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The Japanese manufacturer was “far” from its full-season testing allocation of 20 car days in 2022, having not run its LMH contender privately since just before the second round of the championship at Spa in May. The Le Mans 24 Hours test day in June and the post-season rookie test in Bahrain, where it was

This has been a great year. The guys at Hitech worked so hard and it was so nice to be able to reward them with both the drivers’ and teams’ titles in GB3. We could have sewn it up a lot earlier, but we made it a bit difficult for ourselves. Regardless, the outcome was

Jocelyn Pedrono, who acquired the rights to the Pescarolo brand in 2016, has revealed an intention to bring back the famous French marque to the Le Mans 24 Hours and the World Endurance Championship with a customer car. He clarified that legendary team founder and four-time Le Mans winner Henri Pescarolo is not involved in

The luxury Danish audio brand has worked together with Autosport to select four of the season’s best moments and the winner, which will be decided by a panel of experts, will be announced at the Autosport Awards at Grosvenor House on Park Lane on 4 December. There were plenty of candidates for the accolade and

The Italian F1 squad announced earlier this week that it had accepted Binotto’s offer to resign from his role as team principal after just less than four years in the job. Binotto’s decision came off the back of a rollercoaster season for Ferrari, where the highs of early season race victories were clouded by later

The 28-year-old Kentishman stormed to third place – the top BMW driver – in 2022, his first season as part of the WSR line-up. There was talk at the end of the season that his management, Mark Blundell’s MB Motorsport, could strike out on its own away from WSR for next season, but this blew

The Briton has filled one of the two vacant seats in the three-car squad of Cadillac V-LMDhs for Daytona on 28/29 January alongside six-time IndyCar champion Scott Dixon, who will race one of two Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac Racing entries. Aitken will race alongside full-season Action Express drivers Pipo Derani and Alexander Sims, while three-time

Latifi made his final F1 appearance with Williams in Abu Dhabi after the team opted to replace him with Formula 2 driver Logan Sargeant for the 2023 season. The Canadian scored nine points during his three-year stint with Williams, but struggled to match the form of team-mate Alex Albon throughout this season. After picking up his

The Kiwi was embroiled in a four-way battle for last season’s title, but his hopes of overhauling eventual champion Stoffel Vandoorne were dented by an electrical issue at London’s E-Prix despite his best efforts in the Seoul finale. This preceded preparations for Formula E’s Gen3 ruleset, which features a more powerful drive motor, regenerative braking

An off-shoot of the successful DAMS squad, e.dams had been part of Renault’s entry in Formula E during the first four years of competition, before uniting with Nissan as Renault departed from the series. After the DAMS Formula 2 squad was bought by ex-F1 driver Charles Pic, Nissan bought up the e.dams spin-off to take

Sargeant will make his F1 debut next year for Williams, replacing Nicholas Latifi after securing enough superlicence points through his rookie Formula 2 season to make the step up. Williams has now revealed that Sargeant will race with #2 as his permanent number in F1, becoming the second driver to use it since the system

The 1997 F1 title winner is one of four drivers due to get behind the wheel of the Gibson-engined Vanwall Vandervell LMH over the course of a three-day test at the Spanish track starting on Wednesday, Autosport has learned. Villeneuve, 51, is known to be scheduled to share the prospective World Endurance Championship contender with

The Birmingham-born driver will hence make his debut as a Formula E driver next season, which kicks off in Mexico on 14 January, with the incoming Nissan-powered team. Hughes has spent the past two seasons as Mercedes’ reserve driver in support of Stoffel Vandoorne and Nyck de Vries, and remains with the squad in its

Each Spring, Sebring hosts the classic 12-hour race, but in the virtual world, drivers will have to contest four hours and 500 miles of the legendary track on December 3rd, 2022. There will be everything to play for as the Le Mans Virtual Series moves one step closer to the season finale — with a

Preparations are in full swing for the new era of sportscar racing, with Cadillac, Acura, BMW and Porsche all in a race against time to have their new LMDh contenders ready for the Daytona 24 Hours in January. PLUS: The long road to convergence for sportscar racing’s new golden age Outside of private testing, the four

