November 16, 2023

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The Highlight Of The UK Season
If you go down to the woods this week, be sure of some epic rally action. The five-day mammoth R.A.C. Rally is a throwback to rallies of yore, and the appeal of the event has not been lost on some of the biggest names in the discipline. Oliver Solbe
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Las Vegas Grand Prix Debut To Showcase Close Competition In F1, Says Track Guru
The man behind the new Las Vegas Grand Prix circuit, which will host a Formula 1 race for the first time this weekend, says the venue will provide plenty of overtaking opportunities. Carsten Tilke, who led the project to create the circuit, has reve
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Haas Fury As F1 Bosses Reject Track Limit Breach Claims At Us Gp
Bosses of the Haas team have been left angered by Formula 1 stewards’ decision not to amend the results of the US Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas last month despite the American team citing several cases of rival drivers straying over track
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GM To Put Pressure On With Las Vegas Trip
The bosses of General Motors have declared that the firm is only interested in joining the grand prix grid in partnership with the Andretti Global organisation. The mammoth US firm confirmed earlier this season that it would link up with the nascent
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White Night For Ferrari
The Ferraris of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc will feature a special livery at the Las Vegas Grand Prix this weekend with flashes of white on the cars to reflect the Italian team’s history of success in North American. It harks back to USA success
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New Commissioner Recruited For F1 Series
The FIA boss Mohammed Ben Sulayem has brought former journalist Dieter Rencken into the organisation in a new commissioner role to assist with practical aspects of running grand prix racing. South African Rencken has been working with Ben Sulayem for
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Huff’s Btcc Test, Taylor-smith Commits For ’24
Tin-top ace Rob Huff has tested a Speedworks Motorsport Toyota Corolla as the 2012 World Touring Car Championship winner seeks a full-time return to UK competition. The Cambridgeshire racer spent a full season in the British Touring Car Championship
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Horner Backs Perez To Retain Red Bull Race Seat For 2024
Red Bull Racing boss Christian Horner has moved to axe any uncertainty surrounding the future of Sergio Perez after speculation that the Mexican could be replaced in the title-winning team’s line-up in 2024. At the Mexican Grand Prix in October, Hor
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Smedley Behind New British Electric Karting Initiative
Former Ferrari and Williams technical guru Rob Smedley has launched a cut-price all-electric karting championship with the aim of encouraging young talent. The Global Karting League will operate machines on an arrive-and-drive basis for racers from s
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Lawson Prepared To Wait For Full-time F1 Ride
Rad Bull-contracted junior driver Liam Lawson has said he will stand down from racing in 2024 to concentrate on his ambitions to land a grand prix set in the future. The Kiwi, who has raced in the Super Formula series in Japan this year and finished
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Wec To Maintain Entry Level For 2024 Competition
The number of cars in the World Endurance Championship will be retained at 37 for 2024 before a possible expansion in the future. Series chiefs had hoped to up the number of entries to 40 for next season when the revamped series will drop the LMP2 di
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Scholarship Stars Want UK Stay
Team USA Scholarship’s Jack Sullivan and Team Canada Scholarship’s Alex Berg are looking to stay in the UK to race full-time next season in slick-and-wings single-seater competition. Both rising stars took part in the recent Formula Ford end-of-seaso
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Legends Msvr Switch
Legends Cars ahead of the category’s landmark 30th-anniversary season has joined the MotorSport Vision Racing portfolio, ending a long spell with the British Automobile Racing Club. The entertaining 5/8 scale pocket-rockets’ championship – which has
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Fairclough Returns With Hitech In 2024 British F4
British Formula 4 frontrunner Deagen Fairclough will continue for a second season in the championship in 2024 switching to race with Hitech Grand Prix. The Briton driving with JHR Developments finished third in 2023’s British F4 standings with three
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Praga Champ Idola Joins Gb4
Praga Cup champion Idola Motorsport will branch out to single-seaters in 2024 by becoming the latest team to join the GB4 championship’s growing grid. The Cheshire-based squad won the inaugural Praga Cup UK title in the team’s 2022 freshman year with
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Boxer Takes In Truck Finale
Pro undefeated cruiserweight and ex-Team GB boxer Chev Clarke was a special guest at the British Truck Racing Championship season finale at Brands Hatch 10 days ago. Clarke – who recently won the IBF cruiserweight title – is a former lorry driver and
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Rushforth Team Returns In Minis
Alastair Rushforth Motorsport is set to switch to Mini Challenge Trophy next season with two cars after the team’s boss admitted he “fell out of love with motorsport” during 2023. The squad started the ’23 season with entries in all three Ginetta cha
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Young Guns Go For It In Fun Cup Finale At Oulton Park
Only a week after finishing second in the Radical World Finals on his sportscar debut, 16-year-old ace Luke Hilton made his Fun Cup debut at Oulton Park late last month. The former Fiesta Junior racer, who plans to contest Radical Cup UK next year, s
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Enduro Stops Racing
British GT frontrunner squad Enduro Motorsport has closed its doors after its Amateur driver Morgan Tillbrook decided to continue racing on an arrive-and-drive basis rather than with his own team. Enduro, which also had success in GT Cup and the Bri
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Williams Wins In Wales As Lockie Stays Cool
Williams Motorsport quartet Toby Ballard, Rrutuj Patki, Calum Lockie and Henry Williams held out for victory in the latest Race of Remembrance endurance event after a tense finish where Lockie kept calm ahead of the rapidly closing Darren Burke of DB
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Can Ogier Tips Carry Katsuta To Home Glory?
