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An improvement programme for Monza’s track and infrastructure has begun that circuit bosses hope will help secure its long-term future on the Formula 1 calendar. A 140-day redevelopment push is underway at the famous Italian venue, and the work inclu

The stopwatch doesn’t lie, and next week it will be the only measure by which the leading runners in the World Rally Championship are judged. The conjecture will be over and one of the most unpredictable battles in the mixed-surface discipline will b

British GT GT4 Pro-Am frontrunners Carl Cavers and Lewis Plato will graduate to the championship’s frontrunning GT3 contest this year remaining in a Century BMW. Cavers and Plato last year in a Century BMW M4 GT4 remained in overall and Pro-Am title

Thanks very much for your entries. The winner is this looking-to-the-future effort from Ed Dee. Congratulations Ed!

Congratulations Graham Lomax who was bang on the money with this caption. Your framed orignal cartoon is on its way.

Rally Ireland might have found a home – or rather three – and a big supporter in Elfyn Evans but event chiefs remain €15 million and a contract with WRC Promoter short of a return to the World championship. The money, which governing body Motorsport

Lancia has been linked to a shock return to rallying, albeit on a customer basis and at sub-Rally1 level. According to respected Italian title Autosprint, Stellantis, which owns the iconic Lancia brand, has given the greenlight for a Rally2 version o

Junior British Rally champion Kyle White will step up to the top division of the British Rally Championship this season in a Hyundai i20 R5. The 27-year-old from Northern Ireland won the Junior title on his third and final attempt and has since work

The 2024 Scottish Rally Championship will feature a delayed start after the planned opening round, the Snowman Rally in early March, was postponed due to issues over the use of forest stages and subsequent regrading. The Master Agreement between Fore

BTRDA gravel frontrunners Matthew Hirst and Declan Dear will venture onto asphalt for the first time in four years to tackle the East Riding Stages Rally. Hirst and Dear will take their Ford Fiesta R5 to the closed-road Yorkshire event at the end of

Formula 2 and Formula 3 cars of the 1970s will be back on the schedule for the Silverstone Festival this August after the weekend’s 20-race programme was unveiled. This year’s Silverstone Festival on August 23-25 remains the biggest single historic

World Rallycross 2023 runner-up Kevin Hansen has said positives can be taken for the category’s technology direction from it suffering last season’s Lydden Hill fire. World RX’s headline RX1 class has had solely electric propulsion for the last two

Two-time British Rallycross Champion Mark Rennison will return to driving a Ford RS200 for the first time in over a decade at the newly created Lydden Legend Festival this July. Rennison, who claimed British Rallycross Championship titles in a Grou

It is just shy of 70 days since the engines were switched off at the end of the 2023 World Rally Championship season, but they will be back next Thursday to kick off one the most unpredictable seasons for more than a decade. Toyota drivers Sebastien

The World Rally Championship can look forward to its most open season for more than a decade when it blasts into life in Monte Carlo next week – and there is a Briton right in the heart of the title battle. No drivers other than Kalle Rovanpera and

When the Rally1 era began on the Monte Carlo Rally in 2022, 11 examples of the hybrid-powered machines lined up for the season opener. That number dropped by one 12 months later and it’s dipped further still with eight top-level cars preparing to tak

Junior single-seater powerhouse Rodin Carlin has been rebranded as Rodin Motorsport after it emerged last week that its legendary founder Trevor Carlin has left the team. Carlin departed the squad last November, 10 months after Rodin Cars boss David

No driver goes into any new season without a winning ambition. That is a given. And that has been Elfyn Evans’ philosophy since he joined rallying’s top fight over a decade ago. Approaching 2024, the Toyota World Rally Team ace has all the aces up hi

Hyundai, M-Sport and Toyota remain the sport’s big players in 2024 but tweaks have been made to their respective driver line-ups and there have also been changes in WRC2, as Graham Lister explains. Boss: Jari-Matti Latvala Base: Finland Car: Toyota

Gone is the old system of handing out points (25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1) to the top 10 finishers at the end of a rally. Instead, the top 10 at the completion of Saturday’s action will get points (18-15-13-10-8-6-4-3-2-1) but only if they get through S

People ask me why I chose the Monte when it’s so difficult but for me it’s the most prestigious rally, the best rally in the world and a podium, or dare I say a win, in Monte Carlo would mean more than any other rally. I like to take risks and that’

The United Kingdom has a proud record in producing single-seater talent, and one of the finest produced in recent years is Callum Ilott. He graduated from karting to be a regular frontrunner and race-winner in top-level international junior single-s

The venue might have been the same, but there was a fresh impetus behind the Autosport 24 Show at the NEC in Birmingham last weekend. The great and the good of all forms of competition gathered in the show halls to celebrate the achievements of 2023

For most modern-day Formula 1 teams, the development race is reaching its zenith in January as the final touches are being made to new designs. While concepts will have been locked down months beforehand, the finer details are now under the spotlight

Rob Swann and Steve McNulty swept to an impressive victory over the Christmas break when rallying returned to the Ministry of Defence-owned Stanford Training Area in Norfolk. Despite a high-speed encounter with a sheep, Swann dominated the eight-sta

Part of rallying’s very appeal are the extremities drivers and teams push themselves to in the pursuit of greatness. But not that extreme. The 2023 Grizedale Stages soon became a write-off when the snow just wouldn’t stop falling in early December,

In this week’s Motorsport News we look back to when the Formula 1 season kicked off in this very month of January. And we properly mean kicked off, as the opening points-paying race of the year used to happen when people were (sometimes literally) ba