Valtteri Bottas has been re-signed by Mercedes to be its reserve driver for the 2025 Formula 1 season, after he missed out on keeping his seat at Sauber.The Finnish racer scored 10 grand prix wins for the Silver Arrows squad in a 100-race stint between 2017 and 2021 when heContinue Reading
Across five Formula E races in the second half of the 2024 season, Antonio Felix da Costa took four wins spanning Berlin, Shanghai and Portland – where he doubled up.Even after losing an earlier victory at Misano, due to an illegal throttle pedal spring that offered no tangible advantage, theContinue Reading
On the face of it, Esteban Ocon’s second-place finish in the Brazilian Grand Prix might be doing a lot of heavy lifting here, but it’s easy to overlook a handful of other impressive moments in a difficult final season with Alpine.Ocon led a decent portion of that Interlagos race, andContinue Reading
George Russell has implored FIA president Mohammed Ben Sulayem to “express what his goal is” with motorsport’s governing body, amid the ongoing tension between the Emirati former rally driver and Formula 1 racers. The 2024 F1 season finished with the Grand Prix Drivers’ Association still awaiting a formal response to itsContinue Reading
Isack Hadjar finished as the Formula 2 runner-up after a season in which he took more victories than any other driver, triumphing four times across feature races at Melbourne, Imola, Silverstone and Spa. The Frenchman was also unfortunate to be denied in Monaco.Hadjar’s title bid ultimately ended with a failedContinue Reading
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
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
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
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