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After the drama and excitement of George Russell’s first Formula 1 victory in Brazil, usual 2022 service was restored in Abu Dhabi. Max Verstappen never looked like losing, while Sergio Perez and Charles Leclerc battled for second in the race and the

Formula 1 bade an emotional farewell to Sebastian Vettel as the four-time world champion retired from the pinnacle of the sport following last weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Vettel, 35, announced at the end of July that he would be hanging up his he

Post-season testing got under way on Tuesday morning at Yas Marina following the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. First onto the track was the old man of the grid, Fernando Alonso, getting in his first mileage as an Aston Martin driver ahead of his switch to th

Daniel Ricciardo is set to join Red Bull for next year as its third driver, returning to the team where he enjoyed most of his success in Formula 1. The Australian has been in talks with a number of teams about a reserve role for 2023 after accepting

Formula 1 team bosses says it’s too late for the FIA to investigate Sergio Perez’s Q3 accident from May’s Monaco Grand Prix, despite the governing body’s president offering to do so. Perez crashed at Portier in the final moments of qualifying in Mont

Spa and Baku are set to host Formula 1 sprint races next year as the format expands to six race weekends. After debuting the Saturday races in 2021, F1 held another three sprints this year at Imola, the Red Bull Ring and Interlagos, with varying leve

The FIA is commissioning a study that may lead to Formula 1 cars being fitted with temporary wheel covers during extreme wet running in a bid to improve visibility. With the new generation of cars throwing up more spray in wet conditions than previou

Arthur Leclerc, younger brother of Ferrari Formula 1 star Charles Leclerc, will make the move up to Formula 2 with DAMS in 2023. Ferrari Academy driver Leclerc joins the French squad following three years with Prema Racing, initially in Formula Regio

Zak O’Sullivan, the 2021 Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Award winner, will join Prema Racing for his second season in the FIA Formula 3 Championship next year, as predicted by Autosport. The 17-year-old Williams F1 protege spent his rookie F3 campaign w

Formula 1 has announced a new F4-level all-female series from 2023 known as F1 Academy to help women climb the junior single-seater ladder. The series is set to feature a 15-car grid, consisting of five teams each entering three drivers. These teams

Three-time IMSA class champion Colin Braun will return to North American sportscar racing’s front line with Meyer Shank Racing in 2023. The 34-year-old will contest the full IMSA SportsCar Championship in the GTP class alongside Tom Blomqvist in the

Craig Breen is to rejoin Hyundai for next season’s World Rally Championship after parting ways with M-Sport halfway through his two-year contract. The Irishman has agreed a deal to contest a partial campaign next year, sharing the third i20 N alongsi

Chevrolet’s plan to take a Next Gen NASCAR Cup-based ZL1 Camaro to the Le Mans 24 Hours next year is taking shape. The car ran at Virginia International Raceway last week in what was described by Hendrick Motorsports, which is developing the car, as

Strategic options in the World Endurance Championship are set to be reduced next year, with a change in the sporting rules for the pits to be closed during a Full Course Yellow virtual safety car under discussion. The move, which is expected to go be

Embracing the concept and vision of the W Series and its many values, I think it’s a shame that financial struggles appear to have scuppered the championship this year and potentially its future. I met Jamie Chadwick prior to the Brands Hatch finale

“It was all about tyre management.” Hardly the most exciting statement in the history of motorsport, but such is modern Formula 1 and, with it, dominant race winner Max Verstappen perfectly summed up the 2022 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. On his way to seali

He stood on the track and addressed the crowd before him – more than 100 paddock personnel wearing identical T-shirts commemorating his Formula 1 career and achievements. After a few words of thanks and encouragement, Sebastian Vettel joined the mass

Rob Wilson is the revered driver coach that Formula 1 teams have on speed dial. Many of those racers in this paddock have ventured to a bitterly cold Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome to have the Kiwi tutor them in a humdrum Vauxhall hatchback. This writer di

Lando Norris took the final ‘Class B’ honours of the season in sixth place, but the McLaren driver had the hardcharging Esteban Ocon breathing down his neck during the closing stint. Norris qualified an impressive seventh behind the usual suspects, a

Sebastian Vettel ended his final Formula 1 race with a point for 10th place. He should have walked away with even more to help Aston Martin climb the constructors’ table at the finale, but the four-time world champion was hurt by his squad’s question

