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In the early months of last season, Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin provided the sliver of hope amid Red Bull domination. Alonso’s five podiums in the first six grands prix suggested it could be the team in green that was most likely to give Formula

Just two weekends after a British Grand Prix thriller, UK motorsport fans have an FIA world-title decider to anticipate between seven contenders as Formula E descends upon London’s ExCeL Arena for a double-header this Saturday and Sunday. Jaguar driv

Formula 1 has announced the six grand prix weekends that will feature sprint events in 2025, with Spa reinstated as the Red Bull Ring drops off the sprint list for the first time since 2021. Five of the events on the sprint calendar remain the same f

Ollie Bearman has said that his Ferrari cameo at the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix was a major factor in gaining his 2025 Formula 1 seat at Haas, amid a tough F2 season. The British teenager was announced in the build-up to his home grand prix as one of t

Aston Martin’s Valkyrie Le Mans Hypercar is on its wheels and running. The car that will fly the flag for the British marque in the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championship from next year has undertaken its first shakedown – m

Ferrari brought the first revisions to its 499P Le Mans Hypercar on stream at the Interlagos World Endurance Championship round last weekend. It had revealed at the Le Mans 24 Hours last month that it was planning to introduce the first evo joker upd

Ford went public on its new Dakar Rally contender last week ahead of its first exposure to the masses at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. The Raptor T1+ will make its debut on the event in January in the hands of Carlos Sainz Sr and Nani Roma, but bef

Conor Daly replaced Jack Harvey for the second element of the IndyCar Series double-header at Iowa Speedway last weekend, after being denied the first. Harvey had been battling significant neck pain since the previous weekend’s race at Mid-Ohio. The

British Touring Car Championship boss Alan Gow always made it clear that he felt the 30-odd cars that battled it out not so long ago was a few too many. Not enough pit garage space, not enough quality in some places, and too many interruptions from s

Sebastien Ogier will return to the World Rally Championship in Latvia this weekend after being declared fit to compete following a reconnaissance crash that ruled him out of the recent Rally Poland. The eight-time world champion and co-driver Vincent

Proton Competition could expand its presence at the pinnacle of sportscar racing with Porsche’s 963 LMDh. The German team has aspirations to go from one to two cars in both the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championship for next

Length 2.722 miles Number of laps 70 DRS detection DRS zone Friday 19 July FP1 1230 FP2 1600 Saturday 20 July FP3 1130 QUALIFYING 1500 Sunday 21 July RACE 1400 CATCH THE RACE LIVE SKY SPORTS F1 Highlights CHANNEL 4 1830 2023 POLE POSITION Lewis Hamil

Just wondering if others had the same thoughts on the British Grand Prix, a great race and a wonderful result (for British fans). Full marks to Silverstone for managing the crowds at the start of the day, even if it did mean we walked away from our p

The wrong Toyota won at Interlagos. Wrong in terms of the one the Japanese manufacturer would have wanted to win given its position in the championship, and wrong in terms of pace displayed on track during the race. The #7 entry, third in the points

The white paint on the walls had barely dried before the media tour of Aston Martin’s newest additions to its plush new Silverstone factory. The first building on its 37,000-square-metre facility, known as the Technology Campus to lend a studious fee

Welcome, finally, to Adrian Newey’s last Red Bull masterpiece. The RB17, revealed last Friday at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, has been nearly four years in the making. It’s a near-£6million hypercar, with a V10 engine capable of hitting 1000bhp. A

Adrian Newey will leave the Red Bull Formula 1 team in March 2025 after what will have been a 19-season stint with the squad. That was announced in early May, but he has since been seen at several F1 race events: Miami, Monaco and Silverstone. That i

Red Bull Racing took centre stage at the Goodwood Festival of Speed as the Formula 1 team celebrated the 20th anniversary of its formation. The current F1 pacesetter sent seven cars up the hill, including reigning world champion Max Verstappen drivin

Max Verstappen was a man in demand as fans clamoured for a sight of the Formula 1 world champion. The Dutchman was making his first visit to Goodwood Festival of Speed and was blown away by the size of the crowds. Verstappen was cheered as he stood o

