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Outgoing Formula 1 managing director Ross Brawn has lauded the mix of exciting and processional races last season, saying that he thinks the balance has been correct. The Briton, who oversaw the introduction of a new ruleset last term with an emphasi

By effectively outlawing Formula 1 drivers from making “political, religious or personal” statements during a grand prix weekend, it has opened a can of worms. You have to wonder what, precisely, comes next and how far this could go. Would, for examp

Four-time British Touring Car Championship race winner Dan Lloyd will race a Team Hard Cupra R in the category next season. The 30-year-old Yorkshire driver finished 10th in the standings in 2022 at the wheel of an Excelr8 Motorsport Hyundai i30 N.

Multiple Ginetta champion Raceway Motorsport is set to make its British GT debut this season with two Ginetta G56 GT4s driven by returnee Freddie Tomlinson and GT Academy frontrunner Thomas Holland. Established Ginetta team Raceway plans to enter To

The youngest-ever Ginetta champion Freddie Slater will go for the Ginetta Junior championship this year with R Racing. The 14-year-old became the youngest champion in Ginetta history late last year when he won the Ginetta winter series with R Racing

Fox Motorsport has confirmed it will in 2023 embark on its fourth-consecutive Ginetta Junior campaign and Harry Moss is the first announced driver for its multi-car line-up. Fox in 2022’s Ginetta Junior contest won races with multiple drivers for the

Paul Sheard Racing in 2023 will introduce the Audi RS3 Gen 2 to the TCR UK championship with former Ginetta GT4 Supercup racers Joe Marshall and Garry Townsend driving. The prolific team made two TCR UK appearances last year at Donington Park and the

Reigning TCR UK champion Chris Smiley will be back with Restart Racing this season to defend his crown as part of an expanded line up of two Honda Civic FK7s. Restart boss Bert Taylor, former long-time boss of British Touring Car Championship team B

Max Esterson has said he has been left with a “bitter taste” after losing 2022’s Walter Hayes Trophy victory with a post-race penalty. Esterson with Ammonite Motorsport was first home in Silverstone’s end-of-year Formula Ford event but lost the win d

Chris Ingram will launch his bid for WRC2 title glory on this month’s Monte Carlo Rally – but has told Motorsport News he still lacks the cash for a full campaign. The 2019 European champion will tackle the season opener in a latest-spec Skoda Fabia

Deenethorpe airfield in Northamptonshire is set to host more rallies next year, after recently being used as a venue for the first time in over 30 years. Lincoln Motorcycle and Car Club, which ran the Colin Ellmore Memorial Rally there in November, h

Former British GT racer John Griffiths is bidding to win this winter’s Motorsport Newssupported Circuit Rally Championship in his recently acquired Ford Fiesta R5. The Nottinghamshire driver heads the points’ table after two rounds and will try to i

Reigning British Rallycross champion Patrick O’Donovan is unsure of his plans for the 2023 season but will stay in the discipline. O’Donovan won the British series with seven wins from 10 rounds last year, aligning the domestic Supercar effort with a

One of the very last ERA Grand Prix cars ever built, the E-type GP2, could be back in competition this year after many decades away. After spending many years in the Donington Grand Prix Collection, GP2 has been bought by Jolyon Harrison and is now

A Just Giving appeal has recently been created to raise financial support for former ABBA drummer and Formula 1 racer Slim Borgudd. The Swedish racer, 76, now lives in Coventry and until recently earned his living by preparing race cars for customers

It should have been the British Saloon Car Championship’s step into the big league of touring car racing. Instead, the 1983 season ended in acrimony, controversy, a certain amount of ridicule and set the wheels in motion for the decline of the champi

There is never any quarter asked – and certainly none given – on the short ovals, and 2022 was a season when the bandwagon truly got rolling again after the disrupted recent years. The National Hot Rod season was marked by one of its most special ev

Paul Bason started in motorsport when he was in his teens as one of the teachers at his grammar school was into racing. Kenneth Yates had a Cooper Bristol and Bason started helping him at race meetings. “We went through various cars, and I was so lu

I’m going for the Ginetta Junior championship title this year. With the team around me, R Racing, the management team around me, my coach, my family, I know I can win the championship. I’m going to try and win as many races as possible and try and be