Highly rated reigning Fiesta Junior champion Finn Leslie is to make his British Touring Car Championship debut at Oulton Park this weekend.The 17-year-old Yorkshire college student is to replace Ronan Pearson in the Speedworks Motorsport-run Toyota Gazoo Racing UK line-up due to what the team described as ‘unexpected commercial challenges’.PearsonContinue Reading
Veteran team boss, engineer and driver Ed Abbott is preparing for the challenge of tackling this year’s Roger Albert Clark Rally in an unusual choice of car: a Jaguar XJS.Abbott fielded the unlikely 5.3-litre V12-engined Jaguar on three smaller forest rallies in 2024 and successfully finished all of them asContinue Reading
Williams faced a tough Formula 1 grand prix in Canada, with Alex Albon retiring due to engine issues and Carlos Sainz making it home with just a single point to add to the team’s tally – which may prove to be a missed opportunity at the end of a so-far-impressive 2025Continue Reading
Yamaha has announced the signing of Andrea Dovizioso as a MotoGP test rider as well as a rider performance advisor until 2027 ahead of the Italian Grand Prix.The former factory Ducati rider makes an official return after retiring from the MotoGP grid in 2022. Dovizioso had been testing for YamahaContinue Reading
In theory, this year’s Formula 1 silly season should be a relatively quiet one. At the end of this campaign, only Mercedes and Racing Bulls have their drivers’ contracts expiring. And, as always, the second Red Bull and Alpine seats remain question marks – in the short term as farContinue Reading
Ferrari team principal Fred Vasseur confirmed his squad is bringing an upgrade package over the coming races, but felt there is much more performance in cleaner race weekends, starting with getting on top of Pirelli’s tyres.After Charles Leclerc’s first 2025 podium in Spain, the Canadian Grand Prix weekend was anotherContinue Reading
Finally… it’s F1 movie launch season. But is the film, dubbed by one critic “Barbie for men” any good? Our correspondents were given a preview showing in Montreal and give their verdict. We hear from the producer Jerry Bruckheimer and one of the stars Kerry Condon.Plus we examine the falloutContinue Reading
Isack Hadjar says “everything was wrong” in Formula 1’s Canadian Grand Prix as Racing Bulls’ midfield campaign hit a temporary snag.Hadjar and team-mate Liam Lawson had collected 20 points over the recent European triple-header, but while their pace initially looked promising neither driver was able to make the tyres work.StartingContinue Reading
At the front of the field, it was the #83 AF Corse team of Robert Kubica, Phil Hanson and Ye Yifei that took outright victory in the fourth-closest finish in the history of the rac, holding off what was a near-perfect race from the #6 Porsche team of Kevin Estre,Continue Reading
When Luca de Meo became Renault’s CEO in the summer of 2020, the group had just posted a €7.3billion loss and was on the verge of collapse as the world economy shuddered to a halt during the COVID-19 pandemic. On his way to turning that around to a €4.26billion operatingContinue Reading