It all looked so good back in April. Tom Ingram radiated confidence, Excelr8 Motorsport’s winter work to its Hyundai i30 N Fastback all nicely validated during a three-day test in the dry – at Anglesey!He then burst out of the blocks with pole and two wins at the Donington opener.Continue Reading
Despite continuing to be overlooked by Red Bull’s lead Formula 1 team, Yuki Tsunoda showed great maturity over 2024, with three seventh places the highlights of his year in Australia, Miami and Brazil.He also managed his best F1 qualifying result to date with third on the grid in slippery conditionsContinue Reading
Winning IMSA’s closely fought GTD Pro class enhanced Laurin Heinrich’s reputation as a leading light of Porsche’s GT ranks.The 23-year-old AO Racing driver, in his first season Stateside, was not put off his stride by a mid-year team-mate change as Seb Priaulx stepped away, and only this duo won moreContinue Reading
Jake Hill is probably the first grandson of a chart-topping 1950s crooner to make Autosport’s own hit parade, and that’s appropriate because the diminutive Kentishman has ‘no other love’ (check out grandad Ronnie Hilton’s 1956 tune of that name) than motorsport.It’s been a long, hard road to the top ofContinue Reading
Pato O’Ward was at the centre of drama both on and off the track in 2024.While his popularity was called into question by Penske Entertainment CEO Mark Miles, the Mexican bounced back from a winless 2023 by gathering a career-best three victories (tied for most in IndyCar) and came withinContinue Reading
Oliver Rowland became a genuine title challenger, Formula E’s dark horse of 2024, upon returning to the grid and rejoining Nissan.Along the way were two wins and a further five podiums, and he led the standings during the Misano weekend when Antonio Felix da Costa’s disqualification handed him victory. TheContinue Reading
There were no issues with Ott Tanak’s speed on his return to Hyundai’s World Rally Championship squad after a season at M-Sport, but consistency was lacking.The Estonian wasn’t always comfortable behind the wheel of a much-improved i20 N Rally1 relative to the 2022-spec car, but did tame it to hisContinue Reading
Tadasuke Makino breaking down in tears upon scoring his first victory at Autopolis must rank as one of the moments of the Super Formula season.The Dandelion Racing driver used that breakthrough to mount a serious title challenge, picking up a second win at Motegi and emerging as Sho Tsuboi’s closestContinue Reading
“Messy” is how Alex Albon sums up his third season with Williams.Problems came from both sides; his crashes in Melbourne and Brazil were awkward since they led to missed races (in Australia for Logan Sargeant), but Williams’s car-build issues also meant he was competing with a long-hidden weight penalty andContinue Reading
In his final year racing an Audi, Kelvin van der Linde put together an excellent DTM campaign but came up short to Mirko Bortolotti after leading into the final race.Nobody managed more than his three victories, a virtuoso performance to win by 15.2s at a sodden Nurburgring the year’s mostContinue Reading