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The frustrations that abounded at Thruxton concerning the number and inconsistency of track-limits penalties were plentiful. New Motorsport UK regulations came into force on June 1 and while the British Touring Car Championship runners and those on t

Ouickest in all three practice sessions. Pole position, fastest lap and all 66 laps led. Max Verstappen was utterly dominant across the Spanish Grand Prix weekend. And the Red Bull ace’s winning margin was just shy of half a minute from a resurgent M

Lewis Hamilton has anticipated his Mercedes team catching the dominant Red Bull by 2024 at the latest after leading a squad double podium finish at last weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. The seven-time Formula 1 champion finished the Barcelona race in s

Points leader Alex Palou extended his advantage at the head of the IndyCar points table after coming out top of a mighty battle with Scott Dixon at the Detroit Grand Prix last weekend. The pair were on alternative tyre strategies but Ganassi driver

Reigning British GT champion Ian Loggie has a back-to-back test at Snetterton this week to explore his Mercedes’ mysterious lack of pace at the recent Donington Park round. Loggie alongside Jules Gounon finished third, but were shy of victorious Jame

British GT drivers are split on the stricter track-limits definition adopted by British GT since its May Silverstone round and introduced to all UK car racing on June 1. GT4 frontrunner Aston Millar told Motorsport News: “The rule’s only making racin

Two iconic marques’ centenaries will be celebrated at Silverstone this weekend with a packed programme of on- and off-track activities in the MG & Triumph 100 meeting. MG Car Club and Equipe Classic Racing co-host the two-day race meeting on Silvers

Praga’s boss says that the Britcar Prototype Cup will resume this autumn after a difficult start for the contest in which Praga’s R1 races alongside other prototypes. Six cars – including one non-Praga – contested Silverstone’s Prototype Cup debut me

M-Sport insists it remains committed to the World Rally Championship following a weekend of woe in Sardinia. With its Rally1 drivers Pierre-Louis Loubet and team leader Ott Tanak failing to go the distance, Adrien Fourmax was five miles from winning

Gus Greensmith has been forced to cancel his plans to try out Latvia’s stages for size ahead of the country’s elevation to the World Rally Championship next year after a high-speed crash in Sardinia left him hospitalised. The Briton hadn’t nominated

Sebastien Ogier insists he has no plans to mount a bid for a record-equalling ninth World title. Ogier is undertaking a partial campaign with the factory Toyota squad in 2023 and is expected to follow a seven-round schedule. His Sardinia appearance m

Motorsport News is able to reveal that the UK will have an all-new forest rally in November 2024 called the Anglo Caledonian Rally. Organised by the team behind the Roger Albert Clark Rally, the two-day rally will run in the forests of south-west Sc

Rallying brothers Malcolm and Wayne Jones will go head to head this Sunday at Anglesey in near-identical Darrian T90 GTRs. The west Wales brothers have rallied extensively but now, for the first time, they are in the same cars with each running a 2.5

Next year’s Galway International Rally and Galway Summer Rally have both been canned following a decision by the Irish Motorsport Council not to grant the Galway Motor Club a date for a stage rally in 2024. The council decision was relayed to the di

European Rallycross title winners Andreas Bakkerud and Robin Larsson will contest the Swedish round of the Euro RX series next month at Holjes. The pair drove for the DRR JC squad in the Nitro Rallycross Championship last season, but will revert to

Almost three decades after he last raced, Scottish former Special Saloon and GT racer Jim McGaughay made a comeback in a 1987 Formula Atlantic Swift DB4 at Silverstone. McGaughay, from Lochgilphead in the west of Scotland, raced a variety of Special

Karter Ross Allen had a successful single-seater debut at Silverstone when he was invited to race the Formula 2 March 762 owned by engineer Keith Bisp. Allen last raced cars in 2010 when he drove Radicals and has since gone back to karting. Allen inc

William Creighton’s second Junior WRC win in three starts owed plenty to his survival instincts after he made it home as one of only two of the eight starters who covered all the stages that ran. With Liam Regan co-driving, the Motorsport Ireland Ral

On a rally when Sebastien Ogier proved he was human after all, Thierry Neuville ended his and his factory Hyundai team’s long wait for a 2023 victory in conditions more akin to what lies ahead on Kenya’s Safari Rally later this month. Heavy rain bui

On paper, fourth place and two Powerstage points wasn’t exactly a bad Sardinian return for Elfyn Evans and co-driver Scott Martin. In reality, however, it was another tough event for the Croatia Rally winners to follow on from their high-speed exit o

Five-time World Rallycross champion Johan Kristoffersson reigned supreme in the opening round of the 2023 season to claim a clean sweep of wins in the heats, semis and final in Portugal last weekend. The Kristoffersson Motorsport campaigner stunned

Jake Hill has been around motorsport for his entire life. He has forged a fearsome reputation for success in the British Touring Car Championship at the wheel of an MB Motorsport BMW 330e M Sport, and he went into the final rounds of the 2022 campaig

Well, this isn’t supposed to happen. In the all-action British Touring Car Championship, with all of its curveballs and anomalies, no driver is supposed to dominate. Tell that to Ash Sutton. The Motorbase Performance Ford Focus driver took a clean s

The classic Minis of the Mini 7 Racing Club enthralled with four action-packed – and clean – races, as ex-BTCC stars Mike and Andrew Jordan swept the board. Mike Jordan led the Mini Se7en opener throughout as Connor O’Brien couldn’t quite outdrag him

Yes! Finally. That has been a long time coming but race three at Thruxton was my second British Touring Car Championship victory and it came in a weekend that encapsulated the highs and lows of the championship. I reckon that over the course of Sund

It was a weekend for first-timers in the GT Cup at Snetterton. Tom Roche won the first sprint race in Simon Orange’s McLaren 720S, despite never having driven the car before. He was challenged by the Audi R8 of Hugo Cook, but kept his lead. In an ev

Freddie Slater continued to stamp his authority in Ginetta Junior by taking four more wins, with a penalty denying him a fifth triumph, during the marque’s 65-year anniversary festival at Silverstone. The first of three days of action took place on

Daire Flock might have won all three Junior Saloons races, but there was plenty of action in his wake. Callum Pratt-Thompson was a close second in race one, until his car jumped out of third gear through Church on lap three, allowing Jack James and

Titled ‘Brands Britannia’, Sunday’s half of the Classic Sports Car Club’s Indy circuit weekend showcased the Best of British, but BMW power thwarted a home monopoly. Tom Pead’s two-litre 1602 Ti and Tom Mensley’s M3 E36 Evo prevailed in the bookend

With hordes of BMWs taking over Oulton Park for the BMW Sommerfest, it was fitting that it was the BMW Car Club championship that stole the show at this 750 Motor Club meeting. With two wins apiece this season, Niall Bradley and Graham Crowhurst hea

In a storming climax to three days of racing in three countries, Rob McDonald underlined just why he’s the reigning World champion by racing and ultimately passing the new English points champion Billy Wood in a fitting finale to this year’s world se

This was a big weekend for the British Hillclimb Championship as Wallace Menzies claimed both top-12 runoff victories against fierce opposition. Menzies’ two winning margins were just 0.09 seconds and 0.13s as Will Hall and Matthew Ryder headed the