are now completely focused on getting well-prepared for the next round at Barcelona, where we want to end our season on a high note."
| By Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, October 1st 2013, 14:54 GMT |
The FIA presidential election battle risks turning in to a 'farce' unless the governing body forces support letters obtained by Jean Todt to be revoked, claims his rival David Ward.
As the row over Todt's push for support letters grows ahead of a hearing of the FIA Ethics committee in the next few weeks, Ward has written to each FIA club outlining his view that the current situation is unacceptable.
Due to the requirement of candidates to have support from a number of clubs, Todt's lock down of support from 11 of the 12 North American clubs during a meeting in Montevideo earlier this year means that the fate of the election has been left in El Salvador's hands.
It means that the club could not only prevent any rivals standing against Todt, but also that if it backs a rival there is no opportunity for a third candidate to be put forward.
In the letter, Ward wrote: "In order to be eligible to stand in the FIA presidential election in 2013 a candidate must propose a Vice President for Sport from each of seven regions including North America.
"The written commitments of support that Jean Todt obtained from ASNs and ACNs prior to the beginning of the election process leave only one club in the North American region that is not already formally committed. That club is from El Salvador.
"The absurd situation in which just one club in North America may determine whether or not there can be a challenger to Jean Todt risks turning the FIA election into a farce.
"This is why I am asking for the support letters to be recognised as a clear breach of the FIA's rules and revoked in my complaint to the Ethics Committee."
Ward is keen for a major governance overhaul at the FIA - and is eager for every club to start pushing for debate about how the governing body can be made better.
"In standing as a candidate in the 2013 election my purpose has been to encourage debate about the need for further reforms in the FIA," added Ward.
"I believe there are serious flaws in the FIA's governance system. There are other equally serious problems, for example, regarding the transparency and adequacy of the FIA's financial accounts.
"The FIA deserves better than this. The FIA membership should not turn a blind eye to abuse of the FIA election system or tolerate deficient governance provisions in the sport that are not accepted in the mobility pillar."
| By Pablo Elizalde | Tuesday, October 1st 2013, 16:12 GMT |
Ferrari's chief designer Nikolas Tombazis says the team cannot blame the mid-season tyre changes for its lack of performance in recent races.
Fernando Alonso has not won a race since May and is now 60 points behind championship leader Sebastian Vettel, who has won four times in the last five grands prix with his Red Bull.
Alonso said earlier this month that the introduction of a different tyres mid-season had derailed Ferrari's championship challenge.
"We won in China, and we won in Spain, and then we seemed to lose a bit of performance, especially when the 2012 Pirelli tyres came back," Alonso said.
"That was the point in the championship, when we changed the tyres, that we said bye bye [to the title]."
Ferrari must take blame for 2013 failures
Tombazis believes, however, that it would too simplistic to say the tyres have been the sole reason why Ferrari has been unable to match Red Bull's form.
"It would be somewhat superficial to blame the tyres as the only reason for our decrease in performance. We also took some development steps that were not as strong and didn't work," said Tombazis.
"Windtunnel technology has been a weak point for us, compared to our competitors. We had some problems with our flow quality so it was not as uniform as it should be and we could not run as big a model as we would have liked.
"Our data and instrumentation was quite outdated so we couldn't do that many runs and experiments per day, which was a bit of a drawback."
Ferrari has been updating its windtunnel for several months and is now ready to re-open it later this month, something Tombazis believes will offer a big boost to the team.
"The past months we spent updating it have addressed all these problems. Therefore I am optimistic that, on this front, when we are fully up and running we will not be in deficit to our competitors," he said.
| By Ben Anderson | Monday, September 30th 2013, 15:35 GMT |
The company that operates Mallory Park was put into administration this week, as the ongoing row over noise nuisance with the circuit's local community continues.
Mallory Park Motorsport Limited, which runs the circuit on behalf of the British Automobile Racing Club, has taken the step after failing to agree an increase in the number of days per year that the circuit is allowed to operate for, plus a reduction in the amount of rent it must pay to the landowner, Titan Properties, a company owned by former racer and BRDC member Chris Meek.
The circuit has been in dispute with its local council over noise for the past two years, which resulted in MPML being fined in Court earlier this year over five breaches of its planning agreement.
That Court decision also obliged Mallory Park to adhere to the limits set down in that 1985 agreement.
