Sting Ray Robb joins AJ Foyt Racing for 2024 IndyCar season
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
Red Bull: 20kg weight purge for “cut and shut” RB19 was key to F1 2023 dominance
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
Button to make WEC return racing Jota Porsche in 2024
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
Red Bull completes first F1 pitstop in total darkness
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
FIA opens up on “unsustainable” financial deficit it has been fighting to cut
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
Friday favourite: How a Courage cameo provided a thrilling Le Mans climax
Jean-Marc Gounon has no shortage of candidates when it comes to choosing his favourite car. The 1989 French Formula 3 champion never sat in a competitive Formula 1 car, making nine grand prix outings for Minardi and Simtek, before ploughing a furrow in sportscars where his hard-charging reputation honed by winning racesContinue Reading
New team joins BTCC with Cupras as Hard folds
Restart Racing has acquired two of Team Hard’s Cupra Leons – the new-for-2023 chassis used this year by Bobby Thompson and Dan Lloyd – and will step up from the TCR UK championship with 2022 title winner Chris Smiley.Northern Irishman Smiley is a one-time race winner in the BTCC, inContinue Reading
Interview: How F1 sponsorship reflects the changing face of the audience
Max Verstappen wasn’t the only one setting records in F1 this season.The series went through an important milestone in 2023 as it surpassed 300 corporate sponsors for this first time in its history. These were spread across the 10 F1 teams and the series itself. And significantly, over half ofContinue Reading
Zarco “was thinking of stopping” before Honda MotoGP chance came
The Frenchman capped off his fourth and final season as a Ducati rider fifth in the standings for the Pramac squad, having scored a maiden MotoGP victory in Australia in October.Zarco has signed to join Honda with the LCR squad for the next two seasons, beginning in 2024, to reigniteContinue Reading
New AlphaTauri name still under wraps as FIA publishes 2024 F1 entry list
Usually the publication of the list is the first official chance to see any new names, but sometimes teams agree with the FIA to wait due to the requirements of sponsors.For the first time there are no driver number changes between seasons, so the entry list contains few novelties, otherContinue Reading