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Reigning GB3 champion and 2022 Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Young Driver of the Year Luke Browning has been snapped up by the Williams Racing Driver Academy. The 21-year-old, who occupies 10th for Hitech GP in the FIA Formula 3 standings, will gain ac

Veteran Formula 1 team principal Franz Tost will relinquish control of AlphaTauri at the end of the 2023 season to be replaced by highly rated Ferrari sporting director Laurent Mekies. This change represents the end of Tost’s near-18-year reign at th

So, how did Sergio Perez defeat Max Verstappen to win last weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix? And can the Mexican provide a genuine championship threat to his illustrious Dutch Red Bull team-mate? Jake Boxall-Legge tackles the first of those questions

Adrian Newey has agreed a multi-year contract extension with Red Bull. The pre-eminent Formula 1 car designer had a deal with the reigning constructors’ champion that was up for renewal at the end of this year. But following a dominant start to the 2

Porsche has unveiled a special livery in which its three Penske-run 963 LMDhs will run at the Le Mans 24 Hours next month to mark its own 75th birthday and the centenary of the French enduro. Each of the 15 stripes fanning out from the nose celebrate

Martin Truex Jr completed a family weekend sweep in Victory Lane at Dover by winning Monday’s rain-delayed NASCAR Cup race. After his younger brother Ryan earned his first Xfinity Series win on Saturday, Truex put himself in position for a win late i

Porsche says that the World Endurance Championship Balance of Performance is going to be adjusted before the Le Mans 24 Hours in June. Toyota says it can’t be. Confusion reigns over what’s happening in the Hypercar class with the new BoP system intro

One-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Mike Rockenfeller will be back at the wheel of a Porsche this month. The German, who started his sportscar career with the German marque, will race the JDC-Miller MotorSports 963 LMDh prototype in the remainder of the

Kris Meeke claimed victory last weekend on the Rali Terras d’Aboboreira, standing in for the late Craig Breen in the Portuguese Rally Championship. The five-time World Rally Championship round winner was invited by Hyundai Portugal to deputise for Br

Super Formula chairman Masahiko Kondo has expressed an interest in holding a race as a support to the Japanese Grand Prix. Former racer Kondo, who took over the chairmanship of Super Formula promoter JRP last month and whose Kondo Racing squad compet

Spa’s place on the World Endurance Championship calendar has been confirmed for another five years. The Belgian circuit, part of the WEC since its rebirth in 2012, will remain on the schedule until 2028 and will continue to host a round of the sister

Marc Marquez’s injury woes continued at last weekend’s MotoGP Spanish Grand Prix when he was forced to sit out his third event in succession while he recovers from a thumb fracture. The eight-time world champion fractured his right thumb in a collisi

British Porsche specialist Harry King claimed the most prestigious win so far of his Carrera Cup career by winning on his debut in the German series supporting last weekend’s Spa 6 Hours. King has claimed British and Benelux titles in recent seasons

Friday 5 May FP1 1930 FP2 2300 Saturday 6 May  FP3 1730 QUALIFYING 2100 Sunday 7 May  RACE 2030 SKY SPORTS F1 BBC RADIO 5 LIVE TV Highlights CHANNEL 4 0125 (Monday) Charles Leclerc 1m28.796s Charles Leclerc 1m28.796s (2022) Max Verstappen 1m31.361s

If rumours in some quarters are to be believed, Lewis Hamilton and Charles Leclerc are to play swapsies in the not too distant future. For various reasons, I cannot help but feel that would be a wrong move for the Maranello Massive. In this hybrid er

It’s not uncommon for drivers to have “their” circuit. Monaco served as such for Graham Hill and Ayrton Senna; Michael Schumacher had the tricky Magny-Cours venue wrapped around his finger; and Lewis Hamilton enjoys demigod status at Silverstone. But

Ahead of the final efforts for pole position, Charles Leclerc and Max Verstappen were all square. Both were tied on a 1m40.445s but had vastly different methods of getting there. Leclerc’s first sector stood out as the best, while Verstappen had the

