The 1.5-mile oval’s omission from the 2024 schedule was thought to be a brief hiatus, and still could be, but there is a possibility North America’s premier open-wheel championship won’t return to race there in the near future.Texas Motor Speedway played host to IndyCar every year since 1997, including twoContinue Reading
But with the countdown now well under way to the unveiling of the 2024 cars, it is a good moment to reflect on that moment 10 years ago when F1’s regulations opened the door for perhaps the ugliest cars we had ever seen.It was the start of the much vauntedContinue Reading
In a series where the differences are so tight and where every thousandth of a second counts, any help is good for a rider to improve their lap time.A few years ago, a technique was introduced in MotoGP that has now for many riders become a vital asset. This hasContinue Reading
Marking the series’ first venture into the Middle East – doing so on the same year Formula 1 landed in Bahrain – the Qatar Grand Prix has become a mainstay on the calendar.In 2008, it made history by becoming the first ever night time grand prix to be held, asContinue Reading
Dumas will share the team’s sole GTP entry with Neel Jani, Gianmaria Burni and Alessio Picariello in the blue-riband round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship on 27-28 January.Jani and Bruni were already revealed to be driving the Proton Porsche on the publication of the entry list in November, while PicarielloContinue Reading
Since the current regulations were introduced in 2022, teams have gravitated towards the downwashing concept, following the lead of pacesetters Red Bull.However, Egginton says that taking that route comes with no guarantees and that teams have to understand how to fully exploit it.“People do converge in any regulation,” he toldContinue Reading
With four decades of success behind it, 2023 marked an important anniversary for Prema Racing. Founded by Angelo Rosin in Vicenza, Italy, in 1983, it began with a foray into prototype racing before swiftly switching to single-seaters the following year. It was in 1990 when it would first taste titleContinue Reading
Ireland’s national motorsport governing body hosted a press conference at its Dublin headquarters on Tuesday to reveal more details of its proposal to bring the WRC back to the country for the first time since 2009, as part of a proposed three-year deal.WRC officials revealed last year at the AcropolisContinue Reading
Prodrive driver Loeb sat a distant ninth in the general classification heading into the fourth stage in Saudi Arabia, having lost a considerable amount of time on the opening day due to punctures and a broken steering rack – and again on Monday with more tyre troubles.But the Frenchman wasContinue Reading
Carlin left the team in November 2023, 10 months after Rodin Cars chief David Dicker bought out the stake of parent company Capsicum Motorsport from Grahame Chilton.Chilton, the father of ex-Carlin single-seater and Formula 1 racer Max and British Touring Car Championship veteran Tom, had taken a majority share ofContinue Reading