Along with Red Bull, there was sizeable Formula 1 representation from McLaren, Williams, Mercedes, Ferrari and Alpine at the Festival of Speed. McLaren paid tribute to the late Ayrton Senna by firing up the 1991 MP4/6, the Brazilian’s final world tit

The British Touring Car Championship remains the UK’s top national series, and this status was reflected in the size of its stand at Goodwood. Four cars were on display, with onlookers able to get up close with one of the NAPA/Alliance Racing Fords,

The winners of a combined 16 World Rally Championship titles descended on Goodwood as rallying made an increased presence felt at the festival. The WRC set up camp in the Sussex estate, bringing with it representatives and vehicles from Toyota, Hyund

Somewhat hidden in the paddock was an easy-to-miss awning with some of the most interesting technology that the Festival of Speed had to offer – the IndyCar Autonomous Challenge. Built using the same Dallara chassis run by Indy NXT, the cockpit has b

Ford conquered Goodwood’s famous shootout with its mighty all-electric SuperVan in what proved to be a truncated timed showdown on Sunday. Two-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Romain Dumas lit up the famous 1.16-mile hillclimb course to post a 43.987s ef

ROUND 10/15 This has been a roller-coaster year for Team Penske, so perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that Scott McLaughlin scored his first oval victory at Iowa Speedway last Saturday night, while Will Power claimed Sunday afternoon’s race from 22nd

ROUND 7/11 The IMSA SportsCar Championship’s top GTP class was absent from last Sunday’s race at the classic Mosport Park venue, thereby providing an opportunity for some of the less heralded classes to enjoy the limelight. They did not disappoint. T

ROUND 5/10 For all of Rafael Camara’s early-season domination of the Formula Regional European Championship by Alpine, it’s now looking like a two-way battle between the Brazilian and fellow Ferrari protege Tuukka Taponen for the crown as the season

ROUND 8/12 Louis Foster furthered his stranglehold on the Indy NXT championship after pulling off a late pass to win at Iowa Speedway. The 20-year-old Briton started second alongside polesitting Andretti Global team-mate James Roe, and stalked the Ir

Ryan Blaney Team Penske (Ford Mustang) Races 1 & 2 Kevin Hansen/Molly Taylor (below) Veloce Racing POWERED BY For full results visit motorsportstats.com ■

ROUND 2/5 Veloce Racing duo Kevin Hansen and Molly Taylor claimed the Extreme E points lead with a double victory at the Hydro X Prix in Scotland. The pair won both of their qualifying heats to comfortably reach Saturday’s Grand Final, where Taylor l

Michael O’Brien demonstrated the potential of Nick Fennell’s 1000cc Historic Formula 3 Tecno 69 by qualifying on pole for its championship debut at Brands Hatch last weekend, before a broken gear linkage forced retirement from Saturday’s opener. The

The Classic Sports Car Club will introduce another innovative format at its Brands Hatch meeting next month when it runs races with split finishes for the first time. Brands Britannia on 25-26 August, the Bank Holiday weekend, is scheduled to feature

Ex-Formula 1 and IndyCar racer Max Chilton is to join the grid for the Pre-’66 Touring Car Championship races at Croft next week in a Lotus Cortina. Chilton, who already has experience of racing a Cortina at Goodwood, intended to be part of a two-car

Forsetti Motorsport is eyeing a GT3 graduation after sealing the British GT4 teams’ title during its debut season with two rounds still remaining. The Aston Martin squad secured a double podium at Snetterton last weekend with its driver pairings of M

Deagen Fairclough extended his lead at the top of the British Formula 4 standings with two victories, as a bizarre startline shunt sullied the series’ first overseas appearance at Zandvoort last weekend. Title rival Alex Ninovic kept the pressure on,

Garage 59 pair Adam Smalley and Shaun Balfe clinched the British GT3 Silver-Am crown at Snetterton last weekend and now have ambitions of taking the outright title. The McLaren 720S Evo duo claimed a sixth Silver-Am victory of the season in race two