When Charles Leclerc plonked his Ferrari on the front of the grid for both the sprint race and the Grand Prix, it underlined the step that the Prancing Horse had taken in qualifying performance this year. The SF-23 in the races, however, has converse

An overcast sky suffuses the city of Baku until about 10 minutes before practice. A platinum cloud that has been sitting atop the still-unfinished Crescent hotel overlooking Turn 1 is now burning away as the seconds tick down to the start. Autosport

Alex Albon and Logan Sargeant both emerged battle-scarred from the Baku weekend, although the American’s incident was considerably more costly. Sargeant missed the sprint race because Williams could not rebuild his car in time after he had hit the Tu

When Alan Permane, a 34-year team stalwart, says “I can’t compare this weekend to any other”, it highlights how tough Alpine had it across the entire Azerbaijan weekend. Things got off to an awful start in the sole Friday practice session when Pierre

Alfa Romeo had another difficult weekend as Valtteri Bottas’s Azerbaijan GP hopes evaporated with early contact and Zhou Guanyu retired due to a cooling problem. After Zhou led Bottas in taking 12th and 16th for the Sauber-run squad in the sprint, wh

Haas left Baku empty-handed, with Nico Hulkenberg’s set-up adjustment after the sprint race and Kevin Magnussen’s Friday qualifying electrical issue meaning the pair faced an uphill GP battle. Hulkenberg had faded from 12th early in the sprint with s

A third Toyota victory in three races and a second 1-2 suggested it was business as usual for the 2023 World Endurance Championship at Spa last weekend. That wasn’t quite the case in the final race before the Le Mans 24 Hours. The Japanese manufactur

Ferrari drivers Alessio Rovera, Lilou Wadoux and Luis Perez Companc ended Corvette Racing’s winning run in GTE Am, although the American squad still recovered to finish an improbable second after dropping a lap down early on. Making the correct tyre

Porsche came within three or so miles of another World Endurance Championship podium, and Peugeot got two cars to the finish more or less cleanly for the first time, but it wasn’t a good weekend for either marque. The events at Spa last weekend did l

As in 2022, WRT claimed the LMP2 spoils at Spa in a topsy-turvy race that team boss Vincent Vosse admitted “was difficult to read”. His #41 ORECA-Gibson 07 driven by Louis Deletraz, Robert Kubica and Rui Andrade prevailed despite losing time to an em

It’s a true measure of Scott McLaughlin’s standing within IndyCar in this, his third year, that we are no longer surprised at his achievements. Autosport was speaking to a race engineer from a rival team back in March, after the 16-car test at Barber

In the rolling hills north of Los Angeles, next door to a movie lot, Honda’s American motorsport division HPD has produced some of the most potent engines in US motorsport; powerplants that have claimed 18 IndyCar championships and 15 Indianapolis 50

It’s no secret that Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing has had a frustrating start to 2023, just like 2022. But while it took until mid-season for the Bobby Rahal, David Letterman and Mike Lanigan-owned squad to turn its fortunes around last year, second

ROUND 4/14 Ollie Bearman completed a rare Formula 2 double on a sensational weekend in Azerbaijan. The 17-year-old series rookie and Ferrari Driver Academy protege claimed pole before securing both victories in his Prema Racing car for a near-maximum

ROUND 3/12 Erebus Motorsport and Triple Eight locked horns both on an off the track across the Perth SuperSprint weekend. The two Camaro squads, which have emerged as the heavyweights early in the Gen3 era, shared the spoils from the three short-dist

ROUND 2/12 Christian Rasmussen led at Barber Motorsports Park from green flag to chequered flag, while it was his team-mates who provided the controversy. The polewinning Dane burst away ahead of HMD Motorsports stablemate Nolan Siegel, while Louis F

Races 1 & 2 Ollie Bearman (below) Prema Racing Race 1 Shane van Gisbergen Triple Eight (Chevrolet Camaro) Race 2 Will Brown Erebus Motorsport (Chevrolet Camaro) Race 3 Broc Feeney Triple Eight (Chevrolet Camaro) Christian Rasmussen HMD Motorsports PO

