RB Formula 1 team principal Lauren Mekies has said the team has collectively taken responsibility for failing to make Daniel Ricciardo’s final stint at the squad a success.Last summer Ricciardo was given a second chance by Red Bull as an experienced back-up option to potentially replace Sergio Perez at theContinue Reading
Christmas is supposed to be a time of goodwill and cheer. But there is precious little of that festive spirit in certain quarters of the national racing community at present following the launch of two new UK series set to feature TCR cars and the subsequent response from TCR creatorContinue Reading
Maverick Vinales has revealed he asked Aprilia to introduce only incremental updates to its MotoGP contender in 2024 instead of instigating a major overhaul.The Noale-based brand debuted a heavily-revised version of the RS-GP at the start of the year with an increased focus on aerodynamics as it set about closingContinue Reading
Kevin Turner sits with Gary Watkins and Haydn Cobb to review the 2024 World Endurance Championship season.In the studio, the trio discuss whether 2024 was the year the “Golden Age” of sportscars truly arrived as Toyota was joined in the winner’s circle by Ferrari and Porsche, and how the GermanContinue Reading
Formula 2 CEO Bruno Michel believes that the spectacular 2024 season ranks as “probably the best” in the championship’s history.With a title battle that went down to the wire, 18 different race winners and, for the first time in history, all teams taking at least one victory, it is veryContinue Reading
The second season of the Prototype Winter Series will feature LMP3 entries split across the outgoing second-generation LMP3 cars and first-generation cars will be included in a Gen 1 class.The four-round campaign will contain two 50-minute races per Prototype Winter Series weekend. There are mandatory pitstops, with the length ofContinue Reading
It was announced earlier this month that Zandvoort would hold its final Formula 1 Dutch Grand Prix in 2026.With the current calendar seeming to be fixed at 24 races per year, this leaves a space for another track to host a GP in only a couple of years’ time.Will weContinue Reading
George Russell “never expected to have so much on my hands and for it to be so political” in his Formula 1 role as a Grand Prix Drivers’ Association director. Since the start of the 2021 season, Russell’s third in F1, the Mercedes driver has been a director of the drivers’Continue Reading
Five-time British Touring Car Championship race winner Aiden Moffat will drive a West Surrey Racing-run BMW during the 2025 season.The 28-year-old Scot has been named as one of the two drivers for WSR’s LKQ Euro Car Parts stable of BMW 330i M Sport machinery, alongside two other cars.That comes asContinue Reading
Almost half of the Formula 1 grid in 2025 will have come from the Red Bull Junior Team, making it one of the most successful academy programmes in motorsport.Jack Doohan, Pierre Gasly, Alex Albon, Carlos Sainz, Isack Hadjar, Yuki Tsunoda, Liam Lawson and reigning world champion Max Verstappen have allContinue Reading