Autosport

Thank goodness for Fernando Alonso and Aston Martin! As was expected following testing, Red Bull dominated the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix last weekend and Max Verstappen didn’t even need to break sweat, but the 41-year-old Spaniard’s charge to

If at first you don’t succeed, try once more. If that doesn’t work, go back to the drawing board. That’s how the Mercedes Formula 1 team appears to be operating presently, with boss Toto Wolff declaring at last weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix opening ro

McLaren Racing boss Zak Brown has paid a visit to the fledgling Red Bull Powertrains site in Milton Keynes to sound out the possibility of an engine supply for his team. Any such partnership would replace the current customer deal with Mercedes in ti

Formula 1 will trial a new qualifying format during the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix weekend at Imola in May. In an effort to reduce the number of tyres brought to each event, at two rounds this year the championship will experiment with a new qualifyin

Mercedes star Lewis Hamilton has helped clear up a grey area of the FIA rules by adding a splash of colour in the form of a rainbow-themed crash helmet for last weekend’s Bahrain Grand Prix. The governing body added to its tedious recent run of contr

Glickenhaus will begin the new World Endurance Championship season with a familiar looking line-up in its full-season Pipo-engined 007 Le Mans Hypercar at this month’s Sebring 1000 Miles. Olivier Pla and Ryan Briscoe will join Romain Dumas, but the t

The Macau Grand Prix could turn into a festival of junior single-seater motorsport in 2023 if current plans reach fruition. There is still some way to go, but the target is for international grids to be assembled for three levels of FIA-sanctioned ca

Susie Wolff has been appointed as managing director of the F1 Academy series for Formula 4 cars that aims to develop young female drivers. Ex-Williams F1 test driver and DTM racer Wolff more recently served as the team principal and latterly CEO for

Heikki Kovalainen has become the latest Formula 1 name to sign up for Extreme E ahead of the off-road series’ third season of competition, which kicks off in Saudi Arabia this weekend. The Finn, who became the 100th winner of a world championship gra

“It was quite straightforward.” Max Verstappen succinctly summed up his 36th Formula 1 victory, a crushing display from his Red Bull squad in the Bahrain opener to the 2023 season. For the world champion, there was little to worry about over 57 laps

“It was the sandbag!” Max Verstappen joked with Charles Leclerc as the regular 2022 qualifying toppers faced the 2023 Bahrain Grand Prix post-qualifying press conference, the Dutchman referring to the pieces of Ferrari wheel-cover fairing that had fa

Without doubt, first practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix presents a unique challenge for everyone involved and observing too. Having spent nearly half of the previous week pounding around the same venue, the teams and drivers understand the track’s d

Despite Williams’s downbeat expectations heading into the 2023 season, Alex Albon got the team off the mark in the opening race with 10th place, fending off Yuki Tsunoda in the closing stages. Following a front-wing breakage in qualifying, Albon’s ho

Esteban Ocon endured a wretched opening to the 2023 season, in which he picked up three penalties over the course of the race before he was mercifully brought in to retire the Alpine early. The first of his transgressions occurred right at the start;

After making up four places on the first lap, Valtteri Bottas converted 12th on the grid into a four-point haul from Bahrain amid a race he described as “a bit quiet at times” once he had made his early moves. The Finn grabbed the inside line into th

The great aspects of the 20th edition of the Grand Prix of St Petersburg, the inaugural round of the 2023 IndyCar season, include the fact that we had a less-than-obvious winner, there were as many questions raised as answered, the field looks tighte

Juncos Hollinger Racing is proving why IndyCar is so alluring to drivers and teams who can find the requisite budget. With a staff headcount dwarfed by the likes of Team Penske, Chip Ganassi Racing, Arrow McLaren and Andretti Autosport, JHR is capabl

SAKHIR (BHR) 4-5 MARCH ROUND 1/14 Theo Pourchaire opened the Formula 2 season with a bang last Sunday by dominating the opening feature race, ART Grand Prix’s 2022 runner-up cruising to a lights-to-flag win by almost 20 seconds. The Frenchman made a

