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Reigning GB3 champion Luke Browning has been recruited to the Williams Formula 1 team’s driver academy. The 21-year-old rising star from Cheshire graduated this year to FIA Formula 3 with Hitech Pulse-Eight, and sits 10th in the drivers’ standings. B

World champion Max Verstappen has called for Formula 1’s sprint races to be scrapped after a tweaked version of the format was used in last weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix. F1 first used the sprint format at three events in 2021, and the Azerbaijan

Toyota continued its unbeaten start to 2023’s World Endurance Championship with Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose María Lopez’s #7 car leading home a Spa Six Hours team 1-2. The #7 Hypercar led home Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hiraka

The FIA will take “immediate steps” after Azerbaijan Grand Prix disaster was narrowly avoided when Esteban Ocon pitted for a last-lap tyre change and found the pitroad crowded with people. The Alpine driver started the race from the pitlane, and ran

British GT’s Silverstone 500 showpiece this weekend is set to have a 43-car entry with the additions led by British Endurance Championship frontrunner Blackthorn Motorsport making its category debut. Blackthorn was established only last year and Clau

Porsche will be the honoured marque at 2023’s Goodwood Festival of Speed with the event’s 30th anniversary coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the manufacturer’s first sportscar the 356. Festival of Speed organiser the Duke of Richmond and Gordon

Aiden Neate is seeking this year’s British Formula 4 title after securing a last-minute deal with the Fortec team. Alpine Formula 1 junior Neate has competed in British F4 since early 2021 with Argenti, last year taking two wins and sixth in the stan

Arden VRD’s GB3 racer Noah Ping was in unlikely machinery at last week’s Brands Hatch GP single-seater test as he took part in a GB4 car. The 21-year-old Formula 4 United States graduate made his GB3 race debut at last month’s Oulton Park season open

European Le Mans Series and Fiesta champion Rob Smith made his C1 Endurance debut at Oulton Park 10 days ago sharing a car with his 16-year-old GB4 racer son Sid. Sid made his GB4 debut at Oulton over the Easter weekend, and has also come through Fie

Kris Meeke will return to the World Rally Championship as a winner following his victory on Rali Terras d’Aboboreira last weekend. Meeke is back in the WRC for the first time since the 2019 finale in Spain after he accepted an offer from Team Hyunda

Stephane Prevot is set to co-drive Osian Pryce in 2023 with the British champion planning a “new car, new team, new co-driver, new challenge”, according to the Welshman’s recent social media post. Pryce is understood to be close to announcing his ste

Jon Armstrong will count on Scottish champion co-driver Cameron Fair when he contests the European championship Rally Islas Canarias from today (Thursday). Armstrong, runner-up in Junior WRC for the last two seasons, is entered in an M-Sport Poland-r

After a remarkable season in the Circuit Rally Championship, Vauxhall Chevette driver Alasdair Stables will now step up to tackle the closed roads of the Jim Clark Rally. The Leicester-based Scotsman and his Falkirk-based co-driver Neil Jones finishe

Michael Binnie is hopeful of more R5 outings later in the season after making the long-awaited step from a Mitsubishi Lancer E9 to a Ford Fiesta R5 on the recent Speyside Stages. Binnie finished fourth overall on the Scottish Rally Championship count

Fifty years of stage rallying in North America is being celebrated this year with the main celebration planned for early June at the Southern Ohio Forest Rally. Special stage rallying started in America in 1973, under the auspices of the Sports Car C

Teenager Sam Weller has already competed on 40 rallies even though he only had his 16th birthday in January. The Brecon youngster is competing on road rallies, stage rallies and Targa rallies in a bid to build his experience and says his ultimate amb

Derek McGarrity insists he is under no illusion about the task he faces in trying to prise the Northern Ireland Rally Championship trophy from Jonathan Greer’s grasp this season. The Volkswagen Polo GTi R5 driver survived a spin on the deciding test

An extra rally has been added to the schedule of events at the Anglesey race circuit this June. Running on Sunday, June 11, the Rali Menai Stages will be organised by the local Caernarvonshire and Anglesey Motor Club at the popular North Wales venue.

Danny Cowell and Paul Holmberg took a commanding win on the Steve Gornall Memorial Rally. Despite a couple of overshoots and a spin, they finished three-and-a-half minutes ahead of the field. A well-received route took in frequently used terrain, but

After 50 years stored in a garage, the unique Felday 2 hillclimb car was back in action at Prescott 10 days ago when it was demonstrated by current owner and restorer Dave Melton. The two-seater spaceframe car was built by Peter Westbury at his Felda

Experienced Historic Formula Ford 2000 racer Tony Hancock turned the clock back 40 years at Snetterton recently when he raced the Delta T81 that he first bought new in 1981. Hancock collected the T81 from the Delta factory in Formula 4 specification

Former karter Spencer Shinner made his car debut at Snetterton when he raced his father Neil’s Merlyn Mk20 in Historic Formula Ford. He showed excellent pace as he took eighth and sixth places in a strong field. The 19 year old is studying motors

American historic racer Chip Fudge made his UK debut at Snetterton in the one-off Formula Junior Lightning Envoyette. Now 65 years old, the Oklahoma driver hopes to compete in several European events this season. He particularly wanted to race at Sne

Canadian racer Brad Baker tested his ex-Jean Behra Maserati 250F at Donington Park for the first time recently ahead of racing the famous car in Europe this summer. Chassis 2521 was mainly Behra’s 1956 car but later ran in Monaco national colours, as

Despite rolling out of the rally on the first stage of last month’s Rallynuts Stages, Joe Price is aiming to be back in his historic-specification Ford Escort Mk2 for the Plains Rally on May 20. Price broke a lay-off from rallying to win the historic

We all know that a bit of rain can spice up any motorsport event. The British Touring Car Championship runs the gauntlet of changeable conditions with its around-the-UK calendar, and starting in April and finishing in October means that precipitation

‘What does the Formula Ford Festival do for us?’, as John Cleese didn’t ever ask. Even for Matt Cowley, someone who races an advanced GT4 Ford Mustang at British GT’s sharp end, a sojourn in Formula Ford’s showpiece end-of-year events is something he

The 116 Trophy and Sprint Challenge had some illustrious visitors at Silverstone this weekend, with Matt Neal and Steve Soper joining Trophy semi-regular Tim Harvey for a 1990s British Touring Car Championship reunion. Matthew Highcock won the 116 T

Cavan’s Gary Kiernan (Ford Escort) took a late victory in the National category of the event, but it was still welcome and made up for the heartbreak of a few years ago. However, for almost all of the rally Kevin Eves kept his Toyota Corolla at the h

John Stone and Laura Connell snatched a last-stage victory at Leconfield after battling ahead of former leaders Mark Jasper and Don Whyatt. Jasper’s MG Metro 6R4 took a one-second lead on the opening stage over Darrell Taylor/Steve McNulty (Ford Fie

After something of a bruising encounter at the Rushmoor oval the final came down to a three-way battle between Jason Kew, Billy Wood and Paul Wright. Kew and Wood both fell prey to serious steering problems with both men lucky to make it to the finis

It was confirmed last week that I will be racing in Euroformula Open with Team Motopark this season, for only my second year in single-seaters. And the campaign started last weekend at the Algarve circuit. I made my single-seater debut in GB3 last y

Today (Thursday) we wish many happy returns to John Watson, who hits his 77th birthday. A fine frontrunning Formula 1 and sportscar driver, in the modern age he’s also known as an acerbic pundit and co-commentator. The first of his five grand prix wi

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