ROUND 1/9 Norbert Michelisz and Santiago Urrutia took a win each in the opening round of the new TCR World Tour, the spiritual successor to the FIA World Touring Car Cup, at the Algarve Circuit near Portimao. The new series takes a travelling group o

ROUND 1/7 Former W Series racer Marta Garcia took the lead in the new Formula 4-based series for women thanks to two victories in the opening round at the Red Bull Ring. The Prema-run Spaniard inherited a pair of pole positions when Abbi Pulling, who

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Four-time Formula 1 champion Sebastian Vettel will make a return to the Goodwood Festival of Speed this year and is due to drive several F1 cars from his own collection up the hill, including Nigel Mansell’s title-winning Williams FW14B. Vettel, who

ROUND 4/20 Francesco Bagnaia’s ability to bounce back in emphatic fashion from setbacks remains unparalleled in the MotoGP World Championship. The Ducati rider arrived at Jerez facing questions about his ability to handle pressure after back-to-back

ROUND 1/8 The Euroformula Open season started with a small grid, but the 10 cars put on some entertaining action. CryptoTower Racing Team’s cameoing Enzo Trulli and Tim Tramnitz topped qualifying, with BVM Racing’s Francesco Simonazzi in third. Trull

A special race for Porsche 911s running on synthetic fuel is among the line-up for this year’s Goodwood Revival. The Fordwater Trophy contest will celebrate 60 years of the 911, and a grid of 30 pre-’66 Porsches (below) is expected at the 8-10 Septem

ROUND 1/7 GetSpeed Performance pair Fabian Schiller and Al Faisal Al Zubair lead the International GT Open standings after two races at the Algarve circuit, but it was another team using Mercedes-AMG GT3s that really starred over the weekend. After s

Robert de Haan has continued his successful start to 2023 by taking victory in a third different Porsche series. Following his domination of the winter Sprint Challenge Southern Europe and then a Carrera Cup GB win last month, the Dutchman took his R

Motorsport UK is evaluating the creation of a new rally festival to help re-energise the discipline and increase fan engagement. The governing body met with stakeholders last November to devise a new strategy to help grow rallying in the UK and promo

Former W Series driver Abbie Eaton will make her Lamborghini Super Trofeo Europe debut this season, driving for Rebelleo Motorsport alongside Daan Pijl. Eaton is the co-founder of Rebelleo, which aims to break barriers and encourage diversity within

Down under tin-top stars Greg Murphy and Steve Richards are due to head to the UK to compete in July’s Super Touring Power event at Brands Hatch. The Kiwi duo have enjoyed significant success racing touring cars in Australia and have secured nine Bat

There was a 1990s British Touring Car Championship reunion of sorts at the 750 Motor Club’s Silverstone meeting last weekend, with Matt Neal and Steve Soper joining 116 Trophy regular Tim Harvey on track. Soper was victorious in the second round of t

Daily Formula 1 demonstrations at last weekend’s Donington Historic Festival turned the clocks back 30 years to the 1993 European Grand Prix. Enthusiasts appreciated Steve Ottavianelli giving his ex-Michael Schumacher Benetton-Ford B193 plenty of wel

British GT is set to feature its largest grid for a decade with 43 cars entered for this weekend’s three-hour race at Silverstone. The field has been bolstered by several guest entries, which will not score points, and is the largest since 48 cars to

The Historic Sports Car Club has announced its programme for this year’s Gold Cup meeting, with the Thundersports category making its debut at the event. Open to sports-racing and GT cars of the 1970s and early 1980s, the series is one of four HSCC g

After seven years of hard work, the P4t car conceived by leading British Hillclimb contender Alex Summers made a successful recent debut at Loton Park. Summers started the initial design for the single-seater in 2016 and finally had the car running a

American historic racer Chip Fudge made his UK debut at Snetterton last month in the one-off Lightning Envoyette Formula Junior previously owned by Alex Morton. The now 65-year-old Oklahoma driver hopes to compete in several European events this seas

Jack Parker will replace the recovering John Mickel for all rounds of the Legends Elite Cup in support of the British Touring Car Championship this season. Five-time Legends champion Mickel suffered a spectacular crash at Cadwell Park last month, whi

