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The fanfares regarding the Formula 1 return to Las Vegas were so loud that they almost drowned out what the sport is about in the first place: racing. It happened and eventually it could be regarded as a success after some highly embarrassing early m

So did Formula 1’s gamble of a race on the Las Vegas Strip hit the jackpot? During the weekend, Max Verstappen made his feelings known – he was not a fan. But when he crossed the line to record his 18th win of the season, he appeared a little more en

Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz said he felt let down by Formula 1 after getting a 10-place grid drop due to car damage resultant from a Las Vegas Grand Prix track problem. The first-ever F1 practice session on the new Strip street circuit was abandoned afte

General Motors has formally registered with the FIA to join Formula 1 as a power unit manufacturer from the 2028 season, turning Andretti’s would-be effort into a potential works team. GM, via its Cadillac sub-brand, is partnered with the Andretti sq

Porsche bosses have paused the build of further customer 963 LMDhs for the World Endurance Championship and the IMSA SportsCar Championship until mid-2024. The second 963 for the Jota team’s expanded two-car 2024 WEC effort will be the last before pr

Classic and Sports Car Club’s boss has said various financial factors are behind the club’s more conventional 2024 calendar that focuses on larger circuits. The club’s innovations in 2023 of a February Silverstone Grand Prix meeting plus a Le Mans C

Double Formula 1 esports champion Brendon Leigh is planning to return to real-life racing in 2024 in Formula Ford’s end-of-season events the Festival and Walter Hayes Trophy. Leigh made his real-life single-seater racing debut in FF1600 with Kevin Mi

Mazda MX-5 championship father-and-son pair Jason and Callum Greatrex have been banned from racing following altercations with rival Steve Foden and his team at September’s Donington Park meeting. Following a National Court hearing last month, Callum

Elfyn Evans will head into the 2024 World Rally Championship season a winner after he completed his 2023 campaign on top in Japan last week. Evans and Scott Martin led from the event’s second stage and survived the treacherous conditions to head hom

The first manufacturer-backed championship in UK rallying for almost a decade has been announced in the form of the new Rally4 Cup for competitors in the UK and Ireland. Organised by Race and Rally, the Peugeot Sport importers for UK and Ireland, th

The Scottish Rally Championship will be trimmed to seven rounds for 2024 as the Carlisle Stages is rested for a season. Five forest events and two closed-road rallies will make up the seven-event schedule with one event each month from March to Septe

The Galway International Rally will remain on the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship for 2024 after weeks of in-fighting earlier this year over the future of the event. The Galway event will open the season while the Cork 20 will move to late September

Chris Ingram says that the target for the Triumph TR7 V8 he’s driving on this weekend’s Roger Albert Clark Rally is simply to get to the finish. Ingram and regular co-driver Alex Kihurani will crew the stunning TR7 V8 that has been built by David Ap

National Hot Rod European champion Rob McDonald says switching to a Ginetta G40R will be the impetus he needs to remain at the front of the pack in 2024. The three-time World Final winner made his debut in the Carl Boardley Motorsport-built car in t

Adam Morgan looked somewhat bewildered as he got out of the Micky Randall-owned BriSCA F1 stock car after winning the 12-lap BTCC Challenge Trophy at Skegness Raceway on Saturday night. For one thing, it was Morgan’s first experience of competing in

Will Hunter retired from the sport three years ago. His return, which may have been a one-off, was a winning one as he crossed the line first in a hotly contested race. It was Hunter’s fourth final win of his career. Lilly Finnikin led the opening la

Heavy rain, thick fog, pine needles… even snow combined to try to knock Elfyn Evans off his stride. But while the Welshman faltered in tricky conditions on the Central European Rally last month, he was resolute in his pursuit of first place on Japan’

Mike Earle was at the cutting edge of motorsport for four decades. He was a title winner in some of the sport’s most competitive disciplines with his Lec, Onyx and Arena International teams and has a trophy cabinet that would be the envy of many. No

Following a run of recent retirements, Mathew Hirst and Declan Dear rounded off their season in the best possible way by winning the Wyedean Rally for the third time in a row and they clinched their third-consecutive Welsh Rally Championship win in t

British Rallycross champion Patrick O’Donovan made a winning stage rally debut when he took his Hyundai i20 R5 to a 33-second victory in the second round of the Motorsport News-supported MGJ Engineering Circuit Rally Championship. O’Donovan, 19, and

From the moment Luke Browning took to the Macau roads last weekend, he looked impressive. A superb attacking effort in the two qualifying sessions assured him of pole position and he was unstoppable in Saturday’s qualifying race. His drive in a much-