| By Charles Bradley | Sunday, June 29th 2014, 22:00 GMT |
A late-race restart changed the course of United SportsCar's Watkins Glen Six Hours, as the Spirit of Daytona Corvette DP's straightline speed advantage over the LMP2 OAK Morgan proved decisive
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| By Mark Glendenning | Sunday, June 29th 2014, 18:56 GMT |
Houston officials are co-operating with IndyCar to avoid a repeat of an incident on Sunday morning in which two people managed to walk onto the track during a live session
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| By Mark Glendenning | Sunday, June 29th 2014, 22:18 GMT |
Simon Pagenaud dominated the second race in this weekend's Houston IndyCar double-header to lead Mikhail Aleshin across the line for a Schmidt Peterson Hamilton Motorsport one-two
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| By Charles Bradley | Saturday, June 28th 2014, 21:55 GMT |
Alex Brundle took pole for United SportsCar's Six Hours at the Glen in his OAK Morgan, outpacing Christian Fittipaldi by over six tenths at the legendary Watkins Glen road course
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, June 28th 2014, 22:23 GMT |
Carlos Huertas was the shock winner in a bizarre opening race of this weekend's IndyCar double-header in Houston
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| Sunday, June 29th 2014, 03:12 GMT |
Brad Keselowski dominated from pole to win the NASCAR Sprint Cup night race at Kentucky Speedway
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| Friday, June 27th 2014, 22:43 GMT |
Brad Keselowski claimed his third pole of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup season as he denied Penske Ford team-mate Joey Logano the top spot in Kentucky Speedway qualifying
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| Friday, June 27th 2014, 20:35 GMT |
Sebastien Ogier will lead Rally Poland into Saturday's stages by just 0.9 seconds over his Volkswagen team-mate Andreas Mikkelsen
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, June 27th 2014, 20:45 GMT |
Simon Pagenaud finished the opening day of practice for this weekend's IndyCar double-header in Houston on top
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| Wednesday, June 25th 2014, 16:05 GMT |
Valentino Rossi says he and Yamaha are not yet ready to announce a new MotoGP deal, but that a two-year extension is a formality.
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, June 25th 2014, 15:22 GMT |
Mercedes believes rival Red Bull deserved to enjoy a stronger showing at the Austrian Grand Prix, and that its poor performance was bad for Formula 1.
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| Wednesday, June 25th 2014, 19:47 GMT |
IndyCar has announced it has withdrawn the penalties handed to Sebastien Bourdais following the race at Texas Motorspeedway.
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| Tuesday, June 24th 2014, 14:30 GMT |
Carl Edwards says his potential exit from Roush Fenway Racing after the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup season is having no ill-effects on their current campaign together.
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| By Dieter Rencken and Jonathan Noble | Tuesday, June 24th 2014, 13:11 GMT |
Red Bull boss Christian Horner believes that the only way for effective cost control rules to work in Formula 1 is if the teams are not involved in agreeing them.
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, June 24th 2014, 15:16 GMT |
The Williams Formula 1 team believes a sequence of small errors were to blame for Felipe Massa not converting pole position into a better result at the Austrian Grand Prix.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, June 23rd 2014, 15:23 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen has expressed his frustration at being told to look after his brakes early in the Austrian Grand Prix, saying Ferrari cannot afford for such things to happen.
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| By David Evans | Monday, June 23rd 2014, 16:54 GMT |
Robert Kubica is determined to enjoy the show in this week's Rally Poland and says he feels no extra pressure to get a result in his World Rally Championship homecoming
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, June 23rd 2014, 18:59 GMT |
Michael Schumacher's management fears that stolen medical records from the seven-time Formula 1 world champion are being offered for sale
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| By Rene de Boer | Sunday, June 22nd 2014, 20:35 GMT |
Audi celebrated another 24-hour race win just one week after its Le Mans success, as the Phoenix team came out on top in the 42nd Nurburgring 24 Hours
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| By Ben Anderson | Sunday, June 22nd 2014, 18:11 GMT |
The Mercedes Formula 1 team was caught out by the extent of the cooling issues its drivers suffered in the Austrian Grand Prix, according to team boss Toto Wolff
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| Sunday, June 22nd 2014, 22:20 GMT |
Carl Edwards won Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup round after a gruelling 110-lap, caution-filled road course race at Sonoma, the first non-oval victory of his career
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| Saturday, June 21st 2014, 21:19 GMT |
Renowned motorsport artist and long-time AUTOSPORT cartoonist Jim Bamber has passed away after a long battle against cancer.
