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When Fernando Alonso speaks it is worth listening. The two-time World champion knows a thing or two about motorsport, and he has seen it from many angles during his varied and decorated career. And so when he says fans shouldn’t underestimate the ach

It doesn’t matter what you throw at Max Verstappen, he looks invincible right now. Whether it’s rain, safety cars, red flags – or even six visits to the pits – the Dutchman came through a chaotic Dutch Grand Prix to record his ninth-consecutive victo

New Zealander Liam Lawson is expected to race in this weekend’s Italian Grand Prix at Monza for AlphaTauri after being called up as a late replacement in the Netherlands for the injured Daniel Ricciardo. The Super Formula star and Red Bull junior wa

The opening Formula 2 race of the weekend at Zandvoort in the Netherlands was declared null-and-void after an opening-lap crash and then a downpour meant the conditions were too bad to race in. Hitech’s Isack Hadjar and ART’s Victor Martins had bee

Rising star Morgan Short hopes his British GT debut at Brands Hatch’s forthcoming round sharing Tom Holland’s Raceway Ginetta G56 GT4 is the start of a stay in the championship. The 21-year-old told Motorsport News: “At the moment [the deal is for B

All at Motorsport News were sad to learn that prominent Vintage Sports-Car Club racer Roger Twelvetrees died in an accident during the club’s Mallory Park meeting last Saturday. Twelvetrees racing his Wolseley 16/20 in the annual Edwardian handicap c

Ginetta’s G-Fest event will switch to the Anglesey circuit next year in the manufacturer’s unveiled calendar for its second year racing in partnership with British GT organiser SRO. Ginetta this year started a new partnership where its revised line-u

Dominant Ginetta Junior points leader Freddie Slater made his single-seater racing debut in British Formula 4 last weekend at Donington Park with the returning Double R Racing team. Slater has won 16 Ginetta Junior races, already a record, from the

Fox Motorsport will expand to a four-car line-up for this season’s two remaining Ginetta Junior meetings as car-racing newcomer Jack Robinson joins its driver strength. The 15-year-old karting graduate from Maldon, Essex, has had several test outings

Thierry Neuville wants to contest the Raven’s Rock Rally to pay tribute to his former team-mate Craig Breen – but he’ll have to wait until 2025 to do so. Breen lost his life in an April testing accident and momentum is understood to be growing for W

M-Sport will remain as a three-car entrant on Rally Chile next month after Alberto Heller confirmed his participation on his home round of the World championship. Heller will join Ott Tanak and Pierre-Louis Loubet in a third Ford Puma Rally1, becomin

Neil Roskell and Andrew Roughead will go head to head with Callum Black and Jack Morton on this weekend’s Rali Ceredigion to settle the outcome of this year’s Protyre Asphalt Rally Championship. With double points in the Motorsport News-supported ch

James Williams says he feels quietly confident he can challenge for his first senior rally win on this weekend’s Rali Ceredigion. Returning to British Rally Championship action after missing Ulster, the Welshman has also reverted back to a Hyundai af

Nine rallies at six race circuits will form the calendar for the 2023-24 Circuit Rally Championship, once again supported by Motorsport News. After rebuilding the championship over last winter, the consortium of event organising clubs has retained a

Adrien Fourmaux’s future in this year’s British Rally Championship remains unclear after the Frenchman took a fourth-straight 2023 victory on the Ulster Rally. Though the M-Sport Ford Fiesta Rally2 driver has dominated the BRC so far this year he is

At this same meeting three years ago, Yarmouth provided Perry Cooke’s first -ever final win in NHRs. And there’s little doubt the Norwich-based youngster has something of an affinity for his local Caister Road track, Cooke walking off with the top ho

Scott Moran and Sean Gould were the big winners as the British Hillclimb Championship made the first of two late-season visits to Loton Park. On a day when rain arrived right on cue for the second top-12 runoff, it was Moran who had the best pace an

Jason Pritchard and Phil Clarke will mount an all-out bid to win this year’s Roger Albert Clark Rally with a newly built Ford Escort Mk2. It will be Pritchard’s fifth attempt at a rally where he has always battled for the lead but has taken a single

Growing up in motor racing title-winning family, it was almost destiny that Jade Edwards would make her way into the cockpit of a racing car. Her grandfather Jim was the Renault 5 Turbo king in 1979 and her dad Jim Junior was a multiple champion in

Ash Sutton continued his march to this year’s British Touring Car Championship with a stunning ninth victory of the campaign at Donington Park last weekend and now all signs point to the NAPA Racing Ford Focus man wrapping up the crown next time out

The 2023 Formula E season ultimately came down to a trio of drivers who displayed classic title-winning winning traits of consistency, adaptability and few mistakes between them. The fact that Jake Dennis took the title encompassed all of those thin

After opening up a lead over the slippery morning stages, the first-time pairing of Daniel Harper and Martin Cressey fought off a strong afternoon challenge from the father-and-daughter Damian and Charly Cole to win the Mewla Rally in their Mini John

Quickest on all five runs, Keith Power co-driven by Mikey Breen in their Ford Fiesta R5 dominated the Carrick-on-Suir Rallysprint at Waterford Airport Business Park to claim a 20.9-second victory over James Bradley’s Honda Civic. The Mitsubishi Lanc

The Masters Sports Car Legends race, which ran towards the sunset on Saturday, was the perfect conclusion for the opening day of Silverstone Festival race action. It was Ferrari versus Lola in an enthralling 50-minute thrash, which ultimately fell to

Sam Wilson extended his remarkable record of Formula Junior victories at the event by scoring a double win in two glorious races. As usual, the Juniors opened the racing each day and set the bar high with wonderful contests all the way down a bumper

Kris Tovey secured the 2CV Racing title as he led KT Racing to a dominant 24-hour race victory, ably partnered by Peter Rundle and Louis Tyson. KT led at the completion of every hour from the third, enjoying a trouble-free run, and finished in a rem

Dutchman Wim Kuijl on his Silverstone debut was an unlikely but deserving winner of the Historic Touring Car Challenge counter. A heavy shower hit the national paddock area just before the start but the rest of the circuit was dry and tyre choice was

The final Vintage Sports-Car Club meeting of the 2023 season was called off after club racer Roger Twelvetrees had a fatal crash in the Edwardian handicap contest. Twelvetrees in the first few laps of the annual Edwardian race – the second race on t

Craig Land produced two dominant Locost performances to secure his second-successive title. The opening race was reduced to a four-lap sprint after a race stoppage to clean up dropped fluid at Graham Hill Bend that caused many drivers to slide off t

According to the Good Book, the battle between David and Goliath was an uneven affair, won, eventually by David. And it was a bit like that at Kirkistown when BOSS Ireland paid a visit, with big V8 and V6 machinery representing Goliath, and a swarm o