The leading contenders for victory at the 2025 Dakar Rally
The 2025 Dakar Rally promises to be one of the most exciting in recent history, with several manufacturers and drivers capable of winning the famous Touareg trophy.The rally-raid will begin on 3 January with the Prologue in Bisha and conclude on 17 January in Shubaytah after 12 stages and moreContinue Reading
Autosport’s top 10 club racing rivalries of 2024
There are a plethora of championship battles every year in the world of club motorsport, yet some are remembered much more than others for a variety of reasons.Whether it’s because the racing was particularly close – and fraught at times – or the title outcome was a complete tie, hereContinue Reading
How summer downgrade saved Racing Bulls from complacency
A lot of attention has gone to Ferrari and the cursed Barcelona floor upgrade that sent it back to the drawing board over the summer, but behind the Scuderia in F1’s midfield RB suffered a similar fate.After an encouraging start RB also introduced a new floor at June’s Spanish Grand Prix,Continue Reading
KTM’s MotoGP exit set to take place in 2026 amid insolvency proceedings
KTM could leave MotoGP and its support classes in 2026, as the Austrian manufacturer undergoes a wide-scale restructure under administration.It was on 20 December that a potential exit from MotoGP was publicly mentioned for the first time. In a report presented by Alpenlandischer Kreditorenverband (AKV), following a meeting with theContinue Reading
Number #1 set to return to WRC in 2025
The number #1 will return to the World Rally Championship for the first time since 2022 with new champion Thierry Neuville set to adopt the number for the 2025 campaign.The Hyundai driver in recent years has become synonymous with the #11 – a number which he first utilised in theContinue Reading
Ranking Autosport’s Top 50 Drivers of 2024 – 20 to 11
Kevin Turner sits down with Gary Watkins and Haydn Cobb to discuss the annual Autosport Top 50 for 2024, evaluating the best drivers in the National and International Racing scene. In this episode, we look at the drivers ranked from 20th to 11th place, featuring drivers from F1, F2, theContinue Reading
The remarkable motorsport stories you may have missed in 2024
During a record-breaking season of 24 Formula 1 races, there was always likely to be the odd gem of a story that had a short shelf-life before being overtaken on the news agenda.Factor in another blockbuster year for the World Endurance Championship, several u-turns over World Rally Championship’s hybrid futureContinue Reading
The F1 record we’re unlikely to ever see again
Now that Valtteri Bottas is dropping off the Formula 1 grid in 2025, the unique record he shares with Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen is unlikely to be extended.This is the statistic for most podium appearances across any F1 driver triplet arrangement, with Bottas, Hamilton and Verstappen having appeared togetherContinue Reading
The “self-fulfilling injury” in Williams’s 2024 F1 crash-fest
Alex Albon says Williams suffered a “self-fulfilling injury” with the early season timesaving but weight-adding measures on its 2024 Formula 1 car, which led to additional crash damage.The British team’s 2024 season was blighted by crashes from start to finish, with its FW46 car also starting the year over theContinue Reading
The highlights from an entertaining club racing season
Now in my 48th year of writing for Autosport, I reflect on another interesting season over which I have reported 25 varied meetings at 12 venues, commentating at many, and attended more out of my undimmed passion for club and historic events.Bookended by the Vintage Sports-Car Club’s Pomeroy Trophy andContinue Reading