Thirty years have now passed but the 1993 World Rally Championship season will always be remembered as a year of firsts. It witnessed the rise of the WRC’s most popular figure amid the crowning of a bona fide record-breaking rally legend.It was Toyota’s Juha Kankkunen who ultimately emerged with theContinue Reading
Van der Linde was spotted driving ASP’s Lexus RC F GT3 at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya this week, just under a month after completing his third season in the DTM.It followed the South African posting a photo from Barcelona airport on Instagram with the caption “Excited to begin a newContinue Reading
AF Corse, which runs the factory 499Ps, has announced that the Formula 1 race winner and reigning LMP2 WEC champion has joined its roster for 2024 without unveiling his programme with the team.It appears certain that he will be part of the line-up in an extra 499P run under theContinue Reading
Misted-up windscreens were a hot topic last Friday as extreme wet weather hit the stages. The issue afflicted the prototype spaceframe-built Rally1 cars much more severely than Rally2 machines derived from production-based models. Ogier was among a number of Rally1 drivers affected, having to peer through a two-centimetre clear section ofContinue Reading
Block passed away earlier this year and we well known for his career as a rally driver, which included 26 starts in the World Rally Championship and a staggering 100 wins in European Rallycross. But it was his Gymkhana series of stunt driving videos that garnered the most publicity, with theContinue Reading
Schumacher will join existing Alpine drivers Nicolas Lapierre, Matthieu Vaxiviere and Charles Milesi, plus new recruits Ferdinand Habsburg and Paul-Loup Chatin, in its six-strong roster for 2024.The exact combination of drivers for the two cars, plus the final official livery, will be revealed at a separate launch event on 7Continue Reading
As for why that may be, the new car itself has to be part of it. The addition of several more road courses, the NASCAR Garage 56 entry at Le Mans, as well as innovative programs such as Project91 and others like it have all helped to lure several internationalContinue Reading
The drivers were evaluated and selected after participating in a combine held in Concord, N.C. and Florence, S.C.The Drive for Diversity program was created in 2004 to develop and train top drivers from diverse backgrounds and experiences, both on and off the track.Rev Racing, which operates the program, brings togetherContinue Reading
The WEC is witnessing an unprecedented level of manufacturer involvement in the top Hypercar class, with five major manufacturers competing in the 2023 season and three more poised to join the category next year.Independent teams like Glickenhaus and Vanwall have struggled to remain competitive against increased competition from their better-fundedContinue Reading
NASCAR’s Canadian series has been known most recently as the Pinty’s Series but will be rebranded beginning next season as the NASCAR Canada Series along with presenting sponsors Evirum and Pinty’s.As presenting partners, Pinty’s – which has served as the series’ entitlement partner since 2016 – and Evirum will eachContinue Reading