Schumacher sat on the sidelines this year after losing his Haas F1 seat at the end of 2022, taking up a role as Mercedes reserve driver instead.In 2024 the German will dovetail those duties with a full WEC campaign with Alpine’s hypercar team, which was officially announced on Wednesday.Schumacher revealedContinue Reading
Bruno Famin, vice president of motorsport at the Renault brand, explained that the deal for Mercedes F1 reserve to race the new Alpine A242 LMDh prototype in 2024 announced this week was already in motion before he was given a try-out in the car at Jerez in October.“Talking in theContinue Reading
Burgess is to join the squad, which will field David Reynolds alongside Mark Winterbottom in a new-look driver lineup, on 1 February, 2024.This means a reunion between English engineer Burgess and team owner Charlie Schwerkolt, rekindling their successful partnership that led to championship success at Dick Johnson Racing with JamesContinue Reading
The news means international rallying will return to Britain for first time since the 2019 Wales Rally GB – the last time the World Rally Championship visited these shores.Rali Ceredigion will host the penultimate round of the ERC season from 30 August-1 September.The asphalt rally located around the seaside townContinue Reading
The permanent circuit will host a double-header on 13-14 April following a vote by the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council and it will replace the Circuito Cittadino dell’EUR street circuit in Rome as the location for Formula E’s race in Italy.The decision to leave Rome comes after a substantial multi-carContinue Reading
Recapping the first ever Las Vegas GP and looking ahead to our P2 showdown with Ferrari in Abu Dhabi. Trackside Engineering Director Andrew Shovlin joins us this week to answer your Las Vegas GP questions in this week’s Akkodis F1 Race Debrief. SourceContinue Reading
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