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There was something of a forgone conclusion about the climax to the British Touring Car Championship showdown at Brands Hatch last weekend, but there was nothing laidback about the way in which Ash Sutton dominated the meeting regardless to seal his

For the record, it was on lap 11 of the sprint race on Saturday night in Qatar when Max Verstappen was crowned the 2023 champion. A three-car incident put his Red Bull team-mate Sergio Perez into the gravel trap and the points chase was over – Versta

McLaren is bidding to return to Le Mans next year as part of a planned United Autosports two-720S GT3 effort in the World Endurance Championship’s new LMGT3 class. Multiple sportscar championship-winning United Autosports, co-founded and co-owned by

Formula 1 Esports World champion Lucas Blakeley will return to champion KMR Sport’s GB4 line-up at the Donington Park season finale on October 21-22. The 22-year-old Scot, who is also a regular real-life Formula Ford racer, made his slicks-and-wing

Strictly Come Dancing singer Lance Ellington wants a full season of racing in MG Cup next year having had his latest sample of the contest at Snetterton late last month. Ellington, who raced a Daily Mirror-sponsored Tomcat 220 Turbo in the Dunlop R

Max McRae is trying to secure the budget for a second Junior ERC season in 2024 – but doesn’t want another “crazy year” in the European Rally Championship’s young driver category. McRae, 19, has impressed with this speed on all six Junior ERC events

The Kumho BMW championship will move to the Classic Sports Car Club’s portfolio for next season as long-time BMW Racing Drivers Club president Trevor Ford steps back from his role. The championship up to this year was part of British Automobile Racin

Daniel Harper and Chris Campbell will chase a third Mull Rally victory when the classic Scottish island event starts on Friday afternoon. Harper, winner in 2002 and 2021, will head a field of 125 cars away in his Mini JCW WRC, but will face fierce o

The once-popular Clocaenog Main stage will be back in use on the Cambrian Rally on October 28. The final round of the British Rally Championship and the BTRDA Rally Series will use the stage for the first time in more than a decade. During the rally,

This weekend’s Jersey Rally will mark the 40th anniversary of the first closed-road rally on the island. A capacity entry of 90 cars will be headed by Cornish crew Richard Fishleigh and Jason McCullough in their 2.5-litre Duratec-engined Ford Escort

Johan Kristoffersson’s run of dominance in the World Rallycross Championship came to an end in South Africa as DTM champion Timo Scheider claimed an emphatic victory in Cape Town. The series got back underway for the first time since the UK’s round

Welsh duo Malcolm Rich and Adrian Cavenagh will tackle this year’s East African Safari Classic Rally in a freshly built Ford Escort Mk1. Rich says the Safari is the biggest and hardest rally of all and relishes the adventure that the 10-day marathon

Rally organiser Iain Campbell is known throughout the service parks by the nickname of ‘scunner’. It is a colloquial Scottish word meaning someone who is irritated or grumpy. While that moniker might have been applied to a school-aged Campbell by hi

Miklos ‘Mixi’ Csomos was two stages away from the ultimate European championship comeback victory when it all went wrong for the emerging Hungarian star. Csomos resorted to crowdfunding to restart his season after a violent crash on Rally Islas Cana

The end-of-term GT Cup races weren’t the most action packed of the season. Hugo Cook’s Audi R8 GT3 stormed ahead from the start of race one and was never really challenged as the McLaren 720Ss of Tom Roche and Ian Loggie held station behind. Simon O

Top qualifier Felix Fisher in his TM Racing Ray GR05 secured his second successive Castle Combe Formula Ford title a race early by finishing directly behind his great rival Luke Cooper’s Swift SC20 in Saturday’s gripping event opener. The second rac

Adam Lockwood got his first race win of the season in the Toyota MR2 championship at Oulton, on the way to a first championship win. A win for four-time champion Shaun Traynor in race one put the two on equal terms for race two, with Traynor on pole

Sam Corson successfully defended his C1 Cup title as the Scottish Motor Racing Club season came to a close at Knockhill last weekend. For a while, Minimax driver Corson’s grasp on the crown appeared to have slipped after a brush with a backmarker in

Brian Caudwell breezed to win Saturday’s Equipe Super Sprint in a perfect day where he won all four races he entered in his AC Cobra. Equipe held its latest running of the distinctive super sprint event format, wherein a series 10-lap sprint races a

Goldie: The amazing story of Alfred Goldie Gardner, the world’s most successful speed-record driver By John Mayhead Alfred Goldie Gardner is not a well-known name like many 20th-century speed-record chasers. Yet over 21 years he accumulated over 15