Four seconds separated the Lotus Elans of James Littlejohn (Simon Evans’s) and Andy Jordan (bookending for John Tordoff) after three hours in Saturday’s Royal Automobile Club Pall Mall Cup contest, the 12th Donington Historic Festival’s racing highli

Simon Evans/James Littlejohn (Lotus Elan) Graeme & James Dodd (E-type) Colin Turkington/Mark Smith (BMW E30 M3) Michael Whitaker Jr (Rover SD1) Ollie Crosthwaite/Nick Finburgh (Cooper T49 Monaco, below) Rudiger Friedrichs (Alvis Firefly Special) Mich

The two Alfa Romeo Championship races at the 750 Motor Club’s Silverstone meeting last Sunday both looked like a walkover for Jamie Thwaites’s mighty Giulietta TCR on paper, but that didn’t tell the full story. The opener began with a thrilling side-

Races 1 & 2 Jamie Thwaites (Giulietta) Race 1 Dan Gore Race 2 Rob Welham Races 1 & 2 Niall Bradley (E46 M3) Races 1 & 2 Karl Johnston (MR2 Roadster) Races 1 & 2 Paul Cook (BMW E46 M3) Race 1 Louis Woodward (E82 120i) Race 2 Steve Soper (E82 120i) Mat

Two decades after Martin Short claimed the British GT title on the Brands Hatch Grand Prix circuit, his son Morgan provided one of the standout stories from the GT Cup round held on the track last weekend by steering his Mosler MT900 to a memorable t

Race 1 James Wallis (Mercedes-AMG GT3) Race 2 Morgan Short (Mosler MT900) Race 3 Hugo Cook (Audi R8 GT3) Race 4 Lucky Khera/Euan Hankey (McLaren 720S GT3) Race 1 Steve Wood (996) Race 2 Bill Caley (Cayman) Races 1 & 2 Jonny Lovell Races 1 & 2 Daryl D

Ferrari Challenge Trofeo UK launched into 2023 at Snetterton last weekend to its now familiar fanfare of perfectly tuned V8s. Arriving in Norfolk, it would be easy to imagine that the location was Fiorano instead; the venue swathed in banners of red

Grand Touring cars spanning 90 years delighted Castle Combe spectators on Monday, the most eye-catching being 25 vintage Bentleys driven by intrepid Benjafield’s Bentley Challenge competitors. William Medcalf and David Little dropped the pack, with M

Races 1 & 2 William Medcalf (3/4½) Doug Watson (Ferrari 488 Challenge, below) Races 1 & 2 Felix Fisher (Ray GR05) Races 1 & 2 Neil Fowler (B GTV8) Adam Prebble (Vauxhall Astra) Chris Southcott (Honda Civic EK9) Kevin Bird/Charles Hyde-Andrews-Bird (P

Wallace Menzies has broken free from an early joint British Hillclimb points lead after a visit to Belfast’s Craigantlet course to now sit two points ahead of Matthew Ryder thanks to another win and a third place. A fog-afflicted practice session cle

The 2023 Motorsport UK British Drag Racing Championship is only one event old yet already a candidate exists for the Pro Modified run of the year. Wayne Nicholson and his Yorkshire team have been stalwart backmarkers in Pro Mod since stepping up to t

Jim Clark (Lotus-Climax 25) leads Bruce McLaren (Cooper-Climax T66), Graham Hill (BRM P57), Jack Brabham (Brabham-Climax BT7) and McLaren’s team-mate Tony Maggs on the opening lap of the 1963 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort. In a demonstration of smoot

There are certain ways of going about winning a championship. One is to patiently bank points and profit from others’ misfortune. Then there’s the approach taken by Giedo van der Garde in snaring the 2008 Formula Renault 3.5 title, breaking the back

After effectively marking its own homework, the FIA has promised to take “immediate steps” to avoid a repeat of the shambolic late scenes in last weekend’s Azerbaijan Grand Prix when Esteban Ocon had to avoid photographers and local marshals who were