Mick Schumacher’s final Formula 1 race with Haas ended in ignominy when he was penalised for crashing with Nicholas Latifi, who also now exits the championship. The pair were fighting over 16th place as the Abu Dhabi race approached its closing stage

McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl was left to reflect that Daniel Ricciardo’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix performance “exemplifies the unflagging enthusiasm and determination he’s shown this year” as the Australian leaves the team. After being edged out

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Max Verstappen has pointed out that Formula 1 seasons are longer now than they used to be and, like most active sportspeople, he’s not too bothered about breaking records. But his new benchmark of 15 wins from a single world championship season is st

YAS MARINA (ARE) 19-20 NOVEMBER ROUND 14/14 As if Red Bull’s domination of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix wasn’t enough, two of its junior drivers secured wins in the supporting FIA Formula 2 season finale. Ayumu Iwasa held off a fierce challenge from Feli

MACAU (CHN) 19-20 NOVEMBER Maro Engel took his third Macau GT Cup victory as big international names finally returned to the Guia circuit. The German was one of a number of stars to brave quarantine for a shot at glory along with Raffaele Marciello a

Dubbed a talent that comes along once in a generation, Kalle Rovanpera has not only rewritten the World Rally Championship record books but has already changed rallying forever. It has previously been perceived that to conquer the WRC requires a weal

Before Kalle Rovanpera’s record-breaking run to become the youngest World Rally champion, the mantle had previously been held for 27 years by the late Colin McRae. The Scot lifted his maiden and only world title in 1995, driving for the factory Subar

America’s biggest form of motorsport, NASCAR, is very traditional. There’s a staid way of doing things and, even if the unexpected occurs every now and then, the rule of thumb is that the powerhouse teams always win. What doesn’t happen is a start-up

Trackhouse Racing made more headlines in the summer when it gave Kimi Raikkonen his Cup Series debut in its ‘Project 91’ third car at Watkins Glen. Raikkonen, who raced almost 100,000km in Formula 1, hadn’t driven a racing car in anger in the 251 day

It’s 10 rounds into the 2022 MotoGP season, and Francesco Bagnaia has retired from a grand prix for the fourth time this year. While running second, he has slid out of the German Grand Prix at the Sachsenring before chief title rival Fabio Quartararo

Any hopes of 2022 representing an end to Marc Marquez’s injury woes were dashed at round two in Indonesia when he crashed heavily in the warm-up and suffered the same vision problems that had ruled him out of the final two races of 2021. A quick reco

A quadruple-header spanning Brands Hatch’s Indy and Grand Prix circuits will form a centrepiece to next season’s Historic Formula Ford 2000 championship. Following the twinning of the Kent venue’s Historic Sports Car Club meetings for 2023 over 14-16

The Autosport Three Hours endurance race is due to return for the first time in eight years in 2023 after the Historic Sports Car Club reintroduced the contest for its Snetterton season opener. The Autosport name will be in the title of the race over

Masters Historic Racing will further develop its modern offering in 2023 with the creation of the Masters GT Trophy. The new race series, for GT4 cars from 2007 to 2018 along with suitable one-make challenge cars, builds on the two pilot races run at

W Series champion Jamie Chadwick and her Ginetta GT5 Challenge title-winning brother Ollie were reunited with the Ginetta Junior racer in which they began their careers last month. The Chadwick family and the siblings’ Ginetta Junior engineer Nick Ha

The MG Car Club will organise two standalone single-day meetings next year, while the rest of its calendar will comprise fixtures alongside Equipe Classic Racing. After previously appearing at MGCC events – and with various other clubs – Equipe decid

American Jeremy Fairbairn will compete with Kevin Mills Racing in the GB4 Championship next season. The 18-year-old raced with the squad, which took the inaugural GB4 teams’ title this season, in the Formula Festival Festival at Brands Hatch, finishi

RAM Racing will return to the Gulf 12 Hours next month with a famous retro livery on its Mercedes-AMG GT3. The car, which will be driven at Yas Marina by 2022 British GT champion Ian Loggie and fellow Am racer Morgan Tillbrook, as well as Pro Mikael

British Formula 4 race winner Louis Sharp put in an impressive performance to win both of the non-championship UAE F4 Trophy contests held in support of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix last weekend. The Carlin Kiwi was on a charge at the start of the first

