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While Max Verstappen’s march to a second Formula 1 World championship was not unexpected, he had to literally ride the storm at Suzuka last weekend. Amid the gloom and the downpours, he managed his race perfectly to do enough to lock away the silverw

If we ever needed a reminder about the over-complexity of the Formula 1 rulebook, then it was in the few minutes prior to the podium at Suzuka last weekend. Not many people – not even Max Verstappen or the Red Bull pitwall – were aware that he had be

New British Touring Car Championship title winner Tom Ingram says claiming the crown has been the fulfilment of a lifetime’s ambition – although he doubted it would even come his way after so many near misses. The 29-year-old Excelr8 Motorsport Hyun

The opening Porsche Carrera Cup race at Brands Hatch was halted on lap eight when Will Martin’s Richardson Racing machine made contact with Theo Edgerton’s JTR-run car at Paddock. Martin was spun to the inside, vaulted the barriers and ended up perch

A fifth-place finish in Sunday’s British GT Donington Park finale will secure long-time championship leader Ian Loggie his first overall GT3 crown but three other crews remain in title contention. Loggie in a RAM Mercedes leads the standings by 24.5

Mittell Cars is in pole position for a prize Praga R1 car as inaugural Praga Cup UK champion ahead of next weekend’s October 22-23 Donington Park double-header finale. Gordie Mutch and Jimmy Broadbent’s factory entered car leads the main standings, w

Formula Woman’s boss has promised its prize drives will resume in 2023 after its McLarens didn’t race in last weekend’s Snetterton GT Cup finale or at Donington Park last month. Graeme Glew, the director of Formula Woman’s operating company, cited to

GB4 has an entry boost for its inaugural season’s Donington Park finale this weekend with returning former BRDC Formula 3 driver Oliver Clarke plus Ginetta Junior aces joining the grid. Clarke, who took two podium finishes in 2020’s GB3 predecessor c

Craig Breen will have a new co-driver on the season-closing Rally Japan next month after Paul Nagle, his long-term wingman, announced his retirement from the sport last week. Nagle, 44, linked up with Breen for the first time in 2012 when he guided

Days after Kalle Rovanpera made history as the youngest winner of the World championship aged 22, 21-year-old Oliver Solberg is facing an uncertain future in the sport after learning that his factory Hyundai deal will not be renewed. Petter Solberg’s

Paul MacKinnon will drive a Hyundai i20 R5 for the first time on this weekend’s 50th edition of the Mull Rally but is confident that won’t blunt his challenge for victory. MacKinnon usually hires a Ford Fiesta Rally2 but the car wasn’t available, so

Aberystwyth driver Steve Wood is celebrating his first Asphalt Rally Championship title after an assured performance on the Chris Kelly Memorial Rally. Wood went to the Isle of Man for the first time and finished third overall, ensuring the ARC title

Neil Roskell will try and finish a stellar season on asphalt with a strong result on the Mull Rally this weekend in his Ford Fiesta R5. Back in the spring Roskell and co-driver Andrew Roughead won the MN Circuit Rally Championship and recently added

Garry Pearson will see out the British Rally Championship season in a Skoda Fabia R5 as he feels the Ford Fiesta Rally2 he used earlier this year doesn’t suit him. Pearson won four national titles last year in a Fabia hired from Dylan Davies but swi

A field of 50 rally cars spanning 30 years of the sport will gather in Telford this weekend for the Historic Rally Festival. The demonstration special stage event will feature stages in the former Ironbridge power station on Saturday before the focu

The Gaz Shocks 116 Trophy season that’s just finished has a remarkable accolade. In its eight races, it had eight different winners. Even allowing for the BMW 116i one-make endurance series’ use of success penalties for the previous race’s podium fi

Nine years ago, at a little past 0800hrs, I was waiting in the plush lobby of Whittlebury Hall hotel. The world’s press had gathered at nearby Silverstone for the launch of the brand-new VJM06 — the car that Paul di Resta would drive in the 2013 Form

The record books will show that Wallace Menzies clinched a hat-trick of British Hillclimb titles in 2022. But that success only came after a season-long battle with his main rival Alex Summers in what was another golden year for this branch of the sp

Four went into one at Brands Hatch, as the gloves came off for the biggest prize in British motorsport. Tom Ingram stood tallest of all after the three rounds at Brands Hatch having scooped his maiden crown under immense pressure. In truth, the Exce

Frank Bird and Jack Morton were the toast of Jersey over the weekend when they dominated the Jersey Rally in their Ford Fiesta Rally2. The GT racer and sometime rally driver was in Jersey for the first time and on his first rally since June and deli

Thrills, spills and a fair few red flags proved to be the overriding story of the British Automobile Racing Club’s visit to Pembrey. Headlining the action in South Wales were five action-packed – and at times chaotic – contests from the British Truc

Danny Morris took his Cosworthpowered Peugeot 309 GTI to its fourth Special Saloons and Modsports victory of 2022. Racing in memory of his brother Ricky Parker-Morris, with whom he shared the car since its origins in Thundersaloons 30 years ago, Morr

It had been 29 years since a British driver claimed back-to-back wins in an FIA rallycross series but that barren spell ended the Belgian round of the World Rallycross Championship at Spa-Francorchamps. While Johan Kristoffersson claimed the spoils

Stewart Black clinched his second-consecutive Scottish Legends title with a double podium at last weekend’s season finale at Knockhill. Ryan McLeish came out on top in the first race, played out on a drying track after morning rain, beating Black an

My earliest motor racing memory was going with my dad to an experience day my mum bought him for Christmas. He fell in love with motorsport and eventually raced in the Radical Middle East Cup: we were based in Dubai for his work. And I was straight