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The threat of rain is enough to spice up any Formula 1 race, and it was the saving grace at Monaco last weekend. Max Verstappen was striding peerlessly to his fourth victory of the 2023 campaign, and it was only the drizzle floating in from the Cote

The famous line about Monaco is that it’s a sunny place for shady people. But last Sunday, not only had the sun disappeared, the heavens opened to deliver a mid-race downpour. If the streets of Monte Carlo weren’t tricky enough, trying to race on a s

Honda has confirmed that it will link up with the Aston Martin Formula 1 team as it returns to the grand prix grid as a powerplant provider in 2026. The Japanese giant will formalise the link-up when the new engine rules come into force. Multiple ti

British Touring Car Championship star Jake Hill had to call off his planned British GT appearance at Donington Park last weekend when his earmarked BMW GT3 became unavailable. Hill alongside historic racing partner Simon Watts was due to race at Don

A stricter definition of track-limit breaches is introduced to all UK car racing events from today (Thursday). The change alters the breach definition from an entire wheel going over the white line or the kerb edge, to any part of the tyre going beyo

The result of last weekend’s British GT championship Donington Park GT4 race is provisional as Raceway Motorsport has appealed against its disqualification from last month’s Silverstone race. The Silverstone result being appealed means that the time-

Jenson Button’s NASCAR Next Gen Garage 56 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 will be displayed at Brands Hatch’s American SpeedFest on June 17-18 just a week after he races it at Le Mans. NASCAR, celebrating its 75th anniversary, will enter the specially adapted

Chris Ingram is hoping his ‘step back to go forward’ plan will revitalise his chances of securing a full WRC2 campaign in 2024. Ingram hasn’t competed in the World championship’s main support category since he finished fourth in the WRC2 Challenger

Hyundai’s new technical chief Francois-Xavier Demaison will be under orders to “develop and enhance the competitiveness of the team’s WRC challenger” when he takes up the position on June 1 – according to an announcement from the team last week. The

Ott Tanak’s repeated calls for M-Sport to make its Ford Puma Rally1 Hybrid a consistent winner may have been answered. The Estonian has been vocal in his criticism of the Cumbria-prepared machine since his return to M-Sport after five years away. But

The organisers of the Kielder Forest Rally are pushing ahead with the event and have issued a plea for more entries to ensure that the rally at least break even. The June 17 rally is round four of the BTRDA Rally Series and takes in six stages in the

Rali Ceredigion will grow to two full days of closed-road rallying across more than 100 stage miles on Saturday and Sunday, September 2-3. As a round of both the British and Protyre Asphalt Championships as well as the Tour European Rally series, th

Young Sam Adams is one of the rising stars of this year’s Protyre Asphalt Rally Championship and really came to prominence in finishing seventh overall on last month’s Manx Rally in his two-litre Pinto-powered Ford Escort Mk2. Antrim-based Adams and

Billy Wood claimed the National Hot Rod English Points Championship at Hednesford on Monday after an impressive season. Wood, the last English driver to win the World title in 2018, took final honours in five of the qualifying rounds prior to the fi

After three gravel rallies, the British Historic Rally Championship is shaping up to be the most open for many years with up to six drivers and three different makes of car in contention. Round four of the season is the Tour of Epynt (July 30), whic

James Cottingham and Jonny Adam in their 2 Seas Mercedes at Donington Park took their second win in four British GT races this year, and with it stormed to the head of the table. They did it with close to a perfect execution of the two-hour race. Ye

In a quadruple header for the British Hillclimb Championship at Gurston Down, the final tally was two wins for Scott Moran, one win for Wallace Menzies and one win for Alex Summers on a weekend of incredibly close competition. The simple fact that t

There were two nervous crews waiting for the results at the finish of the Hughes Rally, round four of the MN/HRCR Clubmans Rally Championship. They both knew it was close and it was very close with Roger Fildes/Iain Tullie taking victory in their Fo

Ranking right up there with the Indy 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix, the Le Mans 24 hours is arguably the most famous motor race of them all. While the showpiece races in Indiana and the south of France can all be about individual stardom, the appeal

This year the red carpet will be rolled out to welcome the 100th anniversary edition of the twice-round-the-clock race and it is the perfect chance to chart the history of the blueriband race. As you can read on page 21, the 2023 edition is set to be

Seven manufacturers and 16 top-flight entries. Rarely has Le Mans had it so good and this year’s celebration event, marking 100 years since the first Grand Prix d’Endurance, is set to produce one of the most lip-smacking events for decades. Even at

In keeping with the Le Mans 24-Hour race’s often warped logic, that was to become familiar over time, when the great race first ran in 1923 it wasn’t actually a race. Not officially anyway. The 24-hour motor race was not a new concept 100 years ago,

After six years of war, peace returned to Europe in May 1945 but it was not the work of a moment to resurrect what had become, by 1939, one of the most prestigious motor races in the world. The organising club, the Automobile Club de l’Ouest, was co

From 1960 when Belgians Paul Frere and Olivier Gendebien won in a Ferrari 250TR through to 1979 when Klaus Ludwig and the Whittington brothers won in a Porsche 935 K3, the two decades of the 1960s and 1970s marked a time of huge change and developmen

Sportscar racing entered the 1980s in limbo and the maiden race of the period was evidence of this, with the lowest entry for a decade. The Group 6 sportscars had declined in popularity since Renault’s victory at La Sarthe in 1978, which had left th

Erm, actually no, that intro is a bit misleading. In fact, there was a lot more going on in the 20 years in question than might first leap to mind with a number of factors coming into play throughout the period. Audi, though, has to be the first talk

As Guy Smith was aiming to make his way in the single-seater world, he went to the United States as he clung to a dream to reach the top. An encounter with ace team manager John Wickham in the US changed his career trajectory and led him to Le Mans v

Frenchman Adrien Fourmaux made it two wins from two starts in the British Rally Championship with a classy performance on a challenging Jim Clark Rally. Fourmaux and co-driver Alexandre Coria did all the hard work on the Friday evening stages and th

James Ford and Neil Shanks overcame a difficult start to score maximum Protyre Asphalt Championship points on a tough Jim Clark Rally. Ford and Shanks in their Citroen C3 Rally2 finished the eight stage closed-road event in the Scottish Borders with

The Jim Clark Reivers Rally was decided by just 3.3 seconds at the of the six-stage event. Local star Euan Thorburn and regular navigator Paul Beaton wrapped up a very successful weekend in their VW Polo R5 by taking victory from David Henderson and

Andrew Smith was the class of the Historic Formula 2 pack during the headline act on the Historic Sports Car Club’s International Trophy weekend on the Silverstone Grand Prix circuit. Though he failed to finish the opening Formula Ford race, Matt Wr

Callum Grant may have had things fairly easy on Sunday as his rivals fell away, but he had to pull off a mighty drive to win the opening Historic Formula Ford race. Saturday’s race was an absolute belter with six drivers in the contest, though unfort

Team Olympian trio Chris Dovell, Kristian Rose and Riley Phillips made it two Fun Cup wins in succession, with a sensational final stint by Phillips sealing the victory. After the final round of stops UVio/Hofmann’s Fabio Randaccio led from reigning

There is no shortage of drama accumulated over Le Mans’ century of existence, and prime among it is the 1969 race’s classic finish. YouTube has magnificent footage of the final two laps, from contemporary American coverage, at: youtube.com/watch?v=LC