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Abu Dhabi Grand Prix winner Max Verstappen hopes that victory in the final Formula 1 race of the season can give Red Bull the impetus to start its 2021 campaign on the front foot. The Dutchman was in total command of the last race of the season to d

Porsche will be back to fight for overall Le Mans 24-Hour race victory from 2023 and have full-season top-class World Endurance Championship and IMSAassaults under the forthcoming LMDh regulations. The revered 19-time Le Mans-winning marque’s motors

Multiple British GT championship-winning team TF Sport will race in next month’s Daytona 24 Hours for its IMSA debut with a view to future full-season campaigns. The squad, which took Le Mans GTE Am victory this year as well as 2019’s Spa 24 Hours Pr

Sportscar championship-winning team UnitedAutosports has bolstered its GT4 European Series effort by adding the team from 2017 British GT4 champion HHC Motorsport. UnitedAutosports will make its GT4 debut in 2021 with two McLaren 570S GT4 cars, and h

Porsche will return to top-class endurance racing and the Le Mans 24 Hours from 2023 with full-season World Endurance Championship and IMSA campaigns under the new LMDh regulations. The legendary 19-time Le Mans-winning marque has evaluated the fort

The bosses of Silverstone have revealed that the start-finish straight at the venue will be christened the Hamilton Straight in honour of the record-breaking world champion. The stretch of Tarmac adjacent to the Wing pits complex has been the start p

McLaren has sold a stake in its Formula 1 team to anAmerican consortium as part of a $185 million investment programme in a move the squad hopes will return it to the front of the grand prix grid. An investment group fronted by MSP Sport Capital, UBS

Legendary British GT champion duo Andrew Howard and Jonny Adam will reunite next year for a full-season assault in a Beechdean AMR Aston Martin, for the first time since 2015. The Pro-Am pair won the GT3 drivers’title in 2013 and ’15 – though Howard

Race winner Jack Goff will remain with the Team Hard British Touring Car Championship squad for the next two seasons as it introduces the new Cupra Leon onto the grid. The five-time race winner made his BTCC debut with the Kent-based team in 2013 and

Kris Meeke is keen for a Northern Irish round of the World Rally Championship but it might not happen, with the final 2021 WRC calendar due to be ratified at the FIA World Motor Sport Council on December 16 after MN went to press. Provisionally sche

Craig Breen’s Rally Estonia heroics – and acceptance of various Hyundai development roles – have been rewarded with a partial season with the marque in next year’s World Rally Championship. Breen and co-driver Paul Nagle should, in theory, get a six-

British Rally Championship organisers have unveiled the 2021 season calendar which comprises three asphalt and four gravel rallies running from April to October. Just two events are left from this year’s intended schedule – Tendring & Claction and t

Entries are now open for Motorsport UK’s 2020 Young Journalist and Young Photographer of the Year Awards, with Motorsport News scholarship prizes added for the first time. Candidates, who must be aged under 30 on January 1 2021, are required to sub

MN Circuit Rally Championship organisers hope to be granted elite sport status in the new year, following a successful opening round at Donington Park. The Dukeries Rally – won by Frank Bird – was permitted to commence the season after the original t

Reigning National Formula Ford 1600 champion Neil Maclennan had double test delight at Donington Park last week, sampling a Nielsen Racing Ligier LMP3 then the following day a Porsche Cayman. Maclennan was offered the chance to try the Simon Green

Formula 1 stockcar racing is set to return to Odsall Stadium in Bradford in 2021 after a 23-year hiatus. Promoter Steve Rees, who last operated the track in 1997, is planning a meeting at the venue on Easter Sunday,April 3, 2021. Speaking to BSCDATV,

William Creighton has told Motorsport News his test with Hyundai Motorsport last week was “beneficial” despite not getting to drive the new i20 N Rally2 as planned. Creighton was given the opportunity by the British Rally Championship and Hyundai C

The 60th anniversary year of the Jaguar E-type will be celebrated with an E-type only race at the Silverstone Classic on July 30-August 1, 2021. Adecade after the race to celebrate 50 years of the car, the E-type race will be a highlight of the 2021

Lydden Hill will run more rallycross races at night in the future, following a successful trial event during the second round of the British Rallycross Championship 5 Nations Trophy. The Supercar final for round two and early qualification races for

