Hyundai announces WRC team reshuffle as Loriaux departs
Hyundai Motorsport’s World Rally Championship programme manager Christian Loriaux has left the team ahead of the 2025 season.Loriaux has played a critical role within the Korean marque since first joining the operation in 2021 as a technical consultant, before graduating to the role of WRC programme manager.Shock news of Loriaux’sContinue Reading
Formula E champion Wehrlein to make Daytona 24 debut in Porsche LMDh
Reigning Formula E champion Pascal Wehrlein will join Porsche customer JDC-Miller for his maiden outing in the Daytona 24 Hours next month.The factory Porsche driver will share the #85 963 LMDh with Tijmen van der Helm and Bryce Aron in the blue riband round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship onContinue Reading
Gedlich Winter Series introduces two new six-hour races for 2025
Gedlich Racing has introduced a new format into the Winter Series racing championships, with the inaugural editions of the 6 hours of Portimao and 6 hours of Barcelona.The two six-hour races will not count towards any championship, but the cars and teams of the GT and GT4 Winter Series areContinue Reading
Who is Racing Bulls’ new F1 driver Isack Hadjar?
Having been signed by Racing Bulls for the 2025 Formula 1 season, Isack Hadjar had very much been in and out of the conversation as speculation surrounding Sergio Perez’s Red Bull future mounted. With Liam Lawson always viewed as the most likely candidate to step up and replace the Mexican afterContinue Reading
Hadjar to partner Tsunoda at Racing Bulls for F1 2025
The Racing Bulls Formula 1 team has announced Red Bull junior Isack Hadjar will partner Yuki Tsunoda in 2025, as the starting grid for the new season is now set.Hadjar will take up the seat vacated by Liam Lawson, whose own move to the main Red Bull squad as Sergio Perez’s replacementContinue Reading
Binotto on Audi’s F1 reality check after finding team “frozen” with no plans
When former Ferrari team boss Mattia Binotto accepted the call to head up Audi’s Formula 1 operations earlier this year, he knew it was going to be a tough task.It is one thing honing an established team as he did at Maranello into fighting for world championship glory; it isContinue Reading
Autosport Podcast: Top 50 of 2024 – Part 1
Kevin Turner sits down with Gary Watkins and Haydn Cobb to break down the annual Autosport Top 50 for 2024, evaluating the best drivers across all of the National and International Racing scene.In the first of a two-part mini-series, Kevin goes behind the scenes and explains how our journalists andContinue Reading
NASCAR’s rising stars to watch in 2025
Just like any other sport, tomorrow’s champion is always waiting in the wings and in the pinnacle of stock car racing, the final two steps before the big show are the NASCAR Truck and NASCAR Xfinity Series. We looked at the most promising drivers under 25 from these two divisions, choosingContinue Reading
Liberty’s MotoGP purchase delayed as EU opens in-depth investigations
The European Union’s highest institution will open an “in-depth investigation” to determine whether the purchase of MotoGP by Formula 1 owner Liberty Media violates its antitrust framework.The European Commission, one of the EU’s decision-making bodies with executive power, is determined to closely analyse Liberty’s acquisition of Dorna, which holds theContinue Reading
How Autosport makes its Top 50 and why the Indy 500 winner missed out in 2024
Please contain your rage! Or at least soften it until you’ve read to the end of this piece.The Autosport Top 50, which has become a traditional end-of-season monster since the first edition in 2002, is not meant to be provocative but the very nature of it means that it is.TheContinue Reading