Honda announced on the Monday after the 2023 season ended that it had signed Marini from VR46 – with whom he already had a 2024 contract in place – on a two-year deal to replace Gresini-bound Marquez.It ended weeks of speculation as to who would get the seat, with MiguelContinue Reading
Confirmation that the WRC will embrace a new points structure in order to spice up the final day of events was ratified at the World Motor Sport Council in Baku earlier this month.Now the FIA has published the WRC’s 2024 sporting regulations which include the exact details of the newContinue Reading
The 38-year-old made his announcement in a video posted to Instagram after concluding his P2 campaign in the IMSA SportsCar Championship with TDS Racing.”Today I say goodbye to racing,” said van der Garde, who took a P2 class win in the World Endurance Championship’s Portimao round earlier this year forContinue Reading
Alonso walked away from F1 for two years at the end of 2018 after growing tired of media and commercial commitments while his McLaren team fell into the bottom half of the standings.In his time away, he twice won the Le Mans 24 Hours, chalked the 2018-19 World Endurance titleContinue Reading
Newgarden, who won America’s biggest open-wheel oval race at his 12th attempt in 2023, will aim for overall victory at Daytona next month in his first bid for overall class honours – having made his sportscar debut in the LMP2 class in the Floridian classic in 2023.Driving alongside Dane Cameron,Continue Reading
The 22-year-old Idaho native joins the team founded by four-time Indianapolis 500 winner A.J. Foyt and will drive the #41 Chevrolet-powered entry for his sophomore campaign in North America’s premier open-wheel championship.”I’m truly honoured to pilot the #41 AJ Foyt Racing Chevrolet for the 2024 season,” said Robb.”This is aContinue Reading
The Milton Keynes-based squad was in a class of its own throughout the 2023 season, winning 21 out of 22 races on its way to capturing both the constructors’ championship crown and the drivers’ title with Max Verstappen.While its rivals focused their efforts on trying to work out why RedContinue Reading
The 43-year-old will undertake a full season of racing for the first time since his winning assault on the Super GT Series with the Kunimitsu Honda team in 2018 in one of the pair of Hertz Team Jota Porsche 963 LMDhs.He will share the British team’s #38 Hypercar entry withContinue Reading
The world championship winning team, which is known for its quirky PR activities, trained its pit crew to pull off the so-called “pitch black pitstop” as a celebration for winning the DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award for six consecutive years.The trophy is handed out to the team that pulls offContinue Reading
Todt spoke to L’Equipe this week and took aim at comments from current president Mohammed Ben Sulayem, who has repeatedly said he inherited a tricky financial deficit when he took over in 2021.Speaking to the French newspaper about those remarks, Todt said: “Each year, the accounts have been largely profitable,Continue Reading