A former art editor of CAR magazine and Autocourse, Jim's well-loved cartoons became a weekly staple of AUTOSPORT magazine, and his impishly satirical weekly views also featured on the AUTOSPORT.com website.
Bamber's rally-based Yumping Yarns and Formula 1 series of books, The Pits, were also fan favourites over the past three decades.
Jim passed away peacefully on Friday afternoon at St Christopher's hospice, where he had spent the past few weeks.
The next issue of AUTOSPORT magazine will feature a full tribute to Jim and a selection of his classic cartoons
| By Peter Mills | Saturday, June 21st 2014, 18:58 GMT |
Campos racer Dusan Borkovic and factory Honda driver Tiago Monteiro will be demoted from their provisional qualifying positions for the opening World Touring Car Championship race at Spa-Francorchamps on Sunday
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| Saturday, June 21st 2014, 20:06 GMT |
Freddy Loix took a dramatic ninth win on the Ypres Rally as the other major players in the fight for victory capitulated on the last day
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, June 20th 2014, 17:30 GMT |
Sauber team principal Monisha Kaltenborn says Formula 1 cost cuts agreed this week have not gone far enough
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| Friday, June 20th 2014, 19:32 GMT |
Peugeot's Kevin Abbring upstaged the locals to take control of day one of the European Rally Championship's Ypres Rally
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| By Edd Straw and Ben Anderson | Thursday, June 19th 2014, 17:45 GMT |
The Mercedes Formula 1 team has made changes to the cooling of its control electronics system to prevent a repeat of the problem that cost it victory in Canada.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, June 19th 2014, 17:32 GMT |
Formula 1 chiefs are hoping to conduct fresh tests to try to improve the noise of the cars after the British Grand Prix, AUTOSPORT has learned
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, June 19th 2014, 18:13 GMT |
The FIA is ready to ease back on driving standard investigations from the Austrian Grand Prix in a bid to make drivers more willing to battle hard, AUTOSPORT has learned
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| Wednesday, June 18th 2014, 11:54 GMT |
Ex-Formula 1 driver Jarno Trulli will race in Formula E with the new team he has formed for the FIA's electric single-seater championship
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| Wednesday, June 18th 2014, 14:20 GMT |
Hendrick is a "a sesaon ahead" of its NASCAR Sprint Cup rivals in engine development, according to Penske's Brad Keselowski
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, June 18th 2014, 14:49 GMT |
Kevin Magnussen says the mixed results he has scored since graduating to Formula 1 has not affected his self-confidence as a driver
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| By Jonathan Noble and Dieter Rencken | Tuesday, June 17th 2014, 15:13 GMT |
Formula 1 chiefs are to discuss ways to make the sport more popular with fans during a crunch meeting that takes place at Biggin Hill near London on Thursday.
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| By Scott Mitchell | Tuesday, June 17th 2014, 13:46 GMT |
Aston Martin has dedicated its Le Mans 24 Hours victory in the Pro Am class last weekend to former driver Allan Simonsen.
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| By Gary Watkins | Tuesday, June 17th 2014, 15:15 GMT |
Marc Gene is aiming to extend his career as an LMP1 driver after finishing second in last weekend's Le Mans 24 Hours on his recall to Audi
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, June 16th 2014, 16:20 GMT |
Valtteri Bottas says the Williams Formula 1 team is not repeating mistakes, despite failing to make the most of a quick car this season.
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| By Scott Mitchell | Monday, June 16th 2014, 15:56 GMT |
A man has been arrested following an incident at Brands Hatch last weekend involving a Volkswagen Polo road car being driven onto the track during a club race
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| Monday, June 16th 2014, 16:44 GMT |
Marc Marquez topped the post-race MotoGP test at Barcelona, with included a trial of a revised layout using part of the Formula 1 configuration.
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| By Hal Ridge | Sunday, June 15th 2014, 16:26 GMT |
Latvian Reinis Nitiss stormed to his first Supercar victory in only his third event in the World Rallycross Championship at Hell in Norway.
