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So it has finally happened: Red Bull has been beaten in a straight fight. Carlos Sainz’s second career win on the streets of Marina Bay was taken after a no-holds-barred fight with Mercedes- and a McLaren-mounted rivals. There wasn’t a sniff of the e

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says new technical directives from the sport’s governing body were not responsible for its first defeat of the season in Singapore last weekend. Both Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez struggled with the handlin

Newly crowned Ginetta GT champion Luke Reade would like to graduate to British GT next season with his Wolf Motorsport team. Reade, 29, in his Wolf-entered G56 confirmed a dominant crown in the new-for-2023 Ginetta GT championship 10 days ago at his

British GT4 frontrunner Academy Motorsport next year will step up to race the new upgraded Ford Mustang and Academy’s boss plans British and European attacks. Academy has raced Mustangs in British GT since joining forces with Multimatic and Ford Perf

GT Cup title-battler Feathers Motorsport has been forced to withdraw from the remainder of this season after damage sustained to its Aston Martin Vantage GT4 in the late-July Silverstone event. Its drivers James Guess and Tom Canning led the GTH clas

A rally to honour Craig Breen could still take place in Ireland next year with efforts due to be stepped up once the World Rally Championship calendar is published, Motorsport News understands. WRC ace Thierry Neuville wants to contest Breen’s home

Northern Ireland Member of Parliament Ian Paisley has criticised the UK government for not supporting a World Rally Championship event run out of Belfast. The North Antrim DUP MP has been working closely with Rally Northern Ireland event promoter Bob

Arron Newby and Jamie Edwards head to Yorkshire this weekend knowing that they need to finish ahead of Elliot Payne once again to keep their BTRDA title chances open. The Trackrod Rally in the classic Yorkshire forests is the penultimate round of th

Callum Black says that defending his Protyre Asphalt Championship title is a serious option for 2024. Black and co-driver Jack Morton sealed the title with a commanding performance on the final doubleheader on Rali Ceredigion 10 days ago and are now

After an unfortunate opening race decimated the field, it was left to a small handful drivers to dominate the rest of the meeting with ‘domination’ certainly being the word for Jack Blood as he won all three races with a maximum points score to open

A week after recapturing the World championship title, Tom Harris took a step to retaining his National Shootout crown with a dominating performance at Buxton Raceway. Harris won both his qualifying heats before cruising to a comfortable victory in t

Statistics from Motorsport UK suggest that female participation in motorsport runs at around 5%. However, hillclimbing easily beats that number with regularly up to 15% of the entries coming from women competitors. In addition, the sport is supported

“It’s a big family thing. But both our sons ski during the winter and go karting in the summer, so I have to sacrifice a couple of events in the summer. I’ve been going to hillclimbs and sprints from a young age with my dad George Coghill. He’s still

The Formula 1 cameras were focused on the McLaren pit garage in the aftermath of the British Grand Prix. The famous British team had turned around its early-season troubles and Lando Norris had claimed a glorious podium in front of the home fans. Th

The battle for the Scottish Rally Championship crown will go to the final event on the Carlisle Stages Rally as David Henderson clung on to his slim title hopes with a tense victory on the Galloway Hills last weekend. The English competitor in his F

Mark Kelly and Dai Roberts scored an emphatic victory on the Three Shires Stages, with a faultless performance in their Skoda Fabia R5. Kelly continued his superb recent form with victory on a challenging event as slippery roads, and later heavy rai

Four podium finishes, including a win in race three after closest rival Ian Mitchell spun, enabled Lewis Clark to clinch the Focus Cup title as four different drivers claimed race victories across the weekend. Despite being involved in a clash with

There were three different Hot Hatch winners. In race one Will Self’s Peugeot 205 led until it cut out at Church at half distance, which left Dan Silvester’s Honda Civic fending off Dan Brown’s similar car to take the victory, with Jack Ashton’s Metr

Whatever else can be said about the GB4 championship, this year it found a worthy champion. Tom Mills ensured the title a round ahead of time at Brands Hatch after winning 10 of the season’s 17 races. Mills’ talent has been clear ever since he stepp

There are many ways to describe this week’s readers’ Q&A guest Zak Brown: driver, team boss, businessman. Before anything else though he is a motorsport enthusiast. He demonstrates this with his racing car collection, and Brown himself guides you aro