| 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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| By Mark Glendenning | Monday, September 29th 2014, 17:56 GMT |
Tony Stewart has not yet decided whether he will ever race a sprint car again, despite being cleared of any criminal wrongdoing in the accident that killed Kevin Ward Jr
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| By Kevin Turner | Sunday, September 28th 2014, 17:24 GMT |
Mat Jackson won the reversed-grid British Touring Car race at Silverstone after a dramatic battle involving the championship contenders
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| By Hal Ridge | Sunday, September 28th 2014, 15:39 GMT |
Petter Solberg became the first World Rallycross champion with third place at Franciacorta in Italy, while Timmy Hansen gave Peugeot's Hansen-run works programme its first win
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| Sunday, September 28th 2014, 21:32 GMT |
Jeff Gordon claimed an ultimately dominant NASCAR Sprint Cup win at Dover as the original 16-strong Chase field was whittled down to 12
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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 Andrew van Leeuwen | Saturday, September 27th 2014, 15:59 GMT |
Mattias Ekstrom has been handed a five-place grid penalty for Sunday's DTM race at Zandvoort
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| By Gary Watkins | Friday, September 26th 2014, 16:08 GMT |
The Battersea Park round of the Formula E Championship set for next summer moved another step closer when the local council voted to proceed with the plans
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| By Jonathan Noble | Friday, September 26th 2014, 18:12 GMT |
Nico Rosberg's retirement from the Singapore Grand Prix was caused by a freak substance contamination creating an electronics short circuit in his Mercedes Formula 1 car, AUTOSPORT has learned
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, September 26th 2014, 22:38 GMT |
Kevin Harvick continued his strong 2014 qualifying form at Dover, where he secured pole for this weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup race
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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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| 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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| Thursday, September 25th 2014, 16:16 GMT |
Marc Marquez has admitted his Misano crash happened because he was determined to seal the 2014 MotoGP title at home at Aragon, and he has promised to calm his approach
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| By Mark Glendenning | Wednesday, September 24th 2014, 20:35 GMT |
Tony Stewart will not face criminal charges related to the on-track death of a sprint car rival in August.
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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 Charles Bradley | Wednesday, September 24th 2014, 21:00 GMT |
The Brabham team name will return to international motorsport competition next year in the World Endurance Championship.
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| By Ben Anderson | Tuesday, September 23rd 2014, 16:08 GMT |
Force India deputy team principal Bob Fernley hailed his Formula 1 team for the "outrageous" courage it showed helping Sergio Perez rescue a seventh-placed finish from the Singapore Grand Prix.
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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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| Tuesday, September 23rd 2014, 18:14 GMT |
Factory rider Andrea Dovizioso and Pramac's Andrea Iannone will give Ducati's 'evolution' MotoGP bike its debut in this weekend's Aragon Grand Prix
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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 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 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 Jonathan Noble | Sunday, September 21st 2014, 18:43 GMT |
Valtteri Bottas thinks his Williams Formula 1 car's steering problem was to blame for his tyres tipping over the edge on the final lap of the Singapore Grand Prix
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| By Jonathan Noble | Sunday, September 21st 2014, 18:09 GMT |
Daniel Ricciardo's hopes of overhauling Red Bull Formula 1 team-mate Sebastian Vettel in the Singapore Grand Prix were hindered by a battery problem on his car
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| Sunday, September 21st 2014, 21:45 GMT |
Joey Logano came out on top in an incident-packed NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire, after a green-white-chequered finish and a season-high 14 caution periods
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| By Gary Watkins | Saturday, September 20th 2014, 21:08 GMT |
Ganassi Riley drivers Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas hung on to claim victory in the Austin round of the United SportsCar Championship
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, September 20th 2014, 18:09 GMT |
Felipe Massa says the Williams Formula 1 team's return to form on Saturday at the Singapore Grand Prix was down to it getting on top of tyre temperature problems
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| By Gary Watkins | Sunday, September 21st 2014, 00:16 GMT |
The Austin round of the World Endurance Championship has been red-flagged after a heavy rain storm sent a series of cars off the track
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| By Gary Watkins | Friday, September 19th 2014, 23:55 GMT |
Alex Brundle claimed pole position on the debut of OAK Racing's Ligier LMP2 in the United SportsCar Championship at Austin
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, September 19th 2014, 22:09 GMT |
Brad Keselowski continued his recent hot streak by taking pole position for Sunday's NASCAR Sprint Cup race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway
