Williams and Duracell have announced that their Formula 1 sponsorship deal will continue with a “multi-year” extension.Battery manufacturer Duracell has been a Williams sponsor since the 2022 F1 season, with the company’s logo and battery branding featuring on the airboxes of the team’s cars ever since.The new deal, which isContinue Reading
FIA GT World Cup podium finisher Augusto Farfus has described this year’s Macau event as “one of the most difficult weekends I’ve had in my career” despite claiming second.Farfus admitted he arrived on the backfoot as he was driving a BMW M4 for the Macanese Team KRC outfit that hadContinue Reading
Hyundai’s Thierry Neuville could finally have his crowning moment at this weekend’s 2024 World Rally Championship season finale in Japan. The five-time runner-up, who is chasing a maiden title, leads his team-mate Ott Tanak by 25 points with 30 available and they are the only two drivers in contention forContinue Reading
The streets of Monte Carlo, with their mythical aura which are steeped in history and a touch of glamour, remain a daunting prospect for even the most grizzled racing drivers to tackle at speed, let alone a teenager with just 20 minutes in which to prepare.It was an unenviable challengeContinue Reading
Ducati test rider Michele Pirro was able to exchange spoken messages with team manager Davide Tardozzi over radio during Tuesday’s MotoGP test in Barcelona.In the first minutes of the official test at the Circuit de Catalunya-Barcelona, an intercom that Dorna had been developing was installed in Pirro’s helmet before heContinue Reading
The talk ahead of this weekend’s Las Vegas Grand Prix will be about Max Verstappen being set to win his fourth consecutive Formula 1 world championship. He can seal it in the race on Saturday night by finishing ahead of nearest challenger Lando Norris and it is absolutely right that theContinue Reading
Toyota team principal Jari-Matti Latvala believes it could take “an almost perfect” Rally Japan to wrestle the World Rally Championship manufacturers’ crown from Hyundai.The Japanese marque heads into the season finale on home soil sitting 15 points adrift of rivals Hyundai in the fight for the constructors’ honours.Toyota has claimedContinue Reading
Aprilia Racing CEO Massimo Rivola will become the new president of the MotoGP World Championship Constructors’ Association (MMSA), Autosport has learned.The Italian was chosen in a vote that took place on Monday during preparation for the official post-season test at Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya.With his election, Rivola will replace KTM CEOContinue Reading
The FIA’s prototype method for its new Formula 1 cooling device involves cooled water being pumped around driver overalls, with different design approaches permitted in future rules, Autosport can reveal.Last week, the results of the latest meeting of the F1 Commission declared that a new driver cooling provision will beContinue Reading
The latest episode of the Autosport podcast reviews a 2024 British GT season that went down to the wire at Brands Hatch.In the GT3 division, Rob Collard became a champion for a second time with the Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini squad, but this time the 2020 title-winner’s success was a familyContinue Reading