Takamoto Katsuta reckons modelling his driving on Sebastien Ogier’s could make the difference as he aims for back-to-back Rally Japan podiums this week. Japanese driver Katsuta, who is co-driven by Irishman Aaron Johnston, finished third when Rally
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Mid-season Slump Contributed To Tanak M-sport Exit
Ott Tanak’s mid-season slump was a factor in the Estonian’s return to Hyundai after one season back with M-Sport, team boss Richard Millener has suggested. Following his second place on the Croatia Rally in April, Tanak due to a succession of mechani
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Sordo: Rally Japan Podium Is Not Impossible
Dani Sordo is convinced that a Rally Japan podium isn’t an impossible ask, despite the odds being stacked against the Spanish Hyundai driver. Sordo, who takes over the third factory entry from Teemu Suninen, hasn’t driven the i20 N Rally1 Hybrid on T
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Pressure On Evans To Hold Wrc Runner-up Spot In Japan
Elfyn Evans faces a battle to hold on to second place in the World championship standings when the 2023 season concludes on Rally Japan. Having dropped out of the title fight by crashing on the Central European Rally last month, Toyota driver Evans i
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Team Boss Latvala Hints At Unchanged Toyota Line-up In 2024
Toyota is set to field an unchanged line-up in next season’s World championship, according to team boss Jari-Matti Latvala. That would mean Elfyn Evans and Takamoto Katsuta staying onboard and another partial campaign for eight-time WRC champion Seba
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Josh Moffett Targets Fourth Irish National Title In 2024
Josh Moffett recently joined both Niall Maguire and Declan Boyle as a triple Irish national rally champion and has now set his sights on an unprecedented fourth crown. The 31-year old wrapped up his third title in a thrilling Fastnet Rally that went
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Rix Plans Debut Run On Roger Albert Clark Rally
Aaron Rix will honour the memory of his late father Ian as he tackles the Roger Albert Clark Rally for the first time in his 1400cc Vauxhall-engined Ford Escort Mlk2. The 30-year-old East Anglian driver now heads the family business that Ian created
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Roskell Meets The Gravel Challenge And Plots Grizedale Stages Outing
Asphalt ace Neil Roskell said his recent gravel debut on the Malton Forest Stages went well enough to convince him to enter the Grizedale Stages in early December. Roskell, who only started rallying in 2019, has concentrated on asphalt events and has
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Kelly Heads Circuit Rally Contenders Into Battle At Cadwell Park
Mark Kelly will aim for a second win in the Motorsport News-supported Circuit Rally Championship when the season switches to Cadwell Park on Sunday. Kelly dominated the season-opener at Oulton Park in his Skoda Fabia R5 and will now tackle the Cadwel
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Motorsport Ireland President Makes Plea For Harmony
Motorsport Ireland president Aiden Harper made an emotional plea to affiliated clubs to stop the bickering and buy into MI’s new Strategic Plan for rallying in Ireland. Speaking at the Irish governing body’s third annual congress Harper said: “We can
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White-wash In South Oxfordshire Targa As Main Rivals Are Thwarted
The South Oxon Targa Rally was a multi-venue event and was won by Gary and Bradley White. Owen Turner and Rachel Vestey had built up a lead of over a minute by the halfway point, but then a driveshaft broke on their MG ZR and they were out. Deion Atk
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Welsh Youngsters Set For Title Showdown On The Wyedean
The season-long battle for the Welsh Junior Rally Championship will be settled on Saturday’s Wyedean Stages with six drivers all in contention and covered by just 23 points. Callum Griffiths heads the standings in his Ford Fiesta ST and can seal the
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Devine And O’sullivan Wrap Up Their Year In Winning Form In Donegal
Callum Devine (VW Polo GTi R5) and Noel O’Sullivan wrapped up their season with an 11.6-second win on the Donegal Harvest Rally. The similar car of Eamonn Kelly/ Conor Mohan was second as Desi Henry and Paddy Robinson (Citroen C3 Rally2) took a late
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Guinchard Plays Hard For Silver Roof Success
Charlie Guinchard successfully retained his BriSCA Formula 2 silver roof by clinching the National Points Series in a thrilling climax at Bradford on Saturday, as Jack Witts won on the night. Guinchard held a three-point advantage over Gordon Moodie
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BTCC ACES GO TOE-TO-TOE IN SECOND BriSCA F1 MATCH RACE AT SKEGNESS
Stars from the British Touring Car Championship will go bumper-to-bumper in the second BTCC BriSCA F1 Invitational event at Skegness Raceway on Saturday evening. Event prime movers Paul O’Neill, the ITV4 BTCC pundit, and Honda Civic racer Ryan Bensl
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Kristoffersson Wraps Up The Title As O’donovan Stars In Hong Kong
