The World Endurance Championship will hold its traditional rookie test at the Bahrain International Circuit on Sunday 9 November – a day after the 2025 season concludes in the Gulf nation.The test offers teams a chance to evaluate prospective talent and allows newly signed drivers to sample their cars forContinue Reading
Hyundai Motorsport has strengthened its resources by adding two valuable members of staff, which will oversee programmes in the World Rally Championship and World Endurance Championship.The Korean marque has created two new roles within its organisation in the form of Operations Director and Head of Engineering, which will be filledContinue Reading
Stoffel Vandoorne will rejoin Peugeot’s World Endurance Championship squad in 2026 after a brief departure, replacing Jean-Eric Vergne in the team’s line-up.Vandoorne had stepped down from his role with Peugeot after the penultimate round of the 2025 season at Fuji in September, ahead of his planned switch to Genesis’ newContinue Reading
Honda’s steady improvement in recent races has left the manufacturer just 19 points short of dropping out of MotoGP’s highest concession bracket.After the final two rounds of the 2025 season at Portimao and Valencia, the position of each of the five manufacturers in different concession tiers will be recalculated. Since theContinue Reading
Formula 1 has a packed calendar that takes in 24 tracks across 21 countries in five continents, but it takes more than a nice ribbon of tarmac to join the championship.F1 and the FIA have strict guidelines over what circuits can host a grand prix and they must be classified asContinue Reading
IndyCar frontrunner Colton Herta is under no illusion that he will dominate Formula 2 as he joins Formula 1’s feeder series in 2026.The 2024 IndyCar runner-up was hired by Cadillac – F1’s newest team – as a test driver, with the American outfit making its debut in the world championshipContinue Reading
The rider market that will shape the 2027 MotoGP grid is expected to start moving as the 2025 campaign draws to a close and be largely settled by the time the championship returns to Europe, around May.Some riders will attempt to stay where they are, either because they are satisfiedContinue Reading
Williams has brought back its traditional W logo for the 2026 Formula 1 season and will change its name to the Atlassian Williams F1 Team.The stylised ‘Forward W’ logo harkens back to the early days of the squad under Frank Williams, when it started racing as Williams Grand Prix EngineeringContinue Reading
Marco Bezzecchi and Raul Fernandez have hailed Aprilia’s new technical director Fabiano Sterlacchini following the marque’s impressive ascent towards the front of the field in MotoGP.Sterlacchini joined Aprilia at the end of the 2024 season after successful stints at KTM and, most notably, Ducati, where he worked closely with general manager Gigi Dall’Igna.UnderContinue Reading
The result sheets state that Jason Smyth became just the third driver to win the Formula Ford Festival and the Walter Hayes Trophy in the same year. But the Team Dolan driver’s two victories could not have been more different.While Smyth was virtually unstoppable at Brands Hatch, utterly dominating theContinue Reading