The GTP paddock will look rather different when the IMSA SportsCar Championship reconvenes for its season-opening Daytona 24 Hours later this month.Felipe Nasr will have a new team-mate to defend his title, after Penske Porsche Motorsport parted company with Dane Cameron. Nick Tandy shuffles into the #7 roster to becomeContinue Reading
McLaren Racing has confirmed sole ownership of the Arrow McLaren IndyCar Team, which went into effect on 31 December 2024.The full acquisition by McLaren Racing comes after the final phase of its buyout from Ric Peterson and Sam Schmidt, who founded the squad in 2001.The team originally ran under the Schmidt-PetersonContinue Reading
The Defender brand has announced plans to enter the Dakar Rally in 2026 as part of a three-year programme.Land Rover will field two examples of the popular Defender in all rounds of the World-Rally Raid Championship next year, with an additional third vehicle added to its line-up for Dakar.Defender willContinue Reading
Seventy crews will tackle the 2025 World Rally Championship season opener in Monte Carlo following the release of the event’s entry list.Monte Carlo will kick off the expanded 14-round WRC season from 23-26 January with 10 entries representing the top Rally1 class for the asphalt curtain raiser.The entry list isContinue Reading
Lewis Hamilton has outlined the new year as one of “embracing new opportunities” as he begins life as a Ferrari Formula 1 driver.The Briton ended his 12-year association with Mercedes – and a career-long affiliation with the German brand, which had been McLaren’s engine supplier during his junior career andContinue Reading
On the face of it, Mercedes team principal Toto Wolff giving an interview to Auto Motor und Sport carefully downplaying expectations surrounding rookie driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli seems like a typical piece of off-season ‘noise’. Very little of it would provoke angry debate in the sanctified halls of the Oxford Union.“IfContinue Reading
Red Bull has said it is ahead of its initial schedule with the building of its new Formula 1 wind tunnel.Red Bull Racing currently uses an outdated wind tunnel compared to its main rivals, with its facilities near Bedford being over 70 years old.The wind tunnel has been labelled “aContinue Reading
Ducati’s Francesco Bagnaia believes his performance in MotoGP last year was on level with Marc Marquez’s championship-winning 2019 campaign, if sprints are excluded from the equation.Bagnaia impressed with his blistering pace on the factory Ducati in 2024, winning 11 out of 20 grands prix and scoring five more podiums inContinue Reading
World Endurance Championship class race winners Sean Gelael and Darren Leung are moving from BMW to McLaren for a second LMGT3 campaign together in 2025. The winners of the Imola WEC round last April aboard a WRT BMW M4 GT3 shared with Augusto Farfus, will race a McLaren 720S GT3 EvoContinue Reading
Factory Toyota driver Henk Lategan beat Ford rival Mattias Ekstrom to take victory in Prologue at the start of the 2025 Dakar Rally.The 47th edition of the world’s biggest cross-country rally kicked off with a short 29km special in Bisha in the south west region of Saudi Arabia, with aContinue Reading