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The British Touring Car Championship fans have been spoilt in recent seasons. Not for more than a decade has the title been decided before the Finals Day at Brands Hatch but, given the domination of Ash Sutton in this year’s competition, there is eve

Williams driver Logan Sargeant says he is aiming to improve his performances in the second part of the Formula 1 season after failing to register a point in the opening 12 rounds of 2023. The American was brought into the British team at the start of

Ash Sutton says he is not yet thinking about the championship victory despite taking his eighth win of the 2023 British Touring Car Championship season at Knockhill last weekend which has given him a 37-point buffer at the top of the standings. Sutt

Scott Dixon overcame a first-lap spin to win on IndyCar’s second visit to the Indianapolis road course this season last Saturday. Dixon took the improbable win via an alternate strategy after being spun amid lap-one chaos involving his Ganassi team-m

Oli Webb got his latest runout in Rodin’s Fzed track car last weekend demonstrating the single-seater at Assen’s Jack’s Racing Day meeting headlined by BOSS GP. Webb in the 675bhp machine topped the inaugural timed shootout at last month’s Donington

A memorabilia collection plus a foundation remembering Roger Williamson has been unveiled at a special tribute event held exactly 50 years from the promising racer’s premature passing. The event was the brainchild of Kevin Wheatcroft whose father To

The Mercedes and Williams Formula 1 teams will provide on-track demos and off-track displays at the late-August Silverstone Festival to help the track’s 75th-anniversary celebrations. At the August 25-27 bank holiday weekend event, formerly known as

Jari-Matti Latvala reckoned his World championship return on Rally Finland at the start of the month helped him to dominate the Lahti Historic Rally last weekend. The 38-year-old, who was fifth on his WRC comeback in Finland in a works Toyota GR Yar

Sebastien Ogier will make his sixth appearance in this season’s World championship when he contests the Acropolis Rally from September 7-10. The eight-time WRC champion, whose only Acropolis victory to date came in 2011, is in his second year of cont

Runaway British Rally Championship leader Adrien Fourmaux insists his winning streak in the series is not as easy as it looks and is expecting another tough contest on the Ulster Rally this weekend. Alongside his BRC campaign, the young Frenchman an

Meirion Evans is focusing on his pace relative to M-Sport WRC2 driver Adrien Fourmaux, not any remote Irish Tarmac title chances, on this weekend’s Ulster Rally. Welshman Evans realistically needed to win the Cork 20 earlier this month to stand a cha

Englishman James Ford says that fifth overall on the Cork 20 International rally was his best result in the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship to date. Lancashire-based Ford is focusing much of his rallying in Ireland and has been gaining pace with his

Sportscar ace Oli Webb is aiming for next year to return to Le Mans and the World Endurance Championship in its new LMGT3 category and has started talks with teams. The European Le Mans Series champion and Le Mans LMP2 podium finisher competed in WE

The German round of the World Rallycross Championship at Estering this weekend has been postponed for the headline electric RX1e category. The World RX series hasn’t run since the Special One Racing’s Lancia Delta Evo-E RX machines were destroyed by

Four-time British Rallycross champion Pat Doran will return to the series in the headline Supercar category at Pembrey this weekend. Doran will race his own Citroen C4, having recently returned to the driving seat in a restored Ford Escort Mk2 in dem

Seasoned historic racer Peter Williams is now racing one of the two LEC Grand Prix cars built for David Purley in 1977. Chassis number two is owned by Ron Maydon, boss of Masters Historic Racing, and is currently based in North America. Williams’ ca

After laying unused for a decade, the unique McLaren M12 hillclimbed by George Tatham for 30 years returned to competition at Classic Nostalgia at Shelsley Walsh. The car was originally commissioned by Phil Scragg as an M12 fitted with a seven-litre

Much of Europe could do with a good dose of water right now as temperatures have been at record rates, but the prospect of precipitation and motorsport is something that has been at the forefront of a lot of minds recently. Of course, the issue was

David Henderson and Chris Lees took victory on the Grampian Forest Rally by just three seconds in one of the most competitive events the Scottish Rally Championship has delivered in recent years. The opening stages belonged to the new partnership of

Oli Webb’s is one of those motorsport CVs that the more you delve into it the yet more remarkable it becomes. After a relatively late start in karting Webb immediately showed uncommon talent and quickly moved to cars. He soon rose sharply up the sin

Knockhill is a roller coaster of a track, and the BTCC in 2023 has already been a roller coaster of a journey. Ash Sutton was the man who walked away from the rain-drenched weekend with his head held highest and a race-three win helped him to a healt

Colin Philpott withstood intense pressure from the other Big Cats in the Jaguar Challenge as he claimed a Croft double victory. Philpott’s XJS was pipped to pole position in the dying moments of a greasy qualifying session by Jack Robinson’s XK, as

Steve Foden continued his winning run during three tight Mazda MX-5 championship encounters at Cadwell Park. Chief rival Adam Sparrow’s pursuit of Foden in the opener was hampered by a rear-shock absorber issue, with Luke Pullen dicing with Foden be

The Bentley Drivers’ Club’s marquee Times Trophy featured a huge 39-car grid of Bentleys and other venerable pre-war cars. Benjamin Eastick was the runaway winner in the T-Type single-seater built by his father, ahead of the more conventional 3/8 dri

The eighth edition of the popular Festival Italia on Sunday drew a stronger and more varied entry than some in the past. Ferrari’s Club Classic series deserved its headline status on the programme, and Nigel Jenkins had to work hard for his double vi

“I’ve been racing cars since I was 14, and doing this 10 years, but a championship is all I’ve ever wanted,” said an emotional Stewart Place, who landed the 750 Motor Club’s Classic Stock Hatch title with a meeting to spare on Snetterton’s 300 circui

Pickups provided the best of the action with four tremendous races. Matt Simpson ousted Allen Cooper from the lead on lap two of race one, and finally managed to consolidate his lead in the closing laps. Cooper then lost his second place to a five-se

A race-winning Michael Schumacher Ferrari will go under the hammer this week. Schumacher used the F2001b for the first two grands prix of the 2002 season and he won in Melbourne and then finished third in Malaysia before the chassis was replaced. The