This arrangement permits a maximum 44 days of racing per year at Mallory, plus testing on Wednesdays.
Mallory Park had subsequently reduced activities at the circuit to two days per week, but MPML said the resultant loss of track-day income has put it in financial difficulty.
The BARC and MPML had been negotiating with Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council in an effort to find a compromise that would allow Mallory to operate for more days than allowed by the 1985 planning agreement.
They have simultaneously sought a reduction in the amount of rent payable to Titan, which it claims has risen by 40 per cent over the last eight years.
Titan recently claimed a site to the West of the circuit could be developed to redesign the circuit and alleviate the noise concerns, but did not reveal details of how this plan could be put into practice.
MPML said it had developed its own "three stage recovery plan" for the circuit, which had received positive feedback from the council and local residents, but that it needed a reduction in rent to make the plan viable.
With no compromise forthcoming, MPML's directors felt they had no option but to place the company into administration, though it is hoped racing will continue at the Leicestershire circuit.
Administrator Ian Robert, of Kingston Smith & Partners LLP, said: "I will be working with all the stakeholders to ensure that Mallory Park will see racing again.
"To that end, I will be negotiating with the landlord and the council, with the support of the BARC, to ensure that racing can be enjoyed at Mallory Park for years to come."
| By Jamie O'Leary | Monday, September 30th 2013, 16:37 GMT |
Mike Rockenfeller can go on to become a DTM legend, according to his Phoenix Racing team boss Ernst Moser.
Audi racer Rockenfeller wrapped up the 2013 title at Zandvoort last weekend with a second-placed finish that put the championship beyond the reach of rival Augusto Farfus.
Moser's squad has now won two drivers' titles in three years after Martin Tomczyk's 2011 success in an old-spec Audi A4.
And the team chief was quick to praise Rockenfeller, who also has 24-hour victories at Le Mans, Daytona and the Nurburgring to his name, as well as titles in FIA GT2 and the German Porsche Carrera Cup.
"Mike has done a wonderful job this year," Moser told AUTOSPORT.
"Whenever things have been good for a weekend he's really got the job done and been in with a chance to win. But when he's on the back foot, he's been even better.
"I think the team must take a lot of credit for some of the strategies we've used this year with the option tyres and the pitstops.
"But you still have to be on your best form to take advantage of the situation, and that's been Mike this year."
Moser said that Rockenfeller, who scaled back his sportscar commitments at the start of 2012 in order to focus on the DTM, could soon be counted among the championship's greats if he can continue his current form over the next few seasons.
"If you can win one DTM championship, you can win many, even though you can see from history that this is very difficult," Moser added.
"You look at the guys that are legends, even current drivers like Mattias Ekstrom and Gary Paffett, but then the guys from before like Bernd Schneider.
"Mike is a fantastic driver and if he wants to be in the DTM for many years I think he could win many championships like they did."
Rockenfeller's second place at Zandvoort, coupled with team-mate Miguel Molina's tenth spot means that Phoenix leads the teams' championship by three points from Farfus's RBM BMW team with the Hockenheim finale to come.
| By Gary Watkins | Monday, September 30th 2013, 16:41 GMT |
Factory teams racing in the LMP1 class of next year's World Endurance Championship will be able to score manufacturers' points with two cars rather than one.
The rule change, described by WEC boss Gerard Neveu as "a commonsense move", was approved at last week's FIA World Motor Sport Council.
The move reverses a previous change made in the run-up to the start of the 2012 WEC in the wake of Peugeot's withdrawal from the series.
Part of the deal for Toyota to file a full-season entry for last year's WEC, rather than a racing on a race-by-race basis, was a change in the sporting regulations to allow only the best-placed car from each manufacturer to score at each event.
Neveu said: "We kept everything as it was for this year because we didn't want to make any changes to the regulations.
"But there is no doubt that what will happen next year is the correct and honest way to do it: if you enter two cars in the championship, you should be able to score points with two cars."
Where a manufacturer fields an extra car, such as Audi has done at Spa in each of the past two seasons, it will be ineligible for points and will be 'invisible' in the classification, meaning it does not take points away from regular entries.
That does not apply at the Le Mans 24 Hours where manufacturers are allowed to enter a third scoring car.
In this instance, the two best-placed cars from each manufacturer can accrue points.