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| By Gary Watkins | Saturday, September 20th 2014, 02:09 GMT |
Toyota drivers Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi claimed their first pole position of the 2014 World Endurance Championship at Austin in a dramatic qualifying session
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| By Gary Watkins | Thursday, September 18th 2014, 16:29 GMT |
A preliminary vote on the Battersea Park Formula E round planned for London in June 2015 will be taken by the local council next week
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| By Jonathan Noble and Ben Anderson | Thursday, September 18th 2014, 17:03 GMT |
As Formula 1 teams wait to learn if there will be a temporary easing of the radio clampdown, most drivers declared themselves eager to get on with the new rules.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Thursday, September 18th 2014, 18:30 GMT |
IndyCar's long-expected return to Brazil has been confirmed, with the series set to race at Brasilia's Autodromo Internacional Nelson Piquet on March 8 next year
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| By Mark Glendenning | Wednesday, September 17th 2014, 16:23 GMT |
The newly-merged CFH Racing team has confirmed that it will partner with Chevrolet in 2015, as predicted by AUTOSPORT last week
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| By David Evans | Wednesday, September 17th 2014, 15:59 GMT |
World Rally Championship leader Sebastien Ogier looks set to remain at Volkswagen next season, with a long-term deal said to be in the pipeline
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| By Jonathan Noble | Wednesday, September 17th 2014, 16:27 GMT |
McLaren chief Ron Dennis says it may not be until the end of next year for his team to be able to judge whether its restructuring has been good enough
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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 Mark Glendenning | Tuesday, September 16th 2014, 16:08 GMT |
Marcos Ambrose says that a belief that his NASCAR career had plateaued was a driving force behind his decision to quit stock car racing at the end of this season.
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| By Mark Glendenning | Tuesday, September 16th 2014, 21:20 GMT |
Mikhail Aleshin has been released from hospital to continue his recovery from injuries sustained in a crash during practice for the IndyCar season finale at Fontana two weeks ago
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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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| 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, 16:03 GMT |
Formula E could make a bid for world championship status in the future.
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| Sunday, September 14th 2014, 19:06 GMT |
MotoGP has announced a software development freeze effective from the end of June 2015 in preparation for the switch to standard electronics in the '16 rules
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| Sunday, September 14th 2014, 19:16 GMT |
Scott Redding will rejoin Marc VDS in MotoGP for 2015 as the dominant Moto2 team moves up to the top class running a factory Honda
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| Sunday, September 14th 2014, 21:22 GMT |
Brad Keselowski opened the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Chase by fighting back from a pit delay for victory at Chicagoland
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| By Mark Glendenning | Saturday, September 13th 2014, 17:29 GMT |
Marcos Ambrose will split with Richard Petty Motorsports' NASCAR Sprint Cup team at the end of the season and return to his native Australia
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| Saturday, September 13th 2014, 19:12 GMT |
Valentino Rossi will retain Romano Fenati for his VR46 Moto3 team into 2015
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| Sunday, September 14th 2014, 01:40 GMT |
Sebastien Ogier is holding Volkswagen team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala at bay going into the final three stages of Rally Australia
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| Saturday, September 13th 2014, 01:10 GMT |
Jari-Matti Latvala took the lead of Rally Australia from Volkswagen team-mate Sebastien Ogier after chalking up two more stage wins on Saturday's opening pair of stages
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| Saturday, September 13th 2014, 01:36 GMT |
The first practice for this weekend's inaugural Formula E Championship event in Beijing was topped by Lucas di Grassi for the Audi-backed Abt team
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| Saturday, September 13th 2014, 03:15 GMT |
Bruno Senna set the pace in second free practice for the opening round of the new Formula E Championship in Beijing
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| Friday, September 12th 2014, 01:23 GMT |
Kris Meeke surged into the Rally Australia lead at the end of the opening loop on Friday morning
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| Thursday, September 11th 2014, 16:46 GMT |
The Circuit of Wales will be ready to host the British MotoGP round in 2016, its developer claims, after the project entered the final process for securing planning permission
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, September 12th 2014, 01:30 GMT |
Tony Stewart will know next week whether he is to face charges relating to the death of fellow driver Kevin Ward Jr in a sprint car accident last month
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| By Ben Anderson | Wednesday, September 10th 2014, 17:52 GMT |
Toro Rosso has praised new signing Max Verstappen for the job he did in his first proper test for his new squad at Adria on Wednesday
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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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| Wednesday, September 10th 2014, 18:31 GMT |
