Rally

The Ford squad had started the WRC’s visit to Africa on the front foot, with three cars inside the top five after Friday’s opening stage. However, as the day progressed M-Sport’s fortunes worsened, beginning with nine-time world champion Sebastien Loeb retiring from fifth after Stage 4. Loeb had won the day’s first stage, but his

Following a difficult start to the season, Aston Martin brought a significant upgrade to the Spanish Grand Prix that drew comparisons to the concept used by Red Bull on its RB18 car. PLUS: What’s next for the Green Red Bull controversy? The team has since enjoyed an upswing in form, scoring points in each of

The WRC has ventured to the wilds of Kenya’s savannah for the second time since the iconic rally’s re-introduction to the calendar last season after a 19-year hiatus. Drivers and co-drivers will contest 19 stages comprising 363.44kms featuring rough gravel stages that present several challenges from deep fesh-fesh sand, to wildlife roaming Kenya’s famous plains

Rally legend Ogier revealed following this month’s Le Mans 24 Hours that he was unlikely to see out the WEC campaign with the Signatech-run Richard Mille outfit, despite having been initially announced for a full season alongside compatriots Charles Milesi and Lilou Wadoux. Now the team has named a replacement for Ogier for the remaining

It’s rarely mentioned when it comes to assessing the best national contests, but the Brazilian Stock Car series that reaches its climax this weekend has an ever-growing appeal. Its expanding roster of ex-Formula 1 names has helped to draw in new fans, but it’s the closeness of competition that keeps them watching

The eight-time world champion conquered the iconic Kenya rally in 2021 when it rejoined the WRC calendar following a 19-year hiatus, and the Frenchman has elected to return 12 months on in the hope of defending his crown. Fresh from finishing ninth in the LMP2 class on his Le Mans 24 Hours debut two weeks

The competition in the World Endurance Championship’s Hypercar class is set to heat up, with Peugeot’s two-car programme beginning at Monza in July, ahead of Ferrari, Porsche and Cadillac all entering the division in 2023 with either LMH or LMDh machinery. It means that Glickenhaus, a small American boutique manufacturer, will have to battle with

While in Formula 1, teams are equipped with fancy motorhomes, the WRC is no different with its top teams Toyota, Hyundai and M-Sport-Ford operating out of their own brand of impressive temporary structures. To run a fleet of world rally cars sufficiently, teams need to build effectively a workshop facility at every round of the

Vips was heard using racist language during a live stream of a video game on Tuesday, prompting Red Bull to take immediate action. The Formula 1 team issued a statement confirming he had been suspended from its team activities ahead of a full investigation. “Red Bull Racing has suspended junior driver Juri Vips from all

Lloyd made contact with another car on the first lap of the reversed-grid finale and was spat into the barriers, from where he rebounded into the track and was unavoidably rammed by Turkington in an impact measured at approximately 40G. Four-time British Touring Car champion Turkington’s West Surrey Racing BMW 330e M Sport, a brand-new

The nine-time world champion will rejoin M-Sport in Kenya to mark a third start of a partial WRC campaign with the Ford squad. It will also see Loeb contest the Safari Rally for only the second time in his career, having made his event debut 20 years ago, when driving for Citroen in 2002. That

A late safety car set up a final charge to the line between Verstappen and Sainz, both of whom were left fighting alone for their teams following setbacks for their team-mates. Verstappen ultimately held on to score his sixth victory of the season, denying Sainz a maiden F1 win that he has come so close

The Ducati rider was slapped with a long lap penalty for crashing under yellow flags in FP4, and was unsuccessful in pleading his case to the stewards that he was not pushing through the yellow zone when he fell. Miller served his penalty at the start of lap five, and was able to recover to

The former Sauber F1 racer will drive the EMA Porsche 911 GT3-R together with Matt Campbell and Mathieu Jaminet in the Belgian enduro on 30-31 July, which is a round of both the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup and the Intercontinental GT Challenge. The trio have already won the GT Daytona Pro class of

In the closing stages of the race Alonso was stuck behind Alpine teammate Esteban Ocon in seventh when he started feeling the pressure from Alfa Romeo driver Bottas behind. With just over a lap of the 70-lap race remaining Alonso aggressively defended against the Finn by weaving on the long straight before the final chicane,

