BTCC tweaks tyre and engine rules for 2025
The British Touring Car Championship has made further tweaks to its regulations for the 2025 season following last week’s revelation that it is dropping hybrid.Changes to the tyre and engine rules are being made to respectively liven up the racing action and cut costs.BTCC organiser TOCA introduced a rule forContinue Reading
Should MotoGP reconsider its emphasis on sprint races?
“When you win 10 grands prix and you are still 24 points behind, something is wrong.”Complaints about a format by a competitor who has failed to master that format must always be read with due caution. They are to be expected. But Francesco Bagnaia may just have a point whenContinue Reading
Alonso reveals back pain and brake “nightmare” that he would not let beat him
Fernando Alonso has opened up on the back pain, emotions and mystery brake problems that he battled to drag his Aston Martin to the finish in the Brazilian Grand Prix.The Spaniard had been struggling throughout last weekend with the new bumpy Interlagos surface, but matters reached a peak in theContinue Reading
NASCAR to “look at” controversial radio messages from Martinsville
NASCAR has pledged to review radio communications between several teams in the closing laps of Sunday’s controversial penultimate Cup race of 2024 at Martinsville, which decided the Championship 4 protagonists.Victory for Ryan Blaney secured his place along with Joey Logano and Tyler Reddick, but race control elected to remove Christopher Bell from nextContinue Reading
Seven things we learned from the 2024 Brazilian Grand Prix
We were due a mad one, weren’t we? There’s usually at least one Formula 1 race per year which goes off-script, usually thanks to a few lashings of rain, and Brazil gave us this year’s instalment of a break with the usual competitive order.Despite the trials and tribulations of qualifyingContinue Reading
Hamilton reveals he is “looking forward to Christmas” before Ferrari move
Lewis Hamilton revealed he cannot wait for Christmas in what is a telling summary of his final season with Mercedes.At the start of the year, Hamilton informed boss Toto Wolff of his decision to terminate his deal with the Silver Arrows to join Ferrari for 2025.However, the Briton made itContinue Reading
How brake lock-up weakness helped derail Norris’s Brazilian GP
McLaren has suggested that brake lock-up problems, rather than driving errors under pressure, were the main factor that derailed Lando Norris’s hopes in Formula 1’s Brazilian Grand Prix.Norris had a golden opportunity to cut into Max Verstappen’s championship lead at Interlagos after securing pole position in the race, with his titleContinue Reading
Ferrari: Tyre allocation breach brought no performance gain
Ferrari has insisted that the tyre allocation infringement that resulted in it losing second place in Saturday’s Bahrain World Endurance Championship finale offered no performance advantage.Ferdinando Cannizzo, the Italian marque’s sportscar racing technical director, said “nothing would have changed, no advantage and no disadvantage” when questioned the day after theContinue Reading
How Verstappen can seal a fourth F1 title at the Las Vegas Grand Prix
After his dominating display in winning the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday, Max Verstappen could claim his fourth Formula 1 world championship in Las Vegas.The Dutchman mastered the rain to storm from 17th on the grid to take the chequered flag and set the fastest lap in Sao Paulo, extendingContinue Reading
How Brazil’s shock double podium could lead to $30m payday for Alpine
The sensational double podium for Esteban Ocon and Pierre Gasly In Brazil has been a big boost for Alpine for a variety of reasons, with its three-place jump in the constructors’ standings potentially making a $30m difference at year’s end.Ocon and Gasly appeared at the front after deciding to delayContinue Reading