The factory Porsche squad will field an additional car in the next round of the United SportsCar Championship at Austin later this month
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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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| 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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| 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 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 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 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 Ben Anderson | Sunday, September 7th 2014, 18:12 GMT |
Valtteri Bottas is unsure whether Formula 1 rival Kevin Magnussen deserved to be penalised for his defensive driving during their Italian Grand Prix battle
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| By Jonathan Noble | Sunday, September 7th 2014, 18:02 GMT |
The Williams Formula 1 team is not sure whether Valtteri Bottas's poor Italian Grand Prix start was caused by a clutch issue or just low grip combined with cold tyres
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| By Jack Nicholls and Dan Cross | Sunday, September 7th 2014, 18:20 GMT |
Laurens Vanthoor and Cesar Ramos have been demoted to third in Sunday's main Blancpain Sprint Series race at Algarve after being deemed to have exceeded the track limits
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| By Jonathan Noble | Saturday, September 6th 2014, 17:39 GMT |
Mercedes motorsport boss Toto Wolff has total confidence that there will not be another collision between his Formula 1 drivers Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton in the Italian Grand Prix
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| By Ben Anderson and Edd Straw | Saturday, September 6th 2014, 17:19 GMT |
The Williams Formula 1 team is "ready to pick up the pieces" if Mercedes slips up again in the Italian Grand Prix, according to performance chief Rob Smedley
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| Sunday, September 7th 2014, 03:19 GMT |
Brad Keselowski dominated at Richmond to take his fourth win of the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup season as Ryan Newman and Greg Biffle clinched the final spots in the Chase
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| Friday, September 5th 2014, 20:02 GMT |
GP2 points leader Jolyon Palmer has been sent to the back of the grid for Saturday's feature race after failing to provide enough fuel after qualifying at Monza on Friday
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| Friday, September 5th 2014, 21:11 GMT |
Mike Conway has announced that he will not be competing in the forthcoming Formula E season, with Oriol Servia his replacement at Dragon Racing
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| By Mark Glendenning | Friday, September 5th 2014, 23:57 GMT |
Brad Keselowski secured his fourth pole position of the season after topping Friday's qualifying session at Richmond
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| By Dieter Rencken and Matt Beer | Wednesday, September 3rd 2014, 16:15 GMT |
Kamui Kobayashi is set to return to Caterham Formula 1 race duty for the Italian Grand Prix, with Roberto Merhi in line to participate in opening practice, AUTOSPORT understands.
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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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| Wednesday, September 3rd 2014, 16:48 GMT |
Tech 1 Racing has signed Nicholas Latifi for the next two rounds of the 2014 Formula Renault 3.5 championship at the Hungaroring and Paul Ricard
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| By Gary Watkins | Tuesday, September 2nd 2014, 16:15 GMT |
Reigning GTE class champion Johnny Mowlem will return to the European Le Mans Series in the prototype ranks with Greaves Motorsport at Paul Ricard later this month
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| Tuesday, September 2nd 2014, 16:36 GMT |
Donington Park will host the MotoGP British Grand Prix in 2015 after agreeing a deal with the Circuit of Wales to take the race for one season
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| By Scott Mitchell | Tuesday, September 2nd 2014, 17:00 GMT |
BRDC Formula 4 will use the Tatuus FIA F4 chassis from late 2015 after agreeing an exclusive UK deal with the Italian constructor
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| By Mark Glendenning | Monday, September 1st 2014, 16:26 GMT |
Tony Kanaan expects Ganassi to carry its recent momentum into the 2015 IndyCar season after he earned his first win for the team in Saturday's season-finale at Fontana.
Kanaan's win was the third for Ganassi from the last four races, following on from Scott Dixon's wins at Mid-Ohio and Sonoma.
A poor start to the year meant that neither driver was in championship contention going into last weekend's race, but Kanaan said that the team's recovery bodes well for next year.
"I'm extremely confident," he said. "I think the team showed the potential when we're struggling how quick we can turn situations around.
"Next year is a whole new ballgame.We have new aero kits coming up. We have a lot of work to do.
"But it's really good to end the season on a high note, the whole team spirit is going to be good through the winter.
"We have six months to work out how to win the Indy 500 and the championship."
Kanaan's most recent win prior to Saturday night was also a 500-miler - the 2013 Indianapolis 500 - and he said that his Fontana success was the result of following the classic 500-miler rule of making sure you're in contention in the final stint.
"In the beginning of the race we were running between fifth and seventh, and I was just hanging in there, waiting for 70, 50 laps to go to just make a move," he said.
"The guys did a great pitstop. When they put me in the lead it was a little earlier than I expected, which was good. And we just went for it."
| 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 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."