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| Sunday, June 15th 2014, 20:22 GMT |
Scott Redding has dropped from 12th to 13th place in the Barcelona MotoGP results after being given a time penalty for gaining an unfair advantage while battling with Nicky Hayden
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| Sunday, June 15th 2014, 20:39 GMT |
Six-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson scored his first career victory on the two-mile Michigan superspeedway, taking a dominant win after picking a perfect strategy in the late stages
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| Sunday, June 15th 2014, 03:06 GMT |
Audi took the lead of the Le Mans 24 Hours as the leading Toyota his trouble at the end of the 14th hour
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| Sunday, June 15th 2014, 00:58 GMT |
Audi closed the gap to Toyota at the front of the Le Mans 24 Hours as the race reached its halfway stage
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| Sunday, June 15th 2014, 02:02 GMT |
The Le Mans 24 Hours lead battle was reduced to two cars in the 13th hour of the race, as the #1 Audi hit trouble
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| By Gary Watkins | Friday, June 13th 2014, 16:31 GMT |
The factory Aston Martins are set to run solar panels to help power their air-conditioning units over the second half of the World Endurance Championship
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| By Gary Watkins | Friday, June 13th 2014, 17:20 GMT |
The participation of the #79 ProSpeed Porsche in this weekend's Le Mans 24 Hours is in doubt in the wake of a shunt in first qualifying yesterday
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| Friday, June 13th 2014, 20:42 GMT |
Kevin Harvick set a blistering record pace as he dominated NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying at Michigan International Speedway
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| By Scott Mitchell | Thursday, June 12th 2014, 19:13 GMT |
Toyota took provisional pole position for the Le Mans 24 Hours courtesy of a last-gasp lap from Kazuki Nakajima in a thrilling conclusion to an incident-filled second qualifying session.
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| By Gary Watkins | Thursday, June 12th 2014, 21:24 GMT |
Pierre Kaffer is set to race the second factory AF Corse Ferrari in this weekend's Le Mans 24 Hours after James Calado was declared unfit to drive after his crash in second qualifying
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| By Glenn Freeman | Thursday, June 12th 2014, 22:12 GMT |
Kazuki Nakajima gave Toyota pole position for the Le Mans 24 Hours as the leading LMP1 cars set their fastest times of the event so far in final qualifying
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| By Edd Straw | Wednesday, June 11th 2014, 18:05 GMT |
Toyota driver Anthony Davidson topped free practice for the Le Mans 24 Hours, a session interrupted by a massive accident for Audi's Loic Duval
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| By Scott Mitchell | Wednesday, June 11th 2014, 22:06 GMT |
Brendon Hartley put Porsche on provisional pole for the Le Mans 24 Hours after the opening qualifying session was brought to a premature end due to a crash
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| By Gary Watkins | Wednesday, June 11th 2014, 22:32 GMT |
Loic Duval will not be allowed to take part in this weekend's Le Mans 24 Hours after crashing heavily in his Audi R18 e-tron quattro during practice
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, June 10th 2014, 15:15 GMT |
Kimi Raikkonen says he cannot explain why he is struggling to be consistent driving Ferrari's Formula 1 car this season.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Tuesday, June 10th 2014, 15:45 GMT |
Long-time NASCAR team owner Junie Donlavey died on Monday after a battle with Alzheimer's disease. He was 90 years old.
Donlavey fielded cars for 45 seasons, starting out as an owner-driver in 1950 before stepping back to become a full-time entrant.
Donlavey Racing went on to contest a total of 863 races with a roster of drivers that included Joe Weatherly, Tiny Lund, Fred Lorenzen, David Pearson, Dick Trickle and Benny Parsons, although his only win came at the hands of Jody Ridley at Dover in 1981.
If the team was rarely a threat at the front, it developed a reputation as a hothouse for young talent, with Ridley, Ken Schrader and Bill Dennis all winning rookie of the year honours while driving its #90 entry.
Nicknamed 'Chief' by his colleagues in the paddock, Donlavey was a widely respected figure within the sport. A NASCAR statement described him as "a treasure, a man who personified NASCAR's proud past."
| By David Evans | Tuesday, June 10th 2014, 15:49 GMT |
Volkswagen driver Jari-Matti Latvala says losing Rally Italy was a setback rather than a killer blow to his World Rally Championship aspirations
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| By Jonathan Noble | Monday, June 9th 2014, 14:37 GMT |
Force India believed it was set to win the Canadian Grand Prix before the brake problems that hampered Sergio Perez near the end.
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| By Ben Anderson and Dieter Rencken | Monday, June 9th 2014, 15:33 GMT |
Williams believes Force India was irresponsible not to retire Sergio Perez before his crash with Felipe Massa in the Canadian Grand Prix, a charge Perez has slammed as "misguided".
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| By Kevin Turner | Monday, June 9th 2014, 16:10 GMT |
British Touring Car boss Alan Gow has hailed the championship's new mandatory breath-testing a success after all drivers and senior officials passed.
