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Much like the Formula 1 World championship has been done and dusted with a considerable proportion of the campaign left to run, the World Rally Championship has now been snaffled by a driver before the final denouement. But unlike F1 racing, the WRC

In the heat of the moment, Sergio Perez tried to win his home race in the first half-mile last Sunday. And he left many of his fans very disappointed, a little more than a few seconds into the race… The distance between pole position and the first b

The 2022 Aston Martin Autosport BRDC Award winner Luke Browning sampled an Aston Martin AMR21 for 44 laps at Silverstone last week, part of his prize for claiming the accolade. The FIA Formula 3 driver used both soft and hard tyres during his four se

Pressure continues to mount on Sergio Perez after his Turn-1 crash in the Mexican Grand Prix last weekend, even though Red Bull bosses are standing by the troubled racer. The 33-year-old, who has won two races in 2023 compared to 16 by his teammate

Century Motorsport boss Nathan Freke says Darren Leung and Dan Harper’s stunning showing to seize British GT’s overall drivers’ title at Donington Park was with a season’s-worst Balance of Performance. Leung in his Century BMW M4 GT3 dominated the o

Newly crowned British GT Pro-Am GT4 champion Michael Johnston is eyeing a move to its GT3 category for 2024 remaining with Century Motorsport. Ginetta GT Academy graduate Johnston, in his British GT debut campaign, sealed the Pro-Am crown alongside C

Rodin Carlin hosted a panel at Silverstone Museum last week as part of the venue’s October #GirlsWill initiative. Deputy team principal Stephanie Carlin, F1 Academy racer Abbi Pulling, PR manager Jodie Kemp, X44 Extreme E engineer Lily Owuye and mech

Kalle Rovanpera praised Elfyn Evans for his fighting spirit after the Finn became World champion for a second time in as many years on Sunday. Rovanpera, still only 23, took rallying’s biggest prize by finishing runner-up to Thierry Neuville on the

Andreas Mikkelsen isn’t holding out hopes of a return to the World Rally Championship’s top tier in 2024, despite his capture of a second WRC2 title. The Norwegian, a former factory Hyundai and Volkswagen driver, scraped together just enough points

The 2023-24 Motorsport News-supported Circuit Rally Championship will get off to a flying start at Oulton Park this Saturday with a capacity field of 100 cars for the Neil Howard Stages. As well as quantity, the entry is strong on quality for the ei

Josh Moffett and Keith Moriarty secured back-to-back National Rally Championship titles by taking their Hyundai i20 R5 to victory on the Bantry-based Fastnet Rally in West Cork. With Moffett taking a 7.4-second victory over his nemesis Callum Devine

Seb Perez will contest the Roger Albert Clark Rally in his father’s Lancia Stratos and hopes that some tough weather conditions will play to the car’s strengths. The Stratos has been a long-term project by Steve Perez and he contested the Roger Albe

Denying Kalle Rovanpera a second World title was, by his own admission, a “long shot” for Elfyn Evans. And when his Toyota came off second best from a hefty whack into a German barn door on Saturday morning, the Welshman’s outside championship hopes

Even if Andreas Mikkelsen hadn’t scored the points he needed to celebrate the WRC2 title one event early, by not nominating the Rally Japan finale as one of his scoring rounds, Gus Greensmith’s title prospects would have depended on his Toksport team

History was made last Thursday when the Czech Republic hosted the World Rally Championship for the first time with a total of eight stages across the first two days taking place in the country. For 24-year-old Erik Cais, who remains his country’s big

Tom Cave and Dale Furniss conquered the Cambrian National Rally on Saturday as the British Rally Championship came to a conclusion in the challenging North Wales forests. On what was his first proper competitive outing for over two years and with a

There are not many racing drivers who can claim to have taken part in motorsport’s ‘triple crown’. Max Chilton is one of the few who can. Formula 1, IndyCar – including being 1.1 seconds away from winning 2017’s Indianapolis 500 – and Le Mans all tak

After finishing in the top five of every BTRDA round this year, Russ Thompson and Stephen Link rounded off their season in style by winning the Cambrian Rally in their Mitsubishi Lancer E9. Once early leader Matthew Hirst retired, the pair were neve

Royal Air Force motorsport teams enjoy a proud record of success in the 750 Motor Club’s annual Holly Birkett Six-Hour Team Relay race, first run in 1951 at Silverstone. On Saturday, this year’s roundel-carrying squadron secured the service’s sixth v

Declan Lee secured the inaugural Miata Trophy championship on the first day of a soggy Brands Hatch weekend, which also featured the last of this year’s EnduroKa races lasting all day on Sunday. Lee made his task difficult with a poor start from pol

50 Years with Ferraris: Photographer Neill Bruce’s story of a lifetime working with Maranello Concessionaires By Neill Bruce Neill Bruce has worked as promotional photographer for Maranello Concessionaires Ltd – Ferrari’s UK road car distributor – go