Students from Oxford Brookes University are set to build an electric hillclimb single-seater that they intend to take to Pikes Peak as part of a three-year plan. Oscar McEntee has previously run cars in hillclimbs and sprints and, after joining up wi

John Griffiths and Emma Morrison won the Cadwell Park Stages, round two of the MGJ Engineering Circuit Rally Championship, after their Ford Fiesta R5 (below) led from the second stage of the day to win by 28 seconds. The similar car of Paul Murro and

MSVR 19-20 NOVEMBER After more than eight hours of action in both wet and dry conditions, the fourth running of the EnduroKa IndyKa 500 at Brands Hatch was won on the road by just 0.590 seconds on Sunday. The two most successful teams of the season f

As I flashed past the chequered flag at Oulton Park and saw my team leaning over the pitwall, arms raised, it came home to me what a remarkable achievement we had just pulled off. It was remarkable for many reasons. Firstly, having started the UK Fun

Preston Lerner RRP £35.00 Best known for its role in delivering Ford endurance racing’s biggest prize by beating Ferrari at Le Mans, Shelby American’s story is a remarkable one. The speed of its rise in becoming a winner on the international stage, j

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The irresistible force that was Michael Schumacher in his pomp (here in a Ferrari F310B) gives Jean Alesi (Benetton-Renault B197) little option but to yield second place at Spa’s La Source hairpin on lap five – the first three having been run behind

“I loved the cars that gave you an advantage. Unfortunately, whenever I had one of those something seemed to go wrong and we didn’t win anyway!” Notwithstanding his 1970 Le Mans victory in a Porsche 917, Richard Attwood didn’t always have the best lu

Homologation papers have been submitted. Testing is well under way, with several manufacturers completing long-distance endurance runs having ironed out teething troubles. The wait, for what many anticipate will be a golden age of sportscar racing, i

M-Sport will continue producing Fiesta-based rally cars following the news that Ford will cease production of the popular hatchback next year. The Cumbrian outfit currently produces Rally2, Rally3 and Rally4 specification Fiesta rally cars, which hav

Jaguar Classic has begun work on a limited run of continuation C-type sportscars to mark 70 years since its 1953 Le Mans 24 Hours domination. Utilising revolutionary disc brakes that Jaguar introduced in 1952, Duncan Hamilton and Tony Rolt beat the s

Alpine has selected the engine concept for the LMDh challenger it will race in the World Endurance Championship from 2024, and is already running it on the test bench. Bruno Famin, executive director of Alpine Racing, explained it “never considered”

The 1063bhp Mercedes-AMG ONE hypercar, which uses Formula 1 hybrid powertrain technology, broke the lap record for road legal production cars at the Nurburgring Nordschleife last month. With DTM ace Maro Engel at the wheel, the car posted a 6m35.183s

The FIA has launched a scholarship with Cranfield University to help an aspiring motorsport engineer who would otherwise be unable to study for a postgraduate degree. Cranfield is a leading postgraduate research centre, whose FIA-approved Impact Cent

German manufacturing giant ZF has reached a production milestone of two million electric motors, the company announced this month. The powertrain partner to Formula E squad Mahindra has continually expanded its capacity to meet demand since its first

It was a historic moment. The great and good from the Automobile Club de l’Ouest and IMSA sat on stage and told the racing world what it had wanted to hear for years: that the same cars would battle it out for the overall victory at the Le Mans and D

While most of the focus in endurance racing has been on the new LMDh offerings, that’s certainly not to say there’s no new developments in the world of GT4 competition, with the McLaren Artura and new BMW M4 set to race across the globe in 2023. McLa

It’s not just McLaren and BMW that will begin the season with new GT4 cars, as the Nissan Z (left) and Lotus Emira will also hit the track in 2023. The Nissan Z, which was unveiled at the SEMA show in Las Vegas earlier this month, will be provided to

There are an almost infinite number of set-up combinations available to competitors in motorsport that can be tailored for track conditions, driver preferences and car characteristics. The exact same solution is unlikely to be found between two cars

Owen Hayes is well-qualified on the subject of car set-ups, having worked on numerous single-seaters and sportscars in a career spanning three decades. Starting out as a Formula 3 mechanic in 1987 with Eddie Jordan Racing, Hayes met Edward Turner, wh

From a humble truckie’s mate to mechanic, race engineer and now experienced team manager, Chris Mower has filled just about every position going on a race team in a career spanning more than 30 years across single-seaters and sportscars. He followed