What to look out for at the 2024 Silverstone Festival
1. Shrill DFV music rulesEver popular for their distinctive shapes and liveries, which made them instantly identifiable, three-litre F1 cars of the 1960s to mid-1980s remind racegoers of the age in which engines made by Cosworth in Northampton scored the lion’s share of wins against stout opposition from Ferrari, Matra,Continue Reading
Grange is new leader of Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings
Piers Grange has returned to the top of the Ryan Motorsport Insurance Autosport National Rankings for the first time in three months after taking two victories at Snetterton last weekend.Scottish Legends ace Stewart Black had been in first place since mid-July but failed to achieve any wins on the series’Continue Reading
Lorenzo: Injury still weighing down Marquez but he can win another MotoGP title
Former MotoGP star Jorge Lorenzo thinks Marc Marquez is still ‘weighed down’ by his old arm injury in 2024, but remains confident that he can add a seventh premier class title to his tally.Now a TV pundit for Spanish broadcaster DAZN, three-time MotoGP champion Lorenzo says he has noticed howContinue Reading
Obituary: Supercars engineer Campbell Little dies aged 65
One of Australia’s most influential motorsport engineers, Campbell Little, has passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer.Little’s family confirmed the news on Wednesday, after a three-and-a-half year battle with the disease. He was 65.His early fascination was not with cars but with motorcycles, racing on road and off aroundContinue Reading
Obituary: Supercars engineer Cam Little dies aged 65
One of Australia’s most influential motorsport engineers, Campbell Little, has passed away after a battle with pancreatic cancer.Little’s family confirmed the news on Wednesday, after a three-and-a-half year battle with the disease. He was 65.His early fascination was not with cars but with motorcycles, racing on road and off aroundContinue Reading
Final 2024 Award contenders chosen
The final 10 candidates for the 2024 Silverstone Autosport BRDC Award, supported by Silverstone Circuits Ltd, have been selected.The Award, which started in 1989, aims to find and assist the best junior British racing drivers. The prize for this year’s winner includes £200,000 and a Formula 1 test with AstonContinue Reading
Red Bull’s tech organisation “didn’t change” after Newey’s departure
Red Bull technical director Pierre Wache says the team’s organisation hasn’t changed following Adrian Newey’s withdrawal from all Formula 1 technical matters.Newey has still been seen on the team’s pit wall as a strategist and has focused on his RB17 hypercar project in recent months, but his days of consultingContinue Reading
Magazine special: Senna’s cars and his unsung stars
A celebration of Ayrton Senna’s career and our guide to this weekend’s Silverstone Festival form a special issue of this week’s Autosport magazine, out today (22 August).Much has been written and said about Senna’s career. Thirty years after the three-time world champion’s death at Imola, tributes and displays have beenContinue Reading
The pieces involved in F1’s complex calendar puzzle
As Formula 1’s schedule has grown to 24 races, coming up with a sensible calendar has become an increasingly complex puzzle.Under its recent popularity boom, the Liberty Media-owned series hasn’t been short of candidates to organise a grand prix, with the likes of Miami, Qatar and Las Vegas joining inContinue Reading
Courtney: Supercars retirement announcement “accidental”
Supercars racer James Courtney has revealed he did not mean to announce his impending retirement from motor racing in the manner that he did.The 2010 Supercars champion was appearing on a local Gold Coast news bulletin to talk about his upcoming career in real estate when he revealed his intentionContinue Reading