The Ford Sierra RS500 raced by Guy Edwards in the 1989 British Touring Car Championship will return to racing next season after 30 years inAustralia and New Zealand. Graeme Dodd bought the Andy Rouse-built car at the 2019 Silverstone Classic auction

Josh Veale needed to win the Gloucester Sporting Trial near Stroud to stand any chance of snatching the British championship, and he managed it. Second place, though, proved enough for his father Ian to win the crown for the first time in his self-as

Ian Bainbridge celebrated his first-ever rally win after scoring a commanding victory on the Rali Adfer Coedwigoedd Cymru (Welsh Forest Restoration Rally) on Saturday. Bainbridge’s Skoda Fabia R5 was fastest all eight stages through Gorsedd Bran fore

British Rallycross title winner Ollie O’Donovan will race a new Proton Iriz RX Supercar in British, European and World Rallycross Championship events from next year. O’Donovan’s Team RX Racing squad has revealed that the build of the new car is alre

Former British Touring Car Championship racer Simon Blanckley hopes to race his rare Group 2 specification Triumph Dolomite Sprint more often in 2021 after tackling only two races in the last four seasons. The car, prepared to FIA Group 2 trim by N

Although totally correct, the 504 pickup’s entry into the history of Group B rally machinery is fairly tenuous. But the car’s cousin, the Peugeot 205 T16, is one of the most revered and successful Group B machines of all. Introduced to the World Rall

Always be cautious when told something in motorsport has never happened before. The chances are that it has. In this Motorsport News Christmas special we have wrapped up Formula 1’s season-closer. An F1 finale this late in the year? It can’t have hap

When fans look back on 2020, they will recall a season that was headlined by the incredible achievements of Lewis Hamilton. The Briton stormed to yet another world title and drove a coach and horses through the record books in the process. The stand

Ash Sutton told Motorsport News earlier this year that he needed to claim a second British Touring Car Championship title. The 2017 title winner is already chomping his way up the all-time race winners’list and has 19 under his belt in three differen

Make: Peugeot Model: 504 Pickup Engine: 1971cc Transmission: Five-speed, rear-wheel-drive, limited slip differential Suspension: McPherson front struts, leaf-spring rear Brakes: 273mm disc front, 255mm drum rear Wheels: 15in x 7in Tyres: Pirel

A quarter of a century ago Colin McRae became Britain’s first World Rally champion. His win on the 1995 RAC Rally was a crowning moment in making the Scot one of the most admired drivers in the motorsport’s history. McRae and co-driver Derek Ringer

Lewis Hamilton’s season started with controversy as he was given a three-place grid penalty for not slowing up in qualifying when team-mate Valtteri Bottas slipped off the track. Running second in the race, the Brit was then pinged for contact with R

Ash Sutton’s march to the 2020 British Touring Car Championship title wasn’t without its problems and even the driver himself admits he’d caused a few of his own. The Laser Tools Racing man, in the all new for 2020 Infiniti Q50, only knows one way t

It goes without saying that 2020 is a year that stood apart. And this is reflected in motorsport visuals that 12 months ago would have seemed like something from outlandish fiction: face masks, restrictions and, sadly, in many cases, no spectators.

Team: Laser Tools Racing Car: Infiniti Q50 Championship position: 1st Wins: 5 Podiums: 10 Poles: 1 Fastest laps: 10 Bonus points earned: 16 Laps led: 86 Miles led: 121.62 His calling card is: Master of tricky conditions and the comeback king when he

The prerequisite for Motorsport News’s Christmas track test is to find something unique, special and a little bit wacky, and the car I’m about to climb aboard, parked at the end of a gravel track on a cold late-November morning in Yorkshire, has all

1: What was unusual about Lando Norris’ his first ever Formula 1 podium in the Austrian Grand Prix this year? 2: Which teams featured on the Formula 1 podium in 2020? 3: Four Formula 1 teams had to alter their line-ups throughout 2020, but which two

For the first three months of 2020, we were looking forward to a highly enjoyable season of motorsport on the stages and on the race tracks. And, despite everything the world has gone through over the last nine months, fans can look back on a year th

The questions thrown up going into any British Touring Car Championship season are multiple. Given the uncertainty surrounding any sporting activity this year, the imponderables were just amplified. The drivers were under pressure like never before