The raw statistics suggest Luke Browning was never troubled on his way to winning the 2022 GB3 Championship, living up to his pre-season tag as title favourite. With more wins, podiums and laps led than his rivals, the Briton earned the title, but the story of the season is one of a hard-fought, season-long championship

The Italian manufacturer has joined other car makers in preparing a bespoke concept machine for the Gran Turismo franchise, and it will be made available to play later this month. The striking design includes a canopy, which opens to home a single driver who will sit in a reclined position. It utilises in-game aerodynamic features

Nasser Al-Attiyah and Klara Andersson bounced back from a penalty in their qualifying heat to win the final for Abt, ahead of McLaren’s Tanner Foust and Emma Gilmore, but third was enough for X44’s Sebastien Loeb and Cristina Gutierrez to seal the crown. Hamilton’s squad secured the Extreme E title after all three of its

On a weekend when the curtain came down on the WTCR in Saudi Arabia, where Mikel Azcona clinched the title during qualifying on Saturday, Comtoyou Audi driver Berthon led the first of the two night races all the way from pole position as BRC Hyundai’s Norbert Michelisz chased him. The Hungarian made a number of

“It’s certainly one of my favourite cars.” That’s quite an endorsement from touring car legend Steve Soper, who isn’t short of choices when it comes to racing machines from his long and successful career. But the Ford Sierra RS 500, which he drove in the late 1980s in the British Touring Car Championship and across

This month’s Bahrain 8 Hours finale marked the end of the all-professional GTE division in the WEC, amid a shift in manufacturer interest to the new Hypercar class for prototype cars. GTE Pro had been a permanent staple of the championship since its rebirth in 2012 and was loved by fans across the world for

Spaniard Azcona, 26, became champion at the end of the Q2 session when Munnich Motorsport’s Nestor Girolami, the only driver with a hope of beating him to the title, slumped to the 12th fastest time – missing out on the points on offer in qualifying in order to remain mathematically in the title hunt for

While Ferrari made a step forward in 2022 and finished runner-up in both championships, its best result since 2018, the year was not without its disappointments. And in particular Ferrari found itself in the firing line after seeing a number of possible victories ruined by poor reliability, strategy errors or driver mistakes. Reflecting on the

The Woking-based squad caused a stir in the middle of 2020 when it emerged that it was renewing an historic partnership with Gulf – which had originally been a team partner as long ago as 1968. From the 2020 British GP, McLaren’s cars carried the famous blue and orange colours of Gulf as part of

The WRC had indicated earlier this year a desire to add a desert event in the region, which has been described by the championship’s event director Simon Larkin as a “missing piece” from the series schedule. It was anticipated that an event, understood to be held in Saudi Arabia, would be included on next year’s

It all goes down to the wire in Bahrain in the WEC title decider, with the joys and despair captured by the latest instalment of the documentary that goes into the most intimate parts of the paddock to reveal what really goes on. Starting with team personnel arriving at the Bahrain International Circuit, each squad

Jarvis and team-mate Tom Blomqvist beat Wayne Taylor Racing duo Filipe Albuquerque and Ricky Taylor in an all-Acura battle for the championship this year with victories in the Daytona 24 Hours and the season-closing Petit Le Mans. However, the British driver won’t get a chance to defend his title at the start of IMSA’s GTP

The German manufacturer is coming off the back of a challenging campaign where it struggled to get on top of the new-rules era, losing out to rivals Red Bull and Ferrari. Its new W13 car struggled badly with porpoising early on and, despite some good progress over the year that allowed George Russell to lead

Both DTM and ADAC’s GT Masters are yet to reveal their calendars for the 2023 season and, according to Autosport’s German language sister title Motorsport-Total.com, the two series have been negotiating joint activities behind the scenes for several weeks now. Such a collaboration would have been unthinkable two years ago, when DTM’s switch to GT3

Ricciardo leaves the team after two disappointing seasons at McLaren, with the team deciding in the summer to end his contract one year early and move for rookie Oscar Piastri, who got his first run with the team in Tuesday’s post-season test at Yas Marina. The Australian’s struggles proved particularly costly in the constructors’ championship, as McLaren fell