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McLaren started the season well off the pace in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, with both of its drivers Lando Norris and Daniel Ricciardo unable to get through to Q3. In Melbourne the team’s competitiveness improved as both drivers did qualify in the top 10, and then stayed there all race to score a big haul

The team realised after testing that it hadn’t made the expected step with the FW44, and then progress wasn’t helped by two heavy accidents in Saudi Arabia for Nicholas Latifi that led a huge effort to ready his car for Melbourne. Latifi was then involved with a collision with Lance Stroll in Q1 in Australia.

An unusual combination: Focus estate and Escort Mk1 The British Racing and Sports Car Club’s Modified Fords series caters for an eclectic group of machinery carrying the Blue Oval. From classic Anglias and Mk1 Escorts to Sierra Cosworths and four-wheel-drive Escort WRCs, via spaceframe specials and more modern Fiestas. Wayne Crabtree debuted his Mk1 Escort,

Three-time title winner Sutton, who has switched to a Motorbase Performance-run Ford Focus for this season, stamped in a time with just under 10 minutes remaining in the afternoon to eclipse the morning best of Jake Hill by 0.137 seconds. It was a qualifying simulation for Sutton, who switched on his headlights in the gloom

Much has changed since Anglo-Bahraini squad 2 Seas Motorsport was last a full-season entrant in the British GT Championship in 2020. Although it won at Snetterton that year with Jack Mitchell and Jordan Witt, the team’s frequent struggles with unreliability on the McLaren 720S GT3 were a drain on time and resources. “We were employing

Brother of seven-time Formula 1 world champion Lewis Hamilton, the 29-year-old will stick with Team Hard this year alongside Aron Taylor-Smith, Jack Goff and Bobby Thompson all running Team Hard Cupras, while Rick Paffitt Jr will race an Infiniti for the team. Hamilton made his BTCC debut in 2015 when he contested four rounds with

The car is the successor to the hugely successful 488 GT3 and has been built in conjunction with ORECA. A statement from Ferrari said that “the day’s programme alternated between sessions of laps on the track and stages when the 296 GT3 was checked by the technicians”. Factory Ferrari drivers Alessandro Pier Guidi and Andrea

Severiukhin, 15, was accused of showing a Nazi salute after winning the round of FIA Karting European Championship at Portimao in Portugal over the weekend. Motorsport’s ruling body, the FIA, announced on Monday it would launch an investigation into the incident. Severiukhin’s team Ward Racing also announced the termination of his contract after the video

Consisting of three drivers – Jordan Sherratt, Gianfranco Giglioli and Giorgio Simonini – the Automobili Lamborghini Esports Team will focus initially on the SRO-organised GT World Challenge Esports Championships using Assetto Corsa Competizione.   Sherratt dominated the EMEA region of last season’s The Real Race competition, but before his virtual career finished fifth in the

After the frenetic DRS duels that defined the 2022 Formula 1 season-opening Bahrain and Saudi Arabia Grands Prix, the return to Australia after three years without a race was a comparatively humdrum affair. Polesitter Charles Leclerc took control to land the victory. The Ferrari charger launched cleanly to pull across the Albert Park circuit and

The Yamaha rider qualified as the top non-Ducati rider in sixth at the Circuit of Americas and displayed strong race pace throughout practice. However, Quartararo was unable to mount a challenge for the podium and took the chequered flag in seventh after a late battle with Honda’s Marc Marquez. The Frenchman sits fifth in the

The Spaniard made history for Aprilia in last week’s Argentina Grand Prix when he guided the marque to its first win in the modern MotoGP era. It also ended a 200-race drought in the premier class for himself, with Espargaro first making his debut in MotoGP in 2009 and has been a mainstay on the

The format for the Americas GP weekend was altered, with Moto2 going first and Moto3 the final race of the day. American Cameron Beaubier scored his first grand prix pole in front of his home fans at the Circuit of the Americas, but would get jumped off the line at the start by several riders.