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| By Ben Anderson | Sunday, June 8th 2014, 23:36 GMT |
Fernando Alonso feels he was lucky to score so many points in the Canadian Grand Prix, after another difficult race for the Ferrari Formula 1 team
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| By Ben Anderson | Monday, June 9th 2014, 00:24 GMT |
Felipe Massa has branded Formula 1 rival Sergio Perez "dangerous" after the crash that took them both out on the final lap of the Canadian Grand Prix
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, June 7th 2014, 22:07 GMT |
Lewis Hamilton blamed himself for losing out to Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg in the fight for pole position at the Canadian Grand Prix
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, June 7th 2014, 22:36 GMT |
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff thinks it nonsense to suggest that Formula 1 team-mates Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton need to be friends
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| By Mark Glendenning | Sunday, June 8th 2014, 04:04 GMT |
Ed Carpenter survived a manic late restart at Texas to take his third IndyCar win, while Will Power stole second from Penske team-mate Juan Pablo Montoya at the final corner
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| Thursday, June 5th 2014, 20:06 GMT |
Mikko Hirvonen holds the Rally Italy lead after the very short Cagliari superspecial on Thursday evening.
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, June 5th 2014, 20:45 GMT |
Nico Rosberg has admitted that handling his relationship with Lewis Hamilton has become more difficult since the Mercedes duo have been in a head-to-head Formula 1 title fight
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| By Jonathan Noble | Thursday, June 5th 2014, 21:04 GMT |
Max Chilton reckons he could have added to the Marussia Formula 1 team's points tally at the Monaco Grand Prix if not for the clash with Kimi Raikkonen.
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, June 4th 2014, 16:45 GMT |
A number of Formula 1 drivers have urged Pirelli to make its tyres softer, amid complaints the current rubber is too hard for the 2014 cars
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| Wednesday, June 4th 2014, 18:58 GMT |
Formula E teams completed the first shakedown of their new cars at the series' Donington Park base on Wednesday
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| By Mark Glendenning | Wednesday, June 4th 2014, 20:37 GMT |
Penske has been fined $5000 after Juan Pablo Montoya's car was found to be underweight after qualifying for the first of last weekend's two IndyCar races in Detroit
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| Monday, June 2nd 2014, 16:01 GMT |
NASCAR officials say they have no concerns about the Dover International Speedway track after Sunday's Sprint Cup race was disrupted when a hole opened up in the oval's surface
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| By Andrew van Leeuwen | Monday, June 2nd 2014, 16:42 GMT |
Timo Glock has hit out at Edoardo Mortara's aggressive driving during the pair's battle in the Hungaroring DTM race, while Mortara insists he isn't "upset" that Glock is unhappy
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| By Kevin Turner and Scott Mitchell | Monday, June 2nd 2014, 16:59 GMT |
British Touring Car champion Andrew Jordan will test a Triple Eight BMW Z4 GT3 car at Donington this week and could join the squad for endurance races in the future
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| By Gary Watkins | Sunday, June 1st 2014, 16:44 GMT |
Toyota backed up its status as pre-event favourites for the Le Mans 24 Hours by finishing one-two in the test day.
Sebastien Buemi topped the times with a 3m23.014s lap in the #8 TS040 HYBRID set early in the afternoon session, while Kazuki Nakajima put in a lap that was one and a half tenths slower in the #7 entry right at the end of the test.
Buemi said: "To have the fastest lap of the day doesn't mean a lot, but it does mean we are heading in the right direction.
"We can now analyse all the data and try to be quicker for race week."
Two of the three Audi R18 e-tron quattros took third and fourth spots in the afternoon.
Marco Bonanomi's morning best of 3m23.799s in the #3 car stood as the fastest Audi time of the day.
Loic Duval was seven tenths behind in the #1 Audi in the latter session.
Porsche took fifth place overall with Neel Jani in the #14 car on a 3m24.692s.
Roman Rusinov topped the LMP2 class in the OAK Racing-run G-Drive Morgan-Nissan, going half a second quicker than Karun Chandhok in the Murphy ORECA-Nissan right at the end of the day.
GTE Pro honours went to Frederic Makowiecki with a 3m57.260s set aboard his factory Porsche 911 RSR.
That eclipsed Giancarlo Fisichella's best in the fastest of the AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italias by two tenths of a second.
The top two in GTE Pro were split by the best Am car, the 8Star Ferrari driven by Paolo Ruberti.
