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It was a fitting end for a near-perfect season for Max Verstappen. In the closing stages of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix he led his 1000th lap in 2023. To put that achievement into context, there are fewer than 20 drivers in the history of Formula 1 who

It has been a long time coming, but finally the sport’s governors have confirmed that Rali Ceredigion will be part of the European Rally Championship in 2024. The mid-Wales event will be the penultimate round of next season’s competition and will hav

McLaren bosses have inked a new deal with Mercedes that means it will use the German giant’s F1 powerplants through to the end of the 2030 campaign. The Woking team is the first confirmed customer of Mercedes through the period when the powertrain r

The sport’s governing body, the FIA,has signed off a 17-round Formula E calendar for the 2024 season with a debut on the permanent Misano circuit in Italy replacing the event in Rome, which had been on the roster since 2018. There was concern about t

GB4 will once again feature at all six UK-based British GT rounds plus GB3’s Silverstone standalone meeting in 2024 in its newly unveiled calendar for its third season of competition. The Motorsport Vision-organised sister junior single-seater champi

A third overseas round has been added to the GB3 championship’s calendar for 2024 with a June Hungaroring visit, meaning most of the schedule is on current grand prix circuits. UK-based GB3 has since 2016 traditionally had a single away-day meeting

Team Brit’s motorsport lineup in 2024 will be led by a two-McLaren GT4 attack in the British Endurance Championship as the squad steps away from McLaren Trophy and British GT. The outfit, which aims to be the first all-disabled team to compete at Le

GT Cup racer Tim Docker is planning a British GT championship switch next season and tested a Steller Audi GT4 at Donington Park last week alongside regular co-driver Jordan Albert. Docker, who raced a Paddock Motorsport McLaren GT4 in GT Cup this ye

Student Motorsport Challenge team West Suffolk College will expand to run a second car in 2024 by also running its driver Haydn Payne’s dad’s machine in the main CityCar Cup. SMo Challenge, launched in 2022, and is an inter-championship within CityCa

A British round of the European Rally Championship is “fantastic” news according to series boss Iain Campbell, who remains convinced that Rali Ceredigion will make a big impact on the calendar. The Welsh event got the FIA World Motor Sport Council’s

A rare MG Super 2000 rally car returned to competition on the Wyedean Stages in the hands of Jason Morgan and Will Rogers. Morgan, who rallied extensively until a big accident in 2015, is the son of regular BTRDA Skoda Fabia R5 contender Bob and it

Reigning champions John Griffiths and Emma Morrison will head the Circuit Rally Championship into the next round, Sunday’s Donington Stages. This will be round three of nine and marks the end of the pre-Christmas events before the action resumes at B

Callum Griffiths won the Welsh Junior title in a dramatic season finale on the recent Wyedean Stages in Gloucestershire. Griffiths and co-driver William Lewis led the under-25 award into the final round, but with six drivers in with a chance of winni

The Andros Trophy ice racing series will come to an end after its 35th season this winter. Championship organisers announced at a presentation in Paris, in the shadow of the Eifel Tower, last week that the ski-resort-based series was entering its f

Jonny Greer will bid for back-to-back victories on the Killarney Historic Rally when the iconic Irish events runs on Saturday. Having endured an epic battle with the late Craig Breen on last year’s rally, Greer went on to claim his first rally win i

Rising young historic single-seater racer Ben Stiles will step up to a Formula 2 car for the 2024 season. Stiles has proved to be a dominant force in Classic Formula Ford 2000 with his Van Diemen RF82 but will now step up to a two-litre Richardson BD

British stalwarts Ernie Graham and Tom Coughtrie were recognised at the FIA European Historic Rally Championship awards as the only two drivers to have started and finished all nine rounds of the series after joining forces under the Team FlexiFly ba

In advance of this British GT season observers, not for nothing, likened the prospect to the heady days of mid-1990s Super Touring in the British Touring Car Championship. Just like then, it appeared an effective world contest that just so happened

With another season of all-action UK racing and rallying in the books, it is time for Motorsport News to take a step back and highlight the outstanding performances of the 2023 year. As the engines die down, we reflect on the competitors, series, tea

Welcome to the third annual Motorsport News awards, which takes a retrospective journey through some of the stand-out moments of the campaigns that have now drawn to a close. In looking back over the action we have all enjoyed in the 12 months just

Mission accomplished. Louis Sharp entered this season with an almost solitary aim of winning the British Formula 4 championship, and he did just that. And in triumphing in the high-quality and competitive single-seater contest he became our latest –

Ash Sutton’s record-breaking march to the 2023 British Touring Car Championship was accomplished in a fashion unmatched in the category’s history. His 12 victories from the 30 rounds was a modern-day benchmark and returned a win strike rate of 40%.

Tom Harris sits proudly on top of the BriSCA F1 pile after a barnstorming 2023 season, which is the reason he has been selected as the Motorsport News Sporting Scene Driver of the Year. Winning a fourth World Final at Northampton late on in the year

Young Swede Oliver Solberg wowed the fans with his pace across the opening four days of this year’s Roger Albert Clark Rally as other stars, including Kris Meeke, Osian Pryce and Chris Ingram, faltered. Solberg was heading for victory when a halfsh