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A lot has happened in the five years since the British Isles last hosted a round of the World Rally Championship. It is incredible to think that when the final car headed over the finish ramp in Llandudno in 2019, it would be the last we would see of

Formula 1 bosses say the decision to host Saturday Sprint qualifying in grand prix races has been validated by an increase in the television audience. The short Saturday events, which were first introduced at Silverstone in 2021, were watched by mor

Aston Martin has further bolstered its backroom staff in Formula 1 with the appointment of former Ferrari technical director Enrico Cardile. The Italian has joined a raft of new recruits to the Silverstone-based squad, which also includes former Merc

British rising star Callum Voisin has called a penalty that cost him a freshman FIA Formula 3 win at Silverstone “pretty unfair”. The reigning GB3 champion driving for Rodin won Silverstone’s F3 feature race on the road but was relegated to third aft

Adrian Newey took the wraps off the new Red Bull RB17 hypercar at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last weekend. The 4.5-litre V10-powered machine is a development of the concept and has recently entered its production phase. Fifty of the machines wi

The Toyota squad of Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa and Sebastien Buemi dominated the 6 Hours of Sao Paulo last weekend but the Japanese firm was denied a 1-2 finish. The GR010 Hypercar had been the class of the field in the Brazilian showdown but the

Morgan and Marcus Short returned to circuit racing action for the first time since April with last-minute deals to race in the Ginetta GT championship at Snetterton last weekend. Morgan, 22, and Marcus, 19, are the sons of Le Mans and British GT fro

Miata Trophy racer Connor Clifford has been named the Motorsport UK Academy 2024 Young Driver of the Year after topping a five-driver shootout finale. Clifford, who races with Hills Motorsport in MotorSport Vision Trackdays’ Mazda MX-5 contest, will

The wraps have come off the Ford Raptor T1+, the basis of M-Sport’s all-out bid to win January’s Dakar Rally in Saudi Arabia. Powered by a five-litre V8 engine, the Ford Performance-backed machine was unveiled to the public at last week’s Goodwood Fe

Sebastien Ogier will be back in action on Rally Lativa this week after he was forced to miss last month’s Rally Poland due to being concussed in an accident during reconnaissance. Ogier and co-driver Vincent Landais collided with a private car during

The third Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 to arrive in the UK is now with Jason Pritchard and should make its competitive debut on this weekend’s Tour of Epynt. Pritchard and long-time co-driver Phil Clarke will give the Toyota a shakedown run on the local e

Scottish Rally champion David Bogie returns to the wheel of a Volkswagen Polo GTi R5 in search of a record-extending eighth Scottish Rally win on Saturday after a sabbatical from the series. The six-time champion driver missed the most recent round,

Rally cars from up to the end of the 1990s are set to be taken under the historic umbrella as Motorsport UK plans to extend the cut-off date from the start of 2025. Currently the historic cut-off is December 1990, which represents the end of the Cat

Historic Formula 1 and Formula 2 cars, NASCAR cars, rally cars and a celebration of Prodrive are all part of this weekend’s Classic Nostalgia event at the Shelsley Walsh hillclimb in Worcestershire. This year’s edition will be headlined by the Hesket

Lee Fairhurst has a liking for the Skegness race track. He won the world final there back in 2012 and has eight final wins at the Lincolnshire oval. On Saturday night he added a ninth victory, his first final win of the season, and his first final at

There was once a public information television advert, warning against the perils of scammers, that concluded by cautioning us “if it seems too good to be true, it probably is.” For Barwell Lamborghini pair Alex Martin and Sandy Mitchell, last weeke

R Racing’s Chase Fernandez was the star of three lively Ginetta Junior races, him triumphing in all three. The opener was led away by his team-mate Alfie Slater from pole but Fernandez moved ahead on lap two and coped with a safety car period to main

Motorsport is generally about looking forward. It is all about the next success and the next development which can shave off a few fractions of a second. Goodwood’s Festival of Speed is a glorious chance to put that endless chase on hold for a few da

It was all about winning at John Village Automotive. Nothing else seemed to matter. The junior single-seater squad rose to prominence in the mid-1980s and had a glittering spell at the front of the grid. Its founder John Village is a straight-to-the

The UK fans will again get to see a World title fight in the heart of London Docklands this weekend as the 2024 Formula E World championship gets set to crown a new champion at London ExCeL. The fourth visit to the unique indoor-and-outdoor venue wi

The mid-season break in the British Touring Car Championship gives me a rare chance to catch up on some reading and I was lucky enough to have a couple of gems on my bookshelf recently that truly captured the attention. The prime publication lurking

Driving their new Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 for the first time, Chris Ingram and Alex Kihurani made it a debut to remember as they took an impressive win on the Nicky Grist Stages. They quickly adapted to the car and fended off the strong challenge fro

Car: McLaren MP4-23-MercedesQualified: 4th A terrific start on intermediate tyres after a pre-race rain shower allowed Lewis Hamilton to leap into the lead for a few yards, and he set off on a dogfight with McLaren team-mate Heikki Kovalainen. Altho

Deagen Fairclough extended his lead at the top of British Formula 4’s standings after winning twice at Zandvoort last weekend plus taking a podium in the reversed-grid race in the championship’s first-ever away-day round. The Hitech driver led all o

Andrew Hibberd was one of the stars of Brands Hatch as he took a brace of Historic Formula 3 wins in his Brabham BT18 and claimed the famous King Hussein Trophy. Hibberd faced a fierce two-pronged challenge from Michael O’Brien in his Tecno and Jon

Hitech Pulse-Eight’s Tymek Kucharczyk regained the standings lead he lost at the Hungaroring, with his fourth GB3 championship win of the season at Zandvoort. The Polish driver overturned a 21-point deficit heading into the event, and left the Nethe

At Silverstone it was great to bounce back from a difficult few rounds in terms of points, by getting two second-place finishes and having pace all weekend. It was a really good round. There’s so many different things that come into a race weekend,

Wild About Racing: My Lotus Years with Clark and Chapman Derek Wild was at the coalface in one of the most successful and revered sections of motorsport history, as a mechanic at Team Lotus throughout the 1960s, with Colin Chapman, Jim Clark et al. A