Overall times: Pos Cl Drivers Team/Car Time Gap 1. P1 Davidson/Lapierre/Buemi Toyota 3m23.014s 2. P1 Albuquerque/Bonanomi/Jarvis Audi 3m23.799s +0.785s 3. P1 Wurz/Sarrazin/Nakajima Toyota 3m24.015s +1.001s 4. P1 Di Grassi/Duval/Kristensen Audi 3m24.453s +1.439s 5. P1 Dumas/Jani/Lieb Porsche 3m24.692s +1.678s 6. P1 Fassler/Lotterer/Treluyer Audi 3m24.757s +1.743s 7. P1 Bernhard/Webber/Hartley Porsche 3m24.911s +1.897s 8. P1 Prost/Heidfeld/Beche Rebellion-Toyota 3m31.700s +8.686s 9. P1 Kraihamer/Belicchi/Leimer Rebellion-Toyota 3m33.043s +10.029s 10. P2 Rusinov/Pla/Canal G-Drive Morgan-Nissan 3m39.922s +16.908s GT pacesetters: GTE P Holzer/Makowiecki/Lietz Manthey Porsche 3m57.260s +34.246s GTE A Montecalvo/Roda/Ruberti 8Star Ferrari 3m57.403s +34.389s
| Sunday, June 1st 2014, 21:32 GMT |
Jimmie Johnson scored his second NASCAR Sprint Cup victory in as many weeks at Dover, holding off Brad Keselowski in a late-race restart.
Hendrick Chevrolet star Johnson dominated the second half of the race, having wrested the lead from Matt Kenseth's Joe Gibbs-run Toyota on lap 180.
Clint Bowyer attempted a bold two-tyre strategy at the final round of pitstops to briefly grab the lead, but Johnson dispatched him within seconds of the restart and was never again headed.
A final yellow flag, due to Casey Mears' tyre falling to pieces inside the last 10 laps, meant a four-lap shoot-out to the finish, but Johnson kept his cool once more.
Poleman Brad Keselowski finished second in his Penske Ford, having closed the gap to Johnson in the penultimate stint, but he was unable to do anything about the six-time champion in the final reckoning.
Kenseth finished third, escaping a hairy moment when Bowyer got into the back of him at the final restart.
Denny Hamlin finished fifth, despite an early pitlane speeding penalty.
The race was red flagged twice, once to clean debris from a crash involving Roush-Fenway duo Greg Biffle and Ricky Stenhouse Jr, which was started by AJ Allmendinger, and a second time when the track came apart at Turn 2.
Ryan Newman tore up part of the concrete race surface into the path of Jamie McMurray, whose car hit the wall after he'd slammed into the debris.
The track required repairing, which meant a lengthy delay, but no further issues were encountered after the restart.
Results - 400 laps: Pos Driver Team/Car Time/Gap 1. Jimmie Johnson Hendrick Chevrolet 3h23m52.000s 2. Brad Keselowski Penske Ford +0.885s 3. Matt Kenseth Joe Gibbs Toyota +2.008s 4. Clint Bowyer Waltrip Toyota +2.326s 5. Denny Hamlin Joe Gibbs Toyota +2.745s 6. Martin Truex Jr Furniture Row Ford +3.445s 7. Tony Stewart Stewart-Haas Chevrolet +3.738s 8. Joey Logano Penske Ford +4.176s 9. Dale Earnhardt Jr Hendrick Chevrolet +4.284s 10. Paul Menard Childress Chevrolet +4.644s 11. Kyle Larson Ganassi Chevrolet +4.987s 12. Aric Almirola Petty Ford +5.114s 13. Jamie McMurray Ganassi Chevrolet +5.359s 14. Carl Edwards Roush Fenway Ford +6.036s 15. Jeff Gordon Hendrick Chevrolet +6.747s 16. Marcos Ambrose Petty Ford +6.839s 17. Kevin Harvick Stewart-Haas Chevrolet -1 lap 18. Kurt Busch Stewart-Haas Chevrolet -1 lap 19. Kasey Kahne Hendrick Chevrolet -1 lap 20. Austin Dillon Childress Chevrolet -2 laps 21. AJ Allmendinger JTG Daugherty Chevrolet -3 laps 22. Brett Moffitt Robinson Toyota -4 laps 23. Danica Patrick Stewart-Haas Chevrolet -4 laps 24. Reed Sorenson Baldwin Chevrolet -4 laps 25. Casey Mears Germain Chevrolet -5 laps 26. Justin Allgaier Hscott Chevrolet -5 laps 27. Cole Whitt BK Toyota -6 laps 28. Josh Wise Parsons Chevrolet -10 laps 29. David Gilliland Front Row Ford -12 laps 30. Blane Koch FAS Lane Ford -12 laps 31. Ryan Newman Childress Chevrolet -13 laps 32. Ryan Truex BK Toyota -13 laps 33. Dave Blaney Humphrey Ford -17 laps 34. Landon Cassill Hillman Chevrolet -18 laps 35. Michael Annett Baldwin Chevrolet -22 laps 36. David Ragan Front Row Ford -50 laps 37. David Stremme Circle Sport Chevrolet -103 laps* 38. Greg Biffle Roush Fenway Ford -108 laps * Not running at finish Retirements: JJ Yeley Xxxtreme Chevrolet 232 laps Alex Bowman BK Toyota 208 laps Ricky Stenhouse Jr Roush Fenway Ford 131 laps Kyle Busch Joe Gibbs Toyota 125 laps Brian Vickers Waltrip Toyota 73 laps
| By Mark Glendenning | Sunday, June 1st 2014, 22:10 GMT |
Helio Castroneves led Will Power across the line for a Penske 1-2 in the second race of the weekend's IndyCar double-header on the Belle Isle street circuit in Detroit.