Chris Ingram and Alex Kihurani gave the Toyota GR Yaris Rally2 its first UK rally win with a classy performance on the Nicky Grist Stages on Saturday. It was Ingram’s first rally in the second Yaris to be delivered to the Melvyn Evans Motorsport team

TCR UK title contender Adam Shepherd has vowed to maintain his challenge despite numerous setbacks at last weekend’s Croft meeting. Shepherd’s 19-point lead over reigning champion Carl Boardley has been transformed into a 38-point deficit, although h

Sandy Mitchell and Alex Martin were denied an incredible double win at Snetterton, as a post-race penalty cost them victory in British GT’s second one-hour affair in Norfolk last weekend. Martin lapped two GT4 contenders under safety car conditions l

Jim Timms, who died last week aged 87, was one of west country motorsport’s great characters, an ardent competitor whose sporting life on two wheels and four spanned towards 60 years. A works rider for Cotton – the marque founded in his native Glouce

Charlie Robertson and Ravi Ramyead claimed their maiden British GT victory in a dramatic one-hour affair at Snetterton, before Jack Brown took his third GT4 win in Norfolk during race two. DTO’s Ginetta G56 actually started on pole for race one, Asto

Race 1 (33 laps) 1 Alex Martin/Sandy Mitchell (Lamborghini Huracan EVO2); 2 Rob Collard/Ricky Collard (Lamborghini) +6.387s; 3 Richard Neary/Sam Neary (Mercedes-AMG); 4 Ian Loggie/Phil Keen (Mercedes); 5 Hugo Cook/Sacha Kakad (Audi R8 LMS Evo2); 6 Ma

Elite Motorsport’s Alisha Palmowski reignited her GB4 Championship title chances with two wins at Snetterton last weekend, while Harry Burgoyne claimed the points lead. Palmowski produced two identical times for pole in qualifying but was beaten off

Race 1 Lucas Blakeley Races 2 & 3 Alisha Palmowski Races 1, 2 & 3 Chase Fernandez Races 1, 2 & 3 Mckenzie Douglass (below) Races 1 & 2 Thomas Balfe Race 3 Mike Taylor Race 1 Niall Bradley (BMW M3) Race 2 Bryan Bransom (BMW M3) For full results visit:

Race 1 (11 laps) 1 John Bennett; 2 Tymek Kucharczyk +1.138s; 3 James Hedley; 4 Louis Sharp; 5 Will Macintyre; 6 Hugo Schwarze. Fastest lap Bennett 1m33.149s (102.28mph). Pole Bennett. Starters 20. Race 2 (9 laps) 1 Kucharczyk; 2 Hedley +7.474s; 3 McK

The GB3 championship lead changed hands again at Zandvoort last weekend, Tymek Kucharczyk moving back to the top as the fight intensified in mixed conditions on the Dutch coast. JHR Developments’ John Bennett improved his own aspirations by taking a

Memories of European Formula 5000 champions Peter Gethin, Frank Gardner, Gijs van Lennep, Teddy Pilette and Bob Evans – plus Brian Redman, Jody Scheckter and Graham McRae – flooded back as the thunder and fury of American V8 engines imbued the Histor

Reigning Civic Cup champion Max Edmundson spun, won, and spun again in last weekend’s pair of dramatic wet races at Croft. Edmundson bettered new Area Motorsport team-mate Harvey Caton by 0.4 seconds in qualifying as the squad secured a second consec

Race 1 Mark Charteris (March-Hart 782-23) Race 2 Steve Ross (McRae-Chevrolet GM1-009) Races 1 & 2 Alex Kapadia (March-BMW 762-2, below) Race 1 Cam Jackson (Winkelmann WDF2) Race 2 Benn Tilley (Merlyn Mk20) Races 1 & 2 Cam Jackson (Winkelmann WDF2) Ra

Race 1 Max Edmundson (EP3) Race 2 Alistair Camp (FN2) Race 1 Aidan Hills Races 2 & 3 Patrick Fletcher Race 1 Jenson O’Neill-Going (Mk6 ST) Races 2 & 3 Tommy Harfield (Mk7 Zetec S) Race 1 Alastair Kellett Race 2 Simon Horrobin Races 1 & 2 Bradley Burn