The Swiss converted pole to victory after an early safety car that meant he had to pass early stopper Dev Gore on-track. It meant Abt Audi drivers won both races on the DTM’s first visit to Imola, after Rast controlled race one from pole to beat Gore’s Team Rosberg team-mate Nico Muller. Feller’s pole position

Alonso has been in fine form throughout F1’s return to Montreal for the first time since 2019 – not finishing outside the top five in any practice session, topping the wet FP3, and then pipping fellow Spaniard Carlos Sainz to second in qualifying after the Ferrari driver’s efforts to ace the final turns in Q3

Verstappen claimed pole for F1’s first race in Montreal since 2019, as he topped all three segments of a wet-but-drying qualifying session at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, while his title rivals Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc qualified down the order – the former due to a crash and the latter because he did not need

In the wake of a technical directive from the FIA on the eve of the Montreal weekend to help reduce porpoising, F1 teams were advised they could add a second stay to help stiffen their floor. Mercedes was the only outfit that elected to go down that route, as it trialled an interim solution on

The Walkinshaw Andretti United driver finished fourth in today’s first of three races at the Hidden Valley circuit. However following a post-race investigation the result won’t stand, his Walkinshaw Andretti United crew found guilty of illegally using a battery-operated air blower on the car on the grid.  “Rule D8.1.8 prohibits the use of any device

The seven-time champion evaluated an experimental floor in Montreal’s first session on Friday. However, that was abandoned for second practice, when he and team-mate George Russell went completely separate ways with their set-up directions. But after telling his team over the team radio that the car was left “undrivable”, Hamilton later explained just how terrible

As per the original ground-effect F1 era in the early 1980s, porpoising has returned whereby airflow stalls over the floors and therefore detaches and reattaches itself to the car. This forces the downforce to breakaway, creating a cycle where cars are pulled into the track surface and then released at higher speeds. To combat this,

The Renault-owned marque has been competing in the top class of the WEC for the past two seasons with the Alpine A480-Gibson, a grandfathered LMP1 design that previously raced as the Rebellion R-13. However, the car had to be given special dispensation to race on in 2022 against the Le Mans Hypercars of Toyota, Glickenhaus

Following its eighth consecutive F1 constructors’ championship victory last year, Mercedes has struggled to compete at the very front of the pack so far this season under the revised technical regulations. Russell and team-mate Lewis Hamilton’s efforts have been blighted by a continuing porpoising issue on the Mercedes W13 car, leaving them a step behind

Warwick reunites with old car: Chevron B38 Thirty years after he won the Le Mans 24 Hours with Peugeot, Derek Warwick returned with his family to Thruxton where he cut his racing teeth having moved from short ovals. The 1973 World Superstox champion raced Formula Ford Hawke DL12 and DL15 chassis in 1975-76, before graduating

Forget Top Gun Maverick, in the world of NASCAR it’s Team Trackhouse that feels like the feelgood movie of the summer. In a Cup Series where giants like Hendrick Motorsports, Joe Gibbs Racing and Team Penske field their star-studded jet jockeys, Trackhouse is the plucky little squadron that put them all in its sights and

Following a difficult start to the 2022 campaign that saw it slump to the bottom of the constructors’ championship after three rounds, Aston Martin made a number of visible changes to the design of its AMR22 car for the Spanish Grand Prix last month. Similarities were drawn between Red Bull’s RB18 car and the revised

Following a strong Spanish Grand Prix, in which Alfa’s car excelled in Barcelona’s slow final sector, the Hinwil team headed to Monaco with high expectations. But Monaco was close to a disaster as Valtteri Bottas had to sit out most of FP1 and he and Zhou Guanyu then qualified 12th and 20th respectively. Bottas managed

Elsewhere, Glickenhaus took its first Le Mans podium, while Jota’s #38 squad took the LMP2 victory despite suffering a late scare with tyre problems. Porsche’s #91 car took the final win for the GTE Pro class at Le Mans, pouncing on a double retirement for Corvette, as the #33 TF Sport Aston Martin claimed victory

The Czech Republic manufacturer has spent two years developing the Fabia RS which will replace the hugely successful Fabia Rally2 and Evo models that have proven a force in R5 classes, claiming more than 1700 rally wins all over the world to date. Skoda’s latest rally car offering is based on the new fourth-generation Fabia,