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Daniel Ricciardo says he isn’t daunted about the challenge ahead when he steps into the AlphaTauri team after the team sacked Dutchman Nyck de Vries following the recent British Grand Prix. De Vries was given his marching orders following a disappoi

In the sweltering conditions in Rome last weekend, British driver Jake Dennis was one of the few who managed to keep cool. The Andretti ace’s dominant performance in the second of the two races in Italy has put him in prime position to claim the FIA

Several Formula E drivers raised concerns about a stretch of the Rome E-Prix circuit last weekend after the violent accident that destroyed four cars. Sam Bird triggered the shunt at the Turn 6 kink, a noted accident blackspot on the Roman street cir

British GT frontrunner Enduro Motorsport has made a double car switch away from McLaren for this weekend’s Algarve visit racing an Aston Martin in GT3 and a Mercedes in GT4. It is switching to the Aston as Matt Topham – who has recently replaced Mor

Brands Hatch’s Super Touring Power meeting will return for a second edition next year with a Group A race added to the popular event. The event had its debut running earlier this month, and attracted famous touring car figures from past and present o

A review is underway after a truck cleared the barriers and came to rest in a spectator area at Thruxton’s British Truck Racing Championship meeting 10 days ago. Debutant Neil Yates’ throttle jammed and he went off at Allard corner’s exit, his DAF C

The McMurtry Speirling fan car that smashed the Goodwood Festival of Speed’s hillclimb record in 2022 is due to compete in various motorsport categories as a customer version is unveiled. The Speirling PURE, a commercially available track successor t

World Rally Championship teams will be prevented from hiding their cars from view in service parks under new FIA rules. The governing body has acted in response to growing fan displeasure following several instances of teams installing screens at th

William Creighton has insisted the Junior WRC title is far from secure, despite the Irishman leading by 32 points starting the penultimate round in Estonia this week. Creighton, who is co-driven by compatriot Liam Regan, has won two of the three roun

As the Protyre Asphalt Rally Championship heads for round six, Saturday’s Down Rally in Northern Ireland, title-contender Dave Wright says he needs a strong result to keep his title bid open. After Down, the Motorsport Newssupported championship wil

Mull Rally organiser Richard Crozier has explained the changes to this year’s route, which has a much shorter Friday but the longest Saturday evening leg in over a decade. Crozier, who took over as Mull Car Club’s clerk of the course for last year’s

Eddie Lewis showed encouraging pace in his Ford Fiesta R5 on the Nicky Grist Stages, though his speed went unrewarded after the car was sidelined by suspension problems. The 21-year-old from Nottingham is now in his second season with the R5 and is w

Elliot Payne will make his Epynt debut on the Tour of Epynt later this month as an asphalt warm-up for the British Rally Championship rounds the Ulster Rally and Rali Ceredigion. Payne, who is leading the BTRDA gravel title chase in his Ford Fiesta R

For the first time since 2017. the World Rallycross Championship heads to the venue where the discipline was created over 56 years ago, Lydden Hill, for the fourth round of the campaign this weekend. With World RX in the second year of an electric t

In addition to the competitive action on track a Lydden Hill, the history of rallycross will be celebrated with demonstration races of both four-wheel-drive and two-wheel-drive machinery. Within the line-up World RX podium-finisher Liam Doran will pi

Organisers of the Goodwood Festival of Speed hillclimb had to cancel all of the planned activity at the venue on Saturday last weekend as an extreme weather warning threatened the safety of the public. On the 30th running of the West Sussex extravag

Alan Carfrae says that competing on this year’s Roger Albert Clark rally will be the realisation of a 49-year-old dream. Back in 1982, Carfrae was an eight-year-old spectator on the Lombard RAC Rally and left the Sutton Park special stage hooked on

Anyone with any sort of passion for motorsport or motoring across the last half century cannot have failed to encounter Simon Taylor in some capacity. For starters he will sound familiar, as BBC radio’s motorsport voice for more than 20 years report

Thirty years after the Duke of Richmond – as he is now – first staged the Goodwood Festival of Speed on his rural Sussex estate, its stature keeps growing and the crowds continue flocking to an event that is like no other in the world. While the un

George Shackleton’s Cooper-Norton Mk11 narrowly overpowered Alex Wilson’s Martin-JAP twice on Friday, as staunch 500cc Formula 3 competitors tackled the Indy circuit, before a switch to the Grand Prix layout for the balance of the annual Legends of B

James Clarke’s winning streak in the Clubmans Sports Prototypes came to an end at Donington Park as mechanical problems in the third of three races enabled Spencer McCarthy to pick up a maiden category victory as Michelle Hayward also celebrated a fi

Team Olympian – comprising Chris Dovell, Riley Phillips and Kristian Rose – celebrated a third victory in five Fun Cup races this season by winning Oulton Park’s four-hour endurance contest. The Cheshire race looked poised to be a battle between Tea

This November Mike and Andrew Jordan will race a NASCAR at Daytona in the realisation of a dream that Mike has held since he started racing a Morris Minor in 1979. Through success in Porsches, British GT, the British Touring Car Championship, and no

Today (Thursday) is a significant one, as the late Chris Amon was born precisely 80 years ago. Similar to Stirling Moss being tagged ‘the greatest Formula 1 driver never to win a World championship’, Amon’s common description of ‘the greatest Formula