Human Performance Consultant Osteopath Fisher heads up Formula Health, an integrated medical clinic based near Reading in Berkshire that’s open to a wide range of patients, from newborns to the elderly. But it specialises in helping motorsport professionals to achieve their health, fitness and cognitive goals – thereby outperforming the opposition. “You can have the

Byron dominated much of Saturday night’s race, leading 212 of 403 laps, but a late caution on lap 394, triggered when Todd Gilliland hit the wall at Turns 3 and 4, sent the event into a two-lap overtime and bunched the field one last time. Byron cleared off in the lead and took the white

Herta was the first driver to drop into the 66s around the 1.968-mile course, with a 66.5710sec on his sixth lap that at the time left him half a second clear of the field. However with 35mins to go, a spin at Turn 6 saw last year’s Long Beach winner strike the wall with his

At the end of Q1, Albon parked his Williams on track in the final sector after hurriedly being told by his race engineer to stop the car immediately. It soon transpired Albon’s car was stopped because it was almost out of fuel, F1 cars having to produce at least a one litre fuel sample so

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February, F1 announced the cancellation of the race in Sochi scheduled for 25 September, as well as terminating the grand prix’s contract. It has left a gap on the initial 23-race calendar that F1 was looking to fill with a return to Qatar, which hosted its first grand prix

Quartararo is out of contract with Yamaha at the end of this season, having signed with the Japanese marque to join its factory squad for 2021 – replacing MotoGP legend Valentino Rossi. The Frenchman went on to win the 2021 title, ending a six-year drought for Yamaha dating back to Jorge Lorenzo in 2015, with

With 15 minutes to go in first free practice, Vettel suffered a loss of power, forcing him to pull up his AMR22 car at the side of the track at Turn 10. After the chequered flag, Vettel used a marshal’s scooter to make his way back to the pitlane, running on the final sector of

The two-time F1 world champion is contesting the second season of his third stint at the Enstone team, with which he won his two championship titles in 2005 and ’06. After scoring a podium in Qatar in 2021 and aiding team-mate Esteban Ocon’s quest to land his maiden win in Hungary last year by defending

Maserati had announced its entry into Formula E as a new manufacturer earlier in the year, but only as a supplier to an existing team on the grid – similar to fellow Stellantis subsidiary DS and its arrangement with Techeetah. The partnership with Venturi will begin from the incoming Gen3 era for Formula E’s ninth

The Japanese team has been nominated randomly by the FIA to carry out the three-day test on Croatia’s asphalt roads with championship leader Kalle Rovanpera set to complete the mileage. This is the first of three Pirelli in-season tests with the remaining outings to be carried out by M-Sport Ford and Hyundai Motorsport. Pirelli will

The Ferrari academy driver, brother of Formula 1 driver Charles, topped the timesheets with a 1m29.366s set on Wednesday afternoon at the Spanish circuit. Leclerc also led the morning session, and topped Tuesday morning’s rain-hampered running with a 1m40.202s, half a second clear of second placed Roman Stanek (Trident). Championship leader Victor Martins finished the

Leclerc has held an edge over Sainz throughout the first two race weekends of the year, with the Monegasque driver having found the right driving style and set-up for the new 2022 cars. After a 2021 campaign where there was little to separate Leclerc and Sainz, Red Bull had been counting on the two drivers

Back in 2019, Autosport thrashed it out after Colin Turkington secured his fourth BTCC crown that season. Here’s how the debate between three series correspondents went down. EDD STRAW: Apart from Colin Turkington, Andy Rouse is the other driver with four titles so it’s a good opportunity to discuss who is the greatest BTCC driver,

The new Hyundai WRC recruit enjoyed a confidence boosting run out at the championship’s last round in Sweden, posting a series of strong times that placed the Swede 1.6s from the lead after four stages. Solberg drifted away from the lead battle as the rally progressed, ultimately finishing sixth after a throttle issue resulted in

A win and a further podium on the inaugural weekend for the GB4 Championship handed Alex Walker the points lead leaving Snetterton. The Elite Motorsport driver blended speed with consistency, but had to give best to Nikolas Taylor in qualifying as the British-Malaysian bagged a double pole ahead of his racing car debut. “I’m just

Ricciardo and teammate Lando Norris have struggled in the opening two races of 2022 as McLaren was caught off the pace of the frontrunners. After finishing in the top four in the past two seasons, McLaren was blown away by the opposition at a painful Bahrain opening weekend, Ricciardo and Norris finishing in 14th and

There is a vast array of cars and championships in club motorsport that are portrayed as being entry-level introductions to the sport. But not all of them are as basic as they first appear and the machines instead require a raft of repurposing to make them fit for the race track. The MG ZR 160s