Long serving boss Andrea Adamo left the team principal role in December, citing personal reasons, after six years in charge, where he oversaw Hyundai clinch back-to-back WRC constructor titles in 2019 and 2020. Following the announcement Hyundai installed its president Scott Noh to take over the team’s day-to-day responsibilities from Adamo in the short term.
The Italian marque made its biggest stride towards the front in MotoGP in 2021 seven seasons into its return, having been one of only two manufacturers allowed to build an all new bike amidst the COVID-enforced development freeze. Aleix Espargaro proved to be a consistent top eight finisher across the campaign and scored Aprilia’s first-ever
Four-time F1 world champion Vettel joined the rebranded Aston Martin team for this season following his exit from Ferrari, linking up with Lance Stroll. While Aston Martin slipped back to seventh in the constructors’ championship after being hurt by the downforce cuts under the tweaked regulations for 2021, Vettel was able to score the team’s best result of the
Murray Walker and James Hunt shared the BBC’s F1 commentary box for 13 years. In this one off interview, Murray Walker gives us his take on James, the McLaren world champion and renowned Formula One hell raiser!
Alpine moved up to the Le Mans Hypercar class this year with its LMP2 partner Signatech, running the ORECA-designed A480 that previously raced in the WEC as the Rebellion R-13. However, it was forced to play second fiddle to its only full-season rival Toyota, primarily due to a smaller fuel tank, with the Japanese manufacturer
The progress of youngsters like the Spaniard himself, Charles Leclerc, George Russell and Lando Norris, has opened the possibility of new faces gunning for victories as their teams make progress up the grid. So far, their rivalries have proved to be exciting but fair, and Sainz is keeping his fingers crossed that even when the
10:12 PM ET Associated Press CARLSBAD, Calif. — – Deke Houlgate, a longtime West Coast sports publicist whose clients included such auto racing greats as Mario Andretti, Rick Mears, Richard Petty and Johnny Rutherford, has died. He was 91. He died Sunday at his home in Carlsbad north of San Diego of COVID-19-related illness, son
In order to provide a level-playing field between a wide variety of cars, including Audi’s new electric-powered RS Q e-tron, the ASO has heavily modified the regulations for the 44th running of the Dakar in Saudi Arabia. Chiefly, the width of all 4×4 cars has been raised from 2m to 2.3m and suspension travel has
Nine-time motorcycle grand prix world champion Rossi’s squad will step up to MotoGP for 2022, a move first announced earlier this year with a Saudi company known as Tanal Entertainment confirming the team and a supposed title backing from Aramco. But, in a statement issued to Autosport, Aramco denied any involvement or agreed a deal
A year ago, after running Palou as a rookie in IndyCar, Dale Coyne predicted his former charge would go on to shine at Chip Ganassi Racing. Palou had taken a podium for DCR at Road America – only his third IndyCar start and second on a US road course – and had also qualified five
Ferrari enjoyed a season-long battle with McLaren for P3 in the constructors’ championship that was only settled at the final race of the season. A strong end of the year, aided by an upgraded hybrid system on its power unit, meant Ferrari finished the season 47.5 points clear in the final standings. PLUS: How Ferrari triumphed in
The 2021 season featured a return to some semblance of reality in the club and historic motorsport arena. Unlike its COVID-lashed predecessor, which started three months late, a full calendar of events was run. For me, though, it was a different one. If not chronicling Goodwood’s Revival or Members’ Meeting from a commentary box for
The Canadian is coming off the back of an encouraging 2021 campaign, where he scored his first F1 points with top 10 results in the Hungarian and Belgian grands prix. However, his season did have some frustrating moments at times as he either failed to capitalise on strong pace or found himself overshadowed by then
Relive all the action from the Continental Tire Monterey Grand Prix powered by Mazda (PC/GTD), the fourth race of the 2016 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season.
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With the Maranello-based outfit having finished third this season behind Mercedes and Red Bull, it hopes that the early development switch it made to its 2022 car will pay dividends in helping it close up the gap. With one of the most closely matched driver pairings in F1, Ferrari is well aware that if its
The WRC will welcome an all-new batch of cars next year, built to the sport’s new Rally1 regulations that will debut in January’s Monte Carlo Rally. Rally1 specification cars are built around a stronger space frame chassis which will house a new 100kW hybrid unit, connected to a 1.6 litre turbo charged engine, retained from
Part two of the podcast tackles the races after the summer break, beginning with the farcical Belgium Grand Prix where just two ‘racing’ laps were completed, before McLaren got back to winning ways at the Italian GP with Daniel Ricciardo leading home team-mate Lando Norris. But it was between title rivals Max Verstappen and Lewis
Gasly scored more points through 2021 than in any of his previous three full F1 seasons, finishing ninth in the standings with 110 points. While Gasly could not emulate his shock win at Monza from 2020, the Frenchman picked up a podium finish in Azerbaijan, and was outside of the top 10 in just three races where he
In a move to improve safety in motorsport, most circuits have had grass, gravel and astro-turf track edges replaced by asphalt run-off over the last decade or so. In 2021 MotoGP deployed sensors in green painted run-off areas beyond circuit kerbs to police track limits, while riders in races are only allowed to exceed track
While Mercedes and Red Bull comfortably finished first and second in this year’s standings, McLaren and Ferrari both made considerable steps forward to cut the gap to the front of the field. McLaren scored a 1-2 finish at Monza, while Ferrari picked up five podiums and two poles across the year as the fight for
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The 16-year-old joins the Italian squad highly rated after becoming the first driver to win the German and Italian Formula 4 championships in the same season, during a successful 2021 campaign driving for Van Amersfoort Racing. In only his second year racing cars, Bearman notched up a total of 17 wins and 13 poles from
F1 teams are working flat out on the all-new ground effect cars that are arriving for 2022, and aimed at helping improve the racing by allowing drivers to follow each other more closely. A number of drivers who have tried the new concepts out in simulators have said that they will require a contrasting approach
The entry finished runner-up in the 2021 24 Hours of Daytona, and went on to finish seventh, fifth and fourth in the remaining three rounds of IMSA’s championship-within-a-championship, the Michelin Endurance Cup. Despite becoming the new team principal of the Toyota WEC squad, Kobayashi will return to join seven-time NASCAR champion Johnson in the Cadillac,
After a year on the sidelines Albon leaves the Red Bull camp in 2022 to replace George Russell, who has joined the works Mercedes team. However Capito says that Latifi will have an equal opportunity to help the team make further progress. Both men have completed two full F1 seasons, with Latifi having started 39
10. Aaron Cooke v Shaun Traynor The reigning champion took on the four-time title winner in Toyota MR2s, both mounted in the latest Roadster model. Aaron Cooke won the 2020 crown in a Mk2 but adapted quickly to the lighter car and took on Shaun Traynor in intense battles: more than half of the races
Schumacher made his debut in 2021 after taking the 2020 F2 title in his second season but struggled to shine in F1 with an underperforming Haas outfit. Schumacher and teammate Nikita Mazepin traditionally propped up the timesheets and finished the season without points as Haas put all its eggs in the 2022 basket, opting not
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The 2021 season was a highly successful one for national racing, with two-thirds of clubs enjoying increases in average grid sizes. That meant there was plenty of action to be keeping tabs on, and made it a tricky task to select the top 10 performers across the myriad series. Here are the drivers that made