Johan Kristoffersson and Kevin Hansen shared the victory spoils in the World Rallycross Championship’s Hong Kong finale as British star Patrick O’Donovan claimed a first podium. However, the overwhelming winner of the weekend was the discipline itse
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Harris’s Title As Newson Finishes With A Flourish
Going into the final shootout round at Bradford Tom Harris had almost wrapped up the title, but the battle for the podium places was tight with Danny Wainman leading Lee Fairhurst and Mat Newson by a handful of points. Harris clinched the title when
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Northern Irish To The Fore In Autotest Nations’ Battle
Team Northern Ireland proved to be best of the nations at the Ronnie Trouton International Autotest, claiming top place award with Steven Ferguson out front by 12.7 seconds in a Mini Special. The NI-based team was so strong no other drivers got a lo
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Oliver Solberg Says Top R.a.c. Finish Would Exceed Goals
Oliver Solberg says that even finishing in the top five of the Roger Albert Clark Rally would be a great result as he takes time out of his WRC campaign to tackle the five-day rally across the UK forests. The 22-year old Swede will drive the BDG-eng
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Solberg Senior Says Oliver Is Up For His Toughest Test
Petter Solberg says that the Roger Albert Clark Rally will be a massive challenge for his son Oliver. “We had this car in the museum, and this is the one I never used,” Petter told Motorsport News. “It’s the best one I ever built together with Phil.
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Phillipson Plots Mini Adventure On Roger Albert Clark
One of the first cars on the road for the Roger Albert Clark Rally will be the 1974 Mini of Richard Phillipson and Brian Cammack, the only Mini in the entry list. The crew originally competed together 25 years ago in a Vauxhall Astra but they had not
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John Bloxham To Be Remembered In Mn-backed Hrcr Final Round
Local drivers Duncan Williams (Ford Escort Mk2) and Dan Darkin (Mazda MX-5) will head the field away on Saturday’s John Bloxham Memorial Rally, the final round of the Motorsport News HRCR Clubmans Rally Championship. A full day of competition in the
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Just Willan
Dan Willan and Niall Frost triumphed on a challenging Rally of the Tests with their Volvo PV544. Their second win in a row on the demanding event came after a tricky final leg where a blocked road and a slippery forest test caught out some of the lea
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In Brief
The HSCC’s race series for powerful single-seaters will be retitled to the Derek Bell Trophy for 2024. Having run under the Aurora Trophy tag for several seasons, the series will revert to being the Derek Bell Trophy as a celebration of the club’s pa
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Help To Crown Your Heroes Of The Motorsport Season
The 2023 Motorsport News Awards are here, and it is your chance to have your say and help us crown the stand-out talents of the year just finished. Motorsport News’s experts have selected 10 nominations for the National Racing Driver of the Year and
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Alex Lynn: I Am Just Focused On Winning Races
Alex Lynn has been one of the UK’s most successful professional drivers over the last decade in both single-seater and sportscar racing. Having just turned 30, Lynn has accrued two Sebring 12 Hours wins, an LMGTE Pro victory at Le Mans, a GP3 title
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David Addison
If traditionalists looked down their noses at the Chinese Formula 4 teams that did battle three years running to keep the Macau Grand Prix alive, their snobbery was out of place last weekend as the first proper F4 shootout took place. The Macau F4 R
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The Roger Albert Clark Rally: The Best Just Gets Better
More than ever this year, the Roger Albert Clark has captured the imagination of competitors and spectators alike and 160 crews will gather in Carmarthen on Wednesday (November 22) for the start of an epic five-day adventure through the forests of Wa
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What The Ginettas Have Done For Us
Do we forget about Ginetta? It may sound a silly question, but perhaps with its ubiquitous presence on the UK motorsport scene we in a strange way adapt ourselves to it, in a similar way that – it is said – fish don’t know they’re in water. Its head
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Abbi Pulling
In F1 Academy this year it has definitely been a tough season for me but I’m very thankful to be driving again and to have the support from Alpine Academy and Rodin Carlin. Going into this year I wanted to be fighting for the title and it was just a
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What’s On
Jacques Laffite will hit 80 years old on Tuesday (November 21). And the popular Frenchman’s tale is not a likely one. He equalled Graham Hill’s all-time Formula 1 longevity record for race starts, despite Laffite not racing anything until the age of
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