As was the case on Saturday, the race featured an array of overlapping strategies, but Castroneves followed a relatively straightforward one of starting on red tyres and cycling through harder blacks for the rest of the race to put himself into position for the win.
A long stint under greens during the second half of the race allowed the Brazilian to open a lead of 13 seconds, although that was erased by a string of caution periods, the first caused by Sebastien Bourdais hitting the wall, and the second by polesitter Takuma Sato being spun into the barrier by Marco Andretti.
Those allowed Power to close up on his team-mate, but Castroneves nailed both restarts and crossed the line with a 1.6s advantage.
"[Finishing second in] the Indy 500 just made us hungrier," said Castroneves.
"We want this championship so bad, and to win here where I won for the first time is awesome.
"The car was just so fast. I missed an opportunity yesterday, the strategy just didn't work for us but today was perfect."
Power did well to be in contention at all considering that he was forced to serve a drive-through penalty early on for unavoidable contact.
It was a fair punishment - he lunged to the inside of Simon Pagenaud at Turn 3, then decided to ride the kerb and try to pass Josef Newgarden as well.
It didn't work, and the resultant contact sent Newgarden spinning into the path of Graham Rahal, who in turn was rear-ended by Justin Wilson.
The Australian did not push his team-mate hard on the final restarts, and said that he was being deliberately conservative.
"It was a fantastic weekend," he said.
"I have a feeling we could have won it if we didn't have the drive-through but I'll definitely take second.
"I wasn't going to attack Helio hard - a 1-2 for Roger [Penske] is better than two in the wall."
The result was made even better for Penske by the fact that it moved Power and Castroneves into first and second in the points table; a situation helped further by Ryan Hunter-Reay having another miserable day that began with a qualifying crash and ended with an electrical failure.
Charlie Kimball did a superb job to drive from 20th to third, the Ganassi driver surviving close encounters with team-mate Scott Dixon and James Hinchcliffe in the final laps.
"It's a great day, to come back from a real disappointing qualifying this morning to be third and have all four Ganassi cars in the top 10," he said.
"I knew we had a fast car; we just had to put the hammer down in clean air and try to move forward.
"When I had clean air, I had the car to make up the positions."
Results - 70 laps: Pos Driver Team/Engine Time/Gap 1. Helio Castroneves Penske/Chevy 1h45m53.3410s 2. Will Power Penske/Chevy 1.6836s 3. Charlie Kimball Ganassi/Chevy 2.9746s 4. Scott Dixon Ganassi/Chevy 3.4290s 5. James Hinchcliffe Andretti/Honda 4.6528s 6. Simon Pagenaud Schmidt/Honda 4.9894s 7. Mikhail Aleshin Schmidt/Honda 5.5279s 8. Carlos Munoz Andretti/Honda 5.6906s 9. Tony Kanaan Ganassi/Chevy 6.2501s 10. Ryan Briscoe Ganassi/Chevy 6.5923s 11. Mike Conway Carpenter/Chevy 7.1114s 12. Justin Wilson Coyne/Honda 7.2822s 13. Juan Pablo Montoya Penske/Chevy 7.9649s 14. Jack Hawksworth Herta/Honda 8.7723s 15. Carlos Huertas Coyne/Honda 9.2906s 16. Marco Andretti Andretti/Honda 27.2464s 17. Josef Newgarden Fisher/Honda -1 lap 18. Takuma Sato Foyt/Honda -1 lap Retirements: Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti/Honda 61 laps Sebastien Bourdais KV/Chevy 58 laps Graham Rahal Rahal/Honda 43 laps Sebastian Saavedra KV/Chevy 9 laps
| By David Evans | Saturday, May 31st 2014, 19:19 GMT |
Three spectators have been killed in an accident on the Jim Clark Rally in Scotland.
