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The German manufacturer has revealed that it has the capacity to supply and service two of the LMDh hybrids developed in conjunction with Multimatic Motorsport for each series in 2023. Porsche is following up on the commitment to have privateers representing it in the WEC and IMSA alongside its factory entries, which was made in

How can it already be May? Time seems to be flying by at the moment and almost two months of the national motorsport season have been completed. And it’s great to be able to say that after two years of coronavirus-induced delays (at this point in 2020, the season commencing was still months away, while

Last year’s championship runner-up kick-started his season by recording a top five at Rally Croatia last month, following back-to-back retirements at Monte Carlo and Sweden. The Toyota driver admitted heading into Croatia that he could ill-afford another costly error after crashing out of a likely podium finish in Monte Carlo and Sweden. Following a measured

Eight-time WRC champion Ogier revealed last week that Portugal will be the second event of his partial 2022 WRC campaign with Toyota. Ogier has elected to scale back his WRC commitments this year to allow a move into circuit racing courtesy of a LMP2 programme in the World Endurance Championship with Richard Mille Racing. His

Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll both had major crashes over the Australian GP weekend, with the German hitting the barriers in both practice and the race. The team subsequently made it through Imola with no major dramas, with both drivers finishing in the points, helped by efforts to improve feedback from the AMR22’s steering wheel.

The Audi factory driver joined the works-supported Abt Sportsline team alongside Kelvin van der Linde and Ricardo Feller for the 2022 season, his first in the DTM since its switch to GT3 regulations for 2021. But Rast returned empty handed after “a difficult weekend” back in the series in Portugal, qualifying outside the top 10 for

The German manufacturer has suggested that it will be too soon in the programme with the new hybrid prototype to mount a four-car factory assault on the double-points round of the WEC. New Porsche Motorsport boss Thomas Laudenbach stressed that no decision had been made on bringing the branch of the new Porsche Penske Motorsport

Following Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix – won by Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia – the MotoGP paddock stayed at Jerez for an extra day for the first in-season test of 2022. The day began at 10am local time, with Honda’s Pol Espargaro topping the first hour with a 1m37.556s as HRC began a vital test following its

Muller dominated the second leg of the Portugal double header from pole position, leading every lap outside of the pit cycle en route to his first DTM victory in the series’ GT3 era.  Although the Swiss had two tenths in hand on the field in qualifying and was virtually unchallenged in the 33-lap contest on

After polesitter Rinus VeeKay controlled the opening two-thirds of the race, the Barber contest came alive on the final round of pitstops as VeeKay, O’Ward, Scott McLaughlin and Will Power pulled in together. VeeKay just got out ahead of O’Ward, after the Arrow McLaren SP driver delivered a great in-lap and his crew produced a

AF Corse Ferrari duo Ulysse de Pauw and Pierre-Alexandre Jean took a narrow win in the first of the two races at the opening weekend of the sprint segment of the GTWCE. De Pauw led from pole position in their Ferrari 488 GT3, a Silver Cup class entry, prior to a short safety-car period following

Polesitter Evans was able to cover off fellow front-row starter Pascal Wehrlein, whom he had beaten to pole by a quarter of a second, and begin managing his race from the start. But as the first driver in the queue, his energy consumption was naturally higher compared to his rivals, but Evans felt that he

Taylor completed a 1m13.924s lap of the 2.238-mile circuit to beat Jarvis’s effort in the Meyer Shank Racing Acura by just 0.089s. No less impressive was Alex Lynn’s first-ever qualifying effort around Laguna Seca. Not only did he beat his Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac team-mate Sebastien Bourdais by 0.45s, but he was also only 0.148s

Starting fourth, Vandoorne was able to keep track of the leading trio of polesitter Mitch Evans, Pascal Wehrlein and Jean-Eric Vergne, sticking behind and opting to save energy in the early stages. Once the first flurry of attack mode activations took place after the opening 10 laps, Vandoorne was able to restore his position by

Evans had made his way to his first final duel of the season by virtue of dispatching Lucas di Grassi and Jean-Eric Vergne on his road to the shootout for pole, and immediately made an impression by going a tenth faster than Wehrlein in the opening sector. His advantage then continued to grow, standing at