SAKHIR (BHR) 4-5 MARCH ROUND 1/10 Following the exodus of last year’s top contenders to Formula 2, it was rookies who dominated the opening FIA Formula 3 round in Bahrain, and it was Gabriel Bortoleto who inherited his maiden win when fellow Formula

LAS VEGAS (USA) 5 MARCH ROUND 3/36 The fastest car dominated and won at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but William Byron needed a rally in overtime to do it. Byron, who won the first two stages and led 176 of 271 laps, lost the lead during a round of pits

Anthony Davidson is back at the wheel of a prototype, just a year and a bit on from his retirement from the cockpit. And he now understands the challenges faced by the drivers out on track in the World Endurance Championship aboard the successors to

You don’t have to look far to find the inspiration for the helmet design used by newly crowned Formula Regional Oceania (nee Toyota Racing Series) champion Charlie Wurz. The 17-year-old is the second son of three-time Formula 1 podium finisher and tw

When Alex Wurz’s youngest son Oscar steps up from karting this year, he will be immersed in “doing all sorts of different things” including Formula 4 and touring car tests, plus rallycross. This sensory assault previously experienced by elder brother

There were various regulations prior to the arrival of the famous 750kg weight formula in 1934, and one of those was a 1500cc engine limit for 1926-27. The exquisite Delage straight-eight Type 15, designed by Albert Lory, was undoubtedly the car of t

Four-time British GT champion Jonny Adam will race part-time in the series this year alongside James Cottingham in a 2 Seas Motorsport-run Mercedes-AMG GT3. Factory Aston Martin driver Adam will partner Cottingham at five of the seven events this yea

Marcus Clutton and Morgan Tillbrook will continue for a third year together in British GT in 2023. The Pro-Am duo finished third in the GT3 standings last year in an Enduro Motorsport-run McLaren 720S, with wins at Donington Park and Brands Hatch. Cl

Reigning Legends champion Miles Rudman will switch to the unusual ‘Se-Van’ model for this season’s three-event Legends Elite Cup contest. Rudman, who claimed a third title last season, was not expecting to continue in Legends this year but, after dis

Former Ginetta Junior racer Robert de Haan secured the inaugural Porsche Sprint Challenge Southern Europe title at Barcelona at the end of last month, despite his winning streak being broken. The Dutchman had triumphed in the opening four contests of

The Motorbase-run NAPA Racing UK squad has revealed a major expansion for this year, including entering cars in the Mini Challenge and fielding quadruple Renault UK Clio Cup champion Paul Rivett in the British Truck Racing Championship. Alongside NAP

British Formula 4 race winner Daniel Guinchard has switched to Chris Dittmann Racing for his second season in the category. Guinchard arrived in F4 last year with Argenti Motorsport, the squad that had powered him to two British Kart Championship tit

Scroll down the entry list of this weekend’s opening round of the British Rally Championship and you will observe a distinctly different look to the UK’s top-flight series in 2023. The Cumbrian forests of the Malcolm Wilson Rally will host the champi

Hard-charging Scot Eddie McLurg, a stalwart of Special Saloon, Donington GT and Formule Libre racing, has died just short of his 80th birthday, having battled asbestosis lung cancer for over 18 months. A seven-year joinery apprenticeship underpinned

Stuart Middleton, the 2017 British GT4 champion, will return to the series this season to share a Ginetta G56 (below) with Freddie Tomlinson at Raceway Motorsport. Middleton and Will Tregurtha became the youngest crew to win the GT4 title when they d

Tony Dodgins RRP £35 The rivalry between Lewis Hamilton and Max Verstappen over the course of the 2021 Formula 1 season was box-office material. Regardless of which camp you sided with, or your opinions on the numerous collisions and controversies, t

In his third DTM season, back in 2005 when the series was a powerhouse touring car championship rather than a GT3 category, Gary Paffett chalked up five wins en route to his first title. Of those wins, Zandvoort was the most dominant; Paffett crushed