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As the dark clouds rolled in and the rain began to fall, Red Bull team boss Christian Horner could afford to joke on the slow-down lap of Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Max Verstappen had just crossed the finish line to take a brilliant win, nearly e

Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto has admitted the team was caught out by the hard-compound tyres’ behaviour at last weekend’s Hungarian Grand Prix after another apparent strategic blunder by the team. Ferrari pair Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz starte

Seven-time World champion Lewis Hamilton led the tributes to Sebastian Vettel after his fellow multiple champion announced he will leave Formula 1 at the end of this season. Hamilton said: “When I talk about the journey I’ve experienced in this sport

Alice Powell ended Jamie Chadwick’s W Series seven-race winning streak by holding off her fellow Briton to win last weekend’s Hungaroring race. Powell racing for the Bristol Street Motors team led throughout from pole, and retained first place from J

New British Touring Car Championship points leader Colin Turkington says that he is still seeking to unlock pace from his car to maintain his title charge. The four-time title winner scored two podiums at Knockhill and a fourth-placed finish to zoom

British GT will visit the Algarve International Circuit in Portugal next year for the first time as the track replaces Spa as the championship’s away-day round. The famous Belgian track in recent years has been British GT’s habitual sole overseas v

Century boss Nathan Freke has described British GT organisers’ decision to not allow Will Burns to switch Spa race stints after being hit by a sickness bug as “pretty stupid”. Several in the Belgian paddock 10 days ago reported feeling unwell on race

Jamie Stanley has said it was “petty” that he and co-driver Nick Halstead were not allowed onto the podium after winning the recent British GT Spa race competing under appeal. The Fox McLaren pair won the race on track after appealing against their q

British GT frontrunner James Dorlin said his Redline Racing team faced a catalogue of problems after switching to a Porsche 911 GT3 R for the Spa round 10 days ago. Dorlin and driving partner Alex Malykhin, who are fourth in British GT’s standings, s

The GB3 championship achieved a record-high grid at Silverstone last weekend with the addition of American Ayrton Ori to Chris Dittmann Racing’s line-up. The CDR team with 18-year-old Ori’s addition will run three cars for the remainder of this GB3 s

The Ginetta Junior Winter Series continues for its 14th running this autumn taking place on Brands Hatch’s Indy circuit on November 12 and 13. The annual end-of-season event will follow its traditional format of one qualifying session and two races o

British Formula 4’s annual rookie test will return this autumn as organisers report increased driver interest in the junior single-seater championship and possible grids of 20 or more this season. The Snetterton test takes place on October 27-28 and

Kalle Rovanpera can’t win the World Rally Championship in Finland, but he can get closer with the Acropolis Rally in Greece next month the first point at which the title could be his, regardless of what happens in the Finnish forests this weekend. De

Craig Breen reckons the belief he was able to build aboard his Ford Puma Rally1 after he restarted Rally Estonia on leg two following his opening-day off will boost his bid for a third 2022 WRC podium in Finland. M-Sport’s Irish star finished third i

Oliver Solberg reckons the experience gained from his Rally Finland debut will count for nothing when he returns this week. Solberg crashed a Hyundai i20 N Rally2 in Finland last season on his first start with co-driver Craig Drew but is back in a to

Proposed Motorsport UK regulation changes pose a threat to Ford Escorts Mk1 and Mk2 being used in special stage rallying, according to a number of competitors. It seems that, with little notice and communication to car owners, the sport’s governing b

The next major gravel rally in the UK, the Woodpecker Rally on September 3, has drawn a fabulous response as the popular Welsh border event returns to a traditional format after a gap of three years. The Ludlow-based event was cancelled in 2020 and r

National Asphalt Championship competitor Brad Cole says he owes his continued challenge for series honours to his mechanics after they repaired heavy front-end damage that enabled him to restart the Down Rally. The Ford Escort Mk2 driver looked to ha

Rally veteran Graham Henderson says that securing the Northern Ireland Championship title for co-drivers is an incredible moment and ranks among the highlights of his career as a leading privateer. Henderson joined forces with Derek McGarrity this se

Christian Parker and Molly Livermore followed up the 2021 Knutsford Targa victory with a win on this year’s Northern Dales Targa. The Hexham & DMC event used the gravel and concrete tracks of the former Blue Circle Cement Works in Weardale. The winne

The 500th BriSCA Formula 2 meeting at Devon’s Smeatharpe Stadium celebrated the late Bill Batten, four-time World champion. In a race enlivened by oil dropped on the fourth bend, leader Tristan Claydon was gradually chased down by Kieren Bradford aft

BHRC contender Age: 55 Lives: Cheltenham He’s rallied a Fiat 131 this year “I think the Fiat is now equal to the Escort in some areas and better in some conditions. Kevin Theaker and the team at Rallysport Developments have made amazing progress with

Seventy-five years of Ferrari, the 60th anniversary of Graham Hill’s first F1 World Championship and 100 years of the Austin 7 will all be marked during the Goodwood Revival on September 16-18. More than 40 cars from Hill’s career will be demonstrate

The Toyota Celica ST185 driven by Mark Lovell and Jonny Milner in period has just been restored for Gary Gee by model expert Warner Lewis. It was built in 1994 and used by Touring Car racer Wil Hoy on the Network Q RAC Rally, which ended in an accide

Brian Arculus has brought his rare Lotus MkIX back to racing this year ahead of racing it at the Goodwood Revival in September. Arculus’s MKIX is thought to be the only one currently active in the UK. Even this one is used sparingly and Arculus had o

With his regular driver Matthew Robinson taking a sabbatical from rallying, seasoned co-driver Sam Collis will sit alongside Robert Gough when the BHRC schedule resumes on the Woodpecker Rally on September 3. The Woodpecker is the home event for Ludl

David Dickenson was the class of a mighty Jack Sears Trophy pre ‘66 Touring Car field but had to work hard to see off the Minis of Michael Cullen and Ben Colburn after a tardy pitstop. A wet qualifying session left the grid shuffled but P2 was good e

Matt Wrigley was the class of the Historic Formula 2 field at the Gold Cup with two stylish performances in his ex-Rad Dougall March 782. In both races, he was chased home by the earlier March 742 of Mark Dwyer as the period F2 cars delivered a great

There was late drama in the popular Class 14 where Simon Reid (Ford Escort) took victory after local ace Colin Byrne (Escort) threw away a strong advantage after he clattered a chicane bale. Not surprisingly, James Stafford (Darrian T90 GTR) led init

With new impetus behind the famous old name, Lola cars is on the up. It has a bright future under its freshly installed boss Till Bechtolsheimer. That got us thinking and we polled you, dear readers, to find out which product from the Huntingdon man

David McCullough has had a good year so far in the Northern Ireland Formula Ford series. There was one early season DNF after a clash with David Parks, but otherwise it has been a year of straight victories. His latest pair came last Saturday at a pa

Joel Granfors reclaimed the GB3 championship lead at Silverstone after taking a hat-trick of podium finishes while his title rival Luke Browning was sent to the back of the grid for all three races due to a technical infringement. Hitech GP’s Brownin

Nikolas Taylor sealed a fine Silverstone weekend for Fortec Motorsports by striding back to the GB4 points lead after claiming the first-ever race-weekend win hat-trick in the championship’s short history. Taylor only lined up fifth on the grid for t

This week in our readers’ Q&A we get the lowdown from Richard Dutton, long-time boss of the prolific junior single-seater squad Fortec Motorsports. Yet even in Fortec’s extensive history it surely cannot have been involved in many championship finale

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