Rossi described the 2.43-mile circuit on which he never competed during his bike career as “a great track, fantastic” ahead of the start of his assault with the WRT Audi squad on the Sprint Cup segment of this year’s GTWCE. “The layout is interesting, it is a very old-style track,” said the seven-time MotoGP champion,

The Aprilia rider was caught on camera on the pitstraight at the end of FP2 at Jerez on Friday gesticulating towards Marquez, but no incident between the pair was caught on screen. Espargaro later explained that Marquez allegedly waited on track for a minute until the Aprilia rider came round late on in FP2 so

This week’s pre-season test at Portimao started late in the evening and until 10pm local time, with Dennis Olsen ending the test sessions fastest for the SSR Porsche team. Although the schedule was not by design but circumstances, as the DTM needed extra time in daylight to set up TV cameras after last weekend’s MotoGP

Unusual car of the week: Sports 2000 Shrike Is it a hovercraft? Is it a spaceship? No, it’s Rob Hall’s Shrike P15, which took a Sports 2000 victory at Silverstone last weekend. The category allows more freedom than most when it comes to car designs and the Shrike’s unusual contours are the perfect example of

The all-new car boasts a reworked design that Formula E states was inspired by the design of a fighter jet, and continues the championship’s ethos of developing a car specifically to race on the cast of street courses on the calendar. This extends to a slightly shorter car to allow drivers to go wheel-to-wheel on

Red Bull’s F1 fightback was always likely to come sooner rather than later, but it was unfortunate for Ferrari and its fans that the blue team’s first 1-2 for six years should arrive on Italian soil last weekend. As Matt Kew shows in our GP analysis, Red Bull had a small but significant edge at

Following a successful first campaign with GT3 cars, the DTM returns this year with an expanded grid of 29 cars – the biggest field since the revival of the championship in 2000. A lot of eyeballs will be on nine-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb as he makes his DTM debut for Red Bull in

Although best known for his exploits in the DTM with Audi, Rockenfeller has been competing in major enduros on both sides of the Atlantic for nearly two decades, winning both the Le Mans 24 Hours and the Daytona 24 Hours in a single calendar year in 2010. The German driver called time on his glittering

With the DTM completing set-up work for TV production during the day, the on-track running didn’t begin until 5pm in the evening and continued well into the dark – with the chequered flag waved at 10pm. It was reigning ADAC GT Masters champion Feller who made the most of the conditions, lapping the Portuguese circuit

Picking a winner for the 350th Porsche Carrera Cup GB contest was always going to be tricky. There was no shortage of contenders on a grid packed with talented drivers. And, after a dramatic race, it was new Porsche Junior Adam Smalley who landed the first blow of the 20th anniversary season. While Smalley’s Redline

Top Performer – Kalle Rovanpera and Jonne Halttunen (Toyota) If they continue to perform at this level, there will be shortage of superlatives to describe Kalle Rovanpera and Jonne Halttunen. The pair take the top performer award for the second event in row, following their impressive run to victory in Sweden with a breathtaking display

Supercars will debut its next-generation hardware next season, with a pair of prototypes – one Chevrolet Camaro and one Ford Mustang – well into their testing programme. That programme is being run as a joint venture between Supercars itself and the two homologation teams, Dick Johnson Racing (Ford) and Triple Eight (Chevrolet). While drivers from

All 10 qualifying sessions and races, taking place across eight Formula 1 Grand Prix weekends, will be broadcast live by Sky. The all-female championship had previously been broadcast by Channel 4, who will continue to show highlights, as well as free-to-air coverage of the British Grand Prix support race at Silverstone. The new Sky deal

The Alpine team was deemed by the FIA stewards to have performed an unsafe release after Ocon emerged side-by-side with Hamilton, forcing the Mercedes driver to cede him the position. Ocon received a five-second penalty for the incident, and having finished in 11th place with a queue of cars behind him the Alpine driver slipped

From 11th on the grid at Imola, Russell made a good start and had a superb race to fourth place in the tricky wet/dry event. Hamilton meanwhile struggled to make progress and finished where he started in 14th on the road, spending most of the race stuck behind Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri, but gained a place