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It wasn’t exactly unexpected come Saturday last week, but the news that England was once again going into lockdown brought a collective groan. It might well be necessary, but it has once again turned the motorsport world upside down. The British Tou

Mercedes clinched its seventh consecutive constructors’ championship as Lewis Hamilton led home a team 1-2 on Formula 1’s return to the Imola circuit for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix. Hamilton’s team-mate Valtteri Bottas led initially from pole whi

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen has said his language towards Racing Point’s Lance Stroll after a recent Portuguese Grand Prix practice clash was “not correct”. After the pair collided at theAlgarve circuit’s first corner during Friday’s practice, Verstapp

Williams duo George Russell and Nicholas Latifi, Alfa Romeo pair Kimi Raikkonen and Antonio Giovinazzi and AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly will remain in their current Formula 1 seats in 2021. Williams’ confirmation followed speculation that Russell, despi

Formula 1 is set for a 23-race schedule next year with Saudi Arabia added to the calendar for the first time. Aprovisional schedule was shared with teams at an F1 Commission meeting last week, and it contained a street track in Jeddah hosting a Saudi

Several champions are set to return to British GT in a record-breaking entry for this weekend’s scheduled Silverstone 500 three-hour finale. As Motorsport News went to press 38 cars were entered – three more than the pre-Covid full-season line-up –

British GT’s chief GT3 title protagonists agree that RAM Racing Mercedes pair Sam De Haan and Patrick Kujala have the likely pace advantage for this weekend’s planned Silverstone title showdown. De Haan and Kujala lead the drivers’table by six points

British GT race-winners Shaun Balfe and Rob Bell are set to return to the championship for this weekend’s scheduled Silverstone 500 after their planned International GT Open comeback fell through amid Covid constraints. Motorsport News reported last

Jenson Team Rocket RJN drivers Michael O’Brien and James Baldwin have rued bad luck costing them a clearer shot at this year’s British GT GT3 drivers’championship. The pair won on debut at Oulton Park’s season-opener, and have since taken three poles

The BRSCC Caterham Sevens season finale took place at Snetterton on Halloween Saturday. With three of the five titles up for grabs, the question was who had what it took when it really mattered? The 310R title was won by Greg Monks who in race two sh

Formula Ford Festival winner Rory Smith has said he proved doubters wrong with his recent triumph in the Brands Hatch FF1600 showpiece. B-M Racing’s Smith told Motorsport News: “I think people have not necessarily considered me as one of the top driv

The World Rally Championship is on the brink of concluding early following the cancellation of the Ypres Rally last week and rising Covid-19 cases in Italy. Next month’s Rally Monza (December 4-6) is the only round left standing but cases in its loc

Ypres Rally organisers insist they are “continuing our WRC ambition” despite its 2020 cancellation and its status as a reserve event 2021. Its traditional end-of-June date has been taken in 2021 by the Safari Rally in Kenya and its reliance on the av

Callum Devine can’t wait to start Rally Hungary because it’s the first event in the European championship he’s competed on before. Devine scored a breakthrough third place on the sealed-surface rally last November to effectively secure an ERC bid wit

Ulster Rally bosses say they are prepared to move the event to a new date to accommodate the UK round of the World Rally Championship should it visit Northern Ireland next summer as predicted. Rally GB was one of 12 events named on the 2021 WRC cale

Scottish regular Angus Lawrie is targeting another SRC campaign in 2021 but in a four-wheel-drive car for the first time after recently acquiring a Mitsubishi Lancer E9. Lawrie bought the car in August but got his first taste of it last month on the

Reigning Motorsport News Circuit Rally champion Barry Morris thinks it “will probably be impossible” to defend his title whenever the seasons gets underway. The MNCRC has attracted its most competitive field yet, receiving over 250 championship reg

Rob Dennis and co-driver Andy Boswell mastered extremely difficult conditions at the Cotswold Stages on Saturday to win by one minute and seven seconds fromAndy Corner/Ade Camp’s Peugeot. In heavy morning rain, Dennis used his Skodaru’s good grip to

Double World Rally champion Marcus Gronholm is due to race an electric Ford Fiesta in the Projekt E support category to the World Rallycross Championship at Spa-Francorchamps later this month. Gronholm, who raced one of his GRX team’s Hyundai i20 Su

BTRDAClubmans Rallycross contenders Dale Ford and Tom Ovenden both maintained their unbeaten runs in the Production and Junior categories during the final round of the series at Knockhill recently and Ford has now claimed the overall crown. Citroen

Bosses of the British GT championship are waiting on talks between the governing body, Motorsport UK, and government officials to make sure the final round of the series, due to take place at Silverstone on Sunday, will be able to go ahead. Officials

Leading national race organisers in the UK say that the new national lockdown measures have come just in time for them to have finished the majority of the season. The British Racing and Sports Car Club completed its reworked schedule of races last w

When MN closed for press on Monday morning, organisers of the Motorsport News Circuit Rally Championship were locked in talks to rescue the opening two rounds of the 2020-21 season. Despite all the ongoing uncertainty surrounding Covid-19, the Neil H

Reacting to the possibility that two MN Circuit Rally Championship events could be cancelled, competitor John Stone has said the events running would be important for “the wellbeing” of the community. He said: “We’ve been doing a few sprints for some

Luke Davenport, one of the British Touring Car Championship drivers seriously injured at Croft in 2017, has switched focus to historic racing with a pre’66 Ford Mustang. Former GT3 and GT4 racer Davenport, who first came to prominence in Ginettas, w

The organisers of the Donington Historic Festival have revealed plans for the 2021 edition after losing this year’s event to the Covid pandemic. The event was due to reach its 10th anniversary this year but that will now move to the corresponding Ban

An ex-Beppe Gabbiani Chevron B38 Formula 3 car will return to racing next season in the hands of racing returnee Neil Jenkins. The Trivellato Racing Team car from 1977 has not raced for nearly a decade and has now been reprepared by Simon Hadfield’s

The trajectory of Anthony Davidson’s career seemed like it was only heading in one direction in the early part of the century.After shining in the junior formulae he should, by rights, have had a long and successful Formula 1 career. An epic Formula

Since the start of this season, the name ‘Jenson’ has been present on the British GT championship’s entry lists. In the form of the Jenson Team Rocket RJN squad. And, yes, the Jenson concerned is that Jenson. The 2009 Formula 1 world champion Button

Being 34 points behind with 37.5 available, and having three rivals between you and the summit, means your chances aren’t so much as mathematical as theoretical. This is what faces Jenson Team Rocket RJN’s resident pair Michael O’Brien and James Bald

Medina man holds his nerve in a cut-and-thrust Formula Ford 1600 Silverstone final Adriver always needs a little bit of luck to win the end-of-season Formula Ford knockout events. And Oliver White knows that more than most having come close to winn

Bruce Mitchell secured his second successive Scottish Classic Sports and Saloons title after finishing tied on points withAlastair Baptie as the Scottish Motor Racing Club season drew to a close at Knockhill last weekend. The pair were the dominant f

Jenson Button’s planned return to the race track in British GT’s Silverstone season closer is chronicled in this week’s MN. And, of course, anything Jenson-related is a wonderful excuse to cast back to Montreal in 2011, and one of the most thrilling