The crash happened on the Swinton stage, near Coldstream in the Scottish Borders, earlier this afternoon.
A source close to the rally has told AUTOSPORT three spectators are known to have died, with Police Scotland subsequently confirming that this was the case. All three were pronounced dead at the scene.
Two more spectators have been taken from the scene by air ambulance. One of them is in a critical condition in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.
The event was stopped following the crash, which happened two stages from the finish, and has now been cancelled.
The Jim Clark was round two of the 2014 British Rally Championship.
The police are also investigating an earlier incident on the rally in which five spectators were injured. Four were treated at the scene of the crash, but a fifth is in a serious condition in hospital.
British motorsport's governing body the Motor Sports Association has issued a statement expressing its condolences and promising a comprehensive investigation into the accidents.
"The Motor Sports Association and everyone in the motorsport community is devastated by the terrible events this afternoon on the Jim Clark Rally," it said.
"The families and friends of those who have lost their lives and of those who have been injured are in all our thoughts as they face such an awful situation.
"Police Scotland are now in control of all aspects of the investigations into the two accidents and both the police and hospital authorities will issue further bulletins when they can. Everyone waits anxiously for some better news of those who have been injured.
"As with any serious incident, today's accidents will also be subject to full enquiries by the MSA to ensure that any lessons are learned to assist in the constant drive to provide the highest possible safety standards at all motorsport events."
| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, May 31st 2014, 18:16 GMT |
Ricky and Jordan Taylor survived a wild finish to win the United SportsCar race on the streets of Detroit's Belle Isle.
The Wayne Taylor Racing pair narrowly beat Spirit of Daytona's Richard Westbrook and Michael Valiante for a Corvette DP 1-2 on home soil.
Until the final lap it was shaping up to be a Corvette 1-2-3 and Westbrook was not in the picture at all.
Taylor was leading Joao Barbosa, but what had been a three-second lead a few laps earlier had been whittled down to nothing, and Barbosa appeared to still have enough tyres left to cause Taylor some problems.
A look to the outside with two laps to go amounted to little more than a near-miss with the wall, but the next time around he made the same move, following it up by ducking to Taylor's inside at Turn 3.
This time he got a run, and the pair made contact as they headed towards Turn 4 before Barbosa shook his rival off.
At first glance it appeared that Taylor had come off the worse, however that illusion was shattered when Barbosa's left-rear tyre exploded a couple of corners later.
Taylor swept back into the lead, but in the chaos Westbrook had closed in and was right on his tail. Taylor managed to keep him at bay for the final couple of corners, but he will be grateful that the race was not one lap longer.
Barbosa made no effort to hide his feelings.
"I'm very disappointed," he said. "We had a strong car and the car was very good. I tried to go by Ricky and he tried to put me into the wall. The next time it's going to be him."
Oliver Pla was third, albeit some distance back, in the OAK Morgan that he shared with Gustavo Yacaman, who won at this track two years ago in Indy Lights.
The fight for GTD class honours was no less fraught, with a series of minor incidents culminating in a last-lap fracas in which frontrunner Spencer Pumpelly was knocked off the track while fighting Townsend Bell.
The class win went to Scuderia Corsa Ferrari duo Alessandro Balzan and Jeff Westphal.
Leading results - 57 laps: Pos Cl Drivers Team/Car Time/Gap 1. P Taylor/Taylor Taylor Corvette DP 1h40m26.112s 2. P Westbrook/Valiante SDR Corvette DP +0.207s 3. P Yacaman/Pla OAK Morgan-Nissan +8.817s 4. P Pew/Negri MSR Riley-Ford +9.713s 5. P Sharp/Dalziel Extreme Speed HPD +17.718s 6. P Barbosa/Fittipaldi Action Express Corvette DP +33.286s 7. P Brown/van Overbeek Extreme Speed HPD -1 lap 8. GTD Balzan/Westphal Corsa Ferrari -1 lap 9. GTD James/Farnbacher Alex Job Porsche -1 lap 10. GTD Haase/Miller Miller Audi -1 lap
| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, May 31st 2014, 22:38 GMT |
Will Power triumphed in a thrilling first race in this weekend's IndyCar double-header in Detroit.
