Red Bull Formula 1 team principal Laurent Mekies says it would be “naive” to think his squad will nail the 2026 power unit regulations from the start, and admitted the team is bracing for a few “very tough months”.Red Bull will introduce its first-ever F1 engines for the 2026 regulationsContinue Reading
Toyota will bring the Corolla name back to rallying with its newly-developed GR Corolla RC2 rally car, which will compete in the American Rally Association (ARA) National Championship next year.The Japanese brand initially showcased its GR Corolla rally car concept at the Tokyo Auto Salon in January this year. TheContinue Reading
Who would have thought, after the first few Formula 1 races of 2025, that the championship battle would go down to the 24th and final grand prix of the season? Not many, but this roller coaster campaign carried Lando Norris, Max Verstappen and Oscar Piastri to Abu Dhabi each withContinue Reading
Connor Zilisch did just about everything except win the title at the secondary level of NASCAR in 2025. The teenager was a rookie in the NASCAR Xfinity Series, but that didn’t stop him dominating the field. He won 10 races, including a summer stretch where he won seven of eight racesContinue Reading
You’ll struggle to find anyone else in our top 50 with a worse second-half-of-the-season qualifying record than this four-time BTCC champion – which just emphasises what a fantastic racer Ash Sutton is.In his last season with Alliance Racing’s fourth-generation Ford Focus ST, he by hook or by crook remained aheadContinue Reading
Much was expected from Oliver Bearman after his stellar debut substituting for Carlos Sainz at Ferrari in Saudi Arabia the previous season, a drive so confident and assured that it masked the two rather less auspicious ones for Haas later in the season.His full-time rookie year also provided highs andContinue Reading
Much hype accompanied Lewis Hamilton’s move to Ferrari this season, but any hopes that Maranello could carry forward its strong late-2024 form into the new season were quickly scuppered.That meant a fourth successive season of angst and self-doubt as Hamilton’s year dissolved after the high point of the sprint winContinue Reading
Whatever the reason behind Luke Browning’s bewildering drop-off in form over the final two events in Qatar and Abu Dhabi, it should not detract from an otherwise excellent Formula 2 rookie campaign with Hitech GP. And he still ended up only just behind the experienced runner-up Jak Crawford and even-more-experiencedContinue Reading
No one expected the 20-year-old Brazilian to clean up in Formula 3 this year as effectively as he did. After all, no one does that in F3, and Rafael Camara had needed to pull out all the stops to ease away from a mid-season challenge from fellow Ferrari protege TuukkaContinue Reading
Just as they did before their victorious 2022 season in the first British Touring Car Championship campaign with hybrid, Tom Ingram, engineer Spencer Aldridge and Excelr8 Motorsport put the testing hard yards in early for 2025, for the switch back to no hybrid.That week at Anglesey with team-mate Tom ChiltonContinue Reading