Dubai-based Steve and Sam Laidlaw became the first father-and-son pairing to race in TCR UK, and celebrated by each breaking into the top five at Croft. After racing together in the CityCar Cup in 2021 and Clio Cup Middle East last winter, the pair p

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The Goodwood Festival of Speed is an annual thrill for the senses, the ultimate coming together of motorsport disciplines for the hardcore fans, with machinery, drivers and riders from modern times and the pages of history charging up the iconic hill

youtube.com/AUTOSPORTdotcom Episode six of the James Allen on F1 podcast features an exclusive interview with former Haas F1 team principal Guenther Steiner, with F1 TV’s Will Buxton and Autosport’s Ben Hunt also stopping for a chat. Topics for discu

Three months before making his Formula 1 debut in the 1970 Monaco Grand Prix driving a privateer March 701, rising star Ronnie Peterson was enlisted by Porsche as “their big publicity man”, in the words of Autosport’s correspondent, to drive a 911L i

Laurent Aiello’s remarkable career encompassed touring car titles in France, Germany and Britain, as well as Le Mans 24 Hours victory with the Porsche 911 GT1-98. In Britain he is best-known for his efforts in the British Touring Car Championship wit

NASCAR has launched an all-electric stock car in partnership with electrification and automation expert ABB, but admits that the concept car may never race. Based on the Next Gen chassis used in its Cup Series, the all-wheel-drive prototype made its

Extreme H may have skipped a couple of letters in its transition from Extreme E, but it’s clear that no shortcuts have been taken in its move away from electric power to hydrogen for next year. Now with a first public demonstration of the Pioneer 25

Audi has secured a technical partnership with oil and energy giant BP for its upcoming Formula 1 project, which will supply the 100% sustainable fuel set out in the 2026 regulations. The British petrochemicals giant will also supply its range of lubr

The new electric racing championship co-founded by ex-Formula 1 racer Nick Heidfeld and former Mahindra Racing boss Dilbagh Gill has announced Schaeffler as a supplier of motors and inverters for its 2025 launch season. Called FG Series, it aims to o

Leading Italian design and manufacturing house Ycom has announced investment from TEC Racing, which has become a majority shareholder following a similar investment in Tatuus last year. Ycom, which recently developed the Maserati GT2 racer, will rema

Ford’s RS200 will return to production after the Blue Oval granted a licensing agreement for a ‘remastered’ version that will be manufactured by Boreham Motorworks. The division of the DRVN Automotive Group, named after the Essex headquarters of Ford

Mercedes has announced a target of reducing battery costs by more than 30% in the coming years. Its chairman of the board, Ola Kallenius, made the comments at the opening of a new eCampus at the heart of its Stuttgart HQ, which the manufacturer descr

This is all very Star Trek, isn’t it? Formula E established a path for electric motorsport on city streets, before sister series Extreme E took the scenic route off road a few years later. And now comes Extreme H, trying to do the same for hydrogen.

Quibbles over Balance of Performance and accusations of sandbagging have been a near-constant feature of GT racing in recent times. Openly discussing the BoP isn’t permitted under the World Endurance Championship’s sporting regulations, but that’s no

IndyCar’s duopoly had been briefly upended in 1992 by Galmer winning the Indianapolis 500 with Al Unser Jr and Galles Racing. But following a decision by Rick Galles to cancel the Galmer programme, the old order was restored in 1993. If you wanted to

Although all its wins came on road and street courses in 1994, this presents a slightly misleading picture of where Reynard’s first Indycar was strongest. Perhaps unexpectedly, given the constructor’s background, the chassis proved stronger on ovals.

One of the British Touring Car Championship’s best-known driver-engineer double acts might not have happened if it hadn’t been for a seemingly random Facebook friend request. “I got one from Shaun Hollamby,” recounts Craig Porley, the brains behind J

■ People say aero’s king, but without tyres there wouldn’t be any aero. Braking, cornering and traction all goes through that, so learning to read a tyre and interpret the data is key. ■ Keep it simple. We’re trying to go in circles as fast as possib