A combination of a scrambled grid and a succession of yellows made for almost as many strategies as there were drivers during the first half, but towards the end it boiled down to a straight fight between Power and Graham Rahal.
Power had the track position, but Rahal had a car that had been working well all afternoon and it took a fairly robust block from the Australian to retain the lead at the final restart.
With half a dozen laps remaining Power's lead had been stripped from one second to around 0.6s, and Rahal was clamped squarely to his rear over the final two laps.
But he was never able to find a way around, and Power went on to cross the line just 0.3s ahead, delivering hometown wins to both team owner (and race promoter) Roger Penske and engine supplier Chevrolet.
"Graham made it very difficult," said Power, who had struggled badly in qualifying and started from 16th.
"He never gave up. Every time I tried to relax he was straight back at me."
Power's road to victory included the addition of another chapter to his growing rivalry with Simon Pagenaud.
The pair touched on lap five when a wheel-to-wheel scrap culminated in Pagenaud making what he later admitted was "probably an optimistic move" to Power's inside and being pancaked into the wall. The consequent suspension damage ended his afternoon.
Meanwhile, Rahal was disappointed to fall just short of the win while being simultaneously pleased to finally get a good result on the board after a poor start to the year for family team Rahal Letterman Lanigan.
"I feel like we got a monkey off our back today," he said. "I knew I only had one real opportunity and that was on the restart and [Will] blocked me - which was fair enough; I would have done the same thing."
Ganassi's Tony Kanaan was on the same strategy at the end and completed the podium, although he had no answer to the pace of Power and Rahal and spent the final laps making sure that he kept ahead of Justin Wilson.
Polesitter Helio Castroneves rounded out the top five; the Brazilian fast whenever he was in front, but ultimately being thwarted by the timing of the yellows.
Accidents and other mishaps derailed several other potential contenders. Jack Hawksworth was looking very strong during the opening stint, running comfortably in second before his brake rotor exploded right before his first stop. He eventually rejoined four laps down, only to become involved in a last-lap incident with Mikhail Aleshin.
Indeed, the Russian's afternoon had been almost as eventful. He became the first driver from his country to lead an IndyCar race when he took a stint at the front during the stops, only to be penalised for blocking Takuma Sato, who was four laps down. Earlier, he had survived a brief clash with James Hinchcliffe.
Mike Conway was running in the top four for Ed Carpenter Racing when he made a mistake and clouted the wall, and later, Josef Newgarden did the same thing to cost himself a chance at a top 10 finish.
It was a miserable afternoon for Indianapolis 500 winner and championship leader Ryan Hunter-Reay, who started from the last row after an accident in qualifying, made little impression during the race, and then lost the rear of his car and crashed into the wall on the final lap.
Results - 70 laps: Pos Driver Team/Engine Time/Gap 1. Will Power Penske/Chevy 1h49m29.9323s 2. Graham Rahal Rahal/Honda +0.3308s 3. Tony Kanaan Ganassi/Chevy +5.5096s 4. Justin Wilson Coyne/Honda +8.5951s 5. Helio Castroneves Penske/Chevy +10.7365s 6. James Hinchcliffe Andretti/Honda +11.5074s 7. Carlos Munoz Andretti/Honda +14.8813s 8. Carlos Huertas Coyne/Honda +26.5965s 9. Charlie Kimball Ganassi/Chevy +32.5852s 10. Marco Andretti Andretti/Honda +33.1818s 11. Scott Dixon Ganassi/Chevy +33.3522s 12. Juan Pablo Montoya Penske/Chevy +34.0094s 13. Sebastien Bourdais KV/Chevy +36.0240s 14. Sebastian Saavedra KV/Chevy +37.0532s 15. Ryan Briscoe Ganassi/Chevy +56.6632s 16. Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti/Honda -1 lap* 17. Mikhail Aleshin Schmidt/Honda -2 laps* 18. Takuma Sato Foyt/Honda -4 laps 19. Jack Hawksworth Herta/Honda -5 laps* * Not running at finish Retirements: Josef Newgarden Fisher/Honda 36 laps Mike Conway Carpenter/Chevy 14 laps Simon Pagenaud Schmidt/Honda 4 laps
